The daily union., 1856-11-07
KNOW. NOTHING ourRAeEs IN NEW ORLEANS.

KNoW-NOTHTNG oUTRAGEs IN NEW ORLEANS.
1t would appear from the telsgraphle dispatches pub
shed in yesterdays issue Of the Union that the know
nothngs Of New Orleans equaed il they did not surpas
their brethren Baltimore the day Of the presidential
election in extensive frauds and murerous outrages The
coming events Of the 4th instant thus foreshadowed
in the Louisiana Courier Of the issue of October 3l
"on Wednesday night little before IL O'Clock gang
rufans eight nine in number disguised in false whiSker
and with their faces partially backened entered the coffee
house Of Mr. H. H. Sturken At the of ST. Louis and
Mara streets knocked down the barkeeper with sung
shot, turned upon Mr. Surken who sitting with several
gentlemen around table playing game and beat him
the head with the murderous implement Mr. Sturken
raised chair and drove Of the seoundres back he
then escaped out Of the door, where others of the gang struck
him down. and left him for dead the pavement The bar
keeper dangerously wounded From the spot where he
struck to the chamber where he carried the floors
and staircase were covered with his blood .a. ..
Z Not word said by the villains their movements
apparently preconcerted executed in few seconds
Both the men beaten quiet and respectable citizens
German by birth. n.s. ..U.as ....aa #
few minutes before this murderous assault Mr. j. T.
kathman proprietor of another coffee house at the corner
OF Marais and Bienve knocked down with heavy
weapon a ke stood the sidewalk before his door, being
about to close for the night His head badly
neither heard any before he received the blow
Similar gangs of disguised maraudersperhaps the
one-vted other places below Rampant street the
hsht insulting abusing, aud stealing from propretors of
drinking saloons &c. After taking several drinks all around
they would refuse to pay them and tell them charge
it to Fillmore .n...-
Policemen said to have been near the corner of
St. Louis and Marias streets when the made
away sprngng their rattes whether from fear from
an ndposton to interfere for the purpose obtaining
assistance, is not known The police at present oons
tuted organized and controlled, is of little servics in pre-
venting depredaons and of at all in bringing Offend
ers to justice. II ts partisan police.
God only knows how long this afflicted city is to remain
in its present condition. Our citizens had the gov
wrested from their hands by violence and wrong in June
last and it that the sway of rowdysm is continue
until tramped in the dust thought that the
bitter cup filled long ago, but after fitted drive
to desperation had without effort bring the
offenders justice their frequency and nquy
ten-fod Looking to the police protection the
of the law abiding citizen, to be quite hopeless
IL bad in the elements of which is constituted worse in
its organization, with nothing to redeem it in tho manner
in which is controlled We shall be the last believe that
lacks the disposition go between the people and
those who do them such grevous and shameless wrongs
The only why he does not do it because he
He rode into power tide of ruansm his voice is not
sufficient to control it.
The ruanly it melancholy duty to chronicle
above had but motive the sole object create
panic among naturaized citizens 1t il of piece with
the dsgraceu assault the Horse Station and many others
of the character. Even while write satisfied
that schemes OF still deeper and blooder yany are con-
coctng. -.#.. a.. 49, s...sa. #"
+" For the sake of the good of cyfor the sake
outraged and nsuted humantyor the sake of decency
and mercyet all good unite in condemnng discounte
nancng and putting end to this amentabe and disgrace
full business"