ost ferocious native of Dahomey or Patagonia.
A week or two since, as our readers have already been informed, he had Wm. B. Mumford executed for tearing down the flag hoisted on the Mint by Com. Farragut.
He died as a patriot should die — with greae sentiments of the Nero Butler, and to show the vapid and sickening stuff now in the once eloquent Southern Delta:
Mumford, the ill starred youth, whose name and fate will be a terror to all who are inclined to trilled with the Government or iviolent hands upon our national flag, and the lesson it conveys is a solemn, and, we trust, will prove a salutary, one.
Mumford, though standing only as a representative of parties equally guilty at heart as himself, had the misfortune to mingle a nd buried, let him who would violently lay hands upon it to haul it down, count well the cost by remembering the fate of Mumford.
And least by your neglect, citizens of New Orleans, some of your children may come to the same bad end, teach them tha
A letter found on the battle-field of the Seven Pines, from a wife to her husband in the Federal army, says, "throw away your arms and come home, for the people here say there is no use in fighting the rebels any longer."
The hanging of Wm. B. Mumford in New Orleans, by Butter's order, for tearing down a Federal flag, raises the question of retaliation again.
Somebody must hang for Mumford, the New Orleans martyr.
The late freshet in Roanoke river, N. C., was very heavy and destructiMumford, the New Orleans martyr.
The late freshet in Roanoke river, N. C., was very heavy and destructive.
Apprehensions are felt of severe losses in crops, cattle, &c., in Halifax and Northampton counties.
The Cincinnati Commercial calls the New York Tribune's information regarding Unionism in Texas, "a cock and bull story."
It is stated that Col. Graves, of the 8th Michigan regiment, was killed in the recent fight at Secessionville, S. C.
Ample and well-arranged measures should be taken in season to procure a supply of fresh fruit and preserved vegetables for the use of our arm
order of Gen. Butler for the execution of Wm. B. Mumford, convicted of an overt act of treason, in him to reeking the intersession of for men. Mumford listened to him with respectful attention, bu the hope of administering some consolation.
Mumford received him pleasantly and conversed freely,ight, and was quite free from nervousness.
Mrs. Mumford is a delicate, respectable looking lady, anwould so soon be beyond the knowledge of man. Mumford preserved a respectful attention, and appearere the prison door, and, attended by a guard, Mumford was placed in it, accompanied by Chaplain Salies of the city held a meeting and voted that Mumford should not be hung.
They certainly chose theice.
A black silk mask was then put over Mumford's face, the noose adjusted to his neck, the h
The following brief sketch of the life of Mumford is mostly from his own lips.
He was born of ulged in some falsehood in giving a sketch of Mumford's life.
Yet it appears that he met his death[4 more...]
time, that said letter had been received, and hasten to reply.
No authentic information has been received in relation to the execution of either John Owen or Mumford, but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of those alleged executions, of which you will be duly informed.
I need hardly assure you, Genary of War to inquire of Major-General McClellan as to the truth of alleged murders committed on our citizens by officers of the U. States army.
The cases of Wm. B. Mumford, reported to have been murdered at New Orleans, by order of Major-General B. F. Butler, and Colonel John Owen, reported to have been murdered in Missouri, by ed by some unknown person while defending his home.
I am instructed by the President of the Confederate States to repeat the inquiry relative to the cases of Mumford and Owens, and to ask whether the statements in relation to the action of Generals Hunter, Phelps, and Fitch are admitted to be true, and whether the conduct of t
between the occupation of the enemy and those of the country Parishes, and says the only safe rule for their guidance is absolute non Intercourse — the entire suspension of communication by visit or for trade.
In relation to the hanging of Mumford the Governor says:
The noble heroism of the patriot Mumford has placed his name high on the list of martyred sons.
When the Federal navy reached New Orleans a squad of marines was sent on shore who hoisted their flag on the Mint.
The city was not occupied by the United States troops, nor had they reached there.
The place was not in their possession.--Wm. B. Mumford pulled down the detested symbol with his own hands, and for that was condemned to be hung by Gen. Butler after his arrival.
Brought in full view of the scaffold, his murderers hoped to appal his heroic soul by the exhibition of the implements of ignominious death.
With the evidence of their determination to consummate their brutal purpose before his eyes, they off
the United States army, informing the latter that a report had reached this Government that Wm. B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederate States, had been executed by the United States authorities at my instructions to Gen. Halleck, renewing the inquiry in relation to the said execution of said Mumford with the information that in the event of not receiving a reply within fifteen days, it would buly, asserting that "no authentic information had been received in relation to the execution of Mumford, but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution," and p answer, I have received evidence fully establishing the truth of the fact that the said Wm. B, Mumford, a citizen of this Confederacy, was actually and publicly executed in cold blood by hanging, afof the city of New Orleans by the forces under the command of Gen Benjamin F. Butier, when said Mumford was an unresisting and non-combative captive, and for no offence even alleged to have been comm
the United States army, informing the latter that a report had reached this Government that Wm. B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederate states, had been executed by the United States authorities at my instructions to Gen. Halleck, renewing the inquiry in relation to the said execution of said Mumford, with the information that in the event of not receiving a reply within fifteen days, it would uly, asserting that "no authentic information had been received in relation to one execution of Mumford, but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution," and pl to answer, I have received evidence fully establishing the truth of the fact that the said Wm. B. Mumford a citizen of this Confederacy, was actually and publicly executed in cold blood by hanging, f the city of New Orleans by the forces under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offence even alleged to have been comm
his associates comes up to the full measure of the public expectations.
The deliberation with which the conclusions of the Executive have been arrived, at gives additional solemnity and dignity to his purpose.
The Brule and his minions will discover that it does not follow because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, that it is forgotten or forgiven.
Those of our own people, too, who have been disposed to complain of the President's alleged indifference to the fate of Mumford, will see that they have done him great injustice, and that he has remembered it longer perhaps than some of his censors.
In this, as in other cases, it would be as well for those of us who inhabit the valleys of private life, and whose quantifications for conducting the government of the country have never yet been discovered by our fellow citizens, to be modest and charitable in our strictures upon the course of those whom we have placed in power, and who, from their official and intelle
cient cause for failure to make early reply to said letter of 6th July, asserting that who authentic information had been received in relation to the execution of Mumford but recession will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution, and providing that General Lee should be duly informed thereof:
And in addition to the tacit admission resulting from the above refusal to answer I have received evidence fully establishing the truth of the fact that the said Wm. B. Mumford, a citizen of this Confederacy, was actually and publicly executed in cold blood by hanging after the occupation of the city of New Orleans by the forces under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offence even alleged to have been committed by him subsequent to the date of the capture of the said city:
And whereas the silence of the Government of the United States and its maintaining of said Butler in hig
Butler in Philadelphia.
Beast butler arrived in Philadelphia on the 7th, en route for New York and Boston.
During the evening he addressed a party of ladies and gentlemen in the reception room of the Continental Hotel.
In the course of his remarks he said: "You have been pleased to allude to an act of high executive responsibility, which in the performance of my duty, became a painful necessity — an act which caused more complaints and praises than any other — the execution of William B. Mumford.--(Applause)"
"Using to the uncourteous terms in which the sociated Confederate Government demanded explanation, no report ever could be made.
By offensive language that Government shut off all possible communication on our part.
Then it was assumed that some wrong was done, and the proclamation, which you have doubtless all seen, was issued in consequence.
"Whether rightly or wrongly, the act still commends itself to my judgment.
(Applause) Feeling the utter worthlessness
