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.oiORO,8. ,,, ..asaay February 8, : : 1877. JNO S. REYI OLDS, ;editor. The Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission wr B e:mpleted on Tuesday. The Sonate elected Edmunds, Morton and Fre linghuysen, Republicans, and Thur man and Bayard, Democrats ; while the House elected Payne, Hunton and Abbott, Democrats ; and Gar field and Hoar, Republicans. Judges Clifford, Field, Strong and Miller met, and elected Judge Brad. ley. Bradley is a Republican and was appointed by Grant in 1870. He is a native of New Jersey, and is rep resented as being genial and affable, and as not being a partisan. The Republicans have a majority on the commission ; but it is hoped that the Judges will decide impartially. In the meantime the Democrats are making out a strong case before the Louisiana investigating commit tee. It will be remembered that the Returning Board refused to produce original returns beforo the House committee which sat at New Orleans. It has been proved that the returns were cooked to suit the Radicals. Mr. Field, the Democratic counsel, produced an original return from Vernon parisl, showing that the figures for two precincts had been reversed, and considerable Demo cratic majorities changed so as to elect Reiublinans. Littlefield, the cleric of the Returning Board, testi foci that these alterations had been made by order of ex-Governor Wells, one of the members, and that he (Littlefield) had been asked to forge the name of the supervisors, but re fused to do so. He also assorted that Kellogg, Pitkin and other Radhi cal leaders had endeavored to influ ence his testimony. This revelation produced a profound sensation. A little more such testimony, and Tilden's success is assured. The Courts and the Governors. The mountain has been in labor. and the inevitable mouse is born. Judge. Carpenter has rendered his decision in the gubernatorial case The decision is a huge negative. He decrees that the Mfackey Houise was not a House. that there was no legal Legi slatture, that Chamberlain was not properly inaugurated, and that Hampton was not either. While he was in this frame of mind the Judge might have gone on and de cided that there was not any election in November, and as for that matter, further adjudged that there is no such sovereign State as South Caro lina. His Honor wvont on to Wash ington with a great flourish of trumpets, to consult law books, and after sojourning a month~ in that modern Babylon, returned, saying that no law book could be found there, containing any precedents. As the whole course of Chamberlain and his corrupt crew has been revo intionary and illegal in the extreme it is not surprising that no pee dont can be found, save in the evil imagination of old Taft, or the whiskey befuddled brain of Grant. The question presented was a kcnotty one as every one knows, and no one blames Judge Carpenter for wishing time to decide. But that he' should haye runlinated on it in the politically befogged .atmosphere of Washington is a' caus'e for~ regret. This strips the decision of any weight it would .otherwise have had, and as the Supreide Court hac not hesitated in former eases to reverse the dectees of an'age Carpenter, it is to be tiopE1 that 'this one will also come tor grief. The Conistitut~ion declares that the Spegk9rof,16 to use , aball, in the-presence of.. the Senate, open and declare thet ote for Oovoivor, The Senate by a revoldtionary act disobeyed the Ubvtatituitidn, by .re fuin~g i~~s iqlise, and thus by puttjpg it if obb of the Valkof the lafy forteljedia itU hatti aLkprivil . e' dcisi6 ps;4 wpp 6 for reoilu4 Iionary proceedings in the future. Had Hampton boon elected by twenty thousand majority, and had the House been two-thirds Demo cratic, the point would have been the same. A Republican majority in the Senate could have defeated the will of the people just as well as it has now. Reverse the case. Should the Republicans elect a governor in 1878, while one branch of the Legislature is Democratic, Hamipton being govern or, Democrats might refuse to meet in joint assem bly, and Hampton would hold over ad libitum. Ho would have the money and the power of the State at his back, and the Democrats woukl be happy. As will be f eon, this in volves an absurdity. The sound maxim of law is that no one shall be compelled to perform an impos sihility. And as the House cond not compel the attendance of the Senato as spectators, it performed its duty in December, and Speake Wallaco declared the Governoi elected. Governor Hampton then took the oath and becamo Governo1 de jure, as he had been depficto sincc August. Chamberlain 'orfcited his okl ttle, which was good, by accepting the bogus title conferred on him by A. W. M. Mackey, a private citizen It has, however, been urged that, ai it is necessary for the State to have a governor, Governor Chamberlain must retain that office, c.v necessitate rci. This might have weight werc there no other provisions made foi this status of afi'airs. But in thn absence of a governor, the Presideni of the Senate dischart s the dutiec of that office. Swails is the Presi dentpro tern of the Senate. If thc President pro tem cannot succeed, the Speaker of the House is next in order. Speaker Wallace could therefore act as governor and cur, vene the Legislature, in order thai the result of the gubern-torial election might be decided. Bettor for the State would it havc been, had Judge Carpenter's judicia] investigation led to a different con elusion. 'hme only peaceful solutior of this difficulty is the recognitior of TTampton. The people elected him, and declare that he shall bc governor. They will not suffe1 Chamberlain, whom they repudiated to rule over them a day longer They are tranquil now, because they b~el've that the law and the facts are with them, and they do not wisi to comuplicate a strong case. Bui their tranquility is not apathy The spirit of last fall is still in theil hearts. And any attempt to defea1 their verdict will cause trouble. I Chamberlain and Grant prop)oso t< play any such game as is fore shadowed in this decision of Judig Carpenter, it would be as wvell t< bring more troop~s into the State a once, and-keep on bringing thema A REME DY FOR SLEEPLESsNESs.-D1 Cooke tells us that in numerous cases of sleeplessness it is onil necessary to breathe very slowl~ and quietly for a fewv minutes t< secure refreshing sleep. He thinks that most cases dep~end on by peremma of the brain, and that it this slowv breathing the blood sup ply is lessened sufficiently to mnakt an impression. Certainly, when th<i mmad is uncontrollably active and sc preventing sleop,we h'ave ascortamn a from patients, wvhoso observatiom was worth trusting, that the breath img was quick and short, and thea have found they became more dis posed to sleep by breathing slowly Phis supp)orts Dr. Cooke's p~ractico but at other times this p~lan quite failed. It is certainly worth an~ one's while, who is occasionall~ sleepless,togive it a trial, In doing so they should breathe very quietly, rather deeply, and at long intervals but not long enough to cause the lnast feeling of uneasiness. In fine they should imitate a person sleep ing, and do it steadily for soveral minutes. -Medical .Ea-aminer, The &ar says : "The election of Judge David Davis, of the United States Supreme Court, to the Unitedl States Benate, in p lace of Logan, is aniothmer Democratid gan, and will make the next Senn o stand, (not coiiting 'the presiding offlcer, who. ever he may be, nor 'the three per sons to be adnutted from LQgimrana atnd S612h Qarolina~,) Reg~uiplicans 89, DeindeQrpts 84. The President's Approval. WAHINoTON,. January 29. To the Senate of the United States: - I follow the example heretofore occasionally presented of comnnuni eating in this mode my approval of the "act to provide for and regulate the counting of the votes for Presi dent and Vice-President, and the decision of questions arising thoreon for the torm commencing March, A. D., 1877," because of my appre ciation of the imminent peril to the institutions of the country, from which in my judgment, the act affords a wise and constitutional means of escape. For the first time in the history of our country under the constitutiol as it now is a dis puto exists with regard to the result of the election of the Chief Magis trato of the nation. It is understood that upon the disposition of disputes touching the electoral votes cast at the late eletion by one or more of the States depends the question whether one or other of the candi dates for the Presidency is the law ful Chief Magistrate. The impor tance of having clearly ascertained by a pro, oduro regulated by law which of the two citizens has be. :i elected, of having the. right to this high office recognized and choorfully agreed in by all the people of the republic cannot be overestimated, a id leads me to express1 to Congress and to the nation my great satisfac tion at the adoption of a measure that affords an orderly means of decision of a gravely exciting ques tion. While the history of our coun try in its earlier periods shows that the President of the Senate has counted the votes and declared them standing, our whole history shows that in no instanco of .doubt or dispute has he exercised the power of deciding, and that the two houses of Congress have disposed of all such doubts and disputes, although in no instance hitherto have they been such that their decis ion could essentially have affected the result. Fo: t'ie first time, then. the government of the United States is now brought to meet the question as one vital to the result, and this under conditions not the host calcu lated to produce an agreement or to induce calm feeling in the several branches of the government or among the people of the country in a case where as now the result is involved. ,It is the highest duty of the law-malking power to provide in advance a constitutional, orderly and just method of executing the l constitution in this most interest'ng and critical of its provisions. ihlie doing so, far from being a compro mise of right, is an enforcement of right and an execution of power con ferred by the constitution on Con gress. I think that this orderly method has been secured by the bill, wvhich appeals to the constitu, t ion as the guide in ascertaining the right means of deciding questions of single returns through the direct act of Congress, and, in respect to double returns, by a tribunal of in quiry, whose decisions stand, unless f both houses of Congress shall con c ur in determining otherivise, thus securing a definite disposit'on of all - questions of dispute in whatever as 3 pect they may arise. With or with > out this law, as all of the States b have voted, and as a tie vote is im possible, it must be that one of tile -two candidates has been elected, and it would be deplorable to witness an irregular controversy as to which of the two should receive or continue to hold( the office. In all periods of history controversies hamve arisen as to the succession or choice of the chiefs of States, and no party or citi zen loving their country and its free institutions can sacrifice too much of -mere feeling in preserving through the upright course of law their country from the smallest danger to its peace on such an oconsion, and it cannot be impressed too firmly in the hearts of all the people that'true libom ty and real progress can exist only through a cheerful adherence to ocusntitutional law. The bill pur ports to provide only for the settle ment of questions arising from the recent elections. The fact that such questions can arise demnonstrates the necessity which I cannot doubt will before long be suppliod by per manont general legislation to meet cases which have not been contem plated in the constitution and laws of the country. The bill may not he perfect, and its pr~ovisions may not be such as wvould be best applicable to all future occasions, but it is cal culated to meet tihe condition of the questions and of the country. Thme country is agitated, and it desires p~eace, quiet and harmony between all parties and all sections. Its in dustries are arrested, labor unem ployed, capital idle and enterpuiso paralyzed by reason of the doubt and anxiety attending the zincer tainty of a d'ouble claim to the Chief Magistracy of Lhe fhation. It aatnts to be assured that thme result of the aeoogon wiU be accepted wvithouit - resliptance froni -the .supportsra of) the, disappointed , candidate, and that the highest officer shall not hold his plaico with a questionable title of right. Believing that the bill will secure these ends, I givo it mny signature. U. S. GRANT. Ex4EOUTIVE MANSION, Jan. 29, 1877. A Badly Matched Team. Among the first things a coup'o have to do upon getting married is to accommodate thomselves to each other's walk, and in this accommo dation they don't always succeed well. Mr. and Mrs M'Nabb, of the Second Ward, have an especially hard time in this respect, and are little better off than they were at the begiminl' g of the honey moon. Mr. M'Nabb is tall and loan, with a stride of about a yard. and Mrs. M'Nabb is short and dumpy, with a stp carefully estimated by her husband at about six inches on an average ; so when they first began walking together the effect was odd. There was the "patter, patter. patter," of Mrs. M'Nabb's short paces, with the heavy "thump" of her husband's footsteps coming in at intervals, and the effect was simply ridiculous. At first the conversation between then was this way : "Oh, Augustus dear, please do take a little shorter steps "Why, Angehina, I'm walking as usunal; can't you stepi a little longer, darlung ?" But he didn't take shorter steps nor she longer ones, because it was a practical impossibility in either case, and after a month or two their conversation ran more interesting ly. "Augustus, don't take such horrid strides. I'm not a giantess." "No evidently, you're less liko a giantess than at beetle. Do you suppose I can 'patter' along to keep time with your six-inch hops ? Nonsense !" At the end of tho first half year the two never went without a quar rel. She'd break out every time: "You're a boast, Augustus ! I'd as soon walk with a big pair of shears No gentleman would straddle so with a lady on his arm, you brute !" "That'll do, mnadaro I It's hard enough to force a man to litol'ally carry you, without insulting himn! You'll (lie of inanition yet, and next time I'll marry a woman with more legs and less tongue! This thing's an infernal nuisance !" And then they gave up walking together for a ye:ir or more. Fin ally, as necessity - sometimes con polled thom to. go out together, it w.s arranged between them that in walking he should keep time with every third stop of hers, and the plan works, after a fashion. A s tiney go along the sound is "patter, patter, thump !" "patter, patter, th'onp 1" and it's fumy. The only difficulty abont the device is that thriee of her steps fall a fraction short of one of his, and every other minuto she his to wriggle and hop or lie has to halt and stumble to allow lher to catch up. They are an unhappy couple, and all because thme distances from their bodies to the groung vary so much. LOVE IN PUnIc.-On the arrival of the express traini from tile East yes terday inoran ing, a gentleman, whose wife--a lady of fine appearance-. hadl returned by it, span upon the platfor'm of the sleeping ear in wvhi'ch she had travoled, and met her at the doorway. In a second she was gathered to his b)osom, and lie hugged her an 1 kissed her', smooth ed down her hair, patted her on the back, kissed her more and more, backed off to arms length, inspected her critically, and then tried anoth or hug, all the time oblivious of the pi'esenco of a sceo or more of pee plo0, who were anxious to get in or out of thme car', the door of which lie was blockading. Tile lady was the first to realize the situation, and remarking laughingly, "There, that will do i' she made her way back into the car, blushing like a rose, while .the crowd that had witnessed the little scene smiled andibly. Sacr'amento Union, JvpoE CAaPENTEiR's DEoIsIoN.-..The decisien of Judge Carpenter wvould fill about four columns of our paper, and we will content ourselves with the substance of it, as follows: 1. That D. Hi. Chamberlain was iiot legally installed as Governor of South Carolina. 2. Wade Hampton was not legally installed into the omice of Governor of said State. 8. The' Governor' holds, his oflice for two years, and until his succes sor is chonen and qualified ; and as there has been no legal qualiflcation of his successor, D. H1. Chanmberlain is lawfully in the possessiolm of the oxecutive 0l1100 and entitled to- die. charge the functions of the enme uintil such gualtfication takes place, Dotor LoMoyne, the creinator, has two mo~re bodies placed at his :eionsal. NQW, "if a body twieet a b omin';tbro' the fire" what will bappen? . Politios and Collootlon Plates. Recently a Radical, who is also a, preacher, tacked old Unole Rlomua an the subject of politics. "I understand, old man," said he, "'that you are a democrat." "I dunno 'bout dat, boss." "Well, it comes pretty straight," "I know doy got two sides, one wvhat dey call Demmy Brat and do udder what dey call Radikel, but I don't bodder wid'em w'en do wedder gets dis stiff.' "But I hear you vote the Domo, cratic ticket every time." "I wote widi my young marster what I nussed w'on he want no bigger dan a buck rabbit." "Now don't you know that this is going back on your color V' "But hit ain't gwine back on my belly, an' of I don't tend ter dat do fus' cole rain dat como 'long . mont wash de color right out me. I atint takin' no chances in dis hizness, boss. I'm a gitten' ole, and de ol'or I gits do hongrier I gits-I duz for a fac'." "Look at me. I vote the Repub lican ticket, and I'm not losing any flesh " "You sorter preaches 'round like, don't you, boss ?" "Sometimes. Yes. Why ?" "Caze dat's whar do fun comes in, I don't git no chance for ter feed outen no beaver hat, an' I don't eat offon no plates what dey takes. up church klockshins in. I'm a mighty lonesome ole nigger, an' I has ter scuffle 'long de bes' I kin widout enny congergashon at my back." The preacher looked at his watch, and said that he would talk some other other time, while Uncle Remus, with a serene smile upon his venerablo face, went down the street singing: Oh? whiar shill we go w'en do groat day comies, Wid do blowin' uv do trumpets an ido bangin' uv de drums ? How many po' sinners will be cotch'd out l'ato, An' fine no latch to do golden gate? [Atlanta Constitution. Women who shiver at the sight of a door ajar, or an open window, will endure the impact of a frosty mousM tache as serenely as if a sunbeam had :slid over then.--1rooklyn 4rgus, Said she : "Dear, it is just twelve years since that Christmas eve when you washed my face with snow and kissed my tears away." Said he I "Is that all ?" The original Uncle Toni in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is alleged to have re cently died at Indianapolis at the ripe age of one hundred years. A Troy man wanted- his $600 horse clipped so that he would shine, and a few days after clipping the animal was shining up to a bone yard, If it isn't "professional" for a doc tor to advertise, it isn't right for n~ewSp'aper~s to meuntion the nuonber of patients he kills weekly. If your tongue is coated or if you have a bad breoath, take a dose of Dr. Bull's Pills. Price, 25 cts,* White llndressed kids are the Ia vorite glove for street wear, as they bear cleaning usually well. i Six churches in Newv York city have been notified to enlarge their means of exit. FINYAL 1WOTIO2! TO All par'ties indebted to R. 3. McCARLEY. RI. J. McCAIRLEY begs once mere and for the laat time to invite all parties who have not yet squared up their aconat to do so at once, in order to nyohl~ legal expenses. P. 8.-lHoniso begs to inform everybody that he nowv intends doing a cash businesw and that no orders on and afer 1at Jaj. 1877 unaccompnmied by toe cli w Ii be illled, jan 4 Sale of it. ifgage'd Proberfy. TN pursuanoe of an horit copfer~n .me by.A ower~ , ioey <outen in a dee by lenry Rush and Mary A, E. Bush, of date the 22nd da of March. 1875, I. acting for and on behAlf of my assignees, Messrs. WVitto Bros. wvill offer for side ojn the first Mondoy i Fe'bruar juexmt, at publie outcry, to th e highest bid. der, before Mhe Gourt -house door in WVinsboro, between the hours of 11 o'cloek, a. in,, and S o'clpkk p. inu th. follawilng deseribed poery, to wit; All that lot or parcelof la etuate and-)ynu in th conty of, 9mM4I hi Stateof $eth Carolina, upon the iwad waters of Sonia'o 4freek, bounded on the nortti by lands of Georg Moor, on the south by bncd of Fa8~i oCudo the east bylands of , ~~to~nan, on iho went b)y hands of lnHenr s,:aW cnaning trnnups uua .ALSO, One iron-giny mare, 4hree 007y au4 three calyes, foreeloldn inort age gie meb Hln ushiand.MaryA B.Rtush of datq . TermA~ ale; O~i H . Purchaser to pay fore