The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1876, Page 4

KELLY'S MAYOR Mr. Augustus Schell’s Pronuneia- miento Before the Battle. HIS OPINION OF THE “BOSSES.” ee oe Mr. Green, Mr. Agnew, Mr. Babcock and Other Rival Candidates Discussed. KELLY WOULD BE THE MODEL MAYOR What He Says About Wickham’s Muni- cipal Regime. Mr. Augustus Schell is to be our uext Mayor—at least Such is the mandate of John Kelly. Mr, Sehell’s tirst quality that strikes any interlocutor is his amiapility. He is the most amiable man who ever ran for the Ma: oralty. Any one who looks at that broad, square, smooth, fresh, rosy face, framed by white whiskers— long, narrow, straight patches of white hair lad out as regularly as though square inch—that beuevolent immense forehead, that broad, jolly, rosy-tipped nose; those long, thin lips and the brightly shining bald head, with a large bump of charity and good nature, can tell at once that whatever this man may be he certainly {3 not wicked at heart. You could gather in an instant that he is uot aman who would use his p»wer as Mayor of New York to subvert our liberties a3 a free people, Mr, Schell’s ap- pearance is manitestly one which would well adorn the office of Mayor, AN ORNAMENTAL MAYOR, He would preside over a banquet with tmmenee di nity and make an after-dinner speech which would de- light ang, to use the classical language of the Bowery, nthuse’’ every hearer. In fact, to look at this jovial, broad, hearty face, which reminds you of nothing so much as the famous pictures of Datch burghers by Rubens or Vandyke you would think that Mr. Schell was born at a banquet, and had never yet interrupted the feast, Inextent and luxurianee his whiskers are undoubtedly inferior to those of Mayor Wickham, Kel- ly’s present Mayor, but his face is far moro be- high, and even intellectual, He would make a much more ornamental Mayor than Mr, Wickbam, and could entertain the distinguished visitors from abroad with greater ease and elegance, The famous Lord Mayor of London—always so tremendous a personage—would even have to come to New York to leara the true art of presiding gracefully and magnificently over a great metropolis, Having thus introduced our coming Mayor to the Teader Who may be aufortunate enough not to enjoy his personal acquaintauca we may conclude the pic- ture with a few fnishing touches. Mr. Schell’s great- est parsonal peculiarity 18 a peculiar broad smile— deprecatory and apologetic at the samo time—which generally swallows up the last portions of his sentences, In this way these chronic smiles are undoubtedly con- venient; in swallowing up the tag end of the sentence they effectually hide its meaning, a consummation otten devoutly to be wished when you undergo the painful process of being interviewed, Whenever a dis- jointed sentence is puzziingly closed by a quizzical dash in the reproduction of the interview which follows the Teader will please imagine ono of those suiles which ~~engulled in its capacious recesses the remainder of the inn cela two, these portions of the con- Versation were inaudible, for Mr. Schell, who generally speaks ina low tone, drops it gently as he goes on, uutil the last words disappear bebiud the corner of his mouth. Hence it is that Mr. Schell’s replies to the re- porter’s queries ean only be given in a disjointed form; bbt, such as they are aud coming from the lips of our Prospective Mayor, they will undoubtedly be welcome to the public. It only remains to premise that the con- Versation took place on Wednesday alternoon, at about hall-past three o'clock, while Mr. 3cheli was seated in one of the casy chairs of the directors’ room of the Union Trust Company, of whieh be is one of tho trus~ tecs, NXCESSITY FOR UNION. “Mr, Scheil, how is the political situation?” the writer began. Asmile. A pause Another smile, Avother pause. Thev, “0, I don't know, 1 am sure; I have uo intor- mation except what I seo im the papers.” “How do you view the results of the elections in Ohio and Indiana?” Mr. Schell turned those huge ‘spectacles that dim the brightness of his beaming blae eyes full upon the writer aud returned in that whispering tone in which the whole conversation was carried on:—“On, if 1s true that Iudiana has gone democratic then [ think it looks Very favorabie tor Mr. Tilden hero, | think.’” “How about the republican victory in Ohio ?” “Weil, if Hayes couldn't carry bis own State then here would be no fight at all.” ‘Pho fact that he carried it means that there will be a fight, does tuoi’ Mr, Schell gays one of bis expansive smiles and said :—"I should think so—undoubieuly.” fhe republicans calculate upon a division hore for & Weakening of the national ticket?” A DELICATE POINT. This was gently coming to a deiicate point—to the ‘union of the Taminany and anti-Tammany democracy, upon which M wil’s nomiuation aud election so largely depend. “ub, | don’t think there is a foundation for that cal- eulution,” he replied. "Ido not think there is —” (Phe remainder of the sentence was lost in the smile above described.) “Are the prospects of a union good!” Mr, Shell's face assumed an expression of decided eagerness, a8 though this was a matter he had very much at heart, “T think they are—very good—I dou’t know—I think 50°’ Anow pause, u smile and then, “i ink they will agree upon 4 union ticket. 1 think If they don’t it would hurt the national ticket, ‘would it not!” After the usual broad smile and a close examination of the carpet ia front of the replace be said:—*'l think Mewould, that’s why Iam so very anxious to bave it effected. With the democrats united Tilden ougnt to bave @ majority of 50,000 in the city, 1 think.” MORRISSEY AND O'RKIEN, , ‘Are Morrissey and O'Brien opposed to your nomi- gation as Mayor?” Mr, Scbell smilingly shook his head. The expression ‘that overspread bis (ace seemed to say, “How in the world coult 1 tell!—i, who know nothing whatever about these thi in the same g¢ ly whisper, “I don’t know, I'm sure; | hava't beard, “Did you read the recent inverview with Morrissey im the fixkatn’ Does he not show his opposition to pou therein 1” Mr. Schell shook bis head, smiled more broadly than over and said, ‘*1 suppers 708 might gather trom that was—yes, 1 suppose so—don’t kuow, of ws?" Alter the usual pause of medi- ‘And O’Brien—Is he also opposed to you!” (Smilo—pause—head shaking)—“I don't koow, I'm L bavn’t hearu. js uot trying to get the Mayoralty, is be?” Mr. seheli burst into loud Jaughter, Wuich made bis broad face look all the redder 1 the jotiier. “{ don’t think he is. Tbava’theard. { dont — {The remainder was lost as belore.) know.” ct Tsrhis seemed to indicate that O'Brieu's official carcer might be « strong qualification for the Mayoralty, aud tue ry thereiore followed ;— ‘ ould you tuink O’Brien a good candidate for ” O'BRIEN AS MAYOR, Mr, Scheli laughed and said:—“i don't know, Lam A couldn't tell, ~ “Did you vote for him when he ran for Mayor?"’ Stilt jaugbingly he sad:—N voted for Law- renee, the reguiar Tammany nom - “What are bis present chun . ew.” for the Shrievalty ?” fe number of the mem- Bers of the Coav Sherif.” “Do you consider him a man of power in the city democracy t" ‘ fF think ho has a large following. He is a man ot mee and—."' ‘The remainder was jost Debivd the beiore mentioned smile. “And Morrimsey, do you consider bim a powerful man?’ be § I should think he got considerable intlaence— m: power, aud——'’ (ere ropped bis voice to sued @ sepdlehral whisper that the remainder 0: his femarks were inwudivie, and only tne convulsive Of his lips could be seen.) it they both oppose your npwination do you think Tammany wii! sacrifice you?” “f don't know, lam eure, I don't know what they y 10. I bave taken no steps to seek a nomina- eateee Tincaany, rf Mayor's office is one which one may well ‘without diegrace.”” KR 18 XV ANXIOUS FOR OFFICE. ‘Hea, it’s an oilice vi » good deal of honor, no they had been measarea by the | “He was Sheriff, | | feel put out because they do not get a speedy | management of the ean Well—of course, I have the greatest respect forthe Henaup, I know tbe MeKxaLp is—very—carnest—in—its—advo- cucy—or—in—its—dislike—snd”’—(The reat of the seu- tence died away.) “it is gene! understood that Mr, Kelly wants to nominate you!” “L don’t know—I baven’t heard—I haven't seen Mr. Kelly since the Saratoga Coovention—but two or th | tumes—I haven’t talked with him about it. Of course I know it's an office of considerable honor, but 1 wouldn’t do anything to secure the vomiuation.”” (Query—Was it “fixed’’ at Saratoga’) And with his broadest smile he added, ‘I’m no can- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 187 doubt; but yet I wouldn't go ent of my way to scek it. 1 have no fault to find with my relations in lile —my position, I have get enough to amuse me. 01 course, i the public ask me to sacritice my liberty for their service or beneit its their business, but——"’ and the rematuder died away behind Mr, Scbell’s easy chair. “The HERALD has objected to you on the ground that youare Mr, Kelly’s man?” A forced smile, deprecatory in its expression. 5 1 don’t want to go outot my way to contracict this or apy Other charge that may be made. It isa rge you might make against anybody. It’s easy to make, bus hard to contradict I don’t think I'w) anybody's man. Im sure | was an active, carnest democrat Jong before Mr, Kyily was one, or before I knew him.” yepublican f tive democrat long before I ‘Tuere ‘8 nothing in wy relations with Mr, ant such @ charge @ always been very plensantand % : to being bis Mayor or anybody else's Mayor—of course, it I were elected Mayor, I'd administer the office for the benefit of the public at large and not for any man and——" (The rest was only heard in inaudible echoes.) KRLLY a8 PACHA. “Do you think that Mr, Kelly is trying tobe the Pacha of New York 1” Mr. Schell Inughed heartily at this question. “I don’t think he is trying to impose himself on New York in any such way,” “What motive actuates him then? “Only pleasure in politics, 1 suppose, and a desire for good government—such as 18 natural to a prom nent leader like him, I thiuk very bighly of Mr. Kell: I think be is an honest, capable, experienced ma ard that ho is utterly disinterested 1m politica,’” “He wants no office himsell?”? Mr. Schell shook bia bead vehemently and replied, 4X." ie has no rélatives or friends in office?” “No relatives—I never beara of any—I think,” Mr, Schell responded, his bead vibrating still more ear- sly. “Would he take the Mayoralty f”” “Ldont think be would “Not i he could have itt” Mr. Schei! felt a strong conviction on this point. he wouidn’s take 11,"” be returned decisively, “Would he make a good Mayor f?? “I think be would—very good should like to see Mayor better than Mr. Kelly.”” “Could you elect a Mayor without the Hexatp?’ SCHRLL AS 4 DIPLOMATIST. There’s no man I This was acruelly ticklish questi tician and aspiring Mayor, but tis Schell to be a diplomatist of the first w “You mean Tammany—the democrac to put to « poli- ver showed Mr, diate.” “Do you think if Green gets tle republican nomi- nation and the support of the Germans that he would beat the Tammany and anti-lammany nominee f”? “1 don’t think the Gol mans would joi im the move- ment tur Green, nor the straightout republicans, He 8 @ democrat, I think he w a member of I think so.”” GREEN AS MAYOR, “Would Green make a good Maya ?”” Mr. Schell smiled, scrutinized the appearance of the carpet, and theu said:—"It wouldn’t be becomiug in me to criticise any other candidate for the—the— Mayoralty; but just look at the city debt. See what it was in 1871, and then see what itis. I could criticise him on that if 1 wanted to, but it wouldn’s be becoming for me to do tt.” “What sort of a Mayor would Mr. Agnew make ?”” Here Mr. Scheil shone again as a diplomatist werthy uth with Bismarck or Gortscha- was al\ Tammany now. 1o measure bis stre! kom. ‘Very good—very respectable, indeed, | think Mr. Agnew is 4 very good mau—very good. He bas becn 1m the Doek Commission, you know.” nd Mr, Babeock ?’” The merchant? He would be a very good Mayor— very good."? «Do you think the Mayor has the power to carry out the HOpierenn(s demanded by the Hegaup and the public?” “Lread the recent editorial in the Heraxp on the improvements required of the next Mayor, 1 thivk that editorial was very able, New York undoubtedly must push ahead in fostering and developing its com- merce in order to retain her position " VIEWS ON NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS, “And what improvements do you tavor in this di- rection ?”? “Well, I’m not prepared to make a precise statement; T haven't thought it over enough, but there’s a general way of fostering and developing the commerce ot a city like this. Ibe recent act of Congress making Wi cities direct ports of entry bas undouvtedly greatly lessened New York's commercial importance, but enough can be done, nevertheless, to retuin tor her the position of the ieading city of the United States, and, ultimately, of the world,” Tuis glowing picture of New York's future seemed to give our next Mayor greut pleasure, for lis exprossion Was ono of Joyous complacence. “Lunderstand you to favor greater dock tmprove- ments?” “Yes; Ud improve the docks and find greater ac- commodations tur the shipping in the upper part of the “Are yan in favor of rapid transit?” “Yes, in some shape or oth must have rapid trausit, but to what particular mode I woulin’t——” (Remainder lost.) “Is it true that Wickhain is trying to secure a re- nomination 7? Mr. Sehell’s emphasis in replying to this query as- tonishod his questioner. “1 think not,” he rephed, speaking for the Grst time Joudiy and with an unmistakable emphasis oa ¢ “pot.” ; there’s no doubt we you think he has made a good Mayor?” ou cannot judge of any one’s fitness for an office better than by knowing his models) WICKHAM AS MAYOR, “Yes, I think he’s mado avery good Mayor—very respectable. Of course 1 don’t want to eriticige him, but there are some things—which——” “Do you approve of bis course in lowering (he wages of the workingmen ?’’ “No, [do uot," Mr. Scheli replied with alacrity. Listen to him, ye workingmen of New York, for him! +L think it made a great difference in our vote last id vol Youdo not admit, Mr. Schell, that Keily is an autocrat in Tammany for Mayor?” “No, no; there are a yood many gentlemen tn it—a good many representative gentiomeu who are consulted in such matiers—a good many.’ ‘The writer roso to bring this exhaustive interview tu a close, “Will you furmsh the Hratp a pro- gramme of the reforms and improvements which you would carry out as M. who dictates the nomination ‘of, Mr. Schell ¥"” 700 MODEST. Mr, Schell gently stniled this proposal away. “Well, that would be rogarded as bidding for the office, and that’s the reasou why I wouldu’t like to do it You see | am no candidate.’” ‘This was a “chincber,”? aud, convinced that Mr, Schell had not the faintest aspirations for the Mayor's oftice, but that if nominated and elected he would makea splendid Mayor, the writer leit tbe aumiable old gov- tleman and thus brought to a close one of the moat cn- joyaolo interviews wailed a kind Providence hos allotied to him. ALDERMAN LEWIS FOR MAYOR. Acommittee of twenty, representing the Jacob B. Rooms Association, the Young Men’s Democratic As- sociation, the Democratic Association of the Nineteenth Election District, and the Wiliiam H. Donegan Associ. ation—all of the Ninth Assembly dis Alderman Lewis yesterday, nomiuated him for Mayor. for the *ourtesy paid to bim, and stated that if he should be the nominee of the «émucratic party he hoped to be worthy ot the confidence reposed in nit. rict—called upon at the Chiy Hall, and Mr. Lewis thanked them THE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES. NEW YORK TO BE THE BATTLE GROUND OF THE CONTHST IN NOVEMBER. The beadquarters of the Democratic National Com- mitteo was overrun with visitors yosterday, a ly stream pouring in and out during the eotireday. The Success of the democrats in Indiana sectns to have awakened anew zealin the national campaign, and tho visitors’ register is filled with the names of poli- ticians {rom all parts of the country. The clerks in attendance are kept busy receiving the callers and certaining the nature aud impurtauce of their business in order to economize as much as possible the time of the chairman, There are, of course, num- bers who call solely on @ comgratulatory errand, and audience. In addition those who have business of importance to transact, there isa small ariny of individuals who bave reports and suggestions wo make which they regard us of vital consequence to the success of the party in November, on hand early and spent some time in the commitiee room. He was cheeriul and pieasant and looked full of business, to Mr, Tiden was Ho appears to tnke as ‘vo a part in tho A mecting was Leld at ni ri members aud substitutes from the several States were present:—W. L. Scott, Pennsylvania; Abram S. Hewitt, New York; 0. Ho: Edmunu Wilson, Delaware; J. F. Bates, necticut; leaac BE: New Hampsuir: Alexander Campbell, West \ir.iuia; BB, Smale: Frederick ©. Prince, Masauchusetts, aud others, ‘The meeting lasted lor over three hours, and, although the bnsiness transacied was not wade known, it was generally understood to relate to the ean vass tn this State, a grand scale 1@, Maryland; Johu G Pricst, M Maing; Hurveson Hickman, H. Barnum, Cou- Aaron W. Suilay, » New Jersey Vermont; Vreparations are being made on tbe work of rolling up a larg for Tilden, and ove of the committee remark: tepergy was all swary to insur triumphant victory. The beadquarters can National Committee was quiet darin the result of Tucsuay’s elections ih the havo dainped their ardor. An Uuusual, silent mavner 1s Muticeadle in the gory and coming of vistors aud little or nothmg ts said, Those who claim to kuow what ts going on onder the surface of this placid ex- terto ¥ there will be hot work York between now and N ity i a i the Repabli- he day, and he State of New ember. POLITICAL CHAT, WHAT WAS SAID ABOUT THE TAMMANY AND ANTI-TAMMANY CONFERENCE FIASCO. The failure of the Tammany and anti-Tammany conference committees to agree upon a basis of unica became the all-absorbing tople yesterday 1 circles, and for the time ya the Ohio-Indiana ex- citement had to give place to it, As might be expected such @ case, opinions were nearly invariably dictated by the affiliations of those who uttered thom, and the stinginess of Tam- many or the rapacity of anti-Tammany was severely censured by peoploin sympathy with one party or the other, Neutral ground from which the action of both factions could be assaulted was taken and they only the babitual ratlers at the of the body politic, and the only denanciatory eloquence heard vosterday was induiged in by the fo - lowing of anti-Tammany and the retainers of the wig- wam, It was observable that a feelli prevatied among the underlings of both purties that @ union was improbable, and it w: as noticeable that doubts were = entertained regarding the unanimity of the anti-Tammanyites, suspicions of a *‘bolt” from tho organization being very generally circulated. To ascertain the feeling of the politicians touching the aspect of affairs a reporter conversed with several gentiemen of both parties with the following result:— Mr. Richard J. Morrison said:—‘‘I regret that the question of arranging the party differences seems so difficult of solution, [bad hoped that when the con- ference committees met they would coolly consider the basis on which a union could be had, and would without difficulty arrive @ plan of reconciling all the elements of both factic Bat unfortunacly 1t appears tbat the anti-Tammanyites require ot us more than we can reasonably accede to, While we look to the great interests of the national ticket as Paramount to everything, and are willing to make all Jair concessions to secure that harmony which is need- ful to advance them, we have aiso the honor of tne or- ganization to look to, and we must sce that any advan- tago which rightfully belongs to it is not lost, and that ite influence isnot impaired in making any combina- tion, There is a disposition in tho Tammany party iderablo personal sacrifices in the way of olfice to effect a» union, and there should be a proportionate show of jelflishness on the At present the anii- Tammany people decline to accept our basis of union, apd it 18 Very difficult to see any Way out of tue di- Jemma; but! earnestly hope toast some pian of unill- cation Inay be adopted iu the conventions to-morrow upon which all will agree.”” General Frank Spinola stood upon she stoop at Tam- many Hail sad bad his eyes fixed contemplatively upon some ideul seroll, on which he was trying to figure out the issue of events, when a reporter inquired of bim his views of the state of aflairs, The Geueral rose on tiptoe, and, peeping over bis shirt collar at bis interrogator, Observed with considerable warmth : ‘My opinion is only tha: of any sane man who has stood avout here and waited fora settlement of these differences. The way our ovortures have been received has made manifest how sincere were the pacitic offers of the unti-Tammany people, Now, for mv pari, I would hke to see a union. I would like to sec this everlasting squabbling aud growi- ‘pg and contendiug done away with, and such a combiuation of the factions effecied ay would destroy their individuality and blend them in one harmonious body. Such a state of afiairs would redouud to the in- telligence of the democracy, and would ensure what is pretty certain already—a glorious success for the demo- cratic ticket in shig State, 1 say | would like to sce a union; so would we all. But there 1s «cantankerous sct of lellows around the corner who won't be appeused by apy decent oller, and who will insist on gob- bling “up every official utbit they wet their eyes upon. Now, it they represented the bulk ot the voters of the party this might be expected; but as \hings are they have pot been entitied to the con- sideration they have already received. 1t seems to me that a union was never intended by some of the anti-Tammany people, They proposed it, of course, Ostentatiously advocated it, worked themselves up to a vigh pitch of enthusustic frenzy on tho subject, but it looks as if they all along had their minds inade up to make ho compromise except with the assurauco of securing personal advantage by 1. I way ve judg ing some of these gontiemon rusuly, but their repeated reiusal to receive @ fair ailotwent of the city oflices when the quota of votes they ollered in return was so inconsiderable forces upon any candid inau the be! that uo union was intended from the start and that the whole movement was siturly a feeler to iest ihe guili- bility of Tammany Hali and mousure the chances of imposimg upon it With impunity, For my part | am beginning to grow tired ol these repeated fascos kuown as conterences, id which every concession is lightiy weighed, and every proposition emanating trom Tammany Hall’ is rejected, and ulthough Ltuly ap- preciate the value of a unron at this crisis and Lelieve in effecting i, if at ali possible, 1 yet feel con- vinced that an end should be putto this child’s play, and the anti-Tammany people should be made \o de clare woether they areto be with us or with the re- publicang, and settle the whole watier!'? Police justice P, G, Daily, on Ing the qecting room yesterday, Was accusied und asked bis honest be- lief as to the posaivility of a union being effected and also what he thought of the action of the two factions, “1 am sagisfied,” suid Mr. Dufly, *t! at every concession as been made consistent with the honor of the Tam. many Hall organization and 1u keeping with the respon- sibilities Which rest upon it. We have satin deliberation tor a long tume and endeavored to devige a basis upon which thia unton could be satisiactorily formed. We bave duly considered the causes vf the deleat which Tammauy Hail sul ad have given more than lair weight to the part played iu it by tie anti- Tammany party. We baye silted ali their resources, we havo considered all their influence and we Lave given to both ay great or greater importance than actually belongs to them. Then im liberal proportion to these we have mace an alioiment of Offices aud patronage and tendered it to them. What is the result? Our proposition 1 rejected wish scorn, and weare told that we are giving them nothing in comparison to what they deserve aud what tuey ro- quire, We have changed these proiiered offices w out ut their dictation ; altered one here and anotuer there; veterred to their wishes in everything thatdid not trench upon the honor of our party aud ils rights, but Bevertheless they ure as ttplacable ax ¢' and insist on regardivg themselves as very ill used men, That is the preseut aspect of affairs, and there has appeared to-day no prospect ol a change. We cannot modily our Jast proposition to tue auti- Tammany people, and they ingisy on our dving so oF threaten Us with a hosiite comuination. You see huw Temote tho chances of union are thus made. We ali desi it; we all speak in favor of it ut these eople will not buve it uuless they arc ail Ka tuto, it by personal ttoredt. Now. ft de not wish to speak dispara:ingly of any gentieman or set of gentiemen in the anti-lammauy party. have friends in the organization whose good wishes 1 ap- preciate, but the events of the last two days hus foreed ‘he conviction Upon my mind that the anli-Tammany party 18, with sowe eXcep.ions, a troop of Iree lances, Every one is sparring ter bimaell, aud ouly one or two svem togive the organization auy place 1 their ealcu- lations at all, There is no head to that body und no harmony of action, except wheo it moves toward the official prey it 18 trying to gobble, The whole organization seems composed of a lot of tudividuals distinct a sembiauce of unity only to parade a show of power. To mo it iooks very mach as if each geutioman bas his own fish to fry and if he bas that done ho cares very little now the party's cooking is attended to. For my part I sincerely hope and trust that some basis of union may be determined upou belore the mecting of the County Convention to-morrow, but 1 must adiuit thas the prospect is anything but enconraging. Mr. Timothy Shea, who has been all along a stickler for the rights of anti-Tammany und the patronage to be allotted it in case Of a union, Wore a louk of intense disgust as he left the jomt couserence the other might. “What do you think of the chances of a union?” asked the reporter. “A union!” exclaimed Mr. Suea, “What sort of a union would this ber It would jook more like a sur- render than a union, did we accept the terns Tammany Hall offers us. Why, they baven’t given us more than a bone they would throw to a dog, and yet tuey are surprised that we rejecy it, aud they wil, no doubt, raise a clamor that we are rapacious and not to be satished with avytbing. I bevieve as much as aay one in laboring harmoniously to promote ino interests of democracy in the State and pation, but it does not seem to me that tere is any real sincerity im ihe overtares of Tammany Hall, and if forced to it | woud reject thom. Had the Tammany people come torward and given us anytbing like @ fair cousideravion T would believe ia burying out of wight ali differences and joiu- ing wih them in laboring tor the general good; but they have assumod an attitude that looks av though it Was our submiasiva, Wot oUF uliauce, they claimed, and have offered us lorms as unfair as (bey are bumil- tating.” ‘One of two others of the anti-Tammany party, how. ever, seemed somewhat more jukewarm than Mr. shea in their strictures upon the Tammany proposition. These gentlemen were evidently wavering in their aliegiance to the Irving Mall organization, or rather they seemod disposed to censure an clement in it no doubt adverse to themselves While disputing the Justice of the basis proposed lor union they admitted that there were some people iM tueir own party who enred vothing for 8 interests so long as their own ends would be advanced, and spok severoly ol the presumption of such of \ jug them eives the organization's dgu clauning for (hemecives « recoguition Lo which ail hau an oqual right From these ge uuemen’s conversaiion the reporter intel that all is Wot peacetul within ibe Hines of anti-Tammany, and « harwonious solauen of the question of uniou ‘may be impeded by the wrang- hogs of adverse elements within the vrganization as much as by the bold stand taken by the other party. LOCAL POLITICS. The German Independent Tilden and Hendricks Campaign Club, of the Third Assembly district, adopted the following resolutions at a large meeting on reas the wombers of our Assembly for many years have boon depraved to such « low degree that they bave made the House of wepresentatives of tais Xtate a lavorite lo by tor fanatic, religtous, sectarian and motinpoly assyeia suee. tions, whieh ht through tele tnth ing Hew and severe i to tyrmuniae qi pe therefore we re: we, Ger A citizens, give only such candidate our yore to the Assembly F re. we gelel te, principles of noleres are identified and who is "iFird“Kesolve 10 withdrew the unsuliab e, wbsolete and ye jean injury to the community are. tyrannical Sunday law (Send —To revise our Excise law ine morejust andiiberal 7 ird.—To bring in © bill which tmtroduces and recom- mends reh property. " ‘Fourth A sented bills and bis ac- A memorandum of tion toward them during the of the Assembly. PETER A. BIPZ, Presiaent REBEL CLAIMS, SBXATOR JOHNSTON, OF VIRGINIA, ON THE CHABGES AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY—A SAMPLE OF ONE OF THE CLAIMS REFERRED TO—ITS INTRODUCTION BY A BEPUBLICAN SENATOR AND PASSAGE BY 4 BEPUBLICAN SENATE, Usitap States Suxate ue} Wasuixaton, Oct. 9, 1876, To tue Epiror oy tax HeRaLp Republican speakers and newspapers are insisting with vebemence that the country will be rendered bankrupt by the vast st appropriated for the pay- ment of “rebel claims" if the democrats succeed in electing Tilden. To support and give apparent color to this chargo along hist of so-called bel claims, ”’ presented at the last session of Congress by democrats, isgiven. Figuring largely in this list is a bill intro- duced by myself to pay the claims of 206 loyal citizens of Loudon county, Va, whose proporty was destroyed by order of General Sheridan, General Sheridan’s order, directing the destruction of their property, is pubiished also, The fact that the Senate is republican and must Temain so til! 1879 at Jeast, if not till 1881, and that no bill can be passed without the concurrence of that body, ought to be # suificrent answer to this eharge, and quiet the alarms of the Northern people. They ought to realize the fact that the Senste stands on au iimpenctrable bulwark to protect them from the poverty and rain which the demoorats are charged with desiring to bring upon them, und ‘that Northern aemocrats could not ruin the Northern republicans without ruming themselves likewise, But putting this aside I wish to tell the real facts about the bill introduced by mo, The impression ia made that this claim was put forward for after the dewocrats had obtained » ma- jority in the House, and as a part of a goneral syatem ‘of democratic piunder for the benefit of the rebels. But the bill was originally introduced by Mr. Boreman, republican Senator from Wwst Virginia in 1872. 14 was referred tq the Committee on Claims, which consisted of seven members, only one of whom wus a democrat, und of which alr, Howe, of Wiscon- sin, an ardent fepudlicun, was chairman. Tho claim- ants bad put ther case in the form of a writt Mun, and the billand petition and whole suvy Te- ceived the consideration at the uands of the commit- tee which its importance deserved. On the 22d of March, 1874 (see Globe, second Forty-second Congross, page 1,883), Mr. Borema: ported the biil (Seuate, No, 260) {rom the committee luvorably, aud it was read and ry to @ second reading and tue report was ordered to be printed; and on the &th of April, 1872, the following proccedings were had in the Senate (sao Globe, second session Forty-second Congress, page 2,260):— county.” proceed to the con- ‘rhe bill (Senate, No. 260, for the rellef of the loyal citizens of Loudon county, Virginia, therein named, was considered by the Senate as in Commitee of the Whole the Puxstpin ceR—The names of the will bo omitted in the reading of the bill, if the: Jeghion, aa the Liat is very long, ‘The Chief Ul rk proceeded to read the bill, which directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to certain Joyal zens of Loudon county, Virginia, who are numed, iv consid- eration of their property destroyed by fre by the military horities of the United States, in conformity with an a, November 27, 1864, the amount to be paid so ouch per to be specitiod in deguil. ‘he Lill Was reported to the Senate without dmendment, Mr. SUERMAN—Is there @ report in that caso ? PReSIDING OFFICER (ut Cary in the chair)— sw report. Does the Senusur desire to have it read? Mr. Su¥RMAN—I shouid like to hear it. Mr. nH state what the question isin less time than tho report can be read. There are two bills here viding tor making Spmpenanstnn, a ® large number of Le it 5 & heridan, for the purpose of devastutin it untnhabitable by the enemy, au property which was taken under the same c ve sth, fornde, tae the like—and appropriated to the use of e wry. The bal was ordered to be engrossed for @ vhird reading, wastead tho third time and passed, ‘The bill introduced by me was this identical one— appropriatmg the same sum for the benetit of the gaine persons, wi jon-combatanis, conscien- trously ang jougly opposed to nghting at ali, and Were Worthy aud reputable citizen: ‘Thus this bi ‘wich is now m to figure in the canvass ag one of tue Arst frus of democratic sue- cess, was originally introduced into the Senate, more (han four years ago, by a repuvlican Seuator, reported by « republican comm ttee and passed vy a republican Senate without # dissenting voice. Besides, us it was to pay loyal citizous I eaunot vory well see Low it can be made vul arebe! claim. Yours respectiuliy, POLITICAL NOTES, Pittsburg Commercial:—‘After November the demo- cratic ‘retormers’ will have an opportunity to go away quietly by themselves and devote the next four years to personal reformation,”” Philadelphia Jéem:—‘Mr, Bristow is right, ‘A solid South,’ said be ou a late publie occasion, ‘portends mischief to the country, mischief for the principle for which we fought through the long struggle for the liberties of four millions of people, for their protection and security in persou and property.’ ” New Haven Palladium :—' ww let the republicans add, ‘a solid North to meet a golid South,’ The chal- lenge has becn flung down and must be taken up boidly.”” Cinclunati Commercial, October 12:—“'The October elections do not this time decide the Presidency. They give (he republieaus positive encouragement, but they are not decisive. A tortuight beuce the balf dozen contested States will be as hot as Indiana bas been. ”” Springfleld Repudlican:—“Jimmy O'Brien wants to be Sherif again, and Jobn Morrissey, Bsq, is unable to see 1. Hence a coolness in the bigh places of re- form.” Utica Observer:—“As a last resort the republican Managers turn te New York aud ‘view thé ground where they must shortly lie.’ NEW YORK FROM THE BRIDGE. What is said to be the lurgest photograph over taken has just been finished by Mr. Beals, of Beekman street, It represents the city of New York, irom the Battery to just above Forty-second street, and being the only photograph yet taken of the city, it may be called bis- torical. The camera was brought to bear trom the summit of the bridge tower, on the Brooklyn side. The task was no easy one, as it was fouod tial by the artist to make several desce.sions trom his high position to the ground in order to properly com and develop the plates, and it was also necessary to take it i five parts, which have been periectly matched The lower portion of the city is shown with singular distinctoess, and the East River front 1s Very sharply Wedned, the signa on inet piers and advertising boar jerry slips, being quite legible. The lettering of the signs in Vartous other paris of the city can algo be distinguished, while all buildings decent including Castle Garden, the © House, the’ Fourth National Bank, the Western Union’ Building, Beavers Building, Cooper Union, Ma- sour Temple, Stewart's Workiug Girl’s Hotel, Forty- second Street depot aud tho Rossmore Hotel, could be named atsight. The statue of the ludian chief, wuien stands within the niche io the face of the Tammany Hall building, looking south, is quite visible. Tho New Jersey sbore, tov, appears piain to the sight, a eral prowmiveut edilices between the river aud the uge Mountains are conspicuous in tho picture, not forgetting that the Orange Mountains stand out with remarkabie clearness iu (he perspective. Tho photograph is mouated vn cloth on a stretcher, avd bei Fhisbed, or sized, is impervious to the at- mosphere, and can be washed without damage. A copy haa veen seat to the Centennial, where it Las received high praise. BUSINESS TROUBLES. The firm of R. V. Lynch William Emberson, im- porters, of No, 458 Broome street, have filed a voluu- \ary petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities are given tothe amount of $55,000, the largest creditors being the foliowing:—Chatilaad & Co., $5,462 16; D. McAr- tur & Co, $5,151 63; Hall Broshers, $2,735 27; Fiersbuim, ¥' 233 46, The firm made an assignment in August to Tuomas Embersou, who has realized about $2,500 irom the sale of goods. The nominal assets amiouns to abuut $17,000, Satmou U, Mubburd, of the late firm ot Kollpgg, Hub- da voluntary petition im bank- 10 $17,000, The A. E. Hi ‘d, bara & Co., bas tile raptey, with Habilit largest creditors ar $5,000; estate of C. Cook, $3,000; dill, $4,000, The petitioner mado an assignment in 1873, and then the assignee realized $35,000 Irom the effects, Ss amounting HORSES IN THE NORIH RIVER. Yesterday afternoon a team of horses, drawing a load of bay, took fright at a dummy locomotive on West street, and, breaking from their traces, plunged » into the river, Sergeant Gastiin, of the Steamboat quad, procured a ‘ick, and, with jd of several ollicers and citizens, hoisted the animals out ‘They were unimjured, 6.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE PROSTRATE STATE, Threatening Attitude of the Two Races in South Carolina. RESULTS OF RADICAL MACHINATIONS. How the Superstition of the Negro Is Used by a Shrewd Impostor. “THE SON OF CHRIST.” Scenes and Incidents in the Dis- turbed Locality. A LEGION OF SWAMP ANGELS Judge Mackey on the Unconstitutionality of Chamberlain's Proclamation. E.Lantos, Ost. 8, 1876, Notwithstanding the positiveness and particularity with which, 10 my last letter, 1 denied the cock and bull Stories that the partisan papers have been publishing ns the Ellenton riot, a denial that subsequent inve: ition has ouly strengthened, [ must not be undr- stood as underrating the very serious phase that all honest writers have given to affairs in what may be known as the “black belt of South Carolina,” of which this little village is an importaut point, The condition of things in this section te bad enough to fill even the dallest observer with m. In Aiken and the three counties adjoining there are not lesa than 10,000 armed men of both races, each man sleeping on bis arms, ai it were, and daily dreading the rencontre that he is futly persuaded must come ome time in the near future, Hardly a day passes but that there is some spasmodic movement of thexe couchant armies, and the 18th of last month saw thousands of the guerilla soldiers, alert und scowling, covfronting each other along the I'ne of imps that stretebes frcm Silverton to Ellenton, The opportuve arrival of a bandful of United Stutes soldiers, who at a word dispersed both parties, prevented what in an hour longer would hayo been tho bloodiest race conflies ever known in this State, THB NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS, The nogrocs, with their shotguns, muskets and pistols, rally around a dozen or so colored companies Of State militia that are armed with sixt« hooting Winchester rifles—a weapon, by the way, that turns the head of every negro that gets his hands on it. Tho aptatns of these companies (always colored men) com- mand not only their own companies, but also the mab of halfarmed darkies that gather around them when the “ong roll” is sounded. They are organized under State h commanded by the appo:ntees of the Governor, and armed at State cxpeuse. The whites have nothing to do with this State militia When it was organized by the Legislature tts officers and orders were such that white men would net bend themselves under the law creating it, They preterred to organize ‘mounted rifle clubs,’ armed at private expense, and subject only to the orders of thoir oiected officers. THY RIFLE CLURA. ‘Theso “rifle clubs’’ have been well drilied, are fillod with the very best men, aud cau be ralited in a jifty. These are the “clubs” that Govervor Chaniberiain, in his order of yesterday, ordered to disband and give up their guns. These clubs, with the State militia companies, are backed, when occasion requires, with a large force of halt armod men, scrvicouble only in a contingency. It will be seen that but a spark is needed to put this whole section ablaze. THe SOX OF CHRIST. ‘This spark will not be waiting long, I very much fear, The negroos of this county are in exceedingly bad temper—are wanton, defiant and disorderly. They are under the leadership of a very shrewd, smart a venta named Palmer, who claims that ho is “the gon of Christ.’’ This fellow discovered some time ago ‘that the surest chord to pull when you want the negro to follow blindly and without fear is his superstitious benef, Acting upon this ‘suggestion, he speeaily ted them with the wildest sort of theories, mixing spiritu- alsm, frce loveand communism into a hotchpotch that the negroes swallowed greedily. He premised the whole by claiming that bo was al s‘aon of Christ,” and bad been sent by his Fathor to raise the Viacks out of! poverty and bondage and lead them to freedom and riches. The deluded blacks received his iniamous doctrines, and now look upto him with a Fevercnco that turns their eyevulls inward whenever ‘hey pass bim. He has impregnated them with a cheap religious fervor that almust amounts to a Irenzy, and certainly makes them, with their rich, superst- tious natures, very dangerous fauatics. {n a republi- cab county corvention that | uitended a perceptibie flavor of cunt rau through the whole Proceedings and oue of the delegates actually nominated Paimer ‘for a seat in beavep.”’ Iie wus unanimously elected, but 1 ap- prehend the votes of that precinct will be thrown out when they reach headquarters, He tg aujudged a by the people Lere, I think he is a very bright kuave, unseru,ulous aud smart, He aroused the negroes to apitch of tury and fanaticism thay will breed trouble. ATTITUDE OF THE NKGRORS I find that, conirary to tue generally received opin- jons, the negroes io this section of Carolina are turba- Jent, offensive and determined. Their great superiority over the wuites in point of pvumbers und arms, their fondness tor military display, their contidence lu their Winchester rifles, their blind devotion to Palmer—ail these things load them to do and say many things that the whies illy brook. Intoe lute fights along tue Swamps it can be proved by concur afidavits of whites and blacks that, barring the shooting of P Willi }, who confessed to assaulting Mra Harley, negroes fired the first guns of the contest; that al the first treaty of peace they attacked at different points, different squads being concerned, two parties of white men from ambuseade, killiug oue white man and wounding five, aud fired two houses; and that they plandered three atores nud destroyed large amounts of property. The whites destroyed no property, and I saw myself acolt returved toa negro froma white man, Who, having had his own horse shot uoder bim in the fight, borrowed the colt from tne fleld, the negro waster thea being absent iu the swamps fighting the whites, ATTITUDE OF THE WuITKS, The whites «1 ool, determined and desper: ‘They fight on tho aeiensive, but they fight like meu who .now (nat their all depends on checking aud dis- persing the enemy. 1 saw dozens of negroce who were known tu be tu the Aght quietly working in the fields of white men, anu Mr. J. Bush, pointing out a voy who was saddling a mule in his yard, said:— “That rascal shot at ine twenty paces off in the Double Briuge tight last week.’” “ There ts nu personal animosit, It is simply When the deiuded biacks are fired by Uh: bad leaders or the 1unprudent whites are misied by weir passion that trouble occurs. 1 Irequentiy discussed the riots with a mixed crowd of biacks aud whites, who woula once 1u a while correct each other on some mivor point. Kuch one of ihem distiuetly knew that the others ‘‘were there,’’ aud they talked It over c¢itically and calmly as if it were some peaceful parade they were talking about. OUTRAGES BY S¥GRO MIITIA. The whites are coutinually alarmed PU the petty out- rages committed gimost consiuntiy @vy ‘he begro militia. A few vignts ago a party of sixteen colured militiamen advanced upon the uouse of Mackay and commenced piundering. Mra. Mackay and ber child fled through the back door and escaped. Mr. Mackay hid auder a (able, ond, as the negroes broke tuto his room, shot the first one dead. The others ted. alter having destroyed a great deal of property, At Elien- ton the Masonic Hail was vurneu down by the negro company ply because the Masons bad allowed the Demoeratic Club to mect in the ball. In Aiken I saw four stores that had been forcibly broken into and plundered within the week I was there. I went down to Elienton with Mr. Dunbar, the depot agent, who had been driven ay trom bis home by the negroes and had been hiding tor two weeks over ik Georgia, THE XKGRO FERLING, ‘Tho gréat mass 0, negroes is, in my opinion, peace- ably and pleasantly disposed. They recognize the tact ‘that in every rencontre they must sufler severely, and they vastly prefer working quietiy in tho field to en- ina guerilla wartare in hat they do not undersi Jeaders, who ha’ the perpetuation of strife, in the stiffening of the colur ine, in the contio.eucies of plunder and murder, will insist ou stirring the negroes, on sdmmmoning them to nightly meetings and keeping them perpetually wt drilt aud feeding ther love of display and circumetance. What extremities they cun lead the poor blacks to and at what point the whites will confront them, the fu- turo—the vear future, | very mach lear—will disclose, AN INCENDIARY, It 19@ noticeable tact that ti jay scum of the Regro population in Georgia hag aritted Over into olina since affairs quieted down im the former Si aod Jelt them without @ following, Byery veniten- between the races. ir u viet who escapes his guards in Georgla breake tor’ ihe Carolin Tine ane becomes @ hero in the swamps. A Georgia contractor 1s working several hundred Georgia convicts on the line fust across from Carolina, His camp was visited pretiy steadily by @ dapper littic Carolina negro, be haa to lieve, was altempting to incite the convicts rise against the guards ard break over to Carulina body. He eautioned this fragrant m! against persisting in bis work, aud forbade his ever again vis- iting his camp. Some days alter this order be caught the warts felior fC around be hora oll 14 quietly caught him by the ear, marel ry the stockade, ativned ‘oft bis gaudy clothes, habited him 10 the prison stripes and put him to work. For ten days be kept him sweating over a shovel and then turned btm | gave him his clothes and told bim to “get,” The little feliow to his boat and the fem Penjtentiary is now free {rom Carolina inter rence, JUDGE T. J. MACKEY, OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, 03 GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN AND THE RE PUBLICAN CANVASS—HOW THE NEGRO If USED BY RADICALS TO FIRE THE NORTH BRN HEART—THE PEACRPUL CONDITION 03 THE STATE. Corvmpia, Oct, 9, 1876. Presiding Judge of the Sixth Circuit, which embraces the counties in whieh lawlessness existed im 1570, arrived in city to-day, and 1 interviewed bi situation, He has been counocted with republican party since 1565, isa vice president of the Grand Council of the Union League of this stare and vice president of the National Association War Veterans, It was at his instance that Confederate soldiers of Lan- caster county exhumed the bodies of deceased foderai soldiers in February, 1874, receiving therefor the thanks of General Sherman and Governor Noyes, of Ohio. Judge T. J. Mackey. CHAMBERLAIN’S PROCLAMATION. He says the proclamation of Governor Chamberlain, of the Oh st, Which virtually declarea the white population of this State in armed tpsurrection inst the iaws, challenges the indignation of every Citizen ip South Carolina who is aware of the real facts and has any regard for truth and justice, There have becn, no doubt, acts of violence, reaulting in loss of lite in Aiken and Barnwell, which demand that the severest penalties of the law should be enforced against gulity parties. WORK OF REPUBLICAY MANAGEUS. But those acts are not justly ateributable to any de- termined plan on the part of tue whites, but were the result of armed collisions, which, in my judgment, have been premeditated by the present republican managers of Governor Chamberlain's canvass. At least this ia the cage to the extent that the passions of the blacks bave beon designedly aroused against tho whites in those sections <0 the extent ot inciting them to assail white citizens or to refuse obedience to pro- cess of the courts whore the complainant is white and the oflender colored. The scheme has borne tloody fruits, and doubtiess acta of personal vengeance were inflicted by whites on blacks after an actual conflict had ceased in retaliation for losses suflered during the collision. Four days before the riots referred to in the Gover- nor’s proslamation commenced I was led to believe, from information received apd from my knowledge of the character of the men engaged in the management of Governor Chamverlain’s canvass, that it formed part of their - GENERAL POLITICAL PLOT that armed collisions with the blacks should be forced on the whites, thus supplying raw material out of which they would manufacture the bloody shirt to wave before the eyes of the country as atrue emblem of the South Carolina de- mocracy, With the view to influence the result of the elections pending in Ohio and Indiana, and thereby theelection of Hayes and Wheoler, the candidates which I have supported Prong my canvass in thts State, To avert the execution of this sangutoary scheme | caiiea upon the chairman of the Democratic State Executive Commitee, at Columbia, and, 10 pres: ence vi Colonel James A. Hoyt and Judge T. . Uooks, urged (he withdrawal of tne Tildon and Hendricks electors, to prevent the negro froin being sacrificed te whatl thought the republican leaders deemed the supreme political necessity of tiring the Northern heurt in the wterosts of Hayes aud Wheeler, 1 then aud there stated the programme, which ap} ‘4 since to have been executed, und which has culminated in the proclamation of Governor to which 1 have re- ferred. The negro appears, by some fatality, to be the MAKTYR OF THE AMRKICAN BYSTEM, and the balance of ban ly appears, so far as he is concerned, to of those whites th whom he hi from early life, id Who are disposed to view fer mood, tno e in sorrow than in auger. A distinguished writer upon the game of whist bas stated, “When in doubts play @ trump.” The carpet- bagger’s code ts, 1! tie Northern interest in the cum- paign flags have # negro killed.” And thus the argent aod pusbing blacks ure thrown perpetually by their Jeadery, like living cannon balls, against the sofid col- umn of the whites, aud the negro is invariably brok by the impact. Indeed, the war itself furnished illustration of tn Southern and Northern mep im utilizing t ‘The Southero white man advanced far to the the negro, while the North sometimes sent the negro far to the trout to save the white man. Gover. nor Chambertain 18 thoroughly familiar with the best modes of atihzing tim in wu political canvass, and un- derstunds how to serve bim up as a drat clase horror. THE REPUBLICAN PROCESSION. One of the most remarkable instances ot the men- dacity of the age is coutained in the statement of tne Republican Stace Executive Committee, who charge, iu their recent address to the people of the Uuited States, that the democracy in Colombia “and its vViciuity are so malevol that the repubii- cans cannot ratify & Romination of their jonal candidates by vorchlight process with saiety to their persona. The fact is that on Bigot ‘appoloted by the republicans for their Haves a Wheeler demonstration im this town I made the visti to the chairman of the Domoocratic State Execuiive Committee avove stated, and while engaged in conver- sation with bim he arose and went to the window, be- neath which his horse was saddled and bridiea, for t| purpose, as that gentieman atthe time informed me, of accompanying the procession should the rain cease and permit it to move according to the programme ad. vVertiaed, and that he intended to gi might be required to preserve order along i march and to assist the police in maintaiwing the pub- lic peace against any who might seek to violate tt. This precaution was deemed necessary, as statements were currest in the community that the blacks wha were to compose the procession bad threatened vio- lence against white citizens, while, on the coutrary, some of the colored people had expressed e neg frout to eppreline: sion that the procession might be disturbed on tis march by some among the rader class of whites. The dispersed undisturbed at about teu P. M. AMBRRLAIN'S CHARACTSRISTICS, r Chamberiain ig an intellectual giant, but is afficted with a paralysis of bis moral side. we ike ae of mendacity andimbecility. He belongs to the peripatetic school of governors, flitting between Washington and Columbia iecssantly, aud is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. in bis reply Colonel Haskell, chairman of tho Democratic Execu- tive Committee, who assured him that the citizeu sok diery of the State stood prepared to aid in the due exe- cution of the laws, whensoover and by whomsnev resisted, he stigmatizos the ire white population of South Carolina, each aud all of the democratic faith, aa unworthy of being intrusted with the execation of @ public duty. Five Governors of South Carolina, io colonial times, and under the shelter of the British Crown, had been driven from the State for acta of oppression far less in magnitade than those that Goveraor Chamberlain now threatens to pertorm t the white eitizons of this State. In my jovi act of the General Assembly upon whi ing of the MSRANDMEST OF THR RIFLE CLUBS utterly Unconstitutional and was so be tho proclamation in this respect should not at a’ wil not be oveyed. lis chief design is to check the reac. tien now im progress among the blacks against the ascendancy of their republican } 8. Ifa rifle clu or any member thereo! violates the law or breaks the peace in any degree cach and every member can be beid amenable to the law, and may b legal process, But while these organizations aro pluce of the State they cannot legally be disturbed. THE ACTION O¥ THE GOVERNMENT IN BEGABL TO STATIONING OF TROOPS IN THR STATS. Wasutxarox, Oct. 13, 1876 General Sherman, who returned to Washington to. day, nas been very busy at the War Department in at- tending to routine business that had accumulated dur. ing hig absence. He had a consultation with Secretary Cameron und was visited by eral prominent repub. licaus trom South Carolina, who had alao been in com ference with tho Secretary of War upon the subject of the existing condition of affairs in that State It does not appear that any representations concerning tho necessity for troops were made either to the Secretary of to General Sherman, tn addition to what has heretolore been presented lor vonsideration; but A¥ URGENT APPEAL is being made for the stationing of the army forces throughout the State in such manner as will prevent all pussibility of digvurbances of the p during w coming election. The opinion ady @ suilicient number of troops stationed in South Carolina to pro- tect all citizens in their rights, TUR CARINET MERTING, 1¢ 48 probable, however, that the statements of the delegation from that State will be considered at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday next, at which Attorney Saget Taft, who 18 daily expected here, will be pres Tho views of the govorn: 4, at least to this tim have been that every necessary precaution ea bch taken for the protection of voters in sections of the States whera responsible reprosentations heir rights ure ig denene