The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-05

/ ic members declined to participate in the Or
ganzation unless their candidates declared de
| feated by the returning board were admitted.
| This was of course refused, and the Democrats
organized legislature of their own. The
| message of Gov Kellogg shows the finances of
| the State to be improving under Republican
rule, and its material prosperity, thanks to
| free colored labor, to be Oh the increase. He
| says: The crops made in the state during the
| present year are compiled at 100000 bales of
| cotton, 10000 hogsheads of sugar, 1910 bar
rels of molasses, and 100000 barrels of rice,
| with more than sufficient corn to supply all the
| home demand. These figures are exclusive of
| other products, which, being added make a
| total value of between $55,OOO,0O0 and 100000
| 000 By whom have these results been pro-
duced? Not to any appreciable extent by
| white labor 1t is one of the lamentable lega.
cies of slavery that by large class of the white
population the cultivation of the soil is regarded
| as badge of degradation. Cotton, sugars and
/ rice, which maintain the commerce of New
| Orleans and afford support to the great bulk of
| the population of our chief city, are the pro-
ducts of free colored labor The Republican
| Legislature recognizes Packard as Governor,
| the Democratic legislature Nichols Packard
| will probably be recognized at Washington.
The canvass of the returning board in Florida
elects Drew Democrat, for Governor but gives
the electoral vote to Hayes. Cooke, the Demo.
| cratic member, disputes this, because the Clay
and Baker county returns were not counted.
But as they were manifesty irregular, the pro-
test will be UNDECIDED. The Republicans claim
that on fair vote the State would have cast
three thousand Republican majority. Stearns
| will not probably surrender the government to
| Drew, as third count of the vote has been Or
dered by the supreme court.
The House committee, a majority being
Democrats, unanimously admit that the vote of
] South Carolina was cast for Hayes. A MAORI
| ty of the committee think Hampton elected.
| Hampton has written letters to Cows. Hayes
and Tilden, claiming chat he is fairly elected,
and asking their support.
| Investigation into the Oregon matter shows
that Gov. Growers action was unlawful. The
trick was probably instigated BY Democrats in
| New York.
l Gov Vance of North Carolina says the South
/ must not take the initiative, but must be pre-
| pared to follow the lead of the Northern Dem
| Gratis.
| President Grant is of the opinion that the
Republicans fairly carried the disputed states,
and that in the other Southern States there
was no fair election. He says the President of
the Senate has power to open and count the
| electoral vote.
Commissioner Dael of the Patent office has
| resigned.
The House and the Western Union Telegraph
| Company are still at dispute.
There is some better prospect that the Con-
gressional committees will agree on plan to
count the electoral vote.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
H. A. & S. S. Wrights steam saw mill in
Detroit was burned Saturday. Loss $4,000
Snow slides in Little Cottonwood Canyon,
Utah, has resulted in the destruction of con-
siderable property and some life.
Wilton Harris of Boston committed suicide
Tuesday night by cutting his throat with
razor.
Julius Mott, a well known citizens of Bristol,
Ct, was killed Tuesday by train on the Hart
ford, Providence & Flshkill railroad.
A man named Daniel Davidson died in a
glove fight in Boston last week. The coroner's
jury found that his death resulted from heart
| disease.
The boot and shoe mandatory of D. At
water and Newcomb & Walker in Elmira, N.
| j., was burned last week. Loss $4,000.
An agent of the Flathead Indians applies to
Gen. Gibbon for troops to protect himself and
the government property at his agency. A plot
had been discovered among the Indians to
I driv tha tlo
property. A force of cavalry accordingly
started for the Flathead agency
| Tony Pastors opera house in New York was
| considerably injured by fire last week.
British ship Crcassian, which went ashore
at Bridghampton, L. l., fortnight since,
broke up during the gale of Friday night and
twenty-nine persons including the officers and
crew of the vessel and a number of wreckers
were drowned.
BRIEF MENTION.
Heavy snow storms have prevailed all over
the country during The past week, extending
as far South as Louisiana where one of the
Congressional committees is snow bound. -
Passenger rates from Chicago toNew York have
been advanced to $1S00.--Peter B. Sweeney
/ having been assured that he will not be ar
| rested has agreed to come from Paris to testify
| in the action Of the People VS.. Tweed for the
| recovery Of 60O00O0.-Dav;d Dudley Field
has been elected to Congress 60 fill the vacan-
cy occasioned by the election of Smith Ely, Jr.,
to the mayoralty of New York--The Grand
Trunk receipts for the week ending Dec. %
were 1888 less than for the corresponding
week of last year.--The mineral exports
from Utah during the year amounted to lit
over $500 0.0O0.--Anny Fawsett, an actress,
| died Wednesday night.--Gen James w.
| Nye, ex-senator from Nevada, died Monday,
| aged 61.--The Kentucky Democrats will hold
state convention on the 9th to consider the
political situation. Bull at last &C
counts was encamped near Milk River cross
| ing. He thinks Gen. Miles is afraid of him.
Wade Hampton says no one is authorized
| to declare that he has agreed to support Hayes
| He and the Democratic party Of South Caro-
lima will abide the decision of peaceful authori-
| ty and looks for peaceful solution
The Supreme Court of New York has sustained
the constitutionality of the rapid transit act.
The new Boston city government was in.
augurated NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Moody in
vites every Sunday School in the land to take
up penny contributions January IA for the ben
ID
sung TAT Moody's meetings. German
workingmen of Buffalo out of work are de-
manding bread or work and threatening vio-
lence.-Gov. Hayes has written letter to
friends in Malone, in which he says all news
paper reports purporting to foreshadow his
future policy are without foundaton.--E
W. Stoughton has declined the U. S. District
Attorneyship of New York. A. W. Tenney is
prominent candidate. DIR. Lorimer of Ire.
mont Temple has declined call to the Baptist
Tabernacle in Network
FOREIGN.
A Paris despatch says that notwithstanding
the hopeful dispatches from Constantinople
there is but single chance of peace in the
east. Russia, in spite of the intense ardor of
her people for war, may be obliged to yield at
the last moment, owing to her means of trans
portation being defective. She has been taxing
her resources to the utmost to get her army in
condition to strike with the greatest possible
suddenness and vigor, but it seems now that
her means of transportation are inadequate to