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Day
22
Month
July
Year
1844
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We gather the following pariculars uf these bloody and disgraceful trahsactions from our exchange. It apoear that several days ago Wilüam H. Dunn, a brother of ;he Priest (of the Cathoüc Church, St. Phüip de Neri,) waited upon Governor Porter, to obtain 25 musketa from the State Arsenal. The General acquiesced, ond Mr. Dunn proceeded toPIarriaburg and waited uponhis Ex cellency in person- and af:er a short time obtained the desired order, ond rcturned to thia city. Thi& was kepí a eecret, nnd hcnce the surprise which it caused, when people Iearned that a military company hnd been regularly drafted for the express purposc of gunrding that Church although thoro was not the least disposition shown on the part of any hody to molest it in any shape or form whatever. The Philadelphia correspondent oí the N. Y. ourier and Enquirer also says: '♦The circumstances which led to this now ebulition are briefly these. On Friday lat two furniture cars were observed to drive up to the front of the Catholic Church, of St. Philip de Neri, onQueenst., near Second, in Southwark. From these cars boxea of muskets wore takPnand carricd into the Church, which being observed by niany persons, depositions were made before one oí the magistrales o" the district, and a large crowd gathered on Queen street impatienty and vehementfy demanding that the muskets be given up. The matter was finally settled by Mr. Wright B. Ai dis, one of the wounded Nati ve Americana in the former riots, taking wnh him twenty men from the crowd and searching the Church. This was done and 12 muskets brought out and taken to the Commissioner's Hal!, eacorted by the mob." From the Philadelphia Chronicle, Extra.MORE or THE RlOTS IN SoUTHWAKK.- The riots in Southwark, in the neighborhood of St. Phillipe de Neri Catholic Church, Queen street, above Second,which co.ümenced on Fnday night, but was quieted by the Sheriff after considerable exertions, were renewed on Saiurday and Saturday night and Snnday. The Sheriff, with the Pólice of the District of Soutfrwerk, after removing the fire-arme from the church, Friday night, continued on dutyuntil 5o'clock, Saturday nurning, when the church was placed in charge of a body of pólice. During the whole of Saturday, knots and crowds of persons were in the neihborhood- 8ome pcaceable others using threatening Ianguage - on account of the muskets having been found in the church. The military were on duty about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, under commnnd of Major General Patterson, Brigadier General Cadwalladar, and Col. Pleasanton of the Artillery. The SherifT'8 civil forcé were on the ground early in the evening, dispewing crowds, and qnieting ihe malcontenta. A lnrge crowd of persons continued there al! day and evening. Aboui dusk. he military took crmmand and cleared the streets. The Hibernia Greens, Captain Callahan, were placed inside the chmch.The Brigadier General, the Sheriff, and their forcea marched and patrolled ihem in the distriet. up to a late hour in the night, dispersing tlie c:owds. Gen. Cadwalader, in person, ordered stores, ■hops, etc, in the immediate vicinity of the church, to be closed. Tho proprietor of one. a drug sioro, refusing, he was arrested and his store closed. A largo number of persons wera arrested during the night, and placed in the lock-up of the district. These arresta were of persons usinp ihreatening language, and defying the authorities. About half-past 10 o?clock, Saiurday night. while the military were guarding the streef, two large crowds approached. one down Third streei From Catharine towards Queen stree', the other up Third from Chrisüan, both meeting ai Queen st. The military ordered thcm to disperse, but they 8houtcd in derision. An order was given by Col. PleasanMn, to Capt. ftobert Scott, oí of the CadwalladerGrays, to "fire." The Captain nrrayed his men, but before he repeated the word, ihoseof the crowd in front ofhim, had ran away, Ieaving that portion of the street clear. ín ihis melce several were arrested; some placed in the watch-house, and others in the church. When tne word 'Jire" -was given by Colonel Wcasanton, Hon. Charles Naylor ran out and 3aid, Nö, don't fire." At whicb, Gen. Cadwal lader ordered rrfm under arrest, and to1 be placed in the church.Thiscreatcd great confusión. The Sberiff'e officers interfered, and desired his release, bui the General sternly refused, and Mr. Naylor and the others remained in custody. Lhe other pany were more obdurate.- Genera! Cadwalltider dashed nmong them with hia horse, one oí the crowd seized the bridle, and the General struck him over the arhï with his sword. A öick wa8 then thrown at the General which atruck him on the kriee. Yestérday morñiníi', tliose in custody in the watch-houtre and church Wero dischargcd, except two wbo were remandad for tríáí.Eariy in :he morning the crowd gaihered again -went to the wharf. took' a cáh non from the brig Venus, at $ueen-sfreet wharf; another they dug up and cleaned, and loaded them with spiker. Those they dragged up' ín front of thechurch, poised them, and threatened that u-ntess Mr. Nny lor was relensed, they would deairoy it. Nothing being done, the crowd rushed upon the builing, broke in the side door with a batteringram. shattered the walls and brought out Mr. Naylor in triumph. This was obout 12 o'clock, and there were four tnili'tar companiea insirf at the time. About 3.000 escofted him to his dwelling hou8e,in Fifth street nbove Prune, where he mode a speech requesting them to disperse and go home quiefly. The mob then went back to the church, took tho carnron ta the raar of il te destroy it, unies? the Hibenia Green were rertioved from the church. Mr. Levin. Mr. Titus and Mr. Thomas D. Grover (all leading Native Americsns,; promied thom ifthey would' dïsperse.the Greens ehould be removed at 1 o'clock. Théy were not removed at that huur- the tíanhon wa8 thea placeJ. and the match about to be applied. At thïe point. Mr. Grover jumped astride thecannon - the moh then ran off with it amid vociferou dieers. Finally, the Greens were removed-.but they were no sooner out than the mob attadked them. and they dispersed:one of them Vvasnearly killed. At íifth and Small s reeta, oné of the Greens rushed into a house and discharged his musket from a1 wíndbw, wouiding a boy. Th' is is up to 3 o'clock,and tb fighting may be said to be on ly ,commencing. All is in a dreadful excitement. not lee üian teo thousand persone on the grouüd.Mr. Grover has justarrived at the church and is standing in front on the steps, holding American flags in his hands. Mr. LeTin ia addrepsing the crowd. Several respeciable citizensare there. The church may be saved. Corresponden ce of the N. Y. HeraJd. Daily Chromcle OrficK, Saturday. Immediately ofter Mr. Grover had placed the flngin front of tho church, the mob beldly walked forward and removed them saying they should not remain there. The military are all off the ground. In the neigborhood of the Commissioner' Hall, oround tn 2nd street, about half a square from the church, there are great crowds of people. The wounded Hibernia Green is there, in charge of' ihe auihorities. The exci tement in Fifth street,near where the boy was shot, is on the increase - this isnearly half a mile from the church. The Major General and StafT have juat passed here on their way down to the scène. An ex presa has been started to Harrisburg for the GovBrnor. Vespers in tha everal Catholic churche was suspended this afternoon. We glean the following particulars from Philalelphia papers of Monday morning:Thk Night. Evory thing remnined qulet until afaout 7 o'clock, when a etachment of Military under General Cadwallader arrived upon the ground, and proceeded to take positions for the defence of the Church. Cannon were placed to as to command Quecn street east and weet, and Second Btreet North and South. Platoons of soldiere were stretched across the street at Third and Queen. Second and Queen, andaround the Commissioner'sHall. This diepoaition of forco being made, General Cadwallader informed Mr. Grover ihat the military would protect the church. and that the ciiizens forcé might be discliargcd, which wac done, ihe men marching out iwo and two and mingling quietly with the crowd; but before all had left. the report of fire-arms at Second street was heard. This wae occasioned, we believe, so far as the contradictory stories can be reconciled with probability, by the crowd pressing on the company of Cadwallader Grays. R. K. Scott Captain, and and the City Guarda, Captain Orders were given to the men to force them back, and in doing so one of tho officers encountered a man who refused to retreat, the officer thereupon struck hlm with his swoid and ihe blow wasreturned.A scuffle then ensued - a brick wos thrown from the crowd at the sokliers - and immediately afic-wards the firing commenced. It seems from all that can be gathered, that the crowd were besought to retire by the officers, and their obstinate refuaal compelled them to resort to the last means. 'J'he soldiders commenced firing by files, nnd Irom tbirteen to twenty shots told among ihe crowd, and at least seven men were killed almost instantly. One man was taken up with nearly two-thirds of his face blown away; another liad liis abdomen ripped open and the entrails protrutruded in a most shocking manner. The scalp of a third was sent from his head, and a fourth, whoseemed to be a waterman, and bore the letters E. W., andan anchor pricked in blue in his ríght arm, was iiistantly killed by a bnll which entered his right breast, traversed ncross the chest and carne out at the lefi side.An intense degree of excitemcnt was created against Capt. Hil!, of the City Guard, who, il was nsserted. had given orders to üre upon the crowd without any previoua warning to them to retire. The volley caued the dispersión of ihe crowd, bm increa8ed the exasperation of the disaffected toa fearful pitch. A mob gathered in the rear of the CommÍ8soner's Hall where two or three of the bodiea of the s'.ain were carried, and after angry pnrley broke into the Hall and took therefrom a considerable number of the muskets, which had been brpught from the Church and deposited there. Tlireats were made ogainst a number of soldiers, who were stationcd in the lower story of the Hall, and finslly a gathering was had at the Hay Scales. near the Wharton Market. below the Southwark Railroad, and about 9 o'clock. a body of men carne down Federal street. preceded by a rOur poundercannon, roughly mounted. and drawn with ropes. Th men who followed in the rear were armed wilh muskets in part, and with oiher instrumenta, of r ffence. Theyceedcd to Front streef, and up Front street to Queen, where they quictly placed tho can non at !he middle of the junetion of the eteet. so as to rango along Queen sireet, towards Second, at which Jatter street a body of military ond a aix pounder wero placed. Tlie darkness favored iheir operation8 ond were undisturbad until they had fired the piecc, which was heavily loaded with fragments of ron, that had been hastily collected. At the same time the mob fired with muskus in the same direction from such covered posiiions as they could find, and the fire wns immediately answered by a volley from the military, and the discharge of the field piece. The firing on both sidetf was thcn kept up at intervals until. 10 o'clock, when it temporartly ceaeed. The' mob: had at thishour two pieces, placed so as to range Queen streel, and had also a fifteen pounder which they could ri'oï use, because it was not mounted. The feeling among them seemed tobe that óf desperation, and threats of the most startling chnracter wero vefy gen'êrally used by thcmagainst the and éspeciinlly against Gen. Cadwaldehít was gencrally said that twoof thö mob al Sícond nnd Qaeen street weré kitied: Colonel Pleasanton s alighily wounded in thó'grbin, nnd ■ Capt. R. K. Scott dangerously in the apiñe h is believed that the list of kilied and wounded on both sidos will be largo: The reporta of the guns sho'ok the houscs in the vicinity- shottering wíndow, nnd damaging furnituré. Balls passed: into' many of them. and the inmatea were compelled to retiré precipitately bythe backways- leaving all théir property behind them. In one an aged lady wa6 obligad to be lilted over a Tence, and while this was being done, a ball cür off the brartch oí a tree near by. About one o'clock, Á'. M.. tho First Ciiy Troop of Cavalry, Captain Butler, was ordered to proceed to the vicinity of the Church, and if possible capture and' spike the gims used by the mob. Tbis düty waa immediately performed.and at half-pnat 1 o'clock, inl'ormatioiv wiig received at HeödQuartera that th large fifieen poundei had been1 capiifred at the corner of filth and Queen street, and spiked. Late last night wo fieard" that during the encounter which occurred after nine o'clock. a man named John Cóbke, was shot beide tho cannon stationed at Front and Queen street. He had fired thepiece twice, ann was about to apply the match a third time, when the discharge of a musket near him reveaJed the position of the mob to th-miKry, aá they inettntJy fird their piec.: A grape shot took effect in Cook'e groin and killed him insiantly. An old man named Field was also killed by two buüou which passed tbro' his breast. Still Later - We havo loarned from Ilead Quartera tbat the ongin of the firing upon the crowd at 7 o'clock last evening, was in consequence of an attack made upon the City Guarda. Capt. Hill was struck to the earih, and an attempt was made to slab him wiih his own sword; while in thissituation one of his lieutenantagave the order to fire, which was done. The miliiary are continuully harrassed by the mob, and men are said to bo lying in wait upon the roofs of the houses in the vicinity of the church ready to fire. whenever an occasion offers. It is now ïid that three of thesoldiers are killed, two or three mortally wounded, and some more coneiderably hurt - in alt about 12. PntLADKLPHi.v, Monday morning, 7 4 o'clock. 5 1 write at thia moment to say, merely, that as Í write, every thmg seems quiet in Somhwark, where all these riots have been raging. . rumor, however prevails, that another attack will be made upon the military, who are still under arms, before daylight, 1 trust that it will not provo true, but have strong fears that it will.Passengera by the cnrg this afternoon, who left PhiJadelphia at 7 A. M., report that they heord heavy cannonadingin the drection of the Catholic church of St. Philips, juat as the boat was leaving the dock.- N. Y. Express. We have not room for the further details of the proceedinga. But it appenrs that tho most vindictive feclings were manifested by tho mob townrds sorne ol the officers who hnd been most active in quelüng the riot; and a gallows was actually erectedonwhich to hang one of them, o oon as they coul d lay hands on him. It is aaid that on one street even the women turned out and harangued the mob. The arrival of the Gov ernor, and the movcments of three thousand, troops, put an end to tho riots. Much inquiry is made as to the real cause of this riot. We sh all opprise our reader ar soon as we can asccrtnin from a reliable source. The number of the killed and wounded is thus stated. Killed. Wounded. Military, 3 n Ciuzens, 6 19 9 30

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