The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-12-08
NUMBER l03

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Ielderly iadyon his arm His imposing stature
Immediately attracted attention, and crowd
ofboys surrounded him and foliowed in his
wake, shouting and laughing, which increased
/ at every step he took. Not anticipating this
ovation lie SOUGHT TO avoid it by walking slow
lily towards the Serpentine, but his tormentors
isvers not so.willing TO part with him. They
kept Following and heoting him for a great
distance, until he made his exit from the
enclosure. He vas d good natured fellow, for
he stood a great amount Of proyocation with
scarcely any attempt at retaliation; and it was
not little TO the discredit of the police force
that numbers Of them were pIivy to the traaS-
action without making the slightest attempt
10 protect him or his female companion from
insult.
After this, seTerel little erowsp and skirEa-
ashes took place, but they were soon Suppress
ed. Captain Labairnondefe was riding about
among the crowd throughput the whole of the
afternoon, accompanied BY two mounted in
pectors. giving instructions to his men He
was once. or twice shooted, but this ebulitien CT
feeling was confined TO q very small part, and
that the least respectable of the people present.
When the asseInb1age had arrived at its cl;nsax,
and the ruffianly element in it was ripe for any
kind ofnl sshief he had recourse toa movement
as clever aSEit was completely successful. He
ordered his cavalry to mount and kept moving,
them abotitin the thiehest crowd, in two separ-
ate troops, during the whole eft the afternoon
without in ermission. The patrols did the
same, and by these Reans the mob was never
allewed p 89r1li f9r any purpose Of resistance
or attacks
The officers we're Of course, jeeted and hoot-
ed more or less while this operation was going
on, but they preserved their temper in tIle
most admirable manner, never once showing
the lca2t symptom Of revenge, and never, so
far as we observed, having occasion to exhibit
their truncheons. Toward the dusk ofths
evening, one Of the cavalry troops moved down
toward the bridge, at the east end Of the Ger
lpentine, and this had the effect of drawing off
in that direction, considerable part of the
icrowd, great portion of whom did not return-
After that Yuse the remainder was iapotent
for any purpose of mischief, and they gradually
withdrew from the enclosure, but not wholly
until night had set in.
No greater proof perhaps, can be adduced
10 show how completely the ssroughs', were
lcowed and dispirited than the fact than in the
middle oi the afternoon, when they mustered
i'm the strongest force and would, under other
lcircnTns tsnces, have been most ready for vio-
Hence, noblemans servant, dressed in cherry
colored coat and hreeehes of the same gaudg
hue, moved about among them a. most attrac-
tive and conspicuous objec, without receiving
the least insult or melestaton. On any ofthe
previous Sundays he would have been hunted
alInost to death. AT one part of the afternoon
q stump orator tried to collect an audiepce,
but aiseoursing only on such passionless topics
as the laws relating to what he called land
credit currency and exchange he could not
hold them together for more than five or ten
minutes. s = t4.s,,f ssfss.. !.