The Louisiana Democrat

The Mobile Correspondent of the New York Herald and the Cincinnati Commercial.—The Mobile Sunday Times thus alludes to Kelley, who furnished the New York Herald and the Cincinnati Commercial so promptly with a false account of the riots. It says:

"There was on our right, on the night of the panic at Kelley's meeting, an individual represented to us as a special reporter for the New York Herald. As far as we can remember him, he was in the prime of manhood, above the middle size, stout and square built. When the panic commenced, and a movement was made by the crowd to part in the center, this individual, in his terror and fear, fell on his belly, and sneaked under the speaker's table, there disputing the small protecting space with the speaker himself and certain other prominent officers of the meeting. How and when that individual crawled out on his knees and hands, we can not tell, as other equally amusing scenes were then engaging our attention; but as that individual was within touch of us, we can affirm that he tells a willful falsehood when he says he saw any thing but the feet of the table under which he was hiding."

It adds:

"The Cincinnati Commercial informs us that Files, late Superintendent of Police, who fired the first shot aimed at Kelley, was arrested, and held in $5,000 bail.' Not a shot was fired at or from the platform, except it were at the editors and reporters of the Times, who were the only whites not connected with the party organization who were on the platform, and if so fired, it was not certainly by their white friends; but none, white or black, attempted either the life of Judge Kelley or of the white men who were on the stand to report or reply to his speech."