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VOL. X1I. MANNING, S, C. WED)NESD)AY, NOVEM BER 2~19.N.8 A FIGHT IN CONtRESS. cOME REM!NSCENCES OF EARLY LEG ISLATIVE DAYS. They Were Very -Much Out ot Order at Times-A Regular Pitched Rattle on the Floor of the House-The Riount Episde The first disgraceful public ercoun ter on the floor of an American Con gress, and the first nublic trial for the impeachment of a United States Sena tor. were both compressed within the pericd of the Fifth Congress, says the Philadelphia Times. Each of these stirring events is inti mately relattd to the other. Indeed, the one grew out of the other, wita the impeachment proceedings coming first in orcer of time. The principal in the impeachment proceedings was William Blount, a Senator from the State of Tennessee. William Blount first appears on the of history as the territorial gov ernor of that region, carved out of the wilderness in 1790, known as the "Territory South of the 'Ohio," the gi eater part of which is at present ca incident with the State of Tennessee. Five years later the Territory was ad mitted to the Union as a State. Nor was William Blount. the old Territoriil Governor, forgotten ander the new dispensation. He was prompt ly chosen to the United States Senate. Senate. llis troubles began with the first day on which he occupied the new chair. At the time in question William Blount found himself heavily in the wild-cat speculations in Western lands so common at that early day. It was the same rock up~n which that sturdy patriot of the revolutionary epoch, Morris of Pennsylvania, had zone to his death. The Senator from Tennes - see foand that he must realize cash value upon his lands at once or lose his fortune, and be forced to retire, a broken man. He. therefore, conceiv ed the scheme of closing out these lands, lyin'g in the South and West, to -British speculators, and in order -More readily to enlist the sympathies ,of these people he had written a letter to one Caren, an Indian agent of his acquaintance, in which he intimated i ,that, could the Indians and the back woodsmen of his native State be stir- 1 red ino an appreciation of the Span j ish situation. New Orleans and the -neighboring districts might become the permanent possessions of the Brit- i ish. In order togive color to this wird ] intrigue, Blount Li also approached < Liston, the new British minister, and had sounded him as to the possibility of help from England. It should be understood that at the 1 period in question Spain had posses sion of that vast stretch of territory I lying along the Gulf stream, where i the Blount lands lay, And had made several iaeffectual attempts to real*ze I upon the same. A point in Blount's i favor was the fact that the Spanisf i authorities had opposed the survey of 2 the then Southern boundary of the t United States, and that they were hes- E itating over the surrender of which - had.been stipulated for in a recent < treaty. But William Blount was not des- I tined-to succeed in his wild dream. < That same gen'us of empire that has i confronted the traitor of all time sud- E denly rose against the plotter and struck his plans to the ground. Aaron i Burr, with his chimera of a great 1 Southwestern empire, was confronted I by his Wilkinson, -Arnold had his Andre, the British, Paul Revere, while; the duplicity of Talleyrand, in the] -stirring days of 1798, was exposed byi a humble American sailor. Much in] the same spirit of patriotism, Carey, the Cherokee interpreter, gave up the treasonable-letters of William Blount, and the Senator from Tennessee went down in disgrace. It was during the Blount impeach men~t that the disgraceful puablic en -counter above alluded to took nlace on the floor or Congress. The Hfiuse hs~d beerr balloting for managers. The members had left tneir seats and were 1 strolling about engaged in general] ..conversation. Among those present -was a member from one of the back woods districts of Vermont, Matthe w Lyon by name, politics Republican or ultra-Democratic.t Matthew Lyon was one whose early life had been 'cast in strange lines,andt who, now that prosperity had visitedi him, bad made the-very human mis- I take of going to extremes. He showed I his self-conceit and his impetuosity on the least provacation. As a mere lad Lyon had come over from Ireland to 1 the land of freedom, and, being poor, had bound himself to his benefactor in payment for his passage. He was i taken to Vermont, where he was sooni hard at work on a new farm in the wilderness. In time he grew to man hood. He became a citizen. He en tered the militia. In 187; Lyon, as * tj~enant of a military company, was< orde t~bn an advanced, post1 on Lake Champlar., On reporting of .ficially at headquarters he wvas treated1 with great disdain, was declared a coward, and was-placed under guard. Rumor adds that in addition to thisi indignity he was obliged to submit the -humiliation of wearmng a wooden sword. Whatever there may havei been in this story, certain it is that -Lyon himself, always insisted he had been firm for holding the outpost, but< that being a subordinate he had been obliged to give way before the will of his superior officer. Years afterward the a)Vair of the] wooden sword returned on Matthew Lyon's head, and, in one sense at least, was instrumental in causing his ruiijtend1 disgrace.4 Thewar being ended and independ ence gairned, Lyon at once applied< -himself to the arts of peace. lHe was a< progressive and determined man, Hie1 established extensive iron works at the < foot of Lake Champlain. He waxed j rich. He married a Governor's daugh- i ter. He entered politics. His vie w was the ultra Demorratic. One of the first: political moves was to establish a fieryi campaign sheet called by the eupion-1 ious name of "The Scourge of the A r-1 istocracy and the D~epository of LIm portant Political Truth."i Lyon not only cast his own type, but lhe manufactured his own primt1 paper, using for that press the inner - bark of the birch tree. All in all, 1 Matthew Lyon, the poor Irish emi-i grant, had developed into a man ofi energy, integrity and determination 4 of purpose before whom a public car. 1 eer was opeming fast. Triumphant over several comnpeti tors,'down to Congress went Matthew! Lyon, M. C. now, and bound to make a sensation, he seized the very first op portunity for his maiden effort. 1It was a theme worthy of the man -the < r~idiculone of the Touancayoing 1 persornal courtesy to the new Pr(-i der-t, John Adams. It was slavisb. It was outrageo'us. It was anti Demo cratic. It was anti-Republican. It was sheer nonsense. So argued Lyon. The tone of his address was not very agree able to the rest of the opposition. Dana of Connecticut said that if Lyon desired to be excused from pers-onally ea~lint on the President he, for one, would by no means press Ly on's com pany. A few months later Lyon again renewed his tirade against courtesy. His request to be excused was prompt ly voted down. Lvon also opposed the sending of the extraordinary commission to France. In short, his political career was one in which he systematically posed as ultra radical, doing every hing in his power, under all circum :tances and on all occasions, to create I vulgar sensation. It was but a short time after this lit Ie episode that Lyon became the cen ral figure in a drama that fixed his 'ame for all time to come. As has been ntimated. it was during the debate >ver the Blount managers. The Spea Ker has left his chair, the members 3ave grouped themselves together in ittle knots and are engaged in gener il conversation; up comes RZger Gris mold of Connecticut, a Federal leader. Ele enters into a confab with Lyon; natters turn to a discussion of the nerits of the go.od people of Connec icut; Lyon, as usual, is arrogant and ;elf-conceited, and heaps all manner )f satire on wooden nutmegs; some hing is also said as !o Republican nethods of politics; the group of list mers grows larger; banter waxes varmer pro and con; Lyon is not to ;e outdone; he makes a parting shot: "Why," he sai s, addressing himself o the amused gentlemen round about 'why, my friends, had I the privilege >f editing a newspaper in Connecticut he Republicans would be driven out n very short order: "Will you fight with your wooden word ?"asked Griswold derisively. Lyon does not notice this allusion o his military recom d He proceeds vith his banter. Griswold fires up. ie lays liis hand savagely on Lyon's rm. 'Lyon," he says sneeringly, "you .ould not change the opinion of the neanest hostler in the State" At this retort Lyon suddenly darts >ack, lunges forward a pace and spits n Griswold's face. Griswold raises his arm as if to trike. Members interfere. SpeakL esumes his chair. Rips of order. Triends restrain the rising ire of the ombatants. Qiiet is restored. House roceeds to the business of the day. dember Sewell recites the facts of the ndignity, and insists that Lyon must e expelled. The House must sustain ts dignity. Gallatin comes to the de ense. If any one has offended that nan is Griswold. Griswold is the ag ressor. Member Lyon should have pit twice. Out with Griswold. He s the one who has offended the digni y of the chambr. The conservative ninority also puts in its oar. It insists hat both are to blame. and that both hould be expelled. At this juncture ?me genius of diplomacy solves the uestien, proposing that the matter be eferred to the comaittee on privileges; Lad that, pending the decision of the ommittee, should either member offer dditionsl insult to the other, both hall be expelled together. Two days pass. Days of high com notion. There is blood on the face of he moon. Vengeance for Lyon. Dit o for Griswoli. Lyon, for once in his life, makes a oliical move. He promptly writes a etter to the Speaker, in which the val ant combatant represents that if he ias offended the dignity of the House is error was not through malice or indictiveness. He trusts that his con uct, under these circumstances' does iot merit punishment. The specia! xamining committee submits a revie w >f the facts to the House, together ith a very brid yet startling report. Member Lyon must be expelled. In tantly the question is taken up on >arty lines, and to Lyon's relief flies he entire Democratic wing of the louse. A violent debate ensues. Fin My the House consents to go into :ommittee of the whole on the matter. The subject is rehearsed again. Much ime is consumed. Member Chipman ells the story of Lyon's wooden s word. yon makes a scathing',personal re ort. Had he not erred in his tirst can luct, his language now would certain y have been sufficient to have caused ~is instant expulsion. He gives his ersion of the affair of, the wooden word. He surrendered the outpost >ecause he had been s- ordered by the uperior oflicers. Personally, he was nucha mortitied to give up the place, >ut he was powerless to resist his com nanders. Galatin and-Nichols side with Ly on. .hen for Lyon's choicest stroke: He Lrgues that. as the House was not in ession at the time ef his alleged mis lemeanor,. he has not o ffended, and .herefore he is not liable for punish nent. In this absurd construction of he rules he finds a dozen tongues eag r for his defense. An attempt is made to substitute a -eprimand. This fails. A vote is then agen on the question cf expulsion. It >roceeds on strict party lines. Lyon s purged of contempt. lie resumes is seat amid great applause. But the end has not yet come to this Iroli farce. The rarest exhibition is eserved for the grand tinale. The House is just about to open its norning session. Speaker Jonathan )ayton, tall long-nosed, ancient of lays and raiment, stands at one side. :almly taking his last pinch of snuff >reparatory to calling the H ouse to rder. The Rev. Ash bel Green, with nub nose and owlish visage, has just roned out the morning prayers. Buzz >f conversation dying away, every hing silencing into that digniiid luiet that waits upon the opening iour of the grandest deliberative body a the wide wvorld. Os-er in the cor 1er, busy with the morning paper, is dfembr Lyon, oblivious to his sur -oundings. H~e is so much engaged hat he does not see his rival enter .be chamber and stealthily approach he seat where he is reading. (Griswold s neatly dressed, his hair daintily >odered and his whole appearance is hat of one ready'for some digniilied >ublic ceremonial. As he slinis across he floor the enorning sunlight glints nerrily on . the silver buckles of iis shoes. In his. hand Griswold :arries a heavy cane. Speaker D~ayton akes another ~peb of snuff. Giris gold is creeping nearer and nearer to riend L~ycon. No w he at unds just >ehind his chair. In a tr-ice lhe raises is heavy can~e and strikes Lyon stun uing blorws on the head !A wild cry oes up over the. House. It is a cry of ost'rnation, mingled with surprise. flash the situation dawns upon him. "Coward:" he shrieks, lifting his powerful frame to its fullest height. Then, with the ferocity of a wounded beast, he lunges desperately at his startled aggressor. A throng of ex cited members hedge around the shameless scene. Some are roaring with delighZ, some shrieking in terror, sone laughing with derision: Chairs are overfurned. Spectators are caught in th mad swirl and are dashed to the floor in the wildest confusion. Lyon lswiugs at his adversary with terrific blows. The Democrats break into cheers. Hurrah for Lyon? One member stands on a chair and frantically waves his hat. The Rev. Ashbel Green crows in delight and squats down on his knees to peer through the legs of the ring of members inclosing the pit. Cierk.Condy throws down his pen and joins in the melee. The speaker is somewhat startled now, and moves a step nearer his official seat His eyes bulge with curiosity. Speaker Dayton takes another pinch of snuff. With a wild, barbaric yell of triumph, Gris wold hurls himself upon his infuriated rival, a tremendous efort. Lyon lies orostrate on the floor. Up aain, Lyon braks through the ring. Ile reels headlong toward the fireplace. Then his livid eyes catch sight of a long pair of iron fire tongs standing in the chimney co-ner. With an oath and an exultant shriek of vic'.ory Lyon seizes this murderous weapon and turns fiendishly upon his rival. Griswold lunges a terrific kick at Lyon's stomach! The combatants close upon each other in the grapple of life and death! Cane and tongs a " flung hign in the air. The Rev. Ashbel Green is fairly be side himself. Ile crows exultantly. lie even echoes the roar th it s-ells from the corners of the room. Speak er Day ton t .'s another pinch of snu1f. lu a twinkle i'e resumes his oflicial seat. I raps o:der. er' Order! Order:" cries the s;:aker, ira:uically. "Seize him b7 thl .ees!" shriek the lRpublicans "Give him the t- . igs! howl the Democrats. "O:der, gentlem-.:n: order"' says the speake r taking an Ather pircih of snu tf. Some geitle spir't seizes Griswold by the silk stocking:. and drags him out of the reach of harm. The cohorts of Lyon held their hero to hi.; feet. A parting oath. Members cbse round on all sides. Rivals are bori e apart tableaux. And was there any retributive jus tice? No. There is no sequel. Neither member lost his seat. Both were wel comed back again with open arms. Greater heroes than ever. Sneh were the good old times. Matthew Lyon, the fire eating ultra Democrat, lived for forty years after the incident ttit has made him secure in his Congres'onal honors. But some dark and avenging fate seemed to pursue him. Made the victim of the odsous alien and sedition laws, he was compelled to pay a heavy fine. What little remnant of his fortune re mained was soon after swept away in commercial adversities. Matthew Lyon died a broken and a ruined man. On the other hand, Griswold rose to much distinction, was elected gover nor of his native State and finally passed away, universally esteemed and respected by all who had come within the circle of his influence. So go the fates of men. Murdered for His Monev. NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Frank P. Arbuckle of Denver, Col., was found] in an urnconscious condition lying in an obscure place near a vacant lot, just off the sidewalk in a lot of weeds, on the West side of Eighth avenue between 152nd and 153rd streets at 2:453 o'clock this morning. He died in the patrol wagon on the way to a station house without regaining conscious ness. That the man was garrotted,] robbed and murdered is believed from incidents which occurred a short time prior to his being discovered lying in the weeds. Oflicers sent out on the case went to the Atlanta Casino, near 1 where Arbuckle was found. There they had a talk with the bartender, who said that a man answering the de scription of the dlead man came intot the saloon about an hour before the time he was found unconscious and called for a drink of whiskey. He appeared at the time to be partly un der the in fluence of liquor. In paying for the drink he displayed a large roll of bills. After taking his drink the1 man lel t the saloon. That is the last kno wn of his movements. No money1 except a small amount of change wasI found in his pockets and hie had not watch nor chain. It is believed that after leaving the Casino the man wasi set upon by thugs, knocked down and robbed. No marks of violence were found on the body, according to the1 police, except a slight abrasion on the head. This might have been caused: by a blow from a sand bag, or it mnighti have been received in a fall. Mr.] Arbuckle had been .stopping at the] Fifth- Avenue Hotel until within a few days. Ihis later mov~ements were not I known. The neighborhood wher-e the] dying man was found has an unsavory. reputation._________ No Negroes wantedI There. P'ar~t 'm, Ky., Nov. 17.--Four ne groes were seriously woundled andc fhve others sprinkled with buck shot last nght by a mnob of white men at Altoo na, fifteen miles from here, on the Tennessee River, Fifteen negroes were engaged in cutting timber for the Standard Oil Company, They had been ordered to leave, being told that no negro was allowed to stop there. John Keeber, the foreman, dlecided that there was no danger of violence, and the negroes were sitting around1 an old sumke house, when a mob of if ty men s wooped do wn upon themi 1 and began tiring. Some of tfe negroes ran into the woods and other-s sought refuge in the house with thme foreman. The mob then started to bu rn the house, but the foreman sued fce pecace ahd the negroes were givens twenty-1 ive minutes in which t leave. Tue seriously wounded are: Smith, fore i man; Mitcnell Clark, Jiohn itoyd and % - J en kins. They were br-ought to this city. No effort has been made to apprehend the mob. Not a negro cani be found1 j: miles around Altoona 1 to day. Several ant haveekde, by mobs in this neighborhood before. Ii this I'rop.erity". D)Erwan r, Mich., N v. 18 - -Many of the emyloycs of the Michigan Car Camnpanty state~d today that alf of the 1.5ui mzen emiployed at thie works six weeks ago have beens laid oil, the number of workmen hiavingr decreas el. beginning last week. The men had anticipated pfenty of worki in the' fu. tire. rlThe otleerms of the cej ~no v THE CORRUPTION FUN). THIE ENORMOUS SUM OF SIXTEEI , MLLION DOLLARS Paid to the Republican 1'arty by the M1 lVonaires aul Truqt With WhIch to Col rupt Voters In the late Preildent ial Elt tion. NEW YonK, Nov. 20 -Various stc ries afloat relative to the recent Repul dean campaign fund have create, imusement in political circles, becaus .he sums alleged to have been fa 3ished Mr. Hanna are so far short c .he actual cash vmounts cortributed teports from the same source differ >ne stating that the Republican Na ional Committee had $1,000,000 to ei ?end, another rai:ing these figures b; million. As a matter of fact, Mr. Hanna ,ommittee had upward of $16,000,00 it its disposal, if reports of Republ] ,ans and R-publicia organs are to b ,redited. This is only four times th um usuaily spent by national com nittees during a Presidential election nd not Darticularly large when it i onsidered that all the flinancial inst] ,utions, railroad companies, mercan ile establishments, protected indn .ries and wealth in general were op >osed to the Democratic ticket an< tnxious for the success of the Repub .ican. Chairman Ianna, who is intensel; >ractical, and has frequently said tha ie cnducted the McKinley campaigi is-he would a business, suggested tha mssessments be levied upon States. Th Lgents in the varioas States were in tructed to divide prospective contri )utors into classes. In this way a per ect system of tax ition was secured The idstitutions as'ced for conribu ions were national bankeSiate banks aving banks, trust c->mpanies, rail oad cmpanies, firms representini oreign financial interests, and al cinds of manufacturiny concerns hav ng an interest in hi.;h tariff legisla ion. Divide by Stat.s the list of Republi :an contributior.s looks something lik his: slew York................ .:; 000,00 >ennsylvania............. 2,500,00, Jonnecticut............. 1,000,00 dassachuseets............. 1,500,00 Jaine, New Hampshire and Vermont............... . 000 ew Jersey............... 1,100,00 Illinois.................. L000,w) )hio..................... 1,0(0,00 ;outhern States........... 2,000,04 Nestern States............2500,00 Total................... l16.000,00 These Jigures, while large to the or linary citzen, are trivial in view c he great object to be accomplishet Lnd represent probably three fourth: >f the sums actually collected. In New York, where all financia md mercantile business centres, th lepublican National Commitiee se ured contributions from most of th rusts and the foreign bankers, aggre ating about ,000,000. SOME NEwI YOK liONATIONS. Here is a list that represents th eading New York donations: gould family .............".50,00 ,azard Freres and foreign houses................... .50,00 ,rown, Brothers & Co, and foreign houses............50,00 Jeldetbach, kckelheimer & Co. and foreign houses. 50,00( hlmont baking house and connections........... 50,00 1. P. Flower baking house and connections.... 25,00 . Piermont Morgan & Co. and connections.........100, 001 Janderbilt family.........250,00 ~ermilye & Co. and connec. 50,00 tions..... ............... 50,00 orton, Bliss & Co. and con nections...... ............ 50,001 ~residents of insurance com panies................. 1,000,00 In considering these lists it must bi ecalled that the Stales contribute' Lvough s->me trusted agents, and tha he firms mentioned acted as collect ng agencies for Mr. Hlanna. There is some controversy as to thi anderbilt contributions. One au hority says William K. Vanderbil :ave $150,000, and Treasurer Bliss de ied tne stsatement, but it is generall3 ccepted the family gave the sun redited, $250,000. Relative to Connecticut, ex-Gover ior Morgan G. Burkeley declared >rior to the election, that he had ob ained the miilion dollars lie was ex >ected to collect. His statement was >inted in Connecticut newspapers a he time. New Jersey gave liberally and di( t through Garret A. Hiobart, who, a u ember of the C;oal Trust, had un sual facilities for securing contribu lont. Pennsylvania had for its collectini gents such successful managers a senator y'ay, Audrew Carnegie an< I. C. Frick. The venerable Collis P -untington acted for many of th< Nestern States, while Mr. H~ann: iimself looked out for Ohijo, anc lenry Cabot Lodge for Massachusett mdu the rest of New England. The immense sum thus collected ha: iot all been expended. There is: urplus of about $i2,0.0. It is be ause or this surplus that the Nationa Jmmnittee continues in permianen 1eadquarters with an expensive staffI .t is the first Natioual Committee tha ver wound up the camuaign witl omnething left over, and for the rea on that there was no way to spendi LII. Aside from the in numerable exuen es of the 1wo headquarters and thi -egu lar camnpaign wvork throughou he country, it is notorious that ir Ilinois, Indiana, Michigant, the IDako as, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa th< on of 875,00 was given for specia vork in eachm Congressional District [hal amount was also sent into ex kepresen tativye Tlow ne's district it dinnesota and exl tepresentative Sib ey's d.strict in Pennsylvania. Mr [anna was p)articullarly anxious t reat Towne, Sibley and Richard I !!anid because of their interest in th ilver cause. How will all these heavy donation ~e reesipted for? The presumptioni hat the dlisti nguished contributor U4 r ceeppoin tmen ts hel pf ul i t Ssocial way. For Mi.~d aes,!. 1V \len was appointed Minister to Italy td lie gave only $1' ,400 fou r year go. -Journal. Where I t Came Froms. I i .AI)>lIlia, Nov. 17.-The larL st local hank subscription to the la ublican N ational committee was tha >f a purely savings and benevolent as :(eiation, tihe P.nilade~,phia Sav ing "un d, whosemdrectors vo-ted 'j.3,u'' t< NO NEW COUNTY WANTED. The Scheme to Estabihih Salem Coun Defeated. COLUMA Nov. 20.-The Regist of this morning says: "Salem. t first new county scheme to be vot( on, appears to have failed. The cou ty proposed to take portions of the te ritories of Kershaw, Darlington at Sumter Counties with Bishopville : the center and county seat. The ele tion was held on Tuesday but no re able returns could be learned unt e yesterday, when Mr. J. S. Parrott ar Mr. W. K. Crosswell brought the ta ulated result to Columbia. The tow ships in Darlington and Sumter gal the necessarry two thirds vote, bi those in Kershaw killed the schen on the face of the returns. The pr moters of the new county claim th in these townships there were a nun s ber of irregularitics in conduct ng ti election, among which is mentiont the failure of the managers to requi: e the production of registration certil e cates on the part of the voters. C . this and otier grounds they propoa to contest, claiming that in some 1i stances the managers were not swoi and some boxe3 were not opened : all. They propose to make a ente and should those irregularities I . proven there will have to be anoth( election in those townships. But , the vote has been counted Salem h been defeated. It is a county th ,h is been fought for everal years in tl t Legislature and th general impre i sion in the State was that it would v i throughout with trouble. But one towi e ship in the proposed new territory I - by not giving the required two thin vote can nulify the whole scheme an no other election e)n 1e held f( four years for the same county." Commenting on the above subji the State says: "Messrs. W. K. Cros well anti J. L. P.arrott of Sumt< called at the attorney general's olli: yesterday in the interest of the ne . county of Salem, the election f< which was held Tuesday. Wit them they brought the elecLion returi from which tiere seems but litt a doubt that the vote of Kersbaw h, defeated the formation of the cunt; a They wished to find out before whoi j they would have to protest again L Kershaw's vote on account of its ill a gality, claiming that uo Y egistration < p.oll tax receipts were shown by tt a voters and that even the registratic L books were not at the polls as reqnir a by law. They were informe: th: 0 the commissioners of election f( a Kershaw county were the proper pe o sons to receive and act on the protes In speaking of the matter the gent! men said the voters took very sligl interest in the result, many of thel f not voting. In the proposed c2unt there were 1,50o or 1,600 voters an 3 but very little over half that numb< of votes were cast. It would be in I possible to go ahead and form ti county without that section of Ke shaw that vot'-d against it. This ar was needed, not on account of i value, but for the territory. It w: very siLnilar t. the s'-tionof Richlar county known .,s the sandhills. the a said. The gentlemen did not fear bt that another election would b orde ed in Kershaw. If the commissionei of election dismiss the protest and di cide to let the election stand, it will I four years before another election ca be held for Salemn. This result is inte eEting on account of its being the fir: to form a new Constitution." A BAD OUTLOOK. jThe Columbia Register, of Sunda: says: "A telegram was received I: j Governor Evans yesterday announ ing that the vote in Darlington Coul > ty on the Salem County question ha j gone against it by 11 votes. On ti: ) face of the returns as first reportE j Darlington had voted in favor, bi the complete count reversed the resul ,y It is understood that the Salemit are going to enter a protest as to th > election, also. It has already bee a stated that they intend to contest ti ielection in the Kershaw townshil t which voted against them. The ele . tion commissioners will meet on Tue day and the Salemites have secure SMr. H. C. Patton of this city as the - attorney. He will leave to-morro tfor Camden. It is charged that thei .were many irregularities in the ballot which legally were wrong and ougi to have been thrown out, it is conten< ed. But as a matter of fact even the ballots were not techrnically corre they probably expresse I the sent ments of voters and shcuid anothe election be ordered their ballots woul probably be cast the same way agai but in correct shape. That is tU opinion of those who claim to unde: stand the situation and from all al Spearances Salem County is doomed t .defeat. Ollicials who are familiu .with conditions in the State say th: it is going to be almost impossible 1 ,form any new counties at presen s under the stringent provisions of ti I cnstitutioln. It is no easy matter1 get a two-thirds vote on any questiol especially where several thousan votes are to be cast, and the gener: opinion here seems to be that none< s the new county schemes will succeet with the possible exception of Greer a wood, which from present indicatiot Swill succeed. The only t wo coJuntia .interested in this county are A bbevil I and Edgelield and the people of ti t territory seem to be practically unac imoucs except some opposition th: Smay arise in Ninety Six. The lRegi ter has always favored smaller com; - ties and gives this information not tdiscourage any body. but to state ti fat as they are seeni here." ~ inrns from Kentucky, Wyoming~ ti -Da)kouta-s and other close States gmv 13ryan once vote in Kentucky, llI three votes of Wyoming antd the Lot votei or S )uth D akota. In the Ia: namcedi State, the Biryan electors hcas only 1'1 votes mcore than the McKi; ley electors. Ini Wyomcing~ the lowe Blryan elector is 6;. ahead of the higJ est McKinley elector. The elector; table ncow stands: 1For M ccley Ctlhrornia 9, Col nec ticut U. Dehlatware~ 2, Ill incis- 21, 1a diana 5, l owa 14. Kentucky 12, Mait G, Mary land 8, Massachusetts, I Michigan It, Minnesota 9. Ne llamioshire 4, New Jersey 10), Ne Yor1k~:., North Dakota 3, O hio 2:;, ds~vania 32, Rthode Ishur I\ermont 4, West irii consin 12. Total 272. F~or Bryan Alabamai 11. Arkand 3, Colorad -1, F'loridla 1, G eorgia I Idatdo 3. c-isa In, Kentucky - louisina S, Mississippi 9, Missouri t Montana ;;, Nebraska s, Nevada -North Carolina 11, South Carolina s South D~akota 4, Tennessee 12, TVex S1-: UTah '2 \'icr"inic L Washictn ELECTING TlE PRESIENT. FORMALITIES TO BE OBSERVED IN CANVASSING THE VOTE. Messengers Get Good .ay--Three.Sets of .Retunrna Made-Uhat would Happen if r. Mcinley was to Die Before necemier -. d is WAsms TON, Nov. 18.-Hov iany c- people are there in California and I- Oregon who would be willing to take ii da trip across the country for $SOO? 5. That is what the electoral messengers I- from those States will receive for re bringing the votes for William Mc it Kinley to Washington. te The electors chosen in the different )- States will meet on the first Wednes it day in December, according to the 1 law, in the place provided by the Le Legislature of each State. In every d case this is the St:te Capitol. At this :e meeting the electors will give their - votes for McKinley or Bryan-no a other of the candidates having receiv e ed enough votes in any State to enti 1- tiethem to consideration. The result n of the vote will then be made out in t triplicate. One copy will be sent to t the President c' the Senate by mail; 2 ) one copy will be sent to him by mes ( r senger, and ore copy will be delivered < s to the judge of the district in which t S the electors assemble. To these copies ( it will be annexed lists of the electors i e prepared by the Executive of each i s State, according to the official returns. 0 The reason for taking three cpies ! I- of the vote of the electors is the uossi- ( y bility that one or two may go astray. f Is and the precaution has been found I d wise in more than one instance. At t r the time of Mr. Harrison's election it I was necessary to send to the District i at Judge to obtain the vote of one of the t s- States, the messenger having goae as- t r tray somewhere and the vote by mail r e having been lost in transit. The messengers have one month in I r which to reach the Capitol. If they h have not arrived by the first Wendes Ls day in January, and if the rostal re- s le turn has not been received -by that I s time, the President of the Senate sends I r a special messenger to get the returns i n from the District Judge. it For performing the service of car- 1 rying the returns safely to Washing- t >r 'on the messengers are allowed by t e law 25 cents for each mile "of the es- r n timaLed distance by the most usual i I road." The distance from .X.nnapolis t it is short and the messenger of Mary r lar.' will not be overpaid for his labor, r- but i-e distance from San Francisco, I t. by way of Oaiaha and Caicago, is 3- 3.227 miles, and the California mes- I senger therefore will receive more i n than $0S'o for his j urney. The dist- z Y Ance from Portland, Oregon, is 3,310 d miles,and ithe nessenger-fro:n e-on I r will receive about $30 more than the c - messenger from California. The mes- i e senger from Minnesota will receive c r pay for only 1,251 miles,or about -;300. 1 a He can perform the service in three C ts or four days at the most; so you will r Ls see he is not ill-paid. d The messenger from IMlinois will re Y ceive more than $200. it When these messengers reach Wash- r r- in-ton they will call on the President c 's of the Senate and deliver the returns c to him'in person. If one of them ar- t e rives on a day when the Vice Presi- i n dent is not at the Capitol he will have ' - to wait. If the Vice President is presid- I it ing over the Senate when the messen-t ger arrives he will be called out. Thec Vice President will receive each of the 4 returns sealed, and will give a receipt t y for it. Then he will plac e the envelope,c still sealed, in a little iron safe which i 1 stands in one c->rner of the Vice Presi- 1 d dent's room. It has stood - there for a c .e great many years and is not a very d modern safe; but there is no induce it meat for anyone to break into it. I[ t. the original returns should be stolen s5 it would be easy enough to obtain the t s5 duplicates. *There is a reverse side to the joyful I e occupation of electoral messenger.e s5 The messenger who fails to perform the duty for which he has been choseni S- and does not deliver the vote entrustedi d to him "shall forfeit the sum of one< ir thousand dollars," according to the i statute. He is not to pay a fine in a I -e sum "not to exceed one thousand dol- f s, lars ;" but it is imperative he be fined Lt the whole amount. i- There is a provision to protect the if messengers in case the \-ice President I at should be absent from Washington.t - In that event the messen zer may de tr liver the vote to the Secretary of State I d who will give a receipt for it.( i, A great many persons no doubt sre e puzzled to know what would happen I e if Major McKinley should die before t -the electoral vote was cast, on the first o Wednesday in December. That nap-< r pened in the case of Horace G reeleyvin 1 t 1872. He died before the electors met o0 and all of those who had been chosen ton his ticket, with the exception of .e three frorn Georgia, voted for whom-i 0 soever they pleased. The three cist i4 their votes for Mr. Greeley, but whenr d the votes were canvassed by Congress il it was determined not to count the >f three votes for Mr. GJreeley. tf Ma ji I, jor McKinley should d ie it is quite like- t 1- ly the votes of the electors would belt s cast for Mr. Hobart, but it is possible< s that they would be scatteredI, and in i e~ that way the election would be thrown e' into the Hiouseef Representatives. InIs - such a case there is no knowing who t it would be P resident. *. The House and Senate will canvass< 1 the votes of the electors on the first 1 . Wednesday in February. The Senate I3 e will go over to thielHouse of Represen- t tatives in ai body, headed by \-ice Pres dent Stevenson and Secretary Cox, fol- 'I lowed by Chief P'age Stewart. overt~ whose shoulders w'il Ibe hunag by a r e strap two wooden boxes containingja s the precious votes. The miemb ers of e the i fouse wH i risei as the Senators en-Ia r te-r t.;.t and two. The \'ice Pre-sident t wil mount the rostr'am and take a e seat at the right of Speaker Retl. I e- The two tellers for the senate. tGle.! st H ale and Mr. PBlackburn olicatkd 2 four years ago,) will sit at the desk be i low, and below them will sit the two I louse tellers. The \'ice P'resident e- will thten take the envelopes handt d to him by Stewart in their al phabetic e al ordler. Ln the lirst count the States were takeni according to geographical vlocation, beginning with Maine, but I v since 187' they have been taken alpha- 1 hetically. Each certificate as it is tak-r d en fromt the envelope he will hand tot s- Ithe tellers and they will read the-n itn trn, the Senate tellers reading thie 2 s irst two and the House teller-sth ~ext two. The vote of Alabama wil Ibe-read in full and then !uanimous co g0ent will be asked and gr'ante-d that l the femnaining certiicates be summai 4rizer A double tally of the votes wh e kept. Thte1 will he a comnpara-( n tively simple matter this innte, because a i enown now what the vote of each state will be, and even if some consti utional objection was raised to the :ounting of the vote of one of the states. it would not involve enough rotes to atfect the result of the election. When the votes have been couated ud the results have been announced or each candidate the Vice President -vill announce that William McKin ey, of Ohio, having received a major ty of all the votes cast for President, ias been elected President of the Unit .d States, and that Garret A. Hobart, >f New Jersey, having received a ma iority of the votes cast for Vice Presi lent, is elected Vice Piesident of the >f the United States. He will then mdjurn the joint session of the House ind Senate, and- the Senators will return to their own !,all or Senate :harnber. If, after the canvassing of .he electoral vote, the President elect should die before the day fixed for his nauguration, the Vice-President ;ould-bcome President. EASTERLIN ACQUITTED. lie Stato Failed to Fstablish the Corpus D~elicti. CUAnLSTON, S. C-, Nov. 18.-Elec rician Wm. H. Easterlin was ar -aigned in the Court of Sessions Tues lay morning for the murder of his hild on September 2tst. This sensa ional cause drew a large and interest d throng to the court room, !which eld their places throughout the day. t will be rememb6red that on tie 23rd >f September Mr. Eisterlin was ar ested on the charge of having mur lered the new-born infant which was ound dead with a stone tiel aronnd ier neck in Bennett's Mill Pond. On he night of the 21st of September, 'asterlin's paramour, a young woman vith roectable connections, gave irth to a-n infant, which was believed o have disappeared. On the after loon of September 22. the day after, . child was found dead in the mill >ond. E isterlin was arrested on the harge of murder and the three-fold >roblem which the state now has to olve is to identify the body as that of Casterlin's child; to prove that it was iorn alive and was done to death by iolence, and to show that Eisterlin s the party that did the deed. It may )e said here that there seems to 1)3 lit le doubt in the minds of many that he body of the infant found in the nill pond is identical with the illeziti nate offspring that was born to Eis erlin and his paramour on the night >f the 21st of September. Tae princi )al question remaining to be solved rIfore the tribunal of pablic opinion, ,s it seems to have arrived at its verdict n advance, is as to whether the father vas the murderer alone, (;r at all, and s to whether the women in the case, -mether .and daughter, are not also >rincipals. Sz-eral supposeI strong ircumstances arer ientioned as point ng to their complicity, at least, in the rime. The defense, too. seems to be dopting this line in liag the foun lation of their case, of shifting the notive and method of the cri b ther than Easterlin's shoulders. The trial terminated this morning a the verdict "not guilty," which was ead on the opening of court at 10 'clock, the jury having reached their onclusion in the wee sma' hours of he morning and having transmitted t written and sealed to the Judge. "he verdict was generally anticipated. t was evident to the least expert that he State had failed to make out its ase. It was one purely of circum tantial evidence, and the one, impor ant and indispensable link in the cir :umstantial chain was not only want ng but was strangely, if not purpose y, overloooked'by both sides in the ase-that is to say, the corpus delicti, he identification of the body of the in ant found with that of Easterlin's hild. While all the circumstances eemed to point to the identity of the wo, no stress was laid upon this point, mnd even when the grand mother in er testimony stated that after deliv ring the child to Easterlin she did iot see it any more until the occasion ipon which she saw it in the hospital, t was noticeable that neither side uin ertook to draw her out as to how he identified the mutilated and ish eaten cadaver with that of the in. ant in question. The failure to establish the corpus Ilicti absolute ly, in a case of circum tantial evidence-where the accused iad not been actually seen to commit he deed -would alone seenm to be a >rimna facie confession of weakn~ess. But the truth seems to be. that the joroners inquest was perfunctory nerely, as these too often are, and he proper legal precautions for idea ifying the remains were not fully ob erved. The swaddling clothes of the :hild as found seem to have been >ried with it. In addition to the fact that there as no positive evidence to connect esterlin with the destruction of the fant that was found, there was no estimnony beyond that of the two wo nen concerned to show that he had >een the instrument for carrying vway the infant that had disappeared, Lad as all through their testimony lie women evidenced a stronger mo ive for keeping the matter secret and >f getting rid of the encumberance vithout exposure than EaLsterlin could easonably have entertained, a fatal uspicion was necessarily cast upon heir story. The circumstance which bore strong st against their testimony was that hey admitted not having made any >reparation for keeping the child in lie way of clothing. The prisoner. rho has grown much thinner since is incarceration, and who has all roughm the trial shown a degree of ervousness natural to the occasion, and to the fact that thiere was much >-eidice against him, which was not toether owing to the belief in his iomicidal gul, heard his acquital -ithi comiposure and, together with rs brother and son, who have stood > him during the ordeal, boarded a trett car for the home to which he u:s been a stranger sine Septe-m ber ':2 lgister. AsPopbular~Er iliam J1 Beyan and [is d inniuguished iarty of h auters fromu St. Louis arrived tere this morning. The train was met my an ezthusiastic crowd, including any rairoad shop meni, and before he p~arty could make its way up town r. [iryan was compelled to make a hort speech in response to the de ands of the shop men. Time party ere finally escorted to the huotel by he crowd, which cheered the Nebras :au's name at every step. From the otel balcony Mr. I :-yan muade another hort speech. The party left for 3hadwiciz, where they will be con eyed to the game preserves in Taney LOST HIS LIFE. A MAN DiES FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN A LODGE ROOM. He was Reing Jnitiated as a Member of the Order of Elki When He Wax Badly Barned by His Clothes Taking Fire. DES MoiNrs, la,, Nov. 1S.--E. W. Curry, chairman of the Democratic State committee, died this morning in his room at the Hotel. Savoy. The death was a direct result of injur ies received while being initiated into a Des Moines lodge of Elksabout two months ago. As part of the ceremony he was blindfolded and placed on a chair with an iron seat. Therl light ed lamp was placed under the seat with the expectation that when it got too hot he would jump. But he sat still until he was badly burned. His trousers were burned away and tte flesh fearfully scorched. He was put in new clothes and did not realize at the time that the injuries were serious. In a few days blood poisoning set in and he grew worse steadily. It was his desire that the real cause of his in jaries should not be made public and another cause was assigned for the ill ness, the truth only becoming public today. An evening paper published a highly sensational story that the in j.ries were caused by placing him, in the process of the initiation ceremony, in an electrical chairand turning on a current which burned him badly, but this is denied by the Elks. Mr. Car ry lived at Leon and was a leading attorney. The body will be taken there tomorrow by a large escort of Elks and Masons and the funeral will be !-d tomorrow afternoon. Tae stories differ as to whether Cur ry's death was due altogether to the injuries or the bad treatment accorded him after receiving them. Tae story told this morning, as coming from the family, was that Mr. Curry was placed in a chair charged with electricity, and that a slight current was turned on for the purpose of frightening him and makcing him jump out of the chair. He was not tied in, and was free to get out if he wanted to; bat Curry had the reputation of being a gamey man and he did not jump, so the current was increased. Finding that still it did not budge him, the person in charge again increased the strength of the charge and left it turn ed on. Seeing smoke emerge fr3m the seat of the chair, Mr. Carry was palled out and it was discovered that his garments were burned and his flesh badly scorched. Ie was taken to his room in the hotel, where physi cians were summoned. A week or ten days agoblood poisoning set inand noth ing could be done to save him. It was given out, at Mr. Carry's request, that his trouble was of long standing, and this was the story generally accepted this morning. whowire seen today deny the truth of the story. Taey admit that Curry was injured in the lodgeroom of the Elks, bat they say it was not serious, and it is shown that Mr. Curry made a speech in the lodge aft er the allegad burning occurred; that he walked to his hotel after his initiation, and was about town for three days before he finally took to his bed. One of the most prominent members of th'e lodge wno was present at the initiation said that no electrical appliance of any kind whatever was used in the lodge room. "Mr. Curry would never have been hurt," he added, "if he had followed directions and had not been so deter mined to be game in going through the ceremony. The lodge has been in existence for more than t welve years. We have 150 members in this city, in cluding many of the most prominent professional men in town. Nobody has e ver been aurt in the lodge before, and no one supposed that it was possi ble for any one to get hurt. Of course there is a great deal of funny business and horse play about the Elks' initiation, as there is in all se cret societies, but I want to say that it is not nearly as rough as the Mason ic initiation, "But when a man goes in with the idea of fighting, and does not do as he is told, he may take some chances in getting hurt in any initiation of this kind. I am sure Mr. Cutrry did not blame the boys one bit. Ini fact, he said co. We have done everything we could to soften the blow for the family." The Elks are very reticent in speak ing of the case, because they do not wish to cast any reflections upon Mr. Curry. who was very popular. They say that if he had been properly treat ed at the beginning of his illness he would have soon recovered. A change in physicians was made about ten days ago, but no hope of recovery was ex pressed by the physician who then took charge of the case. The lodge has expended over $1,000 in caring for Mr. Curry, and wil have charge of the funeral. A delegation of Elks and Masons will accompany the remains to Leon, the home of Mr. Curry, where the interment will take place. Mr. Cur-ry was a thirty-second de gree Mason and also belonged to the COdd F'ellows and Knights of Pythias. so this was not his first experience in being initiated into a secret society. It was this experience and his pride in sho wing his nerve that got him into this .rouble, so his brother Elks say. Wounds His Paramour. GR:EENVLLE, S. C., Nov. 20.- Early this morning Ezelle Thackston, who killed James Ivy three years ago, but is related to some of the best families of the town, shot and perhaps fatally wounded Willy Alby, his colored mistress, when the latter broke into a room and found him with another colored woman, lHe was indicted at thi-s term of the court for living in adultery with her and has shot at her seyeral times within the past few mionths, and that he would kill her h-as long been anticipated. H~e made a statement for publication, claiming the shooting was accidental, but the woman says it occurred quite contra r-y. The woman was shot in the abdo men and the bullet has not been loc ted. The doctors do not expect her t live. Children~mothered. TaMJ, Nov. 19.-Amy Droty log e her little hi-year old daughter May and a 4t year old companion in her yom while she attended the G eorg- Mins trel show Wednesday n ight. /During her absence they set the carp on lire, burned up a silk dress~ and when she returned the smallest child was dead anx the other unconscious. It Will die They smatherosd in the smoke.