Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-15
TIE NEW ORLEANS MOE.

pears that McEnery had been preparing SOME
time, on a pretty large scale, for riot. lie
issued his orders for all persons between the
ages OF eighteen and fortyfve to enrol them
selves, but succeeded in getting but about
two or three hundred names. On Tuesday
night a gang of his followers took possession
Of the 18th Precinct Station, q place far Out
ia the suberbs This vas the beginning Of
active operations. What followed and the
situation Of affairs politically is related in .he
correspondence of the Boston Journal as foi'
lows:
con the succeeding night, embroidered By
success, the mob made another demonstration.
Policemen when alone were attacked by large
gangs of rufians and robbed of their revol-
vers early 10 the evening. A mob Of hun
| dreds. many of them armed, poured down to
| jackson square between nine and ten o'clock.
| At this point is the Third Precinct Station.
Jackson square is about the size Of the Bos
ton Public Garden, and is laid out in much
the same style, with much more shrubbery.
| In the center is an equestrian statue of Gen
eral Jackson, and upon the granite base On
which it rests is the inscription 1.-THE Onion
must and shall be preserved" which must
have been a motto CT interest here ten years
ago. The place is surrounded by handsome
iron railing.
On one side of the square is the ievee and
the river. The boundary on the other side
is Charities street, about fifty feet wide. On
this street opposite the square are some of the
Oldest brick buildings in the city. The old
| French Cathedral is in the center Of the block.
Below is a very old building used by the Dis
| trict Courts, and above is another Court
House used by the Supreme Court. In the
portion Of the ground floor Of the building,
nearest the Cathedral, is the Third Precinct
Station. The building was erected in 1870
for State House by the old Spanish govern
ment. 1t was afterwards used as Munic
| ipality City Hall. In the Supreme Court room
| Lafayette held his station in 1927. The doors
of the police station are about twelve feet in
! from the sidewalk, the front of the building
being arched and open to the street, and the
| front Of the ground floor that distance back.
| The upper portion of the doors is of glass
The mob, of whom Waggaman and Ogden,
another confed erate Colonel, were foolish
enough to put themselves at the head, obtain
ed access to the square and commenced fir
ing from behind the tasteful shrubbery upon
the police station, and the wooden portion OF
the doors has some twenty or thirty bullet holes
through them. The glass suffered but little
The policemen fred back. and the mob, find
ing 1t hot work, fed. One policemen was
, slightly hurt. Previously the mob had broken
into two or three gun shops and robbed them
and no w they robbed another and also coffee
house. On receiving large cessions to their
force they went back, and Ogden went to the
station and demanded its surrender. The re-
ply was shot which cut the cloth on the
shoulder of his coat and he left very speedily.
BY this time the situation was known at the
police headquarters. BY order of General
| Topostreet Gamma nj chief of the mill
tia Of Louisiana, who has for years been a
consistent Republican, General Badger pro-
ceeded to dispense the mob. He marched
from the Central Station with about two hun
dred police well drilled, and armed. as they
all had been, with the Winchester rifle, from
which sixteen shots can be fired without re-
loading, to the Sd Precinct, about quarter
of mile distant. Passing through Canal
street, the principal thoroughfare of the city,
the force marched down Chartres, a somewhat
narrow street in places. The mob fired upon
them soon after they left Canal street, ;rem
the direction of the station and from the win
dows, but the police advanced steadily, re-
turning the fire. Shortly before reaching the
| square a brass twelve pound Napoleon cannon
which the police had with Them was brought
to the front and discharged with blank cart
| ridges at first, and then with canister. The
"patriots" fired pell NELL, and the force adj.
little more canister, directing their fire into
the portion of the square where the assailants
had fred into the police station.
This ended the affair, and the Metropolitan
Police fairly cleaned out their assailants. A
few companies of United States troops were
promptly on hand, but took no part whatever,
preferring to stand by and see fair play be-
tween the contestants. Judging from the be-
havior of the police on the occasion, they are
able to take care Of ten times that number of
any mob that may be brought against them.
They number six hundred and fifty men, one
| third of them colorcd, and are appointed by
the State authority, as i'll New York. War
moth appointed General Badger and when
| he quit the republican party he hoped that the
| General would follow him, in which he was
egregiously mistaken. The General and the
| republicans are master Of the situation. AZ
ter the fight at the Sd Precinct, General Bad
ger with few men re took the 9Th. Those
who foolishly resisted, suffered, and one of
the fellows was killed and one wounded.
At the Sd Precinct one of the rioters was
killed and a dozen or twenty wounded. AT
ter the fighting was over at the latter place,
by order of General Emory, Waggaman sent
his roughs to their several bar rooms, and the
more reputable portion Of the assailants
sneaked homeward, feeling most particularly
cheap and foolish. Few of these would ac-
knowledge the next day that they had any
thing to do with the affair. Those who were
known to be in the ARRAY were most unmerci-
fully ridiculed and jeered at by their friends
who were wiser. 1t is doubtful who would
come out ahead in a general fight between
the rebel element and the republicans in this
State, but as the latter are largely colored
men whose race have been slaves for contu-
ries, it is hardly to be supposed that they
| could cope with experienced confederate sol
diers. The railing at the square was cut
down for several feet by the cannon, and large
iron pillars on the buildings knocked down
and destroyed.
Both Legislatures have adjourned, or rather
one has been summarily dismissed. The re-
publican legislature adjourned, in accordance
with the constitution, Thursday night, after
a session of sixty days. The democratic
legislature was rather hastily hurried up
about noon the name day by the police, under
orders of the republican Governor. They
were charged with the somewhat grave Of
fence Of melting riot aud murder, but were
allowed to depart The Speaker, and three
or four others who refused, were escorted to
the police station and locked up. The riot