The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1866-09-26

peal TO subscribers in arrears to make early payments
We need the money to pay for paper, and other ex-
penses, and are obliged TO have it. We hope gu
subscribers will be considerable enough 10 relieve
from the necessity Of making fore ble collections
money cannot be had, bring US provisions,
T An unfortunate accident threw large poi.
ton Of type into pye lest week, which has some
what delayed our publication this week, andwi &C.
count for the disappearance of some Of advertise
ments which ought perhaps 10 have been longer con-
iinued. Ii any have been SO omitted they will be
attended to next week. f6@
Orange Superior Co urt.- Our engage
ments not having afforded US time to collect the pro-
ceedings of the Superior Court held for this county
week before last we avail ourselves Of the following
correspondence Of the Raleigh Progress;
Chapel Hill, Sept. nth, 1866
MEssRs. EgIToRs Last week Judge
Fowle held the fall session of Superior
Court for Orange county, in the town Of
Hillsborough. very much doubt whether
any man ever left the bench at the close Of
q session with more unbuunded popularity.
the "evil doer' always excepted. He
seems to have rightly conceived " the stu
alton" aud adapted himself to it.
Judge Fowle Is a young man, Of medium
size and pre- assessing appearance, and
would, by the ladies, he called handsome.
His expansive forehead and dark, express
siye eye remind one strongly of Bishop
Pierce, Of the Methodist church. La deli
,ering his charge TO the grand jury he took
. wider range than usual on such occasions
and was very stringent On particular Of
fences against the peace aid dignity Of the
commonwealth. If lie grand jury, who
were fine looking body Of men, did moi
lay out good deal ol work for the state
docket next spring, II Is certainly because
there has been great reiOr nation in Orange
county recently.
Eight persons received thirty nine lash
Is each during the week-four whites and
four negroes. All the negroes were pun
ished Tor theft exoep; one, who was whip
ped ior an attempted rape.
The hrst White person arraigned was
slender youth b the name OF Thompson,
l6 Or l. years u aye, Who was charged with
stealing pIoM. Tie evidence again4t him
was very conclusive, DIi an attempt was
made 10 parry is iorCe BY the introduction
ol his sister and Bfotherln-lsW, who testi-
fed ihat they saw htn buy It uf negro.
The jury. who must nave believed That the
Witnesses Tor the defense had pe1ured
themselves, alter retiring few moments,
brought in verdict Of guilty, and he vas
sentenced TO receive thirly.nIne lashes and
remain ~ prison until the cost was paid,
Notwithstanding strong appeal was made
BY lis counsel, Mr. Turner. to The clemen
cy Of his honor, on the ground of his eY-
IRENE youth.
The secoEdcase was that u the notorious
Wesley Watson, Who submitted, on a
charge Of larceny, in stealing mule from
Mr. Simpson Batbee, sometime last spring.
This i very remarkable case. II wss
shown IN evidence by some OF the most res.
pectabls citizens OF The county, that he had,
during The war, repeatedly de.erted-tha,
he had, once OF twice, broken out Of Gas.
tie Thunder, and that since that time he
had headed party, who, up to the time of
bis arrest, had been engaged in committing
;heits and depredations upon tie citizen.
OF Orange and the adjoining cUunties-that
since his hrst arrest he had broken out of
Jail twice, although heavily roned, and that
lie aud his clan had become Tie terror ar
The whole country. II was also shown by
the counsel that be was OF good family,
that his father and grandfather we're excel.
lent citizens, and that his mother was a
woman OF prayer
A powerful effort was made by Mr.. 10.
siah Turner, Jr., The prisoner counsel, to
save him from The extreme penalty of the
law. 10 his arguments to The bench, be
made the following points. viz:
!. The prisoners youth.
Ills respectable connexions.
s. The disturbed state Of the country