The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-04-26
The Bloody Outbreak in Louisiana

The Baltimore Gazette contains the
following brief but clear account of the
bloody affrsy that occurred iu louisa.
na on Sunday. BY some arrange ment
that we d. not understand, We have no
exchanges from New Or!eaus of later
date than the 14th. Our Baltimore
cotemporories are, it seems, more for
tunate. The GaSeHe says:
A serious riot has broken out in
Grant Parish, Louisiana, on the upper
waters of the Red River. TIE iustiga.
tors of the riot, according to the state.
mcnt published in the New Orleans
Fc"y"ne, were two negroes, both mem.
b,rs Of keilogg's Legislature, who, with
band Of negroes, took forcible possess
ion Of Caifax, the equity seat OF Gra 1t
Parish, ousted the authorities, drove all
the white men from the place, and broke
into and plundered their houses. Those
coored men who did not sympa,hize
With the marnudcrs were also driven otf
The house of Mr.. lIadnot was entered
by the rnffans, and the coffin, contain
ing dead child, was taken away and
broken open, under the impression th t
money was secretei in it. The b d Of
the child WAS left rxTo el Oh til. road
Iutii it was replaced by other partis,
and returned to the house In the
meantime it appears that Mr. Tadnot
mndc his escape, and collecting baud
Of twenty five men notified tn. negroes
to send away their women and children
as he intended to attack them. Til.
latter news brought to New ORLEANS b.
the steamer Southeastern furnishes the
bloody sequel. 1he negroes, to the
numbNr OF some four hundred, thor
nughly armed, eutrenchod themselves in
the court house and built breastworks
On Sunday Haduot's force had been in.
creased to hundred and fifty men
drawn from the surrounding parishes
The brcaatworks were stormei and
taken after two hours fighting, and the
negroes then took refuge in tho court
house, barricadAS the doorA Fight.
ing was then rSsumcd but at later
hour the negroes threw out a hg OF
truce, but fired on the bcsicsers as they
advanced, wounding several. and among
them MIR. Hadnut moltSlly. Finding
it impossible to di,lod.o the ucsrocs by
force of arms, the court house Was set
on fire, and as they camc ont from tho
burning building they were shot down
by the iniur:atcd whi,es. Ii is esti,na
ted that one hundred nesross were
killed The others, taking to flight,
were hotly pursued. Such is the ac.
count which we publish Of this sanguin.
AIRY affair. 1t s the FIRST fruits Of the
obstinate policy Of Cencra! Grant, in
recognizing a State government Which
the Senator's who most stcadtastv sup
port him. have declared TO be illegally
constituted.
From a s.lcgrnphic dispatch whicl,
wo find i'll our. Northern exchanges.
dated New Orleans, 18th April, we get
the statement Of the Captain of the
steamboat Southres,ern, who arrived in
New Orleans on that day:
We arrived at Colfax Sunday evening
ing about & O'Clock. Fonnd that the
white people and sheriff, suppose at
their head, haa captured the town after
having a conflict with tho negroes. 1t
was reported TO me that about 100 re-
groes had bsen killed and many others
wounded. We saw from the boat fifteen
or twenty lying around on the bank
dead. Ono white mans was reported
killed, whose name I did not lcarli, and
two very seriously wounded, Messrs
Haduot and Harris Mr. Hadnot was
shot through the bowels and suppos ed
10 be mortally vounds We brought