New Orleans Republican., 1868-10-19
CITIZENS PATRoLL1NG THE Towy
NEGRO RIOT" APPREHENDED.
Murder of Union Men FOreshadOwed.
PROMPTINGS OF A DEEOCRATIC PRESS.

J We copy the following special dispatcl
, from the Commercial Bulletin of this morn
ing: -.-4 .#
FRANKIN, La, October 1S.-Last night
F the seventeenth instant, at about half-past
eight the citizens of Franklin were startled
by some eight or ten pistol shots fred in
} rapid succession at O'Neills Hotel. The
, crowd gathered to ascertain the cause
when, after few moments, it was an.
nounced that Henry Pope, Radical Sheriff
elect, had been killed. 1t seems that Pope
} was 0n the gallery, near his room, when
several men advanced upon him and com.
menced firing. Before the citizens could
reach the scene, which took place in rear
building, the perpetrators mad made theiI
escape, and by many it is said, mounted
their horses and went full speed down the
roa1, and although some of them were
seen it was impossible to identify any one
The citizens, ignorant of the canses which
led to this, and apprehensive of an out
break, Immediately organized heavy guard
for the town and patrolled until morning.
In their rounds, passing between the
bayou and the hotel, on what might be
called Water street, another body was
found. A physician was Immediately sent
for to ascertain whether or not life was ex-
tinct. The surgeon pronounced him dead
The body proved to be that of Valentine
Chase, lately elected Parish Judge. A
guard was placed over his body to protect
it until the Coroner should take the matter
in hand. At an early hour this officer was
on the ground, and his jury having been
summoned, an investigation was gone into,
but no facts bearing on the case were
ELECTED, nothing to give rise to any sus-
picion as to who were the actors in this
terrible tragedy. At present the town is
quiet, and although the blacks are here in
considerable numbers, there are no evil
dences of any feeling which would cause
apprehension; still all are on their guard,
and ready at a moments notice to quell
any violence.
The Planters Banner, published at
Franklin, st. Mary Parish, by Daniel Den
nett, native of Maine, has done every
thing in its power to provoke this terrible
result.
The Banner of the tenth instant con-
tained this among other incendiary para
graphs:
Where are the carpet-baggers of st.
Landry? They are where the carpet-bag-
gers of st. Mary will be one of these days,
This was distinct intimation that they
would be murdered in st. Mary as they
had been in st. Landry.
Last Monday we reproduced nearly
column of extracts from the Franklin Ban
rer of the tenth. To-day we reproduce
the following extracts from the Banner of
last Saturday, the seventeenth, which must
convince our readers that bennett indirect
ly melted the murder of Judge Chase and
Sheriff Pope, and that he should be held to
direct responsibility for his incendiary
language. Mr.. Pope was killed on the
evening of the date of that paper. This
extract relates to the death and burial of
Mr. Pope:
The recent disasters of the Radicals in
st. Landry, and the dwindling of Loyal
Leage clubs 10 the parish, have had a terri
BILE effect on the little rat Pope. He looks
on the streets as though he had been chained
up by terrier, He has complication of
diseases-his liver don't act, he has the
chohc, the toothache, and the yellow iaun- |
dice, and don't feel very we'll himself. If
he dies, the she'll of an English valiant
would make a good sorcophagus in which |
to convey his precious remains to his |
Northern friends, or, if he is to be buried |
on Southern soil, as he has no ''forty acresn |
Of his own in which to be buried. he shouId |
be put in pair ofoyster shells, and buried |
at low water mark where the tide ebbs and |
flows twice in twenty fourIhours.
In this article there is an intimation that |
the press and type of the Republican pa
per at Franklin, the Attakapas Register.
will be destroyed and the editors mnr.
lered: .l=.
We proved two weeks ago that the tag
payers of st. Mary will next year have to
pay twenty thousand dollars for the public
printing of this State, and that the State
VIII be taxed million for the same pur-
pose.
wonder why our carpet-bag sheet, the
Attakapas Register, did not try to explain
lWay that grave charge, and make our
yroaning taxpayers feel little better salts
led than they now feel?
Wonder why the Register didn't denv
hat II belongs to the swindling printers
ing which costs the State million wear
Wonder why it didn't deny that it will
'ook over twelve hundred dollars the first
month againt the State and citizens of this
'arlsh, but lodged, by saying IL would
sell out the claims to US for $400, p know
ng that we could not collect a dollar of
heir claims from their thieyish masters?
wonder why it did not dispute our state
nent that 1t has not a dozen paying white
nbscribers, and not fifty celored sIbscrib-
rs in st. Mary? @ HH sHI II
Wonder why that paper has lately be-
ONE 80 polite to the Seymour and Blair
Knights Of Franklin
Wonder it Its talk about conscience. Z
eace and justice can be honest talk, while :
u robbing the taxpayers of the parish.
Hrring up jealousies and ill-feelinQ among :
be negroes, and acting as the agent and !
artner Of shameless and heartiess gang
T political thieves
we answer, that paper can not defend
selt. Our charges are true. The proprie- ! !
'rs OF that press know that such paper. !
by forced taxes, could not live in
le city OF Boston week, nor day. The :
ases, type, press aud editor would be :
mt to hunt the chests of tea in Boston !
arbor. {
This paragraph speaks of Mr.. Pope's )
neral procession, and the funeral process 4
on of the Radidal psrty in st. Mary: q
The grand Radical meeting at the Mudfsh {
'idge, In the rear of Franklin, last Satur-
", was almost fizzle. Only hundred y
I'd twenty-five negroes were present. They
rmerly boasted that the Loyal League 9
ub Of Franklin alone numbered five hnnd-
d members. Their coiored procession y