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4 NEW YORK, February 16.-A special from
j Cincinnati says. Il letter received hers
from warm personal friend OF Genera
Anderson ard Ex-Governor w ellis, or the
Louisiana Returning Board, contains some
facts In relation to the means used to se.
lcure the vote OF that State for Mfr. Tilden
y :hfchr1ave never before been brought to
j;oh t. Pending the decision OF the Electo-
raj 20. nmissfon there was rush OF distin-
or;shed visitors from the North, represent
inc both n, rites. Prominent among them
yas Mr.. PER-, IN, who we understood to be
the Immediate personal Representative OF
Governor Tilden. Mr.. Pelton brought with
him drafts to the amount of S250,0e0, and
imm ediately began his
EXPORTS TO BUY THE Reforming BOARD.
Governor Wells. president Of the Board,
was the first person approached. He was
offered 500, 200, $3.50, 900, and finally $780,
600. The money was to be placed in any
bank, subject to draft contingent upon GER
tain results. Governor Wells said be would
take $500, 900, but he alone must be trusted
tUe LIUuCy uuSb UC pl0SCu uAuuSs ~
he returned the vote for Mr.. Tilden it should
be his; If he failed, he would return-the
money to the parties from whom it was re-
ceiyed. Those were the only terms be
would treat upon, and the gentlemen seek
ing an "honest count" fearing trick, de-
termined to try General Anderson, and
State Senator Robertson was chosen as the
avenue of approach, and through him the
same offer Of $3.50, 600, contingent upon the
result, was made to General Anderson.
ANOTHER FAILURE TO NEGOTIATE.
The latter took time to consider, utfailed
to meet the appointment he made with MIR.
Robertson to give his decision, and when
piled further declined to carry on the nego-
tiations. These statements came directly
from Governor Wells and General Ander-
son. Governor Wells says he gave ear to
the offer with the hope OF drawing Tilden's
representatives into trap.
UNwRITTEN HISTORY OF THE ELECTORAL
COUNT.
The New York San of to-day prints a
Washington dispatch under the heading
" Southern Democrats Betraying the De-
mocracy," which says that "on Sunday,
December Sd, 1876, Dir. Hewitt had an in
terview with President Grant, during which
they talked over the political situation, and
President Grant expressed his views with
great frankness. He had doubts, he said,
as to the result in Louisiana, and intimated
that it was his private Judgment that the
electoral vote OF that State should not be
counted at all. He was careful, however, to
impress upon Mr.. Hewitt that the decision OF
this and all kindred questions was wholly
outside the province OF the Executive. It
belongs exclusively to Congress. 1t would
be his duty, however, to see that the decl-
sion, whatever it might be, was acquiesced
in. II necessary, he would enforce 1t. He
stated. also, that it was his conviction that
the Constitution gave the President OF the
Senate alone the power to count the votes
and declare the result. Whoever might be
declared President-elect by the President Of
the Senate he would see inaugurated and
installed in office. Mr.. Hewitts return from
this interview at the White House was
awaited anxiously by number OF promi-
nent Democrats who had gathered at his
rooms. After he had told his story Lamar,
Gibson, and Tucker held a consultation
apartlrom the others, and subsequently, on
that same evening, Mr.. Gibson told Mr..
Hewitt that they would be compelled to sus-
tain that construction OF the Constitution
which invested the President OF the Senate
with the power to count the electoral votes
and make the declaration OF the result"