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Tile Press and Banner J Wednesday, Sept?!13,1876. L-I~J Sg ,L ?! DEMOCRATIC TICKET, j ! por President. I SAMUEL j. TILDEX, of New York. For Vicr-Presid/nf, THOS. A. HEXIi&It'KS.of Indiana, j . 'For -TJlcrto/n, State at Larqc. RA^I'L McGOWAN, of Abbeville. | JS'O. A. WAGEXEK, of Clnulesion.; For F.lector from Third Distrtvt. ?VVM. WALLACE, of llieliland. j \ter ttoremvr. %ADE HAMPTON, of Richland. For Attorney-General, JAMES 'CONNER,, of Charleston. For 'C&mptroU&r-General. , jJOHNSOX HAGOO?, of Barnwell. For State Treasurer. ' S. L. LEAPHART, of Richland. For Secretary of State. R. M. 9?MS, of York. For Inspector-General. E. W. .'MOISE, of Sumter. 'For Sup^untendcnt of Education. < H. S. 'l&fOMPSON, of Richland, j For Congress, Third District. D.WV. AIIvEN, of Abbeville. j /For Solicitor, Eighth Circuit. j J- S. -COTHRAN," of Abbeville. I For the Senate. J. C. MAXWELL. I Tar House of Ticmcscntativcs. R. K. HEMPHILL. W. K. BRADLEY. .J. A. CONNER. WILLIAM HOOD. .T. L. MOORE. For Sheriff'. J. Y. JONES. For School Commimoncr. J. A. WIER. Fvr Clerk of the Court. M. G. ZEIGLER. For Probate Judye. ,J. FULLER LYON. v tfqr.Counts/ Commissioners. ROBERT JONES, ti. M. MADISON. R. A. McCASLAN. For Coroner. j S. W. COCHRAN. ^ ???^?^??^? 2 wwww ' j ; THE SOUTH. i-lfer Present Attitude to the Negro, to the Xorth and the I'mon. .Few if auy people have been so viljlified, misrepresented and abused as the people of the South, and all thisi lms been done for party pur]x>ses by a i great political organization which for; the most part is bounded by geography \ ieal lines, and which haviug conquer-' ed us in battle seeks to perpetuate its Ts^ower. by keeping up the war of the "rations. Having the ear of the ft hern masses it has circulated species of misrepresentation and ] >*N>. of our people, and by false! v against us of hostility to the .he North and to the Union, ^ * I yipted to enow that we are] repentant aud unreconstructed; ' * i8? hating the negro ami the' ytiiern people, and ready to nxikel ,? of our lirst lease of restored power I reviving our old secession heresies,! Rising agaiu the old rebel cry, and! r?: ' *ti??>.vag?ng war again upon the old ilagj f. ^and against the union of our fathers, j y Time has already done something to prove the talsity of these charges, but we must await for our full viudi. eatiou that coming day which though i lon? deferred must give us the opportunity of proving our kind feelings to the blacks, our friendship to the North and our loyalty to the Union. In the meantime there is enough of evi. denco to satisfy any impartial mind that nothing but party zeal could have kept alive so long the slanders upon our oeoDle. which have been designed to keep'up the war of sections for "par-! ty purposes. In the matter of kindness to the | negro, the South can confidently appeal to her record both before and after the war and challenge a comparison with our Northern slanJerers. Brought up from infancy with the black, familiar with liis'habiis, and knowing well his shortcomings, tbe Southern people were at all times ready to extend greater indulgence to his failings, than our exacting fellow-countrymen from beyond the J'otomac who chanced to take up their abode among us. In slavery times, it was the Northerner who proved the hardest taskmaster, and who measuring an inferior race by a standard too high, required of him an amount of intelligent, systematic labor which was above his capacity. But did the North not emancipate the uegro, and thus at the same time prove its devonnH c orn hia irmf.i tnHn 9 rl'hul emancipation of the negro was but a consequence of a selfish struggle for . ' power on the part of the North which precipitated a war of sections, and let! to emancipation as a war measure to , secure victory in the great struggle. The Northern people had first dis- j posed of their slaves, and received full ( . compensation before they assumed j the roll of the philanthropist, and , waged an unceasing war upou the h Institution of slavery. That war as we have said was waged for selfish j purposes, and with no view to advance the interests of the blanks, and that it , it would result in emancipation, was as little foreseen by the North as i by the South. Whether or not emancipation will prove a blessing to the black race, depends very much upon whether he unites with the white nice In the Rtrnggle for good government. Hitherto he has been but the , tool of designing men who have used him for their own selfish ends to their own undoHig and who would involve ( the interests of both races in one common ruin. Whatever be the result of j emancipation to the negro, to the white man it win uouuuess prove a blessing. Its fruits would have been .already apparent had the work been gradually accomplished, and the euTranchised been gradually introduced jinto all the rightsand privileges of the ^citizen and the voter, at the same time that duecompensation were made to the owner for the loss of his property. But Providence ordained otherWise, and both races have had to pass .through a fiery ordeal, in working out their redemption from the hands of the carpet-bagger and the scalawag. The future will prove that the only /true friend of the negro is the Southern white man, and that in alliance .with him, the black men can only .promote the best Interests of both 'races. But again the South is accused of; ^hostility to the people of the North,! ,'ftnd numberless instances of social os-l ' tracism are adduced, especia^t on the | "part of the Southern women~o show the persistent hate wilh which we 'cherish the feelings of alienation * -!- ... /4nf nf Hm 11 iifripnrl] v VWX)ICI1 grew wuv .strife. A falser charge was never (jnade. For the true men of the North, t>ve can onlv entertain sentiments or jTespect and esteem?holding them .^qjjeniies in war, in peace friends," PRd extending to them the hand of ^rfltherhood, would seek to forget' rfhat we were ever estranged, and bu.rying dead issues in the grave of the! .past, would join them in earnest ef'fofts for the best interests of our com^ljqn, country. It is for the carpet-hag.ger, who though "among us is not of ,'ixs;"vwe reserve the contempt and ex- < ,ecrat?on which belong to those, who jfqr.stjlfish ends, stir up strife between races, and bulla their own ad- < ?vfti}cement upon the people's ruin.'i {These have been the curse of this < ijpiilliern laud, and the sooner they I ^pre forced to loose ti\eir hold upon our ! .thfoat* and disgorge their ill-gotten i ,gains,the better it will be for theji ,<jpiin$ry. J * But the .Southern people are chnrg- t bejng rebels In disguise, who ] ('cherisJj pll .the.ojd feelings of hostility j < to the Union, and are only waiting a fuvorable opportunity to assert it. But this is a charge made solely for party purposes, which those who prefer it least of all believe. After having made our fight under the most favorable eircn instances unci been badly worsted, it would be folly to attempt now to renew the battle. The issue has been settled forever, and the people of the South have no desire but to abide it. The various reconstruction acts, now form a part of the permanent policy of the country, and the .South has neither the power nor; the wish to change them. The Constitution still guarantees all the essen-! tial rights of the American freemen, and when the troubles of this revolutionary period are over, we shall still work out, North ami South, hand in hand, a common glory, and reap a common blessing upon our efforts in the cause of good government. The Charleston Riot. The streets of our city were disgraced last night by one of the most infamous occurrences which has ever taken place in our community. For over an hour the upper portion of King street was in the possession of u mob of infuriated negroes, armed with firearms, huge oaken clubs, and such other weapons which they could grasp or had prepared for the occasion. The determination on the part of the Republicans that the colored men, Isaac B. Rivers and J. W. Sawyer, who had renounced Republicanism and allied themselves to the Democratic cause, [should not enjoy that freedom of speech which Republicanism has boon boasting is an essential feature of its doctrine. The disgraceful affair began, properly speaking, at Archer's flail, at the corner of King and George streets, where the colored Democratic club was holding a meeting. Rivers and Sawyer were present. The determination to break up the meeting was not carried out because, perhaps, of the presence of so many white men. it \\2is very evident, however, that the black and colored bullies had premeditated something, as will hereafter be shown. The meeting had ended; the white men saw plainly that trouble was brewing, and justifiably believing that Rivers and Sawyer would be the object of the venom which the noiscy black Republicans had manifested at Hin niAAfin<r to PKPort there two colored Democrats home. A hollow square was formed, and they were placed in and the march homeward begun and continued until the escort got in King street, a little beyond a point opj)osite the old guard house, on the Citadel Greene. Here the escort was swarmed by a dense crowd of rampant negroes, armed with clubs, and crying alound for vengeance against Rivers and Sawyer, The white men escorting them forbore doing anything in retaliation, although the aggravation was amply sufticient to hove caused them to have repented the insults heaped upon them. Presently, a colored man in the rear of the escort, struck a white man with a elub, and the blow was returned. Immediately, as well as could be learned last night in the great confusion u'liirh till* llpnroi'S berrau tiring iuto the whites, and then the whites, losing their forbearance, returned the shots. The firing was coutinued rapidly for some time, variously estimated at from a quarter to a half hour, and clubs fourund five feet loug brandished in every direction. The white men never forgot Rivers and Sawyer, and clung to them with praiseworthy tenacity, until, it was said, they got them safely lauded in the Citadel. Tlfe scene at this stage of the row resembled a l'audenjoiiium, the negroes crying for vengeance at the top of their voices, and striking right and left. By this time Captain Hendricks, the Chief of Police, learned what was happening, and immediately headed a squad-of about thirty men, all available in the emergency, and hurried to the locality in King street, near Vanderhorst, while the black bullies and fiends were still demonstrating, and drove them oir as best he could. Butj wliHf i-rmld sn small a. force of noliee men do with such a formidable crowd, 'numbering many hundred, and unmistakably armed with firearms and heavy clubs. The policemen were detied and the arrest of auy one was utterly impossible. The important matter was to save those?the white and colored men they were protecting? from the fury of the mob, and several well-known young gentlemen and a colored Democrat had to be escorted by the policemen to the unpcr guard house. It was then discovered that several persons had been shot and beaten, and these were taken up and either carried or assisted to the upper guard bouse. As soon as possible I)rs Aldrich and Yates were called on, and examined those hurt. The following is the list of wounded : Charles Green, colored policeman, shot dangerously in the abdomen. He will probably recover, J. M. Buckner, book-binder, shot in the abdomen, and supposed fatally. Last night he lay unconscious on the floor of a room in the upper guard bouse, and unable to state anything in relation to the row. Jake Lloyd, colored policemcn, severely injured on the head by a club, was last night delirious. J. H. Holmes, son of Professor F. S. Holmes, inhumanly beaten with a ulub. E. M. Reeder, struck on the foreliead and crown of the head and serimsly hurt. Last night he was utterly unable to stand up and was unconscious. The wound on his forehead looked exceedingly bad. George Shrewsbury, of the detective force, slightly hurt on the head. J. W. Reed, Trial Justice, struck by fx spent ball on the arm. Charles Behre, badly injured on the head with a club, and bathed in blood. J. K. Blackman, reporter of the i mi mm ot Himtf iiti f Via lioui) D ( we u/tu- vvu/ ft/ | nn uvu wii iiiv iivc?u with a brick and painfully hurt. W. A. Zimmerman, shot in the log. Mr. Larousseliere was set upon by a gang in front of the Pavilion Hotel, and severely cut about the head. Richard McKendry, struck with a club and painfully hurt. A woman was also hurt, but neither her color nor her name could be ascertained. The wounded, who could not assist themselves, were taken to the upper guardhouse, and every attention bestowed on them by Captain Hendricks and several citizens. For over an hour, the crowd of negroes, who were the authors of the whole aflair, filled King street, yelling at the top of their voices, waving elu'?s, breaking windows and acting more like wild beasts than human beings. No white man was allowed to show his face even at his window. A white face was the signal for a general rally to where he might appear, and instantly he was brutally beaten. Mr.'Belire was beaten after the row proper had ceased, and would have been killed, but for the policeman^ Nothing was allowed to pass up King street. When the squad of policemen were returning to the lower guard house, several pistols shots were tired in King street, uear Robb's lot. The mounted policemen immediately dashed after the crowd, whence the renort had nro ceeded.and soon dispersed them. Hut j the readiness with which negroes I with clubs and pistols gathered from j the side streets and adjacent lots, showed that they were wide awake for a row. At a late hour the mob bad dispersed, and quiet in a measure was restored.?Journal of Commerce, "tth. Col. James S. Cotiiran.?Our eloquent friend from Abbeville was prevented from meeting the Anderson Democracy on .Saturday lant by reason i)f a death in his family?one of his nephews. He went up to Walhalla >n Monday, however, and will sirike telling and effective blows for TiJden ?ud Hampton wherever he is called ipon to speak. His devotion and tealous services in this campaign deserve recognition, and the people in,end to make him Solicitor of the Eighth Circuit beyond a doubt.?Anterton JnicUigencer. 0,000 Stand of Arms for South Carona Negroes. Mr. kvauts' opinion creates a commotion in the department of justice. Washington, September G. Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, has just returned from another visit to this city to confer with the authorities upon sending troops to that State. The Governor was noisy in his denunciations of such men as Haskell, Hamptou, Gary, ex-GoverPerry and others, whom he charges are on the eve of precipitating another rebellion. He makes the idle bonst that he hai proof that Butler and Hampton were at the head of the Hamburg rout, and that he expects in less than two mouths to have them tried. The Governor declared to a prominent South Carolina politician last night that he was done with the rei form talk, and hereafter the LegislaI. ij is..j k...:.. !i.i... , 111 re WOU1U liuu no uuuiu III mm. j The Governor has made arrangements I to have 20,000 stand of arms sent down , to arm the blacks. The arms will land j in Charleston on the 11th instant, the ! day previous to the meeting of the ! Radical convention. | The World has rendered important service in placing before the the couni try to-day Mr. Evart's opinion, while | Attorney-General, on military interI ference in elections, for, strange to say j this valuable document does not apI pear in the printed volumes of opinions of the Attorney-General, having been omitted either by accident or design, and it required quite a search today to find manuscript in the office of the Department of Justice. Attorney General Taft has already become interested in the opinion of Mr. Evarts, probably by comparison and contrast. ?jS'cw York World. - . _ Sherman versus Taft. The General of the Armies does not seem to be fully in accord with the Administration in his construction of the circular recently issued by the Attorney-General, "with the full approval of the President." Judge Taft's circular conferred almost absolute authority upon United., States Marshals, and virtually placed the whole United States army at their disposal for election purposes. The Attorney-general instructed the Marshals that during the present political campaign they would be superior to the civil authority of the States, and might call out the military forces of the United States whenever they felt soiuolined. They are admonished to pay no atteution whatever to the laws of a State, and informed that every State officer was subject to their instructions. Great stress was laid upon their right to use the military, and the language of the circular on this subject was plain and emphatic. But Geueral Sherman evidently imagines that he commands the army of the I United States, and does not relish the I iHp? of riuttiny hia trnnnu umlor thf? orders of partisan Federal officials, to be used for political purposes. Iu communicating Taft's circular to his officers he very materially qualifies the instructions it contains. He tells them that they are not to be employed at the discretion of United States Marshals. In every case when summoned the officers are to judge for themselves tvhether the service is lawful or necessary and compatible with their ordinary military duties. If an officer should think a requisition forhi9 men unlawful, unnecessary or even incompatible with the discharge of his ordinary military duties he will refuse to honor it and the partisan official may seek redress as best he may. Wherever time permits every demand of this character will be forwarded to the Presideut for his approval, and in all cases the highest officers, whose orders can be given in time to meet the emergency, will alone assume the responsibility of action. Even where the request for troops ia granted the commanding officer must limit his action "absolutely to nroner aid in ex ecution of the lawful precept exhibited by the marshal or sheriff." These instructions from General Sherman will give a very different effect to the Attorney-General's circular from what the Administration intended and expected it should have. In fact Sherman's construction if not rescinded will extract from the circular a great deal of its capacity for mischief. In the South we have had since the day of the surrender a long and varied experience with tiie United States army. With the single exception of the infamous Morrill the officers of the regular army have been found intelligent, gallant and honorable gentlemen, animated by a desire to do the strictest justice in all matters placed undpr their control. In the hands of such men the order of General Sherman will to a great extent neutralize the poison contained in the Attorney-General's circular. The officers of the United States army will not be made the tools of Radical marshals, and they will not prostitute their positions to the service of any political party.? Chronicle and Sentinel. Abbeville at Greenville. We give below extracts from the Greenvilie papers in reference to two of our distinguished townsmen : "Gen. McGowan's speech", abounding as it did with grave argument, wit and anecdote, and poetsc illustration, now and then happily introduced from the General's favorite authors, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron and Scott. The Geu. saw before him, as he expressed it in poetic quotation, "fair woman and brave men" and was inspired to come up to the measure of his powers as a popular speaker, which all who know him regard as of very high order, his speech was received with frequent applauses by the great assembly. He proved himself a most excellent presidential cauvasser, and tl?ere are few men, if any, in anv State, who could have excelled the General in showing off the corruption and abuses of the Republican party of the United States, and the just claims of the Democratic party to the support of the people, and the admirable fltues9 and cjualitications of Gov. Samuel Tilden, of New York, to become the true refartn President of the United States. His election, next November, Gen. McGowan regarded as certain as any future event, as sure as the sun would rise on to-morrow. He predicted that there would be a perfect desolating storm of indignation against the corruption of the present administration, crossing the continent from Maine to the Rio Grande, and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Gen. McGowan paid proper respect in the course of his speech to the State Republicans, and their corrupt and abominable abuse of their power in this State. He was not very complimentary to our native pale faces who uphold and affiliate with the thieving crew. His arguments addressed to the colored people were well adapted to convince them fully that their interest, as well as the whites, is now with the Democratic party.?Daily Enterprise. Col. Cothran wound up the ball, and madeoneof the most brilliantand effective campaign speeches we have ever heard. It was brim full of humnr. print! sense and kind feelinjr. He lined the mottoes before hinr with great wit and telling effect. We think our Indiana friends should give the Colonel an airing in the Western campaign. He is just one of theSouthern speakers to fill the bill.?Col Cotliran at a late hour literally tore himself away from the enthusiastic assemblage amidst cries of "Go on, goon, we'll hear you 'till morning."? Daily Hews. We are reminded that the campmeeting season at hand by the occasional appearance upon the streets of a young man wearing a duster, with a small demijohn in one hand, and a package In the othercontaining a copy of "Songs of the Sanctuary" and a euchre deck. Savannah and Wilmington have been suffering from yellow lever. For the Press and Banner. The Carolina Democracy. BY MII.S. M. A. L. They're gathering fast from hill and valley, From lowland and from mountain height, For country and for home they rally, For Honor, Freedom and the Right! Friend*, there's "life In the old laud yet," And blood In the pure old veins, Cheers, for the brave Democracy, Who will break her gulling chains. Each brow with stern defiance lowers, Kach eye with eager hope Is bright. No patriot bosom ever lower*. When cull'd to combat for the Right. On. press on, ye gallant braves, Nor longer bend the knee, Or yield to the grasp of tyrant knaves, Your birthright pure and free. Pearc Is the "mess" for which ye long, Have borne the tralt'rous crew, Too dear! all yes ! the "pottage" strong, And tinged with an ebon hue. On! Press onward, glorious host, Your cause is a wall of might, Their "Ides" approach, each man to his post, And Heaven bo with the Right. Supinely sleep tho" assassin hands, Have clutch'd the whetted knife! Tho' homes arescorch'd by incendiary bradns In the dark and rancorous strife? Oh. trusted, true Democracy, tor all that is dear ye tight. Brothers, go meet them at "Phllllpl," And Gou defends the Klght. L>u? West, Sept. l?7tf. About Ghosts. REMINISCENCES OF ABBEVILLE BY AN EX-ABBEVILLIAN OF OVER FORTY YEARS. It was some time early in the forties two of the leading ladies of Abbeville. on a beautiful mooulight night strolled for a walk down as far as the old female academy, and returning a female passed them, or was supposed to have done so, which one of the la dies spoke to calling her Carey Ann, a well known and moat polite free wo* man of the town, and receiving no answer as expected to the salutation, remarked that she must have been mistaken in the person. Her companion replied that she had seen no one at all (this was in front of the vacant lot about midway between the Academy and the corner of Judge Wardlaw's garden) and both turning their heads aud seeing no one, without a word spoken, ran home. To satisfy themselves of the mysterious affair, they sent at once for Carey Ann, who declared that she had not been in that part of the town for a week past. The next day it was all over town that a ghost had been seen, where, and by whom. Itattracted great attention, and for several nights following a congregation of boys visited the vicinity increasing in numbers to see what they could see. The situation and circumstances being also known to Ed and "To" two young men of the town they agreed between themselves that they would have some fun out of it. They accordingly prepared some paper representations so arranged as to be seen on one side a longdistance, and by a sudden turn to disappear, and going around to the lower corner of Judge Ward law's garden, displayed them. The boys saw it and swore to the genuineness of the ghosts, and for several nights they were seen by augmented numbers, and by day the matter was the town talk among the marvelous. How and when they disappeared may perhaps be learned from the following statement: Tom?who lived in the county, had a pack of dogs well trained for coons and foxes, and on returning from a chase, spent the night in town with a relative. Feeding his dogs and leaving them in the yard, he strolled out after supper and hearing for the first time of the ghosts, and having in his composition a vein of the marvelous, he followed to the sceue, and just as he reached there his dogs put in their appearance. Now Tom was a man of more than common pluck perse and with his dogs was afraid of nothing. He saw the #?!-?fV\r thnro flmtr iv^ra Hannintr iv/? mv*v vnvj ?? vi v uuuviw^ high and low aud holding high connival about one hundred and fifty yards distant, and before he even knew it, he was in pursuit with whoop and wild halloo, the boys and dogs following. The operators caught at once the situation, and having no time for consultation, each put himself upon his own strategic movement. Ed made the shortest cut to a neighbor's garden, leaped the paling and took refuse in a bed of cabbages; but "To" taking and opposite direction, put himself upon his muscle and bottom, but after running about four hundred yards, he found the distance between himself and the dogs getting unpleasantly short, and he sought the protection of a friendly persimmon tree, just in time to lose nothing but his left coat-tail by the grab of the foremost dog. Soon he was surroundod by the whole pack, human and canine, with a noise that baffled all efforts to explain himself and surrender, and tiie spot being covered with a shoal of small pebbles, he was receiving them from above, below, btneath, between <fcc. In a spirit of desperation "situated as he was," he let loose his hold and made a rapid descent to the ground. At this the crowd ran off, dogs and all, and if there had up to this been any doubts as to a veritable ghost, they now vanished, for nothing human could or would have performed such a feat. Taking advantage of this retreat he sought the hollow leading from the old block-house to the spring. The dogs recovered, and just as he reached the spring they urarn nrvoin lirum hSm Kllf nCx woo on ntiv o^aiu u j/v/u uuv kv ??uu ow fortunate as to secure a paddle left by some washer-woman, and with this he defended himself up the bill to the lower edge of the square, further damages only by sundry rents in his coat and pants. Here he effected an armistice with the dogs, and made his way across the square to his foom, there *o pant and dream of wounds and bruisen, and to vow his last voluntary connection with ghosts. As soon as the crowd swept on and over, Ed sprang out and destroyed the vestiges, and by a circuitous route readied his quarters next door to "To" at the same time from the opposite direction. The writer was placed in possession the next morning of their secret by Ed and "To" for a purpose, uuder pledge and promise never to reveal it, and if any body says this is a violation, I differ from them ; and if even so, I think I would be protected by the statute of limitations. And if this reaches the eye or ear of any who saw and believed in those ghosts, I have only to say that mine is hearsay, and not therefore legal evidence against their verity. * * * THE HAMBURG HORROR* REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS TAKE WATER. The Trial of tlie Cases PoHtponed Until January lu Spite of Strong Protests by General Gary. aiken, September 5.?The cases known us the Hamburg affair have been continued until the January term, In consequence of the absence of the Attorney-General, who has recently met with a domestic bereavement which prevented his appearing. General Gary in a lengthy argument urged their trial but in vain. The Republicans of this State would be very silly if, while enjoying the full benefit of the falsehood, they should allow the truth to be established in a court of la?v, to spoil their campaign bonanza. The truth is that the Republican administration did not dare to briug these cases to trial, and the postponement of them is a clear udmission of its own guilt or weakness. It is aconfession that the Republicans are themselves responsible for the lives of the misguided colored men killed at Hamburg. However muoh sympathy may be uue lue Auorueyueuoitu iui ma iccent domestic bereavement, it is no fitting plea for the postponement of these important cases. Public duty requires a faithful officer to sacrifice his personal feelings to the public service, and thiM the Attorney-General knows very well. He also knows very well that It is a common thing for the Attorney-General of a State to employ a substitute to conduct even the most important casos when he is unable to conduct them in person,?Journal of Commerce. Red OatB. We have so frequently written In thesp pages about red oats, and have sent them to so many sections of the State and the South, that we thought every farmer sowed tbera, and if he did not that he atleast had iieard of their intrinsic worth. But much to our surf>rise we are in almost daily receipt of etters making iuquiry about this invaluable grain. HoW much do you sow to the acre? When do you sow? Why do you sow in cotton land? What becomes of the cotton stalks? Those and hosts of similar questions are asked now-a-daj's, and we will answer most of them so that there can be no error either in the sowing or reaping, and to be plain and explicit, we will simply narrate, as we have frequently done heretofore, a little experiment during the past season. In 1875 one of our tenants planted a twelve acre field, (four years old) in cotton, land good and strong, oak and hickory. We determined to put this Held in red oats, and hence advised the tenant to postpone as late as practicable the last ploughing of his cotton. This was done, and on the 10 August we gave him eighteen bushels of red oats, and advised him to run two "sweep" furrows in his cotton, then sow the oats at the rate of one and a half bushels to the acre, and cover the grain with one, sometimes two more similar furrows. Taking his own time about it, he consumed just two weeks in laying by that field of cotton, and we paid him two dollars for sowing our oats in his cotton. The ploughing we did not pay for, because with his own mule he was giving his own crop what it needed before it was laid by. A fine stand was secured and the oats grew off very rapidly. The winter being warm, this crop would have made a luxuriant sheep pasture all the winter, but it was not touched by stock except occasionly when hunger would force a lot of tenant's cows to mount the fence and gorge themselves. This was done so frequently that at times ine crop seeraea meraiiy ruinea. But we had faith, for we never yet have had a crop of red oats to "come up missing" at harvest time. About the middle of February these intrusions were put a stop to. The first week in March the wife and children of our tennant were paid twenty-five cents per acre to knock down the cotton stalks low enough not to interfere with cradling. Early in June the twelve acres were harvested by flvecradlers, five binders, two shockers, and one water carrier, at an expense of twenty two dollars. The work was well done, and was a good day's work for the laborers, the oats being in places so heavy that cradling was done to great disadvantage. Could the crop have been harvested with a reaper, however, we believe many more bushels would have been saved. These oats were stocked in large shocks, sometimes thirty bundled in a shock, and capped by simply laying one or two bundles across the top ol the shock. A week after being cut, we began to haul them in, but the very next day rain fell and continued to fall for five consecutive days. Much apprehension was felt about the graiu crop, every one was predicting ruin, because the grain would sprout in the field. Our faith was not shaken, because we knew red oats had never yet disappointed a farmer. In due time after the rainy season euded, we begau to haul, hiring tenants, with their own teams, to haul those oats from that field to our dwelling place, a distance of six miles, paying oue dollar and a half forevery two horse load, hauling two loads a day and tweuty dozen bundles to the load. We hauled nineteen loads,and though none of these oats were intended to be threshed, but to be cut upas needed aud fed to animals off the plantation, we have so frequently threshed this grain and know so well what it will yield, that we are warranted in saying that every load would have measured twenty bushels of shelled oats. They are now housed snugly, and carfuly packed away in a loft that expepionnu tan/ilmu na KaMo s\afta ikviiw wmwuva ?o nw*wo v^iiuu^ii van in the sheaf to feed three horses for twelve months. We have that many now feeding upon them, and we are con Adent these oats will feed them and have some to spare when the oat crop of 1877 is harvested. Now let us see what these oats cost us. First, there is the seed, eighteen bushels, worth last fall eighteen dollars. Then for kuockiiig down cotton stalks one dollar and fifty cents Then the harvesting cost twenty-two dollars. And finally we paid out twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents to have them hauled to our stable, six miles off. Well, with our tribe of little ones, we ourselves packed away these oats, and outfht to have been paid for it, wo will say, three dollars. Add to this the wear and tear of the land, with a fair interest upon the Investment, say of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, or thirty dollars for the twelve acres. If we knew of any other expense we would add it, but we do not, and really think wepaid more liberally all round for our work than most of our neighbors would have done. f!onld we hav? possibly spared the time we would nave sowed the field and payed no one else to do it. Lack of time prevented our being with the reapers, and hence we believe we paid at least two dollars too much there. Too many Irons in fire compelled us to pay for the hauling, which might otherwise have been done with our own team. And the packing away was a frolic, no money out, butsimply valued at three dollars. But with all these high charges we believe we have housed three hundred and eighty.bushelsof beautiful oats, at an aggregate cost of one hundred and five dollars, or less than twenty-eight ceuts per bushel. Three bushels of these oats are worth two bushels of corn. Can any farmer in the South grow corn at forty-two cents per bushel. This is the fourth crop of oats we have hauled six miles in the sheaf, and never before has it cost us over twenty-flvo cent# a bushel, housed. We say then earnestly to our readers sow red oats, and advise your neighbors to sow them. Don't stand upon the Drice of a few bushels, but buv and sow. Oats all this Fall have been cheap, and no bettter investment can be made than in a few bushels of seed. Bow now, sow next month, and sow any time that the land can be ploughed between this and the first day of March next. We sowed six acres after th&15th of last March, and barvested eighty dozeh, eqvivalent to eighty bushels. The first sown, however, in the early Fall, are always the heaviest tfnd best oats. Pick over a cotton field once, then sow and cover with a sweep. The few lost cotton bolls will never be missed.?Jiural Carolinian. We heartily commend the democrats of Charleston for their heroic defense of the colored democrats, and we denounce the conduct of the rioters who attempted to ill-treat men because of their political action, Rivers and Bawver have been, until three weeks ago, loud-mouthed and turbulent radicals. They have now become equally noisy democrats. They never did the republicans any good and they will now uo that party no harm, if they are left unnoticed. But if republican rowdies pursue them with threats of violence they will furnish additional fuel to a turbulent campaign and do an irreparable injury to their party and to the best interests of their city. Colored men should welcome the assurances of the democrats that the colored democrat is to he made safe from persecution as an evidence of a change in public sentiment in that party which is full of good to the negro. When the whites of South Carolina becin to assert the perfect right of the black man to vote as he pleases, without denunciation and without hindrance, a great step in advance has been taken. The colored democrat cannot be assured a free ballot without the colored republican sharing in the protection ; and when the day comes that men's politics cannot be judged by the color of their skin, the problem which has so long vexed the South will have been solved.? Union Herald. Mr. G. A. Vi8anska has kindly consented to loan Mr. E. F. Parker a saddle the next time he rides a cow. A Swedish Temperance Measure. There can be no doubt that the only safe rule to be applied by an individual as an effective security agaiust hiB acquiring the habit and vice of intemperance is rigorously to abstain from the use of all intoxicants. If it were possible to make every man in the country honestly desirous to save himself from the evils of intemperance, and if after having been made thus honestly desirous, he would conscientiously and resolutely abstain from intoxicants, there would be an end of intemperance. Undoubtedly it is the duty of every man. on social, moral and religious grounds, to practice temperance, ana to avoid intemperance. Temperance is not only expedient; it is a Christian duty. And whosoever trangresses the law of temperance not only does a grave wrong to himself, to his family, to his neighbors whom bis example may influand to society at large, but be commits a sinful violation of his obligations as a Christian. If all men could be induced to accept and apply these views, each individual honestly aud conscientiously considering the question in its application to himself, there would be an end of the matter, we repeat. But unfortunately the great majority of men in any community, State or nation, will not accept the views and do not receive or even admit our interpretation of duty. The bulk of men as we find them In society are not experimental Christians, are not moved or restrained by Christian principles, and are not steadily and conscien-* tiously seeking any very elevated moral standard. Convictions of duty and obligation which are imperative with confessing Christians have no control over them. Nor are they likely to be much impressed by a sense of Christian responsibility while they remain addicted to the use of stimulants as moderate or immoderate intoxicants. While, therefore, we should abate nothing of our vigilant effort to make intemperance appear the serious social evil and the grave sin that it is, IC ...? ??? M.lftA wn oKnnM #v1n rlT\r ti'ol_ II WCU1C V* IOC M6 OiJUMIU ft, A HUIJ ttv* come any additional methods which offer a reasonable prospect of success, besides those which are our favorites, for the rescue of our fellow-men from this deplorable vice. A method has been tried in Sweden, we learn from the British Quarterly, which seems to have met with rei markable success, after all other plans, including that of prohibition ana local option as understood in this country and England,- had signally failed, i The description of its practical operation is so interesting, and its results have been so encouraging, that we reproduce an account of the experiment from the Quarterly, as a suggestion to the friends of temperance in this country. The system to which we refer is an application to the town of Gothenburg of a license law adopted by Sweden in 1855, in a form peculiar to that r town, and which does not seem to have been contemplated by the origii nators of the measure. Prior to 1855 Sweden had had free trade in liquor, anti liiiH Iubii miaoH 1 w it fr? hml pnii nenee as the most druukeri nation in Europe. The license law which it ( adopted in that year was severely restrictive in its general provisions, and in some districts, was practically prohibitory; and by its operation the number of distilleries, which in 1850 was 44,000, was very soon reduced to 4,500; and in 1869 bad fallen to 457. The application of this law to the town of Gothenburg, and its beneficent operation there, Is thus described in the British Quarterly, and presents an interesting problem for the consideration of American.temperance reformers: "In 18G4 a committee of the town council of Gothenburg, reported that the increasing pauperism, into the causes of which it Imd been appointed to inquire, had ils principal source in the immoderate drinking of spirits. Out of the discussion to which this report gave rise grew the Gothenburg system. It was in the option of the people under the new license law to prohibit the sale of spirits, as there was no minimum below which the number of licences might not be legally reduced ; but this, though done in some country districts, had not been attempted, nor no? ji yut uceu mtempted in any town. The authorities of Gothenburg, thougli not iil-affected to the principle of prohibition, yet regarding it as unworkable, taxed their ingenuity to frame a scheme which should carry restriction to the utmost practicable limit. In this they were guided by a general conclusion, to wlpch their discussions, and their experience in endevoring to control the liquor traffic had led them, 'that the unavoidable and indispensible condition for the proper management of public-houses could never be fulfilled, unless the trade were no longer t% be conducted by individuals for the sake of profit, hut by an association, which should neither bring individual profit to the persons so associated, nor to the persons, men or women, who should manage the different establishments.' This hold and original view of trading in liquor was promptly taken up by a company, consisting, according to the testimony of Mr. Alexander Balfour, of Liverpool, 'of the most trusted men and the most esteemed commercial firms, to carry on the sale of spirits in Gothenburg, without pecuniary advantage to auy one, and entirely with the view of benefiting the working class, in respect to their moral and pecuniary welfare/ The following were the leading principles on which the company was based: 1. To reduce the number of public-houses. 2. To improve their condition. 3. To provide 1 * 1 dA no f/1 warm iouu iui wuimuuu, w ?? change public-houses into eatinghouses. 4. To employ as managers respectable persons who should derive no profit from the sale of spirits, but i only from the sale of cooked food, tea, coftee, beer (classed among temper ance drinks in Sweden,) seltzer, and soda water, etc. 5. To refuse to sell spirits on credit. 6. To secure strict supervision of all public-houses, by inspectors of their own, In addition to ths police. 7. To pay to the town's treasurer, after payment of interest on capital, all the profits that accrued on the sale of spirits, to the leading principles thus stated the company was bound by the charter which incorporated It. There were sixty-one houses licensed for the sale of spirits, to be comsumed on the premises, at the time of the company's incorporation. Forty-three or these came into their possession that year, and the remainder at the end of two years. At the date of the last report of the company, twenty of these were closed, twenty-five were used as publichouses, nine were transferred to restaurateurs, and seven were retail shops for the sale of spirits, to be consumed off the premises. "This generous enterprise surely deserved to succeed, and iu some respects its result lias been remarkable. It ma/lit/tarl hi a OCCUJO \AJ nave icuuccu VII? umunvir ness of the town by about forty per cent, while it has enriched the town's treasury with a very large sura of money, thereby relieving the municipal burdens of the people. The profits for 1875?all licences, grocers and beer, as well as public-house licenses, having passed into the hands of the company?were ?35,000."? Christian Intelligencer. Appointments. Rooms of Executive Commitfee, dkmoc'itatic pakty of south carolina, Columbia, August 23, 1870. The following list of appointments are made for General Wade Hampton and the nominees on the State election ticket: Anderson, September 2. WiiHirilla, September 4. Pickens, September 5. Greenville. September 7. cpartanburg, September 9. Union, September 11. Laurens. September 13. Newberry, September 14. Abbeville, September 16. 1 Tlie county chairman, respectfully, are requested to make the necessary arrangements in accordance with the above programme. The appointments for the remaini ing counties will be made in due time. A. C. Haskell, Chairman. ANNOUNCEMENTS, For Solicitor. We are authorized to announce Col. J. S. COTHRAN as a candidate for Solicitor of the Eighth circuit. We are authorized to announce A. BLYTHE, Esq., as a candidate for roelection to the office of Solicitor of the Eighth circuit. For Congress. Editor Press and Banner: Please announce Col. D. WYATT AIKEN a candidate for Congress from 3d Congressional District, subject to Democratic Nominating Convention. For Jndge of Probate. Editor Press and Banner: You will please announce the un deraigned as a candidate for re-election for-JUDGE OF PBOBATE of Abbeville County at the next election. T. B. MILLFORD. Barnwell &Co. Are daily receiving additions to their Stock, constat-: iug of STAPLE DRY GOODS, Hats and Clothing, BOOTS AND SHOES!! they keep constantly ON TT A "M"D AT,RO A FULL LINE OF Groceries, Bacon and Lard, MEeal and Flour, Coffee and Sugar, Bagging and Ties, Molasses and Syrup, . A FINE LOT OF SUGAR CURED HAMS!! Oct, 5,1875 26-tf CARPENTBY. The undersigned hereby gives notice that he is prepared to do all kinds of Carpenter's Work and Building. He also repairs Cotton Gins, Thrasher* 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 prepared. Also Agent for the Taylor Cotton Gin, the Brooks Cotton Press, and all kinds ol Rubber and Leather Belting. B. B. SMITH, Abbeville C. H., S. C. Mrs. M. BL White WOULD ask the attention of her lady friends to an entiro now Stock ol Hats, Flowers, &c., fust in to-day, per express. Also will sell you an improved Remington Sowing Machine on terms and at prices to suit the times. Mrs. M. M. White. May 1,1876, tf M. GOLDSMITH. P. KIND. Goldsmith & Kind, Founders And Machinists (PHCENIX IRON WORKS), COLUMBIA, S. C. Manufacturers of Steam Engines of all sizes: Horse powers, Circular and Muley Saw Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, Ornamental House and Store Fronts, Iron Railings, Agricultural Implements, etc. Brass aim Iron Castings of all kinds made to order on short notice, and on the most reasonable terms. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses. THE ALSTON HOUSE, 1876. The misses cater stili keep "THE ALSTON HOUSE' open for both permanent and transien Boarders. Thankful for past patron age. they hope, by renewed energy and application to business, to merit i good share of patronage. Jan. 5, 1876 49-tf - . WASHINGTON AND LEE ' UNIVERSITY, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, General G. W. C. LEE, President f^ULr, courses of instruction ii JT Classical, Literary and Scienti tic studies, and in the Professional de partrnents of Law and of Civil Engl neeriug. The next session will open Septem ber 21st, and close June 27th. Tota expenses, exclusive of books ant clothing, need not exceed $300; bj messing, they may be reduced to $20< or $220. For Catalogue containing full infor niation, apply to WALTER BOWIE, Clerk. Jnly 24, 1876, 5t BR. JOHN S. THOMPSON DENTIST, Offers his professional servicos to the cit izens of Abbeville and tho surroundinj ennntrv. Office? Over Citizens' Savings Bauk ABBEVILLE, S. C. The State of South Carolina County of Abbeville. PROCEEDING of an estrav muli taken up in the streets or Abbe ville, 8. C., by one Alfred Butler, ant returned to me as an officer of th< law, to be appraised as prescribed bj law?made and^provided in such cases C. E. BRUCE, t. j. a. c. July 24,1876, tf CORN! CORN!! BED OATS! WHEAT BRAN. FOR SALE BY RARNWELL & CO Jan. 26, 1876 42-tf Marshall P. DeBruhl, Attorney at Law, ABBEVILLE C. H., S. C. Office of \V. A. Lee. [July 19, '76. 100 bushels SIX ROWED SEED BARLEY, the linest and most productive on the continent, at 91.75 a bushel, for sale by cunningham & templeton. Aug. 1, 1876. Red rust proof seed oats at 65 Cents, for sale by j. f. c. dnpre. EUGENE B. GARY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Abbeville C. H., S. C. Spcciol attention tc the collection of claims, [Feb. 9, ly WALLER & x MERCHAJ GREENWO .X /!v ARE now offering to the public in t) full line of all the Goods general!; THEIR SI 9HT have been selected with great <w READY-MADE A FINE STOCK OF A good &8? Grooeries, Hardware, Cro to whioh the attention of purchasers is k WALLER Feb. 10,1878, 45-tf Dr. H. D. 1 DENT ABBEVI] OFFICII ovia TO 8ept, 8,1875,2 2-tt spring, m. M'DONALD&HADDON , J k . .J* . # are now receiving their Stock Spring Goods, consisting mainly o' Domestic Goods, Notions, &c. a larger stock of SHOES AND HATS. than they have ever kept pefore. ' Always on band the choicest of FAMILY GROCERIES, rf" Confectioneries, &c. 1 : , m , ; CIGAES! CIGARS!! eW keep the finest nod cheapest asi sortment of CIGARS in town. Great inducements to cash buyers?offered by McDonald & Haddon. April 10,1876, 52-tfTO THE^ LADIES! I AM now prepared to exhibit the latest novelties in j MILLINERY, and invite my friends and the public to an examination of the same. Feeling assured they will find it to their interest to call before purchasing else> where, as, owing to the scarcity of monev, I intend to sell very low for CASft. The Dress-Making Department f is still under the supervision of : MISS JANE RAMEY, who will be pleased to receive your orders, and will endeavor to tfive satisfaction. Very respectfully, ' MRS. M. M. WHITE. April 5, 1876,51-tf J ) " ' Insurance Notice. J 1 T HAVE accepted the agency for several X SOLVENT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES, as follows: ; Old North State. Eoyal Cananian, Merchants and Mechanics . and Commercial of St Louis, and will insure at the lowest rates con 1 sistent with a sound business. Patronage of the public is solicited. I Office at the Law Office of Messrs. Per rin <t Cothran. L. W, PERRIN, Agent. 1 April 12, 1876,52-ly 1 ' CUNNINGHAM wilim wiat i?vt & - TEMPLETON ? have received their iniGii > - which they are selling at low prices, i Call and see them. ) March 29,1876, 50-tf MASONIC PIBECTOB7. f Clinton Lodge No. 3. A. F. M. ' W. H. PARKER, W.\ M.\ J. C. WOSMANSKY, Secretary. Meets 2d Monday in every month. ' Hesperian Chapter No. 17. B. A. M J. F. C. DuPRE, M.\ E.\ H.\ P.*. J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder. Meets 3d Friday night in every ' month. 1 Manssn;!! Hnnimil Nn lliRfcRM jjuuuuuuuiu v/vuuva aiu. J. F. C. DuPRE, T.\ 111.*. M.\ J. M. GAMBRELL, Recorder. Meets 1st Tuesday night in every mouth. | JAMES LEISHMAN. INFORMATION" is wanted concerning one JAMES LEISHMAN, a Scotchman who settled many years ago and Is supposed to have married in Abbeville County, S. C., a Miss Carswell, Cresswoll, or Carsenvell. This information is desired at the instance of Scottish relations. Any one recollecting this James Irishman will confer a favor on his heirs at law by communicating with the undersigned. The heirs may hear of some thing to their advantage. > NOBLE A NOBLE. Att'y. Abbeville, S. C., Aug. 2. 1876,4t BROTHER, fTS AT OD, S. C., leir new and handsome bofldinb,? y needed in tbJflW>pimunity, OCK OF m i^sr /Oi mmm* lie, and unusually attractive, v : CLOTHING. BOOTS ADD SHOES. >rtjnepfc of ckery, and Glatiware, Invited, & BROTHER. -I . 11 irni'll ?' )'! Ill IMI?W WILSON, 1ST, bLE, S. O. E POST OFFICE, CONGAREE I 111) If Golxuubl*, O, PROPEIETOR I .-<> MANUFAOTUBKB Off STEAM ENGINES AND BOILEBS, Iron and Biass Castings of all descriptions mads-to Order. . . ? ; ** ' ' Jw t Atf+ ' 4! $' ' ' - . J. I ' - X:;. ' t I, WAS awarded the first premium castings at the State Agricultural ana Mechanical Society Fairs, held in Columbia, November, 1871, '72 and '73. Circular Saw Milk of all sizes. Also took the FIRST PREMIUM at State Fairs held November, 1871, '72, '7#- "i ' ' M Manufacturer of GRIST MILL IRONS of all slzes.| Fox* Sale. Gin Gearing of the following fixes : 9 feet wheel and pinion.. $30 06 10 44 44 44 .... Si 00 11 44 44 " ; .... 35 00 12 M 44 ? rr.45 00 14 w 44 M ; 50 00 4 With Bolts 96.50 Extra for each set. Anti-friction plates and Ball* for Cotton Press $10.00 ana $12.00 per set. D. B. SMITH, Agent, Abbeville, 8. - Dec. 10, 1875,35-tf . STEAK Planing Mill, COLUMBIA. S. C. F. W. mm, Proprietor MANUFACTURER OF Sash, Blinds, Doors, WINDOW MD DOOR FRAMES, Insiilfi Pivot Tilinfis and Slitter* PILASTERS, Uantelpieces, MOLDINGS, BRACKETS, Handrails, Newels, Balusters. Scroll fort of all Description. All Work Guaranteed a No. L May 28,1875, lyr. CUNNINGHAM AND TEHPLETOff Have received and open. ed their large Stock of all kinds of goods. Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Caps, Hats, Hardware, Crockery, Saddlery, Ac. CALL AND SEE for yourSELVES. Oct. 6, 1875 26-tf BLANKS OF THE MOST APPROVED FORMS, FOR SALE, AT THE Press & Banner Office. Rent Liens, Liens on Crops, ? -? >iiil flat*. JLicn on ?jrop aau om ? ??>? Mortgage of Personal Property, Mortgage of Real Estate, Title Deeds, Trial Justice's Blanks. Snb. Tickets. Sab. Writs. Summons for Money Demsnd. Copy Summons for Money Demand . - f J \ Vv i* " V- "': .. -/