Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-06-10
Excitement in New Orleans
A Ngilonce COMMITTEE Is Inuagurated-
Bloody Battle Expected!

A Vigilanee COMMITTEE Is Inuagurated-l
Bloody Battle Expected!
NEW ORLEANS, Jt,ne 3.-A revolution
broke out last night. The Vigilance Com
mttee, In large numbers, took possession
OF the Arsenal in jackson square, and the
prisons.
This morning the Executive Committee
called for all the law and order people to
Join them, and announce their determine.
ton to carry out their measures.
Nothing else has transpired yet. SAT
seven O'Clock cannon were loaded, and pla
ced about the Arsenal. About two hun
dred armed men are on guard.
The following appeared this morning:
Citizens of New Orleans, after years of dis
order, outrage and unchecked assassination
the people unable and unwilling either to
bow down in unresisting submission to a
set of ruffians, or to abandon the city in
which their business, their social sympa-
thies and their affections cluster, have at
length risen in their might, and have qui-
etly taken possession of the Arsenal and
the buildings in jackson Square, and have
established there the headquarters of Wig
lance Committe, pledging each to the 9TH
er to maintain the rights inviolably Of er-
cry peaceful and law-abiding citizen, to re-
store order, abate crime, and expel or pun
ish as they may determine such notorious
robbers and assassins as the arm of the law
has, either from the inidelity of its public
servants, or the enefficiency Of the laws
themselves, left unwhipped of justice. For
the present, the ordinary machi, cry of po-
lice justice is superseded. The Mayor and
Recorder, we understand, in yielding up
their power, confess their inability to exer-
else it for the preservation of property.
The Vigilance Committee, therefore, pro-
visionally act in their stead, administering
to each and every nalefactor the punish
ment due his crimes, without heat, preju
dice, or political bias. All citizens who
have sympathies with the movement, and
who think the lime has come when New
Orleans shall be preserved, like all other
we'll ordered and civiliz I'd communities, will
report themselves, without delay, at the
principal office, where the character of this
movement will be explained, and the de-
termination of the people more fully made
known.
All has been done noiselessly thus far.
All will continue noiselessly, dispassionate-
ly and Justly, but the ruffians who have dy-
ell our streets with the gore of unoffending
citizens, and spread terror among the
peaceable, orderly and well disposed, must
leave or perish. So the people Lave de-
termined Signed, vor popali, ror dei.-
The True Della says 700 or 800 are under
arms now-lO o'clock.
Several arrests have been made. 1t is
reported that opposition will be made, in
which case severe battle is certain.
| Volunteers are still crowding up.
IL o'clock.
Gen. Tracey's Division Of the Militia are
ordered out by the Mayor.
| LATER.
NEW ORLEANS, IL o'clock.-The Com
mon Council is in secret session. Consid-
erable confusion among them.
There is great excitement in the streets.
The Council got possession of the first dis
trict arinory, with only a few rounds of am
munition.
A battle is expected this afternoon.-
More arrests have been made.
New ORLEANS, June 2d.-The Walker
trial has concluded. The jury disagreed
Ten were for acquittal and TWO conviction.
Judge Campbell's charge was extremely
partial and stringent. A new trial is urg-
ed by Walker.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE REVOLT
TIoN AT New ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, June 8, P. M.
The Mayor and Council have gone to
the head head quarters of the Vigilance
Committee TO read the Riot Act. Two
companies of the militia are engaged in
making cartridges. The Vigilance Com
mittee have established signals--three
guns fired from the Arsenal invite their
supporters to repair to the Arsenal to resist
an attack.
| LATER.
EIGHT O'clock P. NJ.
The Vigilance Committee are still tri-
umphant. No fight as yet.
| Cotton bales have been torn up and used
for barricading the streets.
The city force is an unarmed rabble, with
no organization or leader. the Mayor has
issued orders to take arms wherever they
can be found. Acting on this order, the
rabble broke open and seized weapons in
Kittridge's store. 1t is expected the Wig
lance Committee will seize the City Hall
tomorrow.
Bands of armed ruffians are parading
the streets. The stores were compelled to
close this afternoon.
The Vigilance Committee is supported
by the most respectable citizens. The Mu-
nicipal authorities must ctumb.
A terrible fight is expected Tonight
The gathering around the head quarters of
the Vigilance Committee is immense.
New ORLEANS, June 4.
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