The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-09
The Louisiana Case.

INTERVIEWS OF THE COMMISSION WITH THE
RIVAL, GoyERSoRS-TH EVIDENCE OF FACTS
IN FAVOR OF NICHoLLS-PACKARD AND HIS
ADHERENTs STILL IN THREATENING HU-
MoR-yIEws OF LOSGSTREET-THE GREAT
MAss-MEETING, &C.
Especial dispatch to the Baltimore SUM-
NEW ORLEANS, La, April 6.-Ihe COM
mission had interviews to-day with GOV
ernor Nichols and with Packard. Packard
nroduced the figures TO show how much
more right he had to the vote OF Louisiana
than HAYES, and expressed the great
est indignation at the idea that he was
TO be abandoned. Governor Nichols
demonstrated to the entire satisfaction
Of the commission the universal ODE
dience which is yielded to his rule.
The commission gave both the gentlemen to
understand that they did not, as the agents
Of the President, assume to have any power
ia decide between them, and that their
office was OF n mediatorial nature. They
assured Nlr. Packard that it would be
simply impossible for them to undertake
the investigation suggested in his letter to
the President. The first day has SATISFIED
Packard and his friends that what little
hone they had left may as we'll be sur.
rendered. This has had the effect to I'M
loosen their tongues, and they are threaten
ing most damaging revelations. 1t is said
that full expose OF the secret manipula-
tons OF the Returning Board will now be
given, and the modus operandi by which
| Hayes obtained the electoral vote OF Louis
lana laid bare before the world.
Packard's friends say that Stanley Mat
thcws and John Sherman came. down here
to secure the vote Of Louisiana for Hayes,
and that had it not been for their packing
the Returning Board would not have dared
to 90 to the extremes necessary to secure
! that object. Packard and his friends APP
| pear, however. to forget that all this Is
& aliunde," The Conservatives here are in
very fine spirits tonight, for they no longer
entertain q doubt that there VIII be no
further Federal interference with their az
fairs. Governor Nichols says he does not
care, il the President so desires it, to make
any attempt to turn Packard out OF the
State-uouse; that Packard's authority does
not extend beyond its walls; that be Is
practically imprisoned there, and Ii it is
any Measure for him to stay there lie can
do so.
General Longstreet, in conversation with
me tonight, said that Packard was much
worse man than Kellogg, and that the crowd
all the carpet-baggers. General Longstreet
says that in january last he wrote long
letter to President Grant urging him to
change his southern policy, and be thinks
his letter had considerable effect. He says
that in the event of the Federal troops not
being withdrawn from protecting Packard
he would counsel sweeping them out OF the
way along with the rest of Packard's sup
porters. But he anticipates no such con-
tingency.
The mass-mceting Of businessmen and
of the working people in Lafayette Square
to-day was a. prodigious turnout. The
square was packed with people, many even
climbing into the trees, and the balconies OF
the surrounding houses were crowded with
ladies. The commissioners all attended,
although unofically, and had an excellent
opportunity to observe for themselves the
overwhelming unanimity with which the
Nichols government is supported by all
classes OF this community. .i