New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-01-02
E.;. sAu-saisaA Prisoners.

Yesterday morning, at q few minutes be-
fore noon, the Charleston steamer James
Adger came to her moerings at pier 90 North
river, situated at the foot of Warren street.
The vessel was encrusted fore and aft with
= thick coating Of ice, which made her decks
as slippery as a skating pond, and on which
the sailors repeatedly fell while handling the
ropes which were being used to moor her to
her pier. The hull and paddle-boxes of the
vessel, coated with ice, sparkled in the noon
day sun with wOndrous brlllancy. The
hoarse cries Of the pilot of "Stop herr"
Easy ahead!" "Slow herr" ceased after a
while, aud eventually the steamer, which
had been buAeting the bitter northeast
breeZes since last Tuesday, at noon, was
safely moored. Long before she had been
made fast HeIald reporter bad sprang aboard
and was engaged in conversation with
TEN KU-KLUy PRISONERS,
who were found in the second cabin, and
who were on their way to the Albany Peni-
Tertiary to undergo various terms Of inpris-
onment. The party looked jaded and worn,
having all been great martyrs to seasickness.
As soon as the steamer was moored the party
landed on the pier, headed by
A NORTH CAROLINA MARSHAL
and two deputy marshals, their rear being
guarded by several members of the river po-
lice attached to harbor police-boat Seneca,
which was lying off in the stream, awaiting
their arrival in an adjoining wharf, belonging
to the Narragansett Steamship Company.
The prisoners marched along with downcast
heads to the end Of the pier, where a number
Of colored men were at work moving bales OF
cotton,
WHO sCowLED AT THE PARTY
as they went by, and several of them re-
marked they supposed they were being taken
to the Tonbs, which was the proper place
for such murderous individuals. AS the
prison passed into West street several OF
their number looked around, as if, hoping
against hope, that some attempt might be
made to rescue them by sympathzers in this
city; but such hope was illusory, for the
procession of sleighs, freightedr with mer-
chandise, swept on in the even tenor OF their
way, while their drivers were unconscious OF
who the strengthening individuals were
composing the small procession, while on the
sidewalk the shiverlng pedestrians rushed
along looking neither to the right nor the
left, but all impelled by the same motive,
viz, to reach their destinations quickly.
Leaving the street with its snow hummocks,
and its roadway with the snow of fully a foot
in depth, through which the sorrowtul party
tramped, the wharf Of the Narragansett
Steamship Company was reached, and when
they had arrived at the further end halt
was called by the marshals.
THE PARTY oAzED wIsTyULLY
across the broad expanse of the Hudson until
their attention was called to the evolutions
of the police steamer Seneca, which was seen
fighting her way through the ice to the end
Of the wharf to take the party on board and
to transport them to Forty-s0cond street, or
the East river, where they were to be taken
to the Grand Central depot, and forwarded
By the afternoon train to Albany. At last
| the trim little steamer butieted her way
| through the ice and was close to the pier,
| from which q plank was thrown out, and
few seconds after the prisoners were on board
| the Seneca.
CAPT. FRANK sPEIdHT, THE COMMANDER,
stood on the deck and instructed the prison.
ers to move aft. This order was obeyed with
alacrity, for the men were glad to escape
from the cold and pitiless blasts which came
sweeping across the Hudson. After the
prisoners were duly placed in safe-keeping,
I one of the North Carolina marshals jocularly
remarked to the prisoners, 1--WE have come
to put you boys among white people, eh ?"
while another individual remarked, YOU'RE
going into an awful tight place, my lads"
The prisoners to whom these would-be face
tious remarks were addressed received them
in different manners. Some tried to smile.
as if reckless as to what fate might await
them; while others uttered suppressed oaths,
doubtless wishing the United States authori-
ties.
| EVERYTHING BUT A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
The following is list of the ten prisoners
Rev. John Ezell, of Macedonian Baptist
Church, near Lewistown Springs, Spartan
BURG county South Carolina; married, and
has children.
Alfred Lemaistre, Union county, South
Carolina.
John Whitlock. Union county, South Car
DINA.
Marion Fowler, Union county, South Car
DINA.
Hosea Matthews, Union county, Soutl
Carolina.
II. Whtesides, York county, South Car
DINA.
Jenny Donald, Yor. county, South Car
DINA.
Robert Moore, York county, South Car
olina.
John Whisonant, York county, South Car
, DINA.
Jerome Whisonant, York county, Soutl
Carolina.
The ages Of the prisoners varied from nine
teen to thirty -tive, and all are married excep
!, Donald. The terms OF imprisonment an
fines vary considerably. Jenny Donald
sentenced to two years; Fowler to four, an
all the others to five years. Imprisonment
:. each. The Rev. John Ezell is sentenced t
J, pay fine of $500, and the others 5000 each
G FOURTEEN MURDERS CONFESSED.
> > The brothers Whisonant and Lemaistr
. have confessed to having committed fourtee
= assassinatons, while the others have bee
. found guilty of conspiracy and of the raid o
y Union Jail some two years ago, In whic
u some fifteen men were killed. Nearly a
70 % the men are sons of people owning plants
:. tions.
vt AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BAPTIST NH
Y lister.
'. This individual, who was terribly cres
c fallen, told the following story in tremulo,
:, voice:
Is was ordained to the Baptist ministry
lie 1916 in Spartansburg county. Licensed
W 60 among tho neighbors, and used to Il
n to dissuade them from entering into any col
d. splracy, but my motives have been mlscol
rs strued, and was arrested, tried, and COZ
demned. I am q married man. My eide