Horrible Murder By Negroes

In our paper of Tuesday last, we mentioned the mysterious murder of a man named Todd, intie parish of Concordia. It is now ascertained that tliis is but one of a series of murders committed by two negro men named Joseph and Enoch - the former belonging to Mr. Voorhees, on Bayou de Glaize; the other did belong lo Mr. B. Duran, also on Bayou de Glaize, (but was sold to a gentleman near New Orleans.) The clerk of the stearrfcr Sun Flower has furnished the Natchcz Free Trader with a detailed account of their nfamous proceedings. One of the murderers was caught, on 5thstant, near Union Point, on the Mississippi, the other making his escape though not without having several balls fired at him, am is supposed to have boen wounded; thoug not caught, it is to be hoped that he vi soon Ue broiight to pay the penalty of hi atrocious crimes. It appears that the negro boy Enoch, afte being Eold, ran away from Ins new master an( returned to Bayou de Blaize, and feil in wit the boy Joseph, whom he persuaded off witl a yellow girl named Margaret, known to some 'as having belonged to a plantation on the bayou - but after persuading Josej)h and this girl oi5 they armed themselves and comoienced the work of destruction and death. Theyproceened first to tne house oí Mr. Noal Harrington on Red River, near the cut-ofi', whom they killed, carrying off the daughter of Mr. H. with them, whom they kept ín the woods some six weeks, using her with unheard of cruelty, platting vines together and whipping her until from torture she was compelled to yield to their hellish purposes,and at other times tying her up to a tree as a mark to shoot at. They then killed another man, whose name is not known. After committing this murder, on returning to the place where Mies H. was confined, they reraarked that they had killedi another hog. Aí'ter tliis tlicy went to the house of Mr. George Tudd, not lar from Mr. H's,vbom theyalto killed, carrying ofl'Mrs. Todd with a smnll child, whom th'ey troated alto in a most brutal manncr, and fbreatening to kiJl both her and the child if it should cry; nnd oflen whcn they were on Ihe point of killing them all, the yellow girl wonld throw herself on her kneesand heg their Jives, etyJDff that if they shot them their bullets would have to pbeá through her body. Mrs. Todd and Miss Uarrington both state that t the yellow giri soveral timos saved their lives. i The boy Joseph, immediately after his capture, contesscd tliat he killed both Mr. Barrington and Mr. Todd. and the other person, but stated tliathe had been forced to do it by Ejioch who first enliced him to run nway. No white porson was implica tod. After this confession, it was deliberately resolved that the negro should be burneíl nüve. The terrible scène is thiis described hv thn VrPF Trniípr"The boy was taken and chained to a tree iminodiately on the bank of the Mississippi, on what is callod Union Point, Faggots wore tlien collected and piled around himT to which bë appeared quite indifferent. VVhen the work was completed, he was asked what he liad to say. He then warned all to take example by him, and aeked the prayers of' ail arouned; he then called tbr a drink of water, which was handcd to him; he drank it and said: "Now sat fire- -I am ready to go in peace!" The ches were lighteel and placed in the pile, wJiich soon ip-nited. He watchedmoved, the curling fíame as it grow, until it began to entwine itself around and f eed upon his body; then he sent forth cries oí agony painful to the enr, beggingsome one to blow, his hrains out, at the same time stirging with almost supcr-hum.in stren th. untiJ thetapJe with which the cbain wasgfastencd to the tree not being well secured, drew out, and he leaped frorn the burning pile. At that raonient, the sharp ring of several rifles was heard - tho body of the negro feil a corpse on ; the ground. He was picked up by som e two or three, and again thrown into the fire and consumcd. Not a vestige remaiBing to show that swch a bcing ever pxisted. The yellow girl wns taken to Natchez, in the custodv of Mr. C. S. Lyman, who will deliver her np to the proper authorities at Vidalia, Louisinna."The Missíssippi editor can find words enongb, and forcible enough, to express his horror at the atrocious crimes committed by the negroes - and execrable indeed they were -- but lie has nota word to say in condemnalion of the horrid vengeance taken by the citizens upon the miserable wretch who had fallen inlo the hands. Bnt perhaps he thinks there was no great harm in torturing a crimiinal to death in the same manner that was practiced by the ecclessiastics of the Spanish Inquisilion, and, no longer ago than within the last hundred years, by the law givers and judges of England.- JYetv York Com. Here is a catalogue of the blackest crimes, all corumiíted in one neighborhood in a few days. The crmies are two fold, those committed by the "boys," and by the citizens. 1. The boys were guilly of murder rape, and perhaps robbery.1. The citizens were guilty of stealing the two boys, Enuch and Joseph, robbing them all their days, murdering one by a horrible deatb, without a shadow of a trial, and attempting to mnrder the other. So far, then, as robbery an(] murder were concerned, the 'boys'' onJy practiced on theexample of their superiors. In respect to the violcnce committed on the females, there can be no qnestion that, boys as they were, they had lived long enough to know of many similar cases of atrocious violence perpetrated on the defenceless colored female slaves by villainous white men. We could give some startling facts on this subject, if it were necessary. We are inclined to think the ivhite murderers were as of death as the blacks. These crimes are the natural result of permi tting one portion of society lo prey on an other with lawless violence. Such scènes will always lake place while slavery exists. It is an unnatural state of society. It is a continual war between the oppressor and the oppressed, and when the Jatter gain the advantage, it would be strange indeed if they did not somelimes practice on the lessons taught them by fheir oppressore.