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PKRUVBAN GUANO Parties desiring guano delivered ou or before 1st April can make arrangements rangciuenUi with me by calling in early. Peruvian. Ouano ?? Impor ters hands is net ensh, and I shall (ill first all lots engaged on such terms. I am re ceiving same by said vessel from New York. I?liosx">ltate and Ac id. at lowest prices. Sugars, Coffee, Tobacco Family Flour, Flows, ' Steel tec. always on baud Early l-iose. Goodrieli and Peerless Seed Potatoes also Ke?l Itust Proof Oars. J. L Hamilton Hussoll Street next to OorhyUon's. A CABD, Dr. J. ii. WANNAMAKMt is in pus ?,o?sion of the Itcccipt* and Prescription Books of tlic late Dr. K. J. Oliyeros. All prisons desiring to j;ct any;of the above Vi 'paralious or Renewal ol" Prescriptions .?on do so by calling on Dr. WANN AM A K Kb, At his Drug Si ore. Ahf* 21?"in According to the latest improvement* i the art. L. S. WOLFE fiver K/.ekicI's Sinrc. is prepared I execute anything in Im- line (?Unrantt'cing a faithful attendance : business, lu- rcspi cl fu) ly a-i: a enii !.:>; mice ??f (lie pairiiua.^e. which ha* i. fore been e.xieinh d l<? lue old lint! u ISiudi r, Wolfe ? ' t v? i t. |Sa>*" All V. ml; i i liiraiil. ed. "JUBT EKGliIVlil) Plto.M ]). I.ANIHiKTI! lv SOX, < niiiin Sits and \\ :-'cid- of all des vripih.n AT I-:, i-'.'j'.' nn:\?.. Dealer iis Clo.-k . Watches, .lewb-ry, &e AI wars On haul i.'artri \%sA <?i" ;ill c ilibre*. i!?-e '1 'Am. The Two Story Itnihliii*; in the Town of I.cwisville. Tli.- fait Story lilted up as a Store, complete in ail re-peels. The second Klory ju'ranyed I'oi a Residence. For particulars npplv to GlWKtJK iiOl.IVKR. aug. 5 tf C(>a>AB?l\\?-:il?.!>iBliiI? \OTB?- . The Copartnership heretofore existing between I he undersigned under the firm name of T. Kolui & Ilrother is this ?luv dissolved by mutual consent The hiiAiness will he continued by Thcrdorc Kolui in his own naini: and for his own account; and bo lliereforo, alone, will sign the late linn name in liquidation. TiiKonnoitK k'.iix, ii'KNHY Kni IN. Orungcburg, December 1'Jtli lSTti. dec 1(1 Govcrr.niciit will be rccogni/ed at Whshingtnn before long. Tins cheering news induced me to pur chase one of the liiiest lot of HOUSES AND MULES ever brought into tin's Market. And as times will grow better under the People's Governor, I have put my prices down, and can now accommo date the public upon the most rea sonable terms- Is'o mutter what style of Horse or Mulei- wauled I vouch 1 can (ill the bill, ('all on me at my ttablcs at Slater's Hotel. E. F. SLATER. 1 The firm of McCruery, Love^iO Co. is ibis dissolved by mutual consent. Thomas A. McCrcery ami IJar.-ic i>- MeCrcery arc nuthcrized to close the business, ami will jugn in liquidation. All persons owing said firm are requested to~inake immediate payment, and all to whom the firm is indebted will please pre! 5cnt their accounts at once to I lie above for payment TI10S. A, McCKKKHY, WM. D. LOVIO, HA Kit IK P. McCHERKY. January 2, 1877; Dissolution The co-partnership heretofore existing under the firm name of t birk & Waiting has this day been dissolved by mutual con sent. W. E. Clark it Co,, "will continue t he hunincss and settle all claims against (hp firm and all indebted will make payment (o them. St. Matthews So. Ca. 3. Im. IN THE BALANCE. TIIJE riPTKE.V COSTSIDEK IJVCJ THE ORlXiOX CASK. The hast Hitch ol tho Democracy?The Vot<> of Oregon?Tho haw ami tho Facts?Mr. Merrick's Speech?An Un answerable Argument?No Decision? Kit in a nils anil Morton Taking Cara of llraiiley's ('onscicneo?A Hay of Hope ? Tho It nil inils Apprehensive Wasiiinoton, February 22.?The Commission had evidence offered, so far as d neu met tary, relating to Watt's resignation and its acceptance. The homing of the evidence has not yet been developed. Two objections of the Democratic counsel ha\\; been overruled, one unanimously and the other with one dissent. On motion of Jit-lice Strong certain evidence is received, subject to t e decision of ihe Commission a I tor argument upon its formal and legal weight. There were no objections. The object id* this m< lion, #1 list ice Strong slated, was to consolidate the arguments. Stanley Muthcws ct petted j Ivvarls followed and Met tick will close at 21 o'clock, when .the Commission will close the case. The public laky very little interest in the1 case, as i! is ?ietierally eotis'idcre I prejudged^ but the hall i.s crowded ; with lawyer.-! hearing the argument J vvhicli i- purely legai. j 1 In cvidi nee <ubm'J - I showed I hat Watts rcrigiied h\ telegraph on j November \ ). His resignation was accepted by telt-giaph <>u November 14, and a special agent to >'c charge, of ihe bllicc. Watts' account with:the I'n-t OIK- t; Department was not closed until January. Mr. Kvarts aller referring to the position his sid ? took in the Florida and Louisiana cases, he said it was the same to-day in the case of Oregon. In Oregon a peaceful elec Jon was held in accord..tore with the law. A result was obtained which was acquiesced in by the p-ople, and llutt the rcitill was lodged whereby law it belongs in that of the oflice of the Secretary of Stale. This record coi stitilted the election of three doc tor-, each of whom should have re ceived a certificate of such elec'ion by the Governor ? f theState, who, under the law could legally do nothing c'so. Mr. Kvaits continued at length to content that Governor G rover vi id ti led the Slate and National law in giving a certificate to Cronin. He said that the law of Oregon provided that where there were two candidat -s who received an equal number of votes, and one was found to be incli- j gible, the other did n ?t therefore hold j the oflice, but a new election was nc- j ccftsary. He next argued that the1 majority was the college and not the single voice of t'ronin. Had he been a duly appointed elector he thought the Commission would have little trouble in reaching a conclusion as to which was the legitimate body. Sup pose they hail refused to recognize Cronin as an elector. They did not think he was one, and nobody else ever thought be was, until it was de termined to manufacture him into one, and attempt to make him stand as such till after this count. Accept, said lie, the. proposition that Cronin could form a college!, and you had the absurd possibility uf three doctoral col leg- s in Oregon,each elector desir ing to cast lite vote ol the State accord ing to his own ideas, in reply to a question by Mr. Abbot, lie said there was no existing law in any State that covered the vacancy by the death or absence of a majority of tlte college;. The general theory of the law was that there must be a quorum to trans act business, and there must be statu tary possession in any case to make it otherwise; Referring to the.act of the Legislature of Rhode Island, which provides that if an ineligible elector was elected, the Legislature should meet and elect anothor, lie said that would do for tho State of Rhode Island, were the Governor could blow Iiis lic-rii in the door of the Executive Mansion und summon his Legislature, but it ivoti'd not do for the great State of ()regoii. Mr. M er rick rose to close the tirgti incut. He. said in his own mind he hold tin; same views that he did when lit; opened tlie argument in the case of Florida, hut he owed it to his clients and to the tribunal to conf ?hri his argument to the decisions which had been made, and ho should confine himself to asking that the decisions in the cases of Florida and Louisiana slum Id be applied to Orog hi. IT: h i I "in the cases of Florida asked that they go behind the certificate of the Governor, and. !>:>?! aske I that the voice, of Florida, whicli had been stimulated, might bu heard through her legislative and jutliciiilidepart mcnts. 'flu; other side had taken issue and claimed that there could h i no goiu : belli ml the certificate of tlu Govcr nor, based 0:1 the canvass, bat. h? was at a loss to know where it had b-en shown that there ever win n canvass of the votes of Florida, except that 0110 m which the eer'.ilieufe id" the Tilden electors" was based. Were they to assume thai there \yn?anything" s?.< saetcd in the ad of the Returning tloiti'ds as to previ :ii an inquiry into their acts ? No. i he answer was thai when tlicseacts were confirmed in accordance with the laws of the State the inquiry was checked. In Loitismtta and Florida they had pa-s cd beyond the certificate of Hie Govior nor and 11 ached the certificates of the llcturnihg Board. 'I hey stopped liiert-, mil through a :-nudity ??:'the Returning Hoard or the virtu* of Wells and Gasan?ve, but beeatisu tlniy reached the gr.at seal of l'i j Stale. To lix the line between the Stales of the Federal Government had boon oho of the mo t i':i!li.ai|t ta*k> <?f the Fathers, an 1 ;!i -y ha 1 fixed 1 hem mi that there eoitid be no in ten cciue -Life ii each adhered to tin- line? the Fathers had drawn, flic decision ( ! ilit.: tribunal must rest in the I'linfidunce of the people. If it rested in their confidence at a!! 0:1 soihegriat principle, of State rights as compared with Federal authority, ll it rested upon technical grounds tlie people would not iceeive it in con fidence, and the wound which this Commission w%5 organized to heal w oil hi continue to bleed for the next four years. .Mr. Morrick said the law required the Secretary of State to pre pare two lists of the electors, not those who hud received the highest number ol vohs, htil those elected, who were to t.ctcnniiie who were elect al. Who but the parties engaged in the trans action. They must decide who were elected. In the Florida case>t was claimed that the power 'o determine rested in the Returning liourd. In Oregon he claimed the power to issue the certificate carried with it the pre rogative id' deciding to whom they should he is-in-'.l. To withhold the ccitificntc from a p?riy deemed to be disqualified, was, he submitted, the legitimate execution of an executive trust. In tho other case-it was claim cd that the only lime when an error could he corrected was between the counting of tho votes and the. time when the electors etiler upon their duties. It, was precisely at this time that this much abused Governor at tempt to rescue tho State from the odium of si charge of having violated the Constitution of the Unite ! States. Referring to Mr. Ma thews allusion to a conspiracy and the cypher telegrams cot. ween Graiiier Chirk ami Oregon, Mcrrick said of stich evidtuteo wtis offered, and had it been offered they would not have objected. They want cd tin- Until ami nothing but the trnth. Mr. Mcrriek coniinmd Iiis de fense ol the act of the Governor, and said ho certificate was conclusive un til otherwise decided by a legal tribu nal. He maintained that by the pos session of the certificate which tho Governor hail placed in his hands Cronin wasdc/acloan elector. Which was tho elector, Cronin or Watts? What had Watts? Nothing. The abstract which was certified in certift oate dumber one was not; lie main tained, u canvass of the votes. It was the result of the vole east at the elec tion, and not a statement of the can vass made according to law by the Secretary of* .State in the presence of the Governor. Judge .Miller asked if there were ot her pupcr-} in the possession of the Seeiotai'v of Stale? What other papers could he make? 'dr. Mcrrick said it had been shown in I bo ,other States that there were other and very remarkable papers, lie uiklc'stood that the c nvass and (lie abstract were very different papers, and if it bad been intended as the canvasifi the certificate should have I certified that it was a canvas.-. * Judge Miller isked what Mr. Mei rich meant by a canvas- oftllO votes ? Mr. Mcrrick replied that he meant a Kilting of the voles. Here were the votes to So canvassed, lie would sit't. ibcm ami return the canvass. This, t he Secretary of State had not certi fied to. lie next insisted that a certi lied copy ol no papei i:i the oflicc of the Secretary of ?Mate of Oregon could Ua get up in opposition to tin: certificate of the Governor. Mere wrs the certificate of the Governor, signed by ibe Secretary of ."-'late and sealed with the 'broad seal of the Stale and a mere certified copy of an abstract of voles could be set up against it. Mr. Mcrric-k briefly contended that the Constitution did execute itself; and cited authorities in support of bis posi t;< n. It: icferencc to the vacancy lie contended that if Odell and l/tirt- J wright tilled a vacancy they di I so on the resdnajion of Watt, and not On the absence ol Cronin, holding too cert if: irate was a.//'""'o cci >r. Tim law, be said; provided Ibra va an y o; oasioucd, 'IC. A word !i nite.l of inouii ing v.bu-ii did not cover a vacancy existing. Mr. Mcrrlclt eliii!sett wil!i a request lo tbi Coniu i.-sioh to a Miere :.) the decisions in the i ix* a of L mi ?i ana a; d l'iotid?. It mnitorod little whcllb r lliey c nf >. .n ? I to bis views ? >r r. it. The people woul d j i.dgc the dttiidotH, hu- it was; essential that they should stand unchanged by the power by which they were pronoun ccd. lie said the people looked upon the Supreme Court as an idol, and cherished it us above reproach. When they lost their confidence in it then, indeed, the night would have come. At half past lour o'clock the Com mission look the case and the result iJ expected momentarily. The Commission adjourned to half past tea tomorrow. I; is conceded that ibo Democrats have ihatle a Strong ( Use, and the lU'puldw are not without apprehersions; The Com in is* 'oners decline to give any intimation of the drift of the debate. The following may he accepted as true: When tbc doors were closed Mr. Morton made an hour's speech in favor of easting the ll roe votes in favor of 1 laves, Mr. Kdmunds made sou.e incidental remark's indicating clearly that lie will vote in the same direction. Mr. dust ice Mil'cr made an elaborate argument that there was U?thiii", inconsistent with giving the vote of Oregon to 11 ayes. Justice I llradley gave no sign. The speeches' of Morton and Miller, hut especially thai of Milhv , were sp'ceially aimed to reconcile Judge Uradley's legal j views. IVradlcyj Strong and Edmunds' were not well, ami the adjournment was unanimous, ami bad no political significance. There scents to be no possibility of a break in cither tbc Democratic seven or the He publican seven. Justice Ii rail ley is still open to advice. There was no vole or ap proach lo a vote to-night on ttic main question, There is n wild rumor that on a pro position to count Oregon on two voles for 11 ayes and one for Tilden, two votes were recorded aye, Abbott und llradley, when Gnrlicld asked an adjournment. Tbe following is authentic. Tho Kleclora! Commission wa i in session to-day from 10 until 4J o'clock. At 5 the Commission went into secret session aud remained therein until i twenty minutes past seven, when it adjourned till to-niorrpw morning, ?t half past ten o'clock. The questions prcscutccl by counsel wore dis'-ussod in (he secret session, but owing to the fatigue of tlie members, and in order to enable them to consult authorities which had been referred to by coiin sei, an adjournment was thought to be advbable Many law points were suggested, and these will be critically examined, there being more of them in this case than in the cases of Fieri da and Louisiana. The Commission agreed to take a vote tomorrow after noon, at lour o'clock, unless the mem hers shall be prepared to do so at an earlier hour. Should the vote in taken at four o'clock an hour or more would be occuj ied before their vote could be officially prepared, and iiti less the two Houses shall remain in session until evening the vote in joint meeting of the two Houses wiil hot lake place until Saturday. - . hmw> . - . 4ewt mm* LINKS IN LIFE. Type? of Men Who Mould the f'nbliu >Siml. In the Presence of the (Iren'. ?The Men Who Managed the halo Campaign? Shriveled Forms ami Uianl Intellects ? The Single Mistakft-^beaning On the broken Heed Front the Pacifh?Two bines of Policy Contrasted. WA^in.NtrrcN, February 11. ? I parted wit! the blue hireling at the gate and hurrying over tj the Ai ling ton, cntcicd the Tilden parlors and revenged my outraged feeling-; by recklessly laving down, boots and all, on a blue sofa In this condition of pr? lligatc luxuriance my spirits soon 1 began to rise, and 1 soon began to feel that I \\:is really "a biger man than old Grant.'' And when Col. Pclton, j Tildcn's nephew, came ;nul sat down i in a r sped fill manner in fro at of hie', j 1 reache 1 that state that we read of somewhere in fJeor.-ia history where ja gciithii.au received tlie appoint I me lit o! Governor's private secretary, and thereupon hecaiiie so tbplbftical that for a long time he even stopped speaking to the Governor. The man who sat opposite nie was the man win* hail nr-nnged the Tilden campaign? the most marvellous fight known in American politics, from beginning to end. Of course he received sugges lions from his une'e and many wise hints from the lew men who Mr. Til den has clustered about him. Hut lie has done the burden ol' the work. And well has it been for the parly that a <jood head ''raced Mr. Pel ton's should eri; fhe Chairman of the /'National l 'omni it tee, Mr. Ah ram S Hewitt, a queer little .shrub; is an ignominious failure. He is narrow, and, as all narrow men are, is dogmatic and ebb Ceiled; Karly in the campaign he and Mi*. Tilden parted company, in a friendly but decisive wav, and since then there ha-- been hardly a piece of policy ou which they have agreed. Their differences culminated in the .conduct of the past November cam - I pa igt), Tilden being aggressive to the la.-t degree, taking a positive delight in the rising tumult that f ir a while promised lb overwhelm the West,and Mr. Hewitt being cautious to the edge of cowardice, and dcpreea*.ibg any thing that looked like manly resis tance. Tilden looked forward to a coup tV efnt?Hewitt to a com promise, Tilden would, have marched to the White House as Napoleon inarched from F.iba, and have held his own to the last. Hewitt would have sneaked into tho White House lb rough tho cellar window, ami upon being dis covered by the butler would have submitted to being kicked out through the coal hob.). Til dee is a brave statesman with a heart of gold; Hewitt is a whilllcr, with a while liver. Hewitt has had his way. And the best fought campaign of the cen tury, really a victory, ends in a fiasco, that would bo ridiculous, if it wore not terrible. Colonel Pclton is Tild cn's nephew. He has along head, flattened at the side and bulged at the forehead. Me is loosely slung together, but moves easily and quietly. He is a muster of most, speaking frankly und rapidly; and avoiding lliat lial<it, peculiar to picayune poli ticians, ofAvlnsperitig common places in your car. He works with marvel lous rapidity, an i decides everything as il by intuition. Wheii a matter is presented lor settlement, he walks quickly up and down flic room and turn.-; to you with an answer; r?heuombhali)*, be bus a bunch of hair growing on tli top of his nose. A "hair loom," 1 expect ! Who nose? Col. l'o'iiui has never bad a doubt of Tihleu's election. He says, "Two weeks before the election wc had vic tory organized and inevitable. Wo were mistaken in but one point of r-aleulation. That del*-.: :tibn left us a safe margin. In our Northern battle grounds, such as New York, Con necticut, Indiana and New .Jersey, wo bad lists covering every voter in these States, and knew what the vote of every militia restrict would be. The con version ol a single voter in a Con necticut township would be promptly reported to otti headquarters. Wo hail a certain triumph ahead of us. Wo miscalculated only on one thing in the North and West. That mis calculation would not have boan fatal had not the infamous and unexpected Returning ii cards of the South deli berately stolen three States from us. The "one miscalculation" that Col. Pel ton alluded to so delicately was this : One of the first men, il not the fust man, who put Mr. Tilden upon the Presidential ticket was ex-Senator Gwdnn, of California?the famous duke of Sonoru. "D?ke" Gw'ian was high in the confidence of Mr Tilden and bis friends. He was recognized as tbc best manager of ante bellum times. It was him who had said, with a shake of his I c mine head : "When my e nemies become troublesome I put them out of the way, sir; I pub them out 6f" tbenVay." -Ho made it his especial point on the campnigu to answer fir California and Oregon, lie would brook no interference in the management of these States. He brought them both to the St. Lo iis Convent ion, solid for Tilden, and it was throught that be could handle them in the general election lie wa3 ? consequently left absolutely free in working the campaign of the Pacific slope. Up to the last moment be swore, in he must positive and enthusiastic way, that California and Oregon would come up all right; He took no alarm tit the vi it of Senator Morton to those Stales, and ca med the fears of everybody ehe by bis tremendous boasts and bis reassuring Western oaths At last the crash canto! The duke's old finger* had stiffened with age, and the two Slates slipped through them. And thcii the old man's heart-strings .-napped. The patched and doctored fronte?the frome of a giant, strung upon the sinews of n child?CC llapsod, Income shapeless ami helpless. And llie man who for three decodes had carried bait a continent in his pocket tottered towards bis grave, a maun tier ing wreck. This was a campaign binde irresistible a: every other p dot, lost through the fatuity with which a caucus of diplomalcs put their faith in ait old man with a loud voice and a gorged iiver'j iii whom imbecility had t aken the form of an illusive deli rum ! --e> ?-.--# 4-? ? - A Virginia hunter says that he saw about 900,000 ducks set ; le on a pond. They were wedged closelytogether. He bred belli barrels of bis gun into them. They il w away, leaving no dead dies in the .water; hut, as soon as tbc flock spread out a little, dead ducks loosened and fell until ho picket! up enough to fill fifty-nine bit rrcls. A five-year-old tot, who had always close ber prayers at night with "Auel Goil help Katy to be a good girl," opened her eyes on that point one night in gicon apple time, and paid, very decidedly : "1 ain't a-going to say the rest, for I don't want to bo a tlood girl; 1 want to eat green npslos ' and swallow 'cm.''