The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-17

ring appeals 20 the loyal people OF vermont
to stand by the government anu crush rebel
lion both South and North. The resolutions
have the ring of the true metal in them, and
show decided progress in abolition ideas
even in Vermont
Terrible Riots in New York and
Boston.
The telegraph brings US meager accounts
of riots in New York and Boston, arising out
of the draft. On Monday mob Of from
5000 to 1000 armed with revolvers, clubs
and pitch forks attacked the Provost
Marshal offices in New York, where the
drawing was being made, and after destroying
and scattering the enrolment lists and draft
tickets, set fire to the buildings. By 1 O.
clock the mob had burned : buildings and
killed policemen. 1t is reported that SUI
perintendent Kennedy, of the Metropolitan
police, has died from wounds received by the
hands of the mob. About o'clock Monday
evening the mob attacked the office of the
| Tribune and the publication office was en-
tireIy gutted and smashed. They also threat
ened to burn the office Of the Evening Post,
the post Office and custom house. The ne
groes have suffered terribly from the violence
of the mob. Some of them have been
pounded and trampled to death. The tele-
graph lines leading from New York City
having been cut by the mob, We can only
give proceedings t. Monday night
There was great excitement on Tuesday III
Boston over the draft. In the evening mob
attacked the Cooper Arsenal where it was
known a company of heavy artillery was
stationed. TIE rioters assaulted the doors
with bricks and paving stones, and soon
smashed in panel, at which the crowd
cheerci loudly. Another panel was knocked
Out, when the doors swung open, a loud re-
port Immediately followed and Il charge OF &
pounds Of canister was hurled into the crowd
cutting them up fear.uiiy. Another and anoth-
er shot followed when the mob finding it no
"boys play scattered. They afterwaid
however, attacked and pillaged the store oil
Ihos. p. Barnes, Jr, % Dock Square An
other portion of the crowd headed for the
store of VIM. Reed and Sons, corner of Elk
, change Avenue and Dock Square, bat were
met by strong police force and after (;
harp conflict were driven away. Two pc
l:camen We're injured and one of the mol
shot. We shall probably have further par
ticulars before going to press.
The peace meeting copperheads represent
ed by Woods and Brooks in New York by
Ex-President Pierce of New Hampshire, ant
by the editor Of the Argus in Vermont, hav
ing failed in their fast move to checkmat.
the administration and compel the Presden
, 10 accept peace upon any terms the rebels a
the south may dictate, are now making the
second mc"e. Bythelr speeches, and through
their organs, Of which tie New York Worlt
, is representative, they have excited men t
" resist the draft The Boston Journal saw
;:pon this matter:
"They have exhausted the vocabulary o
; misrepresentation and abuse on the subiec
} Of the enrolment law, and have left no ap
r peal 10 the mischievous elements of the com
mGnity untouched. Some Of these agitator.
have artfully deprecated violence while &C
tually suggesting it, while others seem t.
4 have beer content to arouse all the wors
passions of the multitude, leaving them tc
do their own work wher the time should
come
On the very morning that heralded thi,
terrible and bloody outbreak the New YORK
r World speaks of the CONSUMPTION act as g;
F.: measure which could not have been ventureC
upon IN England even in those dark DAYS
when the press gang filled the English ships.
oE-war with slaves" 1t declares that suct
! were the circumstances which attended it:
, final passage that one might almost have SUP
posed the national legislature to be an oil
garchic conspiracy plotting vast scheme O
military seryitude" With a superiority O
5 such insinuations, It maliciously inculcate:
: the impression that New York city, through
vengetul feeling On the part of the war De
partmsnt, is to be mulcted for more than it,
fair proportion of drafted men. Now it il
impossible rot to see the infammatory efec
: of such words when scattered among ths
/ Ignorant, excited and corrupted sections O
the populace of such city as New York. l
might prove all that was necessary to fire tn.
train tha! had long been laid by artful dem
! agogues in the caucus, on the street corner
, and in the haunts of vice."
S THE kilograms Thursday morning repre-
! sent the riot in New York as still progressing
though the crowd is mostly made up o
thieves and robbers who make indiscriminat,
t plumber their chief object. They sack cloth
ing and other stores carrying off their con
tents bV the cartoad Tb. r,rr loto,. lo,