The Athens Post

We learn from a telegraphic despatch in a New York paper, that an attempt was made to hold a meeting in Baltimore, on Thursday night last, to appoint a Fremont electoral ticket for Maryland, but soon after the organization of the meeting a crowd of men and boys forced their way into the room and drove out the republicans assembled there. Messrs. Cochrane, Gunnison and Meredith, the principal parties to the meeting were chased several squares, and were forced to take refuge in a store from their assailants. Several others had to make their escape out of a back window of the hall.

The Baltimore American of Friday afternoon, says the meeting was held in Temperance Hall, and was attended by "a number" of the friends of Fremont.

A number of persons opposed to the party were in the Hall, and before the organization was completed some one proposed three cheers for Fremont, which was followed by three groans, and three cheers were given for Fillmore, and three groans for Buchanan. A general melee then began, and the Hall was cleared in a few minutes, some of the party escaping out of the windows. One of the members of the meeting succeeded in getting out of the crowd with the loss of his coat, and was followed by the crowd up to Baltimore street, where he took refuge in a store and left by the rear door. But few persons were struck, the object being apparently to break up the meeting without using serious personal violence. Though our citizens are universally opposed to the principles which the meeting advocated, the course pursued was disreputable, and can only help the cause it was intended to crush.