The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1877, Page 5

WASHINGTON. Initiatory * Proceedings of the New Reign, TAKING THE OATH OVERNIGHT. Cogent Reasons for the Un- usual Step. TILDEN’S SHADOW AT THE CAPITAL, Latest Speculations About the New Cabinet, THE BRIGHTNESS OF A NEW ERA. General Grant's Retrospective View of His Administration. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Wasuiscron, March 4, 1877, THE CABINET PROBLEM. The straggle over the new Cabinet has gone on all fay, andthe matter is not settled. In the goneral belief this evening Messrs. Evarts and Sherman are, of course, certain. Mr, Schurs, who arrived this morn- ing, 8 to have the Interior Department, Mr. Jonn M, Forbes is believed to have the offer of the Navy De- partment, ithe will accept it. A bitter struggio has been made by the Camorons for the retention of Mr. Don Cameron in the War Dopartment, but in vain. It la hinted, however, to-night that asa compromise, Mr, Wayne McVeigh, Senator Cameron’s son-in-law, but sot Cameronian politician by any means, may suc- ceed Mr, Don Cameron, sir, McCrary, of Iowa, will be Attorney General, unless Mr. Schurz should be offered the War Department, in whi®h case McCrary woald bave, it is said, the Interior, and some other man the Attorney Generaiship, Mr. Harlan, of Kep- \neky, hus been mentioned in connection with she latter office, but it is said to-night Mr. Bristow is to have Judge Davis’ place on | t!e Supreme Court Bencb, which would leave Mr, Harian out, As to the Southern member, tho President Las had three names under consideration to- 1y—General Jue Jobnston, Senator Key, of ‘Tennes- Be nt Mr, Hancock, of Texas, it is reported to- night by a Southern republican Senator that the Prest- dent to-day asked him and others of bis politics in the South to come to him and advise as to which of these three ie preierred, and that they refused to have any- | Unni to do with the matter, In this list Mr. Evarts bas nover troubled himself about patronage or a pulitical following, ana as the peculiarity of the Secretary of State's political posi- tion 1s that if he has uny friends to gratify he sends them out of the country, his appointment will rep- resent no particular shade of politics in New York, except the liberal element, | tho ; Morrow, at the regular time and in the usual way, Mr. Sherman in the Treasury means a vacancy in the Senate, which Mr, Gariield will try to fill. This gives Mr. Charles Foster prominence as the repub- Ncan candidate for the speakorship in the next house, and he is a very able and upright man. If Mr. McVeigh should become Secretary ot War Pennsylvania would be ropresented by a brilliant and sble young man, who, though allied by marriage to the Camerons, belongs to tho anti-Cameronian wing in the politics of tho State, and who would give strongth to the Prosident’s civil service policy, ‘Mr. John M. Forbes represents tho anti-Batler ele- ment in Massachusetts politice, and his appointment, which is thought certain to-night, besides putting into the Navy Department a gentleman thoroughly familiar ‘with shipping interests and competent for the placo, ‘would be counted all over New Engiand as a trenchant blow at General Butler and his followers, Mr. Seburz would, of course, represent in a partic- ‘alar manner the idea of civil.service reform, Mr. McCrary 1s a very able lawyor, of high cbarac- ‘er, and from lowa, one of the strongest republican States, There isa general hope here among the best friends of the President that General Joseph Jghnston will accept a Cabinet place. The choice seems to he be- tween the other two named, it he should decline, Secretary Chancler has been laboring, it is said, to get Senator Christiancy into the Supreme Court, which. would make a convenient vacancy in the Senate trom Michigan. Genoral Logan has been urgent to have the ‘War Department as he is just out of employment. Senator Alcora’s friends bave givenup hopa Judge Btanley Matthows is taid to be booked for l’aris, THE PROMISES OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION-— BUILERISM AND OARPET-BAGISM TO THE REAR. -One of tho signa of the now times caused a smile when it became known this morning. Generat Butler his aroused a good deal of feeling among Massachusetts men within afew days by getting Geuoral Grant to nominate a frvorite of his to the Post Office at Haver. ul T'\ere was, for some reason, an unusual amount of indignation over this appointment among the anti- Hetler men, but tho nomination was sent to the seuate, and it was supposed it would’ be irmed, as neither Mr. Boutwell nor Mr. Dawes was tuoaght likely to oppose it, But it was latd over, and when tnally, in the last hours of tho session, pressure Wns made to get it up, Mr. Dawes plumply demanded that it should novbe taken up, but lie over, and thus it feil, Senator Dawes is an excellent man, but he has not always been thought remarkable for his opposi- tion to General Batler’s wishes, and this decisive action of his istaken to mean that tho wind sets against General Butler protty strongly in the now administra- tion. It may be added that all the other straws point ina very wholesome direction. The ¢arpet-bag Senators are very gloomy and sarcastically ask their friends whether the President is going to Tylerize or Johnson. iz0, which? They go about trying to stir up trouble for him, but so far with no great effect, The friends of retorm feel confident to-night of & proper and speedy settloment of the Louisiana ‘end South Carolina questions, and there is a geacray belief that when those aro out of the way the new ad- ministration will have elbow room, and, having no Bouth to trouble the political waters or embarrass other questions, can got to work atthe real interests which the country needs to have attended to, | The struggle for “patronage”? hus already begun, The Southern republicans aro particulatiy anxious for their sharo and, as usual, they ‘mean business,” and | Mean trouble to the President !f he docs not gratify them, The Cabinet, so far as itis guessea at in the list sent | you, does net look as though the claiinanis of patron. age ‘would have their will done to any considerable extent Mr. Evarts will probably bave the ambition to make something useful of our diplomatic and con- sular service, particularly the latter, and would make romovals accordingly only where among the conauls he found incompetent men. Messrs, Forbes, Schurz, McVeigh and McCrary would certainly pot | make changes in the «minor offices except | for good cause. Mr, Sherman is, it is claimed by bis | friends, a thorough convert to civil service reform, and | Whoever the Southern member may be would prova- bly wish for changes only whera the public interest | required it, obrerving, it is to be, hoped, the policy of | putting Southern men in Southern offices, Indeed a | Cabinet composed of such men as are named would be | such & promise of reform and stability in the public service must rally a powerful public sentiment to 1t8 Support at once, | CARPET-BAGGYRS TRYING TO MAKE TROUBLE-—~ | THEM BEIGN NEARLY oven. The newspaper offices are to-nignt favored with a Beat collection of reports, from carpet-bag sources, of President Hayes’ devermination on the southern question, Jt 1, perhaps, needless to say that these reports are faise, und are put forth for the pur- pose of ombarrassing the whole matter and, if possible, making such ® misunderstanding in accorded an interview with the outgoing Chief Magistrate, who was seated aione upon a! pofa, the members of the Cuabinot being NEW: YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. the South as it {8 hoped might produce | rash utterances or movements in Louisiana and South Caroliva. The carpet-baggors are desperate; they see that their misrule has come to an ond, but | they cannot bear to give up, and wonld rather plange the country into new difficulties than let go their bold. ‘The plain facts are that The difficulties in South Caro- na and Louisiana are near a fina! and proper adjust- | ment, and that a féw days will geo this com- | com Senator Gordon, who has conferred | freely with General Grant while he war Pres | beni d and equally freely with the friends of the new administration, is satistied to-night that a few days ‘will see the affairs of South Carolina adjusted in a man- ner entirely satisfactory, leaving Governor Hampton the undisputed Governor of the State, It has trans- pired that Colonel Burke, of Now Orleans, who has for some time very ably represented Governor Nicholls bere, had an interview to-day with President Hayes, and left suddenly for New Orleans in the train this evening. THE RECORD OF THE FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS— AN UNUSUAL ABSENCE OF JOBS. The Congress which closed to-day at twelve, while it has worked under an almost constant pressure of great excitement, haa an honorable record for the | absence of jobs., The democratic House, though it in- dulged in some petty aud mistaken economies, im the whole drew the purse strings nicely aud voted against largo and small jobs with commendable fidelity. Inthe last hours of the sessivn it defeated the Four Million and Half Levee bill, The Senate, in its turn, defeated that old job the Bounty bill, which comes up as a sop to speculators and agents regularly every session, and which President Grant once had to veto, This term Messrs, Logan and Morton plead tor it but in vain, Tho adjournment took place in the presence of orowded galleries and with general good humor, Gen- eral Banks tu the House, and Mr, Creery in the Sen- ate, moved thanks to the presiding officers, who mado the customary addresses in return, ‘Tho failure of the Army bili makes an extra session necessary, but the appropriations ran until the Ist of July, and it ta not probable that Congress will be summoned to meet before May or June, FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, Wasuixatox, March 4, 1877. THE OATH OF OFFICE--WHY IT WAS TAKEN ON SATURDAY BVRNING, Wasbington has been puzzled and mystified all day ag to whether President Hayes has takcn the oath of office or not, Thuse who knew the real state of the matter, which was kept a profound secret, responded, when asked about it, that he would not take the oath to-day, which assertion they could easily make without telling an untruth, This conveyed inference that he would take. the oath to- ‘From all that can be learned about the matter the oath was anministered quietly, and as by sudden impulse when the Presidont-elect and the Chief Justice met at the White House, just before proceeding to the State dinner last night. The distinguished couple of gentle- mon stopped into the adjoining red room, where tho oath was subscribed by Mr. Hayes, and the paper was ; then filed with the Secretary of State, who was also conveniently near to receiv it, The repetition of the oath orally to-morrow at the inwuguration will therefore be wholly proper, and will jend to the ceremony tho impregstve und essential teaturo which chiefly ais- tinguishes it, i The mystery made about the matter of the adminis- | | tration of the oath last night, and the deep public in. terest taken in the subject, induced a HxRatp repre- sentative to wait upon a leading member of ex-Presi- dent Grant's cabinet for particulars of the transaction, He was rewarded with the following statement:— “Prosident Hayes was sworn in last evening, at tho | White House, by Chief Justice Waite, at five minutes | after seven o'clock. Secretaries Chandler and Fish are rived afew minutes afterward, and the whole thing | ‘was done so quietly that not even ex-President Grant orany of the household knew anything of 1¢ untilit was over, the President’s Bible being used in the cer- emony.”” It was evidently intended to keep the whole affair eecret for the time, and an agreemeut to that effect must have been entered Into, because outside of those present no knowledge of what occurred was imparted to any one whatever in this city, The Chief Justice, when interrogated upon the sub- Ject after midnight, said that he was not at liberty to divulge anything that had transpired, because it had been resolved for some reason, not yet explained, to make nO announcement about it, cither as to who administered the oath to President Hayes, or when, where or how it had been taken. | One of the motives in view for the taking of the oath without delay yesterday is attributed to the fact that as Sunday is a dies non in the common law, though not so recognized in legislative matters, it was thought safest to administer the oath to Preaident Hayes yes- terday rather than leave it until to-morrow. In caso anything should happen requiring prompt Executive action, such as insurrection or violence in tho South, or elsewhere, it was believed to be best to avoid any danger of complications or embarrassmont to the | | President’s functions, so that no question should ari as to his legal exercise of his powers as Commander in Chiet of the Army and Navy, as well as of the regular executive prorogatives, As soon as President Hoyes had taken the oath he joined the party at dinnor, and spent the rest of the evening at tuble and | in social conversation. A BEMARKABLE RUMOR ABOUT MR, TILDEN’S SUPPOSED INAUGURATION, One of the principal subjects of inquiry in the hotels and other places of public resort to-night, was whether Mr. Tilden had taken the oath of office in New York to-day or not. It was the question which almost everybody asked and which no one could answer, Strange to say, politiciaus of the republican faith | seemed to be a great deal more interested in the que: tion than their opponents, who appeared to bo indif- | ferent on the subject, attaching, as a rule, very | little importance to the event, whether it had taken | place or not. The general feeling among that class of people, who are not as numerous in Washington as in other parts of the country, the mdependent voters and thinkers, who are anxious only for a peaceable solation of the difficulty, was, that Mr. Tilden was not £0 foolish as to go through what they call the ‘farce’? of making two Presidents, Members of Congress, even those who had sent the despatch to Mr. Tildea, informing him of the declaration of his elec. tion by the House ot Representatives, were, or pro- fessed to be, a8 ignorant in regard to the matter as any | one olse, An alterroon paper printed what purported to be a despatch trom New York, declaring that Mr. Tilden had taken the oath of office at his residence in Gramercy Park, and this appeared to be the only foun. dation upon which the report rested, Mr. Knott, | Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, on being ques. tioned on the subject to-night, said be hud not heard a word about it, ‘In view of the experience we have had with the telegraph companies,”’ said he, daring the last couple of months, I sould think the telegraph would be the Ist place to which aman wou'd entrust anything he wished to keep secret. But it he took the oath, why shonld Mr, Tilden desire it to be kept secret That is a qnestion I cannot answer."’ Late to-night a report flew around the hagels to the | eflect that Mr. Tilden would be hero to-morrow morn- | ing, but upon Inquiry it could not be traced to any trustworthy source. Mr. Meade, of the New York del- | egation, Faid he had not heard a word about it, and believed it to be entirely untrue. PRESIDENT HAYES’ INAUGURAL ADDRESS, It is likely that tho inaugural address of President Hayes will not be lengthy, A gentieman familiar with the character of his State papers predicts that it will not exceed three columns of the Nuw Yor« HeRaLp, and more probably will be limited to two col. umns, He prepares bis papers readily and without | assistance, and uses no unnecessary words, So con- ciso, indeed, ts his method of expression that reporters for the press, in endeavoring to make abstracts of the messages he wrote while he was Governor of Obio, | found It almost impossible to eliminato a line, bis style Is so compact, THE EX-PRESIDENT ON HIS ADMINISTRATION OF FIGHT Ywans, Everyone who has visited the Capito! is familiar with the {asdrious apartment known as the President's room. Hero the retiring President was this morning as usual on the close of the Congressional session, ready to sign such bills passed in the closing hours of Congressas | met with bis approval. During alull mine work of examining bills a representative of the Hexann wae | As the | two governments, in which | their side, nor could we always justify the acts of our | cerned the President said we had that at any time. distributed at \a distance correspondent spproached him the President seemed buried in 1..uitation, but aronsed himself at the correspondent’s salutation and entered into conversation, The President suid that even the Jew moments lett of his public life seemed to move with laggard pace, and that he impatiently awaited the final moment near at band, so that he might enjoy once more the pleasures and immunities of an humble citizen of the Republic, freed from the cares of State nd undisturbed by the importunities of men and the vexations of politics. Reverting to the eight years of sercise of the executive functions of the government he said that the questions upon which he most rested the place of his administration in history were well known and had already stood the test. When he entered the Presidential office, he said, ne found the condition of things most unsatisfactory. Tho public finances were in a most unsatisfactory condi- tion, The animomties which had been engendered in the war and under the influences attending the subse- quent administration of the Southern States were still | alive, The relations between “the: United ates and Great Britain were of an ex- tremely delicate character, growiug out of the depredations of British cruisers; between Spain and the United States of an caually serious nature, on account of the disturbed situation in Cuba, ‘The Indian question was provoking much disgatisiac” tion, and, indeed, in almost every brauch of the executive there was more or less to be don to secure to the government that efficiency of administration and exercise of power which was necessary tu its authority and euccoss at home and respect and influence abroad, Upoa there | general features ho had inaugurated the policy of his administration, Taking a retrospect of the success which attended his etlorts in this direction the Pres! dent said that he was satisiled with the result accom- plished, On the subject of his financial policy ne said that he bad succeeded in eflecting a reduction of hundreds of | millions of the public imaebtedness, and had at the same time accomplished millions of reductions in the | apnaal burden of tnxaiion, und now, as his administra- tion was about to close, he hat the satisfaction of see” ing the credit of the United States second to no nation in the world, their bonds in demand and the govern- ment ready und able to resume specie payments, in regard to bis southern policy be said that his | wish was ulways to secure a free exercise of the elec- tive frauchise to every class of citizens, and to @uppress overy kind of violance against the rights of every citizen within the southern | borders, In this be adimitted that there was still much to ve done, and he feit that there was much to perpetuate the state of feeling which bas existed in the South, but that he could see even now | in the near future wiser counsel prevailing im the Soutuern States than had the ascendancy during his | administration This was evidenced, he thought, in | the action of the Southern domocrats of weight und influence in the disposition of the Presidential ques. | tion. On the snbject of the foreign rejations of the United States he suid tbat his first action toward the settle. | ment of the Alabama question was sugested by his faith in Sir Edward Choraton, who always exhibited a desire to adjust the differences existing botween the also Secretary Fish and the English government heartily joimed, | The result of their efforts has sinco become a | matter ot history. Inregard to Spain there was a great pressure to secure the recognition of Caban inde- pendence, but he wished to avers a war, as Spain was well prepared, and it would be a struggle in which thero would be no glory except in the triumph of our arms, and he did not believe in war for glory, but for | principle. 1n regard to the Mexican border troubles the Presi+ dent said that be was always disposed to act the purt of lenency with thom, as the Mexican government was Ot strong enough to prevent the depredations from own people, So far as apretext for war was con- In reference to his Indian policy the President said that 1 was not well sustained, but that it would uiti- mately succeed and would bring about a breaking up of the tribal relations and would make the red man as responsible as the white man, | Ot the acts of bis administration lees conspicuous, the President said that they were matters of record | and would bo taken as part of the general wholo, INAUGURAL—IMPREs- | | SION CREATED BY THE NEW PRESIDENT, The waugural message, there is reason to believe, Soni AN OUTLINE Of HaYns’ will be « frank and vutspoken document, reciting the | necessities of the country and promising the | President’s nest co-operation with Congress, and = bis own = eflorts TY the of important reforms, It will probably con- | tain some notable words to and concerning the | h, showing a strong desiro to do justice and re- | store harmony, but requiring at tho samo time that equal justice, peace and security to both races shail ob- tain in the Southern States, It is believed that the President will speak positively | about the necessity for curreacy reform, and show | that he does not mean to let this subject rest. On the question of the civil service ho will probably give'somo assurances whret' will set at rest tho fears of around the room. | A ol the Interior, George W. McCrary ; execution | | many hundreds of competent clerks and writers and put a damper on the hopes of the office seekers, There ts @ general and increasing impression that | the President is s positive man, who bas taken great | care to intorm himself of the character of the men who | ¢ come to him in these days, and of the detatis of the | questions which will press upon him for solution. He js « good party man, but means to choose for bimsclf within the party, and people who have talked with him report that though very quiet and reticont, when he speaks itis to the point, and that if !t is necessary to take the bull by the horns anywhero he will probably dose. In fact the general improssion among the best men of his | {| party is that he begins admirably, and that he means | to begin at once, It is remarked that certificates of | character, the efforta of delegations and the general sys- | tem of “pushing claims” meet with a singnlarly cool reception at his bands, The Pennsylvania delegation | In Congress, tor instance, waited upon him to push | the claims of Mr. Don Cameron, and wera recoived, | | they report, with emment civility, but went away as | wise as chey came. Otf@r delegations report equally bad luck, and there is an impression that the delega. jon business is nota success with the new President, A NOLLE PROSEQUI IN TH CASES OF THE SOUTHERN WHISKEY DISTILURRS, | Before retiring a8 President orders were issued | through the Attorney General’s office by ex-President | Grantto enter a nolle prosequi in all the Southern | iiett distillery cases. It 18 expected that the government will yet have considerable trouble | with those engaged in tho whiskey business in | the Southern States, because they are of a class of | outlaws who were deserters from the Confederate | army daring the war, and who fied to the mountains for concealment, dritting ultimately into the illicit manufacture of whiskey, and holding fastnesses, from which it is almost tmp lodgo them. sible to di; RUMORS, SORTS OF GUPSSES AND NOMINATIONS By | HE NEWSPAPERS, i The Troy Times believes that Senator Sherman will | be Secretary of the Treasary. | The Council BluMs (Lowa) Nonpareil gives the follow. | ing as the probable Cabinet slate;—secretary of State, | William M, Evarte, of New York; Secretary of the Treasury, Joun Sherman, of Olio; Secretary of the gene Halo, of Maine; Seeretary of War, Jobn an, ot Iilinois; Secretary of the Interior, James | CABINET ALL ry, of Lowa, The Barlivgton (Lowa) Mav! McCrary, of lowa, tor Attorney The Bulale Commercial thinks that Thomas C, Platt, | of Owego, N. ¥., will be made Postmastor General, The Bivomington (1il.) Pantagraph announces that | Mr. rts, of New, York, for Secretary of State, and | | Hon. G, W. McCrary, of Lowa, tor Attorney General, are pretty generaily agreed on by the guessers at the composition of Preeitont Hayes’ Cabinets The Riehmond (Va) Whig vominates Abraham | witt, of New York, fora scat in Presutent Hayes? | Cabinet | ‘iho Dos Moines (towa) Register makes tho following | guesses :—Seeretary of Siate, William M. kvarts; Sec. retury of the Treasury, Jon sherman Seeretary of War, John A. Logan; Secretary of the Navy, Eugeno | precinct when thought under pretence preserving tie, pew in fuet to in timigate yore! were stuffed in the | tye mountain | | owas | wesntoi r | tiheates or | determined | missioners of Klecti | the Hat Attorvey Genera!, John M. Harlan; Secretary Vostinas.er Gen- eral, James x. Tyner. Chicag -Oc1ean nominates Joveph Medill, aati ot te Chicago Tribune, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, The Washington (D. Union, in we MeCormick as a Cabinot candidate, sa! Mar. I. MeCormiek, secretary to Zach Chandier’s committee, won-inelaw of Senator Thurman, lite delegate from, and forimeriy Governor of Arizona Yerrivory. 1& ens deavoring. With tre aid of the Washington correspoud- | ent of a San Franciseo newspe per, 10 manifacture enthusiasm at both ends of the line with a view to get. | Ung into Mr. ’ Cabmet, Mr. MeCormick is in some respects a Schuyler Colfax on asnmailer scale, He owes the positions he has held tothe putts ot bis dusUngiished services, woich Le bas continued to get inserted in the newspapers trom the Potomac to the Golden Gete.”” . joning R. C, THE OUTLOOK At WASHINGTON. [From the Philadelphia Times, March 3.} ‘The question of the new Cavinet 18 engaging the Special attention of all sorts and cliques about the new | President, and the only thing that seets certain 18 the Promotion of Senator Sherman to the Treasury port- folio, which will bo a direct insult to every honest tn- Stinct of the country, It is probable that the old Cabi- ‘net will hold over lor a few days or weeks, and, if so, it will be & huge job to dislodge Morton’s feather, Mr, ‘Tyner, and Cameroa, who ably represents himself. | Give Morton and Camoron a week about Hayes to repeat ie nice stories of the lawlessness ans aacritic to aceopt to count Florida and Louisiana righ will be likely to im: the tail thenestorth wi Avis worthy of notice that thore who assume to frame cabinets for the new administration always egin by | puting Bristow on the Supreme Coa! Davie and following it up by eendisg 4 ww Reid, Cox, of Olio, and such ge pel with earnest aspirations jor repubiican reform, out ol tho country to fill miséions, while the Cavinet | that is to manage the politics aud policy ot the | Adiwinisteation takes iu auch gentlemen us sherman, | Cameron, Chandler, Morton's man Logan, Sette, ee, | Could aot the Tribune and General Hawiey’s Haruiord Courant yenwure the suggestion that it would be | well tor Hayes to make a Cabinet of the Evurts, the | Hawleys, the Reids, the schurzes, the Bristows, &e., and let the Mortons, the Camerons, the Shermans, tho Noyes, the Logans aud their like go. abroad leave their country for their goody many placemen who woud be bi Cabinet, and strike terror i the Yanks of ballot-stutters from Pilgrim Philadeiphia to Keliogs-smitien Louise lana; LUL It Would do the country a power of good, A SOUTHERN CABINET OFFICER, {Prom the Baltimore American, March 3.) ‘There is quite a formidable movement among the Southern and Border State republicans in Washington for tho selection by President Hayes of Judge Thomas Settle, of North Carolina, tora seat in his Cabinet. Judge Settle has quite a national reputation, and is regarded as the represontatiye of the old line whigs in the Sourh, public as Pr vention, and was the republican candidate fast fall for Governor of North Carolina, Ho made a gallant fight, and succeeded in rallying the wh of the old North State into @ formidable organization, preventing the drawing of the color line, aud but for ball-doziuy in the counties on the Seath’ Carolina border would have boen triumphantly elected, Tue republicans of Vir- ginia, a8 well as of his own State, are pressing the Clainis of Judge Settle with an oarnestuess that bodes success, There 18 probably no min in the South who stunds so hig in the estimation of the republicans of | the North aud West, aud hia appointment to a Cabinet porttolio would give very general s: He was uppointed a few days since by Presigent Grant as hited States District Judge for F . and received the compliment of a unanimons vote of the te tor his contirmaiion, Ho isaiawyer ol great abiiity, an eloquent orator, and in all the private relations of lie | is highly esteeted by the people of is State, irrespec- | tive Of party prejudices, As it has been seti-oficnliy annonticed that President Hayes intends to have one Southern Cabinet olfleer, the selection of Judge Seite will give yory general eatisfaction, THE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARRAIGNED AS THE ALLY OF CONSPIRATORS AND CORRUPTION sts, 4 : Wasutyeton, D. G, March 4, 1877. At @ caucus of the democratic members of the House of Representatives held on th day of March, 1877, inthe bali ot the Honse, the folowing address ‘was unanimonsly adopted. HRY BAnANKING WILLIAM M. ROBBINS, | Secretaries, At a mecting of the tsembers of tho National Democratic Committee held on she Sd day of March, 1877, she follow- Ing mudrens was unanimously adopted — HEWITT, Chatrman, To Tuk Ament We submitiw the events which bave re fora li, ayes has bee States :— Two Facts. Jitieal canvass tw be republics sought to unity. the Tn th late facts stood out promi- Fi PAFLY, true LO. ots noetLO North against the “solid ud while ehguged in that effort it was striving to | obable losse: North by diviaing the jon ik suuht to effect ry wm. the army in” South Carona, | inake good its votes of the uncunstit A for their prem be erection States, ther power! "The bayonets gilst In dopositing their ballocs the citizens enjoyed only suel Live army perm tte In the other States the electio | unasuatly peaceful. ow: ed at the polls, BREAT DOU the result ed that 196 Tilden popular vote they | and of thacof tue other in Christan orl Immediately afterw lectors had been chore sian race, civilized ived a the day succeed irman ot the had bees en Nothing had been learned of the election excevting thy vote actually cast, Mopesty, it has never since been disputed that by tl Jority, of Tilden electors had been appoii therefore, ould mance of in acran, have beon given by the trie result be edd try the Fey eTsion nuade ub the polis of the conspiracy was tat he percony to uct with the origina tors were the Governors and members of the B ni Bourds ot those states. The flaia was well chosen and the state officers selveted were suitable persons tur the work to | be done. vote n mu- Such an have Lee change le. We aimed a reve:s6 A RETROSEI For nore than ten years t te tut ot cheir ci os had been subjected Taxation at rr and nsurpation | believed thut its services would aid in the designed cun- | | | spiracy. + WHO Dip IT, The names ot the officers dej Namuel B. Meld nd William Pitt, hel J. Madison Weils, | Anderson, E. Caresave and J. i, Kenner, ‘hese men were wot to the ‘ople. ‘They had hefor wards of those ature i. The Govern Ii there were two navies dishon Stearns, voridn, J 01 mating the conrpiracy’ Wow If WAS DONE, ‘They entered upon their task with ainerity, encouraged by leading “vistthn Lire Nort parent regard 1 William Pitt Kelloggs control ot advised and ‘republican statesinen ot They took each step with deliberation and wp- tn Louisiane | subordinates assumed the execution of the Keyist They retosed regisirauon to thousands to it, and added thousands tu the tte vote. Un the dav A Migr ia by officials ointed Fhese weve ts nearly evety inecorer wermsere ‘opal Mean party. United 1 * tnrshate owarmed at every interest of Poll books wee stances and then returned to the ¢ rd, while in other se8 returns givin, wjorities were withheld fron the ner, Aller the returns ii ti ad they rounined in its 6x le there, 5 han appearance of furrness, permitted persons re seniing both parties to be pres but when the decision made as to what shoull be counted, seeret were held, from which everydemcccat Ww cinded, although the law constituting the board 5 that is sbonid be compoxed ol representative: livient parties, In comnting the votes it exe not conterred by the statute and in the most oer kard of tenth und f 3 forged out votes of kiew hud been ey preeinets upon Nalanvity witch ‘they ently obtained. Indeed, they themselves ordered ise nitiouvits to be made hundreds ot mies irom the piace nc whieh purported to have boon taken, in order that a decfslow might apyent Justi y hid in advance raptiy, in order takes of certain wes wh While considering the ease mowbers of the Board en- | doavored to enter into negotiations with hoth the publicun and Democratic eommittoen to sell their dveision, A hail «million of dollars way the si Not obtaining ft, thes tried to bargain with loading deme erats of elect the t thes Well u 801 Madina was not paid. Nogosiat broken off, with the leaders of the rey result wax declared J. Madison Wells, admitted that He lrst came prominently belore the | lent of the Philadelphia National Con- | } ured in Washington before the poon hour was some- | | CHARLES CHASE, ) agent immediately found himeel! beset by the newsmen, | whoclustered around the car and yelled vociferoualy for | | winds, rising or | oraliy clear weather. reversal of the judgment of the people is tat intimide- tion had ‘bean’ pructived by. the wh ‘there the votes wore thrown ou" Whether the tnsimide: How compeited some persons Ls vote against werr # prevented some from atiending the polls, it afforded’ im either cane no j ‘atte berate rejection uf ballots uy the Keturniug Hoard, Hut rhe statute of Loulel- do in writing by the | jay when the taining the charges mad | was received with proper foundation | been Laid The evidence received { main of aftiduvite written ont by | ph s Board, without sporting: to verliy pF the ofivers py ty co tile; there " was, therefore. adequate proof ot iathmdal OS TEMPTATION, re that (he temptation to Kellogg Tt may be rema and bis: Ket aes of in| atic majority cont be overthrown and the conspirney Wes! id not tan to call the atvention of tho petpie bs the dauparvus etfect ul tie dostcins ot tesioal. dation Im poittien, st not only | par " midation, att those’ who have voted atthe same precincts with | iNTHMIDATION. | cinde to 1 a parish custin | | | card empt ul the rights of the voters by tebe ieands. mud tions and usurpations, by their briberies aud. per, wud forgeries did the sirators @btain th preces | little people isenasiow ae, to the f ( prosteation has seized upon nearly every interest | inthe land. When this « embled, erent was av ite height Con. | i One oO! its duties was to { In this Inbor | | it was te } evidence and @xa Breas or wither hou thi hearing of papers, sitch power Inthe bellet tlement of the ridland that a ny houses abje fed by the Hayes cieciors, AMONE other grounds of objection it wan urged thut these certificates had been fraudulently ruptly issued Uy the returning — boxrds ives of th then fons were Bled 1 thos» pr and cor- | ¢ rie offered ‘he corumirsion, — by: f 0 proof wits the then to suatain ON to 7 refused to receive the testimony offere: to the ineligibility of 4 slugle member in ork. voted in Louisiat ission have { that the K | dus the required at th jurisdiction t ‘Kes ol rot, inti ‘and that the Re rtificatns were A niently tsened, and 4s 4 result of a conspiracy, aud that the vote of the Stule has never been compiled or canvassed, Tho same rulings substantially were made in the case of Floridu.* ; HERALD aN WASHINGTON. A SPECIAL TRAIN CARRIES THE SUNDAY EDI- TION 140 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL—SCENES ALONG ‘TIE ROUTE, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THR HERALD. ] Wasmixetos, March 4, 1877. The New York Hernan special Express train arrived in this city at eleven o'clock this morning, Inden with several thousand copies of to-day’s quadruple Henao, ‘The fact that a special train was coming with extra bundles of Henaos had become known in all the botel lobbies and on (he avenues soon after breakfast, and | an unwonted degree of anxiety was manitested were tly THE by our citizens 10 eccure =a copy of the Sunday Henary, Of course there were some who affected to doubt the truth — of* the announcement that a HERALD train was coming, for to see a Sunday Issue ofa New York paper distrib. thing to dream of as only barely possible and scarcely to be realized. AT THE WASHINGTON DEPOT. | But at eleven A. M. the tram, cousisting of only two | cars,.camo dasbing into the depot, and the Heap their share of the edition sent ou from New York. So eager was the demand that tho supply was soon ex- hansted, and many a newsboy stood on tne platform Jong after the laet sheet had been disposed of, and, hike Oliver Twist, asked for more. ON THE AVENUE, s Tho scene on Pennsylvania avenue a few minutes | after tho arrival of the train wasan exciting one, for the boys went tearing up the street yelling out:— “gre’s yer Noo Yurk ’Eauy! 8-uen-d-a-y 'Die | Mon |” Tho cry was a mogic one, for as the crowd of boys | ran along the street they were stopped by almost every man they met, and their bundles rapidiy lessened in baik until scarcely one of the little urchins bad a copy leit. Then the price went up, and by three o’ciock gentlemen were heard to offer twenty. five and even fifty cents fora Sunday Herano, | learn trom the HeKanp agent that this special train lett Jersey City | at precisely forty minutes after four o’clock this morn- ing, and made the run to Philadelphia in a little more than two hours, At all tho principal stations along | the route bundles of HeraLos were thrown off to ex. pectant newsdealers, and then the train went rushing on without stopping. The speed mointained was often a terrific one, for the time set down for the whole jour- ney was so brie’, compared with regular time tables, that the engmeer was trequently obliged to put on “all steam’? to make his special time, AT PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE the arrival and departure of the train were watched with interest. ‘The entire enterprise was saccesstully carried out, and the people of Washington are delighted at being able on this memorable 4th of March w peruse the Sunday Heras almost as soon as its New York read- ers, The gracetol editorial on General Grant was well received here, and its sentiments find a hearty echo irom the ips of many men ot both parties, The precise running time of the tram over the tote i distance of 244 miles was tive hours and fifty-three minutos, the time occupied in the journey being 61x hours and twenty minutes, ! | | | MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. Wan i Dierasresionn, Ovrice oF THe CHikr SIGNAL Orricen, Wasinseros, Maren b—L A. M, + Indications For Monday, in the South Atlantic States, rising barometer, slightly cooler northwest winds; party cloudy of cloar weather will prevail, possibly tolowed | on the Carolina coasts by northeast winds and cloudy weather, For the Vast Gulf States, rising barometer, cooler, westerly winds, and partly cloudy weather, | For the West Goll States, northeast to sourheass ionary barometer, cooler, cloudy weather. For Tennesseo and the Obto Valley, northwest winds, rising barometer, stationary or lower tempera- ture and partly cloudy weather, For the Upper Mississipp) and Lower Missouri Vale leys rising barometer, clear weather and cooler south. | weet winds. For the Upper Lake region northwest to southweat | winds, cooler, partly cloudy weather and stationary or rising barometer, | For the Lower Lakes westerly winds, stationary or | higher temperatare, stationary barometer, parily | cloudy weather, For the Middle and East Atlante States, rising barometer, colder, brisk northwest winds, possibly Docking to warmer, southwest in the formor and gen. | ‘The rivers remain stationary or falling, except arice in the Obto, Cautionary signals continge on the East Atlantic const, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, The following rocord will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding date ot last year, as organization fe the action of the Returning Be ri; Votes were thrown out | with the same disregard of justi Besides, in that State | od to regard the erdérs of courts of competent juris eded in the ast defant conte: Tn this nea r more than }.00 al wathority. + were throwe | Meratp Building:— | Average temperature jor corresponding indi@ated by the thermometer at tudnut's pnarmacy, | slipmaster of | bended | the working classe: |.tho British Army, and Pay Inspector Augustus H. OBITUARY. PHILIP S¥ANNON, Mr. Philip Shannon, a well known eltizen of Yom kers, N.Y. sud @ man who bas figured prominently in the Irish revolutionary movement, died at his reste depee in Yonkers ou Friday jast, after a lngering te ‘Toe deceased was boro in Cork county, Ireland, rough untiring industry and business capa soon established himnsell in bus of is h funeral will take place ay, and wil be attended by a large body of Trick nationalists trot the surrounding country and trom this city, WILLIAM J. MORRIS. A despatch from Vhiladelphia says that William J, Morris, « wel! kKnowe merchant of thaterty and a mem ber of the fruit iinporting firm of Isaac Jeaues & Uo, died early Saturday morning. MRS. MARY PATTON, On Thursday night lastat her residence in Bridge street, Hrooklyn, Mrs, Mary Paton died of heart disease, At the time of her demise she was forty-one | years old. Mer only son removed her remains to Boston, her birth, Mrs, Patton was the daughter of a well-to-do retired ast Boston, Her education was ae thorough as hibera! means could procure. At the age of seventeen she married an old schoolmate, Captain | Patton, who at that time had command ot the newly launched clipper ship Neptune's Car, thea bound on « circumnavigation of the globe, atta, Pattou's wede ding tour was therefore an extended one. It compre. Aeon months? tour of the Universe, dur. eribe tuition of her husband, and to veguile the Wwdiam of long voyayes, she learned ne yation, Upon the return of tie Neptune's Car to country, sue (the vessel) was put apo fhe California trage between (his city and Sage lu August, 1856, she cleared iron (Hig About $300,000 worth of cargo. During t ‘out, and while stl in the “Attantic, Captain on deposed the rst ofticer for an attempt ty incite disaffection among the seame ‘The other two suvordipate officers were care of the vessel devolved entirety upom " ng the harbor, Vawitiing to mand of the vessel, Mrs, Patton dererinined to assume control of allure herself. She fh catled the crew togetber and briefly exploined the state of things tv them, at the samo time avow- ing ber resoive to command the stip, Thereatier she took all the observations, kept the reckoning, Shaped the courses, and, in short, Prought the vessel into San Franet nh Navember 13, 1866, delivoring the valuabie cargo safely mto the hands of the con- signees. Upon the arrival of the vessel the captain was utterly helpless; but being a Free Mason the traterniy and bis heroic wite to New e- 4 the passage of bimselt York. yo their arrival here Mrs. Patton sented with $1,000 by the Board of Underwrtte $1,500 by the owners ul the vessel, COLONEL JOUN 4, GODFREY, Colonel Jobn A, Godtrey, of the New York Society of California Proncers, formerly a resident of Saa Francisco and Consu! General at Guayinas, Mexico, died in this city ou Friday, very suddenly. His tuueral will take place this morning at ton o’¢lock, from nie lato residence, 147 West Filty-thira strest, OTIS T, RUGGLES. Otis T, Ruggles, for nearly thirty years Superintends ent of the Vermont and Massachusetis Ratlroad, died at bis residence in Fitchburg on Saturday evening, He was widely known ainong rutlroad ten throughout the country, und was a prominent and representative ciuzenge lis community. His disease was consump- tion, {rom which le bad been suffering for the past six months, THE MARQUIS CF NORTHAMPTON, A cablo despatch from London aniounces the death of Charlies Douglas Compton, Marquis of Northamp- ton, yesterday, at tho age of sixty-one years} He succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1851, aud married in 1859 Theodosia Harriett Klizabeth, vaughter of Captain and Lady Mary Vyuer and graoddaugiter of Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey. The iamily derives its surname trom'the lord- slip of Compton, in Warwick, of which its founders were lords previous to the Norman conquest, SURGEON UNITED STATES NAVY. Surgeon Charles Chase, of tho United States Navy, dicd last Friday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, alter a short iliness. The deceasea was born im Maine, and evtered the navy from that State in 1814. He was in the eighty-fourth year of bis ago at the time of his death. GEORGE oparR. A cabie despatch {rom London announces that Mr. George Odger, the well known agitator tor the rights of isdead, Mr. Gdger bas beeu long known as a trade unionist, and was at one time amem- ber of the now detunct “International Workingmen’s jon,’” On more than one occasion he contoated 1 Parliamout as a “sworkingmon’s advocate, ’? bat was always uusuccesstal. HOTEL ARRIVALS, Congressman Chester W Chapin, of Massachusetts; ex-Governor Thomas C. Fletcher, of Missouri, and ex- Congressman Daniol J. Morrell, of Pennsylvania, are at the Fifth Avenac, Attorney General Charles 5 Fatrenitd, of Albany, and Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yalo College, are at the Buckingham. Judge James H, Howe, ot Wisconsin; Captain Houstoun Boswall, of aro at the Windsor. Lieu- tenant E, I. Amory, United States Navy, ts at the Brevoort. Protessor D. C. Gilman, President of the Jobas Hopkins University, is at thest, James. Judge Charles Dani of the New York Supreme Coart; R, Holland Duell, recently United States Commissioner of Patents, and ex-Congressman Luke I’, Poland, of Ver- mont, are at the Grand Central, Assistant Postmaster General F. W. Barber and A. D, Hazen, of the Post Office Department, sre at the Gilsey. Bishop Jonna man, United States Nav, Sharp, of Salt Lake City, and General R. G. Usher, of Boston, aro at the St. Nicholas, LADIES WHO FINEST COM. 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