The Pittsburgh Massacre

Cïïom the Pittsburgli Post.] The bloody affray in which over thirty people lost their lives occurred between 5 and (3 o'clook. At the latter hotir there was a vast assemblage of men,women and children loitering abont thfc outer depot. The crowd was quiet and orderly, and, as tlie day had thus far passed without the loss of life, many of the more conservativo and thinking spectators indulged the hope that the tronbles would be flnally settled in peace, without a conflict. But liow sad was their disappointment, and how quiekly it carne ! Even while tlicy were indulging in the liope a rnurmur and cries of "there they come," aróse from the multitude. All eyes -vere turned eagerly toward the Union depot. In the distimce was seen marching up in measured time a solid column of soldiers. Their bright bayoneta glistened in the rays of the sun. Their weary feet came down in measured tread, and the entire line moved with the regularity and precisión of clockwork. Eager to catch a better view of the moving column, this vast multitude eui'ged to nnu fro till there was imminent danger of helpless women and innocent childi-en being crushed to death. As the troops slowly approached the crowd became more and more excited, and many of the more cautions moved to places of greater safety. Others rushed madly toward the troops, eager to learn their intentions and unconscious of the danger whicli awaited them. The monotonous tapping of tlie drum was distinctly heard as the Philadélphians drew near, and Superintendent Pitcairn and Sheriff Fife could be readily recognized at the front of the row. Surroundinar the Sheriff was the posse of constables, and oifioers who had been summoned to his aid to arrest the ringleaders of the strike on the warrants issued by Judge Ewing. Ttoeh the crowd began to scatter to make room f or the moving column. As the troops drew nearer the silence of the spectators and strikers was broken by a storm oí :dsses, hoots, yells, and cheers. Steadily, lowever, tke troops marched into the very midst of the crowd, and the next moment the Sheriff and his men had nringled with the surging mass. The Sheriff endeavored to make himself lieard, but this was impossible, owing to the confusión, but still the soldiers pushed slowly into the crowd until the arder to halt was given. At this time the hillside was literally covered with men, women and children, mostly spectators, who were in a manner penned up. There was no escape in front ; there was no escape behind except by scaling a steep hill. The two Philadelphia regiments, dravm up in a doublé line, began to march backward and forward to clear the tracks, and the crowd gave way bef ore them. Superintendent Pitcairn and Sheriff Fife oocupied a prominent position in the front, standing side by side. Several prominent citizens excitedly rushed to the official, and inquired in an enger and excited manner of the programme that had been prepared. With pallid Ups Mr. Pitcairn replied that " God only knew wliat could be done " In the meantime the cries and yells of the crowd grew louder and fiercer, and the excitement became still more intense. The Jefferson Cayalry were drawn up on the right of the platform, while the Fourteenth and Nineteenth regiments were posted on the hillside, above the tracks, as was Hutchinson's battery, with its two large brass pieces frowning down on the excited throng. The Philadelphia troops, numbering 800 men, now made preparations to disperse the crowd. They were ordered to form a hollow square, and it was intendcd to place the two Gatling guns with which they came provided in the center. The order was given to this effect, and the jostling and scuffling began. The military wore hemmed iu on all sides by the strikers and their friends, so that their movements were made with great difficulty. Finally, three sides of the square were formec', one side facing the hill, another facing the east, and thus troops of the third also stood facing the people on the hill, with. their backs to Twenty-eighth street. The soldiers were compelled to f orce the men back in order to form the eastern line, and during the scuiïling which followed the civilians grasped the bayonets of the military. " You sympathize with our cause and you wouldn't shoot a working man," cricd the daring fellows who thus toycd with the deadly iuttruments iu the hands of the visitors. This rashness enconraged the crowd iu the rear; tnè men there contimiod yelling audJiooting, and many insultiug epithets wore hurled into tlie fai'CH of tiie visitiuR soldiery, while thé sluiuts of doi'ision wcro no less t-xasperaling. The local troops on thr iiHlsidc all the wliile remained passive. The Light Blues of Philadelphia were hcre ordered to charge on the crowd. They performed a soldier's duty in obeying the order. Great confusión followed, and the excitement beoame still niore iiitéhse. Pressed ay the w.f.sa of excited pcoplc, the militiii men feil baok. Then an order was issued to the Dark Blues of Pbiladel)hia to charge with fixed bayoneta. The Dark Blues responded. The jam was great, however, and the orowds strugglcd fieroely but ineffeotually to make way for the glittering, monacing bayonets. One man was jr.ierced by a bayonet, and -wlicn tho crornl saw the blood trickling froni his face every person became exasperated. Tlie people on the hillnide begon to seramble toward the top. In the meaatime the struggle coatinued on the platform. Then some malicious boys on the adjacent hill let drive a volley of stones into both the ranks of the militia and the crowd of people. This was the signal for the raassacre, and quickly rang out the command to firo in sharp, decisive tones, Who gave the command caimot bo ascertained. It was stated that Gen. Pearsoi was the man, but the story is not to be credited -without further substantiation Perhaps some excited member of tlit soldiery - perhaps some malicious per son in the crowd - gave the order, bu tlie troops niiderstood it to have issiiei from the officers, and they obeyed the command. Scarcely had the order die away uutil tlie firing of a musket re sounded in tle air. The sharp repor wan almost instantly followed by a seo oud, and a deadly battle was commencetl The terror of the moment can scnrcely be imagined. Before either the soldier or the civilians conld realize the faot, tii massaore was in progress. Tlie troop shot out in '.'V' rydirection. Thestrikei fled preoipitately, but the speed of th ball was swifter, and here ant tliere feil a man or woman mortall wouuded. Many who had the presenc of mind drop)i(i tu Öle i:irtli uniiijurei toescape. Others rushed pell-mell int a deep ditch that raus along the Jiillsidi One volley swept the people stationec on the hill. Another volley was sen down Twenty-cighth street, Then th officers of tlie Philadelphians bent their eflort to prevent further shooting. Tlie soldiers, as well as tlie people, liad been seizod witli frenzy, and some of them kept firing cemtrary to the orders of their superiors. The Sackofllie City- Scènes and Incident ot tho Pillage. [Erom tho Pittslmrgii Post.] Professional thieves and, perhaps, tliousands who would be indignant at the appellation, plied the vocation of robbery froni the time of the commeneement of tlie burning of cars and thronghout the wliole of Sunday. Everywhere men, women, and children could be scen lugging armfuls of evcry variety of goods in all directions. In this the eoloi-ed troops, male and female, labored "uobly." In the presence of the thotisands of ppectators viho lined the hillsides and hilltops, these vultures broke into ears and carried off their contenta. Flour, whisky, bacon, cheese, tobáceo, and almost every description of goods ■were thrown out, while hundreds carried them off, most industrious beiug women. In many iDstances men rolled and tugged upon barrels of flour until they reached tbe top of the long and steep hiil overlooking the railroad yards. Many sweated over boxes of cheese, rolls of léathor, armfuls of tobáceo, etc., whilo eliairs and eveu unfinished luggy wheels were toted up the incline. During the afternoon the boldness of tho thieves becaine unexampled. Hams, shoulders, sackB of flour, and otlii-r rticles were oarried by imiumerable people through the most prominent thoroughfares, and lome men stopped to rest with their burdens at City Hall. Ou Smithiield strect men could be seen rolling along barrels of flour, and sitting upon them occasionally to rest with as nraeh unconcern as if they had paid the high est market price for the property. During the burning of the Union Depot tliere was H grand raid by the thieving brigade - men, women, and ohildren - pon the cars at the Pan-Handle and Adams Express depots, Grant street. From thence, they rushed in all directions with many kinds of property. One Irishman emerging with a ham and a eack of flour -was heard to remark that this was the "bulliest sthrike he had everseen." Behind him was a woman struggling with a fresh new box labeled " Irish soap." Many of the thieves were arrestedwhile pouring along the streets, and the Central station-house this morning presented the appearanoe of a sutler's establishment in war times. Hanis, flitch, soap, butter, eggs. cheese, hardware, bedding, cushions, sleeping-car furniture, whips, highwines, and almostevery description of honsehold articles were stolen. One car laden with whips, which was standing in the Pan-Handle yard, at the sHe of the depot, was broken open, and, for the want of sometiiing better to steal, many members of the cwwtl appropriated tho whips to themselves. Different persons inquired why the Mayor did not have the plundererï arrested, and that official promptly replied that the jail wonld not hold half the number. It was simply iinpossi'ole to prevent the pillaging, and during the greater part of tiie entire Lol'd's day the ïty was absolutely given over to the lunderers. Among the myriad instances of pluner was one man who put on six shirts, ne over another, and covered the whole )y his own somewhat soiled garment; a woman with a sheet piuned together by ie four corners had it filled with flour; nother was seen with two buckets of Ie; still another was rolling a barrel of our away, and feil over it at full length n the nruddy gutter, nauch to the mernment of the spectators. Our reporter met a boasting boy of 18. D'ye see that ball?" handing out a arge metallic cartridge with an ounce jall; " that's what these damnod 3hiladelphianfi are shooting our motherg nd sisters with. I flxed one of them, ïough," he added; " the poor devil got way froin his fellows, and wantod to xade suits. So I took hiña home, gave ïim an old suit of working clotiies, and ot his splendid rig, sword and all. But, ara it all, I lost ritteen sacks of rkrar in ie operation. I had them piled up nugly in an alley, and when I went back ome infernal thief had taken them all jut one. But I got that and a ham, and ïey'llkeep us." Vliy IIic Baltiuiore and Ohio Employés Struok. The chief grievanco of tho striking men on the Baltimore and Ohio railoiul is that in the last two ycars their rfigee !;.,vs b(Bn mluced 50 per cent. fli'ey eomplain that the extra Sunday wagen hiive oeased, that they do not get return [ms.-tes, where they have no cngine to work back, but have to board several days at Martinsburg waithig tor a job. A rather severe grievance is thus stated by tho Baltünore A merican : " About 7 p. ni. püBsibly a dozen freight trains, all close togethcr, will arrivG at Baltimore, and the flrst man in will have to take tho first train out, generally without rest or meáis, and withiut lieing able to see his fanoily. ïhus it oiteu happens thnt a flremun is on bis engine two days at a str.-tcli witlmut any sleep, and with no food exeept what he takes in lus bucket. As regaros earnings it is asserted that about one-halt' öf tbo üremen in the enrploy of the Baltimore nul Ohio railroad tor a long time past, owing to sniall wages and the method oi moving trains, affcer paying expenses at Martinsburg, have not averaged $10 per moutli lor the support of their families. ín eonsequence many of them have had to move outaide of the city,not being abh; even to pay room-rent." Coals for Newcastlè. A return to the land of their fathers in September next is proposed by a jjuraber of the colored population of New York. Actuated, no doubt, by the same motives whieh induced so many of their brethren in the South to emigrute to África some time since, a namluT oí the most influential colored families have taken the matter to heartnml lüive n;mgurated a movement, wliieh is looked on with favor, to return to the land whence their fathers camp, That there is a future for África far afcóve ilio cbneeptions of nnthinking pcople is the text the i uaugnrators of tho new movemout preach trom, and there is reason to believe that they will sueceed in recruiting a goodly number of emigrants to join in the proposed f all exodus trom New York. A. public meeting is to be held next week in this eity at whieh the matter will be consiclered, and Freileriek Douglass will be on hantl to aoijnaint his brethren with his views. - New Y,rl: Haraick At the pveaent momeirl I.IIDO.ODO Hiü doo nul 100,000 Moluimmediin childfei are attendiug schools in India, and 50,000 to 60,000 of tliem are receiving iustruction np to the Euglifih ui'iversities standard.