Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1858-06-10
GREAT RIOT In NEW ORLEANS.

10 the one which ruled San Franc clSco TO
so long a time, and caused by simila
state of things. The police had becom
utterly inefficient, and the was ruled b,
ruffians and know-no,hing bullies.
conflict has arisen between the vigilance
committees and the city authorities. a
we'll be seen by the following dispatches
NEW ORLEANS, June 8.
A revolution broke out here last night
A Vigilance Committee in large number:
took possession of the Arsenal in jackson
Square, and the prisons, this morning
The executive committee call for al
law and order people to join them, ant
announce their firm determination to car.
ry their measures out.
AT 8 O'Clock A. NJ nothing flu, ther had
transpired. Loaded cannons are posted
about the Arsenal and two hundred mer
are on guard.
The following address appeared thi:
morning:
To the People of New Orleans:
After years of disorder, outrage and
assassination, the people, unable and un-
willing to bow down in unressting sub.
mission to set of ruffians, or to abandon
the city in which their business, their
social sympathies and their affections
cluster, have at length risen in their
might, have quietly taken possession oI
the Arsenal and buildings in Jackson
square, and have established there the
headquarters of vigilance committee
pledging each to the other to maintain the
rights inviolable of every peaceful and
law abiding citizen, to restore public or.
der and expel or perish, as they may de-
termine, such notorious robbers and as
sassins as the arm of the law has, either
from the inefficiency of its public SER
wants, or the inefficiency of the law itself,
left unwhipped of justice.
For the present the ordinary machinery
of police justice is suspeceded, the mayor
and recorders, we understand, yielding
up their power, which they confess their
inability to exercise for the preservation
of the public peace, and the vigilance
committee will, therefore, act provision
ally in their stead, administerin to each
and every malefactor the punishment due
to his crime. without heat, prejudice, or
political bias.
All citizens who sympathise with this
movement, and who think the time has
come when New Orleans shall be pre-
served, will report themselves without
delay, at the principal Office. where the
character of this movement will be ex-
planned, and the determination of the
people more fully made known.
All has been done noiselessly thus far
all will continue noiselessly, dispas-
sionately. and justly; but the ruffians
who have died our streete in the gore of
unotfending citizens, and spread terror
among the peaceable, orderly and we'll
disposed. must leave or perish. So the
people have determined. Vor Populi,
Vor Del.
NEW ORLEANS, June 3.
The Mayor and Council have gone to
the head quarters of the vigilance COM
mittee and read the riot act. Two com
panies of militia are engaged in making
cartridges. The vigilance committee
have established signals-three guns fired
from the Arsenal invite their supporters
to repair to the Arsenal, to resist an at
tack.
LArER-8 p. NJ. The vigilance con,
mittce still triumphant. No fight yet.
Cotton bales have been torn up and used
for barricading the streets. The city
force is an unarmed rabble, with no or
ganization or leader. The Mavor has
issued orders to take up arms wherever
they can be found. Acting on this or
der, the rabble broke open and seized
weapons in Kittridge's store.
1t is expected that the vigilance com
mittee will seize the City Hall to-mor-
row.
Bands of armed ruffians are parading
the streets. The stores are compelled to
close this p. NJ. The vigilance COM
mittee is supported BY the most respecta-
BILE citizens, and the municipal authori-
ties must suocumb.
A terrible fight is expected. The
gathering around the head quarters OF
the vigilance committee was immense.
June 4.-The Mayors force is still un-
organized. All quiet great preparations
being made by both parties. The vigi-
lance committee is commanded by Maj.
l. X. Duncan. late of IT, S. army, and is
we'll organized and drilled.
The city papers are divided. The Pic
ayunc and Crescent favor the city, the
True Delta the vigilance committee, the
rest neutral. A crisis is expected to-day.
LArER.-The excitement is increasing
The Mayor has issued an order to arrest
John Maginnis. and if taken. declare
they will hang him. Mac takes it cool.
The vigilance committee was formed
to put down crime of all kinds in the
city.