The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-21
Rebellion in Richmond, Virginia.

In SHAKsPEARE's time there were two
RICHMoNDs in the field, but now two
mayors in Richmond. That unfortunate
city, given over to the rule of negroes,
scalawags and carpet-baggers, is in a
state of insurrectiOn.
In pursuance of an act recently passed
bv the General Assembly of Virginia,
and approved by the Executive, Gov
ernor Walker, on Tuesday night last
appointed members of the City Council
for the different wards of the city. These
gentlemen met aud organized night ls-
fore last and proceeded to fill the offices
of Mayor, Chief of Police, and officers of
the police, as was announced IN cur
issue of yesterday. The gentlemen ap.
pointed took the Oaths prescribed by
the General Assembly and qualified
themselves night before last, in accord
ance with the provisions of the law, TO
enter upon the discharge CT the duties
of their offices. 1t had been rumored
for several days that the iron-olad in
cumbsnts of the municipal Offices would
resist the enforcement of the law and
assumption of their effices by the gen
tlemen elected to Office. Ii. X. Ellyson
is the name Of the elected Mayor and
George Cahoon that of the iron clad one.
The Dispatch of Friday says:
The city was entertained yesterday
by a rebellion on q very small scale, in
cited by the ultra Radical tricksteIs Of
this city. The late Mayor (Cahoon)
was made the tool Of the schemeIs, and
with an armed body of white and negro
special policemen, so called, he shut
himself up in the hall over the Old Mar
ket, where he went into the 'pig head
business. He denied the right of the
Governor TO appoint City Council,
and the right of the Council TO elect a
Msyor, and, in short, any right but bis
own to hold on TO the Msyoralty, not
vithstanding that he is United States
officer, and therefore ineligible to the
office Of Mayor.
When day dawned yesterday it was
found that Cahoon had turned rioter,
and with his mottled Grew had shut
himself ND in the Market Hall. The
new Mayor, Mr.. II. X. EIlyson, accept
ed the situation" and stationed his
police forces about the market, cutting
off all communication with the rioters.
He also cut off the gas and the water,
and no supplies of any kind were al.
lowed them.
Under the general order no person
was allowed TO enter the hall they oc-
cupied, and among those who applied
for admission was Mr.. Bond, the famous
commissioner in bankruptcy. Being
denied admission by the police, he got
out warrants for tie arrest of Mr.. Ely
SOB, and the Chief of Police, and the
captains, on the ground that they OBJ
structed communication with Federal
officer. They responded to this paltry
prooesding, gave bail, were discharged,
and promptly returned to their duty.
Thus stood the matter last night
moor Cahoon, the shallow dupe of the
little farce, being still in the midst lof
his hungry rioters in the dark, sleep
ing on their arms-a hard bed. The
New Government has possession of The
City ,Hall-the seat of government
and the rioters hold out over the mar
ket, with meat everywhere and not q
monthful to eat
A dispatch from Richmond, dated
Friday night, gives us the following ad
ditional particulars: lrS
This afternoon General Candy inter-
fered with the municipal troubles by
sending q guard Of soldiers, raising the
siege of the Lower Station-house, and
giving free egress and ingress 10 all
having business there. This aetion, he
|says. had no. .rsfsrence TO the question
81 the mayoralty. but is taken pazeiy'rs