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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-02
THE INDIANS.
Defensive Policy of the Indians for the
Winter,

Defensive Policy of the Indians for the
Winter.
BISMARCK, D T., Sept. 3O-A gentleman
who left Fort Peck Sunday, and who traded
with Long Dog and Inkpaduty when they were
there, has arrived here. He says Long Dog
was within 20 miles of Wolf Point when Gen.
Terry was there, aud has been into Fort Peck
repeatedly since then. On Saturday Lone Elk
and Fast Dog came in from the hostile camp.
They announced that pa-ty of hostile Indians
were coming into Fort Peck, but wanted the
agent and his outfit to 60 away. They did not
want annuites or rations, but wanted the
traders to remain with plenty of ammunition.
They made presents to the agency Indians and
brought in two horses belonging to the Seventh
Cavalry, also carbines and ssddles evidently
belonging to that regiment. They wanted to
be friendly to the whites and said no peaceabie
whites would be molested this winter nv them
but they would fight the white soldiers when
they came out after them. They realized that
the whites would whip them at last. but thew
would not surrender, and would die fighting.
They claimed that they had 10 900 men in the
field this summer, and that they will bring
5000 more warriors to fight next year. Many
Indians now at the agencies will Join them ia
the spring.
Sitting Bull with 100 lodges, they say, is on
the Little Missouri, where most of the Indians
that fought Custer are now within two days
march Of Little Horn. They say Black Moon,
Crazy Horse and Lone Horn are greater chiefs
tHdu OittiuR Dull, VINO Is Ouiy Qua VI many.
They say that the Cneyennes Ogallalas, Sans
Arcs and Brues were greater in number in the
battle than Sitting Bulls tribe The agent at
Fort Peck sent these men back with message
to Sitting Bull to &C me in and he would treat
him we'll. The agency Indians say that when
hostile Indians come in the agent shakes
hands with them and fetes them, and it makes
them feel sorry that they are not hostile, be-
cause then they would be treated much BETTER
The Indians that come in do not tell the truth,
but the whites believe all they say and tell
them the truth, and they go back to the hostile
Indians and report all that is going on and
what the whites propose to do.
Long DOG remained at the agency over night.
He was offered robe to sleep on, but rejected
it with scorn, and insisted on sleeping 10 bed
with the white chief. but was finally pacified,
and slept on the floor with blanket
Inkpaduty and he were there at the same
time. They claimed to be strangers to each
other, but they moved out at the same time
| and united their forces within sight of the
| agency.
| In their hasty flight from Terry they aban-
doned their tepees, robes, &c, and much suffer-
| ing resulted, several children dying from
| exposure.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-02
THE WEST INDIES.
DestructIve Hurricane nj Porto Ri
The shore Sirewn with Wrecks.

DesiructIve Hurricane at Porto Rico
The shore sirewn with Wrecks.
NEW YORK, Sept 30.-The American Consul
at San Juan, Porto Rico, reports hurricane
on that island the 18th, which destroyed all
Geographic communication with the interior.
1t blew down all the houses in the immediate
vicinity of that city and all the bridges were
carrier away by the foud, and the coffee, sugar
and rice crops entirely ruined. The American
schooner William Byron was wrecked in San
Juan harbor. but her crew were saved. Eight
native cnasting vessels were also wrecked and
several lives lost The coast from Aricibo to
Aguadilla is strewn with wrecks, none of them
American The brig Valencia of Boston was
wrecked at Waguabo but the crew were saved
The brig George Latimer was also lost, but
crew saved. Fr,m Abaco to FajardO every
building has suffered.
A st. Thomas letter, dated the 18th, saws
that town suffered considerably, but no lives
were lost. The brig Veteran, from Buenos
Ayres for ROTTERDAM, which put into St.
Thomas to repair. was totally wrecked in the
harbor; crew saved. The American bark
Idella Berry is missing. and the body of Capt.
Turner was found floating in the harbor. The
brig Shesta, with cargo of rice from Boston,
is ashore, but not seriously damaged. The
hurricane did great damage at st. Croix to
buildings. etc. At Porto Rico city % vessel,
are reported ashore; five were total wrecks and
II badly injured. Five lives were Host there.
At st. kits five vessels were driven ashore, but
no lives lost
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-02
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Dissolution of Copartnership.

The firm Of Cummings, Leavitt & Widber
was dissolved September 1, 1876, Thomas F.
Cummings retiring from the firm.
THOMAS F. CUMMINGS,
JAMES A. LEAVITT,
FRANCIS H. WIDBER,
HENRY E. BACON.
The business will be conducted by the remaining
partners, the name and style of the firm 1emain-
ing unchanged, who alone are authorized to sign the
firm name in liquidation.
oct2 sndtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-02
MARRIED.
eod&w1w

In Bridgton, Sept. %, John Lundie and Mrs. Abb
gail Burnell. = -
In Bridgton, Sept. 20, Geo. W. Holland and Miss
Annie A. Gilman.
In Bath. Sept. %. c. Edward Osborn and Miss Ella
j. Newcomb
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FOREIGN PORTS.

Sid FIN Melbourne July 20, barque W A Ho,comb,
Dunton. Vancouver's Island.
Ar at OtagO Aug 15 barQue Ada Wiswell, Wiswel1,
New York tor Dunedin.
Sid I'm Adelaide NJ. Aug 18th, barqus Augustine
Kobbe, Carver United XIII dom.
Ar at Calcutta Sept 20, ship Friedlander, Morri-
son, Liverpool.
ar at Palermo Sept -, barque Homeward Bound
Sid fm Liverpool Sept 29. barque Halcyon, Hardie,
United States: Kate harding, Watts do
Al; Ar at I Dublin Sept 49, brig R stockwel, Cum
Philadelphia.
Sid I'm Buenos Ayres Aug 10. sch Geo Jordan,
At Bahia Aug 27, ship Intrepid, Simmons discharg-
ing for repairs
Ar at CalIao Aug %, ship Andrew johnson, Speed,
Liverpool for San Francisco.
Sld TIM Honolulu Aug "a, baraue Jane A Falkin-
burg Hubbard, Portland, o; Camden, Robinson,
SID FIN Rio Janeiro Aug 10, barque Helen Angler.
Staples, Batavia.
ham, Genu from Rio Grande for -, Ieaky.
Ga at Quebec 26th, ship Mt Pleasant Brown, Lv-
Ar at Halifax 9th, sch K Kane, Joy, Labrador,
(and cid for Boston,
Ar at st John NB. 9th, schs Lorne, Flower, and
At St Pierre Sept y. brig Adelaide Slower. from
Portland, unc; sch Post Post, from New York. at
Ar at Halifax Goth, sch Doane, New York.
~, Ar at St John. NIB, 18th. scbs Quody, Young, and
W Mailer, Buckman, New York.
--latest by European steamers !
Sid fm Liverpool nth, Eva May, Andrews, for
Demarara.
Sid 18th. Undaunted, Dinsmore, New York; Jane
Fish, Brown. Tybee
"A, Ar at Cardiff Sept 16, Hattie Tapley, Smith, fm
Hamburg
AZ at Falmouth 18th, Thos Pilsbury, Pitcher, from
Santa Anna
Ar at Constantinople Sept 0, Robt Palmer Denni-
son, New York for Togaprog
AT az Palermo 18th. July Haskell, Marsha.
Sid I'm Hamburg 14th, Ella Thayer, Gilmore, New
Orleans.
SPOKEN.
Aug IA. lat s, Ion % w. ship Fleetwing, fm New
York for Java.
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R0 k KIN

Aug A. lat s, Ion % w, ship Fleetwing, fm New
York for Java.
Sept q, lat SO Is. Ion "a 40, brig Colson, from
Boston for Port au Prince,
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Brink statement.
NEW YORK, Sept 30.-The following is the wee XII,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-02

The Standards despatch from .IDeligrad
states that the Servians have furiously attacked
the Turks and been again repulsed with loss
OF l5OO men. Another battle is imminent
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-02
LATIN ER'S
$50 Congress Street.

The public are sincerely requested to examine
these goods, which have been consigned to US, and
have to be sold at once. This is rare chance which
occurs not every day. sept4eod3m
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Ar at Pctou 3o,h, brig Lie Houghton, Rose, from
Cadiz, IN ballast.
Ar at Genoa 25th, sch Veto, Henderson, Phila-
delphia.
Ar at Cadlz Sept %, brig Giles LoIing, Anderson,
New York.
Passed Beachy Head goth, baroue Lizzie Merry.
Keazer, from Antwerp for New York.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
Views Of Senator Edmunds.

Senator Ednunds was one of small
group of Republicans at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel last evening, and expressed himself
as very hopeful Of the result. lie eaid to q
Tribune reporter that unless the Repub.
licans were cheated out of an honest count
in the States yet to be heard from, he be-
leved Hayes was elected by from one to
ernor Hayes be elected by the vote of either
of the three States-South Carolina, Florida
or Louisiana-he had no doubt that there
would be q great outcry from the Demo
Gratis about fraud, violence, "bayonet rule"
etc., and that the question might take se.
rieus turn when the vote was counted in
Congress this winter. The Democratic
House, led ON by the Southern men, might
threaten some revolutionary step to have
the vote of one of these States thrown out.
There was, hewever, no way in which the
House could reject the vote of any State.
The right to throw out the vote of State,
upon objection being made to counting it,
was taken away by the repeal OF the twenty.
second Joint rule, which the Senate refused
to renew previous to adjournment last win
ter. The electoral vote would now have to
be announced by the President of the SEN
ate, according to the constitutional enact
ment, and he had no power to throw out the
vote of any State, being compelled to ac-
cept the certified return of the Governor Of
the State without question. Neither the
Senate nor the House could in anyway in
terfere with vote thus properly certified, !,
and some authorities held that there could
be no appeal in case of any question arising
as to the legality of vote, even to the
courts. Mr.. Edmunds said that he himself
was of the opinion, however, that the courts
had the right to pass upon an electoral vote
in case of contest.-Ne,v York Tribune.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
Close Elections.

The closeness of the election this year has
it's historic parallels. John Adams was
elected in 1897 by three votes. He received
II while Mr.. Jefferson had 68. And one of
Mr.. Adams electoral votes came from Ma
ryland, and received q majority OF only
four. In 1901 Jefferson had 73 votes while
Adams got only Is. A change of2O electoral
votes in 1872 would have elected De Witt
Clinton instead of re-electing Madison. Van
Buren, would have been defeated in 1886
had 5000 votes changed sides i'll Pennsyl-
vania, and q change of between 5000 and
5000 votes in Maine, New York, New Jer-
sew and Pennsylvania would have prevent.
ed the election of Harrison in 1S4O. The 36
electoral votes of New York elected Polk in
1874, and the Democratic majority In New
York was only about 5000. The change Of
10 electoral votes in 1848 would have elected
Cass over Taylor, and several of the States
gave very small majorities. Marcus Morton
was chosen Governor of Massachusetts
some forty years ago by . majority OF one
vote, and there have been several instances
in which State elections have hinged on less
than 100 votes.
1t is provoking to come within q hairs
breadth of hitting the mark, and scarcely
less go to come within q hairs breadth of
missing it. The one party is never recon-
ciled to it's defeat, and the other never
thoroughly enjoys . victory gained by the
skin of it's teeth.-Nesc York Graphic.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
A De6nitiOn.

"James," said father to his young eop,
"whst is the meaning of the words univer-
ssl srffrage?" The little one thought for .
while and answered, "The right that citi-
zen has to cast his vote and have it counted
out by q Radical Returning Board."-Pco-
yune.
Truly Q juvenile answer. If tho boy had
answered that universal suffrage in Louis
lana means the right of . few dozen armed
men to cast or control the votes Of the
whole parish, he would have been pretty
nearly right. For We have seen that in
West Felicians the polls have been sur
rounded by young men," note book in
hand, taking down the names of all negroes
who voted ths Republican ticket. and
threatening them with visit in day or two
after the election. By the time nearly every
negro voter had been frightened off, in one
parish, ex. Governor Wickliffe appeared and
prevailed upon the young men to cease this
open intimidation, and, as the report goes,
there was no more of it. Neither was there
any occasion for its exercise. The negroes
had already gone home, not to return. and
Governor Wickliffe's sense Of fairness did
not extend to sending after them to tell
them they were free to come back and vote
as they thought proper, without being
spotted. Had he done this he could lay
some claim to having done very creditable
action.
Perhaps James," whose definition the
Pcayune quotes, is not familiar with the
ideas of universal suffrage" which pre-
vailed in some Of the country parishes.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
Fair Elections.

On the question of fair elections in the
doubtful States, the Cincinnati Commercial
says:
We take it that there is just as little
doubt that the votes Of Louisiana and
South Carolina, if cast for Hayes, will be
legally cast for him, as that the votes of
Mississippi and Alabama will be legally
cast for Tilden. There will be disturb
ance about Louisiana. but the. State govern
ment of that State, whatever else it is, Is
the legal and only government. There
will be contention over South Carolina, but
there has been fair election in that State
The United States troops are there at the
call of the Governor, and have not mo-
Tested anybody. Whatever may be charged
as to the policy of sending the troops to
that State their S record h has been above
npon which to dispute the validity of q
State election to allege that the presence of
troops at the call Of the Governor had pre-
vented armed mobs from interfering with
the exercise Of the right Of suffrage by
peaceable citizens.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
Duke Gwiu.


A New York special to the Chicago Iri-
bune, November Q, says:
In the way of sensation the Tribune to-
morrow gives the statement of gentle
man long and intimately connected with
the Tilden movement, that the real organ
izsr of Tildens campaign for the Presi-
dency was not Tilden himself, but man
who has only once appeared on the surface
in the course of the struggle of two years
during which Mr.. Tilden has been saffer-
ing from the Presidential fever. This was
OK. Senator William NJ. Gwin, of California,
familiarly known es "Duke'' Gwin from
his connection with the movement of Maxi
milan in Mexico. "Duke" Gwin, while
Senator in Congress from California, be.
fore the rebellion, was we'll known as
rampant eeceesionist, and was more than
once under arrest for treason. he joined
the secession movement, and was at times
prominent in the diplomatic movements OF
the Confederates. After the conclusion OF
the war he fled to Mexico for safety. He
has never lost any of his bitterness Of feel
ing, and is to-day as great rebel as ever:
1t was asserted that the first suggestion OF
running for the Presidency was made to Til.
den by Gwin after Tilden had been elected
Governor. The two men began to work to
that end, even before Tilden was fairly in
the executive chair. Gwin, under constant
advice and consultation with Tilden, had
been intrusted with all the important pre-
liminary operations of the campaign.
Itwas Gwin who had visited the several
Southern States and organized the united
movement in the St. Louis convention
which resulted in Tilden's nomination with
out serious opposition, except from blatant
intrusted with the employment of conf.
Dental agents, who communicated with the
various State organizations. All the details
of canvassing the settlements of voters in
the various States, and particularly in this
State and city, were reported through
Gwin to Tilden. All the money passed
through Gwin's hands. Of course Tilden
never consented to pay any money during
the movement. If Gwin, it was added by
the narrator, were to toll all he knew about
the organization of the movement of q
united South to elect an old Buchanan 60
cessionist to the presidency, it would Ger
tainly startle the people, il it did not in
struot the politicians.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
Tildeu, Reform and Fraud.

We shall hear doubtless during to-day, If
South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida have
declared for Hayes, that they have declared
for him by fraud. But this declaration
should be made in low whispers. Not one
eingle Southern State has Samuel j. Tilden
carried in the late election that has not
been carried by fraud, excepting Della ware.
Maryland, Virginia, West Virgipis, Geor-
gia and Kentucky. He has carried no
Northern State fairly. Indiana went for
him by repeaters in October. and again in
November. Connecticut, New York and
New Jersey all took the same course BY the
same influences. And when tho general
government, under the great enforcement
sct, protected three or four Southern States
by means of the army, it effected two OBJ
jscts-one of duty and the other of retribu-
tion. If Governor Hayes has been chosen
President it is an act of Justice to the loyal
men of the North and Of rescue to the mis-
taken men of the South. 1t will secure to
the first free ingress and free thought, free
oniniop. free educs}ion and free press, and
Il will teach the latter that the best friends
of the South are the generous and enliRht-
ened people of tho old free States.-khs9a-
delpMa Press.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
More Arrivals.

The following named gentlemen arrived
yesterday and are stopping at the St.
Charles Hotel:
Joseph II. Maddox, Baltimore; G. w.
Bingham. St. Louis; II. w. Graves, New
York; Governor j. Lee Carroll, Maryland;
p. II. Watson, Ohio; j. B. Mccormick, Gin
cinnati Enquirer; F. ID. Mussey, Cincinnati
Times; H. v. Redfield, Cincinnati CONNER
cial; c. w. Woclly, Cincinnati; Professor
w. G. Sumner, New Haven, Connecticut;
w. II. Gano, Illinois; M. j. Whaling, Chi
cage, Illinois; Hon. James A. Garfield,
Ohio; z l.. White, Of the New York Tribune;
Edward George Phelps, New Albany, In
diana; John D. Bangert and John Diamond,
Philsdelphia; General Galusha Pennypack-
or, United States army.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
Personal.

We had the pleasure of . call yesterday
from two newspaper men of Cincinnati,
who are here in the interests of their re-
spective journals. F. D. Mussey, Of the
Times, is an old acquaintance, having spent
some weeks here in 1872. His letters at the
time attracted good deal of attention and
comment. But time at last fully proved
his facts and figures, and vindicated his
judgment and ssgacity. Mr.. H.. V. Red
field, of the Commercial, is pretty we'll
known throughout the South for his oorre-
spoudence, especially in Mississippi. He
went last year to that State with the Bout
we'll committee, and gave the readers of
the Commercial an insight into Mississippi
life which most of them had probably never
before had.
Colonel George w. Carter, who has taken
an active part in the canvass in the North,
arrived here on Monday night.
Chief Justice j. T. Ludeling is in town,
stopping at the St. Charles Hotel.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
ORLEANS NOVEMBER
tuition becomes impossible, would there b
anV romody9

tuition becomes impossible, would there be
any remedy9
Answer-I do not admit tho probability,
scarcely the possibility, Of such contia-
gency. If it occurs it is without any spe-
cifo provision in the constitution. In that
event it would. in my opinion, be the right
and duty of President Grant to summon
Immediately the new Congress, and it
would be the duty of the new Congress to
devise remedy which, if not in literal CON-
formity with any provision Of the constitu-
ton, yet should observe its spirit and ap-
proximate as nearly as possible to its letter.
There is q law higher than all written con-
stitutions: It is the law of eelf-existence,
and that would be the law incumbent uuon
the two houses Of Congress.-New York
Herald.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
BE JUST AND FEAR NOT
LET THE RETURNING BOARD DO ITS DUTY
BRIsrOw TO KELLOGG

In answer to an invitation to be present
and witness the canvass of the votes by the
Returning Board, ex-Secretafy Bristow has
telegraphed to Governor Kellogg, as fol-
lows.
LOUISVILLE, November IA, 1876.
Governer William P. Kellogg
thank you for the courtesy of your invi-
tation, but can not 90 to New Orleans ct
present. Let those who are charged by
law with the ascertainment of the vote of
Louisiana do their duty, under the law.
fairly and fearlestly, and the country will
sustain them, whatever the result.
b, Fl. BRISTOW.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
BY TELEGRAPH.
WASHINGTON.
Cablnee Meeting.

Cablnee Meeting.
WAsHIKGroN, November IA fall Cab
met meeting, the first time in several weeks.
At the White House.
Secretary Cameron, Senator West and
Caleb Gushing called on the President TO-
day.
Mail for Havre.
The Postofioe Department gives notice
that mail will leave New York city tho
eighteenth, per Canada, for Havre, via Ply
mouth.
Tho Resigned Postmaster.
The Postmaster General has receive the
resignation of H. N. Sollace, postmaster at
Bridgeport, Vermont, elected presidential
eloct0r.