The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-25

THE BLOODY RIOTS IN INDIANA-THE AS
sAssINATIoN OF UNION MEN BY KNIGHTS
OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE.-Last Saturday
morning a number of men wearing butter
nut emblems, and armed, rode into Dan
vile, Hendricks County, in this State, to
hear speech from ID. w. Voorhees,, who,
it had been announced, would speak there
that day. The demonstration created a
good deal of excitement, as it was probably
intended to do, and an alteration sprang
up between one of the band and a Union
man-said to have been the renewal of a
previous quarrel-which ended in the dis
play of weapons on both sides, and the fir
ing Of twO or three shots. The X. e. c. was
wounded in the hand, we are informed
Friends on both sides joined in the distur-
bance, and pistols were freely and fatally
used. Some fiveo or six persons were wound
ed, two said to be MORALLY. A little son of
Mr.. Witherow, a lawyer of Danville, and
formerly a Senator from that county, was
shot in the abdomen while walking along
the street near the scene of the riot, and is,
we presume, dead by this time. He was
not expected to live on Saturday afternoon.
We have not learned who the other fatally
injured person is, or certainly that any
other wound is likely to prove fatal. Most
of the wounded were Union men, the X.
G. C.'s, being armed and prepared for a
fight, and of course having the advantage
armed, but had no knowledge ofany such
invasion of their town being contemplated.
The news of the fight spread rapidly, and
the Home Guards from Cartersburg and
Plainfield, well armed, and resolved to
make traitors regard the laws, We're speed
lily on the ground, but the X. q. c. had
vanished. Word was sent to General Car
rington, and preparations made to dispatch
a body OF soldiers to Danville to quell the
riot, but the Home Guards proved to be
sufficient, and more, for the emergency,
and the troops went to camp.
These X. G. G.. We're the same men who
attempted to tear down the Union flag at
Cartersburg recently, and were prevented
by the courage OF "a young lady.
On the same day Saturday the lSth) a
still more atrocious attack was made by
members of the X. G.. c. on Union men in
Brown County. The following account of
it is from one of the most prominent and es-
Unable citizens of Martinsville:
''There was a meeting Of Union men in
Brown County to-day, about thirteen miles
from this place. A number of citizens from
this place, We're by invitation present, and
among them Captain A. D. Cunning, of the
10th Indiana, and Sergeants I. S. Nutter
and Daniels, of the squad of cavalry sent
down here few days since, to arrest de-
serters. The Union men were prevented
from holding their meeting at the place APP
pointed, by Lewis Prosser, Esq, the law
and political partner of James s. Hester,
Esq, and other supposed K. &. C.'s of that
county, among them Mr.. Snyder. After
another place had been selected for the
meeting, and Captain Cunning had COM
menced speaking, Prosser and Snyder
came to the ground, and Prosser, in the
presence and hearing of the two Sergeants,
said che would bet a dollar he would kill
two of them before night Prosser had a
rifle in his hand, and so had Snyder. Ser
geant Daniels being near, approached Pros
ser and asked, ''who are you going to shoot
SIR or ''what do you mean SIR" Prosser
attempted to shoot Daniels with the rifle
Daniels wrenched the rifle from Prosser,
when Prosser drew a revolver and shot
Daniels through the heart, and at the in
slant of firing, called out to Snyder: ''shoot
the id son of b-h," meaning Sergeant
Nutter, but missed him. Captain Cunning
ham shot iProsser, wounding him in the
leg, and it is supposed broke his leg, or
fractured the bones, and arrested Snyder
The meeting was OF course broken up
Daniels was of course instantly killed."
Snyder was brought to this city yester-
day afternoon, and lodged in Jail, to await
trial for his deadly offence. Prosser will
be arrested and brought here if able to be
moved. He was member of the Legisla-
ture, from Brown County some years ago,
and has long been known as the leader of
the most desperately defiant disloyal gang
of X. G. C.'s in the State. Hester, his part
ner, was an officer in the I'D regiment a
while, but resigned because he could not be
made Colonel, and came home to organize
Il. G. C. lodges, in which he was one of the
first, as well as most active men in the
State.-Iadionapots Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF POISONING BY
NITRIC ACID.-On Tuesday afternoon, Mr..
q ri of fI,n ma OF I'd