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About Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1880)
-K ' '2- , fta. HIE ADVERTISER THE ADVERTISER o. w. rAisnorxsK. T. C HACTTgR. FAIRBROTELER & HACKER, Publishers ud Proprietors. Published Every Thursday Morning JLT BROWNYILLE. NEBEASKX. FAIKUXOTITEat Jt UACXLEX- PakIlamA.Fraprfetoift. ADVERTISING XATBS. On lech. one j .110 30 100 Each sa ccecdlsy Inch, per-year-One Inch, per month TERMS IN ADVANCE: me cop7. on year .82 00 . X HO 50 ' Eaeh'ad'dttfonalinciupeTinc.ntiL. Lesal astrerUsenjeass at rga.l ratts Sue nicarw 0a caps', six months. (14 Hues orNenpareJI, arless)Szsttsaertio3 ,UK each snhaeqcaa t Insertion, Sfle ja-jji ttaasieatatrsrciaeraerrsa3insX.be pad fortn urraaee. 8ne copy, thrett months- Ne papersent from the office atn paid h.T. "ESTAB"LISEZD 1S56. Oldest Paaor is tie State BE0"WjNtYTLLE, KEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1880. READING 3IATTER 0XEYERYPAGE Y0L. 2.5. NO. 14. OFFICIAL PAPER OF TEECOUXTT ""-If - h,. .jr-j 1 -ww t r ,jm v y y m OrriCIAIj TJIRECTOE.T. "District OScers. a.H.por-rn J. C. WATSON" . william: a. koovkr. -Jndjre. .District AtMrner TUtrritrt ClerA. Cottntr OScers. wwr . rrm.r. Comity Jni f vMT.rn.irrsox"- .Cterfe anrt Recorder TrTrr ShrIB Cnran et a. w arr-MnTtF X Ml. KI.WTCVKR. C R.FA.1IKF'? ". HOOK SarvTor Sfeol Superintendent - GanitalsKloners J --TV T PIrt.XAN City OScer. j rrK"tw.. n A. TTT. I. ItHOfMCHV K. A. .." j. e. anssE .i rrK-VCIUTES'. W. TTCVKT JOE W ,nv ' A. R.OTW A. H. TT.MW: ' C. NTrtTTXRT) E. rrcoi vtr. t r.avar .FaWce Jmize .Cleric Trin.nr , . Vantol .1st Ward iBdWard JrdTVard 3UiilXi:SS CARBS. J. H. BBOADT. AttrnT anil Cnntielr t Lw, OfficesTraat- BanlcSrwrnTWIreb. s . (tSRORX. A.TTORSBY ITLAW. See. Xo. Xia street. Bwwilk. eh A. S. HOLT.iDAY. Phriielan. i-;r-ca. OTnttetrlclan. Graaii-Hi tt - w W mil a MS5. T S. STFL T. . TJ ATTORXBi'S AX LAW. 0Ccf Cajy lwf. Bny tunic. Kehraska. T L. sririrK. A. 4TTOP.SEVATI.AW. OSee -er Po OOee. Br,xiiwme .X'abraslta. TXT T. ROGER VT . ., Lttoraey Jtnrf Connelortl.w. WTT i1t -!mrt at tm thiii n-rzxlne frt' eire. X5 npini!tte Fast OQce. T L- ROT, Co-t ta4e shnrt andea. Three miles west at J TV. GIBSON", BLACKSMITH A5D HORSE SHOER Wri-i t m on'- an3 "StHfartKvn csaraateed xlrtrt. Hfsreen Mala and Attaatic. Brswi C L I X E . F.HIOTAnT.E BOOT A2JD SnOE XAKER CUSSTOJT WORK SKUlota nrdr. and Ra alwaF inaraited. ReiatrtHg itIt ajripmnnKty deag fehwp. Xo.r7 Xata teet nmrrte.NeB. TATOB MAR0H2T, MERCHANT TAILOR, and dealer ia FlneEarHB.Frenefe.Sc3tc and Fancy Cloth Vitfiirs. Etc.. Etc. B. W. BAILEY. SHIPPER. Ara BEAXBR IK LIVE STOCK MtOTfiryTTILLZ. 2TEBRASKA. Farmers, ateoe enJI and sst srlees ; I waat Co bamlle Tar stock. OTIce Flrt NAtktaat Bnk. , .0-0 I 2STABI.ISSSB IS" 1856. OLDEST HEAL ESTATE AGENCY EN :NT2T3:EJi.SI. William H. Hoover. Does r zsneral Bi BSat BwlneH. 5Hs XJinds a Coramfsrfon. esaaslaes Titles, makes Deek. Xortsaw. aai all J lustra -siesta pertAtalDg to Uw transfer oC Real Es tate. Kas a Oomuiete Alstract of Titles A, to all Real S.state In Nemoba Coactr. AT HATCHETT'S, Everybody Knows the Place, ICS-CHEAM la a specialty. Cnstomers are accotri in dat ed day er slsht to the choicest IGS - CREAK And the calls on SCNDA.YSbaTe ba so scaemuii that gentlemen aad ladles Pre ac-comniO'lat-ed to ICS-CRSAM on that daytat any hocr. aad are received In to aeal parlrs and treated cordially. Ywbj folks from thecantry are Invited to Hatch et's to get their ICS - CSEAM, LeaiMade. aa4 Coafectlooa. Always go where yo eaa get the best ICS - CREAM, and whereVecr garronnritnga are'mest ples- E.C.BEEG-EE, FASHIOKAHLE .421IK 3' and Shoe TJ -Tk - SLS St. Havlnsr hocsrht the cus tom shop of A. Robison, I am prepared to do work fvTnll Jr!ndat as T3nocn?iiMia TJofne Repalrlnff neatly and promptly done. Shop y. 62 Main Street, Broivntnllc Wbraslza. B. G. WHITTEHOREr DEAtEHDi- GSOCrERTES, PKOVISIONS, 2,W.LNfcr MACHINES SEWI5G 3UCKI3E REPAIBS A SPECIALTT, willpay the hteheat market price for scrap Iron and rags. Main st. West BrownvlMe. TETTER HEADS, a BILL HEADi Neatly printed attbljtofflce. "DAT -l- t Sic -? -TZfTri S '& ?siS IH ITS WEIGHT IN 60L9. The Doctor's Testimony. A-S.Eniner.of itarJon. WaTW.i.. 2T. T nars The wonierfu! sneces of Thomas' Eclectnc Oil m 1 LSfl? acute -md chronic Innam motion, ca- tarr aandliir it urmnrnis, lame nrwtr eta. ranie fh rf. Terr trrfr ! The Druggist's Testimony. if e-nn. Fester iTIHwrn fc Co. RezartHntrtlie sate orrtranas' Ectectric 0 we ar cratf ed in beine atote to infa-m yea tfeat since we wok th azencr three months a for the sole and introdBcifcMt of Ectectrt OW. oar rerr hirs wle prwvei cofteiiMtvelr Us ocr lotad-i: tbm nT edy hai exuaardiaarr nernn sw witnessed br the unprecedented iale. We anticipate a breia etase is ueaale.a9 bs virtues becememarecener ay kBowa. VOurs traly. fi. JOJTEHSOy. BeaJers laOrngs and Sarical Iasinaents Sold by A. TT. 5iefceH, Drarrfst, BroirnTille. Gt STcice!'3 Sr3rs Freemaa"s Xew Tatlen aljes. Ttr rfetaess and darabUity ,'etr tnerareweiued. coiorito 5:ba.,pricei5eent9 Geo. Arkrsrriglii, rracti c ai w ate n m aks r ' ' ! la UNION- HOTEL, wrst of CocrtHwse. HAS NOW A COMPLETE NEW STOCK OF WALTHAM, ELGIN, SPRINGFIELD, Mi vements. KEY . AXD STEaT-VIND Sil-ver Coe. Hunting & Open Face Boss Pal Gold JVatcli Cjire. Sleni-Winil Put. Dosi-Freflf Case. Seth. Thomas &c American Walnut - Cascc SpecfeLcIes & Eye-Glasses. A Full Line of J"eA-elry Onaiatlng of everythhtcjthat sees to make Hp a first class assortflfreitt. Repairing Fine Watehes a Specialty ggWork don promptly and every care " token to izive satfefectioit. 1)0, Sain St. Brownrille, eb. T. A. Balh. Joseph Body. ; BATS&fBODYi proprietors ! t HURffFT I21H11 Hi !. are now prepared to accotnraodate the public with Good, Sweet, Fresh M 'FIAT, Highest nsarket price paid, for Beef Hides TJLXjXjO'VV' First dar east t P.O. Brownvltle. ICTBOUIZEB S. GOVEI153IE3T. SIiOWrT'3X-I"EL Paiti-up Capital. 50.000 Authorized " 5003000 IS PREP ABED TO. TRANSACT A General Banking Business BCT A3TD SELL OOTJT & OUEEMOY DEATTb on an Hie srincJDal cities T the United States and Srirope MONEY LOANED Oa approved secorltyBly. Tfen Drafts U.coant ea.aad pedal ecoranjIrr!rratlleiHMit' ra. Iea.lori a GO VERJTirEST ROXBS. STATE, COOriTY & CITY SECURITIES ! TJBPOSITS ReotTPdparairfendemasd.!iii4 rXTEEEST al lowed m Hzseceruacmea ofipeatt. DrRECTORS. Wm.T-r3. R. 3f. Baay. M. A nay. t rant E. JfasB. Lateer Ssadley i . .C ii3UCi. J0HX L. CaRSOJu A.R.DAVISOJr.CajiW-. I. CJXcTTAOG HTOK". Arat.Caa Wer. President. JBxf Sale. OZVE OALF INTEREST IS- THE SHERIDAN MILLS. For particrilarH call on. or address. GEO HO"rFWOnn Hi0tt, -t, wiu.nu3ii.WOOD, Sheridan, Neb. sMas fePSsffl uljUuiVu Cil! IT BT TnE C. First National Bank: O F i The Alabama Election. 0P THE DEM00EATI0 FRATXDS TJT TWF, LA ELEcnoir. An AstonisMag Eecord of Easdalit AcMeveraents cf tie Democratic Count-1 ing Maciine in iSome Tnstancea Eive Times as Many Votes Counted as there are Vsla Oimens in the Ccmrfrr. . The Republican State Committee of, Alabama has prepareu and sent out the j f olio win? address to the countrv. ing a detailed statement of the stupen dous frauds f the Democrats in that State in the recent election. The doc ument will kie found to contain import ant evidence and worth serious atten tion. THE ADDRESS. To the Comitry: When the Democrats came into pow- er in Alabama in 1ST4, they found an election law in force which provided , proper safeguards for the ballot, and i whieh was just and equitable with re- spect to the rights ot tise two political parties, xne ummta ere retiuireu 10 be numbered to correspond with the numler opposite the name of the voter on the poll-list; immediately after the close of the election the ballots were required to be counted and a correct re turn thereof made, which return, to gether with the poll-lists and the orig inal ballots, was required to be for warded to the office of the probate Judge of the county, and there filed as . not shorter than five inches nor longer public records: within a short time i than seven, not narrower than two thereafter the probate Judge, sherifLinehes nor wider than two ami nnc- and eierK. ot tne circuit court, who j were constituted a Board of supervi sors, were required to again make a count of the votes and to correct all er rors, omissions or frauds of which the 1 the election might have lHn niiltv If nffpr fh npHnn vf tlia i irtrcxi uxiLY. ji, jatci mc iicuuu ut Lite supervisors, anv suspicion tliat frauds had been committed or errors had been made remained in the mind of any person, the ballots and the accompanv- I ing papers were always forthcoming to answer for themselves in any court where the question might be tried. Those who desire the purity of elec tions eoukl ask for no better law. But j the Democratic party was dissatisfied j with it. It had just triumphed, but by ; a measre majority. It had been found j necessary to inaugurate a reign of ter- ror throoghout the entire interior of state. Billings was waylaid and assas sinated in Sttinter county. Shortly thereafter the mail train on the Ala bama and Chattanooga Railroad was iLurged in the same county in open day by a band of armed men. ami ilail Acnt Ivey was ri!lled with bullets. ror having declared that the murderers of Billings sitould be brought to Just- . . .. -.. . I the polling pfcice was broken into, the -i- , , , . , ..- billots destroyed, and in the attempt by the mob to shoot the B.epcblie;in su pervisor. Judge Keiis, his little fourteen-year old son was murdered. The murderers have never been punished or tried, but more than one of the pf r sos whose public reputation is to have been concerned in the -runnier have been hooored by Democratic ofiices in the KepuWkair-couiicy thus made Dem ocratic. Armed bands of men rode through the streets of Mobile during all of election day, assaulting and mur dering inoffensive colored men. and later on the terror caused by these bands was supplemented by milit:iry guards, with bayonets and uniforms of gray, at each of the polling-places. Not withstanding these aete and others of a similar character which could be truth fully enumerated, the Republicans, white and black, had rallied to the standard of their party, and under the most adverse eircurostauces had polled a vote of S(MQ0 a Yote which was a standing menace to Democratic ascend ancy. DEMOCRATS "KKFOR3r THE ELECTION" LAW. It was the consciousness of this f;ct that caused the Democratic purty to enter upon a "reform" of the election! law, to the end that that which they had accomplished with so mueh dinf eiilty by violence, and which remained so iiteeeure, might be made easy, cer tain and secure b fraud. The statutes of the States of the Union may be searched in v;iin for a pareliel to the election law which was then framed awl passed by the Democratic leuisla- tttre of Alabama. It not onlv utterlv failed to provide safeguards where i safeguards were required, but it crea- K. At sprang liUUJiirhour counfcv.ibhifik, man- as wfeiinlv as thn whinh.SBme- -o uuues Esnispectuxpui; waau." r T" 1 1t. "1 T. "rr"T : TTr ted opportunities and offered suggest- crats usually the only officers remain ions which the most dull-witted eoukl i iag to the Republicans being the pru not fail to comprehend. It was provi-1 bate judges, who, by reason of their ded that the inspectors, after having ', tenure of office being longer than the counted out the votes, should inclose other officers, and perhaps because of the return with one poll-list, in one ! their judicial character, have been able box. which should be forwarded to the j t0 resist Democratic efforts of displace sheriff of the eounty ; and that the bnl-1 meat more successfully than the oth lots. with the other poll list, should be j ers- It is a singular fact, upon any oth retained by one of the inspectors for er hypothesis than that of an under sixty days and then destroyed, unless stood determination to disregard the in the meantime a contest should have j rights of Repubhcan voters, that in all been commenced. It will be seen that ' eases the voice of the Republican mi all eheek upon dishonest inspectors is j nority on those boards was ignored; thus totally destroyed, because their i a1 althoutrh the law by some mishap bare return is all the evidence before I provided that the election managers the uoanl ot supervisors, ami upon which they are required to declare the result. In the meantime the inspectors have the. evidence of their fraud in their own possession, and have ample I aad passed by, and men for whose ap time to make the votes- in the box ' pointment thev had not asked and conform to the return which thev "lio, if favorable to them, were utter have made, should a contest be threat- ly incompetent were appointed to enetL Or. as has heen alleged, in some i gnard their interests. Such was the cases where the boxes were required ; case in Montgomery. Autauga, Lown the houses of the inspectors may be!es AVlkox. Madison, andall other broken into and the boxes stolen"; or I counties similarly situated. In Lown they may be "aeeidentallv" drooped in-'des the Democratic sheriff and clerk to the are.aml burned; or the inspect- in j, umiwu?; u, iiHatiitue as lu tne dates, may destroy the boxes a few days before the law permits. Por all these misdeeds of and mishaps" to in spectors this -wise" election law pro vides no penalties. Shoukl these sub terfuges fail, no great harm is done any way. The fraudulent return has subserved its purpose bv giving tlie certificate of election to the Democrat ic candidate; for in Democratic Aia buraa no greater irnpossibQitr eoukl be l conceived than for a Republican to successfully contest in the courts the right of Democratic candidates to of fices to which they have been declared i elected. ONE point, t-ncotered. spefditt t- TENDED TO- r - 3 de- xae law was tonna to nave no feet, however, in federal elections the i federal courts have jurisdiction, of elec- ; TJZ,. i.ul: I J5i tion officers and those courts, taking .autmt uiiauapwAuis eiecuon managers, had reached forth their nanus unexpecteuiv, ana uj means ox their process taken possession of the ballot boxes "with the ballots, and held Democratic candidate. It is instruct the same to be used as evidence m the i ive to interject here. parentheticaHv, prosecution of indictments for election frauds. An unsympathizing grand Ju ry had found indictments on the evi dence thus presented, and several hun dred of "our best citizens' from the foar quarters of the States were drag- ; ged from their homes to the courts at Montiromery, ifobile and Huntsville. Some even were convicted by these "alien courts" of an "alien govern - merit," and were made to suffer the ig- nominy of imprisonment in the com - mon jaiL and the hardship of restaur- J immediately counted, as the law mrert ant fare paid for by a sympathizing ed, but could not persuade the other irt- and admiring people (which afterward rewarded manv of them for their mar - tyrdom with offices of trust and profit), tiow to remedy the delect which made this invasion of the rights of the citi zens possible was the question which was presented at the next session of the leirislature. It was then and there de . termined tbat the law which provided i for the numbering of the ballets did not! i comport with the theory of the secre - cy of the ballot, and a law was enacted r that the ballots should no longer be i numDered. J-est some vile anasedi - J tious wretch should still be tempted to invade the sacred secrecy of the ballot. by putting sme mark or brand on his ticket, by which means he might there after identify it, or, by showing its ab sence, bring the self-sacrificing gentle men who acted as election managers to grief, it was further provided that the ballot should be on plain white paper. half inches, and that it should have no mark or device whatever on it. All ballots not conforming strictly to these requirements were to be rejected as void. The debate on this measure in the State Senate and House of Repre sentatives at the time of its passage would be interesting reading for the northern neoDle. Some timid snnls i there were who suggested that the law provided for an election by the inspect ors and not by the people, but they were overborne by the advocates of the measure, who declaimed about the "sacred secrecy" of the ballot and the outrage of dragging innocent men awav t from their homes ou the testiraonv of ignorant and corrupt negroes that they had voted contrary to the ballots in the boxes purporting- to be theirs. Such a travesty of iaw and of government by the people never was before present ed. The foregoing constitute the chief alterations made in the election law by the Democratic party sinee it acquired power in tliis State, although there are innumerable minor changes, necessary ta the smooth and easy working of their scheme of fraud, which point to their determination- to disfrancluse the I isLruiKinise Lie t. i . ! - r. have heretofore been indicated. iltwl Ex.varpr.Rs of dahxtxg FK.vtr. A few instances, not intended as an enumeration, but as simple examples of that which occurred all over the State at the election of the second of the present month, will show that the spirit which actuated the Legislature and the Governor in the passage of these iniquitous election laws is alive and active in all classes of the Demo cratic party, and that there is no divis ion in that party upon the proposition that the negro skull not be permitted to have a voice in the government of the country where he lives, although a brief examination of the late Demo cratic census returns will show that he is largely used to swell the basis of rep resentation. It should be premised that a majority of the Republican county officers who have been elected at previous elections have been forced from theirpositions by a law which re quired them to find bondsmen within the limits of their own county a law whieh was designed for no other pur pose than that which it accomplished. Xo good reason can be given why offi cers should not be permitted to make their bonds, in whole or in part, any where within the limits of the State, except that by confining them to as small an area as possible, such of them as were Republicans would, in some localities, be subjected to the mercy of a class of property-holders who are hos tile to them and inimieal to their re tention in office. It happened that in all the large Republican counties dur ing and preceding the present election, a majoritv of the board of oificprs charged by law with the dutv of ap- pointing election officers were Demo- should be taken from both political j parties, the persons who were recom mended by the Republicans were, with some immaterial exceptions, "snored met without notifying the Republican probate judge, and made appointments to suit themselves. After they had completed their work, they notified the probate judge that he cockl azree to it or not. as he pleased, but that it should stand as the action of the board. This shameless and disgraceful action of the county officers" foreshadowed very plainly what was to follow on election day. atm"ghee"s switch. At McGhee's Switch, in Montgom ery county, the Republicans polled ST2 ! votes by actual count, the Republican vuteia leceivinguierrticsetsirom one man. giving him their names and going straicht from him to the polling-place, i x v.rx .x-.r iT i- - i - j nulling meir Lich.ec in view ro enaoie him to see that they deposited thesame ticket they had received. These pre - carrtions were adopted in order thatthe " epuoucan oxes pMiea thereon that day might be fixed and as- certainea Deyontl a donbt, because at the election In that precinct for mem- i oer 01 congress two years oeiore tneir votes had Leen returned as cast for the that B. E. McGhee. one of the Demo- cratic inspectors at the former electron, and who is at present under indictment in the United States circuit court for 'stuffing" the ballot-box on that occa sion, was one of the persons chosen as a guardian of the people's ballots at this box at this election. After the election i had progressed, without one threaten- 1 ing incident, to its close, at 5 o'clock, the Republican inspector, a colored . man, demanded that the votes should be spectors to join him m the count, first , one excuse and then another beimr of- t feredrfor the delay. About six o'dock a military company rroni .Montgomery, the "Grays," under command of CoL Jones, commanding the Second Ala bama militia, appeared upon the grounds, supported by an armed posse i of about thirty citizens from Mont The cause of the delav then jromery. i became apparent. The wretches who j ere housed inside, contemplating the villainy they were about to perpetrate. ' uecame airaia oi uie inoagnaoon ana wrath, of the large number of colored men who were quietly waiting on the ground to hear the result of the elec tion announced, and had sent a report to the city that they were threatened by the colored men, and there was danger of a collision. The Governor of the State had thereupon issued his man date, and mustered his bayonets and dispatched them with all speed to the assistance of his threatened compatri ots. The soldiers took up their station and the count proceeded. The details of the farce enacted here have been be fore published. After counting 116 Republican and 59 Democratic votes. tlie cmdle was aceidentaTty extinguish ed, the ballot box disappeared from the table, reappeared, the candle was re lighted, the boxw;is discovered to be full of tickets, where it had before teea J partially full, by reason of ' flft HiTninit'iriAn onool rw Tfa-wv I ready counted, and large numbers of Republican ballots were scattered all over the room, where before there bad been none. The colored inspector, in experienced though he was, could not mistake the meaning of all this, and timid as he was inexperienced, he yet raised his voice in protest. This was the point to which it had been desired to bring him. The other inspectors and the clerks pretended to be indig nant at an "imputation upon their in tegrity,' and resented the same with Lmguage of such force, acctinpanied by demonstrations of such character, that the gailty individual made haste to Join his friends outside. After being some what rettssuredby them, he attempted I - - --- i r i to suram enter tne poums-piace aan. re- TT T i . T "lcu "-' ": awraucui, luil . ir imx .nnf I-.T- -fi.a o-f..-,.. ,-t.i-...- i. t..i voluntarily abandoned his post he eoukl not resume it. The inspectors then proceeded to the count, and imule a re turn giving the Republicans 132 votes, and the Democrats 540 votes. There are two singular circumstances in con nection with the election at this point, which shoukl be marked down. The first is that, of the first ITS votes taken from the box while tlie Republican in spector was there. 118 were Republican votes, while of tlie 500 votes taken from the box after tlie Republican inspector had abandoned his duty, only ltf were Repu!ocan votes. The second is, how 132 c Jored men were enabled to terror ize 540 Democrats, white and bfctek. at that place, ami put them in such deadly frkmt that they raniired a military company, uniformed and armed with bayonets, to assist them in collecting the votes of the freemen who voted there on that dav. AT KENDALL S BEAT. At Kendall's Beat, in Moatgomery county, at which pfctee a list of natas of Republican voters was kept for the same purpose asatMeGhees.544 Repub lican votes and 65 Democratic votes were depositetL At this pfctee the Dem ocratic inspectors, relying on the isne rance and timidity of the okl colored man acting as the Republican inspector, who was also partially blind, proceeded. with slight efforts at concealment. toJ substitute Democratic for Republican ballots, but were not enabled to make as complete a revolution as in the other beat, because the okl colored man de veloped an amount of inteilisence and decision ot character which prevented. The Republican majority of 4T5 was re duced, however, to 4V. the onlv majori ty allowed anywhere in the whole eoun-1 ty at this election, and even this major-1 ity was not allowed us by the board of j supervisors who compared the returns and taoufeitedthe same, but was thrown out because more votes were returned than appeared on the poll-lists. The inspectors had got things mixed. AT ROBLNSON's CROSS ROADS. At Robinson's Cross Roads, Mont gomery county, a record of the Repub lican votes was kept by M. Dillard, one of the oldest and best citizens of that precinct, and it showed that 5S0 Re publican votes were polled. The Dem ocratic vote at the outside limits did not exceed 50. The only disturbance during the day ocenrred about 3 o'dock. and it was between colored men, one of whom was wounded by a pistol shot. The polls were kept open until 5 o'clock, as by law retiuired. and voting continu ed until the very dose. The colored man who acted as inspector then pro-, posed to proceed with the count, but was informed by the other inspectors that they did not propose to count, that the disturbance at the poite at 3 o'clock had'mvalkiated the election. They then closed up the poffing-piaee. carried off the hox eontairurg; the ballots, and from that time to this no information has heen received in any official quarter as to the votes in this box. AT PORTER'S BEAT. The same thimr occurred at Porter's Beat, where the vote was about 400 Re publican, to 50 Democratic, bet at that precuicu mere was not oneracmem ota1 tlireatening character upon, which to , ground an excuse for not counting. Why they were not counted is not. known. We -onlv know that the in- spectors, after receiving votes all day, have utterlv failed to make anv return . whatever, and bv their arbitrarv ami unlawful omission have disfranchised r about 500 voters. Whv the monotoav was vaned. at this beat, and the 4epl- . -...,.. - -. -- i lican majority only suppressed instead : of being transported, is perhaps ac- counted for by the fact that the Repub - neans. rpmempermcr tneir experience in former elections, waentrteyhad been : counted out, deterrnined to remain at the polls en masse until thejr votes had county, for the first time since the war, been declared. This fact, aided by sua- is made to return a Democratic major dry remarks which were made iteriagj itr of over2,B00. the day and night that the Republicans sample nrus rx i.ow-des coxtt. uiuv wunteu a xair count, ana ubk iaev would have that, anpears to have had a Sfilnfnn? cfFo1- rTt Ua. -minAcr rrF Ut Si cnootni; tiv .tl.1 e f close the building and go awav with ?e Hhcans, was this time steleninthe I" ! palter schools of the banot-boxTin the presence "of tte'JP $2??$ ftal - K aicI?a.ed to "f crowd outside, without giving it a paci-1 of SS- At the lb Pf " m ?SfeP.bosoa fZ sbeot fying assurance. The sfcitement P voters were kept by mtelh- as thetherssho aaj get up aap n.nr,Krri TO,i& t. i. ..Mw ui-' &mt men, each voter giving ms name petite roc breakfast by killing a Yak ti,fl vov: A,mM ckna-fifion.!, ".- n3 Ut? VUllUlU. UU IFU itiKTAtcpulf" beans to have 350 majority. Neverthe less, they were suppressed all the same. AT -PT.-ttr. At "Old Elam" the Bat of votes as kept showed thut4-i Repubficaa votes had been polled to 18 Democratic The count proceeded at this place until 200 Republican votes and 5 Democratic votes had been counted. At this junc ture the candle expired, and it appear ed that no other light could be procur ed. It was accordingly proposed to Charles Pope, the colored inspector. who had been selected for the position because of his ignorance and stupidity, tbat all the votes be placed together and sent to town in lieu of a return, which proposition Pope accepted. This proceeling vitiated everything, be cause, under the law, the inspectors are required to make the count imme diately, and it is upon their return, and not by a count of the votes, that the oouni ot supervisors aeehires the re sult. To make the thing safe, howev er, and to make the injury resulting from their action irreparable, the votes as cast and all the loose paper awl trash in the room, with several hun dred ballots of both parties, which hud not been voted, were dumped indis criminately ia a bag, and sent to the sheriff's office as the return from Ekue. AT TTSION" ACADEMT A-ND DOOLEY's. At Union Aeademy and Dooieys, where the Republican votes exceed the Democratic, the latter have been re turned as having majorities. The fea tures of the count in those beats do not differ materially from those related as to the other beats, except that the in spectors, instead of transposing the Re publican and Democratic votes, as wag done elsewhere, appear to have at tempted to extend the Democratic vote beyond the Republican vote witbotit diminishing the hitter. They did not bear in miwl the hue eensas returns. however, and have returned more votes from their precincts than those returns snow tuere are male einzens over twenty-one years of age. en" the crrr or Montgomery. In the city of Montgomery, where it i was not supposed any attempt would be made to falsify the count, the pre cautions to ascertain our vote were not taken, as in the connrty precinct, and the Republican majoritv of 1.4tK .IT l.n TIT1II ! T,Vll..&k .. .T1 T,. T9mM Fl mMlT- - ,. , ,i , -------- ; --r, " in i ". wis ibk nme sniftFax-fij rum a Democratic maioritv ot about 800. There are still some indicia extant. The intelligent white Republicans, who had been offered by the Republi cans as inspectors at the city boxes, had been rejected for colored men who could neitlier read nor write, or who, it was supposed, would be pliant in the hands of their associates. The Demo crats became aware before election day that a mistake had been, made as to one of these appointees, who was a smart and resolute colored man. On the momimr of election the hitter pre sented himself at the votiag-pfctee to assume his duties half an hour before the time fixed by law for opening the polls. He was refused entrance to the room on the pretext tbat he arrived too late, and that the election officers had already met, organized and filled his place. The Republicans in the city had no candidates for justice ot the peace and constable. Manv of them picked out some name no one else would be likely to think of, aad voted it for one or the other of those offices. It is noticeable that not o&e of the persons so voted for is returned as receiving a single vote. MONTGOMERY COOJTT. To show in figures the glaring frauds committed in Montgomery, the capital eounty of Alabama where the Republicans were this time more uni ted than ever before, the eountv thor oughly canvassed, and no objectionable ticket, composed entirely of white men. Republicans and Independents, in the neki. whieh was unanimously nomina ted by a convention of colored men, while many business men, Democratic in politics, voted for the Republican nominees, because men better known for their fitness and integrity, and many, not daring open opposition, ab- tained from votimt. for sign of apathv they were arraigned in strong terms by the Democratic orsan next dav we give herewith the following official re-' port ot toe last tour elections netd in Montgomery County, Alabama, which shows the necessity of United States supervisors at elections as the only safeguards asainst fraud. SAMPLE MANTFA CTTRED RETCRN5. The features presented by the elec tion in other counties of the State are pretty much the same as those occur ring ia Montgomery, with here and there some peculiarity of fraud, which renders it worthy of mention seporate- iy- Before the election the leading Re publicans of Wilcox county, fearing the easienL end of tBe e&aafej cooeind- rhir rm.LV AAnarf rvr- aar a t-a AAMMf m ed to advise the Repabiicaws ia several precincts not to vote, and then the Democratic steal would be made more palpable. Republicans posted them selves near the polls, aad took down the name of every colored man who voted. At Snow Hill seven colored men. voted. The Democrats gave themselves in. their official return at this precinct 50 votes. Bet accord ing to the census returns of last June there are only 132 whites Kviagin the i precinct over twenty-one years of age. i "? white the seven colored " "- : " . xr .urc polled, at this precinct, 40 less than tfae official return. At ADentoa pre-' jo the hands of the" Democrats. It is einct two colored men voted. The'.siaTDiv like the Greenback ixirtv. as Democrats gave themselves 34 votes, The last eensas shows hat 62 whites in the precinct over twenty-one years of age, TotaL 64 votes 2S3 less than the official return. It vraa the same at , Pine Apple. In Bonbam's precinct the retaras ( gave the Republicans Democrats 4Tt.makin 2 votes and the nwHTVT n Tnf-oT vara ? ! 40S, or 142 more males twentv-oae vear ot age than resMle in the precinct according to the census. By sack . fracas as these this strong Republican, Lowades county, which has a lesi - T ? . ?Ti . s. .t itimate Repubiicaa majority of 3,000, I a"1 which has always cast its vote for! t au he possetl u to vote, and aa exam as he passed up to vote, and an. exam ination of those lists shows that the ' Southern Student's Hand-Book of Se the RepoMkaas never voted more sol-! lections for Reading and Oratory,." by idlv. We give herewith some official i Joor G. James. Superintendent of she Secures, as instances of the shameless frauds committed in that county: Coffey, Democrat, 3,5utl; MeDeffie, Republican, l,Gu; Oveii, Independent, 508. Bentoe heat returned 125 votes for Coffey, TO for MeDeffie. McDuffie has obtained the names of 1W men who voted for him. there. Net fraud is. Ben ton beat, S3 votes. Church HS1 beat returned Coffev ifO vote, MeDtt&e 13. MeDume has the names of 4 i men who voted for him. Xet fraod in this beat, 164 votes. Collerine beat returned Coffey 251 votes. MeDume. 2-L MeDulfie got here 230 votes, aad the Repubiicaae of the beat stand ready to swear to it. Net fraud in this beat, 206 votes. Unaironville AinJJanne voters reg- f istered their names pubficry, giving 442 votes. The returns gave him 102 votes; the remainder to Coffey. 2Tet fraud, 340 votes in this precinct. At this beat there were white men who voted for MeDuSe and not for the balance of the ticket, ami yet the Re publican ticket got the snwe vote fop all the candidates on it according to the returns. Hopewell beat McDaffie has the names of 13 persoas who voted for him. and vet the Fetvras give only SO votes for MeDume, bet 96 for Coffey. Xet fraud In this beat, id votes. Brook's beat The returse give Cof fev 236 votes, while there were not 25 Democratic votes ia the whole beat, and Coffey did not get, colored votes and aH, over 50 votes. Net fraud in this heat, IS- votes. Prairie Hill beat Thore are but 4 white men living here, and oeof them voted for MeDume; the returns gave Coffey 96 and McDoSe only TT votes. MeDeffie has the names of IStf men who voted there for him. Net fiaed in this beat 86 votes. Letohatchir beat 1ST men voted for Muffie; the returns give Coffey 212 roiesr McDuffie, SO. Net fraud in this beat. lT votes. Steep Creek beat-McDuffie's voters registered 19 names, all of whow east their ballots for him; bat the retsrns show 10C votes for Coffey, and only 9tf for MeDaffie. Net fraud ia this beat, l votes. . Lowndesboro beak MeDeffie get 44fT votes ; the returns give him 244 votes and Coffey 2T2. Net fraud ia this beat, 196 vtiies. At previous elections the Democrats did not get over T5 votes at this box, and a less number of col ored votes were polled for them, there at this time than ever before. St. Clair McDuile received 1T6 votes, bat the returns gave him only 46 votes, and CmSer im. Net frand in this beat. 131 votes. Whitehall precinct MeDume has the names of 2T6 persons who voted for him; still the returns give him only Tl votes, but 22 for Cofiey. Net fraud ia this beat, 225 votes. It would be possible to give a de tailed account of frauds which oc curred tbroaghont the State at this election which would occupy the en tire space of a daily newspaper, but it would be a mere repetition of what has already been given. It is snlB eient to say that in ail eases where it was possible Republican majorities have been deliberately counted for the Democrarv, or thev have been nullified and destroyed by the action of the very j men who were appointed to receive, record and preserve them. To-day Alabama is Republican by 20,800 majority if the votes which are pet in the ballot-boxes were honestly counted. By order of the Republieaa State Committee of Alabama. Geor62 tcrxkr. Chairman. Montgomery, Abu Ang. 10, list. A Irani. Probably no better iMastratien of the potitkal aselessnflss, moral pervers ana mental lmoeciuty ot a certain we known class of three-cornered peopre can be found than the proceedings of the Maseaebnsetts probibitkm conven tion on Wednesday last. The chairman of this rabid bodv gleefully predicted the defeat of the Mepnotican party in tne national eon- " ws received with tremen- doog applause. Of coarse if this ap plause had been meant to express the joy of the convention over the prospec tive election of Neal Dow. the prohib itionist candidate for president, it would have been natural enough and appropriate. But that was not the tboosht that filled the convention with so uen eacnnemsm. it was the coa- vieuoa teat it uaraeio. wno never drank intoxicating drinks, probably in his life, was defeated. Hancock, the regular "soaker," would be sneeessrui. .Notluag oettgn&s yoar geatnae aro hibitkmistsso'moch as the defeat of practical temperance men who do not sympathize with their fanaticism. They bail a drunkard with joy as the victor in sach a contest. Then a resolution was introduced bv a meiaberdeeiariittaat bo prohibition ist could support James A. Garfield for president, which was referred with- oot debate. The whole proceedings of the convention indicate that it was a fraud, and that instead of being what it pretended to be, a temperance body, i it was composed of soared aad sore-! headed Republicans, who long to vead their petty spite upon the party for failing to properrv recognize their greatness bv throwing- the election n- asststaat Dot-Tatie firrrmw-itwra -oat. , only in Massachusetts, but ia every State where it attempts to parade itself as a political party. SLS'flSSS'Ei If TT-Vll TiajAJ rmt- .A a. t..,., .feza ft, i "ui uurcrturo w nsj IQUg UIUC w else where. State Jwtmal. , -,. , . . . . , . , A Massachusetts oar about as higa as the counter recently came into a bookstore and asked lor a book Skt j ten cents with a murder in it Sosrt&enr Scbccl literatnre- From She ClalaaaU OramersJalv "SVe have receatly had ccasien- to - lraake Botes- or the choraofcer of thfttexc- PtT T .. . I- - i. books which the Steheca .triote pce- pare and pebSsh lor the use of pesiis - t Of this class of Hteratare is "The Texas Militarv Institute. The enlv thing Northern about it is the printing; and binding, which was done by Bar nev & Co-, of New York. The Selec- i tiens are exclusively from the speeches, poems and essays of Southern writers. Of this there is of course nothag to complain. The South has produced a few writers from whose works selec tions might be made that woefcl grace any book of selected pieces. The book opens with a passage from Alexander H. Stephens, ia whisk thac gentleman consoles himself for the pos sible failures of the confederacy with the thought that "a land without rains is a land without memories.' Where, however, he speaks of "aa uasillied public character' as one of the things surviving the general rain, the editor should have supplied ia a toot note the fact that Mississippi. Louisiana, Ar- f-kanaas, Tennessee aad Virginia have either repudiated their honest debts or are tryiagto. It wonM Save inspired respect in the school boy for the ua sulfied public character. The second selection is John Jan neys speech to General Lee oa inves ting him with the command of Virgin ia's forces, in which, however, there is nothing beyond the fustian of rhetoric. The third setectioa is from a speech of Linton Stephens on Southem Re construction. despntinsr the validity of tiae ratification of the amendments to the constitution. He admits that if three-fourths of the States, acting through their conventions or Legssia tares ratify, thea the amendment stands as part of the original instru ment. Bt it mast be True ratifica tion bv a true Legfefatare or a trrse convention of the State." If none by a spurious Legislature." it will not do, and such, Mr. Stephens eontendg. were the Legislatures of the Southern States tbat did ratify the amendments. This passage is evidently selected to impress the youthful Southern mind with the idea that the amendment? are not truly a part of the constat vtioa ami ought to be set aside. When the op- f portunity arrives, as it is hoped it may. when Hancock becomes president, the Supreme Court will be reorganised, aad enough Judges of Mr. Stephens way of thinking; added to the bench to over throw the amendments aad leave the South free to restore slavery or disfran chise the blacks. This is a port of the Democratic programme. A passage from, o&e of Ben HiBrs characteristic speeches follows thfe, ia which he denies the existence of any Confederates in Congress, and asserts that the Union never wronged the Sooth, bet that when the booth left is she bagged the constitution to her bosom and actually carried it off with her. A Mttle further en e art extract from a sfeech of W. C. P. Breckinridge, the substance of which is a prophecy that the time win come when those who levied war upon the United States to destroy the Union will not be thoosnt of as traitors, bat patriots, and when Lee will be more than what Cromwell is in English history, and when the names of the Southern dead will be in scribed on the common roll of iilaetri oos sons. No mention of a pension for the surviving friends, but, like an ad verb, Kjmetimes it is andia&tcod, if not expressed. It wooki require to amen apace to foQow the selections deriatun. Samce it to sy that the larger part are front the spehfcs of Senators and Xencesea tatives presenting the &trthera view of the sovereignty' of the States, and treatrnc the Union as a compact be tween them lacking the sovereign pow ers of a nation. These, with eulogies of the -God-Hke Lee," the "God-like Jack son" and other demi-god of Southern chivalry, maee up the book. One trmte scattered through the book saeh lee phrases as "Confederate soveretgnties," "Majestic ideal of a sovereign State." "Equal ammer "quals. liege soveretga tv. aad whatever eie in f irai can be ftmade to convey the idea that the first khrty of a citizen hi fealty to the State. There K hardly a word said m praise of the Union; nothing to inspire national pride or patriotism. Nothing in fact, bet strained and conceited provincial ism. and that of the saeanebt ami nar rowest kind. Readinrthis book, one would be led to suppose that the Sooth hadprcdaeed all the great men of the aee. made the most astonishing advances m civilisa tion, and taken the world by sunrise by the tremendous extent of hrr agricul ture and commerce, and we have a doubt taut znwltkades of yeang- people are growing up to think that way. with very little more km of the extent of the commerce and manufactures of the 1 North, and the almost illimitable extent of her resooxces, than Chinese stets. A wesrz8edEScS. Dftcior HnH, of the Paebfe Jhmtrraf, io opposed to martial law. The dector i knows just as much about that as he does about the practice of mediciae. A married woman was once sick, as snch women are sometinus;. Theaeicabor- Jae: women bad gathered there, as ! neighbors do on sack occasions. The. husband sent for oarPnebJo Democrat, who hastened to her bedside, felt of her pake, prescribed a aase of salts, and. was lexvins. when one of the women said, "Doctor, I fear that yoa don't understand this case." "O. yes." re plied the Doctor. "I have just cared a f the same eompfeant.' ! i2KTficaa. lfTBtr The BeSaio .Earpress- snysr "Every day brightens the prospect fee Gnraekl pority"so rapkny as the ItepabScaa iaaaartaar. jto eaa&e ever zrew in t -. ,. -. caae has sown dannf the east tew weeks. At this rate it will be a verv I solid North that wiB stand tie count ' asaiast the soBd Soeth." : " ' m A Dakota Kirmer has a sineje wheat j field coveriag thirty-sb: sqeare mSes.