Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1876 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: THURSDAY EVEN ING, DECEMBER 7, 1870.

THE DAILY NEWS Will---,. , Jl^ 1. THIJH'DAT. l'KCKItBIR JOHN H. HOLUDAT, PaoranroK.

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Tilosn’c income tax is not attracting much attention now. Ths political sitoation preclndes any bops of a business revival Trade is stagnant everywhere. Ths taxable valuation of property in Massachusetts is reduced oyer seventy millions this year, a shrinkage of a little over four per cent Or the nine principal cities, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St Louis and Sad’ Francisco, only Philadelphia and San Francisco gave republican majorities. Toi.edo has contracted to have the city lighted for one year with kerosene, refusing to pay $2 25, the price demanded by the gas company. In Cincinnati $2.25 is the price now paid and the company is offering to contract for ten years at $1 90. We pay $2.50 here. Thebe: ought to he no question with the people of .Lfferson county about electing D.C. Branham, as state senator. Mis experience will be of great value and his ability and integiqty have never been questioned. Branham is a sterling man, and a legislature made up of men of his kind would be pretty nearly perfect.

Gov. JswkLL was at the head of the postal department during one fiscal year in which there was a difference of $2,190,658,78 in favor of the government. He assumed that the department should be “run on business principles.” Apparently it was, but he was kicked out in order “to carry Indiana.” Indiana was not carried. * Thk less republicans jubilate now the better. The have nothing to boast of. If Gov. Bayes becomes president he is shorn of the moral support which comes of the conciousnese that he is fully and fairly elected.- The circumstances attending the decision are not such as to call for rejoicings among patriots. Besides there may be a slip yet. If partisans are bent upon jubilating they had better put it off until after the 4th of March. The president yesterday sent to congress the rejHjrt of the republican committee that visited Louisiana. It is a piece of artful special pleading, wholly in the interest of party. It proceeds upon the assumption that Louisiana is necessarily a republican state and that the negro is immovably tied to tbe republican party; an Resumption which facte do not warrant. It lauds the returning board as composed of virtuous and honorable men, though it says nothing of their flagrant violation of the law in refusing to fill the board and give tbe democrats a representative. It does not hint even that tbe frauds may not have been eonfined to one side, nor does it explain the tampering with returns that was proved beyond the possibility of . contradiction. It is anything but the fair and philosophic report the country had a right to expect from a committee charged with such weighty duties. The house laid it on the table, and though there was great provocation for this, it ought not to ' have done so. Ordinary respect should have been shown to it as a communication from the president.

Two members of the Florida returning board gave certificates to the Hayes electors and the third member to the Tilden electors. Both voted and will send their, votes to Washington. In Louisiana the Tilden%leetors were given certificates by Gov. McEnery and there will be two seta offered. In Oregon the governor issued a certificate to the democratic opponent of Watts and to two republicans. The latter refused to sit with the democrat, Cronin, and filling tbe vacancy caused by Watt’s resignation, voted for Hayes. Cronin app anted two republicans and they held a session, casting two votes for Hayes and one lor Tilden. In Vermont a democratic elector declared himself elected and being refused admission cast his own vote, made his own return and appointed himself messenger to take it to Washington So congress will have disputed returns in at least four states. This looks like child’s play. Gov. McEnery is not governor, and has no right to commission anybody. Both Vermont and Oregon were unquestionably republican and there is no more definite proposition than that the electoral boards have the power to fill tbeir own vacancies. Nor is the democratic case any stronger in Florida, for a majority of tbe board must rule. While we do not believe ‘that any returning board or any other authority has the right under tbe constitution to throw out votes legally cast, we do not see see any way tosescape the effect of their acts. They have been made tbe supreme tribunal in the southern states,

sod although it is a dangerous power to be placed in the hands uf men it baa be *n done and we see no way to get around it Then* may be, however, especially in Louisiana where the board was left incomplete and but one party was represented. The prospect now is that congress will investigate and wrangle over the manner of counting the vote until it is time to do so. It is a great pity that both Louisiana and Florida cannot be thrown out entirely, as was done with the former at the last presidential election.

L»vi»l i > A. A Bevlew efibe CwfeVM* of tbe Vote* - Tbe Correct »eiM of tbe Vote nod Km IrngblKy. iz. L. Wkite U New Y rk Trfbune.l ' Tbe returning board c oeed iu doors with yesterday s sewdori. Tbe next news which may be (X^cued from it will b* tbe antonneemrnt of tbe vote ot tbe state, probably on Tuesday morning counsel on both sides impr ved tbe last opportunity yesterday to tila a great mass of testimony, 10 wh:cb the board will be obliged to give a hasty consideration As tbe case baa now b»en fully made up, a review of a few of the most striking points brought snd established by tbe boards of investigation will be timely, and will be valuable to a p oper understanding of tbe verdict when it in rendered First. No controversy exists touebiog tbe correctness of tbe returns of the election At nearly every former election in this stale the election offleersor returning boards have feen accused of “doctoring" the figures of sr me of the returns. This was true in 1874 and in one case that year a supervisor swore before Mr. Hoar of tbe congressional committe** that the returns shown him, and which were canvassed by tbe hoard, were changed after haying his hards Nothing of the kind b as occ n rred t h i s y ea r. E ve r> b,>d y agrees that tbe election comm f-sioners returned tbe vote at ea* h precinct exactly as it was cast, and that, with two or three exceptions tbe supervisor of each pariah also reported the vole correctly. In a 1 ! these cases where tne supervisors arbitrarilyand illegally neglected to report the vote from Pertain precincts on account of alleged fraud or irregularity, the board after some hesitation, to be sure, either oidsr the balioi-b <xes with the original returns to he produced or sent for duplicates dfioei’ed with clerks of parish courts. T1 ere is therefore no pretense that tbe figures have in any case been tan pered with Tbe figures that are canvested are u: questionably the correct

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But while this is true, some things have been cone, either by members of the b< ard or its cteiks, which were clearlv illegal and incefensib e.and nonfe the l-ssso because they have not a ected the figures of the actual r« tur s. For instance, no one haa any right to op>»n returns from any parish after they have been filed with tl eulerk of the returning board until they are « pened by the board itaelf at tbe regular meeting to be counted Th**rs in an abundance of indisputable evidence that the returns from several parishes were so opened, and that after papers had been inserted in the packages, they were a>:a n sealed up and laid before tbe board as original packages sealed by tbe sup* rvisors Ah the particulars of the De Boto parish case which was one of tbjs kii d, have been published; but there were seveial others one of the most notable b-irgthat of Ouachita, to which attention was < alb d during yesterday’s meeting of tbe board in this case tbe record made by tbe clerk of the board sfiowed that the returns from Ouachita were received Nov. 24 V\ hen the papers contained in the p ckagewrre fund d over to the democia ic con miitee for examination, they foui d among them the following: N KW Okcf • NS, Nov 23,1876. Mr. Abell, Secretary bf h. lie urning B >ai<l: benr &ir—Inckaed pl< nse Andaffidavitof Eliza Pii k ton, which w>* receiv, d mo late to file withiny etums Pleast-say that it w«a brought in with U e r, turns men to ed Very resp c fully. M. Grady. Otady was supervisor of the parish. As tl is letter was sealed up in tbe same pnekage with tbe returns it proves two this**—first that the returns were filed with tbe secretary of the returning board prior to tbe date when he made the record of their receipt, and ^Secondly that they were opet ed by him and sealed up again. As this was illegal and dishouest, the board owea itself and the country either to explain or punish ita secretary. Abell has charge of compiling all the returns, and if he will tamper with official papers in tl is way in any caae, he is not fit to bold his resjonsible position Ebecox d There is no question in regard to tbe legality of tl e v..te actually cast and returned 1 do not mean by this that men who l ad a rigot to vote were not prevented fn m ooing so or that some were not forced to vote against their wishes or convictions, but I do mean that except at one poll in New Orleans there was no pretext on either side that there w^a i I*gal vot ng, repeating or any of the ordinary election freuds; or, if such accusation has been made there haa been no attempt io prove it. The fact simplifi«a the controversy here very greatly As far as any evidence baa been adduced, men who vfTted, with the exception noted, all had tbe right to vote. Third. The election waa a remarkah’y quiet one. At no recent election in thu or an oiber state have there been so few d-sturbances on election day. The intimidation at d volence wbmt there was of it, o< cuned prior to the 7th of November. In all tie great mass of testimony wbich has betn introduced, I remember very few cases of adeged intimidation or interference with the polls on election day. In Ouachita pickets were thrown oat on the roads leading to Monroe, to prevent negroes going into that town to vote, and one constable was bnl doztd on his way to the polling place with ■ ballot box In some of the other psrishrs the men stood at tbe polls and made lists of the negroes who voted the r* publican ticket Tbe democrats say it was to prevent them from Voting again els» where, but the republicans claim it was io frighten them with the prospect of future punhbment This was ail The e' id» t ce of violence of many kinds daring the months pr« ceding tbe election is very volunmons, but there is very little tcu Ling election day. Fourth Under tbe election law of this eta e, <he returning board haa not to dec tie how Lonisiana actually voted, for the’* is no question that Tilden had a m; j< rity of about 8 000 but whether there wna a full and free election in every parish If there was, then the state mast be retttTTfd for Tilden. If there was not, then the entire vote in every precinct wl ere 'the election was not free and fair must be thrown out and not counted, and tbe result in the r« mait der of the stata must be returned. Tbe duty of tbe returning bdlrd is not to find how the state voted, but how that portioi of it voted where the election waa fair, fu l and free. hiith The republicans expect this s ate will be given to Hayes and Packard because they think tba’ when the nrecincta in which thk election was not free have been rej cted, the majority for Tilden and Ntcholls will disappear with tlem.

V* lint Conatltnc

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BY ata WM JONES.

w t at ccnsutiites a State ? Ndt high raised battlements, orjliabor. 1 mound, 7h ck wall < r moated gate; Not elites proud with spires and turrets crowted. Not bay* and bmad-armed porta, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not *Um<3 und tpatigif d conrts. Where low browed to pride.

baseness' wafts perfume

No: man, high minded men, W ith power as far above dull brutes Indued, In forest, brake or den As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Mt n, who tbeir duties know, But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain. Prevent th« long aimed blow. A d crush Urn ty.aut while thay rend tbe chain; Ibes* c pstitute a state; And sov. reign law, that state’s collected will, O’er thrones and glo es elate. Kits empress crow Ing good, repressing ill; Smit by hei wtced t own, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks. And e’en tbe all-dazz ing cr< wn Bides his faint rays and at her bidding shrinks.’’

President Grant haa bought a house in Washington. Nine new faro banks have recently keen chartered in Atlanta. They do hot call them ear-muffs in 8t Louis. They ask for ear-ulsters.—[Chicago Journal. Hearty laughing caused the death of Lizzie Wilkins,«of Wilton, Maine, on her wedding day recently. The Richmond Whig says of Wade Hampton: “He possesses the wisdom of a Clay and the nerve and vim of a Stonewall Jackson.” The Baltimore Academy of Music is to be sold at sheriff’s sale. The edifice is one of the most supurb in the city, and erected a few years ago by a joint stock company, at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars. Mistress, “You’re going to your broth er’s wedding to-day, aren’t you, Martha?” Marti a, “Yes, ’m, and I was agotn’ to ast jon’m, if Yer see we’re much o’ the seme ’eight, an’figger, an’ completchon, an’ style, as theyjsay If yer could lend we a gownd to*go in!”—[London Fun. Mr. William M. Evarts has a patent process for solving the presidential problem. He says there is no nse in making such a fuss abont the case; that the remedy is perfectly clear, end that tbe courts are cocetantly applying it. Tne thing to do is to put the presidency into the hands of a receiver, with power to run the concern and collect the debt. A youngfman in Troy, New York, dreamt last week that he was destined to become a gathbier. It made so deep an impression upon him that he went down to his father’s store in the morning, built a fire in the stove, swept out the office, wrote a letter to the family, sending kisses to the children, took off his coat and waistcoat and shot himself He blundered in bis aim, and is left to wrestle with bis destiny as beat be can The American plan for sending fresh meat to Great Britain is succeeding admirably. A system has been organized by which 3 000 quarters of fresh beef can be rent over in each steamer, not frozen, but cooled to a safe temperitnre by air which has passed through ice chambers. In spite of oppoaition from the butchers, a cargo was sold in Liverpool a fortnight ago at from 6d. to 8d. a pound The meat has fetched Sd. per pound in Glasgow*for some time. Herman Ott, of Omaha, could not get a living as a carpenter, and consequently became a grave-digger. This employment made him melancholy, and he says that be was nnable to repel the idea that he onght to bory himself. So he dng a grave, shot himself at the brink of it, and fell in He had arranged several bushels of dirt to fall on him when his body knocked ont a prop, but the contrivance did not work, nor did the ballet kiil him. His physician advises a change of employment.

After tbe Sedan disaster, when the republicans in France asserted that Napoleon III, was possessed of enormous property, the statement was indignantly denied by tbe imperialists. It now, however, appears from an official document, to which only a few have had access, that in Paris real estate to the amount of over $1,200,OCO is held in trust for the ex Empress Eugenie and her eon. The late emperor bad, besides, acquired property at Vichy, Marseilles, Biarritz, Bayonne and Algiers; a'so the domain of La Jonchere, near Paris, and property in the Landes. Moreover, the ex-Empress Engenie bo ds numerous mortgages for loans on real estate in all parts of France, and the Bonaparte family possesses large estates in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Corsica and England. Tbe persosal property of the deceased emperor has been valued at $15 OOO.tlOO. He evidently was not forgetful of the force of destiny, and his hoardings may. at no distant time, serve as the sinews of war for an attempt at another testoration of tbe Bonaparte dynasty.

Blaine's Ca»e Again.

[Boston Hera’d.J

We are ab’e to state that Mr. Blaine rereived from Mr Francis B. Hayes, of this city, in the year 1871, a valuable consideration to the amount of $79,000, and that b*- to* k another sum of about half this an onnt at the same time from the managers of the construction company of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas ra Iroad company. Mr. Blaine s statement to the house of represen atiyes that this sum of money represented tbe sale of a certain lot of bonds, not bis, to the Atlantic an . Pacific railroad and the consirnction company al'udfdto above, does not hold water The $79,000 waa paid to him by Mr Hayes w tbout 'he consent of tbe Atlantic and Pacific railroad company (of which Mr. Hayes, at the time of tbe transaction, was p'esident) and the payment waa and is regarded by the directors of tbe company, as a bribe to Mr. Blaine. The bonds that w<it) handed over by Mr Blaine wage werth little or nothing Neither Mr. Blaine nor Mr Hayes will ever disprove these statements. Tbe evidence can be bed by any tribunal having authority to send for persons and papers.

THK BMOOB LWN JHOBKO .. Farther Panlealare of (he Awfal Aflblr. [AModeled Tress Dispatches.] Horror upon horror accumulated as the day advanced. Corpse after corpse, ebarr< d and blackened, was passed out, and ati‘1 tbe pile fn the cellar did not seem to diminish As the nnmber mounted np to 150 and 160, the belief that the narute r won d reach over 200 grew into a certainty, at d finally, at half-past four, the wo hundredth body waa reached. Some w* re fonnd with limbs and handa burned efi at d nothing left but a ghastly, blackened trunk. A' 5 o'clock tbe number bad reached 220- 20 oodiqa taken out in half an hour. A look into the pit at this time still showed a considerable pile of corpses lying crossw 6e, like eticks of wood, and there were apparently still 60 or 60 corpses remaining This was in the cellar, nnder the inner vestibule, from where all the bodies taken out to day were removed. They lay in a pile, apparently where they had been pitched into the cellar when the toe floor end stairway gave way As night approached two caicinm lights woe placed in position, and the work of removing tbe ghastly forms of the dead, c ade more fo by the light, waa continued Tr ey were under the galleries, but no estimate could be made oMhe number The ebarred remains of the victims wefe taken out in front and rear of tbe theater and rapidly loaded in boxes, and placed upon ti e undertakers’ wagona; still the pile of bod its in the cellar did not seem to diminish. ^ hen the panic occurred on the main floor of the theatre. Thomas Rockford, chief usher of the establishment, waa iu the lobby. Tbe performance was almost ever, and he was about making arrangements for the departure of the audience. A t tbe criee ot fire he rushed into the auditorium, and taking in tbe terribleaituatii n. endeavored to quiet the crowd who were about him. Seeing they were too n mb alarmed, he ran to the doors leading into F.oori’sa’ley, which connects Johnson st.,and M3 rrieavenueandopened them so that tbe people might escape in that way. .This diverted many from seeking to escape through the main entrance All who w*re on the right baud side of the parqoette and balcony escaped through these doors The opening of the doors create' a tremendous draught, which eo it crossed tbe flames that tbe players were compelled to abandon the stage and e. crpe as best they might They had remained there to the last, butseeiug it w-a now a queathn of life or death, they re-t-rat'd. The flames shot out ou all sidfs ot the stage and enveloped the proscenium, and the smoke began pouring in volumrs into the parquette. Studiey and Mure« cb were the foal to leave. Probably not more tnan five minutes lapsed between the beginning of tbe pani« aiid the complete envelopment of the etegt: and parquette in flames - By th s time nearly ail of those in the lower part tjf tfce house had escaped. The crowd from above came pouring down into the lobbirs, which were soon densely crowdad The stairway choked up, and there se* nud to be no way in which they could b' relieved. Many sncceedsd in escaping by ihe regular mears of egreas into Waehi gton street; but that staircase was also so< n crowded and escape by that way wa^ next to 'mpoesible. The greatest loss of life must have been among those in the family circle or top gallery. Those who happened to be seated near the doors aixceeded in gaining the stairways anil lower part of tbe house, but there were mat y who got no further than the second floor, where they clird. The flames made such ti pid headway that the floors fell in b- f-e fssistance could roach tnem. Tbe brieks of tbe women, the shouting and iii percations of men and the pitifpl cries of children were heard below, but there w, s no human relief for them. It was a hettri renoinv situation. To have human beings perish almost in tight of their fellows was something terrible beyond dsscripfion Although the fire originated on the elute, the lose of life among the theatrical con pany was not so extensive as might h> ve been imagined Two lives were lost —two young men in tbe flower of there profeseibr al life—Harry J. Murdoch and C laud Burroughs. These two vonng men v ere play ing respectively P erre, the cripple and Picard, valet to the chevalier. At the moment when the fire was discovered Murdoch waa before the curtain paying with Miss Kate Claxton. As Foon as the panic occurred and the general rush was made to escape, Murdoch and Burroughs ran to their droaeing rooms to get clothes to wear on the street, their garnttnfs being very scanty in the play Their dressing rooms were on the same side of the stage and in the right wing as viewed by the audience, and consequent ly furthest from the stageiloor. evrn bad that means of escape not been locked by the panic stnken janitor. Tbe dressing rooms were arranged iu tiers approached by a narrow stairway leading to the paintet’s bridge, which epane tbe stage. Murcuch s room was on tbe second tier, and Burrough’s on tbe third Before they emerged the staircase;was one sheet of flsu e, so easily and so rapidly did tbe fire do its work. All chance qf retreat cut off, the unfortunate men were driven back by tbe roaring dames, step by step, till, supposing in the agony of their peril that by some chance a means of descent from the other side of the bridge might offer, they ascended to the trembling structure Hero they were last seen by J. H. Bindley, a member ot the company, who had left his dresiing room a tew seconds before them, and fought hia way through the flames to a place of comparative safety from wbich he was enabled to make his escape. Once on the bridge their poeitien was hopeless They could not descend by the way they bad come up; there was no other means of escape but to leap At 10:30 this evening tbe bodies of the two men were dragged from the ruins and both identified by the remanta of the drefses worn on tbe stage Only tbe trunk of Murdoch remained. There were 1,200 preonsin the theater—500 in the galleries. This evening, notwithstanding tbe popularity of “Miss Multon,” the latest play at the Union Square theater, tbe proprietors ordered that tbe theater be cloe**d. and a placard draped in mourning was pieced at the entrance, stating that in ci t sequence of tbe terrible disaster in Bn ok yn, there would be no performance this evening. At s late hour to night 285 bodies had bten reccverod by the fire department Ks»e Claxton loses $10 000; Ida Vernon, $8,(40 and Shook A Palmer, the leaves of the theatre, $30 000. The city authorities are in session today, to make arrangements for the interment in Greenwood cemetery of the dead not identified. The Times says that Keady, fire marshal. who has made an exhaustive exanrnation of the circumstances attending the fire, is of opinion that at least 350 persons perished in the flames.

“A Disgrace la the nutie ” Tbe citizens of Indianapoi'S are moving in the matter of a new State bouse There ought to be a new one erected by all n eans The present dilapidated old pigpen ia a diegrcce to tbe State, and ought to be torn down and removed at soon as poesib'e.

TBK Lb V A If A CASK. Brport of tbe RepabllaM VlUUa* Co ns nil tee. The report of Senator Sbeniun and the republican committee who want to Louisiana to witness the count of the vote for presidential electors is published and makes about four closely printed newspaper columns It recites the circumstance* nnder which the comm'ttee waa appointed ard the amps facilities furnished it for a full investigation of tbe manner of canvassing the vote, declaring that every act and vote of the board was entirely public and open to the fullest scrutiny. It then details tbe circamstanoes nnder wbich the returning board was created and given pecuary powers subject to no dictation or revision by any authority whatever. The white people of that and other southern states had. by tbeir reb'Uion, forfeited ail right to representation in congress, or to any participation in the government of the anion, and had been compelled as a condition of resuming former political rights to assent to constitutional amendments by which, in hostility to their will those who bad been but late their slaves were made citizens;and although it was their duty to sucmit to this political reorganization, the annals of the south and especially of G uisiana, disclose a widespread and persistent determination of its ruling white people to prevent the exercise of the elective franchise by the colored race, except subject to tbeir will. This was manifested by violence, outrages and murders, perpetrated in that state just preceding the presidential election of 1868, when over 2.00© parsers were killed and wounded within a few weeks of the election, and st me perishes having a large republican nifjoMiy, did not cast a single vote for Grant Tbe report quotes: At Landry parish, where the republicans had a registered vote of over one thousand iu the Fptirg of 1868. and in the fall the full vote < f tbe perish was registered for tbs democrats, and a bloody riot occurred in which over 200 colored republicans were killed. To prevent the carrying of the state by nry party by such bloody and lawless proceedings, the returning board was crea ed in 1870,' and the act amended in 1872 by tbe concurrence as both political parties, and the board wof given supreme authority to canvass the votes cast throughout the entire state, and autbOiized, if convinced that riot, tumult, acts of violence, intimidation, armed disturbance, bribery or corrupt influences had prevented voters from registering, or Lad materially interfered with the purity or freedom of the election at any poll or voting place, or bad materially changed tl e result of tbe election, to exclude the votes cast at such polls or voting places from tbe final count. The powers of the hoard are inadequate to insure full relief from the evil sought to Vie r* medted, inasmuch as it can only throw out tbe vote of the parish where frauds occur, but can not restore the majorities fraudulently prevented. Id regard to the powers of the board the report says: It is a tribunal established Ly tie laws of Louisiana, entirely indeper dent of the laws of any other state, or of the United States, It is empowered, among other things, tocanvacs and finally determine the number of votes ugaily oast for electors cf President • and Vice President of the United States. But in the discharge of that outj it acts exclusively under the authority of tbe laws of that state, the c r sritution of the United States having d< dared that each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature Hereof may direct, a number of electots equal to tbe whole number of het store and representatives to which ti e state may be entitled to the congress. Not only ia the action of this board mdepfi dent of state or national laws other tl an ibose of Louisiana, but its determil ation as to the votes cast and the candidat«s elect'd is final and substantially concloMve as appears from a decision of the supreme court of the state. Tl e report then proceeds to outline the the proofs adduced of not only such violence and intimidation as prevented a fair el» ction in severed parishes and at n any polls, but discloses also that these ► rave offenses were committed in pursuance tf a preconcerted and settled plan f< m.ed by the democratic leaders to prevent republican voters from attending toe polls, and that such unlawful purpeewasso effectively accomplished as not only to interfere with the purity and freedom of the election, but materially to change its result. There were in the state of Louisiana, on tbe day of election, 92,996 white regi-ter-ed voters, and 115,310 colored; a majority of the latter of 22 314. it waa well known it at if left free to vote, uninfluenced by violence or Intimidation, the blacks would be almost unanimously republican, and 'hat with the white republican v. tee, its majority would be about equal to that above indicated. The plan appears to have been to select for the purposesof intimidation and violence as U w parit-hes as possible; or in forty of the fifty seven parishes where these were not emp oyed, tbe republican majority waa S'x hundred, but to select those m which the colored vote, as compared with the * bite, would be large, unless unlawfully prevented; for in so doing it might be expected that, should any majority they c old thus obtain iu such parishes tie rejected tbsy would nevertheless attain their purpose by the suppression of a large republican vote. In pursuance of ibis plan five of tbe parishes selected in wl icb the greatest violence and intimidation were practiced, were East and West Feliciana, East Baton Rouge, Morehoi se and Ouachita. The returns of votes actually cast in tfcese five parishes suggest that the clubs to *bom was assigned the task of securing a dtmocratic majority therein bad performed thei work of violence and intimidation effectually, whilst tbe proof diadiscloses (a brief summary of portions ot which are hereto annexed) that where where violence and intimidation were inefficient, murder, U'aiming, mutilation and whipping were resort* d to. I ns read of a majority of 6,000 or 7,000 wbich the republicans should have had in these parishes npon a fair election there waa actually returned to tbe returning board a democratic majority for the parishes of East at d 'W est Felictama, Morehouse and Ouachita of 3,878, and in East Feliciana, where tbe registered colored voters numbered 2,127, not a republican v< te for electors wa- cast In East Baton Rogne, counting 3 532 colored registered votes, aid 1,801 whites, tbe democrats claim a majority of 617. wbich but for the rejection of several polls by the commissioners and supervisors of election, would have been returned to the board as votes actually cast If ' to tbe democratic majority from the four p-tisLes. as above stated, we add the 617 thi s da rn'd, and insisted on, before the re urn ing board a democratic majority of 4.495 is tbe result of an election in five teriahee containing 13.244 colored republicans, ard 5 134 white democratic voters The concosion that intimidation and violence alone could have produced tide is almost irresistible, and that such influences were employed, nr.d were supplemented by murder when that was thought necessary, is established b> the proofs already referred to. It but con firms this conclusion to refer to the vote cast in these five perishes: In 1874, when no special motives existed for tb* dm of cruel means to influence the

‘election, the republican majority therein waa 8.979 Results alio suggestive of violence and intimtidation were obtained by means most terrible and revolting. Organised clubs of armed men, torn ed as recommended by the democratic committee, rode thro'gh tbe country at night, marking their eonree by whipping, shooting, wounding, maiming mutilation and murder of wo men, children, and defeneeieas men, wboee Louses were forcibly entered whilst they slept, and then the ii?"***— fled through fear of the pistol and the rifle, the knife and the rope were employed to do tbeir horrid work. Crimes like these testified to by teoree of witnesses, were tbe means employed in Louisiana to elect a president of ths United States In tbe fees of a large mass of testimony ou wbich that adjudication has been reached, tbe members of tbe boerd, acting nnder oath, were bound by law if convinced by the testimony that riot, tumult, acts of violence or armed disturbance did materially interfere with tbe purity and freedom of tbe election at any poii or voting place, or did materially change the result of the eitction thereat, to reject the votes there cast and exclude theut from theh final return.

TMLKHKArA l»KW», Levize one ot the Hayes electors in Louisiana, stated that he had been ode ed $100,000 to vote for Tilden It ia claimed that a tithe of that sum would have purchased him. Tbe democratic visitors to F'oriia, headed by George W Biddle hnve issued an address to Speaker Randall of the h< use In which they declare that npon tbe face of the returns the Tilden electors Lad a majority, even after the radical vote bad been swollen by fraudulent returns, at d that the result reached by them was artivfd at by throwing out whole democratic precincts and counties in flagrant violation of law. In tbe house a message was received transmitting a letter accompanied by the testimony addressed to the president by the Hon. John Sherman and other distinguished citizens, in regard to a canvass of the vote for electors in Louisiana It was Did upon the table after some debate, during wbich this action of the presilent. wm severely denounced by Fernando Wood. The house then adjourned. Tbe democratic members of the honse met in caucus yesterday, immediately after adjournment, and continued iu session for two hours Considerable dis cussion took place over affairs connected with and growing out of the pmoidentiel election. A proposition was introduced looking to the impeachment of President Grant for directing the movement of federal troops in the southern states; bat this proposition was not entertained. fcov. Grover, of Oregon, yesterday issued certificates of election to electors Odell and Cartwright, renubiican, and Cronin, democrat The latter declined to show his authority at a meeting qf the electors, and the republicans refused to recognize him. Cronin then elected John T. Miller and John Pr rker, republican electors, and proceeded to cast the votes, two tor Hayes and one for Tilden. The republicans organized. Watts resigned, was at once re-elected and the votes were cast for Hayes and Wheeler, which, with their sworn statement and copies of the abstract of votes cast In tbe state, certified to by tbe secretary of state under seal were sent on. In the senate yesterday, on motion of Mr. Morton, three additional members, Messrs. Howe, Boutwell and Kerosn, were appoint* d on the committee on privileges snd elections. After considerable debate a resolution waa agreed to, requesting the president to state under what authority and for what purpose United States troops were stationed at Petersburg, Virginia, on the day ot tha last general election. A long general discussion was bad upon the n otion to print the report of Senator Sherman and other members of the committee which visited New Orleans, together with the accompanying teetimony in regard to the recent election in Louiaiana. Tha motion wes referred to the printing committee. While considering the joint rivolution of Mr. Edmunds, proposing an amendment to tbe constitution of the United States in relation to counting the electoral vote, the senate adjourned.

Tbe lad* pvodeai Flew, tSpringfield Republicwn. | It should be borne in mind constantly that with neither The Republican, nor Mr. Bromley, nor any other of the independent jonrnals and men who are feeling and expressing these viewa, is there any preference for Tilden and the democratic party over Hayes and the republican party. With moat of them the preference is the other way. With all of them, there is no question of psrties or candidates in the issue. They do not even say— at least, not ourselves—that Tilden is feirly and legally elected; but they do believe and say that he is more fairly and more legally chosen than Hayea could be, can be or would be by tbe proceas of the Louisiana returning board. And were their distrust of the democratic party and their question of Gov Tilden s desire or capacity to lead it by noble purposes to nobler ends ten times greater than they are, they would still refuse to sanction tbeir defeat by tbe violation of tbe sacredr ess of the ballot box— by the rejection of legal votes “actually cast.” The wrongs that in onr system find a representation in tbe ballot box can be overcome and outlived; they are inMparable from tbe po-aesaion of the tnffrsge by tbe ignorant and vicious classes; bnt to undertake to correct them by violating ths ballot box leads ua into new and more dangerous paths tnan the republic has yet trodden. It is tbe question of taking that step that ia before the repnblican party and the country now.

A piece of statuary representing tbe birth of Christ was yesterday received from Germany, and will be pieced in position in 6L Mary’s Catholic church. Tbe republicans of tbe city have been called to meet to-night, fronting the Jcurnal building, to jubilate ov«r Hayes's election,which tossy tbe least ia ill-timed. Yesterday afternoon Joe Rhein hard t, arrested for attempting to pate couuterf-it money, wts released by Commissioner Knefler; the evidence showing no evil intent Charles Ransom, e;ty solicitor for P L* Chambers, left his wagon on the Blnff road yesterday, while he entered a bouse near by. During his absence $20 worth of cigars were stolen. The grand jury has Indicted Jam»s Hammond and Cyrus L Wann for assablt with intent to kill; Isaae Leffman for assault and battery and Fannie Morgan for grand larceny. Pless of not guilty have been entered in each case. Sydney Algernon De Vere.alias “Chsmpagne Charley,” and Wiiliam Bowman, tbe first indicted for burglary and tbe » second lor grand iaroeny, yesterday afternoon entered pleas of gnilty and were given two years north bv Buskirk.

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