Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-14
Riot in New York.-Disgraeeful

NEw iYoRE, July l3 10 p.M.-Up to this
hdurst the ri6t appears to be increasing The {
following is brief resume of their opera
tions: 1T appears thar there mnst have 4
bseh concocted plan Of, resistance 70 the !,
transcription, as all the Yorkipgmen on the
different railroads combined together with
those of certain factions and marched To-
the building on Third avenue where the
drafting for the 9Th district had COMMENCED
At about slok O'Clock the crowd.rnsheda'
in and seized the books and papers, using
great violence towards the officers and re-
porters present, who managed to escape, d
except Asst Deputy Van erhait, who was q
$50 badly beaten as to be beyond recovery =.
Soon after the building was burned, lths ~
demons meanwhile storming the ppperrlt
part where some half dozen families lived, !,
Soon after squad of police arrived but
we're driven off, one of their number be-
ing torn TO pieces and kicked to jelly
Stores in the vicinity were soon closed by
their owners, and the rioters had every
thing their own way. The fremenWere
not allowed TO play on the FIRE. The most
Horrible and beastly eetrages have been cen
perpetfated.@ = s'S.'i1 : = 800 4 3 -
Some II. or. 13 policemen. have been so
brutally treated that their recovery Is al
most hopeless, aud no doubt. exists as to. st
the death of SuperintendantK spne s.o.s.
i About 8 o'clock the mob hadmoyed fur
Their doWnftown, when the firemen went to
work on the burning buildings on 81 ave-
nne,f One house WAS entered where lazy,
had just been confined, a number of artiS'
eles were stolenpbut no violence perpetra-
ted ''' 81 's',s'., y
"A lAt2 o'clock Mr. Howard, late city edi-
tor of the New York Times, was attacked
By the mob bowling Here's an abolition
ist," and were about to hang him to lamp 2
post, when the mob's attention,was divert
ed, and he ran for his life, the crowd chas-
lug him, striking him on the back Of the
head and in the face with heavy stones,
stunning him when they robbed him of
his watch and chain, diamond breastpin,
and 1873 dollars in money. he was, with
difficulty taken to the Engine House, the
door of which resisted the efforts of the.
mob, and finally he was taken away. His
injaries are, serious. M, ssFrT r,ev, -sVy-,,,
IFdeaf mob tore up iron fences to.arm I
themselves and about sro'clock p process .
sion of rnthians, thieves and women arrlTs
ed with clubs, pistols, bars OF iron ana
marched up. LIST Avenue threatening all
cotnected with the conscription. The ar v
senal was threatened but the presence of
detachment Of tks 10Th YolalteSrs prevent
ed an.Eattack.i ! Howitzers are, 4 stationed
there and the Tth regiment armory loaded II
With canister which will he used in the
first Demonstration, a whole block on Sd
Avenue was burned III 4oGa
A person named Andrews, of Virginia,
who has lately ,haEalgued meetings at
Cooper Institute, seemed to Hbesthe ieader,
of the mob, and addressed them near the
ruins while the destruction was going on,
denoancing the President, and advised the
people. TO! ofgahize.apd resist the draft
Mayor 0pdyke has Issued . proclama-
ton against the rioters ~ ~
Every negro WHO has been seen by the
mob has been murdered or horribly ibeafens
Some twenty thus far have been killed.
One: sor,two newspape offices have been
threatened, Thercittzens Iareiarming. The
colored orphan asylum has been destroyed
by the mob. .itzsE bo.z al as efzt7A
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