Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-09-17
Gen. longstreet, Commanding
KelIogg's Militia, Under
takes to Dispense
Them.
When a Sharp Fight Ensues
In Which Some Forty
Persons are Killed
and a Number
Wounded.
Canal Street Swarming With
Armed Oitizesn And Barrl.
Cades at the Gross
Streets,
The Citizens Determined and
Bloody Work Imminent.

Bloody Work Imminent.
Maine Republican by Increased
Majority.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 14.-In re.
spouse to call for mass meeting ON
Canal street this morning to protect
against the seizure of arms of private
cltlzens, men began to assemble about
lO o'clock. and by II o'clock the broad
sidewalks of this great thoroughfare
were filled for several squares. MANY
stores were closed and there seem ed
TO be a very general suspension of bus
iness. at this observation-disclosures
were being delivered from the base of
OF Clay street. No disturbances of
sny kind has occurred. Two COM
panles OF United States troops arrived
this morning, and Marshal Packard re
ports regiment Ell route from Holly
Springs, Miss, for this city. The
meeting adopted resolutions re-
questlng the immediate abdication of
Governor Kellogg. and committee
consisting of r. Ii. Mari, chairman.
Jules Tuyles, Samuel L. Chapin. Sam.
uel Bell and j. M. Seixas were an
pointed to wait upon the Governor,
and the meeting is awaiting the report
of the committee.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 14.-The com.
mittce from the Canal Street Mass
Meeting appointed to await upon
Governor kellogg with a request for
his resignation, were unable to see the
Governor himself, but the message
was taken to him by General Dibblee
of the Governors staff, who soon ro.
turned with the reply that the Gov.
ernor must decline to receive any com
munication from the Mass Meeting TO,
reason that he had definite and aeon
rate information that there were now
asscmblad in various parts of the city
large bodies of .rmed men mot a,
the call which convened n"
Mass Meeting, and which he
! regards as menace. II tue psopio
had assembled peaceably, without q
menace, he would deem it one of his
highest duties to receive any commu-
nication from them or entertain any
petition addressed to him. The
Chairman OF the Committee replied to
Gen. Dibblee that there were no armed
rioters, no armed men, on Canal street
so far as the Committee knew. They
came ON mission of peace, and be-
lieyed that If the Governor had accc-
ded TO the request they brought, that is
to abdicate, it would have pacified the
people of Louisiana and might or
would have prevented violence or
blood shed. They were prepared to
pledge the government that no VIC.
lence to persons or property should
occur.
Gen. Dibblee on the part of the gov
eminent replied:
II have to repeat what said before,
that while there may be no armed
men on Canal street there are armed
bodies within short distance, assem-
bled on the same call as your mass
meeting"
The committee then retired and soon
after reported the result Of their inter-
view to the meeting. The people were
then advised to 60 home, get their arms
and munition and return to assist the
White League, and when under arms
to execute plans that had been ar
ranged for. The people then quietly
dispersed. Afterward, quite q large
number formed in procession and
marched up Camp street.
New ORLEANS, Sept. A.-A BulIe-
tin extra, at p. m. contains the fol.
lowing proclamation
To the people Of Louisiana:
For two years you have borne, with
patience and fortitude, q great wrong.
Through fraud and violence the goy-
eminent of your choice has been over
thrown and its power usurped. Pro.
test after protest and appeal after ap.
peal to the President Of the United
States and to Congress have failed to
give you the relief y0n had right,
under the Constitution, to demand
The wrong had not been repaired. On
the contrary, through the instrumen-
tality of partisan Judges, you are de-
barred from all legal remedy. Day
by day taxation has been increasing,
with costs and penalties amounting to
a confiscation of your property yonr
substance has been squandered your
credit ruined, resulting in tho failure
and bankruptcy of your valued insti.
buttons the right Of suffrage is virtu-
ally taken from you, by the enactment
of skillfully devised registration and
election laws.
The judicial branch Of your govern
ment has been stricken down by the
conversion Of the legal posse comitatus
of the sheriff to the use of the usurper
for the purpose of defeating the de-
crees of the courts, his defiance of law
leading him to use the very force for
the arrest Of the sheriff while engaged
in the execution Of the process Of the
court.
To these may DO added corrupt
and vicious legislature, cnacting laws
in violation of the constitution for the
purpose of guarding and perpetuating
their usurped authority.
A Metropolitan police, paid by the
city, unLer control of tho usurper, has
been quartered upon you. to Overawe
and keep you in subsection.
Every public right has been denied,
and as If to goad you to desperation
private arms are seized and individuals
arrested. &
To such extremiHes are you driven
that manhood revolts ct further sub.
mission.
Constrained as by sense of duty -
the legally elected Lieutenant Govern.
or ofthe State acting Governor in the
absence of Governor McEnery, l do
hereby issue this, my proclamation,
calling upon the militia Of the State,
embracing all persons between the
ages of Is and 40 years, without regard
to color or previous condition, to arm