The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-17
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THE NEW ORLEANS RIOTS.

tne eIectlOn rlotS there is the most correct
its statements of any yet published. and one
these gentlemen is an ultra Democrat.
Iplaces the affair in it's true light:
(From the N. o. Creseent)
THE ELECTION YEsTERDAY-VIoLENe
BLooDsHED AND DEATH We yesterday ci
Iculated industriously through the city, for tt
purpose of seeing, or ascertain in the partic,
lars of the difficulties we feared would occu
from our belief that fraud and violence wou]
be attempted by the myrmydons of the Den
ocratic party, and our conviction that til
Americans would meet those demonstration
with the sacrifice of their lives, if necessar,
The result proved that we were not mistake
in our calculations.
| TAt the Seventh Precinct there were sever,
serious fracases. A man named Thomas Pal
Ion otferep to vote, and was challenged. Fl
stated, in a very insolent manner that h
would swear that he was a legal voter, bu
would not take the trouble to go home for hi
naturalization papers. He was told he wouIt
have to get them. He then became very nois,
was ordered to leaVe-refused, and showed
highland was in consequence badly beaten
He was taken to the hospital. An Irishmar
named Edward Kirk was also taken to the
hospital, having been badly beaten by two
men in the vicinity of the polls. How he in
CURED the assault we could not ascertain.
A notorious sailor boarding house runner
named Charles Mackay, Ga native of New
foundland, it is said, went to the Precinct (the
SEVENTH evidently intent on raising a row.
A foreigner being challenged, and questioned
according to the form, Mackay interrupted
the judge by putting in questions of his own.
He was told, by man who stood behind him,
to keep quiet. Upon this he became more
boisterous, and. refusing to obey an order to
leave, he was pushed away At that he drew
a horse-p pistol from beneath his shirt, Che was
in his shirt sleeves, all fixed up for fighting,
and fired full at the man who told him to leave,
but fortunately missed him. He then drew a
dagger and started to run, but before he got off
some one stabbed him. He is stabbed through
the lungs, and his head badly cut.
The most furious affair of the day came off
at the Eleventh precint, on Orleans street, in
the Second district-the polls being at the en-
trance of the Orleans ball room, close by the
Opera House. The affair resulted in the kill
ing of three men, the perhaps mortal wound
ing of the fourth, and the wounding of several
others. 1t also proved the damnable fact that
the notorious Sicilian gang, the worst band Of
thieves and assassins that over infested CITY
sans, to go to the polls and shoot down Ameri-
can citizens while standing guarding their
dearest privileges. We heard it reported pre-
viously, that this band had been engaged, but
were utterly unable to believe it, until we be-
held the appalling and bloody proof of it. Our
best information in regard to the transaction is
this: 1t was generally reported that quite a
number of the Sicilians were scattered around
in the neighborhood, during the forenoon, in
the coffee-houses and other places, and chat
they were under the control of ex-Recorder
Joseph Genois. One of them, hillarous with
wine, it is said, boasted that he and crowd of
his companiC ms, had been breakfasting and
having ajolly time with Genois.
Mr.. Genois, at little before II O'clock was
seen to take leave of several of the Sicilians,
saying odios as he left. Ten minutes after
wards, two 4Sicillians went up to the polls and
one of them, an unknown man, offered to vote
His vote was challenged. The other Sicilian,
| heavy-se practical looking fellow, well
known under the American alias of ] oe Will
Jams, asserted boisterously that his friend had
right to vote-he knew him to be legal
7oter. The judges still refused to receive the
Tote, ,and the Sicilian thereupon ran out into the
street and raised cry in his native language,
he purport of which was, "Here, here! come
quickly" The cry was quickly responded to;
or the members ofthe gang came running out
If houses and alley-walls across the street,
With drawn knives and revolvers, and COM
nenced an indiscriminate firing and slashing
It all the people in the street, and at the crowd
Iround the polls in particular. An universal
,anic and stampede was the consequence; the
,olls and the street, all the way from Royal to
Bourbon street, were cleared in few seconds
th;c onc1onrht Mr. Norbar+
he clerk of the First district court, was, bad
y, perhaps mortally wounded; Mr.. Leon Char
rot was poignarded in the breast, but not dan
and Mr.. La Trange, Jr., was stabbed
n the shoulder and shot, in the hand
Mr.. Trepagnier was drinking with Mr.. Fab
e in the coffee-house adjoing the pools; hear
ng the firing outside he ran out and saw an
acquaintance of his, Democrat, with revol-
'er in his hand. He went up to him in a
riendly way to take the weapon from him,
when Williams, the big Sicilian who raised
he alarm, ran up to him and stabbed him in
he breast and in the abdomen with bayonet
stuck on wooden handle; and the same mo-
nent he was shot through one of his thighs and
through one of his arms. Mr. La FRANCE was
'unning for life when he was shot and stabbed
lie continued his fight and took refuge in the
shop of bird-cage maker on st. Peter street;
lear the Corners Office. Afterwards he went
home in a carriage. He was not mortally
wounded.
The news of the Sicilian onslaught spread
ike wildfre through the city and lnfurlated
Americans, came running from every quarter.
Vengence was the cry and the crowd started
,ff in frenzy after the swarthy-sklnnera assass-
ns They visited their well known retreat,
he Hotel de la Marina, on Old Levee street
between the markets but the Sicilians disap-
oeared like rats at their approach. A general
search was instituted, and finally Williams,
the head assassin, with one of his crowd, was
ound concealed in an upstairs room. Both