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YORKVILLE. S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30. 1880.
THE MEETING LAST MONDAY.
The meeting last Monday was not so largely
attended as no doubt the State canvassers had
a right to expect, considering the reception
they have met with in most of the counties in
which they have spoken. The small attendance,
however, is not attributable to apathy
on the part of the Democracy of York county,
nor a want of proper appreciation of the distin
guished speakers who were here on Monday.
The farmers are now in the midst of the busy
season, when every hour demands their attention
on their farms, and in addition to this they
have just emerged from a primary canvass to
which their time and attention were more or
less drawn. Just on the eve of the centennial
celebration at King's Mountain, too, to which
nearly everybody in the county will devote
next week, and in the absence of any engrossing
or exciting political questions, it is not
surprising that the attendance was no larger.
Gen. Hagood, the distinguished and patriotic
standard-bearer of the Democratic party in
South Carolina, may rest assured that if the
l>eople of York did not meet him en masse
on Monday, they will not forget him and
the principles he upholds at the ballot-box on
the 2nd of November next.
At 11 o'clock the horsemen who had assembled,
dressed in the typical red shirt, and preceded
by the Yorkville Cornet Band, marched
through the streets under direction of Mr. "VV.
X. Elder and Capt. E. A. Crawford, who acted
as Marshals of the day. Arriving in front of
the Court House, the procession moved into the
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after prayer by Itev. K. F. Taylor,
I. D. WITIIERSPOON, ESQ.,
County Chairman, briefly addressed the meeting,
expressing his regret at the small attentendanee,
which he said was due to peculiar
causes, among them the fact that for months
past our people have been making preparations
for the centennial celebration at King's Mountain,
which was intended to be on a grand
scale, and as their time had been occupied in
efforts to make that enterprise a success, to
which they would devote four days of next
week, it was not surprising, though a fact to be
regretted, that so few were present. lie then
introduced the Democratic nominee for Governor,
GEN". JOHNSON IIAGOOD.
Gen. llagood said he addressed his fellowcitizens
of York as the Democratic nominee
for the otlice of Governor. Having been connected
with the State Government since the
Democratic party had obtained control in
1870, he felt that the people had a right to demand
of him, as was their right to do of all
public officials, at stated times, an account of
his stewardship as their public servant.
Four years ago, the white people of South
Carolina, akled by a few thousand colored allies,
reobtained possession of their own State
irAXJornmnnf un/1 have hol/l it PVPr Qinpp Thftif
administration of its affairs is before the people,
and while, in Convention during the past
summer, the Republican party did not demand
that the Government should be restored to
them, nor could they bring charges of corruption
or dishonesty, it is evident that they are
not idle, though in most of the counties they
have shown no signs of prosecuting a State
canvass during the present campaign. In the
Congressional Districts they have candidates
for Congress, and will have in the field an electoral
ticket for President, and while making no
further demonstration at present, it may prove
deep and profound strategy ; or the reason
why they made no State nominations may be
because they could not agree in the Convention.
Though they failed to make nominatiions,
he had no doubt but the matter had
been left in the hands of the Executive Committee,
who will quickly enough agree upon a
ticket, if from any cause they should see a
chance of success. The perfect organization
maintained by that partjr in the past is but
too well known to all. Their party discipline
is as good to-day as it has been in the past,
and the rank and file will vote the printed
ticket furnished if it reaches them but four
days, or one day before the election. They
may not be fully organized to-day, for a State
canvass, but as they have a Presidential ticket
in the held, and will probably vote cheir
full strength, should a State ticket be furnished
them, while we are at home harvesting our
crops, neglecting to give the matter that attention
its importance deserves, the names
thus put on the Republican ticket may be our
officers for the next two years. Are you willing,
by supiness and apathy, to run the risk
of again incurring the evils from which you
escaped only four years ago ? I fully appreciate
all that the chairman has said in regard
to the approaching centennial and the harvesting
of the crops. There is 110 section of the
State more industrious or prosperous than
York county; but there is another reason
why the i>eople of this noble county should
take deep interest in the approaching election,
and that is to secure the election, of the Democratic
nominee for President. For the prosj>erity
of the State, the success of the Presidential
ticket is as essential as the success of the
State ticket. In our own State during the days
of Radicalism we learned by sad experience the
importance of Home Rule, and what the blessings
of that rule are to the State, so would be
the success of the National Democratic party to
the entire jjeople of the South. We are now
trying to retain Home State rule. On that
turns the interest of the National campaign.
So long as the Republican party control the
National Government, we of South Carolina
are on the skirmish line
Gen. Ilagood then briefly reviewed the administration
of the State government since the
accession of the Democratic party, and contrasted
Democratic economy with Radical extravagance
and corruption. lie claimed that
if the money squandered by the rioting of these
prodigals and brigands were now in the treasury,
under the present economic expenditure
of public money, it would be sufficient to meet
the excuses of the State government for four
years, without the necessity of levying a cent
of taxation. He explained that wherein some
portions of the State levy seem in excess of the
levy for State purposes before the war, is
the fact that now a State levy is made for the
expenses of penitentiary convicts, who, previous
to the establishment of that institution,
were supported in the county jails by county
taxation. While in the end the expense is 110
greater, yet this item alone increases the State
levy, though it comes off the county levy. The
convicts in the penitentiary render necessary
a State levy averaging $650 to each county.
The inmates of the State charitable institutions
are now mainly supported by public tax
ation. In 1858 there were but few white inmatesof
these institutions who were 011 charity,
while all the colored inmates were paid for by
their owners. Now all colored inmates, and
nearly all the white are a tax to the State.
The school fund, too, had increased taxation.
J>ut for this increase the Democratic party
has 110 ai>ology to make; the people by their
own votes are responsible, and not the Demo-1
cratic party as a party. From this latter expenditure
however he felt sure the people
would reap an abundant harvest.
He claimed that under Democratic rule the
colored people of the State have been deprived
of none of their rights under the law. They j
sit where they please 011 the railroad trains ;
they sit where they please at public entertainments
; they occupy the jury box ; they have the
right to become candidates for any office ; and
in nowise have their privileges been restricted
by Democratic rule.
'GEN*. J. I). KENNEDY,
the Democratic candidate for LieutenantGovernor,
was next introduced. "While he regret
ted that the j>eople of York county were
not present in the full strength of the Democratic
party of the county, to show to the
State that they are alive to the vital interest
of a continuation of home government and the
success of the National Democratic party, he
knew they are right in sentiment. He had
visited York 011 previous occasions, and knew
the enthusiasm of the people, and under the
circumstances, he took pleasure in extenuating
the absence of the j>eople 011 this occasion.
He spoke at length of the free common,
school system of the State, the manner in J
which it is conducted, the benefits already de-;
rived from it, and the blessing which under an j
honest government, it will prove to the people
of the State. He advocated the system, re- [
minding his heare rs that ignorance and free:
suffrage cannot go hand in hand, and that education?the
enlightenment of the masses?is
the cheapest defence of nations. It is therefore
to the interest of the Democratic party of !
the State to make all intelligent. With the |
population we have, excepting the few thou-1
sand colored people voting with the whites, !
no people have ever had an experience similar
to our own. 2sTo other than the Democratic
party, representing the property and intelligence
of the country, can control the interest
of the State as we have done. Situated as we
are to-day, we are the custodians of the interests
of the State. In the present condition of
affairs, he thought it would really be best if
we had but one party; though as opposite
parties are necessary for the good of government,
twenty-five or thirty years hence, when
all the people shall have been educated to a
proper understanding of the duties and obligations
of citizens, then would be time enough
for contending political parties in our State.
But even as at present constituted, there
are two dangers we must avoid, the first of
ivhiph i? r*?r<arm:il nmliitinn. The will of the
party, as expressed.in your primary elections,
must l>e the will of the Democracy of the
county. No one has a right to seek to divide
the Democracy of York county. The only
hope of the Radicals is in the disintegration
of the Democratic party. To this effect Elliott
expressed himself in the last Republican
State Convention. "We have nothing to fear
if we are true to ourselves and remain united.
A favorite game with the Radicals is the
'possum policy. lie had reason to believe
that A. S. Wallace is now trying that game in
York, and he warned his hearers to be on the
alert, and not only watch the movements of
the open enemy, but to frown down Independentism,
no matter in what guise it may be
presented.
He then discussed the issues pending in the
National campaign, taking the ground that
the South can never regain her former prosperity
until the National Democratic party
come into power. He reviewed Garfield's
I>olitical record, and eulogized Hancock, in
the nomination of whom is the highest triumph
of the Southern Democracy, by which
they have shown their ready acceptance of the
Federal soldier and National statesman?a
man who represents a conscientious duty on
the part of a Northern soldier. His military
orders show his conservatism, and being a
high-minded, chivalric man, the people of the
South will rally to his support, thereby proving
that they earnestly desire a union of hearts
as well a union of hands.
The first Democratic gun has been heard in
Maine, and its reverberation will sound from
the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Hancock
surely will be elected, and when that auspicious
event occurs, a hallelujah of joy will go
up from all the land. Then a Union, firm and
true, will once more bless the people of this
country.
To the people of York he would say, maintain
your Democratic principles in all the
purity of the typical ltose your name represents,
and in the shadow of that Mountain renew
your determination to continue Home
Rule and honest Democratic Government.
The chairman then introduced
COL. it. M. SIMS,
Democratic nominee for the office of Secretary
of State. He was happy to meet his friends of
York. It had long been a sober thought with
him, and one which no doubt his friends had
indulged, that political strife would cease in
our State, and all classes of people would view
questions of public interest alike. But either
fortunately or unfortunately, such time has
not, yet arrived, and until it does come, it will
be necessary for us to meet and discuss the
questions arising for the interests of the people.
The main issue now is bad versus good government?the
broad question whether we will
strive to maintain a strict administration of
the laws, or revert to the rule of Radicalism.
We are laboring to-day for a continuation of
Democratic rule. Fortunately, there does not
exist at this time, that party feeling necessary
to excite our fears of danger; but how soon
the Republicans may show their strength we
do not know. It is necessary to maintain our
party organization, and vote our full strength,
and to be ever ready for the attack of the wily
foe.
The record of the Democratic party for four
years is before you. We api>eal to you whether
or not the promises made in the campaign
?>n/l mutiirml i?> 1i27v2 tiQxrn Imun faith.
KJL 1U I \J CU1U 1 UU lit lUK'^ llUTV wvn
fully kept. The laws have been faithfully administered.
The school system has been fostered
and encouraged. The public debt has
been satisfactorily adjusted. We have demonstrated
to the country that we could administer
the government of the State honestly
and with fairness. and impartiality to all
classes of people within her borders, and yet
this fact is not recognized by the officials at
Washington. They are still striving to breed
contentions and antagonism beween the people
of our section.
Four years of peace and quiet have passed
within our State, and if the colored man is
not now convinced of the honesty and sincerity
of the Democratic party, no words of the
speaker could convince him. But, he said, it
Is not so much the fault of the colored people
as the hate and greed for office of their white
leaders, who, for their own aggrandizement,
deceive them. They hoi>e to regain and retain
political power by engendering hate and appealing
to the passions of the colored race.
He then reviewed national questions growing
out of the late civil war, warning his
hearers that the tendency of the Republican
party is towards centralization, and that it
must be defeated by the success of the National
Democratic party on the 2nd day of
November next.
IION. JOHN 11. EVINS,
the Democratic nominee for reelection to Congress
from this District, was next introduced,
lie said that it is always with great pleasure
that he meets the people of York, and on
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thanks for the confidence they reposed in him,
and the endorsement they had so recently
given him.
He then discussed questions arising since
the late war, and reviewed the administrations
of Grant, who, placed in power by Republican
votes, had given the people of this country
more cause for protest than did the acts of
George III. lie traced the policy of the Republican
party down to their effort to nominate
Grant for a third term, and the culminating
act of nominating for President, Garfield,
a man who, by a Republican investigating committee,
headed by a Republican chairman,
stands to-day morally convicted of acts rendering
him unfit to be entrusted with the
high duties of the Presidential office. Not
alone his peculations and connection with
jobs, bribes and frauds, render him unfit for
this position, but he openly boasted that Hamilton's
doctrine of electing a President for life
are growing in this country, at which he rejoiced.
This alone, if nothing else, should
unfit him for the Chief Magistracy of a Republican
Government. He then reviewed at
length the political record of Garfield, reminding
his hearers that the charges brought against
him did not originate with the Democratic
party, but were brought out by his own politi
cal associates.
Recurring to matters of a more local nature,
he said he had heard that it is contemplated to
run a Republican ticket in York county. Such
a thing may, no doubt, be done, and he further
l?elieved that at the last moment the manipu|
lators of the Republican party will put out a
State ticket.
| They have recently held a Congressional
I Convention in Chester, and nominated for
I Congress Mr. Blythe, of Greenville. Col.
i Evins said he knew Mr. Blythe. He has been
known as one of those denominated decent
J Radicals. He knew nothing against his private
character; but is not the connection of
i a man with that party suthcient to condemn
j him V He comes as the representative of a
party of thieves and robbers of South Caroj
lina, and not or >y as such representative, but j
he also asks yoi to vote for Gartield ! He re-1
gretted that an} white man in South Carolina, I
having any clai.is to decency, should ask the!
honest people of the State to vote for such a !
I man. True, the Republican prospect in this j
State is not a promising one; but they hope |
I to succeed through the National Government, !
and secure a few more years of good stealing, j
He said we cannot expect to have prosperi- j
ty in South Carolina until we obtain Demo- j
cratjc rule at the National Capital; while a .
restoration of Republican rule in this State
would renew a train of calamities more serious
than any with which we have heretofore
been afflicted.
He desired to say, in conclusion, that grand
parades and display at political meetings are
very good in their way, but what will win in
the tight is individual effort. It then liehooves j
us all to be wide awake. The most serious
fear he entertained is apathy on the part of the \
jteople. lie had understood that A. S. Wallace
has pledged York to the Republicans,
and that he boasts that he can give the county
to any party. He warned his hearers against
the specious promises of this cunning Republican
leader, and hoped there would be no dissensions
in the party. He closed by humorously
alluding to the efforts, in some sections,
of the Greenback party, and reminded Democrats
that we are all Greenbackers to the
extent of wanting all we can get, and that
they can consistently vote the Democratic
ticket and maintain as strong Greenback
principles as are preached by any apostle of
that political creed.
COL. CAD. JONES,
Democratic Presidential Elector for this district,
was then introduced. He said he would
have been proud to have met a larger crowd,
but knowing the people of York county as
well as he does, he felt assured that on the
day of the election they would turn out to the
last man and sustain the Electoral. State and
County tickets.
After a complimentary allusion to Col.
Evins, and an eulogium of the distinguished
men on the State ticket, he announced that
he would address his hearers as an Elector on
the Hancock ticket. He then contrasted the
public characters of Hancock and Garfield,
the one as a conservative, magnanimous patriot;
the other as the truckling, sycophantic
politician.
^ 4 - - - - THE
NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
From nil accounts, the Democratic meeting
in .New York on tlie night or ine zoro iusihih
was a brilliant success. Union Square and
the adjoining streets were crowded and brilliantly
illuminated in honor of the occasion.
The Hon. August Belmont was chosen chairman.
Senator Bayard was received with
prolonged cheering, and addressed the meeting
at great length. Sbnator Hill, of Georgia,
followed, and the Hon. T. J. Mackey, of
South Carolina, Congressman McLane, of
Maryland, Gen. Dan. Sickles and the Hon.
Dan. Dougherty of Pennsylvania, also made
speeches. A series of resolutions was unanimously
adopted. Letters of regret were
read from Gen. Hancock, Samuel J. Til
den, Charles Francis Adams, Gen. McClellan,
H. M. Plaisted, of Maine, aud others.
A large crowd assembled at Irving Hall
and was addressed by a number of distinguished
speakers. Addresses were also made from
stands on 14th, 15th and 16th streets, and at
the entrance to Tammany Hall. The latter
building was jammed, and the street?, through
which an almost eudless procession moved,
were alive with people.
At the 17tli street meeting Augustus Schell
presided. Among the speakers at this meeting
was Senator Wade Hampton, a report of
whose speech we publish in another column.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? In consequence of the scarcity of eggs in
Charleston, they were in demand there last
week at sixty cents a dozen.
? At the recent terra of the Circuit Court
for Lexington county, there was not a single
criminal case for trial.
? During a recent thunder storm near
Bennettsville, a stroke of lightning killed
ten hogs which were confined in a pen.
? On Friday last, Col. Lipscomb, superintendent
of the Penitentiary, sold another installment
of twelve bales of cotton, raised by
convict lubor alone.
? Neill Blair, of Camden, who was to have
been hanged on the. 8th of October, has been
respited by the Governor until the 19th of
November. This is his fifth respite.
? Capt. 0. Barber, of Chester, has recently
been North to purchase the machinery for
erecting a Clement Attachment at his Cedar
Shoals Mill.
? The Radicals of Greenville will hold a
County Convention on the 9th of October, at
which time they propose to nominate a full
ticket for county officers.
? The sixth annual Fair of the Union
County Agricultural and Mechanical Society,
will be held at the Fair Grounds at Union
Court House, Tuesday, the 26th of October
next aud the twe following days.
? The Town Council of Spartanburg has
passed an ordinance by which every drummer
or soliciting agent for any person or partnership
residing within the limits of that town,
is taxed $75. Foreign drummers may still
solicit without license.
fn*rv A.liimVoo Pfl/u'j/** aP Tkurorlor lncf
1 IIU VVMUUiUia JLfrOt/lOtC# Ul AIIUIOMWJT 1HW?
says: "Information obtained last night from
a reliable source, which there is no occasion
to divulge, says that the Radicals already have
their State ticket made out, and that they
will spring it upon the people at the eleventh
hour, and that every supporter of the party
is already apprised of the names of the men
who they are to vote for."
? In Columbia, nearly every uight, the Republicans
are holding meetings in various
parts of the city, which are inaccessible to
any save undoubted members of the party.
The meetings are made up almost wholly of
negroes. All their proceedings have not
transpired, but enough is known to lead to
the conclusion that throughout the State,
where there is the least chance of success,
tickets will be put in the field.
? Col. Butler, the commissioner of agriculture,
is receiving the most gratifying reports
from different parts of the State, regarding
the growth and adaptability to our waters of
the carp distributed by him last year. As
an experiment Col. Butler planted in the
miniature lake of the Statehouse grounds,
last November, a few young fish not over two
inches long, and upon examination a few
days ago they were found to have attained
the length of ten or twelve inches. This is
remarkably rapid growth, but it has been
surpassed in other portions of the State,
some of the fish now weighing one and a
half pouuds. From this encouraging exhibit
of the capacity of the fish to thrive in
stagnant waters, the commissioner is confirmed
in his opinion of its value, and is now
preparing a part of the lake for breeding
purposes.
? The Charleston Neivt and Courier of
Saturday, iu regard to the doings of the Radical
party in Charleston, says: "In response
to the call for a Garfield and Arthur meeting,
a promiscuous crowd of colored men and
boys, sprinkled with a few whites, and numbering
in all about one hundred and fifty, as
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sembled last night at the Republican headquarters
iu Hayne street. It was a quiet,!
undemonstrative, unenthusiastic crowd. The
meeting was presided over by Thomas Aiken,)
and John Freeman furnished music for the
entertainment, in the shape of a Garfield
campaign song. When Freeman had finish-1
ed his little song, the brighter lights nothav-J
ing yet put in an appearance, it was intimated
that Freeman was likewise expected to
speak for the edification of the crowd. This
he forthwith proceeded to do. He was listened
to very quietly until he made the announcement
that the National committee was
considering the feasibility of furnishing funds
for the campaign in South Carolina. This
announcement produced an instantaneous effect,
and was greeted with enthusiastic applause.
W. R. Marshall, Purvis, Taft and
others followed, advising support of the National
ticket and the nomination of a full
county ticket. The face of Isaac Rivers, the
sometime Democratic orator, smiling recognition
all over the hall, was among the attrac
tions of the entertainment." I
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X. OCAll AFFAIRS. |
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Application for Charter.
M. Strauss?Have you Seen ?
J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?J. L. ,
Daries, Applicant?Amos Rhea, deceased.
Mrs. W. B. Smith and A. B. Bigger?Land for
Sale.
J. N. Roberts?Fresh Meats.
Miss Louise Clarke?Southern Elocutionist.
J. C. McAfee, Sec. Chester A. H. and M. Associa- j
tion?Restaurant, Ac., To Let.
C. M. McJunkin, Columbia?Weekly Palmetto
Yeoman.
Latimer A Hemphill?Extraordinary Display.
J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?J. F.
Wallace, C. C. C. Pleas, Applicant?Joshua
Holmes, deceased.
James Scogains, Chairman?Annual Meeting.
J. M. Adams?Excelsior Cook?Writing PaperWrapping
Paper?Strainers.
J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?Susan
Bookout, Applicant?M. D. Bookout, deceased.
Adickes A Colcock?New Goods?Guano.
H. F. Adickes, Jr.?Our Stock of Fall Goods.
J. J. Smith A Co.?Dry Goods.
Withers Adickes?New Arrivals.
Whitnker A Wilson?Robinson's Circus.
OCR NEXT ISSCE.
In order to afford the printers in our office
sin opportunity to attend the centennial celebration,
the Enquirer for next week will be
printed on Tuesday. Persons having adver
using ravorswiu pieasenauu mem m uui i<u,ei
than .Saturday next.
personal* mention.
We were pleased to receive calls last Monday
from Mr. J. II. Hemphill, of the Neics and
Courier staff, and Col. Dogan, of the Columbia
Register, who are traveling with the State
canvassers and doing up the meetings.
our prize drawing.
Our prize drawing will take place 011 Saturday
morning next, commencing at 10 o'clock.
The name of every subscriber who has paid
one year's subscription, since the 15th of last
October, will have an equal chance for a prize.
Any subscriber can be present who desires to
do so, but it is not at all necessary, as the
drawing will lie conducted by disinterested
jiersons. The result of the drawing will be
announced in our next issue.
u. s. district court.
The United States District Court held in
Greenville, Judge ifr yan presiding, adjourned
on Thursday last, after a session of twentytwo
days. Before adjournment the grand and
petit jurors for the August term, 1881, were
drawn. In the list of jurors we find the following
names:
Grand Jurors?A. Williford, Winnsboro;
Peter Agurs, Chester; Jas. L. Strain, Union;
Iredell Jones, Thomas K. Mickle, E. A.
Bridges, York.
Petit Jurors?Russel Hope, Reuben Nance,
Thomas Grier, Nelson Davies, York county.
mr. tremaine's sun pictures.
Our people have been delighted for the past
art uThiKitinn antitlpd a
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journey from New York to Jerusalem, illustrating
all the points of interest along the
route. We have attended the entertainment
several nights and can heartily endorse every
word of encomium which we have previously
read of it in our exchanges- It is really a
meritorious exhibition, in which the interest
of the visitor increases each night as the
course progresses. Wherever Mr. Tremaine
exhibits, we advise all who can to avail themselves
of the pleasure and instruction he has
in store for them.
CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY.
Services will be held in the churches next
Sunday as follows:
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10. JO A. M.
Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdItev.
R. P. Johnson, Rector. The Rector will
officiate at the Church of Our Saviour, Rock
Hill, next Sunday.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at the usual hours, morning and
evening.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert,
Pastor. The Pastor will preach at Yorkville
in the morning and at night ; and at Philadelphia
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Baptist.?Rev. J. H. Booth, Missionary.
Sendees at 11 o'clock, A. M.
MONOI.nCUE ENTERTAINMENT.
Miss Louise Clarke, the accomplished elocutionist,
will give an entertainment in the
Court House to-morrow evening. Miss Clarke
comes highly recommended as a Southern lady,
and her family and associations are among
the best in the country. She was a pupil of
Edwin Booth, the eminent tragedian, and
studied the art of elocution under his direction.
She has appeared with wonderful success
in the most difficult characters of many
of the leading plays, eliciting the most favorable
criticism. Of her power as an elocutionist,
the Atlanta Constitution says :
"She is i>erfect mistress of the beautiful art
of elocution, and is the finest reader who has
ever visited Atlanta. "VVe have seen her hold
an audience for two hours. She has a beautiful,
finely cultivated voice, and is a graceful,
spirited actress ; and better than all, she is a
modest, refined, cultivated, high-born Southern
woman, and has won the inspect, esteem
and admiration of all who have met her. Her
voice is musical and strong, her articulation
clear and distinct, and her gesticulation easy
and graceful."
CENTENNIAL NOTES.
? Wilmington, N. C., contributed $124.50
in behalf of the centennial celebration.
? Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was unable to
accept the invitation to conduct the sham
battle, and hence the selection of Gen. Hunt,
of the United States Array.
? The Catawba Rifles, of Rock Hill, will
attend the celebration in a body. Business
will be virtually suspended in that town during
the days of the celebration.
? Thfi Raleich DaDers tell us that Gov.
- ? 0? 4 4
Jarvis recently received a letter asking for a
State flag to be used at King's Mountain.
Strange to say, North Carolina has not a
single State flag in its possession.
? The monument is completed and on
Tuesday last was formally received from Mr.
McNinch, the contractor, by Messrs. A. E.
Hutchison, F. Happerfield and Dr. J. M.
Miller, of the monument committee.
? Gen. Hunt, commanding the post at Atlanta,
has tendered the service of the post
band, and they have been accepted ; so that
fine music may be expected during every day
of the celebration.
? In reply to the committee on invitations,
Gen. Hancock regrets bis inability to attend
.l i-i ? tt <iT thaf T i
me ceieuruiiuu. ue any a . j. mm, * >
cannot be present on that occasion to share
with my fellow-citizens the lessons of wisdom
and patriotism that can not fail to emanate
from such a source."
? The Hornets' Nest Riflemen of Charlotte,
have decided to attend the King's Mountain
centennial. They have been honored by receiving
from the chaiwnan of the committee
on military the appointment of special escort
to a young lady of that city who has
been selected to unveil the monument.
? F. P. Matz, professor of mathematics in
King's Mountain High School, writes us: |
"Different opinions are held as to the day of j
the week on which the battle of King's Mountain
was fought. By formulae of higher as-'
tronomy, I find that October 7, 1780, (the j
day of the battle,) occurred on Saturday. I
Hence the battle of King's Mountain was'
fought on Saturday, or the last day of the
week."
? The Greenville New publishes the follow-!
ing list of subscriptions to the Centeunial Association
fund, reported at the last meeting,
held on the 21st of September: York county,
8779.75; Spartanburg, 8128.50; Greenville,
8125.00 ; Charleston, 8250.00; Charlotte, 885,
King's Mountain, 8231.00; Uuion, 830.50;
by the Legislature of North Carolina, 81,000 ; I
total, 82,629.75. South Carolina has also j
subscribed $1,000, but which is yet not available.
? The railroad lines in North Carolina
have agreed to transport the military companies
that attend the celebration at two
cents per mile, round trip. Adjutant General
Jones has issued a circular in which he
says: "At the rate of two cents per mile, and
at this season of the year, it is impracticable
to assemble the State Guard in force at
King's Mountain. The proposed encampment
must, therefore, be abandoned; and
tents cannot be furnished by the State. Companies
that attend must go upon their own
responsibility, as individual organizations.
It is out of the power of the State authorities,
under existing circumstances, to afford them
uooiofannn "
? Capt. Bell, of the committee of arrangements,
gives notice that the place of debarkation
on the Air-Line Railroad is a way station
called "Weaver's," five miles west of the
village of King's Mouutain and four miles
from the battle-6eld where the celebration is
to be held. Hacks, omnibuses, wagons, etc.,
will be in waiting at Weaver's upon the arrival
of every train, to trausport passengers
to the battle field. Rates from 50 cents to
one dollar, according to conveyance, for
round trip. The local committee on transportation
have engaged all the hacks and omuibuses
they could get from Charlotte, Chester,
Newton, Spartanburg, Hendersonville, Greenville
and Asheville, and it is thought the supply
of teams will be ample.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Colored People's State Fair opened
iu Raleigh last Monday. Fred Doug'uss is
the orator for the occasion.
? On Wednesday of last week an unknown
man was f'ouud dead four miles north of
Shelby.
? William Parker, a white man, and a ne
gro, name unknown, have been arrested on
suspicion of being the assassins of General
Bryan Grimes. They are confined iu Washington
jail, Beaufort county.
? W. W. Pegram, of Charlotte, has sued
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
for failure to furnish cars and engine
for two excursions which the road agreed to
let him have. He received $775 in one case
and the other was not tried, owing to some
technical informality in the papers.
? Tarboro' has a colored woman who was
raised as a boy ; does not recollect when she
began to wear male clothing; still dresses
and acts like a man ; does a nun's work, and
bears a man's name. She has an aversion to
being with women or doing their kind of
work, and says she would go to the penitentiary
before she would wear a bonnet. She
is a mother, but not at all motherly, and her
child calls her papa.
? The Charlotte Observer of Tuesday contains
a long and thrilling account of the
pranks of a mad elephant belonging to Robinson's
Circus, which arrived in that city on
Monday night about 8 o'clock. The elephant
exhibited signs of auger immediately on the
arrival of the train, around which a large
crowd was standing, and his keeper, John
King, warned those who were gazing at the
infuriated animal that they .were in danger.
Immediately after giving this warning to the
bystanders, he stepped around to the elephant's
head, and was in the act of turning
him around, when the enraged beast turned
against his keeper and crushed him against a
car. The keeper received a severe wound in
the head from which he died three hours
Inter. The ehphant, after the fatal attack
mam U?n I? aa nl n k^iolr rvo/tA nn
upuu 1119 IVCCjlCI | ObUI bc\l Ub U U1 IOI> |/avo lip
the railroad track, and was recaptured with
great difficulty.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, S. C., September 27.?About
800 or 900 bales of cottou were sold here last
week. The highest price obtained was 10L
On Friday last, the Republican Congressional
Convention for this district was held in
this place. C. C. Macoy presided, and Charles
Cummins was secretary. Absolora Blythe,
of Greenville, received the nomination. He
wat present, and addressed the convention in
a speech accepting the nomination. He
was followed by B. G. Cannon, of Union ;
ex-Congressman A. S. Wallace, of York;
Wilson Cook, of Greenville; F. A. Clinton,
of Lancaster ; and Martin Clinton of York.
The general tenor of their speeches was
that the Democrats obtained power by
stuffing the ballot-box. They declined to
permit the Democratic speakers to reply. At
the close of the meeting, the chairman announced
that full Republican tickets would
be placed in the field before the election in
November.
On Friday night, the Chester Democratic
Club held a meeting in the Court House.
Republicans were invited to join iu the discussion,
but there was no response.
On Saturday the different Democratic
Clubs of the county formed in procession aud
marched to Mrs. Wood's grove to hear addresses
by the State canvassers. Music was
furnished for the occasion by the Chester Silver
Cornet Band, the Sandy River Cornet
Band and the Colored Democratic Band, of
this place. Col. E. T. Atkinson, County
Chairman, introduced the following gentlemen,
who made stirring and patriotic addresses
: Gen. Hagood, Gen. Kennedy, Gen. James
Connor, Col. Cad. Jones, and Col. J. H.
Evins. The stand was handsomely docorated
by the ladies, a large number of whom attended
the meeting.
Late in the day a disturbance arose on the
streets, which came near being a very serious
affair. A colored Democrat was assaulted
by a colored Republican. The offender was
arrested, aud sentenced to work twenty days
on the public streets.
Mr. John Ragsdale, who had lingered for
a long time with cancer, died on Friday night,
and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery on
Saturday. Rev. J. P. Marion conducted the
funeral services.
The primary election for this county was
held on the 22nd. The following gentlemen
received nominations for the offices named:
Legislature?J. J. Hemphill, J. B. Corn well,
0. Barber. Couuty Commissioners?<1. U.
Darby, VV. B. Thompson. Sheriff?J. VV.
Walker. Probate Judge?J. H. Buchanan.
County Treasurer?J. B. McFadden. County
Auditor?W. J. Lucas. Coroner?J. T.
Brannon. A second primary will be held on
the 1st of October for the purpose of nominating
one County Commissioner, Clerk of the
Court, County School Commissioner and Tri-1
al Justice for this township.
The following jurors have been drawn to !
serve at the terra of the Circuit Court, begin- j
ningon the second Monday in October: Chas. j
Jacobs, colored ; Jas. B. Gladden, Green Cole-;
man, colored ; R. H. Cousar, Austin Macon,
colored ; W. F. Egan, S. B. Hardin, L. H.!
Grant, C. H. Alexander, W. H. Roseborough,
E. M. Mills, W. R. Brown, W. N. Guy, I
Neely Smith, M. B. Murr, J. W. Knox, J. B.!
Corn well, Wm. Martiu, Win. Lindsey, G. W. I
Boyd, Purvis Alexander, colored; John K.
Coleman, T. N. Triplett, W. P. Ferguson,
Fred Walker, S. J. Lewis, W. F. Adams, R.
W. A bell, C. J. Kizer, Andrew Peden, J. S.
Drennan, W. S. Culp, J. W. Wherry, Calhoun
Cornwell, A. M. McMulleu, J. J. Gib
son.
The new locomotive for the Cheraw and
Chester Railroad lias arrived at this place,
and will be put on the road at ouce. Loaded
cars are now transferred across the Catawba
river by ferry. i
Mr. Alleu Sanders, living in the southern
portion of the county, near the FairBeld line,
had bis arm badly torn up by a cotton gin
last Wednesday. Chester.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
STATE GREENBACK CONVENTION.
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FULL TICKET NOMINATED.
[Special Dispatch to the Enquirer.]
Chester, S. C., September 28.?The State |
Greenback Convention met here to day.'
Eight counties were represented by forty-five
delegates, four of whom were colored.
A full State ticket was nominated as fol>
lows : For Governor?L. VV. R. Blair, of
Kershaw; Lieutenant-Governor?D. C. Gist,
of Union ; Attorney General?A. J. Willard,
of Richland; Comptroller-General?John
Agnew, Sr., of Richland ; State Treasurer?
Martin Chaplin, of Lexington ; Secretary of
State?T. H. Cooke, of Greenville; Adjutant
and Inspector General?D. R. Elkin, of
Fairfield.
The following Electoral ticket was nominated
: For the State at large?J. A. F.
Coleman, of Fairfield; Mile9 Wallace, of
York. First district?J. W. Bouknight, of
Lexington ; Second district?"J. E. Gilbert, of
Kershaw; Third district?W. H. Therrell,
of Lancaster; Fourth district?J. W. Rector,
of ureenville; Fifth district?A. S. Smith,
of Spartanburg.
The Suite Executive Committee was constituted
as follows: V. P. Clayton, of Fairfield,
Chairman; W. H. Brown, of Kershaw ; M.
V. B. Capps, of Chester.
J. Hendrix McLane, of Fairfield, was nominated
for Congress from the Fourth district,
and the firet Monday in October was appointed
for a convention at Yorkville to nominate
a county ticket for.York county.
There was very little enthusiasm in the
meetiug, and #e full strength of the party
must have been represented in the list of delegates
present.
Mr. John Dickson, a carpenter, while repairing
the Shannon building this afternoon,
fell from a scaffold, a distance of about twenty
feet, and was seriously, though it is thought
not fatally, injured. G. T. S.
political notes.
? The Republicans in four years have lost
16,000 votes ill Maine.
? Three prominent Cincinnati Democrats
are said to have contributed $25,000 to the
campaign fund in that Stute.
? The Georgia State election will be held
on the 6ih of October, and those of Ohio
and Indiana on the 12th of the same month.
? Hon. Hiram Barney, collecter of the
port of New York under President Lincoln,
has declared for Hancock.
? The Philadelphia Bulletin (Rep.) acknowledges
that there can be no certainty
about Pennsylvania going Republican this
year.
? According to the latest intelligence from
Maine, Plaisted, the coalition candidate for
Governor, has been elected by a plurality of
234.
? The president and one hundred and fifty
vice presidents of the great Hancock meetiug
at Pittsburg, Pa., on Saturday night, have
heretofore acted with the Republicans.
? Ex-Judge R. B. Carpenter, who in the
J -p TT .. .11 MiMn A
uays Ul ivuuicuiisili nns a vaiiuiuaic iui Viuiernor
in South Carolina, but now resides io
Colorado, is suid to be an enthusiastic supporter
of Hancock.
? The Democrats have about finished a
canvass of Indiana and report a majority of
ten thousand. The Republican canvass just
concluded shows a Republican majority of
about the same number. The official count
is necessary to decide which is correct.
? A parade of Democratic voters in Philadelphia
on Saturday night, is described as
having been "the biggest thing of the kind
seen in the present campaign." Nearly 20,000
men were in line, and, with their torchlights
and transparencies, made a brilliant
and imposing display. Speeches were delivered
from the principal stand by Speaker
Randall and Senator Wallace, both of whom
were greeted with great enthusiasm.
HAMPTON 1N^NEW YORK.
THE SOUTHERN SENATOR'S ADDRESS TO THE
DEMOCRATS OF THE EMPIRE CITY.
Last Thursday night the whole city of New
York was ablaze with enthusiasm. Seventy
thousand Democrats assembled at Union
Square and vicinity, to listen to distinguished
speakers from all sections of the country who
had come to lend their aid to the grand ratification
meeting. At one of the speaking
places, corner of Broadway and Fifteenth
streets, Mr. William Henry Hurlbert presided,
and after an address by Mr. Robert M.
McLane, of Maryland, and when the applause
had subsided, Mr. Hurlbert again arose and
said: Twenty years ago this Union Square
was nearly as full as it is to-night. It has seen
no such meeting since till now. The meeting
of that day marked the outbreak of a great civil
war. The meeting of this night foreruns a
great civil peace. As a pledge of this coming
peace and true Union, you will now hear the
voice of one of the bravest soldiers of the Confederate
army, become to-day one of the most
loyal and honorable Senators of the American
Union. I ask your attention to a speech from
Senator Wade Hampton of South Carolina."
[Prolonged cheering.] Senator Hampton said :
In accepting the invitation to join in this
gi and demonstration, my chief object was that
1 might, before entering the canvass in my
own State, meet the Democracy of this our
great metropolis; that I might congratulate
them on their patriotic action in subordinating
all personal differences, all local jealousies,
all private aspirations to the great cause
in which we are all engaged, and that I might
carry back to my own people the assurance
given by the United Democracy of New York,
that victory was already in our grasp. I do
not come to counsel you, for your patriotism
luis nlrpudv. bv securincr harmonv and united
action in your ranks, averted all danger of
defeat. I do not come to discuss the great
and varied national questions involved in the
present contest. It would be presumption in
me to attempt to do so here after your
great fellow-citizen?Horatio Seymour?the
patriot who seeks only his country's good?
the statesman whose enlarged vision not only
looks over the past, but sees far into the future?had
raised his prophetic voice to warn
his countrymen of the dangers threatening
them. Besides this reason for not addressing
you at length to-night, it gives me now such
severe physical pain to speak in public, that
my friends must pardon me if my remarks on
this occasion -are desultory and brief. Indeed,
I was at a loss for a topic until njy eye fell
upon a paragraph in that great paper, which
is not only a most influential director of public
opinion, but is one of the marvels of our
age?the New York Herald.
In a late editorial?and these are always
suggestive, though sometimes erratic?it was
suggested that I should come and tell the people
something about the solid South. The
text is a good one, and I shall speak on it. Let
it be borne in miiul, however, that I speak only
of the South. I do not presume to speak for
her. Has it never occurred to you, my friends
of the North, that there is a malicious falsehood
implied, if not expressed, in that phrase?
the solid South ? Is it ever used by Republican
sj leakers or organs without an effort to
suggest that the South is solid in antagonism
to the North ? Is it not always used in order
to array the North against the South ? No
one who has observed the bitter sectional
character which the Republicans have deliberately
and studiously given to this contest,
can hesitate as to the answer to be made to 1
these questions. The solid South, with the
Iliad of voes it brings, is the one argument i
with which the Republicans answer all charges
against their party. I have said that there is i
a falsehood implied in this party catchword. <
In what sense is the South solid ? Is it so i
against the North ? The Democracy of Maine 1
haye answered in language not to be mis- ]
understood?No, and the patriotic Democ- i
racy of the whole North will soon re-echo that i
noble response. Is it solid against the consti- !
c
tution ? Reckless as are our political oppo- \
nents, there will scarcely be found one so
reckless as to dare to make such a charge. Is
it solid against the Union V Every act of
every Southern State since the war reikis
such an unjust imputation. Is it solid in any
proper sense of the word ? The large Republican
vote cast in the Southern States proves
that it is not. What justice, then, is there in
this cry, the sole object of which is to array
one portion of our common country against
another, to arouse passions evoked by unhappy
civil strife, and to reawaken animosities
which every patriot desires to see buried forever
? What would be said if the South
should raise her voice in angry protest because
the New England States have been so solidly
Republican until Maine has broken the ranks?
With as much justice might we of the South
complain of the former solidity of the Pacific
slope, or that of the great Northwest, as that
we should be denounced because we cling to
the faith of our fathers and support the Democratic
nominees.
But admitting for the sake of argument
that the South is solid, and that this is an
abnormal and unfortunate condition of affair:, t
why did not our Republican friends, who af- )
feet now to see such danger in this solidity,
point out and protest against the dang* r 4
when the South was absolutely solid for tl e
Republican party ? If the danger to the country,
and the only danger that threatens it,
lies in the solidity of that particular portion
of it, we surely must have been in great peril
when under the reconstruction Acts, administered
by carpet-bag adventurers, the South
presented a solid phalanx of Radical bummers
and thieves as her contribution to the wisdom,
the statesmanship and the patiotism of
the country. No Republican orator among
those who are telling the people that the solidity
of the South means war, pestilence and
famine, the overthrow of our institutions, the
abrogation of the Constitution, and worse
than all other evils, the defeat of Garfield,
then warned his unsuspecting countrymen of
the imminent danger threatening them. No
stalwart organ called then upon the loyal
North to avert this peril by becoming solidly
Democratic, because the South was solidly
Republican. Then everything was serene in
the Republican camp, and all went merry as
a marriage bell. Every office-holder w;is a
Republican, and the country was necessarily
not only safe, but prosperous. Gigantic monopolies
appropriated the public domain ; loljbyists
drove an unblushing and prosperous
trade on the very floors of Congress; whisky
rings defrauded the government of millions,
while the chiefs of these rings hobnobbed with
high officials, and Black Fridays, DeGolyer
pavements and Crsdit Mobil-era brought out
in strong light the incorruptible honesty of
our rulers and our would-be rulers. Thank
God, in these disgraceful scandals, which
makes every honest citizen blush for shame,
the Democratic South had no share. But
this digression, induced by my admiration of
the consistency of that great party which
claims all the intelligence, all the virtue and I
all tine patriotsm or the country, has led me
from my theme
Is it unnatural, that those in the South who
have always been citizens, except when disfranchised
by the Republican party, should
now be Democrats? The answer is to be
found by reverting to the history of parties in
this country. In the convention which framed
our present Constitution, the line which still
separates the two parties was sharply drawn.
On the one side were the advocates of a strong
government?the rallying cry of the Republicans
of to-day?while on the other were those
who urged the establishment of a government
of the people, for the people, and by the peo
pie. Party names have changed since those
days, but the great antagonistic principles
which struggled for supremacy then still live in
the Republican ahd Democratic parties. The
former party still "gravitates," to use a phrase
of its Presidents nominee?towards a strong
government?towards centralization; whiile
the latter advocates the ancient Democratic
doctane, a strict construction of the Constitution,
conceding to the general government
all its legitimate powers, while securing to the
several States all powers not delegated by them
to the general and common government. In the
long contest between these antagouistic and
contending principles,the South has been steadily
and almost invariably found to be on the
side of the Democracy. Her vote in the Presidential
contests has more than once been cast
against her own honored sons because they
were not Democrats, and she has cordiady
supported Northern men because they were.
All the political training of her people, ail ber
traditions, all their instincts and all their interests,
led them to be Democrats. They were
such by inheritance. In the old division of
parties into Whig and Democrat, a minority
of the Southern people, strong by virtue of
tneir intelligence, uieir zeai anu men mutism,
was found in the ranks of the former.
But when the Whig party otthe North became
merged into the Free-Soil party, when sectionalism
unhappily took the place of politics, the
Whigs of the South were forced by the instinct
, of self-preservation to enroll themselves in the
Democratic party. The south was thus again
made solid for Democracy by that fell spirit of
| sectionalism which has brought such unuterable
sorrow upon our country, and which if
not effectually rebuked, will bring still further
misery and ruin. When the war came, all
party lines were forgotten in the South as
in the North. Whig and Democrat, Union
men and Secessionists, were all alike drawn
into the vast whirlpool, and again was the
South forced into solidity for self-protection.
I am simply expressing historical facts; not
expressing any opinion on them, but leaving
their discussion to the philosophic student of
history. or
Following the order of events, what was the
condition of political opinion in the South
when the war was ended ? It is under iable
that there then was a great soreness felt by
the Southern people towards the Northern
Democrats. We had seen them fighting for
the preservation of the Union as earnestly
and as steadfastly as the Republicans. We
had seen them offering .their treasures and
their lives as freely as those who had been
their most bitter enemies ; and there was at
that time but ilittle disposition among the
Southern people to renew old party ties. It is
a very significant fact, confirmatory of this
view, that in nearly every Southern State at
the first election of members of Congress held
after the war, pronounced Union men or Old
Line Whigs were elected as: Representat ives.
My own State furnishes a striking illustration
of this fact. There the distinguished and
venerable B. F. Perry, who had opposed secession
to the last and who has always been recognized
as a Union man, was elected to Congress,
and James L. Orr, another strong opponent
to secession, was chosen by the people
Governor of tho State. This action on the
part of the Southern people certainly did rot
manifest a spirit of stubborn or malignant < pposition
to the inevitable consequences of .3feat.
It rather showed a disposition on their
part to accept in good faith all those consequences,
and an honest and honorable effort
to conciliate those who had fought successfully
to preserve the Union. This effort sincere
and patriotic as I firmly believe it to have
been, was destined to fail, and its failure was
due solely to the Republican party. This
party had absolute control of the government
in all its departments, and if its patriotism
had been as enlarged as its power, the country
would have been spared the shame of the reconstruction
acts. I shall not speak of these
acts, for it is not my desire to reawaken the
sad and bitter memories connected with them.
They have passed into our history, filling one Of
its darkest pages, and in the good provider ce
of God they have recoiled upon those who conceived
them. The weapons intended for our destruction
have been turned against those who
forged them.
The action of the Republicans wher the
Southern members of Congress presented themselves
for admission is fresh in the memc ry of
all. Our Representatives were ignominously
thrust from the seats to which they had been
invited and to which they had been legally
elected. While war was flagrant, Congress,
with singular una nimity and in the most solemn
manner, declared that it was not waged for
the conquest or subjugation of the South, but
for ihe preservation of the Union, with the
rights, liberties and equality of all the States
unimpaired. Time and again during the war
had the Southern people been assured in t he
most authoritative manner that their States
were still in the Union, and that no State had
the right or power to leave it. But when
the Confederate armies surrendered, we were
told contemptuously by the Republicans that
those great States, several of which had aided
in ng small degree to form that Union, had
been obliterated from the map of the great
republic, and they were but conquered provinces
to be ruled by military satraps.
Some philosopher, with equal wit and wisdom,
has declared that "there is a great dial i
of human nature in mankind," and recognizing
the truth of this maxim, you can scarcely
wonder that after this action of the Republicans,
the South became thoroughly united
against that party. Some Republican papeis,
actuated doubtless by their ardent love for the
South, have assured the Southern _paople that
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