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The Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON f ~THE NEW YORK PRESS. IT IS SEVERELY CRITICISED BY PKUh. R. MEANS DAVIS ov For ltn .Haulier of Treating: Mr. Itryuu'i Great New Vork Speech- Mr. DhvIh I(akII j Believer That Bryau Is Klght. To the Editor of The News and I'Jourier: The comments of the New i'ork dailies on Bryan's speech, published in Saturday's issue of the News and Courier, display an amount of inso lent lguorauce, urrugaill asamupuim .. : and fallacious statement not to be ex* ^ pected from intelligent sources, how ^ ever biased. With your permission 1 shall point out a few glaring instances. The Times, usually able and unprejudiced, heads the list by calling Bryan a railing demagogue. No one who ;has read that speech of his will fail to be struck wilh the lofty key in which < it was pitched and the remarkable absence of vituperation, which would not, indeed, have been wholly unwarranted. The deliberation with which he threw away the opportunity of making' an imnassioned haraneue and stirring up the masses by invective marks him as a mau full of earnestness and self-ilenial. The Times next denounces as false and ''infinitely mischievous" the assertion that the gold dollar has appreciated, thus causing low prices. The very alphabet of economics and finance, as given by every economic iMpfips that. mrrnAv is a mere contrivance, and that commodities themselves are the tiue measure of value. The average of prices from time to time shows whether money has become too scarce or too plentiful. It has never been denied by any selfrespecting; person that the average of . prices at this time is lower than it has been in many years. Whatever reasoning may be given as to the cause of this condition there is no doubt of the fact. It is not mischievous to assert that gold has appreciated in comparison with the average of all other commodities. It is folly or falsehood to deny it. When a dollar will buy on an average twice as many things at one time as at another its value has appreciated. , Some claim, however, tbat gold has not appreciated, but that other things have depreciated. This is the same as saying that when the sun does not cross the meridian as St. Michael's -l-?i-!i m it 4.i? ~ / lL i 4U/\ ClOCK SiriKtJ.S 16 11 IS 11JLO ittUil Ul IUC sun and not of the clock. When Pope Gregory was smart enough to realize that the Julian calendar was ten days too slow and changed the calendar instead of issuing a bull against the sun there were some benighted people in England who denounced the Gregorian calendar as a Popish plot and insisted on sticking to ttie old standard for almost two nundred years. The Czar of all the Russias, like the New York Times, still profoundly uncon : 4iU.i ^l/i ~^ sciuus ui uic itiui ILUU HIS uiu aiauuaiu calendar has gotten out of repair, sticks blindly to it while all the rest of civilization have moved on. The Times should be made astronomer royal of Russia. Its views about the gold dollar are just advanced enough to enable it to date its issue twelve days behind time with great satisfaction to itself and its benighted subscribers. A word here as to whether the gold dollar has appreciated or commodities have fallen. It is claimed that because things on an average are produced twice as easily as formerly they should be worth only half as much. Is this triiA? T onnci 1 onmmnn cpncp Tf n country today linds itself possessed of twice as many horses, cattle, sheep, yards of cloth, bales of cotton, steam engines and everything else as it owned ten years ago, and if it can produce them twice as easily as before, is it not twice as well off? Undoubtedly. Then if it is twice a3 rich, its money values must show the fact. That is the whole thing in a nutshell. To show this increase in money values the amount of money must be increased. If free banking is prohibited the alterative is free silver. Calhoun, in one of his profound speeches, showed that if the money of the country, other things being equal, is doubled, the aggregate money values of the country are doubled, and vice versa, and he added that when $1 in money represents $30 in property the increase of a million dollars of money makes an increase of thirty millions in property, while the contraction of a million in money makes a shrinkage in values or thirty millions. When credit h used it must be counted with money as purchasing power. Furthermore, if the volume of money in the United States had never increased a dollar since 1789, and credit had not been increased, the aggregate money values of the United States would be no greater today than they were then, despite the fact that the comforts of life have increased a hundred fold. This is one of the simplest propositions in economics, and I forbear to elaborate it. The New York Times has simply written itself down a Dogberry in this matter. The Times adds: 'But Mr. Bryan says: Wage earners kuow that while a gold standard raises the purchasing power of a dollar it also makes it more diflicult to obtain possession of that dollar.' This is false, and if Mr. Bryan does not know lhat it is false he is tco ignorant for the great business in which lie aspires to engage. The figures of the Aldrich report show that wages have advanced more than 00 per cent, since ISO)." The smallest boy who robs an app'e orchard knows that if the apples are large he cannot get as many as if they are small. lOverv child knows that if there is one big stick of candy instead of half a dozen small pitcs, he will hxve to s:ulH; fj it E/e n an infant would convict the Times of idiocy in its denial of this proposition. Now for the question of wages. Admit that they nave increased GO per 4 1 OlZC\ /?/>? cnc oltnnrc ceni. siuco iouu. xuo v,tuouo ji.v>i>o that the wealth of the country has increased from 17,000,000,000 to $70,000,000,000 in the same time. That is an increase of 300 per cent. In other words the wealth of the country has increased five times as much as wages Who owns it, this increase? The Times would find some interesting food for thought in answering this ftnoel 1AM tj uuotiuu. Uoder the system which the Times worshsps as a fetich colcssal fortunes have been piled up in great centres while outlying portions of the country are in distress. The fact is that through the great improvements made in production by labor-saving appliances the labor of a man is many times more efficient now than in 18G0, and wages should be correspondingly increased. The laborer should receive several times 60 per cent, for his work. This table of wages quoted by the Times is a boomerang. When properly understood it is one of the* strongest arguments against existing conditions. The Times proceeds: "The restoration of bimetallism (says Bryan) in the United States will take away from gold just so much of his purchasing power as was added to it by the demonetization of silver. That sentence will kill Mr. Bryan as a candidate. There is not oratorical wind enough in all Nebraska to convince the American people of the truth of the absurd proposition that the demonetization of silver enhanced the power of gold." Really the Times is the lirst reputable authority that has ever denied the truth that the demonetization of silver ceteris paribus, enhanced the value of gold. Bismarck once said that the struggle of the nations for a single gold standard was like the struggle of two men in a bed to cover with a single blanket. There was not enough blanket to go round. Bismarck is not generally regarded as a Socialist, Anarchist or thief. Possibly the Times may grasp the following simple illustration. At a certain boarding house there are regularly biscuits and wallles for breakfast. For some reason the watiles cease to appear while tbe number of biscuits is unohanged. There will ne cessarily be a greater demand for biscuits. followed bv a struggle in which the sharpest will win and the weaker goahungered. Then comes the cry, "Give us back our wattles." A wise landlady will heed the cry, and in restoring the watlles will diminish the enhanced demand for the biscuits. A stupid landlady of Wall street, however, may say, "You are a set of rascals. You have just as many biscuits as ever. The demand for biscuits cannot therefore increase. Wallles are bad for the stomach. Be content with half as many biscuits apiece as before. How long would such a landlady remain in business? The Times disposes of Bryan as fol lows: "All that is leftof Mr. liryan's assertion is the demand that the dollar shall be split in two, and that is repudiation, naked and ugly." In one respect the Times is right. If the silver movement means anything it means that many persons in the United States believe that the value of the dollar has increased beyond all reason and is devouring all products in its capacious maw. That value must be reduced. When the people of the United States borrawed money the dollar bore a certain proportion to the values of commodities. Now its proportion is much greater. As Bryan said, no one would dare to enact a law that debtors shall pay more dollars than they bargained to pay. No more shall they declare that the debt shall i :J u: To UC ptuu 1U <X Uig^cr UUliai, X3 kUM iu puliation? The bondholders bought bonds for depreciated greenbacks worth at one time not more than 35 cents on the dollar. These bonds were payable in gold and silver. Here was a profit of more than 200 per cent. The bondholder split the specie dollar in half by means of greenbacks and thus got two bonds for one- This was the same "repudiation, nakel and ugly," that the Times now denounces. Did the Times raise its voice then in protest? If the bondholder gave the Government the very cheapest money he could find what right has he to raise a howl when the Government pays him back in the cheapest money denominated in the bond? Where is the "repudiation, naked and ugly," here? The Times not only wants all the enhanced value of the bond represented by silver, but twice as much. No one is afraid of this bugaboo of reDudiation. For thirty-six years the legislation of the Government has been constantly favorable to a certain clique of capitalists, and the people who have been swindled by them propose to restore equity by giving them just what the law demands and no more. Little space is left to notice the absurd criticisms of the other papers. But here is a lucubration of the Morning Advertiser: "Was ever a more deliberate statement more pre posterouly false? The whole span of history, from the beginning of the world, does not furnish one solitary instances of the creation of value by legislation. (>a the contrary, every attempt at this form of legislation has proved a, signal failure." Mr. Bryan must have produced a virulent form of hydrophobia among his critics. Let us examine this statement of the Advertiser. The Latin Union today by legislation causes a vast amount of silver to pass current at the ratio of 15$ to 1. During the Fram^-Prussian war the French Government lloated a large sum of irredeemable paper money (irredeemable paper money remember,; and kent it at oar with cold. This was able paper money pass current hi pur. ll is not the best money, of course, but if the Government declares that it shall have power to discharge debt and there is a large volume of debt to be liquidated it will surely pass current. Furthermore, si ace men receive money only to part with it, a creditor will take anything whether salt, codfish, wampum or rags if he knows he can pass it on to the next man. I am not favoring fiat money, but I know enough of history at least to know that governments at different times have been able to give value by law. Again, "if the people are prepared to suDDort Mr. Brvan on this proposi-1 tion they are equally prepared to legalize theft." The proposition is that free coinage would raise the bullion value of silver to a par with its coin value. This means simply that if one can seud an ounce 01 silver 10 Washington and have it coined free into $1.29, he will not sell his bullion any any cheaper than that. Does the Advertiser expect to win with such a manifestation of stupidity as a denial of this fact? Furthermore, as to legalizing theft. The Republican party, to which the < Advertiser very properly belongs, has legalized theft over and over again. It stole the slaves of Maryland and Ken- ' tucky. It repudiated all the war debt of the Southern States, loaned by individuals in hard cash. It stole millions of acres of the public domain to enrich the railroad kings. It made depreciated paper pay debts contracted in honest silver and gold. It stole nearly a hundred million of dollars from Southern farmers in an illegal cotton tax which was declared unconstitutional, and it has never refunded a cent. It upheld thieving State Governments that robbed the people in every way possible. It has fostered trusts and monopolies and combines nUliiOMfl flirOIHT /loTT Q Vft f ] I tuab rui/ unu'Oua uvui j uaj MUM That is the record of a party whose organs are denouncing Bryan because he wants to shake the plunderers by the throat- The Advertiser is a pretty paper to cry "Stop thief." The New York Tribune and the Philadelphia Press join in denouncing Bryan because he failed to disclaim 1 the plank of the Chicago platform, protesting against the sending of Federal troops to put down riots in',a State. Why should Mr. Bryan disJl.ic nlnnlr9 TH\n GOlulitlOT Clt ! Uiailli ill i a uiauai auw troops to Cchicago by Cleveland, against the protest ol Altgeld, was the . most flagrant violation of Slate's rights under the Constituion that has ever been perpetrated. I said so at the time and I repeat it now. The Constitution specially sets forth the only conditions under which the President of the United States can send troops into a State. There is nothing left to implication. He can send troops thither only "on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive when the Legislature cannot be con vened." The maxim of interpretation of the Constitution is that what is not granted is forbidden. When Grant sent troops to Jouisiana and swept the State House he was acting under the call of the carpet-bag Governor. When he tried to swamp the State of South Carolina with troops he did so at the call of the Governor, and even then the Democrats claimed he was acting unlawfully because the Legislature could have been convened. Cleveland sent troops to Chicago against the protest of a Governor of a sovereign State. The King of Eng land dared not call out troops to suppress the Chartists. That uprising was controlled by a chief constable and 250,000 constables and special police. If the President can seind troops into a State of his own volition State's rights are gone. The Democratic partv in Congress basely stultified if self when it commended this act of Cleveland. Gen. Schofield is said to have been riding all over the country in Pullman's private car, about the time of the riots, when Pullman should have been the first to go to jail. He was the greatest lawbreaker of them all. There are other ways /of putting down mobs than by violating the constitution of the United States. The Democrats deserve to win on this plank if on no other. As to the threat of reforming the Supreme Court it is rather a mischievous measure but the Court has laid itsell under reproach by the income tax decision. There is no doubt whatever that since the case of Hylton vs United States, about a hundred years ago, the Supreme Court has held valid every forjn of income tax laid by Congress. The income tax is the fairest tax ever devised. It is upheld by England and by Germany, two countries as far removed from socialism and anarchy as possiole. If the United States Government cannot levy an income tax it must enact the highest possible form of tariff, to meet its enormous expenses, and the Democratic policy of low tariff will become a barren ideality. The Courts of the United States have been reformed more than once. In 1801 the Federalist party, in order to entrench itself in power, created a whole system of Courts, and appointed Federalists as Judges. One of the first acts of Jefferson's administration was to knock those Courts and Judges higher than a kite. It was a desperate remedy, but it was justified. Atter the war the Supreme Court of the United States, by a yote of 4 to 3, declared the greenbacks unconstitutional. This was such a set back to the Republican policy that the Court was reconstructed. Two Judges were appointed by Grant, and on a rehearing they voted with the three old Judges in favor of th6 greenbacks, thus reversing the decision by 5 to 4. One of these packed J udges, Bradley, stole the Pridency from the Democracy and gave it to Hayes. It comes, therefore, with very poor grace from Republicans to denounce any proposi t:on to tamper with the Courts. They tampered with the Court so as to secure practical repudiation when they secured payments of debts in depreciated currency. Demo crats cannot say much either, because the abolition of the Federal judiciary was the pet measure of Jefferson. I do not commend tho proposition to reform the SuDreme Court. But that is no reason for not showing up the ignorance or inconsistency of the virtuous newspaper critics of the Democratic platform. As for the proposition to give a term of years to Judges of the United Slates Courts, that is all poppycock. The Con titution provides that all Judges of the United States shall hold ofiice during good behavior, and the term can be changed only by a constitutional amendment. 11 may be set down that no such amdndmeut can run the guantletof two-thirds of Congress and three fourths of the State. K. Mkanh Davis. I.Hiulutl Three ICxpedltluuH. Kev Wkst, Fla., Aug. 27.?Gen. I liololl'. Col. Nunez, and fourteen others lauded on the south beach this afternoon about f> o'clock. It is ru mored that they were landed from the steamer Dauntless. Gen. RololT states that he has landed three of the largest expeditions in Cuba during the past twelve days that has ever landed on that island. Besides the men they landed successfully four thousand stands of arms, two million round of cartridges, four cannon, three thousand pounds of dynamite, and plenty of medicine. IiolotF states that he expects to land four or five more expeditions, but as none of those lately landed were organized in the United States, he will pursue the same course in relation to the organization of the others. He says that he does not want to violate anv laws of the United States. He refuses to give the landing I places. I > ^ / / / / 1 The Colored College Faculty. The board of trustees of the Colored Normal college- at )Orangeburg1 met Friday in the governor's office at Co A lumbia. All the members were present and also Bishop \Walden and Dr. Hamilton, president and secretary of the Freeman's Aid and Southern Edu- &1 cation society. The morning was consumed in the board coming to an understanding with these gentlemen about an exchange of a part of the State's land for a portion that belongs to Claflin university. The exchange was made as a matter of con- i) venience to the two colleges. t] In the afternoon the election of a i, faculty took place with the following result: 0 Presidon t and Professor of Constitu- c< tional Law?Thomas E. Miller. ^ Mathematics and Mechanics?R. S. C Wilkinson, A. M. o Moral and Mental Science and Peda- a goery?Rev. I. N. Cardoza, A. M. b English Language and Classics?W. a R. A. Palmer, A. M. p History and Political Science?W. b M. Gilbert, A. M. t! Agriculture and Agricultural Clicm- ? istry?J. W. Hoffman, Ph. D. n Iron Working and Machinery? I George W. Barnes. fi Instructor English and History?J. o E. Wallace. tl Instructor Mathematics?M. C. Nix. n Instructor Chemistry and Natural Science?J. C. Whittaker. n Instructor Physical Culture, Philos- j-j 1 1 \T ilnr, lie / UfJU_y auu 11 JtzlOLiu?uaiau I . uui . 11.1. (, Instructor Vocal and Instrumental S] Music?ltowena E. Andrews. E Free Hand Drawing and Art?Louise y B. Fordham. y Principal Primary Department? a Ada R. Stewart. h Matron?C. Gh Gregg. is The following places will be filled at f< the next meeting of the board: Prin- n cipal of sewing, dressmaking and mil- a linery department; cooking and do- vi mestic, carpentry and woodwork, ij bricklaying and plastering; architect- g ure and mechanical drawing, book- 5 keeping and secretary, superintendent p farm, housekeeper. c The following institutions of learn- n ing are represented on the corps of k professors and instruction of the Col- p bred college: Harvard, of Cambridge, tl Mass., Oberlin, of Oberlin, O.; Drew Theological Seminary, Modine, N. J.; Michigan State Agricultural college; 0 Lincoln University, Pa.; Colgate Uni- i versity, Hamilton, N. Y.; Howard c Univeraitv. Washington, D. C.; Claf- 3 lin, West Point, Boston School of Art, a Boston Conservatory of Music, Bene- t! diet, Allen, Avery Normal Institute, public scnools of Charleston and c Wa hington, D. C. \ President Miller, Professor Hoffman t] and the Rev. I. N. Cardoza are Pres- jj byterians; Pro essors Gilbert and Nix v and Sarah V. Smalls are Baptists; Ada 0 R. Stewart, C. J. Gregg, Ravena E. n Andrews and J. C. Whi taker are of the A. M. E. Church; the Rev. Wm. R. A. Palmer, Prof. R. S. Wilkinson a IS* ITT T? ; ana weorge W . oarues arc mctuuuub f Episcopalians, and Louise B. Fordham and J. E. Wallace are Episcopalians. It was the sense of the trustee board that no one should fill a chair of the college department who did not have the degree of A. B. or A. M. from some college of high grade. Professor Palmer will continue to canvass the State in the interest of the college. President Miller will have the building ready by the second week in Octo- j ber for the reception of students. Af- f ter discharging these duties satis facto- ]j rily, the board adjourned to meet at q Orangeburg on September 12. The c college building is being erected and ? will be ready for occupancy by the j J '1 1 /V /v f J U11UU1C Ul Vl/kUUtl. J, Altgeld Waxes Wroth. Springfield, 111., Aug. 27.?Gover- j nor Altgeld tonight gave out an opeu j letter addressed to ex-Congressman j Forman, in reply to the recent letter p from ex-Congressman Forman to him, ( making charges against his integrity. ^ The Governor states that Mr. For- j man emerged from the brush while he j was away from home and made in- q sinuations against him and attacked g two dead men. He says he makes it a a rule to not notice psrsonal attacks ^ upon himself, as the calumniators in ^ time are buried in their own slime. ^ He terms the letter of Mr. Forman as l?r\f molwirtitD fnlaa on/1 utflllg ilictuo up \Jl iuaiiuivua) ju uw wuv? slanderous trash which has been r6paatedly published and branded as false and does not call for any further no tice. ! He brands every allegation Forman makes as false and malicious, and states that Forman knew he was stating falsehoods when he wrote the de- r nunciatory letter. The Governor states that Forman wanted the position of Commissioner of the Southern , Penitentiary, Mr. Browning of Duquin applying for Forman, which was refused on account of the Governor having no confidence jn Forman. This made Forman angry and called . forth the letter. ? Klfteeu Hundred Homeleos. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 20.? Telegraphic communication has not yet been established with Ontonagon, and details of the lire which wiped that village out of existence yesterday afternoon are still lacking. Advices received by railway officials from stations within a few miles of Ontonagon are to the effect that only fifteen houses were left standing, but no lives were lost. Fifteen hundred people are { homeless at Rockland and other places * in the vicinity of Ontonagon, to which ? the inhabitants tied last night. lielief | measures are under way. J Valuable l'lautatlona Humeri. ], Havana, Aug. 2G.?It is is reported I here that the insurgents recently 1 burned over .'50 coffee and cocoa plan- 1 tations in the province of Santiago de ft Ouba. Among the larger plantations ft burned were the splendid estates of Aurora, Sompatia and Dolorita. It is C estimated that more than $L,000,000 C worth of property was destroyed. ] These estates were owned by French i citizens who wore not sympathizers g with the insurgents, but who remain- g ed neutral from the commencement g of tli9 troubles in Cuba. L v Tillman llands oil'. ' WAsniNOTON, Aug 28.?Tillman passed through Washington this morning on his way home from Pennsylvania, where he has been making speeches. He hadj a conference here with Democratic managers, the e be- a ing a big demand for him among ti Pennsylvania miners, Tillman told a h cronflprrinn i n thfl train that "before a 5oiT' he had taken no part in the race n between Earle and Evans, but inti- b mated thit he had advised Duncan to v stay out of the race. He intimated that he would be hands off in the next primary between Earle and Evans, if A there was to be another.?State. A Hat money, pure arid simple, and the device of the French Government has been commended by economists. Duriag the late war the United States Government issued about $150,000,OuO in greenbacks and made tliem a legal tender for all debts. They had no value in themselves, but the tiat of the Government that they should be legal tender for past as well as future debts caused them to pass current and to afford the means of defeating the South. The Advertiser knows nothing about history "from the beginning of the world," as is evident from the above quotation. The best economists, Mill among the number, concur in the belief that a government can, within certain limits, give fictitious value to money and, by limiting the issue, as France did, can even make irredeem NO NOMINATION. NOTHER RACE NECESSARY TO DECIDE WHO WILL BE SENATOR. IcSweeney Defeats Cooper?Mayfleld Defeats Koblnson and Watts Defeats Rlchbourg?Tbous tnds of Reformers Voted for Judge Earle and Against Kvaus. Ooliimria S. O . Xup. 28.?Excit ag was the political game played in lis State last night. The moves on le political checker board when the flicial returns for Senator began to ame in and throughout the night, rere many and intensely exciting. Jrowds of excited politicians and thers gathered arc uud The Stite office nd elsewhere. Never before has there een such a rush for information after n election. Men of all classes and rofessions got out their pencils and pcan t,r? fiPiirfi at a iiValxr rata whftn be official returns came in for one ounty after another. Every little largin was eagerly figured out. Gov. Ivans was as eager as anybody for gures. It was late before he found ut that, with Richland staying out of tie fight practically, the people had nt pndnrsed his course. It was impossible to tell up to 1 a. i. whether there would be a second ace for the senate or not, even when ar all that time the vot9 of only one mall county?Saluda?was missing, lut that one missing link was what j&s needed to decide what the result ras going to be. When it came at 1 . pa. it showed that Evans would ave to go into a second race, and this ? - - - 1 1 X J 3 almost certain 10 ormg aooui nis uesat. In the first primary a large umber of Conservatives did not vote nd in addition to this silent vote, rhich was almost entirely in the cities, t is conceded that Duncan's vote will o to Earle in the second primary, 'he first vote, one of the largest ever oiled in the State, came from the ountry and is regarded as one of the lost surprising revolutions ever nown in the State. What caused the evolution thofle who have followed lie campaign reports know best. A HEAVY VOTE. The total vote in the State is 77,743 f which 38,391 goes to Evans, 30,983 a Earle and 8,369 to Duncan. Dunan and Earle's vote combined is 39,51, giving them 960 votes over Evns. It has been a close race; one of he closest South Carolina has ever nown. Here is the official vote by ounties. The star in the table at lorry, Marion and Pickens means hat tne "complete" figures for those hree counties are the only ones which rere not proven correct by the receipt f additional "official" returns last tight: DunEirans. Earle. can. Abbeville 1,315 1,116 544 liken 1,427 1,044 172 Lnderson 1,959 1,738 368 tarnwell 1,531 1,198 205 teaufort 175 285 28 Berkeley... 572 342 74 Charleston 842 1,820 119 Chester 874 644 85 Chesterfield 1,107 625 93 Clarendon 880 400 123 * * ' -* ??AO AA* rtrt/l oneton 1,000 ??/ zuo )arlington 980 623 207 idgefield 483 1,269 159 ^airfield 568 451 .*321 Florence 756 673 102 Georgetown....... 161 169 232 Greenville 1,583 2,499 179 lampton..... 661 534 145 lorry* 990 804 122 Cershaw 887 659 75 jancaster .. 885 860 219 jaurens 1,213 1,019 256 Lexington 1.406 821 213 larion* 1,128 716 19 iarlboro 731 844 61 dewberry 849 769 224 )conee... 1,105 765 400 - ? nnn' Orangeburg i,ou/ i,*iv 'tokens* 795 709 136 iichland 651 544 530 ialuda 996 567 118 partanburg 3,403 915 960 iumter 573 975 346 Jnion 1,260 400 326 Villiamsburg 1,074 659 182 fork 1,370 1,155 422 Total 38,391 30,983 8,369 MAYKIELD AND MCSWEENEY. For lieutenant governor McSweeney 3 a winner apparently by a vote of 1,566 to 30,361 for Cooper. In the bove vote there are a few counties tiissiug. The star bus the same significance as in the senatorial table, ielow is the vote so far as received. Robinson's vote for superintendent f education is 29,409 to Mayfleld 2,099. The vote so far as received is s follows, the star meaning the same s in the above table: T)/N]? Mon_ \lf \Q(17AO UUU JllOJf- JUMIIUU wwv inson field. ney. per. Lbbeville.... 1680 1263 1664 1284 Liken 907 1G93 1573 1037 Lnderson.... 1991 1961 1870 1934 Jam well.... 652 2205 1725 1184 ieaufort 39 310 333 77 Berkeley Charleston... 212 2430 1966 728 Chester 936 728 1251 323 ttiPsterflftld . 809 1003 1023 786 Clarendon... 229 1152 1031 351 Colleton 984 1783 394 2408 Darlington.. 424 1352 857 8* 1 Cdgefield.... 978 893 1174 087 ^airfield.. Florence.... 00f? 809 887 010 Georgetown.. 43 490 54G 78 Greenville... 1571 2058 2151 2038 Ianipton ... 222 1093 060 0/0 lorry* 009 1271 1308 599 Cershaw.... 007 713 1202 307 Lancaster... 711 1237 1049 8% jaurens 1519 970 811 1073 /ixiugton... S-'il louu lut,a 1?H?J larion* 221 99 27/ 38 larlboro.... *198 770 830 445 Jew berry ... '024 *1018 "1160 MSG )conee 1275 907 1253 1009 )rai)gebur?. 1090 2085 1333 1 <28 'tokensK 1300 237 787 834 tichland.... 431 1213 109;? 540 Ialuda 431 1213 1095 540 nniu 1 Mil AOr.f Uf|U tparianburg. dim mu luinter 672 1236 961 869 Jnion 1106 883 1359 713 Villiamb'g.. 187 1629 904 962 fork 1079 1835 1730 1145 Total 29409 42099 41565 30361 ADJUTANT GENERAL. Watts, with thecounties of Berkeley nd Fairfield missing, and partial reurns from two or three other counties as 38,806 votes to Kichbourg's 33,031, nd will bo nominated. The star leans the same as in the senatorial tale in the following table, giving the ote so far as received: liichWalts. bourg. ibboville V47? 1044 liken 1429 1140 / Anderson....* 1871 2051 ( Barnwell 1657 1221 Beaufort 285 111 Berkeley... Charleston 2223 455 Chester......... 622 936 j Chesterfield 1342 444 < Clarendon 888 474 Colleton 2181 550 i Darlington 927 789 i Edgefield 668 1197 Fairfield Florence 1015 441 , Georgetown 316 227 { Greenville 2283 1930 : Hampton 795 530 1 * Horry 645 1262 Kershaw.......... 795 713 Lancaster 1010 897 ] Laurens 1883 613 t- j -irtCiQ jjexington nou Marion 748 1199 Marlboro 902 715 Newberry 962 944 Oconee.......... ....... 1072 1170 Orangeburg............. 1529 1549 * Pickens... 784 845 Richland..... *r'09 123G Saluda 791 899 - Spartanburg 3bUi i-j/u Sumter. 252 883 Union 1241 752 Williamsburg.1068 714 * York 1521 1333 ] Totals 38,806 33,031 ELLERBE IN A CANTER. < Subject to the same conditions, Ellerbe for governor, has 64,591 to Whitman's 2,186 and Harrison's 13,- j 705. He wins in a walk. Here is a vote subject to the same < interpretation of the star, and to the j conditions accompanying above tables for State otticers: Whit- Klier- Harri 1 mail. lkj. auii. Abbeville 57 2031 863 i Aiken 51 2328 244 j Anderson 50 2949 965 c Barnwell........ 82 2603 246 i Beaufort 9 326 36 Berkeley........ ? .... .... Charleston Chester......... 40 1392 164 Chesterfield 39 1556 193 Clarendon...... 14 1214 169 ( Colleton........ 72 2533 184 t Darlington...... 11 1687 117 < Edgefield 39 1187 652 Fairfield....... ? .... .... Florence........ 31 1297 199 Georgetown 20 452 76 Greenville...... 122 1524 2596 Hampton 94 977 262 I *Horry.......... 17 1034 773 I . J t i*rtr lOO C Kershaw aa a*/? > Lancaster 51 1690 218 Laurens 29 1445 832 Lexington 118 2076 250 *Marion 7 524 19 Marlboro -9 411 288 Newberry ..*102 *1389 *437 Oconee 242 1459 565 Orangeburg 30 2920 ) j 1 *Pickens........ 45 841 730 Richland 48 1373 262 Saluda 51 1335 299 Spartanburg.... 187 4492 513 Sumter 30 1391 426 Union 263 1534 210 Williamsburg... 36 1694 173 York 155 2452 301 Totals 2186 64591 13705 The State executive committee will meet at 8 o'clock this evening in this city to tabulate me ngun? ?uu umaic the result in all the races. i 8KC0ND DISTRICT. This district is complete on the official returns. Talbert had no opposi- < tion. His vote is as follows: Hampton 1,372 i Barnwell .2,867 Aiken 2,708 Edgefield 1,852 Total 8,799 : FIRST DISTRICT. Nothing has been received as to El- ? liott's vote in Williamsburg, Colleton and Berkeley. The rest of his vote is as follows: Charleston (four boxes shori)....2,650 Georgetown (complete) 707 Beaufort (partial) 152 Total 3,509 1 THIRD DISTRICT. The returns are complete. The vote is as follows: Lati- Keitt Wide- Bowmer. man. den. Abbeville.... 1,947 343 430 221 Newberry.... 1,270 341 383 4 Anderson.... 2,274 317 315 586 Oconee 1,743 154 192 250 Pickens 591 86 98 51 7,725 1,241 1,418 1,112 FOURTH DISTRICT. The vote is complete, Fairfield alone coiner omitted. Wilson, John h'arley. | son. I Greenville ....2,3.98 2,056 Laurent ,.1,350 1,134 Union 1,134 484 Richland 1,080 467 63 Spartanburg...3,648 484 Total 9,530 4,625 63 FIFTH DISTRICT. This vote is complete: Strait. Finley? Trantbam. Spartanburg... 254 394 41 York 1,016 1,914 161 Chester 978 411 215 Lancaster...... 1,494 145 384 Chesterfield ... 872 356 396 Kershaw 375 27 1266 Union 132 229 11 r? 121 3 506 2.474 A second race is necessary. SIXTH DISTRICT. McLaurin Lad no opposition. No returns are in from Williamsburg. Clarendon and Darlington are complete. The vote heard from is as follows: Clarendon 1,425, Darlington 1,815, Marlboro 3,(519, Marion 107, Florence 1,601: total 6,567. SEVENTH DISTRICT. All the counties save Colleton and Berkeley are complete: Stokes. Moses. Lexington 1994 430 Orangeburg 2506 579 Sumter 1075 1061 Colleton 101 77 Richland 64 37 4,743 2,186 FIRST CIRCUIT. For solicitor in this circuit Jervey Koo o twq nntccin Charleston and 2. MOO I U?' VVhXtfMAM -w . - _ 990 in Orangeburg (complete), without opposition. Berkeley, the other county in the circuit, has not yet been heard from. SECOND CIRCUIT. Beaufort, for Bellinger, has not been heard from. The ollicial returns for the other counties in the circuit are as follows: T)/V1Kma.am Cimmo OClULlfcJCl. uiuiuu. Aiken... .......2700 098 BarnwelL. .1C7"? 1268 ? Hampton...... 908 452 i , / / \ .. Colleton 845 2046 6134 4464 ~H THIRD CIRCUIT. ,1 Solicitor Wilson has been ronomilated without opposition. His vote I official returns) is as follows: Florsnce 1,600, Sumter 2.151, Clarendon .,436, Georgetown 700. Williamsburg las not been heard from. FOURTH CIRCUIT. ^ <"V_1_ i_ T Unniul wujy one uuuuiy uaa uccu uobtj m rom officially in this circuit Dar-_ ington gives Johnson, incumbent, \ ,688 and Sellers 154. jHj FIFTH CIRCUIT. The official returns are jfiven fron^HW ill the counties save Saluda, which^^H las reported but three boxes Thur- Ner%tol-1H mond. son. ~ ier. j^H bklgetield 1074 785 25 3aluda 221 76 ? Kershaw 609 1120 28 tiichland 519 1133 158 M Lexington 989 833 646 Total 3413 3947 857 Nelson and Thurmond will have to B nake a second race very likely. sixth circuit. g] Solicitor Henry has no opposition. M fork's official vote, the only one ported, gives him 3,057. *^H| seventh circuit. The complete official returns aregiv-^HH San- Simp- Thomp-.JHH ders. son. son^^H STewberry .. 60 4 Union .......139 60 3&^B 3?*?i 7oi 5KQ iQirHH jpaiuiuuurg "?. w Laurens 29 1071 72HB Total 949 1494 235jH Shumbert. Saaw^^^| dewberry 988 . 88^^H Spartanburg...........1292 l$j^^H Laurens 638 TS^HH 3678 372HB EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Ansel. Prino^HB Abbeville 1909 Sreenville.... 3239 12^^^D Anderson... ....2322 Dconee 1404 QG7.1 AULIU. BritUh Guns Boom. London, Aug. 27.?The foreij^B^HH See has recei vea dispatches from 7mBN^H oar stating that the usurping sultgHf^^B Said Khalid, having refused to surrenier this morning in accordance with ^B ;he terms of the British consul's ulti- jS natum, the palace was bombarded by ;he warships in the harbor and after flH the bombardment was captured by Bfl the British sailors and marines who ? J had been landed by the war vessels, fl Said Khalid was made a prisoner and will be deported to India. The dis-^Bj patchts don't mention the loss on aither side. A later disnatch says that :'i% Said Khalid and his leading adherents ' made their escape and took refuge in $3 the German consulate. Still later dispatches say that at noon, the palace and the old custom house HH were a blazing ^ mass of ruins. Sharp firing continues on the out>^^B skirts of the city, where a force of British marines with 400 loyal Zanzi- M baris are on the Homain road. Other V sailors and marines are bringing in B the prisoners and collecting the dead B for burial. During the bombardment B of the place, the steamer Glasgow, jfl which was owned by the late sultan ^B and carried a number of guns, was fired upon by the British warsinps ana immediately sunk. Dispatches from^H Zanzibar say that the bombarding the place lasted 50 minutes. The ing was done by the warships Raccoon. Thrush and Sparrow. The followers of Said Khalia were strengthened be* I hind barricades and kept up a steady fire-upon the British soldiers and marines until their positions were car- H ried. J? They Shot It Oat. Greenwood, S. C., Aug. 27.?A Mfl shooting scrape occurred here this morning on the sidewalk in front of J. K. Durst & Co's. store, between V| Captain W. K. Fmzier, Will Sanders, a nephew of his and Aaron Smith, a cousin of Captain Frazier, on one side, M and Capt. Jas. Rogers and Mr. Dick, ^B Ri/?Vio?vl<snn nr? the other. Same fifteen or twenty shots were fired. Captaj^^B Rogers was shot through the thigh two places. Captain Frazier w^^^f shot in the side. The ball was cut Mr. Will Sanders was shot in the sid^^H a flesh wound, and several balls paa^^H ed through his clothes. Four bal^^K went in Durst's store through the do^^Hg and windows. The front of the sto^HH and the sign was peppered lively. is a miracle that no one was killed, a^^H the street was full of^gople. All the parties live at Ninety-Six, S.C. They all came here to attend a law suit be* Bj tween Captain Frazier and Mr. Richardson, and the shooting grew out o^^H it. Captain Rogers and Captain zier are both Confederate veteran anHH both had been wounded in battle. All iifl the parties were strictly sober. jB Combined for Free Silver. . Bay City, Mich,, Aug. 26.?Theflf conferees appointed by the three con-^H ventions yesterday reached an agree-MQ ment at 11 o'clock this moraine. They^H decided that the name at the nead o^^H the ticket should be the "DemocratiJ^B Peoples' Silver Party " that the PopflHj ulists should be accorded three elector?HH and to baye the nomination for Au-^M HitnrGeneral. The three conventions 5 will meet in joint convention to nom- 'jj inate the State ticket, the Populists . 31 and silver men together to have a rep- 3 resentation equal to that of two DemoBurglar* Fired On. Birmingham, Mich., Aug. 27.?Thre^^H burglars entered the feed store of Vq^^H ney Nixon early this moraine. Th^BH were discovered and pursued bvMflHH Nixon and two companions. who^vei^^H took the thieves on the outskirts of th^^H village. Nixon called on the thieves^^H to surrender and when thev refused^^H the three pursuers iired on tnem. OneB9l of the robbers was instantly killed an<^^| ..intnrp/i nnd nlaced in iail^^H auubuci tKjivuiw. w The third man escaped. The maq^^H who is in jail has not revealed the^^fl identity of the dead man. Bryant Itinerary. ?ER Columbus, Aug. 27.?Dan McCon- tH ville, chairman of the Oliio Democratic S executive committee, says that Bry- V an's its inerary for Ohio on the .next S week's visit is: Cleveland, Monday 3 uight, August 31, Columbus, Septem- Jk " 1 5 n Qvf /I a xr Tnaitfl 061* iS[j HUU lliCU IUO UUAH WMJT v Springfield, Urbana, Bellfontaine^^B and Fin ley, en route to Toledo, whe^^^K he speaks at night. He further Mr. Bryan is to return late in 0c and put in a whole week speakitaj^^^H flinmnnati and all over the Btatel^H^^S