Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-13
LATE NEWS BY THE MAILS.
LOUISVILLE RIOT.
EULL PARTICULARS.



occurred in our city yesterday. We cannot ex.
press our great adherence ct such things; nor
can we find space in which to say whit we would
wish to say upon this subject. A terrible re-
sponsibity rests upon those who have melted
,he foreign population Of the city TO the deels
af yiolance which were the commencement Of
the riots in the first and eight wards
We are confident that these riots were not
stoned by any thing that happened at amy of the
several voting plnces The election throughout
the city, as we can learn, bad passed eff with
unusual quiet. with the exception of Il brutal ont
rage IN the first wa,d. nf which we shall speak
presently. and some fighting at the eighth ward
polls, in which no one was much hurt. The II
OTIS were accustomed by indiseriminate and muir
derous assaults committed by foreigners. chiefly
Irish, upon iuotfensive citizens, peaceaby attend
ing to their own business, at some distance from
any of the voting places. All the circumstances
connected with these assaults strongly indicate
that they were premedtated and instigated by
other parties than those by whom they were
tually committed. We are not now prepared TO
say that they consequences only Of the in
cendiary appeals, for some time past, publicly
made to our foreign population by some of the
leaders of the anti-Americrn party that they were
instgated by direct instruction of men with tlen
dish hearts who control in great the
passions. and are able to dictate action to the
German and Irish who made these attacks
All the facts will probably be ascertained judi
ciallv, and then the responsibility will rest
where it probably belongs. The circumstances
as detailed to us, and the confession of some of
the miserable wretches who were made the VIC
tins of their insane folly and murderous violence
show that these assaults upon unoffendng and
innocent native born citizens were premeditated,
aud thai the blame attaches to others who are as
yet unnamed.
we have not now time to give details. We
b,,u and mr. that it will he we'd
by respectable witnesses, that every actof blood
shed was begun by foreigners. That in every in
stance where mortal violence ensued, the begin
ming of the riots was unprovoked slaughter
by Foreigners of peaceable Americans while qn-
city passing in tho streets at distance from the
polls This Infatuated the populace. and a prompt
and terrible resort to mob violence by which ma
nv foreigners were killed and much property
destroyed was the consequence In the first
ward about 8 o'clock in the morning while the
election was proceeding quietly at the polls, Mr..
George Burge, respectable and quiet Amcr
can citizen was brutally assaulted by party of
Irishmen on Jackson street, between Jefferson
and Greene. Without having given any provoca-
he was knocked down and horribly beaten with
stones and clubs. lie attempted to escape from
the fends by whom he attacked, and ran in
to the alley of an adjoining house, where he was
followed by his blood thirsty ASSISTANTS, and cut,
stabbed, and beaten until he was supposed to be
dead, when one of these inhuman hrutes deber
ately opened his knife and proceeded to cut the
throat of the murdered man. When this act of
violence made known party of Americans
started in pursuit of the murderers who were
subsequently ARE sted and lodged in Jail by the
Mayor and City Marshal
In the afternoon between three and four o'cl'k,
several Americans were fired upon and severely
wounded while quietly riding walking by the
German brewery, on Jefferson street, near the
bridua m those tvar
tlenen from jefferson county, and several re-
spectacle citizens. One gentleman who was fired
at was riding in buggy with his wife seated by
his side. About the same time perfect shower
of shot and bullets were rained upon every Amer
lean passer-by from the windows of some houses
occupied by Germans upon Shelby street in the
neiehborhood of Madison street.
A. sorn as these occurrences were made
knuxu il was ascertained that large bodies of
foreigners, armed with shot guns and rifles, had
assembled in the neighborhood of the brewery,
and also of Shelby street. An indiscrminato
slaughter of American citizens was apprehended.
An immense crowd of excited, mnddened and in
furated Americans assembled, they were fired
Mt from the windows Of the brewery and the
houses on Shelby street and in seeking to
rest these offenders several men were badly
wounded and the incensed and Infatuated mob
burned the brewery, and sacked the houses from
which the shots were fired.
In the Stb ward the most serious disturbances
occurred about six o'clock in the afternoon. A
Mr. Rhodes, in company with two friends, all
American citizens, quietly passing up on
Main street. near Chapel, when they were set
upon by a party of ten lrishmen. who with hor-
rible oaths swore they would clean the streets of
every American. Fifteen shots were fired upon
them. Rhodes was killed and both his compan-
ions badly wounded, one of them seriously. The
lrishmen then up Chapel street and on be-
- l. ,,af,~a nat fha norm nr
of Chapel and Market streets, whence several
shots were fired by the inmates, by which sever
al American citizens were wounded and two were
killed. Mr.. Graham and Mr.. Hobson. The
firing from this house continued for some half
hour. The Irish were armed to the teeth with
fire. arms of every description, while the Ameri
cans were almost entirely unarmed, and were
Obliged to go to their homes to procure arms to
defend themselves and their friends from the muir
derous fire of the insane wretches who had made
this attack upon them. Between and7 O'Clock
a sufficient force had assembled to capture the
murderer of young Graham; an attempt was
made to hang him, but we learn that he is still
living.
In the meantime a fusilade of shot guns and
rifles was kept up against any American passing
by the row of houses at the corner of Eleventh
and Main, belonging to an lrlshman named Quinn
a brother of Father Quinn, a-Roman Catholic
Priest Several Americans were wounded by
shots fired from these premises, and the atten-
ton of the crowd was given to them. They were
filled with lrishmen, and with loaded arms rs
the sequel proved beyond doubt. An attempt
made TO drive them out, and the houses were
fred whether ON the outside or inside we do not
know. While burning the frequent report
showed that they were well provided with fire
arms; aud the confessions Of poor miserable
devil who was rescued by Captain Stone proves
that they were filed with arms and contained
thirteen kegs of powder provided for the occa-