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SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE COURT AGAINST THE liAYO
NE'I\
preliminary Proceedings Noble
Word* from Gen. Gordon—The su
preme Court Protects its Dignity,
and Orders the Pine and Imprison
ment of the Returning Hoard
Rognes.
(Special to the Constitutionalist.)
Columbia, S. C., November 24.
The Court called upon counsel for
respondents this afternoon for their
answer to the rule to show cause whv
they should not be committed for con
tempt.
Mr. Corbin said they had not had
time to make their answer, and asked
for further time.
Judge Wiilard said: “If you will
disclose to the Court the general tenor
Of the defense you propose to make,
and it discloses a substantial defense,
the court will grant further time.”
Corbin said he could not inform the
Court as to the exact line of defense,
but had no doubt respondents would
make a full and substantial oue.
Wiilard said this was trifling with
the Court.
Chief Justice Muses then directed
counsel to prepare an attachment for
contempt. They prepared it and sub
mitted it to the Court, but the Court
was not satisfied with the form of it
and directed them to make it setting
forth all the facts iu the ease fully and
gate them uutil 9 o’clock to-morrow to
Ido 80.
Chief Justiee Moses said significantly
in conclusion, he hoped they would
consider their 'position in the calm
hours of the uight and adopt such a j
line of conduct as to make the service
of the writs unnecessary in the morn
ing. >
The impression is general that Judge
Bond will attempt >to interfere, and
such seems to be the reliance of the
respondents,' Gut there is not. the re
motest ground upon which a United
States court can interfere, and the Su
preme Court of South Carolina is evi
dently determined to enforce its man- I
dates. W. 11. M. j
Columbia, S. C., November 24.—To
morrow will be an eventful day in j
South Carolina, and in the history of i
the country. The Supreme Court will i
commit the State Board and probably |
their attorney, Corbin, who is United i
States District-Attorney, to jail for
contempt, unless they obey to-nignt
the mandate of the Court. This is not
probable as the Board and Corbin
6eem to rely on some power outside
the Court and above tbe law.
The issue involved here is the whole
question of a Government of law or of
force. It will be decided to-morrow.
If the Court is to be respected and law
enforced, the revolutionary action of
the Board must recoil upoh tue party
which supports it. If the Courts aie
overridden and the law set at naught
the government is hopelessly subverted
—we confidently repose on the good
sense of the American people and upon
their devotion to a government regu
lated by law and of law construed by
duly constituted and competent Couits.
No graver question has ever been sub
mitted to Courts or the people since
the foundation of the Government.
J. B. Gordon.
Columbia, S. C., November 25.
The Court has just delivered its
judgment Each member of the Board
is adjudged to be in contempt of Court,
is fined fifteen hundred dollars and the
Sheriff of Richland county ordered to
put them in the (sommon jail of this
county until further order of this Court.
Corbin’s case is not yet decided.
W. 0. M.
The Canvassers in .Tail —Akenaft#
Saves Himself by Flight —Bdgefleld
and Laurens Ail Riglit.
(Special to Constitutionalist)
Columbia, November 25.
All the members of the State Board
of Canvassers were- formally arrested
and lodged in the common jail of tnis
county a, 1 " six o'clock this evening.
Dunn rode down in a carriage. The
others proceeded on foot in a body a
mournful cortege. They ali looked as
if they had heard .something drop.
The case of Corbin, also under charge
°f contempt, was continu e .until Mon
day. Akerman only J° D S
enough to help Corbin get himsoif
Ws clients into a scrape, and then
girded up his loins and lied to the bib
country of Georgia.
Several hundred negroes, some of
armed, arrived here from Char
leston to-night.
The Supreme Court had the case of
Sectors under consideration to-day.
Argument was heard at leugth, but the
decision was reserved until Monday.
The Democratic ouonsel asked for an
°rder seating members o£ the Legisla
ture from Edgefield and Lawtwns eoim
lie8 > whom the Board refused to eo^.’it.
Couit stated this was unnecessary.
They will go in of necessity, in conse
quence of the action of t*i court al
ready had. W. H. U.&.
Minor Telegrams.
St. Louis, Nov. 25.—Eight striking
engineers and firemen of the St. Louis
J&d Cairo narrow guage road, are held
: ° r malicious destruction of property
* Q d detention of mails, and assault
* lt h intent to kill.
Baltimore, November 25. —The steani
, *P America, from Savannah, brought
the crew of the shipwrecked brig
Jftty C. Boswell, from SatiUa river,
Ua * for Richmond with lumber. The
ctow had been forty-eight hours in
Stl iaU boats when picked up.
~ Philadelphia, November 25.—Tlie
JsQe ral Committee on Church ISxten
p° Q . of the Methodist Episcopal
■ aur ch, after discussing. on
a Qd, concluded their annual session
“ ls tuorniug.
@l)e Sltignsfet Ccngtititifliiftfet
election news.
The Louisiana “Swindling” Board.
* KW ° ei - k 4*3, November 25.—Seven
?ore B thFh m 1 ? f , r ° m tbe return * >*-
fore the board of the Hth In East Ea-
Sr R | ea ' r,n|? the count before tbe
board . Tiiden, 1,102; Haves 1 477 in
stead of Tiiden 2,238; Hayes l’(j26 as
ascertained from returns of ’the Com
missmners. After much discussion ana
East Pa/mf •R^ Dt rrom tbe etnocr ats,
East Baton Rouge was laid aside. Re
turns from fourteen parishes are still
the Democrats remonstrate that re
turns for all but electors and Governor
are examined and tabulated by clerks
m rooms apart from the Board. They
ask ior Democratic representation on
f’'airl ' riC ' a orGf b bo detect errors and
Judgment Against the Board of Can
vassers.
Columbia, 8. C., November 25.— The
•supreme Court has just entered a judg
ment of fifteen hundred dollars One
each, and the commitment of all mem
bers of the Board of Canvassers to jail
until released by order of the Court. |
ihe Court is now proceeding with the
case against United States District-
Attorney Corbin, counsel of the Board
for contempt. There is considerable
suppressed excitement.
Corbin Wants More Time.
Columbia, S. C., November 25.—Dis
trict Attorney Corbin, counsel for the
Board of Canvassers, disclaimed inien
rioiml contempt, and asked till Monday.
The court is now occupied with argu
ment on the electoral vote.
Five Members of tbe Board Jailed.
Columbia, November 25.—The Hu
preme Court, this p. m., took the order
under advisement requiring the Board
of btate Canvassers to make a com
parison of the returns of tho county
canvassers and returns of the preciuct
managers, in cases of presidential elec
tors, and wili render a decision Monday.
The Court declined to issue an order
niving certificates to members of the
Legislator from Edgefield and Lau
rens counties, refused by the Board, but
stated such members could obtaiu a
copy of the record from the Clerk of
the Court, which would be equivalent to
a certificate.
Five members of tho Board of Can
vassers. who were constructively ar
rested this morning, reported at jail
this evening, where they are now con
fined. The. names are; F. L. Cordozo,
Treasurer; T. C. Dunn, Comptroller-
Genera!; Win. Stone, Attorney-General;
11. E. llayne, Secretary of State, aud
H. W. Purvis, ex-Adjutaut and Inspec
tor-General, comprising the Board of
Canvassers.
Tbe Purport of Mr. liendricKs’ Visit
to New York.
New York, November 25.--Tho Tri
bune, in its report of the meeting of I
Governors Tiiden and Hendricks yes
terday, says Gov. Hendricks sairl the
public sentiment In tho Western States
ia regard to the election was so strong
t hat he was impelled to eoine East to
ascertain the condition of public feeling
here. He expressed his admiration at
the conduct of the Northern Demo
crats. who, without the least manifesta
tion of turbulence, had appealed every
where to the Courts, and he was glad,
both in the West aud on his journey
hitherward, to notice the disposition of
all parties to have matters amicably
aud lawfully settled. Governor Tiiden
l’uiiy eoncurrd with all of Gov. Hen
dricks’ remarks, and there ap
peared to boa perfect accord of
ideas in regard to the question of
the hour. No disposition was man
ifest on the part of either Gover
nor Tiiden or Governor Hendricks to
enter upon a decided plan of action,
and after a few further remarks, on va
rious topics, Governor Kendricks with
drew, without making a definite ap
pointment, only expressing the hope
that he would see Mr. Tiiden again be
fore leaving the city, at the Everett
House.
Last night Mr. Hendricks said : “We
have no idea of agreeing upon a plan
of action. My coming East was caused
solely by a desire to be posted as to
the public feeling, and see a few mem
beis of the National Committee. We
talked no politics at dinner this even
ing. I may go back to Indiana to
morrow.”
Proceedings of the Louisiana Return- !
ing Board.
New Orleans, Nov. 25. — Tho Board
met as usual. Wells said he must dis
pense with the reading of any protests
or motion before the Board, and that
all evidence must beiu before the close
of the coming week, or tho Board
would not be abla to get through with
jis deliberatious. lie also said the
Board bad taken no action on filling
the vacancy, Gov. Wells intimated
that, the Democrats had not lost any
claim to representation ou the Board
by Mr. Arroyos’ resignation. He said
the Board would try to fill the vacancy
if they could agree on any oue.
With regard to the returns laying in
express office, Gov. Wells said the
Board had no funds to pay the charges,
the Legislature having failed to make
an appropriation. The members of the
Board were unwiiling to risk their own
means when their warrants were thirty
cents on tho dollar. G>l. Zacharie said
tLu.-Democratic committee would defray
t iie e*p*mses. Gov. Wiekliffe remarked
that the ofiarges only amounted to
seventy-live eeujL*. (,01. Zacharie hav
ow offered to furnish tjig clerk with
means to pay the expense, j-bp Board
mildly consented to the returns being
taken from the express office.
Tiie board reagfautj no conclusion,
relative to using certified duplicates °f
the Returns, Gov. Wells statad ,-Dat
the privilege pf cross interrogation
would be allowed, hut the proceedings
! of the board would not to* obstructed
under any consideration, U4!d,
further that notice would be of
the affidavits presented by both
but adhered to the ruling that
•; t , s should have been filed within ten
dayg a t the making of the report of
the return®,
Mr. Garthrefw*£ asked if protests
would be entertained a,ft@r the returns
Uid been sent to the clerk tvf pompila
ftlofl Gov. Wells answered in fin
I negative, said that in the case of
Natchitoche* 4hn supplemental report
bid come in with the returns, but had
bora overlooked. discus
sion ete*Md on the question of flow
long a time would be given for filing
affidavits after t&J case came up, it
being urged by Coi. that a
great pite of affidavits, bAd been
lied in the t Baton Rouge oase
Sf CoL ZachaTSesir.ed 0 know if there
was not some limit to this affi
davits, otherwise tbe Democratic com
mittee would be unable to teli wh*
the testimony for the other side was
aU ilTiEwwor Wells made "<><]“•
finite answer, only that timewoul
given to get up testimony and cross in
terrogations.
General Anderson read a letter from
I Governor McEnery, requesting a cor
| reetion of the statement that he had
i voted for the Wilde-Janney claim. He
said that he had done the gentleman
an injustice, and read from the Senato
rial Journal of 1867 a statement that
Governor McEnery had voted against
the claim. The Board then went into
executive session, aud took up the
parish of West Feliciana.
Washington, November 25. The
Artillery School Board, from Fortress
Monroe, twenty-five pieces, will play
daily at the guard mounting and dress
parade. To-morrow morning Gen.
Sherman will review the troops. Four
more companies are en route from Fort
Fill and will arrive Tuesday.
New Orleans, Nov. 25.—1n executive
session, the Returning Board called for
the returns, and announced the follow
ing vote from consolidated statements:
DeSoto, Hayes 898, Tiiden 1,305;
Ouachita. Hayes 793, Tiiden, 1,869:
Lincoln, Hayes 331, Tiiden 1,064 ; East
Feliciana, Hayes 0, Tiiden 1,737 ; West
Feliciana, Hayes, 778, Tiiden 1,249;
Richland, Haves 267, Tiiden 970 ; Cad
do, Hayes 2,687, Tiiden 1,654 ; Sabine,
Hayes 23, Tiiden 90C.
The votes of these parishes were not
canvassed, thero being contests which
are fixed for hearings next week.
When the returns from parishes
marked “contested” were opened, the
Democratic counsel were allowed to
be present. The returns from De Solo
parish were brought in, and were con
tained in oue package, sealed with wax.
When tho seal was broken by
a member of the Board, there
were found inside a consolidated state
ment of the votes and the commission
ers’ statement. On the tally sheets
attached to the returns were a large
number of protests aud affidavits. The
secretary of the board said the pack
age had been received on the 18th in
stant, and such an entry was in his
receipt book. The returns, be said,
had come by mail.
In the course of an inspeer.k)b, it
was discovered that oue of the pro
tests of Supervisors, charging general
intimidation, was dated November 25th,
and sworn to in this city, before a
Commissioner of the Circuit Court.
When called upon to explain how a
protest dated on the 25th inst., (to
day), could get into a sealed registered
package, received by mail, on the 18th
inst., the Secretary said he had re
ceived two packages. lie was detected
by one of the Democratic counsel pres
ent in the act of making another entry
in his book of two packages received.
After some delay another package
was produced, and found to contain a
consolidated statement of votes and
Commissioners’ returns, but no pro
tests or affidavits. The members or
the Board were unable to explain the
matter, and Senator Sherman, of the
Republican visiting committee, remark
ed that there was no use to disguise
the fact that the returns had been
opened and protests inserted after the
package of returns had been received.
The affair created quite a sensation
among the members of the committees
present. Members of the Democratic
committee are outspoken iu Llie opin
ion that a fraud had been perpetrated,
and the Republicans did not deny that
the affair had a very peculiar aspect.
The Democratic counsel say that a
similar tiling has occurred iu the case
of other parishes, but as they were not
admitted until to-day, there was no
opportunity to discover the frauds.
The Florida Case.
Tallahassee, November 25. The
Board of Commissioners received noti
fication this morning from the Secre
tary of State, who is cx officio a mem
ber of the Board, and cnarged with
calling it together, that they must meet
at 12 o’clock, p. in., Monday, to canvass
the vote of the State. The Judge has
not yet decided the injunction and man
damus cases now pendingjbefore him,
aud this action of the Board seems to
obviate the necessity of a decision, as
this will be doing precisely what the
Democratic managers prayed the court
to command to be done." The Beard
will admit a committee of five from each
of the political parties, aud the chair
man of two State Commissioners; to its
decision as to the admission of news
paper correspondents, it has not yet
been decided. Official returns are now
all iu. The result will hardly bo reach
ed before the 6th of December, when,
by the law of the United States, the
electors’ certificates must be issued.
Tilden’s Majority in New York.
Albany, Nov. 25.—The Board of State
Canvassers have completed their labors.
The following, is the votes cast for Presi
dential electors: Democrats, 522,G12 ;
Republicans, 489,547. The majority for
Lucius Roberson, Democrat, for Gov
ernor, is 30,460. The vote for the Peter
Cooper greenback electors is 1,987 ; for
Green C. Smith electors, 2,359. Tilden’s
majority over all, 28,719.
The Oregon Postmaster.
San Francisco, November 25.—A Port
land, Oregon, dispatch denies that any’
application has been made to the Courts
for an injunction, restraining the issu
ance of a certificate of election to Watts,
Republican elector. The Democrats
state positively that such action will be
taken. The Republicans are confident
that the certificate cannot be legally
withheld.
New York Items.
New Yore, November 25. —Forty-six
packages of smuggled lace was seized
yesterday from George Cox, a lace
dealer at Patterson, N. J.
Tho statue of Daniel Webster, do
nated tq the city by Gordon W. Burn
ham, was to-flay with appro
priate ceremonies in Genti-al Park. The
statue is 14 and the pedestal is 15 feet
high.
4t a meeting of the Board of Fire
Underwriters ieie to-day, a report was
adopted providing for a committee for
the revision of rates, and that any
member of the hoard who shall deem
that any risk Is entitled'to a reconside
ration of its rating shall have the right
to iubmit the game to the committee,
whose duty it shall be to examine into
the merits of the case and make a mod
ification of the same, if circumstances
justify such action.
The jury itl the case of Eugenie Mar
against Juan alle, for $50,000
h of promise of mar
riage and betrayal, if&bdQjfjfi a verdict
for plaintiff this nfteipbou and
damages at fifty dollars.
New York, Nov. 25.— Gov. Hendricks
and w;fe, Gov. Tiiden, ex-Gov. Curtin,
of Penn., and Mr. Hewitt and wife,
dined with Peter Cooper yesterday.
Hendricks is homeward l>oun<ji *,o : dav.
He says he did not come here for
com euon ee.
New Yoas, November 25. —The Tri
bune 'says'Woodward, of the old Tam
many Ring, has resolved £q tell all. he
! fc4°ws
Columbus. 0-, November 25.—Com
modore Paul Shirley died on the cars
en route to Me.ffiPfi* 8 -
AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1876.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern <Jaestion.
London, November 25. —The Tunes,
reviewing the prospects of a confer
ence, says the specific proposals which
will come before it have been examined
iu everv capital of Europe. The con
clusion is universal that they present
no insuperable obstacle to peace under
the leadership of the English and Rus*
sian plenipotentiaries. They may be
so moulded as to command the support
of every guaranteeing power, and se
cure the acceptance of the Porte.
•Miscellany.
St. Petersburg, November 25. — An
Imperial ukase makes the customs
payable in gold or equivalent after the
first of January, and relieves common
carriers from responsibility for con
tracts for the early delivery of freight.
London, Nov. 25. —A Times dispatch
from Argos says Dr. Schleimann while
excavating at the site supposed to be the
Tomb of Agamennon and Cassandra,
discovered vast tombs containing a
great variety of gold and silver plate
and jewels.
Mincing Lane Markets.
London, November 25.—1n the Minc
ing Lane markets during the past
week the alterations have been unim
portant, excepting a renewal of an
active demand for sugar, which sold
largely, and prices now show about
20s, per ton advance upon brown and
cotnmbn refining sorts, compared even
with those current during the excite
ment in the middle of this month.
Stocks have further decreased, being
lower than for many years. Re
fined has fully recovered from the
recent depression and quotations iu
the Continent are very firm. Rice has
again improved. An unusually large
quantity of white BeDgal was sold <jm
spotj’hnd numerous floating cargoes
werb also sold, aud contracts made In
new rice for spring shipments. The
limited supply of coffee offering has
not influenced quotations*. The Neth
erlands Trading Company’s sale
on Wednesday resulted better
than was anticipated, all quali
ties soiling ratjwr ,over valuation.
In the tea marltet, some forced sales
of common to'iair grades of Congon
caused a further decline; medium to
fair grades are unchanged. Business
on the Stock Exchange during the
week nas been mainly centered in for
eign securities in which.there wasagen
erul, and in some casts, f pu important
advance, caused by Turkey’s accep
tance of the Conference. At the disc,
however, most stocks are below the
best points, in consequent of adverse
rumors and realization by speculators
for a rise.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Nows aud Gossip From the Capital.
Washington, November 25 — Captain j
George E. Belknap has been ordered to
the command of the Pensacola Navy
Yard.
Suit has been brought against A. R. I
Shepherd aud Edgar Ketchmn, bonds
men for General Howard, of the
Freedman’s Bureau.
Washington. November 25.—The re
port of Gen. Humphreys. Chief of En
giners, shows that only two of the five !
millions appropriated for rivers and
harbors were allotted.
Cushing had a long interview with
Fish, preliminary to his return to Spain.
There are no serious questions of di
plomacy pending between the United
States and Spain.
Gen. Humphreys recommends tiie
following appropriations : Fort Poto
mac, $50,000 ; Washington, $38,000 ;
Monroe, $75,000 ; Moultrie, $50,000;
Sumter, $40,000 ; Pulaski. $75,000 ;
Taylor, aud batteries, at Key West, i
$75,000 ; Jefferson, at Tortugas, $25,- I
000 ; Pickens, $75,000 ; Mcßee, $50,000;
Morgan, Mobile bay, $75,000 ; Jackson, !
Mississippi river, $25,000 ; St. Philips,
Mississippi river, $25,000. Among the
allotments from the appropriation of
August, 1876, are Cape Fair river,
SIIO,OOO ; Charleston harbor, $50,000 ;
Savannah, $25,000 ; Mouth of the Mis
sissippi, $90,000; Surveys at South
Pass, $15,000 ; Gulvestou bar, $50,000 ;
Red river raft, $35,000; Tennessee
river, $130,000 ; Great Kanawha, $15,-
000 ; James river, $40,000 ; Appomat
tox river, $15,000.
A MODERN LADY GODIVA.
Novel Way of Paying an Election Bet—
Rensselaer Girls to the Fore.
[Poughkeepsie Press.]
Among the many singular banter
ings, bettings, wagers, or by whatever
name they may be termed, is the follow
ing made by two [frolicsome lasses of
Lansinburg, Rensselaer county. When
we tell this story it is with no intention
of reflecting upon the character of
either of these willful maideus who, iu
a spirit of fun, while heated with a dis
cussion of the chance of their various
favorites (one of them being an admirer
of Hayes, aud the other a devoted ad
herent of Tiiden and Reform), had
made a very foolish and somewhat uu
maidenly resolution, for the eharecters ]
of both are above reproach, and when 1
tho language was used neither expect
ed to be called upon to perform the
task. One of them, whom we will call
Jane, to more strongly express the
doubt of Tilden’s election, said that if
he was elected President she would
walk from her residence to the Rensse
laer park gate clad only in her chemise.
The banter was taken immediately by
her fair opponent, who promised to
perform tho feat k in case of the final
success of Hayes. And now the fair
pair have pledged themselves to the
faithful performance of this remarka
ble achievement, and they are anxious
ly awaiting the result, that they may
know which of the pair will be called
upon to pay forfeit. Boys need not
watch for the event to cota** off, as the
loser will choose her own time, which
will, of course, be In the hours of night
when least expected. No one is to
know when the event transpires ex- j
cept the two girls, and we can tell no- !
thing more at present save that the 1
distance to be traveled by the loser is
quite considerable.
A Washington county farmer, and
his name is John Bass, has made, with
two mules, on 137 acres of land, 45
bales of cotton, 600 bushels of corn,’4oo
bushels of potatoes, a good crop of
pijas a 1 * 1 ? will kill 3,000 pounds of uork
tiffs year.' just trot out your
champion farmer. 4 ‘ k ‘
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The strain on fhe Pennsylvania Rail
road Company for the six mouths of
Cemejffiial travel was so great that the
audlters yras unable to
keep up with the accounts, and Is stm
several weeks behind. At the Jersey
City depot 22,917 trains were started
Westward, made up of 127,080 cars,
carrying about 7,500,000 passengers.
This is exclusive of way passengers,
and includes the travel In oue direction
only.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Mrs. Rebecca Lavender of Mllledge
vllle is dead. V
A Masonic Lodge has been organized
in Toceoa City.
Houston county is planting more
small grain than last year.
Mr. A. G. Hightower, of LaGrange,
is said to bear a striking resemblance
to Uncle Sam Tiiden.
About $1,200 dollars have been sub*
scribed to build anew brick church for
the Baptists of Conyers.
A Fort Valley cow gives seven gal
lons and a half of milk a day, and even
then the returns are not all in.
Lawrenceville expects to connect with
the Air Line Railroad by a narrow
guage railroad at no distant day.
Lumps af gold, nearly as large as
the first joint of a man’s thumb,
have been found in a mine in Lump
kin county.
When Conyers fails in her regular
semi-weekly candy pulling, McCalla,
of the Register, comes dem near starv
ing to death.
Mr. Thomas Carbine was married in
Atlanta last week. His bride at present
is very particular with him for fear he
might go off.
In Columbus 35,000 spindles and
1,200 looms make music with the falls
of the Chattahoochee, and in less than
six months there will be 50,000 spindles.
There are as yet only one hundred
and twenty-eeven applicants for the
position of messenger to the “electoral
college,” to carry the vole of Georgia
to Washington.
The yearly consumption of the Eagle
and Phoenix Factory and the other
four factories of Columbus is estimated
at 14,085 bales of cotton. Next year
the consumption will be 22,000 bales.
At Miliedgevillo, one hundred and
fifty bushels of corn were sold, iu front
of the Masonic Hall, Saturday, by the
Sheriff. Fifty bushels brought 54 cts.
per bushel and one hundred 60 cts. per
bushel.
The Rome Chamber of Commerce
have issued a carefully compiled pam
phlet, showing the advantage to emi
grants of North or Cherokee Georgia
to families with small capital. It will
do good in that direction.
Never have we seen a more pro
pitious fall for sowing small grain and
putting land in order for next year’s
cropping; and we are glad to learn that
our farmers generally have taken ad
vantage of it by putting iu good wheat
and oat crops.
Mr. J. M. Bruce, who lives five miles
cast of Perry, has made this year forty
two bales of cotton, working only three
plows. This is fourteen bales to the
•uule. He has also made a good sup
ply of food and forage.
The Reporter says, a3 a general
thing the butter supplied the market at.
that place is poor. It has not been
many mouths since wo took occasion,
dv these very columns, to speak in un
d'.-'guised praise of the article of
Troup county butter. Why this failing
odVChn-p?
The Atlanta Evening Commonwealth
has suspended, nut it is replaced by
the Evening Telegram, under the con
trol of Cary W. Styles, Sam W. Small
aud Bridges W. Smith. The new paper
costs only thirty-five cents a month,
aud will doubtless be a iivelyand spicy
affair.
Savannah News: Passengers by the
Gulf train yesterday morning report
that they passed a Pullman ear off the
track, between Nos. 4 and 4>£. They
learned that it was the car attached to
the train which went out on Wednesday
afternoon, but that no one was hurt by
the accident.
Marietta Journal: A clever Cobb
county farmer observed some hogs on
his premises aud cautiously remarked
that he knew not their owner, conse
quently his honesty led him to adver
tise them as “estrays.” On the day of
sale a more earnest investigation dis
closed the fact that they were his own
hogs. Henceforth he will brand all of
his hogs with his initials.
Hon. W. 11. McAfee, of Dahlonega, has
practically demonstrated the ease aud
economy with which every man, in town
as well as country, can make his own
| bacon. lie lias four fine, large porkers,
| ready to kill, that will go nine hundred
I pounds easy, and they have cost him
| just exactly $22 50, in food bought; and
aside from this they have only had the
slop from a small family. It will be
readily seen that his meat will have
cost him within a fraction of 1% cents
per pound.
Warrenton Southerner : A few nights
ago a young man came into Irwinton
after Sheriff Hatfield to arrest his
brother, whom he stated had severely
whipped his father. He stated that
they had succeeded iu overpowering
and tying him, aud that they wanted
him incarcerated in jail. Sheriff Hat
field very properly refused to act with
out a warrant, and the young man re
turned and we have heard nothing of
tho parties.
TllK CRISIS OF 1801.
Mr.# Jefferson ou Usurpation The
Present Crisis.
New Orleans Picayune.
In 1706 Mr. Jefferson, the organizer
of the anti-Federali it party—who
called themselves Republicans, but by
the Federalists were called Democrats
—was nominated for the Presidency,
but defeated by Johu Adams. In 1800,
Mr. Jefferson was again nominated for
President, and received a majority of
votes over his opponent, Mr. Adams ;
but Aaron Burr, candidate for Vice-
President upon the ticket with Mr.
Jefferson, received the same majority,
ami as tho constitution then stood (it
being previous to the amendment of
18U4), the election was thrown into the
House of Representatives.
It was ou the 11th of February, 1801,
that the votes for President and Vice
President were counted in the Senate
Chamber, in the presence of both
Houses of Congress, when the tellers
having announced the result the Vice
President (Mr. Jefferson) declared that
'Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr be
ing equal in the number of votes, it
remained for the House of Represen
tatives to determine the choice. The
members of the House of Represents
! fives returned to their Chamber and
balloted for President by States. Upon
flrst fcjafiot it anpeqretj that qll the
of Mr. far
Col. Burr, and tnero 'was no election ;
so it continued for thlfty-hve ballots]
On the 17 th of February the thirty-
I sixth ballot was taken, and several
members who voted for Burr with
j drew their oppogippa tp the election of
Jefferson, thereby electing him.
j With reference to this election. Story,
in his Commentaries on the* Obngtitu
| tion says: “One fearful cpisis was
passed in the choice of Mr. Jeffersou
over his competitor, Mr. Bprr.ia 1801,
which threatened a dissolution of the
Government, and put the issue upon
the tried patriotism of one or two in
dividuals, who yielded from a sense of
duty their preference of the candidate,
generally supported by their friends’
Mr. Jefferson himself, in writing on the
6th of March, 1801, to John Dickenson,
and speaking of hia election aud the
administration party, says: “The
storm through which we have passed
has been tremendous indeed. The
tough sides of our argosie have been
thoroughly tried. Her strength has
stood the waves into which she was
steered with a view to sink her.”
In a letter written to James Monroe
previous to his election, dated Februa
ry 16th, he says: “Four daya of ballot
ing have produced not a single change
of a vote. Yet it is confidently believed
that to-morrow there is to be a coali
tion. I know of no foundation for this
belief. If they (referring to the Ad
ministration party) could have been
permitted to pass a law for putting the
Government into the hands of an offi
cer, they would certainly have pre
vented an election. But we thought it
best to declare openly and firmly, one
and all, that the day such an act passed
the Middle States would arm, and that
no such usurpation even for a single
day should be submitted to.”
Again in a letter written on March 9,
1801, to Gov. McKean, Mr. Jefferson
says: “Had it (the election) terminat
ed in tho elevation of Mr. Burr, every
Republican would, lam sure, have ac
quiesced in a moment, because however
it might have been varient from tbe in
tentions of the voters, yet it would have
been agreeable to the constitution. No
man would have more cheerfully sub
mitted than myself. * * But in the
event of a usurpation, I was decidedly
with those who were determined not to
permit it; because, that precedent once
set, would be artificially reproduced
and end soon iu a dictator.”
Such was the language and determi
nation of Mr. Jefferson and his follow
ers three-quarters of a century ago, in
a crisis not so great as that now upon
the people of this country ; then the
cloud was as a man’s hand, now it
spreads well over the political sky and
threatens to obscure the sun of liberty.
Already behind the black clouds lie in
wait, like leashed hounds, the light
nings of persoual and party ambition
and avarice, ready to leap forth at the
beckon ef a single hand and strike
down the very pillars of the constitu
tion. Has the lapse of seventy-five
years made usurpation less hateful po
the hearts, or the dictator more i
comely to the eyes of the i
American people? Has the love of
liberty died in their hearts—do their
eyes no longer read nor their ears lis
ten to the words of great and patriotic
sires? No; a thousand times no. God
forbid such degeneracy. Our Govern
ment shall not be destroyed. The Great
Architect has not reared so proud and
noble a monument to be stricken
down by the hand of man. Wise
thoughts wilt be put into the minds of
men—the bands of the destroyers will
be stayed—or a million of strong arms
and broad shoulders, nerved with a
holy pattiotism, will uphold the pillars
of the constitution.
BEN BUTLER ON THE SITUATION.
He Deprecates Fraud—Force Against
the South—a way out of the Trouble.
[Special Dispatch to the Gazette.]
New York, November 20.—Your cor
respondent had an interview to-day
with General Butler. He denies that
he recommended northerners to go
south with arni3 in their hands. On
the contrary, he emphatically declares
that the election laws of each state
are supreme, and that no otm has a
right to interfere with their local opera
tion. He claims that he meant to indi
cate that if such an exigency arose as
forced the desperate issue of physical
interventiou, then the people of the
North should go south, prepared to
vindicate the majesty of the law and
enforce its execution. But the right to
interpose, on general principles, is
illegal and unconstitutional, and un
warranted by prestige or precedent.
General Butler distinctly avows, as his
firm conviction, that ” infinitely less
harm will accrue from *Mr. Tilden’s
presidency than if denied his seat by
unfair means. He strenuously denies
the right of the President to hold over
in the case or an indecision of the re
sult at the time of tire inauguration,
and iusists that he cau only do so by
an assumption of power. Nor is there
any enactment by which tho president
of the Senate cau take the reius of the
government. The issue must be honest
ly aud constitutionally adjusted .A sin
gle electoral vote being required for
Mr. Tilden’s success at the time of the
meeting of the electoral college, the
change of a cast single vote may turn
the current of events. Such a circum
stance, however unreasonable, is not
impossible. This suppositious ease is
not without example. Plummer, of
New Hampshire, was a warm personal
friend of Mr. Monroe, aud in 1820 was
duly appointed a Monroe elector. In
the college ho voted for John Quincy
Adams against Monroe, assigning as
his reason that as George Washington
was the only man who had over been
unanimously elected President of the
country, he did not wish any one else
to receive so signal a tribute or distino
tion.
General Butler says that anarchy is
bankruptcy, and that confusion and
disgust will be the inevitable sequences
of a fraudulent selection of President;
that millions of bonds will flow back
into the country from Europe and ut
ter ruin foliowja factitious inaugura
tion. He can readily understand how
in South Carolina Tiiden may have
been defeated and Hampton elected,
and although hesitating to concede the
unwonted ruliy of the negroes to the
Democratic standard, gingerly and
wariiy admitted the operation of cer
tain local causes that may have affect
ed a portion of the colored vote. Gen.
Butler says he deprecates a fraudulent
count, and dreads the evils of an as
sumed or pseudo presidency, and sug
gests the calling or convocation of both
houses of Congress on the sth of March
to solve the problem or bridge over
the Intervening vacancy until some re
ciprocal compromise cau be effected.
The Fort Valley Minor says Mr.
Elbert Fagan made five hundred and
tirty gallons of syrup on one acre of
land, without using fertilizers of any
kind. This beats making cotton to
death. Five hundred and fifty gallops
at seventy-five cents per gallon la four
hqpdretj and twelve dollars and fifty
cejqt§—equal to eight hales of cottou.
LaGrange RApartei- : A rabbit: wan
caught near the Methodist church yes
terday, and also one was caught dfcffth©
: public square. What is the matter ?
Ate \vp fejajwajng Into barbarism?
Shall the rabbits take the town aud we
offer no resistance? Are the rm tnbers
of the city council awake to their duty
&qd tfielr danger. Let Dr. Alfred get
out his pack of trained bounds aud
give them a whoop.
WIDE AWAKE.
How Mr. Bellamy tried to keep
Eyes open iu Church and the Wo®
it brought upon Him.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.
Tfie other day Mr. Bellamy, of Pond
street, read in a religious paper the
following paragraph:
“Many very good people are annoy
ed by sleeping in church. The follow
ing remedy is recommended: ‘Lift the
loot seven inches from the floor, and
hold it in suspense without support
for the lim’o, and repeat the remedy If
the attack returns.’ ”
Now, Mr. Bellamy is a very good
man, and he is subject to that very an
noyance, which in his case amounts to
a positive affliction. So he cut that
paragraph out, in accordance with the
appended instruction, and pasted it in
his hat, and was rejoiced in his inmost
soul to think that he had found a re
lief from his annoyance. He hoped
that Deacon Ashbury, who had frown
ed at him so often and so dreadfully
for nodding, hadn’t seen the para
graph, for the deacon sometimes slept
under the preached word, aud Mr. Bel
lamy wanted to get even with biro.
And Mr. Driscoll, who used to sit io
the choir, and cover his owa heavy eyes
by laughing in a most irreverent and
indecorous manner at Mr. Bellamy’s
sleepy visage and struggling eyes and
head—how the good man did want to
get it on Driscoll. So he chuckled ahd
hugged his treasure, so to speak, in
his mind. He was so confident that tfe
had found the panacea for his trouble
that he went to the minister and told
him what a burden his drowsiness hid
been to him, but he had made up his j
mind to shake it off, and he was oar
tain that he had sufficient strength of !
mind aud force of will to overcome the I
habit. And the miuister was so pleased
and commended Mr. Bellamy so warm- j
ly, and said that he wished he had oue
hundred such men in his congregation, j
that Mr, Bellamy was so elated, and i
happy, and confident that he could
hardly wait for Sunday to come to try
his new method of averting drowsintae.
Sunday came, however, aud HObn
enough, too, for It was Saturday after
noon, plumb, chick, chock full of men
with bills, overdue notes, trifling ac- i
counts, little balances, pay-roll, rent, J
narrow-gunge subscriptions, political |
assessments, and one little thing an 1 |
another, almost before Mr. Bellamy j
knew it, although [t hadn’t Uoen here j
half ail hour before ho had soma sus
picion of it, and was soon very c nfi- i
dent of it, Sunday morning found the |
good mitu iu his accustomed placo, *ie- j
vout and drowsy as eyoi, i'lie church
was very poqifortably filled with an
attentive congregation, and Mr. Bella
my was soon cornered up iu one cud ol
the pew, and tho pti'ango young la ly
who sat next him was attended by a
very small white dog that looked like
a roll of cotton battpg wi.t,h rod eyes'
and a black nose,, TharJ opening ex-ii -
cises passed off without iuciJe.it, a.ul i
the minister hadn't got -feds-L . ny
when Mr. Bellamy suddenly t j
himself with a start from a doze into |
which he was dropping. HU it-iirt:
faitlv stood stTlI as he thought h..•# J
nearly be had forgotten hW. He
feared to attract any attention to him
self, lest bis present method should be
discovered, and slowly lifted his foot
from the footstool and held it about
seven inches in the air. As he raised
Ills foot the strange young lady shrank
away from him in evident alarm. This
annoyed Mr. Bellamy,aud disconoerted
him so that he was ou tho puint of low
ering his foot and whispering an expla
nation, when tho dog, which had been
quietly sleeping by the footstool, open
ed his eyes, and seeing the uplifted
foot slowly descending in its direction,
hastily scrambled to its feet and Dack- j
ed away,barking and yelling terrifically. !
The young lady, now thoroughly alarm- j
ed, jerked her foot from < >ft the j
stool, which immediately flew up under
the weight of Mr. Bellamy’s foot, and
the dog, excited by this additional cat
astrophe, fairly barked himself into
convulsions. Deaoon Ashbury, awak
ened by tho racket, came tiptoeing and
frowning down the aisle, handing his
shaggy brows upon Mr. Bellamy, who
actually believed that if he got any
hotter he would break out in flames
that not even the beaded perspiration
that was standing out iu his scarlet
face could extinguish. Tho young
lady arose to leave the pew, Mr. Bel
lamy arose to explain, an las he did so
she was quite convinced of what she
had before suspicioned - that he was
crazy. She hacked out of the pew and
sought Deacon Ashbury’s protection.
Mr. Bellamy attempted to whisper aa I
explanation to the Deaoon, but that
austere official motioned him back to
his seat, and as the minister paused
until the interruption should cease,
said In a severe undertone that was
heard all over the church:
“You’ve been dreaming again Broth
er Bellamy,”
Mr. Bellamy sank in his quite
covered with confusion as with a cou
ple of garments and a bed quilt, and
hi3 unhappiness was greatly aggravat
ed when lie looked up into tne choir
and saw Driscoll convulsed witn merri
ment, stuffing his handkerchief into
his mouth and shaking with suppresed
laughter,
After service Mr. Bellamy, who was
all through the service the centre of
attraction for the entire congregation,
waited for his pastor, and made one
more effort to explain his unfortunate
escapade. But the minister, whose
sermon had been quite spoiled by the
affair, waved him in silence, and said,
quite coldly:
“Never rniud, Brother Bellamy; don’t
apologise; you meant very welf, I dare
say; but. if you make so much distuib
ance when you are awake, I believo I
would prefer to have you eleep quietly
through every sermon I proaoh,”
The Ileaufort ?Vi(pun;says: “Tho list
of lands advertised in the Standard is
a fraud on the taxpayers, not a tithe of
the lands advertised having an ex
istence. One gentleman finds five
pieces of property advertised he bought
at a tax sale, and on which he has al
ways paid the tax, and he is only one.
If the taxpayers are mulcted in a bill
of SB,OOO to pay for this advertisement,
the Democratic Legislature may have
something to say about the puymeut.”
A peculiar horse transaction took
place at Remsoheid, in Germany, the
other da}-. It was agreed that if the
horse should weigh a 1,000 pounds, or
less, the purehaoer should pay nothing
for him, nyt that if he weighed mvr
1,000 pound*, ripo marks (about Pl 5)
should' he paid for each pound over
the 1,000. The horse was found to
weigh 1,148 pounds, which, upder the
agreement,made his ur^ua44,4oo marks,
equal to aboat SII,OOO.
&i Hawkins, of the Covington ifuler
prt\ proves beyond a douot that Gov.
Smith fa not the tl#j VuUhd
states
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
lu the Garden.
With rose and orange scent this place wa
i laden;
The summer air was quivering thick with
! birds;
In these 000 l garden walks I met the maiden
Whose beauty robs her praisers’ tongufs
of words.
A crimson rose was In her hand. She held it
Close to my lips—in truth, a flowerdivme;
But I looked in her eyes and scarcely
smelled It.
But took the flower and hand in both of
mine.
These are the shades where arm in arm for
hours
We walked—brief hours of throbbing pain
and bliss.
Here drank love’s bitter-sweet, deep-hid in
flowers;
Here gave and took our last despairing
kiss.
And where is she, the fair, light-footed
corner?
I pace these lonely garden walks in vain;
O, long-lost joy! O. rose of joy and sum
mer!
The day yo bloomed will never coni.'
again.
C. P. Cranch.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
There will be a grand Hampton ball
in Wiuusboro’ ou next Wednesday' even
ing.
Judge Wiggin has released the mur
derers of Hutto on bail iu the sum of
SSOO eaqh. '
The Radicals have eonc’uded to en
, ter no protest to the elections in Abbe
ville Count}-.
Aleck Cornwell, a negro preacher aud
a staunch Radical, was convicted ol
. nog stealing in Chester last week.
I Those Columbia grasshoppers visit
: ®d Marion ou Tuesday night. On Wed
nesday night they were in Newberry.
Boh Wheeler colored, was badly
beaten at Marion last week by three
negroes, because he did not vote as
they wished.
There has been a great deal of com
plaint iu Spartanburg, during the past
week, of tue irregularity of the mails
which come over the Air Line Road.
R -v. Dallas G. Caldwell, of North
Carolina, who graduated in literature
and theology aud married at Due West
has been ordained to the ministry.
The cost of jurors and constables for
the present term of the court *>f gene
ral at Marion, amounted to
oaiy £2-47 20, comparatively a small
amsunt.
Tho first cargo of iron lor the Spar
tanburg, and Asheville Railroad has
arrived at Spartanburg, and the work
of track laying will be egnameueed im
mediately.
Mr. James H Aland, a mo#!? worthv
and estimable citizen of the Marshall’s
Church neighborhood in Camden coun
ty! had his blacksmith sh ip burned
lost Friday night.
Some evii disposed person set fire to
the woods on Dipt. A. J. Clinkicales
placo in Monterey, Abbeville county,
last week, on a section on which he U
erecting u new house.
Some knave and fool ha3 stuck up
nodooe. m several places iu Landlord ■
Township, Chester County, declaring
tUut Chamberlain shall ho Governor,
and commanding the white people to
get up and go.
A few nights since the houses of Jim
Stuckey and John Anderson, liring
southeast of Camden in the Beulah
neighborhood, were destroyed by tire.
Both of these men are colored Demo
crats.
The people of Laureus County ar *
wisoly perfecting their “Labor Reform
Association," and are determined that,
those colored people who helped them
to throw off the yoke of Radicalism
shall not be forgotten.
Bishop Wightmau preached in the
Methodist church, at Abbeville, oil last
Sabbath morning and evening. Not
withstanding ttie inclemency of the
woather, the congregations were very
good on both occasions.
Tuo Sumter Democratic club have
passed resolutions pledgiug themsel
ves not to lend their aid or patronage
to the Republican party by going their
surety on the official bond of any of
their candidates lately elected.
Parties in Aiken County, under bond
to appear in Columbia next week t<>
answer charges against them, together
with their witnesses, will be passed
over the Charlotte, Columbia and Au
gusta Road at two eeuts per mile—
-8840 for the rouud trip from Augusta.
Beuj. F. Whittemore, the ex cadet
ship peddler, told the negroes of Dar
lington County to Ore the woods in tho
vicinity of Florence on election day.
But an overruling Providence willed it
otherwise, and the continued rain pre -
vented the accomplishment or his hel
lish plot.
Tho election in Newberry County cast
$450. This is the average county; there
are thirty two counties in tho State;
the expenses to the State, then, cannot
be less than $14,400. Before Radicals
legislation in South Carolina the to
tal election expenses, all things includ
ed were SIOO,OO.
On last Friday night the giuhou*)
of Mr. W. -T. Tedder, about four miles
north of Timmooaville, was broken in
to, something over a bale of cotton
taken therefrom aud the torch applied.
The night being wet the fire was slow
to progress and was extinguished nexs.
morning without much damage to the
property.
Ou Friday night last about 10 o’clock
Hepsy Brown, a colored woman living
on Byrd street, Tiuimonsville, was
painfully wouuded by a pistol shot from
some person outside of the house. A
negro named Jack John was arrested
confessed to having fired the shot and
was committed to prison, whened ho
escaped by permission of the guard.
On Monday night a difficulty oedtfr
rod at Mr. Beeger’s Green Hill planta
tion, near Columbia, between Mr. C.
Huasuug aud one of the colored guard
At the first, fists were used, but after
wards shooting-irons came Into play
the guard using his gun and Hussain
a pistol. Two shots were fired by each
aud the guard got a bullet through his
arm.
Isaac and Jim Wallace, two brother -
colored,living on the Hay plantation'
about nine miles below Barnwell,
into a dispute about some laud rent on
Tuesday morning last, when Jim seiaeyi
a musket and shot Isaac, killing Jail 1 ’
instantly, and then fled. TliohouH
grew out of Isaac making way with jH
the cotton which Jim claimed for
, rent.
Neal AfoA'-tama, a colored man living
Ht Due West, narrowly escaped beioL
killed a night or two after the eiectiop
He was called to the door of his cabin
by an unusual noise in tho yard iwxi
washed upon by some unknown party.
i.O£ bullet perforated tua clothing, &$d
came very near puttiug an end to his
career. During the campaign Neai
was a very active Democrat, and ai
ways occupied a ooospieiouß place iu
, the meetings aud processioas,