The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-06-09
REVOLUTION IN NE.V ORLEANS,
The City in the hands of VigiIani
Committee.

4 line Telegraph brings US the most startling
rumOrs from the Crescent City. The increase
otcrime 10 that place, and the utter inefIiciency
Of the city government to afford adequate pro-
lection to the lives and property Ofits citizens
appear to be the immediate cause of this out,
burst Unpopular indignation.
Although sudden in its development, the
present condition of affairs in that city was moi
altogether unexpected. Its leaders, who con-
stitute the mass of the more respectable citizens
Of the place, have for long time endured every
species of outrage and imposition from the law
less and floating mass ofyilany that concen-
trates at that point from every part ofthe Uni
on; and it is at the present extremity, where
they find that the proper city officers are pow
erless for their protection; that assassination,
disorder and every species of crime are rapidly
gaining supremacy in heir midst, that they feel
themselves called to take the law into their
own hands and pass summary judgement upon
the criminals who niest the place. The follow
ing kilograms will show the part ticulars Of this
alTair:-Stea. Union.
New ORLEANS, June 3.-The following was
posted in hand bills around the city this NOR
ming:
70 the Ciiacns Of New OrleanS:-Afer years
of disorder, outrage, and unchecked aSsassina
ton the people, unable and unwilling either TO
bow down in unresisting submission to set OF
rufians, or to abandon the city in which their
business their social synpathies and their al
fcctions cluster, have at length risen in their
might, have quietly taken possession of the Ar
senal and building in the Jackson Square, and
have established the head quarters of Vigi
lance Committee, pledging each to the other TO
maintain the rights inviolIble ofevery peaceful
and law abiding citizen; to restore public order,
abate crime and expel or punish as they may
determine, such notorious robbers and assassins
as the arm of the law has, either from the inf
deity of its public servants or the inefIiciency Of
the laws themselves left unwhipt Of justice.
For the present, the ordinary machinery Of po-
lice justice is superseded.
The Mayor and the Recorders, we under
stand, have Welded up the power they confess
their inability to exercise for the preservation
of the public peace and the preservation of prop
erty, and the Vigilance Committee will there
fore Professionally act in their stead, admins
terSng to each and every malefactory the pun
ishment due to his crimes, without heat, pre-
iudice or political bias All citizens who have
sympathies with this movement, and who thinks
the time has come when New Orlaans shall be
preserved like all other well ordered and civil.
lzed communities, will report themselves with
out delay at the principal office, where the char
acter of this movement will be explained, and
the determination of the people more fully made
known. All has been done noiseess thus far;
all will continue noiselessly dispassonateIy y and
Justly; but the rufIians who have dyed our
steeets in the gore of unolending citizens, and
spread terror among the peaceable, orderly and
well disposed, must leave or perish, as the peo-
Pile have determined.
Vox PoPULI, Vox DEF.
The 7iye Delta, extra says that seven to eight
hundred men were under arms at ten o'clock,
and several arrests made. 1t is reported that
opposition will be made IN which case severe
battle will ensue. Volunteers are still crow
ding up
New ORLEANS, June 3.-The revolution
broke ont last night. The Vigilance Commit
tee, in large numbers, took possession Of the
arsenal in jackson Square, and the prison this
morning
The Executive Committee call for all law and
order people to aid Them and announce a deter
Nothing else has tranSpired yet
SHvEN o'CLocK-C Cannon have been loaded
and posted about the arsenal and about two
hundred armed men are on guard.
At eleven O'Clock General Tracy's division Of
the militia was ordered out by the Mayor.
Ialfpast eleven O'Clock. The Common Coun,
Gil is in secret session, with considerable coniu-
sion amongst them. There is great excite
meLt in the street. Council got possession Of
the First District Armory, but found only ten
rounds Of ammunition. A battle is expected
this afternoon More arrests have been made
One O'Clock, p. M.-lhe Mayor and Coun-
Gil have gone to the Vigilance Committee head
quartz rs to read the riot act Two companies
of militia are engaged in making cartridges The
Vigilance Committee have established signals;
three guns are to fired from the arsenal, and all
supporters are invited to repair to the arsenal to
resist attack.
New ORLEANS, June 4-The Mayors forces
are still unorganzad, and all remains quiet
Great preparations are being made by both
parties. The forces fthe Vigilance Committee
are well organized and drilled. They are com.
manded by Major j. X Duncan, late Of the U.
S. Army.
The city papers are divided on the question,
The Picayune and the Crescent side with the
Mayor, while the Delta q I'd the True Data f :
vor the Vigilance Committee. The others re-
man neutral.
The crisis is expected to day. Orders have
been issued by the Mayor to arrest John Ma
ginns. Fit is done they declare they will hang
him. Maginnis seems to care very little about
it.
New ORLEANS, iune4 There is rumor
on the streets that compromise has been eilec-
ted, The city to deliver up twenty-five noted
rufiians to the Vigilance Committee. Five hun
dred men on each side to be sworn as police.
Fifty men, with two canons, have taken posses
ion of Canal street. The men are said to be
these who were marked by the Committee for
punishment.
The Vigilance Committee is triumphant. The
Mayer has resigned his authority to them
The city is quiet. The crowd has withdrawn
from Canal street More than one thousand
men have been appointed as special police by
the Committee
New ORLEANS, June 4th, p MA treaty
has been signed and order restored. The terms
are these; Mayor Waterman, for The city, and
Gen Lewis, Superintendent Of Elections, accept
the forces Of the Vigilance Committee as special
police to protect property and life, and execute
the laws. The Committee will not dlsband
but maintain their organization as a military
body, SO long as is necessary for defence and the
performance Of Their legitimate duties. The
rabble are still in the ST. eet, but in very small
numbers No more trouble is expected. Ar
rests still continue to be made.
We are on the eve offrcsh excitement. Ia.
fammatory pacards have just been issued BY
the SO called American Party calling Americans
to arms to resist the authority OF the Vigilance
Committee. More than one half Of the Amer
Ian Party are in the Vigilance Committee