Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-07-29
TnE RAF TsmAN's JOURNAL.
ONE OF GOV. sEymous's .FRIEHDsg'

ONE 0F GOV. SEYM0UR'S 'FRIEFDS"
II true history of the great New York
city Riot is ever written, some rich and ter
ribe developments will be made. Sufficient
is already known to satisfy any impartial man
that it was deliberately premeditated and full
ly pre-arranged. Pickpockets, thieves. bur-
glars and murderers were not the only persons
who took part in it. Shoulder hitters and
s.roughs'' from Baltimore. Philadelphia and
other cities were present, imported no doubt
for the occasion There was still another
class, whose business it was to ncite the mul-
titude, by inhamatory harangues, to go on
in their frightful saturnalia which for three
days shook TO its centre the great commercial
metropolis Of the land. Amongst the latter
| was Virginian, named Andrews, and as he
is fair specimen of those whom Gov. Sey-
mour was pleased to designate as ssfriends,"
we append sketch of him, which we find in
one of our exchanges:
THE ARREST OF THE scoUNDREL ANDREWS.
Andrews was arrested duly 18th, } by De-
tectives McCord, Farley, Radford and Dusen.
| bury. They found him in bed with colored
woman, at No. 10 Eleventh street. He was
somewhat disconnected at first by the time
| he dressed himself however, he became calm
| and said had he known the object of the visit
there would have been some difficulty in ar
resting him. He wished to be taken at once
| before magistrate, so that he might be ad-
mitted to bail; declared that the arrest was
without warrant, was arbitrary and unconsti-
tuiional. He adm itted that be made speech
on Monday evening, but declared he had not
| spoken in public since that time. He told
our reporter that he made the same speech to
the mob that he made at the Peace Meeting,
so called, at the Cooper Institute. Several
/ persons ready to swear that they have
/ heard him make incendiary speeches TO the
| mob since Monday. His name is John e .
| Andrews; he was born in Virginia ha been
| in the city since 1859. He is about thirty
| five years OF age; has brown hair, blue eyes,
| and fnll sandy coored beard. He speaks
! with the Virginia, or negro ascent. He has a
severe cut on the temple, which he alleges he
received by slipping on entering the cell.
| Andrews was President of a club in the
| Eighth ward in 1850, which contained most of
the notorious thieves, pimps and gamblers in
| that ward. For a long time be has lived with
| a'c0lored woman, Josephine Wilson. Officer
| S. j. Smith states that he saw him walking in
Broadway with her, arm in arm, last week
She has kept house of prostitution in this
city Tor twelve years; she came from Bost on.
About eight months ago her house, then No.
| ll3 Green street, was broken up, a complaint
| having been made against it. Andrews went
| to the Station House in the morning md re-
| quested permission of Sergeant Wilson to
take the black woman in a carriage up to JEFF
ferson Market. The Sergeant refused. An
drews himself walked with her to the bar of
the Court, and demanded to be allowed to
| plead her case. The Justice not satisfied that
/ he had any authority TO appear refused to hear
| MN. A bond was given by the black woman
to appear at the Special Sessions, and indict
mtln ac fnr har 4
| ever appear when the case was called, and a
| bench warrant issued, in serving which
| the officers found her in Andrews company at
an up town hotel. She was fined $3.50, which
broke up the house No. 1I3 Green street.
Since that time the whereabouts of the house,
| hold was unknown 10 the police until they had
! occasion to arrest Andrews. Mr.. Chandler, of
| Norfolk, now consul, says that Andrews
| has wife and family in Virginia, who have
/ been compelled 10 leave him.
Marshal Murray, through Thomas Sampson,
| one of his deputies, conducted the F. F. V.
| to Fort Lafayette.
This is fair type of the class who, by the
false and pernicious teachings of Yallandig-
ham, Seymour &Co., have been induced to at
| tempt resistance to the conscripiion act, 10
/ denounce the Federal authorities, and to hur-
rah for JEFF Davis and the Southern Confeder-
| NY iu 'ho sttSets oi one Vi our Northeih CIT
| les 1t Is to be hoped that these agita tors
and enemies of the Government have learned
6y this dreadful riot that it W i'll not do to re-
sist the laws of the land which are intended
only to save the life OF the Nation, any more
than it will do to turn loose upon city the
yagabonds and ruflians who had congregated
| there at their instigation.
|
DROPPING vALLANDIGHAM