The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-04
The New Orleans Riot.
speeta. Dtpateh to ase Ne,p York Times.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, July 81.
AN APPAIn1Na soENE.

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AN APPALLING SCENE.
Yonr New Orleans correspondent
furnishes, under date of July 80, the
following detailed and connected ac-
count of the outbreak in that city yes
terday:
1have already forwarded a number
of disconnected dispatches relative to
to-day fearful carnage, and now pro-
pose to give you more connected ac-
count. / only write tUhGt I can 8ubstdn-
ttdte on the best authority. The conven-
tion met at II o'clock, % members be-
ing present, Judge r. X. Howell, since
missing, in the chair. r. King Butler,
also missing, moved an adjournmento of
an hour, during which time the Ser
| geant-at-Arms was directed to compel
the attendance of absentees.
The Hall was densely packed with
| freedmen and whites, the former haY-
ing armed themselves extensively since
their Fridays demonstrations. Just
after the adjournment procession
containing about hundred freedmen.
carrying a United States flag, and
marching the streets with martial mu-
\ sic, arrived at the Institute, having had
slight disturbance on Canal street.
| At this 1uncture, the merchants all over
the city, fearing the coming rot, closed
their stores. When the procession en-
| IsbGEGA bA6 q police
followed and attempted to make arrests.
A scene of the widest confusion fol-
lowed; pistols were fired, clubs and
canes were used, and brickbats few in
| every direction.
The policemen claim that they were
merely attempting to arrest the Canal
street rioters above mentioned, but
certain Il Is that they mounted the plat
form, where small body of the mem.
bers yet remained, and one of them
presented a pistol upon their using
offensive language. The policemen
were finally driven out of the building,
leaving inside Gov. Hahn, Judge Howt
ell, Mr.. De Costie and other gentlemen,
with Clark, attached to the State Gov
ernment, besides about fifty freedmen.
Fortunately, Gov. Wells had Just LETT
the building for the purpose of consult
ing with Gen. Baird about calling out
troops, Gen. Sheridan being out of
town.
The institution used now as the State
Capitol is located in Dryades street, be-
tween Canal and Common, and when
the policemen were driven out thew
were met by large body of freedmen,
who caused them to fall back to Canal
street. Hiring a furniture cart, I used
it as an observatory on Canal street,
AIDES street. The policemen rallied and
drove the freedmen and their friends
back to Common, and in turn were
driven back to Canal street, leaving
Dryades street perfectly clear of any
Yestige of humanity e1cept The bodies Of
one police officer had been MORALLY
wounded, one severely, and others were
slightly hurt with clubs and pistol
shots. Police ce're-enforcements soon APP
peared in Canal street, and the crOIDd of
rioters accoHpa aayfng gtte police spproach-
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ing stones through the windows and
firing pistols at any one they could see
inside the building. AT the same time
q detachment of police attacked the
crowd of freedmen on Common street,
and after sharp firing and wounding
several blacks they drove them away.
This gave thepOLtce GIldt the mob tgltich dc-
coDlpdnied them full control of Dryades
street.
A fire-engine was brought out and
placed In front of the Institute, for
what purpose ! do not know. Several
attempts were made by the police to
enter the building, but they were re-
pulsed. The ammunition of the men
In the Institute seemed to give out
about this time, as they did not fire any
more. They attempted to escape
through the rear of the Institute into
BarOnne street, but 1DeTe met aud either
arrested OF. shot dot0n. They also tried
from Dryades to Baronne street, on the
Canal street side. Ido not k1toiU that any
freedmen succeeded iP getting dIDdV from
the building dLiUe, although I saw sever
al at a'distance from it being marched
to Police Headquarters. z think that
every one 1Uto tried to escape from IL IVds
Killed, and Z s1lD several brought in The
alley above mentioned, and after they JeI
8ntD croIDds ofSJt.6fdn8 beating them as
they I0ere dying.
The policemen, whatever their orders
were, behaved we'll toward the iDIite
prisoners, comparatively speaking. A.
| NJ. Fish was the first member of the
Convention captured, and 1 am happy to
say that although the police could not
prevent the crowd from abusing him
badly, they did keep him from being
lynched. A nun mounted lamp
post on Canal street as Fish was being
carried away under guard, and got a
rope ready to hang him, but the guard
drove the crowd away with their pis-
tolls. The next member arrested was
Capt. Haynes, a Texas scout for our
army during the war. The crowd had
been taught a lesson and did not inter-
fere with him, although they grumbled
deeply as he passed through, calling
them Rebels, traitors and other pet
names. iss
Gov. Hahn succeeded in getting into
the hands of the police unhnrt from
put OF the, building, where he had
been, not as a member, but
rights men in the Stale. White he IDds
1tIIdeT guard, hOiDeUer, some eotOnrd shot
him through tSe back of the head; isltatct-
fng0 dangerous 2CO1t1ld, and he aod8 also
stabbed. He was then placed in hack
and carried to Police Headquarters
where / saw him sent into confinement.
he was very pale, and the blood trick
led down his face from a wound which
seemed to have reached his left temple.
Mr.. Dostie, who had the reputation of
being the most violent negro suffrage
man In the South, and who certainly
was the most violent speaker on FRI
day last, fCds Killed GDlEite otteNptLis5 To-
get utDdy. am told that a policeman
shot Iitl IN the back, and after he fell a
cT0i1d jumped on him and cut aim ko5,Ti-
blg NTH e1ltUes. s''t e ? lesi 10 tfs
John Henderson and other members
Iiof the convention were also edpGttred,
local papers say, Hbut more likely by
I'cowardly rioters s'--wtile on their way
to the Sfation7house.
The RIOT commenced at 12:15 and end
ed at $3.50 o'clock. At 2:45 o'clock the
military nuder Gen. Baird, appeared
on Canal street, and finally took pos
session of the whole city. BeEore night
the riot was confined 70 Dryades, Ba-
ronneS Common, Carondelet and Canal
Streets and the bnildingg and yards all
around the Institute. I snlC freedmen
shot dead on al ot5Ehe dbOUe streets err
lNeept e11l1t5 aglI0 could 'hGpelbeeIt arrested
ltRillfttred. -si13OJ0 many uJeH have been
ktLted, fo0ttilded, or eUen arrested q Is
tnt1osstbLs to say, but my eSttnsdte Is one
llltltdTed freedmen aud tI1eitty:jtUe a0hites
Killed and aOoitHded, aud one hundred