The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-01
LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS.

able condition. Every week, or oftener,
some outrageous murders or assassinations
of respectable citizens, are recorded. The
principal cause of this state of things is at
tributed to the ill-feeling engengered be-
tween the natives and foreigners growing
out of the know-nothing movement. The
New Orleans Courier has an account of the
meeting in that city last week of about 3OO
French and other citizens of foreign birth,
to take into consideration measures for
their own safety, with reference to violence
which had been or may be perpetrated upon
them. The Courier says:
"a member of the meeting then referred
to the killing of Frenchman named Cir
stated that he was killed, not in consequence
of any political question, as it was before
the election, but because he was foreigner !!
The speaker said the police had not arrest
ed the murderer; that the police is either
bad or inefficient; that the lives of foreign
crs are placed in great peril, and that some
measures are necessary to secure to foreign
ers that protection which they now want.
The remarks of the speaker were received
with acclama:ion. The meeting declared
its members were willing to leave to Amer
leans the management of their own affairs,
and only asked for themselves security and
protection. 1t was decided to present an
address to the government at Washington
asking aid and protection for the foreign
ers, residents of this city, and another to
the French government"
The Mayor of New Orleans, Gen. Lewis,
states that numerous citizens applied to him
for the privilege of carrying arms. He told
them they might carry them openly, and
thousands now carry them in this way
The True Delta says there is not one man
in ten in the city who does not carry about
his person deadly weapons-and defends
the practice, for the reason that "all law
and order are at an end, and bullies and
stereotyped assassins walk the streets
unmolested, and it behooves every man
whose life is worth anything to himself or
his family to be in a position to defend HIM
self''
The last New Orleans papers contain the
particulars of two fatal affairs that took
place there Saturday night week, which do
not appear to have any connection with
party feeling. The chief actor in the first
was Michael Higgins, clerk in large cot
ton house, who went home drunk, and call
i 1; a e. 1,,;,, II
water. She replied there was water in a
pitcher on the table; he told her to get it
for him Immediately, or he would shoot her
upon this she was so frightened that she
ran out upon the gallery of the house. push
ed the door to after her, and stood against
it in a STOPPING position, watching for him
and thereupon he placed the muzzle of q
! double barreled shot gun, loaded with squir-
rel shot against it, and fired through the
door, lodging one of the charges in her alb.
domen, and causing a wound of which she
died in about six hours.
The other was Ed. Wisely, who had q
difficulty with Captain JOS. Gibson, and on
| Saturday night intercepted him on his way
home with his wife. He Immediately sprang
! at the Captain with a bowie knife, and
wounded him severely in his right arm, just
below the shoulder. With a second thrust
he cut him in his left arm. Mrs. Gibson
then ran between her husband and the as
sassin, and received stab in her abdomen
which is expected to result fatally. By this
time Captain G. had drawn knife, and
though so severely wounded, he plunged il
with fatal force into the assassin's heart
and he died there without struggle.
RAILROAD FOUNDLING.-Thc New York