The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-10
THE REVOLUTION IN NEW ORLEANS.

Ne1 Orleans, June As A. M-Our city is
IN state of great excitement, and )llision
and bloodshed is Immediately anticipated. The
Vigilance Committee have established their
headquarters at the Arsenal, and have been en-
gagged during the night in erecting cotton bar
rcades to resist the attempt expected to be
made by the city authorities to regain posses.
sion of the Arsenal.
jackson square presents quite q warlike ap-
pearance, with it's cotton detences.
The Vigilance Committee having possession
of all the ammunition of the city, the authori-
ties have been compelled to await the manu-
facture of cartridges before commencing hcstil-
tiles, but are now nearly ready for the assault
on the Arsenal, with large force of military.
In the mean time, efforts are making to re
store harmony and prevent collision. Politi.
cal luminosity being the gist of the difficulty,
this 10 no easy matter on the eve of an election.
10 A. M.-The excitement increases, and
military preparations for the conflict are every
where to be seen. Old firearms are being hunted
up, and armed men are marching about in every
dire tion. Both parties are making extensive
preparations, and bloody conflict is anticpa.
ted before the day is over.
The Mayors forces are unorganized, whilst
the Vigilance Committee have appointed Major
Duncan, late of the army, as their commander,
and have been largely reinforced. They are
we'll organized and drilled, aud refuse to listen
ny. All business is suspended.
The following is the proclamation issued BY
the Vigilance Committee yesterday morning:
Citizens Of Neao Orleans: After years of
disorder, outrage, and unchecked ASSASSINATION
the people, unable and unwilling either to bow
down in unresisting submission to a set of ruff
fans, or to abandon the city in which their
business, their social sympathies, and their af
fectlons cluster, 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 q
Vigilance Committee, pledging each to the
other to maintain the rights inviolable of every
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, either from
the infdelity of its public servants or the inef:
hciency of the laws themselves, has left un-
whipped of justice.
For the present, the ordinary machinery of
police Justice is superseded Mayor and the
Recorders we understand, yielding up the power
they confess their inability to exercise for the
preservation of the public peace and The secu.
rity of property; and the Vigilance Committee
will, therefore, Professionally act in their stead,
administering to each and every malefactor the
punishment 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 governed like all
other wellordered and civilized communities,
will report themselves without delay at the
principal office, where the character of this
movement will be explained and the determi.
nation of the people more fully made known.
All has been done noiselessly thus far. All
will continue noiselessly, dispassionately, and
justly. But the rufisns who have dyed our
streets with the gore of unoffendipg citizens,
and spread terror among the peaceable, order
ly, and well-disposed must leape or perish.
So the people have determined.
Vox PoPULII Vox Del
The Vigilance Committee have triumphed
without bloodshed, the Mayor having resigned
the municipal authority into their hands.
/ The city is now quiet and the crowd has
Withdrawn from Canal street. The old police
have been disbanded, and q special police of
one thousand men have been appointed by the
Vigilance Committee
What will be the next move under he new
order of things is difficult to say; but it is pre-
sumed that certain parties will receive notice
TO leave the city by the first boat. The election
takes place on Monday.
The excitement consequent upon the election
for municipal officers, to come off on Monday
next, is most intense, and ere that period ar
rives, fearful results are apprehended. The
Vigilance Committee, three hundred strong,
who have possession of the State arsenal and
second district police Office, are opposed to the
American ticket, headed by Stith for Mayor,
and are determined to defeat it if possible.
Stith's party, however, have called out the
Washington Artillery, taken possession of the
other armories, and are preparing for q struggle.
The VIgilants have seized the notorious Gala.