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Tile Beaufort Re'oublican. IM, ? _ i / THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1872. J. G. THOMF8UV, Kdltor. i A DV FRTIS1 KG RATES. Advertisements will b* inserted at the rate of *1.50 per square (10 Nonpareil lines or less) for the tirst ' Insertion, subae'i'sent insertions by contract. ? SUBSCR1PTIOXS. One Yen*, 52 00 MxMontlis, 91 Official Paps:; of the State, Official Paper of Beaufort aiwl ("olleton * ' * ' * Counties. GEO. P. ROWELL 4 CO., NEW YORK AGENTS. H T. FARMER. AGENT IN WALTERBORO. For President. Horace Greeley. %-* T ??^ ^ Snuiner for Greeley. Hon. Charles Sumner has written a lon^ letter addressed to a number of col* j ored men who had asked his advice as to j their political course. He declares his purpose to vote for Horace Greeley. Mr. Sumner^contrasts the two candi- i 1 - ? l dates, Grectey was corn m poverty, aim educated himself in a printing office. Grant, fortunate in early patronage, be* came a Cadet at West Point, and was !' educated at the public expense. One started with nothing but industry and character; the other with a military com- i mission. One was trained as a civilian; the other as a soldier. Horace Greeley stood forth as a reformer and ah Aboli- J tiouist.- President Grant eulisted as,a pro-slavery Peaiocrat, and at the dec- , tion of James Buchanan, fortified by his vote all the pretensions of slavery, even the Pred Scott decision; Greeley, front j early life, was earnest and constant against slavery, full of sympathy wi h the colored race, and always tore l ost in the great battle for their rights. President Grant, except as a sol ier, summoned by the terrible accident of war, nevei; did anything agaiust slavery, nor has he at any ; time shown any sympathy with the colored race.- Horace Greeley earnestly do- ;! sired that the colored citizen should vote, ;' and ably championed impartial sftiltrage; but President Grant was on the other side. Beyond these contrasts, which are marked, it cannot be forgotten that ! Horace Greeley is a person of large heart * and large understanding and strived to support human rights. Mr.Greeleys iudus ry, general knowledge, amiable nature, and above all, honesty, which no suspicion has touched, are maintained. None or these things appear in President Grant. His great success in war cannot change his record toward the colored pc >? hi pie; while there are antecedents shewing that in the prosecution of his plans he cared nothing for the colored race. Mr. Sumner says the hardihood of political falsehood reaches its extreme ( point when it is asserted that under I j Horace Greeley the frecdmen will be re- j i enslaved, or that colored people will iu any way suffer in their equal rights; 011 1 the contrary they have in his election, not only the promises of the platform, , but also the splendid example for a full < geneiatiun, during which he has never : wavered in the assortiou of their rights- , . To suppose that Horace Greeley when 1 placed where he can do the most good Will depart from the rule of his holiest ( life is an insult to reason. It is none the } less idle to suppose that Democrats sup- j porting Horace Givo'ey, expect or desire j rh-it he should dei.art from those prlnei pies which are the giory of his character. They have accepted the C'iuciiuiati platform with its tw .-fuhl promi-o-, ami in- l tend in good faith to maintuiu it. t M-rtf ; ( thir Charter Klection. ^ In another column will be found a ; ticket for Intendent and Wardens, head- ] ed by the uaine of J. W. Collins?. We , heartily endorse the ticket, and hope our ( friends will turn out and elect it. Mr. ^ Colbns is a gentleman vitally interested . in the* welfare of the town. Me is enterprising, public spirited and honest, lie ( would give us a live administration. itn- ; prove the town and benefit all Masses. ( By a strong i11 >rt on the part of tax pay- t ers he can be electi d. Lot us make it. l s'cmi: tickets. j, i., The Select United Brethren have, it1 I Is said, agreed upon the following tic- < koe, which is given upon the authority of Senator Mash and Postmaster Wil- t der: \ 1 Chamberlain for Governor, Pansier, r Lieut. Gov.; II. P. Ilayue, Secreta.y of i State; Iloge, Comptioiler; C'ard- zo, ; Treasurer; Melton, Attorney General; 1 Jillson, Superintendent of Kducaiiou; t Smalls, Adjt. (L uera ; Worlkinglou, Cougress-ai large. 11 Richland county modestly takes six of the candidates. It will ho iouud, hewevee, tout there will be several ; delegations lrom other parts of the State who will insist on having a put" in the game. A large meeting of the Republicans of Lancaster county recommend J. F. G. Aliuag, a uiau ol local reputation, for Governor and Edwin F. Gaiy lor Comptroller. Several cjuuties have already selected their delegates to the convention, among them York, which sends the situe delegates to county. State, and cougre&sioual conventions. Tluy a*e instructed to vote for Frank Moses tor Governor. GRANT'S REMEDY. Judge T. J. Mackey in his speech at Chester recently, after alluding to the frauds and extravagance of the present State government, said: 'Tf the remedy is not applied to cor rect these abuses, by Republican voters themselves, then Gen. Grant will certainly recommend to Congress to remand the State to a territorial condition, under a provisional government. If Republicans cant correct the abuses committed by the bad members of their party, let the State be surrendered back to the care of the general government." Such a remedy would be a3 bad as the disease. The people of South Cai olina are not particular as to the names of those who rob them. It is the stealing they object to. We cannot see any possible good to acrue from swapping Scott or Moses for Grant. Of course the story is prepostersous. In the first place Grant ba9 no such power, aud in the next place he would not exercise it in opposition to regular Republican nominations if he had. The ring are not afraid of hfm. Those who are counting on his aid to defeat the riDg nominations by aiding a bolting ticket in this State are destined to be wofully disappointed. ? Judge Orr, in a recent speech, said that he had been informed that over five hundred thousand dollars had been squandered in p?v certificates, issued by the speaker of the House of Representatives to men who neither attended in Columbia nor did any service whatever to the State. These had been issued to the cross-road politicians who, in return, are expected to electioneer for the generous donor?Speaker Franklin J. Moses. THE BLVE RHINE SCRIP. The papers of the State have jumped to the conclusion that the Revenue bond scrip scheme is killed, and that the S'ate has been saved the 82.00 >,0 0 paid for the worthless bonds held by the Blue R'dge railroad company. If the ring ticket is elected in October next they will find out their mistake. Those holding the scrip are quite as confident as ever of a final triumph. As long as Auditor Gary remains as one of their opponents they have no hope of a discontinuance of the suit or any faltering iu its advance. To him belongs all the credit for the success of the first attempts to arrest the scheme. But after the installation of the State ollieers this fall his duties will devolve upon the Comptroller. Xo opposition will be thought of by the man nominated by the riug to this or any other Scheme of public plunder. lie will withdraw the suit on the part of the Auditor. WHO IS RESPOXSIRIA In a recent speech Judge T. J. Maekey gave it as his opinion that "the State government is responsible for every red shroud in which sleeps a K. K. victim, and for the sufferings and misery of every South Carolinian who languishes behind the bars of Albany Penitentiary." Iu support of this he jointed out the mingled bluster, cowardice, ign^rauceaud imhecility which maiked the conduct of the State in dealing with the rioters and lawless spirits of the disturbed counties. Iu this connection we heard the Judge recently say that (Jnut was suiirely ignorant of the fact that the militia sent by the Governor to quell the Ku Kiux, and which was disarmed by the people, were all colored men. The Presideut was much surprised at the information and intimated that his iction would have been modified if this act had been presented to his mind xfore he declared martial law. A Itlot in Savannah. On Monday afternoon and evening se ioiis ri<?ts broke out in Savannah. Son to rouble In:.! been experienced on Safaris;. and Sun lay in regard to colore 1 peo ?le riding in tb : street cars set apart for vhite-. X ? oi?o objected to this purtietiar!y save s few rowdy boys and young lieu, who organized themselves to put nit every colored man who came into the vhite car-. This of course incited the ame low class of blacks t > get up a row. Hie bc-t e!a-sesof whites and black* ndcavored to allsiy the excitement but vithout effect. On Monday night the ixeitement culminated by a car couaining the whites being iircd into by lacks from an alley. Those io the car eturne I tic tire oy winch evcrai coltrod men won' injured. The same niyht i Grant mectim; wis broken iij?, partly ?y its own party ijnartv!-' and partly l?y tut idcis. Gnna of Macks paraded in section- of ho city disehar^inir yun- am! pi-; ?!-?. A a?ly and three children wore wounded by >r>e of these Parties. Kxcited crowd- of vhitc men also attached the negroes. and or several hours the city was convulsed ty tin se lawless a d-'. < hi Tuesday routers were ijuict and no further trouble is ipprelunde 1. Tive or six white m< u vert w mti h d and a dozen >iwn d. Tlie strictures ma le upon the canine tfiuass meetings by the county chairnan are thought by fairtuinded men to e captious a>?d unnecessary. Hi to niirht he some foreo in tiieui if the Ut'Ctihgs Wt'VC eulu 1 to Clcet d; :.cyatfS, jut such is nut tlio c:w. The meetings aliv.l are to rati IV the nominations <?f rant ami Wilson. ('all.* h-r meetings ui.-igned are circulated lively ami adveri.-ed in the Times, at which Mr. W l.ipj?er i- to .-peak. Why should the subxumuittecm'en call the meetings. B ides, the county chairman has the right to dispense with.sub-corn mi ttee-nmn thotrether. : < i done in some counties The jounty chairman of Charleston county appoints all the meetings for eleeting delegates, and the same is done in other counties. No complaint has been made by any of the sub-committee men, aud they a^o not grateful to those who are trying to make trouble between them and their trusted Chairman. . i n ift i 1 i LOCAL' POLITICS. U Dont fail to read our letters from Law- ii tonville. w Wm Wilson and Barney'Sams are & i candidates for Sheriff/ m W. C. 3Iorrison is a candidate for the Legislature. The Greeley men are laying low. ^ * The Arsenal walls are to be padded in ^ time for the county convention. A meeting of the Y. B. R. Club was i held at the house of J. C. Rivers, Esq., S last Monday evening. Joseph Cohen in ii the chair. The elements could not eom- gi bine on a ticket for town officers. J I ' A little ' unpleasantness" occurred at | the headquarters of the Tammany club j | last Sunday morning. One of the proui- 1 n inent members of the club owes his life to the lively manner in which he shook the dust off his feet. a i L. S. Lane lev, school commissioner, n recently proposed to the State Supt. of v Education a sche . e to compel refractory j, school districts to pay a special scliool t} tax. He intended to annex those districts t refusing to levy a special tax to such districts as should vote in favor of such a levy. This course 31r. JiHson thought objectionable from a l<i*d as well as an 1 0 equitable point of view. ^ No candidates are yet in the field for ]j the office of school commissioner. The d office not being very lucrative is consider- 1 ed small. After the county convention g meets some disappointed aspirant for the j t legislature will thankfully "go for" the i b ' ofiiec. : ii We hear of a movement in the upper; part of the county to place in tho field a j ( candidate fi-r State Senator by the liberal I1 Republicans. As the straight Jtcpubli- {' cans seem to be divided they tliink this h is an opportunity not to be lost. i 1J The meeting at Liwtonville was lively. The speakers indulged in many charges T of fraud and corruption, and the people \ begin to find out how their reprc-enta- ; g tives in Columbia conduct themselves. ' The truth is likely all to come out now, j and no doubt We shall have a feast of I scandal and a flow of something besides !,s | se.nl. | 11 The two candidates for the senator- ! ship will make the fur fly at Briekchurch c St. Helena, Aug. 2; Hilton Head. Aug. u 3; Bluffton, Aug. 5; Hardecville, Aug. j, t>; Graham viile, Aug. 7; and Gardners [ corners Aug. The t'diowimr tickets are in the field d ! for the election next Monday: for Inteu- j dent, M. W. Collins; Wardens, D. C. h Wilson, P. K. Ezekiel. Win. Kressel, W. H. McOrill. S. 31. Wallace and W. C. I * # ' I | 3Iorri>on. " j ' Another-is: Inteiulant, I?.S. Bennett; 1' Wardens, J>. C. Wilson, P. E. Ezekiel. I t: E. Talbird, *J. E. Boyce, Jodali .Jackson j and C'ato Perry. The third ticket is: ' lutendaot. Dr. Nichols; hardens, B. :1 ! Washingtoif, W.dK-y ftroon, J(Wpfi e Robinson, 1>. C. Wilson, Gabriel Haynes. v j F. Talbird. ? A num./ ih .su nominated for Ward I U * " - ! ens on split tickets are Roncrt Smalls, , Geo. WaU-rLoiise, J. M. Crofut. Wm. ! Wilson, II. M. Stuait, and George t< Ilolmcs. I ' The Hi t ticket was nominated by the J1 Sax ton Republican clun, which met ' ; Monday evening last, Mr. W. C. Morrison, dnbijan, "auil Mr. Joe Richard- '' son .secretary. | liie second ticket is the one put for- ! ward hy the i. 13. R. club. The third ; ticket i- the present ad m mi tration. j, The reporter of '* Local i'olitics" last a week made some statements in regard to , (; Solicitor \\ ig-rin's action in not pro-cent- j ft ing the person- who assaulted the town I b marshal some time ago. Mr. Wiggin n ; denounces, in language unneeessaril warm for July, these statements as untrue. In fact, he says the article had not a word of truth in it, The first sen- j ft teuee in the paragraph is: "1'. L. \\ ig- S "i'i is.-: candi lata for re-elect ion.' Is i <] this untrue? Second: Ho is anxious to si retain the oflev in order to prosecute the o ahovc in- 111i .mod -a-e. What part of r< this is untrue? Is lie anxious to retain t h; the otlico? Is he anxious to prosecute j1( tli-' case? Tiio thirl sentence complained i n of i\a Is: '"I lo prefers for reasons of his j own to d hiy theea^e until after e!ee-| tion." The Solicitor says he deferred j a-*tieii at the i\ <pic-'of the town Inten oi dan'. He i-not under the orders of the S liitui laiit. Th" fourth sentence is most ,, eomj hined of. It r aids: "Having a!- |J( ready received his f< e- in that case (?at>) j ... lie fears if lie is not lecto-l for another ,, term the county will not get the worth of'1 n, 1 ii < money. ' j t,, 31 r. \\ iggin dmics the 8)0. There ! p were five i dietim-uts sent tothcHrand te Jury. Ii' tiie o < : es wore not docketed j then we were iui>fakcn. The Myrtle Hush primary meeting was In Id on Wednesday last. H. K. , J Carleton, .M reus Simmons. Hol>iu S. ^ Ilryan. and James Mack, were elected delegates to the county couvcuth-u. ,( R> The Tirit<:< man cat forty-six ihsof I watcniiclon one day la>t week. Muring ( t! the uiclit hi friend- exclaimed "wat cr , w u.elion colic man! A clear cu-e of L dropsy. ! ti We have just received a large as* sortui nt ??! envelop?, cards, bill-head paper. letter, I; ?te, cap aval loyal cap w which wo will sell, either plain or printed, 1 at 1?>\V juice- furca ii. Also } > nctls. pens, a rubber i v.n i>. ii'.iv, red tape, n:use;!age, 1! ink. etc. ?The til>t boll t'iong staple cotton of the season was sent to The Xeics office : _ # I yesterday from Christ Church Parish. It \va> grown by a colored man named Isaac 1 . Smith, who has a few acres of cotton c near Mount Pleasant*?Xnat, July 26. _ ^ i I ? ?A Florida correspondent of theSa- I vannah Jiepulttcan says that the In- i dians iu the everglades refuse to free t their slaves, and swear that Sheridan ! will have to k'ride the tail oft' eveiy * horse in the army before they give up ; I a single nig r/' " !( v B&)"' If there Is a law against the se of obscene and profane language 1 the public streets, would it not be. j ell for the solicitor to read up on it nd have it enforced? Oa Thursday last a Spanish ris went ashore on Stono breakers, nd is a total wreck. Two men were c brown overboard when she struck, rho were drowned. ( n ( A man by the name of Dawson from y avannah, was arrested on Tuesday 2 consequence of having in his pos- ^ ession a watch which was stolen from fr. Schepcrabout a month ago. 80. ('>11 Saturday night last several nusuully brilliant meteors were observed ( ere. jHr* We have just received a large ssortmentof envelops; Cards, bill-head ! aper, letter, note, cap and'legal cap, rhich we will sell, either plain or irinted. at low prices for cash. Also ( encils, pens, rubber band's, files, red ape, muscilage. ink, etc. Lightning. 1 On Sunday afternoon last the house 1 f James Blake, on the Fuller planta- ( ion, St. Iletena island was struck by ightning. The chimney was thrown j ( own and the floor ripped up. Bobert' , )eas was hurt by the falling bricks;' ] limon Good wine, Ben. l)eas and a lit- j ( le girl were stunned by the lightning, i >ut none of the persons are seriously tijured. All the pe-sons were colored. On Sunday afternoon a hail storm ' assed over Sheldon, doing a considerable j ! auiage to the crop. Three of the hail tones collected weighed a quarter of a lOUlul. The Tuesday's train on the P. R. R. . !., did not get in until about 12 m., , Vcdnesday. The valves of the engine i ot out of order and put out the fire. .. . 80. The storm on Sunday shook up < )rangeburg quite lively. The lightning truck in five places in the town, but very . ttle iniurv was done. ! < JB0T S L. Hall who has been merhandiz'ng at Port Ro^al for sorae !1 souths, left for Racine, Wisconsin, j1 ast week, to be absent for two months. T. C. Kneller, the present con- , luctor on the P. R. R., makes things ust as agreeable as he can. We hope i te will be a fixture. : tf^'Tlmt portion of the Port Royal bailroad between Augusta ami Sand Bar ' 'erry has been finished. An excursion rain passed over it Saturday afternoon. : B^.Wadesboro chickens in convention j ' ssembled, have resolved not to crow or i trWc' r r giyo any other signs of their j hereabouts, until after the adjournment j f the Conference of Methodist Ministers ! I i ow ill session at that place. jl >o more Ku-Klux trials until at- : 'r election. The special session ofthcj' \ S. court will not be held next month j i Columbia. All the capital possible la ecu made for Grant, it appears. Who is upporting Budd Williams now? lie can \claim: "Othello's occupation's gone!" ; f Greeley is elected the "patent witness" I i u-iucss wil decline. So mote it be. ! , f->ty .T. J. Kline, of Walterboro, has ist received his diploma as druggist nd pharmaceutist from the South J larolioa University at Columbia. Mr. [<ine lias bceu in business in Walteroro, for many years, and is one of its j lost enterprising and popular citizens. S, j j A Postmaster Arrested. The Columbia Phoenix says: "John A. j !<?s\voll. late postmaster at Canulen, ' ^ . 0., was arrested in that place on Fri- i < ay I.i^t and brought up before Commis- i oner Boozer, in this eitv, on Saturday, i * ( i a charge of embezzlement of money 1 ?eeivcd from money orders. lie was ( ailed in the sum of two thousand dollars ( ) appear for examination on Wednesday I ext. j \ The Weather, | I I The hottest weather of the season has , ' curred since our last' issue. On Friday, atunlav and Sunday the theruionieter J larked ninety-six. On Sunday after- j non a thunder shower cooled the heated | irtli and air. Several of our citizens are ^ larooning at Bay Foint, some have gone nrth. Those that remain are generally j njoying good liealth and by the aid of leasant sea breezes, ice and idleness keep 1 ileiaMy comrortttble. (WIGHT AGAIN. F? ter Ilolmts, who was convicted a ( ear or more ago lor the murder of 1 lathews in this county and who has iviee escaped from custody, was arrvs- 1 i?l again on Monday, the loih, near Ireen Fond. Information reached D. ^ 1. Farmer, trial justice at Walterboro ' bat he was in that vicinity. A party 1 as sent out who chased him to Green : 'oud. lie resisted arrest for some I irac and after his capture offered sixty ? ollars to he let off. Ilis whereabouts i aked out in the conversation of his , 1 -ife. lie will be taken to the penitcn- 1 iary, where, if they want to keep him ? good watch must be maintained. He 1 i a schemy fellow. < Soldiers at Mass Meetings. < A row occurred last week at a meet g near Charleston in which several i icrsons were injured by bayonets in he hands of militia men. The custom >f calling out the awkward squads of ?ur local militia on the occasion of mlitical meetings is a pernicious one. such meetings are for citizens. The sresence of men with arms is incongruous and unnecessary, and is likely ,o foment disorder and render it more , langerous. ' I North Carolina Election. ) c Large Cottserrative gains?Probable c success of that ticket. ; [Special to the Republican.} t I JKALEIGH, Aug. _. The returns come in slowly. The Conicrvativc vote is heavier than at the last election. Ever}* county heard from increases the probability of a Conservative t victory. t Range of Thermometer ( Dbserved at Dr. II. M. Stuart s 1 Drug Store, for the week ending { August, 1: Date 9 a. m. 12 m. . 6 p. ni. Thursday, 88 98 92 Vridav, ' 88 93 92 Saturday 89 96 94 Sunday, ? ? ? Monday, 83 89 88 Tittsday, 86 91 90 Wednesday 87 90 87 Goethe Township School Meeting. The annual meeting of Goethe township was held on June 27 at Hopeville church. Mr. C. R. Fittswaschairman and J. V. Dowlings secretary. A tax of one mill and one dolar poll was assessed. ^ Resolutions were introduced, and passed ( unanimously, severely criticising the action of the Governor in reinstating Mr. Langley as school commissioner, and re- . commending nevertheless school trustees " to retain office in order to prevent wrong being done to school interest by unworthy office holders. The School Tax. Sheldon township is not enthusiastic for a school tax as it might he. We are ( ?orry to note that II. M. Fuller Esq., , has resigned from the board of rustees. j Bluffton voted a tax, and Robertson still lives. Hilton Head and Coosawhatchie and St. Helena have come up nobly and voted the tax. As there is hardly a hope that any thincr will be had from the state these township> taxes are important. ?Governor James L. Orr declines to | accept the challenge of Captain Win. D. | it. It' I " . ' _ -A ravins "to ?1 puunc uiseussion ai turner i <on of tlu; ' issues of the present political , campaign." j i B6?k>A heavy hail-storm occurred in the neighborhood of Graham's Crossroads : about noon on Sunday; the corn and cotton over which it passed is said to he seriously damaged. Stones foil as large as lien's eggs, killing a number of poultry The passengers on the N. E. 11. K. train gathered large rugged pieces of ice after the violence of the storm had abated. Colonel McClure recently received a ' lispatch from ex-Govcrnor Curt r,, of Pennsylvania, dated at St. Petersburg, md saving that he was coining home to <tump the State of Pennsylvania for Greeley. Senator Sumner, upon being told of jt, said: ''That settles the question in Pennsylvania; it goes for Greeley' sure."' _ ? _ The Barnwell Sentinel says: "We j hear it now hinted that the Dele- j 1 ration from Barnwell will support Cham- ! berlain for Governor, though Orr is spo- j1 ken of." 1 THE CANVASS FUR SENATOR. i To the Editor of Republican: Thinking you might not have had a U'|llll ll'I JNV'Ullli Ut LIHJ lUCCllll^ mi uti. I tonville on .Saturday la-t. I have jotted , tlown some of the salient points for yon. 1 The first feature was the preposter- i aits proposition of Dr. Brisbane, to levy a 1 ! nine mill tax for school purposes, in addi- j ' lion to the state and poll tax. It was diffi- j ' . ult to believe that he was serious in pro- I 1 posing it but such is the fact. It is either j ' the blunder of a fool or the artful dodge of, \ i demagogue. There was but one vote ' for it, the tax of one mill and one dol- ; \ far poll tax being vted. Then came the r?a! object which j ' had drawn such a large crowd ? two ' Senatorial champions euten d the listf^f ' for a regular set to. W'hipper was 1 :alled for first, but he said the lucetiug ' was none of his. aud unless he was at- j tacked he would have nothing to say. ' suialls lin n took the stand. lie seemed .o have a determine d and noisy f?>llow- | ng, who were much more aggressive than the partisans of Whipper. His 1 rpccch commenced with Grant and t _1 1 I \V lison, DUL lie 8UMU ilUituil'Mjcu luriu. lie pitched into the Columbia adminstration, especially into Scott and ( Parker. lie said mistakes had been ' iiade in putting such men in oflice. Hereafter he advocated the election of Southern men. The carpet-banners ( ie said left the State as soon as they 1 unde money enough or got out of jfliee. Iu county oflicts he instanced 1 a'e Treasurer Kuh. Auditor Rundlet. ! 1 ludge Roll and Silas Wright, deputy collector, lie might have said Postmaster Small wood, who departed also, j 'Put none but Southerners on guard" ; ' seems to be his motto. Of course Whipper was the. Northerner pirticuarly meant bj him, but it is evident j .hat Northern Republicans are not j wanted in his canvass. I j Whipper then look the stand. Tie , - - - * .i u. i it..i ! ' proceeded to poini out me iaci mai Senator Smalls had voted for every } id ministration measure, and that he ( was now going back on the Columbia ( ring merely for political purposes. He charged him with being corrupt, and added that the whole delegation was ( equally so. The validating bill, the Blue liidgc swindle, etc., had received : ] the vote of every one except himself. . He wound up by a defence of North- j em men. asserting that he proud of; having been born a freeman. N. B. Myers then took the platform j, and made a telling speech. He raked j i up many damaging eharges against Whipper. Said that he had swindled the State in connection with the Land Commission, the Sinking Fund and in the legislative expenses. He assorted that he could prove by witnesses present that Attorney General Chamber 1 ain had paid Whipper five tb >usand lollars to be left out of the impeachuent resolutions. Upon being reques- ] ed to show his witnesses he rather veakened, but persisted in asserting he truth of the charge from his own j cnowledge. Alfred Williams made a short speech n favor of Grant and Wilson, after vhieh the meeting adjourned. It will be seen from the foregoing { hat the canvass is to be a hot one. If j ,he people are led to believe both the ( candidates in what they say of on# mother, is it not a good time to trot 3ut a liberal Republican- who can beat them both. Yours, A Greeleyite. SMALLS AM) WHIPPER ON THE STIMP. Mass Meeting at Larrtonville. A mass meeting of the citizens of Lawton township, was held on the 27th inst at Lawtonville, to levy a tax for .1 :?4: I school pnrposes?rainy me uuimuawvu of Grant and Wilson, and to elect del' ^ egates to the Republican county contention. The meeting was organized by electing Mr. Y. L. Scott to the :hair, and Mr. W. H. Jones Secretary. The chairman then stated the object of the meeting, and introduced Dr. B. L. Brisbane, who warmly advocated a tax of nine mills on the dollar. lie was followed by General Robert Small3 in opposition to the same, who in a forcible speech recommended a much smaller tax, the same amount levied last year. Capt. V. S. Scott and Kev. Seaborn Drayton, also followed in opposition to the high levy. The same was then agreed to as was levied last year, with but one dissenting voice, and that was he who advocated the tax of nine mills. The object of the meeting so far as educational purposes is concerned having been accomplished, the people next proceeded with the ratification of the nominees of the Philadelphia convention. Mr. S. J. Bamfifcld of Blouutville, was the first speaker introduced, who 3poke ably and eloquently of the object of the mtctiDg, being the ratification See., and was frequently applauded by his attentive hearers. Geu'l. Smalls was then introductd and spoke for more than two hours. J He dwelt for.-ome time in favor of the j presidential nominations. IIo then j branched off upon county matters and , dealt Mr. Whipper some very heavy blows, which made that gentleman show unmistakable signs of great dis- ! comfiture. During the whole of the Genl's speech, the people manifested their confidence i'u hiiu and their utter disregard of the assaults and vilupera tion of his enemies. They showed by the most unmistak able signs that their coniideuce iu him Was i^ishaken, and that the effort of his enemies to produce the contrary effect had proved futile. Mr. \V. J. Whipper was then introduced, who replied in a speech of great length. His argument was general and very elaborate. lie endeavored to answer some of the Genl's. arguments, though his answers were too vague and general to produce any satisfactory ef feet. lie made some very grav? charges agaiust the Beaufort del -gallon, stating that they were unfavoia hie to impeachment, and therefore in ^ sympathy with the ring. lie was an- j jwered by Mr. X. B. Myers, a member 1 >f the Beaufort delegation; who spurt d . no pains in shewing the utter falsity of every charge. lie r< viewed the course j if Mr. Whipper in the legislature dur- j ing the last two years, and proved con clu.-ively that (he) Mr. Whipper was Insincere iu his pretentions with re- \ ^ard to honesty aud integrity, that he | and he alone, as chairman of the com- i in it tee of ways aud means in the house, ! bad the opportunity of speaking : against certain measures in the house, which he charges as being corrupt, aDd charges the delegation vvith voting for. The argument of Mr. Myers was clear, pointed and forcible, he completely refuted aud explained every charge or insinuation that was made and proved lo the full satisfaction of the audieuce ; lhat they were made for political effect. ; Mr. Alfred Williams was next iutroluced, who in a few remarks advised lis hearers to support the nominees of ; .he Philadelphia convention. lie being ! .he last speaker, the meetiug theu proceeded to elect delegates to the county couventiou. after which they adjourned J feeling quite satisfied with their presmt state Senator, aud unwilling to liake any change. The meetiug was large aDd etithusiistic, composed of whites and colored, ; ibout nine or ten hundred persons leiug present. Yours, A. Subscriber. THE P. R. K. SCHEDULE. We fear some parties have been mis- | ed by depending upon the advertised jelledule of the railroad. We therefore republish our time table which is now rigidly adhered to. The mails are as dckle, inconstant and changeable as though they were femails: "Trains leave Port Itoyal every-once- j in-a-while; reach Yemassec if possible, connecting occasionally with a train on the S. & C. railroad. The whole under the direction of divine providence.'' Isham Henderson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, got $*>0,000 with his ' bride, a daughter of David F. Yaodell, and is described as "fat. fifty, and immensely wealthy." The happy couple left At once for Europe. Pere Hyacinthe is- engaged to be married to the daughter of Count von Edal, a Bavarian oobLman. Since Hyacinthe has forfeited his spiritual right to bear the title o?."pere," he is striving to establish a natural claim to it. f ?-?-? j i / THE CHAMPION OF PEACE, horace geetey to the national 1 democracy. 1 ? He Accepts flie Nomination upon a Platform "Tneonte stably Republican and Emphatically Democratic." The following is Mr. Greeley's letter accepting the Baltimore nomination, in reply to the letter of the committee to notify him thereof: New York, July 18. Qcntlanen .-?Upon mature deliberation it seen s fit that 1 should give to your letter of the lOtn instant some further and fuller response than the hasty, unpiemeditatfcd words iu which I acknowledged and accepted your nomination at otv meeting on the 12th ^ instant. That your conveution saw fit to accord its highest honor to one who had been prommently and pointedly opposed to your party in the earnest and somes angry controversies or me last, forty years is essentially noteworthy. That many of you would have preferred that the liberal Republicans should present another candidate for President and would more rapidly have united with us in the suport of Adams or Trumbull, Davis or Brown, is welt kuown. 1 owe my adoption at Baltimore wholly to the tact that 1 had already been nominated at Cincinnati, and that a concentration of forces upon any new man had been proved impracticable. Gratified as I am at your concurrence iu the Cincinnati nomination, and certain as 1 am that yuu would nut have thus concurred hadNyou not deemed me Upright and capable, I found nothing in the circumstance calculated to intiame vanity or nourish self-conceit. But that your convention saw fit, to reaffirm tne Cincinnati platform is to me a source of the profouudest satisfaction. That body was constrained to take this step by no party necessity, real or supposed. It might have accepted the candidates of the liberal Republicans upon grounds entirely its own, x>r it might have presented them*as the first Whig convention did liarrisou and Tyler, without adopting any platform whatever. That it chose to plant itself deliberate ly, by a vote nearly nuanimous, upon the fullest and clearest enunciation of principles w inch are at once iucontestably Republican and empbaticai'y Democratic, gives trustworthy assurance that a utw and more auspicious era is' dawning upon our long distracted country. Some of the best yeais and best efforts of my life were devoted to a struggle against chattle slavery, a struggle none the less eainest and arduous because respect lor constitutional objections constrained me to act lor the most part ou the defensive in resistance to the diffusion, rather than iu direct efforts for the ^ extinction of human bondage. Throughout most of these years my vision was uucheered, my exertions were rarely animated by even so much as a hope that 1 should live to see my country peopled by fieemen alone. The affirmance by your couveDtiou of the Cincinnati platform is a must conclusive proof that not mtrely is slavery ab dished, but that i's spirit is extinct; that dtSpile the protests of a respectable, but isolated, tew. there remains among us no parly and no formidable interest which legrets the oveithiowr or disire8the rc-iStablishineut of human bondage, whether in letter or in* spirit. 1 am thereby justified in my hope and trust that the tiist Century of American independence will not close before the grand elemental truths on which its rightfulness was based by .JeiteiSou and the Continental CoDgiess of 1770 will no longer be regaided as glittering gt neraiiiies, but win have hi come the universally acct pled and fiouoitd Inundations of our political fabric. I demand the prompt application of those pnnciples to our txiaiiug condition. HaviDg done what I could for the complete emancipation of the blacks,! now insist on the full enfranchisement o; all my while lountrjrueu. L? i none say that the ban has just b? tu itmoved fioiu all but a tew trundled elderly ^ gentlemen, io whom eligibility to ? ftice 1 can be of Utile cons- queuce. Aly view contemplates not ihe buudrids proscribed. but the minions woo are denied the right to be i uled and represented by uitii ol I heir own Uuleltered choice. Pro8ctiptiun were absurd if thise did uot wish to tlect the very iiii'U whom they are forbidden to chtH.se. I have a profound regard for the people of ibat purt of New Eugland wherein I was burn, iu whose common schools [ was taught. 1 rank no people above theoi m intelligence, capacity and moral worth; but while they no many things well, and some admirably. there is one thing they cannot safely or wisely undertake, and that is the selection t'- r States r< mote from and unlike their own, of the persons by w hom these Slates shall be represented in Congress. It they could do this to good purpose, then liepublicau institutions are unfit and anstoeiacy' the ouly true political system. Yet, what have we recently wituessed? Z. If. Vance, the urqutstioued choice of o I., mvtiorit v nf Lhe iirt'teilL Letfis u, J , O lature of North Caroliua, a niajoiity A backed by a majority of the people who voUd at its election, refused the ecat iu the Federal Senate to which he was chosen, and the Legislature thus constrained to choose another in his place or leave the State unrepresented lor) eat 8. The votes of New England thus deprived North (Jaroliua of the Senator of her choice, and compelled her to send another in her stead?another who in our late contest was, like Vance, a rehel, and a fighting rebel, but bad not s-rved in Congress before the war as Vance bad, though the latter remained faithful to the Union till after the close of his term. I protest against the disfranchisement of a - ? ? -f - Mate, presumptively 01 a uumw ui .States. on ground so narrow and technical as this. The fact that the same Senate which refused his seat proceeded to remove his disabilities after that seat bad been filled by another, only serves to place in a stronger light the indignity to North Carolina, and the arbitrary, capricious tyranny which dictated it. I thank you, gentlemen, that my name is to be conspicuously associated A with yours in a determined effort to ^ render amnesty complete and universal in spirit as well as in letter.- Even defeat in such a cause would leave no Ml sting, while triumph would rank with' r those victories which no biood reddens, H and which evoke no tears but those of HI gratitude and joy. Gentlemen, your platform, which is also mine, assures me that Democracy is not henceforth to stand for one thing and Republicanism for another;but these term^are to mean in politior jflj