Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-12-30

COLUMBIA, December 29.-Dispatches say
the results arrived at by the investigation of
the accountants employed by the house COM
mittee TO examine the election returns give
the Hayes electors an average of six hundred
majority. While the committee dId not 90
into 4 formal investigation Of the vote for
St&te officers, they were obliged to do so incl
dentally IN investigating the electoral votes,
and members Of the committee say Hampton
and his State officers were elected by malori-
ties ranging from eleven hundred downward
The statement is not officially announced,
however.
with Governors Tilden and Hayes.
COLUMBUS, o., December 29.-Judge t. J..
Mackey, OF South Carolina, is here as bearer
OF letter iro1r General Wade Hampton to
G0Yernor Payes. The letter il as follows:
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
COLUMBIA, December %, 1876.
Ny DEAR SgR-I lave the honor to inciose
a copy of rly inaugural as the duly elected
governor OF South Carolina In view of cur
rent events, and the Official sanction given to
gross misrepresentation Of the acts and pur-
poses Of tie majority of the good people of
this commonwealth, deem II proper to de-
clare that profound peace prevails throughout
this State, that the course of judicial pro-
citizens thereof. and that the laws for the
protection of its inhabitants in all Of their
rights OF person, property and citizenship are
being enforced In our courts. While the peo-
pie Of this State are not wanting either in the
spirit or means to maintain their rights of
citizenship against the usnrped power which
now oefies the supreme Judicial authority of
the State, they have such faith in the justice
of their cause that they propose to leave Its
vIndicatl0n to the proper legal tribunals, APP
pealing at the same time to the patriotism and
public sentiment Of the whole country. The
infiammatory utterances of a portion of the
public press render 1t perhaps not moppor-
tune for me to state that, although the peo-
pie IN South Carolina view with grave con-
cern the present critical conjuncture In the
affairs of our country which threatens to sub
!ject to an extreme test the republican system
of government ITSELF it is their firm and de-
hberate purpose to condemn any solution of
the existing political problems that involves
the exhibition of armed force or that move
through any otherchannel than the prescribed
form of the constitution or peaceful agencies
of law. Trusting that solution may be had
which, while maintaining the peace OF the
country, shall do no violence to the Constltu
honal Safeguards of popular rights ana
viii tend stlll more firmly to unite the people
serve the peace and TO sustain the laws and
the constitution. am your o5edient servant,
WADE HAMPTON. Governor South Carolina,
To his Exctll llencS r. B. Hayes, Governor Of Ohio.
?. .S.-As the settlement of the vexed poll
teal questions which now agitate the public
mind must ultimately depend on yourself or
upon your distinguished competitor for the
Presidency, have addressed letter similar
to this TO his exoeleney Governor hlden.
Yours, WADE HAMPTON.
As the New York Times Correspondent
Would say.
COLUMBIA, December 29.-Messrs. Sayler,
Abbott and Lawrence. the sub-congressional
committee completed their work here to-day.
Their report from the returns as submitted
gives the State to Hayes and Wheeler by
about seven hundred majority, but shows
Hampton and the entire Democratic State
ticket elected by much larger majority.
This committee leaves for Charleston tonight
to Join the subcommittee there, and will
probably leave for Washington Monday.
District-Atorney Corbm for the Hayes
electors Withdrew from the gao iedrrGato pro-
ceedings In the sup'eme court to-day, on the
ground that the court had no jurisdiction.