Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-30

nnGnded the keys OF the Sheriff. Upol
his refusal TO dsliver them, they put hIa
and his family under guard, and witt
sIedge-hemners and axes brought for tb'
purpose, literally demolished the outei
door OF the prieOD, and the keys having
been found, ia the meantime, concealed
uader carpet, the cell containing the
! prisoners was readily opened anu The
! poor wretches led out, bound hand and
foot, and seated in q sleigh. The rescue
| was commenced st ii O'Clock and effect.
/ ed in two hours aud fifteen minutes.
! The few citizens attracted to the vicinity
/ by the unusual sights and scunds, were
held In duranee vie by the outside pick
cts until the party got ready to leave,
and OF course had no means Of giving
the alarm to Others. And at 8 quarter
past l o'clock the grim company with
their helpless victims moved rapidly Out
into the darkness.
The next morning the intelligence rap
idly spread that Bill Jackson snd Jim
Orton mad been taken out Of the Sheriff Z
keeping and hung to tree in the suburbs
OF the city. Your correspondent and
others who were sOjourniDg at the pTin-
cipsl hotel, rel joicing under The name OF
the Pacific House, we're naturally Curl
O15 to confirm the truth OF this startling
news by personal observation. This was
a phase Of Western society and Radical
civilization, which 1 had an especial
anxiety to verify with my own optics.
Accordingly We soon made up q party,
chartered 8 bob-slsd, and "put oGt' on
the Plum Hollow rood. Over the crisp
morning snow we glided. The feaces
and hOase-tOps and bsre-armed oaks gilt
tered with frost. Through the still air,
from the village roofs mounted heaven
ward white, tail pilisrs of smoke. Above
Us the skies were serene aud cloudless,
pale and pellueid, ss only the skies Of
Northern winters are, end one would
scaFcs have thought the beauty and
brightness and quietude Of that holy
sabbath could ever have been narred by
the CHASTITY spectacle that met our eyes
SO entering the timber upon the outskirts
OF the village, We saw the grand finale OF
this midnight tragedy. Upon proJact-
lag limb OF a large white oak, suspended
by the neck, stiff and stark, hung the
lAt9st victims Of Holloway dance.
J sckson was 8 very tall, ROBUST young
man, scarcely twenty-one. He was clad
| a blue army overcOat, and bis face, par
tally Obscured by a felt hat drawn over
bis eyes, was turned well up TO the morn
ing sun. OstOn WEs shorter, but stout
and trim OF figure, dressed In dark pants f
and sack, stained and streaked with
of blood from ais own wounds
His head vas turned downward and fea-
lures entirely concealed, while the fatal
knot, tight dFaWu high upon the back OF .
MS neck, iitticg rudely his soft brown I
ocks and disclosing ths fair youthful +
Ikin, made clearly manifest that ha had .
lied Of simple strsngulstion. Their feet /
iangisd within a few inches Of the
ground, snd sn irregular circle Of half
rodden snow beneath each OF the mur-
iered men marked the circuit of their
lying struggles.
The sequel is soon told. The formslity
4 corOner's Inquest wss had, and late
q the afternoon, brothers and sisters
nd mourning relatives claimed and bore
way their dead. pEenty-lo0r hours
ster the dismal horror had Ceased 20 be
topic OF conversation, aud was soon
ntirely forgotten.
All this, thought We, Is Justice A
nan annOances a dancing bout to his
riends and neignbOrs. He msddens
lem with his poisoned whisky,
Wounds without cause" ss the Scrip
lTes hgEh it, speedily ersQa. The man
rho prOfeTs the aceursed bowl to his
eighb0E's lips, is the first to fail msn4
led, distorted corpse, And the fsll
pirtt OF vengeance, knowing no bounds
or restraints Of laws or humanity, fol-
)Ws 20 the death the luekless two Of the
cRrOusers who without hearing
r trial, were sdjuiged guilty OF the
nforiunate Holl0way's death. Whittier
o these things tend OK where shall they
I'd? Only in tpat general dsmOraiiza-
on, when society shall be resolved psek
Ito the elements of that bsrbsrism be-
Seen which and our boasted civiliz2-
on the barrier is, after all, so thin and
angi0le.
mad such an occurrence as this taken
lace In Tennessee, the press Of the
'orth would have hersldsd it far and
de as Ku-Klux outrage and Brown !
WIS colored militia called forthwith to
he field, with orders to subsist upon q
SPRAYED and treasonsble people.
l arrived in this little old-fasbioned
'wn on Friday LAST, 1t is the county
te OF Howard and in the center Of q
cry rich and fertile country. Have
sen mud-bound for two days, but hope
make my exit tomorrow, and will
ION be in Memphis, Dec UoleRte.
r. Il S