Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-11-19
From the N. Y. Herald n ov. l2-
RiOting i'm New York.

About eight o'clock yesterday morning
Tompkins square was swarming with men.
In they continued to flock until ten, at
which time their committee had promised
to report the result of theft interviews
with the authorities. In the meantime,
however, various scenes of most exciting
nature were enacted in the square by the
crowd, which, by ten O'Clock, was at least
5000 strong.
ATTACK ON BREAD CARRIER.
The first very exciting incident occurred
about nine O'Clock. An unfortunate bread
deliverer, whose path lay through the
square, was at once recognized as he moved
along in his ffoury dress, carrying huge
basket. ave want bread" "Fall in,"
"Now for the baker," and thousand such
cries were instantly raised, and away rush
ed about two thousand men as rapidly as
they could run across the square, in the d.
rection of the unsuspecting carrier, who
continued 10 move across the Park in the
direction where his business led him, still
unconcious of the fate that awaited him,
until be was completely enclosed by the
crowd on all sides. A charge was at once
made on the basket. George Noll and
one or two others arrived with the crowd
and threw their efforts into the scale in ia
vor of the defender. But the number of
assailants was too great to be resisted for
moment. After short but desperate
conflict, in which the carrier was roughly
handled, the basket was taken from him,
the bread scattered about in all directions,
melee ensued for its possession, and in an
incredibly short space of time the entire bas-
ket of the bread had disappeared, and the
crowd now turned their attention to other
matters.
THE CARRIERS ASSISTANTS cHAsTIsED.
1t was not long until something had en-
gagged the attention of all present.
One of the men who had assisted the
bakers carrier in the attempt to defend the
bread that was committed to his charge,
how signalized himself still further by
charging the mass of those present in the
square with acting foolishly and in opposi-
ton to their own interest. One of the
most violent of those who had acted part
in the coup de main, and person who
had great deal to say, took up the case
in favor of the party to which he belonged,
and alleged that not only had the first
speaker no right to interfere with the peo-
pie in what they had done, but added they
should do the same again, or anything else,
when the city is not doing anything to
keep them from starving. Several voices
now joined in the crowd; cries of "Drive
him from the Park" "FaH in,,' DC, were
again raised; and after being considerably
knocked about for some time, he was es-
corted finally from the field amid shouts
and violence, and followed far up avenue
A by vast division of the crowd.
PEOPLE REMAIN ON THE DEFENSIVE.
On their return through avenue A, many
of the shops which had been open when
the crowd rushed up the avenue were clos
ed, the proprietor justly dreading the Gu
pidity of many of those who had passed
up few minutes previously. In one
instance door was defended by three per-
sons, who, after having seized upon the
fist formidable weapons that lay in their
way, viz, an axe, beetle and club-the
first being in the hands of a man, the sec
ond in that of woman, and the third in
that Of a boy-occupied such a position
as plainly indicated at once their fears
and their determination TO defend their
post with desperation. Although no house,
perhaps, in the city at that time could
bave boasted such well prepared defenders,
strange TO say, this was the only one at
which the crowd collected. After both
parties had viewed each other for some
time, as if calculating their respective
strength, the mob began to move off, yell
ing and shouting as though they would
rend the atmosphere.
ANoTAER BREAD CARRIER ATTACKED
just as the portion of the mob which
had been engaged in escorting their un-
popular acquaintance from the park, return
ed, another scene had begun to be be en-
acted. A second bakers carrier, who,
like his predecessor, was led to Tompkins
square for the purpose of delivering por-
tion of his charge, most, unexpectedly fell
into the hands of the unceremonious null
titude. The man being unusually strong
resisted for moment or two the efforts of
the assailants. The basket was on his
head when the assault began. One of the
rioters knocked it of, while a vast number
encircled him pressing on all sides. He
seized the basket and clung to it with des-
peration, vainly endeavoring to fight his
way out of the square. But there was no
assistance for carrier No. 2, and all his
chances depended on his own exertions.-I
He was knocked down and otherwise iii
used, and the contents of the basket were
in every direction. At this juno
ture of the affair, when the melee for the
possessing of the bread caused the most of
the persons in the Park to crowd, crush
and knock each other about in a manner
totally indescribable, the portion of the
rabble that had been driving the champion
of the first carrier from the square return
ed, and at once rushed into the crowd, los
ing no exertions to share their portion of
the plunder. Nothing short of a furious
and most confused fight followed. The
party who were away imagined that they
had lost considerably by absenting them
selves from the principal field of action,
and therefore they now attempted to drive
away the remainder altogether, and the
was not discontinued as long as a
relic of the bread was anywhere to be
seen.
POLICE ARRIvE-A FIGHT-THEY RETREAT |
INCL InRIOISIY.