THE CENTRE REPORTER
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Thursday DKC.H. m. <
lodge meetings
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""" LOCAL ITEMS.
np friend* *> obH* by aonding u j
i ii" now* in thoir locality, give
Uern* of i%ni , wc Wl n nut Ihoin in
ihJjl X noiteo. _ofdth. *nd marri- j
**?*' sending wa the nam a of five
A "4b oHW ' the m.A. will bo
iorp.onou.o R*ro*r oneyear ,
fr S?' being r®ad by nearly
T"; So hU afde of the county. \\
f \ t hn a larger circulation thai, j
iSl.m f. r ,
Ar c^ Subscriber* to the lUtvKTKR re,M #
iiiiiiil* Af t\'#lw county, tbouM ' l, '
"luflVc. nl*. vcurly, for postage whHjJ
ill i.nv hero ; ibis reduces llio postar S
:xi\ b >-••
one year'* postage • y cU
\y, rogrolto learn that Major Cbag
II Shrinor. late > Mifflinbur*. but now
Frooport, IU . *" b * cn ick for w " v
lime
Loeb'a keep lb fl "" 1 "° a ! * IP 3
ityUs of drew good* in tho county, b
v, u can buy at city price*.
( ' ] j4 ,t Wednesday to Saturday, 0
wo bad terribly *lormy weather • wjjA
thermometer below rero.
night last we bad nearly an inch v . .
The weather for nearly throe week*
boon cold, and the ground U froaen ; .
doptb ef to* era 1 inehe*.
Newman will sell vo l a hat for 7
that will cost you SIOO at other stc
' Try Newman and be coax meed th
sella cheaper than anybody elae u.
f .<
count*- . , . , _ a
__Wcbad another inch of anow
Monday night, ground U covered V\
not enough to make ale.ghing.
juUn Mu*#W, of Aaronaburg , \
a 6ang.WyiUSrcJ tvt.ho.d fever. Y
I S
f severe attack el tbia dweaae, able to
about again.
The Centre Hall Cornet Baud w ill
hold • Fwt.val oaring the holiday! .com- j
mcncmgThuhday rrenhtg Dec. *> and
closing Saturday night following-open j
day and night OyGera, Ke cream, regu- | (
l.r mcab. *c. will be fbmwbed. -Music ,
by the baad. Adm- on free
' the •* United Brethern church, ,
nearNiUaa* Hall, on Millheim cureuit, J
Allegheny Coafereace, will be dedicate,
L.— flit Alaothe K<lvil!e, iu east
Millheim Uni
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cation, ass.stoJ by
cordial invitation is extended to the pun-
W lie. A. K Evans, Pastor.
Tbc case of David Keller, ofllarria
township against the railroad company for
land damages was tried at He'.lefonte, last
week occupying about two days
Beaver and Keller for Kellr-*
and G. F- Miller and Ed Blanch J*
ard for railroad company.
wjs aB appeal froru an award ol - t
1 damages allowed by viewers some tw b
y-'ars ago. The jury lies, week awarded
Mr. Keller s7so damages which will have
to be paid by citiaens ol Potter townshi?
% —in which the farm lies— and who guar- (
anted the right-of-way in their township
4 We understand that Mr. Miller will carry
the casa to the supreme court.
nvea.
chael Kormac, of the same ate *
I' pie,e SI inches in length. Both declar
tbev can do any should bappei
to get ahead. Lei us hear from your side
Will any sausage eater on this side s-1
himseit up against Nittany? Let some o
go a full yard by all means and keep
the goad name of '
H boys, go in— that is -into the i*u*age.~
k even if you have to do it straining th<
constitution— doctors are always ready
**U willing. bo 11 beat Nittany ?
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n
■ire
her on Tiid. n. On the night of the " v
tion he had won and w.v> j
kfc the W t. The nest ofr" b - h - d , 10 .
aadpsid off in return ; and thus e ,
I and win* on alternate nights, pu- 10
B one night like a man and B *" cU '* w ,
aing- the next night like a hero. e
claret thai it is the most g' ' rl ' v y
R that I,a* ever been held. hopes it
continue undecided lhrouy b tbc w ""' ' a
Kunbury Daily.
Now Wo will offer to bet right hen Xh
tliat is if that ar feller and that p
married tlie'll go right offtoSech
B their groceries, bcctiue that s b< .
B ters and they'll bath win ngaio. ♦
preeh oysters, and the large.. , ?r
V ftau't lot of cigar* in town at C. Di| lr
H' ■afactionery.
bp-FOR .Sali.-A ft™l
R U, kouM lot. at Aaronsburg. T,
B **• Apply t this offce. ?w
W —-FOR SAI.K-3O acres of ofd a
m Wd r.e ur Centre Hall, *m from railr
B fepßL easy. Apply at this office
B are any person* in this, °. T 1
BT* rj'binitj. wi*hing Plan
BL -i'"
5d
B SPfVDwhtl F- hjrr
W for any " fot TI J
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1- en April" >JT
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Imm. ''"fit gftht °ff- *
BjWthe new Cloth.ng
K-4 fine Chinchilla 7
wo rth $lB for $
■JfJoaU. worth sl6 fo'
■ Liter Overcoat* *t ■
Bfls-aper than je-
FHEP. KUHTZ, Ktlitor and Hropriotor.
VOLUME IX.
I The Story of Tweed.
William M. Tsnwvl wai boru at No.
T 24 Oln rry street, in the Fourth ward of
, New York city, April 3, 18-JJ. whaiw bin
i father and liui grandfather lived before
| him. the latter being a Scotchman Ilia
father waa a eliairtnaker at No, 3 Cherry
street William worked ill hia carlv
ilay* at ohairmaking, but was nulW
quently employe*! by Isaac Fryer, and
dler. at No. '277 lViarl street, aa errand
■ boy. Hi* father"* buainsMM
he waa sent to aehool at the lU>v. John
T. Halaey's aohooi, at EliaaU>th, N. J.
Here he w* an avaitluou* student lb>-
tnruiug to New York, he waa elerk t*> J.
A G. 0, Alexander, tobmvxx dealer*, at
No. 107 Front street at s.*<) a year. Hi* |
! father nieMwhde having become one of
the firm fD. Berrien A Oct, brush
maker*, at 557 Pearl street, he Iteeatue a
: clerk there, and after two years Uwaiue
I a junior partner. After being there
aev*<ral year* he went into the chair
bnsiueew with hi* brother, Kioliard
! Tweed, Jr., at No. 5 Cherry street. He
ha*! an extensive tra*!e, and the profits
were large; but he went to Wail street,
dealt in ErieJoat larg. lv, but partially
rt-ttieve*! hirtoaaes. Lie then turned
professional politician, and btvante king
of Tammany. In ISSI he was elected
alderman of the Seventh ward, in no
small degree owing to hi* connection
with the Amerion* engine company,
better known a* Big Six. Later on he
xtas elected Oongrrsamau for the Fifth
district. In Congress he sp ke for ad
mission into the Uniou of Kauaaa au*l
Nebraska. Iu 1356 he was elected school
1 omtnissioner of the Seventh ward. On
anoarv 1, 1858, he Un>k hi* seat as
the board Iving theu first
tablished, and later on he was elected
.bird time a member of it On Jan
ary 1, 1863, he became deputy street
* •ommissioner, under Mr. Charles J.
/Cornell. In 1867 he became State Sen
j stor. A* far back as 1844 he liecame a
memVxer of the Tammany society, and
in 1869 he became it* chief sachem. As
chairman of the Democratic general
j committee he made hi* power d eply
! felt; likewise as president of the Amen
ens club. Tweed married in 1844, and
j had eight children—four boys and four
a girls.
l On the tweuty-s-venth of Octolxer
t Tweed was arrested and gave I vail itume
r diateiy for $1,000,000. He was again ar
t reeled on charge of felony on the fif
teenth of Decembt>r and held incnstovly,
out ou the following oav.
was iadirted for forgery.
j l °', tvrenty-aeooud of November,
!>" *, he was cjmunttexi to the Tombs,
iclie ; a week later v.*as removed to Black
dl's island to nndeigo a *euteace to
twelve years' imprisonment.
On the t treaty-second of J;*ne, 1875,
i Mr. Tweed wa* taken to Undlow street
7 jail, New York, for the purpose of pro
1 dncing him lafer in the supreme court.
5 O caaionalJy the warden took htm out
t riding to Central Park iu a close car-
riage, and likewise to visit his family.
"4 On the fourth of December, while at his
; wife'e residence, he gave the wtir*leu and |
oue of the prison keepers the slip, and
f the next they hear*! of him waa Lis sr
' rival in Spain and his arrest on the
j seventeenth of last September.
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Tweed ou the Franklin.
As for Tweed's behavior during the
voyage, said an officer ou the Franklin,
i I may say that ho acted a perfect geu
k tleman. He impressed u* all very
, favorably. He seem-d to have the true
! grit in him. He was vt ry sociable iu
' deed. His sal >ou bo 1, bef* ro became
> on board, b<-en nved as a smoking-rx om
for the officers, and it wax quite i atarn!
' for thera to drop in after dinner to talk
t with Tweed or to play a gain" of whi-t
or euchre with him. And t. o old gv -
t tleman was always pleased t > see lh-
L officers. Ho treated them vtry politely.
I He on joy c. I most of all his littl games
- of card* with them, and be really played i
1 a very sharp and lively hand at almost
anything. Ibe officer* were directed
r> uever to speak to Tweed about hi* No-
York troubles, and they were very care
, ful to oltey instructions. Ou tho Othe
hand, Tweed liad very little U> say on j
*' tho subject. I don't know tliat I ever
, hexr.l him sjveak of the matter except it;
*th.i mat general way, such iv-i to say
.1 that h j wa* very willing t.i get ba-k t >|
America. He was v ry for dof reading,
! • and spent alio! his time, when not in
- company with the officers, in porii;g
1 over the newspaper* that w.- gave him
' nn.l such book* at he could jr. cure.
J Upon the political situation ho waa ex- |
" cee*ltng enUrtaiuiug. He *e* me v l to be
I thoroughly posted in N -w York politics,
pd gave n* occasional fnuuy st> iea
how election* had lveen carried in
v tie ciiw. Hi* rcmiuisoenoea of the
i onrtlflward were }>erhaps the most
i Tweei wa< bdd that h r.e< d
s not bo bacl;"**rd about asking for auy
. thing he might want. Whatever tl e
- ship contained w>* at his disposal. He
r asked for very little, however. Ho w s
j apparently quite cot ti uted with what Lo
r-ived. Ho had a servant whosti soln !
>u-in'fs was to attend to hi* wnnt*.
c Hi* meal* were servisl in Ins own room
in rrotn the officer*' rnes*. He nto wiih !
1 f good appetite and apparent reli-li. lie
: never drank wino or spirits of any kind
except wlun he was unwell. He would
4 *t then take moderately of rorno jdain
4 drink. He di! not smoko at all. si- !
- though tho officer* freqoctHlv burned
- ■ their cig rs in bis saloon. The ship's
s surgeon reported that Tweetl'.s constant j
i oor.tinrtnent in hi* r *im would probably j
* have an inltuious<ff-et ujaon his health, f
i and upon the surgeon's recommcnda
- tion the eipiuia urged Tweed to take an '
r airing on dock ov.-ry tiav. He triod it
t one, and after that declined to av.il
n himself of the libr rly kudrred him. He
said that he had caught cold by the air
r ing and feared to repeat it. We were 1
r di*;>o*ctl to think, however, that he de
eliuod to exercise he felt that
it was humiliating for him to walk the
deck in oompany with an officer as guard.
r
iKuiestic Life of the Presidents.
* Washington wa* married, bnt .had no
7 children. Adams wa* married and had
■j cue Bon. whom he lived to see Presi-
dent. Jefferson waa a widower; hi* j
n wife died twenty years leforo his elec- j
I tion. They had six children, all daugh
r < ters, of v hom only two survived in
j fancy. Madison was married, bnt bad
, |no children. His wife was the most
' elegant woman that ever adorned the
, Presidential mansion. She survived
? him. and was for many years the pride
of Washington society, having live J to
£ listen to Heurv Clay's farewell spycck in
f the Senate. Monroe was married, and
so was John Quiney Adam*. Jackson
wa* a widower, and ro was Van Baren
0 and Harrison. Tyler was a widower
1 when he entered office, but soon after
; ward married the heiress, Miss Gardi
. ner, of Cincinnati. n wa* the only
;j President that married during bis term
' of office. Polk was a married man, and
his wife survived him n number of
years. General Taylor was a widower.
* Pierce man, but Ilucban
* an Johnson,
( l ran t the
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THE CENTRE REPORTER
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TIIK NEXT MOULD'S FA 1 It.
Th* rrrp*ralla** for ihr Ki*llla *1 I*l*
nl I'art*.
The pre|>*ratiouM for the next great '
world'* fair, which opens at Pari* May
1, 1878, are going forward actively and
hariboniounly. 1 rout all pait* of Pari*
will K< vtaiblc the two immense towers
eighty metres in height, say 2t'*l fe<t,
fiankiug the lYtvadero. A tlight of
seventeen broad step* conduct* to tho
palace, lefi>re the portico of which a
wills terrace stretches from oue cxtrein
tty to the other. The principal entrance
is at the middle, and at each end are two
immense dome* in irou and gla**, sur
mouutexi by lantern* aud fiag.-taff*. The
garden* stretch on either side of the fa
cade between the palace ami the aven
ues, aufi contain a vast number of small
building*, kiosk*, uiodol farm*, cot tag ok,
cafes, greenhouses aud tlio like. Tho
center is left umax upied for the letter
convenience of spectator*.
Ou tho other aula of the Champ de
Mar* i* the railroad station, s light iron
buildiug in the Swiss style. A tunnel
before the bridge of Jena toward Cren
elle and a covered way ou tho other side
of the Seine between Pari* and Pussy
leave more room for carriages aud |>e
destrian*. The boat*, fishing intple
went*, and ail articles connected with
navigation ami life saving occupy the
two bank* of the S -tuo. To the bridge
of Jcua is to be added another wide
metal roadway, greatly increasing its
capacity.
The Trocadero, too, i* occupied with
various minor buildings disposed iu an
artificial park, while from its summit
tumble* a cascade of water 160 feet
wide, falling in several descents to a lake
occupying what was the square where
met the avenues of Jeua ami Delessert.
From this lake the different parks and
shrubberies will be watered. The pal
ace of the TrxVodero is from oue pavil
ion to the oilier four hundred meters, or
say 1,330 feet in length, the pavilions at
the extremities U>ing brought forward
slightly toward the Champ de Mar* aud
connected with the great central rotun
da, from the foot of which tl \vs the one
cade, by galleries forming s< piaeuts of a •
senti circle. The great hail of the ro
tunda, iu which an immense organ is to
be placed, will Ih< n*td for concerts und
the distribution of prizes. It ha* a large
parterre, txvo rows of b >xee, and above
all an amphitheater, util will seat 8,(M)
people. Bound the eel:cert-room cub
side, giving access to the Inxxes, are
double galleries closed from the weather
anil affording to promenad re a splendid
view of the city. On t :ther side are '
peristyles tqanii g on the Place de Tro- .
cadero on the side of the Bois de lk>u
iogue. Above thitn are the offices of
the managers aud committees; they also :
serve a* vestibules to the two groat
curved galleries that ruu from the cen
tral rotunda to the pavilions. These
galleries are in a succession of hail*; l*-
fore each is a light covered portico run
nil g the whole length.
To tha pala< of the Champ de Mar*,
as has already been raid (a ivantage
having be u In!.- nof the difference- in
grade to give tho building a command
ing apjH-arai.ce not pos eseed by that
of 1867), w-vctiteen steps omduct.
fwt nty eevt a de*rs open from the ter
race into a gallery one thou ram 1 feet
long, eighty wide and fifty high. Dome*
at the t xtremilies are furnished that are
much higher. The galleries for ma
chinery, n 11 r.d of bci: g circular as thi y
w-re in 1h67, are strnipht, anxl so give
Ihe fqwrt-t ra nnro impitsMve view
Each 1* 650 mi tre , or over 1,200 f-et in
length—that to the l-lt bung dovi>t<nl
toFnuch < xLibit*; tie other to those
of other countries. 1> th run toward
the military school, meeting iu a large
vest bale aud gallery combined. These
larg • machii • ry galleries and vestibnle*
iuc.'ose' an ob:o: g area il-votel U build
;:rgs for the display if textile fabrics,
•te ; olht rs rui i.iug pnral < 1 with the
an. ue* ile Latonrdoi naye anil de
SefTreu will contain fx> i product*. The
fine ait - departnii i t i* ::t the n. i Idle of
tho palace, i<>l ted by two avenues from
the industrial dcp.titnn uts, ar.d occnpy
inp eight pavilir ns, etch ciu-taiaing one i
l .rge an I four smaller halls. Tuiec
uvi ur.ea un-i tat the c uti riu a garden '
il>- ut a* large a* that of the Palais Loy
al. with khv-k* an I a basin tuid foun
tains.
'ihe state ha* advanced 35,0(0 francs
to make the necesory preparations for
thir. fctival.
A >Vrddlng Aeciilcut.
Tlio Cincinnati o>nimrrclal gives
further particulars of th" frightful acci
dent which ticfiTl a wedding j>arty that
hfl that city late at nt lit for a neighbor
ing town. The party con-isted of some
forty persons, and were liound for the
farm of M [. Bramlagc, at Blue liock.
Tho widdiugwa* to take place at the
farm the following morning, ai d the
traveling p:\ity exjwetid to roach th"
place about linyhght. The ru.nl ul >ug
which they w. r<- traveling nt tho time of
tho accident follows n crock which it
croav-s ar.d rccrosses at several jH'ints.
At tho *e<ne of tho accident another
stream j >iu* and is crossed l y a bridge
•twenty live f.ct above tho l*-d of the
etci k. The bridge is n ricketty tvisHleu
structure, w.thlceble plauk railings ou
cither side, and of a width barely suffi
cient to allow tho passage of one wagon.
The patty reached this bridge nlwmt two j
o'clock in the morntr-g. In the profound
darkness one wheel cf tli-fcromost vc
i hide i u Uleuly rolled off the roadway,
| bringing the whole w-ight of the over
burdened wagon agaia-t the shattered 1
tialustrnde. This gavo way and tho
wagon, wit'u itsliviug fn ight,Uninderod
down into tbc creek below, bringing ono
of tho hnrsealong. The other animal, ;
strange to say, remained on the bridge, j •
The larger jiortioii of the pariy were in- j s
jnreil, some of them bn.lly, bnt uo live* ;
were lost. None of iho party could j '
I give Riiy account of the position in wbieli '
the vehicle landed. 'J bey only remcm-
bend a sudden j( It in the dark, a gieat c
Clash of breaking wood, the shock of an "
unexpected and terrible fall, sudden I
pain and shrieks of agony in tho dark 1
ness. Fortnuati ly, assistance soon carae '
and the sufferers were tenderly cared for. '
It i a curious circuinHliuicc tLnt the aui- ,
nial which fell the whole distance of '
twenty-five feet received no other injury *
than a slight skinning of OM foreleg. '
Administering the Oath. i
Chief Jnstico Marshall of the United j
States administered tho oath of offloe to
Presidents of tho United Htates nine
times, from Nov. 4, 1801, to March 5,
1833; Chief Justice Taney seven times, '
from March 4, 1837, to March 4. 1861, 1
and Chief Justice Chase three times, J
from Mnreh 4, 1861, t March 4, 1873. I
The oath was administered to George '
Washington, the first President of the '
United States, by tho chancellor of tho H
State of New York in Now York city, j
April 80th, 1789, tho chancellor ex- ,
claiming, as tho oath was taken: " Long
live George Washington, President of
tho United States 1"
Well Phoviued For. — lt is calcu- *
luted that five hundred and seventy-six \
million francs passed through the hands 1
of Louis Napoleon during tho eighteen '
years of his reign. Of this remains a *
fortune of 11,844,809 iu Franco, and
abon 26,600,000 in England, the United
States, Spain, Switzerland, Italy,
Algiers and Corsica. The ex-empress f
ami her son have therefore still neurly u
$8,000,000 with which to console them- t
selves. 1
CENTRE HALE, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 187<>.
HIE DUTY OF THE IIOL It.
M.w.lfclui l.r all la Itrail.
The great iu*** of intelligent |H utile
in this part of the couutry at lea*t, whe
ther they are Itepublicau* ur Deuio
i-rut*, **y* George Win. Curtis, do not
believe that violence i* a remialy for
wrongs |H'rpetrated under the form of
law. 'Llwy ixdieve that it i* lietter for
every reason that an election, eveu that
of Pre*ideiit, although doubtful and
questionable, if coiiHumuiatt'd under un
questionable sanction* of law, shall lie
resjiectetl until under tiuqm-tiouable
Haucliou* of law it can be reversed.
Thst condition of society iu which jwr
son* fly to arm* to annul a law which
they do not like, or to oppose the cxceu
tion of a law which they believe to la*
unjustly or corruptly administered, i*
anarchy. It is that situation which in
vite* aud eom|H<lß the interference of a
• ingle strong and supreme will, and end*
in absolute military de*jHiti*m. These
are the moat elementary axioms all
intelligent men in thi* country, of what
ever party. The duty of the press ol
every party at this time is to nqieat and
ampiiaaize them. And the duty of the
intelligent leaders of every party who
hold these simple aud American prin
ciple* is to imprest them iqiou
followers, aud especially upou Congress.
The papers are full of speculation
upou what may happen in certain con
tingencies. But the real patriotic char
acter and will of the couutry iu both
parties are re" >lved that scrio. s trouble
shall uot hapiien iu any p-scxiblo con
tingency arising from tln> disputed elec
tiou. That reeolutiou must mak itm-lf
effectively felt. Aud it emi do so >y in
sistiug that C)ougri-->.i shall by i- .lunu
understanding provide in sesaou u ainst
any trouble at the tie of
counting uud declaring the electoral
vote. There are plainly two way* iu
which thi* can be done. One is to agree
to act harmoniously under the present
provision of the Constitution which re
quires the president of tho Senate to
ojieu all the certificate* from the States
iu presenile of the Senate and the 1 : use.
after which the votes are to ln> c anted,
and the jiersou having the vo'"* of a
majority of the electors apjaiintcd is to
Is* President. This view regards the
counting as merely ministerial. At
pn *ent thi* is the only provision. If
no other l*> made, this will govern. The
other way is to agree tha! if any ques
tion lie raised by a meui!* r of either
House, tlio objection shall be disposed
of in a manner that shall be accepted by
both siils* us final.
There are undoubtedly objections to
bo urged sgnrnst both courses, an
against any plau wluitevi-r. But we are
now iu a situation where it
would be wise to adopt somo plan. Uti
der existing ci reams toncee, it
srid that the Srht plau wonlil
elect Mr. Hayes, and the second might
favor Mr. Til len, aud that consequently
the Republican Senate would prefer the
first, and the Democratic House some
other. But the quest I>n in it* • ino
is neither Republican nor Dem< cratic.
In dividing it Cougrcas would act in
the spirit of a national convention, * ek
ing only the common welfare, and not a
party advantage. If it 1-e answ- red that
Congress is an assembly of hot pnrti
*an*. aud cannot bo exixecb d to act
patriotically, wo r- ply that the resolu
tion i f the country in this eruerg. ncy is
not partisan, but patrkhe, aud it must
comjicl C< ngri is to act in it* own
spirit. The plan which is most coinci
dent with the simple provisions of the
Const it utiou is nndoul tedly preferable.
It is most iu harmony with the Stv'c
I*l is of the electoral systi-m, which vests
the choice of President 1:1 the mrjority
of the State chv-t 'r*, and not in the ma
jority of the popular vote. The Consti
tution, aocoidicg to the bos: comments
tors, moke* the function of opening the
certificate and counting the vi te* purely
ministerial.
This has !>cen naturally tf-.e I)t mo
crntic view, and tber< can t>e no doubt
that it was the intention of the f.-iimers
of the Constitution. The States were to
elect the President and send to C ngres*
a certificate of their choice. If there
were question* of the valulitv of the
election, they were to Ire s tiled in the
Stat--*, on I Congress ha* bv law autho
rized the g iverncrs of the St*t<-s to cer
tily the choioe of el ct rs. The inten
tion evidently is that tho counting in
C- npre** shall le merely mini terial,
a-el such a view i most harmoniim*
with th> wholo *|iirit of the electoral
svstera. Mr. Whyte, Beuator from
Maryland, a D"m< crut of the straitcst
fleet, held in the Senate that Hie two
Honsc* of C-ingress were present nt the
counting only as *|>octutors ; and iu re
ply to a question of Mr. Morton he said
that if two returns appeared, i-ach pur
porting kr bo th luw'til leturn from a
Stat , the Vice President was clothed
by the Ooii' titntiou with jxiwcr to decide
Ix'tweou them.
But sensible men will lie prepared for
every contingency which may arise.
There is no doubt that there might Im a
question railed a* to the reception of a
State vote. This, ludocd, was oonsid
i red a ea © no probable that Co igres* in
1865, by n joint rule, provided for
throwing out the vote of a Htnto. Hindi
a cuso i* hardly over more likely to ariae
than when the choice of a President de
pends upon a single aj.d when the
returns from any Htate which would be
decisive are asserted to be suspicious.
That must Ire considered to be tho pri-s
ent case, and it is therefore ono for which
provision should be made, and mailo bu
time*. We are not of those who hold
that Congress will not respond to the
desire of the country that a judicious
and peaceful wilnlion of the present
situation shall be provided. The re lly
vital point now is, uot that we shail
have a Republican President nor a
Democratic President, but that we shall
have a President under recogniz d forms
of law. No .sane man wishes ctvil strife,
and every educated man know* tliat re
public* have nlways lieen destroyed by
the fnry of jrarty spirit. We have mere
ly reached in this country a situation
which lias ln-en foreseen, but for which"
wo have failed to provide. Sensible
men on both sides are conscions of tho
flaw in their party titles.
Suppose the decision to rest on
Loiiisiaua or Florida. No honest and
well inform'd Republican would deny
that act* of the Itepublicau returning
l*>ard in Louisiana have been suspi
cious; uo honest Democrnt would deny
that there has been Democratic bulldoz
ing in certain parishes. Again, if
Democrats have terrorized the colored
voter in the Southern States, there lio*
been Republican trickery to outwit it.
Tne cry of fraud and the misrepresenta
tion arc nuiversal upon all sides. Under
such circumstances, tho simple, plain,
patriotic duty of every good cttizeu and
honornhlo journal is, not to shont
"fraud," and "plot," and "usurpa
tion," and " bulldozing," and "rascal,"
and "scoundrel,"and "resistance,"and
"two Presidents," bnt to in tint that
Congress shall take care that all pre
tense for trouble bo removed. If noth
ing be done, we have tho Constitution
for our guide; aud every intelligent
man knows that the way out of the snarl
is to hold fast to tire forms of law.
"Every heart knows its own misery,"
she said, as she looked into tljo nest
und saw that those Cochin China eggs
tliat had cost her $3 per dozen had
hatched out Muscovy ducks.
*
SUMYIAKY OF NEWS.
liKtMllli !!#■• fr*iu ll* • **4 IHMI
On llio iiigin before tlm meeting of llie lag
. Uleture of South I'aioliiia two ootuisuite* of
t'mloil Slele* Irxs'ji* U-oV |<o*b*b|iiii of the
Suto House At t'oluoihiA The hoaii] of can
[ vAA*ns of llie St Alt', Arreattxl by order of the
•upreuie com I. hut |iieviuualy boon rnloAeetl.
' Early Ui the uionm g uirtubera of the l,gilA
turn r*re refusmt, by the troti|si, Ailailartou lo
' tile Stale llotlae unlet-* tin V bol-1 |iaw>u4 nlgiietl
' by clelk of tli* oltt llouar. IVlu Joliee, or (itu
lleiiut*, of the Slate military. The Democratic
mouilrni Uiet In oaiunw at ten o'clock, ai.it at
eleven (iiooecilrii lu a body to the Stale ItuUie
to iteiuaiiil aduuiMUuu. llio orders tied born
t chaiigetl, and tliey were admitted after Ihe
uttici-r of ttik guard hadeiamiued their ore<tcu
tials. All memt'ers bearing arm- gave them lo
I friends and [>aßMd the sentinel* Tho D tuo- '
crats act# headed by the tin niters from Ldge
i Oold and I.aureus, whuee elcx-Uou U in die
-1 pute, and when lliej reached the door of Ihe
' LeglStallve hail they were refused admittance,
' the d-vrkeejer declaring their credentials null
and void. The Republican portion of the
' House meanwhile had organised. 'The Detuo
ciaiic turuilisrs imir ediatoly withdrew, aud a
(woieet was read lo the military m the presence
of a large coiicou se of t-tuaens. The pretsst
declare* "We a majority of who members of
"" the Iloure of lie{ roreulativea elect, protest
I against Ibe refusal to a mil US to the Hall of
ltepreeeuiativrs. We protest against the mili
tary power of the I'm led Stale* l-arrmg Ihe
passage into the --tale House of mrmt-ers
I iltci of liie Legislature. We protost against
tlio legality of the ptox-ediuga, and eapeciaily
against the army of the I'nlteJ Stales be
ing placed for the purpt—e of this ex
clusion under the cummand i f John li Dennis,
a partisan of Ojv. Chamberlain.' The protest
concluded as follow* "In protesting agatnat
, the barofaced uauijauon, this trampling on
the laws aud the Coustttuliou of the Ktate,
this dchauce of the highoat tribunal of the
htate, it Is our purpose lo i Sr no resistance
to this armed Intervention, t-ul to make oar
, solemn appeal to lae Am cau j-eoplc, without
l distinction of parry. Our veneration of law.
our respoct for the supreme omrt and tlie
usages of ail legislature assemblage* forbtd
k our participaUou lo *ach oupreccdonlod and
' reroluUonarir proceedings." Geo. Hampton
* was called tlpou, and ouuselcd peace. He
said that one act of violeuoe mlghl prnctptlate
bloodshed an t revoluUcn. He begg-d his
' friends to di*|*-rse to leave the streets, and
keep jierfocUr 'iniot. The Democratic mea-
I bars als-i waited upon Gen. liuger, and |>ro
teeted against the intervention of the troO].
The l>em -crats 'irgamrnd in a ball, arid were
, sworn iu by Judge Cook. There were stitjr
i four Drm- crats aud two Ite; übllcana who vot
. od with tlieiu, la tho body l'lie full House la
oomj-ore t,f 1H members, but the election of
those in Laurriis and ! Jgt :ie!d is c->ti(ested by llejiiUicaua
llejiiUicaua
* Tho two U> in sof tl.e South CaroUna Ix-g
--islature re nl.uuod their seselcns in the sama
hall, w.tli a -peakcr and a different eel of ofli
cer# ptefi L g over each l<*ly. Generally,
while c p body wa* tranaaittDg busitieas the
oltier litti t ret, hat at t me* member* of both
tod e* wcttid I ave the fioor. Aft r a continu
ous •> -ijo of t aenty-four hours a compron.is*
was prctx(<! but not accepted by both
House* a- d tlirrrfor* failed. It waa ctjiected
that on ihr day cf the c ant of the gubernato
rial vote tie... linger, with the I'mtvl Slate*
trooj #, wiuhl xdtide the members from the
two dtsputrx] districts, but this wa* uot done,
tlolh hoibes Msuiel il to bold the r
pcst'.ion at ail haran!'' and not vacate nnlessi
re<m; ellcd to do so by force. The Democrat!?
boiy at tills lime claimed that if tbey were not
interfered with from Washington they would
win. arid declared that if they were inter
fi -ret w .th and ("ham herb in waa declared elect
ed, they would art up a dual government, with
Hampton as goTeruor, their own hlale on
cers and legislature, and then the cit.aens
i w.-uld decide witch government tbty weald
■ obey.
Gan linger, iu charge of the t ailed Htate*
t-oo; in t'harleaton. to Gen.
Hhermau that he has carefully at -talced from
1 interference with trie organ.xttioo of iheHoutli
Carolina l-rgu-'ataro fr:m the (lrsi. He placrd
troope in the Htate House upon the applicaU'-n
of G >r. C.iariihsrlai.i, and becvuee he t-eliev*d
this was ticccetary tip -ervo order. He
•y> "A uat the door of the II- nee.
act who claimed au'.h r.ty to examine the cer
tificate* of those claiming to be members prior
to their avtmiasiou to tbo hail- but who, I
think, had n > legal a'tlhori y for so doing *p
pliel to tha officer iu command of the troop*
placi d in the com t -r for the preservatuvu of
tho peaoo, for a>i'stauee, on the ground that
he wa being | r<-ssed upon aud or aid uot per
form h s duty. Ti e soldiers were place ta*
staled. AM so n as I **• fully informed of the
crrrnnislatjoe* 1 ordered the •oldior* with
drawn, as 1 had previously informed Gov.
* Charal-oriaiu tliat I should eoi-.flue my action
to the pr reri ation of llio jcaoe t and aliould
do nothing w.tli refe-etu-e to keeping the
d rs of tho rooms of meeting of Iho Houses.
. or the ro ms themselves, nuire* it became
iieoe*ary because of a breach of the peace
which the civil elfin-raof the liouara should
be miali!* to restore. No art was done by the
pol4i- ra except that of their prreetice, as stat
ed ; but, wliilct they wire an present, persona
claiming tho right of entrance under certifi
cate of the e'erk of the supreme court were ,
refused admhuiiou."
After a continued session of the two Legis
latures in Month Carolina for flvo days, it was
announced Ilia*, tho State constabulary, atts-
Uiuod by the l'uite-1 State* troope, would eject
the delegations from Edgefield and Lauren*.
Ai noon as thi* wan fully an none red, the
Democratic House left in a body and went to
the hall they had proTi u-ly cocupiwd. They
i had been in Joint occupation wiih tho Rrpub
lican House for five day*. Hamilton. Reddish,
Meyers an 1 W'eatbmy, four of the Mackcy
House, wert with the Democrats Thi* iu
| mired the atrscg h of the Democrat*, with
1 certificate*, to sixty numbers. The Demo
crats have, iti addition lo these sixty, the eight
member* from Edgefield and Laurens, who
bold the certificates of the supreme court,
making sixty-eight in ail.
Ity the burning of a baggage car on tbe Ral
fj timorn and Ohio railway, the trtrnk of tho
' traveling salesman 'or the New York jewelry
honso of Carter, Hawkins A Hloau was con
sumed. It contained sample Jewelry to the
amount of t2r>,ono. It is proposed to assay
tlie ashes of the car with a view of saving ihe
gold The Minnesota supremo court ren
dered a decision sustaining the constitution
. ahty of the inebriate asylum law, by which
a tax of 410 pier annum is lovied npxm each
saloon koeper and dealer in liquor* for tho
maintenance of an asvlnm for inebriate*, now
i in course of erection at Rochester A Mar:
Diego press dispsich says that a loiter has
boon received from Bau Rafael, tho capital of
l/ower California, confirming the repiort that
Gov. Villagerano's government had been over
turned, but says that tho fact is that Villa
gerane himself is a revolutionist in favor of
Diaz. He has beon si rested and sent to
Gtiaymad on charge* of rebellion, abuse of the
election laws, fraudulent practices, etc. There
is a universal feeling in favor of the new gov
ernment Gold is daily drawn fiorn tbo
Kuro*-ean banks to tie forwarded to this coun
try Tlio official canvass of Now Jersey
gives Tildcn 115,956 ; Hayes, 103,5i11, and
Cooper, 713 ; Tildeu's majority being 12,443.
California's canvass, excepting one
county, give Haves 78,008 and Tiidr n 75,841.
; ....Indiana's official figures show Tildon re
i coived 213,536 votes; Hayes, 307,011, and
, t"coper, 9,533 Senator Ransom has been
reelected by tbe North Oarolrua Legislature.
One of Gen. Orook'e officers ha* cap |
lured au tudian village of oue hundred lodges
. North Carolina's i llunal vote gives Tllden
122.580 arid Hayes 100,402, Tildeu's majority
being 16 178 The Florida cauvaaslug board {
gives the Itepublicau majorities iu Ihe Htate
sa 7,4t°0, and the majorities lu Democratic |
joo uti lie* aa 7,418. This would leave a Repub
lloan ill-July of forty-two. The Republicans
j.roleated against tlie returns of sixteen ouun
tie* being reotlved, slid the Demuetst* against
those of nine counties, and all of these will be
contested The returns from oue staaJl
I oounty were uot iu aud uot canvassed.
The slalue symholiaiug religious liberty,
1 erected by the Hebrew order of U nt! R'rilh lu
1 the Coulertuial grounds at I'hitedcljihia, was
uuvelled in the presence of s large crowd
There Use been a great fire in the city of Yedo,
Jajau. It was oue ut the must destructive
- which has ukeu pdaco iu many years. The
foreign eet'.louieut was partially destroyed ... j
Au tuoeudiajv fire at Enfield, Mass , destroyed 1
ten stores aud a teuemeut block. Loss, flB,- ■
560 ; Insurance, #i,500 ... Massachusetts' vole ,
for governor uumbered 356.904 this year agalusl
173,185 last year. Ihe vole was divided !
Rice, ltep., 137.665 ; Adams, Dem, 106,850 . j
Raker, Labor Reform, I'robibiUoa arid Wo
man Huffrage, 12 274, ecattcilug, 115
Thanksgiving was generally olwrved through- ,
out the country. 'lhe various asylum* aud
ourrecUoiial institutions of New York city
feasted tbtir inmates in a bountiful manner.
Few York a giaiu htltlnt-ea ia shown tu U '
dechuiiig m compelisou with that of other
AllariUc jhu llaytl is lu a fevered state,
as a new revoluttou is looked for at any t.rue
.... The fearful hurricane which Visited the
little island of Gr*nd Oajiuauas iu the Vlest
Indue, last month has uot left a fruit tree
stan-hi g. The sea was so high aud so furious
that it actually washed over the island, which
is low and at Its broadest {-art only two niiUs
broad The govcrutncul of Jamaica has sent
a vessel of war with p-rovit.oua for the sudor
lug inhabitants Unsuccessful allemjit*
were made to burn the Congregational aud
LTutartau churches iu Ist corn a, X. 11.... New
Jcrspy r.< cted four Democratic aud three Re
public*!! t'ougreaameu DUimus' ofiiciai
figures Hires. 277.336; Tlldeti, 358.6trx, and
Ooopwr, 17 lU9L
Th* schooner Equal, of ltockland, Ma. j
from New York to Wiuterp- it. was rau down
and sunk off Cap* Cod. The captain waa lost
and the rest of the crew wire saved .. While
Robert Lee, of New York was silt-ng at the
auj per tal-lc with hi* wife and nine-year-old
daughter, be took a new revolver from hi* ,
pocket to show Ihttn. when it waa discharged
iu some manner, the ball cnleriug the train of
giri aud causing instant death.
Acre r tmg to the treasury statement the public
debt at tbe tins# of November amounted Lo
•2.221,685.785 i, lose *132,349.6-6 47 caah Ui
the treasury au increase during tbe mouth of
#457,662 C 4. The amount cf coin in the treas
ury I# #79,811 471 24, Ui* amount of cur
rency. #11,741,215.33, aud the apec-al deposit*
for the rettenipuou of crwtiflcvtea of dcq>osit,
#40,72*1 tW Rhode Dlaids l^gialature
elected a I'rtaidenUaJ elector in the p lace of
Mr. GorHu, who la a Tutted Htate* Ceutenutai
cvtnm.s-ioner li oatidlartes started scvetai
fires In New Orleans and an immense cotifia
grat.o-.i resulted there from -tho fire dejwil
mti.l being c-omparalieely helplees for lack of
water. Oi.e hundred aud twelve houses were
deetroyed with then content*, Uiciudtng twenty
on Ogtitalll street, twenty-four on Roberteoti
slieet. thirty-two ou Yillere street, three on
Mans street ar.J ten at.4 St Ann'* church ou
Esplanade st reel. A f*w of the structures
were pais' a", revidences, but the majority
were occupied by poor families who loat tfceu
all and wi.i suite: intensely during the w titer
During the progress of the oot.fiagration a
Col qed man. In tlie act of firing a building,
wa* fire] at unsuccessfully, and made hi* es
cape Twenty firemen sere more ur less iu- 1
j vred by accidents during the excitement.... A
dozen building* ou th* Exhibition grounds at
I'l iladsq- ..abelougtug Ur the ' card of snance,
which agcregated #2.500. M) ~ their construc
tion. rev".re I at auction sale otily #296 160
The M n he 'd i ft, l-eli g the only oco of the
principal (-noctures put up for sale, realized
#2CO itX', and was lion, ht f r the I'erxnanent
Exhibition Co. The or.'gital cost was tl.f/iO,- t
00.1 A colore! man named Cruteher wa#
liangr.i by a ru ib in t! o wood# tear Nutbola
nils, Ky , for att< mptrng an putrage np>on the
wife of J G. Oojar, white
lu a game of fuoloa'l bvtween tlie Harvard
and Yale freshmen the former were success
ful D o thcui-aud houses have 1-eeu awep-t
from A Inanople by an iuundalton A ter
rific gsle prevailed throughout Great Rritain
and inoeh damage waa don* by fl od-. Ku- i
msroua a'.lppirg <i.aAer* are also rocorded.
An illicit distillery in New Tork war
*e..' 1 l-y official#, who left two of their num- j
ber in charge over night. During the evening
tho watchmen were overpowered by a crowd of
men. who then loaded forty-one bam Is of
spirits on a truck and drove off Official
returns from Nevada give Hayes a majority of 1
1,089 Sxtieu Icelanders and fourteen
Indians have died at White Mud river, in
ltriuslr America, of the smallpox. Retwocn !
thcro and (itmil, a distance of thirty miles, |
the disease is in every boose. The govern
ment storehouse has been converted into •
hospital, to which all patients ut removed,
their dwell ng* being burned The steam or
Mary, of the Morgan line, for a Texas port,
was lost with the entire oargo the Joint value
being #125,000; no insurance No lives were '
105t... .Knonf A Co.'# planing mill at Milton. 1
I'*., was destroyed by fire, which is supposed
to have had au incendiary origin. The ioe* is '
rsttmsted at from #15,000 to #13,000; insur
ance, #IO,OOO Ire ne A. V. House, who shot ]
and killed her hue! and at Lawrence station,
S. J., several months ago, has been gradually
lapwing Into insanity for some time and has i
been confined in the Trenton lunatie asylum.
Hcarlet fever ia raging to an alarmiug ex
tent throughout the Western Htatea. • j .
Tlie record of drowning, while skating, ia 1
liev'elthis year by J off f (won Vemll and La- j
tber Thnrton, of Raymond, Me A revolu
tion has bre ken out in tho Argentine republic,
headed by Col. Alsina. minister of war A
large bronao bust of Horaco Greeley, erected
by contribution* from admirer#, was unveiled
lin Greenwood cemetery The report* from
the famine stricken districts of India are
about the same—no raiu; no crops. In Pom bay
tlie prospiecta ai e lighter, bnt the cholera ha*
set in.... Hating Roll and his allies have
moved tiward the liower Powder and Little
Missotir, i ivera and Crook's command will
follow them up The secretary of Ihe
treasury submitted to tlio House of Represen
tative the tabulates of appropriation* re
quited for the public aervice for the fiscal year
ending with June, 1878 These are : For Oon
gro ", #3,988 250; exeontive prop-er, #78,40(7;
Department of Htate, #1,449,657; Treasury
department, #161,248,389 ; War department,
#54,251,355 Navy department, #22 501,968;
Interior department, #38,806,72# : I'oet-office i
department, #6.6£6,f>47; Department of Jus
tice, M,422,990; Department of Agriculture, !
*227 290. Total, #299,6.11,668. These eeti- i
us i ire **15,000,090 loss than thoao for '
1877, and Oongresa appropriated #47,500,000 j
lass than Ihe total estimates for that year
Tbe bfficial vote of Oregon, a declared by the 1
canvas era give a Republican majority of 1,165. 1
A protest was filed, signed by,Beuator Kelly ,
and eight other Democrats, against the <
Nsiiaiioe of a certificate as Presidential elector '
to Watte, and in favor of giving it to the elec
tor who has the next highost vote on file.
The retnruiug hoard of Louisiana has re- >. j
turned a* elected a'l of tho Hayea electors,
giving the lowest Mayes elector over tbe i
highest Tilden elector more than three thon- (
sand majority. The following are the figures: l
TKIiMHs a Year, in Advance.
; Lowest lisyae elector, 71,0.'3 , highest Tthloti
•ilbotur. 70,604 i highest Hayea eld-tor, 76,136.
i They declare the enure Republican HUle
ticket eltM-iod by 8 600 Mid a Repubhoeti tua
| juruy lu the I legislature. The creury of
Htate personally served utiUoa on the electors
, that they wore elected lire (Kate Senate
aitd ItepuhUoan llouee of Mouth Carolina, in
: J iiut eeeeluli after the paeaage of a ooucnrreut
laeolouoii, met and eonvaased the vote for
governor and lieutenant governor. The oouu-
U*> of Edgefield and Leurwc* eere thrown
out, hnu the Deuiosreuo Ha net or* retired
from the hall. Wlrcn tire return* were oan-
VMWK], Lieut GOT. (Leave* and Hpeaker
Mackey declared Chamherlalii elected by 1,011
votee majority. They then adjoorueJ. 11 amy
tub addressed several thouaand persona, coun
seling the utmoel quiet, and laying that lira !
whole campaign waa one of peaoe, and the
people tuuat iruat him fur a few deya 1 jugtr,
and theu victory would he assured. lie aaid
i he waa legally elected by 76,000 white and
17,000 colored voter*, and he intended to ha
governor lu Caroluuall all the pool-rooms
have declarod the election beta on Trealdetrt
0ff ..... The President a meaaage dl appointed
everybody. It waa expected that the meaaage
would be devoted a'.muet entirely to the Praat-
Jential complication, bat it is not The
Brooklyn Theater waa burned during the per
formance of a play. The audience and acton
had difficulty ut sweeping with their Uvea.
The disaster at the Brooklyn Theater waa |
one of tire moat torn hie thai has taken place
for a long tune. The end of the evening per
formance waa drawing near, when ruddeuly an
alarm of ftre was given. The audrenee aroee
at ouce and made a ruth for the doom. The
elroug trampled dowu the weak and over one
hundred lives were lital. It waa not beuevwd
up to the time the Sre had bunted out that more
I ran one or two lives had been loat, but aa
aoou aa the tlremeu could enter the building
the remain* of the unfortunates were foxud
lying ail through the bmiiirtg—many of Uraae '
women and chtidreu. The remains of the ac
fortuuitea were ao badly bumed that it wi a
almort impoaaible to identify them.
UNITED MATES CONGRESS.
Hauls.
oi the opMting of the acsaiou the certificate*
of elodii u of Jerome B. Chaffee and Henry
II Teller, United Hla lea Senator* from the
hiale of Colorado, wore prceenled. In drawing
for term*, Mr. Cbaffoe drew for tho' king and
Mr. Toller for the ehors lerm.
Mr. Dane (Dean ), of Wewt Tirgima. pr
1 earned lira credeuUala of Samuel Trior, ap
pointed I'm ted States Kena&ur from West Vir
ginia, to hll the vacancy caused by the death ,
of Hon. A. T. Oaptrton
The n-w Senator*. together with Mr."Blaine, j
of Maine, whose appoiuUnwiU were tail be
fore the Senate laat t u tamer, advanced to the
desk of lire presiding officer and were aworn in
byr him. Mr. Price taking th: modified oath.
Mr. Edmunds (lisp, i of Vermont, submit
ted a reaolauon. which waa read, ordered to
be printed and ha on the table. It providee
that the crmauilM on privilege# and election* j
alien appointed be and it la hereby instructed
to inquire and report a a soon as may be - fir t.
whether in any of the elccuco* named in the
aec'rnd section of the Fourteenth acK-.dmcut
in the rut** of .-vmtli Caroitua. Georgia.
Florida. Ale I •am* Louisiana and Miearaaippi
i in tl.o years IMS or 1*76, the right of any
portion of such luhat riant* and c.uxena to
\ ote baa been lu any w iee denied or abridged
■•ootid, to what vitrei rcch denial or abridge
ment has been camel ; by what means such
dental or abridgement ha* bee i acoumpliabed
an I by whom.
l ire loeol-.itn u also pro*idea for inquiry aa
to Ure eligibility of any |iwc elected on the
•evenlh of November laat.
Mr. legal!* (Rep.), cf Kansas. introduced a
pirut reedutiou. which waa ordered lo bo
prtt ted and be on tba table, recommending e
convention to revise and amend tba Constitu
tion of tt.e lulled State a.
Mr. Morton (Rep.), of Indiana, submitted a
joint resolution proposing an amendment to
tho Constitution of the United State* wo aa to
provide for the election of Treeident and Viet
i'rerident cf the I'mled Htalee fc-y the direct
v. t of the people, which waa road, and it waa
ordered thai It he oo (be tal-le until the ap
po.nimml of committees, and Lien tie re
ferred to the committee on privileges and elec
trons.
Sir. Edmonds (Rep.), of Vermont, moved to
take up for ooueidcration the rveolu'ion sub
mitted by him. ordering an inquiry into the
late elicliaa in Mouth (Voire Mot ids, be,mal
aria, Misahaaiiqa, Georgia and Alabama The
resolution, after much diMCUneiou and several
amendments. waa adopted.
Mr. Withers (Decs.), of Virginia, submitted
a rea.lnt. on requeu ing the President to in
form (lie Senate. If no incompatible with tba
public Inlet *(. u- r whet ar.tborttv and for
v hat porpQ.s trotq* of the United State* occu
pied i'cLraturg, Vs. oo the seventh of No
vember, 1"" G. tire day <! the election. Objec
tion war made IT Mr. Klmtinde, and the reeo
luucn was laid over.
A hill providing that the revised statutes
►hail be rut: ted no that the election for
president and Yroe Provident alrall be bald in*
October, and that the electoral college shall
maot in the January following, waa referred.
■ease*
In the Houae Samuel J. Randall (Dem i, of
TcnnsTlvauia, was elected Hpeaker In piece of
M. C. Kerr, deceased, receiving 161 voice to
eiglity-two for James A. Garfield. The new
Hpeaker in taking his seal paid a high compli
ment to hia predecessor, saying that be wae a
good and great man. In concluding hit re
marks he *e!d
" The people look confidently to your mod- ,
eralion. to your patient, calm, firm judgment
a- d wi-daoa, at this lime fraught with ao many
perils Let ns not. I beseech of yon. diaap- !
pciul their jo*t #xirUtion and their keen
sense of right, but by vigilance prevent even
the "lightest depailurc from the Constitution
and laws, forgetting in tlie moment of difficul
ty rhal to are the adherents of a party, and
only remembering that we are American citi
teoe, with a ooontry to rave, which will be lost
if nnanthcriied and nnoonetitutiona] acta on
the part of executive officers be not frowned
dowu at rue# with relentleeaneae and unspar
ing condemnation.''
The following new members, elected to fill
vacancies, were •worn in : Mr. Warner, of
Connecticut; Mr Frye, of Maine; Mr. Hum
phrey, of Indiana; Mr. Carr, of Indiana, and
Mr. Stanton, of Pennsylvania.
Objection waa made to the swearing in of <
Mr. Buttz, of South Carolina, and Mr. Relford,
of Colorado, lu relation to tho latter. Mr.
Spr tiger (Dem.), of Illinois, offerer! * resolu
tion instnrcUng the Judiciary oemmiltee to In
quire and report at ae early a day as possible
whether Colorado is a State in the Union. and ,
directing that mitil auch report ia received no ,
person claiming to be a Representative from
Colorado shall be sworn in aa a member. The j
question was re fen ed to the Judiciary oom
mitlec.
Mr. Hewitt (Pent ), of New Fork, jweaeuted I 1
a resolution providing for the appointment of -
three eeleet committees, one of fifteen mem
bers to prooerd to Louisiana, one of six mem
bers to prooer I to Florida, and one of nine :
members to proceed to Month Carolina, to <
investigate th" action of the returning or oan- |
vxssmg beard# as to the recent elections in, ,
those States, and to report all the facts essen
tial to an honest return of the votes for clec- '
tors of President and Vioc-President, and to a '
fair nnderi'taiidiog tlioreof by the people, and J
whether the electoral votes of those States ,
should be counted. Tie committers are to j
have power to send for persons and papers, to
take testimony, to appoint rnb-ocinunitteee '
with like powers and to omplor stenographers, 1
clerks and messengers. This was adopted by i
a vote of 166 to 7H. |
The Hpeaker announced the appointment of ,
(ho Sjuth Carolina committee, aa followst I
Messrs. Sayler, of Ohio; Abbott, of Massa
chusetts ; Htengor, of Pennsylvania; Eden, of I
Illinois ; Jones, of Kentucky . Phillips, of Mis- i
souri; Banks, of Massachusetts ; Lapham. of ;
Now York, and Lawrence, • f Ohio.
On tho Htates of the Union, the Hpeaker an
nounced the following select committees s '
On Louisiana, Mr. Morrison. Ilk; Mr. Jrnks, |
Pa.; Mr. McMahon, tihio; Mr. lijndo, Wis : | j
Mr. Blackburn, Ivy.; Mr. Meade, N. Y.; Mr. : <
House, Tenn.; Mr. t'lielps. Conn.; Mr. Now, !
Ind.; Mr. Hoes. N. J.: Mr. Towneend, Pa.;
Mr. Dxuford, Ohio.; Mr. Hurlbut, Ilk; Mr.
Orapo, Mass., and Mr. Joyoe, Vh
On Flor.da, Messrs. Thompson, Mass.; De- !
bolt. Mo.; \V. O. Hopkins, Pa.; (in hold, Ohio, i
and Ponuel, Miss. ' 1
On tho Honth Corolina committee the name
of Mr. Cochrane, Pa., wa* submitted for that i .
of Mr. Htengor. Pa., excused on account of '
Illness in his family.
We have been requested, a Washing-
ton paper says, to suppress live different
items, and out of consideration for <
strangers wo have done so. But tho
next time a member of Congress blows ]
ont his gas instead of taming it off we
shall certainly tell all about it. i
NUMHEIt 51.
THE U. H. TKEAHrHV.
Tbo Annual H#i-ort •( ib TiMttrtr f tk
t atlrd feIUM.
ULTirn.
1h tuuoryx *u<l <a*ornd lata Ifco trwta
ury U* nmijU lunai lb, Ami yaar *n<lius Jan*
to, 101$, won •• follow* :
fruci I'mtuw (MMBI ,(•*•
t row UitsramJ U5.7u8,792.U
Craiii mIM o( imtilk M> 1,131,455.*$
t ruUi [II Ob drralMJuß u*d d|Mlta
it uik>nl bank*
f fori- rr|)urel of lutarwt IfJ Pictl*
nilnf
Fr-.u. ciurtom*. Baas, jjeiiAllta,, <*e.... lkk.7a7.MA
From latarr, <l/•?•, Moras*. ale. ... I,KM,SMI U
7fvur um of loiltau-lru.i laiula . . jMU,lu.°iir
from iM-oManlw, taUara |*lral,
a4 Mud ,< US.jnO.M
Frou. f.roocod* of ottaouf ((uTonrmabt
|.n>jn; ....... !,*St,7H,M
Fruw luar-iue kota'lta) tat............ NMTI.n
rnet aMuilxal l
Pram i f .QU ub 00l !.*, ale. 1,711,117Al
Plata Ui M> seal akiua 117.M!.ku
Kl<uu turacaUaiMOUs auunwa. ....... lA77.MrI.Uf
Total ordinary rM|iU..,, sja.7sM*S.3t
l':miiim uii aaiaa at c0ut...... l.lBUMaj
Tout an recall>ia. aadualaa of
lo.ua (2*7,U2,093.1$
Proneli at bond a at IMI, Uaam
aeaot SAIMM.I3
Total um rr<.|.i. tin W,*U.W
liaiaiov in troa*!iry June *O, 1111, lo
riud.bf drfoaiu of ouui and Tutted
Stale* uuUa ayi laauled bjr <*rtlfl
aataa ouuuuduig... (1M.7K.t1f.11
Telal available aaab H#,*,*!.®
iiruuiTtaM.
Tka art rajwudllurM by ararrauu during lb*
| aaura i*nod , r-:
' Tor 01*11 rapeuaea (17,9,3**.M
I Torfurrlgu iuUtr00urae............ 1.t1(i,36x.t0
For Indiaea t,M6,tM.17
{ Tor proafc.iM Jft,7,Htt.CH
Tor tuiillaiy aelAldlabuirul, wriadtaf
fortlßralioaa, riser aad harbor Uu
j.roMjx-uU, aud araaua1a.......... M,070,8N1.M
fur uaral ratalCuhureal, luriudlug
(maris aud luarhurrry and ImjiroT*.
menu al uarjr yarda IMM,TI.KI
, for luiaorllaunoua <i*ll, lualudiaa
(•uUlr belldm**, UgUllKWeaa, aud
eoilm-tlng tbr r***nUM at.ll i,f73.il
i fur tutrrral ou the public debt, lo
rladlai lbtrraat on bouda leaned to
Ten Br railway omi|wnto 1*3,3X9,371.32
Total dm rtprtiditarao Ki,t59,TV7.3
K*deui|oiuu at the j>e!f
hr debt 51,M.tM eo
I Jadgiuruta of oourt of
irlabaaua otaiiu*. f oal.fi7.ae
Total oel diabureamcuM (Jlf.F.'O.Mi.l*
Raianoa la Iweaury J una fa, 1070 .. lIIJH7AB.XI
fxtal a.7.asl.f!V
Tlrka Matriurirt ahoara thai the art
revearure far the Battel year w-rr. (307,001,090.1f
i Aud that tbr net ea|rrcd)turea were.. 3M.08ir.797.fi
Le*iuc a eurt-Itit rrro.nr, rt ltictr
of j.poleio® fur tbr etuklut fund of (33,0X1,(41-K>
inrsjri* a*u txrr <Mti au ru> tub nan vmlb
tat-iao it'Vk 3U, 1077.
Tbr rwwtpta during lb* Bret quarter were :
fiMtn euaumia (r,(U.77fUH
; 1 r ou interna) rerenur 3M,IS.fSf.. v :
front rale at J-übbc tan da 3J|WO.ti
I From tat ou ctnruiaUuß, ate., of ua
tiouaJ tanks. 1.0^,707.07
] rmui rejit) mrtit of lntemal brfariflr
iMlwaya CASUS*
■ Pram t uaiotua" Buea, Mr... 17,5at.77 1
from mutalu, |u-ul aud otiwr fees. 0Jt.534.75 {
Frum jtTueaeda a! aalte of goTftrtiairul
i pixqwrtj ttI.HTUSC !
from niimt-itaueou* aouroea aA'jSAS3.IS
Net ordinary reeataißa. ... . S?IA9) "UVM
Fremtnm cm ealaa of outu llv.tlr.M
I'ratmh of load) of Istl, Utean
award I.4<a.aa'..M
Total net ordinary reoriiita t7S,Sia,f7o.<n I
ttataure in trraatiry J una 90, ll7t„ .. 111.0U7,7f3Ab
Total a*eilebte. 4ltr.fxi.7ou.sr i
The r Jiettdtlurea during the aamr period were:
i for ei*i! and u-laorUafeon* rtpetiara.
including reltin- buttdiuga, Ught
1, lere end coilet-uag tbr rrt races (U.tST.fttf.d! .
Kor Indiana 1.|M.7 .
Tor ittntat a,fca.oß7.ste ;
Tut u.littery eetab.itbntmle, lurlud
lug (artlßeetiana, nrrr and berbor
it. ; ro( rit.rufk. bbd ararneU. ..... 0,715,001-S3 ,
{ for naval retabi tab meat, indading
matnia aud aaacltiaarr and ini* t
jeorißienta at aat* Tarda ... . £, 170,074.96
I Tor intern* ou the rM* debt, tn
eluding Paotftr rai.eay bonds ..... 57.107.560.es
Total ordinary exfwßdjtnrws $70,751,031.90
Itedraiption of Uta public
drU (f,(1a,500.77
Judgments of Court of l
Alabama fiaiaat i.SM.CSa il
|
Total eapendituree (80.730,170.30 ,
: balance lu Irweeury. be) 4. 33. lgT< US.W7.Bas.u '
Total 4ir.sii.7ta.si |
For tbr rentalnitig three quarters It is estimated ,
the! the receipts will tie :
From custom* (80,445,771.17 i '
Trout tntcraal rrreaue. . 31,(11,009.03 '
Trota sal* of putlauds OOd.lKiit.OO |
From tax oa aeUoual but* (.(.11,000.00 ■
Fiom retmlmreMueat bv Pmclflc rail
ways (00.000.ta |
Trt ut cusiuum' Buss, penalties, aud ,
forfeitures T.O0U.)
From consular, jatrnt, and other leas 1.9tW,C00.00 '
From pr.iereda of salec of publM ,
properly (W.OtU.OO
From miareltaueoue socreee. lnclud- '
lug pram) am oa cola 0,(00,000.00 1
Ttdal uei racetpu (11,101,035.10
for the same period tt la eetloated I bat the ex pec- 1
till urea will be : (
i For civil anil roteoeitaneoos, lueludiag
puV-.r bui ttga............ ...... (30,0(10,0(0.03 i
For Indiana 0.00u.000.00
Tor penalona 90.CXM 000.03 1
To: military establishment %4(Xi,000.) (
Tor aaval eatabltabment 740K,t*10.00 ,
Tor ittlareat on tba public delu $1,(70.000.00 ■
Total ordinary expend!: urre. AlM.fTf,3oo.oo \
II will l observed from Uie statement of actual ,
receipts aud ex|wndlturt for the Aral quarter,
ending fb-piemlwr 30. aud of the cat:males of 1
Uie same tor the remaining three quart ewe, baaed 1
upon existing taws, that It m expected that the ,
rrirnuea for tbr currant Bacal agar will '
gad the eum of (C64.391.M3.3f, and thai the ex- (
iwndiiiirra will amount to (257.03A.7MJJ8. which .
will I ear* a aurjuue rvcenue at (JB.A6S.OIM .34.
Tbr amount which should be applied to (be sink- *
ing fund t* estimated al (53.7C4,806.57. The atir- i
plus revcuuea will fall below thai amonat, la tba
opinion of tha drpartmaat, by not lews than (7,042,-
110.49. I
United States Finance*.
The ncnonl report of the comptroller |
of the currency of the United States j
shows the iasnv and retirement of nn- !
tion&l bank notes nnd legnl tenders
nnder set* of Jane 20,1874, and Jan nary [
14. 1875, np to December 1, 1876. The
total induction in circulation from Jane 1
20, 1874, is 962,721,155. This is obtain- "
ed from the following table by subtract- .
ing the amount of greenbacks on deposit
Jane 20, 1874, from the amount on de- f.
posit at date and adding the decrease in
national Iwnk notes and the amount of '
greenbacks retiml: National bank notes
outstanding when act of Jane 20, 1874, '
WM passed, 8349,804,182; national bank J
notes issued from Jane 20, 1874, to
January 14, 1875, $4,734,500; uational |
bank notes redeemed and retired be
tween same date*, $2,767,232; increase 2
from Jnne 20, 1874, to January 14,
1875, $1,967,268; national lnk notes "
outstanding January 14, 1875, $351,- r
861,450; national bank notes redeomod
and retired from January 14, 1875, to .
date, $-13,978,148; national bank notes
surrendered between the same dates,
$6,884,248; total redeemed and surren
dered, $50,862,396; national Itauk notes !
issued between same dates, $18,861,250;
decrease from January 14, 1875, to date, £
$12,001,146; national bank notes out
standing at date, $319,860,304; green- 9
backs ou deposit in the treasury, June a
20, 1874, to retire notes of insolvent and ?
liquidating banks, $3,813,675; green
backs deposited from Jnne 20, 1874, to
date, to retire national bank notes, $62,-
374,389; total deposits, $66,188,064; cir
culation redeemed by treasurer between
same dates without reissue, $46,760,345;
greenbacks on deposit at date, $19,442,- J
684; greenbacks retired under act of '
January 11, 1875, $15,089,100; gr. en- J
backs outstanding at date, $366,911,000.
Not so Very Pleasant.
One friend to another, who has jnst a
returned from a trip to Europe : e
••Did you enjoy your European n
tonr?" a
'• Very much indeed." o
• "Did yon call on any of the big a
ones?" t
"Yes, I called on two queens one it
evening." f
"Called on two queens! Was it an
pleasant affair?" v
"No, not'vflry; for after I called I •
found the other chap had three kings." g
Items f Interest.
No judge of the nunreme oourt of
Maine, ainoe it* organise! ion, ha* died
while holding office.
Another Mormon wife, encouraged by
the nuoooNs of Brigham a Ann EUsa, ha*
■nod her husliand for a divorce.
The salary bf the Bridport (Vt.l post
master, who resigned after his election
a* a FreaUtonttal elector, is $213.
A popular noteess who died recently
left an uupr tecUvl husband without
any visible means of support
A boy who claims to have been over
worked in the bt. Louis house of refuge
has sued for $8(1,000 damages.
"The pet of wealthy parents" has
just been sent to the Misnoutl peni
tentiary for ten years. They left him
150,000,
A truo picture of despair— pig
reaching through s hole in the fence to
got s cabbage that lies a few inches be
yond his reach.
A Western woman said of her lost litu
baud : "Daniel may bo known by a
near on his nose, where I scratched
him."
Those who bet lists on the national
election are more interested in what
spring styles will be than what winter
fashions are.
A paradise for tramps— Bolton, Mass.,
where the inmates of the almshouse (ro
allowed to swnetea their own tea with
sugar, butter their own bread with good
butter and have meat or fish three time*
a day.
Bays our Dan: "If I had $20,000
that would give me an inoome of SI,OOO.
I would live up to it, yon bet; but I
wouldn't touch the capital till the last
year, and then you'd see me rpread my
self, juat I"
• What aide of the street do you live
ou, Mr*. Kippiet" naked a oonnsel,
cross examining a witness. "Oa either
side, sir. If you go one way, it's on the
right side; if you go the other way, it's
on the left."
M. Colombia*, a merchant of Paris,
reorutly deceased, baa left $6,000 to
a lady of Bonen for having, twi nty
years ago. refused to marry him,
••through which," aaya the wribr, "I
was enabled to live independently and
happily as a bachelor."
An aarful warning is offered to tboee
little boys who nae their months sa pt a
wipers by what happened to s small
French boy, who nearly died from the
■alia of copper is the ink he took, and
only recovered through the doctor'*
guessing what waa ami -, and promptly
applying the right antkk-te.
A seedy looking Chii autan, with two
companions, waitstxl into a Dtuiver bank
and inquired ; " liow imtobee saiiae
gold?" ••One nine," wi* the answer.
"Aile light, me takec eight thooraud
dollar." The bank didn't have enough
on hand to supply the ace ly looking
Oeleatial, who was going beck to father
land.
An athletic spi dmen of the Emerald
Isle called on a wharfinger for a job.
" The top o' the meruit)' to ye, Muetor
P.; I've been told that you're in want of
help." " I've but little to do," replied
P., with mercantile gravity. " I'm toe
very boy for yees! it's bnt btUe I care
abont doing—it'a the money I'm either,
Hure!"
A funny little ornament for a bureau
is s square piece of silver eardboai-t,
u bout tux inttot* each way, t-rabroidort d
on the edge with some fancifni design
in woratc ' and having in the center toe
words : "licratoh my back." It it bung
on the gas fixture# by a conl. You turn
it around mid discover the back to be a
piece of sandpaper to scratch matches
j on.
Of the many disease* which afflict
mankind the following fifteen cause* of
death take the lead in England, accord
ing to the registrar-general's returns :
Bronchitis carried off the Largest num
bers, then comes phthitw, next debility,
then old age, then heart disease (mostly
striking down the adults), then pneu
monia, Boariet fever, diarrhea, apoplexy
and paralysis, mean-lea, cancer, prema
ture birth and whooping cough.
The Terrible Grasshopper.
A new dement has appeared in the
politics of toe country,
■ays a Western
longer necessary to know, in a financial
or general sense, whether a man is
•i sound oa the goose," bnt it a oon
t-idered of great import* •oe t hit tie
be sound on toe grasshopper question.
One of thi candidates for the United
States Senate in Colorado rooognk*d
this fact, arid issued the following card
to show where he stood :
"If 1 am elected United States Sena
tor, 1 shall advocate the following : The
wholesale extermination of the locust.
Let the duties of watching the migra
ting movements of the locust be added
to the signal service, in full, or !tt there
be s separate signal service established
for this purpose, so we ecu be fore
warned of their probable coming. Also
to ascertain where and iu what Btsfe
or Territory they deposit their eggs
most numerously. Let Congress appro
priate $1,000,000 annually to pay for
killing the locust by the botbel, or per
pound, so that people can afford to
gather them. Let all the Western
States and Territories appropriate m>
much money annually as they can, to bo
added to the locust extormination fund
of Congress, and let all be used each
year where the locust is batching out
moat numerous. In this way an annual
war can be waged against them, which
will soon thin them so that their natural
enemies will keep them down. I would
have the unemployed of our army servo
their country bv destroying the locust
or nerving in the locust signal corps. I
would have the Indians pay for their
annuities wilh locusts where the locust is
plentiful in their reservations."
The gentleman who made this bid for
a United States Senatorahip. on purely
grasshopper grounds, was not elected.
The farmers of Colorado, Kansas, Ne
braska and adjoining Territories have
had a hard struggle of it during the past
three yearn owing to the ravages of 'the
locusts*. Tboee who had accumulated
money from former years of prosperity
have seen it all swept away, and there
are very few of the fanners, gardeners
and ranchmen who are not in debt.
Large numbers, utterly disheartened,
have sold oat, and immigrated to other
parte, or sought some other pursuit.
This acoounts in a great measure for the
rush to Washington Territory and
Oregon the past year or two, Kansas
and Nebraska have contributed a largo
portion of the new settlers in that sec
tion. When a Western farmer finds
that he doe* a losing business for two or
three seasons, he is ready to " pull up "
and seek another start iu a new country.
The Grasshopper convention at Omaha,
at which six States and Territories were
represented, and in which severe! noted
scientists took part, shows the deep in
terest felt in tho matter. After two
days of deliberation it was decided that
the legislatures of the States and Terri
tories interested should be asked to
enact a lew offering a bounty per
bnsliel for the collection and destruction
of eggs and unfledged insects; to repeal
the game laws so as to prevent the de
struction of birds which feed ou them
at all times ; and to frame laws for the
promotion of tree culture, harboring
birds, and promoting moisture.
Fine Plate for Women,
An Amercian, writing in borituicr'a of
Tarkistan, says the meD have as many
wives as they please. The women have
to do all the work, while the men lead a
lazy, shift le life, devoting themselves
almost entirely to the cure of their
horses. As a mark of respect to their
husbands and male relatives, the women
are not allowed to mention their real
names in the presence of others, but
must either call them by some term
adopted for the purpose, or use a cir
cumlocution. An incident is related of
a Kirghiz woman who wanted to say
thnt n wolf had stolen a sheep and taken
it to the reedy shore of tha lakc. Un
fortunately the men of the family bore
names corresponding to most of these
words, and she was obliged to gasp out:
"In the rustling beyond the wet a
growler gnaws one of our woolies."