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v-JMTfc.-y - J* \~r'-iXJf rriia: poiir KUYAIi STANDARD a ill COMMERCIAL! i A.. Ci. TITOM AS (Mitor. Bev/irt H C. Nc-. 70, 1876. j ------ - - stiM,:!?Tio:is. One l'enr, (">(. . Sit Montlii. 1 0" AdvrrtiMiiiNio will 1>? i!i<tWttl n! Mi< rale of Si 51) ;n r s-jurtn, H) \d? p? line*, fo.- I!?e Qr?t in*tMioj?; Milwitj ititi I u*ertto'i* l?y iont <nrt. PiTtaiwk. i?-'A?2f?r( i I VUltiai i ? . Admirals Porter, Davis an 1 Howan left by rail on Wednesday morning for Washington after having inspected thi harbors of Port ltoyal, Tybee and 11 runswick. They will report to cougrt-ss when it convenes. 4^# Associate Justice Willard in the case of the State Board of Canvassers said * 'This court is clothed with majesty. Y\\ do not speak with the voice of men. \\ t speak in judgement, and judgement is the voice of God." Since the foregoing was said we have formed a higher opinion of the Supreme Court but our faith in the Almighty is a little shaken. * V ?<?>? The Baltimore American in commenting on the proceedings in South Carolina points out clearly the shifting demands o the democrat?. 4'You must not exercis judicial functions," say these gentlemen in effect, 4 4while;the returns from Lige field, Aikea and Laurens are }x?fore you but wheD Beaufort is called, then you !< cotae judges and must deeide as we di ' xect," and because the board refuses t<; play Bo-peep with the order of the su preme court its action is denounced as "infamous." The Unim- Herald is to be takei before the Supreme Court to purge itseli of contempt. " you may break, you may shatter tho vase if you will, But the iceat of the ros?s will bang ro* n l it still.' Thi Commission appointed by tin Secretary of Navy to select a suitable site for a naval station arrived here ou Sun da;, and immediately left iu the Tallaposa for Tybee aod Brunswick. After inspecting the various points named they returned to Beaufort on Wednesday, We understand that the Commission are very much pleased with our harbor nnd it adaptability to all the purposes of the Navy. The depth of water, and capacity of our harbor and the 'number*)* suitable locations obtaiuab'e ; and the | exceeding' good health enjoyed by the o2i eer? and men of the fleet since they have been here, the absence of yellow fever from Beaufort, and the ea>y facilities for communicating by rail with all parts o. the county, and the geographtical loca. .tion of Port Royal when considered by the "board, will no doubt cause a report in favor'of Port Royal Harbor as a naval station. Says the N. Y. Herald; "This is not * ? r> I * it_ a time to be playing witn are; dui n un Democratic leaders mean to do so, we "warn them that they will get their own finger3 turned. T!ie people of this country have not forgotten 18G1, and they dr not mean to be dragged iuto another wai by a set of men, the burden of whose blunders and wicked ambitions we artis bearing." 4-OK* Gen'l Wade Hamp'on has been put forward for U.. S. Senator and next President by some of his admirers. Abbeville Mt linm speaking of the large number of office seekers in that county says. This itch for office is universal ami is doing the country harm. Our people hate hard work?they admit that we have a fine country tna< produces well and that we need skilled labor to cultivate the farms aud improve agriculture; but rather take hold of the plow theu'selvethey busy themselves with petitions fb: appointments and are more willing to accept. petty clerkship at a few hundred a year than to go to work like men am. earn their bread by the sweat of theirbrow. The New York Evening Post says : "There seems to have been but one qucs lion before the supreme court. Is" the boaid of canvassers merely a ministerial body, or is it also, judicial body ? Instead of deciding th'> question, the eouri i?J . i. ....i.Ti- tlv? and oruereu uie youiu w v..v . ~? report the result to the court?an uu ieari of prooe*%dioB?and reserved it;< judgement uatii it knew what the return.^ were. S- me republicans say that the ob ject of this order was to secure a ceitain result . We do not say that this was the object, but what would have been said ii this thing had been done by one Kelloggs creatures ? " Gov. Chamberlain has been equal to the emergency, he is master of the situation. His pluck and talent has beat a conibiiiatiou of violence a id fraud, and vindicated right ? o ? The Supreme Court instead of deciding the question whether the board of State Canvassers had judicial powers or not, attempted to form itself into a political judicial reluming hoard. Had ;h Supreme Court ordere I the State Can yas>crs to make ao aggregation of votes fs?v i i ? v~ .tsj fVom ill" rif'iiii-- mi i:\, -:t. 1 report the same with Mich eviucn-.-e ui ti u 1 and il- : Ic^a! voting on both 'nles \v.i< in their poise.^ion; then it v?\>u! 1 have seemed |, riiat thev wetfe endeavoring to a-'Crt iin !, which party had received a majority ofh the h-viest .and legal vciv of th- people, j *?T>* Tnr. correspondent of the Charleston j "? ? ly, . . t . * Mil , I Ai"c< ditif ' s:y- " 11on i iiampion : has is-ui.i telegrams in every direction j counseling ni<?,l.*;-.uion ami peace. Is" the democratic pasty was (lie party j oflaw and order such telegrams would i, not be necessary. 4> ? ? ? The frequent ypj cnls of (Jen. Wade j iiampti.r. to his :?>! lovers to keep the | peace, in lieates that they are '* s|x?iling j for a fight " and that if some tiling is j aot done soon the pa- ty will die of k'spou taucous combustion ?* Tiir report iliat the poll was opened at Sheldon in thi*. count}' is ahsuidh false. J he box a . 1 [Managers were locaud at Gardners Corner where elections have always been he! 1. ?<<>? The I?euioc.atie newspapers are gradually hiding away all those game cocks ud ro.-tors they exhibited with so uiuch exultation last week. They might as well put them away for another twenty years. Now that Hampton and Tiidenarc de feated wc expect to see Judges Mackey and C ofce whining at the republican door trying to get into the fold again. it was just sueh f.audsas .Mackey and Cooke that disgraced the party in thb State, au l good care will be taken to sec that they remain where they belong. ? ?. i5? ? ? Some of the democrats about town imagined ri;*t with the election of Tilden wonid como lost foriuncs> ; and the rctnarksofs<?uio of tiie-e old fossils arc truly umasiug. They see ui to forget, or not to know, that the democratic party accepts the results of the war as final, and .hat hundreds and thousands oi deiuo crats fought in the war and would fight again rather thau any of its results should be set aside. Tiie visiting republicans in New Or leans have got decidedly the better of their democratic brethren in the correspondence on the powers of the returning boards. They have compelled the democrats to concede the whole present ground of the controversy. The democrats admit that full force and effect must be given to thv law of Louisiana; that the returning hoard cannot be required to confine itself to the ministerial function of counting the votes. Here is that concession in a nutshell: "In our judgment the exjire^sion votes actually cas' of necessity designates votes legally cast' and as a conse quence of such votes only did wc desire to secure a fair and impartial canvass." That is the whole of the case. So in spite of all their telegraphing and blu tersng the democrats have to settle down to the fact that not only has the board j the power, to count the returns, but they i have the power, and it is made their au/r by law to ascertain ^whether the re turns are correct or fraudulent. That is what we ehiim for our board. Any other view of their duty is absurd* V Xrw Oaf fans is not a good field for non-partisan journalism. The Bulletin, j a very able papa1* which made the experii ni^nr. has iast suspended publication, and the editors say in their valedict ory: | "We accept as conclusive proof (hat in endeavoring to stem the torrent of political bitterness with which Louisiana has been so long accursed, wc should be prosecuting an utterly and extravagently hopeless task. The Bulletin has uot a single quality demanded of newspapers at | this juncture of affairs ; it does not mag- [ nify the errors of its opponent, or pal- I liate those of its friends ; and it has n<> j place, therefore, in the sympathy or con Sdence of the community. We regret while recognizing this fact, and wc act ep.?n the lesson of it without hesitation au J yet we shall always carry with us. whatever may befall, the consciousnes.that we have never once by assertion or insinuation, dirivtiy or indirectly, contributed to the dark total passion, bitter" ness and uiisun lerst inding under which Louisiana languish s to da/. The gentlemen who have been w iting fir this paper, shaping it* policy and setting its tone, are natives of the South, and have proved their love and loyalty by better tests than the trick of fanning prejudice ! and deepening acrimony in a troubtous ! time. " 4 <?>* j Gen. Hampton refuses the donation of ! n house from the ladies of South Carolina <> Orders fro in l*i Grant. Washington, NOV. 1870. j General Thomas li. Ruokh or Colonel ! II. M. Pi.ack. Columbia, S. C. ; The following has been received from I the President: Kxrnivk Mansion Nov. 2?? 1^7f>. ' Hon. J. P. Ca.ulhon, Secretary of | War : Shi?P. II. Chamberlain is now Governor of the State of South Carolina beyond any controversy, and remains so until a new Governor shall be duly and locally inaugurated under the constitution. ! The government has been called upon to j aid with ihe military and naval forces of i the U. 8. to maintain republican gov j ere men t in the State against resistance ' too forpiidabh? to be overcome by the | State authorities. You are directed therefore to sustain Governor Chambcr| ia'U in hi> authority a.airst domestic vio rjRn as s - - p.^aamapg !..l;iv I'.llili ili- ;"A'i.->0 <iii-.*?* ? I . l . In obeying tie." iiisi; u'tyou wll ! ndvi.-e with tlic Governor and dispose; j*our troo{>s in such a manner a- u;:iy bo ; ibTilled l<o-t in order to rnr.y out tl;c : spirit of the above order of the President. j \ LnnirVrbe roiTiiir. " 1 ; d. I). Ca.ukron, Secretary of War. < ^4. What was ftmio ami v.ha- Prcren'od. 7 he hoard of slate canvassers adjourn- j ed sine die yesterday. The statute drfin ! ing t]ic*r powers a in 1 duties limits their sitting; to ten days. This period hey an ; at 12 o'clock M., Friday, the l'fih. and j omitting Sundays, expired yesterday at j 12 M. Kef ore adjourning the board certified their determination. according to the statute, that the rcpublean electors were duly elected, an 1 certificates were accordingly issued. They then proceeded to pcitoim the same duty as to the state officers, who avcordimr ts the report made'to the court, they had found to receive the highest number of votes. 'J he membetsof congress elected?three republicans and two democrats were given certificates. The same duty was performed as to the various county officers and solicitors. Thev refused to make any determination or issue any certificates of election to members of the legislature and county officers in Edgefield and Laurens counties, because of manifest frauds, violence and irregularities. The statement of the Register this morning that ' they proceeded to issue certificates of election to the radical candidates in those two counties" is utterly false. No certificates was issued to any person whose election in any manner resulted from the refusal to count the vote of Edgefield or Laurens. The only effect of refusing to grant certificates to the members from these two counties is to transfer an investigation of their claims to scats to the house of representatives and the senate. This hillabaloo of the Register abou* "contempt and disobedience of the spirit and of the order of the supreme ceurt" is intended to please the ear of the groundlings. The board was not served with thr order until ten hours after the hoard had adjourned sine die. But if the order had been served upon the members the action of the board would have been no different from that taken without it. Xo certificate was issv/d except in accordance with t/u determination of Ihc res id: as announced to the court in the court in the report of the board. It is of a piece with the audacity and impudence of the democratic managers, manifested througout the entire proceedings before the court that they should now'jienounoe the action of the board as trickery. We will not today, attempt to characterize the remarkable proceedings, but we call attention to the fact tii.it the court yes erday granted a rule for the board to show cause on Friday when the board would have been functus officio be fore the day fixed. We have been of the opinion for sev oral days that the design of the domocratic managers was to prevent, b; proceeding in court, the completion of any canvass and the bsuam-c ot any certificates until the time in which the legal y act had expired. Then General Conner ami his associates in this state, and Tilden conspirators in New York could have claimed that no certificates could be issit' d to any electors, and that South Carolina should have no place i:i the electoi o * ral college. Y\'e have watched the dilatory proceedings before the court and could make out tni. ft,., /Ii.l-iv I hi> infvn iJU luawil A\'l UIV VlV>?v?j V.kw I'V t!on of the the democrats to harass the board into neglecfing to do its duty and then to spring upon it tho assertion that it was too late to do it. The mandamus granted an hour after the board had adjourned, sine die could just as well have been issued the first hour of the proceedings. The law of the case was in no wise a flee ted by the figures asked for. It certainly was not necessary for the comt to know which party would have a majority in the house before being able to determine upon the powers of the board of canvassers. Why then was the court prevented from issuing the order at once. In our opinion the democratic lawyers never cared anything about that qucsti* n They are today asserting a perfect c-mfi donee in their abililty to control tithouse of representatives. even if there were a dozen more rcpublicansin it. They are as ready to bet that there wilj he a democratic speaker of the house a? they were a week ago. They are just aconfident that the Edgefield and Lautvn> democrats will be voted into their seat? and that Hampton will be declared elected and inaugurated as they ever were. They care nothing about that part of the ba dness. Their anger is that by proiu]it action of the board ycsteiday the attempt tested a state fioui Hayes has been frustrated.? I n ion-J It r<ihl. ? * SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. i Tkn T??of at li? o'clock and was | A iu. rv. 11 >1 w ? called to order by the lieutenant-governor Hon S. A. Swail.s was elected prcsidebt pro tern. All the democratic senators: took their seats including Mossr- Cary and Todd of Edgefield and Laurens counties. The old officers were elected. The body is now engaged in forming the regular committees, The senate informed the house that it ! was ready to proceed to business. HOUSE OF F Ll'Il ES E X TAT J V ES. The house of representatives was called to order to-day at 12 o'clock by i (ho clerk of the last house of represent aj tives, Mr. A. (). Jones. The clerk i culled the roll tixty-eight members an j NWercd to there names. / >*?. m .tl vU?v.%V '- ' * i >;o liiMjso then \wiii into to nn election J| lor speaker. Air. Iv W. M Mackoy and i c. Mr. N. I?. Mycrrf. of iieawfort. were put ' in nomination tor that office. Each inein-. jj her voted as hi - name was called. At \\ the conclusion it was declared that Mr. i Mack, y had received :>0 votes and Mr. j c Myers 2. Mr. Yvaiiace dcclinin- to vote. j jrilie clotk duly announced Mr. Mackey j i to have Lccii elected speaker of the h rose t of representatives. J lie new speaker was j i.i- ? 1. I. 1... At_ \! ? con-iuorc<j ?o fit?? iir-h >\ .mi. .u.u-i.-. ? !< , administered the oaih of office. 3:r. ! t .Mackoy delivered a brief, speech .thank* j ( ing the house for the honor conferred ! f upon hint, .and assuring the body that he ' i would perform the duties of the office j j impartially, without regard to race or ( party. 11 The names of .the members were tlicn } called l>y eonnti.'s and the numbers ad- I vanced to tlie bar and were sworn in by , t the clerk. * The counties of Anderson, Abbeville, i Aiken, Darnwell, Chcstci field, Clarendon Colleton, Edgefield, Greenville, Horry, , Lancaster. Lexington, Marion, Marlboro, Oconee, Dickens, Spartanburg, Union < and York were not represented. ] Mr. Jones was then put in nomination ; for the office ofclcrk of the house. Whole j number of votes east, 59; nec:s?ary to a < choice 50 of which Mr. Jones received 56 i 31r. Stewart 3. 31 r. Jones was declared duly elected and was at once sworn in. The house then went into an election for scrgeant-at-arms. Henry Daniels and Win. Simonds, of Richland, and 3Ir. Spencer, of Abbeville, were put in nomination for the office. 3Ir. Daniels having ( received 52 votes was declared duly elected scrgeant-at-arius. 3Ir. Dauiels was duly swo;n in. Mr. Marshall, of Edgefield, and Mr. Spencer, of Abbeville, were proposed for the office of reading clerk. 31r. Marshal having received 49 votes, was declared elected and sworn in, A message was sent to the senate informing that body that the house was organized and ready for business. 3Ir, Straker, of Orangeburg, said; now hat the house had been organized, he was desirous to know upon what authority it was so organized. The speaker informed the members that the authority was found in section I f. article 2, of the state constitution, which made the house tiic judge of the qualification of its own members. The number of members legally elected was 116, a majority of which was 59 and he r_ .ii.. a .1.. pei itv'iu ??tut mv VIWI >v< ???.?.> i c-arcd that a quorum was present. The case was so decided in the national house of representatives by Mr. Yaiandighani. Mr. Hamilton is now discussing tin question of the representation of the counties of Edgefield and Laurens. A DEMOCRATIC" HOUSE. The democratic members elect of the house, upon the r^'usal of the clerk to rea l tin1 nauie ol .EdtreSoid ami Laurenr delegations, who had no certificates from the board of canvassers, entered a protest and retired io Kichlatid rifle club hall. | THE A(TH?X OF nn:.:iJo;RD OP b'VViE ( ANVAST:;KS. A fair statement of a'l the facts in the ca>e is the b< st and suhmicnt justification of the action of the board of state canvassers io all matters connected with the recent election in this sta'e. At the outset lot it be remembered : First, That the cen.-us of 1S75 show, a total colored population of574,3'.F?, and a total 'white population of do0,75-h These 5gu?pi> have nowhere been alleged to be too small ; the democratic papers have gene'aliy denounced them as being too la-go but their comparative' correctness, xo far as the proportion of races is concerned, lias not Lenti called jn question. Assuming the voting population ? - - * ? A tsl^AHT O tAfll ; as OUC 10 Sii, uicjm; iipuu.' onu>? ? ivuii I colored vote et 9"?,732, and a total white | vote of o8.4">9. Second. That the immense propon j dernuce of colored voters over white vot" ers' and the uoehar,gable disposition of the colored voleis to vote the republican ticket have been the Luidcn of demoera tic complaints in this state ever since reconstruction. So uiuch so, indeed, that af ter the defeat of Greene, the indepen* deut republican candidate, two years ago the democratic papers and democratic leaders generally declared that the running of a separate ticket, whether democrat is independent, in opposition to the regular republican ticket, was a waste of j time and effort, which it would be folly I to indulge in thereafter. Third. Thai the colored leaders have I not been as unanimous in support of the j republican ticket at any time during the I last six years as at the recent election. | At all previous elections during those six years, and notably at the election in 1874 I mnnv of the most influential colored lead 1 .1.. l LVS wcc arraveu mviiidh uiu n*muur jt- , J I ! publican t:esct. In Sumter for instance where. in 1872. the regular republican ; ! vote was 3.204 agaiu-t the independent i i republican vole of 1,! 83. At the e;ect:.)ii I . . # I in 1S74, the vote i'or Chamberlain, the j regular republican candidate, was only | 758 against 4,091 ^r Greene, indepen\ j dent republican?almost the entire col ore! vote being given to Gieenc. So, also, in Clarendon, where, in 187-?, the j regular republican vote was 3,420 against1 the independent republican vote of 207. : *j At the e'ection in 1874 the vote for | ; Chamberlain v;:s only 737 against 1,89"); foeG reene. And so throughout all the j : rest oi Greene's judicial circuit; for, j throughout his circuit, Greene was not; ' only tegarded greatly as a man, but was j also regarded by republicans as a good republican. At the recent election there was no such disaff lion of colored leaders against the republicans ticket. Although many of them had been disaffected towavd Chamberlain, and opposed his re j nomination, yet from he moment his rej nomination was effected, they all joined j ?tscsanKj jam > scram. awesssv&s i his support for their own and republian party's sake. They knew the dan-j a ers that n straight-out dewnr-atic ticket ' e | iad f<>r them. Mid they sou.lit safety in s mion " within the lines of the party. " I Fourth. That the union among the t olored leaders was followed by a corres- n londing union the colored voters iu sup- t ort of the republican ticket. AUhontrh he democratic ; papers were constantly | a noelaniing the conversion of colored vot- 1 .. ... i..?: .i.? i ,i iw utiiiuciiK \ uuiiii^ i ii?j call ta>d >lt j v here was no evidence nfsuch conversion j ? utsidc of such proclamations; and the f hlsitv of the proclamations, and the mion among the colored voters in sup* I <iort of the republican ticket, are cvi- t Icnccd in tiie fact, that notwithstanding ; 1 ill the violence and intimidation exercised ' t )y tlic rifle clubs where there wore no I ' United States troops?that is, at more i 1 han nine-tenths of the precincts in the ' state?the role for republican electors : cached as high as 91-S70, being less than [( 1.000 short of the whole estimated colarcd vote. Fifth. That General Hampton declared early in the canvass, and before be had traversed half the state, and before he had any possible means of know ing whether the republican majority of over 30.000 would or could be overcome that lie would be elected governor, and ' by the etc. nal God, he would have the 1 ofnee; and early in the evening of the day of election, and before lie had the return from a single county, he telegraphed to N. Y. that lie was elected by 10,000 majority. The underlying fact is, the democrats thought they had things ^ted. They had one intelligent democrat in every pre. einct board of managers and in every board of county canvassers: and in every precinct and in every county they con1 lived to manage the returns to their own advantage. Take Georgetown, for in>tance. In one precinct the managers returned 31S votes for T. C. Dunn, the republican candidate for comptroller general. The democratic county canvassers contended that the first initial letter was F. The clerk of the precinct managers made an affidavit that the votes were cast for T. C. Dunn, and that he had written the name in the return accordingly?the first initial being T. But the democratic county canvasser insisted that the initial looked like an F. ; that it should b6 so written in the county canvassers statement and if there w s any error the State Board could correct it. And yet. as the omission ofthose 31H vote* fur T. C. Dunn, would leave him a minority of all the votes ca<t f>r corn pi roller-general, the democratic lawyers and democratic 'papers demand that those 318 shall not be counted for T. C. Dunn, and claim that his com pet; tor is elected ! The democrats, as we have said, thought they had things fixed. Dy vio" lencc, iutiniidation. repeating, and whatever else was necessary to keep down the republican vote and increase their own, they had. as they believed, such returns from precinct managers generally, and stit h statements from county convassers particularly, as would show the election of the democratic candidates; and so secure thi<. whatever the return- and statements from republican counties showed larger republican majorities than they had counted on, they increased the majorities in democratic counties to meet fhe emergency. Take Edgefield, for instance. It is a republican county by all its votes since reconstruction, and area ding to the census of 1ST5. At the recent election, the democratic majority was declared to be 2.300; but as the ma, jorities for some of the republican counties were found to be larger that) the democrats had count d on, the demo can tic majority in Fdgefiield was increaed to 2,500, then to 3.000. and finally to 3,12-h Their majority this year is larger than their whole vote in iS74. The census for 1S75 gives that county a total population of 35 039. Counting one to six the total voting population would bo 5,<S40; whereas the total vote at the recei t election was 9.381, being an overplus or fraudulent vote of 3,541, and all on the .-ide of the democrats ! The democratic papers have tried to break the fort-o of this damaging fact by showing that the vote of KdgefieM w:f 8,251 in 1870; but they studiously ignore the fact, that, since 1S70, a large part of the county, including the city of Aiken, has been cut off and added to parts of other counties to make the new county of Aiken. The democrats, as we have twice said, thought they had things fixed?at least on the face of the statements of the county canvassers?and accordingly on the 14th inst. they applied to the supreme court for writs of man lam us and prohihition against the boar 1 of state cauvasscrs. That board has power under the statute, to determine and declare what persons have been, by the greatest number of votes, duly electe 1 to office, and also "to decide ail ca.-es under protest or c mtest lha' may arise when the power to do so does not, by tUc constitution reside iu some other bodv." While the democrats weie satisfied the statements ot the county canvassers would give them the election, they feared the correction of those statements by the returns of the precinct managers would change the result materially, and tbev knew that if the board of state canvassers should pioceed to decide ali cases under protest or cont st there would be such an amount of evidence of violence, indimidation and fraud developed as would totally vitiate tlie election in some of the democratic counties. 1 heir application to the supreme court, therefore, was for two purposes; one to compel the board of state canvassers to determine and declare the election from the statements of the county canvassers, the other to prevent the board of state canvassers from deciding any eases un lor protest or contest. After various proceedings and argu . iK'tits, the on r!i^ 17thin?, granted n order that t.he board of state canvass- ' xs ierihwith proceed to aggregate the' tatenicnt? forwarded to them by the I -oards of county canvassers, and ascertain i he persons who had received the highest; lumber of- votes, and certify the same to he court. The board of state canvassers immedi*, itelv met, attended by the democratic j awyers and an equal number of demo-1 ratic and republican lookers-on. At the i utset, Gen. Connor, the leading counsel ] or the democrats, insisted that the board houM aggregate the statements of the ounty canvassers without reference to he returns of the precinct managers; and he board alter look in ir at the returns of be precinct managers in six counties but without making any use of thetn, finally esolved to accept Gen. Connor's construction of the order as the proper one, ind aggregated the statements of the lounty canvassers, ascertained who had received the highest number of votes and reported the same to the court on the 21st in?t., making special reference, however> to various errors iu the statements o county canvassers as well as to the evidences of fraud which had been filed with the board. It appeared by this report that the den ocrats would have two of the rep:esentatives in congress and a majority of the representatives in the general assembly, as they had calculated; but, contrary to their calculations, they would not have the presidential electors nor the state officers, exclusive of the governor and lieutenant-governor. And then came suggestions from democratic lawyers, which, either as matters of professional morals or as matters ot professional practice, weie utterly without* precedent in any court where the English lang age is spoken. They moved the court for two orders?one that the ho ird of state canvassers should certify to the election of the members of congress and of the general assembly shown by their report to the court to have been elected; the other, that the board of state canvassers should compare the statements of the county canvassers with the returns of the precinct managers in regards to all the other officers shown by .their report to have been elected, and report all errors, irregularities and discrepancies to the court?thus adopting the report wherever it suited the democrats, and refusing to adopt it wherever it suited the republicans! mi a t. .1 ( JLherc wis one uimcuity m me way 01 Immediately granting both these orders, and, perhaps, >only one difficulty; and that was, that the original application in mandamus was for the same relief as to the six classes of officers, whereas it wa> now proposed to order different relief in different cases?which would be in viola tion. not only of well-defined practice, but of an express provision of the code. Thchief justice said the'court had. in one case, amended proceedings in mandamus and. although it was shown that it was in a ca.-e before the code was adopted, th. court ignored that foot as we'd a; the pro vi-ion of the code, and '.-ranted serverunc? of the ca^es preparatory to granting a*pu rate orders of relief! It was evident, throughout both tin s-. ssionsol that day, that the court intended to take upon itself the determiua tion and declaration of the election. In deed Judge Wiilard opcoly said: '' vVt don't wan t to decide an abstract question of law; we want to know the number o \otes received by each candidate and the-, we will apply the laic to the fact." It is also evident that while the c?ur! intended to hold the democratic lawyers to a show 11 f form for the sake of precedent. the democratic lawyers were goinj; to get the substance of all they asked f<>r. The next day the court having so gran ed a severance of the cases, directed tin democratic lawyers to prepare the form of orders for the six classes of officers sep ,1 1 a! 1 * 1 il . , a rarciy; ana, tins oci ng uone, me coun ginuted the first, to wit: That the boarr of state canvassers forthwith declare dul\ elected to the offices of senators and mem hers of the house of representatives th< persons who, 1 y the report made to tin court, have received the greatest nuinbei of votes therefor. And the court ther adjourned to the 21th inst. The order ot court, however, was no! obeyed. It was not even served on th< board of state canvassers. The hoaVd hac first met on the 10th., and their existenci being limited to ten days, Sundays ex cepted. they would have no life after tin 22d. It was evident that the court h: c no intention of acting on the election ol presidential electors until after it had acted on the election of members of the gen eral assembly and members of congress, and that if the board of state canvasser* waited for the orders of the court no certificate could be issued to the presidential electors during the existence of the board. The result would be that the vote oi South Carolina would be lost iu the elee torn! college. It would be lost to Hayes and Wheeler even if every way of counting the votes would give them the major ity; 'and as that result, or either result, # would secure the election of Tiiden and Hendricks, that result or either result, was what the democratic lawyers wanted. Under all the circumstances, the duty of the board of state canvassers seemed to be plain. They had obeyed the only order they had received from the court. They had received no restraining order, no writ of injunction or prohibition concerning any other ma:ter. As the hand of the clock neared the hour which would close their official existence, they proceeded to the perfortneDce of their other duties. They.detenuined and declared the election of the republican presidential electors, three republicans and two derncratic members of congress, the republican state officer*, exclusive of governor and lieutenant governor, and the members of the general assembly, circuit solicitors and county officers, who, accord to the ? received the J eept that* in view of M? violence, intimidation and M ing the electiou in Edgelieid and they decided to take no action upon statements of the county canvassers or the returns of the precinct managers in those counties; and having so performed all ^ their duties, according to law, the board i fl of >tatc canvassers adjourned sine die. I The order of the court had not yet is- H sued: Of course, it has not yet been ! served. What the court will do, under the circumstances, only the democratic 1 I lawyers can tell.? Union Ilceald. V Sheriffs ?alcs. 1 SHERIFF'S SALE. " dl DeWitt C. Bates, vs. Wm. Sprague et. al. survivors of Hoyt Sprague and Company. By virtne of a writ of fieri facias to me idirected and lodgrd in my office I will sell at public outcry at the place known aa the Dr. Jenkins place on St, Helena Island on Wednesday the sixth day Jof DecemlxT next 1876 during tho legal hours of sale the following personal property to wit: All the right title and interest ifWm. Sprague et. al survivors of Hoyt Sprag i e and Co. in ana to one ten horse power portable ^engine and shafting one French Bun corn mill; two McCarthy cotton gins one cotton whippor, three double plows; one cart harness, two mules; one straw cutter, one cart; one corn morker; one large ke tie; one lot of old tools; Levied upon as the property of Wni Spvague et. al. survivors of Hoyt Sprague and Company at the suit of I>eVVitt C. Bates. Terms cash WM. WILSON. 8a B. C ** Bft S. C. Nov. 22 1876, SHERIFF S SALE. L. W. Youmans, administrator, Jane Sherman. Judgement for foreclosure and sale. By virtue of a jndgement for foreclosure and sale 'n the above stated case to me directed I will sell at nublic outcry in front of my office in the town of Beaufort on the first Tuesday in December next 1876 being the fifth day of said month daring the ' legal hours of sale, the following property to wit; All that plantation or tract of land situate lying and bciug in the oountv of Beaufort and State o South Carolina on Briar creek, waters of Coosaw hatcbie river, bounded north by lands of Frank Parnelle, east by Frank Parnelle, south by Tboma Smith, and west by Pompey Smith,containing three hundred and sixty .two acres more or Ieae. Term cash. Purchasers to pay for papers. WM. WILSON SBC Nov. 14th 1876. . ' SHERIFF'S SALE. Judgement For Foreclosure and Sale. Calhoun H. Barnhill Assignee vs. Chas. E. Chevin By virtue of a judgement for Foreclosure an<f sale in the above stated case, to me directed, I wl sell at public outcry in front of my office In th Town of Beaufort on the first Tuesday in December next 1376 being the fifth day of said mooth duringfthe legal hours of sale the foQowiug proper ty to wit: All that plantation or tract of land,'situate lying and.being in the County of Beaufort and the State of South Carolina about nine miles below Rober ville on the Robertville and Porysburg Road containing thirteen hundred and twelve acres, more or less; bounded south east by John Brabham north ast by lands of the hiers of Middieton aad James * Portell, asid southwest and west by lands of William F. Roberta. . Terms cash Purchasers to pay for papers. WM. WILSON, S. B. 0. Bft. S. C. Nov. 1-tlh 187S. SHERIFFS SA LE. Judgement For Foreclosure add Sale. Brighoin, Hoist and Co. vs. Jno. If. Robert!:By virtue of a judgement for Foreclosure Irt the" 4 .dove s atcd case to me directed, I will sell at pub-" sic outcry in front of my office in the Town of Beaufort on the first Tuesday in December next S7f> being the fifth day of said month during tho I gal hours of sale 4te following property to wit: AII that plantation or tract of land commonly atowu as the '"Mount Hope " plantation situate . iug and being in the County of Beaufort and -late of Sooth Oar-Jina, ou the Savannah road,, ibout seven miles below the Village of Robertvl" t i undid north by lands of R. H. Tison, cast by' .am land, south by lands of W. V. Roberts ami lands of the Esiate of Dawson. west by lauds of R if. Tis< n and containing twenty four handled acresmore or less. WM. WILSON, S. B. C. Nov. l lth ISTfv ^ ^ SHERIFF'S SALE. Be Witt, C. Bats, V3. Wm. Spragtte et. aL survivors of Hoyt Sprague and Company. Bv virtue of a writ of fieri facias to roe directed ; and lodged iu iuy ofiice, I will sell at public outcry in fiout of my oASc in the Town of Beauiort on the ? tir-t Tuesday io December next 1?76 being tho ; fifth day of said month during the legal hours of *ale the following property to wit: All the right title and interest of Wm. Sprague' tal survivors of IloytSpraugue and Company in and to all that plantation tract of land situate lying I and being on St. Helena Island in the County of Beaufort and State of South Carolina, Bounded north by the church raid and Frank Pritchard ' place, south by Station Creek and the Jane Pritch ' ard place, cast by Frank Pritchard place and Station Creek, and west by the Jane Pritchard plac? known as " Sauford," containing six hundred acres in ;re less, AISO. ' all that ether tract oi land known as the Pr. 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