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country, and to reduce the negroes to total sub ful reputation, on which the Hibernian philoso Cf Advertisement lrf i gitfuranr Columns. TUB CHDRCII STREET IIORimYG EDITION. eDBLINOTON. TIIUR3DAY MORNING, NOV. 10 1871.

Wires' IirsuBAacs Orncx, Oct 28, 1871. Wo take pleasure ia calling the attention of our patrons and the publia to the following; list of Companies that we represent, feeling confident that all business men will appreciate and see the very superior advantages we offer ts those wanting reliable Insuranoe. Wo are the only authorized Agon1 in this violnlty for all these Companies, and will attend with promptness to all business entrusted to our care, and we will always endeavor to promote the interests of our customers. Particular attention given to the Insurance of Dwellings, Stores and Manufacturing Establishments. Our rates will be as low as those of any responsible Company.

S. S. WIRES. column for Tea Cent a. line each day.

JJOTOTOBENT, near the square. 8. Beach. Adams and Elm five rooms and summer kitchen. Enquire at D.Shea's, o-posite the premises Nov 0, dti IV) RENT.

8 tore in Haskell's Block. Church St. Enquire at Start Watson's Office. Oct. "Stable tenement for the Winter.

E. M. Sutton. Nov 15, diit "CKJUND. On Church Street, on Monday.

Nov. 13, owner an have it by P-7 advertisement, and calling at Austin's Billiard Saloon. Nov. octants. ANTED.

A Clerk well posted la DryGocdi. Blair 3(S6t NEW GOODS. We have recently received a few new Dress Goods, such as Epanglines; Meriwts Serges and Satiecns; In desirable Shades and Colors. We are sellins those Goorfs at VERY LOW PRICES, and invite a careful inspection of them. Most of these New Goods are in the fsrk cloth shades so much in demand just now.

We have also Just received a piece of extra nico Black MLy on's Velvet For Cloaking. It is all silk, and extra. Color and quality not to be surpassed. Price We also have, as usual, an assortment or Cloak ins Velvet i at Lower Prices. We want to sell a snail assortment of JYubiaS) JYabias, JYttbias, To that end we have taken a number of lines of Nubias, New Goods, of various new and desirable styles, and have made ono uniform price on them without rogard to cost.

That prioe ia $1.00 without any variation. They cusjlit to sell roadily, as they are really cheap. gap Remember that wo aro selling hauilBomo Nubias good size, new styles -for only-cne dollar. AT UAMIEO II' Ono Store? No. 15C Church Stroet.

Nov. 14, 1671 dAwtf ELASTIC JSPOXGi: Malt asses i Milloivs, M'eiv Cushion, Car Carriage Cushions. SPONGE BY THE BALE OR POUND. We invite the public ti call and examine our Elastic Sponse" goods, which we are now selling in large quantities, and which are giving great satisfaction. Sponge makes a softer Mattress than Hair, and will hold its elasticity much loader.

For Cushioning Churohes, Halls, Theatres, isteam and Horse Cars, it will be found the best article in use, and is warranted prooi against moths. We should be pleased to send Circular of reforonce to any who desire. MMaley, Morse Co. BOLB AGSN7S FOR K. B.

STATI8. 411 Washington Street, Boston. Nov. 14 A REQUEST. As it is a little inconvenient for a person to stand on his head while reading sn advertisement, I request that mine appear right side up, and let the people know that I have just got in 12 Boxes of White Clover Honeyi A FC1.L LINK OF VEGETABLES, APPLES, PEARS, NUTS, CIDER, and lots of good things for Thanksgiving, and oblige R.

I. PIERSON, Union Block. Nov 15 ldtf NOTICE. COLLECTOR'S SALE. THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY, seised and forfeited for illegal importation into the United States, will be sold at Publis Auction at the places herein named on Tuesday, the 6th day of December, 1871, at 10H o'clock a.

m. At tne custom House, Burlington. 14a yds. Dress Silk. 20 yds.

Silk Velvet. 12 Linen Nankins. 7 ii yds SeotchTweed 2 Bones. 9 narneR. I Car riage 4 Cans Whisky, 4 Boxes Cigars, 6 Packages Cigars and Cigarettes.

At tne custom House. Derby une, vt. 314 lbs. Hops 1 Bottle Brandy, 3, gallons Whisky 2 Horses, 1 Wagon, 2 Harnesses 20.000 feet Lumber. UU.

J. B1AININAKD, Collector of Custom. Custom Houeo, District of Vermont. Collector's oihce, Burlington, Nov. 15, 1871 fdlm TWO SECOND HAND PIANOS.

Ct octave, and one 6 octave, In good order. will be sold very low for cash. Enquire Oct 30, dtf READ'S MUSIC sTORCpk TO RENT. A SUIT OF ROOMS, finished with aU modern conveniences, in Union Bluek. Innnire of In- eent A Taft.

April Hth.dtf HO EVERY DAY Brings Something New! Call at Bussoll's and you vtlljind it true. Choice Butter, Cheese, Tripe, Lard, Fish, Apples, Onions, Cranberries, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugars. Canned Fruit, Jellies, Pickles, Brooms, Pails, Tubs, and Baskets. In a word, aU kinds of goods kept in a nrst-clafs Grocery store, at prices warranted to please' all who want Good Goods. Ttnf ifmui nt Ia trot WI.

mil .1 where they offer Sugars and other artioles below cost, as a iait to entice you in; yen are sure to get caught at last. IRA RUSSELL Church St, Burlington. Vt. Not. I0rdtf Ins "--n, vs.

fTEGETABLES HAND AT CONSTANTLY ON PFJRCE A No. 14 A-i 6 City April 2S-tdtf FRESH GROUND BCCKWIIEA r. I llUVK. ATT. A fs TY A nmto tsAti imvm iUCE jection to their employers, so that their con dition wouu be a species or seriaom worse ina slavery.

A lew extracts rrom ainaaviui mau before the U. S. Commissioner by victims of the Ku-Klux will illustrate this. I have taken the following as they came to hand, from a hundred or more without making selections Isaac A. Pootle's cabin was visited oy iz ais- gaited men.

lie raised a plank and crawled under the floor' His wife raid he had gone away. They pulled her rrom iea, saia sne was a liar, knocked her down, kicked her, and put a rope round her neck, and threatened to hang her. They then discovered him, hanged him to a tree, so that his tees just touched the ground, and whipped him, saying that if a building was burne they would kill ten niggers and him first. Daniel Bryant and his daughter were pulled from their beds by 15 disguised men, who broke down, the door and were made to dance while their assailants beat them with sticks. W.

Avery a leading merchant of Yorkville, was recognized as one of the attacking party, who put their guns to Bryant's head and made him take an oath to vote the Democratic ticket. Richard Wilson, an old man, was visited by the Ku-Klux, who struck him 100 blows with ramrcds on his naked person, for having a son who made republican speeches. They said, You are a good old Radical now we'll make you a good old Democrat." Jackson Good was whipped by 20 diguise 1 men, who made him kneel and pray while they pounded him with hickory sticks. Titus Wilson was visited by a large party, who said they were just from hell. They broke his gun, said they would kill him if he voted a a Radical ticket again, but did not whip him.

Adolphus Rice's family were Ku-Kluxed." Himself father and brother were whipped, his brother-in-law killed, and sister ravished by three men. Jordan Tate's cabin was broken into by 14 disguised men. They knocked him down with the butts cf their guns, took him out and made him kneel and raise his right hand and swear he would be humble and henceforth vote the Demccratio ticket. They said they would rule the State if they had to kill all the damned niggers in it. Madison Grant was made to pray while being whipped and told hereafter to le a nigger and take otf his hat to white men as he used to and act like a nigger.

His employer sent for him and promised to see the chief of the Klan and get his men not to hurt him again if he would sign a paper agreeing not to vote the Radical ticket, which he did, James Rice was wlupicd with sticks so severely that it was a month before he was well. The party went to the next house where they killed Eli Leach. Rice heard Leach beggtng for mercy heard a shot fired heard Ieaeh scream then several guns went off, and the Ku-Klux all yelled. Never saw Leach again till his body was found in Bull's Creek, four weeks later, with three shots in the back of his head and in the leg. He recognized some cf the Ku-Klux, but at the coroner's inquest he said he did not dare to tell who they were, and the coroner told him it was right not to tell.

A number more cases are mentioned, of which the above are specimens, and the writer promises extracts from cacfessioas in a future letter, which will farther illustrate the character of these outrages. lr. of the Free Prjs an Times. From Tennessee- TJE CITY OF KSOXVILLK. TARSON BBOWNLOW, Ks OXVILLE, Nov.

1871. This is a regularly laid cut, but not very tar tily built city, resting upon and nearly covering the tops, sides and part cf the valleys between red clay hills. These hills are part of the rough upland or List lecr.e?ree, which ex tenJs off ia all directions into really beautiful ranges of mountains. Tue view from the college buildings, which stand on the top cf one of the most pointed cf the Knoxville hills, locking off in all directions, is a very beautiful one. The population of the city is said to be about 15,000, and is composed of a heterogeneous lot of human beings, including a large number of darkies.

And such a laughing, ragged, dirty lot cf creatures as compose this portion of the population, may yoa never be obliged to live with. But fortunately, Knoxville is not all of this sort. White folks, including green, lank, kindly looking Xennesseeens, brisk, active, lively -Sew Lnglanuers, enterprising and plea sant Ohioans, jolly, easy, lager-loving Ger mane, shrewd Scotchmen and Irishmen, and oiners irom uiuercnt parts ot tue world are gathered here and are hard at work making money. Last evening I was informed of a German, who came here as a tailor, had mado money and bought one hundred acres of land in the out skirts of the city for which is now said to be woith tfloO.OOO. One firm here does bus mess amounting to 1,500,000 a year.

One of the professors in the University tells me he has laid up $10,000 during the six years he has epent here, and all seem to think this is the place to mate a lortune. iiut it is poor a place for learning, and culture aud taste, at least ascord ing to New England notions. In conversation with a leading book-seller of the place, he remarked that he liked Harper's Magazine nrst rate, Out as tor such things as the Eclectic and Atlantic, they might do for those high educated iolks up liocton way, but they were too deep for him." And some of our most common and valuable periodicals he had never heard of, though he was doing an immense buBi ness. I made a call last evening, at the residence of one of the old aristocratic families of the place. it is a une old mansion, oeautituiiy situated in the shade cf a long avenue of trees on an eminence opposite the college.

The young ladies or tne family are called tne belles or society here, but it was really amusing to see the facility with which they could murder the English langusge, and the nonchalance with which they defied all its best accepted rules of grammar. And yet, I rather liked them in spite of their illiterateness. Knoxville has, however, numbers of really in telligent and highly cultivated people. Horace Maynard. U.

S. Representative, and family are such, and so are President Humes and several other leading citizens, by whom I have been most kindly and hospitably treated. Parson Brownlow is represented as Seine; very much of a gentleman, and one of the kindest and best of men. 1 called on him last Saturday and found him very feeble, lying on a lounge, trembling irom nead to io-i use a lear, and speaking only in a whisper. He says he is going back to his seat in the Senate, when the next session opens.

ana mat inougn ne is ieeDie he can do a deal of good voting. lie is a very mild and pleasant looking old gentleman, and has in his appearance none of the ferocity manifested in his polit ical career of former days. He lives in plain style, and his family appears to be that of Par son the old fashioned circuit preacher rather thau of a United States Senator. Yours, It is bad to hear old, old jokes quoted for new, it is worse to have the good old stand-bys wholly Misquoted. Of this Mr.

Beecher is guilty. In his last article in the N. Y. Ledger, in which he urges men to eat worms, sinca the worms eat everything that man values, he says He who eats the worm, eats the chestnut in a higher and refined form Because men do not reflect npon these rarely beautiful transmigrations, they go on cherishing prejudices against the eating of worms. Stories are told which greatly amuse the unreflecting, but which cause the truly phloeophical to marvel.

As when the Irishman, on biting open a chestnut, saw a worm draw back from the sudden flash of light, and exclaimed, Ve spoke too late." and swallowed him? The Irishman was a true philosopher. Now that is an old juke, actually murdered. It was not a chertnut at all but an egg of doubt- MjOJYMMOJr and GMjOIJE MJYS. CO. TUE STRONGEST INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE WOULD, WILL HAVE, AFTER PAYING CHICAGO LOSSES, OVER Eighteen Million Dollars in Gold, Cash Assets.

The above Company lost over Four Million Dollars at Chicago, and was among the first to commence payment. TMtE QMJMiEJV MJS. CO. OF LONDON. NO LOSSES AT CHICAGO.

THIS POPULAR COMPANY HAS A CAPITAL OF Ten Million Dollars in Gold. TMME MMAJVOVEn, OF NEW YORK, AFTER PAYING CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE Six Minndred Thousand Dollars Cash Assets. TMME JYMA GA MIA OF NEW YORK, AFTER PAYING CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE OVER One Million Dollars Cash Asset 8. TMME JYAMtMZA GAJYSE TT OF PROVIDENCE, The Strongest Co. in Rhode Island, AFTER PAYING CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE Eight MMundred Thousand Dollars Cash Assets.

TMME ME Ml CMMAJYTS OF PROVIDENCE, AFTER PAYING CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE Eive MMundred Thousand Dollars Cash Assets. The recent Heavy Firos bare demonstrated very plainly that Insurance in the BEST and STRONGEST Companies is the CHEAPEST, as well as the SAFEST. We effect Insuranoe in the leading Companies in the world, at as low rates as are charged by smaller and less secure Companies. No charge ever made for policy fee or survey at this effloe. pher experimented.

The chicken peeped) as it went down hit throat, and the exolamation ye spoke too late," as he swallowed him, was apt and witty. A ehestnnt indeed Mr. Beecher's chestnut story la "a bad egg' we really thought better of him; bat since he has appeared tin the role of a sympathizer with Tweed, he has become demoralized, we fear, in various ways. In the New Orleans Picayune, daring the year 1811, appeared the following advertisement prefixed by the usual eat representing a runaway slave "85 Reward. Ran away from the subscribers, on the 23d November last, the negro boy, Oscar Dunn, an apprentice to the plastering trade.

He is of griffe eolor, between 20 and 21 years of age, and about five feet ten or eleven inches high. All persons are cautioned not to harbor said boy, under penalty of the law. Whjjosj Patterson, corner St. John and Common streets." The negro boy Oscar Dunn is now Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. A curious story ia told of Horaoe Greeley with reward to his finding a wife.

It is said that he wrote to a female contributor to his paper telling her not to write him any more poetry. The chirographic enigma was studied over by her and her friends, until at last it was pronounced an offer of marriage. She accepted, he did likewise and they were muried. Great encouragement to poor writers ought to be found in such a history. Ifew FOUND.

a GOLD SLEEVE BUTTON. The owner is re-PL quested to eall on D. T. 8UARPLRY, Nov 15 tdlt Central Depot. FOR SALE OR TO REXT.

InVO NEW HOUSES with Six Rooms each, with modern improvements, situated on Chestnut St. Apply to 8. 8. DOW, or II. A.

KAY. Burlintjn, Nov 15, 1871 dtt SPECIAL, ANXOIXCEMKXT. Look Here 5 55 lOO nceii Helves A LARGE STOCK OK 99 uoksi: itijAftitivrs, 3 ASD Skates Skates ESublser Moulding For Do rs 4 tutors 1 ho Stock of LVILDERM AND SADDLE RY HAKE HVf it Mi in tho State. AU tf which witl sold as low as the lowest, by UKOI UE. I.

HAciAH Colleza Street. Eurlin-iton, Nov. 16, 1871 dtf FRESH RECEIVED IN SHAD. NICE ORDER. D.

BARNES, At City Market. Nov is aat "CHICAGO." The Cow that kicked the Lamp ovor would hive lived and died in obscurity, and the onoe beautiful and prosperous City of Chicago, would (till be siamlins with all its former GLORY AND PROSPERITY If the Lamp had only contained DcvocNt Rrilliaul Kerosene Oil, WHICH W117L. XOT EXPLODE Is almost entirely free from the dissagroeable odor cf ordinary Kerosene Oil. Does not Smoke the Lama Chimney liks other Oil, and gives a powerful and pare, Soft Light. It is Che iper.

ItisSefe. Buy it and lot your mind cease to trouble you about Fire. Recommended hv the N. Y. City Fire Commis sioners for use, as the Barest Oil in the Market.

Put uu and sold only in original packages of one and Ave gallons, in Patent Cans with opening just large enougn to conveniently nu uie lamp. FOR 8ALE AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BY IRA E. SHATTITCK, Corner Church and College Streets, Burlington. VU, Nov 15 dif THANKSGIVING AT TBI Junction House. D.

U. WELLS, Proprietor. IfSSEX JUNCTION, THURSDAY nlng, Nov. 30 tb. musio by Jiuimoerg's rew liana or rive rioces.

Nov WANTED, SIX FIRST CLAS3 MACHINISTS, and threo first class Machinery Moulders. Apply to HANoMELU nTIMoON, Nov. IS dlw Rutland, Vt. A GOOD CHANCE FOR WINTER. 40 OR SO GOOD BRICK LAYERS WANTED.

Waceg from it 00 to nerdav. Cashererv Saturday; Board to $7.0,1 per week: Washing SI.UU peraoien. j. w. v.

iu oouin jcuerson nueet, Nov 11 dlw Ckioago, 111. CRANBERRIESI CRANBERRIES I A FEW BBLS. NICE CAPE CRANBERRIES, AT HARTS, Oct 13 tdtf 4 Bank Block. LOOK I LOOK 11 LOOK! 1 1 A FEW MORE OF THOSE NICE 8AGE CHEESE lot c. A Iso.

Boot, and Oct. Butter by the Tab. Warranted best quality. AT HART'S, 4 Bank Block. Oct 19 tdtf CAN GOODS CAN GOODS PEACHES, TOMATO E8, CORN, AND ALL CAN GOODS.

HEADQUARTERS AT HART'S, Oct 13-fdU 4 Bank Block. HARD 7AHE STORE RIPLEY HOLTON; have in stock a very full and complete assortment of Unilfer's a-d Saddleiy Hardware laintsM Oi and Varnishes. Also, all styles of Torrey Weather Strips, to loop out the Coll. A fine lino of DlSHTOU SON'd HAND BAWd, Weloh Orimth's CROSS CUT DRAU SAWS, Boynton's LI9HTNINU CROSS CUT SAW, ant the PERFORATED SAWS. MukVs ailt MMge ixe, AH1 Wile's JfMeat Cutlers.

The largest and best assortment of ch 1 i li 13 1 1 to be found in tliiJ County. A largo Stock of Lcutlie Hell ng and Hell I.ac ngs and Lace Leather. BLEACULD WINTER SPERM OIL. li LEACHED WINTER WHALE OIL, PURE NEATS FOOT OIL, AND MACHINERY OILS, Plenjie giro us a call RIPLEY A HOLTON. Nov 15 dAwtf prs (SoorJs.

GREAT INDUCEMENTS. Wishing to close out my Stock, and to convert my Goods into Cash, in the shortest time possible I shall on a-d after this date make prices very much lower than they have been, as the following (j notations will show i HOSIERY for 20, 25, 30 and 35 cents; former price 33, 40 snd r.O cents. Tlii above wore conside.ed cheap at the old We have a amaU lot of si Mi AND Children's that will be marked down 331 per oent. HOOP SKIRTS lor 35, 50, CO and 1 5 eents; former prioos 50, CO, cents snd $1.00. CORSETS for 0 and 75 cents; former prioe83ots and $1.00.

Balmoral and Veit Skirls. We have eighteen pieces Plaid Miirting riaiincls. For Mon'a wear, that will be sold 15 per cent lees than the old prioe. CENT'S Wrappers and Drawers, In Colored and White, for CO cents and upwards. NAPKINS, TABLE LINEN.

BROWN AND Bleached Towels, Crashes, Tiokings, Cottons, Canton Flannels, Plain and Twilled Red Flannels, Navy Blue and Gray Flannels. Handkerchiefs for Ladles, Children and Gents. And we think we have as good and cheap a list as can be found in the city. We miacht enumerate many other things but spaee will not permit. By canine we will convince au that we mean "business." The Ku-Klux in South Carolina- That the tet rebellion fu tremendous blander, well as a failure, on the part of the Southerners clearly teen, douhtlcsa ven tj themselves now.

The folly to which it ni doe TO, however, easy to be comprehended- It was a nossible and even plausible from oar point of view folly. Bat that after their mad expert mrat had ended; after their slates had teen freed, and armed with the right of suffrage, and made the wards of the government, any sane man or set of men could have suppcsed that the United States Government could per mit defeated rebels to nullify all the results cf the war, by means of a midnight dark-lantern i organisation like the Ku-Klux, is wen mgo iu credible Vet such Is the fact. The Govern ment has, of course, not acted on the proclama tion cf martial law. in portioES of the South, without fully understands what it was about And the facts which are constantly coming to light, amply justify the action taken on the part of th United States authorities. Not to have acted, in such a condition of affairs, would have been to own that there was no national govern ment capable of maintaining law and order, and protecting citizens from lawless violence in con aiderable portions of the national domain.

The letter which we copy from the New York Tribune, below, gives a picture of the condition YnrV fnnntv. South Carolina, cf VI painful and revolting interest. There have been those from Gen. Sherman down, who pooh poohed this whole Ku-Klux tusiness.but who do so no longer. It is plain that the government has acted none too soon.

And all good citizens must ilMirn that its vindication of the law may be true and lasting. Correspondence of the Tribune TUB KU-KLUX. OUTRAGES IS YORK COUNTY a. C. AMUSENE3T9 Or BOCTII CAB0U5A OESTLKUES.

Toxkyillk, S. Nov. 9. There is nothing in the annearance of this village of ork to in dicate that it was the centre of what was proba- blv the most vowerful organization fur the per petration of atrocious crimes that ever existed in any civilized country. It is a pretty village.

as Southern villages so. and has several band same houses half a dozen churches, a girl's seminary, a military school for bojs, and a large and exceptionally well printed and edited weekly newspaper. This semblance of refinement of manners, education and Christianity appears to be a thin veneering. I have sat for two days in the office of the District Attorney and heard the voluntary confessions cf forty or fifty men from all parts of this county, who came in of their own accord to tell of their connection with the Ku-Klux, and the share they took in the crimes of the Order; and I am sick of the horrible details of torture, maiming and murder, ad the cold-blooded system with which these villainies were planned and perpetrated. And yet with a knowledge of all these developments there are not ten men in Yorkville who can be induced to give an unqualified condemnation of Ku-Kluxing." The citizens disapprove of it, but in a mild way, with palliations, excuses, and prevarications.

I think it was Wendell Phillips who said. Scratch a Southern gentlemen and you'll find Ku-Klux." Ia this up-country of South Carolina Scratch a white man and you'll find a Ku-Klux would be a better paraphase. I doubt if there are two able-bodied white men in this county who have not been initiated into the order. It embraces boys of 10 and gray-beards of CO. I have seen a grandfather, father, and son come together to avow themselves members.

All classes were included. The landed proprietor and the poor crackers on his estate rode together in the midnight raids. Doctors, lawyers, merchants, teachers, and preachers put on the white shroud-like gowns, and the horrid red horned hoods and masks of the Klan, and went out by night to take negroes from their cabins and beat them with clubs and cow-hides until the lacerated flesh was cut to the tendons and bones, and for no other effense than daring to vote the Radical ticket, or keeping a shot-gun, or not taking off the hat to white men. These chivalrous gentlemen pulled negro women from their beds and made them dance naked for the amusement of the spectators, beating the victims with ramrods to quicken their steps, and forcing them to submit to other outrages too revolting for description. These brave and honorable South Carolinians thought it daring and manly to go fifty strong to attack one negro in his lonely cabin in the woods, and to hang him to a tree in sight of his wife and children, exulting, as they returned from this knightly exploit, in the fact that the damned scoundrel would never make any more radical speeches." These outrages went on for months.and not a single person was ever punished that I can learn of, nor any attempt made to bring the criminals to justice.

Of course, no suppression of crime was possible when public sentiment applauded the criminal, ana every ooay out tne victims Deiong. ed to a secret league, organized, armed, and disguised, for the express purpose of committing crime. A few sensible men kept out of the Order, and at heart condemned its operations, bat the entire community was terrorize! by the Klan, and Iaree numbers cf men joined it be cause they believed their lives were in danger if they did not. The information obtained from the 300 confessions of members of the Ku-Klux Klan thus far made in the place to the United States authorities shows that the order has existed here since Reconstruction went into operation in South Carolina. The systematic whipping of negroes who had voted the Republican ticket began immediately after the State election in October, 1870.

The Democrats had nominated a Republican for Gov- ernor, and adopted substantially the Republican nlatform. and their failure to break the solidity of the negro vote by this device greatly exas perated them. Ihe whippings went on steadily and systematically from the night of the election until after the first of January, without retaliation, by which time the colored men had become terrified that hundreds did not dare to sleep at home, and laid out in the woods, frequently changing their hiding places. Then the negroes, after nearly three months of this persecution, began to retaliate in the only way they dared, and the burning of barns, corn-cribs, cotton-pretset, and gin-houses began. Cut even then the Blacks showed that they had more humanity than the Whites, for they did not burn houses, and not a white man, woman or- child was injured.

The Whites always try to make it appear that these fires preceded and caused the whip-pings, bat such was not the case. The fires were the means the harrasEed and tortured Blacks took to revenge their wrongs. Probably about 20 buildings were burned in the county; several were fired in a single night, as if by preconcert-ei arrangement. This incendiarism naturally increased the ferocity of the Ku-Klux. There had been but one or two murders previously, bat in the first ten days in March there were nine.

Ia almost every case of murder the victim was a black man or mulatto of more than ordinary intelligence who had been a leader among his people.and had been active as a Republican politician. In nearly all the eases of whipping the viotims were made to swear'never to vote a Radical ticket again. The objects which the Ku-Ktux had in view by their brutalities are clearly shown, not only by the affidavits of their victims, but by their owa confessions. They intended to break np tie radical to force all white Republican to change their politics or leave the OMjMP JETJmJM OV HARTFORD. Never Surrenders.

AFTltU PAYING CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE OVER rour Million Mtollars Cash Assets. NOW IS THH TIMK TO INSITRK IN THE SAFE3T, SOUNDEST AND STRONGEST IAMKK1CAN COMPANY. OWslP MMtMlt TMFOMIMP) OF HARTFORD, Organised in 1810, AFTER PAYING. CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE OVER Eighteen Minndred Thous and MPollars Cash Mssels. MM Mi lllffi.ril,j OF HARTFOR1M AFTER PAY1NU CHICAGO LOSSES.

WILL HAVE OVER Twelve MMimdred Thousand Oollars Cash Assets. TMMMi OF NEW YORK, The Strongest Company in New York, 'I AFTER PAYING ALL CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE OVER Two Million Seven Miun- tired Thousand Mfollars Cash JMssets. TMME fOF AFTER PAYING CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE- wVtMtf Hundred Thousand Dollars Cash Assets. TMME AM MiMAJYMA, OF CLEVELAND, AFTER PAYING CHICAGO LOSSES, WILL HAVE Three Mlundred Thousand Dollars Cash Assets. um ssvuna JJ AIL I'll S.

At R. S. WIRES. dAwlm W. E.

WELLE R. Nov 14 fdtf uotao-dtf 4 Bank Block..