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■fTTt REPORTER. y ?*" *: 'js *' '• J. PBPI'BL Ba., I J. T. DARLINGTON, tihlor. Jmociale RHtor, ■ T— THUtfPAT, MAgCB 8, 1877. wik> is Tmswmrit Never before in the history of our Republie has there been a time when so le# of ou| people oottld answer the above question. If, indeed, the vexed ques tion haa been determined at all with a degree of certainty, the gr> at majority of America* eiuauna reaiding in tko ratal districts du sot know at this time who is th« Chief Exeoutive of the na tion. We all know that Judge Bradley "oouated in" Mr. tiayea; but the ques tion is, (las Mr. Hayes keen inaugura ted ? la these uncertain times we never knew wkat to axpeet. We do not an ticipate a foroibie resistance to tko in auguration of eve* a fraudulent pre tender ; but possibly tho oount may not have b«eo completed in due time, which woald prevent tko inauguration of any owe until after another election. Ac cording to onr latest advieso, the oount bad not boon concluded late oa Satur day, aad tho greatest excitement pre vailed in Congress. If this information is eovrect, and wo hope it ia, Returning Board Hayes, Jem Bradley and J. Mad ison Wells have all beea defeated in their attempt to steal the Presideacy. Httt evea if the oount kaa progressed amootkly and in favor of Hayee, tko rigkt to the Presidency may be legally contested before a foil bench of Supreme Cent J edges, and in tkat ease the in auguration knight be deferred. There ia ewe tking, however, apoa which die American people oaa con gratulate themselves, aad patriota every wkere will avail tkemselves of tko op porteeaty : Qrant wo longer misrules tbe nation. He haa stepped down and owt, and tko respectable aire lea in whieh be mfevad as an official will net regret kis future absence. He will now Sad kis level among pardoned wkisky ring eon vieta, jockeys and pot-house politicians. Tko pomp aad circumstance of high official position neesr threw a lion's skin over a more consummstc political donkey, nor did evtr n ruler of any aWiiited people display as mach ridiculous tas bssility aad ueeorupukons audacity. Hia firat official act manifested kis utter ia oapaoity and unfitness for even the lesaer duties that would devolve upon bim, and he became a laughing-stock in pol itiee; aad his last aefc ia South Caro lina—forbidding the Aftelebration of Washington's birthday by the whits people—shows to what a depth of ia famy he-mas oapable of desoeadiag— Keen if we receive Hayes in exchange, we are heartily glad that Grant's official epitaph has been recorded. No man oan be more oorrupt than he, and no man oaa have taw regard for right and justice. If M». Hayea should reoeive tie Presidency, although his title* to the position are know* to be fraudulent, yet we have some hope that be is not of the same class of men as Mortoa, Gbaadler, Logan, and others. It is true we can nac expect the bastard result of a Re turning Hoard rape upon tbe ballot-box t> be a paragon of boaor, but be may be above the thieviag, piratical erew that have already grown rieh by publio rob bery. He baa promiaed fair dealinga to ward tbe Soath, and doapita the oload that now overshadows him, ba may endeavor te> redeem bis promises. We da Dot claim to be at all sanguine in this reepeet; but if his accession is ia evitable, we nsay jaat aa wall make a virtue of necessity, and await with pa tience tbe developments of tbe future The paoapacta of tbe Democratic party ware saver brighter than at present. This attempted fraud upon tbe saoet saerad rights of the people— this naorierova blow aimed at tbe life of American liberty, will be a greater weight of infamy than Radicalism ean support. The mare reapeetable loaders of tba North realise th« fact; hence such mm aa Senator Conk ling, and others of hia class, condemn tbe parti san action of Judge Bradley nod bis sea as perjured associates upon tbe Pres idential Commission. By attempting to steal the Preaideney they have annibi 11ted tbe Republican party, and at the next popular election Radicalism will b« exterminated, root and brunch. The South ia now almost I'ree from its loath some pollution Louisiana and 800 th Carolina wilt soon break tbeir fetters of political degradation, riveted upon them by disreputable carpet-baggers and meaner scalawags Their day of re demption ia at hand, no matter wbo ia President. When the people are de termined to be free, their will ia as re sistless aa a hurricane. All over the country tbe fiat baa gone forth, and Radicalism may spend tbe next four years ia bowling its death song. £igLt Perjurers. Morton and Garfield, together with their more reputable but no more re spectable Republican colleagues from the Senatn, House, and Supreme Court, say in their report to the Congress: "The Commission is also of the opin ion, by a majority of votes, that tbo re turning offieers of elections who counted the volet at tbe election for e'tctors in Louisiana wire a lawfully constituted body, by virtue of a constitutional law, aud that a vacancy in said body BOt vititate its proceeJiqgi." These men swore and called God to witness, when they became members of the Electoral Commission, that they would "impartially examine and consid er all question! submitted and a true judgment give thereon." If their oath meant anything, it meant that ao de cision should be rendered without im partial examination and consideration. In the paragraph above quoted the eight sworn judges give a positive decision involving not only questions of law but questions of faot. They declare that tbe Louisiana returning board was con stitutional, lawfully constituted, and oompstent to act, notwithstanding a vacancy ia Us membership. This judg ment must either have proceeded from an impartial examination and considera tion of the status of tbe Board, or have been given without examination and consideration. In the Utter ease, the eight Commissioners havo violated their oaths and are, in plain Kngliah, perjur ers. Now what is the faot ? On Feb. 16, in aeoret session of tbe Commission, Mr. Abbott offered this resolution : "Retailed, That evidenoe be received to show that so much of the act of Louisi ana as establishes the returning boaid for that State is unconstitutional and tbe aets of the returning board are void." This reaolution was rejected by a vote of Bto 7- Mr. Abbott then offered tho followiag, which was also rejeoted aad by the same vote : "lietoiueU, That evidence will be re ceived to show that tbo returning board of Louisiana, at the time of canvassing and compiling the vote of that Stato at the last election in that State, was not legally eonatituted ucder the law es tablishing it, in this: That it was com posed of four persons of one political party, instead of five persoQß of different parties." Justices Miller, Strong snd Bradley, Senators Edmunds, Morton and Freling huysen, and Representatives Garfield and, Hoar have therefore given judg ment on a question whieh they deliber ately refused to examine and oonsider; and in so doing they hsve violated, not only every principle of judicature and every requirement of equity and honesty, but also their own oaths.— M. T. Sun. Terrible Suffering nt Sen. BOSTON, February 29.—A letter was received in this city yesterday from Capt. Kane of the American schooner F. E. MoDonald, dated at Goree, on the west eoast of Afriea, Jan. 24, in wbioh he aays that on his outward paasage irom Boston, whenoe be sailed on Dec. 17, he fell in with the wreok of the British bark Maria, Capt. Grayson, hav ing on board two survivors from a crew of men, tbe others having perished from exposure and famine. The two men were taken on board the sokooeer, but oae of them died fbnr hoars afterward. From the sole survivor it was ascer tained that the bark was bound from Doboy, Ga , to Belfast, Ireland ; that she sprung a leak ia a gale aad filled with water, ao tkat it was impossible te save aay provisions or freak water. The lumker with whieh tkeveaael was loaded prevented her from sinking, but the weight of tbe masts taraed the vessel on her beam ends until tbe masta broke away, when ske righted and tbe mea regained the deek. Having no food or water, however, tkey soon began to die of starvation, and aa soon as one died the reat subsisted; apoa the dead body, aad ao on antil only two were left. The snrvivor, whose name is Jsmes Me- Longklia, aad who belongs te Belfast, lrelaad, aays that only small parts of the dead bodies oould be eaten. No oae was killed, but tbe moment oae died the lorvivors cut hia throat and drank his blood, aad then divided tbe heart and brains. It was thirty-two days from the time the disaster oscarred until tbe wreok was sighted by the schooner, and during all that time the erew had not a drop of water, or aay other food than the dead bodies of tbeir^skipmstea. We learn that ■ Border «u com mitted LOT Fair Bluff on Thursday la»t. A in M by the mmo of 0 M RUM waa shot while paddliog a eanoe in Lumber llifer, by a nejjro named Barney Wi.'- liama, atim Bnrney While, who waa coneealed on the btnka ot the eraek.— He fled into Rubeaon. Ha ia daaeribed a* being fire feet tour inches high, sharp figure, quick spoken, and weighs about 150 puuti'U — RoLcsoniun. Cheated, but Not in Despair. Sad aa is our disappointment at the reHulu of the Commission we muet not give over to despair. We feel that a great wrong has been inflicted upoa the right* of.tlie people, the purity of the ballot, the freedom of election, the honor of the American name. Henceforth there will attaeh no peouliar honor or dignity to the name of an American oilizeo. The men of Europo, who are illustrious for virtue and intellectual greatness, meat look with unmitigated contempt upon tbe United States, when they view the action of the eight mem bers of the Commission who voted to shield villains and cover up rasoality.— They will argue that it is not poeaible to find among forty-five million* of people fifteen wen of elevated characters and high ideals of rectitude—men capable of acting without passion, or party bias, but honorably, justly, nobly. We feel that a great cheat and fraud has been perpetrated, But it may turn out better than we think. Let us await the appointing of his Cabinet before we prediot what course Hayes will pursue- We grant that a fraudulent Preeideat —seated in tbe chair of George Wash ington through the graoe of Joe Brad, ley and the sooundrels he voted to shield, the Louisiana Returning Board—does not offer any very hopeful grounds, and yet he may possibly do better for the i country, and for the South especially, i than we are disposed to believe or an ticipate. He may not make his Cabinet out of the most rotten timber in the Radical lumber yard. If he takes sueh corrupt trunka as Morton, Chandler, Don Camoron, Logan and Kilpatrick, we may woll look out for stealing on a yet larger scale, and for all manner of vice* and villainies and oppressions. Tke ! South, under such an administration, i would be aocurscd as Egypt wai never accursed during the plagues in the time of Pharaoh. liut suppose he selects a different kind of timber—men who are not hol low in heart and decayed in moral char acter. Suppose be invites Bristow aid Evarta and Jewell, and other men of hia party of similar character, to take a place in bis Cabinet. Suppose he even invites Limar or Gordon or Hansom to take a portfolio. Will not such a start give promise of a better race than we can now hope for ? Suppose he gets rid of csrpet-baggcry in the South and makes all of Grant's ofteials walk tho plank. Suppose a political niileniim,' do you say ? Then let us wait, and for the present hope that the worst msy not be realiied.— Hi/. Star. Bids for tbe South. Having failed in the effort to govern the South by aegro votes, the Radicals now propose to divide and conquer. The Washington RejmUican wishes to have aoaae "respectable" men at the South is tbe Radical party. It "believes that the time ia coning when this will be the case, and that it oannot come too soon. And as a first step toward sueh a desirable consummation, wo are in favor of having the present State Governments of the South to sustain themselves or perish, just as the people shall be Tor or against them, rteing to it only that vio lence ia restrained and peace preserved. We are in favor of inviting Southern statesmen, having the support of their people, to the councils of the Adminis tration, and of consolidating the eountry under a government beloved of all, be cawse eosaiMtiSurate with tbe interests of all, end consulting the good and hap piness ef all." White Slavery in South Carolina. The alarery of tbe blaeks has bee* abolished in South Carolina, as ia the other Southern Statos, but what shall be said of the condition of the whites in that State when their rifle clubs are not I permitted to turn out to celebrate the birth day of the Father of his Conatry ? What shall be said of a Commander-in chief, a President of the United States, who authorises an order forbidding tbe "members" of such clubs to M osake any public demonstration or parade" oa tbe aaaiveraary of the birth of George Washington ? And this order is issued by the Poet Commandant, and is to be eoforced, if need be, at tbe point of the bayonet and the mouth of cannon. "My orders," says the Commandant, "require me to see that no sueh parade takes place" What would George Washing ton have said if he could hare foreseen that one of his successor* in offiee, in a time of profonnd peace, would ever di reet sueh an order to be made f What beoomee of the provision oi the Constitution of tbe United States that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed f" We take it tbe demonstration was to have been entirely peaceable ; aad un der the circumstances it certainly looks like an arbitrary, unwarranted, uncon stitutional exercise of arbitrary power.— N Y. Sun. Boom for tho Leper. The miserable travesty upon honesty has been played out, and the Inures eight snd seven stand as an eternsl by word and reproach to the American name. They are aa indelibly stamped upon our history for all time as the mark of Cain—a damniug disgrace that naught can wash away. Fraud, like another prostitute, has been decked out in the raiment of virtue, seated upon the sacred throne of Justice, and eight out of fifteen of the arbiters, in whose bands were plaoed the destinies of the nation at the most critioal period of our ex istence, have bowed down aad wor shipped it. Under the dome of the National Capitol, and within the conse crated walls of. the highest legal tribunal in the land, patriotism, truth And law have been sacrificed on a polluted altar, reared by partisanship, and the judicial ermine has been made the oloak to sanction the grossest outrages ever per petrated upon any people. By their action Friday the majority of the Joint High Commission (God save the mark!) have placed a premium on knavery of tRe deepest dye, and constituted wbut was intended for tbs conservation of our institutions the refuge of sucb scoundrels and traitors as in the record of political intrigue defy all comparison. And these eight are representatives of tho party that would "make treason odious." These are among the mightiest of the exponents of the great principles of Republicanism. These are ehieltains in the noble army of defenders of the constitution and preservers of the Union —-high priests of the faith of our fathers. High hoaven, what mockery! How long shall it be before the scorpion lash of public indignation shall mete out to them just retribution ? How long bo fore public virtue shall cry out on eaoh of them 4rooui lor tho leper," "and they shall be curbed with the withering curse of the botrayed V For the honor of the nation wo pray that it may not bo long. Tbetioal decision we must abide by.— The true men of the country have pledged their faith, and they must not prove recreant. But by all tbe glories of the past, by the ashes of those who first gave form and shape to our govern mental structure, by evorjr tradition of liberty, by every inspiration of patriot ism, it beoomes us to brand our condem nation upon tbe unholy act so deeply that to all iuture generations it shall be a Warning against the hell-born heresies of Radicalism. Be it the part of patriot ism to sec thst the names of these treasonable eight arc consigned to the ecas-pool of political abomination, out of wbieh they were raised to prominence, and that they be sbanued like tbe poison of ssps —-Richmond Enquirer. The Feeling in South Carolina. The Charleston t?rie» and Courier says : There is not, it must be remem bered, any doubt that Wade Hampton is Governor of South Carolina. The Constitution of the State provides that "the person who has received the high est number of votes shall be Governor;" and it is conceded on all sides that Gov ernor Hampton received the highest number of vote* at the election held in November. Upon that the people stand. The Supreme Court cannot make Gov ernor Hampton the Governor of 9outh Carolina; the Court can only declare him Governor, and recognise him aa such. Governor he is, and Governor ho will be, or a hundred thousand Caroli nians will know the reason why! The lime is past when any Court In South Carolina could by aetion, or. inaction, nullify the will of the people. When the means provided by law shall have failed them, the people will resort to other measures. Jealousy and Murder in a Ball- Boom- At a country ball about eight miles from Jasper, Piokens county, on Friday night last, were Mrs. Cowart, daughter of William Fowler, about 26 years of age, aad Mr*. Suthard, daughter of J. Hambriok, about 18 years of age The former bad for some time been divorced, and the latter had boen married only about a year. Mis. Cowart aeoepted the tender of Mr. Suthard to be her partner in the dance, and as the two went on the floor Mrs. Suthard approached Mrs. Cowart and objected. Mrs. CoWart, however, refused ti yield the oompsny of Mr. Suthard for the dance. Thereupon Mrs. Suthard became en raged, and in a moment the infuriated women olenohed eaoh other by the hair, and after a struggle fell to the floor, fighting like enraged tigresses. Mrs. Bathard, with aa open knifs, cat Mrs. Cowsrt's throat from ear to ear, killing ber almost instantly.— Alhnta ((7a) Constitution. Acquiescence and Retribution. The leading Democratic journals aro urging acquieacence on the part of tbe people to the unjust and diagraceful de cision of tho Electoral Coaimission.— They are right. We must yield. The Commission was the unworthy medium through which tbe Democrats and tho nation expected justice. The Judges and Senators composing this Commission have soiled tbeir ermine with ineffacea ble stains. We trusted in theui, and have been deceived. We gave thom the dictatorship in the great question, and they have proven themselves to be both cowards aud partisans. We looked to them to save tho oopntry from ever lasting reproach and the Bneers of her enemies, they havo dishonored her by soating a man with a vitiated title in the President's chair, by refusing to listen to tho voice of the so called sovereign people, by crowning Fraud with triumph and b? humbling Truth to the dust.— Yet, we too say, submit. We prefer an honorable defeat to a dishonored, con temptible, tainted and undeserved farce that calls itself a victory. The Elector al Commission has killed the Republican party. If Hayes accepts tbe Presidency, as no doubt be will do, he will be the last of that party who will ever receive the semblance of support from the American Rcpublio. We think, too, that his tenure ot office if he follows the example of the expiring administration, will be olussed in America's future his tory with that of Rome's "last of tbe Tarquios." — Wilmington Journal. The Redemption of Florida. The uncontested inauguration of a Democratic Governor and organitation of a General Assembly, Democratic in both branches, in Florida, add another State to tho uumber of those which have succeeded in rehabilitating themselves i in their normal right of self-govern ment, despite every effort of the Federal adtuistration. Of the half score of Southern commonwealths which were subverted by Radical malice aome ten years ago, but two now await redemp tion—South Carolina and Louisiana— and tbe full and final deliverance of these is a mere question of time. It may be some months yet before tbey attain those blessings of peaee and free dom now enjoyed by their sister States, or it may be that this glorious consum mation may be reached as it waa in Florida—suddenly, and at an entirely unexpected moment; but, whatever tbe length of the journey atill to be tra versed, a happy termination thereof is sure. Tbo delectable mountains sre in full sight, and it but needs that the people of thoee two still struggling States play the man like their brethren else where, to lift their feet also out of the quagmire aad plant them oa tke solid rock. The redemption of Florida, we repeat, is but another evidence of tbe proposi tion it is impoesible to keep tbe South down. No more ingenious instrument to this cud waa ever invented than that demoniac scheme of hate and villainy knowD aa Reconstruction; no greater po litical power exists ia this oountry than that lodged in the hands of tbe geoeral government; and yet this gigantic au thority operating this infamous scheme hss failed to permsaently subdue the spirit of a single Southern State. One by one all the others have aet aside the rotten pretences foisted upon them aad erected in their stead honest, deoent, and lawful governments of their own, and what all the others have done South Carolina and Louisiana will do as cer tain as tbe sun shines in the heavew. There ia an power, he it remembered, in these United Btates which eaa per manently keep tbe South, or any State thereof, down. Even as the cork will by the laws of its nature rise to tbe sur face from under a superincumbent pressure, just so can a people determined to be free get the better of usurpation and despotism in the long run. In the strength of this prinoiple, even little Florida has just been too much for the entire Excutive authority, anny, and all of the Unite* States. 1880. The Washington Union heads its leader of yesterday, "Tilden for 1880." The Union baa more faith than we have. See what baa taken plaoe in the last six mouths See how we wind up a patriotic centennial. \Pe shall not "hang our banner oa the outer wall" just now—we have folded it away ten derly. Tildea, Hendricks aad reform has not been besmirohed. We do not know what may happen. Thjre may not be a United States of America tn 1880—than nay be ao suoh thing aa a republic or a preeideat. Kleetioas by tbe people are already gone- Return ing Doards aad even eleetora! com miasiona msy follow. Let the Republi can party —the party of moral idsaa—• the belter elsss of the north flaish up their preeeat dirty job before we calou late on the future.— Lynchburg ( Fa.) Ne «•». Eloped on the Morning Provious. An affecting story comes from Oak land. A wealthy, middle aged Eng. lishman had beoomo somewhat jealous of his pretty wife. A young New Yorker, with engaging manners and a cutaway coat, was the cause of his dis• quietude. The disturbed ltenediot con cluded to try the threadbare triok of ostensibly going up to Saoramento for a week. The second day, however, he returned and let himself quietly into the house, la the library were several eoats of mail brought over from England, and in one of these he hid. Then he await ed developments. To his great aston ishment, 9 o'clock passed without any one calling or bis wife coming down stairs. At about lA. M he fell asleep through fatigue and began snoring. The butler thought be heard burglars about, so he came down stairs in his night gown, with a double barrelled gun under his arm. The jealous gentleman had just begun to droam he was an iron-elad when a handful of quail shot took bias in the breast-plato, and, amid his terrific shrieks, the butler promptly put the other load into the pier glass, under the impression that another bnrglar was drawing a head on him. After the whole neighborhood had been aroused, the mistake was discovered. Amid tho snickers of the entire assembly tho cha grined man crawled up stairs to his bed room. A small note was sticking on the pincushion. His wife had eloped the morning before !— Sou Fraucuco JUail Lawlessness in South Carolina. Darlington oounty, Whittemore's eamping ground and Chamberlain's bus tard roost, is reported to bo in a deplor able condition. Incendiary fires are of almost nightly occurrence, and murders bid fair to become as common as ordi nary thefts used to be. The people of tho county have no confidence io the oourts. A plea of guilty is barely suffi cient to insure the oonriotion of a crim inal. Shall the thieves, burglars and murderers go unwhipt of justice ? The Darlington JVnoi, which has been un tiring in exposing and denouncing the ciimes in the oounty,sees no other rem edy than to search out the notorious offenders and mete- out to them the pen alty of their misdeeds. So shall they know that they cannot escape punish ment, although they may evade th* technicalities of the Isw. There is a gang of catlaws near Timssonsville who may become an unwieldy element in the course of a few swaths. As King as these outlaws are allowed to defy the law, so long will these outrages gftw in number and atroeity. Mo people, in such a Ststo as South Csrolina, wilt lightly resort to lynch law, and so re sume the authority delegated to those who fail to give them security and pesoe. It w.ill be unnecessary when Governor Hsinptoa'b authority shall be acknowl edged everywhere. Until then the peo ple mast protect themselves as best they can.— Charlatan Xcwt and Courier. The Painless Death. In a recent holiday lcetore at the Royal Institution, Prof. Tyndall, speak ing of the painless death by cleotricity ) remarked that Franklin was twioe struok senseless by the shoek. He afterwards sent the discharge of two large jam ' through sis robust men. who fell to the ground and got up again without know ing what had happened, neither hearing nor feeling the disoharge ; and Priestly, too, who made many valuable contribu tions to electricity, received the charge • of two jara, but did not find it painful. Prof. Tyndall said this experience sgreed with his own; that, in the theater of the Boyal Institution, and in the presenoe of an audieooe, he once received the discharge ef a battery of 16 Leyden jars. Unlike Franklin's six men, he did not fall, but, like them, he feltneth ing; he was simply extinguished for a sensible interval. This tnsy be regard ed as an experimental proof skat people killed by lightning suffer no pain. Now, the measured velooity of eleotricity Is mauy thousand times greater than the measured velocity ef sensation in tho '■> nerves. Henoe the eieetrioal concus sion resohes the eeater of life without any possible announcement by the eye or ear or seose of feeling. There is abundant rrifeaee that death by • rifle ball traversing the brain is for the same reason entirely witboot consciousness or pain. A rifle ball, howevsr, is a tortoise compared with the eleotrio flash. Dr. Ely McClellan, of the United States army, stationed now at Atlanta, * Georgia, hss made a speoial study of the reoent yellow lever epidemio in Sevan nah, and has msde a report to the board of health, wbieh is highl> commended by the papers of that eity. Among other-things he shows, by eareful salon lations, that the pecuniary loss ts the city of Savannah and the State of Geor gia by the epidemic was not less than •5,609,857.
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