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cannot do it.
gh0 are disposed to favor or to
Tcentemplated revolutionary de-
'f the Radicals do not rightly con,
! difficulties which stand between
jjd their unhallowed purposes.
. e people are against them, over
lf VI white men having declared for
in preference to Hayes or Grart.
law is against them. Hayes
r 'to over-ride the law in order to se-
;‘ l9 Electoral votes requisite to
*- m But should the will of the
1 5- white men be ignored and in
0 f all law. justice and decency,
p board of the three disputed
jhoald huggerraugger the returns
jethe requisite 19 votes to Hayes,
would not be consumated.
-1 work would only be begun. to the general interests of the country,
jjtoaoeistic House of Represent*- ™ “ - -
* duds Hkc a granite wall betweeii
* ad the usurpers. It will have
ijjjpou the claims and become a
L to the usurpation before it could
V ic. But should this wall of
Lueniocratic breasts be beaten down
-remains yet a stronger o$a still and
r jj (be good sense, the patriotism
lend conservatism that is lodged in
I of tiie Republican Senate it-
v je h men as Senator Ferry, Presi-
r 0 f the Senate, Conkling, Windom
kiincr, Sargent, Jones, of Nevada,
fit, Hamlin, Alcorn, Howe, Angus
Frelinehuvsen aad Hamilton
Cdnetlend themselves to the nefarious
ntsuppose the conspirators carry the
f Republican majority, including
feirv, with them, and force their
Undent to usurp the dangerous author-
' counting the votes and declaring
result—does that complete the
It does not. ThereistheHouse j
rpresentatives, to have its say on the
i It has been said, when the joint,
; metis and the President of tho
■■ assumes to count the votes, the
retire, and the Senate and its
■President will then declare Gov.
lawfully chosen President.
Itre are not so sure of this. The joint
: meets, nut iu the Senate chamber
jiheRenresentatives’ hall—the law
the Senate, which represents
to make this marked obeisance
iiHouse, which represents the people.
3,a will he on its own ground, and
exercise its authority on go into joint
a! all. without the guaranty of
rule fir counting and adjudicating
it may make sucti impressive
Bienamed opposition to Air. Ferry’s
b:o; the votes, as will divest that pro-
bag of aii mural authority, and make
Republican Governor of Louisiana
the last tour years has been — a
uk. wielding the forms and symbols
xw, servilely supported by his
a® in wrong, but possessing neither
spec! nor the affection of his
»m. It may he that even this
they may be still graver
P.ts than tiie moral and legal ones
hvs pointed out, in the way of the
But it is not necessary to
nem. The difficulties which
iiTme cannot but encounter, even
:i °®s are such as may well cause
^publican leaders to stagger and
ic before they resolve to further go.
TICK
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‘■tualtoa Enterprise says:
- E '-irter.eville Erpress, of the 10th
- t ar. editorial reviewing the late
ttrtSMal campaign, urges the im-
s.,._°- organization and the heal*
■ vtl disse tions which now exist
Jemocratic party, ana adds :
■_ a | e - therefore, ready at any time
, ar ‘V move looking to the con-
the Democratic strength
“ mstrict. If re-organization is
le ' Rs have it. If the over-
■ 1 ®. t ,ls l leaders is requisite, let
IH And Ill low nonnlo an lg.fi.
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TO I1E VL
THE BREACH.
,, ' an d u° man must stand in
_ l he harmony of the party,
jg-nefs and strife must be re-
,',‘*’ vs °f the people of this dis-
"j ’n unison with the above ex-
_ t we firmly believe that the
the Democracy will be
, 115 '™>g as convention nomi-
f' u ' In the field ; yet it is evi-
f.| 'he primary election system
.'. he breach as if by magic.
ttsiDg 6 a f’ rimar y election next
16 Democratic legions will
an( d bitterness and
f he removed.
j' J ° ve Is very well, and shows a
tillTe disposition which we
c °fflraend, and which it would
I,. tfca better for both papers to
-sercised before the election. Had
Jlle so instead of assailing The
for it s adyocacy of Felton’s
a ’ many hard words would
■'-"tiion.
gained unsaid, and Democrats
“ ere would have been united as
* e looked
'access
to nothing else than
we should most assured
ly r t k. e . C0Un '' n S in of Gov. Hayes
l v J ' s tana returning board. The
.. 0 'heir President by such in-
^sieatis would sink the Republi-
iiny i0 ' n 'he stench of pop-
iv ’Ration that it could never
a ?ain. It would kill it too
10 akin.
anybody with a thimbleful of
Oo ' v 'hat if Hayes had carried
“ ^“’Florida or South Carolina,
Ifeifl v * lave been cot a single
it" 3 a hout it, and the result would
known a week ago.
VOLUME XXXI
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IP THEY DO:
The New York Herald draws the fol-f
lowing gloomy but truthful picture of
the results which will follow the count
ing in of Hayes by these Louisiana and
Florida returning boards:
“We will grant everything to the Re
publican leaders; grant that they observe
every particle of the bad laws they have
enacted down there; grant that that they
not only count in Mr. Hayes, but carry
the count through Congress; grant that
they actually install Mr. Hayes in the
White House on the 4th of March; and
after all, if they have not completely
satisfied the intelligent public opinion
of the country that the count is just and
honest, nothing they can do will give
either content or security or permanence
vt Borgia, wednesdm morning, November 29,1876.
NEW SERIES-NO. 13
All industries and commerce will be
■an 1 - pandyrisl No-capitalist'
^ock" q‘f goods
because ho prudent consumer will buy
more than he needs from week to week;
no sensible man will- buy our bonds or
iicild themj, no mamrihetufer will ven
ture to produce beyond his actual cash
orders; credit between man and man
will be gone; the number of the unem
ployed will increase tenfold; poverty
and want will overwhelm the country.
Now, an administration producing
such effects upon the country, and pro
ducing them by the mere fact of its
holding power, could not hope to exist
beyond tho next election. All the
causes which affect public opinion and
turn votes would co-operate to sweep
the Republican leaders into disgraceful
retirement. Their President would find
himself, from the day he entered the
White House, an object of suspicion
and dislike to the great majority of his
fellow-citizens, and an object of con-
temptous pity to his personal friends
and political allies. At the close of two
years he would be faced by a Congress
in which both houses would be his po
litical opponents, sent there by an in
dignant and suffering people. What is
the use of such a victory? To such ad
venturers as Spencer Chamberlain,
Packard, Kellogg, Elliot, Moses, Whip-
per and their allies in the South any
thing which will keep them in power
and plunder for even another year will
be satisfactory. But there are honora
ble men among the Republican leaders
of the north. Can they afford to sacri
fice the ideas for which they have acted
—can they afford to sacrifice themselves
in such a way? We believe not.
A blunder and a crime, is what the
Charleston News and Courier calls the
action of the South Carolina Returning
Board, in defying the Supreme Court.
It says: “The action of the Board of
State Canvassers, in adjourning sine die
at the very moment when the Supreme
Court was issuing to them a peremtory
mandamus to issue certificates in accor
dance with their report to the Court,
was a gross and wilful contempt, by
which they have subjected themselves
to exemplary punishment. But, more
than this, it was a latal blunder, by
which their friends will be counted out
and their opponents counted in.
The Board of State Canvassers, by
their report to the Supreme Court, fur
nished the official evidence of what can
didates for the General Assembly have
received the highest number of votes,
and are, therefore, entitled to claim their
seats. Subsequently the Board made a
declaration of the election different from
and inconsistent with, their report to the
Court. They have resolved to give no
certificates to the members elect for
Edgefield and Laurens. But the
Democratic candidates for Edgefield
and Laurens, who have not
only received the majority of the votes
cast, but whom the Board of State Can
vassers have reported to the Court as
Laving so received the majority, can
present, as their credentials of election,
certified copies of the report of the State
and allow people to select
or rather lead themselves.
■ ca nnot long survive the bit-
P^t two years and re-
“‘ia in its power for good gov-
MTe unio““ St th e a r e e must-be no Canvassers to the Supreme Court and
the peremptory mandamus issued there-
on, and will, upon such credentials,
take part in the organization of the
Senate and House, while the Republi
can candidates will have no credentials
whatsoever upon which to claim their
seats.
Kentucky has a Democratic majority
of 61,000, and thereupon claims the
champion banner. Georgia can,in the
classic language of Minister Schenck,
see that hand and go 20,000 better.
The South Carolina Legislature meets
on the 27th inst. Wade Hampton will
be inaugurated Governor as soon as the
Legislature organizes.
The Hayes is too thin. The sunlight
of Democracy .shines through it like a
locomotive head-light through a tun
nel. . ^
While the Louisiana rogues
counting Hayes in, the devil is count
ing his tar barrels to roast them with.
Chamberlain, Packard and Stearns,
will make a bigger bite than the Radi
cals can chew.
Gen. Matt Ransom has been re-elected
United States Senator from North Caro-
lina. m n •
Samuel J. Tilden is our next Presi
dent. Don’t you forget it!
Booth only cleared 850,000 by his
recent California engagement.
Big rogue, little rogue, count thief or
die, is the song of the rads.
Their squealling won’t save them.
A Glimpse of Carolina tjta,
The following letter from a lady in
South Carolina to a ladyjfriend of .this
county has been kindly placed!atcour
disposal. We publish it for tho purpose
of letting our people know, thw-trae
condition, the fears, anxiety and sus;
pense that pervades the heart® flf the
good people of that honored old State:
Sea Cloud, November 17, 1876.
Dearest Kathleen:
I don’t think I am your debtor, .but
will write anyhow. The late election
and one or two other subjects haye so
distracted my mind that I don’t know
to whom I have written for weeks.
Though off here away from all sight
of Hampton’s processions and exciting
receptions, I have been almost beside
myself’about his and Tilden’s election.
Often for hours at. night I have lain
Awake thinking of Hatnpton, our only
redemption from tiie; lowest depths of
oppregsioh, jjbydrty and misrule.
Tuesday, election day,' we i#ro
the other part of the island !‘I
ough,”.aa. distinguished frofia this, the
“Sea-Side^t*spend the day and night,
Mr. LaRoehfe Voting on the way.
found ladies up there calm enough—
rather indifferent—while I was almost
beside myself with excitement; in
truth, I could scarcely keep still,
felt aS if I could walk, run, or almost
scream, the struggle of the State was so
terrible. I knew this part—the island
—of Charleston county could only go
Republican, the negroes are so numer
ous, and “repeat” so outrageously. But
the State at large! And she has come
out, the Democrats have won, and we
are getting free!
But there will be yet great trouble.
The negroes are so exasperated, so en
raged, and so treacherous at all times,
that we can have only a constant sense
of unsafety. On Edisto alone there
were over seven hundred negro votes to
sixty-four white ! On the other islands
ithe disparity is equally great/
Last Sunday, on James Island the
white congregation had to be dismissed,
owing to great excitement and arming
of negroes, because one of them report
ed a negro killed by white men who
hadn’t a pistol-in possession. The
island is in such a state that the ladies
have been sent away.
The slightest fault found with a ne
gro employed now is laid to “Hamp
ton.”
You think because Hampton is
elected you can impose on the black
man, but I tell you I am a man as good
as you!”
So one told pa when he found fault
with him.
Charleston is guarded day and night
—the quietest city ip. the world is un
der martial law. The Democrats are
unparalleled in their forbearance. They
reeeive insults, cursings, injuries which
seem beyond humanity to bear. When
is the end to come ? Mr. LaBoche fears,
“not before blood-shed.”
We seem so unprotected here! The
soldiers we asked for on election day
were not sent, and there were only nine
negro Democrat votes on the island
—others were too fearfully intimidated.
On John’s Island there are about 800
negroes, and there were 1,700 Republi
can votes for the three polls. Every
white man voted Democrat.
Everything went off quietly here>
the negroes having all their own way.
I trust our day is coming; we have
endured the cross a long, weary time.
But, until Hampton is inaugurated
and a Democratic Legislature begins
its work, there is neither peace nor
safety for us here. The negroes are
Bowen’s tools, and he instills all that is
diabolical and treacherous. Murder and
arson are our just dues, and for electing
Hampton, “the very devil in hell,” as
one of our employes said to Mr. La-
Roche, we are the black man’s eternal
enemies.
But enough of politics. Tilden and
Hampton are elected, and we may hope.
Our Washington Letter.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 17.
The same state of doubt and uncer
tainty as to who will be inaugurated
the next President prevails now that was
felt before the election. People of both
parties seem to be losing all patience,
and hardly know what to say about it,
Many of them seem to be in the condi
tion of a certain citizen of one of our
Western villages, who was noted for his
high temper and the peculiar and ener
getic form of language in which he gave
vent to his wrath. It appears that,
upon a certain occasion, he had gathered
a small wagon-load of choice apples and
had to drive up quite a steep hill with
them. At the foot of the hill his horses
got balked. Soon, with whipping, coax
ing and leading he got them started, but
what was his surprise and indignation
when arriving at the top of the hiU, to
find that while he was engaged with
his balky horses the tail-board of the
wagon had slipped out, and his apples
were strewn from the top to the bottom
of the hill. Quite a number of his
neighbors had seen the catastrophe, and
expecting to hear something rich and
rare in the way of scientific swearing,
had quietly gathered around. Helooked
at his apples strewn along the hill, and
then turning to his friends, he said,
“Gentlemen, I know what you have
come for. Yon expect to hear what I
will say; but the fact is, I can’t do jus
tice to the occasion, and therefore shall
not open my month.”
Now there are few who can do justice
to the present status of political affairs.
One-fourth column nx months-
One-fourth column twelve months—
One-half column one month .
One-half column three months-
One-half column six months—
One-hall column twelve months-l-
One column one month-/.—
One column three months...- .
One column six months—.
One column twelve months....
V* The foregoing rates are for either Weekly
or Tri-Weekly. When published in both papers,
59 per cent, additional upon table rates.
Ab for myself, I can only say that it is
really pitiable, that just at of
the greatest Exhibition that the world
has. ever witnessed, and to which we in
vited the nations of the earth to come
and see for themselves what a.
had accomplished at the cl
hundredth year, we find our
worse condition than they ht
since the Declaration of Indi
The Southern seoeeekm did
proachitin the dangers that ni
en a Representative form of
The New York World!ot yi
To count Hayes in fraudulent
ably the most monstrous polii
ever conceived in this cou
cessful it would be the
Republic. It will be the ei
accountability to the peopled
elections. Tbencefcrth our r
me;
be named forces by the parfj
at Washington. Who are. wor ,c
spirators? Governor Hay{S st sllc
at all events was not/origjm.^^
them. When the insolent'i
the electoral vote of these SI
owiV
Georgia News.
Gainesville has had a 815,000 fire.
MiQJohn B. Wright, an old citizen of
Columbus, died in that city last Sunday
night?
Mrs* Mary A., wife of G. M. Williams,
died afrher home in Columbus last Sun
day morning.
Mrs-'Frank Gamel, of Colnmbus, was
accidentally poisoned last Saturday, by
taking strychnine for morphine. She
received the drug from a negro woman,
who hereelf mistook it for morphine.
She died instantly.
Mr. Alex. (7. Harris, a former citizen
oi Columbus, in this State, and son of
Hon. W.’ B. Harris of that city, has
been elected to the House of Represen-
8UC " tatives from oneof the New Jersey Con
gressional districts. He is a Democrat,
and he was derisively called By his
Radical opponents a “rebel carpet
bagger.”
con-
»t, or
teqf
:e w£P? a
grip of Grantism. was first put^forth,
Governor Hayes discountenanced it,
apparently with a full knowledge^ that
it portended if it means anythingimore
than a mere gambling device, a stupen
dous fraud. If Governor Hayes liolds
a different attitude now it is because he
has been admonished in the interval;
and if be ultimately becomes a passive
instrument in the hands of men at
tempting to seize the government i|i his
name, the fact will only be anoiher
and unnecessary proof that he is Any
body else’s but his own. No such
pose was ever born in his own'
contemplated without a mental protest.
Nor do we believe that any other-Re
publican leader who has heretofore
borne a respectable character is inf the
plot. We see no pure white hand in all
this manipulation of elections, and all
these mysterious telegraphic messages.
We see here and there only the great
black paws of king thieves and desper
ate political gamblers—of Chandler and
of Gould, of Cameron and of John Pat
terson, of Kellogg and of Packard.
Republican statesmen and the rank and
file of the Republican party are* as
much interested in the perpetuation of
free institutions as the Democrats are,
and if Mr. Tilden is fairly elected they
will never permit another, to be seated
in his place. But this class had little
or nothing to do with the management
of the late campaign, and they are not
now being consulted by the'darihgyj&zn
who have plotted the hitherto unimag
ined crime of a usurpation of the Fed
eral Government Mr. Tilden has an
enormous majority of the popular vote,
and a good majority of the electoral
vote. Now will the American people
suffer their government to be stolen
from them by corrupt politicians ? This
may prove to be the most momentous
question ever put to a people in all the
tide of time. . Reno.
How it is Done.
Some of our readers do not clearly
understand how the Electoral College
operates, and for the benefit of such we
will explain:
Presidential electors are chosen by
general ticket. The names of two men,
corresponding to the number of Sena
tors which a State is entitled to in Con
gress, together with the names of as
many others as there are Representa
tives of the State in the lower house of
Congress, one to reside in each Congres
sional District, are placed upon the
same ballot, and every voter votes for
the whole number of Presidential elec
tors to be chosen in the State, and by a
law of Congress, the electors are requir
ed to be chosen in all the States on the
same day, which is £he first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November.
The electors so chosen in each State
meet at their respective State capitals
on the first Wednesday of December,
and vote for the President and Vice-
President, and make and sign three cer
tificates of all the votes given by them
and seal up the same. One of these
certificates is to be sent by a person duly
appointed by them, to the President of
the Senate at the seat of Government,
before the first of January next ensu
ing; another is to be forwarded by mail,
also directed to the President of the
Senate, and the third is to be delivered
to the United States Judge of the Dis
trict in which the judges are assembled.
On the second Wednesday of February
the President of the Senate, in the pres
ence of all the Senators and Representa
tives, opens all the certificates from all
the States, and the votes are counted.
The persons having a majority of all
the electoral votes for President is elect
ed. If no person has a majority of all
the electoral votes the House of Repre
sentatives must choose the President
from the candidates, not exceeding
three, who have the largest number of
electoral votes. But in so doing the
members do not all vote together; but
those of each State vote by themselves,
and the candidate who receives the vote
of a majority of the representatives of
a State has one vote from such State;
from which it appears that in case the
election is thrown into the house the:e
are only as many Presidential votes as
there are States. The person who re
ceives the votes of a majority of the
States is elected.
In all statements or theories from the
three contested Southern States about
the result, it should be borne in mind
that there are three points in each State
from which evidence is to be obtained.
One is from the inspectors or mana
gers at the local poll; the next is the
assemblage and return of the several
local polls at the country seat; and
finally, the assemblage and return at
the Capitol of the State. The result
from South Carolina telegraphed here
on Saturday, was an aggergation of the
Democrats say, differs largely from the
total of the several declarations made
at the local polls, or, in other words
that the county aggregate are false.—
From the N. Y.
The Gtiffln JVorirlearns that J. F. Du-* g«at event could no longer be either
postponedor-prevented.
.- “ Mr. Seward wair of the opinion that
the Ubion would break up in at least
three sections—the Northern, the South
ern, and the States to the west of the
Rocky Mountains. Mr. Breckinridge
inclined to the belief that the sections
would amount to four, inclusive of the
three already mentioned, and the six little
New England States, which would, he
thought, separate themselves from the
North, and either seek incorporation with
Canada, or endeavor to extend their un
ion at Canadian expense.
“Mr. Seward thought, in default of the
abolition of slavery, of which he saw no
immediate prospect, that the Union would
not last five years longer. Mr. Breckin
ridge thought the disruption would be
more speedy. The two Euglishmen did
not venture to express an opinion.
‘However that may be,’said Mr. Seward,
turning to me, ‘ I ask you as an observant
traveler—as a writer for the press—to
record the sentiments of at least one
American, who knows his countrymen,
that come when that day will—and it
will come in Heaven’s appointed time,
and not earlier—the United States, both
of the North and the South, will set a
glorious example to the world of the
value of free institutions. They will
prove to the corrupt, rotten, effete old
monarchies and empires of Europe how
vastly superior the Republican system of
government is to theirs; and that two
such brothers as the North and the South
will act as brothers, and not as foes ; that
they will shake hands peaceably, and
part without bloodshed. The Union
compelled by force may suit European
ideas. It will never suit the ideas of
America.’ Mr. Breckinridge, I noticed,
smiled as if dubious!}’, and said : ‘ It such
be the w ish of the North, I am sure it will
Ixs thi wish of theSoutb. The continent
D hi" enough for both of us. and though
separated front each other, as it is certain
we must he, we shall still be able to stand
against Europe, as one power, in holy and
defensive alliance.’ ”
pree’s m.ill and gin
■from ffiattplace, was, with eight Balflfi of
cottoit^burned Sunday morning. On
Wednesday night last the gin house of
Mr. Evans Prothro, in Stewart county,
together with twenty bales of cotton,
was burned by an incendiary. No in
surance. The Columbus Enquirer says
this is the forty-third gin house that has
been burned in Georgia since Septem
her 1, and that not more than one-fourth
of them were insured.
A- man named Meinika, who was ar
rested last week, charged with the recent
murder of Jlr. Byrd Lyon, at Crawford,
Ala., has confessed that he was hired for
$500 to do the killing by Mrs. Lyon and
her mother and father, a Mr. and Mrs.
Davis, in order that Mre. Lyon might
marry a man named Terry, with whom
she was in love. Lyon was shot while
he was drawing water at a weli in his
yard, and the murderer says Mrs. Davis
handed him, through a window in
Lyons’ house, the musket with which
the deed was done.
The Madison Home Journal says Mr.
Charles W. Lemmond, of that county,
has, “by hi3 own unaided efforts, except
in hoeing and picking the crop, made
with one mule fourteen bales of cotton,
for which he now holds warehouse re
ceipts. The lot averages 510 pounds a
bale, and has been classed bv a compe
tent judge as ‘good middling.’ By extra
work after the crop was laid by, and
since it has been gathered, Mr. Lem
mond has made enough money to de
fray the entire expense of making the
cotton, including the feed of his mule,
and board for himself.”
The Monroe Advertiser has the follow
ing: In conversation with a young-
planter of Monroe county on last Thurs
day, he informed us tna* he had that
day paid debts lor tho purchase of land
to the amount of seventeen hundred and
fifty dollars, being the larger portion ot
his net income from farming during
the present year. This man, when the
war closed, had no property at all. He
purchased a farm of six or seven hun
dred acres, and bj’ hard work paid for
We have heard it said of him that
during this time, he freque tly hoed
cotton by moonlight. After this piace
was paid for he purchased a much lar
ger farm, paying about ten thousand
dollars for it, on credit. On this pur
chase he paid the proceeds of bis cotton
crop last week. He is still due about
eleven hundred dollars, and when this
is paid he will own about S15.000 worth
of land, with horses and mules and im
plements to work it, cattle and hogs in
large numbers, with an ample supply
of wheat, oats and corn always on hand.
He might make a statement to this ef
fect: Capital in 1866, energy. Capital
in 1876,815,000 and the same eneigy as
before.
The recent meeting of the State
Board of Health found the following
Total births reported, 1,704 white, 492
colored. Richmond leads the van—223
white and 169 colored. There were 907
white males and 246 colored males; 777
white females and 273 colored females.
1,570 were born in cities, 636 in the
country. There are 38 cases of twins
reparted, 12 whites and 7 colored males;
10 white females and 5 colored females.
Sumter county reports 4 twins, and
Forsyth county 8 twins.
Deaths—Total,1,220; pneumonia, 107;
consumption, 99; typhoid fever, 46;
remittent fever, 43; diphtheria, 42; en
teritis, 37; diarrhea, 36; dropsy, 31;
heart disease, 36; congestion of brain,
30; croup, 28; trismus nascent, 24; old
age, 22.
This is the number from the most
fatal diseases: Males 693, females 460,
unknown 65. The largest number of
deaths, September 1875, 327; lowest,
August 1876,2; under 5 years of age,
412; between 5 and 10, 61; between 10
and 15, 32; between 15 and 20,62; be
tween 20 and 30,130; between 30 and
40,127; between 40 and 50,84; between
50 and 60, 62; between 60 and 70,77;
between 70 and 80,53; eighty and over,
29; unknown, 141.
Whites 678, blacks 537, married 361,
single 653, widows 78, widowers 23, un
known 102, native 1,094, foreigners 51,
unknown 70, professional men 13, farm
ers 187, merchants 18, traders 67, officers
State or United States 14, laborers 116,
housekeepers 79, servants 94, other occu-
iations 61, no occupation 437, nn-
nown 36,
Marriages—total in State, 2,936;
whites, 1,670; colored, 1,266.
December and January are the max
imum months, and July and August
the minimum months for marriages.
A New Irish Foet.
The Boston Post exults over the new
Irish poem “Deirdre,” and furnishes
some interesting facts in regard to its
author. His fall name is Robert Dwyer
Joyce. He was born in Limerick in
September, 1836; is a graduate of Dub
lin University, and also a member of
the Royal Arch Academy.. He belongs
to a family of mark. His brother, is
an LL. D. of Trinity College, Dnblin:
tiie author of “Irish names of Places,”
and was the chief organizer of the pres
ent Irish national system of education.
Dr. Joyce came to this conntiy ten
yean ago, and has been long settled as
a physician in Boston, with, a large
practice. He was not unknown as a
poet before the-“No Name Series” gave
him tiie opportunity of fame. No col
lection of Irish poetry made daring the
last twenty years has been without some
poems from his pen. He is now the
literary lion of Boston, and every Irish
man who can read feels thankful for it.
Arab etiquette does not allow the
host to join the guest while eating.
Seward and Breckinridge.
Options.they Once Expressed as to tbe
Disruption of tbe Union.
From Charles Maoka; ’s Recollection ]
Dr. Mackay’s account of bis two visits
to America are unusually full, and some
of his disclosures curious. He relates
the conversation at dinner given by the
British Ambassador at Washington (1857
or early in 1858.)
•‘ The persons present were but four—
the Ambassador, Mr. Seward, Mr. Breck
inridge the then vice-President, and my
self. Mr. Breckinridge was strongly
Southern, Mr. Seward was strongly
Northern; bat their political opinions
did not make any difference in the cordi
ality of their intercourse. During the
whole evening the conversation, led by
the two Americans, turned upon the ap
proaching disruption . of the United
states, the main difference between the
two Senators being as to tbe time when
Roumaaia.
\ <luter Cnmitry, lvimsc Inhabitants arc
not Likely to Fight a ttreat Deal
A correspondent of the London daily
Telegraph writes from Servia; Rou mania
is to unsheathe and flonrish her maiden
sword preparatory to fleshing it in the
vile carcass of unbeliever; a prince of
warrior house is to lead the descendants
of Trajan’s colonists to fields rich with
ripened crops of glory, only waiting to be
reaped by their martial blades. I have
tbe greatest respect for the intrepidity and
discipline of the Roumanian army ; but
I confess myself somewhat curious to see
bow it will behave when it shall first
catch sight of anything like a considera
ble agglomeration of red tarbooshes, sup
plemented by rifle-barrels and sword
bayonets. My acquaintance with Rou-
mania and her heroic sons has extended
over a dozen years or so, aod has been
a good deal more intimate than that of
which most Englishmen or Frenchmen
can boast; but had I, up to a few days
ago, been asked whether I considered the
Roumanian soldiers likely troops to beard
the malignant and turbaned Turk upon
his own territory, I should have craved
my questioner’s permission to reserve my
opinion, lest it might come to the eara of
my many friends in the kindly, hospita
ble, happy-golucky principalities, and
peradventure give them pain. It has been
so long a fixed impression npon my mind
—the result of careful observation and
many quaint experiences in the land so
well described by Bolinteneanu as
“Scumpa czara, si frumoasa”—that the
Rouman is an exceptionally prudent fel
low, with the instinct of self-preservation
developed in a phenomenal degree, and
with nerves so high trung that the merest
“ trifle light as air” sets them all ajar,
that I find it difficult to persuade myself
of the unmitigated correctness of these
allegations, advanced with such positive
ness and profusion of detail, respecting
invasion of a province not altogether
destitute of live Osmanli provided with
a large stock and variety of destructive
implements, as equally repugnant to tbe
Roumanian scheme of existence.
Another Way to Elect Hayes.
Hew York Son.]
It may not have occurred to Zach.
Chandler and Jay Gould that they
can make Hayes President by a meth
od that is much simpler than and quite
as honest as the plan which tarns
upon the forced declarations of Re
turning Boards at the South.
The Tribune has already suggested
that when Congress meets next month
the upper branch would do well to
choose Mr. Blaine for President of the
Senate, in place of Mr. Ferry, whom
Jay Gonld does not regard as an “able
and vigilent Republican.” If this
were done, it would become the duty
of the able and vigilent Blaine to open
and read the electoral votes of the
several States.
The rest of the programme is simple
enough. It would only be necessary
for Blaine to declare the thirty-five
votes of New York for Hayes and
Wheeler, and when the correctness of
his reading was disputed, to button up
the ballots in his Breast pocket and
boldly denounce his questioners as con
spirators, AdneTSonvulemurdererB,and
rebels who ought to be hanged.
This method, which may be termed
the Mulligan method, pcsseses obvious
advantages over the Returning Boad
plan.
• “Milligan, be careful how you swap
nags with that thar man; he’ll cheat
yon.” “Never do you mind, ’Squire; I
guess I am a judge of hospitality.”
Gov. Seymour.
Ills Opinions Concerning the Presidential
Crisis.
Utica Correspondence of the New York Son ]
The Governor was asked what he
thought the present controversy over
the Presidency would be, and he made
this answer:
“I think it will be settled by general
acquieseuce in the election of Mr. Til-
den. The Republicans cannot afford
to become responsible for a miscount in
any of the Southern Statis. They can
afford to go out of power; but they
would be utterly ruined if they should
accept power through fraud. If part of
the vote of Louisiana were to be thrown
out iu order to made Gov. Hayes Pres
ident, and he should assume the office
under such circumstances, he wonld be
known everywhere as Kellogg-Hayes.
From the day of his -inauguration the
people wonld mistrust him. The better
class of men of the Republican party
would condemn the policy of their If
era. '-The party would lose its stien„
in every locality, and the Government
would fail to command the respect of
citizens generally. On the other hand,
if the Republicans gracefully submitted
to what is clearly the will of the major
ity of the people, they would be in a
good position to recuperate their
strength. They will continue to con
trol the Senate for two years at least;
they will have a most powerful minor
ity in the next House of Representa
tives; they will be relieved from all
further necessity of protecting or de
fending bad men in the South; they
will be free to select new leaders, un
trammeled by the bonds which power
always imposes. I am confident that
the rank and file of the party take this
view of the situation. I was talking
with two Republicans yesterday, neigh
bors of mine, and I simply explained
to them that Mr. Tilden had a very
large majority of the popular vote, and
without a moment’s hesitation they
said, ‘Then he ought by all means to
be President.’ The exact working of
the electoral system is not very generally
understood, but every American under
stands the doctrine of fair play.”
In conclusion Gov. Seymour asserted
his belief that the Republican mana
gers would be forced to retire from their
present untenable position in regard to
the Presidency. “If they do not,” he
added, “their party will surely suffer
annihilation.”
The Supply of Hogs.
St. Lcuis Journal of Commerce.]
On account of the alarming prevalence
of the disease among swine in this State
and Iowa and Illinois, which is popularly
termed “hog cholera,” it is difficult to
form any idea which is approximately
correct iu regard to the number to be
marketed, as compared with hog crop of
last year. From the best informatian at
present obtainable, we incline to tbe opin
ion »that hogs that are marketed
early will be likely to bring the most re
munerative prices the present season.
That, however, depends tosom extent at
least, upon the weather, the prospects of
the foreign demand and the extent to
which the hog cholera prevails in the
sections where it now prevails. Farmers
will of course be inclined to feed as long
as possible, and it is not improbable,
therefore, that the supply in December
and January will be greater than it is
during the present month. Many incline
to the opinion that although weights will
be light in the Southwest, yet there are
in numbers, especially in Nebraska, near
ly twice as many hogs as there were in
that State at this date last year. It is
evident that packers will proceed rather
cautiously at the opening of the packing
season, notwithstanding money seems to
be plenty in bank, at fair rates, and
available on first security. From the
general outlook we incline to the opinion
that the present season will be a reasonably
favorable one for both the farmers and
the packers, although a great deal of un
certainty exists in the minds of the lat
ter class in reference to the probable for
eign demand.
The British Museum recently snap
ped up at Messrs. Sothebys’ recent sale
an unpublished volume of letters and
memoranda that belonged to the artist
Wilkie. On an old picture catalogue
among them Haydon hasjpenciled this
charming incident of an artis’t life at
a time when England was taking small
throught of its pictures, in 1806: “It
was the first who Eaw his name in a
paper. I walked away to him instantly
in great delight, and came in on Wilkie
who was breakfasting “Wilkie,’ said I,
hear’s your name in the paper.’
Where, where,’ said Wilkie, ceasing
to drink his tea. I then read it aloud.
Wilkie stood up and huzzaed, in which
I joined. We then took hands and
danced round tho table, and sallying
forth spent the day in wandering about
in a sort of ecastacy in the fields.”
They are meeting the Vermont case
in Washington. Attorney-General Taft
has sent a long and unsolicited opinion
to the President, who has nothing to do
with the question, on the constitution
of the Board of Electors. He claimes
that an Elector for President is not
“appointed” within the meaning of the
Constitution till he is commissioned
by tbe Government of the State and
duly qualified, and that the places of
ineligible candidates for Electors can
be filled by the remaining membera
of the Board. He cites the cases of
Generals.BlaiP and Schenck in Congress
as parallel ones, Congress having deci
ded that although Blair was duly elec
ted by the people he could not qualify
or take his seat becaus he was Guiding
another Federal office at the time of
his election.
Hon. John W. Huitt of Carrollton,
the oldest living settler of Greene coun
ty, brother-in-law of the late Gov. Car
lin, and who represented the county
in the legislature a term not long ago,
hasn’t voted at a general or presiden
tial election since the adoption of the
late constitutional amendments. He
declared hqwould not vote last Tuesday.
His theory is that the fifteenth amend
ment is a violation of the spirit of onr
institutions, and that negro suffrage, is
an outrage, rendering the whole elective
franchise a farce and a nulity, and
that to vote under these circumstances
would be to tacitly consent to the great
bundle of political reformf enacted in
the body politic during the last ten or
adozon years.
The best oranges sell in Florida for
1 per hundred, delivered on the steam-
82
A Connecticut couple, the other day,
attended a wedding on horseback,in tbe
style of 1776. — -
American sewing machines that .sell
here for from 860 to 890 are advertised
in England at 815 and $20.
The King of Italy recently went to
Florence expressly''tt> meet and wel
come the Empress Eugenia. .
Some people are not big eno.jgh fools
to try to shoulder the world, like Atlas,
but they try to put it in their pockets.
The annual death rate in London
now averages 18 per 1,000, in Edin
burg 12, in Glasgow 21, and in Dublin
19.
Peter Cooper’s vote in the United’
States is estimated at 170,000. This
is more than the Abolitionists polled
in 1840.
The movement for exterminating the
eajkrass&ra- should not end with the
Louisiana Returning Board. Down
with the book agents.
The wine crop of France this year is
unusually large, being a third larger
than the vines promised at tbe outset
of the season.
Said Mrs. Partington: “Yon see that
blessed man that preached for ns last
Sunday? Well, he was first a circus
rider, and then a locust preacher, and
he’s an exhauster.”
The slave trade still flourishes among
the Mussulmans of Salonica, and one
hundred negresses lately transported
there from the African coast were sold
at an average of about $150 each.
A compositor, walking along the
street, saw a friend leading a very lean
and hungry looking canine. He said,
“Bill, what breed of a dog is that ?”
Bill responded, “That’s a Type Setter.”
Susan Fletcher Smith, an American
lady, has bequeathed her body for dis
section to the Royal College of Sur
geons, London, only asking that women
students shall have the first chance.
The American, no matter what may
be his station, is determined to rise.
Tweed went away in a common
schooner and returns in a great ship,
the guest of the greatest nation the
sun ere scorched.
Brooklyn Argus: Bruce had recourse
to the sword, Tell to a bow and arrow,
and Washington appealed to the God
of battles; but when a woman strikes
for liberty, she uses anything she can
lay her hands on.
“I say, Jones how is it thatyour wife
dresses so magnificently, and you al
ways appear out at the elbows ?” “You
see', Thompson, my wife dresses accor
ding to the Gazette of Fashion, I dress
according to my ledger.”
Mrs. TrimmeH’3 terrible mode of sui
cide, in Sterling, Ivy., was to saturate
her clothing with kerosene and set fire
to it. She was religiously insane, and
believed that the flame would waft her
to heaven without burning her.
Capt. Bedford Pim, M. P., told his
constituents in England the other day
that one sailor only in each of England’s
25,000 vessels was an Englishman, and
that the foreign crews in the next war
would navigate the ships to their own
ports.
A Vienna lady once impudently said
to the late Lord Dudley. “What wretch
edly bad French you all speak in Lon
don,” and he answered promptly: “It
is true, Madam—we have not enjoyed
the advantage of having tbe French
twice in oar capital.”
Chirisimas morning they stood be
fore the alter, and the music of the
marriage bells was sweeter to them
than the music of the spheres. Christ
mas morning, four years later a bald-
headed, man jumped out of bed, half
distracted, and wanted to know why
his wife was such an infernal fool as to
put a Christmas horn in that boy’s
stocking.
“Mamma,” said a little one of that
kind in our hearing, one day, “have an
gles wings?” “Ob, certainly!” says
mamma, full of ideas derived from pic
tures, “they have wings. “Then what
did they want a ladder for to get down
to Jacob?” was the unexpected reply,
under which mama found it quite time
for her to go to bed.
“I wouid rather vote for the devil
than for you,” was what an American
sovegin told a candidate in a Main
street saloon last night. “But in case
your friend should not some forward,”
said the unabashed aspiraent for office,
“might I then count upon your assis
tance?” The glass glanced off from
his cheek and he passed out.—Piocha
(Nco.) Pucord.
A peculiar horse transa. :ion took
place at Remscheid, in Germany, the
other day. It was agreed Uiat if the
horse should weigh 1,000 j ounds,_or
less, the purchaser should pay nothing
for him, but if he weighed over 1,000
pounds, 300 marks (about $15) should
be paid for each pound over (he 1,000.
The horse, on being driven on the
scales, was found to weigh 1,148 pounds
which, under the arrangement, made
his price 44,400 marks, equal to about
811,000.
The fall of Juggernaut is being wide
ly pronhesied among the Hindoos.
The falling of a stone last year from
the tower of the temple of Pooree pro
duced a powerful sensation. The im-
iression is widely spread that it beto
kened the end of Juggernaut, his tem
ple, and worship. Those who have
examined the temple say that it must
soon fall, the walls being already in
terlaced with the fibres and branches
cf trees, which, in course of time, most
cause the whole structure to collapse.
Renowned as the Egyptian ladies
are for the richness of their attire, they
would regard it as highly indecorous to
display upon the streets the magnifi
cence of their dress. When they go
about the streets of Cairo on shopping
expeditions they cover themselves with
a dismal robe of black. As a general
rule, whatever they are compelled to
exhibit to the public gaze is simplicity
itself, while what they reserve for pri-.
vate inspection is gorgeous in the ex
treme.