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JAS. A. HOYT, J ?M. E.B,MURRAV,)EditorS THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 7, 1876. LATEST FROM COLUMBIA. T Special TeUgranu to the Anderton Intt?igsncer. Columbia, December 4. The Democrats withdrew from the State House at half-past twelve o'clock to-day, and assembled at Carolina Hall. This course of action was pursued in con? sequence of threatened expulsion from the building by the State Constabulary backed by the United States troops, and the Democratic members deemed it pru? dent and wise to leave before actual force was employed. Intense excitement and anxiety as to the situation has prevailed Bince the departure of the Democrats from the State House. Our members are hopeful. Four Republicans have united with them, and others are expect? ed. Both Democrats and Radicals have been in secret session to-day. J. A. H. Columbia, December 5. This morning two Republicans, Gibsor? and Bird, of Fairfield, who had been sworn in the Mackey House, left that or? ganization and joined the Democratic House. Thwc make six Republicans who have left the rump concern and uni? ted with the lawfully constituted House, and who being added to the fifty-six Democrats holding certificates of election frein the Secretary of State, make sixty two members. The President has signi? fied his intention to recognize the House which shall be composed of sixty-three members holding certificates of election from the Secretary of State, and we are quite hopeful that several more will join us within a day or two. The Democrats are all quite jubilant at the prospects, and in the meantime the Radicals are concoctiug more villainy. The Senate and Radical House passed a concurrent resolution this morning to count the votes for Governor at one o'clock, and they are uow engaged in the work, which will re? sult by their declaring Chamberlain Gov? ernor, leaving out Edgefield and Laurens. The Senate refused to admit Maxwell, of Abbeville, and referred his case to the Committee on Privileges and Elections by a vote of 15 to 15, the President giv? ing the casting vote against Maxwell beiug admitted without reference. Coch? ran, Greene aud Nash voted with the Democrats. The Radical House seated the contestants from Aikeu County this morning. The greater part of the troops has been withdrawn from the State House, and only one company is left, and this held as a reserve while tbe State Con? stabulary are in charge of the building. The city is crowded with visitors from all parts of the State, and large numbers are uuable to obtain hotel accommodations. The Anderson visitors are enjoying them? selves, and will return to-morrow. Every? thing is quiet. The State Fair opened to-day. J. A. H. THE B?ST YET. Columbia, S. C, Dec. 6,1876. The Supreme Court has just decided that the organization of the House of Representatives under Speaker Wallace is the only legal and constitutional house. The decision maintained that Mackey is only a private citizen, and that Hayne violated the law in delivering the returns for Governor and Lieutenant Governor to Mackey. Bridges, Republican colored member from Newberry, made his ap? pearance before Speaker Wallace this morning, and after assigning the reasons for bis conduct, took the oath aud as? sumed his place as a member of the constitutional House. This makes sixty three members with certificates from the Secretary of State, which insures recog? nition at Washington, and most likely by the Senate in a day or two. The proposed bogus inauguration of Cham? berlain will not take place in four or five days, if ever. Hampton will be inaugurated in due time, but good rea? sons exist for not announcing the pro? gramme. _J. A. H. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. A telegram from New Orleans under date of the 5th inst., says: "The declara? tion of the Returning Board gives lowest Hayes Electors 3,427 majority, by throw? ing out from 12,000 to 15,000 Democratic majorities. It is understood they give the entire State ticket 3,500 majority, and a good majority in the Legislature." We have received no late telegram as to the final action of the Returning Board in Florida, but we fear it too has obeyed the edict of Grant. If so, the people may be assured that the twelve or fifteen scoundrels composing the Boards in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana will not be permitted to make a Presi? dent for the forty millions of freemen in the United States. Hayes will never take his seat as President, and if we are asked our reason for this opinion, we re? ply, because he was never elected. Will Americans consent for Hayes to be President when he has secured the vote of South Carolina by theft aud re? tained it by force? Will the people of the United States consent for every Cir? cuit Judge to undo the acts of the Su? preme Court of a State? Will the great masses of patriots in this Union consent to ill low a President to place the troops of the Nation uuder the command of a man who has been beaten at the polls to enable him to sustain his power over the free choice of a great State, and the de? crees of the Supreme Court of that State ? These are the momentous questions sub? mitted for the judgment of our people. If they submit, the government of our forefathers is dead, and republics are forever a failure. It wili not, however, jjtie so, we trust. The fire of liberty burns brightly upon the altar of American hearts, and the day of reconing for trea? son apd tyrants is near at hand. Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, committed treason wheu he ordered the troops at his command to expel by force and at the point of the bayonet the legally elected members of the lower houso of the General Assembly 'of tHe sVato bT Sotftli tinrblufc DUPLICITY OF GRAST AM) KUNER. We publish in this issue the report oi General Ruger to General W. T. Sher? man, or the Secretary of War, under date of December 1st. This report will not hear criticism. It does not conceal the facts attending the great crime com? mitted by Grant, Chamberlain and Ruger against the constitution of the United States, and the rights of the people of South Carolina, and it is too thin to hide the motives which actuated and the ends sought to be accomplished by this miser? able triumvirate, acting in concert to overturn constitutional rights, and to de? feat the clearly expressed will of the people of the State. It is on its face self-contradictory. The first sentence asserts that he (Gen. Ruger) had ab? stained from interference with the organ? ization of the House froui the first, and the last sentence admits that soldiers were posted at the door ?f the Represen? tative Hall, and persons claiming the right of entrance under the certificate of the Clerk of the Supreme Court were refused admission. Here, then, is an admission by the commanding General of the troops that an atrocious and un? justifiable wrong was committed by the troops, but disclaiming that he did it. Grant deuines that it was done by his order or knowledge, and Chamberlain remains mum. Who did it? The hu? miliating confession is made by General Ruger that it was done by a person (!) at the door of the House, who had no legal authority for doing so. "Why did Gen. R. permit this irresponsible person to use his troops to enable him to perpetrate crime against law and the legislative rights of the State. The end attained by this wrong, shows the object with which it was done. No sooner was it ascertained that General Hampton had been fairly and clearly elected Governor of the State, and that a majority of Democrats had been elected to the Leg? islature, than Grant commenced the concentration of troops in Columbia, and before the hour for the meeting of the Legislature these troops were sta? tioned in the Capitol and nt the door of the Hall. A few days previous to the time for the meeting of the Legislature Gen. R. was in Florida, but was ordered in great haste to Columbia. Gen. R. knew that without the interference of troops the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box would become law, that Hampton would be inaugurated Governor and the Legislature Demo? cratic. The triumvirate knew that this would be effected peaceably, and the troops were used, not to keep the peace, but to enable the Republicans by disre? garding the will of the people, and trampling upon the most sacred rights of raaD, to produce conflict and bloodshed. In this tbey have been disappointed. There has been no lawlessness, except on the part of Grant, Chamberlain and Ruger. There has been no desire to dis? turb the tranquility of the State or thwart the will of the people, except by the Republicans, and they have attemp? ted to produce conflict by exercising lawless usurpations, and thereby goading the people on to desperation and vio? lence. Chamberlain, by the most un? blushing falsehood, had the troops in Columbia placed at his disposal, Grant wickedly aud cognizant of the falsehood ordered the troops to bo placed at his disposal, and General Ruger permits a person at the door of the Hall?a tool of Chamberlain?to use them for the perpetration of lawless? ness and to defeat the will of the people. Notwithstanding General Ruger in this report disclaims all intention of in terferring with the organization of the House, yet, within two days he sent a member of his staff to announce to Speaker Wallace that if the Representa? tives from Edgefield and Laurens did not leave the Hall before 12 o'clock on the next day, he would forcibly eject them. This he did not do; why, he has never informed General Wallace or the country. Such an outrage as this, if perpetrated, would have ended Grantism and Radicalism in the United States. But why did Gen. R. not execute his threat? It is evident that a change in the policy to be pursued was agreed upon before ticclve o'clock the next day. Is it attributable to the scathing rebuke that Gen. R. received from Gens. Hampton, Gordon and Haskell, who referred him to his promises and his proposed viola? tion of them, or to the dread of popular condemnation? When did regard for the observance of good faith or the fear of public sentiment prevent Radical leaders from accomplishing their purpo? ses? No, the leaders who control the action of Gen. R. have done all they dare do to provoke a disturbance, and they knew that if United States troops ejected those members it would be done without any disturbance of the peace, that there would be uo riot, no blood? shed, without which nil their hopes of success mast be disappointed; and hence some other plan must be devised, so odious and oppressive that the Demo? crats will be driven to violent resistance. The plan as finally developed was that the State Constabulary force, under the lead of Hubbard, should enter the Hall and eject all who did not acknowledge Mackey as Speaker, and thus place the whole government of the State in the hands of the Radicals?as vile a set of scoundrels as can be found iu any peni? tentiary. It was known that Columbia was filled with citizens from every part of the State, highly excited at the rascal? ity of the Radical leaders, aud there was every reason to believe that these citizens woidd resist the violent, unlawful and revolutionary action of the Constabulary force. If they had resisted, as the Radi? cal plan contemplated they would, Gen. Ruger stood ready to interfere with the troops, and having interposed, the Rads, would have accomplished what they have so long striven to bring about, riot and bloodshed, and a government, which is hated by the people, established aud upheld by United States bayonets.? Again they have been disappointed. The forbearance, good judgment and sound discretion of the Democratie lead? ers have prevented any riot. They qui? etly retired from the State House, aud thereby insured the final success of their cause. The bogus Goveruor and rump Legislature cannot carry on the govern? ment for three mouths, if we keep down violence, and thus afford no pretext for the use, pf.United State? troops. The wiioJe fcnocra is* fcor'r?pV, rotten' and toppling, und can be sustained only by Federal bayonets. Grant denies that he gave Gen. Ituger any order to interfere with the Legisla? ture of South Carolina. He again acts with the same duplicity that he did in the case of Louisiana. He knew that there was no disturbance of the peace and that there would not be unless it was produced by the Radicals; he knew that Chamberlain had been defeated for Gov? ernor, and that a majority of Democrats had been elected to tin* Legislature; he knew that Chamberlain wanted the troops here to make himself Governor, and to drive out enough of the Demo cratftV members of the Legislature to leave the Radicals in a majority. He knew all this, and under these circum? stances seut Gen. R. and the troops here, and placed them, as tools, at the disposal of Chamberlain. The Independent Re? publican Press of the North denounce him, and tell him plainly enough thut the plea of ignorance will not avail him ; that it is his duty to see that his subor? dinates do not trample upon constitu? tions, laws and rights, and that he can? not escape the just responsibilities of his own orders and acts. More than this, if Gen. R. has violated orders or set laws at defiance, it is Grant's sworn duty to remove him from his command, and if Mr. Chamberlain has violated the confi? dence which Grant had in him at the time he placed the troops at his disposal, ic is his duty to revoke the order placing the troops at the disposal of Chamber? lain. He has* not done this, and he must stand convicted before the world of duplicity and utter disregard of his sworn constitutional obligations. THE SITUATION. The changes which took place during the past week were much more favorable to the Democrats than to the Radicals. The attempt to subject the State to tbe government of the Federal military has been only partially successful. Grant and his suppliant tools, Chamberlain and Ruger, have done all they could to in? volve the State in bloodshed and war, and thus enable them to declare mar? tini law, sot aside the verdict of the people at the polls and establish a gov? ernment of their own, sustained by the bayonet. In this they have been disap? pointed by the exercise of profound dis? cretion ou the purt of the Democrats and their appeal to the Courts to establish the truth, justice and equity of their cause. Chamberlain knows that Geu. Hampton has a clear and decided majori? ty pf the popular vote, aud he ha3 relied on the vileness and dishonesty of the State Board of Canvusscrs to count him in and the United States military to sus? tain him. He will be declared duly elected by the bogus Legislature and 9worn in as Governor, but his right to the office will never be acknowledged by either the people or the Courts of the State. No act passed by the rump Leg? islature can or will be enforced, not one cent of taxes can be collected, and his government must prove a failure. His Legislature was unconstitutionally or? ganized, and no act of theirs performed under that organization has any force or validity. The Democratic House was organized in accordance with the consti? tution and laws of the State, having more tbau tbe constitutional quorum, and since its organization six Republicans have left the rump and united with them. They expect more to do so, and if only one more .should come to them they would have a majority of the whole num? ber, without counting Edgefield and Laurens. Under these circumstances the Democrats are not only hopeful, but feel sanguine of success, and that Hampton will be inaugurated Governor of the State. The flagrant frauds of the County Commissioners aud the State Board of Canvassers are so patent that tbey can never succeed if they be submitted to an intelligent und honest House of Repre? sentatives. If the Radicals persist in their efforts to control the government, the matter will be decided by thr Courts sooner or later, and Gen. Hampton de clured duly elected, and tbe people will then see that he is placed in tbe guberna? torial chair, to which their votes have culled him. Siuce writing the above, telegrams in? form us that the Radical Senate and House, on Tuesday last, declared Cham? berlain elected Governor by 3,145 majori? ty, and that he would be inaugurated on the next day, Wednesday, by tbe bayonet House aud Senate. This result was reached by throwing out Edgefield and Laurens counties. As soon as this in? famy was perpetrated by a rabble of vil? lainous corn-field negroes, the Democratic Senators withdrew from that body. Tbe rump Legislature is now composed of ignorant negroes, with a few disreputable scallawags aud carpet-baggers, and their proceedings will hereafter be null and void, and not regarded either by the people or the Courts. Gen. Hampton declared iu a speech ou Tuesday that he would be Governor, or we would have a Military Governor. He was then pre? paring his inaugural address, which he hoped to deliver from the State House steps ou the next day. The situation is encouraging to the Democrats, for the government as con? stituted is a fraud and cheat, and utterly powerless to perform any of the func? tions of government, and its acts will not be worth the paper upon which they are written. President Grant in a late conversation with Hon. A. S. Hewitt, a member of Congress from New York, stated that it was not his province to decide whether the election in the States had been fair or not, but assuming that Congress should decide to throw out the electoral votes of Louisiana, in consequence of frauds in the returns, he discussed the effect of such action on the final result, and when it would necessarily throw the election of President into the House of Representa? tives and of Vice President into the Senate. The British Quarterly Review says that the chief lesson by which George Elliot would purge our passions lies in "the tragedy of untamed human nature forg? ing for itself an indissoluble bond of triple brass in its undying crimes and their self-brought retribution." The les? son is respectfully commended to the cot> sTdWation tff the chiefs b'f GrnntTsim NEWS FROM COLUMBIA? DOINGS OF THE TaWFUL AND UN? LAWFUL HOUSES. From the Columbia Register. Columbia, Friday Dec. 1,187G. All night long on Thursday night the members of the lawful as well as the members of the bogus Legislature re? mained in the hall of the House of Rep? resentatives?Gen. Wallace, the Speaker of the lawful House, remaining at his post almost continually, beiug relieved for short periods only by the Democratic members. Mackey, too, was ou hand, and occasionally changed places with some of the Rablc statesmen of his own way of thinking, or acting, at any rate. About half-past 3, Judge T. J. Mackey, of the Sixth Circuit, entered the hall, walked upon the Speaker's stand at the request of some personal friends, and de? livered a speech of an hour and a half in length. Many of the members were asleep when the Judge began, but were pretty wide awake by the time he got well under way. After this speech, many of the mem? bers resumed their snoring, and contin? ued at the pleasant pastime until long after day ; while others moved about the hall, chatting, smoking, and some writing, while others read. Numbers of the low country, "rurial" members, continued to deliver speeches upon all sorts of subjects until just pre? vious to 12 o'clock m. yesterday, just pre? vious to which hour Mr. Austin, of Greenville, moved an adjournment. The motion was put by General Wallace and carried, the Democratic members alone voting. Mackey's bogus crowd were put through the same process, and both Houses being presumed to have reassem? bled, the Clerk of each was ordered to call the roll, which they did at the same time. After the calling of the roll, General Wallace ordered the minutes of the pre? vious day's session to be read, when some one moved that lhe reading be dispensed with. Mackey issued the same order for the rump with a similar result. Mackey's rump House had no quorum. General Wallace called for bills, re? ports, resolutions, motions, presentments of grand juries. &c, as the first thing in order. There was no business under these heads. Hamilton, of Beaufort, came into the hall about this time, and in reply to an "insinuendo" uttered in an undertone, remarked that this business was going too far, and he was afraid it would break up in a row. Reed, the raving member, didn't want any row, but if there was to be any, he wanted to be found "thar." Ha niltou obtained the floor and made a sensible and earnest appeal to the Re? publicans of the rump to beware of what they were doing. He again denounced their conduct in admitting the unheard of delegation from Barnwell, and im? plored them to do what was right, as he intended to do. During the whole time of the delivery of Hamilton's speech, which was quite a long one, he was weeping, his manner evidently convincing every one around him, of both parties, of his sincerity and honesty of purpose. Mr. Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, a fine-looking man and good speaker, next took the floor, and appealed to the Radi? cals to agree to submit to some soi ;f a compromise. He paid a glowing com? pliment to Hamilton, whom he termed "a brave, honest and patriotic man." He then offered a resolution, which he stated had beeu inspired by Hamilton's evident sincerity and nobleness of nature, of which he had giveu such strong evi? dence in his appeal to the less intellect? ual members of his race and party. The resolution was to the effect that a com? mittee of three Democrats and three Re? publicans be appointed from the House, with a like number from each party in the Senate, forming in all a committee of twelve, to immediately assemble and confer for the purpose of seeing if all matters of difference could not be solved. The resolution was read and sent to the Speaker's stand. Immediately after its reading, Gantt, of Beaufort, which county seems always to send its quota of bad men to the Leg? islature, moved that the Committee on Privileges and Elections be requested to make their report. This fellow Gantt is one of the ultra Radicals of the House, and is not only one of the worst representatives of his race, but about one of the worst their in? terests could possibly be entrusted to. He is a full-blooded negro, ignorant, coarse and brutal in appearance. He presents the appearance of one who edu? cation and contact with a superior race will improve but slowly, if at all. Old "Shuv-'em-up" Humbert, of Dar? lington, now arose for one of his long winded talks; such an one as he has been famous for during the eight years in which he has been a member "ob dis House," and an attempt to report it ver? batim would ruin the understanding of the best stenographer on the continent. He wanted to know, among other things, what had become of the white "Repub likins?" "Dey is all fleeing from us." "What we gwine do if you 'bolishcs our schools and our uniwersities, and puts the chilun outen de door?" His remarks, which were pretty much in keeping with the above, occupied about an hour and a half, and everybody seemed glad when be got through. Old "Shuv-'em-up" is one of Cadetship-seller Whittemore's pupils. At the close^ of this tangled up ha? rangue, Mr. Orr offered a resolution that it was not the purpose of the Democratic members of this House to in any way in? terfere with the electoral vote of the State, and disclaimed either the disposi? tion or authority to do so. This resolu? tion was prompted no doubt by a knowl? edge that some such idea had gotten into the thick heads of the Radical members, and their minds should be disabused of it at once; but you might as well have talked to the bubbling waters of the muddy Congurec and bid them cease to flow, for all the good it did or effect it had upon them. Keith, of Darlington, an ultra Radical, then got the floor, and rambled on for an hour or more, quoting passages from the Bible, and lining out hymns, in the old plantation style, concluding with the campaign song: "A charge to keep I have, A nigger to maintain." His remarks were highly gratifying to the rice field members. The hour of 2 having arrived, which hour had been designated as the time at which the vote for Governor would be considered, some member of the bogus crowd sent a resolution to Mackey's chair, which was to the effect that the matter would be postponed uutid to-day, at 2 o'clock. The resolution was read und unani? mously approved of by the rump. This determination is supposed to have been arrived at when it was discovered that General Ruger had, for the present, concluded not to interfere in the prem? ises. The same conciliatory disposition on the part of the Democrats that has, throughout, marked their actions, was manifested to-day, and the same stub? born, nonsensical idea of the Radicals that they were the legal House, without a quorum, the fraudulent Barnwell dele? gation seated, and the properly elected delegates from Edgefield and Laurens ruled out, was exhibited by each and all of them, including the mulatto preacher Thomas, from Newberry, and the mem? ber from Bermuda. Old "Ring-tailed Roarer" Robinson, from Beaufort, who has the appearance of a Brazilian o-pe, with the audacity of tbd devil himself, affects' to bclrcVd to this idea, too. He delivered himself of oncof his usual speeches in the afternoon, taking possession of the middle aisle and rearing up and down it for nearly an hour, frothing and foaming like a hyena, who had been chained with a three foot chain, endeavoring to obtain an apple four feet away. Old "Ring-tail" paid his respects to "dat Dimocratic paper, de Register," and finally, becoming exhaus? ted, subsided. The learned Bennudian then obtained the floor, lectured the assembly on their loquacity, requested them to "keep quiet, gentlemen," and he would only detain them but a few moments. He endeavored during bis precise remarks to explain to the statesmen around him what was the meaning of a coup d'etat. His hearers, however, could not divine whether he was talking about something to eat or their nay, mid becoming weary of trying to find out, gave up in despair?one low couutry member hallooing to Mackey's substitute, "After dat, Mr. Speaker," I rizes to inform de Speaker dat I is gwine to bed," and suiting the action to bis words, he twisted a grey boree blanket over his head and doubled up in his seat like a grub worm brought to light, leaY ing his No. 12 brogans hanging over his desk. A few minutes of quiet now prevailed, which many of the rump members took advantage of and visited the colored pie woman in the lobby, bringing back into the hall peanuts and ginger bread enough to founder a regiment of dragoons. At 8 o'clock, Mackey who had been supplanted by Keith for an hour, re? turned to the hall and resumed his scat as one of the Speakers. A rumor was shortly afterwards whis? pered about the hall that Mackey had visited General Ruger with a proposition from both Speakers to adjourn to-day at 12 o'clock, both parties to return Monday morning upon the same footing they oc? cupied last night. General Ruger refused, on the ground that he must obey orders from Washington. In consequence of this interview, which we have since learned was actually had with General Ruger, both parties remained in the House last nignt. The windy members on the Radical side having pretty well exhausted them? selves, many members on both sides were sleeping quietly at midnight last night. Saturday, Dec. 2,1876. Sknate.?The Senate assembled at 12 M., and was called to order by the Presi? dent. The House sent to the Senate a con? current resolution to discbarge the spe? cial order for this day at 2 p. m., (joint convention,) and make it tho special order for Monday, December 4, 1876, at 2 p. m., which was concurred in and re? turned to the House of Representatives. Mr. Jeter presented the following pro? test, to be entered on the journal: According to previous notice given in open Senate, we, Senators cf South Caro? lina, make this our protest to the adop? tion of the resolution inviting the Senate to be present at the counting of the votes for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, which emanated from a body presided over by E. W. M. Mackey, Esq., pretend? ing to be the House of Representatives, for the following reasons, viz: The constitution of South Carolina, Article XI, Section 7, says: "The House of Representatives shall consist of one hundred and twenty-four members," aud in section 14 of same article a quorum to do business is defined to be "a majority of each house," which in tbe House of Representatives is sixty-three." There not having been that number in the body presided over by E. W. M. Mackey, Esq., according to its own journals, when he was sworn in, it was not the House of Representatives of the State of South Car? olina, and being illegal in its fundamen? tal organization, cannot become legal by any subsequent act, but to become a part of the House of Representatives must dissolve and begin de novo. Thomas B. Jeter, A. P. Butler, I. D. Witherspoon. Jones. M. Williams, R. E. Bowek, R. G. Howard, W. A. Evans, G. Cannon, J. W. Livingston, W. L. Buck, S. S. Crittenden, Henry A. Meetze. At 12.10 p. m., the Senate adjourned till 12 in. Monday. House.?Another day was spent at the capitol pretty much as the day preceed ing, the only occurreuces of any import? ance being the swearing of two of the strongest and best men in the Republi? can branch of the House into tbe con? stitutional Legislature. A visit to the House about 10 o'clock brought us face to face with the always troublesome Seigeant-at-arms, who re? quires a new identification every time one passes in or out, even though it be a dozen times a day. Once inside matters seemed unchnng.d from the night before, except that the j members looked a little the worse for the two nights of sleep on the sofas and [chairs of the House; and the blankets aud bed quilts which here and there met j the eye gave evidence of the "camping out" the party had unwillingly indulged in, and reminded one of the old times in the army just after so ? e commander would give orders to "strike tents" and "march." The debris of the supper the night be? fore might be seen in the lobby in trays and waiters. Our modern statesmen seem to have been quite frugal, by the way, or else very hungry, and devoured every delicacy placed before them, as the remnants iu the lobby consisted of a few crusts of baker's bread, with here and there the undevoured jawbone of a Scotch herring, and the hull of tho inevitable "goobei pea." The members were lolling around read? ing the morning papers, the reporters were at their desk looking weary and worn, and the telegraph boys were occa? sionally seen to enter and depart, bearing away with them some scraps of paper which in a few minutes more would in? form thousands of people miles and miles away of what was going on in the capitol of the once proud but now prostrate com? monwealth of South Carolina. A little before 12, as on the day pre? ceding, some one on each side moved an adjournment. First Speaker Wallace and then acting Speaker Thomas put the question, and an adjournment took place (in a horn.) Speaker Wallace called the House to order, and acting Speaker Thomas called the rump to order. First Jones and then Colonel Sloan called the roll of their respective sides. Acting Speaker Thomas suggested prayer. A very likely colored preacher by the name of Marsell walked upon the Speaker's stand and offered a prayer such an one as all Christian men could listen to?the Democrats paying respect? ful attention, as they always do on such occasions. The reading of the minutes were dis? pensed with by both sides, for the very good reason, we dare say, that there were no minutes to read. Gantt, of Beaufort, rose to a privileged question?his object being to say some? thing in reply to the Register's account of the previous day's proceedings. Keith, of Darlington, interrupted him by rising to a point of order?his point of order being that no sort of debate upon any question was in order. Gantt, however, was permitted to pro? ceed, and did so mildly, with one or two exceptions. He thought that the re? porters ought not to be hard upon him because he was black rftid ignorant, and reminded the reporters that he had been kept in slavery, hence his ignorance. His remarks were all well enough, had he only left out bis declaration about his lore for the carpet-bagger and the debt of gpbtituifa be owed him) au'd try whom be* seemed to swear. As the reporters are not allowed to rise to privileged questions in the House, we will tell Gantt, and all men of his kind, that we, and the class of white men to which we belong, do not, as he seems to think, despise him on account of his be? ing black or even ignorant. On the other hand, but for the course he has been pur? suing and his intemperate remarks, made in that very ignorance, in all probability with the hope of impressing some of his associates, he would, as many other men of his race have done, have made friends of the white men of the South. We can tell him, further, that when the ancestors of the very carpet-baggers who arc the authors of all his woes and the woes of his race first brought his forefathers from the wilds of Africa, aud sold them to the Southern planter, they were speculating in the flesh and blood then, as they are now in the credulity, of the colored man, for selfish, sordid motives. Even his liberation by the armies of the North was effected by no love for him or his race, but simply as a war measure, adopted by the North to crush their Southern broth? ers, which, for two years, with all the world to draw from for troops, money and material, they had been unable to do; and bnt a few weeks before they declared the black man free, they declared to their white brothers of the South, which they persisted in calling us evcu then, that they never desired, never intended, the liberation of the negro, aud that any such declaration or act upon the part of any man in their armies would be a violation of the spirit and of the letter of the con? stitution under which we all had lived. Gantt should know these things and profit by them, and as he desired to sec something good in the Register for bis Sunday reading, we have told him this much, which he hardly knew before. Just after Gantt got through with his remarks for "those Register," Mr. Bowen, a member of the Senate, made his ap? pearance at the door of the House aud applied for admission. The assistant Sergeant-at-Anns refusing, in language, which was offensive to Mr. Bowen, to permit him to pass, he pushed him aside and entered. This created a little ripple of excitement, but nothing came of it ex? cept that Mr. Bowen entered the House, as he had a perfect right to do. A Charleston delegate at this moment rose to a "pint" of order, but being un? able to tell about his "pint," he was di? rected by the member from Bermuda to take his scat, which he did reluctantly, declaring that he believed he had a right to "'scuss de merits aud de demerits of ebrything." Robertson, of Beaufort, said he had been called a "Ring-tailed Roarer" by those Register, and he wanted to correct the "gentlcmens what writes dat paper." He said that he was "Red-hot Ring-tailed Roarer Robertson;" hence we stand cor? rected on RoberLsou. Tom Hamilton, of Beaufort, now ob? tained the floor, and said that the issue had to be made sooner or later; that he might as well make it now. He then proceeded to arraign the Republican leaders of South Carolina who had de? nounced Chamberlain as a a traitor, a Democrat and a thief, alter he had nom? inated him in the Republican Conven? tion. He proved his consistency as a Republican, and pointed them to meas? ures which he had opposed, but which they in their madness and folly had passed over his head, and aftcwards ac? cused him of disloyalty and want of ? party fealty. He told them of his de? termination to do right and fulfill the oath he had taken to support the consti? tution, regardless of the consequences that might follow. He told them that ? two years hence he would be a candidate for re-election, and that he would be re? turned from his county. He denied that the people of South Carolina had any ob? jection to Northern people coming into i the State, provided they did not come as Erofessional politicians. He alluded to icslie as a well-known thief who had fled the State. Hamilton ridiculed the idea of Laurent and Edgefield being thrown out on account of the number of votes cast, and said that his own county, which hud given the second largest Re? publican majority of any county in the State, had cast 3,000 more votes than it had two years ago. Hamilton's speech was a long and exhaustive one, and he closed it by warning the "bob-tailed Leg? islature," as he termed it, of their effort I to force upon the people of the State their unlawful body as a genuine, bo7io fide Legislature. 1 At the conclusion of his speech, Ham? ilton approached the Speaker's stand, \ with his commission iu his hand, and re 1 quested to be sworn in as a member oi the eoustitutional body. The most in? tense interest was manifested all over the House as Hamilton took the oath; after which he returned to his seat. 1 Pinckney, the "rurial" member from Charleston, walked down the aisle and ! began to deliver a speech denunciatory ? of Hamilton's course. After getting sis far as "tlfe sight was the most damnable," I some of the old Radical rats went up to i him, whispered in his ear, and the "San tee orator," with a sickly grin, subsided. Thomas, of Newberry, then returned and moved the passage of the report of the Committee on Privileges and Elec ti is, which was adopted. This report recommended the exclusion of the Democratic members of Edgefield und Laurens, and was adopted by the Radical wing of the House, which, of course, amounted to nothing. The time having arrived for the vote for Governor to be considered, that bus? iness was dispensed with until Monday, upon which day it must be considered. Miller, of Beaufort, followed the post? ponement of the election matter in a speech in which he made an exhibit of the increase and decrease of population in Beaufort, Edgefield and Laurens, and also made an exhibit of the ratio of votes in proportion to the population, all of which was very satisfactory to Miller, if to no one else. Miller was followed by N. B. Myers, of Beaufort. Myers is a very intelligent colored Republican, who has stood side by side with Hamilton in his manly de? fense of the right. At the close of his speech, which was very well delivered, he also advanced to the Speaker's staud und took the oath, which was delivered by Gen. Wallace, the legitimate Speaker of the legitimate House. Whatever effect the independent course of thet, lwo colored men (Hamilton and Myers) may have upon their large con? stituency, a great majority of whom are ignorant, unlettered men, it is observable that their colleagues, all of whom are ultra Radicals of tiie very worst school, attribute to them no dishonorable motive, and act towards them like they kuew them to be true men, whatever their dif? ference of opinion may be. Even Miller declared yesterday his life-long und un? changed regard for one and his ample respect for the other. No word that could be construed into anything like a belief that they were not actuated by the best of motives has escaped the lips of any of the Radical speakers, except the "Sautee rurial," and he was stopped in his first utterances. During the afternoon session, it was discovered that one of the bogus Repre? sentatives, by the name of Cave, who hud been declared entitled to a sent from Barnwell, had never put his foot inside of the hall, and that some tricky Radical had been answering to his name for him. Many were the jests passed when it was discovered that this doubly fraudulent trick had been played. Shortly after the discovery that Cave had not turned up, the motion to admit the "contestants" from Abbeville was up, and a set of Radical delegates from that county was seated. These certifi? cates were trumped up, they never hav? ing claimed seaU until instigated to do so by the rump in order to give them an I apparent quotum. Of course, in the : f?ng runj the sehting oV thc?b rca?y riratic members will amount to nothing. Following this proceeding, which seemed to afford special delight to the members of the rump, a full chorus on that side began to sing, "Hold tha Fort for Hayes and Wheeler," much to the edification of Judge Denny, of Indiana, who is here as counsel for the Board of Canvassers, and the renegade North Car? olinian, Settle, whom Vance thrashed out so handsomely on the 7th of Novem? ber. At the time of going to press matters remain unchanged from what they were Friday night. A majority of the Demo? crats are sleeping, and a large number of tbe Radicals seem to regard the whole business as a good joke, and to act as they would at a big barbecue, a camp meeting or a militia muster. Meanwhile, the old peanut seller in the lobby is driv? ing a pretty fair trade?the average Rad? ical statesman being able to hold out a long while on "goobers" and the hope of ifb'UO a session. Monday, Dec. 4,1876. The monotonous show at the capitol ended yesterday. The constitutional House aud the rump body having spent the Sabbath in the hall together, every? body felt that an end of some kind would be reached on yesterday, and not a few thought it would be a bloody end. The city was full of men from the surrounding counties. Many of them had come to attend the fair, and large numbers had come to see fair play in the count which it was understood would be had yesterday. The parties who had a copy of the real returns were inside of the hall, and it was known that Mackey had a set of the doc? tored returns. The rump and their backers had taken the precaution to keep everybody out except members and the representatives of the press, and had in? tended to have what they called a count of the vote, but which would have been a mere opening of the thirty-two envelopes of doctored returns which Hayne, the Secretary of State, had turned over to Mackey, the bogus Speaker of the rump. The hall presented pretty much the appearance it had for three or four morn? ings previous, the long watch and fitful sleep telling upon many of the members. At a quarter to 12 the usual formal ad? journment took place, without anybody leaving their seats except the member who made the motion. The roll was called and the Speaker and pretended Speaker then announced to the respective bodies over which they presided that the House of Representatives was opened. . Mr. Orr, of Anderson, theu made a motion to adjourn, when Speaker Wal? lace arose and made the following re? marks : Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I have just been officially informed that there are uow in readiness upwards of 100 armed men who are about to enter the hall for the purpose of ejecting certain members upon this floor. The members to whom it is intended that the force shall be applied have been recognized by this House as members, and we dispute the authority of the State Government to eject from this floor any member of this House upon the ground that he is not a legal member of the House of Represen? tatives of tbe State of South Carolina. We insist that this House is the only competent authority to pass upon the qualifications and election returns of its own members. The force to which I have alluded is acting directly under the au? thority of Governor Chamberlain and under his commission. The chair is given distinctly to understand that if that force is resisted by the members of this House, t/ie military force of the United Stales will be invoked to its assistance ; that that assistance will be rendered not for the purpose of upholding another body claiming to be the House of Representa? tives of South Carolina, but upon the ground that that force is under the Gov? ernor, and that the action of the military is in support of the Executive authority of the State. With a view of preventing a collision upon this floor in which lives may be lost aud blood shed, with a view of preserving the public peace, with a view of submitting to proper and legal arbitrament all tbe rights we claim on this floor, the Chair is of the opinion that this House should withdraw from this hall. While we assert our rights as the legal House of Representatives of South Carolina, while we dispute any authority under the sun to decide for us who have rights upon this floor, but solely for the purpose of preserving the peace aud pre? venting bloodshed and of conforming our conduct to the public teachings of the political leaders of the State, I am of opinion that this House should withdraw ' to another hall. It is not essential to the legality of the House of Representatives that it should sit in this hall. The con? stitution requires that the General As? sembly should meet in the city of Colum oia, and with a view of giving emphasis to the reasons for our withdrawal, I desire to repeat that while we claim and insist upon all our legal rights, for the purpose of keeping the peace and preventing vio? lence and of preventing bloodshed, we will repair to another hall and exercise the proper functions that appertain to this body. I may as well state that the only legal House that can exist in South Carolina is a body consisting of sixty three members. That constitutes a quo? rum of that body under the constitution, tbe membership of that body being fixed at 124; the constitution also providing that a majority of those members is alone competent to do business. I, therefore, gentlemen, upon the grounds stated, and for the reasons given, while insisting that we are the only con? stitutional House of Representatives in South Carolina, that for the purpose of preventing bloodshed, I recommend that we do adjourn to another hall in this city. At the conclusion of General Wallace's remarks, Mackey handed a paper to Mr. Marshall, Reading clerk of the last House, and requested him to read it. Mackey prefaced this action with the re? mark that he had intended to request that the preamble and resolution be read the first thing after the roll call, but that he had, through courtesy to General Wallace, withheld it until he had finished his remarks. Mr. Marshall then read the following: Whereas the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina did assem? ble in the hall of the House of Repre- | sentatives on Tuesday the 2Sth day of November, 1876, a constitutional quorum of all the members duly elected as mem? bers thereof being present and answering to their names, and did organize by the election of Hon. E. W. M. Mackey as Speaker, and A. 0. Jones, Esq., as Clerk, and did in all respects proceed to perfect its organization in conformity with the constitution aud laws of South Carolina, and has continued in session from day to day until the present time; and whereas on Thursday, the 30th November, 18.6, i body of men comprising many persu.fl having no legal claim or credentials, diu enter the ball of the House of Represen? tatives by force and arms, and did pro? ceed to usurp the Speaker's chair and Clerk's desk, und did refuse upon the de? mand and order of the Speaker- of the House of Representatives to yield the same; und whereas said body of men have been since tbe suid 30th duy of No? vember, 1S76, engaged in interrupting the proceedings and defying the authority of the. House of Representatives, and ure now preventing the House of Represen? tatives from proceeding with business; und whereas the Senate and House of Representatives, by concurrent resolu? tion, have appointed this the 4th day of December, at 2 o'clock p. m., in the hall of the Housj Representatives, as the time und pine- or opening, counting and publishing the returns of tbe election of Governor und Lieutenaut Governor; and whereas the House of Representatives is unable to enforce its authority against suid body of men, who have unlawfully intruded themselves into the House of Rtyretotidivfcsi aril whereSs' Said M HHHH0iHIBHB09nCMBSKEB9HHEM?flHHiiiiiiiiMiiHTv. truders have openly proclaimed that they * will not obey the orders of the House of ' Representatives, or retire from the hall: thereof, but will resist by force of arms any attempt on the part of the officers of" said House to enforce its orders and au? thority ; therefore be it Resolved, That the Governor of the State be, and he is hereby, requested to take such measures as will protect the ? House of Representatives against the unlawful intrusion, interruption and vio? lence caused and done by the said body of men who have unlawfully intruded themselves into the ball of the House or Representatives, as hereinbefore set forth, and who now are engaged in unlawfully interrupting the proceedings thereof and' who also by their unlawful conduct and presence in the House of Representatives,, preventing the assemblage of the General Assembly in joint convention as is pro? vided by the constitution of the State of South Carolina. After the reading of this document, the Democrats withdrew in a body, wfacda they were in the act of doing iritea Mackey requested the reading of the paper, and the rump, without even whaft they - terra a quorum?the fraudulent Barnwell and Abbeville delegates in? cluded?were left alone in their glory. Thus ended one of the most disgraceful1, and humiliating proceedings that has ever disgraced any assembling of the Legisla? ture of this State. ?^?^???? NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to Gilreath <fc. Peoples, and also to J. E. Peoples, will please come and settle at once, as we ? need our money. GILREATH & PEOPLES. J. E. PEOPLES. Dec 7, 1876_21_2_ NOTICE. MY Notes and Accounts for medical services for the years 1874 and 1JJ75 are in the hands of Alexander Campbell for collection. All persons indebted to me will save cost by settling with him immedi? ately. M. C. PARKER, M. Dec 7, 1876 21 2*' LAND AT PUBLIC SALE. IWILL sell before the Court House door at Anderson, on Saleday in January next; the Tract of Land whereon Robert ML Graham now resides, situate near Sonexau River, and adjoining lands of Thos. I?, Pal? mer, A. J. Graham and others, contacting: lOOi acres, more or less. Terms of safe1:? STRICTLY CASH. SYLVESTER BLECKLEY1 Dec 7, 1876 21 . 4 TAKE NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to C. M. Mc PHAIL & CO.. are hereby notified that unless their accounts are paid by first. January next, they will be placed in the ? hands of John E. Breazeale, Esq. for collec? tion. Settlements must be made to Smith? Sloan & Poe, Pendleton, S. C, or C. M. McPhail, Pendleton Factory. C. M. MdPHAIL <fe CO. Dec 7, 1876 21 2 Christmas Presents! A LARGE LOT OF FINIS JEWELRY Of every description will be on hand for the) Christmas Holidays. Please call and see it Repairing fine Gold Watches a specialty. J. A. DANIELS. Masonic Building.. Dec 7, 1876_21_4 TOLLED, BEFORE me by Jasper N. Pool, who* lives three miles from Calhoun, in Anderson County, two STEERS?one red colored horned Steer, marked in the right ear by a crop and swallow fork, and in the left car with a crop and under bit. The: other is a mulay white and red colored. Steer, unmarked. Have been at Pool's six: weeks. The owner will come forward,, prove property and take them away, or they; will be disposed of according to law. WARREN D. WILKES, T. J. A. C. Dec 7,1876 21- 1 NOTICE. County Auditor's Office, Anderson C. H., S. C, Dec. 4,1876. To Saniantha Garrctt or her assigns: YOU are hereby notified that forty-four dollars and nine cents have been de Sosited with B. D. -Dean, Treasurer of Anr erson County, for the redemption of 200 acres of land in Hopewell Township-, being . the tax, costs and penalties on 241 acres and one building, assessed in the name of Cla? rissa Garrett, of which the above 200 acres were purchased by you at a delinquent land , sale, held on the fifth day of June, 1876". THOMAS J. WEBB, Auditor Anderson County. Dec 7, 1876 21 2 TILDEN and HAMPTON SHOE SHOP. THE undersigned hereby notifies the citi? zens of Anderson and vicinity, that he has opened a Shop for the manufacture of Boots, Shoes, <?c, for gentlemen and ladies,, in the Town of Anderson. He is prepared to do fine and substantial work, and will be prompt in the execution and delivery of work undertaken by him. He will call at residences to get measures for ladies' orders. WANTED?Two Journeyman Workmen, capable of doing fine work, can obtain situ? ations by applying at his Shop in Dr. Scud day's building, west side Benson House, first door below. Featherston & Brown's law office. R. Y. H. NANCE. Dec 7, 1876 21 3m SHERIFF'S SALE. BY JAS. H. McCONNELL, Auctioneer. State or South Carolina, > Anderson County, j In the Probate Court. A. C. Stott, Plaintiff, against Drayton M. Stott, Sr.. M. J. Kay, et al.?Complaint to Partition the Real Estate of Mrs. Harriet Richardson, deceased. BY virtue of an order toinedirected from W. W. Humphreys. Esq., Probate Judge of Anderson County, in the above stated case, I will expose to sale on the FIRST MONDAY in JANUARY next, at Anderson Court House, TRACT NO. 1, Containing 90 acres, more or less, situate in Anderson County, S. C, on botli sides ->f the Six and Twenty Mile Creek, and adjoin? ing lands of John Harper, John Dalrymplc, Mrs. Thomson and others. Terms of Sale?One-third cash ; the re? maining two-thirds on a credit of twelve months, secured by a bond with approved surety, together with a mortgage of the premises. Purchaser to pay extra for all necessarv papers. WM. McGUKIN. Sheriff. Dec 7, 1876 21 4 SHERIFFS SALE. BY JAS. H. McCONNELL, Auctioneer. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Anderson County. In the Probate Court. J. P. Johnson, Adm'r. of Elijah Elrod vs. Cornelia Fleming, et al.?Petition for Par tition of the Real Eitate of Elijah Elrod, de? ceased. BY virtue of an order from W. W. Hum? phreys, Judge of Probate for Ander? son County, to me directed in the above stated case] I will expose to sale on the FIRST MONDAY in JANUARY next, ut Anderson Court House, the following do c-ibed tracts of lands? TRACT NO. 1, Containing 152 acres, more or less, situate in Anderson County, bounding lauds of John Spearman, Michcal Dickson, Tract No. 2, and others. TRACT NO. 2, Containing 67 acres, more or less, bounded by Tract No. 1, Miclieal Dickson, Wm. Martin and others. ? TERMS OF SALE?One-third cash?the remaining two-thirds on a credit of twelve months, with interest thereon from the day of sale, to be secured by a bond with ap? proved security, together with a mortgage of the premiss). Purchaser to pay extra for papers. . . WM. McQUKIN, 8beriff. Deer, 1*0 & . ... i