University of South Carolina Libraries
RA-T?S, VF^SUBSCRIPTION^T^O DOW-aBS i>er aunum, and One Dollah for six months. Subscriptions are not taken for a less period than six months. Liberal deductions made to olubs of ten or nore subscribers. - RATES OF ADVERTISING.?One Dollar per square o.'-ono inch for the first insertion,and Fifty Cents j>er square, for subsequent insertions less than three aionth?\ No advertisemsnts counted less than a square. - 'Liberal contracts will be made with those wishing to adtertise for three, six or t'welre months. Ad? vertising by contract must be can fi aed to the im? mediate business of the firm or individual contrac? ting. Obituary Notioes exceeding five lines, Tributes of Respect, and all persons? communications or matter*-of individual interest, will be charged for at advertising rates, Anaounccuenta of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are respectfully solicited, and will be inserted gratis. GOVERNOR HAYES* POLICY. A NEW i AND IMPORTANT MOVE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL GAME. Oveittir'es to Southern Democrats?Sen. ator iLataar to be tendered a Seat lu the Cabinet. ??? Cincinnati Correspondence to the New York Herald. Cixci^Xri, O., Dec. 3,1876. The Enquirer published yesterday a despatch from Columbus giving, at some length, a rather curious story about some expressions of Governer Hayes in rela? tion to. his policy, if he should become President. The story has not attracted much attention or belief here because of the quarter in which it appears, and be? cause, also, of certain details which are incorrectly, stated. I am in position to give yo.u a. correct and accurate account of the whole matter, which was intended by Governor Hayes and bis friends to be kept secret. As it has leaked out through somebody's indis? cretion, some of the friends of thft Gov? ernor now think it best to make the cor? rect story public. ,. THE COBKECT STOEY. 'The Governor has never been in sym? pathy with those Republicans who pressed the Southern issue, and he has no sympa? thy at all with the carpet-baggers and adventurers.like Governor Chamberlain in South Carolina or Governor Kellogg in Louisiana. He has waited impatient? ly for an opportunity to let honest South? ern men know his real views, and assure them that they oeexTnot fear, if he should become President, that the abuses in the South, which general Grant has tolerated and encouraged, would be continued. ME. LAM Alt DECLINES. After consultation with two or three of the safest ad visers, he concluded that it would be weilito see and confer with Mr. Lam ar, of Mississippi, and that gentleman was jg?Hjf? to by Mr. Halsted according? ly, and asted tostop in Cincinnati for a conversation on ins way to* Washington. Wnen he got there Mr. Halsted informed him of Governor Hayes' desire to consult with him. Mri 'Lamar was at first in? clined to go to Columbus from here and meet Gov. Eayes> ;but on consideration thought such a meeting at this time un? wise, as possibly committing both him and the Governor to matters which al? tered circumstances might make incon? venient. He said that he did not at this time wish to see Governor Hayes' band, nor was he prepared, nor did he feel the time had come, to talk over Southern questions with him. He therefore de? clined in a courteous note, and went on his way hence to Washington. THE GOVEBNOB'S PBOGBAMME. Colonel Roberts, who is, I believe, managing .editor of the New Orleans Times, and. a gentleman of ability and reputation, was thereupon asked to go anil see Governor Hayes, with a view to get at the Governor's ideas, so as to be able to communicate them to Mr. Lamar. Col. Roberts went from here to Columbus by appointment of Governor Hayes, and had a Jong conference with him at the Governor's house, and Governor Hayes explained to him very frankly bis politi? cal programme.'^. The. conference was Erivate, of course, and was intended to e kept so, but as an incorrect story has got ont, it is now thought best by the friends of Governor Hayes to let the public know precisely what was said. It should be premised that the Governor is very well informed on Southern affairs, has made them a study, has,' friends in some Southern States, and did not need information from Col. Roberts. ' WHAT GOVEBNOE HAYES SAID. He said to Mr. Roberts that he wished Mr. Lamar and also General' Hampton and other Southern men. like them to know and to be assured that he believed himself fairly elected to the Presidency; that he meant to be President, and to be his own man and have his own policy; that no person who had been prominent? ly concerned in the administration of General Grant, whether in Washington or elsewhere, should have any office or power under his administration! He thought reform absolutely necessary, and impossible except by calling in new men and dropping the men now in power and flace. About this he spoke, as it is nown he feels, very positively. HAYES' SOUTHEBN POLICY. As to the Squthihe Governor said that he desired" to consult wTtb?sucb men as Lamar and General Hampton; that he thought Hampton had acted a noble part in recent events in South Carolina, for which the country owed him thanks; that if he became President he shouJdt wish to call Mr. Lamar into his Cabinet,' and should not ask him, in that event, to abandon his present political relations; that he meant to frame his Southern policy1 on the advice of these two gentle? men ; to make the Federal appointments in the Southern States upon their, recom? mendations, and entirely of Southern men, considering this the only proper disposition of. these offices. He said, frankfy'/triatearpet^Bag government had not been successful; that, the complaints of the Southern people were just in this matter; that he should require absolute justice and fair play to the negro, but that he was convinced this could be got best and. most surely by trusting the hon? orable and influential Southern whites, and putting the responsibility on them of maintaining peace and punishing outra? ges. SYMPATHY WITH HAMPTON. He expressed his strong sympathy with Hampton in South Carolina, and his opinion that the President * hjfd acted down there in a very ill-advised manner. Finally, Governor Hayes said that as soon as the electoral vote was declared, and his election thus publicly assured, he wished to have a private conference ! with Colonel Lamar and General Hamp? ton, and would take measures to that end, believing that then they could see no objections to a consultation which had for its object the good of their own sec? tion and the harmonizing of differences which had goue so far that reconciliation was obsolutely necessary for the good of the whole country. This is a true account of what Gov. Hayes said. It comes from a source thoroughly informed, and it presents what those who know Governor Hayes intimately have known to be his views as to the necessities of a public policy when he becomes President. WHAT MB. BOBEBTS SAYS. Washington, Dec. 3,1876. Concerning his reported interview with Governor Hayes. Mr^ Roberts/ who ar? rived in Washington last night and is. decidedly reticent, spoke as follows: "On my way from Cincinnati to Wash? ington I stopped at Columbus to see Gov. Hayes. I was there not accredited for anybody but for the New Orleans Times. I had a letter of introduction from Mr. Halsted, of the Cincinnati Commercial, and one from J. P?. Stevenson. I had a conversation with Mr. Hayes, of some two or three hours' duration, perhaps, at the house of General Comly. We talked of the Southern situation very freelyv and lie expressed some regcet-that tlI6" pacification of tb'e South had pot.'be.ej completed and the whole question settled. I had no authority from/General Hamp? ton or Mr. Lamar. to make any proposi? tion looking to. a compromise, nor aid I state that I had any authority. He asked me no questions about that at all.. He spoke, favorably and very pleasantly of Mr. Lamar. He said that Gen. Hampr ton's course during the canvass had been a.conservative one. Touching the matter of the last election and the Presidential question he said nothing." a plan to cause the southern demo? crats to acquiesce in his election. Front the Clucinnati Enquirer, December 2. Columbus, 0., Dec. 1. Governor Hayes has made a new move in the Presidential game, and has made overtures through Stanley Matthews, Job E. Stevenson, Mu rat. Halsted, Dick Smith and other of his'intimate friends, to prominent Southerners to induce them, and through them their section, to acqui? esce peaceably in his election, and to give his administration their hearty sup? port. This movement has been on foot for several days, but in reality only as? sumed definite shape in this city to-day, when Col. W. H. Roberts, of the New Orleans Times, met him with a view to arranging, if possible, the terms of the settlement. It had been the original plan to have General Lamar, of Missis? sippi, meet Governor Hayes, but upon that gentleman reaching Cincinnati and confering* with Hal-ted, he thought it best to give Colonel Roberts a letter to Hayes explaining his views on the situa? tion, and authorizing him to act in his behalf. It appears that the Southern men have been assured that it is the de? sign and intention of Hayes to cut loose from the carpet-baggers and scallawag Republicans of the South, and also the Grant element of the party in the North, and to rally around him the support of the liberal, conservative and democratic element in the South. Colonel Roberts brought letters from Job E. Stevenson to Hayes and \V. H. Groesbeck from New Orleans, and was also strongly indorsed by other Republicans in the South.? Stanley Matthews, Halsted and others met in conference in Cincinnati on thanksgiving day, and the result of their cogitation was a despatch from Matthews to Hayes, telling him thatv in view of certain contingencies, it would be ex tremely desirable for the Governor to conciliate the conservative and liberal democratic element of the South by of? fering it power, place and emoluments in return for its support. Halsted also fur? nished Roberts with a letter to Hayes, indorsing him highly and commending his mission to his earnest attention. This morning Colonel Roberts arrived here and was met at the Neil House by General Comly, who took him to see Governor Hayes. The trio dined at Gen. Coraly's house, and had a three hours' conference together. Hayes talked very freely, and informed Colonel Roberts that- he had made up his mind to cut loose entirely from the Grantism of the Republican party and the carpet-baggers ana seal la wags wyth which it is infested, and look for his support to the better class and more patriotic of its members and to the conservative and liberal dem? ocratic masses. He clearly indicated that he had no sympathy with the Kel loggs or Chamberlains of the South, and directly stated that he thought it would be for the interest of South Carolina and Louisiana and the whole country if Hampton was declared Governor of the former State, and Nicholls, of Louisiana. He declared that he was perfectly willing to divide the' official patronage of the Southern States among the conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, and looked to them for that hearty support that all honest men should be willing to accord to any honest administration. After this expression of sentiment by the Governor, the following plan of ope? rations was agreed upon: Col. Roberts will start for Washington to-night, and upon his arrival there he will lay the matter before General Lamar and a cau? cus of the Southern members of Congress, who will take the matter into considera? tion. Then Lamar and General Wade Hampton will come to Ohio and visit Governor Hayes-in person, and definitely arrange the terms of the agreement. It is thought that there will be but little trouble in carrying this arrangement into eflect, for the Northern Republicans will be so eager to get their own nominations conGrmed by the Senate that they will force that body into acquiescing into the confirmation of the Southern conserva? tives and liberal democrats. The South? ern people, it is believed, can be entirely controlled by Lamar and Hampton, as they will see that, as they cannot have Tilden for President, the next best thing for them to do is to make terms with Hayes that will enable them to rid them themselves of the carpet-baggers, and place the control of their State govern? ments in their own hands. William M. Corry and Theodore Cook, of your city, accompanied General Lamar to Wash? ington in the interest of this plan, and many other prominent democrats are understood to De in sympathy with it. Table Etiquette.?See that those about you are helped before you com? mence eating yourself. Do not eat soup from the tip, but the side of the spoon. On passing your plate to be replenish? ed, retain the knife and fork. Wipe the mouth before drinking. Remove the teaspoon from the cup be? fore drinking tea or coffee. Use the knife only in cutting the food ; do not raise it to the mouth. Eat slowly, as eating rapidly is un? healthy. If you find anything unpleasant in your food avoid calling the attention to others to it. Close the lips when chewing your food. Keep your elbows off the tables al? ways." Do not speak with food in your mouth. When asked to help your neighbor, do not shove, but hand the plate to him. Do not turn your head and Btare about the room. If any one at the table makes a mis? take, take the least possible notice of it. ? Ministers, will have their little jokes like other-people. ??" "Come over and preacli for me to-night," said a Chicago divine to a clerical friend whom he met on the street not many days since. "I can't to-night," was the reply ; "I'm al? most down sick with a headache."? "Well," drolly observed the other, "I guess you can do it, for if you preacli as you usually do, you won't have to use your _head any!" Then they both laughed, and pinched each other in the ribs, and said it was a good one, just as heartily as though they had been the worst kind of sinners all their lives. ? Warning! The man who entered a newspaper office and asked with a confi? dential air and persuasive smile, "Judg? ing from your latest advices, who do you think is elected ?" has not been seen since. ? "Send me a kiss in a letter," is the title of a new song. It is to be followed by "Send me a Roaring, 0ld-Fashioned, Corset-Splittrng Hug by Telegraph, if you-ploasV Governor Seymonr Speaks. At a meeting of the Electoral College, of New York, Ex-Governor Horatio Sey? mour was elected to preside, and, upon assuming the chair, made the following able and exhaustive address: The grave duty of giving in behalf of this great State its votes for the men its citizens wish to place in the high office of President and Vice President of these United States, has impressed itself upon the mind of each elector. We feel still more the importance of our action as this centennial year recalls the first acts in the struggle which made ns a free people and the events which led to the forma? tion of our Union and the adoption of its constitution. Our action at this time is one of the transactions necessary to the life of our government; one without which it would fall into anarchy and ruin. This day also reminds us of the growth of New York. We represent more millions of people than lived in our country when our fathers fought the bat? tles of the revolution, or formed the gov? ernment of our Union. The ceremonies of the year have excited a pride in our country^ its history and its government. But none of these have filled our minds with such a deep sense of the dignity of American citizenship as the political ac? tion of the last month. Upon a given day more than 8,000,000 of men, moving simultaneously in all parts of this vast country, went to the ballot boxes, and gave the votes which told their will as to the men who should fill the highest offices in our government. When a ma? jority of more than 300,000, represented by the proper number of electoral votes, declared their choice, all strife ceased and all cheerfully yielded to the will of the people. Business began to resume its activity, public confidence grew still more strong as we thus happily rounded out the century of our existence as a peo? ple. By this grand exhibition of this faultless working of the mechanism of our government we proudly challenged the admiration of the world. a GRavk problem. We find ourselves confronted at the beginning of the second century of our political existence with problems as grave as those which faced our fathers at the outset of our government. Have we their wisdom, patriotism and virtue? This is a great crisis in our public affairs. Upon the conduct of our people the world will decide with regard to the character of American citizens and American patriotism. The events of this day will be recited through the centuries. We are making a chapter in history, which will teach either good or evil to those who will come after us. If we have the patriotism to rise above party interests and passions and to do what honesty demands, we shall lift our people to a higher point in the eyes of the world and in our own re? gard than we have ever yet reached. If we fail, when the lessons of this cen? tennial year should teach us virtue; when the varied interests of labor, of arts, of commerce and of capital all nrge us to a line of conduct which will inspire the world with confidence and ourselves with the highest sentiments of honor, then our failure will be a long step toward national decay and degradation. the office-holder'8 campaign. There is a darker phase of the last elec? tion. The administration sent out a Cabinet officer to take charge of the can? vass on behalf of the Republican party. His very position at the head of its man? aging committee made a forced loan upon nearly 100,000 official dependents. It proclaimed to them in louder tones than words. "You must work. You must vote. You must pay to aid the election of a candidate who declares himself in favor of civil service reform." It told them that if, believing and acting upon his as? surance, they followed their own convic? tions and voted for his opponents, they would be punished by the loss of their positions. They were forced in thousands of cases to submit to extortion with smil? ing faces, but with heavy hearts. If a like intimidation had been used in a Southern State it would have been seized upon by the administration as a reason for declaring martial law, for arresting and imprisoning every suspected citizen. It is due to the best class of the leaders and journals of the Republican party to say that they protested against this inde? cency. But such acts did not stop with mere improprieties. They ripened into a violation of the spirit of the law. In its resolutions, journals, and in its speeches, that party has declared its detestation of such abuses and its purposes to reform them. At the last session of Congress it made it a crime, punishable with impris? onment and deprivation of office, to levy assessments upon office-holders for polit? ical purposes. It limited the punish? ments to one class of officials, because, under the constitution, those holding their positions by the appointment of the President and Senate could not constitu? tionally be removed from their offices by such an enactment. But it is a higher moral offence in higher officials, punisha? ble by the more impressive process.of im? peachment. Here no technical difficul? ties can hinder-the punishment of this crime against political morals or public welfare. No one doubts or denies that such assessments were made with the knowledge and consent of the committee. the gbavity of the offence i is made more gross by the fact that at j the last session of Congress, when it was proposed to reduce the pay of officials, in order to relieve the industry of the coun? try from the burden or taxation, it was resisted by the Republicans upon the ground that this could not be done with? out injury to the public service. Yet we see a National Republican Committee re? ducing their pay by assessments for par? tisan purposes, and diverting the money paid to them from the public Treasury to enable them to serve the people faithful? ly, and thus, as declared by the solemn action of Congress, disabline them from doing their duty to the Republic. About these facts there is no dispute. The pub? lic mind is agitated by conflicting state? ments with regard to the conduct of the Republican canvassing officers in the re? mote Southern States. Do not the acts of the heads of the organization, done under our own eyes, throw light upon those disputed points? If morals were violated at the fountain head in the North were they respected by men of worse than doubtful character at the South? These men, by their call upon the general administration for its armed forces, proclaimed to the world their de? pendence upon its power and their servi? tude to its wishes. The head of the Re? publican committee held the double posi? tion of a Cabinet Minister advising and directing the action of government and at the same time managing the machinery of a party 1 Thus, at an exciting election the government of the Union openly allied itself with a party, gave it a power of coercion over its officials, in violation of the spirit of the laws agaiuBt intimidation and bbibeby. It did just what it charges against the people of the South. What lessons of law and morals and of duty did mih example teach these dependent officials 1 in Lquisiapa?, ..These question* must i prxj^^prasolvcs' iipoir too inia^a'^nd. consciences of every honest man. Until vre ponder well upon what we know of the canvass at the North, we- cannot judge wisely witli regard to its character, at the South. Were meii of bad reputa? tion/ acting under the influences of in? terest and passion, tempted to violate duty and, morals by the example of a committee headed by a Cabinet officer? If we can conscientiously say the conduct of the committee was right, we can then go on and investigate the conduct of offi I cials at the South. If we see that it was. wrong we need look no further. AN APPEAL TO BUSINESS MEN. Rising above all party consideration, we appeal to the men of business, of labor and of capital to assert their rights at this time, to admonish their leaders not to go too far in trampling under foot rights that are vital to the security of in? dustry and of property. Such men can, if they will, by clear expressions of their opinions in ways customary in the usages of our people, settle this question in ac? cordance with right. It is not a subject which belongs alone to those who are actively engaged in political affairs. It is a great American question, which con? cerns, every citizen and every home. They can make a grand exhibition of the genius of our government and of the power of its citizens by a calm rebuke to frenzied rulers. Even those who despe? rately seek to hide the records of past misconduct from the knowledge of our people will quail before an aroused pub? lic. I have not uttered one word of re? proach to the Republican candidates for the offices Of President aud Vice Presi? dent. I have too much respect for the characters of Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler to think that they wish to be put at the head of this Union against the declared wishes of a majority of the American people. I do not doubt that if this is to be done by men in Louisiana, of whom they think as ill as we do, that they would feel that the highest offices of State would be for them not positions of honor and dignity, but political pillories, in which they would stand to be pointed at, now and hereafter, as the representa? tives of a foul fraud. ONE THING ALL MEN SEE. The Republican party cannot decide its own case in its own favor against the majority of the American people, upon the certificate of branded men in Louisi? ana without making the body of our citi? zens and the world at large feel that it is a corrupt and partisan decision. Such judgment wil.' not only destroy our honor and credit for the day, but will be a pre? cedent for wrong-doing in the future. We cannot have Mexican politics with? out Mexican finances and Mexican dis? orders. The business men in all civilized countries have been tanght by recent bankruptcies and disorders in govern? ments made unstable by agitations to be watchful and distrustful when they see the slightest deviation from political honor, without which there can be no financial honor. On the other hand, let the party now in power yield to the pop? ular will, demand honest returns in ac? cordance with, the constitution, bow to the majesty of the law, and then every citizen will feel a renewed confidence in our institutions and the whole world will hold us in higher respect and honor. A Short Talk with Governor Thos. A. Hendricks?His Earnest Counsel to All Good Citizens. Governor Hendricks arrived in this city Thursday, and will return home to? day. During his short stay iu New York he has called once on Gov. Tilden, and will probably see him again to-day before taking his departure. Governor Hen dricks.received many callers at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, aud everybody who con? versed with him anxiously asked his opinion as to the present crisis. In his replies the governor was cool, deliberate and unimpassionate. THE SITUATION IN THE 80UTH. "I think," said he, in answer to an in? quiry by the writer, "that it is of great importance that all Democrats and good citizens generally should keep perfectly cool ana preserve their temper till the crisis is over. They should endeavor by means perfectly peaceable to see that the votes in Louisiana and Florida are fairly and honestly counted, and if the votes afe honestly counted there can be no doubt as to the result." "Are you convinced that the States of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina cast the majority of their votes for the Democratic electoral ticket?" "I have no' kind of doubt that the Democrats carried Louisianna by a large majority. They also carried Florida by a smaller majority. As to South Caro? lina, the reports that I have seen from there in regard to the electoral ticket have been so contradictory as to be con? fusing." , ? "Do you think there will be an honest canvass of the votes at New Orleans?" "The eyes of the'whole nation are at present fixed on the Louisiana Returning Board, and I can not see,how it will be possible for the men composing that board to perpetrate a fraud under such scrutiny. They would doubtless give the State to the Republicans if they could, but I don't think they will have the bold? ness to perpetrate such a fraud under the circumstances." "And Florida ?" "I think the canvassers in Florida have also about made up their minds to act squarely, and that the State will ultimate? ly be given to the Democrats, as it cer? tainly should be." "Do you not think that- the Republi? cans throughout the country are still bringing a great pressure to bear upon the canvassers in the State ?" "Undoubtedly. And what makes it worse, the Republican leaders promised that State with so much confidence to Mr. Hayes in the beginning that now I the Republicans claim it, and their friends down there will do everything in their power tp fulfill their promise. But when the votes are counted the proceed? ings of the canvassers will be scrutinized closely, and I think it probable that they will be obliged to give up any intention to perpetrate a fraud, and that the State will be declared as having gone for the Democratic ticket." IS THERE DANOEK AHEAD? "Do you think there are any signs of danger to the peace of the country in the present prospect?" "I see no cause for any disturbance of the peace at present, but in case certain men are determined to subvert what the will of the people of the nation has de? creed, any one can see that there would be a possibility of the country having to confront a situation of affairs which must be very hazardous." "What would be your advice to the people under the present circumstances?" "What I sincerely wish to see the peo? ple do is to keep perfectly cool and tem? perate. We must show the people what the true state of affairs is, ana if the Democracy is cheated the people must be I made aware of the swindle. That being done, the people would probably decide that justice should be done, and that the will of the nation, as expressed at the polls, sjLonid 15o obeyed .without further ; attempts at ovasloa or resistance." - THE TALK WITH GOVERNOR TILDEN. "Have you any objections to saying what the tenor of your conversation with Governor Tilden was, so far as relates to the political situation ?" ?'?"I-should have no objections if I did not think that at the present moment we should all be very guarded in our expres? sions, and especially when we speak through the press. For my own part my counsel is to all my friends to thoroughly retain their self-possession. All good citizens .of both parties should wish to see justice done, and I believe that if it is clearly proven to the people that the ma? jority of the electoral votes should be cast for Mr. Tilden, the great mass of the people of the Union will acquiesce in the true verdict, just the same as I should expect them to do if it had gone the other way."? New York World. BRAZEN IMPUDENCE. Chamberlain's Pretended Inaugural Address. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Rep? resentatives : I accept the office to which, by the voice of a majority of the people of this State, I have a second time been called, with a full knowledge of the grave re? sponsibilities and difficulties by which it is now attended. No considerations, ex? cept the clearest convictions of duty, would be sufficient to induce me to accept this great trust under the circumstances which now surround us. I regajd the present hour in South Carolina as a crisis at which no patriotic citizen should shrink- from any post to which public duty may call him. In my sober judg? ment our present struggle is in defence of the foundations of our government and institutions. If we fail now, our govern? ment?thegovcrnment of South Carolina ?will no longer rest on the consent of the governed, expressed by a free vote of a majority of our people. If our oppo? nents triumph?I care not under what guise of legal forms?we shall witness the overthrow of free government in our State. My chief personal anxiety, is that I may have the firmness and wisdom to act in a manner worthy of the great interests so largely committed to my keeping. My chief public care shall be to contrib? ute my utmost efforts to defend the rights, to guard the peace and to promote the welfare of all the people of our State. The constant occupation of my time with other duties which I could not post? pone, has prevented me from preparing the usual statements and recommenda? tions respecting our public affairs. At the earliest practicable day I will dis? charge this duty. Our greatest interest, our most commanding duty now, is to stand firmly, each in his appointed place, against the aggressions and allurements of our political opponents. Our position up to the present time, has been within the clear limits of our constitution and laws. Nothing but the cowardice or weakness or treachery of our own friends, can rob us of the victory. I state what facts show, what overwhelming evidence proves, when I say that if we yield now, we shall witness the consummation of a deliberate and cruel conspiracy on the part of the Democratic party of this State to overcome by brute force the political will of a majority of twenty thousand of the lawful voters of this State. I have mourned over public abuses which have heretofore arisen here. I have, according to the measure of my ability, labored to make the conduct of our public affairs honest aud honorable. But I stand appalled at the crimes against freedom, against public order, against good government, nay, against government itself, which our recent po? litical experience here has presented. And I am the more appalled when I see the north, that portion of our country which is secure in its freedom and civil order, and the great political party which has controlled the Republic for sixteen years, divided in its sympathies and judg? ment upon such questions. It is written in blood on the pages of our recent na? tional history, that no government can rest with safety upon the enforced slavery or degradation of a race. In the full blaze of that great example of retributive justice which swept away half a million of the.best lives of our country we seethe American people divided by party lines upnu the question of the disfranchise inent and degradation of the same race whose physical freedom was purchased at such a cost.- And, what is more aston? ishing, still, there are Republicans who permit the errors which have attended the first efforts of this race in self-govern? ment to chill their sympathies to such an extent that they stand coldly by and practically say that the peace of political servitude is better than the abuses and disquiet which newly acquired freedom has brought; I denounce the conduct of the recent election, on the part of our political op? ponents in this State, as a vast brutal outrage. Fraud, proscription, intimida? tion ih nil forms, violence, ranging through all its degrees, up to wanton murder, were its effective methods. The circumstances under which we have as? sembled to-day show us how nearly suc? cessful has been this great conspiracy. It is for us, in the face of all clangers, in the face of false or timid friends, in the face of open enemies, to show that we understand the cause in which we are en? gaged, and that no earthly sacrifice is too great to secure its triumph. The gentlemau who was my opponent for this office in the late election, has re? cently declared, iis I am credibly in? formed that he holds not only the peace of this city and State, but my life, in his hand. I do not doubt the truth of his statemeut. Neither the public peace nor the life of any man who now opposes the consummation of this policy fraud and violence is safe from theassaultsoftho.se who have enforced that policy. My life can easily be taken. I have heid it, in the judgment of all my friends here, by a frail tenure for :he last three months. But there is one thing no man in South Carolina can do, however pow? erful or desperate lie may be, and that is to cause ine lo abate my hatred or cease my most vigorous resistance to this at? tempted overthrow and enslavement of a ma jority of the people of Sou h Carolina. "Here Island; I can do no otherwise; God be my helper," Wife and children, nearer to me than "are the ruddy drops that visit my sad heart"?all other con? siderations, must give way before the sol? emn duly to resist the final success ofthat monstrous outrage, under whose black shadow we are assembled to day. ? In London, a Jew has been charged with the murder of a Jew. It is said that this is the first time such a thing hits happened; and that the last Jew hanged in England was hanged two hundred years ago for Jorgen'. ? "What is heaven's best gift to man ?" asked a young lady on Sunday night, smiling sweetly on a pleasant-looking clerk. " "A horse," replied the young man, with great prudence. ? One of thc.reasonsthata side-saddle reaembles-? four-quart jug is because it holds a gall-onr , A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre Over Two Hundred Lives Lost. . By Telegraph to the News and Courier. Brooklyn, December 6. A fire broke out last night on the stage of the Brooklyn Theatre during the per? formance of "The Two Orphans." Mr. Studley, who played the part of Jacques, made an effort to calm the excited au? dience. He stepped to the foot-lights and said: "There is no trouble here, there is no fire; ladies and gentlemen, keep your seats." Many persons re? mained in their seats, but only for a few seconds. The flames spread rapidly, and the theatre was soon enveloped in flames. Miss Kate Claxton and Mrs. Farron showed great self-possession. They re? mained upon the stage till the scenery at the left was completely wrapped in flames. They then rushed out in their costume, saving only the dresses they wore. The panic became general, and before the actors left the stage the audience rushed for the doors. Women fainted. The aisles were blocked and many persons were thrown down and trampled on. The ushers and police made every effort to induce the people to retire in good order, but without effect. The heat was intense and many fell help? lessly to the floor. Mrs. Farron and a number of the actors jumped into the auditorium and took their chances forau exit by the Washington street door. One hundred lives are believed to have been lost, including Mr. H. S. Murdock, the actor, who has not been seen since the fire. Most of the killed were in the dress circle, their means of escape being cutoff by the burning stairs. Every member of the theatrical company loses his clothes, jewelry, costumes, &c. The Brooklyn Building Association lose forty thousand dollars. Shook & Palmer lose the scene? ry of "The Two Orphans," and several thousand dollars' worth of furniture and personal property. Ida Vernon's ward? robe and diamonds, valued at from $6,000 to ?8,000 are lost. Total loss, ?200,000. some further particulars. New York, December 6?12 M. The loss of life at the Brooklyn theatre is appalling. Bodies were found this morning in heaps within a few feet of the door. It is supposed they went down when lobbies fell; they are burned be? yond recognition. Eighty-six names are registered as missing, among whom isH. F. Murdock, the actor, who, after endeav? oring to calm the crowd last night, went to his dressing room. A bulletin dated 11 o'clock says : "Forty-four bodies have been recovered, and it is supposed that at least one hun? dred more remain. It will take all day to get the remains from the ret-hot ruins. It is supposed that the dead are those who were in the dress circle and gallery. There is intense excitement. The courts have adjourned, and scarcely any busi? ness is doing. The Park Theatre has closed for the week, and a meeting of the profession is called for Thursday to con? cert measures of relief.". two hundred and forty-five bodies recovered. Brooklyn, December 5?4 P. M. One hundred and ninety-five bodies have been recovered, and at 5 o'clock two hundred and forty-five bodies had been recovered. a sight to appall the stoutest heart. New York, December 5?Midnight. The fearful extent of tbe Brooklyn dis? aster was not appreciated until daybreak, when it was discovered that a great num? ber of the audience had perished while endeavoring to escape from the gallery and dress circles. The upper portion of the house was packed full, although the attendance in the orchestra stalls was only moderate. Tbe stairs and lobbies to the upper floor became quickly choked up with the terrified crowd, who trampled over one another until their progress was impeded. Many were 'doubtless suffo? cated by the smoke, which was dense within the space of three minutes from the first appearance of the fire. The bodies were found in heaps along the line of the main lobby and gallery stairs, hav? ing fallen through the upper flooring, which was burned away. The sight ap? palled the stoutest hearts. Charred heiidy, legs and arms protruded in ghast? ly disorder from amid a blackened mass .of debris. Recognition was impossible, except, perhaps, in a few cases, where remnants of clothing remained. The holocaust was mainly confined to the gallery occupied by the men and boys, alihough it is feared that a number of those who were in the dress circle or first tier have also fallen victims. When the flames were discovered, Mr. Murdock acted with coolness and composure. He said that the fire would soon be extin-' guished, and then ascended a small stair? way to his dressing-room, which was at the right of the stage. His valuable wardrobe was there, and the impression is that he went there to save it. He was hemmed in by the flames and perished. the latest. New York, December 6. Up to 2.30 p. m. two hundred and eighty-five bodies have been taken from the ruins of the Brooklyn Theatre. Work will be contiuued all night. The streets are still crowded, and the excitement is giving way to a feeling of intense gloom and depression. It is now feared that the number of dead will reach three nun 1 dred. What might have, added to the immense loss of life, and resulted in the killing of more ladies and gentlemen of the theatre company,1 was the panic stricken movement of the janitor at the stage door. As soon as he got an idea of what was going on inside, he hurriedly locked the stage door and kept back the astonished crowd by refusing admittance or egress. A party headed by Mr. Paul Nicholson, however, broke open the door and pushed him aside. In the excite? ment of the moment nobody took any count of the number who made their es? cape by this means, aud who would other? wise have been sacrificed. This afternoon a gentleman living in Remsen street came to the police station and inquired for two friends, a Mr. George A. Grange and a Mr. D. S. Morton, both of Galveston, Texas. They were stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel in New York, with their families. The gentlemen came over to Brooklyn to dine with their friend in Remsen street, and after dinner they went to the theatre, bought their tickets and went in. They have not been heard of since then, and have not returned to their hotel. Their families are wild with grief. Mr. Grange was a millionaire, and leaves a wife and child six weeks old. No trace of them has been found. ? "Jake," said a blushing damsel to a lover that her father had forbidden the house, "I don't care if your feet are big, I love you just as much." "Well, Sally, I don't mind so much about the size of my own feet, but I wish your dad's were a little smaller ; I should feel more con? fident, you know, about staying." ? 50,000 colored children nnvfl been furnished with .schooling and the privi? leges' Of education by Democratic Geor ia. ? ?. - ? . .. . HORRORS NEAR THE POLE. WHY THE BRITISH ARCTIC EX? PEDITION PROVED A FAILURE. Apprehensions that Made Cowards of Brave Seamen?Children's Cauls and Inverted Ships?A Whirlpool that can Suck the Navies of the World into its Vortex. Great disappointment has . naturally been evinced at the dismal failure of the two perfectly equipped English screw steamers?Alert and Discovery?to reach the North Pole. It seems as if the secret of that ? mysterious region defied all the knight-errantry of navigators. For rea? sons to be subsequently advanced, it is improbable that the pole will be reached if the efforts are to depend on ordinary seamen. For it may as well be under? stood, once for all, that the failure to ac? complish the mission of the late British expedition arose not so much from the obstacles presented by Nature as from the weak-heartedness of the crews. It was not the stupendous floebergsof (he Palae ocrystic Sea that baffled Captain Nares ; it was ineradicable superstition and de? moralizing fear that paralyzed his sea? men. This view of the subject obtains no recognition in the elaborate report of the commander, but it is well understood among inielligent seafaring men. The crews of the Alert and Discovery had been selected with great care by Cap? tain Nares' subordinate officers long be? fore the expedition sailed in 1874. The experiences of Baffin, Ross, Parry, Col linsou and others potn ed to this impera? tive precaution. The long months of un? relieved darkness which make up the Arctic winter, trying to the nerves of educated men, are a terrible ordeal to the naturally superstitious seamen. Even when the dense darkness is relieved by the gorgeous pyrotechnics of the aurora borealis, the ordinary seaman only sees another evidence of some terrible and occult cause which has its existence at the pole, whither he is tending. To him the fierce, weird flashing which intermit? tently light up the sky before him, are fire gleams having their origin in some horrible hell presided over by a fire demon. When, therefore, Jack reaches a latitue beyond the eighties, he invaria? bly exhibits evidences of demoraliza? tion. As far as practicable, therefore, none but vigorous, intelligent men were shipped on the last expedition, and ex? traordinary means were employed, in the form of school masters and examiners, to test the mental quaffffcationsof the men ; and when, amid the plaudits of thou? sands, the two ships steamed gracefully up the channel past Beachy Head, the sanguine commander no doubt congratu? lated himself on possessing the most trustworthy and completely equipped ships, and the most intelligent and per? fectly disciplined crews that ever essayed to penetrate the mystery of the pole.? Ere the two steamers had passed out of the North Sea, however, or crossed the Arctic circle, in latitude 75 degrees, it became known to the petty officers that most of the forecastle talk at nights turned upon children's cauls as an infallible preventatire against death by drowning. There were more than a score of cauls in the two ships, and those tars who had their membra? nous underclothes, felt tolerably secure, while those who were without this birth amulet began to feel correspondingly de? pressed. By imperceptible gradations, i his superstitious fear deepened, and pos? sesses of cauls were offered ridiculously large sums?amounting, in some in? stances, to half a years pay?to part with them. But what was money or the promise of it under such circumstances ? What is ten thousand dollars compared to a chunk of bread where starvation is imminent? What were so many pouuds sterling compared to a caul and safety ? The men stuck to the mystic fibre and luck, the others tried to joke but felt uneasy. This uneasiness was not lessen? ed when on the 30th of July, the ice pack was sighted off Cape Sabine, and when exactly a week later the snips were caught and encompassed by that drifting pack, the caullesa men were ready to curse their luck and give themselves up for lost. Whistling on board was now considered in the forecastle a criminal offense?it might raise the wind, and the ships would be dashed to pieces. The struggle with the ice was incessantly maintained for three weeks; and the most obtuse seaman saw that once in? volved among those changing water channels it was as hazardous to proceed as to return. On the 25th of August Captain Nares decided to leave the Dis? covery io winter, od the west side of Hall's Basin, in latitude 81 deg., 44 min., while he pushed on in the Alert. The two crews parted company with a silence [ that might be felt. The seamen of the Discovery were filled with gladness to be left behind ; the seamen of the Alert went forward as a band of men who com? pose a forlorn hope. As the Alert .steamed out of sight of her companion ship along the coast of Grant Lund, and was lost to view as she turned the north? east'corner of that desolate and unex? plored portiou of terra firma, the crews of both ships received a paralyzing surprise. From the deck and rigging of the Dis? covery the seamen and officers saw the Alert suspended in the air in an inverted position, traced on the horizon in the clearest colors, and with the most distinct and perfect representation. The officers ex? plained that this was a common optical deception attributable to a certain condi? tion of the atmosphere. But the fore? castle men regarded1 it as the wraith of the ship, and in low voices wondered and discussed the probabilities of the caul men having survived the revealed catas? trophe. On board the Alert, meantime, an equally demoralizing state of affairs ex? isted. Instead of finding a continuous coast line leading one hundred miles northward, as the commanders and every one on board had been taught to expect the ship was on the border of what was unquestionably a very extensive sea with impenetrable ice in every direction.? This was disheartening; but when en? countering the same peculiar atmospheric conditions as had struck terror into the seamen of the Discovery, they beheld on the horizon real cities where towers and battlements and spires bosomed high in tufted trees, were clearly emblazoned, they could not be persuaded that what they beheld was an optical illusion produced by huge mis shapen icebergs. "We have seen mirage before," they said, "but mirage does not create cities where none exist." The Alert was pushed as far north as possible, and secured inside a sheltering barrier of grounded ice, and here she for eleven months remained. Before her was ap? parently a sea of ancient ice, composed of gigantic angular blocks towering over j fifty feet in the air, and with a diameter ! of a mile?a wilderness of floating ice j islands, whose savage depths lay hidden I forty yards beneath the surface. Amid I this whirling chaos?these rotating ice mountains.with mis s?it is not surpris [ing'That as^darkiieasjjam'e oh until4it LEGAL ADVERTISING.?Vi* are compelled to require cash payments for advertising ordered by Executors, Administrators and other fiduciaries, and herewith append the rates for the ordinary notices, which will only be inserted when the money comes with the order;. Citations, two insertions, ? - - - S3.00 Estate Notices, three insertions, - - 2.00 FinpJ Settlements, five insertions - - 3.00 TO CORRESPONDENTS.?In order to receive attention, communications must be accompanied by the true name and address of the writer. Re? jected manuscripts will not be returned, unless ibo necessary stamps are furnished to repay the postage thereon. ?Sf* Wc are not responsible for the views and opinions of our correspondents. All communications should be addressed to "Ed? itors Intelligencer," and all cnecks, drafts, money orders, 4c, should be made payable to the order of KOYT & CO., Anderson, S. C. overshadowed them in gloom, and the sun was seen no more for even a short half hour above the southern horizon, the men began to ponder, and to be alarmed, and to dream dreams. The crew of the Alert envied the crew of the Discovery? they at least were near the open sea and safety. The seamen of the Discovery, on the other hand, believed that their com? rades on the Alert had perished to a man. Besides, on the bleak hill-side near tbe ship was there not a cairn and a grave? And was there not a tablet?a "head? stone," the men called it?on the board to be erected over Captain Hall's lonely resting-place, when the sun should again fling his rays athwart the dreadfully en? during darkness? Then there was the mystery of poor Hall's fate. Was he poisoned, or did he commit suicide? Or did his heart fail him as their hearts bad already failed them, or did he die heart? broken in consequence? Then there were the early Dutch ships spoken of by Barrington and Beaufoy, Fellows of the Royal Society of England, who had reached within two or three de? grees of the pole, and of finding there an : open sea and destruction?all except one man miraculously saved by a walrus.? And there was a record of another Dutch ship going down two degrees beyond the pole, recorded by the late Admiral Fitz roy before the Geographical Society of London, in April, 1865. The Esquimaux who had seen the ship enter the sea, and another band of Esquimaux who had seen her on the Asiatic side, agreed, the Admiral said, in declaring the disappear? ance of the daring navigator. The Esquimaux on Smith's Sound, or raiher on the mountain, 2,000 feet high, re-discovered by Lieutenant Aldrich in latitude 83 dog., 7 min., saw the vessel steer through an open channel and enter the mild open sen. At first she answered her helm, but asshesniled northward she deflected considerably from the normal route. Finally, like a dancing dervish, she began to whirl round the outer run of the irresistible eddy, like a mad ship in an ocean circus. "No doubt," said the Admiral, "this is a correct description of the event, if it ever happened. Every fresh circle of that >ea will whirl a ship faster than the preceding. Faster and faster will they be driven ; round and round will they go, till at last they plunge bow foremost into the central abyss, crashing amid the wreck of ice? bergs and the bleached skeletons of ma? rine monsters." With minds stored with such cheerful details and enlivening traditions as the foregeing, Commander Markham, Lieu? tenant Parr and the fully equipped sledge parties started on their bleak journey northcurd when spring came. The men were demoralized by superstitious fears, the two o.ncers in command were dis? couraged. They progressed little more than a mile a day. Their track had to be hewn through the up-reared ridges of ice with pick-axes. They labored be? tween sixty and seventy days, and on the 12th of May reached the highest latitude attained by any modern expedition?that of 83 deg., 20 min., 26 sec. north, or with? in four hundred miles of the mystery of the pole. They lacked the courage to penetrate that mystery, and Captain Nares and his discomfitted command find it convenient to assert that there is no open Polar Sea. At the same time scientists and navigators in both conti? nents unite in pronouncing Captain Nares mistaken and his expedition a fail? ure. But none of his wealthy denouncers exhibit any alacrity to lead the way to the pole to hoist their country's flag there. For every recently recorded fact proved the existence not of a "Sea of Ancient Ice"?"the Palseocrystic or Pal eortic Sea," but a whirlpool sea, whose borders are mingled by varying masses of gigantic icebergs centuries old. There are secrets of nature which man it would appear, is not destined to unlock. The pole and the aurora boreas seem to be? long to these. The mystery is like that of tbe life eternal; it can only be solved by yielding up the life present. Odd Chinese Customs. The Chinese have some odd customs in connection with death. When a per? son is dying they hasten to dress him in his best clothes that he may meet a better reception in the other world. He must be removed from theJxmg (brick bed) lest his spirit should 'enter therein ana haunt it. When a man is dead he is supposed to be compelled to cross over a deep abyss, walking upon a very slender thread. * This is very dangerous, and he is liable to be precipitated into fearful flames. , In Shanghai a member of the Episcopal Church died. His wife was a heathen. Some of the assistants, in dressing him, wished to put on a pair of boots with leather soles. "No," said the wife, "they are so slick, he would fall off the bridge." When the funeral is near at hand, a tent of matting is erected at the street door of the house in which lies the dead body. This tent is furnished with bench? es and a-table or.two, and is for the con? venience of the hired musicians. For two or three days and nights, the music (?) goes on at intervals, to foreign ears mak? ing day wearisome, and night hideous with the din. To the natives it is a real festival, even more jolly in appearance than a wedding. Friends and relatives come dressed in white. Even the little boys are clothed in this way. They gen? erally look particularly happy on such occasions. The firing of pop-crackers adds to the solemnity of the scene! The day of the funeral is the gayest of all. The coffin is placed on a bier covered with cloth, which really looks quite hand? some. A number of ragamuffins, picked up anywhere, wearing the shabbiest of old clothes, and the most comical of clown's hats, have been hired to carry the red banners, which add to the mag? nificence of the occasion. When all is ready to start to the grave some pieces of matting are spread out on the street. The ladies in the family, dressed in white, some of the younger ones with their faces painted and looking quite pretty, come out and throw themselves on the matting, with their faces to the ground, and weep most bitterly. They seem to think it is delightful. They hardly ever get outside of their own door, and now to be taking a prominent part in such festivities is really charming. The young ladies look as coquettish as any Fifth avenue belle, and evidently enjoy the admiration they excite. When the funeral moves away the ladies retire, no doubt very sorry that the fun is over.?Kind Words. ? The day after election, a merchant in Spartauburg County gave an old man who had voted for Hjunpton, a pair of shoes. After putting them on he stepped back and said, "Good Lord, if I had knowed dis, I had voted for Hampton ling ago." ? An old minister once said to a young preacher who wits complaining of a small congregation: "Its as large a congregation, perhaps, as you will want to account forat the day of judgment." ? It was said of a somewhat tedious counsel that although he had not the ability to prove black white, he could argue till all was blue. . --The man who nibbles round.agro* ' Cory store is n(Jw*calle7i'a sngar'.lfea^' '."."