South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-12-22
By Yesterdays Mail.

C0k0xsss--lat heSenate. on tie 10th.
tho <eso!rtion In regard TO tito OREGON
electors Was taken up and number OF
speeches were rna.le. = Ia. the House.
the fortideation bill. which appropriatcs
S25o.0oo was called up and passed.
Mr.. Hoar made n speech presenting on
behalf Of Massachusetts TO the United
States tie statues OF Winthrop and A.
dams-the statues are both executed in
marble.
SirUATfoS IN Souru CAnoLISA.-
Gov. Hampton on the 18th. made q for.
NAL demand upon Chamberlain. Cor the
surrender Of the great seal OF the State
and other insignia and Appurtenances OF
Office. which the latter reluscdto accede
to- Chamberiain's bayouet bill ia still,
pending.
On the 10Th. tn, democratic Leg.
| islaturo OF South Carolina elected Gen.
N. 9. Butler 70 the United States Sen.
ate. Tho most prominent merchants
and taxpayers of charleston have rcsoiv-
ed 10 recognize only the Hampton gov.
eminent. Similar action will be taken
throughout tho State.
A
How Ir WAS DoNe.-It is admitted
by both parties that on the actual CONT
of the popular vote for Presidential cleo
tors Mr.. Tiiden has majority of about
100000 votes. lt is conceded also that
on the actual vote Tildcn electors wcrc
chosen certainly in Louisiana and Flor.
ida. and probably. though with less GER
tainty, in South Carolina. OF the lS5
votes required 20 give Mr. TiIden n
majority in the electoral college 1874 are
undisputed. Omitting the disputed vo,e
| for him in Oregon, to make Lis election
sure he must get the electoral vote OF
one OF the three returning board States.
Gen. Francis Barlow, strong republic
can. who witnessed the count before the
returning board in Florida, publicly
expresses his belief over his own sigma
turc that the Tiiden electors carried
Florida by small majority after cast
ing out all doubtful votes. but two of
the three members Of the returning board
threw out Jasper precinct of Hamilton
county. where the democrats had ma.
jority, and so counted in the Hayes c.
| lectors- The plea on which this was
done was t,ia. before the local counting
/ AS'tuNiSsi Oi Tic NOtSS OF tnGt ptcClEct
was finished the inspectors abandoned
the count, turning t over to two law
yers, who completed it the next day."
! There is DO dispute rs to tbs vote cast
the action OF the returning board being
based OH the irregularity ofIhc counting.
Gen. Barlow says, frankly, the reception
or rejection OF this vote turns upon
whether the inspectors who abandoned
their work when half finished were re-
/ publicans or democrats He presumes
that they were republicans, rs one n en-
her OF the returning board declared they
were and another did not deny it. In
that case, says Gen. Barlow, Il do not
think democratic majority should be
thrown out because OF republican wrong
doing" All iair-mirdeh EIcn will agree
witli him, Yet this ia what two mem
bers Of tho returning board did against
the protest Of tho third. They took
advantage OF a trick performed BY their
republican associates 10 transfer to
, Hayes 80 electoral vote which Cen.
Barlow admits should properly have
been given TO Tildon. and which would
have made him presi6en. - Buf;-
more Sun, Dc 30.