Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-12-06

| NEW ORLEANS, December s. The returning
board will not complete their work till this even
ing, but it is generally supposed they have found
violence and intimidation existing in eight or ten
parishes, and that declaring the election void in
these parishes, (as the law requires), Hayes has
over 1000 majority.
Senator West says there can be no doubt that
Hayes has clean majority of legal votes; and
that the evidence on which the bull-doSed parishes
are thrown out, will satisfy all reasonable men in
the country that right and justice triumphed
The declaration of the returning board gives
me lowest Hayes clector 3i37 majority, aud the
highest 1867.
1t i understood that the entire republican State
tcket is elected by $500 aad that they have q
good majority in the legislature.
At $50 o'clock this afternoon the Secretary CT
state personally served the following notification
State of Louisiana,
Office of the Secretary of State,
New Orleans, Dec. 5, 1876.
Ia i. &. Deslonde, Secretary of State for the
State Of Louisiana, do hereby certify that the re-
turning officers of the election he'll in - State
ON the Ith Of November had ie.uIu,d % ,ut us
Secretary Of State, according to law the follow
ing persons as duly elected electors of President
and Vice President of the United States for the
State of Louisiana at such election, to wit
For the State at large-Wm. L. Kellogg and
j. Henri Bunch.
For DIsrMcTs.
First-Peter Joseph. Sccond-Luivel A. Shell
den. Third-Morrls Marks. Fourth-Aaron B.
Levissee Fiflh-Orlando III. Brewster. Sixth
Oscar jefferson.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto signed
my name, and caused the seal of the State of
Louisiana to be attached, this fifth day of
December, A. ID. 1876, and of the lndepend.
ence of the United States the one hundred
and fist.
(Signed) P. G. DEsLoNDE,
Secretary of State.
An,or
of aggregate votes for Presidential electors as
certified TO by the Sec'y of State.
Owing to frands, intimidations, &C., in the
parishes of Grant, East Fecisna, i.sst Baton
Rouge, West Feciana, Monroe, DE Soto, Bas-
sler, Franklin, Claiborne and Cacasien were
wholly or in part ignored in the official count.
The rep. electoral college will meet here to-
morrow. The dem. ELECTORS will also meet and
cast their votes. They will receive certificates
from McEnery, the dem governor.
The vote for Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor was returned to the Secretary of State, the
total being as follows
For Governor, S. b. Packard "A 624, Francis T.
Nichols II 1893.
The clerks Of the returning officers had not, up
to midnight, completed their duplicate copies of
reeurns for PRONUNCIATION in the official joul nal.
The subJoned statements Of the grounds acted
upon have been obtained from the counsel of the
returning board, The returning board of the
State of Louisiana claims that first of ALL that un-
wv thc plONlslOus VI tuc law tteIt returning
officers of all the elections held in the state; that
there are in law and in fact no returns OF any
election held in said state, until first canvassed
and completed by them; that the statements fur
nlshed by the commissioner Of elections are SIM
ply statements of votes purported to have been
cast, aud that until the fairness and legality of
the voting at that poll precinct have been passed
upon by the returning officers, no validity at
tstches to any such statements.
OREGON.
WASHINGTON, December s.. The democratic
governor Of Oregon Is considering whether he
viii give certificate the republican eeCtor Watts
who was federal officer.
NEBRASKA.
The supreme court of Nebraska is hearing ar
guments to-day the motion TO resti ain the gov
ernor from certifying to the Hayes electors.
The legislature has arrived at Lincoln, and will
to-day canvass the electoral vote.
After full hearing, Judge Savage refused to
grant the injunction to restrain the republican
electors from casting their votes.