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action will be taken as the immergency
may require.
By order of the President.
{Signed), E. D. TOWNSEND,

may require.
By order of the President.
(Signed), E. D. TOWNSEND,
Adjutant General.
The Cabinet meeting this afternoon
lasted Az hours. Secretaries Fish and
Bristow, Attorney General Williams and
Postmaster Jewell were the only mem-
bers present. The others were absent
from the city. So far as can be ascer-
tained no more definite conclusion was
reached than that already announced in
the Presidents dispatch and orders to
Gen. Emery, that is, not to recognize
the insurgent government and to pre-
serve peace. The President has aban-
doned for the present his intention OF
returning to Long Branch, the trouble
in Louisiana OBTAINING him in Washing.
ton. It is probable. should trouble in
crease in Louisiana, that State may be
added to Sheridan's Der artment, OF
Gen. Terry may be ordered to New Or
leans to rank Genl. Emery in command.
Though no vessels have as yet been Or
dered to New Orleans, those comprising
the North Atlantic Squadron may ap-
pear in that city. These things have
been considered. and a Large number ol
available troops have been ordered to
Louisiana.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 16.-Brevei
Major General Pennybacker, ,regimental
staff and troops at Nashville post order
ed to New Orleans to-day to report to
Gen. Emery for duty. 3
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 16.--The Repub.
lican State Convention met this morn.
ing in an informal caucus, lasting two
hours. The white delegates opposed
making nominations and oppose the
civil rights bill. --a
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 16.--The Dem
ocratic State Convention met this morn
ing and elected John G. Jacobs tempo
rary chairman. In his address he al
luded to the presence of Liberal Re
publicans, three OF whom were appoint
ed members of the Committee on reso-
lutions. The Convention then took a
recess.
Evening Session: The Convention
organized permanently tonight by the
choice of Gen. Lester B. Falkner chair
man, with a full complement of other
officers.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. The latest
rumor is that the Japanese are willing
to relinquish the portion of Formosa
occupied by them on condition the
Chinese Government will hold the peo-
pie under subjection and acknowledge
that the Japanese were justified in TAX.
ing possession.
New ORLEANS. Sept. 17.-There was
consultation to- day at the State House
between the Governor, Lieut.. Governor
and other officers of the McEnery Gov
ernment and q number Of prominent
citizens to consider proposition rsceiv.
ed from General Emery. demanding the
retirement of all armed men from the
streets and the return of public arms to
the arsenal. The demand was acceded
to and McEnsry issued an official order
dated Headquarters Executive Depart
ment of Louisiana, ard signed John
McEnery, Governor, directing the State
troops now under arms to at once retire
to their homes.
McEnery and Penn this afternoon
addressed written protest to General
Emery against the position assumed by
him toward them and against his orders
under the Presidents proclamation. =
They take the ground that their Cow
ernment is the only one in Louisiana,
having been duly elected in 1872 and in
stalled in 1873. that the people of the
entire State are loyal to it and that no
vestige of the Kellogg usurpation re-
mains, and that there is not and has not
been any instruction against the legal
Government, that there are no insur-
gents to disperse and that the people of
the State are peaceably pursuing their
usual vocations. They say that if they
are compelled by the military force of
the United States, which they have
neither the power nor inclination to re-
sist, to abandon the Government and
powers rightfully and in fact vested in
them there is no Govt of the State to
take their place. They say they accept
the demand of the General as an alter
native to war on the part of the United
States Government against State ex-
hibiting no hostility toward it.
They then proceed to argue the legal
points of the Presidents proclamation,
repeating substantially the statements
above made as to the legality of the
Kellogg Government and the non-exis-
tence of an insurrection to be quelled or
insurgents to be dispersed and conclud-
ing with repetition of the assurance that
no armed or forcible resistance would
be made TO the military force of the o.
S., but they will surrender the State Of
fees and property to the Government
of the q. s. alone.
The following has just been issued
Headquarters. New Orleans, La, Sept.
H.-John McEnery and D. B. Penn,
styling themselves respectively Govern
or and Lieut.. Governor of the State OF
Louisiana, having informed the Depart
ment Commander of their willingness.
under the Presidents proclamation, to
surrender the State property now in
their possession and to disband the in
surgent forces under their command.
Brevet Brigadier General ]. B. Brooke,
Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry.is charg-
ed with the duty Of taking possession OF
the arms and other State propertv He