The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-15
TROUBLE IN new ORLEANS
The People Rise Against the
Kellogg Usurpation.
Kellogg Requested to Abdi-
cate, but Refuses.
Collision Between the Citi-
zens and the Police.


The Call to Protest Against the seis-
ure OfArms.
New ORLEANS, September l4.-1n re-
sponse to call for a mass meeting on Ca
nal Street this forenoon, to Protes'
against the seizure of arms OF private
citizens, men began to assemble at 10
o'clock, and by IL the broad side walks
ofthe great thoroughfare were filled for
several squares, many stores being closed
and there seems to be general suspen-
sion Of business. At this hour, II o'c.ock,
addresses are being delivered from the
base of Clay statue. No disturbance of
any kind has occurred. Two companies
of United States troops arrived this
morning, and Marshall Rockford reports
regiment en- route from Holly Springs,
Mississippi for this city.
The meeting adopted resolutions re-
questing the immediate abdicstion OF Gov:
kellogg and committee consisting OF
R.H. Mari, chairman, Julius Treyes,
Saml. Chaplin, and j. NJ. SeiIas, were
appointed to wait upon the Governor,
and the meeting is awaiting the report
of the committee.
The New Orleans Mass Meeting Peace
ably Ask for KeIIOKg's Abdication
as a Means OF Perpetuating Peace
The Usurper Declines.
New ORLEANS, September IA
committee of five, appointed by the Canal
street mass meeting, callet ut the execu-
tive office about noon; the Governor not
being present, Brigadier General Dibble,
of the Governors staff, received the del
egation. Mr.. Mari, as spokesman, said
they had called rs n committee to inter
view the Governor. General Dibble
said he would convey the facts to the
Governor.
After brief absence he returned and
made reply, which, at the request OF
Mr.. Mari, was reduced to writing, as
follows:
General Dlbble-I have communicated
with the Governor, and he directs me to
say to YOU that he must decline any
communication from committee APP
pointed by the mass meeting assembled
on Canal street. He does so, L am in
structed to say, because he has definite
and accurate information that there are
now assembled several large bodies Of
armed men in different parts of the city,
who are met at the call which convened
the mass meeting which you repre-
sent. He regards this as II menace
and he will receive no communication
under such circumstances. He further
more directs me to say that should the
people assemble peaceably and without
menace he would deem it one Of his high
est duties to receive any communication
from them or entertain any petition ad-
dressed to the Governor.
| have received and addressed you,
gentlemen, as a member of his staff.
[Slgned.1 Ii. Y. Z. DIBBLE
Briq and Jtdge .4drocate GenerdL La.
State Militia.
To which Mr. Mari orally replied rs
follows: IL repeat that there are no
armed rioters; there are no armed men
in Canal street, so far as we know OF.
We Come on Mission ofPeace,
and we believe that if the Governor had
accccded to the proposition we brought
to-day, which was to abdicate, it would
have paciticd the people of Louisi-
ana, and might or would have pre-
vented violence and boodShcd. So far
as va are concerned We are prepared
TO pledge to him that there shall be no
violence in person and property,
and we feel in a position on the contrary
to assure him that there should be per-
feet immunity to both. The substance
of the foregoing reply, was subsequently
by Mr.. Morriss request, reduced to writ
ing by the Governors private secretary,
and handed to him to read at the mass
meeting. General Dibble on the part Of
the Governor replied: / have to repeat
what said before, that while there may
be no armed men on Canal street. there
are armed men within a short distance,
assembled on the same call US your mass
meeting.
The committee then retired and soon
after reported the result of their interview
to the meeting.
The people were theu advised to go
home for arms and ammunition and re-
turn to assist the White League, who
were then under arms, to execute plans
that would be arranged for them. They
quietly dispersed, and afterwards quite a
large number formed in procession and
marched up Camp street.
Riot Reported.
C1HCINNATI, O., September 1.-THE
Times Memphis special says: A private
telegram from New Orleans reports riot
in progress in that city, the occasion be-
ing the seizure of arms there by the
Metropolitan police.
Proclamation TO the People OF Louis
lam.
New ORLEANS, September l4.-An
extra Bulteti,l issued at 4 P. N, contains
the following proclamation:
To the People Of louisiana:
For two years YOU have born with pa
tience and fortitudc, a great wrong
through fraud and violence. The gov-
ernment of your choice has been over
thrown, and its power usurped. Protest
after protest, and appeal after appeal to
the President of the Uuited States, and
to Congress, have failed to give YOU the
relief you had right under the Consti-
tuition to demand. The wrong has not
been repaired. On the contrary, through
instrumentality of partizan judges, YOU
are debar7ed from all legal remedy, Day
by day taxation has been increasing with
costs and penalties amounting TO the
confscation of your property, your sub
stance squandered, and your credit
ruined resulting in failure and
bankruptcy, and one of your most valued
institutions, the right of suffrage is virtu-
ally taken from You by the enactment of
skillfully devised registration and cleo
ton laws. The judicial branch Of your
government has been stricken down by
the conversion of the legal posse of the
sheriff to the use of the usuper, for the