Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1859 — Terrible [?] of near Baltimore. [ARTICLE]

Terrible [?] of near Baltimore.

One hundred persons H ported Wounded. -Th<‘ B i timore Patriot.. <xf Friday, s ivs till' th-diy b-fa-e, St. P,t i-k’s 1) •; j ie 'i.tnds employed on the new water works, three miles from the city, suspended th< ir labors to engi-ge in the festive semms tint are generally olmerve l by th • sou- of Erin on t’iit day. At ail e.r:y hour tmv cum-in.-need imb'bing the arden' very freely, and s i contiiin d through mt the ent re day, until tlicir brain became m i 1.1 m-d with the au-.ih die dr uglit. and .->m” exhibited a strong des-ire to engage in a genera! fight, whwh wis pro i.ptly ch wk i.-i 7> v th > more di-cieet p irti hi of their number. T .wirds. three o clo- k. however, a p rty of (’<> k mians came.down from th” upper work- and begin to threaten their opponents, the Far-dowm-rs. when a general riot took plat.-e in which were eng igee about five liund-ed perHOltS. • Pistols, .'un. axes, picks,clubs and shovels were : reel vu - ti nd du-in f the in”’e one tn n was -h t • ;rgh the kid :e,s, ;-.n er through the li-ui. ml.sever il ‘’ie, r ,._ cei ved bills in di tli to nt p <rt s <>t' their b . file wounds 61 many will very probub v prove lat.-il. Au aged man who had taken a veryactive part in the fight, h<d the entire scalp knock d Irani his head, while o'hcrs reci ived sever il cuts and bruises. I’he b itt e continu'd till near night, and beg m to inc-ea- -, when inform ition was brought to tip- city, isking lor assistance at the h inds of the authorit es, as the probabilities were that a number would be killed. ••Oifieers were immediately dispatched to th” bitlie ground, but on their arrival learned that an officer f the countv hid heard o" the afluir and succeeded in making sever; 1 arrests, which had tli > etlect of p*ev-‘nting any further riotous proceedir gs. It is estL m <ted that. ;<t least, one Lu id ed j ersons w tc wounded, some of them it is s lid must dje. as their injuries are of a f tai char iter. Several of the tirorninent act rs in this disgraceful affair fl <1 t > B Ft'.more, nd ar- now at large, whose names are known, but le.-t the announcement sh u’d prevent their arrest we suppress th ‘111, and ho w they may receive the punishment whiclMdiev so richly merit.” 03” Two young m ri Irom the neighbor hood oi Hillsdile. Micli.. passed throrugli this citv. list week, on their re’urn from Pikes P yik. bringing wi'h t'min SK,OOO, the result. of a-i months soj urn in that corintrv. They nronose returning again soon.— Chicago II raid. T i<‘ S nth Berni Forum, of last Saturday, has the tollowing c rrob irative of the hove. It is quite I’kelv that both items refer to the s.mie individuals: “ Two young men. relative- of M r . Reading, of this place, have recently returned rom Pike s Peik; a ter a six month’s ahsense, b'inging with them $lB 000, which they obtained by dig :ing in the mines. They ire so nine 1, elated with th< ir sn-ce s ‘hat it is their intention to return, taking with them ttieir lather and probably otii t relatives.” 03" I Davenport Gazette calls attention to the coincidence that seventy-six members ot the House voted for raising the rates of letter postage, ami thut seventy-six members of the House voted against the homeste; d b 11. W hat is still more rmarkable, the seventy-six persons in favor ot’rat es of pcsstgo were a I most identic;; 11 v t he very sever t< - six men who voted against the homestead bill, and of those seventv-six all were Administr ition men. When this fact is rec<‘ lected, and the addition'll fnct that the Peniocr rtic Senate killed the homestead bill and endeavored to increa e the letter postage, the posit ion of the Democratic party in its entire opposition to the wishes and interest* of the people is unmistakable.