The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-09-18
The Fight I'm the Streets OF New Or.
leans ON Monday.
[speial to the Chicago Times.l

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lSpeial to the Chicago Times.l
The long apprehended conflict between
the white people and the Kellogg State
administration came to issue to-day, and
ND to 5 P. NJ. had resulted in the deaths
of twenty-five men, and the wounding of
many others.
On Sunday night members Of the nu-
merous White League clubs, who for
three months have been organizing and
constantly drilling, began to put in an
appearance on the streets, in squads of
twos and threes, bearing guns and hur-
rying to their different rendezvous at
their club rooms. The night police
force of the city has not been doing any
service in the streets since the first gun
seizure on Tuesday, inasmuch as it was
strongly intimated that the White
Leagues would attempt rescue Of the
seized guns, which we're stored at the
police headquarters; and at this place
the police were all massed to repef the
apprehended invasion. There the police
remained throughout each night, until
this morning; and it will, therefore, be
understood that the armed men hurry
ing to and fro on Sunday night met with
no hindrance.
These preparations involved the trans
mission of urgent telegraphic messages
to Washington, reciting to Attorney
General Williams that an armed conflict
was impending, and calling upon him to
order United States troops to New Or
leans forthwith. They involved, also
the massing, on Monday morning, at an
early hour, of the metropolitan police
brigade, about 800 strong, and within a
week past recruited from 400 to that
number, at a police station in the lower
portion of the city, where they were
fully armed with Winchester rifles and
had also at command field battery of
eight guns.
At the State House, Kellogg had
brought to the rescue about five hun
drsd Observation-Disclosures employees, Gov
ernment clerks, and others-and these,
armed with rifles, he stationed in all the
rooms looking upon the streets, with in
structions to fire upon any force seeking
to capture the Capitol. Kellogg spent
Sunday night with United States Mar
shall Packard, in the Custom house, and
thence they sent their messages to WASH
ington. At IL o'clock Sunday night
Packard received dispatch from Holly
Springs, Mississippi, the headquarters Of
the Department of the Gulf, that the
Third Regiment United States Infantry
had left there at 9 P. NJ, and would be
due in New Orleans on Monday.
At an early hour on Monday the very
air was rife with rumors concerning the
great meeting to be held at IL o'clock.
The rumors were varying, and their sub
stance as opposed to each other as is pos
sible for statements to be. The situation
at IL o'clock in the vicinity of and on
Canal street, denoted peace and quiet
There was large number Of people on
the streets, and it had the appearance of
the morning of some great holiday
None of the stores, however, were closed
at that hour, and there was quite a num-
Der of ladies abroad shopping. The po-
lice station at 10 A. M. presented for
midable appearance. Every part of the
building, above and below, glistened
with the bayonets and guns of the me-
tropolitans there, and the artillery were
inside in their armory, uniformed and
ready to dash out into the streets.
At 9 o'clock members of the various
leagues and other political organizations
were on the move. Small detachments
or squads were in various parts of the
city, and appeared to be going to their
respective places of rendezvous. At an
early hour two companies of troops of
the Sixteenth Infantry reached the city
from Hazelhurst, Mississippi, under the
command of Captain H. A. Theaker, and
at once proceeded to the Custom house,
where they took up their quarters.
The Canal street meeting opened at
1:30 o'clock, in the presence of an excit-
ed throng Of ten thousand people.
No armed men appeared at the mass
meeting. These, then, who came to the
surface soon thereafter, had been lying
perdu, awaiting the cry of arms; and I
when it was sounded, they sprang forth
in hundreds and thousands. 1t was now
1890 o'clock, and all places of business
in the city closed. The armed citizens,
IN companies of about one hundred each,
apparently we'll disciplined and drilled.
and under command of leader, march
ed to the appointed rendezvous in vari-
GUS portions of the city, on the streets
running from the river across the town.
BY 2 o'clock at these places there were
assembled more than two thousand citi.
Eens, armed with Winchettor rifles, shot
guns and revolvers, under the general
command Of Frederick N. Ogden, and
thoroughly organized and we'll disciplin-
ed. At the places thus chosen they be-
gan at once to throw up barricadss of ,
lumber, dry-goods boxes, &C., removing
even street cars from the tracks and use ,
ing them in the barricades. One detach- !
nsnt on Poydras street, numbering four
hundred, in the city's center, had Eve {
'ieces Of brass cannon which were cast I