![]() ![]() ![]() Intimations had been received that a riot was probable, and Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal-General NUGENT was applied to for a force which would be sufficient to preserve the peace. They did not escape scatheless, however, as one of the enrolling officers was struck a savage blow with a stone, which will probably result fatally, and several others were injured.įrom the above it will be seen that the drawing by Provost-Marshal JENKINS did not commence punctually at 9 o'clock, as was intended. The drafting officers were set upon with stones and clubs, and, with the reporters for the Press and others, had to make a hasty exit through the rear. all of which they destroyed, except those contained in a large iron safe. Following these missiles, the mob rushed furiously into the office on the first floor, where the draft was going on, seizing the books, papers, records, lists, &c. The upper part of the building was occupied by families, who were terrified beyond measure at the smashing, of the windows, doors and furniture. Scarcely had two dozen names been called, when a crowd, numbering perhaps 500, suddenly made an irruption in front of the building, (corner of Third-avenue and Forty-sixth-street,) attacking it with clubs, stones, brickbats and other missiles. The number of men who thus started out in their career of violence and blood, did not probably at first exceed threescore. As the crowd augmented, their shouts and disorderly demonstrations became more formidable. Proof of this is found in the fact that as early as 9 o'clock, some laborers employed by two or three railroad companies, and in the iron foundries a the eastern side of the City, formed in procession in the Twenty-second Ward, and visited the different workshops in the upper wards, where large numbers were employed, and compelled them, by threats in some instances, to cease their work. We say abettors of the riot, for it is abundantly manifest that the whole affair was concocted on Sunday last by a few wire-pullers, who, after they saw the ball fairly in motion yesterday morning prudently kept in the back ground. The abettors of the riot knew this, and in it they saw their opportunity. The authorities had counted upon more or less resistance to this measure of the Government after the draft was completed, and the conscripts were repaired to take their place in the ranks, and at that time they would have been fully prepared to meet it but no one anticipated resistance at so early a stage in the execution of the law, and, consequently, both the City and National authorities were totally unprepared to meet it. Very few, then, were prepared for the riotous demonstrations which yesterday, from 10 in the morning until late at night, prevailed almost unchecked in our streets. ![]() The initiation of the draft on Saturday in the Ninth Congressional District was characterized by so much order and good feeling as to well-nigh dispel the forebodings of tumult and violence which many entertained in connection with the enforcement of the conscription in this City. A STATION-HOUSE AND THE RESIDENCE OF THE CITY POSTMASTER BURNED. APPREHENDED ATTACK ON THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS. MEETING OF EX-OFFICERS AT THE ARMORY OF THE SEVENTH REGIMENT. BURNING OF THE ORPHAN ASYLUM FOR COLORED CHILDREN. THE ATTACK ON THE ARMORY IN SECOND-AVENUE. Colored people Assaulted-An Unoffending Black Man Hung.The Tribune office Attacked-The Colored Orphan Asylum Ransacked and Burned-Other Outrages and Incidents.A DAY OF INFAMY AND DISGRACE. Resistance to the Draft-Rioting and Bloodshed.
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