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9 4 -r-?---!-^-^-rr-?^I!..IIMI^;:,I",-:!:VI ^'L>,i?^f*L?? """T''"., ..Tf,1,^^u'.?^^.^^^ BY HOYT & CO.- ANDERSON. 8. C., .TjgW|t8DAY.f 1^^- tfttlC ' -?.;;yek-flH^?e.:ip., ni TSi Or SUBSCRIPTION.-T^nii DAIXAES ...tttftva. i?*Ojrart?pix*B>f<* ?tx morita*. . ' iJW?*?0?^ 1**^ fo* . I?*; ?*r|o4 ' . R.??i*0?dr,.iiono made to club* or ten or ,qu7reol on? Inch for tfeTrtltfetflQ*.V*5Pr rVnti i af ?Q'iire for?uh*e<j?ont UuurUoosleMth*a '^{on^/uVMtiwUI bo miule?ubtboMwUhUiK io pr?dis? for threa ?ix or twclro month?. Ail ..riiiJoK?jy c;>Dtr?ct luustbacpaflae? to the IIB mfdUteliu?l??iS.of tts 5rna or Ja?lvWuil ???TSC "ooltu?ry Notice? exceeding fire Ilots, Tribute? nf Rr?i>ec% md ?lljper?on?i eo?*avj?dcattOM or n itter? of indirldunl interest, will lt charged for .1 AdTtrt Itlof rates. Announcement , of marriage? THE SQ?? OIT THE BLOOPV SHIRT. Dedicated to Governor Chamberlain bj . Charlestonlsn* - With fingers weary ind worn. With eyelid* hwy ?nd red, Aimyenicriiat in ynffl?Ternea rsgi, ? Writing till well-nigh deed. ' Wrtfc! Write! ivritc! For "outrages" on the alert, lie sang, with a voice of delorous pitch, Thc Song of the Bloody Shirt. Write! write! write I Whde the cock is crowing aloof ; And write! write I write! Tull fourteen columns sf proof. It's oh ! to be a Have, Along with thc barbaron? Turk, And to dig my own political grave If nothing comes of this work. Lie! lie! lie! Till the brain begins to ir rhu . Lie! Ile! He! Till thc cy's are heavy im?dlm. Barnwell and Aiken '.nd Hamburg, Hamburg, Barnwell and Aiken, Till I get up a plausible lie at last, Unless I he much mistaken. Uh ! men with sisters dear, Oh ! men with mothers and wives, lt ls not paw he's wearing out, ?ut peoples patience and lires. Me! lie! fie! , As the ink fl om lil" pen doth squirt, Hut Chamberlain sews with a double thread A shroud as '.veil as a shirt. Hut why do I talk of a shroud, When I know lt is not for met I have no fear of its terrible shspe, For it's made for him, ! sc&. It's modo for him. I see, Because of tho Res he tells, Ob, God! to think that in human heart Such devilish folly dwells. Me! iiei He i Hi? labor does not abate, And what are ita wag" ? The negro vote And tho white man's endless hate, Defeat at the polls in November next, A name forever disgraced, And a character blotted with such a stain As never can bc erased. Lie! he! lie! And issue your proclamation ; Me! II?! lie! 5 And repeat false declarations ; Disband thc rifle clubs ; Tho rifle clubs disband, But the sword of justice shall strike you down With an all-aveuging bund. Write ! writo ! write ' And scatter your lies abroad, And write! write! write! A tissue of falsehood and fraud, While underneath these statements fabe, Thc rays of truth will peep, As your own "judges" sweep away The harvest you fain would reap. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of truth aud justice and peace, With Hampton at the helm of State, When all our woes shall cease. To escape this living death, And feel as we used to feel. When black nor white knew the woes nf want, Or tho frauds which oost s. :r.cz!. Oh ! for that blessed timo When our State shall bc redeemed, The time pf .which for many a year A people oppressed have dreamed. That time should como to ease our hearts, Though our rifle clubs disband, For jn sold phalanx still By "Hampton we will stand. ?With fingers weary and. worn, With eyelids heavy and red. A Governor sat ih ungoverned rage, Writing till well nigh dead. Write 1 write! write! For "outrages" on thc alert, Ile sang with a voice of dolorous pitch, In a tone to convince neither poor nor rich, The 8ong of the Bloody Shirt. The German Fusiliers-A Chango of Frouf. The German Fusiliers is one of the Oldest bot ? D Of citizen soldiery in the country, and last year celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. The Fusiliers sealed with their blood their devotion to thc cause of the Colonies in 1776, and from that time to thc present the corps bas been held in honor and respect. Tbs Fusiliers/irwtMny, borrowed some riles from the Stale. They are now di rected rp rv tr. rn. these arms to the ..Chief of Fo1;.cc in Charleston, and their com manding ofliccrio requested to inform Gov. Chamberlain Whether the German Fu siliers still exista as on organization or not. The Fusiliers are Dem?crata io a man, and a letter requiring them to sur render tho rifle?, k'na to say whether they are still in existence, comes from Gov ernor Chamberlain. . When the Fusiliers: celebrated their one hundredth anniversary, Governor Chamberlain wns invited to be present and to respond to the sentiment, "The* State of South Cnrolinn." His letter acknowledging .thc compliment is printed dre where, fin that letter he says that he appreciates the honor very highly, and specially regrets, to be unable to attend ; for he coveted the honor of helping to open the series of Centennial celebra tions which South Carolina will institute in memory of her Revolutionary heroes and history." In such words he ad dressed an organisation that, if unlawful st all, was os uulawful then os it is now ; ?n.crganization which is denounced, with every other similar body, aa "engaged in promothrg-illegal objects, and in com mitting open acts of lawlessness and vio lcjlce.,r This organization, by reason of Governor Chamberlain's misrepresenta tions, ia by the President declared "to ride up and down by day and night in arms, murdering somo penccable citizens and intimidating others." What a fall ing off ia here I The Fusiliers aro what they always have been. They deserve .very honorablo word that Governor tjtymbcrlaln ?poke of'them, and yet, to .twa political purpose, he brands them ss rioters and assassins. In his letter to the Fusiliers, Governor Chamberlain also said : "Every man is ray politic"! friend r;u rrz henect "U?""Te is to ?ive peace and prosperity to South Carolina." "Every man' is my poetical foe who would" for any cause, stay or ff}* ?back tba returning tide which is ?Wring these blessings to our people." flin is as little in keeping with his pres ent position, as his letter is with MB acts. Governor, Chamberlain, whatever bis own intentions, is ther leatlcr of the Elliotts sao Whittcmores and Bowens, who arc desperately rtruggling to defeat tho men .hose "honest purpose is to give peace Pfo?BO?tf *o South Carolina." They 1T?"$bfit&ped as his friends a year *Rb,?i*wfio are at all times the frientb ?f good government and peace, are no long er worthy, in bis sight, to maintain an or ganization whoso history is written in ?hining letters in tho annals of American freedom. 3,?fcf?j[%U?Jer?'?fnake no; resistance to .ny Uwihl orocri however arbitrary, hot through them, as representatives of Ger man integrity, manliness and fortitude, every Gerrr?A?'I?i tlit? tJnlted States ia in jured and scorned.-JV?c* and Courier. 7- As tho trjal of'a breach-of-promise w"? about to begin in Sail Francisco, .jurorAtosa and asked to bc excused be? eau?e b? was engaged to be married, and ??W?HS????T ??l frM *** A REMARKABLE POLITICAL MEET ING. THE NOTORIOUS JUDGE WHIITER SPEAKING ON THE INVITATION OK DEMOCRATS-RIOTOUS DEMONSTRA TIONS BY COLORED REPUBLICANS. COLUMBIA, 8. C., Oct. 18.1876. - Of all the public meetings which have heed held in this State during thc pres ent political campaign, no other has per haps excited so much inte/es?, or was so full of significance, ns that which look place in Columbia last night. When I state thu? the notorious \V**. J. Whipper (the corrupt negro politician who was elected Judge of ibo most important cir cuit in the State at the samo timo with the not leas notorious F. J. Moues, Jr., and whose joint election has perhaps cau*ed more excitement herc and more attention abroad than all theotherdoubt ful experiments of his party in thc State,) was present, and invited by tho Demo cratic Committee to divide time and speak on the issues of the day ns viewed from hi:: political standpoint, thc full import of the ?rene may be appreciated. The meeting was an Impromptu affair. Judgo T. J. Mackey, wno hud just re turned from a visit to New York, was invited to deliver nn address, sud notice had been given carly iu tho day of his .SMSUUGU to do so. He failed 10 make the necessary railroad connections, how ever, and did not arrive at the hour ap Cointed. Aa a large crowd had assem led in front of the hotel for the purpose of hearing bim it was determined to im file other leading gentlemen to take Ins place, and in accordance with this plan Colonel J. O. Gibbs, D. Wyatt Aiken (Democratic candidate for Congressman from this dil* ?ct,) and Coionei J. G. Bacon delivered stirring addresses in be half of Genera! Hampton. Despite the usual and standing orders of their lead era to tho contrary, a large crowd of ne groes had also assembled, and listened to these speakers in quiet and without in terruption. Passing over this part of the proceedings ns of no special interest I como at. Once to the feature of the occa sion. Tho chairman of the meeting an nounced on behalf of the Democrats that they were willing, and even anxious, to hear from the other side, and invited them to put up "my ono they desired to hear, assuring them of a respectful hear ing so far aa the whites were concerned. W. J. Whipper, who happened to bc in town attending thc sitting of the Supreme Court, which bad the matter of his elec tion under consideration all day, was present, and was nt once loudly called for by his partisans, who were informed that he desired to speak. No moro ob jectionable selection could have been made, as no man in the Republican par ty has said more or done more to com mend himself to the HOSTILITY OF THE AVHITE8. He has counselled violence of every description and on every oecsaion, and Oas come to be regarded ns the most bit ter and incendiary speaker of his party in tho State, not even excepting his greata colored rivnl Elliott, or his white antago nist Chamberlain. I mention these well known facts incidentally to indicate the feeling which animated the whites in the crowd of his hearers. Notwithstanding this sentiment, however, and notwith standing thc fact that his speech was BOLD, DENUNCIATORY AND AGGRES SIVE iu tone, he was given a respectful hearing with but one or two exceptions, on tho part of individuals who challenged his statements or accepted his own oft re peated challenge to disprove their accu racy. His speech was in large part a rehash of Ingersoll's charges against the Democratic party. He said that it was responsible for all the ills of tho war and for the million graves which had been Ulled between 1861 and 1864. He charged the whites of the St.-.tc with de liberate massacre of uuoffending negroes at Hamburg, Aiken and Ellenton, and in every county of the State. He glori fied iu the BURNING OF COLUMBIA, and said tho Democrats were responsible for it, as, in short, for every disturbance -all the suffering aud corruption, pover ty and want-which now afflicts thc peo ple. Ho claimed for tho Republican party of the State that it had freed the negro and the poor whites alike, and con tinued, for perhaps an hour, in a stratu which, while it elicited frequent demon strations of applause by reason of-its re peated appeals to the passions of his col ored 'learers, could not fail to excite cor responding feelings nf indignation ou the part of the whites. He was once or twico ordered by individuals in the crowd to "come down," but these demands were met by the chairman of the meeting with requests that he would speak as long and freely aa he pleased und with renewed assurances that he could do BO in safety, and be only concluded when ho had ex hausted bis material. In the midst of his speech an incident occurred significant of tho feeling of sus Eicion and enmity which animated both imself and his followers. His voice giving evidence of weariness after a half hour'? exertion, a gentleman noir the stand politely offered tho speaker a glass of water from the pitcher used by the gentleman who had preceded him. Cries ut once arose from a score of dusky throats, "Don't touch it. don't touch it I" "They want to poison youl" ?tc,, Ac. He was cunning enough to pretend to accept their suspicions os well grounded, and, though standing greatly in need of the refreshment, refused ?c accept it. When ho had finished his address he was assisted from the stand by white Demo crats,who also assisted him in donning his overcoat, and was escorted to the sa loon of the hotel and there "treated" tu refreshments of a s'ronger kind, which he accepted. In lieu of further remark of my own I quote, as follows, from tho rr-.-- xx_M 'X>_..-"i:_~ \ "<..).: ... 1 ........ ^........ y .?-.? 1-*"* as to his treatment throughout ?he even ing : "Mr. Whipper made a powerful speech, in which it was evident he won tho sym pathies of every one of his race present to his cause. It is duo to tho Democrats present to say that notwithstanding the terrible arraignment Mr. Whipper made agaiuat their party they behaved like gentlemen and gave bim a patient and an attentive hearing." With his speech all order ended. Mr. C. F. Janney (white) rose to reply to him, and then ensued a scene which de fies description and which at one timo threatened to EN n IN A RIOT. Mr. Janney attempted to opcak, and began his argument by accepting Whip par's challenge to lay bis finger upon any corrupt act of his (Whipper's) life which would dirquJify bira from acting aa Judge. What followed I will dispose of as briefly as possible, SB there was no order or sequence in the proceedings owing to the confusion which prevailed. Mr. Janney at tho outlet stated that he could prove that Whipper had been bribed by a witness who was at ?mud. Whipper and the other crowd vociferous ly demanded the proof to be produced, and Mr. Janney replied by calling at once upon tho witness, a well-to-do tar raer from a neighboring county, who, having ascended the bland, raised hil hand and testified that be himself lind paid thc pseudo Judge, at that time a member of the General Assembly of this ' Slate, THE SUM OV I- n j y DOLLARS to secure his vote nud influence to tho purpose of obtaining tho repeal' of the j charter of a cc,timi ferry, thc iutcrests 1 of which were opposed to those of bia ' own on account of tte proximity. Names and dates were given, with other corrob orating oircinriiu?nees unnecessary tc be j repeated herc. This txpote created A marked sensation in tho crowd, which , Whipper desired to counteract, and de- j mandel then and there the right to reply. ' This was refused, whereupon lie declared i he would be heard, and attempted to in- j terrunt the speaker by harranguing the j crowd in His immediate neighborhood. ? A scene of indescribable coufusion re- ! quited, the throng being swayed tonnt1 fro in its excited mood and cries and ehouts of various purport rending the air cn all sides. Thc excitement rnu so high that thc Democratic speaker caiied upon the Chief nf Poltpe and United States ??Scers present to preservo order, declaring . emphatically that if they did not the j whites who "had called thc meeting would do so for themselves. This threat, and the fact that fire or six drunken negroes who had been particularly boisterous were immediately arrested by the colored fiolicemen and hurried off to the guard muse, hhd some effect in quieting the disturbance, and the speaker attempted to proceed in his reply to Whipper's argument. THE DEVIL OF DISORDER was up, however, and could not be laid, and for tho next hour and a half the meeting was characterized by ineffectual attempts to ho heard and preservo order on the one side and by whoops and yells of interruption and irrelevant inquiry on the other. Mr. Janney finally gave up the contest, and Adjutant General Purvis (colored) was culled upon by the negroes to take his place. At this point the Chief of Police inter fered, and, appearing on the stand, an nounced that ns he had fonud it impossi ble to preserve order, and as many of tho crowd were already drunk or fast becom ing so, and ns thc numerous arrests already made seemed to have little or no effect in detorr'ng others from creating a disturbance, he felt it his duty to se cede to a request just made by several peaceable citizens, and order the meeting to disperse. This was al midnight, and the curtain fell upon tho only scene which has come under my observation of a disorderly public meeting in South Carolina. Your readers are left to iudge who exercised most forbearance ano who were the disturbers of the pence. Tho meeting was called by Democrats for the purpose of hearing a Republican judge, and was broken up by negro rioters. A Danger Ahead-Counting tho Electo? ral Tote. It does not seem to bc generally known that there is no provision, constitutional or legal, which disposes ot questions con nected with the counting of the electoral vote. The electors meet at their respec tive State Capitols on the first Wednes day of December of the year in which they are elected, vote by ballot for Presi dent anu Vice-President, and transmit a record of their votes to the President of the United States Senate. A law of Congress ptovides that the electoral vote shall be counted by thc two houses, in joint session, on tho second Wednesday in February next succeeding the meeting of tiie electors of Prdaident aud vice President. But there is no present mode of determining, by joint action, whether the vote of any pa:ticulnr State shall be received or rejected. What has been known as the Twenty second joint rule met this difficulty, and hy it tho counting bas been governed for the last three Presidential elections. Un der tLis rule, when the two houses as semble to count the vote, as soon as any objection is made to the vote of any State for informality or any other reason, the houses separate to vote on the objec tion, each in its own chamber; and if either House ohjccLs to thc counting of the vote, the vote of thc State objected to is thrown out. Owing to a lack of concert of action between the two Houses The Senate adopted thc joint rules! ex cept the Twenty-second, and tho House did not concur. The House suspended the Si xt en tli and Seventeenth joint rules, and the Senate returned the resolution with the statement that, as the House has not notified thc Senate of tho adop tion of joint rules for the session, there were no joint rules in force, lr. case of disagreement about "he count, there is, therefore no tribunal,at pre.-"nt constitu ted, to decide the question. Tho wliole power is virtually in the linn ls of thc President of the Senate, at present, hut the two houses eon, of course, adopt joint rules next winter. There is no likelihood, however, that the Repub lican Senate will agree to any rule that gives the Democratic House the power to reject thc vote of a 8tate, and jn like manner tho House will not consent to !;ive that power to Ino Senate. These acts and suggestions were brought out in tho debate in the Senate last spring on tho bill introduced by Senator Morton. He prepared an Act of Congress accord ing to which, in the case of a sin gle disputed return from any State, tho vote should not bc thrown out unless by agreement of both Houses, while in the caso of double sets of returns cither House might reject the vote of the State. In the course of the debate it was sug gested that, as there was no final arbiter, the country might one Of these days find itself inv-fved in a civil war on the ques tion off' . is elected Prudent. When tho electoral votes were couutel in Feb ruary, 1873, objections, for different r*a^ ?O??, T.'CrC t??uC ?O ?CCCJVi?g ww .ute O? Georgia, Mississippi. Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana, In thc case of five votes of Georgia the objection was that thc candidate for whom.tb*' were cast were dead. The objections Lo the o?hc r cases wore on tho score of informality or ir regularity. Each house, under tho Twen ty-second rule, considered tho objections. Thc Senate voted to count thc vote of Georgia. Mississippi, Texas and Louisi ana, una not to count thc vote ol' Arkan sas. Tho House concurred as to Missis sippi and Texas, and did not concur aa to Georgia, (6) votes of which States were, therefore, not voted. Very little attention was paid to this, at the time' because the vote for President Grant was overwhelming; but if thc election.had been close, tho exclusion of thc votes of thero States might have changed its who'e character. Tho House, in tho ab sence of a joint rule, has no mean* of macing effective its opposition to, or aup Sort of, tho r?ception of, the vAte/of any tate ; while, if the acting Vice-presi dent should refuse to count tho vote of. any Slate, and bo is a bitter partisan, what remedy has the House or tho coun try ?-Xcwr and (burier. _ ,m*k*mm+-- ..>*?*< i - - All a geographical mistake on Gram's part, Thoso troops were wanted in Indlar.a; not South Carolina. Congratulatory Address cf the National Democrat If CeBiniittee to the People of the Uultcd States. FEI.I.OW-CITIZEK3 : We congratulate you ns patriots, ns partaken? with us in thc common destiny of American free men, upon thc result of thc October State elections; Wo rejoice in thc victory which thc people's ballots have bestowed upon the friends of reform, in the valley or thc Ohio, whore tho Republican hosts had au overwhelming ascendency in every Pr?sident ?al election since 1856. We rejoice in thc assurance these elec tions convey flint your ballots will bestow decisive majorities to thc allied forces of Democracy mid Reform in the November elections throughout the Union. But we rejoice not ns partir?n? ; wc rejoice with you as fellow-citizens. And wheu tho decision of. this week of ?ne million of voters along tue valley of the Ohio shall bo ratified next mouth by the fi;.t of eight million voters through out thc whole Republic, we shall ?till rejoice, chiefly for tho reason that not one of its citizens cnn miss of an equal shave with us who are Democrats, in the politic.il pence and good will which will then nnd'therc be established among all sections, races, classes und conditions of men, and *n thc prnGj-er?ty of winch fiolitical peace, based on equal rights and ratcrunl good ?"!!! in thc first condition. Upon tlie three States of West Vir ginia, Ohio and Indiana, were concen trated all thc influence of tho administra tion, all iiieir Utforts, mid all the vast suniB of money forced from thc one hun dred thousand office-holders of the party in power. These were fearful odds, not again to be contended ngainst BO concentrated; for in the November elections the contest will be in every one of the thirty-eight States upon thc same day. Nevertheless, against these odds the Democrats and reformers of West Vir ginia and Indiana have been victorious, and in Ohio they have all but rescued a State hitherto deemed hopeless, and have created an assurance of victory in No vember. If it fall to our lot as a National Dem ocratic Committee to congratulate ''ic people of thc Union upon til is victory in the first battlo of thc campaign, it is only because Democrats have been honored to be the leaders of the people in thc work of national regeneration. ? The victory won, tho victory still to he won, will he a deliverance as much tc Republicans as to Democrats. The patriotic masses of the Republican party may bc thankful that tho misdeed; of their unworthy leaders have been re buked and are to be arrested. The suf fering whites of thc South may lift ur. their heads to greet tho dawn of a hcttci day for them .as well as thc nation al large. Thc colored citizen may share th( general joy that he will soon cease to bt the stock in trade of corrupt politicians but shall enjoy his rightful liberties am his equality before the mw amid univcr sal good will. *" As for the Reform Democracy, to whosi standard victory has been tied, with al her garlands on, it only remains for then to welcome every ally, every friend, clos up the ranks and press on, shoulder t shoulder, under the banner and with th one watchword REFORM. Fellow-citizcnBj peaco between all th sections; prosperity in nil of our homes of these you have for years been de pri- J i hy the mistaken solicitudes of po triotic Republicans, played upon by sel fish and corrupt leaden, who have kop funning the dying C^t^cra of civil strif in order to eicapc inspection of thc trust which they have betrayed. For eleven years you have had th name of peace. At no time have yo had tho substance of pence. In lie thereof you lind tho grinding taxntio and wastful expenditure of war. Jut before every election every year you hav had thc preaching of a new crusad against a section utterly defeated ia wai and anxious only to bc completely recot ciled in peace. For eleven years tho power of the me who have seized away the control of thc: ?mrty from the hands of ita statesmen an bunders has fc-sen supremo in almo: every department of tho Federal Onvan ment. Discarding the hope of prolongiri their domination by beneficent pubii measures, they have created and traffiokr upon public calamities. ( The policy thc have adopted hos been worked ont. I failure bas been absolute. In place of past performances th? same corrupt and selfish leaders no proffer premises already broken as thc titles to further trust. Huving prostrated our manifold indu tries by thc vast aggregates and thewor methods of federal taxation they no ?gain solicit your confidence as thc ii struments of retrenchment and reform. Having debauched the public servie and having just now', in thc faco of opt day, assessed their army of one liomin thousand oilicc-boldors--the people's se yanta-paid by the pooplc's taxes order to create immense corruption fun to frustrate the people 's will, they nc profess to bethe champions of civil BC vice reform. Having imposed upon tl Southern States tho rapacity, fraud ai plunder of the carpet-bag government having almost ruined thc prosperity the South, having created terror, unce taiuty ana.confusion, jn ail the producir, i?d?strlcs of the South,"' which furn! most of tlie exports of our whole conn tr keep in motioti thc commerce and man factories of thc North and Fast, ai furnish ft' market for the agricultural pi duct s of the West, they now propose, 1 renewal of thc samo fatal policy, to pi long their own power in hope of conce; ing their misdeeds, and for th's purpr they do not hesitate to renew the cry intolerance; to revive, the dying mem ries of fraternal strife, and to appeal thc fears and prejudices of the timid ni ignorant. " Fellow-citizens, these men and tin measures hsvo been completely tried a have completely failed. An opprcssi taxation, an.exhausted South, no impc erishcd North, a fluctuating currem tho enterprise of an industrious pcoj locked fast In the paralysis of harri tia -such is thc outcome of their politii fmlicy, BU on are tho nehm v incuts of th ong supremacy. Your ballots in Ii vemter can alono dictate a change measure:? mid a change of men. Sb not the uprWng of patriotism along t valley of the Ohio go on to a com pl and beneficial revolution in tho admin tration of the government of thc Uni! States?. Will you not; by the voice of ov whelming majorities at the polls, proc.la your; Invincible faith, after all th?se1 ye Of corruption and passion, \n the hi immortal principles of government j the people, far the people, in simple lu esty ?nu strict economy, jw tbc supre wisdom of public policy, m justice osJ mother of po ivor, and in civil freedom tho be-all ann the end-all ot a truo J publican nationality?.. ".Will you not'build'up a newpfdspi ty for aft the pconfe; on thc ola fbun ?oh1 of American self-government, F xe, reconciliation ono : fraternity tween all sections, all class* s and races embraced within our sys terns American commonwealths; on frugality and economy in nil governments ; on honesty and purity of administration, and having lost your prosp- 5ty. through governmental misrule, rcga.n Mat \-.m nerity through governmental reform? wc commit this grout issue to the intel ligence nnd conscience of the American people, with an unfaltering trust in tho wi: Mom and iusttco of their decision. AMOS 8. HEWITT, Chm'ri. FREDERICK O. PRINCE. Seo. Xew York, October 18, 1876 THE PEACEFUL REVOLUTION THE CAUSE OF REFORM TH MARCHING ON, CONQUERING ANDTOCONQUER. WASHINGTON, October 22, 1876. Tin; gloom and despondency which settled on thc Republican managers after the full returns from Ohio and Indiana, still continue, and thc desperate cflbrta to throw off this feeling and to replace it with hope have signally failed. Instead of improving it has become more nnd more confirmed. Chandler finds himself in tho condition of a commander who staked a whole campaign on the fate ufa single battle, and caine out of it with a broken and demoralized army, much inclined to revolt, without dis cipline, aud nearly without ammunition. Nothing reveals weakness like defeat. Then it is that discontent, jealousy, envy, malice, and disappointed ambition speak out. This is the sort of refreshment with which Chandler's committee has been do luged for ten days. No word of comfort has come, but complaint from every quarter at the false issues of th?: cam paign ; thc waving of tho "bloody shirt" ns a national banner ; tho putting for ward of ??niuo and other corrupt leaden; as thc representatives of reform inside ; thc fabricated charges against Mr. Til den's personal character, and thc false figures made in tho Treasury to deceive the country. There has been no rally of the party in the sense of recover)' from a stunning blow, or as illustrating any confidence in success. On thc contrary, there is a pauic here now which is far worse than that first witnessed, because tho reporta received from Wisconsin leave hardly any doubt that Tilden will carry that Slate lurgely, while Michigan is threaten ed in a way to ve Chandler the most serious concern anv. alarm for thc result. In fact, tho reaction, since Ohio uud Indiana virtually decided thc Preside.icy for Tilden, would bc amazing if the nobie army of neutrals, numbering perhaps haifa million of voters, and" scattered chiefly over twenty States, did not pro verbially rush over to the strong side, and thus explain this wonderful change in the aspect of the campaign in less thnn a fortnight. All over the Northwest the Republicans are throwing off the yoke of party rule, so that Illinois has become nearly a doubtful State, and there is a rebellion in Mi mu ..?.uta und paris of Iowa. This revolution has spread into Penn sylvania, and the awakening there- is causing Cameron and his crew an anxiety they have never before felt. But what troubles thc managers most here, is. thc intelligence from tho city mid State of New York. The largo accessions to the reform rank? from among solid men who have never before cast any but a Repub lican vote, and who arc now determined to deposit their ballots for the Democratic candidates, are fully reported to Chandler and his confederates, nnd make them very bitte indeed. But this is not the worst by any means. Chandler lins fouud in his frequent jour neys to New York, and especially tho last, that tho merchant* nnd bankers who used to contribute thousands, will not give a dollar to help the Republican ticket. They know that thc effect of thc calumnies of Blaine, Morton, Ingersoll, Boutwell, and the outrages of thc Admin istration against the South, has been to react on their material interests. While this warfare is kept up there can bo no real peace ; and without peace prosperity is practically impossible. If a Republican Administration, bead ed by Hayes should come into power, Orantism would not only be continued, but at thc end of four years this same sectional strife wbuld be again renewed, os it was in ?864, 18G8, 1872, and 1876, perhaps even more intensely thau now, and with the most disturbing effects on trude und the relations of the two Bec lions. Thia agitation in tho interests of politicians alone cannot go on without serious derangement of business, to bo felt more directly and severely in New York than in anv part of thc Union. Hence it is that tho Republican mer chants and hankers will not aid to keep ing up a system which is at war with all their best interests, and threatens new dangers to the tranquility of tho Union. They sec that the only mode of removing the Southern question from politics is by the election ol Samuel J. Tilden. Polit ically, they may not prefer him to others on their own side, but ho can do in this great mutter what he did in regard to Tweed's Ring: end tho evil and provide a remedy. . Letters from inside the Republican or ganization in New York, represent its condition as hopeless, confused and dis mayed. It is stated that Mr. Morgan has emphatically refused to answer tuc do mauds for more money, that his peculiar friends regard the prospect as cheerless, and that thc probable falling off in tho Republican volo by conversions to Til den, and by refusal to go to tho polls at all, reaches to every part of tho State, : and will swell up to very many, thou sands. The Administration has lost all head, if it ever had any. There is mt direction, no steady hand nt thc helm, and no sound Kense of auy kind. The last exporiiucnt of sending the army to South Carolina under false pretences, has reacted to the injury of the very cause it was intended to promote. The splendid submission of tho Carolinians to this dari mr outnuro I wus exactly what tho conspirators did not expect or desire. They incited rc siBtanco to their own troops, but | the scheme did not succeed. Jn spite of this infamous proceeding, which will, yot bring iis authors to grief, if tho IIOUKO of Representatives does half its duty next winter. Ware Hampton will probably bo elected Governor, and tho vote of thc State be cast for Tilden. So much for* public rnscaMty mid its approaching downfall and punishmonU-^Afeu; York i Sun. - Tho -caves begin to put on their golden tint, but don't go into convulsions over it. ti Loaves always do this every fall. - Tlio Centennial arithmetic man has been at- 'work, and estimates, that S9?, 000,000 bas been loft iii Philadelphia by visitors the past six months. -I What 'becomes of liberty under thc consti'oticn when a shameless carpet bagger can overturn a whojc State and garrison it with Federal troops? This is tito.8#iith Carolina problcf?. -?-The number of civil employees''tin der'1 President Buchanan wc; 42,627 ; under Lincoln In 1868, when the war was at lu height, 47,376; under Grant in 1869, 64,207: under Gr nt in 1873, 86,* 680; under Grant in 1876, 102,850. A LETT KR FRON ?JOY. TILDEN. Ho Defines Hin Position In Kt ega rd to Southern Claim?. NEW YoitK, October 24, 1870. 7b Hon. Abram H. Hewitt: SIR-I hilve received your letter in forming me that representatives high in authority arc publicly representing that tho South desires, not without hope, to obtain payment for losses by tho late war, and to nave provision mndo for the rebol debt and for thc losses of slaves. Aa the payment of such losses and claims wno not made imp?t ?ant enough to deserve tho notice of either convention at the timo it was held, you also ask mo to state my views in regard to their cognition by tho government. Though disposed, my self, to abide by the issuo made up already, I have no" hesitation to comply with your request. The fourteenth amendment of the con stitution expressly provides ns follows: "Tho validity of tue public debt of tho United States authorized by law, includ Inn ,1.>!,(., iiuiniwait -.-nf mg ..cuis incurren .... u' > oi pen* sions and bounties for services in sup pressing insurrection or rebellion, shnii not bo questioned ; but neither tho United States, nor any Stan?, shall assume, or pay, any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebel lion against tho United States, or ?ny claim tor tho loss or emancipation ot'any slave ; but all such debts, obligations und claims shall be held illegal ana void." Tili* amendment has ueen repeatedly opproved and agreed to hy Democratic State Conventions of the South. It was unanimously adopted ns u part of tiic platform of the Democratic National Convention at St. Louisen Juno thc 28th, and kV OS declared by that platform to be j universally accepted as a final settlement j of thc controversies that engendered the civil wnr. My own position on this sub ject bad been previously declared on many occasions, and particularly in my first annual message of January 5, iSV6. In that document I stated that "thc Southern people were bound by tho thirteenth, fourteenth aud fifteenth con stitutional amendments ; that they had joined at tho National Convention in the nomination of candidates, in the declara tion of principles and purposes, which form an authentic acceptance of thc re sults of the war embodied in the last j three amendments to the organic law of | the Federal Union, and that they had, by thc suffrages of nil their voters at tho hist National election, completed the proof 'that now they only seek to ?haro with u.-. and to maintain, the common rights of American local self-government j in a fraternal union under the old flag, with one constitution nnd one destiny, I declared nt the sumo time that "the1 questions settled by thc '.:ar are never to be re-opened. The adoption of the 13th, 14th and 16th amendments to thc" Federal Constitution closed ono tra in our poli tics. lt marked thc end forever of the system of human slavery and of thc struggles thnt grew out of that system. These amendments have been conclusive ly adopted, and they have been accepted in good faith by nil political organiza tion? and tho pcoplo of nil sections. They close tho chapter. They are and must be final. All parties hereafter must | accept and stand upon them, and hence forth cur politics aro to turn upon ques tions of tho present and the future, and not upon tho- e of thc settled and final past. Should I bo elected President tho pro visions of tho fourteenth amendment will, so far ns depends on mo, bo main tained, executed and enforced in perfect and absoluto good faith. No rebel debt will -3 assumed or paid. No claim for the lossor emancipation of any slave will bs allowed. No claim for any loss or dainago iucurrcd by disloyal persons, arising from tho Into war, whether cov ered by tho fourteenth amendment or not, will be recognized or poid. Tho cot ton tax will not be refunded. I shall deem it my duty to veto every bill pro viding for the a'?..-ui m pt io ii ot payment of j any such debts, losoes, dninnges, claims, or for the refunding r>.r any such tax. Tho danger to the national treasury is 1 not from clainiB of persons who aided the rebellion, but from claims of persons re siding in Southern scutes, or having! property in those States, who wero, or pretended to bo, or who, for the sako of aiding claims, now pretend to have been loyal to tho C-rv. ernmer.t of tho Union. Such clnims, e'en of 'oyal persons, where they are from liqt* caused by the opera tions of war, have been disowned by the Subi ic law of civilized nations, con- ! cmncd by tho Bupremo Court of tho 1 United States, and only find any status by force of specific legislation of Congress. These claims have become stale, mid urn often tainted with fraud. They aro nearly always owned in whole or part by claim agents, by speculators or lobyists, who have no equity against tho tax payers or thc public. Hiey simula in all cases bo scrutinized with zealous care. The calamities to individuals, which ware I inflicted by thc late war. are for the most | part irreparable. The Government can not recnll to life the million of our youth who went to untimely graves, nor com pensate the sufferihgB or sorrows of their I relatives or friends. It cannot readjust j between individuals tho burdens of taxa tion hitherto borne or of debts incurred to sustain tho Govern ment, which aro yet to bo paid. It cannot apportion anew among our citizens thc damages or losses incident to military operations or' resulting in ever/ variety of form fror its measures for maintaining its own existence. It has no safe general rulo but to let bygones bo bygones, to turn, j from the dead past toa new and better future, and on that boals to assure'peace', reconciliation and fraternity between-all sections, classes aud races nf our people, j to tho end that all tho springs of our pro- J ductive Industries may be quickened and, n new ircspority-created, th whicHllthfei,j evils of tho past ?hal! bc forgotten;' [Signed] WA JIU KI, j. TILDEN. THE OHIO DEMOCRACY!-The Ohio Democratic State committee hfis issued' an'-Address in thc Demoeraey'wrid friends of reform in that Stnto.' The address re fer:-, to thc Democratic triumphs in In diana and West Virginia, aud to tho small Republican majority in Ohio. It I claims that by a change of two votes in I each precinct, or a gain of ono pct cent, on the late State vote, it will be sufficient to make Ohio mire for Tilden. ' It also'i claims that tho Democrat? can mak? these gains, and even more, by a ByfS\}\ effort, sud begs them to do their utmost. At a meeting of the State .Committeeron' Wednesday, Senator- Thurman bindo n speech, in which he declared that it was in thc power of tho Democrats .to i carry Onto di thc November election. In bit ibr' Words ho denounce*!'i'c p'roclsmatiotP ordering the troop?i.to1 South Carolina, declarion it an outrage upon 41 freo peo-1 plc and a.disgracc to tuc nation.-rr:/,,forni.r. - The New York" Hc\ald, which is moro powerful than Grant, especially ai the 'idtef's len.se of'Wficm! lifo W< brier,1 declare.! emphatically that the redemp tion of South Carolina, from Chamber. Iain's tyranny h 'An indispensable .step toward thc restoratlo- of peace and pros perity." ! . I ii? .;? < '? . , M io fvMi iii i* --T--,--rr-1-i-:-m TUE MERMAN FUSILIERS. ONE OF THE OY,D REVOLUTIONARY OR OANIZATIOWS ORDERED TO DISPERSE -T/THE CONTBADJCTOBY WOBDB AND Acm OF GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN, Thc following letter requiring tho Ger man FuniHers to surrender their'arma should be read in connection with the letter written last year upon the occasion of their Centennial celebration. Bqth letters come from Governor Chamberlain : O??TI; OK SOUTH CAROLINA, j EXECUTIVB CHAMBER, \ COLUMBIA, October 20, 1870. ) thjd. A. Melcher?, German Fntilicte, Charleston, S. C. : SIR-On May 18, 1870, as appears by the records of thc adjutant-general's' of fice, you received from the Savannah ami Charleston Railroad Company two hun dred and fifty (250) rifles and equipments complete, belonging to thc State, ipr thc uso of thc German F?siliere of Charles ton. ? nm now compelled by my official du ty to direct that thc above i.auied arma bc forthwith delivered io capt. H. W. Hendricks, chief of police of Charleston, who Is authorized to act for thc State in receiving ?hem. I further request to bo informed by you forthwith whether *hc German Fu siliers still exist a? au organization or not, and I refer you to my proclamation of th? 7th instant and that of the Presi dent of thc United States of tho 17th instan:. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, D. H. CHAMBERLAIN, Governor South Carolina. The Centennial Letter. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ) EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, > COLUMBIA, May 1, 1976. J A. Melchcrt, Eta., Presiden' German Fa gittert, Charleston, ti. C. : MY DEAR SIR-I ha?-c received with peculiar pleasure your invitation in be half of tue Gorman Fusiliers of Charles ton to attend their Centennial anniversa ry celebration on tho 3d insta*"*, and to respond to tho sentiment, "Tho State of South Carolina." I appreciate this honor very highly, and I specially regret to find it impossi ble for me to accept your invitation. I have feared that it might bo a littlo in explicit, lo that I should be able to go to Lexington but not to Charleston to at tend a Centennial celebration ; but I know I ought not to doubt that you will ncccpt my present assurance that public duties and labors which have accumula ted during my recent absence nro of such a nature as to make it unreasonable for mo to leave Columbia at this time. I trust too that you will to no extent attribute my absence fr?m your celebra tion to a want of interest or svmpnthy in any celebration which specdify concerns Charleston or South Carolina. It was a grcnt privilege for mc cn a recent occa sion to speak of our State in tho presence of many thousand? of our Northern brethren, nnd in some senso in the pres ence of tho whole country. No native of South Carolina, however devoted to the traditions and faino of his State, could have failed to bc deeply moved by tho cordial manifestations seen on that occa sion of the spirit of fraternal kindness un thc part of all who joined in thoso {at riot ic services towards South Carolina, t would afford mo the utmost pleasure to bo able to testify in person to tim greet and increasing feeling of fraternity be tween the North and tho South on tho occasion of your celebration. . I should rejoice also to. do whatever I might by my presence or words to make a suitable expression of the feelings with which 1 know South Carolina responds to all sentiments aud acts which tend to national harmony und reposo. Others who are better able than 1 to perform 5'ich a service wi!! bi present with you, and'will give voice to all thc precious memories and hopes which your celebra tion will call up. I cannot regret my absence on your account, hut only oh roy own, for I covet the honor Of helping to open the aeries of Centennial c?l?brations e....M. 1 ...:n momory of her Revolutionary heroes and history. Above all things, my dear uir, I trust rour celebration will speak ana enforce tho great present lesson and duty of po litical aud social harmony bctwet-.? all the sections of our country and the basis bf tho settlements which are now em bodied in tho constitution of the nation. Upon that basis let a new prosperity grow up, which shall cheer and bless all races and conditions of men who dwell in South Carolina. Political differences ought to be significant and valued, only os they mark the greater or less fidelity of our parties to thc common pur [loso of making our government aud pub ic servico honest, patriotic, puro Sud elevating. Every pian iii my political friend whoso honest duty ia to give pe&co and prosperi ty to South Carolina, Every man is my political foe who would, for any cause, stay or turn buck the returning tide which is bearing theso blessings to our people. May your celebration give strength to our national feelings, to : our' honorable State pride, to our firm resolution to make South Carolina worthy to-day of the men who a hundred years ago, with faith and courage, preserved her freedom and honor, and wno transmitted to us yles?!Dg* which are ;still greater than those enjoyed by any other nation. Again expressing my profound regret at my necessary absence from your patrl ptio celebration, 'I give you tbhvscntM ment : "The German Fusiliers of Charles ton-May thoir constant and highest aim be'to perpetuate tho'spirit which made South Carolina in 1776 the heroic and unconquerable defender of American r_>__i_-1?*-. ? HIWMWI f??J?? v ........ Respectfully and gratefully, "' Your fellow-citizen and servant, D. H.'CHAMBERLAIN. - "Tho Prcsidont: has nt last put his foot down," says a Radical organ. He. has also put it in. It would have been better for hint and liis'. p^irty if he had kept it up and out. 11 ?'i* -tu <n , 1?- 'S?nntor Conkling writes to a friend that his illness shuts him np, and that he knows littlo of the world's news. He's a lucky Radical if ho hasn't hoard tho news' frohYtho October elections. 1 - Some'bf the clefts in tho Govern-'1 mont departments refuse to pay tho addi tional assessments levied upon thom. Thoy are t-aviug their mc?ey ;;ov; lr, ?v-.j their own funoral oxpensea, and proferto lot'tlie Lt publican party bury itself. I XlL'ttrantfsta'Ibas cost" tho country nt the rate of about two-thirds of a'billion of dollars a year. Is i ti lurry wonder tho people are wearing out with this gigantic lancet of corruption, and,gasping for ? change'bf doctors ? - Chamberlain,, Grant, Cameron' and TS<I mayde their waist; but thoy cannot flatten South Carolina any flatter Utan IriVH jncw is. She is ,the great national Eancake, and oven Massachusetts extends > her tho butter dud molasses' of a sin? cfcresy apathy.; . natte?, willoh ?Bl Cfltf ?fa?? g^ayM.??. monejr.comta with tho aider t,, Oltatlo-is, two laHrt??^li*' - - - W.W Estate KotlccB, tb/eoiuMi^vli?, - . -?JS?I Ttt?iitl?nr,"?mrrft?Hlcallona mast- ba aero ai pailita Dcccaary stamps are tarnished to rcpaj thopoatag .' thereon. W?j sro not rcapontlbte, for the TICW??CS oplnl?bs cf ourvwrcipoaCcntu AH c^mmunlci'ilolMvboald bo addressed to "Ed iteT Intc?lKoncor." and ul! rbeikt, drafts, monay urdere, Ac., should be ruado payable to thu order of -i .'? 1 ? HOV* ? ?o?.~ Anderson, 8. C. i Dragoonlug the South. The designs of the administration upon tho Soutncrn Hiatos can no longer be doubted. Thc threatened interference by tho bayonet with tho freedom of elec tion ?B moro than a brutal /ulm?n. Fcd eial troops, acting under Washington Orders, are sooutiug certain co> ??tic? of South Carolina and : arresting ? \ading members of the opposition. ' Ail tuc men Roized belong to ono p?rty. This7 single fact suffices io eaposo ima condemn tue whole procced?mr. it takes .two to make a quarrel, and ?^'there aro' disturbances in South Carolina1 demanding tho inter vention of Federal soldiers, ft ii incon ceivable that thc offenders should all be of the same party connection. . There are no such disturbances of reasouablo pretenses of any. South Cnr^lina is as quiet in all her parts as Kew York ; und neither Governor Chamberlain, who cnlls for the troops, nor Attorney General Taft, hy whose commands the nrreets aro made, affects to believe that tho peace of the State is endangered in the slightest degree. It would bc very convenient for both of these men if they could iionestiv assert that South Carolina is in need of Federal protection nt th'"? time. Such a plea would mnkn n tolerable ex cuse for tho high-handed measures in progress,, lu the absence of such a jus tification otiose i-ditical schemers and their Washington friends are driven to another expedient. They profess to be lieve that tho South Carolina Conserva lives are inti imbuing and coercing vo ters of thc other party-that tho m!sc;3 ly arc tyrunizing ever thc majority-that the few arc bullying tue many I Aside from thc intrinsic absurdity of this no tion, there is no proof of its foundation in fact. The evidence is all thc other way. Governor Chamberlain and his myrmidons at home and his abettors of thc administration hold thc State firmly in their grasp. They, and not tho oppo sition, have the absolute control in Sonth Carolina. Those of thc whites and their colored allies who aro seeking to free the r?tale from this dendly thraldom are, above ill things, anxious to avoid giving any occasion or excuse for Federal meddling. They have repeatedly offered their ser vices as militia, under command cf thc Qoverupf himself, to enforce thc laws 'Against nil violators in thoStnte. These tenders have been steadily rejected-for no other reason than became thc Gov ernor wished to make it appear that the State was in a turbulent nnd desperate condition, ns a hollow pretext for invi ting tho interference winch has now boen made on other grounds equally untenable. Tho arrests now being made will be limited in number according to tho de ores of Governor Chumbe?lain and his political counsellors. They could cause 10,000 or 20,000 active men of the oppo sition to bc seized and placed under bail ar in prison, if they cared to do it. Evi Jence could bc as easily manufactured for that number cf cases ns for any other. But tiie.v will probably bc content to ar rest and annoy only 100 or 200 of their opponents. Tilts would save trouble for tho military and the Federal officials, and would unswer the samo purpose of overawing tho white and black Conserva tives of thc Stato. Thero aro doubtless ?omo voters in South Carolina who will take tho alarm from these proceedings und abandon their desigu of voting igaiust Governor Chamberlain and his party in order to gain their r?ood will md avoid difficulty. But we mistake the temper of tho American pconlo- wheth ?sr lacy live in South Carolina or else where-if these wanton, dictatorial and wholly unjustifiable measures have the ?Cect of frightening voters out of their own convictions. Stich a course must, on the contrary, contribute to nerve up and iuito all good citizens' lo make ono su premo effort for the Overthrow of u gov ernment system which, under the prc leiiso of defending the right of suffrage, ?ra'ntonly overrides it in the boldest man ier. That such au effect- should bc most widely and powerfully felt, tho party in South' Carolina for whoso injury these nr .ests dre made should be studiously care ful to obey the. laws aud keep tho peace, ii it ia now doing. Such a policy puts ;h? administration wholly in thc wrong, iud must: hurt it in tho canvass.-New The Ebetoral Vote. . Electors meet together nt their rcspec ive State, capitals on tho first Wednesday t? December of tho yesr in which they vero elected, vote bv ballot for President md Vice President, and transmita record , )i tb?1'.?, vptes to tho President pf tho Uni ca States Senate. A law of-Congress provides that thc electoral vote shall bo . counted Toy tho two nouses in joint acs liou on tho second Wednesday in Fcbrd iry.nont succeeding th?; meeting of tho doctors of President and Vica-Bresldcnt. The question has arisen as to whether ivliat has been kuown aa tho twenty second joint rule of tho: two' Houses is now in force. It provides that tho Houses . mall assemble in tho Hall of thc House of Representatives at 1 P. M,,, and . that tho President cf tho Senate shall bo their presiding officer. No voto objected ' to by either houso to ho counted. In sase offl disagreement the Senate retires, l?id.bolh bodies deliberate, on tho admis don or rejection pf tho voto of any State. Tn caso they agree on leasscinbling tho Vote is counted,--hut in case they aro di vided tho vote is not counted. Such are. tho provisions of the. ru|o in question, but it is denied that thorp is any such rule'nore in force.- A 'Washington'' cor respondent of tho Now Yiork Trwune says: "Donioflrnts JUero have inserted* tlint in . coup,tho ?,le?tjon?p?. Gox-j H^ea shPhld. . turn upon accepting tho voto of South Carolina tho. Hpuao^would object, anet'1' under the twenty-second joint rule, which provides that if cither House noreis?'Tn objecting to rcccive'the voto oinnV Slate it shall not bo received; they would pre Sont .its bcing-kiouuted,' amt thus defeat in nlpetir.n of llaiM??. Rflyornl n?rnSIa; casca have formed tho subject of discus rion hercil- It is, however, ft feet, though np^, generally,,.taoy?n( that tims far tho Foi ty-Foil rf ii Congi ess has not adopted itdy joint Toles.' Each Congress on acts it-vr-wii i-uiui, Tho practicedlas been'at thc opening-of; thc s??aio?nj 4o pass resolu tipus adopting thc. ru)cs of tho ptcvious . Congress, ana generally such a rcsolti ti?n passes as a matter of course. At tho last session, however, tho House adopted the rules, i tho Senate failed ?ti? concur, aud consideration of, tho subjqet went over under an objection to present eonBideration hy Senator, Edmonds. As a final rcs ult tho session. closed without adopting; joint .mle?, and >thb twenty second rule foll with the rest. . Thia > left the. joint ^cetfxantion ; for pouuting tqo electoral vote without' any rules other than the. constitutional provhion for its meeting and the oponing of tho votes' by President of tho 8onate and the counting j - A city missionary' was asked the fcauso of his poverty. "Principally," said he, "becauso ? have preached <so biuoh.without,petes," . - ,;;. . .. , us? ?fc It wa?ra' little shnr^yoar old who', whon a carpenter had been called in to ease the doors, ran into-.au adjoining room to tell her mother!'that, ho Was "taking ?bc skirl off the dNJf." . .tir&iv{!>i v-?:i v1-1 '