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CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings of the Senate and House
Yesterday.
Washington, December 2L-*ln the
Senate, the resolution offered by Mr
Anthony. providing that when the
Seaite adjourns, on Friday, the 22d
instiut, it be to meet Tuesday, 26th
instint ; and unless otherwise then or
dered, when it adjourns on the 26th, it
be to meet on the 29th instant; and
that unless otherwise then ordered
when it adjourns on the 29th instant, it
be to meet on Tuesday, January 2d,
1877, which led to a lengthy discussion!
the House had again before it to
day the question of tberiffht of Invest
igating Committees to compel the pro
duction by telegraph companies of dis
patches passing through their offices.
The question was presented in the
sbepe of a telegraphic report from the
Chairman of the Investigating Com
niictee transmitting a copy of the rec
ord of the committee in the oase of
Mr. E. W. Barnes, New Orleans, Man
ager of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, who refused to produce dis
patches demanded by the committee.
After discussion, a resolution was
adopted, directing the issue of the
Speaker’s warrant for the arrest of
Barnes, and bringing him before the
bar of the House for contempt.
The charge made yesterday by
Hewitt, of New York, that his corres
pondence had been tampered with in
the New York Post-office, was made
the ground work for another investiga
tion, which is to bo made by the select
committee now investigating election
frauds iu New York.
In the Senate, Mr. Sherman, Chair
man of the Finance Committee, said
the Dili passed by the House making
the silver dollar, or standard weight, a
legal tender, should be taken up soon
after the holidays.
Mitchell’s Oregon resolution was re
sumed. No action.
The Chair announced as the special
committee of the Senate, authorized
by the resolution of Mr. Edmonds, to
act with a special committee of the
11' use iu preparing a measure best cal
culated to accomplish the law for the
counting of the electoral votes, Messrs.
Edmunds, of Vermont; Morton, of In
diana ; Frelioghuysen, of New Jersey ;
Logan, of Illinois ; Thurman, of Ohio ;
Bayard, of Delaware, and Raosom, or
North Carolina.
On motion of Mr. Davis, of West
Virginia, at 2:40 p. in., business was
suspended, that the Senate might pay
its tribute of respect to the memory of
the late Senator Caperton, of West
Virginia. Appropriate remarks were
made by Messrs. Davis, Wright, With
ers, Edmunds, Bayard, Booth and
Price, and as a further mark of re
spect to the memory of the deceased
the Senate adjourned.
The Pacific Railroad Committee, after
referring the sub-committee’s proposi
tions before it, consisting of Atkins,
Lamar, O’Neal, Luttrell and Garfield,
adjourned to January 4th.
The Committee on Foreign Relations
of the House appointed a sub-commit
tee to make proper arrangements for
the reception of the Centennial ad
dress of the Irish people to the Presi
dent of die Uuiied Status. It will be
remembered this lay iu the lumber
room of the White House some time
because the manner of its presentation
to the President was not in accordance
with court etiquette. J. O’Counor
Power read the ud dices before the
committee this a. m.
A House special committee of five
was appointed to investigate the New
York post office on the charge of tam
pering with the mails. The motion
came from the Republican side.
NEW YORK ITEMS.
Tug Explosion—Railroad Ruptures—
" Build iz ,‘d” Precincts—Postmaster
Janes Wants to be Investigated—
Marine Intelligence, Etc.
New York, December 21. — The trans
fer tug Xaffie exploded while racing to
reach an incoming bark to secure a
tow. m
At a meeting of Trunk Lines, repre
sentatives of the Grand Trunk refused
to vote on a question of through
freight, under instructions not to act
unless passenger and live stock rates
were included iu the compromise. The
whole matter is open, and u rupture is
probable.
The.steamship Hadje arrived through
Hell Gate.
Evidence before tbo Congressional
Committee of Investigation swear to a
marvellous increased registration and
vote in several precincts, but don’t
know how it was done. Tfcey gener
ally attribute) it to colonization and
naturalization.
Postmaster Janes demands an in
vestigation of the charge made by
Hewitt in the House that his mail was
tampered with in the New York office.
The steamship Rhein, which arrived
at this port yesterday after a voyage
of live days from Southampton, en
countered the most coutiuu ms bad
weather of which the officers ever had
any experience. December Bth, one
of the passengers was tossed clear
over the breakfast table from one side
or the saloon to the other, but for
tunately was not hurt.
UOY. HENDRICKS.
He Denies that the Jauuary Conven
tion is for the Purpose of Resist
ance to Authority.
Indianapolis, December 21. —The
Journal publishes an interview with
Governor Hendricks, iu which he is
quoted that tiie purpose, of calling the
Convention for the Bth of January was
not for the purpose, as is supposed, of
making any threats, or of organizing
auy resistance to authority, but for the
Purpose of making a public expression
at the threatened invasion of popular
Hghts, and of giving the House of Rep
resentatives an assurance of support
hi tiro exercise of itfc Constitutional
ri olHs and prerogatives. There is no
Purpose, go tar as I am ruformeJ, of
going further.
—• ■
Minor Telegrams.
Tallahassee, December 21. —The Su
preme Court adjourned yesterday with
°ut reaching a judgment on tho man
damus.
Little Rock, December 21. —Another
ure broke out here this evening. Seve
ful buildings were burned. Probable
los *, $ 100,000.
Baltimore, December 21. —Captain
Davis reports terrible suffering among
ma crews and vessels that sought
f '-f uge in Magothy river during the late
storm.
Ibe Macon Library, under the man
agement of our friend Charlie Herbst,
and on the high road to prosper!ty.
-there is no man in the wide world bet
suited to bring out a library than
ffljt Ciuijustn Constitutionalist
foreign news.
Patrizi-s Successor-No More Cipher
“ S^SCl^ a fOI ‘ Caba_ Severe Weath
er—The Eastern Question, Etc.
Rome. December 21“—The Pope has
appointed Cardinal Rafaele La VaL
. to cceed . the late Cardinal
Patrizi as Dean of the Sacred College
Havana, December 21.—A decree
If P^. !stl ? and iQ the Gazette to-dav. It
prohibits im mediately the usd of cipher
ooies and ciphers in dispatches from
and to the island of Cuba, even for
the press. The reason given for this
-Tr. ° rder , - is ttlat P e oas Have
used ciphers which apparently cbn
tained commercial intelligence, but
really gave political information
London, December 21.—A severe gale
accompanied by torrents of rain, pre
vailed throughout the United King
dom on Tuesday and Wednesday night.
TH 6 gale was particularly violent on
the Scotch coast, where marine disas
ters are apprehended.
The Times in its leading editorial
"-fHn Plenipotentiaries have con
cluded the most difficult part of their
task, by agreeing that some kind of oc
cupation is necessary. Midhat Pasha
must soon pronounce hia decision on
their proposals. We fear the Turkish
Mmisters are inclined to the hazard of
absolute resistance. They seem to think
they can foil the conference by plunging
Europe into a tremendous war.”
lhe Fall Mall Gazette, this afternoon,
in a leading article, says : “If peace’
or war depends upon tho acceptance of
a proposal to garrison the European
provinces of Turkey with Belgian or
any other foreign soldiery, at the
orders Of a foreign State, there will be
no peace. Our conviction is that the
Sultan will refuse even to discuss the
scheme. There are abundant reasons
for believing that the Porto means to
make a stand at any proposal of occu
pation whatever, uuder any disguise
whatever. ‘Come and take what you
ask for,’ will be the Turkish reply to
the Russians. We ourselves, it is to
be hoped, would not hesitate a moment
in such a situation. Why should we
suppose that a determination, which
would seem natural to us, is out of the
question with a warlike and fanatical
race like tho Musselmans? The whole
idea is a delusion, as time, we fear, will
but too shortly show. We have no
doubt that, even if England formally
withdraws all support from Turkey,
yet if foreign occupation is put forward
as an ultimatum, the Turks will fight.”
London, December 21. — A dispatch
from Constantinople to Reuter’s Tele
gram Company, says the Preliminary
Conference held its last sitting yeater- ‘
day. Plenipotentiaries have agreed to j
formulate their proposals iu terms ac- j
ceptable to all parties. It is stated j
that the Plenary Conference will meet
on Saturday next. The Turkish Con
stitution is to be promulgated imme
diately. The nomination of Midhat
Pasha to the Grand Vizierate has been
very well received, and it is believed
will hasten a solution of all difficulties.
Belgrade, December 21.—Prince Mi
lan has accepted the resignation of the
Ministry. The Ministers will remain in
office peudiog the formation of anew
Cabinet.
Miscellauv.
London, December 21. — A Copenha
gen correspondent says the entire Cab
inet will be summoned before the Su
preme Court for dissolving the Cham
ber and providing for expenses by
royal audiences.
St.Peteksburg, December 21 — Eleven
women and twenty-one men, students
at the School of Medicine and Techno
logical Institute, were arrested for
shouting liberty and unfurling a red
; flag, bearing the inscription, “Union
and Liberty.” at a service in the Kas
! san Ohufch.
Versailles, December 21.—1n the
1 Senate, the reporter, upon the esti
mates of the Minister of Justice,
claimed the Senate’s right to accept or
reject a bill as transmitted from the
Chamber of Deputies. Tho Deputies
could agaiu suppress any item restored
by the Senate, if desired, since a law
must have the joint adhesion of the
two Houses. The items under discus
sion were then passed—lß6 against 42.
The war and marine estimates were
then passed, the former including a
grant of 103,610 francs for army chap
lains, which was suppressed by the
Chamber of Deputies and restored by
tho Senate by a vote or 229 to 45.
Constantinople, December 21.—The
new Constitution will be promulgated
Saturday, with great solemnity. Ali
public edillees will be illuminated in
the evening. Djevast Pasha has been
provisionally appointed President of
the State Council.
Brussels, December 21.—The Gov
ernment was interpellated to-day in
the Chamber of Representatives wheth
er Belgium had been invited to send
troops into Bulgaria. The Foreign
Minister replied the custom was to give
notice of an inteipellation before hand,
and he begged to be excused from an
swering.
London, December 21. —Official re
ports from the Metropolitan Hospitals
stato the total number of small-pox
patients under treatment on Tuesday
last was 922. against 178 two months
ago. These figures only represent the
range of the epidemic among tho pau
per population.
Bremen, December 21.—The bark
Ino, from Bull river, South Carolina,
for the United Kiugdotn. was aban
doned. Her crew were rescued and
landed here.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
News ami Gossip from the Capital.
Washington, December 21.—Senator
Blaine has gone home till the 18th
prox., to see about his re-election.
Cronin, the Democratic Oregon elec
tor, has arrived.
The President has pardoned Madison
Drom, sentenced for violation of the
Civil Rights bill. *Ha bad ejected a
colored woman from a railroad depot.
His case was peudiug before the Uni
ted States Supreme Court on a motion
tor a writ of habeas corpus. This ac
tion dodges important questions in this
connection.
The Alabama Claims Court expires
on the 31st, with about eight millions
surplus. The question is what to do
with it. It is legitimately a trust
fund.
The Republican caucus this morning
resolved to press Mitchell’s Oregon
resolution to a vote. Oregou witnesses,
including the Governor and Sec
retary of State, are expected here
the middle of next week.
A Strange Affair. —Great excitement
has been created in Vienna by the mur
der of a postman. The murderer, an
Italian, sent himself a registered letter,
which brought the letter-oanier up to
his room. He then murdered him and
ransacked the letters, taking about
$6,500 from them. He was arrested
the same night.
LOUISIANA.
The Senate Committee-Five Hundred
Radical Witnesses—Twenty-two Par
ishes Rejected by the Returning
Board—Gov. Wells States What He
Knows About Returning Boards.
New Orleans, December 21. Ken
ner, a member of the Board, testified
before the House Committee. General
Anderson was recalled and tesdfled at
groat length.
In the Senate Committee, McDonald
eudeavored to have members of the
Returning Board subpoenaed. The
matter was postponed till to-morrow.
The question of reopening the case of
Eliza Pinkston was also postponed to
to-morrow. Counsel for the Republi
cans stated they had some forty more
witnesses about Ouachita parish. The
Democratic counsel had summoned
their witnesses from East Biton Rouge,
but would not be ready with Oga
chita till Tuesday. The Republicans
stated their witnesses from ail par
ishes would reach five hu udred. Saifis
bury thought it best to limit
as five hundred from each side would
consume time to the 4th pt March
The ohairman thought time iwould be
saved by counsel agreeing to accept
the testimony before the Returning
Board. It appears from the tabulated
statements furnished by the Returning
Board that the polls h*v been rejected
in twenty-two perished The tabor
necessary to determine tiie fairness of
the election in these alone' would be
very great. It. was finally agreed to
proceed with Ouachita parish.
In the House committeejOT. Madison
Wells, President of the Returning
Board, testified: In canvassing the re
turns, re-compared the supervisors’-re
ports with the tally sheets of the com
missioners; where they did not agree
we deducted, but considered priaei- -
pally the tally sheets; sent for tally
sheets when parties interested in the
election asked for them ; sent for
the boxes of Concordia parish at the
instance of ex -Senator Harris; did not
know then, and do not know now, he
had interest as a candidate at the late
election; we found, on examining tick
ets, that all the electors had been voted
for, but the votes were not properly
counted; we counted the ticuets and
included them in our compilation; the
votes omitted were on the Republican
side; haven’t made an estimate of
the aggregate vote thrown out ;
will furnish the committee with such
statement; can’t tell the numbet,* of
votes thrown for each party without
referring to the books ; didn’t consider
what party would be effected by votes
thrown out; think they threw out East
or West Baton Rouge ; don’t recollect
which ; declined to furnish the original
papers to the committee because they
belong to the State; the papers are
still iu the control of the Board ; the
law requires supervisors to seal up and
forward returns by mail; some returns
came by hand and were counted; te
turns from Grant parish were not sent
by supervisors ; when supervisors” re
ports are sent they should be accom
panied by tally sheets ; don’t recollect
that the law requires the Board to can
vass from the statement of commis
sioners instead of supervisors ; re
ceived boxes from Concordia that, did
not come through the supervisors ; re
fused to consider Grant parish because
it did not come through the super
visors.
Mr. Jenk—lf the Supervisor was
knave enough n >t to f >rward the re
tu’ 8, and you had returns made by
Commissioners of Election, did you
canvass such vote ?
Governor Wells—No sir. We can
vassed no votes not received through
Supervisors. The attention of Gover
nor Wells was here called to the fact
that boxes from Coucordia did not
come through Supervisors. Governor
Wells replied excitedly, “No, sir; how
could they ? ”
In answer to questions, Wells said
Abel is Clerk of the Returning Board,
and Mr. Kenner is Secretary, I think.
He was sometime ago; think he is yet.
No one but mombers of the Board were
present at the private sessions; the
minutes are made after a private ses
sion from memorandum kept by mem
bers of the Board.
Alleged Intimidation by White Dem
ocrats.
James Gallaher, of Ireland, testified
that he resided in Louisiana three
years; lived in Ouachita during the
last election; the first disturbance
known was on the 4th of July last, at
the Methodist Sunday School, when a
report was received of an uprising of
negroes or tho Island; some of the
rifle companies left and went to the
Island and Bastrop; the night after
that, I learned thred rifle companies
organized, under Captains McLeod,
Buffington and Keehold; squads of
them visited Mr. Whited, on whose
plantation I worked, to induce him to
join a Democratic Club; they said noth
ing to me, thinking I was a Democrat;
a few days afterward nine armed “bull
dozers” followed Mr. Whited and wife
from Gordon s Station, and made nu
merous inquiries about him, and the
next day a portion of McLeod s com
pany visited the plantation and
stampeded the hands, and fright
ened all of us. Mr. Whited,
his wife and witness fled to the cotton
field ; they returned that night, but
witness laid out all night; some of the
“bull-dozers” assured Whited he would
not be molested, and ho and his wife
returned to the house about 11 o’clock
that night. Two weeks before the elec
tion I attended a Democratic barbecue.
Capt. Farmer and Col. Richardson
commenced to organize a colored club ;
they said that sixty-two colored men
had joined them—some willingly, but
others, who were reluctant, were drag
ged up ; went to the polls, Ward Four,
about 11 o’clock on election day and
remained there about three hours;
everything was peaceable, as it was ali
one-sided, and Republican tickets were
not allowed to be distributed. Bill
Strover stood at the door and made
the negroes show their tickets; they
were of a different color and were easily
distinguished. 'When the offioers ad
journed at noon the Republican vote
was announced as 31, but when the
polls closed it was announced as 28 on
ly; three other whites voted the Re
publican ticket there. The rifle com
panies were composed of white Demo
crats, who rode about at night, fully
armed, and terrorized the colored peo
ple at the polls ; when witness voted,
Pat Mills brought some Republican
tickets, and the Democrats made him
leave. The negroes disliked to join
the Democratic clubs, but were afraid
they would be beaten if they did not.
Jas. R. Hall testified he lived in
Ouachita for two years previous to the
4th of last July. His testimony was
mainly to the same effect.
Geo. B. Hamlet, Sheriff of Ouachita,
testified to the same effect.
M
“I have been honestly elected,” says
Hayes. That shows what his notion of
honesty is .—Boston Post.
AUGUSTA, GA.. HtIDAY,JJECEMBER 22, 1876.
FROM CHARLESTON.
Enthusiastic Meeting of Conscva
tiyes—They Denounce Ch&mbelain
as a Usurper, and Pledge their inp
port of Gov. Hampton—Stiring
Resolutions.
Charleston, December 21.— The
meeting of Conservative tax-paers
to-night was the largest ever ield
within the doors of the Charletton
Hibernian Hall, the most spacioui in
the city, which was densely crowled.
The lower floor was packed with Hose
unable to ttud room in the hall, wtere
the meetiDg was held, and the steet
outside was lined with hundreds of |r
sons who could not squeeze into tie
building. The proceedings were entimly
harmonious. The following resoluti*ns
were unanimously adopted and a ecru
mtttee appointed to carry them i|to
effect. • '- -
Resolved, Tiiat the Conservative citi
zens of Uuadeaton, Democrats and
R ppblicaiis. do reoognize Wade Hamp
ton, and none other, as the lawful Gov
ernor of Bopth Carolina. To him alone
will they yield as Governor obediecce
and support, au<L7to him they ple<t?e
such uid and assistance—moral, finan
cial and material —as may be required
fur the establishment and maiutenauce
of the .constitutional government of
whioh he is the head. >
Resolved, That we recognize W. l>
Simpsoq, and none ether, as the lawful
JUieuteoant Governor of South Caro
lina, and that we recognize the House
of which the Hon." W. H. Wallace is
Speaker as the legally constitutad
House of Representatives of South
Carolina.
Resolved, That D. H. Chamberlain,
having been defeated at the polls as a
candidate for re-election, and placed in
office upon tho declaration of an ille
gal General Assembly, by the unwar
rantable use of military force, is re
garded by us as an usurper, and we
here avow our unchangeable resolution
never to recognize him as Governor,
and our inflexible determination to re
pudiate his every act, and every act of
the pretended Lieutenant Governor,
every act of the pretended General As
sembly, as being without authority of
law, null and void.
BEN HILL’S POSITION.
Hopes the Result will be iu Favor of
Tiblen, but is Willing to Submit to
Hayes.
Washington, December 17.—1n a con
versation to-aight, Mr. Ben Hill, of
Georgia, said that the many represen
tations going out from Washington as
to certain remarks ho is reported to
have made touchiug the Northern De
mocracy are untrue. While he does
not deny the main part of the inter
view published in the New York Herald
he says that the preface to it and the
Interpretations generally put upon it
are altogether wrong. He has, he as
serts, never said pr thought an unkind
word of the Northern Democracy. As
to the election, he says that he is to
pass upon the question as to who has
been elected by the people, he thinks,
in a judical character, and therefore
declines to express any opinion on the
subject until the evidence taken and
to be taken by Congressional com
mittees sent South, and from all other
sources bearing upon the Presidential
question shall all be in. Ho thinks the
better thing for Congress to do now is
to adopt a proper method of procedure
in determining who has been elect
ed.
He admitted that be regarded Gov.
Hayes as President as a great improve
ment over President Grant for the rea
sons stated iu the New York Herald,
but he didn’t meau in that interview
to bo understood, nor does ho want to
be understood, as saying that the elec
tion of Gov. Hayes would be a groat
improvement over that of Mr. Tilden,
or that he was indifferent as to who he
would prefer. While as a representa
tive of the people he is willing and de
termined to deal justly, and übide a
fair constitutional count according to
established precedents, as an individual,
a Southern man, and a Demoorat, he
hopes that the result of a fair and con
stitutional count will be the election of
Mr. Tilden; but it is the duty, he says,
of everybody to submit to the result
whatever it may be. He insists that
the question as to how to arrive at a
correct result, should not be consider
ed and determined by members of
Congress in a partisan spirit, but that
an honest desire to ascertain whom
the people have fairly elected should
govern them in the matter. Asa De
mocrat he hopes the result will be the
election of Mr. Tilden, but as a Repre
sentative he shall act honestly, con
scientiously and abide tho consequen
ces. He simply wants to remove from
Gen. Grant all pretext or occasion for
the use of force. He wants the North
ern mind to rest under the firm con
viction that the South is not going to
get up another rebellion, that they are
for a pacific settlement of the Presiden
tial question, and that if that rosults
in the election of Mr. Hayes, they are
not going to make a iuss about it.
The declaration that this or that per
son has been elected he regards as
premature.
Regarding the twenty-second joint
rule, he admits that he believes it is
not now in force, but thinks it should
be re-established, as the Republican3
adopted it and decided three Presi
dential elections by it, and he regards
that as an admission of its constitu
tionality. How they can refuse to
readopt it he cannot see. If they <io
refuse it will be a virtual admission
that they are actuated by partisan
motives iu determining the Presiden
tial question.
Tiie Professional Tax—ls It Just?
Mr. Editor : For a number of years
past, physicians and lawyers have been
compelled to pay a professional tax of
ten dollars. Is it just ?
I think not. J can see no reason or
justice in it. It is certainly a very
great hardship in very many cases.
It is nothing more nor less, in effect,
than a poll-tax.
I can see no necessity for such par
tiality by our Legislature ; nor can I
see why they should be specially taxed
when merchants, mechanics, farmers
and gentlemen of leisure are exempt.
I hope the next Legislature will do
away with it and tax all men alike ac
cording to the true spirit of our Con
stitution. Cato.
The London Times’ Staff. —Moncure
D. Conway writes that Mr. Deland,
chief editor of the London Times is
very ill and it is feared sinking. Next
to him on the staff of that paper is Mr.
Courtney, and after him Mr. Stebbing.
There is reason to believe that the next
editor of the Times will make that
journal much more liberal thau it is at
present. It aims to represent ihe
average opinion of the middle classes,
but for some time it has been rather
beneath it in some matters.
THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.
THE ATTITUDE OF HAMPTON AND
THE AMERICAN CITIZENS HE
LEADS.
A Talk with Senator Gordon on the
Policy and Conduct of Southern
Men.
[From the Regular Correspondent of the
World. |
Washington, December 16.—Some
men earn the right to speak by action.
Certainly no Southern man has better
earned tbis right than Senator Gordcn,
He is the repiesentative of the new
South, and of a State iu the new South
which had blotted out the color line in
politics, till it has come to pass that in
Georgia a clear-headed and trained ob
server reports that negroes own more
property, pay more taxes, and enjoy
better schools than in States where the
fraud of past campaigns and the usur
pation of the past month continue Re
publican administration. To represen
tative men like Senator Gordon, the in
auguration of Mr. Tilden is a matter of
“life and death.” Last week Senator
Gordon came to his seat fresh from the
temperate counsels and rare forbear
ance of Mr. Hampton and tho Ameri
can citizens whom ho has led. No
small part of those counsels Senator
Gordon contributed.
Correspondent—Will the inaugura
tion of Mr. Hampton and his formal
assumption of office bring with it the
danger of conflict between rival fac
tions ?
Senator Gordon—Absolutely none.
There will bo no armed collision, no
violence. There can be none. It was
not only a part of tho policy of the
campaign, urged upon the stump, the
burden of Hampton’s speeches, of the
speeches that I made, that our cam
paign would bo by any resort
to violence, but there has come to be
aa intuition, a conscious conviction,
among our people that it was a part of
the conspiracy here, a part of the con
spiracy there under orders from Wash
ington, to invite attack, to crowd men
into violence, in order to justify their
military interference, to justify their
whole line of policy, to go before the
country with the old cry. There is
more at stake for our people than the
contest in their own State—and they
are fighting there for their homes, for
their safety, for their property,
for the very existence of a civiliza
tion. In addition to that they feel
that the issue of the whole
Presidential contest turns upon
their attitude in South Carolina, that
all the votes cast in the South for Mr.
Tilden may be put in danger by a sin
gle act of violence. They feel tho re
sponsibility resting on them to preserve
by moderation and forbearance the
fruits of this great victory for the
whole country. They do not propose
to do what their enemies want to have
them do. They have learned forbear
ance from their leaders, they feel its
necessity themselvea. We are hearing
constantly from Conservative negroes,
meu of property, men who sympathize
with us, men who want Hampton to be
Governor, of deliberate attempts to
provoke violence. We knew before
hand of Chamberlain’s intention to
use the Slate Constabulary, and the
Legislature withdrew to avoid collis
iou. The Southern people—l like that
phraso better than the Democratic
party—will not permit a collision. If it
is Chamberlain or any other man who
attempts it by peaceful means or by
due process of law, our people will
prevent violence, and in the courts,
the courts of their enemies, they will
seek justice.
“Like every English-speaking race,
they turn then to constitutional means
to secure constitutional rights?”
“By no other. I kuow no grander
thing in history. It is the noblest atti
tude that any people ever assumed.
There has been*nothing like it. They
see their State House occupied by an
illegal body. They see their own rep
resentatives excluded by sentinels.
They use no violence. They display
no anger. They turn to the courts, and
Hampton says: ‘I will go into the
courts that my enemies have made, be
fore the judges they have appointed; I
will have a just cause, and if these are
for me who without can be against me?
This is the result of this self-control.
They feel certain of the result. Noth
ing but violence can rob them of vic
tory. They are safe if the courts are
open to them. Whatever happens here,
while the courts are left and the laws
are in force there is a remedy for all
wrongs. In any contingency they hope
to preserve them. While our people
regard it as a matter of life and death
to obtain the inauguration of Mr. Til
den, remember we are none of
us saTe. What has been in
South Carolina may be in Georgia.
They have had a lingering hope, a
hope that is against hope, that even
Mr. Hayes and the men into wtiose
hands he will fall could not be able to
bring the people of the United States
to support an Administration that
should take the extreme measure of
abolishing the courts; and yet such has
been their experience that they sol
emnly feel that no man, however well
iutentloned, cau control the daring
men who guide its policy. They have
seen General Grant, a former Demo
crat, a man who had in his report on
the Southern situation in 1867 declared
the entire acquiescence of tho people
of the South in the results of the war,
a man of moderation, pledged to a
peaceful policy by his own plea for
peace—‘let us have peace’—and bv his
general promise to be the President of
the United States and not of a section
—become in the hands of these people
one of the most extreme men in the
country, in spite of his better impulses;
they have seen Mr. Blaine, who had
commended himself most warmly,by his
course as Speaker, driven from his
high and statesmanlike course on
the Force bill and taking his place
among radical men of aggressive
views in order to reinstate himself in
his party; they have seen Mr. Wheeler
returning from Louisiana, signing a
report which gave the true inwardness
of the Returning Board, and the utter
illegality of the Louisiana Republican
Government, driven by the same influ
ences in his party to utter some of the
most vindictive and inexcusable invec
tives against one-third of the people of
his country; and hence the belief of the
people of the South that Mr. Hayes,
notwithstanding all his promises, will
be no exception to the rule. But
wherever else they have lost coefldence
lhe people of South Carolina still turn
implicitly to the courts; and you must
remember these courts are liepublicau
—Superior judges, county judges. Su
preme Court judges. They are all Re
publican, they all voted for Hayes,
they remain Republican, and upon the
decision of these Hampton rests ail his
claims. If that does not have its effect
at the North, if it does not move men*
I don’t know what will.”
“Does this submission to the courts
extend everywhere; is there any truth
in the charge that the leaders are mod
erate, aud the rank and file ready to
proceed to extremes ?”
“I found it everywhere, among all
the people. It is the natural sequence
of the campaign we pursued. From
the first we begged them to do no vio
lence, and they stood everything. They
were shot down like dogs in the streets
of Charleston and at Cainhoy, and
they never raised their hands; brave
men as ever drew breath died in their
tracks sooner thau injure the cause.
There is nothing like it in history. I
saw thousands of white and black
around the State House at Columbia
separate quietly and peacefully at a
few words from Hampton when they
bad seen the doors slammed in the
face of their lawful legislators by
United States soldiers, commanded—
actually commanded as if he had been
Grant—by that infernal reprobate
Dennis, a man who had grown
rich by corruption, who had pro
fited by misgovernmeut, a man
as bad as your Tweed, charged
with every crime. Now, so far as force
is concerned, that wrong could have
oeeu righted in a minute—temporarily,
I mean ; but eveiybody kuew that it
would ruin the cause to use violence.
Chamberlain talked of having the
troops there to prevent the State
House from being seized. Why, there
weren’t 200 armed United State soldiers
in the building. It would have taken
no time to have turned them out. If
the Democrats had wanted to seize the
building they would have stayed the
night before when they were in cau
cus. No one thought of doing it, no
more than you did in New York, and
when the United States troops marched
in there was not a man on the campus
even. There was excitement and in
dignation when Judge Bond liberated
the men that were imprisoned by the
Supreme Court, but nobody offered
any violence. They walked "about in
the crowd here and there as you and
I do here. No one thought of touching
them. They were perfectly safe. There
will be no disturbance while the courts
are open; our people ask no redress
but the redress they can get there.”
“Do you feel that this sublime for
bearance can b 8 proved before the
committee now sitting ?”
“If you rely on affidavits, as they
did at New Orleans, you cau prove
anything. The Republicans can manu
facture them by the thousand, aud I
suppose tii it tiie Democrats can do the ;
same. Anybody can do that, But if
witnesses are brought before the com
mittee and cross-examined—if the or
dinary methods of arriving at the truth
iu a court of law are used —we can pro
duce 10,000 negroes who voted volun
tarily for Hampton. In one county 960
voted in a single club, and nearly as
many in another county. If the troops
had not come there would have been
20,000, but the negroes were ‘.old by
their leaders that the troops were there
to make them vote tho Republican
ticket. They were told that Grant in
tended to elect Chamberlain, aud when
he was Governor the white inon would
be unable to protect them ; but, in spite
of this, the Conservative negroes were
with us—the negroes of property were
with us. They look across the Savan
nah river to Georgia, and they see
peace and quiet; they see schools kept
up, they see their colleges supported
by State grants. They have heard all
their leaders at home accused by each
other of corruption ; they see school
funds and all other funds wasted.
Without all this they would have re
mained Republican, but they begin to
see the effects of misgovernmeut; they
have confidence in nampton ; lie was
| the first man to advocate giving them
J the suffrage. They have more confi
i deuce thau ever now’, and if he were to
I tun to-day they would give him 50,000
| majority.”
BEN HILL ON THK SITUATION.
He Agrees with Senator Gordon aud
Stands by Tilden.
(Special to tho World.)
Washington, December 17.
That Senator Gordon’s utterances in
regard to the Presidential succession
express the sober sentiments of South
ern members here, had its fullest illus
tration at an informal gathering of
their more prominent leaders yester
day evening at the house of a leading
Democrat in this city. Even Mr. Hill
expressed himself most decidedly in
the same way, and the conference
showed conclusively that the Southern
members stood as they always and un
iformly have stood, as the supporters
of Mr. Tilden’s election and inaugura
tion under the Constitution. Mr. Hill
declines to be interviewed on the sub
ject of his own views, but his position
has been clearly defined by his
own utterances and those of his
friends,and there appears to be no ques
tion that his views have been seriously
misrepresented and unwarranted infer
ences drawn from some of his utter
ances as a Congressman! shortly to be
called to act in a judicial capacity upon
the Presidential election. He desires
to preserve a non-partisan attitude.
As between the peaceful inauguration
of Hayes and the forcible usurpation
of Grant, he prefers, as he said iu a re
cent interview, the former ; but as be
tween Tilden and Hayes, his sympa
thies as a Southerner and a Democrat
are uncompromisingly with the former,
whose election he prefers and believes
has been accomplished, though upon
this and all other questions germane to
it he proposes to suspend judgment.
His purpose is shared by every South
ern member here—that the Democratic
members from the Soutli propose to
regulate their action by tho Constltu
tution, and whatever legal acts are
done under its provisions.
Weigh a pig; give him three pails of
swill, and then weigh him again; he will
weigh no more than he did at first.
This has been a very popular theory iu
the agricultural districts, but it was
most successfully refuted at Clinton,
Massachusetts, on Thanksgiving day.
At a family reunion there were four sol
id sons, one solid daughter, three aver
age daughters-in-law, a medium son
in-law, and enough grand children to
swell the party to fifteen souls and as
many stomachs. The united weight of
this family before dinner was 1,862
pounds; the united weight after dinner
was pounds; the net gain rep
resenting tho weight of the dinner ac
tually eaten was pounds; the
average gain per stomach was 2 7-20,
pounds; the maximum gaiu, or the
largest dinner eaten, was 4 1-2 pounds;
the minimum gain was a quarter of a
pound. The pig theory is hereby dis
continue! until further uotice,
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
A gentleman at the North, a large
creditor of the Lunatic Asylum, is
willing to credit the institution further
if Hampton is acknowledged as Gov
ernor.
The State Capitol in a
bad box. The railroads refuse dead
head tickets, and the S2OO paid to
them is well nigh expended. How they
are to get home is the question.
A man gi\ing his name as Jackson,
and his home as Oraugeburg, was ar
rested by the police McJhday morning,
at Columbia, for stealing a mule of the
value of $l5O from Joseph Hooker.
Both were taken care of.
The store of J. & D. S. McCollough
and W. J. Brock, at Houea Path, with
their contents were destroyed by fire
on Saturday night. Several arrests of
negroes had been madfe when the
down train passed Sunday.
Two of the members of the Mackey
House got into a dispute Tuesday, at l
Columbia, about appropriating SI,OOO
for the head of the concern, when the
lie passed, and a threat to settle the
affair outside; but when an adjourn
ment occurred, the expected bellige
rents had cooled down.
A white man, name unknown, was
killed at Port Royal on Saturday night
last while endeavoring to chock a car
in motion. When the car wheel struck
the chock, over which ho was leaning,
it broke in two, one end flying up and
bitting the man under his chin, broke
his neck instantaneously.
The return of deaths within the city
of Charleston for the week ending
December lGth, shows a total of 34, of
which 15 were white and 19 colored. Of
the white there were 6 male adults, 3
female adults, and 6 female children,
Of the colored, there were 8 male
adults, 5 female adults, 3 male children
and 3 female children. 13 of the deaths
were between 1 and 20, 12 between 20
and 40, 8 between 50 and 90, and 1 be
tween 90 and 100. This is 6 less than
last week.
On last Monday week a building be
longing to Z. Richardson, Esq., and
which was situated near his turpentine
still, on the Savannah and Charleston
Railroad, between Graharavilie and
Hardeeville, was burnt to the ground
by an incendiary. A few days after
wards, a negro named Paul Burns was
arrested on suspicion, and tried by
Trial Justice Muckenfuss of the coun
ty, and found guilty. Before he could
be conveyed to the county jail, how
ever, he effected an escape, and is now
at large. Mr Richardson, the loser of
the property, has offered one hundred
dollars reward for his apprehension.
Columbia, December 79.—The Rump
House met at 11:30, the usual quorum,
fifty-five, being present. A resolution
was introduced by Curtis, directing the
Speaker to pay Daniels, the Sergeaut
at-Ainos, for extra work. Adopted. A
bill to ascertain the indebtedness of
Newberry county and regulate the pay
ment thereof, and a bill from the Sen
ate to repeal the lien law, passed their
second reading, the Senate bill to take
effect December 18, 1877. A bill re
quiring the registration of all persons
duly qualified to vote in the Slate was
referred to the Committee on Privileges
and Elections. The Seuate bill to es
tablish Yunhaunah Ferry, in George
town county, passed its second read
ing. The Senate joint resolution to
amend the joint resolution requiring
pa9t due school claims of Newberry
county to be registered, received its
second reading. The bill to fix the
right of Pawner and Pawnee passed its
second reading, and tho bogus House
then adjourned.
Colombia, December 19.—The Law
ful House of Representatives met at
noon, and, after the usual routine of
! business was disposed of, notices of the
following bills to be introduced were
1 given :
Mr. Gingread, a bill for better and
j more economical performance of du
ties now assigned to Couutv Com
missioners.
Mr. Holmes, a bill to create County
Courts in the respective counties of
the State, and to provide for the juris
diction of the same,
Mr. Bisseil offered the following:
Resolved, That the clerk of the
House be instructed to have printed
200 copies of the speech of Mr. Myers
on political affairs in South Carolina.
Adopted.
The House was notified that the
special order for balloting for United
States Senator had arrived, and the
Senate and House went into joint bal
lot. 79 votes were cast, 40 being ne
cessary for a choice. Of these Butler
received 84, Gary 5, Campbell 8, Smalls
3, Kirshoad 1.
The chair announced that General
M. C. Butler, having received a major
ity of votes of the two Houses in joint
ballot, he was duly elected United
States Senator for the next six years,
commencing March 4,1877.
On motion of Mr. Hood, it was
agreed that when the House adjourn it
adjourn to meet at 7:30 p. m., to hear
the report of the committee appointed
to memoralize Congress on the situa
tion in South Carolina.
Mr. Sloan resolvod that no bill which
has or may be offered in the House be
printed unless by special order until
this resolution berecinded. Laid over.
The hour for the special order for the
taking up of the matter In reference to
the discharge of the Board of State
Canvassers by Judge Boud having ar~
rived was taken up, and, on motion of
Mr. Sawyer, it was laid on tne table,
and the resolution dismissed. The
House then adjourned.
—9 m .
Victoria’s Walks.
Queen Victoria goes walking in a
short, dark serge petticoat ; the heels
of her boots are not hair an inch high,
the soles are broad and thick, and they
are never blacked. She always wel
comes news of the people, improve
ments in their manners, their health
and their appearance. She declares
that visiting her humble subjects Is
better than going to the play. When
Mrs. McTavish, one of her Scotch de
pendents, who prides herself semewhat
on her great height, good looks and
youth—she is only 78—asked the Queen
about the star in the East, she promptly
lalsed the forefinger of her right hand
and said, “You must not ask these
questions. And what you will about
the family—how wo are, bow we love
you—and I shall answer you with
pleasure.”
The President, in his extraordinary
interview, says ho would “rather trust
the rebels than the Northern allies.”
By “rebels” he means Southern Demo
crats, and by “Northern allies” North
ern Democrats. To be consistent
then, tho President should send troops
into the Democratic States of New
York, New Jersey, Indiana and Con
necticut. He has not quite the oervo
f >r that sort of thing yet, though that
is about the next thing to expeot.—
Boston Post,
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
GEORGIA NEWS.
Oranges are plentiful and cheap fa
Columbus.
Levi J. Gazan and Miss Sarah Byriclr,
of Savannah— married. m
A negro child was burned to death
in Putnam oounty last week.
A negro man was found frozen to
death in Taylor.county recently.
John M. Brown, of Spalding county,
and Miss Lucille Spain, of Macon, mar
ried.
The dwelling house of Mr. Henry
Harper, of Coffee county, was destroyed
by fire recently.
. Several burnings, incendiary and ac
cidental, have occurred recently in
Jackson county.
The Thomasviile Enterprise says
new Georgia syrup Is plentiful at flftv
cents per gallon.
A Taylor county man killed a nine
teen months old pig last week which
weighed 450 pounds.
A deaf and dumb negro woman was
run over and killed on tho Northeastern
Railroad the other day.
The dally mail between Cuthbert and
1 ort Gaines has been discontinued,
much to the regret of the citizens of
both places.
Out of a poll list of 5,188 in Bibb
oounty there are only 571 who,up to this
time, have qualified themselves to vote
for county officers.
Ihe new and neat little residence of
Wm. Kelly, at Brook’s station, near
Grifllo, was destroyed by lire a few
days since. Loss, 33,000.
. E. Sanders; of Jasper county,
and Miss Ada Chambers, of Forsyth,'
married. Also, H. G. Price, of Florida
and Lucy Banks, of Griffin.
The new Mayor of Columbus is
sweeping all before him like a Harris
county cyclone. Bummers and dead
beats fall like giuss before the scythe.
Oranges are successfuly raised near
Americus, in Sumter county. The edi
tor of the Republican has tried one in
his toddy, and pronounces it superior
in flavor.
We are soon to have direct trade be
tween Brunswick and Liverpool. Al
ready one sail ship has arrived in Liv
erpool from Brunswick with a cargo of
cotton and others will soon follow.
They now propose cutting down two
thirds of the shade trees in Savannah,
it being the general opinion that two
much shade is prejudicial to health.
This applies to the water oaks which
grow in such luxurianoe in that city.
In the House of Representatives at
Washington, Ben Hill and Dr. Felton
have seats beside each other. Messrs
Blount, Candler, Cook Jand Hartridge
all sit in a row along side just in front
of the Speaker to the right. General
Gordon and Mr. Norwood sit alongside
in the Senate.
A Washington correspondent or tho
Sunday Herald says: “Mr. A. H. Ste
phens is the only man who can quietly
sit down inside of the House during
session with his hat on his head. He
cocks it up on one side of his head
with all the otium cum dignitate of a
young swell.”
Saudersville is a growing city, three
miles north of the Central Railroad,
with which it is connected by the Sau
dersville and Tennile Railroad, just
completed. It is situated upon the
ridge dividing the waters of the Ogee
chee and the Oconee rivers, the most
elevated point between Savannah and
Macon—one hundred and thirty miles
from the former city, and sixty from
the latter.
Atlanta Constitution : We learn from
Dr. Elj’ McClellan, of Gen. Ruger’s
staff, who returned from Brunswick
last night, that the State Board
of Health has completed its investiga
tions at Savannah and Brunswick, and
that Dr. J. P. Logan will reach Atlanta
this morning. Dr. McClellan speaks in
high terms of the prompt aud cheer
ful manner in which all classes of citi
zens, as well as medical men and the
official of those cities aided the mem
bers of the board in their investiga
tions into the cause of the late terrible
yellow fever epidemic. By this prompt
and general eo-operhtion the board has
been enabled to close its labors in a
much shorter period of time than was
; expected.
The editor of the Early County Actus
appears to be suffering from what
Touey Lumkln called a “concatenation
accordingly.” He took the promise o?
some of his subscribers to pay him in
corn; on the strength of that promise
he bought a few hogs, corn being
cheap, and pork likely to bring the
better price. He expected to fatten his
porkers with the corn obtained from
those contracting subscribers, aud
counted on a steady inflow of the
and high living on back-bone, spare rib
and sausage. But, alas for editorial
credulity! the corn was not brought
in, and instead of fattening, the hogs
are starving. The editor pathetically
describes their squealing for food as
horrible, and makes frantic appeals for
the corn. We wish our unlucky brother
a safe deliverance and much future
profit by experience.
CHAFFEE.
What is Said of One of Colorado’s Sen
ators at Home.
I Laramie County (Colorado) Express 1
The election of Jerome B. Chaffee to
a seat in the Senate or the United
States ts a stigma upon the Talr name
of our young State, and an insult to
every honest man in Colorado. Un
principled, Illiterate,and without brains
bis elevation is a burning shame to our
peopie, for which the members of tho
Legislature and the Republican party
will have to answer in the future. Char
fee has but one qualification for the po
sition, and that one is money, and it
has proved the most potent of all The
simple truth or the whole matter is
that Chaffee has bought his seat In the
Doited States Senate.
tron fh < r x S, u^ e thia outrage, we are
told that Colorado would have gone
Democratic had it not been for Chaf
ree’s monejL Does buying votes, as
we l as Legislatures give him anv
claim for an office which until recent! v
has never been conferred upon w’ealt'iV
corruptionists? Ask the flret ten Re
publicans you meet who know any
thing of Chaffee, their opinion of him
and nine of them will tell you he is k
scoundrel, and the majority of them
will not be satisfied with so mild an ex
pression. Now we call upon tho Sen
ate to investigate tho case of this man
Chaffee, for it will not be difficult to
prove the fact or his purchase of his
seat.
The Latest Elopemkkt. A farm
hand in Norfolk county, Va., eloped
with his employer’s wire last weak
£S°?h?hT k ? of iu^e ana
ihehusbaud was away fiorn
home at work in the navy yard. Tht
fugitive female is forty-eight years old
aud her companion twenty-five, *