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? zy' mt VCLUME IX.-NUMBER 1967 CHARLESTON WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1872. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR. THE BATTLE OF THE ROGUES THE IMMACULATE MOSES IS THE BOLE OF INJUREDINNO CESCE. A Glance at the PleHI after the Fight feeling Among the Whites and Blacks i in Coiami) ia-Ws 11 the Kegulara Flop to Greeley ?-The Stronghold of Bowen to be Stormed, cbc. [SPECIAL TK LEO H AU TO THE NEYT-.1 COLUMBIA, S. C., August 28. The smoke of the fac? i on-light ls clearing away, but there ls nothing as yet to throw any new light upon the political situation. The Bolters have returned to the places whence they came to pla J a vigorous can vacs against the regulars. All their strongest men will take the stump, and lt ls rumored that the na? tional administration will give th ?rn Hs official countenance. It is said, nevertheless, that some of the Bolters are disappointed that the Democratic committee declined to take steps for putting out a Democratic State ticket, which action would have given the Bolters an excuse for throwing up the sponge and then placing the responsibility on the shoulders of the Democracy. It is now believed that a lette- has been received from General Horace Porter, the President's private secretary, say? ing that Grant has nu preference between the two tickets. ' The Begulars are hard at work, and promise to give special attention to the low country, the only section ot the State in which they are willing to admit that the Boilers have any considerable negro strength. Mr. C. Davis Helton will take the stump for the regulars. These declare that they can utterly destroy Bowen's influence la Charleston County. They also threaten that they will declare for Greeley If the administration goes with the Bolters. Thc colored people here are reticent, and say little about the struggle of the opposing factions. The whites are apathetic and indif? ferent, regarding the contest as one between scalawag and carpet-bagger, in which at pres? ent they take no part. The following card is to appear iu the Phoenix to-morrow: "2b ?Ae People of South Carolina : "I have known thal for some lime rumors have been rife throughout the Slate charging me with having issued, os speaker ot the House ot Representatives, false and fraudu? lent pay certificates, and that I have received a certain sum of money from the armed loree fund o?the State, and appropriated it lo-ray own use*nd beaeflr. In accordance wilh the rule ot conduct observed by men iu public positions, I have not felt myself called upon to make answer to these charges; but, In the manifesto Issued by a so-called convention, re? cently held in this eily, signed by the Hon. James L. Orr, these charges have been formal? ly presented, and from such a source os ena bleajne, with something ol seit-reaped, lo re? spond to them. This I now crave leave lo do, by denouncing the .chartres in part and In Whole false, and I hereby challenge, In refer? ence to them, such thorough and complete Investigation as will avail to vindicate the troth. "Very respectfully, '.P. J. HOOKS, Jr. ."Columbia, 8. C., August 2?, 1872." ? THE TRUE REPUBLICANS " Th? Plea of the Virtuous Bolter?. To the People of South Carolina : On the 16 th "ay ot October next, you will be called on to elect the various men who shall fill the various offices in the Slate government | for the next official term. The condition of the affairs of the Stale al this time causes the gravest concern and most serious anxiety in the minds of all good citi? zens. Taxation unprecedented in amount In the history of this State weighs upon the peo? ple. No man but leela Hie burden; but how? ever and by whatever channels ihe luxeB reach the treasury, t hey come finally, in great J part, lrom those who till ihe soil, in ihe form of reduced wages, and the increased cost ot iood, clothing and other necessary expenses of a comfortable existence. The hard hand of toil largely pays the expenses ot the State, though the money may be deposited In the treasury by those who own the capital and the land. Let no man flatter himself, therefore, that his poverty renders this Bubject of taxa? tion one ol Indifference to h inf. Besides the vast sums which have been drrfwn from the people by direct taxation, our miers have been heaping other burdens upon us and our posterity, by enormous, and in many cases fraudulent issues of bouda, the very Interest ot which is a sum so large lhat it seems impossible lo pay it. Concealment of j the real-state o? our affairs has been practiced to a criminal extent; report aller report, statement alter statement, has.been made by ._-the financial officers ot the S'ate, making false exhibits of our public debt; and lt was only when an outraged public opinion de? manded and compelled an Investigation, thal our real situation was developed, and was found to Justify the worst apprehensions which had been felt The public mind is too familiar with the lacts to require more to be said concerning the bond frauds; but lt is worth while to con alder here the question, what has become of | the money so lavishly poured Into ihe treas? ury? To what objects have we seen lt appro? priated by those who, under the law, are ap? pointed to disburse it? Have the rights ot person and property, which ls ihe special function of eopd government to guard, been secured? Have tne children of the people been furnished wlih the meaos of that educa? tion which alone can fit them worthily io per? form the duties of citizenship? Have the humane Institutions lo charge of the State been cared for? Have the resources ot the State been developed, Its industries fostered, Ita present and future wei lure provided for j s. with reasonable prudence ? * The answers to these questions are in the ^ months of all thu people. We an) ashamed to be compelled lo confess that the State Gov? ernment has failed to protect the citizens, not ontaln the enjoyment of those right and priv? ileges intended to bo secured by the provi? sions of the 8taie and national constitutions, but even in those more limited rightB which no respectable civilized government on earth allows to be violated in ihe persons of lis sub iects ; and lt has been the strong arm of the federal Government which bas released thou? sands of men, women and children from a 1 terror with which they could nut fuil to OH filled by countless outraged perpetrated upon their lrlends, relatives and neighbors by con? spirators, whose deeds ihe world reads of with horror. The public schools have been crippled in their work, and in many cases closed, because their teachers applied in vain at the State treasury for the small salaries jnai ly due them and necessary to their dally support. The Inmates of the Lunatic Asylum inuat have been turned loose upon the community, but for the humane efforts of its :'fllcient su? perintendent, wno pledged his private cr?ait to obtain food nobody would sell on that ot this great State. The doors ot the Penitentiary may be flung wide open any day, to allow the exit of a band of convicts, whom the wardens cannot feed, because there is no money In the State treasury to purchuse food. The judges of your courts have not beeu paid ihetr sala? ries lor many months, and are compelled, in most coses, to borrow money to supply the wants of themselves and their families, and io be subjected to the temptations too ellen placed by rich suitors before a Judiciary Irreg? ularly or Inadequately paid, v. it would be easv to continue at almost any -length in enumerating what has been left un? done which ought to have been done. It ls easier to say what has beea done which ought to have been left undone. Jobs ot every conceivable description have been underta I ken, tbe interests o? the State bave been coo ! .stan i i v and systematically set aside to enrich those who scrupled al no kind of bribery or corruption to secure such legislation as the jobbers required. Public mooey has been squandered for ob? jects of no public moment. The expenses of some branche? of the government have been ' so enormously Increased as to astonish all who are not familiar with the character of many of those who nil important positions in the ?tate Government. "Pay certificates," drawn by the speaker of | the House of Representatives, purporting to oe for expenses of the late session, to the amount of over $1,000,000, have already ap? peared at the treasury and been paid or ex? changed for tiie.notes of the treasurer, and lt is estimated by those In a position to Judge wisely that $250,000 In "pay certificates" ls Mill afloat In the community, to be presented whenever there is any probability of their being allowed. This will make the expenses ot a pingle session ot the General Assembly over $1,250.000, or more than -100o per cent, of the Bum which was formerly considered suffi? cient to pay them. Enormous sums have been lavished lo pre? tended support of an "armed force," whicn ls notoriously non-existent. The most corrupt practices have obtained in the making ot' contracts by State officials. The contract with the Roberts and other arms companies of New York, under which there was drawn from the State treasury over $200,000. while said arms company received less than $90,000. is a type of the manner in which the Suite treasury has been depleted. The public are familiar with the enormous ex? tent ol' the bills for State printing. Formerly this item ol expense forasesslon of the Legis? lature was not one-fiilleih, certainly not one fortieth, of what lt has been during the year past. But to catalogue the abuses existing in the executive and legislative branches of the the Statu government, would not only weary our patleuce aud sicken our hearts, but one who should attempt to characterize them would oeggar the English language in looking for fit t-nns. You already know them In gross. You can hardly appreciate their enor? mity in detail HU you examine the facts and figures. We allude to but a few of them as specimens of the kind of expenses that have brought the credit ot South Caro? lina so low that there is "none so poor to do lt reverence," and which have made the government of the State BO odious to the people o? the whole country. In this condition of affairs, was lt the dnty of the Republican party ? Tr?ese wrongs are In no way the result ol the action of its princi? ples. They arise from the greed, and selfish-1 uess, and corruption ol those who have stolen the garb of Republicanism to cloak their evil deeds, aud who should be cast out of the com? pany of honest Republicans and honest men as having degraded their high calling. Our plain duty points to thl- ; our obvious loieresn demand this; the interests of party de? mand lt; the Interests ol the State demand lt; ! a decent regard for the opinion of mankind | demaud lt. We must put forward for official position those and those only who are known as upright, true and unstained men, whose Republicans ii is as undoubled as their integ? rity aud their capacity to perform the func tious of the offices for which they are nomina? ted. Within the Hues ot the Republican party our work Hes. There are honest hearts aud wise beads enough in that party to no our work. Every good citizen, whatever his party affiliations may have been, owes ll lo himself io work to purity and regenerate our Slate Government; bul ihe work especially belongs to us. We cauuot abandon lt to our political adversaries until we have demonstrated our inability io do ll ourselves. With this necessity upon us; in an omer- < geney more exigent man has existed in the i History of our par ly in South Gttrollua; with . the eyes of the .National Republican party upon us. and expecting us to rise to the de- 1 mauds of the eccaslon, like honest men, the ; convention now in session In this city has ' placed in nomination, as a candidate for Gov- i srnor, the one mau whose official acts have brought upon the Slate, and the positions he hus lie id, more disgrace than hus attached to ? my other officer of the State Government: ' . Mr. F. J. Moses, Jr., was the person who, as Adjutant and Inspector-general, made the con- * :ract with the Roberts Arms Company. We e :lo nol know thai be received any part ol the HU,ooo which disappeared In its transit from the office of the financial ageut ot the Stats 1 of South Carolina, in New York, to the office t of the Roberts Arms Comp my; but we do j know (hat lt disappeared. The financial . agent's books show that ll was paid; the arms company's books show that they did not re- 1 oelve it. t Mr. F. J. Moses, Jr., was ino person who, as ? speaker of the House ol Representatives, flood? ed Hie Stale with a shower of "pay ce rt ill- I cutes," and swelled the expenses of lhat house, I for u single session, from $145.000, (the highest ( possible figure to which they could amount . legliimutely, and this is based on most ex- 1 tra vaga ut calculations,; to quite, or over, u i million dollars. Aud this palpable violation * ol law, tills direct filching from the treasury, ls neither denied by him nor his lriendB, but I Is excused ou the ground that he disposed of < a largo nmounl of these certificates in favor of t Hie poor people who fled from the persecu- , Hons of the Ku Klux Klan. Was candidate 1 ever before driven to straits like this ? A 1 false certificate, a fraudulent and unlawful | draft of public money irom the public treas- t orv acknowledged, and tl." act defended on the ground that the money was dis- * posed of in charity ! Yet even this infamous t excuse ls wanting, when we know lhat not c one per cent, of these unlawfully issued cer? tificates was thus disposed of, and when we daily observe the style of living this candidate t holds-a style befiting a profl?gale million- t aire, but impossible to aa honest man, with . Hie legitimate income of a speaker .of the House aud an adjutant and Inspector-general. ' We do not attempt to explain the entry of 1 $11,000 against the "armed force" appropria? tion, paid to Mr. F. J. Moses, Jr.; but the known character of the speaker of the House, and his career lu that office, awaken a suspi? cion very well defined, which he has not only failed to clear up, but has allowed the matter to %o unexplained, though for many days it has been commented ou by the newsp?- ( pers, and though lt would seem to be all-lm- 11 portant that he should explain lt to those whose suffrages he was soliciting. We are straight Republicans; none will go farther than we In any path of duty or honor io serve the i Dieresis of the Republican party. The cause of the lalo Republican party ls dear, unspeakably {dear, to us; Hs principle of the I equality ot all men before the law Is that par-11 tlcular Jewel which outshines, with us, every brilliant in Its ca-ket. Rut honesty In office, capacity in administration, fidelity to public trusts, are principles which cannot be Ignored by true Republicans; and we cannot endorse the action ot a r.-onvention which Ignored Hiern all In lis selection ol a candidate for the highest Slate office, however "regular" that convention may be. We have, therefore, joined in a movement for the nomination of au independent, true Republican ticket; a ticket I containing the names of men whose fidelity to the d?ctales of honesty and duty ls as well known as their zeal In the cause of true Re-1 pubheanism. They are firm supporters of the Domination of Grant and Wilson, and ol '.he great measures ol Ihe national Republican puny which has placed them in nomination, while they add lo their character for Integrity, superior capacity ana ardent patriotism. We appeal to the voters ol' the State of South Carolina lo support them, knowing thai their election will give ns a wise, honest", energetic administration ol the State Govern? ment, and that Uley will, regardless ol their private Interests, or the private Interests of any sel ol men, make it their business to re? pair, lo the extent of their ability, the inju? ries the body politic has suffered by waste, extravagance, fraud and Incompetency. Now ls the accepted time to rons? your? selves and throw off the Incubus whlcit has lain, worse than a nightmare, upon our Stale, and which will be lentold increased in its horrors should F. J. Moses, Jr., be seated in the executive chair. Refuse to avull your? selves ol this opportunity, and ere many months have passed over our heads dire dis? aster, without a parallel even in our disas? trous experience, may be confidently antici? pated. JAMKS L. ORR, President. WM. E. EAULK, decretary. Columbia, b. C., August, 1872. THE WEA Til EH TUI8 DAT. WASHINGTON, August 28. Cloudy weather and areas of rain are prob? able for the South Atlantic States on Thurs? day. -Two desperadoes were taken from jail and lynched in Hays City, Kansas, yesterday. THE HAPPY FAMILY; GOSSIP AMONO THE MACKEY AND BOWEN FACTIONS. The Rose Color. I Views of the Leaders of Both Wings Of the Loral li utile alu. The Radical pilgrims from Charleston Coun? ty have now all returned from the South Carolina Mecca, and all day yesterday they were busily engaged In demonstrating the purity and policy ol their action in the Colum? bia conventions to curbstone congregations of their bewildered constituents assembled lor that purpose in and about the City Hall Square. The leaders of the respective factions were occupied during most of the day In their own offices, receiving alternately the congratula? tions and maledictions of their supporters, and os usual the reporters of THE NEWS were busily wai .iii jg Hie current of events among them. Said oue ol' them, who ls very closely Identified with the Interests of Sheriff E. W. M. Mackey, "I tell you, tlr, we hav? out-gene ralled the Roweoltes ut every point and routed them horse, loot and dragoons. We return from Columbia with ail the regularity of the party it our back, and they come back as a demor? alized faction, catching at such straws as the romlinson bolt. Our candidate for Bherlff Is Lhe regularly elected county chairman for this couuty. He will call the county convention I in a week or ten days, and lie can't fail to gel the regular nomination tor sheriff, and, what's more, he will get the office. The Delany par ty is with us, first, last and all the time. De [any was made a member of the regular State executive committee, and he came very near being made one of the Presidential elect ors. He ls going fi stump the State for the I Moses ticket, and he supports Mackey for sheriff. The Bowen party bad no showing In the regular convention at all, and they have only made things worse instead of better by going In with the Smalls delegation from Beaufort, and nominating Rangier for Con-1 grossman. Ransier ls a good enough candi-1 date, but he Isn't the man to harmonize things. There is Pillsbury against him, and burney against him, and I don't know how nany more. Thal Congressional con? vention was not regular, according to the usages of our party. The Congressional convention is subordinate lo the State conven? tion, and isn't the judge of its own members to I the extent of throwing out a delegation al- j ready declared regular by the State conven? tion. There will be another Congressional convention as sure as you are born, and the I man that lt nominates will be ihe regular can? didate and will be elected. Their mass meet? ing to-night ls going lo ba a fizzle, but we will liave a demonstration In about, a week that I will be a demonstration. If we can get cal? cium lights enough we will have the whole I square in a blaze. We are going to have one I thousand torchlights, with voters Instead ot I 'mall boys to carry them, and fireworks and I Ire-balloons, and I tell you privately we're I jolng to pul Bowen Into one of those balloons I ind send him up so high ho will never come I lown again." I leaving this hope tul patriot the reporter j IBCOIUUflBMl MOtnar party leader Who waa nal. ess sanguine, but on the other side, and for j sxacily opposite reasons. What he had to I tay was somewhat to the following effect: I lI tell you, sir, we have made our appeal to he people, and the people are going to sus- I ain us. Tha' Moses convention and plat orm ls so thin everybody can see right brough lt. They Bay we have got some ihleveB In our party, but the people know hey are all thieves. They say our candidate br Governor is a carpet-bagger, but the peo )le would rather have a Pennsylvania Quaker I .han a South Carolina Jew. When Bowen's lelegation went up to Columbia we saw Just I low the land lay. Prank Moses, Tom Mao- I tey and R. B. Elliott were the mighty tri nm I 'irate, who were running the whole thing, ind lt was foreordained that Ed. Mackey'? lelegation should get lu. They said he reason was because we had disre? garded Coin's second call, but you know .hat. os Shakespeare says, 'reasons are as )lenty as blackberries when you want lo find .hem,' and If they could have got us lo j itipport Moses, they would have seated ns, for I he reason that Mackey disregarded Cain's first I tall. Everybody knows that Bowen repre tent ed the vost majority of the Republicans ol his counly, aud they will not be Influenced by his trickery in Hie convention. We have gol he balance of power in this fight, b'Cause the vhlle people, those who were Reformers in I .870, are going with us. They are pledged to. I l, and they will do it. Even if they do not ceep their pledges we will Billi have the bal- I ince of power, because Grant will support our I icket. We have got all the Federal office lolders willi us-Sawyer, Corbin, Clark, I Juasb and the rest of them. Orr 1B acting ander Grant's Instructions, and Orr knows ivhut he is about. We may send a delegation o Washington or Long Rranch in a lew days o get Grant's author Hat! ve endorsement of >ur party, which is the true Republican party, [you ought not lo call us the Bolling Radicals I io y more,) and when we get that, the I Hoses crowd won't have a leg to stand on. I What will they do about il 1 III tell you ! what I think they may do, and you know that any crowd willi Tom Mackey I nt ils head may do anything that is I foolish. If we get Gram's endorsement, as .ve will. Tom Mackey will be for taking his crowd over to Greeley, and thal you know j will kill 'em dead among the niggers. Tom Mackey has been threatening to do this, and all the time he was in Columbia be had al Greeley hat In his bedroom, (one of these low down, fuzzy fur hats, willi a brown ribbon,) ready to mount lt and come into the conven tion to make a Greeley speech. I hope they I will do that, because Hieu Tomlinson would have a walk over. We are all right in this couuty anyhow. Bowen will be sheriff, and all the rest ol his ticket will be elected. Nor-1 throp ls safe lor solicitor lu this circuit, be-1 cause the opposition to him is all split up. There are Butiz, Mackey, Seymour, Seabrook, and I don't know how many more running against him, and the upshot of all that will be ?hat he will go in and leave them fighilDg among themselves." Tlie reporter then took his departure with the re iiect ton that lt was a truly happy condi? tion of affairs, when each party was so well pleased with ilsell, und BO equally confident of the result. LEXINGTON NOT DEAD YET.-A letter from A. J. alexander, the owner of the race horse Lexington, to the editor of the Louisville Commercial says : Old Lexington ls not dead, and I hope will not be lor years to come. He has been some? what Indisposed, but from nothing very seri? ous. Nothing has caused me to fear his early death. He ls much Improved in the past week. Lexington ls now twenty-two years old. THE COLUMBIA MENAGERIE. What the Northern Papen Say of the Antic? of our Hulera. [From me Washington Patriot.] If the precedents already famished by differ? ences of opinion in Radical conventions In the Southern States are followed, there will be, without any doubt, an early calling upon the President by the representatives of the differ? ent factions in South Carolina for the purpose of soliciting bis countenance to the views re? presented as well as the men endorsed by the contending factions. The bnrden of opinion here is that the Administration will be more apt to incline to the "Boning" Convention than to thei"Regular," inasmuch as the former Insist that they repudiate the policy of fatten? ing upon the ruin of the State, which the Re? publican party, altogether under the control of the representatives of the MoseB party, have adopted as a standard of political prin? ciple. Tnerewlll, however, be no manifesta? tions from either side made at this point until the President returns from Long Branch, which, if the repairs now .being made at the Executive Mansion are completed, will be be? tween the 20th of September and the 1st of October. The Radical Spilt In Sooth Carolina How Stand? Qram ! [Prom the New Yerk Herald.1 How far this split In the party may tend to break np the organization in the State or to give the Conservatives a chance in ihe future remains to be seen. The Boilers'Convention was not a large one, there being only about titty delegates present. But iwo-tliirds of these were negroes, which ls a significant fact, showing that there ls a break in the col? ored phalanx. The parties of both conven? tions claim to be pure Republicans, supporters of the administration, and In lavor of the re? election of Genend Grant, Which will tue administration endorse? Probably lt will play the coquette, and exclaim, "How happy could I be with either," till after the Presiden? tial election. We think the spilt afort?nate one for that much-suffering and negro-ridden State, and hope it may lead to a thorough relormation. An Old Story Repeated, [From the New York Herald.] This ls the old story ot negro government. History IB repeated. Wherever the negroes have attained the ascendancy or the balance o? power In any country there everything bas gone to chaos and ruin. Il was so In Hay tl, In Si. Domingo, la Venezuela, and lo all other countries where the blacks having political power have outnumbered the whites, or where a tew knavish whites have used the blacks to ride Into power. This should be a solemn lesson for us, but lt seems our politi? cians will not heed the teachings of history. Unless the Radical Republican parly be spilt asunder and a part of the negroes should have the good sense to go with the cor ?rva? il ve and more respectable portion in South Carolina, the State must remain in a most hopeless condition. The Bolter? Lacking In Pluck. [Prom tue New York Tribune.] The vast majority of the carpet-bag party in South Carolina, and the consequent sense of Impunity felt by Its leaders, have brought about a spirit of insolent lawlessness which may be strong enough to wreck the organlz i tiou. The candidate for Slate treasurer, on Saturday, spoke with greatcandur of the thefts of his lrlends and rivals, and certainly made damaging statements. The Bolters' Conven? tion, under Governor Orr, was rather better composed than the regular one; but as they have not sufficient pluck io defy and repudiate the great central source ot corruption, they will accomplish nothing ol Importance. If anything la done for the' suffering State, lt must be through the Liberal and Democratic coalition. _ ? MORE KC-KL (IX PARDONS. General Political Note? fi om the Na _|_ Uonal Capita i. WASHINGTON, August 28. The Cabinet meets to-morrow. Warrants for the pardon ot David Collins. Wm. Teal, Amos: Owen. Wm Owen and Wm. Scruggs, who were convicted under the Ku-KIux law, and are now in the Albany penitentiary, have been prepared, and will be signed before ihe President returns North. The Liberal Renubllcan committee here will lu u lew days have ready for distribution Sen? ator Sumner's speeches on the French arms Question ani Grantlsm, printed in German, candlnavlan, Danish and Swedish languages. The time for filing claims before the Som li? era claims commission expires on ihe 3d of March next, and all claims not presented on or before that day must take ihe risk ot a failure by Congress to further extend Ihe time. Several stalement?bave been made to the effect that Senator Sumner Intends taking tho slump during the campaign In earnest advo? cacy of the election of Mr. Greeley, but there ls no definite lntormallon here warranting the statement. Those best acquainted with Mr. Sumner do not believe that he would go out? side of his own State, even if he should take the stump. A general Impression exists itere, however, that Mr. Sumner has spoken his mind as lreely as lie intends to on the political situation, aud that there will bo no further ex? pression of opinion trom that gentleman In addition io what the public ls already thor? oughly familiar with. THE OLD WORLD'S NEWS. Thc (leneva Arbitration. GtCNEVA, August 20. The business of the board of arbitration ls drawing lo a close, and the work ot counsel is practically done, all the arguments having been submitted. The work now being done is actually In the hands of accountants, who are calculating the exuct amount of damages occasioned by each cruiser. When this ls com? pleted the arbitrators will render their decis? ion, first, whether England is responsible for each cruiser, and, being responsible, as to the sum she shall pay. There ls an earnest con? test regarding the Shenandoah) nome feeling being shown by the English as to ihe perti? nacity of the A ii ricans In pressing the case and asking damages for the destruction ol the whaling ships. Some of the scenes before the court were exciting. The Georgia case bas been practically abandoned. A decision ls ex? pected within two weeks. The Imperial Trio. BERLIN, August 2$. Great preparations are being made here tor Hie rest,vines attending the meeting of Ute Emperors ol' Germany, Austria and Russia. The great day will be the 7th ol September, when their majesties ol Russia and Austria will be received. In the forenoon there will be a grand military parade, and In the after? noon a Slate banquet at the castle. In Hie evening a gala penormance at ihe opera, at? tended by the three Emperors. This will be pre? ceded by a torchlight procession, and ihe en? tire city will be Illuminated. Carinna Dying. LONDON, August 26. The Emoress Carlotta is reported to be dying. Au hope has been given up, and the last sacrament administered. TOE BALTIMORE BANK ROBBERY ONE OE THE ROBBERS CAUGHT. NEW YORK, August 28. William Saunders (colored) was arrested to? day in New Jersey, at Communipaw Perry. On him were found thirty-five hundred dollars in United States bills, and Maryland bonds. He ls supposed to be one ot the perpetrators ol the Ballimore bank robbery. A dispatch received from Baltimore says that Saunders Is wanted to answer for other crimea. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. -General N. P. Banks addressed an Im? mense Greeley and Brown meeting at Lynn, Mass, yesterday. -The steamship Pers?v?rance went ashore yesterday at Oporto, Portugal, and was lost willi thirty lives. -There were forty-eight fatal sunstrokes in St. Louis last week and twice that number of persons prostrated bv the heat. -Woodhull and Claflln, the New York fe? male brokers, yesterday pleaded poverty in a suit for debt, and swore that they didn't own a dollar's worth of property. -In the United States District Court at Providence, yesterday, Judge Knowles ad? judged the Cuban war vessel, the schooner Pioneer, forfeited to the United States, and ordered a warrant of sale. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND, TBE RADICAL BOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF. Colored Men Turning Back on their Leaders - Kepal)Hean Idea? of Free Speech-Senator sawyer on ihe Slave, ry of the Soul-The Dragon'? Teeth Growing Apace. Tbe first o? the series of carnivals ot riot and disorder which may be expected to disgrace this city and State until their culmination on the 16th of October next, took place last even* lng In and around the City Hall Square, tbe occaeion being a "mass rat meat ion meeting," announced by tbe Bolting Radicals in support ol tbe Tomllnson State ticket. The scene was one of tbe most unseemly, disgraceful and dis? gusting that tbe streets o? Charleston have ever witnessed. Both of the factions which have agitated the local Radical councils of this county were present In full force, and both were' equally responsible tor tbe scene of tur-1 bulence. The Tomllnson or Bowen crowd I had announced and gotten up a meeting which they knew would attract the vast ma-1 Jo ri ty of the floating loafers of the community, and had taken no possible precaution against the disorders which they might have known would occur, and the Moses or Mackey party j had poured their cohorts Into the crowd, and encouraged or at least permitted them to dis-1 turb and finally destroy the meeting. Tho indications of a row were evident as soon as tho meeting began to assemble. At I about eight o'clock a orowd of about two hun-1 dred stalwart negroes (rom James Island were marched on the ground, and raDged on th? sidewalk In front of the Detective office, as a Bowen body-guard for the speakers, who were expected. The square waa meanwhile filling I up with a miscellaneous crowd of negroes, ] brawny, half-clad and sweaty fellows, most of them partially drunk, and all of them ready for anything, from chicken thefts to murder. By half-past eight there were one thousand blacks packed In a perspiring, pestiferous I mass in Iront of the speakers' stand, and with here and there a little group o? gentlemen on the outskirts of the crowd, attracted by curiosity. At that hour the speakers arrived, I and took their plaoes upon the platform; Among them were Mr. Reuben Tomllnson, Postmaster Trott, Collector Clark, District Attorney Corbin, Senator Sawyer, General Whipper. Commissioner McLaughlin and I others. As Tomllnson came on the platform the Chlcora Band struck up " Tis years since last we met," and the hit was recognized .with mingled yells and laughter. Mr. Corbin then came to the front and nominated a list of offi-1 cere beginning with W. H. Thompson as preei dent, Bosemoo, Jervey, Clark, Gaillard, Trott, Corbin and others, vice-presidents, and Brennan, Mitchell and Artson, secretaries. He put the question on the election o? those offi? cers, and was met by equal howls of yes and no, but of course be declared tbe question carried, and W. H. Thompson, who 1B very black, very excitable and a very poor stick as a presiding officer, began the hope-1 less attempt of calling the meeting to order. He got through with the usual formula of thanks, and explained apparently I to h!H owrr satisfaction that this movement j was going to straighten out everything In the State affairs to the satisfaction of everybody, I If only the people would elect their candidate. At this part and throughout his speech he was Interrupted by loud and equally balanced cries of applause and derision. He begged the au-1 dlence not to decide until they had beard bis j candidate. The audience jelled in reply that "dey done got miff dem carpet-baggers." He told them that when they assailed the carpet baggers they assailed the very men who had come down here and struck the shackles from their limbs. All this was delivered In the sea island vernacular, and amid much confusion, I and when lt was concluded Mr. Tomllnson arose to address the populace. Mr. Tomllnson was greeted with applause, ami was really treated far more considerately I than any ot ttie other speakers, being Inter-1 rupted perhaps not oftener than every thirty J seconds, while the others spoke amid a con-1 tlnuous running fire or Insulting questions and ribald Jokes. The gist of his speech was that he had not sought the candidacy, but was wll ling to accept lt, as he thought lt his duty to do so. That If hu knew he would not receive I live thousand voles he would still run, as a I matter of duly. As to the imput?t lons against his honesty, he was not to be disturbed by I such things when they came from irresponsi-1 hie persons; but If any man la the State who had any character himself came out and accused bim of any act of dis honesty or corruption, he would then be ready lo meet him. He then reviewed the frauds ot the Statehouse Ring In about the style that THE NEWS has been doing for the past two years, and said he knew at that moment no stumbling block in the way of ihe national success of Ihe Republican party like the character o? the Republican government In South Carolina, under Grant's administra? tion. They have to meot the assertion every? where that thieving was rampant in South j Carolina by the help ot the Republican party, and lt was too disgrace!ul ly true. He contin? ued at some length in this strain of denuncia? tion, drew a comparison between himself and I the carpet-bagger on the other tlcket-whlch was by no means rt inering to Mr. S. L. H?ge-and wound np by saying that, whether elected or not, he would not cease to wage a war against tho thieves until they had been driven from ihelr strongholds. General W. J. Whipper next took the stand, and then the trouble commenced in earnest. He also appealed for a quiet hearing, and, In fact, he and the speakers who followed him found time to do but little else in the horrible din that prevailed. He Bald he knew there were men lhere for no other purpose lhan to raise a disturbance, and of them he asked nothing, but from that microscopical portion of the crowd that he designated the respecta? ble audience, he demanded to be beard. (Here he was interrupted by jocular allusions to his supposed habits of gambling, such as "I'll straddle that blind !" "Takes more chips than that to come into this game," 4c). He went Into a historical review ol' Republi? canism in tills State, amid cries of "Ten dol? lars more, your money won't do !" He begged they would listen to his remarks, and a sten? torian voice In the outskirts yelled, "Rally Ward 2 !" Ward 2 apparently rallied, ior a moment thereafter a stream ot bloodthirsty city roughs were precipitated into the Jeem's Island delegation, and for five minutes there was a knock down and drag out fight. Thomp? son meantime was vainly imploring the audi? ence, with hoarse yells and frantic gestures, to keep the peace, but without the slightest pos? sible effect on the crowd. In the centre of the street a bloody fight was in progress with clubs and paving stones for weapons, and tbe grimy, writhing, perspiring mob, as seen under the murky Bky, and made ghastly by occasional n sabesi dflightning, waa like Dante's descr tion of Inferno, or a demon scene from t lurid pencil o? Dore. Whipper attempted continue. He said he was told there wau to a light, and a voice yelled "Let lt come. W?? have de fight right now." He said if he we In the FIJI Islands he would expect bett treatment than he got from the men of 1 own ool or In ol vi liz ed Charleston, and an ot li voice cried "Let him alone, Judge Lee w lock him up to-morrow.-' He went on Borne length, getting In here and there an Ie "ned argument against the Bing and occupli the reBt of the time In replying to the InBuI ol the mob or walting for them to be ex pen. ed, and lie finally retired amid a burst of m sic from the band In the prophetic strains i "We won't go home till morning." District Attorney D. T. Corbin was next li traduced and was received with mingle groai and applause. He, too, went Into hlBtory, at he, toe, was continuously interrupted by evet species of iueult that the mob conld think o A few lines of his speech and Its Interruptlot will suffice as a sample. He said: Four yen ago we, the Republicans of this State, ere au a new government by pntllng executive, jud dal and legislative officers Into power to go ern us. [Yes, you put y o use) f dere.] Tt Legislature to make laws and the Governor I execute them. [Den you grabbln all o' money, j Those officers have failed to do the doty. [You filled yo' pockets.] Then tb Democrats attempted to overthrow them b their Ku-Klux Elans and. by hanginf whipping and burning the . poor co ored men. [G'way; you're de wui Klu-Klux ob whole lot] They are torc lng on me now, but when the Ku-Klux wer after them they came to me to protect then: Now I propose to prosecute them with th same vigor and earnestness with which prosecuted the Ku-Klux. [You done got we paid from dem Klu-Klux. ] Those scoundrel are financial Ku-Klux, and we don't wac either kind. [Don't want you either.] No* what did Grant do when the Klu-Klux wer threatening, whipping and killing your colo: ed brothers ? [Grant done right. Grant allo done right.] He sent down to me to clea: 'em all out, and, between us all, we have non IL [Klu-Klux done prosecuted. We don1 wan'c hear nulli ti' 'bout Klu-Klux, ?co., Ac This continued for awhile, until Corbin sa down, and Cyrus Gaillard was put up. While Gaillard was trying to speak ther was a fight going on In the rear, a number c colored Mackey i tes having mounted the steps and with loud oaths and threats proclalme their Intention of staying there. Things bega to look dangerous on the platform; the whit speakers gathered there were cursing th police for not taking care of their meeting and Corbin was endeavoring, without any die play of force, which would rrovoke a genere battle, to persuade the intruders off tbe plat form. Corbin finally succeeded and Gaillar went OD. He made, or attempted . to mak< the same speech that he made In the Bolter Convention In Columbia, but he was treate with the same disrespect as had been man tested toward all the other speakers, and b soon gave lt up. Senator Sawyer was next Introduced, an his appearance was the signal for another U mult of yells and groans, accompanied wit TfiecrtW^Wiy you vote 'gainst de olvll rlgh bill?" "Don't want hear you." "You'll sta home from de Senate next winter," Ac. Th cry of "de civil rights bill" was continue through the whole of Mr. Sawyer's speed He begged to be heard, and his voice wa drowned, amid groans and cat calls. H shouted for the police, and a t ill lleutenan who sat In an upper window of the Guare house, doubled up Uko a jack-knife an smoking a long pipe, looked dow* contemptuously upon the ecene an smoked placidly on. Then Sawyer wa; ed Indignant ead prophetic. His vole was heard at Intervals above the din, and h delivered himself In disjointed sentences < something like the following : "You ca drown my voice to-night, but I tell you, co lored men of South Carolina, that the da will eome when you will hide your heads 1 shame and useless penitence when you r< member the scene ol this night. You ma drive me from ttils stand, but I have for yo only a aenliment of the profoundest pity, fe you are proving yourselves In a worst slaver than you ever knew before-the slavery of th soul My friends, when you were the slave of Routh Carolina gentlemen you coull have, and did have, Borne r ?pect for yon masters. You conld look up to then with respect, but as you are not slaves to such panderers and thieves a have got control of this State Government yon can only look down on them with unul terable contempt. When In the slavery of th body you still had lreed?m ot the soul, am you could still look to the North star for you bodily liberty. Now you have sold yourselve body and soul, and there is before you n< prospect for the resurrection of either. All o which outburst of truthful eloquence pro voked no further applause than such suggea lions as "Hit bim wld a brick," "Jump hin off dar," "Bounce bim," ?tc. Sawyer trio? another tock, and told the negroes that tin reason the supplemental civil rights bill fallet ta. pass was not that he voted agalos lt, but that Sumner was so tricky as to delea lt himself, to which his audience Ingenuously replied, "Dal's alie, and you knows lt." Saw yer kept lt up gallantly tor some minutes lon jzer telling his audience thai the present wai the last chance the Republican party in Boutl Carolina would ever have to make a fight foi Its existence; that with two years more o such Republican mle as they bad had, the Ku Klux would again arise, and, marching to Co lumbla, would hang their party leaders ti convenient lamp-posts, and be justified In do lng it. At about eleven o'clock Mr. Sawyei succumbed, the bandin the meantime play Inj "Johnny, don't go." n . A. telegram was next read from Mr. C. C Bowen aedurlng the meeting of the inevitabh success of their movement, and announclnj important accessions every day. Music "i he girl I left behind me." The redoubtable Timothy Hurley was nex Introduced, and be amused the audienci and kept them in alternate roars o rage and laughter for Alteen minutes He Invited questions from- the audience received their inBults with as lmperturba ble a face as an Egyptian mummy, and re turned their blackguardism with compouni Interest. He made no speech to speal of, for his questioners kept him busy, but bi eave them as good as they sent, and was thi first and only speaker of the evening whi secured their attention for two consecutlvi minuten. To one loafer he replied that tha was not a barbecue, and he would get nothlnj by walling. To another be remarked that no body was putting out anything bot wblBke; on that occasion at the hole in tbe wall, jus above the United StateB Courthouse. An other Interruption he answered by saying, a his questioner had earned bis ten cents worti he had better go home. A member of flu Legislature, who asked him If he had boastei that he had bought up that body, was Bllencei by his saying that he never tried to buy him as there was som? meat too stloklng for evei him to handle. Timothy kept this up wit great success for some time, unti ollector Clark was put up to addresi the meeting. Clark's platitudes, however fell very flat upon the audience after Hurley'. heaJ? comedy business, and the meeting soot reverted toPandemonium, and shortly after brSuD inarow,andthe crowd were club Sed home In detachment* by the sleepy ?od Susted policemen, who had been wisely kept In reserve lor the purpose. . . ... ' -r~> THE WHITE HAT CAMPMff; I EFFECT OF THE COLUMBIA SCANDAL UPON THE NATIONAL CANV?SB? . Progress ot the Bo ar bon Straight Movement-Sam Bayard-, ind tt?r. Chauncey Burr-WU 1 Mr. O'Conor Ac? cept I-The Weak nomination ot* OM General Dix-Speculations About ?he Forthcoming Liberal Conventions KC Syracuse.' '. _ _ ; : , * .'' ' /* U [FflOK O?B OWir COSBKFOMSIHT.] NKW Y oat, Angoet 26. Graphic'accounts of the diignoefol pro? ceedings ID jour Republican ?taie Convention are going the rounds o? the Northern press, and are doing more te Inj ur? Grant and the prospects o? the Grant party than the elo? quence of a hundred Greeley orators. The Liberals point to this exposition of the work ings of Radicalism In the Booth, and. ask the people ol the North if they would like the system fastened on the whole nation.. It ls Bare to say the vulgarity, the brotallty, the shameful charges against each other bandied between the delegates In the Columbia Con? vention have been worth thousands of votes to Greeley and Brown. If you willgetup. a stenographic report o? the proceedings from beginning to end, I know of no more effective campaign document for distribution through? out the North. . . The "Bourbon Straight" patty, dr ni oar ' wags call lt, "the Blatant Donkeyltea," with the aid o? the Republican national' committee and the Grant postmasters throughout ' the ' country, are going through the farce of-:elect? ing delegates to the. Louisville Convention from this neighborhood. ' ' The' New jersey . Convention was simply an affair cut and cried tn the office of a pe rso n lo thia city, the hat Ot delegates belog made out then and there, The delegates are "unknowns" with the ex? ception of Rev. C. Chauncey Burr and Samuel J. Bayard, who have some notoriety; flam Bayard, a harum-scarum fellow, with a head full of all sorts of wild isms, first became ap- . parent to an astonished world by his antics kt ihe Maryland Institute, In Baltimore; It Was 2s at drat supposed that he waa.one of the,.-: ware Bayards, and this,,gave/ meeting all the Interest ft posses pub:lc at the time, bot'when lt became known that be was only a Jersey nobody the affair sank Into Insignificance.,? , : />" \ .. ?? Chauncey Burr, who mar pro p arly, Jbe.called tho bead and front of the Bourbon mbv?nrent In the Easr, for he ls an abler man than either "Brick", Pomeroy, Judge Flanders or Van Allen, was originally a lurlpus abolitionist. He flopped irom one extreme-to the 'other, be? coming, after his change of heart, an'Uncom? promising pro-slavery man. Bo with, hin re? ligion. He started, out In life as a clergyman, and is now a sceptic He has been connected , with Journalism and literature ever since he abandoned divinity as a profession; was a long time on the Herald staff, served Lola Montez as private secretary, wrote a book on "Love," and during the war was editor of '"The Old Guard," a pro-Southern magazine. Burr is a large portly . man, with, -a magnificent head and face. He ls dreadfully loquacious, and has a lond voice, and ! ls ot that annoying class of persons who seize you in the street by tbe coat and talk- politics at - you In stentorian tones until a gaping .crowd collects. During the war, Burr used to be the terror of his more prudent ' friends. It was Dot calculated to make one feel comfortable to meet him In a street-car and be boisterous? ly congratulated on the latest Confederase victory. Of course Burr was In hot water all the time, but, strange to say, he was never arrested. He will probably make more nol*J ai Louisville than anybody else, (except the proprietor of ihe show,) and 1 have, there? fore, sketched him for you. It is Billian open question If O'Conor, Will 1 accept the nomination. I hear two opposite stories-one that he has consented, the other that he has given no definite reply to the Bourbon questioners, and will take occasion to denounce them li ihey insult him with a nom? ination. Personally, be Is a warm friend of Mr. Greeley; politically, he has alway? betti cranky. He Is one ot the Sachem* of Tam? many, and Tammany has endorsed Greeley aud Brown. I am told that the probable tick? et ar, Louisville will be Charles O'Conor for President, and Herschel V. Jo he Bon, of Geor? gia, for Vice President. The Herald's com? ments on the movement are Just, I think. It says lo effect that a straight nomination will really hurt Grant more than Greeley. If there were but two. candidates In the .eld Demo? crats who will not vote for Greeley would vote for Grant, AB lt ls, the third candidate will get their votes Instead of Grant, and the Pres? ident loses to that extent. - The nomination of poor old General Dix for Governor ot New York by the Grant Conven- - tlon was an amusing confession of weakness. '. The purpose was two-fold. In the Inevitable defeat which will overtake the ticket In No? vember, no Republican leader ls put up for sacrifice. It is hoped that the nomination of an old-time Democrat will decoy some Dem? ocratic votes. It ls a miscalculation, however. Dix hos been cordially detested by the Dem? ocracy since he abandoned the party in com? pany with Dan. Sickles, Ben. Butler and Mor? ton In 18G1. His age ls given In tbe biogra? phies os seventy-four, but lhere are circum? stances which indicate that he ls much older, probably over eighty. The Democratic and Liberal Republican Conventions meet next week at Syracuse. Most of the famous old Republican.party lead? ers ia the State will be lound this year at the Liberal Convention. It seems to be conceded that the Democrats .will have the choice of governor and the Llbei als of Ueutenant-gover nor, whlip the rest of- Ihe State ticket and the electoral ticket will be divided between the . two parties In the proportion of two-thirds De? mocrats and one-third Liberal Republicans. Governor Hoffman and Chief Justice Church have peremptorily declined to allow their names to be used. Church would be the strongest possible candidate, bot be says there Is DO use of making him sacrifice his present comfortable place, when lt ls obvious that anybody the convention nominates will be elected. Ho hos a Judicial position worth fif? teen thousand dollars per annum, and -running fourteen years, while the governorship ls worth but a meagre four thousand dollars, and the cost of keeping op the office ls a great deal more. . ia The choice for the gubernatorial nomination now appears to lie between Allen C. Beach, * the present Lleutenant-Governor, Francis Eernan, one of tbe strongest and most re? spectable Democrats of central New York, and Congressman Clarkson N. Potter, of West? chester, son of Bishop Potter. Toe choice for Lleutenant-Governor is between ex-Lieu ten? ant-Governor Alvord, ex-speaker Littlejohn and ex-3ecretary o? State Chauncey Depew all Republicans. Either Sam Cox. Democrat, or Dorsheimer, of Buffalo, Republican, will be the c indi dite tor Congressman at large. Hor? atio Seymour will be one of the electors at large. The majority for the ticket la variously estimated at from thirty thousand to one hun? dred thousand. NTH. JOTTINGS ABOUT THE STATE. -Twelve hundred bales of new cotton wera received at Blackville on Saturday, making twenty-six shipped from Blackvflre since the 9th. - ' ' -Marion has a base ball club which plays ? every Thursdav afternoon. The following are the officers: John D. MoLucas, president; John M. Johnson, vice-president: Johnno. Willson, treasurer; LeGrand G. Walker, aeore meeting ol the young men was held at toe Market Hall on WWHgp nine. 23d instant, for the Pu^^^waTaS compllshed "Mr. J. H.*??j*%^president; presioent; Mr. treasurer. It ii Mr. Lee Frank, secretary ar" , tbolr intention to estabiu? o library in .eon, ne? oaeffda? Sol Balley, a colo** i.r?h?iit-twenw yea" old, stabbed Evans X??eU?KWft la two places, Thesec SSftSflff ?imost disembowelled Evans and TOM o( hu intestines. Dr. W. B. Johnson, who was called In, replaced the Intestine and ge wed up the wound, but'he bas little hope Di tue recovery ol tte wounded man. Sol did not wait for hat or coat, bat fled immediately. The difficulty was about a woman, and Recur? red on the plantation of Mr.' Nathan Evana, near Mars Bluff.