Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-18
A Tate of Awful rutragc-Bru-
tsiitT UnParaIIeIcd-A Negro
Ravages 81 Lovely Young White
Girl and Afterwards Fears Her
TOnEue from the Root.


Girl and Afterwards Fears Her
Tongue from the KOOt.
One OF the most shocking, most horrible
events ever known to history, occurred
last week in Maryland, by which one of
the most prominent and wealthy citizens
of Cumberland county. has been reduced to
a condition thousand times worse than
death. Mr.. Charles Dean, a resident of
Brady's Mills, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, gentleman of education, and
possessor of the large mill and other prop
erty in the village, had an only daughter,
named Bessie. young lady not quite sew
enteen, possessed OF refinement and every
virtue and accomplishment which nature
could give or money procure. She had
form of exquisite symmetry and grace, and
rare voice which cultivation had trained to
produce the most perfect harmony-she
was indeed most charming singer and
belle OF the country.
For some months past there has been
prowling around Brady's Mills a most
ogerish looking mulatto, supposed to have
formerly been the slave of u brother of Mr..
Dean, living in Georgia.
This monster has lived in filthy hut at
the foot of Brady's mountain, with an old
woman who seemed tG be mistress, mother,
and h Iusekeeper, altogether. No one knew
his name, but by the wags of the town he
was designated as Dan Scrunch.
On Monday, the 81 of September, Miss
Bessie being at home, having left school at
Baltimore, where she was attending, on
account of the serious illness of her mother,
went, unaccompanied, to spend the after
noon with a neighbor, some distance
away, and returning in the early evening
around the mountain, sudden thunder
shower came on, and meeting Dan, was in
duced by him to seek shelter in the hut.
Alas poor child, no sooner had the door
been shut, than the fiendish demon seized
upon her, and despite her piercing screams
and struggles and in the presence of the
old witch woman, he committed upon the
chaste virgin the foulest outrage of which
the human mind can conceive or man is
capable. He then dragged her insensible
form out of the hut. The cool air revived
her, and again her lips uttered shril cry,
when this savage beast in human shape,
standing upon her PROSTATE form. with the
insane idea of putting 1t out of her power
to tell of the crime, crushed open her
mouth with the heel of his boot, aud with
his hyena claws he tore the poor girls
tongue from her throat. small boy.
driving cows in the vicinity, hearing the
screams. gave the alarm, but before help
could arrive, the fiend had fled. The eX-
cruciating torture of the delicate sufferer
and the frantic anguish of her parents, no
imagination can conceive.
She is said to be in a dying condition
modification having set in, and her invalid
mother cannot long survive the shock. Dan
Scrunch is still at large. The old woman
was taken into custody the next morning,
and stated that the brute returned during
the night. The WOODS are being secured
in every direction. and he cannot long es-
cape.-Pdtriot and Union.
A Chase Organ Against the Grant
Movement.
The Cincinnati Commercial does not like
the oversloughing OF CHASE by the move
ment in favor of GRANT, and feels disposed
to rebel against it. Here is what that sheet
says:
JUDGE CHASE AND THE PRESIDENCY.
Many of our Conservative and some of
our Radical exchanges have made proc
lamation since the Ohio election, that the
defeat of the Republican party in this
State-for the loss of the constitutional
amendment and of the Legislature consti-
tutes substantially defeat-ends now and
forever the Presidential prospects of Judge
Chase. Perhaps it does, but there are
some points of fact that should be consid-
cred, and we propose to name them in the
hope of producing wholesome reflection
In the first place, Notwithstanding the
great reputation as Radical that Judge
Chase has, he is, in temperament and con-
victions, one of the most truly conserva-
tive men in the country. He was the first
puollG man. a!ter the close OF Tue war ana
tne ueaIn OF Elhcoin, TO cali tne aGten-
tlon OF the PresldenC TO thc only solld oasis
of reconstruction-that is, the enfranchse-
ment of every ybody-suffrage for all slaves,
amnesty for all rebels, with, perhaps, half
dozen named exceptions. That is what
we must come TO. Inc WISesC men,oI all par
ties, nave admitted IL. Inc pollcy Is thaG
OF Judge Chase, and was urged upon Pres
1dent johnson some time before the date of
the North Carolina proclamation. AS for
the schemes OF vengeance IN the form OF
the conhscatlon OF the iands OF southern
white men, and their division among the
blacks, Judge Chase dlscountenances them
entirely. The notion that Congress should
seize upon the President and thrust him.
with blows and maledlctlons, out OF Office,
mas never oeen encouraged Dy JUDGE Chase.
On the contrary 1t aods has opinion that no ttttte
n,sschtet aods done during The tate pot.ttcdE
campaign 6y the aoltd threats OF summary I'M
pedc'ment that aoere Jreety MADE. Judge Chase
is held responsible tor the presentation OF
the negro suffrage issue IN Ohio, during
the last campaign. He NEVER URGED
IT. he recognized the 1act that Wmle
IN the southern states, where the
great BODY OF loyallstS were Diack, negro
suffrage was demanded by considerations
of the public safety, no such demand was
made in the North; ard that the Southern
whites might in great degree have their
prejudices conquered by coupling suffrage
with amnesty, while there was no such in
ducement in the North. to make application
of the golden rule. We 40 not see that it
can be justly claimed that Judge Chase
was especially defeated in the failure of the
constitutional amendment. That amend
ment was embarrassed by clause disIran-
chising two classes OF persons, and that was
opposed to his policy. he was sollcltous,
as the issue was eefore the people OF ONO,