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Scraps and Jarts.
? Gen. Bragg's life was insured for forty
thousand dollars.
? The Emperor of Morocoo has received a
present of eight women from the harem of
the late Sultan of Turkey.
?A. W. Corcoran, of Washington, has donated
five thousand dollars to enlarge the
library of the University of Virginia.
? Out of sixty-nine German papers published
in Wisconsin, sixty-four support Til
den and Hendricks.
? The Steamship Illinois, of the American
Steamship line, recently made the passage
. from Liverpool to Philadelphia in eight days
and twenty-one hours.
?In 1872, West Virginia gave the Repub
lican State ticket 2,583 majority. At the
recent election the Democratic majority was
12,000.
? Rhode Island has been canvassed sixteen
times this year?eight times by each party?
and there is only one man left whose politics
is not known.
? The largest set of scales in the world has
been built at Ashley, Pa. The platform is
150 feet long, of the width of a railroad track,
and can weigh one hundred tons. The cost
was five thousand dollars.
? In New York City, the money received
from licenses to sell liquors, is distributed
among the local charitable societies. This
year the sum is $169,829, which is divided
among about eighty hospitals, asylums and
other benevolent institutions.
? The artistic taste of the late Senator Sumner
was so defective, "that the collection of
works of art which he bequeathed to the
Boston Atheneum had so little value, that
the directors refused to give them house room
and disposed of them at auction."
? The Irish citizens of Richmond, Va., are
raising funds for a monument to the late exGovernor
Wise, in recognition of the stand
which he took against the Know-Nothing
party when he was a leader in Virginia politics.
? The New York Tribune is responsible for
the statement that the contributions for the
Washington monument, which have been accumulating
for several weeks in a donation
box at one of the State buildings at the Exhibition,
amount to thirteen cents and a
tooth-pick
? Gen. Butler, in his speech at Andover,
Mass., on the 13th ultimo, said: "The elections
of the past week show that there is to
be a contest of the most determined character?a
contest which is doubtful. I say it
frankly, Mr. Tilden's election is not impossible
; nay, not improbable."
T* ia + r\r1 fkof if A11 fkft kt?AnTO nr?Q/1 > 1P
lb AO ObBbCU buab AA nil Ituo iMUUAg uivuuiu
already awarded to exhibitors at the Centennial,
were laid down in a row, one touching the
other, it would make a string almost a mile
in length. If they were piled op one above
the other, it would make a column about five
hundred feet high.
? Messrs. Williams A.Gibson, stock and real
estate brokers, of Richmond, Ya., will sell at
public auction, in Atlanta, on the 5th day of
December next, the entire road-bed of tbe
Richmond and Atlanta Air Line Railway.
The machinery, rolling Btock and all other
appurtenances of the road, will also be sold.
? An ingenious Democrat, of Cattleburg,
Ky., at a flag raising in that village, put a
rooster in a box, which he attached to the
halyards, and so arranged the cover of the
box, tbat when tbe box struck the top of the
Btaff, the cover would fly open. His plan
worked like a charm. The moment the cover
flew open, the rooster lighted on top of the
staff* and commenced crowing vigorously,
amid the cheers of the spectators.
? The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes the
following dispatch from Colombo*. Ohio, unr
der date of the 22nd.ultimo: "It has been
discovered tbat the tickets voted by the Republicans
in Cuyahoga county have been
printed by their committee in such manner as
to clearly violate the law of 1874, and it is
claimed that a contest will exclude them,
which would result in the election of the
whole Democratic State ticket"
? Capt. Bates and his wife, formerly Miss
Anna Swan, the giants, whose marriage in
London attracted much attention several
years ago, have retired from show life, and
built a fitting residence near Rochester, New
York. He is seven and a half feet high ; she
is an inch taller, and each weighs over fonr
hundred pounds. The rooms of their house
ar# eighteen feet high, and the doors twelve
feet. Their bedstead is ten feet long, and all
the furniture is proportionately large.
? The prosecution of the Mountain Meadow
murderers will not end with the conviction of
John D. Lee. In passing sentence of death
on the prisoner on October 10th, at Beaver,
Utah, Judge Boreman stated that the witnesses,
whose mouths had been unsealed, would be
ready to testify against the other leaders who
had plotted the wholesale slaughter of the
emigrants ninteen years ago. If the Mormons,
by consenting to his death, fancied that public
indignation would be appeased by his con
viction, they would be mistaken. Those who
bad planned and executed the awful deed
would all be brought before the bar of justice.
The dread crime would not down.
? Edward S. Stokes, who killed Jas. Fisk,
Jr., was discharged from Sing Sing prison on
the 28th ultimo. He is nearly utterly broken
down physically; he suffers severely from
asthma and, though only 88 years of age, he
is quite gray. Though his long fight against
the gallows cost 8300,000, he will be a comparatively
rich man when he leaves his cell,
as his oil refining works, which have been
cared for by his mother during his imprisonment,
have done a good business and are
quite valuable. Misery has accumulated upon
the wretched convict's head since his
crime; his father is dead of grief, and his
wife has freed herself from him by divorce,
and all the fair-weather friends of his gilded
days have forsaken him.
? An interesting case, involving the question
of the legal liability of a mercantile
agency for the correctness of its reports, has
-'just been adjudicated in Canada. An agency
in Toronto, professing, through its system of
espionage, to know the financial standing of a
certain retail dealer, sold its so-called knowledge
to a wholesale dealer, who proceeded to
sell to the retail dealer upon the purchased
hypothesis that he would receive the money
for his goods in due time. The wholesale
dealer's prospects of getting paid were, shortly
after this transaction, rendered unequivocally
dubious by the absconding of the retail dealer.
mi . I _1_ 1 1 - J 1
l nereupon me wnoiesaie ueaitu rwuiroicu
$524 at law from the mercantile agency,
which seeks to evade its responsibility in the
matter, by a last appeal to the Canadian supreme
tribunal.
?Intelligence received at Washington from
the States of Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin,
is such as to give the Democratic leaders hopes
which they have not dared to entertain before.
It is said that in Wisconsin the disaffection
in the Republican party is so widespread,
particularly among the Germans, as to
make it not improbable that the State will
cast its electoral vote for Tilden. In Michigan
it is alleged that there is danger of the
Republicans losing the State on account of
the intense disgust that Secretary Chandler is
running the Republican election machine.
Manyi&tbe most prominent Republican party
leaders are refusing to take any interest in
Xthe canvass. From Ohio the news comes that
the Democrats there are entering anew into
the canvass with the confident expectation of
wiDine out the small Republican majority of
October.
? A New York letter rays: "Dullness is
the feature on the Cotton Exchange. Opinions
differ as to the effect on the staple of the
^ war rumors from Europe. Usually, as is
well known, cotton drops even at the mention
of war, but at this time there are those
who contend-thatthe price will be sustained
by high gOld^Miv>a? on Wednesday last;
the mills, too, &?J>ofl*Mide8 the water are
empty of cotton, manufactured goods are dai- o
ly becoming more scarce, and these facts, it c
is argued, will tend to keep up the market. 0
Others, however, assert that there will be
such a demand for United States bonds when c
once the war is under way, that gold will flow !:
here in large quantities for these, breadstufis *
and provisions, and the price of gold and v
cotton will fall. There is a disposition to v
dispute the heavy crop figures, and some of fa
the oldest statisticians in the trade, place the t
limit at 4,200,000 bales." ^
?stMlt inquirer. !
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SOUTH C AROI J NAT NEWS. d
? Charleston was visited with a white frost (
on Friday morning last ^
? Seven companies of United States soldiers d
have been sent to Edgefield. It is stated that
the number will be increased to ten companies, o
? The Williamston Rifle Club has dis- -c
banded and organized itself into a mounted 6
base ball clnb.% *
? The late heavy rains have caused serious
damage to the rice planters on the Pee Dee 0
and the Waccamaw rivers. 1
? Immense preparations are being made for 1
the reception of Gen. Hampton at Columbia I
on Saturday next.
? The merchants of Augusta have contrib- I
uted $310 towards defraying the expenses of a
the campaign in Edgefield county. 1
? Philip Dunn, who was nominated by the a
Republicans of Union county for County d
^ ? ^
uommiasioner, aecuucs iue quc&tiuuauic uuuui, ?
Governor Chamberlain has appointed A. v
C. Merrick and George W. Tuck, trial justi- c
cos for Spartanburg, in place of A. Tolleson
and Alexander Jones, removed. 1
? The executive committee of the Agricul- 1<
tural and Mechanical Society, have resolved I
to hold the annual State Fair on the 28th, o
29th and 30th of November, and 1st of De- a
cember. ? a
? Seven negroes have been arrested by the fi
civil authorities in Edgefield county, charged ti
with the murder of Gilmore and the attempt- a
ed murder of Yeldell and Outze. Two of d
them were subsequently released, but the re- a
maining five are confined in jail. si
? J. J. Wright, the colored Judge of the ^
Supreme Court, said in conversation recent- *
ly, at Columbia, thai he thought one of the J1
.best things that could happen for his people
would be the election of Wade Hampton, and 0
assigned as a reason that he believed General 11
Hampton would fulfill every promise he made,
?Nineteen colored individuals, late residents c
of Lexington, reached Wilmington, N. C.,
last Friday on their way to Liberia. They
had through tickets for Portsmouth, Va., at
O o
which place they are to take a steamer for ^
New York, and from thence sail for their des- ^
tination in "Afric's sunny clime."
g'
? "We learn by a telegram from Chester,
that the Democrats gave a barbecue at Rich .
Hill, Chester county, last Tuesday. There
were about 600 blacks and 200 whites pres* j
ent?all declaring themselves for Hampton. j
A large number of colored women attended r
and were enthusiastic for Hampton. Judge j
Mackey and others spoke. g
? The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says: "Robert B. Elliott the c
negro ex-Congressman, the Chairman of the
Republican State Committee and candidate
for Attorney-General of South Carolina, has .
written letters here and also to members of !
the Republican Committee in the North, begging
for money, plenty of it and at once, or g
else, he says, their cause will be much endan- ?
gered."
? On concluding his speech at Colleton last
Friday, Gen. Hampton said : And if United ,
States troops should be stationed near you, ^
my friends of Colleton, hail them as-your .
friends. If they opposeyou, turn your breasts
and say, you are oar soldiers, that is our flag,
fire upon us if you will, we shall not return a
it. Do this, my friends. Continue in'pre- ?
serving peace and submitting to everything.
The time is short now, and you cannot fail to
succeed. 8
? The merchants of Newberry held a meeting
on the 23rd ultimo, and adopted the fol- e
lowing business-like resolution: "That we, ?
the undersigned, merchants doing business in ^
the town of Newberry, do hereby pledge ourselves
not to furnish provisions and other necessary
farming supplies another year on a n
credit to those persons who shall vote against 8
our interest at the approaching election; and
that we will not furnish any planter with e
such supplies on credit when it comes within
our knowledge, or we have good reason to be- 0
lieve that the use of such supplies are intend- ^
ed for the support of any laborer who voted
against the public welfare." 1
?A correspondent of the Charleston News .
and Courier, writing from Aiken on Sunday t
last, says: "The plot of the Radicals to carry E
this county by intimidation is thickening, j
Stone and Earle have both been here advising
with Corbin, and the latter has been steadily
gathering negro testimony and probably preparing
partisan reports. I am credibly infhttt.
Ha Aiorht hundred warrannts
of arrest yet to be served in this county, and
bis scheme to overcome the people will probably
be put into effect this week. It is be- t
lieved that he will endeavor to imprison a suf- ]
ficient number to overcome the supposed c
Democratic majority, and that the work of {
bailing will be purposely retarded to suit the G
Radical party plans." r
? The Rev. J. L. Reynolds publishes a card I
in the Greenville Newt, in which he says : i
"This is the day of prayer, and nobody has r
greater reason than the colored people to pray S
for Gen. Hampton. He has always tried to \
promote their religions welfare. The same is p
true of all the members of the Hampton fam- n
ily. Some years ago, I was pastor of the Bap- a
tist Church in Columbia. Many of my mem- I
bora were colored persons, and some of them i
belonged to Col. Wade Hampton. He was an g
Episcopalian. He did not attend my church ; c
but he contributed fifty dollars a year to my r
support, because some of his servants were j
among my people. He did the like for those I j
f his servantswho were Methodists, and enouraged
all of them to hold prayer mattings
n his plantations."
? Mrs. Mary Broadack and Mrs. Martha
itoddard, two aged sisters residing alone near
)urbin's Greek Church, in Laurens county,
rere murdered on Wednesday night of last
reek. Their screams were heard by a neigh>or
half a mile distant, mid when he reached
he scene he found the body of Mrs. Stodlard
in a cotton patch adjoining the house,
nd that of Mrs. Broadack in the kitchen.
i.n axe, or some heavy instrument, was used
iy the murderers to dispatch their victims,
nnoa or aq Banked and the trunks broken
pen in search for the proceeds of a tract of
and recently sold by the deceased. The
noney had not been received, and only fifteen
lollars were found upon the premises. A
legro named Tenant, being one hundred
ards from the scene, was arrested as an accesory.
He denied aoy knowledge of the murler,
and said he had not heard any noise.
Ln investigation was immediately instituted,
nd hopes are entertained that the perpetraors
will be apprehended.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Gen. S. H. Walknp, one of the most repected
citizens of the State, died at Monroe,
Jnion county, on Wednesday of last week.
? The Cape Fear is the title of a sprightly
laily paper issued in Wilmington, by Cicero
V. Harris, a gentleman well qualified to
bake his enterprise a complete success.
? Rev. Jesse Rankin, aged 74 years, one
f the oldest ministers in the Presbyterian
Church, died in Lenoir, Caldwell county, on
he 18th ultimo.
?"Master Lewis," the negro circus rider, was
letected in picking the pocket of a citizen in
Charlotte last week. A warrant was issued
or his arrest, but he evaded the officer, and
lid not appear at the evening performance.
? Donald Gee, a young man about 20 years
f age,- was caught in the machinery of a
otton gin at work near Durham, and crushd
to death on Wednesday afternoon of last
reek.
? A fire occurred in Lexington on Tuesday
f last week, by which three store buildings,
he property of C. F. Lowe, were destroyed.
?he goods in the stores were mostly saved.
joss about $6,000 with no insurance.
? One day last week, in the town of Monroe,
j. Weill, of that town, shot and killed Thorna
Recard, a tobacco peddler of Davie county.
?hey met on the pavement, and after some
,ngry words had passed, it is said that Weill
Irew his pistol and shot Recard, declaring
hat he was under the impression that Recard
ras trying to draw his pistol. Weill was
ommitted to jail.
? A dispatch in the Wilmington Star, dated
lenry's Station, October 25th, gives the folowing
account of an exciting adventure:
jast evening, just after dark, the lead horses
f the stage from Asheville became unmangeable
on a mountain two miles from here,
nd jumped headlong down a precipice fifty
set, dragging the other horses and stage with
hem. Mr. Nutt and wife, Mrs. Wm. Parsley
nd daughters, Mrs. M. P. Taylor and chilren,
and Maj. Engelhard, all of Wilmington,
nd Mrs. Brosher, of Tennessee,'were the pasengers.
Mr. Nutt, Maj. Engelhard, and the
lisses Parsley were on top of the stage. Maj.
Engelhard got the young ladies off, Mr. Nutt
imping off with him, and the two assisted
bose inside to alight just as the stage fell
ver the precipice. One oft the hones, hold3g
the stage up a moment after the other
bree were dangling in the air, gave the neessary
time to save the lives of all.
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GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS.
? The residents of Jersey City, N. J., withut
regard to party, have called a meeting
ar the 2nd of November, to protest against
he invasion of South Carolina. The call is
igned by the leading citizens uf the city.
? In New York, large investments are beQg
made at both Morrisey's and Johnson's
;ambling houses on the general result or tne
Residential election. On Friday evening
ast the bets opened even, but at 9 o'clock
anged at $200 to $175 in favor of Tilden.
n the State election the odds were $1,000 to
400 in favor of Tilden.
-r-The Mississippi Democracy, through the
itate Democratic Committee, endorse Goverlor
Tilden's letter on "Southern Claims,"
rhich is published on the first page of this
jsue of the Enquirer. Their interest in
he present election, they say, is for good
;overnment, low taxes and a restored Union,
,nd not in claims on the Federal Treasury.
?hey do not want the money of the Nation,
tut its protection.
? Among all the disreputable devices of
his political campaign, that described by an
)hio correspondent of the Philadelphia Times
i justly pronounced by that paper one of the
roret. The correspondent states that men
re employed by Mr. Chandler to go %round
nd act the unreconstructed rebel, and talk
l public places about expecting the rebel
ebt and Southern claims to be paid in the
vent of Mr. Tilden's election.
? On Friday night last there was the grandst
political display in New York ever wit
essed in that city. Fully 60,000 were in
ine. The Democratic working men, regardus8
of local differences, were represented by
heir clubs. The procession commenced
loving at half past seven o'clock, and at one
'clock on Saturday morning Governor Tilen
was still in position in front of the Evertt
House reviewing the procession.
? A despatoh from Washington, totheCininnati
Enquirer, under date of the 26th ulimo,
says: "It is charged here that the War
)epartment has in its possession several re>orts
from General Ruger, the commanding
officer of the Department of the South who
9 now in South Carolina, which set forth that
here is no violence in the State, and that
lone is threatened, and that the use of so
arge a body of the army is not warranted by
he condition of affairs in the State. It is
Jso charged that these reports are deliberitely
suppressed upon the order of Mr. Camron.
MERE-MENTION.
Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, will be inauguraed
on the 12th of next January. Thos.
5 llis, paying teller of the National Park Bank,
>f New York, is a defaulter to the amount of
>66,000. He has been absent several days,
n/1 a fflmorr) nf 8,Fi ftOfl in offprfld for his ar
?uu M iWfl %mm ? x/? T?-,wvv
est. The Republicans of the Ninth
^ew York" District nominated General Danel
Sickles for Congress; but he peremptoily
declined. The Alabama Grange
State Fair opened at Montgomery on the 24th
rith a fine attendance and a splendid disilay.
In the municipal election of Baltioore
on the 25th, 43,000 votes were polled, with
, Democratio majority of about'6,000. The
'resident has issued his proclamation, appointng
the 30th of November as a day for thanksliving
and prayer. The complete offi;ial
returns of the Congressional vote in the
ecent Ohio election, give a Republican maority
of 4,299. In 1872 the Republican maority
was 14,300. The Republicans
concede" that New York will go for Tilden,
but claim that Hayes will be elected without
the aid of that State I As pthe day for
closing the great Centennial Exhibition ap- '
proachea, the attendance increases rather than
diminishes/'lj-'-Thfe report of the commissioner
of pensions shows 234,821 names on the I
rolls. The total amount paid for pensions
during the year was $28,451,599." "A woman
hasjugt got her fifth divorce in Chicago, ^
and still she isn't happy. The Continen- 1
tal Life Insurance Company, of New York,
having failed, a receiver has been appointed
on the petition of the stockholders Thir- (
teen thousand miners are thrown out of work
by the suspension of -a Pennsylvania coal
company. The English Artie Sea cruise
* ' ' ? mi_l ?- ? in I i
Das Deen nearu ironi. ine lciujjciomn, >? .
that region is from 59 to 104 degrees below
zero. The Polar Sea is never navigable. Ice
averages 80 feet in thickness. Animal life and
northerly migration birds .end south of Cape
Columbia. The explorers declare that it is impracticable
to reach the North Pole. Last
Saturday, three Methodist ministers, riding
their circuits, in Pope county, Arkansas, were
shot from an ambush by two illicit distillers
named Hughes and Halt. The preachers
were supposed to be reveiiue officers. One
preacher died in two hours, and the others are
dangerously, if not fatally wounded. There
was but one yellow fever interment in Savan- '
nah last Saturday.
The New York barbers are organizing to
resist a disposition of members of the craft
to open "five-cent shops." :At the War
Department in Washington, they call Senator
Patterson, of South Carolina, "Old-man- ]
afraid-to-go home.",,,,,v,,Qen. Thomas Jordan,
who during the war was Oen. Beauregard's
chief of staff, is now chief of the po
lice in Brooklyn, N. Y. An eccentric
gentleman has erected recently in the poorhouse
cemetery at Richmond, Va., a handsome
marble shaft bearing bis name. Blank
spaces are left for his age and death-day. ,
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For the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
CARD FROM CAPT. J. T. L0WRY.
Editor of the Enquirer:?On Saturday,
the 28th ultimo, my attention was called
to the remarks of A. S. Wallace, at a Republican
meeting, relative to the speech of Gen.
Hampton, in which I sustained Gen. Hampton
by answering his interrogatory, viz.: that
A. S. Wallace had introduced a bill in the
Legislature, in 1858, to sell free negroes into
slavery.
Mr. Wallace said that "Capt. Lowry not
being a member of the Legislature in 1858, is
not a competent witness."
I was not a member in 1858, bat came into
possession of the facts as to Mr. Wallace's ac??
-T Hftrlpsfnn Reed.
of Georgetown, for many years chairman of
the committee on the colored population. Mr.
Eeed furnished me with the original bill,
printed for the ubo of the members, and also
his scathing report on the same, which report
was sustained by members, all of whom were
large slave-holders. These papers were destroyed
in the conflagration of my residence,
and, therefore, I will not offer them as evidence
; but I think, if necessary, the original
papers can be produced.
I will proceed now to bring to light re- ,
cords in existence, to show Mr. Wallace's position
on a subject in which I feel no interest
| whatever, more than that truth shall not
I on/1 TTorlfc thfl nld adace that
Ol UUJ UQI auu vv WAiiij
lruth, like a torch, the more it is shook, the <
more it will shioe; though struck to earth,
she will rise again?the eternal years of
God's are hers." In ?be year 1858, Mr.
Wallace was a member of the grand jury at
Spring term, Hon. J. Belton O'Neal presiding
Judge. Mr. Wallace then introduced, advocated
and bad adopted, the following presentment
of the grand jury:
"The grand jury present the accumulation of
free negroes amongst us as a serious, and in many
respects, an alarming evil, begetting in our midst I
an idle and profligate people, whose worst influences
tend to the corruption of the slave popula
lion. The integrity of our institutions require,'
they think, that all free negroes be compelletHo
leave the State, or in default of this, to choose tneir
masters, and thus return to a manner of life bet- <
tersuited to their natures, and more conducive to
their permanent well-being, and contributing
more effectually to the common prosperity and
public safety. .
"While on this subject, the jury would also pre- 1
sent, as a growing evil, the practice of negroes (
hiring their own time. This ^vil they regard as
"* '* 11? 1 -1 ItifliiAnnna inm. ]
attended witn an me uBiewfiuun iiiiiuouw i..w
dent to the existence of a free negro popnlatlon ,
amongst us, and in many tespecta far more objectionable.
" j 1
I was not a membep of that grand jury, .
and according to Mr. Wallace's logic, would 1
not be a "competent wftnessbut would res- I
pectfully refer to tha following gentlemen !
who were members of:that grand jury, and 1
the only members of that jury now living, f
viz.: E. N. Davidson, R. E Gettys, Joseph
R. Howe, Dr. E. B. Feemster and William
McGill, Jr. There is only one of the abovenamed
gentlemen with whom I have had any (
recent conversation on the subject there presented,
and also at the time with the late C. j
D. Melton, then Solicitor of this Circuit, (
whose private and public life was and is with- ?
out reproach. The language of the above ,
presentment is C. D. Melton's; the matter is
Mr. Wallace's. The presiding Judge and
the Solicitor disagreed with the jury on this j,
question, and Major Melton afterwards said
he was unable to divine Mr. Wallace's motives.
I again refer to the Yorkville Enquirer,
of December 2, 1858, then edited by
Samuel W. Melton. Among the items of
business in the Legislature there published is
the following: ^
"A. S. Wallace introduced a bill to compel free
negroes toleave the State or choose their masters."
If Mr. Wallace desires more proof of his
action in this matter, he can have it, as there
are many, now living, who were members of ]
the Legislature at that time, and from whom j
the Journals can be obtained.
John T. Lowry. ]
The Boot on the Other Leg.?Judge
Mackey charged the grand jury of Lancaster
county, on Monday, that "neither lawlessness 1
nor insurrection existed in the Sixth Judicial
Circuit," but that complaint had been made
to him that armed bodies of men, having for
their object the intimidation of a certain class
of voters, were moving defiantly, and to the
terror of the people, through the county, and
that midnight meetings were being held, by
*f\ltvreA Rftnuh/icana. to the terror of the com
munities in which they are being held."
The grand jury, as directed, made careful
inquiry, and report that there has been no resistance
to .lawful authority in Lancaster
county, that peace exists and general safety is
secure. They declare that Governor Cham- {
berlain's proclamation is untrue, so far as it
applies to Lancaster oounty; that its tendency
is to intimidate the voters of the county,
and that the candidacy of Governor Chamberlain
is a misfortune to the . people, Inasmuch ;
as the grand jury can find no cause, other
than that candidacy,Jfor the issuing of his pro- {
clamation. They further report that they are
informed that, arms belonging to the State
have been distributed contrary to law, and are :
now in the possession of persons not entitled
to them.?Charleston Newt and Courier.
1 * * . '
I?" Thirteen more arrests of citizens were .
made last Friday in Aiken county. Col. A.
P. Butler and Frank Dunbar have both been
released on bail of $10,000 each.
LOCAL AFFAIRS, t
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CHURCH CALENDAR.
Services for 8nnday, November 6th, 1876. ^
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, a
Rev. L. H. Wilson, Pastor. o
Services at Yorkville at 10$ o'clock, a. m., and 7 j
o'clock, p. m. ^
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, tl
Rev. J. E. Carlisle, Pastor. p
Services at Ybrkville, at 10i o'clock a. m., and 7 .
o'clock, p. m. u
c
EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
Rev. R. P. Johnson, Pastor. 11
Services at Rock Hill, at 101 o'clock a. m., and 7 tl
o'clock, p. m. jj
ASSOCIATE REFORMED CHURCH.
? - - . 11
Rev. R. Lathan, fastor.
Services at Yorkville, at 104 o'clock, a. m., and 4 h
o'clock, p. m. c
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J
H. W. Hope <fc Co.?New Goods?Cassimeres? e
Hats?Boots and Shoes?Tobacco?ReadyMade
Clothing?Groceries. n
Hunter & Oates.?New Goods?Ready-Made n
Clothing?Hats Dress Goods?Boots and c
Shoes?Millinery Department?Hardware
and Crockery.
W, H. & J. P. Herndon.?Accounts?Guano Cot- fc
ton. ]j
H. F. Adickvs.?New Goods?For Gentlemen.
W. H. McCorkle.?Notice. Guano. c
E. G. Feemster, Executor.?Land at Auction. tl
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sale of Personal property. p
Ettenger & Edmond, Richmond. Va.?Manufac- ?
turers of Portable and Stationary Engines, *
Circular Saw Mills, Ac. 1;
Jefferys & Metts and other Business Houses?To e
The Public.
John J. Smith?Ground Coffee?Flour?Bran?
Baldwin Apples. n
Jas. F. Hart, Chairman County Executive Com- t
mittee.?Grand Procession in Yorkville. ^
RECRUITS* ARRIVED. o
The garrison at this post has been reinforced
by thirteen recruits, who arrived last week.
r
PROBATE SALES. p
We have been requested by Col. McLean, e
Judge of Probate for York county, to give o
notice that by the consent of the parties in &
interest, the sales of the real estate advertised ?
by him for the first Monday of November, j
will be postponed until the first Monday of
December.
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GRAND MASS MEETING. e
A grand mass meeting of the Democratic q
party of York county, is advertised to be held a
in Yorkville, on next Saturday, the 4th instant.
It is the intention to make this the Y
grandest demonstration yet had in the county, t
and every voter is requested, to attend. &
Speeches will be delivered by General Leach, 0
of North Carolina, and other distinguished t
speakers. ^
FAST* DAY. a
Fast day was appropriately observed in .
Yorkville last Thureday. Rev. R. P. John- a
son, Pastor of the Church of the Good t
Shepherd, delivered an able and impressive ^
sermon appropriate to the occasion, in the ?
forenoon, and in the afternoon the ladies de- f
voted themselves to prayer in the Associate n
Reformed Presbyterian Church?Rev. R. La- t
than, Pastor. a
HOME PRODUCT8.
Mr. J. S. McKenzie, of the Zeno neighbor- c
hood in this county, has presented us with a
a jug of sorghum of excellent quality?the 1
product of his farm. Mr. McKenzie has for 1
r - * . _ *?_ n
a number of years been engaged in me pro* Q
duction of sorghum, and the yield of bis farm p
this season will be more than one thousand *
gallons. a
Mr. Robert A. Black also recently presen- tl
ted us with a basket of very fine turnips.
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SUPERVISORS OF ELECTION. Sl
The following are the Democratic super- a
visors oT election'for York county. We have' n
been unable to secure the appointees on be- c
half of the Republican party: e
Yorkville?James E. Smitb ; Bethany? '
J. J. L. Gill; Boydton?Henderson Martin; Q
Bethel-W. E. Campbell; Clay Hill-D. D. t]
A.Watson; Coates*Tavern?A. M. Black; e
Fort Mill?J. M. White; McConnellsville? ti
R. E. GuthrieBlairsville?Jas. M. Hope; a
Pride's Old Mill?J. L. Moore; Rock Hill? 11
S. J.- C. Dunlap; Wylie's Store?John L. ?
Davies. r
SUSPENSION OF BU8INESS. fl
The merchants and business men of York- P
ville give notice in our advertising columns,
that in view of the importance of the ap- ?
1 ' ?1? .U?? mil nlnea fKflir ro. I
proacnmg eitxuuu, mcjr ** * uw? ...... ... 8|
spfective places of business at the usual hour w
of closing on Saturday evening next, and re- ti
main closed until the following Wednesday tl
morning. We learn that the merchants and
Dther business men of Rock Hill and Fort 0
Mill will pursue a similar course, and that T
business generally throughout the county will
be suspended for the period above named. 2
[ this struggle for honest government and n
borne rule, York will fall behind none of her ?
P
lister counties.
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SHOWER OF FLE8H. . n
The phenomenon of flesh falling from a d
sloudless sky, occurred in Qaston county, N. ^
0., last Saturday afternoon. The shower, if j
luch we may term it, fell in a cotton field be- 2;
longing to James Hannah, who lives near c,
Grastonia. The flesh?for such it certainly ic
is?fell for several minutes, descending some- d
what in the manner of hailstones falling, and 81
sprinkled a space of ground eqoal to a square ^
rod. Mr. Hannah, who saw the shower as it
m
fell, says it was perfectly clear at the time, ^
and that there was nothing unusual visible in T
the sky at the place of the singular occur- tl
rence. Mr. R. Frank Clark, of this place, C
returned from Gaston county, last Monday, ^
and brought a specimen of the flesh with him. *
A microscopic examination indicates that it ^
resembles the flesh of a cow, and a gentle- tl
4?" tio/l tka famaritv to tiltfl If
mail 111 lunu, ITUV U0U ?iv rv...v. ?J
it, says the taste is similar to that of beef. 01
MANAGERS OF ELECTION.
The following are the managers of election
Tor the several precincts in York county, as
Appointed by the Commissioners of Election. g|
It will be seen that at least one Democrat has f<
been appointed for each precinct: U
Bethany.?R. A. Hagans, J. Randolph g
Wallace, Henry Crawford. / '
Bethel? 8. D. Stowe, (-tteen Simril, Frank- *
lin Hogan. * ~~ , j
Blairmlle.^-8. L. Dhvidson, W. Z. Kell, |,j
Rgu_ben_N_aoct. / U
Boydton.?iVm. Howell, W. W. Gaffney, v
Levi Hardin. \ *(
Clay HiU.-W. B. Allison, Leroy R. Wil- V
Hams, Samuel G. Simril. ^
Coatee' Tavern.?R. L. Crook, D. T. Less- p
leyj Jesse Hamilton. p
?. - ?? * m ir ?! m n 1? 4*.
Jf ort MtlL?r. I. murray, x. v*. v^uip, mj. u
Lindsay.
Hickory Grove.?Morgan Dover, George
C. Leech, Peter Edwards.
McConnelUville.?E. N. Crawford, John D. a
McConnell, George Taylor. tl
Pride's Old MUL?R. L. McCants, Rufus ei
E. Sadler, Lewis Hiles. P
Rock HUL?Thomas Wood, T. C. Robert* r<
son, W. B. Watts. Jj
YorJcville.?J.- S. Lewis, J. D. Oolcock, tj
Jehn A. Newton. p
?wm?Cl
I?" The Philadelphia Times characterizes w
the president's South Carolina proclamation si
and the order of Secretary Cameron massing p>
troops in that State as acts of revolutionary, ti
madness, which it believes wilt alarm the tl
north and give Penc lylvania to iTilden. 1
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EDITORIAL I3KLI3GS*
irealar from Gen. Bayer.
General Ruger, who commands the
)epartment of the Sooth, with headquarters
t present at Columbia, has issued a circular ,
rder to commanding officers of poets, ..in
rhich he defines their duties under the circuir
of Attorney General Taft His view of '
lie matter of employing the military in a
eaceable State in a time of profound peace, *
i of unusual interest to the people of South ,
larolina at the present moment The comlanding
general, after reminding the officers
sat the orders are explicit and furnish all
istruction necessary for their guidance, says:
"You are expected to be prompt and firm
i the execution of your duties, tempered,
owever, with sound discretion and perfect
ttri i_ _ j;
onriesy. vvnenever oouiei ui irwj? ??
tationed in or rent for doty temporarily to
jcalities where disturbances are apprehendd,
they may and should exercise a strong inuence
in the interests of peace and order?
ot by offensively unduly meddling with loal
or political affairs, but by courteous, upight
and discreet conduct, inspiring all pares
with confidence in their desire tb protect
ives, property, and, so far as they legally
an, the right of all unoffending people whom
be civil authorities may fail to protect Impress
it upon the minds of your officers, when
ant on detached service, to let it be distinctjr
and decidedly understood that their influnc
and that of their commands is all on the
ide of good order and justice; that they are
ot there in the interest of any political parjr,
except so far as either may be benefited by
be enforcement of law in protecting the unSending
and restraining violence and disorer;
and instruct your officers that their acions
and premises will be expected to corresond.
In localities where disturbances of a
olitical nature are apprehended, undue or
xceesive intimacy with acknowledged leaders
f either party would almost inevitably lead
o the destruction of an officer's influenoe for
- - _ 1
eneral good for tne community, sua is,
herefore, to be avoided."
'roposed Constltotional Amendment.
Under the caption of "The Demoerats
Party and Education,", we last week printd
the following proposed amendment to the
Constitution, which is to be voted on at the
pproaohing election ; but lest it be not folly
inderotood by our readers, we republish it
rith the explanation that tbe provisions of
be proposed amendment are identically the
ame as tbe measure advocated by the Demcratic
party in regard to the manner of disributing
the public school funds. It is pro*
losed to distribute these fonds among the
everal school districts of the counties, in pro*
tortion to the respective number of pupils
ttending the public schools, the said funds
o be held in the respective county treasuries
or disbursement, instead of being sent to the
State Treasury, as has been the case hereto*
ore. The.resolution proposing the amendoent
passed the last Legislature by the aid of
be vote of the Democratic members; and is
s follows:
"Section 5. The Boards of County Comoissioners
of the several counties, shall levy
n annual tax of not less than two mills on
be dollar upon all the taxable property in
beir respective counties, which levies shall
iot be increased unless by special enactment
f the General Assembly, for the support of
lublic schools in tbeir respective counties,
rhich tax shall be collected at the same time
nd by the same officers as the other taxes for
he same year, and shall be held in the couny
treasuries of the respective counties, and
aid out exclusively for the support of public
chools as provided by law. There shall be
ssessed on taxable polls in the State an an
ualttax of one dolfarr on each.poll, the proeeda
of which tax shall be applied solely to
dacatiooal purposes: Provided, That do peron
shall ever be deprived of the right of
uffrage for the non-paymenfof said tax. No
ther poll or capitation tax shall be levied in
be State, nor shall the amount assessed on
ach poll exceed the limit given in this secion.
The school tax shall be distributed
opong the several school districts of the coonies,
in proportion to the respective nnmber
f pupils attending the public schools. No
eligious sect or sdcts shall have exclusive
i - l .1 v. 1
igbt to or control or any part 01 toe bcuuui
jnds of the State, nor shall sectarian principles
be taught in the public schools.
"That the question of adopting this amendlent
shall be submitted 'to the electors as
)llow8: Those in favor of the amendments
ball deposit a ballot with the following
rords written or printed tpereon r.'Constituonal
amendment?Yes.' /Those opposed to
be said amendments shall cast a ballot with
be following wordB written or printed theren:
'Constitutional amendment?No.'"
he Indian Campaign.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, dated the
4th ultimo, oonveys the latest intelligence
jceived from the frontier, and is as follows:
Gen. Crook being satisfied Red Cloud's and
led Leaf 8 bands of Sioux were about to deart
with a view of joining hostiles in the
orth, they having refused to comply with orers
to come into the agency and receive raons.
he. without awaiting the arrival of Gen.
[erritt's troops, determined upon disarming
lem, and at daylight on the morning of the
3d ultimo, General McKenzie, with eight
smpanies of the Fourth Cavalry, one battal>n
of which was commanded by Major Goron
and another by Capt. Mauck, successfully
irrounded these two bands, consisting of
iree hundred lodges, and captured bucks,
|uaws and ponies without firing a shot, and
lurched them into the agency, after having
een disarmed and dismounted. Spotted
ail, who has evinced unswerving loyalty to
le whites, was made head Chief and . Red
loud deposed. Spotted Tail and Little
found have promised to furnish Gen. Crook
ith all the warriors he may need to cooperate
ith him in the coming campaign, which will
e inaugurated at once. Gen. Crook feels
iat a great object has been attained in this
1st movement, and that we shall now know
nr enemies from our friends. 1
Prom the News and Courier. *
THE ELECTION MACHINERY IN S. C.
The State Board of Canvassers receive the
atements of the Commissioners of Eleotion
?p thn HAvaral counties, and "declare and de
jrmine what persons have been, bj the
reatest number of votes, duly elected." Tbe
loard of Canvassers "shall b&ve the power,
nd it is made their duty to decide all cases
nder protest or contest tnat may arise, when
ie power to do so does not, by the Constitnon,
reside in some other body." Four of
ie six members of the Board of State Canassera
are candidates, before the people,
)r election to public office. This is the - coqition
of affairs. The candidates are the
idges of the election "to determine and deide"
their own election. Nevertheless, the
rovisiona of the election laws are such, as to i
ut it out of the power of any Board to de aud
tbe Democracy of a hard-earned, victo- 1
r; provided^ that tbe Democratic Managers, i
lommissioners and Supervisors are v^gpapt ?
nd do their duty. .V 1
One of the 'Federal Supervisors of Election
t each voting precinct., will be a Democrat, i
ie law requiring that the two Supervisors at
ich precinct shall be of "different political i
arties." The Sapervisors are authorised and
vnnimJ ??n oKalUlDTA ftOf VDtfi Offered t>V I
ny person whose legal quaJificatioos" either of
lem "may doubt; to be and remain where
le ballot boxes are kept,*); all times after the
oils are open, until every Vote cast baa b$en
dud ted, the canvass of all .votes polled be
holly completed, and the proper and requite
certificates or returns be made, and "to
ersonally inspect and 8cratintce(fSrbmiime to
me, and at all times, on the day of election,
le manner in which the toting is dpne." i
hey are required to personalty scrutinize,
count and canvass each ballot cast in their
voting precinct, may take and occupy each
position as will best enable them, to see each
person offering to vote, end at the closing of
the polls are required to plaoe themselves in
Buch position as will enable them to fully per*
form their duties in respect to the work of
canvassing the ballots. They are also required
to make returns of all ballots cast, with
spy statement which should be made, in order
that the facts ma/ be known.' Their powers,
therefore, are ample to prevent ballot bos
stuffing, and, in a measure, they can, by challenging,,
prevent repeating. Their returns to
the Chief Supervisor are a check upon the re^
turns of the Managers at the voting precincts.
The Federal Supervisor and the Democratic
Manager at each precinct should certainly , be
able to prevent the packing of the ballot boxes
before the polls open, and the making of
fraudulent returns. Moreover, the Canvassing
of the vote is done in public, and begins
as soon as the polls close, and must be ootttinno/1
nitlinnt inform ntinil. Until the CUTBUU
finished.
The return* of the precinct manages*, go
to the Commissioners of Elections of the
county,"whose duty it is "to count the totes
"of the county, and make such statements
"thereof as the nature of the election shall
require" It is decided, we learn, that the
Commissioners merely aggregate the state- .
ments of the Managers, and do not odunt the
individual ballots. The returns then go to the
8tate Board of Managers, whera^ remembering
the conduct of the Louisiana Returning
Board, the Democracy apprehend the
most serious trouble. But the powers of
the State Board of Canvassers are not the
same as those "of" the~Lonlsi*na Jssisruing
Board, and there is no ground for fearing, in
South Carolina, such conduct as that which,
in Louisiana, keeps an nnsurping and defeated
candidate in office.
In the first place, the State Board of Canvassers
have the power to decide cases under
protest, only "when the power to do so does
"not, by the Constitution, reside in aotee othr- %'
"er body." The Constitution, (Art III, i
Sec. 4,) provides, that "contested elections for
"Governor shall be determined by the General
Assembly and this provision appHea-v
to the Lieutenant Governor, who (Art IIx,
Sec. 5,) "shall be chosen at the sam^mS^fe
"the soma manner." The Coortitotioiroio pro
(Art- II. See. 14.} that "each B&S
"shall judge of the election retonn^juod
"qualifications, of its own members." ?It. hi
incontestable, therefore, that the Board of
State Canvassers bave no power to decide any
protest or contest, in the case of Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, and members of the
General Assembly. Contested elwDtfon* for
Congress are determined exelosivjily. by the
House of Representatives. There remain the
State officers, other than Goveqm and Lien*
tenant Governor, and the Circuit and Coon- *
ty officers. And there is littld0<>ttbt tb?rt as
to these officers the powers Board are
merely ministerial. $
Governor (%amberlain, in his first message
to the General Assembly, said: "I call atr
"tention to the present uncertainty of the law ^
"in respect to the nature of the powers eon"ferred
on the Board of State Canvassers, and
"the want of any proviriotu to enable the Board
"to hear and determine ease* of,feonteded eteo*
"turn*. It is held by many persofis that the
"dowere of the Board are ydiot^minideriaL
"tf this be so, the requirement that the Boitiff
"shall decide all cases under protcsf, or eon"test,
that may arise, when the pow^' to'do
"bo doea not, by the Constitntion, l|side bi
"some other body, seems to be of littttifpree
"or value. In addition to thfrgtere iuwod
"of power, the law jnovides-noihode i^uihieh
"the Board may obtain testimony, so as afcgpa"ble
it to decide cases of contested eleodbns
"upon proper evidence, snd with jairnese to
"both partite" The General Assembly tob^c >
no action in the matter, and in his message-of
November 23,1375, Governor Cbamberlai#'
called attention ta the rsebl
made in his inaugural address, saying th!^
"different opinions respecting the powers of
"the Board (of 8tate Canvassers) prevail-,'
BUlUllg tUO (ficucui U1CU1UVIa vi tuw vymwn;-.
A few simple amendments of the present law,
he said, would "set at rest all doubts on this
"subject." The amendmeats were not made.
When no mode is provided, by law, to enable
a Board to decide cases of contested eleotions,
upon proper evidence, and with flumes*
to both parties, the safer coarse is not to decide
them at all. The opinion that the powers
of the Board are wholly ministerial finds confirmation
in the work of Cooley on "GonstitOtional
Limitations." In (bat work be says that
Election Boards, whether County, District or
State, "act, for the most part, ministerially
"only, and are not vested with judicial powers
"to correct the errors and mistakes that may
"have occurred with any officer who preceded
"them in the performance of any duty connected
with the election, or to pan upon any
"disputed fad vohiek may affect the rtiutL * * *
"If a District or State Board of Canvassers
"assumes to reject returns transmitted to H on
"other groundt than thoee Appearing upon it* ?
"face, * * * it is usurping functions,
"and its conduct will be reprehensible, if hoteven
criminal." - - - ^
Taking into consideration the ezchufon of
the Governor and Lieut-Governor add members
of the General Assembly from -the cases
of protest or contest that may be decided by
the Board, and the grave donbt whether the r
Board can lawfollyhear and determine *?ay
protests or contests, we feel that the DemoOia?cy
are in no serious danger of being "eoontfedt *.
oat" And they are in no danger whatever if,
from now until; election day, they So labor aa '
to secure a handsome majority Let a majority
of the votes cast be given to the Demo-"
cratic candidates, and they will takewtheir
seats I
OHLY OWE TICKET.
. There has been some doubt whether, at the
approaching election; Ae candidates for Elech'.
tors for President' and Vice-President;' tb'
South Carolina, should be voted for on * ticket
separate -from that containing* the names of
the candidates for Congress and State and
county offices. For example, the Commissi
od ere of Election in Spartanburg county give
notice that there will be three tictsts ?> one for
the Electors, one for State and county ?mcere,
and ona for the Constitutional Amendment in /}
relation' to the public schools. We aie, hoiK ..
ever, authorised by the Chairman of tbe43tat?
Executive Committee of the Democratic par*
ty, to say that Attorney-General Stone has ~
decided that there thaUbt but one ticket. This
is final. The names of the candidates for *
Electors, and for Congress and State and .
county officers and for, or against, the Constitutional
Amendment, will be offooe and the
same tioket Uponthe Constitutional Amend,
meet, regulating the school, tax and- its distri* .5
bution, the Dt unocratic party vote, Tee!
Correspondence of the Yorkvilie En^aircr.
LETTER PRO* CHESTER. , /ffl
The
glace^ on fartBfoodayf The failure ofChamsatisfaction
an long the negrom Some, whb
an c^u n<^
i?nt^OT Lfto^p^^ro. ??L th^iilm
is good reason for the amertion that the meet*
ing was not effectual in promoting the Republican
cause.
The extriojrdinnry conduct of the negro
women, during the march of the proeeniong
ban beep jthe subject- of contiderable com*
menL Their words and actions upon the occasion
are to be attributed either to their
want of sense, or their animosity for the j
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