The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-18
THE NEW YORK RIOT.
ronuerhead Picture Of 'sPeace!'
.ropR1BLE AND FIENDISH CRIME.

HORRIBLE AND FIENDISH CRIME.
:, was in the ''blocks on the right
IA side going up" between 44th and 4oth
h Esaots on the Sd avenue, that the greater
SUI &c the daylight up town fighting took
pa Yesterday; and it was there that by
the greater portion OF the serious MIS-
lief to property was perpetrated; 1t was
no gl.ra that Police Superintendent Kennedy
nes attacked and seriously injured, how
a..i a his physicians had not at our last
S,nts positively determined; il was
w. .bst nearly a full block of beautiful
He stone and ornamental brick-work re-
M merchants stores, with dwellings at
sarbed. was deliberately set fire to and
ts'rned in broad daylight, by an infuria-
.ad mob: it was here that other mem
VS. se of the police force than their Super
!yIondent and officers were knocked down
~ bricks and stones; were beaten down
~ ciubs and pieces of iron-picket fences
o3d other improvised weapons, and were
"narly Drained by the boot-heels of their
savage foes, who were hoarse with long
contipued bowls for blood, and grew cow
ordly in exact proportion to their brutal
Snccess in beating and bruising unarmed
and inoffensive men.
The authorities had hired a room in the
lower story of the building corner Third
Avenue and Forty-tifth street, for the pur-
nose of making the final arrangements Tor
take place-the wheel and tables of the
clerks and all things were in readiness.
SUPERINTENDENT Kennedy, the very head
and front of the police, was there in per-
son TO oversee matters in general, ana
use his personal influence and endeav-
ors to keep the peace, and reconcile those
who might chance to be drafted, to their pa
triotic fate.
Those who had hoped that even IN that
much- doubted district all things would go
well and quietly were sadly disappointed.
Murmurings and ominous whispers among
the crowd, which were interchanged be-
tween men whose lowering brows, set
teeth, and viciously inquiring glances, di-
rected towards the building itself, the at:
tending officers, and every man who enter
ed the fatal room, told of serious trouble
speedily to come.
The force of police Immediately in at
tendance were sadly inadequate, though IL
is but just to say that the whole aValiaoie
force was within easy call, and that they
presented themselves at the very instant
their services were demanded by their su-
periors.
There had been in this District, as in one
or two others, dire threats OF MOB lnterfer-
ence with the duties OF the ofhcerS, though
hut few of those most interested had really
believed it until they were rather rough
" awakened to the fact by some particu-
larlv solid convincing proofs OF the tender
solicitude with which they were regarded
by the crowd, in the shape of a shower OF
paving stones and brick-bats.
Passing over the premonitory symptoms,
we come at once to the summing up, which
il NAV be more Immediately Ineligible to
state at once The facts, then, are these =
The men aohO set on the hoCting MODS Of
yesterday, Monday, July ID, 1863, are guitty
of -Aggrauated Assault and Bdtteay-of
Grand Larceny-of C,1n,indlly resisting the
Execution Of the Ld,cs Nth armed Oiotence-
of IredsOn-0f InSu1Tectton-Cf Arson-
and of Murder.
The catalogue lacked but one atrocity to
prove itself matchless in the whole world
history of even mob atrocity and violence;
and so this mob-these amiable gentlemen
before they We're content to rest their
tired heads upon their innocent pillows,
added this last and browning item to the
Christianlike list of their Good Samaritan
deeds-they deliberately set on fire, ouer the
heads of the terrified and screaming chit-
d7ea, an Orphan Asylum. Does this fact
call for commenH
The mob, which did the horrid work at
Forty-fifth street and Whereabouts though
occasionally augmented by quickly-gath-
cred numbers Of thoughtless boys hurry
ing fire companies (who, on more than one
occasion mistook the headlong charges of
the rioters for a rush at some new dlscov-
cred fire. really, as to its active members,
was made up of about 800 persons.
There weremore than these who threw an
occasional stone, or howled an unearthly
howl. but the persistent working members
of this tremendous brickbat committee
We're not more than the number above sta
ted. But this 300 it was plain to see, were
acting under regularly selected leaders
were acting with previously understood
purpose, and were carrying on their atroc-
tiles by the aid of certain amount OF
rough but effective discipline,
No person who carefully watched the
movements of this mob, who noted their
careful attention to the words of certain
tacitly- acknowledged leaders, who observed
the unquestionably preconcerted regularl-
ity with which they proceeded from one
part of their internal programme to the
next; and the persistency with which the
rear guard remained and fought off all
who dared attempt to check any part of the
destruction that everywhere marked their
work, can presume to doubt That these
men are acting under leaders who have
carefully elaborated their plans, who have,
as they think, made all things sure for
their accomplishment, and that they are
resolved to carry them out through fire
and blood, this days crimson work fully
attests.
1t is not possible TO state exactly at what
time, or what instant Of time, the feroclous
opposition first manifested itself. But al
We're opened the scoundrels began their
work. The officers in charge of the work
in hand were assailed with every variety of
opprobrious epithet their fertile distortion
OF the English tongue can furnish. More
substantial tokens of their regard soon fol-
lowed. Inkstands, paving-stones, bricks,
clubs, blocks of wood, mud, old bits of
crockery, and every available missile, was
hurled at the unfortunate clerks through
the windows.
Everything breakable was of course in
stantly demolished-the glass in the win
dows lasted but second; the sashes exis-
ted but second, while the windowframes,
door-panels, tables, chairs, shelves, draw
ers, &C., were instantly smashed into Kind
Ting acood as carefully preserved for that
purpose.
The officers were as the merest play
things in the mutitudinous hands of this
scoundrel mob. They, and some unhappy
gentlemen whose i'll fortune led them to
this vicinity at this instant, and who were
mistaken for 'draft officers, We're instant
lv. dra~ped from their places (those who