Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-01

ltiItenhouse had lust sent him, lie had
never worn spectacles In public, aud as h,
put tneni on no said, In his simple manner
and with his pleasant smile, :" have grown
grey III your service, and now lind mysel
growing blind While all hearts were
setcneu ne went on reading the iettor, and
tnon withdrew, leaving tho meeting to It's
heiiberhioo-, There WAS n sudden and
mighty revulson OF feeling. A motion was
reported declaring unsbaken confidence In
tho lustico of Congress !" and II was added
that "the officers OF the American army
View with adherence aud reject with djs
dain tho Infamous proposals contained In n
lato anonymous address 10 them" The
crestiallen Gates, as chairman, had nothing
To do but put the question an 4 report Ii
carried unanimously; for ~ any still re-
manned obdurate they no longer dared Ia
show It, Washington Immediately set iorti,
the urgency o! the case In an earnest letter Ia
Congress, and ono week later the matter
was settled by an act committing halfpay for
life into gross sum equal To i've years full
pay, Ia be discharged at once by certificates
bearing interest at six per cent. such poor
paper was all that Congress had to pay with,
but " was all ultimately redeemed aud
while the communication was advantageous tn
the government, IL WIS at tbs same time
greatly for tho interest OF the officers, while
they were looking out Tor new means OF
hvti,hood, To nave their cisius adjusted at
once ana 70 receive something which could
a." uu'y 'o hfesPectapie sum OF money.
THE LANCASTER MuriNEERS.
Nothing however could preyent the STORY
oi the Newburgh affair from being published
all over the country, and Il greatIy " added to
tho distr,ist with which the army was re-
garded on general principles. What might
have happened was forcibly suggested by a
miserable occurrence In June, about two
months after the disbanding of the army had
begun. Some eighty soldiers of the Penn
syivania line, mutinous from discomfort and
want of pay, broke from their camp at Ian
caster and marched down to philadelphia,
led by "A sergeant or two. They drew M i'm
line before the state House, where Congress,
was assembled, and after passing the eroy
began throwing stones and pointing their
muskots at the windows They demanded
pay, and threatened, II IL were not fortbcom
Ing, To seize tho members of Congress and
hold them a. hostages, or else to break into
the bank where the federal deposIts we're
kept The executive council OF pennsylya-
MIA sat In the same building and NO the
federal government appealed to the state
government for protection The appeal was
Ruthless President Dickinson had a fsw
state militia at his DISPOSAL but did not dare
Ia summon them for fear they should side
with the rioters The city government was
equally li4iless, and the t6wnsfolk went their
ways a. IL u were none of their business.
aud 40 Congress iled across the river and ON
10 Princeton, where the college afforded II
shelter Thus i'm a city of thirty.two thou-
sand Inhabitants the largest CITY I'm the
country, tho government OF the tnited
States, the body which had lust com pleted a
treaty browbeaiing England and France.
was ignominiously turned out of doors by a
handful Of drunken mutIneers The affair
was laughed at by many but sensible men
keenly felt the disgrace, and asked What
would he Thought In Europs of a govern.
ment which could not even command ihe
services OF the police. The army became
more unpopular than ever, and during the
summer aud fall many town-msetipps were
held In New England, coudemninp the com
mutation act, Are we not poor enough
already, cried the farmers, that we must be
taxed 10 support In idle luxury a rotous