The daily gazette., 1874-09-15
sgea at 4 O'clock z, NJ, contains the

have borne with patience and fortltude
many wrongs through fraud and vio-
lence. The government of your choice
has been overthrown and its power u.s.
urped. Protest after protest, appeal
after appeal to the president OF the
United States and to congress have
failed to give you the relief you had
the right under the constitution to de-
mand and the wrong has not been re-
| paired; on the contrary through the
instrumentality of partisan judges, you
are debarred from all legal remcdya-
Day by day taxation has been increas-
sing with costs and penalties amount
to the confis cation of your property;
your substance squandered, your credit
ruined, resulting in the failure and
bankruptcy of your valued institutions
and the right and suffraged is virtually
taken by the enactmentof skilfully de-
vised registration and election laws.
The judicial branch of your govern
ment has been stricken down by the con-
version of the legal possee conl'tatus Of
the sheriff to the use of the usurpcr for
the purpose of defeating the DEGREES of
the courts. His defiance of law leading
him to use every force for the arrest Of
the sheriff while engaged in the execution
| Vi IlOtCoS VA toulu. IL thCoC may NC
added corrupt and vicious legislature
making laws in violation of the constitu-
tion for the purpose of guarding and per-
petuating their usurped authority, me-
tropolitan police, paid by the city, under
the control of the usurper qual tered upon
you to overawe and keep you in subj, c.
tion. Every pub; right has been denied,
and, as # to goad you to desperation, pri-
., vatc arms are seized, and inc; ;viduals ar
rested. To such cxtremities are you
| drawn. that manhood revolts at any fur
ther submission. Constrained from a
sense of duty as legally elected ieuten-
ant go, ernor Of the state, acting govern
or in the absence of Governor NJ Emery
| do hereby, issue this my proclamation,
calling upon the militia of the state, EN-.
bracing al, males between the ages Of
eighteen and forty five years, without re.
gard to color or previous conc tion, to
arm and assemble under their respective
officers, for the purpose of driving the
usurpers from power. Given under my
hand and seal this 14th day Of Septem-
Der, 1874. ID. b. PENN,
i Lieutenant Governor.
The following orders have also been is
sued:
Il EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, STATE OF
LOUISIANA, New ORLEANS, September a.
l84.-General Order, No. 1.-General
Frederick N. Ogden is hereby appointed
provisional general of the Louisiana state
militia. He will at once assume com.
mand and organize into companies, regi.
ments and batta,ions.
Il No. 2.-General Ogden will report the
/ names of staff, regimental and company
of officers to this department forthwith
to be commissioned.
By command of ID. B. Penn, lieutenant
governor and acting governor, and com
mander-in-chie of the Louisiana stat,
militia
. To the Colorcd People of the Stat,
of Louisian: In the grand movemen
!, now on foot against the enomities o
the rule of Kellogg's srrpation, ,ielt as
sured that no harm is meant TOWARD
you, your property or your rights
: Pursue your usual avocations and yo,
: will not be molested-we war agains
: the thieves, plunderers and spoilers o
81 the state who are involving your race
and ours in common ruin. The right
D of the colored as well as of the whit,
!. race we are determined to uphold ant
defend ID. b. Penn,
- Lieutenant governor, acting COVER
: nor and commander in chief of Louis
; lana state militia.
i p. oplc seem to have responded will
:. al.crity to the advice given them b,
{. DR. Be ri, one of the speakers at tn
4 Canal steet meeting. BY 3 p NJ al
: med men were stationed at the inter
!, section of all the streets on the soutl
| side of Canal street, from the river t,
Claiborne street. About A =. NJ.
q body of mctropolitans, numbering
: about 500, with cavalry and artillery
| IannnarnI at thn hand ,f nnnoI
: and took position. General Longstreet
$ who was commanding, accompanic,
"a by an orderly, then rode up and dow
:. Canal street, ordering the armed citi
e zens to disperse. Some desultory fin
ing soon after occurred along Cana
" ". street, and some few casualties are re
ported on both sides. The metropoli
= tans are reported to have broken ut tn
IL first fire, the citizens capturing on
l. piece of artillery.
b. The citizens are now building barricad
n along Poydr street, having already cap
b. tured the city hall and taken possession q
d III, fire alarm telegraph. The police tele
" graph lines arc worked bya battery from lh
d city hall and have been detached therefrom
o rendering them useless. There is one com
e pany Of United States troops here, but the
e remain at the custom house, spectators Q
-e the lively scene being enacted in front O
l. them. The state authorities seem to hav
20 great confidence in their ability TO deal wi
le what they teIm an armed mob, and say Nm
Id less the people disporse there will be blood
G. work to night BarIicades are erected 0
1r all streets leading from Canal, betwee
leI Poydras and Canal, and the "peepie's party
ID hold all that portion of the city above Cana
Il. The metropolitans are mass ed in and aroun
Jackson square and st. Louis hotel. Their
], was quite sharp fight at the river end G
Canal street about O'Clock. The numbe
IS OF killed is estimated by some as high a
10 fifty, and many wounded. Captain j. N
m West, printer and wclfknown newspa ne
= correspondent, and L. A. Taledano wer
N killed on the citizens side. A number c
~ metropoitans arc reported killed, and Gen
= 7 eral Badger severely wounded. The colore
= men, OF which the metropolitan brigade WI
III largely composed broke and ran upon tn
III first fire, leaving their white comrades,
or number of whom were killed and wounde,
n The casualties will be reported as last ,
m they are ascertained.
adj NEW ORLEANJ, September II IS =. M. =
" The streets above Canal street are well IN,
r. ~ with armed citizens. Tho impression no
m prevails that no further attempts will [
=, made by the metropoIitans to dieperse the
II, opponents.