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WEEKLY STATESMAN
AUSTIN.
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IS CHANT OB BAT OK LUTLG-l
PATUIOT Oil USL'HPKItf
Grant won fame originally by the curt-
oess of his response to the commander at
Fort Donelson and he was long known as
"Unconditional Surrender Grant." His
laconiciams have passed into history and it
mast be confessed that ho now and then
managei to compass an infinitude of wis-
dom and right in the fewest words uttered
at the very proper placo and moment. If
an ordinary governor or politician had un-
dertaken to dUcuss the pending presiden-
tial imbroglio ho would have spread it
thinly over eight or ten columns of a news-
paper. But when U. 8. Grant pronounces
judgment non httret in eortiee. By a seem-
ing infallible instinct be goes to the "bot-
tom facts" and compasses the whole argu-
ment and recital in a breath. The follow-
ing Is admirable:
Should there be any grounds of suspicion
of fraudulent counting on either sido it
should be reported and denounced at once.
No man worthy the f Ali o of President
should be willing to hold it if "counted in"
or placed there by any fraud. Either party
can afford to be disappointed in the result
but the country cannot afford to have the
result tainted by tho suspicion of illegal or
false returns. U. 8. Grant.
We present it as a model not only in its
form but its substance and commend it to
"Executive" officers everywhere when dis-
cussing affairs of state. If the President
be actuated by the purposes here defined
every honest citizen whatever his affilia-
tions as a partisan must confess
the honorable and patriotic impulses of the
President and as well his ability on the
instant to give them admirable expression.
But the President's conduct has hardly
been conformed to the lofty serse of justice
and right embodied in this note. He has
suffered himself to be used by Chamberlain
to recoasign South Carolina to black perdi-
tion and assuro tho State's vote for Hayes.
He has sent troops by tho score into Louisi-
ana when the Governor has not asked it
and when the Legislature might be con-
vened " in caso of insurrection or invasion"
and neither emergency has arisen and nei-
ther is possible. And yet the President as-
umos that it is bis duty to send soldiers
into Louisiana to keep the peace as we are
told; bnt who knows besides the President
that he tells tho truth I It is safer to incur
dangers of local bloodshed and violence
than establish precedents which worse men
than Grant might employ to subvert the
country's liberties shape by force the re-
sults of elections and overawe a wronged
and helpless population. But if it appear
at last that President Grant has been actu
ated by those admirable impulses and pur-
pose! defined in the brief paper above
printed let us not fall when the end comes
to 'do him perfect justice. He may have
transcended his powers as these are com
monly supposed to be limited by the prac
tlces of his predecessors and by the Con-
stitution; but if he havo only blundered
in law and not in fact and if it be shown
that his sole purpose is to assure tbo coun-
try'! peace to prevent violence and see that
the true and proper results of election-
shall be announced then let us award to
Grant the full measure of justice. Just
now he teems a tyrant and usurper.
NO riUIITINQ POSSIBLE.
Tho 6t Louis IbpuMiean writes of Mr.
Hayes just as tho Statesman has done.
He has shown by every act and utterance
alnoe ha became a candidate for the presi
deary that his adherents are unworthy of
hint. His conduct has been that of a
statesman and patriot comprehending the
dignity of the position to which it was pro-
posed to assign him and if be said as re-
ported that be feared in caso of liii de-
feat that the negro would bo the sufferer
be has only been victimized by his associ-
ates and newspapers. His conduct every-
where Lis fame among Lis neighbors hi.-
personal appearance alike lead u to be-
lieve btm a patriot and an honest worthy
gentleman. If he become Piesldcnt the
St. Louis JtepvWatn is authority for the
assertion thit he will avoid the extreme
and malignant members of his arty ami
select bis advisers and placeholders from
among conservative Republican. Tut
facts are given as recited by the Jirpulliean
and by Northern newspaper; and there i
BO difference of opinion among them aa to
the personal and moral worth of the man
whom we have esteemed infinitely better
than the party he represents. If iu thi-
eetimste of Mr. Hayes's personal worth Hit
country be sot mis'ekcu it inu.t follow
that if he be crowned with tho i llico by a
minority of the people of tho United State
and then by fraudulent arts of a returning
board whoso chief oco Wells even Sheri
dan bas declared to be an unmixed villain
if it be proposed to invest Mr. Htyts with
office by these means he will surely decline
the distinguiohed honor. Ho would win
immortal renown by refuting to accept it.
Cvsar thrice rejected the crown and would
bare loftier monuments to his fame if
mortal weakness bad not trtomphed over
Impulses of lofty patriotism which Wash-
ington alone has illustrated. Hayes may
be incapable of such an aet of heroism but
those who know him best peui.t in saying
that the conduct of the returning board
Bast be blameless or Hayes will not exe-
cute its decrees. Aa overwhelming ma
jority of the white people of the United
states has pronounced ia Uha'.f of Mr.
Tilden and Mr. Hayes win no: defy
the wishes of the people Ai.d acct-pt
aa ofSce at the bands of a few thou-
sand Louisiana blacks. Unless it be shown
tUt Mr. Hayes havo been fair!y elected he
will reject office prrdrtd Ly as base-born
ft! corrupt body vi scoundrels si wsto
ever gathered to prey upon the carcase of a
decaying commonwealth. We know this
to bo true of these plunderers and thieves
and adventurers in Louisiana and Mr.
Hayes cannot be wholly ignorant of the
facts. If Mr. Hayes have been cheated by
fraud or wronged by violence in Louisiana
and the facts be proven it becomes him to
accept the presidency and the people as-
senting to congratulate themselves that he
who fills is worthy of the highest position
to which an American citizen may aspire.
All this rsnt and fusin and blowhardism
and threatening scowls and empty balder-
daah about a violent remedy for an irrem
ediable wrong is as absurd as likecoadnct
in 1860-1. There is nobody to be scared or
brow hasten or bullied and carta laiy none
to bow in the presence of the mighty men
of valor engineering little newspapers in
helpless remote impoverished disarmed
sparsely populated provinces of tho South.
There is no war possible Pecple have
counted the cost and it costs too much
and there is too little to be gained even if
tho right gain victory which does not of-
ten happen. Those who seek or may lose
offices may be witling to fight for them as
once happened in the country's history but
the masses of the people have other fish to
fry.
We don't take stock in spirituiltsm. We
havo witnessed its most wonderful develop-
ments but slowly the wonder became great
at luit that we had suffered ourselves to be
deluded by a shallow fraud and mainly
because others were honestly deluded. But
there are learned and wise and honest spir
itualists and no man or woman for the
reason that they have faith in Blade or Fos-
ter is the lest worthy of reepect and we
have no respect for that narrow selfish
spirit which contemns another for faith or
want of faith in any matter of possible
doubt. This is a free country only in name
if people ctnnot b and rightfully free
thinkers. The time will come when wars
almost inaugnrated will drive into this
country Mohammedans and Brahmins and
members of the Greek Church. Every
form of religion even sun wsrsbip as in
the age of the raoundbuilders will jbe prac-
ticed even here. The Eleusinian mysteries
may be revived and the oracle of Delphi
bicli was only a modern spirit rap
per may be reproduced and for the
opinions and ceremonials and forms of each
we will ever entertain profound respect.
No mere mortal intellect has the right to
pronounce upon the wisdom or unwisdom
or rightfulness or wrongfulness of the relig
ion of another. Faith is a matter of
conscience and of early training and
the heathen and the Christian and Mahom-
medanand followers of Confucius may think
and believe and pray as they please. While
they are honest men in daily life their eter
nity is their own. and it is no concern of
ours. It is moreover trui that that faith
in our eyes is best which develops the best
and purest men and women. If the spirit-
ist the Swcdenborgian or Christian or
Greek or R imunist or Protestant or Moham-
medan be best and most upright and chari-
table in act and opinion his is surely the
best religion. By their works ye shall know
them. But we only proposed to cay that
he is an unmitigated ass who would excite
vulgar prejudices of ignorance against an
excellent editor in Texas because it is al
leged of him that he is a spiritualist and
of another that ho is an atheist. It would
be quite as reasonable to like or dislike an
individual because of his adhesion to Hayes
or to Tilden. But decent intelligence long
ago thrust aside idl such stupid prejudices.
A cock sparrow of an editor in Texas
when ho rears up behind and before anif
rants and raves and threatens and shakes
his little fist at Grant and the North and
immensity in the foreground too of a pic
ture of recent historical events becomes
extravagantly ridiculous. In arms in
wealth in numbers in the world' sympa
thies the North is infinitely rich and we
are iullnitoly impoverished. If Tilden have
a fatal weakness it will bo discovered in
the fact that his strength was in the South.
The North could endure and accept Tilden
willingly but be owes his triumph to white
men instead of blacks the whole white
popnlition of the South having voted for
him. The vapid secsclet-s rant of these
Southern editors ia not only ridiculous but
harmful to the last degree not. only to us
but to Tildeu and thus to the whole coun
try. Northern people when this ftjuthem
gu-sh is c pied by the Time or Tribune as-
cribe the authorship to toma ."prominent.
influential writer" and thus the South is
falsely presented to the country.
Let us say once for all that we do not
propose here in Texas except in the capc-
ity of quartermasters and commissaries to
take any hand in the next war and we
have to add that we deem Mr. Hayes an
hontst patriot and statesman and if the
North can endure his reign the South hav
ing infinitely less at (take can tolerate him.
In any event it will coat us so much less to
take Hayes and peace than to have wai
in ordtr that the "outs" may be "ins ".that
we can't afford it. If the North propose to
fight it is their matter and not ours.. Our
s ake in the controversy is too smalL Le
jtu nt taut ft hi thandAU.
Bo astti l belligerent choleric so-called
aaeriions of what the triumphant De-
mocracy will do in the way of punishing
f.es and expelling enemies are not uncom-
mon in the weaker and unthinking class of
Southern newspaper. Already the New
York Timti't speciata from Texas contain
t-xtracti from papers represented to b
"leading journals of Texas." It is shown
the editor says by these dispatches thst the
inauguration of Tilden and restoration of
IX m.x:rtic supremacy in the Union will br
the equivalent of the restoration of the
reign of blue cockades when men's beads
were shorn and their property was confis
cated and they were expelled from the
Sjcid because they differed from us in opia-
ion. An absolute reign of terror will be
iaauv'Urtd the Tiatn think everywhere
in tlu i !.; nt t i(ecia!r in Ttxa b
the election of Til Jen. The wont enemies
the South has ever known are its idiotic
explosive swsgering wboop-de-doodle
chivalry. - -
Vkrt many pcop'.e suspected of having
level beads think it proper retribution for
the greatest political crimes that savsge suf-
frage must at lait detcimine who will be
Present of the United Sus and natu-
rally and properly good men aay the bru-
tality involved in the creation of such agen-
cies to be used by knavlshness ia presiden-
tial and other elections sends the country to
the very brick of perdition. It Is sot
luckily so ciomentous or all -important
whether Tilden. or Hayes reign for four
year both beieg good and great men as it
ia aa indispensable necessity that danger
and evils of to-day be obviated for tbe fa-
ture. The several States should periry and
guard ballot-boxes. This is a doty of each
to every other com m on w ealih and tbes tbe
Federal code 2cting the presidential elec-
tion ihoulJ be tbomghlj reformed Tbe
people should vote directly for President
and not for tbe miserable go-betweens
called electors and tbe mode of counting
votes abonld be specifically and carefully
defined and regulated. Let us have peace.
lr either bouse of Congress refuse to
meet the other when the votes of the States
sre to be counted then can be no election
of President. If the Louisiana returning
board without reason or right count Til-
den ont and Hayes in the Home of Repre-
sentatives can prevent an election ot Presi-
dent by refuting to met the Senate and
then there can be no President. But Sena-
tor Ferry claiir.9 tbe right to open and
count the votes and Grant will itand by
him with tbe bayonet and there's an end
on't. If Senator Ferry do not assume this
right to open and count the votes and the
House refuse to meet the Senate there can
be no President and Grant will bold over
no doubt till his successor rasy be elected.
For such a case thecountrj's laws do not
provide will Ferry count the votes t Will
tbe House meet the Senate if Louisiana be
thwarted of her purpose to vote for Til-
den ?
Pikchback's claim to a seat in the Sun-
ate was decided upon tho alleged illegality
of tbe body which elected him. This
same body it appears enacted tbe law es-
tablishing a returning boird for Louisiana
and the question has been raised whether
the board has the right to canvass the
election returns. In the mean time tho re-
turns shows that five Tilden electors have
over 0000 majority while two have over
7000. What the result will be can hardly
be foretold. If honesty is permitted to
rule the electoral vote of Louisiana will
certainly be cast for Mr. Tilden but as in
Florida if the Executive assumes the right
to decide the result it may be otherwise
he telegrams give anythirg but cheerful
.rs.
Whether the opinion of the once great
but now fallen German railway king be
worth more than that of other people or
not we can only give it. Dr. Strousberg
says of bis fellow-countrymen that:
The German is highly scientific; ho deals
largely in principles and considers himself
much more intelligent than the people of
other lands. My experience teaeheH me
however that notwithstanding his higher
education bis wider and more comprehen
sive knowledge of his business and his
greater ability within the narrow range of
bis own occupation the German in Ger-
many when he gets beyond his range ia in
practical natters absolutely without judg-
ment of his own and wholly devoid of any
spontaneous enterprise.
The superabundance of multifarious
ever-recurring courts and the idleness they
generate and wbisky-guzcling and place-
men bailiffs and sheriffs and clerks and
jurors and witnesses constitute a theme of
ceaseless jeremiads among our exchanges.
Burdens of bad government are incalcula-
ble and the worst of evils incident to ours
do not consist in cost but in promotion of
bad morale and idleness. Can't the next
Legislature submit an amendment to the
Constitution reformatory ofJthescnbu9cs and
preventive of evils in local elections such as
now overshadow the republic because of
brutalized suffrage in Louisiana?
Tn.vr the conversion of Louisiana and
other Southern States from Republicanism
is perfectly natural can be proven by facts
as they have occurred lately in Yazoo
county Mississippi. In 1870 all the offices
in that connty were filled by negroes and
yet in the late electien Tilden received 3374
votes to Hayes's 2. The Republican can-
didate for Congress also received only two
votes. The registered vote of the county
is whites 1787. colored 3108 showing that
the votes fell short of the registration only
about 1000. The two votes cast for Hayes
were by U. 8. Everett ani a merchant
named Williams both white.
Whkbe a presidential elector fails to
meet the rest and cast his vote it is lost
unless tbe State's laws authorize the rest of
the electors to fill the vacancy. Three of
the States it is said have failed to make
such a law and since Tilden only wants
one vote of an election and the Republicans
may lose one or two there may arise ques-
tions which Louisiana and Florida cannot
solve nsyes will certainly lose one vote
in Vermont because an elector there is a
postmaster if the laws of Vermont do not
authorize the remaining electors to fill the
vacancy. '
Thk speech-makers of tho country were
so anxious to "orate" that they could not
be suppressed and in Jefferson as in Dallas
they nad a grand "ovation." The word
means literally "sheep-killing" (see una-
bridged). In any event those speech-mak
ers will feel sheepish enough if Tilden be
not President and ought to be killed.
That he has been elected as fairly as any
man was ever elected in a negro-votinu
community none doubt but these torch
light processions and howling dervish ha
rangues aro hajdly adapted to the terrible
facts impending over us.
Cajtsot the city fathers offer Morgan a
bonus of $10000 per annum if the law
permit or a less sum for five years if he
will extend the Cuero road to Austin! With
thia road Austin would bavo three com-
peting rentes to the ses and every road
built northwest of Austin would be forced
to make this city its terminus and cheap
transpostaUCB wonld draw population and
freights from vast distances and the roads
themselves would be made rick by dense
populations.
Tu telegrams report tbat Governor
Steams of Florida has decided that the
State returning board bas no right to can
vasa the election returns and that power
resides in the Executive alone to declare
what electors have been chosen. Tbe act
creating the board it seems does not name
electors but the Democrats claim that tbev
are included under Sitte officers. The plot
is well laid and it becomes evident that
the Governor of Florida will assume acv
rwVto deny the Dem-icnts ih? riytits they
have received at the baltot-box.
The cold woatnar did not freeze the en
ergiea or zeal of Major Penn. Indeed the
fire that is not qeenched borneth so Valor-
ically' in Dallas that tbe fiercest norther
hardly makes Uw place comfortable and
since tbe flame of inferno can have no ter
rore for such a people the eloquent Major
leads them gently and tenderly along; paths
strews -with roses into highways of right
eousoeas and peace. -.
Tn returning board of Louisiana axe tbe
bottle-holders for pnrs fighters in tbe
bloody ring ot political fisticuflcrs. They
are a dirty lot end well fitted to discharge
the ofSces of a smelling committee when
foul ballot -boxes cf universal suffrage are
thrust under their noses.
Thb most rantAkerout of tho blow hard.
desperate chivalrous sort will be contest
with nothing more or lees than quarter
masters' or cpmatssAriee berths ia the sett
war. "
A irxssriru'i influence is illustrated in
the fact that Smith Ely's majority for may-
or of New York is 53072 while Calvin's
majority as surrogate falls to 15045. Tbe
latter was opposed by the Xew York Sun
wbieb thus seems to bave had icfiueuce to
control nearly 40000 votes. If Giddings
had been atsailed and Jones supported by
any single influential newspaper in this dis-
trict Mr. Jones would to-day have a seat
in Congres:
The rascally returning board of Louisi-
ana will ijdct every Democratic parish
possible but may be compelled to assent
to the lost of part of the Republican lir of
thctors acd to the election of part of tbe
Democratic list. This seems probable since
in a wide district of Louisiana on the
ticket voted br the negroes tbe names of
two or three Radical electors by mistake
did not appear. In such a case Tilden is
fcurely elected.
Thehk ia nothing except tbe force of
public opinion to compel an elector to vote
fir TiMen or for Hayes ss the people ex-
pect. The people are at the mercy of these
electors who may sell out to Teter Cooper
or to Haye or Tilden and. there is no
remedy. When Monroe was a candidate
for the presidency a Vermont elector named
Plumtner letrayed his constituency and
cist his vote for John Quincy Adams.
The telegrams tell us that the Louisiana
returning board will make investigations
in public and reserve final decision to be
made in secret session. This shows the
programme as already developed by Gov-
ernor Stearns of Florida. Ho declares the
vote of Florida for Hayes and the Louisi-
ana board are to ride down public expres-
sion and carry the State against Tilden.
LortsiAKiAxs here in exile driven from
once delightful homes by infamies prac
ticed by Kellogg Warmotbs and Pack-
ards watch with tireless eager interest the
course of events in New Orleans.
The amendment to tbe Virginia Constitu
tion making the payment of a poll tax a
condition precedent to the concession of
the privilege of suffrage has been adopted
by the people.
There is tbe least. posmbJa disposition in
these parts to take the least possible stock
in the next war.
LATEST BY TELECR1PII.
Washington. November 15. Official re
ports from tbe Department of Agriculture
indicate tbat the season has been extremely
favorable for gathering the crop of cotton.
Except in some portions of North Caro
lina the frost has injured tbe top crop in
the northern belt notably in Arkansas.
The fibre is cleaner than usual and of su
perior quality. In tbe southern belt
drought in the Gulf States rain in tbe Car-
olina boll worms in the Southwest and
citerpillars ia certain locations near the
Gulf States are the chief causes of injury
to the crop. The harvest will be complet-
ed at an earlier date than usual as the crop
must be smaller than last year. The per
centages of the Atlantic coa$t States aro re
latively larger by reason ot the poor returns
of 1875 and smaller in the Southwest.
They are as follows: North Carolina Vi.
South Carolina 89 Georgia 110 Florida
110 Alabama 77 Mississippi 73 Louisiana
89 Texas 100 Arksnsis 74 Tennessee 101.
The average is between 88 and 89 indi-
cating without reference to the remainder
of t.e picking season nea-ly 9-10 of the
crop of 1873.
Richmond .November 15. rhe twenty-
Recond annual conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Virginia commenced
ua tesbioo lo-uaj unuup Tv.svauauii yie
lding. A resolution was adopted providing .
for the appointment of a committee
of nine to consider the subject of
the formal relations of the general con-
ferences of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and the Methodist Episcopal
Church South and recommend such action
as tbey deem proper.
Havana .November 1j. there are well
grounded rumors of a light disastrous to
the fc-paniards near ruerto irnncipe. ine
troops are sa'd to have been engaged from
Pueito Principe starting an expedition with
arms etc. on the way to this island under
command of Quesada.
Jackson Miss. November 15. Tho fol
lowing telegram was sent to-day to Gen.
James A. Garfield at New Orleans: The
Republicans of Mississippi earnestly invite
you and your associate a of both parties
when you have completed the investigations
in Louisiana to visit this btatotoniaKe a
like investigation. Signed by H. R. Ware
chairman of tbe Republican State Central
Committee.
London November 13. A Reuter tele
gram from Constantinople says that all the
powers are stated to bj in accord respecting
the conference which is expected to enm-
meuce its sitting in November. 1 he Porti
bos made some objection but its adhesion
appears certain England having made ur-
gent representations to that end.
New Orleans November 17. The fol-
lowing is tbe reply of the Republicans to
the communication from the Democrats in-
viting a confeience: "New Orleans No-
vember 16. Gentlemen: Tbe majority of
the undersigned to whom your note of the
fourteenth instant was addressed only ar-
rived in this city yesterday evening. : We
have therefore been unable to reply until
this morning and can only regret that your
communication should nave been given to
the press immediately on its delivery and
without the possibility of an answer accom-
panying it. Your remarks tiat you are in-
formed we came here at the request of the
President to see tbat the board of canvass-
eis make a fair count of the votes actually
cast and ask that we meet aad confer in
order that och influence as we possess may
be e xi rtul in behalf of such a canvass ot
the votes cast are characterised by their
fairness and impartially and should com-
mand the rcsptct and acquiescence of the
American people. We join heartily with
you in counsels of peace and in the expres-
sion of an earnest desire for a perfectly
honest and jukt declaration cf tbe retulu
of tbe receut election in Louisiana by its
lawfully constituted authorities and we
may add that we know of no reason to
d-tubt that tuch a declaration will be made.
Bjt we do not see the propriety or utility
of a conference on the basis and subject
to the limitations you propose. for
w have no such duty imposed on
us as suggts'ed - by tbe clane of
your note of thi first as quoted. We are
at m st req-iested to oe witnesses oi wnai
shdl occur ia the canvat of the vous
it out pwer and legal influence over the
result i-r over the means by which under
the lawa of Louisiana the result is to be
tlcteiminetl. He cannot doubt tbat in this
you upon r flection will concur with us.
We are here as private citizens with no offi-
cial powers: we therefore cannot supersede
or modify any law of tbat State nor have
we any tight to control or icfluence any of
its officers as to the manner in which they
shall perform miniate rial or judicial duties
imposed upon them uy its laws anasnouia
we being strangers and without official
functions attempt thi we should be con-
demned by the people of every State in
the Union for an -improper interference
with the local ad nun-.rtration. Tbe follow
ios extract from tbe laws of Louisiana
shows tbat tbe canvaMinz board is express
ly required ia certain cases to exercise ju-
dicial as well as ministerial functions
"Sec. 8. That in such canvsss and compi-
lation the returning officers shall obaerve
the following ordtr: 'They shall compile
first the statements from all polls or voting
places at which there abaU bave been a
fair free and peaceable registration and
election. W henever from an y poll or voting
place there shall be received statements
snd tbe r shall be convinced that sock ikks
rumalia. acts of intimidation armed dia-
lurbaecea bribery or corrupt infloeaces did
not material! latertere wita parity and
freeduta ot f clectio at tub polls t
voting place or did not prevent a sufficient
number of qualified voters thereat from
registering or voting to materially
cbaflge the itsa't of the election then
and not otherwite if the- said returning
officers ' shall not be fully satisfied it
shall ue their duty to examine further tes-
timony in regvd thereto and to this end
tbey shall bave power to send for persons
and pprf. I' slier such exam nations said
officers shall be convinced that said riot
tumult acts of violence intimidation
armed disturbance bribery oe corrupt in-
fluences did materially interfere with
the purity and freedom of tbe election at
such poll or votirg place or did prevent a
tufiicient number of tbe qualified electors
thertst from registering and voting to ma-
terially change the result of the election
then tbe said returning officers shall not
canvass or complete the statement of tbe
votes of such poll or voting place but shall
exclude it from their returns; provided any
person ia it 1 i election by reason of being a
candidate for office kball be Allowed a
bearing before the said returning officers
upon making application within the time
allowed tor the forwarding of the returns
of ssi i election." Hence if there are any
facts requiring the judgment of the board
upon the validity cf anyelectim returned
as affocted by such frauds or vlileuce it
would bo a manifest interference with Stale
rights and local self-government for per-
sons like ourwlves without official right
toatttmpt to influence or control its judi-
cial action. Had a corresponding board in
the Stare of New York in 1868 been au-
thorized to pass upon the fraudulent re-
turns of the votes of the city of New Yoik
for that year and had a delegation of
citizens of Louisiana however respecta-
ble attempted to influence its judicial
action upon tbe ficta presented to it
under the laws of tbat State or
.-ueh attempt would have been universally
condemned. If the duties of the canvass
ing board of Louisiana were merely minis-
terial or clerical as in the case of an officer
charged by the law with the duty of veri-
fying and declaring the result of an elec-
tion and invested with no discretion as
where the President of the Senate counts
and declares the votes of the electors of
the several States in the election of presi-
dent and vice president under the consti
tution of the United States a different case
would be presented. It is in our judg
ment vital to the preservation of constitu
tional liberty that the habit of obedience
to tbe forms and law should be zealously
lL-r.u'cated and cultivated and that the re
sort to extra constitutional modes of redress
for even actual grievances should be avoid
ed and condemned as revolutionary and
disorgan!ziug lending to disorder and an-
archy. To reduce the whole question.
therefore to the mere clerical duty of
counting tbe votes actually cast as pro
posed by you in distinction from votes le
gally cant and returned irrespective of the
question whether they are fraudulently acd
violently castor otherwise violated involves
a nullification of the provisions of the laws
of Liouisnna which bave already been ad
judicated as valid by the Supreme Court
and would be wholly unjustifiable here as
.well as in any other State of tbe Union
which hag provided laws to protect tbe
rights of the voters and purity of the
ballot. We cannot therefore concur in
your proposition for a conference on that
basis (signed) Very respectfully John
Sherman. Stanley Matthews J. A. Garfield
of Ohio; Wm. D. Kelly of Pennsylvania
J. A. Kasson of Iowa; E. W. Slengthy.
of New York ; C. Irving Ditty of In-
diana: J. II. Van Allen ot New York
Lugcne Hall of Maine; M. S. tjnav of
Pennsylvania; William Cumback of Indi-
ania; E. T. Noyes of Ohio; Job. E.
Stevenson of Ohio John Couburn
of Indiuna Lew Wallace of Indiana;
J. M. Tuttle of Iowa W. W. Mc-
Grew of Iowa J. W. Chapman of Iowa
V. It. bmith of Iowa Abner Taylor of
Illinois J. R. Haven of Illinois J. M.
Bardslio of Illinois C. B. Farwell of Ill
inois Sidney Clarke of Kansas J. C. Wil-
son of KunA3. Lyman Trumbull Jas. O.
BrcaJLead V. R. Morrison and others are
present at tin request of the chairman of
t!ie National Democratic Committee.
Chicago November 10. The tenth an
nual t-esaiou of the National Grange met
here to-day. John T. .Jones of Arkansas
was called to the chair. Nearly every State
is represented. Many ladies arc in attend-
au :;.
Nkw Orleans November 17. To the
Hons. John Sherman Stanley Matthews J.
A. Garfield. W. IJ. Kelley and others:
Gentlemen We are in receiptor your an
swer to our letter of the fourteenth instant
in which you inform us of your determina
tion not to confer with U3 for the purpose of
exerting such influence as we may possess
in behalf of such a canvass of the votes ac
tually cast at the recent election in Louisi
ana as by its fairness and impartiality shall
command tbe acquiescence and respect of
all parties. v e sincerely regret this failure
of our attempt to secure the co-operation of
all tbe citizens from other States in tbe
furtherance of the purpoes which as we
supposed bad brought them hither st
this juncture. YV e regret t all the more be
cause your refusal to confer and co-operate
with us appears to be based upon a
serious misapprehension of the language
no less than the rpirit of our communica
tion. It can barely have escaped your no-
tice that our statement of the result to be
obtained by tho co-operative action which
we sought to bring about was a simple re-
proa notion oi me language of President
Grant at whose request we uuderstood you
are there. In his recent order to Gen. Sher
man that language was deliberately used
no doubt in view of the fact about which
as we . conceive there can be no dispute.
that the first and most essential prerequisite
to an honest and just declaration of tbe
results of the recent election in Louisiana
is a fair and impartial canvassof tbe votes
actually cast and it seems to us that you do
the Piefcideut great injustice in supposing
that in speaking of "votes actually cast"
he meant to include votes illegally cast as
you certainly do us injustice by the imputa
tion of a desire to iusist upon so narrow
and Mcious an interpretation. In our
judgment tho cxpnss:on "votes actually
cast" of necessity designates the votes le-
gally cast and as a consequence of such
votes only did we desire to secure a fair
and impartial canvass. We beg leave to
say therefore that you are mistaken in the
belief that we sought unduly to narrow the
baais on which we invited your co-operative
action and you are no less in error in
attributing to us a purpose to interfere witn
the legally constituted authorities of tbii
State in the discharge of their duties
to claim rights and to arrogate to our-
selves the powers which We do
not possess. Ia writing our -.let
ter we were fully aware tbat both
the organization and tbe action whether
juiicial or ministerial of the re-
turning board of Louisiana were beyond
authoritative control from without and tbarJ
it would be the heighth of arrogance and
folly to attempt to alter the laws of a State
of which we are not citizens or to
obtrude oar interpretation of these lawa
upon those wboae cbjty it is to administer
tuem but we hid supposed nevertheless
thst there was an influence which might be
r ght fully exerted even by citizens of this
republic who arc strangers in this State and
we bad taku it for granted that your pres
ence in response to the suggestion of the
picas was a recrgiiitlon of this fact; we bad
bupposed that it was not improper for us to
remind the authorities of this Slate by oar
mere presence at least that there are certain
rules of fairness and justice which underlie
all customs and laws and upon whose ob-
servance must depend all acquiescence of
tbe people of all parties in the declared re-
sult of the Louisiana election rules such
as these that no one ought to be a jadge ia
bis own case that tbe decision of any con-
test ought not to depend upon tbe mere ar-
bitrament of one of the parties thereto
that before a dec aioa is made both
parties cught to be fully And fairly beard
thai all questions of law ought to be de-
cided in conformity with its established
general principles. And all questions of fact
upon evideocdnly presented and weicbtd
under tbe ralea which are of universal re-
ognitioa in ail tbe States of this Union
tbat the trial of all causes involving pbUc
interest at leant ought to be public and tbat
all tbe proceedings resorted to for tbe pur-
pose cf detcrmiidog tbe issoes in tbe present
electoral cosiest ought by their impartiality
to disarm the suspicion tbat forms of law
have to a perverted into instruments of the
violation of i;s spirit. Ia this conviction
we ay bs permuted to observe tbat while
undoubtedly as yoa say a sedulous inculca-
tion and cultivation of tbe habits of obe-
dience to the forms of law Is vital to the
preaervatioa of constitutional liberty it
is no less important that a refosl to yield
such obedience be not provoked by astng
these forms as a means for subverting
tbe very ends for which they
were designed. Without undertaking to
question tbe sincerity of tbe belief which
yoa are at the pains to express that you
know vf so reason to doubt tbat tbe Louis-
iana returning board will make a perfectly
fair honest and just declaration of the re-
sult of the recent election in Louisiana
we deem it not improper to remind you
that the very presence in this city of so
many citizens from all parts of the Union
at this moment seems to be an evidence of
a widely prevalent distrust of -the action ot
this board and that such distrust has this
foundation at least that the construction of
tbe board has not been changed since iu
returns were set aside by a congressional
committee of which the Republican candi-
date for the Vice Presidency was a member
and this distrust is not unnatural in view
of tbe fee that as we understand one of
the members of the returning board is a
candidate voted for at the recent election
another one tbe bolder of an office of profit
and truU by appointment by the present
Executive of the national government while
all the members of the board are believed
to be in affiliation with but one of the par-
ties to tbe present political contest. In
view of all this it is hardly uecessary to add
that the terms of our letter were not de-
signed to prejudgo the question whether
the functions of tbe returning board were
judicial or ministerial or both but simply
to invite you to see with us that whatever
may be the character of these functions
they are openly fairly and honestly dis
charged ; and while we thus refrained from
any attempt at stating or construing tbe
laws of Louisiana we dee med it equally ir
relevant to the subject of our correspond-
ence with you to allude to the duties
devolving upon officers other than
tho constituents of the Louisiana re-
turning board under the laws and Consti-
tution of the United States. Whether as
you observe by way of illustration under
the Constitution the President of the Senate
both counts and declares the votes of the
electors of tho several States his duty be-
ing purely ministerial and not subject to
tbe control of Congress or whether as has
been the practice for more than eighty
years a practice inaugurated by men some
of whom had been among tbe framers of
the Constitution the votes are to be count-
ed under the direction and control of the
Senate and House of Representatives is s
question upon the discussion of which we
deem it no part of our duty to enter. In
conclusion permit us to say that notwith-
standing your refusal to co-operate we still
cherish the hope that the returning board
warned by the bistoy of the past aud con-
scious that its actions are being observed
by the whole nation will discharge its del
icate duties with such circumspection fair-
ness and impartiality us will give satisfac
tion to tbe American people. To this end
we shall continue to labor. Should a dif-
ferent remit follow the action of the board
we shall have the satisfaction of knowing
that while you have taken the responsibility
of declining to act with u we have done
all in our power to avert the consequences
which may follow. Very respectfully
John M. Palmer Lyman Trumbull Wm.
li. Morrison of Illinois; Simuel J. Ran
dall. A. J. Curtin Wm. Bigler of Penn-
sylvania; J. R. Doolittle George B. Smith
of Wisconsin; O. J. E. McDonald. George
VV. Julian. M D Mason John Love of
Indians; Henry Wattersm J. W. Steven-
ton Henry D. McIIenry of Kentucky;
Oswald Ottendotffer of New York ; J. B.
Stallo of Ohio; Lewis V. Bogy James O.
Broadhead C. D. Gibson of Missouri:
John Lee Carroll Widiam T. Hamilton of
Indiana; W. O. Sumner of Connecticut;
P. H. Watson of Ohio ; F. R. Condert of
New York.
New Orleans November 19. The to'al
vote of the State made up from duplicate
poll lists received from foity-seveti par-
ishes and ten parishes estimated by regis-
tration this year and the vote of 1S74 is
as follows: For Governor Nichols 81.203.
Packard 76.112; total 100314. Total
vote in 1874. for treasurer 147705: an in
crease thia year over the vote of 1874 of
13609; Nichols s mj nty over Packard
of the votes polled 8O0O; for ti e Tilden
electors five have a majority over the highest
vote for the Kepsiblictu e;tctors of U21S);
the other two liUlun electors l.ave a ma
jority of 7031. There ia a discrepancy in
the majority caused by an omission of the
names of five Hayes electors from tbe ltd'
publican tickets in several parishes.
St. Louis November 20. Wm. McKee.
arrested for whisky frauds was released
yesterday.
Tallahassee November 10. There is
reasonable grounds for believing that Gov
ernor Stearns oi this State will assume
that the returning board has no power to
canvass the electoral vote but that the
power resides in the Govtruor. Th s &
sumption will permit the Governor to de
cide all issues pertaining to the canvass and
to issue bis certificates to whichever set of
electors be decides are elected. This as
sumption is based upon tbo fuct that the
act creatiag the returning board does not
use the word electors in giving the list of
officers whose vote the board shall canvass.
The power to canvass this vote not being
specified to be conferred upon tbe board
he contends it rtmdes in him as he is re
quired by the United States law to issue
the electors' certificates and must
canvass it in order tbat he may
decide who is entitled to certificates. The
Democrats -are very much astonished that
this claim should be set up and contend
that the . woid 'Vectors' is not used in
the act referied to timply because electors
are included under tie head of "State ofS
cers" which expression is used in the act.
The Draocratic btatc committee waited
on the Governor and notified him that if
he contemplated uch a step they would ask
permuHion to fila a pio'-est. He stated that
they should have au opportunity to do so
and this morning notified them by letter
tbat he should be pleased if they would
forward iu writing whatever they had to
ay upon tbe tubject. This is considered
an intimation that he intends t move in
the matter without delay. Elaborate opin-
ions are being prepared on buth sides of
Uhe question.
There u some movement ordered in mili-
tary circles te-night. Precisely what it is
cannot be ascertained. It is supposed tbat
troops are going to some of the contested
counties.
New Orleans November 19. The fol-
lowing named gentle-men have left the city :
Oswald Ottendorfer. T. Ricondent New
York; C. W. Wooley Connecticut; Gen.
G. W. McDonald John Coleman Governor
John Lee Carrol W. T. Hamilton Mary-
land; ex-Governor Curtin Pennsylvania;
J. W. Chnprnan Charles Giboo. Missouri ;
W. U. Morrison Illinois; J. B. Jeffries and
R. Sullivan Chicago.
Tbe gentlemen bere at the request of the
President and also those sent by Republi-
can organizations from States other than
Louisiana have determined tbey say to
secure a full stenographic report of all pro-
ceedings aud evidence before tbe returning
board so that any important statement may
be given to the public and sent to tho Pres-
ident. They have also determined to
change the committee of five fro in time to
time so tbat all members may observe tbe
mode of proceeding and tbe appearance and
character of the business examined.
OrAMXSTON 8. C November 19. John
Hefiry Dsanis one of the negroes implica-
ted by tbe coroner's jury in tbe Hansmann
and Pontssnann murder was arrested yes-
terday on information given by one of tbe
person arrested. A posee of eleven went
at this morning eleve miles to arrest two
other negroes named William And Stephen
Anderson who were pretent At the murder.
William was Arrested ia town bat Stephen
was at bis bouse and refused to inrrender
and was only captured after being shot sev-
eral times although not seriously. Six ae-
groea are bow ia prison charged with com-
plicity i tbe murder.
Four mere Arrests wader tbe enforcement
act were sasdo yesterday." NeAily All the
prisoners were bailed bnt some at still in
prison. District Attorney Corbin baa io-
strocted Commissioaer Booaer to refuse bail
for several And to pott pone it for others.
Nxw Yoke. JXovember 80. Tbe Timt$'$
New Orirans dispatch sayir "It will be re-
membered that tbe returning board was
created by tbe aa Legislature that elected
Pichbck to tbe roited States Benste. II
was refnaed a seat on tbe ground that the
LegiaUtare was not properly and legally
organised.' Now be claims tbat if the re-
taming board is reoogoiaad as a lawful
body be should be seated."
Lokdox November 20. Circfnl official
contradictions are published this morning
of the reports of activity at Woolwich arse-
nal when tbe Pint on Saturday stated that
an order had been received for forty million
cartridges and forty thousand ammunition
boxes in which to pack cartridges for trans-
portation. The incessant demand for cart-
ridges is solely in consequence of the adop-
tion of the Martin-Henry nfle in the Indian
army.
New O blkaks November 80. At 19
o'clock there was quite a gathering at tbe
loom of tbe returning board. Messrs. C as-
sane Ad Wells members of the board
were there. Judge Trumbull Judge
Stallo Governor Palmer and ex-(Jovernor
McUenry of the Northern Democrats and
the Democratic committee which has
charge of the evidence to be presented on
tbe part of the Democracy' were present.
Also a number of Republicana were pres-
ent. There wsa a delsy in the meeting on
tbe part of the board on account of the
absence of M east a. Anderson and Keener.
The board met at 13:80. and authorized the
sergeant-at-arms to procure a room for tbe
meeting of the board. A resolution was
offered by Gen. Anderson inviting the
pretence of five gentlemen from each prty
out of the Northern Democrats and Re-
publicans in the city which was adopted.
Col. Zicharie filed a plea to the jurisdiction
of the board who thereafter went iuto ex-
ecutive seaslou.
London November 19. A Reuter dis
patch dated Constantinople Saturday says
thst tbe extraordinary grand council to-
day resolved to accept the coufereuce.
Providence K. I. November 19. Gen.
D. E. Sickles telegraphs from New York to
Gen. Lippitt and says it is reported there !
on the suthority of Mr. Wm. Ltwrence j
that one Of the Republican electors of
Rhode Island is ineligible aud that the law
f your State gives the office to the person
having tbe highest vote who is qualified.
Ltwrence claims to be elected bimself.
Governor Lippitt replied : "Our State lawa
provide for all contingencies in case of va-
cancies from any cause in the electoral col
lege. This State will give four votes for
ayes and Wheeler." The only occasion
for this correspondence is tbe fact that
Hon. George H. Corlesa elector elect is
centennial commissioner appointed by the
President on the nomination of the Gover
nor.
Londo November 20. Official returns
at Calcutta give the loss of life by the cy
clone to be 215000.
The Calcutta Pioneer says the Indian gov
ernment is preparing a strong contingent
for gypt 1p case of war.
A Aw Vienna correspondent says that
positively neither Germany nor Austria
would oppose Russia's entrance into Rou
manian
Tbe shipa of the Russian Black Sea Nav
igation Compaay are impressed.
Charleston November 20. The inquest
on the body of E. H. Walter killed during
a riot oa the eighth instant was continued
on Saturday and tbe testimony given by
responsible witnesses fastens the guilt oi
tbe shooting upon one of the four colored
policemen. It has been established beyond
doubt that several of the negro policemen
fired upon the whites with Winchemer rifles
and one of them is said to bave nred eignt
or ten shots. Further evidence will be
taken to-morrow.
New Orleans November 20. The Sen
ate Chamber and its surroundings betokened
the approaching session of the returning
boara. In the middle ot the apartment
were arranged three tables in a circle. One
was for the returning board and the otheis
for the Republican and Democratic com
mittees. I be corridors and rotunda were
closed by barricades and guarded by the
sergeaat-at-arms. A squad of police was
stationed in the rear in tbe vicinity of the
Senate Chamber in order to be on hand in
case of any disturbance Towards noon
the Republican and Democratic commutes
entered the room. Tbe representative III
publicans were Messrs. Tuttle GurBeid
Sherman nle and Stoughton and for the
Democrats appeared Messrs. Trumbull Big'
ler G. D. Smith G. W. Julian ond Wat-
son. The returning board had determined to
exclude during executive session all per
sons except members of the national com
mittees. Comnsel will only be called in
where contests are raised that is where a
contest has been filed or accompanies re
turns. The counsel will not be allowed to
examine tbe returns when they are opened
merely to witness the unsealing of the
packages. The Democratic committee on
returns will have a room iu the neighbor
hood of the Hall of Representatives in
order to be within easy reach of the Sen-
ate Chamber. Each of tbe national com
mittees are accompanied by phocographers
who will report all of the proceedings for
their respective committees. When the
board goes into executive session tbe mem
bers of tbe prers wilt be excluded. Tbe
sessions of the board will continue from
day to day from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. The
clerks of tbe board were posted in a room
back of the Senate Chamber. Tbe local
committees representing tbe Democrats
and Republicans were present previous to
the executive session of the board. At
12:30 all the members were present and
the minutes were read and adopted. lov
ernor Wells stated that a system of rules for
the government of tbe boar4 had been
adopted. Tbe rules were read. The board
will first take up parishes in which there
are no contests. After disposing of these
parishes those will be taken np in which
there ate objections. Motions etc. made
by attorneys must be made in writing; no
oral argument will be allowed. Any can-
didate or representative who presents a wit-
ness must slso present interrogatories. Ne
ex parte aflidav.ts will be received.
Judge Stafford offered a' rule as substi
tute for tbe rule on executive session to
the effect that sessions of the board should
be public and representatives of each party
and press reporters allowed to be present.
Judge Stafford spoke in behalf of bis mo
tion.
Governor Wells stated that the board
could not accept tbe amendment; tbat it
had been decided to admit only members of
the committees and their reporters.
The protest of tbe Democratic committee
oa returns was read and Col. Zicharie filed
an additional protest in behalf of members
of Congress.
Governor Wells statetl that the Dime of
Dr. Hugh Kennedy bad teen submitted to
bll one of the vacancies on the board ; tbat
he knew of only one vacancy. The appli
cation was laid over subject to call.
CoL Zacharie gave notice of a proteat
against tbe board proceeding until the va-
cancy is filled.
On motion oi Kenner the board resolved
t take np returns of i-arishetl o canvas i to
a compilation of which tuere had beca no
objection.
Cv4. Zacharie made application for tbe
admission of United S ates Supervisor
which was taken under advisement. Col.
Zacharie stated be bad District Attorney
Beckwitb's opinion of tbe subject.
Tbe returns of Ascendon Assumption
aud Avsyellcs were sent for and tbe board
went into executive eesnion. '
Raleigh n. C. November 20. The
Legislature of this State is more tban two-
thirds Democratic - It met to-day and or-
ganized. WaseraoTOK ' November 19. Several
companies of soldiers hare arrived here and
others are coming. -This is made tbe baais
of sensational paragraphs about messing the
army ia the District. There are assurances
that these troops are merely en route aod
that their mo-re meats bave bo Stategic or
political significance. It is likely however
as theDisLrict has local government
tbe Army will police the tea miles sqae:e
as'il After tbe fourth of Mirth.
Lcnrooz November 2L Intelligence re-
ceived bere exivnacei that Monkbtar Pe-
ek is coaccatratug twenty battalions of
Turkish .troops At Corinava Bear Darga-
toon. sns tbe Aostriaa frontier. It is as-
serted that be intends to go to Gravesa
where troopa will embark for Constantino-
ple. This would necessitate their march-
leg acrose Anstriaa territory. Several Turk-
Uh.trAnaperts it is stAted. have already ar
rived at Gravesa. Up to tbe present time
fire Tax tub battalions bare reached Cori-
' s-Axia Aovemoer zu The senate re-
jected tbe bill recently passed by tbe Cham-
ber of Drratiea tor the cesauioa cf tbe
. VI a
lproscnaoH cf CommoaUts
A special from Peatb to I Tempt aajs
Russia :s determined oa war.
Mr. Cross homo hcrvtary at a banquet
spoke hopefully of tbe aapect of Eastern
affairs and thought a conference would
meet before the end of the week.
Bkcsssls November 21. The govern
ment of Belgium has received a communi-
cation from the Belgian consul at Malta
announcing that the Malt authorities bad
informed tbe chamber of commerce tbat
torpedoes had been placed at the approaches
to tbe ports of Odessa KerUch Subastspol
and Eschaokoff.
St. Petersburg .November 21. Dis
patches from Semlin announce tbat tbe
Servian ministers have refused the do-
maod of ten. Tcheraayoff to be admitted
into tbe Cabinet declaring that 11 be en-
tered tbey would resign.
New Oblean November St. The re-
turning board will bear evidence and ar-
gument in tbe contested polls and parishes
aad lay them atide for final decision ia
secret session.
New Yorx November St. John Kelly
was married this morning to Miss Theresa
Mullen niece of Cardinal McCloskey. The
wedding was very quiet and the ceremony
was performed by tbe Cardinal.
London. November 21. Kenresentativcs
of the Porte already hare been instructed
to make known its resolution that tbe Sultan
neither could nor would ia auy circumstan
ces consent to the occupation of the Tur
kish territory even by most niendly
powers. Russia and turkey continue war
preparations.
Atlanta Ga. November 21. lion. A.
n. Stephens is here on his way to Wash-
ington. His health is much improved.
New Orleans November l. ins re
turning board at 11:15 threw its doors or en
to tbe press. About twenty peis ins only
were in tbe room including members of the
board representatives of the two commit-
tees stenographers clerks etc. Wells
Cassanave and Keener were already pres
ent and Anderson arrived a few minutes
after at about ll:3o when the board was
called to order.
Governor Wells was anxious to open tho
doors and admit the crowd outside. Th.s
was done and the Democratic committee
on elections was admitted behind the bar.
followed by fifteen persons who happened
to be in attendance not hoping for such a
concession.
Col Zacharie then filed the protest of
which be had given notice n Monday on
behalf of the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress. The board conferred some five or
ten minutes when Wells moved to go into
executive session. Tbis was at once done
and the ball cleared.
The committee of Northern Republicans
to attend the sessions of the board bas been
changed since Monday's meeting and now
consists of Beardsley of Illinois Eugene
Hall of Maine Van Allen of New lork
Stoughton of New York and Gotfleld of
Ohio
The board seta on all parish returns in
executive session. During tbis session the
only persons present are the committees of
gentlemen from the North. Tbe action
during this session is aa follows: The re
turns of a parish are taken up and placed
on the table where the chairmen of tbe two
committees are seated beside meabers;
these gentlemen are then invited to examine
them and seo whether they have been dis
turbed and tampered with. Tbe returns
are then opened and the consolidated vote
of the parish for each elector called off.
The returns are then banded to clerks who
verify the additions made by commission-
ers .of elections and if these prove correct
the members of tho board sign and approve
them.
A delegation consisting of fifteen colored
men from various precincts in Ouachita
parish called on the visiting Democrats st
tho St. Charles hotel to-day. They had all
been members of the Republican party and
several were recently presidents of Repub-
lican clubs. They gave the reasons why
they had changed and led their respective
followers to tbe polls to vote the Democratic
ticket.
Washington November 21. Counting
all arms tbe marine and military force here
ii about 1200. There is no excitement
about tbe matter. Tbe District government
is a very feeble affair and there bave al-
ready been signs of turbulence.
Wm. E. Chandler telegraphing from
Florida claims the State for Hayes but
says it is close.
A Herald special says regarding South
Carolina: "The result of the election may
be briefly summed up on the Democratic
side as follows: The election of Governor
and Lieutenant-Governor a gain of seveav
State Senators and thirty-one Representa-
tives which gives a majority and insuros
the return of a Democrat to the United
States Senate a gaio of two Congressmen
again of five solicitors oat of eight tbe
eloction of .the Comptroller-General and
probably of the Attorney-General and Su-
perintendent of Pnblic Eiucation."
Moktteliek Vt. November 21. An
elaborate argument is progressing before
county counting board on a motion that
tbey return R. M. Ballace to tbe Governor
as ineligible. No decision reached.
Tbe board of county clerks assembled
and John B. Hale county clerk for Ben-
nington county offered the following reso-
lution :
lletolttd Tbat thia board of canvassers
are of opinion that their powers are only
ministerial and that their duties are already
defined by tbe statutes of tbis State and
tbat they therefore decline to bear or re-
ceive evidence outside of the certificate of
votes by tbe proper authorities.
Adopted.
Counsel for contesting elector will apply
to tbe Supreme Court for an injunction.
St. Louis November 21. Gen. L. M.
Parsons bas been appointed temporary re-
ceiver of the property of the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Railroad Company in this city.
fANTA Fe November 21. Masked mea
robbed tbe mail coach ten miles north of
Los Angeloa of tbe express and mail mat-
ter.! Tbey cat tbe telegraph wire. No clue.
WxsHiHOTOit November 21. There was
a full cabinet meeting to day. No allusion
was made to the ordering ot troops to
Washington. It may be added on the au-
thority of two members of tbe cabinet tbat
this subject has never been discutsed or
acted upon by that body.
Consul Baiters at Nassau reports the
wreck of. tbe American schooner New Or-
leans with coal and gunpowder for Gal-
veston. It is reported that tbe engagement of
rooms at the Riggs House by the Maryland
and Virginia boundary commission has
given rise to a sensational report of a
meeting of prominent Southern men to
consider the political situation.
fSeaaaMIe natkcia
Oalvkstow. November 2L Cold 110.
Silver nominal.
Hides quiet; dry selected 18c; light
sailed 15&C stack salted Wcj weVault-
ed. 9JC. . .
Wool easier; fine 22fr23c; medium 21&24c;
coarse end heavy Uic; sales (1000 pounds;
receipts net 5185 pounds gross S133 pound;
exports coastwise (529 pounds; sales 1943
pounds; stock 99142 pounds.
Cot loo market steady ; good middling
ll?.c; middling llj.c; low middling Q ;
good ordinary 10(C
New Yons November 21. Stocks active
and unwilled. Money per cent. Exchan
long 482; short 484. Coveromoats dull
and steady btate bonds auiet and nominal.
GoldlOuff.
Cotton quiet; sales 4C9 bales; uplands 12c;
Orleans 12 8-16.
Vorclca Hark eta.
LrvESFOOL November 21. Noon Cotton
quiet : middling on la tula f.xtA OL-ana
friekl; aalee 10.000 bales. Including 1000
iu iuuuug ana export.
Loxsov November 81. Consols dall.93J.
PAttis November 21 Rentes 104L 15c ...
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