Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-18

. GENERAL.

asking Tor recOgnltlOn Oh Inc new hepuDll-
can State Government and Legislature, the
President telegraphed on the 7th that he did
not. propose to interfere, further than to
instruct the military commander at New
Orleans to keep the peace and prevent
bloodshed. This decision was unanimously
approved by the Cabinet.
Gov. Williams, of Indiana, Gov. Cullom,
of Illinois, Gov. Phelps, of Missouri, and
Gov. Anthony, of Kansas, were formally
inaugurated ON the Sth.
s. S. Winslow, clerk intthe cash-room of
the Treasury Department at Washington,
has been arrested, charged with the larceny
of the $12, 900 package recently stolen from
the cash-roem.
The President has nominated Levi P.
Luckey, formerly Private Secretary to Pres
ident Grant, to be Secretary of Utah Terri
tory. =.
The French steamship L'Amerique,
bound from Havre to New York, went
ashore at Seabright, N. j., at 8 O'Clock on
the morning of the 7th. The passengers
and crew, with the exception Of three of the
latter who attempted to lam in one of the
ships boats, were rescued by the life-sav-
ing crew.
A mass convention of the Democrats and
Independents of Illinois was held at Spring.
field, on the Sth, TO consider the present po-
litical situation. Gen. John M. Palmer
was chosen President, with a Vice-Presi-
dent from each district. Addresses were
made by Hon. Cyrus 81. Mccormick, Gen.
John f. Farnsworth, Gen. John M. Palm
er, Hon. Lyman Trumbull, and others. The
resolutions adopted, which swere presented
by Hon. Lyman Trumbull, declare a belief
that Tilden and Hendricks were fairly
entitled to q majority of the Electoral
votes cast forPresident and Vice. President;
that the two Houses of Congress have the
right, under the Constitution, to count the
votes of Electors and decide all questions
arising thereon, and declare the result, and
that no vote shall be received and counted
without the concurrence of both houses.
In case of a final disagreement between the
two houses as to the counting of the votes,
then, it Is declared, it becomes the duty of
the Hous to choose the President,
and Of the Senate the Vice-President,
according to the provisions Of the Constitu-
ton, and in such an event all ''forcible
opposition thereto should be proceeded
against as treason and revolution.' Mass
meetings and conventions were also held on
the same day in Indiana, Ohio, Kansas,
California, Oregon, and the District of Col
umbia, at which speeches and resolutions
similar in purport to those of the Illinois
Convention were enunciated.
The steamer Montgomery, from New
York to Havana, was sunk on the It'll, dur
ing a fog, off Cape May, by a collision with
Aho ao,aA Cn-1i-4l- " H. Do&-- .-l
Savannah line. Thirteen lives were lost.
The House Investigating Committee re-
turned from Florida on the Sth.
The Legislatures of Kansas and Arkansas
convened on the 9th.
The President, in another interview with
q press reporter on the Sth, declared very
fully his plans and purposes regarding the
Presidential situation now and the inaugu-
ration of the President on the 4th of March.
He deprecated the Democratic meetings
that had been held and the violent language
that had been used, especially at the one in
Washington, and he feared that these as
semblages had a revolutionary tendency. He
declared that he had made every arrangement
to protect the public buildings and treasure
of the Government at the National Capital,
ohu was empowered v uCCldIc LudtLldl
law there if necessary. AS to the possible
ity that there might be two inaugurations,
he said that the only legal one must be held
in the District OF Columbia, and any one as
Stunning authority elsewhere as President
would commit a usurpatiOn and treason. He
had examined all the laws, and found that
they required all acts of the Executive to
to be lone in Washington. He had hopes
still Of a peaceful settlement Of the pending
troubles, but at the same time he had made
up his mind to preserve the peace as long
as he was President.
The House committee on the privileges,
powers and duties of the House in counting
the Electoral vote have decided that the
President of the Senate has no power to
count the votes, and the House has equal
power with the Senate in the agency of
counting them. There will be a minority
report.
Attorney-Genera Taft, in his annual re-
port to Congress, devotes considerable space
to the Southern political question. He says
that, in view Of the actual and prospective
danger of lawless violence before and at the
election in certain States, stringent Or
ders were issued to the United States Mar
shals to use all legitimate means to secure
a fair and peaceable election. In regard to
South Carolina he says:
The declar ton of the Governor, supported
by ample evidence from other sources, left the
President no course but to comply with his con-
stitutional demand by issuing an appropriate
proclamation, and by ordering to that State such
military force as seemed to be necessary. and was
within his control, The troops were not intended
to interfere, and did not interfere, with any citi-
zen's right TO vote, but, on the contrary. their
endeavor was to make it safe for citizens to vote
according to their political opinions.
The Consolidated Virginia mine yielded in
1876 SIG, 662 900 in bullion, and the Super
intendent thinks the yield for the current
year will be greatly increased.
Hon. William A. Wheeler visited Column
bus on the 10th, and had a conference with
Gov. Hayes.
The House Committee on Pacific Rail-
roads, on the 18th, agreed to report the So
called compromise Texas Pacific Railroad
bill to the House, with a recommendation for
passage. The question as to conflicting
New Orleans branches is left open for action