The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1871, Page 3

EXCELSIOR! Law | Triuimphs--Or- der Reigns, The Star-Spangled Banner in Triumph | Shall Wave O’er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Ruffianly Riot and Remorse- less Rebuke, The Orange Parade and the | Results, Bloody Boyne on the Banks of | the Hudson. TERRIFIC EXCITEMENT ALL OVER TOWN. Hibernian Gatherings from i Ali Quarters. nae \ Men of the Quarry, the Sewer, the Road and the River Murry to the Fray. Murderous Mutterings and Mad Melees. HOFFMAN AT HEADQUARTERS The Right Governor Right Place. in the| ny ey Dhar SIXTY ORANGE BRAV. oxtraordinary Scene at Gideon Lodge. ‘KING BILLY'S BOYS ASSEMBLING. PIOUS PRAYING BEFORE PARADING. The Start, the Seong and the Stampedes. FIGHTING ALONG THE LIN The First Fierce Assault in Eighth Avenue. ‘Villanous Volley of Bricks and Bullets. Heroic Conduct of the Police and Military. THEY FIRE ON THE MASS. SEVENTY-SEVEN KILLED AND WOUNDED. One Chikl’s Head Blown to Pieces. An Old Man Shot Tiouse Top. on a Two Men of the Ninth Dead and Three Fatally Injured. Six Policemen Put Hors de Combat. THE PROCESSION STILL PROCEEDS Scenes at Union Square and Cooper Institute. THE DISBANDMENT,. A RAGING DAY AND QUIET NIGHT, The Event in Jersey and Brooklyn, Peace in the City of Churches, but War in Jersey. Attack on the Orangemen at Hamilton Park Resisted by Randoipts’s Soldiers, Plenty of Shots, but Nobody Killed. THE MORALE. LAW AND ORDER MUST PREVAIL. People who have been reading about the riots in the city of Paris and who have expressed some curt- nity to know how @ nob organizes, how it maxes its @encent upon civil people and how it is driven back the military, had a dangerous opportunity yester- iy to observe the same phenomena in New York olty. THE MOTIVE OF THE RIOT. ‘The riot against tne Orange procession was one OF thgwe Movements Auy jayeY Whick uppory conld, NEW .YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, ———— have anticipated. It wns in itself a little and an old question; but the avidity with which it was seized upon by contending factions of the same nation and precipitated into a general melde, whereby several innocent persons lest their lives aud the metropolis was thrown into consternation, shows that underneath this subject was a deep and traditional dispute of which we Americans are as ignorant as if some partisans of the Jacobins and Bourbons among our French population had determined to have a riot in our city, ‘The daily newspapers ou Monday and Toesday mornings raised this subject into prominency again by their generally unanimous disapproval of the action of the head of the police in forbidding the Orange procesgion. Tens of thousands of people who were without sympathy for the Orangemen, and Who looked upon their intention to parade as mis chievous and unwarranted, began to feel that if it had come to such @ pass that one set of our citizens couid intimidate anoiner set ia the matter of public display, there was an end to tolerant government, and the city of New York must tall into disgrace among the omer cies of the country, It was the American impulse, therefore, to insist that the Or- augemen should parnde—pot so much because they had avy reason to do so, a8 because they had been threatened, This agitation culminated in Governor Hotfman making # decisive aud rapid descent from Albany to New York on ‘tuesday night and calling a great council of authorities to his room at the Clarendon Uotel, GOVERNOR HOFFMAN IN COUNCIL, At this council were present, first, Governor John T. Hofman: a lithe, slender, handsome man, not yet up to the saldale age in appearance, with cour- leous Manners, & 801) and pleasing address, which ut instants like the present resoives to keen de- cision, and who appeared on this occasion to be thoroughly in earnest, resolving that New York should be kopt up tothe nigh standard of mutual tolerance and privilege which it lad set the other davon a RELSO. erfutendent of Police Kelso: a fat, florid, Next Sap robust mau, Wwilb @ large mustache and strong pbysiognomy, short, close-cut hair and all those other indications by which we recognize a man of adonnistration and tact, and, in crises, feroviys Kelso was a Tenth ward boy, native fo our city, his orlginal fmpulse was to mect rioters of any kind whatever, and in whatever number, with the strong arm of lis constabulary. = In this he was thoroughly supported by all his mep, and ihe municipal police were as earnest in their desire for the combat yesterday as the best dis- posed rioters, ‘ m'QUADE. ‘The next character in the Clarendon House council was General McQuade, son of an Irishman, with decided Milestan features and @ jolly fat face, short hatr, dark, bristling mastache, square head, hair trimmed close, aiter the manner of a pugilist, and small, searching eyes, which appear to dance half Way between a Jaugh and @ question. He is the Inspector General of the State of New York, and to him were put the chief questions concerning tue dustvibution, coudition and management of the city initia, He looks like a colossal General Sheridan, VAN BUREN. Finally Colonet Van Buren assists at this council— a member of Governor Hotfman’s staff and a sort of an exqui ite §m appearance, though with dangerous reseubiaiices to an old military veteran. He has a dark compicxton, a waxed mustache and steel gray hair, ‘Those people ata distance who attribute the gov ernment Of New York city and State to indifierent leadersuip might have changed their opinions by looking in upon this Atte select assemblage of mea gathered on the eve of such @ perit as @ dangerous class once aroused might make in a great city uke ours, There was no talk of evading the emergency. On the contrary, everybouy appeared to have that feeling gf reef which follows a declarea intention upon which there can be no further debate, Tney meant to maintain the law. ACTION. About midnight the Governor’s vigorous pro- clamation was prepared and sent out of the haads of the printers, I¢ was served to all the newspapers at au carly moment of the morning, and given out by Me quick mouth of the telegrapn to all pouce ‘Aidex-de-camp aud mounted mes- scngers were riiing all mght to put troops.on guard aud summon their officers to an early meeting at their respective armories in the morning; and thus, while the great mass of our inhabitants were tranquilly asleep—some sleeping for the last time in this worli—preparations fora vigorous campaign were beimg made in the heart of the city, and that militia system which we sometimes regard as merely orna- m and juvenite Was about to be pu. on tnal as a terrible repressor of the ignorant, the vicious and the factious. THE RIOTERS BY NIGHT. But not only were all the instrumentalittes of the mnunicipal and State government at work during the night. lights moving 1 the police stations, tele- graph instruments ticking through the nours of darkness and the large and burly boties of men strewn on the floors of the armories and stations, but mutiny was also afoot, Improving its congemial hours of darkuess for its own dark purposes on the coming day. In a dense quarter of tae city of New York, only @ little Way m the rear of the Metropolitan Hotel, there is ap insignificant tumble-down wooden struc- ture of two stories, painted green, callea Hibernia Hail, It stands opposite St. Patrick’s Cathedral, on the south side of Priuce street, nalf way petween Mulberry and Mott streets. Under it is a gin mill, which did a thriving business on Tuesday might, and overhead 1s & ricketty assembly room, where charity balis and various sorts of Celtic gatherings are held. Tens of thousands of our Irish citizens have no knowledge of tuls place. It is the resort of the fussy, the noisy and oratoricai—those who get up movements on the Tower of London by way of Blackrock and contrive proper modes to expend the sinews of war as they come in from the servant girls. SCENES IN HIBERNIA HALL, If one unacquainted with the locality had strolled into Hibernia Hall on Tuesday night he would have supposed some great State matter was under de- bate. Nobody talked as if there could be any pos- sible doubt that he was entirely right, more than justified, in fact, obliged, ouvof the very nature of lus bemg and im accordance with the purpose of his creation, to put dowa the lormidable gathering of the Orangemen of New York. A little “gin”? oppor- tunity added to so much fervor, kept the eloquence and deliberation up GU about morning, and ab that lime nothing in the world could Bave suppressed a fight. Jhat it did not occur immediately and mo- iually was more a@ matter of wonder than that it could possibly be postponed till the noon impending. Looking at this matter on the charitable side, tt was almost pitiful to see poor devils, with tears im their eyes, devote themselves to the business of putting down an old) muuny in the Irish nation at the price of the disfavor of their clergy, of the peace of thelr city, uot to speak of the ibjury to their political party, and, finally, at the cost of their own incarce- ration, maltreatment, and perhaps violent death. A litle singing of revered songs; a little mixed re- vivalor Irish history, vob quite documentary, but quite as earnest as homely; an occasional move- ment of a jig or hornpipe in a remote corner, and little spasmodie bursts Of oratory, which had at least the fervor of Wolfe Tone or General Meagher— these idiosyncracies, combined with occasional ex- hibitions of smail arms, horse pistols and extempore billies, made Hibernia Hall quite as vivid a spot as any which Mr, Charles Lever has ever depicted in the “Knight of Gwynne” or “Tom Burke.” We will notdwell Jonger om the celebrated headquar- ters, except to say thatitmigbt be much more aged and favory if we were to take its innumera- ble smells into consideration, The first pop of one’s nose through Lhe green door conveys ihe notion that be ia at a mass Meeting Of ali the smelia in Prince street between tne North and fast Rivers, ‘The old hall will uwever again, we fancy, contain so many mingied odors 4s tt did on Tuesday nigh, OTHER RIOTERS’ RENDEZVOUSES, At Constitution Hall, at Twenty-second street and Third avenue, there Was @ similar gathering on Tuesday night, attended with oratory, threats and curses and gin, of course, and on Broome street there was still another gathering. Besides these the back chamber of many & wine and liquor store com tamed a little caucus on Tuesday night, where the dategtiog yf a riot Waa heated white hot by advice narration and incitement; and so when New York got on its legs on Wednesday morning there were three or four elements of our population of the sort tobe counted upon in every riot—first, the great bulk of the timia, who ery out to Ribbonmen and Orangemen, “A curse on both your houses;” then there were the ardent mutineers, who had made it @ matter of conscience to waylay every man with the yellow colors and make an example of him, so that this business of cele- brating the Battle of the Boyne and the lying down of the “‘Croppies’’ should be at rest for ever. Again, there was an indignant pubiic backing up every militiaman as he went tohis armory, saying:— “John, look well to your cartridges, and don’t miss the command to fire, and don't fire away your shot on nuthing.”” ‘When the daily papers were taken up by the guests at the hotels, by the shopkeepers letting down their fronts, and by clerks and laborers going to their business, and the proclamation of Governor Hotfman was read and passed to their reflection, 16 | Was plain that there was a deep feeling, embracing fully nine-tenths of ali the inhabitants of the city, that the Orange procession should go on, not so much becenge it was needful as because it had been | nindered, and its protection was mow the common ; business and reputation of the whole inhabitancy, FENIANS NO RIOTERS. A notable feature of the antl-Orange and pro-riot- ous class was the absence of all the better Fentan leaders (rom it, On Sunday night, it will be remem- bered, O'Donovan Rossa—who is, by birth, talent amd suffering as weil qualitied to be a representative Fenian as any living Irishman— made a speech, urging temperance and conciliauon and thorough obedience to the law, religious toler- ation and the elevation of the Irish character among their American fellow citizens, He was loudly hooted and hissed, and cries were made to throw him out, stop his jaw, &¢., so that O'Donovan had VO Re Ble Me, sreaaes oo Uibesctas A MAN TO BE INDICTED. It is the general opimion of the folks who have been 1g a ole pilaix that the ARB. Snavor AD ane Minas akg Theis iis riot has been one Edward L. Carey. This mam o¢- cuples the position of Port Warden, which is sald fo give him considerable emoluments, and he has @ certain imfluence of the baser sort over the worst and most ignorant of our Trish people. He made an indammatory speech, accessoryjto fuls riot, ad laté“as Tuesday night, while the authorities were gathering together to take measures to Keep the peace and save the reputation of the city. Carey was formerly a tailor, who grew into a pohtician, and he made his most notable pub- lic experience as a sort of Father Mathew tempe- vance lecturer. He is a tail, powerful map, with @ thin face, scraggy mustache and goatee, heavy eyebrows and high cheek bones. His face is sallow and forbidding. He bears the name of being @ professional mischief-maker, There were few men who went so far stirring up this riot as this person, and he stuck to it with avidity upto his last opportunity. Some iurther notice of tis man may be necessary to fix the exact amount of his responsibility in the death of the men and women— many of them innocent—who suffered for his dema goguery, THE NEWS GOING TO THE COUNTRY. On Wednesday moraing a8 the daily newspapers passed out on the early trains to the great suburbs of New York, in New Jersey, on Long Island, in Con- necticut—even as far as Philadelphia—where the issues arrived beiore eleven o’elock, the elaborate accounts of the threatened riot, of the changed atutade of the State authorities and the almost unanimous opinion of the press ‘that under no circumstance the right of procession, of peaceable parade and of thoroughfare must be infringed, at once the news became the topic of the day, and pro- bably ag many as three millions of people were in- tent to know all the circumstances at the moment of transpiration. Never since the momentous days of Scores, and none of them paid any attention what- ever to the outcries on the right or the left, but SNe ea of violence and even murder. AU of them, it is needless to say, were of that nationality whose geographical and religious division had} walked straight on, keeping tme to the rendered all this display of military ne- | music, There were several boys and some children cessary, ‘They wero attired in greasy and | among these peopic, wearing the yellow sashes and rosettes of their order, aud most of them grasped hands as they passed along under the shadow of the blue banner, the Amertcan fag, and the trans+ parency, which we have already mentioned, labelled | with the crisp invitation, “Ame tuan freemen, fail | ” oftgn ragged clothes, slouchy as to hats, dirty as to boots, often frecklod and unhealthy in complexton, and their coarse jaws, cheekbones and brows; lowering, brutal and uneasy mode of observation; strong dental dislects and mode of swearing and gesturing, indicated natures utterly un- | in enittred, ur cultured only in the forms of vice; bred in che densest purlieus of cities, social cast- | Voticeable in this group was an old man, totter- ing along quite feebly, whose left hand held the | wrist of a child not more than twelve years of age, and this child in turn supported on the other sid second old man, whose left hand laid hold of as ond youth, They looked very much like a pr sion of Sunday achoot children, parents and teach + ers, golug to some picnic of a summer day. THE FIRST STONE. While the writer of this article was looking tn- tently atthe procession, forgetful for tae moment that it had any enemies or stood in any danger, he | saw & woman rush out from the sidewalk and seize the equipments of one of tie Orangemen, and seek to pull them from his shoulders. She was crowded | aside without hesitation by a suldier literposing the butt of his musket and warning her of. This | hag uttered frequent cries of rage, spat upon the | Man and those nearest to him, and lifted up her aris and waved them toward the peopie on the sidewatk as if reproaching them for their backwardness. Almost at the same iustant a half-grown boy, of a slouchy, pockmarked and wretched guise, almost idiotic in expression, had it not beon for his ; supremely vicious look, which made him even more H aways from the cradie up, and used only to the de- lights Of ramianisn and cruelty. A few looked | Positively Mivulc, as if born to browse rather than | to walk” upzight, and so far from possessing re- higious zeal in the matter in hand they seemed to Mave come to the congenial delight of a riot regara- Jess of the issues to be settled in it, ‘There were several, however, who, by the fact of their access to the roofs of houses near at haud, must have been familiar with the neighborhood, if they did not ubsolutely live in It, A few were tolerably | dressed, and these, by thelr remarks, appeared to indulge ‘he belief thatthe Orange parade was not merely the aversion’ of their particular school and creed, but that it was in some manner a public In- sult which every man was bound to resent. Spewed | out ofthe lanes and garrets of adense city tiese | men had al the belligerency with none of the ideal- | ism of the Paris Commuuists. THE ORANGEMEN RMERGH UYON THE STREET. A little before three o’clock, and while the sound of speumunng and fifing filled all the air, and the multitude, out of its timidity, had voluntarily made vacant nearly a whole square on the avenue im advance of the troops, there was a sound repulsive, produced from under his ragged cout a large paving stone as big as 4g doubie dst, and with of ® new tune upon another band of music} a single propulsion of his arm above his heard approaching, and suddenly round the | shoulder threw it with force toward the corner of Twenty-ninth strect, coming from the | Orangemen, It passed just over the shoul- North River side, was seen a standard of American colors aud @ large blue regalia banner, held well alott so that tb could be seen perhaps for a mile down the city. Behind this blue banner a smal ohitha Wauparepcy QE white muslin wag .gxpore | on which could be ¥ead at a distance of two blocks, in plain black letters, the words, “AMERICAN FREEMEN, FALL IN !"? Nothing else was apparent above the serried line of bayonets and unilorms, not even the heads of the Jew bold paraders who had made it a matter of private organization to stand the hazard of a pro- cession al any event, inasmuch as the law had given them permission, ° ‘ ‘howe ar THE FLAG. No sooner had this blue banner been seen by the grougs npon the corners of Twenty-sixth, Twenty- | { | der of @ policeman, and fell between the pla toons of the Protestants. Nobody appeared to give it any ationuon., The boy slunk pack into a door- | way on Twenty-sixth street, in the rear of a lager \ beer estabjishment gad pouty geappearing ob- + Taihed another stoud from the street. * THE MOB MAKE THE ATTACK, The writer did not notice, so much was he ab- sorbed in the actions of this boy, that meantime mussties, of all descriptions were being flung from windows, housetops and from groups of people upon both military and Orangemen. The troups stood perfectly firm, kept their ranks and looked neither to the right nor to the left, THR FIGHT. Encouraged by this disregard numbers or the Tuitians scattered about thein and began to obtain all sorts of garbage and missiles, which they threw directly into the rauks. Pistol shots were now heard to crack up and down the street, and one man was seen on a housetop with a loaded musket, which ne discharged directly into the lines, aud stooped be- lund a chimney to reload it, THE TROOPS RELORT. Suddenly the foremost regiment came to a hatt, and word was passed in quick succession to those filth, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-third streets when a loud, wild tow! went up from every group, which was re-echoed and returned again from the neigh- , boring windows and housetops. Out of this dia- neiical hoot were heard fragments of sentences such as— ‘Phere they come, the bloody traitors!” “Now we will give them hell, the infernal English- men”? “Look at the cowards sueqaking In among the | tuitnest im the rear io siand upon their arms soldiers!” likewise, The heat of the — procession “Tebthem come on; we will warm them!"? had now passed ibe Grand Opera House and turned a iittle away into Twenty-third street, Waere it met a very difierent sort of reception, ladies and men, from the handsome dwellings on either side, waving their haudkerciiefs and cheer- ing the beleaguered belugs who bad just passed through the Valley and tne Shadow in quitting Highth avenue for & more respectabie higuway. At the instant of the halt vollyes of stones and the scattering sound of pistols redoubled. Nearly everybody of common pradence had already sougnt safety by retiring. The tall horseman at the head of the Orange procession turned about and rode the whole length of his lime, taking off his hat and AN INCITER. One man, tolerably well dressed in broadcloth, who bad icit the curhstone and strolled ont nearly to thé middle of the street, catching a glimpse of the blue banuer, cried out to ali around him:— “Look at them now! ain’ it @ shame? Now, ain’tita shame? Atn’t it an outrage, boys? On, gorra | to think that we should have to see it |’? Af one could have looked at that instant from face to face down the thin and motley array of corner loungers aud loafers who were present he would nave seen an intenser form of hate than we di in the habit, among our American the war has the whole East been so much excited as yesterday. TRE ROUGHS QUIT WORK. The public haa not long to wait. Both parties being fully ready, movements were begun soon after daylight, and the first incidents occurred on the northern part of the island, where neurly nine hundred Jaborers, chiefly Irish, were engaged upon the new Boulevards, These gangs of mén were distant from four to five niles from the business part of New York, and many of them were hardly aware of what had taken place during the night. ‘The mutineers, In bodies of from twenty to one hun- dred, approached these gangs, and by persuasion and threatening means obliged tnem to quit work, while a large portion of the easy-1uinded and those ready for @ lark fell in with their inciters, Similar movements probably took place furtier down in the city, particularly in second avenue on Ninth aveuue and upon avenues A, B and ©, which he im the dense siaughter house and tenement quarters near Houston street ferry. Here, around the liquor stores, small groups of men were keeping a lookout upon the street, while within the enterprising pro- prietor was dispensing beverages, and parcels of j cuswmers were tookipg at the priming of their blunderbusses and making abstruse chemical re- marks upon the composition of their cartridges, THB WOLVES WANT ARMS. Finally detached gangs of drunken or surly fel- lows--many of wnom had received some experience in the draft mots of 1863 and enjoyed tbe rare delight of kicking Colonel O'Brien Lo death—moved insoienuy upon the Police Headquarters, aad began to hoot the Governor, General Shaler and the troops. After listenmg to them for some time the police and military finally chased them down Hous- ton street to the Bowery and bagged nearly the lock and made @ prudent movement of several paces to the cross streets, and secreted themselves in door- ways and behind trunks of trees. Many Women and children were desiguated upon the housetops, peering down upon the forming pro- eéssivn with mingled curiosity and dislavor, aud ever? Now god then, at some fight of missiles or demonstration of the large body of pottce who formed the van of the gathering, portions of te crowd started and ran as if tor dear life, TAKING UP STONES. In this interval, before the marching began, two or three men and hoys were see to stip into the street and take up rounded paving stones, pieces of brick, Old shoes and parts of vegetables, thrown out mm (he retuse piles from tne ends of alleys. Some of these villains Wao coolly made this preparation ap- peared to be boys not above fifteen years of age; but the preponderating number were men, nearly of (he middie age, with an occasional demonstrative woman, who excelled her neignvors in gesticala- tion and outcry. THE PROCESSION MOVES. After several of these sallies and counter sallies by the police and the crowd the versatile and inter- mixed notes of the music ceased for an instant; a single cannon was discharged: and then, with one long, shrill tune, played by the Orangemen’s own band, \the whole procession—imilitary, police and all— started at a good marching galt down Eighth ave- nue. Cries were now made of, ‘Weil, boys, they coming at last ! Now, wait for them! Look at the vloody scoundrels! Whoo! whoo |” First came a broad body of police, wedged closely together, 80 that the arms of many of the men im- pinged upon the sides of many of those next to Wem. These were flanked on the sidewalk by bickerings, of ever nourishing. The few people | quietly wiping lus brows meantime. fe was whowmarked the lookg of those hyenas and the in- | the subject of admiration for all who tentions expressed in them took time by the fore | Were not envenomed, and these looked upoa him with deeper hate than ever. He was struck with violence in the shoulder by an old shoe, but, paymg no attention to this matter, he wheeled his horse and resumed bis place at the head of bis line, Suddenly @ word of command, uninteiligibie to ail but the troops, started from near Twenty-third strevé, and was repeated fram officer 1 officer unt it expired nearly up Twenty-seventh street. In ei imstant the troops deployed; flank companies filed out to the left and the right; in the twinkling of an eye three platoons of men emptied their breech. Joading muskets in the direction of the peopie on the housetops, then, dropping their muskets, fired a second volley straight into the face of the crowd. a soldier of the Eighty-fourth regiment picked out the man with the musket on the top of the house and dropped him in his tracks. The other platoons of military, Who had not been ordered to tre, remained perfectly still, stauding quietly to éheir arma while their comrades inaugurated the business of the de- fence, In a moment the scene of the parade was changed to a fearful battlefield. The multitude, ringleaders and all, took io their heels, white with fear, and rushed up the cross streets, leaping into cellars and unfinished houses, crowding behind doorsteps or falling Mat on thetr faces in the gutters. ‘The street and pavement were littered here and there with dead bocdtes of men and women, some of whom had fallen with outstretched hands ia the sti? per- formance ot Immediate death, while others, uttering low moans, clenched at the warm stones, and gazed in helpless agony for relief. Blood trickied every- where, A man Was seen !eaning from a second story window tn the act of vomiting blood. Purple streams flowed from his nose and forenead and ran in whole number, ‘The rioters then crowded around tne Feman head- quarters on Avenue A and the armory of the 69th Regiment, at the corner of Essex and Grand streets, and threatened to sack both buildings unless pro- vided with arms mumediately. ‘The officers also pounced upon these noisy villains, and arrested a great number. ‘The lowest and most mendactous crowd was at Hibernia Hall, however, and atter a good deal of chafing and cursing several of these, armed with knives and pistols, marched upon a neighboring Fenian ball and demanded arms, Unable to obtain these they executed some St. Alban’s tactics In the #treet—undertook to march to the Orange reudez- vous In order, but were charged by the police and they ran like apack of cravens, These amd similar movements occupied the whole torenoon, The great action, however, was tu be fought on the west side of the city, near the Iris Protestant Hail, where the few Orangemen of fortitade were pre- paring to face the storm of bigotry and wrath, THE SCENE BEFORE THE BATTLE. How shail we describe the character of the men and boys who huddied on the corners of Fignth ave- nue from from ‘Thirty-first to Twenty-third ¢ Everyboay knows that our upcown cross-blocks are very near together, so that there are ten of them within haifa mile, The whole theatre of the scene and staughter now about to occur was therefore a iittle above # quarter of a mile tu Jengih, ana could ip every part and feature be seen by the naked eye of a singte observer posted upon tie pavement, while Wo any- body situated on an elevated station ~as a cart, an upper window or a housetop—the theatre of events would le below him, minute and plam m every atu bute. The houses are generally brick, of four stories, with fat roof, aud Uapfirst story is almost invariabiy. @ retail shop or saloon or restaurant. The corners are generally liquor stores or lager beer saloons. The street bas a dingy, orickv loak, and conspicu- ous by height and whiteness is the great Opera House and Erie headquarters, at the corner of Twenty-third street. This tine edifice towered above the whole vista, and nobody was visible in it except some half dozen railway employes and clerks in the second story. ‘The avenne was remarkably clear of ladies and even of men, Up and down the crossing streets some hundreds of spectators were mounted on the stoops of dwellings unwilling to venture as far as the direct route of the parade, but at the corners of the crossing streets, huddled together in sinister and muttering groups were the creatures who were to turn this pleasant scene of show and music into &N occasion of terror and of blood, THR RIOTERS MAKING READY. They were generally haif-grown men and boys of the basest clase, tenants of dense and distant quar: 80%, wuo bye emo fo Ing spot wth tug intenKOnE police skirmishers on foot, each man carrying his locust billy m his hand, slung to nis wrist by a cord, They pressed the crowd well back irom the curbs, but did uot molest thuse who stood in the doorways. No sooner had the line of police passed when tue rabole at the corners moved up teem tneyr refuges and took post at the angles of the streets again, ORDER OF PROCESSION. After the police came platoons of infantry, their bayonets at the “carry arms;’ then followed the Sevenih regiment, in govd shape, wearing a loose arill to tne curbstone. Cowardice and curiosity had met thelr penalty in a moment of provocation, and those smooth-faced boys scattered death left and right in the quiet ¢onscionsness of a duty demanded, ‘Then, after a little pause, the music struck up again from the different bands, and the whole procession, leaving tis dead still on the street, marched im the direction of Madison square. A few of the ravble had slipped away before the firing of this volley, resolving to head oif the pro cession at Seventh avenue and Twenty-third street and give it similar treatment, But a portion of gray uniiorm, with black belts and full cartridge | the Seventh and Tweoty-third regiments, with boxes at their sides; then came a second body of | monnted police, got around ahead of them, police, also sweeping the street and forming the | divining their imtention, and betore the van of the Orange procession. ‘The Orangemen | military could nse their muskets me were flanked on one side by the Ninth regiment and on the other by the ‘Twenty-second, the troops greauy ontnumbering the small body of men whom they encompissed. Then followed in strong order the Eighty-lourth regimeut; then the Sixth; then came a large and solid vody of police, troops, &c., closing the parade. LOOKS OF THE TROOPS. Among the troops were severuil notable officers, Known to our ciuzens in business and soctal life, and known to the country as well durmg tre period of war by thelr services in many bioody campaigns, ‘There was Colonei Clark, a tall, blonde genticman, with long mustache and goatee, wearing the gray jacket and gray panis of his regiment—the Sev- enth—whose reputation 18 us wide as the country, And it was remarked that, although the Seventh appeared in small numbers and without thetr usual attention to dress, they never iooked beter than ou this occasion. ‘There was Colonel Fred Conkling with the Eighty- fourth, his silvery gray hair and mustache giving character to the generally youthinl appearauce of his mien; and it was the common talk that these troops were nearly all immature, smooti-faced and modest looking lads, But they carried their arms well, had @ still look of decision, and when the time came their vengeance was peremptory aud terrible upon their assailants, THE BELEAGUERED ORANGEMEN. But, observed by all observers, the point of aitracs von for all the muititude were the Orangemen themselves, ‘They did not appear to number more than seventy or eighty, and, at the rate in whien the processton set out, they were not more than a minute or two Passing any given point. At their head rode a fine specimen of the Northern Irishman—a raw-boned, erect, martial-lookiog man, weil <ressed, with Proud but quiet bearing; ana he it was who received the vilest execratious of the rabbie on the side- walks. All the other Orangemen were afoct and most of police tumbled tn and cinbbed the villaivs on their heads and faces. The inserabie multitude were too late—but this was a sort of military who had not recently been seen in the streets of the city—siipped of into by sireets and that a iong distance beiween them and the foray. When all were gone and the rmght of procession had been vindicated it was an awful scene for au American city, to see these Dieeding and shattered forms of men and women iitiering the pavements and stones of Eighth avenue and the cross streets, Priests now appeared upon the ground, seekimg to perform the last office for some past praying for, aad httie groups of relatives, children and brothers, with disordered hair and dress, and tears and im. precations blended, stovped over the vodies and added vo the hideousness of the resutt. Alter # little while carts and furniture wagons were iinpressed by the police, and one alter another the warm bat lireless bodies were Jaid in these ye~ hicles—the heads toward the tail of the cart—and they moved over toward Broadway aud passsd the line of hotels carrying melancholy and panic wuere- ever they appeared, The victorious procession kept straight on down Eighth avenue, cheered and applaaded from tne houses and feebly hootee from the streets, until at Fourteenth street, it marched to Union square, where 8 reception was extraordinary, Loud ac. clains came from ail hotel guests, who re- presented every part of the United States, while from Madison square and from safe distances (he mob still hurled occasional stones and bricks, and made fiendish outcries. The undaunted Vrangemen losing not @ man, and girt all round with @ wali of protection, still filed around the Worth mouument, and marched down to the Cooper Institute, where it was disbanded, Returning ayer tne scene of the battle, every shop was found to be closed, agd the few people who ventured out to see if it were possible to recognize the dead, or to give the wounded assistance, were talking of the inhumanity of certain druggists, who them were plainly dressed and some shabbily | would not so mach as give shelter to shot and dressed; laboring looking men; some gray and | rent applicants, and it was alleged that the first act feeble, who pppeared to baye passed their throgy of Yiolgnce had been commited at Big pty avenge 5 and Twenty-cignin street, where certain ruMans ate tempted to beat an Orangeman to death but were clubbed by the police, into whose faces one of then, fired a pistol deliberately. THE POPULAR VERDICT. As the news of the bloody battle on Eighth avenue spread through the city, carried rapidly from mouth to mouth, it made more than excitement. Men talked to one another in short sentences, with wmte lips, and bad there been me great ana powerful agitator to take advan- tage of their aroused feellngs it might have been possible to have made a general levee of armed citizens who should wreak havoc upon the lower orders In their own suburbs, All appeared, how- ever, to have rellance upon the militia, and, with some few exceptions, there was general approval of thelr promptness, even though some innocent, Persons paid the penalty of the guilty. A number of mich who narrowly escaped death before the Muskets of the troops, after obtaining safe harbors in Broadway also acknowledged that they had no business tobe among the rioters and that the troops had received suficient provocation, An alinost funeral distress, gloom and humiliation covered the town. A jew parcuts sallied forth to } the scene of encounter, apprehensive that thetr childrea or relatrves were among the slain; but otherwise all the Jower part of the city was quiet as death except in the region of the newspaper of- fices, where coptous bulleting gave momentary tnfor- mation from up town, All the stores were closed; business was suse pended everywuere, even in the saloons and bar rooms, and when night came upon the city houses holders bolted and locked their doors and the peopis in the hotels kept weil within their precincts, while the street cars and omnibuses ran empty except oy Palle military. All were apprehensive that at nightfall the assae- sins would turn incendiaries and fire the city, par- Ucularly the heavquariers of the Orangemen, But General Shaler, ensconced at headquarters with Governor Hoffman, had made such minute and per- fect arrangements that up to eleven o'clock last night nothing was heard in the city bat the sound of drums and brass bands accompanying detachments of military for patrol duty. The matter has wwugit New York a grave lessong that hereafter there must be uo pariey nor question about the absolute tolerance of talk, of public meeting and of procession in our city, and no municipal or State, wilt be able to propound any terms on this, matter. Our besotted classes must learn that, whether we have a strong central government or not, we havea State government which will make itself felt, Everyone pays respect to the Governor of the State, to our police and to our admirable militia, to which we have been 80 often indebted for pleasure, and are now under the thrice greater obligation of protection, security, law and order, IN Morning. ‘The certainty with which coming disasters cast before them portentons shadows was never more plainly evident than in the streets of New York yesterday morning. The proclamation of Governor Hoffman, permitting the, parade of the Orange- THE CIty, men, went sweeping over the awakening city like a projectiic trom a mitrailieuse. Men dropped te merning journals with terror and amazement depicted on their faces and wondered what the day’s history would be, So shaken to the foundation was the ordinary routine of metropolitan ile that men gave upail thought of business ana RUSHBD TO THE POINTS where information was likely to be gleaned or where 4 glimpse of the preparations of the authorities could be had. The great centre of attraction In the early morning was the headquarters of the police. Long before nine o'clock every avenue leading to the building in Mulberry street was blocked by a solid mass of peopie. All une available police force of the city, numbere mg 1,100 men, were stationrd in the immediate vicinity of the Central Ufiice, and were completely hemmed in by the multitude of anxtous citizens. When tt became koown that the Governor and his staff, with all the priuctpal oficers of the city, were stationed here, is . TUR WILDEST KUMORS were set on foot, Crowas OF Inburers who haf started in the morning for their work, ignorant of the recent change in affairs, oroke up into squads and separated, going in different directions, The scouts of the workmen went dashe ing along the streets carrying the news of the parade and the preparations made to protect the Orangemen to their several places of meeting. Busi- hess houses that had been opened in the morning on Broadway and the other leading streets were closed, and every precaution was taken against the expected miscluef. About balf-past uige a battalion of police started from the Central OMfce in stages, coaches, cars and other vehicles, for the different points along Kighth avenue. As they drove through Bleecker street a stream of mem ran with them ou both sides of the street, two abreast, thrusting the other foot passengers aside and keeping up with the conveyances carrying tue police, This flood of driving people caused TERRIBLE EXCITEMENT in the Eighth aua Fifteenth wards. The alarm wae started that a bloody fight pad already begun, and the police, assisted by a double force of speciai con- stables, were hurrying to the piace of action, The roughs in the Eighth ward were @vroughly aroused at this uteiligence and flew in ail directions towards Washington square. ‘The surrounding Streets were one scene of reckless men pushing on the point of mterest. Door steps, windows and the roofs of houses wero alive with people. Boys ran up the gas lamps and crowded upon the awnag shades to get a& good look at the rapidly moving crowd, On the Sixth, Seventh, Bigotn and Nintp avenues (hese running men and police brought dis- may. Shops were instantly siut and careful Israel. ites carried their wares to sufe quariers within the houses. LARGE NUMBERS OF MEN who had come over from Jersey during the morning and had gathered in Caual street discussing the topic of the.day, started at the news of the uptown movement and weut in that direction, sume through the narrower streeis and many going in the direc- tion of West street, This excitement, however, considerably abated when if was found that the polite were ouly going out to take up the several positions assiened them, and the crowds dispersed in stnall squads, taking up quarters in th hiborhood of the police, as it was expectet aluscmcnt Would begin there, By tweive o'clock tie understanding had gained guod ground throughout the city that A RLOT WOULD BE CORTAIN ve, On Broauway ail the principal stores were closed, and & general holiday look had settied everywhere, When it bad oven established beyond doubt that the procession would turn out, gangs of men numvering from fifty to sixty went to all the pluces iu the city Where large humbers of laborers were at work and forced (uem to leave om On the Boulevards 889 men were driven of in this way. ‘They used ho argument—no persuasion, ‘They did not even stop to dyscuss the necessity ol the move- mient, but summarity ordered the men to stop ther work and start down rmto the cily. They were quietly obeyer Mr. Van Nort, of the Paotic Parks Department, got oficial notification of this step shorty after l. vecurred, but he was perfectly power- less lO resist the mfucnce Of ihe teaders, This genweman sald be feit ceriam the laborers were anxious to remain at work, but they were overawed by the overs who came. DETERMIN rO VROCURE STRENGTA trom this source, uid Would bot be balked of theit di, ‘The press gang (hen seut deputies lato the Park, Where tere are 1,49% Men employed, but ous ol the 098 Who were at work at the time only a few followed theiy advice. The riviers then turned their steps toward Bighth avenne, but only in smau numbers, so (hat they should pot attract attention, Where there are 452 meu at work. ey sent emissaries to Sixth and St. Nicholas avenues, on both of which there are 266 men. The greatest ccesé these fellows ov.ained was among smail ‘oups of Men Whom they met casually, and who were already liali prepared to yoin tiem. Tne failure with the laborers im the Centiui Park greatly exas- perated them, wud they went avout from group to group of friends CURSING AND CALLING DOWN VENGBANCB on the heads of the renegades, The greatest pree on ‘Was used; but, notwithstanding the orders given for quiet bearing until the hour for action, be ave outpourings of bottied-up wrathoccurred. Mn the Tenth aveune the groggeries had ge been doing & fhriviug business during the plex, and several of ine enthusiastic and bellicuse Hi nians, who bad been drinking death and damnation to all sous of the Orange sidney, during the small hours, were fully prepared for matching orders, when the dens cli for sheer want of am- Munition. Some oi the revellers Were unswer' murderous, others were moody and doggedly deter+ mined, and many again were nilartous, Syd,’ said one of (ue oukagd-oulerg jure to take pl