2 P.M. From Twenty-ninth. A large mob surrounded Captain Green's house, Twenty-eighth Street, Third Avenue. He escaped out of the back window; they threatened to hang him. 3.10 P.M. To Eleventh. Send to foot of Fourteenth Street, East River, and if military is there, send word here forthwith. 3.15. From Twenty-fourth. Mob are firing the building on Second Avenue, near Twenty-eighth Street. Immediate assistance is required. Houses occupied by negroes, who are fleeing for their lives. 3.25. From Twentieth. The mob are sacking houses at Twenty-seventh Street and Seventh Avenue. We have no force to send. 3.30. From Twenty-first. There is an attack on the colored people in Second Avenue, between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets. 3.40. From Eleventh. Send to 242 Stanton Street, and take possession of cavalry swords forthwith. There were five thousand cavalry swords there, and the mob were assembling to capture them; and the telegram announcing the fact, and the one ordering a force to seize them, were received and answered the same minute. 3.55. To Twenty-first. How do things look? _Ans_. Very bad; large crowd in Thirty-fifth Street, near Third Avenue, and no assistance from adjoining precinct. 4 o'clock. To Twenty-first. What is going on? _Ans_. The mob have captured some five or six negroes, and are preparing to hang them; be quick with reinforcements. 4.43. From Twentieth. News have just come in that the mob are about to attack the Twenty-second Precinct station-house. 5.15. From Sixteenth. Send us one hundred special shields and clubs; the citizens are arming up well. 5.15. From Twenty-ninth. Who feeds the special men? _Ans_. You must, far as able. _Reply_. No money. _Ans_. It makes no difference; they must be fed; we are responsible. 5.20. From Twenty-ninth. The rioters are now on Seventh Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street. They have just killed a negro; say they are going to cut off the Croton; they have pickaxes and crowbars; and also say they will cut off the gas; so reported by one of our men, who has been in the crowd; they were about to fire corner of Twenty-eighth Street and Seventh Avenue, when he came away. To have cut off the water and extinguished the gas, would have been master-strokes; but the military arrived in time to prevent it. 5.25. From First. Riot at Pier 4, North River; they have killed negroes there. Thus, at the same moment, from the two extreme ends of the city, came the news of riots and calls for help. From points five miles apart, the wires would bring simultaneously tidings that showed the mob omnipresent. In the midst of all these incessant exhausting labors, the following telegram came from the Twentieth Precinct: "General Sandford says he has so many negroes at the arsenal, that he must get rid of them." Acton's answer was characteristic. He had no time for formalities or courteous exchange of views. In an instant there flashed back over the wires the curt reply: