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ESTABLISHED 1799.1 ?0 E M* o '“ 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, *