The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-08
The Long Missing Elector
Found III Oregon. s.
. TILDEN, 1876; $ sH FL II 1874 I /
The Returning Board Of Florida Still
in Session.
FROM. SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Edgefeld and Laurens Delegates
Admitted to the House-C Chamber
lain InauEurated- Hampton ~ !, 5, /,
Gives HIN Scoring. i .
OTHER ELECTION AND GEsERALsE:ws

,..s - 800 r. X t.s.,s.Er.s 1!
OTHER ELEcTateN AND GEsERALNE.ws
SOUTH CAROLINA. !. ILL.,.
THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE INFORMS THE: SENATE
THAT IT Is READY FOR BusINEss-GRAaBER-
LAIN ISAUGURATED~-HE MAKES A SPEECH.
Especial telegram to the Dispatoh.l
CoLuMB1A. s., e., December THE DEM
.ocratic House this, morning appointed o
committee to inform the Semitic that 1t was
the legally constituted House, and so de-
clared by the Supreme Court. The same
committee was also authorized to. bear q
similar announcement to General Ruger,
and instruct him totwithdraw the troops
from the State-House. 81, y. - ,,,.f. ...r
The Mackey House met, ffty-one MEM
bers, Illegal and illegal, ! Only being present,
which Mackey declared a quorum. : q -.
The bill authorizing an officer qualified to
administer an oath to swear the Governor
into Office was passed by both Senate and
the 1fackey House. 4 concurrent resoiu-
ton was then passed to inaugurate the GoV-
ernor, and at 1:2O P. NJ, D. H. Chamber
lain appeared in the House, and, in the.
presence OF the Republican members OF the
Senate and the Mackey House, was sworn in
by Probate Judge B. j. Boone. The Gov
ernor delivered brief inaugural address.
5.,., Second Dispatch.
THE MEMBERS FROM EDGEFIELD AND LAURENs
ADMITTED-THE EVENT OF THE DAY-No
ma Din r. n.
LAIN HIS OWN ILLEGAL SUCCEssoR-REPUB-
LICAN PETITIoN-THE WANING trump :"
ABOUT TO CRUMBLE. "-.'-' .'s','
COLUMBIA, S. c., December THE Dem
ocratic House admitted the Edgefe!d and
Laurens delegation to-day by vote OF 60 TO-
| 3. The members of these delegations de-
clined to vote on their own case. The House
also passed a resolution recognizing its Off
GERS, elected a week ago, as legal officers.
The resolution was adopted bya vote OF s.
members holding the Secretary OF. States
certificates. This establishes them on firm
ground. u .,....s,' ret. = ..:',' 3! :-..%
The event OF the day was. the Inaugural,
ton of Chamberlain. Fifty-two members
of the Mackey House and the Republican
senator's participated. The Democratic SEN
ators absented themselves, and the oath
was administered by Probate Judge Boone,
OF this county, in accordance with the law
| passed for this purpose within the, past
week. No violence will result. The mat
ter will 60 into court at once-perhaps to-
morrow. It is considered that Chamber
lain overreached himself by his haste, as he
would have held over under Grants eX-:
pressed determination until the matter had
been fully settled. He is now his own lille
gal successor, and has no frmer. support
than the "Rump House," against which
the Supreme Court on yesterday promulga-
ted an adverse decision, and he, Of course,
falls with it. ,::. ..-.,,sE r.. ,s@a.s
The Democrats will inaugurate measures
for regaining possession Of the House to-
morrow. ~. - .-..-.. ~
The citizens of Sumter county have petit
toned the legal House, stating that the
three representatives from that county alb
sent themselves from the House, leaving the
county unrepresented. They pray that a
new election be ordered. The petition was
endorsed by Republican Judge and signed
by all the leading citizens. Action will be
taken tomorrow, and il q new election Is
ordered the now wavering trump viii
crumble at once. .l..y.i.i.,.s
| Associated Press report by telegraph to the
| .......s, Dispatch.J .i's.s,fst.,.
| COLUMBIA, December THE Democratic
House appointed a committee to inform the
Senate, and General Ruger that it was the
| legal House under the decision OF the SUI
preme Court, and requested the latter to
withdraw his troops from the State House.
| The Senate and the Mackey House passed
bill authorizing any qualified officer to adj
minister the oath to the Governor. a few
minutes past O'Clock the Republican mem
beers OF the Senate marched into the Maekey
House, where Chamberlain was inaugurated
and sworn in by Probate Judge Boone. He
delivered short inaugural speech. .anr: +"
A FALsEHooD NAILED-.aOyERNoR HAMPTON
GIVES CHAMBERLAIN SOME HEAVY RAPs.
COLUMBIA, December 7.-General Wade
Hampton has issued the following card: +,
TO the Public: The following paragraph
appears in an address OF D. Fl. Chamberlain
delivered in the Capitol to-day: "The gen.
tleman who was my opponent for this office
in the late election has recently declared, rs
7 am creditably informed, that he holds not
only the peace OF this city and State butmy
life in his hands. do not doubt the truth
Of his statement. Neither the public peace
nor the life of any man who now opposes the
consummation Of this policy OF fraud and
violence is safe from, the assaults OF those
who have enforced that policy ~.t@i il
pronounce the statement UNANIMOUSLY
false. I, by my unWearied eXertions, have
endeavored to preserve the peace OF the
State, and have thus contributed to shield
from popular indignation one who had
proved himself disgrace to his rank and
traitor to- his trust. His conscience: may
make him tremble, but neither nor the
men with whom act countenanee the hand
of the assassin. z - ~ 5e-E9