Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-07-17

Rrorrxe AND BLooDsHED IN New YoKK.-l
On Monday last bloody riot was inaugarated
in the CITY of New York, which up to date of /
last advices continued its course of devastation
and outrage. The day named was the time
set apart for the commencing the draft in the
city, and the riot commenced by an infuriated
crowd Of four to five hundred men breaking in'
to the room in which the Draft Commissioners
were prosecuting their labors in the Ninth
District, corner of Third Avenue and Forty
sixth street. The officials were maltreated and
barely escaped with their lives, the boUks,
blanks, &C.. were seized and destroyed, the
building fred and the whole block in which it
was situated soon enveloped in flames. The
telegraph wires were then cut, and the rioters
proceeded to visit other parts Of the city, as
saulting citizens, burning buildings, and COM
mitting every variety of outrage usual to pro-
ceediDgs of the kind. A number Of unofeRd-
ing blacks met in the street were murdered,
the African Orphan Asylum burned, the Trib-
une Office aseailed, but the rioters beaten OH.
Tuesday morning they had got as far down
town as Fulton Ferry, visiting on the way
manufactures and vessels and compelling the
men connected with them to join their crowd;
and fresh riots IN formidable proportions, COM
prised of the most desperate portion of the COM
munity, were reported to have broken out in
some other sections of the city. Several collis-
ions between the rioters and the authorities
had occurred, in one of which Is and another
of the mob were reported killed, AID many
wounded. Col. O'Brien, who commanded
small military force called out by the authori-
ties is said to have been captured by the rioters
and murdered. The house Of Mayor Opdyke
is named as one Of the residences burned. The
city authorities proving inadequate to quell
the riot, the Governor of the State had been
called upon and had reached the city. and
speech and proclamation having failed to pro-
duce the desired effect, he had despatcheJto Al
bany to have all the available troops at that
point sent to the city. In his speech the Gov.
ernor informed the rioters that be had sent bis
Adjutant General to Washington to ask that
the enforcement of the draft be suspended, and
later despatch says the request had been COM
piled with. The widest excitement prevailed,
and amid the exaggerated reports it is difficult
to say what is the actual state of affairs, but
it is manifest that the riot is most formida-
BILE one, and if not soon arrested bids fair to
reFult in most serious consequences.
1t is not necessary to go far to find the cause of
such sceSrees as these. Both papers and pub
lie speakers in thai city have for months been
busy in efforts to iufame the public mind and
prepare that portion of the people now enga-
ged in riotirg for such acts as they are CON-
mitting. Uumiudful of the terrible struggle
in which the country is engaged and their du-
ty to the government that has protected them,
they have for base party purposes openly coun-
seled resistance to the national authorities in
their efforts to raise troops for the public de-
fense 10 the manner prescribed by an act of Con-
gress and the only mode by which they can be
raised. To show the nature of these efforts we
refer to the following from the New York
Herald Of Saturday. paper which has al
ways been opposed to the Republicans, and is
anything but friendly to the Administration:
"The speech of Chauncey c. Burr, and his
reception at the meeting in the Twentieth
Ward on Thursday evening, are calculated to
stir up a mob-like spirit in this city. If Mr..
Burr is not careful he will raise storm that
will terminate in insurrection, and bloody
scenes in this city. When this mob spirit is
once started no person can tell where it will
end. or who will be sacrificed by it's vengeance:
While Mr.. Burr poured ont his invective,
e0unseled resistance to our national author
lilies. and appealed TO the beastly passions OF
the assemblage, he still declared himself a
Democrat, and would have US understand that
he is one Of the leaders. But his speech was
ANYTHING but Democratic in tone. and it shows
great lack of craftsmanship in the city in al
lowing such clustering men as Burr to assume
10 set themselves up as leaders of the party
in a crisis like the present"