The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-07-17
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The New York Riot.

NEW YORK, July Is, z. M.
ms afternoon the mob again collected in
ga street, near where negro was hanging.
Failing to disperse them howitzer was turn
ed upon them with canister. The first dis
charge wiped out six, two more discharges in-
creased the number to twenty-five, when all
that were left alive dispersed.
Two negroes were killed this afternoon
One on Pier No. and the other on Washing
ton Street.
The Harper Brothers and j. A. Gray, print
ers, and others, have been warned that their
Establishments will be destroyed if the work
men are kept on duty
Coored people are fleeing from the city in
all directions
Gold has fallen to 1911. The markets are all
dull and nominal, no business being done of
Importance.
The City Council have unanimously passed
an ordinance appropriating 81 100000 to ex-
empt poor conscripts
At three O'Clock this afternoon the mob en-
tered an alley in the rear of 2Sth Street and
I'd Avenue, in which fifteen or twenty negro
families resided, burst open the houses and
found some uniortunates who were badly han
died. One named Van Clof was beaten to a
dying state with crowbar. A lane from 9th
Street was also entered and Alfred Dudley
was killed by the flends.
Crueltes of the worst kind are also prac-
ticed on the blacks, their furniture broken and
houses set on fire. The negro men in looking
alter their property were driven off by the
mob, having to run fearful gauntlet.
The mob surrounded the gas works at the
foot of l4th Street, and smashed the windows
and severely beat several persons. A detach-
ment OF troops soon took possession of the
works which the mob now threaten to destroy
and murder everybody in them. The gas
company has recommended sparing use OF
gas tonight owing to the limited supply
Gen. Brown received intelligence that Forts
Richmond and Columbus would be attacked
The general said he hoped they would be-
He thought the mob would get a lesson if they
did
Two hundred of the Sth regiment of yolun-
teers have reported for duty tonight
Two hundred men have been sent TO the
18th Ward to protect the force there.
terrible onslaught was made on the negro
dwellings on 1ork Street last night amid the
shrieks and groans of the unfortunate women
and children. The whole precinct was devot-
ed to devastation.
Mayor Opdyke recommends the immediate
proclamation OF martial law, but Coz. Sey-
mour opposes it.
We have some particulars of the riot on
3oth Street to-day. 1t appears that another
attack on the 18th Avenue Arsenal was to be
made. detachment of $50 men with an ar
ullery company with 4 and l2-pounder howit-
zers, proceeded to the corner of 35th Street
and Broadway. The Street from 9TH to It'll
Avenue was crowded with men, women and
children. Fifteen minutes were given to the
crowd to clear the street, but no one stirred
AT the expiration of the time allowed, the ar
tillery loaded with canister. Five rounds were
fired. good many were hurt, but it is not
known how many, when the street was i'm
medately cleared.
a negro had previously been hung on the
corner OF sd Street and 9th Avenue, and his
residence, with many others, set on fire. The
body was cut down by the troops just as life
expired. The military have dispersed the
mob from the vicinity, and the firemen check
ed the flames so that cnly three or four build
ings were burned.
The rioters proceeded to 33d Street and
erected barricade OF wagons across 33d Street
and 9th Avenue. Some hundreds of negro
women and children were allowed to escape,
but none of the coored men. The buildings
occupied by the colored people were SIT on
fire with the intention of burning the colored
men in them. At last accounts the military
had arrived at the scene and fight probably
occurred.