The Arkansas advocate., 1834-11-21

the shattered reason of the Conmandants, superior and inferior, of his Majesty's Ship the Astra.
 The American Sentinel-the least in- temperate of the two Jackson papers--of Philadelphia, gives the annexed account of the unhappy affair of Tuesday evening, 4th inst. We have heard much respectable testimony on the subject, and have come to the conclusion that the Wings were not the aggresscrs; but we leave the question to the judgment of the impartial. Happily, no disorders occurred on Wednesday; and 1t may be expected that legal enquiries and process will be allowed to take place with out further violence or tumult, of which the result is always sheer evil. The cry of Bank rufiians, Bank assassins, Bunk sti- pendiaries, raised whenever an afray hap pens, is Iawless and slanderous in the high est degree. II cannot be that any man of sense supposes the institution to have had share or interest in riots or outrages of any description. Such an imagination would be not only gratuilous, but positively absurd beyond the privilege of partisan credulity.
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 We briefly noticed, in our paper of yes- terday morning. the disgraceful riot that had occurred the night before at the elec- tioa ground iii Aloyanensing. We have heard several versions of the transaction, each of which was more or less colored, according to the political predilections of the narrator--so that 1t Is almost impossi- ble, in the present state of the public mind, to get at the exact truth. The following are the principal facts upon which reliance can be placed, that we have been able to collect A short time previous to the clos ing of the polls, some showing and scuf- fling took place between the two parties in their endeavors to get their voters to the western window of the Commissioners Hall, in which the election was held. which resulted in the Jackson men, who at the moment happened to be the weaker party, being driven from the window and their lamps being broken. They retreated, and the fight was shortly afterwards renewed with clubs and stones, to the east of the Hall, where the Jackson men had hick- ory pole erected, and where there were two tents which served as their head quarters. The tents were demolished and the hickory pole cut down, as is allegedby some of the Jackson men, with the intention of using Ii E for the purpose of forcing the Hall and car rying away the ballot boxes, as is said had been previously threatened. 1t this time, one or more muskets were fired, and sev- eyal of the Jackson men seriously hurt h. tellgence of what was going on was speed- fly conveyed 10 Southwark upon which number of persons hastened from thence over to Moyamensng. On the appearance of tbis reinforcement. the contest was re- newed, and the Wings forced into the house. About this time, a strong party from the Northern Liberties. and Spring Garden, with their lamps, and band of music, ap- peared on the ground. They had previous ly visited the residence of Gen. Ash, the democratic head quarters in Spring Gar den and the city, cheering their friends at their. victory, but 1t does not appear that they had any knowledge of the disturbance in Moyamensing, until they arrived in the vicinity. The party in the house finding themselves closely pressed, had recourse to their muskets, of which fifteen or twenty stand were in their possession. How or where they procured them, we have not heard They fired repeatedly from the windows and roof, and wounded fourteen or fifteen persons, several of them severely.- The Jackson party pressed on and obtain ed possession of the house, and drove out their opponents. 1t appears that in this last attack one or two of them also had mus kets. They took out the furniture, and burnt it near the liberty pole erected in front, then set fire to the building. An alarm of fire was immediately made the State House Bell was rung, and the fire companies hastened to the spot, but were no, permitted to use their apparatus, until tho Libersy Pole was prostrated, which took some time, in consequence of then not having proper tools with which to cut | down. It fell against the house, and broke in the front wall as low down as the sec. ond story. That house and four others, al nearly new, adjoining it. which We under ;..s:.d ;.. .!cprcper:y .!c Of A!r RcSs, e., :h;: city, were materially injured.
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