Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-10-27

senger hands Immediately assisted him
10 the Drug Store of l.. l., butcher d
Son, where medical help was immedi-
ately summoned.
While this was going on, the more
southern part of Main Street was in
great excitement AS we looked down
the street, we saw armed horsemen
shooting their guns with the greatest
impunity. Our citizens stood silent aud
almost speeches.. A man came running
up the street, eXclaiming "All the banks
are robbed" "What shall we do 7"
What can we do was the universal an-
swer. About that moment appeared
Captain George r. Conger, OF the First
Vermont Cavalry, who urged the citi-
zens to arm themselves with anything,
even with broomsticks. eve have lot
ofrebel raiders upon us" he emphatic
ally exclaimed, and 'let us catch them"
The Messenger further says
An attempt was made by the marau-
ders to fire several of our buildings. An
attempt was made to fire the American
Hotel last night--or rather 1t was dis
covered after the villains had left, but
the fire was extingoished. This Thurs
day morning, Mr.. Atwood on attempting
to open his store found that portion of
it was ignited with phosphorus, Along
our streets we cannot fail to see the bull
let holes, In front and all sides we OBJ
serve the attempts of the rebels to Kill
and murder. a-.
In the window of A. III. Munyan are
| three or four bullet holes to be seen it
was near this point that G. II. Hunting
ton received his wound, the shot being
occasioned by his determined persistence
to stop the operation of the raiders. We
are glad to be able to say that Mr.. Hunt
ington is likely to recover.
The editor of the Times went up from
Burlington to st. Adams on Thursday
snd CLEANED the following facts in rela-
ton to the raid.
The leader of the party is described as
u tall, well built man, good looking, and
registered himself at the fremont House
as 4. B. Clyde of Illinois. He first APP
! peared in st. Adams about the 10th OF
! October, when he put up at the fremont
House and remained two or three days.
At that time he mostly kept his room,
! but several strangers in the meanwhile
visited him at his room, He next Wis
tied st. Adams on the morning of Oct.
18th. He was evidently man of tai
ent, GOODNESS and of good education, and
is undoubtedly Confederate officer of
high rank. The estimate of their num-
bers is various, but we place them at
from thirty to forty They were well
armed with horse pistols of new and
| most serviceable pattern. They each
had from one to four of these formidable
weapons.
The demonstration was totally uneX-
pected to the citizens of st, Adams,
though we heard several gentlemen re-
mark that they noticed an unusual num-
Der of strangers in town, Wednesday af-
ternoon, and it somewhat excited their
curiosity and attention. They were al
most all well dressed intelligent looking
men, and were clearly just the men for
so bold and hazardous an undertaking
as they accomplished.
After dinner these persons were seen
occasionally in groups, but mostly walk
ing carelessly along Main Street in the
neighborhood of the banks.
The preliminaries of the affair were
the stationing of patrol on the streets
and simultaneous descent on the
banks, about half past three o'clock, par
ties of five or six entering each of them,
while like number of their friends re-
manned outside to 'keep watch"
THE ST. ALBANs BANK.
The st. Adams Bank, of which H. B.
Sowles is President and Gov. Smith,
Lawrence Brainerd, Bradley Barlow, and
other leading citizens, directors, has its
banking house on Main Street, in the
we'll known Seymour House, and just
south of the "Kingman Block" About
half-past three, two or three young men,
very well dressed, and evidently men of
intelligence, came into the bank. All
were fair in appearance save one, who is
described by our old townsman, Martin
A. Seymour, who was in the Directors
room of the bank at the time, as of most
malicious visage. These fellows ap-
preached Mr.. @. ~ Bishop, Teller of the
bank, and presenting pair Of pistols,
proceeded to rob the institution. Mr..
Bishop ran into the room where Mr..
Seymour was and attempted to bolt the
door, but they were too quick for them,
and forcing the door, Bishop was drag
ged out by the the throat, and Mr.. Sey-
mour presented with rebel argument
in the shape of a pistol to his head.
They were then obliged to swear an
oath of allegiane e to the Southern Con-
federacy and not to divulge any Of these
proceedings for two hours. The leader
of the party said
ave are here under the order of Gen.
Early. You have been down into the
Shenandoah valley, burned our houses
and wasted our property and now we
propose to pay you back in the same
coin."
Mr. Seymour being aR extremely good
Union man hesitated about taking the
oath prescribed, but threatened appli-
cation of "cold lead" soon brought him
to the rebel terms. The bank lost in all
$73, 500, distributed as follows:
Bills of st. Adams Bank, $3S,500
Z" of other Banks, 10000
Legal tender notes, 10000
Int. u s. demand notes, 5000
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