Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-02-15


Hineh's policy yet awhile. He knew
the proofs were not strong enough tt
make the charge plausible, even be.
fore a Lynch Court. of which he him.
self was both the prosecutor, Judge
and executioner. His object was frs
to get up hue and cry against Long
and under cover of a general excite
ment, accomplish his devilish purposes
without question or much trial even
So that, after a great deal of mauouvre-
ing for eight or ten days. during " hich
time the charge against Long was in
dustriously circulated by his myrmi-
dOns, so as tG attract general attention
and expectation as to the result of the
nyestigatiOns-he proclaimed far and
wide that he had found the horse at
last, hid in a timber bottom near
Longs This of course seemed strong
confirmation of his guilt, aud though
the mob were most Of them horse
thieves, to all intents, yet it was an
objectionable crime for any one to
practice professionally am 9ng them
selves; so that Long was loudly de-
nOunced, and threatened on every side
and ordered to leave the country forth
with.
These proceedings Jack by no means
cOmprehended. or felt disposed to be
moved by; but gave them one and all
to understand that he meant to remain
where he was, until It entirely suited
his convenience to go and if his time
and theirs did not happen to agree,
they might make the most of It.
About this time not only Hinch him
self, but every other person who had
ID HTw
upon Jack guilt, and the necessity of
furnishing him summarily, began to
lose, every day or two, valuable stock,
which was WantOnly shot down some
times IN the sight of their houses and
1t soon began to be remarked that ev-
cry animal lost In this way, had been
associated, of course, with Jacks well
known and curious prediction for
that mark in hunting A meeting was
at once convened at 'the store" of
which the planter was the chairman /;
and at it, by a unanimous vote, a res
olutiOn was passed cOndemning Jack
Long TO be whipped and driven out of
the countTy-and Hinch with his Reg
ulatOrs appointed to carry it into
effect He could hardly contain him
self with joy for now, whatever ex-
treme his pitiless malignity might
choose to indulge itself IN, he had no
fear of after-claps or questioning.
It was the third day after the meet
ing. He had just returned from hunt
ing, and laying aside his accoutre-
ments, partook of the simple meal her
neat housewifery had prepared for him;
stretching himself uDOn the buffalo
robe on the floor, Tomped with his two
rosy checked boys, who rolled over
his great body, and gamboled and
screamed In riOtous joy around him :
but mother wanted some water from
the branch, and the frolic must be Civ
en- over while Jack would 90 and
bring it. So jumping up, he left the
little-folks pouting Wilfully as they
looked after him from the door, and
started. The stream was only about a
hundred yards from the house, and
the path leading to it was through a
dense thicket. 1t was against Jacks
religion ever to leave the house with
out his gun but his wife whom he
loved above all universe Of sentiment
and everything else, was In hurry for
water, and the distance was short-so
he sprang gaily out with the vessel IN
his hand, leaving the rife behind.
The water had been dipped up, and he
was returning along the narrow path
closely bordered by brush, when he
felt the light tap on each shoulder, and
his career strangely impeded. He had
just time to perceive that a lasso had
been thrown over him, which would
confine his arms, when he saw himself
suddenly surrounded, and was rushed
upon by a number of men He in
stantly recognized the voice of Hiueh,
shouting, Down with him Drag
him down p as the men who had hold
of the lasso about his body, were jerk
ing at it violently In the effort to throw
him. All his tremendous strength
was put forth in one convulsive effort
which would have freed him, but that
the internal moose had fallen true, and
bound his arms. As it was, he drag
ged the six stout men who held it after
his frantic bounds nearly to his door
before he was prOstrated, and then IT
was by a heavy blow dealt him over
the head with the butt of a gun
The last objects which met his eyes as
he sank down, were the Mortified
faces of his two children and wife
looking out upon him.
The blow deprived him of his senses
for some time, and as he recovered he
found himself half stripped, and lash
ed to a tree a short distance from the
house-Hinch in front of him with a
knotted rope In his hand, his wife on
the ground Wailing and clinging with
piteous entreaty round the monsters
knees, his children weeping by her,
and outside this group a circle of men
with guns in their hards. That fear
full awakening was a new birth to Jack
Long His eye took in everything at
one glance. A shUdder, like that of
an oak rifting to its core, sprang along
his nerves. and seemed to pass out at
his feet and through his fingers, leav-
ing him as rigid as marble; and when the
blows of the hideous mOcking devil
before him fell upon his white flesh,
making it welt in purple ridges, or
spout dull black currents, he felt them
no more than the dead Intel of his
door would have done; and the agony
of that poor wife shrilling a frantic
echo to every harsh sound, seemed to
have no more effect upon his ear than
it had upon the tree above them, which
shook its green leaves to the self-same
cadence they had held yesterday in the
! breeze. His wide open eyes were
glancing calmly and scrutinizingly into
the faces of the men who stood around
those features are never to be for
gotten for while Hinch lays on the
stripes with all his furious strength,
blaspheming as they fall, that glance
falls on each face with a cold, keen,
searching intensity, as if it marked
them to be remembered forever The
mans air was awful-so concentrated
so still-so enduring He never
spoke, or groaned, OF writhed-but
| those intense eyes of his the wretch
es couldn't stand them, and began tc
shuttle and get behind each other. But
it was too late he had them all-ter
! men They WERE REGISTERED.
We will drop the curtain over thi;
horrible scene. Suffice it to say, tha'
after Iashing him until he tainted, the
Regulators left him /; telling his wifi,
that if thev were not out of the coun
try in ten days, he should be shot
He did go within the specified time
and it was said, returned with his fam
lily to Arkansas, where his wife's faith