The Morning herald., 1876-12-05
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

agreed not to elect President pro tenn unit
later in the session.
The representatives from Colorado il
Congress were IN their seats yesterday.
Professor Thomas T. Mansgeld, musician
and journalist, died at Meridian, Connecti-
cut, yesterday.
The State House at Columbia, South
Carolina was taken possession of yesterday
by one hundred special constables appointed
by Chamberlain to eject Democratic mem
bera. To prevent bloodsbed, or disturbance
the Democrats adjourned to Carolina Hall
The Presidents message will not be
delivered to Congress before Thursday.
There will be no committees appointed by
Congress to go South in relation to the
elections.
The speech of Hon. Samuel Randall in
taking his seat yesterday as Speaker of the
House, was vigorous in expressions upon
the duties of the hour. He referred in q
touching manner to the late NJ. G. Kerr.
The steamship City of Richmond arrived
at New York yesterday from Liverpool,
bringing over $149, 900 in gold coin.
Secretary Fish does not seem reconciled
yet to the action of the President in regard
to South Carolina, and it is thought in
Washington that 1t will cause a split in the
Cabinet.
Senator Edmunds yesterday offered re-
solution instructing the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections to inquire whether in
the States of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi,
South Carolina and Louisiana in the years
1875 or 1876 the rights of any Of the citizens
to vote were in any way denied or abridged
The President denies that he stated in his
interview with Mr.. Hewitt that there was
no election in Louisiana, and the vote ofthat
State should be thrown out. Mr.. Hewitt
does not make anv denial of the statement.
In the Senate, yesterday, Samuel Price Of
West Virginia, who succeeds to the seat Of
Hon. A. T. Caperton, deceased, was sworn
in; Mr.. Blaine, who succeeds Secretary
Morrill,, in the Senate, was also sworn in,
and the credentials of election of Jerome B.
Chaffee and Henry NJ. Teller, as United
States Senators from Colorado were laid
before the Senate by the chair.
Tomorrow the Presidential electors must
meet if the respective State Capitals to
vote by ballot for President and Vice Presi-
dent. This is imperative. After this duty
is discharged, they must then make and
severally sign three certificates of all the
votes given by them, each of which certifi-
Gates shall contain two separate lists OF
their votes for President and Vice Presi-
dent, TO which certificates must be attached
official lists OF the electors, furnished by the
Executive of the State; one list to be sent
by special messenger to the President of the
Senate, one to the same officer by mail, and
one to be delivered to the President Judge
of the judicial district In which the electors
have met.
The death of Samuel Cooper, late Adju-
tant and Inspector General Of the Confed-
crate army, in the seventy-eighth year OF
his age, is announced from Cameron Fairfax
county, Virginia. He was born in New
York in 179S, and was graduated at West
Point in 1915, He served in the Florida war
with considerable distinction, and was
breyetted in the Mexican war TO colonel for
bravery, and in 1852 was made Adjutant
General of the United States Army, under
General Scott. At the breaking out of the
late civil war be enlisted with the Southern
army, his sympathies with the South being
induced by his marriage with lady of Vir-
einia. He was at once appointed by JEFF.
ferson Davis Adjutant and Inspector General
of the Confederate forces. He stood senior
officer in the list of generals, and to him
was due the organization of the whole Con.
federate forces.
The weather to-day is predicted to be
clear or fair
The Porte has promised to respect the
of koumania.
A cable dispatch dated Vienna states that
twenty five thousand troops have been
massed along the South.
The name of the new representative
from Maine in the House was not allowed
to be place on the roll, and was therefore
excluded from the right to vote for Speaker.
This caused Mr.. Blaine to rise in the Senate
and wish that he was not Senator for that
day.
The Meeting Of Congress.
Eron, the Y Sunday Herald.