MrRpEr OF sL.sE.-A private el,er bias been
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MURDER OF sk&E.-A private letter has been
placed in our hands Sm highly respectable gen
teman in Savannah, giving the particulars OF most
tragic event which occurred some lime since in that
city The writer had mentioned the principal fact
in previous letter and now gives farther pariIcu
lars in answer 10 doubt expressed by bis cores
pondent here of the truth of the story:


You state that you have your doubts about the killing
of the negro slave will give you the facts as have
heard them. person named Herb came home on
Christmas morning about o'clock, and entering
the house Che being intoxicated the nc) called for
his private slave Fortune who had been ordered TO Sit
up and wait till his master home. He however
had fallen asleep the table, and the master was c, in
by another slave The master inquired for Fortune,
and on being told where he was, Immediately rushed
into the room and stabbed him with Bowie knife three
or four times and afterward dragged him of the table
and kicked him. The house by this time aroused
and the negro picked up by of his fellow slaves who
told his master that Fortune dying. Herb then went
for Doctor. but before he arrived the slave was
corpse. As Mr.. Herb was sorry for what he had done
as his going for Doctor proved and the Slave bis
own private property nothing done 10 hm-t 'oGs
not eren mentioned in the public papers. AS to the truth
of the story-I witness to the killing, but be
leve the story nevertheless, having heard it from
spectible and responsible persons