Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-29

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down. Gradually the crowd dispersed,
and at midnight but few people re-
NAMED in the square.
The Boston Commonwealth, red hot,
red mouthed abolition organ, has the fol-
lowing mild version of the affair:
An excited crowd gathered around the
court house, last night, and between ten
and eleven o'clock there was rather Sc
rious disturbance. One of the doors was
assailed and forced open. The keepers
of the fugitive fired upon the crowd, and
otherwise assailed those at the door. No |
shots were fired from outside: but one |
man inside was killed by pistol ball,
which seems to have been fired by one of
his companions, who handled his pistol
carelessly. The name of the man killed
was James Batchelder. He was a team
ster, in the employ Of the custom house,
or rather in the employ of Peter Dunbar
& Co., custom house truckmen. None of
the shots fired at the people took effect;
but some of those at the door were in
jHred by the sabres of the Marshal's help
ers. Brickbats and stones were thrown
from the crowd, injuring the windows.
At about IL o'clock, two companies of
city military-the Columbian Artillery,
Capt. Cass, an Irish corps, and the Bos-
ton Artillery, Capt. Whorf, the whole
under command of Col. Cowdin, ordered
out by Mayor Smith, to preserve the
peace, arrived on the ground, the former
being received with Kisses, and the lat.
ter with cheers. They were soon after
quartered-the Irish company in the
Court House, and the other in the City
Hall. At II o'clock there were not more
than thirty persons on the ground, and
everything appeared quiet for the night.
The following account is copied from
the Boston Bee, journal, it should be
borne in mind, which made itself conspic-
uous at the time, for its opposition to the
Nebraska bill. The Bee, it will be seen,
gives fiat contradiction to the Infamous
ly false insinuations and still falser state
ments of the Commonwealth:
| At about half past nine O'Clock, an armed
mob rushed through the streets from Faneuil
Hall to the Court House, and Immediately com
mencen an attack on that building, with axes
| and other destructive weapons. One~Of the
doors upon the west side was demolished, and
the mob were about rushing into the Court
House to rescue Burns, the slave, when several
loaded pistols were discharged, one of which,
we regret to announce, proved fatal
The Court House bell was Immediately rung,
and the most intense excitement Prevailed
The whole square was thronged with people.
The windows of the Court House were bro
ken by stones and other missiles, nd various
demonstrations of most disgracef ul nature
were made.
The name of the person killed was James
Bachelor He resided in Charlcstown, and
leaves wife and two children. He was a
truckman in the employ of Peter Dunbar
At the time of his being snot he was within the
Court House, endeavoring to keep back the
! mob. His death created great sorrow through
, out the city.
That the mob demonstration was premeii-
ta.ed, as it was most diabolical affair, may
be inferred from the fact that seren aces, new
ones, were distributed among the rioters for
} active use. These, with pistols, knives and
other deadly weapons indicate a desperation
that we could not have believed had We no,
been an eye, witness to it.
The murderer of Stakeholder contrived to make
his escape. He can, however be identified BY
several persons. One of the reportorial corp.
saw him shoot the deadly weapon. The shoot.
, ing down Of an officer by reckless mobocrat
is crime than which there is no greater.
t There were seme half dozen pistols dis.
charged by the mob during the melee, injur
ing several persons, but none fatally, save
> the above case.
When any portion of our citizens thus NEE
in Faneuil Hall and instigate a mob to the
shedding of blood and the destruction of prop
erty, az was done in this case, it is time tina
they be made to suffer the penalty of thei
acts.
The meeting last evening, is allowed. on al
sides, to have been the most recklessly insan
of any ever held in BOston-alike disgracefu
to the city, and melancholy in it's result lie
! the blood of Bachelor teach US lesson tina
fanaticism must be crushed ut once, at any ant
every prce-that the mob shall not with i'm
punity tear down the very Temple Of justice
itself.
Since the above was in type, the fol
lowing telegraphic despatch was received
from Boston
Boston, May 29.-The case of the fugitiv
slave Burns, has caused a Sabbath Of grea
excitement in our usually quiet city, and con
tinues to agitate the public mind.
Indie atoms of an organized attempt to lyncl
y the Rev. Theodore Parker and Wendell Phil
lips, who are looked upon as the instigators Q
Il the recent outrages, has induced the Mayor t
e detail strong police force for the protection
of their persons and property. There has
however, been no outbreak to-day
The Court House square was cleared las
9 night and the Court House surrounded wit
. fence ropes.
detachment of one hundred United State
u troops are garrisoning the Court House. an
;, two companies of Boston military are quar-
f tered in the City Hall.
Handbills were circulated to-day denyip
. the reports that Colonel Suttle had sold Burns
> 1t says he offered to sell Burns for 81, 200. and
e the money was raised and offered him, when h
e demanded more, and the bargain was broken
g though the Commissioner advised him to kee,
it
Printed notices were left in every churc]
and pulpit this morning, requesting the pray
;; erS Of the congregation for the escape of Burn
l., from his oppressors.
+ The aholitionists are very active in gettin
:. up secret meetings. Large delegations are ex
= pected from Salem, Worcester New Bedford
and other places tomorrow.
j One thousand pistols, principally revolver,
{ arc said to have been sold by the deal ers i,
this city on Saturday.
An infammatory printed circular, addresse
5 TO the yeomanry of New England, has bee
widely circulated in the country towns by tn
/ vigilance committee of Boston The countr
s people are requested by it to come to the cit
Tomorrow to witness the sacrifice, and then o
home and take such action as manhood an
U patriotism may suggest
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