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and Jarts.
? Edward E. Gayle, of Raleigh, N. C., who
recently graduated at West Point, has been
appointed by President Grant to take charge
of one of the military companies stationed at
Raleigh.
? "Woman," said the fat man on the cracker
barrel, reflectively, "woman is like a boil.
When another man has her we laugh at him;
when we have her ourself, we cherish and
protect her."
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John Weddington, of Crab Orchard township,
Mecklenburg county, N. C., was found drowned
in a neighboring mill-pond on Saturday
of last week. It is supposed she committed
suicide.
? The New and Courier says that the intelligence
of the massacre of General Custer
and his command, by the Indians, created
much excitement in Charleston, and that if
the Government should call for volunteers,
Charleston would furnish at least 1,000 trained
veterans to go to the plains within a fortnight.
? Father Hands, a Catholic Priest of Charlotte,
N. C., and Miss Cora Bradshaw of the
same place, went over to Lenoir and were
married, much to the scaudal of the pious
Charlotteans, inasmuch as the Reverend Father
had not formally renounced his vows of
celibacy.
? In the British House of Commons, a petion.
wound on a roller three feet in length
and two feet in diameter, and signed by 102,000
persons, was presented, praying that no
further advances be allowed to members of
the royal family until a full statement be
made of its present income.
? A queer case has just been decided by the
English courts. A man that married a woman
that gave birth, a few weeks later, to a
child that wasn't his, though for twenty
years he has been the reputed father, brought
suit to restrain the child from calling him
father; but the court decides that, after so
long a silence, he can't deny the paternity.
? The report of the Secretary of the Interior
to the House, will show that between
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183b and lSbU, over a million ana a nan dollars'
worth of State bonds were purchased
with Indian trust funds, on which there is
over a million due as accrued interest. The
bonds are those of Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Virginia.
? Mr. Blaine has now been at his home in
Maine two weeks. So far there has been no
special change in his case. The nervous prostration
is still the marked characteristic of
his attack. He is not able to leave his room
and is almost entirely confined to his bed.
His physicians think it will be many a week
before he will resume work. A European
trip is strongly recommended as soon as his
strength is sufficient.
? The Newark and Clinton Horse Car Company
have introduced an invention on their
road, whereby horses can be supplied with
water while traveling. The arrangement,
which is very simple, consists of a reservoir of
water on top of the car, with rubber tubes
leading therefrom to the bits of the horses'
mouths, the bits being hollow and perforated
with small holes. The driver can, at pleasure,
open the tubes and cause the water to run into
the mouths of the animals.
? The Texas Legislature recently passed a
bill which makes it a misdemeanor, punishable
by a fine of $100, for a person to use profane
language within the hearing of any private
dwelling. The Morristown Herald says that
a man's mule got balky in a Texan town the
other day, and the man got angry. The
beast would start off suddenly, run about
twenty yards, and then stop fifteen minutes
to survey the neighborhood, and before the
man got out of town he owed the authorities
$80,000.
? The last Legislature of California passed
an act authorizing the infliction of corporeal
punisment upon men convicted of whipping
their wives, but until recently no magistrate
has had pluck enough tc take advantage of
the law in that respect. Two weeks ago,
however, a man named Reynolds was convicted
of the offense in question before a Justice
of the Peace in Calusa county, and sentenced
to receive 21 lashes on his bare back; and
now his lawyer has made a constitutional question
of it. The defense sets up that the law
is invalid, because "cruel or unusual punishments"
are prohibited. The higher Courts
will have to decide whether whipping comes
under the rule laid down.
? Respectability is beginning to be recognized
as such an essential to a Presidential
nominee, that the Graphic, in response to the
demand of the day, has published the family
tree of Governor Hayes. The Republican
standard-bearer is the result of a compromise
between Scotland and Connecticut. If this
feature is really to enter into the campaign, it
would not be amiss to refer to the fact that
Governor Tildenis a lineal descendant of JoUp
Tilden, Mayor of Tenterden, England, 1585,
on the one side, and of Oliver Cromwell's
sister on the other, who married a regicide, Col.
John Jones. This is good blood for a Democratic
President, and the Jones element appeals
to a large class of American citizens
for family support.
? Brigham Young is the father of sixtychildren,
forty-five of whom are living. More
than half of these are females, and, with but
two or three exceptions, are all blondes, and
none that may be called beautiful. The last
child born unto Brigham is a little girl, about
six years old, daughter of Amelia Van Cott,
Brigham's fourteenth wife. She is a woman
about forty, rather pretty, and the next favorite
to Amelia Folsom, his eighteenth wife.
No. 18 is credited with having a high-grade
temper, and it is said that she treats Brigham
as if she was his mother-in-law instead of his
wife. Mormons charitably say that he is
controlled by her because he loves her, but
a man with so many wives cannot love either
very much. Love and polygamy are strangers.
? Of the negroes brought to Texas direct
from Africa by Monroe Edwards, some fifty
are still in existence in Brazoria county.
They are described by a correspondent as industrious,
frugal and honest. 'Not one of
them has ever been guilty of misdemeanor,
and their promises can always be relied on.
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and are frugal almost to the point of being
miserable. Several of these ancient Africans
are employed on a plantation where convicts
are worked. The part of the ground under
care of the Africans is much better cultivated
than the other, and the negroes seem determined
to surpass the convicts. Tlfese people
Dever quarrel among themselves or with others,
and if wronged quietly submit* but never
have dealings with those who once deceive
them. In every respect, these Africans are
in marked contrast to the other negroes.
? A writer in Macmillan's Magazine presents
some interesting statistics to show that
knttloo qco nr?f noar as Gnnorninarv. fiinno the
comparatively recent great improvements in
arms and munitions of war, as they were when
weapons were of a more primitive type. Thus
in the great battles which occurred between
1758 and 1815, the loss in killed and wounded
ranged from one-eighth to two-fifths of all
the combatants engaged. At Zorndorf, in
1758, 32,800 of 82,000 combatants were j
killed or wounded ; at Waterloo, the loss was
one-fifth of those engaged ; at Marengo, one-1
fourth ; at Leipsic, nearly one-third, and at
Eylau, more than one-third. At Solferino,
in 1859, only one-eleventh of the combatants
were placed hors de combat; at Konniggratz,
one-fifteenth; and during the late FrancoPrussian
war, the proportions in the most j
important engagements were as follows:
Woerth, 1-11; Gravelotte, 1-12, and Sedan, j
1-10.
? San Francisco, like all the leading cities
of the country, is complaining, in these dull
times, of the large number of unemployed
people. The number of mechanics now idle
is said to exceed ten thousand, which is a
very large proportion of the working popula-1
tioo. There are, also, at least five thousand
unemployed clerks and bookkeepers in San
Francisco. One of the newspapers says that
the merchants and business men of that city
are "hampered to the verge of the grave" by
the importunities of the unemployed. In the
office of the Central Pacific Railway there
are over four hundred applicants for clerkships
on file. Wells, Fargo & Co., the Express
Company of the Pacific coast, make a very
similar report. Two advertisements for en*
ployees, recently inserted in a San Francisco
paper, brought, during the day, nearly eighteen
hundred applicants. This sad report is
similar to what we hear from all the large
cities. The condition of affairs in all is about
the same. The ranks of clerks, bookkeepers
and similar classes of employees were always
overstocked, and in the present depressed
state of business their condition seems much
worse. We do not think, however, that the
trades are so overstocked elsewhere as in San
Francisco. A good mechanic, in most trades,
seems pretty sure of employment in the Atlantic
cities, though wages are generally declining.
YORKVILEE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1876.
THE HAMBURG OUTRAGE.
Owing to the preoccupied condition of our
columns, we are unable to publish in full the
details of the difficulty in Hamburg as given
by the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of
Sunday; yet we copy enough to furnish a
clear insight to the affair, showing its origin
and the legitimate results of the action of the
young Hotspurs who figured so conspicuously
in the incipiency of the disturbance, but who
seem to have retired upon failure to obtain
redress for their wounded dignity. We ad
mit that, ordinarily, a militia company,
whether composed of whites or colored, are
inexcusable for obstructing the streets of a
town, or the public highway, to the detriment
of horsemen or vehicles ; and it is equally patent
that colored militia-men, as a rule, when
on parade, are prone to display to the fullest
extent the "glorious pomp and circumstance
of war," and if menaced by private citizens,
as seems to have been the case in the present
instance, it only has the effect of heightening
the bellicose disposition of the dusky holiday
warriors. "We even concede that the negro
militia were not warranted in parading on
the streets of Hamburg, and more particularly
did they transcend their privileges as a
portion of the military arm of the State in
obstructing the street. But it cannot be urged
that they would have remained in the same
position any considerable length of time, and
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remained quiet a few moments, they
could have passed on without serious or protracted
detention. This would have been the
wiser course, viewing the question from any
and every standpoint.
The subsequent conduct of Doc. Adams,
captain of the company, in calling out his men
and refusing to be arrested when a warrant
was issued charging him with obstructing the
highway, is to be equally condemned; but
after this scene, was the action of the whites,
led or controlled by Gen. Butler, and encouraged
by citizens of another State, altogether
blameless? Was Gen. Butler legally author*
ized to demand the surrender of the guns of
the negro militia-men ? And on their failure
to comply with the demand, was he acting
within the pale of the law to attempt to wrest
the guns from them by force.
The negroes may have sought shelter in the
Sibley building for protection, or they may
have entered it for aggressive purposes, and
in either case, it does not palliate the preceding
conduct of the whites. And if we are
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of bombarding the Sibley building, what shall
we say of the magnanimity displayed by thra
citizens in shooting down the negroes as they
attempted to escape from the building in
vdbdcfcf they had taken refuge ? But all this
,pS6li|fced by the closing scene in the drama,
ran a number of the negroes, in the position
of prisoners, and ostensibly on the way
to jail, are turned loose is an open field, told
to run, and, while obeyinglhe order, shot down
in their tracks?murdered by a more despicable
foe than the stealthy assassin! Verily
may we turn to the savage Sioux for an example,
if this is the boasted chivalry of men
who thus appease their wrath at being detanabd
on the street by the parading of negro
i&ilitia-men!
We say not too much when we condemn
this act as the grossest outrage ever perpetrated
in the State, and it behooves all peaceable,
law-abiding citizens who have the welfare
of our people at heart, to stamp it as
such, placing upon it the seal of their utter
condemnation.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 3rd, while discussing
a motion to adjourn, Mr. Conkling said it
was the duty of Congress to conclude the public
business as speedily .as possible and adjourn
this session of Congress. He expressed
the opinion that on Wednesday the difficulties
arising out of the appropriation bills
would be settled, and the Senate would then
be ready to go on with the Belknap trial. He
hoped that when the hour for that trial arrived,
it would be proceeded with and finished.
The committee on military affairs reported
adversely on the House bill to revive
the law to extend the time for filing claims
for horses and equipments lost by officers and
enlisted men in the service of the Uuited
States?indefinitely postponed. The report
of the conference committee on the appropriation
bills was ordered to be printed. The
political disabilities of Robert Ransom, of
North Carolina, were removed. The resolution
to pay Pinchback was discussed at great
! length, but without result. Adjourned to
| Wednesday. In the House the Republicans
fillibustered all day to prevent the introduction
of the bill to repeal the Resumption act.
In the Senate on the 5th, appropriate Centennial
resolutions were passed unanimously.
The reDort of the conference committee on
the post office appropriation bill was adopted.
The report recommends the adoption of the
following provisions:
All third class mail matter, except unsealed
circulars, shall be transmitted at the rate of
one cent for every two ounces or fractional
part of an ounce, and the sender may write his
name therein or on the outside, preceded by
the word "from," or may write briefly, or may
print on any package the number and name
of the articles enclosed, and publishers of
magazines, etc., may print thereon the time
at which such subscriptions have been paid,
and addresses upon postal cards and unsealed
circulars may be written, printed or affixed
thereto at the option of the sender. The sec
tion prohibiting the sale of envelopes and
newspaper wrappers below actual cost, including
clerk hire, legal postage and all other
expenses connected therewith is retained, without
alteration.
Mr. Sherman submitted concurrent resolutions
looking to the speedy completion of the
Washington Monument, which were passed
unanimously. In the House, the Senate
amendments to the bill punishing the mailing
of obscene literature was agreed to, and goes
to the President. A resolution inquiring of
the Secretary of the Interior what Indian
trust funds had been invested in other than
United States securities, was adopted. Holman
reported the post office bill as agreed
upon in conference. Answering questions regarding
county papers, Holman said that it
did not affect them at all. They would still
circulate free of postage within the counties.
He congratulated the people that the first
appropriation bill that would become a law
in the second century of the Government, was
the one in which there had been an earnest
and sincere effort to retrench expenditures
and restore purity to the administration. The
report was adopted. The Geneva award was
discussed, without definite action, beyond the
defeat of an amendment to convert the unexpended
balance in the Treasury.
In the Senate on the6tb, the question of
Chinese immigration was discussed at length,
and finally the following resolution, submitted
by Mr. Morton, was agreed-to: "That a
committee of three Senators be appointed to
investigate the character, extent and effect of
Chinese immigration to this country, with
power to visit the Pacific coast for that purI
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port at the next session of Congress." Mr.
Hamilton, of Texas, opposed ?the resolution
as being antagonistic to the idea of American
freedom. At 12 o'clock, the Senate resumed
the consideration of the articles of impeachment
against W. W. Belknap, late Secretary
of War. Manager Lynde opened for the
prosecution. The examination of wituesses
commenced. Nothing new was elicited. In
the House, the Geneva award bill, providing
for the payment of claims resulting from
damage done on the high seas by Confederate
cruisers during the late war, was passed. The
election committee reported, in the case of
Butts vs. Mackey, from South Carolina, that
there is no election, thus ousting Mackey.
In the Senate on the 7th, a new conference
committee was appointed on the sundry civil
appropriations bill. The bill removing Gen.
Beauregard's disabilities passed. Mr. Ingalls,
of Kansas, subletted a resolution calling
upon the President for information in regard
to the troubles with the Sioux Indians. Agreed
to. Mr. Paddock, of Nebraska, introduced a
joint resolution authorizing the President to
accept the service of five regiments of cavalry
or infantry, or both, from the State of Nebraska
and the Territories of Wyoming, Colorado,
Dakota and Utah, to be employed as a
part of the array of the United States against
the tribes of hostile Sioux, the said regiments
to be accepted for nine months' service. On
motion of Mr. Ingalls, the Senate adopted a
resolution requesting the President to inform
the Senate whether the Sioux Indians made
any hostile demonstrations prior to the invasion
of their treaty reservation by the gold
hunters; whether the present military operations
are conducted for the purpose of protecting
said Indians in their rights under the
treaty of 1868, or of punishing them for the
violation of tbat treaty;"and whether the
recent reports of an alleged disaster to our
forces under Gen. Custer in that region are
true. The Houbo proceedings were devoid of
public interest.
In the Senate on the 8th, a resolution extending
the appropriations ten days from the
10th of July, passed. A motion by Mr. Logan
to take up the bill foi* the equalization of
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Logan said the bill had passed the House five
times, and be intended to call it up every
morning, and call the yeas and nays each
time, so the country might know who was for
and who against the bill. After impeachment
proceedings, Mr. Sherman introduced a
bill to complete the Washington Monument.
Mr. McCreary announced the death of Mr.
Parsons, member of the House from Kentucky,
and as a mark of respect the Senate
adjourned. In the House, a bill declaring
the land north of the North Platte and east
of Summit and Big Horn* mountain open to
exploration and settlement, elicited a long debate
and a full history of Indian affairs. Mr.
Steele, of Wyoming, stated it was not a fact
that the recent military operations were carried
on without reference to the peace policy.
He said anybody who knows anything about
the Indian nature, knows that the legitimate
result of that cowardly policy of "peace at
any price," was to defer only the evil day
which has now come upon us. The bill went
over without action. The House then proceeded
to the consideration of private bills of
which a large number passed. Mr. Knott, of
Kentucky, rose to announce the sudden death
of Mr. Parsons, and after the adoption of appropriate
resolutions in reference thereto, the
House adjourned.
MERE-MENTION.
Governor Tilden has received congratulatory
letters from seven ex-Governors of South
Carolina. The observance of the Fourth
was more general throughout Virginia than
at any time since 1860. The Republican
members of Congress from the South, whose
districts are close, deprecate any use of
troops in the South at the approaching eler
tions. The German Minister to the United
States delivered an autograph letter on
the Fourth from William, Emperor of Germany,
to President Grant, congratulating the
American people upon the occasion of having
attained their one hundredth year of National
! Independence. Santa Anna died in the
j city of Mexico, on the 20th of June. His
! age was 84 years. Senator Morrill qual!
ified last Friday as Secretary of the Treasu|
ry. A quarter of a million of specie
was shipped from New York on last Thursday.
Mr. Bristow has indicated that he
will refuse to testify before the Whisky Fraud
Committee on confidential relations between
himself and the President.
Sioux is properly pronounced too. Dakotah,
which the Sioux Indians inhabit, was, in
18i)U, regarded as a county 01 lowa, tnougn j
it was not included in the census of that year.
The area of Dakotah was, at that time, estimated
at 1100 square miles: A damaging
storm passed over Central Iowa, on Tucson*.
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; Madison counties nineteen persona were killed,
I and great damage was done to live stock and
| crops. The trial of G. W. Swepson, in
. the Superior Court of Wake county, North
! Carolina, for the murder of A. G. Moore, resulted
in the acquittal of the accused. It j
is thought the impeachment trial of Belknap !
J will not last more than ten days. E. Y.
Parsons, member of Congress from Kentucky,
died suddenly last Saturday. It has just
been reported to Secretary Fish, that in the
latter part of Juue, despite the protest of the
j American consul, the Governor of St. Domingo
had an American vessel boarded and a poI
litical prisoner taken therefrom and shot.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
CHURCH CALENDAR.
Serrices for Sunday, Jnly 16th, 1876.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
Rev. L. H. Wilson, Pastor.
Services at 10i o'clock, a. m., and 8 o'clock, p. m.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
Rev. J. E. Carlisle, Pastor.
Services at Yorkville, at IT) o'clock a. m., and 8
o'clock p. m.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
Rev. R. P. Johnson, Pastor.
Services at Rock Hill, at 11 o'clock, a. m., and 8
o'clock, p. m.
ASSOCIATE REFORMED CHURCH.
Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor.
Services at Yorkville. atlOi o'clock, a. m., and4i
o'clock, p. m.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. P. R. Elam, Supply.
Services at Yorkville, at 4 o'clock, p. m.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Col. A. Coward, Principal?King's Mountain
Military School.
J. H. White, Chairman?Ratification Meeting.
H. F. Adicltes?Bargains? Domestics?For Gentlemen?Laces.
Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?
J. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis., Applicant?Leonidas
McNeel, deceased.
John C. Kuykendal?For the Best Chewing Tobacco,
&c.
SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX.
The election on the question of levying a special
tax in Yorkville school-district, for school purposes,
was n?t held on last Saturday, as had been
advertised; but was postponed until Saturday
the 22nd instant.
CIRCUIT COURT.
We are informed by the Clerk of the Court that
a term will be held, Judge Mackey presiding,
commencing on the 21st instant, pursuant to adjournment,
for the hearing of causes not requiring
a jury. No jurors will be required to attend
in that capacity. '
FIRE COMPANY.
The young men of town are taking steps to organize
a Hook and Ladder Company. About
thirty names have been enrollod, and we learn
they will meet Intendant McCorkle at the Court
House, this afternoon, (Thursday,) for the purpose
of perfecting the organization.
LATE PAPERS.
We are under obligations to Mr. J. F. Jefferys,
of Spartanburg, for files of late Northern papers
in advance of the mails, which enable us to give
a full account of the recent battle with the Indians.
Mr. Jefferys is on his return from a visit to
the Centennial, and called by to see his parents
and numerous friends in this place.
EXTENSION OF MAIL FACILITIES.
The Postmaster at this place Informs us that he
has advices from the Postofflce Department in
Washington, to the effect that from and after
Saturday next, the 15th instant, mail service will
be performed by the Chester and Lenoir Railroad
to Dallas, N. C., its present terminus. Th^following
is a list of the postoffices on the
Chester, Lowrysville, McConnellsville, Guthriesville,
Yorkville and Clover, in South Carolina;
and the following in North Carolina: Crowder's
Creek, Pleasant Ridge, Gastonia and Dallas.
THE INDIAN WAR.
We devote much of our space to details of the
recent battle between the troops of Custer's command
and the Sioux Indians, on the 25th ultimo.
Besides the general importance of the sanguinary
engagement, many of the soldiers who gave up
their lives on that eventful day, were known in
this county and throughout the State. For several
days after the first intelligence of the battle
reached this place, there was a painful suspense
with many as to the fate of Lieut. George D.
Wallace, of Company G, Seventh Cavalry, a son
of Hon. A. S. Wallace, of this county, and assigned
to that command after his graduation at West
Point. From the accounts of the battle, it will
be seen that he was in Reno's column, and consequently
escaped the dreadful slaughter visited
upon Custer's command. In confirmation of his
safety, a telegram was received here last Saturday
night, announcing that he went through the
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The Walhalla Courier of June 29th, publishes
the following pleasant paragraph:
Mr. F. T. Moser, a gardener, formerly of Walhalla,
has fallen heir to a considerable fortune.
His uncle, F. von Ernst, justice in Berne, Switzerland,
died some time ago, leaving a considerable
fortune to Mr. Moser, who would, no doubt,
be pleased to get the latter information.
If the individual mentioned is the same F. T.
Moser who lived in Yorkville this time last year,
many persons hereabout will be pleased to learn
with certainty that he has fallen "heir to a considerable
fortune," and he will receive the congratulations
of quite a number who have good
cause to remember him. But with the knowledge
in our possession, we deem it no more than
a simple journalistic duty to caution the good
people of Walhalla against extending credit to
Mr. Moser on the faith of any mere representations
of the above character that he may make.
THE PU1ILIC SCHOOLS.
We have been requested to give notice that a
meeting of the citizens is called, to be held in the
Court House, at 11 o'clock, on Saturday next, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety
of consolidating the publicschools attended
by the white pupils of Yorkville school district.
A similar movementhas already been successfully
inaugurated with the colored schools of the
district; and those who have given the subject
attention heartily approve the plan, as being more
economical and securing better teachers and a
mora systematic course of instruction than can
be obtained under the prevailing management.
The proposed system, if adopted, will also, granting
that a special school-tax be levied (in the absence
of a fund raised by private subscription) ser\f
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aud may lead to the adoption of the more elaborate
system of graded schools now in successful
operation in many localities. The matter being
oneof importance, a general attendance is desired.
Whipper Defiant.
At a Fourth of July celebration in
Orangeburg, Whipper made a speech in which
he is reported by a correspondent of the News
and Courier to have said that "the war was
not proposed by the North to free the slaves,
and that Lincoln's proclamation did not intend
it, until, as a political necessity, it was
forced on him and the North."
Whipper was then asked if he would claim
his seat as Judge, whereopon "he swelled with
indignation, and said he would ; he had been
elected by a vote of eighty-four, his right was
just, and he wanted no fitter monument than
to die, if required, in maintaining it. He
urged hts colored friends to stand by him, and
his call to them to know if they would was
responded to by a defiant yell of assent. He
urgq^ them to remember who opposed him,
and slashed the Governor in bitter style."
The correspondent concludes that Whipper's
speech means ill, and thinks it is the
duty of the Orangeburg community and the
Governor to be prepared for the demagogue.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM KING'S MOUNTAIN.
King's Mountain, N. C., July 8, 1876.
The crops in this section are backward?
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is not doing well, being from ten days to two |
weeks later than it was last year. Low bottom
corn is quite small, but is beginning to
grow; though should wet weather prevail as
it has been for the last three weeks, the corn
crop on hottom lands will be very near a failure.
Upland corn is looking fine. The oat
crop is better than it has been for several
years. Wheat, though harvested, has not
been threshed ; but the opinion prevails that
there will be but about a half yield of the
crop.
Last Tuesday, Capt. Bell's school, at this
place, closed its first session. The next session '
will open next September in the new academy
building just completed. We have a fine
building, capable of accommodating two hun-'
dred pupils. On the occasion of the closing
of the recent session, an interesting address on J
the subject of education was delivered by Dr.
B. F. Dixon. J. B. I
SEVERE BATTLE WITH INDIANS.1
UTTER DEFEAT OF THE U. S. SOLDIERS.
For the last week accounts have been slowly
received of a desperate battle fought between
United States soldiers and the Sioux
Indians, on the 25th of June, on Little Horn
river, in Montana Territory. Little Horn is
a branch of Big Horn, the latter being u
branch of Yellowstone river, and west of
Rosebud river. The scene of the battle is a
short distance north of the old Benton wagon
road, about 700 miles northwest of Omaha,
and about 250 miles in the same direction
from Fort Laramie. Fort Kearney is on the
Benton road, where that road is crossed by
Powder river, and is about two hundred miles
south of the battle-ground, while Fort C. F.
Smith is about the same distance west of the
battle-ground, at the intersection of the Benton
road with Big Horn river. The 6ght occurred
in the Black Hills country, in the
south-eastern part of Montana.
Before detailing the particulars of the bat
tie, it may be well, for the guidance of the
reader, to premise with a resume of preceding
operatious. A vigorous campaign was organized
last spring against the hostile tribes of
the Sioux, who, under the leadership of Sitting
Bull, refused to leave their camps oq the
Big Horn and Tongue rivers, in the Valley
of the Yellowstone, and enter upon the reservations
which the Government had set
apart for them. Last winter the Govern1
ment despatched scouts into the Big Horn
country with a peremptory notice of ejection,
and the threat that if they should not heed
the summons within three months, troope
would be sent into the valley to drive them
out Sitting Bull received the message with
contempt, and the troops were ordered into
active service. Three columns, under the
command of Gen. Gibbon, Gen. Terry and
Geo. Crook, were equipped and placed under
marching orders. The objective point was
Sitting Bull's camp, in the Big Horn country.
The three columns were to meet on the
Powder or the Tongue river, and combine
their forces in the heart of the enemy's country.
Gen. Crook, at Fort Reno, was to
strike north; Gen. Terry, with Gen. Custer's
cavalry, at Fort Lincoln, was to march west;
and Gen. Gibbon, at Fort Buford, was to
descend the Yellowstone Valley and join
Gen. Terry. Gen. Crook set out from Fort
Fetterman on May 29, and after halting at
Fort Reno, pressed on to the headwaters of
the Tongue river. On June 9, the Indians
attacked the camp, but were repulsed. After
remaining in camp several days the march
was resumed, on June 16, in the direction of
the Rosebud Valley. On the next day the
Sioux surprised the troops while on the march
and attacked them with vigor. Ten men
were killed and 19 wounded, and Gen. Crook
ordered a retreat to Goose creek. Gen. Terry
meanwhile bad reached the Yellowstone at
the Powder river, and had opened communications
with Gen. Gibbon, who was in camp
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with 12 companies of cavalry, pushed into
the Rosebud Valley, and not finding Sitting
Bull's camp, struck across the country to
the Little Horn, a branch of the Big Horn.
Subsequent events are detailed as follows, in
a dispatch from Stillwater, Montana, under
date of July 2:
Muggins Taylor, a scout for General Gib?
boo, got here last night from LitiltfiTorn river.
General Custer found the Indian camp and
2,000 lodges on Little Horn, and immediately
attacked the camp. Custer took five companies
and charged the thickest portion. Nothing
is known of the operations of this detachment
only as they trace it by the dead. Maj.
Reno commanded the other seven companies,
and attacked the lower portion of the camp.
The Indians poured in a murderous fire from
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fought ou horseback. Custer, his two brothers,
a nephew, and a brother-in-law were all
killed, and not one of his detachment escaped.
Two hundred and seven men were buried in
one place. t The Indians surrounded Reno's
command and held them one day in the hills,
cut off from water, until Gibbon's command
came in sight, when thej broke camp in the
night and left. The Seventh Cavalry fought
j like tigers, and they were overcome by mere
brute force. The Indian loss cannot be estimated,
as they bore off and concealed most
of their dead. The remnant of the Seventh
Cavalry and Gibbon's command are returning
to the mouth of the Little Horn, where
the steamboat lies. The Indians got all the
arms of the killed soldiers. There were 17
commissioned officers killed. The whole Custer
family died at the head of their column.
The exact loss is not known, as both adjutants
and the sergeant major were killed. The Indian
camp was from three to four miles long
and was twenty miles ud the Little Horn from
its mouth. The Indians actually pulled the
men off their horses in some instances.
FURTHER DETAILS.
George Herendon, a scout sent by Gen.
Terry with Gen. Custer's column, relates the
following as his experience in the recent battle,
which is telegraphed from Bismarc, Dakota
Territory, to tne New York Herald, under
date of the 7th instant:
STORY OF THE SCOUT. ^
We left the Rosebud on the 22nd of June
at 12 o'clock; marched up the Rosebud
about twelve miles and encamped for the
night. On the morning of the 23d we broke
camp at 5 o'clock, and continued up the Rosebud
until 9 o'clock, when we struck a large
lodge pole trail about ten days old and followed
it along the Rosebud until toward evening,
when we went into camp on the trail. On the
morning of the 24th we pulled out at 5
o'clock and followed the trail 6ve or six
miles, when we met six Crow Indian scouts,
who had been sent out the night previous by
General Custer to look for the Indian village.
They said they had found fresh pony tracks,
and that ten miles ahead the trail was fresher.
Gen. Custer had the officers' call blown
and they assembled around him, but I did
not hear what he said to them. The scouts
were again sent ahead and moved along at a
fast walk. We moved at one o'clock, and,
while the officers were eating their lunch, the
scouts came back and reported that they had
found where the village had been quite recently.
They moved again with flaukers well
out to watch the trail and see that it did not
divide. About four o'clock we came to the
place where the village had been, apparently,
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two miles below the forks of the Rosebud.
The scouts all again pushed out to 'look for.
the village, and at eleven o'clock at night
Custer had everything packed up and followed
the scouts up the right hand fork of the
Rosebud.
THE VILLAGE DISCOVERED.
About daylight we went into camp, made
coffee, and soon after it was light the scouts
brought Custer word that they had seen the
village from the top of a divide that separates
the Rosebud from Little Horn river. We
moved up the creek until near its head and
concealed ourselves in a ravine. It was about
three miles from the head of the creek, where
we then were, to the top of the divide where
ike Indian scouts said the village could be
seen, and after hiding his command, General
Cimter. with a few orderlies, walloped forward
to lo^V at tbe Indian camp. In about an hour
CuFter re turned, and said be could not see tbe
Indian village, but the scouts and a half-breed
guide, "Nuch Bayer," said they could distinctly
see it some fifteen miles off. While
General Custer was looking for the Indian
village t,fie scouts came in and reported that
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be bad been discovered, and that news was
then on the way to the village that he was
coming. Another scout said two Sioux war
parties had stolen up and seen the command;
and on looking in a ravine near by, sure
enough, fresh pony tracks were found. Custer
had "officers' call" blown, gave his orders
and the command was put in fighting order.
The scouts were ordered forward, and the regiment
moved at a walk. After going about
three miles the scouts reported Indians ahead,
and the command then took thtf trail. Our
way lay down a little creek, a branch of the
Little Horn, and after going some six miles
we discovered an Indian lodge ahead, and
Custer bore down on it at a stiff trot. In coming
to it we found ourselves in a freshly abandoned
Indian camp, all the lodges of which
were gone except the one we saw, and on entering
it we found it contained a dead Indian.
From this point we could see into the Little
Horn Valley, and observed heavy clouds of
dust rising about five miles distant. Many
thought the Indians were moving away, and
I think General Custer believed so, for he
sent word to Colonel Reno, who was ahead
with three companies of the Seventh regiment,
to push on the scouts rapidly, and head for the
dust. Reno took a steady gallop down the
creek bottom, three miles, to where it emptied
into the Little Horn, and found a natural
ford across Little Horn River. He started
to cross, when the scouts came and called out
to him to hold on, that the Sioux were coming
in large numbers to meet him. He crossed
over, however, formed his companies on the
prairie in line of battle, and moved forward
at a trot, but soon took a gallop. The .valley
was about three-fourths of a mile wide. On
the left, a line of low, round hills, and on the
right the river bottom, covered with a growth
of cottonwood trees and bushes. After scattering
shots were fired from the hills and a
few from the river bottom and Reno's skirmishers
returned the shots, he advanced about
a mile from the ford to a line of timber on
the right and dismounted his men to fight on
foot. The horses were sent into the timber,
and the men formed on the prairie and advanced
toward the Indians. The Indians,
mounted on ponies, came across the prairies
and opened a heavy fire on the soldiers. After
skirmishing for a few minutes Reno fell back
to his horses in the timber. The Indians
moved to bis left and rear, evidently with the
intention of cutting him off from the ford.
Reno ordered his men to mount and move
through the timber. Just as the men got into
the saddle, the Sioux, who had advanced into
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soldier. Colonel Reno then commanded the
men to dismount, and they did so, but he soon
ordered them to mount again and move out
on the open prairie. The command headed
for the ford, pressed closely by Indians in
large numbers, and at every moment the rate
of speed was increased, until it became a dead
run for the ford. The Sioux, mounted on
their swift ponies, dashed up by the side of
the soldiers and fired at them, killing both
men and horses. Little resistance was offered
and it was
A COMPLETE ROUT
to the ford. I did not see the men at the ford
and do not know what took place further than
a good many were killed when the command
left the timber. Just as I got out, my horse
stumbled and fell and I was dismounted,
the horse running away after Reno's command.
I saw several soldiers who were dismounted,
their horses having been killed or
having run away. There were also some
soldiers mounted who had remained behind.
I should think in all there were as many as
thirteen soldiers, and seeing no chance to
get away I called on them to come into the
timber and we would stand off the Indians.
Three of the soldiers were wounded, and two
of them so badly that they could not use their
arms. The soldiers wanted to go out, but I
said no, we can't go to the ford, and besides
'we have woundea nierr and must standby*
them. The soldiers still wanted to go, but I
told them-I was an old frontiersman, understood
Indians, and if they would do as I said,
I would get them out of the scrape, which
was no worse than scrapes I had been in before.
About half of the men were mounted,
and they wanted to keep their horses with
them, but I told them to let their horses go
and fight on foot We staid in the brush
about three hours, and I could hear heavy
firing below on the river, apparently about
two miles distant. I did not know who it
was, but knew the Indians were fighting some
of our men, and learned afterwards it was
Custer's command. Nearly all the Indians
of the upper end of the valley drew off down
the river, and the fight with Custer lasted one
hour when the heavy firing ceased. When
the shooting below began to die away I said to
the boys, "Come, now is the time to get out."
Most of them did not go, but waited for night
I told them the Indians would come back, and
we had better be off at once.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Eleven of the thirteen said they would go,
but two stayed behind. I deployed the men
as skirmishers and we moved forward on foot
toward the river. When we had got nearly
to the river, we met ^five Indians on ponies
and they fired on us. I returned the fire and
the Indians broke, and we then forded the
river, the water being breast deep. We finally
got over, wounded men and all, and headed
for Reno's command, which I could see
drawn up on the bluffs along the river about a
mile off. We reached Reno in safety. We
had not been with Reno more than fifteen
minutes when I saw the Indians coming up the
valley from Custer's fight. Reno was then
moving his whole command down the ridge
toward Custer. The Indians crossed the river
below Reno and swarmed up the river on all
sides. After skirmishing with them, Reno
went back to bis old position, wbicb was one
of the highest points along the bluffs. It was
now about five o'clock, and the fight lasted
until it was too dark to see to shoot. As
soon as it was dark Reno took the packs and
saddles off the mules aud horses and made
breastworks of them. He also dragged the
dead horses and mules on the line and sbel*
tered the men behind them. Some of the
men dug pits with their butcher knives and
all slept on their arms. At the peep of day
the Indians opened a heavy fire, and
A DESPERATE FIGHT
ensued, lasting until 10 o'clock. The Indians
charged our position three or four times,
coming up close enough to hit our men with
stones, which they threw by hand. Captain
Benteen saw a large mass of Indians gathering
on his front to charge, and ordered his
men to charge on foot and scatter them. Benteen
led the charge and was upon the Indians ,
before they knew what they were about, and
killed a great many. They were evidently
much surprised at this offensive movement,
and I think in desperate fighting Benteen is
one of the bravest men I ever saw in a fight.
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bullets, encouraging the soldiers to stand up
to their work and not let Indians whip them.
He went among the horses and pack mules
and drove out the men who were skulking
there, compelling them to go into line and do
their duty. He never sheltered his own person
once during the battle, and I do not see
how he escaped being killed. The desperate
charging and fighting was at about 1 o'clock, {
but firing was kept up on both sides until late i
in the afternoon.
SUFFERING OF THE MEN.
I forgot to state that about ten o'clock in
the forenoon, and soon after Benteen made
his charge, the men began to clamor for water.
Many of them had not tasted water for
thirty-six hours, and the fighting and hot snn
parched their throats. Some had their tongnes
swollen and others could hardly speak. The
men tried to eat crackers and hardtack, but
rnnld not raise enough saliva to moisten
them. Several tried grass, but it stuck to
their lips, and not one could spit or speak
plainly. The wounded were reported dying j
for want of water, and a good many soldiers
volunteered to go the river to get some of
perish in the attempt. We were fighting on |
the bluffs, about 700 yards from the river,'
and a ravine led down from tbe battle-field
close to tbe river's edge. Tbe men bad to
run over an open Bpace of about 100 yards to
get into the bead of the ravine, and this open
space was commanded by tbe Indians on tbe
bluffs. The soldiers, about fifty strong, dashed
over the open plateau aud entered the
ravine. They rushed down to tbe mouth and
found it closely guarded by a party of Indians
posted in the timber across the river.
The water could be approached to within
abont thirty feet under cover; but then one
bad to step out on the river bank and take the
Indians' fire The boys ran the 'gauntlet
bravely. Some would dash down to tbe river ^
with camp kettles, fill them, and then take ' "
shelter in the bend of the ravine, behind the
iwbo, oiiu wucic uauicciis were uiieu ouu ear- ?^
ried up the hill. Before all the men and
wounded were supplied, one man was killed
and six or seven wounded in this desperate
attempt. One man had the bone of his leg
shattered by a ball, and it. has since been am- . *
putated. ,
About two o'clock the Indian*began drawing
off, but kept skirmishing until late in the
afternoon, and near dark all drew off. We
now got water for the animals, many of them
being almost dead, and they were put out to
graze on the hillside. ;
CHANGE OF POSITION.
In the evening Colonel Reno changed his
position and fortified the new one, it being
higher and stronger than the old one. We expected
the Indians would renew the attack
next day, but in the morning not an Indian
was to be found. Every one felt sure that
Crook or Terry was coming to our relief, and
Colonel Reno sent out runners.' About ten
o'clock the glad intelligence was received that
General Terry, with a Targe column of troops,
was moving up the valley, six miles distant,
and the head of his column soon came in
sight. In reply to questions, Mr. Herenden
said':? . . . <v"
I went in with the scouts on the left of
Reno's line. There were about sixty of us,
thirty-five being Ree Indians, six friendly
Sioux, six Crows and the rest white men. 1
saw Bloody Knife, a Ree scout, throw up his
arm and fall over, and I think he was killed.
The two cavalry soldiers I lefff n the timber
when I went out, I have no doubt were killed,
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as wey nave not oeeu aeeu biucc.
LIEUTENANT #'lNTOSH.
I saw Lieutenant Mcintosh soon after he
fell. He had^his horse shot under him early
in the action, and at the time he was killed
he was riding a soldier's horse. He waa shot
on the river bank while riding baok to the
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LIEUTENANT HODGSON.
I saw Lieutenant Hodgson also. His horse
was shot and he was wounded. His hone fell
into the river near the opposite bank of the
ford, and to help himself up the steep bank,
Hodgson caught hold of a horse's tail and
got up the bank,when an Indian sharpshooter
picked him off. Caster's paoks were with the
rear, and the Indians did not get any of diem.
Neither did they get any moles. - Meet of
Custer's horses were shot in the action, and I
do not believe the Indians got over 100 animals
by the fight ' - '
TOBTUBED AND MUTILITATED.
' I think some of our men were capt&ed
alive and tortured. I know the colored scoot
Isaiah was, for he had small pistol halls' in
his legs from the knees down, and I believe
they were shot into him while alive. Anoth*
er roan had strips of skin cut out of his body.
Hordes of squaws and old grey-haired Indians
were roaming over the battlefield howling
like mad. The squaws had stone mallela and
mashed in the skulls of the dead and wounded.
Many were gashed with knives and some
had their noses aud other members cut off.
The heads of four white soldiers were found
in the Sioux camp, that had been severed from
the trunks, but the bodies could not he found
tho or :
did not kill any squaws, but the Rees Indian
soouts did. The bodies of six squaws were
found in the little ravine. .
NUMBER OF THE INDICES. 1
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I think the Indian village must have contained
about (5,000 people, fully 8,000 of
whom were warriors. The Indians fought
Reno first and then went to fight Custer, after *
which they came back to finish Reno. The
same Indians were in all the attack. I think
think the Indians were commanded' by Sitting
Bull in person. There were eight or
nine other chiefs in the field. ?. t '
RENO'S COMMAND.
' A correspondent writing from the expedition
under date of July 6th, speaking of the
iunction formed by Gen. Terry's command,
with the attacking columns under Caster and
Reno, says that the battle was planned to take
place on the 26th, on which day Teriy weald
have easily been on the ground, but that Cue*
ter and Reno evidently came upon the Indiana
on the 25 th,unexpectedly,and were compelled
to fight, Terry being then a day's maroh distant
He advanced as rapidly as possible,
and before reaching tbe scene Was met by a
scout, who informed him that Colonel Reno,
with a remnant of the Seventh Cavalry, was
intrenched on a bluff near by waiting1 for re- +
lief. The command pushed rapidly on, and
soon came in sight of a group surroundiing a
cavalry guard upon a lofty eminence on the
right bank of the river. &en. Terry forded
the stream, accompanied by a small party,
and rode to the spot All the way the slopes
were dotted with
THE BODIES OF HEN AND HORSES.
The General approached, and the men swarmed
out of the works and greeted him with
hearty and repeated cheers. Within was
found Reno and the remains of seven companies
of the regiment with the following named
officers: Colonels Benteen and Weir; Captains
Felix, Maylan and McDougal; Lieutenants
Godfrey, Matbey, Gibson', Dernded, Edgerly,
Wallace, Varnum and Hare. In the
centre of the enclosure was a depression on
the surface in which the wounded were shel??J
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had been fighting from Sunday noon, the 25th,
until the night of the 26th, when Terry'p ar- v -v
rival caused the Indians to retire. Up to this
time Reno and those with him were in complete
ignorance of the fate of the other five
companies, which had been separ. ted from
them on the 25th, to make an attack tinder
Custer, on the village, at another point.
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
After the battle, 261 dead were found, and
52 wounded were brought off the ground.
From the official list of killed and wonnded,
we copy the following, the oompanieo to which
they were attached having at one time been
Btationed in different parts of South Carolina:
KlUbJUJ.
Field, Staff and Non-Commissioned Staff?G.
A. Custer, Brevet Major-General; W, W, Cook,
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; Dr. Lord, AssistantSurgeon
; J. M. DeWolf, Acting Assistant-Surgeon
; W. H. Sharrow, Sergeant-Major; Henry
Voss, Chief Trumpeter.
Company B, at one time stationed In Union
county?Lieut. Hodgson; privates Dowan and
Mass. ;
Company C.at one time stationed at Chester?
Colonel E. W. Custer; Lieutenant H. M. Harrington;
First Sergeant Bates, Sergeant Farley
; Corporals French, Foley and Ryan; privates
Allen, Crindle, King, Birckrall, Egmont,
Engle, Brightficld, Fobald, Griffin, Harpett, Hattisdall,
Kings, Southerns, Mayer, Phillips, Russell,
Bex, Ranter, Short, Shea, Rhodes, Stuart,
St John, Thodrid, Stanellan, Warren, Wyndham .
and Wright
Company D, at one time stationed at Yorkville?Charles
Vinoent, farrier; privates Patrick
Golden and Edward Housen.
Company K, at one time stationed at York
ville?First Sergeant WInny, 8ergeant nugnes;
Corporal Callahan; Trumpeter Heimerf Private
Ed. St. Claire.
Company G, at one time stationed at Spartanburg?Captain
Donald Mcintosh ; Sergeants Batgirl
and Considine; Corporals Martin, Hagman
and Welis; Henry Dodge, trumpeter; Cransford,
saddler; Privates Rogers, Monroe, McGinnis,
Selattey, 8teffenman and Papp.
Company M, at onetime stationed at Spartanburg?Sergeant
O* Harris; Corporals Seal tie and
St urges | Privates Gardner, Elatabursber, French,
Myers, Smith, Lemers, Tanner, limey ana
Vaight.
WOUNDED. The
following is a full list of the privates,
belonging to the above companies, who were
wounded:
Company C?Alfred Wheeler, right elbow; Pe