Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-06-15
The New Orleans Revolution.

We proceed with the narrative of events at
New Orleans, commencing where the report left
off last week. The Baltimore American of
Tuesday, the 9th, says;
u "Our accounts from New Orleans are to yes.
terday morning, and are neither % full or i'm.
partial as might be desired. The reporter foP
the Associated Press is evidently partizan Of
the Vigilance Committee, and permits bis opil-
ions to give strong coloring to his statements.
4 II appears, however, from the dispatches, that
the city is in veritable state Of revolution
Both parties are entrenched, the Vigilance Com
mittee in Jackson Square at the arsenal, and the
opposing forces, who support the regularly con-
stituted government, in Lafayette Square
These Squares, as appears by map of New Or.
leans, are both in the heart of the city and but
few blocks apart.
"Out of the entrenchments neither party ap-
pears to be able to operate. The Mayor, whose
vacillation of purpose is said to have disgusted
all parties, after weak resistance succumbed to
the Vigilance Committee, and took refuge in
their camp. Whilst there he endeayored to de-
pose the Recorders, as the judges of the city sre
termed, who had assumed control and appointed
q special police. Subsequently the Mayor, his
safety being guaranteed, left the quarters of the
| Vigilance Committee and proceeded to the st.
Charles Hotel. The City Council was then
convened, Mayor Waterman impeached, re.
moved from Office, and Mr.. Sommers, President
of the Board of Aldermen, appointed In his place.
''The Chief of Police was also removed, sue
cessor appointed, and the regular police reor-
ganized. These energetic movements seem to.
indicate that the Vigilance Committee was not
so powerful as the previous accounts represent
ed, and that out of their headquarters the con-
troll of the city was in the hands OF their oppo-
nents. Arrests had been made by both parties,
but neither had ventured to the extreme of exc
cutting Lynch law upon their captives. The on.
y actual collision reported occurred on Saturday
night, when the camp of the Vigilants was at
tackled and several of their adherents killed ard
wounded by the accidental discharge of one Of
their own guns. The latest report is that the
ballot boxes had been taken possession of by the
Sheriff. and the probability was thet no election
would take place.
"a later despatch states that the election was
held, and that Mr.. Stith, the American candi-
date, had been elected by small majority. The
Vigilance Committee were kept within their
barricades. The city was in state of great ex-
citement but no serious collision seems to have
occurred" -
The American of Wednesday sums up
telligence received the previous day as fold
"The latest dispatches from New Orleans foE
port the city quiet. The Vigilance Committee
had disbanded, but still make pretence of be-
ing ready to carry out their principles at any
moment. The municipal authorities were exer-
cising their recovered power by procuring the
arrest of the prominent leaders of the Commit
tee. The majority for Mr.. Stith is less than
three hundred, and many Of the candidates on
the ticket with him are defeated. It seems al
together probable that had the supporters Of the
Independent ticket confined their efforts to q
legitimate and civil revolution at the ballot-box
they would have been successful. As it is they
are not merely defeated, but disgraced. Our
latest dates by mail from New Orleans are to
Wednesday, the I'd instant, the day preceding
the outbreak. They contain nothing beyond
the usual political appeals to the opposing par.
tiesn