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TaesJay night Rome witnessed
l jf the grandest civic pageants ever
■Jjj in tli
ion , in honor of the glorious
’tjatic victory, was the grandest
- ® (jjt ever occurred in the city.
P“ , t ij e procession, with its splen-
r jrray of transparencies, hut the
illumination of the city by
triotic hands of its citizens, was
in the extreme, and everybody.
• r : K and black, old and young, were
'Led with the wildest delight.
Lrief description of the affair will
L some idea of its magnitude,
recession was under the imraedi-
LmanJ of Maj. Sam. Morgan, as-
. ’ D y c 0 l. ,1. G. Yeiser, Jno. Still-
’ IV. H.tJones, S. McGuyrt, Capt.
[’ p Cothran, Capt. M. Dwinell.
centlemen deserve much credit
Z, e admirable order they preserved.
cu iunin was formed on Broad
the following order:
BBT' led by Prof. Craig, and
, ;e a of the following gentlemen,
r , patriotically volunteed their ser-
s for the occasion, and added very
to the success of the demon-
i.y their excellent music : J. L.
inaburyi T .i. Hume, Sam. Carnochan,
1 Warner. 1!. F. Buck waiter, X. F.
it. Cousin Tom Smith, Willie
ot. Claud Langston.
; Rainbow Fire Company, with
•rrl handsomely decorated and
transparency; When
to obey.
ippropm
lis nut
••-MoaatainCity Steam Fire Com-
-v.with engine fired up and hand-
nth decorated, with the following
ciam-cirs: Mountain City always
; feo*. During the procession, the
si whistle made the welkin ring
mphant squeal.
Hook and Ladder truck, splen-
iiluminated and surmounted
ail,jiving transparencies: Cartoon,
jfli.ieves; legend. You shall all
r Babcock : on the reverse, Don’t
Be hard 1 Don’t they squeal!
; not 'em by the umbeiicus, and
hive to squeal; on end, The bot-
:ail on top.
Behind the Hook and Ladder came
i;5.representing the different States,
.ie i'iiuwing order :
I'ltttiu of Georgia, represented by
if Smith : transparency; coat of
:. motto,‘‘Give us liberty and we
give you loyalty,” Jno. B. Gordon;
ie reverse side, Georgia is ready to
tie hiila fora penitentiary to hold
■"thieves: 81,000,000,000 gone; on
ends. Georgia the first to object to
slave trade; SO,00 majority; Our
*r State si,tiled out .SO,000 for uu-
rs&asy.
fit Slate of New York, represented
<• Lindsey Johnson; transparency;
so; arms; reverse side, Portrait of
legend, lie burst Tammany—
fammy did 1 Ecce Homo; on
Fa crowing cock—motto, Tilden
cock of the walk !
■t«raron, Wheeler is th*» hoss,
:li :s the driver and Tilden is the boss.
: •'Late of Kentucky, represented
T. T. Newman. Transpar
ent of arm?; 75,000 majority for
r 1 Reverse side, cartoon, triumph-
egenii, Victory; Centennial
i 5 ® 1 ’- camuel J. Tilden, of New
ad \ iee-President, Thomas A.
of Indiana. On the ends,
a “ s - Hayes and a negro; loqui-
•‘q ts, “U'e are fairly beaten and
a anot hGp ourselves.” Negro,
-Dry Mars’ Hayes, we hoped ’em
■ Motto: ‘ Now is the winter of
EEContent made glorious by this
N York.''
- --tate of Indiana, represented by
- Hawkins. Tranparency, coat of
Rvverse, Indiana mules have
f~; w --5.00 since the election.
[ Jt3 “ 5 is all tlie go. On the ends,
of eminent men: “Don’t
l" :ae —Hutherford B. Hayes.
3 P the cardinal red gar-
udiana gives her favorite son
Majority.
y tate of Texas, represented by
" 'mith. Transparency, coat of
■vgend, 00,«jl >i i majority for Uncle
Reverse, cartoon, ox-head,
-Mtnnial, Tilden and Hen-
' " eat this and take the horns,
say Lis name was Hayes?”
f,. . °‘ Connecticut, represented
’• Norton
Revs:
Transparency, coat of
rse, Connecticut joins the
"den, Hendricks and reform.
Oar flag—we are with you
The Nutmeg State Demo-
p-,fiie of Florida, represented by
I p en - Transparency, coat of
‘ e ' trse , orange branch, legend,
I,'', oran ge, Fncte Sammy. We
Jj-j-el their Stearns. End, “I am
•; ncle Sammy, I am coming.
C 10 keep me hack, but they
' 0 ’C Ilell Gate was blown
,he Republican party,
f 1 'fginia; represented by M.
Hfansparency; coat of arras :
hgmia’s sons, authors of the
ludenpedence, and of the
:I ; ends '• she leads in the
lr 6‘niu tlie mother of States and
|. J* of Delaware ; represented
-Towers, Jr.; transparency;
_ c ’ lc k just hatched ; inscribed ;
I vlaware egg hatching for the
’ rtT crse ; cartoon ; death of
» ttxla, Little but loud; 3,000
By “crease my size and I will
Wajcrity.
V p' °T Tennessee, represented
' lrr ‘ i : transparency, Coat of
1' J Majority; reverse,JThevol-
■ Vi,
VOLUME XXXI.
“WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION!”
■ ' - .JU
HOME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1876.
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NEW SERIES--N0. 12
unteer State comes with a Democratic
jell; ends,The home of Jas. K. Polk,:
true to Democratic government; The
days of Andy Jackson have returned.
The State of New Jersey, represented
by M. N. Cutter; transparency, Coat of
Arms; reverse, I never go back on my
neighbor; ends, I’ve too much at stake;
to risk ot on Rutherford ; Uncle Sammy
is the man for me.
The State of Alabama represented by
Gus Orr; this was the most elaborate
design of any, and consisted of Hills &
McDonald’s mammoth chair mounted on
a dray ; this chair was surmounted with
a large transparency, and this with a
smaller transparency, the whole reaching
thirty feet high. The dray was drawn by
six mules,handsomely decorated with flags
and driven by that true-blue Democrat-,
ic negro, Tom Davie. Quite a number
of ex-Alabamians rede in the chair,
and the circle was refined by the witch
ing presence of Miss Carrie, the charm
ing daughter of the chief marshal. We
cannot recall all the inscriptions on this
State, but one or two were so appropri
ate that we remember them : Alabama
—Here we rest, Uncle Sammy’s Chair.
The State of Maryland, represented
by Capt.E. A. Williams—Transparency,
Design, The ballot box is mightier than
the carpet bag; reverse, cartoon, a
mule, 15th amendment, kicking a car
pet-bagger, legend, W r e told you so ! on
ends, The despot’s heel was on my
brow, But Tilden sets us free, “Mary-!
land, my Maryland,” Maryland’s pray
ers and vigils for her Southern sisters
are heard at last.
The State of Arkansas, represented
by A. J. Little— Transparency, Arkan
sas, 35,000 organized j Democrats scared
poor Hayes; reverse, Arkansas tooth
pick, I fight for Uncle Sam; ends, No
carpet baggers in Arkansus, Bully!
Solid Democratic delegation in Con
gress, Good-bye, Ulysses.
State of South Carolina, represented
by P. C. McNulty—Transparency, coat
of arms, Wade Hampton ; reverse, de
sign, with legend, The dark clouds are
passing away ; end, four aces, Tilden,
Hampton, Hendricks and Blue Jeans,
Hurrah for the Democratic tiger!
The State of Missouri, represented
by S. G. Hardy—Transparency, coat of
arms; reverse, Tilden studies the wel
fare of the people ; ends, Now we have
assurance of justice.
The State of North Carolina, repre
sented by G. W. F. Lamkin and J. D..
Carver—Transparency, coat of arms ;
reverse, North Carolina, 15,000 majori
ty, Tnis “Settles” it in ad-Vance ; ends,
Tar-heels always stick.
The State of West Virginia, repre
sented by H. Harpold—Transparency,
West Virginia comes back and joins
her sister States, Hallelujah ! Epluribus
unvm ; reverse, Born of revolution, we
christen her in peace; ends, West Vir
ginia is true to her grand old mother,
God bless her! Carry the news to Mary !
Who frowed dat las’ brick ?
The State of Oregon; represented by
B. T. Haynes ; transparency; Long time
coming, but you may bet she comes O. K.;
reverse, Oregon is slow hoys, but she s
mighty sure; end, picture of a star in a
clear sky; legend, No Haze is over this
star.”
The State of Mississippi; represented
by Robert Tcwers ; transparency; Coat
of Arms; reverse, 30,000 majority for
our Uncle Sam ; end, L. Q. C. Lamar,
the white man’s idol and the black man’s
friend. The colored men of Mississippi
voted with their white fellow-citizens for
good government.
Next to the States came wagons hear
ing various transparencies, couspicuous
among which was one driven by W m.
Towers, and having a wheat fan fan
ning them out, with the legend, Didn’?
we, though! *
Promptly at the hour of 7:30, which
was signaled by the booming of a can
non made for the occasion by that no
ble old patriot and true-blue Democrat,
James Noble, Sr., the procession moved
off down Broad to South, up South to
Cherokee,'up Cherokee to Howard,down
Howard to Broad, up Broad to East
Boundery, and countermarched down
Broad to speakers’ stand, in front of the
Choice House.
All along the route the houses were
brilliantly illuminated, and the night
was made as day. Some of the illumina
tions were peculiarly fine, notably those
of Capt. Jno. Berry, A. G. Pitner, Ed.
West, Col. Fouche', Dr. Jaynes, Dr.
West, Mr. J. J. Cohen, Dr. Holmes, Col.
Samuels, Col. Branham, H. H. Smith,
Col. Alexander, R. T. Hargrove, Mrs.
Johnson, H. Yancey, Dr. Hillyer, Mrs.
Terhune, Choice House, Buena \ ista,
J I Wright, Judge Underwood, Rome
Female College, P. Howell, Cherokee
Baptist College, Dr. Powers.
Arrived at the stai)d the parade was
dismissed, when after some stirring
music speeches were made by Judge
Underwood. Col. Dabney and Col. Bran-
ham.
The first speaker was Judge Under-
wood, who spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am troubled to know what to say
and how to talk. Y T ou will find out
that my voice is very poor. But I must
say something. This demonstration is
being made to exhibit our joy. Some
grand event has transpired to bring to
gether this vast audience. The ladies
God bless them forever!—are always
on the side of right, truth and justice.
They have beautified, adorned and il
luminated themselves and their resi
dences. They are here and on the
sidewalks, for it takes all this small
town to hold our people.
The merchant has left his merchan
dise, the mechanic his workshop, the
books, the. physician his
pills, and the farmer his plow,to come
here to .rejoIpp^Neyerin inqdprp; times
there been, such an occasion,, and
rarely has-it-fiillen -to the lot of any
hoairto id®ffife!|ttt:lran audieface; That
I am permitted to speak here and now
is the chief honor of my life. What
shall I say ? .... "
The year of jubilee has come. Re
joice! rejoice! This dark night is like
the gloom from which we are emerg
ing, and this glorious illumination il
lustrates the day upon which we are
now entering.
For sixteen long years the heel of
the despot has been upon us. Being
greatly outnumbered by our adversa
ries, we have been plundered of our
property and humiliated as a section j
we have been strangers in the land of
our birth; malignity and hate have
characterized the conduct of those who
should have been our brothers; every
ingenious devise of wrong and oppress
ion has been used to destroy the spirit
of liberty always' dear to our people.
This is our country, this is our govem-
mens, and this is our flag. The Star-
Spangled Banner is now ours. It was
the flag of our fathers ; they invented
the design. A Southern man wroie for
Southern people, “The Star-Spangled
Banner.” It was our fathers who wrote
the Declaration of Independence, set
ting forth the rights of man, our first
Magna-Charta.
George Washington, of Virginia, and
his noble army, fought for Liberty,
and won it. James Maddison, of Vir
ginia, was the father of the Constitu
tion of the United States. Heaven left
Washington childless in order that he
might be the father of his country,
“first in war, first in peace, and first in
the hearts of his countrymen.” George
Mason, Jefferson, and Randolph, were
the fathers of the Democratic party.
In the war of 1S12, Andrew Jackson,
at New Orleans, drove the British lion
from our shores, and illustrated the un-
dying principles of Liberty.
The Democratic party has had the
control of the Government for about
seventy years. Under the guidance of
the principles of that grand old party,
our government was made the “asylum
of the oppressed of all nations and tlie
admiration of the world.”
It was the Democratic jiarty that
caused our commerce and the rights of
our people to be respected in every land
and sea, where the star-spangled banner
floated. I repeat to you, my friends,
we are going home. We intend in the
future to live atjhome and board at the
same place.
This section of the Union has fur
nished our greatest statesmen—Jeffer
son, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Clay,
Calhoun, Crawford, Lowndes, Laurens,
Troup, Bibb, Grundy, Polk, King,
Cobb, Toombs, Stephens, and others.
Our greatest Generals—Washington,
Jacksen, Lee, Davis, Taylor, and a
mighty host But why are we here to
rejoice and jubilate? The American
people, true to the instincts of a gen
erous and noble patriotism, have arisen
in their majesty and power, and elected
Tilden and Hendricks President and
Vice-President of the |Republic. It is
a glorious triumph—a triumph of prin
ciple ; a triumph over a faction; a tri
umph over corruption; a triumph of
honesty. We have a right to rejoice—
we do rejoice.
“ Hail to the chief who In triumph advances.”
Honored and blest be his ever dear
name.
My friends, I am as certain that Til
den and Hendricks are elected as I am
certain that I see you now. We have
carried New York, New Jersey, Connec
ticut, Indiana, and I hope Oregon. We
have elected our men and they will be
inaugurated, as sure as the day of the
5th of March, 1877, arrives. We have
been robbed and kept so poor that we
have had to work for our support—the
wise heads, stout hearts and strong arms
of the Democratic party will know how
to inaugurate their President elect. Be
of good cheer, he firm and undaunted,
and all will be well.
Rejoice that corruption must flee,
trunks and carpet-sacks will be packed,
papers are being burned, and tracks put
out. Did the sun of Heaven ever shine
on such a set of dishonest men? Pooij
Belknap was caught and disgraced—the
Senate pardoned him. Avery and
others were caught and convicted—
Grant pardoned them. Think of such
a government,from the gift-taking Pres
ident down to the thieving revenue offi
cer. Boutwell, while Secretary of the
Treasury, forced a balance by giving
himself a credit for 8229,000,000 in one
item.
My friends, think of the victory, the
glorious victory, of virtue, integrity and
honesty, over corruption. This victory
has been won by the uprising of the
people. Whata grand party—unbought,
not purchased with the ballot, they
have won the day. God bless the Dem
ocratic party forever.
My friends, I must close. I can’t
detain you longer.
But you will permit me to ask you
to cast your eyes to the East—look at
the day-star of glory; look at gallant
South Carolina, the land of Marion, of
Sumter, of Williams, Lowndes, Lau
rens, Calhoun, Hayne, McDuffie,
Cheves and Butler; look at that down
trodden peeple, rising like a Phcenix
from ashes and blood; look at her he
roic deeds of high surprise. “ Peace
hath her victories, no less renowned
than war.”
In the day of our first revolution she
gave her sons to the cause of liberty.
"Marion, the swamp-fox, and Sumter,
the game-cock,led them; Wide Hamp
ton furnished his legion and leffthem
in person; in.the war of 1812, flag
of the Palmetto State stood by the side
of JackBon at New Orleans; and in
1846, Butler planted the flag on Chepul-
tepec and Cherubusco. I will not speak
of later times, and of her sons, w1it> fill
the most honorable of all earthly
tions, a Confederate soldier’s f
But in every war for liberty, in the field,
in the forum, in the Senate, in-the
House, everywhere, and at all tim
under all circumstances, her
have been true. But Provideni
reserved for Wade Hampton, the^jood
son of the noble sire, to exhibit to the
world in this Centennial year of Inde
pendence the sublimest moral spectacle
ever seen by men. At the batf[e of
Waterloo, the Iron Duke Wellington,
when Bonaparte was pressing hisvintre
with twenty thousand men, led by the
interpid Ney, the boast of the brave,
the Grand Duke gave but one word of
command, “Stand firm,” until they
came within range of his muskets^and
then he said, “Up guards and at them.”
The order was obeyed, the day was
won. Wade Hampton, the leader of
the Democracy, and with the ballot in
tlie hands of his party, has himself and
his party heroically stood and heroic
ally endured slurs, insult and provoca
tion, and gloriously carried his State.
Carolina has had her heroes in battle.
She has had one greater than them ail—
her hero in peace.
Some have fears w*- may be cheated
out of our victory. “Be of good cheer,
we have overcome the world.” The
Republican party have a great stake to
play for—81, 1 000,000,000 of stealage in
the future and $2,000,000,000 of steal
age in the past, and if one State only Fad
to be manipulated, they would count us
out, but in the face of the facts and the
eyes of the civilized world they will not
dare to fraudulently cheat us out of
three Stales. Their leaders are mean
enough, but with a majority of the peo
ple against them North and South, they
will not dare to do it. But if they do,
will the people stand tho cheat and
fraud? No, never!
My friends, we have a glorious leader;
we have a man who has reformed New
York. He will cleanse the Augean
stable. After Tilden is inaugurated, .on
the 5th of March, when the roan in
moon sails over Washington City lie will
not be compelled to hold his nose. Be
of good cheer, my friends, your reward
draweth nigh, the day of your deliverance
is at hand.
Our country is redeemed and we are
set free. The American eagle is again
free. She takes the honest Republicans
upon her wings and bears them aloft and
bathes them in the sunshine of truth and
learns them to take true liberty uud hon
esty.
I repeat, my friends, he of good cheer,
Tilden will be inaugurated President of
the United States on the 5th day of
March next, and he will walk the deck of
the old ship of State like a descended
God, and the guarantees and principles of
liberty will be recaptured from the hands
of the usurpers who have trampled them
under foot.
After the Judge had concluded Col
W. H. Dabney was louded called for, and
his appearance on the stand greeted with
the wildest bursts of applause. Prefacing
his remarks with an amusing anecdote,
he spoke as follows :
During the political campaign
through which I have lately passed, I
gave a good deal of study to the ad
ministration of the government by the
party in power. I had not been en
gaged in that study long, before I saw
and felt that there was “urgent need of
immediate reform” in the management
of our public affairs. Being fully sat
isfied that corruption had crept into
high places, and that there had been a
great abuse of power in the administra
tion of the government by the party in
power, I devoted my energies to the
election of Tilden and Hendricks. In
accord with the organized national
Democracy, and the organized Democ
racy of the State of Georgia, I gave an
enthusiastic support to their candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency.
I rejoice in the large majority given by
the Democracy of Georgia to Tilden
and Hendricks, and rejoice to-night in
the belief that they have been elec
ted President and Vice President of the
United States. It has been related that
when the last name was signed to the
Declaration of Independence, a little
boy who had been waiting for the pa;
per Bigned, ran out in the midst of the
mighty crowd who had been anxiously
waiting, and longstanding still in front
of Independence Hall to hear the news
and waving his cap in the air, cried:
“Ring—Father—Ring.” Immediately
the old bell that hung over the build
ing, rang from the steeple the glad ti
dings that the colonies had resolved to
be free—and the people rejoiced.
God helped this resolve of the colo
nies, arid after seven years of war and
tribulation, they became free and inde
pendent States under that constitution
for over seventy years. Under the ad
ministration of the government accord
ing to the principles, power and limit
ations of that constitution, the coun
try grew and prospered, and became
the happy abode of a great and thriv
ing .population. In course of time this
constitution was disregarded, and the
tread of the despot was heard in the
land. Corruption, wasteful extrava
gance and despotism characterized the
administration of the government. If
the Presidential election has resulted
as I believe it has, I should feel that
God has blessed our country again.
After sixteen years of corrupt and des
potic rule by the Republican party,
the true patriots and great reformers
Tilden and Hendricks haye, I believe,
beep elected President and Vice Presi-
ident of the United States—a federal
republic—not a nation. If so constitu
tional government and civil liberty
have been secured, and the time for
rejoicing has come. When the halls of
Jericho fell before the blast of the horns
and the voices of the multitude,
Joshua’s army was commanded to
shout for joy, for the Lord had given
them the city. The power of Republi
canism having been overcome by the
vim of the Democracy in the defeat of
Hayes and Wheeler, let the people re
joice in the deliverance of the country
from misrule and ruin.
After Col. Dabney, CoL Branham
followed with a few well-timed re
marks, in which he said that all the
political rights of the colored man
would be preserved under Democratic
rule, to-wit:
1. The right to he free men, and that
no party or people could or would take
away-that right.
2. That the right of the colored man
to hold office and vote, and sit on jn
ries, woijld be preserved, and that in
these respects they would still remain
on an equal footing with the white
man. '
3. That the only change that would
likely be made would be the repeal of
the civil rights bill—that is, the bill
that allows, white men to cuter the ho
tels and boarding houses and sit at the
same table, to enter the. theatres and
other places of amusement, and to en
ter the public conveyances, eta, of the
colored men, against their will; and
which also allows the colored man to
enter the hotels and hoarding houses of
ihe white men and sit 'at the same table
with their guests, and to enter their
theatres and other places of public
amusement, and their public convey
ances, against their will. All public
conveyances must carry all persons,
white and black, and carry them com
fortably.
The effect of the civil rights bill is
to antagonize the races. This bill will
likely be repealed, and this source of
irritation will be gone. When the
Democrats 1 are in-power, the colored
people will see that there will be no ef
fort made to take away any of their
political rights, but that any law which
looks to a forced social status will be
repealed.
And, it being demonstrated by the
Democrats that no political rights of
the colored people will be taken from
them, they will cease to be led by any
man, or party of men, and voted as so
much stock in Chide, hut will harmon
ize with the whites, and co-operate with
them.
The Electoral Vote.
FOR TILDEN’.
States. Majority.
Alabama.— r —35,000
Arkansas 25,000
Connecticut— 3,000
Delaware 3,000
Florida 1,500
Georgia —75,000
Kentucky
Louisiana
——75,000
1 7,000
Maryland
.15,000
Mississippi -
45j000
Missouri
4o;ooo
New Jersey
New York-
siooo
—38,000
North Carolina
5,000
South Carolina—
Tennessee
— - ljOOO
_. .. 50,000
Texas
75^000
Virginia
20000
West Virginia—.
171000
Tntnl.
557 500
FOR HAYES.
States.
California
Majority.
4,000
Colorado
L200
Illinois
20^000
Trurfi
50^000
Kansas
9.5'nOn
Maine
15,000
Massachusetts—
Michigan
-37,000
— 20,000
Minnesota.
. IS OOO
Nehra®ka -
«'nnn
Nevada
New Hampshire.
Ohio
liOOO
2,000
5,000
Oregon
1,000 ,
Pennsylvania—
Rhode Island—
Vpnnnnt
10,000 '
- 5,O0O
25,000
Wisconsin—:—
3,000 -
Fotal.
.250,200
Fofe«.
10
6
6
3
4
11
15
12
8
8
8
15
9
35
10
7
12
8
11
5
203
Totes.
6
8
21
11
5
7
13
11
5
3
3
5
22
3
29
4
5
10
166
A dispatch‘from New York, to the
Cincinnati Enquirer says of the effect of
the Presidential complication upon busi
ness :
Commercial, orders have ceased to
como in, and many received before the
election have been countermanded.
Stocks are weaker, and values generally
unsettled. The offices of the. Western
Union Telegraph say that commercial
telegraphing has almost ceased, and that
only political business now occupies their
wires. Leading bankers and merchants
assert that a continuance of the suspense
for a month, would cause an unexampled
panic. * j
Claflin & Co., Stewart, and all whole
sale houses down town, report that bosh
ness is ata complete stand-stilL Buyers
from tlw.West ■ refuse, to give an order
until, the matter is . settled .one . .way
or the other. Telegraphic dispatches
have been received from Chicago, Cincin
nati and many Southern Capitals counter
manding orders for goods until the ques-
tion. is palled;-; .
The ward statesman who caimot count
loses his -importance just'now. He cats
no', figure in a street-corner discussion oh
the Presidential issue.
William A. Wheeler and Louis
iana.
In his dispatches to General Sherman
President Grant plainly indicated the
State of Louisiana as the final battle
ground for the Presidency. It is par
ticularly unfortunate for the Republi
can party that its success depends on
such a State. It is especially notewor
thy that its vote will he absolutely nec
essary to elect William A. Wheeler, of
New York, Vice President, who gave his
name to the celebrated compromise by
which the infamously corrupt action of
the Louisiana Retaining Board in the
elections of 1874 was reversed with the
approval of a Republican Congress.
Mr. Wheeler’s record in this matter
makes it difficult to believe that he
would .accept a victory at the hands of
this Board if there was any fair doubt
upon the integrity of its work. Says
President Grant, “No man worthy of
the office of President should be will
ing to hold it if coanted in or placed
there by fraud.” This appeals with
equal force to the candidate who at the
death or disability of the President must
take his place. Mr. Wheeler, therefore,
is particularly interested in the result
He has placed his knowledge and his
condemnation of the fraudulence and
corruption of the Louisiana Retur|_
Board so markedly on record that he is
bound now to second the desire of Pres
ident Grant and of all good citizens to
have the operations of this Board so
scrutinized that the result shall be above
suspicion.
When the select House Committee on
Louisiana affairs, of which Mr. Wheeler
is a member, returned to Washington
the Chairman presented the following
preamble and resolution to the House,
which adopted them:
Whereas, both brunches of the Legis
lature of Louisiana have requested the
Select Committee of the House to inves
tigate the circumstances attending the
election and returns thereof in that
State for the year 1874; and whereas
?aid Committee hosunanimously report
ed that the Returning Board of that
State, in canvassing and compiling said
returns and promulgating the results,
wrongfully applied an erroneous rule of
law, by reason whereof persons were
awarded seats in the House of Repre
sentatives to which they were not enti
tled, and persons entitled to seats were
deprived-of them.
Resolved, That it is recommended to
the House of Representatives in Louis
iana to take immediate steps to remedy
said inju?tiee and to place the persons
rightfully entitled in their seats.
With this resolution were presented
majority and minority reports. Mr.
Wheeler signed the latter, which offered
the previous excesses of the white
Democrats as palliating, in a measure,
the Republican frauds. But this minor
ity report contained the following preg
nant passage, which shows that the
present emergency was foreseen. It now
sounds prophetic:
“But the evil goes much further.
Upon the flections in Louisiana, as in
other States, depends the right to the)
seats of Senators and Representatives
who are to aid in making laws for the
whole country, and the choice of Presi
dential electors, upon whose vote may
depend the title of the office of the
President of the United States himself.
No party in the United States will like to
submit to a result decided by the rotes of
electors chosen by such means. Each party
will be likely to credit charges of fraud
and violence made against its own side.
There is, in our judgment, the greatest
dangei that these elements may enter
into the next national election to so
great an extent that it may leave the
real expression of the will of the people
in doubt”
Here the danger of the present situ
ation is boldly sketched out. President
Grant’s words appeal to the candidates;
the words we have quoted appreciate
the danger to the national peace. This
is a crisis in which every honest man
of influence before the country should
exert it to the utmost in the interest of
fair play. We call upon William A.
Wheeler, on his iecord, to come to the
front and do his share of the work of
finding an issne to the crisis at once
honorable and peaceful.—New York
Herald.
Tilden'8 Election an Accom
plished Pact
Chicago Times.
Louisiana and Florida are now taci
tly conceded to Tilden by the less bois
terous Grant people. The situation in
Louisiana, however, absorbes pnblic
attention, not becauseof any doubt as
to the result, but because of the assem
bling of leading poblic men from all
sections to watch the scoundrels who
bad prepared for a great fraud. It will
be an interesting study to watch the
contortions of the defeated corrup
tionists when the count in Louisiana
forever disapproves the claims and dis-
creadits the career of the Kellogg re
gime. Florida’s majority for Tilden,
from the figures at hand, will be 1,-
200—possibly 50 _ or 100 more. His
majority in Louisiana can nut be less
then 7,000, on the same official figures
at hand. Chamberlain and Kellogg,
it will be observed, make no claimes of
a positive sort—indeed, the first now
confesses that it will be necessary to
throw out Democratic counties to give
him even the ignominonslv fallen fig
ure he n«,w claimes. The situation is
in no sense different from that announ
ced in the Times Wednesday morning,
save that Wisconsen has given its elec
toral vote to Hayes instead of Tilden,
as at first reported. There may be a
few days of uncertainty as to the poli
tician’s part in the count; tut, as to
Tilden’s election, it is an accomplished
fact which no power on earth can
chimge, and which no party in this
country will dare oppose when the
proper time for decission arrives.
An official connected-with the Dem-
ratioheadquartersat Washington says
that he has it from undoubted author-!
ity in social circles, that Hayes has pri
vately said within a month that he did
not:expect to be elected; that the de
mand was lq part justified,
Administration was s load that the
party canid not carry. \
- A European WAR.-r-The news from
Russia still continues unfavorable. The
[nglish and Continental , press are
lokibg for war. The popular inflam-
latioir in Russia appears be very
The Next House ot Representa
tives.
_ The observant reader will have no
ticed that in the list of Congressmen
we have published from day to day
since the election there has been no
change of name in several instances
from an original estimate, but a slight
change, if any, from the Democratic
majority in the next Honse of Repre
sentatives. No changes likely to occur
in the figures we present this morning
can change the majority from twenty-
five, where we now place it, to a lower
number, while complete returns from
South Carolina and Wisconsin are
likely to increase rather than diminish
the Democratic majority. As regards
the standing of the House, it will be of
about the same calibre in the Forty-
fifth as iq the Forty-fourth Congres
Butler takes the place of Blaine as
the representatives of the dramatic ele
ment in 'the opposition, and on the
Democratic side Lamar will be the
most sadly missed.
With these exceptions the leaders on
both sides will be pretty much the
same. Sayler will be Speaker, as a
matter of course, Cox having sacrificed
the chance which possession gave him
to his opposition to Tilden at St. Louis.
The organization of the committees,
too, will be very much the same, Mor
rison and Randall and Cox and Swann
being all re-elected and entitled to the
courtesy of the places in the commit
tees of Ways and Means, Appropria
tions, Banking and Currency and For
eign Affairs. Knott is also re-elected
and, we presume, will be able to hold
his place at the bead of the Judiciary
Committee.
Only two important committees will
be remodelled, those on the Pacific
Railroad and on Commerce. Lamar
was chairman of the one, and Hereford
of West Virginia, of the other. Had
General Ward, of this city, been chosen
he would have been entitled to the
chairmanship of the Committee on
Commerce, and we shall not be sur
prised if the new Speaker takes ad
vantage of these circumstances to re
pair the injustice done to Mr. Wood
through the prejudices of the late
Speaker.
These speculations are only valuable
at this time as showing that the present
regime in the House will be continued
for at least two years of the coming
administration, and as forecasting the
kind of legislation we may expect in
the near future. The next will be the
complete counterpart of present Honse
of Representatives in every essential
feature, the only difference being in the
absence of one distinguished statesman
on eaeh side and in the smaller major
ity which the country has accorded to
the Democratic party.—New York Her
ald.
The election was quiet. They (the
Republicans) have returns already from
every Republican county, and they know
that the majorities in the interior Demo
cratic counties yet to be heard from will
uot only overcome these majorities, but
give us a clear Democratic majoritj of
from fifteen hundred to two thousand in
the State. Knowing this, they have now
set about the task of manufacturing pub
lic sentiment North, by groundlessly
charging upon Democrats what they in
tend to themselves, vainly thinking that
the public sentiment there will support
them in the course they meditate. Their
boasted majority in Key West has been
overcome, the Cubans going Democratia
Jackson county oae of their strong-holds,
has gone against them; their majorities
have reduced below their estimates in
every county except Duval, while the
white people have come out as they never
did before, and as a consequence the Dem
ocratic majorities have been swelled far
beyond the calculations of the Republi
cans, and they are beaten. This is the
whole of it. They have fought the battle
and lost, and now they meditate turning
defeat into victory by violence and fraud.
We hope Governor Stearns will pause be
fore he goes further. If he does not,
shall he succeed? We shall see.—Jack
sonville (.Fla.j Press.
The introduction ef the Woosung
Railway has set the Chinamen crazy.
They fear invasion by spirits and hob-
goblins everywhere. At Woosh they
were in such fear of demons that they
closely examined every traveller and
every arriving boat One day recently
five strangers, three of whom had knives,
arrived in a boat The searchers, con
cluding at once that they had come to cut
their queues off, speedily cut their three
heads off with their own knives. The
two unarmed implored to be taken be-
forea magistrate, when the interpreter
explained that the three decapitated men
were pig butchers. At Soochow a party of
deceivers were caught who frightened.the
natives. Among them was a pretty girl
who confessed to making paper sprites
and letting them flutter in the air at night.
The missionaries get the credit of all the
mischief.
Mrs. Irene House, the Trenton mur
deress, thinks that she is divinely
called to lecture by a vision she has had
since the trial, and has actually pre
pared a lecture. She will travel under
the management of her married broth
er-in-law, and thinks that there is a
large work cut out for her. She says:
“ I shall never rest until I have di
vorce abolished for every cause all over
the United States. I shall never rest
until I have the laws relating to schools
so changed that Christianity, from in
fancy, shall be instilled as thoroughly
as the alphabet, accompanying every
study, and fit my charges so that sin
cannot get any holds on their minds or
lives.”
This is not the first close count in the
electoral vote for President. In 1797
John Adams received 71 votes in the
Electoral College, and Thomas Jefferson
68. In 1801 Jefferson Kceived 73 and
Burr 73, and the election was decided
by the Honse. Since then there has
been no close count in the Electoral
College, though there haye been several
occasions when, there being more than
two candidates, no one had a clear ma
jority of the electoral vote, and the
election was completed by the House of
Representatives, as the Constitution in
each cases provides.
The “Hunting of the Snark,” by the
author of the “Jabberwock,” is not so
-mhch of a success as the latter-named
work. The story of the “Snark” is that
it turns out to lie only a “Boojum.” The
New York Herald, when the first elec
tion returns came in, was anxious to
know whether the reported result was
a Snark or Boqjora.
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or Tri-Weekly. When published in both papers,
50 per cent, additional upon table rates.
How Hayes Feels.
From tho Cincinnati Times (Rep.)
Columbus, Nov. 8.—After a careful
council ofrepublicansthis morning and
after careful figuring, the following
rule was written down: To insure
Hayes’ election he must carry tha fol
lowing states—Maine 7. New Hamp
shire 5, Vermont 5, Massachusetts 13,
Rhode Island 4, Pennsylvania 29, Ohio
22, Michigan 11, Illinois 21, Iowa 11,
Minnesota 5, Nebraska 3, Kansas 5,
Colorado 3, California 4, Nevada 3, Or
egon 3, Wisconsin 10, South Carolina 7,
Louisiana 8, Florida 4. This gives
Hayes a total electoral vote of 185.
The democratic committee are con
fident of Tilden’s election, but ore not
specially jubilant fearing there may
yet be some mistake in their figures.
A dispatch was received frsm Zach
Chandler stating that his latest from
Florida and Louisiana led him to be
lieve both states had been carried for
Hayes, and if his view was reliable,
this insured Hayes’ election.
Senator Morton shed a ray of hope on
the council by his dispatch from Fran
cisco declaring that the republicans
had carried it by several thousand ma-'
jority. Even this news from such
sources as Chandler and Morton did
not cause any special shouting.
After the possibilities and probabili
ties had been discussed in an informal
way by several gentleman present,
Gov. Hayes, looking as rosy and bland
as if he had no part in the ma'.ter, walk
ed about the room for a time, and then
in answer to question from your cor
respondents to how the nt-W3 of this
morning affected him, replied sub
stantia as follows': “I think we are
defeated tn spite of this recent news.
I am of the opinion that the democrats
have carried the country and elected
Mr. Tilden. As it now seems neces
sary for the republicans to carry all
the states now down as doubtful to se
cure even a majority of one in the
electoral college, I must confess I do
not see very much hope for, and I am
inclined to doubt the possibilities. I
don’t think these encouraging dispatch
es ought to he given to the public, now;
because it might mislead our enthusi
astic friends to bet on the election and
lese their money. I do heartily de
precate such dispatches.”
The fathers had political feelings as
strong a& we have now, at least John
Qusncy Adams had. Hi3 feelings
sometimes found expression in senten
ces like this, taken from thejust pub
lished volume of his diary : “Such is
human nature in the gigantic intelect,
the envious temper, the ravenous am-
bitioD, and rotten heart of Daniel Web
ster.”
This will do very well: Eccentric
Father Moody used to be the delight
and gnid of York, Me., the old seaport
town which disputes with St. Augus
tine the honor of having been the first
city in America. In its ancient meet
ing-house he administered his celebra
ted rebuke to his tardy parishioner, a
stately Englishman, who walked up
the broad aisle in prayer-time. “And,
Oh, good Lord,” prayed the worthy
parson, “among thy other kind dis
pensations, cure thy servant, who has
just entered thy house ef that urgodly
strut.f The sad life of his sen, “Aand-
kerchsefMoody,’’suggested Hawthornes
pathetic story, “The Minister’s Alack
Veil.”
Governor Colquitt is a civil service re
former in earnest. Promising that hon
esty and economy Ehall be the watch
words of his administration, and that he
will be the Governor of the whole peo
ple, he says: “ I went through
the campaign without promising
or even intimating to any man
that I should appoint him to any
office. I declined all offeis that involved
the idea of obligation. I am, conse
quently, free to select for public positions
only tho-e men that I consider the best
fitted to fill them. In making up my list
of appointments I shall be guided solely
by the question of fitness. All applica
tions for office are being filed, and 1 shall
leisurely, during the time preceding the
inangaration, apply the test of fitness to
the applicants, and choose therefrom
those who appear to me to best stand the
test.”
It is said that the late Mr. Peabody,
with all his prodigality on works of
benevolence, looked closely after his
pence. He hated nothing more than
the notion of being taken in, and it
was rare indeed that any trickster could
make that boast. On one occasion,
when traveling in Ireland, he was
greatly annoyed at what seemed a very
extortionate demand on the part of a
car driver, and he accordingly resented
the attempt at imposition by giving the
man his bare legal fare. After looking
at the coin for a few seconds, Pat began
to laugh.
“Bedad,” says he, “they may call yon
Mr. Paybody, buj I call yon Mr. Pay-
nobody.”
The introduction of universal liability
to military service in Russia Los proved
far less effective for tlie purpose of in
creasing the forces of the • inpire than
was expected. Instead of.i e army of
2,500,000 which it was thought wonld
ultimately be produced by ihc new
scheme, it has dow become evident mat
the largest force Russia can dispose of
on a peace footing is 30,000 officers and
730,000 men, and on a war footing 40,-
000 officers and 1,200.000 men.
The Constitution of. the next Legis
lature of New Jersey j which is to choose
a successor to Senator Frtlinghuyson,
seems to be a matter of some doubt.
The Democrats have a majority of one
in the Senate, counting one independent
Democrat in the number, while ihe
House is a tie. This would give the
Democrats a n ajority of one on joint
ballot ^ *
New York City gives another instance
of discriminating voting. Smith Ely’s
majority as mayor is 53,072, whilst Cal
vin’s majority as surrogate falls to 15,-
045. The latter was opposed principal
ly by the New York. Sun, which, thus
seems to have had' ftrfluencrtd control
nearly forty thousand votes. :
The Society' of. the Etchers in New
York is shortly to be organized by R.
Swain Gifford, Samuel' Coleman, Dr.
M. Yale, and other artists and ama
teurs. The Etchers appear to be a New
York society, but doubtless artists from
outline towns can be admitted.
Ten thousand Californians-expect to
leave for the Black Hills next year.