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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1876.
Thbbs is not a single sweet to eom
%>ensate for the bitterness of the yellow
feTer epidemic in Savannah. The News
says that not a single book agent died
from the disease.
Russia seems to expect little from the
oonferenoe of the Powers, and ia hasten
ing military preparations. The hun
dred million rouble subscription has
already been exhausted, and another
and a larger loan will doubtless be ne
The hand is the hand of Esau, but the
voice is the voice of J aoob. Elliott and
Corbin maj have told the Returning
Boards what to do in order to defeat the
will of the people of South Carolina;
but assuredly A mob T. Akkrean told
Elliott and Corbin what to tell the
Board.
There was a very sharp contest in the
Third District of Missouri and a break
in the solid Democratic delegation in
Congress from that State was only pre
vented by one vote. Frost, Democrat,
was elected over Metcalf, his Republi
can opponent, by one majority. “It is
not as deep as a well or as wide as a
church door,” but it iB sufficient.
. * ■ mm m •
Judge Stanlbt Mathews, Governor
Hates brother-in-law, has returned to
Cincinnati from New Orleans, and has
conversed with the editor of the Qaxeite,
one of the bitterest Republican papers
in the West. He admits that the faoe of
the returns will show a Democratic ma
jority of four thousand. He depends
upon the doctoring of the Returning
Board. ____
The returns from all the counties in
Georgia, except Pickens, are in, and
Uncle Sammy's majority is 80,418.
Giving him 300 in Pickens, his majoritj
will reach 80,718. We think Georgia
will claim the banner. Georgia was
the first Southern State to shake off
the yoke of Radicalism and since that
time she has kept the faith and fought
the good fight.
Gov. Irwin, of California, says the
excessive vote of San Francisco (seven
thousand more than any previous vote)
is calculated to create suspicions of
fraud. He intimates that the ballots
and other election papers will be placed
under seal and in the custody of trusty
United States Marshals until an investi
gation can be had. If the fraud is
proven the vote of California will not be
cast for Hayes.
When the House meets next month it
will have to elect a Speaker in place of
the lamented Kerr. Messrs. Sayler,
of Ohio; Cox, of New York; Randall, of
Pennsylvania, are the candidates, with
chances in favor of the first named,
who was Speaker pro tem. at the time of
adjournment. Any one of the three
would make an excellent presiding offi
cer. As the office has been stripped of
its patronage the battle will hardly be
as warm as it was last December.
Hon. John C. Sheppard, of Edgefield,
is recommended by the Advertiser as a
suitable candidate for Speaker of the
House of Representatives of South Caro
lina. As Chamberlain’s Returning
Board has assumed to count Mr. Shep
pard and the other Edgefield members
out, his candidacy will have to be post
poned, though we hope he may yet be the
Speaker.
United States Judge Bond, who went
to Columbia to stiffen up the Returning
Board in it determination to steal the
State for Hayes, is exceedingly sensi
tive. Because someone hurrahed for
Hampton when he was leaving the hotel
to enter a carriage, he returned, paid
his bill and said he would not stay in a
house where he had been “so grossly
insulted.'’
At a caucus of the Democratic mem
bers of the North Carolina Legislature,
held in Raleigh the other night, Gen
eral Matt W. Ransom was renominated
by acclamation for United States Sena
tor. This is a compliment ss flattering
as it is deserved General Ransom has
made a capital Senator, and we are glad
to know that the people of North Caro
lina appreciate his services.
The South CdVolina correspondent of
the New York Herald says that the
ostracism of the oolored Democrat by
his oolored brethren of the Republican
creed is something even more severe
than that which the white Republican
has to suffer. He is banished from the
church, and runs the risk of losing his
Jife the first time he gets within easy
reaoh of his opponents’ oudgels.
There seems to be considerable con
fidence manifested in the reported dis
covery of a resident of Los Angelos for
the manufacture of cheap gas from rub
bish. At least, certain capitalists of
that city are so deeply impressed with
this faot that they have oombined and
obtained a charter from the Counoil of
Los Angelos to erect gas works for the
supply of that city after the new patent,
whieh is known as the “ Green-Mes
jrner.”
Grant is a man to be dreaded when
ever he adopts any of the fine sentiments
others write for him, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. When he sent troops to Kel
logg’s protection and told him not to
cheat, while he afforded him, personally,
protection if he chose to do so, he
rather improved upon the injunction of
the college boy, who saw hie associates
maltreating the bailiff: “Don’t nail his
Car to the pump, Itoys !” The “boys”
knew what was meant, and took the
hint, and so will Kellogg, with Phil
Sheridan again to back him.
Judge Reed, of South Carolina, is
the Yicar of Bray, in Palmetto politics.
Some years ago he was a pronounced
Democrat. In 1874 he waited until
Chamberlain’s success was assured,
and then pronounced for Chamberlain.
In the recent campaign he was for
Chamberlain until the returns showed
the election of Hampton, and then he
came out in a letter congratulating the
people on the result. When he hears
what the Returning Board has done he
will probably renew his allegiance to
Chamberlain. He is determined that no
matter who may be Governor he shall
be Yicar of Bray.
Thb New York iSun presents the case
'very strongly to business m£n and
manufacturers of the North by showing
that the fellows who are stopping the
business end arresting the prosperity,
and crushing out the growing tendency
to recuperation, are a few unscrupulous
Hcroundrels fu three States, who are op
posed by the entire capital and enter
prise, the honesty, itolid worth in
telligence of those JStates. Sooner or
later the wrath of the solid industry and
enterprise of the North will be visited
upon the party which has recklessly
used these base agents to destroy the
prosperity of the country in their des
perate struggle for power.
The Chicago Inter Ocean's Washing
ton correspondent telegraphs that, “from
aotfie remarks dropped by the President,
within the past few days, it is under
stood that his message will deal vigo
rously with the election complications,
and that its tone wiU 1,6 Bimilar 11181
of his order to General Sherman. No
mu was ever not e “ earnest than he
is a this subject. atH-i in case trouble
ariaee he will be prepafea 10 meet it at
its inception. Several companies ot
troops hone been ordered to the posts in
•and around Washington, and arms
will be ready-set the Washington Arse
nsd, so that we wilt not have a repetition
of the Buchanan fiasco ua 1860.**
Tweed has arrived. The -“Boss" came
too late to furnish Chairman fltasßH*
with a campaign canard.
GENERAL GORDON.
General John B. Gordon has done
good service in South Carolina and de
serves the thanks of the whole country
for the zeal and fidelity with which he
has discharged a most important trust.
Immediately after the election, and aa
soon as it became apparent that the
State of South Carolina had really gone
for Tilden and Hampton but that the
Returning Board intended to steal it for
Hayes and Chamberlain, General Gor
don went to Colombia in the interest of
the Democratic party. He has remained
there ever since, laboring skillfully and
faithfully to prevent the consummation
of the fraud intended. He has taken a
prominent part in the councils of the
Democracy, and has rendered them val
uable assistance in their warfare with
corruption. The distinguished visitors
from other States came and departed,
worn out by the tedionßness of the
struggle. General Gordon remained and
assisted the Democrats in fighting their
way inch by inch through the labyrinths
of the law. When the Returning Board
played its trump card of rascality Wed
nesday by issuing certificates of elec
tion to men who were not legally elect
ed—in violation of the order of the Su
preme Court—and then adjourning sine
die. General Gordon remained cool and
collected and telegraphed to the Chron
icle and Sentinel these words of good
cheer: “ The Democrats confidently rely
“ upon the impartiality of the Supreme
“ Court, although aomposed entirely of
“ Republicans, and upon its ability to
“ vindicate its own dignity, to enforce
“ the law and secure justice.” General
Gordon deserves well of the people of
the whole country for his patriotic,
manly and conservative course in this
important crisis of our national history.
A South Carolinian just from Columbia,
himself the bearer of an honored name,
tells us that General Gordon has ren
dered the most important service to
South Carolina—service that will long
be remembered wi h gratitude by the
people of that State.
THE MAN ON HORSEBACK.
We publish this morning a long ac
count of the recent warlike movements
in Washington City. The report is fur
nished by the Washington correspon
dent of the New York Herald, and
is told in such a circumstantial man
ner as to give it the impress of truth.
Soldiers and marines have already ar
rived to the number of several hundred.
A number of companies of infantry and
artillery are on their way to the capital
from Virginia, Maryland and the West,
forts and bridges are being inspected
and ammunition is being prepared. It
is alleged by some that all these things
are being done because the Democrats
expect to have a torchlight procession
on the 29th instant, and as there are ten
thousand negroes in the city, the Gov
ernment fears that a collision may take
place between the whites and blacks,
and the troops are brought to Washing
ton to do “police duty.” It strikes us
that this excuse is rather flimsy. Why
should the Government send to Vir
ginia and to Kansas for troops to do
police duty, when a Sergeant and twelve
United States soldiers would be suffi
cient to quell a riot in the largest city
of the United States? Why should
forts and bridges be inspected, if only a
riot was to be quelled ? Why should
batteries of artillery be employed to
rout a mob, unless .Grant expects
to imitate the example of the
Little Corporal when he used cannon
to mow down the sections on the 13th
Vendeimaire. General Sherman, how
ever, offers another explanation of the
movement, all knowledge of which he at
first denied. He says: “We must pro
“ tect the publio property, yon know,
“ and we must guard the arsenals, par
ticularly the arsenals, whatever the
“ eventual settlement of the eleotion
“dispute may be.” The language em
ployed by the General of the Armies
evidently shows that troops have been
concentrated in Washington, not to sup
press a riot apprehended from a Demo
cratic torchlight procession, but in view
of the assembling of Congress and the
counting of the electoral vote. “What
ever the eventual settlement of the elec
tion,” says General Sherman, “we must
protect the public property, and we
must guard the arsenals.” The suppo
sition that “reckless and desperate par
tisans of the Democratic candi
date” may make a dash from
Virginia and Maryland to oapture
the capital and the public buildings is
simply stuff and nonsense. The state
ment that General Grant’s life is in
danger is manifestly too absurd for
serious consideration. As we said be
fore, the Democratic party of the South
does not propose to do any fighting.
The ordeal of reconstruction has pre
pared the South to stand almost any
form of government or any speoies of
outrage. We sre secure in the posses
sion of our own section, of the control
of our own local affairs, and we can
stand Cmsab and his legions if the
North does not complain.
We do not pretend to say that Grant
is preparing for a coup d'etat on the
fifth of March and the proclamation of
himself as Emperor i.r King. He is not
such an ass as to lose the substance by
jumping at the shadow. But we do say
that connecting fie oonduot of the Re
turing Board in the three States
of Florida, Louisiana and South Caroli
na with the concentration of troops at
the oapital there seem to be indications
that Hayes is to be elected President by
fraud and inaugurated by force if pos
sible, or else that Grant will say there
is no election, and will hold over until
the question is decided. Whether
the one thing or the other be done, the
liberties of the country will be effectual
ly destroyed, and we shall have imposed
upon ns the worst species of despotism
—despotism cloaked with the semblance
of Republican Government. It is 'true
we see no cause for present alarm. We
see nothing probable; but we do see
something possible. In this connection
we quote from a recent editorial article
in the Mobile Register, which we pre
sume is from the pen of the editor, Hon.
John Forsyth : “We may rest pertain
that Mr. Ferry will open certain certifi
cates and hand them to the tellers, and
that the tellers will read out the declara
tions contained therein, to the effect
that Hayes and Wheeler have a ma
jority of one vote of the Electoral College.
It ia surmised that when Florida
is called, the House will interrupt
the count and insist that the true
vote of Florida be substituted for the
false returns. The Houses retire to
oonsider the question. They return, and
the Senate sustains the false returns,
because formal and oonsistent with the
theory of Btato Rights. The House de
nies the false returns, and insists upon
the true. Should the matter rest there,
Mr. Ferry proceeds with his work and
completes it. If so Hayes is de facto
President-elect, with all the forms of
Law in his favor. But, suppose npon
the disagreement as to Florida the
Honse assume* to retire from the Joint
ConYentioa and thus prevent a continu
ation of the count! As they open the
door to go out, they are met by the
soldiers ot President Grant and forced
back to their seata nntil the ‘life of the
nation is saved.’ Cromwell did such
things, and Grant is not serf unlike
Cbomwhll. The people ef the United
States of the nineteenth are not veryj
unlike the people of England of the
seventeenth century.
Edwin Boots is og*gd in a straggle to
get his name swsy from the theatre in Saw
York which is under the management of Jaa-
BST i A Palmes- He aunk his fortune sod got
into bankruptcy by establishing the theatre,
uid now that he has no connection with it,
no intereet in it, he objects with very good
„on to having other people trade npon his
name W J reputation. He has brought suit
claiming for 016 “• of “•
nune and asking *h#t the paries be reetrain
ed from further use of It- Probably the claim
for damage# is merely a ioundatem for the
„ut it law.end the real object i# to get the
JMUne away.
OF THE SAME OPINION STIIA-
Before leaving this country for his
home Professor Huxley everywhere ex
pressed his admiration of the American
people and their institutions. As the
Professor had a point to gain as a lectur
er, it was feared that some of his com
pliments were not aB sincere as they
might have been, and that he would
hold a different opinion when he reached
English soil. This appears not to have
been the case. Shortly after his return
to London, Mr. M. D. Conway, an
American, who, by the way, had said
gome harsh things about his oountry
and oonrtrymen since he was taken into
English favor, called upon the Professor
to ascertain how he was pleased with his
trans-Atlantic visit. He was delighted.
His only regret was that he had been
o impelled to limit his stay to seven
weeks instead of seven months in Amer
ica. His wife joined him in his .eulogies
of the country, and both proceeded to
relate the scenes and the incidents
which had afforded them the most pleas
ure. With the good opinion of so illus
trious a scientist as Professor- Huxley,
we can afford to smile at the strictures
of the Bohemian letter-writers, which,
while intended to be severe, are usually
taken at their true valuation, as point
less.
THE NEXT HOUSE.
The Graphic's Washington special
says : “ The officers ‘of the Honse of
“ Representatives now in the city have
“ been figuring on the Congressional
“ returns, and they report that accord
“ ing to returns received up to to-day,
“ 142 Republicans and 144 Democrats
“ are elected. Three districts in New
“ Hampshire are yet to elect, and two
“ Republicans and one Democrat are
“ expected. Four districts are now in
“ doubt in Louisiana, two in Missouri
“ and two in South Carolina. Estima
“ ting that these doubtful districts are
“ divided equally between the two par
“ ties, the Honse will stand, Democrats
“ 147, Republicans 146. Among the
“ Democrats is Alexander H. Ste
“ phens, who may not be able to take
“ his seat. This will leave the House a
“ tie in his absence.” ,
We do not believe the officers of Ihe
House of Representatives have made
any such report. The Democrats have
a majority of about seventy in the pres
ent House. They have lost largely in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts, but they have gain
ed in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina
and South Carolina. The Democratic
majority in the House of Representa
tives of the Forty-Fifth Congress will
number from fifteen to twenty-five—a
good working majority. • So far as Mr.
Stephens is concerned the Republican
newspapers may possess their souls in
patience. He has gone on to Washing
ton and will take his seat and keep it as
long as he is able to do so. We have
every reason to believe that the health
of this distinguished Georgian is as
good now as it has been for years imd
that he will be able to attend regularly
to the discharge of his duties At the na
tional oapital when the New House
meets.
A WAY OUT OF THE WOODS.
A writer in the New York Herald has
solved the political gordian knot in a
manner entirely satisfactory to himself
if it does not satisfy any one else. Some
distinguished writer has said that hu
man life is made up of a series of com
promises. A compromise is offered as a
solution of the present political perplexi
ties. The basis of settlement is a unan
imous agreement that the Presidential
eleotors of each State shall cast their
votes for Hayes as President and for
Tilden as Vioe-President (or for Tilden
as President and Hayes as Vice- Presi
dent); that the President shall resign on
the 4th of March, 1879, to be succeeded
by the Vioe-President, according to the
Constitution; and that Messrs. Whee
eb and Hendricks shall each have a
seat ia the Cabinet as head of one of the
Departments. The outgoing President
might, in turn, be elected to the Senate
and become Vice-President. This, in
brief, is the scheme which is to render
the frauds of Returning Boards unneces
sary, which is to revive business, send
the troops away from Washington and
restore peace to the country. In the
event of its being adopted we should
like to stipulate that Governor Tilden
be first elected President, and that Gov
ernor Hayes try his hand as Vioe-Presi
dent for a while. It is but fair to the
author of the compromise to state
that ,he favors the reverse of this
course. He thinks it would, for
several reasons, be desirable that Mr.
Hayes should succeed General Grant,
because then the changes in the person
nel of the Government, as well as in its
policy, would be more easy and gradual;
but the details of the arrangement conld
be settled amicably and without difficul
ty. We think, on the contrary, that it is
desirable, for several reasons, that Gov
ernor Tilden should snoceed General
Grant and that the changes in the per
sonnel and policy of the Government,
as administered by the Republican par
ty, should be sudden and violent. With
this proviso, and in order to save the
souls of the Returning Boards of Flori
da and Louisiana a couple of thousand
years of extra damnation (the souls of
the South Carolina Board are already
hopelessly lost) we might be induced to
favor the proposition. There is, how
ever, one serious difficulty in the way of
its adoption. The author thinks that
the out-going Vice-President, under
this arrangement, should come back to
the seat of Government as a member of
the United States Senate. As the Re
publican majority in Ohio has been
whittled down from thirty-seven thous
and to seven thousand, if Hayes should
be the out-going President it might be
a difficult matter to get the Legislature
of his State to return him to the Senate.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
We find the following in a recent is
sue of the Atlanta Constitution ;
The fact that Mr. J. C. Harris, late of the
Ssyannah News, has been temporarily engaged
npon the Constitution for eome weeks past has
been frequently alluded to by several of onr
contemporaries. We are glad to be able to
state to-day that we have made permanent ar
rangements with Mr- Harris, and henceforth
he will be a fixture oa thp editorial staff of
the Constitution.
We congratulate the Constitution upon
its acquisition. Mr. Harris has for a long
time been associate editor of the Savan
nah Hews. He is a thorough journal
ist and one of the best writers on the
Southern press. His humorous para
graphs, though they have made him
widely known, are by no means his best
forte.' He writes ably and well on every
subject of general interests and writes
in such a way as to reach the popular
mind.
In this connection we desire to ssy
something of the Constitution. Under
the new management the paper has im
proved marvellously, and we have no
hesitation in saying that it has been
made not only one of the best papers in
the State but one of the best papers in
the South. Its staff has been reoruited
from the best journalistic talent and its
“make np” and matter ha>ve been chang
ed greatly for the better. The ediu-f
--in-ehief, Hon. Evan f. Howell, ia a
fine lawyer, a thorough politician, m
the beet sense ot the term, and splen
did political writer. Mr. N. P. T. fiscn
has long been with the paper and is one
of its mainstays. He is a trained jour
nalist, and much of the success with
which the paper has met ia due to his
talent and judgment. Mr. H. W.
Grady is known all over the State as one
of the most brilliant and racy writer
that overlaid pen npon paper. Messrs.
Whidbi and Jacksom have made the
city department a most admirable
chronicle of local events; We wish the
Constitution success eommenanrate with
its merits.
THE MAS 0N HORSEBACK.
BIUNIFICANT ARMY AND NAVY
MOVEMENTS IN WASHINOTON.
Maas ins Troapa at the Arsenal—Engineer
OOlcera Examining Approaches to the City
—General Sherman Says the Preparation*
Are Neceeeary—Opinion* of Army Officer*.
[By Telegraph to the Herald ]
Washington, November 20. —The
streets of Washington, especially in the
region known as the Island, lying be
tween the Potomac Railroad depot and
the Arsenal grounds, presented quite a
martial appearance to-day. Soon after
daylight a long train rolled ia from Bal
timore and unloaded three companies
of soldiers, who took up their line of
march for the Arsenal, where they joined
the detachment which had landed over
night from the Norfolk steamer, making
seven companies within the spacious
grounds. The Arsenal is to Washing
ton what the Battery is to New York. It
is a large park at the extremity of the
city, and in times of peace is the resort
on Sunday for pleasure-seekers, com
prising an area of about fifty acres,
broken np into groves and terraced
meadows of the most rural and peaceful
aspect. It is dotted, at the same time,
with mounds of cannon balls, and
strewn with collections of all kinds
of ordnanoo. Within the enclosure
are machine shops and barracks,
such as are nsnal in a military depot. A
drenching rain fell all day, despite
which the soldiers occasionally strag
gled out into the adjoining streets,
while parties of smartly dressed officers
faced the bluster of the storm in search
of refreshments at the np-town hotels
and restaurants. Washington gazed upon
these men with anew and strange inter
est, despite its long familiarity in days
gone by with the sight of soldiery. The
jaunty caps, blue capes and red stripes
of the officers commanded instant atten
tion and caused the wayfarer, as the
storm swept the streets, to turn around
for a fuller look. So far the garrison of
Washington is confined to the trivial
number of 400 men, all of whosn are
quartered in the Arsenal grounds. The
company which it was said would be de
tached and sent to occupy quarters in
the Navy Yard was retained with the
test in the Arsenal, the fact having been
made manifest that tlie corps of ma
rines in the Navy Yard was competent for
its safe keeping for the present and un
til the situation of affairs became more
critical. That more troops are coming
is most likely, but the officials at army
headquarters are proof against the as
saults of the most skillful and desperate
of interviewers, and their number and
name are kept a profound secret. Very
naturally, the reasons and objects of
this movement of the military to Wash
ton are the subject of universal specula
tion. Partisans on both sides go to ex
tremes and exaggeration in their proffer
ed explanations of it. The Democrats
pronounce it the beginning of a scheme
to secure# Republican triumph by force
of arms. The Republicans say it is pre
caution against a Democratic demon
stration to prevent the inauguration of
the Republican Presidential candidate.
General Sherman's Explanation.
The real reason, however, was given
by General Sherman when he said : “We
must protect public property, you know,
and we must guard the arsenals, what
ever the eventful settlement of the elec
tion dispute may be.
The DanferoiiM Element.
It is not impossible that some of the
hot-blooded, reckless and desperate
partisans of the candidate who is most
in favor with the people of the adjoining
States of Virginia and Maryland might
make a dash into the city of Washing
ton, to thereby effectually destroy their
cause and that of their candidate. Balti-
more has hundreds of subh mad spirits,
and the country to the south of Wash
ington would send them plenty of com
pany, no natter how much their Presi
dential leader might disavow their con
duct, and no matter how fruitless might
be such an enterprise eventually. It
would in the heretofore defenseless con
dition of the city have put its buildings
and public property at their mercy ;
again a desperate fray of this kiud
might sacrifice the President to its
raf-e. It is no secret that detec
tives have already warned the
President that he should be cautious
in his movements and not expose him
self in situations where he might be
made the victim of a plot against his
personal safety. The Treasury building
alone would be a tempting object to a
band of desperadoes, cloakiDg their pur
pose under the disguise of political par
tisanship. Its $100,000,000 of gold, sil
ver, currency and bonds would alone be
a prize rich enough to tempt a raid. In
short, the mischief and injury such an
enterprise might accomplish is incalcu
lable. But, while the Administration
seems justified in precautionary meas
ures, it is doing a little stroke of busi
ness for itself and the candidate with
whom its sympathies lie. Asa lawyer
would say, the Republicans are making
a case with the people against the sup
porters of the other candidate, whose
followers are put in the light of a fac
tious and revolutionary party whose
menaces havo in tftrn rendered necessa
ry the presence of troops in Washing
ton to protect the city against violence.
It is in this spirit of propriety and of
policy combined that measures of pro
tection and defense have been taken by
the Government.
The Programme of Defense.
Indeed, the’protective movement already
embraces a requisition on the forces of
the Navy Department; indeed, the offi
cers of the Washington Navy Yard are
making active preparations to defend
that establishment against a possible at
tack. The Marine Guard, within the
enclosure, has been increased to 120
men. In the ordnance department
workmen are busily engaged in selecting
ammunition for the howitzer and gat
ling gun. Preparations are also being
made to swing one of the men-of-war,
now lying at the dock, broadside to the
Anacostia Bridge, thus defending the
approach from the counties t>f Eastern
Maryland. This is the same structure
that Wilkes Booth crossed over on the
night he assassinated President Lin
coln. The vessel will be moored in such
a position that her guns can be trained
upon ite The marines and crews of the
United States steamers Despatch and
Tallapoosa are to be restricted in their
lea res of absence, and only a limited
number will be allowed liberty each af
ternoon, and these are required to be at
their barracks or on shipboard before
midnight. Companies are to be formed
to man the howitzers and gatling guns
in case of emergency. The total num
ber of sailors and marines within the
yard is 270. In addition to these there
are over 100 workmen in the ordnance
department, who are well trained in the
use of field pieces.
The Marine Headquarter*.
At the headquarters of the Marine
Corps, on Eight street, activity reigns.
The garrison numbers about 175 men,
who are restricted in the same manner
as those at the navy yard. Reinforce
ments are expected at these headquar
ters within a few days from the differ
ent stations along the Atlantic coast, . A
visit to the arsenal grounds this evening
showed active work going on to make
the soldiers there as comfortable as pos
sible under the circumstances. Some
are in the machine shops and others are
in tents. The barracks accommodations
are insignificant and insufficient.
More Troop* Coming.
In addition to the seven companies
now in the place three more companies
were hourly expected. The officer in
command could not say from what
point they were coming. The companies
which arrived from th,e Wes.t this morn
ing were recently temporarily stationed
in the Department of the Missouri and
on their return Hast to New York were
halted at Harrisburg, Pa., by Colonel
Audenreid, of General Sherman s staff,
and ordered here. This detachment is
nnder command of General Abram C.
Wildrick, Captain in the Third artil
lery end comprises his own company,
Major John G. Turnbull companv,
Third artillery, and Major W.
Graves’company of the Second artllery.
Three more companies of the ThirdPkr
tillery will arrive to-morrow &nd
Captain Joseph G. Ramsay’s, light bat
tery of the Second artillery will arrive
Thursday from Fort McHenry, Balti
more. The companies arriving to day
are companies D and E, Third artillery,
aad C, Second artillery. The next ar
riving' companies will be sent to Fort
Whipple, just across the river from the
city, and to the Navy Yard, and before
the week ends some of the succeeding
companies which will arrive will be
Quartered in the Capitol itself. Fort
Whipple is one of the strongest of the
cordon of forts which was built during
the late civil war for the defense of
Washington, and is distant about two
miles fro© the Capitol as the crow or a
shell flies.
Engineers Examining th# Bfidgee.
Engineer officers yesterday and to
day “xamined the Acqneduct Bridge
and Long Bridge, the two bridges con
necting Washington with the Virginia
shore, to see if they would boar the
weight of the gans which will within
ten days be mounted at Fort Whipple.
That fort is the .only one which directly
commands the whole of this city.
The Aval I able Troop#.
Careful inquiry in army circles shows
the following present disposition of
troops which are immediately available
for concentration here; Companies A,
C and E, of the First Artillery, are now
returning East from the Indian Terri
tory; General Pope’s command, aa are
also companies G aDd H, of the Second
Artillery, from the saate 'Territory, and
company I, from Wesfen Kansas. Com
panies G and I, Third Artillery, are also
en route East from Reno, Indian
Territory, and Col. Audenreid is still at
Harrisburg watching to send these here.
These, with the companies already here,
.will make sixteen qpmpanies of ar
tillery, and good authority states
that by next Sunday there will
be twenty-two companies in and about
the city. What will be the other, six
companies, other than Major Ramsay’s
light battery of the Second Artillery, no
one can now tell; but the following are
the troops that can be thrown into town
within twenty-four hours: Major Breck
inridge, Second AHfflgiy, is at Fort
Foote, down the Potomac, ten miles
from here; Colonel Royal J. Fiank, Com
pany B, and General Richard H. Jack
son, Company K,.-First Artillery, are at
Fort Adams, Newport, R. L; Colonel
Looms L. Langon, Company M, hirst
Artillery, is at New London, Conn.;
General W. M. Graham, Company I, is
at Fort Warren, and General A. M.
Randol, Company L, is at Fort Inde
pendence, both of the First Artillery,
and both in Boston Harbor. Company
D, Colonel Henry W. Closson, com
manded by Captain JohnC. White, is at
Plattsburg, N. Y. In New York Harbor
'here is now Major Sinclair’s Company
B and Major Myrksk’s Company I, of
the Third Artillery, at Fort Hamilton,
and Colonel Livingstone’s Company K
at Fort Wood, on Bedloe’s Island. Gen
eral Edward R. Warner’s Company M,
is at the Centennial l grounds, Philadel
phia. Company B, Third Artillery,
whose commander; Major James Mc-
Millan, is now on dhty here at the War
Department, is stationed at Fort Niaga
ra, N. Y., and Company F, Colonel
Robert N. Scott, r is at Fort Ontario,
Oswego, N. Y. These make the four
teen companies, but in addition there
are two foot companies of artillery at
Fortress Monroe and five in North Caro
lina, which could be brought here in a
very brief time.
Wbat the Artillery Officer* Say.
One of the artillery officers here, in a
conversation to-night, professed not to
understand the reason of so much se
cresy at army headquarters. He said :
“I don’t see what the devil is the good
of trying to keep this thing a secret as
soon as we got here.” He came from
South Carolina the papers had it. He
said that only ColonelLodor knew where
they were bound for up to the time they
reached Norfolk on Friday night, and
all the men expected that they were re
turning to their former station at Fort
ress Monroe. General William F. Bar
ry, Colonel of the Second Artillery, who
is now in command of the artillery
school and Fortress Monroe, has been
ordered to turn that command over to
General Joseph Roberts, Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Fourth Artillery, and to
report here in person on Thursday morn
ing. He has been instructed to go di
rect to the arsenal and assume oommand
and stay there.
A Force of Twelve Hundred Men Heady.
With the troops at the Arsenal, the
sailors, the marines from headquarters
and the Navy Yard, Captain W. G.
Moore’s Washington Light Infantry and
Captain D. McCarthan’s Washington
Light Guard, the Government haß at its
disposal within the city at present about
1,270 men, fully armed and equipped.
Inspecting the Fort*.
Army officers who are believed to
know something of what is going on,
were to-day making inquiries about
Ports Lincoln and Bunker Hill, two of
the old abandoned earthworks on the
northern front of the city and whieh
comprised the main defense during the
war of the approach to the city from
Baltimore. Fort Lincoln is about three
miles northeast of the city, on the high
est ground in the neighborhood, and
during the war was armed with a battery
of 100-pound Parrott guns and controls
the turnpike leading from Baltimore, es
well as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
It is now dismantled, but could be suffi
ciently repaired in twenty-four hours to
receive an armament of a dozen heavy
rifled guns. Port Bunker Hill is on a
lower elevation to the north and west
of Fort Lincoln; is covered by its guns,
and is so situated that guns placed there
can rake all the approaches to Fort Lin
coln, aa well as control the same railway
and turnpike as far away as Bladenburg.
This fort can also be placed in condition
for service in a very brief time, but will
require more work upon it.
OXFORD NOTES.
Something About “Hev.” W. Watkln Hiek*
Telegraphing From Florida—The Railroad
Strikes—The Few Society.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Oxford, Ga , November 22.—The two
literary societies of this college have
by unanimous vote stricken the name of
W. Watkin Hicks from their honorary
list. It is certainly a bad life that
meets not only the condemnation of all
good men but the disapprobation of
even the boys. Never perhaps has
Georgia known a worse man and a more
brilliant man than Hicks. He was the
best disguised wolf that ever wore
sheep’s clothing in this part of the
world. He has been everything, from a
star preacher to “wandering star re*
served for the blackness of after dark
ness.” In religion he has been every
thing externally and, it seems, noth
ing sincerely. In all that is low
and dispicable he has been and is
now peerless in the records of
private life and unparalleled in the an-
nals of public baseness. He, we believe
it was, who telegraphed North that
Florida had gone Republican when in
truth she had gone Democratic. The
conflicting telegrams from all the States
have been a subject of inconvenience and
remark, but it was in many cases at
tributable, as I suppose, to the phe
nomenon that mental philosophers call
excited conceptions. As for instance a
person standing on the sea shore await
ing the arrival of his vessel will think for
a moment that he sees the object of his
anticipations, when in truth no sail is in
sight. In Hicks’ case this is hardly
probable. He knew too well how Florida
would go and had gone, but he thought
by telegraphing North that she had gone
Republican he would get the assistance
of bayonet rule to count it thus. Gov
ernor Brown is there though and Hicks
will doubtless fail. It will take more
than a pop-eyed apostle to fool “ old
Joe.” So poor little Hicks can spend
the entire Florida school fund tele
graphing to Washington and New York
if he wants to ; he will only hear to his
discomfiture the familiar ballad ringing
in his ears, “Not for Joseph, if he
knows it. No, no, not for Joe.”
All along the line is getting easy
again now the strike is over, and they
can get the news every morning. By
the way, these strikes are miserable
things. I have no occasion to say which
is the blameworthy party in this case, but
I will say are the offspring
of avarice and the parents of sin. The
Few Society held its annual Fall term
public debate last night. The speakers
for the occasion were : Salutatorian,
Geo. P. Allen; debaters, A. W. Wilder,
J. M. Moore, A. S. Oliver, and A. S.
Lovejoy. The occasion-was a very pleas
ant one, both on account of the speak
ers and the number of the fair sex that
were present. I noticed thd belle of
Dalton (I am not a belle editor) graced
the occasion with her presence.
Chronicler,
UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.
A Young Mali Lose* Hi* Right Hand While
Hunting.
Yesterday morning, three young meD,
Messrs. Charles Weigle, John Dryer and
Henry Spearing, with a colored lad
named Walker, went hunting birds near
the city. About half-past eleven o’clock
the party were on the Eldorado plaoe,
not far from East Boundary. Messrs.
Speanng and Dryer bad jumped over a
fence and were lying down on the ground
in a field and Weigle was just about to
join them when an unfortunate accident
occurred. Placing his gun over first,
with the muzzle up young Weigle got
upon the fence when a plank suddenly
broke, struck the hammer of the gun
and caused both barrels to discharge.
The contents, bird shot, struck Mr.
Weigle’s right arm at the wrist, shatter
ing it in a terrible manner. As soon as
possible his companions carried him
to his residence at the corner of Hous
ton and Telfair streets. Physicians
were summoned and it was found nec
essary to amputate the arm between toe
hand and elbow. The patient was do
ing as well as eould be expected yester
day afternoon. •
THE BESIEGED BURG,
Washington Note*—Chief Jaatice and Grant
—Stephens’ Arrival—Whisky Fraud*.
Washington, November 24.—Chief
Justice Waite visited the President to
day.
Mr. Stephens has arrived. He uses
his cratches on account of rheumatism
and headache, lint has gained ten
pounds of flesh.
Avery, pardoned for whisky frauds,
makes a statement, in which the follow
ing appears as as endorsement on the
letter from McDonald to Avery, which
Avery says he sent to tha President for
advice: “Joyce and McDonald are re
liable and trustworthy. Let them have -
the information they want.
P. 8. Grant.”
t —-——
Several beer tickets were found in an
Oglethorpe county ballot box. They
were counted out.
THE MONUMENTAL INFAMY.
PREPARING TO JAIL THE CARO
LINA BOARD.
A New Usurpation—UfllnK Ita • .Matter Over
tbe Supreme Court—Rood to Have a Say
So—The Board Crave. Time, But it Re
fused—ForgiuK the Contempt Shackles—
Able Charge of Judge Willard—Cheering
Words From Northern Democracy.
Columbia, November 24.—The Su
preme Court baa just issued a rule to
to the State canvassers through their
counsel, D. T. Corbin, to show cause
why they should not be attacked for
contempt in violating the writ of prohi
bition issued on the 17th instant, and
issuing certificates in defiance of the
Court. The answer is made returnable
at 4 o’clock this afternoon. There is no
doubt of the continued defiance to the
Court.
A dispatch to the Herald says H. W.
Purvis, a member of the South Carolina
Canvassing Board, refused to sign cer
tificates to members of the Legislature
and county officers on account of fraud.
He signed certificates, however, of elec
tors and State officers.
[Condensed From the News and Courier. [
Columbia, November 23.—More mis
chief was brewing last night. Purvis
(ex-officio a member of the State Board),
resigned his office as Adjutant and In
spector-General in .the ufternoon. His
reason for doing so is not known.
It is said that warrants have been is
sued for the arrest of the members of
the Board of State Canvassers, and it is
possible that Purvis resigned to avoid
the unpleasantness of any further con
nection with the Board. The important
question now is, who will be put iu Pur
vis’ place.
The community are much excited, but
no trouble is anticipated. The Demo
cratic Executive Committee seem well
pleased with what the Board has done,
as they consider it wholly illegal.
Judge Wright this morning said, in
the presence of a number of gentlemen,
that, if it was true that the Board had
adjouined in violation of tie order of
the Supreme Court, they would convene
in jail before 12, m., to-morrow. This
shows the feeling of the Supreme
Court.
It is rumored that Chamberiaiu & Cos.
will try and throw their case into the
United States Court, and thus avoid the
Supreme Court. I have heard unquali
fied indignation expressed by Republi
cans to-day concerning the action of the
Board, and it is oonccded that the Board
acted under advice of Judge Carter and
Mr. Akerman.
The rumor that some of the Board of
Canvassers had left Columbia for Wash
ington haß proved unfounded,' as they
are all here to-day. The members of
the Board have been served with writs
of mandamus, and everything is poised
lor tue final action to-morrow. In an in
terview with Governor Hampton to
night he said that he considered that
the aotion ftf the Board had done the
Democrats in the State no harm, and it
certainly had materially advanced the
cause of justice and truth in the coun
try at large. Concerning the probable
aotion of the Supreme Court to-morrow
Governor Hampton expresses no opin
ion, beyond the fact that, from all he
could learn, the Court had expressed its
iudiguation at the contempt of the
Board for its authority. Governor Hamp
ton has issued telegrams in every direc
tion counselling moderation and peuce.
Tallahassee, November 24. —The ru
mor that Gen. Ruger’s Federal troops
had been ordered to move at once to Co
lumbia, S. C., lacks confirmation.
Columbia, November 24—Court con
vened at four o’clock in response to a
rule issued at the morning session to the
Board of Cauvassers to show cause why
they should not be attached for con
tempt of Court in rel'usiug to obey its
mandates issued on Wednesday. United
States District Attorney Corbin, counsel
for Board, introduced an affidavit asking
for further time. The Court stated that
if he would indicate the line of their de
fense or assure the Court that they
would obey its mandamus, further time
would be granted. He would not do
this, and the request was refused. The
counsel for relators were instructed to
draw the order, but as a recitation of all
the proceedings was required as a pre
face to the order to commit the Board for
contempt, they requested until to-morrow
to file it. The Court said that they
hoped the Board would in the morning
obey its mandate and purge the cou
tempt. If they do not they will be com
mitted to jail. The counsel for the re
lators then moved that a peremptory
mandamus be issued to H. E. Paine,
Secretary of State, to issue certificates
to all members of the General Assem
bly, including the counties of Edgefield
aud Laurens iu accordance with the or
der of the Court of Wednesday’s
session. Associate Justice Willard
said; that the relators ought not to
pray this at this stage of proceedings
as Mr. Payne was now in contempt and
the Court had no assurance that he
would obey, as he had disobeyed their
mandate already, intimating that the
counsel ought to await tbe result of the
rule before moving this order. It was
at this stage of the proceedings that he
delivered the following forcible and im
pressive charge. Judge Willard said :
“Here we have just made a solemn de
cision, in which H. E. Payne is a party
as a member of the Board of State Can
vassers and as Secretary of the
State. If in that case an order
directed to him as well as to the
others on the Board, had been obey
ed, this question would not have arisen.
As the oase now stands, an incident has
occurred rare in the history of civilized
society, men clothed with civil authori
ty of limited character, subject to the
Courts of the land, have placed them
selves in defiance of the highest Court
in the State of South Carolina, and are
now jeopardizing the security of jus
tice and the security of peace. They
are in an attitude of defiance,
not only against abstract law,
but against its embodiment in this
Court. They have brought political
death for a moment upon the State and
upon the nation. They hold in their
hands a firebrand, and they have applied
it to the whole structure that covers us.
While they are thus standing, defying
the power of ‘this Court, we are now
gravely considering of issuing another
mandate to another of this Board.
I cannot believe that when these
gentlemen come to consider, when
they come to-night to ask the
favor and protection of their God, when
they recall the sanctity of their oaths of
office, Ido not believe they will longer
resist the power of this Court. This
Court is clothed with majesty; we do
not speak the voice of men, we speak in
judgment and judgment is the voice of
God. Every legal power will be ex
hausted by the Court to compel
from them what their conscience
does not yield, and whatever
loyalty, fealty and justice there is in the
community will be exerted to compel by
force what conscience does not yield.
Wliat are we doing? What reason have
we for believing that this order wiil be
obeyed any more than the others ? What
reason have we to believe that'this de
fiance will cease ? We should take into
consideration the b:ariugs of this quesj
tion. The action of this Board,, in
my opinion, will do more to call up a
generous spirit in the people, and for
getful of partisanship, to cause to unite
upon the high ground of justice and
truth than anything that has been done
in the history of the country since its
origin. Has this Court any reason
to believe that its process will be re
spected ?
The Court meets to-morrow at ten
o’clock, a. m.
New Yobk, November 24. Hon.
Abraham 8. Hewitt has written the fol
lowing letter to General Wade Hamp
ton:
! National Democratic Committee, )
New York, November 24, 1876. (
Mr D 'AR Sir— Your admirable ad
dress to the people of South Carolina is
the subject of universal commendation
here. In fact the prudence, the for
bearance and the self control of your
people under the most exasperating pro
vocations is beyond all praise. Can
only trust that in the exciting situation
in which you will find yourself next
week, no outbreak will occur. It is al
most too much to expect that there will
be no indiscreet men in South Carolina
who may provoke the" collision, but
nevertheless the Providence of God has
so far guided you and your-people in
all your difficulties that your friends
rest in calm confidence upon
the wisdom and good fortune which
have so far attended your actions. You
may rest assured that your Northern
brethren have consecrated themselves
to the work of your deliverance and will
never cease their efforts until you are
restored to that freedom wherewith you
were made free, by the labors, and sac
rifices and wisdom of our forefathers
and your forefathers. God give you
and your people all the wisdom and all
the patience needed in this hour of trial
and in this crisis of the destiny of our
common country. We have full faith in
the justice of the people of the United
States, and we do not entertain a doubt
of the final verdiet which they will pass
upon the occurrences of the last two
weeks. This verdict will surely vindi
cate their majesty and re establish free
government upon a lasting basis.
I have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your obedient servant.
[Signed] A rram S. Hewitt,
Chairman National Democratic Com
mittee.
Gen. Wade Hampton, Golnmbia, S. C.
[Note. —The following dispatches be
ing delayed, did not reach the Chroni
cle and SESTi>En until too late for pub
lication yesterday morning.]
[Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel .l
Columbia, S. C., November 24.—The
Supreme Conrt has been in session all
day. Late this evening the Court unan
imously ordered the committal of the
Board of Cauvassers to pris n, and di
rected counsel to prepare the order of
commitment; but, in consequence of the
great length of the required order, which
the counsel of the people had not pre
pared, time was given them until this
morning to prepare it. Meantime, the
Court adjourned the "Board to think
over the matter, and hoped they would
consent to obey the order of the Court
and make the returns as previously or
dered, when they come into Court to-
morrow morning. There is good reason
to suppose, and it is stated by parties
who have a right to know, that the
order has been made out to-night,
and the Board sent to jail; that a
United States Marshal was in wait
ing, to take them out of the cus
tody of the State officers. Judge Bond,
of the United States Circuit Court, is
here, and has been for some time, and
is the constant companion of Chamber
lain. Should this programme be car
ried out, there is no doubt entertained
but that troops will be ordered to take
possession of the State House on Tues
day, and permit no member of the Leg
islature to enter who has not a certifi
cate from the Board of Canvassers.—
The Board having thrown out the coun
ties of Edgefield ami Laurens, this will
give the Radicals a majority of eleven
on joint ballot. The people are intense
ly excited and ( xasperated at the amioi
pated consummation of the conspiracy,
but no trouble is apprehended. Nothing
could induce anything like opposition
to the National troops, and the Demo
.crate will have to submit to the State
being stolen from them after their hard
earned victory. The Major.
[Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Columbia, S. C., November 24.—To
morrow will be an eventful day iu South
Carolina and in the history of the coun
try. The Supreme Court will commit
the State Board, aud probably their at
torney, Corbin, wlm is United States
District Attorney, to'jail for contempt,
unless they obey, to-night, the mandate
of the Court. This is not probable, as
the Board and Corbin seem to rely on
some power outside the Court and above
the law. The issue involved here is the
whole question of a government of law
or of force. It will be decided to-mor
row. If the Court is to be respected
and law enforced, the revolutionary
aotion of the Board muse recoil upon
the party which supports it. If the
Courts are overriden aud the law
set at napgbt, the Government
is hopelessly subverted; we confi
dently repose on the good sense
of the American people and upon
their devotion to a government regulat
ed by law and of law, construed by duly
constituted and competent Courtp. No
graver question has ever been submitted
to Courts or to the people since the foun
dation of the Government.
J. B. Gordon.
Columbia, November 27.—The Su
preme Court has just entered a judgment
of $1,500 fine each, and a commitment
of all the members of the Board of Can
vassers to jail until released by order of
the Court. The Court is now proceed
ing with the case against U. S. District
Corbin, counsel of Board, for contempt.
There is considerable suppressed ex
citement.
[Special Dispatch Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Columbia, S. C., November 25.—The
Supreme Court met this morning, at 11
o’clock, and sparring between counsel
continued for several hours, tbe result
of the session being that the Court com
mitted to the Richland county jail, for
contempt, F. L. Cardoza, State Treasu
rer; T. C. Dunn, Comptroller-General;
H. W. Purvis, Adjutant and Inspeotor-
General; H. E. Hayne, Secretary of
State, and Win. Stone, Attorney-Gene
ral. These parties constitute the Board
of State Canvassers. In addition to the
imprisonment, a fine of fifteen hundred
dollars was imposed upon each. There
was no interference by the United States
Marshal, as was anticipated, and the
parties are now in jail. It is supposed
nothing will be attempted in the shape
of a writ of habeas corpus before Mon
day.- The Court also declared United
States District Attorney Corbin iu con
tempt, but allowed him uutil Monday
morning to purge himself of the con
tempt, and adjourned.
Columbia, S. C., November 25.—Dis
trict-Attorney Corbin, counsel for the
Boarijl of Canvassers, disclaimed auy in
tentional contempt and asked till Mon
day. The Court is now occupied with
argument on he electoral vote.
Columbia, S. 0., November 25. —The
Supreme Court this afternoon took an
order under advisement, requiring the
Board of State Canvassers to make a
comparison of the leturns of the County
Canvassers and the returns of the pre
cinct managers in cases of the Presi
dential electors, and will render a de
cision Monday. The Court declined to
issue an order giviug certificates to the
members of the Legislature from Edge
field and Laurens counties refused by
the Board, but stated thnt such mem
bers could obtain a copy of the
record from the Clerk of the Court,
which would be equivalent to a
certificate. The five members of the
Board of Canvassers who were construc
tively arrested this morning reported at
the j lil this evening, where they are
now confined. Their names are F. L.
Cardoza, Treasurer; T. C. Dunn, Comp
troller-General; Wm. Stone, Attorney-
General; H. E. Hayne, Secretary of
State, and H. W. Purvis, ex-Adjutant
and Inspector-General, comprising the
Board of Canvassers.
JOGGING ALONG.
Tlie Florida and Louisiana Hoards Pegging
Away—Ex-Gov. Brown .Submits a Docu
ment—Decision To-Day Upon Steam’s
Usurpation—Arguments in Louisiana—Va*
cancy Untouched.
Tallahassee, November 24—The
argument in the injunction and manda
mus cases were continued to-day before
Judge White. Mr. Sellers and Judge
Bidel, of Philadelphia, in speeches, and
Gov. Brown, of Oeorgia, by written ar
gument, appeared tor the Democrats.
Gen. Barlow and Judge Emmons for
the Republicans. The Court ad
journed without rendering a deci
sion. It will probably decide to-night
certainly to-morrow. There is no change
in the situation. There are three coun
ties yet to hear from, and it will be
Monday before the returns are all in,
possibly later. The result, from the
face of the returns, will be very close.
It is probable, unless the cases now
pending should go to the Supreme
Court, that the canvass will begin on
Monday or Tuesday, if an appeal is
made before Thursday. The canvass
will probably run up to the sth of De
cember, no mater when it is opened.
New Orleans, November 24. The
Board and Committees met. Wells
stated that he had received a communi
cation from the Supervisor at Natchi
toches station, that the names of the
electors had not been omittgd on tickets,
but be had thought it only necessary to
count electors at large and the elector
in the Fourth District.
Col. Zacharie asked whether the re
turns could be “corrected by outside
testimony.” Wells answered that it was
not testimony, but statements by the
Commissioners of election. Zacharie
asked whether the statement was in re
turn when opened.
Wells : No. .
Zacharie : Will counsel for the Dem
ocrats have an opportunity to contradict
the statement ?
Wells : The statement can only be
contradicted by ballots themselves.
Zacharie : Will the ballots Ife sent
for?
Wells : They will be telegraphed
for, but we will not delay the conside
ration of the case when it comes up.
Formal application for admittance of
correspondents refused. The Board is
still undetermined regarding the fifth
member. Governor Wells announced
the answer to several appeals and pro
test that rules of the Board not be
changed. Application for Democratic
representation in clerical force refused.
What Honest Men Say.
New York, November 24.—The New
York Herald closes a long editorial
thus; “The Republican party is not
made up of rogues and Tombs’ lawyers.
It contains a great mass of honest, hon
orable, patriotic men, and these will not
tolerate what would make them hang
their heads with shame. They will not
allow their leaders to resort to triokery,
to base devices, to doubtful means to
count in their candidate. Air ady the
Republican pinion of the proceedings
in the disputed States is such that it
has become almost impossible to de
oently count in Governor Hayes. Al
ready the wisest Republicans say in
conversation that for the sake of their
party they hope for Mr. Tilden’s elec
tion. As yet, the honest Republican
masses are "waiting in silence, but with
deceasing patience. Any farther ap*
pearance of trickery, however, or the
least continuation of these attempts in
the disputed States to take advantage of
shallow legal technicalities, to resort to
underhand and unworthy [means such
as the recent hearng of testimony
chanring intimidation on which the
Louisiana Returning Board has, it is
said, determinded, and will give voice to
arouses the smothered indignation of
the Republican party who pannot stand
silent apd see themselyes and the good
name of their party sold iflto disgrace.
Tbs Registration, —The total num
ber of voters registered for the coming
municipal election foots up 3,516, of
which 2,023 are white and 1,493 colored.
STATE SUPREME COURT.
DECISIONS RENDERED NOVEM
BER Ml, 1876.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Savaunah, Griffin & N. A. R. B. Cos. vs.
George & Harduelt. Complaint, from
Spalding.
Warner, C. J.
The plaintiffs brought their action
against the defendant to recover dam
ages for the alleged killing of a certain
brown mare by the careless and negli
gent running of its train upon its road.
On the trial of the case the jury found a
verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for the
sum of SIOO. A motion for anew trial
was made on various grounds, which
was overruled by the Court and the de
fendant excepted. The main question
on the trials was whether the plaintiffs’
mare was killed by the defendant’s rail
road train, or not killed by it, and in re
lation to that point in the case the evi
dence was conflicting. The jury, as it
was their province to do under the evi
dence, found a verdict in favor of the
plaintiffs, and there is sufficient evidence
in the record to sustain it if they be
lieved the plaintiffs witnesses, which was
a question for them to determine and not
a question for the Court to decide. As to
the newly discovered evidence the main
fact sought to be proved' by it appears
to have been known to the defendant’s
agents before the trial, and by the exer
cise of proper diligence could have been
at the trial even if that evidence was not
merely cumulative. We find no legal
error in overruling the motion for anew
trial on the statement of facts disclosed
in the record. Let.the judgment of the
Court below be affirmed.
Hill vs. Waldrop. Claim, from Rock
dale.
Warner, C. J.
This was a claim case, on the trial of
which the jury, under the charge of the
Court, found the property subject to the
execution levied thereon. A motion was
knade for anew trial on the several
grounds therein set forth, which was
overruled by the Court, and the claim
ant excepted. It appears from the evi
dence in the record that the land in con
troversy was levied on to satisfy a Jus
tice’s Court ft. fa., issued on a judgment,
dated 4th of March, 18(fe, against A.
Scott aud Samuel Hill, the defendauts
therein. The levy was made on the laud
the 2d of November, 1876, as the prop
erty of Hill, and claimed by his widow,
Nancy Hill. The plaintiff proved that
the defendant, Hill, lived on the land
several years before tile war and up to
the time of his death, and was living on
it in November, 1866, but died three or
four years ago, that the claimant was
his wife, and lived on the land with him,
and has continued to live on it since his
deajjli up to the time of trial ; that Hill
cultivated the place while he lived on it,
cleared some of the land since and be
fore the war, and used it in every way as
a man would his own; that since his
death, the claimant has lived on the land,
cultivated and controlled it. The claim
ant offered in evidence a*deed from A.
Scott to the claimant, who was his
daughter, dated 16th of February,
1866, conveying the land to her as the
wife of Samuel Hill, “ exempt from
the marital rights of said Samuel Hill,
for her separate use.” The claimant
insists that she has a good prescriptive
title to the land under the 2683d
section of the Code, and is entitled
to be protected against the plain
tiff’s judgment lien on it as the property
of her late husband, Samuel Hill. To
enable the claimant to protect her pos
session under her deed as a prescrip
tive title it was incumbent on her to
show that she had been in possession
of the land for seven years from the
date thereof adversely to the defendant
in ft, fa., claiming the possession of the
land in her own right, and that her pos
session was public, continuous, exclus
ive, uninterrupted aud peaceable, ac
companied by a olaim of right. Code
2679. What is the evidence of the de
fendant’s title to the land ? The evi
dence is that for several years prior to
the plaintiff’s judgment in March, 1863,
Hill, the defendant, was in possession
of the land, that he continued in pos
session of it for some years thereafter
up to the his death, and used it
in every way as a man would his own ;
that the claimant was his wife, and lived
on the land with him. The deed from
Scott to the claimant is dated in Febru
ary, 1866. Whether Scott’s title to the
land, if he had any, was paramount to
Hill’s, the defendant in ft. fa., does not
appear ; there is no evidence that he
was ever in possession of it at any time
and whilst the claimant could not deny
that Scott had a title to the land, the
plaintiff in ft. fa. might do so. There
is no evidence in the record that the
claimant at any time, after the date
of her deed from Scott, claimed the
possession of the land under it
adversely to the rights of her
husband, or that her possession of the
land after the execution of the deed, was
in any wise different from what it had
theretofore been, as the wife of her hus
band living on the l-.nd with him.—
Hill, the defendant in ft. fa., was in
possession of the land, exercising acts of
ownership and control over it at the
date of claimant’s deed from Scott to
her, and there is no evidence that Hill’s
possession of the land was any less ex
clusive after the date of that deed than
it before, or that the claimant’s
posssession was any more exclusive or
different than it always had been prior
to the date of the deed, until the de
fendant’s death, which was long after
the date of the plaintiff’s judgment.
Although the Court may have erred in
its charge to the jury, still the verdict
was right, under the evidence, and was
required by the law applicable thereto,
and we will not disturb it. Let the
judgment of the Court below be af
firmed.
Scott vs. Taylors. Ejectment, from
Rockdale.
Warner, C. J.
It appears from the record and bill of
exceptions in this oase, that Scott
brought, an action of ejectment against
Alford Taylor to recover the possession
of a certain described lot or parcel of
land, iu the town of Conyers, Rockdale
county. Pending the action of eject
ment, Mrs. Harriet Taylor, the wife of
the defendant therein, filed her bill on
the equity side of the Court, in which
she alleged, in substance, that the land
in dispute was purchased by Scott, wlk>
was her brother, from A lmau for the
sum of $332 17, under an agreement
that Scott should give his notes for the
purchase money, with his father as se
curity, and take a deed in his own name
until the purchase money should be
paid, and in the mean time she and her
family was to have possession of the
property, and to hold it duriDg her nat
ural life, and then it was to go to her
children, her husband, Alford Taylor,
being insolvent. According to this
agreement, on the 15th of November,
1858, Alman conveyed the land to Scott
by deed, complainant and her family
going into possession of the same
with the knowledge and consent of
Scott, and have remained in the un
interrupted possession of the same
until the commencement of Scott’s
action of ejectment in July, 1873,
The complainant further alleges
that she has paid all the pur
chase money due for said land, the
holder of the claim kindly consenting
to receive one half of the amount there
of in full payment, amounting to the
sum of $165. Wherefore complainant
prayed that Scott might be enjoined
from prosecuting his said action of
ejectment, and be decreed to execute a
deed of conveyance to the complainant
and her children to the land, in accord
ance with the aforesaid alleged agree
ment. By consent of the parties, the
bid and the common law action of
ejectment were tried together. At the
trial of the case, Scott made a motion to
dismiss the complainants’ bill, which was
overruled by the Court, and Scott ex
cepted. The trial then proceeded, when
there was a good deal of evidence in
troduced by the respective parties,
which was conflicting. The jury, under
the charge of the Court, found a verdict
in favor of the defendant in the eject
ment suit and found the following ver
dict in the equity case :
“We, the jury, find and decree in fa
vor of the complainant, Harriet Taylor.
We find ana decree that complainant,
Harriet Taylor, to pay or cause to be
paid on or before the 15th day of No
vember next, 1876, to the defendant,
Samuel Scott, the sum of S9O principal,
and the sum of $25 20 interest thereon,
and the fmlher sum of $25 for tax paid
by said defendant of the premises in
dispute, and the sum of $3 50 interest
thereon, these several sums making to
gether the sum of $143 70. And we
farther find and decree that, on the pay
ment of the said sum of sl4s 70, the
said defendant, Samuel Scott, execute
and deliver to the complainant a deed
in fee simple to the premises in dis-
pute,”
A motion was made for anew trial on
various grounds, amongst others, that
the Court erred m not dismissing com
plainant’s bill at the hearing because
the verdict of the jnry did not cover all
the issues snbmited to them, and be
cause the amount of interest found in
favor of the defendant, on the money
advanced by him, wag erroneous under
the evidence. In disposing of the mo
tion for anew trial, the Court held that
the verdict waß erroneous as to the
amonpt of interest allowed the defend
ant under the evidence, and granted a
new trial on that ground, unless the
complainant should, within ten days
from notice of the judgment, pay to the
defendant, or depoait with the Clerk of
the Coart for him, $22 57, that being
the difference between what the verdict
was and what it should have been, in
the opinion ot the Court, nnder the evi
dence; and if so paid or deposited, then
anew trial shoul be refused, and over
ruled the motion for anew trial on all
the other grounds contained therein.
Whereupon the defendant excepted, and
nssignes the same as error. In view of
the allegations contained in the com
lainant’s bill, there was no er
mr iu the refusal of the Court to
;ismisß it at tbe iiearing. The
verdict of the jurry was wrong, inas
much as it did not find that tne com
plainant was only entitled to a life es
tate in the land, and that her children
were entitled to it after her death, in
accordanee with the terms of tbe agree
ment alleged in complainant’s bill,
whereas, the verdiot vests the title to
the land in the complainant alone,
wholly ignoring the rights of her chil
dren after her death, under the alleged
agreement as set forth in her bill. If
the complainant was entitled to a spe
cific execution of that agreement, the
verdict should have been in accordanee
with its terms, and not otherwise. The
Court decided that the defendant was
legally entitled to anew trial, under the
evidence in the record, but deprived
him of that right, without his consent,
by requiring the complainant to pay the
amount for which the Court, in its opin
ion, thought the verdict should have
been. In other words, the Court made
the verdict under the evidence instead
of the jury, and required the defendant
to assent to it, or his legal right to a
new trial should be denied to him. The
defendant refused to assent to the con
dition imposed on him by the Court,
aud insisted upon his legal right to a
new trial. According to the ruling of
this Court, in Jones vs. the Water Lot
Company (Geo. Rep., 539), the judg
ment of the Court below was error. Let
the judgment of the Court below re
versed.
White w.Riviere, administrator. Equity,
from Upson.
Bleoxlet, J.
1. An administrator who sold and
conveyed land prior to the adbption of
the Code, was entitled to the samo equi
table lieu for the purchase money as
other vendors. 2. Exceptions to an au
ditor’s report need not set forth any of
the evideuoe; more especially, where the
auditor himself has reported all tho ev
idence and thus made it a part of the
reoord. 3. The burden of showing error
in the report is on the exoepting party;
and, upon exceptions of fact, when he
fails, for any cause, to convince the
Court he is entitled to trial by jury,
with the report as prima facie evidence
against him. 4. An exception of faot is
sufficiently specific wlieu it points out
the particular sum which the
auditor should have allowed 1 as
a credit for “ insolvent notes
and accounts” instead of tho sum which
he did allow. So, too, is an exception
which complains that a certain amount
should have been debited for “county
scrip” aud a certain other amount for
“notes not appraised.” So, too, is an
exception whiuh complains that the
“value of tho estate” was charged as a
given sum, when it should have been
charged at a certain other sum. So,
too, is an exemption which complains
that certain notes should have been
credited to the objeoting party before
certain other notes. 5. An exception is
too general and indefinite which merely
alleges error because “the proof shows
that defendant is not indebted to the
complainant, but that complainant is
indebted to tba defendant. 6. The
auditor or master lias no power to de
cide on a demurrer to the bill. Judg
ment reversed.
CAROLINA’S
A GLANCE AT THE CANDIDATES.
Gov. Hampton to Itcmain In the Gubejrtia
torinl Chair—Gen. Butler the Favorite—
McGowan Prominent iu the Knee—Ex-Gov.
Perry** Claim*—No Scramble for Office—
The United States ftlnrshalship.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
The Senatorship.
Greenville, November 23, 1876.
It is more than probable that the
Democrats will control the Legislature
and elect the United States Senator.
Already there are a number of promi
nent gentlemen suggested for the place,
and Governor Hampton has a great
many friends ; but there are thousands
who would not for a moment sustain a
proposition of the kind, as he has prom
ised to remain at the helm of the ship,
and guide her through the breakers
which will surround us for several years
to come. It will require his wisdom
aud his genius to bring her into port
and give her safe anchorage. And I
understand that he will not eonsent
to become a candidate under any
circumstances ; i. e., that he will
remain in the Gubernatorial chair
and carry out the pledges he
has made to the people to secure for
them peace and quiet and an honest
government. The other gentlemen spo
ken of are General M. C. Butler, Gene
ral Sam McGowan and ex-Governor Per
ry. General Butler is the people’s man,
and if he wants the plaoe he will surely
get it; but it is not known that be will
make the race, because he well knows
that his election would be the occasion
for the Radicals to claim that an ex
treme man is the first selected to honor.
He was foremost in the fight for honest
government, and the Northern press has
persistently abused and villified him as
being the hero of the Hamburg mas
sacre and other outrages, and it may be to
sustain his personal character, ha
may oiler for the Senatorship, when
otherwise he would have remained at
home and awaited a Federal appoint
ment. He has been so villified and
abused, that he has the sympathy of an
admiring constituency, and if he runs
will be elected, that is if the Democratic
vote can elect anybody. Many people,
however, think he should not run. The
next prominent man iB General Sam
McGowan, the ablest conservative man
in the State, whose election a great
many people think would Subserve the
general interest of the people. He
would carry into tho United States
Senate a record as clear and
unobjectionable as any man in Amer
ica. His earnestness in every cause
he espouses, is only quailed by his
ability; and if he is elected the State
aud the nation will he represented. I
have been introduced to General Mc-
Gowan. The first impression he makes
when introduced, improves as you hear
his earnest, impressive conversation.
He is a splendid specimen of manhood
-<-a thorough gentleman, and if he is
elected Senator South Carolina will have
not only a gentleman, but a man at the
front.
Ex-Governor Perry has but two
claims to the place. He is intelligent
and honest, and was defrauded out of
the position eight years ago, when he
was rightfully elected, but displaced
under Radical ruling. Governor Perry
has a great many strong friends, and
will not be hindmost in the race.
But, after discussing the merits of all
these gentlemen, it is my judgment that
the people have centered upon General
Butler as the representative man of the
State and of the South. They claim
him to be the Lamar and the Gordon of
South Carolina, and it is a great mistake
to say he is either rash or imprndent.
He is firm and outspoken, nothing
more. He is the man the people of
South Carolina want in the United
States Senate. If General Hampton is
to be kept in the Gubernatorial Chair,
Butler is the man for United States
Senator.
There is not so great a rush and
scramble for office in South Carolina as
you are accustomed to in Georgia. The
Democrats have not had hold of the
teat, and they do not know how sweet it
is to draw from the State Treasury.
There are candidates nevertheless, and
capaole men will be found to fill all the
fat offices.
I may mention incidentally, that your
old acquaintance, A. M. Speights, of the
straight-out Greenville Daily News, is
spoken of everywhere in the State as the
man for United States Marshal,
and if Tilden takes the Presidential
Chair, Speights will go to Washington
with the support of nine-tenths of the
best men in the State. He has certain
ly won his laurels in this, campaign, as
he broke down the coalition policy by
hard licks; and never in the darkest hour
did he flinch. It is conceded that to his
paper is due the credit of the straight
ticket fight in Sooth Carolina.
G. W. N.
The English Wheat Crop.
Before the harvesting, Mr. James
Caird, an Euglish writer on agricultnre,
commented on England’s position in re
gard to her wheat crop. He estimated
that tho crop would be 10,600,000 quar
ters. Deducting 800,000 quarters for
seed, leaves 9,800,000 for consumption.
This is about three-fourths the amounts
required. Thirteen millions quarters, he
estimated, would be needed for consump
tion, and if America could uot supply the
deficiency of 3,200,000 quarters, he
thought it would be impossible to find
the wheat elsewhere. The land under
wheat in Great Britain, in 1876, is 3,136-
000 acres, which is 678,000 acres below
the acerage of 1874 -and the seven pre
ceding years—a decline of more than
twenty per cent, on the average growth.
The decline from last year is 378,000
acres, but that will be more than com
pensated for by the increased yield per
acre and the higher quality. —“ Scientific
Miscellany ”in The Oalaocy for Decem
ber.
A New Yofk jury has decided that fifty
dollars pays for a breach of promise of
marrige.