attack was made upon him, led on, as he subsequently learned, by a little Captain of volunteers, the son of a Yankee Germantown schoolmaster, the father being also in the assaulting crowd. Mr. Ingersoll defended himself as well as ho could, till, overwhelmed by odds, and his cane breaking in his hand, he retreated a few yards, and drawing his pistol from nis pocket, cocked it promptly in the face of his assailants. The effect was magical. The assailants with unanimity, Captain and all, retreated with such precipitancy as to endanger their limbs; some of them actually falling in the street. There could be no popular sentiment against anything that Mr. Ingersoll had said or done. There was none, nor any mob in any bold sense of the word. The battle was over, and Mr. Ingersoll would have ridden down to his place of business in the street cars, as usual. Here, however, the city government, whose duty it is to protect good citizens, and repress evil-doers, stepped in.

scene.

Mr. Ingersoll was seized by, first, one policeman, then two, to whom he, of course, offered no resistance. He was carried through the streets for several squares, followed by a gaping crowd of girls and boys, who gather promptly to a street Taken to a station-house, a police magistrate was sent for, and then, after a mock examination, at which the Captain who had led the assailants had the impudence to appear and give his testimony, the prisoner was committed, in default of $2,000 bail, "for assault and battery with intent to kill, and carrying concealed deadly weapons." After being much jeered and insulted by the numerous body of policemen who frequented the station-house, the prisoner was locked in a cell, and there kept during the remainder of the day; bail having been refused on the ground that the authorities at Washington had been written to, and a charge of high treason was to be preferred against him.

In the mean time, in the afternoon of that day, Mr. Charles Ingersoll, a brother of the prisoner, who was approaching the station-house in a carriage to visit his brother, with a view to legal arrangements for his release, was, immediately

in front of the station-house, assaulted and most violently and brutally beaten. A night watchman at the Custom House, a hired bully of the town, was one of the immediate assailants. There was at the time within and immediately in front of the station-house, a very large force of police. No arrests were made, nor any effort of the sort. Indeed, when Mr. Ingersoll got into the house, wounded and bleeding as he was, the plain, though mutually expressed senti ment of the numerous surrounding policemen was, that it was "a good thing" "well done." Mr. Ingersoll presented a terrible spectacle, and for several days much apprehension was entertained for the safety of his life.

Hon. Charles Ingersoll is a citizen of Philadelphia, not only of the highest respectability and character, but has been prominently before the political public as a Democrat. During the early years of the war, when Mr. President Lincoln and his minions first boldly undertook to disregard the law and the rights of citizens, Mr. Ingersoll had been arrested by orders from Washington for his bold use of "free speech in opposing the madness of the hour. He was at that time discharged on habeas corpus by the Federal District Judge.

On the evening of April 27, Mr. Edward Ingersoll was carried to prison, and there confined until the next day, when he was discharged on bail. During his transit to prison, the policeman who conducted him kept up, most anxiously, the same feigned apprehension of alarm from popular excitement against the prisoner. The idea was sedulously given out that but for the invaluable police force, the life of the citizen would be unsafe. The truth was, that but for these rascally authori ties, who were fomenting outrages against respectable citizens of certain political sentiments, there was then no element whatever of public violence in the streets of Philadelphia.

On the 5th of May, resolutions were introduced into each branch of the City Councils, proposing an inquiry into the conduct of the police on the occasion of the assault upon Mr. Charles Ingersoll, and instructing the Mayor to offer a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest and conviction of the

assailants. After considerable debate, the resolutions, in both chambers, were rejected by an overwhelming and strict party vote.

The President of the Select Council, in giving his vote against the resolutions, said: "The action of the Chamber should be placed on one single ground.

"It is not the business of loyal men to go out of their way to save disloyal men from the consequences of their conduct." "A poor negro was in court yesterday," said another of the members," complaining that he had been badly beaten. Why not offer a reward of five hundred dollars for his assailant, for he is far more entitled to respect than suck a man as Charles Ingersoll."