The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
THE SITUATION.
BALTIMORE QUIET.
Attack on W0r1tlngmen Mt MOhnt Airy.
AMERICAN PRESS DISPATCHES.
tBv The atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Line.I

| BALTIMORE July 26.-Affairs on the Balti-
more division Of the Northern Central are
| very quiet, and the trainmen are all at thejI
posts as usual, although there is but little to
do, because Of the strike at other points. 1t is
| understood that there was q meeting yester-
day evening among the trainmen, and vote
was taken on the question of striking. The
superintendent has received no advices from
the meeting, which may be taken as q very
favorable omen that the efforts Of dissatisfied
strikers were unsuccessful, particularly as
the men are at work to-day.
| The stock of bituminous coal in Baltimore,
owing to the strike, is completely exhausted.
Consumers are falling back on anthracite
| coal, of which there is plenty in the market.
The Grand Jury to-day presented indict-
ments against twenty men for rioting.
| Judge Pinckney held an extra session of the
criminal court to-day TO take action in the
cases of those arrested and charged with riot
ing at Camden Station. Long before court
opened dense crowds had assembled in and
around the court house, but it was noticeable
| they were remarkably orderly. Relatives and
| friends of the accused parties were present in
| large numbers.
| The State Attorney addressed the court and
said he proposed to hold all those actual
| ly committed by magistrate for rioting
| in $4,000 bail. In reference to another class
who had been committed for their hearing
| he would require only $1,000, but
from several who were only there
from mere idle curiosity he asked $5Ot
each. The State Attorney said every person
who was there after the orders of the Police
Commissioners had been issued, was in the
contemplation Of the law, a rioter.
| A battalion of three companies OF the
United States engineers corps, stationed
at Camden Station, left here at one o'clock fol
Philadelphia, and were accompanied by q
company of the Second Artillery which ar
rived at Fort McHenry this morning from
Fort Johnson
Two hundred troops left Washington this
morning, also for Philadelphia.
It is understood from very reliable sources
that negotiations looking to the movement
of freight are now pending. A dispatch was
received to-day from Mount Airy that early
this morning, while a number of hands who
were employed building q culyert at Mount
Airy summit, on the main stem of the rail
road, were seated on the platform OF the rail
road station conversing, they were fired into
by men who had been lying in ambush, and
three men were wounded, one supposed fa-
tally, he having been shot through the eye,
the ball entering the BRAIN
| The effect Of the strike here Is painfully ap-
parent among the vessels which are now ly-
ing in the harbor waiting for freight.
Nils ..
ships are in this condition, and much dissat-
isfaction is evinced by seafaring men, who
are thereby placed under additional expense,
no freight having arrived by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad for some days past, and
streets in that vicinity are lined with long
shoremen and sailors who have nothing
| to do.
At the Flour and Corn Exchange this morn
| ing business was at comparative stand
still. There were no receipts.