The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-07-14

This was the situation up to the houl
Of Governor Hoffman's proclamation
and the prospect for a perfectly quie
and peaceful day on the 18th Of July
was good For reasons doubtless salts
factory to himself and his advisers
Governor Hoffman issued his mandat,
at an hour when it could be of no prac
tical service to any party. The Orange
men were content to obey orders, tn,
Hibernians had disbanded, and the pub
lie were at rest. To say that the proc
lamation carried the CONSERVATION oI
war with its disclosure, would give bu
feeble idea of it's effect upon all par
ties. The Orangemen were bewildereC
and, so far as we can find out, not ove1
pleased at being virtually compelled tc
parade or suffer the stigma of cowardice
The Hibernians were indignant at ths
apparent breach Of faith on the part O.
the authorities, annd regarded it as g
petty trick, in the service Of single
politician, and a trif1ing with what tc
them, is a serious and sacred matter
If Kelsos order had stood, the day
would have passed off in perfect quiet
AS it is, the record is as black as the
devil himself could wish it.
The Killed and Wounded.
The Tribune says editorially, under
the head of Killed and Wounded
The mournful lists of yesterday s
casualties are elsewhere printed, but
the most culpable victims are not there
mentioned. Put down among the
killed Mayor A. Oakley Hall; set down
as dangerously if not fatally wounded
Governor John T. Hoffman. The dead,
est man in the Morgue, borne thither
by the police last night. is,,not so dead as
the man who undertook to silence the
police and give the rioters full sway.
The worst wounded ma in the hospital
is not so badly wounded as the Govern
or of New York, who has not yet
proved his ignorance on Sunday Of the
surrender to the mob, consummated on
Monday night by his political associates
and subordinates, which he could have
neutralized and did not. Add to the
list one man promoted for his share in
this work. His name is Theodore F.
Randolph, Governor of New Jersey.
and above all, give honor to the people
of New York, who rose for the right as
they have not risen since Sumter.
Hoffman Praised.
The Herald says editoriallv: Much
credit is due to Governor Hoffman for
his share in yesterdays work. His
proclamation came late, it is true-too
late to prove as useful in allaying the
hostility Of the multitude as it otherwise
would have been-but it was so free
from anything that could give ofense,
and vet so clear, so firm, so unmstake-
able that lis influence for good is incal-
culable. 1t exhibited no desire to shirk
from great public duty or to evade
that duty in the face Of grave public
danger. 1t was a manly, straightfor-
ward document, holding out protection
to those who needed it and dictated a
swift retribution for those requiring
punishment. The Recorder Of 1865
showed himself the same man as the
Governor OF 1871. There was now a.
then the same impatience with murder
and riot, the same determination to en-
force the law and punish the law.
breakers. He breathed only fire and
sword for those who had determined to
break the peace and shed the blood OF
others. In all things. he was strong, earn
est, energetic in suppressing the mob.
He lifted up the trailing flag of our
common country and held aloft the
glorious star-spangled banner. He
rescued the city from the disgrace Of a
surrender to the mob and yet left no
credit to the kings on account Of whose
battles the mob had gathered. He
made the American spirit Of liberty to
all men Of every nation and Of every
cline triumphant at the very moment
when a great city was bowing in shame
and burning with integration because
she feared herself powerless in the
emergency. That the events of the
last two or three days will have an i'm
portant political bearing no one can
doubt.
The Times sums up as the result OF
Yesterdays fighting, about twenty-five
killed and two hundred wounded. About
twenty rioters were killed and some
forty wounded at one charge made by
the Ninth Regiment. Two members
of the Ninth Regiment were killed and
three wounded, one of the killed being
a staff officer.
Colonel Fisk's Adventures.
The Herald says Col. James Fisk,
Jr is in his room at the Continental
Hotel. Long Branch. suffering consider
ably in the leg, foot and ankle from the
rough handling yesterday by the rioters.
He saws: "T received orders from the
Governor to stop all Orangemen from
crossing the ferry from Jersey City. !
came back to the Opera House and
heard that the fighting had commenced !;
made my way to the regiment and gave
orders to charge. / was set upon oy
the mob with stones and brick-bats. and
pitched into the gutter for dead. l
crawled into a house which was being
opened for a temporary hospital, where
| disguised myself and escaped.
The scenes Of the Fight-The Opera
House In Mourning.
New YORK, July l3.-The vicinity OF
the fight, Eighth avenue, has been Wis
tied by thousands Of people to-day eager
~ ace the results of the affray. The
numbers are constantly increasing but
everything is very quiet: The nag OF OF
the Grand Opera House is at half-mast
out of respect to its former Treasurer
Harry c. Paige, Sergeant of the Ninth