Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-07
EVENING STAR.
A NICE PLACE TO LIVE IN.

Ellsworth, in the State of Maine, is q
delightful 4" locality" to be sure. 1t
has newspaper called the Herald, which
openly justifies the inhuman conduct OF
the mob in tarring and feathering Rev.
MIR. Bapst; but its citizens have recent.
ly held public meeting, at which reso.
lutions were passed, of the most base
and infamous character. The name OF
the persons concerned in the meeting are,
John L. Moore, Seth Padleford, Parker
w. Perry, W. E. Packard, Samuel Beck
with, Jesse Dalton, G. W. Maddox. Mr..
CLANCY, Mr.. Shaw, Mr.. Trueworthy, and
a MIR. Hamilton, from New Hampshire.
CLANCY is the editor of the Herald, afore-
said.
1t has already been mentioned that the
Grand Jury have refused to indict the
ruffians who tarred and feathered Mr..
Bapst. The Bangor Journal has the
following: ..-
q" The Attorney General, Mr.. Evans,
states that the evidence against the per-
sons charged with the crime, clearly
identifying them, was stronger than he
ever presented to similar body. There
were sixteen on the jury. In each Of the
twelve or fifteen cases presented, the vote
was seven for bill and nine against.
The nine are understood to be members
OF secret organization. Our worst fears
are realized. On Wednesday evening at
meeting of the ruffians and their friends
(among whom are some tf the principal
men of the place. it was agreed to back
up any who might be arrested, and to
demolish the jail if they should be COM.
mitted. The law cannot be enforced in
Ellsworth"
The Journal also gives the following
sketch of Ellsworth and some of its peo-
pie:
Ellsworth hns been earning its pres
ent Infamous character for a period of
nearly twenty years. Some evil genius
seems to have been the patron of the
place, which in its growth and maturity
realizes all that the most malign spirit
could wieh for it. The catalogue of the
wanton, vulgar, and dastardly outrages
committed in Ellsworth during the past
ten or fifteen years, would be too painful
to recapitulate.
The better class of public exhibitions
have been repeatedly assailed, however
well conducted and respectable. Tenn
perance, musical and lyceum assemblies
have been disturbed and interrupted.
Panoramas, theatrical shows, &C., have
ever been at the mercy of the mob.
Wharves, dams, and booms have been
cut away-vessels, stores, houses, and
shops have been broken into and prop
erty destroyed. Bedaubing and defacine
buildings, signs, fences, or tearing them
down, have been of very common occur
renee. Furious driving, indecent beha-
vior and shocking profanity, disgrace the
public streets. Wanton cruelties have
been practised upon animals, which have
been made horrible spectacles of for the
amusement of the vile rabble.
Among the earlier demonstrations of
the low and contemplate instincts of the
people, was that upon the g Wandering
Piper" most harmless and inoffensiye
itinerant player, who in passing through
this State had the i'll fortune of the man
who went down to Jericho, to fall upon
Ellsworth. The public house at which
he stopped was nobbed, and he was
threatened. The poor piper, affrighted,
leaped from the window and ran off into
the woods, where he remained all night.
suffering much from exposure.
Later, the dwelling of most respecta.
BILE magistrate was assailed with stones,
brick-bats, &C., and one of the inmates
OF the house, lady, narrowly escaped a
fatal blow from one of the missiles. His
offence was that he had acted in his Off.
cial capacity in criminal matter.
At another time the miscreants ofElls-
worth broke into the office of lawyer,
a lame and suffering citizen, took his
valuable library out into the fields, and
tore the volumes in pieces the offence
was that he was not liked by the vile
crew.