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' '-"Editor - Keivs T!ip' ('residential muddle ia tne sole Wic of conversation hi all circles here Yoq li'C'a'f it in the Capitol, at the Hotels,- and iuieed everywhere, and yet nothing more can be learned here that in Raleigh or Charlotte. All that Ttau say is that our friends are hopeful ofa peaceful, so lution. It is rumored that the Republi cs held a caucus last nisht and have deteruiiued to make Senator Sherman President of thel Senate. If this should J prove to be true, the open attempt to stifle the voice of, the two Houses of Con gress, our friends hope will rather help than injure the right. JFhere is one thing certain, that let the matter result as it may, peace will be preserved. The " .Siorlheru Democrats will subinil, and take these chances to preserve civil lib trtf ad constitutional law through the future action of the two houses. Myopin iou U that if tlie enatecount in Hayes the Houde will not go beyotid a protest, certainly will not attempt to elect Mr. Til Jen. When we recollect there is not a single Democratic Legislature in the . North, you will see at once how hopeless cu an attempt must prove. 1 ljae oy 1,0 means given up all hope. 1 lie action of the Governor ot Oregon may vet i un- rare! the Grdian knot. If the Congress ."decide that-the Vice-President is merely a ministerial officer in counting and de claring the voie,that will let iu the one vute for Tildeu from Oregon w hich will give him the cousin uiional m ijority. It it olnnilij be deciJetl to go behind the cer tilicate iil that instance, it opeus the dnr, , j and an investigation into the vote of I he contented States must follow of course. , lMr. Edmund", of Vermont, has a propo ' airioti before 'the Senate to amend the coiifliuitioti as to conetitute the Supreme Court llie tribunal to count the vote and di'lare tlie lenult. There are serious ob jections to this, and it will I think, fail. Itiis purely a political question aud, if adopted, will do more to weaken the con fidence and respect the country has for tliis-august body ihananyihing that has 1 ever happened. Ouf. people should re ! main quiet.. An indiscreet act on the part of any Southern State will be quick - ly seized upon and turned to our disad " vantage. W'e may lose the fruit of our toili our hopes may be blighted, but we v will oot be one whit worse off thaD we have been for the past eight yeais. Our .northern brethren love liberty, but can- ' "not. 1 think, be made to believe tbat it Will be destroyed even if Hayes is'xoun ted in by force and" fraud. , Your friend, 11. P. Waring. ! SOUTH CAROLINA. HAMPTON INAUGURATED. Imposing Ceremonies A Dense Crowd 1 j The House ops Covered Uh spectators. TSS INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 1 IOLUMBIA, b. Uec. 14. I he in w i . auguration ot Hampton toofc place m froul of Carolina Hall this afternoon. T;hi pqnare in front of the Hall was densely packed by persons f both races, anu the house-tons were covered with JSpfCtators, At :U30 o clock Hampton ' Was escorted-to the stand amid demonsta tioiis of great enthusiasm. The members of the Geueral Assembly occupied the space immediately surrounding theetand, with the crowd in ihe rear. Gen. Hamp ton then read his inaugural address, .toluch: the following jg an extract: f .''Gentlemen of the Senate and House f Representatives : It is with feelinff of we, profoundest solicitude that I assume the arduous duties aud grave responsibil ities ot the high position to which -the people of South Carolina have called me. -It.. ' Umid events unprecedeuts in this ffpuhiic that I take the chair as Chief -'Magistrate' of ihis State. In a time of prbl9und peace when no legal officer bad ieen resisted in the proper discharge of - his functions we have witnessed a specta cle abhorrent to every patriotic heart and fatal to Republican institutions federal ; troops used to promote the success of a '- Political party. Undismayed, though ' . shked by this gross violation of the constitution of die country, our people : with a determination that no force could subdue, no fraud could defeat, kept stead :$7t aud peacefully in the path of duty, resolved to assert their right as American freemen, at ike ballot box, that great court f final resort, before which must be tried tne grave question of tha supremacy st( vunaiuuuoa anx w staou.uy .o our 0D8tuuency, and our institutions. What the verdict of the people of South Carolina u,a neen, yoa need not be told; it has reverberated throughout the State and. its echoes come back to ns from every land here liberty is venerated, declaring in tones that can not be mistaken tbat stand ing od the constitution of our country we propose to obey the laws, to preserve as far as in us lies, its peace and honor,,, and to carry oat in good faith every z pledge made by as for reform and honestjgoyern VV intAiwl tA nrnva to tlrn world the I inceritT of snr declarations that the sole motive which inspired the grand "contest wo have so successfully made was not the paltry ambition for party supremacy, i but the sacred hope of redeeming' our I State. But it was soneht to wrest the! fruits of this victory from us by a gigantic fraud and ft base conspiracy. When the members elect of the general assembly re paired to the eapitol to take seats, armed soldiers ot tbe Jb ederal Ixovernment eon- ; fronted them and their certificates of elec- don were examined nud passed upon by a cornoral of tbe euard. It was amid these appaling scenes tbat the members of the general assembly were called on to assume their duties as the representatives of a free State, and that State one- of tbe original thirteen, who won our independ ence and framed our constitution, was debarred the free exercise of their rights by the presence of an armed force. A legal quorum of the Lower House, after placing on record their- protest, quietly placing on recora uieir- proicsi, quieiiy - , . T i j withdrew from the Capitol ana proceeded . , r, e . v r. , to orzanize that branch of the General Assembly. You have seen a minority of the House usurp the powers of the whole body; you have seen the majority ezpells ed from their hall by threats of force; you have seen persons having no shadow of a claim as members, admitted to seats as Representatives by the votes of men who themselves were acting in direct violation of the comtitution; and you have seen the last crowning act of infamy by which a candidate for the office of Governor, de feaied by the popular vote, had himself declared elected by his conspirators. It is due to my position as the Chief Magis- trateof this Commonwealth to place on I record my solemn and indignant protest I araint acts which I consider as subversive 1 ot civil liberty aud destructive of our form ot government. A great task is before the Conservative party of this State. I bey entered on t Lis contest with a platform so broad, so I stron?. 10 liberal that everv honest citizen - - - Q J could stand upon it. They recoguized aud J accepted the amendments to tbe cou stitution in eood ftitb; they themselves to work reform and to establish good government; they promised to keep up an efficient system of public education, arid they declared solemnly that all citizens id South Carolina, of both races and of both parlies should be regarded equal in the eye of the law; all to be fully protect ed in the-enjtiyment of every political I right now possessed by them. To the! taithtul observance ot these plede-es we stand committed, and as the represent- ive of the Conservative party I held mvselt bound bv every dictate ot Honor a It and of good faith to use every effort to r lave the pledges redeemed fully and hon- estiv. let us snow to an or mem tuai the true iuterest of both races can best be secured by cultivating peace and promo ting prosperity among all classes ot our fellow citizens. I rely confidently on the support of the members of the General Assembly in my efforts to attain these laudable ends, and I trust that alt branch es of tbe government will unite cordially in this patriotic work. If so united and working with resolute' will and earnest determination, weTnay hope soon to see the dawn of a brighter day for our State. God in His lnhoiie mercy grant that it may come speedily, and may He shower the richest blessings of peace aud happi ness on our whole people. At the close of the address the oath of office was administered by Trial Jnstice Marshall. Hampton as Governor and to VV. D. Simosan as Lieu't. Governor; the crowd standing uncovered while the cer- emonv was beinr performed. 1 he euair in which Gen Hampton was seated wa then wrapped in the national colors, and he was borne on the shoulders of a dozen men to his hotel, escorted by the entire crowd. Several prominent gentlemen addressed the multitude from the front or tue uotei, iue ougrBitmwi uju"" .1 1 1 -I - V ..! a. . n occupying a promineut .position on one of the balconies; after which the crowd quietly dispersed. INDIANA. An Appeal lint Means SomethingThe 2 he People Tlioroughly Aroused The Constitution Must bcKept Inviolate. Indianapolis, Dec. 14. The Demo cratic Committee has issued an address to tbe people of Indiana, which calls upon all people without respect to party who make our country s wet (are paramount to every other consideration; all who say that the vote of the people shall not be defeated by fraud, and all who stand by fair-play and honesty to meet at their coen ty seats on December 23d, to make expres sion of the popular judgment that cannot be disregarded, and to appoint men as their delegates to a State convention on January 8th, who will fearlessly and pru dently make such declaration and take action -a will give our State her proper position and influence in maintaining the Constitution, the government and its rights, aud tbe liberties of tbe people. Washington, Dec. 14 The eonnter statement signed by Secretary Chandler, furnished to the press at midnight con cludes ; "Hayes and Wheeler are elected, and the will of tbe American people will fee parried out a.o4 maintained, - 'pw The Blue Ridae Blade, of the 12th announces tbe death on Tuesday morning last, oCol. W F. Mcesion of llor gauton. SOUTH CAROLINA. Returns in the Office of the Secretary of State Shows Hampton's Election The , Secretary So Certifies Under Seal of 'the State. WASHIKQTOJf. D. Ci. Dae 15. Be fore the inauguration of jHambton, Speak- Wallace produced and read the follow- S omciai statement irora mo oenreiary ot otate "Vote for Governor elected in 1876. Hampton 92,261, votes, Chamberlain 91,127 v6tes. Office of thb Sc't. of State, Columbia, S. C, Dee. 9, '76. S I, J. II. . Hayne, Secretary of State do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct statement of the vote for Gor ernor at the general election of!187G, as ap- pears by tbe commissioners returns now ou file at this office. Given under my hand and tbe seal of the State, at Colombia, this the 9th day of December il 876, and in th lUUth year of American Independence. (Signed) J. H. E. Hayne, Sec'y of State. Columbia, Dec. 15. Thej House com m it tee examined several witnesses and have obtained returns from nearly all the precincts but about fifteen, which will be - ,. j . . , w r a- supplied by teslimony. ! V. U. nimpson, T . t :, . rrt J Democratic Lieateuant Uovernor, to-day sent a letter to the Senate claiming his election and demanding; his seat as pre siding officer of that body. ! The letter was read and referred to the Judiciary Committee for report.- Another ballot was taken to-day for United States Sen ator by the Democrats in joint eession. The vote was scattering. No choice. LOUISIANA. Where the Affidavits of the Returning Boards are Prepared. New Orleans, Dec. 15. Clover, Supervisor of East B iton Rouge submit ted a copy of the affidavit which accom panied his returns alleging riot, tumult, violence, fear, dread terrorism through- out tne parish on tne day or tne election Clover did not witness violence, was in formed of H. Un cross examination he said the affidavit was prepared in the Custom House of this city. Huh J W : Campbell assisted in preparing it. Chamberlain s Incendiariesl at Work. . ' ! Charleston, Dec 15. Twenty stores and residences including the depot, ex press and telegraph office at RIackeville, Barnwell county, were burned. .Loss $40,000. It is believed to be the work of au incendiary. Also a $11,000 incen iry fire in Florence, i , THE PUBLIC DEBT. The effort made by the Legislature o 1874-'75 to consolidate the debt of the State, proves in the main almost eutirely fruitless. The act of l874-75, entiiled "An act to compromise, commute and settle the State debt," authorized the issuance of new bonds of the Statrc for certain elapses of old bonds, t rates fixed by the statute. The whole scheme res ted upon the willingness of the creditors to make the exchange provided for; and the law was therefore experimental in its nature. Intending it as sucli, a period was fixed for the operations of the act Section 9. says that ''the provisions of 9 m this act for the exchange and issue of bonds shall continue in force until the first day of January, 1878 " ! But a short time, then, remains for the further erecu tion of the act ; and unless re-enacted it must soon become a dead letter on the statute books. In a commnmcatian from the State Treasurer to the General Assembly, which we point on another page this morninc it is distinctly set forth to what extent there has been a compliance on the part of the creditors of the Stale with the act of 1874-'75. Nothing has "been done by the 1 reasurer towards carrying the act into effect. The reasons for thii are fully stated. Tbe sum of it is that l . .. 1 . T t . the public creditors declined tne propo r .iturn of the State. Mr. Jenkins reports that op to June 24, 1876, there had been only $32,800 offered, calling for 89,030 of bonds; and that at that date S4S3 C00 1 more were offered calling for $121,350 of ' the new bonds.". As the expense of en graving bonds would be considerable, Mr. Jenkins did not think it advisable to in cur such expeuses when only about one bond in fifteen or twenty would be brought in. In addition to this he gives other substantial reasons for his non-co n. pliance such as the physicial impossi bility to sign the coupons as required, and sundry defects in the law which would be developed in its execniion. On the whole it was manifestly his duty to defer the matter to the meeting of the General Assembly, whtn jhe defective portions of the act might be cured. The question now arises, shall this act be re enacted after the 1st of January, next, with amendments suggested by the wisdom of tbe present Legislature, or shall tbe law be allowed j to become a dead letter and the whole question of the settlement of tbe public debt be suffered to fall back to if hero it was before the act passed by tile last General Assem bly t tr ! . The subject if one of vital importance to North Carolina. The duty of re-establishing at the earliest possible moment tbe credit of the State; rests n pon us with paramount obligations at this time. It is a duty which should be boldly .met and discharged, for, io -the language of tbe nreambJe to the sxtj of 187475, "the good people of this State re, desirous of assuming and paying to the public cred itors so much of the just debt of the State as their unfortunate condition will allow." Ral News. NO ILLUSIONS ! This is no time to indulge in pleasing illusions. What the people should un derstand is the exact truth, startling and revolting as it may be. In stating this truth, we do not proceed npon imagina tion or conjecture. The plan is clearly defined and proclaimed by Republicans themselves without any effort at disguise or concealment. By faw, the votes of the Electoral Col leges are to be counted on the second Wednesday in February, and that law it is proposed to respect. Hitherto this du ty has been discharged in the hall of the House of Representatives. On occasion of the last three elections the rule has prevailed, and has not been disputed or questioned, that while the coaming was done by the two Houses together, as has been the practice from the beginning of the Government, th objection of either House to the vote of any State sufficed to exclude that State altogether from the count. Now, however, a different meth od is to be introduced. The opening of the votes and the unting is to be done in the Senate Chamber, because, as the Washington correspondent of the) Tribune informs the public, "there are grave reasons why the Senate should not put itself in the power of the House, which need not now be more than hinted at.' The President of the Senate, having the returns in bis hands, is to open those that he deems proper, to count them by himself alone. and declare the result as he sees it. Only those envelopes fiom the disputed States that he knows to contain votes for Hayes will be opened by him, and the others will be altogethr-r ignored, w hether they coutam a uovernor s certificate or not. The House is to beHnvited to be present in the Senate Chamber, but is not to be allowed to have any voice as regards the counting, to offer objections to the vote of any State, or to take any action what ever beyond being present to witness what is douc aud said by the President of the Senate. Thus Mr. Hayes is to he declared elected, and if" tbe House should make any troublesome demonstration, Gen. Grant will dcal-with it, "If," said Grant on Sunday, as he is reported in the N. Y. Times of yesterday, "If there should be uiy necessity for more troops, he would order them to ashington. We slundd have peace, if we had to fight for it." Next comes the inauguration on the 4th f March. This ia also to he managed bv Gen. Grant with the soldiers aud the bayonets of the United States. 1 his scheme involves the necessity for getting control of the House of Repre sentatives, aud tliM end is to be attained by treans similar to those employed to make Hayes President. By counting out tnemoers really elected in .Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, the actual Democratic majority in the next House is believed to have been already reduced to only one member, while there are three vacancies in New Hampshire t be filled at the annual election in March next These three vacancies must be filled bv Republicans. A year ago the Tribune in a long review of New Hampshire poli tics, stated that any election in that State couia oe carried , oy oriDery. I5y this 11 I i t . means, or by any other, it is intended that after Mr Hayes has been inaugura ted, a working majority shall be made for him in the House of Representatives, since without this it would be impossible for him to carry on the Government, as it is not expected that the present House will vote any general appropriations that can be availed of after the end of the present fiscal year. This is the scheme just as it stands. For this scheme the Republican party and all the statesmen of that party so far stand responsible. No voice of dissent against it has yet; been heard fiom any Republican quarter, influential or not in fluential. The Republicans have the physical power. The army is theirs, just as the Returning Boards of the South are theirs, aud no illusion about their purpose to use this power to the bitter end can any longer be admitted. The consummation of their purpose means the end of government by the people through elections, and the substitu tion of government by an oligarchy officeholder through public robbers or ganized as Returning Boards, supported by soldiers, and 'scorning law and the forms of law. SENATOR FERRY. The denial by Mr. Ferry, the Trt idem of tbe Senate, thnit he had expressed tin opinion that the President of the Senate would count as well as open the electoral vote. 13 a good sign. Unless Mr. Ferry does so hold, it would seem impossible to carry out the Itauical programme. Mr. Ferry was, by a f.unal resolution of ihe Senate, declared to be the President of the Senate during the present Congress. This was done after the death of Vice President Wilson, and in order to Rettle the right to the succession in case Presi dent Grant should die. The Radical pro gramme is to remove Mr. Ferry and put Senator Sherman in his place, to which little operation the Michigan Senator will, doubtless, very seriously object. Indeed, it may be set down, that without his ac tive co-operation; the whole scheme will be a failnre. It is a matter of sincere con gratulation, therefore, to learn tbat he so emphatically denies having given expres sion to the opinion attributed to him. I Ral. Observer. ; True. The New York Herald is in its Radical week, hut it very trnly remarks that "the refusal of the Louisiana Returning Board to obey the subpoena of tbe committee of Congress sent t investigate tbeir proceed ings does not look well." Ral. Observer. THE TWO SETS OF COMMITTEES. Both Houses of Congress have ap pointed committees to investigate the re cent elections in Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina, but the Senate has extend ed the range of its inquiry into Alabama. Georgia, and Mississippi, and included the years 1875 and 1876. By this latter proceeding the situation will be more complicated than it already is, and new questions will be opened for angry dis cussion. Whether it was the intention f Mr. Edmunds to divert the public mind from tbe monstrous frauds in tbe three States which the Returning Boards have counted for Hayes, will appear hereafter. It may be assumed in advance tbat these committees will disagree radically in their conclusions, and in their coloring of the material facts in each case. One side has to expose fraud of the wnr kindand the other side has to sustain it Oonseqner,tly, there is little, if any, hope ' - w cr j in. i r w n "CHU"" cuuimuiees uaa Drevionsiv paper which John Sherman and his asso- science, the judgment, and the patriotism ciates signed in New Orleans, and their of the people, appeals to them to save the eulogy ot the Kernrmug Board, which work of ili tfVi branded with infamy, it is easy to foresee ultimate triumph of truth, justice, and w0?.0' ?oca,ment U?.we McMillian, law, and the restoration of self-govern-and Wadleigh will lay before the Senate, ment in this country, all deoend noon the the conspirators in South Carolina, londs, and Lonisiana will, of course, throw every possible impediment in the way or a searching investigation by the ow .uuiLuiuccB, uuui meir own inenas I of the Senate appear upon the ground. I There is reason to believe they have been already advised to pursue that course trom Washington. Ine original plan of States are. in the hands of Kellogg, Cham berlain, Stearns, aud their subordinates, who, in some form or other, were connect ed with the frauds that have been imposed on the country, instead of the votes that were really cast. They, of course, will not scruple at any means by which these iniquities may be ostensibly sustained. If the suppression of evidence, or the manufacture of testimony, or the falsifi cation of papers be necessary, there will be no lack of hands to produce them. The Senate will, of course, be guided by the reports of its own committees, and will not consider even the minority views that mny be presented. The Republicans have substantially made up their minds, and they are preparing a caBe for the public to defend that judgment. They mean to count Hayes iu, and they are sustained in that purpose by Grant and all the power which his Administration can exert. All disguise has been thrown off, and every day develops some new scheme to promote this design The people who are watching the turn of events at Washington will sift the wheat from the chaff of the two sets of reports -that will probably be laid before Congress by the end of this month. truth will assert itself in spite of all attempts at perversion, and the country will soon set tle down to the conclusion which of the two, Hayes or Tilden, is fairly elected. When three States, with all the election machinery in the hands of the Republi- cans, witn tne army stationea to neip them under tbe orders of partisan mar shals, and with thousands of deputies scattered at the public expense as elec tioneering agents, return Democratic ma jorities, it will require something more than the stale charge of intimidation to cent the results declared in secret by .i" n. . t make the people of the United States ac three Returning Boards. These committees will probably not exert the least influence in bringing tbe Senate and House of Representatives nearer together than they now are, or in soft ening the asperities of the debates. But the testimony collected by both will ena- ir. Morton was to conduct this investiga- nt .1 : A e i V. . V r T er S01 100 P00r to keep it up, and so we tion at Washington, but when the policy p DUon 7 lhe to choose their turned to getting ourgrindfng done at St. fihe House was fully developed? the 't waa foreshadowed by prominent Louis." 6 programme, was changed to its present nVufn - "Yon don't mean to say you send your form. 1 F f.a lhrow" h" 1,ot 0kn the rn,nS grist all the way to St. iiuis by rail t" . All the returns, records, and reports "Tm 1 e"ber' Jhe1ffd,e "I don't say nothing about gris-we j .V. -1 . .V lions of Mr, Blaine, Newton Booth Murat 1,.;.,', ' ; j d . ble tbe great body of intelligent and in- made that it would be moral perjury in .Vice dependent men, regard the preseut erisis President Ferry and President Grant if they 1 r -.. should consent to allow the electoral vote of as involving consequences far grayer than cjut fop the re8toration of iheSouiU- the success of either 1 ilden or Hayes, to ern Confederacy, is hen they knew that a ma form a candid judgment that will go far jority of the people of those States had been to shape public opinion, which is more practically disfranchised, and when they had t.r. . .. .. ! 1 .1.1 1 r r . i. -. f- powerful than the President, his Uabiuet, j 11 .u .. .. a .k aud all the conspirators arouud thorn ipiralors combined. N. Y. Sun. GEN. GRANT'S TEMPT FOR THORITY. ALLEGKD CON JUDICIAL AU The coarse language in reference to a State Court attributed to Gen. Grant in tbe reports in the public journals a few days since, would be of comparatively minor importance were il not followed up by acts in strict accordance with its spirit. The report was tbat the President of the Uuited Slates, in an interview with mem bers of the national Legislature, used this extraordinary language : "I don't care a damn for Vie Supreme Court of South Varolina. The action of the President has been suited to these words. He does not seem to care for any civil authority. He sends an armed soldier to keep men of an ad- verse political faith out of tbe hall of a Stale Legislature. In fact, so far as we are afforded the means of judging, he cares for nothing except to carry out, by bloodshed if need be, his own partisan and nersonal designs. It is to be hoped the walls of the White House will never again bear such words from the month of a President as we have just quoted, and, as a matter of taste, for- bear from quoting again. Close following on an utter disregard of tbe decisions of the established les-al 4 tribunals, tread the wildest auarchy and confusion. N. Y. Sun. WHAT THE PEOPLE SHOULD BEAR IN MIND. It is for the interest of; the Republican party and of the conspirators who now control it that tbe progress and the final consummation of the plot to make a Presi dent by fraud and force should be vio lently resisted. They desire that the just passions of the people should be excited to the point of actual sedition, in order tbat they may seize the opportunity to proclaim a new war, to raise new armies, to subjugate a new rebellion, to hide their own crimes with new bloodshed and ruin, and to gain a new and a long lease of power for themselves. This is" their in terest ; this is what they desire. On the other hand, it is forjhe interest of the country and especially of tbe Con servative Reform party, which carried the election of last November, that there should be no Outbreak, no act of violence, no attempt at i forcible resistance to the conspiracy and the usurpation, no oppor tunity for bloodshed and for armies. Ihe weapons by which this conspiracy can alone be safely and surely resisted stitntimi tn ran f ;...;.,. : ini. preservation of peace every where. Make the contest ene of reason mrf ril.t lnn and reason and right will win. Make It one of force, and reason and riht will be destroyed. . I. oun. SOME PROPHECIES RECALLED. Halstead, and others, have been verified so fully by the course of events up to this time, that we naturally recur to their language for light on the further develop ment of the plot. Three weeks before election day the following prophecy issued forth from the St. Louis jail, where the Republican editor of the Globe-Democrat was then confined for whiekey thieving : "No man elected by the process resorted to by the Democrats of South Carolina will ever be allowed to take his seat as President of the United States. This is our deliberate judg ment." Two weeks before election day James G. Blaine, in a speech at Buffalo, predict ed Tildeu's election in case New York went Democratic, and then turning to his Republican auditors, asked, "Will you allow him to be inaugurated in that event!" Two weeks before election day Senator Newton Booth of California, in the course of a talk with a reporter of the San Francis co Chronicle, said : "In the way matters stand at present, in case the final declaration of tbe choice for President I depended upon the acceptance of the vote of one or more of the Southern States to which troops had been sent, the House would inevita bly refuse to allow it to be counted in, and an appeal to force would be necessary in order to settle the matter. "Reporter What do you mean by force f 'Senator Booth Physical force war. I think it is remarkably fortunate for the coun try that we have a Republican President who is also Uoinmander-ln-lhiel 01 the array, so tj,t in the event of any serious complications the Government has at its head a man who will see it protected. There are a good many recuont why the Democrats should not be suffered to gain control of the Government." Two weeks before election day Mr. Murat Halstead, editor of the strongest Republican newspaper in the West, and! a close personal friend of Mr. Hayes, Wentured on prophetic ground Hie lan- I guage was so remarkable that we printed it at the time, and reproduced it here : "If New York Should happen to go Demo- cratic, the probability is that there would be a disposition on the part of the Republicans to throw out the votes of those Southern States which were carried for Tilden bv the intimida- .l L1..1 ti .1 i .1 lion OI ine oiaeKB. x nave ncaru iiic suggemiuii in meir nanus u.e leg. ,.ruu. ui iu I "Now. if the Presidential election should I "'S. r:::: c.k (Urn UpOll IUV yutCO miooinnipi, ivrum Carolina, Florida, or Louisiana, it would be impossible to avoid a desperate dispute between the two legislative Houses ot tne uovernment. The way is already prepared, by the declara tions of Republican Senators, for Mr. Ferry, acting Vice-President, to assume the entire re sponsiWIity of counting the electoral votes. The House will not, of course, consent to this. TH. . nVt lliino ia tha nneilinn nf PrMir)nt Grant. Grant is the Commander-in-chief of .1... A - .1 Var rf t lo TTmlArl Klala. Tha very practical question would arise whether he would sustain Mr. Ferrv in the Senate. I im agine that the weight of inference is that he would. Perhaps he would do it by proclama tion. That is what in the Spanish-American republics are called pronunciamicntos. The sit uation will be exceedingly difficult, if not hax- ardoua. Trouble would come npon us in a more dangerous shape than it did sixteen years ago ZTJSit' There is a sort or Mexican miasma in I cal air." At tbe time of tbeir utterance these vaticinations were generally regarded as the voicings of demagogy or of folly. In the light of subsequent events they show that two months ago the leaders of the office-holding party had already determin- ed upon a desperate programme in case of defeat at the polls. Whatever the re- snlt of the election, they were not to be disturbed in tbe enjoyment of place andJ power, lo retain place and power, mey were prepared to resort, if necessary, to Mexican methods. It will be seen tbat the programme of the conspirators, as indicated by Senator Booth and more explicity by Mr. Hal- j stead, has been carried out thus far to the letter. After all questions of fact, of fl r mnrnl wnartnua. . a. I il.. J ; .1 i 1 legality, of constitutionality, of policy, and of mora) right have been exhausted, the issue is narrowed down to a qnestion of troops. Senator Booth expressed his satisfaction that tbe military power was in the hands of a man who would not hesitate to employ It. The conspirators counted upon this even before the election. From the very first the success of the audacious seheme has depended npon his Mexican habits of thought, his careless ness of civil law, his dogged fidelity to the interests of friends and favorites. Grant is the main stay of tbe conspiracy." OUR SLOUCH WAYS. f More 2 ruth than Poetry or JFun, Either From Natchez Weekly Democrat. "Hallo, stranger, you seem to be going to market V "Yes, sir, I am." - "What are you carrying that plour along for ?" "Going to send it to Pittsburg." "To Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania !" "You're mighty right j I am." "What are you going to send it thero fort" "To get sharpened." "All the way to Pittsburg to get shar pened?" "You bet 1 We've starved our black smith out ; he pulled up stakes the other day and went to Texas." iitTf II .1 . .1 en, mat s a rawer novel idea my end sending a plow so far to get shar Pened ".Not so novel as yoa heard it was. We do our milling in St. Louis." "Is that so t" "You're right it is. We nsed to have a mill at Punkinyine Creek, bat-the own- our flour and meal from St. Louis." "I see you have a hide, on your wag en." "Yes jonr old cow died last week. March winds blowed the life out'n her. Sendin' her hide to Boston to get it tanned.'' "All the way to Boston t Is not that rather expensive, my friend t The freights will eat the hide up." "That's a fact cleaner than the but zards did the old critter's carcass. But what's the use bein' taxed to build rail roads 'thout you get the good of 'eml Used to have a tauyard over at L;ckskiU let and shoemaker, too. But they're ker fllummuxed." "Kerflummuxed what's that f" "It means, gone up a spout and twixt you and me, that's mighty nigh the case with our State." "When do you expect" to get your leather ?" "Don't expect to git no leather at all, expect to get shoes, some day, made at Boston or thereabouts." "Rather a misfortune to lose a milk cow, my friend." "Not so much a misfortune as yoa heard it was. Monstrous sight of shuck in' and unbinin' a cow, and milkin her night and mornin aud gettin' only about 3 quarts a day." ; " What are you going to do for milk 7" "Send North for it." Send North for milk ?" "Yes ; concentrated milk and Goshen butter." "Oh ! I see the point." Mightr handv tbiogs these railroads- make them Yankee fellers do all our jobs for us now do our smithin', and grind', and tannin', and milkin', and churniu'. "I see 00 have a bale of cotton." I "Yes, wo go our bottom nickel on coU I ton. -Sendin' it op to Massachusetts to ge it carded, and spun, and wove. Time'll come when we'll send It there to be ginned, then we'll be happy. Mon 8t-ou8 gight of trouble running these , Kino. i ,..,, , ij 1. l. .:- sen- ding cotton in seed.." "No more so than them Western feU and bits lers pays when they send corn East ret a dollar a bushel and pays six freight. Besides, as I said, what is the use of paying for railroads 'thout we use the roadst" "I think we ought, we pay enough for em. "I reckon you fatten your own pork." "Well, you reckon wrong, stranger. I get them lllinoy fellers to do that for me.' It's mighty convenient, too monstrous sight of trouble toting a big basketful of corn three times a day to nogs in a pen- especially when you hain't got none to I tr.il. if tr. "I should think so." "There's one thiug laeking though, to make the business complete." i "What's that?" ' They ought to send them bogs ready cooked. Cooking and preparing wood for cookin' lakes up a heap of time that rt by right to be employed in the cotton patch. I was sayin' to my old woman. the other day, if we Mississippi 4olks gift our cookin and washiu' done cp North- and sent by express, we'd be as nappy aa office holders." "Yom horse in the lead there seems to be lame." "Yes, need shoein. If be wasn t the only horse I've got, and I can't spare him, I would send him up where they make horse shoes and nails aod get him shod. Can't get each a thing dona in our parts. Perhaps I can at the do- pot.'' -j. "How do you manage to live in your parts, my old friend." "Why, wo raise cotton. My road turns off here, stranger. Gee, Ball; back Brandy. I'm gl-d I eedyou stranger. n 11 i i f , i 5 I il u ";! ill X"