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[[Letterhead: "Headquarters Department of the Gulf.

                          New Orleans, La.,_______________187___]]

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 Lined out: "possible" for the Democratic Candidate, it is the determination of the friends of Nichols to seize by force the State House Word inserted: unclear in the declarations of an advance decision - also to murder certain prominent Republicans to compel martial law.

 He is loth? to believe murder and assassination can be resorted to for such a purpose, but deems it his duty to call your attention to their rumors in order that you may inform yourself of the Lined out: "truth"