Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-06-09
Terrible Excitement in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, June 3.-Ir consequence
of disorder, outrage, and assassination,
which has SO long prevailed here unchecked
Vigilance Committee has been formed, and
bids fair to be as formidable as the reform
movement which existed in San Francisco
We are in the midst of revolution, Last
night the Vigilance Committe assembled in
large numbers, and took possession of the
arsenal cn jackson square, and the prisons.
This morning the Executive Committee
calls for ali Law and order men to join them,
and announces their determination to carry
out their measures Of reform. Nothing else
has yet trauspired.
At o'clock this morning the cannon were
loaded and posted upon the ground. Two
hundred armed men are on guard.
SECOND DESPATCH.
New ORLEANS, June 3, 10 O'Clock a VI
The following appeared this morning:
The citizens OF New Orleans, after Years
Of disorder, outrage, and unchecked assassi-
nation, the people unable and unwilling to
| either to bow down in uuresisting submission
to set of rufians, or to abandon the city in
| which their business, their social sympathies
and their affections cluster. have ct length
risen In their might, have quietly taken pcs
! session of the arsenal and buildings in Jack
son square, and have established there the
| headquarters Of Nigilanre Committee,
pledgng each to the other, to maintain the
! rights inyiolably of every peaceful and law
| abiding citizen, to restore public order, to
| abate crime, and expel or punish AS they may
| determine, such notorious robbers and assas-
sins as the arm of the law has, either from
the infdelity of its public servants. or the in
efficiency Of the laws themselves, left unwip-
ped of justice.
For the present the ordinary machinery o
police justice is superseded, the mayor auc
recorders, we understand, yielding up thei
power they confess their inability to exer
else for the preservation of the public peac
and the preservation of property.
And the Vigilance Committee will there
fore Professionally act in their stead, admin
istering to each and every malefactor th
punishment due to his crimes, without hate
prejudice or political bias.
r All citizens who have sympathies with thi
: movement, aud who think the Time has con,
: when New Orleans shall be preserved, lik
f all other well-ordered and civilized commu
t mites, will report themselves without della
at the principal office, where the character {
this movement will be explained and the d.
termination of the people more fully mad
: known. All this has been done noiselessl
y thus far. All-will continue noiselessly, di
passionately and justly. But the ruffans VII
t have dyed our streets in the gore of unofen
: ding citizens and spread terror among Il
a peaceable, orderly and well-disposed, mu
: leave or perish. 80 the people have dete
| mined
q [Signed Vox PoPULI! Vox DEL %
o The True Delta extra saye that from seve
t to eight hundred men are under arms, al
q | now 10 o'clock several arraS.s bayn bax
e made. 1t is reported that opposition will
= made, in which case severe battle will
: certain.
ii THIRD DESPATCH, A. NJ,
s NEW ORLEANS, June 3-1I o'clock
r General Tracy's division of military has bee
e ordered out by the Mayor
: FOURTH DESPATCH.
: New ORLEANS, June 3--l1A O'Clock
If The Common Council is now in secre. sessi,
e and considerable confusion exists among the