The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-01-12
SITUATION IN NEW ORLEANS.

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SITUATION IN NEW ORLEANS.
The relative values of u government .
by the people and a government Of
llsurpers has been tested II second time
in this State. The Kellogg usurping
government was overthrown by the
people, and now the Packard govern
ment has been nearly demolished
by Gov. Nichols with the people for
his support. sal
Or the 6th, both Nichols aud Pack
ard were inaugurated as governors, the
first at st. Patrick's Halt and the latter
at the State House. Each Governor
had a legislature organized and support
ing his claims, but we believe neither
a quorum, had u quorum Of members
duly elected.
Gov. Nichols was sworn into Office
by Judge Tissot, and Packard Ivy Judge
Ludeling. 1t seems that there was
little or no delay in n trial OF strength |
between the two governors. Packard !
had his MetrOpolitans we'll organized !
and massed at convenient points, and
Kellogg had the State House barri-
caded. Gov. Nichols, inaugurated
with no such military preparations,
appears, Notwithstanding, to have had
an overpowing support ut once, so that
when he expressed his intention to es-
tabtish u government in opposition to
the fraudulent concern headed by Pack
ard, men came from every quarter III
the city, aged, as the dispatches state,
from 1G to 60 years, and armed with
nuskets, rifles and old shot guns, bu,
all displaying II knowledge of "the
school of the company"
The subsequent developments We're
not long in coming to fruition. One
police station after another fell into the.
possession of the Nichols government.
Packard, meanwhile, was appealing to
the President for aid, but none came,
except the unwelcome assurance that
the U. s. troops would be used only to
preserve the peace, but in no event to
recognize either claimant as the legal
Governor.
Following the surrender Of tho police
stations, came deluge On the Packard
government at the Capital, the only dry
spot left being the State House, where
Packard, his officers, advisers and leg
stature were all congregated, and are
bcseiged by Gov. Nichols militia,
both egress aud ingress being refused.
"Governor" Packard, it is telegraphed,
Is communicating with his friends and
the State of which he is Executive, So
the U. S. signal corps. We have not
the alphabet at hand, and cannot,
therefore, give Mr.. Packard's latest
proclamation.
Among the sufferers in this disaster,
the Judges of the Supreme Court We're
included, Chief Justice Lu,leIing, re-
Gently re-appointed by Kellogg, being
chief mourner. The Supreme Court
room in New Orleans was occupied at
an hour unusually early Tuesday by
Judge Ludeling and n large number ot
MetrOpolitans. This did not prevent,
however, writ OF rooster by Gov.
Nichols, who had Supreme Court
Pioceu ou tne Oencn, composed OIL the
following members:
Manning, of sapides, Chief Justice !;
Associates, Egan, Finny, Mari, and
Spencer.
We are not advised what the lsadi-
calls have done to repair the wreck and
collapse of their government. Their
dependence on Grant for support proves
to have been, thus far, Il very unsub-
stantial reliance. In their own strength
they have never relied. Their coudi-
ton now is that OF Il bad case of par
alysis, physically, and in IL moral and
political view it is certainly con-
temptibie. We have no tears to shed
and would pity, did we not uespise, the
man who has, over the downfall of the
most corrupt local government that has
ever afflicted II State of this Union.
Since the above was put in type in
telligence has reached US that the siege
of the State House has been removed
at the demand of the President, who
has said further that the Legislature