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THE FAIRFIELD HERALD delo Published Every Wednesday at BY theja )ESNPOkTES & WILLIAMS. nine -_o- Steve TE R.IS- IN AD V A NCE. shot t ne Copy one year. - - 3 00 day F " . - 1260 y Tena 25 10 tas T he hn Kluix 1i0an, Th-e u with i ORIO4 AND .1ms OF TIlE MYSTKRIOUs strACt ORO.NI ZATiON -TII IL A L FEELING for til A5ON* ' ri. ijrori.E or UrlERSOUTI Th lAR')LINA-A JIIili.Y INTIESTING Klux 1.ETTER FROM tJioN diate To l/&, Ediior of the News 'o ta The mystery which burrounds the red ti movements of the Ku Klux-Klan, has Steve led the superstitious to regard them islatu ns spirits of the disemubodied, while was I tho ed scatod, beyond the field of path] oprritiun, have belie-:od tha whole to be story to be a myth. B it of their ex- nfor isteneo, as an organized body of liv. not o ing meu, we, who h ive seen thon, on- heVLef tectMia no doubt. Of their numbers at U 11a 1 ext ent, it is impossiblo to spok. presu There nust be one thousand in cireu a da) la mairch of Union. You have oates them. no doubt, in Charleston, and of 804 they certainly can be found through- ers )o out Georgia, North Carolina ond Ten- Klux iessce. Tiey occasionally leave be- onore hind them letters explanatory of their whicl purposes. Those of t om who operate the bJ in South Carolina, say that they want be in peace, but must have justice ; that the be a courts are guided by weak judges ; those and jurie.s conposed of ignorant no- only groos ; that a thief, convicted with unde nuuh cost of time, money, and labor nitte to the prosecoutor, remains at the peni- comu tentiary scarcely a week, and then re- appr< turns home with a pardon, prepared Ku-I to steal again. They say that when iitt( their race have justice, and are no prote longer robbed by public thieves, their our nission will end. is, 1< There are some erroneous opinions -so entertained as to the feelings of the the o people of Upper South Carolina to. the o wards the Ku-Klux. ''hey are not a victiI band of cut-throats and desperadoes, tman as some suppoo ; nor, on the other know band, are tney univorsally approved W of by tho white people here. ''hcy Klux are men of firmniess and norve, who alpol( striko because they belive it neces- strue Pary for the protection of their ife, in wI property and libei ty ; they strike at as ea night, because clrotimstanees render it self-c imperativo. But. very many citizons men' disapprove and condemn the acts of but i violence committed by the Klan. We tiurd fool the opprersion of the present tor, j 8tate government, but we would not min have it overturned with violence. sin it We might itnlulge in hard worie veng aIainst the Ku-Klux, but we find that but I they despise our stricturos, and bad the State othelils believe all of us to gove bo members of the hand, no matter ter tl bow much we abuse it. N Now, sir, before we can successful- evil, ly oppose and end this evil, we must bers. nppre(iate the causes. Itisbad prac- Tli tioe to administer a remedy before we they make a diagnosis. If we went back to pay f first causes, we would indicato the to ni Iteconstrmetion acts, the greatest poli- main tical blunder of the century, as the year, inciter of the Ku-Klux, In our State ed va however, the organization would never The have taken root if' we had been spared milit the late iniqluitous election laws, the They arunlmig of negroes with gunls hind ear- Way t ridges, (the latter being unncessary them for purposes of drill,) thle gross frauds sity of the eletion in Oetober,the utatuor the E ous pardons issned by the Governor, hone and the wholesailo robbery by State pond officials of' money1 wrung fromt our p0o. bia; pie by enormous taxation. Anid again, trial it is wesll known that Joseph Crews, Crew promliniently conte~td with the St'ite givye governmnent, hlonored by tht speaker of' tt the H-ouse, and the travelling compan- Wi'll soni of our Governor, in eteet encour. p'ist. Ogpd murder, arson and rapine, last tile t rummeiir in Laurens. What might gone have been the eonsequienees ol' that when advice, it is fearful to contemplate, that lio may be more successful next hlghl sunn11er. latori Ini Septemnber or October last, Juno dereT Mobley, member of the Legislature, On inlormied his negro friends that ten p nate whlite, menu should be killed for every Ku-l negro urdered. Little did June them then think thlat his threat against our ble. race would so literally be fulfiled moyst< against his own. Tho animnus of :the Whei blhck race and their advisors towards go, nIE the white people may be also gathered not r froin the murderous plans of Crews know and ethers (then: 'and new State light officials towards citisong of Union and that Laurens, so recontly exposed thlrough muaste your columns by -Kerrigan and his horse muen. It was only a further proof of times what we already felt, that the white j aded rceo would be taxed out, or killed ont after -by negroes and their allies-if pos. riding sibele. knowi .1 bre were the causes whieh opra- they ted to plant the Ku-Klux'in ~odth for fe Carolina. The tnuirder of Mat whbolc Stevens gave then) great strength. It 5ion C wvas a foul mnurder-theo foullest ever make known in this State, A one-armed, then, inofl'ensive white man, of good charac. his ev tor, who toiled honestly for his daily ttunitj bread andl~ did 'harm to no one ; lie was less wayai-1 and cruelly miurdered because We d~ he had a "white skin." The Murder. Ku-K ers were a body of negro militia, at good, hast twenty-fiye, and more probably evil, Forty Irn number ; instigated, the white and people of UnionI believe, and 'lhay in withol time be aible to ')rovo by Elhiek exprei Walker, etpt'din of militia, and June terms 8. Mlobley, a legislstor. Ihd as this Thi umurder was, it woas a sign. of worse We wl thwigs to see the euntire negra race of Ku-K Union in notive syupathay wIth the geroul murderers, .Had It been loft to the Ont< negroes, net one0 os them would have thatt tl heenu arrested, although -they pro. not a~ ch imiod their guilt wherever' they apper went amlong their own people. It is within boutn Is to Assert that two bun- LKTrn dredineugroos in Unr Ion Colity were Tnll Sievens, and tbM ther6. Ur pqt >en of that eless )who dAld, efusedto shiel4;the crimt'Pi s. 6 risoners beve been taken olt of m il by tho Ku-Klux and killed, of whohl were iurderers of A as; the tenth was the negio who he constable (Smith) on the first da f January. We condemn the s unlawful thd criminal, bt" f6i ya etims we have no sympathy. U, egroes, on the contrary, regard th ndifference the deed in the ab- de ; their only feeling in sympathyi of] e murdered priyoners. muanifesto left here by the Ku-. fV; sufficiently explains the imme. m cause of the last raid on our jails of ke these prionsrs-two of them jt > the elbow with the bloo-1(-f th as-to Columbia, where the Leg. th ro was iu session, comOid0J, it ha clieved, of mIen in active sym- be with the murderers, was thought fo tantamount to a relensa. It was hc tunate that Judge Thomas did of rder the return to the writ of fir :s corpus to be mado befole him s liion, or at his home, which, it is w, med, is within the limits of his M it. The letter to the judge indi- co that he would sacrifice the pence sp ioty here, and turn the prison- ov oo, to save his office. The Ku- ne thought the escape of the pris- wi would be an evil, compared to be i the loss of Judge Thomas to st, ench of the Sixth Circuit would significant. Such oapo would fo wrong to their race, arid one of "l wrongs which could flnd redress al frorn their band. They were- re r another namu--a vigilance com e, with this diffTrence-vigilance bc iittees generally have the tacit fo val of their government ; the e ,lux operate upon crimes com- in d by a class of citizens specially gi eted, befriended and honored by th tato. The vigilance committee tr )wevcr, an unlawful organization w; in the Klu-Iloux. The acts of di nie find an exact counterpart in su ther ; for, so far as known, the n4 us of Ku-Klux have been bad og -dangerous citiaens and well- ha n murderers, th a are no apologist for the Ku- te Nothing here written is an fo, gy. The reader who so con. th a this letter inds excuse suffiient svi at we have enumerated simply ex ises. We cannot excuse these onstituted avengers of white af 5 wrongs. Crime begets crime, %vi o0s not excuse it. To kill a (;, erer is murder. To be prosecu- ti, udge jury arid sheriff is a fearful fo a sin legally and morally, arid a on IllIs eyes to whom bolongeth th 'an e. We may have no jus ice, a' -tter to suffer and to wait. A to government is better than no th enment at all. Injustico is bet- wi tan anarchy. gro militia can never stop the re no matter how strong ia num in o Columbia Union advises that m be sant, and the eunty taxed to ti< or them. We advise the Union fo ake a calculation of the cost of ni taining a thousand soldiers for a he and compare it with the assess- I lue of property in this county- th proposition is ridiculous. Negro ap ta are powerless against them. m may be stopped, but only in one wi -mouve theocauses which nmade fir faney their organization a necs* to restore good government ; give K tate upright anid able judges and thm it offiials . stop the fright ful ex.-n iture of publio money in Colum-. dc prosecute, indict arid bring to ke such men as Neagle, Parker and co s ; disband the negro militia ; he people intelligent jurors, aind or monvicts be pumnished, and then he Ku-Klux be a thing of the we But let thei Legislatu~re and p tate officials go on as they have4 on, and the time will soon be ej raids Into Columola, and aromTed of sapitoI building, will cause our o y virtuous and intelligent legis- ,,j Sto forget Union and Union maur 5. ci, e more word. We ate all sus.-t d of active sympathy with the p Jlux, because we die net bring ivj to trial. The thing is impossl- r~u They shroud themselves in a h ry which no one can unravel. Oi ice they come, and whither they ba one knows. Their voices are dIi 3cognised; their horses are not so a. They are never seen in day- vii ;only in night. It would seenm cc negroes would know whent thelir rs left home, and took their al out of the stable ; would some- tb see their disguises, notioe the~ [ appearance of man and horse tip a night of wakefulness and hard 'Vh, t. IBut it Is not so. No negro o I a single member of the band ; if iru lld, they would tell It, if not hiere ing ar, at any rate in Columbia. The bil negr> race deir~e the aiuppres. au f the Ku-Klux; but they eanti no discoveries. Is it singular, jn that the white man, who Fpends ob< snings at home--whose oppor- ex, as for detection are so much should fall to find out names ? n6 not say that all condemn the edg lux. Many see the Immediate nal and think not of the consequent wil Bunt many, very many, oppose *bhor these dleeds, eominitted i it any legal sanction, andi they faj a their abhorence in unweasured rot doi letter has been made too long. mf ote however to show that t,he ox, luix were combatIng evils as dan I to thepeace ofsociety authe r evils they perpetuate ; end th iese fearful coonter evils were gan proved of by all the people of to South Carolina. BmmUre. m Rt PROMt JUDGE TUoMAS-WiY Bu STEVENS MUR6KERR WEaR TO tou E BEEN REMhOVD TO COLUkaB. wb Be bid, I have ren'- re fforts are mad to 'ill e t e.goat to bear e q g Ipon lto Unlon troublid. chi low to tWilke a short statement. Sti Oi the 'no ninof the first Thurs- eni y in January, left Columbia for Le artanburg. , as.,.paeng up . the for road, oun haat the people of tie lion were very much excited by pr< 3 murder of a one-armed man by a ref tail of the State militia-all color. v-bye~use eaud 'tt give tbein iAP9nke.(ol pg Vnijng, T aMdbo4tu4ge band ,t-f armed in, in dispiise, had taken out five the prisdners who -hnd! been put in 1, killed' tWo, aind bn-lly wo ird.l roe. Upon iNniiry, I feannd th-t - a impre sai il of 1he pecopio was tihat, d they beon tried, they would have en pardoned tand est-pied. I also und that a large meetiag had been 1d that day, condemi:ing, the ie' ion the night before. Ai soon as I had in islied the ob-ject or ny vi it to th >artanbn t, I hired 'h vehicle and int to Union, not waiting for the onday train. O Minday I held of urt at Union, und succeeded in Ou reading the Aegis of law onve more pr er the ommunity. I shrank from ph rerponsibility., and brought. away i th me the assurunce of many of the at citizens that q'miet had been re. C" ired. liv On arriving in Columbia r sent Er r Governor Scott, and informed hina 1o had hold the eicll courts in Union, ~ d thought that law and order was BI stored."B On the first Tnesday in this month, th< ing in Columbia, and ready to leave frc r Chuarleston, three iinfiuential citi- d ns desired me to have a personal ti erview with Governor Scott, anvd re him a plAin statemient of what I % ought of the troubles in the up.coun be r. My idea was that the disease sp sconstitutional. and not l0ctl. I I so, and -as a part of the interview, acceded in having sone of the best a in of the up-county appointed to th ice. One of the difficulties which oh d presented it:.elf to my mind was 1-0 at this class of cit.zens took no in- lit rest in the governmenat, and I had and an apathy aiong thern so far bo :t they would not risk their lives B. ion called upon to not as a pos:e to sta ecute the InWs in 'some respects. hu This interview detained me un.til . :er the train left. for Charleston, and ti le awaiting for the rext truin, to ,neral Anders.on, of the State mili. aW , approaohed in with a petition yei r habens corpus for three pris- ma arm at Union, the petition alleging . at they wore inseo-.re in their lives Union, and apkiug to be removed lB a place of tafety. Mr. Brawley, aIn e soloitor of the S:x- h Circuit, went go th me to the Ouvernor, and he is 1 aranteed to us that; hey bhould .be ille turned to un at Union for ti ial.' Iloing sirpriwd at the allegation go the petition, I had Mr. Drawley to his rke iiries concerning the condi- is mn oa a .s at Ildion, and I had a nd that those who e ame down that . ght were not uneasy, and appre- tin nded no trouble. Upon rfleetin m n concluded that s nmething other ant an their sifety was the cause of the ine plication fot removal. The thr.u - mn sought for removal were the three '"" io had been badly wounded in the So st raId on the jail, and were likelv 0114 know the raiders if any one did. Me owing the distrust which many of a e citizens had I tlho Sta-e Govern-th nt, I stif'flated' with General An-.t raon ihat the prisoners abould be s0 Pt in separate cells so as i t to Coin- its at a story, andJ seixond ly, that. no0 one pla ould seq ,tipiu: exceplt by especial a Jer fromn hu n or rnyacelf. Upon thie evening when the writ th' a to have been returned with the li isoners, and after hearing that the "is eriff' would not tbey it, I was .wait- the on by lur. sDunbar, the attorney ter tie o pisoneors wohl another writ bibelmp.qorpue. 'his I dcliraed to " n~ as ':b3ui fulmes,," but in dioa., tbh I~ to hum thamt al. L1hat wvas left of but iauthorit.y was for, ;me to "tule to a sherifT." Ilb said he would pre ~ re the tulo nd return that night De th~ it. This was notdone, and theD he wvas issued of my ouwn inotjon late a nliglht apdl Apt (Mf. on the, oars. sa to of the Ioadhing mnnembers of the chi reof the.$ixth (hirouit, and tho can- th late of the (ionservatives for the. i on the bench, 'was preser., ad. it ing and urging. thisi as miy onily noi mrae. I had consulted .with two of for brethren on ho benih amnd sever.. wvi lawyers who -agreed with me in ea view that as a judge of the:Statee ad nothing-to do) wiih- the execu- hia n of the c procesas .of . thme court, or, qeo were for the bheriff.- and the and oter. .if .they, could lnt carry Fy, o execution thme prooecws by call. out the pos.,e, then the respoanai ity was upon thos.e who refused to st as a possq,:or upon the constitu toe' nlal dnflioulty which dievented these oni >pale. of the interiost they biii ini yiog the.ordora of.2t he thi iff orfa rent ivo .ofeer. e )w Sunday night, the shmariffa gnard (t the jail ia Uioin -was ov power. eXI and the three prisonerns who were the ned in the writ of ,lheas corpus, Iyi h five other,. wero killcd. ['le positIon of judge att p esenrt tri biankless..entoughi, and if I Ihavo pro led to ditebarg, nmy . duty, I are per dy tlo resign.. I fedhat I have mai e al~tat asin mcy poweor, and let here is,e ,rosponsibility any .he~re p$ gn th'e .arjned band who vi- can Sd the Jalj,.It is po on ipe. , for hVlo is responsiohe ?* It, may be rer< sheriff ; it mnay.bo.those who or- god ribedtheomlitiaja tonhla; way as 1i v .ro~sral'nlcieun s, a. posse. M t i thibk Ude true -caulse sill be som ndio censtjtufiona1 deficiency fift oh' oka.ions the anathy ofleading law ristitqi. Tbi Is 0 trary r(publi lfd9 , ai sho be rh >vcdlby I? se in auth ty by ange in, the onstitution of tbd ite, making a tot paying qualiti ion for one of the brahehts of the gislature. This is a slow remedy a bursting boil, batwhen the p nt sees the phjsician op fly the )per remedy, he may -not so tiess. Very respectfully, Your olgodient iordasf Ws r.'M.TIOMAh, Judge Sixth Circuib. WINNSBOROn Wednesday Morning, March 1; 1871' Fra uit air' Speech. A car eful po uial of.Blair's spoeAh, which, towards its close, he admits it the fifteenth amendment "is coln te," and is now "a part of the law the land," convinces us most thor ghly, that we are correct in our iw-. 1 8 -ion that our government is com- 1 tely rovolutiniiizt d, ind thorough and Leytend horo of a relapse, i isolidated anid nationalized. We 1 e in the first days of the AmiICAN I triur, whether we can realize it or i L, and call it by what name we please I the Republic, if it suits. Now had air follewed up his denutciations of Reconstruction policy, "force and ud," of the Republican party, by nying, when pres.ed by the q-cs n, that the fifteenth auetidnent is al amid constitutionial, there had en tome hol e, aupposing that lie iaks for the Noi thern Democracy, % reaction of public opinion, even this lato day, which would restore i government to its original Fedoral tractor. But he shrinks back, and Its, just w here a 6t udenat of our po leal ny'tmn would have preferred a Id and de.iant attitude. Why so I iir is no saint, nor a jurist, nor a I tesman. Hiis is -a popularity rsting politician, and a tolerable ie-server, and he was simply afraid C deny the validity of the fifteenth I end ment, as many a learned law -would have done, at,d as every n, not willing to accept of nation i and consolidation, it seems to us, 11 simply obliged to do, for that 0 endment doe, revolutiouize our 'I , orTnment. Whence this fear ? It t )veause, as we believe, Blair knows No, thern people are not going to u Lack upon that amendment- during opportunity for get ing office. It t )ossible that the country may one reverse that ninaidment. A con- 11 untion of Boweus and Whitte- f re's as Congressmen from the South, f I of frauds and peculations arid xpressible corruptions and villain in the State Governments of the ith, may yet bring the sober, see I thought. lBut not immediately. rnovor, the early predonminance of ites over blacks may so neutralize enormities of @oconstruction, anid, bide from the Northr thoeinfamny of policy, that, in solf-righteous comn eeney, it may never rarient. Blair least seems to think so. He says, I fifteenthi anyondment was acorn ilhed by "fraiud and force," but it complete, it is a part of the law of I land"--that is, if we rightly rin- ~ pret the positIon, which sceems to illogical and wveak, Reconstructi~n ~ oughout has bee~n "revolutionary," ~ .pess me, and I am not prepared ~ say again, as in I868,,"null and ~ d."' How this speecha can halp the ~ mooratic campaign for the next ~ isldency, we eatanot see. Blair C 'i, it will do so thus :The mls. C ef is done, lint thd jeople will h'old' I prrly responsiblse that have dinu ~ Now, if that be so, be ia wrong i n adding, and they will reverse it ; r ifthe people will do the one, they t I dlso do the other. Bhut this gen tion harp sojn no uigns tba we e been able to see, of doing cith. and, tlherdf'ora,, Blair is mistaken, C his speech'till do no gbod even to ujk hlir. o eenelusi on, we cannot undler da man's consenting to tleo fif. C ath amendment, with Its thor ;h revo.lution of our entire FelotiM ~ teo, and its intoreshifig, but to us rful and tremendous erpernent 1 e we insist that It is aa yet only an criment) of negro suffago,i atildI ni vainly babbling abotit "Stades bis." It seems. to tis weak 'tnd P ling. Wo, 9n . the ,contrary, are e pared to try the revolutionary e x.. iment, to ran the consolldatlon d shinaery, to oil It and watch It,and g it do its best. But why so '1 Bo- ~ so we .:dmoo't believe; in a remedy consolidation. -Itees'to ual al- a yaeoniplished. What political 0 d oroivfl oomes to '961 hereafteb come mainly froutn on~r National !ernment. Obliged: to take the ~ ,we favor striving to got from i6 0 e of the good." We accept the h enth amendment as "a part of the a di the land'ran~d a no~on tm, 11u >ecase w6e 641(lielp it' Iji a fact, tod cant o itj g neverthe. ess old . t be %I exper inent, sh if itVfaip, wil rveg:t' in we lon't know what, but in BBihing much Norse ; so we take t6 e oQurso-of hu uan evetits quite coolly, restraining >111abiy' 8taites - 'Rllghtk- pubatoes the, oss of, morqtion. IlHusging Played Out. Thq. edi'or'eI pof tlse pubictn hainst han.gi g h a, bdnishinent for iurderus-ingularly out of -place at, his time1 and wps, -writtep. because F'ditors, we suppose, must keep wri 'ing. : We know most positively that iong tbu blavks a tuipid idea pre Vails tha S, u-idqr tLis governmpient, here is to b no hanging, and few of heni fear the penituntiary. Now .bi4 idon is stupid in the extreme, be 'A-iso there have been cases of hang. ng to refu'e it, 3et it does pre vail, 1d it does enuse lawlessnes. With hat peculiar my.-trious salke of the tnd Ithat they deem an especial maik )f wisdom, a black ninn remaiked to gentleman commenting on the bru 1t murder of Mr. Dubard, "dat ting 'hanging) used to be." And here, t may just as well ho said as not, the cople generally are, we believe, dis omed to wink at Ku Klux outrages, o long as the blacks expect favorit smn from the government. Ie Fainiy tle PoliticalUmaIt. The State is a collection of faini iies, and not simply of the individ ials composing them, and the family, Uid not the individual is the true so. tial unit, and should not politically brough its representative head. s1118 theory is deducible from the Bi. ,lo view of marriage that man and vife are no more twain, but one flesh, nd from the record of creation that nan (the singular) was created male ud fomailc. No icligion givvs such nonminonco to the doctrine of the in. mito worth of the individual, wheth :r male or fetnale, bund] or free, Jew r Gentile, and yet none insists so ositively upon the completeness of he imarriiage union. In the church, ndividual rights are sacred and con ion, - belonging to both sexes ; but dministrative privileges and services re plainly confined, by both New estament and Old, to inen. And so hey should be in the State. We ad. lit that this involves the subjection f the woman to the man. But this i a subjection enforced by nature in lie very constitution of the sexes, nd blosed of G. by the domestic arinony and happine s that result rotm it. For authority in the imily bhould rest v ith the man, and great deal of <omestic unhappiness idue simply to the fact that it is not iercised. Trho responsibility of rul tig their households is shirked by many men, who, therefore, find it aird'r to rule themselves, and thi8 Icess of liberty, this domestic indi ideal license, breeds disgust for oile and home duties and associa ions. A true woman rejoices ini a usband that is trulyi the head of his ous6. Let this distin'ction betwedn person. I rights and social admninistrativo rivileges he borne in ruind, and we re in hearty sympath~y with much of ho Wotmin's Rights agitation of the y. WVomen should have a fairer old for labor, and more righteous ewards for it., than at present. Their ightsof property -should be secured hem. Public opi~ion should be edu ated tio encourage, rather than dis otirage them in broador sphores of ifort than those to which they are at resent confined'. As to all this hero Ia slens, there is virtue, there is eroismi in th e demand for wotmatn's ights.. But with the fanaticism on he subjbet of the- ballot, and politi ki office, &c., *e hasve no sympathy, ndoed, Otne will get no omieo by print tg it, but the batliot is not yet prov d, to the satisfadtitn ofi sober reason, ,ot to be sa delusioni and a shatn. !hl. mere ,majority represent ation, 'hen the spdgsof public virtue are orrupted, is a terrible tyranny. te power, is beyond the control of ny thing but -the fear of revolution. Eu Klinxienm is a reaction' eaanst it,. ist' raw, here, ini this very - tate. thy, then, confer so doubtful a privi weo aiste .ballot upon the sex that re happy in fooling that the dreadful lague~of ptbities, inE a comniitnity ral by am'ajority of ignoranttiegro pau. ef~s, angd n ivhiebm everything except irty dewiagoguism of the maost de. tading charaoter, is..virtually die. ~anchise-yes happy In feeling that s dreadful plague, the perplexlng 94 fretful grouble ot polities, is none I' their busineqss,..but, belopgs to the enpto temporizo with' it, to humor .,to bear with It, to compromise ithit anid te 'nitighte It, if we can,, r to defy it, to . fiercy flght it and ew our way out of it with a bloody ie, if we mustratriking in the day. submit~ so *p1 ation, too unmii d a , fore , THE WAR IN EUROPE. LATEST ADVILCES. ooknID4, FMbYUOY 21.-The 19ta peror Willam's health anticipations. The German wounded, capable of bearing armshave been sent to the font. Troops are concentrating at Co. logno. The Frdnch ports are fi'l'ed with provisions laden v0sCls for Paris, but the provisions citnot be forwarde for want of transportation. PARIs, Feb. 21.-There is authori ty for saying that the Gnal peace con ditions will include the cession of Al saue and a portion of Loraine, with the fortresses Thionville, Meta and Belfort, and two hundred and eighty million francs inderunity. LoN noN, Feb. 21.-A dispatch from invre says : the city of Aloncon, is refusing to pay the assesswent. The Mayor and ten Councilmen have been imprisoned. t A dizpatch from Bordeaux, of the 20th, says : Bismarck is willing to resign MCtz, if Luxemburg is given to Germany. Iismarck employs threats in urging Thiera.to terms. The French wish to prolong the arministice until the second of March. The French must pay half of the indemnity by the fifteenth of March. Paris is fast assuming its ordinany appearance. Prices must soon be re duced. VEnSAII.IKs, February 22-via LoNnoN, 23.-The Emperor received Thiers to-day. General Chantey was present at the interview. Peace is considered concluded, though it has not yet been signed. The Germans will probably enter Parid on Stinday next, but without triumphal ceremony and they will not remain long in the city. LoN nosc, February 23.-A dispatch from Paris or the 22d, says : Noth ing is known yet of the Prussian terms for peace. The Figaro, how ever, says the terms are coneilatory. The Munituer,of Versailles, says the war indemnity demanded by the guv. ernuient is two milliards of thalers. The Germans demand immediate pay. ment of two millions of francs, by the Department of Oise, and accord dela5 in payment of the remaining eight millions. The Paris Moniteur says Troohu re. signed at the request of Thiers, and retired to private life. The distur. bance at Nice is suppressed. The (Gaulois says : Lord Lyonb, the British Aimbassador, and Chevalier Nigra, the Italian iniaster, will ouu go to Paris in order to afford Thiers the moral support of their goverumout in the peace negotiations. VxnsAit.i.F.s, February 23.-The Moniteur, the offiaiAl of Versailles, justiies Germany's- demand for the indemn1ity of mnilliards of thalers. A London dispatch from Arras, of the 23d, snys the mots around that city was filled with water, for defense. BoKDEAVX, February 28.--The Moniteur, -of Bordeaux, annoures that the armistice has been prolonged until 26th instant, at midnight. BonIUEAux, -February 24.--.The Court of Rome has.recognized the new Government or France. BERI.IN, February 24.-The Cross Gazette says dispastohes in lgipim journals, purporting to give the egn dit ions of peace negotiations, are al together incorrect. PARis, February 24,-The mili. tary authorities are still unadvised as to the entry of the Paussians. -Theo impression is becoming general that; the enemy will forego their trIumph. It is rumored that the Assembly will adjourn from Bordeaux to Fontaine bleau. The Paris journals say the Prussian demands on Franoe, have produced a painful irnpres.ion on the London, Vienna and St. Petersburg Cubiniets. LiONDON, February 25.-- A colliery explosion occurred in South W~ales. Fifty dead have already .been taken out. The Times'.special from Paris-says the treaty is rearded as'. Nigned. Blanc, Hugo and Rtoebefort, members of the Radical Lieft of the Assembly, will p resent a motion imppaching Napoleon. It is stated~at Versailles, that the material of the FTre.ggqh regi mienta at lboideaux Ie excellent. Paris, Februar~' 25.-Thiers ac cepts the prtieffle of t'evritorial ces sion, btut'i5 trying to'Myve Metz. IBis marek agrees to reive~ that -fdrtress to sFrance, but- Malike'objeetb. Ro,.me recognizet. the New Ft'eneh Government. BOR DEAex, Februar.y 25.--Tiers, Favrne and Ricard have hot arrited. The departure of Thibers from PAis is not yet nonounced. It is generally supposed that the- Assetably VIlI not nmeet to morrows and :the armistice will be prolonged :fttrt.-eight houra. NEW Yonx, F'ebruary 25,--Tme steamer Quaker City was abarndoded sixty iniles East of Cape Lookout, on the 12th. She was on her lbeam-ends, with sIxteen feet of' water Ira hqr bil ges ; smoke-stacks earried an~ fires puit out by the water. . Th officers and crew landed on the Bermuda. Th Quaker City was a BJaytien wari 4esseI; sailing undeir thle name of the Ln4 Ropublican, ' here has been heavy rain and much wind West, with loas of life and property. lIClongqND, February 25.--The Hous, to day, ad pted the Senate amendments to the Washingtpn opd Albp1tUrda 4 bIuays 4 nays 36-and the bill is now a law. IIAVANA, February 24.-Valmaso. da liae returned. The State troops were defeated in a small fight, in United States of Colonibia. londuras has declared a war with San Salvador. A general but feeble fight is progressing. The coffee crop is i'horit tin9~gh.ki. pli n9ica, Ji, 'm NEw YoRK, Feb. 2B.-Evening. Cotton quiet, with sales of 2,200 bales, at 15t. Gold 11,. CHARLESTON, PFeruary S.-Cotton quiet-muiddlings-14i ;reatpte 1,218 bales ; sales 300, . irvicaropT,, February 25.-ven tog-Cotton dull, uplands 7' ; Or loans 71 ; sales 12,000 bales. Cocoa Nut Cream, A lfDin'assoment of other Candies,-. Just received at feb 28 11. W. blSPOlmEs. Notice. LA peTsoniblAin- deiLan'ds pagain t the A sate Georg4. Hunter," deased, will present their claims properly attested, and liose indebtedill knake paymehi to the undersigned on or before the lot day of .January, 1872. GNORGE L. 1IUNTEIR, feb 28-flx2 Admr. Established 185. J. 0. Matheas,, Prodane Commislonalerchant. -A.'u 1W''x s t 4%, 4G-a.6 I A RGE et-ck of Grain, Bacon and Cotton .A Goody, always on hand. I have also a large stook of Tobaceo at manufacturers prices. All or#ers will havo prompt. atten. tion. -feb 28-1 i COTTON SEED MEAL. NOTHING else In the world will make a Nwilch cow Do Ier Beat in either quan. tity or qiilify. Feed not over four pints at each- meal, and ynnr 9wn cow will convlnQe you. Price $30.00 per ton, cash with order, with disoount for larger quantilies. C.OLUMBIA OIL COMPANY. BW- Oil Meal and Bone Fertilizer, fur. hiehed at $35 per len'cash. Cottn Seed hought or contracted for to boe delivered in July and August. feb 28-xIt3 MASONIC MEETINGS A REGULAR communicat ion 'of A Winnsboro Lodge. No 11, A.-. P.-. M.-. will be held on Thursday blarch 2d, at 7j o'clock 1. Md. Brethren will take due notice and gov. !rn theimelves. accordingly. By order of V 0, JORDAN, Seo. feb 28-t2x1 JUST RECEIVED. 600 bushels Choice While St. Louis Corn. 600 bushels North Carolina Oats. Car load Louisville, including all grades, rrom the finest to common, 6000 lbs. 0. R. White and Smoked Bacon, 1 Tierce Baltimore llamas, Italian Maocaront and Cheese, Carolina Retc, Rio, Laguayra and Java Coffee, Black, Green and Gun Ptowder Tea. D. RL. FLENNIKEN, feb 28 NEW GOODS H. L. A. BA LK, IYnosLxSArn.s a Uwrus, )~ a p4s D RY GOO0D S, 172 fond St, Angusta, Qa. SA spiay this acasort, t offerRa lrgq ')ress Ouod r at prleee.as lomeas Uafore the ara. II. 1. A' BA LK. Auigusta, Ga. 3 r~ art ror Dress and ShirtaE I have Lopened a grelat variety of choice selee.. ions of all pnf allar mnkas. ' i. L. A.: IM LK; Augusta, GA. N. Cas~se~sereq, apd 'eens, f9,r (1 nts andi IBoys' wear, a carefully seleg9ted stock is > ered at popular prices. II: I.. A.IBA L{,'Auguit.ta, Ga. OTICE~ is hereby given that I have ad-. ed a, deparjjento, lloo-r andi Suofi5, cher, a fiul assorimnt will alysys be krpt i New Ysork prices. U. ..''UtlAJK. g e Ur~toclid... Brtown ai 1ll~uh ed .8lient - oo Silein, id an Striped linoe-e pu.i loleg i vry full, and offereu * .. A,-BA LK, Auj nsts, GA. itSAT,bargaluat,9e . offeired ii 81irte eksTaes, inenis kicngs, Sujie,.d urs, Ilbsie ry- &e. . H. L..A. BALK, Angusta, Ga. lil facilite. .enable me to buy where .goods are cheapest. Ii. t2 A. BALK, Augusfta, Ga. 3 8EL.L as low as the same goods cap be' spld anywhere. , 11, L. A. BALK, Aingue.a, Ga. if ASK pnly ohe Price I H1. L. A. BALK, Auguita, Ga. LL godewarrnte tobe as represent ed. golo.A . ALE Augusta, Ga. ALhc rder, to insure a promptand dare.. Enflattenti on, should be. addresedo feb 21-t II L.ABL,Auggaeta, Ga , RESH Gard wi Reed atnd Onion SeIll at the'Dring tore of - IN,:0 MoMASTER & BICE. tab, i