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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

Is spite q tie svowal Of Weldon, the
yoang man who attempted to nssassinate
Gov. Packard, that he did it from pat
riotic. waieh, Of course, means Political,
motives, We shall doubtless have assurances
IRON the Democratic papers hat politics
mad nothing 10 do with the affair. We eI-
pect to see it shown that Gov. Packard had
earned the private enmity Of Weldon by
seiucipg his sister All the murders of
whites AID ball-dozing OF blacks in Louisi-
ana are the results of pirate quarrels, if the
white leaguers are to be believed Yet it is a
fact that Louisiana Democrats have frequent
" said that if the President recognized Mr..
Packard as Governor Of Louisiana, that
gentleman would not long live to govern.
Democratic papers have openly advocated
assassination as means of Kidding the
State Of Republicans distasteful to the White
League Community, and one Democratic
paper Of New Orleans, has in direct terms,
advised and justified the shooting of Packard.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

President Grant will, it IL said short.
~ give farewell dinner to the mem.
bers OF his Cabinet. If he could assemble
around has table all the ger .tlemen who have
he'd Cabinet positions under his Admins
traitor since he went into Office eight years
agp,;Le wonli have l..rge company. lie
has had two Secretaries of STATE Nessru
Washburn and fish G,ur Secretaries Of the
Treasury, 1iess7s. Boutwell,, Richardson
Bristow aaI aOgrill three Postmaster
UeneEa-' 5lesarl. CT eswell, Jewell and
Iyner' I've Alto ,neys- General, Messrs.
loar, AAernan, Williams. Pierrepont and
TAFT four Seer staries Of War Ma.srs
hawlins' BelknaP, Taft and Cameron two
Secretaries Of the Navy, MeSsrs. Borie and
Robson, and I'll rec Secretaries of the Ipte-
riOr, Messrs. Cox, De!ano and Chandler. OF
these one del ia Office, Gen. Raylins
Two were promoted to foreign missions,
Washbnrn and Pierrepoat One, Mr.. Bout
well, weni. q the Senate. Mr.. Richardson
was retired to the Bench of the Cpnrt Of
Claims. Three resigned under pressure,
namely, Belknap, Williams and Delano.
and four Voluntarily laid down their port,
foios on account of differences with the
President, VIZ: M,ssr4 Holr, Coz. Jewell
and Bristow. OnlF one. Mr.. Fish, has held
Office through very nearly the whole period
of Grant TWO ierms.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

Because Republican counsel denied the
right of the Tribunal to take testimony in
regard to Irregularities at every polling pre-
cinct in Florida and Louisiana, and because
the Tribunal refused to admit such testi-
mony by "party vote," Mr. Tilden's adher-
ents assume that therefore Republican frauds
are conceded which ought in equity to ytiatc
the returns from those States. This is most
inconsequential and fighty pretention, and
not single admission has ever been made
which gives color to this original conclusion.
As u matter of fact it is the sincere belief Of
Republicans that the most searching inyesti-
CATION has justified the recorded result in
favor Of the Hayes electors But whether
"going behind the returns" would
be Of advantage to one candi-
date or the other, was not II pertinent
inquiry. 1t was, however, of importance to
ascertain whether Congress was privileged
to usurp the powers vested by the laws OF
the several States in .heir local officers. II
the finding Of the Tribunal is to be dlgnified
as precedent, and 1t had been established
that Congress was competent to revise or
reject the returns in any election district Of
New York or Louisiana, it is very evident
that there would need to be some new id
justment Of the constitutional relations be
tween the State authorities and the Federal
Government
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23
NIle Stree Rress.
-. -. BENEDICT, Editor.
ern,.--sa.oo. year, always in advance.

Tbs order Of the President, which Wade
Hampton made the occasion for his in
sultiDg proclamation, was simple notifca-
ton through the Secretary Of War and the
officer commanding the United States troops
ut Columbia, S. c., that the rifle clubs which
were ordered to disband last October could
not be allowed to parade on the 22nd, as
they were making preparations to do
Having previously, and for sufficient reasons,
ordered these white-league clubs to disband
the President, of course, could not allow
them, by appearing on parade, to proclaim
their public defiance of his order. And Wade
Hampton's insult to the President will not
hep his case before the country.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

The assertion by Mr.. Hewitt that Mr.
Hoar had said in the joint committee, Will,
framing the bill creating the Electoral TT j.
bunal, that the Commission should 60 be
hind the returns and take testimony, is pro
nounced by Mr.. Hoar as absolutely untrue
He says be never gave any intimation to Mr.
Hewitt or to any one else that he held
such a view, and when Mr.. McCrary's
amendment, which gave the Commission
such power, was up for consideration, the
House members Of the committee distinctly
said that they were opposed to it. The
whole record Of the debate in both the
House and Senate shows that the Republi-
cans steadily combatted the view that the
Commission had right TO 90 b.hind the
returns,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

The New York H,raa ina, kes the follow
ing guesses at President Hay es's Cabinet
Secretary of State, Roscoe Conkling OF
William NJ. Eyarts Secretar, of the Trea
sury, John NJ. Forbes or Edw ard Atkinson.
or Prof. Francis Walker FSecr etary of War,
Senator Sherman Secretary q { the NAVY.
Eugene Hale Secretary of tn. Interior, q
Southern Wing; Postmaster General,
southern Wing; Attorney Gene raj, Senator
Matthews,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

THk msjority Of the House evidently mean
that the Electoral law shall be carried out in
good faith. The only danger Is, that, if the
count i prolonged till the middle of next
week, 10 or 50 desperate men in the House
may, by fibustsring, prevent a final de-
cltration OF the result.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

Mr.. II. V. REDFIELD, in an able letter to
The Cincinnati Commercial, discusses the
future prospects of the two parties He
reiterates the opinions which he has ex-
pressed before, that the Democratic party
once in power will be inclined to stay there
for some time. He says: "If Tilden gets
in, the South, with her l3S votes, in 1880
will be as solid as mountain of flint, and
as difficult to handle With all the power
and patronage of the Federal Government at
their hands, the Republicans have been
oyerthrown in all the Southern States but
two. Ard how long will the so-called
Packard Government in Louisiana, or the
so-called Chamberlain Government in South
Carolina stand with Tilden in the Presidential
chair? Not longer than the period given
for refreshments at a railroad eating house
SAY twenty minutes. Indeed. Republi-
cans from those States do not even indulge
in the hope that their party can stand the
racket under Tilden. They propose to let
'all holds CO. and submit to the inevitable
with as much grace as the melancholy short
ness of time will allow" Mr.. Redfield has
no expectation of division in the Southern
Democracy with Tilden a. President. On
this point be gives the following emphatic
opinion But is the South to DO certainly
solid ii 1ilden goes in? see no other
chance. II any one does, let him speak out
and give specifcations. The blacks in the
Cotton States, as a political power of service
to the Republicans, will amount to no more
than blades of grass. There is no such
voting material elsewhere on earth, and the
surprise is that any one should have sup
posed that these simple, ohcdient, timid,
docl!e people could stand out against the
united front OF their masters Their en-
ifanchisement and consequent enlargement
OF the political power Of the South was II
clear case Of suicide, or attempted suicide,
by the Republican party. 1t has given II
bully bludgeon to knock out It's brains -
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

How 10 G,E MuNY- Mr.. 1iOsn kept
h,lrders Around Mr. Browns tea table
sat Nc. Brown. Mrs Brown, Mrs Andrews
the village milIiner Mr.. Back, the baker
Mr.. Jordun clrpeptrr aud Mr.. liadley,
Il lour, Iced and lumber merchant Mr..
Brown took "GG 81 bis pOcket-bOoE ) ~
note and handed /, To- Slr7. Brown, saying,
"IIere, my dear, are $40 toward the y |
promised You" Mrs Brown handed 1t to
Mrs. Andrews, the milllncr, saying, That
pays 10, M new bonnet. Mrs Andrews
said TO Mr.. jord,.G ~ she handed him tho
note, THAT will pay Tor yOpr work on my
counter" Mr.. Jordan handed 1t 10 @r.
lladley, the Gour, feed and lumber merchant,
requesting him to give him credit Tor that
.mount on his lumber bill. Mr.. Hadiy
gave .he note buck to Mr.. Brown, saying,
THAT PAYS 30 on my board" Mr.. Brown
passed it to Mrs BUwp, with the remark
That that paid her the so he had promised,
She, in turn, paid it to Mr.. Blncs, 40 settle
her bread AMI pastry account, who handed
1t to Mr. iiadlcy. cushing credit Tor that
amount on his 6Our bill, hs 4gaip returning
it to Mr.. Brown with the remark thai il
settled for that months board. whereupOn
Brown put it back into his pocket book, cG-
claiming that he "neycr thought ) 10 note
would go 50 far Thus SO greenback
;.4G ,.ade to pay $40 Indebtedness inside OF
i've m.nu-s, no says grccnbaeks are
worthless 2
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

THERE is an ancient weather prophecy
which reads
q" Rustering win Il February g end,
A fruitful year doth 1t pOrtend
But il In February no north W nds blow,
Their sharpness in Apsil will make the face glow.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

10y. GROVER telegr rs from Oregon that
ne never sent desl a'ch To- tioV. 7 lden
signed "Gobble' ri Governor" am tim,
he never used cipher yr fictitious sigma
ture in his life. lie does not sag, oweyer.
that he did lot write The despaa !, which
his associate, Patrick, put in q eipber 3.
or that he knew nothing abb ut its bein,
sent; or that he did not auJ .orize the As
sertion mad in the despatch that he was
going to issue the certificate to Cronin.
Senator Kelley wishes to have it Under
stood that he endorsed Patrick's eipber de-
patch withou; knowing what it was aLout
1t will need very strong blue glass to make
this appear anything bat "too thin"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

Last Wednesday night the stable-boy
gave the elephants their hay. There vert
five of them-fye as contented and happy
elephants as ever killed q keeper. In the
dead watches Of the night, when all nature
was hushed, and the sea-lion made uncon-
sciOus ripples in his crystal tank. and Ger
mantown lay bathed in moonbeams and vel
low mud a change came o er the spirit of the
elephantine dream. The biggest elephant Of
them all, an old girl with big ears and a
long trunk, tossed restlessly in her sleep.
She turned, she coughed, she awoke. She
rubbed her eyes with the end Of her trunk.
and awoke he. sleeping sister. She whis-
pered something in her ear.
No" said the sister.
Fact" said the old girl
why, hOw-who-well, ! never :"
The child was born.
A jolly, frisky, ronping, bright-eyed.
gray-backed little elephant, no bigger than
a dog, with wagging tail. velvety trunk ,
two big ears, and four of the incest little
elephant paws in the world.
had little talk with the baby. for she
can talk as well as anybody; not with her
mouth exactly, but in other ways Just as
plain. When went up to her she greeted
me with
Good afternoon.
She said this by lifting her little trunk
and taking hold of my hand as gently Us
could be- Then she asked
''Ilave you anything in your pockets to
ca. p
This by stiekin: the end of her trunk in
my two 0vereoat pockets, and finding
nothing there but long article on the re-
laton of mind to matter. Then she said:
81 ike potatoes" ami went to eating at
a little heap of them that lay at her feet.
= kitten She has very little to do with her
mother, IL, her violent attachment to one
of the gentleman elephants has given rise
to some bold scandals in elephantine circles.
She is about three feet high. very little
larger than when she was born, and will
BE- week old tomorrow.
81 wouldn't" said FUrcpaugh, take
ESQ 800 for that elephant She's the first
ope that ever was born in America, and
she's as healthy a. any of them. Her
mothers name is Rasii. hut | haven't
named the baby yet"
A elephants live to the respectable age
of I50 or goo years, and the baby is still
very Young, sho has yerv good chance to
see our next Presidti;, GrDaatorn Cor.
Philadelphia Iimf5.
A copy of the FKfE PRkss containing "a
Ludlow man." account OF the birth OF a
baby elephant IN Vermont twenty years
aro, has been forwarded to MIR. Forepaugh,
and we shall pr0h2blg hear no more about
his new acquisition ba!EL ,.s first one
born IN America.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23
NORTHERN NEW WORK.

Robins have made their appearance II
Pittsburgh.
A Whitehall lady has married one .1ohn
RightbOwer. Hearts are trumps and she
| assists.
The game eonstables of Caautauqus couu-
| ty nabbed nine fishermen, last week, in the
act of violating the game laws.
Esther Estes, of Port Kent, aged 81 years
has quilted and sold about SO worth oi
bed quilts in the last four ysazs,
Whitehall has 2i2 aetise firemen, divided
between nine companies. Expenses of the
department last year were 81 ,3S5 90.
The town meetings in st. Llwre,,esc opn-
". last Tuesday, resulted in Ito cboire of
50 Republican Supervisor, and one Demo
crst
Whitehall has ;oabi cd emery mine. Pot
tersSllle has snearthed garnets, and lie
hron, Washington county, has panned out
gold. SO the local papers claim.
Mr.. ferPlanck Colvin Lett Albany on
Tuesday for the Adirondack wilderness. lie
Will catnpleto survey which cannot be car
lied On while leaves are in the way
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

Tue Democrats in Congress are squarely
divided On the greI; question of the day.
TLey call each other iiibusteTs and submis-
sioni.ts lac filibusters. who desire to pre-
vent tie Inauguration of Gov, Hayes, are led
by Senator BJgy and Speaker Randall. The
submisSiOaiS;S have az their leaders Senator
Bivari and Representatives Lamar and Hill,
and they declare their intention to acquiesce
in the decisions of the Commission, and to
vote for the appropriation bills. The South
ernerS are almost without exception on their
side. aud they are really . masters of the
situation" t. they invariably have been in
the Democratic party since the formation of
the Fe3e.Ll G jvcrnment
Tnz nomination of Postmaster Smyth, OF
Albany, who Is Republican, by Gov.
r ,birsau, who Is Democrat, to the Office of
Superintendent. OF the Insurance Department,
which is an important Office, excites consider
able e,mment. and is alluded to as "a wedge
driven into the harmony of the Republican
household at the seat of the State govern
meut." This is the office which Mr.. Tilden
tried TO I'll with Hon. Smith NJ. Weed but
the Republican Senate blocked the game.
Mr. Smyth haS bean confirmed. 1t is re-
ported that Mr.. Cuyler, of the Albany
Express, is to lie Mr.. Smyth's successor as
postmaster OF Albany.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

THIRTEEN AT DiNNER.-COncerning the
curious superstition about thirteen ut
dinner, We have jas: come across this inc.
dent IN recent English book: Some years
since, n0Cr Albert Swith gave supper Of
ta.1tSSa saGt discrejitei the superstition IN
remarkable manner. Himself on the
point of stGrtgn: Tor China. he entertained
twelve iIitaJs who were bound for the
CTlmea, to cneGuater tie perks CT war as
military OiG ,trs or as journalists repOrtiDc
the incidents Of the conflict. Dcaminc i, il,
the highest degree improbable taa. thev
would meet again On English ground wher
they had once starts.s for the scene o.
danger, the tvetvo guess met their most
WITH liget RBaris, and laughed about the
iats which some OF them would OF course
encounter IN few months St1an reIy
enough, all twelve returned nom the wa
in perfect health, aud supped sslla at q
table OF thirteen with the humorous lecturer
Editors Dra,ceri N H.'r.sI ; jcr N4r:t
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

No PARTY was ever more thoroughly COM
mitted to anything in advance, than were
the Democrats to the support of the Flee
toral Commission. But how do they receive
its first decision adverse to Mr.. Tilden 5
prospects? Though, as has been said, it
was decision sin harmony with cardinal
Democratic doctrine, crystalized by fifty
years Of continual advocacy" they attack
it and the Commission, in all possible
ways, in and out of Congress. When the
question Of sustaining the, Florida decision
of the Electoral Commission came up in the
House on Monday, Mr.. Knott, Chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, tried to get in a
scheme for insulting the Commission BY
sending the whole matter back to them for
d" explanation" Mr.. Hurd, of Ohio, de-
clared that fraud vitisted everything, and
that "the Judgment Ct the highest tribunal
might be regarded as null and void if there
was faint Of fraud attaching to it" David
Dudley Field rose and asserted that the
decision of this tribunal, as it has been
made, is entitled to no respect" being IN
founded In morals and unsound in law.
The House has since voted, l42 to SO, that
the Tilden Electors were elected in Florida
The New York Sun allows a correspondent
to charge the Republican Judges with wad-
ing in the filth of Zach Chambers conspi-
racy, and it editorially advises the Demo-
Gratis in Congress to disregard their obliga-
tion to be governed BY the decision Of the
Electoral Commission, and to declare Hayes
and Wheeler not elected.
The Indianapolis Sentinel SAYS that 4" the
numbers eight to seven tell q story of
crime and triumph which in every line,
paragraph and chapter. beats help and in
other Democratic journals the tribunal is
assailed as "a partisan Commission" a
" mongrel court" and " fifteen headed
anaconda"
All this does not surprise US. 1t is exact
ly as we predicted it would be. if the deci-
sion of the Commission did not snit the
Democracy.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

JUICE CHURCH, Chief Justice Vi the New
York Court of Appeals, having read in the
New York Times, the report OF his expressed
views of tie Electoral Commission and its
decisions, writes to that paper to say that he
did express the views attributed to him. He
says: II entertain and have expressed
doubts about the constitutionality of the
electoral law" but he is disposed to sac
quiesce in it as a compromise measure. y
He adds 81 have also expressed the opin-
ion that the Authorization Of the election
Of Presidential Electors, according to the
laws of each State, is final and con-
elusive, and that there exists no power to go
behind it; but have never undertaken to
determine what questions may arise for de-
cision by the counting power consistently
with this general proposition"
This is an unequivocal declaration against
going behind returns Of the State vote. The
result of that vote, as made up and declared
by the duly authorized State officials, must
be accepted as final and conclusive. So
says that eminent Democratic authority,
Judge Church; and if so in Florida, of
course 80 in Louisiana.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

MATT CARPENTER, who is Mr.. Tilden's
counsel in the Louisiana case, was MEM
Der of the Senate Committee which investi-
gated the Louisiana election of 1872. He
then took the ground that McEnery was
elected, and he presented a very elaborate
report which the Democrats sustained. In
That report, he said "In the canvass Of
potes, aciich determined the McEnery gOrern-
n'ent TO be elected, the pOtes Of several ReDu5-
hoan parishes lrere rejected And now
the question is, if the Fusion Returning
Board of 1872 had the power to throw out
returns for reasons within its discretion,
why hadn't the Returning Board of 1876 the
same poTar?
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23

some figures given BY Mayor Ely at mu-
nicipal conference in New York, the other
day, are rather startling as q measure of the
dishonesty of respectable members Of 81
ciety. He estimated the amount of untaY-
ed property in New York city at 81 $50
100000. This is not through any exemp-
ticn law. but through the shifts and eva
sior> Of property who would
never think Oh repudiating their notes or
stealing money, but who congratulate them
selves as heartily upon cheating the Govern
ment Oh. ct its honest dues as though there
had been rise of 100 per ceat. on their
property, of this large sum there is $780,
600, 900 dividend paying corporate property.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-13
School Commissioners.

The Board met on Tuesday last-all the
members present. The minutes of last
meeting were read and approved.
The present Examiner was continued for
one year, with the same salary.
A bill of J. l.. Beasten, for work on
Cayot's Corner school house, amounting to
$21.62, was examined and ordered to be
paid-the repairs on school house being
completed.
Teachers are notified that the cards sent
to them for weekly reports must be filled
and sent to the Commissioner of the dis
trict, weekly.
A charge of negligence of duty was pre-
ferred against the teacher of Monroe school
by Samuel Ienness and James Nickle Jr.,
and the Board of Trustees having decided
that there was no cause for the charge an
appeal from their decision was taken TO the
School Board, and all the parties were cited
to appear before the Board at its February
meeting.
The complaint of certain patrons of Cecil
ton school was taken up, and the papers
being all read, Mr. John Piser was heard
for the complainants and Nr. J. w. Caven-
der in defense of the teacher; but, as there
were no witnesses to the facts alleged, and
in the absence of the trustees it was re-
solved that the subject be laid over until
next meeting, and that the Board of Trus-
tees be cited to appear at the meeting of
the School Board in February.
The President and Secretary were author
iZed to examine and settle the bill of
Medairy X Bowers.