Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-06-02
From the National Iateiligeneer.
RHODE ISLAND.


ican) confirm, in the most satisfactory
manner, the intelligence before received,
of tho complete establishment Of law
in Rhode Island, without bloodshed.
The last remnant Of insurgents, left
alone to their reflections during the night
of Wednesday, and abandoned by their
leaders, quietly dispersed yesterday morn
ing, after restoring to the armory the can.
non they had carried off.
The general order OF Governor KING
is in good taste, and its commentators
are well deserved. Indeed, the conduct
Of the sound people and military OF Rhode
Island throughout the whole difficulty has
been such as to increase the respect and
affection with which her Revolutionary
deeds and fame, and the gallantry OF her
sons in later days, have associated her
name in the hearts of all true and patriot.
ic Americans.
The mingled forbearance and frmness
of Governor KING, and the State authori-
ties generally, under the trying circum.
stances in which they were placed, are
shown by the event to have been wisely
adopted ard we say this with the more
pleasure, as, looking ON from distance,
we were disposed to reproach them with
want Of energy.
We find in the Providence Journal this
paragraph, which is in the right spirit.
With armed insurgents no parley was to
be held, and no terms made but, rebel
lion crushed, the just expectation Of all
the people should be graufied by such an
extension Of the right of suffrage, and
such other changes in The organic law, as
the spirit of the age and the example of
neighboring States demand and justify.
"The flight of Dom, and the renunc-
alton Of his violent and atrocious course,
by his immediate friends and the leaders
of the party which has acted with him,
will remove the only impediment to lib
eral extension Of suffrage. Such an ex-
tension no one contends against; and we
take the earliest opportunity, after the es
tablishment Of law, and the manifestation
made yesterday OF tho determination of
the people to stand by the Government,
to record our opinion that such an extern
sion should DO made. We should 60 about
the work, not with tho embittered feelings
Of party spirit, but as men bound in
common interest, end seeking common
object"
OF the flying DoRR, no tidings had been
received.
OrrIcz OF THE PRoy,pEScE JOURNAL,
Thursday, May 19.-P. M.
The men entrenched upon the hill re-
NAMED peaceable during the night. In
the morning, about dsybreak, three guns
were discharged. They were under the
command Of a man named Wolf, from Tx.
bridge, who arrived here on Wednesday.
Their position was one from which they
could do no injury. 1t was easily COM
manded from the hills on the other side
of the Cove; and the authorities content.
cd themselves with taking measures to
prevent them from doing any mischief,
feeling assured that one night would cool
their courage. In the morning, the guns
of the artillery company were brought
to the armory. They were loaded to
within foot of the muzzle with scraps Of
boiler iron, spikes, &c. The other pieces
were taken possession Of by the Quarter.
master General aud carried to the arse.
nal, and the place entirely abandoned.
A report was current this morning that
Dorr was in Bellingham, Massachusetts,,
about three miles from Woonsocket, and
that he was raising recruits. We think
it very probable that he is there, but very
improbable tina; he is raising recruits.
He would hardly dare TO show himself to
his own men. A requisiton will be, or
has been, sent for him. He must leave
the country if he escapes.
The Kentish Guards arrived here at 10
o'clock last evening. They were quar-.
tered in the Cadet armory.
A message was received BY the Gov
ernor from Newport, informing him that
eighty-seven men were ready to come to
Providence, and that many others would
be ready by the time conveyance could
he sen, for them. A number of men ar.
rived on "Wednesday evening from West
Greenwich, to give their support to the
Government. The men in Washington
county were ready 10 come, and anxious.
ly awaiting orders. General Greene, Of
the Kent county brigade, reported his two
regiments assembled and ready for orders.
The lower regiment, from the disaiiected
part of the county, mustered two hundred
and fifty men. The other was larger.
More men we're ready from Bristol
county. The mails were stopped, all bu-
siness was suspended, and every thing
showed the firm determination of the peo-
ple 10 maintain the laws.
GENERAL ORDER.
HEAp Quarters,
PRovlpEscE, May 10, 1882.
The Commander-in-Chief tenders his
sincere thanks to the Newport Artillery,
Colonel Swan, to the Bristol Artillery,
Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, and to the
Warren Artillery, Captain Fessenden, for
the prompt manner in which they obeyed
the order Of the 10Th instant, and for the
efficient aid which they rendered 10 dis
persing the armed band collected on Fed.
eral Hill, in opposition to the laws Of the
State.
The Commander>in-Chief also tenders
his sincere thanks to the Marine Artlle.
nv, Lieutenant Colonel Nightingale, to the
Providence First Light Infantry, Captain
Brown, and to the National Cadets, Cap
tain Martin, for their services in guarding
the arsenal when menaced with an attack
on tho nipht of the 10th instant, and for