Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-16
From The ". o. Cresce1at, June, 9.

The mystery as to what the Vigilants in
| tended doing, after the events of Monday,
was explained early yesterday morning. The
barricades were found deserted; the cannon
| had their muZzles pointed in toward the Ar
| senal; the mnskets and rifles were leaning
| against the walls and scattered about the
streets; and the whole vicinity was as silent
| and deserted as a church-yard. We learn
that the Vigiants dispersed at about o'clock
| in the morning. Most of the men retired
! quietly and quickly to their homes, and the
leaders left for parts unknown, though rumor
| said the U. S. Barracks, below the city, was
| the place to which they retreated for refuge
The people who first found the place deser-
ted, looked upon the scattered guns as the
| legitimate spoil of war, and speedily carried
them off. Men, boys, loafers and negroes,
were seen carrying the guns off in all direc-
tons, and turning the thing to sport, the
relish of which may easily be imagined. We
heard of one small black boy making tracks
for home with two splendid Minnie rifles on
his shoulder. Whether these guns will be
| reclaimed or not, or recovered if claimed, is
one of the multitude of unsettled questions
which have arisen by the uprising and down.
fall of the Vigilants.
The proper officers of the Courts and Offices
In the building occupied by the Vigilants.
were on hand in due time 10 take charge and
restore things to their original condition. In
the Arsenal were found cauldroEs Of hot
coffee, and the remains Of plentiful Fasting.
of the substantial kind, all of which were
duly consigned to the cutters, and the work
of setting matters to right progressed with.
The Sixth District Court was found in a
horribly filthy and disordered condition. The
clerks Office had been broken open, and
twelve of the records mutilated, their burnt
remains being scattered about the floor. The
carpet in the courtroom was bloody and
sinking, where dead body had been lying
that of the German who shot himself Monday
morning. Mr.. Reese. the clerk Of the court,
yesterday drew up petition against Capt
Duncan and others of the Vigilants, claiming
damages of $4,000 for injuries done TO the
courtroom and records. The petition will be
filled to-day.
In the cells of the lookup were found two
men, prisoners arrested by the Vigilants, one
of whom had had his hands tied behind him
for three days. These men, having been ar
rested by the Vigilants, were of course set at
liberty.
To the Street Commissioner, as a matter
of necessity belonged the work of repoving
the barriacdes and repairing the torn-up
streets He had the cotton bales of the st.
Peter and Charities street baTTicades hauled
off to the pound. The two granite block
barricades across st. Peter and Charities streets
there having been four regular barrciades
the workmen could be sent there to tear them
down and relay the blocks in their original
places in the streets. This work, we suppose,
will be done to-day.
The work OF fixing and cleaning up oc-
cupied the most of yesterday. Judge Howell
and Recorder Fabre will open their respective
courts this morning. The regular police oc
cupicd the Guard House, as usual, soon after
the Vigilants left.
Mayor Summers, finding that the Vigilants
had cleared out, issued a proclamation, dis
banding the special police and calling upon
the regular police to return to their ordinary
duties.
During the day, also, the City Hall Ohe
late headquarters of the Citizens camp was
scrubbed out: and officer Dan Busby |
guardian of Lafayette Square. Issued verbal |
prOclamations to the children and nurses |
that they might come and roll in the grass, as
usual.
And so has ended, at least in its demonstra- |
tive aspects, the most extraordinary excite |
ment that ever agitated any American city. |
1t is estimated that the five days campaign of |
the VigilantS cost them at least $50, 600; and |
it j. known that it has cost them some human
life-five of their men having been killed
among themselves. and eight or ten crippled.
The sbanded Vigilants were arrested yes
terday, by the regular police. wherever fonnd,
and locked up. Lieut.. Leggett, of the Third
District, brought up a crowd of twelve Irish
and German Vigilants, arrested in his end OF
town. and lodged them for better security in
the First District lookup. Numerous arrests
of Vigilants were also made in the First
District. We presume they will be dealt with
as leniently as the law governing their offense
will permit-for the general opinion and
feeling of the public is that the great mass Of
them were deluded into taking part with the
leading Vigilants.