The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-01

Ieullnulng MIN JDaJ aCcoIulDB W Ine
published orders the military was not to
| interfere unless there was a collision.
NEW YORK, Dec. IA Herald special
| from Columbia, S. O., says both Houses
were still in session at A. NJ, sleep
ing, smoking, e0nversing, and making
| speeches. Both parties are holding the
| tort. The Democrats know IL they so
| out they will not be readmitted, and they
| prefer to stay until noon to-day, when
the Laurens and Edgefeld delegations
will doubtless be elected by the Federal
| soldiers.
Florida.
TALLAHASSEE, Dec. LIN the Board
of Canyassers yesterday Baker County
was taken up. The Democratic man
| ayers called attention to the fact that
the second return from Baker, besides
the points of illeeality brought against
! 1T yesterday, was signed by a Justice of
| the Peace appointed since the election;
| that it was not certified to in the County
Clerks Office, and that the County Clerk
was not summoned to attend the can
vass upon which it was based, and that
| TIE official precinct returns were omitted
fsom that return and a false result
reached.
The 'Alachua County testimony was
| Listened to with great interest. The
| Democrats first offered testimony to
show that the alleged affidavit from
Green II. Moore, purporting to deny cer-
| tain facts in another affidavit he had
made, WAS dated and executed on the
10Th, While the aft layit he proposed to
retract and correct was dated and exc
cuted on The 23d. Tney then pronounced
the affidavit purporting to be from Floyd
Dukes square forgery. Tney then ILL.,
troduced Moore and Dukes as wit
nesses. Moore swore speclncally that
all points in his affidavit OF the
23l were true: that he had stated
The facts therein contained openly
time and again; that he WAS Inspector
at Archer, and that only 3l6 votes We're
cast or counted; that 535 votes were not
| cast; that he signed the election certlt-
cate in blank, not thinking there could
| be any dispute; that he was approached
the other day by Barnes, the republican
| Sheriff OF the county, who offered him
500 if he would sign a paper; he asked
il he had TO swear 10 it; he was told lie
would not; he then signed it and re-
ceiyed the money; this paper was the
one produced by the Court as
a cDunter-a1h laYit. Floyd Dukes, ,cOl0red,
|
Precincts; That only 316 votes were cast;
that he eau not read Or write, and that
he never signed paper saying 53j votes
were cast. Upon the counter ati laYit
alleged to have been signed by him be-
| ing read, he sWOre he did not sign it;
that EX-COngressman Wales and JUS
uce Bolton came to his house to get him
to sign it, and offered him $25 il he would
sIgn IT, but he re used TO 40 so.
The Democrats then called attention
to the TACT thai in afh IaYt5s from several
| bundled negroes, swearing that they
voted at ArcGer Precinct, eleven names
three PAGES, two names of men long
since dead, and two names oil men
| pr9Ten TO nave voted elsewhere.
/ The Republicans submiltea objections
to two precincts in Columbia County,
alleging tnat the Democratic Inspector
! INDUS trIously changed the ballots when
| they were hanued to MN. and that
negroes were taken by three Democrats
into u swamp week before the election,
and, after various outrages, were made
to swear Ou their knees that they would
| vote the Democratic ticiieG.
Pending the preparation of papers in
other cases, the Board adJ1urned.
louisiana.
From Redlcl1's New Orleans special to the
Commercial.
In twenty unconteSted parishes the
votes stand, Tilden 19,95l, Hayes 27OJS
In the contested parishes the vote
stands, Tilden 30,1l2. Hayes 2S 5l6;
Orleans, 1ildeu G3,83S, Hayes II 87l.
Total, Tilden $500, Hayes 43,3S7.
seven parishes not yet made public VIII
not materially change tie figures; five
of them are Democratic aud Two Repub
lican. Tilden is at least 1000 ahead OIL
the face Of the returns. Everything ill.,
cluded, he is not far from 12,Q00 ahead,
as the Democrats figure it Tonight.
If the Board gives the State to Hayes,
as they likely will, they will have TO
throw Out literally III all the contested
parishes.
Northern Republicans have been en-.
gagged to-day in making a rough draft of
IA letter to the Pre- eSident, giving the re.
suit OF the investigation here. Each
bul.-dozed parish has been allotted To
one committeeman, who has made
it his business 10 inform himself about
it.
[From New Orleans Special to the Enquirer.
IL is current rumOr tonight that there
is a dead lock in the Returning Board
between the white and negro members.
CasSanaVe and Kenner, toe cOlOred
members, are not iii sympathy, it seems
with the arbitrary and partisan ruling
of Wells, and DOW have state ed their de-
termination not to sustain him and An
derson in their evident intention TO wipe
out the Democratic majority by throw
ing out parishes and polls by the whole
sale TO cut down Democratic m jDrities
and count in tbe Republican ticAeC. kel.
og1, Packard ana the Republican Con-
gte.sional Delegation Committee are
appriSel of this, and are in terri.
bic state Of excitement Tonight,
devisug ways and means to circum-
vent the plaus OF Cassauave and Ken
ner, if they nave any. Their first movr.
in that line VIII be to get u Republican
elected as il 6llh member of the Board,
and, il this is carried cut, they viii
nominate Hugh j. Campbell, Judge OF
one of the District Courts, and wn0 has
some influence with Kenner, and in case
OF his election, having Il majority, they
will defeat Casanave ana kenner !
These two men have, it is said, been |
surprised at the large Democratic ma
jorities given In the parishes, ana are OF
the opinion that the country will MOI