REPORT
The Executive Committee appointed for the relief of the colored people of New
York and the adjacent places, having in a great measure concluded the work
assigned to them, would respectfully report to the General Committee appointed
by the merchants of New York, and to the contributors to the fund placed at
their disposal, that the total amount received to date is $40,779 08-100, as
well appear by the statement of the Treasurer, Mr. Jonathan Sturges.
That this sum of money was sent to the Treasurer by the contributors in
prompt response to the simple announcement that it would be needed. That no
special appeals were necessary to urge subscriptions, and consequently no
commissions were paid to collectors.
Of this amount, $27,795 56 has already been expended. The balance, $12,983
52, which the Committee have on hand, they expect to use in protecting those who
have lost their property in the late riots, in the prosecuting of their claims
against the city, in providing for the widows, orphans, and other dependent
members of the families of those who were killed, and in such other ways as they
may find will do the most good.
Two methods of action presented themselves to your committee. First; to
refrain from relieving any one, until a personal visit had been made to
ascertain the facts of the case. Second; to afford some immediate aid upon the
best information that could be obtained from the persons applying for
assistance, or through the colored pastors we employed. The first would possibly
save us from some imposition; the second, would afford instant relief, which was
absolutely necessary. After fully considering the two plans, we adopted both;
the immediate relief plan, and that of personal examination through the colored
pastors, and the visitors of the association for the relief of the poor. We are
now satisfied that no other course
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would so well have met the emergency, no other plan would have so promptly
brought out of their hiding places in the outskirts of the city and
elsewhere--relieved their pressing wants, and encouraged them to seek their
accustomed labor.
Probably some unworthy persons have been aided, but may we not hope, that
even these may have been raised in their self-respect by the kind words and
relief they received at our Central Depot. We aimed to produce a moral effect
upon them, as well as to relieve their wants. One thing is certain, that in a
few days our streets and wharfs were again filled with colored people going
about their accustomed work.
In presenting this report it is necessary, in order to give a comprehensive
view of the subject, that a copy of the Secretary's minutes of the first
meetings of the Merchants should be given.
A preliminary meeting having been held on the previous Saturday, the
following are the Minutes of the adjourned meeting, held Monday, July 20th,
1863:
An adjourned meeting of Merchants, held at McCULLOUGH'S Sales Room, July
20th, 1863, JOHNATHAN STURGES, Esq., in the Chair. The Chairman opened the
meeting with the following remarks:
For the information of those who were not present at the meeting held here on
Saturday, it is proper that I should state its origin object. The meeting was
called on the suggestion of several gentlemen in Front Street, at a very short
notice, to consider the destitute condition of the colored people of this city,
who have been deprived of their homes and their little property, by a mob,
during the past weak: to devise means to relieve their immediate wants, and to
secure them in their peaceable and honest labor hereafter. I have been forty-one
years a merchant in my present location. During this period I have seen a noble
race of merchants pass away. I cannot help calling to mind the many acts of
charity which they performed during their lives. I hardly need to name them: you
all know them. You know how they sent relief to Southern cities when they were
desolated by fire or pestilence: how they sent ship loads of food to the
starving people of Ireland: this last act of brotherly love we have had the
privilege of imitating during the past winter; and as often as occasion
requires, I trust we shall be quick to continue these acts of humanity, this
showing that the race of New York Merchants is not deteriorating. We are now
called upon to sympathize with a different class of our fellow men. Those who
know the colored people of this city, can testify to their being a peaceable,
industrious people, having their own churches, Sunday-schools and charitable
Societies; and that, as a class, they seldom depend upon charity: they not only
labor to support themselves, but to aid those who need aid. This is their
general character, and it is
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our duty to see that they are protected in their lawful labors, to save
themselves from becoming dependent on the charity of the city. We have not come
together to devise means for their relief because they are colored people, but
because they are, as a class, persecuted and in distress at the present moment.
It is not necessary for our present purposes to inquire who the men are who have
persecuted, robbed and murdered them. We know they are bad men, who have not
done as they would be done by. Let us not follow their example; let us be quick
to relieve those who are now in trouble, and should we ever find those who have
persecuted the negroes in like trouble, let us be quick to relieve them also,
and thus obey the injunction of our Divine Master. "Bless those who
persecute you."
Mr. J.D. McKenzie, in behalf of the Committee appointed July 18th, offered
the following preamble and resolutions, viz:
Whereas , The condition of the colored people of this city, who have
recently been deprived of their kindred by murderers, of their homes by fire,
and of their accustomed means of support; having been forcibly driven therefrom
by an infuriated mob, without cause or provocation, is such as not only to
excite the sympathy of every good member of the community, of all parties and
creeds, but also demands and should receive prompt pecuniary assistance and aid.
That this may be effectually accomplished, We do hereby
Resolve , That a Committee of five Merchants be appointed by the
Chairman of this Meeting, who, with the treasurer of the Fund to be collected,
as a member of the same, shall have full power to receive, collect and disburse
funds in the purchase of necessary food and clothing, and in relieving the wants
of the suffering colored population.
Resolved , That to said Committee, are hereby granted full powers to
assist all colored people whose property has been destroyed by the mob, in
making the needful proof of the facts to obtain redress from the County, under
the Statute Laws of the State of New York, and that have authority to collect
funds and employ Counsel for that purpose.
Resolved , That we will exert all the influence we possess to protect
the colored people of this city, in their rights to pursue, unmolested, their
lawful occupations, and we do hereby call upon the proper authorities to take
immediate steps to afford them such protection.
Resolved , That we will not recognize or sanction any distinctionof
persons, of whatever nation, religion or color, in their natural rights, to
labor peaceably in their vocations, for the support of themselves and those
dependent upon them; and that, so far as we are able, to contribute to the wants
and necessities of our fellow men it shall be done without reference to these
distinctions. And further, that what we now propose doing for the colored man,
we shall ever be ready to do for any class of our fellow men, under like
circumstances.
The meeting was addresses at some length by Mr. J.D. McKenzie upon the
subject matter of the Resolutions, and briefly
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by Richard Warren, Esq., Rev. Mr. Loomis, Messrs. Edward Cromwell, A. F. Dow, J.
S. Schultz, and others, when they were unanimously passed.
On motion, Jonathan Sturges, Esq., was elected treasurer of the fund proposed
to be raised.
Messrs. B. R. Sherman, Geo. C. Collins, J. D. McKenzie, Wm. A. Booth, A. F.
Ockershausen, were appointed by the Chairman as committee of five under the
resolutions.
On motion, the Committee were authorized to add to their numbers at their
discretion.
On motion, the Chairman and Secretary of the meeting were added to the
Committee.
Subscriptions to the fund were then called for, when Mr. Edward Cromwell
stated that he was authorized to hand to the Treasurer a check for $800, on
account of the fund subscribed by members of the Produce Exchange, and added
that this was by no means the total of their probable contributions to the fund.
Subscriptions to the amount of $6,500, were recorded before the meeting
adjourned.
On motion of Wm. A. Booth, Esq., it was
Resolved , That a copy of the Resolutions adopted by this meeting, be
furnished to Major General DIX, and that he be requested to give notice to the
colored people to return to their usual employments, with the assurance that
they shall be properly protected.
On motion, adjourned.
On Tuesday Mr. Vincent Colyer was present by invitation of Mr. Sturges, and
addressed the Committee at some length, giving the result of his experience as
Missionary among the Blacks of North Carolina and elsewhere, and suggesting a
plan for the management of the fund so as to avoid fraud and secure the greatest
benefit to those for whom the money was subscribed.
Mr. Colyer was authorized by the Executive Committee to secure a suitable
central office, and was appointed Secretary in charge of the same, and a
detailed report from him, is herewith submitted.
John D. McKenzie, chairman
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Report of the Secretary.
Driven by the fear of death at the hands of the mob, who the week previous
had, as you remember, brutally murdered, by hanging on trees and lamp posts
several of their number, and cruelly beaten and robbed many others, burning and
sacking their houses and driving nearly all from the streets, alleys and docks
upon which they had previously obtained an honest though humble living--these
people had been forced to take refuge on Blackwell's Island, at Police Stations,
on the outskirts of the city, in the swamps and woods back of Bergen, New
Jersey, at Weeksville and in the barns and out-houses of the farmers of Long
Island and Morrissania. At these places were scattered some 5,000 homeless and
helpless men, women, and children.
The first great point to be gained was the restoring of the confidence of the
colored people in the community, from which they had been driven. To do this a
central depot was to be established to which they should be invited to come and
receive aid with the fullest assurance that they should be protected.
Temporary aid might be sent them to their residences, as was done through the
hand of Rev. Mr. Dennison, and through the Society for improving the condition
of the poor.
This plan met your approval, and that evening, Tuesday, July 21st, I was
instructed to look up an office and announce in the morning papers the
contemplated purpose, and I did so.
On Wednesday, the present office, No. 350 Fourth Street, was secured, vacated
by its former occupants, cleansed and opened for
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business the following day, Thursday, July 23d, when 38 applicants received aid.
On Friday, July 24th, the wants of 318 were attended to, and on Saturday, July
25th, the streets in the neighborhood were literally filled with applicants. The
N.Y. Express thus describes the scene:--
At ten o'clock. Fourth street, near Broadway, was filled with colored people
of both sexes, and all ages. They presented an aspect of abject poverty; and
many of them bore evidence of the assaults made on them during the riots.
The building where relief was given to the applicants at No. 350 Fourth
street, was soon surrounded by nearly three thousand negroes. Some of them had
come into the city from woods and fields in different parts of the State, where
they took refuge. They appeared to be no strangers to hunger; for when the good
soldiers of the Twelfth Regiment, who are quartered up stairs in the building,
"brushed" out their rations to the throng, there was a pitiable
scramble to obtain them, and the lucky blacks retired to eat them.
The method of conducting business is thus described in the N.Y. Times
The above institution, located at No. 350 Fourth street, is doing an immense
amount of good in relieving the immediate wants of the colored people who
suffered during the late riots. Yesterday the building was thronged with
applicants, all of whom were provided for to some extent. The amount of money
already collected for this fund amount to over $28,000, of which some $7,000 has
thus far been distributed.
Yesterday, makes only were admitted to the apartments. Last Saturday was
devoted exclusively to females. That order will be observed in future-the males
having the privilege of the institution every other day, commencing from
yesterday, and the females the alternate days. The hours of business are from 9
A.M. to 4 P.M. From 8 to 9 A.M. and from 4 to 5 P.M. the use of the room is
extended to the legal profession, members of which assemble to give their
services gratuitously to such of the colored sufferers as may desire to avail
themselves of their valuable assistance. Yesterday over $2,500 was distributed
to 900 men. A considerable amount of clothing has been received by the
Committee, but as yet none of it has been given out, the great want of the
applicants being, at present money. In the basement of the building a receptacle
for clothing is being fitted up, so that, when the proper time arrives, it will
be systematically and judiciously distributed.
It is well worth the attention of any one who takes an interest in the
objects of the institution, to witness with what regularity and quietness
business is conducted. The applicants enter the building by the basement,
arranged with railings, so that, although full, only a single line can be
formed, and in the order in which they enter. On the floor above are the
officers and clerks seated at desks inclosed with railing, and as applicants
enter the room they are taken by policemen in attendance to them. By this means
confusion is avoided, and each clerk has no more at one time than he can
promptly give relief to. Policemen on duty in and about the establishment, and
they perform their duties well and
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kindly. Each clerk notes in a book the name of the applicant, his occupation and
residence, the amount of loss sustained, and other particulars bearing upon his
means and condition. If the person proves himself to be worthy object of
charity, he is furnished with a ticket which entitles him, on presenting the
same to the Cashier, to receive a certain amount of money specified thereon. In
no instance does the amount exceed $5, unless the Committee are satisfied upon
evidence adduced, that the party is actually in need of more. It is the
intention of the Committee to send out missionaries next week for the express
purpose of looking up special cases of destitution. Rev. H. Garnett (colored) is
at present engaged at the institution in investigating the special cases which
offer themselves there, as his extensive acquaintance among the colored people
enables him to decide upon the veracity of the statements made by many of them.
The first object of the Committee is to relieve the immediate wants of the
colored people who have suffered by the riots. When that has been accomplished
measures will be taken to increase the sphere of their usefulness.
The New York daily Tribune speaks as follows:
The rooms devoted to this charitable enterprise are easy of access, and
centrally located on a quiet street not far from Police Headquarters, where
protection can soon reach the sufferers in the event of a disturbance. These
rooms have been temporarily fitted up with benches and tables for the
accommodation of those who apply for assistance.
The distribution of funds has been reduced to such a perfect system, that in
a few hours a dozen men can record the names, give out the tickets and disburse
the money appropriated for that purpose, to three thousand persons. A set of
books containing the name, occupation, residence, and necessities of each
applicant is kept in the same exact and nice manner that a merchant or a banker
would keep his account. The fund are not filtered through many hands. The
sufferer has not to wait until patience ceases to be a virtue before his case is
considered. There are no harsh or unkind words uttered by the clerks-no
impertinent quizzing in regard to irrelevant matters--no partizan or sectarian
view, advanced. The business is transacted in a straightforward, practical
manner, without chilling the charity into an offense by creating the impression
that the recipient is humiliated by accepting the gift. To the credit of the
colored sufferers they gratefully receive the small sums given to them without
criticism or jealousy, knowing that they can call again in the hour of need
without being "bluffed" away with an unpleasant reminder that they had
been assisted before. Those who are prudent and honest need not be afraid to
repeat their requests in the time of necessity. The object of the fund is to
help the sufferers along over the slough during this low tide in their affairs,
and as fast as they can take care of themselves, they are expected to cease
their applications for help from the committee. Among the volunteers who have
put their shoulders to the wheel in this work, are the Rev. S.H. Tyng. Jr., Rev.
H.B. Barton and George Hancock, Esq., the Rev. H.H. Garnett, the Rev. Mr. Ray,
and others.
During the month ending August 21st there have been 3,942 women, and 2,450
men, making a total of 6,392 persons of mature age, relieved; full one-third
being heads of families, whose children
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were included in the relief afforded by your committee, making a total of 12,782
persons relieved.
From these persons 8,121 visits were received and aid was given; to which add
4,000 applicants whose calls were not responded to, as they had previously been
aided sufficiently, and you have 12,121 applicants whose cases were considered
and acted upon at the office during the month. Add to this the work of the
members of the legal profession, Messrs. Jas. S. Stearns and Cephas Brainerd,
who have been indefatigable in their labors, assisted by several other
gentlemen, by whom 1,000 notices of claims for damages against the city, have
been made out, copied and duly presented to the Comptroller, while our clerks
have recorded on the books over 2,000 claimants for a sum of over $145,000,
together with a considerable distribution of clothing by two colored clerks, and
a fair idea of the work done in this office, during the month may be obtained
and a reason for what might otherwise appear a large amount of expenditure.
Of the 2,450 men relieved, their occupations were as follows:
1,267 Laborers and Longshoremen, .......... 4 Tailors.
177 Whitewashers .......... 3 Artists.
176 Drivers for Cartmen, .......... 3 Music Teachers.
250 Waiters, .......... 3 Coopers.
124 Porters, .......... 2 Engravers.
97 Sailors and Boatmen, .......... 2 Janitors.
72 Coachmen, .......... 2 Measurers.
45 Cooks, .......... 2 Oystermen.
37 Barbers, .......... 2 Undertakers.
34 Chimney Sweepers, .......... 1 Landlord.
25 Tradesmen, .......... 1 Flour Inspector.
20 Butchers, .......... 1 Teacher.
15 Bootblacks, .......... 1 Copyist.
11 Ministers or Preachers, .......... 1 Farmer.
11 Shoemakers, .......... 1 Botanist.
11 Tobacconists, .......... 1 Physician.
11 Wood sawyers, .......... 1 Book-binder.
8 Carpenters, .......... 1 Tin Smith.
7 Basket-makers, .......... 1 Upholsterer.
6 Seavengers .......... 1 Black Smith.
5 Carpet shakers,
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Of the 3,942 women, were
2,924 Day's work women, .......... 13 Hucksters.
664 Servants hired by month, .......... 4 Teachers.
163 Seamstresses, .......... 1 Artist.
106 Cooks, .......... 1 Boarding-house keeper.
19 Worked in Tobacco factory, .......... 1 Basket-maker.
13 Nurses, .......... 32 Infirm.
In the height of the crowd of applications it was found necessary to employ
as many as ten clerks, and several special policemen. These last, together with
one regular patrolman who is still with us, preserved excellent order and were
kindly furnished by Mr. Acton, of the Metropolitan Police, free of charge.
As soon as the most pressing necessities of the sufferers were relieved
through the office, colored clergymen were employed by your direction as
missionaries to visit the applicants for relief at their residences, four of the
clerks were discharged and four clergymen employed in their places--The Rev. Mr.
Ray, Rev. Mr. Leonard, Rev. Mr. Carey and JohnPeterson in addition to the Rev.
H. H. Garnett, who was with us, and whose services have been invaluable from the
first. These missionaries made 3,000 visits, relieving the wants of 1000, and
examining the cases of 3,000 persons, and nearly all the payments of the last
week were made upon their representation.
I refer with pleasure to the valuable aid rendered the Committee by the City
Tract Missionaries as Secretaries of the Association for improving the condition
of the poor, not only in promptly supplying on our behalf, the pressing wants of
the colored people in the different wards, but in giving such reports of
applicants as facilitated our work at the office.
A good many applications for servants have been made, and as it seemed
desirable that places should be provided for many of the sufferers as soon as
possible, a book was kept open for employers needing servants and servants
needing employment to register their names. Constant pressure of business,
however, and the demand for servants in most cases far exceeding the supply,
left this branch of useful mission work quite incomplete.
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A large number of workmen having been discharged by their employers who were
in fear of damage to their property by the mob, the following appeal from the
Executive Committee was printed and sent on 31st July to merchants and
corporations employing colored laborers.
TO THE MERCHANTS AND OTHER EMPLOYERS OF LABORERS IN NEW YORK:
The undersigned, an Executive Committee appointed at a large and influential
meeting of the Merchants of New York, to dispense the funds contributed by them
in aid of the colored sufferers by the late riot, have been instructed by the
General Committee to address their fellow-citizens in relation to the objects of
their care. The Committee have learned, with deep regret, that in various ways
obstacles have been thrown in the way of the attempt of colored laborers to
resume their wonted occupation, cases having occurred where men who had labored
faithfully for years in a situation have been refused a retoration to their old
places. Street railroads, by which many had been accustomed to pass from their
distant homes to their usual places of business, have refused them permission to
ride, and have thus deprived them of the ability to perform their customary
duties and earn their needful pay. The undersigned, in behalf of the Merchants
of this great Metropolis, respectfully but urgently call upon their
fellow-citizens to unite in protecting the injured and persecuted class, whose
cause the Committee advocate. The full and equal right of the colored man to
work for whoever chooses to employ him, and the full and equal right of any
citizen to employ whoever he will, is too manifest to need proof. Competition is
indispensable to the successful management of commercial business; surely the
energetic, enterprising merchants of this city will not allow any interference
with their rights. On the other hand, if the colored population, from a want of
firmness on the part of the whites, be deprived of their just rights to earn an
honest living, they will become a dependent, pauper race. The Committee,
therefore, earnestly appeal to the good feelings, to the sense of justice, to
the manliness of every employer of whatever class, to restore the colored
laborer to his customary place, and to sustain him in it. They appeal to the
Board of Directors of our Street Railroads to give them all the immuities they
ever enjoyed; and to the managers of all associations and corporations requiring
many operatives, to restore the old order of things. While they enjoin upon
merchants and others to maintain right to employ whoever they please, it is no
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part of their purpose to recommend the discharge of one class and the
substitution of another. What they do ask is that where colored laborers have
been employed, they should not be discharged in this emergency; and the
Committee would appeal to those laboring men who would drive colored men from
the city, to consider the principle they would thus establish, and see how it
may react upon themselves. Should they succeed in this attempt they would compel
many white laborers now in the country to seek employment in the city, and
before they were aware of it a new class of laborers would be brought into the
city, and the wages of labor would be reduced. The laws of the demand and supply
of labor cannot be permanently changed by combinations or persecutions.
The merchants of New York, the main supporters of every enterprise undertaken
in our city, ask that this appeal may have to favor able consideration and
support of every citizen.
In conclusion the committee are fully authorized to state that the Police of
our city who behaved so nobly during the recent troubles will render any aid
which may possibly be needed, but the want of which is not anticipated.
J. D. McKenzie, Chairman.
The work before us, is now, chiefly to take care of the claims against the
city of those who have lost property by the riots. In the pressure with which
sufferers applied for relief, it was not possible to do more than take a general
estimate of their losses. These have now been revised and a more particular
statement of items obtained. Others have been sought out at their residences,
and notified to come and have their claims made out. And it will be our duty to
see that they are properly presented to the Comptroller and prosecuted against
the city, within the time prescribed by the law.
To appreciate the situation of the colored people, at the time this office
was opened, and to understand, even partially, the character of the mission with
which we have been occupied, and, believing it would be interesting to the
majority of the readers of this Report, I have taken down the testimony of
several of the sufferers, and collected together from the daily papers, a few of
the authentic
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Incidents of the Riot.
ABRAHAM FRANKLIN. This young man who was murdered by the mob on the corner of
twenty-seventh St., and Seventh avenue, was a quiet, inoffensive man, 23 years
of age, of unexceptionable character, and a member of Zion African Church in
this city. Although a cripple, he earned a living for himself and his mother by
serving a gentleman in the capacity of coachman. A short time previous to the
assault upon his person, he called upon his mother to see if anything could be
done by him for her safety. The old lady, who is noted for her piety and her
Christian deportment, said she considered herself perfectly safe; but if her
time to die had come, she was ready to die. Her son then knelt down by her side,
and implored the protection of Heaven in behalf of his mother. The old lady was
affected to tears, and said to our informant that it seemed to her that good
angels were present in the room. Scarcely had the supplicant risen from his
knees, when the mob broke down the door, seized him, beat him over the head and
face with fists and clubs, and then hanged him in the presence of his mother.
While they were thus engaged, the military came and drove them away, cutting
down the body of Franklin, who raised his arm once slightly and gave a few signs
of life.
The military then moved on to quell other riots, when the mob returned and
again suspended the now probably lifeless body of Franklin, cutting out pieces
of flesh and otherwise mutilating it.
AUGUSTUS STUART.
Died at the Hospital, Blackwell's Island July 22d, from the effects of a blow
received at the hands of the mob, within one block and a half of the State
Arsenal, corner 7th Avenue and 35th street, on Wednesday evening, July 15th. He
had been badly beaten previously by a band of rioters and was frightened and
insane from the effects of the blows which he had received. He was running
towards the Arsenal for safety when he was overtaken by the mob from whom he
received his death blow.
Mrs. Stuart, his wife, says that some of the rioters declared that at
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the second attack upon him he had fired a pistol at his pursuers; but she says
that if he did, he must have obtained the weapon from some friend after he had
left home, a few minutes before, for he had no weapon then, nor was he ever
known to have had one. He was a member of the church.
PETER HEUSTON.
Peter Heuston, sixty-three years of age, a Mohawk Indian, with dark complexion
and straight black hair, who has for several years been a resident of this city,
at the corner of Rosevelt and Oak streets, and who has obtained a livelihood as
a laborer, proved a victim to the late riots.
His wife died about three weeks before the riots, leaving withe her husband
an only child, a little girl named Lavinia, aged eight years, whom the
Merchants' Committee have undertaken to adopt with a view of affording her a
guardianship and an education. Hueston served with the New York Volunteers in
the Mexican War, and has always been loyal to our government. He was brutally
attacked on the 13th of July by a gang of ruffians who evidently thought him to
be of the African race because of his dark complexion. He died within four days
at Bellevue Hospital from his injuries.
At the end of the Mexican War Heuston received a land warrant from the
government, which enabled him to settle on a tract of land at the West, where he
lived but a short time previous to his coming to this city.
JEREMIAH ROBINSON.
Mrs. Nancy Robinson, Widow of the above, killed in Madison near Catherine
street, says that her husband in order to escape dressed himself up in some of
her clothes, and in company with herself and one other woman left their
residence and went towards one of the Brooklyn Ferries.
Robinson wore a hood, which failed to hide his beard. Some boys seeing his
beard, lifted up the skirts of his dress, which exposed his heavy boots.
Immediately the mob set upon him and the atrocities they perpetrated upon him
are so indecent, they are unfit for publication. They finally killed him and
threw his body into the river.
His wife and her companion ran up Madison street and escaped across the Grand
street Ferry to Brooklyn.
WILLIAM JONES.
A crowd of rioters in pursuit of negro, who in self defense had fired on some
rowdies who had attacked him, met an innocent colored
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man returning from a bakery with a loaf of bread under his arm. They instantly
set upon and beat him and after nearly killing him, hanged him to a lamp-post.
His body was left suspended for several hours and was much mutilated.
A sad illustration of the painful uncertainty which hung over the minds of
the wives and children of the colored men was found in the fact that two wives
and their families, were both mourning the loss of their husbands in the case of
this man, for upwards of two weeks after its occurrence. And so great was the
fear inspired by the mob that no white person had dared to manifest sufficient
interest in the mutilated body of the murdered man while it remained in the
neighborhood to be able to testify as to who it was. At the end of two weeks the
husband of one of the mourners to her great joy returned, like one recovered
from the grave.
The principal evidence which the widow, Mary Jones, has to identify the
murdered man as her husband is the fact of his having a loaf of bread under his
arm. He having left the house to get a loaf of bread a few minutes before the
attack.
One of our colored missionaries is still investigating the case.
Wm. Henry Nichols
Died July 16th, from injuries received at the hands of the rioters on the 15th
of July.
Mrs. Statts, his mother, tells this story:--
The father of Wm. Henry died some years ago, and the boy has since, by good
behavior, with persevering industry, earned his own living; he was a communicant
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in good standing. I had arrived from
Philadelphia, the previous Monday evening, before any indications of the riot
were known, and was temporarily stopping, on Wednesday, July 15th, at the house
of my son, No. 147 East 28th street.
At 3 o'clock of that day the mob arrived and immediately commenced an attack
with terrific yells, and a shower of stones and bricks, upon the house. In the
next room to where I was sitting was a poor woman, who had been confined with a
child on Sunday, three days previous. Some of the rioters broke through the
front door with pick axes, and came rushing into the room where this poor woman
lay, and commenced to pull the clothes from off her. Knowing that their rage was
chiefly directed against men, I hid my son behind me and ran with him through
the back door, down into the basement. In a little while I saw the innocent
babe, of three days old, come crashing down into the yard; some of the rioters
had dashed it out of the back window, killing it instantly. In a few minutes
streams of water came pouring down into the basement, the mob had cut the Croton
water-pipes with their axes. Fearing we should be drowned in the cellar, (there
were ten of us, mostly women and children, there) I took my boy and flew past
the dead body of the babe, out to the rear of the yard, hoping to escape with
him through an open lot into 29th street; but here, to our
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horror and dismay, we met the mob again; I, with my son, had climbed the fence,
but the sight of those maddened demons so affected me that I fell back,
fainting, into the yard; my son jumped down from the fence to pick me up, and a
dozen of the rioters came leaping over the fence after him. As they surrounded
us my son exclaimed, "save my mother, gentlemen, if you kill me."
"Well, we will kill you," they answered; and with that two ruffians
seized him, each taking hold of an arm, while a third, armed with a crow-bar,
calling upon them to stand and hold his arms apart, deliberately struck him a
heavy blow over the head, felling him, like a bullock, to the ground. (He died
in the N. Y. hospital two days after). *
I believe if I were to live a hundred years I would never forget that scene,
or cease to hear the horrid voices of that demoniacal mob resounding in my ears.
*It was two weeks after the burial of the body of the murdered
man before Mrs. S. was well enough to call at the N. Y. Hospital and examine his
clothes, and although she is positive as to their having belonged to her son,
the surgeon in charge says that there are other circumstances which leave it
uncertain.
They then drove me over the fence, and as I was passing over, one of the mob
seized a pocket-book, which he saw in my bosom, and in his eagerness to get it
tore the dress off my shoulders.
I, with several others, then ran to the 29th street Station House, but we
were here refused admittance, and told by the Captain that we were frightened
without cause. A gentleman who accompanied us told the Captain of the facts, but
we were all turned away.
I then went down to my husband's, in Broome Street, and there I encountered
another mob, who, before I could escape commenced stoning me. They beat me
severely. +
+Mrs. Staats here showed me the bruises on her arms; they are
still plainly marked at this date. (Aug.27,) and she assured me that her neck,
shoulders and back were worse.--V. C.
I reached the house but found my husband had left for Rahway. Scarcely
knowing what I did, I then wandered, bewildered and sick, in the direction he
had taken, and towards Philadelphia, and reached Jersey City, where a kind,
Christian gentleman, Mr. Arthur Lynch, found me, and took me to his house, where
his good wife nursed me for over two weeks, while I was very sick.
I am a member of the Baptist Church, and if it were not for my trust in
Christ I do not know how I could have endured it.
JAMES COSTELLO.
James Costello, 97 West 33d street, killed on Tuesday morning, July 14th.
Costello was a shoe maker, an active man in his business-- industrious and
sober. He went out early in the morning upon an errand, was accosted, and
finally was pursued by a powerful man. He ran down the street--endeavored to
make his escape-was nearly overtaken by his pursuer in self-defense he turned
and shot the rioter
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with a revolver. The shot proved to be mortal--he died two days after.
Costello was immediately set upon by the mob. They first mangled his body,
then hanged it. They then cut down his body and dragged it through the gutters
smashing it with stones, and finally burnt it. The mob then attempted to kill
Mrs. Costello and her children but she escaped by climbing fences, and taking
refuge in a Police Station house. Mrs. Costello is a Christian woman and has
three or four children.
Meantime a woman told the mob that a row of tenement houses in the rear were
occupied by colored people, when the ringleader armed with a cudgel, entered the
place in search of the inmates, but they had effected their escape, having been
apprised of their danger by some friendly neighbors, at the commencement of the
outbreak. Incensed at the escape of their prey, the mob burned the buildings.
Upon the arrival of the police the rioters fled.
MRS. DERICKSON.
A white woman, wife of Mr. Derickson, living at No 11 York Street, was set upon
by the mob and so severely beaten, that she died in a week afterwards.
JOSEPH REED.
Mrs. Susan Reed, who, with her two children, one a babe of tender years and the
other Joseph Reed, an invalid boy, about seven years of age was living with her
mother, Mrs. Simmons, at 147 East 28th street.
Upon the approach of the mob, the inmates of this humble tenement became
alarmed. The mother, with simple but still, under the circumstances the most
commendable honesty, fearing that the clothes which had been intrusted to her in
her business as a laundress might be destroyed, hastened to return them to the
owner. The grandmother thus left alone, at the approach of the rioters, started
for a place of safety with the babe, directing the poor, sick boy to follow her.
In the dreadful confusion he was parted from her, was set upon by the mob, was
beaten, was savagely asked with frightful oaths if he would be hung or have his
throat cut, and some of the more busy devils looked about for a rope to execute
their fiendish purpose. He was rescued by a gallant fireman, named John F.
McGovern, a member of 39 Hose Company, who carried him to a house in 30th
street, where the landlady affrighted at the consequences of harboring a colored
boy at that time of terror, on her knees implored the fireman to take him
elsewhere. A German neighbor next door overhearing the interview came forward
and promptly offered to take care of him.
The fright, the dreadful beating which he had received, the shock to his
nervous system, had been too much for the child, and on Tuesday
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he went to a place where black and white are alike in the sight of Him who made
both, and where the prejudices and cruelties of man will no longer torture his
young soul.
He was a Sunday school scholar at the Church of the Mediator, Rev. Stephen H.
Tyng, Jr., pastor, who thus speaks of him:
A CHILD MARTYR.
Early in the month of May a boy of some seven summers presented himself for
admission to the Sunday School of the Church of the Mediator in this City. From
the first Sunday he was the object of special interest on the part of both his
pastor and teacher. Always punctual in his attendance tidy in appearance, and
eager to learn, he soon won the affection of all his fellows in the Infant-Class
to which he belonged. But though comely, he was black. The prejudice which his
color excited amongst those of meaner mould he quickly disarmed by his quiet,
respectful, Christian manner. He was a child-Christian. What more lovely is
there on earth! What more highly esteemed is there in Heaven! Little did those
who thus casually met him from Sunday to Sunday imagine the witness of
suffering, God had purposed to perfect in him!
At the time of the late riot he was living with an aged grandmother and
widowed mother at No.--East 28th street. On Wednesday morning of that fearful
week, a crowd of ruffians gathered in the neighborhood, determined on a work of
plunder and death. They stole everything they could carry with them; and, after
threatening and affrighting the inmates, set fire to the house. The colored
people, who had the sole occupancy of the building, were forced in confusion
into the midst of the gathering crowd. And then the child was separated from his
guardians. He was alone among lions. But ordinary humanity, common decency, had
exempted a child so young anywhere from brutality. But no. No sooner did they
see his unprotected, defenceless condition, than a company of fiendish men
surrounded him. They seized him in their fury and beat him with sticks and
bruised him with heavy cobble-stones. But one, ten-fold more the servant of
Satan than the rest, rushed at the child, and with the stock of a pistol struck
him on the temple and felled him to the ground. A noble young fireman--God bless
the firemen for their manly deeds--a noble young fireman by the name of McGovern
instantly came to the resene, and single handed held the crowd at bay. Taking
the wounded and unconscious boy in his arms, he went to the house of an American
citizen close by, and asked to have him received. But on her knees the woman
begged him not to leave the dying sufferer with her, "lest the mob should
tear her to pieces." It was a suffering Saviour in the person of His
humblest child. Naked, and wounded, and a stranger, they took him not in. But a
kind hearted German woman made him a sharer of her poverty. With more than a
mother's care did she nurse the forsaken one. A physician was called, and both
night and day she faithfully watched over the bed of him outcast from his
brethren. Our hearts bless her for her goodness to our child.
By name she is as yet unknown, but by her deeds well known and well be loved.
His distracted mother found her cherished boy in these kind hands. And when she
saw him, in the earnest simplicity of her spirit she kneeled in prayer to thank
God for the fulfillment of His promise. "God hath taken him up." The
lad lingered until Thursday evening, when the Saviour released him from his
sufferings; and "the child was caught up to God and the throne."
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This is the Pastor's memorial to little Joseph Reed, a martyr, by the
brutality and inhumanity of men, to the cause of Law and Order and Right. A
tablet to his memory shall be placed on the walls of the Sunday-School room to
which he loved to come. Those who were kind to him we count as benefactors to
us. May the God of all grace richly reward them with the blessings of His love.
Buried on earth without a prayer, but with praises welcomed in heaven, the
chosen loved child of the family "Joseph is not" .......... S.H.T. Jr.
NEW-YORK CITY
September 10th, 1863.}
WILLIAMS"
A man with a basket on his arm was going down Washington street; on the corner
of Leroy street he stopped to inquire of some young men, the way to the market.
He was immediately attacked and badly beaten. The police arrived and drove off
the ruffians; but the poor fellow was so much injured, that after lingering in
great suffering and in an insensible condition for several days at the New York
Hospital, he finally died. In response to the inquiry as to what was his name,
made by the attending surgeons, he replied in an indistinct way,
"Williams."
JOSEPH JACKSON,
Aged 19 years, living in West 53d Street near 6th Avenue, was in the industrious
pursuit of his humble occupation of gathering provender for a herd of cattle,
and when near the foot of 34th street, East River, July 15th, was set upon by
the mob, killed, and his body thrown into the river.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Was killed in the neighborhood of Fulton Ferry. The particulars of his history
have not yet been obtained, though he is supposed to have been the son of
William Johnson, whose experience we quote below:
WILLIAM JOHNSON,
The first case brought to our notice was that of William Johnson, a colored man,
who resides with his family in Roosevelt street. He was walking down the Second
avenue near Thirty-sixth street, at a late hour on Wednesday night, July 15th,
hoping that the lateness of the hour and the darkness of the street would shield
him from observation, and enable him to visit a friend who resides in an
alloy-way not far from that locality. As he reached the corner he was hailed
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by a party of young men--none of them more than twenty-two or three years of
age--who asked him jokingly to look at his watch and tell the time. Johnson made
no reply but passed quietly on, when one of them running up behind him, struck
him a violent blow on the back of the head, and at the same time tripped him, so
that he fell full length upon the pavement. Instantly the whole set jumped upon
him, kicked him, and brutally bruised him, so that he lay for a while
insensible. He was then thrown upon the steps of a grocery and left to die or
get up, as the chances of life might best favor.
Toward morning the unfortunate man came to, and slowly dragged himself the
long, weary distance to his home. Fortunately he was unnoticed, and unhindered,
so that he reached his door in safety.
But, as though to prove the old adage that troubles never come singly, he had
but just stepped in doors, when he was met by his heart-broken wife, who told
him of the presence of his dying son, a waiter, whose employer's place is in the
lower part of the City, and who, on his way home was beaten and left for dead by
a mob of 'long-shoremen, and was brought home in a dying state by the kind hands
of the police. The son died before noon, but the father, though terribly
battered and bruised, is living, and will doubtless fully recover.
The following
CASE OF BRUTALITY
is one of the worst, so far as beating is concerned, which has come under our
observation: At a late hour on Wednesday night, a colored man, named Charles
Jackson, was passing along West street, in the neighborhood of Pier No. 5, North
river. He was a laboring man, and was dressed in a tarpaulin, a blue shirt, and
heavy duck trousers. As he was passing a groggery in that vicinity, he was
observed by a body of dock men, who instantly set after him. He ran with all the
swiftness his fears could excite, but was overtaken before he had gone a block.
His persecutors did not know him nor did they entertain any spite against him
beyond the fact that he was a black man and a laborer about the docks, which
they consider their own all the swiftness his fears could excite, but was
overtaken before he had black man and a laborer about the docks, which they
consider their own peculiar field of labor. Nevertheless they knocked him down,
kicked him in the face and ribs, and finally by the hands of their leader,
deliberately attempted to cut his throat. The body, dead they supposed it, was
then thrown into the water and left to sink, Fortunately life was not extinct
and the sudden plunge brought the poor fellow to his senses, and being a good
swimmer he was enabled instinctively to seek for the net work of the dock. This
he soon found, but was so weak from the loss of blood and so faint with pain
that he could do no more than hold on and wait for day. The day after, Messrs.
Kelly and Curtis, of Whitehall, discovered him lying half dead in the water.
They at once attended to his wants, gave him in charge of the Police-boat and
had him sent to the hospital. The escape of the man from death by the successive
abuses of beating, knifing, and drowning, is most wonderful. So determined and
bitter is the feeling of the 'longshoremen against negroes that not one of the
latter dared show themselves upon the docks or piers, even when a regular
employee of the place.
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From an old man in Sullivan street, a very patriarch in years and progeny, we
gathered the following
INTERESTING STATEMENT.
I am a whitewasher by trade, and have worked, boy and man, in this city for
sixty-three years. On Tuesday afternoon I was standing on the corner of
Thirtieth street and Second avenue, when a crowd of young men came running along
shouting "Here's a nigger, here's a nigger." Almost before I knew of
their intention, I was knocked down, kicked here and there badgered and battered
without mercy, until a cry of "the Peelers are coming was raised; and I was
left almost senseless, with a broken arm and a face covered with blood, on the
railroad track. I was helped home on a cart by the officers, who were very kind
to me, and gave me some brandy before I got home. I entertain no malice and have
no desire for revenge against these people. Why should they hurt me or my
colored brethren? We are poor men like them; we work hard and get but little for
it. I was born in this State and have lived here all my life, and it seems hard,
very hard, that we should be knocked down and kept out of work just to oblige
folks who won't work themselves and don't want others to work.
We asked him if it was true that the negroes had formed any organization for
self-defence, as was rumored. He said no; that, so far as he knew, "they
all desire to keep out of the way, to be quiet, and do their best toward
allaying the excitement in the City."
The room in which the old man was lying was small, but it was the kitchen,
sitting-room, bedroom and garret of four grown persons and five children.
Instances of this kind might be multiplied by the dozen, gathered from the
lips of suffering men, who, though wounded and maimed by ruffians and rioters,
are content to be left alone, and wish for no revenge.
At a little after noon, on Monday, July 20th, a number of
NEGROES WERE ATTACKED
on Broad street by a rough mob of rioters. At first the negroes were disposed to
stand and resist the attack, but being overpowered by superior numbers, they
broke ranks and scattered, seeking refuge in the halls and cellars of the
adjacent stores. Individuals of them were caught and severely injured by
kickings and beating, but none were fatally injured. At one time it looked as
though most serious results would ensue, but on the appearance of the Police the
mob dispersed and the street was again quiet. The Police sought out the colored
men and took them to the Station-house for protection.
A RAID UPON THE NEGROES.
On Wednesday July 15th, about twelve o'clock, the neighborhood of St. John's
Park was thrown into terrible confusion by an onslaught
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upon the houses of a community of unfortunate negroes. In York street, which is
only a block in length, running from West Broadway to a lane back of St. John's
Church, two rows of small wooden and brick houses are situated, mostly occupied
by negro white washers and ironers, who are among the most harmless and law
abiding of our citizens. In accordance with intimations thrown out during the
day before by the habitues of a low tavern at the corner of York street and West
Broadway, a crowd of Irish about a hundred strong, at midnight assaulted the
buildings, and amid the shrieks and groans of the unfortunate women and children
the whole precinct was devoted to destruction.
How the ill-fated negroes contrived to escape is perfectly marvelous; with
one or two exceptions, however, in which the parties were slightly wounded, they
managed somehow to get away. Renewed attempts were made at a later hour to set
the neighborhood in flames, but from some reason or other they proved abortive.
About 1 o'clock, after the rioters had done their worst, and carried off the
little all of these unfortunate creatures, in the way of beds, chairs, tubs,
smoothing irons, etc., a body of cavalry arrived upon the ground.
On Thursday morning the scene presented was desolate beyond description. Not
a vestige of glass remained in the windows, the sashes were gone, the doors
presented the appearance of lattice-work with the apertures very large, and
great heaps of bricks and stones were piled upon the stoops and dispersed about
the floors of the rooms. In response to our question as to whether the mob had
robbed her of everything, a poor negro woman replied, with a look of abject
despair and quiet resignation: "Pretty much all, sir."
GUIDE IN GENERAL BURNSIDE'S DEPARTMENT.
Among the beneficiaries is a colored man named Samuel Williams, who acted as a
guide under General Burnside during his campaign in North Carolina. While
serving in this capacity Williams rendered valuable service to the Union troops,
in the department and in one instance projected and led a reconnoitering
expedition against the enemy, which resulted in obtaining much valuable
information, besides the capture of prisoners.
When General Burnside left the coast for the Rappahannock and Washington,
Williams was conveyed north with his family by me. He soon found means for
gaining an honest livelihood and settled down in Jersey city.
At the time of the riots here last month he was driven with his family from
his home and was obliged to take refuge in the salt meadows back of Jersey City,
where he remained for ten days, subsisting on such articles of food as could be
obtained. Upon returning home they found that their house had been sacked of
everything, including their small stock of goods which was their only means of
subsistence.
AN HEROIC WHITE WOMAN.
An interesting story of the heroism with which a lady, the wife of one
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of our firemen, saved the lives of several colored people, is told by Richard
Wilson, a Methodist Elder, who resided at No. 95 West 32d. street.
"On Tuesday at 9 o'clock, A.M. the mob came; my wife and one daughter
went out the front basement way, escaping with a few bruises. As it was the men
they were most violent against, my other daughter remained with me and my three
sons, declaring that she would risk her life with her father. Finding the
rioters would soon break through, we all climbed over the back fence into the
yard where this lady lived. Instantly she came out to meet us and told us to
hide ourselves as quickly as possible in her basement cellar. But the mob had
espied us and quick as thought they surrounded her house. She calmly went out to
the front door and met them, demanding what they were making all that clamor
about, at her house.
The mob were for a moment foiled by her coolness, and she immediately took
advantage of the quiet to tell a neighbor to run as quick as his feet could
carry him to the Arsenal and bring the soldiers. She then ordered her girl to
pack up all her more valuable things in trunks and sent for a carman to come for
them.
By this time the mob had become intensely excited-assured by some of their
fellows-of the presence of the blacks in the basement. They rushed the steps and
tried to get past the noble woman. 'I tell you, she said, no one goes in this
house except over my dead body.' Her resolute manner, though she was a woman of
small stature, awed them. 'If had my sword here,' muttered a ruffian who
appeared a runaway soldier,' I would settle you.'
'As soon as I remove my trunks and furniture,' she said, 'you can come in,
not before.' In a few minutes the military appeared, and the lady, the negroes
and the cart load of valuables, were all safely conveyed to the Arsenal."
BURNING OF THE COLORED ORPHAN ASYLUM.
Our attention was early called to this outrage by a number of letters from the
relatives and friends of the children, anxiously inquiring as to whereabouts of
the little ones. It is well known that as soon as the Bull's Head Hotel had been
attacked by the mob, their next destination was the Colored Orphan Asylum, on
Fifth Avenue, near Forty-third street. The crowd had swelled to an immense
number at this locality, went professionally to work in order to destroy the
building, and at the same time, to make appropriation of any thing of value by
which they might aggrandize themselves. About four hundred entered the house at
the time, and immediately proceeded to pitch out beds, chairs, tables, and every
species of furniture, which were eagerly seized by the crowd below, and carried
off. When all was taken, the house was then set on fire, and shared the fate of
the others.
While the rioters were clamoring for admittance at the front door, the Matron
and Superintendent were quietly and rapidly conducting the children out the back
yard, down to the police station.
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They remained there until Thursday, (the burning of the Asylum occurred on
Monday, July 13th, when they were all removed in safety to Blackwell's Island,
where they still remain.
There were 230 children between the ages of 4 and 12 years in the home at the
time of the riot.
The Asylum was located on the Fifth Avenue, between 43d and 44th streets. The
main building was nearly 200 feet in length, three stories and light basement in
height, with an hospital 100 feet long, three stories high, connected with the
main building, by a covered way. Several work shops were attached, and the
residence of the Superintendent, Mr. Wm. Davis was next door. The buildings were
of brick and were substantial and commodious structures. A number of fine shade
trees and flowering shrubs adorned the ample play grounds and front court yard,
and a well built fence surrounded the whole.
The main buildings were burned. The trees girdled by cutting with axes; the
shrubs uprooted, and the fence carried away. All was destroyed except the
residence of Mr. Davis, which was sacked.
Mr. H., a man about thirty years of age, was driven from his house on Grand
street. On Monday, July 13th, he was taken ill at the store where he works, and
was going home when he rioters fell upon him and hit him with sticks and stones,
injuring him badly, but he reached his home, with the assurance of the mob that
they would kill him. In the afternoon, about four o'clock, they came back to
execute their threat. They broke in the door, smashed the windows, and swore the
would burn the house over his head. He slipped out of the way, and remained
under a neighbor's roof over night. He afterwards reached the station-house in
safety.
We found a number of instances like the following.
A LANDLORD THREATENED.
Mrs. T., from Third street (her daughter and grand-daughter, almost white, are
with her), said that her landlord had been threatened with the halter because he
hired his houses to colored people. She and her husband and children were
compelled to leave their residence.
A TIMID LANDLORD.
A landlord on 52d street threatened to turn a woman and her two infants into the
street if she did not leave the premises. She could not find a place to move,
and as a last resort went to the station-house on Forty-seventh street.
A WIDOW.
Mrs. R., a widow, had to run for her life--a house in the same yard being on
fire. She lost every article of property save the clothes upon her person.
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AN OLD LADY.
Mrs. W., an old lady from Cannon street, says, that she, her husband, and ten or
a dozen others were concealed in a white neighbor's house for two days. This
white family not only had the heroism to protect these poor people, but the
humanity to feed them, and the discretion at the proper time to get a police
force to escort them to the station-house. Their benefactors are Irish
Catholics.
ANOTHER.
An old lady of 60 said she had to run for her life from her home in the
Eighteenth ward. She was followed by the mob, who pursued her with yells and
curses and dangerous missiles. She was slightly wounded.
A CRIPPLE.
A woman who was crippled at the riot in Brooklyn last Summer was driven from her
residence in Elizabeth street by a band of rowdy boys, who broke the windows of
her house and threatened to the torch. She is the mother of two children who are
with her.
ATTEMPT TO BURN THE RESIDENCES.
A woman with an infant in her arms fled from the Archway on Sullivan street. She
states that not less than one hundred colored people fled from that
neighborhood. The Arch had been set on fire three times by the mob. Even the
white families in the vicinity moved their furniture, anticipating a fearful
conflagration.
WHITE WOMEN.
Some four or five white women, wives of colored men applied for relief. In every
instance they had been severely dealt with by the mob. One Irish woman, Mrs. C.
was so persecuted and shunned by every one, that when she called for aid, she
was nearly insane.
INSANITY.
Several cases of insanity among the colored people appear, as directly traceable
to the riots.
COLORED FAMILIES MOVING.
A number of poor colored families in various parts of the city collected their
scanty supplies of furniture on carts and moved from their homes the 15th. They
had to work among the sneers, and threats, and cruel assaults of the rioters,
and to watch for opportunities to make their escape when the rioters were out of
sight.
MRS. SIMMONS.
Another interesting case is that of a Mrs. Simmons, who resided at 147 East
Twenty-eighth street, where she had a comfortable abode.
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The rioters attached her house, with several others near by, and drove her with
her two children off without giving them time to save any article of clothing or
other goods. She lost everything.
This woman has a son--a sergeant in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts
regiment--from whom she has just received information to the effect that during
the last battle in which that regiment was engaged at Charleston, and while
charging the batteries on Morris Island, he was taken prisoner. His reputation
for skill and bravery is very high.
By referring to the first twelve incidents, it will be seen that among the
killed are men, women and children--White, Colored and Indian--from the tender
babe of three days old, up to the venerable man of three score years and three.
The two young men, Abraham Franklin and William Henry Nichols, were members of
Christ's body--the Church; both were siezed and murdered while striving to
comfort and protect their mothers. Joseph Reed was a Sabbath School boy, aged
seven years. Augustus Stuart was a Christian man, and insane at the time he was
killed, and as if to show that it was not the timidity of the blacks, that
encouraged the rioters, James Costello was killed for having defended himself
with a pistol. And all were slain, either while in the peaceful pursuit of their
honest, though humble vocations, providing for their families, or while
endeavoring to escape from the hands of their destroyers.
Furniture and clothing have been provided for all of these families, and
everything in our power done to make them comfortable.
That an unprovoked persecution, when occurring in the midst of a
justice-loving and right-minded community, always, results to the final
advantage of the people abused, is remarkably illustrated in the fact, that
since the riots the demand for colored servants has increased ten-fold. Families
of the highest social position, both in the city and country, have applied for
servants in vain
In looking over the list of occupations on pages 10 and 11, it will be seen
that of the women, there are 3,122 who obtain their living by going out to
day's-work, and 787 servants hired by the month, a proportion of nearly 6 to 1;
while of the men there are 1,823 day-laborers to 609 workers by the month, a
difference of 3 to 1. The largely increased demand for servants by the month
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may change this, but the habits of a people cannot be thrown off in a moment.
It has been said by their enemies, that the colored people of the North are
idle and dissolute; some few cases of the latter we did find, but with more than
ninety-five out of every hundred, a prompt response to the inquiry as to
"what was their occupation?" was always given as above stated. As a
rule they were evidently hard working, honest, humble people, though many, in
both education and respectability, compare favorably with any of our citizens.
The great good, which the colored people feel has already been accomplished
by the Committee, in the opening of this office and the bringing together of so
many different religious denominations, trades, occupations, stations in life
and nativities, in friendly and harmonious action, has caused a number of their
leading men to ask, whether it might not be to the advantage and lasting benefit
of the colored people in New York city to have this mission continued
permanently among them.
They say that they have been made acquainted with the condition and wants of
their people by observation of the doings here, and have seen what opportunities
and means there are for improving their condition, far beyond their previous
conception.
Understanding that the present committee, on the conclusion of its labors
will be disbanded, the idea has suggested itself, whether a committee could not
be found who would place this friendly intercourse on a permanent foundation,
and carry on the work as above suggested.
Having had charge of nearly 10,000 refugee slaves in North Carolina, within
the past year, I cannot but remark the difference between them and the free
colored people, who have these last few weeks come under my notice.
The free colored people, are very much the superiors of their southern
brethren, in education, cultivated intelligence, refinement, and in a quick and
independent way of maintaining and asserting their rights. While in kindness
towards each other--patience under trial and affliction--cheerfulness,
willingness to labor, and an entire absence of every thing like revenge, or a
cherishing of ill will towards those who have injured them, both those of the
North and the South are alike remarkable.
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In physical strength and vigor of body, I think the Southern refugees are
their superior.
Several applications for relief and claims for damages, were made by those
who had previously resided in Canada and the British West Indies, and I have
observed with some interest, that all such persons have had a more clear,
straightforward, unembarrassed, yet equally respectful way of presenting their
claims. Whether this comes from habits formed, by living in a country where the
black man is more respected than with us, I am unable to say.
I cannot close without calling attention to the generous and kind way in
which the New York press has aided in this noble work. Although we have had
lengthy notices in the editorial columns of their widely distributed newspapers,
we have not had one unkind criticism and but few bills, for all their valuable
services rendered.
Grateful to a kind, heavenly Father for the privilege of having been
permitted to assist in alleviating the sufferings of those much-abused,
persecuted, and greatly misunderstood people, and for the harmony, good order
and success which has attended this mission, now brought to a close,
I am, Gentlemen,
Ever faithfully, yours,
VINCENT COLYER,
Secretary.
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BROOKLYN.
On the Monday succeeding the riot, we visited Weeksville, a settlement of
colored people, situated some three miles from the ferries, where we found a
large number of refugees from the city of New York, and many that had been
driven out from their homes in Brooklyn, the inhabitants having furnished them
such shelter as they were able, with their limited means and small facilities
for accommodating several hundred strangers thrown upon them. We found not only
Weeksville, but Carsville, New Brooklyn, and the whole vicinity extending to
Flatbush and Flatlands, had more or less refugees scattered in the woods and in
such places as they could find safety and shelter. All being thrown out of
employment and the means of support, your committee immediately made
arrangements for furnishing them daily supplies of food. With the assistance of
Mr. Edgar McMullen, who had for a few days previous been assisting them, we had
food (as we think prudently and judiciously) distributed daily from July 20th,
to August 14th. The amount so given out in Bread, Hams, Flour, Rice, Sugar, and
Tea, and in some few cases of great need small sums of money, amounted to eight
hundred and fifty 27-100 Dollars ($850,27).
Your committee found so many cases of distress in the city, arising from
injuries received during the riot, from losses, and from want of employment,
that we found it necessary to have some place where they could apply for relief.
We engaged with the approval of your committee, Rev. Henry Belden, to dispense
our charities. He opened the rooms of the Poor Association and engaged four
colored Ministers of Brooklyn, to assist in visiting the families of those
applying for assistance.
The number of applicants relieved were 752, whose families numbered 2,250;
amount donated them, sixteen hundred and ninety dollars ($1,690).
We gave out in small sums at various times, thirty-nine 50-100 dollars
($39,50) making the whole amount disbursed in Brooklyn, twenty-five hundred and
seventy-nine 80-100 Dollars, ($2,579) which leaves in our hands for special
cases that may arise, seventy-five 47-100 Dollars ($75,47). Having received from
Jonathan Struges, Treasurer, $2,655 35-100.
The majority of the colored people are now at work at their accustomed places
of business, excepting those employed in the Tobacco Factories, of whom there
are about two hundred. Their employers are afraid, as yet, to set them to work.
We have pleasure in assuring you that your benefactions have afforded timely
relief and alleviated very much distress. In all cases the sums given (however
small they may have been) were gratefully received and in many cases even with
apologies for being under the necessity of asking assistance. We have heard no
harsh or unkind expressions or threats towards their persecutors.
This substantial expression of good feeling towards them, on the part of our
community, has encouraged them and made them feel that they still had friends
among us who would stand by and protect them.
Respectfully yours,
Wm, W. WICKES.
R.P. BUCK,
Brooklyn, Sept. 11th, 1863. .......... Committee.
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Report of the Treasurer
Dr. .......... Cr.
To cash paid by order of the
Executive .......... By contributions
Committee for disbursements .......... from all sources
at the Central office .......... $21,875.00 to date .......... $41,086.08
To Joseph B. Collins, .......... ----------
through the Society for
Improving the condition of
the Poor, .......... 1,500.00
To Charles E. Beebe for
sufferers near Bergen,
N.J .......... 250.00
To R. P. Buck for
distribution in Brooklyn .......... 500.00
To W.W. Wickers for
distribution in Brooklyn .......... 2,155.35
To Rev. Samuel D. Dension
to be distributed among
the sufferers on
Blackwell's Island .......... 250.00
Less returned .......... 26.00 .......... 224.00
To Miss Anna H. Shotwell,
Sec'ty of the Colored
Orphan Asylum, for relief
of the orphans .......... 1,000.00
To Thomas C. Doremus,
distributed by him .......... 54.05
To Mr. Reid, Distributed
by him .......... 60.60
To Albro Lyons, secured
by mortgage on his claim
on the city .......... 500.00
To Destitute Sufferers
previous to the opening
of the depot in 4th
street .......... 37.00
To Rev. Henry Highland
Garnett, donation .......... 25.00
To Wm.S. Dorr, bill
printing .......... 24.00
To Express charges on
boxes of clothing .......... 1.50
To James Weed, Treas,
being amount distributed
by him from contribution
of the Hedding M.E. Church .......... 7.00
To advertising
Subscription List in N.Y.
Evening Post .......... 2.76
To advertising
Subscription List in N.Y.
Journal of Commerce,
26.00
Less donation to fund.... .......... 13.00 .......... 13.00
To advertising
Subscription List in N.Y.
Times .......... 2.60
Less donation to
Fund .......... 21.30 .......... 21.30
To V. Colyer, for special
distribution .......... 102.00
Balance .......... 12,733.52
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*
$41,086.08 .......... $41,086.08 .......... ------------ ..........
-----------
*$307 having
been received since the amount
stated on first page of Report
was printed.
JONATHAN STURGES,
Treasurer.
New York,Sept.25, 1863.
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Acknowledgment from the Colored People.
On Saturday, August 22d, a number on the leading colored clergymen and laymen
assembled together, and unexpectedly to the committee, presented them with the
following address, elaborately engrossed on parchment and tastefully framed--the
engrossing being the work of Mr. Patrick Reason, one of their own people:
AN ADDRESS
To The Executive Committee Of Merchants For The Relief Of Colored People.
J.D. McKENZIE, Chairman.
Edward Cromwell, .......... Geo. C Collins,
J.s. Schultz, .......... A.R. Wetmore,
Jona. Sturges, Treas. .......... J.B. Collins.
PRESENTED BY
COLORED MINISTERS AND LAYMEN.
New York Aug. 22, 1863
Gentlemen:--We have learned that you have decided this day to bring to a
close the general distribution of the funds so liberally contributed by the
merchants of New York and others for the relief of the colored sufferers of the
late riots, which have recently disgraced our city.
We cannot in justice to our feelings permit your benevolent labors to
terminate, even partially, without offering some expression of our sincere
gratitude to the Universal Father for inspiring your hearts with that spirit of
kindness of which we have been the recipients during the severe trials and
persecutions through which we have passed.
When in the pursuit of our peaceful and humble occupations we had fallen
among thieves, who stripped us of our raiment and had wounded us, leaving many
of us half dead, you had compassion on us. You bound up our wounds and poured in
the oil and wine of
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Christian kindness, and took care of us. You hastened to express your sympathy
for those whose fathers, husbands, sons and brother had been tortured and
murdered. You also comforted the aching hearts of our widowed sisters and
soothed the sorrows of orphan children.
We were hungry and you fed us. We were thirsty and you gave us drink. We were
made as strangers in our own homes and you kindly took us in. We were naked and
you clothed us. We were sick and you visited us. We were in prison and you came
unto us.
Gentlemen, this generation of our people will not, cannot forget the dreadful
scenes to which we allude, nor will they forget the noble and spontaneous
exhibition of charity which they excited. The former will be referred to as one
of the dark chapters of our history in the Empire State, and the latter will be
remembered as a bright and glorious page in the records of the past.
In the light of public opinion we feel ourselves to be among the least in
this our native land, and we therefore earnestly pray that in the last great day
the King may say to you and to all who have befriended us, "Inasmuch as you
have done it to one of the least of these may brethren you have done it unto me;
come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world."
But as great as have been the benefit that we have received from your
friendly and unlooked for charity, they yet form but the smaller portion of the
ground of our gratitude and pleasure. We have learned by your treatment of us in
these days of our mental and physical affliction, that you cherished for us a
kindly and humane feeling of which we had no knowledge. You did not hesitate to
come forward to our relief amid the threatened destruction of your own lives and
property. You obeyed the noblest dictates of the human heart, and by your
generous moral courage you rolled back the tide of violence that had well nigh
swept us away.
This ever memorable and magnanimous exhibition of heroism has had the effect
to enlarge in our bosoms the sentiment of undying regard and esteem for you and
yours. In time of war or peace, inprosperity or in adversity, you and our great
State and our beloved country may count us among your faithful friends, and the
proffer of our labors and our lives shall be our pleasure and our pride.
If in your temporary labors of Christian philanthropy, you have
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been induced to look forward to our future destiny in this our native land, and
to ask what is the best thing we can do for the colored people? This is our
answer. Protect us in our endeavors to obtain an honest living. Suffer no one to
hinder us in any department of well directed industry, give us a fair and open
field and let us work out our own destiny, and we ask no more.
We cannot conclude without expressing our gratification at the manner in
which the arduous and perplexing duties of your office have been conducted; we
shall never forget the Christian and gentlemanly bearing of your esteemed
Secretary, Mr. Vincent Colyer, who on all occasions impressed even the humblest
with the belief that he knew and felt that he was dealing with a crushed and
heart-broken people.
We also acknowledge the uniform kindness and courtesy that has characterized
the conduct of all the gentlemen in the office in the discharge of their duties.
We desire likewise to acknowledge the valuable services contributed by the
gentlemen of the legal profession, who have daily been in attendance at the
office to make out the claims of the suffers free of charge. In the name of the
people we return thanks to all.
In conclusion, permit us to assure you that we will never cease to pray to
God for your prosperity, and that of every donor to the Relief Fund. Also for
the permanent peace of our country, based upon liberty, and the enjoyment of
man's inalienable rights, for the preservation of the American Union, and for
the reign of that righteousness in the hearts of the people, that saves from
reproach and exalteth the nation. Signed,
Rev. H.H. Garnet, .......... Mr. John Peterson,
.......... Chas. B. Ray., .......... .......... Chas. L. Reason,
.......... Clinton Leonard, .......... .......... Peter S. Porter,
.......... John Cary, .......... .......... Stephen N. Gear,
.......... Henry M. Wilson, .......... .......... Hy. Montgomery,
.......... Sampson Talbut, .......... .......... John L. Hudson.
.......... Richard Wilson, .......... .......... Aaron F. Potter,
.......... Isaac Colman, .......... " .......... T.S.W. Titus,
.......... John T. Raymond, .......... .......... Wm C.H. Curtis,
and many others.
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To this Address, the chairman of the committee responded.
By a vote of the Executive Committee, Mr. McKenzie was requested to
furnish a copy of his remarks for publication, which are herewith
appended.
REPLY OF THE CHAIRMAN,
Mr. J.D. McKENZIE.
"Although entirely unprepared, it becomes my duty as chairman of the
Executive Committee appointed by the merchants of New York for the relief of the
colored people, who suffered by the recent mob to respond to the address; which
you have this morning presented to us on behalf of your people.
It is unnecessary for me to go over the origin of the movement, or the manner
in which it has been conducted; these things you know. But I would say that to
many of our number it has been a new and profitable experience, one which we can
never forget as our memory goes back to those dark hours when your kindred fled
in terror and dismay from before those who murdered and pillaged your homes, men
who had in the majority of cases come from other lands, who had received
protection under our laws both in their persons and property, who from
dependence and poverty had become independent in their circumstances, with and
abundance for themselves and their families, with every right both civil and
political enjoyed by the most favored citizen, and who sought to destroy a race
cast upon our care and protection by the Great God who made of one blood all the
nations of men to dwell upon the face of the earth. Our whole natures revolted
instantly at so great and cruel wrong. For this we claim no credit, it was only
the common instinct of humanity when we heard the imploring wail of an injured
and dependent race ringing in our ears imploring for mercy--aye and they shall
have it and justice also, to this the merchants of New York are fully and
completely pledged by their words and their acts--this is what every man who
trades this soil should in time to come receive not as a favor, but a right.
Some of us have been told that if we stood forth in your behalf our stores
and our houses would be burned, and our lives taken; if this must be the penalty
let it come, with God's help we will build other stores and make new homes, and
if life must be yielded and we die
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for a principle of justice and truth then shall our death be more glorious than
our life.
We hope that the colored people in time to come from the experience of the
past weeks will trust the white man as their friend. Their condition and their
future is a problem to us of momentous importance--it engages our thoughts I am
well convinced for more than it possibly can your own; it is the great question
of the age. Go where we may the black man does not escape us, when we sit at our
tables surrounded by our families--although you are not personally present in
bodily shape still you are there--when we retire to our chambers you follow
us--and even in the sanctuary of the most High God the question will come
without bidding to every heart, what shall be done with the negro. Human wisdom
is utterly unable to solve the proposition; God in his providence alone can do
it. For myself I had hoped that your race would have been gradually emancipated
first being prepared for the enjoyment of liberty and the discharge of the
duties and obligations attendant thereon; but god who controls all events
according as he sees fit, in His own infinite wisdom seems to our present view
to order otherwise and it is our duty to accept His will as right.
Twice in the world's history has He signally interposed in behalf of the
enslaved. Once in generations long gone by with the years before flood when his
people Israel were under the yoke of the Egyptians--He brought them forth with a
mighty hand and an outstretched arm--He told that haughty nation these words,
"Let my people go free." This they refused, until finally there was no
home among the Egyptians in which on that eventful night there were not cries
and lamentations over the dead body of the first born son.
Three years ago we little thought that we should for a like cause learn over
again the same lesson. There is hardly a family circle at the North and almost
certainly there is not one at the South, where the mother does not mourn over
her dead boy or where the wife has not been made a widow, and all this has come
to us because your people dwelt among us--the innocent cause of untold woes. We
know full well that you and yours are not responsible for these calamities. It
seems to me that disguise it as we may Slavery in the United States is doomed.
It may not end this year nor the next, but end it will and that speedily; a
voice rings through the air clearer and louder than the loudest thunders:
"Let the oppressed go free."
And now in view of all these things, of your approaching state, suffer me
through you to speak a few words of counsel and advice to
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your race. The path before you is full of difficulty and dangers; when you come
into the full possession of liberty remember that true liberty is not
licentiousness, it is obedience to law, it is a cheerful compliance with the
obligations imposed by society for the good of the whole, it is rendering to
every man his due.
You will go forth without any claims upon society beyond those conceded to
every man--you will meet at the outset a haughty, powerful and energetic race--a
race which to-day rules and controls all others. Can you stand before the Anglo
Saxon and Celtic tribes? The ordeal for you is a fearful one.
Your only hope can be in fearing and obeying God's law, in industry, virtue
and education, these things only can save your people; otherwise you will melt
away, when cast upon your own resources, faster than the snow in summer, or the
dew which glistens for a little while on the flowers of the morning: it cannot
in the nature of the case be otherwise.
But I must conclude. The labor in which we have been engaged as a committee
of the Merchants of New York, has been to us not only pleasant, but also
profitable; we have had nothing to gain but your good. We were impelled to this
work by the remembrance of how much we have ourselves received, how much God has
blessed and prospered us in this goodly land, unworthy though we were of these
blessings; but more than all we were constrained to do these things because of
God's greatest gift to man, Jesus Christ his only Son who gave himself to redeem
a lost and guilty world--as children of one Common Father who makes his sun to
shine alike on every tribe of man. The words of John the beloved Apostle comes
to my mind when he describes the day of all days in those magnificent words,
"After this, I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could
number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues stood before the
throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands,
and they sung a new song." Then shall the nations see eye to eye--there
shall all distinctions end, there shall be but on language, and one harmony when
earth's ransomed ones shall be all safely gathered in that better land."
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO THE
Fund for the Relief of Colored Sufferers
BY LATE RIOTS.
Produce Exchange,
1st subscription, .......... $800
2d .......... " .......... 711-1511 00
Geo. Griswold Gray .......... 250 00
H. Dollner .......... 100 00
Dollner, Potter Co .......... 100 00
Sherman, Tallman Co .......... 200 00
Noah T. Sweezey .......... 100 00
Reeve, Case Banks .......... 100 00
John Olendorf .......... 25 00
Fourth Av. Presbyterian
Ch'ch, by Churchill .......... 206 85
H.K. Bull .......... 100 00
T.R. Minturn .......... 100 00
Otis W. Booth .......... 50 00
Cash .......... 5 00
D. Wadsworth Co .......... 25 00
Samuel Willets .......... 250 00
Sturges, Bennet Co .......... 500 00
Chas. H. Marshall .......... 250 00
Geo. T. Trimble .......... 100 00
Cyrus Curtis .......... 50 00
James Cassidy .......... 25 00
Wm. Hubbard .......... 50 00
N.L. G. Griswold .......... 250 00
H.H. Warden .......... 100 00
Hugh Allen .......... 200 00
R.P. Buck .......... 200 00
Bogert Kneeland .......... 100 00
Smith Peters .......... 100 00
C.E. Detmold .......... 100 00
Saml. Bonnell, Jr .......... 50 00
Denton. Smith Co .......... 100 00
Alfred E. Beach .......... 100 00
.......... -----------
.......... $5,397 85
Brought
forward .......... $5,397 85
O.D. Munn .......... 50 00
Richard Warren .......... 50 00
Lyles, Polhamus Co .......... 100 00
Young, Schultz Co .......... 200 00
Hugh N. Camp .......... 100 00
Cash .......... 5 00
Owen Carnegie .......... 200 00
L.M. Hoffman, Son Co .......... 100 00
Williams, Crosby Co .......... 100 00
Beatty. Dorman Co .......... 100 00
R.W. Russell .......... 100 00
Wood Redmond .......... 50 00
Sateen Redmond .......... 50 00
Wm. Redmond Son .......... 50 00
A.A. Low Bros .......... 250 00
Parson Petit .......... 25 00
W.B. Isham Gallup .......... 100 00
Joseph B. Collins .......... 30 00
Scoville Manufacturing
Co .......... 100 00
Wylie Knevals .......... 100 00
Bowne Co .......... 100 00
Mrs. John A. Weekes .......... 25 00
Mrs. Henry G. De Forest .......... 25 00
R.W. Ropes .......... 100 00
J.M.D .......... 50 00
Phelps. Dodge Co .......... 250 00
Storm Ferris .......... 50 00
A Lost Bet .......... 5 00
A. Clerk .......... 2 00
Theodore Crane .......... 50 00
E. Walker Sons .......... 50 00
Lee, Bliss Co .......... 100 00
John D. McKenzie .......... 100 00
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.......... $8,114 85
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Brought forward .......... 88,114 80
Allen. Hoag Co .......... 100 00
R.G. Allerton .......... 5 00
Geo. M. Allerton .......... 10 00
Isaac J. Platt .......... 5 00
Robt. G. Walker .......... 5 00
Cash .......... 10 00
W.H. Dayton .......... 25 00
Thurlow Weed .......... 500 00
C.A. Bristed .......... 100 00
Through H.J. Raymond.
C.B. Loomis .......... 25 00
Caswell Perkins .......... 25 00
W.H. Allen .......... 25 00
Mrs. S.S. Osgood .......... 50 00
C.V.S. Rosevelt .......... 250 00
Edward Minturn .......... 100 00
Fredk. Marquand Southport.
Conn .......... 100 00
W.S. Gilman .......... 100 00
John A.C. Gray .......... 100 00
Richard Martin .......... 50 00
E.S. Renwick .......... 50 00
A.W. Spies .......... 50 00
N.P. Hosack .......... 25 00
Thos. Jeremiah .......... 25 00
Foster Thomson .......... 100 00
Gabriel Mead .......... 50 00
Rev. U.U. Ewell .......... 1 00
Cash .......... 2 00
Warren Mix Co .......... 50 00
J.T. Wilson .......... 25 00
Friends of the Colored People, .......... 50 00
L., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y .......... 10 00
John Caswell Co .......... 250 00
Bucklin Crane .......... 100 00
Philo .......... 5 00
H.P. Sturgis Co .......... 100 00
Arthur W. Benson .......... 100 00
Cash .......... 20 00
T. G. Rowe .......... 100 00
Chas A. Heckscher Co .......... 200 00
Geo. C. Ward Co .......... 100 00
Daniel C. Robbins .......... 100 00
Garbutt, Black Hendrick .......... 100 00
William Nelson .......... 50 00
DeGroot Peck .......... 50 00
South Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn .......... 86 71
.......... $11,499 56
Brought forward .......... $11,499 56
James A. Cowing .......... 50 00
James B. Wright .......... 20 00
W.J. Sherwood .......... 10 00
Frothingham Baylis .......... 150 00
A. Jerseyman .......... 5 00
Theod. Victor .......... 13 00
Davis, Morris Co .......... 50 00
Cash .......... 10 00
George Elder .......... 25 00
Horatio G. Stevens .......... 25 00
R.B. Maey .......... 25 00
David Hoadley .......... 50 00
Sackett, Belcher Co .......... 100 00
Ockerhausen Bros .......... 100 00
Pinchot, Warren Co .......... 50 00
Park Mathewson .......... 25 00
James Hunter Co .......... 100 00
Geo. S. Stephenson Co .......... 150 00
The Misses Thurston .......... 25 00
A.H. Sibley .......... 100 00
Wm. Curtis Noyes .......... 100 00
Mrs. Caroline A. Wyeth .......... 100 00
Miss Mary F. Wyeth .......... 50 00
D.A. Cushman .......... 50 00
Peck Church .......... 50 00
M.P.F .......... 5 00
G.G.W .......... 5 00
Cash .......... 5 00
Wylie Wade .......... 100 00
Ezra Wheeler Co .......... 100 00
Edward Penfold .......... 100 00
Jas J. Van Allen .......... 100 00
Robert Bayard .......... 100 00
Edgar Ketchum .......... 80 00
J. Couper Lord .......... 50 00
Charles Butler .......... 50 00
Mason Bros .......... 50 00
Sheffield Co .......... 50 00
Danl. Huntington .......... 25 00
Cunningham. Frost -
Throckmorton .......... 50 00
S.C. Burdett .......... 30 00
Wm. Mitcheltree .......... 50 00
First Congregational Church
Waterbury. Ct .......... 47 00
Kent Co .......... 100 00
Jacob Underhill Co .......... 50 00
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.......... $14,079 56
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Brought forward .......... $11,079 56
Educator .......... 2 00
Bradford R. Wood. Albany .......... 25 00
J.W. Wheeler, Hyde Park New York .......... 25 00
Thomas T. Smith .......... 25 00
Joseph Sampson .......... 250 00
J.W. Paige Co .......... 100 00
Charles C. Goodhue .......... 100 00
John A. Stevens .......... 100 00
Joseph Walker .......... 50 00
Gerge Ellis .......... 50 00
R.R. Graves Co .......... 100 00
Mead. Lacey Co .......... 100 00
Chaplain U.S.N .......... 25 00
Alex. Van Rensalaer .......... 100 00
Bradley Howe .......... 50 00
Eli Wainwright .......... 50 00
Schieffelin Bros. Co .......... 100 00
Joseph L. Lewis .......... 100 00
John K. Myers .......... 100 00
H.H. Swift Co .......... 100 00
Thos. H. Magbee .......... 100 00
A Port Chester Lady .......... 3 00
Hamilton Fish .......... 100 00
Robert Haydock .......... 25 00
George W. Abbe .......... 25 00
N.E. Munroe Co .......... 100 00
Gross March .......... 100 00
James L. Morgan Co .......... 100 00
Richard Berry .......... 25 00
Dr. Chas. D. Smith .......... 25 00
Cash .......... 50 00
Brown. Bros. Co .......... 250 00
Collins, Raynor Co .......... 100 00
E.W. Keeler .......... 50 00
Willy Wallach .......... 25 00
Charles B. Tatham .......... 250 00
Benj. Tatham .......... 250 00
John C. Sanford .......... 100 00
Bacon Hyde .......... 50 00
Beebe Bros .......... 200 00
Tharn, Watson Butman .......... 200 00
Andrews, Gibbons Co .......... 100 00
Thos. Smull Sons .......... 100 00
Ambrose K. Ely .......... 100 00
George Palen Co .......... 100 00
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.......... $18,229 56
Brought forward .......... $18,229 56
Corse. Pratt Co .......... 100 00
Hoyt Brothers .......... 100 00
R. Stout. Son Co .......... 100 00
S. C. H. Isham .......... 100 00
J.S. Rockwell Co .......... 100 00
Mattison McCoy .......... 100 00
Thos. Fraser, Bro. Co .......... 100 00
Edward Godfrey Sons .......... 50 00
D.M. Co .......... 50 00
Rees Hoyt .......... 50 00
Keese Pearsall .......... 50 00
Bulkley Lapham .......... 50 00
Weitzel Weidemeyer .......... 25 00
Terry Bros .......... 25 00
M. Mattison .......... 25 00
F. T. Fawcett .......... 25 00
Barnes. Clarenden L .......... 25 00
H.D. Hall Co .......... 25 00
Palen Hunt .......... 25 00
E.T. Brown .......... 25 00
H.G. Ely .......... 20 00
Cash .......... 10 00
do .......... 10 00
do .......... 5 00
do .......... 10 00
A Mechanic .......... 1 00
Archd. Russell .......... 100 00
Bullard Co .......... 100 00
J. Hess Co .......... 20 00
Benedict, Hall Co .......... 250 00
E.E. Dunbar, Treas .......... 100 00
Joseph J. Bichnell .......... 100 00
D.B. Eaton .......... 25 00
Alonzo Potter .......... 25 00
Henry W.T. Mali Co .......... 100 00
Benkard Hutton .......... 100 00
Wm. Lottimer Co .......... 100 00
Claflin. Mellen Co .......... 100 00
E.S. Jaffray Co .......... 100 00
Geo. Bliss Co .......... 100 00
Loeschick, Wesendonck Co .......... 100 00
W. M .......... 50 00
Fisher, Donnelly Co .......... 50 00
H. Rusch Co .......... 50 00
Myers Co .......... 50 00
Victor Acheles .......... 50 00
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.......... $21,105 56
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Brought forward .......... $21,105 56
B. M .......... 25 00
B. Co .......... 25 00
Cash .......... 25 00
H. Co .......... 25 00
E.D. Morgan Co .......... 250 00
W.J. Syms Bro .......... 100 00
Chas. C. Colgate .......... 100 00
Wm. Mitchel .......... 50 00
T.B. W.C. Fowler .......... 25 00
John Jewett Sons .......... 100 00
Cash .......... 25 00
John Cunningham .......... 20 00
E.K .......... 6 00
Stacy B. Collins .......... 50 00
Porter .......... 5 00
Edward Delafield .......... 25 00
James Boorman .......... 200 00
A., Saratoga County .......... 2 00
Le G.B. Cannon, Burlington, Vermont .......... 100 00
R. Cornell White .......... 100 00
Morgan Dix .......... 25 00
Robt. I. Livingston, New Brunswick, N.J .......... 100 00
M.L .......... 2 00
Rev. A.C. Cox .......... 10 00
Emily C. Macy .......... 20 00
Geo. W. Mills, (colored) .......... 10 00
C.L. Spencer .......... 300 00
J. Boorman, Johnston Co .......... 200 00
Lawrence, Griggs Kingsbury .......... 100 00
Dike Brothers .......... 50 00
Reynolds Cushman .......... 50 00
Miss J.N Cushman .......... 10 00
Miss S.S. Cushman .......... 10 00
Kemp, Day Co .......... 50 00
Cash .......... 40 00
William Wood .......... 50 00
John W. Hait .......... 25 00
Morris Ketchum .......... 250 00
H.E. Moring .......... 25 00
H.G.W .......... 20 00
Rowland Johnson .......... 25 00
Weston Gray .......... 500 00
Cash .......... 6 00
Josiah Lawrence .......... 100 00
Thos. Hitchcock .......... 100 00
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.......... $24,441 56
Brought forward .......... $24,441 56
A.L. Hitchcock .......... 100 00
S.M. Hitchcock .......... 100 00
Stitt Underhill .......... 25 00
Cash .......... 10 00
D.H. Gildersleeve .......... 25 00
J. Pyne .......... 5 00
John G. Sewall .......... 10 00
Du Bois Vandervorst .......... 50 00
A one-armed soldier .......... 1 00
Dixon, Frazer Hallett .......... 25 00
Ballard Co .......... 100 00
A Friend .......... 50 00
G.W. Cropsey, Millstone, N.J .......... 10 00
Smyth, Sprague Cooper .......... 100 00
Paton, Stewart Co .......... 100 00
A. Iselin Co .......... 100 00
F. Spinner Co .......... 100 00
C.F. Dambmann Co .......... 50 00
Wm. Brand Co .......... 25 00
Cash .......... 25 00
John Patterson .......... 10 00
Booth Edgar .......... 200 00
D.G. Bacon .......... 200 00
A Mite .......... 10 00
F.M. W.A. Shepard .......... 25 00
Mrs. Geo. McKenzie .......... 20 00
Naylor Co .......... 200 00
W. A .......... 25 00
R.R. Fox .......... 100 00
Chas. E. Hill .......... 100 00
C.A. Hedges, East Hampton .......... 100 00
Seth B. Hunt, Bennington, Vt., .......... 100 00
John R. Ford, Newport, R.I .......... 100 00
O.B .......... 50 00
E.P. Rodgers, Pastor South Dutch Church .......... 25 00
Bell, Wheelock Co .......... 25 00
John Gulliver, Philadelphia .......... 20 00
W.H.S .......... 20 00
D.C. Cartwright .......... 15 00
Protection .......... 5 00
A Sewing Girl .......... 3 00
W.H.J., Brooklyn .......... 2 00
Robert Carnley .......... 50 00
A.B. Sands Co .......... 50 00
Wm. Allen Butler .......... 50 00
O. Rosito .......... 30 00
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.......... $26,987 56
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Brought forward .......... $26,987 56
A. H. Muller .......... 20 00
Exchange Place .......... 5 00
Third Reformed Presbyterian
Church, 23d street .......... 200 00
H. M. S .......... 20 00
J. R. E .......... 25 00
M. H .......... 10 00
E. G. B .......... 50 00
Thos. C. Chardavoyne .......... 50 00
Gen'l J. G. Barnard .......... 50 00
A Lady .......... 50 00
Chas. A. Townsend .......... 25 00
Cash .......... 25 00
S. E. B .......... 2 00
Hyde, Coe McCollum .......... 50 00
Cash, H .......... 50 00
Wm. Martin .......... 25 00
Cash .......... 5 00
M. K. Jesup Co .......... 50 00
P. R. P .......... 50 00
Theodore Hyatt .......... 25 00
Tompkins Westervelt .......... 25 00
Devlin Co .......... 100 00
Third Congregational Unitarian
Society .......... 113 73
Church of The Saviour, Pierrepont
street, Brooklyn .......... 172 55
W. C. Booth .......... 50 00
Wm. Bowne .......... 100 00
H. D. Aldrich .......... 100 00
Through Sam'l Willett,
From Sam'l J. Underhill,
Jericho, L.I .......... 50 00
From John Willis, L. I .......... 10 00
" John Ketchum, L. I .......... 5 00
" Gideon Frost, Cedar Swamp .......... 5 00
" Cash .......... 1 00
.......... 1 00
" Stephen Robbins, Jerecho .......... 5 00
" Joseph Port, Westbury .......... 5 00
" Isaac Hicks, " .......... 5 00
" S. R. Hicks, " .......... 5 00
" Joseph Hicks, " .......... 10 00
" Wm. T. Cocks, " .......... 10 00
Joshua Atkins Co .......... 50 00
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.......... $28,597 84
Brought forward .......... $28,597 84
J. E. W .......... 3 00
Allen st. Presbyterian Church .......... 44 00
Edward Simpson .......... 20 00
George A Jarvis .......... 25 00
W. J. Rondout, N.Y .......... 10 00
Invisible Friend .......... 5 00
Cash--Springfield, Mass .......... 5 00
W. H. Palmer .......... 5 00
Easton Co .......... 200 00
Skeel Reynolds .......... 100 00
Stanton, Sheldon Co .......... 100 00
Henry Sheldon .......... 30 00
John Mayell .......... 25 00
Chas. N. Talbot .......... 50 00
J. L. Worth .......... 10 00
J. Simpson .......... 5 00
J. W. Clowes .......... 10 00
Caldwell Morris .......... 50 00
W. H. Talcott .......... 50 00
F. W. Worth .......... 50 00
F. R. Ware .......... 50 00
J. W. Leveridge .......... 25 00
Cash .......... 10 00
Z., Cash .......... 10 00
Caroline F. Whitney .......... 20 00
A. C. Banker .......... 5 00
A., Cash .......... 5 00
Little Jim .......... 25 00
H. C. Cutler .......... 3 00
Miss Mathilda Raster .......... 5 00
E. J. Willett Co .......... 50 00
F. Parmley .......... 100 00
J. L. Leonard .......... 50 00
Mrs. Colon Miss Wilke .......... 30 00
Grinnel, Minturn Co .......... 250 00
Cary Co .......... 200 00
Dow, Young Co .......... 100 00
Burdett Everitt .......... 100 00
Angell Co .......... 10 00
James K. Ford .......... 20 00
S. L. Fearing's Church, Rivington street .......... 22 20
S. J. L.--Bangor .......... 1 50
D. M. D .......... 20 00
Chas. M. Connolly Co .......... 100 00
Lathrop, Luddington Co .......... 100 00
E. K .......... 10 00
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.......... $30,716,54
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Brought forward .......... $30,716 54
F.H. Harrison .......... 15 00
Geo. J. Strong .......... 50 00
Dowley, Corners Co .......... 100 00
The Waiters of the U.S. Hotel,
Saratoga Springs, N.Y .......... 113 00
Christ Church, Bay Ridge, L.I .......... 29 50
J.H.W .......... 5 00
Wilson Cammann .......... 25 00
The New York Tribune .......... 200 00
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Clarkson Jay .......... 50 00
R.W. Hubbard .......... 1 00
H.G .......... 30 00
G.W. Wooster .......... 5 00
Henry Coit Son .......... 100 00
J.M.Q .......... 10 00
Rahway, N.J .......... 110 00
Mites from Sundry Poor .......... 6 75
G.C.W., Jr .......... 5 00
M.G.J .......... 4 00
Laura Graham .......... 2 00
J.G., Jr .......... 2 00
M.G.Y .......... 2 00
Jas. M. Drake Co .......... 100 00
Cash, W .......... 10 00
Cash, H.W .......... 3 00
Mr. Howe .......... 3 00
Gerrit Smith .......... 500 00
Henry Ellsworth .......... 100 00
Francis Skiddy .......... 100 00
Bently Burton .......... 25 00
A Working Man .......... 1 00
Capt. Ezra Nye .......... 50 00
Beards Cummings .......... 100 00
Geo. E. Baker .......... 10 00
A Lady in 12th street .......... 5 00
John H. Swift .......... 100 00
Burger, Hurlbut Livingston .......... 100 00
Equal Rights .......... 25 00
Through H. J. Raymond.
From J. Watts De Peyster .......... 200 00
" Union .......... 20 00
" E.S .......... 10 00
" Anonymous .......... 2 00
Sunday School of the Congregational
Church, Flushing,
L.I .......... 25 00
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.......... $33,070 79
Brought forward .......... $33,070 79
Through Rev. H.H. Garact.
From Marcus Spring .......... 20 00
Cash .......... 25 00
Ezra White .......... 25 00
Thos. W. Birdsall .......... 25 00
Proceeds of Fair, by Children of Families
Boarding at the house of W. H. Dibble,
Samford, Ct .......... 75 00
John Allen .......... 5 00
Lieut. S.W.B. Hughes .......... 10 00
H.H. Reynolds .......... 5 00
Knapp Peek .......... 5 00
Z.N.P .......... 5 00
John Jay .......... 50 00
Oliver K. King .......... 25 00
Major Wm. Henry Schieffelin .......... 25 00
Two Friends of the Colored People .......... 200 00
L.--Danbury, Ct .......... 5 00
Jesse W. Fell .......... 5 00
Wm. C. Swan .......... 1 00
Hempstead .......... 2 50
X.Y.Z .......... 2 00
Board of Brokers .......... 3,500 00
Cash, F.B .......... 50 00
" J.C.N .......... 10 00
" L.G..P .......... 5 00
" M.G.C .......... 2 00
L.B Binsse .......... 10 00
Geo. W. Titus .......... 25 00
Ellen .......... 25 00
R.H. McCurdy .......... 50 00
Cash .......... 20 00
W.R.M .......... 50 00
.......... 2 10
C.K.M .......... 20 00
Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church, 4th st,
and Lafayette Place .......... 110 54
A. J .......... 2 00
A Union Soldier .......... 7 00
George Douglass .......... 10 00
Wm. H. Fogg .......... 200 00
Through Abraham Bead.
From N.N .......... 1 00
Churches in Blakely, Pa .......... 19 75
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.......... $37,705 68
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Brought forward .......... $87,705 68
Thomas Warren .......... 5 00
Rev. Stephen II. Tyng's Church .......... 130 00
S.T .......... 3 00
Sam'l Dare .......... 2 50
43d Street Methodist Episcopal Church .......... 15 81
Union Meeting at Greenpoint Baptist Church .......... 33 68
Cash, Utica .......... 5 00
Cash .......... 100 00
Miss H.K. Wilkes .......... 10 00
From a Friend .......... 10 00
G.R.S .......... 10 00
S.S. Osgood .......... 75 00
Three Ladies .......... 100 00
.......... 5 00
Clergyman, through H.J. Raymond .......... 10 00
Isaac W. Jessup .......... 1 00
Thompson Bros .......... 100 00
Cash. Utica .......... 1 25
D. McLaren-Newport .......... 10 00
Halsted Stiles .......... 100 00
Fairbanks Co .......... 100 00
Henry Chauncey .......... 100 00
C.C. North .......... 25 00
F.W. Hutchins .......... 100 00
Francis Loutrel .......... 50 00
John II. Earle .......... 50 00
Howland Frothingham .......... 100 00
From Baltimore, through Mr. G. White .......... 10 00
Doctor J.P.B .......... 10 00
Mrs. Dr. Peter Clark .......... 10 00
A Member Rev. E.L. James Flushing M.E. Church .......... 3 00
Phillip Schuyler, U.S.A .......... 50 00
Henry Gilwaith Ward .......... 1 00
From Newport .......... 50 00
Sam'l V. Hoffman-New Brunwick .......... 100 00
E.W .......... 1 00
S.B.G .......... 250 00
Mrs. De Peyster .......... 25 00
Mrs. Robert L. Livingston .......... 25 00
Zalmon B. Wakeman, Southport, Ct .......... 100 00
Cash .......... 14 08
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.......... $39.007 00
Brought forward .......... $39.007 00
Andrew Mitchel .......... 5 00
Baptist Church, Middletown Rockland .......... 5 00
S.H .......... 1 00
Poor Laborers .......... 2 25
Through Mayor Opdyke.
From Rev. Wm. Paulin .......... 16 50
.......... Storis Bros .......... 100 00
.......... Cash- Philadelphia .......... 5 00
Hedding M.E. Church, East 17th street .......... 75 00
Welsh Calvinistic M.E. Church 13th street .......... 16 00
W.C.B. Newport, R.I .......... 5 00
H.E. Hicks .......... 10 00
G.G. Saxe .......... 7 00
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church .......... 155 35
West Presbyterian Church by A.D.F. Randolph .......... 220 00
additional subs. $150.00 .......... 370 00
Received, Unknown Friend .......... 5 00
Board of Brokers .......... 355 00
First Congregational Ch., Jersey City,
M. Holmes, Pastor, .......... 68 98
T.H .......... 1 00
From Colored Churches in Cincinnati,
through Peter H. Clark .......... 100 00
Mrs. Vincent Colyer .......... 75 00
From N.Y. Young Men's Christian Association,
through Vincent Colyer:
From Cash .......... 2 00
" Mr. W.W. Waldron .......... 50 00
" Mr. Merkle .......... 1 50
" Friend to the oppressed .......... 5 00
" Mrs. Boynton .......... 30 00
" Cash paid .......... 5 00
" Mr. Samuel Osgood .......... 10 00
" Pres. Ch. Franklinville, .......... 14 00
" G.H. Mathews .......... 2 00
" A.M. Catskill .......... 10 00
" Mrs. T.W. Albertson .......... 5 00
" A Friend, Westfield .......... 1 00
" A Friend of the Oppressed, Hion,
Hermiker Co .......... 10 00
" H.W. Saumerig .......... 5 00
" Mrs. II., of Hoboken .......... 1 00
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Total .......... $11.086 08
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COLLECTED AT THE NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE
BY
EDWARD CROMWELL, Esq.
Edward Cromwell .......... $ 50
Henry W. Smith .......... 50
Daniel Cromwell, Jr .......... 50
Whittlesey Sherwood .......... 50
John J. Marvin .......... 50
R.J. Randolph .......... 25
Jos. Allen Co .......... 25
Lewis Roberts .......... 50
L.M. Hoffman .......... 25
W.G. Wing .......... 25
H. Hill .......... 25
Charles Spear .......... 15
A. Randolph ..........
E.W. Vanderhoff .......... 10
W.D. Mangam .......... 25
W.H. Trafton .......... 20
J. Vanderbilt .......... 10
James Udall .......... 10
Thomas Woodward Co .......... 15
Stephen Valentine Sons .......... 25
A.M. Hoyt .......... 25
Sage Co .......... 25
W.E. Treadwell .......... 25
John W. Thorne .......... 20
Geo. A. Stephenson ..........
Cash, (N.B.) ..........
Theo. B. Woolsey .......... 10
Haight Johnson .......... 15
Smith J. Eastman .......... 50
Russell Averill .......... 25
Jos. B. Philips ..........
Holt Co .......... 25
A. Bradshaw .......... 10
Cash, (H.B.) .......... 30
J.M. Fiske Co .......... 50
Cash, (Howe) .......... 20
Vanboskerk Rowe Butler .......... 25
William C. Paxson .......... 25
E.J. Herrick ..........
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.......... $950
Brought forward .......... $950
J.B. Herrick .......... 25
S.T. Rogers .......... 25
Jas. O. Bennett Co .......... 25
F.E. Smith .......... 10
T.E. Jewell .......... 10
G. Miller ..........
E.W. Coleman .......... 25
G.B. Ferris ..........
Cash .......... 10
Cash (P. Co) .......... 10
J.W. Merritt ..........
Samuel Hoyt .......... 10
Jesse Hoyt .......... 20
Wm. A. Brown .......... 25
Tempkins Co .......... 25
Cash. (Davis) ..........
P.S. Co ..........
Cash, (A) ..........
Cash, (A.S.) .......... 10
Geo. B. Powell Co .......... 25
A.H. Pomroy Co .......... 25
A.M. Leach .......... 10
Wm. A. Fowler .......... 50
David Dows Co .......... 50
Nason Collins ..........
Jno. H. Boughton .......... 25
E.V. Shotwell .......... 10
E. Titus .......... 10
Henry Rawls .......... 10
Cash ..........
Wm. F. George .......... 10
Drew French .......... 10
C.H. Trumbull .......... 25
James L. Baldwin ..........
Edmund Titus .......... 10
Titus, Frazee Titus .......... 10
Clark, Clapp Co .......... 10
Total, .......... $1,511
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CLOTHING RECEIVED AT DEPOT,
350 FOURTH STREET.
Order of the Misses Woolsey on Women's Employment Society, for $100 worth of
Clothing, for women and children.
1 Package John 11. Keyser, 15 Centre Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Curtis.
.......... .......... Mrs. Martin, 62 E. 19th Street.
.......... .......... Miss Boardman, 60 2d Avenue.
.......... .......... Mrs. C.L.C.
.......... .......... Dr. Green. 12 Clinton Place.
.......... .......... Mrs. Bond. 48 E. 11th Street.
.......... .......... Mrs. Knox. 250 Canal Street.
.......... .......... Mrs. Thompson. Brooklyn.
.......... .......... Mrs. Wm. Curtis, 565 5th Avenue.
.......... .......... Mrs. E.P. Gilbert. Brooklyn.
.......... .......... Mrs. A. Belden. Ravenswood.
.......... .......... Clarendon Hotel. Saratoga Springs.
.......... .......... Mrs. A. Thorp, Fairfield, Ct.
.......... .......... Mrs. G. Merritt, Perth Amboy, N.J.
.......... .......... Mr. J.E. Body, 7 Waverly Place.
.......... .......... J. Mayell.
.......... .......... Miss Baker.
.......... .......... Miss Blunt, 21 W. 12th street.
.......... .......... Mrs. Warsworth.
.......... .......... Abraham Beal.
.......... .......... Mrs. Gillman. 13 Charles St.
.......... .......... Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, 18 Washington Square.
.......... .......... Mrs. A. Hamilton,
.......... .......... Mrs. A. Roe, 33 E. 24th Street.
.......... .......... Mrs. Putnam. 133 46th Street.
.......... .......... 156 Henry Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Zabiskie, 20 W. 21st Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Beal. 25 Centre.
.......... .......... Mrs. Hollie. Farmersville. N. Y.
.......... .......... Mrs. W.H. Barrow, Brooklyn.
.......... .......... Mrs. M.H. Gurnsey. 37 East 11th Street:
.......... .......... Mr. Hutchinson. Williamsburgh.
.......... .......... 13 Charles Street
.......... .......... Mrs. Hagan, 45th Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Douglass. N. Y. City.
.......... .......... 67 W. 22d Street.
.......... .......... 6 E. 45th Street.
.......... .......... 5 E. 45th Street.
.......... .......... Dr. W.H. Durvella, 119 10th street.
.......... .......... Mrs. A.G. Avery. 465 Broadway.
.......... .......... D.G. Francis. 582 Broadway.
.......... .......... 150 12th Street
.......... .......... J.M. Irving.
.......... .......... 52 W. 15th Street.
.......... .......... 39 W. 46th Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Weber. 183 Bleecker Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Collins. 49 11th Street.
.......... .......... Mrs. Halsted. 63 2d Avenue.
.......... .......... Mr. Clark, 84 W. 26th Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Moffitt, 7 Barclay Street.
.......... .......... University Place.
.......... .......... 30th Street.
.......... .......... Tarrytown N.Y.
.......... .......... Mrs. L.M. Hoyt, Staatsburgh, N.Y.
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.......... .......... A.G. Avery, Surgeon N.Y.S. Cavalry.
.......... .......... Mrs. J.H. De Kay.
.......... .......... R.S. Potts. Williamsport. Penn.
.......... .......... Mrs. M.J. Buck. Flushing, L.I.
.......... .......... Abraham Beal. 15 Centre Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Davis. N.Y. City.
.......... .......... No. 11 E. 47th Street.
.......... .......... S.A. Patridge. 26 W. 15th Street.
.......... .......... Mr. Webb. Harlem.
.......... .......... No. 39 W. 46th Street.
.......... .......... Miss Griffin. 9th Street and 2d Avenue.
.......... .......... Dr. J.S. Hewitt. 47 E. 13th Street.
.......... .......... Mrs. Colyer, 105 Bleecker street.
.......... .......... No. 300 Mulberry Street.
.......... .......... No. 67 Doane street.
.......... .......... No. 3 35th Street.
.......... .......... Rome. N.Y.
.......... .......... No. 13 3d Avenue.
.......... .......... No. 92 26th Street.
31 " .......... Unknown.
.......... .......... Friend of the Destitute.
.......... .......... Misses Merritt. 82 East 26th Street.
A total of 117 Packages, containing 2000 pieces, distributed among 600 persons.
Received too late for insertion in the Subscription List,Evening Post Bill of
Printing, $5.
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