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VOL. 2. T. S. WYNKK, W. H. 1)K WOLF, JOltlt IF. MAIITTN, JOirN 8. HTKWABT. Wynne, DeWolf & Cos. PiiTtlUlicr!* mid Proprietor*. II t lliY t (iu advance) per annum,. $7 un “ six mouth*, ..... 4 00 •* three month* 2 00 “ one month 76 vrKKKLY, one year 2 00 (Shorter terms Iu proportion.) I ■■ ■— - K t rim OF AVKItTI*IXG. Square, one vreok $ 3 00 One Square, one month. 8 00 One Square, six month* 28 00 Transient advertisement* SI.OO for first insor on. and 60 cent* for eaeli Hub*eqt|ent insertion. fifty per cent, additional in Looal column. Liberal rate* to larger advertisements. 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 # . 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. - 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 Attorney, mod DoiiueUon nt Low. Praetioo in Stete nud Federal Court*. Otoob—7 Brood ill rat, over WittkU A Kin. el' Jewelry Star*. . , [Mg! If W. L. XdATTTAM. Attorney at Law, Hamilton, oa. 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