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SOUTH CAROLINA.
Hampton’s Inauguration—The Dem
ocratic House and Senators Still bal
loting for U. S. Senator—General
Butler will Probably be the Choice
The Senate and Mackey House to
Adjourn Sine Die on the 22d Inst.
(Special to Constitutionalist.)'
Colombia, December 13, 1876.
The Democratic Hoqse and Senators
balloted for Senator : to-day, without
result. The balloting will continue
each day until an election. Indications
favor Geu. M. C. Butler.
The vote for Governor will be can
vassed and declared to-morrow, on the
basis of certified duplicates cf returns
ia the hands of the Secretary of State.
Hampton’s inauguration will take place
to morrow afternoon.
A concurrent resolution passed the
Senate and Mackey House to-day to
adjourn sine die on December 22d. The
reasons for this move are unknown.
It is probably actuated by either a
want of money, fear of dissolution by
the defection of members to the Demo
cratic Assembly,or hopeless of success,
or a desire to so embarrass the whole
affair as to retain the present adminis
tration on a de facto basis.
The Congressional Committee is do
ing good service. C. MoK.
[By the Associated Press.]
Counting of the Vote for Governor
and Lieutenant-Governor by the
Democratic House.
Columbia, December 13.—The Demo
cratic House to-day passed a resolu
tion to count the votes for Governor
and Lieutenant-Governor to-morrow,
at two o’clock, p. in. The resolution
was communicated to the Senate. There
was another ballot for United States
Senator by the Democrats to-day, but
no choice. The Senate and Republi
can House, in joint session, declared
the election of D, T. Col bin as United
States Senator.
FLORIDA.
The Mandamus Casa to be Argued
To-Day.
Tallahassee, Dec. 13.—The commit
tee divided into two committees, the
republicans voting against the divis
ion. Argument in the mandamus case
will be heard to-morrow, and a decision
reached this week.
LOUISIANA.
Wells Before the Congressional Com
mittee.
New Orleans, December 13.—The
Weils Returning Board, before the
Congressional Committee, declined an
swering the questions denying the au
thority of the Committee to interro
gate him as to Returning Hoard mat
ters. Morrison said they would not
press questions. Wells stated if the
Committee would employ eight clerks
in addition to the clerical force of the
Board all papers could soon be copied,
and with them the Committee would
have information as to the votes east
in the State, and the evidence which
prompted the action of the Board.
Other members of the Returning Board
were notified they would be examined
hereafter. Other witnesses were ex
amined as to the late elections, but
nothing new or startling developed.
AN ICE DRIFT.
Considerable Damage to Shipping at
St. Louis - Loss Estimated ats2oo,ooo.
St. Louis, December IB.—Early yes
terday a rush of ice from a point north
of here forced itself upon the ice iu the
harbor opposite the city, and carried
it down stream with great rapidity,
taking witlt it several strainers lying
at the bauk in the southern part of the
city. Tiie Fannie Keener sank oppo
site the Arseuel, uud is probably a
wreck. The Southern Belle and Jennie
Baldwin also sank, but the 10-s is not
heavy, both being small boats. Among
others carried down are the Centennial,
Alex. Mitchell, Minnesota. Biyard and
Davenport. Later reports show that
nearly all the boats of the Keokuk
Northern Line, which were in winter
Quarters and supposed to be secure
from damage, were forced from tbeir
moorings and carried down stream.
The War Eagle and Golden Eagle, two
large and valuable boats, were forced
on shore in such a manner as to block
the passage, and other boats crowded
in aud caused a complete jam.
The ice moved several lines during
the afternoon and uigiit, and forced
boats upon one another, doing great
damage. The Centennial had almost
all her upper works torn away and the
Mitchell is crushed nearly to pieces.
The Davenport was sunk and the Bay
ard almost completely destroyed. The
Rock Island, War Eagle, Goideu E igle
and Andy Johnson were badTv dam
aged. The Kobroy and Noithwestern,
which were uninjured, raised steam,
and the Red Wing and Minneapolis,
with lumber barges, were pulled out and
taken to the bar, about a quarter of a
mile below the arsenal, where they
were considered safe. At midnight it
was thouuht the hulls of the Centen
nial and Andy Johnson would be saved.
The Golden Eagle aud War Eagle
might be rescued in a very broken con
dition. The Joss is roughly estimated
at $200,000. There is no insurance on
the boats of the Keokuk Northern
I*h“. The Mitchell, War Eagie, Golden
E igle and Andy Johuson belonged to
the K°okuk line. The Ceuteuuial was
owned by Thomas L. Davidson, and
cost $40,000.
LITER.
St. Louis, December 13.- The steam
er CVureunial, about four o’clock, re
ported no other notable change since
Mst night. All the boats previously
mentioned are still wedged tightly to
gether. When the goige breaks away
ttmst of them will go down with it,and
cither be wholly wrecked or damaged
still more than they are now.
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Marine Disasters
New York, December 13.—The
schooner Lottie, of and from Philadel
phia for Pawtucket, was towed here
yesterday by the steamer Spain, hav
-I°2 been found in distress.
New York, December 13.—Arrived,
schooner Fannie Pike, from Pensacola,
bhe lost her deck load of 20,000 f ee t
lumber during a gale November 29th.
On December 9th, she lost and split
sail*, which caused the vessel to leak.
WASHf.VQXQN, December
tal Service Observer reports th
■lahnie K. Shaw floated fuil- - of. watecr
aQ d will leave for Norfolk in tow of a
Wrecking tug.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings of the Two Houses Yes
terday.
\\ ashixgton, December 13,—1n the
mnfjf ’ Mr - A . nth °ny. from the Com
tPnot.,nß. reported a joint
of i" ° Pnut 10 - 000 extra copies
of the message or the President and
accompanying documents in regard to
the iate election in Louisiana. §
Mr. Thurman objected to its present
““ i “ —*
3idirl\i* etUi i2 t i en rea umed the con
? of . the resolution of Mr.
Mitchell, providing for au inquiry into
appointment of the Oregon eiec
the H °use, Bland’s silver bill is
under consideration.
V> ashingtqn, December 18.—The
House, after a long debate, passed bv
\ 157 5 “• the -JaS’fc?
/ n ut,l,7 f the Product of the
gold and silver mines, commonly known
as the silver bill. It contains one short
provision for coinage of silver dollars
of certain weight, which are to be legal
tender for all debts, public or private
umess where specially provided that
payment shall be made iu gold.
The House then took up the bill to
make the Burlington and Missouri!
River Railroad, in Nebraska, a branch i
of the Union Pacific Railroad. Strong !
opposition to the bill was manifested
on both sides of the House. Finally,
on motion of Grover, of Missouri it
was recommitted, which is regarded’ as
tantamount to defeat.
The Senate Committee on Printing
reported favorably ou the motion to
pnut 5,000 copies of the statement of
the manner or counting the electoral:
vote from 1789 to 1873, inclusive. Laid i
over. Also, iu favor of printing 1 850 I
copies of the President’s Louisiana |
outrage message, which was laid over
Also, to print 10,000 copies of the same '
document, which was laid over.
Mitchell s resolution regarding Ore
gon was discussed, with a view to
strike from the preamble the words
“reflecting on Grover,” without action.
Edmunds’ amendment was resumed.
Bogy made an elaborate argument
against it. The amendment was re
jected by a vote of 14 to 31. Yeas—
Allison, Anthony, Blaine, Burnside,
Conkling, Edmunds, Ferry, Freling
huysen, Hamlin, Hitchcock,' Key, Mor
rill, West and Wright.
Executive session. Confirmation :
Cochran, postmaster at Selma.
FROM WASHINGTON.
News and Gossip from the National
Capital.
Washington, December 13.—1 tis
thought at the Wat Department that
additional legislation is necessary to
allow Eads his first installment on
jetties.
The Committee on Appropriations
promises to take early action to pro
vide for the liquidation and awards of
the Mexican Claims Commission.
Walhington, December 13.—The
Committee on Privileges and Elections
are taking testimony concerning Benj.
Williamson, a New Jersey Democratic
elector, who was a United States com
missioner. Gov. Beebe and Secretary
of State Kelse will be summoned.
A. S. Brown, superintendent of the
telegraph company at New York, and
Capt. L. Wbitr.ey, manager of the
Western Union Telegraph office here,
are summoned before tne House Com
mittee sitting at New Orleans, to pro
duce certain telegrams sent by Secre
tary Chandler pending the canvass of
votes. The Seuate Investigating Com
mittee has not yet called for the tele
grams.
Twenty-four and a half millions of
silver has been exchanged for fractional
and greenback currency.
See section 3,836 revised statutes. It
is claimed that neither Sollaee nor
Watts has yet legally voided his tenure
as Postmaster.
INDIANA.
Action of the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee.
Indianapolis, December 13.—The
Democratic State Central Committee
met. pursuant of a request from the
Democratic electors, to consider a po
litical situation. A number of promi
nent politicians, including Gov. Hen
dricks and State officers, were present,
in addition to representatives from
each Congressionol District. Ex-Cou
gressuian Julian, who had been to Lou
isiana, being called upon, gave his
opinion that the election in that State
had been as quiet and peaceable as in
Indiana, and Tilden hr.d carried the
State overwhelmingly. He hoped the
Democrats would have pluck enough
to stand up for their rights and meet
the crisis now. He was satisfied we
shall have no war. Gov. Hendricks was
called on for his views, but the Chair
man reminded the meeting of the im
propriety of one so personally inter
ested speaking at this time.
Reports from all the Congressional
Districts were made by Representa
tives present, stating that the Demo
crats of the Districts were convinced
that Tilden had been legally elected,
and demanded his inauguration. A
resolution was adopted calling a con
vention of people, regardless of past
political oniuions at each county seat,
December 23d, to select and instruct
delegates to assemble iu State Conven
tion, at Indianapolis, January Bth,
to consider public affairs and take
such action as will secure the full exe
cution of the Constitution and laws, a
commdtee being appointed to prepare
an address to the people.
GOVERNOR HAYES.
He is Satisfied that He is Honestly
Elected.
New York, December 13.—A Herald
sptcial from Ciucincati, says : Gover
nor Hayes, iu conversation with one of
the local Republican leaders here,
said : “I have examined the situation
carefully and thoroughly, aud besides
have solicited and obtained the opin
ions of the best constitutional lawyers
of the country, and 1 am now satisfied
that I have been honestly elected Pres
ident of the United States aud am enti
tled to the office, and I fully expect to
be inaugurated as such.” The Gover
nor is uarcicularlv careful to avoid ex
pressing very decided opinions in the
presence of correspondents, but this
remark was made to a gentleman who
vouches for its truth.
With a view to ascertain the time
that would be occupied in bringing an
au ironclad into action, the Admiral
( om man ding the British fleet iu Biscay
Bav r&behtlv “Turn Got
Vdundett r -ib'.tfcaj'mHkJle of the night,
wit bp itt-any pceyjfdii fiMWWr tQ
JS*,or men. ■klftWle ship M
cleared, and the first gun fired within
seven minutes after the alarm.
~ Airvt frnn m.nt 0% .1
FOREIGN NEWS.
Changes in the French Cabinet—The
Eastern Question.
Paris, December 13.—The appoint
ment of M. Simon as President of the
Council and Minister of the Interior,
and M. Martel as Minister of Justice,
vice M. Dufaure and Marcere, who re
tire, is officially announced to-day.
The Cabinet, therefore, remains as be
fore the crisis, with the exception of
the above mentioned changes.
London, December 18.—A dispatch
from Constantinople to Reuter’s Tele
graph Company, says the absence of
the Porte’s representative from the
preliminary conferences creates an un
favorable impression. The fact that
Russia, an interested party, is permit
ted to sit in judgment, is disgusting.
Vienna, December 13.—A corres
pondent of the Times states that con
firmation comes from Constantinople
that quite an unexpected aud marked !
approach has been effected between
the views of Russia and England. This
seems due, above all, to assurances
given by Gen. Ignatieff concerning (be
aims of the Russian policy.
Berlin, December 13.—The Federal
Diet has rejected eighteen articles of
the judicial laws voted by Parliament,
principally relating to jurisdiction over
press offenses, compulsory evidence of
editors, and the publication of public
functionaries. Parliament will be no
tified of the Diet’s action to- day.
3*hne, December 13.—M. Herr, Vice-
President of the Federal Assembly,
has been elected President of the Swiss
Confederation for 1877, M. Schenck
is uow Vice-President.
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
COMMITTEE.
A Card to the People of the United
States.
Rooms of the National Dem. Com.,
Washington, D. C., Dec. 13.
'To the Teople of the United States:
The National Democratic Committee
announce, as the result of the Presi
dential election held on the 7th of No
vember, tbe election of Samuel J, Til
den, of New York, as President, and
Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, as
Vice-President of the United States.
We congratulate you on this victory
for reform. It now only remains for
the two houses of Congress, in the
performance of their duty on the sec
ond Wednesday in February next, to
give effect to the will of the people
thus expressed in the constitutional
mode by a majority of the electoral
votes, aud confirmed by a majority of
all the States, as well as by an over
whelming majority of all the people of
tbe United States.
By order or tho Executive Commit
tee.
Abram S. Hewitt, Chairman.
Frederick O. Prince, Sec’v.
NEW YORK ITEMS.
A Fast Mail Route Through to all
Southern Points.
New York, December 13.—1 t is an
nounced that arrangements have been
made for the resumption of the fast
mail over tho Pennsylvania Railroad.
The mail will reach Washington from
New York at one o’clock and two miu
utes, and connect at Cincinnati with a
fast train through to Nashville, Mobile,
New Orleans and the whole South, A
railway postofiice car will also be at
tached to the 8:00 a. m. train, which
will run through to St. Louis. This
train will connect at Pniladelphia with
trains through to Richmond, Va., giv
ing dispaich to all mail matter ac
cumulating after 4:35 a. m. and prior
to its departure. A New York and
Washington postal car will make
through connections to the Southern
seaboard States, aud will be dispatch
ed at 6:00 p. m.
At the quarterly meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Westeru
Union Telegraph Company to-day,
Geu. Aaron Stager, Superintendent of
the Central Division at Chicago, was
elected Vice-President of the company.
A dividend of Yy v per cent, for the
quarter ending December 31st has
been declared.
New York, December 13.—A meeting
of bank officers, called by tbe Tax
Committee of the Clearing House, was
held to-day to devise means of procur
ing a reduction of the present tax on
banks. Philo C. Calhoun presided.
The following resolution was unani
mously adopted:
Besotted, That, in the opinion of the
associated banks ot this city, earnest
efforts of banks throughout the coun
try should be made in asking for relief
from the unjust aud burdensome
weight of taxation.
Conference of General Freight Agents
at St. Louis.
St. Louis, December 13. —The Gene
ral Freight Agent, of the Louisville
and Nashvillo, Cairo and Vincennes,
New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago,
Mobile and Ohio, Cairo Short Line, and
St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern
Railroads held a conference here yes
terday, with representatives of various
steamboat lines running between here
and New Orleans, for the purpose of
adjusting winter freight rates. The
meeting was harmonious, but the re
sult bas not yet been made public.
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An Aristocratic Scandal.— The great
sensation of the week in London was
the hearing of a divorce suit, all the
parties to which move in the most
aristocratic circles. Dermot Robert
Wyndarn Burke, Earl of Mayo, son of
tbe assassinated Viceroy of India, is a
Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards,
has a handsome face, a very fine phys
ique, and is cnly twenty-six years of
age. He succeeded in alienating the
affections of the wife of Lord De la
Zouche four months after her marriage.
The lady is a daughter of Lord Sal
toun, and ia but twenty-six years
old. Iu October of last year, after a
quarrel about the young guardsman’s
attentions, Lady De la Zouche went
out riding on horseback aud never re
turned to her home. At the trial Mayo
made no defense. Robert Nathaniel,
Cecil Geo. Curzon, Baron De la Zouche,
the injured husband, was born in July,
1851, and was, therefore, the same age
us his rival. Decree nisi.
A pole in the Pennsylvania oil region,
one hundred aud fifty feet high, has a
gas pipe running to the top and fed
from a natural gas well, so that at
night a huge flame can be seen at a
great distance.
In Paris there are contractors who
pay the city $20,000 per annum for the
privilege of keeping the streets clean.
The work is done .under the. supervis
ion of the municipal authorities, and
the contractors are reimbursed by tfie.
sate of the mud aha qiiafc, which wtm/1
manufactured into fertilizers Is said t§
yield $600,000 annually.
AUGUSTA, GA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 187(5.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Dr. Edward P. Rogers, of Savannah,
is dead.
Atlanta has received 70,000 bales of
cotton up to date.
New and rich gold mines are being
constantly discovered near Gainesville.
Mr. F. W. Redwine was severely hurt
at a fire in Gainesville a few weeks
since.
A torchlight procession in honor of
Tilden’s election was had in Gaines
ville on Tuesday night, the 12th.
Mr. W. L. Baynon, of Savannah, died
Monday last, Ha was with the house
of W. H. Stark & Cos., of that city.
Mr. A. D. Estill, brother of Mr. J.
fl. E-itill, of the Savannah News, died
in Aiken, Sbtrtlf Carolina, Monday morn
ing.
Jeff. Vaughn was badly cut in a row
at Last Chance, near Gainesville. This
may prove Jeff’s last chance at refor
mation.'/, j j/ TI
The wife of Mr. C. R. Hanleiter died
in AtlantaSuuday last. Mr. H. is well
known all over the State as a newspa
per man.
J. D. George, Independent, was elect
ed Mayor of Griffin ou Wednesday,
Most of the regular ticket for Aldermen
were elected.
The county tax for Fullton county
is smaller ttian any county in the
state, being only 22 cents on the
hundred dollars.
Mr. C. B. Rosser was married to Miss
Ada Sams, of Covington, at the resi
dence of Judge W. S. Lee, by Rev. O.
L. Smith, ou the 6th iust.
Butler Brown, a turbulant negro, was
killed by another negro last week. The
Telegraph thinks the loss to the coun
try can be readily repaired.
A thief has stolen the new boots of
the editor of tho Gainesville Southron.
Next to stealing Miss Buie’s shawl, we
know of nothing more reprehensible.
The Enterprise declares that candi
dates are so numerous and so
“touchous” 1 that a “squib” stirs them
up us effectually as would a batteau
paddle.
We learn from the Reporter that the
Quitman Factory was injured to the
value of $1,500 or $2,000 last Tuesday
by a fire which originated in the pantry
room—it is thought from a match, in
the cotton.
The citizens of Gainesville held a
meeting last. Saturday to confer with
Mr. Halliday, of New York, who con
templates removing a large manufac
turing establishment from that city to
Gainesville.
It looks very muoh as if the darkies
intend to capture the fair city of Amer
icas at the ensuing charter election.
They have registered 337 votes and the
whites 183. Gen. Apathy is a danger
ous leader.
Mr. G. W. Dent, formerly of Tuske
gee, Ala., was found dead in his bed, at
his plantation five miles below Albauy,
Ga., several days ago. The Albany
News thinks it questionable whether
lie committed suoide or was poisoned
by someone else.
The celebrated wolf of Irwin and
Coffee counties, who had in two years
killed five huudred head of sheep, aud
for whom a reward of two huudred
dollars was offered, was killed last
Thursday morning in Irwin county by
Mr. Jacob Fusseli.
The Savannah News thinks that if
all the cotton gins burned this season,
numbering about sixty iu the State of
Georgia, and most of them put down
as incendiary, could speak it would ap
pear that lucifer matches were the
cause of nine-tenths of the casualties.
The beaver business is assuming
large proportions iu upper Georgia.
Barney Holland caught a beaver on
Richland creek, about a mile from
Greensboro, last Saturday, which
weighed fifty-eight pounds' This is
the forty-seventh trapped by the old
man this fall.
Griffin News : Small & Smith in tho
Telegram mourn for Styles, with whom
they have parted company. We had
hoped the revenues of this little daily
would have been sufficient to have fur
nished all three of these talented S’s
with shirts, sugar and salt sufficient to
supply their necessities.
At the recent Methodist Conference,
in Sparta, Bishop Pierce stated that a
donation of $1,700 aud three shares of
Central Railroad stock had been
made to the Conference, aud he asked
permission to transfer the railroad
shares to the account of Emory Col
lege. He was given the right to do so.
Miss Sallie Brown, of Kentucky, be
queathed $2,000 to tbe Georgia Con
ference. Bishop Pierce was appointed
as a commissioner Jo divide the sum
betweeu the North Georgia and the
South Georgia Conferences of the con
nection. when the same will be turned
over to the Conferences by the executor
of the donor.
Columbus Enquirer: A gentleman
told us Wednesday that the first couple
Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce ever married
was Colonel Seaborn Jones and wife in
this city. Both are long since dead.
He also married Major Jack Howard, a
brother-in-law (we believe) of Colonel
Jones, and the daughter of this union
and Colonel Charles J. Williams, all of
whom are in their graves. He also
officiated at the marriage of the
daughter of Colonel Williams and Capt.
J. A. Cody, and she was buried in Co
lumbus on Wednesday. Dr. Pierce has
thus out-lived the three generations,
at whose marriage he officiated, and
still retains his wonderful physical aud
mental faculties. He has passed his
ninety-first birth day.
Brother Woods, of the Hawkinsvillo
IDispatch, is a great man and constant
benefactor to the human race. He is
now running tne “Potato Remedy for
Rheumatism.” Read his last deliver
ance on the subject: The item in a
late issue of the Dispatch suggesting
that persons afflicted with rheumatism
would find a certain cure for the dis
ease by carrying an Irish potato in the
pocket, attracted the attention of sev
eral of our readers. Among others
who have tried the remedy is Mr. Mark
Kemp, of the Third District of Dooly.
He placed a potato in his pocket four
weeks ago, and says he steadily im
proved until the cold euap set in last
Thursday. He then placed two pota
toes in his pocket, concluding that if
one potato would do some good, two
potatoes would do more. Right there
Mr. Kemp made a fatal mistake. We
plainly recommended a potato. He
failed to carry out the instuctlons, and
the result is he has been growing worse
for several days. Now, if a doctor
should prescribe six pills as a dose for
a particular disease, and the patient
should go beyond the prescription and
take twelve pills, whose fault would it
,bajf The ttt’ecfiiflne ghotrid over-do its
THE LOUISIANA CRIME.
THE TILDEN COMMISSION’S AD
DRESS.
Au Exhaustive Review' of the Crime
of the Kellogg Return Board—An
Eloquent and Patriotic Appeal to
the American People.
[Special Dispatch to Philadelphia Times.)
Washington, December 10.— The ad
dress of Governor Palmer, Judge
Trumbull, Governor Bigler, George W.
Julian, George B. Smith and P. H.
Watson, the Tilden commissioners who
attended the open sessions of the Kel
logg Return Board in Louisiana, has
just appeared, aud I transmit its main
points from an advance 00*7 just re
ceived. It is a pamphlet of seventeen
pages, and reviews the law and facts of
the case with singular clearness, and
exposes the illegal and atrocious acts
of the Kellogg Board with an unsparing
hand. It is addressed to Hdn. Abram
S. Hewitt, at whose request the com-
missioners went to Louisiana after the
President had selected only Republi
cans to represent the administration.
It opens with reference to and extracts
from the Republican reports on the
Kellogg frauds of 1872 and 1874, and
presents concisely the law relating to
the board, and disputes its jurisdiction
entirely, as tho act of 1872, under
which the board is created, omits all
reference to elections for Presidential
electors, while the act of 1870 express
ly provides for computing and certify
ing such votes by the Goveror, Secre
tary of State. Attorney-General and a
District Judge. The jurisdiction of
the Board was objected to also, on the
ground that the act is unconstitutional,
aud again because it was illegally con
stituted for want of a minority repre
sentative, os imperatively required by
the law. A review of the act creating
the Board shows conclusively that its
powers were shamelessly abused by
the Board. It is required “to canvass
and compile the statements of the
commissioners of election” and pro
claim the result, unless the commis
sioners of election or the supervisors
impose additional duties by reports of
intimidation or frauds accompanying
the returns. It shows that no outside
protest can be entertained, aud the vio
lent and illegal proceedings of the
Board in receiving complaints about
parishes which were afterthoughts, to
give some excuse for rejecting them,
are characterized with just severity.
The report very carefully reviews the
action oT tho Board in the shifting po
sitions to escape a just computation of
the vote of the State, and shows that
the honest return of the vote of the
State gave the highest Tilden elector
8,957 majority over the lowest Hayes
elector, and a majority of 6,300 for the
lowest Tilden elector over the highest
Hayes elector. This vote was violently
changed iu secret session to give the
Hayes electors from 4,G2G to 4,712, aud
how the result was reached is still
withheld from the public.
intimidation.
On the subject of intimidation, tho
report deals frankly with the question.
I transmit the summing up on that dis
puted issue and the closing appeal of
the commissioners to the country :
The evidence taken on both sides, so
far as it has been accessible to us, dis
closes a state of lawlessness in certain
parishes, not in the State generally,
about the cause of which parties are
not agreed. The Democrats attribute
it to the inefficiency and imbecility of
the State government, which they al
lege to be a usurpation, resting wholly
for support on the Federal army, with
out the confidence or respect of the
people and without tho disposition to
prevent or punish crime which they
can pervert to political uses. Such a
state of things, as might bo expected,
has led to disorder, aud, in some in
stances, to the most shocking barbari
ties.
Tho Republicans, on tho other hand,
attribute the lawlessness to the hostili
ty of tho white against the colored race
and as largely due to politics.
The murders and outrages which
have been brought to our notice are
frequently committed by persons of
the same race upon each other, aud iu
a large majority of cuses have no po
litical significance.
Many such cases were brought to the
notice of the board by ex parte affida
vits, without regard to the time of their
occurrence and when they did not have
the slightest connection with the recent
election. Strangely enough, it is as
sumed by the Republicans, who have
had complete control of the State Gov
ernment for years, that if they could
show chat lawlessness prevailed in cer
tain localities and crime went unpun
ished, that those facts furnished a rea
son why they should be continued in
power, notwithstanding the large ma
jority of ballots cast against them.
breaking down the color line
Another assumption of the Republi
cans is that all the colored men in the
State are necessarily Republicans. This
is by no means true. We were visited
by a large number of colored persons
from different parts of the State, in
cluding the alleged disturbed districts,
who made speeches and took an active
part in the canvass in favor of the
Democratic ticket, and who gave,
among other reasons for so doing, that
they had been deceived by Republican
officials, who had proved dishonest and
corrupt, had robbed them of their
school money and burdened them with
unnecessary taxes, and that they be
lieved it for the interest of the colored
race to unite their fortunes with the
whites, whose interests, like their own,
were identical with the State.
It is certain that thousands of col
ored persons voluntarily and actively
supported the Democratic ticket. The
entire vote of the State, at tho recent
election, is about fifteen thousand
greater than ever before ; and even in
the parishes where intimidation is
charged it exceeds, in the aggregate,
any previous vote. The Congressional
Committee, which, it is understood,
will soon visit the State armed with au
thority to send for persons and papers,
aud inquire into all the facts connected
with the recent election and the action
of the Returning Board, will have
greater facilities for arriving at the
truth than we possess, but with the law
aud such facts before us as have been
disclosed by the action of the Return
ing Board, we do not hesitate to de
clare that its proceedings as witnessed
by us were partial and unfair, and that
the result it has announced is arbi
trary, illegal and entitled to no respect
whatever.
SHALL THE MAJORITY RULE ?
Fifteen years ago, when Fort Sumter
was tired upon by men who sought a
;d<Btaction of <.tbs*Union,-a mifiio'h pa-'
trrotr,-without regard -TO party affilia
tions, sprang to its defense. Will the
ft Y7"T ? ~f7T
same patriotic citizens ju>w sit idly by
and see representative government
overthrown by usurpation mad fraud ?
Shall the will of forty millions of peo
ple, constitutionally expressed, be
thwarted by the corrupt, arbitrary aud
illegal action of an illegally-constituted
Returning Board in Louisiana, whose
wrongful action heretofore, in all re
spects similar to its present aetF>n, has
been condemned by all parties ?- it js
an admitted fact that Mr. Tilden re
ceived a majority of a quarter or a
million of the votes at the recent elec
tion. This majority is ready and will
ing to submit to the rule of the minor
ity when constitutionally entitled to
demand such submission, but is it will
ing that by an arbitrary and false
declaration of votes in Louisiana the
minority shall usurp power? These are
dark days for the American people
when such questions are forced upon
their consideration. If it were true,
as some insist, that neither
the white nor the colored
voters have in all instances been
afforded an opportunity to give free
expression to their wishes at the ballot
box, shall we, by sustaining a fraudu
lent and illegal declaration of the votes
cast, stifle the voice of the millions of
voters who have freely expressed their
choice, and thus seek to correct a great
wrong by committing another im
measurably greater wrong?
Can we sanction such qction of the
Louisiana Returning Board, aud there
by form a precedent under the author
ity of which a party once in power
may forever perpetuate its rule, and
so end constitutional liberty ? Shall
such be the fate of this Republic at
the beginning of the second century of
its existence? is the momentous ques
tion now presented for the determina
tion of the American people.
John M. Palmer, Lyman Trumbull,
William Bigler, George B. Smith,
George W. Julian, P. H. Watson.
New Orleans, December 6, 1876.
THE ABBEVILLE MURDERERS
NO VESTIGE OF TRUTH IN THE
REPORT OF THE LYNCHING.
The Good People of Abbeville Deter
mined to let the Law take its Course,
Although the Allen Murder was
Part of a Plot to Kill the Whites
Indiscriminately.
(Charleston News and Courier.)
Abbeville, C. H., December 11.—The
sensational reports about the lynching
of the Lowudesvilie prisoners are
totally without foundation. The pris
oners were carried from Lowudesvilie
to Anderson on Friday, aud thence re
moved to Walhalla jail on Saturday,
by order of Judge Cooke. Three ne
groes who were arrested after this
batch was shipped have been brought
to this place aud are now iu confine
ment here.
Au investigation of the Allen murder
discloses that the ambush wus part of
a horrible plot for the wholesale
slaughter of the whites. The plot was
set on foot by Osborne Rose, aud the
negroes were summoned by William
Cozby, who had command of the mur
derers. Ou the night of the murder of
Aileu all the roads leading to
ville were strongly picketed by squads
of from fifteen to twenty armed ne
groes. Sixty or seventy negroes are
implicated iu the plot. There is great
indignation, but a firm determination
on the part or the whites to keep the
peace, and let the law take its course.
Another Account—Death of One of
the Murderers by His Own Hand-
All Quiet.
ISpecial Dispatch to the News aud Courier.)
Columbia, December 11.— Positive in
formation has been received hero that
the Lowndesville murderers were not
lyuched. They have been removed to
Walhalla, in Oconee county, as a pre
caution against violence.
The investigation of the Allen mur
der discloses the fact that the plot to
murder the whites indiscriminately was
30 horrible as to arouse excitement
among the whites to the extent of
threatening summary punishment. Ev
erything io quiet.
One of the captured murderers took
laudanum and died from the effects.
The jury in his case rendered a verdict
unanimously, as follows: “We, the
jurors, upon our oaths, do say that
Sam Bontou came to his death from
voluntary use of laudanum takeu by
himself, and received by him from tbe
hands of his brother." The prisoners
are now all safe in Walhalla jail.
A Projected Marriage Said to be
Broken Off.— Mr. James Gordon Ben
nett’s marriage, which was so extensive
ly announced last spring, is probably
definitely given up, the breach between
himself and his fiancee having been
however, altogether amicable, and the
result of a lirm conviction on Mr.
Bennett’s part that ho was not fitted
for the married state. Whatever
presents Mr. Bennett gave Miss May,
and they were numerous, have been
retained by her at his desire.— New
York Dramatic News.
A prisoner was being tried for sheep
stealing, and he was asked by the pre
siding Judge, an Irish Chief Baron,
what he had to say in his defense.
•‘Ah, sure, your Lordship, didn’t me
self, and my fawther, and my grand
fawther all vote for your Lordship
when ye put up for Tipperary? And,
begorra, didn’t we carry your Lordship
to the head.of the poil ?" “True, true!”
murmured the Judge, aDd he was visi
bly affected by ttie reminiscence. Ho
looked kindly at the prisoner at the
bar, and In summing up, directed the
jury to acquit him, though the evidence
was very strong for conviction. The
jury felt the pressure put upon them,
and the foreman, iu giving him the
verdict, said, “Well, your Lordship, I
suppose we must call him not guilty;
but faith, your Lordship, there’ll not
be a sheep at all left in the county.”
To which his Lordship complacently
replied, “Ah, never mind, gintlemen—
never mind the mutton ! Acquit him,
and ate beef!” And acquitted he was'.
The Disguised Thief.— As a Thief
was returning from the Fair with nine
teen Purses iu his Pocket another
Robber stole his Handkerchief. The
lirst Thief thereupon held an Indigna
tion Meeting and denounced the Act
as the Greatest Political Outrage of
tho Country.
Moral— The Engineer does not think
it rare Sport when he is hoist with his
own Petard.— World.
Oriental justice and Oriental rapaci
ty are curiously illustrated in the case
of the late octogenarian Governor of
the Persian Province of Fars, who
upon retiring from office, had his soles
■beaten H'hS flisgorged' 3300,0Q0,~ and
promised trnltewm #lo,oua:,inore of
his ill-gotten wealth.
■ i
. BAYONET OR BALLOT.
MR. PULITZER’S LETTER.
The Situation at Washington anil the
Outlook.
Washington, December B.—The die
is east. The conflict is inevitable. It
will be.the fiercest parliamentary con
flict ever known iu this or any other
country ; and let us. hope that it will
remain only a parliamentary conflict.
the colored troops fought nobly.
They did what they were bid to do in
the three disputed States ; they were
ordered to return them for Hayes, and
they did so. But give honor to whom
honor is due. The nineteen electoral
votes of South Carolina, Louisiana
aud Florida vyere practically stolen by
a set of notorious thieves; and they
never could have been thus stolen
without Grant. It was he who did the
whole business after all. Had he not
sent troops for the, special protection
of these Returning Boards, they never
would have dared to do what tffey did.
It was like stationing a squad pf po
lice to protect a set of burglars from
the resistance of tha robbed. Though
they are mostly branded, jail-birds,
these members or the returning boards
exercising not only Judicial functions,
but also the right of making a Presi
dent of the United States, they never
would have dared. I repeat, to commit
this outrage without the backing or
the whole Republican party ancf tbe
special protection of
grant and his bayonets!
Yes, the bayonet is beginning ti> su
persede the ballot as the counting, and
not the voting, now decides the elec-
tions. This reminds me of a witty re
mark of Thackeray’s, in speaking
about the coup d'etat of Napoleon 111,
not inapplicable. The best, argument
he said is that coming out of the mouth
of a twenty-four pounder, and the best
point that in the end of the bayonet.
In the present controversy these' were
by far the best points made by the Re
publicans, <44 our Side are all the
points of right and law, constitution
and self-government, popular majority
and public interest. On tbeir side,
however, those convincing points are at
the end of the bayonet,
Speaking of Napoleon’s coup d'etat
reminds mo of ite date. It was the 2d
of Deoember, 1853, that saw the as
sassination of the second French re
public. Napoleon selected that day be
cause it wa tho day of Austerlitz and
the day on which his great uncle was
crowned first Emperor of Franee, Rut
these two eveuta are comparatively for
gotten, while the ad of December ia
universally remembered as the day of
the coup d’etat, It is not impossible
that the 6th day of December will live
in American history as ■the day cn
which the toundation was laid fer the
great American coup d'etat, for I am
firmer in the belief than ever that
nothing short of auoh a coup d'etat,
nothing save tho most flagrant, the
most monstrous violations ot law and
right can make Mr. Hayes President.
now LEADING DEMOCRATS TALK.
I have taken special pains to talk
with the leading Democrats both in the
House and Senate in order to ascertain
the most probable course of the party
in the impending oonflict. I have not
found a single one who is not absolute
ly convinced of Mr. Tildea’s election
and determined to go to the full length
of the letter aud the meaning of the
Constitution in securing him the office
to which he is elected. Tbe Constitu
tion gives the House of Representa
tives two powers most clearly. Firstly,
to scrutinize and reject electoral re
turns. Secondly, to elect the President
if no candidate has received an abso
lute majority of the Electoral College.
Both powers are undeniable and have
been previously exercised. The first
when a Republican House rejected the
electoral votes of throe Southern
States in 1873, to-wit: Louisiana, Geor
gia and Arkansas. The seeoud when
the House of Representatives elected
Thomas Jeffeiaou and John Quincy
Adams. The present House of Repre
sentatives is largely Democratic. Iu
voting by States, as it has to do when
a President is to be elected, it has twen
ty-three out of thirty-seven votes.
And
MAKK MV ‘ PREDICTION.
As sure as there must be a joint session
ou the 14th of February for the pur
pose of counting the electoral votes,
Mr. Tilden will either be declared elect
ed President by a majority of the Elec
toral College or if neither candidate re
ceives a majority, he will be elected on
that very day by the House of Repre
sentatives. And mark another predic
tion; Just as surely as he will be
elected by the House, will he take the
oath of office on Sunday, the 4th of
March. This is not the iine of parti
sanship, but the plain line of duty.
The House could do no less, even if it
would, as it is commanded by the Con
stitution to perform this duty, and Mr.
Tilden would undoubtedly obey the
wishes of the people and the require
ments of the supreme law of the land
which no one knows more thoroughly
than he and which no one would more
faithfully and conscientiously carry
into execution.
AND THEN?
I hear the question: And what will
follow if the Republican conspirators
declare Hayes elected? Will it come
to a physical conflict? I hope not, I
think not. If it should ever come to
this—and the contingency, while en
tirely possible, is yet remote —there is
in my opinion good reason to hope that
the worst—a physical conflict or civil
war—should be avoided. Despite the
general demoralization, desdite the
violent partisanship blinding so many
men’s judgment, despite the venality
of the press, despite the large number
of reckless demagogues who would fan
any strife and, for seltish ends, prefer
turmoil to peace, despite the still larger
number of those who, having neither
property nor patriotism, have nothing
to lose I still think that this calamity
would be averted—averted, too, hy the
simple expression of pubiio opinion.
Between the I4th day of February— j
the day on which both Hayes and
Tilden may be declared elected—and
the 4th of March, the day until whioh
Grant remains President, I think there
would, in the face of the great danger
of an utter ruin of the country, be such
an uprising of the people, such a stern
aud serious condemnation of the coup
d’etat, such expressions of the popular
belief in Mr. Tllden’s election, such a
perfect storm of public opinion, that
the better nature of Mr. Hayes, after
all, might prevail to decline the barren
honor of a pretension to be president
which, as he must know, is founded
upon fraud, can only succeed through
force and must end in ruin. Between
and the 14tn day of February the
Intelligent and respectable eleaienfer-o#'
the Republican party W'tH'ftfob and
more reeogmae tba toymans character
KIX DOLLARS A YEAR
of the returning boartls and tlreir re
turns; the undoubtedly legal and con
stitutional election of Mr. Tilden; the
large majority of the people whA voted
for him; the fact that his Inauguration
would mead peace and order, law and
prosperity, while Hayes, at the very
best, would only mean a prostituted
Presidency in a degenerated republic,
a republic iu form but not in Tact, a le
pubiic destined to decay and dissolu
tion!
But it may not come to this. There
are certainly other contingencies,
other possibilities, other probabilities
solving the problem. Still it is well to
remember in the heat of debate and
the passion of partisanship that clouds
cool judgment, that Mr. Hayes can
never be, constitutionally, President ot
these Luited States, and that Samuel
J. Tilden, elected by the people and
the electoral votes, if cheated of the
electoral votes to which he is entitled,
is 3'et bound to be duly and constitu
tionally elected by the House of Repre
sentatives. ....
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
!•> ■ ■—
Thro? thousand eight tumdrjhl and
sixty-nine bales of cotton were sfiipped
from Newberry during the month or
November.
Mr. Thomas Davis, one ot the oldest
residents of Abbeville county, died on
the 23d ultimo. He was born in Vir
ginia in 1774.
Mr. C. F. Regan lost two bales of
cotton from hts gin-yard in Marion
county, on Sunday night last. A Re
publican voter borrowed them .
The gin-house of Mr. Augustus Covin
was burned last Sunday morujug near
Wiliington, In Abbeville county. Total
loss; no insurance. Rad.
AY. C. Eison, a merchant of
Maybinton, on the Greenville and
Columbia EaUrOad, was run over and
5uS ll ?i.il n,UTed on Wednesday last
while attempting to board a tram.
His leg was cut off above the knee.
In^.® e darkey’s about ten miles below
Arlington, in Abbeville county, were
caught in tne act of stealing. They
preferred to take a small flogging to
going to jail, and this being satisfac
tory to the damaged party, the matter
was thus settled.
The Democrats all over the State in
teaa to enforce the preference policy’
with firmness and discretion, and de
monstrate to those of our bitterest and
most pronounced political enemies that
their outrages against society and law
Hie no longer to be tolerated.
On the 4th of November last Mr.
Alexander Gregg was brutally murder
ed in the woods uear his bouse, in
Mariun county. Last Monday Nelson
Williaoi3, Jim Thompson, Julius May
Jack Burgoine, Henry Burgoine, Sid
ney Johnson and Sam Brown, all color
ed, were lodged iu jail, charged with
this crime. Others are implicated,
who have not beeu arrested.
The Due AVest Democratic Club pas
.-ed upon sixteen of the most vicious
Radical negroes in that township last
week, and the work has not been com
pleted. They did not proscribe these
fellows; they simply resolved that they
would “prefer” giving employment to
suoh colored people as conceived their
interests to be identical with the in
terests or the white people. “Preference”
not “proscription” is the policy.
Mr. James Harper, who so recently
met with so great a loss at the depot
iu Kingstree, was again visited bv
another heavy loss on the 30th o‘f
November. His turpentine shed, con
taining 50 barrels of spirits turpentine,
25 barrels of virgiu rosiu, 120 cooper
barrels, with strainers, &e., were des
troyed by fire, which was undoubtedly
set. The Are occured at 4 o’clock in
the morning, during a rain. Leas from
81,200t0 81,500. No insurance.
Mr. Levi Brown, residing not far
trout Cades Depot in Williamsburg
county, one night last week heard
some disturbance at his hog pen near
the house, among his fattening hogs.
He went out to see about it, and was
fired at but not hit. On looking ia the
pen he found oue hog lying dead,
whereupon he went back iDto the
house to make preparations Tor hav
ing it cleaned for use, and as he came
out agaiu he was tired upon a second
time and hit with a ball in the stomach.
He lingered till next day and died.
Several colored men are suspected, and
one has been arrested and is now iu
jail.
At a meeting of the Indiaotown,
Williamsburg county, Democratic club
on the 18th ult., the following resolu
tion was adopted: Unsolved, That a
delegation of five members be appoint
ed from this club to meet delegates
from the other clubs in convention at
Kingstree on the third Monday ic. De
cember. And the delegation from tbis
club is instructed to secure, if possible,
from the convention uuifuimity of ac
tion iu regard to the resolutions adopt
ed by this club, having reference to
Radical loaders and preference policy
in favor of Democrats, both in employ
menu and in the renting of lands.
On Thursday last, Mi. B. F. Sample,
living at the Havird. place, five miles
beyond Bouknight’s Ferry, EdgeflePi
County, shot and killed hie brother-in
law. Douglass, had been trebling
Ms wife badly, and she went G> her
brother’s house for protection. He fol
lowed her there, and was Attempting
to break into the house when Sample
shot him. Sample is a. peaceable, in
offensive man, and R }s supposed that
he must have killed Douglass either
in self-defence or to protect the life of
his sister. The same dav Scurry Cole
man killed Trial Justice David Taylor.
Taylor was a very bad character. He
was run out of this county before the
war for his rascality.
There is an immigration agency es
tablished at Gaffney City, Spartanburg
eounty, on the Air-Line Railfoad, and
a large semi-monthly paper published
there for the purpose of disseminating
knowledge in regard to the great
Piedmont belt of the State, and to in
duoe persons from a distance to come
tiod there. An immigration aid
society has been formed at Wellfor J
another point on the railroad, in the
f arne The upper counties are
being filled up rapidly by the people
from abroad, who are not poJiUoians
but workingmen. They almost with
out exception, unite with the * native
whites and vote with theta. It is esti
mated that not le*s *han two thousand
lmmigrantk in this State voted *t tb
last eleytpn for Tjlden and Hampton^
J. Chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of Mitchell
county, aji,apunm iu the OuttUla
terpen that there wifi he no party
■ for comity office*;. He
says “there are no. polities involved in
•*c,;cfc r **etso& 1 andali are equally in
terested in the choice of good and re
liable officials.’*