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APPENDIX I.

MISCELLANEOUS MURDERS, RIOTS, AND OTHER OUTRAGES, IN 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, and 1838.

THE following cases are given as examples of many thousands which the author could produce of the same character, and all from newspapers published and edited by Americans. These are exclusive of riots and murders at elections, outrages against the Blacks, lynching, burning of churches, &c., &c., examples of which will be found under other heads.

From the Philadelphia Gazette.

MURDER.

On Saturday morning, two coloured men, in South-street, quarrelled on some subject, until one of them named Benjamin Shoobey, became greatly enraged. Noah Boyer, his antagonist, left him, and entered a barber's shop. Shoobey followed him thither, and told him he would see his heart's blood before the day had passed. No notice was taken of his threat. About half an hour afterwards Shoobey entered a secondhand shop in the vicinity, and disengaged a bayonet from an old musket, and concealed it under his clothes: approaching Boyer, who was standing in the street conversing with another man, Shoobey plunged the bayonet in his body. It passed completely through him: Boyer turned quickly, exclaiming, "I am stabbed! "I am stabbed!" and seizing Shoobey, wrested the weapon from him, threw him down, and falling on him, rolled over and shortly after expired.

Shoobey was shortly after arrested by officer M'Lean. While in the custody of the officer, and on his way to the prison, a large mob of Blacks followed them, excited in the highest degree, and threatening the life of Shoobey. At length they made a rush, and taking the offender from the custody of M'Lean, beat him with dreadful severity: the officer, however, succeeded in rescuing him from the enraged mob, and conveyed him to prison, where he was placed in the hospital. Shoobey confesses that he stabbed Boyer, and exhibits no regret for the deed.

UNFORTUNATE AFFAIR.

THE Natchez Courier gives the following particulars of the unfortunate affair mentioned in our last, which lately occurred at Concordia (La). It is to be regretted, that the state of society in that part of the country continues such that a person, while transacting his ordinary business, is compelled to bear arms about his person to defend his life.

A person, by the name of More, a stranger, who had been hanging

about the neighbourhood of Dr. Thomas Hunt's plantation, hearing that the Doctor had implicated him in the murder of an individual who was found dead some time since near his cabin, (which we are assured the Doctor did not do,) he threatened to kill Dr. Hunt the first time he met him. This threat was not only made to the Doctor, but to several other respectable witnesses.

The Doctor, on Sunday evening, went to the river below his house, to see about a raft. More took his rifle to waylay him as he passed through the cane-break, but was detained by a neighbour for some time. The Doctor, after his arrival at the raft, was informed of More's intentions to kill him, and had hardly received the information before More made his appearance, walking very fast, and approached within fortyone feet, (as it was afterwards ascertained,) and told the Doctor that he I was going to shoot him. The Doctor told him not to fire, as there should be no difficulty between them; but More raised his rifle. The gentleman in company with Dr. Hunt sprang to one side, and the Doctor seized his double-barrel gun, and fired one of the barrels at random to disconcert More. One shot struck More in the head, and he partially turned round: but again turned-raised the rifle-but, before he could fire, the Doctor shot him through the heart.

The bystanders state that More's rifle snapped the first time.

Dr. Hunt gave himself up to the civil authorities, but was immediately discharged.

A MELANCHOLY affair occurred, on the evening of the 3rd instant, near the American Theatre, New Orleans. In a quarrel between two small boys, of the ages of from twelve to fifteen, one of them plunged a dagger into the heart of the other, which caused his instant death.

From the New York Trans.

INFAMOUS OUTRAGE.

On Friday evening, about 7 o'clock, a few minutes after Mr. John Henry Hobart Haws left his residence, 280, Broome Street, a knock was heard by the servant girl at the door of the basement story. She approached the door (from the inside) with a lighted candle in her hand, and the person on the outside could see (through the fan-light at the side of the door) who was coming; the instant that the girl drew back the bolt, the door was burst open by some scoundrel who blew out the light, knocked the girl down, stabbed her twice in the side with a dirk, left her senseless and bleeding, and then rushed to the foot of the stairs: Mrs. Haws (while sitting in the parlour above) heard the noise, and seizing a poker, ran to the head of the stairs and threatened to beat out the fellow's brains if he ascended: she then shouted for assistance, and the vagabond made off without being detected.

HORRID MURDERS.

We learn by accounts from Norfolk, that a shocking murder or murders were committed on Friday of last week, at a place called Mount Pleasant, between what is termed Blackwater and the Great Bridge, in Norfolk

county, Va. The report is that a man named Fentress, and a neighbour of his, had obtained permission of a Mr. Miller, recently removed from thence to Norfolk borough, to turn their stock into the enclosures of Miller's farm, at Mount Pleasant. A man named Sykes took the liberty, it seems, without leave, to do a similar thing; when Fentress and his neighbour went together, took down a fence, and drove Sykes's hogs out. Sykes, his son and nephew, armed, (the first with a gun, the latter with a pistol each,) came up at the time, when some words passed between Fentress and Sykes, and the latter deliberately raised his gun, and shot Fentress through the body, at the distance of only a few paces, the load entering the pit of his stomach! Fentress fell dead. As his neighbour turned to flee, Sykes' nephew fired at him and shattered one of his arms. He turned to beg for his life, when Sykes seized the other pistol from his son, and shot the wounded man in the side, who fell, and is supposed to have been so badly wounded as not to survive! A coroner's inquest had been held, but the result, or further particulars about the murders, had not been heard at Norfolk, when the steam-boat left on Sunday.

THE LATE MURDERS.

Baltimore, Nov. 22.

Up to last night, when this paragraph was written, there were no accounts of the arrests of any of the murderers concerned in the horrid transaction on the line of the Washington Railroad, of which the particulars were given in yesterday's American.

In the account of this bloody transaction, we stated yesterday, of the three superintendents, whose lives had been wantonly sacrificed, Mr. Callon was one. This statement was made on the testimony of a person who saw a dead body, and thought he recognized it to be that of Mr. C. It appears, however, that he was mistaken in its identity, Mr. Callon having called on us personally yesterday, for the purpose of correcting the error. He states that he succeeded in making his escape from Mr. Watson's shanty when it was attacked by the ruffians, and as he ran he was fired at by one of them with a horse-pistol, the discharge of which killed his dog at his side. He had on neither shoes nor stockings, and having run several miles before he recovered from his alarm, his feet and legs were very much lacerated and swelled.

A fact which we have derived from another source, an eye-witness of the deed, will show the peculiarly hardened and ferocious character of the murderers. After Mr. Messer was dragged from the shanty, they called to him to go on his knees and say his prayers, for that he had but a minute to live; and while in that attitude they deliberately fired four bullets into his body!

From the Boston Morning Post.

EARLY FRUITS OF MOB-LAW.

We understand that large orders were received here last week, to effect insurance on vessels lying at the wharves in New-York; but the risks were mostly declined, as in marine insurance the underwriters are liable though the property be destroyed by rioters or in a civil commotion. It

is different with fire insurance; underwriters are not liable where property is burnt by rioters, and in a civil war or commotion. We are informed that many merchants and manufacturers are ordering goods away which were consigned to houses in New York for sale, fearing extensive conflagrations may result from the course pursued by the bank partisans in that city. From present appearances we think all prudent men who have merchandize there on consignment would do well to note carefully the signs of the times. If the bank party commence violence, as they did last spring, we are persuaded that the fighting will not be, as then, all upon their side.

OUTRAGE.

On Sunday evening last, four young men, citizens, were quietly discussing a political subject, as is common on the eve of elections, when a person intruded on them whom they did not know. One of the company observed, that perhaps they had better be a little more cautious, as some of the Wellington police might be about. The words were scarcely uttered when this stranger stepped forth, and made a prisoner of this person thus expressing himself. His Honour the Mayor, hearing the case the next day, felt himself so much aggrieved, he bound the person over, so offending against his dignity, in the sum of one thousand dollars. The police officer that made the arrest was, at the last Mayor's Court, convicted of an assault and battery on a female. Comment is unnecessary.

THE LAND PIRATES.

WE learn from Trenton that the grand jury sitting there in connexion with the United States District Court have found indictments against upwards of forty persons, including two justices of the peace, for being concerned in the plunder of the James Fisher and Henry Franklin, which were driven ashore near Barnegat.

AMERICAN MOBS.

In a judicious article on the subject of American mobs, the Norfolk Beacon makes the following, amongst other remarks:

"A most important crisis is at hand, and a more than ordinary responsibility devolves upon the press. A spirit is abroad to gratify individual feelings at the expense of the law, which is despised and trampled under foot by its professed friends; and, what renders the case most important, this uncontrolled, and it would seem uncontrollable, spirit assumes the air and garb of Liberty herself. Yes, the agitator, with his band of ruffians, who seeks at the hour of midnight to destroy the dwelling of the private citizen, and plunge a whole community into a state of trepidation and uproar, this important and dangerous personage is to be regarded as the interpreter of law as well as the executor, in all cases, without the slightest trial or hearing of the parties; and this, too, in a land whose Bill of Rights especially provides that the great departments of government should, for the preservation of our freedom, be kept distinct and separate for ever. Nothing can be more false, in fact, than the common notion, that a mob is a democratic assemblage: it is no

such thing; on the contrary it is an aristocracy of the very worst kind. The laws which the people have enacted are expressly contemned by these self-constituted judges, whose only measure of justice is their own ungovernable will. And what proves the truth of this view of the case is, the universal declaration after the occurrence of an outbreaking, that one-tenth of the number of the citizens at large would have repelled the whole body of rioters. A few stormy spirits get up a mob, and want of concert on the part of the people ensures its success. This ought not to be, and it becomes the civil authority in every section of the country to be on the alert."

From the New York Times.

MORE NEWS FROM THE SCENE OF WAR.

THE Cleveland papers state that hostilities have recommenced between the belligerent parties. The following is the account given :

On the morning of the 15th instant the sheriff of Monroe county, accompanied by a body of armed men, made a descent upon the village of Toledo, and captured the sheriff of Lucas county, whom they carried off. The party reappeared in the course of the day, in search of such judges and justices as were acting under the laws of Ohio, but did not succeed in getting hold of them, as the citizens of Toledo had armed themselves for battle, and made such stout resistance, that, after the exchange of about one hundred shots, the invading party fled. They were hotly pursued, but being on horseback were not overtaken.

The Detroit Free Press of last Wednesday states that rumours had just reached that city of violence and bloodshed committed at or near Toledo. The deputy sheriff, Wood, who was recently dirked, was shot in the shoulder by the Ohio insurgents while in the discharge of his official duty. A skirmish had taken place, in which five or six rounds had been fired on each side. A reinforcement of one hundred men had left the village of Monroe for the scene of action.

The Ohioans have, it appears by the Detroit paper, stolen a march on the Michiganians, and gone through the form of establishing a court of justice in Toledo. Two Ohio judges, commissioned by Governor Lucas, entered a building in Toledo, which they chose to dignify with the name of a court-house, and there went through with certain judicial ceremonies, of what precise character we know not, for the court was held after midnight, and the judges had the court-room entirely to thomselves. After despatching their business (what was it?) they adjourned sine die, and evaporated long before daylight. They were probably fearful that Judge Lynch and his myrmidons might resolve themselves into a court of errors, revise their opinions, and perhaps punish them for a contempt of that high tribunal. The Ohio folks now claim that the whole district in dispute is now regularly organized under the laws of Ohio, their trick of a midnight court having regularly established their claims thereto. There is something rather farcical in this piece of judicial finesse-this dumb show at midnight-this "going through the motions" of court business, and running down a calendar innocent of cases. The Michigan folks talk of the matter most sneeringly, and say that, farcical as the whole matter is, the Ohio people have never advanced a stronger claim to the disputed territory than that preferred by their midnight court.