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Jl' II K S V N. Hvuscnirrittxs. —One ow year, II.OO; u months, 75 cent* invitriaU)/ in tu! ranee. A ItVKKTISIXO.—One nyiwt./ril iuserlitm, (one inch), $1 00; la'll euhmguiut insertion, 70 cents. Liberal dcdttsHvms mad# to advertisers, according to Iks spare ami firor f*f O occu/iieil, - contract advertisement* ntuU k trilled monthly. r** Ur announcing candidate! Fite Dollars—in ariahly in advance. Obituary notice!, exceeding fire line*, trihvtct of re sped, and all }>er*onol eutnu.uniaaturns, nr molten of individual intrreet, >rill he charged for at regular ratee. \otieee of marriage*, of dcnlh* and of a religion* character are requested ami trill he inserted free, Short tinuty communication* are tolieited t but tre are not Pte]‘vnMe for the rieli tof correspondent*. HELCHKU a- Alep ILL, Lditov* and Publishert. HAKTWIXI., II A ItT t'OI'XTY, WA. i ItXInoHIH) Morning;. Jnnnnr)' M. 1A77. election or urArr. omcr.itn. On Tuoday, 1 <ith instant, the Goncr al Assembly elected the following State officers: liAitsktt Was re-elected Secre tary of State; Renfroi; was re-elected Treasurer; Goldsmith, Comptroller- General ; nml James I*. Harrison, Printer for tho unexpired term. They were, all elected by decided major ities and amid great applause. Wtif" The following telegram, address ed jto S. B. Packard, New Orleans; 1). 11. Chamberlain, Columhia, S. and lieu Martin, Tallahassee, Florida, has come to light at Washington : New York, Nov. 8, 1870. We are now absolutely certain of 185 votes for llaykm if your State is safe, and Tii.DjTN is sure of the rest. Can yrtll certainly defeat all the Democratic attempts by fraud, false counting or brilmry to capture it. Answer when sure. Z. Chandler. *sr < lovernor Colquitt has ro-aj)- pointed Logan E. Bleckley Judge of the Supreme Court, Martin J. Craw ford Judge of the Chattahoochee Cir cuit, Cicero I). McCutchen Judge of five Cherokee Circuit, and Cincinnati's Beetle* Judge of the Atlanta Circuit. They were all confirmed by the Senate. These gentlemen are all appointees of Governor Smith, and have made flue reputations on the Bench. t&T The General Assembly is grind ing out tho meal of Retrenchment and Reform. Good things, gentlemen, and ns times are very hard and it stands ev ery man in hand to be economical, we would respectfully suggest that the sal aries be out down so low as to make the office one of honor, rather than a place of profit. The number of office-seekers would be no doubt considerably lessened. JteT The rioters, who made an attack upon the two young men nearLowndes ville, S. C., in which Mr. Allen was killed, are to suffer dearly for their out lawlessuess. Twelve of them were put upon trial at Abbeville, and ten were found guilty of murder and two were acquitted. They were sentenced to be hung on Friday, the 20th of April next Ha?" The Democrats have unearthed some cf Zace Chandler's telegrams to his Southern allies, and now, it is said, he is not exactly certain whether Hayes lias been bull-dozed into the Presidency, or not. At least, Zacii is weakening. .#, Basr General Lonostrket stab's that the whole Democratic State ticket in Louisiana was elected. The General has heretofore affiliated with the Repub licans, and, of course, ought to know. —— B&p- Nothing of special interest has transpired in either South Carolina or Louisiana. Everything is in statu quo. Now is a very good time to re solve to plant more corn, and loss cotton. Hon. A. H. Stephens, it is well-known, received his education through the aid of some ladies who kindly loaned him the money which he needed. lie paid it all lmck with interest. Re has since educated fifty young men in the same way; advanc ing money for them, and they paying back when they were able. Every cent thus ad vanced has been returned to him. In this way he has had the pleasure of doing an immense amount of good at small cost. Row little the ladies thought, when they were aiding the poor and friendless lad what gracious and far reaching results were to come from their small benefaction. Is it necessary to point out the moral ? Tilt: HItENI DEVI'I AI. BIMTIOX. Some time since both Houses of Con gress appointed a Conference Committee to take into consideration the Presiden tial question, and report some plau by which the difficulties might be sur- mounted. Below will be found a sum mary of the report of this Committee as presented to both Houses on last 1 htirs day, 18th instant, together with the bill they rccommeud to be adopted, ihe report was signed by every one of the Committee except Senator Morton. In their report submitted w ith the bill, the Committee say they have applied tho utmost practicable study and deliberation to tho suhjoct, and Relievo that the kill re ported is the best attainable disposition of the difficult problems and disputed theories arising out of the late election. They speak of the difficulty of reaching a conclusion, fiie report implies that legislation may be had on tho subject in accordance with the Constitution, but the Committee think that the law proposed is inconsistent with the lew principal theories upon the subject. 'l'lio bill is only directed to ascertaining, for the purpose in aid of the counting, w hat are the constitutional votes of the respec tive States, and whatever jurisdiction ex ists for such purpose the bill only regulates the method of exercising it. For this the Constitution gives warrant, and therefore 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 he law fully carried out than the question of who shall be Presi dent for a prescribed term. They, there fore, endeavored to frame a fair and impar tial measure. The legislature and judi ciary are represented in 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 to he free from any preponderance or supposable bias) as the addition of the necessary constituent part of the whole. In order to obtain an uneven number the commission is left to an agency, the furthest removed from pre judice of any existing attainable. It would he difficult if not impossible, the Committee think, to establish a tribunal that could he less the subject of party criticism than such a one. The Committee felt bound by the highest duty to let no bias of party feeling stand in the way of just, equal and peaceful measures for extricating tho ques tion from the embarrassments that at pres ent surround it. Tho Committee conclude as follows : In conclusion, we respectfully beg leave to impress upon Congress the necessity of a speedy determination upon this subject. It is impossible to estimate the national loss the country daily sustains from the existing state of uncertainty. It directly and powerfully tends to unsettle and para lyze business, to weaken public and private credit, and to create apprehension in the minds of the people that disturb the peace ful tenor of their ways and mar their hap piness. It does far, far more. It tends to bring republican institutions into discredit, and to create doubts of the success of our form of government and of the perpetuity of the Republic. All considerations of in terest, of patriotism and of justice unite in demanding of the law-making power a measure that will bring peace and prosper ity to the country, and show that our re publican institutions are equal to any emer gency, and in this connection we cannot re frain from the expression of our satisfac tion that your Committee, composed of equal numbers of both parties, have for tunately been able to do what has been at tempted m vain heretofore—almost unani mously agree upon a plan considered by them all to be just, wise and efficient. We accordingly recommend the proposed act to the patriotic and just judgment of Con gress. [Signed.] Geo. F. Edmunds, F. T. Fbklinghuyskn, Roscok Conk lino, A. G. Thukman, T. F. Bayard. L. A. Ransom, of Senate Committee. 11. B. ‘Payne, Efua llunton, Wm. M. Springer. Geo. \V\ McCkeery, Geo. F. Hoar, Geo. Willard, of House Committee. THE BILL. Be it enacted , That the Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the hall of the House of Representatives at the hour of 10 o’clock, ante meridian, on the first Thursday of February, A. !>., 1877 ; and the President of the Senate shall he their presiding officer. Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of tne House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers pur porting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented and acted upon in the ; alphabetical order of the States, beginning i with the letter A, and said tellers having then read tUw same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates. On the votes having been ascertained and counted as in this act provided, the result of the same shall he delivered to the President of the Senate, who, shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, and Abe names of the persons, if any. elected, which announcement shall he deemed a .sufficient declaration of the per sons elected president and \ ice-Presidcnt of the UuitcdHtates. and together with a list of the viA he entered on the journals of the two I looses. Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, where there shall he only due return from a State, the President of Senate shall call for ob jections, if any. Kvery objection shall he made in writing and shall state clearly and concisely and without argument the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one member of the House of Representative* before the same shall he received. When nil objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall lm\o been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall he submitted to the Senate for its de cision, and tffi Speaker of the House of Representatives shall in like manner sub mit such objections to the House of Repre sentatives for its decision, and no electoral vote or votes from any State from which hut one return has been received shall he rejected except by the affirmative vote ot 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. Sec. 2. That if more than one return or paper purporting to he a return from u State snail have been received by the Pres ident of the SAiate. purporting to be the certificates of electoral votes given at the Inst preceding election for President and Vice-President in such State, unless they shall he duplicates of the same return, all such returns and papers shall he opened by him in the presence of the two Houses when met as~aforcsaid. and read by the tellers, and all such returns and papers shall thereupon he submitted to the judg ment and decision as to which is the true and lawful electoral vote of such State, of a commission constituted as follows, name ly: During the session of each House on the Tuesday next preceding the first Thurs day in February, 1N77. each House shall by a viva voce vote appoint live of its mem bers, who. with the five Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the l nited States to be ascertained as hereinafter provided, shall constitute a commission for the de cision of all questions upon or in respect for such double returns named in this sec tion. On the Tuesday next preceding the first Thursday in February, Anno Domini, 1877. or as sodn thereafter as may be, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States now assigned to the first, third, eighth, and ninth circuits, shall cleat Him .snail deem fit, another of the Associate .Judges of said Court, which five persons shall he members of said commission, and the person longest in commission of said five Justices shall he the President of said commission. The members of said com mission shall respectively take and sub scribe the following oath : “1 do solemnly swear (or affirm as the case may he) that I will impartially examine and consider all questions submitted to the commission of which I am a member, and a true judg ment give thereof, agreeable to the Consti tution and laws, so help me God"—which oath shall he filed with the Secretary of the Senate. When the commission shall have been thus organized it shall not he in the power of either House to dissolve the same or to withdraw any ot its members, hut if any such Senator or member shall die or become physically unable to perform the duties required by this act, the fact of such death or physical inability shall he by said commission, before it shall proceed further, communicated to the Senate or House of Representatives, as the case may be, which body shall immediately and without debate proceed by viva voce vote to till the place so vacated, and the person so appointed shall take and subscribe to the oath hereinbefore prescribed, and be come a member 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 du ties required by this act, the other of said Justices, members of the said commission, shall immediately appoint another Justice of said Court a member of said commis sion, and in such appointment regard shall be had to the impartiality and freedom from bias sought by tlie original appointments to said commission, who shall thereupon im mediately take and subscribe to the oath hereinbefore prescribed, and become a member of said commission, to fill the va cancy so occasioned. All the certificates and papers purporting to he certificates of the electoral votes of each State shall be opened in the alphabetical order of the State as provided m section one of this act, and when there shall he more than one such certificate or paper, as the certificates and papers from such States shall be opened, excepting duplicates of the same return, they shall be read by the tellers and there upon the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing and shall state clearly and concisely and without argu ment the ground thereof, and shall be sign ed by at least one Senator and one mem ber of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all such objections so made to any certificate, vote or paper from a State shall have been re ceived and read, such certificate, votes and papers so objected to, and all papers ac companying the same, together with such objections, shall be forthwith submitted to said commission, which shall proceed to consider the same, with the same powers, if any, now possessed for that purpose by the two Houses acting separately or to gether, and by a majority of votes decide whether any and what votes from such States are the votes provided for bv the Constitution of tho United States, and how many and what persons were thus appointed electors in such State, and may therein take into view such persons, depositions and other papers, if any. as shall by the Constitution and the now existing law lie competent and pertinent in such consider ation. which decision shall he made in wri ting, stating briefly tho ground thereof and signed by the members of said commission agreeing therein, whereupon the t wo Houses shall again meet and such decision shall be read and entered in the journal of each House, and the counting of the votes shall proceed in conformity therewith, unless upon objection made thereto in writing uv at least five .Senators and five members of the House of Representatives the two Houses shall separately concur in ordering otherwise, in wnich case such concurrent order shall govern. No votes or papers from any other State shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from any State shall have been finally disposed of. Sec. 3. That while the two Houses shall he in meeting as provided in this act, no debate shall he allowed, and no question shall l>e put by the presiding officer, except to either House on motion to withdraw, and lie shall have power to preserve order. Sec. 4. That when the two Houses sepa rate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counting of any elec toral vote or votes from any State, or upon any objection to the report of said commis sion, or other question arising under this act, each Senator and Representative may speak to such objection or question ten minutes, 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 without further debate. Sec. 5. That at such joint meeting of the two Houses seats shall be provided as fol lows : For the President of the Senate, the Speaker's chair; for the Speaker, immedi ately upon his left; for the Senators, in the body of the hall upon the right of the pre siding officer; for the Representatives, iu the body of the hall not provided for the Senators ; for the tellers. Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House ol Repre sentatives, at the Clerk's desk; for the other officers of the two Houses, in front of the Clerk's desk and upon each side of the Speaker's platform. Such joint meet ing shall not he dissolved until the count of the electoral votes shall he completed and the result declared, and no recess shall he taken unless a question shall have arisen in iegard 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 pro vided, to restrict a recess of such house not beyond the next day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon; and while any question is being considered by said commission, either House may pro ceed with its legislative or other business. Sec. (!. That nothing in this act shall he held to in pair or affect any right nowex -yAhta. nn<jw r th,i>.( 'ppjß.jiqti.un jj.uA question, by proceedings in the judi cal courts of the United States, the right or title of the person who shall he declared elected, or who shall claim to he President or Vice-President of the ..nited States, if any such right exists. Sec. 7. The said commission shall make its own rules, keep a record of its proceed ings. and shall have power to employ such persons as may he necessary for the trans action of its business and the execution of its powers. LETTER FROM “ OLD B.” Doings in (lie Lcii'islatnro—-Retrench nient and Reform. Elf. Atlanta, Ga. January 15, 1877. To the Editors of The Sun : This is a damp, cloudy, disagreeable morning. The members seem disposed to push business this week—retrenchment, reform and a general reduction of salaries seems to be the order of the day. Last week the city was fioode . with candidates for all the petty offices. I have heard of a “Fool-Killer" all my life, and so far have been able to escape him; hut 1 think a Candidate-Killer, with a good corps of as sistants, ought to be on hand at the open ing of every Legislature. I do not like the State House as well as the old one at Milledgeville. I drew a seat in the suburbs of the Hall—a gentleman from the Southern gable end of the State sits near me. and as I am from the North ern gable, and not being able to hear much that is going on. think it safest to vote “No!” to everything, and which in niue cases out of ten will he right. However, by getting the morning papers, 1 can tell pretty well what was done the day before. If the members really mean economy and reform, they had better give Joe Brown a salary of twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars to run the State Government; by that means he could save enough in a few years to buy a small State. Norwood stock is rising rapidly in the market, and 1 hope he will be the Senator. I went to Church yesterday, and heard a sermon, or oration, on “Patriotism and Piety." It was very line, and the acting , equal to Booth’s. I received a petition addressed to the General Assembly, requesting the Act passed last year to prevent retailing spirit uous liquors within three mile of Reed Creek Baptist Cl urch and Harmony Pres byterian Church shall not be repealed, and by last mail received another petition from the same District to have it repealed. Of course 1 would have to present both peti tions, and that would be the last of it. 1 will give you a few dots next week. ‘Yours, “Old B.” j ; ow Prices, Quick Rales' - U. O. HOHINMOX. LUDI.KX A BATKg, 6, 0. ROBINSON & CO. L. P. Q. S.— AT THE Augusta Music House! P I A N O S. NEW YORK WHOLESALE PRICES To Cash Buyers. SSO TO SIOO SAVED. EIGHT OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MAKERS ARE REPRESENTED. TIIE L. I /.’ r; FIS T ST O ( ’A'. TIIE CIiHA TEST YARIETT, THE BEST MAKERS, THE LOWEST PRICES. A GOOD STOOL AND COVER With Freight Paid to any Point. 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