Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-14
Washington correspondence.
A LITTLE

WASHINGTON CRY, D. O., May 9, 1861.
Tread in yesterdays Baltimore Sun the re-
port of the Board of Police Commissioners
of Baltimore TO the Legislature. 1t is a de-
cidedly cool document. In narrating the
difficulties of the 10th ultimo, the Board
say that as the Massachusetts, troops were
passing through the city, missiles were
thrown at them, injuring som of them;" and
that then they "fired with, in many cases,
fatal effect. This, the Board 20 on to say,
provoked the people Of Baltimore to q degree
of almost uncomfortable fury, &c, &c. Now,
the facts, as everybody knows, are that the
Massachusetts, men did not fire till one of
their men was killed. Do you know how
the first martyr in this wal for the Union
was killed. As the troops were passing
through the streets, one of the men fell,
either from a blow in the back by a brick
bat, or by stumbling over some of the OBJ
structions placed in the street by the mob.
AS he lay PROSTATE, one of the mob ran up
to him, snatched his bayonetted gun from
his grasp and drove the bayonet through his
neck Then the captain of the company to
which be belonged said Boys, l ( don't say
don't fire. Even in that terrible moment
so careful was he not to give direct order for
q FIRE. The proverbial Yankee caution this.
His men thereafter fred lat will" but only
when some fragrant particular case demanded
it.
Yet the Police Commissioners would have
one believe that the mild and peaceful Balti-
moreans were moved to sudden mutiny and
rage by an u~nwarrantable and murderous
attack from the troopsl And they call
bayonetting q man through the neck throw
ing missiles which injured some of them"
The Police Commissioners are respectable
NspIyoA WAN nf AhR Sfata Is - not n
sad commentary upon the state of affairs in
the Monumental City that the most respect
able men in it represent a murder as a play
full salute with brickbats
AND YET ANOTHER BIT OF HISTORY.
know the Baltimore massacre is old, but
l do not remember to have seen the above
fact published in any of the accounts of it.
l received it from the lips of Sergeant Allen,
who was in one of the companies attacked.
From him l had a full account of that mas
sacre Immediately upon his arrival here.
But military duties'' called me away, and
the contemplated letter to you was never
written. Will you pardon me if l correct a
correction" which is now going the rounds
of the press2
The Mayor of Baltimore having done a
decent act is now trying to disavow il. In
a csutiously-worded paragraph, one of the
Baltimore papers denies that the Mayer gave
the orders to fire upon the mob, and insinu-
ates that he did not himself shoot one of the
rioters. As no "order to fire" was given by
any body, of course the Mayor did not give
it. So far, so good. But he did kill one of
the mob. This l have from the mouth of a
private who saw the Mayor seize a musket
from a Massachusetts, man that had been
killed, and FIRE it at one of the rioters with
fatal effect. Ny informant thought, but was
rot certain, that the man killedby the Mayor
was the one who killed the Massachusetts,
soldiers from whose dead hands the Mayor
seized the gun. Ifthis supposition be correct,
justice, though 'leaden. footed" in one sense,
was not leaden footed in the sense in which
that phrase was commonly used. This serves
to show that Baltimore has become such a
Sodom that when a man does a creditable
act there, he must Immediately disavow it.
AND YET ANOTHER.
A great deal was said in the Sun about a
Mr.. Davis, an innocent man, being killed
by the soldiers shooting from the cars. Now
this Mr.. Davis was, at the moment he fell,
cheering on the mob; and, so far as I can
learn, the only firing from the cars done, was
by one of the breakemen on the train, who,
with his revolver, killed two rioters that en-.
deavored to seize from the color-bearer Of
the regiment the flag presented them by the
State.
Apropos of the Massachusetts, Regiment
one of the officers told me a few days age
that their band were at Lowell, waiting fol
new Instructions TO be made, SO that they
might come Oh, and with their music, cheer
up their fighting comrades. Their instru,
ments were hopelessly ruined by the Balti-
more mob. This destruction Of instrument:
seems wanton, but was it not to be expected
that they whowere fit "for treason, strategy
and spoils," should have mo music in theiI
souls" nor be moved by concord of sweet
sounds?"
They say that there was an Instruments
concert advertised in Baltimore, all the music
of which was TO come from the instrument
taken from the Massachusetts Band" Il
this is so, certainly the Baltimore rebel:
have q certain grim humor in their rebellion
whose audacity is amusing.
COLONIZATION n SECESSION.
/ heard yesterday, upon most excellent
authority, that the Secession leaders in the
the President of the American Colonization
Society Northern people, in the habit Of
contributing to the Colonization Society
will bear this in mind, and prepare to colo
nize' Mr.. Latrobe.
BACKING WATER.
The Sun has backed down lately and Bal
timore behind it. They are eating humble
pie in that Sodom of America, and with thi
they are eating their words too. 1t is hert
regarded as probable that the Ohio boys
who are to pass through that city to day o.
tomorrow, will not be molested. For Bal
timorCans know that orders were sent II
Fort McHenry, upon the 10th ult, lin cas'
any further resistance is offered TO the pas
sage of Federal troops through Baltimore
she'll the town" and Baltimoreans feel tina
the shedding of more Northern blood woulC
be the signal for the destruction of that city
And they fear lest the Monumental City
become a mass of ruins, and a Monumen
itself, for all time, of the strength Of tn
Government and the folly of opposing it.
RODERICK RANDOM.
The British Press pm the America
Troubles.
The London TeLegrGph states in its lasI