Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25
Assault on DR.. Hoyt of Hudson.

The Star Of the 18th contains minute account
of an assault on DR.. Otis Hoyt, of that place, by
q gang of rowdies at Prescott, where the Doctor
had stopped while on his way home in company
with the editor of the Star. The difficulty oc-
CURED at Fosters Hotel in Prescott, and is thus
told by the editor:
After dinner our team was brought to the door,
and as we were about getting into the vehicle,
Honorable Doctor o. Maxon, of Prescott, mem
Der Of the late legislature crossed the street, and
aecosted DR.. Hoyt upon some Indifferent subject
to which the DIR. paid but little attention. In q
few minutes DIR. Hoyt began to interrogate Max.
on as to whether he (Maxon) had reported such
and such stories about him, requesting Maxon to
answer, yes or no.
This, Maxon refused to do, but kept backing
out or away from the House--the DR.. in the
meanwhile advancing and reite-ating the question
to MaxoD, of, s'Did you or did you not say thus
and so about me ? answer, yes or no." While
this was going on a crowd of people began to
gather about US, and rs soon as sufficient num-
Der of Maxon's satellites had surrounded him,
he grew quite bold, and began to abuse the DR..
in the most opprobious terms, calling him a low
lived, sinking puppy, and using other expressions
of a like character. At this point, one of Max
on's rufians, by the name of Warren Baldwin,
(or Baldrich, thinking probably that the Dr. might
left eye, cutting severe cash, and nearly knock
ing him down. What adds to the atrocity of the
attack, and leads one to think that the whole
affair was the result of a preconcerted plan, is the
fact that Mr.. Beardsly, another of these border
ruffans, seized DIR. Hoyt by the arms at the same
moment he was struck, but was kind and consid.
crate enough to let go when he discovered that
the DR.. had probably received blow which
would fell him to the earth.
y- correspondent of the Worcester Spy
says that young man; of less than 30 years
went from Oxford to that city last Friday, intox.
icated; that he ''fell among thieves at some
of their gambling establishments, and lost wha
money he had, about $40. That ''he dranl
more intoxicating liquor in this temperance city
and then started for home, drunk, and penniless
In the cars he partook of a drug in order to xii
himself, and died that same night, after appoint
ing the time of his own funeral"
cEThe New York Herald's Washington cor
respondent says that after the Senate adjourned
ga very affecting scene took place in leave-takn
among the Senators. The hoary-headed Senate
from South Carolina shook what remains of Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut by the hand, and re
quested them to persuade their people to ceas
their fanaticism and teach them not to make wa
on their brethren in the South 70 The sremaiDs
of Massachusetts, and Connecticut must have bee
deeply impressed by this Injunction from the rep
rssentatiye of State which struck down Charlie
Sumner in the United Safes Senate.
g terrible explosion occurred at st. Loui
on the q, blowing to atoms the hardware stor
of T.. +. Craft & Co., and the store of I. j. A
bright & Son, and instantly killing two men an
severely woundng four or. FIVE others. job
Gatlinger was the name of one of the killed
the other is not given.
GO Professor Pierce, of Cambridge, has wri
ten letter scientifically confirming the vie
which all sensible people have taken in regard
the predicted collision Of . terrible fiery conn
with the earth, next June, viz; that there is .
foundation for such a prediction, and no man {
science has probably made such an assertion.
c. The Rev. Calvin Cotton, well known {