Shocking murder.
--We learn that
Mr. Wm. W. Harris, of
Uchee, Ala., who had been reported as mysteriously missing for a week or more, was most brutally murdered by his own negroes, on his plantation, in
Russell county, about three miles from the above place.
The oversee of
Mr. Harris had gone to the war, and the latter was attending to the business of the farm himself.
Several of his negro men laid a plan to kill him, and found their opportunity on Wednesday night of last week.
He was allotting under a tree a short distance from the house when the murderers approached and knocked him in the head with annexe.
His body was carried into the woods, buried in a shallow pit, and a log rolled over it.
The neighbors being satisfied from his long absence that there was foul play in the matter, arrested one of the negroes, who, upon the promise of impunity, divulged the whole affair of the murder implicating five of the negroes.
We understand that all of the guilty made a full confession of their crime.
The citizens of the county — about ninety in number — after consultation, determined upon the immediate execution of the murderers.
Two of the negroes were engaged in the killing, and three others disposed of the body.--It was decided to burn the former and to hang the latter, which was accordingly done on Wednesday last — just one week after the commission of the crime.
It is stated that all the negroes on the plantation were cognizant of the murderous intent of the guilty parties.--
Mr. Harris leaves a widow and several children, and we have heard that two of his sons are in the army.--
Columbus Times. 
