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The Senatorial Race—Hill Called to
the Gate City—The Lobbies at
Work.
(Special to the Constitutionalist.)
Atlanta, Ga., January 18th, 1877.
Fry’s retrenchment bill, after sharp
discussion to day, was made the spe
cial order for Thursday next.
There was no important legislation,
everything beiug deferred to the great
Senatorial race, which takes place next
week.
Mr. Hill is expected here to-morrow
night, in response to a petition from a
number of the members of the Legisla
ture, who desire to hear him on the is
sues of t.he day. He will speak some
time before the race is over.
The lobby of the friends of each
candidate is unprecedently large.
H. W. G.
Associated Press Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.
REPORT OP THE JOINT COMMIT
TEE.
Anderson and Wells in Limbo —The
Florida Electoral Vote.
Washington, January 18.—Anderson
and Wells, of the Louisiana Returning
Hoard, arrived at the National hotel at
two o’clock this morniuer, and were ar
rested at daylight. Officers of the
House left last night for New Orleans,
bring Kenner and Cassanave, the
remaining members* of the Board, to
the bar of the House.
In the Senate, Mr. Jones, of Florida,
presented the petition of Wilkinson
Call, Robert B. Hilton, J. E. Yonge and
Robert Bullock, the Democratic Presi
dential electors of Florida, claiming to
have been legally elected and asking
that the electoral vote cast by them
fur President and Vice-President be
counted instead of that cast by the
electors on the other side.
On motion of Mr. Jones, the petition
was laid on the table, and he gave no
tice that he would call it up next week,
for the purpose of submitting some re
marks on the subject.
Weils and Anaerson have been con
fined iu the cash room of the Sergeant
at-Arms all morning. They will be pre
sented at the Bar of the House after
the expiration of the morning hour. It
is understood they will purge.
The report of the joint committee is
momentarily expected. They are in
.session now perfecting the report.
Payne, chairman of the House branch
of the Joint Committee on Counting
i p Electoral. Vo- \ Tas just matured
the iiii! >f t-’.e H us A "he renhrfc is
wig.'ie iiy ‘ ■ a;xe > ■> ii 1 ’ com
mittee, Morton only dissenting.
lii tueir report submitted with the
bill, the committee say they have ap
plied the utmost practicable study and
deliberation to the subject and believe
that the bill reported is the best at
tainable disposition of the difficult
problem and disputed theories arising
out of the late election. They speak
of the difficulty of teaching a conclu
sion, and they deal with no abstract
questions, save so far as they are nec
essarily involved in the legislation
proposed. The report implies that leg
islation may be had on the subject in
accordance with the Constitution, but
the committee think that the law pro
posed is inconsistent witn few a princi
pal theories upon ttws subject. The
bill is only directed to ascertaining for
the purpose aud iu aid of the<couuting
what are the constitutional votea of
the respective States and whatever ju
risdiction exists for such purpose. The
bill only regulates the method of
exercising it. For this the Con
stitution gives warrant, aud there
fore, the law proposed is not
inconsistent with that instrument. The
committee regard it as of far greater
moment that the will of the people
should be legally carried out, than the
question of who shad be President for
a prescribed term. They, therefore,
endeavored to frame a fair and impar
tial measure. The Legislature and Ju
diciary are represented iu the tribunal
in equal proportions. The composition
of the judicial part of the commission
looks to a selection from different parts
of the Republic, while it is thought io be
free from any preponderance or sup
jposeable bias, and, the addition of the
uoeeasary constituent part of the
whole, in order to obtain an uneven
cumber of the commission, is left to
any agency the furthest removed from
prejudice of my existing attainable
one. It would be difficult, if not im
possible, for the committee to think to
establish a tribunal that eouid be less
the subject of party criticism than
such a one. The cojumittee felt bound,
by the highest duty, to let no hias of
party feelings stand in tfia way of a
just, equal aud peaceful measure for
extricating the question from the ear- i
barrassments that at prenmot surround
it.” The committee conclude as follows:
In conclusion, we respectfully beg
leave to impress upon Congress the
necessity of a speedy determination I
upon this subject. It Is impossible to
estimate the material loss the country
daily sustains from the existing state of
uncertainty. It directly and power
fully tends to unsettle and paralyze
business, to weaken public and private
credit and to create apprehension in
the minds of the people that disturb
the peaceful tenor of their ways aud
mar their happiness. It does far more.
It tends to bring republican institutions
nto discredit, to create doubts of the
success of our form of government
and of the perpetuity of the Republic.
All considerations erf interest or patri
otism and of justice unite in demand
ing of the law making power a measure
that will bring peace and prosperity to
the country, and show that our repub
lican institutions are equal to any
emergency, and in this connection we
cannot refrain from the expression of
our satisfaction that your committee,
composed of equal members of both
parties, have fortunately been able to
do what has been attempted in vain
heretofore,almost unanimously to agree
upon a plan,considered by them all to be
just, wise and efficient. Weaceording
ingly recommend the proposed act to
the patriotic and just judgment of
Congress.
George F. Edmunds,
Fred’k T. Frelinghuysen,
Rosoe Conkling,
A. G. Thurman,
T. F. Bayard,
M. W. Ransom,
Of Senate Committee.
H. B. Payne,
Eppa Hcnton,
William M. Springer,
George W. McCrary,
George F. Hoar,
George Willard,
Of House Committee.
The Electoral Bill.
A bill to provide for and regulate
the counting of vote for President and
Vice-President and the decision of
questions arising thereon for the term
commencing March 4th, A. D. 1877 :
Be it enacted, etc That the Senate
and House of Representatives shall
meet in the Hall of the House of Rep
resentatives, at the hour of one o’clock
past meridian, on the first Thursday
in February, A. I). 1877, and the Presi
dent of the Senate shall be their presi
ding officer. Two tellers shall be pre
viously appointed on the part of the
Senate and two on the part of the
House of representatives, to whom
shall be handed, as tney are opened
by the President of the Senate, all the
certificates and papers purporting to
be certificates of the electoral votes,
whien certificates and papers shall be
opened, presented and acted upon
in the alphabetical order of the
States, beginning with the letter A, and
said tellers having them read the same
in the presence and hearing of the two
houses shall make a list of the votes as
they shall appear from the said certifi
cates, and the votes having been ascer
tained and counted, as in this act pro
vided, the result of the same shall be
delivered to the President of the Sen
ate, who shall thereupon announce the
state of the vote and the names of the
persons, if any, elected, which an
nouncement shall be deemed a suffi
cient declaration of the persons elected
President and Vice-President of the
United States, and together with a list
of the votes be entered on the journals
of the two houses. Upon such reading
of any such certificate or paper, when
there shall be only one return from a
State, the President of the Senate
shall call for objections. If any, every
objection shall be made in writing
and snail state clearly and concisely,
and without argument, the grounds
thereof, and shall be signed by at lea3t
one Senator and one member of the
House of Representatives before the
same shall be received. Wheu all ob
jections so made to any vote or paper
from a State shall have been received
aud read, the Senate shali tboreupon
withdraw, and such objections shall be
submitted to the Senate for its decis
ion, and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives shall in like manner
submit such objections to the House of
Representatives for its decision ; and
no electoral vote or votes from any
State from which but one return has
been received shall be rejected, except
by the affirmative vote of the two
Houses. When the two Houses have
voted they shall immediately again
meet, and the presiding’ officer
shall then announce the decision of the
question submitted.
Sec. 2. That if more than one return
or paper, purporting to be a return
from a State, shall have been received
by the President of the Senate, pur
porting to be the certificates of elec
toral v .tes given at the last preceding
election tor Piesident and Vice-Presi
dent in such State, unless they shall bo
duplicates of the same return, all such
returns and papers shall be opened by
him in the presenco of the Houses,
when met as aforesaid, and read by
the tellers ; and all such returns aud
papers shall thereupon be submitted
to the judgment aud decision, as to
which is the true and lawful electoral
vote of such State, of a commission
constituted as follows, namely: During
the session of each House on the
Tuesday next preceding the first
Tnursday iu February. 1877, each
House shall, by viva voce yote, ap
point five of its members, who,
with the five associate Justices of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, to be astertained as hereinafter
provided, shall constitute a commis
sion for the decision of all questions
upon or in respect of such double re
turns named in this section. On the
Tuesday next preceding the first
Thursday In February, A. D., 1877, or
as soon thereafter as may be, the Asso
ciate Justices of the Supremo Court of
the United States now assigned
to the first, third, eighth and
ninth .circuits, shall select in
such manner as a majority of
theta shall d.eem fit, another of the As
sociate Justices of said Court, whioh
five persons shall be members of said
commission, and the person lougest in
the commission of said five Justices
shall be President of said commission.
The members of said commission shall
respegtjyely take and subscribe the fol
lowing oath;
“I —4 solemnly swear,
(or affirm, as the case may be,) that I
will impartially examine and consider
all questions submitted to the commis
sion of which I am a member, and a
true judgment giye thereon agreeably
to the Constitution aud the laws, so
help me God;’’ which oath shall be
filed with the Secretary of the Senate,
When the commission shall have thus
organized, it shall not be in the power
of either House to dissolve the same
or to withdraw any of its members.
But li any such Senator or member
shpll die or become physically unable
to perform the dutj.es required by thi3
act, the'faqt |of such death or physical
inability shall be by said commission,
before *jt shall proceed ‘ further,
communicated t° the Senate or
House of Representatives, as the case
may be, which body shall, immediately
and without debate, proceed by viva
voce vote .to fill .the place so vacated,
and the person so appointed shall take
and subscribe the patty hereinbefore
prescribed, and become a m,amj? er of
said .commission, and in like manner, if
any of said Justices of the Supreme
Court shall die or become physically
incapable of performing the duties re
quired by this act, the othex of said
Justices, members of the commission,
shad imnietiiately appoint another J us
tice of said court a member of said
commission, and in such appointments
regard shall be had to the impartiality
and freedom from bias sought by the
original appointments of said commis
sion, who shall thereupon immediately
take and subscribe the oath hereinbe*-
fore prescribed and become a mem
ber of said commission, to fill the
vacancy occasioned.' All the cer
tificates and papers purporting to
be certificates of the electoral votes
of each State shall be opened in the
alphabetical order of the States,as pro
vided in section one of this act, and
when there shall be more than ane
such certificate or paper as the certifi
cates and papers from such State
shall so be opened, excepting dupli
cates of the rer.urn, they shall be read
by the tellers,a,nd thereupon the Presi
dent of the Se nate shall call for the
objections. If any, every objection
shall be made in writing, and shall
state clearly and concisely and without
argument, the ground thereof, and
shall be signed toy at least one Senator
and one membeir of the House of Rep
resentatives before the same shall be
received. When all such objections so
made to any certificate, vote or paper
from a Stato shall have been
received aud read, all such certifl
ertes, votes and papers so
objected to, aud all papers accompany
ing the same, together with such ob
jections, shall be forthwith submitted
to said commission, which shall pro
ceed to consider the same, with the
same powers, if any, now possessed for
that purpose by the two Houses, act
iug separately or together, and by a
majority of votes decide whether any
and what votes from such State are
the votes provided for by the Consti u
t.ion of the United States, and how
many and what persons were duly ap
pointed electors in such State, and
may therein take into view such peti
tions, depositions and other papers, If
any, as shall or may be, by the
Constitution and now existing law,
competent and pertinent in such
consideration, which decision shali
be made iu writing, stating briefly
the ground thereof, and signed by the
members of said commission agreeing
therein; whereupon the two Houses
shall again meet and such decision
shall be read and entered in the jour
nal of each House and the counting of
the votes shall proceed in conformity
therewith, unless upon objection made
thereto in writing by at least five Sen
ators and five members of the House
of Representatives, the two houses
shall separately concur in ordering
otherwise, in which case such concur
rent order shall govern. No votes or
papers from any other State shall be
acted upon until the objections pre
viously made to the votes or papers
from any State shall have been finally
disposed of.
Sec. 3. That while the two Houses
shall be in meeting, as provided in this
act, no debate shall be allowed, and no
question shall be put by the presiding
officer to either House except on mo
tion to withdraw, and he shall have no
power to preserve order.
Sec. 4. That when the two Houses
separate to decide upon an objection
that may have been made to the count
ing of any electoral votes, or votes
from any State, or upon objection to a
report of said commission, or other
question arising under this act, each
Senator aud Representative may speak
to such objection or question ten min
utes, and not oftener than once; but,
after such debate shall have lasted two
hours, it shall be the duty of each
House to put the main question with
out further debate.
Sec. 5. That at such joint meeting of
the two Houses seats shall be pro
vided as follows : For the President of
the Senate, the Speaker’s Chair ; for
the Speaker, immediately upon his
left ; the Senatois in the body of the
Hall upon the right of the pre
siding officer ; for the Repre
sentatives, in the bod' - of the
Hall not provided for the Senators ;
for the tellers, Secretary of the Senate
and Clerk of the House of Representa
tives, at the Clerk’s desk; for the other
officers of the two Houses, in front of
the Cleik’s desk and upon each side of
the Speaker’s platform. Such joint
meeting shall not be dissolved until
the count of the electoral votes shall
be completed and the result declared,
and no racesr shall be taken unless a
question shall have arisen in regard to
counting any such votes or otherwise
under this act, in which case it shall
be competent for either House, acting
separately in the manner hereinbefore
provided, to direct a recess of such
House, not beyond the next day, Sun
day excepted, at the hour of 10 o’clock
iu the forenoon, and while any ques
tion is being considered by said com
mission either House may proceed
with its legislative or other business.
Sec. 6. That nothing in this act shall
be held to impair or affect any right
now existing under the Constitution
and laws to question, by proceeding in
the judicial courts of the United States,
the right or title of the person who
shall be declared elected, or who shall
claim to be President and Vice-Presi
dent of the United States, if any such
right exists.
Sec. 7. That said commission shall
make its own rules, keep a record of
its proceedings and shall have power
to employ such persons as may be nec
essary foj* the transaction of its busi
ness and ike execution of its powers.
Nominations.
Ellis H. Spear, of Maine, has been
nominated Commissioner of Pensions,
and Jalius Griswold, Judge of the North
ern District of Florida,
Further Proceedings of Congress.
House.— The concurrent report of the
Committee on Counting the Electoral
Votes was made, read and recommit
ted—Payne, of Ohio, the chairman,
stating that the report was signed by
the seven members of the House com
mittee and by si* of the seven mem
bers of the Sehate committee, and also
stating that he wpujd qoqu P°
have tfi,e bjll made a special order, so
that it might become a law in good
time, as the day for the proposed meet
ing of the joint convention is two weeks
from to-day, being two weeks earlier
than the day fixed by law.
The resolutions reported by the Se
lect Committee on Privileges of the
House, of which Knott of Kentucky, is
chairman, and which assert that the
President of the Senate has not the
right to copqt the electoral votes, was
debated, but n 9 action taken 6n it,
Senate.— >lr. Edmunds, of Vermont,
the chairman of that committee, said :
“I am directed, Mr. President, by the
Select committee raised under the reso
lution of the Senate, on the subject of
the counting of the eJeotoral yote, to
submit a report id writing, with an ac
companying bill. The report is signed,
I am happy to say, by all the members
of both committees ; it being a report
in form, joint and several, to the two
Houses, With oue exception, and all
that I wish to say on this occasion,
tiftep statiog that we shall desire to
AUGUSTA. GA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1877.
take it up at the earliest possibltday,
a9 time Is running very fast, pe? ibiy,
and I hope indeed, on Saturda. the
day after to-morrow, but certaiiy on
Monday, to press it to a determi
in some form, steadily from tbatf ime
forth. I only wish to say In ad<Jt,ion,
that the committee are of opiniotthat
the measure we recommend is nobvhat
is called a compromise in any se©e of
the term, but is a measure of justte In
aid of the exereise of constltutjmal
government, and that in no sento of
the term will anybody have
right to say that anybody’s opinions or
views have been surrendered in any
substantial respect. It is not a treas
ure of policy or contrivance, hit a
measures of constitutional justi<p for
the preservation of the peace And
order of the government.”
Ordered prihtedf ‘Tieatj secondtime
aud placed on calender.
Adjourned.
Report of the Joint
ceives General Satisfaction—jfeih
ocratic Caucus.
Washington, January 18.—Th re
port of the joint committee is received
with general satisfaction. It wif be
combatted by the more ultra of roth
parties. v
It is regarded as indicative of TCden
and Wheeler, and every sensible peo
ple see no room for Hayes in any of
the features of the proposed bill.
The Democrats of the House hliU a
caucus to-night.
Gen. Hinton discussed the propped
bill. Another caucus for consultation
will be held Monday.
Meeting of the Democratic Executive
Committee"Ch.andler
pswer
Washington, January 18.—The Exec
utive Committee of the Democmtic
party met to-night, Mr. Hewitt presid
ing.
Resolutions were adopted authoriz
ing the chairman and secretary ofthe
committee to call a meeting of the
National Committee at an early day, if
they think iti necessary, in relation to
the proposed National Convention of
the Democratic party, to be held in
this city, February 12th.
Before the Committee on Privileges
aud Duties of the House, Secretary
Chandler declined to answer because of
the confidential character of the com
munications between himself and the
President and other members of the
Cabinet. The Secretary said he had no
more right to disclose what passed be
tween himself and the President than
a United States Senator had to disclose
what occurred in executive session.
Mr. Tucker asked whether the mes
sage to Governor Stearns was sent by
Chandler as a member of the Cabinet.
Mr. Lawrence objected, and the com
mittee went into private session. J
AN ALABAMA RADICAL.
How He Views the Elections of 1876.
Montgomery, January 18.—The fol
lowing resolutions were' oflVqd im foe.
House of Representatives to-day by
Mr. Delmas, a Republican, and refer
red to the Committee/m Federal Rela
tions :
Whereas, information lies roached
this body that reports are being circu
lated in certain quarters to the effect
that the August and November elec
tions of 1876, in this State, were not
fair and legal in a few of the voting
precincts of the same, and that intimi
dation and fraud were practiced iu sev
eral places ; therefore be it,
Resolved, by the General Assembly of
Alabama, that we pronounce any state
ment affecting the fair name of this
State iu the matters of the elections in
the past year, or to the effect of the
foregoing preamble, no matter from
what source it may come, utterly de
void of truth and without any founda
tion whatever, and there can be no
other than a designed, selfish and un
scrupulous object iu the utterance of
such mischievous slanders.
Be it farther resolved, That the un
interrupted peace and harmony which
prevails in the State of Alabama, and
which were characteristic of the con
dition of the State during the past year,
1876, assure those whom it may con
cern of a bright and glorious future
for a people who are earnestly de
siring, by industry and morality and
good government, to rebuild their ma
terial prosperity, and that upon these
facts, attested as they are in numeiuus
ways to the eyes of impartiality and
truth, we felicitate ourselves and con
gratulate every citizen of the American
Union.
FLORIDA.
Progress of the Democrats Toward
the Electoral Vote.
New York, January 17.—The World's
Washington special says Senator Jones,
of Florida, received the following dis
patch:
“Tallahassee, Fla., January 17.
Information of quo warranto has been
decided upon to demurrer in favor of
the Democrats and against the Hayes
electors. This decision is given, by
Judge White of the Circuit G6urt,
the demurrer being made tbit the
Hayes electors having met and'acted,
no Court could consider their eligibili
ty after the fact. By denying the de
murrer, the Court decides that it has
jurisdiction and the case will proceed
to trial upon the main issue as to the
right of the Hayes electors to act at
fill. Meanwhile, the decision on demur
rer will be appealed to the Supreme
Court.”
SENATORIAL-
The Massachusetts Contest.
Boston, January 18.—The third joint
ballot for United States Senator re
sulted as follows : Whole number 274,
necessary for choice 138. Hoar 100,
Boutwell 88, Abbott, 62, Rice 17, Bul
lock 4, Seelye 3. No choice.
Later—Two ineffectual ballots—
Routwell 84-. Hoar J.OL Hepessfiry to
a choice 13$.
Illinois Senatorial Contest.
Springfield, Ills., January 18.—
Tenth ballot, Logan 99, Palmer 86,
Davis 7, Anderson 7, Parish 1, Haines 1.
Tennessee Senatorial Contest.
Nashville, January 18.—Four in
effectual ballots for Senator.
Nebraska Senatorßhip.
Omaha, January 18.—Alviri Saqnd*
ers haq been eleptbd United States
Senator. ' Vl ’
Hung /or Murder.
St, Louis, January 18.—Daniel Price,
negro,was hung at WatTento'n.MiSsouri,’
ttijs morning, for fkg mirnJej: of Samuel
Vaylqr, also a negro, in July last.' Price
declared his innocence to the last.
Another Rank Defaulter.
Annapolis, Md., January 18.— The
Ifou. Geo. Wells, who haß been Presi
dent of the Fanners and Planters Bank
for fifty yeais, is a defaulter for $50,000.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
UNYIELDING PRIDE OF THE
MOSLEM.
The Pope and the Cardinals-—Labor
Troubles in England—Financial De
pression in Russia—Death of a Prin
cess.
Paris, January 18.—The Rome cor
respondent of the Universe says it is
believed the Pope intends to fill up a l l
vacant Cardinalates.
London, January 18.—A Pera special
to the Telegraph reports 'Turkey and
Servia have agreed to exchange prison
's. General Tchernayeff, interviewed
in Paris, said he doubted not the war
wocld be renewed in the Spring. All
Conttaiitinoplo correspondents of Lon
don, journals, and nearly all at other
European centres, express decided
pphion that the Turks will not yield.
The Daily News’ Constantinople dis
patch says the ultimatum is a more
efficUnt document than was at first
supposed. It does not sacrifice execu
tive powers of the international com
mission
At a meeting of masters’ and oper
atives’ committees of the Lancashire
cotton trade, yesterday, the masters
unconditionally rejeoted all the oper
ative conditions, because they would
result in a general advance of wages.
A meeting of operatives will be held.
A rupture is expected.
The Times, in its financial article,
says: “Private advices from Russia
continue to afford strong evidence of
injury already done to the mercantile
community by apprehensions of war.
S-rm of cotton spinners, employing
twelve thousand hands, has lost so
heavily since Russia assumed a war
like attitude that the establishment
would have been compelled to close
had not tue firm obtained assistance,
it is said, from the Government, which
was unwilling to suffer such a catas
trophe to involve so large a number of
emoloyes.”
Berlin, Januaiy 18,— Princess Marie,
sister of the Empress, and wife of
Priuce Charles of Prussia, is dead.
Constantinople, January 18. —It is
understood that one or two million
Turkish pounds of paper money will be
issued.
London, January 18.—A dispatch
from Constantinople, to Reuter’s Tele
graph Compauy, announces that the
Grand Council to-day, after an animat
ed debate, unanimously rejected the
last proposals of the European Powers,
as contrary to the dignity, integrity
and independence of the empire. Sev
eral speeches were made, but perfect
agreement prevailed.
Auother dispatch from Constanti
nople to Reuter’s says, sixty Christians
participated in the Grand Council after
the proposals of the European Powers
had been unanimously rejected.
Midhat Pasha asked whether the Porte
might not, nevertheless, enter upon ne
gotiations with the Powers respecting
tharejfcted points.
Council answered no, and de
claring that the Turkish counter pro
posals were the only subject on which
the discussion of the Conference could
be further carried on.
The French man-of-war Chateau
Rerand, will arrive on Friday to t ike
on Board the Count Chandordy, the
Plenipotentiary of France.
London, January 19.—The Turkish
Grand Council rejected all proposals,
amid shou 1 s of “death before dishonor.”
NEW YORK.
A Bill to Prevent Pool Sailingl—Ex
amination of Hon. W. E. Brown.
New York. January 18.—The General
Sessions grand jury this p. m. made a
presentment to court of an act for the
suppression of pool selling which they
desire to be transmitted to the Legis
lature of that State.
The act recites that any person en
gaging in or having anything to do
with pool selling shall, upon conviction,
be punished by imprisonment in the
State prison for a term not greater
than two years and a fine not more than
62,000 or’both.
The managers of the Cotton Ex
change have amended the rules so that
on and after March first, decimals shall
be used in cotton transactions instead
of fractions as at present. No trans
actions to be made at a less rate than
1-100 per cent.
Horace E. Brown, charged with ne
gotiation of forged checks for 661,225
on the Union Trust Company, was ar
raigned at the Toombs Police Court.
Sworn affidavits were made in the
case by Edward King, President of the
New York Life Insurance Company;
Authony W. Dimock, a Wall street
broker, and Geo. L. Maxwell, connect
ing the prisoner with passing the
forged checks. Brown refused to
make any statement. Further exami
nation postponed until to-morrow.
Carolina Jockey Club.
Charleston, January 18.—Mile and a
quarter dash—Summary : Chance, 1;
A'scote, 2; Maria Barnes, 3; Rutledge,
4. Time, 2:20.
Second race—Hampton stakes for
four year olds* two mile heats. In the
first heat Hatteras, a Planet colt, and
Courier, a Lexington colt, ran the two
miles almost even. At the finish Hat
teras forged a neck ahead and won the
heat. The second heat was a repeti
tion of the first, Hatteras winning by
not quite half a length. Time, 3:50,
3:51.
Third race—Mile and a half dash,
purse 6130—6105 to first horse and 625
to second. Summary : Tom O’Neill, 1;
Brown Asteroid, 2 ; Libbie L., 3. Time,
2:47.
Weather foggy and track heavy.
An Old Negress.
Editor Advertiser— l have in my
employ, ns nurse, an old colored wo
man who says that her name is Polly
Sumter; that she was the servant of
old Gen. Sumter, and a grown woman
at his death ; that after his death she
remained in the family of his only son,
Col. Thomas Sumter, and nursed his
four children, whose names were Thos.
DeLarge, Francis, Sebastian and Bra
zilian ; that she was brought to this
State before the war by Mr. Jqho Jo
sephs, and bought by a speculator
named Proper Dixon; that her pray
ers are ‘‘.that she may live to see her
young masters and mistresses, her old
Carolina home and her only daughter,
Linda, before she dies.” further
says her daughter ymf carried to Vir
ginia by Mr. Johii Brumfield, and that
she would like to know if she is still
living.
This old woman moves "i>out quite
lively, and her memory is splendid.
Virginia and ;South' Carolina papers
would confer a favor on this old
by publishing the above.
r ' ‘ * s.
\ Montgomery [Ala.) Advertiser.
Daily Constitutionalist, 66 per year.
PACKARD A CO.
WHAT A BIG INDIAN SAYS.
A Volley of Blasphemy and Truth.
[WashingtonCor. N.O. Democrat.]
The views of the extreme school of
Radicals here touching the behavior of
their compatriots in your midst, the
carpet-baggers, in the bloodless strug
gle of to-day, are amusing. I doubt if
ever the institution of carpet-baggery
at large or the Louisiana carpet-bag
gers, as individuals, ever received such
a shower of maledictions as has to-day
been invoked upon their cowardly
heads by their confreres, co-conspir
ators and fellow-thieves here in Wash
ington.
“God d—n their cowardly souls,” ex
claimed a Western Republican Senator,
when told that they had yielded at all
points without firing a gun. “Why in
hell andjdamnation didn’t they embrace
their opportunity aud inaugurate or
compel the d—d rebels who attacked
them to inaugurate civil war? They
will never have such another op
portunity ! I suppose the d—d pol
troons feared that some of them
would get their precious heads
smashed ! They seem willing enough
to do the stealing, but when it
comes to fighting they run and call on
us to order"tne troops up to cover their
retreat! I never saw such a dastardly
failure to seize upon a splendid oppor
tunity. Suppose they had resisted and
the rebels of Nicholls’ force had killed
fifteen or twenty of them ? Then they
would have been of some value to the
Republican party. They would have
been martyrs, and we could have used
their fate.to stir up public sentiment
in the North. But no’, God d—n them,
they had to run and slink out and skulk
away to the telegraph office and send
up for the huudreth time that old cry
for help that has become a by-word and
a laughing stock all over the world.
For one I am digusted with carrying
such dead weights.”
And the excited Senator proceeded
to extract some constitutional law from
a demijohn which he keeps in his com
mittee room for occasions of unusual
perils to our institutions.
Said I; “Will you give me permission
to quote you. Senator ?”
“I don’t care if you do. I would as
soon those sheep, those she-goats,
knew ,my opinion of them as not. A
set of men who won’t fight tor their
bread and butter, and who, rather than
run a particle of bodily risk, will let
slip the grandest opportunity of their
lives—may be the last opportunity
they will ever have to render substan
tial service to the party that has helped
them and fed them aud held them up
by the tail for ten years !”
A Villainous Proclamation,
[N. O. Democrat Editorial.|
The telegram of the President to
Gen. Auger seems to have infused a
ray of hope into the heart of Packard,
and private telegrams from Zach
Chandler, telling him that it is abso
lutely necessary for him to make a
fight, have arc used his martial spirit,
and has given birth to a proclamation,
which we print elsewhere, ordering the
Supreme Court and Legislature of the
State, aud the militia and police to dis
perse. Packard, indeed, has actually
assumed a threatening attitude, and, at
this writing, it is generally believed
that he will in a few hours order his
armed gaug to rnovo out of the St.
Louis Hotel to take possession of the
courts and police stations.
Packard and his lieutenants may de- ;
lude the policemen and negroes In
their rauks that they can accomplish
this end, and that, if necessary, they
will bo aided by tbe Federal troops.
They are themselves, however, fully
conscious of the fact that such a
movement will only result in the
slaughter of their dupes. The power
of the Nicholls government in any
such emergency is fully equal to the
fighting strength of New Orleans, and,
in thirty minutes, from eight to ten
thousaud men can be concentrated at
any point to protect the courts and
stations. However formidable the
force may be which Packard has
cooped up in the old hotel, it cannot
reasonably be expected to contend for
ten minutes against the citizens who
will gather to defend their government.
Tho Metropolitans and negroes, with
whom it is proposed by Packard to i
carry out this murderous movement,!
if they are fools enough to engage in
it, will simply be exterminated if they
make any sort of stand.
Mr. Packard knows this perfectly
well. But if he can dupe his men into
the fight, the more of them killed tbe
better it will serve his purpose. If he
can now bring about a terrible collision
on our streets ; if he can urge his
men into an utterly hopeless and dead
ly conflict; if he can to-night telegraph
a horrible tale of bloodshed and death,
of burning buildings, of plundered
of fleeing and panic stricken
citizens, he feels that he will be able to
force Federal interference, and that
the Administration and the whole Ise
puclican party will rally ta his support.
If he can secure the recognition of his
rotten usurpation at the cost of the
blood of his dupes and hirelings, he
will not hesitate to make the venture.
Mr. Packard, however, is playing a
dangerous game. The patience of this
people is well nigh exhausted, and if
they are forced into a conflict which is
calculated and designed to again rob
them of the government of their choice
and the blessings of honest and efficient
administration, their wrath will be
difficult to restrain, and we, lor one,
hope no hand will be able to restrain
it. If Mr. Packard forceathis oonftict,
we appeal to our friends to spare, as
far as final and complete viotory will
permit, the lives of the Metropolitan
and negro dupes. We advise them to
let the full weight of their vengeance
fall upon the leaders of this iniquitous,
murderous anti most damnable scheme,
and to follow Packard into the hotel’
and, if need bo. iuto the Custom House
itself, and hang him from its highest
window.
In conclusion, w$ vouchsafe Mr.
Packard little information.
He hated, loathed, despised by the
great mass of the people of Louisiana,
! who know him to be a heartless ty
rant, a liar and ooward, and he never
can govern this {Stale. If he precipi
tates this conflict, and Federal troops
lntarfere, the interference will avail
him nothing; it will only servo to dis
turb and reduce the State to anarchy.
In no parish or neighborhood do the
people intend to accept the Packard
usurpation, and step by step they will
fight it. They will fight it front town
aud village into the woods, and from
the wooda Into the swamps. Mr. Pack
, aifd cannot govern Dpmsiaw*. We will
accept a mfiitajv government; but we
will EQdupe, the State to a desert before
we submit to four years more of mis
; ery and turmoil under a usurpation
| loathsome, lawless and tyrannical. Let
I Mr. Packard take warning.
GEORGIA JiETVS.
Burglars in Brunswick.
Total valuation of the real estate or
Columbus, 83,826,700.
Some of the Savannah saloons, will
dispense with lree lunch.
They speak of establishing a pauper
farm in McDuffie county.
A 28 pound catamount was killed re
cently in Lowndes county.
A lodge of Knights of Honor has
been organized in Forsyth.
Jackson county is out of debt and
has 85,000 in the Treasury.
The question in Lowndes county is,
County Court, or no County Court ?
A french gentleman in Columbus is
translating “Infelioe” into French.
J. Rhodes Brown has been elected
President of the National Bank of Co
lumbus.
P. R. Hutchins contests the election
of C. L. Allen for Ordinary of Gwinnett
county.
To the Rex ball, in Atlanta, repre
sentatives of the press in Atlanta were
not invited.
The subject of upland rice farming
is agitating the minds of the McDuffie
county farmers.
Miss Callie D. Norris and Mr. David
Johnson, of McDuffie, were married on
New Year’s day.
Twenty thousand salmon eggs have
been placed in the Apalachee near Its
confluence with the Oconee.
The statistics show that two and a
half million dollars are expended an
nually in Georgia for fertilizers.
Incendiaries are at work in McDuffie
county, the barn on tne Iselin farm be
ing destroyed Wednesday night.
Mrs. Alexander Patterson, of Col
quitt, has given birth to seven boy ba
bies in the short space of four years.
The Constitution savs. according to
the heading of the Press, Griffin is a
oue-i’d town. [That is a phonetic way
of doing it.J •
Mr. W m. H. Bonner, of Gordon coun
ty, killed five pigs recently that weigh
ed 1,168 pounds net. The pigs were
nine months old.
Constitution : When an Augusta man
gets drunk ho generally falls into the
Augusta oanal. It is a good remedy.
He is either drowned or made sober.
The efforts thu3 far fail to warrant
the belief in the mind of the editor of
the Journal that his county will enjoy
the blessings of a free school system.
Fourteen thousand five hundred dol
lars more of Atlantic and Gulf change
bills were burned last week, making a
total of 857,000 destroyed since De
cember.
Constitution : Mr. E. K. Allen, form
erly of this city, who moved to Texas
some years ago, after marrying Miss
Floy Bmitb, a North Georgia belle, died
the other day.
' The independent candidates for the
several county offices of Monroe coun
ty were all elected, with the exception
of Coroner, the independent candidate
for that office being a negro.
Florida negroes are engaged in rob
bing their colored brethren in Georgia.
They cross the line under oover of
night, steal all they can carry, and
then hie them back to their fastnesses.
Griffin Press : “Do, Jim Blue, oome
blow your horn.” The negro member
in the House of Representatives from
Glynn county, wearing the beautiful
uame of Blue, puts in his mouth on
every occasion. •
The Jonesboro News says that the
county authorities of Henry oounty re
fusing to advertise in the county pa
per, the proprietor took legal steps to
force them to do their duty as the law
required, and was sustained in his
efforts.
The Rome Courier says; Mr. Dean
Price, of this county, returned from
Texas with his family last week. Some
four months, experience in that coun
try satisfied him that ho preferred
“old Georgia.” We woulu say to all
others, better “look before you leap.”
Columbus Times: Mr. Henry Mc-
Cauley received a letter yesterday
from Jasper, Texas, in which it was
stated that a young man named John
son, from Columbus, Ga., was shot on
Tuesday, the 2d of this month, and
died two days afterwards. We pub
lish this that his friends, if living here,
may know his fate.
Griffin .Press: From a gentleman
who has been iu the country, we learn
that during the past few days, the
wheat crop has put up beautifully and
is as promising as can be. Some of it
that had been in the ground for weeks
has proven an abundant stand. He
thinks more of it has been sown than
for many years.
Griffin Press : Tho nomination of
Capt. John F. Wheatoqto the mayoral
ty of Savannah is one of the most noble
ta true worth we have bad for
a lqng while. During the terrible epi
demic which scourged that city for the
past summer, he did his duty as nobly
as a man cauid. Savannah ha* honor
ed ifgeif iq calling to its chief magistra
cy a gentleman of such high character
and of such noble impulses.
Fort Valley Mirror-. In our last issue
we stated that the oat crop was killed
by the freeze, and that it would be a
failure. A farmer informed us the
other day that he had examined the
roots of his oats and found them to be
uninjured, and that he thought they
would oorae out a rain and make a
pretty fair crop. We sincerely hope
#uch will be the case, as the oat crop is
one the farmers cannot afford to lose.
The Journal publishes the yellow fe
ver statistics of Brunswick; Total who
had fever, 988; number of whites, 672-
number of colored, 376; deaths frcxii
fowl*, 139; whites, 109; colored. 30;
deaths from other causes. ah white
percentage of dea;ha to total cases of
fever, 14.0^. p4#oen.tage of whites who
hf j& 4,6,22; percentage of colored
iwuotmd fever, 7.97; of white
Cemetery reports fifths during epi
demic, usxion of colored oemetery
reports deaths, during epidemic, 30; to
t*yl non-residents who died during epi
demic, 35; total resident# who dV><i dur
ing epidemic, 10^
CgnstfitUftio)}, ; One day last week the
following ominous warning was re-*
celved by Mr. John H. Seals, editor of
tbe Sunny South :• "Editors Sunny
South—Look out for fires every night
especially at II o’clock Saturday night’
and then every other night. Do all
you can to saw the city of Atlanta un
til danger is past. Friends.”— This sir*,
gular note was atflrst lightly treated
but when the alarm vf fir* was sound
ed about l\ q clock Saturday the
gentleman to whom it rxaucuregted
upoke or tue singular coincidence to
some friends. Aooording. to the warn
mg, the danger waq to be apprehended,
principally on alternate eights, Mjoa*
cay bight there were two smarms,
SIX DOLLARS A YEA R
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Mr. John Izard Middleton died on
last Friday, at Summerville.
Mr. Jacob Stack, an old citizen of
Lexington county, was found dead near
Leesville last Saturday.
Rev. Paul Derrick, an able and ex
cellent minister of the Lutheran church
died near Leesville Tuesday.
The drug store of Westmoreland &
Hillhouse, Greenville, was broken open
and robbed Sunday night, January 14.
Greenville, Spartanburg, Laurens
and Pickens counties have entered on
a race to see which will return the
greatest amount of taxes for Hamp
ton. *
The warm weather is thawing the
streets of Greenville, that were frozen
solidly to a depth of six inches. They
are now sloshy and disagreeable ror
travel.
Prof. Harris, of Greenville, narrow
ly escaped a serious accident Mondav
January 15th. His buggy was caught
on the cowcatcher of a train on the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad and
wrecked. The Profossor saved his life
by jumping, but the horse was badlv
cut and bruised.
Says the Col umbia Register of Fridav
last: John R. Abney, Esq. the dim
elected Solicitor of this circuit!qS
fied by taking the oath of office before
Justice J. Q. Marshall yesterday. Mi
xxoney is a promising young meinhpr
of the Edgefield bar, and will make a
capital Solicitor.
Mr. J. R. Cochran, Jr., died at
Hodges, Saturday January 13
from the effects of an overdose of mor
phine administered by himself. Mr
Cochran had been a great sufferer front
rheumatism, and took the drug with
the view of lulling the pain from which
he was suffering.
Suppose the Chamberlain officials
should go through the farce of selling
people s property for non-payment of
the so-called taxes—where will the pur
chasers oome from ? And how will the
pretended purchasers get possession *
Can Chamberlain answer? Can Elliott
answer? Can any other of the thieves
answer ?—Edgefield Advertiser .
Abbeville, S. C., January 16—The
ten negroes convicted of the Lowndes
ville murder were sentenced by Judge
Cooke to-day, to be hung at this place
on the third Friday in next April In
addressing them Judge Cooke said that
there was no hope of Executive clern
ency. Bluford Jones, colored, convict
ed of manslaughter, was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
The colored man, Hendricks, who
has been confined in the Columbia jail
for several weeks, on suspicion of be
ing a counterfeiter, is now charged
with robbing the mail in New York
Monday morning, Deputy Mars’aai
Grant took out a warrant and hack the
prisoner brought before United States
Commissioner Wilkes for robbing the
mails. He was bouud over to appear
at the next session of ifie United
States Court.
, contest for the Auditor’s office
m Walterboru has assumed anew
phase. While Messrs. Raul and Grace
n ere contending for the position and
possession of the boots, Mr. George
rupper arrived with a commission
from Governor Hampton and put in
ms claims for the office. Paul who is
m possession of the office and books
refused to recognize his authority aud
holds the fort. The County Commis
sioners propose to oust Trial Justice
Brook and put Tupper in the grand
jury room.
McEvoy, the murderer, has been
safely lodged in Aiken jail, and it is
pretty certain that any future attempts
at escape will be futile. He is chained
to the floor, his wooden leg and crutch
have been removed, and extra fasten
ings placed upon the door and window
He Is a desperate character, and was
held in such terror by the people of
Graniteville, that although it was gen
erally believed that bo was lurking
about that town.no effort was made
to arrest him. His family are very
respectable.
The store of Messrs. Walker & Bro.,
at Midway, was broken into on Satur-’
day night, January 13th, and robbed
of a quantity of goods. One of tbe
robbers, a negro by the namo of J.
Jinkins, was captured at Branchville
Monday, and a large quantity of goods
recovered. There was also captured
with the thief goods which had been
previously stolen from Bamberg, Wii
liston, Aiken, Blaekvifie and other
places. The Sheriff t>t Orangeburg,
with a posse, was after the other
thieves who weru engaged in the Mid
way robbery,
Abbeville Medium ; Mr, Earlie L.
Jennings, general traveling agent for
the Augusta Constitutionalist, was in
town for several days the past week,
and succeeded in getting a large num
ber of subscribers to his already wide
ly circulated and very able paper. Ho
is a very pleasant and agreeable gen
tleman, aud iu connection with his
newspaper canvass is also in search of
a wife—some rich widow or young girl,
piety and beauty not objected to, just
so she has the money. During the late
campaign the Constitutionalist made
a hard fight for the Democracy—it is
an earnest and powerful advocate of
Southern rights and deserves to be
patronized.
Proctor Knott’s Little Jokr..
I Washington Dispatch to N. Y. F.erald.J
Asa part of the gossip of the hour,
there is a well-authenticr, te( j story in
reference to the committee on the pow
ers of the House in regard to the elec
toral vote, which ia told as follows:
Prof. Seelye, a tow days ago, was mak
ing a very learned argument on that
part of the. Constitution which says
ttaft “the President of tho Senate shall,
m the presence of the Senate and
House of Representatives, open all the
certificates, and the vote shall then bo
counted,” Mr. Seelye, who is a Re
publican, was of course maintaining
that Mr. Ferry, the President of the
Senate, had the clear and indisputable
right, not only to open the votes, but
to do the counting.
At a particularly vigorous and elo
quent point in his argument, Mr. Proc
tor Knott, the Chairman of the codj
iaittee {so the story goes), remark ed ;
“Professor, I do not wish to interrupt
you in your eloquent constitutional ar
gument, but I want you to explain to
me an invitation I have jUB t received
to dinner, the interpr^ tat i 0 n of which
perplexes mo a deal. i t j 8 & fol
lows ;
“ ‘The pleasure of your company is
tequestiju a t dinner to-morrow even
ing, fit Welcker’s. to meet Professur
Seelye and other distinguished gentle
men. The dishes will be uncovered by
the steward at precisely 7 o'clock, and
the dinner will Lhm ky eaten.’
“Now, what I want you to interpret
for me, professor,* said Mr. Knott, “is
who is to eat the dinner—the steward,
or you and I and the rest of thq
guests ?”