Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1876, Page 3

i ? ! 3 ~THE PROBLEM - Which Is. Supposed -to Be in Course of Solution, The Oregonmian Branch of the ...+ Question. Being Patiently . Investigated. " An.Intimation that the Com- - ‘mittee Have Caught Sight ‘ of that-$8,000; (‘)r' Are Awa.re,of.the‘ Party to Whom It Did the Most " Good. wfifi Congressman Young, 1of Tennessee, Thinksof the Situation. Yllinois Democrats Preparing for Their Janaary Demon= stration. Eellogg Seouring s Fort Against a Possible ult by Nicholla, * WASHINGTON NOTES, SOQUTH CAROLINA. 5 ~ ... .Bpecial Dispaich to The Tribune. » countof their expressions of hostility to the " money. Scnater$ 3., Dec. 30.~Senator Gor- gnbases his memorial to Congress for the recognition of the Wade Hampton Government on what he claims is the decision of the courts; 1hat Congress is the proper constitutional power o determine the lezality of conflicting Govern= ments in-any ftate. Gordon says, moreover, that he does this to avoid: armed conflict in that : Democrats have been much disturbed to-day st the presence of Judge Mackey. in Columbus, 0.,88 the immediate represcatative of Wade Hampton. They say that’ Mackey has nosu- thority to speak for. Hampton upon suy subject. The: Republicans, however, are advised that Mackey bears Hayes the assurance that neither Hampton nor Gov: Vance, 6f North Carolina, e g 1 . WILLIXG TO.MAINTAIN: NORTHERN DEMOCRATS in sny attempt to resist. the inguguration of Hayes; that, on the contrary, while . not. seck- ing or boping to obtain patronage under Hayes, they intend, if Hayesis elécted, to do what they can to avert & civil war, and that, if it shall be necessary for . this purpose, the men. of South Carolina will be found arrayed on theside of the Netionsl Governiment. B The Democrats” here are also_cracking the party whip at Ben Hill 2nd Casey Young, on ac- El!] of Tilden or blood. The Urion herc, ntzomery Blair's paper, tries to read them out of the party. THAT $8,000 PACEAGE. : Various attempts have been made fo explain 1he reference to 8 certain $8,000in the subpena of the Senate Election Committce to the Ore- gon witnesses. The rumored basis of this ref- erence is this: that Senator Kelly, of Oregon, while on his way to Washington fr in the. s tors * Morton. and _aMitch received Bt & ststion & Mk 4 of tel caus- el Kelly’'s imwheltitle return to Oregon; gx:dilnswmdlmgfi_ rted on the train thaf e es Wte Awtn ekl A e Oregon g 1y it was ascertained! sent from New Y or San Franciggt } 101 evidence that tiy 3 be obtaincd i i i fliat subsequent-~ Jclegrams were rsons in Oregon telegraph ope- t isl:zg:tdflmed ed or placed beyond fih officers, but hie fa gbe proved without telegrame haye the control:of. wnfitg.lant thh} Budge Stanley Mathews, e will contest Banning’s ¢ next. Congress reached B-¥atacws is understood to to make a great fizht, and to have accumulated enough evideace of fraudu- lent votingto overcome the 65 majority which ensbled Banniog to receive the certificate. - THE SOUGHT-FOR TELEGRAMS. The truth of the statement 15 doubted that all political telegrams of the Western Union Company weéte destroyed immediately after the election. It {s believed, however, that they were removed to some distant plece, fiwag from the immediate custody of the Company. Baraes, the New Orleans manager, {8 not now expected Xhere until to-morrow, owing to the failure of trains to cannect. > - - OREGON. - THE SENATE INVESTIGATION, . WasmwaroN; D. C., Dec. 80.—The Senate Committee on - Privileges and Klections to-day proceeded with the fnvestization of the Oregon case. - 'W. H., Odell testified that, after the Re- publican Electors had asked Mr. Cronin for the certificates of their election several times, Cronin replied that they might as well under- stand, first a5 1ast, that he would not give them. The witness counseled with the lawyers, and was of the opinion that Cronin bad noright as an Elector, and the - witness refused to act with Cronin, unless the latter should produce au- thority to act. Cronin then left the part of the room in whick the College Wwas in session, and the College organized and cast thelr votes for R B. Hayes for President and W. A. Wheeler for Vice-President. The witness regarded Cronin as an impostor, and the action of Gov. Grover in issuing s certificate to Cronin a8 an ‘outrage and a nasty business. 2 + John C, Cartwright, a Republican Elector, corroborated Mr. Odell. £ Parker and- Miller were sppointed Electors by Cronin. Neither reccived any vote at the late election. Five minutes' giter Miller and Parker had been called into the-room’ Cronin left, he and the men sppointed Electors by him having finished -their work. Judging-from the time spent by Cronin, Parker, and Miller in usunefi theirElectoral vote, they could not havecompli ‘Wwith the law.’ 3 DR. 3. W. WATTS gave & detailed account of his going to the Seo- Tetary of State with Cart t-and Odell 1o t tiie certificates, and -also of the mecting of e Elcctors., His testimony did not differ from the statements of Odell' and’ Cartwright. The Post-Office he resigned was tworth from $200 to $300 _per year. He' Dever Lmew _ that .he was: ineligible a}lfl :flfir the elec‘iion. flAt !.hae:;llceté:f glo télfl College be resigned, andjyas re-clect the vfmcy. ‘When Cronin was asked by Odell and Cartwright, before Watts) re-election, to xhow Lis authority 1o Sct with them, he(Cronin) sald they might a5 well understand first as last e would never give up the certificates. . Cronin then withdrew to a corner of the same x-o«m;I ‘and witness saw snd Miller and Klippt ‘signing papers, which had evidently been -pro- pared in advance. . % SECRETARY-OF-STATE CHADWICK, testified in regard to the location of - recall the r::x’ns 1n the State-House, and how the writ- g materials: which Cronin used came to be in the roam where the Electors mei. He stated in reply that he carried partof them there ‘himself, and the rest were taken to the room by the jao- }bor by his d?wflbm 6. A STEEL, Chairman of the Republican State Committee ‘of Oregon, testified that he knew nothing Watts' in:.ligibiflt until after the election. . After some er and unimportant testimo- ‘ny,jthe Committee adjoumu:s télsl_\Vudnesdxy. ¢ B WIINESSES.' * §ax FmAwCisco, Cal., Dec. 20.—A Portland (Ore.) dispateh says: * A. ‘T. Whecler and J. Johns, who were subpensed by zh«‘WGon- Ftessiuni Committee to testify in the Watts- Cronin case, will leave to-morrow for ‘Washing- - ' FLORIDA. THE LATEST SITEAYION. NEw YoRE, Dec. SL—The Times bas the fol- lo cial from Fiorida:* 3 ;mgmspexuns, Fla., Dec.-80,—There {8 D0 change in the situstion here. The Bupréme Court will couvene again Mondsy at 11 a. m.y when, lb' is thought, further action agatost the Canvassing Board will be taken. The ‘gen- eral opinfon {5 that’ the Court has put -itself fn contempt, and must go to further ex- tremes to get ont of its difficulties. The ,usurpers and revolutionists are holding fre- quect caucuses, but no definite action has been decided on. The stake played for from Liberty ;‘:53&!., in New . York, . was Florida's vote for en, no matter by what means obtaine That stake s i % i IRRETRIEVABLY LOST ' ' .and the, “ Eeformers” are inaterrible rage. | The possession of the State Government by a::n means resorted to is too poor a compensa- _ Two methods of relfef for the Tildenites arc discussed. The first is to have the Court order auother ‘canvass, distinctly commanding the Board to count in all the returns without reference to blotches on ‘their face! The second is to mandamus of the Secretary of Btate, and compel him to issue. a_certificate of election to'the Democratic pretender, Drew. It seemstobetakenfor granted that the Courtwill dowhatthe Democrats desire. Already the Demo- crate jare. quarreling over the spoils. Theultras, those who propose to make the State too hot &’I:o veotgzmgfim, ?;‘3 t‘l;c C:zo:n:nnflves, Q}lose e allowi them remain are at loggerheads, Byes The Cabinet officers’ re; will be ready Tu Treasurer’s report will show & fine balance in the Treasury, which _ of itself 15 sufficiently convincing of the nced of reform to tho average Democrats. The rgport of the Superintendent of Public Instruction will show that the common school system is more popular than ever, and that colored people have made considerable progress in edueation. y Nobody questions the Republican majority in this State, nor that it was truly cast at the Iynca election, and at the same time no one: knows ‘why the Supreme Court should. intericre and enthrone the defeated party.. ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT, Nzew Yorx, Dec. 31.—The Zimes from another correspondent has the following: JACESONVILLE, Dec. 31-—R. B. Archibald was subpenaed ' before the ‘Senate Committee to-day..~.This geotléman is Judze of the Fourth Judicial Cireait; and his examination:developed a startling state of affairs here. It showed the almost absolute - impossibility of - convicting Democrats guilty of crimes and murder arising rts to Gov. Stearns v ' -morning. The. out of hostiilty to Republicans, .Judge Archibald gave as an illustration, the murder of -Senator Johnson, which accurred & .short time ago.. The State Senate stood twelve Republicans o twelve Democrats, and Johnson was selected because his district was o close . one, aund deliberately mur- dered for the purpose of giving the Dem- pell ocrats* the ascendancy in tlat branch of the Legislature. The evidence inst Richard, the assassin, was clear, connected, and amount- ed -to a certainty of mathematical dem- onstration, and yet the jury refused to * convict him.” The™ moment he was arrested, - tho .whole Democratic Bar of Jacksonville, and negrly eve Democratic Iawyer in the State, voldnteered theirservices in is defense, while. every effort was made by the hest citizens to throw the ofticers of justice off the track and facilitate the escape of * the mur- derer. The experienco of the witness was that the murder of - Republicans was looked upon by Democrats as a meritorious act, and Shnn a criminal was in danger of suffering for hi8 crime, the home of every good Democrat was to be of- fered to him as an asylum, and he was - entitled to their protection and defense. Political murderers and assassins bad little to fear, and were seldom put 1o any more inconvenience than forced tempo- l’mI'y absence from home. -It is_often asked by peopla at the North, ‘Why . do not the ‘suthorities put a stop to these murders? The testimony of wit- nesses’ furnishes a complete answer to the _question. Where there s mo regard for the. sanctity of an oath, and where the intelligence and wealth and all socfal forces arc on the side of the criminal, how is it pos- sible to punish him 1 The Committee have adjourned till Tuesday. — - LOUISIANA. * 3 THE SENATE COMMITTEE. LouIsiANY, Ls., Dec. 80.—The Benate Sub- Committec resumed its examination of the election in East Baton Rouge. 3 James Casby, colored Commissioner at Poll 1, Ward Elsyen, swore that after the close the Democratic officers made returns eorresponding with the tally-sheets kept by them. The poll- list, was lost and he would not swear to the one substituted for it. Martin Demhorn, colored, corroborated the hanging of Jerry Myers, and the terroriziog of ‘buildozers in the parishes. Mr. Bastoll said Jerry talked too much, and orzanized Republican clubs. .Witness had left there through fear of his life. Thomas McAlpine, Deputy United States Mar- shal, testified to the general intimidation of col- ored people and irregularities {n the election. - George Bird, colored, was President of a col- ore a Kepublican Club and Commissioner of the parish. He testifled to general intimidation and violence by Regulators, and said there had been no peace or order in the parish for a year. Witness noted that colored “people believed they were persecuted on -account of their poli- tics, and many had been forced to leave their homes and crops. 3 Senator McDonaid asked that Mrs. Gilbert be required to give thenamesof the parties she ha% said killed ber busoand, which, after some discnssion, was postponed for further delibera- tion. “The Committee then adjourned till Tuesday at0a.m. ' *_ THE HOUSE COMMITTER heard the evidence of nine colored men in ref~ erence to Onachita, who substantiated the testi- mony already published {n referenceto the reign of terror there, and the forcing of colored mento vote the Democratic ticket. =) The Rey. Elisha More and H. W, Burrell said they bad been forced to burn Republicantickets; were taken to the polls, and, but for the inter- cession of Mr. coy, _both would have been Kkilled. Another téstiied thet Marion Rhodes’ body, when found, was cut open,fand had twd bullet-holes in the groin. Edmund Richards swore that Dr. Youdg, Billy Pace, and others, bad hung him, Henry Foster, ana London Hector up to o tres and beaten them for refusing to vote the Democratic ticke et ‘The testimony was very lengthy. Witnesses were subjected to severe cross-examination, and Tetiod if he hanging was done for stealing beef, and said that was also charged, but some men afterwards’ said they bad found the beefin Young’s field. The Committee adjourned un- il 7, B THE MORRISON BOUSE COMMITTER examined & number of Wwituesses in rezard to the election in the city of New Orleans, especial- | 1y Poll 6, Eleventh Ward. A.J. Brim, Super- isor, eald he did not zeturn_ the poll’ because the returns were not sworn to as required by m“];‘. J. Lanler testified to the intimidation of colored Democrats and fraudulent registration Twelfth Ward. Knew. of Ju o iy ibble instructing negroes gu at Dl’:mmfl'flgic epggm, 8o as o bave them thrown out. Had scen men distributing fraud~ ulent registration papers the day of elec&icexa and had them arrested, but the police tnra them loose. Scventy-five fraudulent ones were jseued in his presence. 'Know: of alady having a number of them who afterwards gave them ap. : Bm:h Committee adjourned till Monday. THE HOUSE smm o‘ummnm o k forther testimony in reference o s Wilson, United' States. Super- visor, swore that the registration was not f rly condcted; that 800 voters- failed to obtain registration papeas on account of crookedpess. Supervisor Edgewun.h, and several witnesses testified to his vad . v “Jazenor Veazey, Supervisor of Lafayotte ‘Parish, was examined at great length in regard to the returns from that parish, and the pro- test accompanying it. He said the letter was ‘ritten at the Custom-House, and he was told he must sign it to make his returns regular, ‘and that new tally-sheets were made out with certain polls rejected, which he signed after they were made out gt the Custom-Hopse. Witness soid the election was falr and peace- adle, and }Pn the :It.:ocmenh in the protest re from hearsay evidence. 'g'l'bm‘ Commitbe{ndjoumcd Tuesday morning. BESATB COMMITTEE—EVENING BESSION. The Senate Committeesxamined at tho even- ng session Esquire McClaufin relation to the afiidavits made before him by megroes at the instance of Sam McEnerny. ~Several negroes told him afterwards they were afraid to inake affidavits. Witness said fie was not allowed to read or explain the affidavits to them, and Cabt. Phillipssaid he must not talkto them out of is presences - - mApnm.hnm Williams, aged 60, said he had voted the Democratic ticket 10 rave® his life, as he had ‘been taken out of bed and beaten. pt. New- -bold and one of the Logsns did it, and George Phillips was therc. Bealso told of the whip- ping of Cora Williams, his daughter-in-law. Hawkins Jones, cofored, said- he lived on Capt. MuLeod’s planutiona and that McLeod was Captain of the bulidozers. The latter ue- called themselves - signed affidavits to eave his-life. Had bee Xort‘;cd to leave his home anderop. SR Williarm Thomas, Coroner, testified to hold- g Inquests on Dinkgrare, Primas, and Jobn- , and otbers, but & e was afl nna on He%ry Pinltston. S e eorge Tatum said he heard_the .sh: When Pinkston was killed; that Eliza fmgfem;fi his house. scantily clad, leading a child; said hie{v biad nsked for him. Witness then fled. His ‘e.: L{:fiak Fcm'e of Eli:a. s Frayser, who was examined to-ga: ,6aid Capt. Theobuld and Walter Logan whippeysi him; showed his back, which was badly scarred. THE GUBEBNATORIAL CONTEST. ¥ ‘While there 18 conslderable excitement fn re- to the meeting of .the Legislature on Mon- 0Oay, no one apprehends any collision from the. outlock to-night. Gov. Kélloge is.master of the situation. - There are 150 Metropolitan policemen in mc‘émc.uouse to-night a8 a pre- cautionary measitre against its occupation by persons claiming to be” members of the Legis- latore and their friends. Kellogg will only admit those named on the list farnished dy the Returning Board, and none others, until the Legislatare s organized. There are rumors to-night that ex-Gov. Wermouth is trying to form a coalition with the Democrats to have himsclf elected Speaker over Hahin, Gov. Kellogg! te. Warmouth's movements t! Wi e 'ut lmmdidn in the matter arc subjects of c culation’ ouTl}’fllh s(des.h [ of much speculation ose'members of the Legislature declared elected by the Democratic Conservative Com- mittee have been commissioned by Gov. McEn- gg%e--l;ffl:hmmmisfl:nsg%r ;hunscn.l of the ' ‘Was capture the Democrats i the momorable comgzst of lgTZ i ¥ s ILLINOIS. - THE DEMOCRACY AT SPRINGFIELD. K &Special Dispatch to The Tribune, SpRINGFIELD, IIl., Dec. 30.—The Democratic” County mass-meeting was held, here to-day to select delegates to the Siate Convention Jan- uary. -The ‘meeling was not very largely at- tended, but mors respéetable than the average Democratic meeting here. A platforn: yvery much longer than the Decalogue was adopted. ‘I'he resolutions wers drawn up-and presents by the fiery: Gen. - McClernand; ‘neverthel they breathe no spirit of . “wah.” The two fol-: Jowing are the only declarations of import: - Resolved. That il the two Honses should, upon countingthe Electorn) votes, declare cither Tilden ond ‘Hendricks or Hayes and Wheeler elected President ond Vice-President ot tho Uniled, States, _we. - will - render willing _ and’ {aithtnl obedience to their decision, or if 1t should be found that there was a failure of an election for President, then we will render like obedience to’ the authority of the House under the Constitution. toclecta President and to the person whom it may " elect. : Resolved, That it the. House in the proper asser- tion of its constitutional powers should be com- od to_encounter unlawful and revolutionary resistence, we will in_that case, alike from o sense ofdrtyand patriotism, stand by and uphold it to the extent of our power aud influence, ‘The following delegates to the State Conven- tion were chosen: John A, McClernand, Joba | of Tilden with gssuranices that the T. Stuart, B. 8. Edwards, Patrick Conway, N. H. Ridgely, John M. Palmer, James C. Robin< son, Dr. A. A. Patterson, Charles F. Herman, The Hon. J. C. Robinson, who has just return- ed from Washington, made a pacificatory speech’ counseling moderation in speech and action. Gen. McClernand conceived that the bulwark of American liberty was invaded, and friends of constitutional government should repel the attack if the President of the Senate presumed to count in Hayes and thus override the Constitution and the expressed "will of the people. If he ignored tWd right of the House, then the act i3 usurpation, and true Americans should resist tyranny. Hehad ‘been amid the carnage of battle, and-deprecated ‘War save s alast resort of frecmen. : The Hon. C. A. Keyes, McClernand’s law partner, followed in the same line, He was for peace, but if Tilden was counted cut, and war came, Why let it come. Freemen should not submit to have their rights trampled upon. * Gov. Palmer followed, giving & history of his visit to Louisiana; and the work done there. He ‘was violent inabuscof the Returning Board, and of Kellogg and Packard.- Tilden had carried the State, but over 13,000 Democratic votes were thrown out, and_only about 2,000 Repub- lican. There was a degree of intimidation in Louisiana, but both parties had practiced it. In deacribing the Pinkston murder, and the ap~ pearance of Eliza Pinkston, the Governor was %ma:g moved. .He denounced the outr: ut said it wasn't political, and, besides, the Republican .officers were censurable for not prosecuting the perpetrators of this and idn- dred crimes, As to the -present complication, (i he yet had hope of a veaceful adjustment by Congress. He deprecated allusion to:war ou either side, Burely the patriotism of the people can find some' solution of the. gues- tion without resort to arms. w ‘The threc local Democratfe Scnatorial aspir- ants, Robinson, Palmer, and McClernand, hav- in% be‘ebq heuflt’l tber:d was. fifmnim&rs to do, an e meeting adjourn cClernana’s & wah » talk took, though. THE MACOUPIN COUNTY DEMOCRACY. &Special Dispaich to The Tritune. CARLINVILLE, IIL, Dec. 80.—The great Demo- cratic mass-meeting ‘80 extensively advertised took place to-day. It was callpd for the pur- pose of xseler.fiu%l delegates to the State Con- vention on the 8th of January. It consisted of forty-three persons, including several. Repub- licans, who were there for the pm;{msa of hear- ing what was sald. They passed ‘s series’of resolutions, and were addressed by the Hox. C. A, Walker Ina very conciliatory speech.’ It was in favor of peace. One might suppose he was in favor of Hayes -and Wheeler, {n so much as he said the men surfounding Tilden were such thay the sooner the country got rid of them the better. Spectal Dialch o e Trioun 10 The ne. OTTAWA, 1iL, Dec. 80.—Tne Democratic conn- ty - massaicotlug Deld fn-this clty this after- noon was slimly attended, not more than thirty men being prescnt, of whom three~ fourths live in Ottawa. The liberal element of the party was not represented, but-a number of the old peace. Copperheads were out, and. run the meeting, which was, however, a tame afr. The resolution adopted by the State Committee was indorsed, and eighteen gentle- men selected as _delegates to the Springqld Convention, including Representative Arm- strong and Senator Reddick: All attempts of the Democratic leaders to make capital for the ‘Tilden “wah? have thus far been futile, + HAYES AND THE SOUTH. AR INTERVIEW WITH COL. YOUNG, M. C. FROM TITE MEMPHIS DISTRICT. Dispatch o Cincinnall Gazette, WASHINGTOR, D. C., Dec. 28.—An interview appears to-aay with Col. Cascy Young, Repre- sentative from the Memphis District, _in which, upon being questioned concerning his opinion’ in regard to the possibility' of a Southern move- ment in favor of Hayes, he said:’ 5 The relations between Senator Alcorn, of Misals- sippl, and myself are of n most intimate and fifinan chpracter, us T myself am a native of Mis- sissippl, have had conversations with him, in which I have agreed with him thna in case Mr. Hayes should be indugurated, itshould be the duty of ‘the Sonthern people, and their inclinations would jead them to that course, to aasfst him in making himself & pood . President, and to have o fair- and honest Nationsl Administration. of the Government. No proposition has been made fo . me by 'any friend of Mr. Hayes, nor have 1 made or thought of any propoeition looking to any com- promise. of my ~pobtical convictivns, or sny arrangement by which T was to recaive any person- 8l or political benefit at the hands of BIr. Hayes, or of hisparty fricnds. As a private citizen I gave my support to Mr. Tilden, snd have expressed my belief that. he was fairly . and. honestly elected; but, a8 the matter is underfinlng an juvestigation, and . I''mey. be called to set in judgment upon the question, Ihave, as Rep- resentative in Congress, expressed no opinion 25 1o hether b -or: Mr. Hayea was elected, and I sball ot do 8o, until all the facta are laid before Con- gress, 1 shall theu, perhaps, take occasion to give ‘Tny viewsupon the subject. I have said, and I yet say, that it all the fucts, when made known, shall pataty me that Mr. Hayes was fairly elected, I shall Tavor his peaceful and Iawfal fnaugaration; and this l\fllcvu 0 be the sentiment of the Sonth< om people ¥ad their Representatives in Congress. Bat it, on the other hand, the facts show that Mr. Biiden nus been elected, 1 believe it o be the duty of the people of the whole country to insist thit he ehall be inaugurated, not by violence, but by law- eacefal means. 1 believo- that there fan Jegal solation of the entire question, and that Con- AWl reach that solotion without disturbing e public tranquillity. I do not helleve that any Jarge ipart of the respectable priion of the Republican wparty would insist $hé inauguration of Mr. Hayes it it were ‘shiown that he was not nfifier} ;o ’th‘: i Efica qnd& ;. noagh 0 intelligence an bare CO e American people o hope and be- atriotism of the American éy will not precipitate the country into rmm g n:iely War. W:R c:_x;ltxott nhflnrd 1o h;x:’ ar; we cannot afford ta to have any dls- f:fb?xf:s"or’ public tranquillity; it would bring devastationand rin to the whole country, and be tita end, T think, of republican government in this conntry, snd of free institutions throughout the Whole world... Now, 1 further believe that no ques- ton of government can be presented to the people of this conntry that cannot be adjusted by lawful ‘means, and without resort to force. I intend to ress my views fuily on the floor of the Houseon ghx‘a subject when favorablo ‘opportunity presents itself. :k:x. Young finished by saying that there were another cb sugels from Hesven. Had ) some of bis political friends and colleagues in Cougress who did not fullykgreo with bim, but he expected that time would bear him out in the safeness and correctness of his views. - MINNESOTA. THZ SRNATORSHIP. Special Dispaich to The Tribuns. St. PavL, Minn., Dec. 80.—The Legislatare Will meet next Tuesday.-~ About thirty members have arrived, and meet more than their number of applicants for legislative offices. A few pol- ‘iticinns ovposed to Senator Windom give ont ‘hints of opposition, intimating that surprising -things may be expected, but the geueral opin- {on is that Windom’s re-election is not at all a subject of doubt. A warm contest for Speaker of the House is anticipated, Hall, of Henuepin, former Speaker, and Glbbs, of Frecborn, being the opposing candidates. i . MICHIGAN. .THE UNITED STATES SENATORSEIP. Spectal Dispateh to The Tribune. JAOKSON, Mich., Dec. 30.~TnE TRIBUNE edi- toriol on Sevator Ferry is being copied by the entire Republican press of Michigan, and com- plimented in glowing terms. Senator Ferry will not Jeave Washington, but everything seems to indicate: that his election will be by the unan- imous Republivan vote, which stands 99 to 33. THANPTON AND HAYES. | MACEEY’S MISSION 7O COLUAMBUS. CoroMsus, 0., Dec. 28.—In an interdiew with your correspondent this evening, Judge Mackey states that he had called upon Gov. Hayes with 2 mefsage from Geo..Hampton [published in Tae TRIBUKE of Saturday).and that there was nothing in the message, or in the course which Gen. Hampton and bis fricnds intended to pursue in case of the fnauguration of Gov. Hoyes as President, that would give any encoursgement to the Demo- crats of the North in any acts of violent opposl- tion to such inauguration. He further stated L | that the South Carolina Democrats freely ‘con- cede that the Hayes Electoral ticket was elected in that State, and that the pretended casting of avote by the Tilden and Hendricks Electors was done at the prompting of Tilden’s agents, sent for the purpose to Columbia, the excuse given being that it Would do to offset the agjion of the Republican Electors in Alabama. ¢ . Judge Mackey was emphatic in this statement, that Gén. Hampton and hig friends asked noth- ing of Gov. tayes,—neither pledges nor patron- :|: age,—but having become satisfied that he would be the legal President on and after the 5th of March, they would only refuse to co-operate in any revolutionary attempts of the Democrats of the North to oppose. him, but would, if neces- sary, take the field fn defense of the Govern- ment &0 asseiled. - o They werecontinually appealed to by partiszns 3 emocracy of Ohic and Indiana were ready to take the field by thousands for the forcible inauguration of Tilden, and were asked to aid in this enter- prise; but they of the South had lenrned from one experience what such assurances were worth, and did not need g second trial, ‘The Judge is a warm partisan of the claim of Gen. Hampton to recognition as Governor, but. says ho and his friends are ready and willing to subiait the question involved to Conggpess, which body, they claimn, will have to make the final de- cision in the case. Judge Mackey is an uncle of Speaker Mackey, of the Republican House of Representatives. Cincinnati uirer (Dem.), Dec. 30, Anent the already reported visit of Judge J. T. Mackey, of -South Carolina, to Gov. Hayes, we arc permitted to pnblish the following private messages which passed yesterday. Jn explanation, we -may eay that Gen. ~ .lliam Preston, who was here esterday, aud who is an old personal friend of v. Wade Hxnpton, felt that it was due to the ‘Democra's uf the North that he¥ should give some expression of his opinion on the en- ssing subject cf the attitude of the Bouthern lemocrats toward Hayes. 8o he addressed him in the following terms: CrxcrnNat, 0., Dec. 27, 1876.—70 Goy, Frade Hampton, Golumbla, 8. C.: A_telegram ffom Co- lumbus, O., announces that Judge Mackey, in your behalf, hus made propositions to Gov. Hayes 10 support him for President -against Gov. Tilden, recognizing Hayes 18 legally entitled, and offering to support him against the Northern Democ- racy. ~-Fuis I :’'do not believe, bat L fs injuring the Democracy here. Your wise and noble conrse has strengthenea my long friend- ship for you. In my judgment there should be a prompt denial, and this I sabmit o XL decision. . PRESTON. 3;7 which the. following reply was promptly made: ' 0 Convamia, 8. C., Dec, 29, 1876.— . Presion, Oiacinnati, 0.: No one is authorized to make dec- larations for me or for our party here. e abide decisions of legitimate authority, andhope fora peaceful solution. WanE HAMPTON. CHICAGO. . 0. R. SALISBURY. . . A correspondent writes as follows to THR TRIBUNE in regard to O. H. Salisbury, who has set up an orgenization of Union Leagues at No. 54 La Salle street, in the back-room in the base- ment: * E To the Edlior of The Tridune. That Grand Scribe Salisbury hassentand mailed by his own anthority, about 1,000 copies throughont the Btate, especially to every Postmaster, and many ood-hearted Republicans and_poor devils, asking them to send $5 to the Grand Scribe for a charter for \the organization of 8 League. The Grand Scribe is a genius of very doubtful character and a political frand. Itisasad thmF to see the noble and honored names of Ingersoll, Lyman Bridges, J. H. Hammond, etc., being used.ns & trap for o ‘matter which will be finished when the great Scribe has received an amoant large enongh to go home and live comfortably in Dalton, his home, where everypody knows him ns dn old rascal. Have a zood 100k out for the dark back-room and mys- terious_oflice at No. 54 LaSalle street, snd the Grand Scribe Salisbnry. Why do we not sce the numes of A. 0. Babeock, Dan Shepard, Jomes P. Root, C, B. Farwell, Julius White, and such gen- tlemen as are known and respected, in the list? Satizbury you will find a fraud of the deepest ind, A REPUBLICAN. . Salisbury {8 working without any authority whateyer. Gens, Hammond and Reynolds are old members of the Union League,” but they know_nothing of - Balisbury. Some time ago Gen. Bridzes tendered the Presidency, now re- uted to be held by Col. Bob logersoll, to the Eon. Charles B. Farwell. That gentleman de- clined the “doubtful honor,” to use his own WOrds. Following is Salisbury’s circular: APPLICATION ROR CHARTER. To 0. H. Salisbury, EeY., Grand, Scribe of the National Union League of Illinois, No. 6% La- Salle ‘street, Chicago—DEAR Sin: We, the under- signed, having read the circular-letter of the Na- tional Union, Lengue of Illinois, izsncd by its Presi- dent and Secretary, and approving of itd objectsand parposcs, and bolng desirous of encoursging and romoting the ssme, do hereby respectfully apply or a charter for the P County_of y and State of Tlinols, and send 1nclosed for charter- fee $5, and for five copies of comstitution snd taal §2. - ——, has subscribed and sworn to the inclosed -, who afidavits, is lhorized to_reccive the constitution, ritual, etc., for us, with power to organize. State of Illinofs, County of 3 of the Town 0f ————, County of ————, and State of Illinofs, do hereby apply to_the Na- tional Union League of Tllinois for anthority to or- uize a Conncil in said town, and I hereby swear that Iam a true end loynl citizen of the Uhited States, and in active sympathy with the Union, ane am opposed to all frauds and corruptions of every Xkind, and to all traitors to the Government,—not loestp those who are gtealthily underminingit by all frands at “elections,; fthon those in open arme againstit. That I will faithlally endeavor to pro- mote the objects of the National Union-League of Tllinois, s set forth in their circnlar, by organiz- ing a Conncil thereof in said town. ubscribed and sworn to befors me, this — daj of —, . = 3 MISCELLANEOUS. BANNING'S SEAT TO BE CONTESTED. . Clncinnati Gazette, Dee. 0. Notlee was sent to Washington, yesterday, in behalf of the Hon. Stanley Matthews, that the seat of Hon. H, B. Banning, in the next Con- gress, will be rontested. Mr. Banning was elected bya nominal majority of sixty-five votes. That a large nutaber of the votes cast for him were frauduleni, is now evident. In fact, it was evident at thetime. But since the ¢lection proof has been/gecumulating that the will of the people of the Second District was defeated, g0 far as it conld be done by fraudulent votes. Quite & pumber of the men who cast fllezal votes for Banning_have been indicted, and sey- eral of them baye been sent to the Penitentiary, while twoof his chief workers haye run away to escape the vengeance of the law. Thst Judge Matthews will establish his right to the seat from the 8econd District, we have no sort of doubt. : s DAVID DUDLEY FIELD NOMINATED ¥OR CON- i QRESS. New YoRk, Dec. 30.—David Dudley Tield has been nominated for_Coneress, to fill the unex- pired term of Smith Ely, elected Mayor of this city. OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yorg, Dec. 80.—Arrived, steamship Suevis, from meEnrz; Eronprinz and Wil- helm, from Bremen; and Mass, from Rotter- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. CALIFORNLA IN 49, Gold-Hunting in the Occidental Eldorado. Some Soensa and Inoidents of Those Early Days, For The Trisune. On the 16th of March, 1849, the highland mountains of Alta Californfa burst upon our sight, the pure atmosphere: rendering the -branchies of the distant trees perfectly distinct from our far-seaward position. THE THRASHER AND LEVIATHAN. Off the “ Golden Gates* we had a close view of a desperate encounter between two thrashers and & very large whale. ) The thrasheris a large fish of the shark spe- cies, thirty feet in length when fully grown, and, in company with the eword-fish, it wages frequent war with the gisnt of old Ocean's depibs, os against & common foe, the sword- fish attacking Leviathan from beneath and fore- ing him to the surface, when the thrasher fastens upon him with his teeth, and, raising his tafl aloft, inflicts tremendous blows upon its back. ‘We stopped our engines for a half hour, when the poor whale seemed nigh exhausted, and the sea for rods around was crimsoned with -marks of the bloody fray., After standing off-and-on throughout the night, on the 21st of March we entered the Golden Gate and stood into San Francisco Bay, anchoring fust astern of the Pacific Mafl steam- ship Californiz, Capt: Cleve Forbes (an old schoolmatse of mine at Woodbridge, N. J.), and in the midst of a targe fleet of vessels qf various and nationalitics.. We were soon boarded by a shore-boat, and learned that sll the reports ‘we had previously received onty shadowed forth the ities of the 'WEALTH OF EL DORADO. Every ship in port was almost deserted, and oflicers and crews were digging smong the in- land places. B Board alone was $40 week, and lodging was not .to be obtained for love or money. Hundreds of adventurers wers daily arriving {rom’ Vn!flm;iso, Lima, Mazatlan, ‘sod the Sendwich Islands, One chap who boarded uswasvery loguacious, . and by his wonderful yarns he succeeded in our gaflors and fireisen almost frantic to get amonz the golden hills. and streams. But, they—poor fellows!—had signed articles for two years’ service in Uncle Sam’s employ; and, when double-officer watch was set, the boats all hoisted up and divested of oars and. oarlocks, to prevent the posulbflitz of an eacape, they went off grumbling to their cheerless bn€kx, to dream of ounces, but to touch them not. PRICES OF LABOR. ‘The Parker House was in process of construe- tion at the timeof our arrlval, and, as carpenters were very scarce, the owner gave ouc ship’s carpenter $30 per diem, and “found him' at that, though he was a poor workman, of the class denominated * wood-spoilers.” Laborers recelved from $10 to $12 s .dsy for lightering, and doctors charged (and received, too) an ounce~$iG—for a single visit an preseription. . AN ORDINARY MEAL. I well remember my first meal in San Fran- clsco at that time; for I had been there twenty years before, for water. 4 alking past s tent, in company with Capt. Shaeffer, of the Ordnance Department, we saw some boiled eges and a coffec-pot on a dry-goods hox' and, feeling rather hungry, we asked if we could get some breakfast there. ‘¢Of course we could.” 80 in we walked (into the fly-tent) and ordered two exgs each, two_cups of coffee, and two slices of toast; which, having eaten, we called tgr our bflé“d 3 Th:ia doll}lm mfi"’ easantly responded our host; *egge coffee sl,y(m\sr. $1; total, $317 Very satisfactory itemizing. Sowe *‘settled” (which was more than onr coffee had done), and then we * vamosed that ranche.” REPORTS FROM THE PLACERS. 1 had not been {dle from the time we enjoyed the pleasant interview with jolly Capt. Bell in the Magellan Straits, but, with the belp of the armorer and sailmaker of the Edith, I had finished a comfortable tent, and had a good sup~ ply of mining implements in readiness for my ?S:ni;_mong the gold-laden streams of Cali- o Dodging around among the store-tents, where men from the mines were congregated fi their dust and making their purchases, Ilistene: to all their stories, with an eye to future opera- tions. One old chap.took out his buckskin bl§ to _pay for some articles, and I was attracted by ‘the size and beauty of the “chispas,” or lumps of gold. , i aid I, “* My friend, I have just arrived, and would like yonr adyice as to the best locality in which to try my luck at gold—hununf." ‘¢ Waal, now, strcoger,” said ha [L knew ‘him for & man from ‘‘Pike Keounty"], “I never would give a man advice; but I tuk these here leetle fellers out of the 8panish Law [Stanislau] diggins, and there's plent.§ more jast like 'em there; that’s all I know. Bat, mister, mind ye, don’t b’lieve anything ye hear in Californy, an only half wot ye see; an’ that's my advice, if yo want, it 1" : 1did want it, and I neyer had more sensible advice i‘v:n me in my life than that of my old #Pike Keounty * friend in *Frisco. STARTING FOR THE MINES. At 4 p. m. on the 27th of March, 1840, T bade adieu to my kind friends and late companions on board the little Edith, and took passage in a. small sloop, the Diana, for the Town of Stock- wn.l—e ds and night's eail,~for which I paid French, Germans, Mexicanos, with thres Yaukees besides’ myself, composed the motley crew; while bowie-knives, mache! and revolv- ers peeped from every belt, boot, and pocket. The beantiful San Pablo snd Soisun Bays ‘were fipldlu{ passed, by the aid of suspiclous ‘westerly gales, and we soon glided into the tule-lined river of BSan Joaquin—pronounced Sen Wakeen. The tuleisa gort of mammoth rush, which lines nearly all of the California streama to a great extent; beyond which, on the banks of the river throngh which we were rap- idly gliding, herds of deer and antelope were seen, with heads erect, - watching our white sails a3 we werd sweeping up the stream but Iately so quiet and secluded. BTOCKTOR. In due conrse of time we reached the Village of Btockion—if one house and a score or 8o of tents zfiht be dignified with the title. But do not smile; for, within , that single house snd those swaying tents, I saw gold enough to buy up = State Legislature, orlay a telegraph cable aving sbipped my “plunder, a0 provand, on an ox-wagon at the Jow rate of $1 per pound transportation to Sonors, a distance of sixty-five miles, I started on foot, and, travel- ing for four days over spreading plains and amid magnificent mountain scenery, the whole face of the country teeming with beautifally-varlegated flowers of every imaginable hue almost, I reached the : 3 ' DIGGIN’S ¥ ON WOOD’S CREEK, and, from a lofty eminence, beheld the busy flgups eagerly washing the sands of the gold- en streawns. ; The road for miles was thronged with Sonor- anians_with long lines of pack-mules,—some upward bound, heavily laden, while others were goi?fi to Btockton for fresh miner-supplies. I o‘)ped down leisarely towards the creek, and hailed thres Americans, whom I asked what success they were baving. ‘About an ounce g‘l_fi aday per man!"! Well, thought I, that is tter than hammering against old Ocsan’s es and waves for scanty pay;so I camped OWD among some Clxl.lenosi and, tired and dusty, Iwas soon in the land of Nud, and dreaming of Aladdin 2nd his wonderfal lamp, JAMESTOWN, or Wood's Creek, as it was called from the first miner who had worked there, was one of the very richest spots in California; and there were assembled, early in 49, some dozen Yankees, about sixty Sonoranians, an oceasional dpan{ of Digger Indians, and a few Kanakas and Cl men. Here were_pames familiar to the old Lake-crowd from Buffalo to Cmcafl(. Here were that well-known e-engineer, Charlie Radcliffe; Gus Tiffany, of B 0 run- ner tame; Fayette Carpenter, commoniy called #Jet, and s brother Jack, one of the best rifie shots I ever saw; with others less known perhaps, but_all men of true manhood and sterling worth. Good order prevalled generally, and the ab- sence of all law seemed to.favor the growth of its rare companion, Justice. Property of all kinds was held most sacred, and I doubt if ever the rights of * meum et taum . were more fm- Dlicitly respected,—tools, and even the dust it~ sel, being ofzen left in open sight, unguarded, yet secure. ‘When robbery did occur, the offender met summary punishment, instant and severe,— ing, ahwung; or flaying; and the latter ent, which I saw fnfifcted thers, will never be obliterated from my memory, Till Life's last pulse shall beat, CaPr. Sane. British Annexation in Indis. Zondon Ezaminez. The Government, of India has just made & 1 move which msy lave imporiant cousequences \ not comrades herenfter. If Khelat is not absolutely annexed our interferenco in the internal affairs of that small but important State has now_assumed a distinctly aggressive form. When 3Maj. Sande- an Was sent on & mission to the Khan some time back, the object was sald to be & friendly arrangement of some difficulties which had’ arisen between that pgtentate and hismost pow- erful subjects. According to the latest advices amicable relations have been restored between the two parties, and u:e{ would no doubt be glud enouih 1o get rid of their kindly mediator. ut Lord Lytton appears to have determined on sccuring permanent position in Khelat, so as tohold control over the Bholan Pass. Both from a strategical anil a commercial pointof view the possession of trdt defle is of the first import- tance to India: It commands the m Herat, Meshed, and Mezo, which, azain, are in direct communication with the whale of Tar- *| kistan. There is, therefore, some excase in this rudent policy one case for a departure from the el was really ‘of *“masterly inactivity,” if the unable to keep the pass open. e — THE:ROBBER-PEST OF SICILY. Adventures of an Englishman Held by Erigands for Ransom. Correspondencs London Siandard. TRouE, Nov. 80.—It may interest sowme readers ‘perhaps to hear the accounts brought yesterday by the Palermitan papersof the adventures of Mr. Rose during the time he remslned in the hands of the brigands. Immedately after the ca was compelied to ride for sixteen consecutive hours. His mare was utterly knocked up, and foll with him twice. The ~second time Don Antonfno (as the members of his called tha celebrated brigand: Chiet Leone) decided to abandon the poor beast, assuring Mr. Rose that it would be safely re- stored fo him. ' At 3 in the morning t.h:&:my reached a cavern, wherc they remained for seven days, and where they were abundantly supplied with food of all sorts. The following incident, which occurred on the march, s worthy . of the notice of the authorities—if indeed, it were of any use to their attention to the ' subject any way, or if thers were any hope of any efficient measures being taken, which I fear there is not. One evening the gang were passing along the sloping eide of a valley, when they spied a patrol of four sol- diers marching along the quosite slope on the other side of the v meg. 'he leader of the pa- trols at the same ti saw them, and gave a whistle. Leone immediately n:pl‘ed by a sim- ilar whlsue&lwavlng his gun barrel so that it flashed in the moonlight, giving at thesame time the watchword, ** mounted troops.”” The soldiers replied, * good night,”’ and passed on. The Liberta remarks on this that it is evident, end a matter of the gravest consideration, that the brigand chief had information of the sol- dier’s pass-word. But it seems to me that it shows much more than that. It seems to prove | that the patrol in question had éither not the smallest notion of what it ought to do under| ture the prisoner the circumstances, or that 1t had no jutention of doing it. The soldlers ought to have laa the 'means of kmow- {og that the men' on the opposite Diu-side were eir own; and in any other case the men with guos lndxel.r hands, march- ing at ni%::f, ought to have been stopped. Itis evident that they were within ot, but it isclear that the men had no mind for any such encounter; not, asin mE‘beue(, from coward- fee, but from friendly intelligence with the brigands. _After remaining seven days in the cavern the gang recelved tidings that the military were on Their track. BSo they started by nignt—all their jonrneyings wete by night—and reached a forest on foot, and crept In on hands and imecs in ihe thick covert, where they remained as still as pos- sible, one day jkilling a dog which had come near them with blows from a stone. Thepwerecontin- ually in fear of the soldiers, by whom they were probably surrounded at s distance. So adys the account. But the umgun:;{,n cln‘l’ {;enor idx:a;irehdi b the forza publica may, e mu loubte Evz{ if the brigands. should, by a concourse of unforeseen circumstances,’ be” captured, they Tave litule to fear beyond a temporary interrup- tion of their favorite mode of life. ~On no ac- connt would the law touch one of their valuable lives. Perhapsthe ringleader might be sen- teuced, if any evidence could be ?L sgainst him, .to perpetual imprisonment, and it might be four or five years befor he was - heard of again in Jus old haunta. 5 One day, the account goes on to say, they were so near to a_patrol of soldiers as to hear their ‘whistles, Upon that occasion Don An- tonino put & pistol into Mr. Rose’s hands, telling him to_hold himself ready to fire, as nil must fight. During the thirteen days following the ays in the grotto, the band, consisting scme- tiuies ofs five, sometimes of four, but never of less than three men, always relaxed from their precautions during the midday hours, becanse they knew that the soldiers were then at dinner. Of course it never entered into the head of the officer in command to speculate this probability as cleverly o the bandita did, and suspend the men’s dinner for an hour or two in order to. profit by the bandits’ trust to the immutability of the military dinner hour. Supplies ran short during these thirteen days. They had only bread and cheese apd Wwing; water they were entirely without; and Mr. Rose, utterly broken down by fatigue, hed to wash himself as best he could with wine. The gong was, during the whole time, in com- munication with Palermo, and was accurately informed of all that was going on in Mr. Rose’s famfly—of their trouble and ol their talk. Leone received accounts of the largeness of the fortune of Mr. Rose, and expected a proportion- ately large ransom. The chieftain condescended sometimes to enter into conversation with his captive, on which lon he made ‘00 secret of his strong republican principles, anid his hopes of seeing the reign of fraternity and eguality e "i.f‘ig% for th carrled 8 nmfi for the ransom was on for u long time, during which Leone again and again rejected the sums offered td him. At last he seems to have fixed his ultimatum -at 60,000 lire, to be paid on the 22d, with & fine_of 12,000 addizioual lire for every day of delay. The mon3y, however, could not be pald till aday ortwo ago. After the payment of the ransom Mr. Rose was conducted into the neighbor- hood of Collesano, thence to the Bosco dl 8. Glorglo, thence to Petralia, and lastly to the station of Sciars, in the neighborhood of Ccnhawhm he was presented with the acapolare, or little amulet, and hat of one of the b ds, and told to make the best of his way to Palermo in & third-class carriage. The Gazette di Palermo 3dds to thess particu- lars the remark that some of the facts gaye rise to ver{_hnerlon.s considerations—aa indeed they do. e most grave of all, says the Gazette, is the evidemce that Leone has not ounly emissaries and_sgents in every part of the islana and in Palermo, but what 'is more, is ac- quainted with the movements, the operations, and the plans qf, the troops, and even—incredi- ble a8 it seems—=Wwith the secret aignals used by the different bodies of troops among thegi- selves. To my thinking it is not in the least credible, but verymuchthereverse. * Thecauses of the evil,” proceeds the,writer in the Gaztle, 4 gre not only the voluntaryor obligatory harbor- ing of the bandits, together with the cowardice of many snd the induference of more, but a more serious and deep-seated cause 1S to be found in_the public functionariecs themselves, and in those who hold in tReir breasts the se- crets of the police.” It is nonew discoyery on the part of the Gazeite. It Is well” koown that the whole administrative machine i rotted by maflc to the core. The whole history of. all that has been said, done, and discovered with relation to the brizandage makes it wholly impossible to. beliove that the Italian Government, is sarlously in earnest in its wishes and attempts to put down and cxtirpate Sicilian .| brigandage. It 18 utterly incredible that the antc?;lae should be unachievable by the means they have at their disposition. Isit to be s:lr- posed, then, that his Majeaty’s Ministers really wish to perpetuatesucha disgrace to the country, and such 2 complete hindrance to its prosperity and nrogressi Not at all so! Butitisfmpossible toput down' the brigandage without taking meagures that would be very nn;;«lapuhr in the island. Sicilian votes count on Monte Citorio, and the half-heartedness, not to say false-heart- edness, of the feelings that riifn at headquar- ters on the subject may be read in the fact that the Ministerial organs in the press which, when the present men were in opposition, were the loudest in denouncing the atrodties of the brigandage, now do their best to suppress the facts and smooth them over. Live Stock in Great Britdin and Ireland. Zondon Times. ‘The agricultural returns obtained anuually in June from the occupiers of land eontinue to show some increase in the number of horses, The number in Great Britain in Jupe, 1876 (n- cluding 9,832 in the Isle of Man andthe Channel Islands), 1s returned as 1,383,903, an increase of 34,217 over. the corresponding period in the preceding year; this total comprises 975,653 horses used solely for the purposes of agricul- wure, and 408,228 uabrokéh horses, and mares kept solely for the purpose of breeding; each of these two classes showing a little over 17,000 increase. There nn'a of _courss, many other horses in - Great Britain besides these which belong to occupiers "of land. The retarn for Ircland is more comprehensive. 1t shows a total of 534,833 horses, or 8,481 less than in June last gsnr; the ‘items are 61,258 under 1 year; 57 1 year old but under3 ¥ and 416,340 2 years old or upwards— namely, 861,009 kept for agricultural pur- poses, 23,547 kept for trafiic and manufactures, and 28,784 for amuse- ment or recreation. The number of cattle in Great Britain (including 87,19¢ in the small . a8 28,245,001 many a5 943,739, islands) is stated at 5,834,996, showing 165,801 decrease; tbe items are 2,244,157 cows and heifers in milk or In calf, and 3,640,839 other cattle, of which last number ioas,m were under 3 yvears old, .and it is_in thesa that the decreass chiefly occurs. In Ireland the cattle are returned as 4,113,693, showing 1,~ 595 decrease; the items are 1,532,548 milch-cows, and 2,581,147 other cattle, of which last number 1,653,498 (or 22,000 more than last vear) wers under 2 years old. The sheep in Great Britain (induding 72,110 in the islands) are ratarned showing a decrcase of as ‘ compared with Jast year; the 9,954,904 under a year old are 467,000 fewer than the number at the same period in last year. In Ireland also the sheep, 4,007,518 in all, show s decrease of 247,509; the 1,428,503 under s year old are 71,287 fewer than in last The pigs are returned as 2,810,286 in Great Britain, including 16,666 in the islands, showing an increase of above 64,000 over last year. In Ireland the pies number 1,424,143 or 173,000 more than in lastyear's returu. The number of pigs does mot indude those kept in towns or by cottagers. The sheep make the wom’ flgure in these returns; a _ten years' return—1807-'76—shows fewer sheep 11 Great Britain In 1678 than in any year except 1571 and 1572, and fewer in Ireland than in any other of the ten years, The returns of our three erent sheepcounties arsasfollows: Lincolnshire, 1,555,000 sheep in 1875, but only 1,508,813 in 1876} Argyleshire, 1,029,436 in 1875, and 1,015,470 in 150, Eent, 1,000.190 in 1875, and’ 957,407 in 1870, .The decrease is shown more in England and Wales than in Scotland; there were 7,100,~ 994 sheep in Scotland in 1875, and there were still 6,959,719 in 1878; but in England 19,114,634 in 1875 fefl to_18,320,091 in 1576 sod in Wales, 2,951,810 in 1875 iell to 2,863,141 in 1876, i A TRIBUTE TO MOTHER. ) God, Sed'st Me.” A strange, sweet light from Eternity, That never shone on land or ses, Filled with a glory the pure, aweet eyes, With the blissfal hit of 4 rapt surprise, ‘While the white 1j mumnr‘g. 5eih sweet tobe So beloved of G ‘Thon sce'st me— Thou, God, see'stmel” _ And still,.as the Morn, with whispers low, ‘Touched with breezy fingers the snowy braow, The dear eyes smiled, though bitter pain, With torturine pangs, again and agaia, ‘Wrang the failing neart. ‘¢ They crucifed Thee, ‘Though Thon uhg‘!l. Itrost. Thou see’st mo— Thon, God, see'st me!™ And ever a8 Night, like a bird to its nest, Bettled softly down 'neath her quiet breast, The deathless hopes of her heart were stirr’d. And ahamlang’d lor the wings of that poor, mesit b ‘That returned to the Ark.. ‘I walt for Thee,® Bhe softly murmnr'd. **Thon see'st mc-ee' ‘Thou, God, see’st mel™ When the sun with his flercest fervor beat On the thirsting stones of the glazing atreet, And tho heated breeze in the noontide died, . She mused of the spear that pierced His side, “And ehe said *I thirst, but 'tis sweet for Thes To be tortured, and worse, for Thux look'st on me— Thou, God, see’st mol™ And weeks and months dropp'd down the sea That wzecks all life; an argosy ‘Went richly !telimed to the Upper Nile Of her thirsting hope ; in the shadowless smile Of her God she stands. _**I look on Thee, Dear Chriat, ac 1ast. Oh! bliss to be 8o loved, 50 saved. Thou see'st me— Thou, God, sec'st mal ** A strange, sweet light from Eternit B e me at 8 & O ly welcas ‘And ages to ages nr:gadded the while; 1 fecl but Thy presence. I look upon Thes, Who in B0rTow and pain esws to sAnsom me; And Thou, God, see’st met’ CHI0AGO, Dec. 23. Macomm A. Covmm. e R —eeme. b A Negro's Idea of the Talegraph. [Barper's Draver. In the interests of electricity the Drawer com- mends this, just received from Cincinnati, ta the h:nvt:z;t(mmn%1 department of the Western Union Telegraph Company: * In the building in which the writer was employed some time since was a negro porter named Barnet. Among his duties was tnat of carrying telegraphic mes- sazes to the offices of the ‘companies for trans- mission. He had cadgeled his brains as to the method thereof, and the result was indicated one day when there happened to be passing & 'wagon loaded with the large poles nsed by the telegraph companies in supporting their wires. Upon my allu to their extraordinary size, E‘m:e Who was l!ta‘l:dln‘gq bx:eu, ézuid, L spees m telegraph poles has pooty large, don’t Mr, }Ipii ? ‘What makes you think “Well, I s'pose jist forde standing dey don’t need to be o big, out whes d:v puls on de pressw’ dey has o be pooty strong.” ‘Wiat do_you mean by putting on the press- ure?’ ‘Why,? said he, ‘when dey sends de messages over, don’t dey bave to ,punt on de pressuw’'?’? Thad is & fair " theory; but = President Orton once gave us another explanation, made by & ** man and a brother,” thus: ow you see, Sam, s'poseda was a dog, and dat dog’s hesd was in Hoboken and his tail in Brooklyn.” *Go ’way, da ain’s no such dog.” ** Wetl, s'pose da waa.'” ‘“ Well, 8’pose da was.” & Well, den, de tele- gram {8 jes like dat dog. If I pinch dat dog’s tail m Brooklyn, what he doi” * Dunno.” \Why, i£ I pinch dat dog’s tall in Brooklyn, he 2o bark in Hoboken. Dat's de science of k. “Golly! golly!” How Many Appies Did Adam and Eve Eat? Some say Eve 8 and Adsm 2, a total of 10 only, Now we figure the thing out differently. Eve 8 aod Adam 8 also, Tolal, 16.—Hoston Journal. We think the above figures are en! wrong. - It Eva 8and Adam 8-2, certainly the ot Wil b 80. Scieniific men, however, on the strength of the theory that the antediluvians were a race of giants, and consequently great eaters, reason something like this: Eve 8-lst ond Adam 8-2. Total, 163.—Gloucester Advertiser. Wrong againy what onld be clearer nan If Evo B-1, aad Adars 8-1-2, the total was 8931—Lawrencs American, - 18 Eve 8:1-1st, and Adam 8-1-2, would not the whol> be 1,623?—soston Journal. 1believe the follow- ing to be the true solution: Eve 8-1-4 Adam, Adam 8-1.2.4 Bve. Total, 8 038, —Jeritas. Stiil ag~ other calculation is as follows: If Eve 8-1-4 Adam, Adam §-1-2-4-2 oblige Eve. Total, 82,056. We think, however, this not to be a sufficlent quantity, for, though woadmit that Evo 8-1-4 Adam, Adaw, e 8- = kee) Ve com) 3 total, 8,083,050, —Jvew York Mol e, Tt seems hm_ilg fair to represent Adam a2 such an intolerable glutton, without showing. that Eve had & very fair appetite too. We be- lieve that Eve, when she ¥1,-8-1-2 many. We &lso have reason to think that she felt sorry for it, and. that Adam,—as any other gentléman would have done,~—rallled to her relief; hence Adam, if he 81-2,-8-1-4-240-fy Eve’s depressed spirite); therefore, bota §,812,606,050 ng.z'A. ) . A Rat Story, Pittsburg Telegrash. A banker of this city had a valuable cow, which gave a large quantity of milk and was held in high esteem for genersl’good qualities, All ot once the supply of lacteal. fluld grew smaller by degrees and beautifully less, until the yield was scarcely worth having. The fam- ily Were greatly surprised at this, a3 the animal Was in perfect health, and n the height of her season. It was hinted that some person whose love for milk overcame his scruples for stealing was gt the bottom of the mischief, and that, like a thief at night, he entered the stable where bossy was kept, and relieved her of the milk, The hired man was accordingly instructed te watch for the thief, and his vigllance was re- warded by 2 most singular discovery. Just after daylght in the morning, hesaw & ve, large rat come forth from 1ts hiding-hlace, -fi golog to where the cow was lying, it stood on its hind feet, with its forepaws on the cow’s udder, and, applying its mouth to one of her g sucl;edri:f‘flutol nii.lix. ‘When it was satis- l, another rodeat ook its pl. and 80 o unti! the supply was exbaute%.uf'nd the mn,, swindled by the cunning rats out of their morg- ing's supply of the much-coveted fnid. R —— Colored Men and White Loafers. The New Orleans correspondeut of the Pall Mall Gazette writes: “Iclaim to know the ne- gro, and want to be fair with him. I know bim ZFrench, Spanish, English, and American; I &m also -acquafnted with the white ‘loafer’ of the Sonth, and the imported citizen who gives a Democratic msjority to New York; and I have Do iiesitgtion in saring that as raw material out ‘Which to make memhers of soclety, L prafer the poor colored man. When their re- spective sntecedents and opportunities of im- provements are cosidered, the feeling i strengthened. This fs ‘fat burglary’ in the White man’s code, though the impiled advantaga of the nezro is made comparative only. ‘Tha wh§t= ?“:; s L':nonlg unclean, mon and violent; the negro Unes clean, igno- rant, and timfd. ~ The latter has opportuni- tles of education for about ten years; the form- er for perhapé s many generations. com- parison is not drawn_wantonly. Itis notin- tended to hurt anybody’s Zeel batie sug- gest a danger which in myhumble opinfonmight' arise should a Democratic Government, not strong enough to put a curb on the now affectionately kncwn 23 ‘the boys,’ come into power.” ————— Virtues of Pepper. A tahlespoonful of black perper will prevent gray or buif linen from spotting, if stirred into the first water in which they are washed. It will 30’ prevent the colors from running, when ‘washing black or colored cambrics or mualins; and the water 15 not injured by it, bat {3 just as goft as before tlic pepper was put lo. .