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$ 3.00 A Yeair VOL I--NO 4.WINNSBORO, S. C.. THURSDAY MORN.ING, NOV DMBER 2~ 1876i __. How Hampton Will Win. A CNll'IRlI5U OUTLOOK ALL 01V1M 'Virtuous and Happy-The rale of the Radlical Arithuietio. The Color line and the consus. A political summary. Uow the Counties Will vote. A good time coming. [(borrspomienle News. mu11( JIi.d .3 COLUMBIA, Octobor 30.-A the RIadical party has been virtuous in1 the past it profeHes to be happy over the future: while its organ the A'ion-Ierald is it perfect Mark Tapley of journalism in the way of coiing out strong under peciliar1-ly trying circmstanees. "If I could get into a wieked family I might do myself justice," said Mark. "TIm always a thinking that with luy good health and spirits it would be mlol0o creditable in me1 ti bo jolly where there's thingsi it going on to make ord'nary men dismal." So -in the face of the fact that C1m bdrlailn and his crew are repudiated by scores of honiest wh'1ito IRopubli Ans and thousands of colored voters; that the adjournment of ovory county convention has been -llce(oded by deop disgust and grievous disalf.3tion in the party that the Demnocrats are united to a -man1), in the most comlpact organiza tions; that the now almost certain election of Tilden is having great .111l11ce inl the caivass in this 'tate,-tlle Union-Ierald is bo coIing increasingly jolly and chirps cheerily about a mojority of 19,700 votes for Chamberlai., For its .ioderation inl not claiming the even 20,000 at once, the organ is entitled -to commendation. It remnin(ds one of the striet regard for truth which charactelized the owner of tihe hell that laid 999 eggs in one sunnner. *%Do you think" said he, "that I'd tell a lie for the sake of one poor BJut to retu n to the 19.700 m ody' chied by the Io mn-//cra'l. This is based on aggregate assimel majorities inl the several coluties, vhich eiphors are slang tog-ther mi string Nwith reckless prodigality f n il the basis of the race lino I the last five.entsst-head Stato ecnsus This simple and che erful rule for ,estimatiig majorities has long been practised by the leader. with si Cess ill the Southiern s.rtrapiu-cs, but! *i,0iolow it is comlillg into disfavor with the votersi, alI abu-' W-i the f.tir-:ninm l 1 p le of the_ North wlo beflieve thatt a121 m anlca be it Republicani or at Do-ciierat without rogard to fhe color of his skin o. 'tile acuteness of his facial :angles. To tile prop >sitioni thlat the Re *pulilcan majority mu-ist be com menlsurate with the mnajorit-y of 'colored v'o'Lrs, ,hie New York /Ierad replies: "If this were true, or reasonable, all voting in a State 'like Sonth Carolna wamld 1)o a .nieedless efort. An appeal to thec L ensus11 wonrld be .su flicienmt t~o doelare the ncmAlfiees oaf the IteJpublican S trle(lil. .. 11n elhetion WeouOl be' ( n9feref',faree. Th'Ie ancision of a lIh - puh1ucan conventdjou wou'ld settle the -pold-a fate of the State. Unfortunately forl the Rtdical1 -party n'nd the E io 'If-J/era/dl~, the people of thme North ame going to hlpll the peopl~e of South Carolina ~to see that tile votes cast against Chambnerlairna hisl 114corrutpt follow ercos are fairly ecounted and thleir deision propeirly :ulstatined. The lillous proclamiations of tile Gover nor and tile Presidlent, like the irishm~lan's gun, have (lone more1' damage at the bultt tha alii t tihe anuzzle. 'ThIese butngling .sports ment have bieen kicked 1to grr':t , w~hiile thieir anDtiipate'd gamoe is uhntouche~d. .It is now an1 assure -I fact that the troops5 will (10 little ijuriy. Ini thec first place at large mlajority of them11 -are D)emocratis and~ they will not interfero offlicial ly un less*4 by poempilltory~ orderis. Tholse ordere, ndeIr tile light of existing cireum -st ces, will hardly bo0 issuied. Inl i -second lla, tile dlamage that wotuld have 11o01 cauisedl by thle > falsekoodsi of Radical emissaries that tile troops are' bronght hero to make K the colored voters up port tile Iitadical ticket is p)rovented by te .ajctual expeirience of the colored j people who hear tihe sold1ir every whetro huirrahing for' TJildlen and lHamphton. Trus wals tile planl of the Rtadicals no0 doub~t, but that little gamxe won't work. Tile canlvass is no0w drawin~g to * m end. Genu. Hampton will on thle nrth c1080 is granud malurch, antd yeturni iln tr'itumph) to the cap)ital. Heo will'have traversed1 tile thirty two counties of the Stato in somec thing over two mnonthis, meeting thousands of citizonls of bthi colorsi and races all enthtusiastic for re form and a regonoration of the State. Ho will have traversod over ia thousand miloe, and delivered a hundred and twenty speeches to waver a hundred thousand different people. The demonstration in Co lumbia will be a grand ovation. Excursion trains at cheap rates will run over all the roads, thousauds will attend on horseback, while all Rielhlaid county will turn out. Such a procesion, such speeclicit, such enthusinam, such a good time genorally, will not be seen again until what i0 now a certainty in future shall be a certainty in the prosenit. This ovation is contident ly expected to prove the finishing tonch to the doioraligod, dis griuntledi, fast disstolving hosts of Radicalism. In three days there from, anl eleetion will be held over the whole United States, which will hike this republic from centro to pole. The Radical party in the Union, as in the State, is in the last ditch, and that ditch has no bottom. The corrupt dynasty now ruling will bo tumbled down head loung. Everything points to the election of Tilden. Some how or other a purer atmosphere is per vading the country, and the peoplo breath freer. And while the nation al Domoer:acy are rejoicing over their victory, we in South Carolina will be holding a little love feast of our own. Let us examino the uros l ccts and figure our chances, not by the race or color line: but by actual information from the best s0111Ces. Abbeville is one of the most thoroughly organized counties in the State. It has between eight and ino hidred colored Demo crats enrol/ed, who rode in the proecssion in redshirts and hur ahed lustily for Hampton. A strong ticket has been nominated: whilo the R-Idical ticket is wCak, an11d the canididates are being constantly changed. The county was carried by the Democrats the last time thev maude a light. by over a thousanl miajority. Thalit majority is claimed now, but it is safer to cut it down to five hundred. Anderron has i white majority of tvo thounsanuid Votes. Senator Cchiran, te leading Republican of the u) c ,untry, has become dis gnited wih the Radic.d manage maent and refuses to take any part in it. Th.e Radicals have no comity ticket, and the Democratic majority will be etwoon 2000 and 2.500. In Aiken the 1dicals counted in a m: j , ity of 63 in 1874. That iaj Witv will be reversed ani the D .;rmocrat.s will receive 500 I.tjority a i al the f tctory hands and Northern ri siden s, and a large numiiher of deceit lie lmblicans will support the ticket. 1arwell has an accurato rostor of the county, and the Democratio chibs have a menilbership now of everal ihundred more than a n tjori ty. One hndred and more colored iieii have joined tihe Democratic e ibs since the recent arrests. It will bet remembered that a number of colored Democrats have also bieen arrested, and thmese at e hotter lhi~mi ever. lBeamfort and Colleton arve so closely connected by position and interest that I mfenition thema t igethier. These have beenI dreaded3( as imillomes around thme neck of H impiton, but, conitrar~y to r' I e pIoetationu, at this lnto day they promise to be useful auxiliaries. Colleton heas only 1000 colored mas jority, which is divided into two factions. TI'hese factionsu opposed0( e ichi ot her in 1874 and allowed the Democrats to silip in a nmembher of the Legislature. Seve'al hiundre 1 laborera on the Combaihee were chased away from wouk, and many wh ippedl byi coloredl rioters whlileI Gov.r. Chmamberlain was skurrying nort~h to see his family. These have joined thme Demuocratic clubs, anrd mean what they isay, as they have not forgotten brokeni bones0 and lashed backs. Again, Dr. Fishburn, the Demflocratic County Chairmuan, has made a most ex haustive ernvamss. lHe hasu ridden over' the whole county inl a four. seated huggy drawn by two fine hiorsecs, having with him three maiUn1ians. On reaching each plantaotion lie s'tops anid his band begins to lay. The colored pleh all assemble, and lhe then dispenses sound Democratic doctrine and calls for ('ilcivoit. His success is imarked. Capt. Gecorge Tupper aind others at George's Station anid Sum mervillo are also exercising great influence with the colored voternt. Ini conseq(uenIco Gen. Hi:union~f was pledged the supiport of large numbers of colored voters, and a gentleman just arrived from the meeting, who before had no hopos, is now jubilant and believes that CJolleton is au~ certaiu as Piekenis or Oconce. Tihe majority there is estimated at from 250 to 500. Bleaufort county has an~ actual black majority of 3600 by correct census, and has been considered hopelessly Radical. But Geon. Hampton spoke at Early Branch in tho northern section of the county a few days-aince, and when he asked wvho would suppolrt himi, several hmundredl colored voters rose to their foot with yells for "Hampton." In the town of Port Royal, there are n numaber of colored men, all Demo crarts. in the t:>wn of Bleaufort ai few nights ago the iadicals refusea to allow soine speakers to talk, and Gen. Haupton adjournxed the moot ing, announcing that they had dono more to elect him thani all the whites in the State, that a dozen oflicors dressed in citizens' clothes had witnersed the scone and would be called upon to testify. This dumfoundered the blacks; and things are all at sixes and sevens in that locality In the rico regions, the whipped colored voters are of course all Democrats. The Radicals are badly split up ; and the pro)s poet is that the majolity will be very small. This contingency is not so im probablo as might be supposed ; for tle colored voters of Bontufort are very ignorant. They know nothing about Republicanism. They are horo worshippors, pure an(d simplo. They vote for "Mr. Sialls," "Mr. Whipper," "Mr. Gan tt," or "Mr. Hamilton," regardless of party, and as Mr. Smalls and Mr. Wbiper and Mr. Gantt and Mr. Hamilton are alternately on the regular and on the bolting ticket, party fealty is unknown. Get a new lpopular lo.der, whatever his principles, and the massos in the couty will fol low him. Chunberlain has even been unpopulatr in Beaufort. Ton Hamniltoni even, his strongest sup porter, has becomle lukewarm, while the visit of Hampton iial the un accouniitable seclusiol of Chamber lain have rendered the -clhango from the latter to the former not dillicult. These causes will have the effeet of swelling the undoubted tidal wavo that is sweeping towards the Radical shore with resistless force. A chainge of seven hundred votes will decrease the majority then to two thousgand. Charleston has the most uncer tAin vote in the State, having gone both for and against the .ltadicai ticket by heavy majorities. The black majority has been estimated at 7,000, because oi the Islaudjs 1110-1, women and boys have voted, 1o severaal times. No Oll)Opitiol has ever visited them. But this year Democratic canvassers will be on hand to prevent frauds. The country will go Republican, the city Demnocratie. The Radical majority there will be under three thonsand, unless something uni foreseeni occur in the next fow days. Geoargetown is claimed by the Uniio.//a/d by 1200 votes. The Radicals m-ty ro. oh 1500 majority here. Sumter easit a mjority of 3,000 against CI a aberlain in 1874. The Denocratic Ticket is divided, equally between the races, aid 800 colore'd anmn are cu -olled in Democratie clubs alroety, besides large ntumbers wmo will vote the ticket secretly or w ll not vote at all. Smter is a d.ubtful comity. The most unfai vorable estimate gives but 500 re publicali imtjoiity ini Stiunter. It m:1st be rciiiemeibered, however, that the Moses family live here and hate Chamber lain intensely. Tie repub licans may gain 500 ma*jority in Williamnsbgrg, hardly more, and the samne ma1orily ill Clareidon. Darling ton will give 2150 Democratic majori -ty. Th'len (come1 a tier of Democratic -o unties. H~orry 1,000, Marion 500, M :rlboro 250, Chesterfield 500, Laicater 500, York 5010, Grcenville 1500O, Spartaniburg 2,000, Pickens 1500, Oconee 1500), jLUImrens 500, Union.500, Newberry 250,E1dgefield 500, Lexington 750. (Chester, Fair field and Korshawv are closely di vided. The majority in these three will be0 simall eit her way. Rlichland, instead of haivinig 2500 colore .1 nsa jority a8 c'laimed, hasi not 1500. T1hi cc tic'kets are in the field, and Jargo numibers of colom Odt voters in thme country pretcincts hiave deOclareLd for Hampton. 'Thle county is claimed by the Deinnerats. Orangeburg also pr1omhises a good repoi t. Thecse estimalatesm are comple!te from wlumt .I believe to bie the hest souren~s. Ini anuswor to many iminJ~iries tihe reply is frequently, "My county is doing very well, but I am afraid of time rest of the State" Now as the infor':mi n from every c->unfty report ing is satisfied of the result, the ex pr'ession1s of satisfaction are most gratifying for tile succes of the $ tate ticket, by from five to seven thousand2l~ majority. I am1) not one0 of those who expect 20,000 or 30,000 majority The colored majority in tLoe State so far from being 30,000 huas been figured down to less than 20,000, the number at whbich several leading Republicans fix it. A chrange of ten thousand votes is suflicient. And at every election since 1868 tihe; color'ed vote east ini oppoasitionI to the re.gular' ticket was large. in 1870 it reached five to seveni thmous.. anid ; in 1872, fifteen thonsand, amnd iln 1874 eighteen thousand. IThe L egislature is considered safe for the Democrats. I learn indirect ly but reliably that the Republicans concede a Democratic majority of one or two iln the Senate, but claim the House by ten or twelve. The D)emocrats claim both branches, whici .is implortant, as a United States Senator will be elected to succeedl Spiator Robertson. The election of Col. D. WV. Aikon to Congress from the third district, and Col. J. H. Evins from the fourth district, and Messrs. T, C. Gauton, J. S. Cothran, B. WV. Ball and J. J. IDargan-as solicitors, I also regard as certainttes. IThe contest between Tilden and IHayes in the $ tate will be close, i4nd the result depends on the strength. of the Hayes and Hamptorn pa rty, I led by prominent Republicans who II adhere to Hayes but cannot stomach Chamberlain's crowd. During the past week, in conse (uen11co of the- chooring news from the North, the reports from 411 parts of 14e State are bomouing inore and more favorable, and the Democratic 4 outlook is better and bettor every; day. D. Why South Carolina May Go Demo cratic. The rilbliean fallacy in- re gard to South CarolinY which, affects many Northern minds, is that because the colored voters nre in a con~sidorablo majority, therofore the State must of niecessity be republi can, and the mero attempt of the democrats to carry it argues anll intention to commit intimidation or fraud or both. It ought to enough to reply to this th-t it were truo or reaconable all votin' in a State like South Carolinit would be a needless effort. An appeal to the census would be sulifflciont to de clare the nominees of the rolnblicam party elected withou t -further 1 trouble. An election woukI be a mere farce. The decisio n 4t a re t publican convention w onld settle the politicAl fate of the StWt Of course it is not true, though it: forms the basis not only (of epubli-' can irgoun ent but of the Prooident's military interference in Souti Caro lina. The political conditioitbf that State doesa not differ frot at in which other Southern Statos, liko It Ark-msas and Alabama, l:vo- founl t themselves, but out of whi I they have emerged into peace. 1e re p ublican party in all the Southern States consisted originally of a cer tai numbor of honest white men, a certain number of energetic and i scrupunlous adventurers, also whites, and the negroes. The latter woro ignorant, grateful to the North for their freedom, nnd two oln three years after the war in raiany (loeti ties justly folt apprehension o abuse t and wrong at the hands of theinative whites, who, irritated at their'defeat and outraged at seeing their iormer slaves made their political equals, t rejected their political alliance and " I foolishly, but very naturally- t they were human boings-drove them .into the arns of the- rapubli- t cans. The consequences of this inevitable beginning were these, and we describo them because, whien they are undoratood, tihe situation in South Carolina becomes plain: 1. The repuiblican party in all those States fell naturally into the hands of the most aggressive and unscrupulous of its politicans. This is the tendency of all parties which have ia sure lease of power. These persons used the ignorant negro vote to advance their fortunes. They corrupted the negro by dividim with the leading blacks the pinnder of the States they misruled. Secure of the negro vote, they stolo right and left, alld made the very namio of republican odious to the men who owned the property and posssod r tihe inte.igence. But this is not all. The honest republicans of those States were equally subjected to this misrule. Most of them were Northern menh attached to their pamrty. Tihey waited in silence and1 hmope for a day when honiest coun sels should prevail But the rogues had thme ear of th~e federal govern mont ; they sent their representives to both branches of Congress ;they crushed every hones~t republicuui with an unflinching hand ;and so in Lioisiamna, in Mississippi, in A rkan saP, in Alabama. as in South Caroli nam, the rogues ruledl and continued to mule, because their allies were amppointed to the federal oflices and th-sy were able to show the negroes that they, anid nost tihe hon(,st repub- J ]icaLns, had time favor of Genoral Grant. To the ignorant plantation negro tihe supplosed~ wishes of Goner al Grant are tile suprm~e law of the ~ land. If to-day tile President should issue a proclamnation telling the South Carolina blacks to voto for General Haumpton, seven-eighths of them would do it. K At last tihe honest repubulicans re bl)Oled. In Mosissippi. last year, they openly opp1osol the misrule of Governor Amts and helped to (defeat him mand is party. in Arkansas, in 1874, the samo thmng occurred. In Alabama tile honest and decent a rep~ublicans refused any longer to be the tail of Senator Spencer's kite. In Loisiamna, tis year', leading re pl~nicamn pl)iticians Ihave abandoned the State ticket, and refused fo help 1 Packardl and Kellogg. That is ~ to say, the p~arty~ splits. Was it not inevitable 1 Ina it .not the best t thing for tihe State ? But when t this sp'.it occurs thle factions (ddO the negro vote. N.> is this all; the II democrats, who have had time to I learn wisdom, take pains to secure 1 a share to themselves of the negro 'I vote. 'rie result has been shown in Arkansas, ini Alaibamna, in Missis sippi, wvhere the republicanh party organizationl, in the handsl(1 of cor rup~t men, was at last defeated. 8, Note time re-sult. Arkansas and Alabama have beoen at peace for eighteen months in spite of time; President haviing in both those States appointed to the most impor tant federal offlesa the very rogues I who were beaten by the joint action ( of democrats and honest republicans. i Even Missianinnt, natu-ally a r.mie I md turbulent community, is so fan it peace the' the republican loaders uivo as yet found no pretext for Sending troops there. And the lthange has been satisfactory to the ionent republicans, black as well as vbito, of t-hose Status. 4. Tho procoss we hi-tvo ibovo lescrib d is now goin;f on in South Jarolina and also in Louisiana. Inl io first naio,l St sto three parties tppeal for negro votos. Kmipton ioads the democratic ticket, and in nany of the counties where colored nn predominato in numbers the lomoecrats have put negroes on their ;ickot. Clalberlain heads the "re pular" republican ticket, and on the icket with him and among his slp )Orters are the llost not.oriols cor. 'uptiolists of the State, with whoim f'henl he failed to get the doio !rattic nomination, for which he was itriguing so late as July, he mado uis bargain. Such men are Elliott, Iosos, Whipper'--mn1 whom last 'ear haminberlain denouiced, but vho this year aro his allies. It inust )o remeIbered that the Judge iloses who niow opposes Chamber ain is not the cormuptioniist of that amone. Whipper a few days ago tado a vehement Chamberlain peech at Columbia. Elliott is on he ticket with him. Lnst comes a onsiderable number of very influ intial republicans, who SUp)ort -lampton (and oppose Chamberlain. Lmong these are most of the judges if the Supreme Court, many North rn merchants and planters, all men f intelligence and property and herefore of influence. These use heir utmost efforts to carry with hem a part of the colored vote for lanipton. 5. This being the situation. is it inreasonaible ill the democrats to iopo to carry South Carolina and to Lefeat Chamberlaiu and the cor uptionists whoi are his supporters id allies ? Ought they not, on the ontrary, to hive the good wishes (if very honest Northern republicin ? ,all they not hope to carry their icket without intimidation, when hey have the support of the iost ltelligont and honest republicans ? .'hoy have ben so sure of it that heir whole plain for the canvass voids and necessarily excludes in imidation. They seek to got the ogro vote by persuision and by all be political arts which are prac ised and tolerated wherever in the forth ignormnt voters are to be 'in 6. But into tho midst of this can aiss the President chooses to inject le army. In a Northern comnuni y the army, even though it came at lie request of a Governor, would ave 11 political effect. But in the iouth, in South Caro lina. it has i irodigions and well known offect. 'lie negroes see that at Chamber li's call the President sends troops hat c'ertifies to them that Chain. irIin is "Geieral Grant's man,' Ad turns the mpss of the-n, against 11 argunot, to Ch1amberC1lain. That i why troops were called to South arolini, and that is why this fede al interference inl favor of republi an corruptionists is so iiilituous nd0s miieiivous. Whein last eari tihe honlest rel!1blicians of lississi ppi 1broko away from Gover or Amo~s 1he called at onice for r'oops. Wheni troops wecre refused im tile negroies turnle 1 against huima. 'hey no( longer believed b'mn to 055sess OOaLWL Grant's favor, and id nlot scruple to vote against im or to stay at home. Amos nov0 v'ery well that if the tro.,p ad been1 sonlt himl h1( could hatve arried the State, not by their uso0, ut by the conviction, their preseneo(' n his~ dlomand would insp)ire in the ihacks that Ames was "General ~rant's man30." Th'iis is tihe seeriot of he use( of troops inl Soth C.a'olina ust no0w. But tis m~inso of powerC1 is made y the NorthIern rep~ub licain loaidars I) supporat a notoriously corrupt net fmeni in S-mth Carolini and scure heir conitinueed predominaneoc. The onecst people, repulblicanfs aq well 8 demlO('l ats, of that State, are- uni.. odl inl an effort to secure rforomn anid Lonest governmenICit. Tihe imanalgers f tile inational ropblicani p irty use ot morei'ly their inftluncelC, but ox.. remo1( 1an.1 danigeools monefsur'(s of liitary ilnter'forenilce, to pr1oven11t tiis eformn, and( to reinstate iln power he 1m10n who have phmdo1lcred1 the itate. That is tihe situationl, and~ it m that which Northern voters arle ()conlsidor. -N. Y.IHerald. The United States Supreme Court ins rC~endere an. impl)iortat dcisin ffoa'tinig several New York life in urancle ogicon. The Court decides hat poliiesi ini which resients in~ lie Soulth haveY ani interest, hbut ill 'ihich paymen~fts have failed to be )ade, such failure being caused by a ublic warl' they are cntitled to re over the eqmitale value of the olicies. Bauin's pet wild-cat escapecd r'omi its eage the other (day, and roceeded to chiaw up the fragile i~~ppootamus. After the eat had estroyed its clawvs, the~ '>o(tamna penled a mouith like nlavigation anid ho cat was taken ini. R~eies.ca a pace. F5ive negroes made a raid oni the uouse of Abram Parkinson, a r'esi lent of Alken county, a few days ince, and plundered it of everything hey conld find. A Nort'OlM U-4tifa Viws The follk,:ving i(>3 fl1er has beert son to Colonel Hafell, in j)spOn1 t Ial Inquiry as to tr' con tion of th State. The writer iS niio 0 Boston, but has for the 'st - yetrs spent much of his tI'" II Charleston, whore he has large b ness in terests : CoLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 20, 1876. Col. A. . ankell, L/La(Chairman Jemocratic 1E.cecutive Coiwnittee, Columbia, S. C., Du-in Srn : I have the honor to acknowledge the roccipt of 'our c onunucllatioll of this date, as king Ime as a Northern man, to atoite my views of the present aspect of pub lie niihirs in South Carolina. Your unexpected request gives me a privi lege, which I gladly embrace, to re futo the slanders that are being ut tered against the people of this State. It So happens that in the course of busiue.ss I havO visited overy county inI South Carolina, except Georgetown, during the present year. and many of them within a month past. I have more or less acquaintance in all, and in many social as well as business friends. I am known, of course, to all as a New England man, ready at all times and under all circumstances to maintain lily proper position as one. I have, therefore, had except.ional opportu nity for judging of the general spirit of the people. I have yet tolhear the first word of dis:ospect or to receive the first act of discourtesy offered to me as a Northern man. On the contrary, I have frequently been honored with courtesies which I know were extended to show good will to my people. As to questions immediately con nected with politics, I have person nlly see n11o iltillidation of voters by either party ; but the influence of tle steret. "Tnion League" per meates, if it does not comprehend, the whole colored raco hero, and very few of them, muen or women, dare violate its bOhestS. This is an element strangely ignored by the press, but I have soon evidences of its influence all through the country. The presnce of United States troops would excite o un pleasan t fooling, as wlhites naturally soon assimilate with their own color, but the blacks are instructed by their leaders, that the sudden large in crease of governmont forces through the country means, that the govern. ment orders and will insist on their voting with it. The disposition of th whites to ward the colored people, as shown by word and act, is unquestionably generotus, kindly and often afIection ate, but time purpose of political tricksters to antagtonize the two r ic. s, :n order to conso'idate the colored vote for their own benefit, regardless of every other effect, has at last so undermined the friendly confidence iaturally existing between oemployers aind employed, that both social aid business interests are be Coliing velry seriously menneed. While some of my most valued and honored friendts at the North stihlll emin Republicans, nlot one11 of them wuho has visited the South has f iled to deoncile anid repludiate tile regime of thme carp)et-b)agelmnhr, amnd I am convincoed that the rep~uta 1)l0 m111 olf the great Republicanl pa:ty of the North would, as they have here, scorn to en dorso the Cliqjue of advenltuirers wvhol control tii State iln tile name11 of "Union I 1epubIlicans." If the present cru sado against that elmenlt here be consideoredl apart from the Presidenl tial camlpaigni, it wou1ld be no longer at question of p)olities, but rather aln eflirt maide by theo resp~onsible and respectable citiziens of the State to rid thlemselves of a band of mnor conmily afvanutl 1r ri, living by tho execise of quackery with the colored 1)oo11 , and fraud uroaljtho propeorty hldo. 5, thmeir e3ml)oyers. Tilden's crulsade1 against tile Tweecd ring, and Bristow's against the whisky ring, wer'e not political miovements4, and1( f Ur (.i-iil r reals.msl n1o morel abouild this bo. They were miovemenlts ill the intereat of latw, order and respec tablility, and so is this. it makes one blush to imnagino what thi~econclus~ions of a foreigner would be, who malide his first visit to America here, andli con1temlalted our r' p~ubhlca form of governmnl t from a South C.trolina standpoint ! WVould to Hebayen a Webster or a Cheate conid witness5 thlese things, that he might send( the truth riniging in thunder toneos throughout the lonigthi of thme land1(; or a Linlnf, that lie might b)lazonl it in words of fire across the Northern sky, till every trueofepumblicanbo)0roustudtothle riotcimlselH to put country bo0for~ party, p~atriotismn before p)~ejudice I Truly your.s,~ nn,~ The mysterious Indian who killed Cumster and then ran beofore our troops is now ini want of' anmmuni tion and llas tile audacity to ask for it. Thme government is astoundled at this audacity anid looks at Sitting flull muhch as the beadle did at Oliver Twist when that youngncamnp had the impuidence to request "more noup."-New Yorkc Jerald. Sitting Bull has heard of the inva sion1 of South Carolina lby tihe regu lar army, and, if that ammlunition be not forthcoming, 110 will take it out mn salpn. An Eml.attd Latlter From the Noxt President, .tW y ,Yl bor 25.-.Gover nor 2Jn ba,;' addismd to the Ron. Abrai 5, Howitt a :,t dated to-day, deciuring h posit"m ,regaMl to Southernt clainm . - q o jthe fourteenth amne1nt o, ko cons't1Wliwit, and pointm t. 10 filrI3thit 4 has been repeatedly nyobby teDoancratic stato,% app'. e f t uth, and was Co ptd , . .M J& p ltfo m111 of adopted as S-.o~g~ lCovn *rtj-:dConven the Domocratio - - t be uni tion, which declareci 4 alftl vesally respected as a mont. Governor Tilde, af citingr his Own public delatra,.'on on the subject previously mad& \ says: Should I be elected President, the provisions of the fourtoonth amend ment will, so far as depends on me, be maintained, excuted and on forced in perfect and absoluto good faith. No rebel debt will be as sumed or paid, n1o claim for loss or emancipation of any slave will 130 allowed; no claim for loss or dam age incurred by disloyal persons, arisimg from the late war, whether covered by the fourteenth amend ment or not, will be recognized or paid. The cotton tax will not be refunded. I shall deem it my duty to veto every bill providing for the assumption or payment of any such debts, losses, damages, claims, or for refunding any such tax. Tho danger to the national treasury is not from claimants who aided the rebellion, but from claims of personi residing in the Southern States, or haying property in those States, who were or pretended to be, or who, for the sake of aiding their claims, now pretend to haey bon, loyal to the govelrn1me'nt of the Union. Such clim), even of loyal persons. when they arise from acts caused by tie operations of war, have boon disallowed by the public law of civilized nations, coldemned by the adjudications of the Supreme Court of the Unitud States, and only find any status by force of specific logislation of Congress. T hese claims have become stale, and often tainted with fraud; they are nearly always owned in w%hole or in part by clani agents, by speculators or lobbyists, who have no equity agaist tax payers or the public. They should in all cases be scru tinized with zealous care. The ca. lami ties to individuals which wero inflicted by the late war are, for the most part, irreparable. The gov. einment cannot recall to life the millions of our youth who woent to an untimely grave, nor complisato the suffering and sorrow of their relatives and friends. It cannot re-ad just between individuals the bur dens of taxation hitherto borne or of debts incurred by sustaining the government, which are yet to be palid. It cannot appoltion anow among our citizens the changos or losses incident to military opera. tions, or resulting in every variety of fornm from its measures for mitn. taining its Own existecilC. It lias nO safe general rule but to let bygones be bygonos, to turn from tihe (lead p~ast to a newy and a be~tter future, and, on that biasis, to assure peace, rec'onciliaLtion and fraternity be tween all sections, (classos anmd- races of our people1, to tihe 0end that all tile sp~rings of our productive inidustries may be quickened amnd a now pros perity created, inl whiich tihe evils of the past shall be0 forgotten. S.~aumm. J. Tir~nm, A Mouse Cap o4by a Spider. A few days ago a gontleman in the west par t of the city discovered1 a mouse in a corner of his cellar, and noticed thiat it was struggling to es. cape from some restraint, Examina tioni showovd that oneO of the hind legs of tile little animal was hold by sevoral fibres of a spide' web at tachled to a piece of honso suspended abovo. This leg was drawn up from the bottom of thme cellar, and with thle other three legs tihe aimial was scratching to free himself. The spider-not a very large one-was busy in multiplying tile fastenings uind making everythming more soeure. Tile gentleman took prlocaultionls to leave tihe animal and itnsect undis. turbed, and watched the progress of this Oturi-miS exhibiton of ongineer ing. The) next clay tile spider had ceoded its web) to the other legs. of tihe mouse,50 wh~ich was alive, buit much w nakened, possibly from the biite of tihe insect. Filnally the mouse died. The engineering pro. gressed until the spider had atunally raised tile monse nearly an inch from tile cellar bottom, and was rest. inlg fromn its labors and c immenncing a fou.~t up~on the captr rod rodent On Satt(ay, (luring tile absence of the gent leman from 1101m1, .0some accident befell the works of the little engineer, and1 the sustaining webs wore broken. There was a fall of mouse meat simultaneously wvitlh the fall in coal. During the opeora tions of the spider, several of the nleighbmors of the gentlemnan called in to watchl thle per3folraces of the inustrious insct. Hoveral remem. bored reading a similar capture lby a spider, "in a newspaper," but the~y did niot thn blieve the story, This illustration and experience were undoubtedly given themn to show howv unjust they had been, and to teach them to rely with more conti dence upon what the "truly good newspaper" tells them.-JNmiVor e