Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1874 — Page 2

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THE NEWS.

The Louisiana Troubles—Fighting and Bloodshed. The McEnery Officials Obtain Possession of the State Offices. Bat Surrender, Under Protest, to the United States Forces. Proclamation by the President—Kellogg Reinstated. - file Sapreme C-onrt es Wisconsin Enjoins the Railroads te Obey the Potter Law. A Second Statement by Theodore Tilton. Burning: Of a Cotton Mill at Ffttt River, Mass.—Great Loss of Life. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. PORKIGH. The International Postal Congress opened its sessiou at Berne, Switzerland, on the 15th, all of the delegates being present except those from the United States. A French court on the 17th sentenced Col. Villette to six months’ imprisonment for assisting Marshal Baxainc to escape from St. Marguerite. Others were sentenced from one to ten months. Madrid dispatches of the 17th say that sevCral engagements had recently occurred, iesulting in Carlist defeats. The Carlists had again been repulsed in an attack upon Cuenca. A dispatch from Constantinople of thetWr says the Governor of Angora had reported that 34,000 of his people were utterly destitute and will require maintenance during the winter. DOVIRSTIO.. vr - President Grant issued a proclamation on the 15th, reciting the recent revolutionary proceedings in Louisiana, and stating that the Executive of the State, the Legislature not being In session, had made application for Federal aid to protect the State and citizens thereof against domestic violence, and concluding as follows: “Now, therefore, I, IT.l T . S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby make proclamation and command said turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and retire peacefully to their respective abodes within five days from this date, and hereafter to submit themselves to the laws and eonstituteil'authorities of said State. I invoke the aid and co-operation of all good citizens thereof to uphold the law and preserve the public peace." A Washington dispatch of the 17th says Atty.-Gen. Williams had received a large number of letters from United States Marshals, Attorneys and others, representing a terrible state of affairs in some portions of Alabama,-Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. There was not so much disturbance as heretofore in South Carolina. Correspondents say that there was no safety for colored people. There were no complaints from Texas, North Carolina and Virginia. A Little Hock (Ark.) dispatch of the IStii says that on the evening preceding the stages running between Malvern and Hot Springs were overhauled by four ment, supposed to be the same who robbed the Hot Springs stage last spring and the railway train at Gad’s Hill some months before. The passengers in two stages were robbed, the foot-pads getting away with about $*2,000 in money and several watches. At last accounts the Sheriff of the county was in hot pursuit with a large posse, being only five miles behind, and with good prospect of capturing them. „ Gov.-Brown, of Tennessee, on the 18th sent _jc message to President Grant protesting against the arrest by the United States Marshal of citizens of Tennessee upon the charge erf murdering the TrentoiSprisoners. He insists that the duty of punisliibg offenders belongs to the State, and that the Shye authorities are entirely willing and have manifested the most earnest jlesire to punish the Trenton offenders. He demands that no more arrests shall be made, and that the parties already in custody shall be turned over to the proper local tribunals for-trial and punishment. A Bismark (D. T.). dispatch of the 15th declares that the statement of Prof. Winchell, that there is no gold in the Black Hills, is unqualifiedly false. Three persons who accompanied the Custer expedition declare they found diggings that would - pay no less than ten dollars per day per man. Upon further examination it has been discovered that the Milwaukee «V Prairie du Chien Railway is not exempted from the operation of the Potter law. The September returns to the Department of Agriculture indicate an .peerage condition of thfe wheat Crop of 98, against 95 last year. The acreage of the crop is 7 per cent, greater than last year, which'would bring the aggregate yield to nearly an average on last year’s acreage. North of the Ohio River most of the counties not visited by the chinchbug present superior crops. Ohio,' Michigan and Indiana are above average. Illinois 2 per -cent, below, by drought and chinches. West of the Mississippi drought, intense heat, hot winds, chinches and grasshoppers have reduced all the States below average .except Missouri. A terrible calamity has occurred at Fall River, Mass. One of the buildings of the Granite Mills at that place was burned on the morning of the 19th, the fire breaking out after the operatives in the mill—over 400 hi number—had commenced work. Many of J*. operatives lost their lives either by suffocation or jumping from the windows, and many others were injured. The loss by tile fire is over $300,000. Further- particulars of this horror are given'elsewhere. (hi the 19th the President replied to the dispatch of Gov! Brown, of Tennessee! saying that he waa gratified to know;that the State authorities were disposed to repress and pun-

Ish lawless acts, but the Constitution made it Ills duty to enforce the acts of Congress, and Congress had passed laws giving the United Btates concurrent jurisdiction in suc h cases, lie wQPilfl, gjjyp iJUe G.n, in,,! a more d< :.uUe answer when the report of the United states District Attorney for.the Western District ot Tennessee had been received. Late reports from the plains suy that the Indians are bpcoming very I*old ami troublesome. Col. Miles' 1 was ordered to protect a surveying party, some of whom were recently massacred. One large train had been captured by the Indians, after*k desperate tight, and the troops forced to fall back 100 miles to meet their supplies. .On the 15th .the redskins attacked the town of Prairievill.', Kan., and burnt a small store and a station-house j belonging to the Atchison, To[>eka A Santa i Fe Railroad. - I’KItHOV.tf,. On the 15th B. R. Curtis, the distinguished jurist, and formerly one of the Associate .1 us- | ticos of the Supreme Court, died at New port, j R. I. A New York dispatch of the lftth say- Hdna j Dean Proctor, the authoress, hud commenced | suit for libel against Francis 1). Moulton for ! the referepoe made to her in his recent reply i to the statement of Mr. Beecher. She claims sloo*ooo <1 a mages. The tliifty-sev-ntii Annual Diocesan Con- | vention of tlie Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, j in session at Chicago on the 10th, elected Rev. George 11. Seymour, Professor of 'Ecclesiastical History in the General Seminary, of New York, Bishop of the. diocese, to succeed the late Bishop Whitehrmsc. Senator Brownlow on the 19th addressed a letter to Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, thanking him for the energetic -steps he had taken to preserve the peace and punish the assassins who have so much outraged humanity ami discredited the State of Tennessee. POLITICAL. A dispatch from Speaker Blaine to the President, on the 14th, says the Republicans had carried Maine by a majority of from 9,000 to 12,000 votes; had carried cvejjy Congressional district; had chosen twenty-nine or thirty Senators to one by the Democrats, and elected three-fourths of the* House of Representatives. As nearly as could be estimated Burleigh had 1,000 majority in the First Disfi-iet; Frye 2,500 in tile. Second; Blaine "it,ooo jn the Third; Hersey 2,500 in the Fourth; Hale :5,000 in the Fifth. On the 14th J. E. Pearson was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eighth Ohio District. Tlie Supreme Court of Wisconsin, on the -15th;refldered a—decision- in the injunction suits brought by the Attorney-General against the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul and the Chicago <fc Northwestern Railroads. The court maintains its original jurisdiction in eases brought by the State, but holds that it would not extenddo private suits; affirms the constitutionality of the Potter law; rejects the theory that this law was repealed by the act of March 12, prescribing that the railroads shall make reasonable rates; and, finally, grants the injunction asked for the State compelling these two railroads to comply with the provisions of the Potter law. The roads are given till Oct. 1 to make arrangements to this end. It is said Mr. Keep, President of the Northwestern, has stated that compliance with the law’will necessitate a reduction of expenses on all sides,- that fewer tjrains and ■second-class „ coaches will be run, that work wilt be suspended in the shops, and that the number of employes will be reduced. Mr. Mitchell, President of the Milwaukee A St. Paul, says that trains will be run on liis road as usual, and only cut off os it becomes obvious that they are unprofitable. The Arkansas State Republican Conventionmet at Little Rock on the 10th, and adjourned without making any nominations. The resolutions strongly denounce the Constitution recently framed, and declare that Uni-Consti-tutional Convention was a conspiracy of White League, Ku-Klux and leaders of the late rebels to overthrow the reconstructed Government; that all the troubles in the South are hut an attempt to revive the lost cause. Thirty-tlve delegates were appointed to the Chatanooga Convention of Southern Republicans which meets on the IStli of October. Congressional nominations on the 10th: Republican—R. 11. Whiting, Ninth Illinois District; E. 11. Roberts, Twenty-second New York, renominated; Henry S. Magoon, Third Wisconsin. Democratic—W. K. Morrison, Seventeenth Illinois, renominated; ,T.,T. Robinson, Second Michigan; Allen Potter. Fourth Michigan. Reform —David C. Fulton, Seventh ' Wisconsin. ~ - - - The York Democratic State Convention on the 17th, at Syracuse, nominated S. J. Tilden for Governor; William Dorsheimer for Lieutenant-Governor ; Adin Thayer for Canal Commissioner; Geo. W. Wagner )y>r Inspector of State Prisons; Theodore Miller for Judge of the Court of Appeals. The resolutions demand: Gold and silver and no currency inconvertible with coin; steady steps toward specie payment; honest payment of the public debt in coin'; revenue reform; federal taxation for revenue only; no Government partnership with protected monopolies: home rule and no centralization; equal and exact justice to all men; no gag laws-: uniform excise, but no sumptuary laws; no third term, etc. Congressional nominations off the 17th: Republican—John K. Green, First Ohio District; Job E. Stevenson, Second Ohio; W. 11. Rogers, First Arkansas; John M. Clayton, Second Arkansas; W. J. Hynes, Third Arkansas; Chas. H. Lander. Fourth Arkansas. Independent—J. F. Farnsworth, Fourth Illinois^* Bagby, Tenth Illinois. Democratic— Alexander Campbell, Seventh Illinois (the Independent nominee); M. D. Wilbur, Fifth Michigan: W. J. O'Brien, Third Mara land, renominated ; Thomas Swann, Fourth Maryland, j renominated-, C. H. Morgan, Sixth Missouri; A. H. Buckner, Thirteenth. Missouri, ronoini-' nated; Bagby, Tenth*lllinois (the Independent nominee). M. M. Haim, member of the Democratic National Committee for lowa, has issued an address calling upon the Democracy of the State to support the Anti-Monopoly State, Congressional and local tickets at the ensuipg election,' there having been no State Demo- : eratie Convention held during the.; present j year. , The Tennessee Republican State Coiiven- j tion assembled in Chattanooga' on the 16th, and nominated Horace Maynard for Governor by acclamation. Resolutions were adopted—favoring the Civil-Rights bill; recommending a State Constitutional Convention; favoring public schools and the improvement of Southern rivers, etc. The Democratic State Central Committee of Tennessee have issued an address condemning ail aets of violence, whether committed by whites or blacks. Of the Civil-Eights bill they say; “It seems to have been intended to brjng about ti»e unfortunate state of affairs which now exists in many of the Southern Btates, Tennessee among tlie number.”

The Revolution in Louisiana.

here was desperate fighting In N cw Orleans on the l4ih between armed bodicsot citizens and the Metropolitan fortes. Several persons on both Bides were killed or wounded. The following is a summary of the account of the affair, as given by the Associated Press dispatches of that date: A mass meeting of citizens was held in the forenoon* in response to a call signed by fifty business men and firms of the city. In this call it was declared that for nearly two years llit- people had been silent but indignant sufferers ot I outrage aft t* r outrage lie aped upon them by an usurping government; that at last even the right of the people to keep and bear arms had been infringed! in violation of the Federal Constitution; that the citizens were therefore called upon • to close their places of business and as- , womhle together, ami, "in tones loud j enough to be heard throughout the j length And breadt li of the land, declare ! that you are of right, ought to be, and • mean to be free.” r Tlie' called meeting assembled at eleven | a. m., and a series of preambles and resolutions were adopted, declaring that at j the election in November, 1872, John I McEnery was elected Governor by nearly I 10,000 majority, and I). P. Penn IJeuten j ant-Governor by a majority of 15,000; 1 that by fraud and violence Kellogg and his defeated associates had seized the executive chair and perpetuated their official reign by other and continual irregular, fraudulent and violent acts, in the face of the report of a committee of the United States Senate that the existing State Government of Louisiuna was an usurpation: that the acting Governor had, under tlie Registration act passed for the purpose of defeating the popular will, and with a view of controlling the result of the approaching election, refused registration to bona fide citizens, who were denied redress before the courts; that by false and infamous misrepresentations of the feelings and motives of tlie people he had received the promise of Federal aid; that the whites of Louisiana had no desire. to deprive the-colored people of any rights to which they are entitled; that \V. P. Kellogg is a mere usurper, and his government is arbitrary, unjust and oppressive, and could only be maintained through interference: that Kellogg’s immediate ahdication of office be demanded, and a committee of-frre should be appointed to wait upon him with the resolutions and demand an immediate answer. • ‘' The committee called at the Executive office at noon, and, the Governor not being present, were received by Brig.Geu. Dibble, who conveyed the fact of the committee’s call to Gov. Kellogg and made reply in writing that the Governor had directed him to say that he declined to receive any communication from the committee because he had definite and accurate information that there were assembled in different parts of the city several -large bodies of armed men, who were met at the call which convened the mass meeting represented by tlie committee; that lie regarded this state of affairs as a menace; but that should the people assemble peaceably, without menace, lie would deem it one of the highest duties to receive- any communication from them, and entertain any petition addressed to tlie Government. The committee responded through one of their number that there were no armed rioters, that they came on a mission of peace, and that they believed, had tlie Governor acceded to the proposition to abdicate, it would have pacified the people and prevented violence and bloodshed. The committee reported tlie result of tlieir interview to the mass meeting, and the people were then advised to go home, get their arms and ammunition and return to assist the White League, who were then under arms,'to execute plans that would be arranged for them. Tlie people then quietly dispersed. Afterward quite a large number formed in procession and marched up Camp street. A proclamation was then issued, signed by D. B. Penn, as LieutenantGovernor and acting Governor in the absence of Mr. McEnery, reciting the al leged outrages to which the citizens had been subjected for two years, and calling upon the militia ot the State, embracing all persons between the ages of eighteen and forty years, without regard to color or previous condition, to arm and assem- . ble under tlieir respective officers for tlie purpose of driving the alleged usurpers from power. Geu. Frederick N. Ogden was designated Provisional General of the militia, and an address was issued to the colored people bv Penn, as anting Governor, declaring that no harm was intended them, j their property or tlieir rights. I By three p. m. armed men were staj tioned at the intersection of all streets I on the south side of Canal street, from ! the river to Claiborne street. „ About four j p. m. a body of Metropolitans, about 500 I strong, with cavalry and artillery", apj peared at the head of Canal street, and L took a position. Gen. Longstreet coin- | manding, accompanied by an orderly. ' then rode up and down Canal street, ordering tlie armed citizens to disperse, j Fighting subsequently ensued, and seven ! Metropolitans were killed and over thirty f wounded. The citizens’ lqss was* six killed and nine wounded, some sertj ously. , New Orleans dispatches of the loth say that during the latter part of the pre- [ ceding night the White Leaguers reimiined intrenched within their camps, ] .with tliffir pickets guarding every approach to the central portions of the I city. , * j Gen. Ogden, of the Leaguers, conferred ! with the commander of the troops, to assure himself of tlie uon-inter-ferenee of the troops in ease they proceeded to take the State House and l other State buildings. That gentleman I assured him that the troops were there j simply to protect United States property, | and that lie should do no more, j At one o’clock on the morning of the j loth Gen. Longstreet, commanding the j Metropolitans, threw out his pickets as far as Canal street. When this became known a guard of Leaguers advanced and captured about half of them. The rest threw down their arms and fledNothing further transpired until eight o’clock, when the 300 Metropolitansoccupying the State House marched out, sent word to the commander ,of the White League that the State House was voluntarily surrendered, and then proceeded to Gen. Longstreet’s headquarters. Gen. Ogden then took possession and peaceably installed Acting-Gov. "Penn and the other Fusion officers in the possession of the State offices. He then marched a company to the Jackson

Square station, and, before' the demadd was made, the Metropolitans marched out to the number of 400 and, surrendering, were at once paroled. At this time Kellogg and his entird administration were in the Uabtom-House, under bayonet protection. These events alii culminated before eleven o’clock a. m. A little after that hour Gen. Ogden issued a proclamation ordering the troops to disperse to their homes, and desiring the people to resume their avocations, as tlie troubles were ended and a continuation of peace was assured. In response to the proclamation the White League and other citizens bearing aftnte disbanded and returned to their homes. Previously, -about one o’clock ! p. in., they paraded on Carial street, about | 2,500 itrong, with the guns, flags and j other trophies captured the day before. ; At twenty minutes after one o’clock ■ tlie President’s proclamation came to i hand, commanding all turbulent and dis- ! orderly personerto disperse anct submit to the laws of the constituted authorities. Tift reception of this intelligence was marked in many instances by violent and hitter expressions of feeling, extending even to declarations that the Kellogg Government should not be restored, and that if necessary the people would fight the General Government itself in maintaining the Fusion administration. In the afternoon Acting-Gov. Penn issued a proclamation convening an extra I session of the Legislature to meet on the 21st; a proclamation commandingand enjoining all officers throughout the State to at once assume the duties and take possession of the offices to which they. had been heretofore legally elected or appointed; and also a further proclamation to assemble in their respective churches on the 16th for the purpose of “returning to Heaven thanksgiving and praise for the overthrow of the usurping Government and the restoration of the State into the hands of the people.” The Mayor of the city also issued his proclamation, advising moderation, and recommending to the citizens of New Orleans that they “seek no revenge for past injuries, but leave your fallen enemies to the tortures of their own consciences and to the lasting infamy which their acts have wan for them.” Immediately upon the receipt of the President’s proclafuation the bank and insurance Presidents held a meeting and ; forwarded a dispatch to the President, -calling upon him to rccognize-and guarantee the Government of McEnery and T*enn. A riot occurred in tlie Ninth "Ward about midnight, but it was quickly subdued, and at last accounts the entire city was tranquil. On the evening of the 14tli Acting-Gew Penn sent to the President a dispatch announcing the deposition of the Kellogg Government; declaring that the party he represented were sincerely loyal to the United States, and warred only against usurpers, plunderers and the enemies of the people, and asking that he would withhold any aid or protection from the enemies of Republican rights and of the peace and liberties of the people. No answer was made to this dispatch. The total number killed in the fight of the 14th foots up twenty-six Metropolitans and nine White Leaguers. Considerably over fifty were wounded, among the latter Gen. Badger, commanding the Metropolitans, who lost an arm and a leg. The Associated Press dispatches from New Orleans on the 16th furnish the following Intelligence : The city continued quiet, and there was a very general resumption of business. with no gatherings of people or evidences of excitement in any quarter. A telegram had been sent to. President Grant, signed by the Presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, Clearing-House, Cotton Exchange and Merchants’ Exchange, informing him that “ this city is perfectly quiet and from all disturbing elements, and business has been resumed as usual. No further trouble is anticipated.” This dispatch was supplemented by one signed by James F. Casey, dated at the “ Custom-House, New Orleans, Sept, 16,” in which he says: “ The statement that the city is perfectly quiet isjtrue, and business is proceeding as usual. Property and persons are safe from insults or injuries except from some rowdy or drunken man.” The following telegram was also transmitted to President Grant: A petition has been forwarded you to-day by express; signed: by 500 of the leading business men ot this city, "as follows: “ We, the undersigned merchants, representing the commercial interests of New Orleans, and deeply interested in the welfare and prosperity of the State, glndly embrace the recent change of government, and guarantee impartial rights to ail. We respectfully ask the sympathy and support of the Exi ocutive. " (Signed) E. B. Wheelock, Chairman <sf Committee. ; Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge j had turned out the Kellogg officials and | installed McEnery officers in city and ; parish. Livingston Parish had also dej dared for McEnery. The adjacent par- ! ishes would do the same. No disturb--1 ance. . ~ A Shreveport dispatch dated the 16th, j and signed by W-. B. Egan, J.C. Moncure | and A. H. Leonard as committee, says: | The last vestige of -the Kellogg Government ! has disappeared from North Louisiana without a j word or act of violence to whites or blacks. Perfect quiet and order prevail and can only fie disturbed by extraneous interference.' The people are buoyant and now hopeful of a future material prosperity. A New York dispatch of the 16th says D, B. Penn, signing himself “ Lieuteaant- ! Governor and Acting-Governor of Louisiana.” had telegraphed to a newspaper in that city as follows: The North can form no idea of the robbery and spoliation to which we have been subjected. My movement was necessitated by the attitude of the people. They demanded it. I am now in fulf possession of the Government of the State. The colored people are satisfied and contented. A strong brigade j of' colored troops, fully organized and armed, : and in the service of the usurpation, refused to ! tire a shot in its defense. The most perfect ! peace and good order prevail. We are thort oughly loyal to the Federal Government, and in I.the operations of the past two days there have j been ifo excesses or violations of law. This I Government is the only one now in existence in ! Louisiana. ! Gov. Kellogg, in a telegram to the same paper, says: Amid all the troubles which have beset the State. I have reduced State and parish taxation each fully one-third, and measures have been passed providing for a reduction of the State debt and the constitutional-limitation of debts, both on State and city; also, an amendment limiting taxation. The obnoxious features ot the Election and Registration laws, used by the Fasionists in the last election, have been repealed, and, in the appointment of officers of registration, I have voluntarily tendered to the opposition a representation, which they entirely denied to the Republican party at the last election. Finding, as the registration progressed, that they wonld be left still "more in. the minority at this election than ever before if the voters were allowed a free, nntrammeled. unintimidated franchise. they have, by a long-prepared plan, violently overthrown the Government, even before " the election, to prevent the evidence that they had not had a majority before. Upon shallow' pretext of violence, and by incendiary statements and appeals, they have got together their clans, which they havb organized

In secret and drilled in their club-rooms in the city, aud bare taken possession of the public offices by violence and bloodshed. Personally, I have no desire to discharge the very onerous and vexatious duties of Governor, but I feel it it duty I owe to the State and to the party to hold on uu--tilTetieved by Competent authority. ; Gen. Eptory and staff and McEnery j arrived dt New Orleans on the evening of the 16th. McEnery visited the State House gnd received the congratulations of his friends. He would probably relieve Penn on the 17th. Instructions were sent to Gen. Emory from Washington on the 16th to “ under no circumstances recognize the insurgent Government of Louisiana. Within five days from date of proclamation to tlie insurgents such action will be taken aS jthe emergency may require.” The situation of affairs in New* Or- j leans on the 17th was as follows, accord-1 ing to the telegraphic dispatches of that date: Gov. McEnery had addressed a letter to Gen. Emory, protesting that there did not exist in the State of Louisiana any insurrection against the McEnery Government; that there was not anywhere in the State any assemblage of insurgents to disperse; that there was but one Government in existence in the State, which was tlie one elected and chosen by the people in 1872 and legally installed in 1873, of which he (John McEnery) is Governor and D. B. Penn LieutenantGovernor; that throughout the State this Government was recognized, supported, adhered to, respected and obeyed by the people, and was both de jure and de facto the- Government of the State. He then gives a history of recent events iu New Orleans, and attempts to show that the President’s recent proclamation did not rightfully apply to New Orleans or the people of Louisiana, who were not in a state of insurrection. He then distinctly announces that no attempt would be made to forcibly resist the military j forces of the United States, and con- I eludes as follows: “We will occupy the State House and other State property in this city until the appearance and occupation of the same by the authorities of the Government of the United States, when we shall retire, knowing we have surrendered the same alone to the Government of the United States.” McEnery, as Governor, also issued an order acceding to a demand from Gen. Emory that all armed men on the streets should be retired and their arms returned to the arsenal. At six o’clock in the evening, in accordance with previous arrangements, Gen. J. R, Brooke, accompanied by Lieuts. Wallace and Roe, went to the Executive office, at tlie St. Louis Hotel, and after formal salutations Gov. 31cEnery stated to —Gen. —Brooke that he gave him possession of the State Capitol and all other State buildings within the limits of the city, and then read to him an address in tlie shape of a protest, to tlie effect that the surrender was in response to a formal demand of Gen. Emory; that they had neither the power nor inclination to resist the Government of the United States; that the people had overthrown - the Kellogg administration because they could no longer bear its “wrongs, tyranny, arrogance and insults.” Tlie protest concludes as follows: “I know as a soldier you have but to obey the orders of the Government of the United States, but I feel that you will temper your military control of affairs with moderation, aiid in all things exhibit that integrity of purpose characteristic of officers of the army. I now turn over to you, sir, the Capitol and other property of the State under my charge.” At the conclusion of this address Gen. Brooke was seated in the office, and required from Lieut.-Gov. Penn a statement of all records, etc., which were in the building when they took possession. Gov. McEnery and liis followers then withdrew, leaving tlie Capitol of Louisiana in possession of the military officers of the Federal Government. At seven p. m. two companies of the Third Infantry marched down and were quartered in the biiildimg Col. Thomas Boylan, McEnery’s Chief of Police, remained on duty with liis force. The city was very quiet. Gen. Emory had issued a circular announcing the appointment of Gen. Brooke to command tlie city of New Ore leans until such time as the State and city governments could be reorganized. McEnery and Penn had issued an address to the people, advising a cheerful obediencc to the constituted authorises. On the 18th Gen. Emory sent a communication to Gov. Kellogg to the effect that the insurgents lately in arms against the State Government jjad surrendered, and that he would afford him the necessary military support to re-establish the State Government. Gov. Kellogg acknowledges the receipt of the communication and requests Gen. Emory to assume the maintenance of peace and order of the city during tlie coming night, as, owing to the disorganization of the police force, the Commissioners of the Metropolitan police would not be able to get their officers on tlieir beats until the next day. . . - The following order was subsequently sent to the official journal: j EXECUTIVE ORDER. All State officers who have been prevented, during this recent trouble, from performing tlieir duties will immediately resume their official functions. The Board of Metropolitan Police will at once assemble aud organize the jitdice force of New Orleans, and assume the maintenance of the peace and order of. the city. (Signed) Wiixiam P. Kellogu, Governor. A dispatch to Gov. McEnery, received on the 18th, from Bayou Sara reports that town attacked the night before by negroes. The attack was repulsed. Gen. Emory had ordered troops to that point. t In accordance with the Executive order of Gov. Kellogg the old State officers took quiet possession of the Louisiana State-House oil the morning of the 19th. When Gov. Kellogg reached the Executive office Gen. Bupoke approache'd him and informed him that he was prepared to turn over to him the State-House and all the records and public property belonging to the State which had come into his possession at the time ot the surrender of the insurgents to his command. Everything, the General said, would be found in precisely the same condition as it had come into his hands. The Governor accepted the transfer and Gen. Brooke thereupon retired. Gen. George Baldy, Vice-President of the Board of the New Orleans Metropolitan Police, proceeded to the police-station at the head of about 200 police, And the building was quietly surrendered by Acting-Chief Boylan, and the Metropolitans were soon placed on their old beats, Qov. Kellogg advised that the ranks of the- Metropolitans be filled from the retiring force of Chief Boylan.

THE FALL RIVER HORROR.

Burning of* Colton Mill at p*j| R iTr| . | Maas.- I Twenty llvn Lo«( and Mslmj o(h<i Ptr»on» InjurnUSunu Fatally. .B-’- 1 • ■ Sept. is. The following- account of the fire in Fall River to-day is takfnr’fefm a dispatch to the Boston Journal: Mills Nos. I and 2of the Granite Works had been running about twenty minutes when the operatives in No. 1 were —- l ar;!ect with a cry of tire and the escape of smoke from the fourth Story. In this, next to the upper floor, was the hiule-warp spinning dejxirlfffixit, and there were nearly 100 girls at work under a male overseer. On the upper floor, the liftii. about thirty girls ■ were employed spooling and warping cotton. These were the youngest of the. operatives. With the alarm the flames seemed to leap to this attic, coining from the windows below and up the great tower in the center of tlie building, in which were all the stairs communicating with each story. The lire caught in the mule-spinning-room. in the northwest end of the mill, from friction in u-mule-head , and spread-' ing, by means of oil on the fi,„, au d about the machinery, with great qui. kness, rushed toward the center tower, the only means of escape for those in the fourth and'fifth stories besides four fire-escapes, two on each gable end. Once getting into the tower, the flames ran up to and through the single entrance to the fifth story, then springing to the roof timbers filled the two great rooms, 450x90 feet, with dense blank, smoke and flame. While the flames were making such terrible headway the-operatives became fairly wild. The overseers saw there was no way possible to check the fire, aud gave tlieir sole attention tothose whom they had at work. They called to them to save themselves, and pointed out Wavs of escape, principally fire-ladders. The overseer of the spooling-room, who remained till nearly suffocated, states that the scene in his room—and it must' have been worse. in the room below—cannot be depicted. Children ran about crying and begging piteously to be saved, yete wrenching themselves away when taken forcibly to the tower while yet there was some chance, or to Zfie iron ladder that reached two of. the scut-tle-windows of the south end opening upon the roof of the balcony at the head "of tlie Twelfth street tire-ladders. It was impossible to get the great majority to take this method to save their lives. Some"’ wanted clothing, others something else. As the tire frightened them away from these ladders they rushed to the windows of the south gable end, nearly sixty feet front the ; ground, but Mitred not jump down. Cotton ropes were put out for them to slide down by, but no sooner would a rope be lowered than there was a rush for it from below. Too many would take hold, when it would break, and nil dinging to it would come down in a bunch. Similar scenes were going on iu the mule-spinning-room. The flames Met ascended rapidly to the entrance of the tov-xr on Uiu, fourth floor, cutting off their means of escape, but the operatives had two ladders of the south gable directly before them, and were urged by the overseers and citizens below to take them. Some did, but others rushed headlong upon the balcony #nd dropped or tbrew themselves from the guards. There was ample time for every one to havejiecn saved had the girls taken the course directed. The Superintendent, as soon as the alarm was given, rushed to the upper story, and. with "tlie overseers, did a,l possible to save life. When the means provided for escape in the mill were rendered unavailable by heat, flames and smoke, the people procured beds, and mattresses for the poor unfortunates to jump upon, and many did throw themselves ; from windows, to, in almost every case, receive fatal or terrible injuries. The firemen worked to keep the flames out of tlie south end, whither many operatives had fled. Ladders, long as at command, were used to rescue the girls, and it is said that four firemen lost their lives while thus engaged. One fireman was lowered from the roof by brother firemen into the building and remained so long trying to drive girls forth that he had to be let go by those who held liis rope, driven away by the smoke, and lie was lost. Morgues and hospitals were speedily improvised, thc’Mission Chapel being taken for the latter, and as fast as the girls could be picked from under the windows of the mill stretchers were ready to carry them to either chapel or Central Station. At the latter place Twenty-five bodies were soon lying, and other unfortunates had been taken to stations or to . homes. In a number of instances bodies could not be recognized, the; were so disfigured, begrimed and dirt-covered. In Mission Chapel were those whose sufferings were intense. Every doctor in tlie city was summoned at the earliest moment. It is not too high to place the number killed at forty, and the injured at twice that number. Julia Coffey states that when-she first heardthe alarm of tire heavy columns of smoke burst through the spool-room floor. The erowd of little children Surrounded the overseer, and with Tiirn rushed for the ’ staircase, but they were forced hack by the flames. Then all made for the : elevator, hut it would not, work. At this juncture the leaping from the windows menced, A number of men in tin is loom began uncoiling a long rope to let the operatives to the ground. Several were landed in safety, when itwfts -bHrned off twenty-five feet from tlie ground. Tlie smoke had become so dense that those wlio remained crowded to the windows for air. Some, leaping head foremost, were killed. Others, suffocated, fell back and perished in the flames. Tlie Boston Herald'a account says: As far as can he learned under the present excitement and turmoil the fire originated • the tpwer iii tlie fourth story, and an attempt was made to extinguish it with pails of water, but ineffectually. During this endeavor a door leading to "the gpookrooin, which opens south on the tower- staircase, had to be closed to keep the help back and prevent a panic; but when the flames had gained such strength that it was found impossible to quench them the escape of tl> girls had beeh cut off The frightened and terrified creatures, with - the roaring flames- on The lower staircase, rushed in a body lor the fireescape, but tlie dense volumes of smoke that poured into the room, and the biting flames, forced them to tlie northeast end of the .department, at which end, unfortunately, there ,were'no means of escape. Many, in tlie meantime, had become suffocated. ' Others,preferring death by falling to the ground, sprang recklessly from the windows, and were picked TipTjriTigledjhleed'-”' ing', dead, and dying. .jFall River dispatcher of sue ffOtliM place the number of killed at twenty, missing three, and injured —many probably fatally— at thirty-six. It is only within a comparatively recent period that the, many important uses to which slate is applicable have come to be fftiderstood. Experiments show that an inch slab of slide is equal t© one of granite three to four inches, and of marble eyen eight to ten laches thick. It is also an almost perfectly ■non-absorbent article, for, if an inch slab be immersed in water for three months, it ip'found on merely scratching the outer Surface to be perfectly dry underneath; on this account it is not liable like stone to he injured by frostWhen enameled, according to the process now in vogue, its value is greatly increased and its uses'multiplied. this process there is first the ground coating burnt in, and afterward rubbed down to a fitie surface to prepare it for the pencil of the artist, who gives it the appearance of the richest sienna, brocatella,. granite, porphyry, or even inlaid work, ! after which it receives the first coating ! of enamel, and is again subjected to heat, i and again (rubbed down: it receives in all three epats ofl enamel over the painting, all burnt in at a very high heat— W. T. Sun.