The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1867, Page 2

YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. Iives to the protecting eare of the officers who arrested e b e o ecepted thr surrender. Tho Tifo of Mr. W. R. Fish was probably saved in this mauncr. Gov. Hahn was protected in passing to the prison from tho Hall, although he received many blows and severe injury from other officers of the police before he fell into the hands of those who saved Lim. There were some other . where evidenco was given of kindness shown by cases which wo are S nt-at-Arms to summon absent members | to fire; thay were Arivon out » second time, for' the peo- :"h‘ob'":r':“‘:“;h BN the city. ; plo were exasperated, and almost every man graspcd 8 ‘Boon after the recess was ordered other &hota*wers | ohair, and wrenching off a leg for & weapon, they ve heard In the street. There wero at this time i the Tall, | the polics down stairs and closed the doors agnln; nearly all B cetimuted by some of the witnesscs, betwesn 100 and | theeo policomen have boen put upon the force since the 150 porsons. No proy e e by the mem: | elowe of o war; there ws no attempt to restrain the h _,_"‘, the Couvention Hall at that t firing on the part of either citizens or policem amnpot s o by in whether I saw any citizens or not at t 1 o resist attack. An mpt arrest, ou legul process, | ce " B g sl . fourth e te8; N doors were 3 the police, These wer ceptional o e o en submitted {0 atonce, Indcedthe evl. | fourth entrances it eacli time the v ey joes BAY O € M ontro ' > 1ime mgh as will | th olice many went out; Dr. Dostie, L think, we glad to nswe. But Wi cse exceptions for seve x.xyl dence ts contralling that up fo L1 arnings | the fust thme; many went out the second tin bours the o fn wutial aid bloody eniuli- e hereaftor shown, threats bad 1 ouzsthe civen of designed attac hn \;.. st ers of the Convention the: l:~ Iumh‘ l(‘pfiu(h. m, It was belioved by some that an ar- a- | went up into the gallery, and some out the second-sto witeliery in the hall and on the strect, would | windowe, While ‘ofiers 11 themselyes tn itH1e ante-rooma d and wounded, T of the hall; every entrance Hu‘s police. were requeste : muinber was PObALIY e b . . L tod and airangements to obtatn sure- | not to fire, and no firing was made upon the police rbt | G her e B ol 8 0 o 1o hm‘ L".SL‘.-?; ‘:fx'.‘u:'-ll\-nu-m. At thia time the procession | after they had begun fir s any violenee offered | Some were i Wik ~~'11-A-l o Fomdl 0, which had entered on Dryades from | thew: at the thiy of the for th entrance there were onee quietly # There 15 evil rofen € reached the Institute. The Presideut of | a great many in the hall; there had been one or two fi- | that somo who were kilied wero pr i S teavention, tho Hon. R. K. Howell, went down the | effectual attempts to.enter; here were more than four | and buricd. Ono whtncss testified, © I saw a dray taking stalrs leading from & lobby outside of the Hall to the b s they (id not succeed in | five oF 8lx of those Who were v.« nded away, I heard a street. Judge Howell weut into the Governor's room, | getting in; t and the last time the dm{n\ufilny,‘\\m-raw"llt.\rc m tot 18 policcman hich is on the floor below the Hall. As he pussed down, | doors were not closed upon them; at the time of the | eaid, *Throw them in the viver. “““‘?‘ Wilhesses 1od- the Usited States fiag, which had been borne in the pro- | fourth entrance I 8tood near the sonth-west corner of the | tify that the killed and wonnded exceed 200. Ono witness cesalon, was being carried up staim. Judge Howell had Micbhacl Hahn was there with v, M. | saye that he raw from forty lon"): killed ; anotlier nlulm; here an interview with Capt. Caziare, one of the officers | Jackson, who was wounded the same day, was therd “at that he saw from 20 to 50 carriage Iuguls of Killed and on @cdi. Baird's staff, who had been sent by Brevet Ma- | this timé; Mr. Horton was still in the hall, but not in the wounded. Dr. Harris of the Freedmen's Hospital shows or-Gen. Baird fo uscertain if the Convention which he | corner where T was; Mr. Horton, I think, was wounded at that 108 were brought wounded to his hu_n ital, of whom Lul belieyed wonld meet at 6 p. m. Was then L session. the second entrancs, when he wason the stage with his | 14 died thero and one died after removal. A, V. Ward TESTIMONY OF JUDGE HOWELL white handkerchief, which he waved, and with which ho | saw 27 dead bodies taken from the v.'urkngnu. How many Judge Mowell states that ho (Capt. Caziare) asked me | advanced, and was deliberately shot at by the police that | were killed will never be known. JBut we cannot doubt when wo were going to meet; I told him we had met and | stood in line in the hall; persons inside had helped the there were meny wore than are seb down in the officlal adjourned. He ..u-? “don’t you weet at ¢ o’clock.” Tre- lice to fir.ln an entrauce, on supposition that they would list in evidence. o sas roplied that we would not; that if we were to aesemble 8o protected. The names of killed and wounded o far 08 -ascertained 1ate in the afternoon, it might encourage some disposit Did you see Mr. Yorton shot? I did, and saw him | gre given by Dr. Albert Hartstuff, Astistaut Surgeon, to distarb us; that we would not sit later than 8 o’cloc immediately afterward, and 1 should judge it was neariy L 8. A, that we expected fo assemnble again about 13 o'clock, and r hefore he left the hal); 1 am Dot certain whetber Dr. Hartstoff was examined by!h‘e Committee and pro- before $ wounld adjourn till the next day; the crowd at this DIt tn the a1m of side, but his arm and side wero | duced and verified tho report mids by liw to Gen. B time was iuereasing iu front of the Meobanics’ Institute t was s\mbnbly only a flesh wound, as it dil not | His report 15 as follows , Building, but Capt. Caziare and I parted under the iwpres- | secm to disable bim; Dr. Hise was there; none of the NEW-ORLEANS, La., Avgust 13, 1866, "y GENERAL: Thave the honor to Turiuish the following s but wion that there would be no disturbanceat all.” * * = partles I have named were wounded, except Mr. Hortor, 0 fmmediately roturned to the b up-stairs, but had | but there were others whose names T danot know; thers | swnmary of killed avd wounded in the riot July 50, 18665 Mun-rlf 120t into the rooin when {he firng was renewed | wero but few of us there then, aud we feit that there was LT v g Woanded, . Taltl, Sromadintely in front of the hukiding und apparently con- | Do use in attempting to drive them out; thero were uot - Vo Mot et p gy G Tintiod for two or thres minutes <ood deal of consterna- | enough of us, and we were wot armed; I thought I would B L ersis 8 H > H Hon appcared in (he room whete we were: the room was | ehooset the fesser evil, thers was' o -possibility. of | Cojord cire o " @ » I about ove-third full, T suppose; | determined to go to the | escaplng if T got ont, but there was none inside; at the Policemen. B Y o » 10 Governor's office and seo i we could devise any means (o | door [ met a young man, # stranger to me; [ have not ‘White citisens, disloys > o o . Deen able to fecognizo him since, thongh I have seen one | Believed by me killed and wounded, of whom T could prevent the disturbance from extonding: 1 went through the back way, and as I passed the piatform I saw ssite side of the stre he, being a leader | not get absolute facts: killed (colored), 10; wounded (col- iid arrest me | o) I asked him if I thought was the same; of the party and head of the policemen—w corpse of & negro lying on the o) red), 20. when I got in the front room, vecupied by the Governor's and secure me from personal violence; T will state here, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, . rivate secretary, the street was entively elear in frout of | what told him at the time, that I had taken no part in A. ITARTSUFF, Assistant-Surgeon U, 8. A, he building dows nearly (wCanalkst.; there was a mass of | the resistauce or in driving the police ouf of the hall; that Official copy: gmnfi:’i le;'A'SA' A A‘t’l" o stated iu this connection. X by @ line of police- | 1had beon perfectly }mulvo, except urging those inside One remagkable fact should asked this man _for protection to | only one “citizen ” was killed. Ho was & young man erowd, beaded apparently + Jarger number of police- | arrest we, he said, with an oath, “No, Sir, none of you ean | named Cenns—a medical student or‘y—unngphymln—cna wen than on my right; the ior was not there; he | get out here alive;” he bad a club, formed n)\rnn-mly of | be was killed, ns it appears in proof, by accident and uot had loft at 11 o'clock; I sat down to write to Gen. Baird, | a roneh piece of wood three {nches wide, one neh thick, | by auy of the friends of the Convention. Onuly ten lice- {nforming him of what was goine on; but 1 had scarcely | and three feet long; as 1 attempted to run by him be | mon were wounded and noue of them sovercly, and none written three lines when this crowd on my left be; struck at me with this board, but I dodged him; ,mlng of them were slaln. move sinultaneonsly on the building, and comme! through the door I met um\]oc-mnn in uniform; I offered 1f the Convention had been armed, or if the colored cit- firing into the windows; they scemed 10 be shooting into | wyself to him, but Le would not arrest me; going down | fzens had been called upon in advauce to come anoed to the side 48 woll as the frout windows; I moved frow there | stairs T pm\ml two other policemen; at the time I passed | protect and defend the Convention, this could not have of course, and the crowd from below at this moment | them they had a ney o in charge, and wero kuocking him en the case. bagan to move up; there was general conffion and ex- | down the stairs with their policemen’s clubs, ponding PREMEDITATED BY THE MAYOR. citement; I was advised by the Governor's son t Ihim over the head, ho at the same time begging that they | This Motous attack upon the Convention, with its terrl- position with some others i his father's room, Would spare lim; they did not turn their atiention to wue; | ble results of massacro and murder, wishot un e cupied the lower floor, immediately under one side of the | as Tarrived on the second floor, T was seized b Jt was the determi n:n{umw of the Mayor of the € hall; he remarked that if th i there they wonld | citizens; one of them was o “rongh"—one of the low | of New-Orleans to up this Convention by arm cartainly shoot me; I was n yeavituess to anything | order of Irisumen, I should think; the other was | joree. O T 4 Wfter that e fo the attacks (n the | what appeared to bo oue of the chivairy—a well-dressed | Wo state one fact in this connectlon, significant both as DiTing: T remaimed in the Govegnor's parlor during the | persou of middle age; they both seized me by the collar | bearing upon the question of proparation and as indicat- issiles of various kinds, brickbats, bullefs, | and commenced striking me with their fists in the face; | ing the true and prevailing feeling of the people of New- requently come in the room where we were; | 18hook them off without any serious lrsnry. Jeast 1o | Orleans. Six months have elapsed since the Convention n open 1ot Juist at the side of the hullding, and | myself, and went on; oing outof the door I met on the | assembled when the massacre was srpetrated, and more sionnily sée, through the stips another policemun: 1 offered wyself tohim; 1 Bad | than 200 men were slain and wounded. This was done by going on there; there Wits an aluiost uni P! a large white Landkerchief in wy hand, and Leld it up; | City officlals and New-Orleans citizens. Lut not one o snd yellingin that lot for some time: the lot, 1 learued [ 1t was in my right hand and held up when 1 met this | those men has been punished, arrested or complained of. witerward, was occupied by a family of negrocs.” policeman on the steps; I asked him to urrest me and | These officers of the law, iving in the city and known fo T temr of the Covention, gives | protect me; Lis reply was, “Yes, dnmn you, 1 willgive | that community, acting undcr tho cyo of superiors, the following narrative of what took pldce within his | you proteciion,” drawing out a large revolver, bright und | elothed with the uniform of office, and some of them wight (n the ball. new; 1 judge it was one of Colt's s-uch revolvers, he | known, as the proof shows, to the chief officer of the Po- TESTIMONY OF DR. FUSE. drew thiat up and knocked me down on the landing, and | lice, buve not ouly escaped_punishment, but bave heed There wis sormn confieion in the Hall: many shots were | stunned me for the time being; the blow did not cut the | contiuued in their office. The gentlemen who cotn| el et hall. througl the windows, during this tme | fiesh at all, for Ihad ou a thick plaited straw hat, and | the Convention have not, howover, been permitted to and afterward; the windows were down: when the | 1oy hair at the time was guite tl ick, but it left a Jary escape. Prosecutions in the Criminal Conrt, under an old Streots were eleared, Mr. Cutler, finding some confusion | lunp on my forehead; I gathered myself “Y as woll I | law passed in 1805, were al once commenced and are now Shthe hatl, said : -~ Sit down direetly " Dr. Dostic ealled | could and staggered to another policeman n the middle nnflug ngalust them for a breach of the peace. These but, “Do ‘as you are told—sit down; if you have not | of the strect, and asked him s well us T could, belug | facts tend strongly to prote that the criminal actors in the chairs sit down on the floor, & ody ! ‘T believe that | considerably confused by the eftects of the blow I hud | tragedy of the day were the agenls of more eriminal em- et e ki1 fter the atrect wi cleared thert was | received, but Ihad £ot quite got 1o him, when he drow up | ployers, and demonstrate the gencral sympathy of the » Period of slence, und the attention of everybody was | his revolver and shot at me; I was not more thiy three | ‘peoply In behalf of the men who did the wrong against Rimcted to the doors; preseutly the doors opeed; I | or fovr feet from him at’ the time, but the ball did not | thoss who suffered it. woked around and suw some police and eitizens make | take effect; I darted from him, and _etarted toward But the evidenee establishing the fact of determination ihieir appearance; following a death-ike silenco there Sdolet'st: thers were n great many people, and | to suppress the Convention and preparation for attack was a volloy fired from the door upon those inside. thouzh my bead was whitling all {his time 1 could hear | upon the members and thoso fricnds, whoever they By whom was that volley fived? By people from the | the firing us though it was au_irregular musketry firing: | might De, that should attend its mecting, is derived from foor; the door W 4, and policemen and | it sounded to me like the second firing of a company as1 | many witnosses. y “ilizens fired o particular in that stateme Jave heard it on the battlo fiehd; T had no very distinet | Before the day arrived there was general denunciation Tor averybody in the liall would know whether what I am | {dea of what was going on, but I saw cluhs raised, and | of the Convention in different eiveles and in casual meet- stating ls correct or not; it appeared to me that they dis- | I heard revolvers firing. 1 was goiog on allfours | ings on the streats; wishes were expressed aid expeela- “hurged their four or six-sheoters as rupidly as possiblo: | part of the time, and replacing my hat when I could, but | tions declared that it shonld be dispersed; anonymons A8 800n &% this was done those in thie hall seemed to rise | this 1 mizht have dono intuitively; | got hall way to Com- | letters of wn.r&ux 'A"I:rl lbr;al::;lll vh::m "r‘l“ l&%lu smbers and their fricnds; o funeral notice * porsons who seemerd (o be Lept Iy wman, while in the other dix v of wy left was another | to keep quiet; when 2 simultaneously oin their fect, took their ehoirs, or what- | 1mon-st, before any {mllt'em:n would arrest me aud take | several of the wrer eould lay hokd of, and drove them bac] me in charge; then 1 was arrested by a man only partially | announcing in advance the death of the Convention was Wort These members of ‘the Convention or other par- | in Ppoliceman’s clothing bo bad on a pollooman's | poeted in the streets on Bunday; declarations we nluu. pong who were therei 1 cannot exacily tell who; T | cvat, but not the hat; he told me that he wis an exira | that the “niggers and half-niggers” should be “w yppose members of the Couvention, colored joe and all, | poilceman that came out when the alarm was give: members of one of the fire companies absent from sushodto the door; Idid ot go, for ane; when I found | went a little way, as far as Common-st.; the erowd thick- Ly on 5"'"‘“{ declared that they must return and be “nat pistol-ehots were beiny fired, not being armed in ened there, und appeared 10 be very thre 2, calling | on hand the next day; . 1o will 1 tell on the floor, so that the shots mi i out, * Kill the Yankee u r,” “8hoot t 1 those dainned Yank he citizens and police were repulsed ; it gecmed | o biteh,” * There goea another nigger, A Dostie myself” (6, sdiculows to wme 1 ehould with chalrs, bitt another damne | Yankee;” such exprea hang Halin and Dos. and pleces of railiy heard, and many others of like T Conveution regularly org Jiceman or fireman cal al her (0 his o 4 the 1w together scered to great exertions Lo one man re it was freely i were repulsed some fo ve times; I he fifth time tha' they got possession of the crowd off til I got to police station; 1 w n 1." Fire el 1 hrough Common-st. 10 Caron and np Lafay pistols I the bos; f i tute at the same thme from dif; tod I suppose about an hour; it 0se fn the hall that military aselst rive; it appeared to we t romain wus certalu de Gov. better go; 1 would state 1hat after each volle hie police driven back, some people lert the hit u Dr. Dostie ahout the 1iird or fourth fire, und ““They will kill » are hound to kill me seemid to ho the prevailing opinion of all of us, especially | west corner cell’ on the lower tioor of the static i seined to ho the pre valling opblon o fon en hont. the | were one or two persous in the coll when 1 got there; | eleered and | shouted for ¢ ff. Davis and for tifth attempt, as 1 said, the police held possession of the | other persons who were in the hall when I got there were | Mr. Johnson.’ When the wounded men weir foors of the Institnte; Hahn went out first; I was | #oon brought iu; Mr. Jackson and Mr. Horton were soon | bronght in to the *loek np.”” members of the ety ¢ ouncil going With him, wheo a man pointed is revolver | bronght fui Mr. Horton was partlall; “ia thelr bloody work;" and ut, and Twas | Was brought iv; he begged me 1o t &, ¢ither policemen or citizens, the st District Ktation; when I ar snd that to | mueh exbausted from exertion and loss of blood; 1 stated | the early moruing s man wi e nad | to the man nt the desk, in policeman’s uniform-—u short, | those who were villing to ald in sippressing | fired, and X, nud begged bim 1o | @ schiool was dismissbd beeause there wis Lo Undges of ditferent kinds were worn by “cliizens” on th sand he, very gravely; men were seen buying pistols and ecartridges; onth: | citizens encouraged the riot indifferent ways: thero w ere erowds of citizeus at different parts of they efore yon get through with this, fter some delsy he sent me juto a back cell, th himw to the Can At me, and sald, st Hebn went 1 kept in in this w, 1 didt not see Gov, Hahy i until | ton depot, that he might get bome; T told bim 1 conld has heen complal r punished. 1 suw him in the Sinat the station-wuse; [ should | do more than he; soon Mr. Waters, a meniber of the the police were with stats that the Rev. Mr. Horton ealled out, wiile he was | veution, was brought in, and @ number of others who | miglit rest until M waving a handkerchis sop firing; w ler; ve 0 wien I went away; Ihad, with the us «l to report at the miake 10 resistance.” Wiille he was thus » persons in there, gut unon a sheif in the £ off; Mr. Waters took had to wash the blood he was &hot in the arm ; afterward, the ev, M, Forton ay there, and got my went out with s white handkerchief e a flag of truce; | off his nndershirt and wetted ity and Mr. O'Connell, at another time, went out with his | off to cool my head; how long I emained there 1 do handkerehief as a fl, #t another time Mr, | knov; ¢ ?ll and n to talk wHd Alfred Shaw underiool white handker- | and 1 have been pformed never Liad , and_arms w wers ordered to come arme tn. The greater pait of the to those who were without th police was kept ot the station-liouses unti) the tine ar- Tives when their work should begin, Soon after noon un rm was given, sich a5 bad baen used when chief as o flag of truce: when I wanted 10 Jeave Uie hall | Inever saw bim after L was taken fr & policeman pointed his revolver af me but atter u | Mr.J. D. O'Connell, who was in the pies were investing the eity, and then the co- time seized me by th dd called to a policenan on | of the tine, gives a cl ar narrotive of whas he sa ¢, headed by officers aud firemen, with their the other side i tuke charge of e mvubd statement in his testinony I very important. Whi 3 e will trot whole action of the polic fe. | murders were being conunitted Dy the police, Mr. OCon- people covperating with thew was of & Most hrutal [ nell says: character; mone bur n accustomed o acts of TESTIMONY OF MR. O'CONNELL. citizens acte 3 . wore blood cowld be guilty of such brataity; when | There was no hope, however, that the military would he Atreets the - palicemen got 1 door ¢ arrive soon, and 1 suggasted that we burrieade the ball, | bands reverscd so that th d ot be dis- coutmenced firing ; at o1 and hoid it untit the military sbould come; it waa the [ tinguish dowu and pray to go ont: orly ehiance we had; I succeoded in getting the chairs | Chief of Police to control or check th made waa, the click of « pistol, d g placed agninst the doors; the deors, heswever, opened into | slan, cLter was permitted until tue end was gnined. Facts bowsls; [saw them shot in this way by pol the lobhy, and the fastenings outside wero very soon tormn of thly deseription were put on f, with vther cireum- ral_times, and without provocat would stute also | offs we had o protocsion except the chairs, and they | stances, demonstrating, as we y y wlaughter that whon Mr. Horton calied o We surrender—we | constituted very little, ws it waa easy to fir bie | of these men was determined on by the elijef execative k6 10 reststance,” there wias 1 rash by policemen, and | tween them: iho police mude gt her attack, ny ofticer of the city, and was prepared for by him ou the Wtu made by 8 man in a gray ceat, * God daton | tered the Ladl, when those inside todk the ehaire and drove | night before the meeting was held. one of you will escaps from here alive:” thit | them out, wnd tia they did two distinet thoes; on the | 1t i mado the duly of the Com uittee to Inquir and 1 believe, w: ule. direetly 10 Mr. 1ish, who | fifth attack they entercd again, headed by au of/icer who | repost 1o the House whethr wid to what extent the was trying 10 got out; I saw the police] oantside the 10 be 4 kergeant, from Lis uniform ; he came Lo the | members of the ergauization ¢ alming to be the Vi uafl, and in fact on both sidesof the hall, discharging | door with s white handerchbief, opeued it suddeals. Jent of Louisiana are responsible for the atroc tnait revolvers toward the hail, reloading pud fiving { wived bis bandkerchief; I supposed they had of visl pmmitied on the day of the massacr agiin and again ; some fell on their faces : olhe s dropped scain, and that tids meant that they were willing | to that end a brief statement of facts which oc from the windows, and were shot i fallinz ; when Leame f to give us protection : I weat to the deor and found Mr. ention met s neosssary. 1t was detormined outef the hall, with o p on each wide of me,§ 8. 8. Fish in the ball, clows by the dosr; I asked Lita to or of the city that the Convention should not somobody called ont, ' That i Dr. Hiw-—a member of the 3] assist ue in taking the chairs away ; 1 spoke to this police- hie Lioutenant-Governot of Louisiany and the Coveut! the policenien who wssiioed chiry man, and asked him it they meant to give ue prodcetion nemul of the State united with the Mayor in suidl to me, “ Ave you Dr. Hise, of the Co agalnst the mob, who would kill us; he said, “Yes, we'll tiom. “Yes:” Tiaay state further, t protect ¥o 1 asked Lim If he was ser CONDUCT OF THE MILITAEY, On the 23tb of July the Mayor noiified the Command- 4w A e nly old policema who had been under s o et me bave his hand, which he did; I, of course, had con- 1 had been attending his family as # physicia fidence then that he weuld do as he said, avd atford us | ing Officcr that the propos \venaion Wik un “ un- pro jon; I pulled the ehairs down and dreve the | lawful assenubing that its [ him to take charge of wme; other wan ¥ ho ihe eharge of me said. coloved people from the door, so that their presence | sudvert the Stute and Munieip: 1 will take charg whould not provoke the pollee to any farther acts of v hie “intended to disperse i by arresting the Ihe police Jence; they very salnaissively went toward the other end | thereof and holding then accountadle to existng mu thrée ste] of the hall’; ntered the hall, one o th | niewpal law, provided they met without the ranction of swnng b of the on the military authorities” No requcst (s made for mili- e Couvention Is to be tary nid, Lat notico is glven that t ppresaed by the arrest of its menehers, unless the Con- tioned by the military. 1, Gl Baird stated that eld themselves strictly | movewents of vou G—d d—d sons of bitchos, we'll protec that they would protect ua, but 11, even this mon who had tendercd n hed forward with the others, dischargl discriminateiy : one of the police, pountikg 50 you will surrender, you G-l | al thought I was done for deuth, and 1 endeavored to bear up, 3 stinned me; 1 eannot tell how many after that; I was struck ny tin ihp steps, s Teame nto iho sireet, | was met Dbis | vention was san In '(lly to thut corumunicat the mifitary commanders had 1 from tnterference with the yolltic aix persons, each of whow siru e, wome with sta pistol toward e ) andl others With pieces ot chairs; bus 4 won of a biteh,” and discharging his revelver toward il be procecde wy head, xuid, * that aud go to hell, will 1| “If the assemblage i question hos tho ‘at § received from the po thie steps; 1 can only charne ttie most fiendish conduct I ever kaew 0 vize the Whole Livat was standing ¢lose 1o him, and lad the presence of mind the 5 vernment, it should he protecte 3 ragh T have | tethrow up his band, and the ball passed tirough my | doing: i£it has not, then its Iabors must bo lookod npon B here 21 yesrs as a practicing physician, § never im- | hut both in front and rear; I retired toward the door, wroply wa & hrmiess pleasantry to which no one ought to od thit dch things coold BAD 3 Do it Bot nezus- | sad another pole approached me with a long knifc | objeci. As to your eon on of the duty lmposed by {506d 10 deeds of biood conld Jave been sa fiendidi in | wnd struck ut we; 1 defended myself againat him with @ your onth of office, T regret to differ with yoo entirely. nis conduct; after eseaping from cbe biows deaped upon the leg of a eha 1d got baek into the room ; thoso inside unot understand how tho Mayor of a city can under- e, & pibtol was fired, the hail passing tinongh my fin- | again rallied with broken chairs and wlmh-u-rlhr{‘ could | take to deelde so important and delicate a question as the zers, and I discovercd when 1 wae s fow vaids fromthe | get hold of, snd drove the police out; I supposo this was | legal authority upon which o Convention, clyming to d becu stabbed in te segion of the | about 2:5 0'cl ction, rescut the people of tie entire State, bases it ipstitate that 1 ] ” art. g These statements, which give a substantially correct “This doubtless will, i duo time, be properly declded ‘How did you discover it1 By the hood ; 1 did nos know | account of what transpived within the hall arc corrobo- | upon by the legal branch of the 1 -m:x States Govern. ment. At ull events, the Governor of the would @hein T was stabbed ; L presanse that when 1 wis struck | rated by othor witnessea. S Yive blowa I was stabwed ot the sume e, and | It would be impossible to giye & connected account of f goem to be more direetly callod upon to take the initla- “hat the reason why 1 was nos sericusly injured was that | what was at the same time and afterward ocourring in | tive in a ste of this kind, 1f it was proper aud necessary. ‘n trying to dodge the blow the knife ;‘l-m-vd off, and | the streets. » hat we n.'\;a want ot the pnmf:. tiwe I3 the .......{z. went on the external side of the rib; when T got to the OUTRAGES BY THE MOB. rance of fperfect good order and the suppression of vio- sorner of Common and Diyades, » young diuggist whom The Committes exanined Ttnrw us to the facts ot | lence. 1f, when you speak of the projected mecting s ( knew called ont, ** Here s Lr. Hise, the great Abolition- | violence and bloodsked upon that s Itds in evidence | one calculated to di the public peace and tranquillity, #i* n whioh a set wis made o1 e from behind; T | that men who were in the hall, torri ed by the me 88 | 7am 1o understand that you regard the number of per- oraa driven into the gutter ; When the policeman let go of | nttack of the armed police, sought safety by jum sons who differ in opinion’ fromlflu who will constitute e, I fel) with my head agawnss the stones it the gutter, | from the windows, a distance of 20 feet, to tho’ gr tas so large and the lnwlessness of their character so 't thoaght T certainiy sbouid be finished then s Twak | and as they jumped were shot by polie or citizens. | well estabilshed that you doubt the ability of yonr small S scated. sick, and weak Trom the 1oss of biood; T was | Some, disfigured by wounds, fought their way down | foree of police to control them, y o have in such case only taken to the lock-up at the Station-House. stairs to the street, 1o be shot or heaten to deatli on the | to call upon me, and I will briig to your ussistance uot ‘The account given by Mr. Stephen 8. Fish, dn intellr- { pavement. Colored persons at distant poiuts L the eity, [ only the troops bow I:rnenl,lnllu- cify, but, If necossary, t witnesa not & meinber of the Conveution, is as fol- fmmml ¢ pursuing their lawful business, were attacked | the entire force which it may be in my power 10 assemble, fi:v\: ,y the police, shot, aud eruelly beaten. Men of character | efther upou the land or en the vwater, Lawless vi lenco SEESTINONY OF ME. FISH. ! and position, some of whom' were members, and some 1nust be suppressed, and in this connection the recent or- “Thore was body of neerocs in front of the Insti- | kpeetators of tbe Convention, escaped frow the ull cov- | der of the Lientenant-General, designed for the protection tute, friends of the Convention, I suppose. and there were | ered with wounds and blood, and were prescrved almost | of eitizens of the United Etates, deseryves careful con I ither I the hadl; aud 10 demonstrtions that | by miracie from death. Bcores of colored eltizeus Denr | sideration, It imposca high obligations for railitary Inter saw were made by the They were peaceable and | fFightful scars, more numerove (hun many soldlers of a | ference to protect those who, having violated vo ordi- of the State, are engaged in peaceful avocations, & uict, and seemed to be simply i expectation of hearing | dozen well-fought fields can show, proofs of fearful hu King, gathered together as wmeu o dinarily are at danger and strange cscap shot while waving m the 25th of July panted by Licut.- nvuzueuwunu: Twent luto the hall, wnd_very soon af- | hacdkerchiefs in token of sucierior aud submission ; | Gov, Voorhies, called upon Gen. taird to inform him that terward the firing commenced ; upon the first entranee | white men and black, with arns uplifted, praying for | the design of an interferenceby the police had heen nh waved, and the po- | Ve, were unswercd by shot und blow from kiife and | doned, and that on an indictment * by the Grand Ju the hall white handkerchicts we n ‘called tipon by Mr. Horton, membe:s of the Con- vention, and others, not to fire ; that no resistance wounld offered ; they edme in aud commenced M'fi’” the in- mnl they commenced firing those fuside conld not be re- “ strafmed; they rose and drove them out; there were @ fow among the negroes who had pistols; 1 i vot sce & . pistol in iands of any white man, and bat fow in the Lm of the negroes; there were probably not more armed on this oceasion than on erdinary occasions; uite # number of persons in this city curry arms, both white * and bisek; with chairs and pistols—the few who had nm—aaw‘lm were driven out, and the doors were closed and barricaded with @ Jarge pile of chairs before the doors; there were two sets of double doors; the doois unfortunately-opened outward, and they could not be fastened ; the second time the &lm rallicd Mr. O'Connor wid door and spoke with the liead man of the police; as the police fouwl they could not get in this man,raised a white baudkerchief, remark- g he wanted those inside to surrender, and that he ‘would ot them ; Mr. O'Connor asked him if he was club; the bodies 0T sowe were “ pounded to a Jelly;” a | the Pa colored man was dragged from under & street-crossing | arrests.”” and killed ut & blow; men_concealed in ont-houses and | on understandiug that ench sbould communica with the piles of lumber were eagerly sought for, and slaughtered | nuthorities at Washivgton, the interview closed. Gen, or maimed without remorse ; the dead bodies upon the | Balrd was informed that any Writ of arrest that i, It be street were violated b{u-hotiklcl und stab; the face of a | issned would bo submitied ‘0 him before service. Aud it man “ jast breathing his last” vnkubed by a knife or | was belleved by him that all danger of violent fnterfer razor in the hands of & woman; “an old, gray-huired | euco with the &m\'unllhn B been remoyed, 4 man,” peacenbly waEing the strect at 4 distance from Gen. Baied telegraplied O the Sccretary of War, and T T SR S W R A T e lled, with the ganetion of ou uson ; & policeman in “ A Conventis been called, wi e sanction 2 buggy deliberately fired hia revolver from the Gov: Wellk, | i .‘.’."..e".‘{,.... en Monday I e Tieutenant: Governor and city suthorities think it unlawful, and pro- into u crowd of colored men; a colored manu tws away from the Conveution hall was taken from his shop | pose to break it up ) ug the delegates. T hnve et bt have warned the pat- by the police at about 4 o’clock ou the afternoon of the ven no orders on the sl , and shot and wounded in side, hip, and back; one fi‘e: that I should not mmH:-m-w-u or permit such action man was wounded by 14 blows, shots, and stabs ; the body | without instructions to that ctrect from the President. of another reoeived seven pistol balls. After the slaugh- | Please instruct telegraph. ter had measnrably ceased, w'fi 'u,avnn and drays No reply was umfi»wtfi: 1d Gen, Buird was left to driven through the streets gathered the dead, dying, aud | act upon orders then in force L mmr to instrue- protec wmmmhl “promiscnous loads” a policemau in some | tions then existing; and he Lad previously Informed the sincere, and he gald ho was, and Mr. O'Connor took the | canés ng in the wagon, seated upon the living men be- | Licutenant-Goversor and the Mayor what muy be ' hand in token of siucerity—that he wonld ar- I neath him. The wounded men, taken at first to 8tation- | decmed that he was requijed to, act unless otherwisy in- ‘those Inside and protect them ; on this O'Connor and | House or “lock-up,” were all afterward carried to the | structed. No request Lad been “made by elther the Lien- Do re Aanisted them In taking away the chairs, 5o that | howpital. While ‘8% the Station-House, unti] friends found | tenant-Governor or the Mayor for troops or militnry ail, they could come in und urrest theiw ; when they came in | them with medical aid, they were 1eft'to suffer. When at | No donbt had been suggested ‘of the duability of they formed 4 line iy 1rent ¢ha nd opened o | the hospital, they were attended to with care and skill. | the Mayor to execute lfi» arocess or of the Sheriff “fire; 1think at il ,,fl.n g?p‘}o .* . l[gmn B‘ltm-'u]flc‘mt nu;omt‘%o((my or’:?gt;ne. ':'lt'llmul 1';. srvo |lul.. v‘x‘.u‘."n wan u:ulrr‘lh:n‘lyl that Gen. ' e 3 kerchiefand tied | ask'n, 810D, 80 far & tho Committee learned, these | Baird ehonld not interferr, when elesram Wik Jyaé apon "‘1.1 Mo g A g e e .......fi.':a"n'.';n ‘eve carried to the hospital under the eare | received from the President ju_reply to that of Licut,- tle stafl v] hind been one of the fa s littia 5t oo whies Red e Freadmen's Burean: and shelter, surgical treat: | Gov. Voorhies that * tha military would be expected o 1 bstruet or interfere with the proceet- n the room ; dker¢hic Eialr, Ik wan oo Mo | of e R0 food were furnisbed at the cost of the Cnited | mustain sud ,ffi o, t was taken to be a declsion of the Y b process would issic 10 the Sheriff to muke the Tpon ohjection heing stated to this conrse, and on this siaif, Blh waved it o the policemen rgrthlnm ings of 1) ot to fire, stating that no vesistauce would Le tmade; that t in favor of the parties who wished to break up ed 10 save and uot to destroy hfe. | the Convention and agalust the Couv el Lion itself, tecelved no instruetions ho 4d A i1 was ovidance before the Committce that in somo | Preside they desired to be arrested aud protected from violence, wid thist they were unarmed ; but they emplied their Yoivers. and conpined 1o tire after they hud wgreed uob cases policemen wcl | Wikt doubt soue mcimbors of the Conveution owothelr I But as Gen, Bulid b vg'wl authorized to act in tion to what he deemed | we 5z to hang Dostio and Hahn;” Dr. Dostie made te be the instructions then in tha::n‘:k fo me, "1-m rln unarmed; I know thoy ‘When hie so stated to Gov, Voorl 16 was agreed that | want to take my life, but I think it a good cause to die %&hmlfi should be made without the approval of Gen. | in; if they want to take my life they can do o umn{l ird, nnd “ that the Couvention should be permitted to | * You can do as you please; I thought it my duty to c: procecd. and tell yon, a8 in your remarks at -he meeting on Friday Put up to this tme 1t had been hoped -that Gen. Baird | night, you told the peopl 1 coip out_and attend the might be indaced to interfere with bia troops (0 aid in tho | Convention;” he saldon that night, * Go heme =go qul- -ng fon of the Convention, ctly—go orderly; behave yourselves; and if there 18 any- n.\h-nduf' morning, after the preparation bad been | body, white or black, that disturbs you, protect your- made by ealling tie police from their *beats” und arw- | selves.” iz them for violenee, and ut of whoutl o'cloek the | - Mr. Richard . 8helley, an fntelligent witness, males Likutenant-Governor euiled again upon Gen, Buird, aud | this conclusive statement: I went out to the mectivg was with him until wnr}y 12 o'elock, Gov. Voorhics was 1in front of the Mechanies’ Institute, W after the aware of the position of {he wilitary force, whers the | Rev. Mr, liorton had delivered Lis spe ch, standing on troops were, 10 how 100g i would take to bave them ou | the platform, withina fow feet of Dr. Dostie, Listened e srotnd.” But he did not then ask for them, nor did he | attentively to the speech ho mads; there was nothing efsa wish to have them in readiness, according to | whatever n the remarks of Dz. Dostio whicl could be Baird's statement, until Gen. Baird himself pro- | said to exeite or invito in any way acts of hostility upon 2, s n mensure of eantion, to send for some of Lis | the part of the colored peopie ugainst any of the white ‘e, This suggestion by Gen. Baird was satisfactory, | citizens of New-Orleans; after the meeting had adjourned A & ordler was at oneo scnt by Gen, Baird to that ot | at the Mechanies’ Institute, o procession was foruied with foct, Tt was now nearly 13 o'clock. Gen. Buird hiad been | toroniights and a band of music, and procecded down Jo fo belleve that the Convention did not mect untll 6 p, | Caval-st. to 8t. Charles-st., and then into Camp-st, and up m. Buf althongh two hours would be required to get T | to the City Hall; on the ronte to the City Hall, some of troops, and although it was clearly impossible to have | the men comprising the procession were attacked by them there at or near 12 o'clock, nothing was suid by | some white persons and maltreated; on arriving at the Licut-Goy. Voorhies as to the true time when tle Con- | City Hall, a'short speech was delivered by Dr. Dostie; yeution met; and when the mterview eame to an cud, | aniong othér things, he told them he feli very much Gen. Baird remained under the belief that the Couven: | pleased with the quiet and orderly ‘manner in which they l:%,\ ouwd pot meet until 6 p. m. Ho at once sent for the {md condueted themselves, and tted to learn that Ds, according to bis own suggestion to-Licut.-Gov, | the procession had been attacked by & body of evil-dis- nd then rode o the residence of Judge Howell | posed men; ho recommended them to return (SI:IP" to reference to the Convention. MBut Judge | their homes, and that if they weroassatled and their lives Howell had already gone to the Convertion, and within | put in jeopardy, he recommmended that they should de- an hour the massaére ws in full prog In his testi- | fend thewselyes to the extent of their ability. mony before the Committee, Gov, ‘gorhies aud Gen. Except at that time, was there anything in Dr, Dostie’s Pand differ as to the time of this Interview, and it is im- | speech caleulnted to excite animosity or hostile action? rtant to determine which is right. Gov. Yoorhtes fixes | No, 8ir, there was not. {:‘r ‘time at carly after breakfust. ILs statement is as [ At the meeting outside of the Mechanics' Institute, did (u‘l%':[:m WS T R TR fir D‘ofilln nl\‘ytofl.ah men tll;l whnmhevlv{:a : ing ):.:u'nt 4"On Monday morning, the 30th, the day of the riot, early aftor break- | they all oughit to fight for their votes; that they ouebt 10 gy ey morsing e e | ae o o amveation, Abd that 0o cowards were President, :l"-hltl he took & T 1 the fnforined o What | weanted; that the stones of the streets were erying eut for 3 the blood of Kebels, or any expressions equivalent to then inguired. of the General whether be would bave tro i 4 .n'fly of the Mechanies’ Iustitute, that day beirg the 4';, J‘.T o these, or anything Like them? Ican swear let he made of the Couvertion. The Genersl' answered that 1 o such remarks. made by wembers—be did vot say the membe: "This mass of cvidence 18 materially contradicted ouly the Couvention—to have troops there to ke Dby Mr. ¥. W. Tilton and Mr. B. Brady, who were among allow troops purpos 6 witnesses furnished by @ Cowmmittee of citizens of t o g oEt e oo 11 e v, Mpal | ST o s m same application would he grant i aid, won ; . dosired. "1 asked Wi generally to send troops there, and Jeft e matter zf“ln’:‘l"',’;“ institute; there was o meeting oufside s well of seleetion to his discretion. 1 atated to the general that if s small body I of troops appeared on the steps with the Ellm there would be uo danger What was the character of the meetingontside ! There Of & ok being. commenced on either wide, The General was very well | wa n largo platforu, and a band of musie, and torch- pla Pleased, from wbat 1 saw, with my proposition.” lighte; the platform was surrounded by a large crowd of 1f that was correct it would have been possible that the nrgmn. aud there were white persons on the platform. troops which Gen. Baird had volunteered might be had in id anybody make speaches? Yes, Sir; there were readiness soon after the asserbling of the Convention at | About four persons making speeches; the ouly oues T 120'clock. Gen, Balrd states that the interview did not knew were & man of the name of Dostie, and another by close until nearly 12 o'elock, the n:lm;‘- ?Iflfindcr!sonhn‘m Ithink Mr. Dibble made & Japt. Caziare corroborates Gen, Baird, but both he and rech, but T am not certain, o s leaving the of- w"vhnt ‘was the character of the speeches? I would not Gen. Baird say that upon Gov. Voorhies" fico Gen. Bnln’i wen t?»anm onse of Judze Howell. That | call them specelies; they wero haranguing the multitude was just about 12 o'clock, asis proved by Mrs. Howell. and trying to exeite them, Gov. Voorhies stated that he sent two notes to Gen. Iu relationto what T Inrelation to their political rights; Balrd ‘'on Monday; one * at_about 10§ o'clock,” and one | and they werc denouneing over[yl-mdy round about, ane “at ahout noon.” 1f these thues were correctly stated it telling them they must do this t ln{ and the other thing; e fow that bis iuterview with Gen. Baird was be- | 0t the distance I wos from the meeting I could uot dis- foro 103 o'clock, and not between 11 and 13 o'clock, as Gen. tinetly un the only ones I understood were Dr. Baird states; and Mr. Martin Voorhies bis brother cor- | Dostic an Mr, derson,for they spoke very lond. Toborates the Governor, and testifics that he carried both | Did they make reference to the Convention that of those notes and saw Gen. Baird, and one was between | Was to assemble op the following Monday 1 Yes, Sir; I 10 and 10§ o’clock in the morning, sud the other hetween v Dr, Dostic ealled upon them, as they were go- 12and 1 o'clock. Mr. Voorhies rward said that the in that hall on the following Mouday, to come second note was between 11 and 12 o'clock. This differ- ome prepared Io'flhl and vote, to vote and eucah!mmflnnlwhzn the question is one of time. The !i':lu: 1 conid ouly unders portions of the 21 by interview between the two notes did not probably exceed | th ‘there would be portions inalower tone whieh could oue hour. not understand; this was between 10 and 11 o'clock st Gen. Baird statea that he received hoth these notes. | Dight. He does vot fix the time of the first, but says, *“it could What kind of effect did that kind of exhortation Lave t have been balf an hour” before the secoud was sent. | HpoR the multitude? Sereaming und yelling. ?:I' Gen. Balrd produced the original of the second no Did Mr. Henderson utler auything of that deseription? and the note itself is da dn-,‘ felock.” and he states t I cannot say; Iunderstood Dr. Dostle very well; I heard he receivedit at “ Just abont that time.” Thisevidence | O0e 84V that every man, every woman, and every child in 18 conelusive. Gov. Voorhies did not write the note before N Jeans was a Bebel and onght to be hung. One 14 o'clock,” and therefore did not send it, aa be swears speaker, 1 think it Dr. Dostie, I heard say, that the he did, at hout noon. But Capt. Caziare incidentally ts of New-Orleans called for their blood, but strongly corroborates the statement of Gen. Baird a ir blood. Tor e received from Murtin: Voorhies the first note and | _r. B Brady—The lumedlate cause of the riot, Thelleve, delivered it to Gen. Baird, and he eaysit was “ very the speechies made on the Friday preeeding the shortly after my retarn from the Institute, and afier I tng of ibe Convention; on that night mecting was P fted the facts to the General.” But Capt. Cazi- | beld opposite the Mechanics' Institute, In the street; a are did not go to the Institute until about nyl o'clock | platforms had been erec and speakers addressed the (after Gen. Baird had returned from Judge Howell's 1 platfonn; the assemblage was chiefly house), and he met Judge Howell in the Governor’s room composed of negrs the nr'ukl-rs advised the negroes to Horine fhe recess of the Convention, 80 that the time | isist upon their righty, avd 1f they did not got them, to e Ave boon as late 08 13§ o'clock when be returned, | make tho streets of New-Orleans run with the Licod of and when the first note was sent to Gen. Baird. the Rebels, aud other language of siwilar character; ove We huve no doubt that 18 correct, and that | of them inaisted that the Rebels should be put down at the tine of the Interview was between 11 and 12 o'cloc] any cost; that they were hell-horn and hell-bound scound- YdenteGov. Voorhies knew that troops could not be | Fels (I think that was the expression), und that the streets Drowght np in Jeas than two hours, and that the arrival | must run with thelr blood uiless the rights of the negroes could not e Jonked for until about 2 o'vlock. Wicther | Were secured. S e Voorhies had or had not knowledge of what | What speakors did you hear make use of such lan- B e douaeby: Mayor Motiros to arm and prepare she | guage! A man by the name of Dostie, the last speaker, I...m-« for their work, we do not kuow. It is not proved 1 that language; [ do not know anything persoually )y positive evidence that o did. He and the Mayor had Jlose W o prec d hing I have forgotten thelr names; been weting Jolutly. Apparently they were in harmony, I recollect I heand their nawes at the time as they were or hind beews, #o far s it npy in thelr proposed aetion, called by the multit de by police or on eivil process by the | What kind of a crowd were assembled there! Several wyor Monroo_determined npon | hundred negroes, a or) iousands; the strect was m does vot appear. Mr. Voorhles kuew or well erowde out 8 or 9 o'clock when it y n. Baird was neting un 411 10 or 10§ o’clock; the the Convention was to weet. In speakers addressed them new that troups could not be procured ju he platform, would respond, “ We will,” *we d not, 08 we b . at that time ask [ Will,” to those speakers who advised them to come to the hall'on Monday morning. Mr. Tilton sn¥ 10 negro knoeked down except when he o that he did know ted s policeman, und so far a8 he could judee, had ve, We believe that {tation in saying that the policemen did all they fon would be | conld to preserve the peace. thut h A witness so false in such material statements is not feel that the sympathy of the Prestdent was in his and the proof, taken &3 a who and ngainst the Convention, But there 18 no proof that e meeting on Friday evening wa b anticipated what did ocenur, or that he is otherwise , and that, although the & ated i the slaugbters that were aboul to take ere.wns nothing said that could nision of violenee from any quarter crimes that were com- ‘oorhics, to see hin 2 he did know that the meetin interfered with by the M wl and terpe ¢ and emphith AuY st o £ could excuse mitted ugainst the e I 3 ppressing The facts proved do not sustain the truth of the te when the troops the General pr gram of July 23 ! would arrive,” and wanted ** white FRESIDEN TY. 3g with the potice.” It duch Apother canse b wigr n a publte us Mayor Monroe then wanted, spewch delivered at 31, Louis on the 5th of September, by diers v ould bave shared with the Mayor the respo Fresident Joinson, the following eharge made: of the day’s work. The thne hias come when It seems to me that all ought to be pre- } vared for pesee—the Rebellion being sappressed, aod the sheitiog of THE NEETINGS ON FRIDAY XEVENING-THE RIOTS NOT | bised Leing stopped, the scrifies of i ing_ saspe: CAUSKD BY THEM. cvun that the time Las arrived whea we shond It is ¢ @ as o prominent and direet canse of these | el | up. nota th endiary and turbulent meetings were held [ Prdopii %] Y Ko Lack uud ase Derbaps you would ot be so mw. 1f you will take up tae riot at New- souree.or 1o its immediate catse, you will on Fridar On Saturds; Attorney ov. Voorhies and ing telegram to morning, July 2, 1. rud Herron sent the fol i ealling oot New-Or! o a1 traee it back to i the Presicont : A Nuw Oxeaass, July 29, 1966, aut who was for the blood that was ahed there,” If you . Washiagton, D). C. will take ©p the New-Orleass aad trace it back to the Radieal 1) of large mumbers of negroes Inst | (o jKreat % aud erles of *bully,’] you will find that the { Arragemeate of aaid meeiing | ri ex Orleans was sebstantially plansied.” If yoo wili take up the rocee ling# n their caneusses, you will understand that they there kuew You bilierly denvunced, hpes obtain from him ald in rived at W to Wi the Legsluture here; alwo certain T e J. Adoiphus Rozicr testifies: “T left hero on Wednesdsy orgdhus Vious o the ot T 'an guf:,d"f Rhiik; on Friday T owesy ‘nshington b the ' request of wmembers of at the request of zens, to sce 'the President of the United Btates relative to the Convention of isdh. Tther Staios thas be s the Prosident a5d sonterved WIS friends in New-Orlcans by telegraphs that his ohjeet in Rahould bo Roing was to see W the Conventls that his iden was to represeut to i’ actly the state of things liere—what this Conve 1864 was; that its effects had been ;njumnm tnv;h!eul?: ests of the State uud the Ges ral Uoummlufi:gg men who wished to reaseemble this Conventd ravuluunnu—{ body; and I endeavored 1o hupress upen 0t m the Prestder views that the civil anthorities . tuted the only legal body to take charge of ihis of llvlhnnrrtlm roper ihdictment, to arriat the mem of this licgal Convention, snd that, after their arrest, a ' accordance with the usual forms of elvil law, our preme Court would decide whether that Convention wes . “ li‘fmpwdfll or tnot." [he President was apprized hese wore received’of the exact m of m‘;“ 'nt h::%‘r‘&n:- He knew that the Hon. R. K. Howell, President pro tem of for the the Couvention, bad jssned sembling of the Convention. He know w(fl-n'guv. the acknowled, Chief-Executi of the State of 1ana, had ssued writs of election to fill the vi the Convention, and that certificates of clmlw:"::‘h be torwarded to the office of the Secretary of State, knew that these wriis of eleetion eould not be come plied with unlil after the 30th of July, wh meeting was fo tuke place, and thas elapase before the Convention eould be full and the wh State represented. He knew that Gov, Wells wos at New Orleans. and that he mnmmn‘umi Convention, H that 1t was contemplated to_ arrest the members Convention upon criminal process. And being aske Judge Howell in assembling en the ‘e il g Was Covperating with the military to interfere to prevent process of Court y* President replied by mpm"fi.‘e note, not an-ad'= the Governor of the State, but to the as follows: it (the l'kmlvvg)':: { Wolln, Louls of ed Ty Licutenant-Governop « “ Exrcrrive Massnx, Wasntxerox, D. €., Jniy 23, 196, “Ty Ararrt Vookwrss, Ligutenant overnor of Lo oo with veution was sens to Gov. Wells this worning Orleans, La. ¢ “he suilitary will Be expeeted to sastain wud not obstrnet or toteefre th ings of the Court, A dispgteh 0b the subject of 1o cowe CANDREW Jomxwon The effect of the dispatch waa o assure Lient.-Goy, Voorhies und those who were, actis would have the support of the Presis action. i It 1s maintained by the President that Louisiana is fl)llh'a«l State within the Union,in the sam (nssachusetts and Ohio are. Eul he Kne & witl him that t nt in their propoy nise i whicl hat the Goge ernor of Loulsiana was ut bis home In New-Orleans; thay the Legislature was not in session; and that his own power, under the Constitution was upon the .Eplh'-u. d ? to azained of the Executive “ domestic violence protect the “State atd yet be overlooked the Governoy of the State, known to loyal, and commuuuicated, directly with the Lieutebant-Governor apd Attorney- thy with the Gover frections as, if earded out’as understood by the partics who received t would have arrayed the military power of the Unite Btates on the side of Mayor Monro's police in their pros posed arrest of the members of the convention. The President knew the condition of affairs m Lonisiane in July last. He knew that * Rebels” and “Thugs” aad disloyal men had controlled the election of Mayor Mope roe, and that such men composed, chiefly, s police foree; he knew that Mayor Monroe, then an unpardoned Rel bad been after his election suspended 1;om dischar; the duties of bis offiee by military order; ho knew thal lhmself had snbse ::3!; rdoned him; he must hava enf Genera), known not tobe in sym) nor, and by his action gave such known the Rebel an of Albert Voorhies and A. 8, Herron; he knew that riot and bloodshed were appre- l hended b knew that milltary orders were in fors yot, without the knowledge of the Secretary of Wi or the General of our mmies, um ‘whose fmnicdiate responal bility-those military orders been issued, he gave direo tions by tele; b which, enforced asit was intended they sbould be, wonld have romlrllrrl our soldicrs to ald the ow- Rebels agamst the men fn ~Orleans who had remained loyal during the war, and sought to aid and to support official sanciion the persons who designed to suf :yrpe:-. g arrest on eriminal process and under eolor of law, the meating of the Convention, and that, although this Con- vention was called with the sauction of the Governor and h{ one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, claiming to act gs President of the Couvention. The effect of the setion of the President was to en- conrage the heart, to strengthen the hand, and to hold up the arims of those men who Intended to prevent the Cons veution from assembling. In their disclosed intention to arrest ice or Sherd the memnn‘fi'uu Conveution, they mduuum uflg m?fl! and ud it was believed, with reason, that whatever steps the Mayor should take, in 1is office and nuder color of law, 10 suppress the meoting of the Convention, would have the sanction of the President. 11 the telegram of Gen. Bafrd to the Sceretary of War of July 28 had been communicated to the President, know from the telegraphic message which Le sent on Mouday, that such directions would have heen given ae would in fact ha ftar; : vequired Gen. Baird to sustain by mil- force what was ealied the civil anthorities—that is to say—the Mayor and his police, If then the armed po- lice had engaged in the work of slaughter which destroyed the Convention, the soldiers of the army of the United States would have been charged with the responsibility of the act. The fact that the telegram from Gen. Baird had nod been communicated to the President b been the subjecs of comment, and We give in thisconncetion the statemond wade by the Secretary of War in rela Mr, Stanton says: “0n_ o moe n this €itr a ricans, & copy of whic Le st faforwation commur beld at Now Orleass, the subjec telegraim of 1L sanetion of the Goveraor of by persoas who proposed to hreak it up by that Gen. Baind had warued the cits wntho jon to that matter. forenoon of Sundwy, the 14th of July last, I received b magat Baird, cou This telegram Convention was to be e OF CORITOVETsY OB be bold there. From the ™ it appeared that the Convention was to meet Louisiaus, that ite rresting the members, asd ien that be wonld uot Tegality was quest this to be done withoat instctions from the Pres deat, and ke spplied te we for instructions. There was no lutimation o the telegram that foree or vivleuce was threateued by tbose opposed to the Coareution, or that I wpprebended by tiea. Bai L’rm cousd that bis warning to the eity anthoritles was i vould b facts, for such lns under b peace within his comnand. [opers eoutained elegranhic K iOrieans, uthority, be would take o3, )t appeared lo we | that the case them ree T reason 80 Inetract b fo withdraw protection from & ention sanctioned by the Governor, aad . the event of auy attemn) v % up the case, with ight be proper, and i the mean Wme, eeaby. e Jise of Julp, the. wesdsy the 1st of July, the e~ lenedy 4 Ko o the same day 1 was faforned of the commanication that had passed between the President acd Gov. Wells Lieut. Voorliles aad Attorsey-Gen. Herron.” Mr. Stanton had heard nothing of the conversation, bad 1o knowledge of Mr. Rosler's presence in Washington oF interviews with the Presigent, had not been info; of the President’s telegraphle correspondence, taud incondinry speaches made. N i cheers] that o convention wa o be called which was extinet, by its ers having expired : that it was said, and the intention hat & overniment wax to be organized: and in the orgasization 'of (hat iovernaent, the intesion franckise one portion of the popula- who Wad just been emancipated, and at the same time dis- tand and others; Gor. Haba wention move. The whole m To execute civil process without e the Conveutior Distriet. s b P Dot Taat sl Lat mposa tesmylaicd to bave the meraber tointy of Tot. ¢ rested wtder process Groe the Criminal Court of ik eve 0 yres et process of Court ! u confusfon], you onght to understaud what you Tking ahout. Whea you read the speeches that were made, or take fnctn (on Vriday wud Satariay befate the Convention ), A 1Lt sperches were male ivcendlary m their character, exciting upon which this telegram was founded. that portion of the population, the black population, to arm t Ivws, for the whedding of hlook. {A voies, e aw, "I'here wese \hree meetings upon thisevening. One was held within the ball of the Institute, one outside the hall £nd tlat tbet, Convention did sisemble At the same tine, wind one at the City Hali, i the street, | & temtion of that Coutcntion was (o supersede the recoguized uu- e o e bt artien e e e e e oo Tho meetings At the Tustitute were hald upon publie | 106, Coutitution of the Usited Stutes (cheers). sod heace you will Sad noties to eonsider the queations whieh would ultimately | (hat another robellion was commenced, hav .f«'. i jeal come before the Con tion. They were called by par- | (. These men were to thare, & Governmept was ties friendly to the objects of the Couveution, and the | to B orgsnised, existence In Loulsidas was to speakers were vell knowa as identitied with the Union or | be suporseied, st X to we abont New- - Ocleans? Aud 4 up. -when they bl Radicul Hm it Loulsian q Voownins, Lievtenast Gievernor of Lowisiana. A Hanwos, Attorney-tierersl of Lousdans. inquired carefully into the allegod facts side and overthrown. Yo (he question was to eom overument—a question of po tieal power—whieh of The followlug 13 substantially the testimony as to the churgeter of theso meetings : vernwests was to be recogaized wgwm-mhu - ot on. the. Pridny night previous to the | Tirdusder taf defis Comentiot, b 13 4L Lok taptibed ere public mectings in the CIty of | their Government, and extended us rtial franchise, as they was snid or done at either , | called it to 0 1.Congress was to jon, would authorize a magistrate to | teienive thas d'on negro voies wAS 1o ho the r to the peace; 1 know of no distur- ‘eroment of Loaisians. [Voieos, * Never,’ and chesrs, and * Hurrah banee flllrlnlllh"nl night Awis.'] B0 wuch for the New-Orieans riot; and there was the canse A veported the apeechen made tn the vention them fo Tames L, Amidem— and tho origin of the blood that wis shed, and ' every drop of blood ) Hall on Friday night, but those made outside of the build- ek gy B ek oy g et ousible fur it |C] M mon veport s the wpeaker inaide Tado 10 call {OF | berbemera ik sries Sow Orciss, sl A1 ahort the rune 1he negroes to come armed and proteet the Convention, 1t resalted from proceedings of that kind, perhap or anything of the kind ; on the contrary, they wero ad- duced Lere, and you bave povoked questiocs vised ‘lu keep quiet and not to wge the matter too ru\_;\;ux;.-.‘l (m‘ tell roull feww wbolesome things strongly. ical Congresd. | Cheers. knj‘m H’n{nlu —In the Hall on Friday night everything I y any other source would not have was rrll-ln- haved ; no disturbance whatever, and no un- 'm‘-u m’n;‘hh-” ({‘ll'l' llw'l;xh :u-:m‘::nnnrlnl pmuhllc ('h‘ur- usual excitement. acter of President Johnson hus made gh examine & Cutier- The meeting {n the hall was perfectly or. | the gronuds on whieh it rests. Before thie soth of July derly, and on the outside, when I went out, it was the | Judke ll\“-ell'.’l'rfllden‘lh pro, tem o tho G ivention, hi Aaue. peen nt Washingten, While here he had conversations pever heard of afy armed ald, (to the Con. [ with acveral members of Congress in regard to the pro- . 8. Figh vention,) but had heard it spoken of that cantion should | posed mectin of the Convention, During his visit here et mot {o Tiave armed men there; and T know, too, | thero was a caucus held by the Republican members: of Tt Dr. Dostle, ‘who nearly always carried a revolver | Cougress. Tho tedimony of Judgo Howell discloces all With him, that dny took it from his person and left it with | the encourngement he roceived from Con and full barber in this city, by whom ho was aceustomed to get | proof has been givn that at the caucns referred to no ac- Mhuved: T heard the speakiug inside and nearly all out- | ton concorulug thy Convention was taken or proposed. side the ball on the 27th of July ; I heard of no statement, Judge Howell stated that his interviews at ‘Washing- i beeh ueserted by one of the other side beforo tHG | 1o wire uot us satisfactory as e had desired orexpected; Military Commission, or request by any of the epeakers (hint he had thought there were Congressman who had sug- in the hall, for anybody to come armed. I heard gosted the reasscmbling of the Convention, and that ita specches of Gov. Hahn, Col. Field, part of Mr. action shonld be submitted to Congress for its acceptance, 50 the remarks of Mr. Cutler und Mr. Dibbl was | but did not find that to be the eusc. present when the meetuig was dissolved, and afferward | This wiiness further states that by letter and personally went with the procession up to the front'of the hall, and | the request was made for some Congressional action to be o ihere when Dr- Dostio made the speech whichi was | lad to encourage the moeting of the Convention, but it said to be inflammatory; 1 did not hear much of the 8 not done. * Some actlon, some resolution, or some- speaking outside rmm'axuuud in front of the Institute; = (hing to encourage the merting of the Convention, but T'was at the hall during the continuanee of the meeting | (hey declined it as uot belonging to the action of Con- until it adjourned ; it was orderly so far as anything 1 | gTess. A divpateh was sent by the President of the Con- e it there had’ been auy diaturbance T should have | vention o the Cliinnan of the Reconstruction Commit- Khown 1t mothing was said by Dr. Dostis a4 to the em- | fee, stating that he had power to recoivence the Conven. pioyment of force ; toward the elose of his speech he used | thon of 1861, aud desitivg to know it that Convention {hln language : T will repeat one sentenee, word for word should asserable and shonld adopt universal suffrage and and this was the langnage that looked most toward vi endments which I do not recolloct and it Tence ov incendlarism of any I heard there; they wi 1 \sti{rition, thus amended, should be ratified by the mostly negroes there; it was a procession forme of people, whether Congress would admit representatives groe; they Lind come to the meeting and Dr. Dostie Iked | from the State elected under it. - o muke a demonstrative speech; he took u pleasure in | The Chalrman of the Committee stated to me that he doing It ; in his n‘nel'.h he callod them brethren and so hud received the dl!{ml( but #aid he considered it a forth ; noar the close of his speech ho suld : foolish inquirg,and that, s he would bave to send an an- quletly, m: swer which might not be agreeable, becanse they thonght itw fooltsh inquiry, or no auswer at all, they therefore rue, too—" that there are prowling concluded not to notlee it, and did not reply. aylay you. As you sep mma;;u home, If yon wre iu- The only other evidence bearing upon this point and -u‘e«d by uuy of these bands of men pay no attention to tending to sustain the charge mido at St uls was from then ; go home right by them without suying a word to Eugeno Tisdale, who testified that he had been told that them ; flmn.e strike you kill them.”” This waa the = * instructions had been received from the members of substance of his lnst sentence and nearly word for word. | ‘the Reconstrnetion Committee to assemble the Convention Churles 8, Sonvinel—* All the time I was up stalrs (Fri- | at all hazarda;” that in the letter thoy sald We Are too aa; 1) fiw meeting wasorderly. 1heard the spoech [ far distant to Qesignato the wanner in which it should be | nf‘lr. aples; It was only short one, a few remarks, I | assembled, but you must go, ahead and trost the conse- ndp Tt of the remarks of Judge Ficld; as well as | quences;” that the Jetter “ wus written in auswer to a 1 e rewember, the purp they sbould | lettor seut from here asking advide as to what to do.” support the Convention Whenit shonld weet; It was eon All the members of the Réconstruction Committee have posed, he #ud, of loyal men, und they would extend the | been exumined as witiesses, and they “'fl‘x‘!‘“ any such oW tlihl of suffrage to ihe loyal men, the colored people;” Jetter was Written by them Lo any person friends, g0 home, peaceably , disturh no person. But.” sald I udge Howell-+On Saturday evening preceding the | or that any letter wis written Dy them or any of them mee! of the Conveutlon several gentlemen came into | giving inst etions or adyice concerning the Convention, my h and told me that the general effect of the meet- ‘When President Johnson felt it to be his duty to make ing or Fi ¢ evening was farorable to quiet.” the charge above stated, the official report of Brevet - Wi, H, Hise—* I heard :he speaking at City Hall | Mgjor-tien. Baird to the Secretary of War had been lald and Institate on Friday wight, the 27th July; there was | hofore him, and the testimony taken before the Military speaking inside and outside the hall; onr fricnds spoke fu | Commission, on which Brevet Major-Gen. Mower pre- (fi:; most radieal way; 1 will state to you that I heard Dr. | sided, had been ¢losed and the report of the Commission Dostie distinctly say: * Now, my friends, g0 peaceabl had been made. Congress was in session at the time D ety o not dliturb s0ybody; but hybody | of 1he massacre, 1ty members werent thelr respective homes, and the committee fail to discover any ground on , kill' him. distnrbs you, h rave a ohargo should be made. It was an un- 4 ceches were not eiculated toexeite violence on | which so men:z?r‘ ll‘m:u to whom m:_y were addressed; on the Iurnnu's and unjust expression of hostile feeling with- . ontrary, it wis only in the event of beln) attacked they | out pretext or foundatlon in fact, ',',..,.. uL-d m‘wl)m'mlwr Fort I‘lllow.’" But it becomes lmportant in this connection to bring Charles W. Gibbous—Called on Dr. Dostie and warned | into one view certain other facts. Bim on Monday ning (July 30) that T had heard one At and before the time when Lleut.-Gen, Voorhies and | policeman say 10 wiwlhe 3 litfle grocery on the cor- | Attorney-General Herron sent wraphic dispatelios e ot Custown-House-st.,, onSunday uight, that * by God of July 27 and July 25 to the Presidout, oue or woere pov nd saw ne reason why Gen. Baird slould have new instructions, o8 why conference with tho President was required. THE LEGALITY OF THERONVENTION, Had the citizens who were members of the C«m‘mm.‘ of 1564 a legal right to assemble on the s0th of July, 1868 Judge Abell of the First Distriot Court of New-Orl denies their right, and in Lis charge to the Grand Jury, July 3, 1366, he says: 1 farther charge ou that the Constitution wakes no provision for the costinaasce of the ‘Coavediion of 1864 und I farther coamge 00 that e Constite there iy 30 Couveation ia the Stete of Lo siana Knowa Lo tion and laws of the State; fhat :s:‘rmm!u-n-l by the Hen. R King Cutler, by which the wble, &5 ® part of the Cy ainbies o Jegal pretest for ts pr art of the bodr o Eg the Coastitution, is mibversi 3 an ‘of the State, and that any overt act tending to subvert the lon by any officers of the State, who have mworn o support it 1 o the crizaizal laws of the State for wisdeizeatior in ofice the perjary. tlomes, liberstion and moderation. lover of his common conatry, o Srmly oppose fact stand by the reconstraction polley adopied by Siates, which proposes ut ouce 10 aaitc the o prosperous” 2 , thess are grave consiferations, and require greatdes Fot T s my duty, yoar duty, s thac of # ora] viarpstion residest of the Ual and wake it great asd The President denies thelr right, and states that * every 4 v nitor man engaged in that Convention * " was to the Constitution of the United States,” Obvionsly, the question of the legality of the Convention conld not be rm rly rajsed until the Convention should bave nssem- pled and assumed to act. Under the Counstitution, these persons might well elulm and excrcise the right to meet. If, ln:l::‘('n.»fl'mhh‘ll, action in the nature of legislation should their doin; , would be open to legal ing decision, And if the iutention had e\‘ objection operative and available, such couwse wi have been taken as to brlns ‘o judicial ably and according to the uarautee of the bo hiad, that action, and all uiry and judicial sted 1o make this ndgnient, peaces 1 ue eourse of f’nn the action of this Convention. But the trath i3, as we beffove, that 10 assigned illegality of the Convention, but the decl ind assunmed purposes sought to be ultimately attained h{tha Conventiou through the action of that ‘body, and the subsequent ratification of that action by the przb. formed the real objection to the reassembling of the dele- ates. The recent proccedings fn tho Legislature of ouisiana prove that something more tLan *“usurpation ot power” or illegality of & Convention i= required to ex- cite indignation or arouse host/ls opposition in that com- wunity. That Legislature was chosen under the provi- alons of the Coustitution of iss4. T sald, provides @ mode of revision Article 147 {8 in these words: Senate or Honse of ‘hat Constitution, it 1s und amcndment. aistives, ond If the samg. i A amendiment or smendreente to this Constitniion aball be agreed iy & wajority of the members clected to each Honse, Sach proposed amecdment or aendments shall be entered on their joar~ Dals, with the yeas and Bars taken thereon. Such proposed awendment or amendments shall be subanittell o (ke peo Bl within 99 of tiie same, D wajority of voters at said ¢ ment or amendwmeats, the same shall b ple ai an clection to be or 1f moge thas one swendment he subimitted at a tiae, they aiall bo submite ted indsueh manner and form that the people may vote for ur galust aneudwent sepasately.” The power is glven to the Legslature to submit in any manner to the people the question whether another Cop- vention shall be beld. The gdmflu amenduents must be a ymlmwd in either House or nate, and being 0 and entered on theJonrnal, must hnmtm{ to the l:'u]llfl for their direct affirmative or negative action. ut in the Legislature, at its sossion fn Junvary, 1566, & bill was introduced to take the sense of the people’ on expediency of ealling a Conrent @ Jor the election of holding of the Convention, Although 3 Elble \'l’{lmon of the Constitution, and although any ‘onvention called pursuant to its provisions wor be an “unlawful assembly,” for the same the Convention of 1866, the rules of the House ui.flrpvo- sentatives were suspended Dill was debated ordered’ to readl to hies ; and, pen be @ third mnyud‘au by @ two-thirds vote, and th be engroased for & s varoy, Mareh 8, 1068, ‘Asuinotoy, Ma o the Hon. Auwrxr Voorwes, Presideat of the Sencie, and J.B. Ena tem, House of 21 agrossbie We bave had a long s5d agreeable intervicw with the President to-dap, Tlkewise, Our which was evidently pleasing to him here was op’ Jortune and may avert great embarramsment, W also bad an Isterview Teith the Beeretary of State, and are to bave another interrisw with the Preaident W. B. FGAN, on Saturday, by appoiatment. (Sigoed) At the same time two other telegraphio couamunios tions were read as follows Wasuivaroy, March 8, 1966. McCoxxuLy, Hovse of Representatives: T o, e with the President and Secretary Seward, S D. & CAGR, J. B .l"fl"k o Avorable to & congention. (Sigued), Wasurngros, March 8, 16, T FTow A. L. Tooknn, Houss of Kepresentatives: fer latyiviews with the Providest and Secretarr Seward: wo ere »