Fight in Pitt Street.--Deadly Conflict for a Wire Factory.--Horrible
Impaling of a Man on an Iron Picket.--Mystery attached to him.--Second
Attack on Mayor Opdyke's House.--Second Fight for the Wire Factory.--
Telegraphic Dispatches.--Citizens Volunteering.--Raid on the Negroes.--
They are hunted to Death.--Savage Spectacle.--Negroes seek Head-quarters
of Police.--Appearance and State of the City.--Colonel Nugent's House
sacked.--Fight with the Mob in Third Avenue.--Battle at Gibbon's House.--
Policeman Shot.--Night Attack on Brooks and Brothers' Clothing Store.--
Value of the Telegraph System.--Captain Petty.--Seymour's Speech to the
Mob.--Cars and Stages seized.--Barricades.--Other Fights.--Acton and his
Labors.

CHAPTER XVII.

DRAFT RIOT--THIRD DAY.

Scenes in the City and at Head-quarters.--Fight in Eighth Avenue.--Cannon
sweep the Streets.--Narrow Escape of Captain Howell and Colonel Mott.--
Battle for Jackson's Foundry.--Howitzers clear the Street.--State of
Things shown by Telegraph Dispatches.--General Sandford sends out a Force
against a Mob, at Corner of Twenty-ninth Street and Seventh Avenue.--
Colonel Gardin's Fight with the Mob.--Is Wounded.--Mob Victorious.--Dead
and Wounded Soldiers left in the Street.--Captain Putnam sent to bring
them away.--Disperses the Mob.--Terrific Night.

CHAPTER XVIII.

DRAFT RIOT--FOURTH DAY.

Proclamations by the Governor and Mayor.--City districted.--Appearance of