The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-06

The evil in question is the outrageous spirit
of rswdyism Of certain clubs Of desperate hghtinG
I" Rock Boys" &c., organized after the mode Of
the clubs Of London and Paris, whose members
were shot down like dogs by the firemen Of the
latter city, and finally suppressed, as were the clubs
ties. These clubs make deliberate and bloody at
tacks on our firemen, while going TO, and re,
turning from, fires; destroying the apparatus, and
often, by stratagem, .pitting certain companies
bers against each other, and creating, in every
way, endless broii and confusion in the de-
partment The formidable and frequent attacks,
and various species of mischief, and destruction
such an intolerable evil, that If not speedily
checked, our beautiful city may soon present the
same degrading spectacle that has, unfortunately,
characterized Philadelphia, and which has caused
her to blush with shame for 80 many years, and to
lament the consequent dreadful decentralization of
her youth, her almost incredible depreciation of
real estate, her present vacant warehouses, work.
shops and domestic hebitations, and the paralysis
of her general prosperity, thousands and tens of
thousands having emgrated to more safe and tran
quill sections, in consequence of her protracted
riots, and utter want of law and order, and safety
to property and person.
have had many of these villains arrested for
upsetting our engines, cutting the hose, beating
our iremen almost to death, &C., but they were
no sooner in prison than the captains of police, the
aldermen, and judges of police, would discharge
them to commit fresh attacks on the fremen the
following night, and while reeking with ter
rible revenge for their arrest and temporary
confinement. Indeed, these scamps openly boast
that they can bring influence enough to bear
ON the captains of police, Aldermen and po-
lice judges, from their clubs, and nom
political associations, to effect their liberation, no
matter what are the charges preferred against
them, unless they are publicly convicted Of muir
ocr. ana Tesivs ~, Low a
verified to the letter, inasmuch as never Am~.,,
man who belonged to these formidable clubs to De
long imprisoned, and never knew one OF them to &c
convicted for attacks on the firemen-the police
captains and the Aldermen, especially the latter,
dscharging them before they get before the judges
SeU1e Judge f Beaiey at the Jefferson Market
Court, but the result was the same-his instant
discharge. | also once got a most abandoned
leading club villain before a grand jury, where,
however, found he had the same sympathy ex-
tended to him as by the captains of police, Alder
men and police judges. saw this fellow lead on
his club against the firemen, with stones and clubs
saw him beat a fireman dreadfully with huge
chase, in airesting; to all of which ] swore,
on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, be-
fore the grand jury, who let the fellow of, without
the slightest censure. once knew some twelve
Rock Boys" who had been arrested on one
night, to be all discharged in the morning, when the
evidence was strong against them. A fellow, be-
longing to the sold Maids Boys" Club, arrested,
one night, and gave express directions to the cap
tain Of police to retain him, which the captain pro-
missed to do until ga. M the following day; but on,
going to the Tombs Police Court, before nine in the
molil.ag, / found that the Judge had discharged
the man: Not long since, Five Point club took
Engine No A from the company, beat some oil
the company dreadfully, run it down to the Points,
upset il, broke the engine, and ran away, which
was the last of il; not solitary scoundrel ever
having been even arrested by the authorities in
hat xro I'd What al can he eYnecfed when n n
victs, freshly emerging from the dungeon cells oil
Blackwell's Island, are appointed by Aldermen as
policemen? What else can be expected, when a
man named Ganet, of the Sixth ward, boldly goes
the sum of twenty-five dollars for getting Alder
men Kelly and Barr to appoint him policeman,
even before Ryder was confirmed, he having since
been nominated by Kelly and Barr within the
twenty days required by law, at the expiration OF
which, the appointment, to flll vacancy, must be
made by the Mayor. The same Five Point club,
alluded to above recently had the audacity to seize
Hose Carriage No. "a, even while at hire near
the Bowery Theatre, and run of with it, but, being
holly pursued by Stephen I. Hoyt, an Assistant
Engineer, the cowardly villains all fled. On the
18th of August 1850, some two weeks since, one
of the uptown clubs took Hose Carriage No.
from the house, run il through several streets,
and finally took II into an alley IN fourth
street, cut the hose, broke the carriage, NC. ON
the 18th Of August $780, or on the very next night
after the above outrage, murderous gang OF club
rowdies, numbering about one hundred, set fire 10
several barrels in Thiry-second street, between
the First and Second avenues, for the sole pur-
pose OF creating false alarm, and decoying en-
CINE No 10, in that direction, in order TO beat and
Kill its members. While engine No. 10 was on
its way to the sham fire, and when near TO Twen-
tieth street, about one hundred of these demi-
devils, belonging to the club banditt, suddenly
emerged from their hiding places, and attacked
the company with large stones and clubs, upset
and broke the engine, and most awfully beat seve-
raj members of the company. This outrage oc-
cured only the week before last. The following
are some of the firemen belonging to engine No.
~, who were confined 10 their beds in consequence
Of the severe wounds and various bodily injuries
they received on that melancholy occasion
Joshua 5. Travis, William Jones, Charles w.
Eichells. and Charles b. Reynolds.
-Four nights thereafter, or on the 10Th Of August,
1850, while Hose Company No. D, at lire in Will
lett street, were taking up their hose, club gang
attacked the fire men, took their apparatus, and
run off with il. The object, which was success
ful, Of the club, was TO create broil between
hose members and l3, by attaching themselves
to either company. A fight ensued, which re-
suited in the serious bodily injury of both COM
panies, while the club rascas who created the dis
turbance, escaped without injury. On the very
next day, the 10th OF August, 1850, between and
Up, M even in the broad face Of day, at an alarm
OF fire IN the fourth district, raised, as is supposed
TO decoy hremen out, for the purpose OF beating
them, Hose Co No. 10 was violently attacked by
a formidable club, while near Grand and Gouver-
ntur tUttlc, Win ttOntb ana cluD-, VINO drove the
fremen before them, beating the foreman Of Hose
No. -, and other members Of the company Sc
ytfely-seized the apparatus, ran II down 10 the
dock at the foot OF Gouverneur street, and left u
there. One OF the vile ruffians was arrested and
conveyed to the Seventh ward station house,
when, Alderman Morgan Morgans, of the Seventh
ward, hearing OF is arrest, went down imme-
diately 10 the station house, and set the brutal
wretch az liberty. Two more Of these precious
club cut Threats, named johnson and Barry, were
arrested by the Assistant Captain Of the Thirteenth
ward police, and detained all night at the station
house, through the hrmncss OF Alderman Cook,
and the Captain ~ the Thirteenth ward police,
both OF whom peremptorily refused TO surrender
them, again the threats and strongest importu-
mites 81 their associates in crime. In the morning,
however, Judge Mounifori, Of the Essex Market
Court held them TO bail In the enormous sum OF
two hundred dollars 10 keep the peace, when the
seouBdrels again exultingly went forth to cut the
throais Of our noble firemen. j was present when
this precious pair Of brutal looking monsters were
bailed, and was surprised, az, indeed, can longer
he surprise In these degenerate tmes) TO Ind that
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