The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25

tify all persons to dieperse, and compel q com.
pliance with your order. 1t is tAe determination
Of the President to see that the Legislature is not
facts in the premises, he viii decide which
should be recognized. I'D. CAMERON,
Secretary Of War.
New Orleans kilograms of the 18th report
the general situation of affairs unchanged.
Gen. Augur had virtually forbidden any az
gressive movement by either party. A com.
pany Of militia recognizing the Nichols
Government had taken possession of the
offices of the Recorder Of Mortgages and
Register of COnveyances, and turned them
over to John McEncry, the late Democratic
Governor.
New Orleans kilograms of the 18th say both
Legislatures were awaiting adviccs from
Washington. The Republican Senate was
still without quorum. The Democratic
Legislature had taken another ballot for
United States Senator without result. In
the Republican Legislature ballot was
taken for United States Senator, Pinchback
receiving 20 votes; Antoine, %; Beattie, 12:
Lewis, Is; remainder scattering. Deputy
Sheriff Walsh, with a posse of twenty men,
took possession of the Superior Civil Court
on an order from the Fifth District Court, en-
joining the Sheriff from recognizing that
Ls
by the Republican Legislature. An attempt
was made by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the
Republican Senate to arrest four members
said to be concealed in Pinchback's house.
That person resisted, and called upon
Nichols policemen to prevent the arrest.
Several OF the Assistant Scrgeants-at- Arms
were placed in custody and taken to the pO-
lice stations. Gov. Packard laid the matter
before Gen. Augur, for his action under the
instructions of the Secretary of War.
New Orleans kilograms of the 18th say
there was no change in the political situa-
ton. Senator Breaux, from Point Coupec and
the Fclicianas, had left the Republican Sen.
ate and joined the Democratic Senate. Judge
Shaw had opened the Superior Civil Court
in the Statc-House building. He held the
seal and the minutes while the Nichols Gov.
eminent held the former courtroom. AT
five O'Clock in the evening Senators DemOss
and Hallett, accompanied by Pinchback, en-
tered the Democratic Senate, and the two
former Senators were sworn in. Pinchback
was allowed to make a personal explanation,
in the course of which he denounced the
Republican party Of Louisiana, and accused
Gov. Kellogg of securing his election as
Senator by corrupt means.
On the morning of the 18th, Gen. Augur
received an order from the President stating
that, should it be necessary for the United
States to recognize either Governor, it must
be Packard. Shortly after, Gov. Packard
issued his proclamation calling upon that
body of persons "pretending to be the Gen.
eral Assembly of Louisiana to dispense and
desist from their lawless and reasonable
conspiracy meaning the Democra ic
Legislature. Nichols and his Legis-
lature, the Associated Press dispatch
says, would not heed the proclamation, and
would resist an attempt to recapture the
conrt and station-houses. Judge Shaw had
issued his writ of hdbeds corpus requiring the
Sheriff to produce the bodies of the Assist
ant Scrgean.s-at Arms, then in the parish
prison, for an attempt to arrest three recall
citrant Senators who were hiding in Pinch
backs house. The clerk of the Sixth Dis
trict Court had also issued an order di.
recting the Sheriff to provide suf1icien
force to protect the Court from violence aGd
intrusion at the hands Of "that wicked and
shameless impostor, 8. B. Packard" Sheriff
Bourges, representing the Supreme Court
over which Chief-Juslice Ludeling presides,
made demand for the Court House, which
was refused. The building was occupied by
three companies Of Nichols militia.