The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-22


tomorrow, il NAV become matter for cabinet
consideration, as he will not leave FOR Long
Branch till tomorrow Night
THE MASS MEETING.
LOSS OF LIFE IN THE FIeHT-rHE CALL AND
THE RESOLUTIONS.
NGw ORLEANS. Sept. 14-s T. M.-Tbe streets
above Canal are well filed with armed citizens.
The impression now prevails that no further at
tempts will be made by the Metropolitans to
disperse their opponents who handled them
so roughly this evening. The city is re-
f1aiher yconfitcs is aPpsehended before
morning. Most of the barbados are made with
street railroad cars: Six or eight citizens and
the tight this afternoon, and many wounded on
both sides, The following is the call signed by
80 business men and firms, under which Tie
Canal street meeting of to day assembled:
CITIZENS OF NEW ORLEANS:
For nearly two years you have been the silent
but indignant sufferers of outrage after outrage,
heaped upon you by an usurping government.
One by one your dearest rights have been tram
pied upon until at last, in the supreme height of
its insolence. this mockery of republican gov
eminent has dared even to deny you that right
tuition of the United States, in article two
of the amendments, which declares that the
shall not be infrInged upon. in the same instru-
ment, to whose inviolate perpetuity our fathers
pledged their lives, their fortunes their sacred
| shall make no law abridging the right OF the
people peaceably to assemble and 10 petit
of grievances 1t now remains for us to
ascertain whether this right any longer
remains to us. We, therefore, call upon you on
Monday, the 18th day of September, 1874, to close
your places of business without a single excep-
ton and at II o'clock a: M 10 Assem- e, t PIE az tne
| enough to be heard throughout the length and
| breadth of the land, declare that you ought TO
The Canal street meeting to-day adopted the
| following
RESOLUTIONS:
| WHEREAS AT the general election held in
louisiana on the 4th day of November, 1872,
John McEnery was elected governor by a large
majority of near 10000 over his opponent, VIM.
Kellogg, and d. P, Penn, lieutenant governor
by majority of $4,000 over his opponent, G. c.
WHEREAS, BY fraud and violence those, de-
feated seized the executive chair
and, from time to time, by other ir-
regular. fraudulent and violent acts in
the face of the report OF the committee OF the
Senate of the United states appointed TO inves-
tioate the affairs of Louisiana, that the existing
government of the State is an usurpation, The
result of a violent abuse of judicial functions
tinued himself in power to the gross wrongs and
| outrage of the people OF the state
Of Louisiana and to the ,, Imminent
| the entire country. and,
| WHEREAS, With view to con-
| trolling and determining the results of the
approaching election to be he'd in l. uisiana, in
November next, he has, under an act known as
the registration act, and passed for the purpose
and his party the power o. denying reglstra-
| ton to bonafide citizens, whose applications
before the courts for a mandamus TO compel
| the assistant supervisors to enroll and
| register them has been refused. The registra-
ton law indeed Furnishing the courts IL they
have to take cognizance OF such appeals, and
WHEREAS, by false and infamous mlsrepresen-
tations of the feelings ana motives OF tne people
federal army placed at the orders ofthe attorney
general of the United states, and subject to the
calls of United states marshals, Tor the purpose
of overawing our State, and controlling the elec
WHEREAS, in the language of the call fpr
the meeting one by one our dearest rights have
been tramPled upon, and at last in the supreme
height of s insolence, this mockery of repub-
right so solemnly warranted by the very con-
stitution of the United states, which, in article
the right of the people TO keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed, be it
Iutions adopted by the white people of Louis
lana in the convention assembled at Baton
Rouge on the 24th of Aug, 1874, that the whites
of Louisiana have no desire to deprive the col
ored people of any rights TO which they are en-
titled; that w. P. Kellogg ISIS mere usurper and
we denounce him as such that his government
| is arbitrary, unjust and oppressive, and
can only maintain itself through federal inter-
ference; that the election and registration laws
under which the election is being conducted
were intended to perpetuate usurpstiOn by de-
| privlng the people, and especially our natural
vote and therefore. in the name of the citi zens
| of New Orleans, now in mass meeting, and of
the people of the State of Louisiana, whose fran
| chise has been wrested from them by fraud and
/ violence, and all of whose rights and liberties
have been outraged and tfampied upon, we de-
mand of w. p. kellogg his immediate abdi-
cation.
Resolved, That committee of five be imme-
diately appointed by the chairman who shall
| be member of the said committee TO wait on
Mr.. Kellogg, to present to him these resolutions
| to demand of him an immediate answer and To
report the result of such interview TO this meet
ing.
THE CASUALTIES.
The list of casualties ON the side OF the citi-
zens, as far as ascertained. is: Killed-E. A.
Talledoni, Fred Norman, Dick Lindsey, Captain
j. NJ West Major j. r. Gourdain. and one Maya
zine, a street car driver. Seriously wounded-F.
Pallet, John Considine, John Fitzpatrick, Major
William E. Wells; samuel B: Newman;
Keller, W. ]. Button and Mt. McCleman.
| Gen. Fred. Ogden's horse was killed under him,
b bnt remained on ufy. GEM a. s. Badger. com
manding the Metropolitans, received three
buckshot in wounds, one through the leg, one
through the arm, and another through the
body. His leg has since been amputated. The
general. besides the gun shot wounds, received
heavy fall, his horse Deing killed under him.
the Metropolitans: killed-Sergeant Jas. Nc
oo r. chamBaigne
Vim. HcsTietop. ]. Coleman, George c. Miller,
| j. Long. John McCann, John Kennedy, p. NAL
| lady, NJ. j. Barrett, M. Gonzales, j. Con-
molly, w. "a. Hawkins, S. s.. Swan,
BI%assIier J. RYAN Ryan l. b Baekus 1
Caesar, {. Bergman, A. Pecot, 4. Gonzales
]. Gonzales, ]. Mista, w. Nichols, X. Favor, L.
| A. Iibault. E Simson, f. Elgar, G. Davis, John
Lee, /. Willis, o. Gilmore, Nelson Moody,
| Otto Burandt, &. Cachin, w Brown. The fol-
lowing wounded citizens were received at the
/ charity hospital: VIM. Omond, Chas. Kilt. Jas
| Cross, John Merry, John McCabe, NJ. Bolts
Frank Owens, ID. Siniot. AT ~ NJ. the city was
| quiet throughout.
SHREVEPORT SECONDS THE MOTION.
| GREAT REJoICING-THE LEGALLY ELECTED
| OFFICERS TO BE ESsTALLED-A BLoODLEss
REVOLUTION.