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Jtoapjs and Jacts.
The Selma Times says that "the prettiest
girl there is a newspaper carrier; but then
she carries them out of sight."
The Pennsylvania railroad claims the
largest locomotive in the country. It has
twelve driving wheels and weighs seventy-five
tons.
Gassaway B. Lamar, who died recently
in New York, bequeathed ?100,000 for the
erection at Savannah of a home for aged and
infirm negroes.
"Woman is a delusion, madam !" ex.
claimed a crusty old bachelor to a witty young
lady. "And man is always hugging some delusion
or other," was the quick retort.
The Augusta Cotton Exchange has received
answers from twenty-three counties,
in rJoArmQ fViof +vial/1 Ka nVv/-v.%*
JU UUMV buu Jigiu mil UC auuub blUCC"
fourths of last year's crop.
From returns received of the Georgia
elections, the indications are that the entire
delegation in Congress from that State will
be Democratic.
? The Spirit of the Age says that Mr. Foster,
inventor of a type-setting machine, will
soon commence the manufacture of the machines
in Raleigh. The machine can be furnished
for about $75 and will do the work of
four compositors.
The gallant secretary of a life insurance
company, being in com maud of a platoon
during the late unpleasantness at New Orleans,
struck up the gun of one of his men
about to fire on a staff officer, with the exclamation
: "D?n it, don't shoot at him ; we've
got a policy on him."
An approaching revolution in bonnets
is announced by the Paris correspondent of a
trade journal, who states that there are to be
real bonnets once more?bonnets with brims,
crowns, strings and perhaps curtains. These
bonnets are, however, not to shade the face at
all, but to be perched upon the head.
The Rhode Island papers are always
saying mean things about the warrior-statesmen
of Massachusetts. Thus the Providence
Press says : "If General Banks should fail of
a nomination in Massachusetts, he must try
Virginia. He formerly ran well in that
State."
The conservative papers of Tennessee
all declare that Senator Brownlow has the
inside track for Congress in the 2d district of
that State. There are two other Republican
candidates and a Democratic candidate, but
the district is larerelv ReDublican. and Brown
low's opposition to the civil rights bill makes
him very popular.
The New York Commercial learns
through private correspondence from Liverpool
that it is confidently believed that the
stock of cotton there is much larger than the
running account, and that the excess will
turn out on the 31st December to be larger
than last year's, which was about 120,000
bales.
Give a man the necessaries of life and
he wauts the conveniences. Give him the couvenices,
and he craves for the luxuries. Grant
him the luxuries, and he sighs for the elegancies.
Let him have the elegancies, and he
yearns for the follies. Give him all together,
and be complains that he has been cheated
both in price and quality of the articles.
Something funny happened at a congressional
convention in Chicago the other day.
Mr. Heding was nominated by acclamation,
but declined. He was nominated again, but
again declined. He was nominated yet again,
but yet again declined. Think of a man being
nominated for congress three times, and
three times decliuing!
The latest Southern convert to the third
term movement is Mr. James Lyons, of Virginia,
a Democrat so vehement in his faith
that he repudiated the nominee of his party in
1872, spat upon the platform, and could only
be comforted by O'Conor. He has found
that Alexander Hamilton was in favor of a
third term, and announces that Mr. James
Lyons is.
A conservative politician in Mississippi
has addressed a letter to the President in
which he argues that the only true way to
restore peace and prosperity to the South, is
for Congress to pass an act to pay for quartermaster
and commissary stores takeu by
the Union army in the South during the war
and to refund the cotton tax. It has been
referred to the Attorney-General by the President.
A letter from Pensacola, Fla., presents
a most deplorable picture of the sufferings of
the people. It says : "Those who escape the
fever stand a good chance of starving to
death. * * * * There have been more
cases and deaths thau at Shreveport in proportion
to the size of the places. Twenty-five
little children have been orphaned by this terrible
epidemic. The most of them are left
without any one or thing to support them."
A New York insurance clerk, while
waiting in a crowd at one of the Brooklyn
ferries, playfully picked a handkerchief from
the pocket of a companion, when he was instantly
tapped on the shoulder by a genuine
pick-pocket, who had just relieved him of his
pocket-book, but who returned it, with the
apology that he never knowingly operated on
a brother professional, and was sorry he had
made such a mistake.
There are twin sisters in South Bethlehem,
Pa. They were married ou the same
day. Their names are Mrs. Carroll and Mrs.
Ford. They are peopleing their sections of
the Keystone State well with Carrolls and
Fords, each having given their country three
pairs of twins. The first pair of cousins were
born the same month, the second the same
week, and the third, whose advent has just
takeu place, the same hour. The sisters
look alike and are becoming more and more
alike in their habits. Their children all look
alike, and when they are turned loose together
there is some difficulty in distinguishing the
members of each flock; only the mothers can
separate them and pick out her own with certainty.
Carroll and Ford are overwhelmed
with astonishment at their effect upon the census,
and the families are objects of admiring curiosity
to the people of Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania.
The New Orleans Times gives the following
sensible advice : "The foolish prejudice
which has hitherto existed in the South against
mechanical and common manual labor has
* 11 1 1_
provea a sna urawuaes. on uui~ geueiui piuaperity.
It is high time that a new departure
was taken in this matter. The old and
peculiar institution, which did so much injury
to the South by degrading labor, has been
swept away, and with it should go all its
demoralizing accessories. We cannot all fill
high professional positions, nor can we all find
profitable employment as politicians. Coming
down to plain matters of fact, more of us
must earn our bread by the sweat of our
brows. Our section will be far better off
when it learns to appreciate the value of the
working mechanic, and when it esteems that
the entry of the youth of the land upon this
course of life is in the highest degree worthy
and honorable."
It is not a generally known fact that
nearly two hundred people in Jsew York city
rise at daybreak for the purpose of repairing
to the slaughter houses and drinking the
warm blood of animals. These people are
not vampires, but consumptives, who find in
the blood the means of prolonging existeuee.
One lady, who has followed the practice of
drinking warm blood for several years, contends
that it prolonged her life fifteen years,
and has bocoinc an absolute luxury. At first
the taste is said to be repulsive, but, subsequently,
the desire for the ensauguiued iluid
beoomes intense, and its good effects make it
commendable to invalids. The Irish peasantry
are very fond of baked blood, which is
placed in large shallow pans and baked uutil
it is browned. It is notorious that consumption
is a disease almost unknown among these
people, and, perhaps, Velpeau and other famous
physicians who have recommended the
drinking of blood, have taken the hint from
<he baked blond of the Irish peasants
?he $fiMk inquirer.
YORKVILiLE, S. C.:
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? B. G. Yocum has been appointed Treasurer
of Chester county.
? The News says that the woods in the vicinity
of Winnsboro are filled with wild
pigeons.
? Smith, the defaulting ex-Treasurer of
Fairfield county, has been pardoned by Gov.
Moses.
? Rev. Robert Wilson, colored, the jury
commissioner of Lancaster, died from an attack
of cramp colic on the 29th ultimo.
? Owing to the abuse of the pardoning
power by Governor Moses, it is said that Judge
Carpenter will try no more criminal cases
until after Moses is out of office.
? Judge Mackey has decided that dogs are
property, and has sentenced a small colored
boy, in Fairfield, to twenty days imprisonment
for stealing one.
? A strong force is now engaged in grading
the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad,
about fourteen miles north of the town, in
the neighborhood of "Windmill Hill."
? The gin house and cotton screw of Dr.- J.
Beatty Jennings, near Bennettsville, was destroyed
by an incendiary fire on Sunday raorniug
of last week. The loss is put down at
$2000.
? The Southern Express Company have resumed
business over the Spartanburg and
Union Railroad, and have offices at Spartanburg,
Jonesville, Union, Santuc.Shelton, Fish
Dam, Lyles' Ford and Strother's.
? Col. F. Gardner, Chief Engineer, has
commenced surveying the route of the Cheraw
and Chester itauroaa ior tne purpose 01 permanently
locating the line. Immediately
after the survey is completed, contracts will
be awarded for grading and trestleing.
? ?
STATE POLITICAL ITEMS.
? Dr. J. P. Latimer, of Greenville, has declared
his preference for Green and Delaney.
? The Greenville News says that Hou. T. j
H. Cooke, judge of the eighth circuit, is a
strong friend of Gen. Kershaw for Congress.
? The headquarters of the Executive Committee
of the Independent Republicans will
be at Columbia, S. C., where all communications
should be addressed.
? The Georgetown Planet (Republican)
says: "Chalk this down : Thirty-five hundred
majority for Judge John T. Green in this
county."
? General Samuel McGowan, of Abbeville,
has been selected by the Conservative Convention,
assembled at Newberry, as their can- ]
didate for Congressman, from the Third Congressional
District.
? Col. T. C. Weatherly, of Marlboro, who
was nominated by the Republican County
Convention on the 5th instant, without solicitation
on his part, declines to accept the nomino
firm
| ?Judge Bryan has issued an order to the
Commissioners of Election for the several
counties in the State, requiring them to furnish
his court, on or before the 22nd iustant,
a complete list of all the voting precincts in
their respective sounties.
? Gov. Moses has removed W. H. Thomas,
a colored trial justice of Newberry, because
Thomas supports the honest Republican State
ticket. Thomas is an ex-Union soldier, and
lost one arm in the war for the freedom of his
race.
? Delegates from the counties composing
the Fourth Congressional District, assembled
in Columbia, on Wednesday of last week, and
j unanimously nominated Gen. J. B. Kershaw,
' of Camden, as the Conservative candidate for
In
I v>uugrt?3.
; ?The Spartan mentions that a number of
j the prominent Republicans in Spartanburg
; are opposed to the reelection of Hon. A. S.
Wallace, and say they will vote and use their
influence to elect Gen. J. B. Kershaw to Cou:
gress.
| ? The Rapublicaus of Marion have made
: the following nominations: County Coinrais|
sioners?W. E. Finklea, J. S. Barr and P. P.
! Bethea. School Commissioner?M. K. Holi
loway. Judge of Probate?James Graham.
| Representatives?G. W. Ofliey, Arthur EaI
gerton, B. A. Thompson and B. F. Hays.
I ? The Republicans have made the followJ
ing nominations in Spartanburg county : For
; the legislature?E. P. Clement, Daniel Z.
! Sweeny, Henry K. Grarabling and Joseph M.
i Young, Sr.; for county commissioners?J. B.
. Tolleson, Andrew Foster, and Bassett Weaver
; for probate judge?W. F. Parker; for
: school commissioner?A. C. Merrick.
! ?The Republicans of Marlboro have made
I the following nominations: H. J. Maxwell
for the Senate ; T. C. Weatherly and Jacob C.
Allmau for the House of Representatives;
John Wesley Smith, Probate Judge; Johu G.
i Grant, Edward Ware and T. G. Sweat, Couuty
Commjssiohcrs ; F. S. Nagle, School Comj
missioner.
' ? The following nominations were made by
the Republican Convention of Union county
on the*8th instant: For Senator?J. S. Mobley;
for House of Representatives?J. H.
I Goss, S. P. Farrow, J. W. Vinson ; for Prolate
Judge?C. W. Jeter; for School Commissioner?C.
P. Nelson; for County Cora!
missioners?J. L. Strain, Ed. Rice, Washing!
ton Dawkins; for Coroner?W. Fair.
I
| ? In a public meeting at Anderson, iiou. J.
i P. Reed, a prominent Democrat, declared his
j preference for Chamberlain, instead of Green.
He said that "if he was to be a Republican
he preferred to go with that party in its integi
rity than to bob at the tail of a disappointed
faction which could only bring defeat." It
is said that Rev. Dr. dam.es F, Boycc, of
Greenville, has taken position with l^e.cd in
support of Chamberlain.
? The Union-Herald says a riot occurred in
Sumter last Saturday on the occasion of a
Chamberlain meeting, at which Governor
Moses, Chamberlain, Elliott, Huge and Cardoso
were to have made speeches. That paper
says the disturbance was brought about
by Green men, and at one time forty or fifty
, persons were fighting like wild boasts. When
order was finally restored, Mr. Chamberlain
was notified that he would be permitted to
speak, which, however, he declined to do.
? The Spartan, in speaking of the Republican
meeting at Spartanburg and the report of
the affair in the Union-Herald, says "if the accounts
of other demonstrations are as much
colored as the accounts of the Spartanburg
meeting, some of them maybe put down as
tame indeed. There were not more than
three or four hundred at the meeting (onehalf
of whom were Democrats, who listened
attentively to Chamberlain and Melton) and
there was very little enthusiasm manifested in
the meeting?far less than usual in Republican
meetings on ordinary occasions."
? The Republicans of Richland couuty are
divided into two factions?one headed by C.
H. Minort, and the other by W. B. Nash?
both negroes. The tickets are respectively as
follows : For Senator?U. ii. Minort. .representatives?John
T. Gilniore, Ii. J. Paliuer,
Augustus Cooper, F. J. Moses, Jr. .School
Commissioner?I). N. Simonds. County Commissioners?C.
P. Pellwira, Jr., Ii. N. Wallace,
Jacob Jackson. Judge of Probate?T.
M. Wilkes. And ofthe Nash faction the following
are the nominations : For Senator?
W. B. Nash. Representatives?Wrn. Simmons,
John T. Sloan, Jr., Andrew Curtis, E. |
M. Weston. County Commissioners?Geo. ]
W. Davis, S. Jenkins, S. Baker. School |
Commissioner?C.J. Carroll. Judge of Pro- i
bate?B. I. Boone.
THE CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION'. I
This body, called together for the purpose j
of considering the propriety of making nomi-1
nations for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor
in the approaching election, met in Columbia
on Thursday last, in the hall of the
House of Representatives. The Convention
was organized by calling Simpson Bobo, Esq.,
of Spartanburg,to the Chair, and the appointment
of J. J. Hemphill, of Chester, aud C. F.
Janney, Esq., of Columbia, as Secretaries.
The following is a list of the delegates:
Abbeville?R. C. Sharp, J. II. Morrow, R. S.
Bookman.
Aiken?A. P. Butler, E. S. Hammond, D. II.
Henderson, John Stevens.
Anderson?J. Scott Murray.
Barnwell?B. Weathersbv, James C. Brown, J.
C. Miller.
Beaufort?John Conant, J. II. Ruddle, John
Lawton.
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VUtU IUDIVII IV. iUiii.il, vji. *V. ./V ?. .) ...
Dawson, J. P. Lcsesno, J. F. Ficken, M. H. Nathans,
James Cosgrove, R. Seigling, R. T. Morrison.J.
S. Browning, W. B. Smith, A. G. Magrath,
Jr.
Chester?John J. Hemphill, Grandisnn Williams.
Chesterfield?S. W. Evans, J. W. Harrington.
Clarendon?J. L. Manning, James 13. Tindall,
Joseph Rhamc, W. J. MeFaddcii.
Colleton?J. O. Reed, Robert Black, C. P. Fishburne,
N. K. Perry.
Darlington?L. R. Ragsdale, Jerome P. Chase.
Edgefield?L. Chatten, R. B. Hughes, 0. Sheppard,
T. G. Bacon, W. U. Zimmerman,
Fairfield?R. Means Davis, R. S. Desportcs,
James H. Rion.
Georgetown?Benjamin II. Wilson.
Greenville?T. Q. Donaldson, Win. Beattie.
Kershaw?W. T. Leitner, W. M. Shannon.
Laurens?C. M. Miller, J. C. Davis, Dr. B. 13.
Martin.
Lexington?Gerhard Muller, Drury Nunaniaker.
Marion?W. I). Johnson, David W. Bethca.
Marlboro?C. W. Dudley.
Newberry?John S. Ilare, William Ray, Jos.
Caldwell.
Oconee?Robert A. Thompson.
Orangeburg?W. T. Rives, W. A. Easterling,
Chas. P. Innabinctt, Ned Edwards, (colored.)
Richland?John II. Kinsler, Chas. F. Janney,
Nathaniel Barnwell.
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Spartanburg?Jtion.Simpson noun, .mini r.vm>.
Sumter?John B. Moore, J. S. Richardson, J.
S. Bradley, W. E. Miles.
Williamsburg?S. W. Maurice, W. J. Nettle,
It. D. Rollings.
York?John S. Brat ton, A. E. Hutehenson.
Horry, Lancaster, Pickens and Union were not
represented.
The Convention adopted, without a dissenting
voice, the following preamble and resolutions
:
Wjikhkas, The Republican party being in the
majority in this State, is responsible for its government,
and the Conservatives of the State having
declared that if the Republican party would
nominate for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor
men of their own party of honesty and character,
entitled to confidence, the Conservatives would
refrain from opposition to them ; and whereas the
regular nominating convention of the Republican
party have nominated for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor
men whose antecedents show
them to be unworthy of confidence, and whose
success will insure the continuance of the corruption,
dishonesty and party tyranny, which have
prostrated the State; and' whereas the independent
wing of the Republican party has declared
its intention to reform the government of the
State, and in pursuance of tins intention have
made nominations of men whose antecedents entitle
them to confidence in tlieir integrity and
honesty, for which nominations they have asked
the support of the Conservative voters of the
State ; and whereas we recognize that in the present
condition of the State the necessity of checking
corruption ami procuring honest officials is
paramount to all questions of party politics or affiliation
; and believing that the only opportunity
afforded of securing such reform will lie in the
success of the nominees of the Independent Republican
party,
Jtcsolvi'il, Tnat it is the sense ofthis Convention,
called '*to consider the necessity of making nominations
for State ofiicers in the approaching elections,"
that no nomination for Governor or Lieutenant-Governor
in the approaching election be
made by the Conservative citizens of the State.
ltcxoivcd, That in the opinion ofthis Convention
the Conservative citizens will best promote the
interests and welfare of the State by giving their
support to the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor
nominated by the Independent
Republican party.
llcjfulml. That we adopt as the platform of the
Conservative party of South Carolina, honesty
and economy in the administration of the State
The next step was to appoint a permanent
Executive Committee of the Conservative party
of South Carolina of two from each Congressional
District and an Executive Committee
for each county in the State. The following
named gentlemen constitute the State
Executive Committee:
Hon. S. Bobo, Chairman ; 1st District?Col. J.
\V. Harrington, Col. B. II. Wilson; 2d District?
Gov. J. L. Manning, Gen. James Conner; 3(1 District?Col.
Win. Wallace, Col. J. N. Lipscomb;
lth District?Col. James McCullough, Col. James
II. Rion; oth District?lion. W. F. C'olcock, Gen.
M. L. Bonhain.
The County Executive Committee were appointed
for York, Chester and Spartanburg,:
as follows:
York?W. B. Wilson, Peter Garrison, A. Jack- |
son, John Smith.
Chester-W. A. Walker, W. II. Harden, J. 11. ;
McDaniel.
! Spartanburg?J. II. Evins.
It was also resolved that the delegates to ;
the Convention attend to having supervisors
appointed fur each election precinct in their
respective counties, by the Judge of the jJnited
States Circuit Court.
The work of the Convention having been
performed faithfully, efficiently and harmo-!
uiously, upon motion of Col. Evins, of Spur- j
tanburg, Geu. Kershaw addressed it in a mas-'
terly speech, full of those wise, pacific ana
just counsels which distinguish his utterances.
He alluded in pathetic terms to his belief f
that divine Providence had inspired the ac
I tion of the Convention, and directed it to the 1
; only mode of escape from the evils which
surround the .State. He cjwelt with effect
i upon the duty of a full recognition of the i
rights of the colored race, and upon the duty
' and necessity of seeking their co-operation in
all measures tending to the rehabilitation of
the State, the restoration of its prosperity and
, the recovery of its good name. Should lie be
i elected to the House of Representatives, for
j which position he had been nominated, he
would address himself with all his powers and
! all his zeal to the grateful tasks which would
! then devolve upon liirn. He discerned al-1
> ready a change in the feeling of the people
i of this great country toward the Southern
States, and it would be the ambition of his
life to throw himself upon the wave of its rc'
turning justice. He felt a conviction that he
i would live through these dark times and yet
see such representatives as he now looked j
1 upon meet in these very hulls to rejoice over
1 a ransomed people.
After Gen. Kershaw's address, the delibe-'
rations o^'the body were brought to a close.
Resolutions expiesa^iye uf the thanks of the
.Convention to the presiding officer and secretaries
were parsed, and the Convention adjourned.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Charles S. Brico, Attorney C. tfe L. N. G. R. R
Co.?Pay up and save Costs.
John H. Adams?Fall and Winter Goods.
M. Strauss Son?Received this week.
H. F. Adickes?Fall and Winter Trade?ShawlsDress
Goods?Prints?For Gentlemen?Kic
Gloves?Ladies' Belts?Cigars?Ribbons?
Sundries?Crockery?Meal Bags?Station
ery?Corsets.
I W. D. Simpson, Secretary and Treasurer?Tin
last Assessment called for.
: Conner, llobbs it Dobson?Fall Trade.
W. H. it. J. P. Ilerndon?New Arrival?Sonu
Things?Flour?Some?Gin Belting.
T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Ho! For Dobson's.
' Wesley Jenkins?Ten Dollars Reward.
FROST.
The temperature for the past few days has
been cool and bracing, and yesterday morning
this section was visited with a slight frost?
the first we have had this season.
CORRECTION.
A note received from Col. Jones, Chairmar
: of the Democratic County Convention, iu<
forms us that we are in error as to the name
of Mr. Whyte, one of the nominees of the
Convention for the Legislature. Instead ol
W. J. White, as we published it last week,
the geutleman is William Whyte, of Rock
Hill, a son of the late Rev. Archibald Whyte,
who was well known by man)^ of our people,
TIIE CLAY IIILL MEETING.
We learn that there was no attendance oi
people at Clay Hill last Tuesday, the day
appointed for the Democratic candidates to
make addresses, and in consequence, among
other new appointments advertised in this
issue, it will be seen that a second meeting is
appointed for Clay Hill on Monday the 26th
instant. A general attendance of the people
of both parties is desired at these meetings.
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
On Tuesday evening last, while Charles
Finley of this county, was examining a pistol,
it was accidentally discharged, the ball grazing
the thumb of his left hand and entering
his left leg near the knee. The accident occurred
near town, and Mr. Finley hastened to
the drug store of Dr. Kuykendal, who extracted
the ball and dressed the wound, which,
though painful, is not dangerous.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING.
The Executive Committee of the Independent
Republican party have made the following
appointments for public speaking in
this Congressional District, when the people
will be addressed by one or more prominent
speakers:
Spartanburg, Friday, October 16; Union,
Saturday, October 17 ; Yorkville, Tuesday,
October 20; Chester, Wednesday, October
21; Winnsboro, Thursday, October 22; Camden,
Saturday, October 24; Lancaster, Monday,
October 26 ; Greenville, Saturday, OctoKn
r* 1
It is understood that the Regular Republican
meeting, appointed for Yorkville on the
23d instant, will be addressed by Mr. Chamberlain,
Attorney-General Melton and R. H.
Gleaves.
The following appointments have been
made for Gen. Kershhaw, Conservative candidate
for Congress:
Spartanburg, October 16 ; Union, October
18; Rock Hill, October 19; Yorkville, October
20; Lancaster, October 22; Caradeu,
October 24.
REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION MEETING.
Friday last wus appointed as the day for a
Republican ratification meeting at this place.
The alteudauce was very small?there not
being at the speakers' stand exceeding two
hundred persons, the greater number of whom
were colored. There was very little enthusiasm
manifested, and the day passed off quietly,
without a single unpleasant incident.
With the view of placing before our readers
both sides of the canvass in this county, we
sent a reporter to the meeting, and he gives
the following full synopsis of the proceedings:
The meeting was called to order at 12
o'clock, by J. H. White, County Chairman
of the Republican party, who stated the object
to be to ratify the nominations made by
the State Convention in Columbia on the 8th
ultimo. He said a few disaffected Republicans
disapproved the selection of Chamberlain
aud Gleaves, and had seen fit to bolt; but he
claimed that the party of York county had not
bolted, nor did they sympathize with the
bolters' movement. The party opposing the
regular nominations is nothing less than a
Democratic movement, the Democrats having
united with the bolters for the purpose of
sowing seeds of dissension in the Republican
ranks. He asked his hearers to support none
other than the regular nominations, to whom
they must pledge their undivided support.
Chamberlain, he said, was a gentleman, aud
scholar of the finest ability of any in South
Carolina?a fact admitted by every Democratic
gentleman who knew him. He is a Republican.
which should also be sufficient reason.
He cauie to this State at the head of a com
raand of colored cavalry, and by his works
aided in the emancipation of the slave, and
the establishing of free and republican government
now enjoyed by the blacks and whites.
He then instituted a comparison between the
past record ofCharaberlain and Judge Green,
the latter, he claimed, having been identified
with those who fought to perpetuate slavery.
To prove what would be the effect of Democratic
supremacy in South Carolina, he read
extracts from a newspaper giving accounts of
alleged ku-klux outrages in the south-western
States. He then introduced A. S. Richardson,
the post-master at Chester.
Mr. Richardson js a bright mulatto of slender
build aud pleasing address, and gives evidences
of good education, while he has at command
a ready flow of language,
He said we are here 011 the eve of a political
demonstration fraught with forebodings of
good or evil?the .prosperity or the adversity
of the commonwealth of South Carolina?the
life or death of the Republican party of the
State?whether the banner emblematic of liberty
shall bid freemen hope, or whether it shall
be trampled in the du9t. These are the questions
his hearers must ponder in preparation
of the election. It was through the instrumentality
qf tl>e ballot that our liberties were
bought, and on the day of the approaching
election we roust again declare ouraeivea ju
favor of a government of the people. Other
nations may pride themselves on theirachievements
in the arts and sciences and commerce,
but to our pride the white man or the black
man can, in tjic language of another say?"I
am a Roman, which is better than to be a
king," and apply it to himself. He next
apostrophized the Hag, and spoke of the drift
of popular sentiment in monarchial Europe,
which is gradually pointing to free political
institutions in opposition to aristocratic government,
and regretted that in free America
we have a class of people?the Democratic
party?who are two hundred years behind the
spirit of the times, and are fostering the very
sentiments so obnoxious where kings and
emperors reign. The Democratic party
would ignore the sentiment inculcated in the
Declaration of Independence, and would substitute
the sentiment uttered by Justice Taney
from the Supreme Court bench, that the
black man has 110 rights that the white man
is bound to respect. While in this regard the
Democrats have been stultifiers, we can, with
ennobling thought, point to the record of the
Republican party, which recognizes that all
men are free. The Republican party was
then extolled. He said it was organized to
finish out slavery, and had accomplished its
mission?doing the work well, though it cost
a vast amount of treasure and life. He theu
reverted to State qilestibus.' ' As to the gubernatorial
canvass, he said Green was' dissatisfied
at the result of the State Nominating Coriii
? ' . "
vention, not that he loved Chatnberlaiu less,
but himself the more. It was a notorious fact
that Green was anxious for the nominatiou 1
bestowed upon Chamberlain, and had he received
it we would not now hear of the bolters'
movement, of which he (Green) is at the
. head. He said Green does not scein to know
I the doctrines of the Republican party?one
[ of which is that the will of the majority must
rule the minority. Chamberlain had received
? a majority of fifty in the Convention, and was,
therefore, duly nominated, and it was the duty
3 of all other aspirants to cheerfully acquiesce
! in the selection. That Green is not willing to
abide the decision of the Convention is one
indication that he is not a good Republican.
He may claim to be a Republican because he
j shakes hands with negroes, but his actions
r ' otherwise, prove conclusively that he is a first'
j class sorehead. Of Delaney, candidate for
Lieutenant-Governor on the Green ticket,
, though a colored man, yet from his earlier
1 education and past associations, he could not
nrnnprlv rpnliro th? ennditinn and the necessi
. j ties of the black race so receutly emancipated
t1 from the shackles of slavery. As evidence of
' | this, he charged that Delaney abused Con!;
gress for having passed the 14th and 15th
f; amendments ; that Delaney says it is too soon
, ! for the black man to think about going to Con;
i gress; and that he compromises with Democj
racy by saying that the Democrats are not as
bad as they are represented. He told his !
' I hearers that they must not forget the past,
j They are leminded of the days of slavery at
?! every turn, and they must remember that it:
| is the Republican party that has elevated [
them thus far from a condition of servitude, i
1 j and that it is the only party to which they j
' | can look for salvation. He next touched
i upon the "possum policy" and cautioned Rei
publicans against being entrapped by any
such snare. He closed by giving a hearty endorsement
of Hon. A. S. Wallace, candidate
for reelection to Congress. He said that the
charge had been made that Wallace is an inceudiary,
but he knew of no better man ; that
he had recently beeu called to the bar of justice
to answer as to his innocence or guilt of
1 having circulated a slanderous and damaging
' report on the black people of Fairfield ; that
; the grand jury, after several days investigation,
had honorably acquitted him. As to
, the idea of an uprising of the negroes in Fairfield
or elsewhere, the idea is absurd ; their
conduct during the war, when the women and
1 children of the Southern States were at their
mercy, exhibited a degree of nobleness not
found in the savage breast; and as a people
to-day they harbor no unkind personal feel'
ings for their former musters.
Hon. A. S. Wallace was next introduced
i by the Chairman, who, in doing so, instituted
. a comparison between the antecedents of that
gentleman and his competitor, Gen. Kershaw.
He urged upon all Republicans to rally to
the support of Wallace who had been their
1 faithful representative. Du-in<* ku-kluxdays, j
; he corresponded with Mr. Wallace and re- j
ported the deeds of the invisible klan. On
one occasion, when a desperate raid had been
made, he informed Mr. Wallace, who was then
at the national capital. On receipt of the information,
a caucus was called,' and Butler
' demanded that the letter be read from the
! Speaker's desk, which was done,- causing a
rupture between himself (White) and Gov.
Scott. And for the same reason, (the exposure
of Scott's imbecility) the Governor had
refused to protect Wallace's property, which
had been threatened with destruction, and it
was through the exertions of Mr. Wallace,
more than any one man, that the general govment
was finally induced to move in behalf of
the oppressed people of this section, with what
results all knew full well. For this reason,
he urged Republicans not to desert Mr. Wallace,
while, if they voted for Gen. Kershaw
they would aid in putting one vote in Congress
against the civil rights bill. The report
having been circulated that Judge Mackey
would support Kershaw, he would say that
Judge Mackey had but recently told him that
uudcr no circumstances, would he support
Kershaw in preference to Wallace.
On stepping forward, Mr. Wallace said he
would have been glad to have met all the peonlfi
of the oountv: he had not been permitted
I y i # *
to speak before in York county iu consequence
of sickness, and was now too feeble, from a
recent attack of fever, to say a great deal.
He alluded to the labors of a few iu the past
to build up the Republican party iu this couuty,
aud if Republicans will be as faithful in
the future as they have been heretofore, the
party will triumph again. He had beeu unanimously
nominated for reelection, which he
regarded as the proudest achievement of his
life. He had the endorsement of the white
and colored Republicans of the District. He
urged all Republicans to rally to the support
of the regular nominations, and not to neglect
the duty of voting when the day of election
comes?not to be induced by the offer of higher
wages on that day to remain at work?but
togothepolls early and quietly, and in a
peaceful manner, exercise the privilege of l'ree
citizens. He then repeated to them the admonition
given to his hearers in a recent
speech atGoudeysville, which was that if they
properly handled the ballot-box they would
never have occasion to resort to the cartridgebox,
aud said this had been grossly perverted
by his enemies, who, to make capital against
him, had resorted to falsehood, the only means
they can use to defeat him. He had a certificate,
signed by twelve responsible men,
I mn 1/n naa nf fhp Inn- I
?JlUVlUg LilUI/ lie U1U nut IUUUU U.)W Vi V..W
guage attributed to hira by political opponents.
He charged that the story originated with
former ku-klux, and said that only a few
days ago, on the train, he told one of them so
to his face, creating a lively time in the car.
He then and there disavowed any such sentiments
; aud wished obstructions placed against
no man from voting. It was the privilege of
all citizens, and one which, under no circumstances,
would he deprive a political opponent.
Referring to the Green movement,
he would say to the Democrats that if they
wished to embrace Republicanism, it would
appear better in them to vote the ticket right,
instead of "nibbling" at one end of the rope.
He had noticed that when a colored man voted
the Democratic ticket he wjjs regarded a
gentleman ; but if a white man voted with the
negroes the Democrats stigmatized hiin as a !
scoundrel. As to Chamberlain, lie went over
very nearly the same ground of those who
had previously spoken ; said Chamberlain was
his choice two years ago, and he approved his
nomination now. Green may be a pure man,
but he is in bad company, and all intelligent
Democrats will concede that one who will
| sacrifice his political principles for emolument
I vvill not do to trust. He theu referred to his
| own services ii) Congress for his constituents,
j and said, if reelected, he should continue to i
| labor for their welfare, fie conciuaea Dy !
1 again referring to the perversion of his GouI
deysville speech, claiming that the white or j
! black man who would not endorse the words;
] which he did utter, was unworthy to be a free- j
man ; and further, that he never had said any ;
thiug at any place, calculated to antagonize
; the races.
| When Mr. Wallace had concluded, C. E.
Bessear olfered the following resolution :
Jfrnolvrd, That we, the Republicans of York '
J county, in ipass meeting assembled, do pledge i
our undivided support to the Hon. 1). IT. Cham- j
j hcrlain for Governor, Hon. K. H. Gleaves, for j
! Lieutenant-Governor, and Hon. A. !s>. Wallace
for Congress.
I Mr. liichardsoij tpude a few remarks advocating
t)je resolution, when it was unanimously
adopted, and the meeting adjourned till even
ing, to meet ftt the Court House, when it was
aunounced that speakers from Columbia
I would be preseut, a misunderstanding having
j prevented the arrival of those who had been
expected to address the meeting daring the
day.
MEETING IN THE COURT HOUSE.
On the arrival of the train, it was reported
that Senator Patterson and Mr. Thompson,
one of the editors of the Union-Herald, had
1 arrived for the purpose of filling the appoint;
ment that had beeu made for Yorkville, and
j by 8 o'clock the court-room was cleverly
' filled, a third of the number being Democrats {
i who Were 'attracted by the presence of one i
occupying the exalted position of a United
I States Senator. Senator Patterson is a tall,
well-formed man, with a rather stern counte- i
nance, which is euhunced by a bristling tnous- j
I tache. While the soubriquet of "Honest John"
| is evidently applied to him ironically, it must
not be inferred that he is one of those oily,
; smooth-tongued politicians, "child-like and
bland but to the contrary, he is brusque iu
manner, and his style of oratory is eminently
! of the fanfaronnade order.
He said he came on the present occasion, *
: not so much to make a speech as to visit ,
' York, whose people he complimented, and to |
whom he felt under obligations, having received
the support of her delegation in the legis- |
lature for the position he holds, and so long
as he holds that position, he shall do nothing
! that they will regret. He complimented his
audience in point of numbers and hoped it
contaiued no "Green-horns." There was a
spontaneous spirit in the party, which, in spite '
of abuse, did not prevent them from meeting |
and declaring that they are not ashamed 01
the regular nominees. The present struggle
was an important one, as the party were called
to meet an enemy in their own ranks; but
it must be done fearlessly. He did not appear
as an apologist for the Republican party. ,
I He was a Republican by ties, having voted {
with it from the first, and in consideration of
what it has accomplished for the black man
and the white man, he don't apologize for any
of the charges brought against it by its opponents.
He was proud of his party. Before
apologizing for any of the alleged short-comings
of the Republican party, as charged by
the Democrats, let the Democrats explain their
own record; let them defend themselves.
They ruined this State. Who held power before
1868? Did Republicans? Did you
vote before 1868? No! Who voted before
the war? You? No! Democrats had power.
They rushed the State into secession, and
with what result? Governor Orr told them
at the time, and pictured their future poverty.
Who, then, is responsible? Did Orr charge
Republicans? No, of course not, when there
was no Republican party at the time. Orr
put the responsibility where it belonged.
Democrats then ruled the State, and under
the administrations of Perry and Orr, are responsible
for the present condition of things.
Did the legislature of South Carolina, in
those days, pass a single act in the interest of
the people, and especially the colored people ?
Not one! The three years' rule was distinguished
by the passage of the Black Code.
This and similar euactments was the substance
of the legislation from 1865 to 1868. Do the
o
Democrats defend that? No; they can't!
At this time, if a member of the legislature
steals fifty cents, the Democrats set up a terrible
howl; but in their eyes the Black Code
was all right! He was from Pennyslvania
himself, and was proud of it. But there are
mean Democrats in Pennsylvania as well as
in South Carolina?worse, perhaps. He knew
the policy of the Democrats. In Pennsylvania
they pass acts for their own beuefit, and
the moment they are kicked out of power they
commence complaining, but never complain
of themselves or their own acts. To Republicans
he would say, do not apologize for your
party any more. Look at the records of the
Democratic party. If the records show that
Democrats are responsible for the bad condition
of affairs, should they be again placed in
power? No ; and we don't propose to admit
them by the Green movement. Let no Republican
hesitate about his own party. We
have nothing to defend. We have been in
power six years, and I ask any man if South
Carolina has not improved during that time?
Railroads have increased ; productions have
increased twice as much as in 1868 ; then
there were but two banks in the State, and
now there is a bank in every priucipal town.
I have been in several States recently, and,
financially, South Carolina is in as good condition
to day as Pennsylvania. In this State
our productions last year were $34,000,000,
while Virginia, under Democratic rule, exported
only $5,000,000. Our exportations were
more than North Carolina, Tennessee and
Georgia. We have laws to protect labor and to
compel the payment of wages to the laborer.
By that, good crops are ensured. Of the bond
i :J 1 3 i?~
question, ne saiu some uau uccu muugiuuj
issued under Repub'icau administrations; but
the Republicans were not responsible for eight
or nine millions that had been issued by
Democratic administrations. Both parties
had issued bonds that they ought not to have
done. But who has suffered by it? The
bonds were sold for money which was brought
into our State; I got a little of it; you got a
little?we all got a little; and if the bonds
are never paid, will we be any worse off?
The holders of the bonds will be the only
losers, and surely we who got the money, can
stand it, if they can! The State is not damaged.
Even the Democrats don't complain
about this; it is only the morality people who
complain.
Chamberlain was regularly nominated, and
every member of the Convention, with one or
two exceptions, endorsed it. But Green
claims to be more honest than Chamberlain.
Why is he more honest? Who is he? A
judge in the lower part of the State. Did he
ever make a Republican speech before he
was nomiuated by the bolters? Did he ever
claim to be a Republican ? Could no other
good Republican have been nominated? Offices
do not go begging iu South Carolina.
He has entered the party too late. I am a
Presbyterian, and don't believe in death-bed
repClJllUIUCS Micjr ?iu nut tu uo Mcp&uugu u 111
Judge Green said that if he had been in Congress
he would have voted for the civil rights
bill. I doubt it. All colored Republicans
are interested in the passage of this bill; and
the speaker had this to say about all such
men as Green, that with the exception of Mr.
Wallace, no white representative from the
South in Congress voted for it. Iu the Senate,
Robertson voted for it, and all other
white Republicans from the Southern States
voted against it. What is Green's legislative
record ? In the legislature he voted for the
Black Code. Was he a Republican then ?
He has a bad memory and a bad record.
But he is even worse than some others who
helped to enact that code. He made an
amendment prohibiting the colored men from
selling the products of their own labor from
the farm, without a written permit; aud even
worse?he wanted to restrain them from selling
poultry and eggs. He not only objected !
to colored men selling their own productions, j
but he even wanted to place an inhibition on
the sale of the products of their liens! Are
you, as Republicans, willing to trust such a
man ? Green has never broken away from
old prejudices, and his record shows that he j
will vote for laws that would disgrace the !
nineteenth cpntury. No man can defend
such legislation. Who are his supporters?
Dunn, chief-fugleman; carpet-bagger, like
myself. Says he's honest. I have liever
tested my honesty iu South Carolina. He
has. and his records are bad.
[Here the speaker read the charges preferred
against Dunn by Attorney-General
Melton, which we publish in another column,
and reiterated the truth of these charges. He
also read cards from Cardozo and Hardy
Solomon, substantiating these charges, and
continued]?
Nice man to talk about hon sty! Does
Qreen know about this ? Dunn recently told
a man they had all the ipqnev they wanted ;
for the campaign. Where din it come from ? '
From some body in New York?the bond-,
holders?
The speaker next took up Sam Lee, whom
he charged with making speeches for Scott
and trying tc> dissolve the party for pay.
Then Jones, of Georgetown, whom he denominated
as "Rioter Jones," but who could
not effect much, being a carpet-bagger from
Canada, received a slight excoriation. He
next took up Hayne, Reading-clerk of the
House, who, as he charged, received regular
pay for that service, and also drew 83200 on
a warrant that he stole, and didn't reform until
after he stole the warrant and drew the
money. Bowley, of Georgetown, was also de-1
nounced as a blackmailer, and a corrupt man,:
and the Green movement characterized as a 1
deep-laid scheme to sell out the Republican
party.
At this point a voice in the crowd was
heard?"Now tell us about the fox-chase."
This request, which seemed to have been made
in a spirit of humor, exasperated the speaker,
and advancing to the front seats on the side
of the room whence the voice proceeded, he
poured forth a storm of words which fell so
fast and furious that our reporter, in the confusion
and merriment that ensued, could not
hear. But finally quieting down, he said he
bore no ill will against any one; that he only
wanted good government, and good laws, and
was willing to forgive and forget.
He was again interrupted by a voice?"Go
back to Pennsylvania, then." To this he replied
that he would leave when he was ready ;
i,?^ nn mipst.ions of that kind.
VIIC V* ai IJttu uumiv*. ? ,
which never prevailed only in Southern
States ; that in the North, people, if worthy,
are treated kindly, no matter where they
were from, and he had as much right here as
the person who interrupted him. He then
closed by commending to the Republicans the
course of Mr. Wallace in Congress, and urging
them to rally to his support in the coming
election; and also urging his party to
s<md only good men to the legislature.
/Mr. Patterson was followed by Mr. J. G.
fThompson, one of the editors of the Union|Herald,
who desired to make a few remarks
as to the origin of the tax-unions. He claimed
to be the originator of the movement, and
that he organized the first one in the State,
in 1873, at which time he was editor of the
Port Royal Commercial. The organization,
in its inception, was purely a protective society
to guard the rights and interests of the
tax-payers, and nothing was more foreign to
his thought thuu that it would ever be used
as a political engine, such as he had witnessed
the previous day in the body that had assembled
in Columbia as the tax-payers' convention.
This convention endorsed Green, though
under the constitution of the tax-union the
members had no right to assemble for political
purposes. He then spoke of the leaders
of the Green movement, all of whom were
corrupt men, and Bowley, Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, especially, he
accused of being a blackmailer and bribetaker.
As instances of Bowley's corruption,
he cited that when an appropriation of
84,600 (that being the lowest bid) was wanted
for binding legislative documents belonging
to the .State library, he refused to report
the bill unless the amount should be
made 85000; that when an appropriation of
$20,000 was required for tax-collectors' blanks
he refused to report a bill for more than $15,000
unless he had the promise of $5000; on
the penitentiary appropriation, for which
$65,000 was required, he wanted to report
the bill for $80,000, and divide the extra
$15,000 with the superintendent, he, (Bowley)
being willing to take only $5000 of the extra
amount; that of fifteen attaches of the legislature
who were entitled to $75 each, he only
paid $40 each. As a writer for the press he
had made these charges in print, and would
prove them, and hoped to yet have Bowley in
the peniteutiary for his crimes before the election.
He charged Daddy Cain with being a
swindler, aud also G. F. Glass, a member of
the legislature whose regular scale for a bribe
was a donation for the roof of his church,
which needed repairing, by which means he
had obtained money enough to roof all the
churches in the State. The speaker then
closed by comparing the surroundings of
Green with those of Chamberlain, the former
he said being infinitely worse ; and if Green
were elected, he would either be compelled to
take such associates or go entirely to the
Democratic party. ^
At the conclusion ofMrTTThorapson's remarks,
the chairman again put the resolution
above reported, which being adopted, the
meeting adjourned.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The name of Judge Settle is mentioued . s
in connection with the Russiau mission.
? The bail of Houston, the Charlotte forger,. ^
has been 6xed by Judge Bynum at $10,000.
Failing to give the required bond, he was remanded
to jail.
? The Associate Reformed Presbyterian
denomination of Statesville are building a
church edifice. Rev. Mr Pressley has been
chosen to nil the pulpit.
? The Statesville American says several
Canadians have secured homes in Iredell county,
and will move their families to that locality
in the spring.
? A. H. Reams, a noted auctioneer at Durham's,
suddenly lost his voice, one day last
week, after crying the sale of tobacco at his
ware-house.
? Catawaba River Council, Patrons of Husbandry,
has appointed S. Watson Reid, of
Mecklenburg, an agent to visit the Contineit
and Great Britain in the interest of immigration.
A
? Rev. Henry Asbury, of Lincoln county,
was burned to death on Thursday of last week.
He was an aged man,-subject to rheumatism,
and while annointiug his body near a fire
with kerosene, the oil ignited and burned him
so badly as to cause bis death.
? Jennie Phillips, a widow woman, and a
man by the name of Napier, have been arrestn/I
nViornrti/1 iinfk tko on Tniok v\ a J _
cu, tiiaig^u niui ujuiugi ui au xi 1011 pcu"
dler near Roaring Gap, in Wilkes county, \
about a month ago. The body of another J
Irish peddler, supposed to have been murder- ^
ed, was recently found near Salisbury.
?IXD^PEXDEXTS?TND "REGULARS."
DUNN AND MELTON.
At the recent ratification meeting of the
Independent Republicans in Charleston, Senator
Dunn, the chairman of the Executive
Committee, said:
"And now, I don't think I can do better
.1 , l 4 . i i i <? .1 /^i?
tnan 10 respond to tne aeraaua or tne unamberlaiu
organ in Columbia, to make a report
of the result of my investigations. I know
that figures are very dry things, especially
when they refer to money that has been taken
from the pockets of the people. But as tbey
have demanded it, I will give it to them.
Here is what I found out. I found that, in
addition to the six million dollars of fraudulent
conversion bonds now out there are one
and a quarter million dollars of the bonds which
the last Legislature declared legal and valid
that are just as fraudulent as the conversion
bonds. When I returned to Columbia last
June I informed the attorney-general and the
honest State treasurer of this. Having laid
the proofs before them, I asked the attorneygeneral
to take out a mandamus to prevent
Cardozo from receiving and funding these
bonds. He told me that he couldn't and
wouldn't do it; that it was his duty to support
the executive officers of the State and not to ^
interfere with thera. I then went to Treasurer
Cardozo and told him that he would have
to bear the responsibility of receiving these
bonds, and he said he reckoned he would have
to do it. This was all the report the Legislature
authorised me to make before its meeting,
and the State Treasurer decided to receive
these bonds, although I laid tfye evidence
of theii illegality befqrp nim. I then forgot
my party and went to a Democratic lawyer, ffi
in Columbia, Mr. Youmans, and in placing ?
the evidence in his hands, asked him to lay it
before the executive committee of the Taxpayers'
Uniou. I also told the Attorney
General that the law validating these bonds
was, in my opiuion, unconstitutional, and that
I thought the Supreme Court would so decide.
It was unconstitutional because it increased
the public debt, by making good the bonds
which had no legal existence, and I wanted
a mandamus, so as to prevent the holders of
these bonds from coming before the Legislature
again. The Ring, however, were afraid " ^
to have a decision from the Supreme Court, w,
which would invalidate the illegal claims,
and they refused to take any notice of my report.
Another thing that I discovered in
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