St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1866-08-09
THE NEW ORLEANS RIOTS.
TERRIBLE Butcher,y Of u.ion Men.

Special D;rascA 70 TIE Cascaoo zsi5.~e.
NEw ORLEANs, July 30 P. The
massacre is over for the present. The
military, headed by Gen. Baird in person,
ate4 80 o'clock, p NJ, took possession Of
Canal street and cleared the street between
Dryades and ST.. Charles, also the two lat
ter streets to Common. A regiment and 1
battery, headed. by band, are, while
write, psrading the city. # ,...s Il
Sheridan has not yet arrived, while he is
most snxiously looked for. s:..g N
There is . general indignation among
Union. men, even the most moderate. at
Gen. Baird, whose dilatoriness has sacri-
feed so much life. s;s 88.ss
+. sS5:. A CONCERTED PLAN.
It is understood to have been . concerted
plan on the part of the rebels, among
whom the Presidents dispatch was kno III
yesterday morning. At the tap Of fire.
bell the rioters left their business, having
lately purchased reyolvers, to meet and be
led by the police, who were also armed to
the teeth. All rushed toward the Conven-t
ton, breaking down the fences on Baronnes
street in the rear Of the Capitol, which
was surrounded by force Of police
They then ran INTO the building, and while
the crown outside were firing into the win
dows, climbed the stairs inside, their leader
shouting, orally, boys, rally IT, and, dis.
charged their pistols into the Representa-
tive's Hall, where there were 1t the time
none but Conventioners-it being during
the recess-within the railing, and about
seventy i've negroes in the lobby, all Of
whom in the Hall FRUSTRATED themselves to
escape the shots. AS soon as the pistols Of
the police were emptied the besieged rose
and drove ont the assailants with chairs,
at the same time barricading the doors.
~3lg ,;si2s A FLAG OF TRUCE. 81 HI:
Then r. King Cutler called upon those
who had arms to leave the hall, and Capt.
Burk, the gallant Chief Of Police deposed
BY Monroe, went outsand fought his way
back to Baronne street, escaping with =
shot in the side. The fury Of the besiegers
increased. The barricade VAS broken,
and pistols again discharged. Then Rev.
Mr.. Horton, ex-army Chaplain, who had
made the prayer ct the opening of the Can
vention advanced to the door, and showing
white handkerchief, asked for himself
and the rest to surrender. He was fired
upon, hit by the shot in the forehead, then
seized and beaten till he was iDsensible by
the mob and police. One after another
the members of the convention in the hall
waved their handkerchiefs, protested they
were unarmed and wished TO surrender,
yet not single arrest was made in the
hall, but each man as he came out, hoping
to escape the certain fate threatened him if
he remained was seized add brutally ham
died by the police. t&ss2% ,5#g yss
Poor Dostie plead for his life. He was
Union exile, but by his kind treatment to
rebel families in the absence of their pro-
tectors had endeared himself to many even
of his political enemies %lit5a * s:!a:t
Besides the sufferers I have named in q
former dispatch, DR.. Hine was shot in, the
head and stabbed in the side. i can yet
give you no estimate of the number killed
and wounded, which, though the riot lasted
scarce three hours; and seemed to be con-
fined to q few streets, must put the Mem
phis affair far in the shade. :5s;s.
@e4 s.&s KILLED AND WOUNDED. ss'
One hundred. AMI seventy-five negroes
are already known to have been wounded,
and thirty -four. killed, and new cases are
discovered almost hourly. The killed and
wounded among the eolored people viii
rench full three hundred.
ORIGIN or THE TROUBLES.
The whole thing originated in an nm.
warranted interference on the part Of the
police in the proceedings Of the re-assem-
bled constitutional convention, many Of
whom had sworn that the convention should
never sit. 5ssa. :s-bzz
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