Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-15
THE WAR In LOUISIANA
sharp Fight I'm New Orleans Yesterds,
List of the Casualties.

seizure of arms of private citizens, held in New
Orleans yesterday, a resolution was adopted re-
questing the immediate abdication Of Governor
Kellogg, and a committee was appointed to wait
upon the governor. The committee called az
the executive Office about noon. The governor
not being present, Brigadier General Dlbble, OF
the governors staff, received the delegation.
Mr. Mari, as spokesman, said they had called as
q committee to interview the governor. General
Dibbie said he would convey the intelligence to
the governor. After a brief absence he returned
and made reply, which. at the request OF Mr..
Mari, was reduced 70 writing, as follows:
GOVERNOR KELLOGG REFUSES TO STEP DOWN
AND OUT.
"I have communicated with the governor,
ard he directs me to say TO you he must decline
to receive any communication from the com
mttee appointed by the mass meeting assem-
bled on Canal street He does SO, am instructed
to say, because he has definite and accurate in
formation that there are now assembled several
large bodies OF armed men in different parts Of
the city who met at the call which convened the
mass ne ting which you represent. He regards
this as menace, ana 10 will receive no c0mmu-
nication under such circumstances. He further
more directs me TO say that should the people
assemble pesceably, without menace, he would
deem it one of his biz hest duties TO receive any
communication ftom them. or entertain any
petition addressed TO the government
ABDICATION OR WAR.
To which Mr.. Mari, on behalf the committee,
replied as follows:
"We repeat, there are no armed rioters: there
are no armed men on Canal street, SO far as we
knew. We came on mission OF peace, and
believe that IL the Governor had acceded to the
proposition we brought, which was to abdicate,
IL would have pacifisd the people of Louisiana
and might or would have prevented violence Or
bloodshed. SO far as We are concerned we are
prepared to pledge him no violence in person or
property, and we feel in apostiOn, on the con-
trary, to assure him that there should be perfect
immunity TO both"
Gen. Dibble, on the part OF the Governor re-
piled: "I have to repeat what L said before,
that while there may not be armed men on
Canal street, there are armed bodies within a
short distance, assembled On the same call as
your mass meeting"
ARMING 70 ASSIST THE WHITE LEAGUE.
The committee then retired. and soon alter
wards reported the result OF the interview TO
the mass meeting. The people were then ad
vised TO 60 home, get their arms and ammuni-
tion, and return and assist the White League,
who were then under arms to execute plans
that would be arranged tor them. The people
then quietly dispersed. AfteTward quite large
number formed in procession and marched up
Camp street.
Two companies of United States troops ar
rived yesterday morning, and Marshal Packard
reports regiment en- route from Holly Springs,
Mississippi, tor New Orleans.
PROCLAMATION OF D. Il. PENN.
The following proclamation was issued in the
afternoon by ID. h. Penn, Candidate for lieu
tenant governor On the McEnery ticket,) sign
ing himself lieutenant governor of the state OF
Louisiana:
''To the People Of Louisiana: For two years you
have borne with patience and fortitude great
wrongs. Through fraud ana violence the gov
ernment of your choice has been overthrOWn,
and its power usurped. 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 demand. The wrong has not
teen repaired. On the contrary, through the
fundamentally of partizan judges you are de-
barred from all legal remedy. Day by day tax
alton bas been increasing, with costs and pen
alties amounting to the cOntiscation of your
property. Your substance squandered, your
credit ruined, resulting in failure and bank-
ruptcy of your valued institutions. The right
OF suffrage is virtually taken from you by the
enactment of skillfully devised registration and
election Laws. The judicial branch Of your gov
ernn eut has been stricken down by the con-
version of the legal posse cOmitatuS of the sheriff
to the use OF the usurper for the purpose OF
defeating the DEGREES of the courts. His de-
fiance or 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 be added corrupt and vicious
legislature, making laws in violation of the
constitution for the purpose of guarding and
perpetuating their usurped authority, and a
Metropolitan police force, paid by the city, un-
der control OF the usurper, quartered upon you
to overawe and keep you in subjection. Every
public right has been denied, and, as il to goad
you to desperation, private arms are seized and
individuals arrested. To such eXtremities are
you driven that manhood revolts at any further
submission. Constrained from sense OF duty
as legally elected Lieutenant Governor of the
state and acting Governor in the absence OF
Governor McEnery, l 60 hereby issue this my
proclamation, calling upon the militia of the
state, embracing all males between the ages of
eighteen and fOrty-hve years, without regard
to color or previous condition, to arm and as
semble under their respective officers for the
purpose of driving the usurpers from po xer"
subsequently Penn issued an order appoint
ing Gen. Frederick n. Ogden provisional gen.
eral of the Louisiana state militia, and direct
ing him to assume command and organize COM
paDies, regiments, and battalions.
A SECOND PROCLAMATION
was also issued by Penn, addressed to the col
oIed people of the state, wherein he sets forth
that sin the grand movement now on foot
against tie enormities of the rule Of the kellogg
usurpation, rest assured that no harm is meant
towards you, your property, or your rights,
Pursue your usual avOcations, and you will not
deIers, and spoilers of the state, who are in
volvibg your race and ours in common ruin.
The rights of the colored as well as of the white
race we are determined to uphold and defend"
sKIRMIsHING.
The people seem to have responded with alac-
rty to the ad vice given them at the Canal.street
meeting. BY 3 O'Clock in the afternoon armed
men were stationed at the Intersection of all
the streets on the south side OF Canal street,
from the river to Claiborne street. About
O'Clock q body of Metropolitsns, numbering
about SEQ, with cavalry and artillery, appeared
at the cad of Canal street aud took position.
Gen. LoDgstreet, who was commanding, accom-
panied by an orderly, then rode up and down
Canal street, ordering the armed citizens 10
disperse. Some desultory firing soon after
occurred along Canal street, and some few cas-
ualties are reported on both sides. The Metro
politaDs are reported to have broken at the first
FIRE, the citizens capturing one piece of artil-
lery. Citizens are now building bsrricades
along Poydras street, having already captured
the city hall and taken possession of the fire.
alarm telegraph. The police telegraph is
worked bys battery at the city hall, and this
has been detached therefrom, rendering the
police wires useless. There is one company of
United States troops here, but they remain at
the custom house, spectators Of the lively scenes
being enacted in front of them.
SHARP FIGHT.
later dispatch says there was quite a shs. p
fight at the river and on Canal street about
O'Clock. The number killed Is estimated by
some as high as fifty, and many wounded. Capt.
j. nj. West, a printer and well-known news
paper correspondent, and K. j. Toledano were
killed on the citizens side. A number OF Metro.
politans are reported killed, and Gen. Badger
severely wounded. The colored men, Of which
the Metropolitan brigade was largely composed, :,
broke and ran upon the first fire, leaving their
white comrades, number OF whom were killed
and wounded.
At O'Clock last night the streets above Canal
street were well filled with armed citizens. The
impression then prevailed that no further at
tempt would be made by the Metropolitans TO
disperse their opponents. The city was remark
ably quiet throughout. and no further conflict
was apprehended before morning. Most OF the
barricadee are made with street railroad cara,