Year: 1877

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The admission of Kellogg and Butler,
within few moments Of each other in
the order named, seems, finally, to have
resulted from a conviction upon both
sides that it was inevitable, and that to
continue the fight longer with the time
fixed by the Constitution for opening
the regular session close on their heels,
would be at the expense of several i'm
portant interests still waiting Senatorial
action before the expiration of the extra
session; hence the truce tacitly agreed
to, so that a vote might be had.


For the first time in our history, a
creature wholly without reputation save
such a was acquired by the part he
pf4ysfi in one of the most atrocious, cold
biooded, wholesale butcheries known to
the history of Ku Klux rule, is elevated
to seat in our highest legislative body;
according to an almost universal belief
his sanction for the place by the rifle
club minority was in recognition of his
services at Hamburg, and others subse-
quently rendered, differing only in the
degree of their enormity; his pretended
election was in such flagrant disregard
of all the requirements of South Caro-
linas Constitution, that it hardly
amounted to burlesaue; and his admis-
sion by the solid vote of Democrats
with two recreant Republicans is re-
garded as an insult and a gross outrage
upon the rights Of every citizen, nomin-
ally protected by the Stars and Stripes.
This revolutionary attempt has made us
unusually credulous, and a thousand
rumors that would have been secuted
prior to its inauguration as fgments from


the brains of our most incorngible ro-
mancers or as the wild speculations of
lunatics are now entertained and their


truth admitted without question. One of
these is to the effect that the present lull
on the part of the Democrats is to recu-
perate their strength for renewal ofthe
struggle to obtain full control of the
Senate; when that shall have been acom-
plished, Tilden, who took the oath of
Office last March, is to be declared Pres
ident by Joint Resolution of both
Houses, and forclbly seated, Unnecessary,
in the chair now occupied by Mr. Hayes.
I forbear from comment, but the conf
dence of very many, in the pretended
acquiescence of the Congressional lead
ers of the party, in the verdict rendered
by the Electoral Commission, has been
rudely shaken by their apparent readi-
ness to endorse any scheme however
revolutionary, to grasp the reins ofpow-
er, and in the view of many rejecting
spectators of the tendency manifested
during the session now closed, the ma
tional outlook has not been 30 threaten
ing since the nominal close of the rebel
lion in 1865.


Notwithstanding the efforts of the
malignants to cast upon Grants admin
istration the odium Of the loss of the
tiuron, it is now generally agreed that
the navigating officer was Immediately
responsible for the disaster, and he has
expatiated his blunder. as far as one life
can atone for one hundred, sacrificed to
ignorance or carelessness or both. There
is still good deal Of indignation heard
that the vessel should have been ordered
to sea or permitted to go, in the teeth Of
furious gale and with the danger sig
nails flying ali along the coast The
proposition to make some provision for
the SURVIVORS and the heirs of those lost,
by Congress, finds few to oppose it.
There resides in this city father and
mother whose eldest son was instantly
killed few years since, by the premature
discharge Of gunpowder used in blast
ing. The second, naval officer, was
lost at sea two years ago, and the third
and only remaining one, also an officer.
perished in the Hmon disaster The
gentleman to whom the only daughter
was betrothed, was killed by railroad
disaster while on his way to fulfill the
contract Such case of successive
bereavements Is, happily, rare.


The Veterans of the Mexican war are
again pressing their claims for pensions
in a vigorous way upon the attention Of
Congress, and at meeting held here
Saturday evening, the estimate OF the
number of the survivors furnished Con-
gress last session, with this end in view
or to defeat it, perhaps, by the Commits
sioner Of Sessions, was dissected and
made to appear in a very ridiculous light
and in a manner very discreditable to
the judgment, at least, Of the Commits
sioner.


Mr. Schurz refuses to pay the expenses
of the Fox delegation Of Chiefs recently
arrived here without invitation, on the
ground that they had left their reserya-
ton without permission Judging from
The treatment accorded those preceding
hem, they would have been better off
by just the cost Of the visit had they re-
NAMED at home.


The weather is seasonably cold and
he windows of the shops already have 4
holiday appearance. Troops ofchildren,
happy in anticipation canvass the merits
of the rivals for trade, while crowds Of
yaily dressed females spend money lib
srally, regardless of "hard times"