Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-07-19
War Items.
Further Arrests Under Instructions
from Governor Hicks.

Further Arrests Under Instruction,
from Governor Hicks.
Editors Of Eachange Permit me to
give you report of the arrest of two
gentlemen in Cambridge. Dorchester co.
Thursday night at II o'clock, M. The
name of one is Samuel H. Lyon and that
of the other, so far as I could ascertain,
is Shut, both from Baltimore. They
went yesterday to Easton and crossed
over to Cambridge, where they spent the
night. They had in their employ two
young men from Charles county, j. ii .
Cusick and Murphy, who represent that
they had come up the bay for the pur-
pose Of Fishing, and having fallen in with
the above named gentlemen, had been
engaged by them.
Mr.. Lyon being recognized by Judge
Spence, Of Cambridge, and Judge Spence
expressing his suspicious about his in
tentlons, he received from Governor
Hicks, now here, authority to have the
parties arrested.
They were consequently taken out Of
their beds by squad of the Dorchester
Union Guards and lodged in Jail Their
baggage was searched, and the Governor
asserted to the captain of the Pioneer this
morning that there were found six pis-
tolls and about one dozen bowie-knives
and cutlasses, which, it was supposed BY
him, these gentlemen intended to carry
into Virginia
Upon the arrival of the Pioneer this
morning, 8 O'Clock, the prisoners were
escorted on board by lumber Of the
Guards, under command of Lieutenant
Coburn. The excitement at the wharf
was intense. There were repeated cheers
for jeff Davis, and an alteration took
place between Gov. Hicks and DR.. Muse
who was very much excited Mr.. Bal.
lard, lawyer, tried his utmost to sue
out a writ Of haJeascorpus. The excite
ment rose tosuch pitch that the soldiers
charged upon the crowd, aud several
cooked their guns and took aim, and
we're with difficulty persuaded to abstain
from shedding the blood Of their towns
men.
] saw myself some Of the boyish-look-
ing privates take deliberate aim on some
OF their particular enemies in the crowd,
and / had much trouble in persuadng
them to desist. Whether this show Of
determination in them to kill was only
assumed or real, cannot pretend to say.
At any rate, the excitement was so great,
that the captain having the prisoners and
eleven men with Lieutenant Coburn on
board, ordered the boat to shove off aud
left the rest Of the Guard at the landing,
yoclierating and fighting, our worthy
Governor in the midst Of them.
The men say that the prisoners were
part Of party Of eight men who we're
travelling to Virginia with arms, and that
one Of them had commission in the
Southern army.
The party we're accompanied by Mr..
Robinson, who claimed to be sort Of
civil authority acting under the military. /
This is an exact aud truthful report Of
what was eye and ear witness to.
peing then a passenger on Doard INC
Pioneer.
Friday, July II, 1861.
We learn from other sources that the
prisoners brought up were Messrs. Lyon.
q. w Alexander, and two others named
Cusick and Murphy. Although they
were arrested upon civil process, for
aiding and abetting Jefferson Davis and
levying war against the United States,
they were treated with every indignityj
aud on applying to Governor Hicks to be
treated with deceney, and not as felons,
received from him the answer that they
werc in the hands Of tho military, aud
that no had nothing 20 do with the mat |
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