The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-23
SEVERAL WHITE MEN WOUNDED

About 10 O'Clock last night as large procession
OF negro Radicals were passing down Canal
street, on the lower side. when the center had
arrived at Bourbon street, the men halted and be.
gan TO jeer the ladies. of whom there were seye.
raj on Belanger's gallery eating ices. They
cursed and hurTahed for Grant and Colfax.
single voice was heard on the sidewalk to cry
hurrah for Seymour and Blair. immediately
thereupon, q shot was fred from the ranks. Tha
negroes became more menacing, absolutely infu.
rated, and breaking ranks burst into the coufec}
uonary underneath. At this, one or two shots
were hred, when the negroes, throwing away
torches and transparenoies, ran away "a fast az
their legs could carry them. Their club ornaments;
and sdjuncts strewed the lower part of Canal
street from Holiness store as far down "a Chrisr
Church.
The negroes rallied on the corner of Canal and
Dryades, the immediate vicinity of the State
House and of Radical headquarters, "No.l2.u The
Steedmsn. Guards, who were in procession on ST.
Charles street, bearing of the trouble, rushe&
round on Canal street, towards the scene of 60;
ton. They were dressed in uniform and as they;
passed the corner of Baronne street, they wers
met with regular yolley of pistol shots. AS
least hundred shots were fred within Eve mini
utes. The Steedman Guards were driven back
having no weapons, nothing in fact, except the
torches and their stafs. We saw one of the:
Guards who had the blood streaming from pisto:
shot wound in his head, but who was game tCs
the backbone. Another young man was wounded
in the hand, but wouldn't leave the field. As rens
forcements came up to the whites, the darkies
rapidly disappeared, and left the ground.
WAS N he 4:
citizens. Carriages, cabs and other vehicles
flew past on their way up town from the scene Of
conflict, filled with halffaintng women; whilst:
men, white and black. were fleeing, hot foot, in
all directions, needless to all question or remon>
STRANGE.
We learn that Dumorteil's Qate BeIlanRer'sy
show windows were smashed in hB thA nAs-~.-
bssero the row began; that the difficulty arose
from the negroes wishing to carry out the equal>
ity bill by drinking soda in the confectionary, and
that, refusal, they began to break things and to
shoot.
1t is now balfpast IL P. NJ, and the city is by
no means quiet Crowds, full of excitement, are
gathered on every frsquCnted corner, and there
are strong fears among our citizens that riot il
imminent.
But one arrest was recorded at the central sta
ton up TO halfpast IL o'clock, it being that of
colored man, Michel Leon, who was arrested OIL
Canal street by officer Campbell. charged with
riotous conduct"
Col. Dumonteil states to our reporter that about
ten o'clock last night, as the negro procession
was passing down Canal street, a white man on :,
the corner of Bourbon street, hurrahed for sey.
mour. The negroes made a rush>for him bis.
fria ahout NTH
officers, to save him from the sable wolves whoi
seemed determined on devouring him. A shot,
was then fred from the line Of procession. The ?
negroes in the procession then rushed forward as.
if to sack the confectionery. The police, Colonel
Dumonteil and his friends kept them at BAY.
whilst the employees in the establishment fastened
the door. The blinds to the windows, however,
were not put up, and the plate glass and the con,
tents were accordingly smashed to pieces. Ths
street in front of Dumonteis is covered with
fragments ofglass.
We are further informed, not by Col. Dumon;
tell, that the first shot was fired from the pro;
cession. After a few shots in return, the Ions
roll was beat near Burgundy street by band OF
the procession. The negroes then, apparently
seized with panic, commenced firing promscu.
ously. The police also fred some shots. negro
was killed by one or the other-negro or police
and his body carried to his dwelling on Burgundy
street, Another negro was badly wounded, aad
borne off to the Charity Hospital.
Everything is now quiet-except in so far as
knots of people are concerned who are gathered
about the street corners.
Sheriff Maxwell had his messengers out In ali
quarters of the city, and after midnight, every
thing been orderly, Mr.. Maxwell called on tie
crowd around the Clay statue 10 60 home. This
exhortation was followed, and the throng dis
persed. The population is nervous and excited;
but so far "order reigns in Warsaw"
A squadron of cavalry is now (halfpast IL
Wednesday morning) stationed at the corner Of
Burgundy ana Canal strees-(De II remembered
this is the immediate neighborhood Of the State
House and II Dryades street ")-under the i'm
mediate supervision and control Of Major Gen.
Rousseau.
Three cheers were given for Gen. Rousseau
and Gen. Buchanan with a vim worthy of any
occasion.
At this late hour we cannot go into particulars.
1t is rumored that o lady was killed during TIE
evening by a shot from the procession. As we
write the city is quiet.