The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-06-10
[From the True Southron--Extra;1
New Orleans In Arms.

olution broke out last night in this city
A Vigilance committee has been forme,
for the purpose Of putting stop to tn
: fragrant outrages that Bullies, Romdie
, and Outlaws have been perpetrating--
and with reference we presume to tn
approaching Municipal election.
The committee in large numbers tool
possession of the Arsenal, Jackson Square
and also the prisons this morning.
The Executive Committee of the Nigi
lance Committee calls upon all Law ant
Order to join them, and announces its de
termination TO carry out their measures
Nothing else as yet has transpired THU
morning to this time, q O'Clock A. M.
Loaded cannon are posted around tht
Arsenal, with about two hundred men OF
guard.
SECOND DISPATCH.
The following appeared this morning
in the True Delta Extra:
The citizens of New Orleans, after
years of disorder, outrage and unchecked
assassination, the people unable and un.
willing either TO bow down in submis.
sion to set of ruilians, or to abandon
the City in which their business, their So
cial sympathies, and their affections clus-
ter, have at length risen in their might,
have quietly taken possession of the Ar.
senal and buildings in Jackson Square, and
have established there the headquarters
of Vigilance Committee pledging each
TO the other to maintain inviolably the
rights of every peaceful and law abiding
citizen, restore public order, abate crime,
and expel or punish, as they may deter
mine, such notorious robbers and assas-
sins as the arm of the law has either
from the intidelity of its public servants,
on the inetliciency of the laws themselves,
left unwhipt Of justice.
For the present the ordinary machin-
cry of the police department is suspen-
dcd, the Mayor and the Recorders, we
believe, yielding up the power they con-
TESS their inability to exercise for the
preservation of the public peace and the
protection OF prop,ry; and the Vigil
lance Committee will, therefore, provis-
ionally act in their stead, administering
to each and every malefactor the pun
ishment 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 well ordered and
civilized communities, will report them
selves without delay at the principal Off
ces, where IKE character Of this move
ment will be explained, and the dttermi-
nation of the people more fully made
known. Il
All las been done noiselessly thus far;
and all will continue noiselessIy, oi>pas-
siOnately, AND justly but the ruilians who
have dyed our streets in the gore of I'M
offending citizens, and spread terror
among the 9peac able, orderly and well
ii o ed, must laare or perish So tie
cope have determined. .Nox Populi,
Vox Del.
There are seven to eight hundred men
under arms now, 10o'clock A. n.y. Sew
eral arrests have been made 1t is re-
ported that opposition will be made, in
which case a severe battle is certain
Volunteers still crowding up.
Eleren and a aYo'clock.-The Com
mon Council are in secret session and
considerable confusion prevails amongst
them, together with great excitement in
the streets. The Council have got pos
session of the First District Armory,
which has only ten rounds of ammuni-
ton. More arrests have been made.
We take the following dispatches flom
the Mereury:
New ORLEANS, June Sd, 81 p. NJ
The Vigilance Committee are increasing
in nGlnbers, and now number 1,5OO men
enrolled; and they are almost impregna-
bic in their position.
The Mayor has had an audience with
the Committee, who promise to lay down
their arms On condition Of being employ
ed as special police, to serve during
the election. The result of this propo-
sition is not yet known. The citizens
generally are arming themselves, and an
outbreak is momentahily expected.
1t is rumored that the Mayors force
will attack the Vigilants late at night
The latter are barricading their position
with cotton bales.
New ORLEANS, June 4, l P. MA
compromise has been effected between
the city authorities and the Vigilance
Committee--the Mayor agreeing to APP
point several hundred of the latter, as
special constables, with power of punish
ing criminals and preserving order at the
election on Monday next. The Commit
tee will give up the arsenal and their
arms tonight or tomorrow morning. All
the trouble is now considered over.
NEW ORLEANS, June a, 10 P. M
The mayor has entered into stipulations
with the Vigilance Committee, which has
given more confidence and quiet to the
city. The Vigilance Committee are still