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WEEKLY OEEGON STATESMAN. VniXLY OREGON STATESMAN. "RIDAY, JANUARY 2C, 1877 TBI. I-1 KIX WHY. All over tlie United States, says the S. F 'Chronicle, tliere are multitudes of Demo cratic editors who are profoundly impress ed bv the ''immense popular majority" of Mr. Tildes, and who are endeavoring to make their readers believe that, beeausa 'Tilden had this popular majority, he ought to be Inaugurated as President on the 4th of March. Our Democratic con temporaries have been fond of quoting Mr. RlTWlKLD'S letters trom the South (when they contained anything in their favor) as the testimony of a fair and impartial ob server. Will they be kind enough toquote the tallowing from one" of his recent let ters; which is quite as "fair aud impar tlal" as anything in his correspondence? The reason that Tilden has a popular majority of '2-11.401 over Hayes is because a argeporportion of the black vote in the ootton States has been suppressed, or made to -vote the ticket they hate. This H fair -est I ma to of the suppressed vote, inchulii'ff those who were -compelled to vote torTlkien apsinst their will: Alabama .T5.000: Georgia. 75,000: Louisiana. 15.000; "Mississippi. 70.000: South Carolina, 18,000 Texas, 40.000; total. 233,000. This effectually disposes of Tii.den's boasted 'popular majority;'" and it shows fhat "with a perfectly free, fair and honest election he would have had no popular majority at all. Mississippi is really as much a Republican State as Masaehnsetts, and bad there been no violence and terror ism (here her electoral vote would have been given to Hates. -AVT OF THE FtASTHilNErs Tlie London News describes the discov-ery-ol the remains of the chipel within the precincts ot the Tower of London Vnown as St. Peter's ml riiictila. It was liere that the state prisoners who died in Uie Tower, or were beheaded on the ad joining hill, were generally interred, but, according to tlie custom, in plain deal coffins, often with quicklime to destroy the remains more rapidly and always without plates by which their bodies could be identified. The Tower records "have been carefully searched, and tlie in tomiation has been applied to each coffin as it was brought to light. First among Uiem was one lying far down the nave -containing bones, which, according to the -opinion of the surgeon, were those ot a woman ot at least (55 or 70 years of age. The records show that in some such spot was interred the body of Margaret Pole, Oouutess of Salisbury, whom Henry VIU, nsed to be beheaded in 1341. Near the j altar, "in a common elm-tree chest made to put arrows in," were the remains of an other woman, young and delicately made, arid whose "lyttel necke" would give the headsman so Hale trouble to sever. There are almost certainly those ot Ann Bo leyu. Not far oft the diggers came upon the remains of what must have been a man of more tiian ordinary stature, and on comparing contemporary chronicles with the official records, these were iden tified as the remains of Dudley. Duke ot 3fortliuir.berland. Of bis daughter, the nliappy Lady Jane Grey, no trace has as yet been discovered. IRE (xraPHOMIaiE. The great question which is to-day agi tating the minds of the American people is ot great moment and should be han. died with the utmost care. While we be lieve that Mr. Hayes has been fairly elect ed under the laws ot our government, we accord to Democrats tho right to take tlie opposite view of the caso. We liave not yet mads a thorough examination of oil tlie points bearing upon the case.but from our present standpoint we are inclined to tlie opinion that the hili reported by the committe is unconstitutional ami danger ous, but should a majority of our Senators and Representatives in Congress,Vleetii such a law advisable and constitutional. we are willing to accept the situation and abide the consequences. If Democrats have not donea better job of stealing in other disputed States than they have done in Oregon, the committee will have easy Sidling in making up verdict In the case. We object to that portion of the bill that places on that com mittee, members of tiie Supreme Court. We do not believe it policy, or even sate to establish such a precedent, to drag tlie Supreme Judges down fram their lofty positions, and force them to engage in the filthy broils ot politics; should be beneath the dignity ot the American statesmen Of tlie fairness ot the Presidential elec tion we have some idea by carefully exam ining our ewn State record. Xo Demo crat of any standing in community will undertake to say that tlie election in Ore gon was unfair, that Republicans carried the State oy Irand of any kind; yet.jtliey have boldly attempted to rob Republicans of their fairly earned victory by paying men of doubtful character, to do the dirty work. Mr. Cronin testified that he got $3,000, of the $ S.000, that Tildcu sent here lor that purpose, Mr. G rover and others likely declared a dividend aud gobbled up what remained. If that kind of bnduess is reform then we hope to be saved from any further attempts In that direction. We hope tho people ot this State will take this matter under advisement, and at our next election render a verdict as justice re quires. OUR MOUNTAIN ROAD. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NORTH SANTIAM PASS. K03 CHOLERA. IMMi K.IIMNU-OK POKK RAIMU. "WaK MATERIAL MH TMtKEl. From the X. Y. Bulletin we learn that the British steamer Tagu, 1400 tons, is now lying at New Haven, Conn., taking a beard a large invoice of arms and gener al war material for the Turkish Govern ment. This invoice is valued at about $$.000,000, and is the third of the kind that has been sent forward. The contract under which these goods are furnished is with Providence Tool Company. It was entered into about a year ago, and will amount in all to about $13,000, 000. The goods on board the Tagns complete about lie-halt rite contract. Tlie goods to be taken by the Tagns are as follow ; 10,000 cases Snyder cartridges, 7")20 cases Mar tinez shells '-iiOOO cases ot balls. 3010 ses rifles, 200 cases bayonet ?cabbards,G esses Winchester rifles and 40 cases Winchester cartridges. TIIE tu;lt l fXKtT II A 1 KM. Tlie Itemoerat of wisdom and knowl edge were not long in finding that ("renin's disobedience of orders befu. Idled the whole Oregon business so tar as his vote is con cerned. Kveii hi their eyes, when he m eeded from Odell and Cartwright, be left the majority sud created a vacancy. The Governor i$ certificate will prove all that tlie Republican can -desire that is, lha'. Cartwright aud Odell were elected. TI.eir own proceedings in lawful form, will prove tlmre was a vacancy and (hat the majority legally and rightfully filled the iinii.-puitd vacancy by the appointment of Watts. ly the very foundation principle ol our Gov ernuient tin' rule of tlie majority no -other conclusion could be reached. To claim that the one elector, whose appoint ment was most doubtful at best, could overrule tlie voice of the two whoe elec tion was mm imputed and decisive, is pitiful nonsense of dastardly knavery Bee. The .Sun! wicli Inlands aregniiig to adopt a new Hag, but they can't decide whether to take a grey hor e blanket with a Iwle in it, or an old ett li) the back ripiwri out. j . Mu. Editor : We have killed 73 hog this season, and there was not a blemish on the liver of a single hog, which speaks volumes for Oregon as a poik producing country. I have helped slaughter thous ands ot hogs in Ohio and Illinois, and a perfectly sound liver was tha exception. Often 20 or more ulcers large and small on a liver. fow the question with nie is, can bacon, haw and lard from these rotten hogs lie healthy food for human beings as bacon, hams and lard manufactured from hogs with perfectly sound lungs ? I un hesitatingly say no ; and yet I was told by groeery-men in Salem, the oilier day, that customers of ten said tohim"what kind of a store do yon keep, no eastern lard?" Xow, what in the name of common sense a man wants with laid manufactured from unsound lunged, cho'eir hogs, wlien he can get lard, hams and bacon made here from the healthiest bogs that were ever slaughtered in America, as far as my knowledge extends ; and that is from Connecticut to Oregon. If those persons who hanker after eastern hams and lard so much.w culdouly think of the thousands and tens of thousandsof cholera bog3 that are billed daily at tlie large slaughter pens of tlie Western .States and converted into bims and lard, their lips would not water so much for eastern ham and lard. I mean by cholera hogs, those hog that have tlie disease firmly fixed in tiie system. In 1S70 I was all through the great hog producing district of the United States, and saw just how they managed the pork business there; J. W. Grim was their last iall and be says it is the same way yet the farmers feed their hogs until the chol era compels them to "car" or lose the whole lot. I could mention names, but do not deem it necessary to say who told me. They always fed when corn was cheap until they were compelled to sell or lose all. and one man told me lie waited three days too long one year and lo?t $1,500 by so doing. He said it learned him a lesson that he never lorgot. That year :iS70; he shipped his hogs, ;;oo iie;? fi)llr weeks sooner than he esjiected to, and still 10 died the night te-fore be M-nt them oil". I asked him if tome of them would not die on tlie cars, and he said. "Hell, ye"; .-mother, you know." I asked him what he did with the sinothi ml ntti ".Sold them at a reduced price, to be steamed up into pint leaf lard." Xow it occurs to trie that tho-e smothered hogs arc just as good for hams and lard as the one-: chat did not ilio with the cholera bc-C1KM- they wen; kilk-d with tho knife, one. two. three, four, or even twenty-four hours ucio.e u;e.y n Ulliil have tiled It the knife had init been ton quick, because the poison is (bore and nothing can stay its work. Xow. ilv. Editor, after reading over what I have written it appears "pretty rough on Ka-lern liam and lard, but it is the truth, nevertheless, and that is very unfortunate lor the hog business in the Great West. ;. (,, Glim. January 22, 1-577. The church that honors and sustains its pjutor gcncioiHly and heartily is the mo-t honored of God. Editou State-smak: As there Is again an attempt being made to enlist die public mind In the enterprise of eonstiucting a roarl to central Eastern Oregon, via the natural pass of tho North Santh.ni river, a brief history ot tho pas, so r'ar ns Is now known, may lie of some literost to the reading and business public. - In conversing wUh tlie oldest Indians now living, whose former home; wore in this viclnlry, and between hero aud the Cascade mountains, no definite informa tion can be got that there was a trail over the mountains in that direction, and that the people that lived in there were a wild people, living on deer meat, "all tlie same as wolves." Is the most I have been able to gather from anyone of them. Romarks dropped hero and there by dilVerent Indi ans, seems to Indicate In floating, dim tra dition of a battle nud disastrous defeat in tiiere, in the remote past, but nothing defi nite. Those wiio were settled In this valley as early as 1845, mostly know from com mon report at that time, that the old French Canadian trappers and servants of the Hudsons Bay Company, used the trail through there to pass to trapping grounds on Upper Deschutes and John Day rivers. In 1 S55 Stephen Meek, brother of the late Col. Jos. L. Sleek, led a party of tlie em igration of that year, into the Upper Des chutes valley, intending to reach the Wil lamette by that trail, which he knew to exist, by having met tlie H.'B. f'oN peo ple in the Deschutes valley, who had pissed the trail. He fulled to find the trail how ever, and alter great sullermgs. tlie train that followed him made Its way-, in scattered fragments the Dalles, and thence to the Willamette, via the Colum bia river. The next spring (lSolli an attempt was made by Mr. J. B. McOnne and others, to get the settlers in this vicin ity to unite their efforts to open a road through the pass that he, in common with many others knew wa? used by tlie French and Hudson's Bay (.'ompawflis people. The attempt proved abortivef.bnt T. C. Shaw, late Sherltl of this county, went up the trail guided by tlie old trapper and firmer. Joseph Gervais, who had often passed over it with his traps, his Indian wife and their family. Mr. Shaw went as far as he supposed a wagon could be taken and turned back, when lie came to where the trail passed along the very steep face ot a hill covered with loose shaly rook, by which circumstance. In connection with others, I judge Mr. Shaw was past tlie worst of tlie difficulties when he turned back, and about 10 miles from Mt. Jefferson. Two years later a wirty of Klamath In dian eame into the Willamette vallev to visit their friends, the Mollala3, bur, tak ing advantage of the supposed helpless condition of the settlements by reason of the absence of many of the men being gone to fight the Caynes who hid mur dered Dr. Whitman, behaved in such a way as to cause the rallying of the men who were left at home. The spirit mani fested by the Klainaths. convinced the whites that no time was to be lost, and none was lost, a running tight occurred, in which'" about 13 of the Klainaths were killed, and tiie rest saved themselves by a retreat tlir.-.ugb, or at any rate, a disappearance hi the hantiam val ley. Probably that retreat of the Klam aths was the last war party of Indians that used that trail. That was in Mnrcli, 1810 We hear no more of il until in 1804. Hon. John Bryant, of Linn county, one ot the most skillful mountaineers in Oregon, be ing employed by flic Union Mining Co. to view out a road from Quartz Hill ti Warm .Springs Kescrvation, passed across the south branch of the main X'orth Sauti am and struck the next branch just below Marion Lake, und following along the north side of the lake followed the most easterly branch of the Saiitiam up to the divide ridge between Western and East ern Oregon, by the trail used by the Indi ans of Warm Springs, to come to the lakes' on this side of ridge, for grime aud berries. Mr. Bryant in his journal says he counted 18 lakes at one view from . the top of a prominent round-top bijtc.u hich stands in the divide juH south ot where he reached it. From what he s uv ot the pass, and it was very little, he became ratislicd thut it was the shortest and easiest route for Western to Fii-steru Oregon: that he tried hard to induce other to jiin Inm in the enterprise of cou?(-m-thig a road over it. ile failed in bis eilbrls. however, and then the matter re-ted until the summer of l7o. .Mr. llenrv States ami one of his neighbors above MavtonviiJe. penetrated (he valley of the S.inti:iin beyond the highest portion ol I be Cascade range and found that the valley widened out aud the mountains were lower in (he immediate! vicinity of .Mount JuM'ei -on ; thus oll'ering as he coiiectly -nppo-eil, an easy pussige through the mountain. Jjchig impressed with the value of the pass, if Mich a pass existed, and having knowledge of a trap-! pers' trail through there, at the (line I j cime hero in H4I.I went before the Conn-! ty Commissioner's Court ot 1 Ids county J anu spoke to them of suoh a pass as a means ot commerce be ' ween the center of Eastern Oregon and the Capital. Mr. Wm. Cna was tlion one ot the Commisdoiiors and had more cor rect knowledge ot Its former nso by the Hudson Bny Company's people- than I had, he having lived neighbor tor many years to Capt. Tom McKay, ono of the bravest aud bust of the Hudson Bay Com pany leaders, who had olten used the trail. Tho result of my asking tho attention of the County Court to the subject was that if 1 would go, taking two men tor company, and penetrate the valley until I was satisfied of tlie existence ot such a pass or not, they would allow myself and comrades $3 per day, for the time neces sarily employed. We went, were gone 12 days and relumed satisfied of tho exis tence ol a very low pass and fully believ ing that It offered remarkable facilities for the construction of a road. On tho repre sentations we mmlo tlie public and the County authorities, n petition for the sur vey of tlie road was unanimously signed and acted upon by the County, nnd Messrs. Porter Jack, George S. Downing, and myself were appointed to view out and locate tho road; lion. T. W, Daven poiut went as surveyor. Tho survey, a carefully prepared map of which is on file in the county ofllce, extends S4 miles nnd 24 links from the Court House at Salem to tho summit tree (by estimate after passing over ground twice) about S miles from the Lebanon road at Black Butte. Black Iiutte stands by our line measurement about 7S miles souii-cast by south from Salem. 20 per cent, is commonly pllowed tor uieaii''---s :ind inequalities in laying a road yet, here Is a raid through a fine lum ber region a distance of (!0 miles, fol lowing along the sunnier side ot a deep valloy. 7(J miles from Salem, losing loss than 20 per cent, by meander and inequal ity. It is the fate of the road bed lying up this deep and well sheltered valley that tlio reisoniible hnie of the route being used as a winter thoroughfare, is grounded. Around Black Butte there U considerable land now swamp, which by drainage makes the best of hay land or low land that can be irregated. Tlie ascent from that side to the summit admits of iin easy grade aud lays fair to the sun. Three miles this side the traveller is down to the level of Marion Lnke, at tho head or south-east end of which is a tine location lora farm, as there Is a considerable body of coarse gr land to begin with. This position, about 12 miles lrom the Black Butte, will bo the half-way house for the traveler, passing from the shelter ol the vail of the Mato lias, at Black Butte, to that of the lower end ol Independence valley ortheSantiam. where there is room tor quite a number of good hay farms laying along the line of the road. Of tho hills and valleys around tho base of Mt. Jefferson I am not sjieak with certainty, but from all uppearances there arc many of tho valleys in which small bodies ol land may be loiind of such a character as to invito permanent settlers fa road was constructed. . There is quite an extent of country west or Mt. Jeff erson that has been burnt over and on which mot of tlie timber is consumed, and there Is enough of it grown up to grass to offer good stopping places to passing stock. Mr. States who mane ar: excursion into that country last summer, Seaks of it as being low and comparatively level, aud that lc offers easy facilities for laving a road from the mouth of Brightenbushe's fork of the Saiitiam, in a direct line to Warm Spring Reservation, that wou'd be iilino-t direct to Walla Walla. The confluence ot the last mentioned with the main stream offer another good point for a feed station and stage stand, a convenient distance from Independence valley and the half way station ot the whole route. Now Mr. Editor, in saying that I firmly believe that pass as oflering the only yet discovered means of constructing a road through this range of mountains, that can lie used win ter as well as summer, and in saying that the route is furnished with situations for opened farms, that will furnish food for the great number of men and animals that will undoubtedly seek to pass the road, I do not mean tho intelligent human labor is not necessary to make it so. but I do believe there is no enterprise con nected with the mnking of channels ot bus iness Intercourse that will more surely pay for well directed energy and labor. J. MtNlO. A I.AIUUtllfM M Dill s, 1VEAI.1H. Henry Albert, says the Newark Journ al, a laborer on the Lehigh Valley Kail- road, and his brother, have fallen heirs to 7000 acres ot improved land in Sussex comity. Their grandfather was Govern ment Surveyor in 17ii0, and took up the above tract at the Government price and leased it for ninety-nine years to a man :ianied 1'ar'otis.. The title to .jOOO acres bad been made perfectly clear, aud lor the balance hut little more legil labor will be requited to trace it to its rightful owners. The land was first deeded to William l'cuii in tlie year 171. ". Of cour-ell bus been great ly Improved and i- now valued at $100 per acre. .Mr. Albert has in his posKsion copies ol the original deed and lease. s The mail who goes about, shouting "Tii den or war" would go into the "tented field" only as a sutler. A little four-year-old girl having been instructed that the angels were clothed U; white, kilt-prised her parents by ther mark after u recent shower followed by lle?cy clouds, that tlie angels were hanf.- thc importance of Ing their clothes out to dry. The Electoral Bill. Following la the bill presented by Ed mund. A bill to provide for and reRUlat the pmintlnptof the votes for Problem and Vlcft Prmildent and decision of question" arislnn I hreon, tor the term commenolnfc March 4 1877. He, it enacted, etc. , That the Sena's and Flnuon ofHepreaeutmivfls shall meet in the hallofthn limine of lteprflNentatlvns at the hour nf 10 o'clock, pout nmrtdlnn, on the first Thurwlay in Feiirnarv. 1877. and th Fmsld lit of tlie NnnaleMinll be I tie iiroslillnn ollleer. Two tellers mini! bo previously ap pointed on the partorihn Nunte and two on the part of the Home of llpreienntivi, to whom shall be handed, as thev ere npnned bvthe PrpRlilont or the Senate, nil therartlfl cute end paper purporting to Ke oerlitlentes nf eleoloriul voiph, which OHrttlletes and pa pers Khali be opened, presented Hnd anted upon In alphabetical order or thn N'atiw, bo plnlnir with A. end said tellers having then read thn t-aino in il.o preenee end luwrlnir ol'tlie I wo Homes, all enrtlHenteH ami the vo ee havlne been opened and e.uintrd ae In theaet provided, the result of the Knmc shell be delivered to the Presldnnt of thoNminto. who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, and tlie names or persons. If any elected, which announcement nlmll bo deemed n Riitlieient declaration of the porions elected President nnd Vine President of thn United HtRtes, and together with the list or votes nhnll be entered on the Iniirnals of tho two Houses. Upon such reading or Rnv such eertillcate or paper where there shall be only one return from a Hinte, the Presi dent ot Hie Senate shall cll for obleetlons ir any. Kverv objection shall 1 ' made In wnunar. anu slmll state Rlnarly and coimlselv and without argument, thn cr round thereof. and shell be signed by nt least on Nmisior ann one member of the House or Ilpre"on ta'iyes. before the senm uhull hn rnnelved When all nljnnllnus so made to anv eertltl- raie or paper lrnm a SlnieNhell have been re- eetveil and read, the Senate, shall thereupon wunorew, and such nh entfnns shull ha sub mitted to tho Senate Tor Its derision, end tho pe"ker or the Hnus or Itepreennis'lvee Hhall In like manner submit such nhentnna tome House or Itenresnntntlves for It rlee.ie ion, end no eleetnrlal vote or vn'ee from any S'ate rrnm which lint one return rm b"n re ceived shell he rrj.nted, except bv an Blllnim live vote of the two houses. When tlie two houses have voted. thv shall immeilislelv strain meet, and the preHldlng ntPcer slmll thFn announce the decision of tho question auiilllliwn. jvws. j. uihi n more ttmn one return, or paper purporting to bes rpturn. from sHtato. shall have been reiwlved by the Preeldantof theSenete, purporting to be certificates or pieo ormi vo'es given at the lest preceding eienimn mr rreeUtent and Vina Presldnnt. In such State uuleex they slmll be dunlicstes or the same return, all sneb returns mid iianern shall lie opened by lilm in the prewene of inetwn nouses when met hr b foresaid, anil read by the tellers: and all Much returns anrl papers shall thereupon be submitted to tho jiidirmeet and decision as to whloh is the trueand lawful electoral vot or such State, or a cmimlsHlon cnns'ltutml an toPowM. namely; During thesessfon of such Hens on the Tuesdev next prtending the first iiH.r-.uny in e eiir nar v, iktv. ewsh hoiiko shell by a ui'ea vnee vote appoint five or Its members who, with five Aesodato Justice ortbe Supreme Court of the United Slates to be ascertained bm hereinafter provided, slmll constitute a commission for the decision of all questions upon, or in reepect nf, stieli double returns named in this aeeMon. (Hi Tuesday next m-eoeclitig the first Thnrsdsv in February 1H77, or ss soon thereafter e may be, the associate lustlces ortbe Nnpreine Court or the United States now BHijrnil to the first, third, eighth and ninth nlrmilte. shall emt, in such msnuor as a nte jorii y or inem snail neom tit.nuotlier associate limtine crsnid court, which five persnne ehsll be members or sild eommlseion, and) tho per son longnst in fniumission dt said Eve us tiees shall lie president or said eommlsslnn. The members of said commission absll re spectively take end subscribe to the follow ing oath : "I (lilank) do solemnly swmr (or allirm. as the case may lie.) that I will Im partially xamineand consider ull quos'lnns submit led to tlie commission of whieh 1 am a niomter, and a truejudguienttrive thereon, agreeable to tho constitution and lews, no help me God:" which estli shall ho file,! with the secretary of the Senate. When the commieelnn Hhall have been thna organized it shall not be in the power orelther House to dissolve tlie same or to withdraw anv or its mem hers: but if any such Senator or member shall die, or become phvsieally un able to perform the duties required by lids act, the fact of such death or physical inabil ity shall lo, hy said commission, before It shall proceed further, communicated to the Senate or Mouse of Kopresenativesj, es the ovte msy be, woieh body elmll immediately aud without debate proceed by a viva voce vote to till the place so vacated, antl the per son so appointed shall take and subscribe the oatli herni, ifore prescribed, ami become a member of said cnmmisHion. And in like manner, if any of said justices of the Su preme Court shall dieor become physically incapable of performing the duties required by this ant. tho other of said justices, mem bers of said commission, shall immediately appoint another juatice of said court, a mem- ot sueli comuiisNinn, and in such appoint ments regard shall be had to the impartiality and freedom from bias sought by tlie original appointments to said commission. wIiohIihII thereupon imedlately take and subHcrlbs the oath hereinbefore presorlbnd, and beenmo a number of said commission to till the vacancy so occasioned. All tho ertllIcaLen and pa pern purporting to lie certificates of electoral votes ot each Htate, shall tin opened in alphabetical orderof StHtes ns provided in section one of thin act; and when there shall be no more than one such certificate or pa per hh the certificates and papers from such Mtate shall so be opened, excepting dupli cates of the same return, they Hbnll be read by the tellers, end thereupon the President ofthe Senate shall call forobjections, if any. Objections shall be mode iii writing, end shall state clearly mid concisely, without argument, the ground thereof, end shall be signed by at iwist onp Senator and one mem ber or the House or Kppreseniatives before tlie seme shall bo received. When all such oljflctions so made to sn v certificate, vote or paper from a Slate shall have been received and read, all such certificates, votes and pa pers so objected to, and all paperx accom panying the same, together with such objec tions shall bo forthwith submitted to said commisf.ioii which slmll proceed tncomdd er the same with tho same power, if any now possessed for that purpose by the two iloiiso sctirig separately, or together, and, hy a ma jority of votes, decide whether any, aud what votes from such States are the votes provided for by the constitution of the United States, and how many, and what persons were duly appointed electors in such State and may therein take into viewsuch petitions, deposi-. tfons and other papers, if any, as shall by the constitution, and now existing law, be com petent and pertinent in such consideration, which decision shall be made in writing, stating briefly the ground thereof, and sign ed by the members of said commlfcsion agreeing theretr , Thereupon the two Houses shall again meet, and such decision shall be read and entered on the inurnsls of each House, and the counting of the votes shall proceed In conformity therewith, unless, upon oujeotion maue thereto Id writing by at least five senafora and five member or tlie House of ltepresentatlres, lbs two houses slmll separately concur In ordering It other wise. In which ease auob oonourrent order shall govern. No vo'es or papers from auy other Htato shall be acted upon until objec tions rrom ny ol her Slate shall have been formally disposed of. Sen. 8. That while the two houses shall be In meeting an provided In this act, no de. bate shall be allowed, and no quest Ions shall he put by the presiding oflicer except to either bouse (?) or motion withdrawn, and lie slmll have power to preserve order. Seo. 4. That when the two Moimes separ ate to decide upon an ohjooflon that may have been made to the counting ot any electoral vole or votes from anv State, or upon objentlon to the report ofssld commis sion, or nuier questions arising under this ant, each senator and representative may spak lo such objections or question ten minutes, and not oftener than once; but slier such ilebnte slmll have lasted two hours It shall be the duty of eiinh House to put the imiin questions, wllhouc further dolmle. See. 5. That et such Joint meetings or the two hotioos, seats shall be provided dm fol lows s jor the President of the Senate, the Siieeker'selialr; Tor tho Senators, in tho body or the hall upon the right ortbe presiding oflicer; for the Uepresenlatives, In the body of the ball not provided for the Senator; Tor the Tellers, Senretary of the Senate and elerlt of the House of Kopresen tatlvea attiieelerk's desk. For other oflloers of the two HmiHes, In ftont of the olork'a desk upon aanh side or Hie speakers plat tnrrn. Such Joint meetings shall not be dis solved until tho electors! votes shall be oom pletod and the result declered, and no re-ci-ss shall he taken unlos a question shall have risen in regard to mmntingany such votes or otheawise under tills act In which ease it shall lie competent for either House, anting separately In the manner herolmofore provided, to direct a reoesa or such House, not beyond the next day (Sun day excepted), at the hour or 10 o'clock In the firenoon; and while any question 1 being considered by said onmmllon, either House may pmuesd with lis legislative and other busineHs, Sen. a. That nothing In this act shall be held to Impair or affect any rlalit now exist ing undor the Constitution and laws to ques tion, by proceeding to (lie judicial coorleof the United Nutte, the right of title or the person who shall bedeclared else'ed, or who shall claim to be President or Vice President ofthe llnlisd Suites, If anvsimb right exists. Son. 7. That aaid cnmmisHion shall make Its own rules, keep a record or Its prnooed Ings, and shall have power to employ such persona as may lie necessary for the trans sntion or its business, aud the execution br Its power. Antiquity of Man. A correspondent writes lo the London Timrir. 'Mr. Sydney B. T. Skertcbly, of llor Majesty's Geological Survey, who is stationed at Brandon, Suffolk, has recently discovered some flint Implements iu that neighborhood, In beds formed before the close of tho glaclcal period. One was picked out of the buds lu a pit at Culford, Suffolk, and two others wero dug out oflike beds in spit at Botany Bay, on tho Norfolk sldo of Brandon. It was not till Mr. Skertcbly him scir round another Implement at Culford, and saw the bnuldor-cUy above the bed from which be extracted ft, that the Im portance of tho discovery dawned u;ion him; Alongside the Culford implement be found a uopoeiuol uroKeii and scraped mammalian boueaand some fresh-water sheila. Tbtwe lioties were all in a circumscribed area. A jawbone containing tenth had been forward ed to luiidiin to be examined. Uudorneath the bones the clay was found to be burned. Mr. Skrtbly'i explanation Is that we have here preserved the ono solitary instance in (be whole world of a camping.gronnd of paleolithic men, end this camping. ground occurred below the Isiuldor-cliiy which be longed to the earliest part of the glacial period. These remains wore thus far older than anything previously discovered. Trac ing the boulder-clay and the beds beneath across tho country, he saw that the imple ments found at Botany I!y were of the same axe. The men who lived btforethe butllder clay appeared to him lo be more Intimately connected In time with the mon or the paleolithtc gravels lying upon the boutder clny than were the lattor with the menoftha neulithirag, who scooped out. those ancient nun mines uour xirauuon called "Urimea Graves." Kaii Maiikh nr TtirrrHn rv.uru ri. SliuUuck, a noted butter dairyman or Chen ango iouniv, . v ., Stti(i,;at the late conven tion of the Now York Stale Dairymen's As sociation, that he bad found the eolor on the inside the ear to be an intullible guide In the selectiou of a good butler cow. If tlie skin on the inside the ear Is of a. r,..l. ,)l.,,.. ,.!.... the cow was sure to give a good quantity or milk; that Is, milk rich In butter. He said in all his experience he had never known thisslgn to fall. J. W. North, iu the Maine farmer, give some further information con cerning the subject. He observed that cows producing very high-colored butter have a large amount of the ear accretion, In many Instances tlie whole iulemal surface beiiiK coyored with a thick orange colored, oily mattor; on the other hand, the light-colored butler makers present a aisanty, thin and pale yellow secretion, In some cases found only at the bottom of the ear. His theory is that every animal has the powerof secret ing a certain amount of this yellow pigment. If the quantity be suniclent'ly largo, secre tion will tske place in the mammary glands, the ear and skin. Dkin k. Pre in a speech by J. J. Talbott, who recently died drunk In Klkbart, Ind.: "I bad position high and holy. Tho demon tore from around mo the robes of my snored oflice and sent me forth churohless aud god less, a very hising and by-word among mou. Afterward my voice was heard iu the courtH. But the dustgathored on my open books, end no footfall crossod the thresh old of the drunkard's ofllce. I had money ample Torail necBSHlties, but it went lo reed the coffers ofthe devils which possessed me. I had a home adorned with all that wealth and the most exquisite taste could suggest. The dovil crossed its threshold sod the light faded from Its chambers. And thus I stand, a clergyman without a church, a barrister without a brief, a man with scarcely a friend, a soul without hope all swallowed up in the maelstrom ot drink." Albert Saunders was, on the third ballot, elected U. S. Seualor from Nebraska. He was the last Territorial Governor of Nebraska.