The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-13
RIOT IN NEWARK N. j.
CATHOLICS AGAINST PROTBSTANTS.
CATHOLIc CHuRTcH sAcKED.

posed OF 1richmen, took place in Newark
yesterday, and was in honor of the first
session of the American Congress-
Lodges from New York and BROOKLYN
united in the demonstration.
The procession was long and imposing
having numerous bands, banners, and
flags interspersed. The badges of the
members are red scarf, with silver stars
emblematic of our Union, eagles, rosetts
&c. The banners were large and hand
some and we're decorated with patriotic
signs and the device of the Association.
The procession was composed probably
of 1000 persons, four abreast. After
finishing the line of march they proceed
ed to Military Hall for a collation..
Previous to 3 O'Clock in the afternoon
the Association had dinner at Military
Hall in Market steeet, after which they
again formed in line to finish their pa
rade. Their rout lay through the west
ern portion of the city. While passing
through William street, neal High
street, in the vicinity of the Roman
Catholic Church,!a neighborhood thick
fy populated with Irish, a collision oe-
Cured between the residents there and
those in the procession, which led to
serious consequences.
We ascertain from several sources
that as the last part of the procession
was passing the church, shots were dis
charged, and stones were thrown from
the windows. One of the shots posed
through the banner of Henry Clay
Lodge No. 10 of New York, and one of
the stones struck a man in, the process
ion. Some of the Protestants, feeling
enraged at the outrage committed upon
them, left the ranks of the procession
and made an onslaught upon the church.
A party of Adult thirty first broke in
to the church, and it is asserted that they
found a Catholic priest and about twenty
Irishmen in the building. The priest
and some of his party got out of the
church Immediately by a back way and
ran off. The Protestants proceeded to
sack the church. They destroyed the
organ demolished the alter and seats
of thechurch, broke out the windows,
and otherwise injured the building, to
the amount of $500 to $500.
A crowd entered a few minutes after
ward, and when they had finished the
work of destruction, the building was
completely riddled, and presented a most
desolate appearance. A large number
of pistol-sh OTIS were fired in the church
against the walls and ceiling by the
Protestants.
One Catholic freshman named Thorn
as Mccarthy was shot outside the
church Immediately after the commence
ment of the ARRAY. He received two
balls in the lower part of his abdomen
out of about twenty shots said to have
been fired at him. He died at 10 O'Clock
last night.
Another Catholic who had knocked
down one of the Protestants that entered
the church, was In turn knocked down
and jumped upon, and some persons drew
a nife, the blade of which was eight
inches in length and stuck him, as il
intending to pin him to the floor. The
knife cut the PROSTATE man badly In
the neck.
Others were seriously wounded, but
how many were injured, or how many
there were hurt could not be learned.
The police soon arrived on the spot,
and order was restored. The procession
moved to the railroad depot, and as they
were about taking the cars, a large par
ty of Catholics made a descent upon the
Professionals, and threw about n hun
dred stones and brickbats into the crowd
hitting several but hurting none severely.
N. Y. Tribune ~
The Newark Daily Mercury, in a
slip issued last evening gives the follow
ing account of the affair
Upon reforming in the line at 8
o'clock in Market-street the procession
marched down Broad-stret to William
street, and up William-street to High
street. When the head of the processior
reached the corner of Shipman and
William-streets they found Shipmant.
street crowded with Irish Catholics,
but the great body of the Societies
passed without any interruption beyond
IN occasional shout of derision. As the
end of the procession came in view q
stone was hurled from the crowd on the
corner of Shipman-street wounding 6
member of one of the Associations. A
the same time one or two shots were
fred from the Catholic Church occupy
ing the space between Shipman and
High-streets. This was the signal fol
a general riot, and the entire process
ion breaking it's line and rushing upor
those who had attacked them, who scat
tered in every direction. Pistols were
fred from the procession into the crowd
and some three or four were severely
wounded. The attack from the church
rendered that an especial object of at
t~ention, and in less than five minutes
from the first difficulty, the church wal
completely riddled, its doors and win
dows broken,g its seats torn up its alta
d~ismantled, its organ destroyed, and tn,
whole interior a mass of ruin. a build
ing on the east side of Shipman-stree'
was also attacked, and the window
broken In.
The Newark" Advertiser in speak
ing of the parade says
Our citizens have been UNIVERSAL
surprised and pleased to-day, with tn
first annual parade of the America
Protestant Association Lodgesaef thi
State, accompanied by lodges from NeN
York and Brooklyn, in honor of the frs
session of the American Congress. Tn
Association has been until recently al
most entirely unknown to US, the New
ark Lodge having been formed about 81
months since; and the oldest lodges o
New York only some four or five year
ago. The Association is composed al
most entirely of foreign born citizens
Germans and Irish, and scarcely an.
one suspected that a sufficient number Q
Protestant foreign born citizens live
among us to make SO fine a display a
we witnessed to-day. The Association,