Lexington Avenue.--Telegraph Dispatches.--Bull's Head Tavern burned.--
Block on Broadway burned.--Burning of the Negroes' Orphan Asylum.--Attack
on Mayor Opdyke's House.--A Crisis nobly met.--Gallant Fight and Victory
of Sergeant Carpenter.--A thrilling Spectacle.

CHAPTER XIV.

No Military in the City.--The Mayor calls on General Wool, commanding
Eastern Department, for Help.--Also on General Sandford.--General Wool
sends to General Brown, commanding Garrison in the Harbor, for U. S.
Troops.--Marines of the States appealed to for Troops.--General Brown
assumes Command.--Attack of Mob on the _Tribune_ Building.--Its
severe Punishment.--Government Buildings garrisoned.--Difficulty between
Generals Brown and Wool.--Head-quarters.--Police Commissioners' Office
Military Head-quarters.

CHAPTER XV.

Telegraph Bureau.--Its Work.--Skill and Daring and Success of its Force.--
Interesting Incidents.--Hairbreadth Escapes.--Detective Force.--Its
arduous Labors.--Its Disguises.--Shrewdness, Tact, and Courage.--Narrow
Escapes.--Hawley, the Chief Clerk.--His exhausting Labors.

CHAPTER XVI.

DRAFT RIOT--SECOND DAY.

Appearance of the City.--Assembling of the Mob.--Fight between Rioters and
the Police and Soldiers.--Storming of Houses.--Rioters hurled from the
Roofs.--Soldiers fire on the People.--Awful Death of Colonel O'Brien.--