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DALLAS. vExa*
SATERDAT MeRNING : FEBHEANT A
for one or two e
es, “Everyth
f acourt was d
We have res
Me Tucker’s ,
This
% A heavy
urning Board
1 * The Aulinde of the Preai
Z.erde.Rerirt shews -*
i. many rc
certified copies
to the board el
2 ,....
ent is so go
E
s — Pr
-------------------ilous, since this commission, having a ■ . C9 : . "
• Mr. Pinckney, of majority of Republicans upon it, may tzed with Ju-ttee Clifford
select Governor Hayes; pernicious,
since the precedent nt delegating the F
the century, by
government transactions, that it should -one of whom we
command the-eordidl favor of thej South Carolina
Senate and Nou
ballot six meusbi
le under its protection
and control. The same sense was
found in the sublime appeal of Moars to
the God of Jamel “If the presence be
is as not up helie.’. It
• the omnipresence of
meant the presence in
The
TET , 7 not with me can
WRAP* become of Pickard’s prodi- did. not refer
plows, proclamation against Nichalts" the Deity, but it--.----
the sense of sey erintendence, direction,
and care. The
Whard Lreome of Pickard’s prodi-
Nearly two week, hate pared since
the flaming document was given to the
world, and fet the “Nitholismol” » not
per41 8:-"1
ence in that oll
use of the word prey
me of the constitution
vital, controlling, and
enlightened statesmanship of the
country Especially at this time would sees -- ------
its prosecution be most opportune It ait with the Chief
would be the first great and general
impetus to our languishing industry
and trade, and it would quicken our
sluggish capital, nerve the arm of our
productive labor and at once inspire a
country Especially at this
t provided that the
i should choose by
lustre of the Caited
as its Head.
soil
TER
- Tus Bev A 6 All-r. * well known
educator and minister"has assumed the
presidency of the Dalle College.The
Res John M. Allen and hi# brother,
both accomplished testhyn, willremain
1k charge of classes.
-.-== -
Two full car loads of drummers ar
rived in Dalia-Toxasa few days sislee.
tiapay Dallas -V OT
Poor, drummers’ They came, they
, Law: but aiev! went hovie conquered.
They received a kindly ta ta from ny
meroon friends as they wistfully bid
the Queen City adicu.--], -
meant an active
determining su pervision of the whole Imeanuare of confidence in the sarly tes
procedure If
meant nothing
it did not mean that it
more than the curious
presence of bystanders, or of the crowd
in the galleries.
the House was w -= ---=* ----- w
witness a mistake which is could not
correct, an ille, ality when it could not
It could not be that
to be present merely to
a Tay paragraphista are hitting‘poo
. Bont sell right and left. Being a politi
forbid, a wrong
tify, or a fraud
trate De suck
contended for
emote.
which it could not ree
which it could not frui
a construction” as was
en the opposite side the
two houses became a
pageant, and a
1L.
dumb show, an empty
nythieal humbug. *
52--.1
cossary in the course of
o hang a negro at War
human events to hang a negro at War
at oun-dret. Bere n’t a his ami ] renton Mi-couri, teat Friday. The Dol
addresses these lines ored man being
sel, an able gen
iiireses these’limes
. this home pre
Nis T2
Put away the bloddy gamcent.
That ourticorgle fired to wears
After half a dozen ballete.
He has elinbed the golden stair
cone through the hole in the sky.
a poor talker, his coun
leman, took she seatba
and addressed
belief . in his
spoke of him
toe crowd Me exproseed
client’s innocence, and
-s----st
-. ** hundred business mien of Net
clined to inker
Yee.-peccinaacpdtoreonooFiMgrun
in such pleasant terms
that one-half I ke people present felt in-
clined to internode and put a stop so
* have petitioned the State leasin
tore to. repeal all existing uspry. law
" io more than prolalde that
dhree-fourths of the business, men of
Dallas would sign a similar petition, be 1
unfortunately our legislature is power
on to change the haw it being imbed
. del in the constitution.
States, or the neatsenior judge, and de
aide all disputed
tion. The highest
person of kin to the
This committee had power to send for
persons, papers and records, to punish
contempts, and to report to the Senate
and House finally and conclusively.
As amended the bill passed the Senate
by 16 to 12. No settlement was arrived
at but this old bill proved to be zufhi-
cient precedent to return to Congress
after a repose of seventy six years, and
congratulation to the country that to harmonize the
after so much conflict and hesitation, a plan of counting
toration of, prosperity that no other
means equid effect for month Ml and may
- It would be the
in our now
rallues, and
be for years to come.
dawn of trust and faith
sensitive and shrinking -=- -
could not fail to give fresh impulse to
progress. We regardi it
as a cause of
after so much conflict and hesitation,
a bill has been matured that bids fair
----,------------------majority in
Congress and assure an open highway
to receive an overwhelming
to the Pacific and
renewed
prosperity in our various
business. The only difficulty will be
in getting the
House- anterior
third No effort
to take up the
is to he earnestly
may attend them.
bill before the
o March: the
will be wanting
hoped
1
and it
has anceess
elating to the elec
candidates, or any
omn, were not eligible.
report to the Senate
of the late Col.
which Senator Bay
P** to I runt: tee, votes to * | - 1 .
dig-sent tihenal. (a roweryred. They Will Hold Their Sessions
in the Supreme Court
solely and unquestionably in Congress
for eighty four years), is conni dred by
eminent legal minds to be in contraven
tion of the Constitution—yet such has
been the imperious desire for peace that
all considerations of loyalty to party
and exact adherence to the organic law
bare been momentarily suspended.
There can be no question but that, in
giving th eir assent to this bill, Demo-
crats have performed an herole act of
unselfishness and self-abnegation.
They have evinced this genero+
its, this potential, desire for
peace, under peculiar circumstances
House and Senate in
the vote. The work
rornise committee, olj They had an admiued popular majority
ard me me"
ity, this
Room.
• firtea nepmeen the *...
erate, and Kvarts, Mathews
and Shellabarger the
Republicans.
likely to possess —-----
and the unearthing of the old bill of
1800 by the Delaware Senator will be
curious coincidence
referred to as a
when the nation s
want, puris-ih
sall step forth from
redeemed and, we
THE ORATORY of BER. BILL.
That matchless
lawyer. Ihavid Dudley
in favor s i the com-
that the great heart nt the people knew
they were fraudulently robbed of, they
had the law and the facts on their side
Excepting that Each Candidate in Vor-
ins Dropped me own Name the
Senate Commissioners Were
Unanimously Kleeted.
The Flor
show, from
return mads
The prank
ceived from
and of the
port will
ent of the Senate has re-
Governor Drew, 1
Not Unfavorable t, the-
Nienolis‘Government
of every. 1
eanvass-'; M
Tilden. Kenner Of the Returning BoL
Corralled by Congressman
Dudley Field
the ofi-I
"ne a —. unce
the new returning board, showing
city to be ninety-three.
Tilden’me)
The official
* First—A <
the
per are:
ertified copy of
Kenner Smears Mle Knows man ch.
red Louisiana by it Tormina 1
Out of Democratic voted 1
the act of
the new
exislat
returning bi
for president and vice-president.
Second-A copy of the returns as
canvassed by the new board, certilled
by them.
Third—The governor's
of the appo intment and due
tion of the Tilden electors.
Fourth-” The declaration by the elee-
torii thems elves, duly eertidled,
met and cast, their
are suthorizing
ard to recanvass
Tilden electors.
the votes
eertifleate
suthoriza-
that
Lndenese Portraitofon
Wells the Reel "
Senator sierisi al. .
Another Astonishing cue .
Bargain and Sale Attempt,
by the Louisiana *-
turning Board.
votes for
they
Tilden.
The Vote in the House Was Un-
animous. Except in Garfield’s
Case, Who Lost Thir-
and, heyond that, they had the poerer to
take their own. A word from their
leaders a single bugle note would have
rallied in solid, unflinching columns,
millions of men ready to fight as they
voted for Tilden and the right. The
popular sympathy of the civilized world
- was with the Demaerney in their strug
glee for the continuance of an honest
pure government, for the maintenance
of the majesty and dignity of law. Im
pressed with the justice of their cause,
believing that their every act
would bear scrutiny in the fierce light
of any lavefigation, actuated by an
exalted and all pervading patriotism
that challenges history to produce a
parallel, they surrender power, and
right, and the life of the party into the
kerping of fair minded just and true
men. This is but a splendid evidence
of the consciousness of rectitude in
ty Votes.
Mr. Stephens is Worse, But Death to Not
The
Grand Commission - Prelluei-
mare
The Electoral Commission met at 11
o’clock to day. The clerk of the su-
preme court administered
he oath to
For Dee Million Dollars wen onered 1
Return the Tilden Et-ctdrs-The 1
Florida Committee s Wajonty Re 1
port Gives, the State. 1
to Toder 1
Justice Clifford, who qualified the
other yom nicloner. A committee
was appointed to frame rules, privi-
committee
ded immediately—The Eads
Appreh
1 s.
Field, had spoken
promise bill." Watterson and Lamar
bad followed, holding their listeners in
rapt attention during the brief minutes
accorded them and finally the Repre-
tentative from Georgia slowly arose
from his seat, and, amid the intense
silence that fell open the crowded
galleries and chamber, he uttered his
exordium Twa Hismaro has spare-but
‘ for a few paragraphs, and those uttered
while referring to the South are select-
ed. Said the gifted speaker
“I have been a witness of the sorrows
of that people, and a willing sharer of
all their sufferings May 1 therefore be
pardoned, on this occasion, for calling
the attention of the House and of the
country to the spirit which has been
manifested by the distressed people
during this entire controversy On an-
other occasion I defended their man-
hood, their eiviliation their humanity
"Ite" Tamed—The Cent
leges and powers. 1
James H MeKinney was
clerk of the grand commi
was ordered that the proceedings.cf
the commission be confidential until
other wise ordered.
There wil I be four tellerso I the elee-
tral vote, two Democrats for the
House, and two Republicans for thee
Beuate. Tl e rules for the government
of the grand commission, are sizillar
epreluted now the Fraud was Perpelralea and
Whose instance is the Burden or
mences To-morrow--Notes 1
The grand commission
tablished, and it consi
Tut Rsnar wouldElmand., Morton and Frelinghuysen,
Republicans, and
man, Demoerats—the very two names
suggested by Tea lissaun
since. The Representatives chosen are
Messrs. Payne, Hunton and Abbott,
Democrats, and Ghartield and Boat, Re
this thing is’td become
he prosecuting attor
frahiotrabte,
ney be allowed to appear and clone the
argument tn
#
yard
as Leen es
of S-hators
and
Thur
some days
Notes and Gossip in and around the
Capital.
dach ease. Our portly
would grace the seffold
very well unde rouch circumstances and — ____-__3____- -_
lips send the poor devil puilieams. | The pant career of Bayard
county attorn
would doubli
down to Halee, oppressed, with aland Thurman are too well known
terrible feeling - ,
The “arguments of opposing
f=S
to
Wasusoron, January 80. — Four
batteries of artillery recently ordered
Monroe. It to thought other troops will
leave for the North and the West
batteries
Monroe.
to those which govern the
supreme
AWeil’s Secretary’s Testimony 1
(-I Cause of vigene-ii
* Military Government
a Promised *
Geauswill not interfere mob ihestai
"*"*-"** me* ante* Viei-ure.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Liisinas
matters not considered at the Eailnet
meeting to day. Gen. Augur wil n
be disturbed.
. Gov. Kellogg was brief • examines
concerning the ineligibility of Leave
see and Brewster as I
Kellogg testifies that they bad not a.
tended the college, and that other
electors had been appointed to me
the vacancy.
A leading Louisiana Repoittan-
neither West nor Casey Funcerstis
the president to have said: Haturday,
that it would be fmiprip s th arrane
the status quo pending the relectorg
court.The proceedings will be pub-
lie. The cases will be presented by
council, the number of counsel and
time allowed for argument will be en
larged at the pleasure of the
sion, though two hours a side
mentis the
the commissioners will be private.
They holdt lek sessions in the supreme
shortly.
A. T. Britton succeed. Murtaghs on
the police board. 1
The Justices have sent to the House
and Senate, under seal, their appoint-
ment of the filth Judge. The general
impression favors Bradley.
Mr. Stephens became worse during
the evening, and at midnight is quiet.
His situation is more critical than it
has ever been, Lut death is not appre-r
hended immediately. 1 1 | The Democratic committee have
The Grand Femminaten-Speeniatton | selected Mi 4. W. Carpenter,
*temrn men u y
The ebbice of the anb toserte Green, of D ew York, to prepare their
o.uwarncomsosioneurteton once batort the Commission. The
Davis, Hunt and Bradley,
le claimed, will not serve,
and Chief Justice Waite is precluded
by the terms of the bill. The probable
to be noted here,
sainted with
the history of Meurers. Payne, Hunton
and Abbott: wherefore, a brief sketch
Tun lssare reasen
bus we are siot so well acq
p Tuc Hits i gratified to note that
1 the petal attains of the Dallas,office
AI have been properly alljusted and that
there is shown to be s balance in furor
Judge Norton. That gentleman has
- andfered’serious loses through the neg-
Bimere or criminality of employes, but
he has promptly paid them all out of
his own pocket. The office will rema
1 in the hands of Judge Norton until the
Morh enveresand rosily it Judge arlck teas the person 2d57a was aniet
. A the high joint commi-m manner of a erusly Bear, and a aooaloooo, on
happen to del ide the wrong way ’ VIES ---T = IHP P*Y9
rest at such sa interesting
highly dramatic effect.
would have a
and ten I to en cottage a new school of
what we might call “scaffold oratory.’
Srsasixn to
this, the Oid Man
and Abbott, wherefore a
of the lives of these members of this
historic and supremely important tri-
bunal
5
B
J
h '
Eloquent, Ju
rejoinder at 6
delicious to uh
only the utter
Henry A Payne, of Cleveland, Ohio
was born’ in Hamilton dounty. New
wise Jerry Black, it off a
irfield that way perfectly York, Nov. *. isie; was educated at
we who could enjoy not “Hamilton College, New York; studied
are, but the manner,of aw under John C.
es will be presented by
themselves and of right in their cause.
Whether it be their fate to win or
lose in the determination of the mo-
mentous issue presented to the com-
mission, the judgment of all men, not
lost to great acts of unselfishness and
immortal patriotism, will crown that
party’s brow with laurels that shall
never tade, nor even mar the pages of
future histories.
===========
IGNORING THE CONSTITUTION
Reflective men in their examination
com mis-
for argu-
rule. The consultation of
which can not
seat over
court room,
two hundred spectators.
from what I knew to be unjust ch urges.
If the answer then was unestisfactory,
let the further answer be foun i, in the
-______1 popleof the South
have manifested during the past sixty
days. There is scarcely a man in that
country who does not believe that the
Democratic ticket was elected, and who
does not believe that all that they have
emaining of property, of right, of jus
tice, depends upon the inauguration of
that ticket . set, during this whole eon-
troversy. I my it with pride and pleas
has Men thesprit or
kindness, and of fair-
Spencer, of Cauan
id tn the bus, and
at Clewelan I, Ohio,
Mr.Trum-
Black sed Judge Ashbel
spirit which she
massive head and fore- that has s monn- in 1834 has been
talnous effect m one, ko to peak His.___
thick and singer and monul-ciuring enterprises
for the last twenty
years largely interested in railread and
MLRsnu V. Joasses and Bob
Toombs made a bitter fight against Ben. jeyobrons and a ---—,-----—.
a when he lifterhis great head and from | ier of the State Senate of Ohio in 1849
those eyes dart
M Tiil in the ltaeenatorial contest
".Georgian A Vloient personal assault,
which caiie new being quite serious, it startles “
-....wasmade on Toombs Isconse of his prIthin had indul
- ertion that the Legis’dauee would e
scoundrel Mr said lift to the Senate.
8
Judge Williain Sehley, of New Jersey,
3 - FANIL 511 - E* i.
went ta fleorgia to work against Hi
%and Hill gave him such mortal offence
that * eliellenge seemed meritable.
The political horizon, however, han ne w
cleared away.L. 1.
was the sectoral vote in settled
was a mem
of the electoral Lill are forced to the
’ conclusion that the instrument desig
nated the federal constitution is inade
ent a gleam M humer/ae, was chosen a
as mue h as i a mown - -—* -
thin had indulged in a laugh it was
Hat Garfield encountered
such a gleam
one night at
since, when a
a dinner-table not long
er a long argument in
uisiana Returning Board,
favor of the Le
and an stiemys to show that to go back
of its returns
rights Of the
-Constitution
would be to invade the
States‘and violate the
Garfield,” . said the
F-uin-y of Pentsylva
by
Congress, the people will begin to talk
9 resumed business and the reump-
< fioweof apecie.payments. The time will
£ [, ulen be propitious to go forward with-
’ ont. much, if any .more legislation.
With gild at a premium of only six.
and a fraction with large exports,
small imports, low prices, great denisi ids
* upon us from abroad for so many articles
The time w
ill
to
of home-make—we may be led by easy
ways we know uat‘of to fall into a
gradual but early resumption. Confi-
dence and peace will work wonders in
a
in
securing this most desirable conclus on.
- R W. Trolrius, general passenger
- agent, has thrown a red flag at the
Austin Bletesman in presenting that
paper with a new map of Texas, show-
ing the route of the Pacific Road. The
Auterman, in its bilious opposition, pro
bounces it a “pictorial fraud,” and de-
- clares that the map deflects the II
south of west from Fort Worth, when
a. .
ad
the till before Congress makes it run
horth of west. The Statesman in simply
hypercritical and gra-ps at straws A.
argument against a work that immet
arably benefits Texas. The road will
run on the best practicable route to El
Pae, irrespective of the fact that that
-rinte may be slightly north or south of
a direct westerly line. Mr Thompson’s
AE 41 - the
map to a good one and creditable w
parties originating it.-.-, , :
for
. Tus commitice on the Moody
Sankey meetings in Boston repor
cripts to the Tabernacle fund of $15,200
’ The treasurer reported that individual
churches had contributed $4,842. ~
guarantee fund and subscript
amounted to 831,400. The amount =x
pended on the Tabernacle was $14,059
leaving a balance on hand of 82 548.2
The building was turned over to
and
re-
Tike
ions
ex
The building was turned over to the
iibutiding committed or the na in
Mant Moody feels somewhat rested,
and will open his batteries on the peo-
ple’ef the “Hub” forthwithr-Hfaving
carried the wicked Chicago by storm "
is considered easy work for him to
E- force the renal sinners of Boston to rel
pentance and better works
it
Presidential elector
moerat ie candidate
in 1844, was the D-----gyg ----------
for the Dusted States Senatorship in
the protracted contest of ■ 851; was the
Demoeratlo emiinetr I “=
Democratic
against Salmon P Chase , . — . ------
a delegate to the. Cincinnati Convene spirit, and that
tion in 1854 the Charleston Convention forbearance, of
irascible legal luminary
forgive this Returning Board
nia, “I ean
all its rascality when I find that it has
converted you to a knowledge of State
right- and a regard for the Constitution
I had come to regard you as one lost to
* righteousness, but this
Let us drink to the
reason, and
the burning
Returning Board. — Donn Piatt. .
Twe Senate Committee in inventignt-
ing the Oregon electoral vote ratter
has unearthed some queer, telegrams
which Senator Mitchell has, sin im-
mense unction, laid before his associ-
ates. Among a mass of telegrams sign-
ed by “Sunsel"Cox, Abram S. Hewitt,
John G. Thompson and others, i the
following stu aner addressed to Govern-
or Tilden i
Foatsas o. Oregon, December), 1.8.
Hon. 8. J. Tihlen, 1 Gramerey Park, Mow
Yor*:*
Heed scan iness eramp emerge per-
eratoion hot house survivor bronze of
piameter doltish hot house exactness of
services highest cunning deltiab of a
galvanic survivor by accordingly ree
pectable mer atom of Senialor in conse
quence coale ee
[Signed]
1 Morton is
forbearance, of
in 1860, and the Baltimore Convention news. With the chains of the usurper
* -"still on her limbs, with the
greed of the stranger rifting
her already N exhausted
in 1872, and was elected
to the Forty-
Liberal Republican at receiving 13,849
votes against 11,200 votes for Richard
C. Parsons, Republican,
C. Parsons, Republican, and 364 votes
for Gooriman Proh ibitionist
Eppa Hunton, of Warre ston, was born
1 Minto
of the United States
with the army of the United States
now scattered throughout her borders
and standing sentinel for the protection
quate to the present circumstances and
condition of the American people.
There can be no question but that the
ablest statesmen in the Union, irrespiect
ive of party, have given their adherence
to this bill, and, when the reasons that
actuated them in that support of the
measure are analysed, the unspoken,
indirect confession is wrung from their
ante that the Constitution of 1787 • not
suited to the emergencies of 1876 That
we have outgrown the garment that
fitted our young limbs eighty-seven
DM:
Republicans have employe
Evarts, Jus
8. B. Shells
side.-”
d W M,
question.
President Grant
ge Stanley Matthews and
Burger to represent their that he would not take
sta
of her robbers,
those who have
seen
P-tiotee
thdiaui, as
garding either parts in 1
i would be prejudging i '
t be electoral vote. CItir
be will supercede the pasent statusly
a military government with Gen. Ac
5
la the Senate a concurrent resolu-
tion was adopted providing that no
person shall be
aih man is Justice Bradley. The
commission consists of Senators Ed-
munds, Morton and Frelinghuysen,
Republicans; Bayard and Thurman,
Democrats; Representatives Payne,
Huston and Abbott, Democrats; Gar-
field and Hoar, Republicans; Judges
Clifford, Strong, Miller and Field, of
the Supreme Court.
Larea—Assoclate Justices Clifford,
Strong, Miller and Field were in secret
conference three hours this morning,
but adjourned without arriving at a
conclusion as to which of their ano-
ciates should be selected as the anb
member. It may be considered cer-
tain, however, that to-morrow morn-
lag, soon after they reassemble, they
will select Justice Bradley, and
promptly communicate the fact to
admitted to the touin
wing of the Capitol during the count - 1
of the vote for president and vice sur at the head,
president«icept open tickets laso ed by
the president pro tem. of the Senate
and the speaker of the House of Rep-
Manager Barnes, of Newiodo
delivered the dispatchers Trjdird a
him to Mr. Morrison’s coal
resentatives, such tickets to be diel] morning. Senator West S
-1a —ne * - --- was examined. le waslaikel M
divulge the key to the lesper id
grams, which he refuse i to Gees
allowed to take out privet ti-griuk.
This permission was refuse 1. sudaner
someunimportant interring au
for West was discharge).
zi-jasis
tribated equally to each senator and
representative by the sergeants-al-
arms of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives. .
1 The president pro tem. also laid be-
years ago, and that that garment must
be relaxed, or be burst asunder. The
compromise bill is a confession that the
organic law is inadequate to the emer-
gency that is upon tis, or, it is an open
acknowledgement that the American
people are incapable of self government
under any compact that the wisdom
and ingenuity of men can frame.
Sophistical arguments may be, and ______ _ ______
have been uttered, claiming that the Juste Bradley bus he en elected an me
compromise bill is not extra coustitu
tional, and that warrant can be found
for it in twelfth amendment to the con
stitation. K .
It must be found in that amendment
if authority for it can be found any
where. | That amendment declares that
the president of the Senate, in the
use the following comma-
ate judge
of the Supreme Court of the United
fore thehe
the South utters to
Leen her deppilera,
threaten to be der
in Fauquier county. Virginia, Septem-
her 23, 1823; his early education *
limited: studied and practiced law; poilers of each others, but one voice.
was commonwealth attorney Me the
county of Prince William from 1849 up
to 1862, was elected to the State Con-
vention of Virgims which assembled at
from 1849 up
Richmond in February, 1861; served
*rw-4m mpion. 25575,
Richmond in February,
the 52.0222,, wee
promoted after, the battle of Gettysburg,
and served through the residue of the
war as Brigadier General, succeeding
Brigadier General Darnets, was captur-
ed at Sailor’s Creek, April ", 1805, and
released from Fort Wa ren la July,
1865; was elected to the lory third
Congress, and was reelected to the
Forty-fourth Congress - • a Democrat,
receiving 9,809 votes against 9,291 votes
for Barbour, Republican.
Joslab G. Abbott, of Boston, was born
at Chelmsford, Masachuretts, Nover-
of Gettysburg.
a a Democrat,
and who now
and that voice is Peaeel Peace Civil
war redresses no wrong, preserves no
right. if you doubt it, leek here and
be convinced. I hope that people will
never again be derided with charges
of rebels and traitors solely for offering
ap their lives in vindication of their
honest belief that they were right. Lea
me express the hope that, in the future,
he done will be regarded as chief rebel
who, after the pasnoge of this measure
of peace, shall again whisper the word
of aretional bate, let him be regarded presence of the Senate and House of
as chief traitor who shall again seek to Representatives, shall open the certifi-
breed sectional strife. For myself, 1
feel a pride in being able to say that I
can look upon every foot of American
soil and thank God that it is a part of
my country. I’can look on every per,
son in this whole land and say. This to
my fellow citizen, and I can rise my
Oanme at Chelmsford, Massachusetts Nover- TNY Now 9PN and M t
racking his brains and her 1,1815; received A-damien rduen- thin metres *."
fatiguing the ingenuity of experts to
unravel this mysterious message of the
unravel this
wires, but all efforts up to the present
moment have been unavailing. The
committee think that they have found
a‘"bonana." of information about that
a’"bonanza” of information’abont that
‘ chord. . they HP™
true inward:
testimony before the con
gressional committee under the ex am
ination of Mr. Field, has only added
another to this long list of thunder
bolts that h
during the v
to have be
•** hit the conspirators
* mumiasta . Btorid
Dudley Field . and before he knew it he
had given that able lawyer several
points which he could uiq as entering
wedges for the subsequent examination :
he could use as entering
fudeceon and Comae
this cross dhamination was
Larsar-There ts no doubt "that
The Benate voted unanimously for
Edmunde, Morton, Frelinghuysen,
Thurman and Bayard, except “ that
each candidate in voting dropped his
concurrent resolutions were adopted
appointing shy special policemen for
duty at the eapitol during the counting
of the vote. Adjourned.
eaten of votes made out by the electors
of the various States, and the votes
States:
TO the Pres
the Vaite
Pureuan
dent pro tem. of the Benate of
I Iftatee:
-------- to the pros isions of the act
of Congres k entitled “Anact to provide
to provide
ongressman Field has camp 4 an
the Trail of the Board
Kenner will to-morrows
private memoranda of the process-
ings in secret session of the Lattsim 1
for and re gulate the counting of votes
for presit ot and vice president and
the der eimn of sertions rtoug there
on. for the term commencing Mareb
4. A. D. I 71,” approved E----
29
As exchange in discussing the atti-
tude of women in these progressive
times says that there are no such differ-
swami either physically or mental ly, m
ber ont women from most of the em-
ployments which men follow, it does
very little good to vociferate on the
platform for equal rights. Gh and
take them, enter all the trades and
professions. Ask nothing and concede
. nothing on account of the weaker sex.
it is not a feudal age, and there is no
.exces of chivalry it is an age of hard
department of industry. That
- i that young women
grow up with the expectation of finding
huslande at a suitable age who wil care
for them. And this expectation
a nut tie-**
ever
rouble
are allowed to
, cuts
Tax sophistical nonsense that
president of the Senate had the righ
. count the vote has fortunately b
- disposed of. Mr Tucker, of Virgo
delivered one of the ablest arguns
forced to adagnl that thereturna had , ah.
been secretly altered, in addition, to we.
those pablid y throws out, and that the
basis of theralteration was a private
agreement between the conspirators he
to the amount of the majority they
should find for Hayes and Packard. It
still remains
tion, graduating from Harvard Univer-
sity in 1832; studied las, was admitted
to the Bar in 1839, and has since been
engaged in practice; was A member of
the House of Representatives of the
Massachusetts legislature in IBM, and
of the State Senate in 1641 and 1842,
was Judge < <
Maachunetta in 1855.4
to the Forty fourth Co
erat, receiving six thousand four bund-
red and twenty nine votes against five
thousand seven hundred and seventeen
voted for Rufus S Frost, Republican.
Mr Frost obtained the certificates of
election, but the House declared that
Me. Abbott was entitled to the seat, and
he was sworn in July 24, 1976.
The names of Hear, of Massachusetts,
and Garfield, of Ohio, are familiar to our
readers. The names of the Supreme
ludgen, their age, date of appointment
---eadiybeem stated in Tea
W Superior Court of
EL. aid was elected
regs as a Deme-
a private
still remains to be proven whether the
board had explicit and particular or
simply general instructions from Zach
Chandler.
having aim
ted, telegra
AN HISTORIC
WORK.
It to known toTm I Inman’s madere,
that the precedent for the Com
promise bill was found in an het passed
by the Senite in 1s00, in
conflict between Burr and .___
The original bill having only passed the
Senate and not the House was not
suntan
The fact of the instructions
Miy-been shown and admit ..... .... 2
- j hie, evidence: brought to preserved among the archives, but it
Washington City, by Barnes, will probe happened thatiSlinator Theme- A Ree
bly settle the remaining point. ard, of Delay
ir b in be scared that the advcqntmn
* te Tens and- Padise Mil have
Philadelphia, containe
M that it,will be im-But one copy of the
had, and that was the
obtain the requisite two-
to take the measure up.---------
aram-du An of North’a aur M
lerested in the pas-
public and say, “My country, my whole
is he who blesseth
is he who curseth
country! bless
thee, and can
thee!" 1 1
Our dispatches have already informed
Tus Houin readers of the mighty
burst of apply S
which swept through
to highly honored son
te yielded the floor.
A HEAVY SUIT.
' One of the most important suite that
was ever docketed in Dallas county is
now pending before Judge Burford, in
the District Court. The cuts involves
Anew lands lying in Dallne county,
about eight miles from this city. 1
These suite are not instituted against
inst-peculators
I open reserva- ,
now pending
aina .
leged to have 1 __-
tions of the Peters’ Colony, and, it is
understood, that the jactual occupente
are not to be d
Texan I vitally interested 1
age of this bill. To us that g
is not the erestion alone of got
Franklin B.
jamin Frank
MaA
randfather’s lile,
published at
*
le copy in the
de Aurora was
a. eitrl by
edmented
the most
Irena
mod Mke
sLord
- The plaintitheay
ration wasanoull
-
king sponn—.
void.1
nd described by
Third—That
whole transact
- The defend
eated valid ter
good faith, no
Colony lines,
granted them
the Peter C
their lines, MM
veyr, upon wi
made. Tok
The title of
is E. P. Beyan
and the T
t.
has after the reser-
7.99mts,
1 a
owe and
10 lands are not the
er field notes. .
• was fraud in the
laim that they lo
than feme lands in
ig notice of Peters’
that the State has
as therefor. That
agents rem ye for d
Forelock of or
HT
i now being tried
in shiny er dl,
litigants are repre-
shall then be counted, the person hav.
rag the greatest number of votes to be
president, if such a number be a ma-
jority of the whole number of electors
appointed, and if no person have such
majority, then, from the persons having
the highest numbers, not exceeding
* if RN
president. This is the exact substance
of the article of the constitution under
which the commission haring five
judges, entirely dirareociated from the
House and belonging to a co-ordinate
department of the government, Ainde
authority for its action. The rule of
interpretation of the federal constitution
(not a State constitution) ie inflexible
wauison, s.uu97, We
Charles OfConner, or New York, -la
here.
As anticipated by these dispatches.
Judge Bradley has been appointed the
fifth justice on the commission.
Confirmation * Smith, postmaster,
at Canton, Mississippi. Nomination:
Charl as 8. Mills, collector of customs,
Richmond, Virginia.
The Mexican minister paid to the
Secretary of St -lay, $333,000,t Ike
first installment of the award of the
Mexican claims committee. The pay-
ment was made by Don Igancio
Marcall, who has long been Mexican
minister here. The transaction did
not involve any recognition of Diaz on
of the I sited States.
the part of the United States.
Mr. Stephens’ condition is about the
same as yesterday, though the doctors
considers his indications less favor-
able. .
No vote was taken in the Senate to-
day on the bill for the Pacific railroad
sinking fund. There will not likely be
*, #3-48 eppreswo JABU8-S %,
1877, the v ndersigned associate justices
of the Supreme Court of
Eighty and Ninth etreuits,
ly, have this day selected___-
Joseph P. Brady, their associate justice
of the Bu preme Court, assigned to the
Fifth circuit, to be a member of the
commission constituted by said act.
Respectfully suba itted. 1
Aimmea ITNATHAN cut FORD,
eancteiet:
natfees of the Supreme Court of
22722:
reme Court of the United
Igued to the First, Third,
respective
the Hon.
KILL
“m2Oh
t7___—___
WiRorar, January a wn
returning board. Congrpms
Fields, who is conducting the examis-
I ition, is giceful over his pre gras :
Later in the day Kenu an presents
his private memoranda of the eonp
lation of the returns. The meinerat-
« a shows dumerous preci nets had been
thrown out on alleged ground it in-
timidation,, violence, ets-, burithen
was nothing in it about Vernon Pathh
an he had stated there was
• Littlefield was again before tie Me-
risoe committee, purging his 6=
tempt. Kellogg was before the pit
ilegee and powers committee. Kes-
ner testifies that Wella and Anderson
opposed Dr. Kennedy as ihe am
member of the returning board, bt
„==:, Hunton, Abbott, Ger cn’t know **R. Ketter wane
Bear were elected members knows Haver Harriet, Lotaslan "
on the pa t of the House to represent' the throwing out of vote
it on the doctoral Qua amission. --*
electoral commission. Litlenela in purging hlarselt i
The Vole in the House for represent Iebotempt, testified that he i make
tatives on the grand commission was the .
unanimo is, except in Garfield’s case,-‘ * 1
who lost thirty votes, mostly from
members declining to vote.
Changes an the Vernon Parish Ee
% Geergin Hallroas.Mattera.
Bayan san, January 81.—A meeting
of the lee al bondholders of the Atlanta
and Gulf railroad was hield to day.
Half w million of bonds were repre-
sented. President Bereven made a
and * firmly established by concurrent
and repeated decisions as any principle
ever known in law or polity, and that
rule in, that authority must be found in the
constitution aeelf for coerg ad of Congress. .
if the twelfth amendment authorizes.
Congress H delegate its authority to any vote for several days, on account
control and count the votes, an author- of Senator Gordon’s alekness, who in-
ity, as Jerre Block isays, it has continue troduced one of the bills under diccus-
ondly and without questioning exorcised
for over eighty years, then it may have
been competent to establish s commis-
sion; but ought a constituent part of
that commission he the Supreme Court
of the United Hitater, or five members
thereof who should not and cannot de-
termine political or legislative questions
under our ayetem of government, as un-
deratood and expounded for nearly a
century? is looking at these startling
innovations—innovations concurred in
and eloquently advocated by the ablest
intermen and jurists of the age, we are
driven irrisistably to the conclusion that
all parties tacaly confess that this ven-
erated instrument, framed by our fore
fathers, cannot embrace sod properly
provide for the possibilities of the pres-
eut age, and that we are forced in des-
perate emergencies to quietly ignore it.
4,7
sion. Benater Gordon’s bill is reported
favorably by the railroad committee.
The other is the bill of the judiciary
committee.-
The Yale Alumni now residing or
temporarily sojourning in Washington
assembled for annual reunion and din-
ser, at the Biggs house, this evening.
Among the distinguished Alumni pres-
ent were: Justice Strong, Judge Taft,
Senator Dawes, General Gitson, of
Louisiana, Professor William Preston
Johnson, of Washington and Lee Uni-
vereity, Virginia. .
A Water Haul in the Oregon Case.
The committee on privileges and
elections examined Colonel Pelton re-
President B reven made a
statement regarding the affairs of the
pointed
appoint i meeting
than February.
, and a committee was ap
to confer with the directors to
to be held not later
Autelde of = Prefesser. [
Br. Louis, January. Sl.—Profesor E.
L. Beymour, who arrived here from
Chattannonga or Atlanta about two
weekssi nee, was found dead in a chiair
this morning with bte threat ent.
Pecuniary trouble.
Toren 7 Ke, January s.-ledohe
Plumbe was elected United‘States
senator. He is a rich man, and pre-i-
dent of the national bank at Emporia.
Tas Cork of Dallas county says
“There were issued from my office dot-
ing the month of December last sixty-
four (64) marriage license, and still the
good work goes on in the same proper
tion." Golly, how fast they are marry-
ing up there. So much for a cold win.
to order of J. Madison Walk Hem
fused to forge the name of the suph
visor, and it was done by some was
else..1
On being recalled bi-th-timocy * 1
substantially in point to that of year,
day. When he appeared Lefore *
committee he had taken nokigai sh
vice; had consulted with an attoneei
who told him he could tell the shit
ruth if he did so under protest He
dentified the return as some the""
before the returning board. He "
requested by Governor Wells in tee,
pose the returns of two, potle, Le
he veten from the Democrat 4
giving them to the Republicans, PS
were polls two and nine. The nun
of votes transferred were 128.
Figures were Erased ana There *
enired Welsten in There Fince. 1
—Que-lon—What moths 46
nor Welte assign for ren - 7
make this change ? Ama-r—ede
Hunter Judge, Andrew inna 3
torney and Kehio, Sens: Pane
was in the .district * ■ ee,
Welle resided. 7
, Qteation-Wasit one 1
who refused to accept id-tar an E
---------— ground that he was not (ano * 5
*7 (Answer-I premume so. ft t R 5
was elected United States
He is a rich man, and preei-
The
Gatveros, January St.—Bloseon
beat Sexton in a billiard match to
millardists to
Galveston.
night in
Galveston
LONDON, January 30. A Dew enm-ma Wtandriatentarihrid
mons was haued against Dr. Slade and I22: -J
his assi
py7a -----,—Attorney.
tint Nimone for conspiracy Queition—When the fees set
_______vagrancy. j way v u *
P -.-------.-.----- ....... ------- *2*95
guarding the suspected Oregon money
matter, without any result. The fol-
lowing dispatch was iyowu, umeue ---—--—-------- --------------------ELA. . .. 1
Portland, Oregon, November 18th, and Sr. Louss, January 30.—AleDonald, Vermos Perth Asethe
rtsOD, AVeme lE and: PT PE JapDR wpiD
a-ddresedto General Wash Homplom-cbarged with whisky frood-asoneon-eedXNI, , 3
at Columbia, South Carolina:‘= How ditionsily pardoned and released from m tee ee-ch
. ^Tr^.~ . _ ukal LIRE HE T the consolidated Mate enonni 9
many Democratic electors on official
count" Answer. Paid. Signed, C. B.
Committed.
Capt. Harwood doesn’t mind the
weather. Hot or cold he proposes that
“the good work" shall go on irrespect.
ive of chilling northers and melting
Governor Wells is sick this morn
ring. The Returning Board member
are all kept in quite close confinement
Visitor are admitted by card, and
set hold " bio •
the penitentiary. I
, N
0’7
of a Prominent Restomien.
■, January 31.—Hon. J. Wiley
is, one of the most successful
minently known business men
England, died to-day.
one of the mo
Jose to sees Greeley.
gg, 272s:,"SDante
teb.
them tn aim. The day after themes
latkee. he was about to potsen
to bie pocket, when =5
whether it was not nesrh * i
said I was right. Whether
stroyed them I ean not "A J
As to the original statement oftber
of Vernon parish, wan *
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