The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-10

MOBILE, July 9.--Sales of cotton, to-day,
200 bales; midding, 3oc. The steamers
news had no effect on the market. Wea-
ther pleasant. City very healthy.
Another Serious Disturbance.
Another of those disturbances
which have recently caused much
excitement and alarm in our whole
community, took place in and around
the neighborhood of the market about
8 o'clock Saturday night. Between
thirty and forty shots were fired dur
ing the affair, the rioters firing reck-
lessly, and compelling everybody
around, men, women and children,
to retreat into the stores, the Charles
ton Hotel, and other places of safety
Providentially, none of the shots took
effect on the large crowd Just coming
out Of the market. Policeman Dunn
was severely but not dangerously
wounded in the left shoulder 4 CO.
lored man, named Henry Drayton,
was shot in the right thigh, inhicting
serious, and, it is thought, mortal
wound; and another colored man.
name unknown, was shot III the neck
Drayton, after being wounded, walk
ed as far as the burnt district, on
Meeting street, where he remained
all night. He was picked up by the
police Sunday morning, and sent to
the hospital for medical attendance.
From Sergeant Riley, of the city
police, who was on duty at the mar
ket with squad Of ten men at the
commencement Of the disturbance.
We gather the following particulars: ::
Sergeant Riley. Saturday even :,
had stationed his men by t. s
through the market, with the usual
instructions to preserve order and
keep the passage-ways clear Of any
gatherings of individuals or otl II OBJ
stacles. About half past I O'Clock, II
party of eight or ten colored soldiers
went through the market and inter
fered with one Of the policemen in
the centre meat market in the dis
charge of his duty, keeping the pas
sage clear Sergeant Riley, on being
informed of the difficulty, collected,
his men and proceeded to the scene
of disturbance. On arriving there,
he heard one of the colored soldiers
say, Oh it, l will shoot the first
AAi''ih t'itit approaches Illt. :ttlotiU'I
said, 'Don't Shoot Sergeant Riley.
observinga corporal among the CO.
lored soldiers, whom he believed to
be an officer of the Provost Marshal's.
went up and spoke to him The cor
poral told him that the police had in
terfcred with him, and ordered him
ont OF the market, and that he would
have the same chance as anybody
else. The Sergeant told him that
the policeman was instructed not to
allow any party, white or colorcI, to
obstruct the passage. After few
more words, the corporal said he was
going to leave, and the party went off.
About half an hour afterwards. AS
Sergeant Riley was being relieved by
another squad of twenty men, under
Sergeant Poulnot, the same party of
colored soldiers, reinforced and
armed, appeared at the head of the
market. on Meeting street, with the
evident intention of provoking n
difficulty. Sergeant Riley went to a
United States white officer, in the
crowd Of citizens, informed him Of
what had passed in the market. about
half an l,our previously, and stated
that these colorel soldiers had, no
doubt, re-appeared for the purpose
OF picking quarrel with the police.
The Sergeant then requested him TO
have talk with the party. and per
snade them to leave While talking
with the officer, IL volley was fired
into the police by the colorcd sol
diers, wonndins policeman Dunn.
The police then made rush on the
soldiers, who broke and run, turning
and firing at the police as they went.
The police pursued the party to the
office of the F'recdmen's Bureau, in
the Military Hall, on Wentworth
street. Sergeant Riley states that he
has every reason to believe that the
Whole party took refuge in the hall.
Several shots entered some of the
doors and stores on Meeting street,
and one shot struck in the telegraph
office, over the Office Of the Adams
Express Company.
ChtnleSfoa COup'icy., 9N i,tSf.