Daily Kennebec Journal

FLORIDA.

New York, December 26. It is stated that W. E. Chandler advised Gov. Stearns not to obey the order of the circuit court of Florida.

TALLAHASSEE, December 27. The notice from the secretary of state to the other members of the canvassing board to meet this morning to re-canvass the returns was withdrawn to-day. McLin and Cowgill refuse to obey the order of the court, and will file a motion to vacate the rule and set aside the mandamus. Att'y General Cocke will obey the mandate of the court by making a canvass himself, filing the same in the clerk's office this afternoon as directed by the court.

Ex-attorney general Williams arrived this morning, and it is understood that Judge Wood will be in Florida to-morrow.

Attorney General Cocke made a canvass vote this morning after the other members of the board refused to canvass. This gives Drew 497 and Tilden 94 majority. This canvass he filed in the clerk's office in obedience to the orders of the court.

Subsequently the other members of the board agreed to recanvass, and the full board met at 4 o'clock this afternoon. They have just finished their canvass, and by disregarding the order of the court, throwing out Clay county entirely and adopting a false return from Baker, when they had the true one before them, have given Drew a majority of 195 and the Hayes electors 206. Cocke filed a protest.

The court reassembles to-morrow and will review the action of the board.

WASHINGTON, December 27. Advices received to-day by the national republican committee, from their counsel and other prominent republicans now in Florida, are to the effect that the recanvass ordered by the state supreme court, applies only to the votes for governor, &c., and does not refer to the votes for presidential electors.

Their advices also say the court's order is that in recounting aforesaid votes, the question whether a county return is so irregular, false or fraudulent that the true vote cannot be determined, must be decided by the board not on proofs shown them, but by merely inspecting the face of the returns.

It is conceded that the application of these principles to the votes for state officers will give them to the democratic candidates by two hundred or three majority, but the republicans say it is evident that if it were possible to recanvass the electoral votes, the majorities for the Hayes and Wheeler electors would at least be from thirty eight to forty-three respectively, according to the official certificate of the clerk of the board dated and published Nov. 28th.