In a very short time the following persons were in custody:  J. Castner
Hanaway, Elijah Lewis, Joseph Scarlett, Samuel Kendig, Henry Spins,
George Williams, Charles Hunter, Wilson Jones, Francis Harkins, Benjamin
Thomson, William Brown (No. 1), William Brown (No. 2), John Halliday,
Elizabeth Mosey, John Morgan, Joseph Berry, John Norton, Denis Smith,
Harvey Scott, Susan Clark, Tansy Brown, Eliza Brown, Eliza Parker,
Hannah Pinckney, Robert Johnson, Miller Thompson, Isaiah Clark, and
Jonathan Black.

These were not all, but sufficed for a beginning; at least it made an interesting entertainment for the first day’s examination; and although there were two or three non-resistant Quakers, and a number of poor defenceless colored women among those thus taken as prisoners, still it seemed utterly impossible for the exasperated defenders of Slavery to divest themselves of the idea, that this heroic deed, in self-defence, on the part of men who felt that their liberties were in danger, was anything less than actually levying war against the United States.

Accordingly, therefore, the hearing gravely took place at Lancaster.  On the side of the Commonwealth, the following distinguished counsel appeared on examination:  Hon. John L. Thompson, District Attorney; Wm. B. Faulney, Esq.; Thos.  E. Franklin, Esq., Attorney-General of Lancaster county; George L. Ashmead, Esq., of Philadelphia, representative of the United States authorities; and Hon. Robert Brent, Attorney-General of Maryland.

For the defence—­Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Reah Frazer, Messrs. Ford, Cline, and Dickey, Esquires.

From a report of the first day’s hearing we copy a short extract, as follows: 

“The excitement 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: