Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-15
YESTERDAYS DISPATCHES.
wAsHINGToN.
THE LOUISIANA 1MBRoGLIo.
Nichols Against and Packard in
Favor Of Compromise.
THE PRESIDENTS ULTI NAHUM.
WASHINGTON, April Is.

WASHINGTON, April 10.
The Commissions cipher to the
President says substantially that Pack
ard is Governor de jure. but has no
following compared with Nichols, who
is bolstered by the great majority of
the taxpayers. Nichols demands rec
ignition aud expects it, and will con-
cede nothing and will be satisfied with
nothing less than the withdrawal of
the troops. He will agree to no amalga-
nation of the Legislatures except it
has a Democratic majority and on the
condition that it approves all the acts
passed by the Nichols branch as here
tofore constituted. He will concede
the Republicans no authority in the
government. He is fortified in his
position by the superstition that the
President can not do otherwise in
Louisiana than in South Carolina.
Packard, on the contrary, will accept
the proposition to organize h Legisla-
ture on the Returning Boards basis.
The Commission expresses its dis
enlargement and sees no alternative
but the breaking up Of the Packard
Legislature. 1t asked for modified in
structiOns, which were discussed to-
day in the Cabinet. Secretaries Sher-
Ildu, u anu bON IL tDOuEut
Nichols asked too much and that it
would be undignified for the Admin
istration to alter its course to meet
Schurz saw no light except in instruct
ing the Commission to act according
to its own Judgment. After two
hours discussion it was decided that
Evarts should prepare a dispatch for
fra vncvniCSt fn-nirhf This ~ 1nr,n
but its contents are kept secret. 1t is
stated that sherman and McCrary are
positive in their positions and the for
mer will consent to no action that
leaves Packard out. From a CONVEX
sation with members of the Cabinet
it is inferred that the cipher contained
an ultimatum from the President.
Nichols seems to expect that the
troops will eventually be Withdrawn
and he prefers to take lis chances in
that event than to surrender anything
now
Counted In.
CAMP ROBINSON, Neb., April 10.
Lieutenant Clark, of General Crooks
staff, recovered from one of the fifteen
hundred Indians, who recently arrived
at Spotted Tail Agency, to-day the seal
| ring of Lieutenant Van w. Riley, of
the Seventh Cavalry, who was killed
in the Custer massacre.
1t is not positively known whether
or not Crazy Horse with his band
proper will come IN. His reply TO the
| Commission ent to them by a runner
was that he would come in and hold a
council. Since then nothing has been
heard from him, and to ascertain fully
his whereabouts at present and inten.
tons as regards the surrender a new
envoy, under command of old Red
Cloud, has departed. The party
who arrived at Spotted Tail to-day
consists principally of northern Chey-
ennes, whilst about forty of the same
tribe are en- route for cantonmeat on
the Tongue river and will surrender to
General Miles.
Forest Fires In New York.
RoNDoIrT, N. Y, April ID.
Fires are raging in the woods in this
| vicinity and on Stoney Hill six miles
out. An area of ten square miles has
been burned over. The house of Geo.
Purely was destroyed and his family
barely escaped with their lives. BY
| the earnest efforts of all the men in the
| vicinity the flames have been beaten
back from the settlements, but are
still raging in the woods, and, unless
a heavy rain mt soon, the destruc-
ton will be great.
Another Raid by Sioux.
CHEYENNE, Ap.i ID.
The Indians run OFT thirty-two head
of horses from Bear creek, thirty miles
distant from this city, on "Wednesday
night.