Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1853-12-31

AN ATTEMPT TO HANG THE
CATHOLIC NuNCfo. II


We take Jhe following particulars from
The Cincinnati Commercial Of the 26sh;
Bishop Bedini, the Apostolic Nuncio
Of the Pope Of Rome, officis,ed in the
religious ceremonisls at the Catholic
Cathedral. Sunday morning and afler-
noon. The most violent suilnosily is en-.
iertained by the German Sucie,y Of Free
men. against this divine. and members of
that associst tion assembled, about ten
o'clock lasl nighi, 10 the humber Of FIVE
or six hundred, al Freemen's Hall. on
Vine-st., above Twelfth and after or
gsnizing and choosing their lea Iers,
marched in body down Vine-st. TO 9th,
aud out 9th TO Plum. being in the vicinity
Of the residence of Arch bishop Purcell,
where The Pope Nuncio is sojourniug,
as is supposed, with the intenti III oi
mob5ing the house, and DUNG violence to
ihe NuncIo's person, or at lead TO burn
him in effigy.
An inlImati0n Of what was to b dnne
was received enrIy IN the evening by Cap
tain Luken, Chief Of Police. an after
the eight clock roll call, he requested
all The police, both day and mig Il, to re.
main and await orders Not q man
among them knew the purpose for which
they were detained, but silently obeyed
the command.
Word at length reached the Watch
House that the rloters were approaching.
and by the Captains orders, the men
were all stationed in from. of the Watch
House, on either pavement. As the
Freemen approached, they set up a dis
NAL groan accompanied with the clang-
ings If mo>, discordan, music, and at the
word o command each policeman rushed
forward and grabbed his man.
The scene which followed battles de.
scrip,ion. For few moments the melee
was general; many pistol shots were
fired, and shouts and execra:ions filled the
air. The rioters soon fled but were pur.
sued by the police, and over sixty cap
'ur-d and secured. Every cell in the
Watch House was full of men standing
upright, 'any Of them badly injured
Henry Carroll, policemen Of The ID ward,
was shot through he leg Uur Report
er could hear OF no Others nf the police
being badly injured.
The riot was almost immedia ely
qnelled, ,Tmti at the zine Of writing this
article, all was quiet, although further
violence was an,lci pared.
The cause Of the existing anmosity
against the Nuncio, is said TO be in con
sequence of belief tina, he ostensiby
favored the Liberty of Italy, bu really
only for tho purpose of beraying them,
and that, nu one "ccasit II he caused oao
of them to be iayed alive.
The following i, the version given in
the Urionn.:
Last night nnout eleven o'clock, the
walchmen on duty at the 9th-st. Station
House, having received Information ,ha
the Freemen's Soc.eIy we're N, Their way
To Bishop PurceIl's house, for the purpose
of committing some act Of violenre or
NJ. Bedin', the Nuucio Of he Pope
hey repaired to the corner of Ninth anc
Plum. and met q bod OF some 1000 m,n
armed with clubs, swords. knives, pistols
ETC., and cnrryi"g torches to burn the
church. ropes to hang the Nunclo, and al
in great state Of exclemen.
T"ey were promptly met by the police
aud after short melee, were finally
dispersed. the police succeeding in max Ing
some fifty or sixty arrests.
Henry CAROLS warchman in Ire %
Ward, was shot thr ugh the thigh, by ont
If the rioters, and many others made
narrow escapes.
From those arrested it was learned tina,
they had met, organized, armed, and
formed into II procession for the express
purpose Of hanging NJ. Bed'n. the Nun
Clio OF the Pope. burning the Cathedral, &c
FIT had not been stopped at the time l,
was the consequences might have been
indeed fearful.
lr the confusion attending it, it wa,
olmos. impossible to CLEAN any reliabI,
information from any one. The genera
opinion. however. was that they wonle
return and make an attack on The watct
h"use. ir the purpose of rescuing tl.os'
arrested. In the event of such An attemp
the bl"odshed must be great, as he pollc'
were all armed and waiting for the attack
The cause of the riot is unknown, but i
supposed to be offense ut some remark
of Bedini from the pulpi, Sunday morn
ing. Wha, they were we could not learn