The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-23

his person, as they had been told he would
purchase this material In the town and return,
for the purpose Of putting them 70 sleep.
Tho absurdity Of the superstition is only
equalled by their lack of judgment in opening
the door for obtaining such matter If they
feared he would attempt to carry such an idea
into effect; unless, indeed, they were anxious
for pretext to murder him, which / do not
quite believe. He then gave up his revolver,
the only weapon he carried, as an earnest Of
good faith toward them, and thus the affair
ended for the time.
TREATED AS SPY FROM WASHINGTON.
He has been suspected as spy for the
authorities in Washington, and they have
limited they believed his object was to return
to their section at future time as guide to
federal troops who would be commissioned
subject 10 his information to capture them.
As matter of precaution, for their own
safety, and until tho question of his real in
tentions has been satisfactorily recounted to
them, he will be led to one of their most
secret hiding places blindfoldsd, and so
brought back at their pleasure or by arrange
ment to the depot for communication with
this bureau.
DRNoUNCINa THE RoBESoNIANS.
lam informed by Captain Wooter, Of the
Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail-
road-an efficient and intelligent oflcer-that
there is an indignant condemnation of the
course taken by the Ro6esonian, in its effemi-
nate, vlndictive publication regarding the
HERALD representative, and its afterthought
of having him outlawed and pursued by a
posse of police. He says this is the senti-
ment expressed by all the respectable and
intelligent people of the country and the Sec
ton traversed by their line. This sentiment is
heartily endorsed in Wilmington. The article
in the above named paper touching the action
of the magistrates and how they should act If
they take him into custody, has done an
amount of injury to the interests of the county
that cannot be speedily repaired, for no
man of common sense would attempt
to enter upon their sacred (?) domain for the
purposes of business if he has to undergo
police court examination and be charged, If
informally, with being companion or an
abettor of outlaws. The people who side with
them are of class incapable of resentment,
even If they knew the Interior purport. Their
remarks do not represent popular feeling,
and have, therefore, no force with the
| rational people.
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE CAPTIVE.
The greater portion of the white people In
the section between Shoe Heel and Lumber
ton, who are aware of the terri ble visitation
of the men in the swamps, and the effect Of
their presence, regard the HERALD cor
respondent as having performed mar
vellous achievement In penetrating so
successfully to the base of operations occu
pied so long and tenaciously by Henry
Berry Lowery and his confederates. They
look forward to the publication Of the matter
with which they will entrust him, with great
interest and avow that it will lead to bene-
fetal results in awakening throughout the
country an adequate appreciation of their sur
roundngs for so many years.
| The New York Herald and the North Carolina
| Outlaws.
from the Boston Post. March 1911
| The NEW YORK HERALD appears TO hold the
| entire world in Its grasp. From the interior OF
| wild Africa TO the gades of North Carolina swamp
| there is not point at which HERALD corre-
| spondent may not be found, trading glass beads
| and Atteboro jewelry with the natives for an
exclusive item or interviewing cheerful gang Of
| outlaws who have each price upon his head. The
| bold knight Of the notebook and double-pointed
| pencil VINO ventured into the reconstructed
| land Of the Lowerys has fallen q victim
| to his zeal, according to the report which
| comes from the classic locality OF Moss Neck,
| near the metropolis OF Scufietown. He is to be
Kept prisoner, Dut unnarmed, led upon the
/ choicest cuts OF stolen bacon, and sustained by
whiskey levied as tribute from the saloon keepers
| who recognize Lowery as suzerain, until the fas-
tidious gentlemen Of the bush are satisfied as to
hts credentials. Such Is the report although 1t ia
| difficult to imagine what immediate interest the
Lowerys have in the identity OF sheir interviewer.
| We may nope to soon welcome this adventurer
again to civilization and journalism, and meantime
may congratulate ourselves that we have within our
national domain o territory whose dangers surpass
those OF Central Africa and whose natives equal
those OF Uji In their earnest but forcible atsen.
tons to newspaper correspondents.
An Ardent Admirer Of the Herald Calls
for an Expedition to Externiuate the
Swamp Ansels-His Opioion Of "Bis
! Things.v