The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-09-22
THE LOUISIANA WAR.
NEW ORLEANS, BARRICADEs.

| OPPOSITION PARTIES - BARRICADES AM
| BLOoDsHED.
A special dispatch to the Chicago Times o
yesterday gives a graphic and quite full &C
count of the opening scenes and incidents IL
the bloody affray which eliminated in tha
city on Monday. The report says: Th'
long-apprehended conflict between th'
white people and the Kellogg State admins
tration came to issue to-day, and up to 8 M
had resulted in the deaths of % men and the
wounding of many others. On Saturday
morning there appeared placarded on the
streets, and printed in the newspapers, al
appeal to the people, calling upon them to
assemble in mass meeting on Monday at ii
O'Clock, for the purpose of giving earnest
expression to the popular protest against
the recent outrages by the kellogg govern
ment, involved in the late gun seizures
These gun seizures began on Tuesday last
when Kellogg's policemen seized at Canal
street store, several cases of guns, on the
pretext that they were stored there fol-
account of q political organization, aud
were intended to further riotous purposes.
On Thursday and Friday, other similar gun
seizures were made, and In each case
from the stores of private individuals
IL Is generally understood that the direct
purpose of this call was to put forth an
effort looking to an armed uprising of the
people, forcible deposition of Kellogg and
the balance OF the de facto State officials,
and the installation of McEnery, the fusion
candidate for governor in 1872, and the resi-
due of the State officials claimed by the tu-
sionists to have been elected in the campaign
of that year. On Sunday this idea was
patent throughout the community, and 1t
was not only general sentiment, but it was
topic that was boldly discussed on every
street and by every man. On Sunday night,
members of the numerous
WHITE LEAGUE CLUBS,
who, for three months, have been organic
ing and constantly drilling, began to put in
an appearance on the streets, in squads of
twos and threes, bearing guns and hurry
ing 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 Tues
day, inasmuch as it was strongly lntimated
that the white leaguers would at
tempt a rescue of the seized guns,
which were stored at the police head
quarters; and at this place the po-
lice were all massed to repel the apprehended
invasion There the police remained
throughout each night, until this morning;
and it will, therefore, be understood that the
armed men hurrying to and fro on Sunday
Packard. and the henchmen OF the State
were, of course, on the qui
vive en- Saturday, for they knew full well
what was meant by the appeal to the people,
and they began at once to prepare for the
0%sS the Th0ss tTss,mISP OF 1p
gent telegraphic messages to Washington
reciting to Attorney-General Williams thBt
an armed conflict was impending, and call
ing upon him to order United States troops
to New Orleans forthwith. They involved,
also, the massing, on Monday morning, at
an early hour, of the Metropolitan police
brigade, about 500 strong, and within a
week past recruited from 400 to that num-
Der, police station in the lower portion OF
the city, where they were fully armed with
rifles, and had also at
command a field battery of eight guns.
At the station house, kellogg had brought to
the rescue about five hundred men-custom
house employees, government clerks and
these, armed with rifles, he
in all the rooms looking upon the
streets, with instruction to fire upon any
force seeking to capture the capitol. Kel |
ogg spent Sunday night with United States |
Packard, in
THE CUSTOM HOUSE,
and thence they sent their messages to |
Washington. AT IL O'Clock Sunday night, |
Packard received a dispatch from Holly |
Springs, Miss, the headquarters of the de- |
oartment of the Gulf, that the third regiment
United States infantry had left there at
o'clock p. NJ, and would be due in New Or
cans at II o'clock on Monday. At an early |
lOur on Monday, the very air was rife with |
-umors concerning the great meeting
% be held at ii O'Clock. The rumors
we're varying, and their substance as
opposed to each other as is possible
or statements to be- This situation at IL
o'clock in the vicinity of and on Canal street
denoted peace and quiet. There was large
lumber of people on the streets, and it had
ne appearance of the morning OF some great
ioliday. None of the stores, however, were
closed at that hour, and there was quite a
lumber of ladies abroad, apparently for the
purpose of shopping. The police station, at
o A. NJ. presented formidable appearance.
Every part of the building, above and be-
ow, glistened with the bayonets and guns
If the MetropOlitans there, and the artillery
ere inside in their armory, uniformed
md ready to dash out into the streets.
1t O'Clock members OF the various leagues
md other political organizations were on
he move. Small detachments or squads
we're in various parts of the city, and APP
,eared TO be going to their respective places
If rendezvous. At an early hour two COM
,anies of troops Of the 10th infantry reached
he city from HazelhuTst, Miss, under the
of Capt. III. A. Theaker, and at
,nce proceeded to the custOm-hOuse,
where they took up their quarters. The
Janal street meeting opened at l o'clock, in
he presence of an excited throng of 10000
people. Resolutions were adopted, one OF
which contained provision demanding the
immediate aodication of Kellogg. A COM
nittee of five, unarmed and unattended,
we're appointed to call upon Kellogg with
his message from the meeting. At 1l:5O the
committee appointed at the meeting pro-
'eeded to the state house to
DEMAND KELLoGG's ABDIcATIoN.
They were met by III. c. Dibble, who re-
,eived their report and conveyed it to the
governor, who replied that he must decline
10 receive any communication from the
mass meeting on Canal street. The COM
mittee returned to the Canal street meeting.
and. making report to the multitude, Mr.
Mari, chairman of the commlEtee, remarked
that it remained for the meeting to take