The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-02-04
UNvoRrUNArH ocCURRENCE.


as we have learned them, are as fol-
lows:
Some Of the veterans Of the 18th
Reg. "merry and noisy with winc,"
learning that citizen wearing "blue
brooches" had proclaimed himself las
good butternut as Vallandigham,"
started out to find the man, dctcrmin-
cd to strip off of him the portion of the
Federal uniform he was wearing and
disgraeing without authority. In their
rounds they came upon the City Mar
shal who cautioned them to be still,
whercupon the boys disdaining all re
straint and disliking the Marshal par
ticularly, became more noisy and fol-
lowed him up Main street TO Siffords
store in front of which he stopped
whereupon the boys gathering round
shouted all kinds of nonsense. The
noise and excitement soon gathered a
largo crowd, when Union citizens fear
ing trouble interposcd and succeeded
in getting the most excited Of the sol
diers away from the scene of growing
difficulty and as far up as the Public
square. At this moment when the cri-
sis seemed to have passed. Ssome little
boys who had climed to the top Of Mrs.
Schory's building, adjoining the Eagle
office, knocked off loose brick which
came tumbling down into the crowd
with crash, when, with the "rapidity
of thought" the report circulated that
soldier had been struck with q
brick thrown from the Eagle Office. y
AT tins critical moment poor but
doubtless well meaning fool boastingly
declared in the presence and hearing
of the soldiers his intention to ode
fcnd the Eagle against their attack
and Immediately started up the steps
for that purpose. This foolish threat,
coupled with the Calling of the brick
above alluded to seemed greatly to cx-
aspcrate the soldiers, and one of them
picked up the brick and pitched it up
the stairway after the "brave man, +"
who was on Iris way to "protcct" the
then undisturbed Eagle. Bomcgard-
ner, for this was the mans name, pick
ed up the brick and attempted to throw
it into the crowd, but was prevented
from executing Ms purposc by some Of
the employees of the Eagle office who
seized him, but most unfortunately, in
the scutile, the hrick fell and came
bounsing down the hall, striking a
soldier on the foot in its descent. All
efforts to restrain the boys now proved
mavailing. Like set of infuriatcd
wild beasts they rushed up the stair
way--seizcd Bomegardner by the hair
and dragged him down the steps into
the street, and but for the intcrposition
Of Union citizens, would most proba-
bly, have given him severe beating,
The call was now made upon the
Eagle to put out its colors, whereupon
Judge Wright with the best of motives
put ont the colors Of the oliice-a sort
Of nondcscrip-half national-hali
confedcrate-halfFr French concern, with
stars on the blue field, with stripes OF
three colors-red, white and blue, and
with the inscription Justice, law and
order" Upon the appearance of this
flag the boys seemed satisfed-tooii
Of their hats aid checred lustcly, but
us the colors swung to the breeze, they
soon discovered its partizan character,
and when u few rattle brained silly
boys, always anxious TO see trouble.
cried out chats butternut flag, that s
Olds' mottoe," -"them's not the colors
you fight under" take it down"-up
the boys went like q shot and down
came the flag, and out of the window
came the papers, and into pic went a
portion of the type.
About this time, Mitchell Morris,
openly declared that "the soldiers were
set of DIM cutthroats.' lie had
hardly uttered the foul calumnly
when he was struck by dozen SOL
dicrs, and but for his retreat to ere
Der & Kutz's abolition hole" aided by
Union men, he never wonld have lived
to know what struck him.
During the whole of this unfortu-
nate and disgraceful occurrence Union
men were doing all in their power to
soothc the passions of the excited sold
icrs, and prevent any and every at
tack upon either person or property,
and but for the efforts of Creed, Tall
madge, Martin, Clarke, Wagcnhals,
Capts. Clarke and Nolcs, and Lieut.,
Cornwcll, and others, the riot would
have been much more general, and the
injury to person and property much
moro serious. By their efforts the