Connecticut western news., 1877-01-19

impose upon them President and Vice-Presi- dent whom they had not elected declaring
 that if the vote was justly declared in Florida and Louisiana it would elect Tilden and Hem dricks, and protesting against the action of the returning boards of those States declaring
 "it is the duty of a just and efficient govern ment to prevent the intimidation of it's voters and to restrain and punish all lawless persons who would molest these voters or interfere with the freedom of elections, but the offenders should only be punished, and those whose rights have been disturbed should not suffer disfranchisement for the acts of such offend ers." The Democrats of Ohio, who met the same day to consider the same matter adopted similar resolutions Some of these were as follows: That while clear in the conviction that Samuel J. Iilden and Thomas A. Hendricks have received not only large majority of the popular vote but ma jority of the electoral vote and are therefore elected President and Vice-President, we yet de- clare that any decision made by the Senate and House of Representatives will be cheerfully ac- quiesced in by the whole people, and that any attempt to inaugurate President simply upon the proclamation of the president of the Senate will be act of usurpation that will be resisted by the people to the last extremity, even should that extremity be an appeal to arms. That the inauguration as President of a candidate rej ject- ed by the people and counted in by fraud is revolution, and if acquiesced in. fatal to repub- lcan government. That the National Demo- cratic committee be requested to call 8 national Democratic convention, to meet at Washington on the twelfth of February, 1877.
 The total capital distributed in the bequests in the will of the late Commodore Vanderbilt is about seventeen million dollars All but very small portion of this sum goes to relatives, six daughters getting half million each one four hundred thousand dollars and one three hun dred thousand. All of the daughters are married ladies or widows. One grandson re- ceives five million four hundred thousand dol lars, besides other bequests and three others two millions each. These are William H. Van derbilts children. The widow of the deceased receives seven hundred thousand dollars, with the house in Washington place and the valuable statuary, of which the commodore was great admirer, during her lifetime, and all the rest of the household goods and plate absolutely, Dr. Jared Linsly, one of the family physicians, receives forty thousand dollars, and the Rev. Dr. Deems has remembrance of twenty thousand dollars. With the exception of the seventeen millions consumed in these bequests, the whole of the commodores vast fortune descends to his favorite son, William H. Vanderbilt. Its amount is not known. Rumor places it as high as fifty or sixty millions. It is noteworthy that all but two thousand of the shares of the rail roads known as the Vanderbilt roads be- queathed in the will are given to Mir. William H. Vanderbilts sons. Eighty-two thousand shares of the Central and Hudson River and twenty-two thousand shares of the Harlem are thus distributed but they of course remain under Mir. William H. Vanderbilts control The commodore is supposed to have owned 8 large majority of the stock of both these roads, so that his son will hold the controlling power in the corporations.