The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-14

angemen from walking, ana UnfehIe1lng 70
arrest them or shoot them down II they re-
sisted, Thereupon the Rlbbonmen's magis-
trates took advantage OF the law ID TINS Do
minion, which provides that in cases Of emer-
gency q requisition signed by the Ghlef or any
three magistrates OF municipality Is sur
ficlent to call out the whole militia rl force o.
Canada to quell disturbance. They signed
the requisitioD, and 1000 troops were lmme-
diately ordered under arms.
This was done on Friday. On Saturday q
meeting of Irish societies was held to take
whatever steps were necessary. They adj
journed without action, and yesterday from
the pulpits Irishmen were warned to do moth
ing to create disturbance
Notwithstanding this there Is deep-seated
fear that the twelfth Of the current July will
he day thereafter TO be known as Bloody
Friday. inasmuch as there are many thous-
ands OF Ribbonmen here said to be pledged
to put down Orangemen. Mayor Beau
dry went to Ottawa to-day to endeayor
to have the order for the troops re.
scinded He has been unsuccessful and
Gen. Sir L. Selby Smythe, X. O. NJ. G.,
commander Of all the forces in Canada,
has been ordered to Montreal with 1000
men. Battery A Of the Dominion Artillery
will start from Kingston on Wednesday, ar
irving here on Friday mornlng, and Battery
b, from Quebec, under Col, Strange will be
here on Thursday morning. Col A. A.
Stevens battery Of Montreal volunteers went
into camp to-day with six officers, eighty
men, four Armstrong nine-pOunder guns,
twenty eight horses and 1000 pounds Of grape
and canister. AS this dispatch goes to the
wires. the Fifth Royal Fusieers, 400 officers
and men under Col. Crawford, are marching
to embark for st. Helen's Island, Immediately
opposite the city. Each man carries 100
rounds of ball cartridges. The Victoria
Rifles, the Prince Of Wales Rifles, the
Sixty-tifth Battalion, the Montreal garrison
artillery, two companies Of engineers, the
Sixth Fusileers, who visited st. Adams on the
Fourth of July and the Montreal cavalry,
are all ordered to be in readiness, and will be
under arms, beginning on Wednesday. The
guards in the armories in different parts Of
the city, which have been doing duty during
the past week, are ordered to he doubled after
tomorrow morning. This will place forty
two men and three officers in each Of the four
armOries. The latest advlCPS from Ottawa
say that 5000 men will be under command Of
Gen. Smythe, who is a British officer of the
old school and unused to thrilling.
The troops are to be nassed in brigades on
Dominion Square at o'clock on the morning
of the twelfth, and two flying columns are to
be sent from this point, which Is the reserve
post. One of these columns, In skirmishtng
order extended, will protect the procession,
and the other will hover on either flank in
case OF attack from that quarter.
An open air meeting of some five or six
thousand French and Irish Ribbonmen was
held this evening, and resolutions approving
the course OF Mayor Beaudry were passed
An offer was made of ten thousand Irish and
French special COnstables should he require
them to prohibit the Orangemen's parade.
There were disturbances last evening In
which Orangemeu were maltreated. Orange
men will come into Montreal by thousands
from all directions, departing In the evening
should their services no longer be required
Five additional battalions have been ordered
to Montreal-the Argentwil Rangers, Hunt
ington Borderers, Hinningford Rangers, and
battalion from SherbrOOk and Richmond
The troops in Toronto will also be held In
readiness.
A pastoral was read at the Roman Catholic
churches Sunday, which closed as follows:
Offer your fervent prayers each day to the
God of Peace that He may re-establish His
own divine spirit Of charity in our city, and
Danish from 1t forever the demon Of discord,
of strife and of hatred. Let each one be an
upholder Of the law and a defender Of holy
peace, and for that purpose If called upon be
ready to place yourself at the disposal Of the
city authorities, who are the natural and duly
constituted guardians Of the interests of our
city. One word more. / ask you, In the name
of God, not to taste one drop Of any kind Of
Intoxicating liquor on the twelfth, and / VEN
ture to request those who sell drink to keep
their houses closed on that OCCASION