Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-08-13

From the Journal.
As We stated Yesterday, taeTs were several fist
nights at the different polls on Monday morning.
Immediately after dinneu matters assumed a more
violent aspect. The first serious difficulty &C.
CURED in tie upper part of the city. couple oil
gentlemen were riding along m a carriage, when
they We're fred at from house by German OF Irish
and one OF them wounded. rLe firing was re-
peaiet. Ed. Williams, Waterman in the Second
Ward, John Selvage and Join Latta, Americans
were there. Mr.. Latta had his leg shattered by
mnSket bali. Sewage received several buck.
shot about his body, and Williams was slightly in
iured.
The report reached the lower part OF the city
that SIX Americans had been shot and we're lying
i'll Dr.. Pyle's office. This caused the assembling
OF large owG which proceeded up town. Tie
trst attack made by the crowd was on German
named John Yogt, IN house from winch shots
had been fired upon Americans, OIL the cornet oil
Clay and Madison. He was shot, stabbed, AMI
beaten. Another German, named Jacob, who
was sitting on stalrCase, dragge,l out, Sta5b-
ed and heaten. His recovery IS doubtful. Every
thing in the lower par. OF the house was broken
to pieces.
The crowd proceeded to the corner OF Madison
and Shelby, where freing from the houses had
taken place, and they rdiled two groceries. \
German Tope-maker named Helm, who was walk,
ing along the street, was beset by the crowd aud
terribly beaten.
! lie crown tueN auSachSua u elu1SN beer house
corret of Walnut and Shelby, kept by c. Kiszler,
and two houses occupied by Germans on the cor.
ner of Shelby and Marshall. A German named
Teller was stabbed seven times, but not danger
ously injured.
The next scene ofthe riot was on Jefferson st.,
near BeargraSs creek. Here party OF gentleman
coming InIo the city was fred upon by foreigner
from !the houses, and some of them seriously
wounded, Administers brewery and several
and The contents demolished. The brewery was
afterwards fred and burned down, with several
other houses. Anum6er Of window-paneS in 9th
er houses were broken. Several GermanS were
badly beaten, and an lrishnlan, named Patrick
Murphy, was shot; he died this morning. On
Preston street below Main. John SoutherIand, an
American, was shot, but not dangerously iulu1eG,
aud an IriShman was shot aud beaten.
Allthe German houses attacked we're those from
which shots had been tred by the occupants.
While this was going on in the upper part of the
city, severatPerSous were 6ted upon on the low.
part OF MGiu street, About i've O'Clock, two
Americans were shot from IN Irish house., while
gOiHg up ChsPel street. This at once brought the
excitement 10 the INCEST pitch. Tie row on Nam
sIreei, above Elyeuth, was attacked ami several
persons were killed and some burned. large
number wounded. The l;iShman who shot GTI-
ham while he was taking Gaze OF Rhodes, an Amer
icaR who had been shot, was hung, but cut dow IL
tefole he died. At least thlTy shots were fred
from houses on Chapel street. ltIs impossible to
ascertain all that were wounded 6laIvin II. Scott,
American, had his arm badly shattered by ball.
Seven houses ON the North side oil Main stree.
above Eleventh, and two on the South side we've
burnett. A man named Richnrd Blackburn, who
had hold orthe pipe of the American Esgle Com
paHy, was shot about three o'clock this morning.
The houses were nearly all owned by Francis
King. Tho was kitleff.
Lsterat night, one Of the groceries IanSacked on
Madison street was burned down, and also two