The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-12-03
: H. h.Pollard Shot. :
RICHMOND, Va, November "a.

{ II. 70. Pollard Shet.
RICHMOND, Va, November "a.
H. Rivers Pollard, editor of the
Southern Opinion newspaper, was
shot and killed, at ten O'Clock this
morning. while passing near his
office, by James Grant. The cause
fshooting was the publication in
the Opinion of an article rejecting
on the character of member of
Grants family.
LATER
The following are the particulars
of the tragedy which took place
this morning: On Saturday a re
port was published in the Southern
Opinion relative to the elopement of
the daughter of VIM. H. Grant, a
wealthy tobacconist. This morning
about 10 o'clock, as II. Rivers Pol
lard, editor Of the paper, was near
the office door, near the corner of
Main and Fourteenth streets. going
in, shot was fired from the upper
window ola building opposite. Mr..
Pollard Immediately fell dead, eleven
buck shot having entered his body,
one passing through his heart. The
police searched the building, and
found james Grant, a brother to
the lady named, in the room. He
surrendered, and was taken to the
Station House. A double barrel
gun with one barrel discharged was
in the room. The affair caused
great excitement, and a large crowd
has been gathered around the ''Opin
ion" office since the occurrence.
On receipt of the above intelli-
gence, the Cincinnati Commercial
mourned as follows:
The death of H. Rivers Pollard
by violence was only question of
time. He was morally certain to
come across man who would re-
spond to his virulence by shooting
him. Pollard was social porcu-
pine, not to be approached without
danger of q wonnd from his pois-
onous quills. He succeeded better
than any man of his time in nursing
quarrels. He seemed to be unhap
py without from one to half dozen
upon his hands. If he could not
provoke them in the community, he
stirred them up in his domestic
sanctuary. To be disagrceable
himself, and infect others with the
same feeling, seemed to be the am
bition of his life.
In politics he was specially sue
cessful. When the Confederacy, in
whose behalf he fourished valiant
pen in the face of the Yankees, was
de facto, he rallied, like Thersites in
the Greek camp, at every body and
every thing connected with it. Nei-
ther civil nor military measures
seemed to satisfy him, and when
the fortunes of the rebellion began
to decline, he mercilessly attacked
the officers of the Government and
the commanders of armies, and did
as much to demoralize the cause
and SOW dissatisfaction broadcast
as it was in the power of malevo-
lent spirit to do. The final defeat
OF the Southern cause did not sober
it infuriated him, and he went
staggering about the streets Of the
PROSTATE capital, with shot-guns
and revolvers about him, shooting
with the same recklessness that a
Maylay runs amuck, but killing no
one, and wounding nothing, that we
remember, but statue of the rotun-
da Of the capitol. Since then he
has been engaged in some scandal
Gus brawls, that ruined him social
ly, and injured what remained of
his political reputation. The South-
err Opinion, under his management,
has been the vehicle of more per-
sonal abuse than Brick Pomeroy's
La Crosse Democrat. One purpose,
however, he kept steadily in view:
to foster local pride and prejudice,
breed contempt for the people of the
North and hatred of the General
Government, and to fan the expir-
ing hope Of an ultimate resurrection
of the Lost Cause. He was the one
unsigned paladin who refused to
abandon it, or drop the banner that
the bronzed soldiers had borne in
the thick of hundred conflicts. He
was exceedingly brave after the bat
ties were over and the bugles had
sounded long truce to arms.
Now he is gone; the world is not
the loser.