The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-01

! been put up during the night. BY good luc
caught sight OF one before it was DOL terated
RALLY REPUBLICAN,
GRAND BARBECUE
CAMP PARAPET.
COME ALL COME ONE,
The peeler said last line explained all
twas the watchword of the various colore,
leagues and meant business. The reversiol
would appear misprnt to all but tn
init ted.
Hurried down to Canal street. where, on ar
irving. found metropolitan police Gmwn up il
line With Winchester rifles and two Gatlins
guns. while ammunition was being distributed
and canteens filled with tn,eJay and water
they say, but | rather guess not. The purpos,
| OF the met opoltans not yet known. Citizens
with few exceptions, invisible. Met G.
who said he would reproduce the scene an,
send it down to my room. Mem Send TO
the sketch if it don't come by mail time thi
afternoon.
1910. Mounted police coming in from lax,
end Canal street. Gen. b. says all quiet il
that direction.
% Another squad mounted metropoli
tans from Carrolton. Have been fired OF
from rifle pits near Protection Levee. Gen
b. recommends that a squad Of negroes b.
mounted and sent to reconnoitre. LOngstree
agrees. They go off by the way of Broa,
street. the main body preparing to follow.
2:30 about Main body moves; Badger d
Longstreet quarrelng over Baldey's sending
OF the horses with n gro police; Badger ar
rested and sent to Parish Prison. $40
Things begin to look as if there was some
business, to be transacted Police had harl,
left Canal street before White Leagues occu
pied the ground; mis- .ellaneously armed and
OF all ages and styles of dress: no artillery and
no mounted men; must have their ammunition
in their pockets, as can see no sign of cart
ridge-box or cap pouch: G. making sketch No.
, while badly chatfed by men near him, who
ask where he expects to he by the time sketch
QUAR- 10 Be nude, with the Leagues together,
in action, probably; this is why he has made
such hard cooking characters OF them: they
are really quite genteel looking m n; but one
ought net to chaff an artist. when he has such
power TO retaliate without exposing him.
self st. Sau!me, who is i'll charge of this
division ct the White Leagues says they are
also IN possession Of + planade street, Elysian
Fields street, andJ ckson street and Louisiana
and Napoleon Avenues, though not in the
open a;r but III houses on the several streets
concealed had wind of the matter three DAYS
ago and thought il better to let it come to u
head than to dry it up.
t45--Took cars "a. Earonne street for Carroll
ton-have credentials from st. $. SO | wont be
arrested.
At Louisiana Avenue the car was stopped
firing has been heard above-must be between
police and negro leagues.
5:l3-Coulier just i'll, reports the firing 10
have been between white pckets and eolored
squad Of mounted scouts said colored squad
surrendered at discretion. Courier was
mounted on captured horse and sent i'll for re-
Inducements for picket line hundred
men sent at once.
e:45. Another courier reports negroes gone
into bivouac for the night, about 5000 strong.
and looking for achievements: metropolitan
police also gone into camp for the night ,
1t seems to be their intention to inter-
fera only when actual collision takes
plaza. All the telegraph wires cut by the ne
groe, last night, and the jackson Railroad
burnt for about 200 yards at Pass Manchac
River communication interrupted by some
old cannon they have mounted behind the
leyaes.
9 Z. NJ. White Leaguers have turned all
public squares in the city into negro camps,
and have compelled every colored person to
go IN and be kept under guard. This will eff
iectuay toresta all plans to set fire to the city,
which it was understood would be the order
Of the night As the weather was quite mild,
there will not be much suffering among the
prisoners.
ii Z. N. Twelve hundred men from St
and about six hundred on the
inc Oh the Mobile road, have come in and re-
ported tor duty. Negroes said to be largely
probably numbering six thousand
% seven thousand men, but all information on
this head unreliable.
Midnight. ALI quiet. Police telegraph in
barge Of White League. The precinct
louses and arsenal still in hands Of police
eft to protect them.
TUESDAY, -.
A. M.-On inquring at headquarters of
rem. oscar Hammell, commanding White
4eag'ie, learn that flags of truce passed IN the
light between police and both leagues. The
proposition was: to the White Leagues to dis
I'm, and possibly, the same to the Black
leagues. 1t was promptly refused, and Long
:reet notified that if he attempted to march !
0 wards Camp Parapet he would be attacked |
Kellogg Antoine and Lowell all three missing |
20 one has seen or heard of them since Sun
Az noon, but they must be in town some
there.
~ A. NJ Scouting party just invent out
Or the purpose OF capturing few negroes,
bout O'Clock this morning, AID succeeded
limirabl y-got some four of their vldettes.
runk and asleep.
They had to spend some time SOLDERING them
p before bringing them to headquarters.
l L. M.-There has been considerable
luabblng going on in the police camp, and
lie blacks and whites divided into sep irate
odies. As they were sandwitched before,
I'D drilled that way, this division will no
oubt de noralize them completely
the captured colored videttes say the ne
ara They .xpaata1 bal,
ON the police. and thought their action en-
rely unsupported.
2:Ia-Was stopped by shouting The white
etropolitans have lett the camp and come
Ter to the leagues. Longstreet Is LETT with
e negroes and Belden brought along as
:isoner. This, it is thought, will end all
,ances the blacks may have had of success
be white police brought over the two Cats.
4 P. L-The colored police left camp and
arched towards Gimp HnPet Were ct