Ellsworth American., 1876-11-30
The Three States.
The Outlook In South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana.

| Tbe OotuoOk II south Carolina, Florida auf
Ioui.iaua.
A Columbia. South Carolina, dispatch &c
the Tribune says =
| There Is intense excitement here i'm an.
ticipation OF the meeting of the South Caro-.
limo Legislature to-day, (Tuesday). The
! republicans have sixty members of the
House. to fifty-iive by the democrats, but
/ the nine members from Laurens and Edge
/ field would give the latter four majority.
/ They will demand to have their ranes
called by the clerk. and win enforce the
demand if possible. More peaceably dis
/ posed democratic leaders hope to be ahIe
To prevent six OF the republican members
from appearing, and thus capture the or
ganiZation. Ii either mode gives the House
to the democrats the returns tor Governor
will be at once opened aud Hampton de-
clared elected. lie will at once appear and
take the oath OF inauguration. Il has not
been usual for the Governor to qualify un-
I'll the Thursday after the meeting of the
Legislature. but the present crisis probably
demands promptitude IN all parties. The
Senate has five republican majority, leav-
Ing out the two senators from Laurens aud
Edgetield. or three majority including
these"
The democrats at Washington saw that
the republican programme Is to eject the
nine members from Edgefied and Laureus,
By force, II they refuse To leave the House.
The indications are that the Senate will
promptly make a republican organization.
and that in any even, there will be bnt one
Senate, controlled by republicans. 4, the
first the democrats will seek 10 control the
House then. If they failthcir members will
retire, and n second House will be formed
The New York Times despatch from
Florida. says
1T has been noticed th,t the returns
ftom several of the largest dr,noci attic
counties have not yet been sent Ia. There
II TO dpubt-indecd. il can and will bc
proved beyond All qucsrion-that they are
being purp">c!y Kept back Tor fraudulent
purposes. Happily. thcir Programme j.
understood aud wiil hr defeated \utwiih-
s'audIu. al their irAudS. Coy. !lalcs has
4 majority OF n least tour hundred vote.
which Will appear without throwing uui
dI>lric; or chau2in. 4 vote. \otwiihsiand-
ing thi-. however. the work o. detect ~
aud demonstrating democratic frauds VIII
be carried actively forward until the close
Of the canvass. and this mAj1i'y will be
increased Al least thrcc-f fold
The New York Tribune, Louisiana di,-
patch says
The public sessions OF tie Returning
Board will probably close Oh Thursday or
Friday next In the mean time counsel
tor the candidates on both side, viii be- r,.-
qured To put ia ali evidence tending to
show that the election vas free and fair
.,t AZ ga. b..f s..
timidatiOn. Then the doors will be- closed
even to the visiting committee, from the
North. and the Board will proceed TO pas,
judgment IN secret session ou the returits
from about forty parishes sllrc'rl by pro-
tests 81 ,..." -. ai iu.u.l... 81 90 t>. ls-,>
By those OF Republicans"
The TFibune's New Orleans correspond
eut. which has all along been disposed to
make light of reports OF oatrases IN Loui.
siana, now rlegraph> to that paper
The Republicans have collected a great
mass OF testimony within Ia" past Icw DAYS
showing deplorAblr condition OF aifArs
Ia ali the bull -dozedp parishes. That ihcrchaS
been great law wlcs>nr>- IN al these part.ht,
within the pns' wear j. 40 longer doubted
Il has shown itself in mAi.Y ca>c- Of a>>a>.i.
nation. midnight murder aud other oilen>,s
OF les or creator gravity. Tae only question
al issue l. the cause and object oi IT, r.
punlican- say that tha, the ohi-c, i poiit-
icai; democrat, say that IL wa> not. In
some cA,cs there viii bc no question IS.
tor example. where a rsAu was shot while
carr inG baii"t-b"X to the polling place
some aililavits dcscribc murders A. hor-
rlble a. any pcrpcirttvd by the ku- kmx
between lSGs aud ISL. II th'y are ,uh.
- d . t-tF. an q.
greatly shock the north and de .irov the
sympathy which has been very generally
felt Tor ths unfortunate portion OF the
Sonih A community that viii tolerate
such onlrAses has no fish, To expect SYM
pAihy.
The Tribune correspondent SAYS that the
proceeding, of the board have been lair
thtS far. In reference To report tele-
graphed North on Monday .iniima;ing that
the board had beer guilty Of tamperlng
With returns. the CORES poudrut SAYS that
the board j. not Implicated at all. II any
body j., 1t j. either the local supervisor or
Secretary of State The CORE. .poudeut
say tina, nobody atlrge, that the returns
hsve been changed. IL j. simply alleged
that the teiturn OF DE- soto was not made
at The time it should have been, aud un AT.
iida'It OF the local supe visor. 10 VIOLENCE
aud intimidation In his PARISH, dated at
New Orleans two weeks after election was
inclostd with the returns which purport to
have been received at the Office OF the Sec
Rotary of State a week before
El.. "a . ~.
returns come In uusealed, and that several
affi layits of intimidation. which ought TO
have been sealed up with the returns at
the time of election. nave since been for
wardcd Ia the Secretary Of State and in
closed with the returns Even Tue Demo
crats admit that no; a single ii.Irc in soy
return has been changed Th> T. the whole
of the great fraud telceraphed north