The Charleston Daily News

from Effingham County, Georgia. It appears that on the 24th of last month, a white man, entirely unknown and supposed to be a foreigner, went to the cabin of a negro, near the Augusta road, seventeen miles from the city, drew out the staple which held the padlock, and entered the place and stole a half peck of ground peas. He was caught by the owner of the cabin, who, in company with three others, stripped the man, then tied him to a tree, and with a whip gave him seventy-five lashes upon his bare back, and then turned the suffering victim loose. But not yet had he escaped from their vengeance. The life of the man alone could compensate for the attempt to steal a few ground peas from them. Nothing was said about the matter until Wednesday last, when some negroes, who were prowling about a swamp, suddenly had revealed to their gaze a sickening and fearful sight. There in the swamp, up to that time hidden from mortal sight, lay the body of a white man—or rather the remains of the body. For terrible as had been the fate of the poor unfortunate, the condition of the body was still more awful. The buzzard and the carrion crow had discovered it, and satiated their appetites upon the poor murdered remains. The flesh upon the head and part of the body was eaten away. The negroes gathered up what was left of the body and carried it out of the swamp, and gave notice of their discovery, and a coroner's jury was called to investigate the matter. There were two bullet wounds in the head—one in the back part, the other in the side. When the negroes lifted the body up, the bullet in the back part of the head dropped out. The body was found about a mile from where the whipping occurred. There was just enough of the flesh of the back still attached to the extremities of the body for the marks to be seen that led to the belief that the remains were those of the man who had been whipped. A negro was arrested on suspicion of having been concerned in the matter, and lodged in jail in Springfield.