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his object in going to the building, was
beaten most severely about the head. He
subsequently escaped with great difficulty
across lots and fences.
The crowd, who in the meantime kept
up this work of demolition, turned their
attention to the telegraph, which in less
than a minute was destroyed, while the
people in the house, who had taken flight,
were beseeching the mob to desist.
But they cried in vain. The upper
stories had taken fire, "and in a very little
time the flames burst out of every win
dow. The crowds filled the streets ad
joining and finished their work.
Around the bell tower in Fifty-first
street, the mob had sent their friends to
stop the bells from ringing ; but when
Engine 33 and Hose 53 were coming
near Forty-second street. No sooner
however, was his intention discovered,
than another portion of the mob " grab
bed " him, and taking him to the top of
the rocks, stripped his uniform off him,
and after beating him almost to a jelly,
threw him over a precipice some twenty
feet high on to the hard rocks beneath ;
not content with this stones and dirt were
thrown at him as he laid helpless, until
he was half buried. There is no doubt
but that he w;u killed.
Soon after the defeat of the soldiers a
strong squad of police made their appear
ance in lino of battle. As soon as the
mob caught sight of them they fired a vol
ley of stones, knocking down two of the
officers. The police at once drew their
clubs and revolvers, but after a contest of
down Third avenue, they were cheered by i few minutes they were forced to retreat,
the mob but not allowed to work. ! which they did in good order until near
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v hue attempting to rescue, Lieutenant
Vanderpool was badly beaten. The
near Fortieth street, when one of them
fired his revolver four times into the midst
crowd got hold of a barrel of lager beer, ' of a thron"-, shooting a horse that was at-
will be instituted to test the legality of
the draft.
It appears 1hat there must have been
a concerted plan of resistance to the con
scription, as all of the working men of
the different railroads combined, together
with those of certain factories,- and
marched to the building on the Third ave
nue, when! the "drafting for the Ninth
District had commenced.
At about 10 o'clock this morning, the
crowd rushedin, seized the books and pa
pers, and used great violence towards the
officers and reporters present, who mana
ged to escape, with the exception of As
sistant Deputy Vanderjiool, who was
badly beaten beyond recovery.
Soon after the building was burned, the
crowd meanwhile stoning the upper part
of the building, where some half a dozen
families lived. The ad mining building
caught fire, and was alsj destroyed, the
ruffians shouting with frenzied joy while (
it was in llames. u omen were also in
order shall be preserved. Measures are I
bein"- taken by General Wool which will ;
probably prove prove ettectuai in: queuing j
the rioters. j
Every negro who has been seen by the ,
by the mob has been murdered ot norma
beaten Some twenty has thus tar been
killed.
One or two newspaper offices had been
threatened. The citizens are arming.
The colored orphan asylum has been
burned bv the mob.
Allerlon's Hotel, at Bull's Head, has
been burned.
When the mob were passing down
Second avenue, somebody in armory fired
on them from a window, whcreujxm the
mob fired and destroyed the building.
Tlie Riot In IVevr York. Renewed
T W E L V E MEN KILLED AND
SEVENTEEN WOUNDED.
RIOT IN NEW YORK.
FS1STANCE TO THE D II A FT.
Tin: ok the provost
t.UAWSlIAL MOBBED AND
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y.&tfnl Scenes Throughout tne
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The fire in the meantime had taken a
start, and soon the whole building was a
mass of flames. Mr. Duane is in the i, 1dm
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tached to a wagon standing on the cor- the mob inciting tnem on.
ner. A rushwas made at once for the j All the horse-cars were stopped and the
officer : he immediately retreated into a drivers taken off by the crowd. The po-
store close bv, the people in which at once ! lice were overpowered and beaten terribly.
barred the door and endeavored to give
mitlis in the employ of
nue Railroad Company
tnmi tin- Ncv. "V rk Express.
I lie t xchi iiK ii:, from an early hour
s inoniiii-. (.uly II ,) in tlie Ninth and
:!ith trigri's.ioiial Districts, was very
iMt. Ail the corners in tlie r.ighteentn,
.S!irti'ci:!h :in 1 1 uent v-seconu wards
to tliritngfd with crowds of workintr
, :il! of wi.i kiir p'ople, all of whom
.-uj tjn.-i k r.ihle interest in the draft
in.' ori in their district.
:;i innt'L", Tiun eniployeil on the
'il l Aii-uue ii.iilroad refused to go to
nk. wi- ihni' on the Sixth Avenue
'li'.mu'i ak 1 leave of absence from
ir w-r!i. aud in ease of lvfusiil, threat
'I to take -iiiinniarv measures.
All the l.hek
e Thil l Av
i- l work, as did also the men em
yed in Brown's iron factory, those em-
ved by Mr. Cummin:, the contractor,
i Tavlur's liundry in Forty-first street
'!"lKhth avenue, and hundreds of others
"i'k'Vitl on buildings, streets iniprove
artit, c. These crowds paraded
- "I'-'b the streeld. and iurced their fel-
to join them.
At ten o'clock, two platoons of xiliee
"vim the Twenty-first, Sevcnteenli, Twen-?-concl,
and other wards, amounting to
wiie two hundred men, anived near the
of the provost marshal, thereby in
Mng the excitement around the build-
At half-jicut ten o'clock the drafiing was
luiiKiiced. At first everything went off
moodily, but toward eleven o'clock noise
m the outside foreboded trouble ; and
Wore a quarter past eleven o'clock the
jv.J became turbulent, and attempted to
the ears,
f a'tain Webster, with a few men tried
cliL-ck the disturbers, but inside every
went off smoothly until a paving
sie Irom the outside, aimed at the head
: tbe nrovost marshal who was reading
3 tue names, gave a signal for the row to
fcrnmcnee.
Onward rushed the crowd until they
BIt everything before them, and the
pjiice were overnowered. In a moment
e r-xm was deserted by the officers.
Ahe noters then lesti-oyed the wheel and
i.iercil all the natiers to the wind.
Armed wmx railroad iron the crowd
Purst open the dixirs of the hallway, and
rowing into the rear of the office, jumped
" fhouting like fiends, and, completely
"sacking the place, scattering everything
UfW them.
A man in a few minutes afterwards
Roared with a can of turpentine, which
Sheriff's office, and loses 0,000
Hie adjoining building, o, G79, was
also destroyed ; it was tenanted in the
lower story by a beer saloon, on the
second story by Ny. Frank, who loses
3j)0O ; A. Domerona, whose loss is
1,000; and II. Degelow and A. Woka-
took, who lose 1,500.
Mr. Robert lVttigrew, who owns a
blacksmith and wheelwright shop across
the street, was struck on the head while
running acr6ss the street, and his sshop
demolished.
THE LADIES IN THE MOB.
Some 12.000 highly excited men are t
around the building, with a thick sprink
ling of women. Many women are on the
house-tops, waving their shawls and
handkerchiefs to the rioters.
The telegraph xIes are cut down, and
the wires cut. The cars are stopped.
Alnut thirty are now waiting to pass.
The l'rovost Marshal's Guard, (the In
valid Corps) while going up the Bowery,
near Hay Market, in a Third avenue car,
were insulted and sneered at by a large
crowd congregated there. Stones were
tired at the cars repeatedly.
The Sixth avenue cars have stopped
protection. The crowd, however,
went to the back of the house ; tore down
the fence and rushed into the building,
seized the iKliceman, knocked him down,
and actually tore him to pieces stripping
the close off his back and kicking him
until he was one mass of jelly.
There is a report at the Mayor's office
that the people have taken possession of
the Arsenal in Thirty-fifth street.
General Wool, commander of this De
partment, is now in consultation with the
Mayor.
A light field battery has been sent for
at Governor's Island.
Orders for- all the troops in the neigh
borhood to march to New York at once
have been issued.
i There is a largo and excited crowd in
i the vieumy of the Tribune and Times offi
I ces, composed principally of laboring men,
j but there seems to be no disposition for a
riot there.
The negroes passing are being assaulted,
and two have been knocked down and
beaten.
THE CONSCRHTION ACT.
In almost all the crowded parts of the
city are groups discussing the conscription
its cinisermences. vc. ivc. mil.
running down town, their men being taken r'(il.uiiU.iv aggrieves the laboring class is
ofl by the crowd. j s300 exnption, which, they say,
During the conflagration rMipciinicnueiu , . lets of the c, wliile the Con
Kennedy apeared outside, when the ( detains them. There is also
crowd -attacked Jum in sucn a manner mai . u . f tht Ncw York city, with
he received very severe injuries
THE SOLDIERS FIRE UPON THE
MOB.
At 1 1 o'clock a detachment of the Pro
vost Guard, numlKxing some seventy-five
men, left the l'ark Barracks for the scene
of disturbance ; they
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poured on tlie floor of the office, and
llng tire to it, the room was soon in a
All this tiin the mob kent break
men attached to the office with
"o up the pavement and pelting the po-
ani
ttoneg.
ueut Vanderpool, in tlie attempt to
K-scue the people in the house, was at
Vked by the mob, and though he stated
reached the ground
alKMit 12 6'clock. Jliey immediately
formed two and two abreast, and with
closed ranks they .marched up the avenue.
No sooner were they in motion, however,
than the mob .began .to surround them,
hooting, yelling and groaning. The guard
drew up in line on the avenue, between
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets. By
this time they were completely surrounded,
and so pressed that they were hardly able
to " order arms.
The crowd now -commenced pushing
ami jolting the soldiers, and throwing
stones at them. AH of a sudden they
had their arms on a " ready ;" whether
the order was given to fire or not, it is
impossible to say ; but one of the soldiers
immediately discharged his piece snooting
lown one ot the mob ; the otners imme
diately followed.
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No sooner were the muskets disciiargeo,
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however, than the mob endeavored 10
wrest the weapons from the hands ot tue
military ; a hand to hand fight ensued,
which lasted for ten minutes or more ; at
1.. t nvcm lowered bv numliers, the soldiers
broke and fled, pursued by the crowd, ,
yelling like demons. The guard threw
away "their muskets, which were eagerly
seized by the mob and turned against their
former owners.
The pursuit was kept up as far as
Twentieth street, when it was abandoned,
and a majority of the men escaped ; one
of the soldiers was pursued up Forty-first
street to First avenue, where a crowd ot
some twenty men surrounded lum, knock
ed him down and beat him until he was
insensible. A number of women joined
in and one of them endeavored to stab
him with a bayonet, but another woman
took the weapon out of her hand and
carried it off. The soldier was left for
dead on the walk, but whether he was so
or not could not be ascertained.
Another of the guard endeavored to
make his escape by climbing the rocks
her great militia foice in the field, is treat
ed unfairly.
Several negroes have been badly beaten
this afternoon. There is an immense
multitude of people near the different
newspaix?r offices, and every negro who
makes his appearance is instantly seized.
The policemen have so far acted with
great bravery, rescuing several blacks
from death.
THE MILITARY TO BE CALLED
OUT.
About one o'clock the Police Com-
A blacksmith shop near by was demol
ished and its owner nearly killed.
A detachment of seventy-five of the
provost guard arrived at the scene at
noon, and drew up in line between Forty
fourth and Forty-fifth streets, on Third
avenue. They were quickly surrounded
by an intensely excited mob, who stoned
and jeered them. The soldiers fired into
the crowd, when they were set upon and
driveh off and pursued for about a mile.
Soon after a squad of police arrived,
but were driven-olf, one of their numlicr
being torn to pieces and kicked to a jelly.
The stores in the vicinity were closed
by the owners, andjthe riojers had cvery-thin-r
their own wav. The firemen were
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not allowed to play on the fire.
'Hie most horrible obtrages have been
perpetrated. Some twelve or thirteen
nolicrnirn have been so brutally treated
that their rooovcry is almost hopeless
No doubt exists as to the death of Super-
intendant Kennedy.
At about three o'clock this . afternoon
the mob moved further down town, when
when the firemen went to work on the
buildings on First avenue. - It was then
ascertained that a house had been entered
where a lady had just been suffering the
pangs of confinement, and although no
violence was perpetrated, a number oi
articles were stolen At two o'clock, Mr.
Howard late city editor of the New York
- i ln,e nt tacked bv the mob. who
a i cried out " Here's an Abolitionist ;" am
were about to hang him to a lamp-post
when their attention was diverted and he
ran for his life. The crowd chased him
and struck him on the back of the head
and in the face with heavy stones, stun
ning him for a time ; they then robbed
him of his watch and chain, diamond
breastpin and thirty dollars in money.
He was with difficulty rescued and taken
to an engine house, the doors of which re
sisted the efforts of the mob. He was
finally taken to a more secure place of
j
safety. His injuries are serious.
The mob tore up iron fences to arm
themselves, and at about three o'clock
accompanied by their female abettors,
Mayor Opdjke's House Sacked.
THE EXCITEMENT SPREADING
TO BROOKLYN.
Tlie IIouhcs of Colored People Sacked.
THE BURNING OF POSTMASTER
WAKEMAN'S RESID EN CE.
Alxiut seven o'clock a large crowd as
sembled on Fourth avenue and Eighty-
sixth street, and marched down to the
residence of Postmaster Wakeman, on
Eighty-Sixth street, between Fourth and
Fifth avenues". I he rioters were pro
ceeded by alxmt fifty boys, who clamored
over the fense, got inside, and proceeded
very deliberately to light a fire on the
parlor floor. T he inhabitants had pre
viously left.
As soon as the fire was started, the
main body, yelling like demons, rushed
through every room in the house, carrying
away, every jKirtable article on the premi
ses, and w hat could not be carried away
was broken tnto the smallest atoms. In
less time than it has taken to write this
the house was completely gutted, and
turned literally inside out. The house
was now burning fearfully ; the flame
spread across the street and
upon the people to obey the law, and or
ganize for the protection of the city.
Men like Senator Cornell, General
Duryea, and others, civil and military, in
whom the people have confidence, will be
authorized to raise men.
If possible, Fitz John Porter will be
placed in command.
About half-past twelve o'clock, the
crowd, numbering some ten or twelve
thousand, called for the Governor, and he
appeared upon the steps, amid loud and
prolonged cheering.
The Governor said he came there in
haste, having heard of existing trouble,
he regretted that this great city was so
disturbed. " They've forced it upon us,
Governor." rt them go peacefully to
their homes. Tremendous cheering, one
stout fellow almost squeezing the Gover
nor to death in his enthusiasm. He
would protect them in the exercise of
their just rights at every hazard.
Other things were said, but the re
porter could not get within fair hearing to
1 make anything like a report.
j The Governor retired amid tremendous
j enthusiasm. The crowd gradually dis
; appeared, but brought up in the neighbor
! hood of the Tribune office, from whence
! they were driven by a vigorous attack of
1 the police.
j Great efforts arc now being made to
! obtain a large force in this city in order
to put down the riot. This movement
i has Ik-coiuc necessary from the fact
I that the mob threaten to continua their
! work of destruction.
j Generals Brown and Wool have con
! suited on the matter, and the result of tho
i conference is, that every available soldiers
will be brought immediately to this city.
Further Particulars ol'tlieRioC
in Xeiv York.
Proclamation of Governor Seymour-
Tlie Draft Suspended.
ted with the Twenty -third street precinct j
ni;'u.iiors and Mavor Opdvkc sent in a
mnnnmif ation to Maior General Sanford, I armed with clubs, pistols, bars of iron
notifying him that there was a riot in the 1 other weapons, marched up the First ave
citv which the tolice were powerless to ! nue, threatening all connected with carry-
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prevent, and caning on mm 10 iuh.e meas
ures to protect the city.
A detachment ot United states regu
lars were at once sent to the Seventh Ave- j
nue Arsenal, which, it was understood, j
would be attacked. Colonel Henry
Moore was directed to take command at ;
that pluee, and press all the men to help '
him that he could find.
He was directed to load his howitzers
and place them in position, and if any at
tack was made the injunction was given
him not to " spare powder or canister."
Orders were then issued directing all;
militia and ex-militia and ex-militia offi
cers now in the city to meet General San
ford at the 7 th Regiment armory to-night,
Col. Wm. 11. Allen wtis directed to
proceed to Central Hall in second street,
and take charge of all returned volunteers
were willing to aid in keeping the peace
of the city.
A detachment of the 10th Regiment
are on duty at the city arsenal, in White
street, at which place v.eorgc aiurpny,
the keeper, and his torce have made pre
parations to resist an attack.
Cannon are mounted and in position,
guarding all approaches to the 7th Regi
ment armory.
The draft in the Eighteenth ward 1 was
commenced at 10 o'clock, but upon ap
pearance of the crowd in" that vicinity at
noon, was suddenly suspended.
A meeting of the Board of Aldermen
will be hekVto morrow, when measures
in" into effect the conscription act.
The Arsenal was threatened but tlie
nresenee of a detachment of the 10th
Volunteers has prevented an attack
Howitzers are stationed there and at the
7th Regiment armorv loaded with cannis
tor. which will be used on the first de-
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monstration.
The whole block on third avenue was
burned. A person named Andrews, of
Virginia, who has lately harangued the
meetings at the Cooper Institute, scenic
to be the leader of the mob, and addresse
them near the ruins, while the destruction
of the buildings was going on. He de
nounced the President, and advised the
people to organize to resist the draft
The crowd, after this harangue, proceeded
to the hvnre and beautiful dwelling at the
comer of Forty-seventh street and Lex
incrton avenue, and completely sacked it.
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the libraiy glasses, parlor and bed-room
furniture were thrown into the
The house was then fired and burned to
the ground.
A detachment of a hundred regluars
arrived at about 3 o'clock and reported to
l'rovost Marshal Nugent. They were
sent to the Arsenrl, the excitement around
which is great. At about -1 o'clock some
3,000 of the armed mob inarched down
the Fifth avenue groamng the conscrip
tion. Governor Seymour will probably
arrive this evening.
Mayor Opdyke has issued a proclama
tion acainst the rioters, declaring that
station house. J.t that time the only
man in the house was the doorman, Chas.
Eblinir. As soon as Eblinu saw the
crowd coming, lie commenced to pack up '.
all the officers clothes, put half a dozen j
matches in his pocket, and, with the as- j
sistance of a man named Clark, he took j
down the telegraph box and the clock, j
ind when the crowd came rushing in
very article of portable value had been
removed. On came the crowd, burst j
open the desks, smashed the furniture.
All this time the flames were making
merry with the timliers. The crowd had j
been informed that a dead body was in ;
the house and demanded it. Ebling very j
politely resjiondod by showing it to them,
and while they looked at the. bodv,
cleared out. The station-house was soon
burned to the ground, together with the
furniture, beds and bedding. The esti
mated loss is set down at about 40,000.
FIGHTING IN THE NINETEENTH
WARD.
The rioters this (Tuesday) morning re
sumed tlieir work in the vicinity of Third
avenue and Forty-sixth street, and at la
test accounts fighting was going on there.
Measures have been taken to clear the
avenue with howitzers, and the military
are now nouring into the cit j' from all
sections of the Department of the East,
and hopes are entertained that the rioters
will soon be dispursed.
PREMEDITATED ATTACK
COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
At an early hour this morning a
number of the rioters proceeded
body to Columbia College, with the in- !
tent to sack and burn that ancient seat of ,
learning. They were met, however, near )
the building by a priest, who addressed j
them, and reminded them that a church '
was attached to the building which he I
was sure, they would not molest. The
crown hereupon dispersed.-
The stables in Spring street, between
street, i Broad wav and Bowerv. were fired at 0
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o'clock this forenoon, and entirely de
stroyed. SPEECH OF GOV. SEYMOTR.
Nkw Yokk, July 14. The riot still
continues in the upper part of the city,
accompanied by great destruction of pro
perty, but the authorities are making
every possible effort for its suppression.
All the omnibusses have stopped running,
and the horse cars have also suspended
. ntmr-.it iiii4 under thf tliiY-jits of tho innli
coniminuca- i -i - - . ...
A body ot infantry and artillery are fta-
tl-. in'
tioned at the Hudson River Rai!road d
' pot, to protect it from a large mob that
! is congregated there. A large pork-pack -
lactory on 1 ashmgton street was
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large
in a
mg lactory on u asnington street
burned by the mob early this morning,
was also a block of nine buildings, inclu
ding a planing mill on One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth street. The mob during
the morning took possession of a tenement
block in Thirty-fourth street, but were,
driven out by the infantry, who rushed in,
throwing the rioters out of the window.,
shooting and killing several. It was a
desperate affair, and the mob endeavored
to rally, but a charge from the soldiers
drove them off jK-ll-mcll. A school-house
was set on fire in Seventeenth street, but
j the flames were extinguished, and the mob
! driven away by the police. Soon after a
j detachment of marines was attacked ar
! Delancy street, when the latter fired,
! killing three of the rioters and wounding
: six others.
Governor Seymour has issued a procla
mation stating that the riotous deuionstra
' lion originating in opposition to the oou
! seription has swelled to vast proportions.
He savs that he knows that many would
not have gone to such extremes unlos ap
j prehensive of injustice ; but reminds thciu
I that the onW opposition which can be al
lowed is an appeal to the courts of law,
; and the right to such appeals will Ih.
; maintained, and the de?iions of. the courts
; must be respected.
i All riotous proceedings must and shall
be put down. The laws of the State
! must le enforced, peace and order main
' tained, and life and property protected.
lie then in conclusion calls on all rioters
; to retiring, declare, that he will use all
i the necessary power to restore order.
Hundreds of wild reports and minora
I are flying alout tlie city, many of which
are exaggerations. Tlie facts alone are
1 bad enough.
I In Yorkville and Harlem the rioters
have Wen demolishing houses, &c.
j Anns have been removed from theaten-
i ed places to safe localities.
j All the stages and horse cars have been
j stopped.
l'rovost Marshal Nugent has been no-
Shortly after twelve o'clock Governor ! tified to suspend the' draft.
Seymour made his appearance at the City i AH communication telegraphically with
Hall, and immediately went into consul- the East and West has leen suspended,
tation with the Mayor and other promi- j the mob having torn down the wires in all
nent citizens. lie then retired to the j places as far as William's bridge, driving
Governor's room. The Governor lias
determined upon the following programme,
or as nearly this as possible :
lie will issue a proclamation calling
the telegraphers off and threatening their
lives. The operators on the eastern lines
were located all last night und up to nine
(Continued on Fourth rage.)