The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-08-09
Inc New Orleans Massacre-A sotoe,fed
plan to murder lTniOniStS.

The following dispatch to the Cbicoco
1''0tS"e gives the clearest and saddest ac-
count yet published of the atrocious m.O.a
ere at New Orleans.
III, NEW ORLEANS, July 30-74 Pm.
Inc massacre is over for the present Tbe
military, headed by Gen. Baird in person Of |
4;oo CLOCK p. m, took possession of Canal
street and cleared the street betwee,, r.
AIDES and st. Charles, also the T.
streets to Common. A re<- TWO .tter
terry, headed by a, -gment an0 bat.
paradiDg th~ and are, wlAf5e ( write
rived -, city. Sheridan b as not ar
while he is most anxiously, looked for
here is general indignation mong Union
,,,,.,, ev,., the most moderate, sat Gen. Baird.
those dilatoriness has sacr i6ced so ifilch
life.
The outbreak is now understood to have
been a concerted plan on the part of rebels,
among whom the Presidents 8 dispatch, that
the military would sustain the courts as
against the convention, was known yester-
dav morning. At the tap OF fire bell the
rioters left their business, having lately
purchased revolyers, to meet and be led by
The noI;ce who were also armed to the teeth.
| "A
inc down the fences on Barone street in the
rear of the Capital, which was surrounded
!, nv force of police Then they ran into
a the building and while the crowd OUTSIDE
: were firing into the windows, climbed the
# stairs inside, their leader shouting RAINY
. bovs ralIy!" and discharged their pistols
q into the Representative Hall, where there
y we're at the time none but Conventloners-
> it being during the recess-withln the rail
:. ing, and about seventy-five negroes IN the
!. lobby, all of whom in the Hall FRUSTRATED
. themselves to escape the shots AS soon al
h the pistol of the police were emptled the be
!. seiged rose and drove out the assailants
IN with chairs, at the same time barrlcadine
q, the doors.
- Then R. King Cutter called upon thos
=, who had arms to leave the hall, and Gap
=. tain Burk, the gallant Chief Police depose'
70 by Monroe, went out and fought bis wa.
~ back to Baronne street, escaping with
g shot in the side. The fury of the beseiger
~ increased. The barricade was broken, an
to to pistols again discharged. Then Rev. MI
he Horton, ex-army chaplain, who had mad
ad the prayer at the opening of the Conven
~ ton, advanced to the door, and showing
cd white handkerchief, asked for himself all
the rest to surrender. He was fired upon
hit by the shot in the forehead, then seize
10 and beaten till he was insensible by tn
'es mob and police. One after another tn
members of the Convention in the ha
waved their handkerchiefs, protested the
were unarmed and wished to surrender, ye
not single arrest was made in the hall, bt
each man as he came out, hoping to escaI
ed the certain fate that Threatened him if he r
on manned, was seized and brutality handled
Ter the police.
nee' Poor Dcstie plead for his life. He was
an Union exile, but by his kind treatment
me rebel families in the absense of their protec
ors, had endeared himself to many even
his political enemies.
Besides the sufferers l have named in
former dispatch, DR. Hine was shot in Il
head and stabbed in the side | can y
give you no estimate of the number kill
and wounded, which, though the riot last
en' scarce three hours and seemed to be co
fined to few streets, must put the Mel
lot phis affair in the shade.
ion The Mayor has issued proclamation
led claring the riots to have been precipitat
OF by the revolutionary faction, and calling
md citizens to enroll themselves as extra polio
ers At half-past six, five hundred had enrolle
1or and the countersign given for the night
My ''General Hardee"