The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-13

rent scene 81 uncalled for slaughter. This, v.
feel: y not the time to express ~ Indigestion
shoot dowD Jour peaceful and undaendin fellow,
citizens.
We were too far of to speak persenalty Of ths
condnct OF the Mayor and Of the oficpes bX whose
orders they were fred; but, IL weAre t1frectly
informed by those who were On the spot there
was nothing to justify SO rash and coNardly q
proceeding. We must not, however, spyeiudee
their conduct on the occasion but the blood Of
those who fell calls loudly for . prompt invcsti-
the melancholy affair, and apparently. at least
wanton massacre,
The following, so far as we have been able to
ascertain, is q complete
LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Peter Gillespie, clerk in Mr.. Johnson's store.
shot through the head with musket ball and NOR.
tally wounded, although alive when we left
since reported dead: E. Crosby. clerk, relative
Of Mr.. Tyre, of Tyre, Colquehon & Co., shot
through the heart and died instantly. James
Hutchinson. cousin of Mr.. Hutchinson, the build.
er. killed; Mr.. Adams, son of the city counsellor,
shot through the lungs, and MORALLY wounded;
Mr.. J. o'NieI, shot through the body, and expect.
age, severely wounded; Mr.. Clark, book keeper
at W. Lyman b Co IS, shot through the foot with
musket bal Mr.. HILBERT, of Long Point, also shot
through the foot with musket ball; a lad, nephew
T.. street, HQOt
through the leg; Mr.. Patrick Guy, shot through
the heel with a musket ball; Mr.. Chapman, of the
National Loan Fund, wounded in the side; Mr..
McGrath, of Thomas McGrath, shot through
the body and killed. A Mr.. Hudson, stoned cutter,
was killed; beautiful little bow, five wears of
age, was shot through the leg and broke the bone;
Mr.. Stevenson, formerly of the post Office, was
severely wounded in the shoulder; an unknown
man was kilied-died in the house of DR. McDo-
NELL Mr.. Sydney Jones was slightly wounded in
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we could not learn, was SO wounded as to necess-
tate the amputation of one of his legs in the Mon
treal General Hospital, and is not expected to re.
cover. Many others, whose cases we could not
learn, were more or less injured.
At the time we write all is quiet in the city;
there is strong guard of the twenty sixth regi.
ment at the st. Lawrence Hall and at the Mayor 3
residence, and the streets are controlled by mount
ed artlerymen.
Further particulars of this riot are furnished in
the following Geographic dispatches;
MONTREAL, June lO.-The papers of this CITY
generally condemn the firing of the troops, as hay.
ing taken place without just cause. Seven persons
were killed, eleven wounded, (most of them Sc
verely,) and many others slightly hurt The city
is guarded by the military, and every thing now
seems quiet, but great feeling prevails among the
people.
MONTREAL, June 1l.-Almost every hour re-.
cords some new victim whose CORPSE or manned
So far as we can learn, after careful inquiry the
number Of persons shot is about fifty and of those
killed outright or mortally wounded from ten to
twelve.
. large meeting of citizens was held in St.
Georges Hall, at 2 O'Clock p. M, yesterday, for
the purpose Of considering the safety of the city
They passed resolutions requesting Gavazzi to
complete his course of lectures, commencing the
police, &c.
The 9th resolution was as follows:
s'Re,olued, That, in the opinion of this meeting,
The Mayor ought on all occasions to take sufficient
measures for the protection of life and property in
he city, or resign his Office into other hands. And
having failed in this duty, Charles Wilson is not
it person to hold the Office of Mayor, which he now
)ccupies.''
The city was in state of intense excitement the
whole day yesterday. Several instances of attempts
1t outrage on solitary individuals, by Roman
are mentioned.
The lecture was postponed last evening, and
Father Gavazzi left this morning for New York,
o be gone day or two. He is to return and finish
lis course
The Mayor, at an informal meeting of the City
Councillors, yesterday, denied that he had ordered
he soldiers to fire. or that the officers had applied
o him to do 80. Who it was who ordered the
soldiers to fire he could not say.
The following is list of the killed and wound.
I'd. in addition TO those reported yesterday, many
If them having been assaulted by ruffians in the
treets j. Pollock, an old man, was killed by a
hot through the body; young man named Lit
lie, book keeper, received two stabs in the head
With knife, and is dead - Thompson, shot
through the body; j. Beckett, assaulted before
he firing. while going quietly home from work,
md brutally Acknowledgements wounds were in.
licted on his head and neck Mr.. G. B. Pierson,
in ], inoaensve man, returning home about ten
lewis, while walking up the hill with lady, re-
eived shot in his heel which passed through his
DOT; Mr.. Campbell, also on his way home, re-
'eived shot which instantly killed him man
named Donnelly is in the hospital with wound
hree balls in his back, and is dead; Mr. Hutch
ms received musket ball in the leg. Mr.. M.
Joseph received a severe blow on the head from
club, and ia now suffering from conclusion of the
brain /; James WEIGH, Catholic leader, was actu-
lily engaged in the riot; William Lemon, stabbed,
lead.
1t ls reported that some seven or eight of the
oers were killed. in addition to the above, all of
ow character. Their names have not been OBJ
aimed.
Last evening the streets were patrolled by fly
ng artillery, and all, for the most part, quiet.
RoME.-In letter from Rome, of the 18th of
May last, Mr.. Bryant, editor of the New York
Euening Poet, notices the preponderance of the
military costume oyer the ecclesiastical and the
restraints on public intelligence, but adds
''in the midst of the evils of this alse system of
political organization, there are some tokens of
prosperity to be at Rome. have no doubt
hat the population of the city has considerably
increased within the last twenty years. The proof
Of this is to be found in the rise of rents and the
difficulty WHICH now exists in finding commodi-
ous apartments. | am told that rents have near
~ doubled, and that the spacious suites of rooms
which few years since stood vacant in the pal
aees and other large houses have now their inmates
This is owing, no doubt, in part to the general
growth of the population of Italy during the late
long interval of rest from war, and in part to the
new facilities for travelling, which bri1g many
more strangers to Rome than formerly as visitors
or residents. The tide also, which in the ecclesi
astical world ia setting back towards the usages
md opiniong OF the middle ages, doubt floats
many hiber, and adda something to this new
growth of Rome. Those who foretold that the
Eternal City, in the unhealthy air of her Cam
pagna, would at no distant day become unpeo-
pied, must be content to look to very remote and
indefinite futurity for the fulilment Of their pre-
dicton.
meantime the city is somewhat beauti6ed with
Almost every succeeding year. Statues and COL
umns aye erected; the sld irregular pavement Of
the streets, troddep with 90 much pain by those
who had corns on their feet, has been ken up,
and its place supplied by smoother one, com.
posed of small rectangular blocks Of stone, like
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