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THE PORT ROYAL.
STANDARD and COMMERCIAL
A. Gr. THOMAS
Editor,
Beaufort, S. C., May 25, 1876.
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lines, for the first Insertion; subsequent
Insertion!* by contract.
f?r. PRINTING AND -TATIONKRY.
We hare oueot the most complete JOH OFFICEn
eh - stat<\ no 1 do work as well and at as low prices
as in the eities. Our stock of STATIONERY islarge
and will he sold wholesale and retail, as low as in
<*hiirle?t?B tiid Savannah.
I>~?*ds and Jaw blanks in "fat variety.
o Hcial Paper of Beanfori ( ounn.
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Strikes have at all times been resorted
to by the laboring classes to redress what
they deemed encroachments of capita!.
They are always to be deplored wherever
and wheuever they occur. There is not a
class of laborers from the most skilled artizan
to the humblest and most ignorant
v agricultural laborer, on the civilized globe
that has not resorted to a strike to redress
their greivances, and yet the attempt has
not beeu made to accredit it to political
influences, nor as a sigu that those who
eugage in them are rapidly falling back
iuto barbarism. But in South Carolina,
where an attempt is made by the rice
field ernoloy ;rs to cut down the wages of
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the laborers tweuty per cent, tne cnarge
is made that the strike is the work of radical
plotters.
Capital has been said to be the accuuiulat'on
of labor, and every working
man's labor is his capital tor the use of
which it is uo sigu of barbarism to attempt
to o tain the highest price. This
is nothing more than the capitalist does
with his money, *he representative of accumulated
labor. As we said strikes are
always to be deplored and in the hands of
ignorant men this is a dnngersous remedy
and one in this instance that they are not
prepared to carry out. They are in an almost
starving condition, and hundreds of
their feiiow laborers in this aud Colleton
counties have uol a week's supply of provisions
ahead. One of the evils attending
such labor manifestations is that in
their desoerntion at not accomplishing
their object they resort to deeds of violence.
both against their employers and
tho-s: who f.'Ou tfijve of o:wimi<f:iiiee* accept
the propositions made to them of reduction.
This is all wrong, aud a violation
of that liberty they claim for themselves.
Workingmen have the right to
refuse to labor at rates that they deem insufficient
but have uo right to break the
;aw of the land by assembling in mobs
auu onering vmrcuce, vut u iuun w
to the credit of these field strikers that
although they have been on strike about
a week they h:< >e been sub< rviciit to law
and although a planter, Mr. Bi-seil, has
six stores in the section of the strike, a
motion to sick them wa- defeated by a
large majority, i i -t iking contrast to
their white b. ?:her strikers, the Molly
Maguires 01 lie nortoern e.?al regions.
Ex-Governor Bu'lok, of Georgia who
resigned his position and left the State
for his home in Albion, Orleans county
N\ Y. in October 1871. was last week arrested
at Albion, ou a requisition on Gov
Tilden from Gov. Smith and carried to
Atlanta. The requisition charges eheeting
aud swindling in connection with the
Tennessee Car Company, which is said
never to have had any existence, anil tc
have ob.aiued $10,oil'. 11 in?m the Suite
Road.
It will bo remembered that a few week.*
ago, a great furor was made over the
en.'tiir** ??f Foster Blodgett who was soot
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allowed to so in pence as it was said nc
? ?*i I :? -??!'K*e son. d.-ori.ii' inr evidence
airainst certain prominent ueuioerat.s o
Georgia. The > uie i >a: i of Kx Gov,
Bullock. a d the t'/i ro ti'cle <uul Seiitnie
avers that the number of * s aves to th<
box. " of lnemoranda aud documents tha
would iuipiicaie democrats, is even great
er in this ease th in ? w.o p.!ndge*t's
and yet Georgia points the fingurc o
scorn at South fV-olina. it is true that i
% treat many evil deeds have been hu>he<
up here Dy radicals for radicals, but it is
a far more painful sight, if what was alleged
is true against Bullock aud Blodgctt,
to see prominent men of the dominent
party trembling in their boots in
the presence of their pris ?ters. and for
the sake of silence aihwing them to go
free. It is a sad c n:n itary on the
vaunted purity of thes? a -ostles of good
government.
The Naval Com mission
Tilt amendment to the naval appropriation
bill oflferc 1 by Kan all in the House
of Kepreseutalives at Washington, provides
for organizing a Naval Board of five
commissioned officers, by the secretary of
the navy, wl.o shall examine fully and
determine whether in their opinion any
of the navy yards can be dispensed with
and* abandoned, and if so to report the
saiue; an*', further, to inquire a> to the
propriertv of establishing a naval rendez
vous at Tvbee Inland or at Cockspur Island.
in Georgia, ami whether any gov
ernnien property at said navy yards can
be made available and suitable for such
purpose, and said board shall, through
the Secretary of the navy, report to Con
gress at the commencement of the next
sessiou the result of their inquiry.
We take it that although they are d;re'ed
to inquire as to the propriety of e.
tabiishing a naval rendezvous ai Jyine o
Cockspur Islands. they can examine an!
if found expedient report in favor at Po
Royal, and wc have no fear of the result
from such a commission that the navy department
will appoint, as the advantage
here are so pre-eminently superior to
those at Tybee.
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Convicts 011 the Railroads.
The Board of directors of the Penitentiary
met on Monday last and held a con
sulfation with the Governor. On accoun
of the present condition of' the State
treasury, it was decided to hire out aboio
two hundred convicts to work on the
railroad between Columbia and Alston.
Good for Port Royai.
We received by telegram on Tuesday,
the news ihat the section in the appropriation
bill on naval appropriatio s
which instructed the Secretu y
of the Navy to establish a nava
rendezvous at T y b e e or Cockspur,
had been stricken from the
bill. Ill this connection it is gratifying
to report that the delegation fro this
State did their duty, an 1 that Congress
has not been led i.ito th grave error <>t
establishing a station unsuited and itu
practicable for the pu.po e designed.
The public man who tries to answer every
slander set al.?ut against him will be kept
as busy as a thin-skinned fisherman on a
salt meadow in mosquito time. He may
kill off'a dozen tormentors, but a hundred
will come to their fuoerai. Happy is the
man who can sit unmoved in the presence
of partisan malace, and feel that his record
is all right, and that the confidence
of?the people in his integrity cannot be
shaken by the idle breath of slander.
Democracy does not appear to be an
infallible remedy against defalcation and
rascality, or a specific for obtaining and
retaiuing good government John Jones.
I the late State Treasurer 01 ueoigia na*
[ been arrested for withholding money from
i the State amounting to $100,374.84. He
! was unable to give bail in the sum ofSlU,,
| (MM). .
j The question of the proposed iutrodue;
tion of riee free of duty is agitating the
I planteis of South Carolina and Georgia.
1 j The chamber of c mmerce of Savannah
^ i and Charleston arc preparing a metnoria'
1 to t 'ongress iu opposition to the proposed
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? Strike in the Rice Fields.
i ; The planters on the 'otnbahee river
; decided to reduce the wages of labo ers
; in riee Go'd> from fifty to for 1
ty e 'no per uav. As a consequnce so.no
. ' six or <even hundred quit work. I . adI
dition to the complaint of reduction
? tfie system oi paying wages in checks,
t or tickets is still continued on many plan
tations although prohibited by statute.
. and is more or less a subject of c.vnf
plaint. No act? of voilence of any seriou.i
nature have occurred, and affairs art
i quieting down. The laborer- con-witec
to return to w rk at their oi l rates, but,
thi.? the planters refused and some ot
them have gone to work at the reduced
price. On plantations where no reduction
was attempted and where wages were
paid in cash no strike has ,>ccu:Ye 1.
Some of the crops will be ruined unless
attended too immediately. ^
Homicide at Hardeevillp.
On Sunday last Jupiter Ward, and Titus
Green, met J 111 Bush in a store near
Har Jet ville. Ward had a stick in his
hand, and Bush asked hiiu what he was
doing with it, and he answered 44 it was
none of his business. " Some other words
passed between them and Bush went out
got a rail and returned and attempted
to strike him twice nd threatened Green.
A struggte commenced between Bush
and Green when Ward ran up with a
club, and struck Bush on the side of the
head killing him. Ward and Green were
arre-t" 1. an 1 committed ro jail by Trial
Justice Muekonfnss. for trial at the approaching
term of court.
?The onening of the centennial exhibition
on Sunday is still agitating both
religious and political circles in Philadclphia.
A resolution requesting the commission
to dpen the exhibition on Sunday
was passed in the Select Branch, but failed
of passage in the Common Branch.
The Diocesan convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church also took a turn at
the subject, and after a lively debate.
whvh seemed to turn od the question of
how tar the church should concern itself*
wi:h such secular matters, rather than
any wide difference on the main point,
adopted resolutions thanking the commission
for keeping the gates closed.
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?Official information received at the
Executive office. Columbia, in regard to
the assassination of the late Alfred Rush,
member of the House of Representatives
from Darlington, states that Rush was returning
from a pic nie at Mt. Carrnel
Church, about two and a half miles frt m
Darlington, with his wife in a buggy.
When about a mile from home a white
man in his shirt sleeves fired at him fiom
behind a stump, on the side of the road,
three times. One ball took effect through
hi> brain, one through bis face, aud one
through his heart. The horse taking
fright, broke from the buggy and ran
home. Ru>h fell between the wheels and
remained there uutil Sunday morning'
when an inquest was hed over his body.
The assassin was not identified. A reward
has been offered by the Governor
for his apprehension.
LOCAL ITEMS!
Monday last hail fell in Beaufort.
The town council were to have met last
night, but failed to have a quorum.
Un&T The Blue Ridge railroad eonven
?lull UlirUt in vnaucaiuu iu uu?.
Base ball fever has uot yet broken
out in Beaufort.
d- The rain we bad iu this section
this week, has been of great benefit to the
crops which had been suffering from the
lengthened dry spell.
There were shipped over the Port
Royal Railroad for the week ending Friday
the 19th., 1.169 bales of cotton.
Heavy shipment for the season.
U& Another temptation to that wick
ed generation seeking after a sign, wa
placed at law range last week. It bor<
the inscription : Alfred Williams. Attor
ney and Counsellor at Law.
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$sfF The first cucumber of the sea^oi
raised iu this section, was exhibited ii
our office this week, from the farm o
Messrs. Dick & Small, at Club Hous
Springs. It measured eighteen inches ii
length.
Southern vegetables are quoted a
paying prices in the New York market
String bcaus. $3.50to 84 perorate: squas
$1 to $1.50; cucumbers $2 to $3, and to
ma toes $2 to $3.
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teiF* School Commissioner S. D. Gil
i bert will take the place of Gen. P. I
Wiggin on the board of examiners, in th
competitive examination to be held i
Beaufort on Tuesday next. The your
man who passes the best examination w;
be recommended by the Hon. RoIk:
Smalls, M. C.. from this district to a e:
1 detship at Annapolis.
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ffaT On Monday, the Union No. 1 ; '"J
Hook aud Ladder. aud the Phoenix fire W
engine companies were out on parade.
They presented a fiue appearance. Beaufort
may justly be proud of her fire department.
We cannot vouch for the truth of
"ft'statement inade to us by one of the
claimants under the big bonanza bill, when
he said that the commission in addition
to asking your name and age inquires if
you ever had the mease Is and if so how
many?
j* Last week a report was circulated
that a foreman on a rice plantatkn near
Sheldou, had in a fit of passion killed a
colored boy by shooting him with a pistol.
Under misapprehension of the facts
f ? ^ 1 u...
a warrant ior nis arrest was issueu. uui un
investigation by the acting coroner it was
found the shooting was purely accidental.
He had taken down his pistol which he
knew not to be loaded and when standing
near the boy who was nursing the foreman's
child, the pistol, which turned out.
to be his brother's, and loaded weut oft.
H. M. STUART, M. D~
or. r.ity 4k Eighth
Beaufort, S. C.
UkA I.Kit !>
DKL'CiJj, ASP CHEMICALS.
FAMILY MEDICINES,
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. FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES
STATIONERY. PUI'.FTMF.RY,
BRUSHES, Ac., Ac., Ac.,
Together with many other articles too numerous ^ \ JL
o mention. A1 of which will be sold at thelowe**
price tor cash. Physieiau* prescriptions carcfnl'y
compounded. feb.lM | " w
BANKING HOUSE, ?
Win. H. Lockwood,
BAY ST.. BKAUFOi.T. S. C.
GOLD AND EXCHANGE
ON
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New, York Charleston & Savannah
Bought and Sold,
Collections made on any poiut in the
United States. Accounts received subject
to check at sight.
ap. 27.6ui.
Encourage Home People,
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HOME ENTERPRISE.
n oors.
Sash and Blinds!
GEORGE S. HACKER,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
f i NLY Carolinian engaged in the manufacture of
v > MOULDINGS, DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, and
TURNED WORK in Charleston, S. C.
Prices as low as anj other house, and all work
first class. oct.l4-3m
TERMER W ALKER AND BACOT.
PROCTORS IN ADIRALTY ANDATTORNSYd
AT LAW, BEAUFORT, SO. CA.
Walker A Bacot, I W. J. Ykbdikk.
Charleston. | Beanfort
Refer to the British Consulates in theS0uth, and
specially to the British Consulate at Charleston
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