him, when Terry immediately struck him on the neck with a bowie knife, inflicting a terrible wound.  Terry and his whole party then ran and placed themselves for safety in the Blues Armory.  Hopkins was immediately taken into the Pennsylvania Engine House.  The news flew with lightning speed over the City.  The bell of the Vigilance Committee Rooms sounded; and instantly the streets were swarming with members obedient at all times to its summons.  As the sound struck his ear, every man discontinued the work upon which he was employed.  Draymen passing with loads, unharnessed their horses, mounted and rode off; engines in the great foundries were stopped, and employers and men started off on the run; builders, pressmen, shopmen, merchants, professional men, were alike hurrying to the Committee Rooms.  As they arrived, they took arms, were formed in companies, and reported ready for duty.  In a few minutes, a body of cavalry were thundering through the streets and surrounding the block in which was the Blues Armory.  Then up every street poured companies of infantry at double-quick time, and took possession of every important point.  So quickly was this done that only some thirty men of the so called “law and order” party had been able to assemble in the Armory.  They were summoned to surrender, and alter some little parley, concluded to do so.  Terry, Ashe and Maloney were placed in carriages and conveyed to the Committee Rooms.  The other prisoners were then disarmed and they were kept in the Armory until evening, when they likewise were marched to the Committee Rooms.

While this was enacting, a strong force had surrounded the California Exchange on the corner of Clay and Kearney Streets, where some seventy or eighty of the, “law and order” men had assembled, and where was a depot of arms.  In front of this building, a battery of artillery was in position flanked by a detachment of infantry.  The commander of the party in the building was summoned to surrender in five minutes.  When four minutes and a half had expired, the cautionary order of “Artillery, attention” was heard, and at the same instant the doors were thrown open, and a surrender made.  Every, man was made to present himself at the door, deposit his musket, strip off his accoutrements, and go back into the room.  The arms were taken to the Committee Rooms, and the building left under a strong guard.  All the other Armories of the “law and order” party were taken about the same time by other detachments.  In less than two hours after the sounding of the alarm bell, the “law and order” party had surrendered; all their arms were secured; the leaders of their troops dismissed on parole; and the rank and file placed in safe keeping; without the shedding of a drop of blood.  The people looked on with astonishment to see with what precision and dispatch the whole work had been accomplished.  At eleven o’clock the next day, the prisoners, with the exception of a few, who, had hitherto escaped