Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1876 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE GENERAL ELECTION. The complete official returns in low* give Wayc* 171,327; Tilde*, 111,099; Cooper, 9,001. Hayes over Tilden 59,298. The official canvas* in Wisconsin given the following totals: Whole number of vote*, 958,088; of which Hayes received 110,087; Tilden, 128,926; Peter Cooper »nd scattering, 2,045. Hayes' majority over Tilden U 6,141. ABL Louis dispatch of the 93d ssys the State Soard of Canvasser* have completed the tabulation of returns for Presidentlsl Electors, and find that, of a total vote of 390,583, the Tilden Elector* received 209,678, the Haye* Elector* 144,898, and the Cooper Electors 3,498; Tilden’s majority over Hayes, 68,989; over Hayas and Cooper, 54,791. Aldrich, Democratic contesting Presidential Elector, on the 93d served upon the Governor of Vermont a protest against the issuing of a certificate to Sollace, Postmaster at Bridportat the time of the election. The official vote of New Hampshire is: Hayes, Tilden, 88,449; scattering, 74. Hayes over Tilden, 3,073. The returns at the office of the Secretary of State of California give a majority of one vote to Pacheco, the Republican candidate for Congress in the Fourth District. The total vote in Kentucky was 258,860. Of these Tilden had 160,445, and Hayes 98,415. Tilden’s majority 62.C30. Tilden’s official majority in New York State is 32,989. In Georgia, 85,185. In the former State Peter Cooper hadl, 987 and G. C. Smith 2,359. Jacobs, the Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress from Washington Territory, has a majority of about 800. The Territorial Council Is composed of six Republi cans and three Democrats, and the lower house of eighteen Republicans and twelve Democrats. • There were present before the Louisiana Returning Board on the 95th, for the Republicans, Messis. Stoughton, Van Allen, Wilcox, Kelly and Harker, and for the Democrats, Messrs. Palmer, Trumbull, G. B. Smith, Bigler and Julian. After some other proceedings, the votes in the contested parishes of De Soto, Ouachita, Lincoln, East and West Feliciana, Richland, Caddo and Sabine were announced from consolidated statements, the totals being 5,787 for Haye* and 10,755 for Tilden. The votes of these parishes were not counted, there being contests fixed for a hearing the following week. The following account of the subsequent proceedings before the Board is given by the Associated Press:

“When the returns from the parishes marked contested were opened, the Demo'cratic counsel were allowed to be present. The returns from De Soto Parish were brought in and contained in one package sealed with wax. When the seals were broken by members of the Board there weraJound inside the consolidated votes of the Commissioners, statements, and tallysheets. Attached to the returns were a large number of protests and affidavits. The Secretary of the Board said* the package had been received on the 18th Inst, and was entered in his receiptbook, and the returns, he said, had come by mail. In the course of inspection it was discovered that one of the protests of the Supervisor charging general intimidation, was dated Nov. 25, and sworn to in this city before the Commissioner of the Circuit Court When called upon to explain how a protest dated on the 25th lost, to-day, could get into a sealed registered package •received by mail on the 18th inst , the Secretary said he had received two packages. “He was detected by one of the Democratic counsel present in the act of making another entry on his book of two packages received. “After some delay another package was produced, and found to contain a consolidated statement of votes and Commissioners’ returns, but no protests or affidavits. “ The members of the Board were unable to explain the matter, and Senator Sherman, of the Republican Visiting Committee, remarked that there was no use to disguise the fact that the returns had been opened and protests inserted after the package of returns had been received.” ' The South Carolina State Supreme Court on the 25th, entered a judgment of f 1,500 fine each and commitment of all the Board of Canvassers to jail until released by order of the Court United States District-Attorney Corbin, counsel for the State Board of Canvassers, disclaimed any intention of Contempt, and asked and was granted until the 27th to satisfy the Court The Court declined to issue an order giving certificates to members of the Legislature from Edgefield and Leurens Counties, refused by the Board, but stated that such members could obtain a copy of the record from the Clerk of the Court, which would be equivalent to a certificate. The five members of the Board of Canvassers who had been constructively arrested, reported at the jail in the evening, and were confined therein. Their names are: E. L. Cardoza, Treasurer; T. C. Dunn, Comptroller; Gen. William Stone, Attorney-Gen-eral; H. E. Payne, Secretary of State, and H. W. Purvis, ex-Adjutant and Inspector-Gen-eral. It is stated that the Secretary of State claims that the Board had not disobeyed any order of the Court, and that the law was on their side. LZ

Secretary of War Cameron received the following order from the President on the 26th: Sm: D.H. Chamberlain u now Governor of the State of South Carolina beyond any controversy, and remaina so until the new Governor be duly and legally inaugurated under the Constitution. The Government has been called HP°?. ,X ? ‘‘ d s?* tn . e ■ a ‘J«y “ d “»*»' forces of the United State* to maintain a republican form »f Government in the State against resistance too formidable io be overcome by the State authorities. You are directed, therefore, to sustain Gov Chamberlain tn his authority against domestic violence until otherwise directed? The Secretary of War telegraphed the above order to Gen. Koger, at Columbia, 8. C-, and instructed him to advise with the Governor and dispose his troops in such manner as may be deemed best in order to carry out the spirit of the order. A Greenboro (N. C.) special to the New York Timet of the 27th, says the returns show that the vote for Hayes and Settle in North Carolina would reach and probably exceed 108,000. Tilden’s majority would reyh 14,000, and Vance would ran some 4,000 or 5,000 behind him. The Democrats were very much excited by the discovery of the fact that one of Tilden’s electors—William B. Glenn-is inelligible. Heiaone of the commissioners appointed < by the Southern Claims Commission to take Tbd following is the result of the official count of the Vvtes for President in Michigan:

Hayes, 106,584; Ttjdcn, 141,095; Cooper, V. 009. Hayes over Tilden, 95,439. The Board of Stole Canvassers of South Carolina were brought before the United State* Circuit Court at Columbia, on application for writs of rwyws.on the 27th. Time was given until ten o’clock on the 29th to make a return to the application for the writs, pending which the Board was placed in charge of the United State* Marshal. A request, signed by counsel in the ease, was sent to Chief-Justice Waite, stating that a conflict of jurisdiction had arisen, and that the i**ues were grave, and asking him to preside in the case. He responded that the business of the Supreme Court required hi* presence in Waahlngton. The official return* give Hayes 2,787 majority in California. * Tilden's majority in New Jersey, sccording to the official count, is 11,945. The total vote in Kansas for President was: Hayes, 78,832; Tilden, 87.902; Temperance, 110; American Alliance, 12. A special to the New York Herald of the 28th says Col. Thomas B. Keogh, the Chairman of the Republican State Committee, had filed a protest with Gov. Broden against an announcement of the vote of North Carolina for Presidential Electors. He enumerated twenty-three counties to which be objected or. the ground of illegal returns. He claimed that the throwing out of these counties would, with the omission of eight counties not heard from, give the State to Hayes. The Florida Board of Canvassers reconvened at ten on morning of the 28th. As the opening of the sealed packages whs proceeded with the Republicans gave notice that they would contest the vote in nineteen counties, and the Democrats gave notice of contest in nine counties. The result of the Electoral vote as read from the face of the returns show Republican majorities of 7,460 and Democratic majorities of 7,418. Dade County was not yet in. The Democrat* claimed twenty-three omitted votes in Clay County, which appeared on the face of the return from that county, but were not added up in the general result because it was not in evidence that the inspectors and clerk were sworn. The Democrats had a certified copy of the returns from Baker County, which gave them a majority of ninety-four, btria new return was read by the Board, which, bythrqwing out several Democratic precincts, gave forty-one Republican majority. At the evening session Mr. Pasco, for the Democrats, demanded to know if the Board had not received another return from Baker County than the one which had been read, He charged that the returns from that county had been suppressed, and others substituted therefor. The Secretary subsequently read the returns, which the Associated Press report says were signed by the Clerk and Justice and properly attested, and which gave a Democratic majority of ninety-five. It appears that two returns, one 1 signed as above and 1 another signed by the Judge and Sheriff and Justice, were sent up. With the first return admitted the Tildeu Electors would have 115 majority. With both returns, held subject to future decision, the Democrats had two Electors by five majority, one by three majority, and the Republicans have one Elector by one majority. - ’

A special dispatch to the Cincinnati Ga. zette explains as follows the question relative to the De Soto returns before the Louisiana Board: “ The returns were receipted for by the Clerk of the Board as having been made on the 18tn lust. Sealed and in the same package was contained the affidavit of the Supervisor of the parish, made in Orleans Parish, charging fraud and intimidation. The question naturally arose how an affidavit of the 25th iust. got into a package, which was sealed with wax, and received on the 18th, seven days before. The clerk promptly explained that he had received a package purporting to be the returns from De Soto on the 18th insL The package was brought before the Board aud opened, and was found to contain the returns of the Supervisor, but not accompanied by the additional affidavits. The package which had been opened was received yesterday, having been mailed to the Board on that day, and as having been retained by the Supervisors for the purpose of attaching the affidavit The results as given by the return of the 18th tallied exactly with the result in the second return, ana showed no tampering with the returns, and all the Republican delegation are satisfied that there is nothing wrong in the transaction.’’

After some preliminary proceedings on the 28th, the Parish of Ouachita was taken up, and four negro witnesses were introduced, in behalf of the Republicans, and were examined by the Board. Their testimony was as to alleged intimidation and outrages. One of the witnesses, named Eliza Pinkston, told a fearful tale of cruelty. She recited that her husband and one child had been murdered and a little girl seven years old was taken from the house at the same time and had not been seen since. The witness herself had been a victim of extreme cruelty, and was unable to walk without help into the Senate Chamber. Ben James, another of the witnesses, had been also terribly wounded. The Democrats would introduce rebutting testimony on the 29th. One of the parties mentioned as engaged in the murder of Henry Pinkston was arrested in New Orleans on the 28th, after the testimony of Eliza Pinkston. His name is Tom Lyon. A Columbia (S. C.) telegram of the 28th says that,at ten o’clock a. m., a company of United States troops were marched into the State House, guards being placed at the doors to prevent unauthorized persons from entering. At twelve M., the hour for the assembling of the Legislature, the Democrats formed in a body and marched to the State House, headed by the Edgefield delegation. They were refused admission, and Mr. Shepherd, of the Edgefield delegation, read a vigorous protest. Afterward the Democrats withdrew to the Richland Rifle Club hall, and held a caucus to which no outsider was admitted. The Republicans organized by the election of ex-Congressman. E. A. M. Mackey as Speaker, when they proceeded to swear in the members. A. O. Jones (colored) was elected Clerk. They subsequently adjourned to meet at noon on the 29th. In the Senate, Swells (colored) was elected President pro tern., and a committee appointed to wait upon the Governor and inform him that the General Assembly was organized and ready to receive any communication he might make. The regular standing committees were appointed. The Democrats appointed on the committee to wait on Gov. Chamberlaln declined to act During the evening the Democrats organized a Legislature by the election of W. H. Wallace as Speaker and J. S. Lloan as Clerk. Judge Cooke, of the Eighth Clrenhj swore In the Officers and members. Sixty-four Democrats were sworn fa, and two Republicans who withdrew from

the State-House Legislature. The Supreme Court had not yet decided the question of counting the electoral vote. FROM WASHINGTON. The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenua contain the following recapitulation of internal revenue receipts for the several State* and Territories during the last fiscal year: Alabama, 896,968.61; Arisons, 811,97636; Arkansas, 868,880.26; California, 88,034,04416; Colorado, 872,668.57: Connecticut, 8656,448; Dakota, 812,156.36; Delaware, 8417,227.56; District of Columbia, 8114,579.90; Florida, 8176,85183; Georgia, 8=152,588.80; Idaho, 816,993 82; Illinois, t 823,699,187.27; Indiana, 85,567,090.29; lo*a, 81,211,771.97; Kansas, 8149,889.63; Kentucky, 87,653,938.31; Louisiana, 8528,083.78; Maine, 890,655.97; Maryland, 82,570,264.62; Massachusetts, 12,748,941.48; Michigan, 82,065,297.04; Minnesota, 8247,922.73; Mississippi, 888, 448.02; Missouri, 82,972,693.49; Montana, 820,982.80; Nebraska, 8502,395.59; Nevada, 868,231.87; New Hampshire, 8260,04689; New Jersey, 88,771,069.06; New Mexico, 822,146.60; New York, 814,158,374.88; North Carolina, 81,670,308.05; Ohio, 816,568,290.26; Oregon, 848,446.76; Pennsylvania, 85,969,917.33; Rhode Island, 8221,932.25; South Carolina, 8105,565.57; Tennessee, 8591,882.39; Texas, 8241,153.48; Utah, 833,381.86; Vermont, 847,050.80; Virginia, 87,818,617.08; Washington Territory, 820,389.63; West Virginia, 8430,596.93; Wisconsin, 88,307,537.81; Wyoming. 815,063.37. Total, 8110,001,13860. A Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 24th says the total number of troops ordered to Washington up to that date was between 800 and 900. This Included eight companies, or batteries already there, and four companies of infantry which Lad received orders to come East from Fort Sill. The latter were sent from New York city to the West last spring to participate in the summer campaign against the hostile Indians.

THE EAST. The United States steamer Franklin, with Wm. M. Tweed on board, arrived at New York on the 23d. During the afternoon he was transferred to the custody of Sheriff Connor, and shortly after lodged in Ludlow Street Jail. The “ Boss” evaded all attempts at an interview, and only received his son. Extraordinary precautions have been taken to prevent bis escape, and directions have been issued that he shall be treated tho same as any other prisoner. The New York Tribune of the 25th says Gov. Hendricks, in his interview with Gov. Tilden, said that public sentiment in the Western States in regard to the election was so strong that he was impelled to come East to ascertain the condition of public feeling there. He expressed his “ admiration at the conduct of Southern Democrats who, without the least manifestation of turbulence, had appealed everywhere to the courts,” and was glad both in the West and on his journey Eastward, to notice the disposition of all parties to have matters amicably and lawfully settled. Gov. Tilden is said to have fully concurred with all of Gov. Hendrick’s remarks. The statue of Daniel Webster, donated to New York City by Gordon W. Burnham, was Unveiled on the 25th, with appropriate ceremonies, in the presence of a large number of spectators. A scandalous breach-of-promise case which, for two weeks previous, had been on trial before Judge Donahue, in one of the New York city courts, and in which a wealthy Spaniard named Del Valle was the defendant, was concluded on the 25th, by a verdict of fifty dollars for Miss Henriques, the plaintiff.

Hon. J. Milton Turner (colored) United States Minister to Liberia, having been refused accommodation at the Astor House, ’New York City, has commenced an action under the’provisions of the Civil-Rights bill, to recover 85,000. On the 28th, the Governor of Rhode Island called an extra session of the General Assembly, to meet Dec. 1, to elect a Presi dential Elector in place of George H. Corliss, adjudged by the Supreme Court ineligible. Gold closed in New York on the 28th, at 1.08%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, (New) [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, (New) [email protected]; Oats, Western Mixed and State,B3@4Bc; Corn, Western Mixed, 55@58c; Pork, Mess, 816.87%; Lard, 10%c; Flour, good to choice, |[email protected]; White Wheat Extra, [email protected]. Cattle, 8%@10%c for good to extra. Hogs, live, [email protected]. Sheep, 4%@6%c. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 27th, cattle brought: Beat, [email protected]; medium, 84.50 @4.75; common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphias, 85.70@ 5.80. Sheep brought [email protected]' according to quality.

WEST AND SOUTH. The Chicago Times of a recent date says a pretty definite idea of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry may be obtained from the following figures: The Grange has some twenty State purchasing agencies at least, three of which do an annual business of $200,000. During the past year it has had in active operation five Grange Banking Associations, one of which (at San Francisco) has a capital of $5,000,000, of which $500,000 was paid in; five steamboats dr packet lines; thirty manufacturing associations, whose capital ranges from $200,000 to $500,000; fifty associations fcr shipping goods and shipping purposes; thirty-two grain elevators; sixteen grist-mills, one of which produces 100 barrels of flour per day: twenty-two warehouses for storing goods; three tanneries and six smitheries. These are distinctly Grange enterprises, started with capital contributed by members of the Order, managed by them, and producing for their benefit. In addition there have been established 160 Grange stores to furnish members with supplies at wholesale prices, plus freight and hauling—the customers whofare stockholders dividing the profits. The Order has dedicated 144 hally, built or bought to sMe as places of meeting, one of which cost SIO,OOO. A dispatch received in New York on the 24th from Raleigh, N. C., says Dr. A. J. Glover, Supervisor of Elections at Swan Quarter, Hyde County, N. C.,was drowned on the night of Nov. 6, with Republican tickets for that county in his possession. The body was found some days after, nearly upright in the water, with his eoat drawn over his head and other evidences’ of violence. The election ticket* were never found. Several wooden buildings on West Madison street, near the river, in Chicago, were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 27th. Among them was a restaurant and lodging house, in which four inmates—James Allen, Agnes Healy, Emma Bradley and George

Bovad— were burned to death. Allen lost his life while trying to >ave Agnes. He leaves a wife and five children tn Boston, Mas*. Agnes Healy was a»ervant-girl, aged sixteen years. Emma Bradley was twentythree years old, and had been married only three months, her husband being an industrious young carpenter. George Bovad was a clerk in the restaurant, and was twenty-six years of age.. Rev. J. W. Williamson, D. D. t the distinguished Universalist aqthor and and one of the fathers of Odd Fellowship in America, died at Cincinnati on the 26th. He was seventy yean old. Com. Paul Bhirliy, of the United States Navy, died at Columbus, Ohio, on the 25th. An Old Fort Reno dispatch of the 26th, via Fort Fettevnan, Wy., Nov. 27, says Gen. McKenzie with ten companies of cavalry had just struck a large body of Sioux. Companies I and M, Fourth Cavalry, had been nearly annihilated. Lieut. McKinney was killed. They were sending mules from the infantry camp to bring in the dead and wounded. The fight was progressing at last accounts. In Chicago, on the 28th, spring wheat No. 2, closed at 81.12%@1.12%c cash. Cash corn closed at 43%c for No. 2; cash oats No. 2 sold at 32‘4@82%c; December options sold at 32%c; Barley, No. 2, 65@65Mc; Rye, No. 2, 66(®(56%c. Cash mess pork (New) closed at [email protected]; Lard, 89.70@ 9.72 ML Good to choice beeves brought 84.25 @5.00; medium grades, 83.50(34.00; butchers’ stock [email protected]; stock cattle, etc., 82.80 @3.30. Hogs brought 15.50(35.80 for good to choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for good to choice. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Alfred Allott, an extensive iron-master and coal mine proprietor, of Sheffield, England, has failed. His liabilities aggregateover 81,000,000. On the 24th, the Servian Minister of War issued an order entirely reorganizing the Servian army. It is divided into an active army and a reserve army. The former is composed of four corps. According to a Hamburg dispatch of the 24th, the Russian Government had contracted with a German firm for the immediate delivery of 3,soo‘torpedoes. According to London telegrams of the 25th, great distress prevailed in the iron mining and producing districts of Great Britain. Many of the furnaces had been shut down, thousands of workmen discharged, and the wages of those retained Very largely reduced. The same condition, and depression prevailed also in Germany and Belgium. James Whiteside, Lord Chief-Justice of the Court of Queen’p Bench in Ireland, died on the 26th. The Czar of Russia on the 25th issued an imperial ukase providing that, after Jan. 1, 1877, all customs duties shall be paid in gold, and that common carriers be relieved from responsibility when interfered with by circumstances beyond their control. In St. Petersburg and Moscow alone the subscriptions to the National loan exceeded the 100,900,000 rubles asked for. On the 27th, throughout Europe, speculations and rumors in respect to the Eastern question were abundant and contradictory. England and Russia were reported to be thoroughly in accord, and to have fully arranged the future programme, which was said to be an eminently peaceful one. On the other hand, it was reported that Russia was continuing her war preparations on a gigantic scale, and that a conflict with Turkey was deemed inevitable. A London dispatch of the 27th says Capt. Allan Young, who commanded the Pandora in her late trip to the Arctic regions, will, next spring, again attempt the Northwest passage in that vessel. On the 28th the French Chamber of Deputies rejected a bill to increase the stipends paid to the priests which was supported by the Government. A ministerial crisis was threatened. An Athens dispatch of the 28th says a ministerial crisis existed in Greece.