M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-10-13

and stopped the trade for the present
TUNIs.-The Bey Of Tunis died Septem
ber %, and the presumPlive heir had bee
installed.
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Election Day in Cincinnati.
Unfortunate Results Of Political Ercittmsr
One Probable MLrder Three Men Gu
-Iwo Shoi-ORG Nearly Beaten I
Death, and Another Attempting Suicid,
The election passed of rather quietly a
the polls Yesterday but stilt there was muc
excitement in the city and good deal q
| fghtlng al different places. As will be see
below. one man was probably killed, aud sew
en wounded by knives, pistols and bludgeon
| in street encounters.
CUTTING AFFAIR IN THE NINTH WARD.
Jacob Pcfller engaged in fight with Dan
iel Bryerly yesterday afternoon, in a coffee
house on Sycamore street, between Abgai
and Woodward, and, during the progress o
| the encounter the foImer was cut by the lat
Ter with a knife in the side aud hip, tn
wounds being serious but not dangerous. N,
arrests were made.
MAN STABBED IN THE ELEVENTH WARD.
Two parties OF politicians had a genera
fight on Vine street. near the base OF the hi j
in whch several persons were knocked down
aud Abruhom Loug cut four times in the bach
with cuse-knilo. Longs wounds are pain
iul but not serious.
ANolHEK MAN CUT IN THE iHIRD WARD.
Stephen Hide became involved in trouble
with three or four intoxicated deck-hauds
on the landing, near LudIow.slreer, yester
day, and was severely stabbed with clasp
knife by one OF the parties, whose name i:
not known. 1t is supposed that the guilty
person lett the city last evening on a down,
wald.bound steamer.
A DEMOCRAT SHOT IS THE ELEVENTH WARD
George Grover, q Democrat, quarreied
with Cornelius Sharp, member OF the Op.
position yesterday afternoon, On Bank.stIeet
not far from the Eleventh Ward polls, be.
cause the latter had denounced Hedger, and
the former declared he was the best man on
the Opposition ticket. During the fstcufl
that ensUsd, Sharp drew a revolver and dis.
charged one barrel. the bal taking effect in
Growers left shoulder. He would have fred
again, had not some one knocked him down
With a bow,der. Grover was taken to a
drugstore in the vicinity, and the ball ca
tracled.
MAN SHOT IN sToRRs TOWNSHIP.
Anumber OF men, while inebriaied. ndulg-
ell in a genera rumpus. Yesterday morning,
at tavern in Stors Township, the Difficult.
" arising from difference IN political o pin.
ion, when Abraham Murray Mills having
thrown two Or three stones at some one, was
shot in the right shoulder aud placed hors
de combat.
A NEGRO CRUELTY BEATEN.
An elderly and unollendibg negro, Joseph
Haynes was set upon BY lour or five drunk
en- rowdies from the Third Ward polls, on
CuIvert near Sixth street, Yesterday morning.
and beaten with slung shots until he was in.
S ensible, His face and head are so severely
cut, aud his body so brushed by kicks that
it is doubtful il he will recover. No arrest,
were made, though two or three policemen
were in search of the supposed perpetrators
Of the outrage.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A REPUBLICAN,.
Jacob Sheckel German formerly employ.
ID in the POrk.house of Haughton g. Reid,
corner Of Sycamore and Canal-sreets. al
emp ted TO drowa himself in the Miami Ca.
lal, near the Brighton House, yeslernoon al.
ernoon, having tied a stone about his neck
or that purpose.
1t appears that he had been industrious and
until the late campaign when he
,ecdme idle and dissipated, and some two or
hree weeks since wagered 5000 upon the
election Of The Opposition ticket, Yester.
lay about noon, having been told the Dem.
,crats would certainly be successful, Sheckel
became 20 depressed at the supposed loss of
his money-all he had-that he sought to
leslroy himself So evident a moral is in
his fact, that il would be superAuous 20 give
it expression.
At the close of the polls, hundreds began
o patronise the drinking saloons extensively.
md before nine clock the whole city seem.
I'd TO be reelDg drunk. Both parties appear.
I'd to thiuk their ticket successful and the
was that az immense amount of
vas made everywhere. AS we write--at the
line of midnight-the city is in an uproar
md The atmosphere is reverberating with the
shouts Of excited politicians and dlunken
'owdies. number o knock downs occur.
ed in aud about the coffee. houses, and tho
We heard of une or two more cutting aff'rays.
We could learn no particulars. Gin. ERq
TIE OFFICES OF CoNGREss-How TO BE
PARcELED OUT-The Washington cores
,ondent ol the Ohio State Journal says that
lmong the Republicans at that place ia