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WINNSBORO, S. C. Thursday, Nov. 30, 1876. JNO. S. REYNOLES, Editor. The felegrun of Mr. MoiPo to tihe KA'es and Ourier, published olso where, Iaises ia new and strango quie.tiom. Was CArmberlain really elected in 1874 ? It- is not surprising that a pap r like the New York Thmea should enidorse tiht nction of tine Boalrd of (anvas*ers in retting at nought the miandates , of the Supreme Court of South CarolinI. It has been a can stant feciure of that paper that it has appi-oved every act of tho Radi cnL parly. however inifiious and however imch condienime(d by the b~tterclass of Repuidicans. Fortu nately for ti he cause ofjis tice, there is rteis M) t-> helieve that this nmalig iant an d mendacious sheet neither ) ellects n14,r dii cI's sentiment to any consideratble extent amlong thle Ameriican people. Cla'nherlain says heo was a candi da1ite oily ill obedience to the con mnd of hnis; party, and hence lie cannot do otherwise thani stick to his crew. This same man said, whenl he wis tend'eavoriig to win favor with thne )emnocrats of South Carolina, that "the isslo rinel higher thall party"-ineaning tihe issuo )ro Soited bV the electionl of Mloses and Whipper. The smooth-talking car p(l-bagger is slowing himself more anti llmore every (iay il hisi true light--f iat of an unscrupulous ad veitirert who will sacirifice every principle of truth, decency andI Oflicial decormil, to advanceo his own Chal 'er lain said to a reporter a few davs ag at thi recent olontion was "a f-audi and1 Ia fitrce." Yet his own I f11-lends nd lmiale-]iigs, tihe Boar of StatIe C(nvasie-rF, have declared the Rat dicaltl (anidttes: for State Oilicers i o be t-electe-d. And bI this action it is inteledvi that, C 111hamela61 in l i self hali hold oflice for two years13 l'nn1 r. It i-- indeud t ie to say 1that ani :t let lioin whose I esilt can1 be ho n e:1 by a few politicians, Otit Of hiem in niteri4.Lst1ed as candi d intr, m ir I :e guise of perforimi ing a min istenial <ity, is "a fraud anda i .CC" Th1e act-iol of the R'ouard i ideed a fraud, and it would 1e a farco were it not so dangeirous in its itural results and infamnousn in thne spirit whichI prioimpt oid it andi ini its utter diefianco otfite numiidait~e of the highest juinW.ial sauthor-ity in South Caroli Thie Union //eitra/d says: "Gen rattli aimn declared, early ini the canvass. and be-fore he had t-ravers ed half the State, and beforo he had any possible mneans oft knowinlg whet her tine I liuian majority of over'i 30,000) would ori (cold bo over comie, thait, lie woul be elected gover-inor, and, by the etornal (lod, hie wouldit hnave thle oflice." This is just likI t he l:adical sheet. T1he truth ir, H amnptaon simpldy said ho would bet elect ed, for, accoerding to the D vueocatie rostersi, there wor-o numbaiers ton giva haim a handisom imanjrity. hlis followers and sup potert 's did say t hey would not he they~ sa so( *s/I,; but that Gleneral Hianmpt on ever- ut ter-ed nuchi a speech as5 "hy t th tnil (God, he would eitherci charge or believe. 'The organ is desperate, and is perhmaps scar-cely responisile for wuhatt it says. Thie New Yonrk l/t rad cloises an edlitoial upon1 fthe situation ini Sou1th (Carolina with thuis emuphantic lain gunage :"'.i'e iliepu)lcn party is no~t -rude upl of rogues; it conltaiis ai great amass of hnonest, hnonorabnle, pnatriot it' mien, andl these wvill ntt t''lerte what wuouhld mako thomi hang their heads with shamioit. Thney ill not allow their leaders to resont tom tri-cery to punt in their cantdi date. Alr-eady thne Republican opinimon of the prteceedings in the IDisputetd St ates is suchi that II//has beerUfo aI-)mo-t impoi(sstible' dfece-nty to 'auntj in 'nnor runr Iayes. Al.. ridthe~ isest lcpublicans say in tut-ve ist in tt for the sake of their pairt y they hope' for' Mr. Tlilden's ri turn." I 10 w remains to be Steen whetthor tihe honeat mansses tspokeni of in the palragraph)s quiotedh will throw3~ upi their hatsi and (Icer fomr a Prnesidtent elected (?) t hroueghi thIn fruids of a Bloard of (Canvansser-s in South Carolina, a Rleturining Bloard ini Louisianna, and a presum ip tuousi Governor in Fl'orida. The m-an who goes on the official bond of ai Radical is quite nib bad, and does the cause of honesty quite as much injury, as did he who openly and boldly fought the Democracy in the campaign recently closed. The latter furnished, or assisted in procuring, the means of the oflicer's election ; but the form er fu nishes the means to an un worthy man, of retaining hiA place. Mon may be sometimes so blinded by the excitemnent incident to a political canvass that they forget for the time the unfitness of their chosen candidates : but not so when the fight is ended. Then the eyes of all are unclouded, and all must act with that degree of pro priety which cool men exercise. No, possible excuse is there for a manI who professes to be on the side of good government and in the next instant, almost, gives aid to those who are its greatest enemies. Lot there be an end at once of Demo cratic suroties on Radical bonds. The capture of Boss Tweed and hi reconmnittal to jail in Now York show the trio difliculty, almo's the impossibility, of any great criminal's long evading the demands of justice. Tweed, it would seom, might have kept himself forever concealed ; but there was too sharp a lookout for that. Bosides, there scens to be, in the mind of every min, a desire to return to the place where were spult his brightest days. And with criminals there appears to be a wish to go back in tho very face of dan gor, as if to say, "I wonder if they can catch me." Both these (added of courso to the sufferings he underwent) no doubt had much to do with the Boss' capture. The Columbia organ of the thioves tries hard to show that the Supreme Court has been wrong aid the Board of Canvassers right in thoi respective acts since the im4uo was raised before the Court. But, as usual, the organ proceeds upon assmntptions utterly and demonstra bly falso. It attempts to prove that fraudulent Democratie votes were eat, beceause the Radical consus of 1875 showed a hoavy black ma jority-more than thirtv-throo thou sand. Now, overybody knows what the census of 1875 was and how it was taken. A Radical leader was appointed in oneh county, and ho poitionod out the work among his understrappers. The consuis-taker., woro paid so much for every name they put down, and they thus had two great inducements to swell the nIumbel)r of coloreod voters-monaey miaking, aind thme inecrca1so, on pap)er, of the Itll.ical e"to'. Thieo census is known to ho full of errors andl false entries. T1he organ next says that the negroes were more solid this year than ever hofore. Tihis is utterly false. There were largo numbers of colored meon who had heconme disgusted with "the party," andl withi these as a nucleus, the Denmocrats succededl in inducing other4, inl still greater numbllers, to vote the Democratic ticket. These causes, added to the splendid work done by the white ppl)o through out the State, combined to lct, fairly and legally, Hampton and the entire State tieket, with the Presidential electors nominated by the Donorats. Standing by the Law. The impartial observer at the North must have all along been struck with oneo feature of thoecourse of the Democrats of South O.trolina. It is their constant and ready obe dience to the law. Going back as far as the Hamburg affair--which was distorted by the Radicals into an occurrence having p)oliticll significance-we findl the white peo ple of South Carolina, readly, willing, nay, enger, to have tihe guilty p~ar ties tried andl pulnishted accordling to law. More than this-when the first session of court was held, after the occurrence, the personis wvho had hoenu accused urged that there he an immediate trial of their own cases. Tihmey had voluntarily surren dered to the sheriff, and they held and still hold themselves ready to prove their innloceneo or to suiffer the pains of guilt. They stand by the law. Again, wvhon Chamber lain, actuated b~y mnotivyes p~eculiarto a malicious spirit, issued his proc. lunations directed against the ruleo clubs, the white p~eople at once ob~eyed his commands to the letter. Organizations which traced their origin to the troublous times of 1775, and others wvhose mnembei s had united simply for social pur poses, all at once disbanded, and the only arms-bearing organizations in the State were the negro militia,. and banids of negroes armed, or ganized and drilling contrary to law. The acion of Chambm..la towards the rifle-clubs was a piece of petty tyranny entirely consistent with the character he has shown himself to possss. It had but the show of legal sanction, but even under such circunistances the white peoplo determined to stand by the law. And so it is in the fight which for soni1o days has boon g')ing on in Columbia. The Democrats, natu rally fearing foul play from the Board of Stato CnIvassrIs, wont I beforo the Supreie Court, to pro. cure, its intersposition and its pro tection. All they asked was that the Board should bo rostrained from exceeding its law ful powers and that it should be compolled to (10 what is cowniando.1 by law. Thoy have placed their entire case in the hands of the supreme judicial body in the State, and they resist nothing but the monstrous actions conteinpla ted and the absird propositions stat Pd bytho Board. Under circumst4nces bighly calculated to excite the doepest indignation, they quietly %wait the vindication of their rights At the hands of the court. They stand by the law. It would seem that the course of the people were Amply nffi.-iont of itself to silence the voice of abuse which has bccn so hai sh in strong for many months past. But not so. The Radical nlewspapers, prominent among them the New York Times, the accredited organ of the Administration, still prato of the warlike conduct of the South Carolinians, anld uphold the infamous Board in all their illegal t ts. TI y still try to grind the :utrage-mill, and still wavo the bloody shirt. Yet all to no purpose. l'he thinking m'Isso0s of the entiro Union havo como to see through ,he flimsy guise which conecals the tetual inotivoN of the Radical pIrty oidors. The people se thero is esis truth than malicoe in the state wonts of these loalers, and they ook elsewhero for tho actual facts. Ioantimo, the mon who are abused md tauntod from day to day, with % view so to arouse their foolings as to load themi t-> some unlawful act, tro quict and law-abiding, though irn in the oudoavor to enforce all ieir rights. They stand by the aw South Carolina Nows. Chill-and-fover is on the increaso n Abbeville. The Abbevillo County Faitoponed )m the 22d inst. There was a slight fall of snow in DJhestor last week. The United Sitates Court is in iessionl in Cohnnibiai One negro killed another in Blmn well in a disputoe about sonmc anet. Tihoe auditor of Riclanud adver ~isos twelve hundredl pieces of real 'state for alde, for nion -payment of axes. Elisha Harris, a proinenf~it negro oLxitician fromn Edg< field, was shot ni Columbia hast week, in the sou rse of a personial dlillicul ty. LaFaiyetto Hlamnbfn was badly mutby June Martin ini a lpersonial lifliculty at Abbeville last week. Boeth partion are colored. Two (comlpanies of United States Lccompaniied by United States Cim-. nissioner' Wright, anid United States Mr. Alex. Riosborough's gin-house it Lewis' Turnout, ini Chester sounty, was burned last week. is loss is estimated at $1000. The lire wvas the work of an in'cendiary. The gin-house of Mr. Roht. Pratt n Chickasawv Creek, near Duo W~est ,n Abbeville county, was burned Last week. Loss, about $1500. 1t. 5 supposed that a nuatch in the cotton did the ischiief. A difhicult~y took place last week an the plantation of Mr. Seegers sear Colunbia, between Mr. Chris. [lussug and( a colo ed guard of the penitentiary, in which the hatter was A coop) containing a twenity-pa'~und 4obbler, has arrived in Couumbiai, 4ont by a colored Democrat of (Areen vi llo, to Gieneral Hampiiton, for bis inaugural dinner. The steam mill of Mr. Zemp, near Statesbuirg in) Sumiiter coun11ty, was recenitly destroyed by tiro. It is L~houghit to hiave been thme wiork of an incendiary. The houses of Jim Stuckev andt John Anderson, colored Demoerats, living near Camden were burned by incendiaries lately. A rattlesnake was lately killed on the plantation of Mr. J. J. Higgins in Koerahaw county, wlhi metasiured four feet, and had sixteen rattles. Mr. James Holland, an estimuable citizen of the Marshmals' Church neigh borhood in Kershiaw, had his blacsmith shop burnied. This is believed to) have beeni thme work of an inconidiary. WV. H. Hoard, the Radical nomri noe for the Legislature from Abbe. v'ille coluity, has gone to Gieorgia, having had a pressing invitation, wvhich he could not well refuse, to visit that Stato-from a delegation of Georgiains w~hio wished him to clear ip a slight misunderstanding about m horse. The Calm Bef)re the Storm. BOTH SIDES PREPARING FOR T11B CO.NFIU. Playing with puppets.-.low tile Can Vassing Board Came to Grief--The Radi'e.1 Progrannme--A Bold Conspl. racy to Solze the Government--The Democratic Outlook. E((kve']poedne <f KT. .Veurs nd terdd. ' COLUMMA, November 27.-Th< courts of to-morrow, in a great de groo, will decido tho fate of South Carolina. Before this reaches you it will have becomp known whether tho Radicals will submit quietly to the verdict of the - ballot box and permnit the Democrats to reap tlc fruits of victory. I apprehend still further difficulty. Were it merely a question of suipremlicy between the Democrats and the plindorors in South Carolina no one would -for ,a moment doubt the result. But Chiamberjain and h1is corrupt crew are merely collporleit parts of the groat Radical party of plunder throughout the United States, aind their overthrow removes still anl other prop from the tottering wreck of that party. Chamaberlain and the Canvassing Boari are m1e pup Pets worked by wires from Wash imgton, and all the in famy they have contaiVe(d to execute is dictated by Zach Chandler aind the National Reptblican Committee. Federal IayonCts aIre unlawfully and uncon. stitlutionally used to prop up this rotten concern in South C:arolinn, and the Democrats ire contending againit all the powers of the ml tional a1s. well as the State govern ment. It is impossible to forosce the result. That all will- come right il tho cnd is absolutely cortain, iut the time and manner of reaching the goal are involved in porplexing Iys. tery Last week witnessed a Scene here unparalleled in history. The State Board of Cinvassers defied openly and cont emptuously the Sn preme Court and the State consti tution, and that they are now lvinjg like felons in the Richind jail, is but poor satisfaction for the crime tlhey have conunittedi. Nothing shIort of hanging is an adequate punish ment for them TH11 nislonY OF TnE CASE which led to this outrageous andu revolutionary measure is well known. The constitution provides that. tile Board of Canvassers shall hear pro tests and contests, and admit or ex clude candidates only when that authority is not vested in some1 otlher body. It also provides that tile two houses of the Legislature shall be judges of the qualifications of their respective lilelbers, thus deniying to the Board any right to do aught else than givo certilicates to the members declared elected by the counity boards, wiether these boards properly retturn them or not. It is for the Legislature, after contested delegationls are seated, to suffer them to remain iln their seats or to Oxpe0l them. Tile Board, however, aninouniced a deterinjation to seat whomsoever thley lea~sed, and then to permiit the Lcgislatmure thus con stituted to vote upon01 tihe contested calse's. Their prtoposition was5 noth in~g mfore0 nor1 less than TO PACK TIlE JURlY which was to try the case withl par tisans and imbeheiles. To pr1evenft this the D.emioc'rats wentinto court, andl~ Ohtabod, aft(er several days dlelay, an ordoeir from tihe Supremuc Court conunand1inhfg the Board a1( the Secretary of State to issuo c*er tilicates of electioni to those mem11 hers who appliearedl to be elect ed On tihe face of the returns. Corbin whc ha~s bee9n notoriously connected with almost all the caises in which thc whtito Docratsll hablve been op pressed 0or defrauded of their righiti asked for furthe~r time for him eiliets , tihe Board. This wals grant. ed, and Friday was the day fixed for tile rt.hurni. THIEk STEAL TUIE STATE. An hlour after the requiest was grantltedl the Boardl met, and throw~ out Ed~getioldl anti Laurens in oper defiance of the~ courllt, declared th< Hayes electors elected, gave a Riadi cal majority in both houses of the Legislature, dlechared thle election o: thle whiole Rladical S tate ticket, anti then ad~joml ned sine dIie ton thle plesi thlat their time1 watS limiited by th< constitution to tell days anld thlat thley could sit no0 longer. On Fri day tile court met, and learning of th< contumlacy of tile Bloar~d fined enet member1101 Ii fteenu hu tndred3( dollar1s and( oodered tile whiol'j batchl to jail, to remanl thero'L until releasetd by tIl order of tihe Supreme Court itself. TUE IloAIaD IN JAIL. Saitur lday aifternoon001 ths 1 w5IOr thlies found the~imselves gazing upon01 thle sky thlroughi the bars of tile jail. Haynec, Cardo o andt Purvis we'r< puit into 0one ('Ol, while D)unn and Stone, wh'io ar'e so profuse in thleir' ex press~ionls of esteem11 for tile coloredl fticend and brother, forgo t thleir' civil righlts dloctrine, and10 by thetir' own requiestt were pla'etd ini anothler cell together. 'They saidl they ditd not wish to 110 lput ill tile samoi( cell with negroes. .1 have not visited1 thesec worthies, buit replort says they are hamvinig as5 com1fortable a timo as cir cumiistainces will permi11t,. A genltle manli who v'isited tile jail theO sam11 (vening they wer'e locoked1 up, found Hatyne philosophlicailly smloking his pipe. Purvis had hlalf a bottle of wvhiiskey outside list vest and thte other h af (presuumal y) inside, and wats disposed to be hlappy. Cardoza waS conIsiderably disgrun tied. His p~ortly person1 sufferedl~ for the want of lounges and easy chair11s, and( lhe complained that tihe jail was a filthy place. Dunn was inidignant, while tile little ".Tack-of . imoonds" Stone, as the Ref/ister iii him, wvor is habitual smirk amt ~' eeed to be jolly. They all ex pressed contamnpt for the coumt, a a detormiination to "rot in jail" be fore they would obey its mandates. iThe spectacle of the corpulent Car dozo and the obese Hayie rotting in jail, and the other recalcitrant spirits, who are of the "loan kine" order wasting away, so to speak, of the dry rot, would be so gratifying to the suftering and defrauded de coney of the State that it is proposed to hire a follow at six dollars a day and mileage, to visit the jail daily and coax the Canvassing Board never to submit to the court. ec sides affording personal gratifica tion, this resolution of the jail birds would confer practical benofit on the people. Dunn, as a prisoner, could levy no taxes, and Cardozo in jail Could collect none ; so the tax payors could have respite for a time at least. The peoplo here expect to soo a rolQ:iso and ia recommittid, followed by ianother releaso and another re commit'-dl and so on until the obnoxioulls inldividulals who compose the Board are trotted- almost to death. It is sAd that by exercise Boss Tweed's weight has been diminiihed seoventy pountis, and that work has redouced the girth of the Tichboi nie claimant some soventoon inches. It would not he surpi ising if the bp.ttle-door and shuttle cock game of Judge Bond and the Sur prome Court should transfer tho Rev. Treasurer Cardozo into all animate and peripatetic oil well. Thirty or forty barrels (of blubber would be a moderate estinate of yield. THEY GIVE BOND. Jndgo Bond has been in town for wooks, and although ho appears quite hurt at even the intimation that he will interfere. it is thought that he will issue a writ of haabeus (n)u"' and reletaso these nminions of the national government. He has about as tinucli juriedictioni in the premises a, the Grand Llana of iThibet. The power to punish for contempt is given to a court for its protection, and no one by law is permitted to decide whethor any court has been coltenellld oxcept the court itself. Tire ri no appeal im a contempt vase. But the Radi cihs who have every day for tile past eight ye-irs [0een growing more hold ill their violation of law and deconey, will not hesitatt to effect their pur pose by breaking dowii any barrier of tihe law, howevur stron- or how ever incient in its origil. TiE WORK GOES BRAVELY ON. While the Board are in jail the Court is proceeding harmoniously with its work. Justice Wright ap pears to be in full accord with his associates inl tihe determination to expiound the law properly and to vindicate the dignity of the court. The clOrk of the SuiprenMIO Court will grant certificates to the Inemt bers from Elgefield and Laurensa and with these crodentials they will demand adiission to the Legisla ture. It is rumored that the Radi cal pro.gramm. is to surround the State Hiouse with Federal troops and deny athissioni to any but those p~ersonus armed wvith creden tials from the Secretary of State. This will give the itadhicils a nmajori ty of tihe members of both Senate tand~ House. Ha;mtpton will he cofuted out and~ Chamberlain and Gleav'es declared elected. Thisum. is the Loiianalu pro~grammIfO. It will be carried out Cxcep)t inl 0on0 COn tingencmy, which is this: Thte 01on test down here is not purey questioni of law. It is a and the soidG imprtalE thinking men of the North are the jurors. If they decide that Grant and the lRadical party shall still be p)or mnitted to tramuple utnder foot all the rights of a people, the deed wvill be0 don1e, andl( Hayes, Chamberlain, Stearns of Florida tad Packard of Louisiana will all bec counted in. If on the other hand, as is now proba ble, the innate love of -justice and farplywich hats ever existed inl thle human breast will impel the peo 1)1e of the North to say "Hands(1 off' to Graint and his satellites, the ouit rages will be stoppled and1 we will p~eacefully enjoy thle fruits of our victory. TJhme outloo~k during the p~ast week has~ beenl more favorable to thle Democrats for this reason: Capital is timid ; tile b~ondhlolders wvant no0 revolution. They are say ing that thme jumdginent of authorized courts mlust be submitted to, even if the losinlg p~arty consFiders itself chetatedl. And just as long as the Southom n Democrtats pireserve peace anid seek legal redress ill thle courts while tihe Rtadicals arec disoheying theo laiw and~ comlmittinlg revolutiona ry acts of violence, the symp~athy of tile North wvill b)e aroused, an'd increase until the National llepubli can party will find its'elf suddenly brought to a stand still by a stuinitg rebutke. If, onl the other hanid, the D~emocrats thlreatent or coimmi t violence, thme old1 cry of re hellionl will be raisedl, andO capital will bo poured out "to p~reserve time IUnion" by seating Hatyes. * 11 OU oU55 coMM EN DED, The courseC of Sonth Carolina inl thme recent canvass has won theo tadmiration of ever-y (decont man ini the country. Let her p~eople0 still con timu o to exercise sel f-conmtrol eveni underC thte most exaisporatinIg circummstanlces, anld all will be wvell yet. Th le New York lHera/d in the past few daiys has become loud in its condeolmnationl of the Riadical gamne in thle Southl, and calls on fai mlindled Republicana everywhmere to repudiate it. It says matters have retached suich a pitchl that it is alnost impossible to give tile votes of South Carolina, Floridla and Louisiana to Mr. Hayes without hauving the tranrtsaction 5o tainted with suspicion of fraud as to he the ruin of thme Radical party. The .k'nening Post1 which ~i along lhas been a warm a,1voaen of Ha. severely denounces the "Snap game" of our Canvassing Board, and de clares that the mandates of the Supreme CoUt t must be obeyed whether right or wrong. Other lead papers are taking the same view. The Cincinnati Uomnercial, whose editor, Mr. Murat Halstead, in a speech delivered in Now York a few days before the eloetion said "the people of the North did not intend to put the Soutthern Con fedoracy on top of the United States," now says it is hardly possi ble that Louisiana enn be counted for Hayes. The correspondent of the Now York Tribune, an ther violent HAyos paper, says that L iu isiana appears to have gone for Tildn. I cite these because mit ters are so complicated that it ap pears that Hampton will stand or fall with Tilden, and consequently the national question is of vital im portanco. I believe that Tilden will takO his sr-at in the WiLite House and Haimpton his seat in the Gubur natorial Mansion in South Carolina beforo many days havo passed. What throes the country must pais thirouigh in the meantinie cannot be foretold. No oie knows what a day may bring forth. As events trans pire, I will keep you posted. nIEFOIIEt BOND. The Board of Canvassers applied this morning to the United States Court for a writ of habeas corpus, and were brought up before Judge Bond for a preliminary hearing. Shoriff Dont, in whose charge the prisoners had been placed. refused to deliver thon up, but at last surrendered them to the Unitod States Martial under protest. Judge Bond, after hearing argument, pocketed the papers, remarked that the question was a grave one, and ordered fur thor arginet on Wed(nesday. When Sheriff Dent stopped up to take the prisoners again in custody ho was ciecked. "The defendants are now in the hands of the United Statos Marshal,"- said Judge .Bond, "and will- r(emiain there until this matter is devided." Mr. Younans then asked that the court should give a written order to the sheriff to pro tect him from punishment by Oth Supremec Couirt of the State of South! Carolina. The judge iwas somewhat disconcerted by this, hut fil nished the order, and the State authoi itics being thus overpowered, and having nothimg else to do, withdrew from the court. The Rtadical game is appalrelt. On Wednesday Judge Bond will be ir argunent and then reserve his decision indofinitely. In the meantime the Canvassers will remain in cistody of the United States Marsha], who will suffer them t0 go at largo just as any other free citizen. The Supreme Court, as far as I can see, will be poworless to enforce its decrees in the face of the Federal Court, backed by Fed cral bayonets, and the instigators of all our troubles will Continuo at large coicocting other nefarious schem-. When it is asked on what preex Judge Bond reviewvs the action of the Supreme Court. I can only ansiwer in the words o~f the old IMoss trotp)s "Ltthos tatko who haive the, power. Amnd let those' keepj who can." But I wuill say no more on this lpoint. It is getting fashionable to put parties in jail for coniempt, and 1. have no amhition to jill the cell once graced by (Cardozo. The Supreme Court has as yet taken no0 action in tho promises, anid I do not know whiat it can do. It mIay reconunit, anti may not. Another comlilcation has just arisen, in which the Un ion-Iherald figures conspicuiously A fewv days uimce it charged that~ the Supreme Court had been bought up by the Demnocra 1.. This) afternoon the etourt issued a rule against the L nion-i/erald to show~ cause why it should not be attached for con tempt. This paper haus been running "loose" lately. It has no editor, and there is no onie in the office who cant be author or editor, yet I feel con strained to issue the attachmnent." The UJnion-Ierald now calls the charge a 'jocular piaragraph." (IRANT's G*AME DEv- LoPED. The pilans of the Rl tdicals have b~een unfolded. President Grant has jus~t sent a dlispatch, pulblished on the bulletin boards this after neon, in which lhe ano~ilunlces that Chamberlain is governor until his suiccesor is inauguratedl, and that whoever the Legislature declares elected must he inaugurated. The troop)s in gmrison to-day wore or dleredl to hold themselves in readi nesfrany emergency. A coup d'ttto-morrow is more confidently expoceted than over. THlE INTIMIDArT)oN FR AUD). The United States Court is in session here, Judges Bondo anti Bryan being p~roonit., anid a number of tho Ellen ton prisoners will be called up for trial. These gentle men arrivedl in Columbia on Satur (lay night anti woer put~ in jail. withi no prep~arationl, andt p~atsed the niighit veiny unicomfortebly, as the weathor was very cold. On Stuiday morning, howvever, they were amply p~rovidied with bedinmg and other necessariies. -A great dleal of the evi dence agaist them is subornecd. The negroes who swear against them are paid as witnesses anid transported to Columibi anti main tained here free of charge. It is not surprising that any half starved freednian who wasnts a square meal and froo transportation wouldl swear to anmything to obtain these. Fortunately the jury cannot be packed, as in the ku-klux cases, and innocent mn havo a tolerably roa soniableo hance of escaping the conm sp~iracies of Chamberlain's crowd. A number of Democrats have just arrivedl also from Marion, charged wvith imtumdioating pesons wvhoi wished to vote for "Cn C. n, John Winsmith," &c., while the date fixed is some tiue before these worthies were even nominated. It must be remembered that the only way in which the Federal Court can take cognizance of intimidation cases is by making out a case in respect to Presidential Electors and Congressmen. A threat made against the supporters of Chamber lain and the State ticket can be reached only in the State Courts. The charges are of the flimsiest nature. They ore intended merely as vexations. The Demnocrats must rotort by vigorous prosecati-.ns of Rtdical intiruidators. D. By Telegraph, November 28. Two companies of U. S. troops on Monday night seized the Stato House, barred all the doors but one, and placed sentinels at that. On Tuesday they refused admittance to all persons not provided with passes from J. B. Donnis, Deputy M.irshal, or A. 0. Jones, clork of the former House, who, as is claimed by tho Radicals, has authority to organize the present House. The Denio cratic members presented a solemn protest against tWe outrago. Later in the day a compromise was pro posed and accepted, by which all persons were ullowed to enter if they left their arms. Governor Hampton made a short address to the crowd asking them to disperso from the State House, as he wanted peace. LATER. November 28. Both Houses are organized, the Democrats participating in tho Senate, but the Edgohold, Abbeville and Laurens Senators have been excluded. These gentlemon pre sonted their certificates from tho Clerk of the Supreme Court, but were denied admittance. The Re publican members then organized the House with only 59 members, and electod E. W. M. Mackey Speaker, A. 0 Jones Clerk, and W. R. Marshall Reading Clerk. All the Democrats then withdrew, and are now in session separately. In fense feeling prevails, but all is perfectly quiet. THE rATFMF, The Democrats organized tho House by electing lio folUwing officers :W. H. Wallace, of Union, Speaker ; Jno. T. Sloan, Sr., of Richland, Clerk ; W. B. Williams, of York, Reading Clerk ; J. Brown, of Barnwell, Sergeant-at-arms. A p~rotest wasR entered en We'hnesday, by this House, against the pim ceedings at the State House; and a demand will be made upon the Secretary of State for the election returns, in the Rump Housec, the RaLdical mnembera from Barnwell-.-ivo in numbler and all negroes-were admitted by a vote of 45 to 14, Bird and Gibson, from Fairfield, voted in the negative, Martin in the affirmative. There is ground to believe that a similar action wil be taken wit read to the counties of Aiken AIbeville, Edigefield and L-murens. T he habeaa ctnpu* case wars argued before Judge Bond on Wednesday-Gen. James Conner and Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Vir~ ginia , opposing the release do mnanded ; and Judge Settle, of North~ Carolina, with Judge Denny, of Indiana, appLeared for- the prisoners. Judge Bond reserved his decision. Ht YM IENl'A L. Marrmied, on the 23rdof November. 1876, by Rev. J. M. Boyd, Ms. J. ROnEr Luro, of Fairfield county, 8, C., to Miss InA L. HIAWTHonNE, of The house of Mr. fS. F. Co, an out house of B. T. Wadsworth, andL a gim house of P. T. Wilds, all of Darhni gton county, were- destroyed by fire. Cause, incendiaries. Frank M. Johnston, a white man, clerk of the Chief of Police ini Charleston, lately shot and killedi George Shr-ewsbury, a mulatto, the Chief of the Char-leston detectives. Sixr Radical negr-oes from the plantation of Mr. T1. C. Dullose in Kershaw county-, were recently tried for beating two color-ed Democrats. Their line~s and costs footed lup tho sum of one humndredl and forty -one dlollars. A.-. F.-.M r piHE regular monthly communjention -~ of1 V innabo(ro, Lod(ge, 'No. I l,|A. 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