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CONUIIKSSIOX.U..
SEX ATE.
Washington. Dec 12.—Mr. Bogy, of
Missouri, i'resented a memorial of
himselT, Senators Stevenson and Mc-
Donald, embracing the report of the
Democratic committee which wit
nessed the count by the Returning
Board of Louisiana, and it was or
dered to bo printed.
The resolution submitted yesterday
by Mr. Bayard, directing the Attor
ney General to inform the Senate as
to the number of deputy U, S. mar
shals employed on November 7th,
(election day) was agreed to, with an
amendment submitted by Mr. Ed
munds, requesting tli© Attorney Geu
eralvo also communicate to the Sen
ate a full statement as to the neces
sity for their employment, the object
thereof, nature of their duties, &e.
The Senate then proceeded to dis
cuss the resolution of Mr. Mitchell,
providing for investigation in regard
to the appointment of Cronin as a
Presidential Elector in Oregon.
The friends of the new Steamboat
bill are represented by some of their
best men, urging Sherman or Morton
to call up their measure. They have
some hope of early action.
Nothing is being done by the
friends of the Texas Pacific Roads.
All special legislation has yielded to
polities.
The feeling of the House is to ad
journ at an early day until after the
holidays, if the Senate will concur;
otherwise to meet and adjourn every
third day until their oommitteih re
turn from the South.
The proceedings in caucus last
night seem to have produced a cheer
ful feeling among the Democracy.
Tho speeches were not aggressive,
but expressed great determination to
maintain their rights, if it was found
they had any.
The IJouse judiciary voted to re
commend the admission of Belford
from Colorado—7 to 3. Hunton,
Ashe and Hurd voted nay and will
make a minority report.
The House is discussing the joint
rules. The question came up on a
motion to take action on Bland’s sil
ver bill. Garfield is urging there are
no joint rules.
The Judiciary Committee reported
a resolution in accordance with last
nights’s caucus.
Mitchell called up his Oregon in
vestigation himself, and Morton
spoke, when the matter went over,
and the argument was mainly of a
legal character, Mr. Morton citing
many precedents during Ills speech.
He said "under an old English law
persons executed for crime were
burned by the roadside and every
one who passed by east a stone at the
grave, so that the monument of the
criminal might grow up with each
generation. In regard to this Oregon
transaction every future historian
would add a comment, from genera
tion to generation would increase its
magnitude.
Mr. Edmunds’ amendment to the
Constitution, submitting th* Elec
toral count to the Supreme Court,
was debated, when a vote was about
reached.
Mr. Bogy said lie desired to speak
on the subject, when Mr. Edmunds
said it was not his intention to un
duly press this subject before the
Senate, but Senators could not shut,
their eyes to the fact that the present
condition of affairs was unsatisfacto
ry, and if there was auy way to settle
this serious difficulty; one which
alarms a great many people that
should be taken as speedily as due
consideration would allow. This
letter bad been on the tables of Sen
ators since last session and be could
not consent to its postponement un
til next week. He did not feel at
liberty to press it to a vote to-day
and therefore would not oppose the
requestor the Senator from Missouri.
Mr. Bogy—To allow it to Congress
until to-morrow. The matter should
be acted upon as speedily as possi
ble in order that the other House of
Congress could have time to act
upon it and the Legislatures of
three-fourths of the States have time
to ratify it. If acceptable on the
other hand if it should fail, Congress
should not be slow in finding some
other means of ascertaining the re
sult of the last Presidential election.
Mr. Morton again opposed the meas
ureand said the Senate was called up
on to re-enact by its Electoral College
with all its faults and also the provis
ion of the constitution authorizing the
House of Representatives to elect a
President, which was a dangerous
one in his opinion. Both these pro
visions of the constitution should be
wiped out.
There was a bill now before tho
Senate to provide for counting the
Electoral votes which had passed the
Senate but was still ou the table ou
account of motion to ro-eonsider,
which had been entered upon. This
bill might be passed to meet the pres
eraergeney. He hoped the Senate in
tho present difficulty would not he
driven to tho passage of a constitu
tional amendment, which re-euacted
two of the most dangerous provisions
in the constitution. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Washington, Deo 12.- Most of to
day’s session iu the House was occu
pied in the discussion of the impor
tant questions as to whether the
Joint Rules of tho two Houses, in
cluding the rule for tim counting of
the Presidential votes, are or are not
in force. The question came up on
uu incidental point involving mainly
tho order of business, and which
could have been decided under one
of the regular rules of the House,
but which was decided by the
Speaker under one of the
Joint, Rules, because tho language
used in that rule is imperative. The
correctness of the speaker’s deeisiou
was assailed and the existence of the
joint rules denied by Garfield, of Ohio,
Kasson, of lowa, Hubbard, of Illi
nois, Hoar, of Massuehsetts, and
McCrary, of lowa. But the speaker
maintained his position, laying it
down as an axiom that, what it re
quired two bodies to do, It required
two bodies to undo, and that there
fore the Senate alone could not abro
gate the joint rules. He said that
the count of three Presidential elec
tions had been conducted under those
joint rules, and that he saw
no reason why the next vote
should not be so counted.
This declaration of opinion was ap
plauded ou the Democratic side of
tho House and in the galleries.
The bill of last, session to utilize
the product of gold and silver mines
was then taken up under the Hpeak
er’s ruling. Its discussion is to be
continued to-morrow aud next day.
The Fortification aud the Postofiice
Appropriation bills were reported
from tlie Committee on Appropria
tions.
Note— The Senate lias decided by
50 to 1 that the Joint Rules are not in
force.
THE DEMOCRAT* OF CHICAGO
MILD BUT FIRM.
Chicago, Deo. 12.— Prominent Dem
ocrats of this city held a largely at
tended meeting here this evening, to
discuss the political situation. Tho
sentiments expressed were generally
of a pacific nature, but it was the gen
eral opinion that the House of Repre
sentatives must be maintained in its
right, at whatever cost.. It, was de
cided to hold a mass meeting at an
early date.
European situation Morn Hopetut.
London, December 12.—The Times’
Vienna dispatch reports a greatly
improved feeling on the part of
Turkey.
A special from St. Petersburg to
the News Says great hopes of a peace
ful solution are entertained in the
highest quarters.
London, Dec. 12.—A Reuter from
Constantinople says there was an
informal meeting of the plenipoten
tiaries at the Russian embassy yes
terday, for interchange of views,
which is understood to be a favorable
augury for a peaceful result.
FRENCH POLITIC*.
PRESIDENT m’.MAIION AT ISSUE WITH THE
LEFT.
Paris, Dec. 13.— President McMa
hon at Saturday’s Cabinet council,
said: With the War Minister I will
not give up the army and its organi
zation, which are the very security of
the country, to the hazards of poli
tics, which might at any moment
overturn what has just been done and
compromise the country’s recovery
forever.
In the chamber yesterday evening,
M. Bordan charged the Left, much
striving to overturn McMahon and
the Senate.
Paris, Dec. 13.—The political sit
uation is one or great tension. It is
believed that President McMahon
has abandoned the idea of trying to
satisfy the demands of the Left, and
the formation of a cabinet from the
Right is regarded as probable.
COTTON CKOT.
Vlrjrtnlrt ntl Xorlh Catrollnu.
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 12.— Report of
the condition of the cotton crop for
November by the Cotton Exchange:
From 24 replies from 16 counties in
North Carolina and 2 replies from
Virginia, this report is compiled.
Twelve report weather more favora
ble for gathering the crop than last
year; ten report weather about the
same; four not so good. Four report
crop all picked ; 22 report an average
of four-fifths picked, and will finish
by 20th December. Eiglflfcen report
an average increase of 18 percent, in
yield of last year; five an average
increase of 7£ per cent.; three report
the yield about the same.
Colorado Senator.
Denver, Dec. 13.— Henry M. Teller
is elected U. 8. Senator for six years,
commencing next March.
COLUMBUS, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1876.
SOtmi CAROLINA.
A Balloting in the Democratic House for
Senator.
ItADICAI. LEGISLATURE ELECT*
IORDIV
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lliiltrrlsoii Beelines Ite-Eleclloii by the
Kuiltcal Legislature.
moke moors arriving.
Washington, D. 0., Dee. 12.—The
Herald special from Columbia pub
lishes a correspondence in which
Senator Robertson declines being a
candidate for re-eleetion as TTnfted
States Senator. The letter con
cludes : “Regarding this body intend
ing to proceed to elect a United
States Senator on Tuesday, as consti
tutionally defective for wayg of the
co-operation of the Constitutional
House of Representatives, lam con
strained to witholding my name as a
candidate before it. - ’
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 12.—A bal
lot was had to-day iu the Democratic
House for IT. S. Senator. There were
14 candidates The votes ranged from
1 to 11, which was tho highest east
for Gen. M. C. Butler of Edgefield.
Troops are arriving here from
Florida. Everything is quiet n<> ex
citement whatever.
Columbia, Dee. 12. —ln the Repub
lican House a ballot for United
States Senator resulted in the elec
tion of United States District Attor
ney D. T. Corbin, he receiving 58 out
of C 6 cast. In the Senate Corbin 17,
Gary, Democrat, 12. Corbin was de
clared elected.
Both Houses adjourned.
MO KITOV* Ki:iT,l TO EDMUND*.
Report of American Press Association.]
Washington, Dec. 11. —Mr. Morton
opposed the amendment, and said it
would make the Supremo Court a po
litical body; it would make them a
great returning board. A Chief Jus
tice who lias tho easting vote in such
an election could lay the foundation
for a future candidacy for Presiden
tial honors. This amendment, was
but a re-enactment of article 6, 12th
amendment to the Constitution, with
the changes, viz: First, it changes
the vote of Electors from ballot to
viva rove; second, it transfers the
count to the Supreme Court.; third,
it, makes judges ineligible as candi
dates for the Presidency until two
years after their resignation as judges
He would oppose anything like the
Electoral College. It was unrepubli
can, and prevented men from voting
as they wish. Wo came near mak
ing a shipwreck of the Government
as early as 1801 by the Electoral Col
lege, and the method used to elect
Jefferson at that time would damn
any man who would resort to it at,
the present day. The system was
open to the greatest corruption ; the
election might turn upon a single
vote, as at tho present time, and
there would be great temptation to
offer bribes. We have escaped dis
aster so far, because each elector
has been supposed to be pledged to
vote for a certain person. In what
manner can we hold that man to the
performance of his pledge? Wo are
now called upon to pass upon this
question’, of anj Electoral College.
Again, after one hundred years of
national existence, we called upon to
re-adopt the Electoral College, to
which he was totally opposed, and
he read tables showing that in past
elections the popular will had been
defeated by the machinery of the
Electoral College.
The Arseiulne Confederal lon.
London, Dec. 12.—The Argentine
Consul has received telegraph from
the Argentine Finance Minister, an
nouncing that the rebellion of Entre
Rea’s has terminated, and that the
republic is peaceful. Htatements
telegraphed to London about a gen
eral insurrection are false.
Weather To-Day.
Washington, December 12.—For
the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
clear or fair weather, except local
rains in the southwest, stationary or
slight rise in temperature.
Orewon* Precedent.
We find unciedited in one of our
exchanges a significant, article, which
we reproduce:
“It appears that the Supreme Court
of Oregon has already had occasion
to pass upon the question which
threatens to make a vacancy in the
Electoral Board. The ease was this:
In 1868 a person holding the position
of United States Surveyor-General
was voted for as an Elector. About
a week after the election he resigned
his position as United States official.
“The Governor of Oregon refused
to commsision him, holding that he
was ineligible for the reason given.
* "The Supreme Court granted a rule
upon the Governor to show cause
why a mandamus should not issue
compelling him to sign the commis
sion.
“The case was one which attracted
widea'tentiou. The Court ruled that
the Governorwas right. It said that
‘the election of an Elector was his
appointment. The Constitution of
the United States forbids the ap
pointment to the office of Elector
any person holding another office in
the government.’ The opinion con
cluded as follows : ‘The mode of ean
! vassing the vote, and the proclama
tion of the Governor, are substan
tially only modes of ascertaining and
publishing the result of the vote.’
[McWbirter vs. Brainard, sth Oregon
reports.]
WASHINGTON NEWS.
THE COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS
REPORT.
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HEWITT * COKKE*POXDENCE CALL
ED FOR.
Mi-Laws Nominated Tor I*os t innsi er nt
savannah
MILITARY CHANGES DENIED—AN INQUIRY
REGARDING USE OF TROOPS.
Washington, Deo. 12.— The board
of naval ollioers appointed to report
regarding navy yards, are in favor of
retaining all navy yards aud stations
except the yard at New London, na
val ground at New Orleans, and the
naval property at Brunswick, Oa.
They speak favorably of Port Royal
as undoubtedly the finest harbor on
the Southern coast. There are favor
able cites for naval stations at Port
Royal but care must be taken in the
selection, meantime they recommend
that Port Royal be used as a refitting
and coaling station for the West
Indies.
For two hours to-day the Cabinet
discussed the nature of reply to the
resolution of Congress relative to
the use of troops in the late election.
Nomination: McLaws, postmaster,
Savannah.
The Senate committee have culled
upon the telegraph company for the
correspondence of Mr. Hewitt.
The report that Sheridan was or
dered to supercede Hancock in com
mand of the Department of the At
lantic, und that Hancock was ordered
to the Padflocoast, is authoritatively
denied.
The Senate committee for Louis
iana leaves to-night; those for Flor
ida and South Carolina to-morrow
night, via Atlantic Coast road.
linn in trim Uentieninu.
You should never judge by appear
ance. The ntliei day a little weazen
faced man, wearing a $3.50 suit of
clothes, went to one of the big hotels, and
registering himself as from Texas, asked
for aroom and if breakfast was on the
table.
The Olympian clerk gazed at him
scornfully for moment, and languidly re
marked ;
“Any baggage?”
"No,” replied the guest.
“In that case,” said the clerk, “the
rules of the house compel me to insist on
payment in advance.”
“Very well,” said the guest, without
hesitating or appearing offended : “take
two days’ board out of this,” and from a
wad ot”greenbacks as big as his arm he
produced a one hundred dollar note.
“1 beg your pardon,” stammered the
abashed clerk, “but we are so often taken
in, Major, and your face not being famil
iar to me, I ”
“No offense,” cheerfully answered 1 lie
guest; “business is business and rules are
rules. It does look a little odd to be
without baggage, but us cattle-dealers
ain’t much on style, and ”
“That* ail right. Colonel, said the clerk,
“Put up your money; we know a gen
tleman when we see him. Jim, show
the gentleman up to 146. Call for the
best in the house, General.”
The little old man stowed away an am
ple breakfast, got the clerk to give him
small hills for a fifty, asked where Billy
Goolbaugb, the banker, had his office, in
quired when they had dinner, desired the
clerk to tell Mr. Far well, if lie called,
that lie would he back at 2 o’clock, then
went, and hasn’t been seen since. The
clerk subsequently discovered that the
SSO hill was bad. The sad event lias
cast a gloom over tlie hotel office.—
Vhieaijo Times,
AM II VHA I ROIiLITIIIIK.
Monday, Dee. 11.—Ou the hall of
the districts in the Senate, bills were
introduced—
By Mr. Knox—To repeal several
silti-divisions of the Revenue law.
Mr. Billups introduced a bill to
limit the liabilities of sureties on
bonds of administrators and guar
dians.
Mr. Lyon—For the better preserv
ation of game in this State.
Mr. Chambers—To amend the act
establishing a revenue code for this
State.
The Senate resumed consideration
of the bill providing what property
shall he exemjit from taxation. No
action.
The bill to provide for more com
petent jurors in the counties of Mont
gomery, Lowndes, Autauga, Perry
and Bullock (the selection to rest in
live commissioners to be appoinied
by the Governor) was passed—yeas
lft, nays 7.
The Senate had up, when it ad
journed, the bill to provide for the
punishment of persons convicted.of
felonies in certain eases.
The House reterred to a special
committee a bill to regulate the prac
tice of medicine.
The following were among the new
bills introduced in the House:
Mr. Denman—To more efficiently
require sheriffs and other officers to
execute writs of%rrest placed in their
hands.
Mr. Hudson—To regtjlate and re
duce taxes in this Strife’. [lmposes a
tax upon property of one-half of one
per cent, by the State, and the same
by counties, and allows counties to
impose an additional tax of one-half
of one per cent, for special purposes.]
Mr. Herndon -A resolution for the
, appointment of a committee of one
from each Congressional District to
take into consideration section 35 of
the Revised Code, with instructions
to reporta substitute therefor. Res-
I olntion adopted.
Mr. Gere, from Committee on Agri-
I culture and Commerce, reported fa
vorably, with amendment, on bill to
create a lien in favor of blacksmiths
for work done on farm imjdements.
1 Recommitted.
Mr. Gere, from Committee on Ag
i riculture and Commerce, reported fa
vorably on bill to prevent the ob
struction of rivers and creeks in this
State. Passed.
Mr. McKleroy, from Committee on
Education, reported favorably, with
amendment, a bill to temporarily
regulate the public school system.
I PendiDg consideration thereof, the
House adjourned.
GRANT ON THE SITUATION.
He Prevaricates, Threatens and Assumes.
Accuse* llie Democrats ol Frauds and
Intimidation.
DEFIES CONGRESS AND HINTS AT “MORE
TROOPS.”
Washington, Dec. 10.—President
Grant, iu the course of a long and
freo conversation to-day with the
representative of the New York As
sociated Press, Mr. L. A. Gobright,
concerning political affairs, said that
recently he received a dispatch from
Gov. Chamberlain, informing him
it was currently reported in Colum
bia, that the President had, in his
interview with Representative Hew
itt.,of New York, a week ago, remark
ed that., when sixty-three members
of the South Carolina House of Rep
resentatives, holding certificates
from the Secretary of State, should
convene, he would recognize them as
the legal House.
The President, in reply to Govern
or Chamberlain, telegraphed him
that if Mr. Hewitt had sent or au
thorized the sending of such a dis
patch, it was untrue ; that he had so
expressed himself.
The President says ho had a free
and agreeable conversation with Mr.
Hewitt, in which he said that in his
judgment not less than sixty-three
members were eligible to organize
the House and transact business, in
cluding the qualification of its mem
bers. This was the view he then
held, but it was morally a private
opinion and he might have been
wrong. ,
The President on that occasion fur
ther expressed his views with regard
to the grounds on which each wing
of the members of tho House respect
ively claim the seats, aud in this con
nection the President showed a note
addressed him by Mr. Hewitt, dated
House of Representatives, December
6th, as follows:
“To tho President: I have received
a reliable telegram from Columbia,
stating that the sixty-third member
bolding a certificate from the Secre
tary of State has been sworn in to
the House presided over by Speaker
Wallace, which is, therefore, organ
ized in accordance with the require
ments of law, as stated by you.”
Oil the same day Mr. Hewitt sent
his Excellency anot her note as fol
lows :
“1 have just received a late dis
patch saying that the Supreme Court
of South Carolina has pronounced its
judgment, and declared the House
presided over by W. H. Wallace to be
the legally constituted House of Rep
resentatives, and that Mackey is a
private person, not Speaker, or in
any respect an officer of the Legisla
tive bodv.”
The President said, with reference
to these notes, that ho did not think,
after Ills free conversation with Mr.
Hewitt, that the latter would make
use of wfint ho said for the purpose
of defeating tho party he represented.
When Mr. Howitt and Senator Ran
dolph called upon him several days
ago, he informed Mr. Hewitt of the
contents of the dispatch he had re
ceived from Chamberlain, and the
reply he made to It, and intimated to
Mr. Hewitt he thought his confidence
had been abused. Mr. Hewitt denied
tlmt he had sent to Columbia such a
dispatch as that mentioned. The
President then repeated to Mr. Hew
itt the substance of the dispatch, in
reply to Governor Chamberlain as to
the report current in Columbia.
Randolph then produced a dispatch
from Gen. Hampton, in which he said
if the President would recognize the
Wallace House, and withdraw the
troops, he would do everything possi
ble to preserve the peace. The Pres
ident remarked that ho looked on
this as a piece of impertinence on the
part of Gen. Hampton in telling him
what to do; that the sending of troops
to South Carolina was in obedience
to the call of Gov. Chamberlain, the
danger there being too great for the
authorities of State to control; that or
ganized rifle clubs representing Gen.
Hampton were in the city of Colum
bia, and that if the Federal troops
should be withdrawn there would be
peace, but it would bo the rest of
death.
Senator Randolph then explained
to the President he should not think
that Gen. Hampton should advise
him what he ought to do, and that
tho dispatch which wus shown to the
President was a reply to one that
Senator Randolph hart sent to Gen.
Hampton.
In response to the question the
President said ho never instructed
Gen. Huger to place the troops in
the State House, but that was the
way Gen. Roger understood his or
ders.
The troops were in South Carolina,
the President repeated, in obedience
to the call of Gov. Chamberlain to
suppress insurrection, too formidable
for him to control, and had it not
been for these troops, Gov. Cham
berlain would be a refugee to-day, as
Gov. Ames now is from Mississippi.
Tho President said, in the course
of conversation, that he looked upon
the situation to be embarrassing, to
say the least. A good deal of bad
temper had been shown on the Dem
ocratic side and many were acting
unreasonably. They seem to fear
that he was doing what was not right
and abusing a body for yielding to
their views. This struck him as
strange, considering the scenes
through which we have passed.
Governor Hayes represented the
party that carried the election in all
but four of the States that furnished
the means for the suppression of the
rebellion, and Governor Tilden car
ried all but threo of those which
sought to destroy the Union.
In allusion to fraud, ho said the
majority for Tilden in the city of New
York was larger than his total major
ity in the entire State, and in which
city much crime is perpetrated, and
where there is a larger number of
men who have very little interest
either in the State or in the Republic.
In the same way frauds were com
mittedin New Jersey and Connect
cut. While it was true that those in
the Southern States who gave Mr.
Tilden a majarity were voters, many
of them voted more than once, but
uobody claimed that Tilden did not
carry such States. The same party
that pernetrated frauds in the South
ern States for Mr. Tilden complained
of frauds in Florida, South Carolina
and Louisiana, but if there had been
no frauds in Mississippi, North Caro
lina and Arkansas, those States
would have gone for Hayes ana
Wheeler.
The President justified the exclu
sion of Laurens and Edgefield coun
ties from the South Carolina returns,
on the ground that Georgians
voted in them frequently and east
more votes than there were votes
for tho Democrats.
Much had been said about the use
of troops.butoonsideringthe number
of lives sacrificed and the many po
litical murders in tho South, It was
necossary to afford the required pro
tection.
The President thought all was
quiet now in the South, and so for as
he could ho would protect every one
from violence. All steps taken to
the end had been duly considered.
The President in reply to a "re
mark that many of tne Democrats
had abandoned the Idea of impeach
ing him, said he would advise them
not, to attempt it, for It would bring
out evidence which they would not
like to see spread on the Ueeocd., He
would rather trust rebels than their
Northern allies and tried to nay as
much in his annual message.
He said. In response to a question,
that he would answer the House res
olution and Inform it why he sent
troops to the South.
In response to other questions, he
said there were now six or eight hun
dred troops in Washington. If there
should be any necessity for more, he
would order them hither. We shall
have peace, if we have to fight for it.
Some days he roceived five or six
letters threatening assassination, but
he paid no attention to them.
Tnc President., referring to the po
litical complications, said he had an
abiding faith in the people. As we
have had one rebellion, he did not
believe the people were anxious for
another, and thought there would be
some way out of the present difficul
ties.
THE IIIIOORI.YN HIRIAI..
INT6BMENT OF THE REMAINS OF HAN’T
WHO PERISHED IN THE. BURNING THE
ATRE.
New York, Dec. 9.— The curtain
rose this morning upon the last
act of the fearful tragedy which be
gan with the Are in the Brooklyn
Theatre Tuesday evening. Special
services will indeed be held in the
different places to-moriow, in ac
cordance with the programme, but
the burial of the bodies of the vic
tims this afternoon was a fitting end
toone of the mostdoleful histories of
modern times. This morning all the
bodies in the Morgue were removed
to the temporary deadhouse in old
Market, where there were 100 char
red corpses. One hundred coffins,
with German silver mountings, were
brought in and placed upon the floor,
atul into them the unidentified and
destitute dead,were placed.
FIFTY-SIX HEARSES
and undertakers’ wagons drew up at
the**ntrance on Adams street, and the
remains were lifted in. There were
two coffins each in a number of
vehicles. Considerable delay in
forming the procession was caused
by the desire of persons in the Adams
street Morgue to continue their ef
forts for indentifleation of friends,
and several additional bodies were
recognized. The throng about the
market was very large, and the
utmost excitement prevailed. Short
ly after 1 o’clock the ghastly cortege
started through Boenttn Place and
then entered Schermerborn street.
Hundreds of men women and children
followed, rushing along the sidewalk
in a state of greut agitation. When
the hearses and wagons reached
Schermerborn street they were form
ed in parallel lines, and there was a
delay of nearly three-quarters of an
hour. Although the weather was
bitterly cold and a cutting wind was
blowing a gale, the neighborhood of
Schermerborn street and Flatbush
avenue was crowded with partici
pants and sympathetic spectators.
The sadness in the faces of the
women waiting on the pavements
was very marked. The soldiers, who
were awaiting orders to move, suffer
ed intensely from cold. It was ex
pected that an entire division of
militia would parade, but at half
past eleven an order, caused by the
extreme severity of the cold, was pro
mulgated that only regiments or
companies previously volunteering
were expected to parade. It was
twenty minutes to two when the
order to march was given. The pro
cession immediately moved from the
head of Soherrnerhorn street into
Flatbush avenue amid general
mourningand timed by themeasured
roll of drums and by the fitful sob
bing of
ALMOST BROKEN HEARTS
within the houses and without them.
Far along the wide avenue and across
the broad streets, many an eye was
moist and many a lip quivering as
the dead wore borne to Greenwood,
leaving behind them sacred memo
ries, and cruel poverty, too, which
will not be effaced, and by their very
stillness and seclusion appealing
louder than the noise of words in be
half of their stricken and famishing
ones for a wise and generous charity.
The following was the order of pro
cession : First, a mounted squad of
policemen; second, a number of car
riages containing clergymen; third,
hearses and othor vehicles with bod
ies of the dead ; fourth, an escort of
several regiments of militia, Major
General Thomas 8. Dakin in com
mand; fifth, relatives and near
friends of the victims in carriages;
sixth, officers of the city government
and others in authority. As the
hearses rolled down Flatbush avenue
one of the most conspicuous and of
ten-occurring sights was an old large
poster with the ominous announce
ment, : “Brooklyn Theater. Last
night of the Two Orphans. Doors
open at half-past seven o’clock.”
Compared with other funeral proces
sions, the great procession of to-day
had many characteristics of its own
—the number and appearance of the
many crisped and dismembered
forms; the occupants of carriages, all
of them the nearest friends of the
dead ; none of them as is so often the
case, distant relations and mere ac
quaintances, with tearless and con
ventional sadness, were the distinct
and terrible features. But the one
feature which pervaded the scene and
lent to it a distinctive, deeply touch
ing significance was the manifesta
tions of popular sympathy and sor
row. A community had been afflict
ed, and sadness was common. Many
of the private and almost all of the
public buildings were heavily draped.
All the flags were at half mast and
torn by the wind
ALMOST INTO SHREDS,
as if the great occasion had a right
to all the service they could over
render. An Immense orowd had as
sembled in Flatbush avenue, just be
yond its Intersection with Schermer
horn street, and as the cortege filed
into the former thoroughfare the
f treat mass of humanity moved with
t. The intensely cold weather
seemed now to have little or no effect
on the people. There were there
men, women and children, complete
ly blocking up the avenue and surg
ing out in the carriage way. The
police kept a wide space open for the
procession, which moved slowly up
the avenue, the people pressing on
and endeavoring apparently to ap-
Itroaeh as nearly us possible the
learses and wagons bearing the frag
mentary remains of tho victims of
the play-house tragedy. The win
dows of houses were filled with spec
tators, and far ahead the avenue was
blocked with human beingß. Arriv
ing at Sixth avenue the column pro
ceeded down that avenue {tost the
private residences, with their peopled
windows, oourt yards and stoops. A
vast crowd accompanied the proces
sion, which t hen turned into Third
street, and moved down toward
Fourth avenue. There was
A PERFECT HALF, BLOWING,
and when the procession reached Fourth
Avenue immense clouds of dust were
driven across the dreary width, and pro
gress was made with considerable diffi
culty ; thence the line of march was con
tinued to Twenty-fifth street, and up
Twenty-fifth street to Greenwood, the
beautiful city of the dead. There was a
tremendous crowd at Greenwood. As the
cortege passed through the gate the bell
in the tower tolled mournfully. On either
side along the pathway, on the hillsides
and invading private plots, the people
were there. Turning to the left, the fu
neral party proceeded directly to Battle
Avenue, where, about 50 yards from the
entrance of the cemetery, a trench had
been prepared for the "reception of the
dead. The great crowds which were met
near and just within the cemetery were
formed about the vast grave, the site
being on the slope of the hill, and com
pletely exposed to the cold, which was
almost insufferable, but still the people
held their places. There was no delay in
removing the remains from the hearses
and wagons aud depositing them in the
regalar trench. Then the services were
begun. Rev. Noah H. Schenck read the
beautiful burial service of the Episcopal
Church, which was listented to attentive
ly by those who were within reach of his
voice. There was inexpressible sadness
mingled with a solemnity at the scene,
and hundreds of people wept.
TEAKS FREEZING ON THEIR CHEEKS
as the)- issued from their eyes. After the
reading of the services, Rev. A. P. Put
nam, of the Unitarian Church of our
Savior, addressed the assemblage. Rev.
A, Stewart Walsh, Baptist clergyman,
offered a frevent prayer at the conclusion
of Mr Putman's remarks, the services were
then brought to a close, with the bene
diction by the Rev. Joseph Odell. Pre
vious to the dismissal of the assemblage
the choral societies sang “Say what
troubles thee” and’“Above the tree top* is
rest.’’ People now departed, and all was
ended except the enduring agony of the
widows and the orphans.
The Colored Hare In the .houth.
A Southern correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, says; “Here is an
ominous fact. From 1850 to 1860 the
increase of negroes in Carolina was
20 per cent.; from 1860 to 1870 it was
5 per cent.; since then there has been
no increase. In four of the Southern
States there has been a decrease
since k IB6O, and no where has the
increase been so great as before. The
statistics in all the cities show their
mortality to be greater than that of
the whites; and, strangest of all, in
certain localities where they are in
an overwhelming majority their
death rate is 60 per cent, greater. In
ether words, the Amerioan negro, in
a favorite clime, on a fertile soil, in
his natural habit, is dying faster
than the poor in the alleys of New
York—fuster than the unacclimated
Englishman dies amid the fever
breeding jungles of Hindoostao, or
on the hot mud banks of Guiana.
The reasons are summed up in two
words—improvidence and unchasti
ty. Their development in slavery
was completely one-sided.”
(onUrmatloan.
Washington, Doe. 12.—Powers,
Collector Second Mississippi District;
Weaver, Third Texas; White, Third
Virginia; Dumont, Supervisor Gen
eral Inspector Steamboats; Lond
reau, Consul at Santiago de Cuba;
Borgano, Assayer Mint at New Or
leans; Weeks, rnelter ditto; Cowles,
Assayer and nielter Mint at Char
lotte, N. C.
A great many postmasters have
been re-nominated.
(Bov. Hayes Has Nothing to Say.
Cincinnati, Dec. 11.—Gov. Hayes
responded to a sereuade. After ex
pressing thanks he said; "You could
not expect me to say muoh more.
You could not'expect me to speak of
political matters on this occasion,
and certainly not of the position
which affairs have assumed at the
present time.”
A Michigan Ineligible.
Detroit, Dec. 12.—Democratic law
yers are preparing proofs and author
ities that Michigan cast only ten
votes for Hayes, on account of irreg
ularities regarding Burton Hauckett,
who was U. S. Commissioner when
elected.
.
LAWYERS.
Leo MoLeater.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CIfWKTA, (U.
tar PROMPT ATTENTION TO COLLECTIONS.
BAM'X. B. HATCHXB. >. . OOBTCHJTO.
HATCHER & GOETCHIUS
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Praetioo in Stete nud Federal Court*.
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