The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-27 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1883.

AMERICA.

(ioreses Tzumwo.)
FALL OF PORT HUDSON.

THE RIOTS IN NEW YORK.

QUEENSTOWN, Jou IS.

The Royal Mail:steamer Chine., from New York
on the lath inst., arrived here at 8 p.m. She
brings 88 passengers and 3119,000 dole. in specie.
She landed all the mails and four passengers, and
proceeded immediately: all well. She wand/tanked
14 hours for despatches from Washington.
NEW YORK, JOLT 13,_Rmurs.

A copy of an address from General Lee to the
army, dated the 11th inst., has been found at
Hagerstown. He tells the troops that if the fierce
and sanguinary battle they had fought was not
attended with the success which hitherto had
crowned their effort., it was marked with heroic
Spirit which commanded the respect of their enemies
and the gratitude of their country. Once more
they were about to meet their old enemy, and le
urges them to go forward in confidence, to secure
the peace and safety of the country.

Vicksburg advioes of the ssh state that General
Johnstone was retreating, and that General Shan-
non was in full pursuit. The official correspon-
, deuce which passed between Generals Grant and
Pemberton at the surrender of Vicksburg has been
published.
Drafting commenced in this city on Saturday last
(the 11th), when the names of over 2,000 men were
drawn. This morning a mob assembled in front
of the provost-marshal's office at the corner of
Forty-eighth-street and Third-avenue, where the
names were being drawn. They broke into the
office, seized the papers, dispersed the enrolling
officers, and fired the building. The flames spread
to the adjoining houses. The firemen refused to
play on the fire, and the whole block on Third-
avenue was burnt. The mob cut down the tele-
graph poles, and laid them across the Third-avenue
railroad track. The number of persons who took.
part in these proceedings was estimated at 15,000.
Several policemen and soldiers were killed-
Mayor Opdyke and Generals Wool and Sandford
have called out a large force to quell the riot.

NEW YORK, Jour 14, Emma.

The whole city was last night a scene of outrage,
bloodshed, and disorder. An organised mob, com-
posed mostly of the labouring population, infuriated
women, and lads of 17 downwards, headed by a
Virginian named Andrews, and 000 other leaders,
dispersed in strong bodies in different parts of the
city. They burnt tie Armoury in Twenty-first-
street, the Coloured Orphan Asylum, two houses
in Lexington Avenue, the whole block, on
the Broadway, where the enrolling office was located,
and several negro houses. They attacked the office
of the New York Tribune, gutted sad fired the
building, but the flames were extinguished. Pe-
destrian& were assaulted and robbed on the Broad-
way. Every negro found in the streets was attacked,
and it is estimated that fifty were killed yesterday.
One negro was hung and • fire lighted under his
body, burning it to a cinder. A detachment of
the Provost Guard fired upon the mob, but was
overpowered, and horribly ill-used. Police Su-
perintendent Kennedy was severely injured, and
rescued from the populace with difficulty. A large
military force has been ordered from Baltimore.
Mayor Opdyke has called upon the citizens to
enrol themselves as special police. The number of
persons killed and injured is very large.
The riot continues to-day. All stores are closed,
and business is entirely suspended. The public con-
veyances have ceased running. Postmaster Wake-
man's and several more houses have been burned.
Mayor Opdyke's residence has been attacked.
The Republican journals assert that anti♦bolition
politicians are connected with the instigators of the
riot, and that the antiadministration party are not
unwilling spectators of the present disturbances.
NEW YORK, JOLT 15, tionanic.
Yesterday the riot continued throughout the
whole city. Collisions occurred in different
places between the military and the mob ; '
many lives were lost. The mob seized Colonel
O'Brian and hung him to a lamp-post. The mob is
still in full strength in the upper part of the city,
burning houses and committing other outrages.
All the negroes have fled. The riot has spread to
Staten Island, and negro houses have also been
burned in Brooklyn. Governor Seymour has issued
a proclamation, stating that the only oppo-
sition to the conscription that will be al-
lowed is an appeal to the courts. Riotous
proceedings must be put down, and he will exercise
the necessary power to restore peace. Governor
Seymour has also declared the city and county of
New York to be in • state of insurrection, and has
warned the rioters that they will render themselves
liable to the penalties of the laws. He has made a
speech in which he stated that he had sent to Wash-
ington urging the postponement of the draft. Ile
also stated that the decision of the courts on the
question of the legality of the draft must be obeyed
if the draft be declared legal, and that he would
use his influence that there should be no inequality
between rich and poor.
The New York Herald says that Governor Sey-
mour has received information from Washington
that the draft is suspended.
The management of the city is now in the
governor's hands. All telegraph lines in New York
have been destroyed. Business is still suspended,
and the stores remain closed. Archbishop Hughes
has appealed to the people to remain quiet.

NEW YORK, JULY 15. 4, r.s.
The Mayor has issued the following proclama-
tion :

Mayor's Mos, Now Yoh, July 15.