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ESTABLISHED 1799.1®®“*
JUDGE r. b. carpenter.
Ilis Views on the South Carolina Situ
ation—The Democrats will Control
tue Legislature and Hampton will be
Oovernor.
Judge It. B Carpenter, of South Caro
liua, called upon us yesterday. The Judge
is a Republican and, in conjunction with
Gen. M. P. Butler, ran for Governor on a
Refoim ticket, against Gov. Moses. He had
just come front Columbia and was well
posted on the situation. He told us that
the South Carolina Legislature would be
controlled by the Democracy, enough
Senators and Representatives leaving
the Bump and Bayonet concern to ef
fect this. The Judge has perfect
confidence that Gen. Hampton will be in
augurated as Governor and that Chamber
lain will subside into private life. He says
that Chamberlain has, in the pas' three
months of anxioty, grown prematurely old,
aud looks haggard, care-worn and used-up
Judge Carpenter is of the opinion that
there will be no attempt on the part of
Grant or the Federal authorities to interfere
with Hampton’s taking possession
of the Executive office, cor will there be
any attempt to break up the Democratic or
ganization. On the contrary, it is supposed
that there will presently be a stampede
from the Radical side to the Democratic.
This state of attains willbe brought about
by the defection of several negro Senators I
and Representatives. When asked if such
a course on the part of the aforesaid color
ed members would not expose them to the
wrath of their constituents, the Judge dry
ly remarked that he would not advise them
to return among their dusky brethren for
the present.
We trust that Judge Carpenter’s prognos
tications will be more than fulfilled.
Burning of Gen. Hampton’s House.
The more w'e learn of this recent dastard
ly and villuinous act, the more indignant
become all honorable and law-abiding citi
zens and the indignation is sincere and in
tense. Gen. Hampton, it seems, has liis
re idence joufc in the country several miles
from Columbia, in which city he was stay
ing for some weeks past, counselling with
friends and watching the proceedings of the
Returning Board. While thus . ugaged in
the commendable efforts to preserve peace
aud prevent bloodshed among the excited
factions at the State Capital, his home was
reduced to ashes and family escaped with
none of their effects and barely their lives.
The act of the incendiaries proved not only
a deep seated malice and revenge, but a
cruelty of heart and a liendishness of pur
pose tlut reminds us of the practice of the
heathenish Turks and the wild savages of
the plains.
The dwelling was saturated with kero
sene all around, with no avenue left bv
which the iuißates could escape and the
torch was then applied. Every one knows
wiih what rapidity fire will spread when
fed by this combustible oil, and the persons
who concocted this hellish plot had no de
sire but to see every one of the household
perish in the flames. Fortunately none of
them had retired, as it was only about 9
o'clock, and they thus were enabled to es
cape a most awful and cruel death. We
knew that the Radicals of South Carolina,
as* class, were unscrupulous and utterly
devoid of honor, principle and the instincts
f justice, yet we did not believe that they
would allow their partizan zeal to carry'
them so far as to do tins dark crime against
humanity and the laws of God ! It is hor
rible to contemplate 1 Will Chamberlain
attempt to bring these offenders to that jus
ticedhey so richly deserve ?
Celebration in Atlanta.
It seems that the news received from
Florida in Atlanta night before last was
more emphatic and different in conclusions
than that dispatched to this city. The
Timet of yesterday says that “after the
glorious news from Florida was announced
last night, the ‘boys’ could not contain
their joy; men rushed yelling through the
streets, and the enthusiasm spread like wild
fire. Bonfires were built, and their light
gleamed on hundreds of happy faces. Bells
were rung, and their peals were sounds of
joy and gladness. Many who had retired
heard the noise, and came out on the streets
to join the jubilee. It wus a general re
joicing. Everybody felt as though the end
of tlie long anxiety and doubt had ended,
and all was well at last. Let us jubilate.”
’ As Atlanta will be nothing unless she is
on a “high horse” it is probable she went
off half cocked. But as the Times gets its
dispatches trom a different source to that
°f the regular Associated Press dispatches
w c give the news upon which the people
there based the jubilee:
lallahassb, November2B.—lntense ex
citement prevails here over the action of the
hoard to-day. Air. Pasco, Chairman of the
State Executive Committee, charged fraud
■n the first count of the vote of contested
which gavejthe State to Hayes by
*hout sixty majority. He produced certi
fied duplicate returns wdiich showed a clear
majority for Tilden of 136. There was
hnite a commotion and excitement ran
nigh.
There followed a hot debate, in which
the Chairman of the Slate Executive Com
atose ami other prominent Democrats took
Tue decision of the Board wavered,
"nd the Democrats, feeling sure of the
’■dory pushed their advantages. It now
State has surely gone for
‘■■uen, ami the board will give it up.
; : ominent Republicans admit this. There
.Rnsu rejoicing in the city. All is well
*; ™Bt. We have won and the victory is
bonoas.
-here is one feature of the past Leg
■ ‘Atures In Georgia we trust will be
by the present, and that is
a ® everlasting and infernal local legis
ts 100 that isn’t worth a continental
‘i JBB to the peop>le generally. It is
bou t time we had more of the whole
‘ aae general legislation and less of the
L "anut kind. Every little legislator
himself under special obli
-I°n to get up some sort of little
; 11 that will Land his name down to
posterity for at least forty days, ami
consumes huudreds of dollars of
' l People’s money. If there is any
in the great bulk of the
*- e ‘ligonce of the Legislature, it is
■ pel a “head” will be put upon these
°SB-road statesmen that only twinkle
Te ry small orbits in the political
- j nsteiiation of a county notoriety.—
T terse'tUt Express.
, a J ov ington Star: Mr. J. C. Harper
j, trned to Coviugton from Florida, on
morning last. He left the
h . flowers” in September, since
time his family has been resid
'.* la Cobb county. He will hardly re
. 4 n to Florida this winter, and will
"- r go back thereto reside perma
-y: He prefers the red hills of
the sandbars of Florida.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
RADICAL TRICKERY RAMPANT.
The Senate Recognizes the Rump
House—A Quorum Procured by
~r d ~ The Corporal of the Guard
still on Hand— Supreme Court Items
The Ballof Revelation Rolling On.
[Special Dispatch to the Constitutionalist.]
Columbia, S. C., November 29.
The Democratic House has been in
session ali day, but no one was admit
ted except members. Its action is not
known.
The Republican Senate ignores this
House, and has formally recoguized
the Rump House. Democratic Sena
tors protested agaiust such recogni
tion.
t 10 Republican House appointed 3
o clock to day for declaring the vote
for Governor and Lieutenant-Gov
ernor, but the Senate unintentionally
frustrated their programme by ad
journing a few minutes before three
until Friday.
Hamilton, colored Radical from
Beaurort, having absented himself
from the bogus House, left them with
out a quorum for several hours. The
Sergeant-at-Arms was dispatched in
search of him, and when found he was
secured and returned to the House,
which took immediate steps to make
itself independent of him, by the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections
recommending the seating ot the Rad
ical members from Barnwell, although
the county is not iu dispute. They
were seated without certificates from
the Supreme Court or Board of Can
vassers. The report of the committee
was adopted by 45 to 14.
The Democratic House is now com
posed of sixty-five members, two more
than a majority or quorum as prescrib
ed by the State Constitution. The Ra
dical House consists of fifty-nine lawful
members or less than a quorum,
Tire case of the Board of Canvassers
came up before Judge Bond; Gen. Con
nor and Gen. Bradley T. Johnson for
relators and J udge Denny, of Ohio, and
Elliott for respondents—decision re
served. The Board are still in custody
of the United States Marshals, though
under sentence of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court met to-day but
adjourned without important action.
Troops still retain possession of the
Smle House.
Senators Gary, of Edgefield, aud Todd,
of Laurens are allowed the privilege of
the floor except voting.
The better class of Republi cans de
nounce the action of their party as re
volutionary aud concede that Hampton
is lawful Governor.
The excitement aud anxiety are un
abatedl
Judge Casy, of the lowa Supreme
Court, arrived to-night. W. H. McK.
The Situation at Columbia.
Charleston, November 29. — The Re
publican House was without a quorum
in the morning. The Senate is discuss
ing a concurrent resolution passed by
the House yesterday to go into a can
vass for State officers. The Demo
cratic House is in secret session. The
Secretary of State replied to a commit
tee that he had surrendered the elec
tion ret urns to Mackey, Speaker of the
Republican House. The military still
garrison the State House. The Su
preme Court met and adjourned with
out transacting aDy business, tbe law
yers being engaged in making a return
to the habeas corpus case of the Board
of Canvassers in Judge Bond’s U. S.
Circuit Court. The Sergeant-at-arms
of the Republican House is engaged in
looking up absentees, without success
so far.
LATER.
The missingjtnember was brought in,
giving the Republican House fifty-nine,
whereupon the Committee on Elections,
appointed yesterday, submitted a re
port seating five Republican members
from Barnwell county. The Senate,
which seems to be recognized by both
Houses, adopted a resolution appoint
ing 12 o’clock Friday to commence the
canvass of the vote for State officers,
and adjourned to that time.
Opinions of the Press on the South
Carolina Outrage.
Washington, November 29. — The
Philadelphia Enquirer (Republican)
concludes an editorial ou the South
Carolina situation thus: “The only
other instance of the Federal troops
interfering in the formation of a State
Government was that of its interfer
ence in 1874 with the creation of the
Legislature of Louisiana. Their ac
tion in that ease was not approved or,
a Republican Congress and the leading
legal minds of the country condemn
ing it as improper. There may be,
however, circumstances in the present
case as yet unknown outside of official
circles, which will demonstrate that the
actiou of the troops yesterday in de
ciding the disputed question between
the Returning Board and the Supreme
Court of South Carolina was eminently
proper. At present, however, such in
formation, if it exists, is withheld from
the public.”
The Herald has a strong denunci
atory article, the drift of which is cer
tain impeachment By the House, hold
ing that the excuse of ignorance whicn
he plead in the Louisiana usurpation
in 1874 cannot shield him now. “Ex
tract:” “Now, mark the language in
which President Grant proceeded to
deuy and disclaim all right of inter
ference. He stated tho true doctrine
on this subject with a precision and
force which would have left Mr.
Evarts himself do ground of objec
tion. “I am well aware,” said Presi
dent Grant, in his special message of
January 18, 1875, “that any military
interference by the officers or troops of
the United States with the organiza
tion of a State Legislature, or any of its
proceedings, and with any civil depart
ment of the government is repugnant
to our ideas of government. I can con
ceive of no case not involving rebellion
or insurrection where such interference
by authority of the general govern
ment ought to be permitted or can be
justified ” President Grant on that
occasion shielded himself from censure
by professing that the interference
with the Louisiana Legislature was
without his direction, sanction or
knowledge; and, to clear himself more
fully, he made the sound statement of
constitutional doctrine which we have
lust quoted from his Louisiana mes
sage. But can he pretend ignorance?
Can he expect anybody to believe that
what was done at Columbia yesterday
was done without his sanction? Unless
he can plead ignorance and disclaim
responsibility now, as he did in the
Louisiana case, he stands condemned
out of nis own mouth. But who will
accept such a plea with respect to the
transactions at Columbia yesterday.
The World's leader is captioned
“Impeachment of Grant.”
The Times commences its editorial
thus: “The assembling of a State Legis
lature under the protection of United
States troops is not a spectacle of
which Americans can be proud. The
question to be considered is, was the
presence of the troops at Columbia
yesterday rendered necessary by
events, aud to whom may the respon
sibility for the events be justly attri
buted?” and coucludes : “It is clear
that law and right are on the side of
the Republicans, and that nothiug the
Supreme Court of the State has done
divests the Democratic proceedings of
the lawlessness which is their principal
characteristic.”
The Tribune’s editorial concludes:
“It seems probable that the court or
Chief Justice Moses has usurped power
even more unscrupulously than did
the drunken Durell two years ago, in
New Orleans. On the other hand we
have grave doubts as to the right or
the United States Circuit Judge to re
view the case or to interfere with the
sentence of the State Court. Judge
Bond has net the reputation for cau
tious aud judicial temper which we
should most desire iu any United
States officer coming forward to add to
the present confusion of authority. We
earnestly hope that the President will
tolerate no Federal interference in this
affair of purely State concern. The
duty of .the hour is ‘hands off.’ Let
the troops preserve order and aid the
constituted authorities in preventing
domestic violence. Beyond that they
should not lift a finger. This matter
of two Legislatures and two Governors
is the business of South Carolina. Let
South Carolina settle it.”
There is praise in nearly every jour
nal of the conduct of Get. Wade Hamp
ton. He seems the hero of the day.
Washington, November 29.— T0-day’s
New York Evening Post says: “We
cannot permit the occupation of the
South Carolina State House aQd the
control of the organization of the Legis
lature by Federal troops to pass with
out a protest of the utmost solemnity
and energy. We protest against it, not
only in the numeuf Liberty and J ustice,
but iu behalf of tbe Republican party,
whose good name is brought in ques
tion by a resort to military force as
arbitrary as tue act of Cromwell when
he turned out the British Parliament.
The Republican party cannot sustain
the responsibility for such an occupa
tion, and, if it wise, it is will make haste
to disclaim all connivance with tne act.
That no violence was done is to the
credit of the people of South Carolina.
Had they pushed forward into the State
House there would have been violence.
They took a wiser course, in appealing
to the people of the Uoited States, and
in this the people will sustain them.”
Columbia, November 29.—The Re
publicau House seated the five mem
bers from Barnwell county by a vote
of 45 to 14. Certificates for these seats
had been issued regularly to Demo
crats.
ECHOES OF TIIE ELECTION-
The Situation as Seen at the Capital.
Washington, November 29.—The fol
lowing is the situation this morning:
The postmaster question in Oregon is
undecided. Florida hangs on two re
turns from Baker county—the first (re
gular) giving the State to Tilden, and
the last (irregular) giving the State to
Hayes, with twenty-nine other counties
iu question.
The two lower Houses at Columbia
one composed of 64 Democrats and
two Republicans, the other of 58 Re
publicans. The main question before
the Louisiana Returning Board seems
to be bow, not to get returns.
The Herald's special from Columbia
says three Republicuu Senators will
vote with the Democrats, making a
dead-lock in that body. The three
excluded Democrats from Edgefield
aud LaureDS have a good chance for
admission. The Democratic House
appointed a committee to inform the
Senate that the House was organized
and ready for business, and air ' ap
pointed a committee to obtak the
returns for State officers.
A special to the New York Post says
two Hayes electors will not accept cer
tificates from Governor Chamberlain.
The Florida Case.
Tallahassee, November 29.—The
Board is taking evidence with regard
to frauds in Alachua. One of the three
members of the County Board swore
that he was cognizant of frauds by the
Republicans, and would not sign the
returns. The Democrats produced
other witnesses, who swore the returns
did not accord with the tally kept. The
details are not indicative of results.
The Louisiana Returning Board.
New Orleans. November 29.— Wells
stated that the testimony in the con
tested eases must be closed by Friday
afternoon, at 4 o’clock. He added that
the Board would then go into executive
session, and said the Democrats could
present two witnesses in the case of
Ouachita palish, and only one could be
iu the room at a time.
Statements from all the parishes are
now in, and the Democratic Committee
has obtained the official figures of every
parish. They vary only a few hun
dred, due to the throwing out of polls,
from the figures heretofore telegraph
ed. On Thursday the Board will dis
pose of the East Baton Rouge case.
Cuban Affairs.
Havana, November 28—Via Key
West, November 29.— 0n November
18th, a severe light occurred on the
plains of Manacas, betweeu Remedios
and Sanct Spiritus. Spanish accounts
say their force, numbering three hun
dred infantry, was attacked by three
hundred infantry and tour hundred In
surgent cavalry. A portion of the
Spanish forces were ambushed and cut
to pieces. Both parties claim a victo
ry. The Spanish loss is thirty-three
killed aud fifty-seven wounded. Among
tho latter are six officers. The Insur
gents left twety-four dead on the field
and carried off their wounded. Private
accounts say the Spanish loss is one
hundred and seventy killed and wound
ed. Gen. Martinez Campos was at
Remedios during the fight. It is re
ported he was dangerously wounded
in the leg, but this needs confirmation.
Another Collector of Internal Reve
nue, named Quesada, has absconded to
| the United States with funds he em
bezzled.
The gin house and fifteen bales of
cotton belonging to Judge Beverly, of
Macon county, were destroyed by fire
last week. Incendiary work, No. 50.
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1876.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern Question.
London, November 29.—Tbe Servi
ans claim that Alexinatz should be
evacuated, because occupied after the
armistice began.
London, November 29.—An unau
thenticated rumor recently appeared
in some of the Continental newspapers
that the Russian Mediterranean squad
ron had been ordered to America. Tbe
St. Petersburg correspondent of the
Times, November 22d, says : “On Mon
day, November 20th, Mr. Baker, the
American Minister to Russia, was sud
denly informed that the Czar desired
to see him at Rzarskoselo. As it is un
usual for diplomatists below the rank
of ambassador to be admitted to such
audiences, every imaginable rumor was
circulated as to what passed between
the Czar and the American Minister.
Although the truth has not officially
transpired, I believe the Czar’s object
was simply to beg Mr. Baker to com
municate to President Grant the fact
of the departure of the Russian Medi
terranean squadron for America. There
is no doubt the squadron has sailed,
and although the position of a com
mander of a naval force ordered to
seek refuge in foreign ports on the eve
of war cannot be enviable, it Is diffi
cult to see what else Russia could do,
as even the Turkish navy alone would
be sufficient to dispose of any ships
which Russia could bring into action,”
Miscellany.
Livebpool, November 29.— An explo
sion of coal gas, while the steamer
Prussian was coaling, tore up the low
er deck and mutilated ten laborers.
The Brittanic, from Liverpool to
morrow, takes a quarter of a million
dollars in coin for New York.
London, November 29.—The Queen
granted a medal to every one serving
ou the Alert, Discovery and Pandora
during the Arctic expedition.
Tlie Indians,
New York, November 29.—A special,
dated ou tbe field, with Gen. Macken
zie, November 25th. says: Fighting all
day. The village contains 200 lodges
and five hundred warriors. The camp
was at a war dance when Mackenzie
attacked. Tb* Indians took to the
rocks, whence it is difficult to dislodge
them. Wo are campiug on the battle
field, though bostilo guns are flashing
from behind a hundred bushes. The
volunteer Indians behaved well in the
charge, but afterwards became iudif
ferent to anything but plunder. We
captured 250 ponies and killed about
twenty Indians. We lost a lieutenant,
corporal and private killed and quite a
number wounded.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Greenville, S. C., is wide awake, and
for sixty miles around the wagons are
pouring in with their produce, feeling
satisfied that it is one of the best gro
cery markets in the State.
Before the election Oconee county
boasted that she would beatPickeusiu
the election. The official count, how
ever, shows that Pickens beat her
thirty-seven votes.
The grand jury of Williamsburg have
found true bills against the treasurer,
school commissioner, clerk of court,
and the county commissioners in
several counts. J udge Shaw has called
an extra court.
The first snow this season fell at
Union early last Monday morning. It
had rained for nearly twenty-four
hours before, aud the ground aud
house-tops were wet, so that it melted
almost as fast as it fell. No signs of
snow were visible at 8 o’clock.
A large number of marble slabs have
just arrived in Fiorence, to be
placed iu the National Cemetery. The
contract has also been awarded to
place around it a large brick wall.
These improvements, when completed,
will add considerable to the attractions
of the place.
The public schools of Florence have
at last been opened. The white school
is conducted by Mrs. F. Church, a lady
of fine attainments and well qualified
for teaching. The colored school is
taught by Rev. E. M. Pinckney, princi
pal, and J. A. Winslow and wife, who
have given satisfaction.
The Air-Line Railroad has recently
added four new and elegant engines to
the rolling stock of the road, and a
shifting engine of anew and improved
style. Two other engines are in course
of construction, and will be put on the
roaa soon. In addition to this, two
passenger coaches will also appear,
when the rolling stock will be com
pleted.
About two hundred negroes met iu
the colored school-house of Florence,
on the 20th inst., to consider the land
question. It seems that they resolver'
to die rather than vacate their farms
on the first of January. It has already
been hinted that Gen. Hampton anil
the Executive Committee were going to
advise the white people to rescind the
resolutions they formed not to rent
them houses and lands.
Captain John C. Hoff, an old and
respected citizen of Charleston, died at
his residence, in Orange street, Sunday,
at the advanced age of eightj -two
years. Captain Hoff was born iu the
city of Philadelphia, in 1795, and was
the son of the venerable Phillip Hoff,
and brother of Rear-Admiral Hoff,
now in the United States Navy. He
came to Charleston in 1807, and was
engaged in the book and printing busi
ness with his uncle, whom he succeed
ed in business fifty years ago. About
twenty years since he retired from
active pursuits, and carried into his
retirement the good will of his fellow
citizens. Mr. Hoff was a consistent
member of the Catholic Church, and
his funeral services were performed at
the Cathedral Chapel Monday morn
ing, at 10 o’clock.
Warlike preparations are being rap
idly pushed and perfected—in certain
newspapers. According to the New
York Herald and other sensational
prints, Grant is massing more troops
at Washington than the Czar is collect
ing in the whole of Russia. Indeed,
we fear that the President will not be
able to carry out the Herald’s pro
gramme without increasing the stand
ing army four or five fold. There are not
enough troops to go around. This sort
of sensational bosh is simply—bosh ?
We do not underrate the desperation
of the administration; no more dp we
underestimate the American love of
liberty and fair play. The wire-pullers
may have planned a coup d’etat, but it
is easier to plan than to carry out It
is possible that the hurrying of troops
to Washington is for no other purpose
than to inflame the people to some de
fensive demonstration. The people
will have too much sense to be led into
the trap.— Baltimore Gazette,
PRESIDENT-ELECT TILDEN.
W ILL HE BE INAUGURATED IN
THE GREAT METROPOLIS?
Defeating Radical Plots—Probable
-Session of tbe Next Congress in
New York.
[New York Mercury.]
Washington, November 25.—There is
no abatement to the anxiety in regard
to the political situation. The events
of the last few days in South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana have served
rather to intensify the feverish feeling
on both sides. With consummate im
pudence the Republicans here do not
hesitate to say that it is part of the
plan of those in authority to count
Hayes in, and they ask the Democrats,
with an open sneer, what they propose
to do about it. They say that it is cer
tain the Democrats will come into
power in 1880 undpr any circumstances,
and that their only chance of public
plunder for the next twenty-five years
is to hold fast to the offices during the
next Presidential term. With the army
and navy on their side, and with truly
loyal Federal office-holders in all the
large cities backed by bayonets, they
feel secure in possession of their ill
gotten spoils. Possibly, however, they
may reckon without tfieir host—at
least that is the opinion of many
thoughtful conservatives in this city.
There is growing up a quiet, but deep
and concentrated determination not to
submit slavishly and without a great
popular protest to the rule of the con
spirators who have trampled the bal*-
lot-box under foot, aud
SUBVERTED THE SUFFRAGES
of the nation. It was thought at one
time that the Republicans, while count
ing in the three disputed States for
Hayes, might be smart enough at the
same time to allow the real expression
of the popular vote so far as to per
mit tlie Democratic State officers to re
ceive their certificates of election.
Phis was the advice of the more mode
rate Republican leaders. They argued
that such a course would have a ten
dency to satisfy the Southern people
and stop the mouths of objectors at
the North. But the carpet-baggers in
the South were too greedy. They were
unwilling to let a single office slip
through their fingers, no matter who
gave advice to the contrary. Feeling
sure of having bayonets at their backs,
under even the grossest circumstances
of swindling, they have taken, aud will
take, all they can get. The South Is to
be stripped of all that can be pocketed
und carried away. South Carolinians
have not forgotten that Senator Patter
sou (Simon Cameron’s carpet-bagging
nephew) said that there was still
FOUR YEARS OF GOOD STEALING
in that State, and the same is true of
.other Southern States. These leeches
mean to stick. We cannot wonder,
therefore, that there is a fixed determi
nation among conservative men here to
stand up for the right at all hazards.
No doubts are expressed here, in any
quarter that Hayes will be counted in
ami inaugurated in any event. He will
not refuse to take the place. He is a
CHRISTIAN STATESMAN,
but even his personal friends insist that
he must and will accept tho Presidency,
no matter what fraud has intervened.
It won’t do to oount on any objection
from him, nor yet on any objection
from the less radical Republican Sena
tors. The great army of office-holders
have seen to that already, and they
will let no man slip through their lin
gers. The Senate will fix things inside
the Capitol, and Grant will attend to
outside mutters. Hayes will be inau
gurated on March 5, 1877, with a nice
little army of soldiers within easy reach
of him and an equally nice little group
of gunboats wituin call. It will be a
novelty in this Republic to have an in
coming President supported by bay
onets, but Grant has been gradually
accustoming his satellites to the per
sonal use of the army and now they
take it as a matter of course. All re
monstrance is thrown away. The only
answer to expostulation is
“what can the democrats do
The answer has been made, not once
but a score of times, and by persons
high iu tiie esteem of all conservative
men. “They can inaugurate Mr. Til
deu as President, and call on the peo
ple who voted for him to come to his
support.” The idea was startling when
first suggested, but people have come
from speaking of it as a possibility to
speak of it as a probability. Even the
details of the situation, with a lawfully
elected President in New York, and a
man elected by open fraud in the White
House, are daily under discussion. It
is proposed, if necessary, that Mr. Til
den shall take the oath of office
ON THE STEPS OF THE CITY HALL,
following the example of Washington,'
who was inaugurated at the old Fed
eiul Hall, iu Wall street, in 1789. He
would be enthusiastically supported by
the population of your city, and by con
servative men in every State. Flanked
by the Democratic States of New Jersey
and Connecticut, his seat would be very
secure. New York is the natural capi
tal of the country—really more central
than any other city—and it contrib
utes nearly one-half the entire customs
revenue of the nation.
“But what could Mr. Tilden do in
case he was inaugurated ?” ask the ob
jectors, “and how could he get along
without a Congress?” He would not
be without a Congress. The Demo
cratic House would follow him to a
man, and would leave the Republicans
without a quorum. Some of the Ad
ministration newspapers have been
trying to figure up a majority in the
next House, but they make a failure of
it. Out of the 293 members they con
cede 145 to the Democracy and claim
148 for themselves. But in the latter
number they count three Republicans
members from New Hampshire, and
the latter State is now represented by
two Democrats and only one Republi
can. When the villainy that is to count
Hayes iu is consummated the result
will be such a popular rebuke of fraud
as will give New Hampshire three
Democratic Congressmen in March.
The Republicans have also claimed one
member from Louisiana where a Dem
ocrat has been elected by a considera
ble majority. The seat of a Republi
can Congressman, said to be elected in
California by one majority, is also now
claimed by a Democrat. This will
make the next House 150 Democrats to
143 Republicans, with eight or ten
Democrats claiming seats from which
they were ousted by fraud. Having
the House which originates bills and
creates a revenue, it will not be difficult
to secure
A DEMOCRATIC SENATE
by legal measures. The Republican
majority in the next Senate will be
very small indeed, aud should the
Democratic Senators adjourn to New
York the vacancies left by those Re
publican Senators from Democratic
States who support the illegal and
usurping rule of Hayes, can be readily
filled. Gov. Williams, of Indiana,
could declare the seat of Senator Mor
tou vacant, because of his refusal to
support the lawfully elected President,
and could nominate a Democratic Sen
ator in his place. The same thing
could be done in this State, in the case
of Mr. ConkliDg, aud elsewhere also,
until the required quorum was obtain
ed. In this respect President Tilden
would be much better off than Mr.
Hayes. The authorities thst support
the former can create a Senate, but tbe
latter cannot fill any vacancies iu the
House. As the House of Representa
tives provides for and apportions the
revenue, Mr. Hayes would be left with
out the means to pay his salary or the
salaries of his army of officials. This
would breed rebellion in the camp at
once, and bring about a revolution of
feeling. The Federal hirelings would
be very apt to desert iu a body, aud go
where there was a chance of getting
bread and butter.”
CONGRESS IN NEW YORK.
These ideas may be novel to your
readers, but they would soon cease to
be so if they could be here and hear
even the petty details introduced in
conversation. “Where can a Congress
sit in New York ?” asks one. “Where?”
is the reply ; “why the Senate can sit
in Steinway Hall and the House in
Irving Hall. Then they will be near
President Tilden’s residence oad in a
very central location, too.” Another
suggests it would be a very easy mat
ter to seize the Navy Yard at New
York and take possession of the forts,
while a small supply of torpedoes would
keep any hostile vessels out of the bay.
Mr. Hayes could order out no troops in
New York nor any other State under
the control of a Democratic Governor,
since his usurpation of authority would
not be acknowledged. Besides, the ma
jority of army and navy officers are con
seivatives and many would not give
themselves up to the work of uphold
ing a government that had put itself in
power by means of shameless fraud.
Over and above everything else, it is
felt that President Tilden would have
the earnest and hearty support of the
entire business community and of every
man who believes in upholding the
right because it is right. If things go
on as Chandler, Logan Sc Cos. propose
to have them go, it Is evident that we
shall rapidly
DRIFT INTO A DESPOTISM,
and have a monarch In reality, if not
iu name. Conservative men express
their fear that Hayes, if inauguiated,
will be tite last of the Presidents elec
ted by the people. With the army and
navy at their command, with Grant
soon to go out of office, but restored
to a Generalship, aud thus fitted to do
a butcber’3 work again, tbe power of
the Republican managers is to be per
petuated with some convenient and
pliant tool in the Presidential chair.
They have not yet counted on the de
termined opposition they are to meet
with. Their underijngs, however, have
heard of it, and the talk about these
things has created great consternation
iu the departments. Clerks are asking
where they will get their salaries in
case of trouble, for tlie disturbance
will not be between the North aud the
South, but will extend in all directions.
Knowing that the Democrats will be in
full possession of New York, New Jer
sey and Connecticut, with half the cus
toms receipts and a largo share of the
general revenue at their command,
they are asking themselves where the
money is to come from to pav their
salaries next year and afterwards.
THESE ARE THE MUTTERF’GS
that precede the storm, not loud, but
deep, and threatening a general upturn
ing or the existing order of things.
People here are anxiously waiting for
the reassembling of Congress, with a
restless desire to know what the House
will do to overthrow the usurpation.
It is felt that nothing can be done until
the sth of March—that is, no open act
of committal to the popular cause can
be consummated betore that time. But
that there will be a practical and uni
versal protest against the Hayes usur
pation—a protest in the shape of the
acknowledgment of Mr. Tilden as the
lawful President—few conservatives in
Washington doubt.
The Macon Telegraph thinks Charlie
WilliDgham is the only rebel who seri
ously wants to tackle the Pennsylvania
bucktails.
Judge Lochrane says be is no appli
cant for the position on tho Supreme
Court bench or any other office.
Last Saturday the Baptist church
at Stone Mountain by a unanimous
and rising vote called Rev. J. M. Stirl
well as pastor for the ensuiug year. He
has been serving the faithfully
for four years, and this strong indorse
ment of him is complimentary to both
parties.
Atlanta had another destructive fire
Monday afternoon, out on Peters
street. The store house of Middle
brooks & Burns, together with several
adjacent frame houses were burned.
During the fire, a shell among a lot
of scrap iron exploded, which caused a
general stampede for a while.
The Georgia papers generally speak
in complimentary and affectionate
terms of the Methodist ministers in
their respective localities, and ask that
they be returned for another year. We
may, therefore, expect the Conference,
which meets at Sparta on the 6th of
December, to make comparatively few
changes of locations, about the vilages,
towns and cities.
Mr. Thomas D. Williams, a composi
tor in the Georgian office, bought a
week’s supply of provisions on last
Saturday evening, and deposited them
at the Newton House, preparatory to
visitiog his family located atWinter
ville. After making all his arrange
ments for departure, he returned to the
hotel to get his provieious, but at! ief
had been there before him, and car
ried them away.
Atlanta Telegram : We understand
that early in the coming month the
proper organization of the citizens will
be had for the purpose of arranging
inauguration ceremonies when Govern
or Colquitt shall be inducted into the
Executive chair. There is a general
desire among our citizens to make tho
occasion a memorable one in the history
of the Oglethorpe republic.
A man named Meiuika, who was ar
rested last week, charged with the re
recent murder of Mr. Byrd Lyon, at
Crawford, Ala., has confessed that he
was hired for £SOO to do the killing by
Mrs. Lyon and her mother and father,
a Mr. and Mrs. Davis, in order that
Mrs. Lyon might marry a man named
Terry, with whom she was in love.
Lyon was shot while he was drawing
water at a well in his yard, and the
murderer says Mrs. Davis handed him,
through a window in Lyons’ house, the
musket with which the deed was done.
ROCKS AHEAD.
WATTERSON’S VIEWS ON THE
SITUATION.
How the Electoral Votes are to be
Stoleu —A Deliberate Conspiracy—
The Plot Unmasked—The South Can
Stand it ifthe North Can.
(Courier-Journal.)
That the electoral votes of South
Carolina, Florida and Louisiana will be
counted for Hayes, Irrespective of the
popular majorities cast for Tilden, is,
and has been from the first, an absolute
certainty. It was, and it is, the begin
ning of a bold and well-planned con
spiracy, of which Hayes is merely the
conscious tool, but whose real head is
the Administration, whose managers
are the Republican leaders, and whose
resource and recourse will be the army
of the United States.
With the more thoughtful and saga
cious of those who went to New Or
leans, there never was the smallest
hope of influencing the operations of
the Returning Board. They knew per
fectly well the character of that body.
Directed by ex-Gov. Wells, whom Sher
idan removed from office ten years ago,
as “an obstruction to the enforcement
of the laws,” and as “a dishonest man,”
and composed of the hangers-on of
Wells, the Returning Board was at all
times good for any work required by
its masters, Kellogg and Packard.
But, enlightened by orders from Wash
ington, emboldened by the presence of
the chiefs of the conspiracy, to count
Hayes in and Tilden out at all hazards,
and supported by the land and naval
forces of the Republic, sent down for
the double purpose of invigorating
one party and overawing the
other party, whilst, at the same
time, the warlike spectacle was meant
to make its impression on the North,
this close coporation was prepared,
marked, quoted and signed to do any
and every act needful to the consum
mation of the proposed villainy.
Therefore, the friends of fair election,
who are equally concerned in peace
aud order, could do nothing more, and
originally expected to do nothing more,
than consolidate public attention upon
Louisiana, pour in a flood of light
upon the iniquities about to be per
! formed there, and qualify themselves
to lay a state of facts before the
American people which they could
prove and to which they could bear
personal testimony. This they have
done, aud it is all that has been done.
In South Carolina the case was some
what different, and has been treated
more abruptly; but the result will be
the same. The State had been pre
pared in advance to play on election
day the part assigned it. Its failure to
come to time made it necessary for the
Republicans to remember their ante
cedant acts of usurpation and violence.
Tnese have received their tit develop
ment in the revolutionary proceedings
which continue to startle the country.
Of the nature of these there cannot
be two opinions. With a Republican
State Government to devise, with a
Republican fabric to execute, and with
the National army to oversee and
guard the election, South Carolina |
voted for Tildeu and Hampton. Bold
measures were indeed required to;
upset the verdict of the ballot box. 1
But it is a part of the desperate game of
the President and his coadjutors\o take
the temper of the people for granted,
to assume that there are no popular
rights they are bound to respect nor
popular sensibilities they need fear, or
may not with safety trample on. Their
idea is that all is possible as long as
they can make the South a pretext for
their dimes. They remember that the
only department of the Government
which can oppose itself to them is the
Democratic House of Representatives,
aud they have educated the North to
the supposed point of sustaining them
against this constitutional body by de
scribing it systematically as the Con
federate Congress, seeking thus to give
to every issue they force upon the
country the old sectional complexion.
This is a great item, and they rely up
on it. They made it the leading figure
in the Presidential canvass. It will be
the pivot about which all their future
operations will turn. In South Caro
lina they proceed with shameless in
trepidity, because they look to confuse
and obscure the process of their pro
ceedings in the passions which are
to rise out of the coming session. Con
spiracy, which always works in dark
ness, seeks us far as possible to efface
each of its foot prints by a bolder
leading up Jo its grand and final coup,
when the mask is to be thrown off, by a
series of delusive pretenses, such as*at
present characterize the utterances of
the Radical loaders aud their newspa
per organs. For example, nobody has
bawled so lustily for “a fair count” as
they have, when all the while they pos
sessed the exclusive opportunity and
machinery for a foul oount, being ab
solute masters of the situation in the
three contested States. Again, their
creature, Hayes, with true pharisaic
meekness, snivels his indifference to
the result, professing himself superior
to the little office of chief magistrate,
“if the poor colored people could be
protected.”
Meanwhile, having handled such
leviathans as Louisiana and South
Caroliua, the couspirators expect to !
pocket 1- lorida, en passant, as a politi
cal periwinkle, of no particular moment
or significance, except as a relish to tho
banquet they have set for themselves.
There can be no reasonable d-mbt of
this. We may depend upon it that so
much ado was never designed to cover
less than all the States necessary to
complete the prima facie case they
seek to establish by the aid of their
Returning Boards, their Governors,
and their bayonets. With this prima
facial case, obtained by means the foul
est and by forces the most lawless,
they will appear in the national capitoi,
having assembled there troops enough
for their purpose. They will then pre
cipitate the issue prearranged between
what they already describe as the loyal
Senate and tbe rebel House, regard no
legal bar to their putpose, consult
uo authority that interferes with them,
but, trusting to the fomented
prejudices of the Northern people, and
relying upon the army, they will stop
short of nothing which they may deem
essential to the scheme they have long
entertained, to-wit, that there never
shall be a peaceful change of parties in
this country.
With many of them it is sheer party
istn. But with many others, men who
j euine into the public eervice paupers
' and are now millionaires, it is a fight
for something other than political ex
istence. With the President it is the
soldier’s hope and chance of retaining
power in a disturbance; but in the
; worst event—that is, in the event of
Hayes’ inauguration—the opportunity,
perhaps the promise, of a return to the
bead of the array, with the rank of
field marshal of the Republic. For, be
it remembered, this conspiracy em-
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
braces not merely the usurpation of
the Executive office, in the name and
person of Hayes, by the men who pos
sess him. It includes the establish
ment, through the same lawless and
corrupt agencies, of a bogus Republi
can House of Representatives.
This is the conspiracy. It will de
velop itself in every detail as the coin
ing session advances. It is not for us
to speculate upon its probable success
or failure. Either will depend upon the
tamper of the North. The South will
take no step. Every concievable meaus
has been tried, will continue to be tried,
by the conspirators to excite us, to ex
tort indiscreet expressions from us, to
compel us to inprudenee, to make u
an accomplice in the wicked work of
misleading and arousing the North.
But. this hope will hot be realized. If
the Northern people are willing to see
our Republican system of goernment
Mexicanized by a handful or untrust
worthy politicians, their will be done.
We can stand it, if they can. We have
stood much and can stand more. But
let there be no more talk of a free
ballot box if this conspiracy achieves
success. Let there be no more drivel
about the people correcting the evil
four years hence by civil process. Be
fore the next Presidential election
oligarchism will have perfected its or
ganization, and the outrages of to-day
will become the precedents for all time.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Eastman Is building a 830,000 hot* 1.
The horse thieves have again made
their appearance in Clarke county.
Three days racing commenced at
Oglethorpe Park yesterday In Atlanta.
Dr. Wm. Brown, a former citizen of
Covington, died in Florida last Thurs
day.
Jones B. Morris, an old citizen of
Macon, died on Monday last, in Leo
county.
The Columbia Times complains of
the? number of vagrants, of both
sexes, in that city.
West Point can boast of a home com
pany of minstrels, who are said to ac
quit themselves well
Mr James Baldwin, of Atlanta, is
sick of the fever in Athens. We hope
he will soon be out again.
Atlanta Constitution: The Central
Railroad will probably cot declare a
dividend ou the sth of December.
Gov. Smith has issued commissions
to the Democratic Presidential electors
and to the members of Congress elect.
The religious revival continues at
Dahlonega under the supervision of
the Youug Men’s Christian Association.
Died, at the residence of Mr. W. F.
Herring, in Midway, on the 25tlf icsu'
Miss Rebecca Conyers, aged 87 years
and 5 months.
Mrs. Elizabeth Farmer died at the
residence of her son, James W. Far
mer, near Conyers, on Monday ot last
week, aged 80 years and 3 months.
Tlfe Sunny South has a carlo m of a
colored man, arm in arm with Hon. B.
H. Hill marching to the polls to vote
the Democratic ticket. The darkey is
represented as voting “Our Ben.”
Mr. Frank Ward, of Troup county
was attacked by three negro highway
men one night recently. He used
his barlow blade with such valor that
they confined their robbery to throw
ing rocks.
The Star says this is the way Newton
county men look now.—When thev
meet???? ?
After they meet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The way they look after hearing the
newsJJJJiJU.
The Athens Georgian says: The
“Silver Wedding” of Mr. and Mrs.
Heard took place at the Lucy Cobb
Institute Saturday night last. Many
beautirul presents were presented and
all went “as happy as a marriage ball.”
The Atlanta Constitution of Sunday
says: We saw yesterday a magnificent
gelding preparing for a {long voyage—
no less a trip than across the Atlautlc
to Viscount Massarine, of Ireland. This
animal will show wherever he goes the
finest points of style and beauty, and
if he arrives with safety across the
ocean, will do no discredit'to bis Ameri
can breeding, as some of the best blood
of the turf is in his veins. The horse
is a present from Judge Lochrane to
the Viscount Massarine, of Ireland.
Forsyth Advertiser: Confirmatory’
of what we wrote of the undesirable
ness of going West, in last week’s Ad
vertiser, we publish the following. A
man who left Georgia last January and
moved to Arkansas, writes back: “This
is a rich country to farm in, but a poor
country to live in. Crops are always
good, but no one can hold out to gather
them. Every body takes the swamp
fever. We have all lost all we had
when we came here, and the only thing
we have to show for it is the swamp
fever. I wish I was back in Georgia—
I never would come back here, and I
would go now, if I could get rid of this
infernal swamp fever.”
Meriwether Vindicator: A son of M.
A. Trash, accompanied by some friends,
recently took a possum hunt. The
dogs “treeing” something at an oid
stump, young Thrash on his kuees.
with one arm thrown over the back of
his dog, was endeavoring to discover
the kind of game brought to bav.
While peering into the exeacavatiou
made by the dog a peculiar hissiDg or
singing was heard, and a warning was
given that a snake might be in a
stump. About this time the dog ran
backwards a few feet and fell drad.
This caused the party to examine more
cautiously, their search revealing a
monster rattlesnake coiled within less
than a foot of the place where the
youDg man had been kneeling. The
snake on being killed was found to have
fourteen rattles.
Constitution : Upon motion of Julius
L. Brown, master in chancery, the Unit
ed States circuit court passed the fol
lowing important rule for practice be
fore the master:
Ordered, that the following be ad
ded to the equity rules of this court
“ Whenever the master in chancery ap
points a day for a hearing upon anv
matter of reference to him under the
seventy-fifth equity rule, and the party
moviDg for said order of reference fails
to appear at said time and place of
hearing so appointed, the master mav
proeeed as moved in the rule. And if
said master appoints any day for a
healing and gives personal notice to
said party or his solicitor moving said
order of reference, and said party or
his solicitor again fails to appear and
attend said meeting, said master in
chancery shall return said order of re
ference to the court if in session, or to
the clerk if not in session, with his certi
ficate as to the facts, and he shall bo
discharged from said order of refer
ence; and the party in default shall pay
the costs of said proceeding, unless
otherwise ordered by the court.