Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1877 Page: 3 of 4
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WEEKLY STATESMAN
CAimwEiiti a sronniw.
AITBTIN
THURSDAY MARCn 8. 1977
Tub people about 6ummit tire in fa-
vor of local option.
Tuk German are almost to an unit
opposed to local optioD and tlie Irish
take the other aide.
Kc-kllxism in its last analysis at
every negro knows was only whisky
mashed and on ahaky legs.
At Tohins' diug atore you can get
window or picture glass of any size.
fch2-Vf
Wall Pai-kk! Wall Papek! A
large and varied assortment for Bale at
greatly reduced prices by J. J. & W.
II. Tobin. fl8il&wlf
Popular illustrated book (260 pages) on
Manhood I Womanhood ! Marriage !
Impediment to Marriage; the caiue and
cure. Sent securely italtJ pot-pail for 50
cents by Dr. C. Whittiee 617 St.
Charles Street St. Louis Mo. the great
specialist i. Read his work.
Recently a saddle horo was stolen
from the rack in front of the poatoffice
nnd two others from a rack on the
south aido of the red brick. The
country is full of horse Uneven and
every man should be on the lookout
for them.
A oiikat invention bus bee mudc by
Dr. Tutt of New York which re-
tores youthful beauty to the hair
That eminent chemist has succeeded in
producing a hair dye which imitates
nature to perfection. Old bachelors
may now rejoice.
Ciiolkha. No dauger from cholera
if the liver is in proper order and or
dinary prudence in diet is observed
The occasional taking of Siinuions's
liver regulator to keep the system
liealthy will surely prevent attacks of
cholera.
The assassin who shot the little col
ored child in Masontown a year or two
age was led to the deed by intoxica-
tion. With the evil suppressed
peaceful fam'lies living in the suburbs
of Austin will no longer live in dread
of men made fierce with whisky.
The whisky' ring hires colored men
til from two to two dollars and a half
a day to work ngninst local option.
They are hired to tell that when the law
is put iu forco it will be a crime even
to give a drink to a fr.ond. The men
thus employed are hired as they know
to tell falsehoods and become the in-
struments for degrading their race.
Manoh has a locul option club num
bering 55 with Professor Murray as
president ; Webberville a club of 54
with Aaron Burleson as president; also
a colored club uumbering 43 Sandy.
m president; Ilornsby's Bund
a club of 54 M. M. llorusby presi-
dent; Fiskville a club of GO Giles
Burditt president.
He was armud to the teeth. He car-
ried no gun
No pistol no dagger no sword no not
one.
IIo was armed to the teeth according
to wont
lie carried his bottle of Sozodout
"Which preserved his mouth his gums
and breath
Said we not right he's armed to the
tcctht
Sinos Likk A Bihd. The delightful
aiSXects of this new principle Dr. J. II.
McLean's congh and lung-healing glob
ules. As the saliva in the mouth acts
on the globule as gas is generated
which soothes and heals irritation of
the throat aud lungs makes tho voice
-cltar as a bird cures hoarseness
-coughs colds and consumption. Trial
boxes by mail. 25cts. Dr. J. H. Mc
Lean 314 Chestnut St. Louts.
A vrry large meeting of both white
mnd colored voters was held at Mount
Salem church on Sat a rd ay night last.
Addresses wero made by Revs: Dr.
Bacon and Chaplin and by Mr. R. M.
llussell Col. W. A. Craft and others.
A great deal of enthusiasm was mani-
fested and out of one hundred pres-
ent but ono voice was heard when the
vote was given against local option.
IIolloway's Tili.8 The most pow-
crtul existing medicine for the cure of
female complaints. Fifty yoars' expe-
rience iucontcstably prove theso remc-
dics unrivaled for the disorders inci-
dental to tho softer sex. No family
.should be without them. ' They may
bo taken by young or old as they will
jestore health when every other means
proves unsuccessful. Twenty -five cents
fior box or pot.
It is said that the opponents of local
option will do their bit; work on the
day of election with the mora ignorant
voters and that they will use money
freely. If they succeed at ellu they
can only do so by the liberal use of
money and let every advocate of pro-
hibition resolve to make it cost them
as much as possible and after the con-
test is over then lot bribery suits be iu
order. Let corruption and bribery be
warred upon as well as whisky.
Hawaii. Loom is A Chuistian an-
nounce by advertisement that by the
twenty-third of April they will get
their planing mill and I amber business
established at the old court house
cross the street from the International
depot and until that time they can be
iound at their old stand. They are
sow also putting np an office building
and establishing a lumber yard at the
Central depot that they may bo better
able to serve the public. All orders
sent them by mail for lumber shingles
laths door windows and blinds will
be filled promptly and to the letter.
Local option at Merriltowa was
prospectively in full forco on Saturday
afternoon. A meeting of ladies and
gentlemen one hundred or more were
addressed in ao able manner by Dr.
Chaplin and Mr. Beotley. Those pre-
sent by an almost unanimous vote
declared tbsir intention to work faith-
fu'ly for and to vote for local option.
A campaign organization was effected
with Judge Woodard as president.
Thb advocates of ram argue that
the adoption of tb local option law
will reduce rents in this city. Many
of those who rent stores and shop and
offices and residences will perhaps ac-
cept that as an argument in favor of
local option. Saloon men and profes-
sion al gamblers can or do afford to pay
1130 a month for the beat building on
the Avenue and consequently mer-
chants in the same vicinity have to pay
correspondingly high rents.
A colohed local option meeticg was
held at McGinnis on Sunday night.
About 130 were present and able ad-
dresses were made by A. W. Wa'.k' r
and Hoses Brooks both colored. The
meeting was unanimous in fir or of 1j-
cal option. Both these speakers will
be hare on Saturday and will no doubt
be beard from upon the great ques-
tion. A large meeting will be held by
the colored c'ub at Manor to-night and
the club from McGinnis are invited to
attend. The colored voters in the low-
er portion of the county are ablaze in
favor of prohibition and many of them
will be here at the great meeting Sat-
urday night.
Established 1840. The A. Q. Sim-
mons Liver Medicine we fce so much
said about in our papers is the old
original aud genuine preparation put
up in yellow wrappers with a likeuis-j
of the obi Doctor upon each package.
It cures ail affections arising from a
torpid and diseased liver. Ask for the
yellow wrapper and take no other; it
is the only geuuiur. S ild by Murk y
Brothers J. J. i W. II. Tobin It II.
Cousins R. II. Smith. M. A. Thed-
ford & Co. sole proprictorsChattauoo-
r Tennessee.
deceived weeklyiby Morley Brothers
or J. J. & W. II. Tobin.
jsnl3d0mfodwGm
A Liver Disordered for Fifteen
Ye Ann. For fifteen years I was a
great sufferer from a disordered liver
during which time I tried many of the
best physicians in the country andal-
most all the patent nostrums rec 111-
mended all to no effect until I used
Simmons's Liver Regulator; aud from
the time I used it to this day which
ib now several years I have been com-
paratively a sound man having suf-
fered but very little since at uny time
from the effects of my old disease.
Consequently I heartily rccommcud
its use to the afflicted of liver disease.
Maj. A. F. Woolky Kingston Ga.
Genuine prepared only by J. II. Zei-
lin & Co. Philadelphia.
Local Oi-tion Mkktino. A very
enthusiastic local option meeting was
held at Fiskville Tuesday night two
huudred people being present. Rev.
Mr. Chaplin spoke for an hour and a
half and after he finished Mr. Bentlcy
spoke for aa hour. Every white man
in and about Fiskville witli one ex-
ception is said to bo in favor of pro-
hibition and many of tho colored peo-
ple also lavor it. Tho blacks will have
a big meeting there ono night this
week. If all the country precincts
voto as enthusiastically in favor of
local option as Fiskvillo will the ma-
jority against whisky will be several
hundred iu the county.
To nouaumittivea.
The advertiser a retired physician
having providentially discovered while
a medical missionary in South Asia a
very simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy permanent cure of consumption
asthma bronchitis catarrh aud all
throat and lung ollections also a positive-
and radical specific for nervous
debility premature decay and all
nervous complaints feels it his duty to
make it known to his suffering fellow?.
Actuated by this motive ho will cheer-
fully send (fiee of charge) to all who
desire it the recipe for preparing and
full directions for successfully using
this providentially discovered remedy.
Those who wish to avail themselves of
the bcuelits of this discovery without
cost can do so by returu mail by ad-
dressing with stamp miming this paper.
Dr. Ciiahi.es P. Marshall
No. U3 Niagara Street Buffalo N. Y.
Tiik People Want Pitoot'. There
is no medicine prescribed by physi-
cians or sold by druggists that carries
such evidence of its success and
superior virtue as Boschee's Germau
Syrup for severe coughs colds settled
on tho breast consumption or any dis-
ease of the throat or lungs. A proof
of that fact is that any person alluded
can got a sample bottle for ten cents
and try its superior effect before buying
tho regular size at seventy-five cents.
It has lately beou introduced in this
country from Germany and its won-
derful cures ore astonishing everyone
that use it. Three doses will relieve
any case. Try it. Sold by Morley
Bros. Austin.
How la Your Liver.
If you arc troubled with headache
dullness incapacity to keep tho mind
on any subject dizzy sleepy or nerv-
ous feeling" irritability of temper or
a bad tasto in the mouth palpitation
unsteady tppetite pains in the side
or any such symptoms of liver com-
plaint and constipation of tho bowels
go to your druggists Morley Bros.
aud get a bottle of Dr. Sherman's
Prickly Ash Bitters. No spirit is used
in the manufacture of them except a
pure article of Holland gin. They are
a thousand times easier to take than
pills scidlitz powders etc. Ladies in
particular will find them peculiarly
adapted to their wants aud conditions
of life in all ages.
Renovation mot Prostration.
Did any enfeebled human being ever
become strong under the operation of
powerful cathartics or salivants? It is
ometimea necessary to regulate the
bowels but that cannot be done by
active purgation which exhausts the
vital forces and serves no good purpose
whatever. The only true way to pro-
mote health aud vigor which arc essen-
tial to regularity of the organic func-
tions is to invigorate discipline and
purify the system at the same time.
The extraordinary efficacy of Hostet-
ter's Stomach Bitters in cases of debhity
or irregularity of the organs of diges-
tion assimilation secretion and dis-
cbarge is universally admitted. Appe-
tite good digestion a regular habit of
body active circulation of the blood
and puritT of all the animal fluids arc
induced by this superb tonic and cor-
rective. It has no equal moreover
as a preventive of chills and fever and
other types of malarial disease. To
emigrants and travelers it is particular-
ly serviceable as a medicinal aafeguard.
Times are not hard in Austin for
the city keeps up a solid growth. The
only trouble is that business is wofully
overdone. A physician has made an
estimate that there are only eighteen
persons to each physician and perhaps
the eighteen are being rapidly killed
off. There are more lawyers than doc-
tors more mechanics than lawyers and
a world of merchants and clerks and
the natural reault is that here are not
clients and buyers and work in
proportion to the number of pettifog-
gers sellers and builders. ' If one-third
of the mechanics lawyers and mer-
chants would go to farming and stock-
raising the remaining two-thirds
would be thirty-three and one-third
per cent better ofL There can be lit-
tle change for the better until people
erery where leant that business in the
cities and towns is already overdone
and tbat men who attempt to engage
in business will lose instead of make
money.
St-ecial Premiums. The Imrd of
directors of the Fair Association have
assigned their labors to the respective
standing committees appointed to
make preparations for the next annual
exposition which has been fixed for
the sixteenth of October next. The
premium list committee will commence
their labors at once and it behooves
our citizens to contribute their share
toward making the exposition a grand
success. While liberal premiums will
be offered by the association it would
be proper and very acceptable to offer
special premiums for special articles;
for instance dealers in cotton might
offer a speciul premium' on the best
bale of cotton exhibited dealers in
produce might offer a special premium
for the best can of lard or side of ba-
con ; hotel keepers aud proprietors of
boarding huiises might join and offer a
special premium for fruits vrci.Jjles
etc. Let all take an internal iu this
enterprise which will eventually be-
come the recognizd State fair and it
will b. like bread cast upon the waters.
Any suggestion in this or any other
subject connected with the exposition
will be duly considered and appre-
ciated by tiie cflicers of the associa-
tion. D u't wait for your neighbor to
commence but take tho lead yourself.
One month ago the opponents of
local option claimed and boasted that
they would have 1000 majority in this
city and on the total vote of the
county at least 500; now the opinion
is general that they will find it difficult
to go out of the city with 300 major-
ity and some think they cannot possi-
bly get 100 majority in Austin. It is
very evident that local option is gain-
ing every da and we are firm in the
belief that the county can be carried
by 300 majority for the law if the
right kind of work be done. There
arc several places in the county where
not a speech has been made nor a club
organized. The committees should
see that the subject be properly pre-
sented in every community in the
county aud that every inch of ground
be warmly contested. Letthe friends
of morality good society law and
order not be content with a bare ma-
jority like hat which the people
of Williamson county succeeded in
getting lat them strive for a grand
victory one that will carry great moral
force with it. But two weeks remain
for work before the election and that
time should be used to the very best
advantage.
IVllilamnou County Item.
Rev. W. II. D. Carrington preaches
in Hound Rock frequently.
Mr. Koppel of Round Rock has
gone East to buy his spring stock.
W. K. Foster has been getting out
trade guides for Georgetown and Round
Rock.
The liccord favors the building of a
new court house and a theater in
Georgetown.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Stone of Round
Rock mourn the loss of a little scven-
j ear-old daughter.
Rev. Otto M. Schultz and Miss Lucie
M. Anderson were married on the twen-
tieth at Georgetown.
M. D. Merrick has put up a corn
mill steam cotton gin and planing
mill at Reund Rock.
The Southern University at George-
town has recently had its semi-annual
examination for rise in classes.
Round Rock is to have a brass band.
The cheapest way would be to get Nat
Henderson to furnish "chin music."
lie can beat a dozan bands " blowing
his own horn."
Mr. Jeff. M. Webb nnd Miss Mary
L. Bunch Georgetown have made a
matrimonial "bunch" of themselves
and so have Mr. W. E. Moore and Miss
Ida Kemp. Perhaps there will be
more Bunches up that way after
awhile.
Nat Henderson says that a great
many of his accounts are fairing due
and he wants people to call and settle.
Nat give them time to come down
here and buy up your paper. Editors
should always give their patrons an
opportunity to make legitimate specu-
lations. Itecord please copy quick.
The IliiuU'ujht and the Belton Review
are pretty hot 011 the Limpasas Di
patch for "shooting off its mouth"
about some papers adopting the "pat-
ent outsides" and they have rather
got the better of the Dispatch. This
is supposed to bo a free country and
every fellow is supposed to be free to
conduct his own business in his .own
sweet way.
Tnn Statesman is perhaps the best
understood paper in the State and its
growth in circulation and influence is
the best of evidence that it is appre-
ciated. While it is Democratic in pol-
itics it is not blindly partisan or ob-
livious of the great industrial wants
of the country. It believes that the
people generally are more interested in
law and order peace and quiet thrift
and industry immigration and de-
velopment than they are in the selfish
ambition of politicians and chronic
office-set kcrs. This being its belief
the Statesman always on the side of
decency intelligence and justice
makes a specialty of battling against
lawlessness prejudice and ignorance
and everything akin to them. It seal-
ously espouses local option because the
question being called up it feels called
upon to take one side or the other
and it could not under any considera-
tion whatever espouse the cause of
whisky to the great injury of the whole
community. The Statesman is never
ambitious to get on the strong or win-
ning side; it aspires to bo on the side
of right and truth regardless of re-
sults or compensation preferring de-
feat when upholding the right to suc-
cess in a bad cause. When this paper
first championed local option it was
not believed that the law could be
adopted in half a doten counties in
the State but already over thirty coun-
ties have voted in its favor and per-
haps as many will yet decide to adopt it.
When it took up the cudgel in the
cause for this county it fully compre
hended the -power of whisky in this
city and it shared in the prevalent
opinion tbat whisky would have a ma-
jority of about 1000 in the county; for
it did not fully comprehend how npe
the people were for reform nnd the
more rigid enforcement of law peace
and quiet. Time has rolled along and
to-day we find that so great a change
has been wrought in public sentiment
that already the race is generally con-
sidered neck and neck and local op-
tion hourly gaining. How much this
week nnd next will do for the cause
would be hard to tell bat to judge by
the lat two week' work enough to
carry it by it least three hundred ma-
jority. Even the more s&iiguitc advo-
cates of whisky haye several days since
abandoned the " walk-over-the-track
business" tad oil of their co-laborers
ehow signs cf fear for the result. To
the friends of the cause the States-
man w:she3to say that it will fight the
battle to the bitter end carrying the
war into Africa and Ilvxico and that
ita ambition now is to see local option
adopted in Travis county by five hun-
dred majority.
addreas t tbe Voters of Travla
Conntf la favor of Local Opiloo.
In accordance with the provision of
the Constitution of Texas ihe last
Legislature enacted the following law :
An act to prohibit the sale exchange
or gift of intoxicating liquors in any
county justice's precinct city or
town in this State tnat may so elect ;
prescribing the mode of election and
uffixing a punishment for i:s viola-
tion. Section 1. Tie it enacted by the legis-
lature of the State of Texas That it
shall be the duty of the commissioners'
court of each county in the ritite upon
the written petition of fifty qualified
voters of said county or upon such pe-
tition by twenty qualified voters of any
justice's precinct town or city therein
to order an election to be held by the
qualified voters of said county jus-
tice's precinct towu or c'ty as the
ase may be to determine whether the
sale of intoxicating liquors and medi-
cated bitters producing intoxication
shall be prohibited in 6uch corrjty
justice's precinct town or city or not ;
provided tbat nothing herein contained
shall be construed to prohibit the sale
of wines for sacramental purposes nor
alcoholic stimulants as medicines in
cases of actual sickness when sold upon
the written prescription of a regular
practicing physician certifying upon
honor that the same is actually neces-
sary as a medicine.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of such
court at its first session after the fil-
ing of such petition with the clerk
thereof to order an election to be held
at the regular voting place or places
withia the proposed aud prescribed
limits upon a day not exceeding thirty
days from the date of said order; and
said order shall express tho object of
said election. The clerk shall post or
cause to be posted at least five copies
of said order at different public places
in euch justice's precinct town or city
in which such cleciieu shall be held for
at least twenty days prior to the day of
election. Said court shall appoint and
qualify theproperofiictrs underexitti -g
laws. At said election those who favor
tho prohibition of the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors within the prescribed
limits shall have written or printed en
their tickets the words "For Prohibi-
tion" aud those who oppose it shall
indorse on their tickets the words
"Against Prohibition." The officers
holding said election shall in all re-
spects not herein specified conform to
the existing laws regulating elections;
and after the polls are closed they shall
proceed to count the vote; and they
shall within ten days thereafter make
due report of said election to the afore-
said court.
Sec. 3. Said court shall hold a
special session on the eleventh day af-
ter the holding of the aioresaid elec-
tion or as soon thereafter as practica-
ble for tho purpose of opening the
polls and counting the votes; and if a
majority of the votes cast are " For
Prohibition" said court shall immedi-
ately make an order declaring tho re-
sult of said vote and absolutely pro-
hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors
within the prescribed bounds (except
for the purposes specified in section
one of this act) until such time as ihe
qualified voters therein may at a legal
election held for the purpose by a ma-
jority vote decide otherwise; and said
order of c;urt so declaring the result
of election and -prohibiting the sale of
intoxicating liquors shall be published
for four successive weeks in the news-
paper having the largest circulation in
the county; and in such counties as
shall have no newspaper by posting
said order at three public places within
the prescribed limits. But if a major-
ity votingat such election voto "Against
Prohibition" the court shall make an
order declariog tho result and have
the same entered of record in the office
of tho clerk of said court.
Sec. 4. No election under the fore-
going sections shall be held withia the
same prescribed limits in less than
twelve months after an election under
this act has been held therein; but a
failure to carry prohibition in a county
shall not prevent such election being
immediately thereafter held in a jus-
tice's precinct town or city of said
county ; nor shall the failure to carry
prohibition in a town or city prevent an
election immediately thereafter being
held in the same justice's precinct ; nor
shal1 the holding of an election in any
justice's precinct in any way prevent
the holding of an election for the en-
tire county immediately thereafter.
Sec. 5. AVhen any such election has
been held and has resulted in favor cf
prohibition and the aforesaid court
has made the order declaring the re-
sult and the order of prohibition and
has caused the same to be published
as aforesaid any person or persons who
shall thereafter within the prescribed
bounds of prohibition sell exchange
or give away with the purpose of evad-
ing the provisions of this act any in-
toxicating liquors whatsoever or in any
way violate any of the provisions of
this act shall be subject to prosecu-
tion by information or indictment
and shall be fined iu a sum not less
than twenty-five nor more than two
hundted dollars for each and every
violation of any of the provisions of
this act.
Sec. 6. It is hereby made the duty of
the district judges to give this act in
charge to the grand juries; aud it is
made the especial duty of the county
attorneys the county judges and all
the justices of tbe peace having juris-
aiction in the premises to see that this
act is rigidly enforced. An officer fail-
ing to discbarge his duties under this
act in any lcipect shall be subject to
indictment and if convicted shall be
fined not less than one hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars. All
fines collected under this act shall be
paid into the county treasury and shall
constitute a part of the school fund for
tbe county justice's precinct town or
city in whick- the law is in force.
Sec. 7. All laws and parts of laws
in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed. Takes effect nicety dnyt after twenty-fourth
of June. 1"70.
In pursuance of the above law the
Travis county court has ordered an
election to be held on the seventeenth
of March 1877 when the question will
be decided whether tbe sate of intoxi-
cating drinks as a beverage shall any
longer be tolerate 1. We appaal to you
to vote for the prohibition of such sale
because
It cottj $vek immente rum of money.
It cotts tbe United States snot hun-
dred million tf dollar. It costs the
State of Texas ttrentyjire million of
dollar. It costs tbe countv of Travis
'four hundred um one Vunwtnd dollar.
This is its cost to the consumer in
actual mony. And for this enormous
outlay no benefit is received by the in-
dividual the State or the world at
larjre.
U" it ink it proXdiiied Ueatue it taute
bad trade.
Were the thousands of dollars which
pass over the counters of the grogshops
withheld from them they would go to
the botcher tbe baker tbe tailor the
carpenter the shoemaker the mer-
chant; in a word every man whose
work is worth anything to the com-
munity would be benefited. The
wheels of commerce would be unlocked
and this fearful blagnation in business
would come to an end.'
We tcoulJ aS.'lith it Urauie of the loe$
it entail upon the nation.
1. .' prevent jr pr.lucti:e -indus-trie
from doing full vorL:
If the $700000000 were properly
expended we would have in our coun-
try 3.). 070 more factories than at pres-
ent 271042 more persEs would fio l
employment their wages would
amount to $91.141 3S9 these fact ories
would cause a demar.d for 40G.:j)o.-
775 worth of additional raw mitcnals
and there would be $104777707 for
expenses and profits after leaving the
factories.
2. causes pavperitn.
It net only prevents production but
it impoverishes the Country.- It has
thrown upon the country 110102 pau-
pers who have found lodytneut in the
poorhouses and then to tiiese add ail
the tramps ami we have an army
200000 strong which are supported
say at a cost of $lo0 to the person
and we have the sum- of $30000000.
Four-fifths of this pauperism is due to
whisky.
3. It roduees crime.
According to the reports of the
chiefs of police in some of our large
cities ninety p.'r cent of all the crimes
committed in the country is due to
whisky. It costs the Uuitcd States
$40000000 to punish crime. Texas
has 2000 convicts; it costs $300 ac-
cording to the estimate of an ex-attorney
guneral of Texis to put a man in
the penvteutiary ; we have for Texas
$1800000 as the nmountthus paid by
her for this traffic. Travis county
pays for board alone of her criminals
$8000 per annum and in the past year
there has been some twelve or fifteen
murders committed in the county
which have co?t some 6000 more and
the lesser felonies will run up the
cost to as many more thousands.
We vould aMinh it Itecauneof it terri-
bly injuriou influence vpon tlie luihits
and moral of the people.
It mikes men extravagant in their
expenditures and careless about their
debts. It makes men indolent in their
business neglectful of their homes
and careless about the education of
tkeir children. It is a prolific source of
vice in all protean forms. It is the
parent of sensuality falsehood and
meanness. It causes men to degrade
themselves dishonor their families
deny their God and destroy their souls.
We would abolish it because it is so de-
structive of human life.
Sixty thousand human souls arc sent
annually by this traffic to hell. Six
hundred thousand are through its in-
fluence reel'r g down to a drunkard's
grave. Weeping over the graves of
Lhese slain are one hundred and thirty
thousand widows and orphans made
so by this traffic.
We would aliolish it because it cannot
go on without the consent of a majority of
the citizens of this county.
The Legislature and the courts for-
merly had to decide this question.
Now you have to give the answer rto
tho grogscller's request for license.
Can you in view of. the. facts just re-
cited say to these grovellers : "J am
willing that you should continue to
make sots; you have permission to dis-
ease men's bodies to destroy the peace
of their families. I put my vote on
record for whisky" We bulieve you
cannot so vote. ' ; . . -
Can prohibition cure- these' evils f
It can come as near doing it as the law
against murder prevents that erime; as
the law against arson prevents the burn-
ing of houses.
Maine for twenty-fivc: years has"
had a strict prohibitory "law and to-
day there is by a thousand per cent.
less drunkenness in Maine than in
other States. It has been the law in
Vinelaud New Jersey for year3 and
her paupers tost $100 per year and
her police sometimes as low as $25.
Although Austin is no larger than
Vinelaud she ptys her police alone
some $7000 and her paupers thousands
more. Why! Austin haa more than
fifty groushops; Vineland has none.
Inllopkinsville Mayfield Clinton and
in many other towns and counties in
Kentucky it has been tried and the
law has wherever enforced been pro-
ductive of the greatest good.
Mark the law does not prohibit the
drinking of a social glass. You can
use it at you tables and in social inter-
course for the law simply prohibits
tho giviug of it away so as to evade
the law. For insUnce ; It will not let a
man sell you a cigar for a quarter of a
dollar and then give you a drink in
the bargain but if you have a friend
with whom you wish to tako a social
drink there is nothing in the law
which prohibits it. Its language is
section 2 after the election has been
held and the traffic has been prohib-
ited it goes on to say: ''Any person
or persous who shall thereafter within
the bounds of prohibition sell ex-
change or givo away with the purpose
of evading the provisions of this act
any intoxicating liquors whatsoever or
ia any way violate any of the Divis-
ions of this act shall be subject to
prosecution by information or indict-
ment and shall be fined" etc. It
does not disturb our hospitality. " It
only says we shall not sell or give away
liquor for the purpose of evading the
law.
What say yoa friends and fel?
low-citizens? Shall this hydra-headed
monster which is impoverishing the
land producing misery disease and
death be further cherished by you or
will you aid us in crushing it out? It
is for you to say. Cowuittee.
The earliest mode of writing was on
bricks tiles oyster shells stone ivory
bark and leaves of trees and from the
latter "leaves of a book" is probably
derived. Copper and brass plates were
very early in use and a bill of feoff-
ment on copper was some years since
discovered in India bearing date one
hundred yenrs B. C. Leather was al-
so used as well as wooden tablets.
Then the papyrus came into vogue and
about the eighth century the papyrus
was superseded by parchment. Paper
however is of great antiquity especi-
ally amons: the Chinese; but the first
paper mill in England was built in
1580 by a German at Dartford in
Kent. Nevertheless it was -nearly a
century and a half namely
in 1713 before Thomas Wit-
kins a stationer brought paper-making
to anything like perfection. . . The
first approach to a pen was the stylus
a kind of iron bodkin ; but the Romans
forbade its use on account of its fre-
quent and even fatal use in quarrels
and then it was made of bone. Subse-
quently reeds pointed and split like
pens of the present day were used.
.
Paper car wheels have been slow to
win favor from American railway man-
agers. It is said however that they
are to be adopted by several English
railway companies. The London Echo
describes the process of manufacture
from which it appears that the paper
wheels are to be made in Sheffield but
according to the "American process."
The advantages claimed for paper
wheels are greater elasticity and great-
er strength in proportion to weight
than can be obtained from metal
wheels and the tame wearing qualities
steel tires being used. Experience in
actnal use for a tenet of years under
all conditions of service is the only
test for matters of this kind. Time is
tbe great solver of all problems about
the running gear of railway trains. If
tbe paper wheels should come out from
such a test with the approval of expe-
rienced railway engineers there will
be a gain; bnt until then tbe popular
faith in iron wheels such as.Whitney'a
will probably induce railway compa-
nies to adhere to that article.
Tbe hulk of Commodoie Perry's flag-
ship which was exhibited at Philadel-
phia last summer has been taken to
Trenton where the timbers are to be
fashioned into canes baskets wall
pockets picture frames crosses and
caps.
TELEGRAPHIC MS.
Washington March 2. Senator
Morrill of Vermont submitted a res-
olution authoriziuu the appointment of
a committee of three Senators to make
the necessary arrangements for the in-
:uguration of the President elect vn
the fifth of March which was agreed
to.
The report of the Senate on Louisi-
ana U a voluminous document -f about
100 manuscript pages although they
say it is only a report in part.
The committee after explaining
what they were required to do under
the resolution say that there are ways
iu which the right of euffraie
uiy be abridged. One is to deny th
legal voter the privilege of depositing
his ballot. Another is to refufe to
count the ballot after it is deposited
by different parties. I: is claimed that
both these methods have been pursued
within the State of Louisiana. The
allegation as lo the last caiui.it be con-
troverted. The laws of Louisiana
authorize its tribunal under certain
conditions to reject from the count not
only the entire vote of a precinct but
the entire vote of a parish. Iu con-
clusion the committee say that the
testimony taken is not sufficiently com-
plete to enable them to say positively
what would have been the result of
the election iu the Stato if iutimda-
tion had not been employed s.t all
but organized intimidation is charged
against seventeen pnrishes of the
State against forty. No su?h charges
are made in those forty parishes. The
colored registration numbers 72031
leaving a majority of colored votes
registered of 13'JGo. Those forty
parishes returned 05747 Republican
votes and 50392 Democratic votes
so that in that part of the
State where intimidation is uot
charged there was a Republican
majority of 6333 votes. It is not pr-
teuded that the same arguments etc.
were employed in tho forty parishes
that were employed iu the other seven-
teen; but the results are very different
in the seventeen parishes said to have
been terrorized. The colored registra-
tion was 27200; the white registration
was 20330 giving a majority of
colored voters of C040 nearly oue-half
as large as all the rest of State but
the vote in the seventeen parishes
as returned showed but 10050
Republicans and 2113 Democrats in
the seventeen parishes where there
was a majority of 10153 Democratic
votes returned. The report is signed
by all tbe Republican Senators ou the
committee.
Washington March 2. After the
vote not to count Sillace's vote Speak-
er Randall announced that the Chair
had allowed every legitimate legisla-
tive motion. The duty to notify the
Senate of tbo decision is mandatory.
Several propositions were overruled
when Mr. Cox said there is no use en-
deavoring to prevent the Speaker from
counting in Hayes at once.
The Speaker said : "The gentleman
nted not object; the Chair has no au-
thority to reserve any motion."
At 11 o'clock the Senate entered and
Vermont was counted for Hayes and
Virginia and West Virginia for Tilden
and finally after separation and two
hours' discussion Wisconsin was coun-
ted for Hayes.
At 4 ;30 President Ferry said : "This
concludes tbe count of the thirty-eight
States. - The tellers will now ascertain
and deliver the result.
Senator Allison ono of the teller;"
declared the vote to be Rutherford B.
Hayes 185 Samuel J. Tilden 1S4 votes;
wherefore I announce Hayes aud
Wheeler duly elected president and
vice president for four years commenc-
ing March 4 1877.
There was a solitary hiss.
The Senate retired and the House
adjourned and the flr was lowered
for the first time since February 1.
A resolution with an extraordinary
preamble that the Louisiana returning
board be discharged so as to assist
members of the commission who have
completed the work of the returning
board in the inauguration is pending.
It will not receive a two-thirds vote.
The chances are that the returning
board will be certified to the district
court for punishment.
Washington March 3. The follow-
ing telegram has just been sent to Gov-
ernor Nicholls: "Washington D. C
March 3 1877. To Govornor T. T.
Nicholls New Orleans The President
has sent a dispatch to Packard Thurs-
day notifying him that troops could
no longer be employed to uphold either
claimant and that he does not believe
that Packard would attempt auy of-
fensive operations. The President sent
the dispatch so that he might have time
to retire his pretensions if disposed.
The President says that instructions
have been issued which cancel nil or-
ders for the preservation of the statu
quo and that neither you nor Pack-
ard are bound to observe it; that
he means the people of Louisiana arc
as free in their afLtirs from Federal in-
terference as the people of Connecti-
cut and that there will be no
disposition to interfere with th'-in
any more than with the people of
New York. The President concurs
with hs that you immediately
issue a proclamation urging protec-
tion amnesty and peace. Being asked
if a posse executing a process of Nich-
olls's court would be interfered with
by military hs replied no more than in
any other State. Being asked if Nich-
olls's officers should take possession of
the offices in the State without mob
violence would there be military in-
terference he replied there wuld be
none; that the military would be
used as it had been once in New York
and would be in any of the States to
overcome a mob too formidable for
the civil power or State authorities.
We have submitted the foregoing dis-
patch of yesterday to the President
who has revised it with bis own
hands and authorizes us to state that
in its present form it is absolutely cor-
rect. Signed by E. A. Burke H. L.
Gibson E. J. Ellis and William M.
Levy."
teUoic-etiizens We have assembled
to repeat the public ceremonial begun
by Washington observed by all my
predecessors ind now a time-honored
custom which marks the commence-
ment of a new term of the presiden-
tial office. Called to the duty of this
great trust I proceed1 in compliance
with its usage to announce some of the
leading principles on the subjects tbat
now chiefly engage the public atten-
tion by which it is ray desire to be
guided in the discbarge of these du-
ties. I shall not undertake to lay
down irrevocable principles or meas-
ures of administration but rather to
speak of tbe motives which should an-
imate us and to tLggest certain im-
portant ends to be attained in accord-
ance with our institutions and essen-
tial welfare of our country. At the
outset of the discussions which pre-
ceded the recent presidential election
it seemed to be fitting tbat I should
fully make known my sentiments in
regard to several of the important
questions which then appeared to de-
mand the consideration of the country.
Following tbe extmple and in part
the language of one of my predeces-
sors I wish now when every motive
for misrepresentation has passed away
to repeat what was said befoie the
election trusting that my countrymen
will candidly weigh and understand
it and that they will feel assured that
tbe sentiment declared in acceptine
the nomination for the presidency will
be tbe standard of my conduct in tbe
path before me cbargnd as I now am
with the grave and difficult task of
carrying tbem out in the practical ad-
ministration of the government so far
as depends under the Constitution and
laws on the chief executive of the
nation. The permanent pacification
of tbe country upon such prin-
ciples and by such measures as
will secure the complete protection
of all its citizens in the free enjoyment
of ail tl eir constitutional rights is now
one subj-vt ia our public aff:rs which
ail thoughtful aud - patriotic people
regard of supreme importance. Many
of the caWuutou effects of the tremca-
doiii revolution which has passed over
tna boutheru bra'cs still reuitn. The
lnimeiisurabU benefits which will sure
ly follow sooner or later the hearty and
generous acceptance of the legitimate
rrsults of that revolution hire not yet
neen realize.!. Uithcult and embarrass-
lni; quer-tions meet ns at the threshold
of this subject. The people of those
States are btill impoverished and the
inestimable blessings of wise honest
and peacelul local self-government are
not eDjoyed. Whatever difference of
opinion may exist a to the cas.so of
this condition of thing? the lact is
clear that ia the progress of t-vei-.'.a tbe
time has come when such 1. t- v ra-
meut isnn imperative necessity nq.i.red
i-y till the varied interests I'uhl.e and
private of these S:ates. Bit it must
uot be forgotten that only a local yov-
erament which recogniz-s an-l mtiu-
tuins inviol.ite the rights of all is a true
self-government.
With respect to the two distinct
races whose peculiar relatious to each
other have brought upon usthedeplor-
s'.'ole complications and perplexities
which t-xist iu those States it must be
a government which guards the inter-
ests of both races carefully aud equal-
ly It must be a government which sub-
mits loyally und heartily to the Consti-
tution and to the Uws tho national
laws and the laws of the States them-
selves accepting and obeying faithful-
ly the whole constitution. "Resting upon
this sure and eubstautial foundation
the superstructure of beneficent local
governments can be built up and not
otherwise. In furtherance of such
obedience to the letter and
the spirit of the Constitution
and in behalfof all that its attainment
implies all the so-called party in-
terests lose their apparent importance
aud party lines may well be permitted
to fade into iusignifictnee. The ques-
tion we have to consider for the imme-
diate welfare of those States of the
United States is the question of gov
ernment or no government of social
order and nil the peaceful industries
of the happiness that belongs to it or
a return to barbarism. It is a question
in which every citiz ;u of ths nation is
deeply interested and with respect to
wnicn we ought not to he in a parti
san sense either Republican or Demo-
crat but fellow-citizius and fellow-
men to whom the interests of a com-
mon country aud common humanity
are dear.
The sweeping revolution of tho en
tire labor system of a largo portion of
our country and the advance of four
millions of people from a condition of
servitude to that of citizenship upon
an equal looting with their former
masters could uot occur without pre-
senting problems of the gravest mo-
ment to be dealt with by the emanci-
pated race by their former master.
aud by the general government the
author of the act of emancipation.
That it was a wise jut and providen-
tial act fraught with good for all con
cerned is now generally conceded
throughout the country; that a moral
obligation rests upon the natioual gov-
ernment to employ its constitutional
power and influence to establish tbe
rights of the people it has emancipated
aud to protect them in the enjoyment
of those rights when they are infringed
or assailed is also generally admitted.
The evils which afflict the' Southern
States can only be removed or remedied
by the united aud harmonious efforts of
both races actuated by motives of
mutual sympathy aud regard and while
in duty bound and fully determined to
protect tho rights of all by every con-
stitutional means at tbe disposal of my
administration I am sincerely anxious
to use every legitimate influence in fa-
vor of honest and effective local self-
government as the true source of the
State's progress and of the content-
ment and tlie prosperity of their citi-
zens. Ia the effort I shall make to ac-
complish this purpose I ask the cordial
co-operation of ail who cherish an in-
terest in the welfare of the country
trusting that party tics and the preju-
dice of race will be freely surrendered
in behalf of tho great purpose to be
accomplished in the important work of
restoring the South. It is not the po-
litical situation alone that merits at-
tention; the material development of
that section of the country has been
arrested by the social and political rev-
olutio through which it has passed
and uow needs and deserves tbe con-
siderate care of the national govern-
ment within the just limits prescribed
'jy the Constitution and wise public
economy. But at the basis of all pros-
perity for that as well us for every
other part of the country lies the im-
provement of lliH intellectual and moral
condition of tho people. Universal
suffrage should rest upon universal
education. To tliisr end libcrnl and
pcunancBt provision should be made
for the support of free schools by the
State governments and if need be
supplemented by legitimate aid from
national authority. Let me assure my
countrymen of the Southern States that
it is my earnest desire to regard and
promote their truest interests the
interests of the white and of the
colored peoplo both and equally
and trust that my best efforts
in behalf of a civil policy which will
forever wash out in our political affairs
the color line and distinction between
the North and South to the end that
we may have not merely an united
North or an united South but an uni-
ted country. I ask tbe attention of
the public to the paramount necessity
of reform in our civil service a re-
form not merely as to certain abuses
and practices of so-called official pat-
ronage which have come to have the
sanction of usage in the several depart-
ments of our government but a change
in the system of appointments itself ;
a refoim that shall be thorough radi-
cal and complete a return to the prin-
ciples and practice of the founders of
the government. Tbey never expected
nor desired from public officers any
partisan service. They meant tbat
public officers should owe their whole
service to the government and the peo-
ple; tl.cy mcaut thit the officer should
le secure in his tenure so loDg as his
personal character remained untar-
nished and the performance of bis
duties satisfactory. They held
that appointments to office were not
to be made nor executed merely as
rewards for partisan services nor
inrrely on the nomination of members
of Congress as being entitled in any
respect to tbe control cf such appoint-
ments. The fact that the South and
the great political parties of the coun-
try in declaring their principles prior
tn the election gave a prominent
place to the mhject of reform of our
civil service recognizing and strongly
urging its necessity in terms almost
identical in their specific import with
those I have here employed mukt be ac-
cepted as a conclusive argument in be-
half of these measures it must be re-
garded as the expression of the united
voice and will of the whole country
upon this subj'-ct and both political
parties are virtually pledged fo give it
their unrererverf support. Tbe Presi-
dent of the United States of neces-
sity owes bis election to office to the
suffrage and zvalous labors of a politi-
cal party tbe members of which
cherish with ardor and regard as of es-
sential importance the "principles of
their party organization but be should
strive to be always mindful of tbe fact
that be serves bis party best who serves
tbe country best. In furtherance of tbe
reform we seek and In other important
respects a change of great importance
I recommend an amendment to the Con-
stitution prescribing a term of six
years for the presidential office and
forbidding a re-election.
. With respect to the financial condi-
tion of the country I shall not attempt
an extended biatory of the embarrass-
ment and proatrstion which we have
suffered during the past three years
tbe depression ia all our varied com-
mercial and manufacturing interests
urS.u iu oepicuiucr and
;iu continues it is ery gratifang.
now ever 10 oe aoie to say that there at
indications all around us of a comin
change to prosperous times. '
Upon the currcnev question inti
mately connected as it is with this
topic I m.iy be permitted to repeat
here the sta at made in mv letter
of accvptauce that in my judgment
the feeling of uncertainty inseparable
from ao irredi einable paper currency
with its fluctuation of values is oue of
the greatest obstacles to prosperous
times. The only safe paper cur
rency is one which rests upon
a coin basis and is at all times
nnd principally convertible into coin
I adhere to the views heretofore ex
pressed by men ia favor of congression
al legislation in behalf of an early re-
sumption of specie payment and I am
sntistied not only that this is wise but
that the interests as well as the public
sentiment of the country imperatively
.u-maim it.
Passing from the remarks upon the
condition of our ow n country to consid
er our relations with other lands wc aro
reminded by the international compli
cations abroad threatening the peace
of Europe that our traditional rule of
non interference iu the affairs of for-
eign nations has proven of great va'ue
in past times and ought to be strictly
observed. The policy inaugurated by
my honorci predecessor ' President
Grant of submitting to arbitration
grave questions iu dispute between our-
selves and foreign powers points to a
new and incomparaoly tho beat instru-
mentality for the preservation of peace.
and will as I oelieve becomo as be
neficent an example of the course to
be pursued in similar emergencies by
other nations. If unhappily qucstious
of difference should at auy time during
the period of my administration arise
oetween the Lulled States and any for
eign government it will certaiuly be
my disposition and my hope to aid in
their settlement in the same peaceful
aud honorable way thus securing to
our country the great blessing of peace
and mutual good offices with all the
nations of the world.
Fellow-citizens we have reached tho
close of a political contest marked by
the excitement which usually attends
the contests between great political
parties whose members espouse and ad-
vocate with earuest faith their respec-
tive creeds. Tho circumstances were
perhaps in no respact extraordinary
save in the closeness aud consequent
uncertainly of the result. For the first
time in the history of the country it
has been deemed host in view of the
peculiar circumstances of the ca?e
that the objections and questions in
dispute with reference to the counting
of the electoral votes should bs refer-
red to the decision of a tribunal ap-
pointed for this purpose. That tri-
bunal established by law for this
sole purpose its members all
of them men of long-established
reputations for integrity and in
telligence and with the exception of
those who are also members of the su
premo judiciary chosen equally from
both political parties its deliberations
enlightened by ho research and argu-
ments of able counsel was entitled to
the full confidence of tbo American
people. Its decisions have been pa-
tiently waited for and accepted as le-
gally conclusive by the general judg-
ment of tbe public. For tho present
opinion will widely vary as to the wis-.
lom of the several conclusions an-
nounced by that tribunal. This is to
be anticipated in every instance where
matters of dispute are made subject of
arbitration under the forms of the law
Human judgment is nuver unerring
and is rarely regarded as otherwise
than wrong by the unsuccessful party
in the contest. The lact that two great
political parties have in this way set-
tled a dispute in regard to which good
men differ as to tho facts and to the
law no less than as to the proper
course to be pursued in solving the
question in controversy is an occasion
for general rejoicing. Upon one point
there is entire un .nimity in public sen-
timent that conflicting claims to tbe
presidency must be amicably and peace-
ably adjusted and when so adjusted
the general acquiescence of the nation
ought surely to follow. It is reserved
for a government of the people where
right of suffrage is universally given to
give the world the first example in the
history of a grat nation in the midst
of oposing parties for power pushing
its party tumults to yield the issue of
the contest to the adjustment accord-
ing to the forms of law.
Looking for the guidance of that di-
vine aid by which the destinies of na-
tions and individuals are shaped I call
on you Scnatois Representatives
judges fellow-citizens hero and every-
where to unite with me in an earnest
effort to secure to our country the
blessings not only of national prosperi-
ty but f justice peace and union a
uuion depending not upon tho selfish-
ness but upon the loving devotion of a
free people and that all things may be so
ordered and settled upon the best and
surest foundation that peace aud hap-
piness truth abd justice religion and
piety may be established among us for
all generations.
Washington March 0. Tho drift
of the debate indicates that Morgan of
Alabama and Lamar of Mississippi will
be seated on prima facie evidence.
Senator Wallace of Pennsylvania sub-
mitted a resolution that the creden-
tials of L. Q. C. Lamar be taken from
the table and tbut he be sworn in.
Senator Anthony moved that the
Senate aojourn ; yeas 15 nays 30.
Many Republicans are voting with
the Democrats in opposition to an ad-
journment. Senator Blaine spoke in favor of
swearing in Mr. Lamar and saia his
credentials were entirely regularand hs
was just aa much entitled to be sworn
in aa he (Senator Blaine) or any other
Senator sworn in yesterday. Senator
Blaine has startled tbe Senate. He
thinks Pinchback should have been
admitted lie favors seating Morgan
and Lamar. Answering Morton as to
what he would do with Kellogg nndcr
his line of argument Mr. Blaine says
he had a resolution in his hand which
he proposed to offer when the present
case was disposed of to scat Kellogg.
Senator Dawes declared in favor of
sealing Lamar.
Senator Spencer is speaking in oppo-
sition and has sent to the clerk's
desk to be read as part of bis speech
certain cominitteo reports on the Mis-
sissippi election.
The proceedings are on the motion
of Senator Wallace to seat Lamar. The
conclusion will .hardly be reached to-
day. Senator Lamar was sworn in. Sen-
ator Wadleigh voted against bim.
Senator Spencer was paired off with
Gen. Ransom.
W. II. Rogers is the President's pri-
vate secretary.
Chandler his resigned. A'ristant
Secretary Gorhsm will manage the In-
terior Department until tbe new secre-
tary is appointed.
The President is determined to en-
tertain no application for office until
his cabinet is completed.
Governor Waahburne of Musicha-
setts is now mentioned for tbe secre-
taryship of the navy.
Tbe Senate caucus sppointed Sena-
tors Morton Sargent Morrill Allison
and Doreey to revue tbe standing
committees.
A number of excellent gentlemen
contending for th 1 place of sergeant-at-arms
to the Senate will be disap-
pointed. CoL John R. French will
certainly retain the place.
President Hayes's first cabinet was
fulL Secretary Morrill though feeble
attended.
Senator Morton is pressing Richard
Thompson of Indiana for Secretary
of War. Gen. Sherman Is still urging
the appointment of Joseph E. John-
ston. Later After Mr. Lamar bad taken
tbe oath. Senator Blaine submitted the
following resolution:
iiwx'w.? That the oath of office re-
q iire.1 by l.iw be now administered by
tlie Vice l'rcsi b lit to Will. P. Kellogg
whose credentials as a senator from
the S ate if l mi -i mh were presented
on the twentieth of January 1S77.
Senator Uivard eeke.i Senator Biaine
to withdraw tin? resolution for the
present that be might submit one to
have J .lm T. Morg.in senator elect
from .Vlalama sn-..ru in whose case
was similar to that of Lunar.
Senator Hi ntse said the ciso of Mr.
Kellogg dine beiore either tint of
Mr. Lamr or Morgan in its order
therefore it had better be acted on
now. Senator B.iyard then submitted
the following substitute for the resolu-
tion of Senator Blaine:
I.lcfKl That the credentials of
Wui. P. Kellogg claiming to be a
Senator from the State of Louisiana
do now lie upon the table until the ap-
pointment of a committee on privi-
leges aud elections to whom they can
be then referred.
Senator Blame said: "I do not de-
sire Mr. President to detain tho Sen-
ate by any lengthy presentation ot Mr.
Kellogg's case regarding him as I do
tlie regularly aud duly elected Sonator
nomine r'.aiu 01 lyiuisiaua. 1 couui
wish that there w.iul I be no objection
to his being sworn in. I believe that
ho was elected by the legal Legisla-
ture of Louisiana and I believe lhat
ho was elected by and represents the
legal government of Louisiana aud I
do so now to-day. and that is the
main point I desire to present how
any beaator who has voted in this
chamber that the electoral vote ot
Louisiana was legally and properly cast
for R. B. lUyus aud yoursolfj Mr.
President js permitted to doubt that S.
B. Packard is equilly of right the Gov
ernor of the Stale."
Senator Blaine then proceeded todo-""
scribe the creation and operation of
the electoral law and continued by
saying: "1 know that there has been
a great deal said here and there in
the corridors of the Capitol around and
about in by places and in high places
of late that some arrangement had
been niudo by which Packard was not
to be recoguizid and upheld that he
was to be allowed to slide by and
Nicholls was to be accepted as Gov- .
ernor of Louisiana. I want to know -
who had the authority to make any
such arrangemeut. I wish to know if
any Senator on this floor will state
in Ins place that auy person speak- -ing
for tbe administration that was
coming iu or tho one that was
goiug out had any right to make any '
such arrangement. 1 deny it I deny
it. Without baing authorial! to
speak for ihe administration that now
existsl deny it on tho simple.
broad ground that President Hayes
possesses character common sense.
self-respect patriotism all of which
he has in a high measure in an emiuent
degiee. I deny on all the grounds
that can influence human action on all
tho grounds on which men can
be held to personal ana politi
cal uud official responsibility. I
deny for him and I shall find
myself grievously disappointed wound-
ed and humiliated if my denial is not
vindicated in tho policy of tho admin
istration. But whether it be vindi
cated or whether it be not it' is not
the duty of a senator to inquire what
the policy of an administration may
be but what it ought to bo and I hope
a Republican Senute will say that on
this point there shall bo no authority
in this land large enough or adventur
ous enough to compromise tho honor
of tbe Natioual administration or tbo
good name of tho great Republican "
party that called that administration
into existence."
Senator Bayard then took the floor.
Washington March 0. The Su
preme Court adjourned to Monday.
Gen. Hawley is pressed for Secretary
of war; Governor Rice of Massachu
setts for Secretary of the Navy. The
following still remains certain : Sena
tor Sherman as Secretary of the Treas
ury; Hchurz becretury of the Interior;
Eivarts as secretary of btate. It is al-
most certain that Key will be named
for Postmaster General.
An extra session of Congress is be-
coming doubtful. Tho law forbids ex-
penditures outside of the appropria-
tion for commissary and quartermaster
supplies but it is claimed to beallowa-;
ble to bunk on the future for tho pny
of the army.
The clerk of the House has no pat-
ronage in the publication of the laws
and proceedings of the circuit and dis-
trict courts as heretofore Tbe law
authorizing the publication of the laws
has been repealed and without expli-
cit direction in law it is supposed tho
conrts can designate the papers in
which necessary process may be pub-
lished. The Star pays President Hayes as
soon a his cabinet in formed will issue
general orders to all commanding offi-
cers in the South to withdraw their
troops to the government reservations.
This order will be explained as reliev-
ing the Federal troops finally from all
duties incident to the peculiar civil and
political condition of tbe Southern
States. Mayor Buike has left here for
New Orleans with a writton assurance
from the President to this effect and
Senator Gordon has a similar docu-
ment to be forwarded to Governor
Hampton.
PiTTBiicnon Pa. March 0. A tele-
gram from Karnes City gives tbe fol-
lowing additional particulars of the
fire at tbe Bateman House yesterday.
Up to 0 A. m. to-day five bodies bad
been taken from the ruins. Tbe re-
mains of N. Brown jr. of No. 230
Chestnut street Philadelphia have
been identified by a key check. Char-
ley Bateman aged 12 years who was
.rescued from the flames by bis father
died of his injuries this morning. Mr.
Batemaa tbe father and only surviv-
ing member of the family lies in av
very critical condition.
Columcia 8. C March 0. Chief
Justice Moses of the South Carolina
Supreme Court died at 1 o'clock to-
day. New Yoke March 6. E. B. Wash-
burne United States Minister to
France has arrived here.
Joe Co burn pugilist was sentenced
to ten years imprisonment for assault
with attempt to kill.
London March 6. The Inaugural
of President Hayes which is published
here in full this afternoon baa created
a very favorable impresaon. Tbe
Time says tbat tbe greater part of it
was of a character tbat might have
been received well by men of all par-
ties. The yew says: "Of course its gen-
eral principle do not help much to
cool tbe angry passion which have
been seething for years. But there is a
time for settlement. The principles
which President Usyes enunciates are
excellent."
Tbe TeUyraph says: "Mr. II yes's
comments on the election erdeal which
put tucb a severe strain on tbe consti-
tution are such as become a president
who from the moment be takes the
oath of office should belong te all par-
lies. On the whole we do not imag-
ine that even his candid opponents
will complain of the tone and temper
01 me aoureu wuicn deals witn ques-
tions of the highest moment primarily
to America and indirectly to all the
world. Mr. Hayes speaks with the
dignity and frankness becoming tbe
chief magistrate of a great people and
points the way to the ends which if
they can be accomplished will redound
to bis honor and that of bis country."
Kehlin March 6. Gen. Ignatieff
dines with Prince Bimarck to-night.
He will leave for Paris at noon to-
morrow. Curiosity at to the real valuo of tbo-e
"three dollar chromoa" wbi:h bave
!een so popular as priz- for ubcrtf-
era to certain newspapers i at lat sat-
ufied; a suit in New York baa brought
nut the testimony id a man in tl.n
bu-ineas that be could furniab them for
ten cents apiece and make money.
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