The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-08-15

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scenes Ike this were occurring III a doz
en- different places The Mechanics In
sll!ute was still the central point. Tn,
police and citizens hal possession of tn,
lower story and OF the staircases. TIL,
Sergeant 'at-Arms had barricaded tb,
doors to the chamber of the Conventio,
when Shaw went out. Tm police charg
That the negroes in the lobby Of iii,
chamber began firing from the window
upon the members of their force IN tn,
street II is certain that they wcr,
hring at the windows oflhe Convention
and that the negroes in ahc allevs anc
door yards were tiringat them, and tha
brlckbals were also freely flying, :
considerable number OF citizens Lad Join
Ell the police force in and about the
Institute, and great crowds, gathered n
the corners Of Canal and Common, ant
along the rout to the City Hall, werl
firing at or rushing upon the few prison
ers brought along.
Finally crowd of policemen and cltl
zsns made rush atthe doors Of the Con,
ventlon chamber and broke them down
The exact order OF what immediately
followed no man can tell, 1t is onl,
certain that AS they entered the attack,
ing party delivered volcy into tn,
huddlcd mass Of members and specta,
tors, which killed and wounded several
and received one, severely woundine
some OF the policemen and killing som,
OF the citizens. Each side charges thai
the other fired first, and whether from
testimony OF participants or from the
sound OF the voIleys, it seems impossible
to reach any other conclusion than tha
they were near y .or quite Simultaneous.
There followed series Of short anC
bloody individual conflicts. Ncgroe,
were shot down, members Of the Con,
vonllon wounded and arrested, aud til,
scenes Oh violence in the streets intense
hea leniold as persons began to emerg,
from the building.
clandlng at this moment in the high,
est vcrandah of Nictor's restaurant
looking directly down the street to tn,
Institute, was late Major General o
the United States service. He saw lou,
policemen bear out the seemingly litrles.
body vf DR.. Doslle, an earnest. sincere
perhaps tanatical member Of the Con
yentlon, prominent Free Mason, ands
gentleman against whose private char
acter no charge was ever made. Iii
head hung down TILL it almost drarr5t
the pavement, blood was streaming from
his wounds and marking the path b,
which he was borne. Around tins il.-
animate body the crowd rushed and
olasphemed, or laughed and chccrcd. A,
last a cart was reached, and the body
was thrown in, when II more determin ID
rush than any previous one was made
and the rioters broke through. Before
1he cart could be started, several blows
had been ralncd upon The bleeding BODY,
and the General felt sure that as one
mans hand descended he caught the
CLEAN Of knife
The news flew among the rioters that
Dr. Dostie was killed, and it was every,
where received, many squares off even,
where people had scarcely became inham,
ed with the fever Of the massacre. with
expressions OF satisfaction ana positive
delight,
Meanwhile, returning from Canal
street up Carondelet, | had inst secured
a place on the verandah of a friend $
rooms, near the corner of Common,
when great cheers canfc up from the
Institute, and a dense mob crowded
along Common street toward the St
Charlie. Hotel. AS thev approached We
could make out four policemen with
cooked revolvers, and in their midst,
with hat knocked off, with coat nearly
torn from his shoulders, with blood clot
ted over his head and about his neck.
with citizens rushing at him, striking a.
HIM, shoutlng,"kill him" partly l,mping
and partly jerked along by theinfuriated
policemen, came Michael Hahn, ex-mem.
Der Of the United States House of Rep
resentatives, eX Governor OF Louisiana,
and United States Senator elect from
the Legislature Of LouiSiana-the man
TO whom Abraham Lincoln contidenli,
ally wrote that negro suffrage might yet
in some hour Of peril, help to keep the
iswel of Liberty in the lamily Of Free
dom!" In ten minutes he was lying
bleeding and feverish, in a cell OF the
city Jail! lie was more scared than hurt,
is the cool comment of the leading
journal this morning.
a little later came the only stroke
of the comic in all this said tragedy -
The boaster of the Convention, the hero
who would do and and die for his new
born love OF negro suffrage, had not
yet been found. Arrayed in spotless
white he had been seen to enter the
Chamber before the opening OF the Cons
vention, but since the firing began, no
eye of negro had been chcercd, no heart
of Convention member nervea, no soul
of policemen intlamed by the radiant
sight of Il. King Cutler. The las,
member had been driven out by the mob
and the last negro stabbed; the Chamber
was occupied only by the police, the
other rioters and the dead but still the
hero was missing AT last a bright
thought struck policeman. He explor~
ed the chimney, Its throat was narrow,
and King Cutters body was large, and
so, instead OF being quite swallowed up,
there he stuck! In Il moment n non
descript figure clme up the street, be,
tween policemen and rioters, all so anus,