The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-05
The Situation.

wednesday the members put in an appear.
ance and work was resumed
Inc action OF the joint committee on count.
ing the electoral vote will be looked for with
great interest, and the country will lie dison
pointed If the committee do not arrive at
some satisfactory conclusion. The war.talk
has nearly died out and there appears now
u nc disposition on all sides to dcpend
entirely upon facts for the solution of the
Presidential matter, 1t is safe TO predic,
that the President of the Senate will moi he
permitted to constitute himself Returning
board OF one and count in Hayes right or
wong This absurd pretence is strongly
opposed by Hdrpers Weekly and by many
lIepuDlicans in and out of Congress. Sena.
tor Conkling, and even Senator Blaine il is
believed, will oppose it earnestly
Although this position has been found mn.
ttnable, it does not follow that Tie band of
consplra'ors, needed by Zach Chandler
nave given up the idea of placing Coy. Hayes
IN the White House. BafIled at one point
'hey VIII seek another and another and will
only cease their efforts when President Til
den is inaugurattd
NO pretence is made by the Republicans
mat Hayes has majority in Louisiana on
The tnce of the returns, and but few of them
think he carried Florida. Nearly all of
them, however, have worked themselves in
to the belief that the ballot can no longer
interpret the will Of the people but this can
only be ascertaiued by a returning board
composed of the most INSCRIPTIONS parti-
sans, They are prepared to maintain that
1t the Southern States did not go Republi-
can they ought to have done so, and the will
must be taken for the deed
The confidence of the Democrats in the
peaccable Inauguration of President Tilden
ON the 9Th of March is undated, but there
will probably be stormy time in Congress
between now and the 18th of February, when,
according to the Constitution, the electoral
vote Is to be counted by Congress-
The rival governments still confront each
other i'll South Carolina, but a general de-
termination is expressed by taxpayers,
white and black, to pay no taxes imposed by
the Chamberlain usurpation, and thus starry,
1t out. The faith Of the people of South
Carolina in the ultimate complete success OF
the Hampton government is about to be
tested, Governor Hampton having asked for
The payment of ten per cent. of the taxes
due, in order that a fund may be provided
Tor the support Of the charitable and penal
institutions of the State
In Louisiana, also, two Legislatures conven-
cd on Monday. Kelloggs adherents, upon
the Returning Boards statement, declared
Packard elected Governor and Antoine
Lieutenant Governor. The Democratic
Legislature, counting the votes "ac,ualy
cast" elected Nichols Governor and Wilt
Lieutenant Governor.
The mandamus proceedings in the Florida
Supreme Court on Tuesday were concluded
by the return of the canvassing board de.
claring majority for Drew, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, whcrcrpon the
board was discharged. Further action in re-
gard TO the electoral vote is not vet matured.
Gov. Grew was formally inaugura,ed on
Tuesday. The Legislature was organized
with a Democratic majority in both branches.
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TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT-The
closing days Of 1876 were marked hy AN %
palling accident which occurred last Friday,
near AsEtabula, Ohio, by The giving way ui
an iron bridge while the Pacific express train
was crossing j., The train consisted of
eleven cars and two engines, all of which,
except one engine, suddenly, and without
warning, plunged into the river below, n dis
lance of seventytive feet The lamps and
stoves instantly set fire 10 the cars. and the
whole mass was soon in II blaze. Many who
might have escaped were doubtless burned
to DEATH There were 40 ,ssengers on the
train, upwards of 100 of whom, il is believed
persisted. The bridge was built eleven years
ago, lad stood the scverest tests, and was
regarded by engineers as perfectly safe.
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THE SOUTH CAROLINA REPoRT-The
Baltimore Suns Columbia correspondent in
his letter of the I'd says:
In conversation yesterday, Mr.. Sayler,
chairman of the House committee, informed
me that majority of his committee did not
authorize the statement that the apparent
majority for the Hayes electors in South
Carolina is illegal and devoid of fraud; also
that the dispatch purporting to be signed by
him and two others announcing the election
of the Hayes electors was not gned by them
and is wholly unauthorized. Mr. Sayer
thinks majority and minority reports will be
made, and is evidently of opinion that the
rejection of tie illegal precincts and votes
will largely reduce Hayess majority, and
may elect the Tilden electors.
Prof Henry G. Rogers, principal of the
Springfield (Ohio) high school, and wife, are
believed to be emong the victims in the ter
rible railroad disaster near Ashtabula. Ohio,
last Friday evening. They had just been