The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-12-02

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reception.
Wsn' .aid be, a. W. walked
along The street through the falling
leaves IRON ihe great shade trees
well, sou see there ere about =
hundred men 10 jail, and every nor.
ming tlpiaip Ogden, The officer in
charge, allows their friend 70 bring
them food, a%owerq, and Ito, lellm.
eies, and tall with them. This il
Sunday, aud there will he more pres.
emf than usual A large number
have come in from the country
We soon came in sight of the jail,
a large threc-siory brick building,
heavy grades in all The side Windows,
from each n OF which pcered a
many faces rs conld get to it. The
prisoners were enjoying the balmy
October breeze and warm sunlight
as best they could. In front of the
We're quite a crowd of people
who bud come On horseback and in
from u distance. A large
portion Of them were ladies. Indeed, {
all ages and conditions were repre-.
There was tho wife of a :
rich planter in her carriage, who !
had come to see her imprisoned hus- !
with her little children cling, n
Ing to her skirts and looking up at b
he great iron.bound windows in n
error. Then there was a mother b
Who had come from the upper part
# tie county to see her son, and a o
laughter to see her father, Il father b
0 see ais son, a sweetheart to see her ~
weetheart, aud so on through tho /
hole range Of social and domestic q
,laiions. They all brought some. /
hing, u It was nothing but flowers. III
on can imagiuc what a sensation 1t st
ould make in some interior county
Ohio, for armed soldiers TO sud N,
My appear and clap a hundred to
IN jail without warrant or va
occss, taking tnem in many in ty
.nces out of their beds at midnight. a
it would draw out their friends thr
d relatives and how widespread Gel
Inpathy would be. his
or fifty people are let in at AM
inc, and after they have spent a MI
time with their imprisoned
ends, they are turned ont and a Tho
v set turned in. This is kept mp
Il oil are afforded an interview, Br
'rt through it may be, but better yo'
n none. at' atnaW" CHI
We pasacd in by armed sentiuels !
the sters to the second story, tel
src Captain Ogden conducted us
through the building, allowing NC
to 80 ia and among the prisoners, 20
mine their cells, aud giving us lor
" liberty than IL usually accorded 'h'
visitors. Not 50 much for this on 7
Irtesy as from tho fact that ne de-, RI \
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yes It, let me state that Captain sta
len does all he can TO make the ~
comfortable. aud they all sol
ak OF him III the highest terms. ma '
me has to be In jail. the next best 'ai'
TO being out is to have i kind "
! humane jailor. ~
y the second story there are no her
\, and he,e are confined the bet sue
class Of prisoners, that il, such as aus
merely accused Of belonging to sta
ku-klnx without any other spcci, loo
charge. Up stairs. IN the cells : 8
tue greatest number, and those 1ac
. are considercslthe worst class. eye
9 poor and rich, educated and in. lhh
lgent, high and low, are all mix ne
together on both floors. If a are
4 Is considered a bati case, he is ~
on the third floor III a cell, no ga
tier how high hts social position sen
how great his wealth. The TAIL his