New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-17
VOLUME x.-NO. M4
a sl>Ael Pubaic.OGea1sse.

Governor Kellogg yesterday received n
Official reesipt Of tho President Of tn
United States Senate tor sealed packsg
duly forwarded by mail. endorsed 'Th'
within contains list ,ef al the votes CAS-
by the electors Of the State Of Louisisnl
for President and Vice President Of th'
United States" On the eventful fourteenth
of Rebruary next, when the Presideat o
the United States Senate will proceed 4
opeu, count and declare, In the presence o
the two houses Of Congress, tho votes fo'
President and Vice President Of the Unitet
States, it will probably be found that thu
certificate Of the vote Of Loaisisns vii
compare fsvorably with that Of any othel
State in point of style and cleazness. First
comes the commission Of the Governor
elegantly printed upon parchment paper
and readingAs follows:
Tus UNITED erArEs OF AHRRIcA. }
State Of Iouisiana. kxecutiye Department.
New Orleans, December 6, 1876
1. william Pitt Kellogg, Governor of the
State of Louisiana, hereby certify. pursu.
sn, to the laws Of the United States, that
1T 4 general election duly held in accord
auce with law, in the State of Louisiana, on
Tuesday, the seventh day Of November,
President of the United States, the follow
in6 named persons were duly chosen and
appointed Electors of President and Vice
Presiden Of the United States, for the State
of Louisiana:
william p. Kellogg for the State at large.
J. Henri Burch, for the State ct large.
Peter Joseph, tor the first congressional
Lionel A: Sheldon. 6r the second con.
Rressional district. j..
% x.ssa B. L.visss, for the fourth congress
Orlando 81. Brewster, for the fifth CON-
greseional district. alf.
Osesr;J r;JodrioD, for the sixth congressional
district. c<s sH g
IN testimony whereof. l have hereante
affixed my aignature and caused tho 'eeAl OF
tho State 70 8 attached, at the city Of New
Orleans, thh sixth day Of December, ~ tho
drea and seventy. six, and In the yeor Of
the Independence Of tho United States Of
America the ono hundrod and first. re
-'-7-.'-,-| Wk. r. KELLOGG.
By the Governor: a.f.-as,E s-7r
p. G.. OESLOND8, s--z e-rFr
80, Secretary Of HtAto.
Next follows the certificate Of election,
similarly printed Ind signed BY each Of the
eight presidential electors above named,
reading q follows: saiseyf
TIM UNITED pErAr.s o. AnzR,cA,
res$H > H0s State Of Louisiana. }
State House. Hew Ofaeaas, December &, ls70.J
We, the electors of President and Vice
President of the United States for the State
of Louisiana, do hereby certify that on this
the sixth day of December, in the year Of
our Lord eighteen hundred and soventy-six.
We proceeded to vote BY ballot for Presi.
dent of the United States; that Rutherford
b Hayes, OF the State of Ohio, received
eight. votes for President Of the United
States, being all the votes cast. And that
We then Immediately proceeded te-vote BY
ballot for Vice President OF the United
States, whereupOn William A. Wheeler, Of
the State of New York, received eight votes
for Vice President OF the United States,
being all the votes cast.
In testimony whereof, We, said electors,
have bereunto signed our names on this the
first Wednesday, being the sixth day OF
December. in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and seventy six, and of the inde-
pendence of the United States the ono hun
dred and first.
sA~O
Electoral College, reciting fully how they
met 1T the State House, the place deaig-
mated BY law, ct noon On tho day named
and found two of their number absent,
namely, a. B. Levisee, of tho fourth con-
gressional DISTRICT, and O. 81. Brewster, of
the fifth congressional district; how they
organised and took recess till $50 P. NJ;
how they then reassembled, and waited till
4P. n, whom, finding Messrs. Levisee and
Brewster still absent, they proceeded under
tho law Of tho State (which 10 quoted at
lengthy to All tho vacancies thus caused
eleeting sach of these gentlemen to I'LL his
own vacancy; how subsequently these gen-
tlemen being sent for made their appear
anoe and acted - electors, and how the
votes were cast 20 above recited.
To this process verbal, which 10 signed BY
al the electors, is appended the certificate
of the Secretary of State that the law
quoted under which the college filed the
two vacancies is still in full force and unre-
pesled. The whole record IL closed with .
certificate Of the Secretary of STATE that
the eight electors above named were duly
'elected, chosen and appointed electors for
President and Vice President of the United
Statee, as appears from the returns Of said
election now on tile in my office, and which
have been duly promulgated accord
ing to law by the legal returning
officers of the State" and further
..that the names appended to the certifi'
Gates of votes cast for President of the
United States and Vice President Ct the
United States ON Wednesday, the sixth dsy
of Dece nber, A. d. 1876, and to the pr"ces
verbal Of the proceedings Of sail electors,
accompanying said certificate, ere the true
and proper signatures Of the before men
toned persons elected, chosen and appoint
ed electors of President and Vice President
of the United States for the State OF Louis
lama"
The whole record is bound together
With blue ribbon eyeleted through
every page, and tho ends secured under ths
srest seal of State, which is attached to ths
final certificate of the Secretary of Ststs
"Rast bind, fast and."
An exact duPlicate Of this record va
some dave since fled with Hon. E. G. Bill
lings, Judge Of tho United States Distrie'
Court OF this district. General T. c. An
derson viz leave in . day or two to serve
third copy personally on the President o.
the United States Senate.
Seven hundred horses and velocipedes at
Levy's.
The TempoFasuros
The thermometer at Louis FrigeriO'e, No.