Year: 1877




The President has appointed George Schnei-
der, Of Chicago, Minister Resident to the Repub-
lie of Switzerland


REPORTS recently received at the Treasury De-
Partment in Washington show that the counter
feiting of coin principally silver is increasing
rapidly, Reports from the Black Hills mention
the coinage of counterfeit fve-dollar pieces and
some arrests.


A RECENT Washington dispatch says the Post
master-General had issued an order thatshere
after appointments of Postoffice clerks, route
agents, mail-route messengers or local agents,
shall be made only for six months, and that at
the expiration of this period no reappointment
viii be made unless the appointee pass salts
taflory examination


EX-PREsIDENT AND MRs. GRANT arrived in
Washington on the evening of the 23d.


SENATOR BLAINE was interviewed by New
York Herald reporter on the evening of the 22d,
and stated that he had no expression of opinion
to make with regard to the change of political
affairs in Louisiana. Being inquired of as to a
statement made by San Francisco newspaper
that he had prepared, and intended to introduce,
resolutions at the next session of Congress ex-
pressing doubts of Mr.. Hayes election, and pro-
a
tribunal to consist of the Chief Justices of all
the States, Mr.. Blaine said there was not the
slightest foundation for the story.


The Louisiana Commissioners returned to
Washington OH the Oath, and visited the Execu-
tive Mansion during the session of the Cabinet
Business suspended, when there was an in
formal conversation between them and the Cab
met respecting their mission. The Commissions
ers furnished the final report of their proceed
ings to the President, who returned thanks
for the satisfactory way in which they had dis
charged their duties. The Commissioners are
said to speak in warm terms of the kind man
ner in which they were received at New Orleans
by both parties, and appear to be perfectly sat
isfed with the result of their mission.


THE report of the Louisiana Commissioners to
the President is dated New Orleans, April q, and
opens up with an account of the condition in
which the Commissioners found the rival State
Governments on their arrival at that city. They
say they found it to be very difficult to ascer-
tain the precise extent to which the respective
Governments were acknowledged in various par
ishes outside of New Orleans but it is safe to say
that the changes which had taken place in the
parishes after the organization of the
two Governments on the 9th of JAN
nary, 1877, were in favor of the Nichols
Government" The Commission then enter
into a discussion of the legal question upon
which the right of the respective Governments
depended and say there was no judicial tribu-
nal acknowledged to be authoritative by both
parties, by which the legal title could be solved.
The only hope of practical solution was by the
union of SO many members of the rival Legis-
latures would make a Legislature with
the Constitutional quorum, in both the Sen
ate and House, of members whose title
to their seats was valid under either
view of the law Such Legislature was
finally formed by the withdrawal of members
from the Packard to the Nichols Legislature,
thus giving the latter body quorum of Re-
turning Board members in both houses. The
Commission conclude their report by express
ing an earnest hope that the adjustment which
has been made of the political controversies of
Louisiana will be of lasting benefit to that
State, and will be approved by the patriotic peo-
pie of all Sc ctions.'