The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-03-21
loWery's Outlaws,
lShoe Heel, N. c (Frb, ~ Special Correspondence
OF the New York Herald

ti.'t ilao nech hHoNH IN lnlS country, iS OF
mixed Tuscarora, muatto and white
blood, twenty-six years of age, i've feet
nine inches high, and weighing about l5C
pounds. He has straight black hair, like
an Indian; dark goatee, and beard
| graceful in shape. but too thin to look
/ very black. His face slopes from the
cheek bones to me tip of his goatee, so As
TO give him the Southern American con
tour OF physiognomy; but it is lighted
with eyes of a different color-eves of a
! graylsh haZel-at times appearing light
blue, with drop of brown in them. but
in agitation dilating, darkening, and al
though never quite losing the appearance
OF smile, yet in action it is a smile of
deviish nature. His forehead is good
and his tace and expression rehned-re-
markably so, considering his mixed race
want of education and long career Of
Iawlessness. A scar of crescent shape
and black color lies in the skin below his
left eye, sald to have been made by an
ron pot falling upon him when child
HIS voice is sweet and pleasant and in
his manner there is nothi self-important
or staggering. He is not talkative. lis
tens quietly, and searches out whoever is
speaking 10 him like man iliterate in all
books save the two great books of nature
and human nature above all The color
OF his skin is OF a whitish yellow sort
with an admiXture of copper-such a skin
as, Tor the nature of its components is in
color indescribable, there being no negro
blood IN it except that of far remote
generation of mulatto, and the Indian
still apparent. 1t is enough to say OF this
skin it seems to suffer little change bv
heat or cold, exposure or sickness, good
housing or wild weather, The very rela-
tives Of white men killed by Henry Berry
Lowery admitted to me that ''EIe is one of
the handsomest mulattOes you ever saw ~
THE BANDITS CHARACTERISTICS.
To match this face the outlaws body is
OF mixed strength and beauty. 1t is well
Knit, wirv, straight in tile shoulders and
limbs, without physical flaw in it, and
as one said to me who had known him
well in childhood "He is like a trap Bah.
elastic all over. He has feet which wonld
be noticeable anywhere, pointed and with
arching inStep, so that he can wear a very
shapely boot, and his extremities, like his
features, indicate nothing of the negro.
A good chest, long bones suppleness.
proportion, make his walk ana form
pleasing to see. He is negligent about
His dress, but his clothes become him and
never iisparage him. People have told
ne that he wore fine clothes; but when
questioned to the point of REORGANIZATION
admitted that he had nothing on but a
woollen blouse and trousers, and a black
wde-brimmed, stiff woollen hat. TO see
his trim youth as he appears whenever
seen on the high roads or the pincy tor
est bypath. Or a. often at the railway Sta
tions Of the Moss Neck, Eureka, Rule's
Store, or Red Banks, is to see Young Mars
bearing about an arsenal His equipment
might appear prepostcr0ns, if we do not
consider the peculiar circumstances Of his
warfare-outawed by the State of North
Carolina, without a reliable base of sup
plies, and compelled to carry arms and
charges enough to encounter a large BODY
Of men or stand long campaign a belt
around his waist accommodates five six
barrelled revolvers-long shooters From
this belt 4 shoulderstrap passes up, and
supports behind, singing fashion, a
Spencer rifle, which carries eight car
tridges, and it is now generally alleged
that he has replaced this with Henry
rifle, carrying double the former number
Of cartridges while, successfully, man
after man Of the band. BY some myste-
rous agency, becomes possessed ot
Spencer rife. In addition to these forty
on torty-eight charges, Lowery carries
long-bladed knife and large flask of
whiskey-the latter because he fears to
he poisoned by promiscuous neighbor-
hood drinking. He can run like deer.
swim, stand weeks of exposure in the
swampS and forest, walk day and night
and take sleep by little snatches, which.
in q few days, would tire out white Or
negro. Although a tippler, he was never
known to be drunk-a fact not to be lust
lv asserted of his contederates Brought
suddenly at bay he is observed to wear
that light, tiendish, ENJOYING smile. which
shows Il nature at its depths savage, pred
atory and tond OF bIoo!. The war he has
waged tor the past nlnc years, within n
region Of twelve or fifteen miles square.
against county, State, Confederate and
United States authorities, alternately or
unitedly, is justification for the terror ap-
parent in the faces of all the white people
within those limits Lowerv's band givcs
more concern to the Caroinas than did
Car!eton's Legion ninety wears ago
"What is the meaning of this ?" said to
'Parson" Sinclair-the fighting parson Of
Lumberton-.'Howc can this fellow with a
handful of boys and illiterate men, put to
flight society only recently used to war
fare and full of accomplished soldiers
Explain it," "Lowerv," answered Sin
clair ''is really one Of those remarkable
executive spirits that arises now and then
IN a raw community without advantages
other than nature gave him. He has
passions, but no weaknesses, and his eve
IS on every point at once. He has i'm
pressed the whole negro society with his
power and influence. They fear and ad-
mire him. He asserts his superiority
over all these whites Just as Well No
man who stands face to face with him
can resist his quiet will and assurance
and his searching eye. Without fear,
without hope, defying society, he is
The only man we hive any knowl-
edge OF down here who cAn play his part
Upon my word, | believe if he had lived
ages ago he would have been William
the Conqueror. He reminds me Of no
body but Rob Roy" Mr. Hayes, Re
publican OF Shoe Heel, whose knowledge |
of the Scutfletown settlement is verv good, |
and whose practical Northern mind is not
likely to be deceived, told me that Low |
cry, among his numerous warnings serv-
ed upon people, stopped one white man
on the road and said, "You are taking ad- /
Of my circumstances and absence /
to be familiar with my family. Now, you
better pack up and get out of this county"
The man lost no time in doing as request
ed for Henry Berry Lowery generally |
warns before he kills. Since |
Jefferson Davis flight, and the reward I
put upon his head, there has been no
American criminal---probably none pre-
viously in all the history of the country
for offences at common law-who has |
been dignified at the amount of money Of |
fered for Lowery's overtaking. 1t it /
should appear in the North that this
sketch is too strong, point to this reward
and TO the fact that this outlaw has al
ready made a personal and bloody cam
paign against society longer than the
whole Revolutionary war Osceola, or
Powell (who was an immediate mixture !
Of Indian and negro blood, and who fought
over large region), gave out in much
shorter space of resistance.
RUMORs AND INCIDENTS.