Richmond palladium., 1844-05-17

The heat was intense, and the roofs, door and
window frames and other woodwork. OF every
building near either burning. blis,ering,
sending up wrcaths of steamy moisture. Many
Of the adjacent houses were on hre, but by tho
we'll directed efforts OF the firenren. who were
early on the ground arc happy IN stating iha,
mono has suffered materially either from fire or
water.
Not 80. however. with tho houses on the east
side of Crown Street. north of tho church,
These wore suffered to catch fire from the church.
and none of the engines throw water upon them.
because they were tho property of tho church,
One was occupied by the Reverend DIR. Moriar-
tv the other used seminary and Us the
library of tho church.
rs if the fire which had devastated the upper
stories Of these houses did not descend fast enough
fires were kindled in tho lower stories by means
of the books (somc of which exceedingly
valuable,) found III the Library. fire was al
so built on the pavement i'll front. which was likc-
wise fed by numerous volumes of books. and by
/ the furniture which the houses had contained.
/ At one O'Clock, tho fire confined to tho ru-
ms of the church property. and all the surround
] ing buildings entirely free from danger
Between four and five O'Clock, the mob procee-
Jed southwark to the Roman Catholic school
house. at the corner of Second and Phoenix sts..
which after being stoned set on fire at the top
We understand that quantity of Camph'ne OH
was thrown upon tho cupola, and tho fre then
applied. This beautiful building also con-
samod without any effort being made TO save it
the iremcn throwing water only upon the adIoin-
ing buildings to guard them from the flames-
at six O'Clock the baro, blackcncd and tottering
walls alone remained.
Mr.. J. Cor's Temperance Grocery Store on
the opposite corner, north Of tho school house.
was attacked during the afternoon and Its con-
tents completely destroyed. The windows were
dashed n-the bulk windows torn from the walls
and the movable wood IN the interior shat
tered to pieces and thrown into tho street. FROM
How, GrpH n
tune of the attack on tho school house OH Tues
day night.
On tho opposite corner the school house
westward, were two old two story brick houses.
From one of these tho shot fired which caus-
ed the dcsth of Mr.. Wright. Tho fronts OF both
j, of them were beaten in with stones.
, Ton frame houses adjoining st. Michael's
/ church. southwa rd. took fire from that building
and wero totally consumed with the exception oi
one which torn down to prevent the fames
5 from catching to brick house further to the
south Several buildings in-the vicinity OF tho
church we're SOMEWHAT injured by tho heat OF
, tlrs flames and tho flakes of fire which fell in
| showers.
Il About this time, the peoplo inhabiting the
S houses on Second street and the streets for
somo distance around the market, hung out A
4 merican flags from their windows to show their
< adherence to tho Native American principles
In the course Of the afternoon fire was applied
to u number of frame houses on Harmony Court
Ga small street running out of Crslwaader ABOVE
I jefferson ST. and before tho flames were stayod
/ upward of fifteen houses woro consumed.
: About,six O'Clock. while tho military wcre on
h Gagged ntho ncighborhood of Second street, u mob
attacked the grocery store of Mr.. Patrick MUIR
s rav. at the cornor OF Germantown Road and Jcf-
c forson street. boat in the windows, throw tho goods
in the storo the street, pitched the furniture
G out of doors md windows, and scarcely dcsisted
: when detachment of cavalry, foot and artillery
! appeared upon the ground. 1t was generally said
: that II from this store that the Irish had OBJ
l. taincd thoir ammunition.
n In the evening. between eight and nine O'Clock
u franc house standing back from the cast sido
n Of Cadwalladcr street, was fired and totally con-
@ sunled. A back building was also burned to the
C ground.
G About nine O'Clock, the fences in front of St.
# Michael's church were gathered together and n
Y bonfire mado Of tlIon
G The military wcro divided into sections ana
:. guarding obnoxious premises
j. The whole district covered in this manner
It Gen. CadwaIlader being unrcmitting III his exer-
tons to prcserve the peace and maintain law, not
n wtfstanding he on horseback tho whole OF
the night preceding. and almost the whole day
s Yesterday. The Sheriff also active. Ma
jor General Patterson was upon tho ground du-
ring the afternoon and took an active part In the
: proceedings.
. During the night, hostile demonstrations were
. made against the Cathedral church of st. Johns,
4 on Thirteenth street, and against Saint Mary 8
1 church, on south Fourth street.
: At the former. Gen. Cad dwa ader, at the head
: Of his force. made speech, declaring that he had
Y been informed that martial law was proclaimed
h and allowing the crowd five minutes to leave tho
/ ground. Tho mob dispersed.
# At the latter the United States Marines enfila-
led the stree.,an wore brought by the conhahd-
n ing officer to a charge. The mob dispersed.
1t There were no persons killed Yesterday and
e bat one wounded. Tins ono, James l.ennox, was
= strlck OH the forehead by brlckbat, but the
2 wound inflicted was not dangerous.
/ Mr.. AUGUSTUS X. Pealc. whose arm was frac-
tIroti by a bullet on Tuesday afternoon. was o.
bIieed to unlergo tho operation Of afnPutatng tho
II member. the wound being considered very dan