New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-06

81 White street, TO act y" ''"N va" Wv
to,den, and Deputy superintendent OF the Romeo IN
h.evcr might be necessary TO preserve the peace W
~"'. Nearly two hundred additional patrolmen
-. sworn in and assigned duty in different parts 0,
a. .;,v--making the entire force Of regulars sna
srecias about 900 men. Numerous suggestions "o.0
,nsde relative to the predicted attack on the ponce
The Sixth Ward, which during the day ,"u 81.
r.u.lly ouict for a Fourth of July, ana 'nous" ''o
&c Tho of;cers WAS that the day woud pass
o. d., anv sorous conflict. yet the quiet, as the
- ,,rovod yss but the precursor OF the rio' anu
h,orn, an s sleeping in the hearts OF the ia"e''
~ - 20 10 100 men was kept at the once
a.. c,.,n;.s;opers during the day TO guatd as wen
as might be against an emergen'!' ,.n
- clock Messrs. Bowen and S'ranahan lett
81. beirr replaced BY Commissioner Draper.
icing the afternoon Superintendent Ialmadge
',,sd through some of the Wards and returned with
.be that many OF the proprletors oil 'he
ouo sbops had closed their doors. The fact was re-
,,arded as a good omen, and until about "a O'Clock
nothing had occurred to indicate that there would DC
apy disturbance. -..-..
srIr ATTACK on THE POLICE IN THE SEVENTH
WARD.
Al that hour six members Of the Police, while pass
EMO through jackson street, near Cherry, were sur
,onnded by two or three hundred Irishmen ana boys
occpnvinp the tenement houses 10 the vicinity. NO
;oenoe was offered further than keeping the officers
bemmed in they being compelled for the time 10 en-
siure their taunts and epithets Word reaching the
Thirteenth Ward Station House that the Seventh
Ward officers were in danger Sergeant Steers immea-
stely le the place with nine men, and they were soon
nj the scene of the difficulty The crowd gave way as
they arrived aud they Joined the Seventh Ward OH
GERS After brief consultation, there being no dis
position manifested to make an attack, Sergeant Steers
prepared to withdraw with his men, thinking that the
crowd would disperse. As they were leaving, how
ever they were attacked with stones, bricks and other
nssels, which were thrown with great violence
from the house.tops and windows and from among
the crowd. The assault was violent; but half OF the
sixteen were members of the regular police and they
were enabled for some time to keep the whole body
together. BY this judicous course they three times
repulsed the rioters; but as three of their number
were wounded and two had become separated from
the main body, several Of the foremost officers drew
their pistols aud fired into the crowd. This demon
stration with firearms had a salutary effect. The
rioters were seized with panic and imme lately re
treated into the houses and cross streets 1t was re-
ported yesterday that one of the rioters had
died from the effects Of q pisto[bau fired
by the Police. Our reporter was unable to
GERS were wounded, Messrs. Tyler and Young Of the
Seventh Ward and Mr.. Howell of the Thirteenth
Ward. After the firing, the Police retired from the
place in regular order The wounded officers were
conyeyed to the Staton-H House, where their wounds
we're dressed by DIR. Wells.
Among the spectators of the attack was Capt. Let's
of the late police and one of Fernando Woods most
violent partizan supporters. He manifested lively
interest in the events occurring, and, with Fernando
Wood was the frequent recipient of the cheers Of the
tiOters.
THE RIOT IN THE SIXTH WARD.
At 500 o'clock intelligence of the situation of az
fairs in the Seventh Ward reached the Deputy Super
inendent at No. SO White street, substantially in the
form that the facts had been communicated to Ser
reant Steers in the Thirteenth Ward Deputy Car
penter at once ordered Officer Bowers of the Ninth
Ward to take twenty five men and proceed to the re-
lief Of the Seventh Ward officers. Within bret
time Mr. Bowers was ready with his platoon, and on
his march down White street toward Baxter.
While this was transporting, two Irishmen had be-
cone involved in a fight in Bayard street, between
Baxter and Mulberry, and the circumstance caused
general rush of the Dead Rabbit crowd, men, women
and children, to witness the difficulty The belligerent
nsr;es had inst been separated when the cry was
besrd "The Metropolitans are coming" The effect
nj the announcement for a moment was to cause
peperal stampede The women and children and most OF
tbs men rushed either into the houses and stores or
else round the corner into Mulberry street, and win
ows and roofs on either side of the street became
filed with human beings, looking out upon the Metro
fropoltans who had the tenacty to walk upon forbid
den ground. For a moment there comparative
stiffness but when the platoon had fully turned into
ayard street, and it became evident that they were
only a handful in number the courage of the Dead
Rabbits which for moment had given way, was re-
ained and half dozen bricks and stones were harled
after the officers from the corner Of Bayard street.
This attack was not unexpected, and the Metropoans
turned repe the assalant but the signal thus made
was followed by shower of stones, bricks, oyster
shels. fragments Of ronware, and in some instances
whole pots and kettles, and in moment agenera
rush wal made by the rioters into Bayard street from
Mulberry. where they had betaken themselves
when tie approach Of the Metropolitans was an
nounced On either side OF the street. too the hresh-
Odds Of the doors again became alive with human be-
ines ard within three minutes the little band of Me-
fropolans were in the midst Of three four hundred
maddeped wretches, while above and around the mis-
sles were flying hurled with all the power that de-
rraved AMI Initiated men, melted TO action by corrupt
Influences and stimulated by rum, could exert. For a
moment tire Metropoltans staggered by the as-
ssuli several had been hit on their heads and bodies
by the missiles thrown, but they still held together
until fearful onslaught made upon them in front
aud on either side by the rioters surgng in from Null
berry street. armed with clubs and whatever offensive
weapons they could get. At this moment the officers
unable to withstand the assault upon Them coming as
did from all directions, in their efforts to fight their
vav ou NJ the crowd became separated, several