The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-31
THE CIVIL WAR IN OHIO.

Arrest and Rs lease OF Prssoaers--Itesistanc.
sud Nenia AbsittiO" tssss la Arnns-unhteai
states officials tUsi,ris"aess, &c., tkc.
Iron tho Cincinnati Enquirsr May %
Some OF colemprares here and elsewhere lately
bad account, less enormously Diet dd OF an
attempt that was made last week by scope Deputy
United States Msrsbals from this city Hamt n anu
o;ber towns 40 a fugitive slave, owned In Ken
usfy, and who bad been barbored, fea and employed
near Mech burg, Coamoagp county The tempt to
arrest We might well here premise, was ton unsuc
cessf the negro having rstreatso the o OF the log
cabin Of his harborer and employer which owing To ts
peculiar construction wa "a good 70 INN as o's having
from hch no bid defiance 10 the force in pursuit. Of him
at the deputies barely escaping beirg mado target
or well aimed bullet discharged from the p l VI tho
fugitive
owing then, TO the danger which would have 70 be
coapered in attempt 70 cislodge the negro from hts
faepess the threatened violent resistance which his
harboer had summoned his aid 10 the persons OF
DOZEN or more Of neighbors and csens OF tho village,
pursuit temporarily abandoned that better organ
lied plan might be matured and put IN execution
This Gone, and Monday evening party Of regu
lar and special deputies, numbering some half dozen or
more started upon the cars not only on the enterprse ~
pursuc and If found the fugitive slave bat ao
armed with arhory and process Of law TO arrest all who
had been known protectors of the negro
and reslstants of the first attempt to secure him.
This party OF officials have from verbal report,
were not able TO Dnd the negrobe having been smart
enonsl TO take the "Underground' Railroad train bat
they took into custody advised, some six Of
the aorefad special conductors Of the Underground Ey
ing, bad safely progressed SO Car their way Xcna,
when their further progress arrested by local official
pripging upon them with writ of hats corpus, Issued
by some State Judge ia Clark county.
This oca) official bad for aid large gang Of abolon.s
Of Springfield and Xena, and sufficiently strong TO
the Deputy Asrshas who were there arrested aud
tai en- back 10 Springfield Thus the tables were complete
" turned. The arrested parties discharged OF
the custody Of the puc and the latter we're rugged,
As this last phase In the ser is only fair beginning
IN another exciting and perpexng niger case to be fol-
srsous in snn Saon. 10 and sa @
again be brought into hazardous conflict shall
avail ourselves Of such opportunities as may DO
presented n keep our readers reliably posted.
Az Judges Mclean and Leaviu boih absent
from the city at this time there viii necessarily be delay
In the proceedings essential del yer the deputies from
the Inequalities OF the Springfield iakr In the meantime
hope the prisoners will bear their honors With
proper meekncss and Join their friends down here In good
sprits--as COED as they get out
IRON the Cincinnati Commercial, May al
Our readers not thai recently attempt
made by United States Deputy Marshals and Kentckans,
arrest place betw Urbana and Springfield iu.
gtve slave named Addison, who returned their fire and
came 20 near killing one Or two that they deemed expe
dent TO beat o retreat
rest Of named Hyde, at whose house Addison
found and agaut whom the charge preferred Of aid
ing fugitive slave contrary TO the prov sions OF the Flu
giuve Slave law.
Armed with this warrant, and determined, at .he
time earn, possible the $1,000 reward offered for the
Of Addison slavery, United States Deputy Mar
sha CburchiI. started FOR the Of fc~
davs since and took with him If w arc rightly Informed
a ,csse consIsnp of er policeman T1,omas Mora 4 ma,
~ Ioh, p,n, sr Jacob s,arr Caoroe Eevs and -
C.,;v The rsuis or he rannaign bavn moi f,I,v ,,ao
srr.d but a, "a r,,rnored ,a In roacbng the Hide farm
rfit Ne uidc nor AIdiSon were ~ he fnnnd and ,ba
,oss. arras,eJ Mr. p5as en-, yorng man and a,artas
A. hr;no MIN N his c,v for aol n ih chaygo Of ad,n
,hs faai,ira ~" w. ~ - ~ - ~
catches ere n, snc son, Il, s,,prge,d Ia n,erceo,
them bnt his they yot on The cars sone s
,aa. from, ,ba, io,vn hni tho grn,ds az Mr. N lie
81 ,Is r,ar.nvr.' and bnn,,s rornYs hsyiag .een sa
,, he she,iT or rIart conniv accn,na ,iai bv n arg
hoSv f volnn,ears started IL ci az Tho rs,rsa, sn
cana nm MIN ,h n,,ed sa,es na~s and their nrisonsr al
Tna,oup rhch h ahon, .ioh, rn,os san so'in,gao%
were decidedly under the influence Of taaor and woe ms
M means .s orderly as tb.v shooii hsve h.ao H,x
ever tbIs may be- tho sberiu sen,ed io srve The nm
beae ~,s ihat had been placed in his hands bu wa.
eooca aoxn ami several r,volv. Br,5 a, bn, ~ an in
tspa 10 AYE hia life rlis drove haok the
sAsrirp ssrty ana Mr. Cbuv<hi aod his M. sr,ed ~
get away bat the news or tho affair gr<sad IKE
wild Ore, and the story volume wens Until ID
,sd thai hieen persons beipg
r,ed o. and that battle had taken place between tho
United States and State officers. The population II Clark
Green and Champan counties Is largely compo-ed Of Pres
bytorans who regard the Fugitive Suve law with abhor
renee, and numbers rallied to rescue the prisoners
and arrest the aasaiiaD;s of the Sherii's posse.
AT Springfield u was supposed that Churchill and his
men had got safely oil, aud ielegraphic dcsPatch
rent tn this CIT, Ia have he whole ptiy arrested zoe
ssut with uicnt IN HI The Sheriff They had not, how