New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-02

The New York Commercial advertiser,
the paper Of ThurloW Weed, and the most
conservative of Republican journals, dis
courses thus on affairs in this State.
The DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.- It can
not have escaped notice that ever since
Major General Rousseau assumed COM
mand, q condition of lawlessness and almost
anarchy has prevailed ia the Department OF
the Gulf. Civil law has been set ut de-
fiance. Civil officers have been shot down
or compelled to resign. Unionists have
been in constant fear Of their lives, and
white and black they have been exposed
to the demoniac fury of Anrepentant, blood
thirsty rebels. Union newspaper estab-
lishments have been sacked and Quilted, and
rebel mobs have roamed about at will.
When at Opelousas, Louisiana, the
Unionists assembled to rescue one of their
number, they were set upon by an infur-
lated populace, and murdered by the road
sides, IS they fed for safety. The Repub-
lican newspaper Office in the place was
demolished, and the type thrown into the
river. On the night OF the seventeenth
instant, Judge Chase and Sheriff Pope,
while sitting on the verandah OF hotel at
Franklin, in ST Mary parish Louisiana,
were shot to death. A gentleman from
New Orleans, who knew him Intimately
informs US that Sheriff Pope was one of the
NEST estimable of men and citizens. After
serving through the war as Colonel of the
Twentieth Illinois Volunteers, he seat
home for his family, and settled in St. Mary
parish with the expectation Of remaining
there permanently, His only offense con-
sisted ia accepting once under the new
Government. The same was true Of Judge
Chase.
Two days later the rebels of St. Mary
parish attacked tho Franklin Register
office, a Republican paper; and after
destroying everything connected with it,
compelled the editors and employees to seek
safety in fight to New Orleans. Not twen-
ty-four hours had elapsed before the rebels
of Caddo parish, Louisiana, followed up
this hellish work and butchered Judge
Gray and Sheriff Gaulet. Their only crime
was being Republican oficeholders. On
the night of the twenty-second instant, q
band Of rebels broke int the Jail at
Carrollton and shot dead two negro prison |
ers.
We have now fresh installment of hor-
rors from New Orleans this morning. Ac-
cording to the rebel reports difficulty |
occurred in st. Bernard parish, adjoining |
the city, on Sunday. in which zone white |
man was wounded and two negroes killed. |
One of the latter was a member of thenew |
Metropolitan Police force" At night the |
blacks congregated and killed-so SAYS the |
report-a Spanish baker his son, and sis |
and then set fire 10 the building. |
A body of troops were sent from New Or |
leans to the theatre of disturbances. Such |
is the rebel report of the affair. 1t NAV
be that the blacks became so exasperated |
that they committed the atrocities referred |
to. We shall doubt it, however. until re- |
ceiving further intelGs ence. They have
thus far been the sufferers and victims in |
all the disturbances which have occurred |
at the South since the assembling OF the |
Iammany Convention. Furthermore, the |
rebel report of this affair reveals a mani
lest purpose TO conceal the truth.
The collision oecasioned much excite
nentin New Orleans last night, and we
are told that while no negro was to be
'een, the white clubs' marched through
he streets until late hour. They were
addressed by General Steadman, the ex-
-ebel General Hayes, and Others, and urged
@ retire to their homes.
We have thus briefly alluded to few of
he outrages and evidences of misrule
which have marked General Rosseau's
administration. The unrepentant reb-
ls hailed his coming with delight,
lamed their organizations after him, and
rom time to, time have rendered
i'm the compliment of scramble. They
learly regard him as one of themselves,
nd are evidently of the opinion that they
an now murder loyalists, black and white,
nth impunity. General Rousseau served
nth distinction in the Union armies, and If I
g would avoid the odium which is now
apidly gathering about his name, he must
ut a stop to this anarchy and bloodshed,
nd restore the quiet which his predeces- L
DE enforced. If be fails to do this, il is l
le duty of the Government to substitute