The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-31
WASHIN GTON.
Special to the Picayune.]

juStlearped from I'm authority tOu
high to be impeached that the
Radical sachems IN New Orleans
photographed their :hums here yes
terday that the Packard Assembly
had quorum in both branches,
and that if the President would
only recognize Packard, twenty
members of the State Legislature
would 90 over to Packard ut once,
and all would be quiet.
The veracious telegram further
declared that the principal mer-
chants and business men would be
satisfied with the Packard Gov
|ernment.
am afraid that the President
will pay too much attention to
these false representations, and
embrace any pretext to escape
from the practical execution of his
promised liberal policy toward
Louisiana. Let your business
men, merchants, bankers, and the
people US a body meet en- maSse
and give the lie to these misrepre-
sensations, and let the world know
that Louisiana will never submit
to be governed by the Packard
dynasty. Let us hear from you at
Dnce. .Ett
Washington, March % Messrs
Ellis, Levy and Gibson have under
consideration protest, which
they will file with the President,
against the appointment of a COM
mission for Louisiana. LAt.
The protest objects 10 the policy
of the commission as failing To re-
deem the assurances of the Presi-
dent and of his political friends,
made in his behalf, before the cleo
toral count was completed, these
being both verbal and
in writing /:
z. HE appointment Ut such q
commission Is fully illegal and ex-
Unconstitutional, aud tends to
continue Federal interference in
State matters. -r
3. That the delay consequent on
snch commission is injurious To
every Interest Of The State and
especially to the planting interest.
4. That the action of such com
mission is powerless to bind the
people of the State, who will
never consent t" the overthrow Of
their chosen Government and the
installation of Packard.
Washington, March 23.-Instead
Of u commission for South Caro-
lima, the President has invited
Gov. Hampton and Chamberlain
to come here.
Ibis is part of the policy of
delay and evasion, the object being
to extort the election of an Admin
istratiOn Senator and pledges in
respect to the organization of the
next House of Representatives in
June.
The representatives of the
Hampton Government here say
that no such pledges will be made.
Washington, March ga dis
patch from Marshal Pitkin, dated
I'D inst, is published, stating that
Nichols warrants find no purchas-
ers at any price.
The Secretary of War, in his
to the President of the
location of United States forces in
Louisiana, says that there are sta
toned there the Sd, 18th and 10Th
Infantry, and in the Department
Of the South twenty-three COM
panies of artillery aud the I'd and
18th Infantry Regiments. most of
which are IN South Carolina.
II is the intention of the govern
ment, when the troops are with
drawn, to send them to Northern
posts, on account of their having
served SO long in the Southern
States. irt
Washington, March 23.-The
decision of the President to invite
Hampton and Chamberlain to q
here has added to the
of the Administra-
ton. At the same time it will be
practicable for these gentlemen to
reach here iii two days, and for
the President to act promptly if
he choose. 'f
Several members of the Cabinet
have informed Southern gentlemen
this evening that everything would
come out right in the end, and
that they would not suffer from u
little DELAY. - - .-. 2 ~