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The President directs me to say that information is received from New Orleans purporting to be correct that despairing of a favorable result from the commission chosen to settle disputed points in the election count for the Democratic Candidate, it is the determination of the friends of Nichols to seige by force the State House in the declarations of an advance decision - also to murder certain prominent Republicans to compel martial law. He is both to believe murder and assassination can be resorted to for such a purpose, but deems it his duty to call your attention to their minions? in order that you may inform yourself of the