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THE DliAET IN' THE 2D CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.Provost Marshal Maddox announces that the drawing for conscripts for the 2d Congressional District will be begun on Monday next.Tlie Kiot in New York.The IHtli of July, will lie a sadly memorable day In the history of New York, when the city was given over to the rule of a desp rate mob. Opposition to the draft was the exciting cause of the outbreak; but the spirit of lawless violence once let loose, there was no staying its progress or prescribing any limit to its work of destruction. The destruction of the Provost Marshall’s offices 5n the Eighth and Ninth districts was followed by reckless acts of brutal ferocity in all parts of the city, violence, rapine Uud arson were the order of the day until a late hour of the night.Half the incidents of the riot Ir.ve not yet been told; the number of killed a:, : injured not yet known. The wildest rumors were afloat, and there is much exaggeration of the events yet.The unfortunate negroes became marked objects for attack, and whenever a colored man was seen on the street he was chased and beaten by the mob. Not content with this, the mob fired the Colored Orphan Asylum, and several houses in different parts of the city where colored people reside. One colored man washung to a lamp post in Clarkson street and hisclothes set on lire. It is likewise reported that many other colored persons have died of their injuries.The Tribune office, which had been threatenedonce or twice during the afternoon, was finally attacked about eight o’clock in the evenening. The crowd here was rather small, not over fifty or sixty active rioters. They smashed all the windows on the iirstand second lloor, broke iuto the counting room and destroyed the counters and desks, and attempted to fire the building, but the timely arrival of the police saved it fromdestruction.To sum up the result of yesterday’s riot bo far as known, the loes of properly destroyed by fire
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York, US
Tue, Jul 14, 1863
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