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SHOCKING MURDER.—We were called upon yesterday by coroner J. C. Chapman Esq., to assist in holding an inquest over the body of Angus Taylor, who had been shot the day before, by his brother Mastin.

The evidence before the jury was, that on Monday about 11 o'clock A. M., Mastin and Angus Taylor, brothers, met at the residence of their mother, and after some conversation agreed to shoot at a mark. They went to the house and both fired at the target, Mastin shooting a rifle and Angus a double barrel shot gun. They went up to the target and disputed as to which was the best shot. The mother called to the others to the fact that the brothers were quarrelling. They all went to the door at the same time and saw Mastin Taylor approaching the house followed by Angus, who was stripping and exhibiting a determination to fight, when Mastin turned round, took his gun from his shoulder, drew it up and fired. Angus, who was running, made no halt, but rushed up, seized Mastin and the two scuffled until the mother and sister reached them, when Angus began to sink saying to his sister hold me up and he fell dead. He had succeeded in wresting the gun from his brother.

Upon an examination of the body by Dr. A. Malloy, the ball was found to have entered just above the left breast and to have passed through the heart and lodged at the skin of the back from whence he extracted it.

The deceased, Angus Taylor, in 1845 killed Capt. C. Vanderford of this place, by inflicting upon his body sundry fatal stabs with a dirk knife, which he was convicted of manslaughter. Since then he inflicted almost a death wound upon one of his brothers and now has only met the fate which a just retribution awards to the violent. How forcible an illustration of the scripture: "He that sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."

Mastin Taylor has been for several years of unsound mind, and for a considerable time confined in our jail to restrain him from violence. He has not as yet been arrested.—Cheraw Gazette, 13th inst.