Muscatine Weekly Journal

Horrible Murder by the Arkansas Rebels.

We have already alluded to the tragedy of which the Cairo correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat gives the following particulars:

News has just arrived here of another murderous and horrible outrage by the secessionists, traitors and rebels, perpetrated at Mound City, Arkansas, this week. An old, gray-headed man, aged over sixty years, a watchman on board of the steamer W. M. Morrison, tied up by the rebels at that place, let slip some Union sentiments in their presence. He was soon surrounded by ruffians, who told him they were going to hang him forthwith. The poor old man thought they were jesting, and said: "Gentlemen, surely you don't mean what you say; I am a poor, old gray-headed man—always have worked hard and made an honest living; surely you would not hang me for the expressions of my old hopest heart." The poor old man could not believe that the demons could perpetrate such a murder until he felt the rope round his neck. The end of the rope was thrown over the limb of a tree, and the demoniac crowd of devils pulled him up, struggling and dying, until dead. Several who were commanded to assist, slunk away in horror and dread. All these deeds will soon be avenged. These men regard not ever gray hairs, the sacred rights of families, the tears and prayers of widows and orphans. There is no doubt about this fact being true, as it came from an eye-witness.