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EST A BLISHEI) 1799. [
FROM COLUMBIA.
Another Unsuccessful Senatorial Bal
lot by tbe Democrats-Humored
Compromise Between Democrats
and Republicans.
Columbia, S. C.. December 18.—There
ffa s another unsuccessful ballot for
Senator in the Democratic House to
day. Everything quiet.
The Congressional Senatorial Com
mittee are working actively but quiet
ly, There are rumors of a compro
mise between the Republicans and
democrats, favorable to the latter.
How D. T. Corbin Secured his Elec
tion.
Special to the Greenville Dally News.
Columbia. S. C., December 14.—Cor
bin, by trickery, got hold of Phosphate
Royalty Money, and bought his elec
tion, by paying two hundred dollars to
each member of the Mackey Rump.
T. H. Cooxk.
[We understand from a gentleman
just from Columbia, that after the elec
tion of Corbin, he formed his Radical
supporters into a line, and they ail
marched to the Treasurer’s office, aud
the above accounts for it.— Ed. News.
LOUISIANA.
The Congressional Committee After
the Western Union Telegraph for
Contempt.
New Orleans, December 18.—E. W
Barnes, manager of the Western Union
Telegraph, stated before the committee
that he had not brought dispatches, as
ordered in the subpoena, under instruc
tions from his superiors not to deliver
them. The committee, after consulta
tion, adopted the following resolution,
which the chairman was instructed to’
communicate to the House of Repre
sentatives by telegraph.
Unsolved, That for the efficient
prosecution of the inquiry ordered by
the House this committee communi
cate to the House for its consideration
the refusal of E. W. Barnes to pro
duce before the committee telegrams
referred to in the subpoena duces tecum
served upon him December 13th, 1876,
his refusal being in contempt of the
House of Representatives.
Intimidation of Colored Democrats.
George Johnson, colored, who testi
fied a few days ago before the commit
tee, was recalled, and stated he had
since been assaulted by Southern Re
publicans. He knows other witnesses
who fear violence if they testify.
John Young, of DeSoto testified he
heard State Senator Dave Young, Re
publican, say before the election that
Nicholls would be counted out, even if
elected. He knew of intimidation by
Republicans of negroes who intended
to vote the Democratic ticket. In
some cases they had protection from
the Conservatives.
Cross-examination : We pledged our
selves to protect the negroes who de
sired to vote the Democratic ticket,
even with our lives ; had no organiza
tion or society organized for that pur
pose.
Gov. Wells Declines to State Why he
“ Bull-Dozed ” Certain Parishes—
The Investigating Committee.
Governor Wells stated in conversa
tion this evening that he should de
cline to answer questions as to the
reasons for throwing out the votes of
any poll or parish.
The Senate investigating committee
met in the Custom House to-day. Mr.
Howe, the chairman, announced that
only live members of each party, to act
as counsel, aud members of the press,
would be admitted at the sessions of
the committee. He also said the coun
sel for the Democrats desired to sub
mit a written statement of their objec
tions to the action of the Returning
Board. He thought it would greatly
tuiilitate thb business of the commit
tee. He wished the documents to be
brief, and to be submitted us early as
possible.
Judge Campbell desired to file a
counter statement and was accorded
that privilege. The chairman said it
was desired to procure tabulated state
ments of votes as returned to the
board. There were none of the Demo
cratic cuunsel present. The committee
discussed the best mode of obtaining
a full statement of the votes returned.
It was urged by Democratic members
that a copy should be procured, not
ouly of the supervisors’ tabulated
statement, but also of the commission
ers of election returns to the super
visors, in order that it might be cletrly
seen what polls were thrown out by
the board.
Gov. Wells, President of the Return
ing Board, was called in to give some
information on the subject. He said
he would furnish the committee with
the required statements of votes polled
and the votes excluded, but as the
Board was busy preparing its repoitto
the Legislature, the clerks would not
have time to make copies. The chair
man sai l that six stenographers of the
committee would do the work. The
committee then adjourned until 11 a.
at. tomorrow 7 . Witnesses have been
summoned to testify in the case of East
Baton Rouge.
Criqaes and Casualties.
New Haven, Conn., December 17.
7wo Italians were arrebted here last
eight for passing counterfeit ten dol
■ar bills on the Lafayette National
Bank, of Lafayette, Indiana. The
third of the gang, an American, was
captured to-day.
Providence, December 17.—The
and kiln house at Pondac,
belonging to B. B. & R. Knight & Cos.,
We re destroyed by fire yesterday
morning. The loss is between $150,000
and 8200,000. The insurance is $103,-
000.
(Yrrolton, Ohio. December 17.
bhe paper mill of Friend & Cos., with
the surrounding buildings, have been
burnt, with a loss of SBO,OOO.
New Yoke, December 17.—The ship
Montrose from Gibraltar for this port,
"ant ashore on Montauk Point Satur
day morning. Two men were drowned.
The ship J. P. Wheeler is still ashore
°h Governor’s Island.
Minor Telegrams.
Cairo, 111., December 18.—Naviga
u°a is suspended in both rivers above
Cairo. The ice is so heavy that fears
are entertained of a gorge below. The
w eather is clear and cold, the mercury
registering 7 degrees above zero at
flight.
Liberty, Ind., December 18.—The
Lefts’ printing office and Union Bank
burned. Loss 815,000.
Omaha, December 18. — Seven car
oads of silk worm eggs, valued at
million dollars, passed Eastward.
New York, December 18. —An Inch
a half of snow followed by rain,
JJ-g as it fell. Locomotion is diffl-
% SUpsiq Constitutionalist,
FROM WASHINGTON.
CONGRESS STILL AT LOGGER
HEADS.
No Christmas Holiday for the Solons
of the “Effete
Monarchies of Europe” Laughing at
American Rotten Republicanism.
likrif Dscember 17.-II seems
tbat Congress will omit the usual
holiday vacation. No real progress has
Pro • i mst ? e , toward a solution of the
Presidenua l question. Each party is
fortifying itself with facts and prece
?nr nt fh and ’ lfc ia ! utia oated, with arms,
tor the irrepressible conflict, over the
S mp rn < \ n u hat the Houae has no
right which the Senate is bound to
respect The course of evente is
watched with much interest by the ren
resentatives of foreign powers, whose
sneers are becoming quite lavish.
Morton Speaks a Piece- More Troops
—Orton Requested to Disgorge.
The Star publishes the following:
Senator Morton was interviewed by a
reporter of the Star this afternoon in
regard to the political situation. He
said he went to Indiana to attend to
private business. Occupying the posi
tion he does as a Senator and as chair
man of a committee to investigate im
portant subjects connected with the
Presidential question, he does not deem
it proper at this time to express him
self fully in regard to the club organi
zations in the West. He says there is
a great deal of bluster and a great
many threats among the Indiana Dem
ocrats, but he believes it to be solely
for the purpose of intimidating the
Republicans. He does not regard the
movement as a formidable one, nor
does he believe anvthing very serious
will grow out of it.'
The Solicitor or the Treasury de
cides the 3.60 District bouds not liable
to taxation.
Battery G, Second Artillery, has come
from Fort Sill.
A personal subpoena was served on
President Orton to-day to appear at
New Orleans on the 20th with dis
patches.
Nomination—James Peacock, post
master at Gallatin, Tenn.
Supreme Court—Debarry and others
vs. the Collector of the Port of New
York. In this case the court affirms
the judgment of the Circuit Court,
holding that under the statute the duty
upon champagne in bottles is six dol
lars per dozen for the wine and thirty
six cents per dozen for the bottles, in
addition to the specific tax on the
wine.
Proceeding's in the Senate and House.
Ia the Senate during the morning
hour Mr. Edmunds, of Vt., called up a
resolution submitted by him on Friday
last, referring to a message of the
House of Representatives in regard to
devising means to count and declare
the electoral vote, to select a committee
of seven Senators to act with the com
mittee appointed by the House. It was
agreed to by a unauimous vote without
discussion. The chair was authorized
to appoint a special committee.
Mr. Wright, of lowa, introduced a
bill to establish a court for the trial of
contested elections in the offices of
President and Vice President of the
United States, and at his request it
was ordered that it be printed and lie
upon the table.
In introducing the bill he said he
had prepared it without consultation
with anyone, but was not committed to
its terms and would be glad to have
suggestions in regard to it from other
Senators. He believed a law could be
passed to settle all our present diffi
culties. He relied upon the common
sense of the people or this country and
believed patriotic love of legal methods
would prevail.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, submitted
a joint resolution providing that when
the two Houses of Congress adjourn
on Friday, the 22d inst., it be to meet
on Wednesday, July 3d, 1877. Ordered
to be printed and lie on the table.
The Judiciary Committee of the
House appointed a sub-committee to
report upon the demand for telepraphic
dispatches, and to devise some rule of
procedure to govern the call from New
Orleans and other cases which may fol
low. It is understood that in anticipa
tion of calls of this kind all political
correspondence has been compiled and
verified in the confidential office of the
Western Union, and is ready for pro
duction, should the demand be pressed
to compulsion. It seems likely that
both parties will agree to respect the
sanctity of telegraphic correspondence.
President Orth is here.
The dispatch from Washington to
the New York Tribune, telegraphed
this morning, may be accepted abso
lutely as the utterance of the Presi
dent.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections examined the questioned
New Jersey elector. Twenty-five years
ago he had been a commissioner, but
had exercised none of the functions of
the office since that year.
Senator Morton has returned from
the West.
In the House, Knott introduced a
bill prescribing the method of count
ing the electoral votes Jor President
and Vice-President. Referred to a se
lect committee on the subject.
Garfield presented a telegram received
by him from Hurlbut, of Illinois, mem
ber of the Louisiana select committee
stating that a dispatch from Morrison,
its Chairman, to Speaker Randall,Jwas
without knowledge or consent of the
committee. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
A resolution offered by Warren, of
Massachusetts, to inquire into the ac
tion of Judge Bond, of the United
States Circuit Court, ia discharging
persons held in custody under order of
the Supreme Court of South Carolina,
waited for want of two-thirds—l3B to
75.
A resolution offered by Banning, of
Ohio, calling for Gen. Sheridan’s report
on the removal of Gov. Wells, of Lou
isiana, in 1867 failed in like manner
A resolution offered by Hunter, of Il
linois, instructing the J udiciary Com
mittee to report an amendment to the
constitution forbidding the payment of
war claims to disloyal persons was
adopted. Yeas 150, nays 53.
A resolution offered by Frye, of
Maine, for a committee of inquiry into
the election in the Sixth Congressional
district of Mississippi and Fourth Ala
bama also failed.
Senator Key’s Speech.
Mr. Mitchell’s Oregon resolution was
resumed. ,
Mr. Key, of Tennessee, read a
lengthy argument in which he reviewed
the Oregon case and said he did not
question the motives of the Governor
of Oregon. Had he (Key) beerf in his
place he would have held that there
was a vacancy on account of the inel
igibility of Watts, and would then have
filled that vacancy so as to carry out
the wishes of the majority
of the people. He then re
ferred to the condition of affairs in
South Carolina and Louisiana, and
argued that the wiil of the majority of
the people of those States had been re
versed by the action of the Returning
Boards. He referred to the argument
of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Sher
maD), to the effect that the decision of
the Louisiana Returning Board was
supreme and must be respected by the
Senate, the same as a decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
and said if the decision of that board was
supreme in Louisiana, the decision
of Gov. Grover must be supreme In
Oregon. He (Mr. Key) didn’t admit
that these decisions were final, and ar
gued that Congress had the right to go
behind them. The acts of these Re
turning Boards were not clothed with
such sanctity that Congress could not
peep behind them. He then referred
to the case of Eliza Pinkston in Louis
iana, and denied that auy white men
were engaged in the outrages upon
her. He could assure Lis friend from ,
Ohio (Mr. Sherman) that there was nut I
such a large number of savages among
the white people of the South as the
testimony before the Louisiana Re
turning Board would lead him to be
lieve. Laid aside.
The Senate then took up the report
of the Committee on Rules and ordered
it printed. Adjourned.
A Congressional inquiry is progress
ing why printing revenue stamps has
been transferred from the Printing
Bureau to the Bank Note companies.
A big lobby has been at work.
Senator Wright’s Bill in Relation to
Contested Presidential Elections.
The bill introduced by Senator
Wright, to establish a court for the
trial of contested Presidential Elections,
provides that the election of any one
declared elected to the office cf Presi
dent or Vice-President of the United
States may be contested by any eligible
person who received votes for the office
contested. Notice of intention to con
test must be filed with the Secretary of
State in Washington within ten days
after the declaration of the elec
tion, accompanied by a sworn
statement of the causes of con
test. Whereupon the papers shall
be delivered to the Chier Justice of
the United States Supreme Court,
whose duty it shall then be to appoint
a day, not more than ten days there
after, for the person declared elected to
appear and answer the claim of the
contestant. The court for the trial of
such contested elections shall consist
of the .said Chief Justice and of
six United States Circuit or District
Judges, to be selected by him from the
different political parties, and who shall
not be interviewed on the particular
contest, in any manner related to
the persons involved. This court is to
hold its meetings in Washington, a ma
jority of its members constituting a
quorum. If the office of Chief Justice
is vacaut, or if from any cause he is
incompetent to act, the Senior Justice
of the Supreme Court shall perform
the duties above specified. Before en
tering upon the trial of the contest
the said Chief Justice and Judges
are to take a special oath
that they will most faithfully and
impartially discharge the duties thus
specially devolved upon them, aud that
they will decide aud determine all
questions submitted to them according
to law trad the very right of the mat
ter, without regard to technical errors,
defects, omissions or irregularities.
The court is to have the same or like
powers in the exercise of its jurisdic
tion,!aud the enforcement of its orders
and judgments as are now vested in
the Supreme Court in regard to the
latter’s jurisdictiou, &c.
The bill provides that the proposed
court, in their adjudications and deter
minations, shall at all times be gov
erned by the very right of the matter,
according to the law and the testi
mony, and they shall disregard all
technical errors, omissions or other
matters on the part of those engaged
in certifying the elections in the several
States, and of the electors in casting
their votes, or iu any manner con
nected with such elections, having at all
times, however, due regard to the forms
of law and the ascertainment of the
will and true vote of the people at such
elections. The person whom the ma
jority of the court shall thus find to be
President or Vice-President, as the
case may be, shall be entitled to such
office, and said court shall have full
power and authority to carry into
effect and enforce its judgment by any
and all needful process. In case it
shall not appear that any person has
been lawfully elected, said court shall
so declare and adjudge, and iu all cases
they shall certify their judgment to the
two Houses of Congress.
The bill next provides that any party
to such contest, feeling aggrieved by
the judgment, may within six days af
ter its rendition appeal therefrom to
the Supreme Court, but such appeal
shall not, however, operate to stay the
execution of the judgment appealed
from without the special order therefor
made by the court rendering such
judgment. The record and the case
shall be immediately filed in the Su
preme Court and take precedence of
ail other business. The Supreme Court
must then at once proceed to deter
mine the same upon the record and
case so presented, and shall have
full power to carry its judgment
Into effect without a remand.
New Form of Receipt for Electoral
Votes.
The President of the Senate has
adopted anew form of receipt for
electoral votes, as delivered by the mes
sengers of the several States. The fol
lowing is the form of the receipt now
given:
“The Vice President in the chamber
of the Senate of the United States, at
Washington, received of-, claim
ing to be a messenger to deliver the
same, a sealed package purporting to
contain a certificate of the vote given
for President and Vice President of the
United States by the electors of the
State of , alleged to have been
elected November 7th, 1876.
[Signed] T. W. Ferry,
President pro tern. U. S. S.
Messrs. Hurd, Lynde and McCrary
compose the sub-committee of the Ju
diciary Committee to report proper ac
tion to meet the situation at New Or
leans regarding telepraphic dispatches
and abuse of witnesses.
Wm. B. Moore has been appointed
Supervising Special Agent of the Trea
sury.
Supreme Court—Brant vs. the Vir
ginia Coal and Iron Company, District
of West Virginia. In this case there
is no estoppel, and it is ordered re
opened.
Morton’s visit to Indiana was on pri
vate business personal to himself.
The New York Central Railroad com
pany is paying its laborers ninety cents
a day.
AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 187(5.
GRANT AGAIN
HE SPEAKS ANOTHER PIECE.
What He Know* and What He In
tends Doing—A Fair Warning to
Whom it May Concern.
New York, December 18.—A Wash
ington dispatch to the Tribune says the
President, in conversation with a friend
this afternoon, said that thus far he
had received no official information of
any unlawful movement in Indiana or
elsewhere. He has seen occasional
reference in newspapers to political ag
itations in certain sections of the coun
try and has received information to
that effect from other unofficial sources.
The administration, he said, is not in
sensible to the necessity of vigilance—
whether these reports are true or false.
With reference to the Indiana excite
ment the President thinks that should
1 it spread the loyal sentiment of a
uidjority of the people of that
' State aud of the whole country
will have influence enough to prevent
any outbreak. The President further
said that it is gratifying to observe the
conservative spirit shown by many of
the Southern leaders. He feels assured
that the same disposition will ulti
mately prevail all over the land. He
believes that the men who are now
disposed to incite civil war are only
those who have everything to gain and
nothing to lose in the event of such a
national calamity. If the emergency
does arise, the President said he should
not hesitate to execute his constitu
tional authority. Whoever is formally
declared by the President of the Senate
to have been elected will be recognized
by General Grant. To that per
son will he surrender the reins
of authority. It is not his de
sire to foice upon the people any
particular person, but he will see tbat
the person declared to be elected as his
successor is placed in possession of the
government. He is not judge of the
eleetion. When that question is deter
mined his duty will be plain. General
Grant said that before and since the
election he had used his executive
power only for the enforcement of the
laws and preservation of peace, and
such an exercise of powers conferred
upon him he will continue until the
last moment of his responsibility. He
does not think that a government
which has withstood the shock • of
nearly four years’ battle will now fall
before the clamor of a mob. The
power of the President to call out the
militia of the States in event of
any attempt to resisist the inauguration
of a President legally declared
to be elected is one which Gen. Grant
will not hesitate to use, should anv oc
casion arise. He said that it was’ his
recollection that during the riots in
New York in 1863 a portion of the Na
tional Guard of the Empire State was
called out by direct authority of the
President aud co-operated with regular
United States troops in the suppres
sion of the disturbance.
FLORIDA.
Judge Cocke Makes a Statement.
Tallahassee, December 17.—Judge
Cocke, of the Canvassing Board, au
thorizes the statement that the official
minutes of the Canvassing Board, pub
lished over the signature of the Clerk
a few days since, are false in several
particulars. He complains that they
misrepresent his vote on several issues
in averring that he voted with his col
leagues when he voted directly and
emphatically against them. There is
nothing new to-day. It is said that the
Senate Committee will commence a tour
of the contested counties to-morrow.
Senator Sargent will not deny nor con
firm the report. He is very reticent.
Reporters and the Public Excluded
from the Committee’s Room.
Tallahassee, December 18.—The
Senate Committee met at noon. The
Sergeant-At-Arms excluded, under or
ders, reporters and the public. Cards
were returned with the statement that
the session was pri\ate. The House
Committee had before it eighteen
negroes, whose names were on the
poll list of Richardson’s precinct, in
Leon county, as having voted there,
who swore that they “did not vote
there, and were not at the precinct all
day. There were votes in the ballot
box to accord with these names.
The committee will summon other
witnesses to-morrow. The introduc
t ion of colored witnesses to-day and
their testimony created quite a sensa
tion.
The Supreme Court continued its
session to-day for the hearing of argu
ment iu the mandamus. The argument
will be concluded to-morrow, and the
decision announced probably on Wed
nesday.
Gen. Lew Wallace arrived to-night.
Foreign Intelligence.
Belgrade, December 18.—It is be
lieved an armistice to the first of May
is about concluded.
London, December 18.—Brent, the
Louisville forger, will be delivered to
morrow.
Caleb Cashing is here, en route to
Madrid.
Charles Dawson Tilly.
DIED DECEMBER 17TH, 1875.
The shades of death have clouded now
Ihe bright and gladsome eye—
The grave now hides the stalwart form—
He seemed so young to die.
So young! so full of youth’s proud strength,
So brave and tender, too;
The ‘bravest are the tenderest,’
Their hearts most warm and true.
The open heart, so quick to share
In others’ weal or woe,
With gentle word and kindly smile—
’lis hard that such must go!
But those who brighten here below,
And mental sunshine shed
O’er paths of others, struggling on,
Death early claims, ’tis said.
Yet this it is makes heaven so clear,
This life so little gain,
That there we find the pure, the blest—
ho parting, death, nor pain.
The gentle, loving, brave and true
Dwell in that land above,
Where naught disturbs the perfect peace,
And God Himselfjs love. W.
Macon Telegraph : From the fact that
the “Junior” Mr. A. W. Reese, who Is
now keeping us posted in the nation’s
capital as to Radical villainies and the
political situation, usually edits the
Georgia Press, sundry persons have
been disposed to credit him with utter
ances chargeable to another source.
This cannot be permitted. The ‘-mid
dle” man in the firm when at home, in
addition to other editorial duties, is re
sponsible for the paragraphs of the
State press, and when on the wing our
popular city editor, Mr. A. R. Watson,
takes his* place. Mr. Reese is
skirmishiog with the enemy at the
front and should not be fired upon on
1 the rear,
BEN HILL.
18 HE PREPARING FOR A FLOP
OVER ?
Borne Opinions of the * Press—You
Pay Your Money and Take Tour
Choice.
[Richmond Dispatch.l
There is much palaver and partisan
scandal about the South aud her
representatives, some of whom—if
what is reported to have been said by
them be correctly so reported—are no
true representatives of the South at all.
Mr. Ben Hill has been imparting his
views as one of those representatives,
whifh views do not please ua any more,
we hope, than they do anybody else at
the South. The tone of those views
is objectionable. Taking his eulogy of
Hayes in connection with his reflection
upon the Northern Democrats—wllose
bravely-fought battles the same Mr.
Hill crippled by his follies last winter
in Congress—we say, taking those into
consideration, Mr. Hill seems to be
making a soft place for himself to fall
upon ; or, more fittingly, he resembles
the bluebird in early spring—the first
of birds to line his nest with downy
material.
In the army the soldier who would
address his comrades upon the merits
of the commander of the opposing
forces, aud tell them that even if con
quered that opposing commander
would treat them with signal kindness,
and put their officers in high command
and give the captives a plenty of food,
would be regarded as anything but
brave and true. A few tuch soldiers
would blast the counsels of the truest
and most faithful.
We do not object positively to what
Is said of Mr. Hayes, but positively to
that exact thing being said by Mr. Hill.
If a wool-dyed Republican bad said it,
that would have been right. He is a
proper eulogist of a man of whom we
suppose Mr. Hill knows very little. If
he knows much he knows more than
the great body of the people of the
United States do. But there being an
abundance of eulogists of Hayes
among tbe Republican aspirants for
office under him, we regard Mr. Hill’s
voluntary evidence as superserviceable
andlsuperogatory. It was cruel for him
while saying things that were disad
vantageous to the men by whose side
he had struggled through the Presi
dential campaign that he should fall to
praising the nominee of the party he
had opposed.
For one Southern man we are not
desirous that Mr. Hill should speak for
us. He is too ready to ignore the party
outrages and the subordination of the
civil to the military power, and too
ready to overlook all the usurpations
destructive to republicanism aud civil
liberty, and to gaze with pleasure upon
tde happy scenes that he prognosti
cates as the sequel to the arbitrary
and outrageous measures that we have
all beheld with horror.
Mr. Hill Is illogical as well as prema
turely acquiescent. Is it statesman
like and logical to believe that a man
inaugurated as Hayes must be. through
fraud and force, can at once kick away
the ladder by which he ascends to
power, that ladder by which Repub
lican aspirants can alone succeed him ?
If he be disposed to do so, will his
associate leaders permit him ? Never.
The Radical party is the party of war.
Its rule has been prolonged by force.
The Southern States were cursed with
the injection of the barbarous element
into the body politic as a means of
keeping them permanently subjected
to the Republican party ; and the en
forcement measures, tho machinery of
intimidation, and the rascalities of the
carpet-bag and negro officials, sustain
ed by military authority, were invented
to continue that subjection.
Have we not seen all this and all
these employed in the pending presi
dential struggle? Have we not seen
them all employed to prolong the Radi
cal rule that can only be further pro
longed by the continued employment of
the same means? Had North Carolina,
and Georgia, and Mississippi, and
Texas, and Arkansas been needed to
elect Hayes, would they not have been
captured by the army just as the three
disputed States have been? True to
nature, the animal born of an egg will
be precisely similar to the one that laid
the egg.
Mr. Hill has done an ungraceful
thing—one that Georgia would not do—
one that no noble Southern State could j
endorse. The language he uses were
better suited to a more frigid region.
“Bless You, My Boy, Bless You!”
IN. Y. Times, Kad.]
The indiscretions of Mr. Hill in the
last session are well nigh atoned for by
the earnestness and sagacity with
which, on all occasions, he appears to
deprecate extreme propositions from
members of hiß own party, and to in
culcate a friendly acceptance of the
results involved in Mr. Hayes’s elec
tion.
A Thorn in the Flesh.
[Cinc innati Gazette, Rad.]
Mr. Benjamin Hill is now a thorn in
the Democratic flesh. It is a serious
problem to decide what to do with
him. When the recognized leader of a
State that gives 85,000 Democratic ma
jority talks about Hayes being the
man to insure the South peace and
honest government, it is high time he
was taken in hand. If this sort of
talk is to be tolerated (the Reformers
anxiously inquire,) what is to become
of the post offices ? It is a question
that strikes at the very foundation of
Constitutional Government.
A Bombshe.
Chicago Tribune (Rad.): There has
been a good deal of astonishment at
the course which Ben Hill, of Georgia,
has taken 6ince the Northern fire-eaters
of the Democratic party have begun
their bluster about forcibly resisting
the inauguration of Gov. Hayes. There
seems to be no doubt that Hill has im
proved every possible occasion to sit
down upon the amateur fire-eaters.
There was never a more scathing re
buke than that which he administered
to Fernando Wood in caucus when he
said that “Perhaps the gentleman is
not aware of the conservative influence
of a fifteen-inch shell with a fuse in
process of combustion.” The skulk
ing Copperheads of the North during
the Rebellion could not have been more
fairly hit by one whom they had be
trayed by false promises of assistance.
A General Without an Army.
[Special Dispatch to the World.l
Washington, December 15. — The
Southern members of Congress, in in
terviews to-day appear to be growing
restive under the continued misrepre
sentations of their attitude on the
Presidential question which are ap
pearing from day to day in the news
papers. The sensational and wholly in
correct report of an interview Colonel
Roberts, of New Orleans, had with
Governor Hayes, at the home of tbe
latter in Ohio, was promptly exposed
and contradicted, but it continues to
be followed by similar statements
which are equally unfounded in fact.
Some of these teports have no doubt
grown out of a recent interview with
Mr. Hill, or Georgia; but Mr. Hill does
not reflect altogether the sentiments of
his colleagues, and coukl not command
to-day a corporal’s guard of followers.
It is possible that there may be one or
two Southern members who would
concede the election of Mr. Hayes,
with the hope of gaining something
for their section by the concession, but
it would be difficult to find them. They
certainly would not represent the sen
timents of the Southern people. Nei
ther among the Southern members in
Congress or out of it is there the
slightest disposition to concede the
election of Mr. Hayes, or the faintest
desire to buy his good will by acting in
bad faith towards their Northern allies.
Looking Out for Ben.
(World Editorial.)
One of our Washington correspon
dents does justice to-day to the tem
per in which all the better class of
Southern Democrats in Congress are
dealing with the difficult and delicate
issues now before them. He plainly
shows that Mr. Ben Hill, of Georgia,
speaks for himself alone, and not for
his colleagues nor for the South, when
he favors the correspondents of West
ern Republican newspapers with the
opinion that he regards the “election of
Governor Hayes as a victory over the
ultraisms of the Republican party.”
The Southern man, or the man of any
section, who can say this in the face of
Senator Sheruiau’s Louisiana report,
would be an unaccountable creature
indeed, if it were not for the light
thrown by Hill upon Hill in th* follow
ing neat little observation, which we
take from an “interview” of his with a
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette:
“He (Hayes) will also naturally desire
the co-operation of the best men in the
South.”
Ben Hill, of Georgia, ou the Situation
and the Republican Patronage Ex
tended Him—llis Contest for the
Georgia Senatorship—A Speech from
Him Promised.
IHerald Washington Correspondence.]
Mr. Hill, ot Georgia, has been con
gratulated by most of the Southern
members in the House and many con
servative Republicans upon his opin
ions, since he has expressed himself as
he did in the interview with him pub
lished in the Herald. His attention was
called to-day to an article telegraphed
from Chicago to a journal in thisjpity,
which assumes to patronize him from’a
Republican standpoint. Referring to
it he remarked, “They must not go too
fast nor be too sure.” Some of the
Southern men, iu whose way he stands,
do not think as highly of Mr. Hill.
They say he lacks judgment. This
comes, of course, from his being an
aspirant for the Georgia Senatorship,
about which there is a lively canvass
here just now, aud which Mr. Hill ex
pects to win. The lively debate be
tween Representatives Cox and Hale in
the House to day was characterized by
Mr. Hill as being very injudicious.
“Both sides were wrong,” he said, “and
I came very near getting up and telling
them so.” He will shortly speak on the
question of the Union, and will claim
that he always was, as he is now, a
Union man and in favor of the Union.
He watches the debate intently and
with subdued nervousness.
A Compromise Proposition From the
Republican Presidential Candidate
to Southern Democratic Leaders—A
Fair Share of Otiices Offered.
IHerald Correspondence.]
Chicago, December 15.—1 tis posi
tively stated here to-day, by a gentle
man of unquestionably trustworthy
character, that a Republican leader of
great prominence iu the Western States
and who is known to maintain strictly
confidential relations with Gov. Hayes,
is now on his way to Washington, with
the sanction of the Republican Presi
dential candidate, to propose, and if
found practicable, conclude an arange
ment, in the nature of a compromise,
between the most influential members
of the Republican party and such
prominent Conservative Southern Dem
ocrats as Congressmen Lamar, of Mis
sissippi, and Ben Hill, of Georgia, on
the basis of the assent of the latter to
the unchallenged declaration of Hayes’
election and the inauguration of Hayes
as President, with the assurance of a
satisfactory division of Cabinet officers
aud other positions of honor and profit
under the Federal administration.
GEORGIA METHODISM.
Methodist Episcopal Church South-
South Georgia Conference.
(From the Savannah Morning News.)
Sandersville, Dec. 16.—The Confer
ence room w.is more crowded to-day.
The transfer of Rev. ltobt. J. Walker,
from Alabama to this Conference, was
announced.
Dr. Lovett announced the collections
for superannuates to be three thous
and one hundred and thity dollars and
eighty cents, and that the board would
settle with the claimants at sixty-sis
per cent.
Dr. Clark road the report on frater
nity, endorsing the aotion of the com
mittee at Cape May for fraternal rela
tions, eulogizing Dr. Myers and Dr.
Pierce for their service in this cause.
It was unanimously adopted.
C. T. Bickley was received into the
Conference. A. M. Wynn reported that
the Orphans’ Home, under the care of
the Conference, was out of debt and
prosperous.
There were four clerical and three
local preachers elected to elders’ orders.
Den Dis O’Driscoll, suspended last
June, was to-day deposed from the
ministry and expelled frou} the etiurch.
Dr. Boring, an exponent of Western
Methodism, was introduced.
Talbottoq was selected for the place
to hold the next Conference.
The memorial service in memory of
Dr. E. H. Meyers was held. A memoir
was read by Dr. W. C. Bass, and ad
dresses were delivered by J. W. Talley,
G- G. > T . MacDonell, A. M. Wynn, A. G.
Hagood and W. J. Green.
—►■♦'—m
Said Daniel Webster: "Through all
the history of the contest for liberty,
executive power has been regarded as
a .lion which must be caged. So far
from being the object of enlightened
public trust—so far from being con-
Isidered the natural protector of popu
lar right—it has been dreaded as the
great source of its danger.” The sooner
that lion is caged the better.
WHAT NEXT l
A PARTY WAITING FOR THE
WORD.
The Republican Line of Battle—The
Democracy No Longer on the De
fensive— Necessity for an Aggres
sive Movement.
[Correspondent of the Philadelphia Times.|
Washington. December 14.
The one question on ail lips at the
Capital Is, “ What next?” On the floors
of Congress, in the lobbies, at the ho
tels, In the departments— everywhere,
in fact, but at the White House—there
is manifest uneasiness as of the future,
tinged with a vague apprehension of
possibilities which nobody is quite
willing as yet to admit are possibilities.
The leaders of either party watch the
leaders of the other with a vigi
lance which is the best evidence that
neither is quite sure of its ground and
that neither feels that it can afford to
lose a single point in the game. Both
try to maintain an air of confidence,
but in truth both are panicky. A runa
way horse or a stray shot from an un
expected quarter has caused the rout
and stampede of an army. An event
of no greater moment, comparatively,
may cause the blustering Chandler and
the wily Cameron to turn tail when
least expected or throw the leaderless
Democratic column into hopeless re
treat. To change the figure, a great
game of bluff is berng played in Wash
ington. Witness the Hewitt and Chan
dler proclamations this morniDg. Both
hands are strong, neither is as strong
as the holders would have it appear.
Pluck will win.
MORALE OF THE REPUBLICANS.
It must be ooofessed that the morale
of the Republicans is better than that
of the Democrats. So far they present
a solid front. So far (more shame to !
them !) no Republicans in either House
of Cougress have raised their voices in
denunciation of the fiauds which all
in whispers admit, and which they
are expected to shoulder at the com
mand of the Minister of War or his oo
adjutor of the Interior. Pitiful is the
eagerness with which some of the
weak brethren grope about in search
of means to stimulate their feeble
faith in the justice of their cause
“Don’t you think we will be able to
make out a fair case of intimidation
in Louisiana?” “Was not the course of
the Returning Board in accordance
with law?” “Is not there a terrible
state of affairs in the bulidozed
parishes?” “The House committee
won’t accomplish anything; will they?”
These are the sort of leading ques
tions propounded to the returning
visitor to Kellogg’s dominions by well
meaning Republican Congressmen, and
they but too plainly reveal the sore
perplexity of the mind of the querists.
A Republican with a moderately sen
sitive conscience and a mind of his
own has but to apeak his sentiments in
defiance of the conspirators, and he
will not lack a following formidable
enough to compel both parties to think
Jess of party and more of country. Is
there such a man in either branch of
Congress ? There may be, but at pres
ent he is not visible to the naked eye.
Rumor, however, points to a few in the
Senate who are not quite prepared to
follow Sherman and Cameron to the |
brink of the precipice. I need not say
that the men whose credentials are a
carpet-bag or a bar of silver are not of
this number. But Conkling, Morton,
Edmunds and Howe have yet to define
their position, and there are those in
either House who will follow in their
wake. The conspiracy has been ma
turely considered and is being ad
vanced with tireless zeal by its pro
jectors, but it cannot succeed without
the hearty co-operation of these men. .
I am not prepared to say that they
will give it, although the party still
presents an unbroken front. The real
leaders—for want of better men to
claim the honor—issue their commands,
and although the rank and file may not
relish suh leadership they do not re
fuse to obey.
DEMOCRATIC MISTAKES AND NECESSITIES.
The Democrats have beeu beaten o j
often that now that victory is almost
within their grasp they cannot believe
in it. What they laok is not confidence
in the justice of their oause, but some
degree of assurance of suocess. Their
danger is the sullen acceptance of a
fate which is inevitable only in their
imagination. They believe that Tilden
is eleoted, and know that the whole
country believes it, but at the first
angry puff of Grant’s cigar they are
ready to lay down their arms. With
all their oontempt for the oeeupant of
the White House, they have unbounded
faith in his ability to make him
self master of any given situa
tion in which brute force or
brazen disregard of legal methods
can be made effective. They think
that Grant and the Shermans and the
Camerous propose to inaugurate Hayes
right or wrong, and in this they are
not far out of the way. All would pre
vent it if they could, but Grant’s sword
seems stretched across every road
which they essay to follow. Again,
there is a conflict of methods in the
party. The campaign has begun, and
every general in the Democratic army
has his own ids** as to now It ought to j
be fought, and thus far nobody in ,
whose ability and pluck all may trust j
has assumed command. Tilden’s poll
cy has been that of repression. The J
word haa passed r.long the line > “R*
quiet, aud bide your ttnae, ,, Tbe in-1
junction may be wisdom itself, but it is
anything but surprising, Enthusiasm
has been deadened ; hope flickers in its
socket. From the IQth of November
until this day, tbe Democrats have
been gradually drifting towards
that defensive position, which will
be found a most dangerous auchorage.
Some strong hand should grasp the
helm, and that quickly, or the vessel
will never sight the haven which but
yesterday it seemed to be entering, A,n
aggressive leadership is needed* a well
defined and firmly policy
should be opposed to ’the carefully
planned conspiracy' confided to hands
which know do faltering. Who Is the !
leader ’ What is the auiicy l These
are the that th,e ablest meu
m the party ®ow to revolve id
their minds. That they are asked is
evidence that there is a' dawning real- .
ization of the of the case.
You need QQt be surprised if another
week should show a forward movement
all along the Democratic lines. Then
law-abiding men, who wish to see the
execution of the will of the people, as
expressed at the polls, may take cour
age, and reoruits will begin to rally
around the Democratic standard. But
recruits never swell the ranks of an
army either in retreat or fetuck fpst
behind breastworks Whose strength
A FORWARD MOVKAJRXT TROHAyLK.
The offiy aggressive step that has
beep taken by tbe Democrats since the
election has apparently received the
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
approval of the country. The eleva
tion of Mr. Randall to the Speakership
was by many considered of doubtful
propriety, but it is but just to Mr. Ran
dall to say that nearly every man in
his party now thinks he is the right
man in the right place. He is business
like, ever alert, full of pluck, fair, but
true to his own convictions. I believe,
with many others, that his choice of
the ground of battie in counting the
electoral vote was uuwise, but he has
succeeded in winning every Democratic
l member of the House to bis own \ iew
of the case. There is reason to believe
that this ground must be abandoned
for the safer one of constitutional
requirement chosen by the Demo
cratic Senators, but the very
stubbortiaess with which it will be
held for awhile will get the House into
excellent discipline and good fighting
condition. In other respects Randall’s
policy is likely to become the policy of
the party when it comes down to real
work. He will insist that Tilden is
legally elected and must be inaugura
ted; that if the Senate stultifies itself
by abnegating its own right and those
of the House in favor of the Presi
dent of the Senate the House shall not
be a party to such subversion of the
Constitution; that Louisiana and
Florida shall be counted as they voted
or not at all; that in default of an elee
tion in the usual way the House shall
assume the responsibility imposed
upon it by the Constitution; that the
President elected shall be inaugurated
and claim his rights, with tbe
House of Representative at his hack*
and that this body shall not ap
propriate money for’or in any way rec
ognize any other President.. This pol
icy may not be wise io all its details
but Rindal! came to Caucus the other
uight fiesh iron* Tiidec’s presence and
foreshadowed it iu a stirring speech
whose eii-qui uce astounded those who'
never btfote saw him iu fighting trim
and which seemed to ail who heard it
the first flash of the genius of leader
ship that, has gladdened Democratic
hearts for many a day. This speech,
did not get into print, but it is leaven
ing the lump. The Congressional
Committee of advice and supervision is
iu line with tbe Speaker, and word
came from New York last night that left
no reason to doubt that tbe Speaker and
the Presidc-nt-eiect stand on tbfc same
platform. Unless all signs fail, it can
not much longer be said that the Dem
ocrats are a party without a policy
M. P. H.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Dr. Johu Eugliab, an esteemed and
respected citizen of Columbia, died on
Tuesday night in the sixty-third year
of his age.
Mr. W. H. Peake, and Mr. James
Wideman, of Long Cane, had a difficul
ty a few days ago, iu which the former
shot the latter in the thigh.
James Brennen, Esq., was yeeterdav
appointed by Judge Bond in the Cir
cuit Court, shipping commissioner for
the port of Charleston, and will enter
upon his important duties in a few
days.
There are now in Abbeville jail nine
prisoners, all negroes, seven of whom
are committed for murder, four for the
murder of Riley near Greenwood, and
three for the murder or Alien at
Lowndesville.
The semi-annual meeting of the
State Council Friends of Temperance
wiil be held in the Town of Darling
ton on Monday, the 18th inst., at 2:30
P. M. Delegates will be passed over thu
various railroads for one fare.
The stores of Captain A. C. Cau gh
raan and Messrs. Ryzer & SoaV, of
Lexington, were robbed Monday night
On Friday evening a horse stolen
from the public rack, and tb.s people of
Lexington are organizing against the
band of robbers.
The following arq the officers elect
for Mackey Lodge, No. 77, A. F. M.: J.
H ; Hammer, W, Iff.; W. S. Alford, S.
W.; J. S. Bethea, J. W.; H. Manning,
treaa.; D. E. McOormac, sec. There
will be a public installation on St.
John’s Day, Dec. 27th, and J. M. John
son, Esq., will deliver an address. The
Iratermty are cordially invited.
The annual meeting of the Camper
down Mills, Greenville, washeld Decem
ber 13 The operation of the mill has
been a perfect success and given great
satisfaction to the stockholders, who
draw a dividend on the first six months
of business. The suprintendence of
the mill is in the hands of Messrs.
Sampton, Hull & Cos., and it is an object
of pride to the citizens of Greenville.
Wm. Frederick, a colored man of
Timmonavihe, S. C., shot and killed a
chicken thief who was {depredating on
his stock. The body was identified a*>
that of Edgar Jackson, a former color
ed penitentiary bird.
The inauguration of Hampton, and
the formal declaration of the highest
judicial authority in the State of his
election as Governor, includes also as
the Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel W.
D. Simpson, than whom a purer patriot'
and abler man could not he found at
this juncture. Of his qualifications
for the high position to which he has
been chosen, it ia unnecessary to speak.
He will soou be called to display them
iu a political arena which .will demand
the rarest judgment, courage, and
taot. Having subscribed to the oath
of office, he will soon enter upon his.
functions as President of the Senate
and by his wise counsels and Ujgal
aoumen, will materially aid the Gover
nor in the restoration of law. order
and good Government. Gleavea’ term
expired at ten o’clock yesterday, and
Lieutenant-Governor Simpson is’ now
the acknowledged President of that
body. Should the military authorities
at Columbia prevent his entrance into
the Senate Cnamber, he will effect an
organisation 0 f thq Senate elsewhere,
*nd, receive the recognition of all these
who respect the law and obey its obli
gationof Commerce.
John A. Crawford, Esq., an old citi
zen of Columbia, but a native of the
County of Antrim, Ireland, departed
this Ufa at noou, on Sunday, in the 821
i ywar o* his age, after an illness of a
lew days, of pneumonia. He bad been
■ a resident of Oolumbia for fully sixty
years, and had filled many import; to:
, trusts—member of the Legislature
President of the Branch of the Rank of
the State, etc.
, On Friday night two negroes,
living on Mr. Job a h. Stokes’ place,
six miles south of Lumpkin, got into a
ht abou* a negro woman, when one
J°‘ them shot the other with a shot
* Suh, Inflicting a painful but not a fatal
\ wound. The wounded negro was ad
vancing on the other with an axe,
when he received the contents of the
gun. The genial coroner has his
weather eye peeled in that direction,
and is ready to wait on him as soon as
| he hears of his death.