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VOL. I---NO. 4.1 WINNSBORO, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVMBER 2 1876 _ How Hampton Will Win. A CUlNIIU 017UTLOOK ILL 01l? Til'h STI TE. Virtuous and I1appy--The ra'ln of the Radical Arithuetic. The Color line and the census. A political summary. 'How the Countles vill voto. A good tme coming. E orespomir isa . COLUMBIA, October 30.-A the Radical party hias ben virtuous in the past it professes to )0 halppy ovor the future, while its orgatn the 1ion-Iferald is i perfect Mark Tapley of journalism ill the way of coming out strong under peculiarl-ly trying circumstaneos. "If I could get into a wicked family I might do myself justice," said Mark. "Im always a thinkiig that with my good health and spirits it would b more creditable ii me t0 be jolly w0here there's things a going on to make ord'nary men dismal." So nil the face of the fact that Chamn berlain and his crew are repudiated by scores of honest white R1opubli , . s and thousands of colorod voters ; that the adjournment of every county convention has been succeeded by deep disgust and drievotus disaffectioni in the p:rty: ki that the Democrats are united to a 31an, in the miiost colmlpact organiza tions; that the now almost certain election of Tilden is having great infleilnce il tile canvass in this &Stftte,-the Union-Ileradd is ho Coling ilclrahillgly jolly and chirps cheorily about a mojority of 19,700 votes for Chamberlain. For its 'moderation in not claiminug the even 20,000 at olice, the organ is entitled -to commendation. It reminds one of the strict regard for truth which eharacterized -the owner of the hen that laid 999 eggs in one suner. -Do yon think" said he, "that I'd tell a lie for the sake of one poor egg ?" But to reto n to the 19.700 ma This is based on aggregate assumed ajorities in tho sevemral counties, vhic iphers are sling togother on string4 with reckless prodigality 'on the basis of the race line on I the last Jiv(ent4-a-head StAte cu0Ts11 This simple an(I cheerful rule for esHtimaLing majorities has long been practised by the leadera with sit Css inl the Southolternl SItrapies, but Noiehow it is coinaig inito disfavor with the voters, and alsa w:thI the ftir-:mn 1., 1 p' 'tle of the" North - %vI5 believe thAt a11man can be at Republican or a Dem crat without ogiard to the color of his skin o. * the acuteness of his facial wmigles. -To the prop) sitioni that thle Re p)ulicanl majority miust be comn moneisurate with tile mnaordfy of c olor'ed voter~is, .the New York Ierad replies:X "If theis were true, or r easonmable, all voting in a State 'like Smnh Carolina w'~ild -he a nieedless efflort. nl alppealt to tile 'cenlsus w~onild he -suflhieint to declare Ltihe nlCmlinees of thme I(epulican 'par ty elected W.ithlout farther~ tlrouble .~ . e'lectioni ':<nrld be av s ne'refe/ree. TheIm decisioni of a 1t po~11lteal~1 fate of the State. Unimfortuniately for the Ihdical S-par'ty tad thec J14io-.Iera/(d, the peCople of theo North are going to 11011 the peCople of South Carolina to see thait the votes cast against j Chamberlaia anld his corrup1t follow oris are fairly ecountedl and their doheisioni prely .-ustined Th libelous prolaimations of the G*over nrandl tihe President, like the Tr'ishnman's gun, h-:we (1011 imore daimage att the buitt thanu att the anuzzle. Tihese b ungling -sports m fonl hiave beenl kicked to) grras , w~hile thei' antiipatedJ game is amntouclhed. is now ani atssure 1 fact that the troswill (do little ijury. Inl the irsti plc a large majority of thema re1 Deocaf ad they will not inter'ferie oflicially unless b~y under(~1 the ilit of existinlg "ir'cum s4t wesi, wtill hardly 1)0 issueld. In1 i1l-secondi p~lace, the damuage that g would haIve beeni cansed by the a~slcoods of RItadical emissar ies that the troops aire briought hero to make the colored voters support tihe Radical ticket is prov'entedI by the' " actual exper1ince of the color'ed people who hear the soldiers every wh1ero hurrahing for Tilden and Hampton. This was the~ planl of heRadicals n1o doubit, but that little game won't wvork. The canIvaas is nlow dr'awing to gim endc. (Gen. Hamtipton will on1 the urth close his g rand march, aind yeOturn1 inl triumph~ to the cap1ital. He will 'have traversed tile thirty two counties of the Stato in somec -thing over two mionthls, meeting thousands of citizonls of bo0th colors and races alli enithusiastic for' re form and a regoneration of the State. Ho will have traversod over ia thousand miles, and delivered a hundred and twenty speechos to over a hulndred thousand lifferent people. The demonstration inl Co lumbia will be a grand ovation. Excursion trains at cheap rates will run over all the roads, thousands will attend on hIorsieback, while all Richland county will turn out. Such a procession, Futch spocles, snch enthusiasm, such a good timo generally, will not be seen again until what i.1 now a certainty in future shall 1be a certainty in the present. Tisi ovation is (ontident ly expected to prove the finishing touch to the demoralized, dis gruntled, fast dissolving host. of Radicalism. In three days there from, an election will be held over the whole United States, which will shake this republic from contro to polc. The Radical party in the Union, as in the State, is in ti11 lait ditch, and that ditch has no bottom. The corrupt dynasty now ruling will bo tumbled down head ong. Everything points to the election of Tildon. 8ome how or other a purer atmosphere is per vading the country, and the peoplo breath freer. And while the nation all Domoeracy are rejoicing over their victory, we in South Carolina will be holding a little love feast of our own. Let us examino the pros pects and figure our chances, not by the race or color line: but by actual information froin the best SolrCes. Abbeville is one of the most thoroughly organized counties in the State. It has between eight and nine hundred colored Demo crits enro/ed, who rode in the procession in red shirts and hur aled listily for Hampton. A stron' ticket has been nominated: whilo the Rtdical ticket is we:k, and the call(I didates are being constantly chatnged. The county was caried )y the Democrats the last time they made a fight, by over a thousand majority. That majority is cliimed low, but it is safer to cut it down to live hundred. Anderron hias a white majority of two thoulsa ndl votes. Senator Cochran, thle leading- Repuiblicanl of the u c.:ntry, has become dis guMSted w'.th the adica.d manage mnent and refuses to take any part inl it. Th Radicals live no comity ticket. and tie Democratic majority will lx between 2000 and 2.500). In Aiken the 1ltlicals counted ini a i n ity of 63 in 1874. That mIaj >rity will be revers(d and the D mocrai will receive 500 majority a i l the f tory liamids and No rt'nIeL residen'ms, and a large nmnher of decelt Repu blicans will support the ticket. 1arnwell Is an accurate roster of the county, and the Democriti cilub have a menimbership now of everal hundred more than a i tjori ty. One uindrend md more colored mae'i have joined the Democratic e ii)s since the recent arrests. It will be remembered that a number of colorel Democrats have also been arrestOd, al these ae hotter Itha~n ever. Bleaufort andii Colletoni areO so closely connected by) p)ositioni and interest that I mention them together. These have been1 dreadeid ats iilstontes around the nieek oif Hi unpttoni, hut, contrar~y to e' 1 e0 petationi, att this lute day they proimiise to be usefulI auxiliaries. Colleton has'f only 1000 colored man jority, wich is dividled into two factions. These factions oppose5d e Ih of her in 1874 and allowed thme Demuocrats to slip in a muember of the L ogislature. Seve al hundare 1 laborerai on the Comblabiee were c1hsed away from wor k, and many whtipped 1by colored( rioters whIilo Gov-. Chamnberlain was skurrying nortlh to see his family. Thmese: have joined the Demaocratic clutbs, and imean what they say, as they have niot forgotten broken bon es mmd lashed hacks. Again, Dr. Fish burnt, the D)emocratic Coun ty Chairmani, hats made ai most ex hiaustive erunvass. lie hia ridden over the whole county ini a four. seatedl buggy drawn by two line horses, hav'ing wvith him throe maiitlaini. On reaching each lan ~ta tion he .stop~s and his band begins to playi3. 'The colored peolhe all asse~mle, aind lie then dispenses sound( Denmocratic doctrine andl callIs for (cofvoit t. His success is marked. Capt. George TIuppe)Cr aind others at Goorge's Station and1( Summnervillo are also exercising great influence with the colored voters. Ini consequtenco Gen. Hamp~iltonf was pledged the Anpport of large Inmbers of colored voters, anid a gentleman just arrived fronm time meeting, who bero had no hopes, is now jubilant and believes that Colleton is as certatiu as Pickens or' Oconee. The majority there is estimated at fromn 250( to Beau fort county has ani actual black majority of 3500 by correct consus, and has b~een considered hopelessly Radical. Bunt Gen. Hanmpton sp)oke at Early Branch in tho northern section of the county a fewv dayn-aince, and when lhe asked wvho wouild support him, sov'eral hundred coloredl voters rose to their feet with yellIs for "Hampton." In the town of Port Royal, there are a number of clored men, all Demo crats. In the tewn of Beaufort a few nights ago the Radicaln refmune1 to allow some speakers to talk, ald Gen. Hampton adjourned the mot ing, anouncing that they had dono iore to elect him than all the whites in the State, that a dozeu officers dressed in citizens' clothes had witneissed the scone, and would ho called upon to testify. This dumfoundered the blacks; aind things aro all at sixos and sevens in that locality In the rice regions, the whip)ed colored voters are of course all Democrats. The Radicals are badly split ill) ; and the pros poet is that the mnajority -will be very simall. - This contingency is not so im probable as might be supposed ; for the colored votors of Beaufort are very ignorant. They know nothing about Republicanism. Thev are hero worshippors, pure and s'implo. They vote for "Mr. Smalls," "Mr. Whipper," "Mr. Gan tt," or "Mr. Ham ilton," regardless of party, and as Mr. Smalls and M11r. W'hiopr and Mr. Gantt and Mr. Hamilton are alternately on the regular and on the bolting ticket, party fealty is unknown. Get a now popular loader, whatever his principles, and the nmas.sos in the county will fol low him. Ch:mnberlain has even been unpopular in Beaufort. Tom Hamilton even, his strongest sip porter, has become lukowarin, while the visit of H1ampton and the un accollitablo selusioni of Chamber lain have rendered the -chango from the latter to the former not diflicult. These causes will have the effect of I siwelling the iundoul)ted tidal wave . that is sweeping towards tho Radical shore with resistless forceo. A change of seven hundred votes will decrease the majority then to two thousanid. Charleston has the most uncer-. t-.in vote in the State, having gone both for and against the Ridical ticket by heavy majorities. The black majority has been estimated at 7,000, because on the Islands me1C.1, women and boys have voted, m01110 severail times. No opposition has ever visited them. But this year Democratic canvassers will be on lind to prevent frauds. The! country will go Republican, the city Democratic. The Radical matjority there will be under three thiousm1d, 11111s somothing un forcscen occur in the next few days. Georgetown is claimed by the 7nio.i-//',ad by 1200 votes. The I .Radicals m-ty ro. ch 1500 mjority here. Sumter cast a m-tjority of 3,000 agains' CJ a uberlam in 1874. The Demnocratic Ticket is divided equally betwcen the races, and 800 colored men are en -olled in Democratic clubs alreo-dy, besides large numbors w1o will vote the ticket secretly or w.l not vote ait all. Sunter isla d-mbtful county. The most unfat vorable estimato gives but 500 re l)-h1icLn1 majority in Sumter. It iiuist be remembered, lowever, tit the Moses family live here and hate Ch:nibeilain intensely. Tu repub lic:ifms may gaiLn b00 majority inl Williamsbegrg, hardly more, and the s:une ma oril y in Clatrendon. Darling ton will give 2.50 Democratic imijori ty. T1hmen comae a tier of Democratic -ounties. Hurry 1,000, Marion 500, M riboro 250, Chesterfield 500, Laicaster 500, York 500, Greenville 1500, Spartanbunrg 2,000, Pickens 1500, Oconc 1500, L~ mirens 500, Union-.500, Newberry 250, Edkgelield 500, Lexington 750. Chester, Fair fiel and .Korshawv are closely di vided. The majority in these three will be small eit her way. Richland, inisteaid of hatvinmg 2500 colore .1 ma jorit y as elaime'd, hats not 1500. T'in ce tickets are in the f'ield, andl largo numibers of coloiodl voters in tiie country precincts have dleclare~d for HamiptLon. The county is claimned by the Dom->crats. Or~angeburg also promises a good rep~oit. The.so estimatos areC comipletofrom whaot I belicye to be0 the best sources. In I~ausor to many inqulirios tile repily is frequently, "My county is dloing very well, but I am afraid of the rest of the State." Now as the infor':n mt from overy c-mnty report. ing is satisfied of the result, tihe ex prossionis of satisfaction are msta gratifying for the success of the *"tato ticket, lby from five to seven thousand majority. I amn not oine of those who espect 2t),000 or 30,000 majority The colored mfajority i tlie State so far from being 30,000 has beeni figured dlownm to less than3 20,000, tile nUuber' at wvhieh several leading Republicans fix it. A chan ge of ten thousand votes is sufhicient. And at every election since 1868 the coloredl vote cast ini opposition to the reguilar ticket was large. In 1870 it rc:Uhoed five to seven thous..I and ; in 1872, fifteen thonsand, andl in 1874 eighteen thous~and. The Legislature is considered safe for the Pemnocrats. I learn indirect ly but reliably that the Republicans concoede a Democratie majority of j one or two in the Senate, but claim the House by ten or twvelve. The Democrats claim bo0th branches, which .is important, as a United States Senator will be elected to succeed Senator Robertson The election of Col. D. WV. Aiken to Congress from the third district, and Col. J. HI. E~vins from the fourth district, and Messrs. T. C. Gaston, J, S. Cothran, B3. W. Bamll and J. J. Dargan as solicitors, I also regard as certaintjes. The contest betwveen Tilden and Hayes in the S tate will be close, mtnd a] the result depends on the strength of the Hayof4 and Hampton party, led by prominent Repiblicans wto adhere to Hayes but cannot stomach Chamberlain's crowd. During the past week, in conse (111011Ce of the cheering news from the North, the reports from qll parts of 114o State are becoming nyore and more favorable, and the Democratic outlook is better and better every day. D. Why South Carolina May Go Demo cratic. The repeblican fallacy in re gard to South Carolitial which affets nany Norithern minds4 is that becauso tle colored voters are il a colpsidorablo majority, therefore the State must of necessity be re'publi can, and the mere attempt of the democrats to carry it argucs an intention to commit intimidation or fraud or both. It ought to 3nough to reply to this tI-tt if wore truo or rear:onable all votine 41n a Stato like South Caroline wonld1 be a needless effort. An apiPoal to blio censis would be suffleiout to de 3iaro the nominees of the repiblican party elected withou t further broublc. An election woula be a 1nero farce. The decision 1i a re )mblican convention v ould settle hc )olitiCAl fatO of the St.64g Of course it is not true, though it orms the basis not only of iepubli an argument but of the Proident's nilitary interference in Soutli Caro ina. The political conditiotbf that itaite does not differ from 4,at in vhich other Southern States, liko Irk.msas and Alabama, hxo found hemselves, but out of whi thev .ave emerged into poace. 'he re mblican party in al the Southern states consisted originally of a cer ain nunber of honest white men, a -ertain number of energetic - And un icrupiulous adventurers, also whites, md the negroes. The latter were gnorant, grateful to the - North for their freedom, and two ol three rears after the war in ralany locali ties justly felt appreliension ot abuse md wrong at the handsof the'native vhites, who, irritatted at their'dofeat md outraged at seeing their jormer daves made their political equals, .ejected their political alliance and foolishly, but very naturally hey were humnan boings-drove Ahon into tho arms of tho-e rpubli anns. The consequences of this nevitable beginning were these, mud we describe themi becauso, when bcy are understood, the situation in iouth Carolina becomes plain: 1. The republican party in all hlmoso States fell naturally into the lmnds of the most aggressive and inscrupulous of its politicans. This 8 the tendency of all parties which invo a sure lease of power. These )rsons used the ignorant negro vote ;o advance their fortunes. They -orrupted the negro biy dividing vith the leading blacks the piudcr f the States they misriled. Secure >f the ne:;ro vote, they stle rihit mnd left, and made the very naimne of -eCpublican odious to the mon who >wncd the property and possessed 1he inteligemnce. But this is not all. ['lhe honest republicans of those states were equally subjected to *his misrule. Most of thorm were Northern mencl attached to their arty. T1hmey waited in silence and opeo for a dlay when honiest coun is should prevail But the rognes mad the ear of Wo,, federal govern nont ;they i-out their reproesentivos o bth branches of Congress ; they ruishod every honelSt repiublicani vith an unflinching hand ; and so in Loiianaflh, in Missiisipp)i, in A rkamn :as, in Ahihmuna, as in South Caroli- ~ in, the rogues ruled and continued o rule, because thmeir allies were ppointed to the federal ollices and hfm.y wore able to show the negroes hlmt they, and not the honest ropubh-J icilms, had the favor of General i'rant. T1o the ignormant plantistion uogro thme sup~posed wishes of Gener-t dl Grant are the supreme law of the amnd, If to-day thme President should asue a proclamation telling the sounth Carolina blacks to vote for .4encral Hampton, seven-eighths of ,hom would do it. At last the honest republicans re.. >elled. In M-esissippi.4 last year, hey openly opploso.d the miisrule of lovernmor Ames and helped to defeat imn and his party. In Arkansas, n 1874, the sua timg occurred. ni Alabama the honest and1( docent 'epublicanls refused any longer to be lhe tail of Senator Spencer's kite, n Louisiana, this y'eai', leading re mbi)lcanif politicjians have abandoned he State ticket, and refused fo holgp ?ackardl and Kellogg, T1hat us 4) say, the party spilits. Was it not novitable ? Was it not the best t hing for the State ? . B.ut when t his sp)it occurs the factions divide he negro vote. N.>r is this all; ther lemnocrats, who have had time to I earn wisdom, take pains to eure e share to themselves of thme negro h 'etc. The result hmas been shown n Arkansas, in Alabama, in Mises ipipi,. where the republiean partyI urgamzationi, in thm handis of cor uipt men, was at last defeated. 8. Note tihe result. Arkansas an~d labma have been at pieace for ighteen months in spite of thme ~residont having in bo0th those tates appointed to the most impor mnt federal offices the very rogues I vho were beaten by the joint action i >f democrats and hounest republicans. s Svon Mississipnnt natmrally n. rnuda and turbulent community, it o fa at peace that the republican loador have as yet found no pretext fo sending troops there. And th chango has been satisfactory to tl honest republicans, black as well a white, of those States. 4. Tho process wo h-ve abov< doscrib d is now goin;- on inl Soutl Carolina and also in JLuisiana. I the first named St to three parties appeal for negro votes. H.unptoi hiads the democratic ticket, and il many of the counties where colore< min predoiniato in numbers th< democrats have put nogroes on thei: ticket. Chamberlain heads the "re gular" republican ticket, and on th<i ticket with him and auoig his sup. porters are the most notuirious ur ruptionists of the State, with whom when he failed to got the demo 2tratic nomination, for which he was intriguing so late as July, he made his bargain. Such men are Flliott, Nloses, Whipper-men whomu last year Chamberlain denonmced, but who this yoar aro his allies. It must be remembered that the Judg<( oses who n0ow opposes Chamber aIin is not the corkruptionist of that .iaame. Whipper a few days agt nado a vehement Chanberlain specch at Cohnnbia. Elliott is on the ticket with him. Ltst comes it )onsiderable number of very influ )tial republicans, who support EIampton ond oppose Chamberlain. 11mong these are most of the judges >f the Supreme Court, many North rn merchaits and plaiters, all men )f intelligence and property and ,her eforo of influence. These use Oheir utmost efforts to carry with hem a part of the colored voto for Iamptoni. 5. This being the situation. is it mireasonable in the democrats to iope to carry South Carolina and to lefeat Chamberlaiu and the cor uptionists who are his supporters ud allies ? Ought they not, on the ontrary, to h:ve the good wishes of very homist Northern republic n ? ,1an they not hope to carry their icket without intimidation, when hey have the support of the most ntelligent and honest republicans ? L'hey have been so sure of it that heir whole plan f-r the canvass voids and necessarily excludes in imidation. They seek to got the Logro vote by poraulsion and by all ho political arts which are prac ised and toleratod wherever in the iorth ignorant voters are to bo'in luien1ceI. (. But into the midst of t his can 'ass the President chooses to inject he army. In a Northern connnunin y the army, even though it caine at he request of a Governor, would Inve no political eieet. But in the south, in South Carolina. it has a >rodigious and well knowp offect. L'ho negroes see that at Chamber rin's call the President sid9 troops l'hat certifies to them that Chain. ,rlain is "General Grant's man,' ad turns the mnss of the n, against dI argumont, to Chamberlain. That , why troops Were called to South iarolina, and that is why this fede al interference in favor of republi an corruptionists is so iniqluituous -nd so imischievous. Wh'len last ear thle honest rep~ublicanls of d~ississippli brPoko away from Gover to Ames hie called at once for roo0ps. Whleni troops wereO refusead Lim the negroes tiurne I agaiinst him. 'hey nlo longer biev lVl11fIm to PoiSsess Genlerl Grant's favor, and hid not scrupl1e to vote against uim or to stay at home. Aimos now very well thait if the troops ad been sonmt him ho could have arried the State, not by~ their use, ut by the conviction, th'mir prsec n his doemmandi would inspiro in the dlacks that Ames was "General Irant's man." This is thme secret of hoie o0(f troops in Sonth Carolina mist now. ilut this mimmoe of power is made y thme N'orthmern repiublican loardars C) suipport a notoriously corrup1t set 111m1n iin ith Carolini anmd seure heir cmontinumedl predominanco. Thoe onest people, rnepulhicans aq well as demao(ints, of that State, mmro ui.i 0(d ini anl effort to secure reform and onosCt g~iornnment. The imnagers I the national reopublican p~ irty use ot merely their imnluience, but ex relmii anI danger outs mmeasumr s of ili tary interference, to piren t this eform, andl to reinstato in pwe lhe moni w~ho have phmdlorocd the state. That is the situation, and it in that wvhich Northern voters are C) consider.--. Y. Hefrarld. The United States Supreme Court 5as irendered an implortanlt dec(is~in ffreeting several New York life in utranese o~e~. The Court d1ecides hat p)olicios in which residents inl lie South hatve anm interest, bnt in hlieh paymiients have failed to be lade, such failure bmeinig caused by a 'ublic war, they areontitled to re. over the eqjuitable value of the oliiesu. Bat num11's pe4t wild-catt escaped oim its cage the other dlay, and roeccedu to chiaw up the fragile il~)ppO ltms. After the oat had etroyed its olaws, the 'Iotamitus liened' au mouth like navigation and Fcat was takena in. Jtegiues.cat a pace. F3Ivo negroes made a raida on thme LOuse of Abram Parkinson, au resi ent of Aiken county, a few days ince, and plunderedl it of everything hey conud fnnd A NortOrft Mffeq Views. The folkthvin1q 1o r has ben ser D to Colonel Has1.1ol, i' ,1'oepons t 3al Inquiry as to ting2 con"'U)to of ti 4 State. The writer is a n&' Boston, but has for the ist. yOsll spent nuch of his a'"1 Charleston, where lie has large bL9 ness in terosts: CoLMmIA, S. C., Oct. 20, 1870. Col. A. 0. Jiaskell, Chairliima ])emocratie J"2cecutive Committee, Columbia, S. V., Di.%n Si: I havo the honor to acknjowlego the receipt of your communication of this dato, asking ie am a Northern man, to stato my views of the present aspect of pub lie afthirs in South Carolina. Yout unexpected request gives me a privi lege, which I gladly embrace, to re fute the slanders that are being ut tored against the people of this State. It so happens that in the course of husiness I have visited every County in South Carolina, except Georgetown, during the present year, and many of them within a month past. I have more or loss acquaintance in all, aind in many social as well as business friends. I am known. of course, to all as a New England man, ready at all times and under all circumstances to maintain my proper position as one. I have, thereforo, had exceptional opportu nity for judging of the general spirit of the people. I have yet to hear the first word of disaospect or to receive the first act of discourtesy offered to me as a Northern man. On the contrary, I have frequently been honored with courtesies which I know wore extended to show good will to my people. As to questions immediately con nected with politics, I have person ally seen no intimidation of voters by eithor party ; but the influence of the secret "Union Leaguo" per meates, if it does not comprehend, the whole colored race hero, and very few of them, men pr wo men, daro violate its behests. This is an lemoent strangely ignored by the presiR, but I have seen eyidencots of its influence all through the country. The pre.el(-C of United States troops would excito no unpleasant fooling, as whites naturally soon assimilato with their own color, but the blacks are instructed by their leaders, that the sudden large in crease of government forces through the country means, that the govern ment orders and will insist on their voting with it. The disposition of the whites to ward the colored people, ats shown I) word and act, is unquestionably g encrouis, kindly and often affection ate, but the purpose of political tricksters to antag.onize the two r ic, s, :n order to consolidate the colored vote for their own benofit, regardless Uf every other offect, h1s at last so undermined the friendly confideneo naturally existing between emnployers and employed, that both so)cial and business interests are be eC.Alin g very seriously imenaced. While somiie of my most valued aid honored friends at the North still remain lRepublicans, not one of them who hats v'iitedl the South hats f tiled toa denounce anid repu)tdit the ref/ime of th e carpmet-bag element hero, andt I am11 conIvinced that the rep~uta b)10 men of the great Republican lparty of the North would, ats they nave here, scorn to endorse the cliqjue of adlventurors who control this State in the naume of "Union I Republicans." If theo present cr-u sad(o against thait element here bo0 conisideredl apart from the Presiden tial catmpaign, it would he no longecr a question of politis, but rather an eftirt made(1 by the~ responsible and resp~ectab~le citizens of the State to rid thiemselves of a hand of mor eenmoy a(.vanti r .rs, living by the execise of quackery with the colored poo011 , and fraud uplonlthe property horldo. i, their employers. Tilden's chruisade against tihe Tweed ring, and Bristow's against the whisky ring, woro rloot politicatl miovements, and1( f ir i-i-nih r' reamts no more should this be. Th'ley were imovements ini the interest of law, ordler and respc tability, and so is this. It makes one bhish51 to imngine what the conchusions of a foreigner would be, who mnade his first visit to America) here, and con temp)latedl ou r r'.publican form of governrm nt from a South C.:rolinastandpoint ! WVould to H-eaven a Webster or a Choato could witness these things, that lhe might send the truth ringing in thunder tones throughout the length of the land; or a Lincoln, that lhe might blazon it in words of fire across thme Northern sky, till every trute Republican be rousqd to the pattriotic impuilso to p~ut country be fore party, patriotism before prejudice I T1ruly yours,H.GJDI. The mysterious Indian who killed Custor and then ran before our troops is nlow in want of' amnmuni tion and has the audacity to ask for it. The government is astond(ed at this audacity and looks at Sitting Dull much as the beadle did at Oliver Twist when thatyoungncamp had the impudence to request "more sonp."-Newn York JleraMt Sitting Bull has heard of the inva sion of South Carolina by the regu lar army, and, if that ammuunition be not forthcoming, he will take it out in salpns. An Emi latio Let ter Fromn the Noxt; President, y ceber25.-Gover 0 nor 'don ha,; addiOsed to the Hon. Abrant 1E . H , itt aLtdtor dated Sto-day, decluring I14( ..osil' n i regaMt1 to Southerin clan.- - R n-quotes t1he fourteenth amenaen.Ot - Jo (;Io-i coulst,ion, and points t1 $A fa4 that, (* ktle 10n reopeatedly toe b the Democratic Stut, app . e' f thg nth, and was. Cdomues ,..t- hM Platform of adopted as lp.b 0_1 e~m Covn the Democratic it to b uni tionl, which declaroc.ttl respected as a , a "I - mnt. Governor Tilde. af citing his own public declara,..'on on the subject previously madw. says: Should I be elected President, the Provisions of the fourteenth amend ment will, so far as dopends on me, be minain xcuted and on forced in perfect and absoluto good faith. No rebel debt will be as sumled or p1aid, 1o claim for loss or Imancipation of any slave will e allowed; no claim for loss or dam age incurred by disloyal persons, arising from the late war, whether covered by the fourteenth amend ment or not, will be recognized or paid. The cotton tax will not bo refunded. I shall deem it my duty to veto every bill providing for the assumption or payment of ainy such debts, losses, anuages, claims, or for refunding any such tax. Tho danger to the national treasury is not from claimants who aided the rebellion, but from claims of persons residing in the Southern States, or having property in those States, who were or pretended to be, or who, for the sake of aiding their claims, now pretend to have been, loyal to the governlmhient of the Union. Such claim u, even of loyal persons, when they arise from acts caused by the operations of war havo been disallowed by the publiI law of civilized nations, condemned by the adjudications of the Supremo Court of the United States, and only find any status by foreo of specifie legislation of Congress. Theso claims have become stale, and often tainted with fraud ; they are nearly always owned in whole or in part by claim agents, by speculators or lobbyists, who have no equity agaimst tax payers or the public. They should in all cases be scru tinizcd with zealous care. The ca. lamities to individuals which woro inflicted by the late war are, for the most part, irreparable. The gov. eiinment Callot recall to lifo the millions of our youth who went to an untimely grave, nor compensato the suffering and sorrow of their relatives and friond, It ca .aot re-ad just between individuals tho bur dens of taxation hitherto borne or of debts incurred by sustaining tho government, which are yet to be paid. It cannot apportion anow among our citizens the changes or losses incident to military opera tions, or resulting in every variety of form from its measures for main taining its own existence. It has no safe general rule but to let bygones be bygones, to turn from the dlead past to a new and a hotter future, and, on that basis, to assure peace, reconciliation and1( fraterni ty be tween all sections, classes and raceu of our people, to the (end( that all the sp)rings of our productive industries may be quickened and1( aL now pros perity created, in which the eviinl of the past shall be forgotten. S.uwMJS, J. TLoEN. A Mouses Captuedby a Spider. A few dlays ago a gentleman in the west partL of the city discovered a mouse in a corner of his cellar, and nioticedi thaIt it was struggling to es capo0 from some restraint, Examina tion showod that one of the hind legs of the little animal was held by several fibres of a spidor's web at tachied to a pieco of hose suspended ab~ove. This leg was drawn n11> from the bottom of the cellar, an< with the other three legs the animal wvas scratching to free himself. The spider--not a very large one--was busy in multiplying the fastenings find mnaking everything more seure. The gentleman took preautions to leave the animal and insect undis. turbedi, and watched tihe progress of this curi-mus exhibiton of engineer ing. The next day the sp~ie had extended its web to the other legs of the mouse, which was alive, but much w akened, possibly from the bite of the insect. Finally the monse died. The engineering pro gressed until the spider had actually raisedl the mouse nearly an inchI from the cellar lbottom, and wvas rest ing from its lab~ors and e >1mmencing a fe uc t nplon the captr red rodent On Satuiday, dluring thme absence of the gentleman from home, . 50ome accident h)ofell the works of theO little engineer, and the sustaining webs wore broken. Thero was a fall of mouse meat simultaneously witlg the fall in coal. During the op era. tions of thle spidoer, several of the neighbors of the gen tieman called in to wvatch the performanices of the industrious insect, Hloveral romem. b~ored reading a similar capture by a spider, "iln a newspapor," but they did not then believe the story, This illustration and( experience were undoubtedly given them to show how unjust they had been, and to * teaoh them to rely with more conti dence upon what the "truly good newspaper" tells them-HarVford ..uran.......'-..:,