The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-02
Summing Up I'm Louisiana.

THE INVESTIGATION ABOUT .CONCLCDED-BoIH
SIDES PREPARING ADDRESSES TO THE COIN
TRY-H0w THE FIGURES STAND. r-+I
Especial dispatch to the Philadelphia Times.l d.
NEW ORLEANS, November 30.-Returns
from every parish in the State, IN some
shape or other, have now been opened by
the Returning Board, but the figures IN
seven parishes-1iyc Democratic and two
Republican, been withheld for some
reason which is not apparent, while the
Board has not passed decisively upon a
single return. Twenty uncontested par
ishes give Hayes a majority OF 1927
and Packard 6,S23; twenty-eight contested
parishes, including Orleans and excluding
a number OF polls arbitrarily thrown out by
supervisors, give Tilden majority Of 12,201
and Nichols 1851. The majority for Til
den, therefore, outside OF the five Demo-
cratic and two Republican parishes from
which no figures are given by the Board, is
5, ITO, and these seven parishes will raise his
majority above 1000. In fact, the figures on
the votes actually cast will not differ mate
rally from those derived from duplicates
in the hands Of county clerks, and the, COM
mittee unanimously agree in declaring,
with those heretofore published. The north
ern Democratic committee have q full
knowledge of the law and thu facts in
yolving q careful inspection OF the returns
before the Board and comparison OF them
with duplicates received through other reg
ular channels, that the State has been fairly
carried for Tilden, and that it will be I'M
possible for the Returning Board to over
throw this result on any plausible pretext
under the law. a statement to this effect
will probably be given to the country in a
letter TO Mr.. Hewitt or an address to the
people of the United States before the de-
cision of the Returning Board is announced.
This will be followed, perhaps, by an
elaborate review OF the work Of the Beard,
covering all the legal points involved, and
refuting in general the charges OF lntimida-
/ tion and fraud upon which the Republicans
rest their case. The northern Republican
committee has been very busily engaged for
several DAYS in the preparation OF defence
of the proposed action OF the Returning
! Board in counting the electoral vote OF
J, Louisiana for Hayes. This report Will
i dwell OF great length upon lntlmldation,
making the bloody garment cover all the
mistakes and arbitrary acts of the boara.
The committee will boldly take posi-.
tion between the Returning Board and
nublic opinion, and make common cause
witl, the Board. Each member OF the
committee has taken one or more parishes
in hand and made digest OF the! testimony
! bearing thereon. The information thus
/ digested will be put into shape by Senator
/ Sherman, and the document constructed by
him will then be forwarded to President
Grant. with the signatures OF the twenty
! eight commissioners of his appointment.
1 THE President will also be supplied with
every intimidation affidavit inthe possession
Of the Board, and it is expected that he Will
present the Republican case to the country
! in O special message to Congress early in the
! session. Both committees expect to leave
New Orleans early next week. Judge Kelly
having gone north, General Harry White
takes his place. -. IL; : + az ..st.