Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-15
EXCITEMENT IN NEW. ORLEANS.
A Vigilance Committee ImnuRu-
rated.
BLOODY BATTLE EXPECTED.
New ORLEANS. luna

NEW ORLEANS, June 8.
A revolution broke out last night. The
Vigilance Committee, in large numbers,
took possession Of the arsenal in Jackson
square, and the prisons.
This morning the Executive Committee
called for all law and order people TO ioin
them, and announced their determination
70 carry out their measures.
Nothing else has transpired yet. At
seven O'Clock cannon were loaded, and
placed about the arsenal. About two
hundred armed men are on guard.
The following appeared this morning.:
Citizens of New Orleans, after years Of
disorder, outrage, and unchecked assassi-
nation, the people, unable and unwilling
either to bow down in unresisting submiss-
ion to set of ruffians, or to abandon
the city in which their business, their So
cial sympathies and their affections cluster,
have at length risen in their might, and
have quietly taken possession of the Arse
nal, and the buildings in jackson square,
and have established there the head quar-
ters of Vigilance Committee, pledginr
each to the other to maintain the rights
lnvlolably OF every peaceful and law-abi-
ding citizen, restore order, abate crime,
and expel or punish as they may determine,
such notorious robbers and assassius as
the arm of the law has, either from the
infdelity of its public servants, or the
inefficlency of the laws themselves, left
unwhipped of justice. For the present,
the ordinary machinery of police justice
is superseded. The Mayor ana Recorder.
we understand, in yielding up their power,
confess their ina ability to exercise it for
the preservation of the public peace, and
the preservation of property.
The Vigilance Committee, therefore,
Professionally act in their stead, admin
lister to each and every malefictor the
punishment due his crimes, without heat,
prejudice or political bias. All citizens
who have sympathies with the movement,
and who think the time has come when
New Orleans shall be preserved, like all
other well-ordered and civilized communi-
ties will report themselves without delay,
at the principal office, where the character
of this movement will be explained, and
the determination of the people more fully
made known.
All has been done noiselessIy thus far.
All will continue noiselessly, dispassion-
ately and justly, but tho rufiians who have
dyed our streets with the gore of unof-
tending citizens, and spread terror among
the peaceable, orderly, and well-dsposed,
must leave or perish. So the people haye
determined Signed, zoe populi, vor del.
The "True Delta" says 700 or 800 are
under arms now-1O O'Clock.
Several arrests have been made. 1t is
reported that opposition will be made, in
which case severe battle is certain.
Volunteers are still crowdins up.
The District Attorney entered noll in
Walkers case. i
ELEVEN O'CLOCK A. NJ.
Gen Tracy's Division Of the Militia are
ordered out by the Mayor.
The Common Council is in secret sess-
ion. :,
The Council got possession of the fiji rst )
district srmory, with only few rounds !
Of ammunition. :
A battle is expected this afternoon. !
More arrests have been made.
TWELVE O'CLOCK M. t
The Mayor and Council have gone to
he headquarters of the Vigilance Com y
nttee to read the Riot Act. Two Com :
oanies Of the Militia are engaged in making
cartridges.
The Vigilance Committee have estab- Z
ished signals-t!lree guns fred from the
Arsenal-with their supporters, repair to
he Arsenal to resist an attack.
EIGHT O'CLOCK P. NJ. p
The Vigilance Committee are still tri-
Imphant. No fight as yet.
Cotton bales have been torn up and used al
or barricading the streets. =, :,
The city force is an unarmed rabble- m
With no organization or lead.
The Mayor has issued orders to take 1t
rms wherever they can be found. Oh
Acting Oh this order, the labble broke g.,
pen and seized weapons in Ki;tridge's
tore. -,
1t is expected the Vigilance Committee su
'ill seize the City Hall Tomorrow ~
lands o. armed ruffians are parading the in
ireets. The stores were compelled to y
lose this afternoon. The Vigilance Com IA
littee is suppoi oited by the most respecta- q, ia
10 citizens. The Municipal authorities W
lust succumb So
A terrible fight is expected to night
he gathering around the head quar-
RS of the Vigilance Committee is i'm re- re-
lenSe.