The Shreveport weekly news., 1861-06-03
The Massacre ii 81. Louis.

The Massacre ii ST. Louis.
The following letterto gentleman
Of that city is published in ono Of the
New Orlcsss papers; ii gives further
paraicnlars Of slls. brutal aud inhu-
man massacre: 81,
ST.. LOUIS, May n.
( i arrived here yesterday nioaIiing,
mid had no difficulty in passing Cal
no. slshere are about 500 republican
troops there, heaaly ~ Germans. 1
saw only Eve piecesof small cannon
The watef at Cairo is not high, so,
that cutting the levee at that point
would do no harm. The Cairo troops
have nOuniforms, and are dressed bad
~. just rs they were ,when picked up
in the streets. They IRE badly arm
ed and not drilled: they are. a hard
and dirty hooking set Of vagabouds.
I A few days ago, the. Govefndt Of
Missouri ordered a military encamp-
ment" near the city for d week, ..for
military instruction" Accordingly,
some 500 Missouri State troops held
their encampment some two miles
west Of the city, under tho United
Stoses tag. OF the 500, only about
500 were armed, and these had hut a
tsw rounds Of shot. They had also
three cannon. and were c6nllha,lffed
by Gen. Frost. They were having
a quiet time of it out at their camp,
nothing. when yesterday
At o'clock, F. NJ, they were sur
rounded very suddenly by 5000 Uni
ted States troops, all Germans, well
armed, with twenty cannon, etc, and
led on by the celebrated black repub-
,lican Blair. They were ordered to
surrender unconditionally,wl,ich they
were obliged to do, under tie circum-
stances. They were all taken pfiso-
ners and marched to the Arsenal be-
low the city. where they are still held
ms prisoners of war. Mr.. Blair of.
Tered to release them, if they would
take the oath not to fight Agai,ist the
United States. but they all refused to
take any such oath.
The taking of this camp created
the greatest excitement in st. Louis.
Many thousand citizens went out my
self among the number. y In bringing
the 500 State troops back to the. city,
as prisoners, having tax zen their arms
from them, and well guarded by the
5000 black Republican Germans, the
latter fred on the crowd of peacea-
bic, unarIned citizens, killing and
wounding great many men, women
and children, without mercy. Atone
time they fred about 5Oo,siIots in the
nuoffending crowd. Sofar it appears
that IS citizens were killed land there
is no telling how many were wound
ed.
The greatest confusion and excite
ment now prevails here. If the citi-
Gems had any arms at all, they would
soon take the city and drive out the
black republicans, who are all Ger
MANS The city of ST. Louis and the
State, except the Germans, are ripe
for secession-more SO now tha;l eyer;
but they have no arms at all. In the
southern part secession figs float
every where.
1t is now reported that the black
republican troops are going to Jeffer-
son city to take Gov. Jackson prison.
er. am afraid there is going to be
trouble here, soon.
We acknowledge the receipt Of the
Grand Secession march Of the eight
stars. 1861, for the Piano. It is
composed by an old friend of ours,
Or. w. s. Donaldson. professor of
music in the Mansfield Female Col
lege. We have not had time to test
the merits Of the composition. but
from our acquaintance with DIR. D,
win risk pronouncing it excellent. 1t
is dedicated to our president JeAer-
son Davis, it can be obtained from
Messrs. Wimbish s Greening, Mans.
field, La. -
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