The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-14

| sStDSeos b0tn Win cannon and riHrgv
Capt alynn's company attempted to reply
10 ehe cannon Of the Metropolitans with
their own gun. but this worked unsatisfaa~
torily and therefore. concluding to abandon Ii.
the two companies advanced rapidly along tho
river bank upon the extreme edge Of the leyes
where . pile, Of freight protected them. They
opened lire thence on the police. directing their
| attention To the rnen at tho cannon. several or
whom they brought down at the very moment
| That they were turning the crank Of the Calling
gun. Their IRE grew more and more severe ass
| they nppronohed nsnrsr 10 the poll ss and finally
| proved so telling that tho aatitng gun was
pointed toward the levse and discharged In TINT
alIsetign. BY this fire foil Richard Lindsey, Of
Company d. the first citizen killed on that day,
ihe loss Of the Metropolitans. In consequences
OF thstr exposed position. was quite severe. and
great many Of them wayered and rereatsa.
Whiie most OF the rest showed disposition Il,
| act similarly. Taking advantage Of this. and of
the tact that the fire Of the police toward pey-,
| uras street was less brisk. In consequences of
| this HshH attack. Col. Behan ordered Companies
| ana u 10 charge the battery. full vollsy WAS
| hred on the police and the men then nd yaneed
gallanty In the face ef hot fire from tt,s ene-
| my. n. u. Newman, Company A. foil killed nn1
several seriously wounded. before they rsaet,ef
| Gravier street; while IL A. Toledano was ktlteI
| at the very corner Of Canal street. and Within m
| few feet of tho battery. Al tho same time Cant.
dlynn's command charged from the levee.
| 1t was this gallant charge that decided ths
| victory Of the day. The men who charged wers
few In number: less, probably. than tho Metro
| politans; but the latter we're 50 astounded and
demoraiasd by this bold attack that u whole,
company which had almost altogether escaped
| tire broke and fled. making for Customhouse
| street. A few Of the bolder ones remained
| around the Gatlng gun to tho Inst moment aunl
kspi up a fire until ths citizens wore cless tp1n
them
Badgsr their commander, while ylinly on
deavoring torhlly his retreatine men. foil, bleed
Ing from several wounds. Tho fnlI Of their
i5aader eompleted the decentralization Of tha
police. and those few TINT remained. sss,ng
the day lost. joined In the flight, deserted their
cannon and retrsated preeipitatey up Canal
street. One of the cannon WINS carried off the,
Held but the traces of the horses we're cut and
1t was left standing in the centre Of the street.
At the rout Of the Metropolitans, Capt Buck
was unable 10 restrain the irnpstuosity OF hjss
company Company C). and they charged down
front street. Joining In the attack on the retreat
ing Metropoltans.
The Metropolitans scattered In their flight.
The left wing sought refuge In the Mobile,
depot. whence they fired volley on the cjtizens
but were soon dislodged therefrom and driven
down Cnstomh0use street. The greatest por-
lion, however fell back behind the iron build
ing. under cover Of which they kept mn irregn-
lar but telling fire on the citizens, who wsr,
ranged In the middle Of the street and wholly
unprotected. A. M. Gautier. Chas. Boulard ants
A. Bozonier. n one-armed man, all Of Batterv
g. or Protector White League, and w. q.
Robins, Of Company 9, Crescent City White,
Lcague. fell. either killed or mortally wounded,
by this fire. while some eight or ten citizens
were severely wounded by IL.
MGenfOgden nj once ordered Company q for
ward down Fulton street. to flank tho Metro
poitans Their fire proved effective. The po-
Ica were dislodged from the iron building and
broke1 again and retreated up Canal street.
closely pursued by the citizens. II A large num-
ber lof policemen dashed into the Custom
House. whila many did not even stop at the
Granite Building. but fed In the utmost haste
up Canal street. towards Mt. Charles sons
thirty or forty joined Longstrest Mt tho corner
of Peters and Canal streets, where they organ
lied again. and by keeping up fire with the
only cannon left them. prevented. for awhile.
the citizens from taking Off the captured guns.
Even when this was done the citizens found
themselves without ammunition and unable i'm
consequence TO make use Of their captured
cannon.
Company pursued the retreating police AL
most TO the corner Of Peters. but the fire from
that street. as we'll as a voIley from the Gus
tom House. compelled them 10 retreat with the
loss OF Major Wells. They retired behind a
deserted street. from which position they kspt
nD their fire. Firing was also kept up from
Tchoupitoulas. where Hills company, Com
pany Of Anyelps com mand were. The No.
lice replied briskly, killing Mohrman, Aliens
company and Bernes on Tchoupitoulas, and
Considine. Lincoln's company, near the corner
OF Magazine. IL was at this time that Cen O0-
den, while riding down Tchoupitoulas. direct
ing the operations Of his men and reconnoitsr-
ing the position Of the enemy, had his horse
shot from under him and WAS himself slightly
wounded.
The police finding the firing too warm again
retreated. proceeding up Customhouse still
pursued by Company q. which opened on them
from the head OF Crossman street, The pollen
proceeded thence up Old Levee. Capts. Phillips
and Tennyson's commands. together with a.
number ofirregulars. firing on them from Biep-
vile and Customhouse. which was replied to fy
the retreating police as well rs by those at ths,
station. BY this fire one policeman and two Cit
liens. J. Graval. st. John White League. and M.
Belts. Washington White League were killed
The police marched on 10 the station. MR.
dering J. K. Gourdain on their way Here tho
single gun left them was placed in position.
pointing up Chartres street. and scouts. dressed
In old United States uniforms, 10 delude tha
citizens into the belief that the Federal govern
ment had interfered In behalf Of the police.
were thrown out at st Ann, Jefferson and 81.
Peter streets. OF Kellogg's army Of that MORN
ing there remained only some sixty or seventy
men many Of them wounded and all completely
demoralized and broken In spirits.
At this time Canal street was almost entirely
deserted, and 1t was then that that ost atroeiou
murder. for it was nothing less, Of J. M. West
by Henry G. Dibble, was perpetrated, West n
worthy printer and good citizen. was unarrntd
and not participant in the military operations
OF the day. He was walking along Canal street.
after the fray, when Dibble. the Assistant Alter
ney General Of the usurpatfon, and on this
official occasion the aid OF Kellogg clad In a