Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-14
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Further from st. Louis,
ST. Louis, May 18th, p. M.-The official
statement pnUtishcd this morning says the
hFst firing ut Camp Jackson, on Friday
evening, was some half dozen shots near
the head column of the lat Regiment, ocrr-
stoned by volley of stones aud pistols shot
troul the crowd. No one hurt ut this point.
Second IrinE occurred from the rear of the
column guarding the prisoners. The crowd
here was large and very abusive, one man
discharged barrels of revolver at Lieut..
Saxon of the regular service, many of the
mob cheering him or drawing revOlvers and
bring at troops. The man who common.
Ted the attack then laid his pistol across
us urn and was taking deliberate aim ut
Lieut.: Saxon, when he was thrust through
with a'6ayonet, fired uponatthe same time
and instantly killed. The column then
moved on, having received orders to march
mud the rear Company being assaulted hy
the crowd and several of them shot, halted
and fired, causing the deaths already re-
ported. The order was then given by
Captain Lyon to cease firing, which Was
promptly obeyed.
The principal arms taken from Camp
jackson, were four large size hOwitzers,
TWO l0-inch mortars, large number of
#lO-inch shells, ready charged; some 5000 U.
S muskets, supposed to he portion of
those taken from Baton Rouge Arsenal.
Thousands of people left the city ycster-
day afternoon in consequence o! the re-
ports of characterization among the Ger
man troops, and their threats to burn and
sack the city, but the appearance of Har-
nGy's proclamation, in great measure, re-
stored confidence, and many of those who
left would probably return to-day.
The Cilv 10 0OVy uuiaF nd tn, I,
hopes are eatertained that no further dis
turbance will occur.
twenty-five persons nre known TO have
been killed at Camp Jackson.
Tue report in the city on Saturday and
yesterday, that Gen. Harvey had disaPpro-
we'd the action of Capt. Lyons in reference
to tue capture of Camp Jackson, is author
atatively ,leniedthis morning. He not on
~ approves the whole proceeding but COM
piiments that officer for the prompt and
admirable manner in which he executed
the orders of his government.
Reliable Information from Jefferson City
says nearly all the Objectionable features
of the military bill which had been debn-
ted during secret session had been md:eri-
ally amended, but when tue news of the
capture of Camp Jackson reached the city
the amendments were Immediately recon-
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Houses by large mnjoritics. Also, that no
Secession Ordinance had been brought be-
fore either House, nor was UGH act con-
temPlntcd.
The Legislature has passed. and the
Governor stgued the bill providing mil
itnry fund 10 arm the State. This fund
will include receipts from assessments for
the year 1860 ani 1861, altar the regular
expenses of the Government has been pail.
ST.. Louis, May l3.-The city has been
quiet and orderly to-day, and citizens have
generally heen engaged in their usual avo-
cntions. Capt. Totten's battalion of reRn.
lars are still Quartered in the city, and will
be kept here MS long as the police commits
sioners consider their presence necessary
for the preservation Of the peace.
The troops at Camp Bissell. near Casey
vile, on tile Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
are the 18th regiment of Illinois volun-
tecrs, Hnder communal of Col. Macarthur of
Chicago. A telegraph office was opened
To-day, putting the camp in direct con-
neciion with Saint Louis and all eastern
points. ,A-t
The EseaUly Journal publishes state
ment signed by Gen Frost aud lis stuff,
explaining why Camp jackson was surren-
dered. They say there were only rounds
of ammunition in camp. and neither arms
nor provisions gnoaghsto supply the force.
Eight hundred men under their command
to have attempted resistance, surrounded
as they were by six to eight thousand
troops, we'll armed anil with every aerli-
nncc of war, would have been mere sui
eide, and retrent was impossible. they be.
ing without means of transportation or
provisions, and no credit to procure either.
They censnre the State authorities for not
paying just military debts, so that proper
supplies could be procured, and pronounce
Capt. Lyons demand illegal, uncOnstitu-
tionnl and whuton-trampliug under foot
the laws of onr common country
tits Cstimntcd TINT ten thousand people
left the city Yesterday. A perfect panic
was raging in some quarters, almost entire
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