The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-03-08
THE OVERT ACT,

Odd Fellows Hall captured by the Met
ropolitan Militia---End Of the Pretended
Government" After the Storm, Calm"
Beaten at the polls last November;
beaten in the attempt to falsify the
result of the election though the in
strumentality Of venal public officers
beaten in their appeal to the State
Courts and to the National Congress
for recognition, the supporters of the
Warmoth- McEnery pretended govern
ment this week resorted to the last
desperate chance left open to over
throw the Kellogg administration
mob violence. It gives us considerable
satisfaction to say that they have also
been beaten at this-squelched out by
the strong arm Of the rightful govern
ment, to he heard of, we hope, no more
in the political world.
Last Tuesday evening, about nine
o'clock, some two hundred armed
men marched upon and took posses
sion Of the Sixth Precinct Police Sta
ton, in New Orleans, point which
was guarded by only two or three
police officers. This brilliant achieve
ment was followed by al attack upon
the Second Precinct Station Wednes-
day night. The mob, or " McEnery'
militia" must have numbered q
thousand or more, while but thirty
eight policemen guarded the station.
Some gun stores in the vicinity of
jackson square were broken open
aud Quilted by the mob, who were
armed with every conceivable weap-
on, from Winchester rifles and breech-
oading shot-guns to dirk knives and
single-barrelled pistols. For half an
hour after the attack upon the station
a lively interchange of shots between
the besieging and besieged took place,
the windows of the old Courthouse
being shattered with bullets and the
walls dotted with marks Of the lead
en- missiles. The small band of Met
ropolitan Militia held out like true
soldiers against the overwhelming
force which was hurled against them,
and kept the ASSISTANTS at bay until
Superintendent and Brigadisr Gener-
al Badger arrived with detachment Of
eighty men and IL pound cannon
and attacked the mob, driving them
into Jackson Square for refuge. The
cannon was fred several times, and
iron ratings torn from the Square
fence, as also an iron pillar knocked
from under q neighboring gallery, at
tested the danger Outstanding in front
of the piece Of ordnance.
After Gen. Badger and his brave
band had fairly beaten and demoral-
lied the crowd, U. S. military officer
appeared upon the scene and ordered
"Gen. Waggaman" to disperse the
remnant of his mob not already dis
persed, and the redoubtable McEnery
General was fain to obey.
When perfect quiet was restored in
the second precinct, Gen. Badger
struck line Of march for the sixth
district, arriving there about l o'clock
in the morning. An immediate demand
was made upon the persons holding
the station to surrender, but the answer
was volley of bullets. Choosing a
squad Of twenty men, Gen. Badger
charged the building and re-captured
it, taking eleven prisoners.
Thus ended the great McEnery rev.
olution which was to overturn the
Kellogg government in ten hours, and
it's utter failure to accomplish that
object demonstrates the falsity of the
oft-repeated statement of the Fusion
press and politicians that without
! federal support the legal State Gov
eminent could not sustain itself.
y In the fight at Jackson Square one
man was killed and several wounded,
among the mob. Only one policeman
was hurt, and he received but a slight
flesh wound in the arm. At the sixth
precinct rencontre one of the rioters
was killed and couple wounded,
none Of the police being injured.
j. Armed with the effective Winches-
ter rifle, and drilled with military
precision, the Metropolitan Militia is
a most formidable body of men, and
there is little fear of any further rio
tous demonstration on the part of the