Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-02
Copperhead Riot i'll Illinois-LOss of
Iiite-A Large Fight Expected.

CHICAGO, March 29.-Rumors are in cir
culatiou that riots occurred at Charleston,
Coles county, in this State, yesterday, but the
accounts are of n confused and contradictory
nature. DIR. Works, a surgeon Of the Fifty
fourth Illinois regiment, and another man,
are reported killed. Colonel Mitchell and
several others were wounded. Nothing Is
known of the origin of the riot. The excite
ment in that vicinity is said to be intense.
st. Louis, March GA special dispatch
from Charleston, Coles county, (ll.) says
the Copperheads came into that town to at
tend Court, Yesterday, with guns concealed
in wagons and armed with pistols. Some
soldiers in the Court House were drawn into
an atfray, and general fight instantly occur
rcd. The County Sheriff sprung from the
Judges stand and commenced firing pistol
at Union men. Major York, surgeon of the
Fiftv-fourth Illinois, was one of the first VIC
tins. The Union men being outnumbered
at the Court House, ran to the adjoining
houses and stores for arms, and were fired on
from the windows. Ten or i dozen were
wounded. Col. Mitchell, of the Fi.ty-fourth,
was badly wounded. Several companies OF
tho regiment arrived during the afternoon
and formed in the Court House square. De-
tachmentS have been sent in pursuit Of gang
Some twenty OF the prominent Secesh impli-
Gated in the affair are under arrest.
CHICAGO, March 30tb.-A detachment Of
the Fifty-fourth Illinois left Charleston, Hi
nois, on Monday night to attack three hun
bred rebels intrcnched at Galliday's mills
! ten miles northeast of Charleston. A por-
ticn of the same regiment is stationed al
| Nation, !or the protection OF the place, il
| being threatened from Shelby and Moultrie
counties. In the fght'at Charleston on Mon.
| day, 4 surgeon, three privateS and two Union
citizens were killed, and Colonel Mitchell,
| five privateS and two citizens wounded. Two
| Copperheads were killed and several wound.
| ed who were taken of by their friends.
CHICAGO, March 30th.-The troubles in
| Coles county, (Ill.) were more serious than
was at first reported. The forces sent from
| Mattoon pursued the insurgents, who had
| left ChacleSton. and succeeded in capturing
! about thirty prisoners These were brought
to Nation. when the Copperheads in that
and the adjoining counties collected and
avowed their purpose ofrescuing their friends
The reports are as yet obscure, but 1t Is
known that considerable force is intrench'
cd twelve miles from Charleston under COM
mand OF the Sheriff Of Coles county. He has
been Joined BY band OF deSperadoes from
Edgar county, under command of the Sheriff
OF that county. \ spy sent out by the insur-
gents was captured in the vicinity of Mat
,oou this afternoon. He confesseS that there
is large force OF rebels at COpairn's Mills,
ten miles south. and another force eight miles
west, of Nation. The Forty-frst Illinois
have been ordered from Camp Yates, and 500
men from Indianapolis. A dispatch from
Ma,toon, dated at midnight, says scouts just
in repor. Il force of 80 rebels within three
miles of that place. An attack was expected
tonight. II is believed that with the united
efforts of the citizens and soldiers in camp
there. the place will be held until the arrival
OF rcinforcements in the morning. The ex.
element there is intense, and the numbers
of the insurgents are probably exaggerated.
The Union State Convention OF Wisconsin
elected delegates to the Baltimore Conven.
ton, and unanimously instructed them to
vote for the nomination of Lincoln.
The latest advices from Europe indicate
that Sweden is disposed to assist the Danes
while the British Government insists upon
an armistice and a conference. Italy is very
uneasy. The Pope continues to be seriously
i'll. Conflicts have occurred in Rome be.
tween the French and Papal troops, and the
populace have assisted the latter.
4 GOLDEN Enthusiastically letter from
Arizona 10 the il.a, has the following:
At Whites, only this morning, was shown by
ha a gold bullet, formed of single nugget
beaten into shape by hand, of precisely the kind
which Aubry describes in his pamphlet az being
in use among the Indians, and which statement
was extensively discrrdited at the time Thin
bullet, with four five more. was taken from
the pouch of one of the Indians slain during III,
rrcru; fight in which Cyrus Lehman WIS killed
aud the particulars Of which ! wrote you som,
weeks since. Whoever discovers the place where
these bullets grow will have good time" i
The Apachcs don't lift his hair" Al present
JACK SweIiin is here, preparing TO start out witt
some sixty eighty adveuturers in search of the
still richer diggings supposed to exist south o
tie San Francisco Mountains. Swellin is wei
known rs an old and fearless prospector, and ha'
made il is said some $4,000 by his various exPe
d;rOns in search of gold The richest digging'
thus far known have been discovered by him
Antelope Greek, where some very rich surface
diggings were found, is not, learn near so rich n
formerly, and miners work hard for what they
obtain.