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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1877.
NO. 51
CONGRESS.
mms.
Washington, February 28.—On mm ca
bling th, ytM tod nejs war# called for n
quorum.
Baylor offered • resolution that the
Horns* bnI th* 8*o*t* at tan minute*
pact twain.
This hraaha th* legislative day, bat wm
la th* intaraat of tba appropriation bill,
wblah by nnanimona oonaant waa taken
np and paa**d.
Th* 8*nat* entered th* hall after
prayers and in th* legislative day of
Wednesday.
A motion to ****** to half pant mv*u
wm rnlad out of ord*r.
An appeal from th* Bpaaker’* dtoition
wm mad*, on which th* y*aa and nay*
ar* programing, Wood, of New York,hav
ing moved to lay the app*al on th* table.
All indioation* ar* that th* eonnt will
be allowed to proo**d and that th* de -
deration of th* remit oannot be delayed
over forty-eight hoar*.
The ruling of the Speaker wm *ua-
talned.
Farther motion* for a renew were made
whioh the 8p**ker deolared oat of order,
and refnaed to entertain.
Appeal* from the daeiaion war* made.
The Speaker directed the Clerk to read
the decision of th* ooort and th* objec
tions. When be oonolndad Hr. Phillips
called for a reading of th* twtlmony, of
1,260 pages.
Wood objeoted.
The motion to read th* testimony re
sulted- y*M 86, nay* 177.
Walling moved that a part of the testi
mony be r*ad.
Bated oat of order.
Franklin moved that the report on
Booth Carolina b* read.
The Speaker daaidsd thattha report
wm not before th* Hons*.
Finally two hoar’s dteoassion wm al
lowed, whioh wm opened.
At it* oloa* several motions were made,
and it beooming evident that nnleu one
party or the other yielded, the session
would oontinne all night, it wm com
promised to allow the eonnt to prooeed
until Vermont wm raaohed.
Th* Hona* took renew upon objections
to Vermont.
SENATE.
Th* Senate returned to the Chamber at
12:86, and Mr Bobertaon submitted
resolution that th* deoiaion of the Oom-
misaion upon th* electoral vote of the
State of Booth Carolina stand m the
judgment of th* Sedate, objections made
thereto to th* oontrary notwithstanding.
Hr. Harrimon, of North Carolina, sob-
mitted a resolution that it ia competent
to r*o*iv* testimony to sustain several
exception* to th* decision of the Com
mission.
Hr. Edmond*, of Vermont, raised the
point of order on the resolution of Mr.
Kerrimon, and argued that the Senate
must either iffirm or rejeot the decision
of th* Commission, apon whioh point of
ord*r * discussion ensaed.
Edmonds’ point of order that the Sen
ate must vote either to sustain or rejeot
the dMlston of the Commission, wm oar-
rted by 48 to 18 after an elaborate debate.
It wm daoided by a party vote to count
South Carolina for HayM.
After returning from the aeeond joint
sewion, the Senate agreed to oount the
fall vote of Vermont for Hayes, and took
LOUISIANA AND SQUIB OAIOUNA.
Understanding or Treaty by
Whioh tho Demoorata are
to Bo Loft In Control.
President Grant Alters the Statu Quo in Ac
cordance.
Oaotls Carolina Conrt Adjourned to
Friday, Wtlheat Decision.
ELECTORAL COUNT.
Wmbmotou, Feb. 28.—To the joint
session th* Commission reported in favor
of oMting the vote of South Carolina for
Haym and Wheeler.
The houses separated.
A motion that tha House take a recess
wm lost by 91 to 167.
WASHINGTON,
MISSISSIPPI DISMISSSD.
Wauhgton, F*b. 28.—Th* witneMes
in th* Mississippi case have bsen dis
missed. A report will not ba made nntil
next Mision.
CHILIAN MINISTER DEAD.
Senor Gteni, Chilian Charge de Affairs
hare, is dead.
BONDS CALLED FOE,
The Treasury hss called for ten million
bonds of five-twenties, under sot 3d Marob,
1865, dated November 1, 1865. Interest
osssee 28th dey of Hay.
INAUQCBAL PBEPABATIONB.
Special to Ms Enquirar-Sun.
Washington, Feb. 28.—The committee
on arrangements for the inauguration bM
daoidad to have a grand toroh light pro
cession in lien of a baU. Tba buildings
along tha avenue will be illuminated end
deoorated. Associations, civil and mili
tary, dwiring to participate in tha display
HAYES.
LETTER TO WHEELER.
EXOITIED DEBATE IE THE HOME
ON HONDAT. *
aiwrrr vs. boss.
THO SOUTHERN HRHBEBS TOD
Hid CABINET.
jtickollb’ aorxMtrMMXT to bm
BBOOON1MBD.
Washinoton, Feb. 28.—The Bepubli
eaa managers for Governor Hayes will
give no formal promtee of reoognltion of
the Nioholle Government, M that would
crowding Paokard out, but they
ere willing to let his Government fell to
pieces with the reservation that Packard
and his followers shall not ba prosecuted
or persecuted. Thera ia a taeit under
standing that the Senatorial daiagation
shall not be utterly objeotionable to the
majority of tha Senate.
The Bepublioan .leaders say that the
situation in Sooth Carolina is more aim
pie, m no status quo orders from Wash
ington interfere with the result, whioh all
seem to desire.
The friends of the Nioholle government
here assert positively that tha President
hss promised to withdraw his status quo
orders upon proclamation of tha vote.
Thia is founded upon pereonal pledges,
whieh may or may not be earried out.
The Bepublietns call it an understanding.
The Democrats seem to olaim for it the
Mootity of a treaty. It ia considered on
all hands m tbs only honorable way out
of the difficulty, and the one whioh pnblio
opinion will oompell tha inooming admin
istration to take.
GRANT OHANOXS'HIS ORDERS IN LOUISIANA.
Washinoton, Fab. 28.—Governor Penn
and Col. Boberta, of tba Timet, called on
President Grant. They give no details
beyond perfeet satisfaction with the views
of the President. It now Beeme certain
the programme involves the withdrawal
of troops to their berreoks with orders (o
Gen. Aognr to oarefnlly prevent riot end
bloodshed. This is tantamonat to the
superseding of orders regarding the etatue
quo.
SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT, WITH
OUT DECISION, ADJOURNS TO VRIDAX.
Columbia, February 28.—The Supreme
Court met thia morning, bnt without an
nouncing any deoiaion in the hebeM eor
pus esse of Tillia Norris, the oomrict
pardoned by Hampton, involving tha
question M to whether be is Governor,
adjourned over nntil Friday at 2 p. m.,
when a deoiaion is confidently expected.
THEY ABE TO BE YIELDED TO THE DEMO-
OBATB.
Special to Enquirtr-Sun.]
Washinoton, Feb. 28.—It is claimed
here that the two Bepublioan Senators
that had abandoned Packard’s Legislature
returned to it for the purpose of etrength-
ening a movement whioh is on foot to
osrry that body into the Nioholle Legisla
ture, when it assembles.
Governor Chamberlain will be advised
to convene his Legislators, have the vote
canvassed, and Hampton deolared Gover
nor. This is thought to be the most
agreeable aettlement of the difficulty.
PROCLAMATION OP OOV. NIOHOLLS—:ELEC
TOBAL OOUNT.
Sptcial to Enquirer-Sun.]
New Oblxans, Feb. 28.—Niobolla hag
issued a proclamation concerning an ex
tra session of the Legislature, required as
he says, in view of the condition of pnb-
lio affairs and for the purposes of indis-
penaable legislation, specifying education,
appropriations, revenue levees, elections,
registration, oity and paroobial affairs,
and the eleotion of ^Senators to the Unis
ted States Senate.
An earnest appeal to the Senate and
House is signed by a number of promi
nent business men and oitizens, giving
reMons therefor, and urging the comple
tion of the Electoral Count, bM been tel
egraphed to WMhington.
Special to Enquirer-Sun 1
Washinoton, Feb. 28.—The World's
WMhington dispatahssys Wm. A. Wheeler
professes to have a letter from Governor
Hayes, in whioh be states that if he is As.
dared President he will provide for two
Southern men in his Gabinenl—one who
his always been a Union man, and one
who hss been s Confederate, bat is now a
Republican. The letter is farther said to
state that the Nioholle government in
Lonisiene is the only one whioh hM any
strength and whioh would be supported
by the people of that State, wherefore
Congress onght to recognize it.
[These two men arc probably Aloorn,
of Mississippi, and Josh Hill, of Georgia.
—Editor ]
THE EA8T.
ALL THE INDICATIONS PEACEFUL,
London, February 28.—A dispatch to
the Pall Mall Gazette from Berlin says
It is believed here that the Hnssian army
will shortly be demoralized.
Lord Derby's suggestion thal a year’s
time be granted the Porte to prove the
sincerity of bis promises of reform meets
with increasing favor.
The general aspect of affsirs is deoided-
ly peaceable,
Tho statement that Russia is pressing
for an answer to Prince Gortsehakoff’s
oironlar is without foundation. The
Powers nppoal, on the contrary, to have
postponed their replies, with her majesty’s
approval.
The Czar’s Government is believed to
be of tbe opinion that after the
issue of tbe oircular an unfa
vorable reply from any of the
Powers would seem to oompel it to a
oourse of aetiog, which might now be
prudent, and it is said to be desirons of
oorning to a resolution unfettered by such
considerations.
SBBVIA CONCLUDES PEACE.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
London, Feb. 28.—A dispstoh from
Belgrade to Heater's says tbe Sknptschi-
na bas adopted the pesos conditions.
Tk« Southern Feeling.
Washington Special to the St. Louis Times.
The feeling of Southern Dmoorats was
illustrated by a oolloqny between a lead
ing New England Democrat and a leading
Georgian to-day daring the caucus.
The New Englauder reproached the
Georgian with lukewarmness, to whioh
tbe Georgian replied:
“We Southern Demoorata will stand by
you in proportion as you display nerve.
We don't own many bonde in the Sooth.
You Northern Demoorata do. Now thia
filibustering business means, in the first
plaee, trouble, and in tbe next plaoe it
means that yonr bonds will trail in the
dUBt within sixty days, and not be worth
pieking up. If you Northern Democrats
are willing (o go into it with those possi
bilities in view we will stand onr iHt.
We will Bopport you so long m yon Wn't
flunk yourselves, but you must lead, and
we propose to keep you between us and
tbe enemy all through the flght. If you
want onr support on those terms yon osn
have it.”
Louisiana. Slate Honse Body.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
New Orleans, February 28.—Senators
Weber and Hamlet, two of the seeeding
Republican Senators, took (heir seats in
the State Honse Senate to-day.
N CW York Board of Trade on the
Electoral Vote.
Special to Enquirer-Sun)
New York, Feb. 28.—The Board of
Trade to-day unanimously adopted the
following:
Whereas tbs present stats of excitement
in regard to the Presidential
question is exceedingly prejudicial
to the commercial and indus
trial interests of the oonntry, and any
aotion which tends to prevent an imme
diate adjustment of thiB question, which
is of paramount importance, will most
nr* reqnteted to nddreM Alex. B. Shep- gerjon9 i y endanger the perpetuity of onr
hard, ohairman exeoutiv* oommittee, post Republican form 0 f Government i there-
ofltee box 842, Washington, D. 0.
Fastlmre la Cincinnati.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.
Cincinnati, Fab. 28.—W. H. Walker k
Do., wholesale whiskey dealers, have filed
* petition in bankruptcy to-day. Tbeir
liabilities exoead 9200,000, assets $130,-
000. Outside speculation is Mid to have
•Mead tha failure. *
Washinoton, Fab. 28.—Indications.—
Pot tha Booth Atlantio States, stationary
or fulling barometer, northwMtorly to
northeasterly winds, warmer, partly
doudy or clear weather will prevail.
fore
Be it resolved, thst the New York
Board of Trade respectfully but most
earnestly request Congress to proceed to
the immediate completion of the eonnt of
the Eleotoral vote.
Mr. Pinehbaok is here from New Or
leans, and General George H. Sheridan
is oorning. Mr. Pinobbaok reports that
oitlxens of Louisiana are paying taxes
quite freely to tbe Nioholls Government.
Another prominent Bepnbliotn from
New Orleans, who visited General Butler
to-day, mya that tbe Paokard Government
eonld not sustain Itself an boor unless a
sufficient military force la held there to
Hewitt Shows Up Hoar.
In the two hours' debate on Oregon
tbe only notable event was a passage be
tween Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Hoar, Mr.
Hewitt saying distinctly that he was op-
posed to ell delay in tbe eonnt and that
he wished to see bis party take tbe high
est ground of Btrict and loyal obedienoe
to the law and submission to tbe result
showed that Mr. Hoar, by tbe bill he sup
ported and which Mr. MoCrarybad drawn
up in tbe House Eleotoral Committee, did
commit himself plainly to tbe ground
that tbe Eleotoral Commission ahonld
hear evidence. Tbe obarge excited Mr.
Hoar, and he replied sharply, bat did not
deny what Mr. Hewitt bad charged, M
indeed be eould not. He read, however,
from speeches of Senator Thnrman and
others to show that they held thst the
Commission was to deoide on its own
powors. Of coarse this bad no bearing
npon Mr. Hoar's own change of opinion.
New York Herald. Correspondence.
John Young Brown < Eloquence,
Special to Philadelphia Tim op.
Washinoton, Feb. 25.—John Young
Brown’s speech was another and probably
the brightest jewel iu this genuine ora
tor’s crown, to sny nothing of bis position
for an acceptance of defeat undor the law,
as the Democrats themselves made it.
His denunciation of the judgos on the
Commission will take rank alongside of
his picture of Butter, bis first speech in
the House, and for which a vote of oen-
aure was passed oo him. He said: “These
incorruptible sagos on the commis
sion had acted the part of banded jookeys,
and have done in the face of tbe
world that which hungry mountebanks
would Booru.” Then booomiDg more per
soosl as to two of them, ho said : “Sus.
pioion is wispered that certain judicial
commissions bear tbe dark and damnin'
stain of intrigue and ring jobbery, end
that the first judgment of tbeir holders
waH the price paid for their promotion."
One of his quotations shows a remarkable
ooinoideuco of thought. Yesterday's New
York World, in an editoriol, likened
Hayes to Hamlet’s picture of bis usurping
uncle, who, “liko a outpurso of the em
pire, from a Bhelf the precious diadem
stole and put in his pocket.” This very
quotation was made by Brown in his
speech about the hour tbe New York pa
pers were arriving here, Brown’s cutpurse,
however, being the Republican party,
Charges Hetseel. provide"* soldier' for the protection of
Tots, l«b. t8.—Dirtot aabU r#- I wry man oonntcUd with it.—N. Y.
duMd (Mas to 25 Mate, ■old, per word. I Herald.
north American Life Iesnrnnee Co,
New Yobh, Feb. 28.—Justice Dyke
man haB issued an order in the North
American Lifff Insurance Company
show osuse why a receiver should not
appointed, and restraining the Guardian,
Mutiallav, Mutual and Universal Life In-
snranoe Companies from oombining and
reissuing North American polioiM.
Mr, Hewitt again returned to the chatgs
whieh he bsd mod* on Saturday night
against the good faith of Mr, Hosr, for
soling and voting in tbe Eleotoral Com
mission st variance with his speech in tbe
House, end said that gentlemen, in his
attempt to answer tbs ohsrgs on Satur
day, bed seised the mantle of Webster end
tried reversing the nsnsl prooess of “ek
ing oat the fox's skin with lion's hide,”
bat even th* mantle of Webster wts not
broad enoogh td oover misrepresents
tion end trend. He oited various propo
sitions end votes in the Commission,
showing thst Mr. Hoar had uniformly
voted egsinst the admission of evi
dence to show fraud on tbe part of
the Lonisiene Betaroing Board, end
asked whether thst (quoting Mr.
Hoar's words) wm jastioe sod right
eousness. He (Mr. Hoar) hod voted Jin
the Louisiana owe that tbe Commission
had no jadioisl power, and in the cose of
Oregon he voted thst tbe OommiMion bad
power to take evidenoe thst the seal of
tbe State wm or waa not the authentic
seel, and as to whether Watts held s com-
missihn from the United States; bat
where there was an allegation of fraud,
then he had voted that there wm no power
to prevent frond. That gentleman had
been on ail occasions s great champion of
justice and righteousness. His magnifi-
oent peroration in tbe Belknap impeaoh-
luent oase would long be read by the
Amerioan youth,and that sBine gentleman
had voted not to reoeive evidence of
fraud. In conclusion leak my Demooratio
friends, deceived, defrauded, obeated, as
they have been, whether we should meet
bad faith with bad faith. I answer that
never ought the reeord of the Domooratio
party be sullied by a single sot that will
make any man blush. I went on that
oommittee against my will. I knew
that Whatever I did on that committee
would be snbjeot to misoonatmotion, bnt
when I took my plsoe there I oeased to be
* partisan. I tried to beoome a patriot, I
tried to perfeot s raeaanre of justioe, con
ciliation and peao* for the suffering peo
ple of this oountry. We perfected it. We
wrought it here. It has been approved
by Congress and by the oountry, aud now
shall we stop in this oareer toward the eo
lation of the greatest problem ever pre
sented to free people, becanse we have
been met with frsud and injustice on tbe
other side. I say, no! Let us give the peo-
people of the country and of the world
an example that, having been oheated, we
oau still trust in the providenee end jas
tioe of God, and in the disposition snd
determination of tbe people to do justice
in the end. [Applause and oommotiou.]
We have still a free ballot box and a free
press, and we are still a free people, and
no justification for revolution, no justifi
cation oan ever arise among s free people
nntil they are deprived of the remedy of
the ballot box.
Mr. O'Brien—How long will yon be
free if Hayes goes in ?
Hr. Hewitt—(Not notioing tbe inter
ruption)—To wbst remedy we propose to
resort, and if that remedy be fonud in
vain, although I am tbe humblest of
Democrats and most feeble of oitizens, I
will be ready to take my arms snd lead if
necessary, or rather serve in a crusade
against injustice, oppression and tyranny.
While Mr. Hewitt was speaking be was
surrounded by a circle of members of both
political parties, and evidence of inoreaa-
ng excitement and oommotion were
manifest in this eirole and all over tbe
ball and in the galleries.
As he finished Mr. Gate, of Wisconsin,
made bis way through the circle, snd, ad
dressing Mr. Hewitt in an exoited manner,
■aid :
'Yon have pronounoed the aotion of tbe
Commission to be infamous, a gross be
trays! of the eonfidenoe reposed in it, a
perversion of right snd justico. Do you
now deolare it to be the doty of the Dem
ocrats to assist in the speedy consumma
tion of what you pronounoe an outrage ?"
Mr. Hewitt—I say that I will yield to i(
beoause 1 see no other oourse left but an
archy.
Mr. Cate—I deny it, and I assert that
it ia the doty of Democrats to oppose it
by every means in tbeir power. It would
be oowardice to do otherwise. [ Great ex
oitement and eonfnsionj.
Mr. Yeates, of North Carolina, foroed
bis way through tbe circle, aud with
flashed face and exoited manner, exeleim-
ed, addressing himself to Mr. Cate snd
the Democrats who were opposing
acquiescence: “Those who denounce ub
now as oowards, when the pinoh oame
fifteen years ago, turned against ns.”
The excitement had grown bo intense at
this time, reviving the reoolleotions of
tbe soenes in the Honse immediately be
fore the rebellion, that tbe Speaker felt
called npon to insist on the restoration of
order.
When he had succeeded, Mr. Townsend
of New York, took the floor and compared
the aotion of the Demoorata to the famil •
iar bargain between the white man and
tbe Indian, tbe white man saying: “I will
take tbe tnrkey, and you will take tbe
owl; or you will take tbe owl, and I will
take tbe turkey,'' [Laughter] So if the
OommiHsiou would dscidn in favor of Til-
den, tbe Democrats would stand faithfully
by it; but if it was decided in favor of
Hayes, then they would howl and resist.
Was that the way that honorable men die
oharged public duties? He referred to tbe
saying of Judge Grover of the New York
Court of Appeals, in reforeuoe to tbe out
cry made against tbe,decision of the
oourt in the Tweed oase, tbat in Alleghe
ny oounty, where tbe Judge lived, when
a man was beaton in a lawsuit it was un
derstood that there were but two things
he oould do, one was to appeal, and the
other was to go down to the tavern and
ewear at the court. [Laughter.] He be
lieved tbat the people had faith in tbe
Tribunal, whether tbe Tribunal had de-
oided right or wrong. He oatled on the
other side of the House in tbe name of tbe
oountry, patriotism, honor and manhood
to do what the Republicans would have
boon required to do in oase tbe deoiaion
had beeu against them.
Mr. Hoar, who was not in the hall when
Mr. Hewitt made his speocb, but who had
notes of it road to him by the official re
porter, replied to it as a posthumous
speech, prepared during Kabbatli. He as
serted that Mr. Hewitt bad bad the fullest
means of knowledge by three days ooms
paniousbip with him on tbe Eleotoral
Commission that tbe right to go into tbe
ascertainment of faats as to who had been
lawfully elected was utterly denied. If
tbat gentleman were a sane man
with ordinary intelligence, it wm
utterly incredible that he should
have understood the matter as he now
professed to nnderstsnd it. This leader
of a great party entrusted with its inter
ests snd its leadership, what he did now
any wm, thst in opposition to every pnb
lio utterance snd sssnrsnoe thst
osm* from tbs Republican aids,
he had gone into the matter bs-
cause he bsd got the sssnreno* of eom*
scoundrel thst it woaldoome ont ell right.
He (Mr. Hosr) wanted no other evideno*
of the utter msliee snd tolly thst hsd
prompted the charge against him than
thst gentleman (Hewitt) bsd hlmMlf fur
nished. Prophecy wm not one of tbe
exaot sciences, bnt he (Mr. Huar) would
venture to propheoy tbat there would not
be sn event in the hiBtory of the oountry
whieh wonld be in the fntnre mors grati
fying to the American people than thst
oonstRational assertion of the limit be
tween tbe State and National authority
whieh the Eleotoral Commission bsd
made. If the Democratic party, under the
exoitement of to-dsy, Inflamed with eager
passion for power, disapproved snd con
demned, he would “appeal from Phillip
A>n nlr tn Phillln snltR* '' Pa mntiM snnasl
BCIDBDI.Y REASSURING.
drank to Phillip sober. 1 ' He wonld appeal
from the party, maddened, exoited,
drank in tbe present to its future and to
its past. (Applause on the Bepnbliosn
side.)
Presidential fins Warrant* Bill.
The following is the text of Mr. Field’s
bill to allow the defeated Presidential
candidate to contest the questions in tbs
United States Supreme Court, otherwise
known as the qno warranto bill:—
An Act to provide an effeotusl remedy
for a wrongful iutrusion into the offloe
of President or Vioe President of the
United States:—
tie it enacted by tbe Senate snd House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, as fol
lows:—
Section 1.—When sny person uanrps,
intrudes into, or without due eleotion
holds or exeroises the office of President
or of Vioe President of tbe United States,
his title to the offloe, snd the title of sny
claimant thereof, may be tried and deter
mined by an lotion in tbe nature of ■ quo
warranto, as hereinafter provided,
Seo. 2. The sotion may be brought in
any Circuit Conrt of the United States
against a person in offloe by sny person
olaiming the title thereto.
Seo. 8. Tbe action mnst ba brought in
the name of the United States and of tha
claimant, but the proseention thereof
shall be under the sole direotion of the
claimant. It must be brought by tbe
service of a summons, whioh the Conrt
eball issue on filing of the oomplaint, and
whieh may be served in any part of tba
United States requiring the defendant to
answer the coinptaiut within a time fixed
by tbe Court, not exceeding forty days
after the service of tbe summons, and the
oomplaint must allege that the olaimant
was duly eleoted and is entitled to the
office, that the defendant is in possession
of the offloe without a just title thereto,
and ask that the defendant may be ex
cluded from the offloe and the olaimant
plaoed in possession thereof.
Seo. 4. The defendant may answer tha
oomplaint, denying his own unlawful in
trusion in the offloe or the title of tbe
olaimant, or both, and tha Ran* thus
made shall be tried by a jury, or by tha
Court, if a jury be waved, but if there be
no answer, the Conrt shall reoeive suoh
evidence bf title as may be offered by the
elaimsnt, and thereupon make a written
finding of th* faots.
Seo. 5. The following rules must be ob
served in tbe conduct of tbe aotion:
A.—The finding of the facts, if there
be no answer, and the trial of the issue
upon an answer shall be bsd at SDy time
and plaee within the United States, to be
fixed by tbe Conrt, having regard to the
convenience of tbe parties and witnesses,
but it must be oommeuced within ninety
days from the servioe of the Bnmmons.
ti.—Subpoenas to attend and testify
with or without papers may be served in
any of tbe United States. All processes
shall issue in the name of the United
States, and the jury shall be drawn from
the district where the trial is lisd.
0.—Tbe Court shall inquire whether
the eleotoral votes purporting to ooma
from a State were oast by the persons doly
appointed by that State in tbe manner
direoted by its Legislatnre, and whether
any snob person was st the time of hia ap
pointment ineligible, or at the time of
oasting bis vote incapacitated by the tews
of tbe State or of the United States, and
for tbat purpose shall reoeive evidenoe
tending to show the forgery, falshood or
invalidity of any certificate of any Gov
ernor or oanvasaor or other offioer whom
soever. It shall rejeot the votes of all
persons ineligible st tbe time of their al
leged appointment or incapacitated at the
time of casting tbeir votes, and it mnst
investigate any other fact necessary to a
judgment of tbe rights of the partiae.
D. — Judgment shall be rendered with
in ten days after the verdiot of the jury
or the trial or tbe finding by the Conrt.
E. —Tbe judgment may determine the
right both of the defendant and claimant,
or only the right of the defendant, M
jnstiee shall require. If the defendant be
adjudged not entitled to tbe office be shall
be excluded from it and if tbe olaimant
abail be adjudged entitled to it he may
immediately oo taking the required oath
enter npon the execution of the office.
F. —Iu all other rospeota than as herein
proscribed tbe proceedings in the aotion
shall be conformable to tbe proceedings
in other civil cssen in tbe Cironit Conrt.
Seo. 6.—Either party may appeal to tbe
Supreme Court of tbe United States with
in ten dayH after notice of the judgment
and if such appeal be taken tbe judgment
shall not be exeouted until the decision
upon tbe appeal.
Seo. 7.—Tbe aotion and all motions,
argument and other proceedings therein
shall have preoodenoe over ail other busi
ness in the Supreme Conrt and Cirouit
Courts, and if tbe Supreme Court be not
in session st tbe time of tbe appeal it
shall be immediately convened by tba
Chief Justice upon ten days' notioe to aaeh
of tbe Judges.
Hoo. 8.—Tbs exeeutiou of the judgment
may be enforoed by any proper writ issued
to soy marshal of the United States.
CINCINNATI.
DICK HOLLAND SHOT AND EPU. HOLLAND'S
FACS SLAPPED RX TOM HABTSHOBN.
Special to tbe Courler-Jourael ]
Cincinnati, February 25.—Very ranch
of a seusatiou was produced at Cincinnati
to-night by tbe shooting of Dick Holland
by Tom Hartshorn, in Grand Opera-bouse
square. Both tnen ere gamblers, and
well known sportiDg characters. Holland
met Hartshorn in s saloon, aud, approaoh-
tng, plaoed a pistol against his bead and
palled the trigger. The weapon missed
fire, and Holland, retreating, begged pit
eously for meroy. Hartshorn followed
and fired, wounding the other in the arm
and breast. Ha then walked leisnraly
away, no attempt at arrest being mad*,
as the Hollands are deoidedly down now.
Later in the evening Hartshorn met Eph.
Holland and slapped his face. Diok Hol
land wm taken to th* hospital.
OBANT ON LOUISIANA—1NTIB-
VO* BETWEEN HIM AND MAJOR BUBKE —
HE IS IN YAVOE or THE NIOHOLLS GOV-
XBNMXMT—OABL SOHURZ's OPINION.
His Exoelleooy Gov, Nioholls received
from Major Bnrke the following dispatch
yesterday:
Washinoton, Feb. 26, 4:10 p. M.—I
have Just had a 'long snd satisfactory in
terview with tbe President. He ssys,
unequivocally, that ho is satisfied that tho
Nioholls Government is the Government
whioh Bhould stand in Louisiana, and that
he believes it will stand beouu-e it is sus
tained by the most influential elements of
the State, and that the Packard Govern
ment cannot exist without the support of
troops; that the sentiment of the country
is olearly opposed to the farther nse of
troops in apbolding tbe State Government.
He repeated the expression of his kindly
opinion of yon, end his confidence in
yonr determination to secure a good Gov
ernment and enforoe tbe law.
That, in hia opinion, there wonld be
no interference with the Nioholls Govern
ment unless, osrried away by the posses
sion power, violent excesses wore com
mitted. The President said he hsd avoid
ed aotion because be did not wiah to gnar-
antee a poiioy tbat might embarrass bis
successor.
THE OPINION or HIGH AUTHORITIES.
The moBt resssnring intelligence is
daily reaching tho Exeonlive from various
souroea.
One of the most eminent gentlemen of
this oity, who recently hss been traveling
in tbe West, was informed by Carl Solrarz,
who wrote Hayes’ letter of sooeptanoe,
that the latter certainly wonld not in
terfere with the NiobollH Government.
Another gentleman of tbe highest
standing in the community was told in
WMhington by the chief confidential ad
visers of Mr. Hayes, Wm. M. Everts and
Bteniey Matthews, that the poiioy of
Grant's probable snooessor wonld be to
allow State affairs in tbe Booth to adjust
themselves.—jV. 0. Picayune.
Hayes* at* Home.
Fbbmont, O., Feb. 24.—Gov. Hayes
arrived here this evening, unexpectedly,
on tbe 5 o'clock train,,via Fostoria. An
impromptu reception was given him at
reaidenoe of Geu. R. P. tiuokland. Mauy
of the oitizens turned out to greet the
President elect, and from 7 o'olook until
10 a stream of people was coming and
going. The Light Guard Baud serenaded
him about 9 o'clock, and tbe Governor
made a happy little speech to them and
the other friends assembled. After tbe
speeoh the congratulations continned.
Below we append the Governor’s speeoh.
Gen. R. P. Bucklsnd stepped forward
and introdnoed tbe Governor with these
few words:
“Friends : I have tbe pleasure of in
troducing onr President- elect, as we be
lieve."
Gov. Hayes then said:
“My Friends and neighbors: Tbe man
ner in whioh I am introdnoed makes it
rather eMy for me to speak without mnoh
embarrassment, but we had better stiok
to the old titles until we are sure of some,
thing new. In these times of uncertain
ty we are often disappointed. The good
news of to-day is often dispelled by the
evil ne«B of to-morrow. During tbe few
months sinoe tbe 7th of Noveinbtr, I have
sohooled myself so as to not be very much
down, nor very mnob|up, but to try and
keep as near the even lino sh possible.
This kindly meeting this evening I do
not take so rauoh as honoring me as
congratulation upon tbe manner in wbieb
this strange and peculiar question is now
being settled. No other country in tbe
world oould have endured such a struggle
without suffering lasting calamities. In
the event of remaining among you for the
next two or three years, I will attend tbe
next ennnsl pioneer's meeting and bring
n bnndle of letters and notes, many
whioh I am constantly receiving, such as
curiously drawn sketches of knives, dag.
gars, and revolvers, but I have not lost
mnoh sleep from any of them yet. One
of the moat smnsing was received this
week. It wm a knife about two feet
long, one edge haoked like a saw, proha
bly for sawing the bones, and tbe other
side for cutting tbe flesh. This was
wrapped in several thicknesses of paper
and inside was a note as follows :
“ ‘This is the knife with whioh the edi
tor of tbe Capitol was to assassinate you
with, as you wont from tbe White House
to tbe Capitol. It was taken from his
pants leg while he was asleep.’
“Well, friends, I think I have talked
long enough. As I am in the business of
shaking hands, I wonld say that I am in
exoelient physical health, and if any of
yon wish to shake hands, I will be glad lo
do so, but I will step into the ball out of
tbe eold."
The Governor then stepped into the
hell, and the band cams forward and ex
tended their eongratnlations and shook
bends with him. Otbor friends and citi
zens kept coming nntil near 10 o'clock.
Tbe affair was a token of tbe hearty
good will toward the Governor, and
evinoed the high esteem with which he is
held by his all neighbors.—Cincinnati
Gazette.
CHICAGO.
FAILUBB AND DEFALCATION OF POSTMASTER
M'ABTHUB—THE BKOO ND TRIAL OF ALEX
ANDER SULLIVAN BROUN.
Chicago, Feb. 26.—Tbe failure snd de
falcation of Postmaster John McArthur
is the subjeot of much comment and uni
versal regret. Mr. McArthur held a high
business and social standing in the com
munity, and hM hitherto been considered
one of the staonebest and most reliable
of Chicago’s citizens. He first became
involved to tbe amount of about $40,000
by the failure of the Cook County National
Bank, two years ago, snd though the
Government assumed half of tho respon
sibility, whioh amount it was supposed
would be eovered by tho assets of tho
bank, Mr. MoArtbur bas never been able
to replaee tbe sum. Besides this be
beosme involved in tbe unsuccessful
operations of bis large iron foundry on
tho Nortbside, aud took money from tbe
General 1’ostoffice Department to tide
matters over nntil a loan could he nego
tiated from some Seotoh capitalists, lie
expected also to be enabled to dispose fa
vorably of some portion of his foundry,
but in all of his schemes for replaoiug
the money be was unsuccessful, aud cou-
sequently filed his petition in bankruptcy
late Saturday afternoon. Tbe matter was
kept a profound secret until yesterday af
ternoon. His petition shows bis total
liabilitiM to be about $167,000: assets,
$200,000. Of tha debts, $56,000 are due
the United Btates Government, $2,500 to
tha IlUneia Soldier's Home, of which be
ia TreMurer. The secured debts are
$48,000. The assets consist obiefly of
the Iron foundry property. It is believed
that the Government will lose nothing,
being amply aeonred by tbe bond.
TBM MAOAM1KMS MOM MABQB,
THE “GALAXY."
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Murray; Miss Misanthrope, chaptersiv,
V, snd vi, by Justin McCarthy ; Words
worth's Corrections, by Titna Munson
Coan; Portrait D'Une Janne Femme In-
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Mias Tinsel, A Gold Miner's Love Story
(in five chapters), by Henry Sadlay; De
feated, by Mary L. Ritter; Shall Punish-
maul Punish P by Channoey Hiekox; Ha*
nunoiation, by Kate Hilliard; The Eastern
Question, by A. H. Guernsey; The Lta-
sie's Oomplaint, by James Kennedy; Asa-
jan, by Ivan Tonrgueoeff; To Beethoven,
oj Sidney Lanier; Tha Dramatio Canons,
by Frederick Whittaker; An Evening
Party with the Cossacks of the Don, by
David Ker; Driftwood, by Phillip Quill-
bet; Soientiflo Misoellany; Current Liter
ature; Nebulro, by tha editor.
"soRIBNXa'l MONTHLY. ”
The New York Aqoariom (Hina.), W.
S. Ward; NioholM Mluturn (IV. Illni ),
J. G. Holland; Fatmer Bassett'a Romanos
(II.). Saxe Holm; The Falling Star, Alios
W. Brotherton; Celeatial Peas, Isabella T.
Hopkins; Maroh, H. H.; Prmoeton Col
lege (Bins.), 8. D. Alexander; To Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Charlotte F.
Bates; The Youth of Gilbert Stnsrt (Ulus.)
Jane Stnsrt; An Exposition of Life In
surance, Julius Wiloox; Beds and Tables,
eto. (IX. Illus.), Clarenoe Cook; Elegy on
A. G. L , Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeaen; Clan-
diau, John A. Dix; Of William Francis
Bartlett, Bret Harte; A Winter on th*
Nile (III. Illus.), George McClellan; Har
mony, Anne Lyooh Botta; The Pitcher
Plants .(Illus.), Sophie B. Herriok; An
Asiatio Invasion; Stella Grayland, James
T. McKay; Tbat Lass o’ Lowria’* (VIII.),
France* Hodgson Burnett, Topio* of tbe
Times, Horn* snd Society, The World's
Work, The Old Cabinet, Oaltnr* and
Progress, Brio-*-Br*o (Illni.).
"EAim's MAQAEIXa."
Contemporary Art in France; Sunshine
(e Poem); Th* Prussian Wind* and Their
Home; A Foothold (a Poem); Litchfield
Hill; Self-reoompensad. tateffMR}; Tha
Distribution of Animalspnr4Ra*|nMUter,
Part IX; Estranged (sPoem); Loves Voy
age (a Poem); A Sommer Gratae Among
the Atlantia Inlands; About Dolly (a Story);
Popular Exposition of Some Soltntifla
Experiments; Ideals (a Story); Erema; or,
My Father's Sin; Webster and the Consti
tution; To (a Poem;) My GrMt-
Aunt’s Will (a Story); My Valentina (a
Poem); Garth (a Novel); Editor’* Emv
Chair; Literary lteoord; Historical Reoord;
Editor’s Drawer,
“POPULAB SCI ENOS MONTHLY.’’
Education am a Science, II., by Alexan
der Bain, LL. D.; Formation of Rain
drops and HailatonM, by professor Rey
nolds (illustrated); On the StndyofBlo-
logy, by professor T. H. Huxley; How
tbe Eerth wm Begirded in Old Times,
from tha Frenoh of Flammation (illustrat
ed); How tbe Earth wm Explored in 1876,
from Jndge Daly’s Address; Is the Moon
a Dead Planet ? by Edmund Netean, F. B.
A. S.; Size of tbe Prinoipal Telescope* in
tbe World; The Journeying* end Disper
sal of Animals; The Early Man of North
Ameriaa, by A. R. Grote; Biograpbioal
Sketches of Thomas Edward (with port
rait); Correspondence; Editor'! Table;
Literary Nolioes; Popular Misoellany ; •
Notes.
“POTTER'S AMERICAN MONTHLY.”
Edwin Forrest, the Great Tragedian, A.
E. Lancaster; Some Forgotten Arotis
Explorers, Thomas A. Janvier: Lavender,
Architectural Progress, as Seen in th*
Religious Edifiees of tha World. II.
Greek Arohiteetnre, tba Rev. William
Blackwood, D. D„ LL. D.; Bob Chariot,
E-q., or the Tragedy of Chelmsford,
Warren Walters; Lsfayette’s Last Visit
to Amerioa, the Rev. William Hall; Phan
tom Faoea, Gnssie da Bnbna; St. Panl’a
Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Va., Joseph
R. North; Out in tha Snow, Hylva He**;
The Anaient Chinese, their Peoaliar Char
acteristics and Religion, Albert L. A.
Toboldt, M. D.; The Fair Patriot of th*
Revolution, David Murdoob; Wooed end
Married, ltosa Nonchette Carey; Notes
aud Queries, Current Memoranda, Liter
ature and Art, Soience End Meohsnica,
Gossip and Note Book.
LIPPINOOTT'E MAGAZINE.
In Ibe Valley of Pern (illustrated) ; An
Adventure in Japan (illustrated); With
Life—Hope, Seth Fannie Hodgson Bar
nett; Reminiscences of r Poet Painter,
John R. Tail; The Marquis of Lassie,
George Maodonald; A Jewish Family,
From the German; Remembered Mueio,
Kate Hilliard; Plaoe aux Dames, or th*
Ladies Speak at Last; Redbreast in
Tamps, Sidney Lanier; Young Aloys, or
tbe Gawk from Amerioa, Barthold Auer
bach, translated by Charles T. Brooks;
Our Mothly Gossip; Literature of th*
Day.
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pounds of Zephyr Wool in blaek, white
and oolors.
octl eodtV.wly J. Albert Kibtin.
Laos Bibs for infants oan be bought
for 50 and 75 cents of
Blanchard k Hill,
feb7tf 123 Broad St.
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