Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-05-13
SUNDAY RIOT AT EAST BOSTON.
FROM THE BOSTON JOURNAL OF MONDAY.

FROM THE BOSTON JOURNAL OF MONDAY.
Bhe disorders and turbulence which have been insti
gated by the so-called preachings of j. s. Orr who
styles himself the Angel Gabriel and Others with the
feud and bitterness which form and substance has
been given by the organization of several
bodies finally came to head yesterday afternoon and
evening and the result disgracefu riots and
ourages in Chelsea and East Boston The facts in the
case, as gathered by our reporters, follows:
About noon, John s. Orr, the sef-styed g Trumpeter
for the King that is to come, commenced his harangue
in Winnissimet Square, Chesea and spoke to the multi
pde ssf an hour aud half without any serious molesaion.
his discourse he passage In the same vehicle for East
Boston, where at about three o'clock p NJ one of the
streets he commenced to harangue quickly gathering crowd
and MS is his won't he launched forth his thunders against
the Pope and the pesty rule Of the Catholics Signs Of dis
turbance being manifested the police dispersed the crowd
The sixhorse vehicle containing Orr and his friends me
datey returned Chelsea followed by an excited crowd At
the bridge the crowd following Orr by party Of
men who opposed their entry to Chelsea and general melee
ensued during which stones and bckba freely passed
back and FORTH and received pretty severe
blows. At length Orr reached Mount Bengham and COM
menced his second haangue denouncng the most unoua
terms all foreigners and especially the Irish Ds was
in the immediate vicinity of the Fifty Houses So called
which occupied by workmen forcgners employed the
Gendon Rolling Mills His remarks very naturally excited
the indignation of the residents of that locality as well as
others who drawn to the spot from motives
rosty Soon unmsakabe signs of general outbreak be-
came manifest from the throwing of missiles of
every description, &c. The signs proved but true.
The excited crowd oustd Orr and proceeded to the Cho
lie church, the windows Of which demolished for
time swayed the crowd which assembled In the
meanwhile athletic lad +" Skinned up the gutter of the
church. and gaining the rdgepoe wrencbed the from
the gable end Of the building and threw it the ground
when the crowd seized it and shivered it to pieces
This being the state of affairs, and every moment adding
numbers well excitement to the crowd the autho-
rites took the matter in hand and used every endeavor
their power quel the rotous proceedings The
sounded and the remen speedily assembled
dence to orders did their utmost preserve the peace The
police force of the town also prompt the discharge
their duties and, although their united exerons for time
aayed the outbreak it deemed proper expedent
order out the military.
Seven eight Of the rngeaders in the disgraceul affair
arrested through the efforts of the officers Of the town.
and were locked up.
1t should be mentioned also that the windows many of
the Fifty Houses smashed and otherwise injured,
well as some Irish houses in Essex street Other houses and
stores assaulted with stones and other missiles Upon
careful inquiry it is asceraned that lives lost al
though some four or five men severely injured.
The more rotousy disposed portion OF the crowd being
overawed by the firm stand taken by the authorities of Che
returned to East Boston, and to Potter street.
inhabited mostly by Ih and with loud shouts oaths and
imprecations called upon the Irish to out and fight
rngeaders the mob who running through the
shouting and making general disturbance, arrested and
taken the watch house, which Immediately surrounded
By some FIVE six hundred people who threatened to tear
down the watch house and the Catholic church.
The police and other part. made firm stand against tho
of the mob and ut about half past O'Clock
detachment the North and Centre Watch arrived and
the in front Of and around the Catholic church
Several arrested and pu in the lookup At IL o'clock
last evening thing quiet ut both East Boston and
Chelsea. sstfe., ~