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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-02-03
TELEGRAPN|C SUMMARY.

Washington, Jan. 2o-Tho President
signed the electoral bill at 10 o'clock
this morning.
The conspiratorS yesterday made on"
last desperate assault on Grant in regard
to Louisiana for the purpose Of securing
forma! and final recognition of Packard
at the Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
Five of the principal conSpirators call
ed in body at the White 1iou*r hut
were foiltd by the adroitncSs of Casey,
who, being aware of their contemplated
onslaught. went to the Executive Man.
sion and got Grant to 90 ont for Il walk
and stay out until the con>pirators wrr"
gone. Another attack in force will h"
made to-day. The conspiraors will gath
or at the White House along about noon,
embracing Chandler, Camron. Kellogg,
Sherman, Hale, Stoughton, Morton, Bout
we'll Fry, and as many of the master
spirits as can get into the executive Of
Tee. irintrntion is to exhaust their
influence on the President to secure
Parkard's recognition. This movement
has another object: The consrirators de-
sire to forrstall any action the grand tri
hunal may take in regard to the Return
ing Board, IN so far as a formal rar"gn-
ton Of the Packard Government by the
President would amount to such fore
>ta!lMrMt.
The Trstimonvof Kcnner before Fields
COMMITTEE" has opened the way to the
returning board and the results of its ac-
ton.
a General order will be issued order
ing all batteries which have been sta
toned near this city, to their regular
posts. In view of TIE passage or the
compromise bill the President does not
think they will be needed.
The Republican caucus selected Ed
munlS. Morton and FrrlinyhyStn asmrm-
hrrs of the grand commission. .he SUI
prrmr Court adjourned to-day to the
18th Of February. !he withdrawal of
Iive Judges destroys a quorum, which
requires six.
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Senator Elan.

We sincerely hope our friends of
the Mansfield Reporter have not cor
rectly stated Mr.. Elam's views upon
the question OF contesting the seat in
the Senate now unlawfnlly occupied
by NJ. Fl. Twitchell. We would be
panied to think that Mr.. Elan chad
left the matter entirely in the hands
of the Democratic Senators, and if
they think he should contest, he is
ready" It wonld pain us beyond
measure to suppose for an instant that
Mr.. Elan would so far forget who
were tho masters and who the Ser
vents in this matter.
The Democratic Senators have no
more to do with the question of
whether Mr.. Elam should or shou)d
not contest than the King of Daho-
mey. Mr.. Elan does not represent
the "Democratic Senators who have
a quorum in the Senate,' but he rep
resents the people Of the 22d Senatorial
District, and their wishes should alone
be consulted upon the question of
contrasting or not contesting. The
people of this District demand Of Mr..
Elan that he move in the matter ut
once.
If he does not wish the honor of
representing this District in the Sen
ate, let him then tender his resigna-
ton as a Senator, for such he is as
all the world knows, and let us have
a new election that we may have a
gentleman and man of honor repre-
senting the District, instead of the
Infamous Twitchell. We are ready
and have been to defend Mr.. Elam
from the charge of "crookedness' in
the compromise of 1874; but at the
same time We insist that he shall give
the lie, emphatically and at once to
these charges, by insisting upon the
rights of the majority Of the people
of this District in demanding repre-
sentation through him in the State
Senate.
That is the question in a nut shell,
and hair splitting will not do.
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The following are the points in tho
Electoral Bill which are tersely stated
and stripped Of useless verbiage 50
that all can understand them:
!. Those States OF the Union which
present but one Electoral return Or
certificate arc to I've counted, unless
both Houses reject them. 9 The
States with two returns conflicting
with each other are referred to a Com
mission, which has all the executive
power end authority of the two
Houses, either together or separately
3. These powers are not defined 6y
the bill, and present the features il
tho following way:
A. The two Houses of Congress
meet to count the vote THURSDAY,
February LIST.
B. There will be four tellers, two
elected ritu roce by each House. This
allows of a caucus of each dominant
party, nominations, and a strict par.
ty representation from each House.
There will be five Democratic Re.
representatives. from the Lower House,
five Republican Senators.
c. One Senator and ono Member
muet object to the vote of each State
where there is no opposing certif.
cate, and afterward both Houses must
separately withdraw and one or both
resolve not to count that certificate.
So Mississippi will be counted for
Tilden. Arguments are not permit.
ted in the Grand Convention.
d. Conflicting certificates only shall
90 to the Mixed Tribunal. That Tr.
hunal can not be dissolved by either
House. By the death or prostration
of a member it can he renewed by a
RIGA roce vote of the House where the
member sits. So with dying Just.
ice the other four select a fifth again;
L. When they retire to debate, the
two Houses shall have at the utmost
only two hours on each case o. q Dis.
puted certificate of State.
+. When the triple Tribunal dc.
cides. both Houses must dissent to
overthrow the decision. One House
is not enough.
6. A single joint meeting of the
two Honscs will determine who is
President after the Commission do.
cides. Thus, if there be four disputed
States, tho whole debate will take
only eight hours. Meeting at one
o'clock it will be ten p. M. before the
great result is known. But there
may be recess until the following
lay, in each case of the House with.
draw ing.
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thusia,t ically applau1cd, and it was
IL notable circumstance that just as
Mr.. Hill concluded his pcroration, a
telegram was rnt into his hands an
nouncing his election as a Senator.
The Speaker Randall exercised his
constitutional privilege of voting as a
Representative from Pennsylvania,
and gave his vote in favor of the bill,
The vote on its passage was yeas ]ol:
nays S6~-a|l Int 19 Of the negative
votes were given by the Republicans,
among the 10 were tho following:
Blackburn. Durham, Jones, Knott
and Milllin, of New York ; Bradford.
Caldwell, Forncy and Williams, of
Alabama Mills, of Texas Singleton
of Mississippi, and Smith, of Georgia.
The bill now goes to the President.
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We have received the January
number of LEISURE HOURS a hand
some mammoth IS page ga columns)
family paper, filled with the choicest
literature serial and short stories,
sketches, poetry, wit, humor, &C., &c.
1t is entertaining, amusing and in.
structiye, and is one of the cheapest
papers.-the amount and quality Of
matter considered. that we have
seen. The price is s l. 90 per year,
including as premium genuine fine
Line steel engraving, called "The
Mitherless Barn. printed on OK %
plate paper, which tho publishers
claim is superior in point of meri-
and attractiveness to any premium
ever offered by any other paper in
this country, and is alone worth the
money asked 1Or DOtn.
The publishers, J. L. Patten e. Co.,
l62 William st., New York, author
ize US to say, that in order to intro
duce the paper in this vicinity they
make special offer to every one of
our readers to send them the paper
a trial trip of four months,
postpaid, commencing with the
January number for IS cents
Our readers who avail themselve
of this offer will, we feel certain
thank us for having called their at
tention to it. The publishers of
LEISURE HOURS
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Redeemed

The testimony of the witness, Lit
tl,tir1. only il shadow of which is.
puhlisl,ed in our dispatches, must
have been of such 4 character as to
completely upset the whole fraud
in this State.
Mat Wells, that man whom Shcr-
man so fcr]ipglv cnloyiscd, comes in,
as every decent person anticipated,
the chief villain of ne picture. He
inStisatrs, requests and orders forg-
cry by mutilating the face of the
the election returns, and, as is well
said in the dispatches, he will 60
from the custody of tho scrgcant-at-
arms of the House to the custody Of
the warden of a penitcntiary. Such
a fate is well deserved, and no one
will regret to see this monster; this
enemy of society and civil govern
ment immnrcd in a dungeon for life.
The bearing of this development
upon tho presidential as we'll "a the
state case is direct and conclusive.
Hayes must now 90 down with his
-conspirators, for we will always
believe that Hayes is as culpahlc as
Grant or Chandler in this conspiracy
TO further insist in the face of what
the public already know added to the
testimony of LittlefelA, the Return
ing Board clerk, wonld be an act of
folly, for it coull result but in disas-
ter and ruin to whoever fathers the
action.
The Electoral Commission will now
he forced TO acknowledge, however
reluctant they may be to do so, that
7'ildcn was deprived of the electoral
vote OF Louisiana by the frauds COM
mittcd in the interest of the Rppnb.
lean party by Nat Wells and his Re-
turning Board and that It cannot he
counted for Hayes.
On, State government is redeemed
beyond question, for this denouement
taken in connection with the fore.
Swallowed report of the Senate Com
mittee, (of which eff course the major
ity are Republicans.) settles Governor
Nichols and his government beyond
cayil as the Governor and govern.
ment of this commonwealth.
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Senator Conklin, of New York,
has done some things in life to
which VIC cannot assent, but his
effort, manly and able, in the
Electoral Bill debate stamps him
o man and a statesman far
above meaness. We are glad to
accord to the distinguished Sena-
tor our congratulations upon his
position, and we can say truth.
fully, that as a whole, his speech
is one of the ablest ever delivered
in the Senate, and that is saying a
great deal.
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ObstrucCing the Status Quo.
II SONS that tie action taken last

II seems that tie action taken last
week by Judge Picrson, which was
legal and proper, has been misunder'
! stood by our friends in New Orleans,
else they arc acting upon the state
| mcnts of the partizans of the radical
party of this place furnished no
doubt to Packard.
The whole matter amounts to this !:
Judge Pirrson took the oath of Office
on Saturday, January Goth, before
clerk Barlow. On Monday parties
sued out warrant for the arrest Of a
criminal before him, whereupon he
ordered the sheriff, Barron, to ex-
ccutc it. This Barron refused to do !;
then Judge Picrson suspended him
BY written order and called in person
upon the Coroner, Brcaa, q brother
to the Returning Board judge, who
also refused to recognize the COM
mission of Governor Nichols under
which Judge Pirrson was acting
then BrtdA was also suspended and
VI. l.. Bates. a constable, was ap-
nOintc1 sheriff. as the law requires.
who gaze bond and executed the war
rant.
The clerk, Republican, promptly
recognized Judge Pierson and the
napers rec1t;ng action in the case
were forwarded by Judge Picrson to
the General Assembly, which alone
has nHthori'y to take coyni-once Of the
co"duct Of jaoic;u! officers, for their
action.
Only this and nothing more was
done, wherenpon the faithful Niars}
set up howl of Constructing and
disturbing the statu quo.' Ezernack,
president Of the Police Jury, refused
to approve the bond of Mr.. Bates and
Judge Piersoa ruled him 70 sho" cause
why he shon]l rot answer was re-
turned by Ezcrnack which not 6e;rq
sufficient IN 1ow was overrulel and
the bond of Bates stands approved By
order Of Court.
No obstruction has been presented
to those elected upon the Republican
ticket in this parish from qualifying,
caere they hare been elected. Breda
was never elected judge, and the fact
is wei! known by every radical here
The bonds presented BY those officials
who wished to qualify have so far been
perfectly worthless, and the Recorder
has refused to give official sanction
to them for that reason, and that rea-
son alone.
The management of the" domestic
affairs of this parish will be looked
after by its citizens closely in future,
because we were the unfortunate 8 |
per cent taxed q few years ago and p,
no man is expected to so far stultify |
himself as to approve bond known
By himself aud svery one in the par
ish to be worthless. Such official |
conduct was INDUCED in by radicals
before, and is now, for the president
Of the Police Jury has approved them
all, and we defy him to prove before
a competent court that q single man
on either bond as approved By him is
woHh one dollar.
ltinsisting upon good and solvent |
security on tho part of officials for |
the faithful performance of their duty |
is "obstructing," then we plead guilty; |
but until these officials do present !
bon1smcn that arc worth what they |
say they are under oath, "obstruct-
ing will go on.
We are happy to add for the benefit |
of our city friends that she "statu
qro," that bugbear, has not broke !
loose up Red River.
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Status Quo.

Elsewhere we succinctly state the
action taken by Judge Picrson, in
which he is unanimously sustained By
the people. with regard to the power
Of his Court and the respect due its
authority.
Dispatches from the Governor, Sec
rotary of State and Col. Levy, NJ. c.,
show that the President regards that
action as a violation of the status guo.
In other words, the President says
that neither party shall advance un-
til the question of the rightful all
thority in Louisiana is settled By ac-
ton of Congress; that neither PIER
son nor Breda shall act further until
the said case is decided.
Judge Pirrson has submitted to the
wishes of Governor Nichols and our
friends, and will advance no further
in the matter, although he as we'll as
we repu1iate the authority or power
of either the Governor or President
to interfere in Il purely judicial mat
ter. Be THAT as it may, however, we
are satisfied with the result of the
advance. We hare fell the enemies
Lies 0n1 ,now e;uct|y their position.
The stability and purity of the
Nichols Government does not de-
pend opou the doubtful recognition Of
its authority by the elected Radical
officials throughout the State. That
class will recognize drccncy and vir-
tue when there is no other way to
help it than stepping down and out.
We have all along doubted this death
bed repentance, for we We're aware
that the character of the local Radi,
cal was totally opposite to Il display
of virtue-un|ess necessity compelled
them to it. We know now that no
Radical here will recognize Nichols,
if he can help it. That they will
cling to Packard to the last gasp, and
when there is no possibility of his
succceoinG. then they will he loud in
their loyalty to Nichols. When that
game is attcmptefi in Natchitoches
parish it will not win for the Skin
mish just had and the status qNo dis
turbancc has firmly fixed the status
of every official in this parish, sia~
tbs they will he compelled to maintain
TO the end, win who may.
Repudiatiny the authority of
Nichols now; refusing to recognize
its lawful officers today, shall hold
good for all time. We presented the
opportunity for them to display their
hands; for them to elect under which
King they wonll serve, and they hare
done so J
With Nichols and his Government
its success and legality we have en-
barked our all. Our boats are des-
troycd and there is no retreat. We
have proclaimed him ruler or that
he must be snrplanted by one more
powertul physicol1y-and that one
must govern directly.
These men have elected otherwise Il
they have decided to cast their lots
with Packard; with him they must
now lose either way. lie can never
succeed; that fact is set'7ed' 1t will
be Nichols or a Military Government.
and with either, the local Radicals of
Natchitoches must make up their
minds to step down and out.
They may laugh and jeer at what
they supposed "sharp practice,' but
when they read this, then we defy
them to call mp even smile. The
''sharp practice" was al one way,
ye griuniug idiots.
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The bloody-shirt gas bags are
all going home from Congress to
stay. Logan, Boutwell,, Paddock,
West, Clayton, and a host OF Rad
ical ghouIs have been done for this
year. Let Americans in the tu-
ture cease warning on each other,
and 60 to work in building up our
PROSTATE country. We have all
we can attend to in that, let us no
longer act the fool.
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EUROPE.

The Conference of Powers having
submitted. through their represent
ativcs, programme for adjusting the
ditlicnitics between Russia and Tur-
key, and that programme having
bcon rejected by the latter tho wal
seems now on the verge of breaking
ont.
Russia agreed to reduce her de.
man1s to a minimum ; henccforth Rus
sia thinks herself entitled to reckon
on the continued collective efforts of
Europe whose accord for common
ultcrioc action has not been destroy
ed by the conclusion of tho confer.
cncc. The memorandum concludes
by stating that Russia proposes short
ly to submit a programme to which
she hopes to obtain the adhesion Of
lne powers.
The plenirotontiar;cs who were de-
! tanned at Constantinoplo after the
the close Of the conference, rendered
important service by re,snaaing the
Porte to inangnrate reforms of its own
free will, instead Of yielding to the
advice Of the war party to force on 4
rupture with Russia by Immediately
attacking Servia.
Liverpool, Jan. 2G.-Tho circular
of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' As
ISOLATION says: Cotton became an
mated last Friday afternoon, and a
large business was done on Saturday.
with a considerable advance in price.
Business since Monday has been com
paratively moderate at rates favor.
ing buyers, but quotations If most
descriptions are still above last weeks.
America was in very lar &c demand on
Friday ard Saturday, and prices adj
vanced 3-lCd. There has since been
less doing, and with a free supply l.
Is of the advance has been lost. Sea-
Island has been in improved inquiry
at firm prices. IN futures transac-
tons have been extensive at advanc-
ed rates, bnt business since Monday
has been limited at lower prices.
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Lewis, Kellogs's tax collector,
or Packard's, we can't say which,
of Red River, has proceeded to
sell out the lands Of that parish
in first class order.
Had not this young man better
wait uutil the status qN0 has
been dissolved before he incurs
expence, the tax payer cannot be
made to, nor never will pay
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The Davis family scooped To-
gan at last. Jefferson, the late
President of the Confederate
States, stands even with the long
haired bowler.
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lack Chandler wanted Packard
to charge Gov. Nichols "and die
in the street" Packard said
Nichols didn't owe him a cent,
and that he wasn't doing q credit
business.
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Because the present government OF
North Carolina has refused to tax the
people to pay the worthless bonds
and claims Issued by the carpet-bag
governments, the cry goes forth that
the "monied power" will destroy her
credit. That's cheek, certainly, on
the part of Merchant millions. These
debts represent the degradation Of
the tax. payers of the South and were
MI gigantic steals. North Carolina
does right ia refusing to reimburse
the money bags for outlay used in
degrading and robbipg them. The
bond holders and the carpet.baggers
were in cahoot, let them both suffer.
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Thy Servant Will Have Seen
Sufficient.

The PEOPLE of Louisiana need
not be surprised to hear at any mo-
ment Of an act Of folly, maya crime
being committed by their representa-
tives at the Capitol Of our State.
The rumors of Casey's election to
the Senate have reached us in q very
decided and trustworthy manner
and we are fully satisfied that there
is more in this than we dream of.
A gentleman in whom we have
confidence residing in the city of New
Orleans, has stated to us that Casey
,rouM be elected to the United States
Senate by the Democrats.
We ask in amazement, can such a
thing occur7
In all the political shifting which
the leaders have subjected the party
to in tho past in this State; of all
tho "trimmings,' concessions, con-
citations and compromise of princi-
pie with fraud, this act of e|ecting
jim Casey by the Democratic house
hold, certainly takes ground beyond
all that we have ever imagined. 1t
is a disgrace the party shall never be
subjected to without our firm and
emphatic protest.
If the cause Of Democracy in this
State rests in the contamination Of its
political success, upon snch FONDA
ton as al the world will say is dis
graceful, unmarly and dishonorable,
then we have been all along mista-
ken in Democracy, it's traditions and
its principles.
Is this another attempt of the Baz.
card to eat tho prey of the Eagle :?
Are the Conseryative-Liberal nlncom-
poops coming forward after the bat
tie is won, to take the spoils and die
tate places for their placement.
We had thought the vigor and
manhood of Louisiana had tlrottled
those dead carcases that cling to the
chariot wheels of the party, on the
floor the Baton Rouge Convention,
but it seems not. Cat-like, they arc
possessed of nine lives, and they
would add disllonor to the glorious
victory the white Democracy in a
canvass Of reason and aggression,
have won over fraud and force by
electing a creature who will reflect
naught but disgrace upon the State
and her people.
We say to the Senator or Represen.
tative who may have in contempla-
ton this step to PAUSE! and con-
slider well his political future before
he makes it-for with that act he sui
cides--his grave is dug and the peo.
pie will consign his person to eternal
oblivion, and his name to everlasting
dishonor.
No man that votes for jim Casey
can ever hope to hold position in fa-
ture by the suffrage of a virtuous
people. We beg Of our Senator to do
no such thing.
We have been disgraced sufficiently
in the past by consorting with War
mouth and his gang to convince all
reasonable men that concession to
force and conniving at villainy are
not the ways Of success.
Rather would we suffer ten Pack
ards than such an outrage as the cleo
ton of Casey to the Senate of the
United States by the Democratic par
ty.