New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-23
LATEST FBOa BALTIMORE AND HARRISBURG.
$500 Union Troops Fourteen Miles
from Baltimore.
AT HARRISBURG.
Tic Bridges at COekeysyille Probably Repaired

A gentleman who started from Washington On
Saturday, a g Is p In., Via Raroad for thu city
| makes the following statement
Having arrived ut Baltimore, with the passcrGms
| who wore mOstly Northern PEOPLE, we took up oar
quarters ia the Brnums Hotel But very litue
time had ranSped before the Of our arrival had
spread Throughout the city, and soon, parties or IN
dc yelOped young men, or large boys armcd with r1hc
swords and all other kinds of arms, mingled with UNI
formed militia soidiers, crowded all over the hotel
Offering Oh kinds of rba insults % the passengers
Some Of the sCoubdroe uOpoed 10 kiH tho whole Of
passengers and said that II that WIS done tnc,c
would lie 80 many Aboiolists icss. -Four OF us lclt
the hotel and started ont the Baltimore and Phn-
| dell hia Railroad. We walked out about Tour miles
eXpcctn find carriage at some iarm-house There
we were informed bv - farmer who was German
that he could not give MS any aid and that had bet
ter rctmn 60 Baltimore, nae.nuch there were men
all over the country who were armed and who woad
surely arrest us. Then We scauerrd and went back
TO tide city in different directions. d'd no, Ret hacE
TO the hotel before 4 nc o'clock in the evening. Jut
after arrived, met Trends who are merchants
of Northern birth who were sitting la the hotel ODe
Of them proc 1red me carriage for next day, TO ttke
ne TO Cockeysville.
Il rabd Secessonist said that three thousand virgin
ians who had taken naIpers Ferry, and who, after
taking IT, bad mostly returned 10 AloHandria and re-
enforced with about 900 men and two batteries OF ar
illery were take possession on the 2lsi abo1t md
dav Of the stone bridge ri the Relay Hotn", within
five miles of Baltimore; that General Bauregard was
n Richmond with 5000 troops from Charleston and
neiqhborhood and they were expecting the mOrars
and the two Iied pieces which they bad in the iron
battery % Charleston harbor for the ooinoaTment OF
Wellington from the Heights AT that time they bad
in Baltimore 5000 men, with ten guns they were
fitting out fxe privatecrs. The whole night through
troops were patrolipg the city. Tho secession flag,
with that Of Maryland, was displayed from all the
houses of the fire department Armed parties On
horses sent ont Of town all over the country in
squads.
Ca SUNDAY morning when I got out Of bed, i ex-
rooted to iind my carriage at The door. Tie man
wtose carriage I expected 20 use was Union man.
~ niue o'clock the carriage bad no yet arrived, and
the news spread the city that 5000 troops from
Harrisburg had arrived in Cockeysvie. AID 5000
more were coming down on the road 10 pass through
Baltimore i learned that they sent n telegraph u
uarpors Ferry for tho Virginian troops 10 come On
to thc, support that Saturday night oil the men
snspected OF Union sentiments had fled the city, that
the house Of Hon. Henry Winter Davis had been en-.
tered by the mob, but he having left, bis wife and
family were not farther molceted.
Tho Hall Of tho German Turner'S wnS sacked.
NV friend thought il unsafe 10 send me out in car
riare. The streets were completely lined with the
mob, and arms distributed by tho police and city
autnori, ies which had been procured from TIC
arYnores aud the mob continually shouting,
"Down with the Union men; they are traitors
Troors were marching to the outskirts Of the city.
Par; were 10 take possession OF Greenmount Cemetery
In fact, the city seemed "a mad chaos.
Tie way / 20, out WAS IA follows: mounted q
horse accompanied by the groom Of my friend, armed
with q sword, aud orIamented with large Secession
coclade rushing ahead Of tie Rebel troops, III if
were scout belonging 10 their party, and after hard
RIM OF miles the distance having been accomplished
in lees than ~ minutes, found myself IN Cockeys-
VILE in the midst Of the pennsy troops. Here
1 found $500 Pcnnsy iyaaa and OHIO troops, taking
matters yeIy coOly. They were the finest ret OF men
had seen anywhere; they were calm and determined
The citizens of Coekeysyle, on the night OF the 10Th
aud 2lst were holding Union meeting. There
Il laI hon ton nulf,i bUa
loads OF police and Baltimore soldiers came to burn all
the BRIDGES up TO The PenDsJ lyaDis line They were
attacked and dispersed by the Union men, which
formed guards and proceed the bridges; otherwise
the troops never could have come much further than
Little York. At Baltimore IL was ttased that TIE
rowdes were to make inoursions ino Pennsylvania to
burn farms.
The groom with whom l cane told me on the road
that he belonged 10 an association OF Union men,
which comprised mostly all the wor,inR men in the
shops. They woro about 5000 strong, and every man
daly armed and ready TO strike as 90 the North
should protect them.
met nan who had fled the previous night from BaL-
more. When he passed through Felfir, come seven
miles from the Pennsy lyana ne, he found about 100
of Suaile Regiment which had been attacked IN Ball
MORE They were taken prisoners by armed horsemon
of Belair rosiy all their clothing torn from them
they were nearly half naked They had been already
locked mp for went yfour hours in the Comfy Jail,
without having had food or water during tho whole
time The women were cXpostuatiDg with the
no, 10 treat them 20 barbarouJy. On the morning OF
tho 2lst (SnndIyl they were marched ont OF JAN and
released when they arrived az the Pennsylvania line.
Orr informant also gave tome important statements
relative to the movements OF the Union troops IN and
about Pennsylvania, aud their Opposition. The 3!n
troops nj Cockeysyille under the direction Of
Major Of the United States army, and were distributed
az follows: 1000 were a. the village 800 behnd the
VILLAGE occupying he hg hts, and 800 at Ashland two
m lea from C0chcysviile. IL is between CSokeysyile
aud Ashland dat the bridges are destroyed, ard tD
csrpeers had already arrived the spot, and were
actively engaged under the protection o. tho military,
in constructing tie bridges, with the prospect OF COM
plcne the same hy List night. Our informant arrived
IN Harrisburg AT O'Clock on Sunday afternoon where
hetyyecn 100 and 6.OD men Were quartorcd, among
WHOM was Shorinans FIXING Artillery and another
battery of four guns. The Rh0dc1sland battery was
ot Easion expected monentarily 10 move down.
H. was ftacd ia Harrisburg tbat the Ohio battery
of four Guns and Shcrman's battery were 10 leave
ON n train from Harrisburg at lO O'Clock yesterday
morning for Maryland; and the purpose. as fras could
DO asceraincd 20 protect the rccourtrction or tue
bridges ard 10 hold the road 20 Baltimore AZ all hz-
arls. On the road from Reading 10 Harrisburg, our
informant met Yesterday three trnns containing IRON
Is 10 20 ears each filed with Union troors and he ~
confident thai the expectationtha II cOo troops would
be in Harrisburg by last night wonid be realized. lie
n inks II is tho purpose to take and hold Baltimore ~
an carly dav. Yet, these were Only Inc su7ohcs OF
an experienced military man. as the oihccrs Xl inen
purposes strictly secret
c states that fears Of IN extohdod conspiracy aponR
the negroes existed in -. Mary's County, and The
road were cOnst antly patro.led by nnunted men.