Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-06-20

Hon. JohnB Kerr, late U. s, Minister
to Nicaragua, and leading Union fnan
oftho county and State for protesting
against their Killing The Judge, was
struck over the head with q revolver aud
knocked down. He received a very ug-
y wound.
John 7 Hopkins, Esq, tho foreman
Of the jury, and good Union man, got
his bead badly cut. Mr. Perry w. Stew
art, Jr., another Union man, was struck
over the head with heavy weapon and
badly cut. Messrs. Joseph Y, b. Wrigh,
apg Jacob Wooden. hpfh raeaixed sgers
ss5Ts WA II bastle, ca 81 DC. bai-
Ifs Of the court, was assailed S.tll great
feroeity. VIM. II. Nahb, who at ths
lhae was in the court yard, made for The
nrt room, was met on tie stops, knock.
"a down and most dreadfally beaten, A
pistol was fred at him, and bis life was
only saved BY tho timely arrival Of Lieut..
Guyer, who made the officer desist. SIEVE
raj pistols we're fred in the court-roo,n,
and percussion caps inuumerable As
soonas the courtroom was cleared, Judge
Carmichael, all dripping with gore, was
taken to the Registers Office below,
where bis wounds were dressed by Dr..
I Edward jenkins. In the meantime, A.
A. Paseault. Esq, one Of our citizens,
was arrested on the courthouse green,
and taken with the other prisoners to the
Registers Office There was great OK
element and Indignation among the citi-
zens, but no resistance or retaliation was
offered What resistance could uuarmed
citizens offer to such party had they felt
disposed to resist ? None whatever.
Soon after the arrests we're made, Ma
jor Andrews, with two companies of thc
Second Delaware regiment, arrived from
the steamboat, and remained for some
hours, when the battalion escorted til,
prisoners to the boat. a number Of oul
citizens were cursed and abused upon tht
court house green by the man Bishop
who appeared eager to provoke genera
fight. He made no distinction between
Union men and others--all alike receiv.
cd a share Of his vulgar tongue, the Unior
men getting the mostof it,
1 We forbear extended comments upol
/ these high-handed proceedings, as ou
readers have all DOUBTLESS expressed them
ssazs-sse: feasiag sss'es-. h se..sA atsoaea
terms than we feel at liberty to use. w
never heard or read Of a Judge being
( dragged off the bench during a ciyi
trial, and brutally beat and mangled b.
o set Of ruitians, who assumed to act il
tho name Of the law The case is with
out precedent. If they had in then
one spark Of regard for law, the ofic,
and the peace, if not the man, should
have restrained them from the commits
sion Of such unheard OF violence. I
their object was to disgrace the Judge
they signally failed--for his proud spui
never ainched, and he preserved his per
sonal dignity to the last, and only yieldol
after the assault, to superior physica
force
In his distress and imprisonment h,
has the respects and sympathy of ever,
gentleman and lady in tic State whos,
respect and sympathy are worth having
/ His brutal treatment upon the Bench vii
render his name immortal, and now thal
bis charge TO the Grand Jury-the onl,
charge against him-will attract tho a.
tention Of jurists throughout tho world
we venture 10 assert that IL viii stand
and be respected as devoted patriotism
sound constitutional law, and impartial
justice, long after the names Of bis ma
liouant detractors and prosecutors shall
hayo been consigned 90 oblivion.
The Judge and his fellow prisoners,
BcsFa Powell, Nabb and Pac oult, we're
shat night taken aud confined in For,
1leHenry, whcro they wore at last ac-
counts
We believe tie above 90 De . correct
and impartial statement oi tho facts in an
essential particulars Tho accounts Of
The affair published in the Baltimore
American and The Philadelphia Enqui-
rcr are nothing but q tissue Of mirepre-
sentatious. There was no concert Of ac-
ton to prevent tho arrest Of the Judge ;
there was no attempt on the part Of our
citizens 10 rescue the prisoners; there
was no lighting, and outrage- committed,
except what was done by McPbail and
bis party and there is not word Of
truth 10 the statement that the military
were followed to the boat BY large mum.
bcrof Seccssiouists Ourcitizcns, though
excited and indignant, behaved with pru-
dcnce and forbcaranoo. Had they be-
haved otherwise, we have not a doubt
that tho town would have been given up
to destruction Bad as the affair was,
SIC are heartily glad that il was no worse.
TnE Mog8oN Em0RArloN. "A CORES
pondeut gives tho following az a correct
report Of Mormon emigration from the
ports under mentioned from April 9th,
1862, to May Goth, inclusiye From
Liverpool there sailed on the 25th Of
April, 702 "saints :" on the 9th Of Nay,
$40, on the Goth Of the same month, S07.
From Hamburg the exodus was exlon-