The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-05-05
EXPERIMENTING REPUBLICANS.

TRUE CHARACTER OF TIE MASSACRE OF
PRISONERS IN MISSISSIPPI BECOMING AP
PARENT MOST OF THE VICTIMS PROM
MINT REPUBLICANS, AND THEIR AsAIIr
ANTS DEMoCRATS-H CONDUCT OF
JUDGE CHISoLM's WIFE AND DAUGHTER
Special Dispatch To tie Nelc York Times.
WASHINGTON, May Mississippi Re
publicans are considerably excited over the
report assassination of Judge Chisolm,
John p. Gilmer and A. McClelland, or
Sunday last, at Dekalb, kemper County,
Miss. These men are leading Republicans,
are among the largest property owners in
their section, natives of the South, and
served in the Confederate Army. Chisolm
and Gilmer have held responsible positions
i'll Mississippi. After the war ChiSolm adj
vocated the acceptance of reconstruction,
and early became an active Republican.
He was Probate Judge of his county before
the rebellion, and was elected Sheriff of
kemper after reconstruction, which office
he held continuously up to last Fall, when
he was the Republican candidate for Con
greSS IN the Third District. Gilmer was a
State Senator for three or four years. 1t is
believed the assassination of these two
men was the result of a prearranged plan,
and that the assassination of Gully, short
time previous, was seized upon as the pre-
text for arresting Chisolm and Gilmer, in
order that they might be disarmed and
killed Chisolm leaves wife aud several
children. Both these men testified before
the Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections in February last, and previous
to leaving this city stated to friends
that they believed they would be murdered
upon returning to Mississippi, because of
the testimony they gave before the Senate
Committee.
JACKSON, May 1.-The following add
tional account has been received of the
bloody affair i'll kemper County:
On Thursday evening last, John W.
Gully, 4 prominent citizen of kemper
county, was assaSsinated by an unknown
party. The murder created intense excite
ment, and every means was resorted to, to
discover the perpetrator. On Saturday, two
colored men made affidavit that Benjamin
Rush, white man, was the guilty party,
and that Judge Chisolm, who ran for Con
gress on the Republican ticket in the Third
district, at the last election, his son, and
Gimer, Roseubaum, and man named
Hopper, all white Republicans, knew of
and instigated the crime. Judge Chisolm
and his son were arrested and imprisoned
AT De Kalb, and Mrs. Chsolm and daugh
ter insisted on sharing their confinement.
On Sunday, Judge Chisolm sent to Scooba
for Gilmer, for whom a warrant had been
issued. Gilmer came, and on arrival was
arrested, but just as he arrived at the Jail
he was set upon by a mob and killed. The
jailor was then overpowered by the mob,
who Immediately attacked Judge Chisolm,
MORALLY wounding him and killing his son.
Miss Chisolm, in defending her father, shot
and killed DR.. Rossii, and Mrs. ChiSolm
severely wounded young Gully, son of
Mr.. Gully, who was assassinated. Miss
Chisolm was also seriously wounded. Ro-
senbaum and Hopper were carried to the
woods by the mob for the purpose of ex-
torting from them the whereabouts of Rush.
the alleged assassin of Mr.. Gully. When
last heard from, some weeks ago, Rush was
in Arkansas. 1t is supposed Rosenbaum
aud Hopper were hanged. A horrible
state of affairs is reported as existing
throughout that section. The people are
wild with excitement, and other hangings
will probably follow.