Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-04

RADICALISM In NORTH CARO-
LIMA.
Rape and Double Murder.
UNNAMABLE OUTRAGgS ON A BOY
AND GIRL.
Negro Candidate for the Leglsla'
tuTe In the Lead.

From the Georgia tlaflOh-l
One of the most revolving outrages and
a double murder occurred nesr SWANS
Mil, n. c., on Tuesday last, which 1t
was ever our lot TO record, or which ever
took place in any civilized land. A few
miles from the mill, on the Columbus
rosd, lived Mrs. Marks, a young and
beautiful widow lady about thirty years
of age, q hired woman and two children,
a little boy OF five and 3 little girl Of
eight, living with her. At about nine
O'Clock in the evening of the 2lst inst, a
loud rap at the door of the house startled
the inmates, who had just retired for the
night. The hired woman, who slept in
an upper room, raised window to ascer-
tain the cause, and was accosted by 8
negro. who said he had a letter for Mrs.
Marks, which he had brought from the
village, and that it was very important
and must be answered that night.
Recognizing him as q man from the viii
Iage whom she knew, she went down
stairs and opened the door. AS soon as
the door was fairly unfastened, gang of
nine armed negroes who had been con-
cesled in the dark behind clump of
bushes, made a rush into the house. The
woman fed through rear door and es-
caped into piece of thick woods back
Of the house. Mrs. Marks, hearing the
noise, started TO come from her room,
but wes met by two of the negroes, who
seized her and attempted to drag her
toward a bed standing in corner of the
room. Being woman Of great strength
she struggled .eariully, but the rest OF
the gang coming to the aid OF the two,
she was finally OverpoWered. They then
threw her on the bed, tying her arms
=, sr hs.s7
proceeded to violate her person in turn,
until ali nine of them had sstiated their
helllsh passions. While this was going
on an attempt to violate the person Of
the little girl, who was held by two Of the
fiends in plain sight of the mother, while
a third one accomplished the damnable
deed, knife having to be used for the
purpose The screams of the child were
so fearful, which SO enraged the demons
that they tore her toDguefrom her mouth,
and finally beat her brains out against
the stone jam OF the fireplace and
threw the body into the back yard
Not content with this they seized
the boy, and after tying him with
cords, proceeded to commit a
nameless outrage upon his body. The
woman who escaped from the house fed
toward Slower Station, but the night be-
ing dark, lost ber wEy, and did not arrive
at Mr. Appleby's the nearest neighbor to
Mrs. Marks, until about two O'Clock in
the morning. She immediately gave the
alarm, and Mr.. Appleby called up his
men, and after aTmiDg them, sent off to
Robert Stowe's and the other neighbors.
AS soon as possible they all took their
horses and proceeded to Mrs. Marks,
where they found the house on fire, and
discovered the terrible scene we have de-
scribed, but the perpetrators of the deed
had fled. When found, Mrs. Marks was
wholly insensible, and it was with great
difficulty that she was restored to con-
scIousness. George, the little boy, was
found dead on the floor, bound with
cords as they had left him, and the dead
body of Annie, the little girl, had been
dragged from the yard into the back
stoOp, undoubtedly for the purpose Of
having all traces of their guilt Oblitera-
ted by the fire which they had set. 1t is
supposed that the miscreAnts were
alarmed by the approach of the
horses of Mr. Appleby and his men, and
fled into the adjoining woods, from which
they scattered to their homes before
morning. The whole country is aroused,
and it will be difficult for all of the per-
pelrators of such disbolicsi deed to es-
care. The negro who pretended to have
ths letter, was recognized by Mrs. Orally,
the work woman, as Bill Baston, the re-
cent negro and Radical candidate for the
Legislature from that district. He was
not to be found the next day, ami his
wife said he was going to Mulberry, to
negro meeting. He is probably secreted
either in the woods or in the huts OF some
of the rest of the gang, but 1t will be hard
for him to escape, as the whole country
Is aroused. No negroes were found ab-
sent from home for five miles around, eX-
cent Batson, and unless he is caught, it
will be very difficult to ferret out the
murderers, on account of the secret or
panizations known to exist among them.
Life and property are st the mercy Of the
blacks in nearly the whole South. They
refuse to work, and being fed by the
FreedmenIs Bureau, are allowed to live
in idIeness to peTpetrate their fendish
outrages. Mr.. Stokes, whose plantation
is on the Cumberland road, informs us
that he finds it almost impossible to hire
help at any price-all the negroes re-
rusing to work and being supported by
the buresu. Just before the last election
nearly two thousand rstiOns were dealt
out to the negroes in that district by the
bureau agent, and BastOn had nearly the
whole control of the distribution. The
excitement in relation to the murder Is
intense, and it was with the utmost diff
fieuIty that the citiZsns could be re-
strained from wreakiDg vengeance indis-
criminately.