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ESTABLISHED 1799.
The Situation.
Constitutionalist Office, 12:30 a. m.
There is nothing new in the figures.
The Supreme Court of South Caro
lina, while professing to render no final
decision upon the right of the Board of
Canvassers to throw out votes in
effect does so by ordering the Board to
count the votes as cast and make a re
turn to the Court.
The Board late last night were can
vassing the returns for Presidential
Electors, in the presence of five men
from each party and we shall probably
know the result to-day.
There is nothing from Florida to
change previous reports. Everything
is favorable.
The situation in Louisiana is now
very plain. The Republicans acknowl
edge that In order to give certificates
to Haves electors they must not only
overturn the Democratic majorities in
the “bulldozed” parishes, but in their
place substitute Republican majorities
equally as large. The American peo
ple will not submit to any such non
sense. The Radicals would like to beat
us but the contract is too large.
Let us have peace.
ELECTION ECHOES.
Gold Rates Advanced in New York—
Opposition of the Democratic Com
mittee to the Republican—Republi
can Majorities in Louisiana Smaller
than at First Supposed—Facts From
Florida, Etc.
New Orleans, November 17. Gov.
Wells, member of the Returning Board
states that, in all cases of contested'
polls from any cause, the Democratic
State Committee would be notifled, and
the Board would hear argument from
both sides.
New York, November 17.—The Her
ald's New Orleans special says gold
rates are ten per cent, above, and New
York banks are callling in all their call
loans, particularly on State and city
securities. The poor people are draw
ing their money out or banks and put
ting it iu gold. Still there is no sign of
anything serious.
The committee appointed by the
Democratic visitors to prepare a reply
to the Republican letter of refusal have
been at work up to a late hour. It
consists of ex-Senators Trumbull and
Doolittle; ex-Governor Curtin, of
Pennsylvania; Ottendorfer, of New
York, and Stallo, of Ohio. In substance,
it will be substantially made to say,
among other things, that they admit
no official powers to right or interfere
with the internal affairs of the State
Of Louisiana, but they are hero at the
request of an organization of a great
political party, where they meat the
representatives of the opposition, se
lected by tbe President himself for the
same purpose, and as he says, in his
army orders, for the sake of seeing an
honest count of the vote actually cast.
In reply to the statement that the
Vice President has the authority to
count the votes they take direct issue,
and assert that Congress itself, consist
ing of the Senate and the House, has
been solely invested with such power.
A Htrald Tallahassee dispatch says
the official returns continue to come in,
without, however, changing the esti
mate I sent you two days ago, giving
the State to Tildeu by from 400 to 700
majority. A prominent Federal office
.holder here reduces Tilden’s majority
to 229, but I cannot vouch for his flg
ures. . .
The New Orleans dispatcn
says the latest returns of the election
in Louisiana re' ,; ei ve< i 1° the °ity show
that the Republic.'' o majorities are in
the aggregate smalleT than they have
been supposed to be.
WABHINTON ITEMS.
News and Gossip From the Capital.
Washington, November 17. —The
Cabinet meeting to-day was attended
by ail the members, and appears to
have been an interesting session. There
wa3 considerable talk about the con
dition of affairs growing out of the
election, and of the complications that
have received public attention since
that time. Though it is not known
that any action was taken by the
Cabinet of a character that might be
regarded of very special importance,
after adjournment the mem
bers of the Cabinet repaired to the
office of the Attorney-General, some
what in advance of Judge Taft, who
remained at the Executive Mansion in
order to perform necessary business
attending the pardon of McKee. While
it is not yet known what the object of
the conference at the Departtqeut of
Justice meaut, it is safe to believe that
It is for the purpose of consulting im
portant legal authorities in the library
of that Department upon matters that
received consideration at the meeting.
Wm, McKee, convicted of whisky
ff&uds, has been pardoned.
o members of the Cabinet are
quoted to the effect that there is no
question before them of a political
character u oon which to base action,
and no action waa taken or recommen
dation made. 'i>ey simply had a free
and somewhat ex-''t e< and talk over ®
situation. Their opiiT* o ? B are . ““n*
divided as to what is go. to hpp
The Louisiana Embrogl ,£> *
New Orleans, November 17. —
Democratic Committee have receive. 1
several hundred affidavits from ne
groes, and some from Republican offi
cials in Ouchita and other “bull
dozed” parishes, showing a peaceable
and quiet election ; also the intimida
tion of negroes who desired to vote the
Democratic ticket, but did not do so,
f°r fear of violence from Republicans
°f their own color. The Republican
officials have counter affidavits in many
cases, showing violence and Intimida
tion where the Democrats have sworn
nothing of the kind existed.
, It is stated to-night, on good author
uy. that the Returning Board, when it
meets to-morrow, will reply to the ap
plication of the Democratic Commit
tee allowing five members from each
party to be present during the canvass
ing of returns. Business continues
extremely dull, with no prospect of im
provement until the present political
dispute [g adj usted and the election of
settled.
Thiladblbhia, November 17.—The
Grangers Encampment building ß , at
Dim Station, were burned. Loss eighty
thousand dollars.
% Angustn Constitutionalist
SOUTH CAROLINA.
°H r T 8 i? Aiken and by
D. S. Marshals —W arrant Issued
for a Dead Man _ The “Son of
Christ’s” Last Horse Levied Upon.
special Dispatch to Constitutionalist.!
Aiken, 8. C., November 17th, 1876.
Once more the outrage mill is ma de
to perform dirty work by the hands of
Gov. Chamberlain’s minion, D T Cor
bin, United States District Attorney.
Since the election he has issued fifty
new warrants. One was issued last
Monday by him for Dr. J. W. Turner
Jr., a gentleman that has been dead
eleven years.
E. B. Bardeen, United States Com
missioner, arrested in the neighbor
hood of Ellenton, day before yesterday,
twenty-five citizens, and after making
them tramp all over the country,
brought them into town to-day. Some
of them will be bailed in the morning.
Duriog Bardeen’s last raid he took
with him a. negro deputy, Peter A.
Waggles, who entered a gentleman’s
house, near Ellenton, for the purpose
of making arrests. Finding only the
ladies present, he cursed and abused
them immoderately.
A constable, this afternoon, levied
upon a horse as the only remaining
property of the irrepressible Fred. A.
Palmer, for a debt of eighty dollars.
THE “BLOODY SniRT.”
Colored Democrat Beaten— Two White
I Constables Killed —Two Thousand
Negroes in Arms.
Charleston. November 17.—A special
fiispateto to the News and Couriei', re
ceived at 2:30 p. m., says that a col
ored Democrat was severely beaten by
Radical negroes in Lawtonville, in the
upper part of Beaufort county. The
Trial Justice issued a warrant for the
arrest of the offenders, and five were
arrested by a constablo and bis posse.
These, on returning with their pris
oners last night, were attacked by a
body of armed negroes. Two of the
white constables were killed and the
prisoners rescued. The sheriff of the
county is now on his way to Lawton
ville. Telegrams from Varnesville state
that the negroes, two thousand in num
ber, and armed, are at Stafford’s Cross
Roads, near Lawtcnviile, swearing ven
geance on every white man in the
county.
Latest.
Charleston, November 17.—A late,
but unconfirmed dispatch from Staf
ford’s Cross Roads, says there was a
light there yesterday, lasting until
dark, between twenty seven whites and
300 well armed negroes. No negroes
reported hurt.
Twenty-five citizens, arrested under
the enforcement act, were brought into
Aiken rrom the Ellenton section this
morning.
Charleston, November 17.—N0 ad
ditional trustworthy particulars of the
affair at. Stafford’s Cross Roads up to
9:15 p. m., except that only two consta
bles, DeLoach and Shuman, made the
arrest of the five negroes, and that
early to-day dispatches were sent along
the line of the Port Royal and Savan
nah and Charleston Railroads calling
for help, which help is said to have
been sent.
No final decision is made by the Su
preme Court in the matter of the writs
of mandamus and prohibition against
the Canvassing Board,but the Court has
granted an intermediary order, author
izing the canvassers to aggregate the
statement of the county election
Commissioners, and ascertain who has
received the greatest number of
votes, and certify the result to
the court, This is entirely in
the line of the writs asked for, and
confiues the Board to the ministerial
duty of canvassing the returns, and in
this order the Board are at work —a
committee of Democrats and Republi
cans being present. They will first
fi<fpvass the vote for Presidential
electors.
Instx'rtctlons to the Board of Can
vassers.
Columbia, S. £., November 17—The
Supreme Court to-day issued an aux
iliary order instructing tu 0 Board of
Canvassers to proceed, in a Strictly
ministerial duty, to canvass the returns
and submit the same to the Court, lbe
Board of Canvassers, just met, decided
to admit five gentlemen on each side
to witness the canvass. The result will
probably be reached to-night.
The Supreme Court having control
of the Board of Canvassers, Senator
Randolph, Montgomery Biair and Hon.
G. V. Fox returned North to-day.
The Supreme Court decided nothing.
They merely ordered the Board to can
vass the vote ministerially and report
to the court.
Minor Telegrams.
Dowell, Mass., November 17—By a
misplaced switch at Ballardville, on
the Boston and Maine Railroad, a
Height train collided with cars stand
ing on the track, killing the engineer
and fireman.
Washington, November 17— The ship
United Spates from Newbnryport,
Mass., for San Francisco was burned
off Cape Horn. The crew saved.
Constitution: The following facts rel
ative to the terrible homicide at run
nel Hill on Saturday night last are
given by a responsible railroad man
who passed through the place : Dr.
McEwing, he says, had been dripkwg,
and came to Robert Springfield s sa
loon where he attempted to raise a
-turbance with him. After some time
rhe n;utter in dispute was settled, and
Hugh sr rin g fleld > a y° UDg u er br ° a ei ° f
5 hit too " the doctor home. Some
Robert, too. closed up his
b °, ur .n tbe Sand started for
saloon for the m* he had t 0
b °T-bi McEwing’s house. As he ap
oroa<Sed the gat! he saw Dr. McEwing
standing there, apparently waiting for
him with a long knife open in his
hand When Springfield came close
enough the doctor made a lunge at him
with the knife, but the latter avoided
S how by umpmg back. He then
drew bis pistol and shot Dr, McEwing
through the bead, killing him almost
instantly. After realizing what ha had
instantly j fled Tbo nffair ha3
a profound sensation and the
Mends of Springfield say that the
worst thing he has done is rutmthg
The Blade aaya Newaau has received
. .“il finm and 7 000 bales of cotton
?hIT it is estimated that
!i)!oOO balesViil cover the receipts tor
season.
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE LATEST FROM ACROSS THE
WATER.
The Eastern Question—Russia on the
War Path.
London, November 17.—Correspon
dents say that the entire Polish con
tingent of the Russian army has been
sent out of Polish provinces for ser
vice in the field. Russian garrisons re
main in Warsaw and other Polish cities.
A number of Russian officers who in
tended to quit Belgrade have been or
dered to remain. Soldiers on furlough
in Ireland have been ordered to join
their regiments.
London, November 17.—A Reuter
dispatch from St. Petersburg says tbe
Czar, in addressing the Generals and
officers at the close of a review at
Taarskoeselo, on Wednesday, said:
“Gentlemen, let us wish the best suc
cess to the commanders of our arms.”
Ihe Czar’s words were received with
enthusiastic cheering.
All freignt traffic has been stopped
since yesterday on the railways be
tween Warsaw and Terespot, and Kiev
and Brest, Moscow and Brest, Tamboff
and Saratoff, Graese and Zarizyn
Chatkoff aud Nicolaieff, and Moscow
and Kosloff.
A Reuter telegram from Constantin
ople says : “According to reliable in
formation, an extraordinary Cabinet
Council will be held here to-morrow, to
definitely decide respecting the ques
tion of a Conference, the British Cabi
net having received its energetic de
mand on that subject.”
The editorial of the Pall Mall Ga
zette concludes: “English jealousy and
English suspicion is thoroughly arous
ed. Auy overt act on the part of
Russia in the direction of her suspect
ed aims would deepen this suspicion
into active hostility, aud not oulv
leave the Government free to act
against Russia, but in certain contin
gencies compel them so to act.”
The Times to-day, in its financial col
umn, says : One of the rumors on the
Stock Exchange yesterday was that
Lord Derby had withdrawn from nego
tiation on the Eastern question, aud
ihe Cabinet had ordered the occupation
of Constantinople by the British forces,
so that there would be no conference
but immediate war. This rumor is
probably the foundation of the follow
ing statement, which the Financier
makes editorially to-day :
We can state, not officially, but very
confidently, the course the British Cab
inet have resolved upon if Russia in
vades Turkey. In such case the British
army corps will immediately occupy
Constantinople and defend it against
all attacks. It is calculated that not
more than 25,000 troops are needed,
and British engineer officers are
already making a survey for a thorough
defense of the Turkish capital.”
Note.— The latter statement proba
bly grows out of a Reuter telegram
from Constantinople on the 14th inst.,
statiug that several officers of the corps
of Royal Engineers had arrived at this
city. The Financier .
uujcoi la .w t ,ui inripate in a war be
tween Turkey and Russia, who may
fight out their quarrel whether in Asia
or Europe; but, to protect Constantino
ple and the Dandauolles from seizure by
Russia, England would simply hold
Constantinople iu pledge temporarily
on behalf of the other powers, and the
world at large. As soon as a neutral
state was formed on the Bosphorus or
such other arrangement effected as
Europe may ultimately determine upon
for the wardenship of the Dardanelles,
England would willingly withdraw.
Thus the ministerial policy is perfectly
clear and free from future entangle
ment. It has a distinct object of vital
importance to British interests and be
yond that object the government will
not go.”
The foregoing, in all probability, has
no better foundation than the Stock
Exchange rumor before mentioned,
which the Times merely repeats, with
out comment, but it shows the current
of opinion here among the supporters
of the Ministry. But there is a strong
diversion in pubjic sentiment about
the course the government ought to
pursue.
Bucharest, November 17. —The Rou
manian House of Deputies voted SBO,-
000 for the maintenance of the corps
of observation on the Danube and for
keeping the reserve under arms until
December.
Potion, Grain and Finance.
Liverpool, November 17. —The cir
cular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’
Association says: “Cotton was active
last Friday and Saturday, but became
quiet on Monday. It has since been
heavy, with a limited business, and
prices have fallen considerably in
almost every description.. American
wag In active demand early in the
week, and further advanced 1 1-lfid.
Since then the demand has been lan
guid, and prices are }£d. to lower.
Sea Island has been in moderate re
quest at previous rates. Future busi
ness has been large, and prices, after a
considerable fluctuation, are about
below last Thursday’s..
Liverpool, November leading
grain circular says the uneasiness op
the subject of Eastern affairs increas
ing, the grain trade again assumes con
siderable firmness, with a tendency to
advance in value. Foreign wheats pre
generally held for more money, while
British, in some cases, realizes an im
provement of a shilling per quarter.
London, November 17.—The Eoncjon
and Continental Stock Exchanges were
flat to-day, and international stocks,
such as Russian, T.urkish Egyptian
Hungarian and French declined con
siderably. Consols were remarkably
steady tnrQughoqt, closing at their best
point for the day, bqt everything else
suffered from the threatening aspect of
political affairs.
Hamilton & Cos., colliery owners,
failed. Liabilities, iJfiQQ.OOO.
Paris, November if. —Tfie Temps
states that the Porte will give an offi
cial reply to the conference proposal
to-morrow. It is believed Turkey will
accept the conference on the basis of
the British proposals.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: “Mr. Byrd
Lyon, aged 65 years, was shot and in
stantly killed at his residence near
Crawford, Ala., Saturday night, while
at his well drawing water. He was
struck in the neck, which was broken.
The deed was committed by some un
known person, but it is supposed to
have been done by a negro. Three or
four negroes have been arrested upon
suspicion, and one who had some mis
understanding with Mr. Lyon about the
gathering of the crop, proved an gl'M.”
The Gwinnett Herald says the far
mers of that county have planted this
year a larger arsa in tobacco than for
many years, and the crop will be a very
large one, We see no reason why
Georgians can't “chaw” quids of their
own manufacture.
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1876.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Rome has a rope factory.
The Thomasvllle Fair proved a ftaan
cial success.
Mr. W. J. Bosworth, aged 53, of
Aoiericus, is dead.
The wife of Hon. T. O. Wicker, of
Sandersvifie, is dead.
The Superior Oourt of Burke coubty
convenes next Monday.
There are 2,105 pupils attending Sjan
dersville High Bchooi.
Savannah refugees are returning in
large numbers to that city.
Thirty-eight gin houses have been
burned in Georgia this season.'
Mr. J. J. Bell caught a large bear in
a trap in Mclntosh county last weeli
The Expositor is willing to bet ten
dollars that W. B. Jones has the hand
somest residence in the State,
The Thomasville Enterprise says:
“The frost on Saturday morning was
almost equal to a young snow.”
Willie M. Leod, of Gordon county,
aged 15 years, shot himself in the hand
accidentally-while hunting last week,
and loses his hand—Umputation hav
ing been necessary.
Mr. Sam Brown, of Calhoun county,
a celebrated hunter, killed a turkey
gobler last week, which, it is said,
weighed thirty-five pounds, net. We
did not see it.
BAM BARD INTERVIEWED.
What the Great Chief of the Idahos
Has to Say for Himself.
L’Enfant Perdu, the impertinent cor
respondent of that scurrilous Radical
carpet-bag organ the Florida Union, has
been interviewing our übiquitous ami
intensely “unanimous” friend Sambard.
There is nothing particularly note
worthy or praiseworthy in Samivei ex
cept that he is an exceedingly disin
terested patriot and is always fouud on
the winning side in polities' For this
reason, and as, at last accounts, he was
running on the Democratic schedule,
we have thought that his ex
tensive Georgia acquaintance would
be pleased to hear from him.—
Here’s the interview: Uicero very
elegantly says the Republicans rush iu
where angels dare to tread; and I am a
living witness to the fact that old Ciss
was right. You and your readers all
know the extreme modesty and diffi
dence which characterizes Psalm Bard;
you know how he shrinks from public
mention, and blushes when the public
gaze too rudely upon his auburn coun
tenance; aud you will therefore be as
tonished when you learn that I have
bearded the lion in his hotel, and ex
tracted such a heap of valuable infor
mation from him. You also know that
information exudes from the famous
Psalm only under the most extraordi
nary pressure, and if I am not found
worthy of the world’s model, why, just
send some other reporter after him the
next time, that’s all! I found Psalm
SfWxY i MJ? i 5. 0 ?i wn L'? lt7n digitate on the
of course, found him very reluc
tant to be interviewed The
very sight of a couple of re
volvers and a bowie knife, however,
put him in a wonderfully pleasant
humor, and I then proceeded to busi
ness. Psalm had on his red-velvet
dressing-gown, presented to him by
Queen Victoria, his green smoking cap,
a gift from Kaiser William, and his
number fouiteen feet were encased in
a pair of yellow slippers, bearing the
monogram of his old friend, Miss Sin
gle-Bed Anthony. “Now, Psalm,” said
I, “I want you to give me a history of
your life, for it must be full of strange,
wild adventure.” He smiled like a plug
hat struck by lightning, as be said,
“I’ll tell you all about it. 1 was boru
at an early age, of poor but Irish pa
rents, upon the banks of the beautiful
Lake Como, where my father fed his
grampus hills. He also used to carry
passengers in his gondola up aud down
the lordly Appeniues, and when the
summer season set in, he used to sell
fish up at Paiatka. I was brought up to
that business myself, and have now in
my possession the first horn I ever
used in that profession.” “Oh,” said
he, wiping his mouth on bis coat-tail,
“I’ve had many a horn since then.”
“My uncle,” continued he, “was a close
friend to the Spartan boy, who ate the
fox’s vittles. In fact, they were a reg
ular Damon and Pathos, and my uncle
says the fox squealed awfully. I started
my first paper at the tender age of
nineteen, and, being very fond of mu
sic, I devoted my spare hours to that,
aud got so profipient that I could play
‘Home, Sweet Home,* on tfic bass drum
without losing more than three notes
in the course of the chune. Well, to be
brief, I have acted as wet nurse to
twenty-seven newspapers, aud officiated
at the funeral of the same number. As
yirgil says, <Sjtp dupto grciyo domine, which
is, starting a paper pu notfiiufj, qpd
conducting it on the same principle.
I’ve been all thiDgsto all men; belonged
to all political parties, and if you
can find an administration that can
change any quicker thau I can, you
can have my new ‘dicer’ and the order
that Drew gave me on his store. To
pomp dowfi gradualfy to the present
time', I got tfred of the' corruption of
the Republican party, aud efime dovyn
to Florida to help redeem it from the
ro}e of the car—(sotto voice—ahem!
andd ——u it, fm carpet-bagger, too). I’ve
addressed the largest assemblages
that a free lupph coufd bring together.
Jlown ip Bade county the oppra houpe
was packed from tofi to bottom, and
when I got through there wasn’t a wet
eye in the house. We had a gay time
at May port. Some fellow took me for
a song and dance man belonging to
some traveling circus, but beyond that
there was nothing to spile the copspn;
gainityof the element*. Dm to' have a
'post-office, you know, and I cqn’t half
sieep for thinking of it. East night I
attended a tea party, and didn’t get
hpene until it was most time for
the chickens to get up and
clean their teeth, f went to b e 4
to court tired nature's hair restorer,
b&hny sleep, when the nightmare got
bold of ms and held on ijke the fievil
to a dead Democrat. I saw seven hun
dred post offices, all in a row. There
was crape on the door of each, and in
front of each was a bald-headed mon
key with his tail cut off, aud all of ’em
yelled out:
‘Sam, Ham, is a used up man;
No post office for Sam.’
I woke up sweating like a bull-frog
going up a hill. Oh, it’s awful 1 it’s
awful. Maybe I won’t get that post
office, after all!”
■‘Well, Psalm,” said I, “be virtuous
and you will be eccentric! I haint got
long to tarry ; I haint got long to stay,
but I want you to tell me exactly how
Florida stands,”
“Well,” said he, “I think the vote is
a tie ; and, if so, I am to have the cast
ing vote. My dear boy, there’s mil
lions in it,”
LOUISIANA.
——
A DARK PAGE FROM HISTORY
Review' of the Returning Boards—
What Sort of Machinery is Depended.
Upon to Elect Hayes by Fraud—De
fying the People.
Every intelligent citizen knows that
the legal government in Louisiana was
counted out by fraud four years ago.
No fair minded Republican attempts to
deny the fact, in face of the refusal of
the United States Senate to ad
mit any of Kellogg’s Senators to seats.
But iu four years the popular recollec
tion of these events has grown some
what dim, and a brief outline of them
will give the people of the North a
clear idea of the outrage, which, there
are too many reasons to fear, will be
attempted again, in order to deprive
Gov. Tilden of the position to which he
has been legally elected.
The Returning Board, of infamous
memory, was composed of the Gov
ernor, the Lieutenant-Governor, the
Secretary of State, and two Senators.
In 1872 two of these officials, having
been removed by the Governor, formed
a Returning Board of themselves, filled
vacancies and proceeded to count the
ballots, which always remained in pos
session of the other and legal Board.
It was this count of ballots, which the
canvassers never saw, which declared
William Pitt Kellogg Governor of Lou
isiana. And it is this same Governor
who is now preparing, there is every
reason to believe, to use the same ma
chinery to count in Rutherford B
Hayes ! In 1872, just after the election,
Kellogg filed a complaint before Judge
Dureil that 10,000 persons had been
denied iegistratiou; that from 3,000 to
5,000 blacks had been deprived of ihe
right to vote, that ballots enough to
elect him hud not been counted; that
the returns were about to be desttoyed,
&e.,,&c. Dureil, who goes down to his
tory as “the drunken Judge,” declared
the Kellogg Board legal, aud enjoined
Mr. McEnery from making any claim
to the office of Governor. Warmoth
cheeked this movement by approving
a law which had been passed at the
last session of the Legislature, but not
yet acted on, abolishing all existing
Boards of Canvassers and authorizing
the Governor to appoint anew one.
He approved the law, and appointed
Returning Board. This, under the
Constitution of Louisiana, he could le
gally do. This Returning Board can
vassed the votes actually cast and de
clared McEnery Goveinor.
This was supposed to be the end of
the matter; but the same night, though
no application for troops had been
made, Attorney-General "Williams tele
graphed to Marshal Packard that he
was to enforce the decrees of United
States Courts, and that General Emery
would furnish “all necessary troops for
that purpose.” The same official, by
order of the President, had refused
were called for by' the Governor and
Legislature. Durell’s “midnight or
der” was now issued, ordering the
Marshal to take possession of the
State House, and prevent the assem
blage of the McEnery Legislature.
Packard and other Kellogg officials,
including the latter’s own counsel,
afterward testified that this was issued
by Dureil on his motion and without
application.
Of this order and the others, Sena
tors Carpenter, Anthony, Logan and
Alcorn, all Republicans, said, in their
report: “Viewed in any light, the order
a-od injunctions made and granted by
Judge Dureil, in this cause, are most
reprehensibly .erroneous iu point of
law, and are wholly void for want of
jurisdiction; and your committee must
express their sorrow and humiliation
that a Judge of the United States
would have proceeded in such a fla
grant disregard of his duty, and have
so far overstepped, the limits of Fed
eral jurisdiction.”
Under Durell’s order the Kellogg Re
turning Board declared Kellogg’s r ma
jority to be j. 8,861. This extract fporn
t()e testimony before the Senate Com:
uiittee shows how this accurate major
ity was obtained —[Mr. Lynch was a
member of the Kellogg Board, which
was called the Lynch Board, after
him]:
Mr. Lynch. We took all the evidence we
had before us, and on knowledge of the
parishes aud their political complexion,
and then wo decided.
Senator Carpenter. You estimate it, then,
upon tiie basis of what you thought the
vote ought to haye been.
Mr. Lyiicn. Yea, sir; that was just tlip
fact, anq f think on the whole we were
pretty correct.
The “evidence” was afterwards found
to consist of newspaper articles, letters
and several thousau<| affidavits, dis
covered to have been afi forged, by
negroes. that they had been deprived
of the right to vote. This hoard,
which declared Kellogg’s majority to
be 18,861, never had an official return
before it, and this pretended accuracy
was sheer impudent falsehood. Both
Legislatures organized, and John Me-
Enery aud 100 of the wealthiest citizens
telegraphed tp Washington that they
were about to come North to lay their
case before the President, and prayed
hjm not to recognise either government
unti| he had heard thpm. Williams,
the Attorney Qeqerai, @eut an insolent
reply that thp v}sit be ‘.‘unavail
ing i’’ tlmt I’tfie Bf e sidept’s decision is
made and wifi not be changed,* 4
The Senate investigation followed,
aud the report of the majority pf the
committee, signed by Senators Carpeu
ter, Logan. AlCGrn aud Anthony, con
cluded as follows:
' H i<j tiia opinion of your Committee
tnat, but for the unjustifiable interference
of Judge Durell, whose orders were execu
ted by the Unit'd States troops, the can
vas made by the De Feriet Board, and
promulgated by the Governor, declaring
McEnery to have been elected Governor,
and also declaring who had been elected to
the Legislature, would have been acquiasc
e<4 in by tto people, aqc| that Goyerupient
would have entered quietly upon the exer
cise of the sovereign power of State. *
* We have already seen that the prooofd
ingsof tnat Board (the Kellogg lieturning
Bptird) cannot be sustained without diare.
garding all the principles of law applica
ble to the subject, and ignoring the distinc
tion between good laith and friend. *
Considering ad the facts established before
rour Committee, there seems no escape
from the alternative that the McEnery
Government must be recognized by Corn
gress, or Congress must provide for anew
election.”
The Senate, however, was still too
much under the influence of President
(afant to curry out the recommenda
tions, though they came from some of
his warmest friends. The Kellogg (gov
ernment was recognized, and the
crowning outrage of the century was
th us made complete. The Senate, how
ever, stultified itself by refusing fo ad
mit either of Kellogg’s Sectors, there
by acknowledging that its former ac
tion was unjustifiable.
This is aft accurate and impartial
history of the Louisiana outrage. Is
there to be another? Do the Republi
can managers suppose that if Louisi
ana has gone Democratic the American
people will permit the man who whs
made Governor by such means to count
in by the same method a President
who has not been legally elected? God
forbid that they should make the at
tempt, for they do not know the awful
storm that would break upon their
heads.
Incautious Admissions of Certain Re
publican Officials—Kellojrjf’s Tactics
—The Republican Commission.
ISpecial Dispatch to Philadelphia Times.]
New Orleans, November 14.
The Northern Democratic Committee
with Mr. Wattersou aud Senator La
mar, have been in session for several
hours to-day, Governor Palmer in the
chair. The result of their deliberation
is given in tbe communication to Judge
Matthews, proposing a joint supervis
ion of the work of the Returning
Board, which will be found in the reg- j
ular press dispatches. The communi
cation, as reportefi from a special com
mittee, had rather a different tone, but'
it was remodeled at the suggestion of
Gov. Bigler aud Gov. Curtiu. The
Democrats now wait to hear from the,
republicans. An army officer informs
me that United States Marshal Pitkin
admitted to-day that the ballots as
cast give Tilden a good round majority.
Another Republican official sa\s thai
they can reduce the Democratlc-ma
jority to 1,500 by throwing out five
parishes, but that “ the devil
of it is how to get rid of that
1,500 on any plausible pretext.” Gen- j
erai Augur says that the election in j
New Orleans was as quiet as was ever
seen iu a New England village. He
seems to have heard little of the in-
timidatlon by violence of which Gov
ernor Kellong complains. The Gov
ernor says he applied for troops as
soon as Taft issued his circular to
United States Marshals, but that he
did not make a fuss about it, as Cham
j berlain did, knowing that it would
raise a row in the North, but the
President gave him all he wanted, and
he used them to good purpose. A
“still hunt” was what ho called this
way of using the military. Troops ait.
still pouring into the city. General
Garfield arrived late to-night. It is
now said that Mr. E. W. StoughtoD,
who is expected in the morning, comes
fully accredited as Envoy Extraordin
ary and Minister Plenipotentiary from
Chandler to Kellogg, and will assume
command of the Republican forces as
the representative alike of the admin,
istration and the Republican National
Committee. He has engaged three
rooms at the St. Charles Hotel. The
two colored members of the Returning
Board have been placed on a uiouitoi
in the harbor to prevent their being
tampered with by the Democrats, as
they are thought to be purchasable.
M. P. H.
The Supreme Peril.
There is eVery'’ lmlfcaHm that the
Louisiana desperadoes are plotting the 1
overthrow of Constitutional liberty in
the Republic, precisely as they con- j
spired for its assassination in that i
State four years ago, and repeated it I
in 1874.
There is the same gathering of the
army, the same vociferations about in
timidation, the same apologies for the
wholesale disfranchisement of entire
counties, the same dark and desperate
mutteriags.
The verdict of tiie past foreshadows
the condemnation of the present. Sen
ator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, a lte*
publican, fully exposed the villainy of
1873. Representative Wheeler, of Sew
York, more fully revealed the wrongs
or 1874.
Mr. Wheeler went further. He fore
told the present crisis, and said that no
party would be willing to submit to
being defeated, if the defeat was ac
complished by such means. We say to
Mr. Wheeler now that the Democratic
party will not be willing to submit to
a repetition of the atrocities of 1873
and 1874. He was lately the Republi
can candidate for yice-Rresidept. He
has beep to Louisiana. He knows that,
the conversion of New Orleans into an
armed camp, the march of armies aud
the outgivings of Kellogg, mean the
overthrow of constitutional liberty.
We say Mr. Wheeler knows this.
There is not a man in this broad laud
who is not looking with bated breath
to the proceedings in New Orleans'.
French precedents are in vogqe. Na
poleonic tactics are adopted.
1 Thousands of Democrats have bean
disfranchised in Louisiana. The State
iis indisputably pemocratic. Are four
j milliqns of voters going to see that
State paptured by a gang of dyspara
i does, and not be tumultuously stirred 't
It is said that peaceful citizens will
I submit. Aye ! and law-abiding politi
j clans will submit to the will of the ma
jority, also. There is no evidence in
the public journals of the Republican
party that they have the slightest in
tention of inspecting tl;e declared will
of the people. They are determined
I to grasp the Executive chair of the
j Nation, if they can do it, at all hazards,
i and to ride with lenawod vigor over an
i undoubted majority of the country.
; If the outrages of 1872 and 1874 are
repeated in Louisiana, the question wifi
be carded fO, Congress. The country
\vM be agifate4 by it, from one end of
the lanq fo fhp other, The war of
words will be furious.
Bayonets will again gleam in Wash-
I ington. Thousands will gather ip and
I near that eity, to watch the progress of
; the discussion, Party feeling will run
high. And who will dare place any
j limits to the terrible consequences
! which will follow ?
If the contest reaches that propor
tion, we cap see nothing but darkness,
no matter which way the decision may
be. If trouble is not now averted, it
will never be controlled, after it once
pbtains headway,
'■Ffle essence of right is undoubtedly
with the party having the majority of
votes. If the minority, now holding
the power, proposes to draw the
sword and fix the bayonets to compel
submission, the Republic dies in its
Centennial year. There may remain a
government. The transition to dicta
torship may be as orderly as Louis Na
poleon’s coup d’etat-, but it will be far
more infamous. It may be peaceful •
but it wifi be the muffled peace of the
grave of the Kepufcd>c.
The Republicans, instead of demand
ing submission to power, must present
their proofs of right to exact any sub
mission whatever.
The business interests of the coun
try have already taken the alarm. The
prospect of war in every street and on
every highway of the land, is not a
pleasant one. The peril may be averted,
We believe it will be,
But those who undertake to pervert
the voice of the ballot-box had better
weigh well the consequences.
The Vermont Vote.
Editob Constitutionalist I cannot
agree with you that it would be a “snap
judgment” for the leading candidate on
the Tilden ticket in Vermont to obtain
a certificate of election as one of the
five electors to whom that State is en
titled, in lieu of Sollace, the Hayes can
didate who was ineligible, as beiug the
holder of a Federal office of trust or
profit, on the day of the election. You
seem to think such a result would be
obtained by virtue solely of a bare le
gal technicality and would be in sub
stance a violation of a great principle
I cannot see it in that light, but upon
the contrary think the Democratic can
didate entitled to a certificate
not only on the letter but 00 the
spirit of the law, and that so far
from contravening any principle
his election vindicate the great
fundamental idea on which the institu
tions of this country are based. That
idea is that as the General Government
is supreme in its sphere so the States
respectively are sovereign in theirs,
and to maintain this principle in its in
tegrity, the Federal Constitution
abounds in provisions intended to re
strain the General Government from
overriding the States by virtue of an
unlimited application of the doctrine
that the majority must rule. If ihat
rule were applied in all cases, it might
be in the power at any time of a ma
jority of the States, or a majority of
the people of the States, operating
through the instrumentalities of the
General Government to crush out the
minority at pleasure. Hence each State
has an exact equality of votes in the Sen
ate. and the Senate cannot expel any
individual Senator by a majority, but
only by a two-thirds vote ; nor can any
State be deprived of its equal suffrage
in ihe Senate without its consent,
though every other State in the Union
were to vote iu favor of such a step. |
The feeble minority of lUU.OOO inhabi- j
tants of Delaware may on this point
I override the gigantic majority of
000,000 in all the other States. I might
mention other cases iu the Constitu
tion where a majority is not sufficient,
but a two-thirds or three-fourths vote
is required, but they are familiar to
you, as it is also familiar that their ob
ject is to protect the State against the
General Government, and I need, there
fore, only refer particularly to so much
of the Constitution as provides that
“no Senator or Representative, or per
son holding an office of trust or profit
under the United States, shall be ap
pointed an elector.” The object of
this provision was to keep the clutch
of the Federal Government off the
throats of the States. It is so obvi
ously proper that it was adopted nan.
con. in the Convention framing
the Constitution, though every other
part of the plan of electing the presi
dent was the subject of long and
heated debate. It was foreseen that if
men owing their offices to the Presi
dent, could act as electors, the Presi
dent might, by a shrewd use of the ap
pointing power, do much to secure his
re-election indefinitely. It is a wise
and admirable provision, but if a vio-
Yeriqont postmaster, is to pass wlrfi.
out the infliction of some penalty, of
what avail is the provision itself? A
law without a sanction, or some power
of punishment attached to its refrac
tion, may be violated with impunity,
and must necessarily be impotent
against the evil it wa3 designed to
check. Nor does it alter the case that
because the violation was committed
by a majority of people of Ver
mont, it is any the less an infraction of
the supreme law of the land, or any
the less worthy of the infliction of
such a penalty as shall prevent a re
currence of the offence, if a majority
of the voters of Vermont see fit to dls
pense with a safeguard established in
their behalf, they have no right to ex
pose the minority in that State to dan
ger, nor are they authorized to allow
such a usurpation as may be of peril
ous consequence to the people
of the other states of the Union. You
will see, therefore, that I do
i not rely ou any bare legal technicali
ties, but go to the very substance of
the thing. The Republican majority in
Vermont have attempted to violate a
wholesome and necessary provision of
the Constitution, and it is but just and
right that they suffer the legal penalty
attached to that offense. The leading
Democratic candidate for elector is en
titled to receive a certificate of election
I in lieu of the ineligible Republican can
date, not only because under the law
of yermopt he is one of the five highest
qualified candidates, but because in his
election the Constitution of the United
States is vindicated, aud a just retribu
tion meted out ta those who have ven
tured on its violation. The groat and
crying crime of the day is the unlawful
Interference of tba Federal Govern
[ tpent, in the person of its fuuctiona
i ties, In the domestic affairs of the
States, aud the only way to chock that
offense is to treat it like any other
offense, and affix a penalty on its com
mission.
That the majority of the voters of 1
Vermont are the guilty parties in this j
offence does not, as I have said before,
in the slightest degree palliate the |
offence. This is a land of law, and a ;
majority is equally amenable with the
minority to the law. I stood in the I
Senate of the United States on the 16th I
day of May, 1868, the day on which the
vote was taken on the impeachment
preferred against Andrew Johpion, i
President of the United States, ami i
well remember how the vote stood.
It was: guilty, and not guilty, lU,
and the president stood acquitted of
the charge. An overwhelming major
ity was against him, but not the two
thirds required by the Constitution,
and at the feet of the Constitution the
wild surges of revolution assuaged.
Was this au escape by ‘‘a snap of judg
ment’'—-by a mere technicality of Jaw ?
Mr. Johnson did not so regard it, for I
conversed with him on the subject of
his trial a few days before the verdict,
and his eye was as untroubled and his
face as calm as a serene confidence
could make it, when saying that he
did not believe his accusers could
muster a two-thirds vote against him,
though they no doubt had a majority,
and that the people of the United
States would abide by the Constitution,
and accept its rule as right.
Frequently it is said, Mr. Editor, that
the constitution is dead, but in my at
tendance on this trial I witnessed with
my own eye3 its power and its life. I
saw it hold in check two huge and in
furiated majorities in Congress, with a
howling North behind them, and safe
under its shield the destined victim
passed upon his way, like the traveler
in Pilgrims Progress between the two
chained lions. Its provisions are not
only the law but they are rigfit and
ought to be the law, and tried by this
Standard I cannot but think that the
Republicans of Vermont have not only
legally lost an elector but that they
ought to lose him, and that the leading
candidate on the Tilden ticket is not
only legally entitled to a certificate of
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
election, but that he is bound as a good
citizen and a friend of the constitution
to demand it and to insist upon that
demand. D.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The wife of Mr. James Webb, of
Anderson, is dsad.
Dr. A. Walker, an old and highly
respected oitizen of Anderson county,
died last Friday.
The residence of Benjamin Chills, of
Abbeville, was destroyed by fire Tues
day morning, by a defective flue.
Mrs. Margaret Massey aud Mrs.
Elizabeth Armstrong, both aged ladies,
living near Houea Path, are dead.
Mr. R. Joseph Cheatham, of Warren
ton, died on Sunday last, aged about
30 years. He was taken ill 00 Friday
and died in 48 hours.
The wife of Mr. Walter Hoof, of
Charleston, died suddenly at the resi
dence of her father, Mr. j. B. Clark, of
Anderson, on Monday afternoop. *
Mr. John Burt Riley was killed'mar
Greenwood one day last week. Blu
ford Jones, Mack Jtnes, Mary Jones
and Barbary Jones, have been arrVsted
and lodged in jail ou suspici- uuf beiug
the authors of the dime.
Press atul Banner : Three of the col
ored men that voted for Tihieu and
Hampton iu Due Weft last Tuesday
were beiweeu 80 aud 100 years old.
One of them said he was a lull bun
died. A purse of money was made up
aud distributed between them after
they had voted, aud thus tho white
people “intimidated” tbe old negroes.
Barnwell Sentinel: The Stat“ Fair
will be held in Columbia on tire ’2Sth
November, aud we predict that tho
crowd that will be there to rej-uee over
the triumph of South Carolina aDd
witness the preparations for the Inaug
uration of Governor Hampton will bo
simply immeuse. We presumo
that half faro only will bo
required by tho railroads, and that
many a Barnwell man will take advan
tage of it to go to Columbia then, and
exult aud be glad with his friends from
other counties.
Barnwell Sentinel: Some of the Re
publicans at Robbiu’s, on tho Port
Royal Railroad, where tho Democrats
in large numbers were about voting,
fired into that box in order to oust tho
managers, which they did, aud tho
devils got hold of the Canaan Fair
box, carried it into the swamp, and
stuffed about 2,000 votes ioto it. It
wtig turned over several days after thq
Board adjourned, and we learn it has
gone up to Columbia. The Robbins
box has been brought here. Contents
unknown,
Pi'css ami Banner , of Abbeville, says:
We place at the head of Qar paper the
name of Geueral McGowau as the most
suitable man in the State ta fill tho
vacancy occasioned by the expiration
of Senator Robertson’s terra in the
United States Senate. His liberal spirit
his education, his ability as a states
their needs, and his services In the up
country in the late canvass pre-emi
nently qualify him for the position.
The Press and Banner learns that W.
H. Heard protests against the seating
of T. L. Moore in the Legislature aud
claims that he is entitled to the seat
because his friends at Calhoun’s Mills
failed to vote for him. We learn also
that Lewis Clay protests against G. M.
Mattison being sworn into office as
County Commissioner for the same
reason. We learn that the other de
feated candidates have submitted to
the decision of the County Board of
Canvassers and den't propose kicking
up any dust at all. Our own opinion
is, that Heard and Clay will have a
lively time getting the offices to which
other men were elected. Mr. W. S.
Richardson, of Ninety-Six, also
tests against the canvassers including
ia their calculations the votes cast at
that box, on aecouut of irregularities
aud Incompetent manageuuipi, of the
election.
Several hundred negroes who had
not paid their taxes voted in Darien at
the election.
Jefferson county has raised enough
sorghum syrup to liquidato the indebt
edness of the county.
Savannah News: The steamer Rosa
was taken up on Willink’s marine rail
way yesterday, where a patch will be
placed on her bottom, over a placo that
was damaged during her last trip down
from Augusta.
Col. T. J. Smith. Master of the Geor
gia State Grange, has gone to Chicago
to attend a meeting of the National
Grange, which commenced on Tuesday.
Parties desiring to communicate with
Col. Smith during his absence, can ad
dress him, care of the Palmer House,
Chicago. Mrs. Smith, who expected to
accompany the Colonel upon his jaunt
was too ill to do so.
Ihe Rome News states that a negro
woman living in DeSoto on last Friday
night left her infant in the house and
went out to a dance. She returned
about one o’clock and went to bed.
.About two hours later her colored
neighbors were awakened by the mother
and told that her child was dead. The
blood was oozing out of its mouth, ears
asd nose. It is supposed that theehild
was choked to death by the heartless
mother to get rid of it.
Griffin News: Uncle Wash Warren is
seventy years old. He has a child now
six weeks old, by his third wife. The
i child weighs sixteen pouuds, aud is re
i ported by the neighbors to be the finest
baby in the county. It is named Lu
ciuda Nancy Matilda, after the three
wives or Uncle Wash. Mr. Warren has
raised a largte family, has never sworn
an oath, drank a drop of liquor, or
used a particle of tobacco. He is very
stout and hearty, and bids fair to live
many years.
Waynesboro Expositor: Mr. 8 A
Gray Informs us that he has recently
seen numbers of grasshoppers in dif
ferent sections of the county. They are
of a brownish color and vary in length
from one-fourth t* three and four
inches. When frightened they fly into
the trees. They do not resemble our
native grasshopper. We call tho at
tention of our farmers to this matter
Unless they are killed this winter we
may experience great loss and trouble
from them next year.
Atlanta Times : Mr. J. C. Thrasher, a
citizen of Conyers, was arrested yes
terday by Sergeant Flynn, upon a tele
gram received from the above place,
which stated that he was on his way to
Atlanta per passenger train. He was
locked up in the station-house to await
further orders. Yesterday a writ of
habeas corpus was taken out aud an
effort made to have the writ a'gucd
before Judge Pittman, but as that'gen
tleman was not in the city, action whs
postponed until to-day.