Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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im,l,?n VT HI TT Hf Ti VT? CHARLESTON, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1871. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR. V VJ Li U JJ lu Ali-IMJMAJMJM.* THE CONTEST OE 1872. OUR y i: ir TORS: LRTXRR. The KU-K1U? Stories and their Effect morton Strikes, the Key-Note of the Radical Campaign-Cluseret the Dix. tator of Paris-Raman ism on the Street Cars, o.e.. ?Kc. [FROM O?K OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] NEW YORE, April 29. The New York Badical papers continue to publish accounts of dreadful Ku-Klux outra? ges in South Carolina, ^whole families flee? ing in terror," "murders by the wholesale," Ac. False, or at least grossly exaggerated, as these stories are, you can hardly conceive how much they are hurting the cause of Con? servatism here. There are thousands of fair minded men who have been actiDg with the Republican organization, but who have been gradually cooling in their faith in it, who find themselves getting indignant and working back into the old rut. It is hard to persuade these people that these reports are ..lies." Theyjiyill reply that where there is so much smoke there must be soma fire. One -single Instance ol'lawlessness proven, as in the case ol the Union County hang'ngs, gives color in the Northern mind to the thousand pretended cases reported by the Radical press. I make these observations only because out people ought to be impressed with the neces? sity ol' being extremely cautious to give no handle to Radical accusations, il they wish to get their enemies out ol power in the general government. My own opinion is that the next Presidential fight is going lo be a hard one, and lhat the result is extremely doubtful. If there are ek-ven men of oue belief and len of another, it is obvious that the minority must convert oue ol the eleven if it would become a mnjorily. This, I take it, is the relative posi? tion of parties at the North now. The Demo? crats are in the minority, and if they desire to win the next Presidential election they must convert that extra Republican. There are thousands and tens of thousands of Republi? cans, In all of the States, who are intensely disgusted with their own party; but they have been so long in ihe habit ol' distrusting the Democracy that they have not yet been able lo make up their minds to come over. While wc abate none of our principles, we must inspire these people with conSdcLce lu us. It is unquestionable that Senator Morton, the leading mao in the Radical ranks, has struck the key-ncte of the campaign for the Radical side, in his Washington and Indian? apolis speeches. Thc Radicals know the dis? advantages of a defensive warfare, and are going to assume the aggressive boldly. They will force upon the country the old question o? Southern "loyalty" to the United States. Morton, who is os shrewd as he is black-heart? ed, took the position in his recent speeches thaLa conspiracy exists among the Southern people to re-establish the Confederacy, and restore the institution of so-called "slavery," and that, if the Democracy- of the North suc? ceed in carrying the Presidential election, they will quietly acquiese io the demands of the Southern States, and let them depart ia peace. Controlling the government, and. therefore, the army and navy, there will be no attempt at coercion, and the "rebellion" will become al last au accomplished fact. In other words, says Mr. Morton, appealing to old pre? judices, this contest, like ihose which have preceded it, ls for the "the preservation of the Union." Now when we consider that Congress has lodged absolute power in Grant's hands as re? gards the South, so that the eleciions there may be held under duress ii necessary, and that the scheme is to revive the lears of the Northern people about the perpetuity of the Union, we may perhaps comprehend the char? acter oi the Radical plan of battle, and how desperate will be the chances ol beating it. If we do not want four years more of Radical? ism, (and that probably will finish up the Re? public, North as well as South,) we must bring to our aid, in preparing for the coming con? test/moderation, wisdom and foresight in the highest degree. The Tribune announces that it has seat seve? ral correspondents into the South to talk free? ly with the people of all classes, and to inves? tigate the charges of outrage upon, or pre? scription o?, Northern men. The reSuU of their inquiries is to be published in its col? umns. This is undoubtedly a plan to gather material for campaign use. The World has also an accomplished correspondent travelling the South tc get at the truth. One of our New York celebrities is making a conspicuous figure in France. Seven years ago, a tall, gaunt man, with glittering e#es and alerocious moustache, sat in a garret, on Broadway, scribbling, in bad French, slashing editorials against Lincoln and Grant. The former he derided as a blunderer, the latter he sneered at as a fool. This bad French was, with excruciating labor, transformed imo readable English by others, and inserted in the columns of the New Nation, a paper then advocating tho election of Fremont for ihe Presidency. Tois editor in the garret was Cluseret, now Dictator of Paris. He is an edu? cated French army officer, and served in the American civil war under Fremont. Lincoln made him a brigadier-general. But he is an utterly irresponsible adventurer, and lives on his wits. Alter the failure of his newspaper, he ran down so here that he became almost a common loafer, and lived on his acquaintan? ces. He was in France last year belore. the waAegan, and was so noisy that the Imperi? al authorities put him in prison, whereupon he claimed Ms release ou '.he ground that he was an American citizen. Aller he was per? muted to go, he returned to New York, and abused the Emperor and Empress daily through the columns of Alie Sun. The Com? mune must be badly off :br brains to (rust, to such leadership. McMahon will probably put a l ill stop to his care?r. unless Grant should be magnanimous enough to ibrgive him and plead foi his pardon. The community has been greatly excited ovt-r the assassination of Mr. Avery D. Put? nam, by a ruffian, on the sireel car', a lew nights since. Mr. Putnam had a young Indy under bis protection, and had occasiou io rep? rimand a man who was leering at her Inso? lently. The fellow made many remarks in? sulting io tho lady in reply, '?ud when Mr. Putnam was leaving the car with his charge, ran behind him and crushed his skull in with a blow irom an iron hook, which he had bor? rowed from the conductor for ihe purpose. The unfortunate gentleman was taken to St. Luke's Hospital to die, and sr b^quently the assassin was arrested. The conductor, who was evidently his friend and sympathiser, is uiso in custody. It is a fact that a large pro? portion ol the street-car conductors are no better than the thieves whom they admit to the platform to rob, or the ruffians whom they perJRit to browbeat and insult passengers. There 1? r.ardly a New York lady who '.ravels I I by the street care or omnibuses who has not had unpleasant experiences, and the circum I stance that a gentleman ls with her is not al ways a protection. Impudent looks and even I remarks from well-dressed and ill-dressed ruf? fians are so common that they are almost al? ways passed without notice or further thought. In this present Instunce, the murder o? a -citi? zen for daring t? protect a lady has aroused our citizens to a sense ol' the wrongs they are suffering from the dangerous classes, and jus? tifies the fluming appeal at the bead ol a morning paper, "Men of New York, protect your Wives and Daughters 1" NYM. SMUTS IN SAVANNAH. A Pleasant Trip -Suburban Rides - Bonaventure. Thunderbolt and White Bluff-A Curious Cotton Press-Nilsson -A Good Business Year. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDES!.; SAVANNAH, April 30. For those who are weary of the monotony of the city rounds of Charleston, and seek for .rest and recreation among other scenes, no jaunt could possibly be more delightful at thi3 season of the y^ar than a visit to Savannah.. Tailing either the Dictator or City Point on their appointed days of sailing, you pay two j dollars as fare, with the pri? Lege of returning lree during the week, and, in less than eight hours, you will be gliding np the Savannah River amone objects of Interest on either hand; past Forts Pulaski and Jackson: past great batteries, now crowned with verdure, where once thundered Confederate guns; past obstructions whose ugly heads still protruding from the water, seem to say, "0, people, we have been your faithful sentinels !" past mill3 and factories busy with life; past great ship3 lying in the stream, or being towed lo the wharves; past the h?ls of negroes and the warehouses of merchants, until finally, amid a tangle of masts and rigging, you obey the welcome "all ashore," and set loot on the soil of the Forest City. Breakfast-then a drive In the fresh morn? ing air. There are parks by the score-the most, beautiful breathing spots that adorn a Southern city-streets up and down, which you may look as through an arch ol green; pub? lic biiiluiags that tell of the progressive spirit of the people, and private residences 1 hat indi? cate the taste, culture and wealth of the indi? vidual citizen. You will see, too, monuments which perpetuate the memories of the tirst revo luiion; names repeated in public places which are older than the State itself, and oilier signs and symbols that carry the thoughts away back to the beginning ol a century. The gem ; of Savannah, however, is Forsyth Park-a I lovely enclosure, in which the very flowers ; seem glad to thrive, aud the great trees nod ' stately benedictions. There are fringes ol shrubbery, finely gravelled walks, comfortable i seats for the accommodation of visitors, a rich- i ly carved fountain and basin, and from morn? ing until night groups ol nurses and children playing on the lawn lend a picturesque charm I to the place which makes an idle lounger as I happy as il he were in the Garden ol Eden. | Many ol the love matches of the young people I are made on this spot. It is a place to provoke i first-class affection. Sighs are indigenous to I the locality; words here become things, and i hearts become trumps. A popular and pleasant drive is that to Bona- 1 venture. The shell road is In excellent con- < dillon, and the end of the journey, among the I grand old live oaks, well repays a visit. Time i was, when standing in the heart ol Bonaven- ! tow, yen could almost imagine yourself in a 11 sombre cave, where avenues radiated in every I direction, and the labyrinth seemed hung with 1 beauiiful stalactites of pendant gray moss, t Bul there has been a chance in thc place since i the war, and the attempt to improve upon i nature has been a loss to art. Leaving Bona- * venture, Thunderbolt ls a neighboring point i ol attraction. Man and beast here And re- i ireshment, and the cool breezes from the river ( that flows at the foot of the blufl" fan you into < content with yourself and the world. Still I another of the exenisite drives in which Savan- i uah abounds, is on Hie White Bluff Shell Road. ? And if you have the good fortune io secure a ' seat behind Colonel Tom Nickersou's pair of i bays, who do their mlle in three minutes, and i take the dust from no other team in the city, i you will probably say you have had the pre- I mium ride of your life. For eight miles the 1 roau is like a floor. There is a long vista in ' Iront ol' yon; another stretching far to the rear, I while on either side the luxurious foliaire < reaches up and twines the green arch beneath i which you are whirled along to your Journey's < end. ' < A place not to be forgotten in visiting Savan- ] nah is the cotton press of Colonel Whke. The < process by which sixteen hundred bales a day ] are compressed is lamiliar enough to Charie.sio- i nians; but the beautilul machinery by which it < is done-a lady's sewing machine is not more i highly polished-the . indescribable neatness ' and silence that marks the operation, the in- I gesuity with which a stream of water, no big- i ger than a man's finger, is made to apply a '? pressure of hundreds of tons to a bag of cot? ton, squeezing the air from it until it crackles 1 like a breaking bunch of sticks, all thia is loo < interesting tobe ignored by a sight-seer. I There are a pair of evils in Savannah, how- ' ever, to which one does not take kindly who i is not ''to the manor born." The first is streets, 1 that are worse than a sand-bar to your feet; I and the second is the water, which makes a t sand-bar In your throat. You always feel, i while drinking, that you are swallowing f several small Georgia islands in a state of so- 1 lution. But they have a remedy lor it here, e Between six and ten in the morning you may 1 hear the bells ringing all over tiie hotel, ac- ? companied by echoing calls for "Lippmann'' or l "Solumon." I asked the Irish porter down I stairs "what it mean't ?" "Sure,1' says he. > "they're ashking for bitters to kell the damned 1 animalcules in the wather." t Among the ex-Conlederate Generals from ( other Suites, doing business in Savannah, are J Joseph E. Johnston-who, by the way, looks t superbly-and Muirfield Lovell. The city is e also the home of Generals Anderson, Mercer, t Lawton anti Henry R. Jackson. ( The concerts ol Nilsson during the past week ? called out the beauty and fashion ol' th?, place, t The theatre was weil .tilled, and tiie fair cantu- I trice evoked the usual enthusiasm which marks i her appearance everywhere. The receipts lor ' two nights are said to have been upwards ol' 1 five thousauU dol?ais. The b-tsiuess of the city during the past sea- 1 son hu3 been remarkably good, and the build- ' ings going up. especially on the outskirts, willi < other signs of investment, indicate prosperity ! and growth. Sojourners in Florida are rapidly i making their way homeward, and the hotels ! have been througed. The "Screven" is so 1 still. Colonel Nickeison. our old host of the ' Mills House, presides there with all of his ac 1 cuslomed grace, keeps the Screven in such a ' style as lo leave ;<olh:ug to be desired, and is I reaping the reward to which he is entitled by 1 his "experience, enterprise and healthy age. ? Chariestoniaus always find a welcome limier 1 his roof. DAISY. THE NATIONAL ItLA CHG ?A KB. A Severe but Just Word About E. F. Butler. [From the Nation. ] When we consider that there is probably not a man in the United Stales that would say he respected Butler, or had the slightest confl ?lencein him. that, his attempt.? at legislation have all displayed wickedness ami folly in about equal proportions, and that lie lit s prob? ably done as much tu debase the tone o:' public life at Washington as any ten of the worst men who have ever made iheir appearance in Congress, the tender indulgence with which the pre?* treats him is highly discreditable, and very mischievous as well. It is bad enough, in all conscience, to have such a maa relum? ed by a Massachusetts consiiiuencv, but when the leading papers of the party of "moral ideas always treat him as a simple oddity, and his tricks and dodges as the playful gambols ol' a rich and exuberant nature, they help greatly to lower the public standard ol statesmanship, and open political life to charlatans amt rogues of all degrees. If the respectable Republican press would only give him his due, the task ot finishing him might apparently oe left to Mr. Farnsworth, who is evidently too much lor him, and rejoices 'a huDting him with a sav? age joy. AS OTHERS SEE US. THE SOUTH CAROLINA KU-KLUX VIEW BB THROUGH TRIBUNE SPECTACLES. A Tribune Correspondent ut Chester The Conflict of the Colored Militia Why tnt y were Disbanded-Southern Farming-How Crops are Planted Political Purposes-The Blacks to be Turned oat of Office-More Ku-Klux Murders. [Correspondence of the New York Tribune.] CHESTER, S. G.. April 23. It is impossible to doubt the existence and constant activity ol Ku-Klux bands in all thc northern counties of South Carolina. It vas in Chester that the battle between the whites and Ihe black militia took place lo February last. Il should have been called rather a mas? sacre of the blacks, for the timid, ignorant negroes, after firing one volley, threw away their guns and ran, the whiles pursuing them and killing all they could catch. Many ac? counts ol this affair have already been pub? lished, but it is perhaps well to give the ver? sion I have gathered here from Hie cilizcns, both while and black They say that the ne? gro militia were armed by the Oo vernor, just before Hie last election, lor the purpose of in tiruldatlug Ihe whites. The election passed off iu this county without disturbance. The whites ran a Reform ticket, upon which were the names of two or three intelli? gent nocroes, who were nominated in the hope of dividing the black vote. The Re? formers were confident of success, but when it came to voling, the negro nominees had not thc courage to vote for themselves, but, un? der pressure*of the secret Uion Leagues, bolt? ed and joined the Radicals. The blacks voted In a body, nnd they had so large a majority that the whites were convinced I hat there had been fraud, and that the ballot-boxes had been Stuffed-a political crime In every way facilitated by the new election law. Ignorant and bad men were elected to the county offi? ces-among others a school commissioner who cannot read or write. Tiie whiles had count? ed greatly on the success of their reform i movement, and were bitterly disappointed. There is no doubt that the whipping of promi? nent negro politicians by masked ruffians be? came lrequent aller ihe election, although llie citizens say nothing about thls.and talk os il Hie I burning ol barns and cotton gins by the blacks I Iud been of common occurrence through-, h out tho neighborhood. The bad feeling betweens Hie two races increased, and the muster and-j." drill ortho negro militia exasperated the whites \ beyond measure. A militia captain, living I twelve miles lrom the town, at a place called Carmel Hill, was visited one night by a gang I of Ku-Klux, who broke' into his house. He retreated to a barn, where he had stationed a ?ev,- men of hi3 company in anticipation of thc fittack. They fired upon the assailants, who ran. followed lor some distance by the blacks. The next morning, ihe captain, believing the attack would be renewed, got his company together and marched into Chester to gel um-1 munition, to the tenor of the citizens, who were atraid thai the town would be burned. I Hie sheriff aud the town intendant ordered j Lhe militia to leave, and they marched out and blvouucked a mile distant. The citizens ??ickeied the roads and patrolled the streets all night. The lollowing day, a while man named Ryster. a militia major, went out and brought the company back and 6lationed them tbont his house. They were again urged to I [eave, but Hie major ordered Hiera to remain, imviug fears lor his own safely. By this time I lispatches had been sent to neighboring I towns, aud mauy armed while men came In by j .ail aud on horseback. The negroes camped I n a grove near Hie major's house, when j .hey were joined hy another company I ulonging in "the town. A parly ot armed j A'hiuTmen caine down in the night from a sta- j lou on the railroad some miles north, and. see- j ' ng the blacks encamped near the depot, com- J ' n?uced firing on them. The Ure was return-1 : Ml, b';l no one was hurt. In Hie morning a I turley waa held, aud tho Carmel iii!) Company I ivas induced to stan for home auder assur- I inces ol' protection. They camped five miles >ut of town, and next morning were altacked jyaboui200 whites, and routed. Meanwhile aolhing saved the Chester company Iroin mus sucre but the timely arrival ol' a company ol United Slates troops, who found 500 white j men fully armed aud under the commund ot a . Tormer rebel colonel, and bent on the exter? mination of the blacks. The casualties in I, these affairs, including the negroes who were litiuted down and killed through the country, I ivere nineteen blacks killed, wounded and missing, (ol whom eleven are believed to be lead,) und one white man wounded. This I iuded the militia business in Chester County. I Sovernor Scolt, convinced at last of the folly ; bf arming ignorant negroes, directed Hie com-1 punies to return their guns, and a few were J :ollected and sent to Columbia, the greater j ' part having f?llen into the hands of the Ku Klux. The white major, urbe was also county :lerk, did not dare to stay in the town alter Hie light, and left at once with his family, .since ihe arrival of the troops, everything has been quiet, but ihe white citizens still keep up I t night patrol of iwenty-five men to look out I for incendiaries. Chester is a forlorn, straggling, slovenly vil age of perhaps 2300 Inhabitants. The streets :entre on a hill, where there are a block of I ' brick stores and a courthouse, in the midst I if a little, bare, opeu square, a bell is hung on I ? i tall post. It is rung at 9 o'clock every night, j ; vhen all Hie saloons and stores are closed, and I j louest people are expected to go home aud go I o bec. From this hill-top cornie, Hie streets I lesceud abruptly, running off ra a hap-hazard, 11 lilllie:* way, until tiley aro lost in the fields. I' The dilapidated wooden buildings show lainl 1 iigna of having once been painted. Groups of 1 azy negroes lounge along the'sidewalks. or J1 ipravvl at full length upon the ground lu ?un- I 1 ly places, looking like bundles ol old rags, j \ Jttle half-gro wn and hall-starved c iii le toil I: ip tho hill, drawing creaking carls. They ure 11 larnessed willi horse-bridles on iheir head?, 1 md b is in their mouths, lo winch rope reins . ire fastened, aud horse-collars instead ol .oleos. Knots ol sullen white men hang about I he doors of the saloons and store?, chewing, I 1 iweaiing, and spitting. A beuuliful roiling I j lpland country stretches away in all I 1 ??reelions-beautiful to look out upon 11 tom this eminence, bul sad wiien seen 11 nore closely. Never was a naturally j .ich anti productive region so abominably I nish.'ed. This wretched, ruinous Southern I j neihod ol farming has blighted and cursed I j villi poverty a country that iiaiLevery natural I j ulvantage-a fruitful soil, producing colton, I, 'rust, corn, and all the small grains; pure run- | ling streams, excellent timber, ami a healthy ( .'Un?ate. It might have been as prosperous , md us thickly peopled as Hie Valley of ihe Mo- ? uiwl;; and yet the scanty population can J .carcely get enough to eat to keep soul und , body io?ether. The farming consists in scratch- 1 tig willi a one-horse p ough such portion ol' the fields as Hie weeds anti brush have liol j bverron, and planting colton. The greater part of every field is cut up imo deep gullies by Hie rains, ami covered with dwan'pines md brambles, that ure constantly encroaching upon Hie little tillable hind thal remains. Cotton appears to be Hie main crop, tho com und bacon upon which Hie people subsist being shipped l om a distance at* great cost. The salo ol' a larder's cotton b.rely furnishes money enough lu buy ?he iOOd loi Iiis family and ula negro laborers. Meanwhile, nine tenths of his laud lies utilised, ?iud he grows poorer and poorer every year. All his misfor? tunes are, ol course, charged lo the "nigger government." Two men whom I met ai Hu- hotel yesterday volunteered to walk out with me to u neigh? boring plantation? where they were planting I colton. On our way we croped a field of fifty acres which lliey said had been cleared, worn out and abandoned since, the war. We found two negro men, two women and two boys al work plantlug. The ground had been plough? ed in Ul? lill, and earlier in ibo spring lind been thrown up in ridges three leet apart, In tho centre ol' which 111? guano had been I slrewn. The final process cuu<isted In scraping a small furrow with a wooden plough along the lop of each ridge, dropping Hie seed in, and covering il wiih a rude wooden con? trivance drawn by a horse. The men held the ploughs, the boys threw lhe seed into the bur? rows from bags slung to their shoulders, and the women guided the coverers, which re? semble a shovel plough with a slout board in place of the shovel. The owner of the plan? tation said he paid the men $125 a year, with board and quarters, and that the women earned about half wages. He had "put $10 worth of guano to the acre upon the land we were looking at, and had to do it every year to make a crop. ;'I expect to make a bale of cotton to the acre, which will be worth about $60," he said. "That sounds like a good lot of money to get off an acre, but there's no profit In it. When I come to pay my hands and feed them, pay for fertilizers and bagging, and for feed for my stock, there won't be much left., Some men haven't paid expenses for the last year." My acquaintances had taken a drink on starting tor the plantation, and when we re? turned to the hotel they took another, nothing being begun or ended at the South without drinking. They became quite talkative, and the absorbing political question soon came up. "I tell you, stranger," said one, "we can't stand bein'ruled by niggers any longer, they're just ruinin' the State. They're taxln' us and plunderin' us in a way that no white man would stand. They don't pay a dollar of taxes themselves. No, not even the poll tax; for the , nigger Legislature, waa mighty carelul to put ? lr. In tlie law that they needn't poy the tax to get to vote. Look here, stranger, wharabouts do you come from F I replied that my native State was Ohio. "Wall, do you think folks In your f tate would stand it to have a lot of ig norant, degraded niggers, not worth a dollar, makin' laws and lidding all the offices, and taxin' their property, and they not a word to sav ?" ? replied that I was confident the people of j Ohio would not like such a state or affairs. "No, I reckon they wouldn't, and they wouldn't stand it neither, not for a single day. And, I tell you, sir, that we've borne it as long as we can. and now its got to stop. The niggers havo got to let men of property and intelligence hold the offices, or they've got to leave this part of the country." This I lind to be the unanimous sentiment or I the white men here with whom I have talked. A one-armed lawyer, who had been a colonel in the rebel army, told me this morning that he believed the negroes would soon abaudon this part ol the State and go to the sections where they are largely in the majority. I asked him what he '.bought of an intelligence qualifica? tion for suffrage as a remedy tor the present evil. "That would suit us," lie repiied, "but how are we going to get it. The negroes will never pass a law dislranchisipg themselves. The ouly way is to force them to give up the power they have got, and we'mcun to do it.'' It is pcriectly evident that the whiles mean to try lo get. control or the Slate government, and that they have a thorough organization for Ibis purpose. It matters noC whether it is called the White Brotherhood, the Invisible Empire, the Ku-Klux-Klan, or the Council ol' Safety-thc last beiug the name which they ive/it here in Chester-its purpose ls the " ne, and that is so to intimidate the biacks ?at the next election they will not dare to for any ol their own race for office or for any white Radical. The troops stationed here ar? under command of Major Van Voasl or the ISth Infantry, and eonsist of one company ol' Ids regiment and a troop of the "th Cavalry They are quartered in the outskirts of the vil? lage and use ai: abandoned warehouse for bar? racks. The officers say they have heard of no murders in Hie county since-they came, but that the whipping of the blacks by masked men still goes on, to some j ext enL in the surrounding districts. Sometimes the vic? tims are whipped lor suspected thens, but usually they are told that It ls for voting a Radical ticket, and they are made to promise never to do so again. The troops have no au? thority to make arrest?, and can do nothing unless called upon by a revenue officer or by the sherill' to act as a posse com'dalus. The officers are expecting new orders n w that the Kn-Klux bill has been pass?t' They think they will be directed to learn the state ot af? fair, in the vicinity, and report ail acts or vio? lence, in order that the President may know when it is necessary to aval) himself ol the discretionary powers given him by the bill. In counties where ho garrisons have been established tho condition of things is much worse than here. In Chesterfield County, negro, his wile and daughter were murdered one night last week. The man-rind been col? lecting the delinquent tax. 1 In Clarendon County, two days ugo, a county commissioner was found dead in the road, snot In six places. The Ku-Klux seem determined to murder all negro office-holders. ?J THE Z.OrrrSTA.X.4. C?EVASSEM. The Holluntl or America. A special correspondent ol' the Philadelphia Press writes an interesting letter to that paper from New Orleans under date of the 20th ult., in which the subject of Hie levees, the crevas? ses, and the general condition of things de? pendent thereon, are discussed. We make Hie following extracts : GENERAT. OBSERVATIONS. Holland, the home of the brave and thrifty Dutch, has suffered much from overflows and Inundations of the sea, and the result of their losses is and has been a more perfect system of dykes or levees, guaranteeing safety for the future. Dutch engineers have a world-wide reputation, and if we had a few ol these en? gineers iu this State (Louisiana) at the present Cime our bottom-lands would not, be washed out. To-day the Mississippi River is high very high;'higher than it has been for many years, and from all points abuve and below the city I hear ol crevasses. Un Sunday last I visited Carrollton, a suburb or this city, butin another parish or county, called Carroll Parish, some six miles from Canal street, the heart or centre of the Cres? cent City. Here I found the river at several points dashing or washing over thc levee, and the inhabitants of the place no more alarmed Limn if tho river were fifteen feet below the level of the olly, Instead of being, as ?tis, at least fifteen feet above the level. I wal ked for i mlle along or on top of thc levee, and could look down Imo the. interior ol' the second stories of the dwellings, as well as the tlrst, ind could plainly see that the Inhabitants did not know of their danger, or if they did, they lid not care as long as they were sale for the moment. If a crevasse were to Ow.ur above the city, at Carrolllon, lhere is no telling the result, as millions of dollars' worth ol'properly would bu destroyed, and numerous lives lost, ?ei, with all these lacis staring thc people lu Lhe face, they make no preparations whatever for the Barely or either themselves or their pro? perty. I cannot liken them lo anything else limn sinners, living from day to day. never dreaming of eternity until their last moments, und then it is loo late for repentance. APPEARANCE OF TUE LEVEE. This morning I paid a visit to lhe levee at the foot of Canal street, and found the river to be higher than it was on Sunday last by several inches, ."our more inches and it would wash uver the levee and overflow lhe "back of lowu" at once, and ll nul ly lhe best part, of the city. Now and then I hear a joke proffered by some smart fellow, staling that "skills and battcans ure on the riz." I passed down the levee lo the French Market, where the Phila? delphia steamship Juntala is being unladen. The ship towers above Hie city like a huge monster, and she looks ns though she were about to topple over on thc landing. I took a position some ten squares or so from the river, and lhe steamboats and ships looked as if they were moored away up In the air. NEGLECT OF OFFICIALS. The levers along lhe "coast," above and below tho eily, have been neglected not only by the planters', but by thc Slate officials. The Old levees are honey-combed by craw-fish-a small shell fish, resembling a youug lobster, aud very toothsome when dressed up into a salid-boring through and causing Die water lo follow their wake, which eventually causes the crevasse. T:ie board of public work-! have power lo build nev levees, but they have no power to repair old one.-', and the consequence is. Uial the ouliOllsneSH ol lhe planters and their Indifference in regard to matters outside ol' raising sugar and conon is lhe cause o? our present daiiiier. This morning Hie telegraph tells us that Hie river is falling, and that at Memphis tho river has already ?allen fifteen feel. Tr.e real danger commences when the river is falling, as Hie undermined levees lall in and wash away as lhe water declines. -I COM 1'LIMES! TO TUE NEWS. [?.'rom the Beaufort Bepubllcan.] Wc have had it in our mind for sometime to say a good word for TUE CHARLESTON DAILY NEWS. We do not always agree with the paper on matters of pubiic policy, but we recoguize it as a journal honestand outspoken iu its views, and as a thorough champion for tue best interests or the State, irrespective or party. It is spicy and newsy, consistent aud straightforward, pure in tone, liberal in its ideas, metropolitan in character, and, to our view, the best morning paper iu the State. We heartily commend lt to all classes. NO PEACE FOR PARIS YET. TERRIBLE FIRING IN PARIS-THE POPULATION TERROR-STRICKEN. The Masons Unsuccessful-Hostilities Progressing-The Bitter En.; Ap? proaching.' PARIS, April 30. Yesterday witnessed a grand scene at the Champs Elysees upon the departure of the Freemasons to visit Thiers. A vast crowd col? lected, wheo a Ure suddenly opened upon them scattering the people wildly. The Free? masons advanced and planted one hundred and twenty flags on the ramparts-a flag for each lodge. They reached Versailles at C o'clock. They were bllndiolded and sent back, with tho exception of the president and two delegates. Their mission was unsuccessful. At 10 o'clock this morning, Dombrowski warned the Versailllsts that hostilities might commence at any hour. Forty thousand men are now ready for ?ghting in the Champs Elysees. VERSAILLES, April 30. It is stated that Issy is occupied by the Ver saillists. The affair at Moullneaux was bril? liant lor the Versailllsts. Three hundred pris? oners were taken, and^many of the Commun? ists bayoneted. VERSAILLES, May 1. Issy has displayed a flag of truce. Negotia? tions are proceeding for its surrender. The elections at Lille resulted in the success o? the Republicans. PARIS, May L Cluseiet has been dismissed by the Com? mune. Rossel succeeds him. Dura3sier suc? ceeds Okolowltz, who ls wounded. LONDON', May 1. Sheridan, Forsythe and Mrs. Lincoln de? parted on the Russia. It Is reported from Paris that the sisters of Archbishop Durboy have been arrested. It ls stated that the German troops in France have been notified that they will remain two years. ' The Latest. . PARIS, May 1. The dring last night was fearful, and appa? rently utterly reckless. Nothing to compare with it has occurred since the commencement ol' the civil war. The city ls greatly excited, and alarmed groups of frightened people in every street are discussing the state of affairs. General Okolowitz's wound is a very severe one, and recovery i3 doubtful. The delegates from the Masonic iodges of Paris returned from Versailles unable to ac? complish anything. They report that Thiers expressed the opinion that a peaceable ar? rangement with the Paris Commune is impos? sible. VERSAILLES, May 1. A large number of troops moved towards Paris to-day as reinforcements to the army of investment. The editors of all the moderate journals in Paris have been ordered to be pro? secuted by the Commune, and are leaving lhe city as rapidly as possible. Private telegraph? ing in Paris is again entirely suspended. Rossel, in accepting the insurgent ministry o? war, says he shall have need of the absolute co-operation of the Commune troops and the people of Paris. The Provincial elections in all parts o? France have resulted in favor of Conservative Republicans. ' VERSAILLES, May 1-7 P. M. . Negoliations for the surrender of Ibsy hav? ing tailed, the bombardment has recommenc? ed, and is now very violent. AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. Supreme Court Decisions. WASHINGTON, May 1. In the Supreme Court the civil rights case from.Kentucky; lhe case involving the consti? tutionality ot' Drake's amendment against the constitution by the courts; of the effect of par? don and amnesty; In cases under the captured and abandoned property act; certain gold con? tract cases and certain slave contract cases, go over to the adjourned term for decision. Cow dry against the Galveston and Houston and Henderson Railroad : lu this case there were cross appellees, but the decree ol' the Circuit Court was in all things conllrmed. Thc United States against acquaint of tobacco, ic: In this case the Judgment of the Circuit Court was affirmed. It was held that the Indian country is a part of the United States; that Congress intended to tax whiskey and to? bacco In that country: mat lhere was power to do so, aud the treaties with the Cherokees do not stand in the way. Justice Cli'ord read a brief pa? per on the legaUender cases ol Knox against Lee and Parker against Davis, as lollows; "In these iwo casesitwo questions were heretolore directed to be argiied, namely, first: Is the act ol' Congress, kntown as the lejal-tender- act, constitutional ai to contra?is made before its passage: second is it valid as applicable to iransaclions since its passage.. These ques? tions have been considered by the court, and both have been dellded in the affirmative in the decree of the 'Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the fcase ol Parker against Davis, and therefore' affirmed; and the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States of the western\ district of Texas ls also affirmed/' The Cht?f Justice, willi Associate Justices Nelson, ^clifford and Field, dissent 1 rom the majority* of the court upon both propositions and iliert-esu Its, hold? ing that the act of Congress, sd far as applica? ble lo contracts made belorc Us passag?, is re? pugnant to lhe constitution and void, and also that it is repugnant to the constitution and void so lar as applicable to contracts made since its passage. The opinion of the court and the reasons for dissent will be read before the close of the adjournment term. THE JD EB J' STATEMENT. WASUIN'?TON, May 1. The debt statement shows a decrease of over six million?. The coin in Hie treasury amounts to ten hundred and sixty-one millions, and the currency to twelve and ihree-quarter millions. The Southern claims comml.vsion intend dis? tributing primed lists ol' all claimants, to be bulletined at the Souihern posloffices for the purpose of obtaining additional evidence con? cerning loyally a nd multiplying complaints. TBE STATE OF THE WEATHER. WASHINGTON, May 1. It is probable that a light storm ls gathering in Missouri, and that a falling barometer with northeast winds will continue to prevail on the lakes and southeast, and southwest winds in the Guli States, with threatening and rainy weather in the central Mississippi valley. On the Atlantic coast the weather on Tuesday will probably be variable, with occasional rains and increased cloudiness in the middle and south .ern Slates. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. -Corcoran is no better. -The Bernard-Rlchlngs Opera Troupe have been declared bankrupt at Philadelphia. -In the base ball match at Baltimore, yes? terday afternoon, the Bostons scored 18 and the Pastimes 1. -Counsellor E. S. Worthington, of Ken? tucky, who was prominent in the military courts of the Confederacy, is dead. -The American Tontine Life Insurance Com? pany, of New York, goes into involuntary liquidation by a vote of the directors. -The Aleppo has arrived at Queenstown with the crew of the bark Merrimac, which she run down In the harbor on tke 20th, all of whom were supposed to have been lost, -The funeral of the merchant, Avery D. Putnam, who was assaulted by a ruffian in a street car in New York, was Imposing. The stores along the line ol the procession were closed, the citizens bowing to the cortege as lt passed. -There was an affrayjesterday, in New Or? leans, between Jules Vincet and Philip Lame reaux, in which the latter was shot and killed. Later in the evening there was a difficulty be? tween two colored men, resulting in the death ofoneoftbem. Both murderers have been arrested. THE OREAX CREVASSE. NEW ORLEANS, May L Several hundred persons went on an excur? sion to the Bouvet Carre crevasse yesterday. The levee on either side is still giving way slowly, though unremitting labor ls being made to stop its further spread. The roar of the current at the break can be heard more than a mlle. Well informed planters estimate that the loss to the crop will exceed twenty thousand hogsheads. A NOVEL PANACEA. How to Secure Unanimity Among thc People. Somebody suggests, in the Orangeburg News, the following unique remedy for the existing misgovernment of th^j State, viz: That the convention shortly to be held in Columbia elect a Slate central committee, composed of Democrats, Reformers and Republicans, with power to call a grand nominating convention m the spring oi 1872, on the following basis: Issue a proclamation to the people of South Carolina to assemble at the courthouse of their respective counties, and elect ten Democrats, ten Reformers and ten Republicans to repre? sent each county in this grand convention, to make nominations from Governor down to road surveyor, irrespective of party, and the man who opposes the nomination, in any way, Ku-Klux him on the spot. -Guonod ls to receive two thousand pounds for the composition ot the cantala with which the Universal Exhibition In London Is to be opened next year. -During the siege of Paris fifty-four official balloons, (conveying 2,500,000 letters) besides many private ones, of which lhere ls no re? cord, were sent up from the city. Three fell Into the hands of the Germans, one fell in Holland, one in Nassau, one was lost at sea and one made a most extraordinary voyage to Norway. The last official balloon, the General Cam bronne, was sent up January 28. SjKcinl Notires. ' j?t? READ C A R~FTF1TLTY^ FEVER AND AGUE. The only preventive known for Chills and Fever ls the use of Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps. WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS ls good for Dyspepsia. WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS ls a preventive or Chula and Fever. WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS Is good for all Kidney and Bladder Complaints WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS ls used all over the World by Physicians in their practice. WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS Is good for Gout. WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS ls good for all Urinary complaints. WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS Is recommended by all the Medical Faculty. WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS Is good for Celle and pain in the stomach. WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS Is Imitated and counterfeited, and purchasers will have to use caution in purchasing. I beg leave to call the attention of the reader to testimonials in lavor of the Schnapps: I feel bound to say that 1 regari your SCHNAPPS as being in every respect pre-eminently pure, and deserving or medical patronage. At ali events it is tbe purest possible article of Holland gin, here contre unobtainable, and as such may be safely prescribed bj physicians. DAVID L. MOTT, M. D., Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York. LOUISVILLE, Ry., September l. .1 feel that re have now an article or gin suit? able for auch cutes ai that remedy i* adapted to. DR. J. W. BRIGHT. '.Schnapps" ls a remedy tn chronic catarrhal complaints, Ac I take great pleasure in bearing highly credit? able testimony to Its efficacy as a remedial agent in the diseases for which you recommend lt. Having a natural tendency to the mucous sur? faces, with a slight degree of stimulation, I re. gard lt as one of the most: important remedies In chronic catarrhal affections, particularly those ol the genito-uriuary apparatus. With much re? spect, your obedieut servant, CHAS. A. LISAS, .VI. D" New York. No. 26 PINS STREET, N. Y" Nov. 21,1867. DOOLPHO WOLFE, ESQ., Present: DEAR SIR-1 have made a chemical examination of a sample of your "Schiedam Schnapps," with the intent ol determining if auy foreign or iuju .ious substance had been added to the simple distilled spirits. Thc examination has resulted in the conclusion that the sample contained no poisonous or harm? ful admixtures. I have been unable to discover any trace of the deleterious substances which arc sometimes employed in the adulteration or ?lquors. I would not hesitate to usc myself, nor to recorumend to others, for mediciaai purposes, the '-Schiedam Schnapps" a? an excellent and unobjectionable variety of gin. Very respectfully yours, (Signed) CHAS. A. SEELY, Chemist. CUEMICAL AND TECHNICAL LABORATORY*, \ 15 EXCUASGE PLACE, X. Y., Nov. 25, 1867. J UDOLPHO WOLFE, Esq. : DEAR SIR-The under? signed have careluliy and thoroughly analyzed a sample ot your "Aromatic Schiedam SChapps," selected by ourselves, and have found the same free from all organic or Inorganic substances, more or less Injurious to health. From the result of our examiuation we consider the article one o? superior quality, healthful as a beverage, and eflectual in its medicinal qualities. Respectfully yours, (Signed) ALEX. TRIPPEL, Chemist. FRANCIS E. ENGELHARD, M. D. For sale by ali respectable Grocers and Dru gists. UDOLPHO WOLFE'S EST., mar2i-3mo3 No. 22 BEAVSK STREET, N. Special Notices. ?3T* PREVENTIVE MEDICATION.-A radical change has been introdnced in the prac? tice of medicine. Physicians have ceased to tor - ture and prostrate their patients. Instead of pull? ing down, they build up; Instead of assaulting nature, they assist her. Cupplcg, leeching, blis? tering, venesection, calomel, aatlmony, atuplfy ing narcotics, and rasping purgativep, once the favorite resources of the faculty, and now rarely resorted to even by the most dogmatic members of the profession. The old creed waa that disease was something which must be expelled by violent artificial means, lrresi-ective or the wear sud tear of the vital organization In the process. The now creed recognizes the improvement or tbe genera. 1 health as essential to the care of all local ailments. Hence lt ls that HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BIT? TERS, tue moat potent vegetable t mic that phar? macy has ever brought to the assistance of nature in her straggles with disease, has been cordially approved by practitioners of the modern school. It is pleasant to reflect that reason and philoso? phy have at last been victorious over the errors of the past, and that thousands, and tens of thous? ands, of human beings are alive and wsli to-day who would indubitably be mouldering in their graves, had they been subjected to the pains and penalties which were deemed orthodox and indis? pensable thirty or forty yean ago. . Preventive medication was scarcely thought of then; but now it is considered of paramount im? portance, and the celebrity of the stand ard invlg crant, alterative and restorative of the age, (a title which HOSTETTER'S BITTERS have fairly earned by their long career of success,) is mainly doe to its efficiency as a protective preparation. A coarse of the Bitters is urgently recommend? ed ss a safe and certain antidote to Intermittent* and remittent fevers, diarrhoea, dysentery and other maladies. apr29-4D*o flailrca?s. jgOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. CHARLESTON, April 28, 1871. SCHEDULE OF THE SCH?TZENPLATZ TRAIN, COMMENCING MAY 1ST AND CONTIN? + INO FIVE DAYS. Leave Ann street at.8.30 A M. Leave Ann street at.11.00 A M. Leave Ann street at.LOO P. M. - Leave Ann street ac.2.00 P. M. Leave Ann street at.3.20 P. M. Leave Ann street at.4.30 P. M. Leave Ann street at.6.00 P. M. RETURNING. Leave Schutzenplatz at.. 0.00 A. M. Leave Schutzenplatz at.;.11.20 A. M. Leave Schutzenplatz at.1.20 P. M. Leave Schutzenplatz at.;.2.20 P. M. Leave Schutzenplatz at.3.40 P. M. Leave Schutzenplatz at.4.50 P. M. Leave Schutzenplatz at.6.30 P. M. Last Night Train will leave Line street at 8.30 P. M., and returning leave Schutzenplatz at io P. M. Tickets must be purchased before getting on the train. They can be had at 0. L1TSCH?PS, East Bav; F. VON s ANTEN, King street; MEL? CHER^ & MULLER, King street; G. H. LIND STEDTO. corner King and Calhoun streets; C. PIEPPER'S, corner King and Spring Btreets, and at the RAILROAD. A. lu TYLER, Vice-president. S. B. PlCEBNS, G. T. A _apr29-6 ?JgXCURSION TO SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH ANO CHARLESTON RAILROAD, \ CHARLESTON, S. C., April 25, 1871. j For the week commencing SUNDAY, April 30, and ending -ATURDAY, May 6, 1871. Excursion Tickets will be sold to and from Savannah ai ONE DOLLAR EACH WAY. No extra expense nor chargea for berths, Ac. Tickets good until May 8,1871. Trains leave Charleston dally at.8.30 A M. Trains leave Savannah dally at.il.15 A. M. Trains arrive at Savannah dally ac... 3 P. M. Trains arrive at Charleston dally at.... 5.20 P. M. Fur KA 11'rt Tr ni aa, u> aoooaiiaodato Iorgo par tles at other hours, apply to Agent. (Signed) C. S. GADSDEN, Engineer and Superintendent, & C. BOYLSTON, General Ticket Agent. ap 1-28-10_ ?oUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. VICE-PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, 1 CHARLESTON, S. 0., January 18,1871. j " On and after SUNDAY, January 22, the Passen? ger Trains on inc Souci vu r juna Railroad wm ruc as follows: FOB AUGUSTA. Leave Charleston.12.60 P. M. Arrive a* Augusta. 8.15 P.M. FOB COLUMBIA. Leave charleston.8.20 A. M. Arrive at Columbia.3.40 p. M. FOB CHABLESTON. Leave Augusta.7.40 A. M. Arrive at Charleston. 3.20 P. M. Leave Columbia.12.16 P. M. Arrrive at charleston.7.60 P. M. AUGUSTA NIGHT EXPBESS. (SuudayB excepted.) Leave charleston.8.80 P. M. Arrive at Augusta.7.064. AL, Lcave Augusta. 6.60 p. M. Am ve at Charleston.5.40 A.M. COLUMBIA NIGHT EXPRESS. (Sundays excepted.) Leave Charleston. 7.10 P. M. Arrive at Columbia.6.00 A. M. Leave Columbia. 7.60 P. M. Arrive at Charleston.6.46 A. M. SUMMERVILLE THAIN. Leave Charleston.2.30 P. M.. Arrive at summerville.6,00 p. M. Leave summerville..7.00 A. M. Arrive ut Charleston..*..... 8.16 A. M. CAMDEN BRANCH. Leave Camden.6.00 A. M. Arrive at Columbia.10.40 A. M. Leave columbia.1.25 P.M. Arrive at Camden. 6.00 P.M. Day and Night Trains make close connections at Augusta with Ge.rgia Railroad and Central Railroad. Night Train connects with Macon aad Angosta Railroad. Columbia Night Train connects with Greenville anil Columbia Railroad. Camden Train connects dally with Day Passen? ger Trains. janlO_A. L. TYLER. Yice-PresldenC NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD COM? PANY. CHABLESTON, S. C., February ll, 1871. Trains ?eave Charleston Daily at 12 M and P. M. Arrive at Charleston 7:30 A M (Mondays ex? cepted) and 3:30 P. M. Train docs not leave Charleston 6:30 P. M., SON DAYS. Tram leaving at 12 M makes through connec? tion to New York, via Richmond and Acquia Creek only, goine through lu 42 hours, WITHOUT DETENTION ON SUNDAYS. Passengers leaving by 6:30 P. M. Train have choice of route, via Richmond and Washington, or via Portsmouth and Baltimore. Those leaving MUDA Y by thia Train lay over on SUNDAY m Bal? timore. Those leaving on SATURDAY remain SUN? DAY In Wilmington, N. C. This is the cheapest, quickest and most pleasant route to cincinnati, Chicago and other points West and Northwest, both Trains making close connections af Washington with Western trains of Baltimore and J hio Railroad. S. S. SOLOMONS, Engineer and superintendenc P. L. CLEANS, General Ticket Agent. (ebii-i2moa SAVANNAH AND CHARLESTON RAIL? ROAD. PASSENGER TRAINS on this Road run dally as follows: Leave Charleston.8.30 A.M. Arrive at Savannah.3.00 P. M. Leave Savannah.:.UM A. M. Arrive at Charleston.5.20 P. M. Connects at Savannah wlrh the Atlantic k Gulf RaUroad for Jacksonvfcie, St. Augustine, and all points in Florida. . , Wita Central Railroad for Macon, Atlanta, Mo? bile, New Orleans and the West. With Steamboats for points on the Savannah At Charleston with the Nortneastern and South Carolina Railroads, and steamships for all points North and Wesc . _ Through Tickets over this line on sale at Hotels tn Charleston; Screven House, Savannah; and all nrinclpal Ticket offices North and South. Freights forwarded daily to and from Savan? nah ami all points beyond. Through Bills of hading Issued to Jackson vele, Pal at kn," kc. Tarin" as low as by any other une. C. S. GADSDEN, oet? Engineer and Superintendent, j