Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-03
From the Baltimore American, Sept ls.l

ARREST OF NINE MEMBERS OF TIE
Refusal of Senators to Re-assembIe.
ARREST OF THE OFFICERS.
THE SESSION BRoUGHT 10 A CLOSE.
REMOVAL OF TIE PRISONERS.
Tuesday was day of unusual excitement
in the city of Frederick, and will long be
one to be remembered even in the present
stirring and perilous times.
The morning train of cars on Thursday
from Baltimre brought number of the MEM
bers of the Legislature, with the clerks and
officers of both Houses, the former mostly
| intent on having no session, and the latter.
duly thoughtful of their per diem. DESTROYS
of setting the machine going, and strongly
arguing that if there was no quorum there
| must necessarily be continued session until
| the night they should be superseded by the
| election of new delegates in November.
| The hour of one o'clock having arrived,
| there were but three Senators in the city
| Messrs. Bradley, Nuttle and Kimmei-ali OF
| the Union side of the House. each and all
determined that there should be no session
of the Legislature if they could prevent it
| They accordingly refused to enter the Senate
| Chamber and met for consultation at The
| reading-room opposite 10 the Hall in which
| the Legislature meets They had previously
| notified Mr.. Kilgour, the Clerk OF the Senate,
! that it was not their intention to assemble,
but that they would notify him in half an
| hour as to their Joint determination. At the
expiration of this time notice was conveyed
| to the Clerk that there would be no meeting
of the Senate, when they were Informed that
| he had called the roll in the empty chamber,
| and gone through the formality OF announ-
| cling that "there being no quorum present,
the Senate stands adjourned until one
/ O'Clock en- Wednesday"
The Union members of the House OF Dele
gates had also come to similar detertninf-
| ton to do all in their power to prevent the
| meeting of that body, but the Secession
members who were in the city moving To-
wards the Hail. they went also. and at 10
| O'Clock Thos Fl. Moore, the Reading Clerk,
went through the formality of calling the
House to order, and proceeded to call the
| roll. The members present were Messrs. Sal
| mon, Kessler, Gordon, Maccub bin, Jones, of
| Talbot, Straughn, Durant. McIntire, Long,
Keene and Mills; being seven of the Opposi-
! ton to four Union members. Messrs. NALL and
| Fiery were in the city, but declined TO go TO
| the Hail. There were but four responses, and
Mr.. Long Immediately moved that the House
| adjourn until noon on Wednesday.
| The refusal of the Senate TO convene, 1t
was argued, had virtually annulled any le
| gal assemblage of the Legislature, though
| the clerks declared their intention to con-
| tinue to call the roll daily until quorum
should appear, denying the right of less than
quorum to adjourn the body.
| MILITARY MOVEMENT AND ARRESTS.
A few minutes after the formalty of open
| ing the Legislature had thus been gone
| through with by the clerks, and they had dis
| persed small squads of the Wisconsin regi-
| ment. each under charge of an officer, were
| observed moving through the city, all taking
/ IL Az,
| Thus in about half four Gordon of armed
pickets circled the entire town, with instruc-
| lions to allow no person to pass out without
| a written permit from member of General
Banks staff, who had been appointed Pro-
| yost Marshal This had scarcely been ac
| complished before squad of police officers
| from Baltimore, consisting OF Lieut. Carm-
chael. Sergeant Wallis, Sergeant Watt and
Officer West accompanied by a military es-
| cort of the Third Wisconsin regiment, Col.
T. H. Rugar, which has been eDcamped for
some days near the railroad depot, com
| menced to search the city for parties they
| were ordered to arrest In the course of the
afternoon and evening, and yesterday morn
| ing. the following arrests were made:
Milton Y Kidd. Clerk of the House.
Thomas 81. Moore, Reading Clerk of the
House.
VIM. Kilgour, Clerk of Senate.
s. P Carmack Assistant Clerk of Senate.
John N Brewer, Reading Clerk of Senate.
| William E. Salmon, of Frederick, House
of Delegates.
Thomas ]. Claggett, of Frederick, House
of Delegates.
Andrew KessIcr, of Frederick, House Of
| Delegates.
Josiah H Gordon, of Allegheny, House OF
| Delegates.
Richard @. Maccubbin, of Anne Arundel,
House of Delegates.
= d. Bernard Mills, of Carroll county, Horsel
of Delegates.
william R. Miller, of Cecil, House of De1s-'
gates. <es.---e4
Clark J. Durant, St. Mary's. House of
Delegates.
J. Lawrence Jones, Talbot, House OF Dele
gates.
The following citizens were also arrested:
John W. Elkins and John Hagan, who had
| been very noisy, making threats, &C., with
| E. A Hanson, VIM. Mason, VIM. Hanson and
| his two sons.
E. Riley, editor of the Annapolis Rfpubti
| can, and printer to the House, was also
rested
The prisoners were all taken to the Bar
racks as fast as arrested, and when DR.. Jones,
| of Talbot, was arrested on Wednesday NOR
| ing, about noon-he being the last except
Mr.. Mitchell, the Sergeantat-Arms of the
House, who could not be found, and is be-
| lieved to have escaped-the guards around
| the town were withdrawn, and the ancient
| city of Frederick again fell back into the
control of the civil authorities.
THE EMBARGO.
The sudden embargo on egress from the
CITY, without previous notice. soon OCCASION
| ed considerable excitement The pickets
| were stationed on every road and across eve
| ry field, and no one could leave without a
wi oh ton
steps beyond the picket guard was compelled
| to return to town. and all manner of vehicles
| soon commenced to move towards the head
quart rs of Col. Rugar, having been turned
| back by the guards. Among others, Col.
Maulsbys carriage was turned back for a
pass. Passes were given freely to those who
could prove they were not of Mr. Wallis
| adherents in the Legislature, or an officer of
| that body. In order to facilitate the recog-
milton, Gen. Shriver attended at headquart--
ers at the request of citizens, to identity the
applicants.
THE PEOPLE AND THE MEMBERS.
The preventing of the session of the Legis-
| lature gives very general satisfaction to the
people, whatever may be their opinion on
National topics, as none are DESTROYS of
holding bait there for the invitation of a
| military invasion like that of Missouri and
Kentucky.
yesterday morning the Union members
had an informal gathering, and resolved to
leave at once for their homes, and thus ended
the third meeting of the special session of
| the Legislature, the only member left in
Frederick last evening being the Farmer of
Linganore, Gen. KimmeL
1t may be proper here to state that the
Uniou members all came to Frederick deter
mined to do all in their power to prevent
any meeting of their respective bodies, and
| If they ghOuld meet dissolve soon
possible. They were wholly unaware of the
intention or purposes of the Government,
and stood prepared to act in any way that
the national safety might require, satisfied
that they had no power to work out any good
for the State, but prepared to do all iu their