Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
THE RIOT In NEW ORLEANS.
Six Negroes Killed.
Two Wounded MOrtalIy.

OkA NOSEOCs AHllCus
Two Wounded MOrtaIIy.
Terrible Excitement.
Negroes are Again the AggreS-
SOFS.
About 10 o'clock last night, as the Work.
ingmen's Club were serenading at the resi-
deDce of Mr.. Thos. Hare, l65 Povdras
street, they were passed by the Grant COL
ored Club, marching down St. Charles
street. As soon as the Workingmea fin
lshed their serenade they resumed their
march down st. Charles, about forty PAGES
In the rear OF the negroes. From there to
the corner of Canal the negroes constantly
assslled them with offensive and insulting
epIthets. Anxious TO avoid difficulty the
white men bore their taunts in silence, and
preserved demeanor which utterly pre-
cluded the idea of any hostile design
Reaching the corner of Canal street. the
Colored Club divided, a part going up each
side of the neutral ground, 80 as to keep the
WorkiDgmen constantly ia their rear. This
insult, too, was put up with, until Caronde-
let street was reached and passed. About
halfway between Carondolet and Baronne
streets, the negroes halted, and part of
them turned back, and thus brought their
men face to face with the white club.
At this juncture negro broke from the
ranks of his club, and rushed into the
centre of the white club, shouting at the
top of his voice Come on, let's clean them
QUIT"
1t was not in human nature to endure
all this, certainly not in the nature of men,
smarting under recent outrages and taunts
borne in silence for an hour. A shot was
fired by a negro from the rank of the re-
turning party, which cut through the cap
of gentleman named Richardson. 1t was
then that the white men returned the fire,
and general engagement ensued. There
was a wild rush, fearful mingling in a
death struggle Of the white and black ele-
ment, and quick and rapid discharge of
firearms all along the line. The angry
throng bent and swayed, in the mad strug-
gle, and men were locked in a passionate
embrace which held the Issues Of life and
death. Above the moan and shout of the
angry combstants the sharp report of pistols
sounded like the echoes of skirmish line.
before the continuous roar of battle breaks
on the ear. 1t was scarcely a minute, and
a. hloo1 L.. l.
negroes lay stretched on the ground.A 1t
was scarcely a seconds time before six lay
dead on the street, and two more were
borne back by their fellows MORALLY
wounded. The negroes fought wildly, and
were evidently in mortal dread at the terri
bic retribution they provoked. The white
men, on the contrary, were skilled in the
use OF arms, and most of them had be-
fore kept step and line in the fury of the
battle. They were not alarmed at the shout
of the parti-colored foe, for they had
seen hostile pennons bend and shake in a
melee when men died by hundreds They
knew that the time had come 10 teach a
lesson, and the least show of temerity
would stimulated the negroes and their
cowardly associates to drench the city in
blood. There was, therefore, no giving
back and no wavering from the conflict
While the head of the column. of the
Workingmen we're thus engaged, the rear
formed into line and marched to their sup
port. 1t was at this moment the negroes
fed. Broken and discounted they ran in
every direction. Although they had pro-
voked the conflict, and had been themselves
the assailants, yet the attack ceased the
tb,f
They were not pursued, and no advantage
taken of the victory gained. Throughout
the conflict the negroes numbered two to
one. 1t was this excess Of forces, no doubt,
which melted them to the attack. They
knew the white men had borne in silence
taunts Puch as they were not accustomed to
endure, and believed that they could with
impunity advance another step in their
hostile aggressions, and perhaps provoke
an enco inter which would rebound to their
advantage. In this they we're mistaken.
Short of actual violence. anything would
have been put up with; but the people Of
New Orleans had too long and too seri-
ously suffered from the brutal insolence of
negroes, urged on as they are BY coWardly
whites, to permit their rights as citizens
and their very manhood to be trampled in
the dust. When assailed, they had right
10 resist: they did no more.
The conflict began al the corner Of Ca
rondelet, and extended as far up Canal as
Burgundy street. Here it ceased.
As far as heard from at twelve o'clock
last night, six negroes were killed, two
MORALLY wounded, and one slightly in
jured.
. 49, A. r,L;to- n A. .D;oL,rJ,,,,
was wounded in The head slightly By a
bullet; a newsboy named DOOley was shot
in the wrist, and a man named Ryan in
iured in the leg by q spent ball OF glance
shot.
A few minutes after the riot ceased q
large body of negroes, numbering about
foU4 hundred, marched up Basin and Ram
part streets, from Congo Square, where q
large Radical meeting had been held.
They had evidently heard of the disturb
ance and had come to participate in it bat
before they reached the scene all had be
come quiet They offered no violence to
any one, and went on their way as if moth
ing had happened.
At the present moment, II o'clock, all
appears to be quiet in the city. The streets
are comparatively free from crowds, and
no sign Of a disturbance appears in any
| direction.
--LATEST.
At midnight the widest excitement pre-
| vailed, and rumors flew thick and fast OF
conflicts in various portions of the city.
| A company of United States cavalry pa
troIed the streets, but it would have taken
an army to have kept order in the excited
state of public feeling. At the corner of
| Thalia and Camp streets a conflict occurred
between a mob Of negroes and few white
men, in which one white man was shot
through the body. He ran as far as the
corner of Magazine and Melpomene streets,
where he fell. Another white man was
shot and slightly wounded on Triton
Walk.
Large bodies Of meu are gathering at
almst every street corner, talking in angry
excitement. The feelings of the POpulace
seem thoroughly aroused, aud il is not i'm
probable that a conflict may again occur.
1t certainly will if any considerable body
of negroes appear on the streets,
HE BRIBERY AFFAIR IN THE
LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE.
The following is the substance Of the de-
| yelopments in this matter, as reported by