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J> craps and facts. ? The border counties of Tennessee are offering to engage pork at four cents. ? Twenty-one of the thirty-eight States elect Governors this fall. ? The Legislature and Senate of Arkansas are almost entirely Democratic. ? The State election in Arkansas went Democratic by a. large majority, _ ? A female suffrage resolution was defeated in the Massachusetts Republican Convention. ? The Massachusetts Democratic Convention has nominated Charles Francis Adams for Governor by acclamation. ? Hon. Alex. H. Stephens was unanimously nominated for Congress from the Eighth Georgia District on Wednesday of last week. ? "A nrudent mau." savs a witty French man, "is like a pin; bis head prevents him from goiug too far." ? Brigham Young has reduced the number of his wives to eighteen, and feels almost as lonesome as a widower. ? Fitzhugh, late doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, has become a claim agent in Washington. ? They have a happy way of obtaining a suspension of judgment iu Colorado?by hanging the judge. ? A heavy frost prevailed in several sections of Pennsylvania on Tuesday night. The buckwheat crop was considerably injured. ? General Jeff Thompson, a prominent Confederate General, died at St. Joseph, Missouri, on the 6th inaant. ? Yellow fever, which has been prevailing to some extent in Savannah, is reported on the decrease. ? The latest intelligence from Gen. Terry places him in a country with dry streams. He has lost the trail of the Indians. ? Gen. Ruger arrived in Louisville last Thursday and assumed command of the Department of the South. ? Moses Y. Tilden, brother of the Demo- j cratic candidate for President, died at New Lebanon, N. Y., last Saturday morning. ? Maine voted on last Monday for Governor, Congressmen and both branches of the legislature. The average Republican majority in that State since 1856, is 18,000. ? The big gun that became famous in history as the "Swamp Angel," during the siege of Charleston, has lately been sold for old iron in Trenton, N. J. ? The revenue collections in the Raleigh district, last month, were $73,327.84. During ; thesame period 1,173,478internal revenue to- j bacco stamps were sold. ? The gubernatorial vote in Vermont last week gives a Republican majority of about 23,526. It is claimed that the Democratic vote is largely increased over the previous election. ? A circus wagon, containing sea lions, was backed into Lake Winnebago, Wis., to give the animals water, when suddenly the doors flew open aud the lions escaped. As one of them has by this time a litter of young ones, it is likely that a colony will grow up there. ? O'Brien's and Forepaugh'3 circus pitched their tents at Marysville Ohio, on the same day, and the rivalry was exciting. Prices of admission were reduced to five and ten cents, and in the street parades, a man stood on the top of each animal cage, snouting tne merits of the show to which he was attached. ? Says the Morgan ton, N. C., Blade: Two little boy8,sonsofMr.Shoupe, living near Round Knob, on the Blue Ridge, were digging potatoes, on the 1st of September, when a dead tree fell on them killing one and breaking the leg and otherwise seriously injuring the other: It is thought the latter will die. ? We learn from the Asheville Citizen that Henry Watson and W. A. Shepherd, confined in the jail atFranklin, N. C., for the murder of James Lackey, by the assistance of a brother 01 eaoii 01 iiie prisoners, OVerpuweidU llieu guard and made their escape on Sunday the 27th ultimo. ? The Winchester Arrat Company, of New Haven, turned out, on Friday last, 1,040,000 shells for the Turkish Government. The next day they packed and put them on board the King Arthur in the harbor. It required 13,000 pounds of brass, five and a half tons of powder and thirty-four tons of lead to make the shells. ? A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says that Wm. M. Tweed has been arrested at Vigo,, on board a Spanish merchantman. Tweed was traveling under the name of Secor. The dispatch further states that be is under arrest in the fortress of Vigo. There is no official :..r juIUI iuatiuuj uunoTci j wuuimiug iuo iv|/vmvvi arrest. ? On Saturday morning, the eight men charged with lynching a negro ravisher, whom they forcibly wrested from the jail in Augusta, Ga., several nights ago, appeared before Judge Gibson on a writ of habeas corpus, and were admitted to bail on a joint bond of $5,000. Two brothers of the injured woman are among the accused. ? Rev. J. P. Moore, Presiding Elder of the Raleigh District, corrects an error which has crept into the newspapers r egarding a union between the Northern and Southern Methodist Churches. He states that no understanding looking to this has been made, but that the recent conference at Cape May had gone no further than to form a basis for the establishment of fraternal relations. No union has been attempted, and it is doubtful if either the Northern or Southern Church desires it. ; ? Respecting the declination of Mr. Seymour to accept the nomination of the Democratic nartv for Governor of New York, the World says that the Convention was tricked into making the Domination by the sender and receiver of a telegram, during the sitting of the Convention, to the effect that Mr. Seymour would accept. These men, says the World, are henceforth dead to the Democratic party. The State Executive Committee of the Democratic party, it is thought, will call the Convention to reassemble either in Utica or Syracuse at an early day. ? The colored people of the South are manifesting great interest in the result of the recent investigation made by the House of Representaves into the swindling management of the Freedmen's Bank. Bishop Allen, of the African Methodist Church of Alabama, has sent an order for twenty thousand copies of the report of the committee aud twenty thousand copies of the speeches made by Samuel Bradford, of Alabama, and Beverly Douglass, of Virginia, explaining the gigantic fraud perpetrated upon the depositors of that institution. The money to pay for the documents accompanied the order, the bishop stating that the money was contributed for the pur pose by colored people. This inquiry for information on the part of the colored people of the South is a healthy sign, and shows that they will not be longer led by the political adventurers who have so long deceived them. ? The Charlotte Democrat reports the following divorce case, decided in the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county last week: One of the most interesting civil cases disposed of was that of Mrs. Laura A. Anderson (formerly Miss Davidson of this city) who sued for a divorce from her husband, H. G. Anderson, of York, S. C., who deserted his wife and now lives in Texas. The main question was, were the parties ever legally married in South Carolina? Mrs. Anderson appeared in Court before Judge Schenck, and testified that while in South Carolina, after a long engagement, she and defendant, on a certain occasion, (the parents of both being opposed to a marriage, and the defendant stating that the form described would be a good marriage,) put their hands on the Bible and agreed, each with the other, to be aud become raau itnd wife, and that thereupon they read over, word for word, the marriage service of the Episcopal Church*. Col. Rion, one of the most eminent lawyers of South Carolina, testified as to the law of marriage in that State, ^ Baying that the common law based on the cannical law as it was expounded before the Council of Trent, still remained the law of that State, and that he had no doubt, upon the statement of the plaintiff, that she was legally married to the defendant The verdict was in favor of the marriage and divorce. A good deal of sympathy has been felt in this community for the lady and her parents. Ibe farMlr Ghtquiw. - - ... YORKVIL.L.E. S. C.; THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 14,1876. THE CAMPAIGN IN THE STATE. With the lapse of not more than one month since the policy of the Democratic party was determined and a full ticket placed in the field, the party, which has shown no visible signs of life since 1868, is already exhibiting extraordinary evidences of vitality and vigor. From present indications such a canvass as this will be was never before witnessed in our State. A spirit of enthusiasm seems to have awakened the Democracy from the mountains to the sea, and the lethargy which for long years has characterized those composing the party, has given way to the determination to carry the banner of reform to success and victory. The Democratic campaign has opened auspiciously. The reports from Anderson, at which place Gen. Hampton made his first speech, indicate that there was a great outpouring of the people to hear him ; while at Greenville, on the occasion of his speaking there, according to our correspondent, a greater political demonstration has not been witness there in many years. The Aiken Democracy opened the campaign on Tuesday of last week by the largest torchlight procession and the most enthusiastic meeting perhaps ever held there. A thousand nvnnasoinn monr of IIIC Li UiaiUUO\l X a UllU piWVWIVU} iumuj wa whom were on horseback. An amusing feature of the occasion was a company of mounted men, commanded by Col. A. P. Butler, arrayed in bloody shirts. A number of stirring addresses were made, and every thing passed off quietly. From Marion, Marlboro, Oconee, Pickens, Orangeburg, Lancaster, Union, and other counties, come reports of enthusiasm in the Democratic ranks which clearly indicate that if Democracy fails to win, it will closely contest every inch of ground. Before another week the Republican State ticket will be fairly in the field. Nor will that party be inactive. Those who have fattened by hanging on to the party, have too much at stake to let go their grasp without a struggle; and should the Patterson wing of the party, with "five years' more good stealing" in the prospective, gain the field, it may be safely concluded that no means, fair or foul, will be spared to retain and tighten the grasp on the tax-payers, only partially loosened by the administration of Governor Cham berlain. At this writing, it is difficult to say which wing of the Republican party will succeed in placing a ticket before the people; but in either case the Democrats?the exponents and advocates of good government, reform, economy and the fullest rights of tho I nitivan?if thcu tiapp fn win mnsf. nnt rplav in their efforts so auspiciously begun. AN IMPORTANT ORDER. On the first page of this issue will be found an important circular letter from the Attorney-General to the United States Marshals, which, taken in connection with the order of the Secretary of War, issued several days previously, fully confirms the existence of a plan concocted in Washington to carry the raajori ty of the Southern States forthe Kepublicans. The direct intimation to the Marshals that they are expected to appoint deputies without limit, is a long step ahead of what has ever before been attempted under the enforcement act, even before its unconstitutionality had been pronounced by the Supreme Court. The Marshals are instructed to disregard all State interference with their duties, and as, according to their instructions, the widest latitude is conferred upon them to construe their "duties," it is easy to see that collisions of the Federal and State authorities are anticipated, hoped for, and, if possible, will be provoked. A dispatch from Washington, dated the 4th, says: "At the consultation of the war department to- | day, before the order was formally promulgated, j there were present the secretaries of war, the navy j and tne mierior, me general 01 iue army, ?uu i Governor Chamberlain of South Carolina, and ; the carpet-bag Senator from that State, Mr. Pat- j terson, of Pennsylvania. It is rumored that at , the suggestion of these two latter, one of the first j things that the marshal of South Carolina will be prompted to do is to break up, by farce, tlieprac- | tice of the Soutn Carolina Conservatives of ap- ! pearing at public meetings and discussing politi- j cal questions with the Republicans. The practice ] of orators of the different political parties enga- | ging in mutual discussions before tne people has j long prevailed all over the Union. There cer- j tainly is nothing in the enforcement act that can, | even by Radical ingenuity, be tortured into a pro- j hibition of this practice in South Carolina, and a ; sanction of it in the other States. But the South ' Carolina Radicals are unwilling that the negroes, 1 whom they have so long controlled to their own | hurt, shall bo enlightened, and, therefore, the | majesty of the power of the United States Gov- ' eminent is to bo invoked to fetter free speech." j Another and subsequent dispatch from Washington, on the same subject, conveys the following information: "There was a lengthy conference at the War Department previous to issuing the order to the United suites marsnais in rogaru to tneapproacu- | I ing election. It was attended by Secretaires j j Cameron, Robeson and Chandler, Attornev-Gen- j eral Taft, Geu. Sherman, Governor Chamberlain | ; and Senator Patterson, of South Carolina. The j [ object of the meeting was to take preparatory ] steps to earn- out the order in case of necessity, i anu have a full understanding as to the military giving aid to the United States marshals. After ; a very free exchange of views upon the subject, during which Governor Chamberlain and Senaator Patterson urged the necessity of military protection in the South, and the members of the Cabinent present expressed their opinions at length, and also the desires of tlio President upon that topic, it was finally decided that a copy of the j ! circular letter of instructions of the attorney-gen- I eral bo referred to Gen. Sherman for his informa- } tion and guidance. "In case of disturbance, the marshal need only ' call on the military officer in command, and the i proper military force will be furnished to him 1 ; without delay. Governor Chamberlain came to i Washington by invitation of the attorney-goneral and the secretary of war to confer with them : in regard to affairs in South Carolina, and to secure a fair election in the Stato. It hits been repscntcd that there are oight or ton counties where i Republicans are intimidated from prosecuting the canvass, and apprehensions aro expressed that thoy will be prevented from voting on the day of election. Governor Chamberlain, after the in- : structions of the attorney-general to United States 1 marshals were read, expressed the hope that they | i would be sufficient to secure the end desired, j | namely, a free exercise of the elective franchise, not only in South Carolina, but the other South- j ern States, without a resort to the military as the i posse comitatus. The greatest danger to the elec- j tive franchise is feared in South Carolina, and I hence that State is the moro particular subject of ! attention. Troops will be stationed at the points of threatened difficulty so as to bo employed in case of necessity, which it is hoped will notarise, i The instructions of the attornoy-gencral are the strongest over issued from the department of , justice in regard to elections, and the secretary of war is in strong accord with the attorney-general. for their enforcement." Gen. Sherman, iu publishing Taft's letter, givessoirs additional instructions to the officers of the army, among them a clause to the effect that "officers commanding the troops summoned to aid marshals and sheriffs, must judge for themselves whether the service is lawful or necessary and compatible with their ordinary military duties. They must limit their action absolutely to proper aid in the execution of lawful precepts exhibited by the marshals or sheriffs. If time permits, every demand should be forwarded to the President for his orders ; and in all cases the highest officer, whose orders can be given in time to meet the emergency, will alone assume the responsibility or action." This instruction, if observed by the officers, should they be called upon for the purpose of intimidating voters and controlling elections, will to some extent check the nefarious scheme concocted in Washington, having for its objects, among others, the suppression of free discussion, and the enlightening of the colored" voters. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A hunnh of bananas has been successful ly raised in Columbia. ? Scuppernoug grapes are selling at ten cents a quart iD Aikeu. ? Mrs. Shand, wife of Rev. P. J. Shand, rector of Trinity Church, in Columbia, died in that city last week. ? The Cedar Springs Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, is about to be re-opened by Mr. N. P. Walker. ? Mr. McCullough, of Newberry county, has lost three children from diphtheria within the past two weeks. ? The corn crop in the upper section of Abbeville county and in Anderson is remarkably fine, and the yield will be abundant. ? A wagon load of new corn was sold in Greenville, last week, at forty cents a bushel. It was the first of the season. ? J. C. Whitaker, of South Carolina, (colored,) has passed a successful examination at West Point ? The cotton crop, in a large portion of the Peedee section, is a failure to the extent of one-third less than was anticipated six weeks Rcrn. -D? j ? Mr. Frank Mclver, a brother of Mr. Henry Mclver, an eminent lawyer at Cheraw, was ran over, on Saturday morning, near Florence, by the Columbia bound train. His leg was dreadfully shattered and necessitated amputation. He died from the shock. ? The residence of J. W. W. Marshal, near Abbeville, was burned by an incendiary on Sunday night of last week. Loss $8,000; in dM PC A A TL? IaaaI nonnM mnnpf BUrtillUtt QL 1UO juwai pn|/OAs iv|n/?v that the negroes are openly threatening to burn the houses of Democrats. The town is guarded every night. ? In the municipal election at Abbeville, last Monday, the full Democratic ticket was elected by one hundred majority. The whole vote cast was 276, of which the colored vote was 143. One hundred colored men, says a dispatch in the Columbia Register, voted the Democratic ticket. mi TT_! r\ TT 1 j. XT ? me meeting at umuu v>>. a., mau muu* day, on the occasion of Geo. Hampton speaking there, was the largest political gathering seen there for years. It is estimated that 5,000 persons were assembled. In the procession there were 2,000 mounted men. Fully 300 colored men joined the cavalcade. Speeches were made by Gen. Hampton, Col. Simpson, Col. Evins, Col. Ball and Gen. Wallace ; and in the evening there was a magnificent display of fire-works and a torchlight procession. ? The trial of the Hamburg rioters has been postponed, by Judge Wiggin, to the January term of the court, although Gen. Gary, their counsel, insisted that the case go hafnra tbn grand ju*y iiaamodintaly.?Qo? of the reasons assigned by the Attorney-General for the postponement of the trial, is "that the witnesses for the State are chiefly colored persons, residents of Aiken county, who have become greatly alarmed and intimidated, during the past few weeks, by the presence of armed bodies of white men who attend meetings in their neighborhood." ? The Orangeburg News and Times suggests that a good plan to catch the cotton thieves, who make it a Dractice to visit cotton fields in the night, pick what they can and carry it to the nearest store, and there sell it for rot-gut whiskey, would be for every planter who has hands working on his place to give to the shopkeepers their names, the terms for which they are employed, &c. By these means the bosses of country stores would know the standing of all men in their neighborhood, and whether, when any of them offered cotton for sale, it was theirs or not. STATE POLITICAL ITEMS. ? A colored Democratic club has been organized in Beaufort. ? Five hundred men in Greenville county who have not voted since reconstruction, are now active members of democratic clubs. ? The State Democratic Executive Committee announce the following appointments for General Wade Hampton and the nominees on the State electoral ticket: At Lancaster, October 11; Yorkville, October 13; Chester, October 14 ; Winnsboro, October 16. ? There was a grand torch-light procession at Spartanburg on Monday night last. Five thousand persons are represented as having engaged in the procession, of which number fUntiooujflrn mAiinfo^ innlnrlinor nnn hundred mounted colored men. ? Mr. Theodore G. Barker has withdrawn as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Second District, in favor of. Mr. M. P. O'Conner, of Charleston. The change has been made with the consent of the representatives of the counties composing the District. ? The authorities at the War Department in Washington explicity contradict the unpleasant rumor that 20,000 stand of arms had been sent to South Carolina, adding that not a single gun should be sent to South Carolina, un-1 less a United States soldier was also sent to j carry it. ? The notorious C. P. Leslie is again in the held as a candidate for the Senate from Barnwell county ; but the leading Radicals of that county are too much alarmed at the Democratic awakening to be willing to carry so; linontr a Inq rl no T.palio anv lnntrer. and thev UVWTJ M luww "MW"W *"**/ O ? ?r I are accordingly giving hira the cold shoulder. ? Iu view of the recent riot in Charleston, j Governor Chamberlain has issued his procla- i mation imploring the citizens of Charleston to I rely upon the law for their sole protection, and to do no act which shall not be within the ! sanction of the law and its officers. He also promises protection to all classes of citizens in the exercise of free political discussion and the use of the elective franchise. The Mayor of Charleston has also issued a proclamation LO Hie 5UUJU mipui t. ? Ed. Henderson, a respectable colored man in Abbeville, who has succeeded in getting fifty-four members for the Tilden and Hendricks Club at that place, has been waited on by a committee, consisting of London Hill and Cornelius Pressly, who told him "his politics were obnoxious to tbe colored people about town" and advised him to leave. The whites have volunteered protection. The colored club, in the meanwhile, is daily increasing. ? The Democrats of Richland have nominated the following ticket: For members of Legislature, Jno. C. Seegers, Thomas Taylor, Louis E. LeCoote, William Stack and Geo. Shields; for county commissio&ers, G. W. Davis, John McLaughlin, and Christopher Haynesworth, colored; for school commissioner, E. S. Peroival; for olerk of court, R. O'Neale; for sheriff, J. C. B. Smith ; for judge of probate, Andrew Crawford ; for coroner, Robert Morrison, ? The XJnion-Herald, in a cheerful view of the situation, gives some reasons why the Radical party should succeed in retaining its hold on South-Carolina. It savs: "We have all the commissioners, all the managers, all the officials, all the sympathy of the great National party, all the aid requisite from the Federal Government, a better organization, the Executive power, the Board of State Canvassers, and a natural, legal and evident majority of 30,000, and we don't intend to abandon one of our advantages to Edgefield regulators or their imitators." From the New* and Courier, 7th iuM. A BLOODY OUTBREAK. KING 8TREET FOR TWO HOUltS IN THE HANDS OF A NEGRO MOB. A bloody and disgraceful riot broke out in the upper portion of King street last night, and for several hours spread excitement and alarm throughout the city. The affair was tjie poqmH r>f fho aottlpri rtptprminfttinn of a Pflncr of colored rowdies, calling themselves Republicans, to wreak vengeance upon some men of their own color, who have presumed to publioly affiliate with the Democratic party. The trouble, begun by a comparatively small body of rioters, speedily assumed formidable dimensions ; idle and excitable colored men and boys, from all quarters, hurried to the scene of the disturbance, swelling the crowd and increasing the tumult, and the main thoroughfare of Charleston was, for more than two hours, in full possession of a fierce and howling mob of negroes, cursing the whites, and savagely attacking and beating every white man who chanced to be on the streets. Capt. Hendricks, with a squad of thirty of the city police, finally succeeded, by persistent effort, in dispersing the rioters, but not until a long list of bloody casualties had occurred, some of them I serious, and perhaps fatal in character. All accounts agree that the police, uuder command of the intrepid chief, did their duty with determined gallantry; but they were altogether too few to deal with the mob as promptly and effectively as the case required. The issudis now squarely presented to the citizens, whether or not Charleston is to be left at the mercy of a mob of ignorant and excitable negroes whenever their vicious leaders may give the signal for riot. HOW THE RIOT BEGAN. The Hampton and Tilden Colored Club of Ward 4? met last evening at Archer's Hall. J. R. Jenkins, the vice-president, called the meeting to order, and speeches were made by Jenkins, J. W. Sawyer, Isaac B. Rivers, Augustus Grant, Stephney Riley, J. W. Barnwell and Lawrence Brown. As there had been a threat thrown out that the colored Radical members of the Live Oak and Hunkidory Clubs would break up tbe meeting and kill the colored Democrats, it was resolved I by the club to escort the colored Democrats to their homes. After the meeting adjourned, about quarter past 10 o'clock, the line was ? J ? J 1- -1 J *rv 1..4 iormea ana eaca coioreu j-zeaiuurm was pmtcu in the centre of a half dozen whites. The line then marched up King street, quietly and without interruption, until they reached the German Church, opposite the Citadel Green, when a mob of about 150 negroes, armed with Btaves, clubs and pistols, came yelling and hurrahing for Hayes and Wheeler. The white men stopped, and one of the leaders of the negro gang, who had run up ahead of his crowd, accompanied by about a dozen, knocked the first white man ho met in the head with a slung shot, andtfte crowd Immediately "behind trim fired a pistol into the crowd of whites, shouting that they would have the colored Democrats out even if they had to kill every man in the crowd to do it. The whites then returned the fire, shooting over the heads of the negro mob, and a portion of the white men took Rivers, Sawyer, Jenkins, and other colored Democrats to the Citadel, where they were placed under the guard of the United States troops. In a shorter time than it takes to tell the story, the negro mob had increased to fully three hundred, all of whom were yelling and shouting and breathing threats of violence. There were about forty whites in the crowd, and these retreated bickwardsup King street, facing the negroes and keeping them off as well as they could by returning the fire from the pistols of the mob. On reaching the corner of John street, the negro mob was reinforced by another multitude of blacks, who swept out of John street and cut off the retreat of the whites. It was at this point that the fight became hottest. It was now a hand to hand contest, in which pistol shots exchanged very rapidly. Only four or five policemen had arrived at the scene, and these were, of course, powerless to restrain the infuriated mob. Justice Reed, with a white man named Plaspohl, then came up and called on a posse of citizens, white and blacks, to assist him in quieting the row. But the negroes would listen to nothing. They cried "blood 1" and swore they would have it. Policeman Chas. Green, colored, at this time came up, and standing between Judge Reed and Mr. Plasphol,did all he could to persuade the crowd to disperse; they refused, answering his words with curses and threats. For a moment the crowd appeared as if quieting, but'a skirmish between a white and black man, on the outskirts of the crowd, soon renewed the general fight. Policeman Green became surrounded, and endeavored to arrest a man who had just fired off a pistol. Pistols were going off every moment, and amid the firing, Policeman Green fell shot through the abdomen, and Mr. J. M. Buckner, white, was shot through the* abdomen. By this time the policemen were reinforced by squads from the upper and lower guardhouses, and succeeded in separating the whites from the blacks. The wounded men were taken to the upper Stationhouse by a detail, and the fighting immediately began again. The whites by this time numbered only about fifteen men, large numbers of them having been knocked senseless with clubs and pailings, with which the mob were armed. After a desultory fight of about fifteen minutes longer, the negroes had complete mastery of the field. Policeman Green was the only colored man up to that time who was hurt, and he was shot it is believed by one of the negro mob, who attempted to fire at a white man he was protecting. Several negroes had been knocked down, and five or six received bad gashes over the head, but none were seriously hurt. The negroes tben stationed themselves in crowds of forty and fifty at each corner along King street, extending from Calhoun street to the upper guardhouse, in front of which stood a huge and infuriated mob cursing and threatoninn (n kroalr in on/1 taba nnf the tell Up mpn who had been placed there for protection. White men on the street were scarce, and as soon as one turned a corner or came along on his way home, the crowd in his immediate vicinity would give a yell and go for him with brickbats, stones and pistol shots. The crowds at the corners above and below them, hearing the pistol shots, would close up, and in a few moments the unfortunate man was surrounded by a pack of over two hundred negroes, who did everything but kill him. They would knock him down with brickbats, and as soon as he would get up to run they would fire pistol shots at him and over his head, while thecrowd ; ahead would re-arrest him and give him j another beating. It would be impossible, in a general riot! like the one last evening, to attempt to give i details. White man after white man came ( n frtfnl l?r nn/innnriiAim ^La ?mnonrlinrv . (ftlUUgf bUM*UJ UUWUOVXUUO U1 bUU UUpVIIU lug danger, and was waylaid and only saved from death by the interposition of the police. A reporter of the News and Courier, as soon as the news of the riot reached the lower wards, was dispatched - to the scene, and-, on reaching the corner of Calhoun and King streets, beheld a surging mob in the neighborhood of .Warren street, yelling like devils and firing a perfect fusilade of pistol shots. He walked up in the direction of the crowd, and, on arriving at the scene, found a mob of negroes chasing a white man, who had hardly a vestige of clothing upon his person, ana covered with blood from a doxen wounds. He was knocked down several times with brickbats or clnbs, and several pistol shots were fired at him. In the midst of this cruel scene Lieut. Gouldin and two other mounted policemen came up to the spot, rode right into the crowd, and, after clubbing several of the mob, succeeded in arresting their victim, and carried him home in an almost lifeless condition. At this time one of the mob approached the reporter and told him that he knew him, and that it would be best for him to go home ; but before auy answer could be made, the crowd yelled out, "There's another white , go for him," at which they ""Jn ? /ilnn-no Tlia Mnnrto, vaa hit in thfl Iliauo Or VUOI^Vi AllV a V|/vi WI T?HW Ml* IM W? W bead with aslung-shot, while twenty more of them stood around with clubs urging the others to kill him. A policeman came up at this juncture, kept off the crowd with his club until assistance arrived, and the reporter was then escorted to the Stationhouse. In about thirty minutes another reporter from the News and Courier arrived on the scene. Like the first he, too, was surrounded and threatened. But by this time the Btreets had been thoroughly cleared of white men, and the reporter had only to run a gauntlet of curses both loud and deep. The police patrolled the streets, but their numbers were too few to warrant them in arresting the mob of black savages. On his way down, however, the reporter met a different reception. At alrnoBt every corner in King street was assembled a black mob, and the appearance of a white face was the signal for a general fusilade of curses, rocks and pistol balls. As the night progressed, the crowds- at the corners gradually thinned out, and by daylight a white man could walk up King or Meeting streets with a tolerable degree of safety. About fifteen minutes after the commencement of the riot, the news reached the lower wards. The negroes were evidently prepared for it; for they immediately commenced to assemble at the various street corners. At the corner of Meeting and Queen streets, fully three hundred had assembled in less than thirty minutes. They pulled off the pailings of the fences in that neighborhood and armed themselves. Every white man who passed was .halted and insulted. At the corner of King and Clifford streets, another crowd of about one hundred had assembled, and no white man was allowed to pass them. One of the editors of the News and Courier, who was on his way to the scene of the riot on horseback, was met near the corner of Clifford street by a mob, who seized the bridle of his horse and would have mobbed him had not some one in the crowd proposed a compromise, which was agreed to, and he was forced to turn his horse's head and seek the scene of the riot by another and less frequented route. About midnight, as three white men were coming down King street, they were assaulted and severely beaten. One of the party, who was armed, drew his pistol and fired into the crowd, but without hitting any of the rioters. The mob speedily overtook him, knocked him down and took his pistol from him. After beating him severely, they went off. From the time the riot started until its close, it was impossible for a white man to walk down King street without running the gauntlet of a dozen pistol shots at every corner. The negroes not only stationed themselves at the corners and assaulted every white man that passed, but they paraded the streets in mobs, inquiring at every step for the rifle clubs. Ouce they fancied themselves masters of the situation, their insolence knew no bounds, and a white man dared not show himself on the streets without It is more than probable that quite a number of men, both white and black, received wounds and bruises of every description, but as these were taken off to their homes, a full list of the casualties could not be obtained. The list of the wounded, as far as could be obtained at the late hour at which the riot terminated, is as follows: LIST OF CASUALTIES. Inside of the upper Stationhouse was presented a sickening sight, men lying drenched in blood over the yard and in the hospital, and two, especially, Mr. J. M. Buckner, a young bookbiuder,' who had been one of the escort to the colored Democrats, and Policeman Charles Green. These two were both shot in the stomach, and were lying on stretchers, groaning and suffering terribly, while Doctors Yates and Aldrich were doing all they could for them. Green, the policeman, was shot through and through the bod/, but the doctors entertained some hopes of his life; while Mr. Buckner was shot just in the pit of the abdomen, and/' little or no hopes of his recovery were entpftained. / Policeman Lloyd, colored, was lying^senselesa with a huge gash in the back oLthe head, caused by some stray brickbat ojp/the sharp edge of a pailing. / Mr. Johu Holmes, a son of ^rof. Francis Holmes, was beaten very badly in the head and body, and spit up quantities of blood. W. S. White, white, was shot in the back i with a pistol ball, but not seriously. Mr. E. M. Reeder, a white lad of about eighteen years of age, was beaten terribly; his head and forehead being covered with contusions and his clothing being saturated with blood. He fainted twice in the Stationhouse. This young man was rescued and his life saved by Private Lee, of the police force. A German by the name of Charles Behl, a clerk in the store of Henry Graver & Co., while going peaceably home, was assaulted by ( the mob and beaten almost to a jelly. When brought into the Stationhouse by a squad of policemen, who had saved his life, be was 1 covered with blood and could scarcely speak. 1 A gentleman, name unknown, was carried i in an insensible condition into the Ann street depot of the South Carolina Railroad, where ? J-J i J ?1: ne was guurueu uy a mjuau ui puutxuiou uutil the arrival of the ambulance, when he was i carried to his home. Lieut. Shrewsbury, of the detective force, , was badly beaten in the head and over the ( arraa and body. ( Officers Miller and Hord, of the detective force, were also badly beaten with staves, but received no serious injury. Several other policemen sustained slight i injuries. THE ARRE8TS. About ten or fifteeu white men were arrested during the evening on a charge of firing 1 pistols, but only two colored men, C. E. Dantzler and Scipio Duncan were taken in. The negroes were so largely in the ascendancy in point of numbers, that the police could not arrest them. So far as could be learned, it is believed that the riot was commenced by a negro named Vanderborat, one of the black bullies of the Eighth Ward. Subsequent issues of the New and Courier contain further accounts of the outrages committed hy the mob, from which it appears that besides the wounding of several inoffensive white citizens, much damage was done to j property by smashing windows, tearing dowffT fences and the like. Young Buckner, who was severely wounded on Wednesday nigKTJT died on Thursday morning. According to his own statement, his death wound was fronnrr* shot fired at him either through mistake or ' accident by a white Democrat, whom he did | not know. On Thursday and Friday nights j the Radical negroes, who are opposed to free I speech and the right of a citizen exercising his own judgment, renewed the hostile demonstrations, but were easily checked, and ample measures have been taken by the white and colored Democrats of the city to prevent a repetition of the scenes of Wednesday night. X.OCAX. A77AXR3. v . _1 :?CHURCH CAtENDAH. \ Service* for Sunday, September 174b, 1876.* PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Rev. L. H. Wilson, Paafcor.- ? j Services at Yorkville at 10} o'clock, a. m., and 8 o'clock, p. m. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev. J. E. Carlisle, Pastor. Servicers* -Yorkvillo,,-at-lOfr'O'oloete-o;-UK? and-8- > o'clock, p. m. EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev. R. P. Johnson, Pastor. Services at Rock Hill, at 10} o'clock a. m., and 8 o'clock, p. in. A8SOCIATE REFORMED CHURCH. :? Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor, .. Services at Yorkville, at 104 oclock, a. m., and 4 o'clock, p. m. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Julian A. Selby, Manager?The Phoenix. W. H. McCorkle?Excursion to Dallas. Latimer A Hemphill?New Goods?Bagging and Ties?Groceries. Geo. P. Erwin, Kibler&Co., L^eee?Centennial Excursion. L. M. Grist?School Certificate Found. J. F. Hart, County Chairman?Notice.' NEW PROF?8SOR. Mr. J, F. Lylee has been added to the faculty of King's Mountain Military School. Mr. Lyles was formerly^a pupil of King's Mountain School and graduated from the South Garlina University in 1869. CENTENNIAL EXCURSION. Attention is directed to the advertisement of Geo. P. Erwin, Kibler <fc Co., lessees, who will run an excursion train to- Philadelphia, leaving the terminus of the Western N. C. Railroad on the 26th instant They claim all the advantages of a good route, and have reduced the fare to a very low figure. DEATH OF FORMER'CITIZENS OF YORK. A letter received at this office last Tuesday morning, from Garretson's Landing, Arkansas, conveys the information that Mr. A. H. Mulholland died of swamp fever, near that place, on the 29th ultimo. Mr. Mulholland was formerly a respected citizen of York1 county, and several years ago accidentally lost his eyes. He removed to Arkansas in the fall of 1869. Mr. G. F. Smith, also formerly a citizen of this county, died near the same place, on the 4th instant, and of the same disease that was fatal to Mr- Mulholland. . THE CHARADES ENTERTAINMENT. The entertainment given last Thursday evening in aid of Arlington Hook and Ladder Company was a success in every respect. A large audience manifested their pleasure at the rendition of a number of tableaux and charades, which were presented in a creditable manner by the young ladies and gentlemen who took part in the performances. The music, furnished by the Chester String Band, under the leadership of Mr. Brennecke, was unexceptionally good ; and . by request, Mr. Marshall, of the Band, sung several popular ballads in his usual happy style, t : MEETING AT BULLOCK'S CREEK. A Democratic meeting was held at Bullock's Creek Church on Monday last. One hundred and forty-five whites and twenty-three blacks were present. The assemblage was addressed by I. D. Witherspoon, and T. J. Bell, Esqrs. Close attention was given to the speakers, and the effect was-very marked. The Bullock's Creek section is thoroughly aroused, as an evidence of which it is only necessary to mention that at a meeting announced to be held there two years ago, only five persons attended on the occasion. Many white men in that section who have not voted since the war, dedaretttoetr purpose to do-serip-yuvmuber. --- - DRAWING OF PETIT JURORS. N On Monday last, the following persons were drawn as petit jurors for the term of the Circuit Court for York county, which convenes at Yorkville, on the first Monday of October, next: Whites.?John Alderson, Jason Hicklin, Robert 8mith, J. J. Qarvin, R. M. Lindsay, John W. Gregg, William Dickson, Iredell Jones, Elias Ramsay, S. L. McCarter, John D. Kell, D. 8. Russell, W. R. Davis, W. A. J. Robertson, L. M. Davis, B. F. Powell, A. F. Love, Ephraim White. Colored.?John Gill, Primus Rivera, Berry Bates, Andy White, Peter Ross, Wm. Campbell, James Froneberger, Henry Lewis, 8imon Thompson, William Lawrence, Thnmaa ( difer, James Jordan, Sylvanus By era, John Alexander, Allen Harper, Jefferson Ross, Lei^Hives, Samuel Smith. / ELECTIONS IN YORK COUNTY. As a matter of information and for reference at the present time, we have compiled from the files of the Enquires, the following facts and figures pertaining to previous elections held in York county since the close of the war: The revised registration under the direction of the military authorities, March 31, 1868, 1 showed in York county? Colored voters, ....2,052 White voters, '. 2,007 In the vote for and against Convention, the vote stood? For Convention, 1,767 Against Convention, 7 Id this election, the whites abstained almost entirely from voting, and the election was carried by the colored vote. In the first election held after that on the question of calling a Convention, which was on the 14th and 15th of April, 1868, for State officers, State Seuator, members of the House of Representatives and Congressman, the vote stood, taking the Senate as a basis? W. E. Rose, Republican, 1,761 J. H. Adams, Conservative 1,695 Of this election there was not published a tabular statement of precinct votes. ? - - * i i ni The hret county election, mciuaing oneno, Judge of Probate, Clerk of Court, County Commissioners,' School Commissioner and | Coroner, was held in June, 1868. The Re- < publicans made no organized opposition to 1 the Democratic ticket. The race vote, as 1 shown by the returns of this election, was? White voters, 2,081 J Colored voters, 452 1 In the Congressional election, on the 3rd 1 of November, 1868, York county voted? For W. D. Simpson, Conservative, 2,039 For A. S. Wallace, Republican, 1,537 The following tabular statement exhibits ; the relative strength of the two races in York ( county, in the elections of 1870, 1872 and ( 1874: ______ lg74< | PRECINCTS. '| | | |ij|| < iF P- f Fljfc > Bethel, j 136 93 125 75 131? 101 ' Bovdton 200 81; 109 56 202j 88 < Blairsville, 174 2<H 118 212 145 244 , Bethanv Ill 35^ 92 23 1191 32 Clav Hill, i 110 145| 91 115 89,142 ' Coates' Tavern, 59 99. 43 70 63 119 j Fort Mill, I 217 165i 159 149 217 | 201 i McConnellsville, 142 234 90 201 120; 258 Pride's Old Mill, j. 62 44; 38 53 47 62 ' Sock Hill, ! 312 479 305 480 361 542 < Wylie's Store I 154 188 133 184 152 195 . Yorkville, i 415 447 426 425 495 554 Totals, ;2092l2214ill729l2O43ll214112538 I To tbe above may be added, that accord- 1 ing to the State census taken last year, the ] relative strength of the voting population in York county is as follows : < Colored voters, 2,995 j ^White voters, 2,789 ^ Majority of colored voters, 206 t } / ' A / . > ! THE WbMAIT IN BATTLE. The adventures, exploits and travels of Madame . Loreta Juan eta Velasquez, otherwise known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, C. S. A. Dustin, < - Oilman <fc Co., Basbmond, Va. - Such is the title of a handsome octavo voltune of 600 pages, just issued byDustin, Gilman & Co., of Richmbhd, "Va., and'flofd through agents, by subscription only. We have read the book with interest.It is written in captivating and^entertaining style, and 1rair enrbodiment of darmg-adrenteres^tikbreadth escapes, etc.,. that; eqd?l tfce $ife of any heroine whose exploits have ever Seen recorded in history. The author furnishes a large number of testimonials front distinguished Confederates, not only as to the truthfulness of her narrative and the part she bore in the war, as soldier, officer; spy and' blockade: runner, but also to her unsullied character and i J J - .111 acKDOWieagea suiiuy. ; iuewk.wui pruro of special interest to en-Coufederate soldiers, as well as all other classes of. readers, who can there find much of the inner history of the conflict heretofore unpublished. The (publishers wish- agents to canvass for,the work, and will give full particulars on eppljcittjeh. Correspondence of the Vorkville Enquirer. LETTER FBOM BOCK HILL. Rock Hill, 8. C., Sept. 11,1376. : Quite a number of bales .of new cotton have been brought to town and sold, during the past week, at remarkably low figures? much less than had been' anticipated far'the farmers. I am credibly informed by' one of onr best farmers that the yield of lint is less than he ever knew it- to-pe. Hegmned?r"~" three bales, weighing in 1,525 pounds, of sopd cotton to the bale, and the bales did not.av- erage quite 400 pounds. Such short lint was hardly evef known before. ItUfto bwhbjped this ? but an isolated instance of the kind, and not a fair sample of the. cotton crop of thiaaeaaon. . r .;. : . :.ou ... The flourishing female .school, of which _ Miss Marj Adams is tbeprinqipsl, W again resumed its exercises uoder the most favorable and encouraging auspices ihfet h' IsrgiL full school will be built upunder her efficient teaching. The young ladies continue to obme into the school daily. The musical depart? ment of instruction is. conducted by. Miss Hattie Lindsey, who is a nroficient in the art Quite a number of ladies and gentlemen, from our town and the surroiindibg country, started for the Centennial on Wednesday- last They could not longer resist the temptttion of going to see the wonderful- show, after hearing the lively accounts given by those who bad been and seen the sights. ,< At last our hearts throb with pore delight at the full, mellow sound of the town clock as it strikes the hour. Great credit is doe' Capt. L. M. Davis, whose untiring energy and mechanical skill alone completed1 the work-in a neat and workmanlike manner, in, the tower built for its erection, in so short: a time,. WiJnaa(1?v kin FTflnnr' .Tndm MukflV ~--m- -? visited oar town solely on private business. Having to remain in town till after the 11 o'clock p. m. down train, be was, at the earnest solicitation of many citizens, prevailed upon to deliver a political address. Accordingly, quite a large crowd of both white and colored citizens assembled, in front, of, Gor- don's Hotel, about the hour of 9, and called for his Honor. He made his appearance on the piazza and began/ in his usual happy style, strongly advocating reform and good government He had not gone far with bis discourse till a shower, of rain came up. He suggested that the company should repair to the nearest hall and he would finish. Three cheers were given for the Judge and the hall was sought. Arriving at thehdll, his Honor resumed his remarks, by saying he' hoped the rain was prophetic Of long reign of good government in South Carolina. He then reviewed the Republican jdounty nominations as unfit to fill the positions i said zuch a tick- . dtdid not bespeak reform ; that so long as tfce j n'' Republican party continued to allow thdm*' k?'.'i1amkinu,na wfiA DC J Y CO bU IA7 ICVI ifllUillj. Wj ?? uv?MMgw^MV| t* ??w studies alone his self-aggrandisement and bdiS not thetrue interest of the ipeopl* at heart, -so long will they delay, the reform so mpoh needed. He suggested a ludicrous and most appropriate design to be printed, at the head of the Republican ticket, for which be prb^oeed to defray the expense of printing.' The design* as suggested by him, is to place at the top of the Republican ticket a picture of the devil with a forked tail, the. picture to represent a white man, and beneath it the appropriate inscription?"Of such is the kingdom of hell." He urged reform in the most strenuous terms throughout.' He told ihe Republicans that thd Republican platform did not compel'any o8B*w&4hera to support a man becaose he was a BepubTlbiA, if he was not. an honest man; that Republicans were at liberty to select, even from the Democratic ranks if need be, to get honest men to fill positions of trust in 'the connty and State. He showed clearly and satisfactorily that _ the rifle and sabre clubs are legal organisations under the constitutions of the United States and of this State, not requiring * charter. He spoke in the most exalted terms of Gen. Hampton, and his qualification to fill any position to which be might be elevated. He, however, endorsed Governor Chamberlain, whom he said he would support if nominated for Governor. The speaker, who excels iu happy and telling illustrations, illustrated the success of the Republican party in this State in the coming election, by the amusing anecdote of Hans, the miller, whose entrance into heaven was by a "tam* tight squeeze." He said if one were to load a double-barrel shot-gun with buck- . shot, aod shoot in any direction into the bushes, he would guarantee five candidates for office would jump up out of the brush. He spoke in full explanation of the law of intimidation of voters by all parties. He was U aawI Itn a 11 naoaanf an/1 Jnl* in. ItKUJUfCIJ U?1U UJ <* < fliwvuif Huu aamj .j. preciated for bis sound doctrines of reform. The regular meeting of the Tilden and Hampton Club was held aa usual on Fridajr uigbt It was announced that Col. I. D. Wither- spoon, our candidate for the 8enate, would address the meeting, and consequently there gas a large crowd assembled. Capt. J. R. London, one of the Vice-Presidents, called the meeting to order, after which he introduced to the assemblage Col. Witherspoon, who spoke vigorously and earnestly in the cause of reform, deprecating the fact that carpet-baggers had come to this State for spoils and gain, not having the interest of the State at heart; that they had deceived the colored man in eveiy instance; that while one arm was thrown around the neck of the colored man, the other was in hispocket rob* bing him of his honest living. He spoke in forcible langnage of the utter ruin that has followed the Republican party, in South Gar* olina for eight long years, and said that it continues to grow worse. He showed to the colored people present that-every step taken by the Democratic party was for their good, and not to deprive them.of one single right they now enjoy. Col. Witherspoon made a most favorable impression on bis hearers. Several other speeches were made?some by colored- members of the Club?urgiog their brethren to some while the opportunity was offered, for the time would come when* they would wish they had. The colored speakers told many startling truths of the rascality which had been practiced upon them b? the leaders of the Republican party, and that now their wArn nnAnod Anomrh to see into the Deflfr* rcratic ranks, there thej intended to march. Many determined followers were added to the list of the Tilden and Hampton Club that night, and the meeting was altogether the most spirited and enthusiastic that we have bad the pleasure of attending; The next day, Col. Witherapoon met a large urowd of white and colored citizens assembled it Coatee' Tavern. A Tilden and Hampton > 31ub was formed there, composed of white md colored voters. The people are folly JT 11