Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-11-13
Maryland Election-Exeitement in
Baltimore.

4 or 20 Sunday last was the scene ct moSi
/ intense and threatening excitement. 1t will
bo recollected that at the resent municipal
election, bv some singular copcert of action
the Democracy Of that city determine to ab-
/ sent themselves er?m the Polls, tho Demo-
cratic Judges of election resigning on the
| day previous 20 the election. After the
election, the hue and cry was raised by the
Journals of the Foreign party that Baltimore
! city was under the control of mob law tba'
| the sPlug Uelies" ruled the Polls-and
/ that the Democracy were dlsfranchiscd,-
/ with similar stuff-all OF which was brusked
aside by the calm but thorough and full
contradictory statement of the mayor of the
city who had visited each Of the Polls on
election day. Still the Foreign organs kept
mp the senseleaS howl about mob law, &c.-
The precise iutendment of all this wesnot
apparent at the time. The whole ruse has
since been explained
Gov. LIGoN a bitter, thorough-going,
and hot-headed Locofoco partizan--desired
some pretext for calling out the i. States
military to coutrol The election iD Baltimore
after the manner of May or Magruder's coup
de-iet a. Washington !ast Spring, when
American citizvas were delbesately sLot
down by U. States Marines. Accordingly,
last week, Gov. Ligon, adopting the com
plants of the Foreign organs as basis Of
official action, issued Orders for the Military
OF Baltimore city to be enrolled and in read
mess for active service on Election day.
A requiSition was also made upon President
Buchanan for L.. States troops. All this
not only without the assent, but in direct
face Of the protect Of Mayer Swan. The
publication of Gov Ligon's extraordinary
prUcIer.aiin,.z-.,eo- i.-s~-,%e exet,v-
ment throughout the city-the great mass
of the people regarding it as an unwarrant-
able political maneuvre to ever-awe Amer
icau-born citizens, and if reeds be re-enact
the same scenes Of outrage and murder
which last spring disgracod the Lational me-
tropols. Prominent citizens called on the
Governor, and begged him to recall his Or
ders while otherssrepresenting the Foreign
interest Of the Democracy, insisted upon his
carrying them out Mayor SWAN peremp-
toriy refused to recognize the right of the
Governor or his military to interfere with
the polide control of the city, except as he
(tbe Mayor might see fit to require their
assistance, and proceeded calmly to prepare
for the worst. In the mean time the excite
ment in tile city increased until Sunday last,
when it seemed to have reached culminat-
point. All day long large crnwds of indig
nant people blocked pp the streets at vari-
Gus points, discussing the Governors mo-
tvcs and purposes, and threatening terrible
consequences in case of conflict between
the military aud citizens police. Most of
the comnonding officers of the military re-
ported to the Governor, that their men, with
few exceptions refused to turn out except at
the call ofthe Mayor of the city. The May
or was called on several times during the
day to address large crowds counseIlisg
calmuess, prudence and orderly bearing
lie was uniformly loudly checred.
At length, about o'clock, 2 NJ, on Sun
day it was announced that the Governor
had determined to Withdraw his Orders for
the Military, aud leave the City where it be-
Ionged, under the control of the Mayor
This announcement acted like Il charm. 4
feeling of relief soon pervaded all classes
The certainty of bloody collision between
| the military and peodle, resolved itself into
"a sense of some great calamity being uuez-
Vectedly warded off. In few hours the
crowds began to dsperse and retire to their
homes.
Thus ends one of the most extraor dinafy
maneuyers of party to control popular cleo
tious by the aid of Soldery, that we have
known in this Republic. 1t was attempted
a, Washington last Spring. It is policy
suited to the political coce ola Napoleon,
bit not to that of Free America. How Je-
suitism must laugh over the plant servitude
Of its tools and vassals, in the ranks of
American Locofo,oism. .--GeHysbwg Star.
! ScoTT AND PnLow.-Lieut. Genera,
| Scott has published another card in reply
to Gen. Pillow. He says that in couse-
quence of the ill-advised publication BY
Congress Of the report of bis expenditures of
secret service money during tho Mexicau
war, five highly respectable citizens Of Mex
leo, utterly guiltless Of bribery, but liable
to suspicion under those designations, have,