soldiers, learning that the track had been obstructed, commenced their march from the Camden to the Washington depot, surrounded and followed by the mob, preceded by Mayor Brown and a strong detachment of police. The mob closed in, and attempted to cut off a portion of the rear, which being hardly pressed was ordered to fire, which they did. Several volleys were fired by a small portion of the regiment, killing eleven and wounding four of the rioters. Three soldiers were killed and eight seriously injured. The Massachusetts regiment finally reached the Washington depot, and were sent forward to Washington. The train was repeatedly fired at from the hills and woods along the route, but no one was injured. The Philadelphia regiment having no arms, after a handto-hand fight with the mob, returned to that city.

The telegraph wires connecting Baltimore and the free States were cut, and the railroad bridges northward and north-westward from Baltimore, on the railroads to Philadelphia and Harrisburg, were burned, thus shutting off Washington from all communication with the Northern States. In the mean time, however, the North was making all possible haste in enlisting, arming, equipping, and making ready for the field her noble and patriotic sons.

ACTION OF VERMONT.

THE breaking out of the slaveholders' rebellion, found the militia of Vermont, as in most of the other Northern States, in a disorganized and inefficient condition. The enrollment required by law was imperfect, many towns having neglected to make returns, and there were no records from which the number of men required by statute to perform military duty in case of insurrection or invasion. could be ascertained with any degree of accuracy. In the adjutant-general's office were the names of twenty-two organized uniformed companies, all of which were deficient in numbers, and some were without arms.

Such was the state of things on the 15th of April, when President Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers for three months, to suppress an insurrection against the government of the United States, which had broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,

Louisiana, and Texas. On that day Governor Erastus Fairbanks received a copy of the call for troops, -the quota of Vermont being one regiment,and immediately issued the proper orders to H. H. Baxter, of Rutland, Adjutant and Inspector General, and called an extra session of the Legislature, to commence on the 23d of the same month, to adopt measures for the State to do promptly its share toward meeting the exigencies of the country, by organizing, uniforming, arming, and equipping the militia within her borders.

The members of the Legislature responded with alacrity to the call of the Governor. They enacted a law, giving to each member of a uniformed military company who should be called into the service of the United States, under the requisition of the President, seven dollars per · month in addition to the pay allowed by the United States government, which was afterwards construed so as to include all troops from the State; and that each member of a uniformed company, held in readiness for active service, should be paid eighteen dollars per month by the State of Vermont. They also enacted another law for the relief of families of volunteers; and another, making an appropriation of one million dollars for the purpose of more perfectly organizing, arming, equipping, drilling, and