The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-06-07
KEvOEUTION IN NEW oRLEANsl
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VIGILANCE COMMITTEE EsTApLIsHEp.

! VIGILANuE COMMITTEE EsTAELlsHEps8
New ORLEANS, June 5.
/ A revolution broke out last night, and q
! Vigilance Committee in large numbers took
i possession of the Arsenal 10 Jackson Square
/ and the prisons. This morning an Executivs
/ Committee calls for all the law and order
people to Join hem, and announce their de-
termination to carry their measures out
/ Nothing else has transpired.
/ SEVEN o'cLocK-Loadea cannon are pos
/ ted around the Arsenal, and about two hun
dred men are on guard.
! The following appeared this morning:
The citizens Of New Orleans, after years
Of discord, outrage, and unchecked AesAssi-
nation, unable ana unwilling eith1r 20 bow
down in unresisting submission TO set Of
rutians, or to abandon the city in which their
! business, their social sympAthies and affec-
tions cluster, have at length risen in their
might, and have quietly taken possession o.
tho Arsenal buildings in Jackson Squares
and have established the headquarters Of the
! Vigilance Committee, pledging each to the
other to maintain the rights nviolable OF
every peaceabe and law abiding citizen, re-
store public order, abate crime, and expel or
punish, rs they may determine, such notori-
/ GUS rufhans and assassins as the arm Of the
| Law haa, either from the infdelity of its pub
| lilo noryants or the incfhcency of the laws
the avss, left unwhpped of justice.
| For he present the ordinary machinery Of
police Justice is superseded, the Mayor and
| the Recorders, we understand, yielding the
power, they confess inability to exercise for
the preservation Of the public peace, and
the preservation of property, and the Vigi-
lance Committee will therefore professionally
act in their stead, administering to each and
every malefactor the punishment due to his
crimes, without heat, prejudice or political
| bias. All citizens who have sympathies with
this movement, and who think the time has
come when New Orleans shall be preserved
like all other we'll ordered and civilized oom-
munities, will report themselves without de-
lay 81 the principal office, where the charac-
~ Of this movement will be explained, and
the determinations Of the people more fully
made known.
All has been done noiselesslv thus far, and
all will continue noislessly, dispassionately
and Justly, nut the rutlians who have dyed
our streets in the gorc OF unofendng ctti-
zcns, and spread terror among the peacea-
BILE, orderly and we'll disposed, must leave or
parish.
Il (Signel) VoN puPULI V0X DEL.
4 True pElIA EXTRA.
i Seven TO eight hundred men are under arms
now 10 o'clock, and several arrests have been
made. 1t is reported that opposition will be
made, in which case a severe battle is GER
tain. Volunteers are still crowding up.
Il O'clock ten. Tracy's Division Of Mil
tia has been ordered out by the Mayor.
ll:30--lhe Common Council is in secret
session, and there is considerable confusion
among them. The excitement on the street
~ L
sion Of the First District Armory sith ten
rounds Of ammunition. A battle is expected
this afternoon. More arrests have been
made.
FIFTH DISPATCH.
One o'clock--1he Mayor and Council have
gone to the Vigilance headquarters to read
the riot act. Two companies of militia are
engaged inmaking cartridges. The Vigilance
Committee have established signals, three
guns fired from the Arsenal. All supporters
are invited to repair to tho Arsenal and re
sst attacks.
The excitement is Increasing. The Mayor
has issued an order TO arrest John Maglnnis,
, editor Of the True Delta and il taken de.
clare they viii hang him. Mac takes il cool
In the New Orleans Delta Of Friday pre-
n, W !.
. The Delta, no doubt desirnedly. treated the
;at. aI;, -. 4.
i"' '''o' ''''e
TuE VtcrrAscp CouvIrrrv 1t having been
whispered about for some time past, among
those who profess to be knowing ones, that
Vigilance Committee, after the California
style, was secretly being organized in our
city. some wag, thinking il good opportu
nifty for frightening some Of the ssb'hoys. .
directed q large number of notices through
the post ofice this morning, purportiny to
j have emenAted from the Committee, warning
them to mend their ways or prepare to swing.
,, The following ia true COW of one shown
TO as:
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Ngw ORLEANS. NAV "a. 1858.
.'. 1'f ~ "oiooN "osiis
"'1 eNc you Warning, 'hat On 'ne next occa-
: your misconduct IN knocking down men aud
several other misaeineanoFs, our committee
. oroush' peiore our ,Fipntai, "here your evil