Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1876, Page 2

- only due to such very ¢ 2 THE CHICAGO of scratched tickets. Tho surprlsing eain sinco the Presidential clection fs largely owing to the }mnmnr conflilence in Mr. Foye, which fed many Democrats to vote for him even against one of licir most popular men, but not a'fittle Is duc 1o the grnw“uz Impression_that tho lese trust and confidence put in the Democratic party the Dbetter, In view of their Joudly-cxpressed sym- athy with the shot-gun tactics and frauds of lio_Southern Democracy, and thelr apparent readiness to follow In any dark pathways and tricks of the worst of their kind. Tt s €1 first gun from New Hampshire since they have do- veloped thelr rendiness for o new rebellion if they cannot by any fraud overturn tho honest vote of the peaple.” — KENTUOKY. ADDRESS OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTRE—GRATIPYING INCREASE IN TIIB KENTUCKY REFUBLICAN VOTR—TILDEN 1N A POPULAR MINORITY IN TILB STATES WIICH DID ROT AECEDE. ¢ To the Republicans of Kentucky: The returns show that at the recent clection there were 07 820 Republlcan votes and 160,108 Democratic votas cast in Kentucky. Thists the largest voto ever polled In the State, Tho large Democratie voto is not unexpected, The Democratic Presl- dential ticket was peculiarly accoptable to the Democrats of Kentucky; It was the firat ticket aincetheWar which representedteirown political vicws, On this account they wers full of en- thuslosm, and vigorously carried on the cam- paign by public mectings, flag-raisings, and stump-speaking all over the State. The gain fu the Republican vots of nenr}( 7,000 {8 most gratifylng. It shows aresoluto ad- herence to principls, and a nealthful growth of Republicanisni. This is full of encouragement for the future. It hias been accomplished by no great and_general effort, for nonc such” was made in Kentucky. It {s theresult alone of qulet local voluntary work., ‘The fact that the Republican party in Ken- tucky has thus increascd Its vote is cause for congratulation. That tho party thmu’zhmll the vountry has maintained ita strength i further cause for congiatulation. Excopt for great po- Titical {rauds perpetrated h¥Democrnt9, notably in New York City and in the Southern S8tates, the election of Haycs and Wheeler would havo been unquestivuable. In the Btates outsidu the +8olld South” there {8 a largo and decided Re- publican majority, both In the Electoral and popular votes, Democracy has been beaton in the loyal States, Its sucvess lain tho lately soceded Btates. Comparing the vote for Tildcn WX“'P L'l'nn. of Hayes, we flnd'the followlug state of facts: The States of New York, outside the Citles of New York apd Brooklyn, finvo 4 Republican majority of nearly 40,000, By the vote of Lhuse two citles the Eléctornl voto' of the State s Democratic by a nm)urlt( of 83,000. Iodisnn ve & Democratic nm&& ty of Icss than 6,000, onnecticut nearly 8,000, "New Jerscy nearly 12,000. The sggrogate of thess majorities fs about 63,000, «'1hieso are the only States outsldo ;In::fl:l' 'Solid South" which gave Democratic ma- orities. The other States of the North gave an_ag| gate Republlcan majority of over 260,000, "The vate of ull the non-secy ‘ln% States, lucluding Kentucky, Missourl, West Virglula, Delaware, and Maryland, shows a net Republican majority of 75,000. Thu Dewocratic majority, sccording to the face of the returns, is less than 275,000, As tho non-seveding States are Republican by 5,000 majority, it sppears that the Democrats st got thelr majority in the seceded Status. The fact {s, tho Stales of North Carolina, Alsbama, Virginta, Tenncesce, Goorgla, Mis- slssippl, Texas, and Arkansay gnvu this mu- fority. ' This was accomplished the practl- cal mnnihlintion of the Republican vote in somo of those States. The Dewmocratic platform declaved In favor of nequicseence fn the will of the majority. It declared In favoy of the equal- Jty of all citizens before the law. It declared devotion to the constitutional amendments by which ncgroes hecamo votere. ‘The farce of an clectlon In nearly all of the Southern States Just named shows the utter fusineerity of those rofessfons. The large Domocratic mujoritics n thoso Btalea simply means that the colored vote wis not polled. By Intimldation and threats, which Republicans in this State well uuderu(nml, and by abollahing 80 many of the vutlnq Blncu that"tho remaining ones were oc- cupled by the white voters during the entire clo.tlon day, the negroes wero practicnlly denfed thie right to vote. If the election had been held In those and other Southern States according to the leiter snd spirit of the Democratic platiorm tho election of the Republican ticket would he assured by a large majority, both of tne popular iud Bleetoral vute, The boast that the peaple have pronounced against the Bepubllcan ‘mrty {2 totally unfounded. If the next Administra- tion should be Democratic, it will be eo agulnst the wlll of the people. It will be based upon frand, deception, zud viotunce, We apprehend no trouble over the result of the election. If the Demoeratic ticket should recelve o majorlty of the Eleetoral vote, Repub- 1lcans, thougi feelimg that iL was accomnphietied by fraud, will alnde ‘the result. On the other hiud, it the Repubhican ticket has tie majonty, we belieye theve will he no violence. Reckless men whi counsol reslstance deserve the severest condemuation, Al persons should discounte- nnnce indiscreet and intlammatory speaking and writlng, Our conoiry has sutfered enough on aecount of passlovatuand bod mens It neeus rest and tranqullity. The people should cultivate the virtues of mederation. lorhearance, and fair- nesi, R. M. KeLuy, Chafrman. . CUNNINGUAM, it Peren LEwis, TiloMas Sreep, Sceretary. INTIMIDATION. REPLY TO MUl HIOMACE WIITE, To the Aditor of, The Tribuna. Cr10AGo, Dec, 2.—I beg to differ with M. Horace White In his communication In your paperof the 2d inst., In the following conclu. slons und propositiuns advaiced by him in res gard to Intlmidation s Firat—*Thnt amony the processes by which our institutious urc muintaloed, s that of fre- quent pupular elecsione.” I Uelfeve that the - frequancy of our diffurent clections 18 o great evil; It ocenslons a vontinual figuring and wire- pulling among the lus and outs, and it s the muin cause for the apathy felt, among tho ro- spectablu people to the greatest extent, aguinst voting ut and paying nny attention to clectlons, exeept, perhaps, every tour years fn tho Presl- dential canvass. Thiey allow a sct of men to ho clected to oflice who turn out bad, and then console themselves with the thought that thelr term of olllee [s ahort, and resolve to get in bete ter men the next time, This keeps them In o continual need of Citizens' Committecs, ete, Second—"* That this country muy becoms as unstable,and property here ns fnsceure, and + sociul disorder as unbearnble, as In Mexico and Veuesuelu” 3y, Whito forgots that the great wajarity of the Amerlcan people beloug to tho Anglo-baxon rave, aud that this race stands no nouscnse when onee nroused, but ends such natters at ouce by smmnnrly ?mmu, oud it la harituble and sentl- mentel men as Horsee Greeley, and thoso who thought lke him, that the vresent alsturbunces have existed at the South slics the War closed. Hnd Lincolu lived, Greeley would never had a chunce to sign his iume on the bond of defl Davis,~n0 bond would have ever heen required,—but some of the leaders would have been runlanul or banished from the country, and the rest made aware thattreason was likely 10 be folluwed by fus just deserts, nnd thousauds of lives would have been saved In consequence, ‘The Kepublican party has to thank such men na Greeley, Schurz, uud others, who in the hour of victory Tet thetr muguanimity only see the white man i the Boulh, ana wero elther too cowardly or too mistakenly charitable to punish treason, and seemned only “autious to put the men back into thelr privileges of which they oughit tohave bugen deprived for u gencration ut leust, 20rd=That lntimidatlon way be and will ba used to vitlaws electious fu the future, if the Ite turning Board in Loutsluna decide to throw out tho vates of the duthmdated parishes, aud that there Is go way to throw out on the score of in- thnidution the votea of legal voters duly pulled, that does not admit and”{uyite this speces of ruscality.” Why, 3r. W,, thls thing ll old in Chlcago, Just think of tho townshi clections licre fn this city st spring! The men who then cuglucered the fruud ure the oncs who are now anud ulways huve been in aympathy with the in- tunidators in the Bou And, furthermore, I would renind Mr. W, that st that time it necd- ed but a leader, snd a few of the friends of Duve Thornton wouldy bave urndmented some of unr lump-posts fu hls company, unless they had feft the city fuagiven e, ain certadn that this ity will not agein quictly stand such ruscalities as havo heen comuitted the last few yeura by o certain set. Fourth—*"Thst {uthnidation will becoue tho onlf' element of valug m politics, and will mul- siply Wke tgrmhuppum i & short time and rav- tho wholo country,—that it is a prenuum on tiidity snd luziness, uud & stigma ou diligence As I have mentloued Letore, the paliticiuns of the Hberal schuol only ses dikigence, lutellygence, and seif-ruspect i the wultes of the Boutb, und this ls whore they uwke 8 grave error Toho statistics show that us 8 class the whites of the South are smony the oet iguorant white people 0o the fues of 1he globy, and It s u fuc eptible of proot Lu $Lo few yousotbat sluvery hus bees sbuls {shed and the colored raco been allowed to edu- ente themselves they have made rapld strides forward, and ~ do credit to ther free conditlon, ‘That the race s nut all angels ia admitted, but that, na a class, thoy aro far superior to thoss miscrablo wretchea who arc coinmitting the dutrages anong them is certain, If the reports of disturbauces be- tween the whites and blacks In the South, re- ported a whitc man hurk occaslonally, there would be some reason to belleve that the blacks were oceasionally the nggressors, but when the reports continuslly read twenty negroes kitled and no white man hurt, I for ono shall nat chango the opinfon I formed on an extemed trip through the South a few E:nu ago: That the falrest, richest, and most beautiful portion of our beautiful land js inhabited in many rlucn by a set of men mado half-savage durin ha exlsicneo of slavery, overbearfng and intol- erant in the highest degres, lazy, of too proud to work, who only remember that but a_short time ago they recetved all the wages which now 0 to the man who does the work, aud that the avo to go to work themaclves or starve; and, knowing of what I speak, tho words I sald on opening Tue TRIDUNE on the morning of the 8th of November wero, * God help the colored men of the South,” Fifth—That Republican Bupervisors and United Btates troops wore everywhere at the threatened voting-places” The Ropublican Bupervisor of nno precinet In North Carolinn was found drowned in a river, with his clothes drawn over his head, a dayor two after tho election, He had undertaken to carry the Re- publican tickots to the polls, but he neverreach- ed hits destination, Sizth—* That Gov. Ha; copt the Presidoncy on such a platform, and, it ho did, he docs nob sce how he could carry on the Governinent, as the Republican party bos been hruu‘gm in such a bad shape by the pres- ent Admiuistration.” I sdmit tho latter half of the last sentence. The Administration hins mado many mistakes; 1t has lelt a great denl of crime unpunished, and bas parduned s deal more, when it was uncalled for. 1t has many 1caders who will bo askod to n.n? down and oiit {n the near future. But, with all its fuults, tho Republican party fs so much superior to the otlicr sldo that I cannot concelve how Mr. white can ask {t of Mr. Ilnyes to step down in favor of a branded engincer of a fraudulent clection,—S. J. Tilden,—aceused by Horace Greeley, and the nccusation uever answered, never denied. Horaee Greeley knew what ho was talking about, Iwould farthermoro call the attention of Mr. White to the fact that the quibbles raised in regard to certaln {nclizibic Electors are only the sayings and speculations of singla men, just as his leticr shows lisopinion and my letter shows mine. The mass of the Sco leis eound beyond questlon. If Hayesis cclared elected, he .will be inaugurated. Nelther he nor his party is afrald. As far ssthe declination of Mr. llayes would help the party in the next canvass, it is all moonsbilne. It only defcat [can purify o party, 1 want that ourl.{ to stay defeated forever. ~ If Messrs, Grecley, Scliurz, aud White had in 1872 united tholr encr- gles, and tried to reform the Repuullvan party within the party by uncovering the abuses and {frauds, by namiug tho scoundrels and bringing them to justice, they woull have donea fur greater thing than by leavine it and jolning tho Democrats, and calliog that Hberal. That It was o great muistake Mr. White will probably not now deny. Mr, 8churz acknowledged it In September, 1874, Evcr{ honest tman must stay with his side and help it to clean out the cor- ruption, - If Mr. Tilden had or has been elected, every member of the chubucun party will be satlstled with the result, but I 1t {s ‘shown in Louislana that o nunber ol voters wera intimi- dated, and the Returning Board throw out such rmuluuu, and Huyes gets the Elcctorat votes of he State, Hayea will be ourD resldent for tho uext fouy years, He will not back down—his party will not let him If all the gamblera in the country are rufned. F. AW, . TIIE TROOPS. HEWITTOXN I8 INTERVIEW WITH TIE PRESIDENT. Dispatch to Cincinnatl Eaguirer (Dem.), Wasiixgroy, D. C, Dee. 3.—Mr. Howitt, in an Interview with your correspondent ot o late hour to-night, smd as follows: “ I did have n long interview with the President to-day. It was an fnterview between two private gentle- men, which neither futended to take publle, I have no right to make it public without the Presldent's permission, and T huve not that per- milsslon. Iawmn free to eay, however, that the interview was o verv eatlsfactory one tome. 1 fecl free to say that the President relterated what he has before said publicly, that lie was anxious sinply to do bis daty; that ho did not think any wan who was it to be President wuuld take the uiflce under u cloud; that (t wos no part ol bis duty to decids who lad been elected, hut unly bis duty to preserve the peace, and see that the Jaws were snjorced that those who liad entd he was plotting to rewain In ottles hlingelf after his term expived, or to str up any cunpustion Whick should forwe him to bold over, did Tilin o cruel injusties; tnat be longed to get bact to private lite, and was counting the hours to the thing when he might lay down tue cares of oillce.” Currespondent—Is it your own fndividual opiufon, Mr. Howltt, that the President was in tae wudn earncat mand seant Just what he sald{ Mr, Hewitt—T sm free to Fay thut that ts my oplufou. I think I wm free to say I bave ou words but words of praise for the attitude of the Uremdent as ho deciared it to me. Of course hie wilt have, sooner ur later, to declde in sumu mensure who has been legally clected. Of vourse he views the situation trom a Repub- Hleun stundpoint, No one ean blame him for that, UL course he may do wrong through an errur of judgment, bub 1 am {ree to say for m{- seif thut 1 do uot belicye s is intcutionally vlottiug to du uny wrong. I think thut much oughit to be safd In Justi.e to the President. Correspondent—1 shall be very giad to sy it. Mr, Hewltt's manuer was earfieat, and it was cevident thut he believes fully tuat the President meant what ho suid, CASUALTIES. BROOKLYN TIIEATRE BURNED, New Youk, Doe. 5.—The Drooklyn Thestre burned to the ground to-nlght. The fire orig. Inated on the stage st 13:30 p. m., when the company wero about half through with .the lust actof the *Two Orphans,” ‘The flre spread with lightning rapidity, and burst out through the door un Washington strect. Thoe panic aud confuslon among tho audivnes waa terrible. A number must be badly Injurcd, and sume prob- ubly killed. Dleters’ restaurant, adjoining, wus totally destroyed, and tho Post-Ollice slightly damaged, ‘The theatre was owned by Kiugsley, Keeney, and others, and was rented to 8huok & Paliner, of the Untou 8quare Theatre, Now York, Loss on e theatre about $250,000, At 1 o'clovk the tiro fs still burning, but under control, The fire was causcd Dy the gus settlur fire to the wood-work in oune of tho wings. ‘The fire orlginnted in the files, ‘wWhich, blazing, fell oa tep of the scenery. Une of the actresnes conie Lo the frout of the stugoe and suld: 4 A small accldent bas oceurred, but don't bg wlurmed. Only a plece of fly §s on fire." On mention of lire the sudlence arose to thefr fect und made u wild rush for the doors. The sinoko soun beeamy suffocativg, aud wouien fell fulntlug in thusisles amd weretrumpledover. Numhern.iumned out of the windows und were severely injured, Three wero l»lcked up and it to Loug island College Hospltal, aud are not expected to llve. A young man who Jumped out of & window says another man was Wit bim and got to the windew, and while lwldlnf on with his hands and endeavoring to ot ouf, becwuo overpowered with swoke, ~fell Eu:-k aud wust huve Leon cousumed in thy i Dresacs were torn from ladies whilo lying In the alsles aud on the sldewalk outaide. A lurgs pile of dresses s torn from the back aud picked up by the polics were In the polico station next dour to the theatre, All the theatre company got out safely ex- cept u flymun numed Cumberson, who wus uudy burbed und hrew blumself out of the window. e will die, Dieter's restourant is badly damaged b water, but not, as first reported, destroyed, Tho Joss 1s 1mostly covered by iusurance. s ought not toac- BTRANGE ACCIDENT Special Dispatch S0 The Tribune. BroosminuTos, 1L, Dee, 5.—Last night, fu o scullle, John Franklin was pushed through s pane of gluss in o store-window, and by the broken edige of the gluss was so badly cut about the bead that fu §3 thought be will dle. 1hs skull was fractured ot the vuse. ——— TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, New Youk, Dee. b—A Uethlehem (Ps.) dis- pateh sys that more thuu une-bull of the wives In tho State ure stopped. The number of men thrown vut of work is esthnated at Lelweon 85,000 uud 45,000, 1t is Lelleved that the sue- pt:m:slm will be entire by the 1uidule of this month, Pirrsuong, Pa., Dec. 8.—A dispatch (rom the Villugo of Wusbiuzton, neur thls pluce, suve preparutions fur the experiinental triul of cre- wativn on the body of thue lste Barew Do Palia wre ull complete,” und that the body will Le placed In the furnace ut 8 o'clock a. " A lurge numberof wedlcul und sclentific mew are pres- cut, und imany of thy leadivg newspapers wro represcuteds TRIBUN WEDNESDAY DECEMBER ( 1876—TWELVT PAGES. CONGRESS. The Hewitt Investigation Scheme Again Bofore the House, A Mistake in the Tally-List De= -feats the Resolutions. Speaker Randall 8aves the Day by Giving tho Casting Vote. Tho Edmunds Resolutions Passed in the Senate by a Party Vote. Mr. Thurman Expounds the' Democratie Theory of Free Suffrage. Work Accomplished by tho Southern Claims Commission. f LISTENING TO TIR MESSAQN. Spectal Dispatch te The Tridune. Wasningros, D, C., Dev. 5.—~The President’s message fu the Benate was listened to with con- siderable attention. In the House, after the first paragraphs, tho Democrats ceased to laten toit. The passage in refercnce to theindimida- tion of the Southern Postmasters was the first to particularly attract tholrattention. Thelrin- tereat Inereased when the portion relating to the clectton was reached, and there were many slngs of approval at this on the Democratle side, ‘The fact that the paragraph on the Southern situation was very short disappointed every- body. It is now sald that tho President Intends to walt until after the Electoral vote is cast, and until the Lonisiana Committee arrives, when ha will treat the whole Southern question Ina special messagre, It Is oven enid that lis views upon this subjcet have already been prepored, but were stricken out today o urder to await to-morrow's event. ood wany Dentocrats smiled approvingly as the last sentence bf the messaze was reactied, in which the phantom of Caenrism was forever laid low. HEWITT’S REBOLUTION. THE NITCI IN 1T3 PASSAGE, 8pecial Dispaich to The Tribune, ‘WasninoToN, Dec. 5.—Speaker Randall came very near being compelled by hia party to-day to make a most extraordinary, unprecedented, and arbitrary ruling. Ilis sense of falrness and knowledge of parliamentary rules finally forced him to rulo {n favor of the minority, and alucky chance subsequently saved tho Democracy from on unplessant dllomms. When tho Iouso opencd, Plaistad, of Maine, stated that he had voted negatively upon the resolution to send the Investigation Committes Into the threo dis- puted Bouthorn States, Ho proved this by the testlmony of Blaly, of New Hampshire. Gen, Banks, on bis sccount, moved that FPlaisted's vote be recorded fn the negative, This was o pitfable’situation for the Democrats, for, a8 the case then stood, the recording of Plalsted’s vote in the nemative . WOULD LAVE DEFRATED TOH HEWIT? RESOLU- TION, ona have prevented the Democrats from scnd: fug the Committees South untll next Mun- day, when the rules can ngain bo suspended. Tho Dewocrats accordingly made s tremendous cffort to prevent the rccording of this voto. ‘They closed their eyos to all precodents, and sought todeprive o member of the Houso of tha right to yote, and were pushing thelr case to an extreme,. when Randall rebelled, and ruled that Ploisted had the right to have his vote recurded, Meanwhile the Democrats found o member (Fuller of Indians) who clalned to have voted on the other side, und whose vote in Hke manner had not been recorded. The result was that Randall eaca) from an unpleasant dileouny, and that the Dcemocrats saved the resolution. SOUTHERN CLAIMS. WORK OF 712 COMMISBION, Spectal Dispaich to The Tribune. Wasmxoion, b, C., Dec. 5.—In the House to-duy the Speaker laid before that body tho sixth guueral report of tho Southorn Clalms Cummission, which embraces spceial roports in 1,867 cases. Of this number 078 were allowed, in whole or In part, sud 808 disallowed. The amount allowed {8 $474,633, and the amount disallowed 3,791,800, Ofthe clalms allowed,alx_ ty-six arc of clalmants wiio were goldiers tn the Unlon army, Of thoso disallowed, 155 were of persons who wero fn the civil or militury service of the Confederacy, or who voted to rat- ify the ordinance of sccession or took the oath of alleginuce to the Confederacy, In every case .and Santhorn. acted onthe declsion of the Commission TAS DKEN DNANIMOUS, The clatins disallowed are not ouly on account of disloyalty, but for want of jurlsdiction, and i muny casea there have been grave misrepre- sentatlona of quantities and values. The whole numboer of casesprosecuted within thetwo years allowed by law for their presentation, viz,t Muareh 3, 1871, to March 3, 187, were 22,9085 heretofore reported, 9,202 reported herewith, 807—10,050; leaving !mndiug and undecided 11,209, Of this number there are abuut 1,850 whers the evidence has been takep and presouted for deciston, aud about 1,500 sus- pended Lor Investization by awents or for fur- ther cvidence. Tu the remainiug cases o ovl- denve hus been taken, Six bundred sud fifty of these remaining cuses are for AMOUNTS AnoVE $10,000, fn which the clalmants aro by law required to rrc»cm. thelr witnesses befure” the Commisaion n Washingtun tar oral examlnation. The term of service of the Commission ex- plres_on the 10th of March, 1877, and as near thut date as the prior aujournment of Congress will aliow o supplemental report will be mads aud preacnted. NOTES AND NEWS. PURLIO PUILDINGS. &Spectal Dispaich to The Tribune. ‘WasHINGTON, D, U\, Dee, 5,—In the Treasury estimates for tho next fiscal yeor are found the following Weatern ftema: S8ub-Treasury at Chi- cago, §500,000; Custom-House and Post-Offlce ot Cluclunat!, $500,000; Evansville Custom- House, $10,000; Grand Rapids Custom-House, $55,000; Port Hurou Custom-House, $10,000. SAUCH YOR TUE GO0SE NOT BAUCH FOL 7TuR UANDEN, The Senate entored upon s political debato on FEdmunds' resolution. ~Edmunds and Morton sustained the right of the Benate to muke an fn- vestigation. Tie leuding Democrats opposed it, ehlefly on the old States’ rlzhts theury that Congress haa no right to inquire into the man- oerin which a Btate holds an ecloction. Tho arguments of the Demotratic Benators, hiad they boen made by the Democrata in the luuse yes- terday, woulil have been fatal to the llewitt resolution, Non-iutervention is the cry of Dem« oerats in the Scuats whon an _investigation con- trolled by Republlcans Is proposed. In the louse tho reverso Is the watchword when the Democrats can control the Comimittees, Ed- munds’ resoiution iinally pussed by u party vote., Democrats fu tho Houso are not aa anxlous to Tave tho election fruuds In Now York, lirooklyn, and Jersey City fnvestiguted os they are to as- certaly Now sume Boulhern Statés went for Hayes, ant fur the second thne to-duy they prevented action upon McDoupal's resolution dlrecting [nveatigation in tho citivs uamed, 70 the Iesiera dsviciated Fress, ¢ 2 {KAOVED, Wasnixoron, D. C., Dee. B.—Alfred N, Young, of Qlilo, Consul of the United Stutes at Santiugo de Cuba, hus been remoyed by order of thy Presldent, B P TIIE RECORD, BENATE. ‘Wasminaroy, D, C,, Des 5.=Mr. Morton prescoted o document complled by the Chief Clerk of the 8cnate in vegard to counting the Electoral vots from 178) to 1873, and eald that the wformation contained was of great lmport- ance and valuable to the country at this thne, .He moved that 10,000 coples be printed for dis- tribution, . Mr, Thurman sald ho had seen many fnaccu- rate statements on this subject prepared by others. He lad great contldence fn the ability ol the Chivf Clerk, but lie would like to exam- ine the compilution for himsslf before,autbors fziug Its distribution among the peonle, It was flually agreed to pring 1,500 coples, and the motion to print 8,500 copies will be referred to the Committes on Printing when appoluted, Alr, Bpencer iutroduced & bill to catublish the ‘Territory of the Black Hills, and provide a tem- pornry government thercof. Taldon the tablo tntil & committee can be appointed. TRE XDMUNDS RESOLUTION. Mr. Edmunda moved to take up the resolution submitted by nim yesterday, ordering an_inquiry IS’::“: tha late clections In the various Southern ates, After & long debate, the motion was agreed to— ayes, 30 naya, 93—a strict )mrrt{ vote. Mr. Edmunds then modified his resolutlon ao as to nuthorize the Conunittee to extend its inquiry 1o thie clactions of 1871 in tho States named, On motion of Mr. Conkling, tho resolntion was 1aid aside for the proeent, and the message of tha P'resldent was read, It was ordered that it be rinted, with the accompanying documents, and lio usual motlon o prin exien coples was ontored, to be horeafterreferred to the Committeo on Print. ing. \ AN INQUIRT, Mr, Withers snhmitted ‘a_resolution requesting the Presldent to inform the Scnatey if not incom- patible with public interost, under what anthority aud for swhat puepose troons of tho United States occupled tho City of Petersburg, Va., on the 7th dagof November, 1870, tho uzy,af election. bjection was made by Mr. Edmnunds, and the resolution wau laid over. ANOTI{BR CONSTITUTIONAL, AMENDMENT, Mr, Morton submitted 2 jont resolution Kmsm. Ingt an amendment to the Constitution of the Unl- tod States_to provide for the electlon of Presldent and Vice-Prealdent by a direct voto of tho peoplo, which was read and Jaid on (he tabla until tho ap. ointment of the commitices, and will then be ree wrred to tha Committes on Privileges and Elec- tlupa, In submitting the resolution Me, Morton said 1t waa {dentical with the propoxition reported by the Consmnitteo of Privileges and Electiona two yeara ago, ] o PHTITION, Mr. ershl presentod a d||vellllon asking that Towa be divided Into two judiclal districie, Northern Orderedl referred to the Committeo on Judlclary when appolnted, Tl EDMUNDS NESOLUTION AGAIN, Mr. Thurmon suggested thut the resolution of tho 8enator from Vermont in rogard to fuquiry in the varfous Southern States be Tald over untll to- morrow, and be printed with the chnnges mada. MMr. Edmunds said he could not consent to it olug over, Ho feltitto be his duty to ask tho enuto Lo act apon it to-day. Mr, Thurman eald the Senator from Vermont had argued that the adoption of this resolution wonld not commit the Senato to any particulur doctrine or dogma. e (Thurman) denied this, and argned that it did commlt the Senate, Ho cun- tenteid that there had been no violation of the Cone stitutlon of the United States by any of the Statea named In tha reaolution, The States gave sulirage 1o averybody, and nothing In thio Coustituiion of cither of thum or in any of their statutes oblixed sullrage. Under recent amendments to the Con- stitution, thoss States conlid have preseribed pl’vg- orty or oducatioual quallficalions to_cxcludy U colored man from the baliot-box, butdid not do so, It was said that this tuquiry could La sct on foot, It was catirely outsldo of the Constitution, and was basou alone upun nowspaper articies. Mr. Edmunds sald the Iawe and statutos of rev- eral of thove Btates did operate to deny sullrage. Mr. Thurman denied that thore was any such law in either of the States, and the Senator (Edmunds) could not produce any auch statute. Tho laws of thone States acted aliko on both white and colored voters who had had possession of South Carolina and Loufslana since the War.. The Republican party hod posseasion of Alabama until the last two yenra, Yet it was elaimed tho right of the culored Yoter had boen abridged. The Intent of this reso. lution waa etmply to gointo the question of intime Idation and (urnish a'watisfactory reason for these Roturning Boards throwlng out votes and clecting othor men than these chosen by the people, Bix States wero Involved in this resolutlon, Why dld not the Benator from Vermont extend it every- whero? ad he never heard of cmployes In groat monufactories being marched up to the poils and made ta voto ne thoir employers, who stood at the windows, dlctated? Mr. Edmunds—I never heard of bnt ono jnstance af that kind, and that was the casc of a Demo- cratic munufacturer in Connecticul who'made his omlllu es voto the Democratic ticket. Mr, Thurman—Then the Senator s tho most {z- norant man who lives n New England. (Lough- tor,) Itesuming his argument, Mr. Thurman suld the "Committes on Priviloges and Eloctions was composed of ning members, and 1t \\'nu‘h“)ur sible for that Comamittee, sitting In Washing. ton, to make the investigation and report by Februury, The Committco conld tile depoaltions, but who was to be served with notice 10 cross-czamine. As to the inat resolution, In regard to the ellyib:ity of Klectors, he (Thur- man) was uot sure that ha could support it, hut he wunted more time to study It, If the Itcturnin, Boardn In the South had good caune to throw oul votes and overrido the will of the ]\nflBlv.‘. he want- ed it to be shown, and if It could not be shown, he wanted thel vilfalny to bo exposed, 1o wonted the facts to bo known. Mr. Kdmunds, in reply to alquestion of Mr, Thur- min, sald he would not Inform tho Senator from Ohlora to what States had nbrldged the right of ruffrage by siatute, innemuch aa ho (Edmunds) had beon “sot down as tho moat junorant wan in Now England, 1f his friend (Thorman), the most learnod man in Ohio, would study thu Constitution and laws of the United States, Lo ‘waonld find ont somathing o his advantage. Mr. Edmunds, further replying to Mr. Thurman, arguod that tho artisans and operatives of New Engwnd are men of Intelligonce, men of educa- tlor, of proerty, of indep ndence, of self-ro- speet, nnd 1t was even moro than o very hardy man, indeed, who ever venturod to suggost to his em- ployes how they should oxercisa the clght of ‘utirage. Tho artisans and operatives of Now En- lund “wero men who built churches and school. houses, and sometinies carried their knuwledge, energy, and industry to the Wonstern conntry, even 10 Obiv, [Laughter.] Heargued that the ‘whole object of this resolition wus to correct an evil and fix representation In the next louse of Rep- reventatives, 1t had nothing to do with the Predl- dentiul election, e, Morton sald the preambla of the resolution recitod one provision of the Fifteenth Amendment. 1f the preamble shiould be cut ulf, no one ould deny tuo power of the Senule to make the In?ulry. 1ie then read the resolution adopted by tho {iousa of Represontutives {\:ltnrl.\uy, and argued that if [t was legatimata for the Demacratic House of Repre~ seatatlven to make auch Ingulry, it cortalnly was competent for o Republican Senaty to do the same thing. Mr. Bayard sald for many years past he had be- liered that the peuce of the country und the tran- quillty which the Constitution of the United States intended to protect had sll boen threatened by Inwa pussod by the Conress of the Unitad Stotes. 1o argued tht Congress hud no right to undertike thie control of severi! States, v hind come to this scssiun of Congress murc seriouely inpressed with the o\‘orhnnzln%mumcn of dungers to our form of govornment than ever before, and he hind como convinced that It was bl duty to appose succeasfully or uuiccensfully this consolidated murch which tiie Republicun purty hiad set on foot. 1e proposed to stand by the utrict construction of tho Constitution lenicd that 1 uny of tho Houthern Btutes thera had been discrimination sguinst voters on account of racu urcolor by uny law or statute of such hlates. There was cuming 10 thiy Senate and to this peonle a time when their Jovu of law would bo tested, und ho proposed to stand upon thut Inw, and Jot the consuquences take care of thumeelves, The duty of Senutors was not as party men, not a¢ Democrats or Republicans, but'ns Awmericans, 1o do_all jn thelr power to up- hold the Constitution as handed down to us by oir fathers, and not undertake th settlem, tlons not conflded to the Senate or Cougl Cunstitution, . On motlon of Mz, Whyto, itwas ordered that tho rosolutions of Mr, Edmunds b voted upon scpa- rately. 1o sald ho would vate agalnst tno first threa rosolutions, bocause ho uccepied the declslon of the Supreme Court of the United States in con- struing the Fourteenth Amendment. In regard to the recont eloction in someof the States, he wasln favor of lmmediate and prompt actiod, and ho llmpoled to offur a substitute for the lust resolu. lon which would cuuse u thorough scrutiny of the election in thoss States, Mr, Merrimon submitted an amendment ta the rat resvlution, providing that the Committea shall b contined to the taquiry whother the right of any person to voto bas been denied ar abridyod by tuo Constltution or laws,of such States, Rojected— yeas, 24 ; noys, S0—atrict party voto. Mr. Boggy. inoved to strike out the preamble, Ill:]lec(!d. ir. McDonald moved to atriks oul the firat part of the preumble relating to tho Fourteenth Amend. ment, _ lelected,—yoas, 215 nays, 40, The firat resolutivn, authotizlig the Committen to Inquire Into the elcctions in Bouth Caroliua, Alabama ¥l 4 Ceorgl s 5!, lorida, an & forthe years 1874 ete., was agreod toyean, 13 age, u5—a party volo, e accond resolution, authorizing the employ- ment of stenographers, and ewpowerlng the Comne mittee ta send fur porsous and papers, clc., was agrecd to without s divistun. "The third resulution, in regard to doposotiona waa also agread to, A BUBSTITUTE. Mr. Whyte then wubuiltted the following sulibitnle for the resolution of Mr, Edmunde, Ztesolved, Thut o sulect commitiee of nine men- bera of the Seuato be appulnted to uvestizate the recentfelection In thu States of South Carslina, Florjda, aud LouhlumlL and the action of the Ho- turning Boards in salu States in reforcnce thereto, and (o report all the facts cascutidl to an bonewt return of the votea received b{ ho electors for suld Blates for Presldent sud Viee- dunt of the United States, unu whether sald States are entitled 10 be considered in the count of the Elecioral votes af the States, and for the speedy oxecition of this purpose, the aald Commmittes shall have power to scid fur pecgons al papers, o administer ouths, to take testhaony, und, at thulr direretion, tue- tail sub-committecs with like authority to rend for oreuns aud pupers, (0 adwinistor daths; und to ke tesiimony, and sald Committee and sub- committoss are empowered to employ stenograph- ors, clerks, and messengers, aid whall be stiended Ly & Deputy sergeant-af-Arne; that suld Couinit- tee be and fe liereby lustructed to inquire lnto the elizibility tu oftice undor the Constitulion of the ed Sales of auy persona ullogod to have boen {ueligible on the itn tsy of November lust, or 10 e lnehigible we Eloctors of Presidont and Vice- Frealdout of the Lnitod Stutes, towhom certificutes of electiou iave boen or shall be bauod by the Executive authority of uny Slute as such Electors, sud whither the nfipululmum of Electors, o¢ thows clfming to bo such lu any of the States has buen made either by force, fraud, or othor means otber. wiee than in conformity’ with the Conetitus tlop aud Jaws of the United Ftates and lawaof the reepecilve Stutes, and whether any such sppofatwent or action of uny such Elector hiss Leen in suywlse unconstitutionally or unlaw- [ull{ Interfered with, After some tiscussion the substituto was rejected without a division. ‘The guestion Leing on the last resolution of Mr. Edwunds | d 80 the eligibility of Klector, it us, 44 nays, 11, Cockzell, \\‘ llace, voting with tho Republicans in thoafiirm- ativ, o Tha prénmblo was then agreail to, COUNTING TUR ELECTOIAL VOTRS, Mr. Edmunds gave notlce that ho wanlil move o take np ta-morrow the Joiut resolution respect- ing the methad of counting and decting the Elvct. orml vota for Prosidont nnid Vice-Prealilent of tho United States reported by the Committer on Prive l{!'[,’!l and Electlons in May laet, li¢ also gavo no- tico of an amendment e wonld ofer, and it was ordorad printeil. 3e. Merrimon Introituced n bill to alter the time for lioiding eloctiona for Presldent and Vico-Presi- dent and “counting the vote In the Lisctoral Col- lege, Orderegd prluted and Colm{nllncn on Privileges and Elcctions when ap- olnted, V50 hrovlden that tho rovincd statatan shall be amendnd so that the olection for Presidentand Vice-President shall be lisld fu October, and tha }!lm‘:luml College shall micct In tite January fole owing. Adjourned, 1noUsR. Immediately after thio reading of the journal, .\Ir..1 Plaisted, rising toa privilegod quostion, nssert that on the vote yestorday cvenlng, on Hewltd resolutlon for three sclect’ committees for Louls- inun, Florida, and South Carolinu, he had dl!flnfll‘{ votell In the negative, nnd bad subsequontly hear s name ro read by tho Clerk, but lie now found thint tio was nut so recorded in the journal. Innsmuch an o correction of hid vote would have defeated the resolution, as the tvosthirds majority would have only then beer kained by a tie of 16 to 78, ptiy chango of the Jorrnal which wwould atfoct the mnlu was opposed by Mr, Holuan and other Deni- acrata. 1t was contended, on the other hand, by Mess Dauks, Kasson, and othor Hepublicnns, that It wi the right of nvnr{ member to have hia name prop: erly recorded 1 the journal, und that if that were donennd changed the resuil that conseauence had to aflow, Mr. Plaisted's assuranco he hnd yoted no was conflrnied by the statement of Mr. Dlulr, of New Tlanipshire, with the explanution, howover, that the answer dld not come prompily on the call uf his name, but just as the noxt namuof the roll was called, or nbout hcln}' called. There was, there- fore, the posajbltity of an error having occurred tn that way, but it waas punm\‘ul{ agserted by Mr, Plujsted he bad subsequently iistened with great cura to the rl:ulllll;f()l the vote, and had heard his nane called in the Hlst of negatives, After cunsiderabe dlscussion, Mr, Beclyo e: pressed his surprise and Indiguntion at any”ob) tion befug rajeed 14 to the veracity of the inember, Ho himself had voted in tho alrwative, but le would not aliow, by any action of his, oven righte cous ends to be attained by unrightcons means, Mr. Kassun sent to tho Clerk's deek and had read an extract from the tlouse Journal of 1840 bearing on a cune, and showing that where a blll had been passed on Saturday the Journal had been corrected lllusl tl;xllowmg Monday and the blll had been de- cated. Mr, {lolman geserted, to the great amusoment of the Republican side of the llouse, thut there was 10 posaible paraliel between the two cases, o Speaker—The judgment of the Chalr is very clearon the point that the sbjcet of the record fs 10 have o currect record, and, therefore, theSpenker belfuscs that the motior (o correct the Jousnal is in order, and decides that the vole muat bs recorded. The triumph of tho Itepublican side of the House was but momentary, forimmedintoly Mr, Falicr rose on the Democratic alde and eald he had yusterday voted {n the uflirmative on the same resuiution, had afterwards como down to the Clerk's dusk and s« certained he had been sv recorded, but now found Iils vate did not appeur on the jonrnal, The stato. ment waa condried by Mr, 5111, and the journal was again correcied, The Speaker then atated that If the vote had boon correctly stated yesterday It wonld have steod 157 t0.70, i the Bllcnkl.'r would then (exerclaing his Constitutional right) have voted in the alirmative, thus carrying tho motion, liomow proposed ns A salution of the dificulty that tho vote shouldbe again tuken. To thia propusition thers was the poneral asvent of the ltopablicans, the only excep. tion bulng on the part of Mr. Bunke, who objected, but immudlately withdrew his objection. At the #atne timg the Speaker chunged his views, and nn- nounced that o would now exerciso his right to vote, 1o suppuscd the gentleman from Mussachu- setts (Bunksy would udwmlt his right to do ro, Mr. Banks—Thero can be 1o doubt about it. “Flo Speakor—Then 1 exerciso thut right and cast my vote In the aflirmative. |Lond appluuse on the Democratic nide, und corresponding depression on the Republican side, § Mr. Conger—Not another Republican agrees with the gentlemen from Masgachuscits (Banks) or with the Chair, hotone. Tho Speaker—The Chalr s very sorry to dls- agrea Wil the gentleman from ichlgan. {Laughter. ] Mr.” Congor—I think the Chalr {snot morry to divagree with tno in thls matter, Tlie Spenker—The Chair does not think any ac- tlon of the Chair to-dsy warrants tho refloction which the gentleman hus mado either on its mo- tives or de 3 Mr, Conger—The Chalr propoted as a solutlon of the difiicuity thot a new vote bu tuken, 1 arose In my place, aftor consultution with thuso around me, and, un bohalf of this side of tho llonso, assented to that proposition. Immediately thercupon the Chatr touk atothor course, and mado & new ruling in favor of is lurfll:m alde, I therefore mado the remark which £ did, and was justitled In it. T'ho Speaker—"The Chair desires to say that, as muttor of fact, all his declsions to-day have been on tha sfde of the minority, and he was therelure greatly surpeised to hour the gentleman froin that ldo roflecting on him, The Clalr states In all franknesy thut, aiter msking the proposition which he did, he was reminded ho had the constitntlonal right ‘which ho might oxerclsc, and, having thut tight, o did exercisg It Mr. Conger—1I'hat ls tho very thing of whichI complalu, - {Laughtor.) Tho upshot of the whole mstter, therefore, fs that the rerolutlon for the oppolntinent of three Committees remains lu force, IN MEMORIAM. Alr, Hamiiton (Ind, ) then olered his resolution aswlgning Suturday, the 10th, for the preventatlon of suttublo resolutlonu on this” death of tho late Speaker Kerr, anl oxpression by members of tho esteom in which ke was hold for s unblemished character and cimuent public services, Adopted. THE MERSAGE, The Spenker then aunvunced the Prealdent's an- nual ncssuge, which was theroupon read by the or. Un motlon of Mr. Wood (N. Y.), tho message and secompunylng documents were ordered printod forthwith in pamphist forny, and were referred to o Counmnitivu of Lo Wholo on the 8tuto of the niom, BOUTHERN COMMITTEESY. Tho Speaker aunouncod tho following select Commitcoon: On Loufslana=Messrs. Morrison, Jenks, Mc- Mahion, Lynde, Dluckburn, Moude, ilousv, Phalps, New, Itoes, Townsond (Fa.), Danford, Hurlbut Gl J, Crapo, and Joyce, On 'Florld ‘Thampson, Dobolt, Wall- fng, Hopkins, d, and Dunnedl, On the South Curalina Comuitiee tha name of Cuclirann was substituted for that, of Stenger, ox- cuned ou account of Hlnean i his family. 3r. Lawreuce nsked leava to offor o resolution dealgnod to decnro equat school privileges to white and eolnrad children, but objection was made, and tho Louso adjourned. FIRES. AT PEORIA, ILL. &pectal Dispalch fo The Tribune, TEeORIA) 11l Do, b.—A disastrona fire visited Inthis city this morning, destroying the large and valuable distillery works of Zell & Francls, ‘The tire was discovered sbout 0'o’clock, and a general alarm turned in. The entire Fire De- partmout were goon on the ground, but owing to the distunce from the englne-houses, the dis- tillery was consunied by the time they reached there, They succeedad, however, In saving tho bonded werehouse nnd several other outbuild- ings. It {s tmpossible to estimate the loss to- nizht, but It may be sct down roughly at G‘:.’),Dt‘il. The insurance {s eaid to be ubout $25,000, Another fire Is now raging opposito the Chamber of Cainmerce Build(ne 1 nn old frame house, but, s5 the Fire Department is working hard, indications arc that it will galu control of tho flumes. An entive block of fiue bulldings is n dauger, however, Latun—"The lutter Ore has been subdued, and the loss will not exceed $2,000. plisitn it Al INDIANAYOLIS, InNDIANAPOLIS, Dov. B.—A five occurred fu the Ross Block, on Sonth Meridlan street, this af- ternoon, oreupled by S8addicr, Pee & Co.,whole- sale notlons; R, J. Counor, wholesale hats and furs; Uri0ith & Co., wholesale willinery, The damaee wns mostly dove by watery fully lu- surad in Bastern companius. “Fhs fullowing are estimated losses by the fire to-duy: N, M, Koss, on building, $10,000; Grif- th Broa,, $10,0003 Saddier, Peo & Co., $35,000; R. d, Contor, $10, all fully fusured. IN CHICAGO. The alurin from Box 5 at 8:23 yesterday morning was fulse, . At 2:40 yesterday morning Officer Dunne dis- covered an fuciplent fire in the lvery-stable of Goorgze F. Farrar, No, 840 'I'hirty-first strect, which was extiugulshed without giving an alariu, Cause, supposed fucendlarism, ———— INDLANA. Report of the State Tronsurer—Special Elec tion Bpectal Dispatch (o The Trivuna, Inpranavoris, e, 5.—"The anuual report of B. C. 8haw, Btate Treasurer, for the year ending Oct. 8L was fllod to-day, and shows tha follow- ing: Reccipts of $457,034,571; disbursements, $333,077,707; total debt, $500,233,834, of which $:301,478,533 are due the Schicul fund. During the year $510,000 temporary-losn bunds have bec pald, leaving $910,000 Gutstunding. Gov. Hendricks has called special eloctlons to @1 the vacandes oceasloned by the deaths of I 1L, Cree, Senator from Madison aud Delaware Countles, und Jawes M. Btoddard, Jolnt Repre- sentatlve from Parke and Montgowery Countles, yudld, Landotoh, Kausous sad | to Lo beld tus 26ta lusl to bo referred to the .General recelved letters protesting against the " party tho Dueinocratic leaders of the Guit Stato of tho Iiberty of not only the white, populntion of (] o demani {0t ovry Cland of” e e b penk out. The elections in Mirnlgaippt. yye o1 woreo than a hollmy nresker 0 e TIHE BANDITTI. ry and vl Letters to tho Governmont--Tho Mis. | Ysh than s hotlow mockory and of oot crime, sissippi Demooracy, Hnve not cant a singla Yolo St pacans pp! gont them ++ e stror 1o enaaee done e Btato lins been'ane contlmous scen of g 1113 {raoparé,shouting and yelling ovar the copnirric 41 tho poor nekenes ata nlmmxulumle with Ten. horrot with which {hey swhisper "GP EHE whom they mhnlmwl %’ bohh:;lrnr "l,mr:m?r'»" onal ides, and tho o ablo thou timi res tr oy ablo thouh thnid portlon of Honart wehites g g Scenes at the Last Presidential | mushbotters wholul::l«::;}’::}:Inln"!gr]ln\-{:yfi:-?x‘(lflk ey of the Unlted Statoa to-day 1s Ininfic)y {ho nouro slavery” of 1600.¢ 11 the {hocsrmien {nproinred (0" miesender W tho Ninerties of e 078l sublects, It Huyl boen better ta have smerer” dered them at Appomt } atient atrifo i imemoll. ~ G aeey L the sbee. © enro hinck, bug yip, Mossncres and Frands for Tilden and Reform. How Bam Tilden Got His 00,000 Dajority. 3 coninio for thn i God grant you graca 1o al prayer has been answered, T Gruait i nd tho graco Fven jim, O ™0 Hgoy," BTONE VERSUS ATTORNET-GENERAL VI. 5 «t ., TUB MASSACRE OF OKTINDEMA. * No Intimidation,” says his tolegraphie Ex. cellency, Let us go now to the castern nm‘ur '2"’ State. Oktibbuha lHes west of Loundes County. 1t i black population of 9,301, and o White population of 5,87, It gave Grans PT. Special Correspondence af The Tridune. Wasninaron, Dee. 4, —In my last Jettgr I in- dlcated that the recent history of South Caro- lina was In fereconcilable confiict with the tele- graphle statemonta of Heuator Gordon, of Georgla. 1 now propose to perform the samo | 1,343 yot, 2 act of kindness for “Gov." Btone, .of Missis- “‘m“ vfmc,fifi':.‘:eu;ffimgfit ’Il"::a?\.l‘rb}m “-Emlh‘ sippl. I desire that they should both know the er recelved 1,508 votes and the Demacratle candidate 781 The samo proportfon has heen Almwr; ot every clection since 1803 . untly this year, The Democrats carried it for Tilden. Iow was it donel No Repubilean mectings ware allowed to be held—not one, Allny%s and Wheeler club advertised o meetiniz ont in the conntry, 1ts Prestdent, a colored nan, was notiflcd !y( the President of tha Tilden and ilen- dricks Club that he would not be permitted to holdl {t,—that ho would bo kilied if leattempted to conveng it: that wo more Radical mectings woull be tolerated hy “our people” fn uzbn county. Tha Republican Presitent was & pro. dent man; and so he agreed, thus threatened, uot o litve the meeting assemibic, But 1oy young mon of the club thought thut thig lirent wus mere biufl; and, one night {n truth, In October, ofter the very moilerate state- ment made by Attornoy-General Taft, at Cin- cinnaty, of the condlition of nffairs in Missiasippl, the de facto Govornor of that Stats telegraphed at him In these words: In report of yunr speech at Clncinnatl you make reforence to Misslseippi allairs, which' duaceves notlce ot my hands. Tam more than willing, nand by boen able, to execito the awe In Miseivelppl, and conworva the peace. Thero is neither intimie dation mor threat of intimidation. Both parlies assembla In public meoting, without let or hin- drance, ond both pactica canvasn without Intimidas tion In overy county and neighborbood. . . . 1o domanded the names of tho offelals or cltizens who had complained of outrages, The Attorney-Goneral did not furnish them, The | September last, —thay gathered Je it prbes then ralsod a oWl of mdiguation | & eolored Baptist Church, — aay " fod at this most righteous refusal, any towi,—at a P“N where they eould not be aceused of disty == : A great bouilro lad boen e L WIAT A STONE-DLIND GOVBUNOR COULDN'T SER | hear tho fro gflfl"‘]:fiy : E“%fl‘;;r?x{h:nflfir-ez Last summer, In the Now York Zimes, I pub- | zipped througl the air, and another volle ntnvi lshed ngerles of letters in which I gave a brief | auother; and four men fell down deal 'nml abstract of the aflldavits made before the Oxford | fient e men 'gmm\w’(’lggc A !Dmnocm, Grand Jury In Misstssippl. They covered hun- ; sy m Y. cowardly dreds of Instances of violation of the Election ?,‘,fi?‘&;: ,?,‘.’.‘,gff.‘.,‘h,,‘;',‘f“, Jf; looked a3 if they laws {n tho northern district of the State, And When Lamar npplics for hia seat in tho Scnafe the northerndistrlet isthe most clvilized district. | this - nasacry n‘:llown o:lmnla 1‘nv)c|s{.lgn(crl. They showed that companics of armed men e s hideous act of from Alahama had coma futo tho Btate, by fn- | o aagerocrd* Yok hiere was nolntimldation, vitatlen, to terrorize tho Republicans, and that 1 lave shown how this county went when thelr restaurant and lverg-stable bills had { thero was no Intimidation—under Republican been paid by tho City Councll of Columbus. rule. What was, the effcct of this the Demo- They established slx distinct cnses of nssassina- tivn for opinion's suko In o slugle county. They showed that an eminent lawyer (whom the Dem- ;'l;lltg‘l_!‘l"lloll'llmfilo 'n( vlwl llr‘:umhlnlilgggl}m colored omber, it gave and only 1,023 for Hny'c ks gH1b e Tlitan ocratle party of Misslaslppi sclected na thelr nt< VII. tornoy beforo tho Investigating Committee) | ‘NO INTIMIDATION IN NOUTHWHSTERN MIs- hod stuffed the bullot-box st Columbus nnd sissierl Now lot us sce how It was In tho northwestera part of tho State, Hernando County has over 8,500 more blucks than whites. J I quoto from tho Unlted States Marshal's re- port of a meeting n this county, at which the District United Statos Attorney, Judge Wal ton, was the candldate of the Ropublicans, and Col. Manning, & Rebo) officar; who was fn the Fort Piltow wmassacre under Forrest, was tho candidate of the Dentocracy for Congress: Judgd Walton and Mr, Manning were adrertised ta spcak jointly at llernando on the 18th inst, Tho speaking was (0 be hold fu tho open iz, It seems that at a former oceasion the Liemacrats held a meatlng an the samne unds, and had erect. tbreatencd the negroes on the day before eloce tion. 'They proved frand dand intimidation.in every form, “They {ncorporated n threatening letter in which thie foreman of the Oxford Gran Jury was warned not to flud true bills against Deimocratie offanders, and another letter from the United States District Attoruey In whick he explained why it was Impussible to prosccuto the banditt! in Mississippl. They demonstrated the exlatcnce of u rodgn of terror fu all that part of the State. They ?'nw the names ol tho witnesses, the dates of tto offonses, and tho names of the offenders. . Moro than that, thero are two thousand pages of afliaavits, of swora evidence, and ofllcial aud personal statemonts and letters, In the report o of tho Missieslppt Investigating Committee, | ed womo rude mf.' or benches around with names, and dates, and pluces In futl, and | tho - speakers® stand. On the morning all of them .are lurit with proof thut thisso. | Of the 18th the Mepublicans reached th gronnd fiest, and, sccueing tho weats, ocenpied thema. Before tho hour for epcaking, a liemo- cratle club, unlfurmed, numbering rome fifty o #ixty persons, arrived and demanded the seata of called * Governor* owes his position to u cam- palen of ferrorism and sasassination. What has ke done, and what has his party dong, about it! Nothing, except to deny that | the” Republicans. An srrangoment was azreed these cowardly erimes, thus established Dy evi- | upon fur the Republicans, who numbered 700 o deuce unrefuted and frresistible, wers ~over | 800, to ncnuBy about one-third of the rcats; the committod in_the State. No ome has been ’%flmluzfim';'ll“ out nixt: lnkn‘m:;hutl'] tho xcm?lnden ed, N 0 Rtepublicans gave back to the 1o ngreed upon, PoAGRt Aot ans A Domocrat with lacge stick in hand picsed dow in front of the Republican line flourlshing tne stick in their faces. Uno of the Republicans caught hold of theutick, At that timo a Democrat strack him (the ltepubilcan), At the sama time a Demo- crat, o whito man, drew a pletol and iired into the crowd. The porson who fred ywns atandtns within a fow feot of Judgo Walton, nnd without cause - lberatoly fired {n the mass of beings who weis standing thero offonding no one. Severs] s wero firod, Without the apeaking; tho licpub- llcans went home, 'The Demacratic elub was ena- monod 83 a pusie by e Slerlil, it under srus *'ta keep tite peace, " —really to kill Ropublicans if an opportunity atforded. TIL. PENSECUTIONS, DUT NO PROSECUTIONS. But there have beon persecutions, although there have beon mo prosecutions. Every day Misalssippluns call on me who hiave been driven {rom thelr homes. And for weeks and wacks atter my lotters were published the negroes whosoe testhmony 1 quoted were forced to hide in tho woods, They bave since left tho State, or they have been murdered. ‘The Attorncy- publication of my abstracts of the records in s oftice, “Itis o sad case,’ he sald; “if we publish without names the evidenco of these outrages, they deny it and say that we are lbellug them; and i€ we publish the names, wo endanger the lives of the \\'llm:ucnt" This Is the fuct. It can be attested by evi- deuce without cnd. I wnentiou it to explain the true naturo of the secuung candor of the rest of the “ Governor's ™ disputch to the Attoruey- Ueneral: 1ask, as a slmple matter of justice to Missia- stppl, ou yive naiaos, dates, and placcs of wron, alieged to iave occurred reported to your depart- ment. orpolrators of wrunus are rasponsibly to Btate authurity, and I am sbundantly able to bring ol such to justice. . Able, Pcrhnpn, but ot willlog! Now, [ view of the fact that thousands of ‘men in Misslssippl, by nawe, nddréss, aud date, at the timo of this telezrapl, huad llrundg' been publiely pulnlod out as tho “perputraiors of wrongs,'’ and that do step had been taken to punlsh them, this tolegram, liko the telegrams of Gordon, indleates how marvelously indifTer- ont to wronga dono and to bluod shed by thelr ViII. A XANSAS REMINISCRNCE. Middle-aged men will rocall this old device tho Democracy 1n Kansas, whish resulted intha destruction of the Free Stato Hotel and the Iferatd of Freedom oftico by Bherit Jones and “nosse.”” Wo are Oghting the samo evil power to-day. They used to tell lea In thoso days. ‘Every outrage that they wantonly committed was charged to tho Freo State men. Do they still Hei Well, without answering the question, let me quote again what * Gov.” Stouo dured to telegraph the Attorney-General: Hoth narties nssemblo in_publlo mecting withost et or hindrince, and botn parties canvass without intluidation in every counly and neighborhood. 1 havo similar and worso accounts from e ont of the six Congressionul Districts of Missis- sippl. I can only brlu!l{ refer to a few of thein: ‘Piiey show that in the Northorn Disteitt of Misslsslppl an_organized system of terroriem Rreater than that practiced at the efection of 1875, developed itself suddenly several days [ fora the olection; ‘That armed_ Dands rodo round the count? elvcry night, dlsperging Republican organtza- tlona; - ‘Thiat thougands of Republicans did not dare to votoj I'nt_ by reason of this terrorism in mmt atrong Republican countics not a vote Was cast for the Republican candidates; fati ‘Lt the nuthority of tho De[mty Marshal ;b cafores the Election laws was utterly fgnored L LDesnonocracy ure. But the ovidence fs not exhausted. Lot mo fil\'e & few more facts, not one of which has [therto been publishod. 1v. . .. FRAUDS IN NORTHEASTERN MISBISSIPPL, Here fs au Jetter to Senator Bruco from tho northenstern part of Misslssippl. Iv s dated | joual officials pun th advlco of Latyit and th Nov. 20 C Chairmian of the State Democratic Committee The vlectlon in East Mirslsalppl was much moro ofa l!!lll'li lll!fll'e‘ \Imntlmb q n llllll (!‘(uxlllbce)l IX, cunnly the poil-bocks at the four lurzest colured RIVER COUNTIES. oting- i b deilclent ' LIPR OF T LOWLY IN THB e ection. and wote. reiuped to | Thut the river counties wero carried by wornlng of the alection, and wero returied to {5 Macun for correction, and tha nou- wora not open- | terrorism as complote as over existed fo B8p or Austrin. ud‘lu lhfl: to nuolw m;.llcplu Ilcx‘z‘xln nlzhfincn to voto. one other box, whero the election was held, thavoto was not counted, and wo wora swin- | Lot me glve ono pictare of American m\‘ {: the river counties of Misslssippl during the 18 campalgn: dled'out of at least &, 60U votes. b n lml:\mll;u the !fl“"“‘fi"a‘“ ‘llckol bkl «all“on armed Demucrats nd destroyed, and no lte. A Pblicun. ickote coutd b ‘had therb on cléciions | Candidates—For the Republicans, Mr, Lyacd: Guy; and Wo Were clieated out of 1,000 or 4,000 | thq moat popular colared orator n Misslsippli for the Democrats, Gen. J. R. Chalmers, lll: leader with Forreat {n the Fort Pillaw mnu:‘;‘- 1 shall not druw the pleture [n my own WOr S votes, I: 10 aingle county, as fur as T have heard, Lavo we had @ fale electlon; and yat Democrats con. t tratiplod on the mghts of citizens, and by thess | but copy word forword a letter to our Pmld::“ nisans_they Drupoess to communce the work of | from a poor colored man. I omit the date MNean. It hasa white poputation of 5,107 and & | present hour I wlll seut myaelf to drop yud. S Ty black population of 15,703, It gave a Repub- to lut you know how Illve. el ratulato thumaselvea on **carrylng Mlssissippll " reformationt the signatures in ) L liean molority of 2,973 In 1878{ und has nover | Seskor In tho cauvasy for Hayes and (UL 'es, thoy have overthrown tho ballot-box snd Noxubee County s overwhelmingly Repub- [ ™ /. %7 g grgnt—Daan Sin: Alss, slas, l: "].“', our Congressman, Joha It L{ncl.. Now the elec given loas at a free aud falr electlon, Ad 1'cannat stay {n my houss at nigst Loyudos County s 8 black populaion of e eard i schos, and 1 was out I f 29,2}, und a white population of 7,480. 1t gaye | burs, andIlovk out und wl I my ] Uraut 8,217 voles, no (:‘nwlaz 003, It wasin und nod KueKlux cauo grmu‘ t_l"; O quit b7 tils couity thot the City of Columbus Is sit- | Jeilervon to deatroy me, Now 1 woendet fumil; and GO away. l: x\l;e{:ulum lrlemlfi 10 Hye uudwt muhy: k O fall\"u ;‘l"l; "Wa 'ol‘:nghflulch sud the of Nov they was men came and surronud the church und fred )y |nu l‘?‘whlhm and ufit‘nr which Lthe ull.x mur-~ reterred to lu a proce paragraph were committed. ik ¥ b Both Nozubee and Loundes went Democratic this K&I’Ar. Louudes, with (ts black population of 23, with {ts Ropublican vota of over 8,000, ffl;:\ unl’y two bullots for Hayesand 2,009 for eu. “1n Loundes " (says the Aberdeen Ezamlner, an ultra and rather able Democratic journal of Missismppt, publlshed In - that section of the Btutv), **1t was a * walk-over? forthe Detnocrats; they had uo fou to encounter, nos organization tu oppuse thew.'" Tuat ls, Republicanism has been \lnerlylumg- ed out by the baudittl, How it wus doue, fn 1875, u both " countles, will be found described by vurfous witnesses luthe Mlsslssippl lnvestigat- né on us- W nro atrald 4 own our nawme radical 1 you o dousanygoodtrydt, + o o o . andwe And_thia In our civilized country; 5 cat ouf allow the trajtors whom we pardoned to treat oul black (rionds thus. U 3. T8 THRRORIAM BOWY BY ELECTION STATSTICH I could flll a page of Tus ’I'mnun'l.\'ub -I:lc!:l lar evidence, But it fs necdless. Hail"t: e the story as well as facts, .\lhslnlpplh s e publican Btate by 23,000 majority. It ;u. it glven Jess than that, when thoro was a nr:) N falr election, 1t couuted In for ‘Tildenth {ug Commitiee's roport. Uet it ‘Fhere was no fntimidation s2y8 Y '-5'?,‘35'.% lfl-:“?iut wen \vl.n;l:al;c"‘.':l‘l‘“"l‘v‘g""l‘:;' . el Lapal P TERHORISM IN WESTERN MISSISSIFPL ‘.l:;. ',‘;:'Qfig‘,ffi belug capabyt s Naorar. “There is neither intimidation nor threat of fntimidation,” telegraphed * Gov, " Btone. Hero Chlld-Bearing. ¢ native- Thae commonly aeeepted “s‘,lfi.',o?h:}:“mu tor- d boru purents huve tewer ;fim- the Masshs ergu-born i nmuully %mr:-m ‘%‘: « Votuie of fs an extract from a letter to President Grant, marked “atrietly confidentlal," from o merchant fna wercantile house on the Mississlppl River 1 q liat whoso busiuess connections briug W fnto n- [ Shusttls cetisus O <t ped. ]li!n:\"glm' tlmate relations with the * leading cltizous ™ of | el bas Just, B Bonors biad bomme 800 there b Tounessce and Misstasippl. It relatcs to theelee- | children,-whilo 119,200 fureigu-burp Vs 65 etk tlous fu Wostorn Missleslppl. Tt [sduted Nov. 11: | boruy 835,218 chiidren. lhumr:r oy Lol cbl Notbing but a deep sonse of duty induccs me toad- | dren for each pative-born 10 5 dress W }uu thig lul‘l’ur; butthe n’m?:m.fix Condition | rew for vl Luselgu-bori BOLIEE