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, X'KEXCII OKI)NA>CE. The superiority of our service con Btructidfc of heavy guus is being proved not only by direct experiments at home, but also by indirect means abroad. About the time when the lirst trials of the SO-toE gun were going on, a French breech-loading guu corresponding to out 0-inch. and weighing about 14 ewt. burst violently at Gavre, when being tired with its service charge of powder and projectile. The French guns are constructed on a system which, tc say the least of it, has nover met with any approval in this country. The body of the gun is of cast iron, the portion from the trunnions for ward being entirely composed of this material. At tne ureacn ena tno gun is lined with a steel tubo as far as the trunnions; and, in order to strengthen it. according to the advocates of this system,a series of steel rings is shrunk on the breech, reaching as far as the trunnions?that is, over the powder and shot chambers. Hero therefore is a combination of two treacherous ma terials, cast iron and steel, so that any failure in the soundness of any part must lead to disastrous results. When to untrustworthy material is added a ' - o 1 -u 1 1 complicated sysicra 01 uruucu-iuuumg, the wonder id not that guns so con structed sometimes burst, but that they can be trusted at all. The gun -which failed lately at Gavre burst vio lently, six men being killed and others being injured, though the gun was not being subjected to any extraordinary test, but was being fired as on service. Itisonlyfairtoconclude, therefore, that the guns in use in the French navy being identical with that which burst, ;are liable to behave in a similar man ner. As far as the experience of fif :teen years can be relied 0:1, no such accident can possibly happen to one of ourniueb-abused heavy guns when the most ordinary precautions arc taken. 1'alLMuli Gazette. A NEGRO CHIEFTAIN-. >ne of the most remarkable char acters who have influenced the history of the region of country between Tim hue too and the West coast or Airica, was a native of Futah Toro, known as the [Sheikh Omaru Al-Hajj. Ho is said to have been a Waleen, a man of extraordinary endowments, of com manding presence, and great personal influence. He was educated by the Sheikh Iijani, a Moslem missionary from Arabia. Having spent several years under the instruction of this dis tinguished teacher, visiting Mecca in the meanwhile, he became profound? ;ly learned in the Arabic language. Af tnr tlia rlf?nth nf his master hs wont twice to Mecca on pilgrimages. On his return to his country the second :tiiue, he undertook a series of prose lyting expeditions against the power ful Pagan tribes on tho East and Southeast of Futah Toro. Ho con- j quered several powerful chiefs, and re-: duced their people to the faith of Is-! lam. He banished paganism from Scgo, and purified the practices of several Mohammedan districts which had become imbued with heathenish notions. He thus restored Jcnno and ! Hamd-Allahi; and was on his way to Timbuctoo,about ten years ago, when, j through the treachery of tho Arabs of that region, he was circumvented and j killed at a town in Masina. One of his sons is now King of Sego, another' rules over Hamd-Allahi?two of tho largest cities in Central Africa. Al-; hajj Ornaru wrote many Arabic works iu prose and poetry. His poems are recited and sung in every town and : village from Futahtown, in Sierra Jjeone to Ivuno. His memory is held in the greatest respect by all native students, and they attribute to him many extraordinary deeds, and see in his successful enterprises, military and literary, proofs of divino guid-! A nee. A STRANGE STORY.' Mr. Sindall, who lives in Baltimore,' accompanied by his son, a lad eleven | or twelve years of age, recently was at! the Custom House and in maritime .circles seeking for evidence that would I confirm a strange story toiu oy tno .boy. Mr. Sindall said that his son hud been lost since May8,1873. The; ibov, whose story wa3 not very clearly; .told, said he was on the coal wharves, I probably Locus Point, as a brig was ;about to sail. The captain asked the; :boy to come on board, and go down as j far as Holly Grove, where he would; be landed. The boy consented, and ; the brig started down the bay. After; sailing for a lorg timo the boy states' he was put on board of a large ship, i where he remained in the capacity of; cabi#boy. He says Etlie ship went to China, and ho gave some description of the people he |saw there, but says | he was not allowed to land, and had not been on shore for two years and j .a half. The ship eame back to Balti more, reaching here on Monday of last week. The boy says he stole off, from the vessel and made his wayj home. He gave tho name of the ves-: sel as the Pascaret, commanded by a! l/cipuiiu viuiuy uuu mao is uu ^ucu , named vessel in this port, nor has there ever been, so far as marine re cords of the past disclose. IThe state-; ment of the father thut his son ha3 j been lost for the time named is doubt-1 Jesd correct, but the story of the boy | is not yet authenticated. ? Baltimore Sun. iv The Reverend C. Hamblin, who has 1 for many years- .been a missionary! nmAnrr f o rv\ ?/>/-! r? r. /1/v^l ^ n ! uujvn^ www i.io.'-'iiciiiiiiivutnis, UCUlciltTS j that the rose-colored accounts of the progress of Christianity in the Islamic i States are false. "The delightful pic-! ture," he says, "of tho succcss of the Arab missionaries in winning whole African tribes, elovating,. refining and .civilizing them with wondrous success, I Js not very much more exaggerated than the tales of the Arab story-tej- j }ers in the Turkish coffee-shops." ITEMS OF INTEREST, A poor woman in St, Louis went to ' a doctor the other day for medicine 1 to check the appetite of hor five chil- J dr-ea, she being unable to provide' /sufficient food for them. Ann Connolly of San Francisco, aged: 73, sues for a divorce from Henry Con- j nolly, aged 75. because he broke the ! promise made before marriage to quit;, chewing tobacco. Some Michigan doctors have come ; ( to the conclusion that an agonizing i case of sore eyes afflicting a boy up Ihere was transmitted by the sneeze j at an epizootic horse, A sharp-pointed needle or awl ' pressed into the head of a crab will j Jfili it Instantly. This is Mr. Frank 1, Auckland's remedy for the cruel pro-1 ( <*58 of live crab boiling. The softer sex has reason to feel en- ! (Couraged. The last census showed j the number of idiots proper in the ( United States to bo 24,527, of whom i | MM5 were males and 10,042 females. I j When Spain was active and pros perous, the breakfast hour was six or . seven; honce the next meal, font \ hours afterward, received the name of r ''las once," Dr the "eleven o'clock/' r From this expression wo liave our ? word ''lunch," * Some/?/the p?n working in Iloosac [ Tunnejl during this season of short r Aays never see daylight excepting on j / Sundays. They go into the tunnel : .before daybreak In .the morning, and i t xlunot come out tilJ after dark The j 0 pi//tie lop'U n|?h t to them, | [ Tlie Press and Banner. W. ^V. LICK, Ktlitoi*. Wednesday, July 26, 1876. The Hamburg Affair iu Cougrcss. We publish elsewhere an abstract of! i the debate in Congress relating to tliej Hamburg a Hair which arose upon the j amendment of Smalls, a colored mem ber from this State asking that no troops be withdrawn from the State. I The debaie shows the unenviable] light which such attrocities reflect l?? mid institutions of IIJH'II liio i'\- ?| - ? - the South, >nd tlie onerous task which they impose upon our friends out of the State by way of extenuation and excuse. We are held naturally responsible for the outrages which are {committed among us, and the only way of wiping out the charge and placing ourselves above suspicion and reproach, is to denounce the crime ; and to lend our earnest aid in bring j inn the guilty parties to punishment. The lirst has been done by almost ev ery paper in the State, and the cry has been taken up by Lamar and other true men of the South who very just ly say that the news of the outrage was received with a thrill of horror in i every Southern community. As Mr. Lamar said, there are lawles> ! men in every community who in no . sense represent its sober, law-abiding imasses; nud whilst they exist at the j South they exist in a greater degree j and exercise a greater control at the I North. For the acts of these men it j is io'ly to hold the South responsible. , We have denounced them, and it is | the duty of every good citizen to lend j his aid in bringing them to punisb j ment. By so doing we vindicate our selves from the reproach of being par ticipants, or of lending aid and corn j fort, to the perpetrators. But why invoke the aid of the U. S. jarmy in such case, sis dispatches to I tlie Northern journals say has been (lone by CJov. Chamberlain. There | has been no case of "domestic vio lence," such as the Constitution con I templates, which over-riding the State authorities and defying its pow ers, has made a resort to the Federal Government necessary. There lias heel) no attempt yet made to arrest the i guilty parties, and hence no resistance which could justify a call for troops l?y the Governor. The whole power of the State militia is subject to his con trol, and until it has proved powerless. . he has no reason to call for troops; and | without such call Federal interposi tion would be unconstitutional. The use of the army, as Mr. Lamar says, is ineffective and cumbe'some, ; and whilst its presence could be pro jductiveof no beuetit, it would 011 the ! contrary be the instrument of oppres Ision and corrupt intrigue. Let Mr. ! Chamberlain spare no efforts to arrest ! the guilty parties, and when he finds i that his process is resisted and the power of the State government defied, it will then and not till then be time to asli for troops. Heed and Whipper. Since the qualification of Whipper before Chief Justice Moses, and his departure for Washington, there has been considerable interest felt as to j the result of the contest between the ' aforesaid claimant and Judge Iieed 1 for the judgeship of the first circuit. L The term of Whipper, in case he be J legally elected, begins on the :iOth Au- J gust, and the question of jurisdiction 1 cannot come oeiore una nine, me next regular term of the Court at Or angeburg will not open before the 3d Monday of October, and the issue can only be precipitated by either of the contestants calling an extra term of the Court, which may be done by giv ing ten days notice. It is supposed that Whipper will thus,make the issue at Charleston, and it remains to be seen with what success. A reporter of the jStws A Courier has interviewed the sheriff, clerk and solicitor, as to their action in case the issue is thus made. The sheriff Bow en is a Whipper man and would sustain tain?the clerk, WiJliman, is in doubt as to his course?the Solicitor, Buttz, is the outspoken advocate of Whipper as the legally elected judge of the cir cuit?urging that Reed was, by the terms of the resolution under which the vote was taken, elected only for the unexpired term?that Gov. Cham berlain himself in his message stated that eight circuit judges were to be elected, after having commissioned Judge Heed for the unexpired term of Judge Graham, &c. According to Solicitor liuttz, whom soever the sheriff, clerk and solicitor agree to recognize, will constitute the Court, and will be so recognized by the Supreme Court. This would seem to be a very ridiculous position, and we suppose would scarcely be regarded otherwise by any one besides the So licitor of the 1st circuit. The Hope of the South. The New York World in comment ing upon the recent Hamburg affair, regards it as the natural result of the continued inisgovemment and oppres sion, to which the South has been sub jected since the war, and which have driven the people almost to the verge of revolution. The only hope of the country lies in a change of rulers, and with the overthrow of misgovernment at the South, we may anticipate the cessation of violence and the inaugu ration of peace. The World says: "So long as Mississippi was controll ed and misgoverned by the negroes and their carnet-bair white leaders. there were scenes of violence ull over the State. So in Arkansas. So in s Georgia. So in every Southern State where ignorance and corruption and irresponsible force made and adminis tered the laws. And so there would f have been constant scenes of violence 1 in any Northern State under the like 1 conditions. But with the triumph of J intelligence and order, represented by J the Democratic party in each of these c States, thorough and absolute peace 1 was restored. Not Massaehnsctts nor f New York is better or more peaceably * governed than are Mississippi and ? Georgia and Arkansas to-day. The a negroes have not less profited by the 8 change than the whites. They are * protected in every right and privilege. c and the harmony between the races is F uninterrupted and secure. The con- ? trast between the past and present is j so strong, is so marked by the restored '( prosperity of the materiul interests of ^ botli races and tho good feeling which * nrevaila between thorn, niir? pvcrv eond citizen of the United States, North or South,, musf hope for the regeneration of South Carolina by a like agency. This would be secured by a majority for Tilden and Hendricks and for the State Democratic ticket in November. And as with South Carolina, so with Louisiana." - <?'? ? Gen. Butler's Letter. (Jen. Butler has written a manly and defiant letter, published in the Jourtiul of Commerce, in which he denounces the false statements which have characterized alike the Attorney i jtrue:i ui * irjHil'l, 11IIU lilt* UtTOUIIlS UI the newspapers in regard to the Ham burg affair, and solicits for himself and liis friends a judicial investigation. Hestates that the Hamburg military company was an illegal organization und had no right to their arms; and lie recites at length the grievance* to which the white people of the town ind the County had been subjected at the hands of the blacks. Gen. i'.utler dates that he did nothing in Ham burg which he regrets, or for which t>e has an afiology to make, and states :bat he would do again what lie did ;hen. No one has presumed to charge )im with the massacre of the prisoners. 4?n>* ??1? The Chrtfrr Jlepor(er of this week, n speaking of the infamous senli nents of the Charleston indignation netting says truly, that if they are indorsed by the "negroes throughout f^tate, ''there is no need of any ortber talk about, coalition." .Our riend, we think, will find it hard to >oint out any need of it at all.? Jteyii cr. Prof. J. L. Jones, late of the Cokes iury Couference.School has been elect d to the Presidency of the Columbia 'emale College, A Collision of Knees to be Avoided. In these times of heated political ex citement, when the passious and prej udices of race are so easily aroused, it is all important that, we exercise a proper restraint upon ourselves and avoid all occasions of collision. To the young especially, who need the curb rathor than the spur, we would oiler the same advice. Let us keep our temper and not precipitate a con llict of races. We trust that suoh a conflict may be avoided in the future as in the past. In any event let us not seek to precipitate it. We have iwu iuuijv juifresib hc biuk? 10 ue ieu pardcd by rash and intemperate action. It is the part of true wisdom to bear and forbear, until ''forbearance has ceased to be a virtue." That time lias not yet come. Republican Indignation Meeting in Charleston. The colored indignation mooting held in Charleston last week to de nounce the Hamburg affair, was char acterized by even more of the intem perate bluster which might have been expected. As usual the passions ruled the hour, and those who will doubt less be the tirst to run away should a furlif oiiunc wore those who did most to" provoke it. The colored people should be the last to provoke a collis ion, as they will certainly he the chief sufferers; and when they threaten the rifle, the torch and the knife, they know not what terrible engines of de struction they invoke, to be turned against their own race. It is no tinie certainly for the colored people to in dulge in threats. THE HAMBURG AFFAIR IN CON GRESS. Speech of Mr. Lamar. Washington, July 18.?The pend ing question was on the amendment ottered last Saturday by Smalls, of i'a1J?ui ?n onnnontinn With QUUIU vai VUlUt, 111 vuuiuutivii If ?VU the Hamburg troubles, that no troops shall be withdrawn from South Caioli na. In the course of the debate, Lamar, of Mississippi, spoke of the Hamburg aQ'alras terrible and disgraceful, but he denied that its circumstances were a legitimate subject of debate in the House. There are one or two facts, however, that gleamed indisputable. One of these was that a body of white men had, without authority of law, put to death a number of black men while prisoners?not prisoners in the legal sense, however, inasmuch as these white men had no right to de prive them of their personal liberty. IT - --- I ? I- -? ! * ? etnmr t r* 1? J o frliat". tin ixc ? isiiL'u iu saj iu uio pifivv .?w excuse <*r palliation could possibly be fouud for that outrage and barbarism. [Applause on the Republican side of Lhe House.] The South had its law less classes, as the North had, with this difference?that in the South they flamed out iu different localities, and were coulined to short periods of time ; while in the North whole countries were sometimes held in terror for months at a time, and the State au ;horities defied. In those Southern States where disorders occurred, there were governments of a peculiar char icler and type. They were called Re >ubiican, but it was a spurious Repub icanism, which had no sympathy ivith the purpose and feelings of the jreat national Republican party. It vas these State governments which lad encouraged these disorders and hese murders by their inefficiency, heir inability and their cowardice. In reply to Garfieldrs as to whctlie he Hamburg case was sporadic or ymptomatic, Mr. Lamar declared lint there was not a community in the South which had not been thrilled vith horror at such occurrences. He loemed it a wonder that society, 1111 ler the operation of goveruments A-liich allowed such lawlessness to talk abroad in the land, did not go to >ieces. In reply to Conyer.s argument on nst Saturday, Mr. Lamar declared hat the use of the army had never >roduced any good effect in such cases, rhe troops always got there after the ?ccurrence. The use of the military jower was an insiruiut'uk mat w?o m stfective, cumbersome, slow and al nost useless, and in spite of the good aith of the army officers, it had been :onverted into a monstrous engine of x>litical oppression and corrupt in rigue. It was the duty of Gov. Chamberlain at once to adopt meas ires, swift and vigorous, to bring to ustice those who shot down those prisoners in cold blood ; and if he did hat, he would receive his (Lamar's) support and praise. If, instead of do ng so, hewever, Gov. Chamberlain ushes to Washington for the purpose >f making this occurrence the founda ion for fanaticism and strife, he will; lot stop that disorder. Arnansas was in illustration for the last two years of he advantages of good government, jndera firm and intelligent man? }ov. Garland. In conclusion, he declared that the >cciirrcnce at Hamburg was a morbific demeut, not sporadic, but unnatural, ind one that would disappear and un ler good government. The debate wa?j further continued by vasson, of Iowa, Hartridge, of Geor gia, Hale, of Maine, and Mackey, of south Carolina. At the close of the debate, Hancock, >f Texas, moved a substitute for Smalls' amendment, to the effect that io troops shall be taken from any state or service where the public inter ,'st reauires their eoutinuence. Smalls accepted the substitute, and t was agreed to by 8G to 83, Sitting Bull as an Imitator of Napo leon. Sitting Bull was a convert and riend of Father DeSmet, who taught lirn to read and write French. He las always scorned to learn English, >ut is a fair French scholar. In the Dakota lauguage he is also versed, and leclared to be a greater orator than kittle Pheasant, Chief of the Yank on nais. Capt. McGarry says he mew that Sitting Bull had read the French history of Napoleon's wars, itid believes that he has modeled his ;eneralship after the little Corsican Corporal. Sitting Bull has never ac epted an overture of peace, the re tort that he gave in his adhesion to Sully to the contrary notwithstand ng. He has always been an unre snting and vindictive savage?to the Americans what Schamyl was to the lussian. The Anderson Intelligenccr says of lie Hamburg affray. "We cannot erceive the justice and propriety r^hich seeks to attach all blame to the 'bites in this affair. The negroes ^ere the accressors in the first in tanee and placed themselves without ^ tie protection of the law when they ^ ^fused obedience to the civil magis- ^ ate. It was natural and inevitable , lat such defiance would provoke a [ ollision wilh the assembled whites, nd It cannot be expected that an in- j: iriated mob in any community will v e permitted to assert its disregard of c gal authority, without meeting re- a ista nee from any quarter. c The LouifsviUe Courier Jovrnal hits jj ie nail squarely on the head when he ^ lys: If, by some disastrous chance ? ie State of Ohio, with all Its wealth * id culture, were to be suddenly put uder control of a voting population ke that of South Carolina, there t, on Id be a procession of Kuklux that ould reach from Columbus to Cin nnati, and Bircliard Hays and Iiich "d Smith would be seen enthusi&sti- g illy riding at their head, "wuooping ? n up." t| J. H. McDevitt, the runaway ex- tl easurerof Edgefield County, was ar- tl 'sted in Tallassee Ala., laat week by N . M. Pruther, lieutenaufcof the Au- C ista police, wlio had a requisition ei om Governor Chamberlain, and will ui ,ke the prisoner to Columbia to-mor- tl >w. McDevitt's father says he did fi 3t steal the monev, but simply took pi hat the county owod him. ci The Newberry Democratic Conven an met last Wednesday and elected .'legates to the State Convention, fa cing a straight-out ticket. The Western Union Telegraph Com- tfc u absorbed the Southern and Atlau- es % yvitlt a reduction .of rates. ei Gen. Butler Strikes Back. A SEARCHING REVIEW OF THE "HAMBURG HORROIt," How the Hamburg Record has beeu Falsified ? Intolerable Outrages by the Negro Outlaws who Infest the Town. No Law for White Men in Hamburg* Edgefield, S. C., July 16,1876. To the Editor of the Journal of Com merce: The high joint commission, consisting of Wm. Stone, Carpet Bag Attorney-General, and the Mulatto Adjutant-General of the State, Fur vis, have lately visited Hamburg to i nvestigate the "Horror," and the former has made his "report." Why Governor G'hamberiain should have subjected the State to the expense, and these two dignitaaries to the trouble, of going to Hamburg, is some what surprising, When we read the "report," and consider the data from which it is made, the ex-partc state ments of lying negroes and the par tial, partisan and false conclusions of its facile author, the suggestion prjses, why the affidavits were not written out inX-'olumbia, made to order there, aud sent by express to be executed without limit by the dusky affiants of that renowned rendezvous, JHamburg. This plan would have answered the purpose of the outrage manufacturers, and their hireling newspaper cham pions, just as well. If this so-called Attorney-General had been in pursuit of the truth, why did he contine his inquiries to the be sotted negroes, and a few perjurc-d white men who had instigated them into an armed insurrection against the laws of the country, the rights and property of its citizens, and the safety and peace of that community ? If acting within the perview of the du ties incident to the high position in the State, to which the accidents of war have elevated him, why did he so hastily conclude his investigation be fore getting at the real facts of this unfortunate emeute, and rush into print with a report pregnant with par 5t-v nnrl fronr^nnf with tVlA nHfiP U^UUOUip, auu llttgiuuv IT VMV. of Radical falsehood? [f liis hireling champions of the press had desired to present to the public a'/rut/iful account and a fair representation of the "Hamburg Horror," why did their accommodating reporters seek for pub lication the statements of such wor thies as "Dock" Adams, Prince Riv ers, Gardner, and other negroes of that ilk, and avoid souurces of in formation which could have throwu light, at lea^t, upon the subject of in Why should these champions of Radical outlaws, these bolsterers of the .waning fortunes of one of the most infamous, imbecile governments that the world has ever known, so "swiftly denounce" the white men engaged in the merited chastisement Df this body of armed outiaws, ban dits and robbers, as "fiends," "cow urds," etc., and have not one word of condemnation for the outlaws, ban dits and robbers themselves. Why have the editors and reporters of these malignant sheets lashed themselves into spasms of horror and shame and mortification at the death of these irmed outlaws, and find in their hearts not a feeling of regret or sorrow at the death of that splendid, fearless uul honorable young man, McKie VIerriwether, who was murdered in 2old blood by these same outlaws. I can point out just twenty mis itatements of facts in this "Report," kvhich could have been easily avoided f the doughty Attorney-General had ;aken the trouble to arrive at the ;ruth. As he recommends a judicial nvestigation, and sundry threats of irrests have been made by certain val ant knights* of the quill, who I pre sume will volunteer to play constable 'or that purpose, I will reserve my ex josure of these falsehoods for that iu-| ,erestiug occasion. Upon the heads of those charged with the execution of the laws, rests he responsibility for this collision, [f it is true that Governor Scott placed hese arms and this amunition in tbe lands of these ignorant people it was i crime against them aud the white people that he did so. It was a crime n Governor Moses to have allowed hem to remain in their hands. And t was more than a crime in Governor Jhamberlain, in the light of his expe dience upon that subject. It was a ;ruel ana inexcusable wrong, an un pardonable sin against the peace of he country and the Jives of the peo ple, that he should have allowed these runs aud amunition to remaiu in their lands. The jurisdiction and powers of a riial Justice are large and the resnon libility proportionately Increased, at in important point on our border, like tiamburg; and a man of the greatest iiscretion, fidelity and firmness, could ind should have been procured to fill - ? i i i. J ? C ll A. XL }_ ne ornce; nut luuieiiu 01 mm, una nan, Prince Rivers, wholly unflt for ,o important a station, is the only act ng Trial Justice in Hamburg, and I jelieve the next nearest in Aiken Jounty is about twelve miles distant. Now, if there had been a Trial Jus ice accessible, who would have given Mr. Robert Butler justice, when, like i law abiding man, as he is, he appeal id to him to protect members of his amily against this so-called militia, his "Horror" would never have >een chronicled. * Not only does he not afford him pro ection, but the ruffianly constable of his Trial Justice, one Bill Nelson, a ioppor colered negro, Insults me as hi*\ ittorney when I approached him in a. >erfcctly respectful manner, to in inire about the whereabouts of the ['rial Justice, in order to begin the in vestigation. I was moreover baffled md trifled with for hours by this Trial rustice and his negro associates, until liia nrmpil nnmnanv of outlnwa hnri ime to concentrate in their armory, vhere they could successfully main ain their attitude of armed insurrec ion, armed with guns which the same ?rince Rivers admitted in my pres ence had been taken from him by hese negroes without authority. The town had a negro Intendent, legro alderman, negro marshals. It vas almost a terror to every white nan whose business required him f;o >ass through it. They had harbored hieves and criminals from every di ection. They had arrested aud fined onie of the most peaceable citizens or the most trivial offences against heir ordinances?some for drinking >ut of a spring adjacent to a highway.. )ne young man was fired upon, the tall passing through his hat, arrested, "u(i6tu ?? V'?=W ? ? ? ">-?? ' "J U-vu, ecause his horse shied on the side valk. And an old man was arrested, usulted, and fined, because his horse urned 011 the sidewalk as be was in heaetof mounting. Market wagons, vithin five or six miles of the town lavebeen robued night after night, cat le bad been stolen and run into this dace and sold. Stolen goods have ieen systematically received here, the larties knowing them to be stolen, ^or uights previous to the collision, inoftending white citizens were halt d by the pickets of these militiamen, rrned with State guns, and stationed n the highways. In one instance, Ive or six of them scraped their bayo lets on the pailings of a gentleman, nd upon bin remonstrance cursed and bused him in the hearing of his wife nd some visiting ladies. The names r ail the persons can ue given. Why dia this Attorney General and iiese "swift denouncing" newspapers ot put themselves to some trouble to ^certain the provocation on both des. That this was not a company tatemilitia, but a band of negroes rganized contrary to law, or without le authority of Jaw, who had taken le State property without authority, rnt "Company A, Ninth Regiment ational Guard of the Btate of South arolina," had been disbanded for sev -al years, and that this band had surned their organization without au lorfty, that they had not only unlaw- ! illy and riotously obstructed the Liblic highway, but had broken up a i vil court, defied its process, and re- i sted its mandates, and insulted its i Seers, and riotously threatened the I ves of peaceable citizens. * i Whyao they not publish the fact ] lata certain white man. who lives in < iat Town of Hamburg, and publish- i i a Radical papar In Columbia for i rcuiatlon in Georgia, was seen on the t * train going towards Columbia on thi Thursday evening previous, and re turned, as is strongly suspected, wit! ammunition for tbese negroes? Why have they not reported tha this same man said to the negroes at tcr the altercations on the streets 01 tho 4th of July, between this so-cpll ed Militia Company and young Butle and Get?cn, that "they (the negroes ought to have shot Getzen to death, ant beat Butler's brainsout with thebuttso their gupsand that he incontinent ly fled like a mischievous cur, whei the storm, which he had brewed, burs upon the ofiending negroes. Why they have not reported all o these provocations I cannot conceive except upon the hypothesis, that the; are paid to lie, and to slander, an< misrepresent the white people of thi State for political effect. They say that tho demand was mad* upon the negroes for the arm? wjthou authority or justification. Whj? ha< not any citizen or number of citizens the right to demand them? ? i-Tince vera u x>i iguuici ui mujui General of Militia, had said publicly that they were taken from him with outauthority. These negroes had assen bled riotously; were in a state of arm ed resistance to the laws, and any citi zenor number of citizens had therigh to disperse the rioters and suppress th riot aud to use just so much force a was necessary to accomplish it, an< if every negro engaged in'the riot ha< been killed in the suppression, i would have been excusable, if no justifiable. The tribunal of the written law ha< been applied to, and ignominousl; failed. Delay would have been fata to the safety of the lives, families aai property of the unoffending, peacea ble citizens, .prompt, anon, suurpum decisive action was necessary; unde the dictates of that unwritten, iualien able law, known as self-preservation the first of all laws. Some there ma; have been, who were glad of an op portunity to punish those who hud ac cumulated wrongs, insults and outra ges upon them, such as I have enu in eiated. I can sj-mpatize with thein if I cannot approve such a means o vindication. I have upon a previous occasion ex plained how and why I was irt Ham burg. I did nothing there which I rt gret' or for which I have, any apolo gies to make, and would do again jus what I then did. I might haye avoided the storm - * * * ' 1 * 1 11 fleeing irom ic. auu coiiceiveu iuu I bad certain duties to perform, and 1 was not brought up in-that scboo which allows any man to desert hi friends and clients when they are ii danger, and their families and proper ty in jeopardy. I am indifercut to thi opinion of those howling hypocrites and ask no favors at their hands, an< shall grant none. Their threats o United States soldiers have no terror for me or the people of Edgefield We have had these soldiers with u and have no objection to their cominj again". We hive found the officer gentlemen as a general thing, and tlx men orderly and law-abiding, an< they will do no paore tuan execut f Hoi r nrilnru anH pnfni'HA InWR. I invite a judicial investigation, an< am prepared to submit to the arbitra ment of the law ; and such is the feel ing as far I have been able to learn, o every white man who is in any degrei connected with the affair. The whit men of this country have some righti which the negroes aro bound to re spect. They have no other feeling fo them, than kindness and pity. Kind ness for their loyalty to our familie: during the war, and pity that thei will permit themselves to be made tin tools of bad, mischievous, designing white men and mulattoes. So lonj as they obey the laws, every honora ble man of the country will feel bouuc to protect and encourage them in hap piness and prosperity. \ery respectfully yours. M. C. BUTLEH. A Hanging, REMINISCENCES OF ABBEVILLE BY AN EX-ABBEVILLIAN OF OVER FORTY YEARS. Abbeville in my day and before hac a way of hanging folks by their neck /s.vrlara ?%-** 51 41%a n*?2 ?->#?' marrow was broken, or the windpipe so sprung and dismantled as to be total ly unfit for future use. with such in cidental effects upon the corporeal sys tern as may reasonably be supposed t( j follow. "Our fathers" thought the borrowing of a horse without the owner's knowledge and consent anc forgetfulnoss to return him, was suffi cieut to entitle the borrower to sucl: artistic treatment as above mentioned and to him who took the life of anoth er, except in defence of his own, tbe\ with one voice, except a few personal ly interested to the contrary, said "ee< how his wind-pipe will stand th? rope." And they saw. I believe oui fathers had better ideas than their de scendants under the influence of the mock humanitarianism of this da} and age, and that their stern senti ments and practice better subserved the ereat ends of human law?the nre vention of crime and the safety ant protection of human life. No "hard up" "or crazy" pleas were worth a law yer's note-book or utterance. I witnessed a hanging once in t graveyard about four hundred yards West of the public square. It was in 1830, and the subject was one Kindred Kitchens, probably the worst man that ever lived in Abbeville. He had murdered an old man of or near eigh ty years old?his own age was be tween thirty and forty years. The victim was acting as bailiff for Trib ble's Beat and I think it occurred al Tribble's store. The old man's offence was levying on Kitchen's horse while he was in the grocery. He retook the horse by violence, seized thte old man by the hair and drew his knife across his throat, almost severing his head from his body, leaped the fence near by, dropping the knife reeking with blood, and escaped. He was after wards captured, tried and condemned to rope stretching. To tell all the bad deeds imputed to this man would fill paces and thrill the blood to write or listen to them. The most brutal was ou one occasion coolly shapening his knife to the keenness of a razor, and gaugeing the point between his fingers, seized his wife, telling her he was go ing to see how near he could come to killing her without doing it, and with her feeble frame in his powerful grasp, he drew the knife from ear to ear, touchiug without cutting the jugu lar vein. (Hold your temper ladies, he has suffered for it.) Yet this poor creature.ciung to him when all otners turned their backs and spurned him, did all she could for his defence be fore the law and made the last appeal on her knees before Gov. McDuffle, whose presence she reached on foot and wearied to exhaustion. No one would sign her petition nor loan her a horse for that errand. On the fatal day she was present to receive his re mains and give them a decent inter ment. Tins writer tnen a nair-grown man wanted to Bte a hanging and especial ly to see that man hung, and to make sure work of it, as soon as the gallows was erected, two days before, selected as his seat a sapling within ten feet, and before the crowd assembled?not less than two thousand came, placed himself in the top as a squirrel or opossum would have done. I recol lect an over-anxious boy got very tired in holding his position two hours be fore the centre of attraction and es cort arrived, and then a full hour occu pied by religious services and the speaker entitled to the floor. The lat ter announced himBelf "prepared" to go, "and wanted to see and shake bands with all he had quarreled with and fought, and they went in shoals, I thought it would take all day. On ly one stood back his brother-inlaw, Nat McCollister, and seeing him he called him up and they made friends (each bore upon his person Dot less than twenty scars inflicted by the knives of each other) this ceremo ny over the speaker drew from his pocket some "poetry!" which he ask ;d the privilege of reading and which net no objections?all about his wife md children. Prefacing his lines he laid; "Genteel men 1'am a gwine to die and leave you. I have been a bad man in my time and am sorry for it. I liav'ent treated my wife right in mauy respects, and she'se one of the best weemun God ever made and has been a mighty good wife to me and I will say on my dying bed this much for ber, and she will make any of you a mighty good wife, and I nope some of you will find it convenient to take her for she is a good oowan and handy and no mistake." The lines began: "And ItH O doar wife I love you well _ And all the children too: l nope your soqi in unnsi axuy uwuu, And all the children's too." I can't call to mind the succeeding lines b'it the above was repeated as a chorus to the other "verses". The production was lengthy, and the au thor had to be reminded that only a few minutes remained, when he was advanced a step forward and higher, the rope adjusted and after three blows (the two first missed) from a mallet in the hands of Sheriff Taggart, a pin was knocked out, a few movements of the body, then closed the worsted ex istence of Kindred Kitchens. This writer did not recover from the feeling for months: it was the last hanging he ever witnessed or ever ex pects to, though a warm advocate of the practice. * * * GONGAREE MANUFACTURER OF S T E A. M ENGINES AND BOILERS, Iron and Brass Castings of all descriptions made to Order. 0 I WAS awarded the first premium castings at the State Agricultural ana Mochanical Society Fairs, held in Colum bia, November, 1S71, 72 and 73. Circular Saw Mills of all sizes. Also took the FIRST PREMIUM at State Fairs hold November, 1871, 72, 73 Manufacturer of GRIST MILL IRONS of all fllzen.) For Sale. Giu Gearing of the following sizes : 9 feet wheel and pinion - $30 00 10 " ?? " 32 00 11 " " " 35 00 12 " " ' 45 00 14 w " " .. 00 00 With Bolts $6.50 Extra for each set. - Anti-friction plates and Balls for Cotton Press ?10.00 and $12.00 per set. D. B. SMITH, Agent, Abbeville, S. C. Dec. 10, 1875, 35-tf EMPORIUM ~j OF FASHION, Fresh Supply I Ladles' Hutu, Plaid Silk Bcorfc, Flower*, Uibbons, liulilingH, White Lawus, 1'iquc, Silk Belts, ?kc., re ceived this week at EMPORIUM OF i ^ FASHION. CARPENTRY. Tho undersigned hereby givos noticw that he is propared to do all kinds of Carpenter's Work and Building. Ho also repairs Cotton Gins, Thrashers and Fans. A full supply of Gin Material always on hand. Farmers are requested to bring their Gins up early in the season to allow time to have them properly pro pared. Also Agent for the Taylor Cotton Gin, > tho Brooks Cotton Press, and all kinds of i ltubber and Leather Belting. D. B. SMITH, i Abbeville C. HS. C. Barnwell &Co. Are daily receiving ad ditious to their Stock, consiat i iug of STAPLE DRY GOODS. Hats and Clothing, BOOTS AND SHOES!! THEY KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND, ALSO, A FULL LINE OF Groceries, Bacon and Lard, Meal and Flour, Coffee and Sugar, Bagging and Ties, Molasses and Syrup, A FINE LOT OF SUGAR CURED HAMS 11, Oct, 5,1875 20-tf Dissolution. TIIK copartnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the 4 firm niimo of DuPro, Gambreil A Co., has i boon dissolved bv mutual consent. J J. V. C. DuPKE, JOHN M. GAMBRELL. May 12, 1870-tf White Lawns, ANOTHER lot of these handsome goods, plain and striped, from 25 eta. to 35 eta., just received, at the EMPORIUM OF FASHION. June 14,1876, tf Centennial Transportation Arrangements OP TIIE Great Atlantic COASTLINE, i yoR the \ Accommodation, of Vis itors to all Points South. The Railways and Steamship Companies between Augusta, Ga., and Philadelphia, compris ing the ' ATLANTIC COAST LINE, will during the progress of the Centennial Exhibition OF THE ? UNITED STATES, present for the patronage of the citizens of the South, routes of transportation and forms of tick eta upon which to reach Philadel phia, that will immeasurably ex cel all other lines in point of Direct Daily Movement, Comfortable Accommodation Variability of Transit, Economy of Expenditure. To enable this to be done, the combined resources of the RAIL WAY LINES SOUTH OF NORFOLK, together with those of the BALTIMORE STEAM PACKET COMPANY and the OLD DOMINION STEAM SHIP COMPANY will be em ployed and the individual tourist, the social party of ten, twenty or more, or the civic or military or ganization of 100 to 300, can ] each be cared for in a manner f Knf 11 onlio^n J L&Jttb Hill OUUDIJ tu^n ugonco. Price Lists, Time Cards, and all needful information are nov\ in the Lands of all Agents At lantic Coast Line. It will be to the interest of ev ery individual and each organiza tion proposing to make this trip to communicate with the under signed. A Centennial Exhibition Guide J Book as authorized by the Com- J mission will be given to the pur chaser of each Centennial Ticket. Call on or address either of ? T the following named agents, i J. H. WHITE, Macon, Ga. y W. J. WALKER, Montgome- i ry Ala. ? H. V. TOMPKINS, Atlanta. L. REED, Savannah Ga, Ed. J. DIVINE, Macon Ga. A. POPE, General Passenger Ageut, May 1, 1876, 4-4m I SPRING, 1876.1 * ' ^ , , M'DONAIMHADDON are now receiving their Stock Spring Goods, consisting mainly of Domestic Goods, Notions, &c. a larger stock of SHOES AND HATS. ' than they have ever kept pefore. Always on hand the choicest of FAHILT GEOCEEIES, Confectioneries, &c. i # CIOAES! CIGAES!! eW keep the finest and cheapest as sortment of CIGAE8 in town. Great inducements'to cash buyers?offered by McDonald & Haddon. April 10,1876, 52-tf Insurance Notice. I HAVE accepted the agency for several 80LVENT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES, as follows: Old North State. Royal Cananian, Merchants and Mechanics and Commercial of St. Louis, and will insure at the lowest rates con sistent with a sound business. Patronage of the public is solicited. Office at the Law Office 0/ Messrs. Per rln ACothran. L. W, PERRIN, Agent. April 12,1876,52-ly TO THE LADIES! <? ? ? 1AM now prepared to exhibit the latest novelties in MILLINERY, : j and invite my friends and the public to an examination of the eame. Feel* ing assured they will find it to their interest to call before nurchssinor else where, as, owing to the scarcity of money, I intend to sell very low for CASH. The Dress-Making Department is still under the supervision of MISS JANE KAMEY, who will be pleased to receive your orders,>and will endeavor to give satis faction. Very respectfully, UBS. M. M. WHITE. April 5,1876,51-tf omn a oixiiua Planing COLUMBIA. S. C. F.W. WING, Proprietor MANUFACTURER OF Sash, Blinds, Doors, WINDOW" MD DOOR FRAMES, Inside Pivot Blinds and Hers PILASTERS, mantelpieces, , MOLDINGS, BRACKETS, Handrails, Newels, Balusters. Scroll Wort of all Descriptioi AIT Work Guaranteed a No. t ... May 28,1875, lyr. BLANKS OF THE MOST APPROVED FORMS, FOR SALE, AT THE Press & Banner Office. Rent Liens, Liens on Crops, Lien on Crop and Bill of Sale. Mortgage of Personal Property, Mortgage of Real Estate, Title Deeds, Trial Justice's Blanks. Sub. Tickets. Sub. Writs. Summons for Money Demand. Copy Summons for Money Demand rhe State of South Carolina, ABBEVILLE COUNTY.. rVo6a<? Court"CUalionfor LetterMof AdminUCn. 3y THOS. B. MILLFORD, Esquire, Probate Judge. i WHEREAS, Peter McKellar has nade suit to me, to grant bim Letters* if Administration of the Estate and ifleets of Miss Mary McKellar, late of Abbeville County, deceased. These are therefore to cite and ad nonish all and singular the kindred tnd creditors of the said Miss Mary klcKellar, that they be and appear, tefore me, in the Court of Probate, to ie held at,Abbeville C. H., on Yhurs lay, the 15th day of July, after publi- < ation hereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore loon, to show cause, if any they have why the said administration should lot be granted. Jiven under my hand and seal, this [rat day of July, in the year of our jord one thousand eight hundred and eventy-six and in the one hundredth ear of American Independence, Published on the 5th day of July, 876, in the Press and Banner, and n the Court House door for the time equired by law. THOS. B. MILLFORD, Judge of Probate. July 5,1876, 2t JEWING MACHINE NEEDLES, 5 and other attachments at J. D. CHALMERS & CO. March 1, 1875. CHAIRS ! CHAIRS ! 8 dozen chairs J received to-day. Rr-ttan 3eats jlendid article, sold at low fig-urea. J. D. CHALMERS <ft CO. PARLOR FRENCH LOOKING . ' GLASSES, at ' J, If. CHALMERS & CO.'S, * -%& > CUNNINGHAM * It g. k m TEMPLETON have received their i i .? whloh they are selling at low prices. Call and see them. Maroh 29,1870, 50*tf Cash Bayers WILL as usual find our prices as low as the lowest, and our Stock this season having been pur chased with special care, we are sure can oonvince them more than ever to how much greater advantage a little money can be Invested spoil the CASH BASIS. Give us a look ?ifore purchasing and we will satisfy jp? at the EMPORIUM OF FASHION. March, ja, 1878,50-tf Beautiful NEW PRINTS, SPRING STYLES* AT Quarles ft Perrin's. March 29,1875, 50-tf CORN! CORN! I BED' OATS! WHEAT BRAIST, FOB SALE BY BARNWELL & GO Jan. 26,1876 42-tf MASONIC IIBECTOBY. ClintDi Loftge He. 3. 11 1 W. H. PARKER, W.'. M.\ r J. C. WOSMANSKY, Secretary. Meets 2d Monday in every month. Hesperian Chapter Ho. Mil J. F. 0. DuPRE, M.-. E.\ H.% P.'. J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder. Meets 8d Friday night in every month. SeSanssire Council No. 161&S.I < J. F. C. DuPBE, T.\ HI.'. M.\ J. M. GAMBRELL, Recorder. Meets 1st Tuesday night In everj month. Goods at Cost. All descriptions of Goods, ] embracing READY-MADE CLOTHBte, Boots, Shoos, HOSIEEY, NOTIOHS, AND rs wv tt /v a /\ -r\ /M m (iDUDS, AT COST FOR CASH, AT Quartos & Ptrris'f. Feb. 1,187G, 43-tf ONE DOLLAR WILL GET THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION P08TAGE FREE) TILL 1.1 IfiHM lamuury xo##? ris the Leading Paper of the South. Ked hot Presidential and Guberna tional Campaigns opening. Every Geor gian should take the '"PEOPLI/8 PA PER." Several Serial Stories, by dis tinguished authors, running all the time. S5U The getter up of A CLUB OF TEN will receive the PAPER FREE. Daity, f 10 per annum; 95 80 for 6 mos.; $2 65 for S months. Send in your subscription for thia great Political and Family Journal. ruuiisueu at me uajuiai. W. A. HEMPHILL & CO., Publishers, April 26, tf.] . Atlanta. Georgia. 1,000 POTS. Choice Green and Hot-House Plants. CONSISTING in part of Single and Pouble Geraniums, Single Doable Fuchsias, Red and White Bego nias, Heliotropes, Century plants, Nigh* Blooming Cereus, Cactuses, Ice, Air and Wax plants, Vines, Sedum and Basket plants. Japouicas, Pine Apple, Bananaa. and fifty other varieties of plant* Mosses <&c grown from seeds and plant* obtained from the most celebrated Flor ists in the United States. Plants ten inch* es to two feet iiigb in tour inch and six inch pots, 15 cents to 23 cents each. Lar zer plants and pots in proportion. De livered free on board the cars. , J. F. C. DUPRB CUNNINGHAM AND TEMPLETOK Have received and open ed tbelr large Stock of all kinds )f goods. I Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Caps, Hats, Hardware, Crockery, Saddlery, &c. :all and see for your selves. Oct. 6,1875 26-tf EUGENE B. GAEY, A TTORNEY AT LAW, Abbeville ?1l C. H., 8. C. Special attention to ho collection of claima, [Feb. 9, ly A NEW LOT of Oil Window Shade* just received, with good fixtures. J, D. CHALMERS A CO. Oct, 27,1875 tf