The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, October 26, 1876, Image 2
aith 44.tu and IllraIcI,
WINNS110RO, 8. 0.
Thursday, October 26, : 1876
JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Editor.
FOR PREsIDENT,
8.4MUEL J. TILDEA
of New York.
FOR VICE PREsIDENT,
.THOS. .4. IIRNDRICKS,
of Indiana.
FOR GOVERNOR,
WADE HAMPTON,
of Riclihland.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
W. D. SIMPSON,
of Laurons.
FOR sT'kTE TREASURER,
S. L. LEAPHART,
of Riehland.
FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL,
JOHNSON HAGOOD,
of Barnwoll.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
i. M. SIMS,
of York.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
JAM/S CONNER,
of Charleston.
FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.
HUGH S. THOMPSON,
of Riciland.
FOR ADJUTANT GENERAL,
E. W. MOISE,
of Suiter.
FOR CONoRESS, FOURTH DIHTRICT,
J. H. EVINS,
of Spartanburg.
FOR SOLICITOR OF TiHE SIXTH CIRCUIT
T. C. GASTON,
of Chester.
Wlien Corbin was dragooning thc
Stato in 1871 ho tickled Cliamber
lain with fees. Now that Clianiber
lain is dragooning the Stato, he
tickles Corbin with fees. The
patriotism of each is measured by
dollars and cents.
The Radieals became spasmodic
over the allusion madie by Major
MAois(), in his )Ch itt Winnsboro,
to .Iutus and Charlotto Corday.
Whlat convulsions they arc sp)aredl
*in tho neglect of the speaker to ijn.
elade Jack Ketch as anotl3,.W aveng
ing Nollusis!._
Thel conisti tu tioni providesl that no
judicial officer shall sit upon01 his
own CasO. Tholi managers of election
and the State board of canvassers
cannot decide questions arising in
regardl to their own election. Tlhiis
vacates the State b~oardI and will
(tansO many candidates, who are also
'ommllissionlers, to take hack seats.
Tho gratifiying intell igon(eo roaches
us that thueoffect of the recent
proclamnations has only 1boon to still
further solidi fy thle D emocracy all
over the State. Enithuisiasm at the
recenit Democratic 1moot inlgs has
boon unbounded. TIhe necessity'of
electing Hamp ton has beomotieali
m1ore appalrenlt. We canniot livo
nder aniotherw termi of Chanmberlia.
Groonville and1( Sp)artanburg to
gether promiso a majority of five
thousand, a gain of three thousand
live hundred votes over the last
election. Three thtousanid fivo hmn
dlredI from two thousand leaves
an algebraio expression. M~r.
W~allace may p~eruso with b~onofit (lhe
chapter oni negativo quantities. Un
fortunately, however, for himm, eon
grossmoni are choson according to
the rules of arithmetic, where the
minus sign is not recognized.
Chamberlain is als much01 resp~onsi
ble0 for the murder of the white men01
at Cainbiow as if lhe himself had
fireod the g' s thaut killed themii. The
lawless and mluderous conduct of
the negroes is the natural fruit of
his course in rogardl to the Hlamburg
ainhir, and the teachings he has omI
bodied ini his prFoclamations--above
all in his actionsq as to the Elontom
riot and his general course since he
sold1 out to the Elliott-Pattersoni
crew. And, wvhatever may lbe his
course in future, the people of South
Carolina should r'emnember him as
thme cause of the worst of all their
troubles.
The high-handed proceoodings in
Aiken and Barnwell, far from check..
ing the progress of the Deomocra tic
canvass or cooling the ardor (of tihe
peoplek, have had just thle opplosite
effect. The honest and law-abiding
people1, Rooing~ that Chiamberla in,
treaehorous an -1 hyp'criticatl ats be is,
can hever. bring genuino .psdeo ind.
piosperity to State, are more than
over arousel to the necessity of a
Domocratic triumph. Their -erts,
from this time till the polls close
on the seventh of November, will be
more earnest, more powerful, more
aggressive than ever.
South Carolina is represented by
her Massachusetts governor to be
in a state of insurrection. Armed
band3 are said by him to be con
stantly roaming over the State, kill
ing or maiming helpless Republicans.
The civil arm is said to be paralyzed.
And bayonot are needed to enforce
the law. Yet there is no instance
given of anyresistance to law oxcopt
by a mob of Radical negroes. The
judges, ebriffs, magistrates, munici
pal officors all, as far as heard from,
unite in saying that the profoundest
peace prevails, and that there is no
resistance to the civil authority. It
is in the face of such facts, proven
by the testimony of Republican
officials, that the governor threatens
mial tal law and calls on the Presi
dont for troops to garrison the State.
The address of the State Demo
cratic Executive Counmitteo is a
completo vindication of the people
from the vile slanders committed
upon them by ChamberlIin, and
mado the basis of the Presidont's
proclamation. In dispassionate and
respectful language it sets forth the
actual stato of affairs, and shows the
utter falsity of the Governor't:
charges. It disavows any disrespect
of the President of the United
States, and asserts theentiro fidelity
of the Democracy of the State to the
Union and the laws. It admonishes
the people to the exercise of pi-r
donco and forbearance, and advises
them to abstain from the exercise of
a right, that no pretext may be given
to charge thom with lawlessness. As
a whole, the address is an able and
impressive document, and it will he
received by right-min led people
everywhere as an impartial statement
of the general situation in South
Carolina.
The articlo published elsewhere,
taken from the News and Uourier
will give some idea of the pretexts
seized by the hirelings of Corbin
and Chamberlain to arrest whito and
e *art- I D)mocratr. The United
ttes comnmissioners work in the
intlost of the Radical crow, and do
all in their p)owe; r to procure accusa
tions of leading white men. Eaton
hinli, it, would. suom, virtually ad
mittoed having "cooked" a negro
witness. There has been no injus
tice more p~alp~able, no tyranny more
cruel andi iniqiuitouis, than is found in
the action of the Uniteo1 States au
thiorities in Aiken and Blarnwoll.
Men have been arrested upon
grounds that didl not furnish evemn
flimsy pretexts. Yet the (o umir
sioners, acting under general
orders, have held such men to
heavy bail. The arrests have
beeni made at night, and t'te
1p1iion(ers subjoeted to much neeii
'css suffering. Tihe examninat'om
han've been dlelayedl as mluch as pt Foi
b)1o, and bail has been arbitrarily re
fused in some cases. And all this
is en the falso and ab~isurd statement
that theE lonton riots were the re
suilt of a general Conspiracy aimoedat
the political rights of the negroes of
of Aiken and Blarnw ell !
The Cainhoy Massacre.
IThe details now known of the
killing of tho white men by negroes
at Cainhoy last wvook only show it
to have boon a most brutal and
treacherous murder. An arrange
Imont had been entered into beCtWOon
the D~emnocratic and the Republican
County Chairman for a joint dis
cuss!onl. It wals distinctly st ipulated
that in ordler to ensure peacefrul (is
cussion, no one should carry arms
to the meeting. In violation of this
agreement the Ra~dical negroes went
to Cainhoy with their guns,
those who attended the meeting
concealing them in thme woodls near
at hand. While thme speaking was
going on a panrty of whites discover
oel these arms, and at onco the ne..
groes endeavored to seize the giums.
A slight commotion ensued, and
simultaneously with it, and before a
single shot was fired, -the negroes
advanced from the wVood1s in regular
skirmishing ordler, and fired upon
the whites. The negroes aroud
the stand, at a signal, immediately
rushed into the woods, seized their
arms, and united in the attack upon
thme whitce. In the fight that en
mmued the hatter were at the greatest
disadvantage, most of them being
entirely unarmoed and thme rest having
only small pocket-pistols almost use..
less in a light. Buit one negro was
killed, while five white men lost
their lives amnd several woe womnd.
ed. A company of Fderal troops is
now stationed at Cainhoy, and no
further trouble a typrended6.
Oharberilain tatgraphied to Bowern,
who is sheriff of Charleston couDty.
to have all the guilty parties arrested I
Nothing is said about the powerless
ness of the law to apprehend the
offenders, and no such action is
taken similar to that of the. Gover
nor upon the Hamburg riot. White
men wore treacherously an I brutally
murdered, but that is of little mo
ment in the eyes of the unscrupu
lous demagogue and oily-tongued
hypocrite. who now disgraces the
highest oflico in the gift of tile peo
ple of South Carolina. Indeed the
Govei nor scoms not a little inclined
to accept as truthful and final the
lying statement of Bowen that the
difficulty arose from an attack inade
by the whites upon an old colored
man.
'Ih's affair is in every respect
worse than the killing of the no
groes at Hamburg. In the one
case there w.ts a mob of lawless
blacks whose conduct was offensive
and dangerous to all good citizens;
who wore banded together as a
military company without the
sanction of any coinpetent authority;
who wore insolent in their conduct
towards persons in no way offending
or molesting thei ; and who re
fused cit her to dis)and or to cease
their unlawful doings. It was such
a body of lawbro:ikers that suffered
in the Hamburg riot. At Cainhoy
the two parties hl d mot for a law
ful and )eaCeful purpose ; it was
agreed that nonQ should liuve fire
arins; there was no good ground
for the whites to approhend any
dttack, and they went totally un
prepared ; the Iltcks violated thoi
pledges by going with their muskets
:nd concealing thon near by ; an(
they sciz',d the first )rctext for an
attack upon the whites. Their con
duct was infinitely worse than that
of the whites at Hamburg, and
showed a degree of treachory and
)loodthilstiness which is aliosi
wthout a par-ille in tho history of
our State The brutality of theii
eonduct was increased by theim
savage botting of the wounded al(
dying-the l( des of som<
of those injured and thoso slaiv
showing marks of most inhuniai
treatmont. Such are the naini
f.atures of the Cainhoy anti th<
unmburg aff.irs. .But mark the
difference in the action of the Gov
.c n'or in the two cases ! Ini tihe one
ho writes a heated, partisan, shan
d erouis letter to Washington, an i
afterwards makes tho aiYtir a text
for rounds of abuse of 50om1 of the
best men01 in the State-acting inl
such a way as to convoy to the
public mnid an utterly false im
prossion~ of the affair and causing at
the North volumes of abuse agatmst
our people. This course suited his~
pmposo05, and served to win him
friends among the nlegroes and
wi~dte Radicals, and to bring ad
ditional bayonets into tho State.
The Cainhoy ma~ssacre is troated as
compIIaratively a sma~ll matter. The
lying statement of B3owen is tacitly
accepted as a truthlful versionl of the
difficulty, and he is simp~ly instruct
od1 to arrest the offenders-just
what he is already sworn to do! No
letter is wvritten to Gr mnt or Senatom
R obertsop, no0 pitifuI l1ppeal is sont
t.) Washingtcn--.nay, worse than all.
1n0 horro'r, nlo regro.o is expressed at
tile br1utal and barbarous miurdor.
Such is the course of a man claim
ig to h)o the governlor of South
Carolina ! Snch is the Course of thle
muan who lays claim to perllsonal
honty~t, political intogrity! Is it
any wvonder that such a man should
ho0, as5 Ubiamlberlain is to-day, an
object of contempt to all the best
pleople of South Carolina, and that
thoso 1)001)1 should be united inl
an effort to hlurl from power the
self-scoking, cold-hearted and m1en3
dicious demagogue wh) no0w dis..
graces tihe highest office inl the
State?
T1ho lessons to be learned from thme
Cainhoy mlasacroe are those: 1.
That the negroes are armed with
guns withl the knowledge of thle
State auithoritics. 2. That no0
agreement made by a Ra~dicall leader
is worthy to be recognizod or re
lied upon01. 3. That it is a settled
feature of the Radical plan of ecam
paign to diraw tihe whites into con
flict with thme negroos. 4. That the
Stato au thoritios hlave neither the'
detsir~e nor the power to chock negro
lawlossness. 5. That thle whites
abould be fully prepared to act on
the defensive.
The New Standarst of Political
Prophecy.
The degree of cro'dit to be at
tached to tile sincerity of a p)olitical
D)rognostictiin nnown1ay. -ee. to|
be measured by the amont .of
money with which the prophet is
willino to back his judgmet., - re
effeotive than all tlei othek canvas
serstt St. Louis was John Morrissoy
*o in a voice by no means still
and small exclaimed, "Ten-thousand
dollars to five that Sam Tilden is
nominated to-morrow. Put up or
shut up." His opponents who had
argued thomselves hoaree, while
tiey were merely expending breath,
prudestly shut up, and Sam Tilden
began his course to the White
House, impelled by the tidal wave
of an almost unnimous nomination.
John Morrissey' criterion has been
universally accepted as the true
st:ndard of measure. The question
is not "For whom are you arguing?"
but "On whom are you betting ?"
We remember the happy rejoinder
to an awkward question, made by a
distinguished candidate-"I v-v-voted
for Seymour and Blair, but I b-b-bet
my money on Grant. His arguments
iid 1-eon one way, his betting anoth
er. He lost his vote but he won his
m oney.
Pool-selling has, in accordance
with this view of things, become the
measure of chances ; and the re
uls, as to'ographed over the
country on the wires of the associa
ted press, are eagerly awiited every
day. Before the October elections
the changes in the pools measured
correctly the vibrations of thepublic
pulse. And it is proper to assume
that the most accurate prognosjca
tion of the result of ~Ahe
g: eat November battle will be
gathered, not from the Everetto
Houso or the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
whe.-e kid-gloved statesmen do
most congregate, but from
Ie magnificent lair of the
tiger, of whom John Morrissey
is the self-constituted keeper. The
r.ars at present issuing from that
den striko dismay int.? tie Radical
ranks, and reassure and nerve every
d )ubting Democrat. Before the
[ndiana election the odds in favor of
die elevation of Hayes to the presi
dency were as ton to seven. That
xlorious victory has strengthened
Tildon, and now the two candidates
are selling even in the pools, while the
odds are two to one in favor of Til
(Ion sweeping the State of New York.
Partisan journals may sling ink
mid expend reams of paper in prophe
ying the election of their respective
-andidatos ; but the public car v..l
,)o turned away to catch tho clixidug
of bright eagles, or the rustAg f
t e crisp, newv greenbacks~ as the3
fall upon the counter in the pool
room. AL prosent too balance is on
dhe Democratic side of the ledger;
.and all signs are propitious that on
the seventh day of November those
who have ''b-bet their money on
T yildca" will present their cards,
sweep the pools, andl walk off' with
plethoric pockets, and wvith a strong
or coriv.ction than ever of the abso
lute propriety and exceeding great
isidom of "backing their judgment."
W e advise our readers not to permit
their prejudice or their niewspapers
to warp their judgment. If they
attend <i sely to the report of the
pools, they will obti~n the most
accurate estimate of the chances of
the two parties that can be reached.
Them pool1s, it is true, are not inifal
'.ible, but they are the bost guides,
A und the y ,f'wor' iihe ]kemocr'at .
Two Lawbreakers that Should be
Impeached.
Apart from the question as to the
expediency and pr'opriety of the ox
traor'din ary conduct of CJhamberlaiuj
and Grant in endeavoring to crumsF
free ballot in South Carolina, some
constitutional questions also arise.
Article IV., Section 4, of the Con
stitution of the United States de
claresi that "The United States
shall guarantee to every State in
this Union a republican form of
government, and shall p)rotec t each
of them against invasion ; and on
application of the Legislature, or ofj
the e.e~euive (when the Legisatem~
Cannot be convened) against domes
tic violence." On this the action of
tha governor and the President is
based.
That no domestic violence exists,
is proven boyond cavil b~y the testi
mony of the justices andl judges of
the State, the shoriff' of Aiken and
B rnwell an 1 of other counties, and
the evidtnce of officials exercising
public duties in all parts of the State.
Governor Chamberlain's prioclama..
bion is therefore utterly unwarrant-.
rid in fact.
But we propose to dwell upon th e
egal aspect of then case. This also
Llaces the governor in an ugly light.
L'ho constitution provides that the
LBxecutive may apply for apply for
LPederal interference when the
rlogislaturo cannot be convened.
President Grant, with the happy
aculty ho posseses of making law to
uilt himself, gives as his reason for
trantng Chamnb.1lain' reuest ta
the ilegslature canno j,"
in tblie. It cn i60ly be demon
strated, not only that the Leola..
tun, could have convened, but that
it could have convened in time.
The last. riot in the State, before the
Cainhoys massacre (which ocqurred
on the day the President'sproclama
tion was issued) was .at IEllenton on
the 19th of September. A week
after this all bands had dispersed
and the county was at peace. No
attempt 1O(8 made to. invokce the aid
of* the State coiuts to at-rest the
alleged ofonders. It cannot then
be said thab the Stato courts are or
have been powerless. On the 7th
of October Chamberlain's libelous
proclamation Was issued. On the
19th of O3tober, Grant promulgated
his decree. This covers a period
of twelve days. Why could not
Chamberlain have convened the
LogislatureY Di.l domestic violence
prevent this ? The State officials in
Colubia, the county officials in the
diff iron t counties, the members of
the Legislature, were all walking
about in perfoct security, while
R idical conventions all over the
State were howling and screaming
and wrangling and lighting among
themselves without molestation. The
Legislaturo could have been con
vened. Chamberlain knows it,
Grant knows it, everybody else
knows it. Chamberlain and Grant
admit it. The latter alleges that
the Legislature could not be con
vened "in time." Will he or Chain
berlain or soen other Radical
answer why not? What complex
machinery must have been set in
motion to call it together ? What
red tapo ceremony had to be firat
performed ? Theconstitution of the
State says merely that tho gover4]
or "may on extraordinary occa Aons
convene the General Asse.nbly."
It imposes no limitation if time.
Chamberlain could hn-e ordered
the Legislature to co-vene on the
same day the prolamation was
issued, had he w ,shed it. The only
limit is One fJundel on common
sense-that auflicient time must be
allowed t i oxtend the notice and to
perinif whe members to reach Co
mmg ia. The State capital is con
tr !y located. RailroAds divergo
into every part of South Carolina.
Three days for notice and three days
for assembling would have been
sufficient in the grave emergency
wihGovernor Chamberlain vio
lently asuuned to exist. Giving the
p~eople five days of time to disperse,
Chamberlain, had he desired to obey
thme conlstitutio.n and laws, couldc
have issued his proclamation on the
12th, and bad tile Legislature in
IColumbia by the 18th. An applica
tioni from this body couldl have
reached tihe President on the 21st,
and as he has proven himself to be
ever on tile alei t to obey the re
quest of his minions, the dread
proclamation Thight, have app1eared
on tho wumo day. Then at least,
however unwarranted by fact, it
would have been decent and in ac
cordance with the for:ns o' law.
Whly was unot thlis course pursued?
There can be b~ut one answer.
Chamberlain feared, or knew, th1iat
tile Logislature would not mnako tile
application. As the juidges o'f thle
State bravely and properly reinsedl
to lend thlemselves to hlis dirty wvork,
so hoe feared that tile Legislature
mih emanly anid de(cenlt enfoughI
treseto perjur*o thiomsolves by
alleging tile existence of certain
facts which did not exist. His game
would have been blocked. F'odoral
troops could1 not have boen brought
to this State to do police duty at
the bhost of worthless and uniscru
pulou0s1 deputy marshals for whlom
they have a contempt and loathing.
Chamberlain and Grant havo
placed themselves in an unlenviable
posiion. They are obstructors of
the law, and are com:nitting acts of
violence against the people, against,
the e t nstituti< n, anrd against
decency and trulth. Thley deserve
punishment and should bothl be im
peachod.
I Communication.
It is ~withl regrob, thlat wO state
that Mr. H1. D. Newton, whlo resided
a short time since in Winnsboro,
S. C., and who, by his strange
behavior and expressions, annoyed
tile inhlabitants of thlat p~lace, wasS
not accountable,for his actions, as he
was suffering from aberration of
mind. Biy the advice of the physi
cians in Charleston he has been
sent to the lunatic ayshum in Ce
lumnbia by his mother--who reqluests
the editor of Tum NEWS AND IIERIALD
to give thlis a place inl that paper'.
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 16th, 1876.
Thle colored- people in Abbeville
county are joining the Democratic
elubs by fifieu
.OAMMN NGT.
Every day adds name&"" 0 roll
of colored Upmocrats in Colleton
county.
AThe colored Democratic club at
Timmonsville has- already forty
members, and still they come.
The Radioal' tickets in Barnwell
and Williamsburg are worse than
ever before. Reform I
Bowon seems to be running the
Radical machine in Charleston
county all to himself. His nomi
nating convention will be hold on
the 81st inst.
The Unisi;-Jferald is a dirtier
shoot now than ever before-not ex
cepting. the days when Cass Uarven
pentor filled it witi political filth.
It is Chamberlain's organ !
The following meetings remain to
be hold in the Demoncratic canvass:
Colleton, Oct. 27; Charleston,
O :t. 80; Georgetown, Nov. 1 ;
Orangeburg, Nov. 3; Columbia,
Nv. 4.
At a Radical meeting at Darling
t.m on the 18th inst., there were
two bodies of armd negroes, with
guns and fixed bayonets. Let's
hear from our Massachusetts govern
or.
It was reported that Butcher
Merrill wou~d arrive at ligoliold
last week, but he is not comrro yet.
He and (orbin and Chauberlain a'.e
bosom friends, and all thra3are frnd
of dirty work.
As a result of the Radi',al pow
wow at Manning, one coloeod Demo
crat back-.lided, and about fifty
colored Republicans &c'hor declared
for Hampton, or expressed an in
tintion not to vot,- at all.
The notoriovi and vilanous C P.
Leslie has gorau back to Barnwell,
and it is exected that he will re
ceive the Mndical nominnation for the
State Fenate, instead of the man
alroa'.ynomiinated. Reformr I
Yhe marshals did some very di -ty
1.at none tho less congenial work at
Aiken just after t to Democratic
meeting. They arrested several
gontleon present, among them Col.
A. P. Butler, the marshal of the d o.
Notwithstanding the absence of
Hampton (who was provented from
attending by the death - of a near
relative) the Lexington meeting was
a perfect success. The speeches were
unusually fine, and the crowd wore
in the best of spirits. Of course,
Loxington is safe for Hanptor and
Ref.>rm.
Arbitrary arrests by Chamnberlain's
minions did not check the aid r of
the Aiken Democrats. The meeting
hold there on Friday last was a
grand anceess. There were present
more than one thousand ioun ted
mnlt, and upwards of four thousand
persons in all. Addresses were
Ama(le by Hampton, Simpsmon, G rv.
Youmans and other-s. Everything
wont off finely.
The Claren don Radicals, when
bout to hold their meeoting at
Manning, askded permission to use
the stand p~reviously ereeted by the
Democrats, which was p~romfptly
granlred. The Democratic county
c ,nventioni was also inl session, arud
taiking adlvantaigo of the apparn
goodl feeling, the Democrats t'skes
for a divfrion of time, wich was
readily asserted to. Bat thae Demo
cratic s'pezakors were frcqnelttly and
rudely into r aptod, ;il. at last they
left the meeting in natural disgusu.
'rie Radic:dls made a lame apology
gor their indecent behavior.
Hampton's meeting at Elgefield
was fully up to the exp~ectationrs of
the most enthusiastic. The mount
ed prVocession, marrchling iln column
(ot twos, wvas more than~ a mile long.
The enthusiarsm natural to the
Edgefield Democracy wals increased
bly thle presence of General Hamp
ton arnd those who ac'comp~anie-l
humn. Everybody was in the finest
spirits. Speechos~ were maide by
Gen. Hampton, Col. Simpson, Jum ige
Cooke, Jurdge Mackey, Col.
iipscomnb, Gen. Gary, Mr. James G.
Gibbes and othlers. The1 Elgefleld
fello ws mean buisiness, and they arc
sil 0 to win.
After the Edgefiold Demnocr'atic
moeting a imost diabolical mnurder
was committed. As a party of
whites woere returning from it they
were firedl on b~y a party of negroes
ml ambhushi. One man, Mr. Jno.
Gilmore, was killed, and1( one
wvounded. Another, going for the
coroner, was likewise fired on and
wounded. Great excitement natu.
rally followed, and it 'was only
thmrough tile powerful efforts of
Generals Butler and (Gary, and
others, that the whites were pro
vented from punishing those sus
pected of tihe murder-a party of
negro militia living niear tire scene
of the outrage. Several negroes have
been arrosted and committed to
jail, on suspicion of participation in
the mnurder.
Tihe Radicals had n mnoeting at
Abbeville on tire 18thl, at which
were present about two thlousand
men31, women anid chilren. The
Democrats were on hand iln force.
and demanded a division of time.
This being refused, they organivzed a
meeting of thir~t own, and a splendid
oneo it was The procession was~ three
mniles long, and containled three
thousand mounted men, by actual
count--among themn sevon /hundred
colored J.)erocrant, rfmo anid
ulniformedl. There wore United
States deputy marshals pr'esent with
blank warrants, but the Domnoorats
.i not afford thomnr the muchk
desied prietexts for arresting urn
offending citizens. Abbevillo will
gave Hampton a heavy majority.
Dunn's speech was full of vulgar
andlying abuse of Wade Hampton.
He is fol lownrg Chramrberlain's eram
jt1e.
. soeeneeus.
Hog cholera prevails in TQnnossee.
There was iecently a slight earth.
quake at Louisville, Ky.
Francis P. Blair thejournalist and
statesman died on the 19th instant.
Hon. James G. Taliferro, Jtdge of
the Supreme Court of Louisiana, is
dead.
Not a single hldhal ballot *as
cast in Miller county, Ga., at the lesb
election.
The Eastern question seems likely
to resolve itself into a general Eu
ropean war.
Thieves relieved a Montreal pawn
broker of $20,000 worth of diamonds
a few days ago.
Mrs. Hoqse, who killed her Ius
b-ind, the famous divorce fa dr, has
been acquitted.
The Geor.gia Railr c Ad is in better
condition tuan it hf:A beeen at any
time sinc the war,
Martin F '.:upper, the poet and
philosophv strived in Naw York
from E, glabd on Thursday.
E., Morgan the Repubica
can idate for Governor of New York
ic large slave-holder in Cuba.
The Europea war excitement has
c.msed a geneoral advance in wheat of
from two to four cents a bushel.
The Society of the Cincinnati late
ly met at Philadelphia, t; commemc
rate the surrender of Lord Corn
Wallis.
The Rudisill mine, near Chariotte,
N. C., is shortly to be re-oponed by
a company of wealthy gentlemon of
that city.
The .argest single roof in the
world is at of the Midland Railwj*
station, at St. Pancras, which has a,
;pan of 240 fcet.
The general convention of Univer
3alists from all parts of the United
Stat's is in session in the city of
Rochcster, New York.
An appratus has lately boon in
vented, which produces, in the re.
ceiving oflice, a fac-inile of thehand
writing of the serider of a telegraphic
message.
There was a sovoro hurricane at
Key West, Florida, on the 19th inst.
it is feared that thesteam tug God
frey has been lost with all her crew.
The Northfield bank robbers havo
bcen captured by the citizens of
Dakota, after a desperato fight in
which one was killed and three others
were severely wounded
Five cadet midshipmen havelatoly
boon dismissed from the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, for refusing
to tell the names of those who had
bo a hazing the freshmen.
A terrible b.>ler oxcplosion occur
red at Carhon Hill coal mines ini
Vu~gma on t.mo 17th~ of October in
s..ant. T1wo men were instantly
killed, and one fatally injured.
Tie Centennial has beon a great
haustt no: of marriages throughout
the e ,antry. People h tve rushed
intLo mlatrimonmy so they couild g. to
t'ie Centenni~d o ia wedlding tour.
The loss to shipping on the lakes
li is been parxtientairly severely this
so Lsonl. A ldrge numbeor of vessels
11 Lvo not been nmeardl from, and are
saipposed to be sunk with all on
boa&rd.
.On Sunday night a fire occurred
im the cotton yard of the Georgia
RI .ilroad depot,:at Augusta, in wvhish
.wout one nundred and fifty bales
of cotton wvore destroyed. Loss,
$ 3,000, two-thirds insured.
The ,government p~roper'ty at
11.u per' aiFerry was sold on Tihurs
daty last, under a -decree of the
United States Court. The property
was bought in by the government
agent, with tihe exception of two
dweliing lots, purchased by citizens
of tihe plaice.
Two men of Atlanta, Ga., had a
little pistol practice in Peachtree
street of that city, a few days ago,,
and one of them succeeded in bring
mng dowvn an outsider very neatly.
'.his method of settling a difficulty
isprl riia with Atlanta, but
Half a dozen railroad negr
undertook to mob a Democratic
dlarkey, at Greensboro, Ga., last
Saturday night, but ran against the
sharpest kind of a snag, and were
glad to gixve up the job as soon as
they forund the wvhite people were
takmng a hand in the fun.
Glen. B. F. Butler, in his speech
at Andover, Mass., on the 18th in
stant said: "The elections of tihe
patst week shmow that there is to be a
contest of the most determined
character, a contest which is doubt
ful. .I say it franidy :-Mr. Tilden's
eleetion is not impossible; nay, not
impllrobable."
Intelligence received at Wasihing
ton from theo States of Ohio, Michi
gan and Wisconsin is such as to give
thle Democratic leaders hopes which
they have ,not (dared to entertain
before. It is said that in Wisconsin
the disaffction in the Republica
1party is so widespread, particularly
amongte rmans, as to make it
not nuprobalie that the State will
cast its electoral vote for Tilden. In
Michigan it is alleged that there is
danger of the Republicans losing the
State on account of tihe intense dis
gust that Secretary Chandler is run
flng the Republican election machine.
Many of tihe most prominent Repub
lican party leadei s are refusing to
take any muterest in the canvass.
From Ohio the news comes that tihe
Democrats there are entering anew
m io the canivalas with the confident
exp~eAtation of Wiping out the small
Rtonublien n maorit of Ocoer