The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-24
THE so UTH.
The Murders in Lonisi"' ,o-,rho AssnssI-
nation Of ..iT ,sonc

Ihe hWFoeI., ., =. ~ .nn-Tho AssRssh-
rne IN; X. 7~', ,uus,, New orleans correspond
me following on tne lStn inst rba
.e rews from Franklin is terrible. ,,le me
I wss 81 M eonoooed n cOs
OF The franklin paper, puolishe1 only sne sIso
before ,hS ss week STsvious Give
the world the benefit of this. The excitemen,e ~
here ls intense. Noihing has yet taken pi"'e' "
eaual the horror of this affair." ~
IyOy, the Planters Banner. franklin. Ld'' o9o'e
the murder Of SheTt0 Pope ,.
The grand radical meeting near Franns 1s,a hn1. @
sSso enyS E%epIv We neg r0es attended. The
eoIoIed procession tbrOusn Sne ,nroa tint
pOoa SonSe , pnne GOT brick baLted, and left town
anna en- " disheHrIened and forlorn; InsI was
P,ne,s fnferaI procession. Col lreu peops.e " VI
a. p~sry we assure you that this fellow, Pope.
is Is ing TO you, and deceiving you III Vai.eSy @
eiec,i n. Be mas no idea OF being aole 10 hOid
The office of sheriff. He is paid now Ior cuS1I S
ara GsY siTS s 80 SS%d 6 at the
not for funUs he gets rom the eTaulcals aC No"
Oesns 10 or be toaed and cneated by his lies, go
ahead TO the bitter end. Wnen i ne iIvors Ionn1s
Souln trouble by ms taiR IN oods and TO New
Orleans, ana leave you to be dealC WIN & ns tne az
Issgdry Progress promised the negroes OF tnat
Darish q re AT things, told them now SlrOnS Lney
were, tlslered t6em, lea TO l9e@ pa as secpety
piSnned TO burn down Opelousas and Wasnlng'
ION, and TO plumber both places tnese M @ c%SpS spt
happprs were to lead the negroes In the ngut.
what was the result? AT the fire oil the hrst
gun the leaders took TO the woods; ana Tue ne
wroea were Iuthlessly slaughtered Dy Jne en-
ggaSed white people all over the parish. Tne
INFAMOUS carpet baSgers are 10 pialhe ior tns
whole saSSiee nc S Of Ie PrSu"se@ " Som Some oStra.
geous acts of some OF the worst OF tnese heSvooes
would in the end Justify the white people In XIII,
Ing twenty or thirty of the misled negroes and
running the foui crowd oI CARPET pagsers @ On " "
the RADICALS in st. Landry, and the dwind.ing
Of IOyal league Clubs in the parish, hsve hsd
aierrible effect on the little rat rope ne aoCHs
by a terrier He has a com plcahon OF ulseeSesi
his liver don't act; he has the collie. the teotn, &
ache and the yellow jsundice, and don't feel
very well himself. II he dies, the Shelf OF an
RDgIish walnut would max good sarcopaagus
In " hich 10 convey his precious remains TO MS
Northern friends; or If he Is to be buyied on
Southern soil, as he has no forty acres" OF his
own in which TO be buried, he should be put In
pair Of oy ster shells, and buried at low water
mark where the tide GIBBS and flows twice in
twenty. four hours.
Another Phase of the st. Landry Mas
Grand Choteau Correspondence Of the Planters
Banner.
The next m Getting was to have aiken place at
7o'ClocK p. NJ. the next day; but ldl about IL
O'Clock Nj. ON that very day came the omlnous
IeporJ that the radicals and Democrats were
fiehIipg at Opelousas; that The radicals wanted
10 burn Opelousss and kill every Democrat in
direction in the parish to summon tnem there.
and the Democra were calling on their oreth-
which 1t is hardly possible to describe; IL was a
general rush to arms, going and coming TO and
FROM saddling up Of horses, mounting
and riding, clouds of dpst raised up In the
roads by troops of armed riders coming In from
the country TO rendezvous here ere they started
for Opelousas, guns discharged to be reloaded;
women and children running from one house
10 another with pallid cheeks; here a hurried
embrace between a mother and SON or hus.
band and wife, But they start-thetr forms are
soon hid in the clouds OF dust which rise from
under their horses feet. There were about l5JO
or 2OUO men under arms-all that could have
arms were on duty, all mounted. There
was q conflict between the Democrats and
radicals. resulting IN the killing OF three and
the wounding OF several radicals.
The Planters Bonner editorial summary.
As Mr.. Watkins. the colored Democratic
speaker who wrote the above, left while the
fgbtipg was going on, he was unable TO give
any definite statement in regard 10 The killed
and wounded Later news Is quite copnlct1ng
n Captain May still lives but one white Demo
nrat was killed and but three wounded. Dr.
Thompson, who had full control and direction
of AIN the white men under arms in ST. Landry
Informed us In New Orleans no one can tell
and perhaps Will never be able to tell, how
many colored radicals were killed and
Wounded but he thought it would amount tC
not less than 100 killed and fifty wounded
The people of st. Landry who were in the fight
differ widely In their es imates. Some put Lne
Killed and wounded negroes as high as 2O(