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Shocking Murder.—We are pained to chronicle the occurrence of a horrible murder near this city Monday night, ofwhich Mr. Edgar Carmichael, son of A. W. Carmichael Esq., has been the victim. While returning from his store, to the residence of his father at Butler's Creek, about a quarter of a mile distant, lie was waylaid by a party of assassins, shot and stabbed to death. This is all we can learn of this diabolical deed, the very thought ofwhich makes the blood cold. An unassuming, estimable and promising young man, a member of oue of our most worthy families, has been most foully murdered, on tlie roadside within a quarter of a mile of his own home, and no clue has been found to indicate the perpetrators of the revolting crime. Tlie times in which we live are becoming fearfully wicked when human life is held so cheap. Let us hope that something will be done, and that speedily, to check this carnival of crime into which our community is drifting, and that an example will be made of the vagrants who, despising to work for an honest livelihood, now live by robbery and murder.
Since the above was in type, a correct statement, so far as known, of this atrocious murder has been placed in our possession, from which it appears that some unknown parties drove up a wagon to the store. As the doors were not broken, it is supposed Mr. Carmichael had retired to bed, and hearing the persons knocking admitted them, thinking, doubtless, they had come to make some purchases, not suspecting their wicked purpose, as he had, it is believed, admitted ^persons at night on former occasions, who came to buy goods. The incarnate friends shot him through the heart and rifled the store of its contents. When his friends entered the store Tuesday morning his lifeless body was found behind tlie counter, with no other covering than his night clothes, which leaves the impression that, had had retired to bed, and was murdered by parties, whose ostensible purpose was to buy goods, but whose real object was murder, and robbery. The young man who usually assisted Mr. Carmichael was absent Monday night from the store, and the assassins availef themselves of his absence to perpetrate the most hertless cold blooded murder ever committed in this vicinity. The clothes of the deceased, as well as the bed clothes, and the most valuable goods in the store were carried away. Mr. Carmichael was about twenty-one years of age, a young man of moral and social worth, and Was esteemed for his many good qualities of head and heart.—
Having fought bravely through the war, he retirmed home without any of the vicious habits so contracted in the army and was engaged in the laudahle purpose of building up his own fortunes, when the hand of the assassin struck him down in the morning of his manhood, with a future full of promise and usefulness to himself and the community of which he was a young but respected and promising member. Peace to his soul.—Augusta Constitutionalist.