Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1877 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Tn lHHI”» W K* p"b!T«r < W»>‘tunsffifi Oev. Eolk*« Wrnt applied to the fmtilwt n* M i lor military protection mM apprehended Democratic violence at Ire* OHeasat fkfc latter called an extraordinary mettle #C the Cabinet on the 7th, and submitted a reply prepared by blm, which was unaulnyously approved of la the Cabinet and forerun!ed to Qov. Kbllork, aad the avb•taooc waa *Uo given by thePreeldent to the Associated Preaa an follows: “There will be two Inaugurations of Governor* to-naor do ’not* however, propose to Interim with them, I have nothing helm me to Jnattfy action in the way as the reaocnttton of cither Governor, and, therefore, cannot do so, particularly as a committee of each House of Congress is •ow engaged In investigating nil the facto of tha lata election, including the contents of the tgo Governors and two Legislatures, both claiming to be legally elected. Under theee circumstances, to recognise one or the other would be hardly Justifiable, and I have no Informed Gov. Kellogg." A Waaahtoroir special of the 7th states that, under orders of President Orton, the Manager of the Western Union Telegraph offr* there had eent to New Tork all the telegrams received at or eent from the form, at city during the camaaiga. The manuscript made a ear-load of freight Mb. TagD. 8. Winslow, a shipping cierk le the Treasury Department in Washington, and formerly of Chicago, was arrested on ths Bth on suspicion of having stolen the 6 13,000 package which so mysteriously disappeared from the Treasury Department a few flay* ago, and which has since been returned through a third party. Tn United Btefos Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, on the 10th, ordered Gen. D. M. Frost, of Bt. Louis, to be snbpomsed to testify in relation to his (Frost’s) alleged ineligibility as a Presidential Elector. A Washington dispatch of the 10th savs the House Committee on the Privileges, Powers aad Duties of the House in Counting the Electoral Vote had decided that the President of the Senate has no power to count ihe votes, aad the House has equal powega with toe Senate in the agency of counting them. There would be a minority report .!• * ' THE BAST. Jama Go SOON Bunitt, proprietor of the New Tork Herald , was hpraewhipped on the morning of the Sd, by the brother of Mias May, hto affianced. Bennett was to have been married on Christmas. He did not appear. Agaew arrangement was made, and the Sd was teed upon for the ceremony. Again the groom failed to appear. After waiting a long time for him to come, Prod May found Beuettjaat ns he was' coming out of the Union Club House, drew a rawhide aria struck him three blows acroCe the feed and forehead. The pnrtiaa were then separated. Telegrams of toe 4th say Bennett had challenged May to flghtaduel. One. Vabdbbbilt died at hie residence in Ney York city, on the morning of the 4th. He was in his eighty-third year. On the lit, the Short Mountain and Lykews Valley (Pa.) coal mines caught fire, and up so the 6th were burning with undiminished violence. A loss of several hundred thousand dollars had already been sustained, which promised to be greatly augmented. Mbs. ChablotteDk Forest Egbert, sister of the tote Com. Vanderbilt, died at her restdeuce, on Staten island, on the sth, of pneumonia. Bhe was eighty-five years and seven days old, or about two yean older than her brother. It to stated as a most remarkable fact in the annals of medical history that both site and her brother closed their eyes a few moments before they died, and that they remained tightly closed after death. The Commodore's funeral took place on the 7th, and, notwithstandir g the weather was very Inclement, a large number of persons called at the house prior to the removal of the remains to the Church of the Btrangero, where the funeral services were held. The floral offerings were of the most simple character, and all attempts at display were studiously avoided. The procession from the church to the Moravian Cemetery, on Staten bland, wss n large one. The monumept over the remains es the deceased is about thirty feet high, of grarilte, with a marble statue of “ Grief,” in front, and the simple inscription, “ Vanderbilt.” f BRent, the Louisville forger, arrived at Mew York on the 7th, from Europe, being Um first criminal surrendered to this Government under the re-established Extradition treaty. Ten will at Commodore Vanderbilt was offered for probate on the Bth. Hto son Wm. H. Vanderbilt secures the bulk of the property, although liberal bequests are made to Ms wife aad children. - ANbw Toes dispatch of the Bth states that the Bev. Drs. Wm. M. Taylor, R. 8. Stems, W. L BuddJngton, H. M. Scudder, Ituy Palmer, Qeotge BL Hepwerth, David B. Coe, A. EL Clapp, Benjamin N. Martin, Wm. H. Ward and several other clergymen of Mew Tork sad Brooklyn had united to form - a/pew Congregational Association, most of them having withdrawn from the old Association in consequence of its indorsement of Mr. Beecher. Tn New Hampshire Republican State Convention met at Concord on the 10th, and nominated Benjamin F. Prescott for Governor, andrTmnvUle P. Conn for Railroad Commissioner. The resolutions denounce toe alleged attempts by the “Democratic party of «hu South, countenanced and upheld by iw Northern wing, to rob the freed- , mea of their .franchise by Intimidation, vio„d tto effort kffttc torf«noia««,rt, rmtr, tte Presidential election, tqyecure an advantage which doe* not belong tp them, and thereby *mmm ** inauguration of Mr. Tilden as President. ANnwTokk dispatch says Dr. Charles Pbrite- whose name bad been associated May vu subpoenaed before the Grand Jury, on the 10th, by the District Attorney to testify concerning^tjto fosed to answer all quasttona, on the ground tost he would criminate bias self. He was Ishea before Judge GUdersleeve, in tbs Court of General Sessions, and, still refus-

ing, w« committed to tie City Prison for thirty toys for contempt of Court. A writ of JUftim tuinmi was subsequently granted. Gout eloaflh to Vow Tork on Jan. 10, at 106)4. Tha following were the closing quotations for produce: No 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, (New) $1 NO. t Milwaukee (New) 11.001.44; Oats, Western Mixed and State, *o@soc; Corn, WesUrp lfWod, 57X@58c; Pork, Mess, $18.50; Lard, 611.50; Flour, good to ekoleo, 15.8604.10; White Wheat Extra, [email protected]. CatUe, 9@loc tor good to extra. Hogs, live, $8.50(<h4.70. Sheep, $4 36@7 85. At East Llbartv. Pa., on Jan. 10, cattle brought: Best, 65.35@6j00; medium, 64 00 ff&OO; common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Torkers, [email protected]; Philadelphian, 65.000 n.Bo. Sheep brought SB.OO@AOO, according to quality. , MBITARBMVm Tn IllinoU and Indiana Legislatures met and organtoed on the 4th. In each case, the Democrats and Independents united and elected the Senate officers, and the Republicans those of the House. Gen. John A. Logan wss unanimously re nominated for United States Senator by the Republicans of the Illinois Legislature on the evening of the sth. The return of Gen. Crook’a command to Fort Fetterman was announced oathe 4th. Democratic State Conventions were held at Springfield, 111., Indianapolis, Ind., and Columbus, Ohio, on the Bth. The sttendance at each was large. The Illinois Democrats were addressed by Trumbull, Palmer and Farnaworth;, the Indiana by Judge Gooding, Dsn Voorhees, Julian and others; the Ohio by Gen.tWard and Geo. H. Pendleton. At each, resolutions were adopted. Those of Illinois declare that the counting of the votes tor President and Vice-President by thePresidcnt of the Senate without concurrence of both houses of Congress wonld be contrary to usage, revolutionary tn character and dangerous to the rights of tho people, and insist upon a fair and honest count under the supervision of both houses. The resolutions in the other States were substantially the same. Thi hostile meeting between J. G. Bennett and Frederick May took place one mile from Marydell, Md., on the afternoon of the Bth. The party represented themselves as ailroad officials. They had with them also maps of the peninsula, and to several parties they represented themselves as hunters on a gunning expedition, and such was the privacy of the whole affair that these statements were belieted in toe neighborhood. The scene of the meeting was a short distance from the line of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad. Three shots were fired without injury to either principals, after which the entire party left the grounds. The Tennessee Legislature , on the 9th, elected ex-Gov. Isham G. Harris United States Senator to succeed Senator Cooper, whose term expires on the 4th of March next The Wisconsin Legislature met and organised on the 10th, both branches electing Republican officers. In Chicago, on Jan. 10, spring wheat No. S, closed at 61.38>*@1.28# cash. Cash corn closed at 44c for No. 3, Cash oats No. 2 sold at3sK@3sJ{c; February options sold at S5Kc; Barley, No. 3, 66x@67c; Rye, No. 3, 72)4c. Cash mess pork (New) closed At 618.00; Lard, 611.37# @ 11.40. Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium grades, [email protected]; butchers’ stock 6&[email protected]; stock cattle, etc., $3.00 @8.75. Hogs brought [email protected] for good to choice. Bheep sold at [email protected] for good to choice. -.-i 1 ) i :v fOBUGII MTBUIGRRC*. Thi Emperor of Germany h», lately for. bidden any of his officers in active service to enter the Russian army. In of this order, Gen. Manteuf el has heed compelled to decline the command /offered him by the Czar. The extradition treaty between Spain and the United States was signed at Madrid, on toe sth. It includes -All. offenses except those of a political nature. Chkistiax Ferdinand' Winther, the celebrated Danish poet, and Rev. Riehard Cobb&ld, the English author, died on the 6th. A Berlin dispatch, of the 7th, Bays orders had been issued for the mobilisation of two army corps for the protection of the Polishfrontier. Vienna dispatches, of the 7th, say that Austria was collecting munitions of war at Bemlin, opposite Belgrade, with the avowed intention of seising the Sehton capital 14 case jtusaia occupied RoUmania. According to Pera telegrams, of the Bth, the Sultan had decided to dispense with his Minister of Finance and entrust this branch of the administration to French and English hands. A, Constantinople telegram of the 9th says RoUmania had notified the Porte that she considered herself.released from her vassalage to Turkey because Article 7 of the new Constitution violated her territorial aud governmental righto. According to Berlin dispatches of the 9th, Servia was negotiating with the Porjte for ah independent peace upon the basis Of the Mate quo before the war and the maintenance otthe treaty of Paris. • lx eonsequcnce of the position and üb_. easiness of Roumanla, toe Portte, on the 10th t declared that the new Constitution was’ purely internal and did not affect the fights of that principality, which were guaranteed by the Treaty of Paris. It was reported at Constantinople on the same day thait a Russian army in Turkiatan, 40.09 Q strong, had been destroyed by an uprising of the Inhabitant* ' iJ ‘ J T*rr LOUISIANA. The Democratic Legislature, on tile sth, adopted an address to the people of Louisiana, reviewing the recent canvass and elec-. tion. the action of the Returning Board, the" events of Jan. 1, the barricade of toe StateHouse, etc. . i , Gov. Kellogg, on the 6th, appointed three' Supreme Judges, to hold office foe eight year* The Democratic LegtoUt*re.pa»#ed a joint resolution declaring the canvass of toe tote election by the Returning Board null and void, and directing the preparation of an act providing for a proper and legal canvass of such returns. The Republican Legislature passed a bill prohibiting the formation of military organisations other than militl* it ; Messrs. Packard and Antoine were Inaugurated .as Governor and Lieutenant-Gov-ernor at the State-House in Mew Orleans, at 1:80 ob the Bth, The oath of office was ad mint-* t« red by Chief Justice Ludeling. It to stated that when Mr. Antoine was concluding hto remarks a crowd of about 600 persons collected, and, after hooting and ‘-Jeering at the police

M the floor bf the fltete-HqOle, began peltiiMf UiffSCA with oyster-shells* and other mia* TR ,, dffre r SS!S C, iredJ «nd* romqpartii then proceeded to deface Gov. Kkllon’s carriage, which w*« standing near. TOomis Hoy lac, Nlcholls’ newly-appointed Chief of Police, appeared, and dispersed the crowd. At one o’clock p. m. of measure day Gen. Nii-holla left the City Hotel for St Patrick’s Hall, Where he wa# received with" trerircndoue -cneers by the assembled thousands. Geo. Nlcholls appeared on the balcony at t:10, where the oath of office was administered to hint by Judge Tlssol. Alter his insngnral address he and Wilts were escorted by the Legislative committee to Odd-Fellows’ Hall, where they received the congratulations' of their friends. Gov. Nlcholls appointed Col. Thomas Boy ton, a well-known detective, Chief of the Metropolitan Police, who established his headquarters at Masonic Hall, where a force was being organised. At daylight on the morning of the 9th, a large number of citisens. who had been mastered in as militia by the Nlcholls Government, assembled with arms at Lafayette Square, with the avowed purpose of maintaining the Superior Court which bad been abolished by the Kellogg Government. At 11:60 Nlcholls’ militia took possession of the Supreme Court building and installed the Judges appointed by Nlcholls. The police stations were also taken possession of by the militia. While this wm being done, Gov. Packard and Marshal Pitkin were busily engaged communicating with the authorities at Washington. The police telegraph wires had been cut and the Packard Government kept up communication with the various quarters of tbe city with the aid of tbe signal service officers of ihe army. The Nlcholu Government was in possession of everytUbg except tbe State-House at last accounts. Is the afternoon some one fired into the Auditor’s Office in the lower portion of the State-House, and for a time there was great excitement. Soon after, Gov. Nidboll* issued a proclamation, urging the citizens to retire to their homes and commit no excesses whatever. At nine o’clock in the evening, the agent of the Associated Press attempted to enter the State-Huuse to interview Gov. Packard, but was baited by Nlcholls’ policeman and refused admission. Gov. Packard and the Legislature were in the State-House, but the new police refused to allow provisions to be carried inside, and Gov. Packard and the Legislature were in a state of siege. The Republican Legislature had no quorum in either branch, as some of the members were outside, and asserted that they were afraid to risk their lives inside. Consequently no action was taken toward the election of United States Senators. All kinds of sensational,rumors were afloat during the evening, notably one that the State-House was to be attacked. On this subject, prominent Democrats stated that the plan of the Democrats was to have the Supreme Court enjoin Packard from usurping the functions of Governor, and, in the event of his to have him arrested for contempt. At ten o’clock p. m. all was quiet. The Nlcholls Government had a strong police force on duty throughout the city. A dispatch was received by Augur, from Secretary es War Cameron, to the effect that the Government in Washington had been notified “that unauthorized armed bodies of men are organized and assembling in a manner to threaten the peace and safety of the city (New Orleans). If this be so, notify the leaders of such organizations that they must desist, on pain of coming in conflict with the United States authority, sustained by the military power of the Government. Report at once the situation and your action, keeping in mind the fact that this order has no reference to the recognition of eithei of the, claimants for the Governorship, or either Legislature.’’ In the Democratic Legislature, on the 10th, a ballot was taken for Senator for the long term, but no result was reached. On the preceding day, J. B. Eustice had been Elected United States Senator for the short term. In the Republican Legislature ex-Gov. Kellogg whs elected United States Senator for the long term. One ballot was taken for short-term Senator, in which Antoine received fifteen votes, Pinehback twentyone, and Lewis thirteen—all colored candidates. No choice was effected. In the Republican House, Mr. Warmoth introduced a resolution in favor of the appointment of a joint committee of j eight to confer witu a like committee of the Nicholls Legislature, to advise and report measures to secure a peaceful settlement of the political, contest relative to the State Government. This resolution went over under the rule. The condition of affairs in New Orleaus continued unchanged, and Gen. Augur stated that he anticipated no furtner trouple. He had notified both Nicholls and Packard that he would only interfere to keep the peace. An injunction had been asked for by Att’y-Gen. Ogden (Nicholls) prohibiting Alfred Shaw Urom acting as Judge of the Superior Court, lately crea ed by the Republican Legislature. Three Napoleon and two Gatliug guns were takeu from the State Arsenal by the Nicholls Government. The following dispatch was sent to Gen. Augur: War Department, Jsn. 10,1877. To Gsn. C. C. Augur, New Orleans, La.: It Is reported that the State-House in New Orleans ft surrounded by a mob. If tnis is so, notify all persons to dieper-e, and c. mpel a compliance with your order It is the determination of the President to see that the Legislature is not molested. When he has fall Enowlege of all the facts in the premises, fie will decide which 'should be recognized. J. D. Cameron, Secretary of War.

CONGRESSIONAL. Ik the Senate, on the sth, the resolution declaring that Wm. M. Turner was in duty bound to answer the questions propounded to him by the Committee on Privileges and Elections in regard to the transmission of telegraphic messages through his office at Jacksonville, Ore., was taken up, debated and voted upon—the vote standing yeas 83, nays 3. No quorum vo,ing, an adjournment was had to the Bth... .In the House, the B«nate amendments to the bill making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions were concurred in. The Sergeant-at-Arms was directed to re aln Mr. Barnes in cu-tody. The Contingency Defiaiency bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, reported and passedTbe Senate was not in session on the 6th.... A bill wan passed in the Hoqse authorizing the Bank Commissioners, in property sold under foreclosure, to secure the debts of the Freedman's Bank, and to sell the same at public or private sale, when it U for the interest of the bank to do *O, and a so modifying their former action. Thß Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. In Um Senate, on the Bt|i,- hlr. Sherman presented a petition, which was referred, from prominent business men and citizens of Cincinnati, of both political parties, asking an amicable settlement ui the Presidential con.est. Mr. Morton oaeivd a resolution directing the Btoaident of .toe Senate to issue a warrant lor the arrest or Enos 1 tun yon, of New > ork. for his refaeai to answer questions propounded belore the Committee on Privileges and Elections, relative to the check for $A' 00 drawn hy hia house in favor of Ladd A Bush, of Salem, Oregon The resolution requiring Wm. M. turner. Manager Of the Western Union Telegraph oifiee at Jacksonville, Oregon, to answer the' questions propounded before the same Committee meet, waa passed—36 to 3. A concurrent resolution waa sobmi ted prescribing rules for the counting of (be Electoral. votee, aad a series of resolutions were also offered instructing the Special Committee on the Presidential question to report as to the powers of the Electoral College, etc. A bill was introduced, and referred, to -ecure tho rights of settlers noon certain railroad toads . . .Bllto arete introdaced in the House—for paying the legal-tender debt in harmony with juaticeand the pledgad faith of the Goveiiment; to extend for ten years the Southern. Cl ims Commission: for the free coinage of silver dollars, aad making them a legal tender; to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic Seaa; to utilise tne product of gold and silver miner, and to authorise paper circulation convertible into gold and silver; to provide for the counting of tkePvreMcaiial Electoral vote Resolutions wars detested for want of a tWo-thirds majority—ending 'or information as to the purposes fur which troops have recently been stationed at Washing ton; requiring ihe Judiciary Committee to report a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the pay-

I input of War claims except to loyal persona; flectarieg la favor of the rights of HtaUe to regulate th -lr o»a doino-tic affaire, and deeouae n* the lawless invasion by armed force 91 the soil of any Mia 10 or Territory, no matter under what pretext, a* the gravest of crimes. . ,J In the Senate, on the 9th, the Hotiae bill to abolish the Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police of . the District of Columbia, and to transfer its duties to the Commissioners of tha District, was passed by a unanimous vote. A re-oluiion ordering the arrest of Enos Kunvon, the reensent witness la the Oregon Electoral investimation, waa passed, without division....ln the Doom, » resolution was paaa.d requiring the arrest of Mr. otton. President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, for hie refusal to appear before the Committee «m Louisiana Affairs at New Orleans. A bill wos lw trod need to regulate commerce among the States. A resolution was adopted calling on the Preeirlent for papers in the State and War Department* relative to tho Imprisonment by Mexicans ol John J. Smith, an American, and also to the wounding and robbing, by Mexican soldiers, of Samuel Higgins. The Senate bill to correct the stai me to punish counterfeiting, so as to require the intent to he shown, was passed. A bill was Introduced in the Senate, on the 10th, extending fortwo years the act establishing a Board of Southern Claims Commissioners. A resolution was adopted requesting tbe Secretary of State to transmit to tbe Senate the report of the Mexican Claims Commissioners, with an amendment calling upon the President also for a report I not, in bis opinion, Incompatible with the public lntere-t. A resolution was submitted and referred to print &00 additional copies of the testimony taken before the Committee on Privileges and Elections regarding the elections in Louisiana, Florida and Month Carolina, and the Electoral vote In Oregon....ln the House, a bill authorizing a bridge across the Ohio River, between Cincinnati and Covinuton, without pivot draw, was rejected—yeas, 74; nays, 1«S. The Diplomatic Appropriation bill was considered-in Committee or the Whole. THE INVESTIGATIONS. [Compiled from Associated Press Reports, unless Otherwise Designated.] LOUISIANA. The Senate Committee on the sth examined three colored men in regard to the election in Morehouse Parish, all of whom testified that a large number of colored men voted the Democratic ticket at the last election, and there was no intimidation. Two other witnesses also testified to a fair and peaceable election in Morehouse Parish, and that numbers of negroes voluntarily voted the Democratic ticket. The sub-committee heard the testimony of Lieut George Arch, of the Third Infantry, in regard to the election in Cast Ba'on Rouge, whose general testimony was to the effect that it was fair and peaceable. Testimony of a similar nature was given by other witnesses. Before the House Committee, J. B. Harris, of Point Conpee Parish, Liberal Republican, testified that he nad accompanied Packard into East Baton Rouge, Bast and West Feliciana, and found the colored Republicans felt they could not vote their ticket with safety in the country, and tkat Republican speakers there were jeered at and insulted, but well .rested in Richland Parish; he thought the natural Republican majority in the S ate is 10,000, and that no considerable number of colored men voted the Democratic ticket of their own choice. D. B. Gorham, of Nachitoches, and District Attorney, testified that dnrine the campaign he visited Onachita, and found a reign of terror there: found the colored fieople afraid to a tend Republican meetings, and oinine Democratic clubs for gaiety. The subcommittee heard several witnesses In reference U) Livingston Parish. E. B. Lockport, Repo r dican candidate for Sheriff, stated that he wad fairly defeated, and tbe election was fair and peaceable. George White (colored) said his house was burned because his sons were accused of stealing hogs; never said it was bnrned because be was a Republican; if affidavits to that effect were before the Retnrning Board they were false. M. A. Leddet. Supervisor of Registration, testified that Moore, Republican candidate for toe Senate, offered him $2,500 to retnrn him elected. Tony Clark (colored) st .ted that he was Recorder of Mortgages for East Feliciana, in 1875, and had been notified to leave there, aud had to do so, because he was a Republican. James DeGray (colored)said be had held several offices; he had been forced to resign the last one. that of Tax Collector; nnmerous outrages had been perpetrated on the hlackq In East Feliciana; did not vote the Republican ticket; was afraid to. No witnesses were examined before the Senate Committee on the 6th, and bat one (of Baton Rouge) before the sab-committee, and his evidence developed nothing of special importance. D. B. Gorham, District Attorney of Natchitoches, wag before the House Committee, and said be sever knew he was a candidate till after the election, aud the law required him to live in the district, but be aid not lire therp; he acknowledged writing a letter to United states Marshal Pitkin, asking for a blank commission for Supervisor of Registration in Onachita in the event of Supervisor Brady failing to meet the expectations of tie party; thought the Republican vote had been diminished B.OUO or 10,000 by the disturbances, and that the Republican majority proper is about 25,C80. Joseph E. Williams (colored), of Orleans, testified that he assisted in organizing a Democratic Club; never had more than seven or eight members; was accused of collecting money for tbe club and appropriating it to his own use; voted the Republican ticket becansethe Democrats did not nse him right; believes 1f the Democrats were In power the condition of tbe colored people in some sections wonld be worse than that of slavery. A few other witnesses were examined, whose evidence was similar to that of previous witnesses.

• / Jpotii committees were in session on the Bth, and conflicting testimony, similar to that given on previous days, was heard from addiK witnesses. John W. Harrell, a planter, d that the co’oredpeople were intimidated, and afraid to vote the Republican ticket, and that his hands were threatened if they voted the Republican ticket they could not live in the parish (East Feliciaua), and that he would be afraid of his life had he voted the Republican . ticket. Robert T. Young testified that the election was peaceable; that Ells and Carter, who were shot, lived on bis place, and said that they had been waited ,on by the Union Rights Stop Clubs; heard ihe firing when they were shot: went to Ellis; he told witness he had been shot by negroes, giving their names, and that they said they were going to, kill the last Democratic negro in the parish. Before the Senate Committee, on the 9th, the Rev. John Reilly and six others (colored men) testified to nnmerous sets of violence and a reign of terror among tbe blacks in East Feliciana. One of the witnesses stated that he was taken out by a band of men and hnng up hy the neck: another that he was afraid to vote the Republican ticket, and a third that he waa severely whipped and compelled to vote the Democratic ticket. Reilly stated that there had been a great deal of cotton stolen there, and there was much dissatisfaction with the officials, not only Republicans, bnt also Democrats. Samuel Robinson and seven other colored men testified they had voted the Democratic ticket withont intimidation, because i hey thought the times were worse and wanted a change. Nothing was done by the House Committee to-day beyond continuing the examination of Col. Zaoharie in regard to the action of the Returning Board. - Before the Senate Committee, on the 10th. six colored men of East Feliciana testified that they were intimidated, and through fear were forced to vote tbe Democratic ticket. SuServisor Anderson testified to the general Intimiatlon of colored voters, and detailed an attempt to assassinate himself, and said his protest to the returns was njade in New Orleans, because he dare not make it there Judge Thomas JB. Lyons, es that parish, testified to the general cnracter of the canvass there: while stating:that the election was lair and peaceable, he admitted there had been a great amount of lawlessness In the parish, caused more hy the ravages of thieves; hat that the argument which indneed the colored voters to join the Democrats was that they should have protection, and all lawlessness trout which they and she whites had sufficed should be put down. With regard to East Baton Rouge, two white and two colored men testified befoi e the sub-committee to a peaceful election and no intimidation, while another colored wi.ness testifl d to general intimidalien, interruption of Republican, meetings, and that he had b.en shot at several times. Before the House Committee, W. 8. C ttlin, of New Orleans, chief clerk of the Republican Comntlttaeon Registration, testified to the effect that be . thought the registration was eorrarti and according to law. Wm. R. Williams (colored) raid he waa Deputy United Slates Marshal at Poll 5. Ninth Ward. Orleans, and on the evening of the election Alfred Bourger, Republican candidate for Sheriff, asked, him how the election was going, and, on his replying Democratic, Hoarser tola him he must enter* protect to that poU u it would help the ward, but witness declined to do so, as the election was fair. The sub-committee heard the testimony of several witnesses to the effect that the election in tile parish of St. Landry waa devoid of intimidation. A number of witnesses from tho parishes of Lafourche, Iberia and Franklin also testified to a peaceable election. John Butler and J. O. Wise, of Rapides, testified to the bad character of J. Madison Wells, and that he would not-ae believed on oath in the pariah on any question in which he was concerned. ' OREGON. !_ Got. Grover was examined before the Committee op Privileges and Elections on the SUI He stated that he issued certificates of elec-

tton SO the throe highest sel au thoritbSTi Sldveto luillri” sons In office were cited; witness gpondence by Utter with any person or perxohs in * New York, laregaid to Watts’ case; be received a telegram from ex-Senator Gwtn stating that ■ m eff el ■ cn «ai I m i. .it la mrel ■».* a* • TrXWD UVHIWU6 IO|(M KtUlklclUA U i ii»M*Km V , Watts ineligible, and he wanted to know by what time the uues lou bad to be settled; Abram a. Hewitt, or New York, eent witness a communication in which 'wo decision* in Indiana, one in Maryland and one In Pennsylvania were cited m being appUnMe hi WaUa'euej,MauUM> Marble, of New York, telegraphed witness, eaiffiTg attention to Wstto’ case, aad Witness answered that be then had Ihe case under consideration; vltnees bad met Mr. Patrick once; met him in the Executive office tn sslam; Patrick waa introduced to witness by g.-nator Rally: nitores knew nothing about Patrick, aad looked upon his caM at the Executive office ait a cffipUfficnt. Augustus P. R. Martin, of the firm of Martin ARnnyau, stock broken. New Vork, testified; it appears, from a stub in the flrani check book, that a check waa drawn by them on the Bank of North America. Dec. 6, 1876. for SB,OOO, payable to Ladd A Bush, of Salem, Oregon; witu. ns said hewaswccompanied to Washington by Barton Harrison, of New York, who advised him to give no heurrav tesnmouy; had no previous acquaintance with Harrison, and coaid not say what his (Harrison's) traslnea* occupation was; was introduced to him in his (Harrison’s) office tn Pine street : witness is a Repub lean and his partner (Rsnvan) a Democrat. Gov. Grover testified, on "the ftikt he knew of no money having been sent to Oregon for election purposes of any sort; did not know that money wss raised by sshscripiion by toe Chairman of tbe State Democratic Committed to pay the expenses of the Electoral messenger: there were no arms in the State-Honse or In the private house of witness on the day of tbe meeting of the Electoral Col- ( lege, or at any time afterward; was aAsnred from New York that certain parties ib the East would be respons.blefor all the necessary expenses ini this Electoral matter! it was after the College met that Bellinger collected money for theme-sen-ger’s expenses. Enos Runyon, or New YdrkepqMtlvely declined to give the name of the customer for whom they drew the $8,009 check, payable to Ladd A Bush, of Oregon. Barton Harrison, in response to questions pnt to him by Senator Mitchell, testified that he waa, during the rebellion, the Secretary of Jefferson Davis, and for two years, np to last December. Secretary and legal adviser of Mayor Wickham, of New* York; was consulted, on the 4th, by Mr. Rnnvon, regarding the subpoena received by him; had no previous acqnaintance with them, hot had reason to expect a call from one of them on that day, because a friend, in private conversation that day, foreshadowed the fact; on being pressed to do so, witness stated that said friend was W. T. Felton, Secretary of the Democratic National Committee; Pelton stated to witness that, he (Pelton) did not know why Martin and Rnnyon had been subpoenaed, and bad no knowledge ol their business. Mr. Cionin. wishing to retnrn home to attepd to his private business, waß excused from further attendance . Charles Dimond, of 115 Liberty street, New York, teitified, on the Bth, that he is a banker doing business for A. E. A C. E. Tilton, New York. Ladd & Bush, Oregon, and others; witness met the firm of Martin A Kunyfffion theHth of December for the first time; ontttuit date Runyon came to witness’ office and left word that he wanted to see witness; witness went to Runyon’s office, and Rnnvon gave him a check for SB,OCO, payable to Ladd A Bush, Oregon; witness gave Rnnvon a telegraph dispatch, which was read: “ To Messrs. Lada A Bash, Salem, Ore.: Martin A Runyon have deposited SB,OOO to your account;” the aispaichwasin the cipher need by him and those he does business with: he was not requested, to pnt the dispatch in cipher nor to keep ihe transaction secret; Ladd A Bash telegraphed witness, Dec. 11, to return the SB,OOO to Martin A Rnnvon; he does not know why the SB,OOO was returned unused. Mr. Klippell, one of the Democratic candidates for Elector in Oregon, testified on tbe 9th that he had. a pistol (five-shooter) in his pocket on the day of the meeting of the Electoral .College, hat did not know there was another armed nan about the Capitol; money was collected by Mr. Bollinger tb pay CTonlH's • expenses, aad fopay the fees of lawyers who argued against issnliig the certificates of election to Watts at the hearing before Gov. Grover. Other witnesses were called, apparently, to confirm or contradict tho statements of previous witnesses.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

Wherever were horrors more- conglomerated than at the Ashtabula disas : ter? Off the track! Bridg&going down! Falling seventy feet! Into the water! Surrounded by ice arid snow! Wrapped inflames! Crashing! Drowning! Burning! Freezing! —Two men named Pettingill and Bean, who had been to the, Twin Mquntain House on a pleasure excursion, lately, hitched their hand-car to the rear of a locomotive, when a wheel on the; car broke and the men were thrown out, Pettingill being instantly killed and Bean seriously wounded. —The other day some of the boys induced a young man from Flint Creek to take hold of the handles of a galvanic batteiy. As It puckered l)tm up, he roared: “ Jiminy Criminy, ietf up! Who ever heard of a tiling that could make you taste green persimmons with your hands before ?”—Burlington Hawk-Bye. —An attempt was made at Rochester, N. Y., recently, to bum the celebrated painting of Lookout Mountain. A hole about twice the size of a man’s hand was made in the canvas immediately below the figure of Gen. Hooker, bat, as the Incendiary had only matches with which to start the flames, he wag unable tp burn the whole work. : —Says the Bolton (Tex.) Rmiew: “A young man living in the country went to sleep the other day, just after his nose had been bleeding, without washing the blood off it. While he slept it was bitten by flies, and a short time afterward tit was found that screw-woftns were devouring him. A skillful physician from the, city was summoned. When 4be physteiSn arrived the young man begged the faiqily not to tell what was the matter, but to no purpose. The doctor did all in his power, but the worms had done their work, and the young i»aii died.” , . —Charles Gray is dead. Few people know who Charles Gray was, but there is a story folds life not o{ the usual humdrum order. He was eccentric inhabits, had no relatives in the world, so far as is knowp, and lived all alone for thirty-flye fears' at Port Byron, Rock Island County, 11. He used to drive a stage between Davenport, lowa, and Dixon, 111., before railroad time#, that being the triail route to Chicago. A few days since frq was wasfounddeadih his lonely house at. 'Port Byron —dead'in his Old anmehair. In his house were found Government bonds to the amount of slß,ooo—a little fortune left without a known heir. —Mr. Archibald Higgins; of Ellis, Cab, suffered an accident, the other day, under peculiar circumstances. He had just rer turned home from Bantas wlth his (earn, and was standing by his wagon .removing some articles from it, at the same time keeping hold of the horses’ reins, when a shot-gun that had stood in the house, leaning up in a comer, fell down and was discharged. The charge was a heavy one. Passing through tbe side of the house, it tore away three or four indies of a bench on the outside, and hit the man. Three shots entered the smalt of the back and probably entered the pelvic cavity, as probing did not discover them. Several shot entered the man’s legs and penetrated very deeply, so that probing did not find them. Two or three passed through the flesh. One hit the heel and made an ugly wound . There waa no one in the house at the time the gun fell down, and the Cause Of its fall is entirely tiokaown. The man held on to the topca end was dragged some distance, when it was stopped, aad he got up and walked into the house, where he fainted.

Com. Vanderbilt's Hours-Sketch of His Life.

1 AJKew Tflfl special (Jan. 4) to the ChiScagfFVt&ttn#'gives the following account *Of Ore last Mfors of Mr. Vanderbilt: Com. Vanderbilt died a few tuln the evening he waa placed in hto rollingchair and taken to his atttitog-rooaK There he conversed with his fariflly -tabd ata fiwnfi, Mr. William TrambulL At ten o'clock he retired’,' tortlng renifeatable. At-twoin Utc morning he grew suddenly worse, anadlea of exhaustion as toe hour stated. The Comder, but it did not paae away as be expected, aud pupped hto str|pgih from duy to A gentleman WhA Wafi.present When Vanderbilt died, and who has spent much time with MtkJroom;gives this account of his last hours: He said that on Thursday tost it seemed to Wm that he Waa e/s s weakness for the last month, with one or two periods of rallying. On Wednesday evening he saw one or two of his friends, with whom he talked cheerfully until nearly ten o’efobk, and it 4 waa thought ,by those Who were with him that iye was brighter than he waa in the morning. After the company went away bo conversed wit* Mrs. Vanderbilt upon religious subjects vary earnestly. Hto faith seetned very neat, and ho expressed himself deliberately and decidedly. Amonif other things, he sold: “ No: I shall never cease to >trust* Jesus. Jfow could I over let that go?” He spoke also of his consciousness of his ignorance in regard to spiritual things—fair Instance, the existence and operations of toe Holy Ghost; but- hto Ignorance did not stand tn the way ofrhto faith, He said he refid the Bible, and tried to understand it as well as he could, and whatever it said he. firmly believed. About two a. m. a change came again, and at four he had grown much weaker. Later. in tbe morning his children and pastor were sent for. Dr. Downs arrived about ntaoetaloek, and l)to famHyarrivod ftlittlf a The Udmoii/dorie found great tßffldnls la speaking, and could makp but few utterances during the last hour/ of’ It to life/ He took intereßt in passages es fidfiptutakepeated from time to time, and upon one of the ladies making a suggestion in regard to singing, he misunderstood her, and ra tae no sign of assent. A little later he turqetj to liia wife and said: ”I thought, you wonld sing.’’ A few of his,favorite hymns were th an sune, with pauses between. Tftfc' first hymn sung was *‘Bbew ptty, Lord; ob, the singing, and even attempted,? with hto hoarse voice, to join in a hymn which always interested him. A K ifrai’ the 6ne beginning with the Words, 1 “ Come, ye sinners, poor and needy.” he was so low, whenever, that luqpn was sung, he invariably tried to join In it, generally adding, at the close: poor, I am needy, weak and wounded, /kick and sore,” Dr. Deems proposed prayer, to which he seCroed gladly to accede. At this time It looked as though hto strength was failing so rapidly that very soon , he would not be able to expectorate,, so that [the friends about him anticipated, a strmfgjc at tbe last. Among other things toe pastoi prayed that God would be pleased in His mercy to vouchsafe unto the sufferer an easy departure out of his great pain into cyerlask ing life. The Commodore evidently followed the whole prayer, and; wh-eh-it wm Moled with the bqnedietion, be reheated V«h the minister the words, “The bicesing es God Almighty, the Father, Bon and Holy Ghost,” and his voice then < failed 1 'hlia- lHeladterward attempted'to speak several timfsf but could not artieulata wMh sufficient clearness to make himself understood,After the lapse of some time he turned to bit wife, who was sitting beside hiih', arid hia mind seemed to recur so tbenreycr toat bad been offered, and he said, “That | good prayer.” These were the last woeda, ne uttered. Mrs. yandcrbJitVfejufod, because it expressed Just your sennnfentt now.” He couldbot spenkybut notified assent. The obstruction lirhls throadmpparently ceased to be painful, and he closed hto mouth for a few minutes, awbe hed- been seen to do byhla friedds When .thinking closely.' /His eyes irrigtatMncd.fifid his fiijmth opened, utter whiok, cfofcing he breathed quickly a left jump and <*• «>irciL /f it,W:sl J( p, 1 pL l tosato-iw -« Je , uOG

' When it was known thathe has C<jape<J to exist, deep sobs were heard throughout the room. Mrs. Vanderbilt was very/deeply affected, as were many of those around! her. The grief of the family and friends'‘was shared by the two faithful female nurses who have been In Attendance on the Commodore for many days and nights during his 1 illness, and the old servants of the family wbre also much affected. Miss Phmbe,Vanderbilt', the Commodore’s.' sister,' and Capt. Jaco w Vanderbilt, of Staten Island, were ndtritf the house when' h e ffifed. 'They weifcr detained on Staten Island by the illness es Mrs.’ Egbert, a widowe d sister’of the Commodore, eightyVour years of age, and now lying at the point of death. The news of the Cotnrtqdote’l diafth’ had been so long expected, that k uf^de'but .little stir on Wall street. ■ ». J . »**w o! BIOftB APHIOAL. U The Chicago Journals[yefi the . following brief sketch of >Mr. Vanderbilt’* Jife: Cornelius Vanderbilt was born cm Staten Island,,. 1^ay.27,1794. His. education, was .very meager. At the age of sixteenhq be4s%Dusiuesßj, buying a boat. Which he pliedJMiwecn the ferry, ofhia neighborhood End New York. ThrPe years lateFhe married. He' #tn:ibhrdly be said to have relinquished bUeiMss^until the day of his death. Few men have begun man-hood-life oseturly, or BMrin&laed k hold.upon the activities of the world ablate, as dfiUCommodore Vanderbilt. He was a giant. Whatever he did at all he did in a nifftcrly way. He, remained in the navigation business until he outgre* it in wealfh and the magnitude of his ambition. Ha controlled the commerce betwefctt' Newt York and Aspinwall nearly all the time f lota the commencement of the California fever until the completion Of the Fuel Ho Railroad! •During his steamship career, Mpu Vanderbilt owned not less than twenty steamers, half of them being constructed- hlmsdf, and counting all his steam craft, on alas and rivers, his fleet numbered sixty-sijt vessels. From this business he retired with a fortune estimated *t 140,000,000’. Entering railroad speculation,. the Commodore rlskeu niuch, and without loss, lls slock in 'WWW railroads, anlong them thCTlOTjeplTTOrtl Harlem, HudsonTtlyu'r At Cepirri/'aud Ihfe Lake Shore <ft tliehigoh- Southern Railroausfbeing estimated dn value at wcarly 1 #l«*»MO,e00. Mr. Vanderbll t gave liberally in certain directions, his gift to theVanderhiit University in Nashville, Tenn.,. being o lm. million dollars. amm wnlt;h .ijift placed that school upon a basts poor thin is genarttay supboeld. His' list of regular pensioners was quite long. He made no display of charity to individuals. He was munifioent to his, eopUHmtteMuflqring the Vanderbilt, nan managed tie van estate for seme time pan, anils fully competent* to assume the arduous task. It is not expected the demise of the father will make any material difference with tfe* railway affaire of the country. • _ the death of Fielding Bradford, Professor of tute. He urns regarded as the first paleontologist in this country, and had but two or three equal* In the world. About eighteen yean ago he became quite deaf, and since httfhhlPf&jSocMtt AWF®* * h«ait-Uho#fe at the institute, haying no other, companions than his books and fossils He had just entered his sixtieth year.