In passing from one railroad station to another in Baltimore, a distance of two and a half miles, the cars had to be drawn by horses. The Massachusetts and Philadelphia troops occupied seventeen cars. The five foremost cars, containing a portion of the Massachusetts troops, were sent forward. There being no horses for the other cars, the residue of the r giment, of whom but a small portion were armed, left the cars and formed in the street, waiting the arrival of horses. None came, for a secession mob which filled the streets had covered the track immediately behind the cars which had been sent forward, with heavy timbers, anchors, stones, and other obstructions, to prevent the passage of the other

cars.

The residue of the regiment were assailed by the mob with showers of stones and other missiles, hurled from the streets and house-tops, and several soldiers were knocked down and badly injured. In the confusion, one of the rioters stepped up behind a young soldier, seized his gun, and shot him dead. At this the soldiers were ordered to fire, and those who had loaded muskets obeyed the order, with some effect, which caused the mob to recoil. The 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 the city of Washington. The train was repeatedly fired at from the hills and woods along the route, but, providentially, no one was injured. The Philadelphia regiment hav

ing no arms, after a severe hand-to-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 NEW HAMPSHIRE.

PART II.

HE people of New Hampshire, in common with

those of New England, and all the free States, were aroused to their utmost by news of the assault upon Fort Sumter. The feeling of indignation was intense. The flag of the common country had been assaulted by insurgents in a State that claimed the right to secede from the Union so dear to every loyal citizen of the country. A war had been commenced upon the Government of the United States by South Carolina, and it only remained for the loyal North to accept the situation. Party lines were for the time forgotten, and men, without scarcely an exception, were ready to do their utmost to protect and sustain the Government. The Capital of the Nation was in danger of capture by the rebels, and troops must be sent, without delay, to defend it from their threatened attacks.

New Hampshire had no organized militia that could be called into active service. The enrollment required by law had been so imperfect that no fair and equal

draft could be made upon her citizens liable to be called into active service, in case of insurrection at home or invasion from abroad, and it only remained for the Governor to call for volunteers to fill the quota of the Stateone regiment of 780 officers and men-under the call of the President for seventy-five thousand troops for three months' service.

Immediately upon the receipt by telegraph of President Lincoln's Proclamation, Ichabod Goodwin, then Governor, issued the following order:

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Concord, April 16, 1861.

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To JOSEPH C. ABBOTT, Adjutant and Inspector-General of the New Hampshire Militia :

SIR The President of the United States having, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved February 28, 1795, called upon the State of New Hampshire for a regiment of militia, consisting of ten companies of infantry, to be held in readiness to be mustered into the service of the United States for the purpose of quelling insurrection and supporting the government:

I, ICHABOD GOODWIN, Governor of New Hampshire, command you to make proclamation, calling for volunteers from the enrolled militia of this State, to the number required, and to issue from time to time all necessary orders and instructions for enrolling and holding in readiness to be mustered into the service of said volunteer corps, agreeably to the aforesaid requisition.

ICHABOD GOODWIN,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

By the command of the Governor,

THOMAS L. TULLOCK, Secretary of State.