The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-28
A RADICAL SENSATION.
The So-Called War In Iberia
Parish.
No Disturbance Save by u Lot Of Drunk
ON Negroes, and Nobody Hurt.

Growing apparently disguised with
the staus quo and the unpromislng pros
poets for his government, Packard yes
terday supplemented the story OF his
assassination with war Of races In
New Iberia parish.
The following dispatch from Mr..
onezime Delahoussaye. Jr,, one Of Kel-
logg'a ol1ioe.holderH, was sent by Pack
ard 10 Gen. Augur:
"NEw IBERIA, La. Feb. 2B.-~His Ex-
oelleney y. b. Packard. Governor, State
House, New Orleans Collision took
place between whites and blacks yes.
terday. ut Jeannerette's. both parties
under arms. A few soldiers to keep the
peace might prevent q great deal OF
20. DELAHoUssAyE, JH." +
And detail of troops from the garri-
son at st. Martinville was demanded to
march on Ioeria and put an end to the
reported war.
This fact was ut once communicated
to Gov. Nichols. who Immediately In.
vestigated the matter, and telegraphed
TO New Iberia for the true circumstances
OF the case. The following was the
reply from one of the leading citizens
OF that town;
NEW IBERIA, Feb. ~.
"on Saturday q negro man forced q
negro child on the road to deliver him
three or four dollars, which had just
been paid him by L. qrevemberg. The
boy followed the man to Jeannerette.
and made complaint, whereupon q
white man. J. Druilhet, made the man
return the money. On Sunday, one
OF the negro leaders here, Glenn by
name. became very boisterous. abusing
the white man referred to for his con-
duct. This resulted In his being knock
ed down, In a scufile In which three
or four negroes were struck. These
went off, and, after o while,
returning about dozen strong,
on horseback, rode down the street very
quietly and then back up the street
again, where, as usual on Sundays,
there was quite q number OF people
pronienading. just as these negroes
passed q group of white persons quietly
standing In the street, without saying a
word, they suddenly turned In their
saddles and opened Are on them with
their pistols, ut the same time putting
spurs to their horses and dashing at full
speed up the street and out Of town,
firing promiscuously at the whites
as they ran. They were followed
by few white citizens at the
time. Thereupon reports were brought
to the town people that the negroes
were masslng in Cypremort to attack
the town. In consequence, the white
people in the vicinity OF the place
turned out for self-proteotion. A num-
ber OF citizens Of this place New Ibe-
ria) learning Of this. last evening, went
to Jeannerette at 8 p. m. they found the
people there on guard, but oil fear OF q
conflict had vanished, as 1t had been re-
ported that the negro clubs had refused
to back up the negroes In question.
While there. one Of the negroes impli-
Gated in the shooting Of Sunday, who
hta pStA CstptulSu SSuio ihihSS paSh VI
the town. was brought to Jeannerette
and there shipped by the mail-boat
to New Iberia, and turned over to the
authorities. He Is now In jail there.
Nobody, fortunately, has been hurt In
the affair. Should others Of the negroes
be captured, they will be turned over
to the authorities. Exaggerated stories
are doubtless being dispatched. but the
above statement Is true; others are ex-
aggerated and false. R."
Such is the plain, unexaggerated story
OF Pa ckard's Iberia War Of Races.
The Radicals endeavored to make
some political capital out OF the affair
One Of them went up to New Iberia and
returned with an officer of the United
States army and squad OF soldiers as
far as New Iberia. When they arrived
there, however, and learned the true
circumstances OF the case, and that all
trouble was at an end, the officer de,
clined to go any further, and returned
at once to St. Martinville.
Jeannerette, the place where the firing
took place, is.a small French settlement
in Iberia parish, on Bayou Teche, about
twelve miles this side Of New Iberia.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
The supreme Court to Pass on the Rival
Governments.