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Show I'licUurd ou Ills Eur. I New Orltans, 19. The Evening ! Democrat says matters., are assuming a feverish caBt around tha St. Louia hotel, and things looks more than ever liko a conflict. By 9.30 o'clock this morning there were gathered around the Si. Louis and Royal street j entrances about 1,000 negroes who served to make the place a pandemonium. pande-monium. These negroes aro evidently from the country aud aro hero to join l'ackard'a militia, which ho is now engaged in recruiting. Ho now ad-1 mits that he will as soon as possible tako back the poiica stations, and says he would not remain in the building two hours if he had alt his arms back. It can he put down as a settled fact that within a very few days at tho fur then t Packard will break the peace. His backers in tho hotel are hot for war. Nothing but a probable outcome is talked about. It is reported that he is already in nego tiation for the purchaso of arms. All tho funds comutablo aro to be used in securing them. They boast down there that they do nut want tho troops to interfere, and they assert if might makes right they have the might. Our citizens shoald be pro-purcd pro-purcd for the turning loose on the streets of a gang of ignorant negroes, led' by bad men, for that is now evidently evi-dently the policy of Packard. The situation is assuming much more of a war. ike attitude than ever before since January 9tb, and the responsibility responsi-bility of the matter will rest on Pack- ard, and the lruits ho will gather will be most bitter. |