The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-01

| letter from friend in Baltimore, from which
we are permitted 10 make tho following cx-
tracts:
SEAT OF WAR, }
Baltimore, April 25th, 1861. {
DEAR Since tie receipt of your let
ter, of the 10Th inst, Baltimore has been the
scene OF intense and constant excitement. There
is no lack of news. You have, IF course, heard
good deal Of it. And you have probably
heard plenty Of curses and execrations heape
upon Baltimore. We have had war with almost
all its horrors-boo oodshod death, alarm and
fears. If you had been here through it all, |
think your military ardor would have cooled off,
and you would be ready to retire from active
service.
The first that saw that looked like wa, was
Thursday alternoon-one week ago to-day
when 600 regular Government troops and re-
cruils, from Pennsylvania, passed through here,
to Washington They walked through the city
in double file, and were not seriously disturbed.
When the Massachusetts and Philadelphia vol
unteers came, on Friday, it was different They
were being taken through in the cars, but the
crowd blocked up the track with heavy anchors.
&c, which lay along the wharvcs, and obliged
them to get out. Then they formed for the
march, and the Mayor of the city walked at the
head of them, to try and induce the crowd to
give them peaceable PASSAGE but they com
menced stoning them, and made SO violent a n
assault that the Mayor told the commander that
they must protect themselves. They fred on
the crowd, and they returned it with pistols
Thus the battle was k pit up for more than a
mile along Pratt Street, to the Washington De-
pot. Eleven citizens were killed, four Massa
| chusetts soldiers, and two Philadelphia troops.
great many were wounded. The Phiadel-
phia troops did not get through the city, and
went back home the same night.
One Of the Massachusetts, boys WAS taken in
to a Drug Store, where he died. lie was kind
ly asked what he came there for? His reply,
and last words was, " The Stars and Stripes"
Another said he had a mother and sister, who
were starving, and he came to earn their sup
port.
not be described 1t was terrible, The city
was wild. One city military rushed to their
armories, New companies were formed, and
everything assumed warlike aspect. We have
now twenty thousand troops on duty in the city.
Cannon and balls line some of the streets. The
city council appropriated half million of dol
lars, on Saturday, to defray the expense
The bridges on the TWO Railroads leading in
to Pennsylvania have been burnt, and the De
pots are used as barracks--no trains trying to
run at all A daily mail to New York is now
sent by Pony Express, to llavre de Grace, thir,
ty-five miles distant on the Susquehanna River.
Sunday was day long to be remembered
About IL o'clock, A. NJ, messenger came
galoping into the city, saying 5000 Pennsylva
MIA troops were marching to the city, and were
only a few miles away. Instantly the cry was
" to arms - The alarm of women, and excite
ment of everybody was awful Churches were
almost deserted-some broke upin confusion, in
the very midst of sermons. Soldiers on foot
and horseback were dashing about the streets
preparing to go out to fight the foe. The Penn
sylvanians. however, remained encamped ten
miles from the city all day and at night an or
der was sent to them from Gen. Scott, to 90 back
to Harrisburg and not try to go through here.
a military road is now open from Annapolis
to Washington, and good many thousand
troops have been passed The route ie from
Pcrrysvllc opposite Havre dc Grace, by water,
to Annapolis, and from there by railroad.-
When the first tr oops landed there, under Col
Butler of Mass, Gov. Hicks met him and told
him he must not try to take his men across
Maryland. Said Col i " Ny orders are tol
report myself in Washington and that's srAcrc
I'm going.
Another anecdotc is told about u Boston Cap
tain When they got through the city Friday,
he ordered his men to form in hollow square in
the depot, so as to defend themselves on all sides
A Policeman told him for God s sake not to show
any more fight, but to get into the car as soon
as he could. Said the Captain, WALL | amt
going to be run over, that aint the business I'm
here on
Friday morning Things look a lille brighter
here, it being reported that Virginia only in
tends to defend herself, and will not cross her !