New Orleans Republican., 1872-01-07
: In the 'FRONT.'

SolneWHdU OF mass meeting WAS HtIi
mpromptu, near the Gem saloon. on Royal
street, Yesterday A rumor was current
that the military authorities were coming to
arrest 1.-The whole kit" This was after
wards contradicted. Then another runor
stirred among the crowd that ''the police
are coming" These rumocs, coupled with
| the appearance Of an aid to General En-
ory, who spurred his horse at gallop down
| the street, and also the sight of a military
| carriage, in which was an officer of the
army, tended to produce conmotion and
general closing up of doors and putting up
of shutters, reminding one Of what Nose
said-"Clear away the tables and things;
| there 5 goin to be muss.'
Drawn by these circumstances, a crowd
OF some five hundred men collected in
short order from all directions, forming
around the bar room as a nuclus, and Tor a
while listening in knots 10 whOmsover 1.-THE
spirit moved to tell the origin
Of the late sensation.
There was stir i'll the throng and then a
general looking up when it was discov cred
that Mr.. Carter was on the balcony over
hanging the sidewalk, and as he appeared
with gavcl IL his hand this seem ed to be
evidence to those ont of hearing that he had
something to say. He said it. He inter
spersed his remarks with commands like
these: Stop talking now, and let Inc speak"
Hold on a minute, I'm talking and more
to the same purpose. He said that the
body over which he presided did not intend
to adjourn, nor to run, but that any order
of court would be obeyed, and he intended
to submit to the same, letting justice take its
course. Although he spoke some fifteen
minutes, this Was all he said.
Soon after Mr. j. 3. Eustis appeared and
confined his remarks to an explanation of
the reasons why the Democracy now ap-
peared as the staunch supporters Of Carter
and his body, 1t being to produce a repeal
OF the election registration, constabulary,
school, Metropolitan Police and printing
laws. and to defeat the chances of Governor
Warmoth gaining the Office Of Governor in
1872. He was liberal in his estimates of the
taxation the people had already paid, say
ing they were more than sufficient to pay
Oft the State debt and seemed TO think that
the cause Of it ali lay in Governor War
moth.
When ne had finished, Messrs B. F.
Jonas. Judge J. c. b. Cotton, and several
other gentlemen, spoke to the same effect
all contining the burden OF their remarks
to the delunciatiOn Of Governor Warm0th.
When the speakers had finished, and after
members Of Carter's body among whom were
Mr. MoncUre and j. Henri Burch. had also
INDUCED III their ding, it was announced
that an adjournment would be had until
Tuesday morning. Then the windows were
all closed up stairs. the lights put out. and
the members inside mizzled.
4 party Of Young men then detailed them
selves from the crowd. and went on az ex-
cursion tor arms, il is said to the st Peter
Street Armorv, where they succeeded in
capturing muskcts- some say about sixty.
These they brought down, ana went
through the manual with what apparent
ohj"ct no one in or our of the crowd knew.
They marched Up the street, and they
marched down again, and one young gentle
man who had two muskets, and who eag-
erlv cried out TO the crowd, Who wants
this Inusket ?" was long time holding it
before he got rid of it, the young man who
took charge of it saying. in stentorian tones.
You could not have given il 70 a better
man - when the crowd roareG Il good rat
nre. What became of the muskets. the men
or the crowd. the members who had been
inside, OF The speakers that uttered wisdom
from balconies. this reporter knowe;h ard |
therefore saith nor.