The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-20
OFFICIAL REPORT OF GEN. BAIRD
Ihe Riot Plotted by Mayor Monroe
and Other Officials.
General Alfred L. Lees
Account of the Riot.
Etc., Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc

New ORLEANS, August lS.-General Baird's
official report OF the massacre was forwarded
3 yesterday by General Sheridan to General Grant,
with respectful demand that it be made public
The report embraces O history of all the circum-
stances connected with the massacre, and
proves cOncluslvely that it was preconcerted
and prearranged by the Rebel Mayor, John
Monroe, the Lieutenant-Governor and others
interested in breaking up the Convention. The
report is also yindication of the course pur
+ sued by General Baird, who claims to have
taken every precaution consistent with the facts
then known to him, and, but for the treachery
of the police and Rebel city and State officials,
it is claimed that the precautions taken would
have been sufficient. II remains to be seen
whether the President dare refuse to allow the
publication of this report, and General Sheri-
4 dams dispatches to General Grant, after their
= publication has been demanded by General
Sheridan.
The medical officer detailed TO make an
official report of the killed and wounded pre-
sented the names in full, together with the
character OF the wounds received by the follow
ing parties viz: Members of the Convention
one killed and eight wounded, or one-third OF
the members present; white citizens attending
the Convention, two killed and nine wounded;
Il total number of whites killed and wounded, 20.
ColOred citizens attending the Convention
killed, "a; wounded l19; totai o. colored killed
4 and wounded l53 OF the police there were 10
4 slightly wounded, most of whom were on duty
the next day. One white citizen with the police
was killed. The evidence shows that the man
was accidentally shot by the police; also, that
in the excitement many of the police were
wounoed by their comrades.
In ADDITION to the above, the Doctor reports
ten colored men killed and twenty wounded
whose names he could not ascertain. From the
best information at hand, am forced to believe
that there we're great many more killed and
wounded among the coored people than have
been officially reported by DR.. Hartsuff Many
of the wounded are secreted in out-ol-the-way
places, and it would be impossible to get all of
their names. The New Orleans Tribune of to-
days issue says Our list, so ar as completed,
up to the present moment, shows a total of three
hundred and seventy-eight killed and wounded
among the friends of the Convention.
The Military Commission will finish eXamin-
y ing witnesses on Tuesday next, and Immediately
y proceed to arrange the evidence in form. The
N report and evidence will cover about 1900 pages
a of legal cap paper, closely written on both
E sides, and will prove the most damning record
ID and solemn protest yet made public against Mr..
Johnson's policy of reconstruction, which the
7 evidence proves must, if persisted in, end in
the determination of all Union men in the South.
Judge Hastins United States commissioner,
and well-known loyal Southerner, had his house
"A fired last night by some Rebel miscreant. This
is the second attempt that has been made 10
81 burn him out in the course of three weeks. Two
citizens were arrested yesterday by the military
IS for threatening the lives OF members of the Con-
! venton, and making use OF reasonable language
under direct pressure from the President. The
city Government is being gradually restored to
the civil authorities. Union men continue to
leave the city IN considerable numbers, and a
great many are preparing to follow as soon as
they can dispose of their proDerty. But very
few who can possibly leave, WIZ remain TO SUD-
NIT to Rebel prosecutions.
A An Account by General A. l.. Lee, OF
Kansas-General Baird's Responsibility
The GarbIed Dispatches of General
Sheridan Vindicated.
I I ofsn Nf 1rV
Il under Banks and Sheridan, was a witness to the
F. massacre in New Orleans, which he lately de
scribed in a speech to his fellow-ctizens o
Leavenworth, Kansas, prefacng his accoun
with some personal experiences of the "willing
ness of the Rebels to accept any terms" shortly
after the war, and their present bitter hostility
TO the Unionsts and the Northerners. In the
following he alludes to the ''g0rbled extracts
from General Sherdan's dispatches, published
in the Copperhead papers =
Let me narrate to you some OF the scenes o
that day. MY rooms happened TO be about
square from the scene Of slaughter, and / coal
of the 1st New Orleans Infantry who had jus
been mustered out, was standing one bloc
from me; he was approached by two policemen
one placed his pistol at his back and shot hlu
down, and the other stabbed him in the side
& causing his immediate death. There was
& noble man who represented the radical sent
~
member of the Convention, but be wa
in the hall. He attempted to escape. Whe
about half block from tue Capitoi builiin
he was struck with a brick and knocse
down. Policemen were standing near, but II
stead Of arTestng the assaulter tney stepped u
. to DR.. Doste and deliberately fred into tn
body of the defenseless man. A citizen stand in
by drew his sword from hls cane and thrust
into his body, Still the doctor was not deaC
and was dragged by the police through th
crowd and placed in common dirt cart. sa
this myself. One policeman sat on his bod.
and one sat near his head. The poor man a
tempted to raise his head, and saw the police
man raise bis revolver and strike him on th
face, and mash his nose fiat. That noble ma
died.
stood on my balcony, and looked on thi
crowd OF 400 policemen, maddened with liquo
" and drunk with fury, assisted by fremen an
thugs, assisted by 200 or 800 citizens, on tn
feld-day of slaughter. | saw passing an inn
cent black man, with market-basket @
his arm He was met by knot Of policemen
They SAID, "You are from me hall, are you
He said mo" They said, ''Yes you are" i
started TO run. Two policemen ran after hin
and as many as a dozen bullets were shot ln'
mis- BODY before he fell. A citizen then stampC
with his heel on his face, and he was beaten
death with clubs.
within five minutes after this, saw polio
man approach black man, and, putting pist
1o Ms hack shoot him down. AoOutte mnut
after great, coarse, brutal ruftian approach,
and Kicked the dead black corpse. Whle
was kicking the corpse astreet car passed.