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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE <fc 00., Proorietors.
CEDARTOWN. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1(5, 1877.
VOL IIL NO. 34.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Ti«r. no cm.
Several nickel counterfeiter.* were ar
rested in New Orleans, Tliurnlav, together
with the machinery far working up the Base
material.
The number of ships in Charleston
harbor had tleerraacd to seventy-five on the
•-".'lh, of which four were steamships, six
"hips, fifty harks, nine hrigsaml four sclioou-
crs. Of those, fourteen wore under the flag
of the I'uitcd States, twenty-eight the flag
of Groat Britain, eleven of Spain, twelve of
Norway, two nr Sweden, three of Germany
and two of Russia. Sixteen were loading
for Liverpool, three for Havre, four for the
United Kingdom, six for the Continent, two
for a port in Europe, one for Trieste, two fur
Barcelona, and the remainder for ccastwisc
ports, ready or waiting.
Tito Plnqiicmincs Observer, of Jhiiur-
ry 20, says : Our sugar planters nre highly
encouraged by the splendid crop of Inst year
and the high prices obtained therefor, and
will open the planting campaign with re
newed confidence and energy. Many sugar
plantations heretofore planted in rice will
again resume Hie cultivation of cane, and it
*" reported that many small rice planters in
the upper portion of the parish will plant
their front lauds in cane, the produoe there-
of to be sold to the sugar planters or he
hauled to their mills and ground on shares,
on the same system that prevails in Martin-
i'luc nnd Guadeloupe, and which has been
attended with most brilliant results.
I lie Mrmphin Ap|>enl thus headlines
its local column: "John H. Jones cuts the
thront of I’at. Connell, n fireman, and Alon
zo Binning (colored) shoets nt Susan Dale
(colored) through a window; Walter Nelson
(accidentally) shot and killed by Preston'
Jones; attempt nt murder near Central
Poiui; several shots fired; John Campbell,
assaulted by two negroes, Ims his skull
crushed; a negro waylays a belated pedes
trian for the purpose of robbery; n myste
rious shot on Gnyoso street last night; a
fearful list for one .lay, and one that calls
for nu effective remedy.”
I ho clearances from Charleston port#
for the week, ending the 2Ulh, wero throe
hundred and thirty-three bags of sea island
cotton, 20,887 bales of upland ootton, 1,272
tierces rice, 4,118 barrels resin, 2,000 tons
phosphate rock, 2,270 barrels flour Of
this amount fifty-one bags sen island rot
ton and 9,540 bales of upland cotton wero
for Great Britain; forty bugs of sea island
cotton and it,110 bales of upland cotton were
for France; 3,543 bales of iiplund cotton
were for the continent of Europe, 2,050 bar.
rels resin to Uottcrdnni, I 500 tons phosphate
rock to various European ports,2,270 barrels
Hour to MaUiuzas, 3,1 HU bales of cotton, 1,272
tierces rice, four hundred and fifty tons
phosphate rock, 1,278 barrels resin and sun
dries to coastwise porta.
Tin; Kant.
The grainhenvers of the Brooklyn
warehouse docks nre on a strike.
The New York ntate senate unanimous
ly favors the speedy resumption of specie
payment.
It i« no wonder that the revenues of
New York city do not pay its expenses. The
salary of its mayor (12,000; corpora lion
counsel, J(15,000; commissioner of public
works, (10,000; president of the board of
police, (8,000; president of the fire depart
ment, (7,.500: president of the health depart
ment, $0,500; president of the common
council, ’(5,000; aldermen, each, (3,0(8);
chamberlain nnd clerks, (30,000; police jus
tices, each, (8,000; judges of the supreme
court, each, (15,000; city judge, (15,000;
commissioner of juries, (25,000. And so on
EOHKII4I*.
Uindcr|Kht has appeared among cattle
in the snhurhs of London.
The king of Hwcdcn, the crown prince
and prineo John of Gluckshiirg, hnvc all be
come Freemasons.
The French senate has pawed a grant
for the relief of the famine-stricken inhabi
tants of Pondicherry.
ft. W. ftriffm has arrived.bringing full
powers ns minister from the government of
the Haiiman Islands, to treat with our own
in their behalf. He has not yet had nu in
terview with the secretory of slate, and
therefore it is not known whether he will be
recognized as minister from that country,
he holds a commission as United tttates
consul.
HlfM'KLLANEOr*.
Negotiation* have been commenced be
tween the United Plait s and Hpain for
vision of the treaty of 1793.
'Hie American spiritualist Slade,
tented to three months’ confinement at hard
labor, had his sentence .plashed on hi
peal «n a legal technicality.
Slade follow* Flint to liberty, but
probably not to the public resumption of
his business. Flint was net locked up for
practicing on public credulity, but omitting
to pay alimony.
There is a very modest Pacific railroad
project before congress ft only asks for
ten or fifteen thousand dollars to enable
survey to be made, under the direction of
the war department, of a line from Austin
Texas, crossing Mexico, and terminating nt a
harbor on the gulf of California called Topo-
lovampo Day. The. length of the proposed
line is only eight hundred miles. A hill
miking <he appropriation is now on the
senate calendar, hacked bv a report of the
committee on railroads. The route indi
cated is the shortest available line for a
road connecting the railroad system of the
east and south with a good harbor on the
reached that figure. The annual export he.
fore the war did not exceed eleven mil
lions, aud was confined then to standard
drills and sheetings; now it includes all the
best styles of our manufactures. The inabil
ity now to fill orders for the foreign markets
arises from the low sta».e in the streams.
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUNR.
The house on tlio 27th went into com
mittee of the whole on the Indian appropri
ation bill, Mr. Thatcher in the chair. The
committee, without adopting any important
■mendments, rose and reported' the bill to
he house, and It was passed. Mr. Hnlmnii,
rnm the committee on appropriations, re-
'orte.l a hill authorizing tne secretary of the
treasury to deliver to James Eads, or Ids
representatives, (500,000 for tho construction
>( jetties, etc., nt tho mouth of tho Missis-
tlppi river. Adjourned.
In tlio house on tho 21)th, tho following
bills were introduce.I and referred: Fixing
tiie time for the regular meeting of congress.
Declaring forfeited to the United States cer
tain lands granted Michigan for railroad
purposes, and providing for their sale to ac
tual settlers. Chartering a freight railroad
company from tide water on the Atlantic to
the Missouri river. The morning hour hav
ing expired the house resumed considera
tion of tho bill authorizing the secretary of
the treasury to pay James B. Ends, construc
tor of the jetties at the mouth of the Missis-
siypl river, (500,000. Tho pending question
was on Mr. Buckner's amendment; directing
payment in United Slates bonds, Itejceted
—yeas, 68; nays, 172. The hill then went
over. A message from the senate, informing
(he house Hint the president had signed the
electoral bill, was rend, and Mr. Payne gave
notice that he would move nt one o'clock to
morrow that the house proceed to the elec
tion of five members of the commission. The
house then adjourned, and a democrat!.*
is was announced to take plauo imme
diately.
In Uu* house, on the 30th, a bill appro-
natirt^* five thousand dollars, to bo paid to
J. B. Eads, for construction of the Mississippi
jetties, etc., passed. The speaker Had
before the house a hill abolishing the hoard
of commissioners of tho metropolitan police
of the District of Columbia. The question
ml, "Shall the hill pass, notwithstand
ing the president’s vote?" aud was decided
in the affirmative—yens, 158, nays, 75. The
spenker laid before the house a message
troni the president, vetoing joint resolutions
returning thanks to tho'Argentiue Republic
and the republic of Pretoria. South Africa,
for their congratulations to the United Slates
on the first eeuteiiuial of its freedom. His
reason for vetoing the resolutions is that,
under the constitution, congress cannot dic
tate to the secretary of state the correspond
he shall hold with foreign states. Re
ferred. Hie speaker laid before the house a
ige from the president stating that the
commission appointed to reorganize the army
had reported Hint it was not nt this time
prepared to submit a plan for its reorgnnizn.
tion. Referred. Mr. Payne ..tiered a reso
lution Hint Hi.- Iioiis** elect five member* of
the commission on hie presidential electoral
t. Adopted. Mr. f^imnr nominated
Messrs. Payne, Hunt.ui, Abbott,Gnrfield and
Hoar, and, to save time, moved Hint the five
should he voted for together. Mr. Buckner
objected, and demanded a separate vote.
The speaker ruled that the matter hhh in
the power of the house. He submitted the
liiestiou, aud the house decided by a vole
•f 70 to 20 to vote on all five nt tho same
time. The clerk then proceeded to call
the roll, and each member responded, re
peating the five names in toeir order.
Home of the republican? changed
the order, commencing with the republi
can candidate. The vote as finally
summed up was as follows: Pavne, 273;
Huuton, 203 ; Abbott, 243; Garfield. 24 •;
Hoar, 204. Three votes were given fo Mc
Crary [Iowa], by Buckner, ('handler and
Smith: four for Foster (Ohio) by Cook,Hart-
•Ige, Sirefor.l nnd Rollers; one each for
Mills, Hingleton and Blackburn, by ilodge ;
one for Lynde, by Mngoon, two for Wiliard,
by John Rielly ]Pn.) and Henklc; one for
Townsend (N. Y.], bv I-ong, and one for
Wood IN. Y.J.by B. R. Wells (Mo.) The
house then took up the hill reported at Hie
Inst session, from the committee on judicia
ry, in relation to damages for the infringe
ment* ot patents, nnd provides that damage*
can only ho recovered for infringements
which shall have occurred during the term
of one year preceding the notice of infringe
ment Passed. Adjourned.
In the house on tho 31 *t, the senate
resolution for the appointment of o
dm! men to serve ns special polio
capital, during the counting of the electoral
vote, was agreed to. Mr. Garfield introduced
a bill asking for more thorough Investiga
tions nf accident* on railroads. He *aid it
referred to the terribic disa*ter which
rurred in kis district a few weeks ago, and
he asked that it be referred to the commit-
toe on rnilronds, with leave to report nt anj
time. Ho ordered. Consideration was then
resume.I of the resolution reported from the
judiciary committee relative to the admis
sion cf James B. Belford a* representative
from Colorado, lhe resolution of the ma
jority declaring that Colorado is a state, and
that Mr. Belford is entitled to n sent on the
floor of the house, wbs adopted. Adjourned
In the house on the l*t, the npeuker
laid before the house n communication from
Justice Clifford, president of the electoral
commission, stating that the members there
of had taken the prescribed oath, and that
the commission was ready to perform its
duties. The senate resolution was agreed
for the publication of the proceedings of
the commission. Mr. Payne offered a reso
lution directing the clerk of the house to
inform the senate that it was teady to re
ceive that body for the purpose of opening
and counting the electoral votes for presl
dent and vice-president. Adopted.
In the hoiiHc on the 2d, Air. Wood
troduced a bill repealing all taxes on bank
capital. Referred. The house then
into committee of the whole on the legisla
tive appropriation bill, Mr. Reagan,of Texas,
in the chair. The hill appropriates (14,266,-
155.50. The reading of the hill being dis
pensed with, ttie committee considered it by
sections, finally the discussion closed, aud
subsequently, on Mr. Foster’s motion, an
amendment was made in the item of salaries
of members af the house. Committee
and the house took a recess till 10 a. ni
morrow.
KKXATK.
In the senate on the 27th, during
waters of the Pacific ocean. f
The prospects of American cotton the morning hour the military academy and
manufacturers are brighter than ever they fortification appropriation bills were called
were before. The Boston Advertiser states that! "P- The amendment* reported by th
there are thousands of bales on order book* mittee on appropriations were agreed to,and
that hav. not yet been .tartc.l at the DiUI,. '!“ J™’ tV^'l' 1 The
.. ,, . | ' Pacific railroad bill was again called up,
About a year ago Mr. Edward Atkinson, of , „ n ,j rea ,j a t length, when Mr. Thurman,
that city, in an able paper on the subject, charge of the bill, yielded to executive s
calculated that the export of cotton goods \ sion, and when the doors were reopened the
would reach fifteen millions and stop, and i “ enn, ‘ fl ‘ J 0Mr,iei
to!, r,yrnsnt,3 tin annul .ttrj.ltin at <mr I Jn U* "mote mi the 29th, Mr. Robert
fn<q;ufafttttr*rp. Th* ar.nu&l txport hw gov I tfip M J' Mr, Gordon's resolution
kuowledging the Hampton government
South Carolina as the legal government, and
made an address supporting the resolution.
The ehalr laid before the senate a message
from the president of the United States,giv
ing his reasons for approving tho eleotoral
■ |R. After it had been rend, Mr. Coukliug
aid ; “ 1 move this important and wise iucn.
sago be printed ami lie on tho table."
Agreed to. The chair also laid before the
senate a message from the president, trans
mitting the proceedings of the commission
appointed to examine the whole subject of
reform and reorganization of the army of the
United State. Ordered printed and’ lie on
the table. Mr. Sargent, from (lie committee
privileges and eleetlotis.Mibmitted a report
tho suu-eommitteo which recently made
investigation in regard to the election in
Florida. Ordered printed nnd lie on tho
table. Adjourned.
In tho senate, on the 30th, a largo
number of positions wero presented asking
the adoption of the sixteenth amendment to
lhe constitution of the United States, pro
hibiting states from disfranchising person*
account of sex. .Senator Christiaucy, In
presenting the petition, said he was Informed
that there was not a single drunkard, gambler,
person of vicious life, among tho pell-
Honors, and that he believed the statement.
His observations in Michigan, where over
forty thousand votes were given for female
suffrage, satisfied him that the people advo
cating this adnioudmenl vero among the
unst thoughtful aud intelligent people of the
country. Consideration was then resumed
of unfinished business, it being the bill to
amend the Pacific railroad nets so ns to pro
vide for a sinking fund for tho settlement ot
the indebtedness due tho government by
the said companies, nnd senator Mitchell
ontinued his argument against tho hill. The
enato nt half-past three o’clock in the after-
loon proceeded to select five members of
Hint b*dy to represent it on the commission
authorized by the electoral eouilt hill. It
ordered that each senator ho called, and
that he lise in Ids place and announce the
of the five senators whom he desired
e on the committee. Senator Crngin
nominated Edmunds,Morton and Frelinghuy-
sen. Senator Stevenson Humiliated Thurman
and Bayard. The roll was called, nnd at the
lusiou of the roll-cnli tho prcsideMl pro
ton. announced that sixty-live votes luul
been east, nf which thirty-live wero nceossa-
hoice, and dial Edmunds, Morton.
I'reliiighuvscn, Thurman and Itayard had
received the unanimous vote of the senate,
and had therefore been chosen iih members
of the electoral commission. The chair laid
a message from the presi
dent calling the attention of congress to the
nceessity of continuing tho hoard for test
ing iron and steel, and recommending an
appropriation of forty thousand dollars to
eontiniiH such hoard. Ordered printed.
Minute then went into executive sen-
and when the doors were reopened ad
journed.
In the senuto, on tlio 31*t, at tlio ox-
pirntion of the morning hour eonaldorntinn
d of the unfinished business.
The hill to amend the Pacific road acts, so
a sinking fund for the liquida
tion of the indebtedness due the govern-
neiit, was taken up, and senator Thurman
ontinued his address in favor of the judi-
iary committee's report. Senator Hogv and
Sherman favored the bill. . Pending uiseus-
' in, the senate wrnt into executive scMlou,
d soon after adjourned.
In the senate on the 1st, Senator Rob
ertson presented resolutions which he said
adopted at a mass meeting of white
and colored citizens at Barnwell courthouse,
January tilth, ami asked that they he
read and referred to the committee on privi-
ledges and elections. Tho chief clerk road
Billions, as follows : Resolved, That
en hundred colored voters who en
rolled their names in democratic clubs, and
hundred aud seventy-six who cast
their hnllot* for Gen. Wade HnnipH
the eaudidales on Ills ticket, did so to secure
to their native slate an honest government
nnd home rule, aud to free her from the
thieving government under which she hint
so long sullercd from corrupt carpetbaggers
nnd infamous scalawags. Senator Sargent
here objected to the further reading,
which senator Sargent, lit the request of
senator Patterson, withdrew his objec
tion, and the reading of the resolutions was
the blacks, and support the Hampton gov
eminent. The resolution* were then refer
red. Senator Haulshury presented a very
long printed petition, signed by the bank
ers, merchants,'clergymen and others of New
Orleans in regard to the conditieu of afiairs
in Louisiana, in which the Kellogg govern
ment is charged with incoinpetencv, and
they appeal to the country not Hi believe
the statements of fraud and violence charged
against the people of l^Miisiaiin. Referred.
Senator Windom called up the house hill 4”
proprinting (20,(KM) for the relief of Hie des
titute poor of Hie District of Columbia.
Passed—yeas, 45; nays, D. After an execu
tive session, the senate took a recess until
" o’clock to-morrow morning.
In the senate on the 2d, recess having
been ordered yesterday till 10 o'clock to-day,
At that hour half a dozen of senators only
in the chambers, and n recess contin
ued till noon. The session being resumed
luring the morning hour a hill pussed, pro
viding for the punishment of persons muk
iug or having in possession dies and molds,
etc., for counterfeit coin. A bill passed re
lating U> public account*, it provides Hint
all claims against the United Slates which
accounting officers of the treasury or heads
of department, or bureau are authorized Hi
examine and decide shall be barred, unless
presented within six years from the time of
Harm; accrued existing claims, which would
be barred by the act, or within two years
afier it goes into efleot, and may be presented
within four years from the passage of the
net, and further provides that sureties or any
official bonds, may, after expiration of the
time of office of the principal, demand ex
amination aim settlement of aecouiitsof such
principal, and if the principal shall he found
to be in default,suit must be brought against
the auritiec within two years. After the ex
piration of the morning hour, the house
proceeded to unfinished business, and the
act to amend the Pacific rsilrond act was
passed over informally on account of the ab
sence of Mr. Thurman, who has charge of
the bill, with the electoral commission. The
understanding is the bill shall retain its
place as unfinished business. Several bills
on the calendar were then called up, and
passed. Adjourned.
must fall by tho v ..
New York 7Ymet.
Tlio United States Senate After
March t.
Tho election of ,1 udgo Davis to suc
ceed IiOgnn enables tlio Republican to
state definitely tlio political complexion
of tho United Slates senate on tho foruth
day of march next, and nothing indicates
more strikingly the wonderful victory
achiovod la*t fall by t he democracy. With
soventy-fivo seats filled in tlio senate to
day tlio republicans Imvo a majority of
seventeen, whilo with tlio entire seventy-
six scuts filled they will lawfully fx>
entitled to but two majority on tho fourth
of March. What majority they will
actually have depends, of course, to a
groat degree upon the extent to which
they can use the majority they will have
in the portion of tlio senate holding over
March 4, 1877, in seating the republicans
returned by tho pretenued.log" lute.of
lyouisiana and South CarnlinATtmtfuuhy-
ing admission to democrats fVom other
states. It. will bo into resting to note,
however, tlio changes which will occur
in tho senate during the next six years,
which cover* tlio poriod ot office for which
the now class or senators Imvo been
chosen. By adopting tho phraseology
used in collcgo catalogues nnu classifying
the senators according to tlio years in
which their terms expire, these changes
n lie easily marked.
The first changes in the composition of
the somite occur on March 4, 1877, and
will he as follows:
clash oh 1877.
Ikiiuorint*. Ifi’iMililU'itii*.
A InlmniH Onlrit liwnllo A t kaiiaa*...
I'flawlire SnnUhury Colorado....
Omrzla Norwood llllnoi*
Knit licit)- Stovonaoil town
tlnntom Kanana
Kelly Louisiana..,
.till,,
Toilllf'B*(X>...
WmI Virginia...
•Cooper Millin'
...Pavia Massai
Virginia ...Jnhntlon Mlntilgiiu.
IlfM-apIlulatlon.
Ri>piildtt'«ii«
Ml-*l*alppl...
Minnesota
Nebraska Illtriicot-k
New IlHiiiiudilro Cra- In
NJ(irM'y..KrolliiRhii.VHrii
Total in Rhode Island Infhnny
H. Carolina Iloltortsoii
Tho names placed in italics indicate
the senators who Imvo Ikoii re-elected.
To imiko the change more apparent
*■ * I S.. 4l.l-
THE ELECTORAl. HILL.
Isxl of lit* mil IM It tile Semite.
After an all night sessiwu dovotod to
delrnto, the senate on the twenty-fifth
missed the joint committee's electoral
mil by tho overwhelming vote of 47 to
17—more than two-thirds.
On tlio 2fith tho house passed the hill
by a vote of 101 to 81$.
First—It is n temporary measure designed
for the settlement of questions at Issue in
the jirt'Nont complication only, ami not in
tended iih a rule to govern future eleotoral
eouut*.
Second—Tho time for beginning the elec
toral count Is (dimmed from February 14 to
February 1,
Third—Tho two houses meet in the hall of
the house of representatives as heretofore,
and everything pretending to ho a certificate
is opened by the president of tlio son Ate and
handed to the tellerH,of which there are four,
two from each house, the certificates being
opened in alphabetical order of tho states,
beginning with tho letter A.
Fourth—When a certificate has boon read
the president of the senate calls for objec
tions, which burnt ho in writing and argued
by nt least one senator nnd one representa
tive, whether there ho only ono or two re
turns from the state,in the case of whioh ob
jection is made.
Fifth—If there is only one return, the sen
ate withdraws and the ohjeulioiis aroeoasid\
ered in (he following nmniior:
I. The presiding ofiieeis state the objec
tion*, nud each senator and representative
may sneak ton uiinuUis and not ofteuer than
once, hut tho main question shall lie put af
ter two hours' debate.
II. A recess may ho taken until ton o'olook
next day, pending tho consideration of nny
objection, and the h»uso may transact leg
islative liuhiness while waiting the notion of
tho other on objections.
III. When the two houses have voted they
immediately meet again, and the presiding
officers announce their decisions.
IV. If both oniiottr in the objection Ills
sustained, mid if they disagree it is over
ruled.
Sixth- If there are two returns tho objec
tions are referred to a commission, whoso
•iiipositiou and mode of action are thus
stated :
I. Each of the houses elect five members
by a viva Voce vote on January 30, and the
associate justloos of Hie supremo court as
signed to the following districts, first (Jus
tice UUll'ord), third (justice Strong), eighth
it ninth
It will ho seen that the republicans
only have a majority of nine in that
portion of the senate holding over March
‘*i 1877—ho that a change of five votes
will prevent them Healing republican*
instead of democrats lawfully chosen.
.There is only the remotest iMissihility,
(£t|f r 2U’ , SU tf'rtt they will Strop Bolter
'mini nouln Cnrollim,-* Kostin and <J»»
democrat yet to he chosen In ijoiiisiuuu,
out of their seats. Eustis is entitled to
his seat now, nnd he will probably I hi
admitted ns booh as the presidential
dispute is settled, and certainly if Die
decision of tho arbitration commission
be in TlldenV favor. In Hint event, the
fifty senators who hold over will stand
lwenty-oi)0 democrats aud twenty-nino
republicans, a majority of only eight for
the republicans. Of the twenty-six new
senators, sixteen will ho democrats,
counting democrats from iAiuisiana and
South Carolina; and the account will,
therefore, stand thus:
Of these seventy-six seniiHirs.the term
of twenty-four expire March 4, 1870, o M
twenty-six March 4, 1881, and of the re*
mainiug twenty-six March 4, 1883, a*
will he seen by the following statement* :
CLASH OF 1871).
ft(i|)iihlirnns.
■(nonecr
I)
Counocllrut ... Hartiuni Alabama..
..Gordon Arkan«a*
MrOrrory California
Kul la Florid*..
...Pniinls llllnoi*
. Ho*y Indiana...
Maryland
Mlaaoarl.
N.Carolina Morrlmou Jowa.
...SnrKoiH
• on nnvrr
-Oilli’shy
C'iiikllng
sherman
>"H«u M llnhell
IVnn.y I van la Cameron
H' Carolina i’alteraon
Wlsconaln...
LAKH OF 1881.
McDonald Ma»«a< huaeii* Oawen
Mfoyrlaud .Whyto M chlgan ....ClirlHlIancy
Loekrill fV/mwola.
ijUi
P«4doi'k
Missouri..
New Jersey Itsndolpb
1’retontioiiR Pests of the Period.
Our expenditures must he made m .
productive; the dignity of labor must
have more recognition, and the gentility
of various counterfeits ot work rather
less. The country yields enough for all,
and we must learn to make all earn their
share of its abundant wealth. The able
bodied tramp who live* on the earnings
of honest toil is no more of a social post
than home more pretontious members of
society, who live l»y various ingenious
devices for levying toil on capital and
labor. A good many such have found
their natural level of lute, in our progress
toward nound husinf-*'* method; many
. .J«sImI|iji|..
■■Km nun Nebraska...
human Nevada..
‘Valines
nailer
Ohio.
Ponnaylvanls WuJIa.s Itbmls Island.3'urnaldo
IminnMic* nailer Vsunnn*..,
To zss Maioy Wl*on*in.
Virginia ...vVithrrs
Wmii Virginia..Hereford
JtKOA I’FrtJLATIO.V.
I Mim<* rat*
lUqnihlirnn*
Total...
CI.AHH OF 1883.
Democrats. Kejiubllci
A lab’ma Morgan Colorado..,
Arkansan... "
iisttiiiinii (luailce Miller), and ninth (li
cIiooho a fifth justice, who with themselves
will form pnrt of tho commission.
II. Tho oldest justice (Clilfiml) presides
over the commission and administers a spec-
i this *‘d oath to its incnihurH to impartially exam
ine aud to consider all qucHtioiiH.
IIL It Is not in the powor of either lions
to dissolvu tho ooiiimlsslon or wlthdrnw any
of its members, hut they fill vacanciesenuMid
by the death or innhlllty to notof any of their
respective members, and tho remaining jus
tices in the same iiinnnor replace any of the
justices if a vacancy arises among them from
the same causes.
IV. The noiiimlNsloii is given the same
powers, now possessed by tho two house*not
ing separately or together, to decide upon
the elector 11 votes, and siihinlts its decision
In writing to the two housus, which there
upon meet again in joint schhIoii.
V. The counting of the votes proceed in
conformity with the decision of this commis
sion. unless, upon objection made to It in
writing, signed by five senators und repro-
KtiitiuiivrH. thu two hoipes /umourrently or
der otherwise.
Heventli— the certificates being opened
and read in tho alphabetical order of Hiatus,
when objection is inndo to the vote of nny
slat*, no other cortiflent* Is opened until tho
objections aro acted iijjimi and finally dis
posed of.
Eighth—While In joint session no debate
is permitted, ami no motion, oxoent to with
draw, allowed. Debate can only no had in
separate session, already specified, nnd ad
journment only iih provided when tho two
house* are considering objections.
Ninth Nothing in the net is to lie re
garded as impairing or affecting any right
under the. constitution or laws to question
the right or Htlo of whoever shall lie dr.-
lured president by proceeding in tho courts.
(JR A NT APPROVES
rite r. Iri-lornl Volt* Hill, nml II Is Son
l.nw llviilau Ulvva Ills llrnami*
lor Kici'iilhs luiloi'semetil
nl l.vwisfli.
The following is the text of the pres
ident's message concerning the electoral
hill;
Field),
tbn S'.'iistc nt the l,'/litt'il Stales :
I followed the example heretofore oc
casionally presented, of communicating
in thin mode my approval of tho net to
nniinvcr j )rov j f ] e f,„- and regulate the counting
of the votes for president and vice pres
ident, and tlio decision of questions aris
ing thereon, because of my appreciation
of the eminent peril to the institutions ol
the country, from which, in iny judg
ment, tho act nfibrdH wise and constitu
tional means of escape. For the first
time in the history ol our country, under
the constitution as it is now, dispute ex
ists with regard to tho result of the elec
tion of a chief magistrate of the nation.
It is understood that upon tliodis|>osition
of tliedismites touching the electoral votes
cast at the late election by one or more
ol the states depends the question
whether one or the other of tlio candi
dates for the presidency is the lawful
chief magistrate. The importance of
having clearly ascertained by procedure
regulated by law which of the two citi
zens has been elected, and of who, having
the right to this high office, recognized
...Davis Ma**;u.iiii*fli>i.
North Carolina...
Hampshire Rollln*
N«w Jemey...McPherson Rhode Island. Anthony
South Carolina .Ibitler
Virginia Dsvla
RECAPITULATION.
Nothing need lx*, plainer than that the
republican majority of two will instantly
vanish when Tilden takes his seat, so
that hi* administration will begin with a
good working majority in Isith branches
f congress, w|iieli will he greatly in-
oereasrd after March 4, JS79.—, l -(. J.on
Jfapvblioan,
the right to this high office, recognized
and cheerfully agreed in by all the peo
ple of the republic, cannot ho overesti
mated, and leads me to express U> con
gross and to the nation my great sntisfac
tion at the adoption Of a measure that,
afford orderly means of decision ol gravely
exciting questions. While the InsHiry
o‘ our country in its early period shows
that the president of the senate has
counted (lie votes and declared their
standing, our whole history shows that
in no instance of doubt or dispute has lie
exercised the power of deciding, and that
the two houses of congress have disponed
of all such doubts and disputes al
though in no instance hitherto nave they
been such that their decision could es
sentially have affected the result. For
the firm time, then, the government ol
the United States is now brought to
meet the question as one vital to the
result, and this under conditions not
the best calculated to produce agree
ment or to induce a calm feeling
in the several branches ot the govern
ment or among the people of the couh
try. In a case where, as now. the result
is involved, it is the highest duty of the
law-making power to provide in advance
a constitutional, orderly and just method
of executing the constitution in this
most interesting and critical clause of
its provisions. The hill, w> far from be
ing a compromise of the right, is
forcementof the right and an execution
of the power* conferred by the eonstitii-
ti. ii on congresw, I think Unit IW*or
derly method has been secured by tl o
hill, which appealing to tho constitution
and law as a guide in ascertaining tho
rights, provides mcium ol deciding ques
tions of single returns through direct
action of congre.'H, aud in congress, and
in respect to double returns hv a tribunal
of inquiry, Whoso (IouIbIoub stand unless
kith houses ol congress shall concur in
determining otherwise, tlnm securing a
definite disposition of all questions of
dispute ill wlintovor aspect they may
ariso. With or without this law, as all
the states have voted. It Is ImjiosBlDlo,
it must ho that ono of tho two candidates
has boon elected, nnd it would he do*
ploVnhle to witness an irregular contro
versy ns to which of tho two should ro-
coivo, or which continuo to hold tho
oflieo In all records of history contro
versies have arisen as to succession or
choice of chiefs ol states, nnd no party or
-itiv.cn loving their country and * its
free institutions can sacrifice too
much of mere feeling in preserving,
through upright courso of law, their
country from tlio smallest dangor to its
peace on such an occasion; audit cannot
bo linprcRsed too firmly in the hearts of ail
IKMiplo that truo liberty and real mogreHH
cun exist only through a cheerful ablior-
enoe to constitutional law. The hill pur
ports to provide only lor tho settlement
of questions arising from roccnt elec
tions. The fact that such questions can
arise demonstrates tho necessity—which
1 cannot doubt will, heforo long—he sup
plied, of permanent general legislation
to meet eases which have not boon con
templated in tho constitution or laws of
the country. The hill may not l>o per
fect, aud its provisions may not ho sucli
ns would he liest applicable to all future
Occasions, hut it ts calculated to meet
tlio present conditions of tlio questions
of tho country. Tlio country is agitated;
it needs and it desires iionco and quiet
and harmony between all parties und all
sections. Its industries arc arrested,
labor unemployed, capital idle and enter
prise paralyzed by reason of doubt and
anxioty attending tho uncertainty of a
double claim to the chief magistracy of
the nation. It wants to lie assured that
the result of the election will bonccoptcd
without persistence from tho supporters
of the disappointed candidate, and that
its highest officer shall not hold his plnco
with a questioned title of right. Be
lieving that tlio bill will secure those
ends, 1 give it my signature.
U. S. Grant,
Kxocutivo Mansion, January 21), 1877
A Monopoly to he Feared.
Under tho above heading a corres
pondent of tlio Scientific American says:
The monopoly to lie feared l>v farmers is
the brains ol other professions. While
tlio fariiiersiimnlier (1,000,000 in thiscoun-
try, there nre only about 41,000 lawyers,
yet one of our best writers on political
economy says that lie can select ono him
tired lawyers, who exert more influence
in public affairs, than all tiie fanners put
together. The same is true to only a
slightly less degree of manufacturorsaud
transportation companion. Yes, they
have a monopoly ol brains. Farmors
ourselves, wo nre sorry to confess it, hut
lonfess it wo must. Who control the
iiflUirsofuino-tcnihsof our country towns?
Usually tho seconil-rnte lawyers, other
professions and trades at tho “eonter.”
Yet, it they hut awoke to it, the farmers
too might uo a little of tho public think
ing. The first step in the uplifting of
tit 1h clans to a place of power in society
is to place its men nnd women on the
same plane, intellectually as the others.
In education is the fanner’s bulwark
against encroachments and usurpation of
power by the low over tlio many.
The Nlage uml (lie Pulpit.
Without entering any comparison with
other means for educating innnkind to
a higher standard of morality, it is im-
pot-siIde to deny that tho theater is ui
powerful lever lor good or evil. Till
tendency of the modern stage to meh*
drama, to buffoonery, to Indecency, can
not he too harshly condemned. Black
Crooks and blood-and-thmidcr dramas,
with no moral, no idea, no sentiment,
but appealing only to tlio eye or to the
sensuous emotions, nre productive
much Imrni us the most hitter op
ponent of the stago can denounce against
it. In this category ratty also ho in
cluded that peculiar snecios of drama
known as tho French school, wherein so
la! vices arc depicted in attractive colors,
and the sympathy of tho auditor is
aroused for tlio impure whon clothed in
a "false sentimentality. This {nuy ho
candidly ndmitted without any reflection
upon the stage, or those who .belong to
the actor’s profession. Vice, unfortu
nately, is not confined L» any ono class
or calling. The stage is no more respon
sible for having looso characters upon it,
than is nny other jirofcssion. No one
dreams of condemning a whole class of
persons because some rail by the wayside.
If ho, then from the very city from which
Dr. Talmadge inveighs against the stage
would come tiie most flagrant attacks
upon his own sacred calling.
Mustard PlustorH.
How many people arc there who
really know how to make a mustard
plaster? Not one in a hundred at the
most, perhaps, and yet mustard plasters
are used in every family, and pnysieians
prescribe the application. Tlio ordinary
way is to mix trie mustard with water,
tempering it witli a little flour, hut such
a plaster as that makes it simply abom-
tl»KT-l! RKMIUr HE VIVA I< 111 SIN.
Oh! wlinr will wo go w’on Jo groat day rumoa,
\VM do Mowin'iiv (lMrmnpet* an' do Imagin' I
dodruma?
Row many no* alnnrra 'll lio cdtrhrd out Into,
An' IIiii* nr. Intrli to do goldon' nito 7
No non for tor wait 'I well lo-morror?
n'n aot on jro' aorror,
inr|i rz n Imuilmo brier—
! fntcli tlio mo'iirra lip hlglioi t
Won do iinaliunn ur do curt la n ataiinlii' nil nroun',
U ho'a gwlno tor bo ctiooaou for tor war do Glory
Who's ngwlno far tor stnu' stllt'knoed an’ 1k>1'
Ah' nilawor to dorr niiiiio nt do rnllia' iiv do roll 7
hoi tor como now of you coiuln'—
Olo Satan la looaoana n hiiinmln'—
Do wheel* iiv iliatiuoaliuii la a niimmin -
Oh, coma along, alimaratf you coinin'.
III.
De wing iiv aalvntion la n mighty awoot aong,
An' do I’arndlvn will' blow till' nil' Mow at rung I
An' Ahcrhnm'a htizr.nm I* aaf an' it'a wldn.
Alt' list's do plnco wlinr do alnnnra oughtor hid* !
Kt yon fool will Katun you'll get tonic In.
You'll hang on do edgo an' got shook In.
lit you keep on n ato|i|>ln’ ini' u lookin'.
Do time Ih right u
' dlalioro'a do placo—
slilnn aqunr' In jro* face,
Fight do battle of do Lord, light noon and light lata,
An' yhn'll allora fluon latch on do golitln' gala my Uuvo
No line for lor wait Mwclltn morror—
Dii niin'miia'n'l act on jro' aorror. ' nil
Hln’a or almrir or n bamboo brier—
Ax do land for torVtch you lip liluhor.
* — Atlanta (XwttlltiHun,
iimhle. Before it has half done its work
it begins to blister the patient, and leaves
him finally with a painful flayed spot,
after having produced far less effect In a
beneficial way than was intended. Now
a mustard plaster should never make a
blister at all. If a blister is wanted,
there are other plasters far better than
mustard plaster, then, use no water, but
mix the rnnstard with a white of an egg,
und the result will be a plaster which
will "draw” perfectly, hut will uJt pro
duce n blister even upon the skin of an
infant, no matter how long it is allowed
to remain on the part. For this we have
the word of ail old and eminent physi
cian, as well as our own experience.—
('hrbtlian Mirror,
Uouciu Tiiqcukh.—One ounce .Spanish
licorice, two ounces refined sugar, two
drams finely [xiwdered gumumbio, and
extract of opium, ono sou pie. Beat the
whole together, with mucilage of gum
tragaenn111, make into small troche-, to
lie (lisHoIved iu the mouth when.coilgli in
troublfwme.
FACTS AN1) FANCIES.
Captain Bhunary wan asked by his
Turcoman guide which an KnglisniHti
likes best, Ills horse or liiM wifo, nut the
author answered diplomatically, "That
depends on the woman.”
Tub ler ciop is enormous this season,
nud suggests tlio probability (lint the
consumption of water iu a liquid state
next summer will ho proportionately less.
"If wo can Imvo cheap ice,” said a man
with a blossom on his noso, "wo don’t
really need nny water.”
Among the most recently discovered
population of savages, the cannibals of
New Ireland, In tho South seas, there is
a custom which requires that a chief’m
daughter shall ho kept iu a eago within
her father’s house until her Introduction
into society. Tho cuge scaredy gives her
room to move, and she cannot leuvo it
luring any part of tiie day, though she is
allowed to take n stroll with near rela
tives after nightfall.
A #R1TER In Fraser’s Magazine says
eyeglasses ought nover to magnify much,
but merely show the objects clear ana
exactly as they are. Every person ought
lobe able to read with tluur spectacles
at. .lie same distance that he was accus
tomed whon his Hight was uninipared.
Pebbles are preferred on accout of their
ulcarncHH, never becoming dull from
moisture, but they nre dearer. To test
true eye-glasses hold them obliquely over
print, when, if the glass Ih correct, tlio
letters will preserve thoir truo character.
A man who looked like a countryman
was lately walking in the street with a
packet in Ii'ih hand, scaled uml addressed,
with A memorandum tlmt it contained u
thousand dollars in hank notes, As the
bearer appeared to he at a loss, ho was
accosted by a Bum, who asked him what
bo was looking for. The simple country
man placed tin packet iu hiH inquirers
bunds, and requested that he would read
the address, iA ho was tumbled to do so,
and had forgotten it. The reply was
made as with agreeable surprise: " Why,
this letter is for mo! 1 Imvo been ex
pecting it lor it long whilo.” The mes
senger, upon this, demanded a dollar for
tlio carriage of tlio packngo, which was
readily paid. Tho now possessor of the
packot hastened to an obscure corner to
examine his prize; hut, on hrouking the
Heal, ho found nothing hut a few sheets
of paper, on which was written tho sim
ple word "Done!”
Tin? artistic scene painter may now
puck up his pots and brushes and Inurn
another trade. Theatrical managers no
longer have need of him. Science,
the magic, lantern, photography, anu
oxyhydrogen lights have extinguished
them. By these appliances' some of the
London theatres aro producing their
scenery. A blank curtain at one end of
tlio theatre, a man sliding a hit of a pic
ture in a groovo at the other, and temples,
prisons, landscapes, dungeon*, cities, or
dark glens for murder, beautiful brook
hanks lor love making chase each
other across the singe like the phanta
sies ol a dream. Worse oven than this,
tho parties on the stage who have no
part but that of simply putting In an
appearance—the armies, tho ghosts, the
streot.loutiger, the walking but not tho
talking gentlemen—may in tiino all he
supplanted by shadows. A little sinful
ventriloquism thrown in, und oven these
could bo made to perform small parts
effectively. A simple stage, six or soven
good stock actors, ono g( od ventriloquist,
u grst-oInHH hand organ for tho orchestra,
ii srxictroseqjio, and wo Imvo tho principle
Ijuncts of tlio coming theatre.
Searching for Wealth in Arctic Wilds.
Amidst tho frozen wastes of '.the urctic
regions there urc no doubt, stores enough
of mineral wraith to raise half the hu
man race from poverty to riches. If wo
could only get at them! In the days of
good queen Bess, the celebrated navi
gator Froman made several expeditions
into those inhospitable climes in search
of gold. And now wo hear of the return
of an American expedition, sent out by
Philadelphian merchants, in search of
ntica— a litimbler mineral, it is true, but
perhaps as profitable. The Americans
had proceeded to what is known to wlialo-
men as Nialtic valley, and there they
had laid a tramway, built shanties, and
conducted mining operations for about
six weeks. The Eskimo lent them a
helping hand, but only for a short time,
as they had to set out on their summer’s
dter hunting. The miners worked in
quarries about 1,300 feet above the level
ol the sea. It was impossible to carry
the trainway to that height, and tho
mica was transported the greater part of
tiie distance on the backs of the work
men. Some of tiie blocks were remarka
bly large and clear, and about fifteen
tons of mica were brought away. Tlio
mineral was estimated to bo worth from
live dollars to twelve dollars a pound.
The charms of wealth may thus lure us
on nearer and nearer the coveted north
polo, And, after all. we must Imvo
material gain for an object as welljas the
increase of scientific knowledge and the
gratification of a pardonable ambition.-?
CofM.U's Mayofific,