Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-14
SERIOUS RIOT NEW YORK.
A PROVOST MARsHAL'S OFFICE DEs1ROYE

a PROVOST MARsHAL's OFFICE DEs1Ro YED.
Cope, heads isesIstIpg the Draft.
a riot to resist the draft, fomented by cop.
perhead Vaccinations, took place in some of
the upper wards of New York city, yesterday.
The rioters cut down the telegraph pole and
destroyed the wires in that part of the city,
Sc that telegraphing between New York city
and New England was stopped. We have not
received d reliable account of the riot A
copy of the New York Express of last eve
ming has reached US; but it was printed soon
after the riot had reached the condition Of full
progress, and before much had been done to
suppress it. Moreover, the Express is one of
the most malignant promoters OF opposition
to the draft; it stimulates the riotous spirit;
therefore it will not be likely to tell the whole
truth faithfully. The following is the account
the Express gives of the riot, so far as it had
gone when that paper went TO press -
The excitement, from an early hour this
morning, in the 9th and 9Th congressional dis
tricts, was very great. All the corners in the
18th, 18th, AND I'D wards were thronged with
crowds OF working people, all OF whom showed
considerable interest in the draft going on in
- -i'-trint Prnvnst marshal Jenkins of
ton that an armed multitude Of wOrkmen
from the 9th, 18th, and ID avenues, Intended 10
seize the wheel with the names and DESTROY it.
his morning men employed on the Sec
ond avenue railroad refused to 90 to work.
while those on the Sixth avenue railroad asked
leave of absence from their work, and in case
OF refusal threatened summary measures.
All the blacksmiths in the employ of the Third
avenue railroad company ceased work as did
also the men employed in Browns iron tacto-
ry, those employed by Mr.. Crlmmins, the
contractor, in Taylor's foundry in list street
and Sth avenue. and hundreds OF others en-
| ployed on buildings, street improvements. &c.
These crowds paraded through the streets
and forced their fellows to leave work and
join them.
IN short, the excitement through the 18th
and 22d wards is most intense and increasing
every minute, ready to break out into open
hostility on the first occasion. Pending the
state OF affairs, Capt. jenkins communicated
with Col Nugent, while Capt. Porter of the
18th ward asked superintendent Kennedy for
instructions. Until these officials are heard
from no drawing will take place. At ten
| O'Clock two platopns Of police from the 2Ist,
18th, I'D, and other wards amounting to
some two hundred men, arrived near the office
OF the provost marshall thereby increasing
the excitement around the building.
''LATER.-We have just received a report
that the building on Third avenue, where
the drafting is taking place for the Ninth dis
trlct, has been burnt down. and that all the
papers have been thrown into the street. A
car full Of soldiers, fully armed and equipped,
has just gone up the Third avenue. The fire
men are reported to have appeared on the
ground, and refused to perform their duties
Al latest accounts tile mob, about seven thou
| SAND strong, marched down to Capt. Manierre's
headquarters. Orders have been sent to all
| military stations in the harbor to forward all
military forces to this city.
"ll3OA A. M.--The building is all in flames
-679 has caught fire, and threats are being
made to burn 66l. TMe ground around is
covered with the debris of the drafting books
and papers. Some $4,000 highly excited men
are round the building, with thick sprinkling
OF women. Many women are ON the house
tops waving their shawls and handkerchets to
the rioters. The telegraph poles are cut down
and the wires cut. The cars are stopped.
About thirty are now waiting to pass 1t is
stated that other offices will be attacked to-
day or to morrow.
"a warning, it is stated, was sent several
days ago to the people inhabiting the upper
part OF No. 677 that this attack would be
made. Gen. Wool and staff were at police
headquarters at II o'clock in consultation with
the police commissioners. The provost mar
shaPs guard (the invalid corps), while.going
up the Bowery, near the hay market, in
Third avenue car, were insulted and sneered
at by large crowd congregated there. Stones
were fired at the cars repeatedly. Gen. Sand
| ford has just issued the following:
| HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION. n. Y. N. G1
| NEW YORK, July Is. 1853
The ex officers Of this division, and of the United
States volunteers now in this city, who are disposed
to assist in preserving the peace of the city, are re-
quested 10 meet at the Seventh regiment drill rooms
| over Tompkin's Market, this evening at O'Clock
CHAS. W. SANFORD, Mai. Gen
| The Sixth avenue cars have stopped run
ming down town. their men being taken off by
the crowd. During the confagration super
| intendent Kennedy appeared outside, when
the crowd attacked him IN such manner that
he received very severe injuries"
1t is reported that he was killed.
THE funeral of Capt. John kirkland of the
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