The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-15


Given under my hand and seal, the
l4th day OF September. 1874.
[Signed.1 D. B. PENN,
Lieutenant Governor.
General Orders Issued.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, .
STATE OF LOUISIANA
New ORLEANS, September IA, IA. }
GENERAL ORDER NUMBER ONE.
I. General Frederick n. Ogden is
hereby appointed provisional general of
the Louisiana State Militia, who will at
once assume command, and organize
them into companies, regiments and bat
talions.
II. General Fredrick n. Ogden will
report the names of the staff, regimental
and company officers to this department
forthwith, to be commissioned. By com
mand of d. b. Penn, Lieutenant Govern
or and acting Governor and Commander
in Chief of the Louisiana State militia.
Proclamation to the CoIored People
New ORLEANS, Sept. IA.
To the Colored People Of the State Of
Louisiana: ........,.. #y.i.
In the great movement now on foot
against the enormities of the rule of
Kellogg's usurpation, rest assured that no
harm Is meant towards you,yOur property
or your rights. Pursue your usual avOca-
tions and you will not be molested. We
war against the thieves, plundHrers and
spoilers of the State, who are involving
your race and ours in ruin. The rights
of the colored, MS well as of the white
lace. we are determined to uphold and
defend.
ISignedl ID. b. PENN,
Lieutenant Governor, Acting Gorernor
and Communicative Chief Of Louisiana
State Militia.
The People Respond with Alacrity.
NEW ORLEANS, September l4.-Thc
people seem to have responded with
alacrity to the advice give them, by DR..
Beard, and of the speakers at the Canal
street meeting. By three P. NJ. armed
men were stationed ut the intersections
of all the streets on the south side of
Canal street, from the river to ClaybOrn
street. About z. N. n body of Metro
politans about 500 strong, with cavalry
and artillery appeared at the head of
Canal street and took position. General
Longstreet, commanding, accompanied
by an orderly, then rode up and down
Canal street ordering the armed citizens
to dispersc. Some desultory firing soon
after occurred along Canal street, and
some few casualties are reported on both
sides. The MetrOpolitans are reported to
have broken at the first fire, the citizens
capturing one piece of artillery. The
citizens are now building barricade
along Poydras street, having already
captured the City Hall and taken posses
sion of the ire-slarm telegraph. The
police telegraph lines are worked by Il
battery from the City Hall, and have
been detached therefrom rendering them
useless. There is one company of the
L. 5. troops here but they remain at the
Custom House, spectators of the lively
scene being enacted in front of them.
The State authorities seem to have great
confidence in their ability to deal with
what they term an armed mob, and say
unless the people diSpcrsc there will be
bloody work tonight.
Later and Serious.
Baricades are erected on all the streets
between Poydras and Canal, and the
Peoples party hold all that part of the
city above Canal. The Metropolitans are
massed in and around Jackson square and
the st. Louis Hotel There was quite
sharp fight at the river end of Canal
street abeut four o'clock. The number
of killed is estimated by some rs high rs
fifty killed and many wounded. Capt.
j. NJ. West, printer and well known
newspaper correspondent, and +. A.
Talledano were killed on the citizens
side. A number of Metropolitans ara
reported killed, and General Badger is
seriously wounded. The colored men Of
which the Metropolitan brigade WAS
largely composed broke and ran upon
the first fire, leaving their white COM
rades, number of whom were killed
and wounded.
Farther from the Scene OF Conflict.
NEw ORLEANS, September l4-S p. VI.
The streets above Canal street are well
filled with armed citizens. The impress
sion now prevails that no further attempt
will be made by the Mctropolitans to
disperse their opponents, who handled
them so roughly this afternoon. The
city is remarkably quiet throughout, and
no further conflict is apprehended before
morning. Most of the barricades are
made with street railroad cars. Six or
eight citizens and twenty or thirty Met
ropolitans were killed in the fight this
afternoon, and many wounded on both
sides.
The Call Under which the Canal
street Meeting Assembled. -
New ORLEANS, September 1.-THE
following is the call, signed by fifty busi-
ness men and firms, under which the
Canal street meeting of to-day assembled 4;
Citizens Of Ner Orleans: g -.
For nearly two years you have been
the silent but indignant sufferers of out
rage after outrage, heaped upon you BY
an usurping government. One by one Your
rights have been trampled upon unit !, at
least in the supreme height of IS nso
lence, this mockery of Republican
government, has dared even to deny YOU
that right so solelmnly guaranteed by
the very Constitution of the United
States, which in article eleven of the
amendments declares that the right OF
the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed. In
the same instrument to whose
inviolate perpetuity our fathers pledged
their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor, it was also declared that
even Congress shall make no law abridg-
ing the RIG Int of the people to assemble,
and to petition the government for re-
dress 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 l4th day Of
September, 1874, to close your places OF
business. without single exception, and
NJ II o,clock m to assemble at the