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Show GENERAL. NEW ORLEANS. ' The Citizens vs.( the .Mutropull- tails.. . BLOOdY FIGHTING IN THE STREETS. Foriy or Fifty Killed and Mauy Wounded. THE KELLOGG FORCES B3EAK AT THE FIRST FIRE. Proclamation to the l'eople. Xew Orleans, 14. G p.m. Tne people corresponded to the advice given by Dr.Iieard.one of the speakers at the Canal street meeting, ami by S p. in. armed men were stationed at the, intersection of all the streets on the south side of Canal street from River to Clayborne streets. About 4 p.m. a body ot Metropolitans ab utj 500 strong with cavalry and artillery , appeared at the head of Canal street and took position. G ueral Long-, itreet, commanding ollieer, aoeom-j panied by an orderly then rode up f and down Canal street, ordering the armed citizens to disperse. Some j desultory firing soon alter occurred j along Canal street and somej few. casualties are reported on both sides. , The Metropolitans are reported to . 1 have broken -M the first tire. The i citizens are now building barricades along Paydras street, having already captured the city hall and taken possession pos-session of the alarm telecraph. The police telegraph lines were worked by a battery from the city hall and have, been detached therefrom, rendering them uselfsa. There is one company of United States troops here, but they remain at the custom house, spectators spec-tators of the lively scene being enacted in front of them. The State authorities seem to have great confidence in their ability i ,lo deal with what they term an armed mob and say unless the people: disperse there wilt be bloody work. tonight. to-night. Barricades are erected on all the street between Paydras and Canal, and the .people's . party bold all that portion of the city above Canal. The metropolitans are massed mass-ed in around Jackson Square and St. Louis Hotel. There was quite a sharp fight at the river end of Canal street about 4 o'clock. The cumbor of killed are estimated by some as fifty. Capt. S. M. West, a p: inter' and well known newspaper correa-: pondent, and E. Talledano, were killed on the citizens' side, and a number of metropolitans are reported killed, and Gen. Badger severely wounded. The colored men of which the metropolitan brigade was largely broke and ran upon the-, hrst hre, leaving their comrades, a number of whom were killed, to fetch in the wounded. Will report the casualties casual-ties as fast astueycan be ascertained. PROCLAMATION OK LIEUT. GOV. 1'KN'N'.. The lollowing proclamation has 1 been issued: To the people of Louisiana For two years you have borne with pa-j tience and fortitude a great wrung through fraud and violence. Tiie. government of your choice bjis, been ' overthrown and its power -usurped. ' Protest after protest, appeal alter appeal ap-peal to tho President of the United i States and to Congress have iaiut to" give you the relief you had the right under tie Constitution to demand. The wrong has not been repaired. On the contrary, through the instrumentality instru-mentality of partisan judges you are debarred from all legal remedy. Day by day taxation has been increasing, with costs and penalties amounting to confiscation of your property. Your! substance is squandered and your credit ruined, resulting in the failure and bankruptcy of your valued institutions. in-stitutions. Tne right of suffrage is virtually taken from you by the enactment en-actment of skilfully devised registration registra-tion and election laws; the judicial branch of your government has been j stricken down by the conversion of the legal poise comitaius of the sheriS to the use ot the usurper for the purpose of defeating the decrees of the courts, his defiance ot law leading him to use the very force for - the- arrest of the sheriff while engaged in the execution ot the process of the court. To these may be added a corrupt and vicious Legislature, enacting laws in violation of tne constitution lor the "purpose of guarding and perpetuating their usurped authority, a Metropolitan police paid by the city, under control of the usurper quartered upon you to overawe and kt-ep you in subjection. Every public right has been denied, and as if to g;d you to desperation, private arms are m:z I and individuals individu-als arrested. To audi extremities are you driven that manhood revolts at timber submifcion. Constrained by a aence of duty as the legally eeected Lieut. Governor of the State, and acting act-ing Governor in the anseuce of Governor Gov-ernor McEuery, I do hereby issue this my proclamation, calling upon the military of the Stale, comprising all persons between tne ages of 16 and i 1 45 years, without regard to color or previous condition, 1 3 arm and assemble as-semble under their respective officers , for the purpose of driving the usurpers usurp-ers from power. Given under my hand and seal this 14 ih day of September. Sep-tember. (Signed,) D. B. Pexji, L:eut. Governor. General Order, .No. 1 is also issued, appointing General F. L. Ocden Provisional Pro-visional General of the State Militia, also a prociam.u.ou to the colored people of the State assuring them that in this movement against Kellogg's usurpation no harm is meant toward mem, to pursue their usual avocations, avoca-tions, and they will not be molested; that the colored as well as the white race are interested in putting down the usurping government. THE . LATEST, S p.m. The streets above Canal are .well filled with armed citizens. The impression now prevails that no further attempt will be made by the Metropolitans to disperse Iheir opponents oppo-nents who handled them 80 roughly this afternoon. The city is remarkably remark-ably quiet throughout and no further conflict is apprehended before morning. morn-ing. Most oi tne barricadesare made with street cars. Six or eight citizens and twenty Or thirty Metropolitans were killed in tho fight this afternoon, and many wounded on both sides. Midnight. City is quiet throughout. through-out. The list of casualties to citizens I in the unlit to-day foots up, six killed, and rive seriously and twelve fatally wounded. Metropolitans' loss, seven killed and thirty -seven wounded. ! Among tiie citizens killed were Major J. K. Gourtain. i Washington, D. C, 14. Intelligence Intelli-gence comes from Xew Orleans in, such terms as justifies the assertion: that Gov. Kellogg has called upon tiie President for Federal aid to support: the Stale authorities in suppressing 1 domolie violence, the Legislature not now being in session. Should the call reach the President to-morrow it jmay become a matter for Cabinet consideration, a do wiU not leave for Long Branch until to-morrow. |