Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1863-04-02
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A Scene in Chicago.

Chicago Tribune, OF a hte date' mas
the following:
About six o'clock on Thursday
evening a train laden With rebel prs
( oners arrived via the Chicago ard St
Louis railroad, and stopped more
than an iour upon the track, short
distance South of the Chicago, Bur
lingtou and Quincy railroad crossing,
waiting for an engine to take them
ACROSS upon the Illinois Central, op-
posiie CAMP Douglas. The train
was behiad time, and quite a crowd
! had gathered TO meet K; Tor what,
the sequel vii show. Soon after The
train had stopped, several persons
Came forward and shook hands with
the prisoners, using such express
( ions as these: "Ynu are men after
my own heart ;" ''we entertain the
same sentiments that you do; ''you
are down on the id AbOlitionists
land so are We" Pass out your
can'eeus and We will bring you va
ter" A perfect shower @! canteens
Was handed from he Cars by the Pris-
ouers, and taken away by the s!!m-
palli6ers. A guard requested that
his, too, might be filled, and received
in reply, You id Abolition
rascal, Ill see you Id first, aud
then ! wouldn't" While the caD-
teens we're being passed hastily into
the cars, one of the captains discOv-
cred that they were filed with wbls-
KEY ms cad of water, and ordered the
guard to empty those that we're pre-
ntcd containing wEiskey, which they
dii.
By this time The crowd had in
creased to upward Of three hundred,
of which the officers and guard con-
cIuded by their conversation and ac-
tons, fully two-thifds were secession
maatbisers. The emptying OF the
whlskay from The cauteens was made
the signal for an attack upon lhe of.
licers anI privates Of The 34,h Ohio
regiment, who were guarding the
IrisoLecs. The mob tried to open
: the doors Of tie cars, threatening to
kill the offers and men if they dldn t
let them 20 to see their South, IN
friends. Oilers were so defiant as TO
say thst these men were not, and
never should be, prisoners ID Camp
Douglas. During the melee, W. W.
White and auotber policeman came
up 10 queIl the disturbance, and ar
rested two men named Mike ConuOr
and Wiliiam Hickey, who appeared
most troublesome at the time. One
OF the pole man was Knocked down
By the NIB, but still held TO his man,
and with the assistance of the guard,
the two men we're taken from the
crowd, VINO were only kept from fol
lowing and rescuing tie men by a
line Of guards being formed across
the street by Captain McChnaban OI
company F. which prevented The
mob from lolIoaiug the police.
Aferward stout individual W.T.:
very loud in bis secesh drmonstrr
. tons, aud tried to iuciie insuIreclloC
: among the prisoners. Refusing &c
desist from his outrageous conduct
Captain McCIanahan placed a guart
around him with fixed bayonets, anC
: ordered them to run him through
, if be still persisted iu his harangut
to the prisoners Not until after he
bad been prickeG by the bayOnet'
did he believe them in earnesi, bu
be became qnie, just ia time TO saTt
his life.
About dark, when the engine haC
arrived, another squad Of men came
running up to tie ,raiD, and one Of
them asked the engineer how sOor
he was going to start. His reply
was, I" 10 about two minutes Can
you wait halt al hour? | have good
reasons for making the request" said
the leader of the gang. 10 thi;
, Captain McClanahan replisd. "Wt
are going to start within five miu
utes, if you or any Of your seces
sion friends have any ilea Of attempt
lag 20 rescue these prisoners, now il
your time; our men are fully pre-
5 pared Ior you
AS the train started, they wei'
heard 10 make some threatening re
8 ply, and were seen in the dusky twi
J. light hurryiDg in different directions