Lynch Law.

LYNOH LAW.– few weeks since we no- ticed the murder of a Miss Thornton of this county by cnd of her father’s negro men. The negro was lodged in jail-having of his own free will confessed the crime. The case was called at the last term of our Circuit Court, and a day But for the trial. When the day came on, much to the surprise of every one, on application, a change of ven- ue to Greene county was grauted. The mulder had been attended by the most dia- and aggravating circumstances which the imagination can conceive. Yet, the heart-rended parent and outraged com- munity had permitted the law to take its MIRS till it arrived at this point, when they would stand it no longer. Accordingly, on Wednesday night last, a- bout 12 o’clock, a number of gentlemen, from the neighborhood where the foul deed had been perpetrated, comprising, from what we can learn some hundred or hun- dred and fifty, of the most respected citi- zens, came to Livingston, and some of them entering the jail for the purpose, they said of committing a negro they had with them got possession of this boy Dave. Others immediately ran to their assistance ; the keeper of the jail was held in duress and the negro was borne off by the infuriated throng, We were unable to learn what the punish ment reserved for the negro was, but it was intimated that he was to be burned on yes- torday in the neighborhood of Mr. Thorn- ton. It is proper to remark that the Sheriff one of his deputies and the juilor, were at the time on a trip to Wetumpka with Prob- inson who was sentenced at the last term of Court, to the Penitentiary. The deputies, however, which were here, are entirely free from censure. We cannot approve this high-handed measure, for, aggravated though the case was, while we have laws we should abide by them.-[Sumter (Ala.) Democrat. LYNOH LAW.– few weeks since we no- ticed the murder of a Miss Thornton of this county by cnd of her father’s negro men. The negro was lodged in jail-having of his own free will confessed the crime. The case was called at the last term of our Circuit Court, and a day But for the trial. When the day came on, much to the surprise of every one, on application, a change of ven- ue to Greene county was grauted. The mulder had been attended by the most dia- and aggravating circumstances which the imagination can conceive. Yet, the heart-rended parent and outraged com- munity had permitted the law to take its MIRS till it arrived at this point, when they would stand it no longer. Accordingly, on Wednesday night last, a- bout 12 o’clock, a number of gentlemen, from the neighborhood where the foul deed had been perpetrated, comprising, from what we can learn some hundred or hun- dred and fifty, of the most respected citi- zens, came to Livingston, and some of them entering the jail for the purpose, they said of committing a negro they had with them got possession of this boy Dave. Others immediately ran to their assistance ; the keeper of the jail was held in duress and the negro was borne off by the infuriated throng, We were unable to learn what the punish ment reserved for the negro was, but it was intimated that he was to be burned on yes- torday in the neighborhood of Mr. Thorn- ton. It is proper to remark that the Sheriff one of his deputies and the juilor, were at the time on a trip to Wetumpka with Prob- inson who was sentenced at the last term of Court, to the Penitentiary. The deputies, however, which were here, are entirely free from censure. We cannot approve this high-handed measure, for, aggravated though the case was, while we have laws we should abide by them.-[Sumter (Ala.) Democrat.