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WE MET.
By the merest chance in the twilight gloom,
In the orchard path he mot me -
in the tall, wet grass, with its faint perfume—
And I tried to pass, but he nyuie no room;
Oil, I tried but he would not let me;
So I stood and blushed till the grass grew red,
With my face bent down above it.
(How the clover lifted each pink, sweet head.
To listen to all that my iover said;
Oh! the clover blossom—l love it!)
In the high, wet grass, wen* the path to hide
And the low. wet leaves hung over;
But I could not pass upon either side.
For I found myself, when I vainly tried.
Iu the arras of my steadfast lover.
And he held me there, and|he raised my head.
While he closed the path before me;
And he looked down into my eyes and said—
(How the leaves bent down from the boughs o'er
head.
To listen to all that my lover said;
Oh! the leaves hanging lowly o'er me!)
Had he moved ankle a little way.
I could surely then have paused him.
And would not have heard what he had to say.
Could I only aside have cast him.
It was almost dark, and the moments sped,
And the searching night wind found us;
But he drew me nearer and softly said—
(How the pure, sweet wind grew still, instead,
To listen to all that my lover said;
Oh, the whispering wind around us!)
I am sure b* knew' when he held me last
That I must be all unwilling;
For I tried to go; and would have passed,
As the night was coming with its dew at last,
And tho sky with stars was filling;
But he clasped me close when I would have lied,
And he made me hear his story,
And his soul came out from his lips and said—
(How the stars crept out where the white moon
led.
To listen to all that my lover said;
Oh, the moon and stars in glory!)
I know that the grass and leaves will not tell,
And I am sure that the wind—precious rover—
Will carry his secret so safely and well
That no being shall ever discover
One word of tho many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips of my lover—
Hhall never reveal what a fairy-like spell
They wove round about us that night in the dell,
In the path through the dew-laden clover;
Nor echo the whispers that made my heart sw T ell
As they fell from the lips of my lover.
THE KNIGHT’S SECRET.
BY ream:,
Thomas Erpingham was knighted hy
Henry the Fourth tor good and valiant ser
vice. This Sir Thomas Erpingham, Knight
ol the Garter, afterwards fought by the side
of Henry the Fifth in his French wars, and
■was made Warden of the Cinque Ports, but
retired to Norwich, his native place. He
married a beautiful, pious lady, and, after a
turbulent career and the horrors of war, de
sired to end his days in charity. Being
wealthy and of one mind, he and Lady Er
pingham built a goodly church in the city,
and also erected and endowed a religious
house for twelve monks and a Prior close to
the Knight’s house, and parted only by a high
wall. But though the retired soldier wished
to be at peace with all m *n, two ot his Fri
ars were of another mind. Friar John and
Friar Richard hated each other, and could
by no means be reconciled; neither had ever
a good word for the other; and at last Friar
John gave Friar Richard a fair excuse for
his invectives. Lady Erpingham came over
to matins in the convent, and Friar John
would always awaither coming, and attend
her through the cloister, with ducks and
cringes and open adulation, whereat she
smiled, being in truth a most innocent lady,
affable to all, and slow to think ill of any
man.
But Richard denounced John as a licen
tious monk; and some watched and whis
pered; others rebuked R chard; for it was
against the monastic rule to put an ill con
struction where the matter might be inno
cent. But Richard stood his ground, and,
unfortunately, Richard was right. Misun
derstanding the lady's courtesy and charity,
Brother John thought his fawning advances
were encouraged, and ’his bred in him such
impudence that one day he sent her a full
some love-letter and had the hardihood to
beg for a private interview. The lady, when
she opened this letter, could hardly believe
her senses; and at last, as gentlewomen will
be both unsuspicious and suspicious in the
wrong place, she made up her mind that the
poor, good, ridiculous Friar could never have
been so wicked as to write this; nay, but it
was her husband's doings and a trial of her
virtue; h was older than herself, and great
love is oft tainted with jealousy. This
brought tears into her eyes; to think she
would be doubted; but soon anger dried them,
and she took occasion to put the letter sud
denly into Sir Thomas’ hand, and fixed her
eyes on him so keenly that if there had been
a flaw in his conjugal armor, no doubt those
eyes had pierced it.
The Knight read the letter and turned
black and white with rage; his eyes sparkled
with fury, and he looked so fearful that the
lady was very sorry she had shown him the
letter, and begged him not to take a mad-
man's folly to heart.
‘Not take it to heart!’ sail! he. ‘What!
the beggarly shavelings that I have housed
and fed, and so lessened my estate and thine;
they would corrupt thee, and rob me of my
one earthly treasure! Sit thou down and
write.’
‘Write, Thomas! What? to whom?,
‘Do as 1 bid thee, dame, 1 said he sternly,
‘and no more words.’
Friar John, at the appointed time, took
care to be in town; for he knew the lay
brother who kept the gate of the priory
would not let him out so late. He came to
the side door and was admitted by a servant
of the Knight, a reckless old soldier, who
cared for neither man nor devil, as the say,
ing is, but only for his master. This man
took him into a room and left him, then went
for the Knight; he was not far off. Now, the
unlucky monk, having come to the conquest
of a beautiful lady, as he vainly thought,
had fine linen on and perfumed like a civet.
The Knight smelled these perfumes, and
rushed in upon him with his man like dogs
upon the odoriferous fox, and, in a fury,
without giving him time to call for help or
say one prayer, strangled him and left him
dead. , , ,
But death breeds calm; the knight s rage
abated that moment, and he saw he had done
a foul and remorseless deed. He would have
given half his estate to bring the offender
back to life. Half his estate? His whole
estate, aye, and his life, were now gone from
him; they were forfeited to the law. The
rough soldier seeing him so stricken, made
light of all except the danger of discovery.
■Come, noble sir,’ said he, ‘let us bestir our
selves and take him back to the priory, and
j there bestow him; so shall we ne’er be known
I in it.'
Thus urged, the Knight roused himself, and
he and his mun brought the body out and
got it as far ns the wall that did part the
house from the monastery. Here they were
puzzled a while, but the man remembered a
short ladder in the hack yard that was high
enough for this job. So they set the ladder,
and, with much ado, got the body up to it,
and then drew the ladder up and set it again
on the other side, and so, with infinite trou
ble, the soldier got him into the priory.'
The next thing was to make it appear
Friar John had died a natural death. Ac
cordingly, he set him up on a rickety chair
he found in the yard, balanced him and left
him: mounted the wall again, let him down,
i ami then dropped into the Knight's prerai-
I ses.
He found the Knight walking in great
! perturbation, and they went into the house.
'Now, good master,’said the stout soldier,
go yon to bed, and think no more on it,’
‘To bed!’ groaned the Knight in agony.
‘Why should Igo there' I can not sleep.
Methinks I shall never sleep again,’
‘Then give me the cellai* key, good sir.
I’ll draw a stoop of Canary,’
‘Ay, wine!’ said the Knight; ‘for my blood
runs cold in my veins.’ The servant lighted
i a rousing lire in tho dining hall and spiced
' some generous wine, after the fashion of the
day, and there sat these two over the lire,
| awaiting daylight and its revelations.
But, meantime, the night was fruitful in
j event*. The l’rior, informed of Friar Rich
ard s uncharitable interpretations, had con
i demned him to vigil and prayer on the bare
pebbles of the yard, from midnight until
three ol the clock. But the sly Richard, at
dusk, had conveyed a chair into the yard to
keep his knees off the cold, haid stones.
At midnight, when he came to his enforced
devotions, 10, there sat a figure in the chair.
He started, and took it for the l’rior, seated
there to lecture him for luxury, but peeping
he soon discovered it was Friar John.
He walked round and round him, talking
at him. Is it Brother John or Brother Rich
ard who is to keep vigil to-night. I know
but one Friar in all this house would sit
star-gazing in his brother’s chair when that
brother wants it to pray in,’ &c.
Brother John vouchsafed no reply; and
this stung Brother Richard, and he burned
for revenge. ‘So be it, then,’ said he; ‘since
my place is taken. I will tell the Prior, and
keep vigil some other night. With this he
retired and slammed the door. But having
thus disarmed, as he conceived, Brother
Jonn’s suspicion, ho took up an enormous
pebble, and slipped back on tip-toe, and
gelting near the angle of the wall, he flung
his great pebble at Brother John, and slipped
hastily behind the wall; nevertheless, as he
hid, he had the satisfaction of seeing his peb
ble, which weighed about a stone, strike
Brother John on the nape of the neck, and
then and there w as a lumbering noise and a
great clatter, and Friar Richard chuckled
with pride and delight at the success of his
throw. However, he waited some minutes
before he emerged, and then walked briskly
out. like a new-comer. 'Mere lay John flat,
and the chair upset. Brother Richard rante
him. charged with hypocritical sympathy,
ami found his enemy’s face very white. He
got. alarmed and felt his heart; he was stone
dead.
The poor monk, w hose hatred was of a
mere feminine sort, anil had never been
deadly, was seized with remorse,, and he beat
his breast and prayed in earnest, instead ol
repeating paternosters, ircces sinr tnenc
dictux,’ as the great Erasmus calls them.
But other feelings soon succeeded; his en
mity to the deceased was well known, and
this would be called murder il the body was
found in that yard, aud his own life would
pay the forfeit.
Casting his eyes around for a place where
he might hide the body, he saw a ladder
standing against the wall. This surprised
him; but he was in no condition to puzzle
over small riddles. Terror gave him force;
he lifted the body, crawled up to the ladder,
set it on the other side, and took his ghastly
load down safely. Then, being naturally
cunning, and having his neck to save, he
went and hid the ladder, took up the body,
staggered with it as far as the porch of the
Knight’s house, and set it there holt upright
against one of the pillars.
As he carried it out of the yard he heard a
window in the Knight's house open. He
could not see where the window was, nor
whether he was watched and recognized; but
he feared the worst, and such was his terror
he resolved to fly the place and bury himself
in some distant monastery under another
name.
But how? He was lame, and could not
go ten miles in a day, whereas a hundred
miles was little enough to make him secure.
After homicide, theft is no great matter;
he resolved to borrow the maltster’s mare
and turn her adrift when she had carried him
bpyond the hue and cry. So he went and
aroused the minister and told him the con
vent wanted flour, and he was to go betimes
to the miller for a sack thereof. Now the
convent was a good customer to the malt
ster; so he lent Friar Richard the mare at a
word, and told him where to find the saddle
and bridle.
Richard fed the mare for a journey and
saddled her; then he mounted and rode at a
foot’s pace past the convent, meaning to go
quietly through the town, making no stir,
then away like the wind.
But as he paced by the Knight’s house he
cast a look ascant to see if that ghastly object
still sat in the porch.
No; the porch was empty.
What might thut mean! Had he eorne to
life? Had the murder been discovered? He
began to wonder and tremble.
While he was in this mood there was a
vieat clatter behind him of horse’s feet and
clashing armor, and he felt he was pursued.
The Knight and his man sat together,
drinking hot spiced wine and awaiting day-
light. The Knight would not go to bed, yet
he wanted a change. ‘Will daylight never
come?’ said he.
‘Twill be here anon,’said Ihe soldier; ‘in
half an hour.’
The Knight said no, it would never come.
The soldier said he would go and look at
the sky, and tell him for certain.
‘Be not long away,’ said the Knight, with
a shiver, ‘or the dead Friar will he taking
thy place here and pledging me.’
‘Stuff!’ said the soldier; ‘he’ll never trouble
you more.’
With this he marched out to consult the
night, and almost ran against the dead Friar
seated in the porch, white and glaring. This
was too much, even for the iron soldier; he
uttered a sharp yell, staggered back, and
burst into the room, gasping for breath. He
got close to his master, and stammered out-.
‘The dead man—sitting in the porch!’ aud
crossed himself energetically—the first time
these thirty years.
The Knight stared and trembled; and so
‘ they drew close together, with their eyes
! over their shoulders.
‘Wine,’ cried the Knight.
| ‘Aye,’ said the soldier,‘but Igo not alone.
He’ll be squatting on the cask else.’
So they went together to the cellar, often
looking around, and fetched two bottles.
They drank them out, and the good wine,
COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER li), 1876.
J falling upon more of the sort made them
madder and boledr. They rolled along,
holding on by one another, to the porch, and
; there they stood and looked at the dead Friar
and shuddered.
But the soldier swore a great oath, and
vowed he should not stay there to get them
. hanged. Thereupon a furious lit of reckless
ness succeeded to their terror; they got a
suit of rusty armor and fastened it on the
i body; then they saddled an old war-horse
that was kept in the stable as a reminiscence,
and tied the Friar’s body on to him with
j many cords; they opened the stable door and
pricked the war-horse with their daggers
that he clattered out into the road with a
bound and a great rattling of rusty armor.
Now, as ill luck would have it. Friar Rich
ard and his borrowed mare were pacing de
murely through the town scarce fifty yards
ahead. The old horse nosed the mare, and,
being left to choose his road, took very nat
urally after her; but when he got near her tho
monk looked round apdsawthe gsaiily rider.
He gave a yell so piercing ir waked tho
whole street, and for lack of spurs, drove his
hare heels into the mare’s side; she cantered J
down the street at an easy pace; the fearful
pageant cantered alter; the Friar kept turn- 1
ing and yelling, and the window s kept open
ing and heads popped out, and by and by
doors opened add a few early risers joined
in the pursuit, w ondering and curious.
The cavalcade never reached tin; town
of Norwich; the Friar, in the blindness of
despair, turned his mare up what seemed
to be an trprn'lnne, but there was no exit.
His dead pursuer came up with him, and
he threw himself oil’and cried: “Mercy!
mercy! vien culpal I coufcss ii! I confess
it! Only take that horrible face from me!”
And in his despair he owned lie had slain
Brother John.
Then some led the horse and his ghastly
load away, and wondered sore; hut'others
hauled Friar Richard to justice; and he,
believing it was a miracle and Heaven’s
hand upon him, persisted in his confession
and was east into prison to abide his trial.
He had not to wait long. In those days
the law did not tarry for judges of Assize
to come round the country now and then.
Each town had its Mayor and its Alder
men, each one of whom could try and
hang a man if need was. So Friar Rich
ard was tried nextweek.
By this time he had somewhat recov
ered his spirits and his love of life; he de
fended himself, and said that indeed he
had slain his brother, but it was by misad
venture; he had thrown a stone at him in
some anger, but not to do him deadly
harm. This he said with many tears. But,
on the other hand, it was proved that he
had long haled Brother John; that he had
got out of the priory without passing the
door, and had borrowed the maltster's
mare on a false pretense; and’ finally,
marks of strangulation, had been found on
tho dead man’s throat. All this amazed
and overpowrred the poor friar, and, al
though his terror at the apparition was
not easily to be reconciled with his having
been the person who tied the body on the
horse, and though one Alderman, shrew
der than the rest, said ho thought a good
deal lay behind that, yet, upon the whole,
it was thought the safest and most usual
course to hang him. So be was condem
ned to die iu three days’ time.
Tlie Friar, seeing his end so near, strug
gled no more against his fate. He sent
for the friar tojeonfess him, and told the
truth with deep sorrow and humility.
"Men cnlpn! ineaciilpa!" he cried, “If I
had not hated my brother and broken our
rule, then this had not come upon ine.”
Then the Prior gave bint full absolution
and went away exceedingly sorrowful,
and doubting the wisdom and justice of
laymen, and, in particular, of those who
were about to hang Brother Richard for
willful murder. This preyed upon his
mind, and he went to Sir Thomas Erping
ham to utter his misgivings and pray the
good Knight to work upon the Sheriff,who
was his friend, for a respite until the mat
ter could be looked into more closely.
The Knight was not at home, but my
lady saw the Prior and learned his errand.
“Alas, good father,” said she. “Sir Tho
mas is not here; he is gone to London this
two days.”
The Prior went home sick at heart.
Even so long ago ns this they hung from
Norwich castle. So the rude gallows was
put up at 7 o’clock, and at 8 Brother Rich
arc must hang and turn in the wind like a
weathercock.
Hut before the fatal hour a King’s mes
senger galloped into the city and spurred
into 5 the court-yard of the castle. Very
soon the Sheriff was reading a parchment
signed hy the King’s own hand; the gal
lows was taken down, and the people dis
persed hy degrees. Some felt ill used.
They thought appointments should he
kept, else not made.
At night Friar Richard, not reprieved,
but, to the amazement of smaller function
aaies, freely pardoned by his sovereign, in
a hand writing a housemaid of this day
would blush for, but with a glorious seal
the size of an apple-fritter, crept forth into
the night, and, gliding along the streets
with his head down, slipped into the Pri
ory and was lost to the world for many a
long day. Indeed, lie was confined to his
cell for a month hy order of the Prior,
and ordered to pray thrice a day for the
soul of Brother John.
When Brother Richard emerged from
his cell he was a changed man. He had
gathered, amidst the thorns of tribulation,
tha wbolesomo fruit of humility and tlio
immortal flower of charity. Henceforth
no hitter word ever fell from his lips,
though for a time he had many provoca
tions, Horn salt qui mal y pause was the
rule of his heart. He made himself of lit
tle account, and outlived all enmities. He
lived much in his cell, and prayed so often
for the soul ofßrother John that at last
he got to love him dead whom lie had ha
ted living, .
Time rolled on. The Knight’s lmir
turned gray, and the good Prior died.
Then there was a great commotion in the
little priory, and three or four of the lead
ing Friars each hoped to he the Prior.
That appointment lay with Sir Thomas
Erpingham. lie attended the funeral of
the late Prior, and then desired the sub-
Prior to convene the monks.
“Hood Brothers,” said he, “your Prior
is Brother Richard. I pray you 1° Invest
him forthwith, and yield him due love
and obedience.
The Knight retired, and the monks
stared at each other awhile and then obey
ed since there was no help for it. They
invested Brother Richard in due form; aud
such is the magic of station that in a mo-.
ment they began to look on him with dif- !
ferent eyes.
The new Prior bore his dignity so
rneeklv that he disarmed all hostility. His
great rule of life was still “HemH soit qui ■
mal V pp.nse," and there is ho course:
more apt to conciliate respect and good
will. The Knight showed him favor and
esteem, and the monks learned to respect
and, by-and-by, to revere him; but he
neAcr ceased to reproach himself and say
masses for the soul of Brother John.
The years rolled on. The Knight’s gray
hair turned white; and one day he sent
for the Prior and said to him, “Hood
father, I have grave matters to entertain
vou withal,"
“Speak, worshipful sir,” said tho Prior.
The Knight, looked at him a while, but
seemed ili at ease, and as one that hath re
solved to streak, but is loath to begin. At
last he said, "Sir, there bo men that waste
their goods in sin, or meanly hoard them
till their last hour, yet leave them freely
to Mother Church after their death, when
can no longer enjoy them. Others there
bo whoso breasts are laden with a secret
crime they ought to confess, and clear
some worthy man suspected falsely; yet
they will not tell till they come to die.
Methinks this is to be charitable too late,
and just when justice can neither cost a
man aught or profit his neighbor. There
fore, not to be one of these, 1 wilt reveal
to you now a dceij that sits heavy on my
conscience.”
“You would confess to me, my son,?”
“As man to man, sir, hut not ns a peni
tent to his confessor; for that wore no
merit in me; It would be no more than
bury my secret, iu ft ttcsViv grave. Nay,
what I tell to you, you shall tell to all the
world, if good may come of it.”
j Here the Knight sighed and seemed
much distempered, like one whowrcstlcth
with himself. Then ho cast about how
ho should begin, and to conclude lie open
ed the matter thus: “Sir, please you read
that letter; it was writ by Brother John
unto my wife.”
The Prior read it, but. said never a word.
“Sir,” said the Knight, “do you remem
ber a sad time when you lay iu Norwich
Jail accused of murder and east for
death?”
“1 do remembur it well, sir, and the un
charitable heart that borught me to that,
pass.”
“While you lay there, sir, something
befell elsewhere, which I will hide no
longer from you. The Kink being at his
place in London, a Knight who lmd
fought side by side in France sought an
audience in private. It was granted him
at once. Then the Knight fell on his
knees to the King, and begged that liis
life and lands might he spared, though
he had slain the man in heat of blood.
The King was grave and gentle, and then
I showed him that letter, and owned the
truth, that I and my servant, in our fury,
had strangled that hapless Monk.”
“Alas! sir, did you take my guilt upon
yourself to save my life, so fully forfeited?
’Twas I who hated him; ’twas I who flung
the stone.”
“At a dead body. I tell thee, man, we
strangled him anti set his body where you
saw it; hand in his death you had none.”
The Prior uttered a strange cry and
was silent. The Knight continued, in a
low voice:
“We set him iu the yard; and when we
found him in the porch, being half mad
with terror and drink together, we bound
him on the horse and lunched him. All
this I told the lvifig, and he, considering
the provocation, and pitying too much
his old companion iu arms, gave mo my
life and lands, and gave me thine, which,
indeed, was hut bare justice. So now,
sir, you know that, you are innocent of
bloodshed, and ’tia I am guilty.”
The Knight looked at the churchman,
and thought to see him break forth into
thanksgiving. But it was'not so. The
Ptior won cUtcply movod, trtfct, noi f*XUU
ant. “Sir,” said he, like a man that,
is near choking, “let me go to my cell and
think over this strange tidings.”
“And pray for me, I implore you,” said I
the Knight.
“Ay, sir, and with my heart.”
Some days passed, and the knight look
ed to hear his own tale come round again.
But no; the Prior was silent us the grave.
Then alter awhile the Knight sent for him
again, and said, “Good father, what I told
you was not under seal of confession.”
“I know it, sir,” said the prior, “yet it
will go no further unless 1 should outlive
you hy Hod’s will. Alas! sir, you have
taken from me that which was the health
of my soul, the belief that 1 had slain him
1 hated so unchristian like. This belief
made humility easy tome, and even char
ity not difficult. What engine of whole
some mortification would be left me now
were I to go a-prating that I slew not
the brother I hated? Nay, I will never
tell the truth, hut carry the precious bur
den of humility all my days.”
“Oh,saint upon earth!” cried the Knight,
“outlive me and then tell the truth.”
The Monk replied not, hut pondered
these words.
And ilfc)l out so that the Knight died
three years after, and the Prior closed his
eyes and said masses for Ids soul; and a
good while after lie did, for the honor of
the convent, reveal this true story to two
young Monks, hut hound them hy a
solemn vow not to spread it during his
life. After his death the truth got abroad,
and among churchmen the Prior was,
much revered for that he had cured him
self of an uncharitable heart, and had in
forced on himself the penally of unjust
shame for years.—From Harper’s Weekly.
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YUUMOVr.
Tlic Democratic Contest.
MoNTPF.UF.it, Vt., Nov. 18.—Hon. E.
J. Phillips Ims been retained as
counsel hy the Democrats to contest
Postmaster Sol lace’s seat in the Elec
toral College.
Washington, Nov. 18— The situa
tion Hi Vermont, gathered from spe
cials, is that the Democrats will con
tend for everything that the law
allows iri the ease ol Postmaster Sol
lace. It happens that Amos Aldrich
on the Democratic Electoral ticket
has four more votes than his col
leagues. Aldrich believes, after con
sultation with eminent counsel, that
he is elected to a seat in the Electoral
College and will defend his right to
the end.
Business Beprcsslon In Loudon.
London, Nov. 18.—Owing to a de
pression in steamer coal trade, more
than 1,000 miners arc thrown out of
employment in the Northumberland
collieries. Business in the Stock
Exchange was flat throughout the
week, in consequence of the warlike
exhibition, dispatches and adverse
news about a conference. All
changes have been in a downward
direction, though nono wore so heavy
as during the war panic last month.
New York Bank Statement.
New York, Nov’. 18. The bank
! statement, shows lokns, decrease half
! million; specie, increase one and a
half millions; legal tenders, decrease,
one million ; deposits, decrease three
fourths of a million; reserve, inereaso
! five-eighths of a million.
Cod Liver Oil,
1 equal to the best, 50c. a bottle, at
! It A. M. Brannon's.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
LOTJ IHIAN A.
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Ineligible Radical Electors
Three of the Radical Electors
Fall 3,000 Votes Behind
Their Ticket.
MEtTING OF THE RETURNING BOARD.
| V (’omuiUtoo of Each Party to. Witness
tftc Count.
A (ONMITTKE OF EACH PAHTY
ADMITTED.
UemocrniK Plead to the larldl-tln.
Nkw Chileans, Nov. 18.—It is stated
that two of tho Republican FJectors
ure Federal office holders.
Washington, Nov. 18.—The Herald's
New Orleans dispatch says: “Gov.
Curtin Ims informed your corres
pondent that among tho official re
turns received by the Returning
Ronrd ure those of five parishes in
which no intimidation is alleged or
charged, in which, by a mistake of
the local Republican politicians, only
the name of the two Electors at
Large and the one for the district
appear upon tho ticket, thus leaving
the balance of the RepublicanjElec
tors running behind ths ticket some
1,900 votes. All these parishes are
Republican by a largo majority, and
it is known that other similar errors
exist, and which will increase the
discrepancy to nearly 3,000 votes.
Mr. Wells, of the Returning Board,
has addressed a letter to Senator
Trumbull and others, providing fora
committee of live of each party to be
present during the counting of the
vote.
The Timas’ New Orleans dispatch
intimates that the chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of Lou
isiana will be allowed to nominate a
person for the vacant place on the
Returning Board.
New Orleans, Nov. 18, U r. m.—
There was quito a gathering at tho
rooms of the Returning Board.
Messrs. Casanave and Wells, mem
bers of the board, wora tbova luSxo
Trumbull, Judge Stallo, Gov. Palmer
and Ex-Gov. McHenry, of tho north
ern Democrats, and the Democratic
Committee which has charge of evi
dence to be presented on the part of
tiie Democrats, were present. There
were a number of Republicans pres
ent, and also a delay in meeting in a
part of tho board, on account of the
absence of Anderson and Kenner.
The board met at 12:30, and author
ized the Sorgeant-at-Arms to procure
a room for the meeting of the board.
A resolution offered by Gen. An
derson, inviting the presence of five
gentlemen from each party of
Northern Democrats and Republi
cans in the city was adopted.
Col. Zacharie filed a plea to the
jurisdiction of tho board, which
thereafter went into Executive Com
mittee.
W \SII INGTON GOSSIP.
THEY HAY SOUTH CAROLINA HAS
BKE.V DECIDED FOR HUES,
Di*<‘!n!oii of the District Court. ■
APPOINTMENT OF APPRAISER FOR THE
SOUTH—OPENING OF THE CANAL TO
THE NORTH SEA.
Washington, Nov. 18.—Judge Hum
phreys, in the District Court, made a
decree in the case of Admiral Porter
and others, of the North Atlantic
squadron, against Confederate cruis
ers destroyed, involving a million and
a half dollars. The docree iinds that
for want of proof the captors are en
titled to only half of the Texas,
valued at $53,520, and the Beaufort,
valued at $12,000.
Chandler received a dispatch from
Congressman Hoge, of South Caroli
na, saying: “The board of Canvas
sers have furnished the count. Hayes
and Wheeler’s majority is 000. This
is official.”
Ex-Representative, Frank Morey,
has been appointed general ap
praiser of merchandise for the South.
The State Department has advices
from Amsterdam of the formal open
ing of the great eanai to the North
Sea.
The death rate for the year shows
194 whites, 504 colored in this dis
trict,.
TIIE EUROPEAN SITUATION.
London, Nov. 18.—Correspondents
say Russia is raising fresh troubles
about the line of demarcation.
The Times, in a leader, sums up
the latest phase of the situation in
Turkey: “On the decision to-day
in regard to the conference and
the question of peace or war. There
may bo war even though the confer
ence meet. It must be taken that
Turkey’s refusal to participate in the
conference would be considered as
heracceptance of favor.” ,
Cullforiiln, Oregon anit Neruda for Vsyea.
Special Dispatch to the Conetitutiou,
San Francisco, Nov. 17, 3:50 p. m.—
Tho States of California, Oregon and
Nevada have all undoubtedly gone
for Haves. John J. Yallentine.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
THK t’OtlNT COMMENCED.
,1 Mi,mil Minority Counted for lluyc.
EXCEPTIONS TAKEN IJY THE DEMOCRATS.
Charleston, Nov. 17— Midnight.—
Tho Board of Canvassers are collat
ing tho vote as ordered by tho Court.
Considerable progress has boon
made, but no figures are furnished.
Columbia, Nov. 18.—The result of
tabulating the returns of the county
canvassers gives tho State to the
Hayes Electors by majorities ranging
from 230 to 1,133. Counsel for the
.Democratic candidates Immediately
filed exceptions to tho aggregation,
on tho grounds of irregularities,
errois and omissions between, tho
managers’ returns and statements of
county canvassors, which they claim
vitiates tho above result. The Su
preme Court will, it is understood,
direct tho board in its duties us to
the final count.
ALABAMA I.KSIHI.ATI RK.
Ft'hlay, Nov. 17.—0n tho call of tho
districts in the Senate, tho following
among other new bills were intro
duced : By Mr.Torrey, to lix tho time
for filing claims against insolvent
estates; to protect estates in the
hands of executors, guardians, &c.
Several bills were introduced to
amend sections of tho Code. The
Senate adopted a joint resolution to
meet the House on Saturday, 18th, to
witness the counting of tho voto for
State officers at the August election:
The Lieutenant Governor announc
ed the following standing commit
tees, with tho concurrence of tho
President elect:
Judiciary-Messrs. Little, Robin
son, Billups, Hargrove, Saffold, Seay,
Cunningham, Harrison, Wilson.
Finance and Taxation—Messrs.
Chambers, Lyon, Broeks, Sherrod,
Dunklin, Gordon, Rice.
Internal Improvements—Sherrod,
Dobbs. Padgett, Taft, Comer.
Federal Relations—Robinson.Sher
rod, Howell, Knox, Torrey, Wood,
Seay.
Education—Armstrong, Hargrove,
Harrison, Brooks, ltice, Padgett,
Owen.
Privileges and Elections—Torrey,
Randolph, Thornton, Harris, Billups.
Municipal ana ounniy Optimiza
tion—Randolph, Dobbs, Howell,
Seay, Gordon.
Militia—Harrison, Dunklin, Comer,
Gordon, Owen.
Printing—Brooks, Slaughter, Rob
inson.
Engrossed Bills—Padgett, Thorn
ton, Dobbs.
Enrolled Bills—Bankhead, Wood,
Cunningham.
Industrial Resources, etc.—Slaugh
ter, Hargrove, l’ait.
Local Legislation—Billups, Ran
dolph. Wilson. Torrey, Chambers.
Revision of Laws—Wilson. Bank
head, Wood, Armstrong, Knox.
Penitentiary—Howell, Slaughter,
Johnston, Comer, Harris.
The House referred to its commit
tees a number of bills introduced
yesterday. Among the now bills in
troduced were the following: By Mr.
McKleroy, to repeal an act to estab
lish separate school districts in the
several counties; by Mr. Ramsey, to
prevent the killing or injuring of live
stock by railroad cars. Bills to
amend sections of the Code and Rev
enue law were also introduced. Ali
ordered to a second reading.
FLORIDA.
the hoard refuses to count THE VOTE
UNTIL COMPELLED TO DO SO.
Special Dispatch to the Constitution.]
Tallahassee, Nov. 17.— Tho Demo
crats to-day announced themselves
ready and asked the Htato Board to
commence tho canvass of tbo votes.
The Republican members voted
against beginning until they were
forced to do so by law. This is a
weakening. The Democrats are
thoroughly armed with proof and
confidently claim their ability to de
fend Mr Tilden’u majority.
The Weather To-Day.
Washington, Nov. 18.—For the
South Atlantic States, falling barrom
eter, aud warmer, southeast winds,
with warm, eloudy and possibly
rainy weather prevailing, followed
by cooler westerly wiuds and rainy
barometer. For the Gulf States,
colder northwest winds, rising ba
rometer, partly cloudy and clear
weather, followed by warmer weath
er in Western Texas.
No Change Reported at Wahlnton.
Washington, Nov. 18.—The latest
advices from South Carolina, Florida
and Louisiana show no material
change in the situation.
Kentucky.
Louisville, Nov. 16.— Official re
turns from 101 counties in Kentucky
give Tilden 60,100 majority. Sixteen
counties arc yet to hear from, but
will not materially change it. Til
den’s majority shows an increase of
60 per cent, over tho Democratic ma
jority of last year. The Congres
sional results are reported as follows :
First—Boone, 10,993; Turner, Inde
pendent. 8,154; Houston, Republican,
5,221. Fourth—Proctor Knott,
Democrat, 15,743; Lewis, Republican,
6,982. Sixth-Carl isle, Democrat, 16,-
404; Landrum, Republican, 8,133.
Seventh—Blackburn, Democrat, 18.-
884- Shackelford, Republican, 9,348.
Eighth—Durham, Democrat. 15,482,
"Bradley, Republican, 12,654. Five
other districts also elect Democrats,
but the vote is not yet officially re
ported.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
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MONEY AND STOCKS.
LONDON. Nov. 18—Noon.—Street ratel*.
PARIS, Nov. 18.—Noon—Rentes 104f. and 22*c.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Noon—Gold opened
at 109*£
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-Nooo—Stocks dull, but
better feeling ; money 3)„'; gold 109^; exchange,
long. 4.82 H: short 4.84 H\ Government* dull end
steady; State bonds quiet; South Carolina* bet
ter; rest steady.
NEW YORK, Nov. lß.—Kvening—Money quiet
at 3; sterling quiet at 2>s; gold dull at
(r v r ; Governments dull aud steady; new 6’a 12%:
State* quiet and steady.
COTTOX.
LIVERPOOL, HO*.TB—Noon.—Cotton flat; mid
dling uplands G%\ Orleans 6 9-l Cd. sales 6,000.
speculation and export* 1,000, receipts 2,100—a1l
American. Futures; uplands, low middling
clause, December and January delivery, 8%; up
lands, low middling clause, November and De
comber delivery 6 6-16; January and February
6 6-32d; new crop, shipped Novomber and De
cember, per sail 6 5-16; new crop, shipped Jan
uary and February, per sail, 6%.
1:00 r. m.— Uplands, low middling clause, Jan
uary and February delivery 0%; now crop shipped
October and November, per sail, 6 9-32d; uplands,
low middling clause, shipped February and March
per sail, 6 7-16.
2 r. M.—Uplands, low middling clause, No
vember delivery 6%; April and May 0% \ do, new
crop, shipped November aud December, per sail,
6 l)-32d.
2:30 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, ship
ped October and November, per sail, 6#.
Sales of American 2,600.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Noon-Cotton dull;
uplands 12; Orleans 12 3-16; Bales 1700. Futures
opened steady: December 11%(§29-82; January
12%; February 12 March 12 5-16.
NEW YORK, Nov, 13.—Evening—Cotton dull;
sales 613 at 12@12 3-16, Net receipts 607, gross
4819; consolidated net receipts 2732, exports to
Great Britain 10,094, to France 1604, Continent
1897, channel 1535. Futures closed steady; sales
20,000: November 1113-16@29-32; December 11
27-32 (&% \ January 12; February 12 5-32(3)31-32;
March 12 11-32; April 12 17-32; May
Juno 12 13-16(g,27-y2; July 12 21-32; August 13 1-16.
GALVESTON, Nov. 18.—Cotton steady; mid
dling 11‘0; net recoipts 845; sales 239; oxports
coastwise 1050.
NORFOLK, Nov. 18.—Evening—Cotton dull;
middling 11',; net receipts 5296; sales 850; ex
ports coastwise toll.
BALTIMORE, Nov.lß.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 11V; gross receipts 815; sales 616; ex
ports to continent 006; coastwise 205; sales to
spinners too.
BOSTON, Nov, 18. Evening Cotton quiet;
middling 12',; net receipts 1038; gross receipts
HUI; sales 175.
WILMINGTON, Nov. 18.—Evening Cstton
quiet, middling 11; net receipts 845; sales 239;
exports coastwise 1050.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18.—Evening Cottoi
quiet; middling Hi; net receipts 268; gross re
ceipts 265.
SAVANNAH, Nov. 18,—Evening—Cotton easier;
middling 11 *.; net receipts 4458, gross 4458; sales
15#|); exports to Great Britain 2830, coastwise
910.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18.—Evening Cotton
irregular; middling 11’,; low middling 11;
good ordinary 10*;; net receipts 4938; gross
receipts 0840; sales 3500; exports to Great Britain
1250.
MOBILE, Nov. 18.—Evening—Cotton weak;
middling 11; net receipts 3597; gross 3397; sales
1U00; exportß coastwise 1531
MEMPHIS, Nov. 18.-Cotton irregular and un
settled; aMAUas ut; net receipts 2197: ship
ments ousO; sales 2200.
AUGUBTA, Nov. 18.—Cotton weak; middling
lojfej ; net receipts 604, solos 1413.
CHARLESTON, Nov. 18. Evening Cotton
quiet and easy; middling 11 74@54: net receipts
3218; gross 3218; sales 1000; exports to Great Brit
ain 1783, chaunel 1735, France 1604.
PROVISIONS, dkC.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Noon—Flour quiet and
Arm. Wheat steady aud firm. Corn Arm. Pork
lirm, mess sl7. Lard Arm, steam 11. Freights
Arm.
Evening, 18.—Flour—medium and low grades
55? 10 better; lair export aud home trade demand,
good to choice brands steady, moderate inquiry,
$5 Ss<ase 60; common to fair extra Southern
$6 6551175. Wheat quiet, prices generally with
out decided change, only moderate export de
mand; $1.295680 for winter red Western. Corn
steady, only moderate export and home trade de
mand at 565861 for ungraded Western mixed, 62
for Western yellow. Oats without decided
change, rather quiet. Pork Arm, mess sl7-
Lard opened excited, decidedly Armer, and closed
heavy, prime steam 11@11.15. Coifed quiet. Su
gar quiet and very Arm. Rice quiet. Molasses
quiet. Turpentine Arm 30*4, Freight* to Liver
pool quiet and very Arm.
BALTIMORE, November 18—Evening—Oata
steady and Arm, prime 36@38. Rye Btead.y Pro
visions quiet, stock light. Pork 17)4@54- Bulk
shoulders 654 ; clear rib Bacon should
ers 7*4, clear rib 9@Ji- Lard, reAned, 11@)4.
Coffee quiet, job lots 165620. Whiskey nominal,
11. Sugar easier, hut activo. 12(5)12*4.
ST. LOUIS Nov. 18.—Flour firmer, more
buoyant: superfine fall $3.50; extra do. family
$4 00(t525. Wheat active and firm, No. 2 red fall
$1.24>5; No. 8 do. $1.16J4@1.17. Corn No. 2.
mixed, 43!4@)4. Oats, No. 2, 32*4@33. Ryo
62 Barley steady and unchanged, scarcely any
thing done. Pork, new, $16.76 Lard steady and
firm, 974. Bulk meats quiet, shoulders 654@74,
clear rib sides B)4@J4, clear sides 854J4. Ba
con quiet, shoulders 6)4@54, clear rib sides
9@*4, clear sides 9>4@?4. Whiskey qmet
atC.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 18.—Evening--Flour firm.
In fair demand, family $5 60@80. Wheat quiet,
red $1 155625. Corn dull, a shade lower; new
40, eld 485650. Oats in fair demand at 30f88. Bye
Armor at 68. Barley inaotivo andffree 75. Pork
in fair demand, firm, slG.oo@sl6.26,Lardin
good demand, higher, steam *1.06@26; kettle
105811. Bulk meats iu good demand, Bhouldera
o,'i@)i, clear rib sides 874 954, clear aides 8)4.
Bacon scarce and firm, shoulders clear
rib sides 9745>y4; clear sides 9J4@H>- Whiskey
steady at 1.05. Butter quiet and unchanged.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 18—Evoning— Flour steady
and unchanged. Wheat firmer; red *1 15@1 20,
amber $1 22@1 22, white $1.20@1.80. Corn
steady, white 44; mixed 43. Rye in fair demand
at 65. Oats dull; white 35, mixed 32. Bulk meats
firm, shoulders clear rib sides 874@54,
clear sides 854@9. Bacon strong; shoulders 7)4,
clear rib sides 974, clear sides 10. Sugar-cured
hams b>. Lard scarce and firm, U 54. Whiskey
4ot<i;r Ati' damoind, Bagging iu nix de
mand, firm; 12.
LAWYERS.
W. Xj. IiATHAM.
Attornoy at Law, Hamilton, 6a.
WILL practice in the counties of the Chatt*.
V T hoochee Circuit. lebS ly
KEKSK CRAWFORD. J. SI. McNKILL.
Crawford & McNeill,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
128 Brood St., Columbus, Ga.
_ jaulStf
KAM'L B. HATCHER. • OOETCHIUS.
HATCHER & GOETCHIUS
Attorney* Counsellor* ftfc I**w
Practice in State and Federal Courts.
Office—67 Broad street, over Wittich & Kin
el*B Jewelry Store. faepl ly
PEAItODY & KRAA'OiV,
Attorneys at Law,
Hare moved their Office to corner ot Broad and
Randolph streets, over Store of R. S.
Thomas J. Chappell,
Attorney at liaw,
OFFICE OVER 119 BROAD STREET,
Columbus, Ga.
march 2 tf
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