Show MOB law ar A short since we publisher published the tha fact thata I 1 large r b body dy of ruffians of chy clay and vigo vigg counties counties sadi Nado had cut away the bank of the Bir Birch chereek creek reservoir and that they threatened tire tire venee venZe vengeance ance on those who should attempt to fo repair th ill breach the governor issued I 1 I 1 asp ssp e d a proclamation which y we published bubli hed offering rewards for the perpetrators of the he outrage the scoundrels sent a formal ormal notice to the ris resident ident tru trustee tee alterre at Terre haute that if an n attempt iwas made fo 0 o repair edair the canali banati it would be he at a t the th risk of the lives ilves of the men sent and t that ha t the canal would be cut away for a long iong ion lon distance tance in the neighborhood of the reservoir notwithstanding these threats a state stat boat was sent to the reservoir last tu tuesday with twenty armed laborers n oder under ich charge arcq of lI higgins higging they wor kedal edal tuesday without interruption Wednesday hight night the cahhal cartal bank banle wash wa tuf cut away en summit level levei 1 I eighteen miles below terra teila haute halite Hai hal ite and boat boats sion slon on the level comine coming down at once made their way back to terre haute hith with much difficulty the acque ducts over birc birch h creek near the reservoir as at was wis that part of the aanal lanai cut away was wag burnt down the same hisha a guard of lh the agor deluded delu doid coi scoundrels col indre li standing aio b by to prevent interruption aurim during the fire it vas was vat also aiso understood they intended to cut away the old reservoir on the opposite e side of the canal ranal to the ot herand perform other oilier acts of As an exhibition of belr fors fols the governor and hi 9 pr proclamation the they stuck up ai al notice offering offe a h high gh reward for tie the Gove governors mors head bead on buess tuesday d ay night the boat was surrounded by men with b blackened faces who during thep thel night kept up a continual firingos firing of guns about the boat these ruffians ruffian held field a meeting about a mile from the boat during tuesday ni night bt and drew up a statement of their co complaints ants and anti resolutions of a threaten threatening inZ nature in he the mornin morning a copy cog bof of these wag was found stuck up on the boat a warning barning that the laborers would be allowed seven hours to take earth they had replaced in the reservoir bah bak bank and one hour after that to leave and that the canal would be cut away and the Bir Birch chereek creek aqueduct burnt the he following night tiie tife th e laborers who 1 had md been during the whole ngit expecting an attack took the seven liours hours for at once makim making traio tracks from the neighborhood bor bo bood hood instead of undoing their work of the previous sc i it was reported ed at it terre teree hmil friday Tn orning morning that thi this s mob MA had bad dest desi deployed lloyed the two locks at left leff at theAl theU oora of persons in their neighborhood wild y aga 11 wed ged i t theirl or J 1 aes ads tit fit wit with b disapproval ii r agat tha P if r th they ey gave any inform information tio n ai as to the p perbel gerpe pe i tra of these co cowardly ardly acts ads or had any anything to say on the subject they be at once taken outing out and lynched it was reported at terra haute that the owner of a mill in this r neighborhood a laj lad for some of his bis language of disapproval been severely lynched by scourging and was wa told t hat that if he li interfered any further his mill would be burnt to the ground A number ot of coal boats were lef left thigh high and dry I 1 ET emhe ethe the sandbars sand bars and banks of the missouri mis His river are ate said to be lined with goods al and d groceries intended tor for the western trade and upper missouri towns in consequence of odthe the low lov stage ofila of water 1 ter the boat boats shave have had f to discharge the them III lii by the way in many instances I 1 leaving baving them to the tender lender meries mercies of thieves and jeff da davis vis via soldiers e en n route for their military posts up the river some of our own rn merchants have received ec dived pac packages ages of goods within a 4 few days fays V past II 11 nie vie broken olaen open and articles extrac extracted ld I 1 ve heard bieard of of a boat putting her cargo and a lotof lot of soldiers on a eana sana bar not iong long since an and ank a tho the soldiers amused themselves by k boring gim let iet holes hoies in arkels ar drawing kino king out buckets of the beverage and then coing going into the wo wood 0 to have a good time over it they had bad no 0 officers with them thern occidental messenger |