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/ wl n irifiiii ?-7? mrTiTu n 1 i?MWi itt^i i immiliMM-fMjmjpriMrainaiirrmii , : nw t i rriB , , ,MII ??? ? , nii i in i 11 n n mi ?^ tiewis i?i grist, proprietor.! |nbepeniienf Jfamilg ^Ifhjsftaptr: Jar tjre ^promotion of tjje J^olhital, Social, ^gricaltural anb Commercial Interests of fjte jJonfj;. j terms?$3.00 a year, in advance. VOL. 22. YORKVILLE, 8. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1876. USTO. 43. fouth (itaslma S-wubUs. riotTearTcharlestonT The Charleston papers contain the details of a serious riot which occurred on Monday, 16th instant, at Cainhoy, a village on one of the islands near Charleston. It seems that a joint discussion between speakers represent- > ing the two parties had been agreed upon, I to take plaoe at Cainhoy on the day named, and a steamer had been chartered for the ; use of the Democratic party, and conveyed j to the scene of speaking about two hundred Democrats; among whom were the Demo-' cratic speakers, the Hon. M. P. O'Connor, candidate for Congress; Mr. St. Julien Jervey, candidate for Solicitor; Messrs. Ficken and C. C. White, candidates for the Legislature; Mr. C. C. Leslie, colored, candidate for County Commissioner; Cojonel M. R. Delany, colored, and others. They we& generally unarmed, by especial agreement between the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic County Committees, though some of the men carried pocket pistols. Bowen, McKinlay, Cyrus Gaillard and other prominent republican speakers, escorted by about one hundred and fifty negroes, were allowed to go on the boat which had been chartered by the Democrats. THE RIOT BEGAN while McKinlay was speaking. The negroes ' had not kept faith with the whites. They had brought their muskets to the meeting, and had secreted them in the swamp and in an old out-house near the church* leaving a guard over them. The place of meeting, the old Brick Church, is about three miles from the village of Cainhoy. The church is built upon a hill, near a branch or swamp. * About fifty feet from it is a small brick building, evidently intended for a vestry-room or Sunday-school. . One hundred feet to the east of this is an old frame building, which has probably been ten' antless for ten or twelve years. In this buildin? the negroes had stacked their muskets, leaving several men and women to guard them. The rest of their jnuskets had been secreted in the swamp, which was about fifty yards from the church. The indications are that the negroes intended to create a riot when Delany should attempt to speak. They probably mistook McKinlay for Delany, and as soon as he started to speak, began to carry out their programme. A company of armed blacks immediately marched outof the swamp with their arms and opened fire upon the whites, who were unarmed, and a portion of whom at once made a rush for the old frame building in which about forty muskets were piled. Then .the rest of the negroes retreated to the swamp where their guns were concealed, and seizing them, opened a brisk and indiscriminate fire upon the whites. Bowen attempted, or affected to attempt, to interfere and preserve the peace; but was told by his black henchman, Cyrus Gaillard, to stand out of the way, that they intended to get the daraued white men now. Both Bowen and McKinlay disanneared soon after, Bowen telling the white men that they would have to look out for themselves and that he was powerless to 1 preserve the peace. A FOUL MURDER. In the meantime, Col. Delany, Mr. Wra. E. | Simmons and several other aged white men, had taken refuge in the brick house adjoining - -the chufiSti? 'TOtefrWaftfcffire twitted Irfto 1 j them,the whites had retreated to the graveyard west of the church ; such of them as had pistols returning the fire. The negro militia ' charged out of the swamp, surrounded the brick house and attempted to batter down the door. Failiug in this they broke open the windows and pointed their muskets at the oc- j cp pants who started to retreat. All of them 1 escaped except Mr. Simmons, an old, crippled aud silver-haired white man, who, upon emerging from the door, was knocked down by the black savages and literally beaten to death. Not satisfied with this, they fired* a load of buck-shot into his prostrate body. When the reporter arrived upon the scene, the spot where this poor old gentleman was murdered could be easily detected. A pool of blood just outside the building marked the place, and a number of buck-shot in the door sill showed that he had been shot while lying on the ground. After the fight commenced, the whites retreated towards the viliage. A stand was made among the tombstones and another about half way to the village among piles of cut wood. When the party arrived at the village, about six men were missing. Three of these were brought in in the evening about 8 o'clock by a couple of colored Democrats who visited the scene. The dead body of Mr. Simmons was horribly mutilated. It was placed in the residence of Mr. Lucas and sent to the city on the steamer Pocosin yesterday morning. * Mr. Wra. Daly, a young white Charlestoniao, was also brought in dead. He was shot through the neck and fearfully cut up by a hatchet or axe. He was also sent to the city by the Pocosin. Mr. Thomas Whitaker was brought in in a dying condition. His right arm was fearfully shattered by a load of buckshot, evidently fired at short range. After he fell he was evidently set upon by the crowd and beaten over the head and body with clubs and hatchets. He lived until 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and received every attention that could be bestowed. THE DEATH LIST. The following is the full list of the white men killed : Mr.Wm. E. Simmons, Mr. Alexander McNeil, Mr. Wm. Daly, Mr. Thomas Whitaker, Mr. J. King and Mr. Walter Gradick. A detail from Charleston, under the command of Major Buist, reached the Brick Church about 8 o'clock, on Tuesday morning. On every side were to be seen the evidences of the fight the day previous. A dozen wagons and buggies overturned and smashed up, a dead mule, shot through the breast; bullet holes in the trees and buildings, all proved howsevere had been the fire of the black militia. ONE DEAD NEGRO was seen. He was an old man, apparently aged about seventy years, and was lying in the road quite dead with a load of buckshot in ; his breast. Gis name is John Lachicotte. Mr. J. W. Cannon, who was present at the j attack, states that this was the fellow who shot Mr. Whisker, and that he was immedi- i ately shot down; but whether by the whites or ; by one of bis own color, it was impossible to : tell. A significant fact is that the negroes ; had even robbed this old man. His coat and pants were not worth taking, but they had carried off his shoes and hat,, and had rifled his pockets and left his body lying on the road ! alongside of the body of a dead mule. About 3 o'clock a body of fifteen negroes came up and asked permission to remove the body and bury it. They were allowed to do so. These fifteen negroes were the only ones seen daring the day. The force of white citizens, after reaching the scene of attack, were divided into squads and scattered through the parish in search of Mr. Pregnall who was missing. The mission was a fruitless one. They only learned from Coroner Logan that it bad been reported to him that Mr. Pregnall, after being badly wounded, was rescued from the mob by a colored man and carried to the city in a small boat. It was subsequently learned that Mr. Pregnall had reached the city. Capt. Charles Carroll White, although pain fully wounded in the back, at the request of a reporter for the Nem and Courier, gave the following statement concerning the attack upon the unarmed whites at Cainhey : "I was about six or eight feet from the stand. McKinlay had just begun his speech, and be-: fore he had spoken more than a few words, it j appeared to me that the negroes were dissat- ! isfied, and I saw a movement among them. I happened to be looking in that direction when the first shot was fired, and saw a brown colored negro fire a pistol apparently into the air. t This man was standing near a kitchen which ^ stood a little to the left and rear of the stand, j The negroes were standing on this side of the , stand in a kind of semi-circle, and the whites . were on the right of the stand. Just about , this time I heard some white men say, "Look ( at those guns in this chimney," and five negro ? women rushed out of the house. It appears \ that these women bad been standing with | skirts extended in front of the fire-place to { conceal the guns, and as soon as they were ? discovered by the whites, they rushed out. ^ This took place a second or two before the pistol was fired, which I conscientiously believe | was a preconcerted signal. The very moment f this shot was fired the negroes rushed into this j house for the guns, but the whites having bus- c pected foul play, seized them first and told r them to stand back. The negroes on, all sides, ( then dashed for the swamp and seemed to be { met there by others with guns. In an incred- t ible short space of time, they had formed into r line and advanced on us with their guns in ? their hands and in a stooping posture. The j whites at this time were about one hundred c yards from the negroes. I was at this time j between the two parties and tried to restore quiet. I did not draw my revolver. After trying in vain to quell the disturbance, I looked around and found the white men falling back before the rifle shots of the negroes. They were armed only with pistols, and some 1 not armed at all, and they could not stand against the rifles and muskets at such a long range. Mr. David Marsh, and a colored man named London, were with me at this time. Seeing the Democrats fall back, I wheeled 1 around to join them, and as I did so I was r fired upon by the negroes and struck just be- 8 low the left shoulder blade, the ball passing c round toward the right. I was also struck by T another ball in the back, just below the collar, e ----- + - JtJ r but this ball was apparently spent, as it aia i v not go in, and another ball struck me on the 1 boot heel. At the first of the outbreak the 1 whites and blacks separated, and Bowen was * with the whites and told them not to return c the fire and he would try and stop the fuss. r But he had no control over the negroes, and 1 finally went over among them and disappear- 0 ed. The firing then became general. I don't think over fifteen or twenty pistol shots were * fired by the whites, and the truth was they 8 had, many of them, shot out most of their car- 1 tridges into the river on the trip up. The ne- ? groes continued firing, and reloading and fir- 11 ing again. Large numbers of negroes appear- 8 ed to come from the swamp with guns, who had not been at the meeting. The whites J then being unarmed and powerless, fell back jdown the road towards the steamer. My con- ' nnininn id fkat iWa atlinlo tlliriOr WAR I ' BUIU1H1UU9 U^IUIVU AO KUUK Duv wuviv ?? a preconcerted plan, and that the firing of j1 the pistol by the brown man into the air, was the signal for the onslaught. Bowen knew a that we were unarmed, and he also must have 1 known that the negroes had their guns con- 1 sealed, because be was fvitb them a half hour P before we came up, and was in the very house ' ? where some of the guns were found. I was j1 rather inclined to give Bowen credit for try- 11 ing to keep peace at these meetings until yes- r terday, but I have a decidedly different opin- 11 ion now. The negroes, after we retreated, 8 held complete possession of the field, and any ? attempt on our part to go back for the dead ' and wounded would have been suicidal, as we were in no way prepared either with arms or c ammunition. The white men acted as well as * possible under the circumstances, but we ware t regularly ambushed and enfiladed and left t without the means of defence. Great credit } is due to Major Delany for his bravery during i the attack." t Up to Tuesday night there had been, in all, i six deaths. Sixteen persons were injured on I c the Democratic side. In addition to the above, which we copy from the New and Courier, we present the following accounts of the affair from Republican sources. On Tuesday, C. C. Bowen, Sheriffof Charleston county, telegraphed to Governor Chamberlain as follows: "A fight, during joint discussion at Cainhoy, was occasioned by a portion of the Democrats from this city attacking the meeting and killing an old colored man. This was the first shot fired ; afterward a general row ensued. C. C. Bowen, Sheriff." To which the Governor replied : "I have no details of the Cainhoy affair, but r whatever they are, you must arrest and bring 0 to justice at once, every man engaged in the c killing, without regard to race or party. See r that the trial justices do their duty, or report F them to me. Warrants must be issued irame- 0 diately. Call on every eye witness, or person v having knowledge, to make affidavits. j D. H. Chamberlain, Governor." 1 R. H. Willoughby, Radical, telegraphed t the following from Charleston to Governor j Chamberlain, under date of the 17th instant: j s "fiftvunwnr Chamberlain. Columbia. S. i f 0. Your dispatch received at half-past 4. t The following are the particulars of the Cainhoy affair from a credible eye witness : To convey the Democratic speakers to Cainhoy, the steamer Pocosin was chartered, and she left the market wharf yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, having on board M. P. O'Connor, Esq., Democratic candidate for Congress ; J. F. Ficken, Esq., W. St. Julien Jervey, Esq.,! and other Democratic speakers, and about two hundred white men who had been selected to j accompany them, most of whom were armed with pistols. Sheriff Bcwen, W. J. McKinlay, Esq., and Mr. C. Gaillard, Republican speakers, with about twelve or fifteen of their friends, went on board the steamer just as she 1 was leaving the wharf. The steamer reached | the dock at Cainhoy about 12 o'clock, and the party proceeded to the Brick church iu ; wagons and on foot. Mr. #Bowen arrived at j the place selected, a little in advance of the others, and found there assembled between | two and three hundred colored people. They I had come from all parts of the parish, many of them, as is their custom from traveling in that region, bringing their guus. They put, their weapons in various places nearby, many of them being set in the corner of an old building close to the stand, with no intention of secreting them, but only that they could tknm mton fko mppfincr f?lnapH. UUU buciu nuvu VUV v.wwvm. | . These arms were of different kinds, shot, i guns, old muskets, etc., the private property ' f of the freedmen. There were no militia guns ? to be seen, and the statement that there was a militia company on the ground is totally false, i 1 The meetiug was organized by the selection of i a colored chairman, named Stewart, on the ' t part of the Eepublicans, and a Mr. Sanders, 1 by the Democrats. The arrangement agreed ( upon was that each of the parties should be ? allowed two hours for the speeches. At the i opening Mr. Bowen said a few words, request- 1 ing the people to listen attentively to what < was said, and to be orderly and quiet. Mr. J Sl Julien Jervey, Democratic speaker, was 1 then introduced, and spoke without the least < interruption to the close of his remarks. He < was followed by Mr. W. J. McKinlay, Re- 1 publican speaker, who had only said a few I words when he was startled by the cry, "Look- 1 )ut I lookout!!" Mr. McKinlay looked round gr and exclaimed, in excited tones, "Those men re lave their guns and are going to shoot' me," ns ind jumped off the stand. sw The colored people around the stand, alarm- pr xl by this, broke right and left. At the same th ;irae about a dozen of the democratic escort is were seen standing by the door of the building dc n which the freedmen's guns had been left, th They all held guns in a position, as if bring- th ng them to an aim. Mr. Bowen, seeing this T) lemonstratiou, called Mr. O'Connor's attention at to it, telling him that it must be stopped. Mr. pi 3'Connor spoke to the men, inquiring where w< ;hey had got the guns, when the party, whose en eply was not beard, went to the other end of sh ;he building and formed line. In an instant fu i shot was fired by one of these men, and an w! >ld decrepid colored man was seen to fall, a ibot dead. A brisk firing began immediately 81 setween the colored men, who had rushed for oil ;heir arms at the alarm from Mr. McKinlay, wi md the whites. Several of the latter were he teen to fall, but it was impossible then to tell th vho tbey were. th In a few minutes the democrats were driven at jack and made their way under a rapid fire ed or the village. ' Two white men are known to ne >e killed and fifteen wounded. The number wi >f colored men shot cannot be ascertained, wl The wounded democrats were brought to the w< sity this morning. A democrat who was pres- w< int, and, it is said, held a pistol to Mr. Bow- an m's head with the intention of killing him, leclared in the presence of a gentleman, who ho luthorized us to state the fact, that the But- St er Guards who formed the escort to the dem- an icratic speakers, are responsible for the unfor- po unate affair. R. H. Willoughby. bl Froiu the New York Herald, October 11. ^ THE ELLENTON RIOT. * . tb ?he true 8tory of the recent conflict, dil ar Ellenton, Aiken County, 8. C.,} Tl October 6,1876. J wl Your correspondent, pursuant to instruc- co ions, has given a patient hearing to every nan in Aiken county who desired to talk 8J11 ibout the late conflict in this county; has teliously evolved fact or comment from those y? rho did not want to talk, and has visited ev:ry battlefield of this guerrilla war, from the lefile where the first rencontre took place, m last Rouse's Bridge, and the double bridge, Pa he Cowdon Swamp, Silverton, where the aD >race of black villains committed the first ?7 irime; Crown Mills, the point where the raiload track was torn up, and finds himself his morning at Ellenton, the uttermost point ae if the conflict. What I shall write is the truth.' It is lacked by affidavits, by concurrent circumtances, and it cannot be gainsaid. When he official report is made, it must conform es- w* entially to what is written below. The story s a strange one, and its suggestions are valu ,ble just now. ^ r\- .l. ik.l -! o?t.?i? I de; V7IJ MIC ilJLII U1 OCptClIJUCI, LUC I1UUOC Ul dr. Alonzo Harley, at Silverton, was entered Y ?y two negroes with burglarious intent Mrs. P" Jarley was sick in bed. Hereon, a little felow of tender years, was her only companion, cu ler husband being absent. The negroes bold- nej y entered her room and commenced to rob, soi t which she protested. The negroes then at- Jo acked her and beat her severely, striking her of wice or three times over the upper part of ho he_bpdy_with a_jJ.ub,._,The. chi!4 then air. rlyi empted to flee the house ana was caught by lia he negroes and severely punished, he receiv- Hn ug a blow on the back of the neck which spi nay disable him for life. Mrs. Harley, in the oeantime had seized her husbaud's gun, which dei he drew down upon the plunderers and fright- an ned them off", although the gun was not mi oaded. -l>? Shortly afterward her husband arrived, and :ollecting a crowd, started in pursuit of the thi dllains. A negro, Peter Williams, was cap- bh ured under suspicion and brought back to ag he house. Mrs. Harley at once and fully wl dentified hira as one of the burglars. Pend- pei ng her testimony, the negro made a sudden on iuret for the door, reached it and fled precip- wo tately. Several of his captors rushed to the on loors and windows and fired upon him. He mt ell and was brought back to the house se- Ba rerely, and it was thought, mortally wounded, thi He then confessed to having committed the of obbery and been privy to the assault of Mrs. tw iarley, which, however, he claimed was com- al uitted by one Frederick Pope, colored. He de ras then properly taken care of by his cap- as ore and his wounds dressed. Right here I poi hall take issue with the published accounts. th< rVilliams did not die, as has been reported, raj >ut is now convalescent. Steps were then ret aken by the friends of Harley and his wife for o capture Pope, the accomplice, if not the o'c principal, for the crime for which Williams wh lad suffered. The proper affidavits were wh aade and Charles Griffin, a colored Justice Co f the Peace, issued a warrant for ?the arrest at f Pope. In the meantime news had been eceived, a very general and exciting rumor col irevailing to this effect, that a large number El f armed colored men had assembled and Co yere assembling tor the purpose or avenging e*1 he murder of Peter Williams, who was then gr< lelieved to be dead. Williams was extreme- al y popular with the negroes, and they pro- wr ested at that time (the contrary having been up ndubitably proven since and confessed on all a 1 ides,) that he was innocent of the crime im- th< >uted to him, and that he had been killed by mc he whites through pure wantonness. ne; Feeling that there would be trouble in ma;ing the arrest of Pope, Griffin appointed Mr. lugus P. Brown, a citizen of known courage tir >ut of prudent good sense, to carry out this by vrit of arrest. Mr. Brown quietly proceeded no( o surround himself with a small but deter- po oined posse. By Saturday night he had col- toi ected fourteen men, having intended to take on mly ten. He then waited for morning, that thi he search for Pope might be commenced, Bi leeping his men together during the night, bu Sarly in the morning he learned that Pope frt vas at Kouse's iJjidge, under tne protecuon v*t if a considerable number of armed negroes, ab le at once sent Messrs. Weathersby and R< fallings out as scouts to determine if the re- wl >ort were true, and in the meantime advanced wl vith his posse toward the bridge, taking the roi jrecautiou to carry the negro Justice with gr lim, that the negroes might be persuaded, to de five up their man without a struggle. When wl he posse passed Silverton, the home of Mr. ws rlarley, it was reinforced by five men, the up lews of the gathering at Rouse's Bridge hav- sh ng been received at Silverton several hours A >efore. Constable Brown's scouts returned, lif ind confirmed, from actual knowledge, that he he negroes toward the bridge were terribly th jxcited, armed and defiant. A negro (Sidney de Saukenson) confirmed their report, he havng been at the bridge himself. Mr. Brown pi ind his posse?a list of which is in my pos- dc lession?moved quietly forward. en Rouse's Bridge spans a small creek, and is so lanked on the left and left front by an im- El nense swamp. It is approached by a deep on ind narrow cut. Just as the posse emerged gr 'rom this cut?or, rather, as the first men rii jmerged?they were met with a ragged and K icattering fire from a party of negroes, who th vere aligned on the very edge of the swamp, (c So one was injured, a horse only being wound- Bi ;d. The posse promptly returned the fire, eil ft is said that three negroes were wounded by w< ;hi8 fire. From conversation with two or three pc )f the blacks engaged, I can get the name of m< inly one wounded man?Henry Campbell? th vho was shot in the arm. This, I believe, is H ;he only casualty of the first Rouse Bridge nc ight. At the fire of the whites, several nea v...' \ ( oes issued from the swamp and hurried to it inforce their friends, who numbered origi- (I illy about thirty. The whites, fearing the ei ramp was filled with armed negroes, retired w ecipitately to a neighboring open field, and b e first fight of the campaign was over. It If proven by the affidavits of more than a F >zen men, including the colored Justice, that w e negroes made the first fire, opening upon 8 e posse in the defile as is described above, c! tie whites then, instead of returning to the e< tack, determined to hold a parley. Tbey ii ocured a white fiag, and sent it by a negro iraan into the swamp, asking for a confer- ? -- ? mnmm n wnhl vnn/) O IC6 WHO me UlHUftBi JLUO nuiuau letmusu u ortly afterward, saying that the negroes re- e< sed to hold any communication with the tl bites. She was returned to the swamp, with gi more pressing invitation for a conference. ^ je did not return at all, but a negro came \ it unarmed, and stated that if the whites I Duld send forward six men named in a list ? > held in his hand, the blacks would give ? em a conference. The whites agreed, and 6 e six men entered the swamp. This was at t> tout 5 o'clock on Sunday. The whites show- a: I their warrant of arrest, and demanded the tl tgro Pope. The blacks replied that Pope tl is not with them, and had not been. The tl bites, upon hearing this, agreed that they C )uld disperse and go home, if the negroes w >uld do the same thing. This was arranged, V id the conference terminated. ti The whites at once dispersed and started h ?me, Mr. Brown riding off by himself; Mr. A allings and Mr. John Williams taking w lother road, and thirteen members of the Q1 see riding in scattered groups toward Don- tc e Bridge, where they expected to cross. D' These thirteen men were scattered along np e road, Messrs. Ashley and two others ri- ti g some 300 yards in advance. When c( ese gentlemen approached the bridge, wa- ai ng through a dense swamp, about a score of med negroes jumped up and seized Ashley, w iree or four guns were raised toward him, at len Bryant Counsel, a captain of the negro d< mpany, knocked the guns down with his Q' ord, crying, "Don't shoot the man?don't di oot!" He succeeded for a moment and ci en cried to Ashley, "You will have to save tl urself. sir: I can't save you." Ashley at ce put spurs to his horse and rushed off. m 3 was fired oo by several negroes and struck w the back by several small shot His com- w nions followed, one of them losing his gun n< d another having his trowsers' leg torn off la a negro who attempted to pull him from al i horse. ai In the meantime the whites behind Ashley, g] aring the firing, galloped sharply forward, di i they entered the swamp, eleven in number, ci 3y were met with a brisk volley, and Jim se ish, James Cochran, D. W. Crosland and tli 1 Hankenson were wounded. Five of the ct kites stood firm and leveled their guns. The al groes rushed on them, Basil Bryant and w ilkins Hamilton leading the charge. The sv kites fired steadily, and Basil Bryant fell ai ad, and Hamilton fell sharply wounded, tli le whites then hastily retreated, each one bi inging into the swamp at separate points. di Just one-half hour later?this rencontre oc- tr rring at about 6 o'clock on Sunday?the fo groes opened the ball in another direction, cc ne five miles distant, near Silverton. Mr. hi hn Williams and Stalling9% two members the dispersed posse, who were quietly riding C me, were fired on by three negroes who were L Xtw .Joho Wilt lu ms fell dead on the instant, and Mr. Stalgs' horse was killed. He leaped off and fo rung into the woods and made his escape. II At just about this time the skies were red* ned in the direction of Ellenton by heavy d various fires, caused by the burning of a tt 11, gin house and barn on the place of Dr. liley. These had been fired by the negroes. Every point of the above is supported by 3 fullest affidavits from both whites and icks. It appears that the negroes, after reeing to a treaty of dispersal, which the ey kites observed in perfect faith, broke the ana in thran nnrfimilnra : First, bv the firini? " fc*vv *" M',vv I ? o the eleven men at Double Bridge, and trading four of them ; second, by the firing C Williams and Slallings, by which the for- uj :r was killed ; third, by the burning of the di tiley outhouses. It must be remembered th it these events occurred within two hours p< each other. They covered an area of dt elve miles, proving conclusively that sever- w: bands of negroes were at work with mur* rous intent. Occurring in the night time pi they did, the scattered members of the 38e believed that the whole negro race of w i county were in arras and bent on murder, is pine and arson. They sped in different di- be itions, rallying the white people and calling rj aid. This movement commenced at 11 th lock. By 2 o'clock possibly 200 mounted of lite men were hurrying toward Silverton, tere they were massed at about daylight, ve 1. A. P. Butler and Capt. G. W. Croft were the head of affairs. M At daylight Monday morning, the white uran commenced moving briskly toward Si lenton. As they were passing through the J< wdon plantation, they were met by a very so cited courier, who announced that the ne- bt ies had wrecked the train on the Port Roy Railroad, hard by, and were around toe ri eck in great numbers. They charged down on the point of the wreck, beiug covered by ligh grass hedge, until they were fairly upon in 3 negroes. They fired in upon the armed :n standing around the train and killed one B gro, wounding none. The negroes fired a v panicky shots and scattered. w News then came that the wreckers had re- ^ ed on Ellenton, where they had been met At a company of Barnwell negroes, under Si- ei >u Coker, and were in full and dangerous ssession of the town. Upon reaching the sh ivn they found that the negroes had just left, e party going toward Rouse's Bridge and le s other, under Coker, going toward Penn anch Swamp, where they expected to am- B sh white reinforcemeuts that were coming ct >m Barnwell county, under command of ;n. Hagood. The whites?it then being B out 4 o'clock on Monday?pushed on to ai juse's Bridge. They had not proceeded far ien their scouts were fired ou by six negroes, ki 10 were fortified in a little house by the adside. The main body rushing up, the ne- fj oes fled. David Malley, (colored) was shot in ad in the house. Sam Brown was killed lile running, gun in hand. Warren Kelsey &f is wounded and fell. The whites rushed of >on him. Mr. Jim Bush exclaimed, "Don't oot, boys ; his daddy is a good old negro." oi white man, reaching down in the grass, (1 ted Kelsey's head and cried, "By God I ai 'agot a gun in his hand right now!" At w is a dozen shots were fired and he fell back tk MUl Couriers then reached the whites and im- a ored them to return and camp in Ellenton tl iring the night, as the negroes had threat- n< ed to return and burn the town. They did re and went into camp on Monday night at in llenton. Up to this time the whites had b< e man killed and four wounded. The ne- b< oes had five killed and two wounded. Du- ec lg the night and evening at Ellenton, John pi elsey (colore^) was killed while, running til rough a field, armed. Wilkins Hamilton lii olored), who had been wounded at Union B ridge, was brought to Ellenton and was T iher killed while a prisoner, or died of his tr >unds received at the bridge. He was re- bi irted dead"' in the morning. Abram Ham- st ond (colored) was killed at Silverton during ki e evening. How, I am unable to learn, w e was quite an old man and was very ob- Ii ixious to the whites. sc I shall now leave the Aiken county whites cc i camp at Ellenton, on Tuesday moroing, having lost one white killed and four woundrl, and having killed eight negroes and ounded two) to describe the fighting done y the Barnwell county men, who, under the tmdership of General Hagood and Sheriff 'atterson, of Barnwell, were marching toard the scene. It will be remembered that imon Coker's company, armed with Winhester rides, had leffc Ellen ton on Monday vening for Penn Branch Swamp, where they itended to ambush the white reinforcements. Before reaching the swamp, the Barnwell bites were fired upon from ambush, and the heriff, James Patterson, was severely wound1 Upon reaching the edge of the swamp, le advance guard of whites were confronted jddenly by about seventy armed negroes, ho poured a direct fire into them. Robert Williams was killed at the first flash, Samuel )unbar shot in the hand and breast, J. H. [illingworth was shot in the leg, and Mike [eyers in the neck. The whites returned the re, killing Ed. W. Bush, (colored), Round*ee (colored), and two negroes named Paris n/i TTonru Tho nunrrnpA than nlunored into """' J ' ?- ""B i O ie swamp, leaving Simon'Coker, their cap-i tin, in the bands of the whites. The whites ten pushed on toward Ellenton, carrying loker with them. En route to Ellenton the bites killed George Turner, (colored) and William Tutt, (colored). I am informed that iese negroes were seen with guns in their ands, and were fired upon and shot down, .rriving at Ellenton, Simon Coker, prisoner, bo had been the instigator and leader of the egroes, it was alleged, was killed by his cap>rs. The Barnwell men then killed seven egroes in the march to Ellenton, losing one lan killed and three wounded. The casuales then stood fifteen negroes killed in both )unties and two wounded; whites, two killed ad eight woanded. On Tuesday morning the Aiken county hites, who were encamped at Ellenton, arted for Rouse's Bridge, where it was unarstood the negroes were massed in large ambers. Upon reaching the bridge it was iscovered'that the negroes bad crossed the eek, torn up the bridge and entrenched temselves in the swamp. The decisive moment had now come. The ain body of the whites, some 300 in number, ere preparing to charge on the swamp in hich were ambushed the main body of the agroes, number unknown, but possibly as ,rge as the whites, 'the whites were delayed ; the torn bridge, and spent half an hour in 'ranging to cross the stream. A few Btragling shots were fired on both sides, without image to either. At length the stream was 'ossed and the whites were stiffening themivea in the saddle for a charge, when a yell I L_ C A?iL tut uruivu iruuj uio ucptuo ui tuo oirnujp iused them toneaitate. A dozen guns were 1 the shoulder to fire on the body of men who ere evidently approaching the edge of the ramp, when Captain Croft struck them down id shouted : "Those are white men coming trough the swamp." In a moment they roke through the edge of the swamp, and iscovered that it was a body of United States oops. The soldiers came walking rapidly rward, totally unarmed, many with their tats off, and many of them swinging their its in the air. A committee of three whites, headed by aptain Croft, advanced to meet Captain loyd, in command of the troops. After salting, Captain Ofoffc said; -p ? "We are here/sir, for the purpose of enrcing order. Have you any orders for us?" ' so, they shall be obeyed." "I have none, sir." "Under what instructions are you here, len, sir ?" "Simply to preserve the peace." "Have you any advice to offer?" "I advise you to disperse your men." "Will you force the negroes to disperse ?" "I cannot force them. I feel assured, howrer, that the advice I shall give them will suit in their prompt dispersion, particularly you disperse your men now." This was perfectly satisfactory to Captain roft and his colleagues, and in twenty mines the column of whites, saluting the solera pleasantly as they passed, filed beyond em, and in two hours were completely disused. The negroes committed no more 1-.:?? ?A paa A o TTO map ;prcuabiuuO| nuu niuo nug binoo uojo nm as ended. The following is a full, authentic and comete list of the killed and wounded. Not jother negro or white man can be named, bo can be identified as a real personage, who now unaccountably missing from any neigh>rhood in Aiken or Barnwell county. HenCampbell, the negro who was wounded in e first skirmish at the defile, died last night secondary hemorrhage of bis wouud: Whites killed?John Williams, near Silirton, on Sunday night, ambushed. Robert Williams, at Penn's Branch, on onday night, killed in the fight. Whites wounded?At Double Bridge, on inday night, J. H. Bush, in jaw and mouth ; imes Cochran, in shoulder; Sidney Hankenn, in neck ; D. W. Crosland, in neck and ick : JoseDh Ashlev. in shoulder. Near Penn Branch, on Monday night, Jas. attersoo, ambushed. At Penn Branch, on Monday night, Sam* il Dunbar, in hand and breast; J. H. Kill* gswortb, in leg. Negroes killed?Basil Bryant, at Double ridge, Sunday, night, killed in the fight. Unknown negro "Kit," killed at railroad reck in a general skirmish. Warren Kelsey, Sam Brown, Dave Mallay, i Kelsey's house, near Ellenton, Monday rening, in skirmish. John Kelsey, at Ellenton, Monday night, tot while running with gun in hand. Abraham Hammond, or Silverton, at Elnton, Monday night. Wilkins Hamilton, wounded at Double ridge, Sunday night, died or was killed after ipture. George Turner, William Tutt, killed by rownell, Monday evening, in lligbt, while med. Simon Coker, at Ellenton, Monday night, illed after capture. E. W. Bush, ? Rountree, "Paris," "Henat Penn's Branch fight, on Monday eveng. Henry Campbell, wounded at defile Sunday 'ternoon, and died of secondary hemorrhage ' wound. Only two negroes were reported wounded, le of whom (Campbell) died, and the other lamilton) either died or was killed. There re doubtless other negroes slightly wounded, ho keep the matter hid. I heard of two or tree such cases. I see nothing in this terrible conflict beyond hint as to the heat of the canvass, and of le inflammable nature of things here. The jgroes were imprudent and wanton in two ispects. I can hardly blame them for rally* g at first to protect Frederick Pope. They j flieved that Williams, their favorite, had jen lynched, and that Pope was being huntI down. They very naturally thought of 'otecting him. They were wrong in violaog the treaty they made, by killing Wil* ims, by ambushing the party at Double ridge, and by firing the Bailey outhouses, hey were wronjj in tearing up the railroad ack and cutting the telegraph wires, in -eaking open and plundering Weathersbee's ore, in driving cattle into the swamps and tiling them, in threatening Ellenton. The bites were much more prudent and correct, ideed, it is hard to see how the whites were i easily controlled as they were. They are intinually nervous about the race question anyhow, as the blacks outnumber them ten to c one. ? Now let us consider the condition of mind t those men who were ambushed at Double fl Bridge on Sunday night must have been in. 4 They were openly attacked by a large number t of armed negroes in the night. After they t scattered, wounded-and exhausted, they die- t covered that another party of negroes had t killed Williams and shot Stallings' horse, e While they were receiving this news, they saw t the skies reddening with two or three incendia* s ry fires, evidently the work of another party a of negroes. They felt certain, so many of t them informed me, that there had been a i general uprising of the negroes for the purpose t of rape and murder and arson. The coolness c in dispersing so promptly at their captain's t call is remarkable. i It has been said by Senator John Patterson that the white people wrecked the train on c the Port Royal Railroad fbr the purpose of f robbery, believing that a United States pay- g master with $50,<M)0 was on board. This can f hardly be so, as the train that was wrecked t was the way freight train, on which no pas- i sengers (much less a United States paymM- ? ter) ever travels. Besides this the telegraph 1 wires were cut in three places on the night 1 before the train was doe; a hardly likely pro- a ceeding if robbery .was the object I have li seen the affidavit of Tenant, the engineer, in which he says that the field in front of the b place where the engine was wrecked was fall t of armed negroes. The whites who came np shortly afterward fired into them and killed 1 one armed negro. The impression here is, o and it is shared by all, that the negroes feared a the train would bring help from Aogusta and tl they determined to wreck it Your correspondent must recur for a moment to the strange mystery and exaggeration i that has been thrown over this afiair. En route to the scene of conflict I was repeatedly C informed by Democrats as well as Republicans, that the list of killed was everywhere from thirty to three hundred. The best in- g formed editors and politicians believed that the slaughter had been terrific; and even in % Augusta, within twenty miles of Ellenton, it tl is believed that not.less than fifty and proba- d bly more than one hundred were killed. A s reporter of an Atlanta paper visiting the scene d a week after the occurrence, put the deaths at v ninety. A Chicago correspondent, with pain- c ful exactness, puts it at one hundred ana sev- t enty-nine. General Hagood, who participa- it ted in the conflict, gives the.numberat thirty- t one. The causes of this strange misappre- ii hension are manifold. In the first place, the negroes, in almost every case, fought in the a swamp, leaving it indefinite as to how many ]< were killed and lost The fight was being t waged at three or four different points, widely o distant from each other, at the same time, q and reports flying to and from the various a squads were vastly exaggerated. The fights g lasted for three days and nights, rencontres \ being frequent enough to produce the impression that the slaughter was dreadful. A good many careless young fellows came down from Augusta and other points, and, re- 0 turning with exaggerted reports, produced % the impression that scores were killed. Above 0 an, a great ojuuy uegruca wuu wore piuuuucui/ j in the fighting, kept themselves hid for days v after the peace, being afraid to show them- v selves. Their friends, really supposing that 8 rtbey had been killed, reported them dead, and c mourned them as such. This very morning f Abram Overstreet and Alec Wright, who [, were currently reported dead, and put by ^ Democrats on the death list, put in their ap- v pearance without a scratch. At Ellenton, u Albert Carroll, Dan Rouse and Alec Williams j were believed on all hands to be dead. Your Q correspondent talked with all of these ne- g groes in Aiken two days ago, where they are t living under protection of the troops. I have worked patiently in both places and at inter- 0 mediate places, comparing lists, looking up a missing men, interviewing all classes and con- r ditions of people, and I am positively certain c that no other casualty than those tabulated f above can be substantiated. I talked with ; scores of negroes and asked them what negroes were missing from their various neighbor- j hoods. In every case they were covered by 0" one of the names reported above. All the e negroes have shown up now, and now, for the D first time, is a truthful report obtainable. I ^ could Dublisb the affidavits of twenty men in t Aiken County, of the highest respectability, ^ that the most rigid scrutiny could not pot the j, deaths above twenty. I have made a search a for the graves of the killed. These graves are c scattered about and I have located just seven- |] teen graves, two whites being buried and ^ eighteen blacks. Heni7 Campbell, who died a last night, not being buried as yet I do not j] hear of a single grave that is unaccounted (j for, nor of a single dead man whose grave cannot be located. WHY THE DEATH BOLL 18 SMALL. ^ It appears remarkable, when we consider h the number of men engaged and the time of q the conflict, that the death roll is so small, gj The truth is there was enough ferocity and p determination in the conflict to have caused e the deaths of a thousand men. If the whites j bad struck the negroes on Monday morning at Ellenton, there would have been terrible c slaughter. If the United States troops had ? been half an hour later at Rouse's Bridge ii swamp, scores would have fallen right there, o The main bodies of whites and blacks never a colided. The blacks, at the first fire, would h bury themselves in the swamps whither the e whites were afraid to follow them. The ne- ]< groes lacked ammunition and proper arms. ? There were, probably, thirty Winchester rifles b in the swamps. All else was shot-guns, old tl muskets. &c. The negroes loaded their guns a with half charges. Wilkins Hamilton, color- i ed, pulled down his shot-gun on Jim Bush, at fa about forty paces. A spoonful of bird shot e pattered against Bush's thick coat and fell back from his shirt bosom. Half the wounds g received by the whites were from small shot, g Wherever the Winchester whistled there was d trouble in the air. p ? c PROCLAMATION. , MILITARY DESPOTISM?TROOPS ORDERED TO g CONCENTRATE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. a Washington, Oct. 17.?The following pro- f clamation was issued to-day: n By the President of the United States?A t Proclamation: Whereas it has been satisfao- d torily shown to me that insurrection and do- s inestic violence exist in several counties of the a Stato of South Carolina, and that certain coin- o binations of men, against law, exist in many h counties of said State, known as "Bifle Clubs,' tl who ride up and down by day and nigh^ mur- si dering some peaceable citizens and intimida- tl ting others, which combinations, though for- fl bidden by the laws of the State, cannot be nr nnnnressed bv the ordinary I n | ? rr- - ? ^ ^ . ? I course of justice; and whereas it is provided p iu the Constitution of the United States that si the United States shall protect every State in a this Union on the application of the Legisla- S ture, or of the Executive when the Legislature d cannot be convened, against domestic violence; a and whereas in pursuance of the above it is si provided in the laws of the United States that II in all cases of insurrection in anj State, or of a obstruction to the laws thereof, it shall be b lawful for the President of the United States, lj on application of the Legislature of snob c< State, or of the Executive when the Legist*?, ? ture cannot be convened, to call for. the mill- tia of any other States or to such part of the i land and naval forces as aballbe judged nec- h esaary for the purpose Qf suppressing such msurrection pr pausing the laws to bedqlyexe. w suted; and whereas the Legislature of said State is not now in session and cannot be conrened in time to meet the present emergency, tnd the Executive of said State, trader section t of article 4 of the Constitution of the Unied States, and the laws passed in pursuance hereof, has therefore made due application to ae in the premises forjsach part of the miliary force of the United States as may be neossary and adequate to protect said State and he citizens thereof against domestic violence rad to enforce the due execution of the laws; tnd whereas it is required that whenever it nay be necessary in the judgment of the Presdent to use the military force for the purpose tforesaid, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, lommand such insurgents to disperse and reire peaceably to their respective homes withn a limited time. Now, therefore I, Ulysses 8. Grant, Presilentofthe United States, do hereby make iroclamation and command all persons en;aged in such unlawful and insurrectionary iroceedings, to disperse and retire peaceably o their respective abodes within three days rom this date, and hereafter abandon said ombioatioae and aabmit themselves to r the am and constituted authorities of said State. Dhe cooperation of all good citizens thereof is eked to uphold the laws and preserve the pubic peace. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my iand and caused the seal of the United States ' o be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this the 7tb day of October, in the year of our Lord ne thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, nd of the independence of the United States be one hundred and first U. S. Grant. By the President: John L. Cadwallader, Lcting Secretary of State. The following has been issued by Secretary femeron: War Department, ") Washington; D. C, Oct 17,1876. J ?nera) W. T. Sherman, commanding U. s. Army. Sir?In view of the existing condition of flairs in South Carolina, there is a possibility bat the proclamation of the President of this ate may be disregarded. To provide against ach a contingency, you will immediately orer all the available force in the Military Diision of the Atlantic to report to Gen, Buger, ommanding at Columbia, S. C., and instruct bat officer to station his troops in such localties that they may be most speedily and effeoually used in cose of resistance to the authorty of the United States. It is hoped that a ' collision may thus be voided; but yon will instruct Gen. Ruger to 3t it be known that it is the fixed parpoee of be government to carry out' fully the spirit f the proclamation, and to snstain it by the , lilitaiy force of the general Government; nd if necessary, by the militia of the various Itates. Very respectfully, your obedient serant, G. D. Cameron, Secretary of War.THE DUlilERsT "flankers," says a correspondent of the Cininnati Commercial, comes from the German erb dunken, to dip or duck, a word used in faailiar, conversational German. The German laptists immerse their converts in a manner rholly peculiar. They .take the convert to the raters edge, always to a river or running tream-pone ofyonmew.fengled warm church isterns, and have him kneel down in the ? rater. Then the preacher takes him by the tack of the neck and dips him under the waer, face foremost, you understand; not backrard as do other Baptists. They dip him inder three times, onoe in the name of the leather, once in the name of the Bon, and nee in the name of the Holy Ghost, thas iving him a triple or triune baptism. ' Hence he nickname Danker or Docker. The men of the churoh part the hair in the niddle, wear both hair and beard auite long, nd look like pictures of the old Bible patiarchs. They wear long hair and beard be* ause the patriarchs and 'jostles did, and are orbidden to crop their hair short or to shave heir beard. The religions ceremonies which particular* f distinguish this from the otherv Christian hurches, are kissing, feet-washing, and soup* ating. In various places in the New Testa* lent, the "holv kiss and the "kiss of chartf are mentioned; therefore* when these rethren and sisters meet at church, they bake hands and kiss. When a brother comes ito church he shakes hands with and kisses 11 the brethren; a sister ditto the sisters. I onfem that it nearly upset my dignity to see bose grey-bearded old fellows come in and iss one another, with a sounding smack, all round. I dare say one could get used to it boueh. The brethren kiss the brethren and be sisters kiss the sisters. Bat they never kiss across. In the matter of greeting colored brethren rith the holy kiss, the church rales say that aasmuch as some white members have a weakess against kissing colored folks, it is "coniderea advisable" that the colored brethen ut up with that weakness for the presen^and xcuse the holy kiss until such time as the rhite brethren become stronger in the faith. The German Baptists take their children to. hurcb, babies and all, in ancient pioneer ashion. There were people in the little meetoz-house from seventy years to six months la. The old Dunker women have the peaceblest, prettiest faces I ever saw on any old idy. The faces of the women, from the oldst to the youngest, are all fair and sweetDokiBg. There sat a venerable grand-mother rith snowy hair and calm, fair face! Beside er a beautiful yonng mother with her baby, he cunningest*light bright-eyed Danker baby, perfect picture of the Madonna and child. Lhd, if you'll believe me, even that Danker aby wore on its face the Danker look of inffkble calm and peace, too. You won't be surprised tflht the Danker ister's faces look fair and anwrinkled and weet tempered, when I tell yoa how they trees. Their dress-ap church costume is a ifo.iVi.ftnt notify) drew and cane, and a crrav alico son-bonnet The men's dress is of the ery plainest cut, too. Only think of it, friends, (appose we could, one and all, suddenly cut .way everything cumbrous and uncomfortable rom our dress and from our lives, and have io more overskirts, bustles, ruffles, tight boots, ight dresses, tight coats, tight heads or corn loctors; no pearl powder, false hair, false miles or false hearts, no worry and heartache nd scheming to drees as well as this woman r that one, and no wicked envy or spite in our earts because we can't do it; suddenly to brow all this rubbish aside forever, ana be imply natural and comfortable. The very bought of it makes a woman's heart ache to y away and be a Danker sister, too. It mast be something in the peaceful, simle lives of these women which makes them so leasant to look at * It appears to me I never iw so many silk dresses together in my life s I saw in a Cincinnati congregation last onday, and jet, among all these elegant laies, I failed to see one nee as serene and fair nd pure as the faces of many of the Danker stem that Sunday in the&nde little church, t must be there is some hidden spell, too, in straight light calico drees JU&iWij sun onnet for the vounff danker diria/int&asostr wore the world's^fress, k>e^*oMSe and >mmonplaee beside their mothers in the tanker costume, Add . - ,, ?;>* ... .. m- A little five-year-old somewhat surprised^ is mother *-&w days sincewith the rem* God ia everywhere; he is all over hen jou spank me you spank ^I