Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

.nut* ?? iwK-- ? ran i i ?'? i ?ii .i "in I ran KKOWDI: coi/R?en. ?y K ir; rr ai. 'SMITH &15<r>7 wniHt^iiiv, ?ai- o. THURSDAY, 8EPTEMBEII 18, 18Y0. CsiV" R>r subscription, $1.51) ?cr o un ION, strictly in enhance; for six months, 75 ce/i/?. B?LY" Advertisements inserted at one dollar per square of one inch or less for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. ? R??>" Obituary Notices exceeding five lines, IVibubes of Respect, Communications of a per sonal character, when admissable, and Announce - ment? of Candidates will be charged for as adver tisement?. ?Sf Job Printing neatly and cheaply executed. ftc?tu Necessity compels tts to adhere strictly to the requirements of Cash Payments, Jay Gould, of Now York, has sent n second Avo thousand dollars to the Memphis yellow fevyr sufferers. Tho Massachusetts Grcoubaokors havo noml uatcd Qen. Bcuj. F. Butler for Governor and Wendell Phillips for Lieutenant Governor. This is a nie? ''kettle of fish." Butler was a great Jeff Davis man lu 18(10, aud Phillips wus the leader of the abolitionists! --??? . ?- . - Tho morals of tho officeholders of Georgia aro being put to tho test. Comptroller General Goldsmith hau, through nrtioles of impeachment, boen placed on trial for high erinn.'-; ami mis demeanors boforo tho Senate of the Stato. Tho Stato Treasurer, Reufroe, admits that the interest received on Stato funds deposited by him iu bnnk, mnountiug to over forty thousand dollars, has been divided between his sureties and himself! How is South Carolina gcttiug along lu respect to this question of interest? Tho Republicans of New York havo nominated Hon. A. B. Cornell for Governor of that Stato. Tho nomination is said to bc a weak ono. The Democratic ('(invention whioh assembled a wcok later, was not harmonious. Tho Tilden men were for ro-nominating Gov. Robinson. Tho Tammany men woro for anybody else Finally, the Tammany mcu, headed by John Kelly, bolted, and nominated Kelly for Governor. The regular Democrats nominated Governor Robinson, and wc are glad there ii; a probability of his ro-clcotiou. The Tammany men uro oorrnpt, and bolong to thc "rule or ruin" parly. Wo hopo Mr. Tilden will sit down on them most successfully. Ad gov College. In addition lo the regular curriculum of this institution a commercial and scientific courso bas bcon avranged, consisting of instruction in English lauguagc and litcratuc, book-keeping, history, mathematics, natural science, modern languages and civil engineering. Students who wish to prepare specially for business and engi neering are allowed to lake this course instead of tho classical. - - ? ? -- The Stock Law Continues to excite publio inlercsl in our County. Al a meeting held in Pulaski Town ship nc understand that an almost unanimous vote was polled against its adopt ion. A meeting has also been held at Litllo Uiver in While Water Township, but we huvo not heard what notion was taken. Wo feel suro that a largo majority of the citizens of K co wee, Chat uga, Whilo Water and Pulaski Townships, and per haps also of Tugaloo Township will oppose any chango in tho present law, and further that any effort to extend thc law over thc whole County will bo defeatod. On thc other hand, Scueoa and Conlro Townships, with tho lower portions of Wagoner aud Tugnloo, will doubtless favor tho law by a majority vote. Wc arc thcroforc Balisficd that if Ibo law is adopted iu any pan of this County it will be only bolow some lino agreed on without regard to Townships. We cannot oxpect tho upper part of tho County to favor it at this time, ns tho cultivated land boars a small proportion lo tho woodland and tho pasturage Micro is rich and lusting. Spaco forbids our further discussion of this matter in this issue. Our renders will uot forget tho mass meeting called on Saturday, tho 27th instant, nt tho Court House, to discuss tho subject. Idle Talk. Tho Bible says: "Lot your communication bo yea, yen, nay, nay; for whatever is moro than these cometh of evil." This is evidently not to bo understood literally, for such a construction would forbid thc preaching of tho word of lifo and all intorcourso botwoon man and man. Nevertheless, there is a lesson of wisdom in the instruotion, which all would do well to bear in mind and practico in life, never to permit live tonguo to say any thing likoly to produce discord or troublo. A similar expression is found in Proverbs: "Whoso koopcth his month and his tonguo, hoopeth his soul from troublo." Again Jamos says: "Kvon so tho tongue is a little member nod boastoth groat things. Behold how grent a matter a little fire kindloth And tho tonguo is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is tho tonguo omong our membors, that it defile th tho whole body, and sotteth on Uro tho courso of munro; nnd it is sot on Uro of hell." While all else cnn bo tamed, "tho tonguo no man oan tame, nnd it is an unruly ovil, full of deadly poison." Tho power and influonco of tho tonguo oan host bo estimated by persons who have nt-? tempted to abandon tho habit of swearing or using by-words. Long after they aro nblo to control their utterances, oaths will swoop through their minds in spite of evory offert to provont them. It is only by persistently sup pressing wiokod expressions for n long timo that finally they disappear from tho thoughts nnd cease to troublo us. If, however, wo yiold to the thoughts and utter thom with tho -.tonguo, tho habit cnn novor bo overcome ft is, howovor, tho influonco of tho tonguo ns loading mon to commit cri mo to whioh wo spooially direct attention. Crime of all kinds abounds and oven homicide has become of common ocourronco. There must bo a reason for this, ns cduoatior, civilization and Chris', tinnily, nil poaoo bearing in their effoots, aro becoming annually moro diffused. One ronson is evidently the pernicious prnctioe of carrying ooncoaled weapons. Anothor is porheps tho demoralization resulting from the ,lato civil war and the social revolution flowing ,frora lt.. .But y/o think nnothor and the most fruitful cause is, the eotnpion practico of mon niaking threat? pf what (hoy would do under ?ertain etroumstnncee. ft ia of every doy .poourrenco to hear men say, if a person sjiould treat mo thus nod so, I would kill him, or if a man should say thia pr that ,to me I would ?hoot him down. These idlo, not to tay sin ful oiprossions, corrupt tho heart and produeo tn tho mind tv flxod determination to kill and murdor uudor certain circumstances, long beforo tho opportunity to carry out that purposo, if ever, occurs. It Is nu old adago and withal true, that evil communications oorrupt good morals, nnd their influence, when long iodulgod, invariably leads to crime. Tbo same .result, iu a loss degroo, flows from tho indulgence of wicked thoughts. It is in this way atouo that wo can account for great oriinos, suddenly committed, by men whose moral walk before tho world is exemplary. Tho heart has bicorne corrupt and of a sudden its long pout up wickedness takos form and substance. Mon who say tboy would kill a man for this or that not or affront not only corrupt tho heart, but when tho oonlingenoy arrises, prido presses thom on to fulfil the boasting of the tongue, and they aro thus moved to tho aol by a doublo incentive. Wo believe half tho murders committed thcbo days aro duo to n premeditated purposo to kill for certain affronts, nud the over ready pistol only carries out this purposo. Kvory man should bo oareful of his tonguo and of bis thoughts, for they oorrupt tho source of ovory good sentiment and notion. " ' -.-* ? THE BRYCE MURDER, ' Wo aro sorry to soo tho New York Herald, which, in its way, has at timos dono good service to tho people oi thu South, lending Ibo aid of its circulation mid influouco to the dissemination of a gross calumny affecting tho good uiinto of South Carolina. It puts down tho murder of Alexander Bryce, which occurred at Walhalla on tho 2Gth of August ns 'an affair bearing very distinctly tho Ynzoo stamp,' and adds that 'no mention whatever has boon made ol Bryce's assassi nation in tho loenl press of South Carolina.' These statements aro simply untrue, in spirit and in fact. Bryce, it is truo, wns n Repub lican; but polities hud absolutely nothing to do with his assassination. Senator Conkling is also a Republican, mid was recently tho victim ol a shot gun tragedy in Rhode Island; but shall wo tboreforo trout tho ?tali wurt Hoscoc as a political martyr and conti plain that thc Argusioycd Herald bas made 'no mention whntovor' of his fate? Tho truth is that tho murder of Bryco occurred in ano of the remote mountain countios of tho Stato. Tho News and Courier publishod tho facts, and all tho facts,, connected with tho crime ns ?ooo as they could bo obtained. Our cotcmpnrarics of 'tho local press of South Carolina,' did likewise; und nobody in this Stato, whether Democrat or Republican, has ever suggested that the murder had a politi cal motive. Wo hopo tito Herald will havo thc manliness to redress tho wrong it lins hastily dono to South Carolina*" Wo clip tho above from tho Charleston News and Courier, and not only ngrco with that journal that tho article rcforrod to is slanderous, but further, that it is false in every particular so far as it reflects on tho poople of this section or tho local pross of the State. Our first issuo went to press io a few hours after tho jury of inquest returned, and we inserted as full a notice ns possible of tho assassination of Bryce, beading our article ''A Foul Crimo Committod," "Alexander Bryco, Jr., Assassinated." In that nrliclo its much or moro wits said of tho killing of j Bryce than it is usual for tho pross of this Stato to publish, as comment on Buch orioios, in view of (hoir judicial investigation, is always withheld. Notwithstanding this custom, wo in our sooir.d issuo, after .ho notice rofcrrcd to and beforo wa saw thc Herald article, published a two column arti olo under tho head "Assassination." closing it with thc full testimony taken by tho Acting Ooronor. That nrticlo condemns thc killing of Bryce in tho strongest terms nnd calls on all good citizons to uso every effort to discover and bring to punishment tho perpetrators of j tho crime Wo say, then, without font- of contradiction, bat moro has been enid by this journal about ho murder of Bryco and tho act hus icon moro forcibly com me ni cd on nnd con? loomed than any other case of homicide that iver occurrod in this section. Wo notice, too, 'dint our exchanges havo published about all tho facts known at tho time But this is not all. Much has boen dono since tho inquest by our people. In a few days after tho tragedy a petition was for warded to tho Oovornor, signed by somo of | thc best citizens of our town nnd neighbor., hood, chiefly Domoorats, asking that a reward bo offered for tho arrost of tho parties charged with tho crime In a fow days afterwards, :bo Sheriff, a Democrat, reported tho killing officially to tho Oovornor. In thejmountimo, without waiting for a reward to bc offered, jur Sheriff, with two of our citizons crossed into Georgia, scoured tho aid of tho Sheriff of Rabun County and another fearlofs oitizon and nt night arrested two of tho partios charged in tho warrant and loaming tho jail thora watt inseeuro. brought them to Walhalla, whoro they aro now confined. Since then another party has been arrested in Georgia and is now in our jail; so that out of eight, mimos in tho warrant scvon have boen arrested and lodgod in jail to await their trial. Wo aro in for tr. >d that a brother of tho deceased paid to the partios making tho last arrest a small rownrd. Wo maintain that these facts provo greater oxortions to arrost tho persons charged with killing Bryco than cnn bo shown in tho case of any homicide that over occurred hero. Tho arrost of tho parties in Georgia was not a binding duly on our Sherill' and bringing thom hero without a requisition, though under tho circumstances excusable, was perhaps a technical violation of tho law. In addition to these facts, sinoo tho inquest, a large amount of testimony lins been gath0 orod up, and thoro aro now ovor thirty wit nesses bound over on tho part of tho State. Our pcoplo have acted in tho mattet ns promptly and energetically ns they could hove neted lind tho host man or tho bost Domoornt in tho Stato boen assassinated. It is no.t our provinco to spoak of thoforcoof tho testimony against any of tho partios ohargod, nov of J thoir guilt or innocence, but having noto 1 so promptly and onorgotioally us our pooplo havo done in this caso, it is bard to soo a journal of snob oxtonsivo circulation and influen?ons tho Now York Herald so mis representing our Stato. We havo always admired the independent course of that groat journal, and our pooplo owo it muoh for its fairness in the campaign of 1870. Wo hope, thoroforo, with the News and Coxtricr, that it will hare tho manliness to oorroot a stato . mont derogatory to our pooplo into which it li?i?i doubtless been lcd by some Radical ina I :pntop,t. --.??.< ?-i ? minn ii i n-i ? ,.i, ,,m We publish elsewhere a letter from Greop 1 ville, S. 0., to Hio Iowa Stat? Register, and also an editorial from the samo journal on the Bryce murder, that our people may see how publio opinion is manufactured nt tho North and reconciliation between tho sec tions is rendered impossible. It would be difficult to conceive a moro bitter, and nt tho samo timo a more falso and slanderous attack on our people, than this editorial coolanie. Tho facts and circumstances connected with tho murder are in the main correctly' stated, but the other atatomonts made In tho letter contain only enough of truth to give thom plausibility. It is not true that Bryco was hounded down by tho Democratic party and prossod to the wnll until bo gavo up his property In Walhalla, and retired to the mountains. On the contrnry, Drycc sold his househunt! lot in Walhalla nt privato salo to pay his debts, and wo feel sure that no man has boon treated more leniently by bil credi tors than Bryce, ns thoro were judgments open against bim from ten tu fifteen years old, under which his property could hnvo boon sold at any timo. .Still, be wat indulgod by his creditors, and finally, of his own accord, sold bis properly. WbDo it is (ruo ho wus tried and convicted for getting possession of tho Auditor's books, yet ho remained In prison only a eliot t tinto and finally the verdict io tho cuso was s. , aside by a Democratic Supromo Court on thc ground that tho nut was not larceny in law. Tho editor in bis comments goes farther than his correspondent, cutting right und left and mokine; tho grossest charges against our poople, showing anything but a spirit of justice and truth, much less of reconciliation. Both charge this murder to tho Domooratio party and seek to make of it political capital, lu roply, we do not boliovo thoro is a Repub lican in this county, who in his heart believes tho killing of Bryco had any connection with polities. In the most exciting periods of our political history Bryco has canvassed this county, (four-fifths of its population hoing white Democrats,) and addressed with ns and other speakers publio mooting* without fear or molestation. Ile thou traveled over tho County by night or day in perfeot security, organizing and holding his mcotings when and where he plcnscd, and we do not romcm ? ber to have crer board a Democrat intimate a threat against bis life. How preposterous to claim that bis death was a political murder at a timo when broken in fortune, with no political feeling io tho unnnty, ho bad for several years withdrawn from office and political strife and was rarely seen away from home! His lust trouble was with bis political friends, who arrested billi for violation of tho liquor laws, and his release was tho rc<ult of tho general amnesty extended by President Hayes for past offences. Besides thoso (nets, wo us.?ert, without fear of contradiction, that thcro is no more tole rant people, than io this county. Publishing a paper for ten years, wo have never lb* dulged in personal abuso of any mah Lccaueo of his political views. Nur have our people been otherwise, fur tome years back when an effort was made, for reasons not considered laudable by cur pocple, to hnvo Bryce ro moved as post master at Walhalla, tho best Democrats of our tuwu signed a petition ad verse to bis removal and bo was retained. The idea that tv man is a Republican boro at tho risk of his lifo, is both falso and absurd. Our peoplo rarely know now ur inquire about tho political views cf men. A brother of the deceased lives in our town, owns considera ble property, keeps a market and though a known Republican, be is patronized by tho Democrats of this town and neighborhood wi'Jn ut regard to his politics. No man cnn dony this fact, for it is susceptible of daily proof. Nor can any man say that thc life o? a Republican is loss securo boro than that ol a Domocrat, for polities is rarely montioncd. Norean any man claim truthfully that the Democrats of this county havo not used every exertion to secure tho arrest uf (he parties charged with killing Bryco or in do* veloping tho testimony. Wo know thc Register docs not want to boiievo this, and will not bclievo it, HO wo invito him to send down a correspondent tu our next Cuurt, te be held on thc first Mondny in October, and seo thc ability mid ooorgy with which out Democratic Solicitor will discharge his duties, and tho fuirnoes with which a Dcmoaratic Judge in South Carolina will bold tho scales of justico. Ho need navo no fears, for wc will assuro him n return homo safe from Democratic bullets, notwithstanding bis ba?< slanders of our people. Inf conclusion, wo will say that tho onlj oyo witness to tho murdor of Bryco wai Josse F. Cox, a Republican nnd brother-in law of thc deceased. Ho stated on his oxami nation nt tho inquest ss follows: "I don' know that I know who they were," meaning the two parties who did tho killing. Tin quostion was not pressod by tho Coroner fo satisfactory reasons, and since tho ?tiques Mr. Cox bas stated to different parties, UH WI aro reliably informed, that ho thinks h recognized the partios, and if so, they ar men who havo nover been considered Demo orals. 'This fact will doubtloss be brough out at our Court, an woll as thc reason wdiy th names of ibo parties wore not made know at tho inquest. Lot tho Iowa State Registe tako this and smoke it in its political pipo. Personally wo havo no feeling in thi matter further than that justico bo done nn that our people may bo vindicated. Wc ba known Bryco many years, had often repri eonled him as his attornoy in court, tin though differing in polities, wo never lind, I our recollection, an angry word or altorcatie with bim. Wo havo known his father fro our earliest recollection. Ho has al wa; boon rogardod ns nn honest man, and wi onco tho most popular man in his noighbo hood. Notwithstanding bo is a Ropublica bo still has tho good will of our poople ar wo sympathize with him in this sad cnlamil which has befallen him in his old ago, ns wc as in ovory effort to arrest and bring to pui ishmcnt tho perpetrators of this baso orim ATLANTA, September ll.-After Ihroo wed of investigation of thc official conduct of ft. \ Rcnfroo, Treasurer of the Slato of Georgia, special committee of tho House of Representi lives to day reported resolutions that ho be onoo impeached for high crimes and misdomcai ora. Ii is olaimod that Treasurer Kcnfroo hi boen drawing interest on tho publio mono, ?Tho resolutions wore postponed ono week, bi (hoy will probably bo adopted. ? V?>M:I. vnon A<?WA oft TIBE BRYCE HO ITU CftDE. Manufacturing Political Capital. Wo olip tho following lotter, writton from Greenville, S. C., on the Bryoo murder, from the Iowu State Register, of tho 12th instant, and the comments of tho editor of that jour nal thereon? URBENVILLE, S. G., August 29.-Editor of the Iowa State Register: 1 would Uko to in form you of the most cowardly and cold? blooded murder over perpetrated in this coun try. It was perpetrated on tho person of Aleinudor Bryoo, Jr., on tho night of the 25th of August, 1870. Tho particulars of this unfortunate affair nro as follows: A. Bryco, Jr., wns living about ton milos from Wulhalla, ou n farm. On thc night of tho 25th, about ono hour after dark, ho was at J. F. Cox's bouse, which was eituatod about ono hundred yards from bis own homo, on the sumo plano. As ho wont to go out of tho house to return homo with Cox (his brother in-law), thoy discovered somothing in n cotton patch nour by, and supposing it to bo an uni* mal of somo kind, thoy thought thoy would at onco got it out. Thoy followodjit u piece, 'nt discovered it to bo somo men. As Bryco ad 0 watermelon patch jost abend, thoy .bought tho partios woro going to steal water molona, so thoy followed thom to tho patch. Cox was in advnnco of Bryoo about twooty steps. Cos discovered two mon in tho wutor* melon.patch, who at once draw their guus on him. Ho asked thom who 'hoy were. They enid, "you know who wo nu." "Who ia with you?" "Josso Cox." Tho largest man then stepped to tho smalloat man and gavo him a pistol nnd said: "1 will speak and speak now," and fired his riflo ut Bryco. Bryco was run 11 i og by thia limo. Timothee mun ran around Cox and chased Bryco within a hundred yards of his house. When in niuo feet of him ho fired his shot gun, thc contents enter ing Bryco's buck. Bryco dropped dead in stantly. Tho partios ran off. Tho moon was at this timo shining bright. Tho parties who did tho shooting returned after tho moon had got so low that they could not bc seen and ato melons within twenty feet of the oorpsc. No ono was with thc corpso nt this timo but thc wile und sister of ibo deceased. Ho was shot in three places. That awful night will long bo remembered by that family. Mr. Editor, I havo given you tho corrcot statement of this terrible a ila ir at I get it from thc relatives of tho decoasod who were there. Tho Republicans of Oconco County will hold tho Domoorutio party to a strict account ut tho bar of justice lor this foul crime. Alexander Bryce. Jr., has alwnys been a loading Republican of that county. Ho was postmaster ut Walhalla for about eight years, until 187G, when, it will bo rem em bei ed, that ho was appointed Auditor of that county by ?OV. Chamberlain. There being a contest between the two parties for power, thc Demo crats refused to give tho books to Bryco, so Bryco's friends managed to get tho books from tho offico and turned thom over to him. Thc Democratic party determined to carry their puiut, prosecuted Bryco for being in posses* sion of tho books, Judge Couk presiding on that occasion. Of course Bryco was convicted and sent to prison for ono your. Ho was at that limo postmaster. It was very important lo get him out of thc postoflicc. However, a lillie better feeling prevailed in tho breast of T. H. Cook, who ?tad him liberated in a few days. Aller ho was put iii prison thc pro ceedings of this case went up to thc Supremo Court of this Stato, and they decided that tho proceedings wore illegal, au that ended that matter. ' They managed to got him out of tho postofHco. Thon tho Democratic party not satisfied willi that, hounded him down, nnd pressed him to tho wall. So he gave up thc property ho held in that town, Walhalla, and quietly returned to a little homo in thc mountains on tho waters of Changa, und went to work on ibo farm mid no lungor took part in public matters. And now how terrible it is to think that ho has been murdered in his own yard without u particle of justification or warning. Mr. Bryce was a friend of mine. Ile hud his faults as woll as other men, and yet iio lind a heart to bo kind and generous to all und was open and frank. A man could always know where to find him in politics or el.se iv here. Ho lind always boon a radical supporter to tho Republican party, and ho received many messages that ho would bo killed by his Democratic oncmics. Ho also received ku-klux m?ticos that if ho was not gone from tho county within ton days ho would bo six feet undor tho gronnd. From cowardice or something olso they did not carry it out nt that time But now ho is killed. Tho Democratic poper nt Walhalla said it was supposed to bo of a local nature I must say that I don't hardly believe that tho leading Democrats of Hint county told any ono of their friends to kill Bryco at this timo. But I (hink even those parties thought that (boro was no harm in killing a Radical, as they call him. und that if tho perpetrators of it wcro brought to justice, they would hnvo a Democratic jury und judgo, and that thoy would got clear of tho ohargo. Thia senti ment of thoughts emboldened these assassins to commit this crime. Wo will soc, in this caso, whether juslico will bo renohod by tho party now in power. A FRIEND OF BRYCE. ANOTHER 1) K M oe it AT IC ML'KOEU. Again the Denncratio party lins stained its If ands with thc blood of murder fm- political gain, nnd again tho American nation is dis graced by tho murdor of ono of its citizens for daring lo bo n Ropublicnn. This timo it is not in Mississippi, but in South Carolina, nnd tho victim is a prominent Republican named Alexander Bryce, who happened to bo personally known to tho editor of tho State Register, as ho was a subscriber to this pnpor, and had corresponded with it on various per sonal matters. For tho past tbreo or four years ho and his neighboring Republicans havo sont to tho Register oQiuo to got their tickets printed. Wo hnvo also printed for thom hand bills and circulars fur their Repub lican meetings and organizations. From this correspondonco and business wo carno to know this man, and this your wc havo quito a campaign club of subscribers to tho Jtcgistcr in tho neighborhood in which ho lived, and where ho was killed. Noarly every month wo havo lind letters from sonio ono of this noblo Ropublicnn band, holding on to tho faith at tho pori) of their lives, asking for nnsist tnnco or ndvice. Tho terrorism exercised over thom has long boon known to us, and our knowledge of tho actual situation, ns gained from thom, and from other Republi oans in other portions of tho South, where wo hnvo built up good lists of subscribers, has beon in large dogrco tho propelling causo for our implacable stulwurtism und for our un compromising hostility to tho treachery nnd oowardico of tho Southern Policy by which President Hayes surrendered these noble mon to tho torrorism of tho Dcmooriitio and ox rebel ( lemont of tho South. So long ns wo know positively of our < l knowledge what a hell tho So.uh was to a. mun daring to be a Republican now, or guilty of not having boon a bitter rebel during ibo war, wo e mid not assent to tho oowardico of abandoning such Ropublioans, and linking hands with their persecutors nnd murdoroi-R, even if asked to do it by a so-called Ropublicnn ProH?dont. 'Ibis lins boon no now thing to us, tho knowledge of tho real situation in tho South. Wo lia vc had our information constantly, nnd from first hnnds and undoubted sources. Wo have boen told by thia noblo littlo band of Republicans in Ooonoo County, South Caro lina, who found in tho Register the paper that they thought best intorprotod tho duty of the Re pu bl ie au party und tho duty of tho Government, that they bad to faoo death ?tacit' to be a Republican there. Wo had no doubt that this was so, although such a thing was donied by tho Democratic pnrty, and indifferently pooh-poohed in tho Wbito Ilouao itself. Now nil that thoy said ns to thie charge bas been moro than confirmed. At tho timo President Hayes had Wade Hampton, tho ebie! tyrant ol South Carolina, and tho original inventor of tho Mississippi or murder plan in politics, invltod to Wash ington, and was feasting and toasting bim nt tho White Ilouao, one af tho Republicans iii Ooonco County, of Hampton's own State, wroto us, asking what in tho name of Cod it mount, nnd asking if all manhood and grati tude had died out of tho breasts of Republi cans in tho North. What our reply was, tho pooplo who read tho Register in tho days when oven Republican conventions wore being asked to ondorso thc cowardice and tho orimo of tho policy will ull remember. Tho Republican writing us, said that that polioy would bo taken by Southern Democrats as a warrant for tho murder of Ropublicaus, and for immunity from punishment for tho orime. No wonder that thoy thought so- sinco not only tho Polioy itself was proclaimed, but was immediately followed up by tho appoints ment of Southern Democrats and ox -robols to controlling offices in Southern Courts. So wo may not bclio tho fnct if wo would. Tho so-called Southern Polioy, which betrayed thu cowardice of tho administration, is in part re spoil si ble with tho De moen tie party of tho South for tho Domoorntie bullet that was sent through the heart ol' Dixon in Mitsisippi, and for tho ballot that has been sent to tho heart of Bryce in South Carolina. Lamar, of Mississippi, wdio was a counsellor of Hayos ju tho Polioy ondorses tho murdor of Dixon in bis own Stato, and Hampton, another counsellor of tho Polioy, will endorso tho murder of Bryce in bis Stato. It is n terrible harvest that is being reaped from Southern crimea and Nortborn cowardice just now. Tho awful facts in tho Bryce on?o, ns wo get thom, aro told in our lettor from tho scene, published to-day. In brief, thoy aro these: Tho assassination occurred near tho rosulcnco of tho deceased, while bo was on his way from a neighbor's house fi bis own borne, on tho night of tho 25th of August last. A lot to tho Register, that wo publish elsewhere, will give the details, lt will bo soon that Bryce was n prominent Republican and a Dative of South Carolina. Ho served in tho Logiest uro from IMS until 1871, and was afterwards County Treasurer of Ooonoo County. His father was ono of tho few Union men in South Carolina during tho war, and in 18G8 tho deceased openly allied himself with ibo Republican party. It ia known hero that Bryce entered upon the reorganization of the Republican pnrty in Iiis county several weeks since, mid learning his influence in tho oampiiign of 1880, the Bourbon leadors concluded to rid tho State of bis prcaonco by the customary method ns is usual in such cases. Tho Coroner's jury rendered a verdict that the deceased cunio to bis death from gun shot wounds nt tho hands of parlies to them unknown. No mention whatever bas been mudo of Bryco a assassination in tho local press of South Carolina or in tho Associated Pres1* dispatches from that State, the Demo? eratic leaders evidently desiring to keep tho matter quiet pending tho approaching elec tions in tho North and Wost. But now tho facts aro mudo public, and the Democratic party must bo inado lo fuco them. We hopo to recoivo in a few days still further particu lars of this terrible crime, as given by people residing at tho sccno of it. |CoRltE81'ONDENCK OK TUB KEOH'KB COURIER.] LETTER FROM CHARLESTON. CHARLESTON, S. C., September 16, 1879. Messrs. Editors: Sinco my lnet lotter a change hits come over thc aspect of things in that portion ol our city where che colton and rico business goes on. Instead of tho doll inactivity of tho summer months, ono now hears tho roll of colton drays moving along tho streets, nnd sees factors and clerks mov ing about with nn air of business, instead of sitting down in idleness to take caro of an office. No moro doing nothing now, no moro slow walking, in short, to uso n term of art, no moro '.loafing." Thc rice crop is faid to bo woll up in time, and this staple is coming in actively. Cot ton is two or three weeks behind hand, but it bas begun to como in quito briskly, tho esti mated receipts averaging eight hundred or nine hundred bales per day. Tho rccoipts will increaso rapidly, and a heavy business for the season jost opening is expected. Thc jobbers reaped a harvest by thc excursion of week before lust. Another thing that looks like lifo in our old city, and it is one of our latest sensations, is tho telephone. A company lins recently put it in operation, and it is found to bo n satisfactory and delightful convenience. It is worked in this way; For tho reasonable charge of $3 per month ibo company sots up an instrument in your office; nt tho santo (?mu also giving you a list of all tho offices or houses which have subscribed to it. If you wish to talk lo anybody in any ono of those offices, you give a signal on ibo instrument, which is beard at tho main office. From tho main offico they ask you what you want. You say you want to talk to Mr. Smith, nt such a place. Thoy call Mr. Smith nt his offico by a signal, and connecting your wiro with his at thc main offico, they tell you to go ahead and talk. Then you and ho talk to cacti other, perhaps four, six or twclvo blocks apart, and w hen you aro dono talking you toll thom ot tho main office and tho wires aro again disconnected. At your instrument you boar tho talking distinctly, but it cannot be board at tho main offico, so that you secuto secrecy. Having to connect with so many offices of cou rpo takes n groat many wires, which givo to tho stroots where thoy run a most livoly and business Uko appearance, especially Fast Bay, whero tho telegraph poled already Rapport thirty or forty wires, and aro arranged to receive as many more. This is indeed an age of marvels and wo seem to bo conquering botli time and space. A man may Icavo Now York nt 10 o'clock in Hie morn ing and be in Charleston at li.20 P. M. Mic next day, just about thirty-two hours or a littlo more. Wo hail tho new fast schedule on (bo Green ville and Columbia Kai I road. It looks like, an appreciation of tho business neccssilies ot tho times, and Charleston needs every such moans of a closer connection with tho rest of tho Slate, (ion. Conner is nu nblo lawyer, a brave soldier, and has dono his Stato invaluable service at tho cost to himself of great sacrifices. Let us wish him all success in his management of tho road as rcoeivor. Tho great lo pi o noy/ ls thc election, 'i'll ero is an excited disputo as to tho powers of (he City Domocratio Kxcoutivo Committee, and also tin anxious discussion as lo the conduct of the ..... . . c ILL_i_J.L*?-JJ.1-i. i-jj-j_i-IBWBB i.' campaign ia the mador of registration, nomina tion of candidates, &o. Tho majority of tho eommitteo seem disposed to carry things with a high hand. Al a meeting last night thoy pro posed to take the sense of tho party on tho question whether tho nomination should ho by primary election or by a convention of the party, by submitting to a vote. Hut thoy fought against a registration preparatory to this vote? and it may well be asked, ns tho minority did ask, how are thoy going to get tho senso of tho party without knowing what tho party ia? It must bo seen that lu so large and so mixed a community as this a vote taken promiscu ously, without some form of registration (o determino who shall be entitled to volo, would not express tho will of tho party, but would be liable to all sorts of outside influences, os any mau could swear ho was a Democrat and so vote. The way matters now stand the disf integration of tho party ls threatened, but all good Democrats will work against an ovenl sp, deplorable. No d?duite general action has been taken yet. Tho friends of tho various candi-, dates have been working diligently, but Ileana not yot bo said who Will receive thc party nomi' naiion, or whether that nomination will dot?r~ mine the election, We have been having Very cool and pleasant weather lately, but it is not well to return to Charleston before tho end of September, and many of our people arc still away. _I?? I ? DUUNSON, S. C., Soplembnr H.--I am tn-, formed that quite a sad accident occurred thia afternoon nt Capt. W. A, Kiley's school house, about four or Ave miles distant from this place? A fow of tho boys remained itt tho school house after Capt. Riley had dismissed and left for home. Two of tho boys, Willie Harvey and Ransford Griffin, goi into an affray which re sulted in tho latter | citing struck In the head with a baso ball bat, fracturing tho skull and causing death in about two hours. Thc dc* ceased is u son of II. D. (?riH'm, railroad agent atCampbctton. Eoth boys wcro about sixteen years old and from good families. It ls quite, evident that tho lick Was much harder than in tended and tho killing puroly ucoidental, as thc boys had alway? been friendly, and tho dcopest sympathy ls felt for all parties concerned, ST. LOUIS, September 15.-Domcstio trouble crazed Mrs. Honesta!, of Shawnee, Jackson County, and sho killed two of her children with morphine and dosed herself? Death not resulting she then attempted to hang herself, but was discovered before lifo was extinct and was out down. Subscribo for Ibo KKOWKH Coren:?. NOTICE THIS. ALL persons indebted lo HARI'KR & PHILLIPS,. T. HAUPKR & SON. or to T. lL\?r&R In dividually, aro hereby notified that their notes mid accounts must of necessity bo settled. We have suffered ourselves sued and once sold out. and now to avoid n repetition and pay our debts wc aro compelled (omnko cotleolions, and there fore hope that those persons who have been so liberally accommodated and indulged from year lo year, will nt once heed this last notice and save cost. Wo will pay four cents por pound for seed cotton and fifteen cents for lint cotton delivered in time. Now will you do it? If not you cammi blame us for thc next step. T. HARPER. September 18, 1870 44-2t ADMINISTRATOR'S SALEp BY leave of the Probafo Court I will sell lo? Die highest bidder, nt I he Into residence of Moses Cantrell, deceased, on FRIDAY', thc 3d day of October, 1870, thc PERSONAL ESTATK of said deceased, consisting of ) Horse, 0 Cattle, 20 Sheep, 21 Hogs, A one-horse Wagon, Man's Saddle, Sido Saddle, Loom, Reel and Spinning Wheels, Farming Tools. Household and Kitchen Furniture, And numerous other articles too tedious to mention. TcringCJaali. JOHN T. CANTRELL, Administrator. September 18, 1870 44-8t BIMRODT MILL. The Corn Mill is newly outfit ted, in good running order and run by u No. 1 Miller. A new Cotton Gin is, during the cotton season, in operation and supervised by a competent ginnery Mr. William Burley. (Q? Tho Cotton left at the Gin is insured. G. WANNER, Agont. September 18. 1870 44-lm Cotton, ll CTS, PER LB., AT J. P. MICKLER'S, ALL parties indobtcd to me foi ?toro accounts I will pay eleven cents por pound for Middling Golton, brought lo mo beforo October Isl. I nm also prepared to pay the highest cash prices. 1 have on hand tho largest Stook of Ooods I have ever had, consisting of CHOICE GROCERIES, DRY QOODS, SHOES AND HATS, CROCKERY AND MEDICINES, And all kinds of Goods kept in a Village Sloro, which will bo sold very low for cosh or bartor. Parties indobted will find it to their intercut, now to accept my proposition and sollie their accounts with cotton at eleven cents per pound. Respcol fully, J. P. HXCKM.R. September 18, 1870 ' 44