, 1862-08-07
RIOT in SOUTH RROoKLYN.--A
FACTORY I'm WHICH NElsKDES
AR E EMPLOYED ATTACKED By
a MOB,
The Building Set on FIre--SeVera1 Me-
groes Seriously Injured.

4 serious riot occurred in SedgeMick street, |
near Columbia street, yesterday afternoon, |
caused By the employment Of negroes In tue |
tobacco manufacto1ies Of Messrs. Watson d |
Lorillnrd, and resulted in the expulsion Of the |
employees Of the factories, consisting mostly |
Of women and children (co1ored), aud but for
an accident large number would have been
destroyed hy fire.
Shortly after noon some fifty persons col
lected together, and, making known their ob-
ject. assembled crowd numbering between
1000 and 5. 900 persons and proceeded to the
factories, which are three story buildings, Of
sons are employed. The oversecr or foreman
of Watson's tactory is a colored man, and all
the persons employed IN the factory, consist
ing mostly Of wou4en and children, are color
I'd to the number Of from f'tv to seye1ty~tiye.
In Loril!ard's factory about $50 are employed
Guilty until within the past few weeks, but it
| ha. been understood for some time that dis
| tu1bance might take place any day.
| The population iu the vicinity are principal
| If Irish, WHO, as is we'll known, have no great
[ fordueSs for The colored race. seyera! local
politicians, having for tin If object the making
| Of political capital for use in lie future, con-
celved the idea Of making 3 demonstration
| against the tacsorf' for the purpose Of expel-
| iirg the Objectionable employees They pro-
o:htr, and commenced by smashing in The
doors and windows with stones. They enter
ed the lO~er floor OF Watson's factory,
and and di5Sose1Ing dscoet'on Of aI:oas;
heaping q parcel Of old clotairg AID some
more combuslible material around, set it on
fire; but they were disaprointed--it would
not bum. a smoke was created, hus there
was no fame OF consequence. The a1sigh:ed
enlploGes, meantime, took refuge iu tue up
per stories.
The men stood OF the head OF the stairs =
there were some half dozen Of them-who,
! armed with such weapons as they could get
hold o1, stood there to defend themselves and
J the women and children. 4 number who
: came up, 1hitking they could oTera*e the
| co1ered guardiausuf the staircase, we're knock
| I'd dow the Stairs, and several were seriously
} injured. The resistance at the landing was sc
persistent that the rioters could not get up
but were compelled to take their departure
I | much faster than they came. ALI inEorillaFd's
. factory had been driven ont, and at length
3 When nearly all their mischief WIS done, tht
!; police arrived and proceeded to queu the riot
o were the the assalled party: some OF The Oh
g cers Gid their duty 1nanfully; among theu
= were Sergeant Wright and Officers OTIS aut
3 Burns Of the Forty-third Precinct, who wer
y most numerically beaten.
~ One Of the assail1uts Of these policemen
was naval officer In full uniform, who TOOL
! very active part in the affair. luspeeto
l Folk having been notified at his house, whic
n ! is about three miles # ON the sceae, arrive
about two o'clock, and then everything liz
/ q disturbance was promptly quelled, and ia
The inspector ascertained that nearly ever
! house ID the nefghborhood was an unliceuse
rum shop, where the rioters had wTougi
themselves up TO the fehting point By yirtu
1t every place TO be closed, and after. q time q
at those disposed to create disturbance di
G Fes!ed, among them, Patrick Keenan,, ri
es stated IL presence Of Sergeant Wrlg It, th
- So; life to do It, and he WAS willing to To-
he The negro foreman OF Watsoa's IA
r. up g9s lis nsme s1ee sssreSssep SS and lock!
# defended himself and others at the hesd
The stairs With an axe, and hnrt several an101
nd them officer Donnelly. Two thirds Of HE eI
ii, ployea in both sections are women and ch
~ d1en .tcoloIeo) thsle were but few m
i'll Emancipation jnbi1ee in Hantt's Myrtle sven
-, Park.
DC The police state that the substance t
gh | rioters set On fire in the lower room was t
the Asmes. They were violently assault
! with stones while thus .engaged, and It Il
>. had not succeeded and the flames had spre.
s. those who had taken refuge up stairs nj
oi. have k'erished. t:
% those atoye stated, are - follows: Mica
st Meagher. Wi11ian Norris, John Long, Rich.
Baylis, Thomas Clark, Joseph Flood, El
lng ?. Weider. They Feze committed foE.a he
the | ing: =
~ Those employed Ia 'Lo1i1lasd's factory
luo cared and went home as soon "a they, beca
au1 awuse that there would be trouble
PAra1oT1c 1asznasTos.---PatsioticL Liyln
~, ton has a1ready overTun her quota Of tro
ILLS called for by the Presidents recent proclas
ton, one hundred men. ~