Washington telegraph., 1855-08-22
The Riot in louisville. XIV.

-, ! sEst AM house-onrning which occurred IN
- Yesterday. We cannot now express our
.bborrence Of such things; nor can we End
!, which TO say what we would wish to
20, this subject A terrible responsibility
>, I'm those who have incIied the for. ign
TssS,.,I,u of the city 10 the deeds OF violence
PT.L were the commencement of the riots in
We; ct and Eighth wards. We are confident
Y 80 riots were not occasioned by ANYTHING
io'.s.n,sned at any of the several voting-pIaces
=. -Is-tiou throus hout the city. as far as we can
~. had passed of with unusual quiet with the
iE,.i,1 OF brutal outrage in the First ward Of
- We shall SPEAK presently. and some fight
81, The Eighth ward polls. in v hich no one
r--,u-l hurt The riots were occasIoned by
" -T;ruina.e and nurderous assaults committed
= Ez-1igners, chiefly Irish, upon inoiiensiye citi-
:" nsSceablY attending to their own business.
irae distance IRON any of the voting places
~ the circumstances connected with these as
q. strongly Indicate that they were preu,edi-
- and instigated by other parties than those
=. rbou they were actually committed. We
:, not COW prepared to say that they were the
S<s7uences only OF the incenjiary appeals, for
-. time past. publicly made TO our foreign pop
5.-,v by some OF the leaders of the Anti-Amer-
=. r7rty or that they were instigated bv direct
:.rsciious of men with fendi<h hearts who con-
- great measure the passions and are able
:. E-tste actions 10 the Germans and Irish who
-.4e these attacks All the facts will probably
: ss,s,er.ained jIiicially, and then the response
i1F,y will rest where it properly belongs. The
,--Iustances as detailed to US. and the confess
-,,so. some of the miserable wretches who were
Il the victims of their insane folly and mur-
I.,,as violence show that these assaults upon
r-.EenGns and innocent native-born citizens
we prerneJitated- and that the blame attaches
=, o.bers who are as yet unnamed.
We have not nOw time to give details We
,zseTs however and are that it will be prov
Il by respectable witnesses. that everv act of
I;,odshed was begun by foreigners That in
.rsry instance where mortal violence ensucd the
besianing OF the riots was an unproroked slaugh-
isT by foreigners of peaceabe Americans while
ou;e;Iy passing IN the streets at a distance from
,5s poils This infunated the popuIace and a
--a7r5pt AMI terrible resort to mob violence by
rbich many foreigners were killed and much
r-onsyty destroyed was the consequence In the
ri ward about Q o'clock in the morning. while
,s. election proceeding quietly at the polls
Nr Geo BIrse- respecta bic. and quiet meri-
IN ritIzen WAS bru,aily assaulted by a party of
IisSulen on Jarkson Street. between Jefferson
.-d Greene without having given any provoca-
.s,r he 1aS knocked down and horribly beaten
y-i-b ,tares ami Clubs He attempted TO escape
f-,en the fen1s by whom he was attacked and
r,r ,rtn the alley OF an aiioiui3, house where he
xzs lo!iowe6 BY his hlo"d-;hirSiy assai;auts and
RI sabled and beaten until he was supposed to
= 5e-f when one of these inhumai. brutes de-
T,sra,eIy opened his knife and proceeded to cut
.se faroat OF the murdered man. When this act
ei,iaerce was made Known party of Americans
..z-.ed IL pursuit uf the uuEdereFS. who were sub
s.grntlv arrested and lodged in Jail .,y the Mayor
All CITY Marshall
Inrhe afternoon between three and four o'clock
ss.4raI Americans were fired upon AMI severely
u9ur4.ed while quietly riding OF walking BY the
- Taf Al.
B-arrrass bridge Among these were some gen.
tleGeu from Jefferson county AMI several reSpert-
ale ciiIZen>- One gentleman who was fired at
vas riding in a buggy with his wife seated by his
SIDE AbOHt the same time a perfect shower OF
slot AMI bullets were rained upon every Ameri-
Caa paSser-hE from the windows of some houses
orcEpiei by Germans upon Shelby street. IN the
regiboTaoyj O. Madison street.
As saoH IS these occurrence were made known
i was asceriaiuej that large bodies of foreigners
zrnei with shot guns and rites. had Assem- nbIed
Il The neISkbOrhOOi Ci the brewery and also on
Shelby street An IndiScriminate slaughter OF
American citizens was apprehended- An inn
us5nse crowd Of exrited. nladlened in.uriatpd
Americans assembled they fired at from
the windows Of the brewery. and the houses on
Shelby street and in seekii.g 10 arrest these Of
ieriers- several men were badly wounded ami the
InCsTsed ard In.rTisicd mob burned the brewery
and sacked the houses from which the shots were
fred
In the Sth ward the most serions disturbances
occurred about O'Clock in the afternoon Mir
Rhodes IN company with two friends all Amer
Iesn citizens was quietly passing urnn Main
street rear Chapel. when they set u1on BIZ
parry Of ten Irisnuen. who with horrible ozths
sxoTe tliey would clean the streets OF every Am
eTlrsn- Fifteen shots were fred upon them
RhO3es vas killed. and bot. his companions had
iy wcGi.is ! o.. them seriously. The Irish
aen .leH -. IN Chapel street and on heiug p'iT-
SEED tuo& -sIuge III house at the corner O: Chapel
al Market Streets wheace several shots we're
fred by the inmates, by which several American
cl,iz=ns were wounded aad two We're killed. a
ME Graham and Nir- Hohson. TIE firing from
iais house continued for some half hour The
IEish were armed to the teeth with firearms of
every description. willie the Americans were al
nost entirely uEsaTIDei- and we're Obliged 10 20 TO
their homes TO procure arms to defend themselves
an their friends from the mIrlercuS fire of the
Insane wretches who had made this attack upon
th-m- Between and 7 c'ciock. sufficient force
rad assembled TO capture ihe murderer of young
Graham; attempt was made 20 hang him. but
We learn that he Is still living
IN the meantime a iusiIade of shot-guns and
rles was kept up against any American DassiD.
By ire row ri hoIs-s at the corner of Eleventh
saI Main belonging; :" an Iri>h.nar named Q'.inn.
brother of Father Quinn- 4 Roman Catholic
fred ir1m theSe premises. and the attention OF the
crowd was gIveS them. They were filed with
ilsbalen and with loaded arms as the sequel
rrOved beyond ,ioubt. An attempt was made
70 drive them out. and the houses were ilre,:
whether the inside outside we DO not know
While burning the frequent reports showed that
they were well provided with firearms; and the
Confessions OF 4 poor miserable devil who was
rescued by Capt Stone proves that they were
niled with arms aud contained thirteen kegs oi
powder provided for the occasion The houses
are still burning. ss we write. and the riot has not
yet subsded.
We have neither space nor time to enter into
s7y particulars We Will atternpt TO do so to-
morrow 4 number nf Americans We're slain by
the foreigners AMI number of foreigners met a
heavy TetTIhgtinn- We 10 not know how many
have been killed, but have already heard Of some
tEeire or fifteen all. ani some twenty or thirty
have been more or less dangerously wsunied.-
We will give details Tomorrow
LOTION AANUFAcTUEE--An able WRITER in a
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