The Wyandot Pioneer

Florida Regulators—Five Men Hung and Two Women Whipped.

The Regulators are doing a lively business in Florida. The Savannah Republican says:

"We are informed that within a month five persons were hung by the Regulators in and about Tampa Bay, for divers serious offenses, and without the formal trial by jury. One man was hung to a tree, in the streets of Tampa, so high that his feet could not be reached by persons passing on horseback. He also states that a negro was arraigned for trial for murder in Nassau county, some time since when but eleven jurymen answered to their names. While the officer was absent, summoning a talesman to make up the twelfth, some fifteen Regulators entered the court-room took the prisoner from the box to a place on the Florida and Georgia line, and hung him to a tree.

"One of the volunteers in the late service against the Indians, he also states, for some offense, was arrested by them, whipped within hearing of the camp to which he was attached, and given twenty-four hours to leave the State. The intrepid soldier rather than meet the threatened vengeance of the Regulators, preferred deserting; and has not been heard of since.

Two women of ill repute were taken up in Tampa and whipped, each receiving fifteen lashes, and given notice to leave in twenty-four hours. At the expiration of the time, they gave no evidence of any intention to move, when they were again arrested, and another flagellation inflicted, besides having their heads shaved, and themselves assisted out of the place."