Daily national Democrat., 1859-09-17
R1or AND BLooDsHED IN BALr1MoRE.-Tl


4 Baltimore Exchange of Aug. 18th, says:
On Tuesday night about III o'clock, par
aty of young men hailing from the Seventh
s Ward, after participating in the ward meet
aing of the American party, which took plac,
Hduring the early part of the evening at tn,
q Lafayette Engine house, made an attack upor
athe Ashland Club house kept bv Richarc
q Pryor, on Little McEderry street, near Ais
squith. Several persons were sitting in from
Aof Pryors house, when the party came dowr
( the street, rallying under the cry of''Pio-
Hneers, "Red Necks," and crying ooh yo,
4Seventh Warders." They had drum ant
ahfe, and tin kettles and pans, and "mad,
Snight hideous" with their noise. On reaching
+ aPryor's house, they made an indiscriminat,
aassault on the parties present, during which
adrearms and bricks were freely used Pryor
aand his friends retreated into the house, anC
Iopened brisk fire upon the assailants Will
4 arevolvers, but it is not known whether any
damage was done. Mrs. Pryor was struck
on the forehead with brick, which inflicted
IA severe but not dangerous wound. The rab
Hble then left Pryor's and proceeded into Ais
quith street, and, in passing the southeast
corner of McElderry and Aisquith streets, Il
amusket was discharged by one of the crowd
Sinto the window of the house of Mr.. Dono-
shue. His wife was engaged at the time, with
4 an infant in her arms, in closing the shutters
sand her son, James Donohue, II years of age
{ was standing behind his mother. One of the
Z balls passed close to Mrs. Donohue's arm.
causing flesh wound, while two balls passed
3 Through young Donohue's right arm and a
athird entered his right temple and lodged IL
{ the head. AS soon as shot, the lad ran into
an adjoining room and fell to the floor Dr.
Hartman was called in and dressed the
wounds, but was not able to remove the ball.
Y Young Donohue is in a critical condition.
The party of rowdies then continued on their
march, without any interruption on the part
] of the police, or a single arrest being made or
even attempted.
young man named Robt. Bush was next
assaulted, near the Belair Market, by por-
/ ton of the gang. He was knocked down
L with slung shot, and would have been bad
;ly beaten, if not killed, if one of the party
had not recognized him rs an acquaintance.
and compelled his companions to desist.
How SOLDIER FEELS IN BArrLE.-A young
French officer thus writes of his first expe
Irience in battle
"Our officers kept us back, for we were mott
numerous enough to charge upon the enemy j
This was, moreover, most prudent, for this
murderous fre-so fatal to the white coats
did us but little harm. Our conical balls
penetrated their dense masses, while those of
the Austrians whistled past our ears and re
spected our persons. 1t was the first time II
had faced fire, nor was the only one. WE'LL
am satisfied with myself. True, | lodged
the fret balls, but Henry ~, they say, did
the same at the beginning of every battle.
It is, in fact, physical effect, Independent of
the will.
"3ut this tribute paid, if you could onlyI
feel how each shot electrifes you 1t is like
Ia whip on a racers legs The balls whistle
past you, turn up the earth around you, kiln
one, wound another, and you hardly notice
them You grow intoxicated, the smell of
|gunpowder mounts to your brain, the eye
becomes bloodshot, and the look is fixed upon
the enemy. There is something of all the
passions in that terrible passion excited in al
soldier by the sight of blood and the tumultI
of battle,
Everybody who has tried it, testiies to|
the peculiar intoXication that is produced byl
being in battle. There is an infatlatingE
influence about the smell of powder, thel
shrill whistle of bullet, and the sight oil
human blood, that instantly transforms menI
from towards to heroes, from women some
times to monsters. None can tell of the ma
ture or mystery of that influence but those
who have been in the fray themselves"