The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-14
BY TELEGRAPH
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TO THE FREEMAN.

4 O'CLOCK, p M.
BosToN, July - The American Telegraph
Company at New York, succeeded in opening
communication with this city at III A. M, to-
day from point fourteen miles from New York
The mob, however, drove The operators off,
and threatened to shoot them, if they again
attempt it. All the lines South and West have
been cut.
New YORK, July IA, via. Independent line.
All efforts to quel the riot have failed. Theriot.
ers burned down the large ice house on Houston
street. this morning, and have torn down
number of houses in Batavia street near James.
They are reported in large force in Leonard
street. The Government was given limited time
to close the bonded warehouses, and no goods
to be delivered
Passengers arriving in the train from Bridge
port last night only got as far as 65tn Street,
and had to walk down. Many were assaulted
by the mob, were beaten and robbed. The Har-
Ian railroad bridge has been burned.
Vigorous efforts are being made to quell the
riot, and it is thought they will succeed to-day.
New YORK, P. NJ. The alarm bell is now
ringing in the lst and I'd district.
BosToN, July l4-2 ?. NJ. This noon, as the
officers were engaged in notifying the drafted
men IN wards one and three, they were follow
ed by crowd of 800 or 400 persons, who greet
ed them with shouts of derision
At half past o'clock the crowd came to a
halt in Haymarket Square, and threats were
made that they would visit Provost Marsha
Howe's Office in Sudbury street.
There were reports that one man had beer
STABBED, but we could not ascertain from any O
the officers that such was the case.
In Endicott street. as we learn several of thu
officers employed in notifying the conscript
were driven off.
P. S. Police Officer Winship, of the LIST Sta
ton, was set upon and badly beaten by the
mob.
Police Officer Trask, of Station 2, while il
Lafayette Square. was stabbed In the cheel
with knife
At last accounts the mob WIS rapidly increas
ing.
We hear that Adams e Co.'S. Express receive
dispatch this A. NJ, stating that no train
s had left New York for the eastward, since ye
Z terday.
BosToN, July 14-3 p NJ. The riOtou
crowd at the North End, in this city, number
, about 500 persons, including many woven.
large force of police are on duty, and ever
preparation has been made to resist any furthe
violence by the mob.
q As matter of precaution Capt. Jones of tn
a 18th battery is at the Armory, Cooper Stree
o to be in readiness for any emergency.
New YORK, July IA. The mayors house he
: been sacked by the rioters and he is at the S
o Nicholas hotel with Gov. Seymour.
f Two hundred troops are in the Park barracl
waiting for orders.
The military fired on a mob in Broom stree
killing fifteen persons.
A meeting of the merchants will be Gale
this afternoon.
New HAVEN, July H. The morning trai
from New York arrived here about P. NJ,
which we have the morning papers.
The Tribune says that about O'Clock in tt
evening an excited crowd in Printing Hout
: Square commenced hootng and groaning or
soon large number in the crowd armed then
selves with missiles and hurled them at the vii
dows of the Tribune Office.
When the lower windows were demolisht
there was rush made for the in teror Of tt
counting-room, papers were scattered about tt
Il kal, 1soI Ia