The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-20

the rumOred death OF one OF It's correspondents
who had been detailed to search for DR.. Liv-
ingstone, with instructions not to return until
he had found the great explorer, or had
obtained certain information of his fate. The
devoted attache had penetrated into the wilds Of
Africa in the discharge of his duty, and had
already succeeded in obtaining some reliable
news of Livingstone when he was stricken
down by disease, and, as we have reason to
fear, died at his post. The HERALD had pre-
viously despatched another party to assist its
first envoy in his mission, and hence
we have still hope that our enterprise and
heavy expenditure will result in giving to the
world the earliest correct information of the
missing explorer, alive or dead, and probably
of the result of his wonderful labors.
To-day another of our correspondents is in
deadly peril, owing to the fidelity and courage
with which he has attempted to carry out his
instructions to ascertain the exact facts in re-
gard to the operations, condition, intentions
and character of the swamp outlaws in North
Carolina. The gallant people and the efficient
officers of police in the district infested by
these desperadoes were shaking in their boots,
paralyzed with terror, and sending forth ex-
travagant accounts of the terrible strength
while two or three of the band would hang
about the railroad station and approach trains
without encountering any molestation. There
was evidently disgraceful and cow
ardly panic among the people, and
the HERALD, with its customary enterprise,
resolved to do its duty as public journal and
to put stop to the shameful episode by as
pertaining and publishing the true condition
of affairs in the swamp, the actual strength of
the outlaws and their real character and OBJ
jects. To accomplish this useful work it be-
came necessary to send an emissary into the
heart of the outlaws camp. The mission was
one Of great danger, but the correspondents
of the HERALD are not accustomed to reckon
risk in the discharge Of their duty. One was
promptly found willing to undertake the task,
and the fact that he is to-day prisoner in
the hands of the Lowery gang shows how
well he is doing his work.
We have already ascertained through him
the fact of the death of "Boss" Strong and of
either the death or fight of Henry Berry
Lowery. This is important information; and
to this we hope soon TO add full history of
the whole gang, their operations, intentions
and condition, if our correspondent shall
be fortunate enough to escape with
his life. But he is in the hands
Of desperate criminals, who would not
hesitate to murder him without remorse if
they should imagine that their safety or
convenience required his death. Our special
despatch from Wilmington, N. c., to-day,
however, informs us that our attache is
threatened with another peril that the
citizens of Robson county, having Seen
him In company with some of the outlaws,
although evidently closely guarded by them,
have taken it into their wise heads
that he must be in completely with the gang,
and hence threaten him with vengeance
should he escape the hands of the desperadoes
Of the swamp. Well, the citizens of Robson
county, who are too cowardly to at
tempt to put down the outlaws, and
who shake and SILVER at the sound
of the name of Lowery as children
shake and SILVER at the mention of DOGGY,
would, no doubt, be just sensible enough to
mistake a journalist for cutthroat and just
valiant enough to lynch one solitary man, pro-
vided they could be satisfied that he was I'M
armed. But we do not believe they will ven
ture to NEEDLE with HERALD cor
respondent who has braved the outlaws in
their den, and we shall therefore feel
assured of the safety Of our attache
provided he escapes with his life from the
Lowery band. In the meantime outside the
benighted region of Robson county every
body will admire and applaud the enterprise
of the HERALD in probing this disgraceful
affair to the bottom and the daring and zeal of
the correspondent who has placed his life
in jeopardy in faithfully carrying out
our instructions. There are heroes in
peace as we'll as in war, and not the least
honored among them are the men who, in the
discharge of their duty as the correspondents
of great journal, risk perils from which or
binary men would shrink. The devotion of the
HERALD staff on the field of battle has already
been sadly illustrated by the hand of Death.
While we yet hope to obtain contradiction OF
the reported death of our African explorer,
and while we look confidently for the safe re.
lease of our attache from the hands of the
outlaws of the swamp as well as from the
less terrible clutches of the wseacres of Robe
son county, we recognize that these CORE.
spondents are just as deserving Of honor and
praise as those who have always rlsked and
sometimes laid down their lives on the field Of
battle.
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