The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-10
THE FIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS
FURTHER PARITCULARS OF 1HE Ri6H
~- CONFLICT, is.-'t

FURTHER PARTICULARS or THE RA6H
CONFLICT. ''@
The McEnery Government Resolved to
starve ont the Kellogg Faction by Or
ganized Refusal to Pay Taxes. ,ss
The New Orleans Times, of Thnrsday, says:
Last evening, about nIghttall, 1t became syi.y
dent that movement fsome sort was on foot.
Bodies of men we're assembling at dinerens.
places In the central portion Of the city, and
arms were freely distributed. II was saidon tne
streets that one of the large political cluoe naoi
offered Governor McEnery four Thousand men
early In the afternoon, and the NUMBER ap.l
pesring seemed to justify this assertion. a
Company OF about one hundred was assem-'
bled at the lower part Of Camp street. announcer
on Poydras and Magazine, and another Gato-
ering was reported III the neighhorhood OF the I
sugar shed. -..,. srE
About $50, squad of militia moved down
Royal street, and, emerging into the plaza 10
front of st. Louis Cathedral, fred Into the
statlonhonse. The fire was returned from the
building, a ball graslng General Ogdensi
twenty minutes, were reinforced BY come &
three hundred men. Pickets we're then Bta-,
toned at the Intersection OF Royal with Toui-
ouse street, st. Peter with st. Ann. and at the
corner OF Chartres and st. Ann. There was !
also guard placed at the corner OF Charles
and Toulouse: After this 1rst brush, the
stationhouse was closed and bolfed. The
stores OF P. Durand, J.. Gullfsux and L. y.
Lee, containing arms, were broken open by
the militia, and the contents appropriated.
AT about 0.a5, General BADGER with three
companies of police, numbering eighty mem
each, and one piece CT artillery, Joined
at the corner Of st. Louis and st. Charles
nk4 ntA affnR
bered up and taken down the street,
the police marching by fours. When they :
reached Toulouse street firing commenced,
g raking volley being delivered from the cor.
ner Of Jefferson street. The police returned
the fire, but in the confusion had some DIM J
Guilty in unlimbering tbs gun. There was con.
tinuous mneketry firing for about ateen
position and discharged twice down Chartres
street. This created some indeclsioa In the .
ranks of the militia, and they fell back mo-
mentarily, but quickly rallied, and nrinR was
again resumed. A fnal shot was dischst8eo
from the gun. and the militia retresfed into
Jackson Square, the police remaining on
Chartres, between Toulouse and St Peter. AZ
ten O'Clock the militia were being rapidly relu-
forced from all quarters of tho city, the squads
moving in the direction OF jackson. square.
80 far as known one man was billed and eighI
wounded on the part Of the militia. Only one i
casualty was reported among the ponce,
man being slightly wounded IN the arm. ~ =.
INTERFERENCE OF TIE NMIrARY.
Lieutenant King, Of General Emoryh stan,
arrived on the scene Of action at the corner OF
St. Peter and Levee at 1880, and asked for
the COMMANDER of the mob. Some one In
formed the officer that this was not mob,
but real citizens OF New Orleans. Colonel
Ogden and General Wsggaman coming npy.
the United States officer Informed them tnas
he came from General Emory, and had orders
TO request the militia TO dlsperse, adding, as
ceived instructions to that effect from Wash
incton. Colonel Ogden responded that he
would order the men TO retire and dlsperse at
once. =. :, y.
THE SECOND F10HT. ~,
The seventh precinct station. was recap
tured by the Metropolitans. At half-pest Two
this morning General Badger, with hty men
aud one piece OF artillery, reached the station,
and making detour to the rear OF the build
Ing, advanced toward it ana sent oTcel n9l. y:
phy to demand their surrender, Before ne
reached the police station the attacking party
were received with volley from Bhot-guA OF
perhaps eeventy-fve men, and 1mmeti8fely
returned the fire. The men on duty retfeatef,
and the police rushing 10 captured t9e ataa0n
and seven prisoners. It was then ascertained
that N. Il. Chandler, Q cItisen, had been p9f-
men. Another man, named Ernst LivMdafs,
was struck In the arm with bnckanoe.
Chandler was conveyed to drug store 0ppoS~
lite, where physIcian attended him. No h0po
is entertained for: his recovery. the attending
physician expressing an opinion that death
was momentarily to be expected.
Al half.past three O'CLOCK all was quiet. The
police at that hour retired to the upper por-
ton OF tie market-h0use, leaving a strong
guard on duty. Early this morning the city
was perfectly quiet. It Ia now stated that
Governor McEnery did not author1Eo the
tropolltans are 10 quiet possession, with the
United States troops within easy supporting
distance. The militia are all dispersed. st.
The citizens generally seem 70 regard the
attack last night as premature. The object OF
the fusionists In making 1t does not Clearly ap.
pear, but It ls supposed to have been VITA
view Of showing that the people would not
quietly submit to the Kellogg governments.
CAPTURE OF oDD-FE1Lows' HALL.
The Kellogg metropolitan police, armed as
Infantry, this forenoon took possession OF Oca-
Fellows Hall, where the McEnery Legislature
have heretofore met. Mr.. J. O. 4oncure,
speaker Of the House, and other members
who were In the hall at the time, were taken
10 the nrsL precinct etatioDhouse. xeout one
hundred metropolitans occupy Lafayetto;
Sauare. There 1s considerable excitement
and q large cr0WQ 10 gaI0orluR duous tu0
square and the Odd.Felows Hall. -
l. SCENE OF THE FUsILADE.
Large numbers of people this morning VS.
tied the scene Of the affray last nlgnt. Tne
effect of canister is visible In two or three
places, several of the iren columns Of tne oaSl
cony Of the building at the corner OF 1T. Petef
and Chartres streets being perforated and one
knocked down and broken to spllDters. Inc
railing of Jackson square 10 also broken n
several places, and here AMI there the Duiia-
ings near 1t are Clipped. The trees 10 tno
soIiare are fairly riddled with bullets, and the
ground slrewn with broken branches, giving
faint Idea OF the briskness and severity OF
the fire.
The police hold the street immediatelyttn
front OF the station.house, armed with Win.
chester rifles. The station Itself is occupied
by United States soldiers, who have their guns
stacked In the court yard with several men.
guarding them. People were constantly en-:
tering the Office, inquiring for friends anu
relatives. Permission to see them, however,
with one or two exceptional Instances, was
refused. -:
ARREST OF CITIZENS.
About fifty citizens, or militia. who partici-
paled In last nights ARRAY, were arrested,
charged with violating the act Of Congress OF
April 20, 1871, section 2, TO enforce the pfovls-
ions of the fourteenth amendment tc tne COLI 9
atitution. and for other purposes, voiome rs
United States Statutes at Large. Tney were
taken before O United States commissioner
and released on one thousand dollars Dali
zach The citv is very quiet this evening. ~