Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-08
nHE TELEGRAPH,
AsHTABULA. OHIO.
Friday Morning, Dec. 9th, 1876.

South Carolina is In" aDiullie S'~s
when it can't helpit.
The Democratic tidal wave drowned no
body but Democrats.
Cases Institute viii continue ten days
closing with a concert.
The South Carolina Legislature is Re
publican in both branches.
Gold is falling. EThe public pulse re-
spends to fair and honest count.
Beginners will have a good chance to
learn to read music at Cases Institute.
The children's class of Cases Institute
will meet at p. m. on Tuesday, Dec. u.
jefferson Davis has come home. His aP-
pearance is timely for helping along fair
count.
Whena man says ne is a gentleman he is
laboring under the impression that no one
knows it.
The older singers of the city will have
good chance to study some really classical
music at Cases Institute.
The Cory Local Ne'os ''fesrless ined-
peudent" paper, according to the Conneaut-
vile Courier, has gone up.
Our national bird scars aloft in triumph,
and challenges admiration, unawed by
frowns, threats and gnashing of teeth.
The defeated candidates have commun-
ed together. Tilden and Hendricks re-
Gently dined with Peter Cooper in New
York.
Mr.. Case will use his own church music
book-s'The Choiee''-with the adult class,
and Bliss & Sankey's Sabbath-school book,
with the children.
The Journal says the election excitement
has caused several sudden deaths in Bos-
ton. The same is true Of several Of the
Southern States-before election.
Wade Hampton and Senator Gordon en-
phstically insist that all is at peace in
Columbia. No doubt of it. That is just
what the President intended there should
be.
1t don't cost as much to attend Cases
Institute as the old-fashioned 'singing-
school" for the scholars don't have to buy
books-all it will cost them will be the tu-
ition.
Tilden, who personally conducted the
campaign which secured him one hundred
and eighty-four electoral votes, named
the Speaker Of the House of Representa-
tiEes.
The Republicans have plurality Of in
the South Carolina Senate, but at the rate
at which assassinations have recently been
going on in that State it will not take long
to thin out that number Of Republicans.
The Democrats, of the doubtful States
have been somewhat surprised to find wit
nesses against them-brought in in various
ways-gashed and mangled, upon beds
and stretehers-which they had left for
dead.
The Tilden intriguers have evidently !
given up Florida and Louisiana as hope
less, and are again concentrating their eff
forts on South Carolina, with the hope of
getting leverage that may yet change the |
electoral vote.
The Presidents course during the pend
ing troubles in the disputed States has
been one eminently worthy of his position,
and one which has extorted the admiration |
of people not very much in love with the |
President or his administration.
In Mississippi the Democrats did the
bulldozing and the counting both, and |
there is no doubt of their majority. 1t |
shows a remarkable change in State
which gave 10000 majority for Grant and
then $1,000 majority for Tilden.
Randall and Cox were, from the with
drawal of the other candidates -Saylor and |
Morrison-pitted against each other for the
speakership in the democratic CAUCUS on
the evening of the ID. Sammy was dis
tanced by ten votes-68 to 70. for Randall.
The demand for American beef in En-
glish markets is reviying, and preparations
are being made for large shipments from
New York during the coming winter
American beef is found very valuable in
the English markets for reducing the price
of the home article.
Congress assembled on Monday morning, |
and its first work was the selection of a |
Speaker. The Democrats voted en- npGsse |
for Randall, and the Republicans for Gar
field. Randall received 161 votes, and |
Garfield SO. The Presidents Message was
presented on Tuesday.
Thus according to the n. Y. Times,
the most accurate and reliable of the New
York dailies-the Democrats have 149
members elected to the 45th Congress, to
141 Republicans. There remains three to
be elected in New Hampshire. The pros
pect is, therefore, that parties will stand
145 to 149-a Democratic majority of 5.
Colorado was welcomed into the Union
under the impression that she was demo-
cratic. Now that she has gone back on
that impression, it is gravely suggested in
the Confederate House that she is not in
the Unionl It will be well enough, hereaf-
ter, in admitting new States, to have
promise to the effect that if it votes Re |
publican, the admission goes for nothing.
Gov. Bigler of Pennsylvania, though an
earnest Tilden man, is reported to have
said that he would not care for an election
to the Presidency if it was brought about
through violence and murder And yet,
we suppose the Governor can hardly be ig-
norant of the existence of such organiza-
tions as Ku Klux, White Liners, rifle clubs
and bulldozng, generally, and that Tilden
and his servitors make no objection TO
them.
The business Of lying down the existence
Of inhuman cruelties, assassination and
eold-blooded murder in various parts of
the South, which have been carried on so
actively, will require an increased earnest
ness and unblushing hsrdihoOd now, since
the sending of so many gentlemen of both
political parties to look into affairs in the |
bulldozed States. These gentlemen, Dem
ocrats to some extent, as well as Republi-
cans, will have their versions Of the start |
ling stories to tell. Mr.. Hale, one Of the /
gentlemen alluded to, has been in Louis
lana, and bears his own testimony in a
couDilad let of uinataan rnurdors oo,,,,-,;.