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This continued for several minutes, when, as 

 the horses were again attached and the car 

 moved off, it was proposed to stone it. Before 

 the car had gone twenty yards, almost every 

 window therein was broken to pieces, and 

 a portion of the crowd followed a considerable 

 distance hurling paving-stones. The eighth car 

 was treated in the same manner, but the 

 ninth car, apparently being empty, or at least 

 no person being visible except the driver of the 

 team, escaped with only one stone thrown. 



The tenth car was observed approaching from 

 Pratt street bridge, when a number of persons, 

 seizing the picks in the hands of the laborers, 

 made an ineffectual effort to tear up the track. 

 Finding that they could not succeed, as a last 

 resort they took up the paving-stones, and threw 

 them on the track, almost covering it from ob- 

 servation. They also dumped a cart-load of 

 sand on the bed of the track, placing also four 

 or five large anchors thereon, having bodily 

 removed them from the sidewalk. This being 

 accomplished, they, with loud hurrahs, dared 

 the troops to corne on ; but the latter, observ- 

 ing the posture of affairs, deemed it more pru- 

 dent to turn back to the President street depot. 



Mayor Brown hastened to the President 

 street depot, and endeavored to prevent any 

 disturbance. At this point there still remained 

 upwards of twenty cars filled with the troops, 

 and five or six cars which had been used for the 

 reception of ammunition, baggage, &c. 



After the lapse of a quarter of an hour, the 

 command was given for the troops to disembark 

 and form on the outside. While forming, they 

 were surrounded by a dense mass of people, 

 who impeded their march, up President street 

 by every possible means. Stones were thrown 

 in great numbers. At Fawn street two of the 

 soldiers were knocked down by stones and 

 greatly injured. 



After the cars had been checked and return- 

 ed to the depot, as above stated, the military 

 formed and prepared to march through the city. 



From the President street depot to Pratt 

 street bridge they were pursued by the excited 

 crowd, who continued to hurl stones, and, it 

 is stated, fired at them with muskets, &c. 

 Mayor Brown had put himself at the head of 

 the column, with a strong body of police. The 

 soldiers continued on up Pratt street over the 

 bridge, where several more were badly injured 

 by the stones thrown at the rear ranks. They 

 came alopg at a brisk pace, and when they 

 reached Market Space, an immense concourse 

 of people closed in behind them and commenced 

 stoning them. 



When they reached Gay street, where the 

 track had been torn up, a large crowd of men 

 armed with paving-stones showered them on 

 their heads with such force that several of them 

 were knocked down in the ranks. These 

 after lying a few moments crawled on their 

 hands and knees into some of the stores on 

 Pratt street. After they fell there was no fur- 

 ther attack made on them, and those thus 



wounded were taken to apothecary stores for 

 medical attendance. 



At the corner of South and Pratt streets a 

 man fired a pistol into the ranks of the military, 

 when those in the rear ranks immediately 

 wheeled and fired upon their assailants, and 

 several were wounded. The guns of the sol- 

 diers that had fallen wounded were seized, and 

 fired upon the ranks with fatal effect in two in- 

 stances. 



After they reached Calvert street they suc- 

 ceeded in checking their pursuers by a rapid fire, 

 which brought down two or three, and they 

 were not much molested until they reached 

 Howard street, where another large crowd was 

 assembled. Some stones were thrown at them, 

 but their guns were not loaded, and they passed 

 on through the dense crowd down Howard 

 street towards the depot. 



The scene on Pratt street, as stated, was of 

 a startling character. The wounded soldiers, 

 three in number, were taken up carefully and 

 carried to places of safety by the citizens along 

 the street. 



Tli| rear portion of the troops received the 

 brunt of the attack of the assailants. The pav- 

 ing-stones were dashed with great force against 

 their backs and heads, and marching thus in 

 close ranks, they were unable to effectually de- 

 fend themselves. When they did turn and fire, 

 it was without halt, and being thus massed to- 

 gether, their shots took effect mostly on inno- 

 cent spectators who were standing on the pave- 

 ment. They stood the assault with stones with- 

 out resistance, the entire distance from the 

 President street depot until they reached the 

 vicinity of South street, and then fired obliquely 

 on to the pavements, rather than turning on 

 their assailants. The police did their utmost 

 to protect the troops from assault, and partially 

 succeeded until they reached Gay street, where 

 the crowd, armed with paving-stones, were col- 

 lected. They rushed in between the police and 

 the rear ranks, driving them back, and sepa- 

 rating them from the military. After the firing 

 commenced, the assaulting party dispersed, and 

 for the balance of the route there was no attack 

 upon them. The four soldiers who fell wounded 

 in the street, were struck down between Gay 

 and Calvert streets, where the fiercest of the 

 attack was made on them. The troops com- 

 posed the Sixth regiment of Massachusetts In- 

 fantry, commanded by Colonel E. F. Jones, in. 

 all eleven companies, with an aggregate of eight 

 hundred and sixty men, rank and file. 



It was about half-past twelve o'clock when 

 the train left the Carnden station. A few 

 minutes afterwards, a discharge of firearms at- 

 tracted the attention of the crowd to the cor- 

 ner of Pratt and Howard streets, where a body 

 of infantry from one of the Northern States, 

 about one hundred and fifty strong, were seeq 

 rapidly approaching the depot, and no doubt 

 anxious to reach the cars. 



The excitement now was beyond description, 

 and a man displaying the flag of the Confeder- 



