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BBjMranoBncw^*- ? ? THK JL'OK\T KOYAL. STANDARD and COMMERCIAL yv. TUOMAM Fdltnr, Beaifort S. C., . 28, 1S76. srii^ciuPTioxs. One Year, S -I 00 Six Months I 00 T5 T?T5TT?5T 7"* 7J HTr.T.*TV * ""T ilMi W Wi~ I' A I 0 iiti. i li a"V a A H ?J r o ^ ^ ^ RUTHERFORD R. HAYES or oiiio. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, WILLIAM A. WHEELER, OF NEW YORK. TOE OONORESS-Stli. DISTRICT. ROBERT SMALLS, OF BEAUFORT. FOROOVERNOR, D. H. CHAiflULKLAIPf FOR LT.-GOVERNOR. RICH'D. H. CLEAVES. For Prcsideutia! Electors. At Large.?C. C. BOVVEN. JOHN WINSMITH. First District.?T. B. JOHNSTON. S?>oud District.-T. HURLEY. Third District.?W. B. NASH. Fourth I i?triot.?W1LSO N COO K. Fifth District.?W. F. MYERS. For Seot'jr of State, H. E. HAYXE. For Oomp. General, T. C. DUNN. For State Treasurer, F. L CARDOZO. For Ati'jr.-General, & B. ELLIOTT. For State Sup't. of lulucation, J. R. ALBERT. For AJj't Inspector-General, J. D. KENNEDY. For Solicitor Second Circuit, S. J. LEE. Twrnty thousand southern men are now employed in New JYork city, and some are holding prominent positions under die govern:i ent, yet they do not call them carpet-br leers although they all went north since the war. i # A few weeks ago Mackcy and Cooke were set dowu by the democratic papers as a part of the corrupt and ienorant judiciary of the State. To-day they stand upon the role of honor of the Sacs and Courier and are wtdeouied iuto the legion of Hampton and his party who say they will reform the State. Peace has its victories as well as war. The city of Boston lus"eontributed $10,000 to the afilicte 1 city of Savannah. New York has also sent $30,003 to the bufferers there, and has\sent a prominent physician to attend to the sick with carteblanche orders to draw on the Board of Trade for all the money or supplies he may require to establish a'hospital. Tiie Nctcs and Courier says that the only way to carry the State for the democratic party is^by armed force. Hoes not the course taken by that party in attending meetings in armed bauds, and the great increased activity in armed organisation of ride and sabre clubs in a time of peace, look as if the party were determined on carrying the State?"iu the only way it could be done: by armed force." Better take warning in time given by that journal, "that such a course would end in disaster and rein.*' % While the democratic papers are talking about the outrageous] assault upon Mrs. Harley at Ellenton which brought a thousand armed men into Barnwell why do they not say something about the cold blooded, deliberate murder of S. 1\ Coker, and the mutilarion of dead bodies at i El!e*ton? Is it because of that intolerant spirit that made the News and Courier take water when it told the truth about the Hamburg horror? Tweed it actually coming to the United States. Uc is expected to arrive in New York by the 21st of October, on board the U. S. Franklvn. He will be received in New York with eclat, and treated far more sumptuously than Bn'Iock rr Blodget were on their recent compulsory vi?it to (reorgia. He, as well as they, has a tin box of documents and a voluminously ?nn->t<vl memoranda book, that it ! exhibited in X?w York 'liiri?:ir the canvass lniyht s< voii-ly eH'oet the interests > ! the democracy of the nation. Truly Twe ak thy lot boon ea.-t in very pleas| ant places, ami thou art only l?eii i: eon-1 i ve.vo'l to tin; bo om of thy fries!-] . ? t3> ' Another newspaper in this Str;i" !i: < ehanired hands 'ibis time it is >tie that has keen controlled by A. A. (iiihert. ! , Kst|. for the pa>: twenty vix years. The ! fiat has cone forth thai there is now no 1 I standim? room on middle mini 1 *:; t _ -? * y I Y." intense iem??eratic part?sa:;>hip ur.-i 'iN-r ral conservatism. 'i'ltoso who cm. ? *? e ; ; many things to condemn in ho rli partis or ( . could give u just meed of praise f<>v r.oblo : J act-. irrespective of men or j?a;ty aij filiation, nre>t give {way: there i> no 'room j ; in the democratic ran!:s f'?r such as they- ' ; Die ideas that have "governed Mr. <?i! bert, in the conduct of the Sumter! : 'Atifchnutr, " that economies 1 govern{ i?K'Ht can best be advanced and com item ! ted by the coming together of the better j i men of the two races nnu parties in har- j luoninus action, " and the other that we needed an increase of national senti- i incut and a lessening ot antagonism with j j the national government,'' are thus nul-1 i lifiedby the democracy or Sumter. It* was the power of the public press of; New York that broke the Twced-Tamma-; ny ring, and the leading" newspaper in j the attack was the X. Y. limes. This j attack of the press; culminated in the j grand mass meeting composed of the first j citizens of New York city irrespective of political parties, on the 4;h of Scptem- J ter, 1ST1, but at which meeting Samuel j J. Tildcn was not present, neither was he ' I j a member of the memorable committee of j seventy, which, aided by the pu! lie press J caught Tweed in the toils. It was only when public sentiment had become so strong that it was generally conceded that Tweed must go down, that Tilden consented to turn state's evidence and ex-1 pose the corruption of the ring of which he was a member. Even after he had I discovered convincing proof of stupendous ! frauds, he hesitated before giving them I tc the public, and put the question to | Mayor Havcmeyer as to what will the el- j feet be upon the democratic party? Is 1 this the man to reform the national government? Would he not be too apt when he discovered democratic plundering rings j at work to stop and ask the same question: What will the effect of exposure be on the democratic party? O <L> O Das it ever suggested itself to demo- j cratic journalists in this State that their i own "stated facts" refute their iiue of; reasoning? For instance they say, the ! riots and whippings in the rice fields have been instituted and continued bv rcpub- 1 | lienn leaders for the purpose of infiuenc-; ing the approaching election; but in the | same breatli they amiouuee that those ri- ; ots are daily driving hundreds of negroes j into their ranks. The riots still continue. j Wiil they now charge republican leaders j with being fools, which they must le il j they countenance lawlessness from a par ' ty standpoint, supposing the result of this j f ? .7 ? ? ?? A 1. iu w lilt; ui 1> iUg auUJ Ml lilC'II natural supporters? Do not these "rcported facts" prove one thing or the oilier? Either that republican leaders are blind | to their interests, or that as these riots ' continue, long after the abuse that orici- i, nallv created them has; ceased to exist, j that they are connived at, instigated and encouraged by democratic sympathizers, the admitted result from democratic j ''reported facts" being that cacli out-' break adds hundreds of colored voters to ' their party? On which side does the in- j terest lie ? We say there is nothing po- [ Htical in the riots. ???* Sound Financial Doctrine. The N. Y. Tribune gives to the public i the following sound financial political doc-j trine, discussing the difference between the demand for the French three percent. ; 1 bonds and the United States four-and-a i half por cent, bonds: ''The mere knowledge that the debt j was incurred in the suppression of a [ slaveholder s rebellion would prepare any intelligent foreigner to believe that, in j the States formerly slaveholdin tr, there J must be a strong tendency to get rid of the taxation necessary for the payment of that debt. Human nature is the same ! the world over. If the debt of France | had Keen incurred in defeating secession ! attorn* ted by the people inhabiting half of the territory of France, and if a power- j ful party embodying the purposes rf the defeated and relying upon the united vote were thought likely to succeed in gaining j control of the French government, the three per cents of that nation would net sell at 7!. The credit of the United 1 States is lower than that of France be-! cause we have had a rebellion and still i have * democratic part v. Our bonds! bring par only because it is not Believed j j that eith t rebellion or democracy can j I prevail." The above are the only reasons of a I large majority of capitalists at tho north in ]). mocratic States, such as New York, ( coming out strong'v in favor of tin rc-1 publican nominees, Hayes and Wheeler, j They know that such a result will increase j the confidence in our short time securi- j tKs, and it is not improbable that with I the success of the National Republican | Party, our ootids even at a lower rate of j interest, would sell at par. ?Tweed's proncrty appears to have ?,"> rpvCt i ^ IIV * ! " t ' \. 1 For ontv lt-{ tis drop both political par-; ties out of the ?li>Ctis ion ot' the mont i ti'onldo at ''1'lcntou ami discuss the qne--, i t !! apuo the ha-is of in 1 i% hial i"<pnii-i- '. I hility '; all men beim: Cijo.al before the v law. " Fiom la k <>('< tlicr ia<ts. with tiio 1 O'h't p.lit'l ' l.o "0 e?>liSSlVtC'?t With tl:c , ' man!--;- ol'1 ':>kor. \w wiii take th fact- i ' , .? j, !?v tie1 "111' ? "! .'1!!? 05'- ' n.i,; '? the day. and a-k ho-v d: I the j ' *11nan Ciniinono:': i Two r-' c unmit an as-auk and 1 battery ti]?:: white Toman wkh kite*:! ' t" commit ; rrhVry. Tin y escape from ' the Inease alter the assault. \V|io have , ! IvTii :?iv ?.? '.'.'ii oi ;a\vow-!K-ss up to mi; ' * 1 ! , point ? No oilier answer inn be given on ( this statement of fnot. but that the two ; 1 negroes had. i The hn.-band returns, hoars the story cf hi.- wife's abuses, calls his neighbors to assist him. goes foith ' ne t.- the man, ' st:ikes him. and then when the prhonor escapes, they shoot him down, from the c;focts of which lie died the foliowinir day. Yfheic was the lawlessness shown at this point ? Clearly ">y the white man and his neighbors. Not catching the m.en in the unlawful act, this party had no right to make the arrest without warrant of haw. After capture in the eyes of the law he was not in their custody. And as he broke and run from them. 1 T there heme no officer ot justice present | who had knowledge of the felony or j attempted felony, his shooting and killing at this time was murder. The nest statement of fact is that the white men placed themselves within the pale of the law by securing a warrant, from the hands of a trial justice who gave j it to hi$7constab!e to serve, who cither j called on those who had arrested one of the men, to act as a po:Sse, or they volunteered to act as such. But the morai force of the hiw had already been weakened by the defiance of law in the unlawful arrest and murder of his companion, and the man for whom a warrant was issued, and Iris friends, must have held,, fears that they had no guarantee in surrendering, that the law would bo allowed to take its course, and that Judge Lynch would not be called upon to mete out sum man vengeance, hence the resistance, unless his friends be allowed to accompany the man to Aiken. Tiius it is that violence and lawlessness bege ts violence and lawlessness, and although numerous unlawful acts followed (the tearing up of die railroad track forjnstaoce ) none of the preceding acts would, while they might paiiate the offence, exculpate them and relieve them from the responsibility of their acts. And now to pasa rapidly foi-ward to one of the closing scenes of this sickening drama. Admittiug for the sake of argument that every man on the odo side were a lawfully constituted posse engaged iii the suppression of a riot, and assisting in the arrest of a defiant felon in what light must we view tbeikilling of Coker ? He was a member of the legislature- and up to the Sunday preceding his killing was in Columbia where he had been attending l ho tato Convention an J did not arrive in Bobbins near his home until Monil'iv ticn <l iv? !ittor tlio i->i.ir.n:en"?e!v.r-rt of I of tlio trouble. lit there acted as a j peacemaker and attempted to avoid a conflict by judicious advise. After | the fight at Robbins he is arrested, kept j in custody nil night, taken to Kllenton the following morning, is given a itw minutes to make his peace with his Ciod, | and is taken < u and shot. Rut to go further and throw tlds statement .v-Mt: as a "Radical lie" and to;'take]thc statement made by the other side, that Coker was a ringleader of the rioters; that lie had any quantity of damaging documents i in his iSoekct. in what light must his .killing be\iewcd? lie is a prisoner in the hands of a i> ssc, officers of the law, and the law pronounces his killing under the circumstances murder, the authorities j holding " that if the officer kill the party after the resistance be over, and the no- i cessary ceased it is manslaughter at least, j and. if the blood had time to cool it would j be murder. THE REI'UULICIX CANDIDATE. j Vttwcd Thriug!; Doitncriitlc S?eftaclf? J The democrats in South Carolina are iti the minority, else they could at d j would, as a party, oiuaui control or trie- j State by their own efforts.?Xcus ami tanner. Mr. Ciiamrepjiax will accept a nominatioa for re-election; not because of the emoluments, of the office, which are pitiful, nor far the love of politics, which \ are not to hi - taste?, but because in two years more, with a soun i intelligent and upright lcgi.-le.turc, 'e can with the ' knowledge he has < f our condition and 1 wants, complete the work now begun. 1 and make South Carolina as contented 1 and progressively prosperous as any state in the South.?X, ami Courier I 1 Mr. CUAM3E5T.AIX lus earned the!5 gratitude and deserves the confidence of 1 the whole people.?Xew J awl Courier. t I>v supporting Mr. Chamberlain the [ wiio'o country will secure, without revo-li hit ion, a government in every way satis- i factory.?\ewt ami Courier. < f I honesty believe that Governor Cham- 1 herlaiu can do more fur South Carolina, in and out of the State, th an any otb<r 1 man?Lettrr </ Geo. B'. WilliaoM j I i The most influential banker.' and nter. | c chant? in Charie: tun hold sub tan'ially ; t 1 l 1 ' n the same opinion.* as those expressed ny , * Mr. Williams.? W ?< .<Couri< r. , t We hope that Gen. Hampton will not j he noli.mated. .?eean e we ?; > ?: ?t . oikvc p . ?^.u V 1 : v M 7 <T-v - 1 r i Mr Cltanil er!:iin will probably 1 >o the j nii ii l-it'1 of lo'puMit/un j?nr:y f?r ro legion. T!ic wilder the talk <>f the lladieal IVi?i!?.*r:!?y the printer liis :?ren_th. a : a coimnnlin:: necessity to i s party. In rase that lie be nominated >o v. iii hnvr !In; undivided .-uppnrt of tin it niic;r>. Tin t- i-of! '? l>Jf. Add to lit1 -??:i?l vote. tin* p>*.ver to Alain F?''lorn! troops ns thrty ntny be tended. tho Rtofiuive appointment of [' ?nimi--i?>n -v* of Flection. the broad and todefinrd ! owers of the Foard t.f State Fanv v'sors, and what prospect is there ]<:>: i'.i* ".i'l bo Uv'tcati-1'. ! i.1 con; 1 no lone it; only on;; way : f.'jj irnifd fonr. For that the people are r.ot ready. and if tlivy wc;e ready ?u-.h a course wouM cn<! in disaster and ruin.?X< ic.< attd Covrlcr. It ~.*ouM Fe .'oliy to run a democratic candidate for Ft.) vent or against 31 r. Chamberlain.?.V< >/ .< ml Courier There would 'oo more wisdom in cooperating will; the friends of Governor Chamberlain to secure his election than in throwing away our strength upon impossible candidates.? Cliraulon J'rcss Far from bringing out a full vote the u straighout " policy will, in our opinion cause thousands of whites to cast their votes for the Republican candidate, if that candidate be Mr. Chamberlain, or to refrain from voting for Democrats because thev know there is no hope of victory.?Xncs and Courier As we ha vc'a heady said there is notlr ng but defeat ahead of us on any ticket of that sort that can be put forth. The a no of Gen. Hampton is electric and will thrill through 4the nerves of every white man in South Carolina, but what of that ? If every one of them voted for hint and ten thousand more besides he would still be in a hopeless minority.? Marlboro Planter. The arrival of two companies of Federal troops at the scene of the late disturbances in South Carolina had the effect to immediately restore peace arid quiet, and yet the Democrats, from one end of the country to the other, are crying against Federal intervention. Certainly ail lovers of peace should welcome the conservators of the peace. Hostility to those who would preserve order is hostility to good order itself. Tho^c who would have disorder at an election can have but one motive in wishing it.?Republican Wade Hamptcn is described by democratic Journals as the nmo who never told a lie, and yet he persists in charging tho murder of Buekuor, in Charleston, upor. colored men, when it is a notorious fact, .worn to by Backner himself, that J. W. Barnwell, a democratic member of the hou>e of representatives, fired the fatal shot. ? Union Herald Political Chit-thai. ?Autumn is h re; the red denning leaves on the maples look like the noses in a Democratic procession. ?Na.-by says the brie gin back uv Tweed is a Republican trick, it is tnkin a mean advantage of our Reform candidate. Kf Willyum hcz the stubs of his check book about his person, Tilden is a lost man. ?Hon. f ane P. Root, of Chicago, says of Sammy Tilden: "I tell you wlu-n a man goes to be sixty-four years old before it occurs to him that there is anything to reform in this country, after he has been twenty years the bosom friend of Boss Tweed, lie is a fraud. He begins his reform business pretty late in the evening of life." ?The average democratic editor wishes now that he had not said, on the day following the Maine election, that if the republican majority had been sixteen thousand it would have been a serious thing for the democracy. He did not suspect that the later returns would make the vote so large and thus catch him in his own trap. ?When rare John Phoenix whipped the editor he described the conflict thus: 'T tangled my hair in his fingers, and inserted my nose in his mouth; then I foil back on the hand press and pulled him down on top of ino. He sat there until I took off the impression of the first page on the back of my shift, his teeth all the time nibbling my nose.'' This is very funny, but is it any more so than the boa is of the democrats that the fight iu Maine has resulted satisfactorily? ?A counsel was asked by the judge for whom he was concerned. He answered : 'I am concerned, my lord, for the plaintiff, but 1 am employed by the defendant" This is a good explanation of the position afS. J. Tilden. He was deeply concerned o r the Credit Moholier riiiir. Lut was in the era ploy of the defendants, the railroads. ?Col. 31. P. XoJan, a life-long democrat and prominent lawyer, of Dayton 0., has declare 1 for Hayes. He would have remained silent, he say.?, but there i.s too nuch at stake. ?At a Wade Hampton meeting in 50U<h Carolina the other day, one of the tpeakera, W. I). Simpson, raid "the re ;ro did not owe his emancipation to the rpublicau party, he owed it to God," md that put-# it more hopelessly distant toiii the democratic party than ever.? Burlington UaicWye. ?There.is nothing in Attorney Genera\ r.aft's inatruetbuia to disturb honest and >ca?v aMe citiiens. Of course the author ty p.iven to ajar? hi Is might be abused, >nt the abuse of power is something to :bich we are always liable. Kvery citi:en is interested in favor of an honest and roe election and that is .all that Att rnev teneral Taft seeks.?IJosfon Herald.? ? A sudden cyof poverty lias broken ?ut among the 'leiu'vraK Has the "still ? :r - '!,-*! :?V?v 1 so . ,?!.? I -A New Kngiaiulor, reeontly arrival' !ii I Joan fort remarks that a great re action ! lias recently taken place in New York ' State, in reference to Hayes and Whccl; er. It may he a great surprise to the democracy it' Tilden docs not carry that ( State: but will he no surprise to the re- j publican*. | ?The carpet baggers are held respon "line ii\r sn many evil* in ui'j ouuiu mai there arc some facts thai ought to be remembeivd to their credit. Thus ia ISfi'h the S uttli had is! mile- of railroad; in ISh"> it had ".fooJ: in 1S7'> the extent was 1l'. i'jo, and in IS To it had readied Id,-' ; Thi- the work of the despised ear-' , pet-bagger.'. | ?f'arl Sehurz says ho hasn't been for- j i bidden to say anything; Secretary Chan- ^ I dler sa)\s he has never put a niutiler on i the di.-tint*ui>licd German's lips, and President (riant declares lie has not put' I bits in the headstrong Teuton's mouth, j 1 yet people will believe the silly story that ; [ Sehurz has been muzzled because ho does ! not fight for Hayes by knocking down cv' | cry body else who stands up for him. ?The bloody shirt would be unfurled i to good deal less purpose if this sort talk from the Memphis Appeal were to j be put in practice in every Southern I State: ''The negres of the South must be j guaranteed free speech and a free ballot I at any cost, and the Democratic party in i all the States must make it a part of their ! creed to compel it. The man who obj structs Iree speech cr a free ballot at the { South is an enemy not only to the iusti; tutions of the country, but in an especial : sense is an enemy of our section." ?Brooklyn Argus: 'Tn answer to a i correspondent who solicits our opinion in j the matter, we express the belief that Brooklyn will east about 3,000 democratic j votes for Ilaj-cs and Wheeler. A little j judicious tickling may increase this esti : mate, say -,(X>0 votes. ' ?Hayes &, Wheeler will carry the State j of Maine in November next oy 25,000. It is said this is clue to the ladies. God bless them! JUDGE WICGIX A.\D THE "POSSE.?? Dili not Call Out the Cltizcns.-An InlcrT?CW. Seeing in the Charleston News and Courier of Tuesday a report made by Gen. Hagood, of Barnwell, to Judge Wiggiu, in reference, to instructions he alleges to have received from the Judge to act with his men as a posse comitatus. our reporter called at the scsidcnce of Mr Wiggin the following morning requested an interview with him on the matter. He at once consented, and our reporter's interrogations were answered as follows: Q. Have you seen the report of Gen. Hagood in reference to his action at the recent disturbance in Barnwell connty ? A. Yes [ saw it in the News and Courier. I afterward received a report from Gen. Hagood, and his action is a perfect enigma to me, and I can in no way account for it. I certainly never authorized or dij rectcd him to raise a j>ossc comitatus to I assist the sheriff in supressing the d'stur! banco at Eden ton or at any other place. | It was the business of Sheriff Patterson j o call out his own posse. Besides I did i not fjpn Hagood until I was in formed, and had every reason to.believe, that couriers had been sent out in every ! direction by him vrifh orders to his men ! to rcrdezvons at certain points in ParnI well county for the purpose of proceeding, j to the disturbed district. Q. When did you sec Gen. IlagooJ and what occurred at the interview ? A. At about 4 o'oclock a. in, on Tuesday the 19th inst. Col. F. (iantt, whom I had the day before, appointed acting solicitor, came to my room with the session's ! papers and informed mo that Gen. Ha; good had just left him, and had requested ' that he accompany him to the- scene of the disturbance, and he therefore fc't j compelled to resign his appointment as j solicitor, and deliver the papers to me, I which he did. Between eight and nine I o'clock the same morning, Gen Hagood, ' accompanied by Col. Gantt and Sheriff j Patterson, came to the Patterson, House, where I was staying and reques. ; ted to see rnc privately. Wc i entered the parlor and closed the door. Sheriff Patterson then stated that j Gen. Hagood desired that lie should aci company him to the disturbed section, J as he (Hagood).was going in command I of the men. I told him that I thought I it was an excellent idea and that he had j better go. I further stated to Gen. Hagood that I was gratified to Icaru he was I going in command of the men, as I felt i confident that hewou'd, by his coolness : and prudence, prevent unnecessary vi1 o!e ce and bloodshed, and he assured mc he .should use his best endeavors to do so* i ... ^ This was the only instance of my meeting | Gen. Hagood while in Barnwell, and wc were together less than five minutes. I j think our conversation was substantially ! as I have related it. Q. Did you ever give him any wri tfen 1 orders, or had you any correspondence ( with him, whatever, in relation to the matter, before or after that time ? A. None whatever, j Q. You do not consider pour language instructed Gen. Ilagood to raise a posse : comitatus ? j A. Most certainly not. j Q. IIow do you account for him rej porting to you ? | A. As I said in opening it is certainly an enigma to mo. -? -rr- * ? The SiuuoU-Tilden Reply. The trouble about Sinnott's explanation. is, that, while it agrees with Tilden's i statement in 1802, it disputes Tilden's statement in 1876. Sinnott says Tilden's j income was but $7, US in 1862, "but Tilden swears in 1876 that lie received $20,(XX) 1 in one payment in 1862. Now if Tilden's | oath can't stand against Sinnott's simple i allegation, then his character for truth ! and veracity is mighty shaky, httn1 r Ill ?" f??? Regarding, Tildcn.s defense the New > York Tinw* >ays: "We promise to show i "from records of the courts, and from the "hooks of the Pit;'burg, Fort Wayne and "Chicago Railroad, that the Timrs has "very greatly underrated the amount i "earned by Mr. Tilden in lSf?5. We shall "prove Mr. Finnott to be guilty of dclib"erate misrepresentation as clearly as wo "shall show that his former employer has j "tried to conceal, hy jesuitical evasion, 1 "his manifest perjury and fraud." In tier The F.ye of Their Taakmnstera. The attitude and policy of the demo- i cratie party under its present leadership : should first be considered. That policy is i the Edgefield " policy. The men who j dictated it wore the Butlers and Garys r and Jjipseoiubs and Tillmans and Aikens. i No man will deny this. A clear majority | of that party, including conspicuously the ! editors of the News and Courier, are to- i day enlisted under leaders and seeking to j carry out a policy which does not command the approval of either their heads ! or hearts. rl his policy has been forced j on them by the most unwise, impracticable. reactionary and aggressive men of their party. The essence of that policy | is intimidation. The only hope of its j success is "n iraidation. The editors of the ! News and Courier know this. Every in-1 telligent man in this state knows that j | l)r. Ttedfield, the careful correspondent of j the Cincinnati Commercial, states the I truth when he says in his letter, reprinted j in t he News and < Courier of the 19th inj stant, that " nine hundred and ninetyj nine out of a thousand of the blacks wHl. ! when let t to an tin tram moled choice, vote I the straight republican ticket. " ; This is the party and policy which the j News and Courier, contrary to its judgement and conscience, in defiance of all its proto-ts and warnings and entreaties finds itself forced to adopt and advocate at this moment. The editors of the News and j Courier are the galley slaves of the ButJ lers and Garys, whom, personally and j politically, thev detest. But we find ' them cnn.il to the emercrene*.'. Not only I ? ? o " * | have they consented to abdicate every opinion they have expressed for the last two years, but under the eye of their taskmasters, they seek to wipe out by superserviceable zeal, the remembrance ! of their former opposition to the policy they now find themselves compelled to advocate.-Union Herald. The Opening? of Hell Gate. The explosion of dynamite for the purpose of removing the rocks that interfered with navigation in New York ha \ bor, is thus described by the Associate Press dispatch: New York, Sunday, September 24.? The explosion at Hell Gate this af ternoon was perfectly successful as well as harmless. After the last gun of warning a deep hush fell upon the multitude. The stillness was complete and unbroken from then until the third gun at ten minutes to 3, which was followed precisely at nine minutes to 3?by an explosion in a straight and seemingly .narrow line running north and south for about three hundred yards. The water was whitened and aroso twenty-three or twenty-four feet high. A dull thud wis heard, the rocks trembled beneath the feet of the multitude as from two quick short pulsations of earthquake, and the water, which appeared to remain stationary for an in. statu, broke ar spurted up in irregular } daik yellowish masses, about twelve feet | high, mixed with Jwfc smoke from the | dynamite. Then it fell lack and in a moment the river resumed its usual peaceful aspect. Then a mighty cheer ' arose trom the crowd on trie northeast side of the city and from the steamerj and boats. Steam witi t os were blown ! and bells were rung joyously and all was I - Tl,? i-nrvnrt w,iv nntii p-ilile IJWI> i.l>? I ^ f/Vl V ????., livow; ...... not the smallest fragment of rock, was hurled up and not so much as a ripple was caused upon the water save just over the spot wliere the explosion took place. ! There was no concussion in the air and not I a pane of glass was broken in the c fcy or i on Ward's Island. Immediately after the ' explosion hundreds of row boats set out [ at their best speed for Hell Gate, each i anxious to have the honor of first passing ! over the scene of the explosion. The work was effectually done as appears from i the tact that a police boat passed over i that spot safely. The tide has been iua: tcrially changed by the explosion, and i now the current sets directly on Big and Little Mill rocks which will have to be j exploded next. Application foF Charter To whom It may concern: Notice is hereby given that at the expiration of i thirty days from this date, an application in duo ' form w ill be made to the Work of the Court in and for Beaufort County, for a charter for the Port Roy. ' p.l Lime Company, a corporation to bo established 8t Tort Royal in Beaufort County, j Sept. 28th, 1- 76.?lm. Can't be made by every agent every i V H*iy month Jji.thv business we furnish, but ' 11GilM 'h,>se willing to work can easily earn a hr w V J dozen dollars a day right in their own ' localities. Have no room to explain here. Busij ness pleasant and honorable. Women, and boys j and girls do as well as men. We will furnish you a | complete wuiui iree. ane niisiut? r*-'a i j than anything else. We will hear expense of startr Ing you. Particulars free. Write a nd see. Farmer j | ami mechanics, their sons and daughters, and all j classes in need of paying work at home,should wr;tc j to us and ham ail al>out the work at once. Now is the time. Don't delay. Address TKl'fc A Cq, i A ugusta Maine. STATE SOUTH CAROLINA,") J' Court of Probate. County of Beaufort j Copy Summons for Partition. Petition not served Amelias. Williams. Ifenry R. Williams, Against Win. C. Richards. T. Addison Richards, J. J. Rich aids, S. P. Richards, Catharine DuBuse, C. W. l>u l?o-v?, Nellie Richards, Bessie Richards, Ellen Rich ards. To the Defendant above named: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the petit in in this action which has txen tiled in the I office of Probate Judge in and for Beaufort County | n said State, and to serve a copy of your answer ! on the subscriber at his office in Gllllsonrnie withiu | wenty days after the service of this summons on I you exclusive of the day of service. ! If you fail to answer this Petition within the time aforesaid, tho Plaintitf will apply to the court j for the relief demanded in the Petition together ' with the costs and disbursements of this action. COLCOCK A SON. Pro. Pet. f Dated CiiIison*i!le, Aug. 7th 1S7A. * I ' To the Defendants in the above stated ens* : Take Notice?That the summons in th:? action o | which the foregoing is a copy together with thrt Pe j tiiion thereon has been tiled In the office of th* Pro i bate Judge for the county of Beaufort and State o ! South Carolina, on tue 'frith day of Aug.. lriTd. rni.C'K'K A <OS, ' Pro 1VI. HEAD QUARTERS U. R PARTY. J&U.?r ~ Bkaitort. ?. 0., Sept. 19. 187fv NOTICE h hereby given that a convention of the 1'nion Republican Party of the County of Beaufort will be held it* the Arsenal, in the town of Beaufort, on Thursday the 5th day of October, at four o'clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a Senator; six Representatives; Clerk of Court: Sheriff; School Commissioner; Judge of Probate; Coroner, and three County Commissioners, and transact such other business as the convention may deem proper. The several parishes are entitled to the following quota of delegates, which shall be elected at the places and upon dayshereinafter named: St Uelena Parish 24 as follows; Brick Church, five; Coffin Point, two; Lands End, two, to be elected at the* Brick Church, Monday the 2d. of October. Lady's Island, two; Monday Sept.25th. Beaufort, five; Port Royal, one; I Grey's Hill, three; Myrtle Bush, two; Paris Island, two: to be elected on: Monday, the 2d. October. Prince William's Parish, 17 as fol-* lows; Chisolra's landing, two. Gardner's Corner, five; Pocotaligo, two; on Wcdneaday the 27th of September. Peoples, two; Varnsville, two; at Early Branch Thnrrf day Sept. 28th. Brunson, four; on Friday the 20th September. St. Luke's Parish 14 as follows; Hilton Head, five; Bluffton, three; Wednesday Sept. 27th, Genesis' X Road*, one; on Saturday Sept. 3och, at Grahamvillo. Grahamville, three; on Saturday Sept, 30th. Gillisonville, 2; on Wednesday Sept, 27th. St. Peter's Parish, 19 as follows; Bellenger Hill, three; Jjavy'a X Road*. 2; at Levy's X Roadu,. on Thursday September 28th. Hardeeville. one; HennLV X Roads, one; Brighton two; Wednesday Sept. 27th, Law ton'* Church, one; Beech Branch, eoc; Blach Creek, one; Nixville, one; on Thursday September' I ( Litwfnsriile. fr.trr; j M,?t:lvvf< Bluff, two; .it Lawtonrille,. Saturday* Sept. ."lOth. t -?o The sn^amniittee-nien of each of the products wilT i mured iatelv upon the reif:p: of this call irive ample and full nolice to the vo'ors of the same and ndhero ! to the rules of the party. He is required1 \ to call the meetimr to order ana temporarily preside until a chairman is elected. If also 1 ccomes the <luty to'elect a *rtl>cotmnittecuiin for each precinct at these* meeting. Delocates are expected to he in ttfmort* the afternoon of the 5th. prnx;, as the com vent ion will be called to order promptly' at 4 o'clock p. ra., SAMUEL GREEN; Chr'uin IT. R. Party;. Beaufort Co:. Stale Normal School Opening* rrttls institution will open its 1 Thinl Annual Session on MONDAY, OetoI>er 2 1 76. Students in the various Counties who have passed tho requisite exa inr.tion before the County Board of Examiners, awl received the evrtiftcate of the County School Commissioner, will present thouiselve* before the Committee of Regr?'* at the school buil.linjf in the University Urwuads,. at Columbia, during the day fixed for opening. Teachers holding seeonti and third grade certificates, desirous of availing themselves of the beneI tits of the Normal School training should mike written application for admission to the undersigned. As this school is (Tcsirned exclusively for theinstruction of those desirous ofengaging in the work of teaching in the Public Schools of this State, the ?- ?J - " - .ivn.<*r fhat the n% IiX HIXl >! luuuuviiiii^ rious Counties will be representee, in order that tbo j standard of education th* >t; gbout the State may be 1 raised t > a higher elevation, and the beneficent act ! of the Legislature, in thus liberally endowing the school, not lost to the people whom it was.itUeiyi?t I to benefit. The school will be nnder the charge of Profewoje MORTIMER A. WARREN, late Principal of the j " Avery Institute " in Charleston, a gentleman long and favorably known to the educational world, $nd 1 a teacher of excellent qualities and attainments. Until OfTOBKH 1, communications relating to ! the Normal School may >*e addressed to the undert j signed at Columbia. L. CASS CARPENTER. President Board of Rogrnta State Normal School* Sept. 23-It. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. By virtue of an onler of Hon. B. K. Carleton^ J Judge of Probate for Beaufort county, I will aril at I public outcry during the legal hours of sale, at : Kean's N?x-k. Sheldon township, on the 10th day of I i ?-? o.Hnwinc nersoual Dronerty to tICAv, tuv .v.. B . wit: One buggy, one wagon, one cart, one cow, one ; mare, onu mule and other plantation effects thQ j property of the estate of II. McMillan, deceased. JAMES E. BOYCE Administrator NOTICE ! TO HOLDERS of CLAWS against Beaufort Count]', for the Tears 1875-4, and 1874-5. Officii of tub Couwtt Comhwsiojikrs, Beaufort. S. C.. Aug 11th. 1S7?. Io accordance with the provisions of a jofnt Be*, olution of the Genersl Assembly, approved March 34th, 1S76,entitled "a Joint Resolution author!*. ! ing the County Commissioners of B-aufort County f to levy a special tax." j Notice is hereby xlvcn thr.t all persons holding j claims against Beaufort County, for the fiscal yttra * IST-M and isfl-fi, are required by said Joint Rest* i Iution to register their claims with the Cot nty i Treasurer within ninety days from and after the t first day of September next. Claims not so regisler' ed In the time required, will not be entitled to the ^ p-0"^ds of the tax levied under said Joint Resolu. I fion. TITC^ If- WHFELFB. .mg.IMf. Clerk of Foard.