The Portland daily press., 1871-07-22
NEW Y0KK.

NEW IOhAS
Broker Drowned.
NEW YORK, July 2L.-William H. Martin,
of the firm of j. o. Davis & Co., brokers in
| this city, fell overheard and was drowned OF
Wednesday. while fishing near Rockway
Beach. r..- ..
EThief Cans hs.
John s. Kerwan, post-ofice clerk at station
Shields to-day, on charge of opening and en-
bezzling letters containinglarge amount.
Fer Taxes. 4s*N wW
Comptroller Connaly will sell on the 10Th
of September, 1868 houses and lots in this city,
for unpaid assessments for street openings.
Peaches.
1t is estimated that $4,000 baskets of peaches
arrived in this city to-day. Prices have de-
clined considerably and are now ranging from
Out Of Danger.
Col. James Fisk, Jr.. returned to this city
to-day entirely recovered from the injuries re-
ceived during the riot.
Dock improvements.
The work of rebuilding the docks rnd piers,
according to the plans of Gen. Mcclellan, for
improving the river front of this city commenc-
ed yesterday between Castle Garden and pier
No. North River.
The chief feature of the plan is the construc-
ton of river wall of solid masonry, sufi-
GENTLY broad enough to give River street $50
feet width along North river and $50 feet wide
sTssts vide NORTH q sSss
New York Yacht Club.
At meeting of the New York Yacht Club
Com. Heard of the Eastern Yacht Club in
which that gentleman referred to the contem-
plated visit of the Club Fleet to Boston during
their annual cruise, and desired to advise with
them as to better course over which the pro-
posed ocean race of the two clubs of that har-
h0r naiOhh0rinU Watarq ahnuld no salad
The Secretary was directed to communicate
with the Eastern Club, giving as the senti-
ment OF the New York, that the entire matter
be lett in the hands of their brother yachtmen.
Disguised.
Branch No. one, OF Father Mathews society,
the largest in this city, has unanimously voted
| to withdraw their delegation from the Hiber-
MIA Hall Convention, on account of its action
in the recent riot
Report OF Gen. shaler ON the Riot.
Mayor Gen. Shaler, who commended all the
troops on the day of the riot in his official re-
port states that the number on duty was 8, 1872
rank and file, after detailing the position of the
regiments during the day and repeating the
| circumstances of the riot, which differs little
| from the previous reports, the Gen. sums upIby
| praising the militia for the prOmptitude with
| they turned out and the numbers that appear
| ed in the ranks. ~ I'D
| He continuess:-A very small portion of the
| public press and few persons with biased and
preiudiced minds have endeavored to create an
impression that some of the regiments acted has
tly in firing on the 9th Avenue, but by Gre
| full perusal of official reports of all the
| principal commanding officers engaged and of
| citizens residing in the neighborhood into the
circumstances attending the melee. have
failed to discover sufficient cause for the state
ments made. Testimony is abundant to show
| that long before troops retaiated, fire arms
were discharged and missels of all kinds thrown
at them from sidewalks, windows and house
tops, and it was not until an officer of the 84lh
had been struck down by misscile thrown
| from hOuse-top, one of the men shot in the
head, another received flesh wound, two Of
the men of the 9th had been killed outright and
a number wounded, and three of the 9Th
/ wounded, that fire was opened upon the
/ mob Tt is the opinion of the most experienced
officers of the public force and of the military
l.present that the troops did not fire any toe
soor but that in very few minutes more il
would have been difficult, if not possible to
overpower the mob and that the lives lost al
/ 9Th avenue and oath street saved the sacrifice
| of much greater number at some other point