Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-07-17
Morris Island Nearly all in Our
as Possession,
Capture Of Prisoners & Cannon.
GunbOats Smelling Fort Wagner
MORGAN MOVEMENTS IN
SOUTHERN OHIO, -
THE NEW YORK UITY RIOT.

4NAA" AOAEAAJ hA Acs
A terrible onslaught was made. on the
negro dwellings on York street, last night
amid ohe shrieks and grosns of the unfor-
tunate women and children. d"
A collision occurred on Forty-fourth
streetthis morning, in which three soldiers
are reported killed. ah
Report says thst,there has been quite
an importation of rowdies from Baltimore
and Philadelphia, but it is discredited by
we'll informed persons. u Z OF
Mayer 0pdyke recommends the immedi-
ate proclamation Of martial law Cover
nor Seymour opposes it.
This afternoon the mob again collected
on Thirty-second street, where q negro was
hanging. Failing to disperse, howitzer
was turned upon them, loaded with cannis-
ter. The first discharge disabled six.
Two more discharges increased the num-
Der to twenty-five, when the Villains alive
skedaddled. --..
Two negroes were killed this afternoon,
one on Pier Nc. A. and the other on Wash
ington street. -r.. ...-
Harper & Brothers, and J. A. Gray,
printers, and others, have been warned
that their establishments will be destroyed
if the workmen are kept on duty.
ColOred people are fleeing the city in all
directions. @ 3 1H as-et
Gold has fallen to I27. Markets are
dull and nominal, no business being done
of Importance.
We have some particulars Of the riot in
27th street to-day. Another attack on tht
/ 7th Avenue arsenal was 10 be made. a
detachment Of $50 men, with an artillery
company with four tWelvespOuuder hoBit
zers, proceeded to the corner Of 35th stree
| and Broadway. The street from the gu
to 7th Avenues was crowded with men
women and children. Fifteen minute
were given the crowd to clear the street
No one stirred, and at the expiration 0
the time allowed the artillery, loaded viii
canister, opened, and i've rounds Wer
fred. A good many were hurt but it
not known how many. The street wa
cleared.
The military having dispersed the mo
] from the vicinity, the fremen checked tn
flames so that only three or four building
we're burned.
The rioters proceeded to 33d street, an
erected barricade across that street an
the 9th Avenue.
Some hundreds Of negro women an
children were allowed to escape, but nor
: of the colcred men. Buildings occupied
colored people were set on fire, with the il
tention Of burning eolored men in them.
At last accounts the military had arri'
ed at the scene, and fight had prObab
occurred.
NEW YoRK, July 16.
| R1Iildin
Custom House, and other public building
are guarded by cannon, and are supports
by infantry. Elevators were destroyed
the mob in Brooklyn last night whi
were valued at 100000. Some neg
dwellings in jersey city were destroyed
Numbers of negro women and ehildr
are encamped in Elysian Fields, HOboke
The mob at Staten Island last night W
overpowered By the patrol and armed oi
zens. - .r--r -= ra-.r F.
The residents Of Williamsburg are {
ganizing volunteer companies. ....s
The Mayor Of Brooklyn refused to call
r meeting Of citizens on the plea that
would inAame the rioters.
Induests have already been held on I
At bodies Of about fifty persons, inoludil
nearly q dozen innocent people, ont
At mother and one an infant just born.
II A dry goods store, on Avenue G, "
ze sacked Of forty thousand dollars worth
Sc ce goods. i
i. A residence on TEenty-ninth str
s. destroyed by the mob was not Hor9
Greeley's, as the mob supposed, but, !
On Sinclair's where the former sometin
stayed.
D., a man resembling Greeley was awfa
le- beaten.
,.e' The steamer Union has arrived he
= from Charleston the 18th. She reports Y
Gen. Gilmour had captured nearly all NJ
ris Island, with large number Of Pris'
ers, siege guns and cannon. Five g
Mt boats we're shelling Fort Wagner, and hi
probably captured it ere this. "