The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-10

ing in different directions from Lafayette
/ square. About 500 are passing down d.
! Charles street. and are supposed to be NOV
/ ing for the supreme court Others are
marching south and west.
ArJAcKsoN SQUARE.
At las a. m. demand was made for the
! third precinct station house in the supreme
court building and refused. About ten
] thousand persons are assembled around
Jackson square and the excitement is
men are on the levee side of
the square. Governor Packard re-
ports the metropolital telegraph wires cut,
and he has established communication with
the United States marshal, Patken, at the
custom house by means OF the United
States signal corps. The metropolitans at
state house are being armed with Springfield
rifles. The shops in the French quarter
are all shut The United States troops AT
the New Orleans hotel, two blocks away, are
watching the crowd, at the square, but are
not under arms. The excitement increases
with every new movement, and the situa-
tion is exceedingly critical.
Ii has Just been reported that the hrst ana
third police stations have surrendered 10 the
democrats.
MOVEMENTS OF THE MILITIA.
n.
of the assembling of armed bodies this morn
ing: A few were aware that the legal state
militia had been organized and armed
for the execution of the orders OF
the governor, and that these men on
the street were there in obedience to
their call as the state militia. General og-
den was in command, and he WIS assisted
CIV Generals Behan and Veudry. Colonel ID.
3. Penn was in control OF the adjutant
generals department. In various parts of
| the city the militia assembled, the artillery
being organized at st. Mary's market
They had two field pieces and at III O'Clock
prepared TO move down TO Lafayette square.
The purpose OF this movement was to see
that the legal supreme court should be per-
| mitted to take its seat. 1t was notorious fact
revealed by the military commander on the
republican side that the court would not DC
| allowed to sit, and the militia was called
| out TO see that nobody or power should IN
terfere with il. Ii is the intention OF the
I militia under the orders of the commander
| in-chief to hand the court over 10 the legal
| justices, and on this the issue is made. -
| o'clock was the time appointed for the militia
/ to march down to Jackson square. This
place is defended by two or three hundred
| policemen and a battery of seven or eight
guns. The state honse is defended, or thinks
| il is by about 120 men, mostly negroes. The
new police force being thoroughly organ
lied, it is very probable that the militia will
this evening hand them over 10 the regular
stations.
WILL KEEP THE PEACE.
A reporter Of the Picayune this morning
visited General Augur and ascertained that
the officers and men were under strict or
ders and prepared to take the streets In
moment. To the inquiry as TO what was
the character of the part he meant to take
in the political drama now enacting, Cen
eral Augur replied that his instructions and
intentions were to keep the .peace.
The reporter suggested that Governor
Nichols was prepared and determined to do
this without the aid of the United States
troops, to which General Augur replied,
II hope he will" He said that in
the event of a conflict on the streets OF any
serious character he would intervene /
DEMAND FOR THE STATE House.
At 20 the Nichols government are in
possession of everything except the state
house. As yetno effort has been made TO
take possession of that building, around
which thousands of unarmed citizens are
congregated, blocking up the streets for
squares. and rendering it impossi-
BILE TO reach il. force OF
about 5000 of Nichollss militia
are under arms on the levee at the loot of
Decatur street. and ii is reported that de-
mand for the surrender of the state house
will be made this afternoon, and as the re-
publicans are in a hopeless minority, II is
hardly probable that any armed resistance
will be made. The force under Governor
Packard there will not exceed 800.
The commander OF the United States
sloop Ossippee has established a signal sta
tion on the custom house in order TO COM
municate with the officials on the Ossippee
and the monitor Canonicus, which are lying
off the foot of Poydras street.
~ co.furNrc,rroS
United States Marshal Pitkins is In con-
slant communication with Washington,
giving every phase of the situation.
NEW SHERIFF APPOINTED
Chief Justice Ludeling this morning is
sued an order removing Civil Sheriff Handy
and appointing Alfred Bourges TO that posi-
ton Handy was acting under orders from
Nichols and hence this action.
NO SHOTS FIRED.
Up to this hour not shot has been fired
or an accident reported. Great crowds are
assembled on Canal, Camp and other princi-
pal streets
The republicans report that two regiments
from Mississippi and one from Alabama are
with General Ogden.
oGDRs's YoRcEs.
At 2:l5 this afternoon no i'm
portant change in the situation had
taken place. Ogden's militia massed
within a square of the state house, which
has been reinforced by a hundred colored
militia Governor Packard asserts that he
will resist any attack made upon it. The |
signal corps on top of the state house are
constantly signalling the custom house.