The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-04
Second A,,emp, to Ares. Bao,h-..Arm.,

| Second Attempt to Arrest Booth...Armed
Resistance TO the Federal Authority.
The Milwaukee News, OF the 29th, gives the
| particulars at length of a second attempt tc
arrest Booth, and of the determ ned resis tancs
| of the United States officers by 62 armed men
Deputy y. s. Marshal McCarty had been
informed, IL appears, that the fugitive and
traitor was secreted at house near the city oi
Oshkosh, and immediately started for the same
with six men. Reaching the house at daylight
the Marshal knocked at the door, and upor, its
being opened attempted to enter, when the
man by whom the door had been opened offer.
ed violent resistance. The Marshal and his
men, however, forced their way in, when the
| individual called for help. His summons
was Immediately responded to by thirteen
armed men, who threatened the lives of the
officers IL they did not leave the premises -
| McCarty and his men were, however. firm
and expressed a determination to search the
house, when the proprietor Of the building
seized horn, hanging near, and gave one bias
upon 1t. 1t was Immediately responded to in
dozen directions. Very soon after armed
men began to arrive in wagons, and, in the
short space OF one hour and half, sixty-twC
men had gathered together, thus outnnmber-
| Ing the officers nearly Twelve to one! Some
| twenty five men then ranged themselves in
order, and pointing their guns at McCarty and
| his men, ordered him to1eaye. One of them
had his gun cooked, and became so much ex.
cited that he discharged 1t. the ball entering a
barn near by!
| The mob then demar ded of McCarty what
| he intended 10 do! lie boldly and emphatical-
| ly replied that ''he came there TO take Booth
and that If he could get sight OF him he should
accomplish his purpose or die in the attempt
| That the men who were with him were deter
mined men, and if violence were offered, II
must be done at their peril" Mr. McCarty
| then asked them their purpose. They replied
| that Booth should never be taken except over
| their bodies. That they de6ed the government t
| and that no power on earth could get him
| away from them. Again they demanded tna'
| the Marshal should depart, but he coolly in
| formed them that he was not yet ready, and
| asked their names.
A large number immediately stepped up and
| gave them, together with their places of resi-
| dence, coupled with the assertions that they
| would "lynch, shoot and quarter' every gov
| ernment officer who attempted TO accomplish
| Booths arrest. McCarty did not deem it ad-
visable to risk the lives Of six against twelve
| times that number, and not knowing that
| Booth was in the house did not desire TO peril
their lives against such fearful odds. or render
himself liable If the fugitive was not there Sc
| creted. He sent to Ripon for reintorcements
| but informed the crowd that If Booth was
| seen or they would admit his whereabouts, ne
| would take him or perish. He waited until
| after IL O'Clock, having been there in the face
| of loaded rifles and desperate men some seven
hours. when assistance not arriving, himself
| and men quietly departed.
| The Marshals went for the purpose of ar
| resting fugitive, but were prevented by a
| twelve to one, banded together to set at de-
| fiahce the laws of the country, and the gov
| ernment of the United States. If ever we had
reason to deplore the spread of fanatics m, II
| is now. Ii ever there was Tune lot action,
! 1t has arrived.
| FRENCH, AMERICAN, AND ENGLISH YOUNG
| LApIRs-The last London AthenBum, in a
review of a recent French book, entitled
| d" Marriage in the United States" takes occa-
sion to make the following remarks:
No two nations do the same thing in the
| same manner. We do not make coffee alike,
we do not dress alike, the butek aa natnret or
even Gordon blen is not the beef steak of a
London chop house; the Chinaman's cup OF
tea is a very different thing to that affected by
Mrs. Soapsuds; the Turks marghtie has but
little resemblance to the 1rishman's cutty
loving and marrying to one set of people, hor-
ribly offends the instincts and moraiities OF
another. In the civilized Christian world there
cannot be greater discrepancy in this last par
| ticular than between the French and American
From the first look of love to the last word
| of marriage there is not stage Of the affair
| that's conducted in the same way; not a round
| of the great ladder which is hewn out of the
| same block. The French girl never leaves her
mother's side, unless, indeed, she be brought
| up in convent. The American young lady
neither claims nor would submit TO the mosi
ordinary protection of friend or parent. The
French girl is married off by her mother, wi tn
ont even the semblance of consultation
suitability of fortune and condition being d
much more important matter than any such
moonshlne as suitability of temper or the elec-
tive affinties. An American does her own
misunderstanding single-handed; and II she
does not take quite the initiative in the mo.
ment of proposing, does not hesitate to make
her preference as undiSgulsed as words would
have made it.
The same national opposition holds goon af.
| ter marriage. The French wife is free, emanci.
pated, almost irresponsible-a leader of socie-
| ty, parsonage, power the American loses
| herself when she gains husband. She is
| hencefor tn scarcely side-ornament where shf
| was lately crown and sceptre both.
| Young and handsome, she is no sooner mar
ried than she is drafted off to the elderly sec
| tion, with whom there is no longer a question
| of Irritation; and the world which forgave hel
| even grave iHdiscretions while she was single
| will now severely punish the lightest infrac.
ton of appearances. 1t is a curious and in
structive inversion-the French granting LC
| the wife the liberty which the American gran Is
| to the maiden and both SO terribly shocked if
| by chance, their women change places and
| cross hands over the code.
| Between these two extremes, we English
| hold our usual middle place. Not so stric
| with our girls as are the French, nor so lax as
| the Americans; not so liberal ofsocial freedom
| [. our wives as the one, nor SO nlggardiy as
| the other; we think, AS a patriotic matter o.
| course, that we have hit on the exact golden
| mean, and shot our arrow into the very bull's
| eve OF the question. W. say, we give Oul
/ yonng ladies sufficient liberty to form theil
| characters, and time and opportunity TO know
| their own minds. We do not marry them of
to the first eligible bidder, like so many tender
| little doves sold, hood dwinked in the temple
| neither do we suffer them TO roam unguided
| through the hus bandlsss desert, like wild crea
| lures seeking their prey.
We make our bands and bonds elastic, and
the shadow of the broad maternal wing very
| far; so that by these wise measures. We secure
| a race OF maidens as perfect in their fearless
| innocence as our wives are fiawless in their
| crystal purity. Our friends across the chan.
nei, on the contrary, prefer pretty dolls, in the
| one case, and matrimonial freebooters in the
| other and our cousins to the West hold the
best preparation for the fetters of marriage
and maternity TO consist in 4 laWless license
aud think protection bondage and prudent
counsel mental slavery. Of course each OF
the other two countries is as justified TO itself
be found which was not, in its own esteem
the ultimate sum of morality! The line To
the right hand or to the lett spoiis all the
symmetry; the dash of blue or red destroys
the whole scale Of color. La recherche dH fab.
soEu is always successful i'll the aggregate; and
there lives not a man who does not think his
national home the most perfectly organized
and his countryWomen the most charming
the most yirtuous, the best brought MP of their
sex.
POLICE FORCE OF NEW YoRK.-The police
force OF New York consists of ,s76 men
There are of officers, l superintendent, iu-
spectors, clerks, surgeons, 8 captains, and
142 sergeants The beat of the New York pat
rolmen averages miles. There being in
x... ,f 4 IL.