Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

way TO enroll themselves as special police
There has been several collisions with the
military, in which the rioters have got worsted.
A detachment of troops With two pieces of
Ordnance under Col. O'Bren charged on the
rioters at 8 O'Clock on the 14th inst. Three
rounds of blank cartridges were fred from
the cannon and the mob hastily dispersed,
threatening to come back soon with arms.
A company of infantry was stoned in Pitts
street, when the Lieutenant ordered the COM
pany to fire, which it did, killing several of
the scoundrels, when the rest fed.
p. M.-The brokers held meeting this
afternoon and organized themselves into COM
panies for immediate service. Similar meet
ings are being held in different parts of the
city. r.a. ...
All the stores down town are closed. The
armories and arsenals and all public build
ings are fully garrisoned. Some 5000 effect,
i've troops are expected IN the city this eve
ming.
The mob IS quite dense in the City Hall
Park, where Gov. Seymour addressed it, sta
ting that he had sent his Adjutant General
to Washington to request the draft to be
stopped, and implored the crowd to respect
property and persons and that the State
would see that all would be made satisfac-
tory.
4:sO P. H-Al omnibusses have stopped
running, and the horse cars also. under threat
of the mob.
A body of infantry and srtillery are sta
toned at the Hudson river railroad depot to
protect it from q large mob congregated
there.
The large pork packing factory on Wash
iugton street was burned by the mob this
morning. block of buildings, including
Touring mill.
The mob took possession of q tenement block
on 34th street, but was driven out BY the
infantry, who shot and killed several.
The mob set the School House on fire in
18th street, but it was extinguished. The
bmob attacked a detachment of marines near
Delaney street, when the latter fired, killing
8 and wounding 6. --.'-
A mob attacked near the Mercury Office
Monday night, but were finally driven off by
the police.
This morning numerous rioters went to
New York.
New YORK, July IA.
4P. Gov. Seymour has issued q procla-
nation stating that the rioters demonstration,
originated in opposition to the CONSUMPTION,
has swelled to vast proportions. He says he
knows many would not have gone to such ex-
tremes unless apprehensive of injustice, but
reminds them that the only opposition that
can be allowed is an appea! to the courts, and
the right to appeal will be maintained, and
| the decision Of the court must be respected.
Riotous proceedings must and shall be put
down. The laws of the State must be en-
forced, peace and order maintained and lives
and property protected. He then calls on
the rioters to retire, declaring he will use all
| necessary power to restore order. Hundreds
of wild reports and rumors are flying about
the city, many of which are exaggerations.-
| The facts alone are bad enough. In York
vile and Harlem the rioters are deluolishing
houses, &. Arms have been removed from
| threatened places to safe localities.
Provost Marshal Nugent has been notified
| from Washington to suspend the draft All
communication Geographically East and West
| has been suspended, the mob having torn
down the wires In all places as far as Will
liams' Bridge, driving the telegraphers off
on the eastern lines were located all last night
and up to nine o'clock this morning in car,
two miles from Harlem, on the track. The
mob discovered them and drove them off.
The Mayor has prohibited the sale of fire.
arms, and all such stores are closed. The
day so far has been horrible one There
was fearful riot in I'd avenue this after
noon, in which the military charged and fired
several times on the mob, killing Is and
wounding many more. Col. O'Brien was
captured by the fiends and beaten to jelly
| and then hung to lamp post on the corner
of 34th street and I'd avenue The mob was
also defeated by the police, aided by the
| regulars, in 9Th avenue, between Ssh and
4Sth streets. A heavy riot is also going on
in 10th avenue.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON,
July Is, PRovosT MARSHAL
GENERALS OFFICE, July IL.
Circular No a.
10 answer the enquiries made at this office
it is announced that any drafted person pay
ing $500, under section Is of the enrolment
act, is thereby exempt from further liability
under that draft, but not from any subsequent
draft.
I'd. Any drafted person furnishing an &C.
ceptable substitute is exempt from any SER
vice from the period for which said substitute
is mustered into the service
Sd. A substitute once mustered into the
service cannot be drafted while in service.
18th. A drafted man cannot pay commute
ported himself to the board of enrolment for
examination.
9th. Men who until the Sd of March, 1868,
were in the military service of the United
States as substitutes under the draft of 1862.
and whose term of service expired, are not
liable to the present draft, but the persons for
whom they were substituted are liable for
draft the same as though they had not been
drafted and furnished snhStitntac
9th. In serving the notice as required by
circular No. 40 from this Office reasonable
time to report shall in each case be granted
by the board of enrolment to the men in the
State service who may have been drafted.
JAS. B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
PHILADELPHIA, July 13.
The Bulletin says: We learn from WASH
ington on excellent authority, that an attack
on Charleston was to have begun on Thurs
day last. A fleet of iron clads, under Admit
raj Dahlgren, was rendezvousing at Port
Royal and Edisto at last accounts num-
Der of wooden vessels have been furnished
with Whitworth guns, and others were fitted
to take part in the attack. Gen. Gilmore has
command of land force which is to co-ope-
rate with the navy. The present plan is first
to attack and take the batteries on Morris Is
land. If they were captured it was expected
that their big guns would be turned upon Fl.
Sumter and the iron clads thus aided in re-
ducing the fort
CAIRo, July Is.
The number of rations issued to prisoners
at Vicksburg is S2,540. This is Official. Gen.
Pemberton admits theloss of 5000 men since
the commencement of the siege. This is
quite equal to the Federal loss.