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ASSASSINATION OF GEN. T. C. HINDMAN. He was Shot in His Own Residence on Sunday Night Last. The Fatal Ball Fired Through a Win dow and Severs His Jugular Vein. The Supposed Murderer Arrested. From the Memphis Arsinachs.] A most atrocious murder has been com mitted on one of the noblest and bravest men of the whole South, who, in the deadli est of the fight, showing his pees in bat tle and his fearlessness in his devotions to the Southern cause, had none to excel him. We allude to the gallant General Thomas C. Hindman, of Helena, Arkansas, who on Sunday sight fell by the hand of an assas sin. All the particulars to be obtained are embraced in the following special dispatch, received at this office last night: Haevexa, Ark. September 28 —General Thomas C. Hindman was assassinated at his residence in the midst of his family at ten o'clock last night He was shot through a window near which he was sitting, with a musket loaded with buck and bail. He was smoking at the time. The left hand in which he held his pipe was carried away, and two balls through his neck, sev ering the wind pipe and pecan copious internal bleeding. He lived eight hours, and died with sublime courage and resigna tion. A deep gloom has been cast upon the community. He was a formidable enemy of radicalism, and suspicions exist that his ‘cause. All was procured through political causes. All quiet here today. Yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff Maxey was killed, and two of his posse wounded in attempting to arrest the notorious murderer Lea Mors was colored. Morsen was after wards captured and hang, whites and blacks resent sanctioning it. General Hindman had no connection whatever with the affair. © M. T. Lawxpess, Editor Clarion. Between twelve and one o'clock yesterday a dispatch was received at police head quarters announcing the murder. It also contained a description of a man named, Robertson, who, it was said, left for St. Louis on the steamer H. M. Shreve an hour and a half after the tragedy. The Shreve passed up at noon. Upon , reaching the levee with detective McCane, Colonel Beaumont found the tug Nettie Jones, Captain Ford, whose services were at once secured. She steamed away after the Shreve, overhauling her above the island, and, by signaling, brought her to a halt. Once aboard, a search was instituted for Robertson, who was readily identified by the description. With him were his family and household furniture, all en route, he said, to Springfield, Missouri, where he resided. He received his arrest with the utmost composure, and not only stoutly denied all knowledge of the horrid crime with which he stood charged, but feigned ignorance of it having been committed, although the fact was well known to everybody else aboard, and had naturally been the subject of much comment, from his own statements to the officers, he has been about Helena for the past six months, although old residents of the place, with whom we conversed last night, know nothing of him. He is pale, has black hair, in about thirty-two years old, and five feet five inches high w hen ar rested he had a rusty repeater, three of whose chambers contained balls. The tug returned with the prisoner, and his wife and child, about four o'clock. They were placed on the Luminary and sent back to Helena. Since the above was put in type, the Ava lanche publishes the following : Wednesday morning Mr. Newton, who was deputized to convey Robertson, arrested as the alleged murderer of General Hind man, to Helena, arrived there with his pris oner. Upon an interview with the Sheriff he discovered that Robertson was not only not suspected or wanted, but that the dispatch purporting to have been sent in that official's name was a forgery. Accordingly Robert son was promptly discharged. is arrest was evidently the result of the malice of someone who knew of his intended depart ure, and took advantage of the tragedy to give him annoyance. The excitement rans very high in Helena, and should the real assassin be found, there is little doubt that he will meet a punish ment as summary as terrible. At latest ac counts the affair was still shrouded in mys tery. “Let Us Have Peace”—The Avalanche of the 27th ulta contains the following. We hope Siith will not make anses of himself when he comes here to speak. On Friday that foul libel an_decency, “General Winfield Jerusalem Smith, ac companied by a little shyster lawyer named Uallagher, who disgraces the name of Irish man by being a native of the Emerald Isle, went to White's station, seven miles out on the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad, to hold a radical pow-wow. Besides these the Memphis party comprised a few other ne groes, all armed. At the station were about twenty-five more negroes, also armed. Gallagher was the first speaker. Instead of brains nature supplied him with lungs, and he bellowed away for an hour or more to the disgust of even the cornfield darkeys, who insisted that “ de debil webber did turn, gut ‘nother sich a d—d fool.” While Gallagher was crucifying the lan sage, about a hundred and fifty negroes, all armed, with guns at “ right shoulder shift,” came up and formed in a hollow square around the stand. They were from different portions of the commonity, and had evi dently met at a rendezvous indicated at some meeting of the us. Surrounded by this military body Callagher concluded, and Smith commenced and finished, Smith's barrangue was, of course, incendiary. He worked upon the passions of his sable auditors by cramming their minds with reul falsehoods until they became nearly frenzied with rage at the “ white secesh,” as Demo- emits were termed. 8ing of the events of the past few years this walking earicature on humanity congratulated the negroes that, although before the war they wore iron col lars, and had the feet of white men on their necks, now they had risen from the ground and the whites were taking their places. His chief ambition would iever be gratified un til a negro occupied the Presidential chair, and negroes conducted the affairs of the Government. As may naturally be antici pated his speech was received with the wildest applause, and the air was rent with ribald curses of white men and “‘secesh.” This is the way the radical leaders are preparing the sore to force duties of citizenship fair way of prevent ing ‘onbne’ thathbeal thhe ‘races. It is what’ Grant's ‘Let us have peace” means. We presume Smith will rush into printed de nial.of the startling scene descrbed above. He can procure a fidavite of Pompey Squash and Jim Jensing that the barrangue was eminently Conservative, and that his audi tors did not march to the ground armed. No doubt Shyster Gallagher will add the im mense weight of his name to such a docu ment but unfortunately for any such lies our information is from an eye-witness. “ Let us have peace.” A black-Loard should be in every kitchen not to mark with chalk, but to place pats and keules on when removing them from the fire. Make it shout,a tent square, and one inch thick. It need not be needed often merely for locks, as the corners will be u annled. Its use Wil save the tables, toor, sink, etc, from many uneightie marks. styied fruit wanted ar Uara’a.
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Bolivar Bulletin
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Sat, Oct 03, 1868
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