The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-25

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Last night occurred one of those scenes Of
bloodshed and violence. which, alas are getting
more end more frequent day by day. and whose
often repetition makes every citizen constantly in
dread of disturbance. The origin of this difficulty
is as such things always are almost unfathomsble.
aud we can only state our deductions from the
many different accounts which we heard, adding
thereto such facts ss this reporter witnessed.
The Workingmen's Democratic Club was out
last night end about % O'Clock halted Ia front of
the store of Mr.. Thomas Hare. on Poydras street.
between St. Charles and Carondelet. While there
procession of some three or four negro Radical
clubs passed down st. Charles street, shouting
and yelling like demons. After they had passed
the corner of ST. Charles and Poydras streets the
workingmen fled into st. Charles street and
went down town. the route which they had
selected. The negroes rent the air with shouts
for Grant, and the workingmen for Seymour,
large crowd assembling on the sidewalk and fol.
lowing them down. On st. Charles street, ss the
workinRmen passed by, we noticed at two differ.
ent points negroes halloing at the top of their
voices for Grant and Colfax, and no one 10 the
crowd molesting them In the least. On reaching
Canal street the Radical club took the down town
side, the Democrats the upper side. On reaching
Dauphine street the negroes. from all accounts
we could gather, turned up and went across Canal
street to the upper side, where they countermarch
ed. Meantime one of the negro clubs had at Caren.
delet street crossed to the upper side of Canal
street, and these marched towards the lake, q
little ahead Of the Workingmen-all this time the
crowd on the sidewalks became denser and
denser, and the excitement increased. When
this last club was about the middle of the square
between Carondeet and Baronne streets, our o.
porter, who was in q carriage at the head of the
WorkDgmen, heard single shot ahead. Nothing
resulted from this, and few moments afterwards
he heard another shot. Still there was no gene
raj disturbance, until just the tail end Of the
Radical processon-all the clubs being once more
joine-dhad passed Baronne street, our reporter
saw q club of white men (the Seymour Ssn,nels)
come running down Bsronne street towards Canal
street. Just then one of the torches carried IN the
colored procession burst making great Doise and
large fame. This seemed to start everything,
for Immediately the negroes commenced to run,
and fifty or seventy five shots were fired in quick
succession. The Workingmen, meanwhile. rashed
quickly forward. without, however, any drill or
organization whatever. A lul followed. when
again the firing commenced. continued for a few
moments with great rapidly. and then finally
ceased, with the exception Of few dropping shots
along the street, which lasted some five minutes
longer. By this time, the Radical clubs, having
thrown away torches, hats, banners. Transparent
ces and everything else. had disappeared frcm the
scene, leaving their accoulrements behind them.
and the banquette flowing with the coal oil Of
their broken lamps.
A of tha nd oofIv ffar H., frov
showed that three negroes had been killed. Their
names we did not learn, but one of them was Q
marshal. A colored man named James williams
was wounded and subsequently taken to his resi-
dence, No 500 Philip street. We found the body
rof little negro boy lying on the sidewalk.
jsmmed close against the wall, quite dead. He
had no wound upon his person, and the only
hypothesis possible is that he was trampled to
death by the panic stricken colored men. Mr..
Thomas Reynolds, a gentleman well known in
this city. was wounded slightly in the head, as
was also another white man whose name we did
not get. A colored man, we subsequently learned.
was, just after the fray Baronne street. shot
and killed at the corner Of Basin and Canal
streets. and another colored man killed On Cana
street further out.
After the disturbance was ended the Working
route they had laid down for themselves. A num-
ber of persons then assembled the scene of
the fracas, looking at the traces of 1t and spscu-
latng as to the origin and manner of it.
These are the facts as far as we can gather
them. With the confusion that in an occasion of
that sort reigns it is hard to get accurate state.
ments from men who are bewildered by excite
ment, and harder for person to view pert Of
tha b;oh; ;o oou Io nj kh.u
describe the whole of it. As further particulars
are developed our readers shall know them.
Iscidents.
Just after the firing ceased, our reporter went
out Canal to Phlppa and there turned up. On
the corner was huge negro, dressed in semi.uni-
form, fourishing naked sword and crying out to
a group of frightened darkies near him. Orally
rally and scatter the id scoundrels." Al
though the surroundings were SO serious, the
scene was too funny not to laugh at.
The man who carried the flag of one of the no
gro clubs, in the race to the swamp dropped his
standard. and ran some ten feet before he could
stop himself. He at once turned round, ran back
10 the face of the advancing whites. picked up his
flag and made of with It.
Liter.
Since writing the above we have learned that
about liz O'Clock q colored man was shot and
killed. at the corner of Franklin and Poydras
streets, by q party unknown. His body was
brought to the central station. Also. that Mr.,
Robert Martin was arrested aud placed in
tpe stsuoB, charged win suvotus 0sust
street, about l0t O'Clock. The charge does
not say that be shot anybody, bat simply AYERS
the violation Of the city ordinance which pro-
abits the discharge Of firearms within the corpor-
ate limits of the city.
The bodies Of all the men killed 10 the ARRAY
were brought to the central station.
The particular attention of our readers Is called