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ESTABLISHED 1799.1
The Situation.
Constitutionalist Oftick, 12:30, a. m.
There is no news of any moment
from Florida. Everything there is in
the Court and the several motiois come
before the Circuit Judge to-day.
Nothing of interest comes to us from
Louisiana. The Returning Board in
that State are now passing upon the
uaoontested parishes and the fight
over the contested ones will not
come up for some days.
The news from South Carolina, how
ever, is exceedingly important. On
Wednesday the Board of State Can
vassers made a report to the Supreme
Court of the candidates for State offi
cers and the Legislature, who were
elected upon the returns of the oounty
canvassers.
Upon this report the Supreme Court
yesterday passed an order command
ing the Board to issue certificated of
election to all peisons shown to be
elected members of the Legislature
upoa the face of the returns. In addi
tion, the Court approved another or
der requiring the Board to show cause
why they should not compare and cor
rect the statements of county canvass
ers with the returns of the precinct
nnuagera In their possession.
Notwithstanding all these proceed
ceedings, and without the fear of the
court before their eyes, this irrepressi
ble Board which Corbin styles in open
#ourt, “about as independent as any
you ever heard of,” ignore the count,
go behind their own resolution, holds
a session without any public notice to
anybody, and none at all to the Demo
crats, issue certificates of election
to the Hayes electors, to all
the Republican State ticket except
Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
and to members of the Legislature ex
cept from Edgefield and Laurens coun
ties, thus giving the Radicals a ma
jority in the Legislature and the con
sequent power to declare Chamberlain
Governor. Of course the Board thea
adjourned sine die. They could not
have accomplished more had they sat
six weeks.
But the trouble is that the Board
certificates are not worth the small
amount of paper necessary for their
publication. Acting in direct violation
of the order of the Supreme Court, the
highest judicial authority in theJJtate,
their acts are null and void, and noth
ing can give them life.
Of course, our Columbia friends are,
as naturally they ought to be, excited,
but the Court will maintain its own
dignity and enforce its own orders, and
unless something new and more rev
olutionary turns up in the next few
days, Wade Hampton will be peaceful
ly installed next week as Governor.
Let ns have peace.
THE METHODISTS.
Final Adjustment of the Differences
Between the Churches North and
South.
Richmond, Va., .November 22.—1n the
"Virginia Conference of the M. E.
Chuieli South to-day, the committee
appointed to consider what action
would be appropriate on the part of the
Conference ia regard to the results of
the meeting between the commission
ers of the Methodist Episcopal Church
North and the M. E. Church South,
held at Cape May last August, submit
ted a report recommending the adop
tion of the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the adjustment
ao unanimously and heartily effected
by the Commissioners is, in our opinion,
fair and honorable to both the contend
ing parties, and should be hailed with
the liveliest satisfaction, and with de
vout gratitude to Almighfv God, by all
who desire the peace of Iliou and the
prosperity of Methodism.
Resolved, That we regard the action*
of the Commission in the premises an
authoritative and final settlement of
the questions in issue,and binding upon
all iriinisters and members of the two
churc hes represented, and that we cor
dially acquiesce in and will faithfully
abide by /he same.
The report also embraced a resolu
iution expressing deep regret at the
death of Rev. P. H. Myers, D. D.,
Chairman of the Commissioners on
Fraternity, to whom the Church is
largely indebted for the k#ppy result
of the Cape May Conference.
LOUISIANA.
Bonds to be Refunded—Demonstra
tion of Longshoremen.
Sew Orleans, November 22.—The
State Supreme Court granted a per
emptory mandamus compelling the
board of liquidators to refund $124,-
bOO oi bonds, issued under the act of
1569 to aid in the construction of the
Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Ship
Canal Company,
Some longshoremen to-day formed
A procession down town, and marched
along the levee, headed by a
b&od. As they moved up the levee
Vheir number increased rapidly, and
upon teaching Jackson street, all the
longshoremen on the levee had gained
the column which numbered about
two thousand. The laborers on the
levee who did join the procession
strikers quit woi> fc* J*>© time ‘
disturbance.
The State Board of Health,
Atlanta, Ga., November 22.—The
®tate Board of Health resolved to meet
ln Savannah December 12th, to in vest!-
Sate the cause of yellow fever.
Minor Telegrams.
New York, November 22. —Wm. H.
dyne’s flour mills and grain eleva tor
was burned. Loss heavy.
Moton, 111., November 22.—Dale
Bros. Block was burned. Loss, $70,000.
®lje Stepsta Constitutionalist
SOUTH CAROLINA.
I t ,
Certiflcaiea of Election Issued by the
Board of Canvassers to the Hayes
Electors— Gen. Gordon’s Denuncia
tion-Great Excitement.
(Special to the Constitutionalist)
Columbia, November 22, 4 p. m.
Kil ling the decision of the Supreme
Court, which was considering the ques
tion or their powers and duties, the
Board of Canvassers met, issued cer
tificates or election to the Hayes elec
tors and the State Republican ticket,
and adjourned at once tine die. This
action is denounced by General Gordon
as a revolutionary measure. Great ex
citement prevails. c. MuK.
The Democrats to Prosecute Their
Claims in the Courts—No Disposition
to Violence.
(Special to the Constitutionalist)
There is great excitement here over
the rash and revolutionary action of
the State Board of Canvassers, but
not the slightest disposition to vio
lence. The Democrats confidently rely
upon the impartiality of the Supreme
Court, although composed entirely of
Repuolieans, and upou its ability to
vindicate its own dignity, to enforce the
law and secure justice. Gov. Hampton
will issue an address to the people of
South Carolina, in accordance with the
facts and setting forth the purpose of
the party to prosecute their claims in
the Courts. J, B. Goroon.
! By the Associated Press.]
The Board of Canvassers Compelled to
Issue Certificates of Election—Demo
cratic Majority on Joint Ballot.
Charleston, November 22. The
Supreme Court has ordered a writ of
peremptory mandamus to issue to
the Board of Canvassers, requiring
them to give certificates m election in
accordance with the report made yes
terday. This gives the Democrats,
prima facie, a majority of four in the
House and fifteen of thirty-three Sen
ators.
Columbia, November 22. —The Su
preme Court to-day issued a. peremp
tory mandamus to the Board of State
Canvassers to issue certificates to
membors of the Senate and House.
The Republicans appearing on the face
of the returns to be elected will have
final contests in those Houses, to be
decided by the members themselves.
This gives in the Senate 18 Republicans
and 15 Democrats, and in the House
60 Republicans and 64 Democrats, a
Democratic majority on joint ballot of
one. The Legislature couais tho votes
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
and elects a United States Senator.
The Court has decided to consider
other contests separately, and will hear
argument this afternoon as to counting
the electoral vote.
Desperate Efforts of the Radicals to
Get Possession of the Slate—The
Board of Canvassers Directed by the
Washington Authorities.
Columbia, November 22. —The Board
of State Canvassers yesterday made a
report to the Supreme Court, stating
that the persons who had received the
highest number of votes for the offices
for which they were candidates was
appended to the report of results.
There was a memorandum of the
Board, stating that, in their opinion,
the certain irregularities which affected
some of the Republican candidates
should be corrected, and also that the
vote of Laurens and Edgefield coun
ties, which gave large Democratic ma
jorities, should be excluded on account
of frauds and iutimidation.
This morning the Court passed an
order commanding the Board to issue
certificates of election to all the per
sons who were shown, by the report of
the Board, to have received the high
est number of votes for members of
the Legislature, including the oounties
of Edgefield and Laurens.
Tho Coupt also to-day took up tho
case of the electors, snd issued a rule
to f the Board to show causa why they
should not correct the statements of
the county canvassers by the precinct
returns in tbeir possession.
Pending these proceedings of the
Court, and notwithstanding their own
resolution that they would take no ac
tion until their powers and duties had
been defined by the Court, the Board
held a session without the knowledge
of auy of tho parties on the Democratic
side, and issued certificates to all the
tnefflhers of the Legislature except for
Laurens and Edgefield counties, thus
securing a majority of the Jfifri ß i a t ure
to the Republican side, thus securing
the defeat of Rumptop apd the election
of Chamberlain, and also issued certifi
cates of election to the Hayes and
Wheeler electors and to all the Repub
lican State ticket, correcting the errors
a,hich defeated their own candidates,
and Ukporiug all errors of the same
character wkfih would have elected
the Democrats, ffiff Board then ad
journed sine die.
* This action-of the Board has .created
much excitement, but the citizens are
determined fo fejy upon the courts apd
exhaust all legal means of redress. It
is currently beffeyed that tjm agUon of
the Board was taken under dffeeriops
from Washingtou and rurners on tfie
street credit a prominent judicial offi
cial who has recently arrived here with
being the organ of the authorities at
Washington.
The Latest—Governor Hampton's
Address.
Columbia, November 22.—The ex
citement is intense, but quiet. The
people are controlling themaely.es
remarkably well. General Hamptop
has just issued the following address;
Columbia, S. C., November 22,1876.
To the People of South Carolina:
Tho Board of Canvassers have, by
their unprecedented action to-day,
shown not only their contempt and
defcaaca of tbe Supreme Court of tbe
State, jbul their utter disregard of
their' own ofticiaf integrity while
the grave questions determine tfie
result of the recent election werd'peffd
ing before the Supreme Court, com
posed of three Judges belonging t
the Republican party, and in djrept vi
olation of the orders of this tribunal.
The Board have issued certificates of
lection to the Republican Presidential
electors, and to Republican State offl
have refused to give certifi
mtii te'DetHWatic members of the
returns Ot
Uffffame Boat'd to have beep elected
in the oounties of Ddgefleld apd Lan
ie T4fis high handed outrage is weU
calculated to arouse Urn indignation of
our long suffering people, but J assure
them that this daring mi geyor
lutionaryact of the Roard c*u have
no legal force whatever. I appeal to
you, therefore, in the fullest confidence
that the appeal will not be unheeded,
that you will maintain, even under that
provocation, your character as an or
derly and law abiding people. During
the past exciting canvass you have
studiously avoided even tho semblance
of a purpose to disturb the public
peace, or to transgress the law. Your
cause, and it is the cause of the consti
tutional government of the country,
has been carried to the highest court
of the State, and we are willing to
abide by its decision, feeling assured
that this tribunal will see that the law
shall be enforced and justice secured.
[Signed] Wade Hampton.
ELECTION ITEMS.
The Status of Florida, Louisiana and
South Carolina as Seen at the Cap
ital,
Washington, November 22.— The
summary of rulings in the Florida Cir
cuit Court are in accordance with Dem
ocratic pleas, The rules are tempo
rary, to be finally decided to-morrow.
The Federal Supervisors of Louisi
ana claim the right to be present at all
sessions of the Returning Board. These
claims are backed by the opinion of
District Attorney Beckwith, who holds
that their duties as inspectors com
mence with registration and end with
the issue of certificates of election.
Official details of the returns made
to thd Court in South Carolina by the
Canvassing Board have not transpired
here.
Democratic Protests.
New Orleans, November 22.—Nino
parishes have been canvassed, only
two of which gave Democratic majori
ties, showing that most of the protests
are by Republicans. In the Demo
cratic parishes several protests by
Democrats of a general character have
been filed, but action by the Board on
them has not been Indicated.
After a Connecticut Elector.
Hartford, November 22. — The eligi
bility of Governor Ingersoll is ques
tioned, because be was a Federal
Court Commissioner some five years
ago, and there is no record of his res
ignation.
Injunction Against the Governor and
the Mandamus to be Decided To
day.
Tallahassee, November 22.—There is
perfect quiet in political circles here.
Everything is suspended to await the
contest before Judge White to-morrow,
when the injunction against the Gov
ernor will either be confirmed or with
drawn, and the case of the mandamus
against the Canvassing Board, com
pelling them to begin work, wifi be de
cided. The Judge arrived to-night,
and the argument wifi open at 11
o’clock to-morrow.
The result can hardly be reached in
one day, as it is impossible to discover I
what course tho counsel for the Gov
ernor wifi take. It is believed that
ho wifi deny the right of the Court to
issue an injunction against him. It is
said on the other hand that, accepting
the jurisdiction of the Court, he will go
into an elaborate defense of his right
to canvass the electoral vote. The 1
city is crowded with strangers, and j
every train from the North brings new j
comers. There wifi doubtless be an I
appeal from Judge White's decision,
no matter what that decision may be. i
The Louisiana Returning Board.
New Orleans, November 22.—After
receiving further protests, the Board j
went into executive session. Governor ;
Wickliffe to-day was excluded. Two !
committees remained. The clerk re- ;
ported returns from fourteen parishes j
not yet received. Eight parishes were
canvassed to-day. No action toward
filling the vacancy in the Board.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
News and Gossip From the Capital.
Washington, November 22.—Secre- j
taries are reported busy with their an
nual reports.
The canvass for Speaker of the
House attracts no speculation. As
the old committees continue, it is a
matter of minor importance beyond
personal honor and double pay.
Mexican News.
City of Mexico, November 22. —The
political situation has become much
complicated. Ex-Chief Justice Iglesias
has proclaimed himself provisional
President of the Republic, and located
his seat of Government at Leon, in the
State of Guarjuato, the Legislature
and Governor of wnich support him.
A portion of the escorting
Iglesias to Leon attacked American
missionaries with the cry of “Death to
Protestants I” The missionaries barri
q.ified tfierpselyes in a fiou§e untjl the
police rescued them,
Two of the ex*Judges of the Supreme
Court, and several Deputies have
joined Iglesias. He has established a
regular Cabinet, and appointed Minis
ters of War, Foreign Relations, eta
Troops are marching upon Guarjuato,
aud the flight of Iglesias with his
government may be expected in a very
abort time.
No other State has seconded Igle
sla?s moyement jn Guarjuato. Lerdo
De Tejada is receiving
dispatches and offers of support from
ail parts of the country.
Gofficji Palacio, former commissioner
at Washington, and Alas and Ramirez,
Judges of tfio Supremo Court, are in
close imprisonment on the charge of
conspiracy. Four thousand pronoun
ciadoes took possession of Apizaco,
where the Puebla Railroad branches
off from the Mexico and Yera Cruz
Railway, interrupting all travel and
communication between those two
cities.
* e ?r w fteffi*
New Yore, November 22.— Qne hun
dred thousand tons of fifcranjon coal
was sold at auction to-day. Steam
boat, $2.77> a ; grate, with an
advance toward the close.
During a quarrel, Martha White (ne
gress) cut a white woman, it Is feared
fatally, in the face with a razor. She
was arrested.
The Health Commissioners are inves
tigiffjpg persons practicing medicine
finder rotged diplomat,.
‘ The Gulf ’Stream, from
was spoken by the Franklin yesterday
in a gafe, ejghfy miles from New York.
The oq ffee Frqmkfiffisi dpck
asked who was elected Presldiept.
- ■ J—U--
Fort Monroe, November 22.—The
monitors|Passaie, Wyandotte and Mon
tauk arrived here to-day from Norfolk.
| and ate anchored 6ft (he fort.
The yacht Atlanta, of the New York
] yacht squadron, with Col. Wm. B. Astor
| and a party of frippds on board,
grounded on Hampton bar yt#9?dqy t -
She was hauled off by Baker s wreck
jpg qteamer, and taken to' Norfolk to
day for repairs.
Mi
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1876.
FOREIGN NEWS.
LATEST FROM THE OLD WORLD.
The Eastern Muddle— Denial of a
Polish Insurrection,
London, November 22.—Prince Ozar
toryski, the acknowledged head of the
Polish refugees in France, writes that
there is not the slightest foundation
for the reports of an impending insur
rection in Poland. The country is tran
quil, and emigrants are less disposed
than ever to encourage au insurrec
tionary movement.
Cosjst antinoplk, November 22.— A
draught of the new Constitution was
submitted to the Grand Vizier, aud will
be promulgated before the meeting of
the conference of the powers.
London, November 22.—The Pall
Mall Gazette, Standard and other Con
servative journals express complete
distrust of the Czar’s pacific assur
ances, as expressed to Lord Loftus,
British Ambassador to St. Petersburg,
in his interview with his Majesty, No
vember 20th.
St. Petersburg, November 22.—The
Czar, in receiving various distinguished
personage®, during the last few days,
has stated that he would still hope for
the maintenance of peace, but consid
ered Russia’s honor and his own
pledged to obtain the autonomy which
he had demanded from the Porte.
Miscellany.
Rome, November 22.—Signor Crispi,
Government candidate, has been elected
President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Lisboh, November 22.—The Dolphin,
from Bristol for Wilmington, N. C., put
into this port yesterday leaky, and
with pumps choked.
London, November 22.—General Sir
John Bell is dead.
Glasgow, November 22.—1n tbe su
gar market here nearly every descrip
tion has advanced fully 1 shilling per
cwt,
Amoy, November 22.—Tbe British
steamer Leonor and the American brig
Frances Lervey came in collision, when
the latter sank. Six of her crew and
passengers were drowned. The steam
er was slightly damaged.
Cuban Affairs.
Havana, via Key West, November
22.—Nothing whatever is known about
the plans of Gen. Campos for the cam
paign. Campos has warned the news
papers not to publish anything without
his consent regarding his plaus. He is
dealing summarily with suspected per
sons. Report says that he has ordered
quite a number to be shot at Cienfuegos.
Arrests of suspected Cubans in this
city continue. Some are lawyers, but
most are workmen.
HISINW TO AN EXPLANATION.
Another Letter from the Republicans
Upon the Matter of a Conference
About the Returning Board.
Tho appended letter was transmitted
by visiting Republicans here to the
Northern Democrats, now representing
the National Democratic party in New
Orleans :
Gentlemen We are gratified to
learn that we have misapprehended the
language and spirit or your communi
cation of November 14th iust., and that
we were in error in attributing to you
a purpose to Interfere with the “legally
constituted authorities of this State
in the discharge of their duties.”
Perhaps this misapprehension was
the natural result of the lan
guage employed. Your request was
to meet and confer with you (then)
personally, or.through committees, “in
order that such influence as we possess
may be exerted in behalf of such a
canvass of the votes actually cast, as
by its fairness and impartiality shall
command the respect and acquiescence
of the American people.” This, as we
understood it, was a request to co-op
erate with you for the purpose of influ
encing the action of the Returning
Board, in the discharge of its duties.
The President had requested us to at
tend here to witness, not to influence
such canvass, and we know that such
request by him was not intended to
limit us to witness the count of votes
actually cast, bqt the entire proceed
ings of the Board ia reaching a result
as to the votes legally oast and to be
counted. We are gratified to learn
that you concur with the President
and with us in this understanding.
You also state that you are fully
aware that “both the organization and
action, whether judicial or ministerial,
of the Returning Board of Louisiana
was beyond any authoritative control
from without, and that it would be the
height of arrogance and folly to at
tempt to alter the laws of a State of
which we are opt piti*ens, qr tq ob
trudp qqp interpretation of those laws
upon ttyoqe whose duty it js to admin
ister them.” We may, therefore, as we
think, assume that you will agree with
us that it would be arrogance equally
great to attempt by our concerted
action to influence the proceedings or
result of Courts of Justice, or of
Boards acting judicially, and hence we
are gratified at being able, from the
language and tenor or your letter, to
assume that you did not wish to confer
witty us for the pprpose of influencing
the aptjon or th‘q Returning Board,
but only to secure such co-operation on
our part, as would pnpbje us jointly
witty yourselves, tq i^'proceed
ings tbpohghoi|t. A. copfepepce for
suph p purpose woHid povy peerp tq be
unnecessary, as we learn from a earn*
munication just received from the
Board, which appears to us to accom
plish all that by your explanatory note
you desire to attain by the proposed
conference. We will add that _
hppareub wdL u ybu wish to see a fair
and honest expression of the electoral
votes of Loiusipmb therp ia pi* Giiter
epep
as to our condpet in reference to that
result. You have proposed conference
and active associated influence. This
we-regard as beyond our duty or our
privilege. As individuals, we shall be
happy at all times to confer with you,
and as individuals to co-operate in
whatever shall be right. But concerted
action for the purpose of influencing
an official board, we holil beyond 1
our privileges, dud we shall hope that
all may come to pass, which good citi
zens can'wish, wfth&ut tEe use 6f any
such means? ’ ' 1 d*
. W e |©htippiap, very respect
fully yoprq. r *
John Sherman, Stanley Matthews,
J. A. Garfield, Ohio; E. \V. Btoughton,
I. H. Van Allen, New York; Wm. D.
Kelley, Pennsylvania; Jno. 8, Steven
son, Ohio; Eugene Hale, Maine; J. M.
Tuttle, J. W. Chapman, Wm. R. Smith,
W. A. McGrew, *owa; Sidney Clarke,
J. C. Wilson, Kansas; C. B. Farwell,
Atyner Taylor, J. M. Beardsley 8. II
Raven, Illinois; Jno Coburn, Will Cupi
bnck, Indiana; C. Irwin Ditty, Mary
land. ' ” ' 1 *■- >*. * *
TILDEN.
WHY HE WILL BE INAUGURATED.
A Full and Free Discussion of the Sit
uation.
[St. Louis Times (Democrat).]
We are in receipt of scores of letters,
as we suppose the editors of every
prominent Democratic newspaper must
be, from all classes of people asking
us what is goiug to be done in the
event that Mr. Hayes has counted for
him the electoral vote of Louisiana by
Kellogg aud his Returning Board, and
of Florida by Governor Stearns and
the emissaries of the Republican Na
tional Committee, headed by that
noted manipulator, Mr. W. E. Chand
ler. Some of these letters are from
merchants who hesitate about replen
ishing their stocks. One is from a
commission merchant who “sells
largely to the South,” and is
uneasy over the outlook ; one is from
an anonymous correspondent who
encloses an editorial from the New
York Tribune, headed, “No Time for
Blaster,” and addressed by our pre
sumably Radical friend “to shadow
fools like you aDd the Chicago Times-,”
two are from the editors of influential
oountry newspapers, bub the larger
part are from active Democrats who
have worked zealously for the success
of the Democratic cause, and who fear
from a casual retrospect of the lawless
days of the war that Democrats have
no rights which Mr. Morton or Grant
are bound to respect. In various arti
cles published in the Times duirng the
week just past we have answered near
ly all of the inquiries asked of us, but
it will do no harm tcego over the whole
ground of controversy again, and we
cheerfully dp so. In the article from
the Tribune we find the following para
graph, ami as it will do for a text we
gratify our anonymous correspondent
to the extent of copying it:
“The honest and sincere masses of i
tho Republican party do not want Gov. j
Hayes inaugurated unless he has been i
honestly elected. If he has been hon
estly elected they will see that he is in
augurated, and that no threats, bully
ing or bluster will prevent it.”
Substituting the name of Gov. Tildea
for that of Gov. Hayes, and the Tribune
has stated our position and the posi
tion of every true Democrat exactly. I
Tbe trouble is that the Tribune does
not speak for such members of its
party as Kellogg, Chandler, Packard,
Stearns, Chamberlain and Grant. On
the other hand, we do speak the senti
ments of, if not for, every Democrat ;
who voted for Mr. Tilden.
It is very true that this is no time
for bluster, nor do we propose to in
dulge iu it, but it is no bluster for us to
say to the thief who is detected in the
attempt of robbing us of our property
or our rights, that he shall not be per
mitted to do so unless be is the strong
er and is able to accomplish his pur
pose when we can no longer .defend
ourselves. If Governor Hayes is hon
estly elected we are just as determined
in our demaud that he shall be inaugu
rated as we are in tbe support of Gov
ernor Tilden if he has been eleoted.
The difference between us is as to who
is “honestly elected.” We know that
Tilden is, and the Tribune also knows
it. The struggle is over the attempt to
defraud him and his followers and
their rights. We give it as our opinion
that with President Grant to lead the
forces of the usurper he cannot be inau
gurated successfully. We also give it
as our opinion, based upon a knowl
edge of the party with which we act,
that any attempt to do so wifi be re
sisted with just so much violence as
wifi be required to prevent it.
There is no more bluster iu
this than there would be in
addressing the same language to a
housebreaker who bad oue hand on
our silverware aud was feeling with
the other for his revolver.
And now let us state the case.
Mr. Tilden has received 184 undis
puted electoral votes. He lacks but
one to be elected President according
to the forms and requirements of the
Constitution. There are four gjtates
possessing twenty-two electoral votes
qs yet uncounted- Oregon it is claiiped
has chosen Hayes electors. We doubt
it and shall continue to doubt ;t uptU
we learn the exact vote, Oregon has
been claimed before by the Republi
cans to be transferred to the Democ
racy when the result was officially as
certained. If Mr. Tilden secures the
three or even one of the electoral votes
of Oregon he will have the requisite
number. We know that we hare phosen
four Tlden electors in Florida, beqauqq
we have trie figures, iu part Conceded
to bp porrept by tfie Radicals
Tbe only way that jbp am |}p
deprived of tboffi iu fof the Radical
oa*vassers to throw out enough Demo
cratic votes to reduce a majority to a
minority. That would not be an
“honest election,” and the Democrats
would not suffer au “electiou” based
on such a fraud to proceed. We aloo
know that we have choseq a iffige
majority eight L&mooraUo electors In
Louisiana. It is proposed by the Re
publicans to deprive us of those by
similar and well known pruetioes.
Governor Kellogg, ifitosdf u sqr)per,
and his Returning RoArq.’ acknowledg
ed to be Wholly fi|shonest 'auff un-
Wopthy of public confidence,
we haye the testiipopy qf dfio most
djstlnguighp'ff Republicans in the
nation, propose to secure Governor
Hayes’election by throwing out suffi
cient Democratic votes iu Lom- f^ na
reduce the majority oyer tQ a
uuoor, .tJ. That would not be an fiqn
est electiou of Mr. Halves, and the
Democrats will pot pernfit suefi a
fraud to he successfully perpetrated.
Neither do we “bluster 11 when we say
so,
In South Carolina it would seem
from a fair count of the returns as
made, that the Hayes electoral ticket
has a small majority. If this is true
the seven votes of that State belong to
him, and we have no doubt they will
bo cast for him. If the Florida and
Louisiana returns are canvafeseff "as
those of South Carolina have been) the
twelve votes of thobU States will be
givqh to' Mr. Tilden. That wfi] fiqn
estlv elect him, wffi fa ffmiqpi
ffated. $ ih.qjf ur pod thus counted,
hut WP.w-u o.qt, although the “return”
may be for Mr, Hayes, he will not be
honestly elected, aud he wifi not be in
augurated.
Outside of all these probabilities,
there are several in Mr. Tilden’s favor
which we shall not note here, and the
benefit of which the villainy of the
Radical counters in Louisiana aud
Florida cannot deprive us of, • • 1
It is asserted that a Hayes elector in
Vermont, who was a postmaster on the
day he was voted, for, was thereby in
elfgibie. 4 postmaster cannot be chosep,
$a elector, aud resigning his elector
ship afterward does not cure his ineli
gibility. In Oregon a similar case has
occurred, and even if, as is claimed,
the Hayes ticket has l>een successful;
if the Supreme Court, which has beeu
or is to be invoked, should order the
Democratic Secretary Of State not to
certify the vote of the ineligible candi
date, but to certify instead as elected
the name of the next highest candi
date for elector, who is a Tilden man,
Mr. Tilden would be chosen by this
vote.
In Wisconsin the Radical vote is said
to have beeu divided by a blunder be
tween two Radical candidates for elec
tors, a Mr. Miuer, who was found at
the last moment to be ineligible, and a
Mr. Downs. If, by this blunder a Til
hen elector is found to have a larger
number of votes thau either of the
Others, the Democratic Secretary of
that State would probably return him
as chosen, that vote, too, would elect
Mr. Tilden. But setting these techni
calities aside after merely mentioning
them, as is proper in a review of the
whole question, we come to consider
that which would likely follow an at
tempt to Inaugurate Mr. Hayes by
force on the basis of the vote of Lou
isiana and Florida, secured by fraudu
lently throwing out the electors fairly
ohosen. It is here that plain talk has
to be used, and this Is sometimes mis
taken for bluster.
In the first place, the sensible men of
both parties in the present Congress
Have abundant time between the meet
ing of Congress and the 14th of Feb
ruary, when the electoral vote is to be
counted, to agree upon some plan by
which an “honest election” can be sus
tained, and a dishonest one prevented
—and that is all the Democratic party
;iskß. But if this reasonable hope fails,
if the votes of Louisiana and Florida
are meanwhile fraudulently certified to
Hayes, the Democratic House of Rep
resentatives, Democratic by seventy
six majority, and holding a majority of
tWenty-two out of tbe thirty-eight
State delegations, can prevent the per
petration of the fraud contemplated in
an unchallenged count of the dishonest
vote by the President of the Senate,
by withholding their presence or with
drawing in a body from the session.
The Constitution says that the vote
shall be counted “in the presence of
the House and Senate, and if no person
shall have a majority of the vote the :
House shall immediately proceed to an
election of President from the three
highest candidates (Tilden, Hayes and
Cooper),voting one vote for each State.” 1
The House wifi then elect Mr. Tilden
and demand his inauguration. If this 1
is refused by the Chief Justice, or it is
attempted by President Grant and his
supporters in the Senate to prevent it
by force, then just so much force must
be arrayed agaiust it as will be neces
sary to carry out the wifi of the people, i
We must next estimate the chances
of success. In the first place the House
of Representatives controls the parse
of the nation. Not a doliar can be
raised uuless the measure originates in j
that body. In the second place it is j
overpoweringly Democraiiw. Third,
the administration of every State by
which the capital is reached except ,
Pennsylvania is Democratic. Fourth,
of the thirty-eight State governments 1
twenty-one are Democratic, and that
number includes the powerful States
or New York, New Jersey, Maryland. 1
Kentucky, Indiana aud Missouri. Of i
the Republican States, Pennsylvania, 5
Illinois and Ohio are tbe only three
worth naming.
The Governors of th ese Democratic
States could be speedily convened and j
agree upon a plan of action which I
would establish over any conceivable
impediment the choice of the people.
Not to suppose they would do tiffs 1
would be to accuse them of faithless- j
ness to their constituents, treachery to !
Republican institutions, and disloyalty
to the Constitution. We do not j
ino it will come to this, In the face :
of such a power treason wifi hide its !
head. The men who control the capi
tal of the country, the men who do its ■
business—the giant forces at the head
of its great lines of transportation,
will demand that the voice of !
the people be obeyed and that such
disturbers as Kellogg he scourged not 1
only out of the positions they have ,
usurped, ffud which to
employ to reverse the deqisjop of a
largo majority of tho .\rqeriean people, l
but that tlmlr infamous sobemes be
smpqaftrily extinguished, and the peace ;
of tho nation bo preserved; a peace
which none can break in the next j
twenty years with impunity.
So far as we have ascertained *hy>
sentiments of the Democratic masses,
the honest masses who, have nothing
to hope Roifl Mr. Tffdeu beyoqd a gooff
| and eqoqooucAl admiuistrqtigq o.f vhe
i Gqverqmerff, we haye staged U fairiv.
j '(here are those wno goffeyoad it, and
1 ]r. is finely there are many who
;do not go so far. Neither is it wholly
confined to Democrats. Many Conser
vative Republicans who bsve adhered
to their party even to the extent of
voting for Mr. Grant’s onnewdate for
th ft Presidency, many who voted
for '(’ilffyA colors alone, express the
, eaipe opinion. Honest people of all
political beliefs have no doubt of the
success of the Tilden ticket in Fky.
rida and Louisiana, and haye h e qn
taught hv ouch ’as \Vfieeier.
1 SOSI[$ OSl [ ' affd Frye, by' Gar'
• pen ter, Edmunds and that the
1 Louisiana Retunfi-nu Board isamon
sCrous frapd, devised by bad men to
keep had men in office. They will
have nothing to do with it; neither wifi
they share in the results of its wroug
doing. We have confidence that ouefi
a man as Uonkling, reprekupriug" as_no
(Joes the Repuhficuu party of- the great
Empire wifi, lead this class; ui
cit&efia (o the total dflmofiffvm of
Returning Itoards. *yj,d other similar
euginesoT fraud and chicanery.
For these reasons, and others which
wifi suggest themselves to every
thinking person, we return as au uu
deviating answer to all inquires that
Samuel J. Tildea wifi be inaugurated
as the next President 0 * the
States. V|
Watchman: During a recent
absence of Capt. Hill, we Leacn that a
negro visited his O,M Sunday.
| night, tiie ((kb itfid rieyaqudgff, admit*
) Mb *- BtU toffi him if he dl l not
MCqve she. would shoot him. His reply
was, •'Shoot and be d—.” He tben ran
his hand under the door aud tried to
force it open. Mrs. H. got a pistol from
an adjoining room, opened a back door
and fired upon the negro, about ten
feet distant. He exclaimed • “Lord,'
have mercy upon me,” nod retreated
across the lot towards Mr. Hodgson’s
field. Mr. Williamson, who was alarm
ed by the shot, confij find nothing that
night, but traces of blood were discov
ered next morhing by Messrs. Hill and
Culp, of the police. AH honor to' the
bravery of Mrs. Hill, whose courage
put to flfgbt this vile desperado, wfio,
We trust, will yet receive uropei' pun
ishment,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Port Rova! Standard (Small's
paper) advertises about ten columns
iff forfeited lands.
Four or five horses have recently
been stolen from different persons in
Marlboro’ county.
G< 1. J. W. R. Popo, of Greenville, has
announced himself as a candidate for
clerk of the House of Representatives.
There are six students now in the
Theological Seminary at Due West.
And three or four more are expected
this session.
L. C. Carpenter has captured the
heartless villains who are supposed to
have robbed him last spring. “Let no
guilty man escape.”
The gin house of Dr. Thomas J.
Dußose, in Sumter county, was de
stroyed by fire on the 11th Instant.
The fire is supposed to have been in
cendiary.
Rev. L. M. Ayer, with his family, left
Anderson last Wednesday for Mur
freesboro’, Tennessee, where he will
take charge of the Baptist Church.
The Baptist Conference, which met
at Orangeburg last week, called the
Rev. A. I. Hartley to supply the pulpit
of the Baptist Church at Orangeburg.
An attempt was made last week to
burn the storehouse of Mr. E. H. Lucas
at Florence. A colored man |detected
the scoundrels, who fled and escaped
arrest.
Company I, of the 3d Artillery, at
present in Columbia, has been ordered
to return to its old quarters at Fortress
Monroe.
The members of the Baptist Church
iu Aiken are endeavoring to raise funds
by means of subscription to rebuild
their bouse of worship, which was de
stroyed by fire some weeks since.
Bob Ward, a colored Democrat in
Greenville county, has raised a twenty
pound turkey, which he intends to
carry to Columbia, and serve up for
Governor Hampton’s inauguration din
ner.
Ihe barn of Mr. Richard Lewis, the
candidate elect for the office of pro
bate judge for Oconee county, was re
cently destroyed by fire. It is sup
posed to be the work of au incendiary.
The grand jury of Williamsburg
Lave found true bills agaiust the treas
urer, senool commissioner, clerk of
court, aud the county commissioners in
several counties. Judge Shaw has
called an extra court.
The Democrats of Westminster,
Oconee County, had a torchlight pro
cession on Tuesday night. About 350
participated. The Walhalla baud dis
coursed sweet music, and speeches
were made by Commodore Moore, D.
P. Vemer, John Stritiling, Thomas and!
Ljng, Prof. Green and several colored
Democrats.
The Rev, E. A. Bolles, who has been
for twenty years or more agent for the
American Bible Society in South Caro- I
lir.a, has retired from that work, and j
South Carolina has been pqt with
North Caroliua, under Dr. Wiley, of
toe latter State. Mr. Bolles has*beea
a faithful agent, and his pleasant face
wifi be missed at the annual meetiugs
of the Bible societies in South Caro
lina,
The Aiken Courier-Journal prints the
f blowing letter from “Free-love” Pal
mer : !
Aiken, S. C., November 13, 1876. j
I. H. Hayne, Esq. : If you know
anything about those counterfeit tick
ets tell me all about it—who go; them '
up— and I will give you SSO. I won’t
.say anything io no one.* We are going
to contest the electiou. Meet uie up to
tieq. Lee’s office to-m.oirow, at twelve
o’clock.
Your friend,
F. A. Palmer, and G. H. H.
THE HEAL ISSUE.
A Maryland People
A.reused.
Tqe fo.Uo.wing, addressed to the lier
has been sent to the Express for
publication \
To the Eiitoi- u/' the Xew York Ilerald.:
A* a Democrat, I have no fault to
had with the course you have taken in
the important crisis through which our
country is now passing, bqt it does
seem to me that you have mistaken
your mission, and thp. true tempet of
the American people yery m,uq when
j op write articles commending the dis
franchisement of upwards 0! 4 000 000
voters by VSA tenaraut negroes, and
then ual* these millions to quietly sub
hdt ta this outrage upon the dearest
1 tght of an American citizen, and at
tempt to enforco your argument by
threats of what Gen. Gra,ut and his
soldiers wifi do. You L-q sight of the
Important fact tgat the American peo
ple are natural-born soldiers, and that
Grant’s soldiers would iu nowise be
’ superior to the soldiers who would op
pose them.
Your repeated reference fc* 1860 and
1861, has no bearing whatever on the
present ease, Yhe tables have been
tqrneff. All the men who were rebels
* are Union men to-day, and mean
! remain SO, And if there is fighting
to be done it wifi not be to dissolve the
Union, but to oust usurpers who have
practically, by their fraudulent acts,
dissolved the Uoiou, aud wffh, your as
sistance are endeavoring ;o keep it dia
solved.
Fou overestimate) the snp
uo; that Grant would get should
dm.matter a me la he point indicated
m youfi editorial of yesterday. I find,
ttnti the great bulk of right-thinking
kiepubfieans firmly believe, as I think
you do, that Mr. Tilden hus been
iy and honestly elected President, and
are not slow in asserting if
tempin'ed fraud ujjaa, the ballot in
Louisiana is they wifi be
the first q inaugurate Tilden* There
exoitement here, but a irm. deter
mination in the heart* of the people
both Democrats, to
insist upon rights, under the Con
st' v tu,jt>fl, without referees to tho mist
I \ours. etc. v j. y. c.
Baltimore November 16.
Atlanta Constitution ; The distin
guished statesman, Alexander H. Bte,
phene, arrived in our city oq the
from Augusta at four o’clock yester
day evening, and taken rooms at
the Kimball where he wifi re
main iwp oi,three days. He is, on
Washington, to q,trecd the
approaching session of Congress) We
are pleased to see him in good health
While he is ia much better liealtfi than
for a U>n* tfimf, fie is stiff tr&uWedi with
rileumat4s.miphis.feet **4 figs. His
‘fiH A? a3 , bright sri ever, and he is
cheerful and fibpeftff. Hfi presence in
Washington will be of service to the
Whofi oountry. We have more to re
gret in Georgia to-day for not taking
nis advice in times past than many
people will admit. *
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
GEOKGIA NEWS.
Nearly all the Savannah refugees
have returned home.
An Interesting religious revival is
progressing in Dalton.
The hills around Rome were white
with snow last Sunday evening.
The Screven House, Savannah, which
has been closed all summer, has been
reopened.
Not a single book agent died with
yellow fever during the epidemic in
Savannah.
The sale of the Athens street rail
way has been postponed till tho 20th
of December.
The public lectures at the Agricul
tural College at Athens will begin on
December 4th.
Mr. J. M. Buice, of Houston county,
made forty-two bales of cottton, run
ning only three ploughs.
The Democratic party of Newton
county expect to give the negroes a
free barbecue at an early day.
The Governor has appointed Phelix
McCarthy Judge of the County Court
of Giynn, vice Judge Houston, resigned.
Thomson has thus far received 4,32 6
bales of cotton, beiug an increase of
430 bales over receipts this time last
year.
Berry Phillips, the negro who tmrr
dered Mr. Gallaher, the peddler, in
Newton county, will be hanged to-mor
row at Covington.
The gin house and mill of Mr. J. F.
Dupree, In Spalding county,
burned on Saturday, together with
eight bales of cotton.
A matrimonial cyclone, it is predict
ed, will soon sweep over Covington.
Hanged if it don’t look to us like tliev
do nothing else up there but marry, ~
Col. Daniel R. Mitchell, one of "the
oldest aud most esteemed citizens of
Rome, died ou the 10th instant, at his
winter home in Orauge couuty, Florid*.
Atlanta is whitewashing up, prepara
tory to the opening of the Legislature
in Jauuary. Nine new iaro banks have
been chartered, and twenty wheel-, of
fortune.
Mr. R. F. Edwards fell from his
horse, as he was goiug down Petty’a
hill while on his way home, near Cov
ington, last Wednesday evening, uid
hurt himself very severely.
An incendiary attempted to burn the
gin house and mill of Mr. Samuel Heyu
of Sumter county,recently. The flames
were discovered and extinguished be
fore aDy damage was done.
Atlanta boatfis of a more than Cen
tennial uegro, who died there tho
other day, aged one hundred and four
teen years. She was cook tor George
Washington’s grandmother.
George W. Stone, Jr., of Oxford, is
announced as a, candidate for Tax Re
ceiver of Newton county. Mr A V
Pool* * one-armed maii, is also 'an
nounced for the same position.
Mr. Silas Heywood, an engineer well
known in Atlanta, died at his hoir j6 in
Kansas City Sunday afternoon, of ty
phoid fever. He was a member of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Two negro preachers have been pnt
in jail in Greensboro, on a charge of
burning Professor Woodfin’s gin house.
These high-toned Incendiaries evident
ly believe that religion never was de
signed to make their pleasure less.
Judge Howell’s mill, gin liousy. and
buildings adjoining, in Fulton county
came near being destroyed W fire on
the 18th iustant. The fire, originated.
in the press room and spread over the
house. Several hands were at work in
and around the buildings, and after
nard work saved all of them. The only
loss was some cotton.
The Atlanta Commonwealth publishes
i following Congressional majorities:
1 I irst District, Hart ridge over Brvant
A634; Second District, Smith over
: Whitely, 5,585; Third District, Cook
rover Pierce, 5,594; Fourth District
Harris over Hilliard, 8,622: Fifth Dis
, trict, Candler over Markham, 9,&45;
i i'dscth District, BkHint over Gove 8 719-
Seventh District, Feltou over Dabney’
2,467; Hightb District, Stephens over
Muth District, Hill oveL
: 9 1^,306*
; Rome News : Col. Joel Branham ad
dressed a large audience of colored
• people at the City Hall Fririrtv night
; His speech was on the Civ rffcfhts bill ’
with a full explanation of Its bearings
upon society. Ho also explained tho
Fourteenth auJ Fifteenth amendmeutß.
The Coloael has been requested to re~
peat his speech at gome future day,
: when a fuff house of colored men is
! promised. This is a step in the right
! direction.
LaGremre Exporter: It is estimated
tlut.i 20,000 gallons of sorghum syrup
> were made in Troupe county this year
This is worth at least firiy cents a.
gallon; aDd it will prevent the buying
f of the same number of gallons oT svr
' up made elsewhere, at probably sev-
I enty-flvo cents a gallon. Thus the neat
I little sum of Sd\ooo will be saved to
our people by tbeir raising a single ar
ticle, which is cultivated with very lit
tle labor, and at a very small cost.
Griffin News : The Atlanta ed‘,tnriai
} fraternity presents a galaxy Vilent
and beauty rarely equalled * ny |t
on this continent. Headi ilff the lit i~I
2°h'iSfi“’4 b 6, k, “ gl *
2 rB . Next cornea Sam Small, the
knight of the bronze face. Evan P
Howell, the uow knight; Harris, of the
cardinal red moustache; Waddel, tho
| Finch, the man who stands
! bemud the great wheel aud gives it a
[ turn; and Whidby, ye gentle Whidbv
1 who answers for the sins of all others
besides many lesser lights. These da
: a °*include tbe literary editors, sm-h
as J:no. Seals, Gen. Garlington, Sheet
elford and the greatest of all, V r e
i Mary A. Bryant. ~
! Maeon Telegraph: “The recent strike
| on the Georgia Railroad, proved *
| oonlretempl to a cer^ n | lt , rce r •££
who was en, route to claim his
bride at a poinff * aßt of thi and
and arriving in
?nSn *• Ll “ e - what wa his horror
Ih * the strikers w °uld not
teinfit- the Augusta train to leave, and
was out off from further progress iu
the direction of bis expectant inamorata
NV hat was to be done? To hire a v©-
1 hicie to ride eighty miles would eost &
“pile,** and consume much "reoit>n©
time besides. So off he sper4i to At
lanta and starts for Augusta once more
f Pantfng to realize his fond hopes. Bur
at, Conyers the engine gave ouk and
; just there too the strike went Into ef
| fet, thus effectually hairing his. further
progress, and loaYmg.him;Hrf/*r from
! the desired goat than whau fie was in
Macon. The last heard of Lin! Je
1 tearing his, hair and banting for a crow
ringleaders of that
diabofioal str.ite, after the wedding day
[ aeaiguafced bail gone by”