Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-07-22
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THE NEW YORK RIOTsI,
Report Of the Orange Parade.
FIFTY PERSONS KILLED
And Several Hundred Wounded
HORRIBLE STREET SCENES,
[From tie ". Y. lieyeta.J
BEFORE THE BhTTLE.


BEFORE TIE BATTLE.
Both parties being fully ready, move
ments were begun soon after daylight, ant
the first incidents occurred on the northern
part of the island, where nearly nine hun
dred laborers, chiefly Irish, were engaged
upon the new boulevards. These gangs o
men were distant four or five miles from
the business part of Now York, and MANY
of them were hardly aware of what hat
taken place during the night. The mutt
neers, in bodies of from twenty to one hun
dred, approached these gangs, and, by per
suasivc and threatening means, Obliged
them to quit work, while n large portion o
the easy minded and those ready for a iark
fell in with their meters. Similar move
mcnts probably took place further down in
the city, particularly in Second avenue, on
Ninth avenue and upon avenues "A, Is and
&, which lie in the dense slaughter house
and tenement quarters near Houston street
ferry. Here, around the liquor stores,
bn.sll groups of men were keeping look.
out upon the street, while within the en-
terprising proprietor was dispensing bever-
ages, and parcels Of customers were looking
at the priming of their blunderbusses and
making abstruse, chemical remarks upon
the composition Of their cartridges. -. .
The lowest and most mendacious crowd
was at Hibernia Hall, however, and after a
good deal of chatting and cursing, several
Of these, armed with knives and pistols,
marched upon neighboring Fcnian hall
and demanded arms. Unable to obtain
thcsc, they executed some st. Alban tactics
in the street undertook to march to the
Orange rendezvous in order, but were
charged by the police, and they ran like a
pack of cravens. These and similar move
mcnts occupied the whole forenoon. The
great action, however, was to be fought on
the west side of the city, near the Irish
Protestant Hall, where the few Orangcmen
OF tortitude were preparing to face the
storm of bigOtry aud wrath.
How shall we describe the character of
the men and boys who huddlcd on the cor
ncrs of Eighth avenue from Thirty-iirst to
Twenty-third
They were generally halfgrown men and
boys of the basest class, tenants of dense
and distant quarters, who had come to the
spot with the intentions of violence and
even murder. All of them, it is needless
to say, were of that nationality whose geo.
graphical and religious division had rem
dered all this display of military necessary.
They we're attired in greasy and often rug
ged clothes, slouchy as to hats, dirty as
to boots, often frecked and. unhealthy in
complexion, and their coarse jaws, check
bones and brQws, lowering, brutal and IN
easy mode of observation strong dental
dialects and mode of swearing and gestur-
ing, indicated natures utterly uncultured,
or cultured only in the forms of vice bred
in the densest purlieus of cities, social cast
aways from the cradle up, and used only to
the delights of ruflianism and cruelty.
THE ORANGEMEN EMERGE UPoN THE
STREET.
A little before three O'Clock, and whife
tho sound Of drumming and fling filled all
the air, and the multitude, out of its timd-
ity, had voluntarily made vacant nearly
whole square on the avenue in advance of
the troops, theie was n sound of n new tune
upon another band of music heard ap-
preaching, and suddenly around the corner
ot Iwenty-plnth street, coming from the
North river side, was seen n stand of Ameri-
can colors and large blue rcgalia banner,
held well alof. so that it could be seen per-
haps for mile down the city. Behind the
blue banner small oblong transparency of
white muslin was exposed, on which could
be read at a distance of two bloaks, in plain
black letters, the words,
AMERICAN FREENlEN, FALL IN.n
Nothing was apparent above the serried
line of bayoncts and uniforms, not even
the heads of the few bold paraders who had
made it n matter of private organization to
stand the hazard of procession at any
event, inasmuch as the law had given them
permission,
lIowLISG AT TIE FLAG.
No sooner had this blue banner been
seen by the crops upon the corner5 of
Iwenty-slXth, Twenty-iiiih, Twenty y-iourih
aud Twenty-third streets when Il loud, wild
howl went up from every group, which was
re-echoed aud returned again from the
neighborlng windows aud housetops. Out
OF this dlabolical hOot were heard ifag-
menls OF sentences such as
There they come, the bloody traitors !"
"Now we will give them hell, the infer
nal Englishmen !"
Look at the towards sneaking in among
the soldiers !"
"I.et them come on; wo will warm
them ~
AN INCITER.
One man, tolcrahly well dressed IN broad
cloth, who had letl the curb-stOno aud
strolled out nearly 10 the middle OF the
street, catching glimpse OF the blue ban-
ner, cried out Ia all around him:
"Look at them now amt II a shame ?
Now, ain't IL a shame Amt IL an out
rage, buysy Oh, gorra 10 think that We
should have to sec Il 20
TlE BELEAoURED ORANGEMEN.
Observed by all observers, the point Of
attraction iOr all tho multitude were the
Omngemen themselves.
They did not appear 10 number moru
than seventy Or eighty, aud, at the rate la
which tho procession set out, they wero
not mor, than minute or tWo passing auy
given point, At lhpir head rode q tine
specimen ul lhe AorIhefa lrlshman- "a
raw'boned, erect, mlgliallooking man,
we'll dressed, with proud bat quiet bearingi
and he Il Mas Who received the yilesl uAe-
srallons ol the rabble on the sidewalk.
Al ihe other Oransencn Wofe aiO0i, aud
lnust OF lhem wero plainly dressed, and
some shabblly drysasd lab0Ilng, l00klng
Ingn sOiig gray and lucblu. who apleared
10 have paased lhe.T thleo scorvs, aad n0ne
" IAsm paid any allen1lon whatever ~
ihs oulcrles 0n tha right 90 lhe leil, bat
walked slalsht on, keeplns uine 10 the
nuslc. There Nrru several bJla and s0lno
lhilifcn among lhese leople, sraTlng lhs
!, ,slloH sashes ald rusetics ol thelT 0f,leT,
lui mori of them gmslad hands AZ thsy
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