The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-08-07

k.llsl aal I saR several brought Ia The
allies alatc mGataurd and ahsr lhey
fa1. saN crowds of raHaus beating
u ttls atn dvuE
Tie Policemen uhatly ileF orders
were. haei ael toward iGe white
prsanffE Farateet speaking A.
III EIA uas tbs fut member q The
Convention fiaFed and / am happy
% aF sai al.laagh tse police could
nat prsttai tto crowd from abusine
h.m badly tleg did keep hia from bc.
lue lguehed A man mounted lamp
paat an Canal ft a. Fish w hana
Carried by md guard and rot 5 rope
reads 70 haag hHm hut the guard drove
the crowd away with their pistols The
utEt meMber arrested was Capt Haynes
Texas scout for 0ur army during the
WAY The crowd bad betn taught q
lesson and did not interfere With HIM
although they grumhlol deeply as hs
passed through, calling them rebels
traitors and other pet names
Governor Hahn succeeded IN getting
into the hands Of the police unhurt
from out a the building where be had
been. not as n member, but as one o.
the most prominent equal rights men
in the State While be WAS under
guard, however, some coward shot him
through Tie back Of the head, iuAictiue
a dangerous wound, and he was alsG
stabbed. He was then placed in hack
and carried 70 Police Headquarters
where ] saw him sent into confinement
lie was yery pale and the blood trickl.
cd down his face from wound which
seemed 10 have reached bis left temple
Mr.. Dostie who had the reputation
Of being the most violent negro suffrage
man In the South, and who was certain
ly the most violent speaker on Friday
last, was killed while attempting to gel
away l am told that a policeman shot
him in the back, and that after he fell
a crowd jumped on HIM and cut him
horribly with knives.
John Henderson and other members
Of the Convention were also captured
and were wounded by stray shots, the
local papers say, bat more likely by
coWardly iotors-vhile on their way
TO the station house.
The riot commenced Ut 1915 and on
ded at $3.50 o'clock. At2;l5 O'Clock the
military, under Con. Baird, appeared
on Canal street, and finally took poss-
ossion Of the whole city Before night
the riot was confined to Dryades, Bar
onno, Common, Carondclct and Canal
streets, and the buildings and yards all
around The Institute. | saw freedmen
shot dead on all Of tic above streets eX-
cept Canal, who could have been ares
ted uninjured How many mon have
been killed, wounded, or even arrested,
pit is impossible to say but my estimate
IS one hundred freedmen and twenty
five whites killed and wounded and one
hundred altogether arrested.
The substantial men Of the city de-
ploro the occurrence, but all are very
violent il their expressions, some glo-
rying in the murder of Dostie and 9th
ers III the murder Of Che freedmen.
The following is the Presidents des-
patch to the Attorney-General Of Louis
lana.
WASHINGTON, JuLY q, 1866.
10 1ad,ctc s Huron Afy-Gea. IF L.:
You win cali on General Sheridan, or
whoever may be in command, for suf-
fcient force to aid the civil authorities
in suppressing all Illegal OF unlawful
assemblies, who usurp or assume to eX-
erciso any power or authority without
first having obtained the consent of the
people Of the State. If there is to be Il
Convention, let it be composed Of dele
gates chosen from the people Of the
whole State The people must be first
consulted in changing the organic laws
Of the State. Usurpation viii not be
tolerated The laws and the Constitu-
ton must be sustained and thereby
peace and order maintained.
ANDREW Johnson.