Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-07-20
Rn0st IEak patTRe syaTHs,
fHE GREAT AtoT IN NEW YoRG-AbbiffoSAt !
PARTICULARS TIE ATTACK ON CHARLES. |
TON-M0RGAN's GREAT RAID, &c, &c.

1UN~MOhuAND GhEAI hAlD, &c, &C.
We copy the following additional accounts of the
great iot from the New York Times of the 18th inst
The reign of tbemob which was inaug rated on Mon
day morning has not yet ceased although to-day will
probably witness the end of infamous usurpation-
All Monday Light the rioters, unchecked, prosecuted
their depredanons, aud yesterday morning found the
lawltss spirit not whit abated On the contrary the
malignant orgnaors of the disturbance grew holder at
the IMMUNITY with which they necessarily
10 indulge in their first days career apd at time
more serious consequences than any which have yet
cured were threatened Happily, however the military
and police authorities early in the day recovered from
the partial paray into which the sudden demons
tons OF the mob bad thrswn them, and in sufficient
force able contend with the truly formidable
organization of awl few wholesome but severe
lssSons were administered to the rioters during the
day wherever they showed themselves most turbulent
and toward evening there seemed to be unmis akabe
in iicst ons that the supremacy Of law would soon be
acknowledged even by the most rabd Of the offenders
Perhaps however the fact that score or more OF
the IiOeIs killed in the various conflicts with tie
military and the police not solely the cause of this
abatement Of the spirit OF violence The proclamation
o Governor Horatio Seymour, and TIE announcement
made early in the sflernoon, that President Lincoln
had ordered the craft in this city to be suspended may
also have had something 10 do with restoring mscon
tents TO asor. At any rate after nj ,hl the streets
| were comparatively quiet
There question that the riot yesterday was en-.
| gagged in by vastly larg'r numbers than Monday,
and the spectators Of the dsorderly scenes in
creased also by many thousands This may be account
ed for by the fact that all the large manufacturing
adjustments closed labor on the docks and &C the
shpyards suspended and every branch of business
arrested leaving thousands Of persons liberty
participate in the excesses either passivey spectators
| or in an active manner.
In the movements of the mob yesterday, moreover.
there no mistakDg the fact that pillsge the
prime incentive of the majority. Resistance to the
draft" was the imses of wells cover the wholesale
plunderng which characterized the operations OF the
| day.
dents they have been able to co lect as follows
THE RIOT IN SECOND AVENUE.
EIGHrEES PERSONS REPORTED KILLED. SEVERAL FATALLY
INJURED.
Between II and o'clock yesterday the rioters com.
menced their attack upon the Union Steam Works sit
uaed on the corner of Twenty second street and Sc.
cond The guns taken from the armory Mon
day we're stored in this building, and the most active
efforts were made by the insurgents to secure them.
The rioters turned out in large force, numbering
from 1000 to 5000 people including children. The
shops and for half mile around closed and
the streets filed with crowds of excited men,
men and children.
APP three hundred Policemen, under the Gem
mand of one of the Inspectors arrived upon the ground
The rioters had in the meantime taken possession OF the
building aud when the officials made their appearance
they attempted escape by the windows but too
late to escape the notice OF the Polio. Finding them
selves caught in tight place, they made attack
the Police This assault the officers met by voley
from their revolvers and FIVE of the mob shot.
About twenty rioters remained in the building; there
was but one way for them to make their exit The 20.
lice Ged the door, and each had in addition TO his
| usual weapons loaded revolver The mob became
desperate and made deadly assault upon the police
they in turn used their weapons eectualy that four
teen Of the mob almost instantly killed. scene,
which defes all powers OF description, then followed.
Men women and children rushed through the streets in
the most frantic state of mind, and the dead and
wounded we're borne from the place. the wild howlings
| of the bereaved were truly sad TO hear
Four persons killed and quite number were in-
iured by jumping from the second story windows of the
| building
When the rioters we're dispersed the police took pos
session of the Union Steam Works building, and at o
late hour last night they still held the place. COLI
sion between the authorities aud the mob is liable 10
take place at any moment. The police and military
| fully prepared TO meet them.
THE RIOTERS IN rsE sEcosD-AvENUR.
At about 81 o'clock yesterday morning Geographic
despatch received that large crowd of rioters were
gathering all along the Second avenue in the neighbor
hood of Thiryfourth street, threatening all the houses
along that thoroughfare. strong force Of police,
about 800 were Immediately detailed under Inspector
Carpenter to break up the crowd The rioters had ga
thered in formidable numbers, end for time committed
no overt act 1t then ascerained that Col IL. j..
| OBrien, of the Eleventh New York Volunteers who
lives 10 the immediate neghborhood, had rendered his
services and those of his command Tor the purpose of
| suppressing the riot. The mob becoming inceDsed,
proceeded 10 the residence Of the Colonel and warning
his family to leave completely Quilted the entire house.
They we're about TO set it on fire, but finding that the
house WAS not his property they desised The police,
| Garnentpr and Cant. CODel then
| marched from the Central office, preceded by the
| Broadway SQUAD, 10 the BoWery, where they took
possession of a sufficient number of the Third.ave-
nue. cars and proceeded up the avenue On arriving
at Thiry-second street, the railroad track was found
obstructed and the police then formed in solid co.
umn and marched down to the Second Avenue. They
| were met by the assembled mob with silence. When
the whole force had got in the block between Thirty
fourth and Thiry-hfh streets, they were closed in
| upon by the mob and assaled by thick shower oil
bricks and Stones WHICH ralned from the houses ano
| windows in the neighbOrhcod For some momen
the men wayered aud the peril was imminent when the
reassuring voices of the officers in command recalled
them who then returned the sho Of stones With the
reJolgers The order then given 10 charge, and
most furious onset made on the rioters driv ne
them into the houses the officers cha ling them all over
the buildings and driving them into the streets, where
they were scattered by mo vigorous application oil
clubs All the side reefs were then cleared, and the
pol &C marched the battle ground victorious The
police then marched through the injected dstric NEE
inc nothing but lowering looks, the mob being tho
rorvhly beaten While marching through the Third
Avenue they met detachment of the llti Regiment
N,Y.S.V., headed by Col. 0'Brien aud couple Of
field pieces under command of Lieut.. Eigeson coming
down the avenue on tr t. They formed junction
with the police force and then countermarched through
the Second Avenue.
| THE DEATH OF COL oBRIES
After the detachment of military under Col 0'Brien
had succeeded in dispensing the mob they fell back
some distance from the Colonel who went forward
the crowd having his swod and revolver in his bands
when he was Immediately et upon, surrounded, and SO
dreadfIly maltreated that be expired in short time
after. His body lay dead on the sidewalk for some
time and some of the fendsh in the crowd 6mus
ed themselves by firing several pistol shots at his head
after which the body strung up TO the nearest lamp
post where it remained for some time. 1t was after
wards taken down and thrown again in the street. and
had not been moved up to o'clock last night. The
van hv eome Of the rioters for such treatment