New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE rs LoUIsIASL-Ths
a. o. Picayune says that the journals in that district
Of Louisiana in which the Vigilance Committees have
been organized are almost entirely filed with dis
cu.sion of their movements We CLEAN some farther
facts in regard to the disturbances which have
ELECTED so much attention. The Attakapas Register
Of the Gath inst. ssys:
ct was brought TO the Governors notice that three
OF the victims of the Vigsnts had died from the severity
Of the brutal whipping inflicted upon them, that one
had been shot ard stabbed. that number OF other
dead bodies had been found in the pra,rles AMI that
women and children dyrg in the prairiee whose
fathers husbands and brothers have been driven from
their homes by the Nigilants. sad catalogue OF
crimes these indeed 10 be perpetrated in civilized
community. And TO cap the climax Of sudacify It Ia
said that Judge Simon has been notified not to attempt
to hold court in the Parish OF Vermiliop.'a
The Planters Banner of the same date says:
1.-THE Vigilance Committee have publicly whipped
nearly seventy citizens OF their parishes IN the hest ri
such passion as is exhibited only by wld and lnia,
rsted mob without Judge OF Jury, aud have ordered
them 10 leave the State in five days or suffer the pen,
atty of death by the hands Of the same company Ana
we are credibly informed that q heavy vote OF the
Committee, but not majority, was gwen 10 iaver oil
hanging instead of whipping, the prescribed company
"But this IL not all. Or. Wagner, citizen OF the
parish Of Vermilion is now in this place under the
most painful and humilsting circumstances. lie Il
known by several Of citizens VINO vouch for Elm
upright, honest man. lie is Justice OF tue
Peace and Coroner of his parish, and has never been
connected with either the Vigilance Committees or the
organized opposeis of these Committees. By Request
of citizen OF his parish, he copied, in plain hand,
the resolutions which We last week Published IN me
Banner and endeayered TO execute the law directed
BY the District Attorney and his superior officers
For this be forcibly taken by fourteen men IRON
his boarding house, at night, carried quarter OK
mile into the prsirie, tied and beaten unmerciiuIy
with the laebes and but OF their whips across
the spine and ribs breaking one OF his rbs ana en-,
dsngerng his life by heavy blows across the spine, aud
then ordered to leave the State In five days or suffer
the death penalty at their hands
"At the general whipping of the opposer' OF the
Vigilance Committee in the Parish OF Lafayette, II
was reported that of the party, to AVOID being
whipped blew his own brans out. Since that event
il has been discovered that the death wound was not
self inflicted but that he was shot by an enemy
Three others have died from the effects OF the whip
ping they received, and was at the point oil deaf
at Opeousas a few days ago. Among those who haV'
| died was young man by the name OF Singleton,
clerk in store at BresuS Bridge. lie was knoE y
| be an estmsble young man, and hsd nothing 10 az
with Opposing the Vgilsnts, be being locker on a.
their proceedings
The Baton Rouge Adr0cate Of the 2ith ult. says:
"Gov. Wicklfe returned yesterday from the scene
Of lsyessness and anarchy which prevails 10 the
south western parishes and informs that order had
been restored although much excitement still existed.
Gov w went as far as VermihoDville and had inter-
views wNh the prominent leaders Of the vigilance
COMMITTEE who gave their promises that no further
violence would be attempted by the Organization.
How far these promises will be kept u IL diicut 10
say We have little faith 10 them until the Committee
disbsnds rhieh he ieaders dit not promise 10 d0'