New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-16
"1hose Carlridses,-The Qaeseiea Set.
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"1hose Cararidses''-The Qseseisa Set.
| lied.
| The Times keeps up tho error it was will
! ingly led into by it's reporter, but in little
different vein. The eist of it's article Sep.
TENDER Is was that Charles Hill had or
dered 1000 cartridges to be sent into the
country; that tho Adjutsnt Generate Gle,
wouldn't send them till Governor Antoine
ordered him to, and they went up On the
steamer Willie.
The REPUBLICAN explained to tho Times
that it was Ia error, and that the matter
was merely . delayed requisition Of 1000
cartridges which Mr.. Hill promised Captain
Forsythe to send to his company in Cats
houls, who were entitled to them. This
did not convince the Issses that sonething
horribls was not intended, and it, reporter
Was sent out again, with this result:
s.ATs o. LounAnA,
Adjutaut Gem as UAROe, }
New Or,eans. kepteA bee Is, l876
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
Will you Obiige mo by publishing my
side Of the st.ly regarding "thsse cart
ridgesr
In the fret place want it distinctly uu-
derstood that the Times reporter received
from me NO information Of any kind that
was Contained In the article Published in
the Times September IL, headed WHATS
Up Nv~Y"
Tho Times reporter was in my Office . few
minutes On Tuesday, September II, asking
information regarding . rum0r that was
out relative to shipment OF arms end am
munitiOn into the country. Ny reply vas
that knew Of no such shipment. Since
then said reporter has inter1 iewed me
numerous times, aud yesterday, in lengthy
hands the original music rim roll IF Troop B,
cavalry Captain james Fors, the com.
msndiOR. da'+d HArrIeonbuIg. Louisiana,
March 26 1874, IT the same Jlme placing
before lin The package of original mus
ter in rolls of The militia oODpani-s
located in tho country parishes. / also
placed before him general orders NJ 5,
1875, which had for It's object tho disband-
ing and mu~teriDg ont VI service of the
Second Regiment OF Infantry and Third
Battalion Of Infantry, all parish Of Orleans
organizations, stating to hun that these
wore the only State militia organic atoms
that had been disband-d by orders iraued
snrougn the State Arjutsnt Generals ofice.
Very re~pectfnlly,
HENRY G. BLACKMAR,
Clerk, AOjutsnt Generals ofioe.
But even this did not convince tho Times.
No mention is made of these facts, but, in.
stead, on the day after receiving the in
formation, it published the following:
After Learning from Q clerk in the Ad-
iutsnt Generals flee that there are but
i've militia comps nit in this State, al COL
ored, and that the hesC quarters Of each are
Iocst. d in this ci :, il l. ssoertained that
1000 cartridge. have been sent to Cats-
hoala. The Times r+iterates ito query,
for what pu,p.s.7 Has inc of tho i've Or.
Raniz ti0ns BEEN secretly dispatched to
that locality, cr is this brand new one
mustered into service for . specific |
purposei This is . question which !
does concern every resident of the |
State. The law governing the Issue Of |
arms and ammunition 10 we'll known They |
can not be delivered exc. pit upon . requisi- |
ton from legally appointed .ficor Of the |
militia, and upon his written n ceipt. From /
tho M m-nt Of tuch delivery be becomes |
n sponsible for the property, and vet ii tho
Adjutsnt Generals office be the proper place |
70 obtain into: nation, and its employees
have any knO~ledgs Ut he public bnsine-e,
there u no one in The parish o. CstshOuls
authorised to receive ammunition or any
other article from the State srsenaI.
After the facts have been 90 plainly
stated, this paragraph appears the creasure
Il Imagination. II it 10 any benefit to the
Times it 10 welcome to the information that
h. cartridges did not "go up" bot have
emained here.