Horrible murder.
--On Monday last, Lucius T. Woodruff, a planter, living about five miles from Weldon, N. C., was seized by five of his slaves, taken into an adjoining wood, and his head chopped off with an axe. The body was discovered on Friday, and the negroes were arrested. According to their confession, the murder was perpetrated because their master refused to allow gangs of negroes from other plantations to visit his farm during Christmas. He was seized at his dwelling, and, notwithstanding his entreaties, was taken to the woods and inhumanly butchered. Great excitement prevailed at Weldon Saturday, and it was thought the murderers would be summarily executed.
