From the Chicago (M.) Democrat.

RIOT ON THE CANAL.
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Just as the Common Council adjourned on
Monday night last about Q o'clock, an express
reached the Mayor from. the Canal Commission
ers, requesting him to send a company Of armed
men to Captain Brooks job, about 20 miles from
here, to cooperate with another company from
Will county in arresting the leaders Of gang OF
Irishmen, who, to the number of nearly four
hundred, were destroying all the property with
in their reach, and were threatening to take the
lives Of the people in the vicinity, after having
burnt all of Capt. Brooks buildings. The Cap
tain had shot one. Before 10 o'clock, notwiti,-
standing the extreme codness of the weather, a
company of nearly 100 men was paraded, well
supplied with guns, bayonets, &c. and disbanded
for the night Early yesterday morning. they
left under Captain Hunter, formerly Of the United
States service, and took with them cannon
with good quantity Of canister and "a car
tridges. Our last accounts represented the
Irishmen on the upper and lower sections as
fastening as fast as possible to the seat Of acar.
The disturbance is said to have arisen from an
attempt to pay the Irishmen in "Wild Cat" mo-
ney. when the contractors received Illinois.
..Wild Cat" will buy provisions Of no kind.