Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-07-21
TIE (. THiBUNEy OFFICE ATTACKED.

HOUSES SACKED AND Burned.
o TIE ..THIBrNE" OFFICE ATTACKED.
IL, .giit,uy Preparations to Suppress the
R;oterS-l Tuyiaian Heading tie Mob
Ns,no O,phaa Asylum Burned Dopn---1
N;To Haagsd-Pfoclamatio~ sf tie Mayor,
de-. Gc.
We are indebted to Judge Ould, agent for
the exchange Of prisoners, for files Of New
York ana Baltimore papers as late as the 18th
instant. These papers bring us details of a
very destructive and bloody riot in New York,
caused by an attempt to enforce the draft in
that city. The riot commenced on Monday,
and had not been quelled up to Tuesday
night. when the papers we extract from were
printed and sent of:
The - Herald States that popular opposi-
sien 10 the enforcement of the conscription
was very great-the Enrolling Offices of the
Eighth and Ninth Districts were demolished
two whole blocks Of houses were burned on
Third Avenue and Broadway, and the enrol
ment lists were torn up. The drafting. which
had been commenced in the Eighth District,
HaS discontinued; the military were ordered
ou;, and an attack was made on the people
Is the Provost Guard, and several citizens
and soldiers were killed. After the
arrival of the police on the ground
another attack was made on the crowd; the
MctropolitanS were dispersed, and some of
them killed and badly beaten: Superinten.
Dent Kennedy was severely wounded; great
confusion prevailed in the Twenty-frst and
Tw.a;y-Sccond wards; an armory in the Sc
cord Avenue was attacked and destroyed; q
raid was made on the negroes the Colored
Orphan Asylum was laid in ashes: Bulls
ilea! llotci was destroyed; two mansions in
Lexington Avenue were sacked; the Seventh
Avenue Arsenal was threatened; strong guard
ot Militia aud Regulars were protecting it:
marines and sailors were sent from the Navy
Yard: the Tribune" office was attacked
\ negro was hanged in Clarkson street. Pro-
carnations had been issued by the Mayor. and
cliiZ"n- called upon to act as special police.
General Sandturl was in command Of the
troops. and the reserve militia ordered TO as
semitic.
From the New York Hc-ald, July A.
These among our citizens who have pre-
dictcl thar the conscription would he peacebly
''''N-"'"'-Ni, NciC ucpliNCu' " Iuc SNeulS WI
yesterday. Of their claims to srcrShip. The
denial II the draft in the Ninth district on
Saturday were ,iocular and passively inofen-
S:rc. The proceedings took place at a hall,
No. jU. Third avenue, and the officers viewed
the syyl-natureI acquieScence of the specta-
t"'S as an indication that the draft was popu'
lar; and before the concourse dispersed they
announced that the wheel would revolvc again
Yesterday morning, and make, ut every revo-
luton conscript.
Bat those who heard the scattered groups
Of latorerS and mechanics, who congregated
IN different quarters on Saturday evening and
who cauvassed unsparingly the conscription
lar, might have reasonably augured that q
tumult was near at hand. Open threats Of
defiance to the law, and bitter maledictions
On ali who promulgated and enforced it,
marked the discussions, and the threats re-
suited in terrible sequel yesterday.
The officers, however, never dreamed that q
serious disturbance and great contlagration
would distinguish their second days labors.-
They viewed in the throng who witnessed thei,
movements q patriotic desire to be enrolled IL
the national forces; they interpreted the good
humor with which they quizzed the newly
made conscripts, whose names were familiar
iH them, as a tacetious instance Of uncondi
t!onal loyalty; and they saw not in the peril
Gus mood which they developed the plastic
character which day might infuriate u
calm.
The Provost Marshal, Capt. jenkins, when
The work of the day was over, had a banquet
10 which the members of the press and enroll
ing officers were invited, and their first days
hbors thus closed amicably.
1t was a significant fact that the audience
VINO witnessed the drawings were composed
exclusively of laborcrs and mechanics, who
seemed unable to raise the amount required to
exempt them from the conscription law. The
District is densely populated with this class Of
our citizens.
IN Saturday evening there was intense cx,
Clement in the neighborhood, and when the
names Of the conscripts were read there seem
81 to be a general determination to resist the
law. There was no free discussion tolerated
On The subject. Whoever supported the draft
seemed to be regarded as an enemy of the peo-
pie, or at least Us an individual who had the
Ha'nmon antidote to it-threc hundred dollars.
These indications ripcned on Sunday when
Tue Herald" published the list of over twelve
Auhdrrd names, which the wheel of fortune
S aGSa inan blindfolded, independent of their
,SNi-aId in hundreds of instances Of their
Ah9~Iedge-enrolled as soldiers.
Inc TACT that nearly all the men drafted
ere laborers and mechanics added fuel to the
Salls' Sl There was many q sad household on
sunday IN the Twenty-second ward, where the
~a'hc> We're read and it must he stated, by
Wy oi an explanation of the extraordinary re-
ISSUANCE ISSUANCE which marked the draft, that tho
;ih rale relatives Of the conscrpts mingled their
iS"aest H." denuncistion against the conscription
,no,;,a "; anu thus gave the people cavalier"
...'e 70 enact the terrible scenes in the dis
"'S. g. sld Throughout the city.
n b1ay baEy closed peaceably. We have reason
n vsteSe that no organization was then formed
-,,Is ss''s the draft. But when Monday came
ahos weekly holiday of the people-when
" - merely started, the masses generally