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Jtoaps and Jads. ! ? j ? Gen. Sherman does not think that the i Indians desire peace. ? Ben Butler enters the race for Congress ; from the Seventh Massachusetts district. ? The Tennessee Democracy have nomina- i ted Governor Porter for re-election. ? Joseph Brooks has been nominated for Govenor of Arkansas by the regular Convention. The party is very inharmonious. ? The Democratic State Convention of New York is called to meet at Saratoga Springs on the 30th instant. ? The President has issued his proclamation declaring Colorado a State of the Union? the thirty-eighth of the Federal family. ? Col. Thomas Aspinwall, aged ninetysix years, the oldest surviving officer of the war of 1812, died in Brooklyn N. Y. on Saturday last. ? An English shipping firm are building a new ship, called the North Carolina, and have sent to Raleigh to have the correct coat of " rv*n AivnioUnsi fKnm oo lldPIllfllP ill IUO lUilllOUVU luguj) MO UlUVkVUW w i authorities have represented it differently. ? The river and harbor bill, as it passed both Houses of Congress, is regarded as the I fairest bill for the South ever yet passed. j Of five millions appropriated for the improve- j ment of harbors and rivers, nearly two mil- , lions go to the South. ? T. B. Keogh, Chairman of the Republican State Ceutral Committee of North Caroli na, interviewed the President and the Secretary of War last week, with a view, it is sup- j posed to protesting against the removal of troops from that State. ? About five o'clock Saturday evening a terrific thuuder storm passed over Cleveland, j Ohio, and vincinity. Eight houses are re- I ported struck by lightning, and on the West j side a little girl named Barbara Boich was ! struck by lightning and instantly killed. ? It is rumored that Carl Schurz intends to i make a bold and vigorous attack on President j Grant in his first campaign speech, ana tnai : he will be sustained by leading Republicans j who perceive that Grant is sinking their ship : so rapidly that unloading is imperative. ? A mortgage for thirty-two million dollars, thirty million to bear seven per cent, interest, and two millions at six per cent., given by the Central and Hudson River Railroad Company to Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Wm. H. Vanderbilt, has just been recorded in the County Clerk's office in Albany. ? Rich specimens of gold ore have been ta-1 ken from the old Shuford Mine, four miles ; south of Catawba Station, in Catawba county, X. C. The veins lately opened give a promise of much richness. Some two thous-! and pennyweights have been taken from the mines within the last few years, without going ; lower than about fifteen feet below the surface, i ? A rumor comes from Northern Texas; that a large body of Indians, from 2,000 to | 3.000, are camped on the north fork of the j Red river, twenty or thirty miles from Fort! Elbott, and that great fears exist amoDg the ' people of that section that they meditate mis- i chief, if not war. It is said that they are well i armed and have abundance of provisions. ? in Iredell county, JN. U., many years ago, i lightning struck in an open 6eld and prostra- : ted every one of a number of hands who were at work, killing the foreman instantly. Last week lightning struck in the same spot, de- j stroying a considerable area of cotton. It is supposed that a mine of iron underlies this spot. ? During a severe thunder-storm in Char-! lotte, N. C., on Sunday afternoon, lightning struck and tore to pieces the tank-house of the Centennial Gas Company. The door was thrown fifteen feet through the door of the ; gashouse. No serious damage was done to ' the generator, and in a few hours operations were resumed. The Central Hotel was struck at the same time, but sustained no injury. J ? The St. Louis Republican has obtained information, from what is deemed an entirely trustworthy source, that General Sherman, j through second parties, is negotiating for elegant property in Cote Brilliant, a fashionable j suburb of this city, for his future residence; that he will certainly retire from the array after the 6th of March, in the event of the election of Hayes and Wheeler, and that General Grant will be appointed General Sherman's successor. ?""" ? Arch Bishop Purcell has written a letter addressed to the people of the United States relative to the attitude of the Catholic church - * ? i*ii towards the public school system, in wnicn ne declares that the church has no disposition to interfere with the system. He further says: . . No doubt justice and equality would entitle the'Catholic people of this country to exemp-: tion from taxation for the support of other schools, or to a share of the public school 1 funds in proportion to the number of pupils in the schools, but even this we are disposed to waive in your favor. ? The closing paragraph of Major Reno's ; official report of the Big Horn battle should not be passed over in silence, or with indifference by the public, even if the present Ad- j ministration ignores its pointed suggestion, j He feelingly says that the harrowing sight of; the dead bodies crowning the height on which Custer fell and which will remain in his memory until death, is too recent for him not to ask the people of this country?"whether a policy that sets opposing parties in the field armed, clothed and equipped by one and the same government, should not be abolished." ? The present is the dullest season ever known to circus men. They find the country people too poor to attend their wonderful shows, and the city people too overheated to care whether they have one or six clowns. The general depression throughout the country can be judged by this fact, for when the circuses fail, theD indeed it is proven that the grasshopper has been at work ana tne potato bug has spent the season in the fields. A circus in the West and South, that would hire its performers and men to pick potato bugs, would make more money than it would performing, which is the utmost encouragement that can be given. ? A New York letter, speaking of things in Wall street, says: "In Southern securities generally there is very little movement. One broker makes about all t he bids at the board for Louisianas, Alabanias, Virginias and North and South Carolinas, but it is remarked that very few bonds are offered at the board. They appear to be picked up quietly outside, for there are good and steady buyers of all bonds of the Southern States of recognized value, and these transactions often fail to appear on the printed record of sales. Of the 8800,000 South Carolina land bonds of 1889 all have been funded except about 87,000. ? On Friday last the trustees of the Peabody fund for aiding the public schools at the South held a meeting at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, at which the report made by Dr. Sears of his last year's work was discussed. From this report we learn that Dr. Sears disbursed from the fund under his charge but a small amount to South Carolina, Florida and Louisana, because those States do not foster public education. George Peabody Russell, who joined in the discussion of the Sears report, gave it as his opinion, from personal and recent observation, "that nothing could be expected from those States in the way of advancing their educational interests until there was a change iu their State governments." ? A movement has been started in Western Texas in favor of forming that portion of the State into a new Commonwealth. This action is based upon the agreement claimed to have been entered into when the Lone Star State was put upon the American flag, that whenever any part of Texas possessing sufficient area of territory and amount of population should apply for admission to the Union, and that application was properly endorsed by the State Legislature, that the new State should be recognized. It is claimed that in population and territorial expansion Western Texas is amply endowed at this time, and the Legislature, at its next session, will be called upon to endorse the desire of the people of that section for separate political existence?incorporation into the Union. Mr fJorMlr (Mqitiwr. YORKVILLE, S. C.: ? ? THURSDAY MORNING, AUG, 17, 1876. TIIE HAMBURG RIOT. The Augusta Chronicle of Saturday, publisher n nnmhpr of the affidavits submitted to Judge Maher at Aiken, last Thursday, in behalf of the persons implicated in the Hamburg riot. These affidavits preseut the case in quite a different aspect from that conveyed by the accounts of the affair as first published in the Augusta papers, which accounts, coming from Democratic sources and supposed to be as charitable toward the whites as the circumstances would permit, fully warranted the denunciation and condemnation so freely bestowed by almost the entire press of the State. If these affidavits are to be relied upon as truthful?and they come from men who are represented as respectable citizens?the militia company, whether legally authorized or not, was a standing danger and a source of continual terror to the whites, who, in attempting to disarm the negroes, were acting in selfdefence. The killing of the captives, however, which killing is not denied, cannot be ex ? - - -l - -! A fTM 1 1J cusea unuer any circumstances. inuy suuuiu have received the same treatment due to any person under arrest for crime or misdemeanor, and the slaying of them in the mauner in which it was done, can only be characterized as cowardly and barbarous. We print, this week, the letter of Governor Chamberlain to President Grant. In this letter the Governor displays more the tactics of the politician than the dignified conduct of the chief executive of the State, and tacitly acknowledges, even though he does it for the more reprehensible purpose of manufacturing political capita], that with all the resources at his command, as Governor, he is powerless to subdue a local disturbance. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 7th, the House bill making appropriations to pay claims allowed by the Southern Claims Commission passed, with amendments. A bill extending the time for the exemption of lands sold for taxes passed. The bill giving the Court of Claims jurisdiction to determine the claims of lawful owners of cotton seized after the 30th of June, 1866, was indefinitely postponed. The school amendment, which passed the House, was taken up, two substitutes offered, and the whole matter referred to the committee. In the House, after much filibustering by the Republicans, a resolution was adopted giving investigating committees leave to report during the remainder of the session at any time after two days from the time that a committee has agreed to its report and submitted the same to the minority, who shall have leave at the same time to submit their views to the House, and that if the minority of the committee shall be absent, notice shall be given in the House. In the Senate on the 8th, the bill to establish the Territory of Pembia out of the northern portion of the Territory of Dakota passed. A concurrent resolution to print 100,000 co1 * ti ? n i -ion 1 pies or tne Agricultural iveport 01 10it, auu 200,000 copies of 1875, passed. The Alabama election was discussed, Senators of both parties indulging good-humored remarks over the result. The House proceedings were unimportant. In the Senate on the 9th, the legislative conference committee reported that they were unable to agree. A new committee was appointed. The debate on printiug the President's letter and accompanying papers relative to the Hamburg affair was resumed. Patterson closed his speech. He declared there had been more men murdered in the South for opinion's sake since the war than were killed on the Federal side in any battle during the war. In the House the bill giving thirty dollars per month to the widow of Captain Yates, killed with Custer, passed. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, spoke on the political issues of the day, criticizing the speech of Mr. Lamar, made a few days previous. Mr. Hooker, of ?: i:_j nr? u ?? ?ki? .LUISSiSSippi, iepiicu lu iui. Hum, iu ?u auic defence of the Democratic party of the South. In the Senate on the 10th, the political debate was resumed, but a vote was not reached on the question of printing the Hamburg documents. In the House, Lord, of New York, offered a resolution reciting that the right of suffrage prescribed by the constitution of the several States is subject to the Fifteenth Amendment and that the service of said right should be faithfully maintained and observed by the United States, aud that it is asserted that the exercise of said right is in some States, notwithstanding the efforts of good citizens, controlled by fraud, intimidation and violence, so that the objects of the Fifteenth Amendment are defeated, and that all citizens without distinction of race or color are entitled to the rights conferred by said amendment; and declaring that all attempts by force, fraud, intimidation or otherwise to prevent a free exercise of the right of suffrage, should meet with certain condign and effectual punishment and that in any case which has heretofore occurred or may hereafter occur, in which violence or murder has been or shall be committed by one race or class upon another, prompt punishment of the criminal or criminals is imperatively demanded, whether the crime be one punishable by a fine or imprisonment, or one demanding the puishment of death. The question was divided aud the declaration or resolution was carried by 174 to 2, and the preamble by 121 to 1. The committee on Naval expenditures reported the following: Resolved, That Isaiah Hansconi, Chief the Bureau of Construction and liepairs of the Navy Department, is unworthy and incompetent to hold that position, and that the interest of the Bureau, the Department, and the Government, requires his re raoval. Resolved, That by reason of the neg ligence of Geo. M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy and his order to pay the firm of Tilton Wheelwright & Co., the claim presented by them in January, 1874, the Government ol the United States was defrauded by said Tilton, Wheelwright & Co. of the sum so paid to wit: 832,019. Resolved, That a copy oi the annexed testimony together with the re ports of the majority and minority of the com raittee, and of these resolutions, with notice oi the action of the House of Representative! herein, be laid before the President of the United States by the Clerk of this Houseadopted. The river and harbor bill as report ed was adopted by 104 to 55. The bill continuing the appropriations to Monday next passed. The majority and minority of the New Orleans Federal officers committee reported. Ordered printed. Adjourned. The Senate on the 11th, by a vote of 21 to 26, refused to postpone the unfinished business, bing a resolution to print extra copies of the President's message in relation to the Hamburg difficulty and take up the bill to equalize the bounties of Federal soldiers who served in the late war. All committee work, except the completing of reports, has been suspended. The post route bill was taken up. An amendment, restoring the franking privilege with modifications, was agreed to and the bill passed. In the House, a bill authorizing the employment of oue thousand Indian scouts, passed. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, with a communication from the Secretary of War, General Sherman and General Sheridan, recommending an increase of the cavalry force of the army by 2,500 raeu, or authority to call out five regiments of volunteer cavalry of 1,000 men each. Referred to the committee on military affairs. The bill authorizing the printing of 100,000 copies of the Agricultural Report, passed. In the Senate on the 12th, the Hawaiian treaty was discussed, and continued as unfinished business for Mouday. In the House the conference report on the diplomatic bill j was adopted. A new conference was appointed on the Indian appropriation bill. The conference report on the legislative appropriation bill was adopted. The debate on the President's Hamburg message was continued, pending which the House adjourned until Tuesday 10 o'clock. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Col. James A. Hoyt, of Anderson, is mentioned for Congress from the Third District. ? A heavy hail storm passed over VVinnsboroon Tuesday of last week, damaging trees and gardens. ? Mr. J. W. Cannon, near Abbeville, sowed four bushels and one peck of wheat, and made ninety bushels. ? Two large rattlesnakes, each with eleven 1 rattles and a button, were killed bv David Drafts, in Lexiugton county, one day last week near Barr's landing. ? The Catholic Church in Greenville is in rapid process of construction, and from present appearances the church will be ready for occupation within sixty days. ? Gov. Chamberlain has refused to commute the sentence of Jerry Coleman (colored) the Abbeville murderer, now under sentence of death. His reprieve expires to-morrow. ? Messrs. W. Waddy Thomson, E. C. Oliver and George W. Nicholls appeared in Spartanburg Court, last week, for examination on petition to practice law, were admitted and took the oath of attorneys. ? Grasshoppers are going for the cotton in Spartanburg, and Greenville counties, and lice are literally sucking it to death in Marion county. The recent rains have also produced rust, which will materially injure the crop prospect in the latter county. ? . i? i_. 1..1. J P ? ur tne nineteen aeiegates ejected irom Charleston county to the State Democratic Convention, which met at Columbia on the 15th instant, two-thirds are "straight-outs," and go instructed to postpone the nomination of State officers. ? A negro named George Taylor was shot and killed on Tuesday night, the 1st instant, two miles from Summit, Lexington county, oD-the-phmtation of Mr. J. F. Harraan, by some unknown persou. An inquest was held by Trial Justice Dent, and the jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts. ? Geo. Wade Hampton has written a letter on the political situation in this State. He advises the State Convention to nominate a full State ticket?rejecting any compromise or fusion with the Republicans. He says he does not desire his name on the ticket, but will obey the call of his State. ? The Uuited States Court for the Western Division of South Carolina met in Greenville on Monday of last week, Hon. Geo. S. Bryan, District Judge, presiding. The grand jury was organized as follows : J. Reese Fant, foreman : Silas K. Cannon, Lawrence Fouche, Samuel A. Garey, T. M. Graham, George w. Hill, James W. Hill, Alex. Jones, Elias Jenkins, John B. Marchbanks, M. S. McArthur, Wm. McFall, Chas. McJunkin, W. T. Shumate, Chas. L. Smith, and Claude C. Turner. ? Ann Clinkseales (colored) resisted the executionof a search warrantat Unionschoolhouse, in Due West township, Abbeville county, on July 31st. She levelled a shot-gun at the constable, and he retired. Sixty or seventy-five armed negroes came to her support, and on last Monday, when the attempt was to be repeated, the whites assembled to enforce the law. Violence was feared, but M. J. B. Kay acted as mediator, and the negroes agreed to allow the arrest to be made, and the affair terminated peaceably. ? The Columbia correspondent of the New and Courier telegraphs the following to that paper: "Dick Lundy, colored, a prisoner in the Edgefield jail, has confessed to having been hired by a number of persons, including nearly all the leading Radicals in Edgefield county, to assassinate Gen. Butler. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the accused parties. Nearly all the officials ac cused are absent from the county, and, it is said, will wait to be arrested before returning. They affect to regard the matter as a Democratic trick." EDITORIAL INKLINGS. I The Kentucky Election. i The returns from Kentucky report DemI ocratic gains throughout the State, notably in j the cities of Lexington and Paris, and in Jessamine county, which have heretofore been Republican. The election was only for county officers, but the Democratic gains are significant, because the Republicans in Kentucky ordinarily concentrate their efforts upon the local contests, being hopeless of ever carrying the State. Mr. Henry Waterson, editor of ! the Courier-Journal, was elected by an over whelming majority to fill out the unexpired ? term of Edward Parsons, deceased, in Con gress, having practically no opposition. An ' interesting fact in the election was the defeat I of a grandson of Henry Clay, who offered himself as a candidate for a minor office in Louisville. ' The Alabama Election. 1 The Alabama election, on Monday of >' last weeK, resunea io a sweeping victory ior the Democrats. Houston is elected Governor ^ by not less than 35,000 majority. The Senate " j stands 27 Democrats, 1 Independent and 4 ' Republicans. The House will stand 83 Dera' ocrats, 2 Independents and 15 Republicans. ' | M. D. Graham, Chairman of the State Democratic Committee, telegraphs the result ^ as follows: } | "The election on Monday was conducted }! throughout the State with absolute fairness, '; and without the slightest disturbance or com-1 plaint of intimidation that we have heard. The Democrats have elected their State ticket bj over 40,000 majority and at least four-fifths of both branches of the Legislature. The negroes, in large numbers, voted with us.",.. . The Michigan Democracy. The State Democratic Convention of Michigan convened in Detroit-on Thursday last. George S. Webber was nominated for Governor and Julius Housman for Lieutenant-Governor. The Convention affirms an abiding faith in the traditions and principles of the Democratic party, namely, a strict construction of the Constitution, local self-government, and the responsibility of officials to the people ; hostility to sumptuary laws, and undue protection to local interests by Federal legislation. The St. Louis platform was fully endorsed. The sixth plank reads: "We de clare our devotioD to the Federal Constitution with all its amendments, and insist that it is the duty of every State government to protect, in the enjoyment of all their rights, all lawabiding citizens of whatever race or color, and to briug to conviction and punishment all persons guilty of a violation of the same." Mackey on Glen. Butler. At the Republican meeting in Rock Hill, several days ago, one of the speakers having reflected harshly upon General M. C. Butler and his alleged participation in the Hamburg affair, Judge Mackey felt it his duty to repel the attack. His remarks upon this point, as published in the Chester Reporter, close as follows: In view of Gen. Butler's past record, I will not believe, until the charge is established by the verdict of an impartial jury, rendered at the bar of a court of justice, that he stooped bis lofty crest to draggle its hitherto stainless plume in the blood of unarmed and unresist ing prisoners. "Strike, but hear me!" is a demand as just to-day as wheu first uttered by a noble Greek more than two thousand years ago, and I but ask that General Butler shall not be condemned before he 16 heard. Gen. Butler, as you all well know, upholds no political standard that I follow. To his mind my loyalty to the Republican party, whose chosen candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States, I am here most earnestly advocating, means treason to South Carolina?the State for whose honor's sake, as we then sincerely thought, we both resisted with our drawn swords, through four years of internecine war, yonder fiag of the great and benificent Republic, by whose magnanimity both he and I enjoy to-day all the rights and privileges of American citizenship. The Edgefield Meeting. The accounts of a Republican meeting in Edgefield last Saturday, in which it is alleged that a number of armed Democrats over-awed the Republicans, receive a contradiction in a written communication from Judge Mackey, published in the Columbia Register of Monday. Judge Mackey was one of the speakers at the meeting, and in his statement of the affair he wholly contradicts the version of it as given by the Union-Herald, which charges that "an armed band of white ruffians had possession of the town," and he also contradicts several of the statements in the correspondence of the News and Courier relative to the same affair. So far from any intimidation or violence being displayed by the Democrats, Judge Mackey says a joint discussion was asked, which being granted, Messrs. Butler and Gary, on the Democratic side, and Judge Mackey and Gov1 ? * .1 r* Li* _ J ernor Utiamberiain on toe nepuoncan siae, spoke each half aD hour in regular political discussion. Judge Mackey closes his letter with the following significant paragraph : The government of Edgefield has been for eight years a festering ulcer upon our body politic, and a diligent attempt is now being made to hide with "the bloody shirt," the appalliugs wrongs committed by the Republican party on the white population of that section. For example, there have been three County Treasurers, all Republicans, appointed in Edgefield since 1868. The first, John Wooley, proved a defaulter to the amount of 825,000 ; the second, Eichelberger, in the sum of about $30,000 ; and third, McDevitt, estimated at $40,000 or $50,000. The government is wholly composed of negroes elected on the race issue, asserted even against white Republicans, and.- the very doors of the temple of justice have been slammed by a Republican Judge in the face of the white people of Edgefield, when they invoked the law to protect them in their r ignis. The Growing Cotton Crop. The following is a report of the condition of the growing cotton crop in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, compiled from data received up to the 10th instant: Norfolk, Aug. 10.?The Cotton Exchange makes the following report of the condition of the cotton crop for July: From sixty replies received from twenty-eight counties iu North Carolina and four in Virginia this report is compiled. Ten report the weather very favorable, eight report that the weather has been exceedingly hot and dry, thirty-six that the weather was hot and dry until about the 24th of July, since which time frequent rains have fallen, and two complain that the weather turned too cold. Twenty-two report the weather more favorable than last year, fourteen about equal and twenty-four less favorable. Nineteen report the stands much better than last year, thirty-three equally as good, and eight uot as good, though on a fair average. Six report the weed as forming, blooming and boiling better than in years past; forty-six reporl equal to last year, two expect shedding, and six are not forming or blooming well. Twenty-four report the general conI o.nno nnAfl on/4 hoHap fhan I Ant. Uit/iUM U1 lilio l/IU|/o gv/wu HUU VVV?vi year, twenty-four that the condition is equal to last year, twelve that the condition iB not ; good, the weed being very small and the appearance of rust, caused by excessive rains. All report, with few exceptions, that the crop is being laid by in a good, healthy condition, clear of grass and weeds, though rather smaller in growth than last year. One county reports the appearance of lice, and one county that, having suffered so much from drought, they do not expect to make more than half a crop. alabama. Montgomery, Aug. 10.?The rainy weathi er still continues, and the farmers complain ! dreadfully of the cotton worm which is already doing much damage. The rain washes off the worm destroyer as fast as it is applied. The corn crop is the largest ever made in Alabama. Mobile, Aug. 10.?From July 1st to Au[ gust 1st forty-six counties were reported in one hundred and thirty-two letters. The weather during the period above named has been generally favorable, taking the average of the State, nod as compared with last year, has been generally as prosperous. The re1 . i- -I ?I ? J_ 1_ ?? u ports irora me upianus, nuwever, mo ujuou better than from the bottom lands. The stands are almost universally reported good, very few reporting them poorer than last , year, and many as better. The plant is forming, blooming and boiling fairly, and its gen| eral condition is equal to that of last year. ' i The unfavorable circumstances relative to the i' condition of the crops are the weedy growth , j of the plant in bottom lands, and the appear| ance of worms in more or less quantities in twenty-two counties, most of them prairie and ' i canebrake counties, located in middle and 1 west Alabama. ; i georgia. I Augusta, Aug. 10.?Taking a broad view i over the section allotted to this Exchange we , conclude that the crops generally are in a very flattering condition, as a whole, pointing, should there be no future disaster, to a large yield. Four letters complain of rust, and eight of grasshoppers. Savannah, Aug. 10.?The present condition of the crops is favorable, though it is in a critical state. A yield of from 10 to 20 per cent, over last year is expected. There are complaints of rust from the light pine lands, and of caterpillars from the rich bottom lands. The extent of the damage thereupon depends on the character of the weather during this month. MISSISSIPPI. In twenty counties in Mississippi, seventyfour letters report that the weather has been generally favorable, and, compared with last year, equally as favorable. The stands are good in all the counties, except Itawamba and Pontatoc. The plant i9 forming, blooming and boiling well, and its general condition compares favorably with last year. Worms are reported in five counties, and there is some complaint of cold nights and weedy growtns in the counties where there have been rains. CHAMBERLAIN TO GRANT. The following is the full text of Governor Chamberlain's recent letter to President Grant, the President's reply to which we published last week. The Governor's letter was not made public until after the President's reply thereto had been published: State of South Carolina, Executive Mansion, > Columbia, July 22. ) Sir: The receut massacre at Hamburg, in this State, is a matter so closely connected with the public poace of this State that I desire to call your attention to it for the purpose of laying before you my views of its effect, and the measures which it may become necessary to adopt to prevent the recurrence of similar events. It is, in tbe first place, manifestly impossible to determine, with absolute certainty, the motives of those who were engaged in perpetratiug the massacre at Hamburg. The demand which was made by the mob upon the militia company for the surrender of their arms, taken in connection with the fact that the militia are not shown to have committed or threatened any injury to any persons in that community, would seem to indicate a purpose to deprive the militia of their rights on account of their race or political opinions. Itseems impossible to find a rational or adequate cause for such a demand, except in the fact that the militia company was composed of negroes, or in the additional fact that they were, besides being negroes, members of the Republican party. Those who made the demand were, on the other hand, white men and members of the Democratic party. The lines of race and political party were the lines which marked the respective parties to the affair at Hamburg. I mention this as a fact, and as apparently the most trustworthy index of the motives and aims which inspired those who brought on this conflict. As affecting the public peace, however, the effect of this massacre is of more importance than the motives which prompted it. Upon this point I can speak with more confidence. It is not to be doubted that the effect of this massacre has been to cause wide-spread terror and apprehension among the colored race and the Republicans of the State. There is as little doubt, on the other hand, that a feeling of triumph and political elation has been caused by this massacre in the minds of many of the white people and Democrats. The fears of the one side correspond with the hopes of the other. I do not intend to overstate, any matters connected with this affair, nor to omit any statements which seem to me essential to a full understanding of its significance. It is certainly true that most, though not all of those who have spoken through the newspapers or otherwise here, on the white or Democratic side, upon this matter, have condemned the massacre. Their opposition to such conduct has not, however, sufficed to prevent this massacre, nor do I see any greater reasons for believing that it will do so iu the future. That class which was engaged in this cruel work certainly disregard the express sentiments of those who assume to speak, for the most part, for their communities, and go forward without fear of public opinion or punishment. It is sometimes asked " W hy do not the colored race return their violence with violence ? Why do they suffer themselves to be thus terrorized when their numbers greatly exceed those of their enemies in the localities where many of these outrages occur ?" The answer is not difficult. The long habit of command and self-assertion on the part of the whites of these Southern States, their superior intelligence, as compared with the colored race, the fact that at least four-fifths of the property of these States is in their bands, are causes which contribute to give them an easy physical superiority thus far over the recently emancipated race, which still exhibit the effects of their long slavery in their habit of yielding to the more imperious and resolute will and the superior intelligence and material resour ces of the white maa. Add to this that in almost every Southern community there may be found a considerable number of daring, lawless, reckless white men accustomed to arms and deeds of violence, over whom the restraints of the sentiments of the better and more conservative classes of sooiety have little, if any power, who are inspired by an intense and brutal hatred of the negro as a freeman, and more particularly as a voter and a Republican, and you have the elements which would naturally give rise to, and in point of fact, do give rise to nearly all the scenes of bloody violence which occur in the Southern States. Besides all this another fact must be noticed here, a fact which, in my judgment, marks and explains the world-wide difference between the effects of such occurrences as this at Hamburg upon the mass of the white people, and the effects of deeds of blood and violence upon the people of other sections of the country, namely, that such occurrences as that at Hamburg have generally resulted in what is thought to be political advantage to the Democratic party here. From this fact it results that the white people here are induced, to a considerable extent, to overlook the naked brutality of the occurence, and seek to find some excuse or explanation of conduct which ought to receive only unqualified abhorrence and condemnation, followed by speedy and adequate punishment. In this way it often happens that a few reckless men are permitted or encouraged to terrorize a whole community, and destroy all freedom of action on nmii nf fVinoo arho differ frnm them in no LUG pUlll VI KIIVOW If UV ?? ? - j litical opinions. The more respectable portion of the white people here content themselves with verbal perfunctory denunciations, and never adopt such measures or arouse such a public sentiment as would here, as well as elsewhere, put a stop to such occurrences. In respect to the Hamburg massacre, as I have said, the fact is unquestionable that it has resulted in great immediate alarm among the colored people and Republicans in that section of the State. Judging from past experience, they see in this occurrence a new evidence of a purpose to subject a majority of the voters of that vicinity to such a degree of fear as to keep them from the polls on election day, and thus reverse or stifle the true politi| cal voice of the peuple, I But the Hamburg massacre has produced another effect. It has, as a matter of fact, * " .? *. _ jp i T>^ caused a tjrrn oeuer on cue part 01 mooi rw: publicana here that this affair at Hamburg is only the beginning of a series of similar race and party collisions in our State, the deliberate aim of which is believed by them to be the political subjugation and control of this j State. They see, therefore, in this event what foreshadows a campaign of blood and vio-! lence, such a campaign as is popularly known as a campaign conducted on the "Mississippi; | plan." From what I have now said it will not be difficult to understand the feeling of a i majority of the citizens in a considerable part of this State. It is one of intense solicitude i for their lives and liberties. It is one of fear : 11 that, in the passion and excitement of the cur-! rent political campaign, physical violence is | to be used to overcome the political will of; i the people. I confine myself here to a state-' ment of what I believe to be the facts of the t present situation-in this State'as conneeted j with the public peace and order, without a^y expression of my individaal.feeling^.aud opin- < ions. My first duty is to seek to restore and | preserve public peace and order, to the end \ that every man in Sooth Carolina may freely < and safely enjoy all his civil rights and priv- i ileges, including the right to vote. It is to 1 this end that I now call your attention to these t matters. I shall go forward to do all in my power as- Governor to- accomplish the- ends < above indicated, but I deem it important to i advise you of the facts now stated, and to so- < licit from you'some indication of your views ( upon the questions presented. To be more t specific, will the general government exert it- 1 self vigorously to repress violence in this State i during the present political campaign on the part of persona belonging to either political par- f hi *nhpn#H#r ihal violence shall be bevond the 1 control of the State authorities t Will the gen- i eral government take such precautions as may be suitable, in view of the feeling of alarm < already referred to, to restore confidence to 1 the poor people of both races and political i -parties in this State by such a distribution of i the military forces now here as will render i the intervention of the general government c prompt and effective, if it shall become necessary, in restoring peace and order? i It seems proper to add that I am moved to i make this communication to you by no motive i or feeling save such as should auimate me as the Chief Executive of this State, bound to do justice to all and to oppress none. I venture to say that I have given sufficient evidence by my whole conduct in this office that, as Governor. I am guided by my oath of office and toy duty to all tbe people. I challenge any proof or indication, from any word or act of ' mine as Governor, that I am capable of doing injustice, or denying justice, to any citizen of this State. Bat I do deem it my solemn duty to do my utmost to secure a fair and free election in this State; to protect ev- ' ery man in the free enjoyment of his political rights, and to see to it that no man or combi- . nation of men, of any political party, shall overawe or put in fear or danger any citizen of South Carolina in the exercise of bis oivil rights. In accomplishing these results I mow ' recognize, with deep regret, that there are many indications that will be necessary for roe to invoke the aid which, under tbe constitution and laws, the authorities of the general government may extend under certain circumstances. And I trust you will permit roe to add that I know of no official duty more binding, in my judgment, on the Chief Executive of the United States than that of exercising the powers with which he is invested for the protection of the States against domestic violence and for the protection of tbe individual citizen in ^ the exercise of his political rights whenever a proper call is made upon hiro. I understand , that an American citizen has a right to vote , as he pleases, to vote one ticket as freely and safely as another, to vote wrong as freely and safely as to vote right, and I know that when- ( ever upon whatsoever pretext, large bodies of | citizens can be coerced, by force or fear, into j absenting themselves from the polls, or voting ^ in a way contrary to their judgment or incli- ( nation, .the foundation of every man's civil freedom is deeply, if not fatally, shaken. j I enclose, for your information respecting { the Hamburg massacre, the following docu- ( raents: The report of Hon. William Stone, ( Attorney-General of this 8tate; the report of f Gen.H. W. Purvis, Adjutant and Inspector- j General; a copy of-all the evidence taken before the Coroner's jury; a copy of the I printed statement of Gen. M. C. Butler; a ^ copy of a letter addressed by me to Hon. T. ( J. Robertsou; an address to the American j people by the colored people of Charleston, and a similar address by a committee appoint- { ed at a convention of leading representatives { of the colored people of this State, at Colum- ( bia, on the 20th instant. ^ I have the honor to be your obedient ser- ( vant, D. &. Chamberlain, f 1 Governor of South Carolina. To the President. ( For tlie Yorkvlllc Enquirer. \ FORT MILL GRANGE, P. H. 1 report of committee. Fort Mill, S. C., Aug. 5,1876. , Worthy Master and Brethren: The com- ( raittee appointed to inspect the farms of tbe < members of this Grange, beg leave to submit < the following report: We visited thirty-four farms, and found them generally well cultivated, and the crops good?especially cotton, oats and upland corn. The crops on bottom land are inferior, in consequence of having been flooded by the high waters; and in our judgment cannot make exceeding half a crop. We found planted on the several farms visited the following number of aores in tbe respective crops mentioned, to which we append a statement of the same crops planted last year. 1875. ' 1876. Corn, acres 1,225 Corn, acres 1,371 Wheat, -...200 Wheat, ... 234J Rye, 00 Rye, i Oats 450 Oats, ..l.J.7.489 Barley, 00 Barley, ? Sorghum, 00 Sorghum 4 Onions } Onions, $ Irish Potatoes, 5 Irish Potatoes, -7 Sweet Potatoes, 20 Sweet Potatoes 27 Clover, 1 32 Clover, .....19 Peas, 00 Peas, 13 Pinders, 00 Pinders, 9 Millet 00 Millet, 1 Melons, 4 Melons, 4 Cotton 2100 Cotton 2,001 Tons Hay produced,...20 Tons Hay produced,20 Guano used, tons 160 Guano used, tons,...112 Cattle raised, head 191 Cattle raised, head,.210 Hogs, 365 Hogs, -...340 Sheep, 110 Sheep, 87 Goats, 23 Goats 31 Bee Hives 82 Bee Hives 53 Horses and mules,....140 Horses and mules,..142 Hands employed, 270 Hands employed,...264 Produce bought,...$3,270 Produce bo't,..$3,144.00 Produce sold, 5,038 Produce sold, 1,605.50 No. panels fence built in 1876, 72,900 No. rails made annually, 72,900 Cost of rails, annually, $1,093.50 We And, on comparison with last year, that we have an increase of 146 acres of corn, 35 acres of wheat and 9 acres of potatoes. We have used 2 more mulee, and have an increase of 19 head of cattle and 8 head of goats. W e ( have planted, this year, 11 acres less of oats, | 13 less of clover, 99 less of cotton, and have t used 48 tons less of guano; have worked 6 t hands less, have 25 hogs less, 23 sheep less, > and 29 hives of bees less than last year. j We find that Mr. A. S. White has the best i cultivated farm in Division No. 1; Mr. J. R. i Kimbrell in Division No. 2; Mr. Hugh 1 Gelston in Division No. 3, and Mr. J. C. i Jones in Division No. 4 f We have awarded to Mr. A. S. White the < premium for the best cultivated farm, and to ' B. H. Massey for the best cultivated garden. I Last year we had three self-supporting 1 farms; this year we have eleven. We find that the members of the Grange i expend annually $1,100 in repairing fences, | and yet we find the fences in bad condition, I notwithstanding this heavy expenditure, in i view of which we heartily recommend the i adoption of a stock law, whereby we would | be enabled to dispense with 141 miles of i fencing, which occupies 59 acres of our best I land. , ( We visited aud inspected the mills of brother S. E. White, which we found in complete order, and capable of supplying the demand for grinding, sawing and ginning cotton. He has added a threshing machine to his machinery, j which has proved a great benefit to the public j the past season. We cordially recommend our brethren to avail themselves of the advantages presented by brother White's machinery. We are pleased to commend to our Patrons the diversified system of farming introduced and practiced by our brother, S. J. Orroand, who has raised, this year, on a two-horse farm, 866 bushels of small grain, besides cultivating the usual amount of corn, cotton, Ac., on a farm of that capacity. We have awarded to Capt. S. E. and J. M. i White the credit of having the best stock of cattle, and to Mr. Hugh Gelston for having the best hogs among the members of the Grange. We notice, with regret, the decrease in the number of hogs, sheep and bees, and * luggest that tbe$ things are sources of much irofit to the farmer, with but little labor. The common error in the cultivation of the Xtfp-crop is the want of proper distance in 4 planting, and the lack of sufficient cultivation vith the hoe. The prevailing error in the Motivation, of cotton , is the practice of yualing the rows, on hill-sides, up and down the lill, which causes the washing away of thoulands of tons of oar best soil every yeir. Your committee beg-to recommend as the inly-sore and feasible.path to independence ind prosperity and an improved system, the A mltivation of diversified: etope, the Pointing )f more grain?especially wheat anil oats? ind the cultivation of less cotton ; raising all ;he supplies needed on .the farm, aJod-ao.edblomical management of the same. We. have awarded to brother J. R. Harris ihe premium for the best self-sustaining farm, le having a surplus of $430 after defraying ill necessary expenses of his crop. We congratulate our Order on the repeated ividence of progress and prosperity we meet with on every hand, there having been a narked improvement in the cultivation and management of all the. farms visited, notwithstanding the destructive floods and severe itorms which have marked the past season.. Our Patrons have persevered nobly, and ire to-day rewarded with the prospect of harvesting the largest crop that we have had for several years. ' All of which is respectfully submitted, u j B. H. MASSEY, T. G. Culp, . *a J. W. Ardrey, Hugh Gelstojt, J. R. Harriet,' _ QnrmiUee/1^ THE HAMBURG AFFAIR. examimation of the accused. [From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, Friday.] ' Yesterday morning the Sonth Carolina parties charged by the recent CoronerY do- w juest in Hamburg with murder ahd' being ? ^I.a in .mniiulinn will SCCCWHincS UC1U1C mo iu wuuvivvivu w#?ii ;he Hamburg affair, assembled at Granite- '^a cille, surrendered themselves to Sheriff Jordan, of Aiken county, and under ha charge proceeded to Aikeo. At Aiken the usual c quietude was laid aside and excitement reigned in anticipation of i^e prospective examination. At 9 o'clock a body of about forty men, all mounted,from.Silverton, reached.the village, their object1 being merely to witnen he preliminary trial of their friends'add seigbbors. About half-past teno'clock the iccnsed, in custody of Sheriff Jordan, who rode in a buggy at the bead of the cavalcade with R. J. Butler, arrived. The spectacle of his large number of men submitting voluntarily to arrest by a single officer and march g under bis charge to trial/w'oalclhaveconrinced the: worst among thd blobdy shirt ihrielcers at the North that the citiiienfe of the Palmetto State have no disposition to- resist awful authority. The formal arrest was made aft tha^Oou# House door by the Sheriff, who called; the ?? lame of each of ,the accused in turn. The atter responded, 'and dismounting proceed nto the Court Room. Among the accused were two negroes, showing conclusively that ' he unfortunate occurrence of July 8th, had lothiog to do with race or pities. After he list was completed, our reporter glanced iround at the material that crowded the ball )nce known as the Aiken Lyceum; but 'now inverted into a Court Room. Judge Mshef, i firm and resolute looking man, occupied the )ench. In front of bim was an array of law* fere, mhde up of the finest legal talent io the State. For the defense appeared Leroy F, fou mans, of Columbia; Oen. M. W.Gary, ;x-Gov. Bonham and J. C. Sheppard, of Edgefield: Maj. W. T. Gary, of Augusta ; ind .Messrs. D. 8. Henderson, G. H. Croft ind O. C. Jordan, of Aiken. The State was 'epresented by Attorney-General Stone. In he rear sat the sixty or seventy men accoaed, while on all sides was oue dense crowd of sager spectators. Comparatively few tftogroes ippeared in the gallery. The legal aspect of the case was that these nen were represented as under arrest and that A ;hey then appeared on writs of habeas corpus jo petition for bail. .. The proceedings were oppned by Maj. W. r. Gary, who said that a large number for xrhom warrants had been issued had surrenlered themselves to the sheriff', but that some ?uld not be found in that county, nor in the State, and he would ask that the Attorneygeneral take up those cases where the defend* tots were present. The Attorney-General having consented, ind the Sheriff* having read the names, all )ut two of those from Carolina responded. If r. Henderson read the charges as made in be Coroner's verdict, which had already been lublisbed, and.said -that, the defense would iresent some affidavits in support of the po* ition it would take. ? i . ?11 n n il ... t> a Tfte affidavit 01 uen. in. u jouuer ?u um> ead. It opens with ihe declaration that as he newspapers through the country had done litn such grow injustice he felt it due himself hat a calm, clear statement should be read o the Court It is a lucid explanation of his.position, dearly showing that his visit to Hamburg vas a purely professional one; that he bad no knowledge nor connection with the carrying >f the cannon to Hamburg, and that it was inly after the killing of young Merriweather hat the white people became aggravated. 3e went on to show that the most unfortunate iffair was only one of the inevitable fruits of legro rule. It was an able and convincing etter and was read in an eloquent manner >y Governor Bonhara. Mr. Henderson followed with the affidavits if the Rev. John P. Mealing, Col. A. P. Sutler and Dr. Hugh A. Shaw, in which they ill plainly showed the expressed intent of the :olored men was to start a row and that the rhite men were forced into it by an unavoid* ible chain of circumstances from winch there vaa no escape. He then read the affidavit or Prince R. Rivers, Major General of the Sooth Carolina Militia. Rivers testified that Captain Doo Adams' lompany was not a duly commissioned com* >any; that it bad "never had a drilT before * be 4th day of July last, and that he had old Adams that if he took the guns of the nilitia he would be in danger of prosecution. 3e further testified concerning his threaten* ng to imprison Adams for contempt of Court, ind Adams' defiant reply that ''Rivers and lis Court might go to hell, but his company vould die before they would deliver their irms." He further testified about his differ* jnt missions of peace between the two parties md of Doc Adams' final- refusal to settle. Sis affidavit will do much to exonerate the vhitea from blame. v Major Croft presented the affidavit of D. 3. Henderson, in which he testified that on ;he day before the affair occurred* in Hamaurg S. J. Lee (colored) told him that Sparrick bad asked him (Lee) if he was not go* ng over to defend the negro oompany, and ;hat Lee replied that there was no money in it, whereupon Sparnick said that there would tie lots of political capital yet to be made out >f it. The affidavits of John Lee, Frank Taylor ind George Henderson, all colored, were offered. Affiants swear that they were asked it Doc Adams and Attawav to ioin the com* pany, and when they asked what was the obect of it, Adams replied that it was to kill ;he whites. The affidavit of Jere Whitlock (col.) was read. He testified that Charles Turns, who^. vas foreman of the jury of the inquest, told lira during the trial that all they wanted to lo was to keep the white men in jail until af;er the election. Many other affidavits from both white and colored men, in rebuttal of the evidence given it the Coroner's inquest, were read. At the cloee of the evidence of the petitioners for bail, the Attorney-General read part of the evidence taken at the Coroner's \ inquest, and submitted the case without arguneat. Judge Maher decided, without hesita- ^Bj tion, that bail should be granted, and fixed ;he amount at $1,000 each, m m