New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-01


when men len the low standing in thefnrrow, droppel
the upted hammer and rushed TO the defense oi thef
country. AZ every station ard every house, people
greeted the soldiers with cheering and the waving OF
hats and hsndkerchiefs, and the women and giflr,
when they hsd no handkerchief, waved their Oohnels
and aprons The returned all the .autati'ns, en-
joyrg the demons ration immensely AT Que house oy
the roadside, old lady, who seemed excited 10 tne
highest pitch waved Ter hand till the trains were en-
tiely past, ard then gave vent TO her oyerwronght
feelings by Welding TO food Of tears Such was tho
exubsraut Joy with the people, alarmed bat the hour
before by underlined apprehension, welcomed the ap-
poarsnce of their doienders.
ARRIVAL At MASSiNGTOs.
Onr trains reached Warrington little after noon,
aud tho appearance of the troops there, every where
else, took the people completely by surprs.. iney
had heard, however, that train was coming from me
West and this unusual since TIE burning OF the
bridges a considerable crowd mt the depot wsiIng.
Az tbe trains rolled in they displayed the Amer an
flag, aud with that and The cleaning Of q thouGnd
bay oDeis the people almost went wild with enibusi-
arm. In few minutes the whole town was there,
and Tho Sl@det set Of people man ever laid eyes Oh
Their JOY scarcely knew any bounds.
ARREST OP sECEssfOsIsTs.
Hardly had the soldiers becn there i've minutes I'll
they had arrested aud under guard many Secession
is,s, viz: a iavernkeepcr named Weils, Mr. Knots,
merchant; Charles Matthews, Superintendent on that
Recton Of the Baltimore md Ohio Railroad; Dr. Grant,
defeated Secession canjiate for the Legislature, snd
ore Xeke Srodpass, constable, who tiled very hard
TO give leg-La but didn't succeed quite sufficiently TO
save bis ba On. These men al eemed 10 expect h0th-
ing short oil execution night GU tie spot lhey WIRE
afraigned before Col. Kelly, who released Weiis,
Knots and Grant their taking The oath oil nueity,
buI retained Matthew'S and SnoJgrass
TIE trains soon after moved on down TO the NIT
burned bridge, where the men hisem0arked, ana
paclded in 4 meadow. Col. Kelley then detailed SIX
conn aIies and started for Farnbg'oD notorious Sc
cesson nest some three mcs below, from which 1t was
said toe men who burned the bridges had cone ana
where wa reported 80 armed Secesson troops
were stationed. Meanwhile, the remainder vi Tue
troops stacked arms after throwing out pickets ana
ecogts ON the eghboring hills with orders 10 bliog in
sny persons they might find In less than ten minutes
after tkeir nj they brought in six some OF whon
il was positively asserted by some Union men from the
country aronnd, accessory TO the destruction Oh
the bridges
Squads Of men continued TO 90 out in different direc
lions and 10 bring in prisoners until tney must have
had at least dozen under guard at once. Several Of
them were released after IN examination by the ON
oefr bu, at -ast eight retained uniil the
return Of Col. Kelly. II rather exciting to see
tho scouts or snske-bunters,' they style them
selves. on a trail. AS certainly az they would spy
man anywhere in sight, squad oil Them "ouid hehe
their guns and start after him on run, and before
very long would bring him in; FOR they were sure of
their game il they got ey es it, The prisoners were
al treated with the utmost courtesy but nevertheless
some of them looked terribly frightened. guilty
fence may have been gnav ing II some OF them,
and added still lighter shade 10 their paloness.
In the evening the companics returned from Farm
nRtou bringing with them several prisoners, and re-
porting that their scous had killed one SecefslOnst aud
wounded another. When they got 10 Ehrningtonthey
found il almost entirely deserted the Secessonists
having got wind OF their approach through the good
Offices Of one Joliie, who when the trains entered
Warrington, mounted horse aud galloped oil IN hot
ha.te 10 FarnngtOn to the Secess0nists OF their
Danger. By the way, If the boys SHOULD catch that
came Jolife, il wouldn't be good for his health, nor
calculated to facilitate the circulation OF biz breath.
Finding the town deserted, Col. Kelley ordered bis
men 10 .cour the woods surrounding il, AID It not
long till ttey rad unesrthed several " the fugyes,
mott OF whom they captured. The men who were
sho were running from their purslers who called out
10 them to surrender. Not hteding this, they were
told TINT they would be shot unless they did NO at
tepiion was paid 70 the command and several shots
were fired killing Instantly ard woundng another
Their names gt this time are not known
have not learned Mt this writing what was done
with the prisoners. Tho impression n camp was that
they would be tried by court martial Against some
of them there very strong positive evidence that they
.et irc 10 the bridges and il IL expected TINT IL Will
move a serors business with some OF them. Ii seems
10 be- pretty generally believed that gang of Seces-
rionsi- acting under the orders OF Col Thompson aud
Col. ". j. Wiley, half brother of Wakeman IT,,
were the inccudaries, and that nearly all the Seces
-ionists around there We're accessory. There was
great anxiety TO catch Wiley bat be was reported to
be NJ GraCu safe enough s he suppoees, bu. may be
no, qille 20 safe ar he thinks.
THE BURSGD BRIDGES.
The two bridges burned We're over Buffalo Greek
and common open raufotu per OfoRt7, III IRON
except The s and the crossies of the track both of
which were consumed. Tue upper one is about four
miles below Warrington, and the other come quarter
of t. mile below il. IL il feared that Others are des-
troyed between there and Grafton The anxiety about
the spleudld iron bridge over the Nor ongahela If
pecially very great 1t was said in Warrington that
th, non men Of tairm0nt guarding IT, ana IL Is
u be hotod they will do Sunday night several
bridges between Warrington and Glovers Gap were
guarded by the citizens OF the former place.
Al the PANE tine they bad need OF guarding their
town. for tie gang at Pennington had threatened to
burn il 10 the ground aud there various Iumors
ailoat about accessions To their number. tlovere
Gan il WAY station several miles above Warrington,
inhibited by but one two families, but surrounded
bya recession country which polled some sixty or
seventy secession votes. These men live around
among The hills and are almost inaccessible. That
mart OF tie road will bear watching. AZ the train
came West this morning the telegraph was found cut
not half mile from this place. 1t is scnousLe coaec-
tured that ii tie guilty parties are caught they VIII DO
ohoked slightly.
RETURN TO asNsISGToS.
The Ohio regiment reached Warrington on Monday
evening just at DARK having elt their way over the
road examining all the bridges to rec that they had not
been injured. The whole town assembled 10 receive
them Ihey paradod in the street al trout Of llough
Hotel while their band "a superb one pay ed the star
SpanQled Banner and other slfs. At the conclusion
the ceowd gave three cheers for Ohio which comph-
ment WAS returned by the Ohio men, who gave three
for the citizens of Warrington. Tie citizens then
profered their houses for quarters Tor the soldiers.
Some wero put ip .be church. some Ia the Odd Eel
lows Hall others at the hotel others ia private houses,
until they wero all provided for the people manifest
c the most core nj feel'ag for them And well they
srifed sc treatment for boside that they came here
to protect US they splendid set OF icllows-tali
Handsome and soldierse in appearance, and dignded
and genilcmany in demeanor.
TEoy were immensely pleased with their reception
all aloig the road, and particularly with tie substan
ii compliments of the good people OF Cameron and
I.,ltou The citizens Of Cameron taken by sur
prise by the train that conveyed the Wheeling reg-
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