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The Priildtallkl Kleetion.
The elee?lon on the 6lh lu(, for President
and Viee-.Presldent of the United Stele#
hu resulted overwhelmlogly for U S.
Guaxt and IIbnbt Wilso.v. The nominees
of the Philadelphia Contention will certainly
receive three hundred eleotoral votes.
Mr. Gsublet has not earried a single Northern
State, and indeed eery few of trfieSouthern.
The triumph of the Rvpuhliean party
Is most complete aod thorough, and unparalleled
la the history of American elections.
Great Fire in Boston.
We obtain from the Columbia papers particulars
of a most disastrous and extensive
conflagration, which has been prevailing in
he city of Boston, Mese. It broke oat Saturday
eight at half-past 7 o'olock. About Ave
mile* of the olty had been destroyed at laat
accounts, and near two hundred milllona of
doltara worth of property consumed by the
fiory element. The fire waa beyond oontrol
for fifteen honra, during wbich time hundreds
of the costliest buildings in the country were
* burned. Many of the large buildings (have
been blown up in order to chock the spreading
of the flames. The statements in this man*
ner:
We are blowing up buildings on Lindal'
and Congress streets to cheek the flaaaes,?
Beebee' block, tbe finest business structure in
the city, was burned. 8tewart's rooms only fed
the flames. Pieces of dry goods wont whistling
across the square firing tbo stores. On Do*
onshiro street every building Is now boated
to tho verge of spontaneous oombustion and
caught like tinder; deafening explosions are
constantly beard. The tenement houses at
the upper ond of Federal street bava now
caught. Crased women dasheu to and fro
with clothe* and bedding in their arms. The
srool houses on Federal street caught next.
They were crammed from cellar to garret.?
The paper houses oamo next. The Freodman's
National Bank went. An hour later the National
Bank of North America went.
Bosto*, Sunday, Nov. 10.
An alarm of fire was sounded abont 7:30
last night, followed by a second, third and
fourth alarm, in rapid succession. The first
engine was hardly on the gronnd when tbe
flames burst from the fourth stories of the
granite store, at tbo corner of Summer and
Kinaton streets, a wholesale dry goods house.
Tho fire caught in the engine room, the flames
following tbe elevator, and was first seen under
tbe roof of buildings in the vicinity, four
story granites, Mansard roofs. The flames
soon reached the Mansard roof? on the oppo-.
site aide, far beyond the reach oftbo engine*.
In lest than thirty minute* the whole city, in
one direction, waa at the moroy of the flame*,
which leaped from roof to roof. One great dry
good* house after aaotber succumbed. The
granite wall fell on the street?, making them
impassable.
At 9 o'clock Sunday tho flro still rages. Bugines
are driven back from station to station,
flranite blocks, weighing ton*, split in fragments
and are hurled across the streets.
The magnificent Postofliee, with the moat of
Congress street, will probably be burned.
The fire has reached dimensions that simply
defy any description.
The people of Boston find themselves in dans
ger of their lives. Tho loss of houses and
property is nowsearcely thought of. The peo\
pie asp retiring/rom befoae She l*a" toward
Trcmont street, wtidrn tie fire It Is supposed
will be unable to reach; but a gfcMls blowing
and it seems to have nopositivo direction.'
Probably Fanieal Hell and Qainoy market
will go. The Western TTnlon Telograph Office
was abandoned athalf?pa*t eight.
The splendid* marble blocks on Franklin at,
packed from cellar tojoeiling with costly goods,
are in ruins. There can be no correct estimate
to the amount of property already destroyed.
Many people are panie stricken, and aro seeking
safety in flight. The country around will
be filled with the houseless. The fire, np to
this timo, has raged in the richest business
part of the city. There is no knowing where
ii may ena. n > now Darning iowara? ine
docks, and will probably destroy then.
The Custom House is in danger.
Mors Fires.?Since our last Issue two
fires have broken ont in nearly the same
neighborhood, in Ward No. 1, under eery
strange circumstances?one on the premises
and under the dwelling of Mrs. Luther
McBee, the other in a barn on the premises
whers Mr. 11. M. Winstocx lirea. ,
The former occurred about day-break on
last Thursday morning. Some of the oeeu <
pants of the house were awakened by the
noise of a cow in ths yard, and a colored (
boy, who was dispatched to drive the eow
out, soon came back with the alarming information
that there was fire under the
house. The strong odor of smoke, powder
and kerosene oil which bad already per
vaded the rooms above confirmed the boy's
intelligence, and Mr. Luther MoBri lost
no time in locating the fire, which, fortunately*
he succeeded in extinguishing with
? bucket or two of water. The black*
hearted incendiary (for incendiary it must
hare been) kindWd his fire in a pile of
iightwood, ready split, and it seems, memt
to make his diabolical work doubly surs by
the use of powder and kerosene oil, with
which latter a scorched news-paper pulled
irom me nro wti thoroughly saturated.?
No clue whatever for the discovery of the
perpetrator has been found. Mrs. McB.
and family are among our best and most
peaceable citizens, which renders the outrnge
the more atrocious.
The fire on Mr Winstocr's place occurred
on Sunday night about 7 6 o'clock, and
was discovered by a gentleman going to
church soon after its incipiency. The
match of tho incendiary (for incendiary it
must have been) had evidently been struck
but a few minutes, as the fire had only had
lime fo climb to the top of a pile of
hay io the barn, within essy reach of the
sidewalk through the large and convenient
cracks. There was neither stove nor fire
place in the adjoining home, nor could a
spark posaible have reached the bottom of
a pile of hay t? a haute when do wind was
blowing from the eh raney of the dwelling
in whhh, wa learn, there was very little
fire at the time. Look out for lh? rascals.
Cfl a rlestol? C"rrks p0m0evce?We havo
made arrangements with a gentleman in
Charleston, aocuatomed to write for the press, '
by whioh our readers will hereafter be furnished
with a statement weekly of the principal
aots and dojngs in our State metropolis, wbiob
sill be read eagirty by the public.
at?itin
LOCAL MATTKB8.
LtiiaMi Nonoil.o- W* m'tl <?MH m ?*r
t*e?l <afwii, mo tie** of mot loot tk dS
/??r omek, for Jtft?H ?m(i pr Km irtfjr
imommmm.
Pat vol Too* Eunftton Tw?ew?Dnrthg
lb* laU 9Ul< election, We Wert prevailed
upon bj several Re it tie met), candidates be*
fore tbe people, to wal; i few days oa them
for the printing of tickets, clreulert, etc.?
This we heve generonsly dons, and now
want oar pay. Come and pay, gentlemen [
we cannot afford to da without our jast
does.
Premium roa Winn ?We are pleated to
see that at the late Anderron Fair, our es
teemed eithieo, Capt. da. Choice, received
a premium (or the best Seuppernoog Wioe,
manufactured at bis home, nrer Green rills,
from grapes raised In his vioeysrd. O-pt.
Cuoica has been engaged for serersl years
in making wine, having two vineyard*.?
He sells some of it, and we learn sopplie*
li)6 apiaeopal Churoh litre w ith wine used
f<-r sacramental purposes. His wines are
the part juice of the grape, no aloekol
whatever being used; and we thiok Ibat
used fa all our churches should be of this
character
s0licitor8hip or Biohti Ciacvir to be
OorrasTBD.?We are inlortaed that W. II.
Pbrrt, Esq., will eontest before the State
Board of Canvassers, Mr. Absalom Blythb's
election to the office of Solicitor of this Cir- ,
ouit. The contest is based on informalities in (
the management of tbo election at aome of the
polls.
Mr. Blttmb's official majority 1a one hundred
and seventy-four.
Mr. 0. W. FnaaoM bought a two-horse (
Carriage of Messrs. Gowsa, Cox A Mauxlbt, <
and nsed it for a family carriaga tan years ]
without any repairs, then called apen these j
gentlemen to have a small bolt pet In, worth ,
about twenty-Are oenta the entire expense of
that long time. If anybody can And a better
plaqfcto invest money, are would be glad for ! ?
them to do so. <
rnKsDTTKaitx Church.?Rev. Dr. Johm A.
Broadus will have charge of the above .
Church for the next three Sabbaths, during
the absence of the Pastor, Rev. Dr. Bcibt^
who will be in attendance upon the meetings
of the Synod, which amemblea to-mor- '
row in Columbia, extending his visit also to
Charleston. Servioes will l>? k??i.
morning aod afternoon. (
The Preeidential Election in Greenville '
County.?Wa expected to giro the vote, this
week, cast at tho various boxes in Qreenville
County, for olectors of President and VicePresident
; but we neglected to get tho re*
turns from the Commissioners of election before
they were sent off to Columbia.
The Grant Electors received three or four
hundred majority in the Count/.
Godey'e Lady'e Book fee December?Has
been rcceivod, and is really attractive. Wo
will send the Enterpriee and Qodey for 1873
for five dollars. " Our Darling," a first-class
chromo, is given to every subscriber to Godey.
This is the time for remitting, and those who
wish to take one of the very be?t fashion publications
should subscribe at once.
Cokksdkuatx Homk ?Especial attention
is called to the communication of Rev Ellison
Cai-kbs, in another onlumn bringing
attention to the institution of the Confederate
Home, in Charleston, lor soldi
era daughters. Our eitlzena should make
a generous respose.
John H. Schopikld, Veq., has been appointed
Commissioner of Deads ia South Carolina,
for tbe States of Alabama, Florida and North
Carolina.
North Br it ink fire Ineurance Company.?
As there are a number of parties in thiaCity 1
i ? -
mnmaun puiiciu m lue snore Uom^ (
pan/, we state, u a matter of interest, that
the Agent here, J. II. Sobofield, Esq., has despatches
from headquarters in New York,
that the losses of the Company in the Boston
lire are small, and will not affeet the policies
out at all. The " Home," of which be is also ]
Agent, is likewise reported as entirely unaffected
in its basiness relations.
ilunm or tub Good TsMrLsas Last
Nioht.?The Good Templars, we learnbare
engaged the Masonle and odd Fallows hall
over Dr. Marshall A Mauldin's drug store,
as a regular place of meeting, where they
met last night for the first time. Hereafter
they will hold weekly meetings, on alternate
Wednesday and Thursday nights. The
order hare, we are glad to elate, is growing
rapidly, the members filling all of the
chairs in the room. The following officers
were last night elected for the ensuing
quarter:
M. E. Broaddus, W. C. T.
Miss Lida Long, R. H. 8.
Miss Mary Isabel, L H. 8.
M las Lida J4.1e-.W V. T.
W. A. Hudson, P. W. C. T.
M. L. Ball, See.
Mica Mamie Magee, A. S.
Mies Flora Meynardie, F. S.
W. H. Cely, Treasurer.
G. W. Singleton, W. C.
J. C. Alexander, L D.
L. L Fowler. W. M.
G. F. Troett, A. M.
A. F. Williams, I. G.
J. E. G winn, O. G.
Orric Public Wkichkb, 1
OssKMTiLLa Depot, Nor. 11, lfi72.)
No. Bales Cotton weighed and marked for
the paat week one hundred and eighty
(ISO.)
M. 8. SCRUGGS.
urncK rusi.10 WKicfimi, I
Qrebnyille, llov. 11, 1872.)
No. of Bales of Cotton weighed and marked 1
the put week, one hundred and thirty-eight 1
(138.) A.W. McDAVID. 1
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County Tteasubbr.?Jambs M. Allen, 1
has been appointed Trraaurer of Oreen- '
ill* County, by Governor Scott, vie* W.
W. Kobkhtbon, ??q., resigned.
Tub Weather has been cloudy And rainy
for several days past, whioh m?ke outdoor
life dull and heavy. Old " Probabilities "
promises all of this.
Habdwabb?Everything in the hardware 1
line is kept at Qowsa, Cox A Marklbt's.?
See their advertisements on the outsideand 1
inside of the Enlerpritt. 1
Wjiite Lead.?Those who wish to paint ,
their houses, will bear in tu-nd that the beet ,
quality of white lead is always kept on \
hand by Messrs. Oovil, C?x A Mabklbt. i
The " Liberty " is the most popular brand i
now used. ,
Rrrvair of Dl HnniDti.*It<tl Dr.
R. J. NimtibiL of tbo Methodist Church
In this place, Vrho hot been visiting the
Northern eltlee In the iotereel of the new
ittthodlit Churoh building, nod who het
both absent for fire or ell weeks patt, re*
turned last week, and preached in hie
Ohorefa on Suodajr last.
Monogn in Pick ana CoURtr.?We learn
that a warder was committed in Pickens
County, <>n laet Friday ereoing, 8th inst., upon
the person of a Richard Hughes, by Juli?
as Durbata. We have no particulars, farther
than that the unfortunate man was instantly
killed, by a pistol ball.
Bbai, Bstatb TnAnsraa.?Mr. T. B. far*
guson has purchased the bouse and lot owned
and oocupied by the late Gen. W. K. Has ley,
for which he paid $3,000 oash. This Is cheap
property.
LtTnaaaT Clou?Will meet on next Tues*
day evening, November 10th, at 7} o'clock,
at the residence of Mr. Thomas Steen. A
full meeting is requested as it will he the reg
ular time fur the election of oflloers and arranging
for the ensuing year. The Essay will
be read by A. Blytbe, Esq.?Subject: The
North Pole and Polar Expeditions.
CtJixr or Police?Mr. 1. L. IIissino has
been appointed Chief of Poiioe until an
election is held by the City Council to fill
the vaeanoy.
Vert Attractive.?We mean the assortment
of beautiful and useful gifts for
Christmas and other presents just reoeived
snd opened to-day by Mrs. O'Connor, at
the old oourt house, there, besides the artistes
already published consisting of Millsierj
and Fancy Ooods, Sofa Cushions, Fur
3oods, Lace Goods, Jewelry rlt., etc. Of
sourse, we cannot anything like describe
Mr*. O'Connor's stock, and would nrge the
sdiea to call and give it a personal exami*
ration.
On a Visit.?Mr. Wu. C. TaowBRinoa, a
lativc of this County, but now a resident
>f Kalamazoo, Mich., is spending a time on
t visit to his brother Mr. S. F. Trowbsidov,
rear Grovs Station. He is accompanied
>y his wife, a lady of Western birth.
roa tub OREXNV1LLR kntkrpkisk.
To the Survivors of the War in
Greenville County.
Fellow CUizena: The undersigned take
ibis mode of bringing to your notice the
'Confederate Widows' Home," a nobis lnitltution
located in the city of Charleston,
snd earnestly ask your interest in the same.
The Home is under the control and direction
of a Board of Ladies, who are actively
snd generously exerti.ig themselves for the
welfare of the daughters of deo-ased Con*
redarato soldiers.
Girls are boarded comfortably, and
inught by the best teachers, at rates which I
nuke it practicable for the daughter of a
poor widow to receive the excellent initrnction
and careful training of the School {
sod Home. (
We are authorized to say, that if we can
raise the sum of $ 100, we can secure a place
it the Home for the daughter of one of our
worthy country-women for the school year
Df ten months. Will you not aid us, and
the widow of a late brother aoldler f
Last year, four girle from Greenvlile were
the Ilruos, and two of theeewere bene*
Salaries. I
We earnestly ask our fellowscilizens to 1
band to us tbeir contributions, that we may
lecept the offer of the Ladies, and secure a .
place at the H?me tor a worthy girl of
Sreenville County.
All contributions handed to any member
>f the firm of Beattie A Co., will he acknowledged
in the Rnltrprite, and the lint
it contributors published there.
Very respectfully,
WILLIAM BKATTIE,
ELLISON CAPERS.
CoNiBiuwroaa. Paid. |
&. ua;>ers $1 00
W. Benltie 5 00
FOB TUB GaXKNVlUJI XMTKBPBKB.
Mr. Editor : Tk? road* of thla County are
limply horrid. Everybody who goes outsido
>f the City it made aware of it directly,
rhoy are bad, very bed. You can't ride over
bem with any pleasure, eed if you forget and
lrive out of a walk, you are almost euro to be
inder the necessity of making a deposit with
>ur enterprising townsmen, Messrs. Oower,
Jot A Murk ley, foe a broken Wleel or spring.1 S\>t
only so, but the business of the oomdM-'
lity is seriously impaired and impeded by the ,
condition of tbem. To haul a reasonable load t
iter them ia quite Impossible. The wear and
ear on wagons, gear and teams is a heavy
tern. Add to this Worse than useless investnent
a reasonable calculation for tbe lose of
Lime, and a thinking man will be astoniched
jo see bow terrible a drawback bad roads are
to all classes of people and all kinds of bwslaees?except
wsgoa-makers. Realising all
this, there is poor comfort in considering tbe
prospect of getting them repaired under our
>resent road system. We have a suggestion,
however, to mako as to esse road, which is of
ipeciat importance to tbe business men of our
Pity. The most important road, and at the
tame time the very worn road in tbe County,
s that known as tbe Bunoombe Road ; and
>n its present location, it can never be greatly
improved, and it is several miloe longer than
necessary. A road can be located from the
Air-Line Depot by way of Marietta, and intersecting
with the State Road near Mr. John
H. Qoodwin's, or at Terry'tsCrgek, upon much
better ground, and several miles shorter. A
movement is on foot to organize a Turnpike
t/omp?uj, unuur lue uatrier aci, 10 duiid a
road on the lino indicated, and wo desire to
rail the attention of farmers who hare corn to
haul, and of merchants who hare goods to
tell, to the great importance of the enterprise
to their interest#, and to ergo them to take
immediate steps to oarrj it threagb.
SALUDA.
For tho Greenville Enterprise.
Ms. Eimtob : I was rsry moeh pleased to
i?e in your journal of last week, that Green>
wills was about to have an Agi ieoltural and
Mechanieal Association. I hail it with joy,
and count it a more in the right direotion.
We can hare Fairs here that will be ?e?v
ond tp none in the State, ae in my opinion
our City will be the. metropolis in a few
years. With our climate, oar schools and
colleges, our society, our railroads and mani
factories, there ia nothing that can keep
iia tram swelling to a large elty. It is now
approachable on the south by lha Greenrilie
and Columbia Railroad, and by the
Mr-iifte Railroad on tho east and west, and
very ioo<i * hope to hear the shrill whie->
lit of A? irol bom ecbolog and roMteholog
through the mountains on the road to
Asheville, K. C. This will afford ua still
greater fseiltlive far tha Fair. It will open,
up to us all Western Iforlh Carolina, and
give them a chance to show their big pota>
toes, their fioe cattle, horses, hogs, Ac.
A few years ago, sad it was thought cot?
too would wot grow this high up 1n tha
8talc bat on trlhl w# And it a mistake, as
this year ther* are beautiful fields at the
foot of Pari^ Mountain. Only a liule while
ago, sod there Was not ?>?r one handred
bales of eotton eoM at thlsptsee ; now, this
fall, there will be fiftesa thousand,
Clover, gross, corn, wheat and oats grow
A?. I- ?:i ??-H- !-- * -
??. ?a, CVII| amis ill* r?u|(<) II UllO lur
lock. Everything favors the organising of
the Society, cod m manttf?cmri?e are
springing lip, there is a wide field open to
the mechaoiea.
Long articles are seldom read in newspa*
pers. I would like to say more on thesubo
jeot, for I delight in talking to the farmer
and mechanic, but will close for the presont
by saying, I hope the getters up of this Agricultural
and Mechanical Association will
appoint a day for the organisation, and ask |
all the people in the country to be present, 1
Greenville, 8. (X, 8lh November, 1872.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council. Chamber, November 5.
Council met at 7 o'clock P. M. Present:
His Honor the Mayor, H. P. Hnmroett : Alderman
Sullivan^ Davis, Gnssett, Hawkins
and Aktxaoder. Absent: Alderman Seattle.
The Minntea of laat Regular Meeting nnd of j
two Called Meetings were read and confirmed- \
The petition of sundry citUons praying for '
the widening of Buncombe street at a point
near the house now occupied 1>y Poinsett Wells
was received.
Jletnlv?d, That tbo matter be referred to
Committee on Streets aud Bridges, with instructions
to ascertain upon what terms the
street can be widened and report same to
Couuctl. Adpted.
The suggestion of sundry citizens in reference
to opening a street from Rutherford st.
noar a point kuown as the Stecn Douse to
Buncombe street, and extending through tbo
land of Mr. McBoe to a point at or near tbo
Air Lino Railroad Dopot, was recoivcd.
Rnolutd, That cho street be opened, provided
tho land owners give tho right of wny
free of cost. Adopted.
Tho petition of J. C. Aloxandor to erect
building was referred to Committee on Streets
and Bridges, with instruction to define the
boundary of streets adjoining the same.?
Adopted.
Reio'.vtd, on motion of Alderman Hawkins,
That tho offer of Alexander MoBuo to extend
Court House street to a po'nt near Fielder
Gossott's be accepted. Adopted.
iiioTcu nnu seconded thut the application of
Dr. O. D. Irvine to open a street between himself
aud J. C Alcxauder bo laid on the tublc.
Adopted.
Tho Committee on Strcots and Bridges report
unfavorably in regard to building a
bridge ncross Richland Creek, m the citizens
in that vicinity havo failed to contribute as
promised, which was the condition on which
tbe bridge was to be built. Moved and seoondod
that tho Committee be* discharged.
Adopted.
Moved and seconded that the offer of Capt*
\V. E. Earlo of his office for the meetings of
Council be accepted with thanks. Adopted.
Ilis Honor the reports that ho has
undo the loan authorijed by Council.
Aldcriaaa.Hawkins reported that he had
ordered tho piping for the drain (on Jail st,)
leading from W. II. Watson's to tho fire wol'
on said street .
Ilenolved, by Alderman Alexander, ThAt in
future tho Chief of Police be requireJ to make
a report to Council at each regular monthly
meeting of the number of arrests made during
tho month, the offence for which they wore
nrresied, the number of fines collected, and
the general condition of tb? Police Department.
Adopted.
Tbe petitions of Abncr Batson and Abner
Parkinun wcro read. Moved and seconded
that the election of Policcinun bo postponed.
Moved and seconded that I. L. Homing be
temporarily appointed Chief of Polico. Adopted.
Chief of Police complained that sundry
dealers in liquors havo been selling liquor on '
the Sabbath, in Jireot violation of an Ordinance
of Council. Moved and seconded that
Chief of Police's report;in referenoe to the on.
l r~i .-nt ' ???
nmui Bcuing ui spirits no oununy oe received
m information, nod that the unlawful dealer*
be required to appear before Counoil at their
next regular meeting far trial. Adopted.
Hnolved, by Aldertaan Sullivan, That Clerk
of Council bo instructed to trace up the t*ortrait
of Gen. It. E. Lee and have the aame returned
immediately. Adopted.
The Mayor appointed on a Committee of
Three to report an Ordinanoe to Raise Suppitlaa
for the year 1872, Ahlerinen Sullivan,
hattie and llawkine. Cam mi t tee on Assessment,
Aldermen Alexander, Davis and Goa>
sett,
The aocount o( Managers of last City Election
was ordered paid.
Alderman Alexander movod that the sum of
Fifteen Dollars be appropriated towards do.
fraying the expense of uniforming eaoh Policeman,
and that they bf required to wear black
felt bats instead of cf^s, as heretofore ordorcd.
AdoptoJ.
lletolved, That Alderman Ooeeett be requested
to At up n comfortable place for the
Police. Adopted.
The report of City Treasurer was road and
accepted.
There being no further basiness before
Council, on motion adjourned.
J. B. IIKNBY, City Glerk.
- - From
the Columbia Pl.cen'x.
Anothdr Letter from Gov. Ferry.
Ma. Editok .* I was not a little surprised
at your comments <*? saf address to tho vo*
lets of the Fourth C-?ngr? anion a I District.?
You seem to have diaoovnred a new code
of morals, in pronouncing It " wrong,*^iot
to employ a negro, because he will not vote
with u*. for honest men to sustain it par*
government, instead of voting for had men
to contfnn* * corrupt nnd oppressive one I
I admit, air, the right of a negro to vota
as he plenties ; and I also insist on my right,
equally moral, to stnploy him or oot, as I
please. There la no p?*nt obligation on my
part to employ him than there ia on hia
part to vote with ma. You cannot doubt
the morality of thla proposition. lie pro
priety is eqnaliy apparent to my mind.?
Can it ba said that there is any propriety
or moral obligation in my eheriahing a viper
to sting me unto death T Is it "wrong" for
me to refuse to employ a pares! of men who
are assisting, by their votes, to diminish
the value of my property and to crush me
with laxatbn for the purpose of paying a
fraudulent State debt, fotged bonds, false
certificates, and enriehing official rogues
and swindlers? My proposition is simply
to havo nothing to do with such people until
they change theV disgraceful and rui^
ous policy vfOt to aroploy thgp, and Dot U>
rotfbl^ninjy then Id any Way, ( would
toy to Ihetn as 1 would say to d sat of rogues
who wart stealing o?y property : "I eannot
employ you or hgya anything to do with
yeu whilst you continue your roguery.?
Quit stealing and become hottest, and 1 will
give you amploymeot and rent vou my
Unde," If by this policy t should be able
to make thrift honest, I cSonot are any
"Wrong" in It, And in tha as me way. If I
ean present negroea, who come to seek em
ploynient, ffotti voting to sustain an infa*
mously corrupt and oppresaive government*
I cannot aee '.hat T am committing any
"wrong," but doing them ahd my country a
greet Service.
You e?y : " It is repugnant to tha genius
of our free institutions." Is it repugnant to
the genius of our free institutions to enlighten
the human mind or rufnrm tha ?t*inn>
conduct of m?n f Some persons nosy be
convinced by reason and argument, and
others by a practical illustration, such as I
propose for the plante s and farmers to
adopt. There are thousands of negroes in
South Carolina who know very well that
they are doing wrong and acliog against
the true in'erests of the country in voting
for rogues nnd scoundrels ; but they think
it is to their Interest to do so. Let us show
them #'t they are mistaken, by refusing
them employment.
I would ask, if you think it consistent
with the genius of our free institutions, for
paupers and non-taxpayers to levy a tax on
property ad libi(?itn t la not the tax-payer
justifiable in adopting ail peaceable and legal
means of restraining this power as much
as possible ? Is it consistent with the ge?
niua of our free institutions for ignorance
and roguery to control the government f?
When this is the case, are not the virtuous
and patriotic justifiable in resorting to all
fair, open and manly expedients to change
this control? Is it right and proper for a
few unprincipled carpet-baggers and scalawags
to direct as they please, for their own
eggrnndizoment and power, the ignorant
voting masses, and that no concert of action,
legal nnd peaceable, should be taken
to check and dethrone their power ?
Is there any greater "wrong" in refusing
to employ a Radical laborer, than a Radical
lawyer or doctor ? Do we not all prefer
the association of gentlemen to carpetbaggers
and scalawaga? Does not every
right-minded man give his patronage, in all
business, to the friends, instead of the enemies,
of his country? Why, then, should
we adopt a different rule for those who ore
(o work for ns nod wail on us?
You say, " In the second place the reme.
dy is Inexpedien "and "impracticable to he
carried out.** I admit there ia force in tbia
objection. The love of present lucre may
prova too strong for our bona tod patriotism.
"The da*ir? for gain," you any, "on the part
of the individual land-holder,- will defeat
any such policy. But will not "the individual
land-holder sec that his interest in
the land will be promoted T The laborer
and renter eould not hold out two months.
But if the planter loat a crop, it would be
nothing in eompariaon with the restoration
of a wise and good government.
Your eotemporary and my friend of the
Carolinian aays: "We cannot hut regard
Etr-Governor Perry as a hasty adviser."?
Let roe assure histTKItt'I have not been
hasty" in coming to this conclusion. It
haa hern my mature and deliberate convietion
for a long lime that there is no other
hope of rescuing our Slatc^ftovernment from
the hands of rogues and scoundrels but this
If we lo not resort to this means, we are a
d??om?d people, and our lands will be con
fiscnted by taxation. Already, leading negro
politicians have intimated that our
lands would he sold to pay the puhlie debt;
and then the public debt being paid, the
new purchasers would hold them free of
taxation!
Tlio Carolinian further says: "We Jo not
hesitate to declare that there it neither
sound poliey nor good statesmanship in this
proposition." This is a difference of opinion,
only between the editor and myself.?
\v<. have differed before on a matter of VI*
till importance to tli# country. lie thought,
in 18A0, that "neither sound policy nor
good statesmanship" ahould prevent Honth
Carolina from receding from the Federal
Union. I thought diff.-1-cntly, adviaed differently
; declared that disunion war the
deaih-bnell of alavcry and the ruin of the
Sooth. I now "declare" again, that unlets
this roguish and oppressive government i?
overthrown, South Oarolina ia destined to
become a howling wilderness; and there i?
no means under Heaven whereby we can
change the goveinment, except by refusing
to employ or oounienanee in any way those
who are upholding and sustaining its Infamy
and pollution.
The he*l and ab]?st men in the Stat# have
rea?oned and argued with tha colored people,
in public and private, without the
slightest effect on their actions and oonduet
in politiortl affairs. They have resorted to
kindness, And d?ss
vor?, all to no purpose. You think "edo.
cation will open an avenne to their confidence
and good will." If thla were so, it
would take a generation to open the avenue,
and the ruin of tho State, in the mean
time, is inevitahla. Sot, my dear sir, you
havs hot to look around yon asd be con
vineod of your fallacy. You will see, unmistakably,
that tho strongest supporters
of the present corrupt government, and the
bitterest foes of rcfnrm, ore the best educated
and most intelligent of the enlored raoe
? suah men as Kllioti, Cardoso, Nash, Ran
oirr, Wright, Rainey. Gleavea, Hayne, Cain
and many others. You cannot, therefore,
appeal to hie education and enlightenment
any more than you oan to hla gratitude or
senee of juetioe. The only way to raaoh
him is through hia wants and noeescities>
hla fears acd apprehensiona.
B F. PERRY.
Greenville, 8. C , Oetober #0, 1871.
Prooskss or tub A. L.?The Oaiiurille
(Ga.) Kay ft of the 8th inat. says : " Trash
laying is progressing rapidly on the AirLine
Road, between this and the Togalo
river. It is eapeoted that the river will be
reached within thirty days. The frsmiof
of the bridge for Tngalo has Just been computed
at thia place, sod ths bridge for
Chauga is now being framed. We learn
that fifty miles of the road from Charlotte,
this wry, ia now in running order, and
that traok laying ia progreeaiug thia way
from Spartanburg, and in both direction#
from Greenville, This great thoroughfara
will aoon be open to Iho public."
-Vs
state awd other items,
Mr. A. W. Thompson, of Welhalli, ?u J
severely injured by a buggy accident lately. (
Add Campbell, a Canada dairy maid, has j
dlsd atlhoaCaoi 181 yeara.> She had worn ,
out fifteen generations of eowa
It took exactly throe days and six boors
to teigh lbs six hundred million franos fe*
cently sent by the French government to
Efnperot WilTiam of Qertaany.
A small pistol ball passed through a window
of the bouse of Lieut, Gov, Rentier, on
Pitt street, Charleston, lately, and fell io
his wife's lap.
Charleston received five thousand balea
of eotton on the 4th inst.
If this is a borrowed paper you are read*
I alJ la H V.? _I ?L. -1
iug, urup iv. x uur utrignuur una v p?y
hit money to lend you.
General Meade died in Philadelphia, on (
the 6th inet., of pneumonia. ,
A FULL and complete assortment of
Trutsee, at Hillhonse'e Drng Store.
The President of the U. S. has appointed
Thursday, 28th November, as a daj of fasting
nnd prayer.
An effort is being made to divide Beaufort
Into two oounlies.
DR J P HILLHOUSE keeps the beat
Kerosene Oil constantly oo hand.
Hipporhinorrhenirthns is the latest name
for the prevailing hnrse disease.
The Lenrensville Herald has just completed
its twenty-sixth volume.
Father Byan, the distinguished prieH
and poet, by reasoo of ill health, is c<>m? 1
pelled to give up his pastorate and seek re <
pose in Europe.
A firm of French hanks are to pay the
French government an annual payment of <
sixteen million francs for the monopoly of I
the manufacture and sale of matches. I
Horace Greelev ha* resumed the editor!" '
al charge of the New York Tribune, which '
will in future be an independent journal in '
polities. i
Jeff. Howard killed John B. Harris, nsar '
Graniteville, on the 3d inst.
A gin-house used conjointly by Thos. W.
and Theodore Lang, on the west side of <
Watereo river, near Camden, was burned 1
on the 1st inst. Lose, $9,000.
Samuel Brown, colored, who was con
victed of the murder of bis father-in-law,
r 1
Ebb West, was tentenced to be hung n>
Marion, on Friday, the 25th of January,
1873.
The Abbeville Medium says: The book*
for ?ub?enpiion to the Ninety-six Railroad
have been opened and the prospects for the (
building of the road are favorable.
AT the Drug Store of I)r J P Hillhouie <
oan be found a nice s-lection of Soap*.
Perfumery, Hair Oils, Ac.
The gin house of Mr E S Saul*, of WiU
liamiburg, including eight bales of eotton, i
was destroyed by fire on Monday, the 4th (
inatant.
Over fifteen hundred bales more cotton
were reeeivrc ai newnerry during the cur. ,
rent month than for the corresponding peri
o-i last year.
A colored man. near Saluda Old T?>wnt ;
heat hie atap-danghler?a lieV ehiM of IS
year#??o unmercifully a few days since, aa
to cause her death.
During the last wc?-k the National B?nk
of Newberry paid out over $70,000?fur
cotton transaction#.
LAMPS, of all qualities and prices, a
Hill house's Drug Store.
It is stated that J. Mot-ley Hill, \V. M. .
English aud A. 0. Ljles. of Union county, (
have been arrested on charges connrcting
them with a recent murder in that county.
Ten yenrn ago the present horse disease
was around in a mild form. If ten yeara
lienes it la to re-appeir in a correspondingly
Intensified degree, it is time to be thinking
about those steam wagons.
Mrs. Horses Qreelcy died on tha 80th
ult , after lingering illne-a of nearly five
yeans, at the Msidonoe of Mr. Alvin Johnson,
in New Turk City.
FRVSH Cg^dfe*. in great variety, can be
found 88 ^.tollhouse's.
Oo tbalth instant, the mutilated remains
of a ma* wage found in two barrels floating
n Char es river, Cambridge, Mass. The
body was J* one and the head and legs in
another barrel. The body was well dressed,
and watoh was found io one of
the barrels.
Mr James Brennan, the editor and proprietor
of the Charleston Southern C-lt, is
the onl^fosiQber of the newspaper fraternity
wh? baa been elected to the Stale Leg.
islater* since reconstruction
Tbe Anderson Baptist Church ha*
extended an invitAlion lo Rev. James
K. lAendenhall, of Columbia, to as- |
sums pastoral charge the ensuing
year.
Ju<lge Mackey(at Yorkville, charged
the grand jury on the 4ih lost., that
El Gov. Perry\ letter is a seditious
libel, aod that all persons who confed*
erated to exact of laborers the stipula
tion that they shall vote as ordered by
employers, are liable to indictment for
conspiracy.
A correspondent of the Camden Journal
aays : "I koow of several instance*, where,
on iwo-liorve farms, there have heea made
(hie season, twenty bsles of cotton lo the
horse, besides provision crop. Hundreds of
such farina a wail development right around
this town. Shall aueh a country go to waste
01 stall under misrule! The responsibility
of ths answer is iu our own people."
The LanrensvUle Herald, of the Sih Inst.,
says: Wm. II. Franks, one of the moat
paaeeable eiliiens of thia *nn?i? ??
: restad at this place, oo laat Tuesday, and
lodged in jail for a few boon, but was af
terwarda. on U>? same day, by (ha kind and
accommodating diaposilion of Commiaaionar
Rankle, brought out and admitted to bail
in a bond af five thousand dollar*, to np*
pear for trial at tha nest term of the U 8.
Court at Colnrobia. W?, Peterson was al?
so arrested on the same day, and lodged ia
jail. John Davenport, Esq., waa arretted
on last Saturday for ailrgad violations of
internal revenue lawa He was bailed in a
band of fifteen hundrcJ dollars to appear
far trial at nest termof court.
A Strang* Ca?H?/fy-\/t Woman Bunted to
DomlA; Tmo Oiren* M?k Badlg Burned.?
rh? Qoldsbofo (N. C.) HmM|? says a moat
llib?Mlo| affair occorrod on Wednesday
algkt laat, the tt?|lD( of thil performance of
John Robinson's Girovs. Tbcre was an old
**11 bear tbs place of tb* exhibition, and
while tbs people wore leaving tb* pavilions, a
negfo Woman walked Into tb* well. Mr.
Clark, on* of tb* circus employees, jumped in
alter the woman. A largo orowd collected
arottnd the spot, and Nicholas Ashe, snotber
if the circus men, was pushed into th* well.
A large lamp wbioh had been placed noar tb*
Well was upset and knocked into th* well.
The woman was soon enveloped in a flame
that destroyed life. Th* men were badly but
DOt lerinualv A J ?
also slightly burned. The wodid sm ths
wife of 8ilas Whits, sad had no cbitdrsn. Mr.
John Robinson, ss soon ss he heard of ths
heartrending affair, eolled at the Messenger
office and left twenty dollars for the purpose
of defraying the burial expenses.
The Columbia Union report* that
on Monday evening last one of thw
passenger cam on the Spartanburg and
Union Railroad jumped the track,
overturned and rolled down an em '
bankment some twenty feet or more,
where it now lays, landed "topside
down." There were several passengers
in it at the time, as reported, who miraculously
escaped with' a few bruises,
the one being hurt the most receiving
a cut under the eye. The train went
on to Spartanburg after the accident,
carrying tbe passenger* in the box cam.
Co'urnhu* M. McClure, who we* eonvictrd
at the August (187<>) term of the U. S
Court of illicit distilling, hut failed to ap?.
peer, wee arrested n short tim- sgo. near
flreen ville. He hes been carried to Charleston,
and was sentenced, on the 7th inet.,
by Jndge Bryan, lo six months' Imprieonw
ment in the Oreenrille jail end one thonesnd
dollars fine.
SoMrriilxa that is Guo??A Targe stork
of Orange*, T.emone, Coconnts end Beneass,
kept ooostently on hand at
F. HAMMOND A CO'S.
Easlkt's Brioox.?In advertising the removal
of Enslcy's Bridge beck to the old
place, the contract was to be let tut on Saturday,
16th November, instead of the 19th. S?
advertisement as changed.
Mis?Lidia Abrams, Mr. James Cop-land
tad his wife, Mrs. Catherine Copelend, and
Ur Siln. M Rail... ?
? ?. " j f VIIIACU* ui uaurvnr*
bounty, have died recently.
Baltimore, NOV. 11.
Flour dull hut not quo'tahly lower.?
Wheat dnll and declined 5c.; choice 3.05.
C?rn heavy?white 65003 ; yellow 65@
>0 Provisions nominally unchanged.?
Whisky 96. Cotton dull ?middling 18};
receipts 1,870 bale*; aeler 40 ; stock 3*970*
CfSARLKSTOM, Nov. 11.
Cotton quiet?middling 17} ; receipt*
2,581 bales; sale* 500; stock 33,404.
New Yob a,-Nov. H. "
Cotton dull; sales 7494 bales?uplands,
19; Orleans 19}. Gold 18}@18|.
Cart xviu.it, Nov. 13.
Cotton i# selling to day at 16 cents.
axisa&aN&aea
PRICES CURRENT,
Corrected Weekly, by Messrs Ferguson it
Miller, Merchant*.
(1REKNVILI.E, 8. C* Nor. 13, 1873.
BACON?C. K. Sides, smoked $ lb,..13}0?
" " " dry salt lb.,.12}0 25
Hams, sugar cured, lb.,....220?
" country, " " ?0?
Shoulders, smoked, lb.,....110?
" dry salt " " ...10010}
BUTTER, lb _ 320?
BEESWAX, lb 25 0 ?
CHICKENS, '? head.. 210 ?
COFFEE, lb, Kie.... 23025
" " lb, Java*, 300?
?? " ? Moeha .. 400?
CORN, ^ bushel Daw,. 7 >080
EOU8. dosen .. 15 @?
FI.OUR, %t barrel,? #901 <50
(10L1> Jl 11}
IN Dill 0. Spanish Fibat .......,.,...#2 00
IRON, lb, American ...74o
l.AKD, ? !b ^ 13? 16
LEAD, ? lb 14c
LEATHER, ? lb,Me, Hemlock 30 ? 33c
a X ? m 0*k 45 (Hp 50o
44 44 44 Vpfmr ?0 ? 70c
44 4 4 44 Harneaa 60 (q) 65o
MOLASSES, fi |?U?n, M moor ado 00(a)?
44 44 44 Beehive 75o
44 8agwr Hoaae ^ Bbl 35??
44 44 44 44 (Jail 60(9?
NAILS ker...... $8 00 @ 8 60
RYE, # buchel,..^ $1 00
SALT, ?aok, Liverpool $2 76
" 44 44 Anertoan $2 60
8UOAB, %k lb, Bmm 12K<*?<?
44 44 44 Clarified, .. ?..14<aifio
44 44 44 Pfu#bed? ?r lU?18a
SlintTIHG aM-eights, * ?? 1H@?
Hr; 44 retail 12|?-~
TALLOW, tt lb .10? lti
WHEAT, tt>uebel 06? 2 00
YARM, feeder?.*; h*U....~?. W
44 44 44 bunch .... fl TO
a??Mi mi i ?
Saturday, JV9?. 16t/t,
WB will mm onr SECOND STOCK o!
DRKB8 (IOODS and SHAWLS.
^??48TT1E Sl CO.
VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE
F 0 R S A L K\
THE large
??d conruno<li-,?dfi#ff^p
one dw oiling at
W!^W|rflowtn, villa
DAWIvDkf ll/Vtlti" m
inuwn mm me uvn it<^ nuufllV ITIOt
containing about One Hundred and ThirtyFWe
acres. with a two story framed house.
The HARDING PLAGE, about one mile
from Gowensville and containing about
Two Hundred and Fifty Pour acres.
Will be sold at aootion oa Saletday fa
DecmnUr, on the following terms to wit :
One third cash, balanoe in two equal in
alallmenta, of six and tweWa months with
interest. Warranty titles given.
BARLE A BLYTHB.
Not IS 88 8
COTTON SEED!
I HAVE deposited at the Store of Mr. W.
F. Thaxton, on Pendleton 8trect, some
of my White Bloom COTTON. I have also
left some of my SEED with him for sale.?
The seed will be sold in quantities to suit
the purchasers.
C. F. WATERS.
Not 18 88 8