The Arkansas Advocate

Riots. The Three Nights at New York.

The editor of the New York Enquirer speaks thus of these riots: "Such was the excitement on the first ebullition of feeling, that until they had accomplished their work of destruction, we do not think they could have been subdued by any trifling police force; but this remark does not apply in any way to the disturbances on the evenings of Thursday and Friday. All the destruction of property which took place on these two evenings, was effected by less than one hundred men and boys, whose object was mischief in its greatest extent, and one half of whom were in a state of intoxication. Some thousands of spectators followed, and witnessed their proceedings.—We were constantly among them, and we do not hesitate to assert as on deliberate conviction—which is equally entertained by all who witnessed these riots—that there was no disturbance at any period of time on Thursday or Friday evenings, which three determined watchmen could not have suppressed in five minutes!"