The daily gazette., 1877-04-04

tno unl UVv0lAAAcuL .
THE sIrUkr10N IN LouIs1ANA
AND SOUTH CAROIINA. a
Instruetisas 10 she LeuisioAa Commits
sion-Ho,o the South Carolina
Troops tciU be removed.
{ In addition TO the condition of az
fairs in Louisiana and South. Caroliea
as outlined in despatchesto yesterday ]
GAZETTE, further PARTICULARS are
CLEANED from the N York Herdtd'
specials, as follows;
WAsHSeToNsD. c., April 3.
A private despatch from New Or
leans received here this evening ant
to the President shows
in SEINE detail the condition of thing
which the Louisiana Commission will
find when arrives.
WHO RECOGNIZE NICHOLS.
The Nichols Supreme Oeurt hai
full possession of all its records, is re.
cognized by the whole Bar and has
rendered hundreds of decisions af.
fecting all classes Of the community.
OF the eighteen District Judges in the
parishes twelve have recognized Mich
oils; of eighteen district attorneys thir-
teen recognize Nicholls.s Louisiana has
fifty-seven parishes; in forty.three oi
hess:theparishjudges, clerks, ,reesrderf
sheriffs and police jurors, or supervi'
sors, have qualified under Nichols; In
five parishes one-half the officers cleo
ted have qualified nnder Nichols; in
nine parishes the officers have not yei
qualified under Nichols but are re-
cognizsd by him as actually elected
In the city of Now Orleans the mayor
and city council, the entire police force
all the district, criminal and police
courts, coroners, justices Of the peace
and constables, district attorneys, civil
and criminal, sheriffs, recorders Of
harbpr masters, port war
dens, board of health, board of char
ity, administration, board of hay and
-four inspectors, all recognise aud &C,
under the Nichols government.
TEE PACKARD PRETENsIoN.
No Packard appointee is exercising
any official function outside the st.
Louis Hotel, which is used as q State
House. No official claiming to be
elected anywhere in the State sxer.
cises any functions except those re
cognlzed by Nichols as elected; none
but the Nichells tax collectors are col
lsctipg a dollar of tax anywhere in the
State. 1t is thus literally true that tie
SO called Packard government has nc
existence outside of the st. Louis
Hotel. and the Packard Legislature
loses members faster than their place
can be filled.
THE CoLoRED OFFICIALS.
Two hundred and thirty-ene colored
officials in the different parishes have
qualified under Nichols, and twenty.
one colored men have been appointed
to various Offices by Governor Nichols
THE NICHOLS HOUSE.
In the Nichols House of Represen.
tatives only seven are needed to m axe
a quorum of Returning Board mem
bers. The Senate has already such
a quorum. n.
FRELlNG AMONG THE PEOPLE,
With this condition of things the
commission Can have but little to de-
eide, but it is easy to account for tn,
excitement of the people over its com
ing. 1t is not probable that the peo
Pile of any Northern State would 81
down quietly under such a condition
of affairs where a sham government,
seizes the State House and possessin,
NO authority and exercising no func.
tion of government outside, of tina
building, is yet protected in its usur
patton by the moral and physical sup
port OF the federal government.
THE PRESIDENTS INSTRUCTIONS TO TIL
COMMISSION,
WASHINGTON, April 3. 1877.
The members of the Louisiana Com
mission left here this morning fol Ncy
Orleans, They go by way of Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Louisville and Nash
vile, and expect to reach New Orlean
on Friday aud hold their first sessio
on Saturday.
The instructions given by the Presi
dent upon the situation of affairs Il
Louisiana and the necessity for tn
proposed examination Into the prt
sent complication. They state how
ever that there is to be no examina
tion into, or report upon the recen
State Elections.
,... THE PRINCIPAL POINT.
The President therefore. desires tina
you should devote your first and prir
cipal attention to q removal Of tn
obstacles to an Acknowledgement q
one government, for the purpose of a
exercise of authority within the Stat
and representation of the States i
its relations to the general governmer
under section of article A of the col
stitution of the United States, leavip,
if necessary to judicial of other const
tutional arbitrament within the State
the question Of ultimate right.