The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-05-29
Prom the New York Herald, May ~.
u,. :. x..n.I..-Furshor Particulars.

The
two bands OF music and gee clubs with banners
and badges Some OF the latter read and bore the
Inscription Maifest, New York, 1851"
They passed the ferries al III o'clock 10 The spot
where the festival held which is called Fox HILL IN
the vicinity of the Eysan Fields. In the afternoon
while the Germans We're paraking OF picnic on The
grass disturbance took plack between them and some
Young OF Hoboken and New York. said 10 be Rock
Boys and Short Boys and thai they seized their sausages
and drank their beer The Germans repulsed lhem.
beating them severely. The two parties subsequently
met at McCays saloon. about three o'clock IN the al
ternoon, and there serious outbreak ne parry
OF Germans who were engaged here a wore VINE snp,
arms There are those who say there was no usluio
whatever till il commenced here, and lhat IL oIg
mated in the Germans demanding drink rather perenpio
rly, and McCarty refusing, when blows followed ana
the Hoboken boys took part WIN nun, ana metee PC
gan, which resulted IN the demohuon 81 MeIMY
house and the serious injury OF lame child, OF HIMSELF
and his wife McCary fired two shots into the crowd one
of which took effect IN the groin OF aGerman me com
baants tore up fence. and dealt dreadful blows TO
each other they welded the legs OF broken tables
and chairs and the branches OF trees, while others drew
knives and PISTOLS and used them freely The tide OF
battle advanced and recededthe scale OF victory al one
time inclinng in favor OF the Germans and at another
for their opponents The Germans exceeding their an
tagonists numbers drove them of the field, killing
some and wounding others This battle lasted about
The Short Boys, or Rock Boys. or by whatever name
they may be designated, FASTENED to the village, ana
meeting large number of Irish aborers. who had just
stopped work at o'clock, enlisted them IN heir service
by telling them that the Germans were cutting me boas
American
too collected give the Germans battle while most per
sons shut up their houses and barricaded their windows
and doors Meantime, the Germans having carried Nc
Carty's house by Storm and smashed DOORS windows,
bar futures and furniture, they pursued the enemy IN
the direction OF the village, and various skmshes took
place, in which the Germans were still successful All
this time the and children were screaming with
terror and running all directions from the showers oil
stones that flying Many OF them left their hus-
bands and sweethearts behind and made their way IN The
best manner they could the Jersey ferry. In OF
these onslaughls the Germans beat a young man so
dreadfully that he lay the field for dead The Ger
mans with the white coats acted In concert by the sound
of horn ,
AT this period of the hosties Mr.. Burning justice Of
the peace in addressing the rioters and endeavoriDg to
uuell the fight knocked down and badly injured.
His head is severely wounded.
The Germans suppo.ing that their victory was COM
plete relaxed in their persu and being tired OF hghtng
they scattered many Of them TO look for their wives and
children, and female friends.
Meantime the Boys" reinforced by the Irish labor.
ers and BY citizens OF Hoboken, waited at Otto Cottage
for the scattered and Struggling parties OF Germans as
they came TO the ferry. Those who protected by
women escaped, with some Kisses, ,aun,s. and
but every German who had not Tecoa TO defend him,
particularly il he had white coat was knocked down,
made prisoner OIL and IN many instances well beaten
after he was arrested Several wagons and omnibus
loads OF prisoners to Bergen jail The Germans
In the rear, finding what was gong on ahead OF them,
FASTENED forward 10 the rescue, when terrible battle
commenced opposite the Office OF the magistrate, Mr.
Burning, corner OF Washington and Newark streets
The corner grocery OF b. NJ. Gilmore Co. had the
doors and windows shattered TO plecles and stones
Almost every house down 10 the Jerry was rddled par
ticularly Pope's and Corbeits. MIR. LewIs's and MIR
Wnghrs, on the opposite corner TO Glmore's They
got the roof OF Mr. Lewiss house and proceeded TO
demolish it. The Germans were now again victorious
Thus riot reigned uncontrolled with but one magistrate
and two constabes 10 oppose the torrents One OF The
consiables, named Francis, had revolver; but OF what
avail was ii TO subdue such riot as that
As darkness fell the scene became more horrible, and
individual stragglers dealt numerically with. The
theatre Of battle shifted the ferry, and outside and
IN and the adjoining green, the hight ragged urously
Mt Barker, The proprietor o. ne hotel adjoining lhe
in special consiables and the citizens ncensed By having
their houses attacked, focked TO the standard OF the Just
ice. who stationed himself at the ferry and had the Ger
arrested they passed through the gate. In this
way some forty or nifty were made prisoners, while
skmish attended almost every capture; and thus The
hostlites were kept up till an advanced hour
Assistance sent for TO the New York police, and
refused Then Jersey City applied TO, when two
military companies and few hremen turned ou-in all
about seventy hundred meB--and marched for
the field OF battle, where they arrived after o'clock and
when the worst OF the affair was over They beat Their
drum, however and cheeed most ygoronsiy but there
not enemy 10 be seen, except unfortunate strag
glers small groups, consisting OF men, women, and
children. The main body had either passed over the
ferry, gone round 10 Jersey City ferry. II said
that large party OF the boys intended to attack Bockers
house during the night, and that the Germans well
prepared for them with firearms In the course OF the
fight the houses OF the Germans residing in Hoboken
attacked by the boys and Of them, residing IN
Bloomfield street, collected number of German friends
to defend his domici with guns and pistols, and blum
against the Short Boys They were, however persuaded
10 90 in. and not provoke renconlre While all this
going al Hoboken, there great excitement
the two Hoboken ferries this side, both at Barclay and
Canal streets, and some fighting took place A man,
nicknamed Dick the Blower, charged with shooting
OF the Germans, arrested by officer johnson, OF the
Fifth Ward, on this side the water.
From the general confusion and from the darkness OF
the nlghbere being gas nor any other kind OF light
in the streets OF HobOken-it impossible 10 obtain
anything like list Of the killed and wounded.
1t stated that four have been dead, but Their
could be ascertaned; and il is added that il is known
that az many twelve have been killed, OF will die OF
their wounds before morning.
One man certainly carried over The ferry dead
The number OF wounded II would be impossible to count
They are hundreds, II no, thousands Among them are
Justice Banning, badly; Sheriff Wright, the neck
Captain John Hckie. badly Charles T Clarke; ship
carpenter, named Bridges IT is feared a,ay-his skull
having been fractured and his jugular vein cut; Mr.
She'll residing at the oil Bloomfield and Second
streets, badly hurts Mr. Heirsch. residing at ls6 Hester
street, severely wounded Jacob Cock, found nearly
dead WIN Mott, severely wounded a boy in black.
smiths shop also much injured. Tie light OF day
viii probably reveal many more, and also bring niei.
gence Of deaths. Altogether It most dIsgracelu
and fearful not and both parties appear 10 be fault
Ihe necessity OF large police force and also OF the
gannaton oil military companies in Hoboken, Is evil
dent mat ~ unnecessary TO press II the attention OF
the inhabitants
Acoroners jury viii probably have sad duty to per
form tnis Gay " relation to this melancholy catastrophe
Many OF the Getmsns were drunk
PosrscRpI p o'clock, Our reporter has iustte
turned from the Hudson county Jail a, Bergen Hill where
sixty OF the Germans arrested al Hoboken arc eonsnd
in separate cells We made inquiries lor ~. iaa, aI
were informed that he had gone ia poboL, - IL