Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-08-10

The Louisville mail isvety tardy when we are
looking for late intelligence fromit. %ersceiv-
ed al noon, yesterday, copy of the Louisville
Journal Of Wednesday morning, for which we are
indebted to our accommodating friend Mr.. LEE
ROY McNEELy. $ The Journal Is filled with ed
itorIal comments on the Ia,e riots and with ac-
counts Of occurrences in the city up To The hour of
publication. 1t is the only paper of that date We
have beioEe US, and we CLEAN from ii the follow
ing particulars: i d.
The result as fur as we can learn is that four
teen men nave been killed, SIX Of whom were
Americans Three Others are expected to die
We have not been able TO ascertain how many have
been wounded; we have heard Of about thirty
more or less wounded.
The coroner has held Inquests on the following
bodice:
William Graham, an American and founiery
man, was killed on Chapel ST. by beingshOt in the
stomach on Monday evening, aud died Immediate
lY. Fh1shdoting was done by an lnshman, who
was shot and hung, but before life was extinct he
ascut down. He died a few houts afterwards.
He wac buried, bit the Coroner will have his body
taken up.
Theodote RhoaIS, an American, uged 80, resi-
ding on Main sheet, below Eleventh., was shot
and stabbed in the street in the Eighth ward. Ile
leaves family.
john. Hudson, an american, residing on Green
st. near Preston, was shot in the back of the head
in the Eighth Wutd.
Powell Rothaupt, German wagonmaker, stab
afterwards. Leaves a family.
Joseph Allison. an Irish Protestant, shot on the
cOIner0f Market and Chapel streets. He and his
wife had secreted themselves under bed, but
We're dragged out.
The body of Francis Quinn, an Itishman, is
deposited in the Count House. The Coroner has
not yet held an inquest upon it. He was shotin
the groin. $40
The bodies of man and woman burned,
both Irish, and residents on Main street, above
Eleventh. were also deposited in the court house.
There is one man dead in the hospital and two
are not expected to recover.
There is also an IrShman dead in Jail.
a German. named jacob, corner OF Madison
aud Shelby. is not expected to recover.
The Coroner was summoned at noon to hold nm
inquest on the body Of an Irishman ''namel Pat.
Murphy. near where the brewery was burned.
EVENTS or THE FonENoox.-At au early hour
large crowd of people, anxious aud excited, fill
ed the grounds around the two court houses, cor
ner Of Sixth and Jefferson streets, and about the
Jail, eager to witness the of the judicial in
vsstigations totake place, and see the Irish prs>
oners charged with shooting Americans in the
First and Eighth Wards, from the windows of the
houses.
The City Judge thought proper not to enter up
the investigation Of the cases. but allowed per
mlts to be given TO the wounded for the hospital
and took otherproper steps with the accused. so
as to secure trial, after proper time should be
allowed to collect the testimony.
The Mayor, whose exertions for peace have been
energetic and unremilled, caused a committee,
consisting 0f large number of orderly and quiet
citizens, to be formed 20 circulate among the Peo
pie, to calm the excitement, and induce them to
return to their homes and TO their business. The
efforts Of these gentlemen were prompt and not
without success. They prepared the minds Of the
crowd TO give attentive hearing 10 an affecting,
able, aud eloquent appeal made by the Hon. w.
+. Bullock, which, from the stand i'll the court
house yard, was followed by few feelings sooth-
ing, AMI kind reinarkS from Gen. Pitcher, who was
loudly called for. Geu. P. moved, upon many
seconding voices, that the people there assembled
should and all retire to their respective homes
and business pursuits: Which motion was put and
carried BY reclamation; and all seemed order anu
quiet in that part Of tile city at halt past 10 O'clock
A. N.
There was grand evacuation on Tuesday. On
Filth street. below Main. and also in the lower part
of the city many of the Irish families residing there
left. notwithstanding the assurance of the Mayor
that they would be. protected. About 800 left on
the mailboat for Cincinnati.
a very large number of persons in Jail.
Jesse Hughes. who was shot on Monday by the
accidental discharge of pistol in his own pocket
died about uoon Tuesday.
The following is the proclamation aud card
issued by the Mayor and Counctlmen: