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WASHINGTON
SOME INTERESTING RETURN BOARD

sumo INTERESTING BOARD
EVIDENCE.
Washington, Jan, 80. = The
Supreme Judges are council. They
will select the fifth at an adjourn
ed meeting tonight.
Littefeld is before Morrison's
Committee pureing his contempt.
Kellogg is before the Committee
on Privileges and Powers.
Kenner teStifes; Wells and An
derson opposed DR.. Kennedy as a
9th member of the Board; don't
know why. Kenner knows Hayes
carried Louisiana by throwing out
votes.
The House passed the bill abol-
ishing the police board the Presi-
dents objections Notwithstanding.
The President stated yesterday
he would not take any action re-
sarding either party in Louisiana,
as it would be prejudsing the
matter of the Electoral vote. If
trouble should bccur he will sup
ercede the present status BY "a
Military Government with Gen,
Augur at the head.
Manager Barnes, of New Or,
leans, delivered the dispatches ro-
quired of him to Mr.. Morrison, Of
the Louisiana Committee.
Senator'We vas examined.-
He asked to divuIge the key to the
|ciphers which he refused to do UNI
'ss allowed to take out his private
telegrams. The permission was
refused, and after unimportant in
terrogatories Senator West was
discharged
A leading Louisiana Republican
neither West nor Casey, unders
stood the President to say Satur.
lay that II would be improper to
change the states gao in Louisiana
pending the Electoral count,
Kenner viii tomorrow produce
his private memorable Of proceed
ing IL secert session in the Louis
lana Returning Board. Congress
man Field, who il Conducting the
examination, is 8leefnI over bis
progress.
Littlcfeld, npurging himself of
contempt, testified tbat he did
make the changes Ia the Vernon
parish returns BY order of J..
Madison Wells. He refused to
the name of the Supervisor,
ami it was done by some one else,
Mr.. Murphy Of Davenport, Ia,
who has been aiding the Louisiana
committee in its Investigations, who
unearthed the frauFs in the Yer.
non parish return, was next called
to the witness chair by the Repub-
licans on the committee. Much
interest was manifested in his tes,.
as it was thought it would
worry unexpectedly to the Reputli-
can members, bring out the true
inwardness Of all the rascality of
which the Returning Board was
charged. He testified that the
first time he saw the mutilated re-
turn Of Vernon parish was when it
was handed to him by Mr.. Little
IN st. Louis, about the Goth
or 9th Of December last. The
direct examination was conducted
Gen. Hurlbut, and proceeded
as follows :
Odd you go to St. Louis to
meet Mr.. Llttleffeld? AL went
there to meet some gentlemen,
among whom was Mr.. Littlefeld.
The other gentleman was Mr.,
Spering. Mr.. Littlefeld was in
possession Of that paper. and
handed it to me for inspection only
and afterward | handed it back
to him.
: Q-Whep did you see the paper
Al saw it aftcrward
when it was handed mo by Mr.
Spering. II was on my way TO
New Orleans, or after we had got
there. s4 ~
By Mr.. Jenks-At Che time MI.
Littlcfcld delivered you this paper
did he state to you any instruc~
tons given him by the beard or
any member Of the board? A
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THE Electoral Tribunal Row
stand eight Republicans and seven
Democrats and Liberals, to-wit :
Morton, Frelinghuysen, Edmunds,
EIoar. Garfield Miller, Strong,
Bradley, Republicans; Payne, Alb.
5ott, Hutton, Bayard. Thurman,
Glif3rd and Field, Democrats and
.Libfrals.. AZ sals.
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Confirmation; Settle, Judge of
the Northern District of Florida. /.
-Four batteries of artillery, re-
Gently ordered here, have back to
Fortress Monroe. 1t 10 thought
that other troops will leave for
che North and West shortly.
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81 The Legislature, on its reasee'-
bling. can dc no better than pass
che bill for the relief Of the people
a&f the State. by issuing the five
million bill into a law. 1t will
egive instant and pcrmanent relief.
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INC QUESTIONS ami OF TIC country,
The country is ]sgitated; il needs
and = desires peacs aud q1iet,aRa
harmony bstween al parties and
all sections, Its iedusrieT are.
arrested, labor unemployed, capital
lille, and enterprise p~aralyzed 0y
reason Of the doubt and anxiety
attending the uncertainty of a
double claim to the Chief Magis
tracy of the Nation. 1t wants to
be assured that the result of the
election will be accepted without
resistance from the supporters of
the disappointed candi 'ates and
that its highest officer shall not
hold his place with a questionable
title or right. Believing that the
bill will secure these ends, / give
signature.
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Executive Mansion. Jan. 29. 1877.
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IUkdTF ''''' V'~ViVVVT"'
Rhode Island gain for Hayes 900.
over Hayes in 80 States, 367 500
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03
THE NEW DEPARTURE AND
HONEST DICK THOMPSON.

When Honest Dick Thompson was
interviewed the other day the old gen
tlOman became excited and, rising
from his seat, gesticulated as was his
wont when appealing to the wisdom of
an old supreme court. He said
Sir, the old Wing party is only his
torical. It died so long ago that its
few survivors would perish in the at
tempt to teach the present generation
its principles. They, however, will
never die. You see there is not enough
of us left to resuscitate and lnfuse vital
ity into it in our day, and without tan
gible existence what could we dot
That which rejoicCs the country more
to-day than all else is the pacification
of the South, glorious work auspi-
ciously begun, and which will be, with
Gods blessing, brought to its full frui-
ton. Why, sir, that ought TO make
the people of that section unanimous
in praise of the mission OF this-our
Republican party. II speak enthu-
siastically remember l was born in the
South, have had forty five years expe-
rience in my Northern home, naturally
love both sections, and it brings back
something of the glow of younger man
hood to realize that so much has been
accomplished in so short time. | do
not see, gentlemen, what room there is
in this country now but for one party.
You may call 1t new party, but it
will be forever the party of the Repub-
lie, the Republican party, II you please.
The Welding process has commenced.
All sections are now to be knit togeth-
er, and trust, and may we all hope,
that this good work shall crown the
labors of the peoples administration,
for that is what history will call it.
After momentary pause the viva
cious but slender and White haired
Secretary continued, his face wreathed
with an indestructible benignity of ex-
preston:
You see, this is a new life to me.
For twenty odd years have been real
" In private life. Once in four years
l have attended the national conven-
tions aud my. State conventions, but
beyond that Ihave not mixed in poll
tics. came here to aid the President
in bringing about an era Of good feel
ing, and it is upon that platform have
planted myself-peace to the South,
peace aud prosperity to all sections of
the country, grand development of
our internal resources, \ revival Of our
commerce. 1t recalls my visit here in
1861, when / tried very hard TO pacify
the Southern men. Il Is coincidence
that what could not do then should
after sixteen years devolve in part upon
me now.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03
THE LocUsrS FLIGHT.

Yesterday the heavens were shad-
owed throughout the day by clouds of
grasshoppers borne by Southern winds
towards the North. The width and
depth of this vast volume of insect life
is even measureless. Credulity cannot
comprehend and words fail to tell of
the mighty aggregation of locusts that
cleaned in the glowing sunlight, and
moved like an aerial sea of silvery spark
ling light towards Pixies Peak. 1t is
a wonderful aspect which the face of
nature presents illumined by the rays
Of light falling through the translu-
cent wings Of hosts Of grasshoppers,
and strangers never grow weary of
looking up at the bright clouds of in
sect life that veil the cloudless sky OF
these sunny latitudes. The curse de-
parts, and must soon fall heavily upon
the green fields of the remote North.
west
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the States resources. He has about
him, in Dorm, Darden, Steele, and IN
bis Attorney General, Boone, cabinet
of dis.in yuished personal worth, spot
less fame and ad miraJle ability, and
yet it is proposed to sacrifice the State,
its credit and systematized public pol
ICY, each feature directed to the attain
ment Of given defined result, in order
that some popular favorite of the hour
may have the honor of filing Hubbard's
place. 1t were wiser to serve the re-
public than the individual, and Hub
bard, knowing best how to serve the
commonwealth and endued with the
tireless capacity for toll that distin-
guished Coke, should be his own sue
cessor. II ambitious aspirants must be
rewarded for violent sectional or party
zeal, send them to Congress or the
Federal senate where they can do
least harm TO the State and people.
We want burdens of taxation lessened
and the State debt extinguished. 1t
has heretofore been growing with a
steadiness that was alarming, and even
its amount has been uncertain and I'M
defined. But now the machinery OF
finance is in perfect order, and now
when Hubbard and those about him,
within limited period, can certainly
serve the State more effectively than
untried politicians, however brilliant
and popular, the good sense of the
people objects to any change.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03
GOVERNOR HUBBARD AND HIS
RIVALS.

The Corsioana Observer would not
have Throckmorton made Governor.
In fact, the devout admirers of Throek-
morton and those of Mills are fiercely
hostile to one another, and only here
and there has Governor Hubbard an
avowed enemy. He surely has and
should have the ''inside track" He
is as indefatigable as Coke, aud faith
full and painstaking and just in every
task. VIXEN the next election occurs
he will be a thorough master of the
duties of his position. Why not fas,en
q responsibility on a Governor and
bind him to discharge it by giving him
the opportunity, and if Hubbard, hav-
ing the time and means, discharge the
! States debt, found its university, re-
construct its Capitol, encourage rail-
nay and factory building and main
lain aud perfect public credit. then We
may we'll reward him with the senator
ship. lie has defined his plans Of
finance, fixed bis coarse and measured
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

JonE E. KING, appointed collector
of the port of New Orleans, is ap old
Wing and LouisIanian by birth. He
served on the Supreme Court bench
since the war as a conservative Demo
crat, taking the office at the earnest
solicitation OF the best people of the
State. He was elected to Congress in
1866, but, having commanded Con-
federate regiment through the war,
could not take the iron-clad oath, and
never secured seat beside Thad Ste
vens, Butler and those other queer peo-
pie of those days of passion and hate
and fury. Judge King is man of ex-
cellent ability and learning, and of
faultless personal fame. These facts
in reference to Judge Kings political
and personal history are given by one
who has known him most intimately
through all his life, and the dispatches
in another place are IN error.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03
FEDERAL OFFICEHOLDERs IN
TEXAS.

Every intelligent colored man in
Texas will confess that his life and
property, peace and personal nights,
are more perfectly protected under
Hubbard than under Davis. The very
means once employed to repress, begat
violence and simply because despotism.
excited resentment and the negro was
the victim. Meanwhile the North vas
furious and the South overwhelmed
with armies, and each Federal Office in
the South was filled with carpet-bag-
gers, and when Hayes begins to eject
them there will be an uproar to deafen
the universe. Those that have become
permanent citizens, having homes and
families in the South, and having
served the public with honesty and
fidelity, should remain in Office; but
that the people of Texas may see the
living facts before them that Hayes,
and the Union as he represents it, is no
longer at war with the South, native
BON Southerners, known to be Amer
lean as we'll as Texan patriots, should
hold share of the Federal Offices of
Texas. II the President would organ
ize a party in the South to coop
crate with another North, expurgated
of sectionalism, the process must
be begun by practical illustra
tions of the fact that the Union
is national and not sectional,
and however we may deplore the fact,
if at all, it is still fact that people
and partY-leaders will be led to ap-
prove or condemn the government
more byrits personnel" than by its
philosophy or practical action. There
fore the President, adherlng to his ia
augural and playing the part of a
patriot rather than that of a partisan,
slowly effects changes in the character
of placeholders IN the South. He
chucks an old barnacle overheard here
and there or prizes him off the hulk of
the old ship and when he goes down
out of sight there is a slight commo
ton in the sea of politics, but the
waves break less and less violently
against the distant shore and then
peace and serenity and unmIxed repose
supervene and there is a delightful
calm, and confidence and security slim
ulatO industrial activity as never before
in these wronged and robbed common
wealths. There is day of blessed re-
pose dawning slowly but surely in the
East. Its brilliancy streaking tie dis
tant horizon is visible even here in
Texas, and reform and conservatism
and justice and equality among the
States and among the citizens of the
several States, recognized in practical
action OF the President when represen-
tatives by Federal power are sent into
the South, will promote as nothing else
can these benefcent results. The
South will the sooner trust and love
the Union when the Union no longer
practically distrusts the people of the
South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

A PHILADELPHIA paper says that
Pennsylvania receives with character
istic complacency the unexpected de-
cision of the Supreme Court of the
United States ordering the refunding
of the million and half dollars" But
Philadelphia IS not to be thwarted in
her project for permanent exhibition.
''She will ask help from all sides; she
will invite visitors from every State and
Territory; she will be grateful for
every contribution from foreign powers !;
her homes will be open as they were a
year ago to those who visit her; but
now, as before, she will rely entirely
upon herself" Heroic Philadelphia !!
She will continue to hand round her
hat and take all that people will give
her, and if that is not enough, she will
make up the rest herself.
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would be of little value on the field of
battle. Ii might be efficient for ravag-
ing and tearing up an enemy's country:
but if the war is waged on Turkish
soil it would be useful only in hsrass-
ing outposts and disturbing communi-
cations. As for the excellence of what is
good in the Turkish armies it has been
exaggerated in reports colored for OBJ
vIous reasons. English opinion hiss
endeavored TO reconcile itself with its
relations with the Turks By dwelling
on their military virtues as an evidence
OF superior manhood. Hence the
glowing accounts of the splendid quail
tiles OF the Ottoman soldier. He is a
soldier who always gets whipped unless
he has some pltiful power like Servia
to deal with. What are the names Of
the battles that the Turks alone have
won against good armies since the in
PRODUCTION among them of the military
system of Western Europel
On the other hand, the Russians
Will begin with an army of 600, 600
men, and will have q million in arms
behind It; and these will all be men
trained more or less effeotually in mil
ltary methods-men of wariike race
as stanch IN battle as any men in the
world. Financially the powers arenot
unequal, for neither is rich, nor is
their credit good in any market. If
fair reasoning could be applied to such
case it might well be thought that
the Turks could not get loan on any
terms; but the faulty of the British
investor has been observed. Contem-
plating the facts through the meSium
OF his prejudices he may deem the
chances of the Turk at least as good as
were those of the Southern Conleder-
acy. But in war between two powers
that have despotic governments it
should be observed that the dictum
as to the Importance of money is less
applicable than in other cases. Both
the Car and the Sultan mag take men
wherever they find them and pay them
when they please; and they may take,
wherever they can find il in their do
minio1s, whatever they need to feed,
clothe and equip them. Their abso-
Lutte need of money is only to procure
from foreign countries such supplies Us
they cannot make. Their financial
straits may shorten the war, yet will
not altogether cripple either side.
In the report of the proceedings in
the German Parliament yesterday it
will be noted that Count Won Moltke
said: THE time is not far distant
when every government will be COM
PEELED to strain all its strength for Sc
curing its existence. If Journalists
talked in that way the soldiers would
say 1t was for the sake of sensation.
Gen. Won Moltke probably does not
believe that Europe is to be plunged
into a general war the day after to-
morrow. He had pet measure for
lncre easing the army which he wished
to get thro ugh Parliament, and the
Parliament was a little obstinate about
it; so he thought he would fnghten
them with the spectre of great French
army; and he did, and his law was
passed. That is the significance of his
speech. 1t was little piece of STRAIT
| egy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

THE jealousy of the New York press
was well illustrated when the World
got ahead of all the city papers both in
discovering Oakley Hall and telling his
plans and purposes authoritatively and
then in dIvulging all that Boss Tweed
knew or could tell. The Worlds state
ments in both instances were discred-
tied by jealousy and envy and upheld
by truth and enterprise.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

IT so happens, and fortunately for
the President in some of its aspects,
that the Nichols government becomes
the returning board government. It
was this returning board, whatever its
vices. that made Hayes President and
now gives Louisiana a Nichols legis-
latare aud peace.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

GOVERNOR CULLoM, of Illinois, has
decided to make public all applications
for pardon, with the names of the sign
ers; and it is probable that men will
now hesitate to sign requests to let
criminals loose upon the community
until they have informed themselves
whether the pardon asked for is de-
served. Governor Hubbard might be
spared an infinite deal of labor by
adopting the policy, in this behalf, of
the Governor of Illinois.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

WADE HAMPTON says that Hayes iG
an honest, direct, frank, straightfor-
ward man entitled to popular and per-
sonal confidence. He says, further,
that after repeated conversations with
Hayes he is satisfied that the promises
of the inaugural will be fulfilled.