Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1860-10-31
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!. Discovery sf Asmss--Tws Caslzsas al Ne
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Il We learn that startling dsselopmsni
7 havs beeu made in Marlborough, and ii
t whole community thYown into . state /
great excitemsBat, Two catizerss Of wess
ern New York hare been arrested, wh
; had nndaT their care lsrga stand O
arms. They were searched. and inxoi
ees found calling for another Lot, amount
| ing IN aIl, as wc are Informed. TO abou
twelve hundred. The axms were conaign
ed 70 parties In Wilmington, TO whieh
Igentleuan had been sent to make iagessi
CATIONS, and 10 secure others VINO naay b
implicated. Their completely and airss.
agency wsEe 50 thoroughly established
thas they wera eommittad ss iail. Ths
feeling was 30 intense that il was with
great difficulty that their violent seizure
and immediate axaeutian ceuld be uYe-
vented. Judge Whitnar. who was hold
ing court there, inteyposad, and finally
succeeded in staying the feeling and re-
serving them "a victims for more legal
psocsdnrs. The pzblic mind Of the North
has beea SO wrought mp by the daelama-
| ton OF Republican orators, that these
missionaries Of social subyarsion may
doubtless be found In syagy southern com
naunty. Whaneyer arrested they should
not be LETT se the slow process of Law.
The vigilance societies should seize them.
give them fair trial, and IL the. cireum-
stances convict them of eomplicity In de-
signs of such setroc1sy, should nlete out
70 them punishment prompl, summary
and extreme. r.,.E -.
AT Clio, s. O., On the 10th inst. two
men, named Hftehings, were arrested un-
der circumstances that led to the belief
thai they were Abolition incsndasies. and
that vigilance committee had been Or
ganized TO investigate the matter. Early
the next day large crowd assembled at
BennettsriIls, anxiously anticipating the
result. Between ten and eleven O'Clock
the committee from Clio. with tha sus.
pected parties, arrived In Ehs court house
square. The court was In session. The
crowd eagerly passed round 90 hear the
report, which was to the eject thas am
pie proof had been elected to convict the
accused. Upon this announcement the
widest excitemeus ensued. The crv
srose, @Hang them-hang them 10 the
nearest tree!" But more moderate eoan-
ell finally prevailed, and further and |
fuller examination was determined upon.
Among the papers and correspondence of |
the prisoners we're found invoices of |
double and single barrel guns, pistols. |
revoivers, bowie knives, balls, cartridges. |
caps, powder, shot, DC, to the amount Of /
; little over sl2O9 bought by Hitch /
ngs from j. Merrin, agent of the Hart
lord Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, |
u New York, on the 30th of July last
Every item was priced, the sums extend
ID and the column added up; but there
sas no receipt st the bottom indicating
whether the articles we're paid BY nets or
ASH. There were also among the papers
esters OF introduction and recon endafion
o railroad companies, setting forth that
III seas4E = sas 1sri4suaessa Esseaxss4a. ~~
ssisi a Al n n Esfah Aaa zsssafsa ss ssa
nd satisfactorily performed. These let
srs rurported to have been signed by
abroad presidents In New York and else
there. One was signed by Mr.. Hunt of |
lew York, 9 president of some railroad !
ornpany. The two Hitchings ars faith i
r and son--the former Between tifsy ;
nd sixty years Of age, the latter, perhaps ,
bout twenty. The elder Hitchings Ia sn |
was naturalixed in 1888, and i
as tiYed mostly in the state of New YORK.
lie came to Pekin, in Montgomery eoun- /
7, n c., aboas 1856, whore be has resi- /
ed since. He was there ut and before :
le date Of some Of The above letters | !
ad Ii ID known that when he first came, !
nd ever since, he has lived in great pov- /
rty. . = Ia
His conduct vas 20 bad ak Pekin - q | .
egrp trader that he was severely whipped / ]
y ths citizens OF that place some esgh&- b
'en mouths or two 0 years ago. Aftx that i
. isfs his family ss that plaea, and put b
P small wagon makers shop as Floral :
ollege, and at the &nSe Of his arrast was +
bout putting mp anosasr little shop cf the 4
nae kind at Clio, In MaxIbori' diatxins. a
10 vel known both as Pekin and Floral !
ollege, that he had no ostensihle means 4
pay for any part Of those invoices. q
The onl y explanations Htchings offers q
, that he has son whose occupation Is !
escort smigraats from st. Louis, or j
me other point in Missouri, across the :
aims 70 Santa Fe, New Mexieo, &C.. and =
at the arms and ammunition were Ia 8
nded for him. =
The old man appears 10 bo rs deaf and I,
ocial IS old John BroEus but his son &
ows great concern and appears TO be In q
eat trepidation n
Clio is near the spot marked i'm Mari !
'ro' district on old John Browns mans. a
lis Is . signifoant fact. - ln