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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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