Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-20
THE NEW ORLEANS RIOTS.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
TWO MEN KILLED.

We have received no dispatches from New
Orleans of later date than the 10th inst The
New Orleans papers of the l4th came to hand
this morning In the Picayune We find the
following account of the outrages committed
by the mob on the preceding Tuesday night :
RENEWAL OF THE RIors-Mors Shooting
We regret to state that we were premature
last night when we stated that everything was
quiet in the city. 1t appears that a little be-
fore ii o'clock an excited mob attacked the
coffee house of Timothy Duffy, No. IS New
Levee street, and fred several shots at the in
| mates The latter succeeded in closing the
| doors and shutting the rioters out, who re-
tired. About twenty minutes after they re-
turned and forced open the doors. entered the
| coffee house and smashed everything in the
| bar They then proceeded to search the house
| and found man secreted in the back kitchen.
| whom hey dragged out. The other inmates
| of the house had secreted themselves near the
roof and escaped the search. The man who
was dragged out was named John Kane and
only arrived here at o'clock last night from
Louisville. What became of him is not known.
As near as could be ascertained. he was
dragged down Lafayette street towards the
Levee the mob disputing whether thew should
shoot him or not. When near the Alabama
Exchange, on the corner of New Levee and
Fulton streets, several shots were heard, but
whether Kane was killed or not it is impossible
to say. At any rate, he has not been heard of
since. Along Lafayette street, from New
Levee to Fulton street, there are tracks of
blood, but they cease at the corner If Kane
was killed, the question arises what became of
the body. The mob would hardly take the
trouble to carry it to the river aud throw it in
and it is therefore hoped that he may have
escaped and may now be concealed in the
house of some of his friends This is es pecially
| to be wished for as the unfort unate man was
entirely innocent of all participation in the
previous riots
man named Barney Boylan was shot in
| the leg in this ARRAY, but the wound ia not
serious. The cause alleged for this outrage
| Is, til at on the previous night some shots were
fired from Dufy's house. This the latter
strenuously denies, avering that there was
| not fire arm of any description in the house,
| except an old rusty double barreled pistol,
| which he exhibited to US, and which bore no
| appearance of having been used within the
present century We sincerely regret TO state
| that the rioters on the occasion boldly avowed
| themselves to be Americans. There were not
over twenty or thirty of them engaged in the
| riot, and so silently and quickly was it done
that no intimatiOn was received at the Square
| until long after the rioters had dispersed
| Then portion of the military passed out and
visited the scene of the disorder. but every
thing was quiet, and there was nothing to call
for their interposition.
Another human life was sacrificed last night,
| but it was some distance from the scene of tho
| above riot, and bears more TIE appearance of
| an assassination or cold blooded murder than
anything else The report on the police books
| this morning is that dead man was brought to
the upper station watch about IL o clock,
having been found by Waterman 81. Ivan, on
Tchoupitoulas street, near the corner of Erato
The deceased had been shot through the head
by some person unknown, and was identified
| as man named Porter, q native of Ireland,
and married man. He was employed as a
clerk in the lumbar yard of Messrs Gavins,
Ledda d Co., on tho corner of St James and
Levee streets, and his residence is on St Mary
| street, Fourth District He was about 30 years
of age. There was no riot or semblance of one
at the place where the body was found at any
time during the night. 1t is, therefore, reason
able to suppose that Porter's death was either
a deliberately planned murder or caused by
the wanton and reckless discharge of fire arms
in the street, several specimens of which we
saw around Lafayette Square last night.