The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18
The Bloody Riots i'm New York.
From the New York papers of Monday
we gather tire following particulars:

we gather tire following particulars:
The celebration of Independence day on
Saturday was market by some of the bloodi-
est riots which the city has seen for five
years. The close of day of remarkable quiz
hundred men.
AT about o'clock five members of the
Metropolitan police in the Seventh Ward
were surrounded in Jackson street near Cher
ry, by several hundred of the low Irish occn-
pants of the tenant houses thereabouts, and
men went to the Tenth and Thirteenth
Wards for help. Ten men from the Thir-
teenth rescued tho Seventh Ward men, al
though they were so severely pelted with
stones and brick-bats from the house-tops
and the street, and they were compelled to
use their pistols. Three only of the number
were injured. Sergeant Davis of the Tenth
Ward, not being able to respond to the call
for aid, sent to the Headquarters in White
street, and Mr.. Bowers of the Ninth Ward,
with twenty-five men, all specials except two
or three, was dispatched Immediately. These
men went down White street inty Baxter,
and as they were turning into Bayard were
attacked by gang of Irish rowdies in the
interest of Fernando Wood, known as "Dead
Rabbits or e Blackbirds." While they we're
defending themselves from the clubs and
brick-bats of the Dead Rabbits" party of
Bowery Boys, a race whose profession it is
to fight the Dead Rabbits came down Bay
ard from the Bowery to the rescue of the po-
lice, not so much from their sympathies as
from antipathies
The police, whose prospects had been rath.
oil b. Ov,I
formed again. while the Dead Rabbits gath
cred in large numbers and drove the Bowery
Boys back Bayard to Elizabeth street, gain
ing there a pile of bricks, which facilitated
their operations for half an hour. The Bow
cry Boys then drove them back to Mott, and
afterward to Mulberry. Here firing COM
menced and men began to fall. The Bowery
Boys threw barricade across Bayard, at
the ccrneI of Elizabeth from behind which
they made the street so unsafe that the Dead
Rabbits lodged behind the corners of Mott
street, only occasionally running out to shoot
at them.
Before half past seven P. NJ, two Metrop-
oltan police officers, covering their badges
went among the Dead Rabbits as Deputy
Sheriffs, and told them that the thing must
be stopped. The Dead Rabbits were willing
to stop if the Bowery Boys would the Bow
cry Boys were willing to stop if the Dead
Rabbits would the barricades were torn
down, and with the exception of an occasion
al shot, order were restored in the Sixth
Ward by 8 o'clock.
The whole fight was witnessed by one of
our reporters, and his account, written from
short hand notes taken while bullets were
whstling about him, will be found among
others below.
AT ST o'clock the streets had become quite
dark, though the firinr continued at short
intervals from both sides. At this time Off
Ger Shancle of the Nineteenth Ward and
Special Patrolman u. L. Ellis, after divesting
themselves of the clubs and badges, went from
White street to1 the Dead Rabbit barricades
at Mulberry street a d demanded, as sheriffs,
that they should cease bostiltles. At first
10 attention was pa to the IT quest. the
Dead Rabbits saying that they would not
stop until the Bowery boys did. Mr.. Shan
ge stated that he had just come from the
Bos'ery boys and that they would at once
remove their barricades if the Dead Rabbits
would do Sc.
After some further persuasion the leaders
of the Dead Rabbits consented to let the pre-
tended SheriffS remove the barricades, which
they quickly did, the rioters retiring into
Mulberry street. The officers then proceeded
to the Elizabeth street barlicades, by way of
Canal street, and there made the same de-
mand, as SherfTs, and reciting the fact of the
cessation of hostlities on the other side The
request in this instance was also complied
with, and in few minutes the barricades
were removed. At 81 Bayard street was
comparatively quiet.
In the course of the riot on Saturday seven
persons were killed, and twenty-five or thirty
wounded. On Sunday evening the fight was
renewed in the Sixth Ward, when terrible
conflict took place between the two factions,
aad eleven persons were shot, many of whom
are supposed to be fatally wounded. The
police did all they could to suppress the riots,
bat they were totally insufficient even to
protect themselves from the fury of the mobs,
and had it not been for the presence of the
military in the very heart of the rioters
strongholds there is no knowing where the
matter would have ended. A number of po-
licemen were seriously injured by the riot in
Bayard street. Among the number, officer
jenkins, who is not expected to recover.