Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-06-05
Extraordinary Uprising eff Ghe People of
New Orleans.
500 CITIZ EMS UNDER ARMS.
MILITARY ORDERED OUT.

municipal revolution broke out at New Or
leans, on Wednesday night, June 2. The people,
weary of the disorder, outrage, and assassipatiOns
which have prevailed there, unchecked by the city
authorities, rose, in great numbers, and, under
the direction OF a vigilance committee, took
quiet possession of the Arsenal buildings in Jack
son Square, and the prisons. On Thursday
morning. the committee issued a proclamation
stating that, for the present, the ordinary ma
chinery of police justice is superseded, and that
the city authorities, the mayor, &C., being un-
able to exercise their power for the preservation
Of the public peace and the security OF property
the vigilance committee will, Professionally. act
in their stead, and administer TO each and euery
nlalefactor the punishment due to hiScrimes, with
out prejudice or political bias 1t calls upon all
who favor the movement to report themselves,
without delay, at the principal Office, and closes
thus
Gan has been done noiselessly thus far. All
will continue noiselessly, dispassionatey, and
justly but the ruffians who have dyed
streets with the gore of unoffendng citizens, and
spread terror among the peacea6le, orderly, and
we'll disposed, must leave perish. So the peo
Pile have determined. Voz popn6 uor Del"
At one O'Clock. Thursday, P. NJ. the mayor
and council proceeded to the headquarters of the
vigilance committee, to read the riot act. Two
companies of militia were engaged in making
cartridges. Signals were arranged by the com
mittee by which the people should be called to
their defence in case of an attack. The most re-
spectacle citizens supported the committee The
mayor issued order in the forenoon to take
arms belonging to the city, wherever they might
be found, and the city forcea, which are repre-
scented an armed rabble without organization
or head, acting thereon, broke open Kittredge's
store and seized some weapons which were stored
there.
At eight, P. NJ, the committee still tri-
umphant, and had tornup the streets aud erected
barbados of cotton bales. At ten there was an
immense gathering about the quarters OF the
committee, and it was expected there would be
fight in the course of the night. This expecta.
ton, however, was not realized, and the morning
found the mayors forces still unorganized and
the city quiet, with great preparations making
on both sides The committees forces were wtr
organized and drilled, under the command OF
Major Duncan, late of the army.
This emeute probably is Influenced to some
are divided the question, the Picagune and
Crescent fayoring the city authorizes, and the
Delta and the True Delta support the vigilance
committee, and the other papers remaining neu-
trail. One dispatch says that the vigilence com
mittee is opposed to the Stith mayoralty ticket
Stth was a former foreman in the Picaya7,e of.
fee, and is nominated at the head of the Native
American or Know Nothing municipal ticket.
The citizens nominated Major 7. G. Beauregard
as mayor, in opposition TO Stth, and they, it is
supposed, hove organized the vigilance commit.
tee. The hesitation Of both partiss to come to
actual blows is favorable to peaceful settlement
Of the question.
A dispatch, dated ten o'clock yesterday, says
"The excitement is increasing. The mayor
has issued orders to arrest John Magnns, of the
True Delta and the opponents CT the committee
declare that If he is ;aken they will hang him.
Maginnis takes it cooly."