The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-27
sATURDAY's RIOT.

| We have so far been enabled to gather the
following additional particulars of the ah lir of
Saturday last:
Our account, as far as we can gather, was SUBJ
stantially correct, as published in Sundays CREs.
CENT. The origin of the affair is no " as much
| mystery rs II was when we penDed that article,
and that it will ever be fathomed is we think i'm.
probable.
We have since heard that on Saturday night
about ll3 O'Clock, as party of white men were
walking along Camp street, between Erato aud
ITALIA, they were overtaken and fred into by the
Grant negro club, whose headquarters is near
there. They returned the fire. In the melee
which followed, DIR. ]. B. Duff, the president of
the Seymour Guides, raised his pistol to fire.
when negro struck it with heavy club, break
ing it. Another negro hit DR.. Duff in the head
with an ak or Ratchet, knocking him down and
wouuding him terribly. He was about TO repeat
the blow when he was shot oy some one ; another
negro then struck Mr.. Leary, who was with Dr.
Duff, in the head with an ak or Ratchet, hurting
him most severely. 1t the same riot Mr.. Long
was shot In the abdomen, as to whether danger
ously or not we cannot say. The negroes as far
as known, lost bat one killed and se vel al wounded
About liz o'clock police officer found q Mr..
Brady, shot twice through the head and dead In
the gutter on kelpomene street, between Pry-
tanis and Camp. The officer tracked this man
two squares by the trail of blood be left behind
him and then found him dead. Mr.. Cornelius Sui
lvan was found dead corner of Camp and Thaia
streets.
About O'Clock the negro barber shop next
door to the upper corner of ITALIA and Camp
streets, known as a resort of the worst class OF
negroes, and sort of headquarters of the club
which nearly killed Dr. Duff and his friends was
broken into and all the club paraphernslia in it
destroyed, as was also mirror and three drums.
There was great deal OF firing throughout all
the back part Of the Fourth District after IL
O'Clock. No casualties, however, that we could
hear of.
Casualties.
The following is the list of killed and wounded
as far as we can ascertain:
KILLED.
The following white men
Cornelius Sullivan.
Patrick Brady.
The following colored men
Nelson Deny.
Alfred Andrews.
Frank HOskins.
Edward Jones.
A colored man found ut the corner of Poydras
and Franklin streets.
Joseph ALLOlnct tReu II, son OF ". Y. A0tC1nee
State senator he was either bruised or tzampled
TO death.
WOUNDED.
The following white men
Mr.. Wallace, Of the Workingmen, in che leg.
DIR. Duff.
Mr.. Lesry.
Mr.. Long.
The colored man:
James Williams.
None of the bodies were viewed by the coroner
and none Of the deaths are as yet recorded In his
books.
Incidenta
At the corler Of Dryades street and Triton
Walk, the headquarters Of Radical club, could
be seen, about midnight, crowd Of negroes in
uniform, some of them loading nuskets. Aboat
them were standing number Of negro women,
and a tenement, not far away, was alive with
colored people, crowded about the doorways and
windows, looking out.
just after the riot was over on Canal street
three members of the metropolitan police came
up very much o1t of breath, and wanted to
know where tho fuss was and who fred that
pistol"
There were but three arrests made on Satlr-
day night One gentleman, Mr.. Martin, was ar
rested for firing of pistol in the city, szd the
oiheIs for carrying concealed weapons. Consid-
erng that one of these gentlemen had musket,
the concealed" part is good.