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f TiiK PORT ltOVAL. STANDARD and COMMERCIAL A. < r. THOMAS Kiliior, 9 Beaufort, S. C., August 3), 1876. SMKt Itll'TIOXS. Our Year. S i IM. *1* Month*. 1 OO > AdrriilwinmU will Ik Inserted nil In rnfr of $1 SO |?rr square, 10 Nonpareil liars for the first Insertion; subsequent Insertions l?j' eoiitrnel. Pi?rvTiv?: ?VT? STATIONERY. We have one of the most complete JOB OFFICE"* n the State, and do work as well and at as low prices as in the cities. Our stock of?STATIONERY is large and will be sold wholesale and retail, as low as in Charleston and Savannah. Deed* and law blanks in great variety. O'Grial Paper of Beaufort Couiily. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS FOR PRE8IDE1TT, RUTHERFORD B. HAYES OF OHIO. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, WILLIAM A. WHEELER, OFNKW YORK. Honest Reformer THden The greatest excitement prevails it New York on account of the exposure oi the manner in which the pseudo reform er Samuel Tilden defrauded the govern ment The stump orators who are sing ing the praise of the honest reformer, de light in tickling the ears of democratic sympathizers with accounts of the corrup tion under republican rule. They tell ui of the whiskey riug, the credit mobiliei and other corrupt schemes forgetful 01 iguorant of the fact that their belovec Uncle Samuel, received $25,000 for ad vice that led to the credit mobilier, thai as a defrauder of revenue he would be entitled to stand at the head of the class -J - I1 h y* Uawa compos:u ui inuse wuu uuvc uuuu v<? whiskey nog defrauded the government. In addition to being a defrauder of rev enue he appears also in the role of 8 peijurer. We arc often told that Unclf Samuel is a millionire, and that he will therefore he above inducements to corruption, but in spite of this in 1S6:; he swore his income was but a trifle ovei $7,000 and ODly paid fax on so much. Prominent democratic newspapers of Net\ York are calling upon him to withdraw from the canvess. The N. Y. limes prints the following article which has fallen like a bombshel] on Tilden's chances : " If a suit is. brought we can suggest to the government where it will find some conclusive testimony. On Dec. 26, 1863, Mr. Tilden swore to a return, under oa h, in which he said: lT hereby certify that the following is a true and faithful statement of the gains, profits, or iu come of Samuel J. Tilden, of the city d New York, State of New York, whether derived from any kind of property, rents, interest, dividends, salary, or lrom any profession, trade, employment, or vocation, or from any other source whatever, from 1st day of January to 31st day of i _ _i i : i UeoemDer, l?oz, Dom aayB inclusive, auu subject to au iucome tax uuder excise laws of the United States. Income from all sources, $7,118.' "In other words, in December, 1863, Mr. Tilden swore that his entire income liable to tax during the year 1862 was $7 ,118, and upon that sum, and that sum aloue, did he pay any tax. But in his answer to the complaint in the Circuit Court of the United States, in the suit of the St Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company against himself and others, which answer was filed a few days ago, Mr. Tilden swore under oath as follows : 4 That for such services the defendant Tilden made a charge of $10,000 against said second mortgage bondholders and the said charge was paid by or on behalf of said second mortgage bondholders, on the 17 th of October, 1862 * * * that the defendant Tilden, for a part of his services aforesaid, also made a charge of the like sum of ten thousand dollar* on account of professional services rendered to the first mortgage bondholders ' and the receivers, which was paid to Azariah C. Flagg, * * * and which payment appears under date of November 7, 1862. in a statement annexed to the first report aforesaid, as having been receipted for by the said Tilden, 'on account of professional services.' In other words, having sworn, in lhttf. that his entire income tor the year Lv>2 from aii sources liable to taxation? | counsel tees, dividends, rents, profits? j was only s7,l's. lie, in I S7t>, swears that ! during the same year, 18t'?2. he received , troui two sound's alone?his services to a i single company?By his <>w . -worn admission, therefore, Mr. Tilden stands indebted to the government in a considerable snin for unpaid income tax for 1 Sl?2, and we have two oaths by Mr. Td lefl. utterly inconsistent with each other. And yet' this man is the honest man, the reformer of the country ! " 4^# A correspondent sends us a communica" ' tioti headed '%the Combahee strike" which we publish although disagreeing with the deductions drawn. Fin t as to it being a misnomer to call the trouble a >trike. We think that taking Wcbstci as an authority, the rice field embroglio fills the bill, as hedefiaes "strike" to be "the act of combining and demanding higher wages ior work; cessation of labor or neglect of duty, in a spirit of mutiny or revolt." Our correspondent goes, apparently, as far as we go in opposition to the check system, although his argument on the poliicy of making these checks payable at a remote period, controverts his statement of fact, that checks were redeemable in money etery Saturday, for if this was the case the checks, if they passed out of the hands of the original possessor to others than their employers, could not have time to circulate all over the country, and other storekeepers knowing that they would be redeemed every Saturday would not bo likely to demand pay at inconveni ient times, but would secure their cash weekly. Then again the statement that checks were redeemable in money every Saturday, does not tally with his after as ( sertion, that the checks by agreement r were eonvertable only into siypplies at the . stores of the planters, and the natural in. ferecce is that cash payments could only be considered as a favor to the laborer when "in an emergency." ? Then our correspondent mistakes an ef - feet for a cause. Whatever violence was : used was an eflect, a concomitant of the strike, the casue of which must be looked r for in dissatisfaction of the mode of pay[ meat of labor, and a demand for highci wages, which was acceded to in part by t the planters raising the price from fifty ? cents to a dollar per acre for cutting rice, : the laborers demanding one dollar and fif ) ty cents. The reference to the action taken by Mr. Robt. Smalls, must have evi" dencly been written without having heard i the advice of that gentleman to these lai boreis. He deprecated in very plain terms all violence or all attempts to coerc-c by forcible means those who desired to ! work at any price, but defended them, as ' any fair minded man would do, in theii individual capacity in their right to refuse to work, and also in their fight to use all ' lawful means to combine all laborers in one common cause. As far as the benefit : of that "system sanctioned bylaw," we I have nothing to say, as it does not properly form any part in a discussion of the : caufes of trouble, except it be a very in1 direct cause of such troubles, arisiug out of the ignorance of the negro occasioned . "under a system sanctioned by law" and which the republican party have been at * " o.nna nviAncfniKtinii ICni pilll^ IU rcuicuy OlUV;^ I V/W UCVl UWIVIIi i As to the chances of success of the de* mooracy oqr views have already frequently been stated, and we fail to see where the enjoyment uuder such rule would come in. As to the posse, they were informed by the Sheriff that their services were not required, and it is certainly due to the influence of Congressman Smalls and Lt Gov. Gleaves that the trouble at Gardner's Corner was averted without Woxished. Augusta was excited yesterday by a thousand reports and rumors in regard to the labor troubles in South Carolina, near Yemassee. About half-past twelve o'clock the following telegram was received by Capt. J. 0. Clarke, of Oglethorpe Infantry, Company B., and Lieu* temnt J. W. Clark of the Richmond Hussars: 44 J)o come with your companies immediately. " W. R. Darlington, Lieutenant Clark replied to the sender of the dispafth to get Gov. ChamberIain to request Gov. Smith to order the j companies to assistance of the Beaufort I sheriff; otherwise the companies could ^ not go.?Chronicle and Sentinel. The report that telegrams had been sent to Augusta was denied, but it will b" seen from the above that there was a disposition to get up a small war, and that the good sense and judgement of Lieut. Clark prevented a sorious riot which the presence of Georgia men would have caused. The result of the strike shows how little ueed there was for armed men of any kind, and that the Sheriff was equal to the emergeucy. We would advise our Georgia friends to let us regulate our own affairs, and oot pay so much attention to men who are alarmed without cause. Life and property is more secure in this county than in any county in the State. The democratic party in their platform arraign-* the republican legislature of this State u with creatine a multiplicity of J i unnecees<arv and useless offices, ' hut | strange after sotting forth this grievous 1 charge, they found democrats enough in : their convention to fill every office, ttni necessary and useless as they call them, i '?in1 u-?> nntipp flint overv cnniilv thnt tins ' not been represented by having a nomi i line for office awarded it is quarrelling beemse the offices wore not multiplied to such an extent as to gratify their desire to fill theui. Truly "clap trap, clip trap's the order of the day. Of those from this county who will place their names before the approaching convention fo nouiin t on on the State ticket is N. B. Myers, for the position of Secretary of State. Mr. Myers has represented this county in the legislature for a number of years with considerable tact and ability. Besides being a man of education, he possesses other qualifications requisite in one who aspires to such a position, fie has called upon his friends to support him and will undoubtedly ruu strongly in the convention, and the State would secure a capable and vigilant officer by his election. "THE COMBAHEK STRIKE " Yemassee, S. C., Aug. 28, 1876.' Editor Standard & Commercial. I desire to avail myself of your columns to publish a reply to the communication in the last issue of the "Standard and Commercial" under the caption of "Combahee Strike," in so tar as it relates to the cause of the strike stated therein and some facts growing out of it. Iu the first place the word "strike" is a misnomer as applied to the late disaffection among the laborers, for it is a well ? - I .1 . A . known tact that in tnis section or country there has been no dissatisfaction whatever among the resident laborers with the wages paid them. On the contrary they have worked steadily and well through the past summer and have evinced no de! sire to strike for higher wages. In fact * they have been anxious to obtain work at the usual prices, in order to supply their , daily wants. They would have been ungrateful to have exhibited any other spirit for the writer of this can testify personal" ly to the fact, that the laborers in this lo> cality have been actually kept from stari ration in the past season by the employI ment given them and they have so expressed themselves frequently. Not less than fifteen thousand dollars has been paid out to the laboring class in the present year by the planters in this neighbour - hood Further, there has never been any reduction in the price of labor in this county, although the reduced value of rice warrants the same. The. price of labor at the harvest season has been always high and there can be no legitimate reason for any dissatisfaction. So far as the check system complained of is concerned, I am free to say I am opposed to the issue of checks redeemable 1 only in supplies from the employer's store. The check should be convertible iuto : rnoucy at the laborer^ frptfon and then serves as a convenient substitute fcr mon ey, for it is almost impossible for the planter to supply himself with fractional ' currency sufficient to pay the laborer evei ry day. *Now that silver is substituted for fractional currency, it would be still more difficult. During the past two years the writer has*been interested in rice-planting and made use of a check similar to the one referred to in the communication of Mr. Robert Smalls. Checks of this character were issued daily, and redeemed in money on Saturday of every week. There could be no ground of objection to this and the laborers were always satisfied. The checks were made payable at a remote period, not to force the laborer to exchange it for supplies, (for I have said they were redeemed every Saturday,) but to prevent their circulation all over the country and thus from being presented by shop-keepers at inconvenient times. During the present year, on account of the stringency in the money market, by a special agreement with the laborers they consented to reoeive supplies for the checks except where money was wanted for an emergency, when it was always furnished. The arrangemeut was only temporary and recently the redemption of the checks was resumed, and will be continued. Evidently therefore the recent troubles grew not out of the check system here or from dissatisfaction with the price of labor. Then what is their prigin? It consisted in the determination on the part of a band of lawless vagrants to prevent industrious, contented laborers from earning an honest and satisfactory livelihood. Tf the nlanters should have yielded to the demand for an increase in the price of wages, it would have been met by a demand for a still higher price. Many who apparently formed a part of the ri- J oters were contented laborers, who were forced to join their organization upon threat of severe corporal punishment if they refused. This was the true origin of the recent trouble and its effect has been to deprive the laborer of his freedom and to make him a more degraded slave than he could possibly have been under 1 a system sanctioned by law and established by those who rescued the negro from a savage condition and transformed him into a subject for emancipation and all the blessings and advantages of Christianity and civilization. When therefore the Sheriff and his posse were most shamefully resisted by the rioters when making a lawful arrest, they committed an offence of a most aggravated nature and hitherto unknown in this State. That a Sheriff and his posse should, while in the faithful discharge of their , duties be resisted and even beaten by a riotous mob as in the resent troubles and ] not have used the force which the law j authorized, is a striking instance of I their humane feelings to tlie negro and of a forbearance unparalleled. I am truly ' I surprised therefore that Mr. Smalls, who i has the influence with his race sufficient j to guide them when erring, should so 1 slur over this recent outrage as to throw th blame upon the whites, who by the mandate of the law even protecting the liberty of the colored laborers. That one in his position and with his opportunities should omit to denounce the recent outrageous violation of the law and to encourage the vindication of its offended majesty by the punishment of its violators, is a fit commentary upon the impossibility of establishing a firm and just government in this State through the age cy of those composing the Republican party in it. The day is not far distant when under Democratic rule the colored man will enjoy for the first time the advantages of a well ordered, just and economical government for all classes and conditions of men. C. J. C. Hctson. + A KISS FOK A BLOW Brunson, S. C. Aug. 27th 1876. Editor Standard & Commercial: You will please correct that part of your correspondent's letter, which states that I was injured in the late " anditor ial '* emeute, I received no injury nor blow. I am glad to observe that your organ recognizes the " good will " that exists between "the races" as the flippant term goes?in this community, and I speak for the who'e country when I say it now exists and always will as long as the people are left free in the exercise of their judgements and predelections. Yours etc. W. S. Tillinohast. THE COUNTY CANYASS. The Party Crysf alizing.?Wo Bolting under any circumstances.?Chamberlain's Actions, In several instances Disapproved of.?Meetings at Grahamvlile, Enstts Oaks, Glllisonvtlle, Hilton Head and St. Helena.?A Correspondent for a Democratic Organ takes it all back* Grahamville, Aug. 25.?A rousing mass meeting was held at Grahamville, on Thursday last, at which Senator Green and Auditor Langley were present and addressed the meeting, arraigning the democratic party as the party adverse to liberty now as they had been in the past, more especially the liberty of the colored man, drawing their conclusions from the record of the democratic party, in those States that had been carried by force and intimidation against large republican ma Jorities. Mr. .Laogley illustrated this line of reasoning by the manner in which public schools were conducted. The nomination of Hayes and Wheeler was endorsed and delegates to the county convention were elected. J. D. L. Sheldon Aug. 26?The meeting yestcr. day at Eastis Oaks was a great success. There could not have been fewer than from ten to twelve hundred people on the ground. The interest in this meet* ing was increased by its being held in the vicinity of the rice plantations the scene of the late strike, and a large number of those present were laborers in the rice fields. The speakers from Beaufort were accompanied by the Union Brass Band, which added considerably to the enthusiasm manifested. Mr. Devoe was elected chairman and Mr. Geo. Reed secretary. Jfrhe secretary read the following resolu' *ons, which were carried unanimously . Resolved, That we the citizens of Sheldon township desire to explain ourselves. That we meditate no resistance whatever to the government of the United States nor that of South Carolina, under its present administration, and intend in respect thereof to conduct ourselves as peaceful, law abiding citizens. We desire harmonious and mutual cooperation in the support of the government, and a mutual confidence between employer and laborer. Be it further resolved: That we desire ing to be fully understood*by the public, do consider it proper ana Decommg to make this declaration, setting forth the causes and reasons why we have refused to labor any longer: That we cannot live if the planters will give us but forty or fifty cents a day for our labor, and that on a little piece of card board called a check. That these cards or checks can only be used in the planter's own store, and in n9 other places. That wheu we take these cheeks to them, they refuse to cash them, after we have labored in the fields the whole week, and this refusal has been made continually since spring, and we have not got a cent of money for our labor. We are compelled to buy in their stores as we cannot pass their checks elsewhere. They charge extortionate prices for goods, for instance, eighteen cents per 1 b. tor meat; which is sometimes three ounces of dirt, and nine ounces of meat; thirty cents a peck for grist, of which only three quarts is grist, and the balance husks and meal. ni--.. ,.?i :c | iimt wu are uiwkcu icn ccuio pci ias&. n I not satisfactory; have to remain in the fields until they turn ub out, and if we come out without orders we get nothing. This system prevents us from paying any debts contracted outside the store of our employers; prevents us from paying taxe < or buying medicine for our families when sick, the members of whom often die for the want of it. We hereby express our willingness to work but not for checks. A song oomposcd in the rice fields, with a chorus "all that we waut is the greenbacks," was sung in a style of iudeseri' bable enthusiasm for which, rice field hands have been long noted. Lieut. Gov. Gleaves, led off iu a speech frequently interrupted by ringing cheers, denouncing the check system as the root of the trouble that had occasioned the strike which tor political effect had been heralded all 6ver the country as a sample of the lawlessness of the colored men in the South. lie gave them some I calm and well timed advice, as to their i righrs and freedom to refuse to work, | but that they must not iu claiming this freedom for themselves, interfere with the liberties of their fellow laborer who consented to work. He denied the charges made by a correspondent of the A tics and Courier that he had advised them at Gardner's Corner, to disarm the whites, and asked the meeting if he told them anything of the kind, which was replied to by a unanimous, "no " from huudreds of voices. He had nothing to say as to who should be their candidates at the coming election, as that would be decided by tlm convention, but advbed them whoever they were to stick by the nomination as a contrary c urse would result in their political death. Senator Green following in one of his characteristic speeches commenting on the importance of the campaign, rendered so by the thorough organization of the democracy, and touched on the Hamburg matter as showing the spirit of opposition that existed amongst a portion of those who claimed to be representative men of that part}'. He ridiculed the idea of a colored man simply voting with the democratic party on account of the claim put forward by them that they were their best friends, that they gave the colored man bread, which he considered an insult, and it would be so considered by a democrat if a colored man asked them to vote with the republicans on account of' some favor that the colored man might have done him. He advised a more independent spirit amongst the laboring classes in the State, and a truer spirit of manhood, and greater self-reliance. He showed whence came the cry of high taxation, by the landholder expecting to realize from a small area of cultivated land sufficient to live upon and keep the inf? mense tracts of land they owned intact, which they refused to sell to the laborer. His remarks on the rice field labor trouble were similar in tenor to those of the pre vious speaker, demanding that the planter should keep his contract with his laborer, but deprecating violence to compel those who chose to work from doing so. In conclusion he referred to the nomination for Governor, which he was willing to leave to the wisdom of the convention, and although he would support the nouinee, whoever he may be, and would advise all of them to do so, yet he would that a man truer to the party than Chamberlain would be nominated. Mr. N. B. Myers, followed in a spirited speech on national affairs, showing the contrast between the nominees of the one party and those of the other, illustrating them by the views of the democracy iniopposition to the negro, and the amend ments of the constitution that gave them enfranchisement and freedom, and also by the part they played in the war. That while the republican candidate were in the field the democratic candidate was a copperhead, assisting in forming a democratic platform, declaring the war a failure, | and that negroes had no rights that the white man was bound to respect He thought that considerable of the .same spirit was manifested now, in the Ham burg matter, and the trouble in the nee fields. Hon. Robt. Smalls followed, and never have we witnessed so much fervent enthusiasm depicted on the countenance of any class of men, as that exhibited by those who gazed upon him, as a representative man of their race,* whom they had honored by assisting by their votes to place in Congress. He exercis:s great influence, and the peaceful solution of the recent labor troubles are due to his efforts seconded as they were by those of Lieut. Gov. Gleavea. His words of advice were well chosen and none but those who are blinded by prejudice or political partisan malice, could have taken exception thereto. He regretted that the planters, sixty of whom he had met on Wednesday, and had invited to be present, were not there to hear him. While on this subject he spoke as to their rights individually to refuse to work; and pursue all lawful means to persuade their fellow-men not to work for unsatisfactory pay, but impressed upon them the wrong of using violence towards those who were willing to labor. Recounting the statements mad$ to him by Mr. Fuller and a foreman of Mr. Bissel, that they demanded a dollar and a half a task, a large number called out "it is a lie, we asked one dollar and a half an acre." He wished them in fu* *.1 . t \ n .1 i ture ro Keep witnin me paje or tne jaw. They were free to work or not to work as they chose, but if they prevented anyone else from working by violence the sheriff would arrest them, and if he was palled upon he would assist in their arrest. He then entered into a resume of the public character of Tilden, Hendricks, and Hampton, and contrasted it with that of Hayes and Wheeler and the Republican party, to whom he advised allegiance as the party who gave them liberty, protected and would still continue to protect them in their rights, denouncing the campaign of the opposition under Hampton, as exhibiting a desire to carry the State, and the entire south, where republicans were in the majority, on the Mississippi plan of force and intimidation. He called at- , tention to the approaching conventions, at which they would be called upon to make their choice for county officials, as well as a State and congressional ticket, j and urged them to suf port only those who had been true to them, but at all hazzard to cast their votes for the nomi- , nees of the party. He would not say, ] however, nor did he think for a moment that if they elected democrats they would ever be made slaves, but if they did so vote and elect them laws would be passed that they would wish to God that they ' were slaves again, and illustrated such ! laws by the black code passed by demo j crats in this State in 1865. At the conclusion of his address three hearty cheers were given for the national nominees. Mr. Thos. Hamilton was the only speaker, not in accord' with' the general tone of the meeting. Being the champion of the present Governor, he is dragging him with a mercilessly hand before even* meeting and pressing Ins claims for a re-nomination, whilst others who are stumping the county are willing I to a'iow this question to be decided by the convention. He thought some of the speakers mis-stated the telegrams that had been received in reference to the rice field trouble. At the meeting in Beaufort he had said that he would stick by Chamberlain even if he was not nominated but since the democracy had made their nomination nothing could induce him to bolt, but he would support the nominees of the September convention, as political safety demanded every republican to do. He referred to the opposition manifested in the party on account of the Governor's action in regard to W. J. Whipper. He voted for Whipper and would do so again and if even now he had the casting vote to decide as to his taking the seat he would cast it for him. He thought however, if the Governor believed what those who opposed Whipper in his contest for Senator against Robert Smalls, said of him, the Governor wab right in not commissioning him, although he would stick by Whipper because he believed he was legally elected Judge by the legislature. Mr. Smalls replied, regretting the course taken by Mr. Hamilton which he considered as insinuating that what he had said in reference to the telegrams re ceived from the Governor was incorrect* He was sorry that the name of Chamber 1 lain had been mentioned, but he was not responsible for the course a discussion on this topic might take, but the responsibility rested with the previous speaker He had asked them to vote for Chamberi lain two years ago but not until his name was placed before the people by the State convention, and he should pursue the same course this year under similar circumstances. The previous speaki.j .t ?i?? er naa saia mat unamoenain had done every thing to reform the party. In this he was mistaken. They did not want the republican party reformed by cleaning out every republican in it. He then read the dispatches calling upon him to use the militia to arrest the mob and those to other parties, from Chamberlaiu. to arrest them if it took every man in the county to do it. He then contrasted the course pursued by Cha'mberlain in thi.* trivial affair, and the course he, pursued in the Hamburg matter, where six colo red men were most bruta.ly slaughtered in cold blood by white men. He enquired it Chamberlain then issued any such orders to arrest the parties if it took every man, in the county, and received a deafening " No ! no ! no I from his hearers. On the contrary when Chamberlain weut to Washington, and had an interview with the President, who to'd him to go back to South Carolina and do his duty, he replied that he could do nothing until he had received a report 01 the investigation. Although he te'e graphed him to proceed to the disturbed rice fields, he did'nt wait for a report, but telegraphed to others, u arrest every rioter, " meaning negroes, "ifit take* every man in the county to do it. We may perhaps have to take Chamberlain, but do man must tell him, that Chamberlain had done as they desired. When colored men are murdered he does nothing, but leaves it to the court, but when colored men strike for wages he sends to the Sheriff " go and arrest every man of them, if it takes the last man in the county to do it. He was sorry that Hamilton (had not taken the same course that they had. He ought to be satisfied to leaye it to the convention. Although Chamberlain has done enough to make him a stench in the nostrils of every republican yet they might have to ! take him as the nominee of the party and for this reason be thought Hamilton's course injudicious. The hour for the departure of the train had arrived, and although other speakers followed, and delegates to the convention were elected, your correspondent closed his note book and wended his way to the depot W. H. Gillisonville Aug 28.?Receiving instructions from you to attend the meeting here, I send you a brief account, so that yodr paper may contain reports of the progress of the Republican canvass in this county, to encourage our friends to greater exertions in those counties in which the party have not such great numerical strength as in this county. The meeting was a joint one, participated in by both democrats and republicans and to the credit of those opposed to us in this section they did not atttempt to bully, browbeat, and insult us, as I see they do in other sections of the State, nor did they come in armed bands. Our party was represented by Messrs. Myere, Wheeler, and Miller, and the democatic exponent was Lawyer Moore. I wish I could give you a report of the speeches but your readers have probably read the views of these gentlemen often, but I cannot close without writing you of the ingenious retort made by Mr. Myers, in reply to the question asked by Mr. Moore if they ever heard of a strike in the rice fields under democratic rule before the war. Mr Myers retorting that the striking in the rice fields in those days was all on the other side. Gillisonville, is marching to the music of Hayes and Wheqler, this time. T. D. Hilton Head?Aug 27?The meeting here yesterday was a great success, iu . . a. _ every respect. The speeches were rousing and kindled the sparks of enthusiasm iu the most apathetic amongst us The speakers, Senator Green, Lieut, Gov. Gleaves, L. S. Langley, and Joseph llobinson, whom I here they call " Red Hot Joe '* in Beaufort, were well received. and their remarks were cheered most lnctilv Wo ol 11 -J .. w w uwvi Ut ugaics IU U e I convention, and if Hayes and Wheeler, I and the Republican party had a few more Hilton Head Islands scattered around in* this State, Tilden, Hendricks andHampton, would fold their campaign banner around them and steal away, to some' country where the laboring classes have no voice in the government S; E, TV Beaufort, Aug. 29.?Although the weather threatened rain yesterday, the meeting on St Helena Island was the largest that has been- held during the* present campaign^ The Union BrassB^od, was present and aided % their music in keeping the immense crowd,' be-tween ten and fifteen hundred, io solid mass. After the election of chairman, over which a contest was made, Congressman Smalls Addressed the aswmbledl crowd and described the attitude of the democrats by giving an acoonnt of the tar raultuous meeting at Edgefield, where they came armed to the teeth and wanted to dictate what must be and what must not be said by republicans, and how their' passions were worked upon by Gen. Butler. He also gave a concise account of' the rice field trouble and the check system that gave rise to the strike. He spoke of the account given by a correspondent of the Newt and Courier of the condition of the island, who was present at the meeting, and expressed a hope that he would send a better report of the pres. ent meeting, and complimented the people on the peace and order that prevailed there, in so much that although fewer mkiia ma. Ii'.aJ a? a? ?t ^ VTII11C U1CU IMCU MUUIIgN U1CU1 IUU IS' any section of the State, in proportion totheir population, yet not one of the vhite citizens considered it necessary to Mm themselves. Speaking of the canvass for State tklf et he expressed similar view* to those he announced when speaking at Eustis' Oak* in favor of waiting and1 sticking to the* nominations so soon to be Inade in Co*' lnmbia, towards which, in electing their delegates to the county convention they were taking steps. Cham berlain hadl done things that he did not approve ot, but if nominated they most support bim? as they could not afford to have any splits* After speaking of Hayes and Wheeler the meeting responded to his eall aDd' three tremendous cheers from a thotuand voices rent the air. After the election of DELEGATE?, Mr. Smalls took charge of the meeting and introduced Mr. N. B. Myers who isdoing youmaus work for the national nominees and his effort to crystalise theparty in this county will have a telling: effect in the approaching election. Mr. J. B. Dennis of Columbia was the next to address the meeting, and traced the democratic party from 1820, showing them to be viidually the same in spirit now as then. He paid a high encomium: to the ability manifested by Mr. Small* in the halls of Congress. He advised, the party to discountenance petit strife amongst themselves for the sake of a united party. He was followed by a few remarks from the correspondent of the . News and Courier, who confined himself to expressions of pleasure at their evident prosperous condition. The next speaker was introduced io a facetious manner, as t'm Hon. Blood and Thunder, a pet name of democratic correspondents when they wish to introduce our Senator to their readers notice. He generally calls a spade a spade, when talking politics; calls theHamburg affair " a foul and bloody murder 44 hencft the sobriquet After running brief y over the political situation he called attention to Dr. White, and his description of the last meeting they held on Helena which he wrote to the News and Courier. That what he had said personally of himself he would leave to the refutation by the people, but when he det? cribed St Helena Island, onoe a garden of Eden but now a howling wilderness caused by the misgovernment of the domroenfr party and the thriftless lawlessness of the people, he thought he ought now, in aa much as he had spoken of their prosperity to them, to take back publicly what hehad previously said of them. To these < T-v Iirifi. ! J il.i 1 remarks Lfr. n nue repnea ion since ne had for the first time, for quite a cumber of years, visited the island and saw so> many evidences of prosperity, he should most willingly endeavor to rectify through the same source the impressions he had Mished to their detriment, bat that he then wrote from information derived second hand and not from personal observation. Messrs Wheeler and Mr. Joseph Robinson, clinched the nails that- had been entered by the previous "speakers, and St Helena as of old will control the political destinies of the party in this county. As the party goes so goes St Heleua and as she goes so goes thw county. T. E. A. ICE! ICE! mm & motosSi A RE NOW PREPARE? TO PUR A Nisn Ice in any quantity Customer? may desire, from their Ice House, Seventli Street. JOHN CONANT, J. A. EMMONS p.27 t-f OFFICE BOARD OFTOUNTY commissioners Beaitfobt, 8. C. Aug. 10th 1876. The-anunal meeting of the Beard will be held en the first Tuesday after the fiat Monday,.In Septea her being the 5th day of said month. i AU persons having Mils against the county are * re-|nired by law to deposit the same with Clerk of the Board on or before the flat day of September, next, and in default sneh bills will not be audited at said anunal meetingTHOS. H. WHEELER, ug.ll 1-t Clerk of Board. , - ? - - ?