The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-04

the FORMER NUMBER OF cartridges, Wnlle SUCCESS
sively, man after man of the band, by some mystic.
rlous agency, becomes possessed OF q Spencer rife.
In addition to these forty or forty.eignt charges
Lowery carries long baded knife and large flask
OF wniskey-tne latter because he fears TO be pol
soned by promiscuous nelghborhood drinking. lie
| can run like deer swim, stand weeks OF exposure
IN the swamps and forest, walk day and night, ana
take sleep by little snatches, which, In few days,
would tire out white negro Although a tippler.
| he was never known to be drunx-a TACT not to be
justly asserted OF his confederates Brought sud
denly at bay he is observed 10 wear that light,
| hendish, enjoying smile, which SHOWS nature ut
| It's depths savage predatory and fond Of blood.
The war he has waged for the past nine years,
within region OF twelve or fifteen miles square,
against county, State Confederate and United States
authorities. alternately unltedy, Is Justification
for the terror apparent In the faces OF all the white
more concern to the CaroInas than did Cartoons
| Legion ninety years ago.
LowERY AS A BRrGAHD LEADER.
"What Is the meaning Of this ~ SAID | to "Paf-
| SOM Sinclair-the fighting parson or Lumberton-
GLOW can this fellow, win handful OF boys and
llterate men, put TO hight society only recently
used to warfare and full OF accomplished soldiersS
| Explain It,"
"Lowry." answered Sinclair, ais really one OF those
remarkable executive spirits that arises now and
then IN raw community, without advantages other
than nature gave him. He has passions, put no
Weaknesses and MS eye Is on every p0int al once.
lie has impressed that whole negro society with MS
power and influence. They fear and admire him.
He asserts his superiority over all these whites just
as well. No man VINO stands face 10 face win nm
can resist his quiet wl!l and assurance and his
searching eye. Without fear without hope, deIylng
society, he is the only man we have anv knowledge
OF down here who can play his part Upon my
have been William the Uonqueror. lie reminds
me OF NOBODY but Rob Roy"
HIS BLOOD AND VACCINATIONS.
The three natures OF white, Indian and negro are,
however, seen at intervals TO come forward In this
periodical nunt for him Is done ne repairs 10 some
one Of the huts In Scuietown and PLAYS 10 the dane
Ing OF the mulattO girls and his companions by
The hour. his belt OF arms unslung and thrown at
| his ieet the peacea0c part OF the audience taking
part with mixed wonder. delight and apprehension.
Several times this banjo has nearly betrayed him to
his pursuers Sheriff Macmillan DESCRIBED himself
timber around Lowery's cabin 70 wait for hun To
come forth az daylight. and" sad ne. "that
| banjo was Just everlaslingy thrumnlng, and we
could hear the laughter and Juba-beatng nearly the
whole night long,
The RIGHTEOUSNESS OF Lowery is sufficient TO be
noticeable, but while 1t never engages nun to the
what may be traced in some degree 10 his Indian
| nature-the using oil women as an AUXILIARY 10 war
prisoners with the mulatto girls OF Scuhletown, and
the charms OF these yellow tinted syrens broke up
the morale OF the late campaign in force AGAINST the
outlaws WHILE as some allege, the discovery oil the
Detective Landers plan TO capture Lowery was made
| by II girl III Lowery's interest with whom Landers
spent his time. LOwcry said, and lau ghed over
IT, that he devised at u critical point IN truce be-
tween the contending parties That o bevY Of the
prettest and irallest beauties in Scu1leOwn Should
come up aad be introduced 10 one OF the Officers
high in command. After that the Marc Antony In
question laid down his sword, ana gave practical
evidence that the hostility OF races IS not 80 greaG
as the slavery statesmen alleged. The Indifference
OF the Indian TO the loan OF his squaws tinds some
parallel In LOwery's tactics. He himself Is the Don
Juan OF ScuIileown; ouU he sleeps on ms arms. and
will go into the swampi for weeks without repn-
| ing. Women have been employed TO give him up;
but they either repeni or he discovers their purpose
BY intutive sagacity.
| THE OUTLAWS WIFE.
The white society around him gave Henry Berry
Lowery q lesson III seschooing and sacrInce so far
as women were concerned. Alter the murders OF
Barnes and Harris-oilences which, some THINK,
ought to nave been included III the proclamation OF
the close oil the war-Lowery stood up by Inc SIDE Of
Rhody strong, the most beautiful mulatto OF Scuie.
town, to be married. Aware OF the engagement
and the occasion, the Sherls posse with cruel de-
| liberation, surrounded The house I'LL the ceremony
was over, and then rushed In and TOOK the outawed
! husband from the side OIL MS wife. lie re-
moved TO Lumberton JAIL and then sent still further
away to Columbus county jail; put he broke through
the bars, escaped to the woods with the irons on
have three children, the irulL OF their stolen and
| rudely interrupted interviews.
| GLIMPSE AT MADAME LOwERY.
AS rode down on the train from Shoe Feel to
Lumberton, on the 2eth OF February the conductor,
Colonel Morrison, came 10 me aud said ILL you
want TO see Henry Berry Lowerys wife you can ind
her in the forward second class car" She had taken
The train At Red Banks Tor Moss Neck-polnts be.
tween which the whole band of outlaws frequently
| station saw her descend with hel baby and walk
of down tle road III the woods and stop there
ne a Se a s Of wag
to cry as she let the tram, and she said, mother
fashion NO. no, no wouldn't cry when had
two Of the five remaining outlaws ana vile
or the third. The whites call her saur-
lcaly, 'tne queen or SculiieiOwn :" but
she appeared to be meek, pretty eyed
rather shrinking girl, OF a very lighl color poorly
| cheap red stones IN hem, on her small hands, and
| a dark green plaid dress OF muslin delanc, winch
| just revealed her new black morocco store shoes.
A yellowisn muslin or calico hood with long cape,
covered her head, and there was nothing beside that
| l remember except a shawl oil bright c0Ors, mnch
| worn. 1t was SAD enough and prosaic enough 10
see this small woman with her baby IN ner arms,
covered with the blood OF nitecu murders, roamed
| the woods ana swamps like Seminole Rn0dy
Lowery said not TO be constant wife, but TO fol.
! low the current example Of ScuietOwn. other
| persons, the negroes notably. deny this. more
| persevering newspaper correspondent might settle
LowERY AS A rERRoRrzER.
Mr.. HAYES a republican, OF shoe Heel, whose
| good and whose practical Northern mlnd not
| likely to De deceived, told me mat L0wery, among
| mis- numerous warnings served upon people, stop
| ped one white man the ana said, You are
taking advantage OF my circumstances and ab.
sence to be Iamilar with my family Now. You bet
ter pack up ana get OUT OF TINS county" the man
lost no me In dong as requested; Tor Henry Berry
LOwery generally warns before nc Kills. la the mai
ter OF honesty In the observance Of promise or q
treaty the people most robbed ana outraged by TINS
bandit acknowledge his Indian scrupuousness
'.Mr. WacNalr,N he said TO one 0i his wnie neigh
bOrs, whom he had robbed twenty times, II want
you to gear up and 90 TO LumDerlon. Where
they have put my vile IN Jail Tor
no CRIME but because she my vile;
that amt her FAULT, and they cant make so. You
peope won't let me work to get my living, ana have
got TO take 1t from you; but God knows she'd like
TO see me make my own bread. ron 90 10 LUMBER
| and tell the Sher1n ana County commissioners
that II they don't let her out OF mat jail III aie
| On the wnIe women Oi Burnt swamp township.
| Some or them shall come 10 the swamp win If
she Is Kept In the Ja because they can't get me-,
LowERY AS TRUCE MAKER.
Lowery then named point on the road where he
would meet MacNar, ana he met MN instead three
miles nearer to LumbeitOn. The feeling OF terror IN
the county may be understood when, without more
delay, RhOdy LOweTy was set free.
Wnile III the region several persons urged me to
go out and talk TO I.owery. Sherin Macmillan and
Mr. Brown. the son-iii-law OF the murdered Snern
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