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Desportes & Williams, Proprietors,] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---8.00 per Annum, In Advano VOL. VII.1 WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1,1871. [NO.20 TH1E FAIRFIELD HERALD .15 PUBIRInKI WKPKIY HT DLSPORTES & WILLIA MS, Terms.-Tas IIRAL is published Weekt in the Town of Winnsboro, at $3.00 in *areably in advence. ip'- All transient advertisements to bi id in advanes. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 poi square. The Ku Klux and SuspensIon of the Writ of liabra Corpus. A. suse-nl si m oi ti writ . hb it c or,.u-. boy tae i.--d. raIl (.I e.e It aly of' thL S .tes in A ti ' f rdl pe -e x ,id h1 .e forinei y .v r, - Both \Ill m I: .u is . E' pleof A .0. IetL .t'e it -e rieh 8 at r.. ac'- '1--, r * t ea crpu,, a.-l h-' - the first .Otep to) - r 1 . 0ight. The1 wri' at to. . - a hals been iegacleld lite 1uinv ,ai ef liteity, Iad it is -h0 v4 hieh -. Sti un at I IsII.g U-C le:dS t, t. ficr dum thit we e . l r t im, have eanged. Our uae citil w a . . the 4A-. Itutral iz it iota Whieh reI'su1tad from111 it have destroyed in A measure that watchfulnes-, of tho Ainericai peo ple over their literties utid jealousy of the ancroacha-ent of ab.traay jower. Now the Pcesident f the United States ,uspends the writ of habeais corpus in a iealtion of our com muo.s country and little notice of it is taken, as if it were a matter of odi n ir3 occurreiee or n., importance-as if in Fact, iio greAt principle were in volved. The prooltm atiou of the President da ed Wat-hitigton, Oc;to ber 17, 1871, whiuh was published in our i-sue las: Wednesday. places the count-es of Spartanburg, York, Ma. rion, Chester, Ltures, Newbury Fairfield, LAncabter and Chesterfield, South Carolina, under martial law, on the ground that combinations and conspiraces exist to obtruct and bin. der the execution uf the civil law, undthat the federal government is call td upon to suipend the writ of habeas corpus and to govern by miitry au thority, in accordanoe with the act of Congress pasied last April. If the public mind were not so demor ulized and so indifferent to thi.exercise of military authority in time of gen eral peace there would be a more searohing inquiry as to the causes for or necessity of this extraordinary ac tion of the government. Fortunately, the ibdependent press of this country is free to discuss the conduct of the government and toc.ll public attentin to this imtportant matter. The independent paes-, as Junius said, is the palladium of our civil and religious litberties. L,-t us Co, tihelt, what founadationr these wa, f .r prolait.g martial law and creating Sill h a d..ge,u- precdeint. for exer eiseng it rlatery p -w..r in this fa . se. pubbho c. Th~ae P~esidenit ted Is nan IIIIis pI-'lam1 ila; i .eC that Colbill( ioseul a41d conl0 spir.,eit t e ax t in1 tht couinit ins pla - ed under mitrtial ai-h c'i latl I., reach 'd by the civil law, aid ti. h - cb .N sereeiltoas and inssurre'noo. y My this he ume:1s what is gen r.aV knowni a~s te Ku Kux Ther chslg-. asre rung onl suun! txpressi~Ons a o spi raeeic, org.s . ized anad armied coat birati..e. vrolece, oeiitia oft t.. conistituited .a utoit Ies, and s a oua but there is noc evidlence of rebelions or inssurreectioen either in the sNsea5 general ly uirndaantoodi of the eorstitu tion of the Unt t d Strts. 'Ire laiw of Conigr~s (5 nc wion~ he, ha'' e.1 0i . tiOnt 15 .y Ut --~ jgi *eOt; ,t. n .w .itie - t asli .ni to re'ael.ies Ir i ,r r t . wvhicl eb . ... . msie... n-. law les".e-s of' a ' 'w -a lawr1s in .usia.,bi; ~.---. those who1 .cre gu,:. . .aC*u not bt eantl use. iret en IC o5' against ihte g.)venonelCia. I fa -t1'I there has. been noi t~ i'e eb bioi.a insurrection. Nor leC ti~c p~r 0l consati tuted loa Il uambitwjr0 .'abIed upon)1 the l'ederal goverltinenIt t'> SuIs peaad the civil law, as is reqirced by the constitution. Governor 8dott, of South Carolini, when askedl less thtu three weeks agc if he were oepp..sed to martial law, replied, "Moat unequivocally I am andt those men wiho are so clamworous for martial law are pursuing a mnista keni policy." ie said, moseover, thsat he hand no idea General Grant would dleclare martial law, tha t h< (the Governor) was not in, favor of it, anld that hse thought the civil law was more efficient. WVhat better authori. ty does the administration wvant thai the Governor of the State, who is on< of its partisans 1 Then the State is under radical government, and mosi of the authorities in It are opposed t< martial lisw. The clamor for such ar arbitrary measure comes from only a fe w reck less and corrupt disorganiser and a~pirants for office ; from men wvho have little interest at stake ic the State beyond what they can makt out of the offices or the disruptior ofecivil government. No doubt thet< have been deplorable outrages upoi individuals by local bands, an dpro bably the Uivil Rhights bill of 'eb9 gress may have been violated in some tnses. No Good litizen would at tempt. to justify those. llut .u -h Orinmes are 1no} peouliir to Soit Carina. (rme a i- s htad or ni-te kinu..s ate committed in all he stales, and it would be eusy eiei ho to attribute thetti to Ku K;ux if it s~hould suii the (.-deral waveriaiment t,> do au for poliuotaol ends. tied d, there inight be t liuit to fed-ial inl titrfereice in the l.acal aff.irs of the severail States, or evdn in this' city of Now Yolk, if the proclaimiti u of. ni:rti:,1 law i- t., . w t cin won lis sion o? si' il eI ri 1, as t Iose pOIr potratedl ImI South Canlifai. Sh .... tih! elmo. lot, .. le %V p. im .-;a a, is " it wt ,:n h- I. ebl-d more uhan the pri eilts of loeni - k(- .vemeifiloir , npon which 'Iti0 f ..r ii.sti..ms et tO'bs, Ihe w: I he .i. @., d t oivi lib.-rty. I e .r isI U 0:, showmrg the reek bg ., da cl 111% t a to p i4 ite C U If -olk- U~oii<lm: e jo l - i \ it' ' i t )- t :.1 -1 in , pi:( -d u. M. .tial inlo, while the A.soMs Kii .. i .,co. y : i m - at . it 'd ii's -(Iti- i ii , . Ii'tI: i.j ti 1 ( - o IIti 1e.. . iof 's cirtnirn~ [rti e: I' K-.- A c: r rror If i- I I cuess r) to j.ut . portioi 4 South th irlitnn i ;er s.:t utial law f.. crimaes agailnt indl ivIii.nk, what aIuid be done in Nortlh CurAt'lti, where a few bandits have -ue.s--fully deled all the constituted auitho. itie.,? Nothing has occus red in South Cauoliina since the war eomhparable to the frightful deptedationu and defiant conduct o the.'e band it" i.i tho adjoining State, entreniched in the swamps for munthi und committing the must diabolical murders and other fearful crimes. So we unight refer to the hanginsg of the negroes in Tenuiessee recently by the populace without law and iu do fisnc,: of the authorities for outrages committed on white women, or to ninny other lawless ats both in the South and North. Where, in fact would there not be founid a pretext for the exercise of federul military authority if the governmient should wish to strain the law for that pur pose or had a political object, to no complish I The president believes, perhaps, he is doing his duty. We are not will. ing to think otherwise, but unfortu nately, he is not a civiliin, and hai little opportunity to study State af fairs in the light of civil and constitu tional law. Ilis training hias been military and his mund is imibued uith military ideas. No doubt he is a patriot and wishes well to the coun try, and believes, probably, th.t he ha,, intuitively the sanc capacity to govern in peace as lie had to comitmand in war ; but if lie would have his name go down to posterity a8 a statem-nnii he muit leave trio esoip and drop the awot d --- he nimt in ti tie of pc ace I*..!: pe.- 4Ove .11 things the civil lilberty. Ad wdi he not hitivesonte regaAd for the .u. ititlus and tryikg situation Of h- jittir 8 ,utherntvrs, wao, i hony th . ,r- - br. e led hi It- p- i I pi - f t h e t i i - !% -i.1ti they 1ir.- ph&t-nd iii, p.rtwI: r y int Sou :. (ar..bni , in b-angi pult 'cai Kt.svesi -0 th. tr tf*,t n r di..mne.tI ...a, t puliati..n pt under tht-e tde of ignotr tast flnp aei-saN~vage iecruoes anid cor rupit stransge.rs, 'i no have little or no intres inthe State, ex.ept, to rob ltiHa e no bowels of c mnpis ion for thes o utifortunate people ai-tur o wit blood4 mi der 1such tryig ci rotmi si1ne ? tWe tk, as we mi bef,~ts re, h:t se :ea .s . s 2.5ii; .ur lhe ia- liee., i e tIe- . xiC it opft..f:li O .s .~ r it- ac vil . o - tir we - e ' 4 43 :- . n i t.1 - x di f h. ut a n A n it p* 64~0 t.0 N Nor ti a SotiiiI, *..r' by .. kmi tol iid . onei pohtc) to h3C.l. ou ,n< ib -4 by m l-ayc. e e on - Le s o.:o gene st .., o hia ssa.,. 20 o mot' , tanl be isan have e0 ~ii the South, tie well as good will evO. ywnere, by abaindoning his militry ideai iof goveranment ad masking te ecivil laow supreme in every stection of suar c rnmton country.--N. Y1. ealdL, The Questionl of Martial Litw la Solk Carolina. We are pleased to observe that the independent press of the country are protestiug against the arbitrary pro eoedings of the United States soldiery itn South Carot'na. North, Sooth, East and Weost, these protests are made. Nero is said to have fiddled whilst Rome was burning . Orant pursues his travels arnd takes his rec reation in Maine whilst he sets his soldiery loose in outraged South Caro lina.--Columnbia Phanix. The Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the issue of newr ourreboy Iequal to tho amount destroyed by the OhIdado fire. 8o re port says, but we know not how ho 49 ii seertain the amouait An Inch ot a Tine. E 1rylo i) Il., haurd of the kind har ri-h mai w ho, conasidering it ~sp. ient to dock hi., dog's tail, Un dliratiok to mitigate t lit pail of the op.:rAtio by cuUling ff an iUU at a titm, in teAad of amnputat ing it at the stib tat. ol.!. With lesis benlevolent motivem, Ocn. Grat. appears to be ini tatlng the poleY of thlis well-meaning but t mitaken H1ibernian in his man ner of admaistering the Ka-Klux law. While ho may decan it highly desira. blo the provisions of this law should be enforced throughou the Uni:ed States previo*us to tle Presiadential election, yet, as the people niglt become restive if a general alieator u.hip should be proclaimed at octe., he is ndeavoriug to accust(oin them to the practical workings of the uncon. stitational and infamous law by do grees. Ile begins with comparative tn ild nesa in North Carolina ; lie is preparing to execute the lIw with More severity in South Carolinat, while Georgia is promised the tnexL taste of its beaitiats, albtho-tgh only tho.1o who are working for his renon inatioa are ale to see any necssity for the t(i.ent af tiatal law in eatber ot h.ts. Stv. It rea y se, m., as if Gen. Grant bad hte:,aeo dl xe trtn with a pttrpto., upon the forbaearaince of the people iVom the very 110011mett of his ijduti )a into the Pre-idential chair. lie haa out.aged public senti ment by pensioninig at swt all of worth. less anad incopialeteit relationsi upont the Natioaul Treasury, and by bes toviag lucrative places on tho.,e who have give hit valuable presentas. le has openly violnt-d law aid eus tol in some of hias upp)ointmts, and thei flar mre important. act o tmakinig actual war in a weak neighviorittg republic, not only without the cotnsenit, but in contempt of the exprtsed will of Congress. Ile hi.s per.nitted UtA ted States tro.ps to be used to break up a R:publicau Cotvention because it refused to be controled by his own ere-atures ; nad gaining conafidence froua thie impunity which has thus far attended his gross uaurpat.ions, lie daily grows bailder in his offences again.t the rights of the people, of whom le atip'ears to con-iler himself the mas er and not the kervant. A subservient Congress Las pas. ed an uncontmitutional law which places it in Grant's power to proaoehim himself a virtual dictator whenever lae sitIll see fit to de so; and in view of the course lae has already pursued, it is neither unreasonable nor unfair to assume that in needlessly enforcing extreme provisi.mi of this law in cer tain localities at the present time he is endeavoingq to familiarize the public Mind with tle undi.,puted exercise of de.potie powers, with a view to a more extunded assumption of such authority leretafter if h shall find it i6eceass'a'y to the advancement of iai materestN. There is to doubt that irn South Caro isa there -vill be excuses provid. c( for t in. I itt r- (lit $ iotn the e .-t. a r -q ir i .....t K , .x 1' . - i d i *t Kia. K! x ii nra....., *si d t- s.atle t., ( t : t tra gh t he lae aoi of his ai r. :1" th.-y witl i.e p.r iled. A s.tato chu ini thle Sate is ett .te vo inag to Iff.t thel reinaval at Mr. tJohna-.n, te Unitedl States Maarabaal, antd tosubsticate a Mr. Huge int his laice. IIloge has been to Washaing ton to uirge his cladimiS personall Ionw Ga'ranat, and Johnrston, alaramed tat this mlovemlenat, hats been endeavot ing to ingrataiaae lana-elf at heoadquaraters by mi kisng whiosenle arrests of allegeli Ku -Klux. Thec mtost petty ctae i-f us-tat have been mnagnaified into or L az-I comtbinatitons to overthrow thle G.overnment of the [United Staates. In (.amden 0one Gotss, a Deputy Col fector of lInternal Revenue, kept a, store in wvhich he sold beer. IHe be camie enagegd ina an altercation with one of hat customers in regard to tak ing a di ak, antd the customer struck him over the head with a small cane. Tihe tutn who struck the bloiw and a ieighbor who was qjuiietly looking ona, andh who was not evetn accused of hay ing haaO tny blaud in thae as~ault, wete baoih l.ahld i:' $2,000t bai to tappflar tat ('.alumia ~ for trial ona a chaarge of ca naspi rI lag aiga isa a tan offieer of' thie Unaited Su*.tes. Eqallyh frivolous air rests have hbeen maide int aill directions ad, the jails arc already fill.u to oveaflowitng with wretches arr ted under the arbitrary provisionas of the Ku Klux law,saome of them probably guilty, buit miany more, according to: the best attainable evidetioe, entirely free from ay participation in the crimeas of the obnoxious asaoeaiation. TIhe organaizat ion of associat ions for purposes of mob violenoce is utterly ini deafentible, arid such bodies, when proved to exist, should be summarily suppressed. But far more crimtinal and infinitely more dangerous to the liberties of theo nation is the unauthor ised legislation whieh, uinder the pretence of correctiog a loeal evil, hias assumed to confer despotie authority over the whole people upon a man whose offielal course has been obiefly distinguisheid by persistent and un sorupulous efforts for aseif-aggrandize mient.-N. Y. D~oily Sun. Several haundred persons perished in the prairie faren in the Northwant irrest of Citisens. As was. not expected, the President proclamation of the I2h, wall follow ed five diats thereaftor by anothei auspending the privileges of-the wri of Aabeas corpus in certain sectious 01 South CaIrolila. Od Thursday Ist, the militar authurition at this place commtueuce taking arrests. Several citizens o the town were arrested while it, th, pursuit of their avocatious, and nan per-,aons from the country, while ii tOIwn on1 busirness, werO also detAijel aud idgedl in prikoni. A-baui the %ain hour that the at Iests c.'.oR)mmen1cod in town, tile umili tary begitu to move, squadrons o c-tvalry airehing out in various di rectiona, for tie purpove of arrentin those in the country ainuist whom ac cusations have been maade, for viola tions of the "Ka-Kiux" and -En forcemen!.' Acts oif Congress. O Fridvay, Saturday and Sua.day, squad of soldiers were returning at all hour haviig ini thuir cuitody citizens of th county, enbracing min in all sta tions, and occasionally amongst tb number would be found a niegro, o whi'h clas.- Gro are now under arrest The total number now in jAl a this placo is 79, of whom two Pire tie groes ; and coinfed in the militari caap are als. three negroes-Thai Arcber and Reuben Goins, of th< town, and Samuel, Sitiril of the county. It may be proper here to state that very few arrests have been made aftei night, the lurger number having beet in the day time, and, so far as we hav, been able to learn, no show of resis. t-mee to authority has been naide As may be supposed the jAil is vcr3 much crowded, in cons.:quence 01 which the prison accommodations are being increased, by fitting the second story of the building for that purpose, There Li no despotsi on the part of the offiilais in charge to treat the prioners with harshness, and wc have been requested by some of the prisoners to say that there treatment has been as kind and as mild as they could expect. The following lit em braces all who are confnued n 'the jail up to the hour of our going to press : A. I? Mn('.nnat, 3.4 % A. Oaaauw, Win. Robinson, J. 0, Chambers, J, Henry Wallace, J. H1. Wood, J. Piu Herndon, J. L. Plexico, R A. Biok, J. Pi. Warlick, Dr. J. B. Hunter, J, S. Miller, Saniel Wood, D. 11. Car. roll,t E. F. Bell, E. S. Ramsay, S. J. Harvey, S. R. Ramsay, Jame White, I H. Meiill, John White, W. U. Wlitesides, T. A. Douglas, J. H. Plexico j ., 0. H. M. Steele, J. ,. Plexico, t-r , A. R. Harper, G. 1). Hood, R. 11. Grrdner, John Raturee, James Pressley,* James Rataree, S. 0. Brown, M inor Steele, * R. T. Rig. gins, Win. Caldwell, R K. Soaibrn, Lewis Ramaay, J. T. Wilkerson,Sill.. Moss, 11. A. Kell, Starnes Wylie J. M. Sherer, Jacob B. Moore, 11. 11, Sherer, Adolphus Smith, E T. Avery, Wmi. Moss, Iredell Jones, Macy By erl, W. S. May, 10. G. Latham, H. T. May, J. M. Hambright, jr, J. P, Gage, J. M. Ilambright, or., J. P Wit'on1, L. M. Hrdiia, L9. A. Fieffoll, J. H. Au,-toll, He-nry Toao,* D. M, Stewart., R. D Gal braith, E. J. Djw ining, Jnamues Hampton, J. M. Moss, WV. WV. Gaffney, Harry Moss, J. WV, Dobston, A. Knrkpatriel, Dr J. 1, Allison, John Ramnsay,J. W. Mitch eli, Alex A . B arrn, 8.trt O wens, W. E. Camp, Quitiuella McClain, W., T. Spencer. *Negroes. tDischarge4 I lhe-c arrests have aill been made hby the mialitary tauthaori~ies, without formnal waarranats, and it is expected that a p roimiuary eximainmuton of each pd-ouea~r will be iad before the Unite~d St.ate~e Co'mm~isioner, when, if in thme opm ion of the 00maa nissioner, the aevklence fails to sustain the charge, tho pr'isoner wil be released. In the examnination beftre the Comis sioner, the accus~ed wil be alloiwed counsel. The examination will be public, and conducte~d ir the manner of all legal proceedingsbefore a Com.. miussioneir. Attornmey-G-neral Aker man anid D). T. Corbin, Ditrict A t torncy of this State arehiere, and, we arc inaforamed, will remnin unatil thes conclusion of the invesigation. No time has yet been fixcfor the ex aminattion, so far as we an learn. Of the charges of their nature against any of thei accued we are un abloc to give any inforiation. The authorities are roticeentin regard to their movements and idientione., and we can on' y publish acts as they transpire. deeming oojectures and sensational paragraphe--such as will flood many of the papes at a distante -as quite superfluous, .nd in tendon. ey injurious.--Yorkvill IEnquirer. Forensic. We learn that an effit Is making to secure eminent counsl from abroad to test, in the court wodsthe consti. tutioniality of the indliriminate ar rests made under the Ri Klux Act. It Is thought due to of people that some masterly lawyev whose voice will reach the ear of th North, should be employed to test ti question as to whether there is an limit to the military despotism setln foot in this State-Cumba n im Atiempt to lfatke'Jall -A Desperate Fight s Sam White, the principal of the ruffi.ins eangaed in tle horrible mur , der of Mr. Fi-lea, the depot agent at t Oakley. on the Northeadstern R ilroad ha., since his capturo, boon confined ins the jail, where he was comnittod r on the cha.rgo of murder. iHis illness I at the timo of his e stimiin it mnt, made f it neecCeCatly to ph1ee him in the jaii hospital along with the other patients, and )esterday morning lie gave une i quivueul symptois of a rapid convales. I eencee. Abunat half-past three o'clock in the muornsing lie got up fromn his bed, and, everybody around being, fast - slep, Sam a ittii.te i to elimnab up f the chimnney. This is not built like 1comnon chimnIIaes3, but, with a view to frustrate just sueh an attempt as that Sam was iukiig, is constructed -o as to allow the upward passage of no larger body than that of a diainu tive sweep, and is furnished with a heavy grating at the top. The flue, Iesides, ri-es in a serpentine course as it were, the curves forming three sides of a square. San got to the irst turn, just out of sighIt, and in r traggling to go higher, awoke the hospital stoward, who Was bleeping in the large apart tn .uat for the sick. The atter imiediat.:ly gave the alarm, aud the assistant jailor, hurri id up. At the first.soun.1 of the alarm, San slid down, and as the aszistant j ilor entered he found t he grimy rufliatn at bay in the chimney aid fightirg the hospital steward. Being a man of powerful frame the prisoner threaten ed to get the bette- of his opponient, when the assistant jdilor ordered him to surrender, or he would sh;ojt him. Smu replied with an oath, that "he did not care, and would just lea.ve he shot as hung." As he spoke lie ri.s. ed at the assistant j tilor, who adnmn istered to him a lueky blow upon the head with a large stick. Saim was knock ed down said before lie recovered his wrists were securely fastened with fetters. Deeming his strenagth quite recovered, the jailor di-.charged Sam from the hospital and he is now con fined in 1.;fty the tower alone. The at tempt seems to countenance the idea that San was only ".laying pos.,un" so as to be placed in the City Ilupital whence 1at. e'40ap11 woo empcoted to be easy.-ChAr. News. A Disgtistcd Sheriff. Sheriff P. M. Whitman, of Diau fort County, has given notie of is it, tention to resign early in November. The Beaufort Republican savsi "The cau.so which impels him to ttke this course is the totally impoverished c ,n dition of the County-his inability to get any cheeks for services performed for at least six months to come, and] if he had them, they would not bring one. half the value s.ated, and in frder to carry on the oflica is a perpetual drain u,1on one 's private purse. There is neither honor nor profit in such positionp. There is probably no county in the State so shabbily treat. ed as Beaufort County-the rates of taxation being three miles for the county, and seven for the State, the last of which goes towards the mnaintenance of a thievinag lot of legis lators, and to support as rottten and villanous an administration as was ever shone upon by the noon-day sun. We congratulate Mr. Whlitmnan that he id no longer identihled with this class of cormorants, iad welcome lhim back to peaceful p~ursuitS, and the paths of thme upright." I 'Tobaeoo. The Commissioner of Internal Rev enue has ruled that a leaf tobac ce) dealer may buy and sell unmlanu fact ured tobacco Mtems, but lhe hams nao authiority to buy and sell refuso scraps anad sweepings of tobacco in bulk and unsttatmned. Tfhey are liable to a tax of sixteen cenats per liound, and when founad upon the amarket un stamped should be seized and piro ceeded agiainst for forfeiture. A ci. gar mauufacturer c~tanut be allowed to soll his scraps and sweepings to a dealer in leaf tobacco, in , bulk and( unstamnped, nor eana such dealer be allowed to sell themn in bulk and un, stamnped.-WI~ashingt1on Patrio. The Rhse in Coffee. The recent extraordinary risc in the .price of coffee has produced nmuch disoussiona ini eomm~erci, d cir. eles. The price of good Itio in cargo for intaince has within a few weeks ad. vaneed from 114 cents to nearly 17 cents per pounmd, gold. Other do ecriptions of coffee have risen nearly as miuch. It is statedl that thaere are at present out forty odd thous:and bags of coffee firot hiand in the United Statesi, and some of the large dealers are ordering cargoes from Europe. When the tariff was reduced on coffee, tea, and sugar, a year ago, there was almost immediate decline in the price of those articles, but the short c/op of coffee has influenced the present rise in that "necessity." The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta railroad has been completed from Sumter to Columabia, thins giving a thorough and dlireet cott muicatior' by rail between Wilmington, N. C., andi .Aunusta. (Ia2 B"at1I16 of the In Klux Law A case whibb has just occurred in Mississippi affordh a curious Illustta tion of the way in which Ku-Klux outrages can he manufactured, and also of the Iniquitous manner in which ignorant or corrupt officials niay misuse the power which parti. sau legislation has conferred upon them. In Nodhoba county two dames named Robertson and Barfield bad a disputo regarding the possession of certain artioles of apparel. During the discussion one of the ladies dropped the brush wherewith she was wont to perform the delicate opetation of "dipping ;" aind when she stopped to pink up that indispen sable article, her opponent basely took advantage of her attitude to pitch Into her, to her great personal inconvenience. A suit before a Jus tice for assault followed, in the course of which fifteen neighbord swore that Mrs Barfield's character for truth and verioity was go bad that they would not believe her under oath. Enraged at this, Mrs. Barfield went with her complaints to the United States Cominissioner Simon Jones, who issued a warrant of ariest against the fifteen witnesses on the charge that they. had "banded to gether for the purpose of preventing one Sarah Barfield from obtaining her rights by oivil law, and for the purpose of breaking up the Federal Goverbment." United States troops were called upon to make these ar rests, and the fifteen citizens were no tually marched from their homes under military guard to Jackson, where they were thrown into jail to await trial for a high-handed attempt to overthrow the Government of the United State I It wili be seen how easy it easy it is to find a pretext for making ar rests under the Ku Klux law. It is not necessary for a person to commit a crime or even a misiemeanor in order to find himself in prison on accusation which may or may not be pressed against him. And what Is now do ing in the South may yet be done in the North under the provisions of the same law, which authorizes Grant to proclaim himself an absolute die. tator at his own discretion whenever and wheresoever within the United States he may see fit to do so. la fact, there is nothing to prYent our ambitious President from hereafter instituting the same arbitrary meas. uros against men who may be sus pected of belonging to Greeley clubs that are now conducted with his sane. tion against those who, with or with. out reason, are accused of affiliation with the K.Klux.-New York San. a Epidemic of Disasters. Our telegraphic columns for the last week or more have been nearly a continuous chronicle of calamities and disasters, and the record to-day is al. most as fearful as that of any of its predecessors, Fire, air, earth and water som to have risen in vengeance on the human race. "We have sup. pd full of borrots," ann have grown familiar with almost ever form of oaf. fering. From Chicago the news Is rather reassuring. Dead bodies, it isnstated, are continually found, but the supply of food is said to be ample, and a heavy fall of rain prevented the re newal of the are, which was rendered probable on Saturday by a furious gale .whici -satee the burning brandsuin every directio6,, while the advices, so far as business p rospects are concerned, are decidedly more encouraging. On the other hand the news from other localities in the Northwest and elbewhere is terrible to comtem plate. Oue-third the population of Peshtego is reported to have perished, in Utah a fierce storm on Saturday night, in Salt Lake City, prostrated houses and telegraph wires, and did other damage. In Concord, New Hiamup shire, there was an earthquake yester. day mornieg. At Halifax, Nova Bcotia, a heavy hurriaano prevailed Saturday evening, cau..ing the loss of poverty and of several l ives. In China terrible typhoons have ravish ed the coast ;a great flood has laid ten thoussnd square miles under wa. ter, and the city of Hong Kong i threatend with ibund atton. At Motf golia the rinderpest, has made its ap pearanee. Syraouse, New York, had seven fires Saturday night. At Mon treal on 8ntiday a terrfic galcl did serious damage to life and property, and startled the people from their prayers at Church. The numbher of 'miarite disasters is also unusually grekt. A collision of two steamers on the Ty ne cansed the death of five, persons ; thej ilot b,6at Golden Gate was lost In the China steom, and the United States steamer Colorado has struck upon a rock in the harbor-of Ban Frmnoirco. Truly there sebuis to' he an "epi demio of disasters." Lats from York. We learn that .thee ladie~s isn York have been arrested and put. ini priu.n, on the charge ofatiding and abeling the "Kui Klux.' It seems that tho war onl thei woe has boguni. Shall we hear next of the. arrest of childaeo ? C'olum bin A~eni. Martial Law in Politics. It is just as Sanator Trumbull said it would be ; when the outrageous Ku Klux law was passed, and precisely aint Curl Schurz denounced in the :enatc now apppears as its first fruit. It is nothing to Senator Scott, and tar less to President ' Grant, that United States officials and the highest local magistrates in the doomed dis tiet have united in a solemn denial of each and every one of the charges brought against the people of that portion of South Carolina ; an urgent party necessity lay behind, and an imperious Chief Magistrate sfood reudy to execute whatever decree might be deomed most effective to it. If this outrage can be committed upon the people of one district of the country, it can upon those of another. There is no State not liable at any moment to invasions by Federal troops at the Prosident's individual command. Pretexts are not consid ered of sufficient importance to be even made conbistent with themselves. The whole thing is arbitrary and high-handed. It is absolutism in a country nominally free. It is, done by the man who hypocrit ically st'arted the campaign cry-'Let us have Peace." Can any one longer wonder that fraternal feelings are not restored more rapidly between the two sec tions, wben wrongs of such a ebarac acter are committed without a pro test.--B.son Post. Why do these proclamations come Ilike thunder out of a clear sky ? Where are the reports of d isturb ances which could alone justify such extreme measures ? South Carolina has been as qiet as New Jersey for months past., and yet we are now to believe that nothing but the use of troops and proclamation of martial lavw c.in meet her case. There are some to whom we particularly com mend a consideration of this action of the administration. They are the tepublicans in the great States who have lately carried those States. The victories have brought forth these proclamations. Little as they were meant to convey such a meaning, Grant takes them to signify such an iproval of his readiness to exalt. the work aiove the law as wilt bear him out in any further exhibitions there of. Had Ohio and Pennsylvania gone Democratic he would not have dared issue these unwarranted and desipotio proclamations, but they went Republican, and the proolama tiuns are his construction of the meaning to be attacbed thereto. New Y)rk W1orld. President Grant's Speech. President Grant, during his fro (1ient tours through the country, has u.ually been very brief in his acknowleJgcments of courtesies offer ed him by municipal authoriftfand other bodie. . Oce.sionally, however, at iiportant points, lie gives his im agination wings and indulges in flights of eloquence. At Augusta, Me., the other day, the fact that he uns in the capital of the State spur. red our Chief Magistrate to extraor diiary effort, and the result was one of the wost elborate and eloquent Ppeeches that have yet fallen from the l'resident's lips. Here it is ver baitimn: "My friends, 1 had a v'ery pleasant rception en my visit to your State and city six years ago, which I have nsever forgotten. I was convinced by the memory of the reception I then received that I should have an equally pleasant reception on the pres ent Occasion, and I nam not disap-. pointed. I thank you for your kind. ness, anud hope to meet you again." I. this style of thing tihe result of profonund policy ? D)oes he make such speeches because he wishes to conceal real purposes and ideas? Or Is it bea use he really has no ideas to de clare that lie does not declare any ? Dr. Greeley said the other day that "we want a pman for president who, when called upon for an expression of his views on political and and other subijets of national interests, can give thiem in clear, comprehensive Ilan guage. That's the kind of man," continued Dr. Greeley, "the people wanlt, and that's the kind of man we haven't got now."-New York Bun. Immense Embankment. On the Chesapeako and Ohio rail road, says Mr. Charles Nordhioff, in his last letter to the Tribune, east of Lewis tunnel, these State prison birds are just completing a mnonsper embankment, which stretches across a great gap, in the mountains. Tkhis banik is already 170 feet high, and is to be raised 18 feet higher. .I16is , 200 feet long, and the engipoeg -told mec that it was already the heaviest. embank ment in the world. Lick Run embankment, some miles east of Jer ry's run, is another surprising piece, of work, which is nearly completed. It is 165 feet high, 1,800 feet long. Somebody started the report the other day that Chicago was set on fire by the "rebels." It wouldn't surprise us muchno if the young man who was milking the cow that kicked over the lamp that set the barn on fire should turn out to have been a Ma. jor-General in the Cnnfh.e s-.