The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-01
General News.

ar0uSeS suspicion tilau huSsid Is IAN
ing this means to get crews OF sail
ors here to man her privateers.
During the past two monts agents
of the British government have pur-
chased upwards of 1000 horses III
the farming districts of the northern
part OF Vermont and New York.
The horses are evidently intended
for cavalry duties.
Secretary Sherman upon being
asked if he was not worried by
newspaper stories about his connee-
ton with the Louisiana election
said: No; he was glad this matter
had got beyond lying newspapers
and cowardly inuendo. Specific
charges had been made, and what
he wanted was an open hearing aud
/ no favor, which he intended to have.
A st. Petersburg special says: 1t
has transpired that the Car insists
on the possession of Kars and Arda
han, but is willing to renOunce Ba-
toum. This is the utmost limit OF
concession he is prepared to make
in Asia. With regard to the limits
of Bulgaria he is perfectly sat
isfied to leave the decision to the
| Congress. Prince GortschakOtf re-
CARDS the meeting of the latter body
as certain to take place about the
middle of June.
A special from st. Petersburg
saws: General discomfort is mani
testing itself among the people on
the subject of concessions SAID To
have been made to England. Prince
Gortschakoff is almost everywhere
pronounced incapable. He is blamed
with the Unnecessary humiliation it
is said Russia has submitted to.
General sympathy is now centering
round Ignatieff. The very fact that
ht n in disfavOr at court renders
him popular with the masses of the
people.
The Herald's New Orleans special
SAYS: "The Potter resolution, and
its attendant opening of the Louisi-
ana case, has created anything but
pleasant feeling in New Orleans at
the revival of the question. What
Louisiana wants is To be let alone;
to raise her crops and attend to bust
ness. OF IL large number of gentle
men, merchants and prominent citi-
zens. interviewed on the subject,
nearly every one regretted that the
subject had been opened at all, and
expressed the opinion Southern
congressman could have been better
employed in trying to get something
for their constituents relative to
their harbors, rivers and levees, in
stead of squabbling over what can
only disturb matters generally.
The National Democratic Com
mittee met at the Arlington Hotel,
in Washington on the 22d instant.
The only business to be transacted
! is the proposition to issue an address
to the country; also, to discuss what
action shall be taken with reference
to the Potter resolution. There
seems to be no doubt but that the
; committee will adopt a resolution
; indorsing the Potter resolution
The address will also state how the
! party will proceed under the Pot
ter resolution. The general Opin-
: ion is that the address will declare
l that it is not the intention of the
Democratic party to contest the title
5 of President Hayes, but simply to
= expose to the Judgment of the peo
pie the frauds by which it is alleged
I he obtained his Office. The indica-
tious are that the sessions of the
committee will last several days.
! The President i'm sesatiOn OF
the subject of the Potter resolution
said that he did not anticipate any
: trouble. nor did he believe that thu
: result of the Potter investigation
7 will in any way disturb his tenure
of office. He believed that the law
E under which the electoral commits
( sion was organized and acted as the
" advisory agent of Congress pending
I, the electoral count must be violated
q and the strictly constitutional man
d ner of that count ignored or over
. thrown before the investigation
9 reaches the portal of the Whit
. House with the heavy burden q
Tilden's weak pretentiOns weighing
upon their shoulders. He said tina
he had no faith in the assersion
that the statements or the confession
!. of McLin and Dennis will amour
y to basis for further exposures
y Republican frauds. The frequen
% Investigations, especially the one III
& cident to the Bisbee Finley contes
for seat in the House, satisfied hlr
= that the Archer precinct frauds O
irregularities, even if proven, woul
4 not affect his claims to the vote
Florida, even if these claims ha
y not been asserted and ratified by til
vicarious act of the Electoral Con-
10 mission. TO set aside the decisio
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