The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-31
OUR HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENCE.

OUR HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENCE
HARRISBURG, July 90 1861.
ne RstArs Of the Three Months Voltreers-The Iardi
aes Qfths Government in Paying TtenaA Rot the Con
ssqsenee-The Military Called Ont to Suppress RNarro,o
xssape Of tie City from Fearful! Scene of Boodshed-
Email Arrival Of Some ofths United States Paynsasers
ONE Regiment Leaves, Carrying ,oh Its Arms as Sscu-
yUy for Paymenk-Tae Eject on Re Enrichment DC, DC
We have had excmpNlcaton OF how far kindness and
generosity soothe and alay passion when goadcd by
wYsng and corruption The national administration,
Aerng General Patterson TO send the three months voun
teers Harrisburg to be mustered ont of service should
have been prepared to pay OF the as they
arrived here.
On Sunday the 2lst two regiments arrived here from
Virginia, and quartered in the Capitol Every day
SINCE then regiment after regiment has returned until
every church and schoolhouse and private house.
Sled But paymaster here on the FIRST
arrival and be was not prepared TO pay out
any considerable sum. Information telcgraphed
70 Washington and on Thursday morning Pay
mater General Larned forwarded a despatch to the
eject that two paymastc would be sent to Harrisburg
soon as money could be obtained from the Treasury In
the meantime the returned soldiers were in many in
stances without shelter and in nearly every without
food and reduced 10 the necessity Of begging keep
body and soul together 1t is the had five days
YatiOns with them when they let Harpers Ferry week
previously However, the citizens of our city for
ward poby and supplied their wants and still doing
n
Indignation became loud and deep, and when the
rival Of the pay masters Friday information asked
% 70 the time of payment, eyasve answers given.
Matters came 10 climax on Saturday afternoon, when
about four thousand men eongregatcd in Mar.
ket square, in front Of the Jones House. and
hung the paymaster in egy TO the amppost The latter
was set on aro and consumed amid the loud huzzas of
the soldiers Just at this the Twelfth regiment
Of reserves from Camp Curtin charged down Second
street The returned volunteers, being without their
arms, gave way. The cry was then raised, "To the
arsenal for your arms" and the crowd commenced TO
kush in that direction but the Twelfth went up Third
street in "double quick time and succeeded, very for
lunaely, surrounding before the volunteers could
yet any arms out Of it, This prevented boodshed How
ever some Of the men got an old cannon mounted
dray, then loaded it with battered tin Gled
Of blowing up the paymaster.n i" DO not
iujure any Of the citizens of Harrisburg,
the rest and thus caused them the dealing
We confident that If charity saved
city has been ours for the thousands of returned
volunteers would have become Infatuated to alarming
degree, and nOught could have saved our town.
Threats to hang the ymasters We're rife. Order
finally restored, the paymaster who Is Brua Cameron
en q General Cameron promising pay yesterday
lnG Mr. Cameron was good as his word, and he
lnenoed operations on the Second.
The Twelfth regiment who were under orders to leave
Pf Washington city were detained here as guard, and
lNchent has been stationed al the Jones House Since
murray.
There ore very many causes that have led to this
threatened terrible affair." and would be folly to mpute
he whole fault TO the national administration. is said
HAT the gold and silver brought from Washington city
thursday was deposited in the Mddetown Bank, Of
which Mr. Paymaster Brua Cameron is cashier, and the
Aolee Of that institution to be paid the men,
Tho specie commanding premium Of three per cent,
Mere would be nice little operation for that concern.
men, however refused 10 take the notes, and hence
De delay.
ms failure on the part Of the government
=. pay and dismiss the three months voiun.
eaAe viii seriously affect the prompt e-enlistment
The men, and Governor Curtin viii have considerable
keube 10 raise the quota Of troops recently asked for by
" general government
Ore regiment from the vicinity Of Pittsburg left for
Ae1e Saturday afternoon, taking their muskes with
0em, refusing to return them until they were paid
The volunteers from Pennsylvania have been treated
hamefuly from the first and they threaten day Of
Eibution; and VIC think will come sooner or later.
oreat Injustice has been done them
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth regiments, on their way
here from Hagerseown Saturday detained at Car
ale by order Of the Governor Three four other reg
heDts were also stopped on the route home This
noonned necessary under the circumstances,