Staunton Spectator

The Kent County (MD.) Massacre.—Georgetown Cross-Roads, March 15, 1851.—The feverish state of excitement consequent upon the late tragical affair in our heretofore peaceable and quiet community has, as yet, abated but slightly.

A cloud of impenetrable darkness still hangs over the spot where the unfortunate Cosden and his family met so untimely a fate, and the passer-by scans with painful solicitude every object that meets his eye in the neighborhood of the melancholy spot, realizing to himself that truth is stranger than fiction."

Kent, and the adjacent counties of Maryland and Delaware, have been thoroughly scoured by mounted parties from almost every point, in diligent and untiring search for the blood thirsty felons, but thus far, I regret to add, without much success. The sombre mystery seems likely to remain unrevealed. It is true that several arrests have been made, and there are some circumstances that would seem to connect them with the deed, but as yet nothing has come to light to point them out unerringly as the relentless actors in this most bloody tragedy.

Had poor Cosden alone fell a victim to the ruthless hand of the cowardly assassin, conjecture might have assigned a motive of revenge; but when we see his innocent wife and sisters, whilst flying from the terrible scene, pursued, shot down, and butchered in cold blood, we are totally overwhelmed and confounded.—Baltimore Sun.