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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-09
BY TELEGR .
THE SITUATION.
Matters in sourh Carollsa.

COLUMBIA, December 8.-The congress
sionsl committee arrived here late last
night, this morning organised, aud soon
after we're driven to the State House in
carriages. The weather is cloudy with rain.
The Mackey Houfe and Senate are in ses-
sion. Action unimpOrtant.
The committee appointed by the Demo-
cratic house yesterday are now in discharge
If it's mission, which was to call upon the
officer comm4 nding the United States troops
at the State House and inform him that the
house was legally constituted and aek the
withdrawal of troops from the building,
and if refused to demand by what authority
the troops are retained there.
The Democratic house also instructed the
Judiciary Committee tn employ counsel and
proceed against D. H. Cham mberlain for
reasonable acts in usurping the govern
meDt of the State. 1t also directed the COM
ties are not Represented in the house.
The congressional committee has put
clerks to work to obtain copy Of the re-
turns of the election as sworn to Dy the
managers of precincts. There are the
same returns which Senator Gordon re-
quested the State House to permit him to
have copied some weeks ago. They have
since been in possession OF the Secretary OF
State, a member of the State board.
General Ruger has not yet answered in
writing the questions propounded to him by
the committee from the Democratic House,
but proposes TO do SO tomorrow morning.
All quiet Both parties seem waiting the
action of the Copgressiona al committee.
Judge Carpenter, of the Third Judicial
Circuit Court, this evening issued a tenn
porary Injunction, on the complaint Of tax
payers, enjoining two banks in the city,
which are the State repositories of public
f,rnA frnn
checks signed by +. l.. Card0za, claiming
to act as public treasurer.
Cardoza is the Republican treasurer, act.
ing undcr Chamberlain, and it is claimed
by plaintiffs that his term of Office under
the constitution expired on the third of De
cember. aad his successor has not yet quail
fled. If the injunction il sustained the Re.
publican government will be left without
any funds to carry on the government.
Tho Canvass in Florida Closed.
TALLAHASSEE. December 8.-The Canvass
| ing Board today concluded the canvass
for Governor. and members of Congress-
| The result was declared against the protest
| of the Attorney General, who refused to
| sign the canvass on the grounds of fraud
| and irregularity and in obedience to Judge
| Whites order restraining the board. The
other members of the board will answer
Judge Whites order tor contempt by say inf
| they bad already canvassed the vote wher
| the order was served on them. In this view
the Attorney General dissents. The whole
| vote cast for Governor is 46 A; for Stearns
| Republican, % 666; Drew. Democrat
% 2O8; maiority for Stearns 458. The can
vaes for Congressman gives Purman. Re
publican. 295 majority, and Bisbee, Repub
| lican, l4l majority.
All troops here, except one company
| leave to morrow for South Carolina.
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Decentralization.

George W. Julian, Lyman Trumbull and
John NJ Palmer were once hOnOred with
office in the Republican party. The fact is,
they were Republican until that patty
ceased to hoI or them with Office. They did
not leave the party voluntarily, but lett it
because they could no longer hold office in
it. 1t was natural, therefore, that they
should appear at New Orleans on the Dem
ocratic side, to secure IAN honest count"
but it was not natural that they should lose
their manhood. Yet that is precisely what
they did. In the face of overwhelming
evidence of fraud and intimidation and viO-
lence, and in the presence of the bleeding
form of Eliza PinkstOn, they wrote an ad-
dress to the people of theUnited States set-
ting forth, as their opinion, that there was
no violence or intimidation to affect the
general result. There was much law
lessness, they say, but this was not con.
nected with politics. Eight hundred men
murdered in Louisiana, the laws trampled
upon, voting places surrounded by armed
men, voters deferred from visiting the
polls, vet in the face of overwhelming
evidence Of this character. Messrs. Palmer,
Trumbull and Julian say to the public
there was no political intimidation. 1t was
mere lawlessness. Well, such 'lawless-
prevented free election in Indiana, Ohio
or Illinois. IT the Louisiana practice should
prevail generally, that would be the end of
popular government; yet Julian & Co. JUS
tify that kind of lawlessness, because it
seems to promote the interests of the party
with which they have connected themselves.
They argue as criminal lawyer would be-
fore court in hopeless case. They were
sent to New Orleans to make out . case,
and they went at it without conscience or
without regard to justice or truth. The
most overw whelming evidence they utterly
ignored; they accepted lies because the
truth would crush their side OF the case;
and, with an effrontery that is without
parallel, they declare that the election In
Louisiana was fair one.
The covering that concealed their shame
is far more tlimsy than that which Adam
wora in the garden, and we wish the gentle
men nothing worse than that their state
ment shall stand as their record in the his
tory of the country. Whatever may here
after be said of the efforts of the White
Liners to carry the election, through blood
and violence, the cold bloodedness, the
hypocrisy and the shameless conduct of
such men as Palmer, Julian and Trumbull
will stand to confront them throughout
their lives. Even if Tilden should succeed
through fraud in reaching the presidential
chair, that w0ult not save those men from
the Condemnation of q just and discerning
public sentiment Cincinnati Gazette.
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The New Orleans Committee's Visit to
Governor Hayes.

A Columbus, Ohio, special to the New
York Times, December 4, says:
Senator Sherman, General Garfield, Gen
eral Van Allen. Hon. E. w. Stoughton and
Hon. Eugene Hale, members of the Louis
lana Republican committee, arrived here
from New Orleans to-day, and called on
Governor Hayes at the executive depart
ment. They also visited the Governor at
his residence this evening, and will leave on
an early train for Washington, accompa-
MED by Messrs. ThOrne and Stout. of New
York. who also arrived to-day. The mem-
bers of the committee cay, in conversation,
that the atrocities praciieed by the Con-
federates Of louisiana to carry that State
for "Tilden and Reform" must have been
horrible beyond description, and must,
when full accounts Of them shall be pub
llshed, arouse the indignation of the Ameri-
can people. They state that the evidence
Of these atrocities is simply overwhelming
and that no counteracting testimony has
been or can be produced which materially
breaks the force of it's terrible conclusive
ness. Af1idavits furnished by the commit
tee will be published here in the morning
which fully confirm the statements of Eliza
Pinkston, that the horrible outrage COM
mitted upon her family, including the cut
ting and manning OF herself and the muir
der of her husband and child, was perpe-
trated solely for political reasons. These
new sffidavits also give the particulars of
additional Ontrages, not heretofore pub.
lished, Of the most revolving kind. The
members of the committee express the
opinion that the evidences Of these villanies
are such as public opinion can not with
stand. and that, whatever may be tho re-
snlt Of the count by the Returning Board,
they must bring shame and confusion up
on the party in whose behalf they
have been planned and perpetrated. The
committee is not advised as to what the re-
suit of the canvass by the Returning Board
will be, but is unanimous IN the opinion
that on the facts conclusively proved, the
board may legally and justly declare the
entire Republican electoral and State tick
cts elected, and that, indeed, no other IA.
tional conclusion can be reached. In about
half of the State the committee finds that
a comparatively fair and free election was
held, and that in all such parishes the Re-
publicans have made considerable gains;
but in the terrorized parishes organic ations
Of armed men not only carried on system
attic murder to intimidate the Republican
voters, but picketed the roads in every
direction to keep such voters from the polls;
and in many cases these picket lines even
surrounded the places where the national
troops had been sent to preserve order and
enable all parties to vote freely.
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CONGRESS-.
Senate.


WASHINGTON, December Sin the San
ate, on motion of Mr.. Morton, it was or
dered that three additional members to the
Senate Committee Oh Privileges and Elec-
tions be appointed to aid in discharging the
duties imposed by the resolution OF Mr..
Edmunds, requiring an investigation into
the late election in various Southern States.
Mr.. Edmunds moved to take up the joint
resolu ution proposing an amendment to the
constitution of the United States in regard
to the count of the electoral vote by the
Supreme Court.
Mr.. Merrimon, Of North Carolina, object
ed, and read the twenty first joint rule, pro.
yiding that the unfinished business left
over from one session shall not be taken up
for action until after the lapse of six days
frOm the beginning of the subsequent ses.
sion. He made the point OF order that
under that rule the joint resolution could
not be considered now.
The Chair Mr.. Perry Overrnled the point
of order, and announced the joint rules
we're not in force; besides, the subject was
covered by the Senate rule fifty-tw0 which
he directed to be read.
1t prOvi es that at the commencement of
second session business ehall be resumed
and proceeded with as if no adjournment
had taken place.
Mr.. Merrimon appealed from tho decision
the Chair, and sa,d be had no ObjactiOn to
taking up this joint resolution, if it could be
done properly; but if the twenty first joint
rule was in force, as he believed it was, the
resolution could not be taken up. He
thought that rule contained very whole
some provision.
Mr.. Merrimon then argued that the joint
rules were in force and it was not COM
petent for the Senate to abolish them with
out the concurrence of the House of Rep
resentatives. Neither House could with
draw it's assent to these rules without the
concurrence OF the other. The debate con
tinued all day and was of technical char
scter, only an allusion being made to the
bearing of the question on the electoral
vote finally reached. The question being on
the appeal of Mr.. MerrimOn from the deci-
sion of the chair, the decision was sustained
BY so nays-4 yeas, as follows: Maxey,
Merrimon, Window and Wright. So there
are no Joint rules.
Adjourned to Monday.
Mr.. West, Of Louisiana, introduced q bill
for the relief of w. w. Handlin, formerly
Judge of the Third District Court of New
Orleans. Referred to the Committee on
the Judiciary.
The pension appropriation bill passed.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Wood, OF
New York, calling on the President for
copies of orders and instructions sent to
and of reports received from military or
civil officers in the States OF Georgia, Louis
lana, Florida and South Caroline since Au-
gust last, was adopted.
The House adjourned until Monday.
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FOREIGN.
Requested to Remaic.

hcQueStcO 10 ucmAACs
PARIS, December Sat &. Cabinet coun-
Gil MacMahon urged the ministers to retain
their portfolios. They agreed to wait full
mentary groups.
Tho Result.
The journals of the party of the left state
that a majority of that party will oppose
the resumption of Office by the late miEis-
try,
The RepubHQue Francaise Gays the only
alternatives are the dissolution of the
Chamber of Deputies or the formation of q
Cabinet composed solely of members of the
left. No other expedient is possible. The
republicans are resolved to accept no COM
promise.
Preliminary Meeting.
CONsTANTINOPLE, December S.-The
European plenipotentiaries held their first
preliminary meeting upon the programme
Of the conference at the Russian embassy
Tho Turkish Spirit Aroused.
Much patriotic excitement prevails
throughout Turkey. The sons OF the best
families are voluntarily enlisting.
More Material for Cuban Graveyards.
HAVANA, December 8.-A Spanish war
ship arrived with 1000 troops.
The Liverpool Cotton Trade.
LIVERPOOL, December S-The circular
of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers Associa.
ton, reviewing the week ending last night,
says: Cotton was in less request the early
part of the week, and prices gave way
about lad. The demand on Wednesday i'm
proved, and the market on Thursday was
active, with large business, and the pre-
vious Thursdays quotations were nearly
resumed. American was depressed at the
commencement of the week, and prices de-
clined sd, bat has since bee ome active, and
1-l6d OF the decline has been recovered
Sea Island has been highest, and prices are
unchanged. Transactions in futures were
comparatively limited at lower rates unit
Thursday.
Trouble at Buenos Ayres.
LONDON, December S-Further priyat,
kilograms of disquietipg nature have beer
received from BuenOs Ayres.
Opposition 10 the British Policy.
A large meeting was held at st. Jame
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The Question of CUSTODY.

circumstances having raised the ques-
tion, Governor Kellogg has called on the
only authority legally authorized to give
an opinion. and has requested the Attorney
General to decide on tho powers OF the
Sergeant-at-Arns of the House of Repre-
sentatives. General Steele has returned
the following communication:
SrA.z OF LorrsrsSA,)
Attorney Gene rars OfEre, ,
New Orleans, December 4 1876.
To his Excelency ". P Kellogg, Governor Of
louisiana
S1R-In reply to your letter of this date
as to the powers and duties OF the scr
geants-at- arms Of the House and Senate of
the General Assembly of Louisiana, sm
of the opinion that the authority of'the
eergeant-at-arms ceases and his term OF
Office expires with the end OF the session of
OF the General Assembly for which he has
been elected.
Section three of act No. Ii of 1872 pro-
vides that at each session each house OF
the General Assembly shall elect ser
geant at arma; and in the same section 1t ls
provided that within five days after the ad-
iournment of each session the sergeant-at-
arms of each house shall turn over
the stationery remaining on hand to the
Secretary of State, and to the person ap-
pointed to take charge of the chambers of
the Senate and House of Representatives
and the committee rooms, all furniture,
fuel and other property OF the respective
houses.
Section four of said act provides for the
appointment, at the end Of each session, OF
a person designated IS keeper, who is au-
thorized TO keep charge OF the respective
houses, committee rooms, fuel. etc. sub
iect to the control of the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor of the State, till a
new sergeant-at-arms snall have been ap.
pointed oy the respective houses at the
succeeding session;
Very respectfully, your nbedient servant,
HIRAM Il. STEEL.
Attorney General.
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= TnE oTATE or LoUi0IAMA.
Death Closes an Exciting Litigation

Death Closes an Exciting Litigation.
The following is from the New York
Herald of last Tuesday:
Tho death of Mrs. Virginia c. Burke,
daughter of Captain John Alexander, and
the litigsnt in the famous suits for the re-
covery Of her fathers fortune, said to have
been appropriated by others than the right
full heirs, ia announced. Her death ie prob
ably the end of remarkable legal case.
1t is now over six years since Captain Alex
ander, q somewhat eccentric mariner, died
at the houee Of Ira C. Gardner, Ore Hun
dred and Twenty-seventh street, near Third
avenue, Harlem. He was accustomed to
garry large amount of money, estim ated
at 100000, in bonds, etc, about his person,
and the story was given out by the Gard
ners that this property the old man de-
sired to deed them, in consideration for the
kindness they had shown to him in his life.
His daughter, Mrs. Virginia c. Burke. Of
New Orleans, hearing of the death of her
father, came to this city and set to work
with an energy and persistency uncommon
in woman to unravel the mystery OF
her fathers death and the disposition
Of his money. She found the will
to made giving her all his property,
gate Hntchins. Most newspaper readers
are familiar with how bravely the forlorn
widow fought for her rights, and how she
failed and was tleeced and prosecuted in
various quarters. Out Of ell the money
left her by her father she never received q
cent, and had to sell her property in New
Orleans to carry on the lawsuits. When
the surrogate decided that a portion OF the
money in bonds yielded up by the Gardners
should be taken from the Union Trust
Company, where it had been deposited, and
given to Mrs. Burke, the Gardners had al
ready entered into litigious proceedings to
prevent that result. At this time Mr.. A.
A. II. Dawson, an immigrant from the
South, protesting great sympathy for the
wronged widO ", and promising to conduct
her cause gratultously, came upon the
scene Mrs. Burke employed him, aud the
upshot was that this chlvalrous lawyer
brought bill for services against the lady
equal iD amount to all that belonged to her
in the Union Trust Company's vault, TO-
gether with nearly all the interest for five
years. Dawson was clio we'd the money by
a reference of three lawyers. who estimated
Dawson's services at $4,000. Subsequent
ly Judge Van Hooeen, on the application
Of Mrs. Barke's other legal advisers, en-
Joined Dawson from apenoing the money.
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harmonious. If any action Was taken II
has not trapepired.
Tho Electoral Vote.
The Judiciary Committee OF the Houee
met and agreed to report McCreary's
resolution to appoint q committee OF i've
from the Houee to act with similar com.
mittee from the Senate, with the object OF
referring the can vaes of votes OF the Elec'
toral College to some tribunal, whose ac-
ton will be final.
Democratic Caucus Committee.
The committee of the Democratic caucus
ordered last night consists OF Mesers. Hew.
lit, of New York; Payne. of Ohio; Wood, OF
New York; Randall. of Pennsylvania;
Sparks, of I!linois; Holman, of Indiana.
Warren, of Massachusetts,; Stephens. Of
Georgis; Watterson, of Kentucky. and the
chairman of the caucus, Colonel Lamar.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-09

It is Q fact that all arrangements for
matinee entertainments are more agreeable
ct the Varieties than at any other theatre
in the country. Ladies' can 60 there un-
attended by gentlemen with complete pro-
priety, without running gauntlet OF bar
rooms or disagreesble people, and what is
most convenient of all, every seat is re-
served at usual matinee prices. There is
no rush or crowcing for front positions;
every ticket-holder has her place at what
ever time she may go to the theatre, and
eyery person will be shown to seats by at
tentive ushere. With such perfect arrange
ments in front of tho curtain for receiving
and seating ladies and pleasing all, and
having first-class performers and plays on
the stage, it is no wonder that the ladies'
theatre is crowded at each matinee. To
day Mr.. Sothern will appear in his neat and
very funny comedy Of IA Hornets Nest"
Professor NJ. Hartz, the wonderful ma
gician, will also give q noon performance
this day. An agreeable feature of his en-
tertainments is the classic and artistic piano
playing of Nine. Hartz.
The entertainment to be given at
the Opera House this evening by
the great Hermann, emperor OF all
sleight of hand performers, will be for
the benefit of sufferers by the late fire in
the Third District. The entire proceeds,
thanks to Professor Hermann and the own
ers Of the Opera House, will be devoted to
the worthy charity named, and the enter
tainment should yield handsome sum.
Hon. Charles j. Leeds and number of
other distinguished citizens have consented
to act as q committee Of reception at the
Opera House.
On Wednesday evening next another en-
tertainment for the same worthy parpose
will be given by the young men Of the As
sociation Dramatique Orleanaise.
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WHOLE NUMBER 1882.

Hall. styling itself national conference ON
the Eastern Question. Duke Westminster
presided. The object was to oppose tho
British prO-Turkish policy. Letters wero
read from the Bishop of Winchester, Mar
quis OF Butte, Duke Of Argyll and Robert
Lowe. Among the speakers were Glad
stone and the Bishop of Oxford.
Panic in Rounania.
Reuters telegram from Bucharest says:
A panic has seized the population of Rou-
mania. especially insthe towns on the Dan
ube. Many families have fed, fearing i'm
mediate invasion by the Turks. The news
paper, Romamuel, is publishing leading
articles to calm the pu0lic mind.
The Extradition Treaty.
The Ne,cs states, in an official form, that
England has accepted the American inter-
probation of the extraditi0n treaty.
Conferring Agreement Possible.
Meetings preliminary TO the conference
will be held daily at Constantinople for
about week.
a Reuter- telegram from Constantinople
says the agreement between the powers
does not seem impossible.
A Servfan NlisdemeanOr.
LONDON, December 8.-Reuter's CORE
spOndent at Pesth telegraphe: The Servisn
police having forcibly detained and searched
an Austrian mail steamer, the represents
tive of Austria at Belgrade is instructed to
make an energetic demand for satisfaction,
and two Austrian monitors have been sent
to Semlin to support the demand.
Concluded.
A Reuter- dispatch from Ragusa states
that the demarkation commission has con-
cluded its labOrs.
Eicsic to he Fed.
hoo md <o
Nicsic with two months provisions for 5000
persons.
Movements of Turktsh Troops.
Movements of Turkish troops ON q large
scale is going on in Herzegovina and Bos-
MIA
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The Brooklyn Theatre Disaster

BROOKLYN, December S.-The coroner's
report shows that So bodies have been re-
covered.
An occupant Of the gallery says: Men
and boys were tearing one over another,
and the shrieks and Oaths were awful, One
man clambered upon the heap, and WAS
spun round and round on the heads of the
against the back Of the gallery. Everv
one was for himself, and men seemed
to become wild beasts. They thrust
and tore one another with their hands.
The seats we're piled with PROSTATE human
beings, and as the successful strngglers
forced their way over the gasping forms
that lay all round. others who had been
their support of the living. kept pretty
calm, but l felt q sort of eickness coming
over me, aud l resolved to try my
chance. There was nothing for il
but for myself and some others
who had waited to walk over tho
piles of bodies on the floor. They were
slippery with blood; hands and feet were
pr0truded here and there, which showed
that life was still in some of them. By
this time the smoke was dense, and the
rush and ehOuting from the lower part of
the house we're terrible. l and some others
managed to get to the stairway, and We
went down in a mass-how, could not tell
you. All this have been describing took
place in less than two minutes.
Base Bail Convention.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, December S-The Ma
tional Convention OF Base Ball Clubs
unanimously expelled the Mutual and
Athletic Clubs. A lively ball will be used
hereafter.
The san Francisco Races.
San FRANCISCO. December Pools on
the four mile race opened last evening.
Molly McCarty sold at Slj0, tho other
ranging from $40 TO S75. fixed So. Molly
subsel luently sold at $I20.
Send Him TO Grover.
MINIATURES, December An examining
surgeon of the pension bureau has been
found among the Republican electors.
Probabilities.
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Washington, ocem5 Der 8. l67s-4:30 p. u.
! Fer tle M'doie Sta.es, rain and snow, with il
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