Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-08
The Baltimore Dimculty.


ofMaryiand. and TIC To!icc- Commission
ers OF Baltimore, which has caused so
niuchtalk and excitement throughout the
country, during the past fortnight, has at
Governor, as was expected he would, af-
ter pretepdins to investigate the charges
preferred against the Commissioners by
the CoDseratiles alias rcbc.s, ordered
theiE dismissal, contrary to law and evi-
dei.ce, and proceeded to appoint others to
fill the vacancy which he imagined existed.
but which the oil or legal Commissioners
couldn't see, and accordingly when the
Swami Commissioners commenced swing
ing around the circle and uttcring threats
against the ri slltfulincumbents for refusing
to hand over to them the books, papers
and furniture belonging To their office. they
WIRE arrested and carried before the Judge
oftle Criminal Court of the City, TO an
swer to the. charge of being disturbers of
&is peace. who, after a patient investiga-
tion of the case ordered the Swami Com
misSi0ners to give bail in five thousand dol
larS each to answer the charges against
ihems and twenty-five thousand dollars
each to keep the peace. About the same
time the States Attorney reported that The
Sheriff was swearing men as a posse cOmiid-
tus to support the La-rls Commissioners.
Tie was called before thc Judge and warn
ed to dezist, anil refusing to dc so he wa:
arrested for contempt q court. Thy. the
Sheriff and bogus Commissioners. declin-
cd giving bail, anl were thereupon order
ed to JAIL This occlrred about o'clock
Saturday afternoon. OF course these pro-
ceedings created the greatest excitement
throughout The city. ami nothing but the
vigilance of the psifce prevented an out
break. About an L0ur after the bogus
Commissioners and sheriff had been com
mitted to jail their counsel rot ont a writ
of habeas corpus. through Judge Barton,
one of the Ju.l.ses'ofthe Court of Appeals.
bIt, was not served on Tire Warden the
jail until Monday morning, and after il was
served he appeared in no hurry to comply,
as the Jaw gave him three days in which
to make return. These proceedings put
new phase upon the. face Of things, and
created the greatest Population and alarm
among the eonspiraiors, lest their nice lit
tie scheme 10 hand the State over to the
control of tire rebels should fail Efforts
were made b5- the Conservative counsel,
at about half past two on Monday after
noon, 10 get from the Judge an order COM
polling the Warden TO immediate action
The fate of the Swami party depended on
tlIcimmediaie release oftte .so-called Com
missioners. The coInsei spared no effort
to induce the judge to act in their inter
est. but. altIiOnelI Of tlIeir faith in politics,
be could not Ne induced to violate the
plain letter of the law. After patiently
listening to their arguments for over four
hours. he announced thee was nothing for
HIM to do. the law gave tire Warden three
DAYS in which TO make his return; it had
not been proved that Ia. intended To evadc
the writ. and the court could. therefore. do
nothing but adjourn further proceedings to
Thursday morning. That decision settled
the case. The Swami party was fairly
outflanked and defeated. The Union par
". by their cOolncsS and firmness achieved
bloodHess bnt Sreat moral victory. for
which they have the thanks of the true
friends of law and order throughout the
country.
\ special dispatch to the Chicago Jri-
bune, dated Monday. Nov. 9TH, says, the
crowd outside the Court House during the
forenoon numbered about thousand ma
ny of whom were considered rpushs of the
worst Kind. They gptveIy noisy b. eleven
clock, ard half an hour later they were
evidently preparing for rush The po-
lice arrested their leader and they made
movement as though they would attempt
his rescue. The scene for about three
minutes was very exciting, but the Ser
ceant and three of his men drew their re-
volvers and the roughs quickly concluded