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ESTABLISHED 1799.1 IJKJSSHT. DAILY $6 per year TRI-WEEKLY .$4 “ WEEKLY $2 “ “ Cheapest and Best Political, Local and General News Paper in the Southern States. BY TELEGRAPH —TO THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Associated Press'Dlspatohes. FROM WASHINGTON. BAYARD’S GREAT SPEECH. He Makes a Powerful Plea for Justice to the Soutn—Blaine Reads a Letter from Chamberlain, who is Asked to Resign—The Cabinet Appointed— Don Cameron Disgusted—A Lively Row Among the Radicals—Kellogg to Stay Out in the Cold Awhile. Washington, March 7.—The letter al luded to in the following from the Republican, was written by Stanley Matthews and endorsed by Wm. M. Evarts. General Banks, of the House South Carolina Investigating Committee, and the Uuited States Marshal for South Curolina, called upon President Hayes this morning and had a brief conversa tion on the political situation in that State. The President stated to Gen. Banks that he would have to excuse any expression of views on that sub ject at this time, as he had determined to take some day for its full conside ration, and not to act until conferring with his Cabinet; that he would then deal with this subject in both South Carolina and Louisiana. It is stated that a lettei has been written to Gov. Chamberlain by a prominent friend of President Hayes, and endorsed by another friend, inti mating that Gov. Chamberlain’s resig nation would be acceptable. Tne Cabinet had not been arranged at midnight. Neither Blaine, Morton, ConkliDg nor anybody is satisfied. The administration leader in the Senate is not yet indicated. It may be Stanley Matthews, who is to succeed Sherman. Should Hayes, by disregarding the pledges of his managers, fail to pacify Louisiana aud South Carolina, his ad ministration wiil open with deplorable difficulties. His only safety is thought to be to cling to the coalition, which, liaviug the safety of these States in view, forced the count of the electoral vote to an issue before the fourth of March. Honor and safety urge him to fulfill thd pledges made for him by his managers. Don Cameron, ex-Seeretary of War, is quoted as saying: “We had better ihive had Til^ea.” Nominations: Secretary of State, Wm. M. Evarts, of New York; Secreta ry of the Treasury, John Sherman, of Ohio; Secretary of War, George W. McCrary, of Iowa; Secretary of the Navy, B. M. Thompson, of Indiana; Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz, of Missouri; Attorney-General,Charles Ideveus, of Massachusetts; Postmaster- General, David M. Key, of Tennessee. Senator Davis uses the chair which Dixon H. Lewis filled twenty years ago. It had beeu carefully preserved in the room of the Committee on Commerce. All Cabinet nominations were refer red to a committee. An usual course. The Republican Senators exhibited very ugly feeling in the execuiive ses sion. Ex-Senator Robertson presented to President Hayes, Gen. Ker shaw, Judge T. J. Mackey, Ex- Gov. R. K. Scott and Father J. H. Ryan, of South Carolinia, who presented a letter from Hampton to the President. Kellogg’s credentials were referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elebtions. In the Senate, Mr. Bayard, of Dela ware, who was entitled to the floor, said his reasons for moving to refer the credentials of Mr. Kellogg to the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections were those warranted by the unbroken usages of this body, so far as he was informed, since its organization. The credentials of Mr. Kellogg did not cre ate a prima facie case, because they were signed by Stephen B. Packard, who was not Governor of Louisiana, either dejure or de facto. On the con trary, the Senate must take cognizance of the public fact that Francis T. Nick oils was the Governor of the State and had a legal Legislature acting in accord with him; that they had contiol of every part of the State of Loui siana except about one acre, upon which stood a hotel used by Packard as a State House. He argued that Nicholls was the only Governor of the State to-day, and his certificate was the only one the Senate of the United States could justly respect. This case was not new, but it demanded the same consideration that it did in 1873, when the discussion was con tinued at such length. He argued that it was the duty of the Senute to see that the State of Louisiana was repre sented here by two persons, but those persons must bo chosen by her lawful Legislature. He then referred to the use of the military in the South, and said there was au admission of the outgoing administration, tardy but hon est, that the use of the military to up hold State governments had been tried but with no good result. He then quoted from tbe telegram of the late President to the effect that a govern ment which could not maintain itself without aid of the strong arm of the military, should be permitted to go down. He (Mr. Biyard) viewed that language as a paraphrase of the lan guage of the Declaration of Independ ence, under which our people took up arms to make them fiee. Ex-President Grant, who came into the chamber soon after the Senate met, was an attentive listener to the above remarks or Mr. Bayard. Continuing his argument, Mr. Bayard commented on the legality of the Lou isiana Returning Board, and spoke of the proof in regard thereto offered be fore the Electoral commission. He said a majority of that Commission, claiming that they were only imbued with the counting power of the tvro Houses of Congress, held that they could not look into the charges of fraud against that Returning Board. There was in that decision a blow to his fondest hopes and belief in law. He then referred to the remarks of Mr. Edmunds in the Pinchbaek case in 1875, and said that Senator based his objection to Pinchbaek on the illegality pf the Louisiana Returning Board. He Auguste then replied to the argument of Mr. Blaine, that the decision of the Electo ral Commission was binding upon the Senate, and contended that that decis ion had no force in law to control the action of the Senate. Mr. Blaine asked if the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) did not sat isfy himsolf, as a member of the Elec toral Commission, of the legality of the competency and constitutionality of the Returning Board ? t Mr. Bayard said the Senator from Vermont gave as his reason for accept ing the Louisiana Returning Board his want of power to examine into its re turns and composition. Continuing his argument, he said that the Commission refused to take testimony, which the Senate was bound to take. The remarks of the Senator from Maine yesterday led him, with much abruptness, to challenge the po sition of the President of the United States. The new President seemed to recognize, as at the last did his prede cessor, the true condition of affairs in Louisiana. Mr. Bayard then quoted from the inaugural address of President Hayes in regard to Southern affairs and said they were wise words. He (Mr. Bay ard) recognized in the distressed con dition of the country the need of that which the President proclaimed in re gard to the Southern States. The peace of Louisiana was the peace of all,and her destruction was the destruc tion of all. He argued that the recog nition of the Packard government and the forcible overthrow of the Nieholls government would not only shock the very souls of the people of Louisiana, but would cause a thrili in every bosom in this laud, He asked for Louisiana to-day the same measure of law and justice that he would ask for Massa chusetts. Mr. Bayard aguia referred to the re marks of Mr. Blaine, made yesterday, aud said he recognized in them the same cry for sectioual aggression that had been heard for years past. It fell upon his ear like a fire bell at midnight, and he earnestly hoped it would not be heard by the President and his con stitutional advisers. In conclusion he deprecated this sectional aggression and hoped there would be an end to it now. Mr. Blaine had the following letter read : Columbia, S. C., March 6, 1877. To Hon I). T. Corbin : I have just had a long interview with Haskell, who briDgs letters to me from Stanley Matthews and Mr. Evaits. The purport of Matthews’ letter is that I ought to yield my rights for the good of the country. This is embarrassing beyond endurance. If such action is desired, I want to koow it authorita tively. lam not acting for myself and I cannot assume such responsibility. Please inquire and telegraph me to night. D. H. Chamberlain. Mr. Blaine’s Speech. Mr. Blaine, of Maine, argued that the same Returning Board which gave the electoral vote of Louisiana to Hayes and Wheeler returned a Legis lature Republican in both its branches, ana S. B. Packard as Governor. The Legislature assembled, as provided by law, and elected Wm. P. Kellogg United States Senator. His election was legal and valid. He then referred to the remarks of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Bay ard), and to his course at the Electoral Commission, and said that the Sena tor, as a member of the Commission, never once voted with the majority of the Judges ou that Commission. Mr. Bayard —Oh yes, the Senator has not followed the facts of that case at all. Mr. Blaine—So far as test questions came. Ido not know what the littte courtesies asi ie may have been. Ou all test questions known to the public I think the Senator is uniformly on record against the majority of the J udges. Mr. Bayard—The Senator has not read the record and does not seem to know much about it. Mr. Blaine —I except Croniu’s case. I think the Senator did drop partisan ship on Cronin’s case. Continuing his remarks, Mr. Rlaiue said : Now, Mr. President, this is a simple question. It is a simple invita tion to this side of the Chamber from the other to abandon the ground ou which the people of the United States have accepted the election of Hayes and Wheeler yesterday. I spoke of back-door whisperings aDd talk in cor ridors, and asked if any Senator knew that there was any sort of understand- i ing. I asked then, and I ask now, if there is any gentleman on this floor who stands vouener or sponsor for that understanding. There has been put iu my hands at this moment a telegram which I feel authoiized to read; nay, which I am requested to read, and I think it may throw some light on the subject. 1 profess to be a plain, blunt man. I do not want any bide-am - ;eek on this subject. I want positions to be clearly tuk -u and frankly Avowed. I read this telegram not exactly bearing ou tbe Louisiana question, but kindred to it, and possibly kiudred dispatches are circulating in New Orleans this moment for the sur render and abandonment of that State. The dispatch is handed me by the gen tleman, now on this floor, and claiming to be a Senator elect from S. C. I asked who had been doing the whis pering in the corridors, and the answer comes from Columbia. Is there any Senator on this floor, who de sires to stand sponsor for that dispatch or for the policy that it covers? Is there any Senator here who proposes to abandon the remnant that is left of the Republican party between the Potomac and the Rio Grande, and that it shall go down for the public good, as Stanley Mat thews puts it ? Being a little of a par tisan differing in that respect from the Senator from Delaware, I am not ready for that. I do not propose either at the back of Mr. Stanley Matthews x>r Evarts to say that the public good re quires that the remnant of the brave men who have borne the flag and the brunt of the battle in the Southern States, against persecutions unparal leled in this country, shall retire for the public good. [Loud applause.] I do not propose it. lam here to do battle with any one, Id my humble way, who espouses that policy. I lay that gage down for any Senator who will stand sponsor to the suggestions of Mr. Stanley Matthews and Mr. Evarts on the question. Nor am I to be dis lodged from my position by a quota tion from the late President of the United States, of whom I would only speak in terms of personal respect, be cause the late President of the United States having, like every one of the rest of us, the right to change his mind and alter his views of public policy, did not, in the dispatch read by the Senator from Delaware, maintain the same attitude which he main tained in the dispatch which I shall now read : The following dispatch was received Sunday evening, at headquarters of the Department of the Gulf: Washington, January 17, 1877. Gen. C. C. Augur, New Orleans, La.: It has been the policy of the Admin istration to take no part in the settle ment of the question of rightful gov ernment in the State of Louisiana, at least not until the Congressional Com mittee now there have made their re port. But it is not proper to stand quietly by and see the State govern ment gradually taken possession of by one of the claimants for Gubernato rial honors by illegal means. The Supreme Court set up by Mr. Nioholis can receive no more recognition than any other equal -number of lawyers convened at the call of any other citizen of the State. A Returning Board existing in accordance with law has judicial as well as minis terial powers over the eount of the votes, and, in declaring the result of the late election hes given certificates of election to the Legislature of the State. A legal quorum of each House holding such certificates met and de clared Mr. Packard Governor. Should there be a majority for the recognition of either it must be Packard. You may furnish a copy of this dispatch to Packard and Nieholls. “U. S. Grant.” The President, it will be observed, stated in the case in January, with the facts all before him, just as I have stated to-day, and he gives a very cor rect portraiture of the Nieholls ju diciary, and highly lauded by the Sena tor from Delaware. The Senator from Delaware said that the few innocent remarks which I made yesterday sounded to him like the fire bell in the night. They seemed destined to re kindle the fires of sectional aggression. That Senator and myself represent different schools in politics. We come trom different sections. We have re presented different ideas before the war and during the war, and since the war wholly and en tirely different. While I have the greatest respect and the kindest regard for him personally, I do not propose to take his advice on this question. I do propose for myself as long as I may be entrusted with a seat on this floor, that whoever else shall halt or grow weak in maintaining it, so long as I have the strength I will stand for Southern Union men of both colors, and when I cease to do that, before any presence North or South, in official bodies or before public assemblies, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth and my right hand forget its cunning. Morton followed in favor of Kellogg. The question being on the substitute from Bayard for the original resolution of Mr. Blaine in the case of Kellogg was then agreed to; yeas 35, nays 29. The substitute is as follows : That the case of Wm. Pitt Kellogg, claiming to be a Senator from the State of Louisi ana, do now lie upon the table until the appointment of a Committee on Privi leges Elections, to whom they can be referred. The vote in detail was as follows: Yeas—Messrs. Bailey, Bar num, Bayard, Bogy, Booth, Burnside, Christiaucy, Coke, Conkliug, Davis, of Illinois, Davis, of West Virginia, Den nis, Eaton, Garland, Gordon, Harris, Hereford, Hill, Johnston, Jones, of Fla., Jones, of Nevada, Reman, Lamar, Mc- Creery, McDonald, McPherson, Maxey, Morrill, Randolph, Ransom, Salsbury, Thurman, Wallace, White aud Withers, 35, Nays—Messrs. Allison, Anthony, Blaine, Bruce, Cameron of Pennsyl vania, Conover, Dawes, Dorsey, Ham lin, Hoar, Howe, Ingalls, Kirkwood, McMillan, Mitchell, Morton, Oglesby, Paddock, Patterson, Plumb, Rollins, Sargent, Saunders, Sharon, Sherman, Teller, Wadleigh and Windcm—29. Mr. Patterson, of South Carolina, submitted a resolution that tho cre dentials of David T. Corbin and M. C. Butler, each claiming a seat as Senator from the State of South Carolina, lie upon tho table until the committees are appointed, and that their creden tials shall then be referred to the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections. Agreed to. Mr. Moiton moved to go into execu tive session. Mr. Bayard requested the Senator to withdraw that motion, that he might offer a resolution to have Gen. John T. \Jorgun, Senator-elect from Alabama, sworn in. Mr. Motton decliued to do so. The motion for au executive session was rejected by 30 yeas to 31 uays. A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Rodgers, his Secretary, on Cabinet nominations. Mr. Bayard then submitted a resolu tion that the credentials of John T. Morgan, Senator elect frotn Alabama, be taken from the table, and that he be sworn. Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, said he desired to speak upon this res lo tion, but was not able to go ou to-day. Several Senators insisted that he should go on. After a biief discussion. Mr. Morrill, of Vetmont, renewed ti e motion for an executive session, and it was agreed to. Tne Diplomatic Corps Call on the President—Postmaster Gen. Key’s Latter to Hayes-The Cabinet Offi cers Handed to the Senate—They Are all Objected to and are Referred to the Proper Committees—The Ad mission of the Alabama and South Carolina Senators Referred—Demo cratic Caucus—An Extra Session of Congress in June. The diplomatic corps visited the Presi dent to-day. An extract from a letter, written by Postmaster General Key,February 16th, is as follows : “I am ready to do all I can to restore confidence and good gov ernment to the people of the S mth. This can only be done by a hearty fraternization of tho sections, for vviii-h I have labored. * * * It, without requiting of me the sacri fice of my personal or political inde pendence, you find my num- can b • used for the good of the South in vour best judgment, you are at liberty to use it. If I were to become a member of an administration, I should not feel myself at liberty to place myself in opposition to its general policy, but should feel bound to build it up and strengthen it in the hearts of the people, and if the time,arrived when I could not heartily co-operate with it. I should resign. As matters are in the South, I could be more useful to our people by an independent position, and if, as I hope and believe the adminis t ration will develop a broad and liberal policy for the South, I would not hesi tate to incorporate my fortunes and seir with it.” This letter was before President Hayes last night, when he had a con sultation with Mr. Key, prior to his final selection as Postmaster-General. When the nominations of the new Cabinet officers were delivered to the Senate, at 2:20 p. m. to-day, by Mr. Rodgers, the Private Secretary to the AUGUSTA, GA„ MARCH 8, 1877. President, the greatest anxiety was manifested by all the Senators to learn the names of the appointees. The list having been delivered by the Door keeper to the Vice-President, a number of Senators eagerly rushed forward to examine it. and in a very few minutes the new Cabinet was the common talk all over the Capitol. Just after the message was delivered J Mr. Patterson, of South Carolina, sub-.- mitted a resolution to refer the creden- j tials of D. T. Corbin and M. C. Butler,/ each olaiming a seat in the Senate from the State of South Carolina, to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, when appointed, but the anxiety was: so great among many Senators on the Republican side of tne Chamber to go into executive session that there was an indisposition to consider the resolu tion. It was agreed to, however, with out discussion, and then Mr. Bayard submitted one to have John T.' Mor-, gan, Senator elect from Alabama,' sworn in, but Mr. Spencer took the I floor to oppose it, and a motion for an : executive session, at 2:30 p. m., was j agreed to. J. When the doors were closed there' was quite a lively scene in the Senate Chamber. Under the rule of the Senate a single objection to the present con sideration of any nomination, refers it to the appropriate committee, and when the very first one, that of Mr. Evarts to be Secretary of State, was announced, Mr. Blaine moved its reference to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Then there was an earnest discussion, io which some of the Republicans ex hibited much indignation at some oi the nominations, and finally it seemed to be generally acquiesced in that all must be referred aud that none of them should be confirmed. Mr. Conkling demanded the refer ence of the nomination of Mr. Schurz to the appropriate committee, aud ( quite a number of Senators demanded" the reference of Mr. Key’s nomination. lii fact, there was more or less objec tion to every one of them, and there is every probability of au excited debate over them when they come before the Senate again. The executive session continued about twenty-five minutes, when tho doors were reopened and the Senate adjourned. After the adjournment the Demo cratic Senators met in caucus and fully discussed the policy to bo pursued by them on the nominations, as to vothij* for their confirmation or rejeetieu. From tne general tenor of the debate, it is believed that Southern Democratic Senators will use their power in Ae" Senate to induce the refuse any recognition of Louisiana or Chamberlain in SoutT' Carolina. It is said by them that if she administration wiil stand firmly ou Im - policy of non-intervention in the affair of those States, Southern Democrats * .1 support it to that extent. T’-ey m.i) - tain that, to accomplish this through the divisions in the Republican ratlr , will be to win the victory for whjch they have so long contended. As t e committees of the Senate will notLe appointed before Friday, the nomil tions cannot be considered in the eq i inittee before that day, and thereforl it is not likely that they wU ho lf in the Senate for several been customary to confim* nth nominations of poisons who jj 4V ej boon nxembeife of the with# out the previous formality of a reference. This is done as a com pliment to a brother Senator, as they, from his service in the Senate, know his character, without any investiga tion in regard thereto by a committee. But iu the case of Senator Sherman, to-day, the custom was violated, it is said, at the suggestion of Mr. Came ron, of Pennsylvania, who demanded that his nomination be referred to the Committee on Finance. Dorsey, Spencer and Patterson are represented as having been earnest in their opposition, in secret session, to Evarts, Schuiz and Key. The present intention of the Presi dent is to convene Congress in extra session about the first of June. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Death, of Jacoby—Opposition to Igna tieff—Papal Consistory. London, March 7.-Dr. Joahan Ja coby, the well known German politi cian, is dead. The English press is nearly unani mous in disapproval of the project which is believed to be the basis of Gen. Ignatieff’s mission. The prevail ing sentiment is that it would be un wise to purchase demobilization of the Russian army by a practical surrender of the treaty of Paris, and concession to Russia of a future right to establish a protectorate over Turkey’s European provinces. Even if Turkey were able to work out satisfactory reforms, Rus sia or Russian societies would not give her an opportunity to do so. Rome, March 7.—The Consistory for the nomination of new Cardinals and Bishops will be held on the 12th inst. LOUISIANA. New Orleans, March 7.—The Repub lican State Central Committee to-day unanimously passed a resolution call ing upon ex Governor Pinchbaek to re sign as President of the Committee and member of the National Republi can Committee before March 17th, to which day it adjourned. Maj. E. A. Burke returned to-day from Washington. From assurances oeived, he is satisfied that Nicholle’ government will not be disturbed. Bayou Sava, La., March 7.—D. A. Weber, for the past few days has beeu walking the streets, armed with a shot gun and in a defiant way, threatening many citizens. He was shot to-day and instantly killed, as ho was passing the Court House. The Coroner is in vestigating. Destructive Fire—Great Failure -Fa tal Kerosene Accident. New York, March 7.—Nos. 1,3 and 5 Bond street burned. Loss $500,000. The whole building was occupied by dealers and manufacturers of watches jewelry and plate. Tho greater part of the merchandise was locked up in safes and may be safe. The Gorham Manu facturing Company occupied a portion of the building. Their losses are heavy. John T. Hoyt, a prominent operator in railroad stocks, was aajudged a vol untary bankrupt. Nominal liabilities $1,730,526. 8 ’ Two ladies, Mrs. Ursula Terhune aged 73, and Mrs. Eleanor Kelt, aged 63, were burned to death at Hacken sack, Monday, by the explosion of a kerosene oil lamp. Ex Gov. Fenton Interviews Gov- Hampton and Chamberlain. Columbia, March 7.—Ex-Gov. Fen ton, of New York, was here to-dav and had lengthy interviews with Gov ernors Chamberlain and Hampton A SEARCHING REVIEW. ' H® PHILOSOPHY' OF THE 81TUA- tion, and hat Hon. John Bigelow Thinks of Hayes and His Policy—The Power Behind the Throne-Uneasy Is the Head that Wears A Crown of Fraud. [New York Herald 4th.] IT AN INAUGURATION OB A FUNERAL? J Reporter—Well, Mr. Secretary, we ave a President at last. * -Mr. Bigelow—A provisional Presi cut you mean. The people elect i residents In this country. TANARUS,? e n 0 J ter ~ Would you intimate that morrn J Qt \° be or S aniz ed to- Mr wi be S? ,y a Provisional one? Mr. B.gelow—Only a provisional gov ,All tbo government* are pro visional that are illegitimate. Hayes .*as not elected by the people. Everv *>dy knows it; everybody feels it. Had ho been some would have begun to re j ice by this time. It is fortv-eight /lours already since he was declared HaVe you heard a un ’red? Have you seen a flag hoistea? Jiiat thrown into the air? or remarked yiy other manifestation of popular -htisfaction such as usually attends the 1 aumph of a great party? One would -suppose from their appearance and be havior that the Republicans were nre i aring for Hayes’ funeral rather than ror his inauguration, and that his •k lends had been requested not to send bowers. Reporter—But, legitimate or illegiti mate, Hayes is to all intents and pur roses as much a President as Grant or Lincoln was, is he not? 7** r - Bi gelow—By no means. He will ee invested with the symbols of power to-morrew, but the power will not be aere. His thunder will be of sheet iron, and his lightning wiil uofc kilL iHuen, by virtue of the sovereignty with which the people clothed him in \o\ember, without title or patronage, without truncheon or sceptre, will re main a greater political force in the country than Hayes can possibly be tiome. The fact is, and it would be roily to disguise it, our political system Bas for once miscarried ; to use a com eercial phrase, it has failed to meet j engagements and gone to protest. Reporter—Do you mean that we have realized Macauley’s prediction that un der out institutions libertv or civiliza tion must be sacrificed ? ' FOUR YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PROTEST. Mr. Bigelow— By no means. A horse tiuit thaws its halter has not escaped. Uui republican institutions have stumbled, but not fallen. They have suspended, but are not bankrupt. Their eredit is impaired, but can and must be restored. The work of restoring it must begin at once. For the next four years our political life must be one con- Ainuous moral protest against the pro cesses by which Hayes’ elevation lias 2>een accomplished, in order, as Gover nor Tilden said, “not to naturalize the 'system by which success bas now been achieved.” You now understand what J mean by calling the government of i£vieh Hayes wiil oe the nominal head a provisional government. Hayes’ ad ministration will be compelled to strug through every moment of its exist- WKec/under tin* fatal eurse of illegiti macy, and when it expires history will appropriate to it the epitaph of the Spanish slave: “I wept when I was born, and every moment I have lived has been teaching me why.” Reporter—How can you question Mr. Hayes’ title ? The law under which he was counted in would never have passed but for Democratic votes, and it is even said to have had its origin in the Democratic party. Mr. Bigelow—The Republicans threa tened revolutionary measures. Sena tor Morton proposed to have the Presi dent of the Senate usurp the uupr • cedented and, under a popular gove ment, absurd authority to count t electoral vote. That meant two Pres dents and civil war, or the retreat of one of the parties. To avoid the risk of one of these alternatives, some of the Democrats in Congress, taking counsel of their fears, like the spies whom Moses sent to report upon the land of Canaan, others of their desire to escape responsibility, and all, per haps, supposing that the result would be the same in either case, assented to the gambling device which has made Hayes provisional President. The Democratic party, as a party, desired a peaceful and orderly solution of the Presidential problem. They could not hope to benefit by any departure from the precedents which had been sanc tioned by twenty-one separate Con gresses, and which the Republican party, at three consecutive Presidential elections, had deliberately pronouuced good ; but they were not disposed to resist any expedient which would have a tendency to quiet the public mind. To that extent, and no further, the Democratic party assented to the counting machine. I did not ap prove of it, and did what little I could to discourage its adop tion. I foresaw nothing but mischief from any effoit of the two Houses of Congress to evade their constitutional responsibilities. My apprehensions have been more than realized. Rut whether they did right or wrong in calling in outsiders to aid in counting the electo ral vote, they had no right to consult outsiders except as experts; they could ask their opinions, but they could not bind themselves in advance to be gov erned by those conclusions. So far, however, from acting as experts and enlightening their constituent bodies by the r investigation, the Commis sioners began their work by putting out one of their eyes. They proclaimed their determination neither to take noi read any of the testimony which their Congressional constituents had spent jtwo or three mouths in collecting* for j this very purpose, and after thus de liberately blinding themselves, they proceeded to discharge the trust which hud been confided to them precisely as if their blindness was connate aud not deliberate. WHAT THE MINORITY OK THE COMMISSION SHOULD HAVE DONE. The fact instead of increasing they reduced the information which the Houses of Congress placed at their disposal is a practical admission that the use of that information would have compelled them to different conclusions and convicts the majority of a delibe rate purpose to count in Hayes without reference to the law or the testimony. The moment that was apparent, as it was when they decided the Florida case, it was manifest that the Electoral Commission wa3 not the sort of tribu nal which Congress had either the pur pose or the power to create, nor the one which the people supposed had been created. I urged that the mi nority judges, when thus deprived of the rights necessary for a satisfac tory performance of their trust, should decline to accept any further refer ences from the Houses of Congress. Hope, however, that springs eternal in the human breast, and in this case most unfortunately, made those to whom this advice was addressed think there were some things yet to be done before Hayes could be counted in so shamefully and erroneously that at least a majority of the Commissioners would shrink from them. On that point they are now undeceived, I presume. Reporter—After all, will the Demo crats not soon forget this ? The French Republicans soon stopped discussing Louis Napoleon’s title to the crown. “ FORGIVENESS IS DISHONOR.” Mr. Bigelow—l think too well of my country people to suppose they will ever give their confidence to a govern ment which is the apotheosis of fraud and violence. They are not ready to abdicate. They know full well that the moment they condone what has just been done at Washington, that moment they concede that a title to the Presidency can be acquired by the means which have placed Hayes in the White House, or by any other means than a fair expression of the popular will, and they also know that from that moment popular government with us becomes a chimera and personal gov ernment ensues with its inevitable inci dents—a venal or restricted press, an obsequeous Legislature, a time-serving judiciary, a post office and telegraph system like the whispering gallery of Dionysius—treacherous instruments of partisan vengeance and public oppres sion. Our people are tolerably familiar with the ways in which other nations have lost their liberties, and if there is any one danger against which they are least likely to be off their guard I think it is piecisely that which would follow their covering with the mantle of for giveness the processes by which their sovereignty has been violated. They will not forgive it. They will not, they cannot for one moment forgive if. For giveness is dishonor, it is servitude. They must and will perform their du ties as citizens under continuous pro test. Like the violated sister of Abso lqm, they must sit w'tn ashes on their heads till this national outrage has been expiated. That is not a state of things favor able to new enterprises, to bold or suc cessful financial adventures, when the Government is struggling helplessly with the devil to whom it has sold it self, and the people are afraid to ex tend a hand to it for foar of being com promised as its friend or confederate. ONLY MORAL RESISTANCE TO BE OFFERED. Reporter—But you don’t apprehend any disposition- in any faction of the Democratic party to resist Hayes’ ad ministration V Mr. Bigelow—There’s no sueh dispo sition, as far as I know, anywhere, and if there should be it wiil not be the pe culiar property of either of the two parties. I believe tho country is at this moment unanimous in its accept ance of Mr. Hayes as the Chief Magis trate, but who can answer for the su premacy of a magistrate who comes to power by what (to a large majority of the country) is regarded as a usurpa tion V Lacking the moral authority which always hedues abou£ t.tye iegiti | mate sovereign, Mr. Hayes "wm find ' bimself obliged to supplement what power he has by unpopular devices, to | eke out the lion's skin with the fox’s. He must continually struggle with the feebleness of his birthright. One exer cise of illegitimate power can only be maintained by a continuous series of usurpations. Reporter—But may not Hayes ap point a Cabinet which will command the confidence aud support of the en tire couLtry y Mr. Bigelow—lf he does his admin istration will “die aborning,” It would require him to turn his back upon every man who bus had anything to do with his upheaval, and they are so entrenched at Washington for at ast one more session of Congress lat he is at their mercy. THE POWER OK THE SHERMAN FAMILY. Reporter—Won’t the country be sat isiied with John Sherman in the Treas ury ? Mr. Bigelow—The nomination of Sherman for the Treasury means Gen eral Sherman for the succession in 1880. It was John’s intention and ex pectation that the General would have been nominated in place of Hayes, but he covered his potatoes a little too deep; they did not sprout till after the Convention at Cincinnati. Reparter—l don’t understand what you mean by planting his potatoes too deep. Mr. Bigelow—lt is not necessary that you should at present. I don’t sup pose Hayes would understand it either. I don’t suppose he has any idea that in putting Sherman into the Treasury he is uniting the purse and the sword in practically the same hands and thereby rendering “Returning Boards,” which are just now unpopular, no longer necessary. Under such an ar rangement they can be made the scape goat for the sins of the last adminis tration and driven into the wilderness, to the infinite ediilcation of these dear old ladies who delight in holding emergency conferences and are always curing the political diseases of the country by sounding manifestoes. HAYES’ CABINET. What! Hayes make a Cabinet that will deserve the confidence of the coun try ! It is impossible. The stream can not rise higher than the fountain. The creature does not argue with its Crea tor; the marble does not argue with the sculptor that fashions it; the tree does not argue with the sun that feeds it. Is Cameron a man whose presence in the Cabinet would inspire confidence? Yet he must be there in person or by his representative. He made Hayes Piesi dent. Hayes’Presidency is purely the creation of the War Department. Then there are Morton, Hoar, Blaine and Conkliug, each the head of an impor tant faction at Cincinnati, but neither thought quite worthy of public confi dence by their party. These men, who have borne the burden and heat of the day, will they consent to take their cold cut in the kitchen while your pub lic confidence men are revelling in the parioi? Not much. The fact is no matter what Ministers Mr. Hayes calls into his service to-morrow they must wear the livery of his household. They cannot be better dressed, of better manner than their master. He cannot have a class of men about him whose very presence is a perpetual accusation and reproaoh, and whose virtues would be always setting fire to the scaffolding on which he stands. This terminated the interview. The sad, care-worn Consumptive and the victim of that Cough now leap for joy. The new principle discovered by Dr. J. H. McLean, for the cure of Coughs, Colds and Consumption, Glo bules containing medicated gas, called Dr. J. H. McLean’s Cough and Lung Healing Globules. Trial boxes, by mail 25 cents. Dr. J. H. McLean, 414 Chest nut street, St. Louis, SOUTH CAROLINA. Highway robbers infest the vicinity of Charleston. ' A negro boy has robbed the Charles ton post office of S4OO in money and checks. The number of deaths in Columbia for the week ending March 3 was two —both colored. Witte* Todd, colored, was shot and killed by Butler Putnam In Laurens county, last week. It is reported that the Rev. Henry Pinckney Northrop will succeed the Rev. Dr. John Moore, who has been ap pointed Bishop of St, Augustine as pastor of St. Patrick’s Church of Charleston. Mr. P. W all, for the last thirty years an employe of the South Carolina Rail road, died Monday morning in Charles ton. He was a faithful servant of the company and an honest man. He leaves a large family. The Spartanburg Herald has entered on its fifth volume, and in its new career has made several commendable improvements—notably in the classifi cation of its matter. The Herald is a good newspaper, and deserves a hearty support. J The Bamberg Guards of Bamberg, have elected the following officers: Captain, G. P. Bamberg; First Lieu tenant. D. F. Hooton; Second Lieu tenant, W. J. Terryberry; Brevet se cond, G. A. Jennings. Application will be made to Governor Hampton for commissions at an early day, _ rhe store of Mr. Cohen Wilson, about eight miles from Sumter, on the Cane Savannah road, was broken into on Fiiday night, 23d uIL, by four thieves being discovered, fired twiee at Mr. Wilson, and would have killed him had he not been in a stooping posture They then fled, taking a half box of to baooo. f' There being some irregularity in the election held in January last, for In tendant aod Wardens of Laursos another election was held on last Wed nesday for said offioets, resulting as follows: Intendaut, J. L. M. Irby War dens, Tolaver Robertson, B, F. Baliew Larkin Watts,* James Irby.* Those marked thus* are oolored. The Columbia boy is bothered over this returning board business, and says his early conception of the thing was this : The board consisted of himself and the old man, with a ahingle in the old man’s right hand. He says they held frequent meetings io the back shed, but that the returns came in so rapidly that it was impossible to get a fair count, and, therefore, he thinks Hayes may be elected. The Sumter Southron says: Mrs. Badger, wife of Dr. B, M. Badger, and daughter of Mr. W. J. Croswell, of this county, died at Summerton, Clarendon county, on the Ist Inst, The funeral took place at the Methodist Church in this place on Saturday afternoon, and the remains were interred in the Sum ter cemetery. Mr. Frank Rhame who was burnt so badly sometime ago, died on the Ist inst., at his home near ’ Cav alry Church, Clarendon county. Journal of Commerce : The receipts and disbursements by the Hampton Government amount to $120,141.77. This is the response to a cali tor one tenth of the annual Stats, tax. -We submit that no better evidence can be given of the earnestness of the people and of their fixed purpose to establish in power the Government of their choice, They are certainly too poor to throw away their narrow and hard earned means, and none will doubt that iu the support of the Hampton Government they mean businese. Anl min opibusque parati is the motto of Carolina. The famous boodmare Heraldry died at Ashland, LexiDgton, Ky., on the plaoe of her birth, December 31, 1876 thus surviving through the Centenuial’ year and nearly to the age of 31 years. Heraldry was a chestnut, foaled iu April, 1846, at Ashland, being the first colt of the no less noted brood mare Margaret Woods, presented to the Hon. Henry Clay by Col. Wade Hamp ton, of South Carolina, (father of Gov ernor Hampton,) for many years the leading importer and turfman of the South. Margaret Woods, when pre sented to Mr. Blay, was iu foal to Her ald, and the produce was Heraldry, who, like many other celebrated brood mares, was never trained, owing to an accident when a yearling. Columbia Register: Anderson, one of the Hausmann murderers, who is to be hung on the 16th of this month, sent for his father the other day and made a proposition to the old gray-haired man, now verging on seventy years of age. The son told the old man that he was young, and didn’t care just yet to “shuffle off this mortal coil.” After ex plaining to the old man that he was old and had but a few years to live, he offered him “SSO and* his mule” if be would hang in his place. The old mau hesitated a moment and scratched his head. The son, thinking he was about to take him up, added an additional $lO by way of a clincher. The old mau, in the meantime, had collected his senses, got control of his tongue, and informed his anxious young hopeful “dat de mule aud de money was a powerful conducement, but dis old nigger ’scaped de rope dis far, and he couldn’t see jes how de mule or de greenback gwine to help him any arter he done dead.” He was open to con viction, but somehow he “couldn’t see it jes yit.” The Columbia Register says; “It will go floating along down the tide of time with the trash and driftwood—the name of Bradley. The future histo rian will olass him side by side with Thomas a Becket and Woolsey, at least so far as the meaner traits of those men’s characters are to be com pared with the narrow-mipded partisan aad bigot who has just bartered away the honor of ooußtry and the rights and reputation of his countrymen. How different the fame that will follow the incorruptible Willard, a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, surrounded by men of his own party, in a State where that party is barely defeated, with many of the elements of strength still surrounding it, and the whole power of the Rational Gov ernment backing and endorsing it. He has thrown aside party fealty and par tisan feeling, and, as a pure and incor ruptible Judge, has stood as firm, as inflexible, as immovable as the rock of Gibraltar. All honor to Willard—all honor to the brave and conscientious man and incorruptible Judge. He is an honor to his species, aDd has added lustre to the ermine ho so worthily wears. Thrice welcome to Carolina all such men, from whatever quarter of the globe they may come.” % For fifty cents you can get one of the best dinners In the city at the Markoe House. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR GEORGIA NEWS. Walton county farmers are planting corn. r ° Conyers sells eggs at ten cents a dozen. Fine shad sell in Covington at forty cents each. tbJfakirs VanDa k P o^oo are tor Rev. D. E. Butler will support Bell for Congress. f * string bands make music for the Atlantese. Houston county hams are selling in Perry at 18c a pound. DolahY 6 gl .t. d to learn Master Clark Howell is getting well. Counterfeit silver quarters are in nir culation in Social Circle A revival is in progress at the Pi rat Baptist Church of Atlanta. Racing at Thunderbolt Park, Savan nah, are attracting large crowdk week USt M Q r f^ merßW i! l P* ant corn this M gay has plaateJ h J 1 *® Star says Mr. J. J. Stephenson county 6 ° f the fla69t farms la Newtou Miss Sallie Cook is now engaged as College adsititant teachers in a M. Mr. John Snipes, an aged citizen of Upson county, and the Author of con siderable local poetry, has passed away. A progrsmme is being arranged n A | tllUlta , Fire Apartment for May UUtJ para<ie 0B the first day of DiSwhM™ ha 7 two grist mills ruu n ug within the incorporate limits one by steam ** by Water aud tho other ,eB 2S? maQ 18 Uteres ting the bf b i PUl l ,< r Wh * n not otherwise ° 68 b C * rri,d 0n 1110 i>i?S yßpeer !* 6tu “Ping the Ninth District, serenely unmindful of the nominating nonsense, as he deems it, at Gainesville. * Mr. John J. Monroe, of Savannah received a painful wound In the leg on * the other day, betw’eeu Charleston and Savannah. Fifty vessels, loaded with yellow pine timber and lumber, have been cleared for foreign countries from the port of Darien since the Ist of January. The gin-house of Mr. A. C. Zachry of Morgan county, with all its contents consisting of cotton, cotton seed, guano’ eta, were entirely consumed by fire on Tuesday last. Loss about eighteen hundred dollars, with no insurance tn T lM e< *i ipt3 Si cotton at Columbus I ®*l' tember Ist, foot up VAoif 3 m ° re than last > ear. The mills ha re taken, since Sep tember Ist, 7,048 Laies of cotton against 8,481 last year, showing a de crease of 1.438. g e A recent act of the Legislature makes * a n„h? i eme *T r t 0 refus " t 0 wor k on the public roads, and imposes a penalty ii aa °- De - nor more thaa iteßw doH*rs for each day’s default to h tweDty da ys’ hard labor or [ coun“ Qt ’ at the dt * cred °a Of the Mr. Mark Woods causeff a colored trooper, named Lorenzo Thrasher to * **U)l ball on Saturday list, in Morgan county. Lereuzo was mak ing for Mr. Woods with an axe, when the latter stopped his progress, the ball striking lum on the chin and ranging downwards. b b The Forrest Reios says : “It is a sad reflection that CoL John H. CLristv wrote more and talked more than almost any other one man in behalf or building the Northeastern Railroad and that lie was the first white person to lose his life by an accident in con nection with the road.” The Perry Home Journal says: I here has not been a sitgle bushel of destern corn sold in Perry since Christmas, and from conversation with some of our farmers we learn that there is more than 3,000 bushels of Houston raised corn for sale within ten miles of Perry.” Hon. W. S. Brown, member of the Legislature from Fayette couQty, was killed on Tuesday last in an encounter with a Mr. James Stewart. The latter was arrested by the Sheriff, but man aged to escape by knocking the officer down. The difficulty grew out of a monetary transaction. Griffin Dally News: “The patrons of this paper are fully aware of our weak ness for eaily piety and vegetables, but when a subscriber who owes two’ years back dues, lovingly forwarded us twenty-Avo cents worth or new rad ishes, upon which we paid fifty cents express, wo calmly sat down aud wept.” The Timber Gazette says : Darien is now cleaner than ever before. It seems that our citizens now take pride in putting the back yards in thorough order, and cleanliness in that respect seems to be the order of the day. As to the streets, they are being worked every day by the city prisoners, and are kept in good order. W e learn from the Record, the official organ of Savannah, that Alderman \\ aring—the same who warred so suc cessfully and with so little apDhTtTr against the pestiferous cryptogram has introduced a series of resolutions iu the City Council setting forth the in ability of Savannah to meet her obli gations and declaring the city bank rupt Tbe Quitman Reporter says- “On last Friday Mr. Burrell Ballev, of Mos ley Hall, Madison county, Florida at tempting to crossat Rocky Ford’ ten miles southeast of the place, ’was drowned. He was traveling in a one horse cart, loaded with flab \ot knowing the depth of the river at this point, bis horse and cart were immedi ately submerged, he drifting down the stream, was found with his left arm clinging to a tree, dead. The horse be came detached from the cart and was fouod on the opposite bank.” We see it stated in the Atlanta Con stitution, of Sunday, that Hon. H P Farrow, present U. S. District Attor ney for Georgia, has called a Conven tion of the Republican party of this Distiict, to meet at Gainesville next Saturday, to nominate a candidate for Congress. The same paper also thinks Mr. F. will be the nominee of that Con vention. Of course there is no possi l ility of his election in as strong a De mocratic District as this. The average price of land in a few counties in North West Georgia, where they raise grain and hay, is as follows : Bartow county, per acre, $7.30 ; Chat tooga, $4 60; Dade, $6.25 ; Fioyd, $6.92 ; Polk, $6.98. The average price in South west Georgia, the best cotton the State: Dooly couuty, per acre, $2.64 ;-Deb, $2.99 ; Macon, $2 87 ; Ran dolph, $2.84. This exhibit shows be yond a doubt that grain culture more profitable than cotton.