Year: 1876

The Radical Scheme Progressing.


Special to the Appeal


NEw ORLEANS November l5.-Up to this
time the northern Republicans here have
made no formal reply, but will, am assured,
answer the northern Democrats tomorrow,
and refuse to cooperate in the interest of a
fair count The next move of our friends
thus cut off from the fruits of their mission,
will doubtless be a report and appeal to
the people of the whole country
with what result remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, Anderson, Madison Wells, and
the two negroes, Casenave and Kenner, will
I'LL the vacancy on the returning board, with
an approved Radical, and proceed on Friday
TO begin their work of counting out the State
upon the grounds and in the way already
stated in these dispatches. They will act as
an independent body, as they assert, beyond
theinteference ofthe executive or the supreme
court, with which last they have been threat
ened after the manner of the South Carolina
board. The time of the legislature having
expired on the seventh instant, and the date
Of meeting Of the Legislators just elected not
having arrived, the State is at the mercy of
the corrupt executive and more corrupt re-
turning board. - The excitement conSc-
quent upon this intelligence is very
great, but the people here restrain
themselves within limits, and are determined
to leave the final settlement to the northern
people, whose case it is as much as theirs.
Pertinent to this, many Democrats here have
directed attention to the fact that General
Butler, in the course of recent interview,
suggested the possibility of General Grant
playing the role of another Richmond in the
field, should there be a dead lock be-
tween the senate and the house
so as to postpone the counting of the cleo
toral vote till after the fourth of March. The
vacancy thus created will not he occasioned
either by q death, resignation or inability, -
and as there Is no provision in the constitu-
ton or laws for such case, and General
Butler suggests that Grant may hold over.
In that event it may become a serious qucs
ton with the people of the south whether
they would not fare better under President
fairly elected and merely holding over
than under one not elected, and whom it is
proposed to inaug,Irate by force and fraud.
Many leading Democrats here say they would
much prefer Grant under the circumstances
Kellogg was to-day visited by number of
the leading northern Democrats here, who
asked him, among other questions, what were
his reasons for asserting that the returning
board would reject the vote Of certain
parishes for intimidation and fraud. He de-
MED having made such an assertion, when his
attention was called to statement to that effect
authorized by him, which appeared in the
Chicago Tribune. The governor evaded an
answer to this, but proceeded to specify acts
that were regarded by all the gentlemen
present as cases of intimidation too remote
to have any bearing ON the election, the
principal one having occurred over year
ago, and being wholly without political sig
nifcance. This is sample of the evidence
upon which the State is to be counted out
and upon which, perhaps, Hayes may
be hoisted into Grants chair. Senator
Lamar telegram to General Walthall was
published in the Times to-day, in correction
of its error in stating that the great Missis-
sippian had no opinion on the occasion of the
present political difficulties here. More
troops have arrived, and more are coming,
and Judging by the preparations at the GUS
tomhouse and the Mechanics institute, an
outbreak is regarded as probable by the un-
righteous scoundrels who owe their exemption
from merited punishment to the presence of
Federal bayonets. J.M.K.