Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-07-23
WEDNESDAY, THE THIRD DAY.


Notwithstanding au assuring proclamation Of Mayor
Opdyke that the riot had been in good measure subject
ed to the control Of the public authorities the outrages Of
the mob continued undated throughout Wednesday aud
the greater part Of that night at late hour Of which its
energies seemed to sacken somewhat from its
hauson and in consequence of the comprehensive
OF the authorities Seemingly acting upon sys
tenn the rioters efrained from gathering in body but
dispensing themselves in bodies varying in number from
FIVE six hundred to several thousand made their attacks
at widely distant and unlocked for points. and by this
divided up the forces of the authorities and kept
them constantly and exhaustingy employed. We have
only for the following extracts which record but
few of the shocking occurrences of the day
CHARACTER or THE MOB.
Wednesday was a repetition of Tuesday only that the
violence of the mob had unfortunately increased instead
being abated The city in state of utter anarchy
Indiscriminae riot piage, and murder regned every
where but more especially in the upper part Of the town
Citizens robbed chased beaten and sometimes muir
dered by the mob No man safe who had an appear
Of wealth easy circumstances The result Of the
shooting Of rioters by the military has been to divide the
mob into small squads who perambulate the streets in
every direction and met every where Some of the
mob have been armed and fire Unfortunately up and
down the streets and sometimes at and even women
and children IN the windows No negro Is safe any
where Negro houses every where sacked struggling
cOlored murdered and in two they have
been chased off the docks Fires occurring through
hher and hher shooting into the rioters wherever they
found them. Soldiers and policemen in many cases
injured and in killed. During the evening the
mob increased in violence, and there safety any
where The mob seemed composed mainly of the vaga-
bonds OF the tOwnpickpockets thieves and the multi
tude of providers about the streets" Many Of the
wOrkngmen and remen who had trenuOusy opposed the
enforcement of the draft it's suspension was
announced joined the ward organizations the protec-
ton Of unoffending persons and property
IN THIRTY-sECoND STREET
Quite early in the morning the rioters killed negro in
Sixth avenue near Thirtysecond street, and almost i'm
mediaey after set fire to of the surrounding build
ings. No. "a was completely sacked, and then burned.
woman came out of house near by and told the crowd
of the mob Immediately rushed in, but if any negroes
lived there they had disappeared One of the rioters
carried coil Of rope to hang the negroes whom they
pected to find. The torch was applied and in q few
minutes the houses were on fire. In Tenth avenue two
pieces of artillery brought up by detachment of
soldiers and fred once twice upon the mob. number
were killed and many others wounded. Twenty-Five is
the number stated to have been killed All around in this
vicinity the mob was raging nearly all the day. in
street and then in another 1t is impossible to ascertain
the number Of killed and wounded Among them are said
to be some persons and women who in the vi
cinity OF the crowd as spectators.
FURTHER PROSECUTIONS OF THE NEGROES.
The spirit of vengeance against the negroes was kept
alive during tho day gangs of desperadoes who roamed
the streets. committing all manner Of outrages Two
houses in Twenyseventh street, between Seventh and
Eighth avenues occupied by several negro families
attacked in the early part Of the day. and the furniture and
persoDal effects of the inmates destroyed.
Between two and three o'clock mob Of men aud boys
entered the alley at the of 147 East Twenyeghth
street, in which twenty negro families resided The
doors were Immediately burst Open the colored inmates
fleeing in terror attempting to hide from the Infatuated
rioters. Each of the unortunates they were found
were roughly set upon and mercessy beaten with the
cudges and pieces OF iron with which their assaiants
were armed Many blacks in Broadway alley, running
from Twenysevenh street. also erocinusy beaten
and some of them killed The furniture of the houses
carried into the streets and destroyed and then the
buildings were set on fire and burned. 81
An awful scene occurred in Seventh avenue, near
Twenty eighth street, where five negroes hunted
down by the mob who became terribly enraged at them
that they beat four of them to DEATH The fifth was
reserved for the fearful vengeance Of the excited
crowd He first beaten severely and then suspended
from lamppost until death ensued The body then
cut down and thrown into the middle of the street. where
Ii lay upon Its back, fearful monument or mob law The
crowd then gave three loud cheers
ATTACK THE GAS WORKS.
Early in the morning the mob had announced that at
O'Clock in the evening they should attack the gas
works foot Of Fourteenth street and East river They
were more than puncua and though they knew the mill
tay were firmly posted they marched directly up to them
The result was voley from the revolvers of the mob
which returned with compound interest by the mill
tary when the crowd dispersed promising to return at
later hour Several Of the rioters killed and some
seriously wounded The time of the second attack was
not specified.
TERRIBLE FIGHTING IN FIRST AVENUE.
Between five and seven o'clock in the evening COM
pany of military assisted by the police paraded cd and Sd
avenues in the vicinity of 10Th and Goth streets They at
tacted attention and caused considerable excitement BY
o'clock immense crowd had collected on 1s ave-
nue. In the mean time military renforcements had been
sent for, and Col. Winslow, with two companies of
Zouaves and two howitzers made his appearance When
lst avenue of 10Th street. bricks and stones
hurled at them from the tops of houses The soldiers
fred at the assalants and they returned the fire from
vosers and muskets The soldiers commenced fight
ing earnest They fred into the crowd and discharged
their howtzers into the houses and the street and
nue.. Quite number killed and wounded-of the
military about twentyofthe citizens twelve among them
two women After fighting for upwards Of half hour
The military reiterated to Sd avenue firing occasional
shot. i
Shortly after the military had retreated the rioters as
sembed on LIST avenue, at the of 10Th street, in
stronger force than ever It now O'Clock. They
they called two soldiers who had been wounded and
taken into some house the block. About sixty men,
armed with muskets, sprang from the crowd, and lined
each side of the street About twenty surrounded No 20
and demanded the soldier whom they said they enter
there They searched the house. lie il tho roof
rang from the street In three four minutes the roofs
Of the whole block swarming with dark outlines Of
men and muskets. But the soldier non est car
riage drove up to the top end of the beck stopped
ment and then drove off "Ho's in the carriage" was
shouted from both street and roof The roof was cleared
in twnkng and those in the street towards I'd ave-
nue. to stop the carriage. The effort futile Several
shots were fred after it, but probably none took effect
street One OF them cried out that there blood on
the stoop of No. and that Of the wounded was
taken in there He the colonel and gave the order
to fire; we'll hang him." The door was fastened but il
forced open and the burst in They were baed
again. in spite Of the close search to which every part