, 1874-10-03

hold on uutil relieved by competent auth0ri-
ty.
VIM. KELLOGG.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ID.
The President was engaged until q late
hour last night at the dinner given by him to
the Aztec Club, and it was not until eleven
o'clock this morning that the real situation of
affairs in Louisiana was brought to his attention.
Press dispatches, especially from the South,
are not considered worthy of credence in Off
cial circles but when the Attorney General
submitted the kilograms Of Marshal Packard
there was no longer need of doubt. At first
the President could hardly realize that the
news was true. It sounded to him very like
the first war news of 1861 and he was not will
ing to believe that the beginning of another
rebellion had been transferred from South
Carolina to Louisiana.
All that had been represented to him about
the White league was fully understood and he
saw in an instant that the withdrawal of the
troops from New Orleans had been construed
ms an encouragement to what had followed.
What should be done to quickly check the
revolution was the next thing considered.
The Attorney General said that tho action
of the citizens of New Orleans was not only
robolliou0 bat ineEe~0ahle altar the circular
issued by him on the Sd inst. to the effect
Ll8G ClClH60S OF Tue OuILCu ObdC0S SlUuLu D6 pro-
tected in the rights and privileges to which
they are entitled under the constitution and
laws of the country.
THE PRESIDENT THEN ORDERED A PROCLAMA-
TION
to be issued, giving the usurpers five days in
which to dispense, and sent for Adiutant General
Townsend, who is the only representative Of the
War Department he could confer with, Secretary
Belknap and General Sherman being absent. 1t
had already been determined that the Third
United States infantry, stationed at Holly Springs,
Miss, should proceed to New Orleans, in order
that the United States authorities might have a
posse c0mitQtuS large enough to execute their
orders. Peremptory orders were then sent to Gen
eral Emory to move the regiment without delay,
and he telegraphed tonight that he would be in
New Orleans tomorrow morning. When the
General understood the critical condition of af-
fairs he telegraphed the War Department that the
Third infantry, not numbering over five hundred
and fifty mon, would not be sufficient. He was
already informed by the commandant of q COM
pany then in New Orleans that the presence of
United States troops had no longer any effect
upon the people, and if the orders Of the Secre-
tary of War, contained in instructions of May,
1873, were in force he must have additional
troops. Upon the receipt of this telegram, and
another confirming 1t from General Mcdowell,
commanding the Department of the South, the
President for the first time became alarmed and
those who have known MN intimately tor years
say they never saw
THE PRESIDENT so AROUSED.
He said he had done everything in his power to
assist the South, and especially Louisiana, which,
on account of its commercial facilities and former
prosperity, needed all the aid that could be
extended TO it. The press dispatches were then
carefully examined, and but one opinion was
expressed, and that was that the movement of the
leaguers was not sudden, but carefully and con-
eiderately planned. At noon kilograms were re-
ceived to the effect that bloodshed had ceased,
that Kellogg had vacated his Office and that the
McEnery party was in peaceable possession Of the
State House and city. At first the news was not
credited, but a short time elapsed when another
telegram confirmed 1t.
SOLDIER SPIRIT ABROAD.
The P resident then declared that he would rout
the whole party if he had to take the field in per-
son. The Attorney General acquiesced, and said
that the time for lenient measures had ended. Ii
the authority of the government was to be assert
ed it should be done promptly and decisively.
Meanwhile the kilograms received. from the seat
ofwar came from only the friends of the MoEnery
party. Neither Kellogg nor Marshal Packard
had been heard from after the reported coup de'tat,
and the impression prevailed that the telegraph
Office. If not undar s,lrvaillanhe. Was guarded go