The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-25
HERE'S YOUR TANGLE.
IND SOME FACTS THAT TANGLE
1T WORSE.
The Count in Louisiana.
AND THE COURTS In SOUTH CAEglINA
AND FLORIDA.
south Carolina.

special from Columbia, s. o., says it is
anticipated that if the Board of Canvass
ers and United States District Attorney
Corbin are committed to Jail to-day for
contempt, Judge Bond, OF the United
States Circuit Court, will release them
on writ OF habeas corpus, and should
this be done the Supreme Court will
surely rearrest and recommit them. If
this operation continues the posse CON-
mitatus will be called out on the one
side, and perhaps United States troops
on the other. 1t is rumored that the
State-house Will be taken possession OF
Monday by United States troops, but
the report can not be traced to any
authentic source.
COLUMBIA, s. O., Nov. 25.-The Su-
preme Court, after refusing to grant any
further time for the Board Of State Can
vassers to answer why an attachment
should not issued against them, Is
sued an order to the Board that unless
the Board of Canvassers met by 0 O'Clock
this morning and resumed its functions
under the supervision OF the Court the
members Of the Board would then be
arrested and placed in jail.
COLUMBIA, Nov. 25-2 P. M.-The Su-
preme Court has just entered judg-
ment and committed all members of the
Board to Jail until released by order Of
the Court.
The case OF United States District
Attorney Corbin, counsel for the Board,
is now being heard on the charge OF con-
tempt. There is great excitement.
Florida.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-The Herald spe-
ciaI from Tallahassee, Florida, says the
decision Of the Court ON the application
for an injunction against Gov. Stearns
and mandamus compelling the Board
of Canvassers to commence counting the
votes will be rendered probably to-day.
and almost certainly in favor of the
Democrats. 1t is said an appeal will
then be made by the Republicans to the
Supreme Court. Two members of the
Supreme Court have arrived in the city.
The Democrats are In receipt of scores
of telegrams from all parts Of the North
and West urging them to stand firm,
and declaring they shall be backed to
the very utmost. The West especially
seems to be excited.
Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 25.--The complete
official returns received elect ten DEM
cratic Congressmen-a full delegation.
Total. votes cast, 25S, $50. Tilden re-
ceived 16O, O,445; Hayes, 9S,415. In 1875
Harlan, Republican, received 90,795;
McCreary, 126,976. The Democratic
gain is 33,469, and Tilden's major
ity $1,000.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 25-After a good
deal of preliminary business, among
which was the refusal to acceed to the
request of the special correspondents to
be present at the meetings, the board
took up returns from three contested
Baton Rouge, st. Tam
many and lberia--were taken. East
Baton Rouge has seventeen voting
places, but the returns, when opened,
were from only seven. The law requires
the Commissioners at each polling
place, within twent! -iour hours after the
close of the polls, TO make return OF the
votes cast to the Supervisor of Regis
tration of the parish, who, within twen-
ty-four hours after receipt of the returns
from the polling places, is required to
consolidate such returns, to be certified
as correct by the Clerk of the District
Court, and forward the consolidated re-
turns, with the originals received by
him, by mail to the State Returning
Board. Statements OF violence or in
are required to be attached to, and for
warded with, the consolidated returns. |
East Baton Rouge is twelve hours dis. |
tant from New Orleans. The returns
from that parish were not sent by mail,
and were not filed with the Returning
Board till November %. Many OF the |
affidavits accompanying the same, ,charg-
ing intimidation, were sworn to in New |
Orleans, some Of them as late as No |
vember %.
The total vote Of the parish, as ascer-
tained from returns of the Commission. |
ers at the polling places, was 2, 2,239 tor |
rilden and 1925 for Hayes; but the Su-
pervisor Of Registration, by consoli.
dating returns from only seven polling |
places, leaving out the other seven, and |
uniting to send up the original returns
rom some, makes return of only l, 1O2 |
Ior Tilden and lat for Hayes. Atti-
1avits have been filed stating that the
Supervisor in this parish, and in every |
,ther parish in the State, is a Republ- |
Jan; that returns from fourteen parishes
ire still missing; that several OF the |
Missing returns were and had been In
he city of New Orleans for days, in the
lands of persons who were not Super
'lsors.
Till the return from East Baton Rouge
vas opened it was not known to the
Democrats what atfidavits accompanied
t or the returns from what polling
places were rejected. The Democrats
bitterly OF the action of the
Board and Supervisors in regard to this
,arlsh. After much discussion the re-
urns Of East Baton Rouge were laid
side.
The only parish finished was St. Mar