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_E_ _RLEANS DAILYE D ORAT.
SOTICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OP LOUISIANA.
VOL. II--NO. 85. NEW ORLEANS, THURSDAY, MARCIII 15, 1877. PRICE, FIVE C1ENT8.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
TI E WfITDRItAWAL OF TROOPS
A Cabinet Meeting to Deeide this
Point Friday.
Sse Cabinet Will Stand Five for With
drawl! to Two Against it.
IIe Order for the Removal of the Troops
to Iteach Here Saturday.
(gpecld to New Orleans Demoort.l
WAsnsrmoto, March 14. - Hayes'
ý anthern policy will be the subject
of a formal discussion at the next regu
lar meeting of the Cabinet. It is highly
probable that some deflnite ooneluslon
and line of action will be then arrived
at, and it is understood that the pro.
lOnged delay in the settlement of the
South Carolina and Louisiana dlfi
eulties is acting lnjuriously to the best
laterests of those States.
As far as can be ascertained, four
members of the Cabinet-Bchurz,
Evarts,tKey and Dovens, the Attorney
General, ,with probably McCrary, the
Secretary of War, will strongly favor
the immediate withdrawal of all Feder
at interference with the government of
the bouthern States-troops or other.
wipe-leaving the people of these States
t0 settle their local governments among
themselves.
It is thought by Kellogg and Patter
son, and other earpet-baggers, that ex
SPastor Sherman will favor a new eleo
tleo as the easiest solution of the di-l
Pisty, or, if this be opposed by the
Pteaident, a "Wheeler compromise" of
the diffoulties.
They also claim tnat Thompson, eoo
fa~ery of the Navy, will side with Sher
man. However that be, they cannot
get more than two or three of the seven
members of the Cabinet to oppose the
ithdrawal of troops.
S A to the President, he has made no
definite avowal stronger than that con
Itaed in his inaugural. It is thought
that he will be guided in this matter by
the majority of the Oabinet.
This question will be considered and
decided Friday, and the orders for the
l.moval of the troops issued as soon as
the Cabinet adjourns. BUetL. .
HIAYES AND PINCHBACK.
]Pnchbaek has anl Interview With
the President.
lie Now Eleetion Wanted, No Conipro
mimes, Nothing But the Nicholls
SGovernment.
'ie President Gives Assurances that the
Nleholls gevernment Will be feft
in Pessession of the Gov
ernment.
The First Important Expression of
Opinion by the President on
Louisiana Alfairs.
(Special to N. O. Democrat.]
WAsmalNorov, March i4.-Pinchback
bad a private conference with Hayes
to-day, in which the latter made a more
important expression of opinion than
h. has hitherto made to anybody. Af
I :r some informal conversation, Hayes
..told Pinohback that he was satisfied
that the policy of absolute non-inter
rentlon afforded the only ray of day
light to be seen through elouds that
enveloped Louisiana; that he was fully
determined to pursue that policy, trust
lag to the guarantees of the Democrats
sad COeservatives, and the pledges
given by Gov. Nicoholls, that the inter
es't of the people of Louisiana-black
as well as white-would be guarded and
their rights protected by him. He said
he saw nothing but strife and discord
R an effort were made to uphold
Packard, end he felt bound, therefore,
to accept the assurances of Nicholls
and the Conservatives in good faith.
t'he new election programme could
not be brought about, he thought, with
Sut an enabling act from Congress, and
such enabling act could be passed only
on the supposition that there was not a
Sepublloan form of government in
.Louisiana, which assumption would
. eace.early invalidate the electoral
toe of that State.
The question of a new compromise on
the Wheeler plan was then discussed.
lJonohbac'k assured Hayes that such a
. mpromise would be absolutely impos
sible. He declared that if the Republi
a.an party in Louisiana were united in
,aupeavt of Packard there might be
oame Bineal basis for a compromise, but,
a sthe*Mtation stood, Packard was not
aupported' by one-tenth of the popula
tion, nor bj one-fiftieth of the intelli
ea of the tate. This made the dis
:roportlon toon great for reasonable
4at osampwmaie.
P ba then salked theat e
solid against Packard, but that his pre
tensions were also opposed by War
moth, Sheridan, Carter, Caseyand him,
self, amongA Republicans, with many
other Republicans of more purely local
reputation.
The President replied that all these
things had been subjects of. considera
tion with him and he could not see how,
with such tremendous odds against him,
Packard could hope to make an admin
istration acceptable to the people of the
State.
He then asked Plnchback to reduce
his views to writing, to be laid before
Cabinet meeting on Friday next. Pinch
back thereupon wrote out his views and
sent them to the President to-night.
They recite the situation, show the im
possibility of a new election and the
inexpediency of any compromise, and
show up the weakness of Packard in
the strongest light.
Pinchback closes his appeal in the
following words:
"Justice to the white people and mercy
to the black people of Louisiana alike,
make it your duty, Mr, President, to
take such steps as will insure the im
mediate and undisputed ascendency of
the Nloholls government in Louisiana."
Later to-night Pinohback received as
surances from the President which lead
him to leave for Lolisiana at once, to
use his influence to break up the Pack
ard rump and induce the colored mem
bers to go over to the Nicholls Legisla
ture. BEnLL,
--- ** - ~r·t ---
POOR PACKARD.
He is Advised to Gve Up His Claim for
Governer.
The Administration will Beward this
Act of Devotion.
[ :peoll to N. O. Demoorat,]
WA·ly n rox, March 14,-It has final
ly been definitely ascertained here that
Stanley Matthews wrote Packard a let
der similar to that sent to Chamberlain
by him, and which was exposed by Jim
Blaine in the Senate. This letter
counseled Packard to yield his claims
to the Governorship, since he could not
hope for Federal interference and re.
cognition, and asserted that in so doing
he would be acting in harmony with
the desires of the Administration, and
tree it from a disagreeable complica
tion, BUBLL.
A RECIPROCITY TREATY.
Th enouthern States Pledge Themselves to
Protect the Colored Bace 'olitl
cally and Industrially.
In Rtturn Hayes Will Pledge Himself to
Absolute Non-intervention in the
Affairs of Southern States.
[(peulal to the N. O. Democrat.]
WASHINGTON, March 14.-A conference
of the Southern Democrats was held to
night at Williard's Hotel. Its object
was to give to Mr. Hayes some formal
and authoritative assurances from the
representatives of the Southern Demoo
racy that the rights and interests of
the colored race would be faithfully
guarded and protected by the Demo.
crate and Conservatives, both politically
and industrially.
This action is in the nature of a recip
rocity treaty between Hayes and the
Southern Democrats, in which Hayes
agrees to adopt and pursue the policy
of absolute non-intervention in the
affairs of the Southern States, in consid
eration of the above mentioned guaran
tee. 1Z3ULL.
SAD WELLS' CLAIMS.
He Wants $100,000 From the Govern
ment.
He Threatenh to Make Trouble Unless
this be Paid Him.
[Speial to N. O. Democrat.]
WASHINGTON, March 14.-J. Madison
Wells is making strenuous efforts to get
his $500,000 fraudulent claim passed on
and recommended by the Southern
Claims Commission. He threatens to
make trouble unless his claim is paidiin
full and will not give a receipt in full for
services rendered until this also is paid
him. BuEu..
----~~ * ----
THE CABINET MEETING.
The question of an Extra Session of
Congress to be Decided.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The Cabinet
meeting to-day will decitde whether to
call the June session Forty-fifth Con
gress, if session is called. No further
effort now to consider Kellogg's case.
The Senate is likely to adjourn this
week sine die.
THE SENATE.
The Senate heady to Adjourn.
WasnmNGTO, March 14.-In the Sen
ate Messrs. Anthony and Whyte were
appointed to wait on the President and
inform him that unless he might have
some tfrther oommunfoUtion to make,
the senate was ready to adjourn with
ut.deS . W.
w·&ikemL
THE NEW ELECTION SCHEIME.
A Plan to Gain Time for Packard
and Chuamberlain.
The Leading Democrats and Republicans
of the ounth Proneosee Against
Such a Scheme.
The President Declares It a Gross Inter
forence With Local Self-government.
[(peolal to the N. O, Dem9erat.] '
WAsmuaNovo, March 14.-The now
election scheme is still being discussed
here, although its "true inwardness"
has been pretty thoroughly exposed.
There was never any real meaning in it
nor any intention of holding the elec
tion. The scheme was concocted by
the ultra Republicans, headed by Mor
ton and Blaine, who pretended to urge
this new lectlon on behalf of Packard
& Cu,o., while, in truth, Kellogg, Pitkin
et al,, were no more fav~orably disposed
toward it than the Louisiana Demo.
orate. It was offered only as a blind, to
cause delay and gain time, which these
conspirators believe will benefit the
Packard cause.
The President has consulted all the
leading South Carolinlans and Louisi
anians here on this subject before act
ing on it or in any manner speaking
on this subject. Ex-Gov. Penn, of Lou
isiana, and Gen. Butler, of South Caro
lina, lately elected Senator by the
Hampton Legislature, called on him
last night and made a strong protest
against the scheme, on behalf of their
States, which could not bear the excite
ment and the interference with plant
ing and work consequent on an election
without great injury to all classes of
the people.
A number of Conservative Republi
cans, principally from South Carolina,
headed by ienator Robertson, inter
viewed the President on the subject of
the new election this morning. They
also protested against it as unconstitu
tional, impossible and dangerous to the
peace, prosperity and happiness of the
people of South Carolina. They denied
that any of the people of that State were
in favor of such a scheme, and declared
that if Blaine and Morton advocated it,
they did it on their own responsibility,
without the request and against the de
sire of a vast majority of the people,
both black and white, of South Carolina.
After hearing the views of Senator
Robertson and others on the subject,
President Hayes, after a mature delib
eration, concluded to oppose this new
election dodge. He declared it the
most impossible of all the schemes sug
gested for the settlement of the difficul
ties in Louisiana and South Carolina;
it was unconstitutional; it was appar
ently opposed to the desires of the peo
ple of those States, and it was certainly
a more violent interference with local
self-government in the South than ever
dreamed of before, and, in this respect,
completely at war with the policy he
proposed in his inaugural, and which
he intended to pursue.
The emphatic declarations of the
President on the subject have pretty
well stifled all talk of a new election.
A majority otthe Louisiana and South
Carolina Republicans now declare that
they never favored it. The only person
who seems ever to have earnestly advo
cated it was ex-Gov. Chamberlain, of
South Carolina. Ho, Blaine and Mor
ton are its only supporters left.
A. L. J.
iFrom Our Evening Edition of Yesterday.]
A CABINET MEETING.
Kellogg's Case to be Postponed.
The Deficiency in the Army Ap
propriation.
The New Election Scheme Dead
in the Shell.
[Special to N. O. Democrat.)
WAiSrINGTON, March 14.-The South
ern question was not formally consid
ered in the Cabinet session this morn
ing, but will be taken up and probably
disposed of at the next regular Cabinet
meeting.
The Senate will adjourn next Wednes
day at farthest. Kellogg's case will go
over to the next session. Considerable
doubt exists as to calling an extra ses
sion.
Some of the President's advisors favor
the policy of carrying the army ex.
penses over to next session under do
ficiency act, but as such action has no
precedent in time of peace, the Presi
dent hesitates about adopting such
policy, fearing that however honest
his intentions may be, the opposition
might denounce it as a revolutionary
measure. The matter will be fully
considered at some future Cabinet meet
ing, and a determination not be made
in the matter for several weeks at least.
The new elebim ashme et the cspe
Ibe!h.e
private eltisen, there being noS law
authorising the President to order a
new election in any State, while it is
certain that mutual agreement to such
programme can mot be obtained.
?tJlLL.
[From Our Evening Edition of Yesterday.]
A NEW ELECTION.
The Project Is Opposed by Itepub
llcans and Democrats.
rlThe Troops to be Withdrawn If
Peace is Guaranteed.
[special to N. 0. Democrat.]
WassxsoxoN, March 14. -The Repub
licans are pushing the new election
project, but it has no support except on
their side. Some of them are opposed
to it. Pitkin says that he insists upon
standing on Packard's title, and Mo
Millen says that he prefers Nicholls to
a now election.
The President will try to make the
best terms possible for the Louisiana
Republicans. He would like an arrange
ment among the members of both par
ties to be made here, which, of course,
is impracticable. He would then favor
the new election, all parties consenting,
which is equally out of the question.
Finally. he will withdraw the soldiers if
satisfied that personal rights will be re
spected. The appearance of things now
is that it must come to this in the end.
D. DA P.
4NEW HAMPSHII E.
The Uepualbleans leet Two Out of Three
tnigressmen.
PORTSMOUTH, March 14.-The Repub.
licans oaim the State by 8100 majority,
and the Second and Third Congres
sional Districts. The Democrats olaim
the First.
Ohio's Senator.
Co ,uaauns, Ohio, March 14.-The Be
publican members of the Legislastre
hold a caucus next Thursday night to
nominate a candidate for United States
Senator.
hayes' Polley Endorsed.
NAsuVrLLr, March 13i.-The Cotton
Exchange, Beard of Trade, Tobacco
Board, and merchants and prominent
citizens among them Gen. E. Kirby
Smith, have signed a eiroular calling a
mass meeting to-morrow night for the
purpose of giving public expression to
their feeling towards President Hayes,
and to assure him of their high appre
ciation of the encouragement he has
given to the people of the whole nation
by the wise, conservative and patriotic
policy adopted by him at the beginning
of his Administration, firmly believing
that if such a policy as that shadowed
forth by the President is faithfully ad
hered to, peace and prosperity will soon
be restored to the whole American peo
ple.
The Attorney General.
WASeINGTON, March 14.--Attorney
General Devius accorded the Luiesiana
Republicans a prolonged interview.
They seem well satisfied with the re
sult.
Cameron Resicns.
WAsxHIJTON, March 14.-Simon Cam
eron has formally vacated his seat in
the Senate. It is supposed Hamlin will
succeed him as chairman of the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs.
1AOE OUT FOR A STORM.
Cautionary ~lgnals for the Atlantic
Coast.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-Cautionary
signals are ordered for Cape Hatteras,
Kitty Hawk, Cape Henry Cape May,
Atlantic City Barnegat, andy Hook,
New York, New Haven New London,
Newport, Woodshole, doston, Thatch
er's Island, Portland, Me., and East
port.
The low barometer that was off the
Middle Atlantic coast is now apparently
risen, but fallen again over the Middle
and Eastern States preceding the storm
centre, which is now over Lake Huron.
The barometer has fallen somewhat in
the Southern and Gulf States, but has
risen west of the Mississippi.
A ConaflEration.
PnoVIDENCE, March 14.- Elliott's
Opera and Monument House, at Wood
stock, burned. Loss $80,000.
Coming eeask.
WAsHINGTON, March 14.- Judge Ray
has departed homeward.
MONTENEGRO.
Preparations Being Made for War.
VIEzNA, March 14.-It is reported
from Cettinje that the Prince of Mon
tenegro has given orders to make every
preparation for recommencing hostili
ties on March 21, if peace is not conclu
ded before the expiration of the armis
tice.
The Turks EaPer for War.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 14.-Placards
have been posted in Stamboul calling
on the Porte to make war against Rus
sia, and threatecing the Ministers if
they make any further concessions to
Montenegro.
lismarck Joins Rntsia in the Protocol.
BEr.LIN, March 1i.--I is said Dis
marck has agreed to sign the interna
tional protocol proposed by Russia.
Austria Unites In the Protocol.
PESTH, March 14.--The Austro-Hun
garian government has accepted Rus
sia's project of an European declara
tion, but merely in its capacity of a
signatory of the Berlin memorandum.
The opinion prevails in Peeth that
Russia, despite the present negotia
tions, is determined to make war.
LONDON, March 14.-A Berlin dispatch
to the Times announces that Germany,
Italy, Austria and France support Rus
sia's proposal.
A DISAGREEMENT.
MaeMXaon Does Not Like His New Cabl
net.
PARIS March 14.-It is rumored in
jpooIitiooircles a ministeria crisis is
S owing to tbe dibagnrement
L tiWMIobQhPa5d win
4* oi
OUR WAMHI1NUTON LTEEL
Hayes0 Plans and Purposes.
The Fight With the Radical Caucus Over
Hils Cabinet Jlomliations.
8thurr as Minister of the Interior.
t8peolal Correspondenee N.,O. Demoorst.]
WASnxi'Tolan , Mareh 12, 1877.
It would be manifestly improper for
me to speak as by authority-semi
officially, in other words-of the inten
tions and proposed policy of this Ad
ministration, for that, in the first place,
my only avenue through which to
speak is the columns of newspapers
whlch are understood to sustain an at
titude of unalterable opposition to the
methods by which this Administration
came into being; and for that, in the
second place, it would be obviously in
congruous for me. as a correspondent,
to assume to speak by authority as to
the purposes of a re/nime with which I
could possibly have neither fellowship
nor comdmunication without first aban
doning all the positions of law and logic
I have maintained- for thu last eight
months. Yet I am enabled to speak of
the views, intentions, purposes and
projects of this Administration as mat
ters of fact and as matters of my own
knowledge,
A great many good people have been
thrown into
PARIOXYHMS OF ASTORISHMRNT
that the first act of a President who
had been fraudulently counted in should
be to repudiate the miscreants to whose
partisanship and perjury he owes his
place, and that, having repudiated
them, he should turn about and call to
his aid the best men and the purest
sentiment of the country. But Mr.
Hayes has already done nothing less
than these things. It may interest the
public to know the logic upon which he
base his phenomena attitude,
Mr. Hayes holds that he is responsi
ble only for the promises held out In
MIs LErmA er OF tCrAlOKE;
that he cannot ,be held accountable
for the speeches of public men or the
writings of editors who saw fit to sup
port him. He holds, further, that
when the dispute arose as to the count
of the electoral vote, he withdrew from
public view and carefully abstained
from any expression, suggestion, hint
or intimation that could possibly be
construed into a design to Influence or
an effort to shape the result. He holds
that he has been declared President
according to the forms and under due
observance of a law which was passed
by the votes of men of both
parties, acting with a view to maintain
the peace and secure the welfare of the
country. He holds that he has net
been a party to the struggle; that he
has not asked or advised anybody to
vote for that law, or to vote against it;
that he has not requested anybody act
ing under that law to count him
in, as the saying is; that he has not ad
vised, counseled or requested that any
step whatever in the proceedings be
taken or avoided from the beginning to
the end of the dispute; that he is not
under personal obligations to any one
man or to any set of men for the honors
and responsibilities which he finds In
his hands, except that he is under an
obligation to every citizen of the United
States to see that the public business
is administered to the best of his knowl
edge and ability in its administration.
He utterly rejects the ancient idea that
the government belongs to a successful
party; he refuses to entertain the old
notion that any set of men claiming to be
THE LEADERS OF A PARTY
have any right, moral or legal, to
come to his executive office and say.
"Give this man this office," or "Refuse
that man that office;" and he declares
that he will respect no claim to any
right that is not either moral or legal
or both, by the plain interpretation of
common sense. lHe holds that the chief
source of all the troubles that are upon
the country is the fact that men have
so long used the passions and pre
judices of political parties as in
struments for the accomplish
ment of personal ends, that sue
chseful politicians have come to regard
themselves as vested with a prescriptive
right to use the purse and the sword of
the nation at large to sustain the for
tunes of a faction, and then to employ
the efortunes of the faction to their own
individual behoof and benefit. These
are the broad, general propositions
which Mr. Hayes lays down, in his inter
course with his friends, as embracing in
the main the evils which have crept
into our system of government.
NO DEIBIR TO BREAK UP PARTINW.
But he does not wish to be understood
as Quixotic enough to cherish any de
sign of breaking up parties or annihila
ting political divisions. That is not in
his line of business, but belongs to the
people to determine for themselves. As
for himself he is an agent for the trans
action of stated business, an employe of
a firm, so to speak, consisting of forty
odd millions of partners, and his duties
are plainly defined; ho is, in short, a
trusted servant, charged with limited
duties and accountable for the dis
charge of specified trusts. These trusts
he says he proposes to discharge, these
duties to perform and this business to
transact according to the best of his
ability; and in the performance thereof
he does not propose to know
anything except that the United
States is one country and that
its forty-four millions of inhabitants
constitute one people. In short, that
he considers himself President, not of
the Republican party, but of the United
States. These, of course, are glitter
ing generalities. They are easy to say
and they sound well. But when it
comes to the execution of the pro
gramrn . hich they embody there will
be pleý of test for the stuff the man is
m:' CABINET NOMINATIONS.
Oe test has been made. When the
Cabinet nominations had been made,
Mr. Hayes was waited on by a delega
tion of Republican Senators who ex
pected to work the President around in
the usual manner by cracking the aau
one wp it e enxecutie lgs,
Mu. Edinie Mai&ived tlratica.
Oablnet nominees who had been ob
jeoted to waited on the President. They
had heard of the objections and that
the President had determined to take
the matter under consideration. They
did not wish to embarrass him. Ti.e.
would retire and save him the trouble
of considering the objections.
Oh, no; there was no need of that.
He had already "considered the obje..
tions," [softo voce, he had eonenued
about a minute and a half in oonsiir
ing them , and he had decided to let
the nominations stand. He said the
constitution imposed upon him the re
sponsibility of selecting his advilaere
The Benen was char ed with the dty
of confirming er rejeoting them, a
had discharged his duties, He pre
sumed the Senate could discharge its.
lie had no suggestions to offer to the
Senate about confirming or rejeoting
his nominees, And the Senate had no
dictation to offer him as to whom he
should nominate. It was the plainest
case in the world of separate and dis
tinct duty and responsibility., In case
of at contlclt the countrry would bejudge
and its judgmsnt would be final.
T'rn TERRfRllflt OF TuII OAvmOUS,
Such was the rool, passionless atti
tude of IHayes when first confronted
with the terrors of the caucus. It was
a rebuke to the barterers of politics, a
slap in the faco to the truck-andr-diker
system that will sting for many a day,
to teach the bargainers and the back
stairs statesmen that their day is over.
Now, Hayes might have put on herol.i
and torn around. He might have adopt
ed a fine frenzy and raised h--l. Or, he
might have had a eonfldential interview °
with those follows and agree i to do
this in consideration of their agreeiff
ing to do that. This last w
haye been the approved Bad
method. But he did nothing of thr
sort, Hie simply stood his hand latan4
bet his money without making ean
fuss-and the other fellows passed,
They didn't care to come in, They were
raised out, It makes no difference to
the historian whether Hayes was b4uffr
ing or not. e may have had four see
and he may have had jack high; what
ever he had or whatever he did not h
have, he made the boys lay down theti
hands and raked the board I t strikls
me that that is a very good sort of mae
for President, barring the trifling fast
that he was not elected.
cWIUJMZ,
Now his Cabinet is in, we shall see .
what we shall see. I, for my own part,
have no apprehension except as to
Johurz. I should not have selected the
Interior as the department best esaott
lated for the favorable development of
Mr. Soburz's ideas of civil service re
form,. The Treasury was the true place
for Schurs, both as to his general capSe
city and in view of the objects whlch wh
desagns to accomplish. There is loeU of'
what would come, under the ohburzat
definition of civil service, in the Inte
rior than in any other department of
the government in proportion to the
amount of the public money that is dis
bursed through it. It is full of plain,.
,rosalo business details, in which there
is very little opportunity for the displ~1
of statesmanship. Zoh Chandler it. nd
much of a statesman; but he is a flirt
class business man, and he has been
one of the very best Secretaries of the
Interior who ever held the place. Soburi
will find himself confronted at, the out
set with a vast mass of book'keeping,
which is foreign to his genius; he will
be called on to tackle a dozen rings
the land ring, Indian ring, patent
ring, pension ring, and their dependen
iesn. ]e will be distracted with charges
and counter-eharges; every fellow will
assure him that every other fellow is
trying to swindle the Government. In
his dismay, he is liable to fly to tchi
arms and advice of
Dil. GBOSVSNOR,
and then-well, it is not difficult t.o.
guess where he will land when ones tb
'fierce light that beats upon a throne'
is brought to bear upon the advice of
1ill Grosvenor I
I hope the learned Dr. Preetoriue
the Festliche Post will permit me to
that I am anxious to see Soh.rn
ceed as an Executive officer. 3]i
know Bill so well; I realize so
the strange hold he has upon Sol
who differs from him in instinct as ut
terly as a woman differs from a hi
wayman; and I can foretell so
rately what will be the onsequence
Bill as a power behind
throne, as a silent critic of
and a concealed or con
adviser of policies; all these thlngs_ I
say, are so patent to me that I
many mtsgivings as to Schurz. I
Hayes wants to assist him in condti
ing the Interior Department to the .a
faction of the public and with honor be
himself, his irst step will be to nd
Grosvenor as Minister to Hayti ori
Consul to Sierra Leone, where howilbe
at liberty and have abundadnt o
tunity to nlulge those gentle I.et .ik
whish erstwhile cost him his position In
the army and where he cannot eajoy
opportunsit to repeat that advise tia
counsel whch has already twice deet-$
ed S5hurs, and, which, if it ruins him a
third time, will ruin him forever. .chats
has more to fear from the friendship of
Bill Grosvenor than from the emnity ot
all his foes combined.
A. O. BuEsL.
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NEW .RENAIA.
The War Between the Two Parties.
PANAMA, March 6,-The victory of 'the
Liberal army over the Conservatives at
La Don Juan, in the battle of January
27th, is confirmed.
Gen. Mosquera has been elected Pres
ident of the Federal Senate.
The Isthmus was never more healthy
or more quiet than at pres .t.
The Darten Canal Exzpfllea.
PANAMA, March 6.-The following Im
portant news has been received frona
the Darien Canal Expedition: Notwith
standing some difficulties which have
presented themselves it is certain that
the commission will return with a
favorable solution, and that the canal
will be executed at the Darien. The
labors of the exploration will not be
ended before the end of March.
BamsArt DA:.-Thl er
M ser,. M. L. Byrae & oI,
beaetifal loh do reIaWs al
and on esuft 01