Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-17
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Afternoon Repo16
The RIOT sffll -C6ntizuss b afeW
a3Ilk YORK. -.

Nawl YoRE, July l6.I<A AtetEt u f on;
SIaught was made. on nest3 lVelling -oQ
York street last night, aulla 5hll eAs tnq
groAns Of the unfortunate Rqipen tnletll.
dren. collision OCCURRED - 81 ireet
this morning, in which three soldiers are
reportdd killed. Report says there has
been dhits an importation of r0Wdies from
BALTIMORE aud Philsdelphia,s bat it is dis
credited by we'll informed persons. Mayor
OPdyke recommends an immediate Procla-
nation Of martial law Gov. Seymour OPP
poses il. This P. n. the mob again col
tected IN 32nd street, near where 2 negro
was hanging. Failing to dispense, how
itzer was turned upon them loaded with
cannisteF. The frat discharge wiped out
six. Two more discharges increased the
number to twenty-five, when the Williams
alive, skeda9dled. Two negroes were kill
ed this P. NJ; one on Pier No 4, and the
other on Washington street.
Harpers Bros. and J. A. Gray, printers,
and others, have been warned tnat their
establishments will be destroyed if the
WOrkmen are kept on duty. - s-rI
COlofed people are fleeing from the city
Ia ali directions.
Gold has fallen to '127. Markets are
daIl aud nOminAl, no business being done
OF Importance.
2 Another attack on 18th avenue arsenal
was 10 be made. A detachment OF 200
meu, With an artillery company with four
tWelye-pounder howitzers, proceeded to TO
the corner of 35th street and Broadway
The street from 9th to 18th avenues was
crowded with men, women and children.
Fifteen minutes were given for the crowd
to clear il. No one stirred. At the expi-
ration of the time allowed them, the ar
iilIery loaded with canister, opened, and
Ave rounds were fred. A good many were
hurt, but it is not known how many. The
street was cleared. ~ oE-see9TB z.
The rioters proceeded to sd street and
erected q barricade Of wagons across 33d
street and 9Th avenue. Some hundreds Of
negro women and children were allowed to
escape, but of colored men, and buildings
occupied by by eolOred people, were set on
IRE with the intention of burning them in
them. At last accounts the military had
arrived at the scene OF action and fight
has probably occurred.
New YoRK, THURSDAY NOON, July l6.-
The Treasury building, Custom House and
other public buildings are guarded by can
non supported by infantry.
The elevators destroyed by the mob IN
Brooklyu last night is valued at over $780,
600. ..-
some negro houses IN jersey Clty were
sacked and burned. 4 number Of negro
women aud children are eueamPed in Ely
sian fields HOboken.
Tue mob at Staten Island last night, was
0veFaWed by patrol armed ciliEens. So
The residents of Williamsburg are Organ
izing volunteer companies.
The Mayor of Brooklyn has refused to
call meeting OF the citizens, on the plea
that it would ihAame the rioters. -
Iusuests have already been held over
the bodies OF about so persons, including
nearly dozen innocent people, one u
mother and infant just-boTn.
A dry goods store on avenue O, was
sacked Of $4O,O 900 worth.
The residence on 29th street destroyed
By the mob, was not Horace Groeiy's as
the mob supposed, buI Sir. sinoIair's, wherc
the former sometimes stayed. A man re-
sembling Greely was awiullY beaten.