Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-08-23
Booth FlourishinE in the COun-
fry.

The rescued Booth appears to be cutting
up" considerably in the rural districts of Wis
consin, and is having a wild time generally
with the people and the deputy U. S. Marshals
who are after him and the 800 offered by the
Marshal for his capture and return TO the U. S.
Bastile in Milwaukee. Booth stopped for some
days at Waupun, with Alr. Heg, the State Pris-
on Commissioner, and two deputies appeared
with letter from the Marshal to Mr.. Heg, re-
questing him TO surrender Booth. Mr.. Heg
called Booth into the office and introduced him
to deputy Marshal Garlick, and gave officers ev-
cry opportunity, Us Mr.. H. states, to arrest him.
Neither offered TO arrest Mr.. Booth, and the
Lext day he went TO Ripon in carriage.
At RiFOn Mr. Booth addressed 4 crowded
meeting Saturday evening. He showed his
pistol now and then. and called it his "little ha-
5eas corpus" While be was pitching into the
Marshals pretty strong. and into one who had
offered TO arrest him for 81 600, with special ye-
hemence, Frank McCarty, Of Fond du Lac,
stepped forth from the crowd on the side of the
platform, and saying, Mr. Booth. l have a writ
for YOU grasping bis coat collar. The melee
which followed, and subsequent proceedings,
are thus related in letter from Ripon, August
5th, in the Madison Journal:
Booth dashed his hand into his pocket for his
"habeas corpus" but before he could get it out
a dozen men had jumped between them and
Frank was twenty feet off before he knew what
touched him. a cry of "put him out" "kill
him." de-, arose from all parts Of the house,
and what with the shrieks Of the women, and
shouts CT the men, and the upseiting of benches,
and the rush of everybody TO the centre, we
had perfect Pandemonium for a few minutes.
Frank locked down the barrels of number of
revolvers in a marvellous short time. stall
wart person strobe through the thickest of the
fight and hustled poor Frank TO the door. and
thence 10 the street, some thirty feet 1t would
puzzle him to tell whether he was drawn, drag
ged, slung or projected.
1t was sometime before matters got quiet in
side; but when order was restored, the people
organized a League of Freedom" to project
Booth from the Marshals. A committee of safe
ty was appointed and then the whole crowd es-
corted Booth TO Prof Daniels house. They
then selected guard-armed them, and agreed
to meet next day Sunday at P. NJ, and then
dispersed.
To- day fresh arrival of Marshals added to
the excitement. Booth was escorted to the
meeting TO day some twenty men. armed with
with rifles, and an unmOunted crowd.
He made 4 speech. repeating the story of his
prosecutions. Resolutions pledging protection
to him, and not very complementary to the
Marshals. were passed. The City Hall was
headquarters, and the people. in immense pro-
cession, adjourned thither. Sentinels and guards
were distributed around and within it, and it
was placed in L state of siege.
Alter some deliberation q Committee was
sent over to the Marshals, MeCarty, Henry
Striker aid Garlick, advising them 10 leave
town. The Marshals refused to receive-uny
message unless it was in writing. A long dis
cussion ensucd between them in the matter
Meantime Elder McKie delivered sermon
from dry goods box, to the people who filed
the streets. This Elder is a rempant abolition
ist. and he made the fur fly in good old fash
ioned style.
The Committee finally reduced their PROPOSE
ton to writing and the Marshals gave written
answer, the substance of which was. that they
were here TO arrest Booth and that they would
go away when they had completed their bust
ness.
The committee came back and reported, where
upon the people organized Club of minute
men. The precise object is kaown only to its
members-whether TO mob the Marshals or
merely to protect Booth. These proceedings
have occupied until 10 o'clockthis evening.
Monday Morning-Booth has left town.
Marshals ditto.