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?traps an! darts.
One-fourth of the people of Massachusetts
have deposits in savings' banks, and one-third of
the people in Connecticut,
The London Standard announces that President
Johnson intends visiting England at the expiration
of his term of office.
A man dropped dead in a saloon at Richmond
before he had paid his bill, and the proprietor
refused to give up the body until his relatives
had settled for what he had eaten.
An Italian named Muratori has invented a
kind of felt, made of vegetable substances, which
is tough enough to resist a rifle ball He propo
sea u> ureas suiuicis iu it iu> ,
The Metropolitan Church in Washington is
to have a sofa made of wood from Gethseuiane, a
pulpit of wood from the Mount of Olives, and its
vestibule paved with tiles from Solomonls Temple.
According to Mr. Atkinson, of Massachusetts,
the radical war cost this country $4,000,000,000,
or more than four dollars per minute since
the birth of our Saviour.
-? Among thq, latest novelties is an ironiDg
glove to protect the hand from heat when ironing.
The under part is composed of several thicknesses
of flannel.
??A company of seventy Germans paraded
New York the other day, none of whom had beard
less than a foot long. The captain's whiskers
reached his knees.
The Old School Presbyterian Synod, of Albany,
N. Y., has unanimously passed resolutions
favoring the union of the Old and New School
Presbyterians.
The largest manufactory of shoe pegs in this
country is said to be at Burlington, Vermont,
where one factory is accustomed to transform,
every day, four cords of wood into 400 bushels of
shoe pegs.
?- "What a fine head your boy has?" said an
admiring friend. "Yes," said the fond father,
he's a chip of the old Mock?ain't you, my boy ?'
"Yes, father, teacher said yesterday that I was a
young blockhead."
A negro exhorter at Opelousas, Louisiana,
told his congregation last week that what they
lacked in guns they could make up in matches, adding:
"Tney are cheap?five cents a box?and
those who can't shoot can burn!"
The "Grecian bend" has reached CharlesThe
first vouncr lady seen with it was sur
rounded, in less than five minutes, by about seventeen
young men, each armed with a mustard
plaster in one hand and a bottle of Jamaica ginger
in the other. They thought she had the colic.
The violent deaths in New York city average
one thousand per annum, and the deaths resulting
from disease, but investigated by the coroner,
amount to about one thousand more. The
fees alone paid to the coroners of that city amount
to $26,500 every year.
A party of robbers slushed the track of the
South Carolina Railroad about forty miles from
Charleston, roecently, stopped two freight trains,
burst open the doors of two cars, and robbed them
of goods: the stolen property was afterwards recovered,
but no clue obtained.as to the robbers.
The army of the United States, according
to the Register for 1868, consists of five artillery,
ten cavalry and forty-five infantry regiments,
which, with the staff, comprise 49,938 enlisted men
1 n ftJO ?hn laftor indll
ailU <^yiO wuiuiiauvnicu viuuio) ? ? ?? ?
ding one geueral, one lieutenant-general, five major
genenus and nineteen brigadiers.
??The Lancaster Ledger publishes a letter received
there from Liberia, in which the writer, a
freedman named John D. Wright, says: ."I have
a house and land, a good coffee farm started, worth
about four hundred dollars. Molasses, coffee, ginger,
potatoes, rice and rum are the cheapest produce
here of our country. Rum is $2 a gallon.
An affray occurred in Lancaster District, a
few miles northeast of the village, on Friday week,
between Spencer Laney and Alexander Caston
(both colored.) in which the former was instantly
killed. Caston came in on Saturday and surrendered
himself to the sheriff. The deceased was
the father-in-law of the prisoner.
A dispatch from Washington savs there is
the best authority for saying that President Johnson
neither approved the proposition for the withdrawal
of Seymour's name nor intimated a wish
for a new nomination. On the contrary, the President
looks upon the proposition for a change of
candidates as ill-timed and injudicious.
?The Washington Star says that Captain
Meigs of that city has invented a new rifle, with
which fifty shots can be fired, without taking the
gun from the shoulder, in forty-five seconds, and
easily in one minute, the cartridges being contained
in the stock. The weight, with its cartridges, is
but twelve pounds.
?- Collector A. G. Mackey, of Charleston, was
abusing the South, in the rotunda of the Astor
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.House, a tew days ago, wnen a new xora curuuer
warned him to desist. The warning was not heeded,
when the coroner knocked the collector down.
Several Charleston merchants vouch for the truth
of this statement, says the Mercury.
There is very little difference in the strength
of the armies of France and Prussia, as they are
now organized. The French army has, all told,
and ready for service at short notice, 1,300,000
men. Prussia ditto, 1,140,000. Should these
immense armies be brought in oonflict, there would
soon be a decision as to the permanent victory.?
No long contest could possibly be maintained between
powers so well provided with available forces.
A French journalist, writing shortly before
the last Spanish revolution, sketches Queen Isabella's
portrait frankly, without fear or favor;
She is thirty-eight, but looks older; has Bourbon
obesity and premature wrinkles; round face, turned
nose, small blue eyes, highly colored complexion,
"short, swollen and slightly scaly" bands,
masculine manners and voice, and dresses richly,
but "looks like a queen in Sunday finery."
Cnnm-ess Hall. Saratoga, which is claimed
to be the largest hotel in the country, accommodated
daring the season, from June 15th to September
15th, over ten thousand persons. During that
time the hotel cooked thirty-nine thousand chickens,
three hundred and sixty thousand dozen eggs,
fifty-nine thousand pounds of beef and twenty-five
thousand pounds or lamb. Of mutton it used fifteen
thousand pounds: of veal nine thousand
pounds; of turkeys one thousand five hundred,
and of other fowls five thousand.
The Report of General Meade, including
the report of Captain Mills, relative to the Camilla
riot, has been given to the public. The report of
Captain Mills and accompanying affidavits corroborate
the statements of the affair heretofore given.
There were nine negroes killed and twenty-five
wounded, and six white persons wounded. General
Meade says the excitement in Georgia has passed
off with the riot, and no call having been made
on him?the Legislature, as he thinks, properly
declining the request of the call?no troops were
sent to aid the Executive.
A cotemoorary says to get. rats out of houses
there is nothing equal to a good cat, but she must
not be handled by children, or any other person:
must be fed rather sparingly at regular times, ana
as much as possible on fresh meat, and usually by
.the same person. She will soon become accustomed
to such circumstances, will answer the call
of this person, who can change her about to different
parts of the house?as a night in the attic, a
" ni?ht in the cellar, and so on. When treated in
this way she will be rather shy and wild, but will
soon become a terror to rats.
The rates of taxation in the United States
in the years 1800 and 1868 will be given in an interesting
table, now in course of preparation by
the Bureau of Statistics at Washington. The exact
figures, supported by documentary proof and
going into minute details, will appear in the tables
when published. The rough estimates are as follows
: In 1860 the Federal tax paid by the people
of the United States was $56,000,000; the State
tax $24,000,000, and county, town, special and
other taxes $54,000,000?making a total of $134,000,000,
or about $4.32 for each individual. In
1368 the amount of Federal tax was $500,000,000;
State tax $75,000,000, and the county, town,
special and other taxes $576,000,000?making a
total of $851,000,000, or $23 for each person in the
United States.
The United States Supreme Court has recently
made an important decision on the subject
of the transfers of lands professing to be an absolute
conveyance, but accompanied with a concealed
verbal agreement between the parties securing a
benefit to the grantor at the expense of his creditors.
The court says that the law will not permit
a debtor in failing circumstances to convey his
lands by deed without reservation, and yet occupy
it for a limited time for his own benefit Hence,
when a debtor, in pursuance of a private understanding,
retains possession, rent free, for one year,
of lands sold by him, such conduct creates a secret
trust for his benefit, and renders the conveyance
fraudulent as to creditors, and void. And it made
no difference in the legal aspect of the case before
the court that the interest reserved was not oi
I great value, and that the debtor did not intend to
defraud bis creditors.
Ihe forkviUe inquirer.
YORKVILLE. S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 22, 1868.
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PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS, 1869.
The Proprietor of the Enquirer announces the
following as the premiums offered for the largest
Clubs of subscribers to the Enquirer for the year
1869:
The first premium will be a four seven inch hole
Cooking Stove, known as the " Standard." The
furniture connected with the stove embraces a pot,
kettle, griddle, spider, ham-boiler, waffle-irons,
three joints of stove-pipe and an elbow; togethei
with a set of tin-ware, embracing eleven pieces, the
whole valued at $35.
The second, will be a Family or Pulpit Bible,
of large size, handsomely and richly bound, and
valued at $25.
The third, will be a No. 3, Two-Horse Brin?
ley Plow, with steel mold, two detached steel
points, cotton-scraper and sweep, valued at $20.
The fourth, will be a No. 1, One-Horse Brinley
Plow, with steel mold, two detached steel
points, cotton-scraper, and iron scooter, valued at
$15.
The premiums are all useful and valuable articles,
and of first-rate quality. The Stove is as
good as the best; and the Plows are the most popular,
for general purposes, of any manufactured in
the Sonthern country?those who are using them
being much pleased with their performance. In
addition to this, they have taken prizes at a num
ber of Agricultural Fairs where they have been
exhibited.
The premiums will be awarded to the successful
competitors on the Second Monday op March,
1869. The person getting up the largest club at
$2.50 in currency, for each subscriber, will be entitled
to the first choice of the above premiums; the
person getting the second largest club, to the second
choioe; and the person getting up the third largest
club, to the third choice; and the person getting
up the fourth largest club, to the fourth choice.
Competitors may begin to get subscribers at onoe,
the time of subscription to commence now or on
the first of January, 1869. The monoy will be required
when the names are entered on our books.
Further particulars will be given hereafter.
JtgP'To persons who make up Clubs of ten or
more names, but who may fail to obtain a prize,
we will send the Enquirer, one year, free of charge;
and to those who send a Club of twenty or more
names, but who may fail to obtain a prize, we will
forward a copy of the Enquirer, one year, fieeof
charge, and a copy of either, "The Land We
Love," "Godey's Lady's Book," "Peterson's Magazine,"
or any weekly newspaper published in the
United States.
SOLDIERS IN YORRVILLE.
On Thursday evening last, a Company of the
8th United States Infantry arrived in Yorkville,
by railroad. This eorapany is under the command
of Brevet-Major W. S. Worth, and numbers about
forty men. These troops are here in obedience
to an order issued by General Meade, distributing
troops throughout his Department, for
nr.,, rlictiirhnnnp that Jnav
cue puriiusc ui icpicoouig uiij viiwvv.. ? v
occur during the approaching election. The order
referred to, assigns one company to each of
the Districts of Chester, Union, Laurens, Abbeville
Newberry, Edgefield, Beaufort, Georgetown and
Darlington. From this assignment, we iufer that
no political significance should be given to the
coming of troops among us, as in some of the
above mentioned Districts the whites are in a
majority, while in others the reverse is the case.
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THE COTTON WORM.
James Brian, Esq., of this District, has left at
the Enquirer office, several branches of cotton
stalks taken from one of his fields, which are literally
covered with worms. All of the leaves and
small twigs have been stripped off, and the stalks
nresent the aDDearance of being dead. The worms
are about two-thirds of an inch in length, of a
dark color, encircled with several yellow stripes,
and are said to be of the same species of those
which swept the cotton fields of Florida and the
West At the suggestion of Mr. Brian, we placed
the worms in a common glass tumbler and kept
them covered for two or three days, when a number
of winged insects made their appearance, very
much resembling the common candle fly.
The worms on entering a field commence their
attacks on the leaves, twigs and small bolls on the
cotton stalk, and continue their work while a vestige
of either remains. JThey have, as yet, done no
any injury to any other kind of vegetation, but confine
their depredations to the cotton plant If the
worm has taken up his abode permanently among
us, the days of successful cotton-planting are gone.
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STONE & MURRAY'S GREAT CIRCUS.
It will be seen by an advertisement in our paper,
that the famous circus of Stone & Murray will exhibit
in Yorkville, on Tuesday, November 3d. This
circus, in years past, was well known and very
popular under the management of Stone & McCollum,
and its present proprietors, in keeping up its
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loriner stanaara 01 excellence, nave tvcuicu oucu
an arrry of performers that all patrons will be captivated
by the exhibitions. The Richmond press
pronounce the entertainments of Stoue & Murray
the most elegant and satisfactory ever given in that
city. This is sufficient evidence that this circus
is worthy of the patronage of circus-going people.
We clip the following from the Richmond Enquirer
and Examiner:
''It is the best appointed and most magnificent
establishment of the kind that has visited this city
since the evacuation, and is daily and nightly
thronged with visitors who express themselves, if
possible, more than pleased with the performances,
of the riders, gymnasts and clowns, each of whom'
is a proficient in his or her particular line. Independently
of the high order of the talent du cirque,
we would notice as a particular feature of this
company the entire absence of anything bordering
in the least upon that coarseuess which so often
deters persons from taking their wives and young
ones to such institutions.
ELECTION RETURNS.
'Tto nl^>?!nnc> PnnorrooBmon and various State
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officers, occurred in four States on the 13th, viz:
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska. In all
but one of these States the Republicans have carried
the day. In Indiana, the returns are not full
enough to warrant a definite conclusion, but the
probabilities are strong that the Republican ticket
has prevailed there also.
In Pennsylvania the latest returns give the Republican
State ticket a majority of 11),083 votes
The vote for Congressmen shows the election of.
eight Democrats and fifteen Republicans, a gain of
three Democratic members over the last Congressional
election. The vote is a very close one, and
considering the whole vote of the State?about
700,000?the Republican majority of about 10,000
shows how closely the parties are divided.
In Ohio there were nineteen Congressmen to be
elected. The latest returns indicate the election of
seven Democrats and twelve Republicans?a Democratic
gain of four members over the last Congressional
election. The State has gone Republican by
a majority estimated at 15,000. Impeacher Ashley
is defeated?and so is Vallandighara?two extremists
on either side. Bingham is re-elected.
i From Indiana, the returns are too indefinite to
s determine the result Baker (Republican) and
Hendricks (Democrat) were the candidates for
( Governor. The Republicans claim the election of
Baker by a majority of about five hnndred ; while
i the Democrats had not given up the defeat of their
candidate. The Congressional election seems also
to have been very close, resulting, so far as heard
from, in a gain of one member on the Democratic
side. D. W. Yoorhees is claimed to have beaten
his radical opponent
From Nebraska nothing is positively known as
to the result. As the Democrats entertained but
t little hope of success in that State, we may safely
, say that it also has gone Republican.
From the three States of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
| and Indiana, the summing up shows a total gaiu
t of eight members to Congress on the Democratic
' side, with the Legislature and State officers Republican
; and a vote evenly enough divided to enable
the party that works roost to carry the next election.
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: PREPARATIONS FOR THE ELECTION.
Wo are informed that the Commissioners of
Election for York District?John L. Watson, Esq.,
1 John Martin and Reece Joyaer?rnetat this place
1 on Monday last for the purpose of making the neoessary
arrangements.for conducting the elections
on the third of November next.
It is understood that the precincts will be the
! same as those established by military authority,
and areas follows: Yorkville, Bethel, Clay Hill,
McConnellsville, Blaireville, Wylie's Store, Clark's
' Store, Boydton, Bethany, Fort Mills, Bock Hill,
Coate's Tavern and Pride's Old MilL
The Precincts are divided into three Divisions,
' each one of which is under the superintendence of
one of the Commissioners, who will appoint
Managers to conduct the elections at each voting
place. Beece Joyner is assigned to what was known
1 under the military rtgxme) as the first precinct;
John Martin, to the second; and John L Watson,
to the third.
The Commissioners have determined to provide
two places for receiving votes, both at Yorkville
and Bock Hill, one of which is intended for the
whites and the other for the freedmen. At York_i?_
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Vine, A. TT . UCOIU) U. U. ucnu auu uuuu v.. jjhloe,
Esq., have been designated as managers
for one of the boxes; and W. C. Owen, C. E.
Becbtler and J. K. Wagener (colored) for the
other. So far as we have been able to learu, the
managers at the other precincts in the District have
not been appointed.
On the Friday, Saturday and Monday, previons
to the election on Tuesday, the Managers of
Elections at the various Precincts will proceed to
revise the registration lists formerly used by the
military. The names of persons entitled to vote
under the new Constitution, and which are not
already registered, will be added to the lists; and
the names of those who are disqualified will be
stricken off.
THE LATE ELECTIONS.
The elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana
are over, and the Democrats are beaten. This result
is taken as conclusive of the voice of those
States in the November election; and as the success
of the Democratic ticket, doubtful at most, is
' now almost hopeless without the vote at least of two
of these three States, we may as well consider what
will be the effects of the defeat upon our fortunes.
The struggle made by the Southern wing of the
Democratic party for the success of Seymour and
Blair was not from a personal preference of one
over the other, but from the principles involved in
their success. The triumph of the one party, it
was hoped, would result in overturning the Congressional
plan of reconstruction now in operation
at the South, and in restoring these States to their
rights under the Constitution. The triumph of
the other would keep us ground into the dust of
tyranny for a period indefinitely in the future.
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Hence tne interest leit in me cuauueet ui mo nvai
aspirants; and as the figures are giving strong evidence
that we will be doomed to wait for the events
of the future, we may as well set our houses iu order,
and prepare ourselves for endurance until a
day of deliverance shall come.
It is, no doubt, possible for us to live under the
present state of affairs, and perhaps to prosper.
All depends upon the sense and discretion exercised
by those who make the laws under which we
are to suffer. If they are mindful of their own interests,
it is possible that their legislation will not
be so altogether one-sided as their past acts would
induce us to expect At any rate, the material
prosperity of our State should now be the prime
motive influencing us. If we can restore the
wealth of the past, we will find it less difficult to
recover, by its means, the freedom we have, only
for a time, we hope, lost The wealth of a State
generally controls the politics of the State; and if
there are not votes enough to give the supremacy
to virtue and intelligence, we must rely upon a preponderance
of wealth to help us.
Above all. our Deoole should abstain from vio
lencc or threats. We are living under a dc fado
government, and while it exists we must obey the
laws. The very earliest moment that we can tumble
it overboard, we may seize upon to act; but at
present, neither violence nor political measures will
help us. We are powerless to act in our own behalf,
and hence good behavior will pay better than
bad.
Nor need we be despondent, because the present
hopes upon which we have built are likely to
fail. Our cause is one of justice and right, and if
it triumphs not to day, it will yet rise above the
waves of passion and prejudice that now sweep
over it. Until that day comes, let us be hopeful
and prudent, and virtuously determine to make the
best of our misfortunes, and so live as to become
worthier of the better future in store for us.
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MERE-MENTION.
President Johnson has issued a proclamation
appointing Thursday, November 26th, as a day of
national praise, thanksgiving and prayer, and recommending
its general observance by the people
of the United States. The Commissioner of
Pensions estimates that he will need an appropriaalion
of $23,672,928 for his department, for the
year ending June 30, 1870. Jos. H. Thompson,
an agent of the Treasury Department, has
been in Charleston examining into the accounts of
the Custom House. A. T. Stewart paid more
tax on his income for 1865, than was paid by the
people of ten States and four Territories, and more
' than was paid by either one of seventeen other
Stages! The census of 1860 showed the population
of the United States to have consisted of
26,973,843 whites and 4,441,730 blacks. A
child was born in Caswell county, N. C., recently,
without hands or feet. Among the wealthy
foreign residents of Paris, are fifty negro and mulatto
families. Immense flocks of wild pigeons
are daily passing over the neighborhood of
Petersburg, Va. Wilmington, North Carolina,
is importing white barbers from Philadelphia.
The snnnlv nf ?nld in Pnrnne and America is
now about two hundred million dollars greater than
I that of silver. The Artesian well at the St.
Louis County farm is nearly four thousand feet
deep and no water yet. The fears of a European
war have abated. The Paris 1 resse, however,
says that the armories of France were never
busier than at present. Hon. Jesse A. Bynum,
for eight years a member of Congress from
' North Carolina, died recently in Louisiana, aged
73 years. A national convention of the advocates
of the political rights of women is called to
meet in Washington next December. The call is
issued by the Universal Franchise Committee, and
is intended to be a stirring one. Gen. Meade
and staff arrived in Charleston on Friday morning
last. A Paris belle has a silver bathing tub
worth $10,000. The Jewish faith in this
country is represented by nine periodicals. The i
Hebrew population in the United States is estimated
at 300,000. Snow fell at. Portland and i
elsewhere in Maine, on Monday. Stripes on i
pantaloons will be considered fashionable this win
tor. "Thr^rench army's field artillery ootwiste
of 11,200 cannon. Chicago omnibuses are
hereafter to be built to contain forty passengers.
Chicago is a huge city in many respects. " "" In
Paris boops are do longer worn, and skirts are either
very long or very short "The ladies in Poland
are not permitted to wear black or gray dresses,
and arc flogged for non-complianoe with the
law. "The Sheriff of Fairfield District advertises
no less than sixty-six plantations to be sold
on the first Monday in November next A
late Quarterly Review estimates the population of
the world at 1,360,200,000. Some one, it is
said, has invented a cigar-making machine that
turns out one hundred thousand a day. In
Russia the man of next importance to the Emper
or is the editor of the Moscow Gazette,
JEW ADVEBTIBEKEET8.
J. S. Phillips A Co.?Merchant Tailor.
W. B. Williams?Collector's Folice.
W. E. Erwin and Geo. J. Steele?Administrator's
Notice.
G. W. Thomson with Wylie A Roddey, Rock Hill
?Dry Goods, Groceries, Ac.
T. M. Dobeon A Co.?And Still They Come?
Wanted.
R, K. Scott, Governor?Municipal Elections.
Stone A Murray?Circus.
P. C. Harris, Judge of Probate?Citation?Reuben
McConnell, Applicant?W. E. McCounell,
Deceased
G. L. Riddle?Wool Carding.
R. Lathan?Religious Notice.
Election Tickets. V'
Wm, H. Bernard?Agents Wanted.
Daniel Horlbeck?In Bankruptcy?In the Matter
of Bela Sizer..
POLITICAL ITEM8.
-rThe New York World of the 16th instant, in
a doable leaded article, suggests a chaoge of candidates
for the Democratic party.
?The effect of the election news in Wall-street
was to cause a general buoyancy in the markets.
Almost everything became "uppish."
? H. T. Helmbold, a patent medicine roan, has
written a letter in favor of Seymour and Blair, and
given a check for forty thousand dollars, to be used
to aid the election.
? The Democrats of the Fifth District of Massachusetts
are thinking of running John Quincy
Adams for Congress. The Republican split gives
them a hope that a strong Democratic candidate
can run in between Butler and Dana.
? The largest vote ever polled in New York
city was two years ago, when 114,169 were polled.
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, polled 9,000 above this,
but New York ought to poll 150,000 votes in
November.
?The Democracy of the 2nd Congressional District
of South Carolina, have nominated R. W.
Seymour, Esq., for Congress, vice Hon. A. P. Aldrich,
declined. Mr. Seymour has accepted the
nomination.
? Hon. B. H. Hill, of Georgia, now in New
York, writes a letter to the New York Times in
which he says: "I shall return home mortified if
not a wiser man. Mortified only because I find in
the North a bitter, systematic, adroit and persistent
misrepresentation of the temper, desires and
views of the Southern whites, far exceeding my
anticipations."
? Bennett, of the New York Herald, has made
nominations for 1872, He says: "We may yet
witness, four years from next March, the spectacle
of a restored Union, symbolized in the persons
of John Quincy Adams and Wade Hampton?
Massachusetts and South Carolina?marching arm
in arm into tlye White House to take possession as
its legitimate occupants for the next Presidential
term."
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AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
?Corn is rotting in some parts of Kentucky for
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want oi stocK 10 eat it.
? The wheat crop in California this year amounts
to twenty minions of bushels?an enormous
yield.
? Minnesota expects a crop of about fifteen
million bushels of wheat this season, worth twenty
million dollars. The State is only ten years old.
?Letters from Georgia report that in consequence
of the destruction caused by the caterpillars
and boll-worms, the cotton crop of 1868 will
not yield more than half the amonnt produced in
1867.
? The New York Timet says: "This season
cotton is coming forward rapidly, and in large quantities.
Since the opening of the cotton year, on
the first of the past month, up to the end of last
week, over 55,000 bales were received at this port,
which is 25,000 biles more than were received for
the corresponding period of last year. Tho exports
to Europe, thus far, are also much larger than
they were for the same time last year. This is a
great advantage both to the North and the Southfurnishing
the South with money, and keeping our
commercial exchanges of the North in good condition.
EDITORIAL* INKLINGS.
Convention in Chester.
A Convention of Delegates from the Sixth
Judicial Circuit, we are informed, will meet at
Chester on Friday next, 23d instant, for the pur
pose of nominating a Democratic candidate for
Solicitor.
Adjournment of Congress.
Wade, President of the Senate, add Colfax,
Speaker of the House, attended iu Washington on
the 16th instant, and adjourned both Houses of
Congress until the I Oth of November next. Only
four Senators and eleven representatives were
present.
Change of Candidates.
Immediately after the elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, an editorial appeared iu
the New York World proposing the withdrawal
of the present Democratic candidates for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency, and the substitution
of others. Parties in Washington forwarded
a dispatch to the Democratic leaders in New York
on the subject, and received the following reply:
"New York, October 16.?To Jonan D. Hoo.
Tknra io nrt nnfhrmH' nnr is it nossiblc to
change front. All our friends consider it totally
impracticable, and equivalent to disbanding our
forces. We of New York are not panic stricken.
(Signed) .,f S. J. TILDEN,
AUGUST BELMONT.
AUGUSTUS SCHELL."
DCath of B. F. Randolph.
The Columbia Phoenix, of Sunday morning
last, brings us intelligence of the death of B. F.
Randolph?better known as "Burnt District"
Randolph?a negro who claims to represent Orangeburg
district in the Senate of South Carolina.
His death occurred at Cokesbury, in Abbeville
District, on Friday afternoon last The account
in the Phoenix states that Randolph was on
an electioneering tour through the up-oountry.
On Wednesday he passed over the Greenville railroad,
and made himself obnoxious to many of the
passengers by violent expressions and threats, but
was not molested. He delivered an address at
Abbeville Court House the next day. On Friday
morning, he took the cars for Anderson, and on
arriving at Cokesbury, entered the up train, deposited
his carpet-bag and shawl on a seat in the
ladies' car, and returned to the platform. At this
moment three white men rode up, dismounted and
hitched their horses about fifty yards from the
train. They advanced rapidly towards Randolph
and fired upon him simultaneously. They then
jumped on their horses and made their escape.
Randolph fell as soon as the shots were fired,
and upon examination was found to be mortally
wounded in the head, chest and lower part of the
body. The express messenger took the body in
charge and took it to Columbia, whence it was expected
to be sent to OrangebuTg. The men who
killed Randolph are not known, and could not be
identified, although the murder took place in broad
daylight At last accounts the murderers had not
been arrested.
The Charleston Newt says that the following
sketch of Randolph, published after the adjournment
of the Reconstruction Convention, contains
all that was was generally known about him up to
the time of his election to the State Senate:
"B. F. Randolph is a tall, heavily built, light
colored individual, with genuine kinky negro hair
and a very large mouth. His face is familiar on
the streets of Charleston, though his name is probably
unknown to nine out of ten men who see him.
He is civil in his demeanor, and so ftr as tho questions
of confiscation and disfranchisement are concerned,
veiy moderate and conservative in the oSinions
which he expresses, but he insists that all
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ignored by the laws. He was born in Kentucky,
but moved in early life to Ohio, where he received
a good common school edacatioo, and when he arrived
at the age of manhood, he set himself np for
a minister of the gospel. Daring the war he received
an appointment as chaplain of a negro regiment,
and in following the fortunes of his com*
rnand he was thrown upon the soil of South Carolina.
Since the close of the war he has been employed
in Charleston as editor of a negro newspaper,
and as a subordinate in the Freeamen's Bureau,
and he has also served as a traveling orator
of the Radical party throughout nearly the whole
State. By what purpose of logic, or on what principle
of, law, he was assigned by by his party to
represent Orangeburg District, does not appear.
He is phlegmatic and not particularly brilliant, but
decidedly the leader of the delegation, and one of
the prominent men of the negro convention, socalled.
New Method of Cultivating Cotton.
The following new ideas in relation to an improved
mode of cultivating the staple, we take
from the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph of the 15th instant:
"Gossiping the other night upon the probabilities
and possibilities of cotton growing, an experienced
and intelligent planter in the circle expressed
the opinion that "one of these days" more
than four bales of cotton would be raised to the
acre upon our poor pine uplands in Middle Georgia.
The method he developed was briefly this:
To raise the cotton plants in a hot bed, so as to
have them rfeady to transplant, and as large as possible
for that purpose, so soon 6s frosts were gone
in the spring. Meanwhile to lay out in squares or
hills, eight feet apart each wav, and have these
hills excavated deeply and widely, and heavily manured.
By early transplanting, the bolls would
begin to open in June, ancL in a favorable year,
produce till November. With two stalks to the
Bill and fifty matured bolls to the stalk, his calculation
was that the product would be seven thousand
pounds of seed cotton to the acre. But if
one were to judge by a cotton-patch we saw this
fall, with an average of about three hundred bolls
and blooius to the stalk, and add the condition of
five full months fruiting time, it is difficult to tell
what would be the product of an acre of cotton under
such conditions. We should like to see the
experiment tried."
Conspiracy to Assassinate President Johnson.
The "Quid Nuncs" of Washington have
recently been considerably exercised with reference
to an alleged conspiracy to assassinate President
Johnson: The Washington Exprtss furnishes
the following particulars on the subject:
"The facts as alleged are certainly startling, and
are well calculated to inspire alarm if they have
the least foundation in troth. It seems, so the
story goes, that pending the impeachment trial a
number of negroes, led Dy a few white uien. banded
together 111 the first ward of this city and took
the most solemn oaths to assassinate the President
if he should be convicted by the high oourt of impeachment
and should attempt to resist tho execution
of its judgment When impeachment failed,
the object for which they had banded together
failed with some, who abandoned the organization,
while others, more bold and reckless, continued to
meet and talk over the matter until they renewed
their oaths to kill the President any how. By
some means or other a man named frank Evans,
who resides on K street, near Twenty-second, and
who has been for some time employed in the machinery
department of the note printing bureau of
the treasury, became cognizant of what was going
on. Evans made the facts known, and suspicion
was at once directed towards certain localities in
the upper part of the city, where it was ascertained
the negroes were in the habit of secretly meeting
and drilling. Last night Brigadier-General
Morris Miller, of the Quartermaster-General's
Department, U. S. A., called at the note-printing
bureau, where Evans was engaged, and m company
with tbo latter proceeded to the places where
tho negroes were wont to assemble, and it is said
General Miller was thoroughly convinced of the
existence of the plot, and the name of one individual
is given who is alleged to be the head and front
of the plot Measures were immediately inaugurated
to effect tho arrest of all the parties engaged
in the scheme, and it was deemed important that
the discovery should be kept as secret as possible.
It leaked out, however, the newspaper men got
hold of it, and whether true or false, the country
has had another exciting feast and another nine
days' wonder."
Increase of the National Debt*
Hon. Robert J. Walker, late Secretary of
the Treasury, has recently been writing a series of
articles on the subject of the national debt, which
has attracted considerable attention. In answer
to a friend writing to him from Philadelphia, with
reference to the matter, he says:
"In reply to your inquiry I would say that the
table of tne public debt of the United States at the
various periods, referred to in the National Intelligencer
of yesterday morning, is accurate in all respects,
having been taken from the books of the
United States Treasury."
"You ask me if it is a fact that the annual expenditures
of the government have been Increased,
as therein stated, over forty-six millions of dollars
($46,056,559) by an augmentation to that extent
of the yearly interest in currency of the public deb?
since 30th April, 1865 ? I answer that it is an indisputable
fact; and I will add that from a careful
consideration of the condition of the treasury, it is
clear that this annual interest will go on increasing.
It is possible that there may be a small redaction,
of the public debt last month, but this reduction,
if made, will be in debts bearing mainly no interest,
or in war claims withheld, whilst the debt
bearing coin will be augmented. That there is an
increased yearly expenditure exceeding forty-six
millions of dollars since April 30,1865, to meet the
augmented interest as ourrency of the public debt
is certain.
"This is the true test of our financial condition,
and to me it seems certain that nothing but a total
change of policy will save us from national bankrunfntT
TV iiu nhancp nf nnlicv must, hft Wa<vh1 unnn I
a vast decrease of our annual expenditures. As
recommended in my financial letter of November
last, we must abolish the freedraen's bureau; we
must recall the army from the South and reduce it
to a moderate peace establishment; we must terminate
there the joint rule of the negro and the
bayonet, and slavery and secession having been
forever abandoned, permit the Southern States, in
obedience to the federal constitution, to govern
themselves as before the rebellion.
"The fact of this vast increase of the annual interest
of the public debt is not a disputed Question?it
rests on transcripts from the rooks or the
treasury, and cannot be denied. This item of expenditures
for the increased annual interest of the
public debt is nearly eaual to double the entire
yearly expenditures of Mr. Polk's administration
before the Mexican war, and nearly equal to its
subsequent annual expenditures, including the war
and heavy payments for the principal and interest
of the public debt.
"But even if we take the 30th of November last,
the date of the last annual report of the Secretary
of the Treasury, we find the increased annual interest
in currency of the public debt $26,574,329
from the 30th of November last, 1867, to the 31st
of August, 1868, being an augmentation at toe rate
of three millioos of dollars a vear.
"At this rate of increased annual expenditure,
for interest only on the 30th of November, 1869, a
little over a year, this single iEem of yearly disbursements
would reach seventy-two millions of
dollars. It is clear, then, that the radical policy
leads rapidly and certainly to national bankruptcy,
and that nothing can save us but a change of men
and measures."
Speech of Hon. John Quincy Adams.
The Charleston papers publish in full the
speech of Hon. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts,
delivered in Columbia on Monday of latt
week. The speech was well received, and is characterised
by the Mercury as an "admirable and judicious
speech." The Courier commends it for
"frankness and sincerity." The speech was tele
graphed to the World, and in another column we
publish the comments of that journal on it, which,
by the way, is the most influential Democratic newspaper
published in New York. We make the following
extracts from the speech, and next week
will endeavor to lay the whole of it before our
readers:
"Your relations to the political parties of the
North have a very important bearing upon your
fate, at all events, just now, and demanas careful
meditation. Most of you doubtless regard the sucoess
of the Democratic party as essential to your
. *?.
release from your present situation, but it ism
doty to remind you that men in yotfr position hit*
no right to be bigoted partix&ns. Yon must, 4
course, feel a deep interest in the sucoeas of thoc
who espouse your cause, and you may properly e:
ert all legitimate influence to promote it* but jo
ought not to shut the door to aid from any soura
I nave already deprecated unreasoning and undii
tinguishing hostility to the Republican party,
would now warn you against an absolute and ei
elusive devotion to any party.
If the Democracy succeed in electing their cat
didates, you will be subjected to temptatiou as trj
ing as the demand upon yotir sufferance may prdv
in case General Grant u chosen. Hasty, ilhooi
sidered, passionate or violent action in the event c
Demroatic success, would be almost sure, in theeoc
to turn to your discomfiture, and render your lai
estate worse than your first Yet, it wffl oomman
a great deal of self-command to control the rea<
tion from its depression, but the country in tha
event will be so severely divided, and so great!
excited, that a small thing may induce a terribl
catastrophe. On the other hand, in case of Get
eral Grant's election, yon will be called on to exei
cise a while longer your patience and forbearance
I am sure it will be rewarded in the end.
I do not believe General Grant is yonr enems
I feel sure he feels kindly towards you, and will a
iustice and show mercy in his course to you. i
large mass of Republicans will help you ir yon d
your best to help yourselves. A great majority c
all the North only waits to be sure it is safe totak
you cordially by the hand once more. Bide the
your time. In either event possess your souls i
patience. Call to vonr aid that grandest of a
human qualities, self-control, and .all will yet b
well."
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For the Yorkrifle Enquirer.
WHEAT.
rk #
The scarcity and inferior quality of thisgrai
should stimulate the live-former to greater industr
and care than usual. The work should be oon
menced at oiloe, and pushed on vigorously. Th
land should be well prepared. It will pay. It doc
not require a very thorough disciple of Davies c
Loomis to cipher out that four acres of land yielc
ing 15 bushels per acre is more profitable than 1
acres yielding 6 bushels.
Flump, well-matured seed should be selectee
If a seive of the right kind be used, nearly all th
small grains may he separated; then, by swimmin,
the seed, imperfect grains and oh eat may take
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ua , Lueu, uy ruuiug ui iiuju, wio vwy |ivwui u
the plant is promoted and smutis prevented. Tr;
this. I am sore you will be repaid.
As to variety, each farmer, perhape, has a la
kind. However, from experience, I cap advis
that the gray, sponty, post-oak and Uack-jfcft
lands be sown with some variety of spring wheal
On such land the later varieties will not fill, unlet
the spring be very dry. Of the later varieties th
Tappahannock, or BoUghton wheat, is fine. Sev<
ral varieties of the bearded are gaining in populai
ity. This is considered a surer crop, while fh
yield and quality are slightly inferior to other kindf
I would urge the farmers to Improve their seed
This can be done by manuring and deep plowing
and if the wheat be planted in drills and hoed, s
much the better. Of comae, a ten acre field coul
not be cultivated in this way; bat a quarter or hal
an acre might be, and this would give a few1 bust
els of superior seed. They do this in England
where 52 bushels have been raised from one pec!
planted on ono acre.
Finally, 1 would say to the farmer, go to worl
and that right earnestly and manfully; putin you
wheat well and in good time. Be sure that yo
go to work. ?.
Union Disr., S. C., Oct. 15,1868.
A NEGRO'S EXPERIENCE* ' ~
The Georgetown (S. C.,) Timet has been hat
ded the following views of a freedman, who attei
ded a recent Grant and Colfax meeting:
''Boss, Fee a country nigger, and I wan' ax yon
"I gone round to de meetin' las' night, and
yeary dem talk much genst deDemoaracker. .On
feller git up and he say dat de Demoeracker is w
culled folks inimy?he says dem is de one dat w
hav fur look out for, and dat de people must'r
vote 'cordis' to how dem say, but mus' vote hoi
de 'publican want 'em.
"De feller talk strong genst de Democrackerhe
say dem is dis and dem is dat?and say det
would see de people starve before dem would hel
dem. Now, Boss, all de time de feller talk I bee
a look 'pon top um good?caus' I know uin.
say 'yes, you is de same feller I gone to las' Jul
for truss me wid one peck ob corn, and you troi
you self back like one ob dese ole time quartet
i n , i i __j> T. J l
aouan ooerenea, ana suii mein.ue mosiBcrupuuu
manner?an' sav, 'No, air, you would not trus'
country nigger. Now, boss, my family bin horn
hungry, an' wur fur to do to git do bitde for dem
I ain't know. Not one of dem dot tek my mooe
at dem mcetin' last year would truss me.
"Atlas' I say I'll go and try we forma owne
and get some work. I gone?some of dem plao
dem aint want me?but yet still arte de see me nun
gry, dem ge we a little job for get two quatQ; ud
der one do de same?and I keep on so from d
time I lay bv crop tel harvest come, and plea'd
Lord I feed my famly true all of die?ana I fee*
'em well?and all come out de Democracker. .
"Now, boss, taint sav me one, but all dem tpni
one?same fashion?all ob we wha' work for crop
and gage for feed we self, would a dead but for d
Democracker?bonny would hab kill we, forw
aint been had notin for go 'pon. Now, boas, arte
dis it will tek strong preachin' to mek me 'bleav
dat de white Deople is we inimy. 'As for de 'pub
licans, dem fool me two times, and., dem tek in;
money?say dey guine to git land, fbr we, but
aint git de land, and dem keep de money. Dei
dey mek me buy bridle and fetch 'em to town. Sa;
day guine ge we mule when we wote how dem saj
I wote?but I aint git de mule.
"So, art dey fool me two time, I'aint guine trus
dem 'gain, cause I know dem aiilt We friend. And
if we cnllid folk 'low dem to fool we 'gain
and mek 'strnction 'twixt we an' de Democracker
we'll sorry for it?for when trubble take we, den
aint guine help we?we can't go bpck to de Demo
cracker?and notin' else but penitention call we
Enty so, boss?"
ADDRESS
OP THE CENTRAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB TO TEC
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OP 80UTH CAROLINA
Fellow-Citizens: The election for President am
Vice-President of the United States is now doa
at band. The great principles involved in the oon
test; the magnitude of the interests at stake, am
.1 a _ it:, a.-. i..
me inuueuue wuiuu tuus uiavc may uavc iu tira ic
suit, make this a proper occasion to lay before you
brief address.
The tendency and purpose of the radical party
as manifested in worasand acta, are the abeorptioi
of the liberty of the individual; the destractioi
of States; the subversion of the Constitution, am
the erection upon the rains of individual and pub
lie liberty, a grand, grinding and consolidated des
potism. Already it nas made rapid strides in tha
direction. Little, now, is left for it to do but t<
fuse into one mass, and then ciystaliie into perma
nent form' its various acquisitions and usurp*
power. Its capricious acts; its wanton cruelties
its corrupt practices; its enormous burdens yot
hav? felt and do know. Against these, and mon
than these, you are now called upon to oontinne i
resolute fight with the peaoeful, though poten
weapon of the ballot. The Democratic party hen
and everywhere are striking with you for the prin
ciples of liberty, and the forms of Government t<
winch we have been accustomed, for a writtei
Constitution, a Federal Union and a distinct exis
tence of the States.
Surely, then, the principles of the contest an
important, and the interest great Arouse, there
fore, to the magnitude of the emergency, and span
no efforts for success. When the time for regis
tration shall come, let no man fail to appear, am
none fail to vote. Let each one remember that hii
individual vote may decide the election in his owi
District, and that the Electoral vote of the Stat<
may turn the scale in favor of the Democratic party
Our people must not despond, nor relax thei:
fr> .1 l t j I' ll 1 a.
enorcs, 11 mere saouja oe rauures eiaewuere. vi
the contraiy, they will have reason to hope, an<
much to stimulate them to increased energy, for i
is yet possible to win. State elections are influ
enced, and sometimes controlled by local issues
and it has often happened that these go one waj
and in a few weeks thereafter, in the same place
the Presidential elections another. This may h
the case in the present canvass; and, indeed, wi
have reason to hope so. Recently we have reoeiv
ed reports from all parts of the State, which in
duce the belief that South Carolina, with prope
effort, will be carried for Seymour and Blair, be
not the failure to do so be ascribed to you.
The canvass in which you are now engaged, i
full of excitement, which will probably oontioui
and increase to the end. We trust, therefore, tha
ly it will nofebe amiss to drop yoa a word of caution,
re The criminality of a few, ana perhaps the indiscreif
tion of many, have plaoed it in the power of roal?
ice and misrepresentation to injure us, and seriousc
Vto damage the common cause. We urge you,
u therefore, not only to prevent violence, bat to abs.
stain from the appearance of it We are dealing
h with a false and snbde foe?prolific in inventions
I and venomous in purpose?a foe who fully UDder:
stands the temporary profit of a nimble lie, which
too often achieves its end before the truth can even
i- buckle on her armor.
/- We need not urge upon you the policy and the
e duty of treating,' with great kindness and forbe&ri
ance, the colored population of the State. This
>f von nave ever done, and will oontinue to do, as
1, long as you are permitted. We have no doubt you
it will make manifest the untruth of the malicious
d charge, that by force you have compelled their
y votes, or by intimidation kept them from the polk
it Their minds are rapidly opening to the truth that
y the vagrant white man from the North, as well as
le the renegade of the South, who live by deceiving
>- and plundering them, and who have been driving
r- them to destruction, are not true friends, and are
i. unworthy of confidence and support With a fair
opportunity they will return to you, as their esr.
trangement is owing entirely to the false teachings
o and malignant efforts of the Northern emissary,
k It cannotbe forgotten that the State voluntarily,
o in 1865, invested the colored population with every
if civil right; and that the Democratic party, in Cone
vention in April last, recognized them, under the
u previous action of the State, as an integral element
n in the body politic?and expressed its willingness,
11 when in power, to enfranchise them to the extent
e which the public weal and their own good might
warrant. The position then taken by toe Convention,
and which was announced to the people of
the State and the oountry, is now re-affirmed.
We beg you to remember that the Democratic
party of the State was not organized for the puro
pose merely of supporting tne nominees of the
y party, but for higher purposes and more>ndaring
i- ends. It is possible that our present leaders may
. be defeated. Dut our nrinoinles will survive. The
liberty of the individual, the being and welfare of
18 States, the Constitution of the United States and
ir a Federal Union under it, are objects worthy of
I- patience and enduring efforts. In the sneoese we
0 nope for, oar orgmnisatioa will be most useful: and,
in cart of defeat, it will become essential. We,
. therefore, desire to impress upon yoo the necessity
of preserving intact and in full energy the adrair6
able organisations of the Democratic party of South
t Carolina.
n WADE HAMPTON,
f Chairman Exeootive Committee.
! v J. D. POPE,
y J. P. THOMAS,
F. W. McMASTER,
* Vl" W. M. SHANNON, ,
e S. McGOWAN,
lc JAMES CHESTNUT,
L Chairman Auxiliary Committee.
1 . . ?.. T. S. FARROW.
'9 IMPORTANT ORDER.
H #
> Military Officers wot to Interfere with the Ee
lection.
\ Washington, October 12.?The following order
has been issued: . ,
> ' hxadqttartebs of the army, V
0 - Adjutant Genkbal's Opficx, V
d :--i Washington, Oct 10, 1868. )
If General Order^ No. % 2.
;i ,iThe following provisions from the eonstitntion
1 and laws of the. United State^ in relation to the
' election of a President and Vice-President of the
* United States, together with an act of Congress
prohibiting all persons engaged in the rmHtary or
i, naval service of the United States from interfering
[r in any general or special election in any State, are
Q published for the information and government of
all ooncerned:
[Then follows quotations from art 2, sec. 1 of
the constitution, art 12 of the amendments to the
1 constitution. Act of Cougress approved March
1st, 1792. An Act to establish a uniform time for
h the election x>f Presidential electors, approved JanH
nary 28th, 1845. An act compensating persons
JjHlth, 1825.] The order conclaves with?
I An act to prevent officers of the army And navy
* and other persons engaged in the military and naval
* service of the United States from interfering in elections
in States:
. Be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any
military or naval officer of the United States, or
any other person engaged in the civil, military or
naval service of the United States to order, bring,
~ keep or have any troops or armed men at the place
? where any general or special election is held in any
P State of the United States, unless it shall be ner
cesaary to repel armed enemies of the United States
or to keep peace at the polls, and that it shall not
J be lawful for any officer of the army or navy of the
* United States to prescribe or fin or attempt to pre'
scribe or fix by proclamation, order or otherwise,
qualifications of voters in any of the United States,
* or in any manner to interfere with the freedom of
any election in any State, pr with the exercise of ?
' the free right of suffrage in any of the United
' States. Any officer of the army or navy of the
United States, or other persons engaged in the
civil, military or naval departments of the United
States who violates this section shall, for every such
T offence, be liable to indictment for misdemeanor in
' any court of the United States having jarisdiction
to hear, try and determine cases of misdemeanor-,
j and on conviction shall pay a fine not exceeding
$5,000 and suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary
not less than three months nor more than five
years, at the discretion of the court trying the
' same; and any person so convicted shall, more.
over, he disqualified from holding any office of honor,
profit or.truBt under the government of the Unie
tea States. Provided, that nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to prevent any officers, soldiers,
sailors or marines from exercising the right
v of suffrage in any election district in which he may
* belong, if otherwise qualified according to the laws
of the State in which he shall offer to vote.
; Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, that any offi
our ui yenuu tu mc juiuuuy ur uttvtu service ui me
8 United States who shall order or advise, or who
_ shall directly or indiwody by force, threat or menace,
intimidate or otherwise prevent or attempt to
' prevent any qualified voter or any State of the Unit
ted States from freely exercising the right of suf.
firage at any general or speoial election in any State
L of the United States, or who in like manner com- i
pel, or attempt to compel any officer of an election
in any snch State to receive a vote from a person
not legally qualified to vote, or who shall impose or
attempt to impose any rules or regulations for conducting
such election different from those prescribed
bylaw, or interfere in any manner with any ofi
fioer of said election in the discbarge of his duties,
9 shall for any snch offenoe be liable to indictment
- for misdemeanor in any court in the United States
* having jurisdiction, and, upon conviction, pay a
" fine of not exceeding $5,000 and suffer imprison?
ment in the penitentiary not exoeeding five years,
at the discretion of the court Such person shall,
, moreover, be disqualified from holding any office
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the United States.
By command of General Grant:
E. D. Town8end, A. A. G.
Approved, February 25k 1865.
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From tbe New York World, 13th lnstmnt.
MR. ADAMS'SPEECH AT COLUMBIA, 8. C.
We have been at the expense of telegraphing,
through the long course of wires that connect this
metropolis with the Capital of South Carolina, the
speech made yesterday at Columbia, bv John
Qnincy Adams, the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts. The man, the occasion,
the place, the circumstance, make this speech more j
worthy of attention than any other that has been,
or is hkely to be, delivered in this most remarkable
canvass. It is Massachusetts speaking to South
Carolina, by the invitation of South Carolina herself.
It is an Adams, the grandson and namesake
of John Quincy Adams, addressing in their own
home the descendants and fellow-citizens of Calhoun.
Musacbusetts and South Carolina meet,
I not in intellectual giaaiatorsbip, as in the great dej
bate in the Senate between Webster and Hayne,
i not in a reciprocation of insults, as b the missive
i of Judge Hoar, not on the field of battle, as so of.
ten happened in the late war, but as invited guest
r and welcoming host for a free and sincere mteri
change of views.
1 Considering who Mr. Adams is, and what his
t ancestry and political antecedents are, it is credit
able to leading citizens of South Carolina that they
; gave, and to him that he acoeDted. an invitAtinn
7 to speak in that State. He is no tlemagogue to
, sootoe with flattering words, or encourage delusive
9 expectations. The Southerners who attended the
9 Democratic National Convention, in this city, prob
ably misinterpreted the cordiality with which they
- were treated, by too eagerly drawing political inr
ferenoes from the warm demonstrations of social
t oourtesy. With a mhnliness which does them honor,
they desire to know, from a source too friendly .
s to wound their feelings, and yet too sincere to dis- J
a guise or soften the truth, what the actual state of ^
t Northern public sentiment is, and what course on