Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-07-23
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rrIRrrI snrNE IN SEVENTH AYENuE.

At FIVE o'clock Colonel Sherwoods battery OF riaed G.
Founders and strong force Of Infantry under com
mand of Col Never we're ordered to the Of 9th
street and Seventh Avenue toque serious disturbance
which had broken out that point. On arriving there
they found the people busy engaged in rhng and gut
ting the stores and private houses Flames issuing
from the widows and the resembled closely many
similar ones which our citizens during the last few days
have been called TO look Suspended from lamp
post was the body OF black man, who had been hung
up few minutes before. The hremen made their ap-
pearance on the ground the time the military.
The people who mad been engaged in the work OF de-
structon retired behind the femen thus placing bar
rie Of our brave fremen between themselves and the
military Il was this circumstance only which prevented
the discharge Of theAihed field Iieces. From the
housetops the usual salute OF bTickbats and stones
was showeIed down on the military Several citizens
stepped up to Col Meyer and informed him that men
we're stationed the houseops with rifles in their hands
ready to fire on his men. The Colonel thereupon order
ed his men TO keep sharp lookout, and if any shots
were fred from the hOusetops ID deliver voley ill.,
stanly. At this time Judge McCunn appeared on the
scene and entreated the Colonel to spare those limo
cent people" The Judge informed the Colonel that he
had by authority from Gov. Seymour, been using his
influence to quell the disturbance. Colonel Meyer
piled that he military man, had but TO obey orders,
and il The peopl3 attempted 10 advance or fire on his
men he should certainly ordered it TO be returned by
volley The infantry and artillery en- eowly retired,
and had hardly reached the arsenal ere the surbance
broke ou:Ni renewed violence, aud word brought
TO General Sanford that two negroes dang
ling in mid air from the lamp posts
PRISONERS.
The pickets brought in Urge number Of prisoners
dirty ragged and bloody in appearance but sulen end
determined in demeanor. With jerk aud a twist from
their captors they found themselves located in
secure place They then tied up something like
trussed fowls and left to mediate at their leisure.
THE coSTRABANDs.
The colored folks in the Twentieth ward suffered
very severely. NumberCss were the atrocities perpe
trated on them. They hunted from their houses
by the score When caught they were hung up to lamp
posts beaten, jumped on kicked and struck with iron
bars aud heavy wooden clubs At one time during
Yesterday there we're between fifty and sixty of these
people in the arsenal Many Of them horribly
maimed and disfgured. No respect had been paid to
either sex, age condition. One woman was burned
out of her house who had only been confined on Tues
day. The poor creature and her helpless little one
we're cared for as welr as possible by DR.. Gilbert
Many affecting took place between different men,
bers of the family who had given each other up
lost, aud met unexpectedly in the arsenal.
DEATH
John c. Henry returned volunteer, shot and
instantly kile on Tuesday night He standing in
the crowd, and, being much under the influence of
liqnOr commenced 20 ncte the crowd to make an as
lult the troops of HON turned round and shot
him dead on the spot. 90
BLOODY RIOT IN fIRsr AVENUE.
At about O'Clock last evening most bloody and de-
porabe encounter took place between the United States
troops now under in the city, aud the resident
civilians in the above designated loo Iity 1t seems that
crowd Of some three thousand persons and more had
assembled here, aud had begun 10 manifest enyhing
but pacific intentions They vent farther and be-
gan 10 indulge 10 acts of open violence, when it
deemed necessary to send of in hot haste for military
force TO rspress their operations.
messenger was accordingly sent of, a d the sum-
mons was inmediatel' obeyed.
10 a very brief space Of time, and VIII lie the crowd
was gro wing more riotous every moment Colonel Wins
low, of the Fifth Duyee ZousVeT Colonel JoudIn and
or Robinson came up in charge of the military Col
WinsloW having the chief command The force Goa
sisted Of three companies OF soldiers witt two hoxit
zers. They no sooner appeared on the ground than
they assaed on all sides by stones brckbats and
shots from reVolver the male portion of the civilians
firing from the tops of the houses aud the females from
the rear and windows.
The soldiers at opened FIRE upon the mass assem-
bled about them from their mu kes and simultaneously
the howitzers were pointed and discharged into the
houses and up the street The effect produced is not
vet exactly known but the pieces charged with
grape and canister, and { crowd was very compact
the csslalies must have been Gus. The aciioa-
II it may be so caed-lasted from twenty minutes to
half an hour. We regret TO say at Col Jourdan
Was severely wounded in the encounter. A Captain
aad Lieutenant OF the New York Sta National
Guard we're also killed. Twenty or thirty soldiers fed
before the missiles Of the Infatuated crowd. or the
latter it Is estimated that fifteen twenty killed.
After sighting desPeratey.ior half an hour, the col