Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 February 1877 — Page 2
WEEKLY COURIER
G. DOn Jtl, rahtoaor.
JASFKR. - - - INDIANA.
CURRENT NEWS. MNKKAXt.
The XUetorsl bill pd the Senate at 7:1 ea the ateraiagef ike SWh, after an all-night HMto! by a vote of 47 yeas Vo 17
anys. With the exception of Senator Katon ef CfeeaeeUeut, all those -voting ay are Kc Mshliaaaa.
TIm House CeaaatHtee oa Ferelga Affairs approves the action of th; Preoklsnt aad
secretary State In declining the CmWi-
n4J aaereec ef Um Irish people, presented
y John O'Conor, awbtr of Parliament
TIm eeemlttee say- that all eouaaunieetloac te this Government from aliens ntuet conae through the regular accredited channels of the mlnleter representing; the Government
te which they beloag.
Aeeerttla" to a Washington dispatch of
the Mtb, Judge Davie was ea the beach of
the Supreme Court when he received a tel
egranfroa Springfield informing him of hte election to the Uaited St ten Seaate. After the adjournment ef the court ho was ailed on by Illinois
frieads, who congratulated hiai
oa the result, aad i squired as to hie accept
aaoe of the emee. He did Bet say whether he will aoeept it or sot, but if he should conclude to do so he will aot resign before the 4th of Marsh, the Senatorial term not
beginning uatil that time. He stated he
had not been consulted regarding the ua of
his name w a candidate aad had aot author izod it.
The President has nominated Themes
Settle, of North Carolina, United States
District Judge lor Florida, aad Benjamin
F. Flanders, Uaited SUtea Assistant Trees urer at New Orleans. The entire Igleeias Government of Mexi
co arrived ia San Francisco on the 36th,
having taken passage on a Pacific mail steam
er to escape capture by Diaz. They had
intended to disembark at Maxatlan ard or-
maize their Government there, but arrived
ust is time to find that Diaz had gained
the allegiance ef the people of that region.
Igleeias asd a is party were very
earaeetly ' ' waste " ob shore, but the Captain of the steamer refused to surrender
them to be shot as rebels, aad they sailed
oa to San Traaeisco. The President and
hie Cabinet were expected to take the Pa
die Railroad to St. Louis, thence to New
Orleans, aad thence to the States oa the eastern side of Mexico, where they hope to
fad a more favorable reception.
It was reported from Washington, oa the 27th, that a aevement hi ob foot in this eouatry to raise a force ef from 10,000 to
90,000 nsea for the purpose of piecing Pros
Ideat IgleetM at the head of Mexican affairs.
Several graduates of West Point, who won
distinction la the late War, are said to be en
gaged in the enterprise, and are furnished
with the Heceseary "sinews of war." Re
eruitiag officers will be sent to several of
the Southern States, where it is believed a sumoient force of excellent ighting men
oaa be raised in a very short time. The inducements that will beheld out to those ilibueters are said to he grants of land in
the rieheet mining diitriete of the States of
ChihtMB.ua, Duraago, Soaora, Siaaloa, aad Lower California. These five States of
Northern Mexico are sparsely settled, aad
are rink la deposits of gold, silver, copper,
aad ether valuable minerals. The region is
the finest grazing country in the world, and
there are tracts of agricultural lands amply
sufficient to feed a population of several
millions.
LThe British ship Ada Ireadale, with a
oarge of eoal from Scotland to Saa Francisco, took ire in the lower hold oa the voy
age, and when discovered the fire had made sue headway that the crew were forced to
abandon the vessel, which they did on Oct.
ID, ia three open boats. Oa Nov. 9, after
great suffering froaa exposure and hunger, aad. the lees of one beat aad one ef ite crew, the survivors reached Marquesas, 2,400 miles distant froaa the point where they abandoned their vessel. The llailroad Gazette reports the new railroad milage for the year 1878 as 2,442 miles, of which 966 was ia Texas, m in California, 270 in Ohio and 156 ia Colorado. This k tke most extensive ef any year since 1371. There was also built M? miles of nar-rew-guage in 1878. The total mileage in the eouatry of broad-gauge Is now 78,840. A oarge ef arms aad muaKieas of war for the Tarkteh Government, valued at $11,700,16, was skipped froaa New Haven, Conn., en the 99th, en the British steamer Lotus, te Constantinople direct. The National Executive Ceaunltfcee Union League ef Ameriea, at a meeting held in Philadelphia en the Kth, elected Gen. Daniel Ullnaan, ef New York, Chairman for the earning year, aad adjourned to meet la Washington on the 14th ef February. The President signed the Electoral bill oa the 3th. In his anossege approving the act, he says he believe the Mil gives assurance that the result of the election will be accepted without resistance from supporters of the disappointed candidate, and that the highest oncer shall not hold his place with a iiucetloard title of right. The President alludes to the imminent peril the country he escaped through the adoption of the aot, aad says the country needs aad desires peace aad harmony, which tke bill is well calculated to promote. The committees of the two Houses appointed under the Electoral Tribunal hill are as follows: Senate Messrs. Edmunds, Morton and FreHtsgnuyson, Republicans, aad Messrs. ThHrmvaa and Bayard, Democrats. House Meiers. Payne, Hunton aad Abbott, Democrats, aad Messrs. GarAeM and Hear, Kcpubitoa. The Democrats have retained as leading counsel M eoers. Black, Carpenter and Trumbull, aad the Mcpuoileaae, Messrs, Ivarts, MatThe United States supreme Court, ea Mm MM, adjoumeel (Ml the lh of. Febru
ary, en account ef the impending with
drawal of live ef the Justice to form the
Judicial branch of the tripartite Xteeteral
Cosnmlssicn. It Is reported that a vast scheme of
piracy aad fraud by meant of false Invoice
has been recently .discovered by the Cue
tome omeers, in which are implicated a
number ef leading Importing Arms in vari eus oiUes, together with United States Con suk and revenue officials abroad The report of the Senate Special Commit,tee, appointed to investigate election mat
tera in Florida, was presented to the Senate ea the 39th. The conclusion arrived at by the Committee is that the Hayes Electors have a legal majority of 108, as ascertained
aad published by the State Canvassing
Board. The Committee believe that the
Hading of the Board is conclusive aad can not he revised by areeaavaee, or reached by a
writ of quo warrant; because the Electors
arennof as ojncio, or reversed by Congress,
because the Constitution lodges the whole
power 1b the State. The report was adopt
ed by all the Republican members of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections. A
minority report will be made by the Demo orate of the committee.
Hon. John B. MePherson, Democrat, has
been elected Uaited States Senator from
New Jersey, in place of Senator Freling buy sen. Senator Prelinghuysen was i
candidate for re-election, but was defeated
by a majority of oae vote oa Joiut ballot. A meeting of prominent bankers, mer
c haute, etc., was held in New York City on
the 36th, to encourage the proposed plan
for arranging the settlement between the
defaulting Southern States and their credit
ore. Wm. Cullen Bryant presided. It was recommended by the meeting that the best
way to bring about an equitable settlement
and compromise of existing claims would be
to appoint a committee of disinterested ar
biters and bondholders, aad buck action was
accordingly taken. Ex-Governor Haines, of New Jersey died ob the 3eXh.
Peter Wintermute, who shot and killed Gen. McCook, at Yankton, D. T., two
years age, died of consumption at his father's
home, in Horseheads, Chemung County, N.
Y. , ob the 36th tilt.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey epened their
revival oampalga in Boston on the 39th.
The arrest ef Miles Ogle, the oelebrated counterfeiter, has been followed by the
capture in Cincinnati of a large quantity of
well executed counterfeit bank-note plates
aad about 40,000 bogus &0-eent pieces. It
is said that Ogle ' 'squealed" to the detect
ives and revealed where the stud" was se creted.
At Gentry Settlement, Saline County,
Ark., ea the night of the 28d, two wemen,
Mrs. H. T. B. Taylor ami Mrs. H. Stauer,
the wives of respected planters, were mur
dered in cold blood, robbery being the pre
sumed cause. They were stopping at the same house, their husbands having gone to
Little Rock with produce.
Col. S.D. Chllds, Presidentot the South Carolina National Bank, of Columbia, has
made an affidavit denying the statement
made by Beverly Nash, Republican Elect
or, before the Congressional investigating
committee at Washington, to the effect that
he (Chllds) attempted to bribe him (Nash)
to cast his vote for Tiiden.
Sheriff Manning was shot and killed by a
desperado named John Fretwell, at Austin,
Mies., oa the 23d. Fretwell was a relative
of Manning's wife, and had recently been
pardoned out of the Penitentiary through
Manning's efforts. The murdered escaped.
Judge David Davis was elected United
States Senator from Illinois on the 36th.
The contest was decided on the fortieth
Joint ballot and the eighth day's Joint sec
tion of the Legislature. The vote was:
Davis, (Dem. and lad.), 101; Lawrence, (Rep.), 94; Haines, (Rep.), 8; scattering, 3.
The recently reported massacre of the
members of a wagon train ef 30 men, be
longing te Yankton, by the Indians on the Black Hills route, te entirely without foundation.
The West Virginia Legislature, by Joint
ballot oa the 39th, elected II. 6. Davis Uaited States Senator for the long term and
F. Hereford for the short term both Dem
ocrats.
Hob. Bea. Hill has been elected Uaited
States Senator from Georgia.
Wm. K. Neil was. hanged at Albany,
Oregon, on the 39th, for the murder of Seth W. Hayes.
W. W. Christian and Wm. Howell were
both instantly killed by the bursting of an agitator at the Standard Oil Company's Refinery, Cleveland, Ohio, on the 39th.
Mr. J. Harris, a respectable citizen of
Blue Creek Township, was assaulted by a
negro named Culfer, near Paulding, Ohio, en the 34th, and clubbed and stabbed te death. The negro escaped, and the eause ef the killing was unknown.
Wm. R. Messlek, Democratic Seriff-eleet
ef Avoyelles Parish, La., was shot and killed oa the 37th by Policeman MeMahon, who
claims he only fired to frighten, not to injure, the deeeased.
Judge Maekey. of the South Carolina Su
preme Court, on the 27th, granted a preliminary injunction restrainiRgState Treasurer Cardozo and Comptroller-Gen. Dunn, respectively, from drawing any warrants or
paying out funds from the State Treasury, under the appropriation bill pawed by the
Maekey House at its late session, upon the
ground that the body which pretended to
originate aad pass it was net the legal
ueuse of Representatives.
At Memphis, Tenn., on the night of the
39th, Robert Gibscn, Deputy United States
Marshal from Carroll County, was shot and almost instantly killed by Robert Drury. The father ef Drury is under Indictment
for issuing counterfort money, and Gibson
was the principal , witness against him.
Drury nd and bad aot bean arrested up te
the following day. He had Jnst nerved a term In the Penitentiary for counterfeiting.
Sheriff W. P. Wallace, of Cincinnati,
was arrested en tke 39th, on a United States warrant charging him with fraudulently and corruptly procuring the escape of C. W. Young, under Indictment for Illegal voting at the October election, and an important witness In contested cases new on trial. Mr. 0. D. Whips, proprietor of the WUlard Hotel at Louisville, Ky., en the morning of the 3th shot and fatally wounded Mr. John W. Stockton, superintendent of the hotel. The shooting was the result of an altercation regarding tiio management of the house. Stockton died ,on the following day. Whips was held to ball in the sum of 110,000. Lawrence Mack, a bar-keeper at the Theater Comlque in St. Leuis, was shot and instantly killed at an early hour on the morning ef theSeXh, by Wm. Wiener, a private watchman, at the same establishment. Mack was a quiet, inoffensive young man, and the shooting appears to have been the result of a drunken frenzy on the part of the murderer. The Academy of Music at Indianapolis was destroyed by fire oa the night of the 27th. Loss from $150,000 to 300,000, partially insured. The physicians of Chicago held a meeting on the 35th, to devise means for checking the present alarming spread ef scarlet fever aad diphtheria la that city. Four men were killed by a boiler explosion in a saw-mill near Eaton, Ind., on the 36th. Gen. John McDonald, chief of the former St. Louis Whisky King, has been pardoned by the President oa the ground of ill health, and is new at liberty. The South Carolina Supreme Court, on the 36th, rendered a decision in the quo warranto proceedings against the Hayes Electors, dismissing the case, en the ground that the proceedings were illegally presented on the part of the State, instead of the United States. A peddler called at the house of S. S. Chalfant, near Thoraville, Ohio, on the night of the 39th, and obtained permission to lodge ovur night. During the night he chloroformed the entire family and ransacked the house, carrying off $XX) in money and $86,000 In drafts. The robber was tracked to Lancaster, but not apprehended. W. 11. Hardy, the defeated candidate for Congressional Delegate from Arizona, has petitioned the Supreme Court of that Territory to compel the Secretary to recanvass the vote. Two rival saloon keepers at Hot Creek, Wyoming, had a serious shooting affray on the 39th. Daniel Perry was wounded In the breast, and head, and J. II. Price, his antagonist, was seriously wounded in the log. A collision between the whites and blacks occurred at Tiramonsville, Darlington County, S. C, oa the 36th, brought about by the assassination by some unknown party, en the preceding night, of B. O. Hoiloway, the Republican Trial Justice. The blacks and whites both armed, and the result of the encounter was that two whites were placed hors de combat. The casualties on the part of the blacks, if any, are not mentioned. Representative Piper, of the First District, California, who was defeated by Horace Davis ia the last election, has given notiue that he will contesmvavis's seat in the For-
ty-fifth Congress, on the ground of fraudu
lent voting.
Prof. Edward L. Seymour, an honorary
member of the Polytechnic School atDillenberg, Germany, cut.hls throat in St. Louis
on the 39th. Cause, poverty.
The first annual meeting of the Sunday-
school Congress of the United States opened Its session at Chicago on the 39th.
G. W. Via and Granville Poake, two
horse herders, had a shooting encounter at
Gallaway's ranch, 35 miles south of Chey
enne, on the 27th. Eleven snots were nred.
Peake was fatally wounded, but Via Is
likely to recover.
Lieut. John Weeden, of the United
State Engineer Corps, committed suicide
at San Francisco on the 24Hh. Cause not
stated.
Edgar Moore, the murderer of Mabel
Hall, the St. Louie ballet girl, has been
found guilty of murder in the first degree. The Jury appended to their verdict a recommendation for clemency.
A decision has been rendered by Circuit
Judge Carpenter, of South Carolina, that
neither Chamberlain or Hampton has been
legally Installed as Governor for the present
term, and that Chamberlain is therefor' the
legal Governor by right of holding over un
til his suscessor is qualified.
rejmitiaj The Countess Howe, a well known En
glish lady, ob the 30th killed herself by Jumping from a window of her mother's
residence in Berkley Square, London, The
Coroner's Jury rendered a verdict that the
aot was committed while the lady was In an
unsound state of mind caused by grief at
the death of Earl Howe, her husband.
The American ship Dakota, from New
Orleans to Liverpool, was struck by lightning and burned when about 400 miles from the Azores. The captain and crew reached Fayal in safety, after being at sea four days
b open boats. European advices of the 30th were gener
ally indicative of a peaeeful solution of the
Eastern troubles.
Not lone ago four Enirlish ladias.
Misses Sophia Douglas, Lillia Hamilton and Mary and Catherine Adams.
Who had gone to Rome for the winter, while driving down the Appisui Way to Roville, were stopped about 4 o'clock in tfce.afternoon oy two masked men,
hidden behind the tomb of the Horatii
and the Curiatii. They compelled the
adies to give up their pooket-books and ewelry, andwouuded Mies Hamilton in
the hand with a kaife. This naturally prodneett much excitement at Rome ; a reward wm offered for the brigands.
ef whom wan hunted down and
killed, and the other haa hist been sent
to prison for twenty yVnrs at hard la
bor.
COKtiKKMMIttXAL INVEST1IQATI0XS.
Additional evidence given before the House Committee on the rowers, etc., of me House, is as follow ; tieortfe fi. Pisksr. of Ueoriiia.tem.
noraritv resluinff in Washington, tastiflerf tkat
he made MlleeUona for jtolitfcal purposes, at tfte limtaoee of the Kenublkian CoMKreeewMMl Committee, in the l'ost-omee and War
Department, Sixth Auditors Oinec, ami the liorernwent Prinunff-oAiee, and paid the money over to the Treasurer of the eomniltfctc, loess per cent., which 1m kept as pay for bis servieeS. About ft,00 was collected. Other persons also mailc eollecMons. Contributions
wore voluntary, only 10 or JS clerks or wham
blv 1 .'JSO HuuJkxl to ilMlltMul ia iwtHtrlliuui. mil
not know that any body was discharged for wot
oomrnniHnr. Beverly Nash, colored, of Columbia, tes
tifted on the 2M before the House South Carolina
Committee that be was one of the Hayes K lectors
CT t IHKI LTV S Wi WTWi URtro ITCttteroa wiat tin the i lav we Kleetors met, h. D.ChlhU. President of the South Carolina National Hank, told hint if Ite eould get three Republican Senators to go over
tu mhj ifewerww turn seat tec claimants or ue seats from Laurens, KdxetisM and Abbeville
uounues, ne couiu act money for so loin;, $ io,000 for each oae secured. ,fThen."sald chllds.
' ' there Is the Electoral vote ; if you will agree to vote for Tildeh you can get e 10,004 bow and
V w.ufti more as soon as uie m lug is consummat ed." Nash declined the offer.
The senate Sub-Committee on Privileges
ana Kieouons, on the 27th, examined A. r,
Bush, of the baakiBg-house of I. add , lineb.
ef Salem, Oregon. Witness testified that he
sent a certain luspatoo in cipher (produced by Swwtor Mitchell) to C. K. Tllton, Now York. In reference to uavlnx fees of lawyers retained
to argue before the (Governor, or in any of the omirts. against the Issuine of an liatonil rw.
tiieatc to Watts. He received the following
iiivjmwi irnm a. a. kbii j. ml. Milton, oi ztew York, on the '.'Mnof November last: a'Ucall means to prevent oerttflcat. very important." The witness UBderttced the diHm!oh to refer to VaUt, but I'elton told him afterwards it referredtoCronln. A little more than fli.COO
wHBpiaemi tame creditor, witness's firm, which he understood from Itellisger wa for uc in the Kkctoral matter Senator Mitchell intni' dttocdalarxe number of diiiMtohs. manv In
cipher and without signiiturM. The followiag
nre .ttiH mem : a. 8. iiewmto lion. J.Kelly. Mating that "On Investigation. th h?nl
opinion is. Totes cast for Federal omcc-holders as Electors are void, and the person receiriBK the next highest number of votes should
receive the certiacate o: appoint
went. canvassiBg oMoers should act
on wis rule, aad Uovemorn certificate or apPOinttaent beelven to Kketor awiHiurliv ami
the subsequent certinsato of votes of Klsctora be duly made, specifying how Utey voted. This wilt force Congress to go behind the- eerUncates. and open the way to go Into the minutes In all caftes, which Is not only right, but will relieve the embarrassment of the situation." From W. T. I'elum to Dr. Geo. L. Miller, of Omaha, in reference to sending a jwrty to Oregon to look aftoriitectoral mauera, which resulted in the
visit ot nr. ratriek .to Oregon.
The Committee on the Powers and Duties of the House had Louis Kenner, of tlte Louisiana
Returning Board, before them on die 27th. Mr.
Field showed the witness a certified copy of tle 1'arieh of Vernon In which 178 votes had been
Ktven lor Jlayee, white la the original returns two votes only were given to Hayes. Witness having been asked to explain the difference, said that if any returns had been thrown out he was not aware of it. It did not take place while he was in the Board. Mr. Field directed witness to look with a magnifying glass at the
orlxinai papers, ami ami witetner tiMra nau been
any erasure or alterations. Witness, after
scrutinizing the ngures, said it looked as if something had been done, as if the figures had bent written over erasures .1. It. De Berry, telegraph operator at the railroad, depot at Tallahassee, Fla., testified refrortlime
a numher ot telegrams seat ami received
bv htm between she Mh and lMti of November.
the purport of smot which was as follows
From Z. Chandler to uov. Stearns "We are
now aboointely sure of electoral votes for
Uityee, and we must have Louisiana, South
caroUBa ami norma uyiair means or other, wise." He could not give the exct laa-ruaee.
ami did not remember toe number mentioned. Another disiMtteh was : "Send couriers to each
eouBty and seeure returns. They must be made
to ehowa majority for Hayes." From Uov. Steams to Z. Chandler : ' ' W e can not carry the
state lor uayes unless we nave troops and won ey immediately." These were not the ex act words. but the wibslance...
Charles H. Brush, telegraph operator at rrt ii . t - . . .... Li. I. ah... . - .
isuHawmx. limn ttm cwi iu lire um ui .-mm ember, testified hat Z. Chandler telegraphed Oov. Stearns that he had seen the President and ec rotary of War, awl troop would be sent. Wit nes did not pretend to give tlte exact words of the dispatches.
J. T. Littlefield, Clerk of the Louisiana
IteturalBg Board, testified before the Morrison House Commitke, on the 36th, that on the 3d of December he altered the original retHrns from
two of lite ikiii in hereon rarisn, so as to transioee 17rf Democratic votes over to the Republican oandMites; that he did this by the express direction of Governor Wells, ami that, after making coiee of the altered originals ami eulistituting them for the originate, the latter were burned, either by himself or by Oov. Wells, he did not remem. ber which, but, at all events, with Gov. Wells's knowledge. LittlrMeld waa subsequently examined by the committee on the Powers ami Privileges of the House, ami detailed at lengtn the circumstances under which he mads the alterations in the returns mentioned. He further tesUned, that instead of destroying lite original statement of return from Vernon Parish, as directed by Oov. Wells, he took the paper homo and gave it to his uncle. Mr. -tpearmg. to be used in be half of the Nlcholls Government. (Witness lie re identified a paper produced by the committee, as being the original return referred to.) On cross-examination, witness said he did not know of any outer returns having been altered. Before the Senate Committee on Privileges ami Elections, on the 3 th, Wm. II. Hoi. Vstor, Cashier of the banking-house of Kounfz Brothers. New York, testlfl 1 as to ft 8. M0 be
ing placed on deposit with Kotintx Brothers on -I
tnc istni uecemoer oyaeiraBger, wno represented the deposit to be made by K. Davis to the creditors. II. V Patrick; and on the 10th of December, (1.019 In gold was deposited In Kountz Brothers' Bank by Charles Dlmad,of New York, subject to the order of J. II. S. Patrick, and it is still there; the bank of Konnte Brothers psid a draft of $8,009 on the 15th or isth of December, in favor of Wells, Fargo A Co. ; the dratt was dated San Francisco, Decern. Iter 8, and was given by J. II, N. 1'atrlek. senator Kelly was next called. He testified that he became aequalated with J. II . N. I'd trick at Portland, Oregon, on the 27th of December last. A elpher dispitnh, directed to W T. 1 elton. New York, sfgaed by J. 11, N Patrick and Indorsed by Henator Kelly, was produced by Senator Mite hell, aad handed to the witness, who stated that he could not t ran ditto the dispatch, but he would give the subuanceof It, which was that he (Kelly) indorsed n dispatch asking the Democratic National Committee to fend $ I Am to Oregon to pay ary legal expenses which mUht arise la connection with the atts onto; an answer In cipher came to this dispatch, the anlMtance of which was that there was no money: several telegrams passed tietween parlies in Oregon and New York In relation to the paying of any legal expenses in connection with the Watts case, and nnMly word was sent from New York to Oregon that f S.tOO could tie had;' the cipher dlspatchee tvh'.oh passed between Senator Kelly and Patrick were In relation to the transferrins:
of eH.mofrom New York to Oregon, how ft should be done, and through what bankers; the dispatches had no ether meaning; he never Heard of tne unlawful use of monev In connection with this ease aveetioeed, ami never had an iea that any money would he used
imnronerlv in connection with it.
Senator Mitchell offered the following telegram, which he asked to hare inserted in conm-etion with the testlmonr of Hoi lister: "NkwYohk.
November, i7. J H. N. Patrick, flalem, Oregon : Secttre year points at all hasarcis. Commentease with me immediately, giving preepect.
IBtgaetij --wavib." Two hundred tfeoueead barrels of
kerosene oil are to be taken to Port
land, Me., this winter, for export.
The Preaideat'H Mcewure AnurevlNg Um KlecterMl Kill. fi Washington, D. C, Jan. !w. The fnlowing Is the text of the President's intbsage concerning the Electoral bill; 'it tMe Smi af tht UhU1 SUt: I follow the example Heretofore ocoahRy presented of eoMmuntoatlng in this mode my approval of hh act to provide for and rvgukite the counting of votes lor t'resitlent and VkePresident, ami the decision ot iitetioM arising thereon, because ef my appreeialioo of thclw. luinent peril to the inetltutions ot lite country, from which, in my iudgwent, the act affords wit and constitutional means ot esoape. Fur the riret time in the history ot our country, iiBdsr tlte Constitution as it la now, a dispute exists wMfa regard to tlte result of tlte election of Chief Magistrate ot Uie Union, It is understood that upon UHMlleposltiou of the disputes touching Uie Kieetoral vote cast at the last election by otto er more states depends the question wketlter one or the other of the candidates lor the Presidency i the lawful Chief Magistrate. The Imorwncc ct having clearly ascertained by procedure regulated by law which of two citizens has t teen elected, ami of having the right to their high office recognized and cheerfully agreed In by all Uie people of the Itepubllo.oan not be over-estimated , and leads me to express to Congress ami to the Nation my great satisfaction at the adoption ot & measure that affords au orderly means ot decision of gravely exciting cpieettons, While the history of our country in its t arly period shows that tlte President ot Uie Senate has counted the votes and declared their standing, our whole history shows Uiat in no instance of doubt or dispute has he exercised the tower of decldiBg.aml that Die two Houses ot Congress have disjiosed of all such doubts ami disputes, although in no instance hitherto have Uiey been such that their decision could have eeecnWally affected the result. For Uie first time, tlhui.thc Government of tlte United States is now brought to meet a question as one vital to tlte result, and this under oondtlioss net beet calculated to produce agreement, or Induce calm feeling in Uie several branches of the OovernmeHt, or among tlte people ot the country. In a case, where, as now. lite result Is Involved, it is the highest duty of the law-making power to provide in advance a Constitutional, orderly and just method of executing the Constitution. In this most Interesting ami critical clause of its provisions, the bill, so far from being a compromise of right, is an enforcement of the right, and an execution of the powers conferred by the Constitution on Congress. I think that this orderly method has been secured by the hill, which, appealing to the Constitution awl law as a guide in ascertaining right a, provides n means ot deciding questions of single returns through the direct action ot Congress, ami In respect to double return, by a tribunal of inquiry, whose decisions stand unless both Houses of Congress shall concur in determining otherwise, thus securing definite disposition ol nil questions ot dispute in whatever respect tltey may arise. WiUi or without tit la law, as all of Uie States ltave voted, aad as the vote is recorded, it must be that one ot tlte two candidates lias been elected; ami it would bo deplorable to witness an irregular controversy as to which of the two should receive or which should coutlime to hold the office. In all records of history controversies have arisen as to succession or choice of Chiefs of states, and no liarty or cllisen lot ing Uu-ir country and its free Institutions can orifice too mucn ot mere feeling lu prescrviBg, through an upright course ot law, their country from the smallestdaBgerto its peace on such an occasion, and it can not be imressed too firmly on the hearts of all )eeple Uiat true liberty and real progress can emstonly through a cheerful adherence to comufuttonal law. The bill Mirporta to provide only for the settlement of questions arising from recent elections. Tlte fact that such uuestlorts can arfre demonstrates the necessity which, 1 can not doubt, will before long be supplied ef permanent general legislation to meet cases whkh have not been contemplated in Uie Constitution or laws or the country. The bill may not be perfect, and its provhuons may not be such as would be best applicable to all future eccashms, but it is calculated to meet the present eondiuon ot the question ami of tlte country. The country is agitated; it needs and desires peaoe ami quiet and harmony between all itarties and all sections; its induetr.es are arretted, labor unemployed, capital idle, ami enterprise paralyzed, by reason ot the doubt aad anxiety attending tlte uncertainty of a double claim to the Chief MaglhtrAcy of the Nation. It wants to be assured that the result ot the election will be accepted without resistanee from the supporters of the dieappoiBted candidate, and that Its highest officer shall not kohl his place with a questioned liUe of right. BellcviHg that the bill will secure Utese owls, I give it my signature. Signed U. S. Gkxxt. KxecuUve Mansion, JanHary 2t, IS77. Mrs. Brooks, who models heads in butter, says the Now York Graphic, is a
small, dark-haired woman, who is enthusiastic about bur work, and she
makofi nor heads with two little wooden
paddles of ditTeront sizes. She has a farm in Arkansas, to which she will return, if her art doos not prove remunerative.
The State Teacher's Association o
Iowa has formallv rosolved that noliti-
cal science should be taught in the public schools. A woman has been elected president of the association for the en
suing year.
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