The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-01-05

over the pavement to the first station, the
mob following behind. cursing, beating
snd trampiing him with their shoes,
Thrusiing him in a cell, he was left,
mangled and senseless. Tk7
Meantime the shop keepers of the city
had closed their stores. and strolled about,
gratltied spectators of the fendish carni.
val. greeting the murderers of Horton
and every squad of policemen that pa as
ed them dragging bleeding loyalist
Wilh shouts OF GOOD good ] Kill the
willie niger
| Around the Mechanics Instit ute and
in the adjacent STREETS upward of 100 ne
groes lay weltering in their blood, and
the dead carts drove By, loaded with
warm corPses and bodies of the wound
ed still writing with life, all tumbled in
discriminately together 'sF -.
10 one of. these carls the mangled H9t
ton was fungU after lying aWhils.at Be
station house, and under sitting load OF
dead and wounded negroes, his stomach
crushed in by blow from heavy plank.
be was taken to the Marine Hospital.
Furious with the taste of blood. the
police and their fellow thugs ragged up
and down some of the streets of the city,
calling out the names of we'll known loyr
alists, declaring lbeir inteslion TO slaught-
er every loyal man in New Orleans. 10
the midst of the excitement and carnage,
however. the bayonets of Federal troops
appeared. and further murder prevented.
The mob dispersed, and the blood stained
streets, and battrred windows, and muf-
fed groAns from distant hospital wards
alone testified 10 the horrors of the 30th
of July. . :" '''
AS Tie hours of that bloody day pass
ed, the wife Of Mr.. Horton waited az her
home, Eve miles distant, for his return.
Three O'Clock came, the limit he had set
for his absence. She looked long and
anxiously to catch "A glimpse of him ap :
preaching along the familiar street. He
did not come, and her ANXIETY grew into
alarm. To add TO her terror, breatbless
messenger arrived al her residence, and
warned her that she would not be safe
there that night, for trouble had happen
ed al the State House, and the secession
isis were searching for all the Unionists in
the city aud suburbs. Hastily summoning
tie negro servant, she told her to bar the
doors and windows, and. with few hur
ried perpetrators. then off for the city to
learn the fate Of her husband.
Having formerly boarded with Mrs.
E., shs took her way TO her house,
and made known her anxious errand. She
Was told of the riot and massacre, and at
once feared the worst. Several young
men who boarded at the house volunteer
ed to search for Mr.. Horton. They re-
turned late in the evening, but could give
her no news save that he had been badly
wounded. They dared not com munieate
their own convictions of his fate.
OHly the darkness of the dangerous
streets and the restraint of friends pre-
vented the almost distracted woman from
going forth that night 10 continue the
search. As It was the night brought no
sleep 10 her eyes, and soon as it was
morning she started on her sad errand.
Information had been received through
the city papers that Gen. Baird the mill
tary commander, had released all who had
been arrested aud confined By the police,
giving the name of her husband among
the rest, and stating that he had returned
home. Acting on this representation,
she went alone TO CArrolton, but only to
return by the next train. He was not
there. Without waiting for breakfast she
set off for Gen. BsiId's headquarters; a
young Methodist clergyman, Mr.. Henry,
one OF Mrs. Els boarders, insisting on
being her company.
No sooner did Gen. Baird see Mrs. Hor-
ton and know who she VAS, than he ex :
pressed much surprise that her husband
bad not been seen. and told her be had
ordered his release. Perhaps she would
end him at the City Hall. To this place
she Immediately went, but she searched
in vain He had not been there. SIZE
then hurried TO the First Police Station,
determined to wiring from the brutal off
GERS a confession of what they had done
with her husband. Entering the office,
she forced her way within the rails, and
asked the clerk what had been done with
her husband The man declared that
preacher Horton" had been sent BIZ him
TO the Charity Hospital. and she at once
hurried thilher. Again she was disap-
pointed. He had not been seen there !
The truth was, the cart which carried
MIR. Horizons body had stopped there,
aud been sent away. as it appeared to
be occupied only by blacks Toe hor-
rible idea suggested itself TO the afflicted
woman that her husband bad been con-
veyed away with LOAF OF dead bodies,
and had been barred alive; but, as last
resort, she determined to visit the Marine
Hospital. This was in 3 low and defiant
part of the city, aud devoted entirely to
negroes, and she could not have believed
he would be carried there by his worst
enemies; but at friends suggestion she
sought the place, still accompanied By
Mr.. Henry.
Arrived at the gate. she was refused
entrance; but catching a glimpse of Dr..
Harris, the head surgeon, whom she
knew, she called to him. and asked If her
husband vas there. DR.. Harris could
give her no positive assurance. bnt i'm
mediateiy ordered the servant 10 admit
her. Forgetting her WEAKNESS In her JOY
that her long quest had at last succeeded,
the faithful woman had bounded up the
steps, and without waiting to be directed,
rushed in among the patients, found ont
her husband, and sank exhausted upon
his bosom. What q spectacle + The
form che loved, bruised and helpless
mass Of flesh and blood, his head sWol-
len to the size of Two, bis left arm use
less. ard his right shattered aud man yled
H. moved Ysrr.af0StIy oho1f 9Th "a.