Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1859 — Riot at Terre Haute. [ARTICLE]

Riot at Terre Haute.

A A'egro Threatened with Lynch Law. The Indianapolis Journal of yesterday morning says: “On Sunday evening ns an Irish girl, residing with a Mr, Crumbar, in the vie nity of Terre Haute, was returning home from service at the Catholic Church, she was accosted by a negro in the suburbs of the city and a demand made of her to yield to a brutal gratification. She resisted, and in the struggle that ensued gave the negro a sound thrashing. Ye terday morning the negro was arrested and lodged in jail. The Irish hands on the gravel trains of the several railroads refused to leave the city until an assurance was giyen that speedy justice should be administered. A trial was promised this morning, but it was feared the prisoner would be taken from the jail last - igli: and lynched. A large and excited crowd surrounded the jail alter the negro’s incarceration.” new Automaton Chess Player, to which we alluded some time since, says the New Yor < Sun, is fairly at work, and taking the wind out of Morphy’s sails. He played with Heilbuth, on Tuesday night, and beat him. fairly. after a closely contested game. The automaton is Turk, with a highly consumptive look, a.i unearthly whistle for a voice, cadaverous looking eyes,clock wheels for intestines, and no place within his body large enough to hide a live player. How the game ol chess gets into the defunct Moslem is the wonder of the day.