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Show LOUISIANA. Good-bye to tlic IVcllses, the Ii.clloi;t:s, tiio I'uclcards und ItotaruluK Hoards. Tiio Grave of Pucknrd in Due, but thu Scoundrel llcs liurd. NicUolls and Right on Top, hut Thy Wero Too Late in Getting Thero. Washington, 2. The following telegrams are furnished by the war department: Headquarters op the Army, ) Washington, 2. J Gen. C, C. Augur, commanding the Department of Ncxo Orleans; Tho following dispatch has gone to Governor Packard, and is hereby Bent to you for your information and government. gov-ernment. (Signed) W. T. Sherman, General. Executive Mansion, 1 Washington, I. j To Governor S. B. 1'ackard. New Orlea ns: In answer to your dispatch of this date the president directs mo ioeay that ho feels it to bo his duty to state ; frankly that he does not believe public pub-lic opinion will longer support the maintenance of the Btate government in Louisiana by tho use of the military, mili-tary, and that be must concur in this manifest feeling. Troops will hereafter, aa in the past, protect life and property from mob violence when the state authorities fail, but during the remaining days of his official life they will not be used to establish or pull down either claimant for control of the state. It is not his purpose to recognize either claimant. E. C. Sniffer, Sec'y. New York, 2. Herald's Now Orleans: Or-leans: The compromise said to have been eflecled at Washington baa been the prominent topic of conversation conver-sation here to-day, and is almost universally uni-versally endorsed. Tilden's following iB now scarcely perceptible, either iu or outside of the party. From late indications, Packard will not give up the governorship without a contest. Car loads of lumber have been taken to the state bouse to day, and a score of carpenters have been engaged in strengthening the barricades. World's New Orleans, midnight: About an hour ago a Frenchman who keeps a shop under the state houso called on the French consul and re-poraod re-poraod that Captain Lawler, of Iho Packard police, had ordered him to close up as they intended to fire the building. The French consul advised ad-vised him to put out the French flag and call on Nicholla' police for protection. pro-tection. Chief Boyland, of Nicholla' I police, Bent & largo forco to the neighborhood. neigh-borhood. Tho Frenchman's story ! seems improbable, but it is certain , that to day a largo quantity of pine lumber was carried into the state houso. It is suspected that the Pack- i ard faction really intend lo evacuate 1 the building after firing it, and then chargo the act on the Nicholla' t pe ople. |