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t11ifiiwho would make his little financial operiation all right with General Johnson. He talked a great deal about the sufferings he had undergone, and so won upon the sympathies of officers at headquarters that he was supplied with some $00 to defray expenses,e was paroled, and ordered to report to General Burnside for identification.— Not exactly satisfied with his representai fcion, ^General Rosecrans placed a detect tive on the same train that conveyed the Doctor northward. -. Arriving in Louisi yille, the Doctor, in place of coining to Cincinnati, sneaked off to New Albany,and commenced putting himself in eotnr raunieation with the Knights of the Gol den Circle. He was permitted to have his. own way for a day or two, and was then plased under arrest, his baggage searched, and documents found that left no doubt that he was the great modern Knight himself, and nobody else. It was also disi covered that the woman he represented to be his wife sustained no such endearing relations! to him. His deserted wife and children are residing in Memphis. Riok-ley will be tried as a spy, and, possibly* executed Jas one*This is.rather a shabby end to all his greatness. His influence has been per* nieious, and through the organization of which he is the avowed head, he has done much to engender disaffection with the Government in the West. The Confederacy and its sympathizers should be proud of the men selected as their reprei sontativea in the North. Andrews, sfcin ring up the devilish passions of a New York mob, is found living in a crib with *a negro wench, and Bickley, operating in the West through the castles of the Knights of the Golden Circle, cohabits with a woman of easy virtue, leaving his wife and children to starve in Memphis. We have not heard that any attempt has been made to sue out a writ of habeas cor-gus in Bickley’s case, and suppose the papers that howl about constitutional usur* pations will regard his as a case of arbitrary arrest, and additional evidence of the “tyranny more atrocious than that of Romba in Naples,” which Abe Lincoln has saddled upon a free people.1I)11311I■tr5.rrnitV)s-fflll-ceIalj7tfr3'J.133E-1f,fce1• •eh01edyaei-hedResisting the Law.About the first of July Oapt. Braden, Provost Marshal of this District, ordered one of his Detectives to arrest one Josiah Marvel, a deserter from Co, F 7th Indiana regiment, who was living with his father, Robert Marvel, in the north*eastern corner of Hendricks county. The arrest was not made; but the next day the old man Marvel came to Indianapolis and made an affidavit that his son Josiah was under eigh teen years of age, that he had enlisted without his knowledge and against hie consent, and that he (the son) was restrained of his liberty and detained from the petitioner0 by Oapt, Braden, Provost Marshal. On this affidavit, false as to the latter specification, and there is reason to believe equally so in every one, a writ of habeas corpus was issued, returnable at 3 o’clock that afternoon to Judge Perkins, of the Democratic Supreme Court. Capt. Braden made return to this, writ that the said Marvel is not now and never has b*en in my custody or under any restraint of his liberty exercised by meeither personally or.officially.” (Jpon reading this return to the writ Judge Perkins remarked: Well, so far as Capt.Braden is concerned, the matter is at an end, and Mr. Marvel will have to find the man who has his son. I believe I will go to the Post Office.0On Tuesday night, of this week, Capt. Braden again dispatched two men toarrest the deserter. They arrived at the house about daylight, and found four or five men there prepared to re sisfe the arrest. The young man escaped from the house and took to the woodst The men were bitter in their denunciations of the Abolitionists,0 and Lincoln hirelings,” and said they were around to shoot d—d Lincoln Abolitionists.” During thetcontrover-ey a neighbor, named John Wilson, and hiB son, came running op, the latterarmed with a revolver. The detectives with some difficulty succeeded in getting the weapon from Wilson, and returned to this city, without the deserter.Upon learning these facts, Capt. Braden procured the issue of warrants from Commissioner.; Davis for the arrest of John Wilson, Robert Marvel, and themen who were at Marvel’s house, and in company with a Deputy U. S. Marshal and a guard of cavalry, proceeded to that neighborhood yesterday morning to make the arrests. Not findingJacob and William Cooper, named in the warrants, at home, Capt. B. sent the cavalry fc© hunt up the others, and proceeded himself to their father’s house, expecting to find them there.—Entering the house he informed them of the object of his visit and his intention to search the house for the parties.A daughter of Cooper replied'tb at anyman who tried that would get a ballthrough him.” The old man came in at this time, and he, hif wife, and daughter made a rush, for a revolver hanging on the wall. Capt. B., however, was as quick as they, and seized it at the same moment. After a se-vere struggle he succeeded in wresting It from all three, and hurled Cooperheadlong through the door. At thismoment Hirafcn uooper, a son, camerunning up with a revolver in bis hand exclaiming, Leave here, you d-r—d Lincoln Abolition———His moth? er called to him to shoot the Aboli-, —t lt;tionist.” He continued cursing, using the; most abusive epithets, and raised jhis pistol to fire, when Capt. Bradenrushed upon him and wrested it fromhis hands. Having disarmed ^his assailants, “by main strength and awkwardness,” the Captain put them on }the “double quick,” and, falling in with the cavalry, brought them safely to this city, where they will have to stand trial for resisting process. Capt. Braden, at the time, was not only acting in the capacity of Provost Marshal, but was a special CJuiled States Deputy Marshal. He oUghtto have^shot down the younger Cooper, aad that he did not, evinces a coolness and forbearance which few men would have exercised under similar circumstances. With his assailant's pistol at his head, and the father mother and sister all calling to shoot the Abolitionist,” he forebore to use his own weapon, and saved the life of a vile scoundiel|and would-be traitor to his country.Here is a plain case of resistance to the civil authority oi the Grovernment, an armed resistance, too, and one which should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. All the parties engaged in this affair are Butternuts of the deepest dye, and if such are with impunity to set f defiance the laws of the country, it were far|better to blot them all from the Statute Book. But it isjnoc strange that such things occur. Thu teachings which brought about the terrible deels in New York, and those which prompted this and similar attacks upon officers in the line of their duties, proceed from the same source and have the same damnable end in view. The cowardly instigators may try to throw the responsibility from themselves, but the foul blot is upon them, and will notout at their bidding* The blood of innocent men is upon their guilty souls, and outiht to damn them throughout all eternity.(Todianapolift Journal, 24th inst.SELaiJerRuofilesaiiathatheuniCottheBlchersanabsAttCcMa:JohOCleiafficdeftIndby.anddaytheMoisaicandA i Jvoffcoflt;Vas t Co i1LaiAn' Sdayacas! it o cha dra 1themet far] as ii
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Worthington Gazette
Worthington, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1863
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