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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.