The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-08
TERRIBLE ERIoTs m NEW YORK
1AxSxN1116 NIOx5 Nv NEW YORK
THE STREETS BARRICADrD
Bloody Fights between the Bowerv
Boys and the Dead Rabbits"
sET,EN MEN KILLBD AND % WOUEDEDy,


The occurrence Of series of terrible riots i,
New York. Saturday and Sunday, was announce
yesterday. It.appears that they grew out of i'll
feeling between two rival factions of row,iies
known as the "Bowery Boys and dead Rabbits
We make up an account of the aghting,from tn,
Now York pspers; - :
xAs'eafiy as two o'clock on Saturday morning ar
,ttark was made by the ''Deaa Rabbits on tn,
Thinking saloon, No. 40 Bowery. which seems Il
have been the headquarters of the Bowery boys 80
verely injuring number Of the inmates breaking
The Windows and doing good deal of danage-
The police Of the Tenth. Thirteenth and Sixtl
wHrds Sera notified and succeeded for the time in
lueliing the riot. The Metropolitan police wer,
r"tty roughly handled In their attempts to restore
order. '
fHs Row RI THE EvgSfSa
About five o'clock the word was sent TO IS White
street fora reinforcement Of men to aid In suppress
ing a riot In tho Seventh ward Deputy superin-
ten1cnt Carpenter, who Was than in command Of
~ Nhite street immediately despatched Sergeant
frowor with force Of q mon to the assistance Of
the seventh ward police. Instead. however. of go
,ng through Canal street, the men were led through
White street to Orange, and Orange to Bayard
street. No sooner had they entersd this street
When word was immediately circulated among the
Dead Rabbit party. who mostly congregate in Eliza
10Th, Mott and Mulberry streets, in the neighbor-
hood OF Ryard street, that the Metropolitans were
inning w 10 arrest some Ot their party.
This Intelligence soon brought together n LARGO
number OF the Rabbits. who assembled on tho cor
tler oil Mott and Bayard streets and AZ the officer,
came mp mace a most desperate and sudden attark
IN them with stones. brickbats, &c, which werr
'hoTered In among them like hail-stones This
sudden attack so completely disconnected tho no
ice thst they Immediately retreatet, and made
So"d their escape through Mott and Mulberr,
Streets ~ lasi as possible taking the badges from
their hats ast they along the streets in order r.,
of knir
THR s0wERY 10 THR RBsCUR
The scouts of the Bowery bows suppOsjnn that
the Dead Rabbits had fell soul of some of their own
party, whom they we're thus unIn.rciflIly HEATING.
Immediately to their head auarters in the Ror .
Try With this intelligence. The Bowcry boys Nc
"ruihsiy ran In large numbers to the sccne Of tn,
CONNECT ana on seeing that it WAS the policemen
ne ne hanDits were lighting with, Immediately took
nueS with the Metropolitsns and took up their no
'itlon III the noighborhood of an iInnsn.4 pil4 of
orcks III tho street opposite . row of brick build
hSs III cOurae Of construction in Bayarl near Nott
'ttset. me police retired possible many
u mem heihg very badly cut. leaving tho field on
fely III Possession of the Rabbits and Bnvery hovs
TO hght it out as best they could -
general hight took place then between the two
psFues, IN Which stones, brckhats. knives pistoIs
guns, &c, were freely used. The Bowery boys
Who at first held possessiop Of the hrck Tiis 80
'""h driven from their position bv tho Rabbits Int
soon re-rallied and drove the Rabbits a short di.
tance down. iIayard street but were soon compelled
lFA fn IN
'ast side Of Elizabeth. in consequences of tbe i'm
nirnse number OF stones bFick-bats and other mis-
1llra thrown from the tops and windows of ho,,s..
IN the lnluiedlate vicinity, by men, women and chill
iren, all being Indi'crnately engaged in the con
test.
s, sCEsRs AT THB B,RsIClDEs
Driven of from their frat rallying ground the
sowery boys constructeda u hasty brssstwork across
'ayard street, on tho east side of Elizabeth street
with number of old wagons which were standing
III front of livery stable there behind which theS
took mp their position and awaited the action OF
he enemy, firing only rs the Rabbits approached
near them
The Bowery boys having made prenar,tiops du-
ring The day OF the affair. above, were nearly ALI
we'll srmed, beside having large amount Of am
muhitlon Stowei away in their headquarters in the
!ower5, where number of their party were sta
toned to r" load pistols which wore taken to and
iro by an army of small boys, NJ fast M thew wore,
iischarssd hy the party on duty bohnd the ws
CONS. ny this cunning aCrangomeIt the Bower,
boys were enabled to keep themselves sunnIied
with loaded pistols continually
Every time o party of bows were In the act ~
rushing away from the party on duty behind the
"arrcle with load Of empty pistols TO DO reload.
ed. the Rabbits seeing the rush. and not knowir,
he secret, very naturally concluded that the Bowe.
~ boys were dispensing. and would rush ftcr them
fire Bowery purity seeing this kept still behind the
wagons. until the Rabbifs would come within good
pistolnhut of them, aud hrn, at the word Of com
mand fro broad-ide at them I,y this mean, il
was that they were enabled tn keep their ground for
nearly three hours. against such a s,I,,nrior force
and DO such deadly work of execution
The Rabbits did not succeed in intlictinc a mortal
wound upon single person connected nth the
bowrry party; the only injury Of y serious nature
which they inflicted being on thu N.trnnoIitsns
janice Jenkins II special policeman, resdinx at 22i
West TWenty-seventh street, and H. ii. Hitchcock
II the seventh ward police residing in First avenue
have since died Of their injuries
CAUsE OF ENDING rHg sIGHr
Tho fighting kept up from about five o'clock
At short Intervals, until ahout halfpast seven
o'clock, whon it was very suddenly Terminated in
he following manner
man. whose name We could not learn came ont
Of a house in Bayard street, near Mott with mus.
kdt, which no raised to his shoulder and pointing il
toward the Bowery boys attempted TO ERE. instead
Of Its going or, however, it only flashed in the nan
lie took ii from his shoulder aud was in the act oi
hitting his right hand on the hreech Of the gun.
probably in order to jar the powder into the lock
when one Of the party behind the barricade OF WA.
gons seeing the manouvre took deliberate aim and
fired at him with his pistol He Jumped sbout th rec
feet Int" the air. gave one Shrek threw the mus
some tvo feet over his head and fell back Oh the
Sidswaks lifeless corpse tho musket falling on th.
sidewalk just beyond his head.
This incident semed 10 act as a mesmeric check
on the part of the whole crowd of Rabbits who de-
sisted immediately and ell back apparently salts
fed with the contest for the time being Ihsv pro.
ceeded to pick up their dead 9nd wounded, which
they conveyed TO various places, some to their
homes, some to drug stores and some to porter
houses In the vicinity, TO receive such aid as they
required
crowd after began to dirperso and to talk over
the affairs of the past three hours on both sities in
squads Of ities and hundreds each, and prepare for
another attack, should one be made. .- .s
During the melee. the housetops, windows and
every available place to behold on both sides OF
Bayard street, and i'll Mott, Mulberry and Elizabeth
streets, were crowded with men, women and chill
dren, all busily engaged i'll dropping hrickbats,
stones, &C, down Oh the,heads of tho police when
ever and wherever they could be found. rendering
it anything but safs pleasant for policeman to
be seen Ill the vicinity Of the place, their
services Of much account for thew were wholly in
competent to qu.ll check the Disturbance until
the belligerants had their tight pretty we'll out and
become pretty we'll satisfied ..5 .....
.# The PREPARATIONS. -...
Had the fighting continued after dark the scene
would, indeed, have bcn dreadful, as the Bowery
boys had over ono hundred stand of muskots with
an appropriate allowance of ammunition, 2c- ready
placed i'll wagons, with horses i'll the upper part
u the city, which they purposed bringing into ac-
tive uee as soon as it should become little dark -
Had they done this the result would have been be
yond 81 conception. Fortunately they were pre-
vented by the sudden Termination Of the dlsgracefu
scene. ..F-.e tta tr,S - q
1t was believed that there were from twelve tc
eighteen Of the Rabbits either killed or niortaliy
wounded. while on tho part of the Bewery l,oys
but one iuan had wound Oh the ankle from pis
tol, and other shot through the tsshy part of th.
hand. =
KILLED AND WOUNDED. a. .tt...
The following Is = correct list Of those known tc
be dead up TO II o'clock last night WIN. Cabill
residing at No Mulberry street; Patrick Ronban
residing ot le4 Varick street; Vim Pentoney, resi-
ding at l23 Hudson street; Cornelius Nahorley re
siding at H9 MULBERRY street; Barnard, keeper Of
barber shop in Whitehall street one unknown H,at
ut Bellevue Hospital; Cornelius Mahoney, boy. a
The following are those of the wounded who il i,
thought will die OF their ir1uries: - p
Michael Foioy, about IA years Of age, residing
With his mother at l19 Mulberry street while il
eaysrd street. near the Bowery, during the fyi
On saturday received the contents Of pistol below
the right eye, immediately by the side Of the nose
ne ran through the Bowery crying, oh. where