The Washington union., 1857-06-02
EoeAh NEWS.


SEVERAL Men KILLED wouSDED, The citizens of Wash
ngton called upon yesterday to elect members of the
boards of councils and other municipal officers and In
the place Of their being allowed free and full exercise OF
Che privileges OF the elective franchise armed gangs OF
bullies and dcsperadoes were imported from Baltimore
with the view of ntlmdatiDg All from voting for Che
snti-nownohing candidates through the persuasive in
fucnces of budgeons slung-sho pistols, and bowie
knives The Star Of last evening" in its account of yes
terday's bloody proceedings says
A gang OF hired ruifiaiis and bnllics "png uglies
aid other woyes from BALTIMORE have been imported
by the knownothfngs 10 take violent possession OF the
polls, and armed with royoyers, b1es and slg shots
to prevent our citizen from depostng Their votes
In the first precinct of the Fourth ward this morning
general fight occurred in which several hundred men
and boys engaged ndiscriminatey. 1t seems that
some forty fifty plug uglies down from Balti-
more this morning TO assist citizens in the election
to-day. After floating around for time without
efectng anything Of note thee pitched upon the Fourth
ward first precinct being the most eligible scene for
their operations long line of voters were standing in
the street. extending for some distance from the polls
and composed principally of antknow-nothing voters
The plugs assisted by several large squads of chunke
and rip aps of city, endeavored to break into
this line by crowdng but not succeeding in this they left
the of action to concert hostile
After short time they returned largely reinforced in
numbers and with reyolvem stones, billies brickbas,
&C., they made concerted osought upon the voters
terrible ensued in which the entire crowd par
and men tamplcd to the earth, beaten, stamped
on, and severely wounded Among those injured
r. b Owens, Fourth Ward commissioner, who had his
wrist badly shattered by pistol ball Kopfer re-
ceved spent ball in his forehead which stunned him,
but inflicted no serious injury. Captain Goddard was,
with several officers on the ground, and the captain did
good service with his long arms and heavy fists In quel
ling the afray. He severely struck several times
but got off without any serious damage
Several OF the rngleaders wce arrested and taken to
the guard house amongst others, young man by the
name of Johnson
The buildings in the neighborhood were damaged, the
doors and windows being broken in all sides In the
skirmsh Mr. George d. Spencer received blow in
the face
At the first precinct of the Fourth Ward the officers did
all in their power to prevent the riot placing themselves
between the begcents and the voters in the lne with
Captain Goddard at the head who demanded the peace,
when they rushed asse, and with impetuosity
which nothing short of military force could have with
stood and although the police fought like heroes they
forced to abandon the field to the possession of these
hired miscrcants
Our Baltimore visitors were about IL o'clock, good
enough to pay visit to the Second Ward polls wearing
the know-nothing ticket badge, and shouting for
"Dixon'' d rallying cry.
lii few minutes their inevitable revolvers out
and some thirty forty shots fired In quick
ceson in the neghborhood of Eleventh street and the
avenue
In this affray, young man, residing ON Thirteenth
street. between II and named John Ouzey, shot in
the knee About this time some of the ''soid men of
the ward emerging from their residences armed
with muskets, if they had notion of going upon
cunning expedition The plug ugles seemed to think
the Second Ward air getting nsaubrious and they
left in body, probably with the design of Regulating
some of the other precincts
at one o'clock, noisy crowd of boys and men passed
up Pennsylvania from the direction of the Fifth
Ward dragging after them small brass gun. Where
they got it unable to say but it said they in
tended to it to defend themselves Immediately after
two companies of United States marines commanded iy
Captain Tyler went to the City Hail. and reported for
service to the mayor
At noon 1t become evident that nothing short of mil
itary nterposition could the city from almost uni
vcrsal riot letter was addressed by Mayor Magruder
to the President of the United States, asking for
pany of marines in order to maintain the peace of the
| city. The request promptly complied with. We
continue our extracts from the Star:
Shortly after o'clock, p m, the marines two
panies 10 in ALI arrived the ground first precinct of
the Fourth Ward under charge of Capt. Tyler and ac
companied by Mayor Magrudcr. The opposition had, in
| the time, procured brass cannon and stationed
it at the Northern markchouse, which they made their
| headquarters
After the nayor had addressed the crowd stating that
the soldiers brought there solely to maintain the
public peace of the city, which had been fagranty viola
ted the marines moved upon the market to take
possession of the cannon amidst every species of taun
and opprobum, ending finally in the possessors OF the
cannon firing pistols at the marines The latter, how
ever moved steadily on seized the cannon, and then
due warning having been given replied to the pistol shots
|
The plug uglies then scattered firing shots they did
so from behind corners.
After the smoke cleared away, the terrible sight
presented of four five persons in the agonies of DEATH
and several others fearfuy wounded.
We give below accurate list of the killed and
i wounded as we could obtain:
4 Killed
/ FM Deems, clerk in the Land Office
! Mr. Alison, constable
Archibald Dalrymple of Baltimore, brakcsman on the
| Washington branch railroad. .
i George McElfresh.
| Reddng, coored, of Georgetown
| RAINY Neal coored, formerly waiter of Walker &
| Schadd.
| Somers, saddler probably mortally
Samuel Cassidy shot in the head
| Col VIM f. Wilson, shot through shoulder.
James Wright, of Anne Arundel county, Md, shot in
the thigh. ......
Charles Spencer shot in the leg and breast.
Biddeman timer, shot i'm the arm.
James Stafford plaserer shot in the leg and through
the body.
Richard Owen, shot in the
John Owen stone cutter shot i'm the hand
marine severely wounded
Thomas Wills, Anne Arundel county, shot in the back
p. r. Bell Seventh ward shot in the knee.
One of the Baltimore rowdics shot in the leg.
| John Fouche, severely
Sam'l Fenton in arm sIIa-
Mr.. Lawrenson, Mercury,) shot through his hat
grazing his head
IL is rumored that several killed and many
wounded not mentioned in the above list-anong whom