The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-16
LOUISIANA.
Matters Quiet Yester-
day.
The President Fl
naIIy Recognizes
Packard.
Violent Language of
a New Orleans
Journal.

NEW ORLEANS Jan. 1.-the following des-
patch was received from Washington at late
hour last night and copies were furnished to
Messrs. Packard and Nichols:
To General c. c. Augur Neac Orleans, Louisi-
ana:
1t has been the policy of the administration
to take no part in the settlement of the ques-
tiOu o the rightful governments 10 the State of
Louisiana, at least not until the Congress onal
committees now there have made their report
but it is not proper to sit quietly by and the
state government gradually taken possession of
by one of the claimants for gubernatorial hoh-
ors by illegal means. The supreme court set
up by Mr.. Nichols can receive no more recog-
milton than any other equal number of lawyers
convened at the call of any other citizen of the
state. A returning board, existing in accord
ance with law, and having judicial as well as
ministerial powers over the count of the votes
and in declaring the result of the recent cleo
ton, have given certificates of election to the
legislature of. the state legal quorum of
the Houses, holding such certificates, met and
declared Mr. Packard Governor. Should there
be necessity for the recognition of either it
| must be Mr.. Packard. You may furnish a
copy of this to Mr.. Packard and to Mr.. Mich
OILS. U. s. GRANT, President.
Gov. Packard issued a proclamation to-day,
calling upon the Nichols assembly to dispense
| and cease their lawless and reasonable con-
| spiracy against the legally chosen authorities
He also commands those persons claiming to
| act as judges of the supreme court, and all
persons supporting, aiding or abetting them
| and all persons unlawtully assuming to act as
executive officers, and all persons having pos
session of police stations anu assuming to act
| as policemen, and all armed bodies of men
not acting under the authority of the lawful
government, to Immediately desist from their
aforesaid unlawful acts and to disperse and re-
tire to their homes, under the pains and pen al
| ties of the law.
Republicans are much elated over the news
from Washington and the new phase of affairs,
| while Democrats assert that the order of the
| President to Augur will not compel him to
| interfere unless to prevent bloodshed. Nichols
| and the Democratic Legislature will not heed
| Gov Packard's proclamation of this morning,
and the former will resist any attempt of
| Packard to recapture the courts and station
| houses.
| Gen. Augur does not regard the order of the
President as materially changing his former
| instructions.
Noon.-The Picayune extra says: Every
| preparation has been made by the governmer t
| to quell any disturbance which may be raised
by the drunken rabble of the St Louis Hotel,
and orders are peremptory that any such tu-
mutt or event on the part of the pretender,
Packard, shall be quelled by the severest
measures, and at any cost.
Gen. Augur in an interview says he considers
the Presidents order as recognizing neither of
| the claimants.
l. 40 P. M.-Tbe Republican Legislature is in
| joint session with 70 members. Several Sena-
tors had denounced Pinchback's assertion in
| regard to the use of money by Gov. Kellogg to
| secure his election as United States Senator,
and one of them Senator Blound, SAID that
while our Saviour had his Judas and the Amer
lean people their Arnold, bis race had their
Plrchhack He had dominated Pinchback for
| United States Senator and withdrew his noml-
| nation
| n Man extra has the following:
Judge Shaw has issued writ of hdbeds cor
| pas requiring the criminal sheriff of the House
to produce the bodies of the assistant Sergeants-
alarms. now in the parish prisons, who were
ar ested by BayiaDd's police while attempting
to arrest Senators at Pinchback's barracks.
The writ vas served by person appointed sher-
| if by Judge Shaw.
The following order has been received by
| Sheriff Handy:
| STATE OF LOUISIANA, !
9Th District Court, Parish of Orleans
To Thomas Handy, Civil Sheriff of the Parish
| Of Orleans:
| Considering that certain proclamation sign
ed by s. b Packard. wicked and shameless
| imposter, has come to the view of this court,
considering that the pretensions of said indi-
| vldual to be Governor of Louisiana have 70
foundation except SO far as he falsely claims to
| be supported by the irresistible power of the
national forces, 1t is ordered that the civil sher-
| i'll OF this parish of Orleans do provide suffi-
| Gent force to guard this court from any vic.
| lence or intrusion.
BY order of the Court:
(Signed,) j. V. GUILLoTs, Clerk.
New Orleans, Jan. Is.
4 p. m.-No return has been made by Sheriff
BOurges on the writ of h0beds corpus in the
case of the Sergeant-at-arms of the Republican
Legislature, now in the parish prison. Lieut..
Governor Antoine. Superintendent Brown, A.
Durant, President of the Republican Campaign
Committee, and twelve colored members of the
1 int ,o folo hoI,ol eAl,
| cOlored race to Senators Morton and Sherman,
| coDdemning Pinchback's course,
The Evening Democrat in leading editorial,
/ referring to the probabilities of Gov Packard
attempting to retake the courts and stations,
says:
Mr. Packard, however, is playing Danger
GUS game. The patience of the people is we'll
nigh exhausted, and if they are forced into a
conflict which is calculated and designed to
again rob them of the government of their
choice and the blessings of an honest and eff
Gent administration, their wrath will be diff
| cult to restrain, and we for one hope that no
hand will be able to restrain it, If Mr..
Packard forces this conflict, we appeal to our
friends to spare, as far as final and complete
victory will permit the lives of the metropoli-
tan and negro dupes. We advise them to let
| the full weight of their vengeance fall upon the
leaders OF this iniquitous, murderous most
damnable scheme, and to follow Packard into
| his hall, and if need be into the custom house
| itself, and hang him from its highest window.
| Both legislatures balloted for Senator to day
| without choice. Pinchbacknreceved one vote
| in the Republican Legislature.
Sheriff Bourges, representing the Supreme
| Court, over which Chief Justice Ludeling pre-
sides, made demand for the court house this
morning, which was refused. The court house
| is now held by three companies of Nichols
militia, and the first precinct station by Battery
| of the same force
| Much of the testimony taken before the
/ VarIOuS ttOQQrHSsiOnal rom mjttaaa 10 DON
| OF the same general type as heretofore, some
| witnesses saying the election was peaceable
md others that intimidation was practced.
Gov Kellogg testified at considerable length in
| regard to supervisors, their appointment, etc,
Gov. Packard to-day made an official requis-
ton upon Gen. AuguI for assistance to REIN
| state The Supreme Court in the building from
| which they have been dispossessed. 1t is sup
| posed that Gen Augur has referred the matter
to the authorities at Washington.
A number of bankers telegraphed President
Grant to-day in relation to the Nichols legisla-
| ture, showing that the Senate had quorum
of members about whose membership there
was no controversy.
| Nichols police at the court house and sta.
| tions have been reinforced tonight to prevena
| the recapture of those places, but there is no
indication of an aggressive movement at the
| State House.
1t is probable that the Senate committee will
conclude its labors Friday.
The Mississippi Investigation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 The Senate Com
mittee GU Privileges and Elections this after
noon examined George T. Swan, clerk of the
U. S. Circuit and District Court for the
Southern district of Mississippi He testified
he personally saw no intimidation of voters,
but had been often appealed to by colored men
about the time of the last election, who COM
planned they we're not allowed to vote. Others
complained that they were unable to register
because they could not give an exact geographic
cal location of their place of residence in the
election district in which they lived One of
the frauds practiced upon the ignorant voters
at the late election was to give out Democratic
tickets with the likeness of Hayes and Wheeler
on them.
METEOROLOGICAL
INDICATIONS FOR THE NEXT TWENTY -FOUR
HOURS.
WAR Dept, OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL)
OFFICER, Washington, DC,
Jan. 49, Il A.M))
For New England,
Falling and low barometer, increasing easterly
to southerly winds, warmer and stormy
weather, with snow, partly turning into rain,
followed by rising barometer, nOrthwesterly
winds and clearing weather.
The rivera in the Middle States and Southarn