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ernor of this State, under whose orders you are acting, 

 and whose purpose, recently communicated to the 

 Legislature, has just been responded to by that body 

 in the most unparalleled legislation, having in direct 

 view hostilities against the General Government, and 

 cooperating with its enemies. 



lu view of these considerations, and your failure to 

 disperse in obedience to the proclamation of the Presi- 

 dent, and of the eminent necessity of State policy and 

 welfare, and obligations imposed upon me by instruc- 

 tions from Washington, it is my duty to demand, and 

 I do hereby demand of you, an immediate surrender 

 of your command, with no other conditions than that 

 all persons surrendering under this demand shall be 

 humanely and kindly treated. 



Believing myself prepared to enforce this demand, 

 one half hour's time before doing so will be allowed 

 for your compliance therewith. N. LYON, 



Captain Second Infantry, Commanding Troops. 



Immediately on the receipt of the foregoing, 

 Gen. Frost called a hasty consultation of the 

 officers of his staff. The conclusion arrived 

 at was that the brigade was in no condition to 

 make resistance to a force so numerically supe- 

 rior, and that only one course could be pursued 

 a surrender. 



The State troops were therefore made pris- 

 oners, but an offer was made to release them 

 on condition they would take an oath to sup- 

 port the Constitution of the United States, and 

 not to take up arms against the Government. 

 These terms they declined on the ground that 

 they had already taken the oath of allegiance, 

 and to repeat it would be to admit that they 

 had been in rebellion. 



About half-past five, the prisoners left the 

 grove and 'entered the road, the United States 

 soldiers enclosing them by a single file stretched 

 along each side of the line. A halt was ordered, 

 and the troops remained standing in the posi- 

 tion they had deployed into the road. The 

 head of the column at the time rested opposite 

 a small hill on the left as one approaches the 

 eity, and the rear was on a line with the en- 

 trance to the grove. Vast crowds of people 

 covered the surrounding grounds and every 

 fence and house top in the vicinity. Suddenly 

 the sharp reports of several fire-arms were 

 heard from the front of the column, and the 

 spectators that lined the adjacent hill were seen 

 fleeing in the greatest dismay and terror. It 

 appeared that several members of one of the 

 German companies, on being pressed by the 

 crowd and receiving some blows from them, 

 turned and discharged their pieces. Fortu- 

 nately no one was injured, and the soldiers 

 who had done the act were at once placed 

 under arrest. Hardly, however, had tranquillity 

 been restored when volley after volley of rifle 

 reports was suddenly heard from the extreme 

 ear ranks, and men, women, and children 

 ere beheld running wildly and frantically 

 .way from the scene. Many, while running, 

 ere suddenly struck to the sod, and the 

 ounded and dying made the late beautiful 

 field look like a battle-ground. The total num- 

 ber killed and wounded was twenty-five. It 

 was said that the arsenal troops were attacked 

 with stones, and two shots discharged at them 



by the crowd before they fired. Most of the 

 people exposed to the fire were citizens with 

 their wives and children, who were merely 

 spectators. It was now night, and the excite- 

 ment in the city was indescribable. On the 

 next afternoon a large body of the German 

 Home Guard entered the city from the arsenal, 

 where they had been enlisted during the day, 

 and furnished with arms. They passed unmo- 

 lested until they turned up "Walnut street, and 

 proceeded westward. Large crowds were col- 

 lected on the corners, who hooted and hissed 

 as the companies passed, and one man standing 

 on the steps of a church fired a revolver into 

 the ranks. A soldier fell dead, when two more 

 shots were fired from the windows of a house 

 near by. This time the head of the column, 

 which had reached as far as Seventh street, sud- 

 denly turned, and levelling their rifles, fired 

 down the street, and promiscnously among the 

 spectators, who lined the pavements. Shoot- 

 ing, as they did, directly towards their rear 

 ranks, they killed some of their men as well as 

 those composing the crowd. The shower of 

 bullets was for a moment terrible, and the only 

 wonder was that more lives were not lost. 

 The missiles of lead entered the windows and 

 perforated the doors of private residences, tear- 

 ing the ceilings, and throwing splinters in every 

 direction. On the street the scene presented, 

 as the soldiers moved off, was sad indeed. Six 

 men lay dead at different points, and several 

 were wounded and shrieking with pain upon the 

 pavements. Four of the men killed were mem- 

 bers of the regiment, and two were citizens. 

 Immense crowds of people filled the streets 

 after the occurrence, and the whole city pre- 

 sented a scene of excitement seldom witness- 

 ed. Among the arms taken at Camp Jackson 

 were three thirty-two pounders, a large quan- 

 tity of balls and bombs, several pieces of artil- 

 lery, twelve hundred rifles, of the late model, 

 six brass field-pieces, six brass six-inch mortars, 

 one ten-inch iron mortar, three six-inch iron 

 cannon, several chests of new muskets, five 

 boxes canister shot, ninety-six ten-inch and 

 three hundred six-inch shells, twenty-five kegs 

 of powder, and a large number of musket stocks 

 and barrels, between thirty and .forty horses, 

 and a considerable quantity of camp tools. 



The number of prisoners taken to the arse- 

 nal, was six hundred and thirty-nine privates 

 and fifty officers. 



The character of Camp Jackson is described 

 by Gen. Harney in his proclamation to the 

 people of Missouri, in these words: 



" It is not proper for me to comment upon 

 the official conduct of my predecessor in com- 

 mand of this department, but it is right and 

 proper for the people of Misouri to know that 

 the main avenue of Camp Jackson, recently 

 under command of Gen. Frost, had the name 

 of Davis, and the principal street of the same 

 camp that of Beauregard ; and that a body of 

 men had been received into that camp by its 

 commander, which had been notoriously organ- 



