Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-08

Mayor BY the small u majority Of $500
St. Jossphs elects Radical Mayor. Olsvs'
land gives Union majority Of 1900. Prince
ton, New Jsrssy, elects Union ticket. Thsss
ass Ssw glsanings Of Union victories.
The Outcreppings 81 the Butter
R0t 0yRte0.
A more cowardly crew never brsathsd the
cir Of heaven than the Butternut family Of
the North. A msAnsr or more dsvilish class
Of men never went unhung. That the Gov
eminent permits such miscreants - the edit
or Of the Chicago Tsmss to continue to belct
forth his treason and poison the public mind
is An evidence Of lsniency and mercy without
justice. When Burnside suppressed that viii
sheet, the loyal masses rejoiced. But in IN
evil hour, the peoples President, extended
the hand Of lsnisncy and pardoning mercy
giving to that sheet license to advocate re-
bellion, treason and anarchy. In Southern
Illinois, where deserters from our armis.
minsls with rebel spies, and al are clothed
fed and sheltered BY populacs who swea,
fsalty to the Southern Confsderacy upon the
altar Of the Chicago Times, the outeroppingl
Of Copperhead disloyalty have been made
manifest. Coles county has been the theatre
Of . most disgraoeful attempt to murder, in
cold blood, the battls-scarred veterans. who,
for their heroism and GROWING oct Of glory,
are enjoying the pleasures Of home. So vii.
famous and diabolical was the plot that even
the special Of the 1snss dare not ignore the
fact that Democratic sherifs placed them.
selves at the head ofarmed bands, with muir.
derous intent, to shoot down the veterans at
home upon the slightest prstsxt. We prefer
to give his own language, IS follows:
"Some thirty or forty Of them Copper
heads) came ar1sd. come wiM rsoolSsrs, and
tie remainder NTH shos-gwns and rifles
concealed in the sssau in their ragons.-
1Asy oppeor t, hovs had concsrts1 plan
thus tar, that when any shot was fired It
skovH b the signal for genssal essovlt
upon the soldisrs. Supposipg the disturb
ance would occur at public meeting, and
that the Democrats wo1ld join them, the
people from O'Hair's settlement hoped to
ooerpososr the soldiers soithout much diff
Guilty."
The testimony Of the z;nsss' special is not
without support. The Chicago Poet, DEM
ocratic paper. edited by Mr.. sheahan, former
~ Of the Times, sent one Of it, editors to the
scene Of difficulty, and he writes ~ follows
NATION, April l.
70 the Editor Of the Chicago Post:
Most Of the dispatches concerning the
Charleston instruction are grossly untrue.
There ssas not the slightest pvosoeotion.-
Three days now spent in taking testimony,
shoso a plan to murder all the soldiers IN
OAarlesfon. The leaders were John H.
O'Hair, Nelson Wells, John Frazer aud 9th.
ers. About one hundred are implicated
thirty-seven Of whom are now under arrest.
The ring-leadeIs escaped. Efforts are being
made in the surrounding counties to rally
rebels, but have failed. They are believed t
have al disbanded and fed. A body of zoe
was reported in Jasper yesterday, going
South. Eight deaths have occurred, ave O.
which were Of soldiers; one other viii die
The soldiers we're unarmed. AH TIC siose,.
came armed, with EXTRA guns IN soagons
Four additional prisoners were brought in this
morning. ~.
A foraging party went to O'Hair's this
morning, but could learn nothing of his
whereabouts. Eden left for Washington. on
Monday, on foot. The feeling in this COM
munity is one of deep and terrible indigna-
ton against the Peace demag who are
MT ny,lx, ho1;nvo<7 l,,,< Lrorr, - h ii ~, hoA
tom of the late outbreak.
Notwithstanding this revelation of the
plans and purposes of the Coles county
rebels, and the bloody work they accomplish
ed, the Chicago Times has the brazsn impu.
dence to pen, by way Of comment upon the
tragedy, the following: 49,
Deplorable as the event at Charleston 10
It may have its salutary uses. It may tsacl
abs!itiosisns that there is limit to it. atroc
tiles, and admonish the superior military au
thorities that soldiers, stimulated BY abolition
malevolencs and rum, must not be turned
loose ape" quiet, peaceful and uac0sndins
people.
The soldiers were about town, around tn,
Court Rouse, Tin which court was then II
session, unarmed and defenceless, when the5
were set upon by band Of assassins called
Democrats, over 1000 in number and armed
to the teeth. Eight persuasive Of whom
had faced Drawer foe on rebel soil, and had
never flinched from the terrible storm Of lead.
en- rain and iron hail upon many . bloody
field, were shot down like brutes by muir.
derous gang calling themselves Democrats.
These are the men who cry most against op.
preston and tyranny. Led on and melted to
action by such spirits as the Times, every
man should suffer summary punishment.
Let drumhead court martials be their court.
and halter their doom. II the active par.
ticipants deserve death, what shall be the
punishment for the evil instigators behind
the preass Has the government NO power
over evilf
@fhe authoritative denial Of the inteu.
ded recognition Of Aaximillian's Empire in
Mexico, by our government, was called forth
BY the following statement in the Paris cor,
rsapondence Of the New York Csmme,eio,
Advrtissr SIT il believed that to...a a,