Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-22
NEW YORK.
Military Report on the Late
Riot.
McCIeIlan'sDock improvements
.anothsr RadicaI Enbezzler.

.Another Radical EnbezZler.
New YORK, July 21.-John S. How
| ard, postoffiee clerk at station Ii, was
held in $4,000 before Commissioner
Shields to-day on the charge of opening
and embezzling letters containing large
amounts of treasury bonds and national
currency.
Reecher and the BOyne,
Henry Ward Beecher says In the Chris
tian Union of this week that the Orange
societies should parade next week with q
banner less or one inscription rubbed out.
They should not do it on an implied
promise that if protected for once they
will then do it no more. They ought to
move through the streets Of New York
until nobody thinks of molesiing them.
When that time arrives it will be q mat
ter of no public importance whether the
annual procession is kept up or not; but
SIS long as dog wsgs his tongue against
an Orange procession, or q beTildered
magistrate forgeIs his duty toward them,
the public good requires their continu-
snce. IL the Orangemen of New York
streets of this city, they viii betray a
sacred duty. By accident they have be-
come Representatives of a principle which
lies at the foundation of modern ciyilizs-
ton. They do not nov represent spent
fact In history, but living principle. 1t
ia not the battle of Boyae in Ireland, but
a question of liberty IN New York.
Charles a. Ksllenback, another victim
of the not, died last night.
Recruiting for Nsxt Year.
Some Orange lodges nearly doubled
membership since the riot. The same
may be said of the Hibernian societies,
ali Of which are growing rapidly in con-
sequence of the recent excitement.
A Policeman Disgrsced,
Patrolman Patrick Logan, of the Goth
precinct, was tried TO dsy before Presi
dent Smith and Commissioners Barr and
Manierre, for improper conduct and IN
subo dination on the day of the riot.
Sergeant Carpenter testified that p. Lo-
gan refused to attack the rioters, saying
he WAS an Irishman and a Roman Catho-
lie. and felt thst his conscience would
not allow him to attack fellow country
mar. In defense, LcsH.os denied that
there was either crowd"6f riot, and
brought half a dozen witnesses, and the
case was referred to the board, when he
got up and made rambling incoherent
speech about being a>Catholc, and his
religion being asssiled The Commits
sicner thereupon dismissed him from the
forcs. and took bis shield and buttons
from him. Forty delegates of different
Roman Catholic Temperance Societies,
representing, it is said, fifty thousand
voters last evening, held q meeting in st.
Columbus Hall, on West 25ih street, t.
take action 10 influence the Commission
ers to retain Logan on the force.
Deserving the Ribbon Men.
Branch No. l of Father matthew So
ciety, the largest in this city, has voted
TO withdraw their delegation from the
HIbernia Hall Convention on account of
its action in the recent riot.
Official Report OF GEN. ShnIer Oh the
Riot.
Mel. Gen. Shaler, who commanded 81
the troops on the day of the riot July
y, has made al official report. He states
that the number on duty was 5, 1872, rank
and file. After detailing the positions OF
! the regiments during the day and repeat
! ing the circumstances of the riot, which
differ little from previous reports, the
General sums up by praising the militia
/ for the promptitude with which they
| turned ont and the numbers that appeared
! in the rank, in some regiments the in.
| crease being fifty per cent. more than is
usual or parade. He continues
Their conduct during the twenty~fOur
! successive hours Of service was in the
/ highest degree COmmepdable. A very
small portion of the pubic press and 8
F! few persons with biased snd prejudiced
mines underworld TO create an impression
! that come regiments acted hastily in firms
On Z gbth avenue, but by careful pc
russl Of the official reports Of all The
| principal commanding officers engaged
! aud Of citizens residing in She neignbor.
/ hood as To the circumstances attending
the melee, have failed to discovel
sufficient cause for the statements
made. The testimony is abundant II
show that long before the troops retalia
ted, firearms were discharged, and missile;
of al kinds were thrown at them from
The sidewalks, windows and housetops,
aud it was not until an officer of the S7ti
had been struck down by missile throw
from a housetop, one of the men ha'
been shot in the head, ant
another hsd received fiesl
wound, two men of the 9th had beer
killed outright, and q number wounded
and three of the 9th wounded, that tn
fire was opened on the mob. 1t is tn
opinion of the most experienced officer
of the police force and the military pres
emf, that The troops did not fire any to-
soon, but that in a very few minute
more it would have been difficult, if No
impossible, to overpower the mob; an
that the lives lost at Eighth avenue an
Twenty fist street saved the sacrifice of
much greater number at some othe
point
The extremely delicate service of Gen
Varian in commanding the escort to tn
procession was performed in q highl