The night was frosty; at eight o'clock the horse sallied forth, and before daylight arrested in their beds about two hundred men.

The New Jersey horse made the seizures in the Mingo Creek settlement, the hot-bed of the insurrection and the scene of the early excesses.

The prisoners were taken to Pittsburgh, and thence, mounted on horses, and guarded by the Philadelphia Gentlemen Corps, to the capital.

Their entrance into Cannonsburg is graphically described by Dr.Carnahan, president of Princeton College, in his account of the insurrection.
"The contrast between the Philadelphia horsemen and the prisoners was the most striking that can be imagined.

The Philadelphians were some of the most wealthy and respectable men of that city.