at Christiana, during yesterday, was very great.
Several hundred persons were present, and the deepest feeling
was manifested against the perpetrators of the outrage. At two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, the United States Marshal, Mr.
Roberts, United States District Attorney, J.H. Ashmead, Esq.,
Mr. Commissioner Ingraham, and Recorder Lee, accompanied by the
United States Marines, returned to the city. Lieut. Johnson, and
officers Lewis S. Brest, Samuel Mitchell, Charles McCully,
Samuel Neff, Jacob Albright, Robert McEwen, and ---- Perkenpine,
by direction of the United States Marshal, had charge of the
following named prisoners, who were safely lodged in Moyamensing
prison, accompanied by the Marines:--Joseph Scarlett, (white),
William Brown, Ezekiel Thompson, Isaiah Clarkson, Daniel
Caulsberry, Benjamin Pendergrass, Elijah Clark, George W.H.
Scott, Miller Thompson, and Samuel Hanson, all colored. The last
three were placed in the debtors' apartment, and the others in
the criminal apartment of the Moyamensing prison to await their
trial for treason, &c."

In alluding to the second day's doings, the Philadelphia Ledger thus
represented matters at the field of battle:

"The intelligence received last evening, represents the country
for miles around, to be in as much excitement as at any time
since the horrible deed was committed. The officers sent there
at the instance of the proper authorities are making diligent
search in every direction, and securing every person against
whom the least suspicion is attached. The police force from this
city, amounting to about sixty men, are under the marshalship of
Lieut. Ellis. Just as the cars started east, in the afternoon,
five more prisoners who were secured at a place called the Welsh
Mountains, twelve miles distant, were brought into Christiana.
They were placed in custody until such time as a hearing will
take place."

Although the government had summoned its ablest legal talent and the
popular sentiment was as a hundred to one against William Parker and his
brave comrades who had made the slave-hunter "bite the dust," most nobly
did Thaddeus Stevens prove that he was not to be cowed, that he believed
in the stirring sentiment so much applauded by the American people,
"Give me liberty, or give me death," not only for the white man but for
all men. Thus