The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1861-05-03
THE TROOPS REACH THE CAMDEN RAILROAD
STATION.

EEeblucub Bbroeb 0epOt. Inc bnfOngS
| gradually augmented until about I04
o'clock, when large body of police APP
| peared, and the mass took it for granted
that the troops were coming. Meanwhile
the assembly kept itself informed on
events at the lower depot by several
young men on horseback, who rode for
ward and back between the depots. The
| Mayor of the city and the Board of Po-
lice Commissioners did their utmost to
pacify the crowd, as well as did other
prominent citizens. Finally crowds, rush
| ing pell NELL from the lower streets to
wards the depot, gave notice that the
cars were coming, and they arrived one
after another, drawn by\four horses. The
blinds of most of the cars were shut
down, and in those not provided with
| blinds the troops laid down fiat to avoid
the bricks threw at them. The car win
dows were perfectly riddled and their sides
bore great indentations from the rocks
and bricks hurled at them.
The scene while the troops were chang
ing cars was indescribably fearful. Taunts,
cloathed in the most fearful language,
were hurled at them by the painting crowd,
who, almost breathless with running,
pressed up to the car windows, presenting
knives and revolvers, and cursed up into
the faces of the soldiers. The police
were thrown in between the cars, and
forming a barrier, the troops changed
cars, many of them cooking their muskets
as they stepped on the platform.
After embarking the assemblage ex-
pected to see the train move of, but its
departure was evidently delayed in the
vain hope that the crowd would disperse !;
but no, it swelled, and the troops express
sed to the officers Of the road their deter
mination to 60 at once, or they would
leave the cars and make their way to
Washington.
While the delay was increasing the ex-
element, a wild cry was raised on the
| platform and out railroad track towards
the Spring Gardens, until the track for a
mile was black with an excited, rushing
mass. The crowd, as it went, placed OBJ
structions of every description on the
track. Great logs and telegraph poles,
requiring dozen or more men to move
them, were laid across the rails, and stones
| rolled from the embankment.
A body of police followed after the
crowd, both in full run, and removed
the distractions as fast as they were
placed on the track. Various attempts
were made to tear up the track with logs
of wood and pieces of timber, and there
was great outcry for pickaxes and hand
| spikes, butonly one or two could be found.
The police interfered on every occasion,
but the crowd, growing large and more
excited, would dash off into break neck
run for another position further on, un-
til the county line was reached. The pol
lice followed, running, until forced to
stop from exhaustation. At this point
many of the throng gave it up from ex-
haustion, but q crowd. longer winded,
dashed on for nearly mile further, now
and then pausing to attempt to force the
rails, or place some obstruction upon
them. They could be distinctly seen
mile along the track where it makes a
bend at the Washington road bridge.
When the train went out the mass of peo-
| pie had mostly returned to the depot.
Shots and stones were exchanged between
the military and citizens Of several points,
with the result detailed elsewhere.
THE SHOOTING AND KILLING OF RoBT. W. DAVIS,
ESQ.,, INQUEST At TIE SOUTHERN POLICE
STATION.
The death Of Robert w. Davis, ESQ.,, al
the hands of the Northern troops yester-
day, has created an intense feeling in
this community, especially among the
merchants, of which class he was an hon
ored member in the firm of Messrs. Pc
gram, Paynter d Davis, Baltimore street
He had gone out on the railroad track
with the multitude, and when shot wai
standing apart with some gentlemen OF
an elevation, between the distillery anC
Redley street, on the Spring Garden side
he received Mimic musket-ball in hi
left side, and reeling for a moment or tw,
fell and died without uttering word.
INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE.
While the cars containing the troop
were standing. at the President stree
depot, clerk from the customhouse wen
into one of them and denounced the so
diers in bitter terms. A captain ordere
, him out, threatening if he did notgo the
would fire on him. He replied they wer
too cowardly to fire, when an officer struc
at him with his sword, which blow he n
: ceived on the left hand and with the othe
knocked him down and took his swor
from him, as also the scabbard. A privat
interfered for the protection of his con
! mander, and he too the clerk knocke
down with a heavy drawn pistol, an
. escaped with his prize-the sword-th
only injury he received being a preti
Il severe cut across his hand.
]. At the intersection of Gay and Pra
|. streets, while the soldiers were firing upc
the crowd, two other clerks from the san
! place ran into the ranks, and each knoc
. ing down a soldier with his fists, bore c
their muskets as trophies of their explo
n The young man shot in the leg, al
% taken to the inirmary, and attended
> by DR.. Morris, appeared quite grateful +
!. the humane attentions shown him. WhG
Il asked why he came, the simple and uns
It phisticated reply of the youth was 30
I the Flag-the Stars and Stripes" 1t "
er expected that the wounded leg wou
Is have to be amputated last night. He
le only about eighteen years old, and m
s. he live to grow wiser as he grows older.
le Another of those in the station-hou
ID said he had no enmity against the Sou
re and came only because his company v
rs ordered out, otherwise he would hs
- been jeered as a coward and recreant
ut Others in the company were actuated
by the same motives.
Of A body of one hundred and i've Of
he volunteers from the North was taken
ID charge by the police of the eastern
Iss trict and sent back. They are now s.
les to have stopped at Magnolia.
d At the eastern police station last nigh
ge German asked for lodging. He said he !
be been forced into the cars at Philadelpl
at but did not know where they we're go
to to take him.
The following additional particulars
he copy from the Baltimore American of
OF evening Of the Goth inst:
he The city, during the past night, wa
,es scene Of wild excitement. equal almost
in that which prevailed during the day J
,av terday. Shortly after / o'clock intorI
,ts ton was conveyed to the military he
as quarters that a large body Of North
his troops were approaching to the city
M way of the Northern Central RailW
ed and that the Philadelphia Railroad
ith also conveying the Seventh Regiment,
en- New York, and other troops, to the NJ
or Der OF seventeen hundred, en- route
,ad Washington. The fact was announced
Int telegraph to the several stations, an
'ed was Immediately resolved to destroy
on- bridges nearest the city on both roads
out prevent the passage Of the trains.
ks Truck Company No. l was summon
mo to the Mayors office. and despatched
Ire. combustibles to the bridge at Cant
= which was in flames before the arrival
led the regular Philadelphia trains. Anot
ere party was sent in omnibuses to the brio
rd- beyond Cockeysville, on the North
Central Railway, and they were ais
,el, flames before daylight.
as THIS MORNING.
ick Nothing can be ascertained from Pl
o q delphia this morning as to whether
,or, special military train left last night or
lsly The rImors adoat that the train had a
ned ed at the Gunpowder river are not c
he tied.
one The city this morning is in q most
, in cited condition. Armed men are ma
Who ing through the streets, and the mill
be- are moving about in every direction,
cad il Is evident that Baltimore Is to be