Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-03-01
FROM BALTIMORE.
Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette

Especial pIsfatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.l
BALTIMORE, Feb. "a.
There are thousands of rumors in all
directions regarding Lincoln's incognito
sage through Baltimore to Washington.
This morning intense excitement pre-
vailed, and still prevails regarding it,
Out of the many flying reports, | shall
give you what is nearest to fact and the
most reliable. Our City Council made
no arrangements whateYer to give Mr..
Lincoln amy public reception on the part
of the corporate authorities This, [
learn, was done in compliance with re-
quests from his friends. and from Mr..
Lincoln himself. No military were to
be out.
+, Ample arrangements were made by
the President Of the Northern Central
Railway to convey the Presidential party
from Harrisburg to Baltimore in spec
ial train, and the precaution taken to
station sentincls every half mile along
the track. The best cars, locomotives,
conductors, and everything of the most
reliable character, were selected. On
Friday afternoon several Of Mr.. Lin
coin most prominent political and per-
sonal friends in Baltimore and vicinity,
numbering ten or twelve, proceeded to
Harrisburg to escort him to Baltimore,
whilst ample arrangements were made
by them to take charge on arriving here,
of himself and family who were to have
dined with Col. Cuttings, President of
the road, and depart at three o'clock in
| the afternoon for Washington.
Col. Kane, Marshal of the Police. had
four hundred policemen stationed in and
around the Depot. The arrangements
were deemed ample and perfectly secure
About nine o'clock on Saturday morn
ing, a dispatch from Harrisburg an
nounced, rather vaguely, that Mr.. Lin
coin had gone through on the Express
train, before daylight, to, Washington.
This created much excitement, and it
was subsequently, contradicted People
commenced thronging the streets from
all quarters. aud concentrating in i'm
mense numbers around the Northern
Central depot. Other statements gained
currency, declaring previous dispatches
hoaNcs, and that. Lincoln was certainly
on the train soon to arrive. This was
generally believed, though Washington
kilograms positively announced Mr..
Lincoln's arrival in the Capital.
. The crowd continued to increase
around the depot ia Calvert street, until
it reaches nearly twenty thousand. It
cvlnced intense rcstlessness, and was
composed chiefly of the bad element, in
Guiding many lazy, mischievous boys
A large portion were persons assembled
from natural curiosity, but it is believed
there were others with bad intentions.
None could be convinced that Mr. Lin
coin was not on the train, until the ar
rival Of the cars, when it was authorita-
lively announced that he was not there,
but had gone through early in the morn
ing alone to Washington.
Much ommotion, however, existed
ana there was a considerable rush.
Mrs. Lincoln and her family, accom-
panied by escorts, were placed in car
riages and conveyed to the residence of
Col. Cuttings, where they dined, and de-
parted quietly at O'Clock in the after
noon for Washington, where they soon
arrived safely, Joining the President
elect at Wizards Hotel.
! 1t is difficult for me to say what the
crowd might have done, had Mr.. Lin
coin appeared before it. The general
impression is that there would have
been serious trouble. Certain it is that
the very worst characters in Baltimore
were there congregated, to restrain
whom under existing circumstances
would have been impossible. It is
known that many dissolute boys: and
men were fully supplied with rotten
eggs and other missiles, which they
found no use for in Mr.. Lincoln's alb
sence. \ policeman informs me, he
thinks they were intended to bespatter
and maltreat the Baltimore Wide
Awakes, who arc held to be obnoxious,
as soon as they appeared in the presence
of the Presidents cortege, without de-
signing insult or injury to the President.