Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

A WaaßDtero* dispatch of the 16th says the action of the Electoral Commlwlon on UM Louisiana cue wsa the subject of nnlwraal eomssenL Republicans were rtjolctqg, while Dessecrsts were corve»pondln<ly Aepreaaed. A special to the Chicago TVitane says Mr. Hewitt had stated that there would he no attempt by the Democrats to delay the onnntof the Electoral votes. Although they felt that they were entitled to the Presidency, they had agreed to accept the arbitration, •nd intended to abide by the decision. A caucus of Democratic Senators and Representative* was held in Washington on the evening of the 17th, at which Mr. Ciyensr presided. After an animated discus•ion a resolution was adopted, by a vote of sixty-nine to forty, declaring that “the count of the Electoral vote shall proceed without dilatory opposition, to the orderly execution of the act of Congress creating the Electoral Commission, whose decisions shall gbe received and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of said law.” Incorporated with this resolution was “ the solemn and earnest protest of the Democratic party against the gross and ahasnelees violations of law, justice and truth contained in the decisions of the majority who signed the same in the cases of Florida and Louisiana.” Fkbd. 8. WnrsLOw, who was recently indicted for the larceny of the $12,000 package from the United States Treasury Department tn Washington, has been sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary. Rbar-Abmiral Charles H. Davis, Superintendent «f the Naval Observatory in Washington, died on the morning of the 18th, of disease of the heart * Ata caucus of Democratic Senators and Congressmen tn Washington, on the evening of the 19th, resolutions were offered,but not voted on, denouncing the action of the Sectoral Commission in the Louisiana case. A motion was finally adopted that the caucus should take a recess until the count of the Oregon vote in the joint meeting of the two houses. Those of the caucus who favored extreme measures did no’, owing to the preponderance of the conservative dement, ask for a discussion of the questions presented. The caucus stood by their action of the night of the 17th. Kara-Admiral Louis M. GolDsbobough died in Washington on the morning of the 40th, of typhoid pneumonia. This is the sixth death among Rear-Admirals within four or live weeks. A Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 90th states that, on that day, Congressman Ellis, Col. Burke and Counselor Cavannac, of Louisiana, called on President Grant and explained to him the condition of affairs in that State. The President replied that he was satisfied Got. Nicholls was acting In good faith In preserving the statu y»o, and he therefore had no intention of changing his instructions to Gen. Augur. In the course of the conversation the President said Gov. Nicholls should not be held responsible for the freak of the crazy man who shot Packard. Eakly on the morning of the 16th, Joe Coburn, the notorious pugilist, shot and dangerously wounded two police officers in New York City. It appears Officer Tobias had ordered a hackman from in front of Coburn’s saloon on Broadway, and was followed up by Coburn, who deliberately fired two shots, one taking effect in the breast sad the other in the arm of the officer. An•ther police officer named JeflYiee, hearing the firing, ran to the assistance, of his cemnde, when Coburn fired again, wounding the second officer in the side. Coburn was swrested. J "'— Tbb banking bouse of King A Son, New York City, was robbed on the afternoon of the 17th, of two tin boxes, said to contain United States bonds, mortgages, securities, etc., valued at 9160,000. The robbery occurred while a member of the firm was unbelting the safe to place the boxes therein. Ami at Sag Harbor, L. 1., on the night of the 17th, destroyed thirty-three buildings in the north and northeast portions of the village. Loss estimated at 9200,000. Judos H. W. Williams, of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, died in Pittsburgh, ob the 19th, «f heart disease. Thb election in Philadelphia on the 96th resulted ia the re-election of Mayor Stokely (Rep.) by about 3,000 majority. On the same day the Democrats of Pittsburgh,' Pa., elected Liddell and McCarthy for Mayor and Comptroller, and the Republicans elected Kilgore Treasurer, over Cosgrove, Democrat. A few minutes before noon on the 15th a man. who gave his name as William H. Weldon, and'cl aimed to be an attache of the Philadelphia Jtata, gained access to the room «C Gov. Packard in New Orleans, and, after sitting a few momenta, arose and presented a pistol at the Governor’s head. The latter atrack down the man’s hand just as the pistol went off, and the ball struck the Governor’s knee-pan, inflicting a slight wound. The Governor, who was not armed, caught the fellow by the throat and threw Mm against the wall before he had an opportunity to fire again, and struck him. There were several gentlemen In the room at the during he excitement that followed tike assassin was shot in the arm, and would have bncn killed had not the Governor interfered. Inquiries in Philadelphia developed the feet that no man by the name of Weldon was connected with that paper. Gov. Nicholls telegraphed to Washington that the circumstance, time, place, etc., pointed to the act of a lunatic, and that every effort should be made to probe the matter to the bottom. One dispatch says a comrade of the would-be assassin had been arrested, and another had escaped. Weldon had promised to make a .confession. •Ar New Orleans, on the 16th, the City Recorder visited the wounded man Weldon at the room where be was lying, in the old M. Loots Hotel or State-House, and formally arraigned him on a charge of assaulting Gov. Packard with a deadly weapon, with latent to murder. To the formal question, “Are yon guilty or not guilty of this thc prisoner replied la a.firm voice, “Guilty.’’ An order of commitment eras then made out directing the Chief of Police to retain him in custody until further A DWATtw was received at Can Francisco OU tbo 17th, from ex-Gov. Grover, of Oregon, : • -. . . I

emphatically stating that he did not send the cipher telegram signed “Gobble” to Gov. Tilden, sad that all each pretended telegrams are forgeries. A little before midnight, on the night of the 19lh, at East St Louis. a fire broke out in a row of frame buildings on Bloody Island, a block north of the great bridge. A half hour later the flames had reached and set on fire the eastern approaches to that structure, causing a damage to the bridge alone of over $50,000. Beeide this over 160 buildings were burned, and 150 families rendered houseless. Gov. Nicholls, of Louisiana, on the 90th, sent a dispatch to Maj. E. A. Burke, in Washington, »toting that the people of that State not only refused to pay tores to any Government but that of which he was Executive, but bad anticipated the appointment of Tax-Collectors., and voluntarily paid to agents for the use of his Government the percentage deemed sufficient for immediate purposes. Thb Ohio State Grange assembled at Columbus on the 20th. About 200 delegates were present. The address of welcome was msde by Mayor Johnson, and the remainder of the day was spent In the reception of reports and their reference to appropriate committees. A St, Petersburg dispatch of the 16th says the Cxar held that war was needless, because the fall of Midhat Pasha marked a commencement of a state of anarchy which will eventually compel Europe to interfere. Gen. Ignatieff supported this view. It was reported from Constantinople, on the 17th, that Montenegro had asked for two months’ extension of the armistice for the consideration of propositions for peace, but Turkey had declined to accede to the request. A London dispatch of the 18th says the man-of-war Valorous had Just returned after a week’s futile search for the missing fishing fleet. Twenty-five vessels and 150 men were given up as lost Accord! no to Constantinople dispatches of the 18th, Edhem Pasha, lately Grand Vizier, had been dismissed, and Mahmoud Damorud, brother-in-law of the Sultan, named as his successor. It was understood that the policy of the latter would be the abrogation of the Constitution. .. . According to Berlin specials of the 19th, peace had been substantially concluded between Turkey and Servia. A Viknna dispatch of the 2Cth says the Roumanian representative had informed Count Andrassy, the Austrian Prime Minister, that Roumania would remain neutral in the event of war between Turkey and Kus, sia. A Belgrade telegram of the 20th says 1 Russia had informed Servia that she would cross an army over the Pruth during the succeeding ten days. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 20th, the Sultan was affected with a brain disease, and had been unable to see his Ministers during the preceding three days. Thb Grand Jury of the District of Columbia, on the 21st, found aa indictment against Donn Platt, editor of the Washington Capital, for having, in his paper, on the 18th, uttered seditious language, which was interpreted to suggest the assassination of Gov. Hayes, and of which the following is An ex'ract: “If a man [Hayes] thus returned to power can ride in safety from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol to be inaugurated, we are fitted for the slavery that will follow the inauguratioo. We do not believe the people of the United States are of this servile sort We do not believe that they are prepared, without a blow, to part with theii hard-earned, blood-stained possessions. * * * If there Is a law for fraud, there is reason for violence, and to that we make our last appeal.” Donn Piatt published a card on the 20th, in which he stated that “ nothing was further from my thought in penning the editorial of last Sunday than the horrible crime of assassination. Open resistance to revolutionary wrong, for which their seems no other resistance, is one thing, assassina tion is another.” Piatt was arrested on the afternoon of the 21st by the United States Marshal, and gave ball in the sum of $5,000.

OONCRBSSIONAL. The House amendments Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill were concurred in. and the bill was passed, in the Senate, on the 16th. The bill to create a sinking fund for the liquidation of the indebtedness of the Pacific Railroad Company was further considered and amended,...Several bills of a private nature were Introduced in She House. A bill was passed to cany Into effect the Convention between ihe United States and China, concluded on the Bth of November. 1858, at -Shanghai, and to give the Court of Claims jurisdiction in certain cases. In the Senate, on the 17th, it was agreed that the House be informed thst the Senate was ready to proceed with the count of the Electoral votes, and a message was subsequently received frbm the House stating that the latter body would be prepared to receive the Senate on the morning of the 19th, to resume the count. Mr. Kelly, in a personal explanation, said he did sign the cipher dispatch for Mr. Patrick, who repre-ented that it was a telegram to W. T. Pelton for SIO,OOO to pay lawyers’ fees in Oregon, and if not nsed woala be returned. He denied that he ever attempted to bny a Republican Elector, or that he ever autboriaed anyoue to make such an offer (or bin. Regarding the “ Gobble” dispatch. Mr. Kelly read a telegram from Gov. Grover, saying: “Deny that I sent any telegram to Tilden; I never eent a cipher in my life.” Remark- were made by different Senators relative to maters in Louisiana and Florida, charges of fraud being made on both sides. .. In the House, a reoetation was adopt d —l* to 111-directing the Cle k to inform the Senate that the House would be ready to receive that body at eleven o'clock a m. on the 1- th, for ihe purpose of proceeding with the counting of the Electoral vote. A motion for a recess was then agreed to—IM to lt>7. After the Senate returned to its chamber from the joint session of Congress, on the 19th, a debate on the objections made to the action of the Electoral Oom mission in regard to the vote in Louisiana waa participated in by many Sena 1 ore. and a resolution was finally adopted--41 to 28. a strict party vote—that the decision of, the Commission upon the Electoral vote of Louisianasbou'dstandaa the judgment of the S enate... .After the objeci ions had been made in the joint ooLventiou to the decision of the Electoral Commission and the Senate bad withdrawn to consider the question separately, the House took a recess until the 20<h. No business was done m the session of the Senate on the 20th, that body repairing to the Chamber of the House when notified that the latter assembly was ready to continue the count of the Electoral vote.... The decision es the Electoral Tribunal in the cnee of Ixraisiana, was debated tn the House, and a resolution waa then adm>ted-m to W-th»t ihe deci-ion of the Com missies b* not agreed to. A n message was then sent o the 8< nets that the House was ready to meet that body in Joint Convention. In the Senate, on the 21st, the Postoffice and the Legislative, Judicial and Execu'ive Appropriation bills were amended and passed. The House amendments to the biU to ratify an agreement with certain bands of the Sioux Nation of Indian*, and also with the Northern Arapaboe and Cheyenne Indian-, were agr. eds o, and the bill was passed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Hnanoe, reported a billrto aid in tb* resumption of specie pay-neat....ln the House, Mr. Bayier, Chairman of ths Meet Commutes <m ths Election to South Caroll, a, submitted ths report ot ths o<ths Committee, which waa

printed and recommitted. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered Id Committee of the Whole. _

THB DIVES'HOATIONI. (Compiled from Associated Pre— Reports, nnle— Otherwise Designated.] LOUISIANA. On the 17th, the Committee on the Powers. Privileges and Duties of the Hove examined Donees P. Kenner, of New Orleans, who said uov. Wells told an nn-rnth tn testifying that he (Kroner) offered him a bribe to cot the vote Of Louisiana for Tilden; witness stated (Briber that he met Oov. Wells on the street. Nov. 17 or 18. and said he wtsh-d to see him at bls (witness’) office; Wells repl ed that he was perfectly wiling to ialk frankly and freely on the subject of the election, but that he wsa a poor man; this allusion led ths witness to suppose that be alluded to tnc loss of hl* office, ana the witness naked him what office Gov. Packard could offer that won d compensate him far the hatred of bla people; Wells replied that he did not care for tbo office, but that any compensation he might receive f r hie course must enable him to retire to his plantation in Rapid— Pariah; that this was a big thing, the biggest thing he ever handled, and Sromlss- won.d not answer this time, as he wns e'ermtned to make it tell; witness urged Well- to name some amount, but he refused, saying he must first consult with Tom Anderson: at another interview * ells said he doubted whether hq could no anything because Auden-on doubted his (witness') ability to raise a large enough amount; witness asked bow much Anderson wanted, and Wells replied, half a million; the witues* said this was perfectly ridiculous, and, if the demand was insisted upon, they might as well drop matters; alter the promulgat'on of the vote they met, anc witness expreaed his astonishment and regret at Wells' course. Wells-aid. “ What could I do? You bad no money;” witness said he hop.-d Welln had made himself safe, and Welle replied, “ You bet,” or words to that effect. The wi ness, on cross-examination, said be hired a room in the City Heel, in which they met and named several persons to whom he spoke on the subject of raising money; he himself proposed to give $5,000. Duncan P. Kenner was further examined before the House Committee, on Powers, Privileges, etc., on the 19th. and said that he had no special interview witb Gov. Nicholls on the subject of his interviews wi'h Gov. Wells, although he may have told Gov. Nicholls that he was making every possible effort to secure an honest cqum; at one of his interviews wi h Wells, witness said to the lat er: “ I am astonished at the gravity and solemnity with which yon h <ve listened to this story of Eliza Pinkston's;” Wells replied: *■ You don’t suppose that I am to be humbugged by any such yarn as that?” Witness further said that Wells told him that be bad been approached by some one who offered him a large turn of money if he (Wells) would let him know the result of the canvass Beforehand Ex-Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, was before the House Louisiana Sub-Committee, on the •Oth, and testified to two conversations with Littlefield about having eqnal facilities with the Republican Visiting Committee, but in none of these conversations did be hold out any money inducements to Littlefield to do anything; never beard Spearing or Littlefield speak of alleged frauds or alterations in the election returns; on the 28th of December witness met Spearing. Llitiefield and Judge Murphy, of Davenport, at Springfield. 111., and was told that Littlefield had in his possession the consolidate i reiurn of Vernon Parish; the paper was produced and witness compared it with the published electoral vote; there were differences, aud witness noticed erasures on the paper; never had any interview or correspondence with Littlefield after that; Spearing told witness he had paid the expenses of the trip to Springfield, and wan red to bor row money o take them back: witness loaned him his indorsement on a note f«r SIOO as be won d have loaned another man; witness advised Littlefield and Spearing to return at once to New Orleans and place i hem selves in communication with Morris -n's Committee; witness'bedeves that it is likely Wells made that alteration, and with firstrate chances of detection; when Littlefield brought the paper to Springfield witness was reluctant to believe his staiement after making the confession : there was not a word said by witness to them about paying them money or about their going to New York; witness told Littlefield thrt if he went on and told what he professed to know, and it should be confirmed, he would be doing a great service to the country, and would be held in kind remembrance, but there was nothing said* about giving Littlefield money, or about his going to New York to communicate with Mr. Tilden or Col. Pelton; Littlefield asked witness for no bribe, nor did witness offer or intimate any offer of a bribe to him; in examining the tabulated return pre seated bv Llnlerteld at Springfield, witness made up his mind that Wells and the Returning Board bad committed a crime, and that an exposure of it would impair their credit before the country; had no idea that the changes in the returns made any difference In the general return for Electors. At the session, on the 21st, of the Senate Snb-Committce on Louisiana Affairs, Mr. Monroe, Secretary of State of Lonisiana, was present with a large packing-case and a commodious carpet-bag containing the—returns of the twenty-two challenged parishes, together with papers and affidavits attached thereto. The committee room was ch ared of all except reporters and two counsel on each side, and the box was opened. It was finally agreed that, for the purpose of facilitating examine ion, the papers be referred to counsel, who would schedule all belonging to each parish lor the Committee. MISSISSIPPI. On the 16th, the Senate Sub-Committee investigating the late election in Mississippi examined D. C. Kearns, who testified that in Jefferson County a prominent Democrat told him that the Democrats had duplica e keys to ballot-boxes and intended to take out Republican tickets and fiut iu Democratic tickets; at witness'own vot-ng-place he knows that. 386 Republican tickets were vo ed, bat only ninety-one came out. witness voted tor Tilden ana Hendricks and the Democratic car didate for Congress. E. Barksdale, one of the Tilden Elect-ors-at-Large in Mississippi, and a member of the National Democratic Committee, testified before the Special Senate Committee, on the 2ist, that entire good feeling bad been established in the State under Democratic rule; that he had never heard of duplicate keys for balot-boxes in Hinds County until he read the statement made by Le«ter before the [Committee, and members of the Hinds County Democratic Committee deny the existence of such keys OREGON. The Senate Committee investigating the Oregon Electoral question continued the translation of cipher telegrams on the 16th, the general purport of which was similar to that of those previously translated. A Washington telegram says Senator Kelly had stated, in regard to his indorsement of a cipher dispatch sent by J. H. N. Patrick, on the 28th of November, to col. William I'. Pelton, that b# was totally unaware of its containing a proposition for the purchase of Republican Electors. Conrad N. Jourdan, Cashier of the Third National Bank, New York, was before the Senate Suo-Committee on Privileges and Elections on the 17th, in answer to a subpatna to testify to his knowledge oi the sums of money having been sent from New York to Oregon since the late election, but the witness declined to answer questions on the subject or to produce th* books and papers called for until he had consulted his lawyer; he had consulted only with the President and Directors of the bank since the subpoena was receivi d, but he refused to stale what ad ice had been given him when be consulted them relative to the subpoena callirg for a statement of the accounts of Samuel J. Tilden. A. 8. Hewitt and W. T. Pelton. Jourdan was then placed in custody of tbe Seiweant-a<-Arme, and. subsequently, being recalled stated that a dispatch telling him he need not come to Washington was not sent to him. but was brought to the Third Nstioral B<nk, and given him to read; he decline dto say who the dispatch -was sent to, and who brought it to him at the bsnk. until he had con-ulted counsel; he did not tell Ellis he received a dispatch telling him he (wine-s) need not come to Washington, but told Ellis he had seen such> dii-pateh. John W. Ellis, President of 'he T.tirt National Bank, New York, stated that he knew of the subpana to Jonrdan calling for certain books and pap rs; he spoke to Jourdan, who said be had received another di-patcb iel ing him he need not come to Washington; witness leant- d of Jourdan's being in contempt through the newspapers, snd went to him ana asked him how i ! wa-, and Jourdan wrote to Senator Morton stating he w all come to Washington immediately: wi ness said Jourdan was a Republican, but Tilden bull dozed” the Republicanism out of him this time. Abram 8. Hewitt, Chairman of the National DemocrstiC Onnmtttea. testified before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections on tbel9tb; he said he had charge of the national campaign undo ganisatlon of the Democrat c party in t><e different State*, and directed how money in the bunds of the Treasurer of the Executive Committoe should he spent. Col. Pelton having nothing to do with it: witness never made any attempt to raise furds beyond asking cortaun parties, whom he thought would be willing to do

so, to contribute; knew nothwg whatever about telegrams which Pelton sent to Oregon; never si-nt a cluhar telegram daring the whole campaign; did, however. send throe or four regular tel. grams to Oregon during the contort. In one of which, dated Nov. 15, ISta. he. aft r receiving a legal decision to that effect from Judge Hoadley, of Cincinnati, told H.-nalor Kelly that no personoholdlng office under the Federal Government waa eligible as Elector, and taat the canvassing officer should so decide, he had never used the cipher, but bad seen Col. Pelton use it; had never seen soy of the cipher telegrams rent to or received from Oregon at Democratic headquarter* in New York; witness staled that Col Prltou lived in the same house with Bam uel J. Tilden and ate at the same table with Mm.

THB BMECTOBAR COUNT. The Electoral Commission met at 10:16 on the morning of the 15th. Mr. Evarts qpntinued Ms remarks on the part of tbo Republicans, and wet followed by Judge Campbell, who made the closingargument tor the Democrats. At the conclusion of Judge Campbell's speech, the Comm'a lon went Into secret aessioa, and toon after aajourned. The Electoral Commission remained in secret session from eleven a tp. until five p. m., on the 16th. At the latter hour counsel were sent for. aud they entered the room In a body. The following report was made to counsel: Mr. Hoar submitted the follow ng: Ordered, That evidence be not received. Mr. Abbott offered as a substitute a resolution that evidence be received to show the nncon-ti u tonality of the act creating the Louisiana Retaining Board, and that the acta of said Board are void. This was rejected by aroeof 7to 8 Mr. Abbott offered another substitute, that evidence be received to show that ra d Returning Boatd was not legallv constituted under the law creating It Reiec eaby the same vote. Mr. Abbott offered a third sub titu’e. tha' evidence of frauds be received. Rejected by the same vote. Mr. Abbott offered a fourth subrtii ute. that evidence be received to show, that the Returning Board bad no jurisdiction to canvass the votes for Electors. Rejected by the same vote. Mr. Abbott offered a fifih substitute, that evidence be received showing the false and Iraudulent character of the affidavits charging intimidation and violence at the late election. Rejected by the same vote. Mr. Hun ton offered a sixth substitute, that evidence be re ceived to establish the fact that the votes cart in November had never been canvassed. Rejected by the same vote. Mr. Bayard offered a seventh substitute, that evidence be received as to the eligibility of the Electors. Rejected hy the same vote. Justice Field offered the eighth and last substitute, that evidence is admissible to prove the allegations of counsel in the objections to the vote of Louisiana. Rejected by the same vote. The question recurring on the adoption of the original order offered by Mr. Hoar, Mr. Payne mov«d to strike out the word “not.” This motion did not prevail, and the (rder of Mr. Hoar waa adopted by the following vote: Yeas—Bradley. Edmunds, Frelinsthuysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Morton pud Strong—B. Nays-Abbott, Bayard. Clifford, Field, Hunton, Payne and Ti.urtnan—7. Afier some debate a* to the continuance of the discussion, the Commission went Into secret session, and a resolution was adopted that the persons named as Electors in Certificate No 1 were the lawful Electors of the Stale of Louisiana, and that tbeir votes are the vob s provided by the Constitution of the United States, and should be counted for President and Vice-President This resolution was adopted—B to 7 —and Justices Miller, Bradley and Mr. Hoar were appointed a committee to draft a report of the ’ decision to be trs'.emitted to the joint session of the two houses as required by the Electoral act. tsnch a draft wns subsequently submitted, and the Commission adjourned. The Joint Convention of the two houses of Congress did not meet on the 17th, although the Senate sent notice to the House pf Its readiness to proceed with the conn’. The House notified the Senate that it would receive it on the 14th at eleven a. m. At eleven o’clock on the morning of the 19th the Joint Convention of the two Houses of Congress resumed its session, to consider the question of continuing the Electoral count. The decision of the Electoral Commission on the objections filed to the count of Louisiana was read, being in language similar to the decision in the case of Florida, and signed bv a majority of the Commission. The Presiding Officer having asked whether there were any objections to the decision, Mr. Gibson presented a paper signed by most of the Democrats In each house, giving In detail various objections, based mainly on the fact that the Commission refused to receive evidence of fraud, etc. The reading of the paper occupied just one hour. Senator Wallace pre-ented further objections, reciting that the decision was in violation of the Electoral act, and that the Commission had refused to bear the evidence which It was created to hear and determine. These were signed by renators Wallace, Johnston, Bailey, Kernan, Kelly, Saulsbury and others. Mr. Cochrans piesented further objections signed by himself and other members. No further objections being presented, the Presiding Officer announced that tne Senate would withdraw, that the two houses might separately consider an<i decide In respect to them. The Senate then withdrew. The decision o' the Commission was sustanerl by th* Senate, despite the objections, by a vote of 41 to 28. The House to jk no action. The House, on the 20th, voted —172 to 99—not to sustain the decision of the Electoral Commission. It was nearly a strict party vote, two Republicans, Messrs. Seeley and Pierce, only voting with the majority. A little after one o'clock a message was sent to the Senate announcing that the House was ready to meet that body in Joint Convention to continue the Electoral count. About hali'-p at one the Senate reached the hall of the House of Representatives, when the Presiding Officer stated that the two houses, acting separately, had considered and decided the objections to the certificates from the State of Louisiana, and directed that the action of each house be read. This having been done, the Presiding Officer announced that, the .tw > houses not having decided otherwise, the decision of the Commission would stand, and directed the tellers to announce the vote of Louisiana. which was done, and the same counted for Hayes and Wheeler. Then followed Maine with her seven votes for Hayes aud Wheeler; Maryland. with her eight votes for Tilden and Hendricks, and Massachusetts? with her thirteen votes for Hayes and Wheeler. Wh«n Michigan was reached, objections were filed to the count, on the ground of the alleged Incapacity of one of the Electors. No lurther objection being made, the Senate wthdrew to let the objections be considered by each house separately. Each house overruled the objections, and at twenty minutes alter five the Joint Convention reassembled. The Presiding Officer announced the action of each house on the objection, and directed the vote of Michigan to be announced. This was done, and the eleven votes of that State were counted lor Haves and Wheeler. Then followed Minneso'a, with five votes for Hayes and Wheeler; M ssissippi, with eight votes for Ti den and Hendricks; Mlssouii, with fifteen votes for Tilden and Hendricks, end Nebraska, with three votes for Hayes and Wheeler. When Nevada was reached Mr. Springer filed objections to the vote on the gronna that one of the Electors, at the time cf his at poinrment, held an office O' profit and trust un der the United States. The Senate withdrew to consider the objection. No conclusion had been reached by either house at the time of adjournment The House and Senate, in separate see* sion, on the 21st overruled the objections filed in the Nevada case. Notice was sent to the Senate that the House was ready to proceed with the count and at a quarter to twelve o'clock the Senate made its appearance aud the Joint Convention was called to order. The vote of Nevada for Hayes waa counted; then followed New Jersey, for Tilden; New Ha psM e, for Hayes; New York and North Carolina, for Tilden, aud Ohio, for Hayes. Fifteen minutes only were occupied in opening and counting the votes of these six States. W hen Oregon was reached, the reading of all the papers was demanded. The first ceri Ificate was that oi the Republican Electors. Then came the Cronin certificate. The Presiding Officer called for objections. Mr. Kelly filed his objections to the Renublictn certificate, aud Mr. Mitchel'to the Cronin certifica'e. Mr. Laurence presented further objections to the Crouin certificate. There being no further objections, the Senate retired and the pap. rs were referred to the Eleci ora). Commission. *1 hat body met at one o'clock. The Presiding Ju-tice laid the papers received from the two houses before his colleagues, and amotion o print was adopted. Senator Kelly, and Mr. Jenks appeared as objectors to the Ropuolican, and Senator Mitchell and Mr. Lawrence as objectors to the Cronin, certificate. On motion of Mr. Kelly, an order was issued for the production or the commission and resignation of Mr. Watts, and Senator Mitchell and Mr. Walts subpoenaed as nitnesses. Mr. Kelly submitted mis objections to the Republican certificate, claiming that Watts w«s Postmaster at the date of the election, and consequently disqualified to serve as Elector, and that it waa the Governor’s du<y, knonimr this fact, to decline to taue a commission to him. He was followed bi Mr Jsnks, al.o in behalf of the Democrals. Mr. Mitchell; resente-1 the objections on behalf of we Republicans, and claimed that the Governor Of Oreg- n wa« not antenristd by law to certify to the election of a minority canuida e. Judge Lawrence followed, ciaiming that the Republican El. ctors came with evidence of title which sati.-fied e>enr provision of law and usage, and declared that the whole controversy might bo disposed of in favor of the Hayes Electon by a single proposition, that

If the moootrota propoottfoe bould bo maintained that Cronin waa legally appointed, yet ho refused toac, nog octeA Atotteud witb Odolt and Cartwright, and Ina jHnee become vacant, and WOUs waa duly appointed to fill it. Uta Democratic counsel, at thia time, claimed and wore gramed additional time, and the C >mmlMlon took a race*.. At half daet aeven o clock, the Oommiealoo raasaembied. Mr. Merrick and Judge Hoadley appearing for the Democ ate, and Mr. Evart* and Judge Stanley Matthew* for the Republicans. Mr. Hoadley then beSc bl* argument, making the point it th* Commiw<on excluded evidence In the Fl 'rid* snd Louisiana case* because it wa* without judicial power, and said without the exercise of judicial power they could not deprive Tilden and Hendrick* of one vote cast for them tn Oregon. Wi'bout the exercise of judicial power they could not award it to Hatee and Wheeler. At the oonrloslon of Judge Ho>dley's argument, the Commission adjourned to meet at ten a. m., on lheM.

A Lively Town.

Yesterday afternoon this office waa visited by Harry Williams, an old Oomstocker, who has for some months past been ttying his luck in the Black Hills with good results. Mr. Williams is a keen observer of events, and does not require to be pumped to be induced to tell what he knows, “Tell us all about Deadwood, Mr. Williams.” “Deadwood may be considered a pretty lively town: that is, lively for a town of 2,000 inhabitants. Of course, it’s the central camp, where all the gambling, fighting and business is done. Everything goes on a grand rush night and day. There is no regularity about anything. A man opens a place of business and makes lots of money, then he gets the prospecting fever, starts for the gulches and shuts up his shebang. When a place is closed up it means that the owner is out digging, has been killed in a fight, or is ofi on a spree. We have no municipal government at all. Every man thinks he’s Mayor of the town. Every once In a while the boys call a mass meeting, draw up resolutions, etc., and decide to incorporate the town aiel have a Board of Alder men;’ but at the end of the week nobody knows what has become of the resolutions or the Aidermen. We start a new city government eveiy two weeks and bust one every week—if there is any.” “ How about the theater ?” “ Yes, we’ve got a littfe theater there, not nearly as well fitted up as your cockpit. The orchestra chairs are made of stakes driven into the ground, with a round piece of board about the size of your hand nailed on top. Admission, $2.00; reserved seats, $5. They run a sort of variety show.” “Many saloons there V “ Saloons all over the place, and whisky four bits a drink. They put two barrels up -on end, nail a board across for a bar, and deal it out. A miner who wants to treat pours some goid-dust on the barrel-head and says. ‘Set ’em up.’ They never weigh the dust. Sometimes a man won’t put down enough dust, but they never say a word; and if he’s a little tight and pours out ten or fifteen dollars’ worth, they never mention it. They have three faro banks running all the while. They don’t use checks for the boys; when they won a pile of checks they threw ’em all over the place, and some* were too drunk to handle ’em. So, the checks got played out. Now a man puts a little gold-aust in a dollar greenback and it goes for two dollars. Ten dollars’ worth of dust in a ten-dollar greenback goes for twenty, and so on. They never weigh dust at all, but guess the amount.” “Have you a daily paper?” “Yes, sometimes it’s a daily, and then when the compositors get drunk ft don’t come out for several days. If a man wants gun wadding he goes and pays four bits for a paper. Whenever they start a new city government they print a lot of ordinances; then there’s a grand rush for the paper. Sometimes it. comes out twice a week, and sometimes twice a day. “Much shooting?” “Oh, yes; the boys are all on the shoot. Every man carries about fourteen pounds of firearms hitched to his belt, and they never pass any words. The fellow that gets his gun out first is the best man, and they lug off the other fellow’s body. Our graveyard is a big institution and a growing one. Sometimes, however, the place is right quiet. I’ve known times when a man wasn’t killed tor twenty-four hours. Then perhaps they’d lay out five or six a day. When a man gets too handy with hisshootin’ irons and kills five or six, they think he isn’t safe, and pop him over to rid the place of him. They don’t kill him for what lie has done, but for what he’s liable to do. 1 suppose that the average deaths amount to about 100 a month; but the Indians kill some.”— Virginia (Wev.) Chronicle.

Slide of a Great Speculator.'

“I used to know Jim Keene ten years ago in Colorado,” said a gentleman in Wall street. “At that time he did not wear a white ufeter, nor, so far as I know, speculate in stocks. He was engaged in silver mining, and had a shaft sunk high up on the side of a mountain. He was noted for his nerve and love of adventure, and was held in great respect by the miners, who, as a class, admire courage. The ore, when hoisted from the shaft, was shoveled into ox-hides, and these, when placed in a chute, were shot down for nearly a mile to the base of the mountain. The grade was very steep, and the passage of three-quarters of a mile was accomplished inside of a minute. “ One day Keene wanted to take a trip to a neighboring town, and, as descent of the mountain by the path was slow and fatiguing, he took a notion to try the chute. So he braced up, enveloped himself in an ox-hide, and, calling k> the miners to let go, in a second was sliding down the steep incline with frightful velocity. “ The ox-hide, being lighter than usual, did not stop at the proper point, but shot clean out over the end of the chute, and landed Keene eeme seventy-five feet below in the creek. “He was somewhat astonished by being shot into the creek, but, shaking himself clear of the ox-hide, he struck out for the shore, and climbed the bank, without any broken bones.”— N. Y. Sun. There was a wedding at Grace Church the other night, and the?bride and groom were warmly congratulated, while many were the wishes of friends for a bright and happy future. Such an announcement would not create any surprise were it not fbr a bit of romance connected with this uniting of young hands and hearts. It is said that the bride, a beautiful lady of this city, had two ardent lovers, both of whom were equally confident that they had won the prize of her heart. One of the lovers lives in St. Louis, and, as the story goes, was to have been married to the yonng lady this evening, every arrangement hiving been made for the wedding; but the other lover came forward, on the cstige of old love, ardently pleaded his suit, and carried off the prize, at the very time the loverover in St. Louis was preparing to start for Louisville to claim his bride.» He is expected to arrive this morning, with his hopes bright and •oaring, only to learn that he has been “counted out?'— LouinilU Oomnereial.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

oirror«KAS*»— an empty pepper-box. The day laborer must strike for him "peaceful sleep is the sheet anchor ol health. ,> J Goethe says that the key to histovy is enthusiasm. How to make time go fasti Use the spur of the moment. f Merry men are rarely witty, and witty men are rarely merry. A hotel is advertised as “TiepttySie widow of Mr. Brown, who died laat summer on a new and Improved plan.” In some California towns a man with a standing collar is looked upon as a standing insult until he is knocked down’.' Near Malone, N. Y., is what theycall a “ line store,” with one door opening into Canada and one into the Land of the Free. Nature is a saving housewife. Out of waste she creates new things. A pudding is ihade from bread crumbs. From.buried leaves is bom a violet. There is an average of eight suicides per week in the United States, and it’s better to reduce the fxjpulation that way than to go to war.— Detroit Free Preu. A German looked up at the sky and remarked: “I guess a leedle itvillrain somedime pooty queen.” “Yeesdo, eh?” replied an Irishman. “What business have yfees to purtend to know about Ameriken weather, ye furriner ?” ; ■ “The sentence of the Court is, w said Judge Porter, a popular Irish magistrate, to a notorious drunkard, “that you be confined in jail for the longest period the law will allow, and I hope you will spend the time in cursing whisky.” “Be jabers I will, ana Porter, too,” was the answer. An Irish glazier was putting a pane of glass into a window, when a groom who was standing by began joking him, telling him to mind and put in plenty of putty. The Irishman bore the banter for some time; but at last silenced his tormentor with: “ Arrah, now, be off wid ye, or I’ll put a pain in yer head without any putty.” A singular legal decision has been rendered at Los Angeles, Cal* where damages were assessed against the defendant, who had agreed to loan a certain amount of money to the plaintiff at a stipulated time, but who, when the time arrived, refused to comply with his contract, whereat the plaintiff suffered great inconvenience and expense. “ What is going on in the next room, waiter?” asked a staid committee-man at a leading hotel the other night. “They’re havin’ a little game there, sir,” responded the attendant, and just then somebodyin tiie apartment referred to bawled: “Pass the buck,” at which the good man’s face cleared and he said: “ Oh, I see; a venison supper,” and the committee business went on.— Boston Commercial Bulletin. After a Detroit small boy had leaned up against a wall for two full hours yesterday a policeman asked if he was waiting for any one in particular. “Waitin’ for a runaway to come along,” replied the boy. “You want to see a team run away, do you ?” “I want to see a truck team come zippin’ along here, hit that peanut stand in the middle, and while the sympathetic public are picking up the Italian I want to be picking up the peanuts,” was the frank reply. The officer decided to enforce the twenty-second joint rule, and the boy was made to move on.— Detroit Free Preu. French ingenuity has invented a method of controlling the most fractious horses without any exertion on the part of the driver. The horse of the future is not to be driven by ordinary reins, but by electricity combined with them. The coachman is to have under his seat an electro-magnetic apparatus, which he works by means of a little handle. One wire is carried through the rein to the bit, and another to the crupper, so that a current once set up goes the entire length of the animal along the spine. A sudden shock will, we are gravely assured, stop the most violent runaway, or the moat obstinate jibber. The creature, however strong and however vicious, is “at once transformed into a sort of inoffensive horse of wood, with the feet firmly nailed to the ground.” Curiously enough, the very opposite result mav be produced by a succession of small shocks. Under the influence of these the veriest screw can be suddenly endowed with a vigor and fire indescribable. What is the effect upon the condition of the horse is not stated, btit the Biede congratulates M. F. Fancher upon “ an invention equally original and salutary,” and one which places in the hands of even an infant a power over the horse which is as sovereign as it is invisible.—Home Journal. The miraculous cure of a lady, in answer to prayer, who had for seven years suffered from paralysis of one-half her person, is just now undergoing discussion in Chicago, one party speaking of it with reverence and faith, and the other with incredulity and ill-disguised derision. The large part of the religious public hold that we have no right to say that the “ age of miracles” is past. On the contrary, the whole plan of evangelical Christian work is based upon faith in the supernatural interposition of God’s Spirit, Nor is it doubted that God answers prayer in the healing of the sick, and in the reseqe of those exposed to all kinds of dangers, moral ana physical. But there is a very important distinction between the past ana f iresent miracles which should not be overooked. The miracles of tj e ages of Revelation were nearly all given as testimonials to the truth, ana as evidences upon which human reason could rely. Most of them were acts of beneficence or of judgments upon persons. Some, such as that of Elijah on Canneland the Transfiguration, were exclusively evidences for the strengthening of faith, and had no other beneficent quality/ This purpose fn miraculous interpositions has been fulfilled, and we are justified in saying that - “the age of miracles” of this kind and for this purpose has passed. Christianity has passed to higher evidences of its Divine origin and power—evidences which cannot be counterfeited and made instruntenta of delusion, as physical miracles are.The Interior. ' r ' There are ten cities in the world which ssws’SS less than 1,000,000 and more than 500,000; and 215 cities with less than 500,000 and. more than 100,000. London stands first among the large cities, with a population of 3,489,428; Paris second, with a population of 1,851,792; Constantinople third, with a population of 1,075,000; and Berlin fourth, with a population of 1,045,000. To clean window-glass and mirrors— First, wash with A sponge aad warm water, then rub with a diy cloth, and polish off with soft newspaper. It fe far better than the best chamois skin.