The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-18

lopeclal Dlspatch TO the Enqulrer-la8HE
New YORK, July 12.-From an early
hour this morning crowds of rough
looking men were seen wandering
through the streets, and visiting in sue
cession large establishments, where
great numbers of men were working
They persuaded them to leave their
work and join with them until, as the
morning wore on, they became an excl
ted crowd. All were more or less arm
ed. Some had fire arms, which they
took no pains to hide, and others with
huge knives stuck into their belts, or a
murderous club over their shoulders
There was a wicked spirit of determina-
ton on their countenances, and but very
few Of them were at all under the infu-
ence of liquor. 1t was evident to all
who saw this crowd that they were ter
ribly in earnest, and that, if not over
awed by the authorities of the city. they
would commit some deed of violence
before the day ended. So this crowd
pressed on, constantly increasing in
numbers, women, even--or, rather, an
cry furies-joining their ranks toward
the corner OF Twenty ninth street and
Eighth avenue, where the head quarters
of the OrangemenF are situated. 1t had
been doubted all: through the morning g
whether the parade would take place in
The city at all, and there were many ru-
mors that the Orangemen would 60
oyerto Jersey City and join their breth-
rem there, but at about eleven O'Clock
there came dispatch to- the effect that
the o OEmg gemens of that ehyssthought it
would be more advisable for each body
to parade in, Its own city, and so at one
O'Clock this afternoon an order was issl
ued fromsP Police Head quarters that the
parade would fake places The afrange-
Finents Of the police had been made on
the most extensive scale. apd besides
the entire force of' the city, there were
many special policemen sworn in, and
besides all these there were eleven regi-
ments of the National Guard under
arms, including the Thirteenth from
Brooklyn:-.A At ten minutes past two
o'clock the procession began its march,
Numbering about one hundred and thir-
ty orangemen, and guarded by tue po-
lice and military. 8 Under the broiling
sun Tie bayonets glistened as they went,
and las the soundo the drums beating
offensive military marches came ap the
Eighth, avenue, the crowd at the corr
'ner hootetl and grcaned ain accompani
ment, and it was evident from tue wa.
,yering -of7the rearmost ranks that mis-
siles were dropping among them from
the housetops or the sidewalks. On a
sudden, from the northeast corner of
Eighth avenue and Twenty eighth street
came puff Of smoke andia report. 1t
lacked twenty minutes Of three when
the scattered hooting rose to an immense
roar and the crowd closed in ,angrily in
the wake of the procession, This gave
me a chance to drive into the avenue
a pillar of gilded dust, shot through
with. points of steel, marked the route
of the procession, and led ON the ra ging
crowd from Twenty eighth, Twenty
seventh and Twenty sixth Streets, as
the passage of the silent column made
room for the human flood which surged
in behind it. 1t is region of tenement
houses, and bare armed women filed
such windows as were. not shut and bar
red. The crowd kept gathering in the
rear and pressing the columns closer,
when q sheet of white smoke made IL.
self seen through the dust and sharp
crack like that of pack of Chinese
crackers came from under it 1t was
full volly of musketry fired by the Ninth
and Eighty-fourth Regiments. Then @
panic seized the crowd; they ran crazily
through the streets they had come in at
and up the avenue far beyond Thir
teenth street, until not q man of thos,
who had been there could be seen.-
When it was safe to pick them up, thel
frightened friends came cautiously bacl