The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1876, Page 7

’ one tke astronomer. We can, in fine, see a thinner Tweed and a fatter Woodward in prison, an exiled Connolly here, an exiled Sweeny there, and Fields and Genet roam- ing the world elsewhere, with famishing ex-underlings of the Ring scattered at every corner; but we are still greatly in the dark as to those who hammered and held the Ring together so long and hung it before the treasury door; who spun and stretched the filmy threads of which the spider's web was woven that led throngh the treasury keyhole. Names are whisperinly named of republi- cans and democrats alike; but the story has not been told in full, and none but the great spiders themselves can tell it. A deeply interesting series of interviews will be found elsewhere which throw light ona great many dark places and things behind the scenes in this great story of the Ring. A compromise is talked of by which the city may gain back some of the stolen money on condition of letting the three Ring chiefs go free of legal process, but it must first be preceded by a full confession of the making and growth of the Ring, even to the names of those yet unknown who shared the money but not the infamy. terviews we print will convince the public how much remains to be told. Tux Sermons Yestenpay in the churches of New York and Brooklyn, as presented elsewhere, furnish a variety of themes. The thoughtful Christian who is not too busied: with the cares of life can extract from these discourses a larger amount of useful thoughts than he could possibly have stored his mind with at the services in the single church he attends. As Episcopalians, Catholics. Presbyterians, Baptists, Congregationalists, Universalists and Liberals find themselves side by side in our columns, a member of any of these churches can see for him- self how much good there is in all the others. He can meditate on Advent with Dr. Dix, ponder on Christ’s rule of life with Dr. Chapin, contemplate the mystery of the {Incarnation with the Jesuit Father Merrick, take a glimpse of heaven through Dr. Hep- worth's reverent eyes, philosophize on the telations of this life to the future with Mr. Beecher, examine home mission work with Dr. Hall, and calculate the strain on South- ern Christianty with Mr. Fulton, From each he will learn something worth remem- bering. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tilton {s in Canada. Quail may be tamed to sing. The Boston Post’s rooster is not egglected. Turquoise earrings may bave a pearl centre. Portlandville, lowa, wants a horse milliner, Sapphire velvet may be trimmed with silver fox. A Paris car driver blows bis whistle with a bellows, California has had a golden meteor with a pink trail, Pale blue silk may be trimmed with ruby velvet and | ance. A Liverpool vessel had an owl come on board in mid- ocean. It ig against the lawto snow-ball in tho streets of Glasgow. Lady Tarbat wore ruby velvet, trimmed with fur, at & wedding. For a bridal party white cashmere may be trimmed with swandown. In Scotland, as well as in Novada, rabbits are con- sidered as vermin, Southern Calitornia will be the great raisin-making district of the world, ‘ The Dundee (Scotiand) whaling fleet makes about $500,000 this year. Kentucky deacons with gray hair go to see and hear tho female minstrels. Bob Ingersoll wants to know whether a President can be elected by injunction. The suits of furs of the recent Arctic oxplorers aro objects of rivalry to London bidders. Wealtby English ladies have models of their figures made by French artists and Jeave them with their dressmakers. Henry Stafford Northcote, who is going to Constan- Unople as a private secretary, married Miss Brooke, of Montreal, In London fashions the front line of beauty in & woman 1s perfect perpendicularity from the throat to the feet. Tho ex-Empross Carlotta of Mexico in her demented condition converses only with ghosts and 4s calmly methodical. Disraeli ig still reported verbatim for the London Times vy the scribe who took down his maiden speech foriy years ago, An Alabama baby, of negro parentage, has exactly one-half of his body white and the other halt black. Count him tn. It seems that when a negro in Louisiana turned from being a republican to being a democrat he was auways convinced by a barbecue. Governor Coke, of Texas, thinks Tilden the greatest statesman of the age. It may be well to say that Coke wears a 534 hat and a 9% set of false teeth. C. P. Huntington, the financier of the Central Pa- sifle Railroad, is in Texas, and the people there can- not find out what he is doing. Some railroad idea? Norristown Herald:—“A pump of 3,200 horse-power bas recently been placed in a metal establishment in this State, This is 200 horse-power more than the average New York newspaper interviewer.”” The St. Louis Republican we have always regarded as having one of the best editorial pages, remarkably so in its social disenssions, in the country; but re- cently it has been ridiculously partisan, The old Lovejoy pres?, which was thrown into the Mississipp! by a pro-slavery mob in 1837, and which Jed to Wendell Phillips's first great- speech, is now owned by Colonel Ranney, at Stuart, Iowa, Court Journal :—“It 18 rumored that Mr. W. W. Story, the American svulptor, will be invited to pro- pare a design for the Byron memorial. If true, this 1s good news. Mr, Story’s studio 1s at Rome,’ Wendell Phillips used to say that a constitution should, tke the English constitution, grow as the oaks grow, and that an acorn planted in a vaso would in time break the vase, He said !t eloquently ; but he got the idea trom Goethe, g!most verbatim. William A. Jones, foreman of the composing room o¢ the New Orleans Times, died last week. Just before his death he became conscious for a moment, and in that gleam, dwelling upon the habit of bis life, he sud- den)y exclaimed, “The ads are all right, Sherman; lock up the ‘orms and let’s go to press,” From London Fun:—‘'Mistress:—‘You're going to your brother's wedding to-day, aren’t you, Martha?’ Martha:—"Yos, ’m, and I was agoin’ to ast you, 'm, if—Yer see we’re much o’ the same ’eighth, an’ fig ger, and completchon, and style, as they say——If yer could lend me a gownd to go inf!” Colonel T. W. Higginson, of whom the Atlantic once anid that he was the best writer of English since Haw- thorne, believes that a woman’s commanding influence can best be relt if she is professor in a school or cok lege. Still, there are many women school teachers who could do their best work over a washboard. Congressman Elijah Ward js confined to his bed with awovere and somewhat dangerous attack of pneu- nonia, and will, :n consequence, be absent from the douse on Monday. Mr. Ward’s ‘experience and con- sorvative Views would be useful in Congress this ses- sion, and tt is to be hoped that his recovery will be speedy. + “a pretty @hoolmarm ofa Wisconsin county,” says an exchange, ‘lo prevent senolars from being tardy, promised to kiss the first scholar who mado his ap- pearance at the school house, Ail went well fora few days, and the ninetven-year-old boys, anxious to partic. ipate in this fun, actually got to roosting on the tence all might in order to be at school the first in the morning. fois became Monctonous and the Aeachor gave the | the Harvard and Yale froshmen was ideaup’? > A perusal of the in- |, NEW YORK AERALVD, MUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE FRENCH DISAGREEMENT. A Probable Reconstruction of the Cabinet. THE APPROACHING WAR. Russia Goes on with Her Preparations Re- gardless of the Conference. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lospoy, Deo. 4, 1876. A despatch received from the Heratp’s Paris cor: respondent since midnight declares that the recon- struction of the French Ministry is the latest probability. Its present elements will in general be retained, with the exception of Dulaure, who will be replaced by Daudiffret. The Cabinet held a meeting yesterday afternoon. It Is be- lieved that their resignations will be annouvced offl- elally to-morrow, but tho Ministers will remain in office until their successors aro appointed. <A despatch from Paris, dated Ssturday evening, says the most serious point im the ministerial crisis at prosent is Minister Marcere’s acceptance, in the name of the government, of the order of the day adopted by the Deputies expressing confidence that in the matter of military escort at funerals of members of the Legion of Honor the government will in futnre respect liberty of conscience and the equality of all citizens. On this order the government had no time to delib- erate, and its adoption is a direct vote of censure against the Minister of War, who, with other Ministers, feels agrieved. PREPARING FOR THE INKVITABLE STRUGGLE. It ja reported in Pesth that the Turks are making preparations tor the struggle with terrible earnestness Formidable fortifications aro going up at Widdin, Rustchuk, Silistria and = Schumla, and artillery 1s being sent to those places. The Rus- sians are hurrying their preparations to take the fleld. ‘The troops, which wero quartered around Kirscheneff, | were to have been concentrated on the Pruth by De- cember 1. A telegram from Zara reports that tho Miridites havo taken up arms in favor of the Montenegrins, and the order for the removal of the Turkish troops trom the vicinity of the town has therefore been suspended, RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS, ‘The Paris Estafette asserts that the Russian govern- ment has ordered 20,000,000 of cartridges in the United States, The Russian Consul at Scutari, Albania, has packed up the archives of the consulate and js ready to leave in case of war, ENGLAND TO HAVE EGYPT, The Opinione is assured that the Marquis of Salis bury’s declarations exclude the idea of war on the part of England. War between Russia and Turkey may be expected, in such event it is believed Englana will occupy important points in Egypt to secure her Asiatic possessions. CONCHA’S CONDUCT CRITICISED, In the Spanish Senate, on Saturday, Marshal Concha attempted to demonstrate the uselessness of the joan for Cuba. He censured the despatching of excessive naval forces to Caba to conquer 5,000 insurgents, ad- mitted the difficulty of exterminating the insurgents on account of their modo of warfare, and recom- mended that they be isolated in the woods and kept there. The Minister of Foreign Affairs retorted that Marshal Concha had not fulfilled, whilo in Cuba, any of the promises be mado when he was appointed Com- mander-in-Chief of the island. THE INDIAN CYCLONE, ‘The eastern districts of Bombay are, according to a despatch from Calcutta, reported to be rapidly recov- ering from the effects of the cycloae, The damage to crops is less than was expected, bat the loss of life has probably been underrated. Ninety per cent of the plough cattle have been lost. Sickness prevails, but fears of destitution are removed. STORM OFF THR ENGLISH COAST. A terrific gale has prevai'ed throughout the British Isles since Saturday, Floods are reported in many places and have caused much damage. There have been numerous disasters to shipping on the coast, with considerable loss of life, The waters of the Thames are vyory high and a disastrous ovorfiow is feared. ENGLAND V8. RUSSIA. [From the Pall Mall Gazette, Nov. 23.] The Russki Mir, inan article discussing the forces atthe disposal of England for a war against Russia, says that it is easy for an insular Power to dofy conti- nental States, but that Germany and Russia, with their colossal armies, bave nothing to fear from iron-clads which are powerless to aitack their shores, or from the small English army of soldiers who serve for pay. “England may well boast that she js ready for wrt, for she does not require mueh time to mobilize her insig- nificance military force and send her fleet to sea. Sweden and Denmark may also say, with equally good reason, that they are ready for war; but the question is whether Engiand is able to euter into a euccessiul conflict with Russia tor the achievement of a fixed political object. England is powertul on the sea, but she is hopelesely weak on the Continent *-*'* We may leave the sea to the English, and in the meanwhile we can quietly destroy the Turks oa land, or aliow them to escape in English sbi We can raise an insurrec- Uon in India, from Persia and Kbokand, and we can destroy Engiand’s maritime trade by the help of a few. crusicrs, while the English iron-clads will endeavor ta vaio to approach the torpedo-protected harbors ot the Biack Sea and the Baltic, Our railway communica- tions would make 1 landing of English troops on Russian territory as impracticable as one of Rassian troops on English territory. In a word, England is harmiess to us so lung as she has no Con- tinental ailies, and she will not tlud any, for the Napo- Joonie régime in France has fallen, und no other Euro- pean State is disposed to follow tts disastrous example. The great Powers of the Continent must attach far greater importance to the maintenance of their mutual relations than to the alliance of a commercial nation which, being separated from them by the sea, holds alvof from the system of Continental politics.” SENATOR SHARON. RUMORS OF HIS RESIGNATION DENIED-—HIS VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. j Sax Francisco, Dec. 3, 1876, The Chronicle pubtishes to-morrow an interview with Senator Sharon, of Nevada, on his rumored resigna- tion, He says if he was so inelined tne present crisis had decided him to still bold his seat in the Senate. Ho considered the situation grave, but thought the better judgoment of the leading men of both parties would avert serious trouble, It was a time when ‘public men should rise above mere party consideration and bo governed by the broader principles of patriotism and constitutional law. The Presidential candidate shown to be elected should have the office regardless of con- sequences. The language of the Senator was that of a con- servative republican whoso fonlty to party required him to remain whore they had placed him, He leaves for Washington on tho 20:h. John W. Mackey, king of the Bonanza mine, tele. graphically denies any aspirations, THE INDIAN PROBLEM. Omata, Neob., Nec, 3, 1876, About ninety Sioux Indians, wno a few weeks ago were taken from the Rea Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies to the Indian Torritory o tour of investi, gation, passed through here to-day en roule home- fndian Agent Daniels, who has them in charge, say, they seem generally well pleased with and that it is probabie they will move the; HARVARD VS. YALE, ig Bostox, Dee. 3, 187 The football match which was yesterday played by by the for. GOVERNOR HAYES’ POLICY. A New and Important Move in the Presidential Game, OVERTURES § 70 SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS. Inducements Offered for an Acquiescence in a Republican Victory. GRANT'S ADMINISTRATION DISAPPROVED Hayes’ Course Toward the South To Be Controlled by the Conservatives. CARPET-BAGGERS AND SCAALWAGS TO THE REAR. Senator Lamar To Be Tendered a Seat in the Cabinet. REFORM IS ABSOLUTELY: NECESSARY No Prominent Supporter of Grant To Be Ad- mitted to the New Court, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] CINCINNATI, Dec. 3, 1876, The Enquirer published yesterday a despatch from Columbus giving, at some length, a rather curious story about some expressions of Governor Hayes in relation to his policy if he should become President. The story has not attracted much atten- tion or belief here because of the quarter in which it appears and because, also, of certain details which are incorrectly stated. Tam in position to give you a correct and accu. rate account of the whole matter, which was in- tended by Governor Hayes and his friends to be kept secret. As it has leaked out through some- body’s indiscretion, some of the frends of tne Governor now think it best to make the correct story public. THE CORRECT STORY. The Governor has never been in sympathy with those republicans who pressed the Southern issue and he has no sympathy at all with the carpet baggers and adventurers like Gov- ernor Chamberlain in South Carolina or Governor Kellogg tn Louisiana. He has waited im- patiently for an opportunity to let honest Southern men know his real views, and assure them that they need not fear, if he should become President, that the abuses in the South, which General Grant has tolerated and encouraged, would be continued. MR. LAMAR: DECLINES, After consultation with two or three of the safest advisers, he concluded that it would be well to see and confer with Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, and that gentleman was written to by Mr. Halsted accord- ingly, and asked to stop in Cincinnati for a conver- sation on his way to Washington. When he got there Mr. Halsted informed him of Governor Hayes’ desire to consult with him. Mr. Lamar was at first inclined to go to Columbus from here and meet Governor Hayes, but on considera- tion thought such a meeting at this time unwise, as possibly committing both him and the Governor to matters which altered circumstances might make inconvenient. He said that he did not at this time wish to see Governor Hayes’ hand, nor was he prepared, nor did he feel the time had come, to talk over Southern questions with him. He therefore declined in a courteous note, and went on his way hence to Washington, THE GOVERNOR'S PROGRAMME. Colonel Roberts, who is, I believe, managing editor of the New Orleans Times, and a gentieman of ability and reputation, was thereupon asked to go anda see Governor Hayes, with a view to get at the Governor's ideas, 80 as to be able to communicate them to Mr. Lamar. Colonel Roberts went from here to Columbus by appointment of Governor Hayes, and had a long conference with him at the Governor's house, and Governor Hayes eXplained to him very frankly his political programme, The conference was private, of course, and was in- tended to be kept so, but as an incorrect story has got out, it is now thought best by the friends of Governor Hayes to let the public know precisely what was said. It should be premised that the Governor is very well informed on Southern affairs, has made them a study, has friends in some Southern States and did not need information trom Colonel Roberts. WHAT GOVERNOR HAYES SAID. He said to Mr. Roberts that he wished Mr. Lamar and also General Hampton and other Southern men like them to know and to be assured that he be- lieved himself fairly elected to the Presidency}; that he meant to be President, and to be his own man and have his own policy; that no person who had been prominently concerned in the ad- ministration of General Grant, whether in Wash- ington or elsewhere, should have any office or power under his administration. He thovght re- form absolutely necessary, and impossible except by calling in new men and dropping the men now in power and place. About this he spoke, as it is known he feels, very positively. HAYES’ SOUTHERN POLICY. As to the South the Governor said that he desired to consult with such men as Mr. Lamar and General Hampton; thathe thought Hampton had acted a no- ble part in recent events in South Carolina, for which the country owed him thanks; that if he became President he should wish to call Mr. Lamar into his Cabinet, and should not ask him, in that event, to abandon his present political relations; that he meant to frame his Southern policy on the advice of these two gentiemen; to make the federal ap- pointments in the Southern States upon their rec- ommendations, and entirely of Southern men, con- sidering this the only proper disposition of these omMces. Hie said, frankly, that carpet-bag govern- ment had not been successful; that the complaints of the Southern people were just in this matter; that he should require absolute justice and fair play to the negro, but that he was convinced this could be got best and most surely by trusting the honorable and influential Southern whites and Puiung the responsibility on them of maintaining peace and punishing outrages. SYMPATHY WITH HAMPTON. x He expressed his strong sympathy with Hampton in South Carolina, and his opinion that the President had acted down there in a very ill-advised manner. Finally Governor Hayes said that as soon as the electoral vote was declared and his election thus publicly assured, he wished to have a private con- ference with Colonel Lamar and General Hampton, and would take measures to that end, believing that then they could see no objections to a consultation which had for its object the good of their own sec- tion and the harmonizing of ditrerences which had gone so far that reconciliation was absolutely neces- sary for the good of the whole country. This is a true account of what Governor Hayes said. comes from a source thoroughly informed, and it presents what those who know Governor Hayes intimately have known to be his views as to the necessities of a public policy when he becomes President. WHAT MR. ROBERTS SAYS. Wasminarox, Dee. 3, 1876. Concerning his reported interview with Governor Hayes, Mr. Roberts, who arrived in Washington last night and is decidedly reticent, spoke as follows: “On my way from Cincinnati to Washington [ stopped at Columbus to see Governor Hayes, I was. there not accredited for anybody but for the New Orleans Times. 1 had a letter of introduction from Mr, Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, and one from J. B. Stevenson. I had a conversation with Mr. Hay’s, of some two or three hours’ duration, perhaps, at the house of General Comly. We talked of the Southern situation very freely, and he ex- pressed some regret that the pacification of the South had not been completed and the whole question settled. I had no author- ity from General Hampton or Mr. Lamar to make any proposition looking to a compromise,* nor did I state that I had any authority. He asked me no questions about that at all. He spoke favor- ably and very pleasantly of Mr. Lamar. He said that General Hampton's course during the canvass had been a conservative one. Touching the matter of the last election and the Presidential question he said nothing.” A PLAN TO CAUSE THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS TO ACQUIESCK IN HIS ELECTION—A PRO- POSED CUTTING LOOSE FROM. THE CARPET- BAG AND SCALAWAG ELEMENT—OVERTURES MADE TO PROMINENT SOUTHERNERS. [From the Cincinnati Enquirer of Dec. 2] Coivanus, Ohio, Dec. 1, 1876, Governor Hayes has made a new move In the Presi- dontial game, and has made overtures through Stanley Matthows, Job E. Stevenson, Murat Halstead, Dick Smith and other of nis intimate friends, to prominent Southerners to induce them, and through them their section, to acquiesce peaceably in his election, and to give his administration their hearty support. This movement has been on foot for several days, but in reaiity only assumed definite shape in this city to-day, when Colonel W. H. Roberts, of the New Orleans Times, met him with a view to arranging, if possible, tho terms of the settle:nent. It bad been the orig- inal plan to have General Lamar, of Mississippi, meet Governor Hayes. but upon that gentleman reaching Cincimnat! and conferring with Halstead, he thought it best to give Colonel Roberts a letter to Hayes explaining his views on the situation and autborizing him to act in his behalf. It appears that the Southern men have been assured that itis the design and intention of Hayes to cut looso from the carpot-baggers and scalawag republicans of the South, and also the Grant eloment of the party in the North, and to rally around him tho support of the liberal, conservative and democratic elemens in the South. Colonel Roberts brougnt letters from Job E. Stevenson to Hayes and W. H. Groesbeck trom Now Orleans, and ‘was also strongly indorsed by other republicans in the South, Stanley Matthews, Halstead and others met in ‘conterence in Cincinnati on Thanksgiving Day, and the rosult of their cogitation was a despatch from M. thews to Hayes teling bim that, in view of certain can- tingencies, it would be extremely desirable for the Go ernor to conciliate the conservative and liberal dento- cratic element of the South by offering it power, and emoluments in return for its support, also 1uroished Roberts with a letier to Hayes, indo ing him highly and commending his mission to his earnest attention. This morning Colonel Roberts arrived here and was met at the Neil House by General Comly, who took him tosee Governor Hayes, The trio dined at Gen- eral Comly’s house and had a three hours’ conterence together, Hayes talked very treely and ipformed Colonel Roberts that he had made up bis mind to cub loose entirely from the Grantisin of the republican party and the carpet baggers and scalawags with ‘which it is intested, and jook for his support to the better class and more patrrotic of its members and to the conservative and liberal democratic masses, He clearly indicated that he bad no sympathy with the Kelloggs or Chamberlains of the south, and directly stated that he thought it would be for the tuterest of South Carolina and Louisiana and the whole country if Hampton wae aeclared Governor of tho former State, and Nicholls, of Louisiana, He declared that he was perfectly willing to divide the official patronage of the Sonthern States among the conserva- tive republicans and liberal democrats, and looked to them vor that hearty support that ail honest men should be willing to accord to any honest administra-, tion, Alter this expression of sentiment by the Governor the following plan of operations was agreed upon :— Colonel Roberts will start tor Washington to-nignt, a upon his arrival there he will lay the matter boiore General Latnar ond a caucus of the Southern members of Congress, who will take the matter into consid- eration. ‘Thon Lamar and Generai Wado Hamp- ton will come to Ohio and visit Governor Hayes in person, and definitoly arrange the terms of the agreement. It 18 thought that there will be but little trouble in carry:ng this ar- rangement into cftect, tor the Northern republicans will be so eager to Ket their own pominations coa- firmed by the Senate that they will force that body ing into the confirmation of the Soutn- ives and liberai democrats. The South- orn people, it is believed, can be entirely controtied by Lamar and Hampton, as they will see that, as they cannot have Tilden for President, the next best thin for them to do is to make terms with Hayes that wil enable them to rid themseives of the carpet-baggers and place the control of their State governments in their own bands. William M. Corry and Tneodore Cook, of your city, accompanied General Lamar to Washington in tho interest of this plan, and many other prominent democrats are understood to be in | sympathy with it. GOVERNOR TILDEN. COMPYROLLER ROBINSON'S SUCCESSOR NOT YET APPOINTED—THE SPEAKERSHIP, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Aunany, Dee, 3, 1876. Governor Tilden will return here on Tuesday next, to remain till bo finishes his duties of Governor by formally welcoming Lucius Robinson to the succession, THE STATE COMPTROLLER, Ho has arrived at no determination yet as to the ap- pointment of a State Comptroller. It is known, how- ever, that Mr. F, P. Uleott, who was tendered the nom- ination, has positively announced his disinelination to accept it, There still remains an interval of about ten days before Comptroller Robinson's report is finis so that there is no pre: pointment. 5 ig need of an iinmediate ap- THE SPFAREUSILIP, George B. Sloan, of Oswego, was here on Saturday, and stated that, while he would be very proud it his friends olected him Speaker, he should make no can- vass for the place and personally seek nobody’s vote, SPECIAL WEATHER BEPORT. Wasmixcrox, Monday, Dec. 4—1 A. M. Probabilities, For New England and the Middle States, clear or fair weather and light northeriy or norinwestly winds, with rising barometer and stationary or slight rise in temperature, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com. parison with the corresponding date of last year, as in- dicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Heratp Buildin; FROZEN TO DEATH. Srnixcrimiy, Mass., Deo, 3, 1876. Seth Alvord, aced sixty, while intoxicated was frozen to death at Weat Hampton Friday night, WASHINGTON. - Interview Between President Grant and Mr. Hewitt. CONSEQUENT EXCITEMENT AT THE CAPITAL, A Position of Impartiality To Be Main- tained by His Excellency. HIS COURSE ON THE SOUTHERN QU STION. The Election in Louisiana a Muddle and Should Be Thrown Out. THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW ELECTION, Effect of Governor Mayes’ Overtures to Southern Democrats. TILDEN S PROSPECTS BRIGHTENING FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Wasuixctox, Dec. 3, 1876, INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT WITH MR. ON THE DECLARES HEWITT—VIEWS AND PURPOSES ELECTION-—-HE LOUISIANA VOTE SHOULD BE THROWN OUT— TILDEN'S PROSPECTS BRIGHTENING. The Presidential question 1s more muddled than RECENT THE ever to-day, but Mr. Tilden’s prospects, from a Washington standpoint, seem to bo brighter than for a week past. The town is agog to-night about an interview held between tho Prosident and Mr, A. 8, Hewitt to-day at eloven o'clock. It understood that Mr. ths interview it it isknown that Mr. Hewitt commanicated is Fish brought about to a few prominent democrats what had passed, but sol- emnly pledged them to secrecy, thus taking the surest way to enliven Washington with a multitude of ru- mors and false stories, The President refuses to be seen this evening on the matter, and Mr. Howitt has hidden himself. Tho unlucky gentlemen whom he has swern to secreey go about big and burating with a secret which will leak out in spite of their ef- forts, and which is of much Jess importance than Mr. Hewitt thinks, Tho interview was friendly. It gives the democrats more hope than they have had before of Mr. Tilden’s election, and in itthe President explained that he did not intend do injustice to either side; that be held an impartial position; that he meant to support and to seo safely inaugurated whoever should prove to be electod as his successor; that ho did not think tho defeated side could gain anything by making troublo or stirring up war or civil disorder; that nothing of that kind would succeed. This is be- Heved to have been the purport of tho President's com- munication to Mr. Hewitt. It is believed that ho also said that, while ho hoped that Mr. Hayes was elected, ho did not know it; that tho disputo might be difficalt to decide, and it might even become possible hold a new election in order to arrivo ata satisfactory decision for the country. Hints have been dropped by some intimates of the President, within a day or two, that he had doubts about the election of Mr. Hayes, and that he thought there might have to bo a new.clection, in which caso the safety of the coun try would, he thought, make it necessary for him to hold over durivg the interregnum, The doubt about Mr, Hayes’ election has spread to-day among prominent republicans, some of whom say privately that it would be a calamity the party to have Hayes go in with a suspicion of a dishonest count These gentlemen add frankly that the proceedings in to Soutn Carolina have been an almost fatal biunder for the party, making the returns there doubtful and they acknowledgo that the Louisian: Returning Board is ene Urely unworthy of confidence. Under theso circum- stances they say that to count in Hays would ruin the party and cause the retirement if its leaders in disgrace at the next election. They are not inclined to hazard or suffer 60 much fora man they do not know, and with whom they have held but limited communications, A letter in the Cincinnat! Enquirer, which arrived here this evening, giving an account of some things Governor Hayes is said to have told Mr. Roberts, correspondent of tho New Orleans Times, has also cansed a good deal of excitement in republican circles to-night, The state. ments were not at first belioved, but it was soon found that Mr. Roverts did stop at Columbus and aid seo Governor Hayes, and this made the matter look serious, Itis probably true that Mr. Roberts did go to Governor Hayes with letters from Meegsrs. Steven- son, Halstead and Staniey Matthews; that he called on the Governor asa correspondent of the New Or- leans Times, and conversed with him. The remainder of the story, 80 far as it asserts that ho went as the representative of Southern men or bear- ing letters or messages from them, is untrue. Mr. Roberts is vory reticent as to the nature of Governor s00n as it be- was even this Hayes’ communications to him, but a camo known this evening that t much foundation for the £nquirer’s story, loading re- publican politicians took alarm and consultations now held about i, Mr. Conkling and Mr, Boutwell have been at the White Houso all tho evening. The most important part of the President’s commu. nreation to Mr. Hewitt was that, in his opinion, there had not been a fair vote In Louisiana; that the whole: aflair thore was an inextricable muddle, and that, in his opinion, the vote of Louisiana should not be counted at all, In this opinion he was very positive, saying that the vote of tho State ought to be flung out, Jie complained that the press hed treated him unfairly, saying that the Reratp had misrepresented his purposes, and that he meant only fair play and justice; that mistakes had been made in Soutn Caro- lina, but they were not his, and were corrected when they came to his knowledge, It follows from this that the President means to cast his influence tor the exclusion of the vote of Louisiana, which would, of course, give the election, to Mr. Tilden, On tho whole the democrats are quietly jubilant, They feel certain of success and private despatches have gone from here from democratic leaders, to- night, to friends saying that Tiiden’s election is cor- tain. Thero are reports that some prominent republi, ean Senator means to make an attack to-morrow on 7 the President In regard to the South Carolina pasiness, it that Senator Sherman has come up from Louisiana very sore about what he has seen there, and is said also Tha town fs fall of ramors of the most varied and contradictory kinds, and to-morrow bids fairto bean exciting day. It is of course probe to Mr. Hewitt will stop any movement on the democratic sida able that the Prosident’s communication to make him trouble, but it is not impossible that he may find himself attacked by republicans anxious te savo themselves. ea ay FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, Wasurxatox, Doc, 3, 1876, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. When the House meets to-morrow it will be called te order by Mr, Sayler, Speaker pro tem., who will ro sume the chair for the reason that the death of Mr, Kerr is not officially known to Congress, as ho died aiter the adjournment last summer. The announce. ment will then be formally made, probably by one of the Indiana Representatives, when an a¢journment will be had, The House, upon reassembling on Tues- day, will be calied to order by the Clerk, when anew Speaker will be chosen, THN PRESIDENTS MESSAGE, The President's Message will bo presented to the Sonate to-morrow, as it will adjourn immediately after meeting, It has been determined that it will not ad~ Journ over the holidays to take a recess, but wilh simply adjourn for Christmas and New Year’s Day, THE DISPUTED STATES. The first business to be brought up in the House will bo the report in regard to the Oregon electors, and then committees will be appointed to proceed to investigate the receut elections in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida. PREPARATIONS FOR BUSINESS IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE, Ata conference of members of the House this afters noon a committee was appointed to be charged with the general management of business in regard to ime troduction of resolutions. The committee ‘will. cone sist of Messrs, Sayler, Lamar, Hill, Abbott and Hewitt, A meeting of the leading members of the Senate for conference wil: be had to-morrow morning at half-pasg nine o'clock, SMALLPOX IN MANITOBA, _ Wissipra, Dec. 3, 1876, Sixteen Icelanders and fourteen Indians have died at White Mud River of the smallpox. Between there and Gimli, a distance of thirty miles, the disease is in every house, At Gimli there aro over 100 cases and twonty-two deaths have occurred. The government storchouse has been converted to a hospital, to which all patienta are removed, their dwellings being burned. MORE HYDROPHOBIA, Charles Cullam, of No. 412 East Twenty-filth street, was playing with a largo bull dog in frontot his house yesterday evening, when the dog, who had seemed ta be playiul, suddenly made a bite at Cullam’s log and tore thereirom a piece of flesh as large ax a hen’s egg. A doctor wass called to dress the wounded man’s limb, and on seeing dog gave it as lis opimion that 18 wat suflering Irom hydrophobia, Theganimaiwrs at once killep and Cullam was taken to Bellevue Hospital, — CHECKMATING FERRYMASTERS, Yesterday the Hoboken Ferry “Company placod patent turnstiles at their gates similar to those used at the Centennial Exhitition at Philadelphia, It the apparatus is found to work woll it will be placed at the Christopher and Barclay strect ferries, COMMODORE VANDERBILT. Commodore Vanderbilt contina in a very critical céndition, but his physicians are very hopeful thas with an abatement in the severity of the weathor the relapse will be overcome. 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