New-York daily tribune., 1863-07-14

the windows. Even the cutters were hswn off, snt
tho chimneys turnbled down.
Tho frs-epginss were thsre In great numbers bu'
we're not permitted 70 work, except upon tho scJs
cent budings- What was very marked, ss the
destruction proceeded was tho absence OF excite
ment. Things wsre done IS quietly and cOolIy by
the riotsr a. II they were saving instssd Of destroy
ing property. Mingliug With the crowd-wbicb
amounted, perhaps, to 5000 or 5000 psrson'-were
many who were evidently not Of them; but except
In cases Of ncautous utterancs, they were not mo-
Tested.
One or two persons who attempted remonstrance
were summsriy disposed Of, being tesisn and tram
pied under foot. There were some who, though
they took part in the pluudsr seemed TO regret the
occasion, aud one--a drunken Irisbmsn, too, With
bloated face, q gigantic fsllow-wbispered in the
writer's car, with evident goodwill:
"Taks yer watch out O. yer pocket. honey, or
some o the b'yes will take It for yer"
CONNER OF TwENTY-NTNTH STREET AND
| BROADWAY.
While this scene was enscting large detach-
mcnt of rioters ran down " tho enrolment roons
corner Of Broadway and Twenty ty-ninth street. The
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part Of this fine building was composed of stores,
filled with costly goods. Every vsstgs was carried
off. jewelers. shop was tho object Of special at
teptions. Cod Watches brooches, bracelets, breast
Plus, and al manner Of valuable hyout,ris fev
about in the crowd. flashing in the light. The ne-
groes were forgotten in tte cougsnial business
of robbery. A gentleman stood by the writer, and
unable 10 contain himself exclaimed:
"Ths is AL unspeakabe outrage-as an American
citizen, Ism'sshamed.'
The words scarce out Of bis mouth, before he was
prostrsted by 9 blow from q cudg, and his head
split open.
As soon as the stores were stripped. the cry arose;
"Burn the building Burn i, Burn iIp
Half a hundred willing hsnds were at work in q
moment. The house seemed 70 be fired in ~ many
places at once for it was in flames from garre, 10
basement in i've minutes. TIE flames roared in
emulation Of the demons thro.ts that yelled around
them. A at the Asy um, tho engines were on hand,
but were forced 10 DO idle. The dremen restrained
themselves with ihculty -unaccustomed " see the
flames rage withou. fighting ,hem-and At length
began to play on the adjoining building in which
they not interrupted.
The walls fell nearly simultaneously, and with ar
awful erssA, not twenty minutes after the matches
were vet. Within an hour Of the time OF t lie first
attack, the mob was of for The TRIBUNE office
Threats against prominent Republican leaders wsrs
freely uttered, and various schemes heard 10 be
canvassed BY squads Of the rioters.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Il was In the blocks on the rght-hand sid,
going up" between 4ith and 18th streets the g.
avenue, that the greater part Of the daylight up
town lighting took place yesterday and IL was ihsr.
that by far the greater portion Of Ihs seons mischief
to property was perpetrated; it was there that
Police Superintendent Kennedy was attacked and
seriously injured, kor seriously bis physicians had
NOT st our last accounts positively Determined; Il
was hero that nearly full block Of beautiful new
,toue and ornamental brick work retail merchants
,tores with dwellings attached deliberately ret
ire to and burned, in broad daylight by sn nfuriaed
mob; II WAS here that other members of the police
force than their Superintendent and officers were
knocked down by bricks and sones; wsre beaten
down by clubs and pieces OF iron-pickct feuoes snd
other lnprovised weapons, and were nearly Drained
by tie ,o,-dees OF Iheir savage foes, who were
hoarse with loDgcontinued bowls for blood, aud
grew cowardly in exact proportion To their brutal
success beating aud brulsug uparmed and inohen-
slve men.
The authorities had hired room In the lower
story Of the building corner Third Avenue and For
yhh Street for the purpose of making the hnaI nr-
lang-lnenis for the draft. The sc.lal drawing was
here to teke plaoe--tho wheel and tables OF the
CLERKS and oil thlngs we've in readiness.
Superintendent Kennedy, the very head aud front
of tic ponce, there in person to oversee matters
in general, aud uso bis personal influence and
endoayor to keep tDe peace, and reconcile those who
might chance to DO drafted their patriotic fate.
Those who had hoped that even in that much'
doubted district AL thugs would 20 well and quietly
were sady disappointed. MuGmu'ues aud ominous
whispers among Tie crowd, which were inter-
changed between men whose lowering Lrowr, SET
teeth, and ylciOuzy ipqulrlng gauces direc ed to-
ward The building itseIf, the attending officers, and
every man WHO entered the fatal room, tod OF se-
rious trouble speedily TO come
The force VI police immediately in ATTENDANCE
were sadly inadequate, though II Is but just 10 say
that the whole available iorce Within easy cali,
aud that !bey presented themselves at tie very io-
slant their services were demanded by their supo-
riors.
There had been in this District a, in 1ne or two
Others DIE threats OF mob interference with du-
tes OF tho ocers thou but 'ow OF those most iu-
eresed had really believed it until they were rath-
.r roughly awakened TO the fact by some particular
y sold convi incing proofs of tho tender solieisude
with which they regarded by Tie crowd, 10 the
sbapo o. shower Of paving stones aud Orlcs-osts
Passing over tie premoniIory symptoms, We come
ut once TO the summing up, winch 1t may be more
immediately ineligible TO state m ouce. The faot.,
then, are these: lie men rho set on the hoei..g
pobs cf yesse,day, MOnday, Judy Is, 1868. are
i Il 4 ILL II