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Johnson: You
patch received.  General Baird has de
martial law in this city.  The grand jury
indicted the members of the convention,
met yesterday, as an unlawful assembly.
cess for their arrest in hands of sherif
pended by General Baird until he receiv
rect instructions from Washington. I sh
him your dispatch to me.

ANDREW J. HERRON, Attorney Gene
Office U.S. Military telegraph, Headqua
War Department--[Cipher.]--The follo
telegram received 6.15 p. m., Aug. 1, 1866,
New Orleans, La. Aug. 1, 1866:

U. S. Grant, General :- You are dou
aware of the serious riot which occurr
this city on the 30th.  A political body, st
itself the convention of 1864, met on the
for, as it is alleged, the purpose of remod
the present constitution of the State.
leaders were political agitators and revolu
ary men, and the action of the convention

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