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ton for similar Democratic charges In them.
at least. Caddo Parish has changed from
$50 Democratic to 9o5 Republican; De Soto
from 1,041 Democratic to $50 Republican;
Rapides from 352 Democratic to 131 Repubr
lican; st. Martin from 217 Democratic t0s160
Republican; while Bossierf has run up its
Republican majority from 81 to Zoo. s~zsss
There can be but one explanation of such
changes, andit is the same that Congress-
man Foster discovered when he went to
Louisiana, two years ago-the registration
officers have been guilty of gross frauds.
The Democrats maintain that they can prove
this to every body dissatisfaction: monstrous
frauds are charged in Caddo, in St. Martin
500 white voters were practically disfran-
chised by the refusal of the registration
officers to visit the parish, and in other par
ishes white voters already make affidavit to
the number of thousands that they were re-
fused registration. These charges are not
to be lightly dismissed; Republican Con-
gresham Foster has told the country what
frauds in this direction the Kellogg officials
committed in 1874, in language worth re-
perusal now: si ai s3E.
"The registration was incorrect, and ex-
ceeded the true colored vote. The regis
tration was wholly in the hands OF the Kel-
logg officials, with whom a Republican
committee, with United States Marshal
Packard at their head, co-operated. In
only three parishes did the Republican SUI
pervisors of Registration make any COM
plant Of unfair or insufficient registration.
On the other hand, very great complaint
was made by the conservatives, who speci-
fed, with proof, $500 cases of conceded
false registration in New Orleans alone;
and those Consery natives who had been CO.
operating in joint party committee to Sc
cure a fair registration gave up the effort in
despair. The census of 1870 (the correct
ness of which is not impeached) showed
o., 076 whites and sc, 91S colored males over
q years of age. All the statistics and evil
dence before us indicated no change in this
proportion in favor of the colored voters.
Yet the registration of colored voters ex-
ceeded by 1000 the total number of colored
adult males returned by the census, while
the registration Of white voters was 10, 1000
less.'
The Republicans insist hat the vote Of the
intimidated parishes must be revised. But
how about parishes where these registra-
ton frauds were committed? Are they to
be thrown out, too? And if so, where are
we to stop in this attempt to go back of the
ballot-boxes and try to find out how the
votes ought to nave been cast? s..
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The Counting-out and COunting-i I'm
Process.
[Cincinnati Commercial-Radical.l

lC1nclnnal
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 14.-Unless Florida
saves Tilden, his chances are bad, for Lou
isiana will almost certainly be counted for
Hayes by the highest legal authority-the
Returning Board. After thorough investi-
cation and close observance to the drift OF
matters, | am satisfied that the Board Will
give the State to Hayes by a majority of not
less than LOO. They will throw out the
five [fourl parishes where the blacks were
SO thoroughly inundated. They will likely
restore to these parishes the proper Repub-
lican majorities which they had two years
ago, or something near it. These parishes
in 1874 gave a Republican majority OF 1919,
and this year a Democratic majority of 4.413,
showing q net Democratic gain Of over 8 ,O0O.
This was accomplished by enthusiastically
forcing negroes to vote the Democratic
ticket or not to vote at all. Restore to these
parishes the Republican majorities they
would have on q free election, and the DEM
ocratic majority all melts away, and Hayes
has the State. From the best information l
can get this will be done. Thousands OF in
diyidual afidavits from these parishes, set
ting forth fully the facts of intimidation,
nave been already filed. The Board will
consider them, and take all the facts care
fully into consideration. They will also
hear oral testimony, and go for the bottom
Many of the Northern visitors are aston
ished and discouraged at the condition Of
things. They n mere, Tor instance, IN
the i've intimidated Parishes the number of
white registered votes is 5,O74 and black
II, 904, or more than double. Northern
men shake their heads gravely upon finding
that 5 200 voters have run of Is 200. They
say it will be hard to make this understood
in the North. 1t is likely that TIE Return
ing Board will be many weeks wrestling
| with the case, but their decision will almost
certainly be that Hayes has the State. The
surface indications showthatplainly enough.
In that event leading Democrats say the
whole question will be thrown into Cen.
gress, and Congress will not allow the State
to be counted for Hayes when the election
returns upon their face are for Tilden
Business men, who do not make their living
in politics, are much discouraged, seeing
no solution TO the difficulties. Privatel,
they are satisfied to have troops here, a
without them there would be great DANCE,
of rioting and bloodshed. Several compa
MES are quartered in the Custom hous'
and Mechanics Institute.
The Returning Board will have ample
protection during their deliberations
Looking over the ground carefully, l an
perfectly well satisfied that the Returning
Board will give Hayes a majority of not les
than /, 100, and their decision is final, S.
far as the State is concerned. Congress an
the Senate will worry with it next
n. v. REDFIED.
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Odds and Ends.

DO you know why a hat is like a
baby? One you ear and the other you
was. Old, but ingenious.
Women give their all in bullion,
men squander it in current coin. Ask
neither a sou from the first 10 a treas
ure from the last.
Here is the rhyming conundrum of
this epoch:
A country merchant bought III. EE.
What did he purchase, if you please?
"A Methodist clergyman of New
York State collects his salary every
Saturday, and he is said to be the
heartiest preacher in the East.
-Bewildered countryman wandering
among the bulletin boards: "Blessed
if I know which is the top dog."-Nev
York Telegram.
The American eagle was never so
much all abroad in his life. Between
the two standards frantically waving on
either side of him, he has 40 place to
perch, and pending the official count,
he and victory roost in undignified be-
wilderment on the fence.-HaWk-eye.
In a colliery village in Durham,
England, a pitman died, and his wife
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Haps and

Mrs. Emma Wilkes, of Clinton,
Iowa, committed suicide a few days
ago by throwing herself in the river
while temporarily insane.
"A SON of Henry White, 16 years old,
living near Grafton, Vermont, acct
dentally shot himself while hunting the
other day. When found his body lay
neal that of a fox. It is supposed that
he wounded the fox and then struck at
him with the butt of his gun, discharg.
ing the loaded barrel, the contents of
which passed through his body, killing
him.
Harvey Davis, a hack-driver of St.
Paul, Mimi, committed suicide by poi
son a few days ago. Cause-domestic
infelicity. The neighbors heard his
wife calling for help during the night,
but being used to disturbance by her,
did not answer. She was too drunk
herself to 60 for a physician. Davis was
an honest, temperate man, but some
time ago gave up work, evidently then
contemplating suicide.
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TIE GROWING INFAMY.

The Radical Plot 10 Overthrow the Bal
Acknowledgements Devices of Uesper-
a az MsnCIney Mean to Retain Control
OF the Goyernment at all Hazards
VIII They Succeed .-The Conspiracy
Broadly DEVELOPED.
New York SUM-
Though the returns from all parts of the
country received on the night of the election
proved clearly that Mr.. Tilden was the
cholce OF the people, the Republican man
ayers, with Zach Chandler at their head,
would not admit it, but stubbornIy main
tanned that Hayes was elected. Since then
theybaye persisted in this declaration in the
face OF authentic figures from the counties
and parishes of the disputed States, fully
proving that the majority of their citizens
have given their votes to Mr.. Tilden; and
to-day they persist in this with a greater
show Of determination and confidence than
ever.
What is the reason for this strange stub
pornness in denying facts. and this unpre-
cedented assurance in pronouncing States
sure for Hayes when their local returns show
that they have certainly gone for Tilden?
This reason is the existence in these States
OF what are called Returning Boards, bodies
absolutely irresponsible, and not only Re-
publican in their composition, but either
composed Of men who are to pass on their
W reelection, or who are under the direct
control OF officehOlders like Kellogg in Lou
isiana and Chamberlain in South Carolina.
These Boards claim and exercise the power
to change and set aside the returns of the
local authorities, and to throw out such part
OF these returns as they please; and thus
they can make a majority where the people
have made a minority, declare those candi-
dates elected whom the people nave defeat
ed, and give power to those whom the peo-
pie have turned out and turn out those whom
the people have voted in. This has been done
before in Louisiana, and when the people
Of the State rose against 1t, and in a peace
full manne installed the men they had lust
selected at the polls, Grant at once sent
down soldiers and drove out the officials
thus installed, and by force restored those
whom the Returning Board had counted in.
So it has already been done in Louisiana,
and SO it is to be done again; and hence the
astonishing confidence Of the Republican
managers and Of the chief Republican or
gans. This is the reason why they feel SO
sure and talk so loudly. They rely on the
Returning Board, and on Grant-on fraud,
and on force.
Ii this scheme is carried through, will it
not be q military revolution? OF cOurse it
will; but does that fact constitute any safe
guard for the Republic? Will Grant, or
Chandler, or Phil Sheridan be afraid of it!
| A revolution was accomplished by the bay
onet two years ago in Louisiana, and the
country bore it quietly. Now the initial
stages of another revolution were accom-
plished by Gen. Grant when he ordered
soldiers to oversee the voting in the disput-
ed States, and the country has borne that
quietly; and now Sheridan has gone to New
Orleans to complete the work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Donald G.. Mitchell is to lecture at
the Yale Art School during the second
term, on " Esthetics of Everyday Life"
Jean Ingelow praises the poems of
Mrs. S. M. Piatt, many of which she
says are pervaded with fancy and ten
derness, and have a vein of regularity
and quaintness which add to their
value.
Professor Huxley fears the Ameri-
cans do not recognize some of their
greatest men in science. He instances.
Professors Dana and Leidy, who have
long been regardedin the front rank by
English sGUGns, but are scarcely known
in the United States.
The great commentator, DR..
LANCE, has been so years a professor.
He was the son of a peasant, and in his
boyhood sold milk. Falling in love
with a young lady of high family he re-
solved to make something of himself
that he might win her. He borrowed
books and studied and soon became
known as a brilliant scholar. In later
years he married the girl of his early
choice.
Mrs. Irene House, the Trenton
murderess, thinks that she is divinely
called to lecture by a vision she has had
since the trial, and has actually pre-
pared a lecture. She will travel under
the management of her married broth
er-in-law, and thinks there is a large
work cut out for her; she says: 81
shall never rest until I have divorce
abolished for every cause all over the
United States. | shall never rest until
l have the laws relating to schools SO
changed that Christianity, from infan-
cy, shall be instilled as thoroughly as
the alphabet, accompanying every
study, and fit my charges SO that sin
a not get any hold on their minds OF
lives"
reading the ChurchmGn remarks
There is a good suggestion in a brie1
paragraph in the Nation, that some dis.
t~inctive classification is necessary be.
tween good and bad fiction. There are
good novels which justify all the most
eager defenses which the novel-reader
of taste and culture can make. There
are bad novels which deserve nearly al
the unqualified structures of the anti.
fiction novelist. So there are mush.
rooms which the practiced naturalist
pronounces excellent for food, and
fungi which have served the purposes
of the prisoners of the middle ages
The trouble will always lie with the in
discriminate and unwary gatherer. II
literature the two classes shade into
each other by such imperceptiblt
gradations that no scientific rule can b.
applied.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
The Louisiana Record.
lspringReld (Mass.) Republican-Hay

lSpE tuuoo'J AACPooiSoA AAoJSSsI
Whatever comes out of this chaos, itseems
to us of the very first Importance that the
organs of public opinion at least should mo-
seize this opportunity to fan partisan senti
ment. 1t is a time when partisans need to
summon their candor, their reason and their
sense of fair play to aid their d~iscernment,
il we are to arrive at an intelligent opinion
and a Just moral sense of events, as they
pass. In regard to Louisiana, which is the
crucial point, we fortunately have the ma
terial for q tolerably candid opinion of the
disposition of affairs there. Two years ago
this winter, a Republican Congress sent a
strong committee of investigation to thai
State to satisfy the country as to the real
state of things which had grown up out OF
two Governors, two Legislatures, and TIVE
State Governments %contending in arms. We
reprinted, yesterday morning, the impress
hers of that committee, but as the subject
is still very fresh, and the Republican seems
to be one Of the few journals with q memory
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
School and Church.

The Methodist Missionary Com
mittee, in annual Convention, at New
York, decided on 100000 as the limit
to be spent in mission work he coming
year.
Another college is to be founded
in New England. 1t will be located at
st. Adams, VT, in accordance with the
>willOf the late Judge Bellows, who en-
dows it with 500, OOO.
The Memphis Conference of the
M. E. Church South met at Memphis
on the 10Th. There was a large attend
ance of ministers and delegates. Bishop
Pierce, of Georgia, presided over the
meeting.
The Rev. Augustus Blauvelt, a po-
lemical writer of prominence n the
East. has been suspended from the
ministry of the Reformed Dutch Church
for alleged error of doctrine. He has
appealed from the Chassis to the Far
ticular Synod.
The governing body of Harvard
College is decidedly mixed on all sub
jects of Christianity, theology, n phil
osophy. Mr.. Emerson even is IN faVor
of the system of morning prayers.
Philip Brooks is a liberal Episcopallan.
James Freeman Clarke wants to have
the attendance of students upon church
compulsory. At one extreme IN the
Faculty is Prof. Palmer, a graduate
from Andover, and at the other Prof.
Sophocles, who is as filial to his Greek
religion as he is to. his Greek tongue.
Fourteen per cent of the students are
Unitarians, II per cert Congregation
alists, and II per cent Episcopalians;
About 80 per cent, in all, are evangelical
in their religious views.
DIR. Spalding, of Portland, Me-, has
been testing the vision of that city's
school children, and concludes that in
every school there should be a rest every
half hour, if even for a minute only,
from reading, and especially from writ
ing and drawing, the pursuit OF which,
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for a steady hour, is wearisome enough
to a practiced eye, and much more SO
to all young beginners, who strain, as
it were, at each point in a line, so as to
make it as nearly like the copy as pos
sible. He adds: Slime handwriting
ought never to have been invented, and
especially in the ruled-off way-the
measured space way-in which it is
taught nowadays. Any child taught a
large, round, flowing hand, will soon
learn enough to make it proportionate-
ly smaller and smaller as space and pa
per demand"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
The Testimony of COIOred Democrats.
INeM Orleans Telegram to New York Herald. /

hc AcSt1NkIVhy - SOAOECu
New Orleans Telegram to New York Herald.l
During to-day parlor l. of the ST. Charles
Hotel, where the headquarters of the visit
ing Democratic Senators and distinguished
men has been established, was crowded
with a large delegation of negroes, who de-
sired to make known their grievances and
to testify to the fact that a large portion Of
their race was against Radical rule. They
stated to Gov. Curtin, Senator Doolittle,
and others, that they had acted hitherto
with the Republican party in Louisiana, as
representing their race, but in this cam
paign they had become satisfied that such
was not the case. The Republicans had
promised them every thing and had given
them nothing; their children had not been
educated as promised, and school funds
were frittered away.
REPUBLICAN INTIMIDATIoNI
They stated that there was a large major
ity of negroes in the State who would vote
against the Republican ticket if force and
intimidation were not used to keep them in
line. AS it now is a negro, the moment 1t
is made known that he has deserted the Re-
publican ranks, his life is in danger; and
the negroes who were in the room all testi-
fed tina they had to organize for self-de-
fense. The interview which lasted some
time produced a great impression upon all
who were present. Most of the negroes
were from the city, but had made speeches
in country parishes.
The following letter was handed to your
correspondent:
CERTIFICATES OF DEMOCRATS.
To the Editor of the Herald:
We, the undersigned col0red citizens OF the
State of Louisiana, hereby certify that we can
vassed the State in the last election; that we
spoke on the stump in the interest of Samuel
j. Tilden for President Of the United States, and
of Gen. Francis Il. Nichols for Governor of
Louisiana. We each and every one of us voted
the straight Democratic ticket, State and Ma
tional.
JOSEF A. CRAIG, barber, 131 Common
Street.
E. P~oINDExTER, ex-State Senator.
STANLEY JONES.
JOSEPH LEWIS, l31 Common Street.
ADOLPHUS REID, carpenter.
EOR B~RINSTORFK cooper
THOMAS Brown, Baptist minister.
A. NALAsKO, steward.
LEWIS HENDERSON, labor agent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
GEORGE Palmer, of Vevay, Mich.

George Palmer, of Vevay, Mich,
had been at the polls ON election day to
vote, and early in the afternoon drove
back home. About 8 O'Clock p. N. his
son discovered the horse that he had
driven loose in the yard, with the bride
on, and thinking that something was
wrong went to the stable to investigate.
He found his father lying in the stall,
insensible, and it soon became apparent
that the injuries were fatal. 1t was
thought that the horse, in attempting
to escape, had struck Mr.. Palmer down
and trampled upon him, as his head
was cut in several places and his skull
fractured, !
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30

Prof w. D.. Whitney has an article
in the American Nationalist for No
vember in which he shows that the
prairie is a product not of temperature
but of the soil, which may be described
as exceedingly fnelycomminuted earth,
unfavorable to the growth of trees. He
calls attention to the fact, as trees do
not grow spontaneously in prairie soil,
they can only be cultivated there under
E~dificulties.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
lanes Bradley, aged Is, residin

james Bradley, aged Is, residing
in Angus Township, Bay County, Mich,
set a trap-gun in the woods for game.
While visiting the place on the follow
ing day his foot caught in the strings
of the trap, discharging the gun, and
he received so buckshot in his side.
which caused instant death.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30

New York consumes the most oys-
tiers, in proportion to population, of all
the cities of the country, and Washing
ton comes next, while Baltimore. which
packs and ships most of any, falls far
behind in consumption.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30

But, as the Republican has already point
ed out, the Democratic claims admit Re-
publican gains in % Of the 81 parishes, and
some of these gains are hardly less striking
than the Democratic gains already pointed
out, as will appear from an inspection of the
following figures:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
THE RADICAL PLOT In LOUISIANA.
Statement of Col. Broadhead.

The st. Louis Republican of the Goth con-
tains an account OF an interview with Col.
j. O.. Broadhead, who had just returned
from New Orleans. The following is an
extract: r. Is @
What will be done in Louisiana if the Re-
turning Board re-enact their outrages of
1872 and 1874?
ssThere will be no forcible resistance.
There is no talk of that, and no probability
that such a course will be resorted to. They
will exert every legal and fair means, how-
ever, to avert such a CATASTROPHE
| What is your opinion of the outcome?
Do you think the Returning Board will
succeed in giving the State over to the Re-
publicans?
"I do. They have had instructions from
Chandler that it must be done, and they are
bold enough and INSCRIPTIONS enough to
do the work they are expected to do at any
hazard.'
Is there any disposition shown by the
Northern Republicans in New Orleans to
prevent the fraudulent manipulation of the
returns by the Returning Board?
Gas a rule there is not. Most of the
leading Republicans there encourage them
a few honorable exceptions, how
ever, and some of the Northern
Republicans in the city are honest
enough to denounce the Returning Board.
if it can be satisfactorily shown that they
have acted unfairly. / talked with one
gentleman who assured me that he would
not countenance any abuse of power for the
benefit of his party, and there are un1er-
stood to be a few more like him. His asso-
~ciates, however, are fully prepared to in
dorse and defend the Board in any thing it
may do, so that the State is secured to
Hayes.'
How far are they supported in this by the
Republican leaders not in New Orleans?
"There is evidently perfect concert and
unity Of action among all the prominent
men of the party in this thing. kilograms
are received from Morton. Logan and many
others who are not in New Orleans, and
there is no doubt that there is a thorough
understanding about the whole busi-
ness. Charley Farwell, of Chi
cago, is there, it is understood, as Logan's
representative, and, it is said, has a private
detective with him, to whom all kilograms
and letters are directed, as a means of
throwing off suspicion.'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
Two Sides tie Louisiana Figures

ISprlngheId hayes
Paper.1
There are very apt to be two sides to a
question, and the rule proves to hold true
in the case of the Louisiana returns. There
are some remarkable changes in previously
Republican parishes, the most startling of
which we subjoin:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30

Seeking for an explanation Of these re-
markable changes, we are informed as to
the first set that Democratic intimi dation is
the sufficient cause. But in the case OF the
most striking change east Felicianal the
Democrats declare that they We're refused
registration by the Kellogg officials, in ac-
cordance with their scheme to finally throw.
out. the Parish, where they feared Demo
cratic gains; that the Republicans, by order
of their leaders, stayed away from the polls;
but that the Democrats appeared and cast
their votes in accordance with that clause OF
the United States law which declares that
if the elector has made a proper effort to
secure the registration OF his M he
shall not lose his vote for Presidential Elec-
tors or members of Congress by reason OF
the fact that the election officers have neg
lected to register him. 1t should be added
that the Republicans, while admitting the
| failure to register, claim that the official
| was menaced and driven away by the DEM
| oerats. 80 it
Whatever the facts may be in this case,
| the second set Of parishes we have given
| apparently shows that there Is good founda-