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There is one:-drink but little wine, beer, cr spirits, or far better, none; take no coffee,-..weak tea being prefera ble ; get all the fresh air you can ; take three or four Pills every night: eat plenty of solids, avoiding the use of slops; and if these golden rules are followed, you will be happy in mind and strong in body, and forget you have any nerves. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS If there is one thing more than another for which these Pills are so famous, it is their purifying properties, es pecially their power of clensing the blood from all im purities, and removing dangerous and suspended seer.- tione. Universally adopted as the one grand remedy for female complaints, they never fail, never weaken the system, and always brings about what is required. SICK HEADACHES AND WANT OF APPETITE. These feelings which so sadden ns, most frequently arise from annoyances or trouble, from obstructed prespi ration, or from eating and drinking what is unfit for us, thus disordering the liver and stomach. These organs must be regulated if you wish to be well. The Pills, if takes according to the printed instructions, will quickly restore a healthy action to both lir erand stomach, whence follow, as a natural conseqence, a good appetite and a clear head. In the East and West Indies scarcely any other medicine is ever used fur these disorders. HOW TO BE STRONG Never let the bowels be confined or unduly acted upon. It may appear singular that Holloway's Pills should be recommended for a run upon the bowels, many persons supposing that they would increase relaxation. This is a great mistake, however; for these Pills will immediately correct the liver and stop every kind of bowel complaint. In warm climates thousands of lives have been saved by the use of this medicine, which in all cases gives tone and vigor to the whole organic system, however deranged,— health and strength following as a matter ofcourse. The appetite, too, is wonderfully increased by the use of these Pills, combined in the use of solid in preference to fluid diet, Animal food is better than broths and stews. By removing acrid, fermented, or other impure humors from the liver, stomach, or blood, the cause of dysentery, diar rhoea, and other bowel complaints isexpelled. The result is, that the disturbance is arrested, and the action of the bowels becomes regular. Nothing will stop the relaxa tion of the bowels so quickly as this fine correcting med icine. DISORDERS OF THE KIDNEYS In all diseases affecting these organs, whether they secrete too much or too little water; or whether they be afflicted with stone or gravel, or with aches and pains settled in the loins over the regions of the kidneys, these Pills should be taken according to the printed directions, and the Ointment, should be well rubbed into the small of the back at bedtime. This treatment will give almost ha mediate relief when all other means have failed. FOR STOMACHS OUT OF ORDER. No medicine will so effectually improve the tone of the stomach as these pills; they remove all acidity, occasioned either by intemperance or improper diet. They reach the liver and reduce it to a healthy action; they are won derfully efficacious in cases of spasm—in fact they never Mil in curing all disorders or the liver and stomach. 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A little clasping to her yearning breast; A little musing over future years; A heart that prays, "Dear Lord, Thou knowest best, But spare my flower life's bitterest rain of tears"— And that is all. A little spirit speeding through the night; A little home grown lonely, dark, and chill ; A sad heart, groping blindly for the light, A little snow-clad grave beneath the bill— And that is all. A little gathering of life's broken thread; A little patience keeping back the tears ; A heart that sings, "Thy darling is not dead, God keeps her safe through,His eternal years"— And that is all. —Macmillan's Magazine. 4 - 1 c *lorvEtiter. THE DEACON'S INDIAN SUMMER. Deacot: Jahiel Braden was a solemn, in dustrious, upright man, but was as kind as one well could be who had lived so far apart from his fellows as he had. In his youth he had been one of the rural dandies of the region and the chief beau of the town, driving the fastest horses and leading off at the village sports; whether balls, quiltings, weddings or sleigh 0 I rides. When about twenty.five years old, how ever, a sudden blight had fallen on his spirits for which no one could account. He had danced half the night in wild glee at a wedding, played games of all sorts, helped to serve the guests from the bountifully ladened tables, kissed the bride, gave her as a wedding present his best cow, with a white heart shaped spot on her forehead, and then went home full of glee. Next morning he looked as if fifty years had been added to his age. He now put himself to work earnestly, laying out cranberry beds and raising live stock. He withdrew from his old com panions as if the sight of them hurt his eyes, unless he could help one of them ; then he came out of his shell, but returned to it as soon as the emergency was over. Some of the neighbors thought his mind was effected ; some said he had repented giving Matilda Day the cow he was so proud of, and others decided that he meant to turn over a new leaf, having sown all his wild oats, and become a sober, settled man. Still more were the town's people surprised when, some months after, he joined the church, and "took up" as he said, "an orderly walk." If the saintly old Motherly Braden knew the spring of these actions she kept it to herself. When questioned she only re plied in her quiet way : "Rejoice with me that this my son who was lost is found, who was dead is alive again." Thus Jahiel moved on, cherishing and blessing his mother, and clearing and cul tivating the hitherto worthless lands of the farm, till death left him and Ketury Perk ings, his mother's life-long helper, alone in the great, broad farm-house. His brother had married, gone West, made a great flourish in some patent busi ness and failed. He came back after this and set up a store and failed again. Then he went back to honest farming, about twenty miles away. He wearied for lack of excitement of "failing," and died, leav ing a very helpless family. Jahiel was a man of very few words, and was slow in uttering those few, but when action was needed he was as prompt as any one. He went to the funeral in the blue swallow-tailed coat, with gilt buttons, and the same buff vest he had on at his last dance. They were still his best. _ _ As soon as the funeral was over he said to his sister-in•law : "I fear you have nothing to live on ; come to the homestead as if it were your own, and bring up your girls to be useful women. I'll send Timothy over next week with Star and Buck for your goods. I'll come in a covered wagon for you all, and if there are any bills at the store I'll pay them. I'll see to the doctor and funeral; so drop all cares from your mind and try and be happy." Jahiel Braden had grown to be a very careless man, in a certain sense of the word. Although neat and orderly in his person, in his house and on the farm, he had laid aside all restraints of society.— _ . He came to the table in his shirt sleeves, and sometimes in his stocking feet. He went up town and even to church with his pants tucked in his cowhide boots. Once he so far forgot himself as to put on a clean farm-frock Sunday instead of Monday, and laid a good coat of mutton tallow on his boots, tucked his butternut colored pants into them, and in this plight took up the collection, for by this time he was a deacon. This was no small delight to the boys in the gallery, who were al ways glad for some othodox subject for laughter during the time of service. Ketury Perkins was just as independent of the world's opinion as was her master, and did as many odd things by way of shocking its sense of propriety as he did through absent-mindedness. She more than once presented herself at church in a clean suu bonnet and calico sack, and en joyed the staring of the people, because she had a black silk gown, a cashmere shawl, a straw bonnet and black silk veil, at home, "as good as Miss Deacon Jones' any day." You may be sure she did not particularly like the idea of a lady coming to take her place "with three citified girls full of airs." However, she was not consulted in the matter, and had too much good sense to throw herself out of a home, so she made the best of the invasion. E. t e .4 . •••••1 ti) CO oft Deacon Jahiel had a peat respect for good women, and from the hour that his brother's wife came under his roof he donned his coat before coming to the table, and even went so far as to buy himself a pair of slippers. He threw open the long unused parlors, and said to the girls, "Make yourselves at home here." He soon found there was a great lack in his establishment, by overhearing his niece lament the piano they had out West. He never spoke of it but engaged the minister's wife to go to town and select one for him. The first the music hungry children knew, it was brought into the house ; and still he never spoke of it. Indeed he rarely spoke of anything at all. The family lived on thus very happily for several years, when all at once they noticed a great change in Deacon Jahiel. He began to whistle at his work, and to sing with the girls. He bought a new carriage—Ketury described it as a "car riage like folkses carriages," he even got a violin and checker board from the garret, tt 0 •-• CZ. tt .-, r. HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1877. and for the first time in twenty years played on them both with zeal and interest. Passing down the main street of the village, one day, he saw a buxom girl at the window, and leaning over the fend he called out : "Martha, I hear there is a quilting coming off before long at your house." "Yes sir ; the quilt is my own work—a rising sun, with a square and compass in the heart of it. Mother said if I ever got it done I should have a quilting just like those she used to have when she was young," the girl replied. "Ain't you going to invite me, Martha ?" was the question that startled the village girl. "What, Deacon !" she cried, looking at the hitherto grave man, to discern if he had taken leave of his senses. "You go to a young folk's quilting ?" "Certainly I will, if I'm asked," said the deacon, smiling. "Your mother can tell you how expert I used to be at chalk ing the line, snuffing the candles, and throwing the apple paring in old times." Of course he got an invitation, and be fore many hours had elapsed it was noised abroad that Deacon Braden was going to dance at Nettie Borland's quilting party, and that the folks thought him crazy. For the first time in a quarter of a cen tury the deacon set off for a trip to Boston, and as Ketury said "made all over new !" From the crown of his steeple topped hat to the sole of his tallow soaked cow hides, he was renewed in the outer man. re had gone so far as to exchange his ponder ous silver watch for a gold one. In place of the porcelain shirt buttons with which Ketury had always adorned his cotton shirt the deacon appeared with gold studs in a nicely polished shirt bosom. gold sleeve buttons, and divers other worldly vanities such as made great stir in the Cedar Creek meeting house, but it was only because he wore such clothes ; others there bad dressed as well. Yon may be sure the young folks stared at him as he sat thus, with Mr. and Mrs. Borland, looking on at the sports of quilting, and the question was whispered from one to another : "What on earth has come over Deacon Jahiel ?" They soon found that the autumn sun had come out in brighter radiance than in its earlier glory, and that life's Indian Summer bad come for him, with bright skies, with flowers, and with the singing of birds in the heart. One morning, soon after this, the deacon called his sister in-law and her daughter into the parlor, and said : "I have a plan to lay before you ; I shall need this house myself now. You may live beside me in the stone cottage, or I will build you a little house in the vil lage." `•We will stay as near as we can ; but who is to take my place'" asked the wid• ow in amazement. "Yon remember Matilda Day, the girl to whom I gave my pet cow, Dilly, on her wedding day ? A few weeks ago I heard of her fbr the first time in many long years. Her husband was never worthy of her. He ran through her property and then took her into the wilderness to live, away from all privileges of schools, church es and society. She buried her oldest child and was left alone and very poor, with three young boys. From boyhood up, I had always expect ed to marry Matilda, but I was too slow in telling her so. The rich farmer from the next town stepped in and married the only woman I ever loved. I choked down my grief, held up my head, gave her my best cow, and danced at her wedding, kissed her, wished her much joy, and then went home with a broken heart. It was a long time before I could see the sun shine after that. Life and all around me was changed but my mother. But God came and brought peace and life, and then I sought to do all for others for His sake. As time went on the wound healed but the scar remained. I knew I was a stupid, awk ward man iu the esteem of others, and so I kept out of the way, except when duty called me forward. I had forgotten that the world, in itself, had any charms until you came here and brought the fresh air and sunshine to these dark, dull rooms. When you brought the rose geranium in full bloom it took me back twenty years when one just like it stood in Matilda's window. The songs which the girls sing are the same which she sung, newly ar ranged and with new names." "Not many weeks ago, I had, as you know, some dealing with Garver, the Western man, who stayed over night with us. In talking with him I said : "I suppose you never happened to meet with a man in your State named Waterson Blake ?" "Certainly I have a thousand times. Did you know him ?" he asked. "When I told him he was almost a towns man of mine, he said : "Poor fellow ? he made a sad wreck of bright prospects. He died poor three years ago, and left a wife and three boys in a sad condition; but she is a jewel of a woman. Every body loves her and all would have been glad to help her, but she had some idea of independence, which she wished to instill into the hearts of her boys. So she gave the incumbered farm over to Blake's creditors, moved into the next town and set up a school for little girls." "Before he went away the next morn ing, I drew a check for one hundred dol. lars, and sent it to the boys 'from an old schoolmate of their mother's,' and resolved to devise some plan by which tostart theai in life. "The more I thought of it the more I resolved that Matilda Day would make the world new yet; and I wrote and told her "Next month I am going West to bring her and the boys home. I want you to stay with us till you get a home of your own. I never can be thankful enough for your coming to me. It has broken the spell that bound me, and brought me back to live among others; before I only work ed for them at arm's length. Now that I love the•world more, my life henceforth will be of more service." The old stone cottage was repaired and furnished before Deacon Jahiel set off on his mountainous journey; and the wid ow and her daughters, now nearly grown up, were rejoicing in the prospect of a new neighbor and friend. Matilda Blake, although a mature wo man almost forty-four years, brought back more sunshine than she had taken away from her native place a quarter of a cen tury before. Her anxieties and sorrows have softened and brightened the natural loveliness of her character, and made her a blessing, not only to the farm, but also to the church and town. Indian Summer had indeed come to the deacon's hitherto clouded life, and his heart and his house were open afresh to the whole world. He looked henceforth more leniently on the follies of the young and more charitably on the errors of those who wandered from the right way. His voice, his features, his gait—indeed the whole man—were changed from a solemn, unsympathizing bachelor, as he used to be regarded, to a genial husband, father and friend*. There is nothing like a solitary life to fix a perpetual winter in the heart. There is nothing like a companionship with the good and true, who need aid and sympa thy, to bring back summer—though it may be an Indian Summer—to the heart. ititct LOUISIANA. The Report of President Hayes' Commis. sion—How Its Conclusions were Reach. ed-31r. Packard's Closing Address. NEW ORLEANS, April 21, 1877. To the President of the United States. In accordance with your request, the undersigned have visited this city, and . . passed the last sixteen days in ascertaining the political situation in Louisiana, and endeavoring to bring about a peaceful so lution of its difficulties. In view of the declaration in the letter of the Secretary of State that we should direct our efforts . to the end of securing the recognition of a single Legislature as the depository of the representative will of the people of Louis iana, leaving, if necessary, to judicial or other constitutional arbitrament within the State the question of ultimate right, and in view of your determination to withdraw the troops of the United States to their barracks as soon as it could be done with out endangering the peace, we addressed ourselves to the task of securing a common Legislature of undisputed authority, com petent to compose the existing political contentions and to preserve the peace with out any aid from the National Government. To this end we endeavored to assuage the BITTEIts:ES ANL* ANIMOSITY we found existing on bo'll sides, so as to secure public opinion less unfavorable to such concessions as were indispensable to our success in obtaining such Legislature and such general acquiescence in its authority 2s would insure social order.— We have had full conferences with the two gentlemen who claim the gubernatorial office, and with many other members of their respective governments in their ex ecutive, judicial, and legislative depart ments. We have also conversed very freely with large delegations of men of business, with many of the District Judges and with hundreds of prominent citizens of all parties and races, representing not only this city, but almost every parish in the State. We have also received many printed and written statements of fact and legal arguments and every person with whom we came in contact has shown an earnest desire to give us all possible infor mation bearing upon the unfortunate po- litical divisions in this State. The actual condition of affairs on our arrival in this city may be briefly stated as follows: Governor Packard (we shall speak of both gentlemen by the title they claim) was at the State House with his Legislature and friends and an armed police ti,rce. As there was no quorum in the Senate, even upon his own theory of law, his Legislature was necessarily inactive.— The Supreme Court which recognized his authority had not attempted to transact any business since it was dispossessed of its court room and the custody ofits records on the ninth day of January, 1877. He had no organized militia, alleging that his deficiency in that respect was owing to his obedience to the orders of President Grant to take no steps to change the relative positions of himself and Governor Nicholls. His main reliance was upon his alleged legal title, claiming tliat it was TILE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY OF THE PRESI- DENT to recognize and to afford him such mili tary assistance as might be necessary to enable him to assert his authority as Gov ernor. Governor Nicholls was occupying Odd Fellows Hall as a State House. His Legislature met there, and was actively engaged in the business of legislation. All departments of the city government of the city of New Orleans recognized his author ity. The Supreme Court nominated by , him and confirmed by his Senate was hold ing daily sessions, and had heard about two hundred cases. The time for the collec tion of taxes had not arrived, but a con siderable sum of money in the form of taxes had been voluntarily paid into his Treasury, out of which he was defraying the ordinary expenses of the State Govern ment. The Nicholls Legislature had a quorum in the Senate upon either the Nicholls or Packard theory of law, and a quorum iu the House on Nicholls', but not on PackarcVs theory. The Packard Legis lature has a quorum in the House on its own theory of law, but, as already stated, not in the Senate, and was thus disabled from any legislation that would be valid even in the judgment of its own party.— The Commission found it very difficult to ascertain the precise extent to which the respective governments were:acknowledged in the various parishes 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 January, 1877, were in favor of Nicholls' government.— The claim to legality of the Supreme Court composed of Chief Justice Manning and associates, who were nominated by Governor Nicholls and confirmed by his Senate, rests upon the same basis as the title of Governor Nicholls and his Senate. The claim of legality of the Supreme Court composed of Chief Justice Ludeling and his associates rests either upon their right to hold over in case Nicholls' Court is illegal, or upon the legality of the Kellogg-Packard Senate, which confirmed the Judges upon the nomination of Governor Kellogg, and while it had a Returning Board quorum. We have briefly sketched the actual position as we found it. We will now state the legal question upon which TILE RIGHT OF THESE RESPECTIVE 00V- ERNMENTS depends. The Constitution of the State of Louisiana requires that "returns of all elec- Lions for members of the General Assem bly shall be made to the Secretary of State." It also requires that "the qualified electors shall vote for Governor and for Lieutenant- Governor at the time and place of voting for Representatives. The returns of every election shall be sealed up and transmitted by the proper returning officers to the Sec• rotary of State, who shall deliver them to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the second day of the General Assem bly, then to be holden. The members of the General Assembly shall meet in the House of Representatives and examine and count the vote." It will be observed that the provision of the Constitution requires the returns of votes for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor to be sealed up and transmitted by the proper returning offi cers to the Secretary of State, and Lhe same provision is made in substance as to members of the General Assembly. But in 1870 the Legislature passed an act, amended in 1872, which created a body called a Returning Board. consisting of five members to be appointed by the Sen ate, and to "be the returnino• officers I'r all elections in the State." The act pro vides that "the commissioners of election of each poll or voting place shall count the votes," making a list of the names of all persons voted for, and the offices for which votes were given, the number of votes re ceived by each, the number of ballots con tained in the box, and the number reject ed, and the reasons therefor. and to make duplicates of such lists. and send one to the Supervisor of Registration of the Par ish of Orleans, and one to the Secretary of State. The law further requires supervi sors of registration to consolidate the re turns received from the different polliug places, and forward them with the origi ' naffs to this Returning Board. The act further provides, "That it' there shill be any riot, tumult, acts of violence, intimi dation. and disturbance, bribery or corrupt influence at any place within maid pariah, at or near any poll or voting place of reg istration, which riot, tumult, acts of s i lence, intimidation, and disturbance. bri berg or corrupt influence shall prevent, or tend to prevent, a fair, tree, peaceable, and full vote of all the qualified electors, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to make a statement of such facts, and for ward the same to the Supervisor of 1te . ..- tration, with his returns of election. awl the Supervisor of Registration shill for ward the same to the Returnine. Board. The Returning Board is required to ins. , 4. tigate the statements of intimidation, and to exclude from the returns which it makes to the Secretary of State, the returns received by it from 'hose pH, or voting places where a fsir election vr,s prevented by the causes above named. The same law further declares : •• It shall be the duty or the Secretary of State to transmit to the Clerk of the ll,,use of Representatives, and to the Secretary of the Senate of the last General Assembly, a hat of the names of such persona as. ace ,rdinz to the returns, shall have been elected to either branch of the G , nerd Aasembly, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk awl Secretary to place the names of the liep resentatives and Senators elect s ► furnish ed upon the roll of the House and of the Senate respectively, and those Represents Lives and Senators whose names are so placed by the ('lerk and Secretary respcc• tively, in accordance with the f►retoing provisions, and none other, shall be ct•mpe tent, to organize the Home of Repre,enta tives or ►Senate " HOW NICHOLLS INTERPRETs TIIr. I, tW. It is claimed by the counsel for the Nich olls government that this act, so fsr as it imposes upon the Returning Board the right of exercising these powers of exclu sion between the parish sup_rvisor of istration with his coosoiidated returns and the Secretary of State, is, when applied to the election of members of the General As sembly, of Governor and Lieutenant Gov ernor a plain violation of those provisions of the Constitution of Louisiana which say the returns of all elections for members of the General Assembly shall be made to the Secretary of State, and in reference to Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, the returns of every election shall be sealed up and transmitted by the proper returning officers to the Secretary of State, who shall deliver them to the Speaker of the (louse of Representatives. On the other hand. it is insisted by the counsel for the Kick ard government that the Legislature has power to create the Returning Board, and give it the authority with which the act clothes it. It is also claimed by them that the constitutionality of the act has been settled by the Supreme Court of the State. But Nicholls's party denied that the ques tion was decided by the Supreme Court in a manner that could be considered au• thoritative. It should be further stated that it is not claimed by the counsel for the Nicholls government that the Le;zisia tore could not create a Returning Board and clothe it with these powers in rega-d to the appointment of Presidential Eke tors, since the provisions of the State Con stitution on which they rely relate only to the election of members of the Legislature, of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. We quote the following sentence from one of these printed arguments : -Indeed, as to Presidential Electors, the mode of their appointment is by the Constitution of the United States left to the discretion of the Legislature of the State. Therefore the General Assembly of Louisiana might cre ate any tribunal whatever and confide to it the appointment of Electors for President and Vice President. Consequently it may properly authorize such a tribunal in the case of the election of Presidential Eke tors by the people to count the votes and declare who were entitled to seats in the Electoral College." As matters stood on our arrival here, the legal title of the re spective claimants to the office of Governor depended upon the question we have sta ted. There was no judicial tribunal ac knowledged to be authoritative by both parties by which it could be solved, for the reasons already given. THE ONLY HOPE OF A PRACTICAL SOLUTION was by the union of so many members of the ri val Legislatures as would make a Legisla ture with a constitutional quorum in both the Senate and House of members whose! title to their seats is valid under either view of the law. With a Legislature of undisputed authority, the settlement of other questions could, as stated in the let ter of instructions to your Commisoien from the Secretary of State, ''be gradually worked out by the prevalent authority. which the legislative power, when undis puted, is quite competent to exert in com posing the conflicts in the co ordinate branches of the Government." Within the last three days this first great step in restoring peace to the State has been ac complished. In consequence of the with drawal of members from the Packard to the Nicholls Legislature the latter body has now eighty seven Returning Board members in the House and thirty-two Re turning Board members in the Senate. Six ty-one members constitute a constitutional quorum in the House and nineteen in the Senate. It is proper that we should say in con clusion, that it was in view of the forego ing facts, especially the consolidation of the Legislatures, and our knowledge of the condition of Louisiana, derived from per sonal contact with the people, that we were induced to suggest in our t'legram of the 20th inst., that the immediate announce ment of the time when the troops would be withdrawn to their barracks would be better for the peace of Louisiana than to postpone such 2noosneesest to ism di► tant day. The Commiosiosion. `slim se. rious 4ha,les of political belief, asses tt Concur in any sketch of a part of dip prob. able future of Louisiana We have fore , borne in this report to express soy *trios on the legal questions arising epee lbw foregoinz statement of facts, beams awe letter cif instruction seemed to earl rot statements of facts rather than 24 Krim mion ~f opinion of th. Coasneiesioners We all. however. indnlge in &Widest berm et better allys for all races of lamilfinna Among the reasons for these haywire the resolutions ,f the Nicholls Legislature mod lett e r of Cow. Nicholls, herewith eubsit ted, anal which have already bees give* to the public, with an earnest hope that the adjustment which has bees mit of she political controversirs of Louisiana will be approved by the patriotic people of allow tions. We h3v tiv! booor to be ;ow Obviiest 9erv3nt.4. cti.ts B. LAWIRINCI, J No. L. }TAKLA', WAYNK MCVETON, JAA. R HAWLIT, JNo. C P I.'K Alt 1) . 74 DDRL44 The fdirrwinT the address of Mr Packard to the republicans of the Awe r S r.tTz ~I P 1.01'141%1A. Extrttyrn DEPARTMENT . April 25 1 4 77. I Ti, Tur nr 1.,41714tA711.% thiA the fitleenth anniv.rtwry of the 4urrend-r of New 1 riel/14 he forces of the Feitesi 4t gee. it beenmee sy duty to announce to you that the 24 and eonntenan...e or the national 4overeseet ha.; been wlthdrawa from the republican!" ~r I.otii74iAtia, and that s eorcratwerit. rPv olutionary in form, is prat-litany ow the point of isAurpimr control 4 Akira in this State. I recall the eirentantaween of the 137 st e!ertoral campai s cn nal, to .haek eras for the isielity M prineiple Toss then es pli:-...,1 The rtpublican party, we yn kn or, enter-ei upon the ease-ate united wail :tron , z , r than ever before it had eateste4 under itA banners an inessential Awe of native born citienwr 4 old vrlaig antes , " dent,s. who, I their boom. be it void. 'till remain faithful to the priaripien they es.,ta.sed and the Tovernmene they utppoor edr. It wan further •tr!stibelse4 by the ab-ienee in-'' the State or 'lrritation of that element whose revionn wilheemeee to t h e Fatl y had hr iuzht it into IriPlerire h.` , ..! causes c.nrubinesi to kiss Ansa bar remarkable Aueretse achieved lity tie rwpwb lir:in party in all Ow! donbefal reclaim, with one eireption, even where the wibite predominated. and wbieb pow 114 3 iwsj•wity in the LeigiALetere. Ewalt where orzanized violence prevailed sow State ticket carried every ropebficas per -1.11. and 21 4 0 a nmitber 0f porrialwo wbeek in the laic Lexi.tator, were reprewinoted by dem,eratie members rVFNT4 417 ilx.tarzirn I hri, Ay iiiromarise the biaswirail ',veer that hire 'inee neeerred The Geneva A.senibly met on the 64 al January lore, organized With a toll legal ism= in both hf, 0 40, pww.eti law. whiek wove alleavarl by the loaceentire of the State, and at the of January loot rawiseand and 4M:wed the rate tor Governor At this time the nation was agitated by doubt se to the result of the Pre/ideated sleeting With the expectation that Sansei J. Tildes might ptowibly become Preaidest of the t "oiled :+tates, and with so hop of seserae otherwi,e, my opponent in the kat - paign establilhed a mock legislature and went through the form of an iaasperstimen in order that there sight he a assibolossa of government which Mr. Tiiden, if ham garated, could poontly galvanise nese vi tality. In the few days that %Amid General Nicholls s‘d his adherence ware encouraged by the unexpected refund of President Grant to recognise the State government or to respond to the aeweeitiu. tional call of the Lezistatere, tbeingic be questioned the legality of wither. 0, the 9th of January. before I bad vesreely taker, my seat in the executive chair. As White League rose in armed inearreetiow andby 3 rmtp 'wain took paeampeina the Supreme (',curt. arsenals and steeinae of the Metrop.litan Polies, all incase , ' at the capital. ThAn came nrdzre from President Brant establishing a atone re. the practical effect of whirls wee to moire the inBnrxentyl in the, advastares they lead gained and to prevent any tient )419e - , , s them. On the inauguration of Pre ident Hayes the State sothoritias made preparrtion:4 to organise s silks force for the defence of the State covers- , wen t. General Nicholls,' police *cued upon the recruiting officers ant ed them for treason, without the benefit of bail or writ habeag corpus. THE PEE DINT'S COMMi4sP)I t(-le;:raphedi this fact to President Hayes. akin him if this was a violating of the sight ?Ho, and if not whether a re lease of these men by forte, all civil renter die, having' been exhattated, would be In considered The President replied :- -Your di , patch of the 21 is received. The Secretary of War bas telegraphed to :eneral Augur. A commission will short ly visit Louisiana. In the meantime the President desires that the situation r e m a i s unchangcll.•• The Commission came. In the mesa time the Nicholls governtaeat had crystal ize.] into shape. So fat from permitting th e sittntion to remain nachasgd. it had broken into the tax collector, ofiee or the city. had taken forcible control of State institntions, and had strengthened itself o• a ll sid e ,. Notwithstanding this, however. the Commission found the legal Legisia tnre still in session at the State Homo, and my title unaesailed and unassailable, except by f,rre The result of their la bon; during the two weeks they remained h ere is known ~f all men. They Manned a number of members of the lewd Hoene of Represents:ire,' to take sesta in the Nicholls house, thtli airing its Retarning Board quorum. Prior to the meeting of the Legislator, the democrats claimed to have elected only sixty members of the Hones.—see h than a quorum. One, at Wee of the members so claimed by them wan sham on the Ist of January last. No reptshissee or independent leader would Meese* to net with the Nicholls Howe, sol irouseipsuee ly, in order to obtain eves sie arpetweiset of organization, they bad been esespeibmi to call to their aid three loss defesied at the polls. whose election had we pervious ly been claimed . A PIRTININT INQCIZT. The inquiry, therefore. seeme pertiaest in ibis connection If a &tarslog Boma quorum wee so effective fee Saba.' its why was it that melt Teems was igmerei while it remised Melded as the legal government of the Seale ? Thee peens meat bads Returning lisard von= * sl. Jay ts slink Os ___ kattalbiy ammessi. ssd sits Legial l ll. l *if P 11 1" issd ramisal is blpi isiorsta lasagnas' by ism swiss sV C4llllllllll► wise. ma sink berisir Ism adbisome4 it is s mow vessmi taws asaysisibisty isionsgsp sere ispbssosi bossess the Presidio* sad bap musimpoiss. RIM' , AL or ?WS ?Seals. On dor fnibreiron day. dor Prolapse, by $ Cosa nyder, ars& radio thoonsh die prem. amain dine no 1' view. fir ern", neworryiee s bsiJiß se this oisiney , the *sr. &we ohnidd tot renvoord ' their brined's. 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