Camden Journal from Camden, South Carolina • 2

I THE JOURNAL. CAMDEN, OCTOBER 27, 1S.70. Cbauting the Votes. The election commissioners for this 'District met at the Court House on Tuesday last, and commenced the count of the rotes cast on the previous Wednesday. The Camden boxes are the only oaes of which the counting was completed op to last evening.

The following is'the result: (Radieul Ticket 181G Reform 9-16 Radical majority, 8G9 There were 22 more votes than Voters. mornri tr in the District I .1 UW JLVUU1VU1 will considerably exceed our estimate of 'last Week. The Election is Over, As will be seen by reference to the 'notice of the Tax Collector, in another "polnmn. Defaulting Tar-payers arc invited to "call at the 'Captain's office ad settle immediately." The Situation. 'Since the election has been number-1 ed among the things that were, and we'can look upon it with a full knowledge dffthe facts, we are tempted to break away from the restraints of dooency, and dedounce in unmeasured terms, those who under the form of law, Lave trampled upon our dearest "rights, and denied us, the poor horn '(accorded so readily to the most igoorant, degraded, and insignificant creature, provided he has arrived at the ageef manhood, or perjures himself by Vwedring that has) of voting peaceably and'qnietly.

Our colored friends who 'desired to vote for Reform, were in many, nay in most places, intimidated -and threatened by Scott's sattellites. And who are his satellites '( Principally bis appointees, or members of that "horrible nest of traitors to good govcrn. tt mem, caweu luc umuu of them so ignorant that they can neither read nor write; some so blackened toy numerous -crimes, that their oaths WKftflS "not'be received in a Court of Justice: others so possessed by the devil of filthy lucre, that one of them gave utterance to the following memorable sentiment as he deposited his vote for his masters Scott, While nScott is fat, keep him Jai Disgraceful riots, brought about by the adherents 'of the Scott dynasty, have occurred iu numerous localities, aod altogether, iu 'every County, so far as we have heard, the elections cau be con tested successfully, and in inmy of them, no doubt, will be. Under these circumstances, how can it be expected, that we of the Reform who claim to represent a large 'proportion of the intilligence and honesty of the State, should ireely and fully forgive the Scott adherents and puppets, the fraud and rascality that has been practiced upon us, and kiss the band that smote us Plow can it be expected, that we will lay aside the armour of honesty wherewith we were and are clad, and warmly support the administration of the miserable poltroon and convicted liar, who holds the reins of Government in South Carolina No man, we venturo to say, who has any honest blood in his veins will fur a moment cousent to forego his dctcruiiucd opposition to a Government which tabes pride acknowledging Scctt, the convicted iiar, Bowen, the murderer, and Whittcraore the disgraced chusetts cadetiship pedlar, as it leaders. All that we have to do, is to keep a bold front, and two years hence we will forever sweep this unholy crew from power.

r- Our We have reflected upon what was our duty under tho present circumstances. We have long since made up our minds that we would be defeated iu this election, and are therefore, not at all surprised or angry at the result. Wo have though, unflinchingly aud earnestly, advocated the claims of the Party of our adoption, and wo do not now, nor will tre ever regret that we have done so. Our adhesion to the Reform Party was the result of honest and conscientious convictions. Our opposition to the Radical Party and its measures, as well as its exponent, the Republican, was equally consecnriocs, honest and earnest.

Wc desire peace gg well as any other man or set of men, bat we feel convinced, that the white man of South Carolina will be denied that peaee which brings prosperity, as long as the doctriuesupheld and preached by the adherents of the Radical Party are advocated by its leading men and organ. It is like tbe happy era of the millenium to the manner in which these enemies of peace, cry out to us to forcet that we have been engaged in a political campaign, and go on with them to shoulder iu tho march of progress. The is: shall we forget tho past? We say, by all means, no. Our hearts and feelings are interested in that past; particularly, the -Tr conflict from which wo have just emerged, and we could not forget it if wo would. AVc, therefore, regard our duty in this crisis, to be plain.

is to remember what we have done; to improve what we did remove all traces of what was badly done, and the next time we move, we will sweep evcry'thing before us. A Nice Body of Commissioners. Kershaw County can boast of Commissioners of Elections, who proceed to canvass the votes five days before the law allows them. They begun with needle and thread on last Friday morning, to hang up the Reform All around the festive board, in the Probate office, sat Expectant radical candidates for official honors, with countenances wreathed With "cnmplaceiit smiles whilst'the foamed commissioners counted out and threaded the ballots, the various managers and others keeping "tally." One of the Reformers happened in about the time they had stiung up fifty or more, aud was so taken by surprise, that he did not know what to say, and nnany, raxing puy upou wicu iguuiuuvo be read for their benefit the election law. It fell like a bombshell, in the "happy family." Two of thc'Commissioncrs vowed they had never seen the law, and he other said he had read it carefully.

They then proceeded to utk with great trepidation, what we were going to do, but we declined giving an answer. They next desired some disinterested party to count the votes and see ii they tallied. That proposition was also declined. At seeing that their nerves were paralyzed, another Reformer present, suggested that they had belter put ballots, neecllc and th'read, together, back into the box and replace the cover which was finally done done. This is the character of Scott's appointees.

Disbanding the Militfa. The Columbia 1'hoenix, of Tuesday last, says: The Governor was waited upon by several of our citizens yesterday, and the conditions of affairs seriously discussed. He expressed bis earnest desire to preserve the peace, and promised to do all in his poWer to accomplish that end. The colored guard in charge of the State nrms has been removed, and the care of them turned over to the United States soldiers. Drilling and parading colored companies, at a late hour of the night, I has also been prohibited.

We are informed that the Captains of the different militia companies in the 1 District were served with au order from the GcVjrnor, yesterday, requiting them to return the arms issued to them. This is a more in the right direction, and will tend materia-My to allay the excitement. It is presumed the order has been extended throughout the State. A Monument to General L.ec? The Richmond papers contain an invitation, signed by Mrs. Macfarland, Mrs.

Lyons, Mrs. Randolph, (widow of the late General Randolph, Confederate Secretary of War,) and other patriotic and distinguished ladies of that 'city-, inviting co-operation in the work of rearing a monument to General statute is to be of bronze, of the best workmanship; and to be erected in the soldiers' portion of Hollywood Cemetery. The invitation coDciudes as follows A most eligible site, overlooking this whole section, and in the centre of the part appropriated to the remains of the dead from the battle fields of Gettysburg, has been offered by the association to his family for his final resting place, under our loving and continual care, and that of Virginia and the South. If the body should lie elsewhere, it is still eminently fitting to erect a monument to his memory in the midst of the heroes who fell fighting under his leadership. For the Camden Journal.

A recent, intelligent traveller, standing on an eminence in the seven-hilled city, impressed with the beauty of the prospect and the misery, vice and pau -11 1 1 .1 3-J pcrisui un arouuu, ms miuu oxpanueu by the crowding memories of grand events, heroes and epochs which every object suggested, and oppressed by tho death-like pall of the present, exclaimed: "Oh, this beautiful Italy! What a country it would he, if it could drive out the Foreigner!" When one, standing amid the ruins of our grand old Temple, looks upon our great past, and then upon our miserable present and doubtful future, viewing at the sarna time a land teemiug with every capacity to bless a happy and prosperous people, could he not, with propriety, apply the remark to South Carolina? The term foreijner" in the original reiucrk, as in this application, is intended not to refer to but to the men and who rule a State and people in the interest of foreign masters aul present thieves and plunderers, without the slightest 1 I regard tirthe good of the country 6r its i people. These thoughts have been painfully suggested by the recent election, and "i though, to the credit of Kershaw Coun- ty, tlrat election passed off quietly and peaceably, We are in no degree indebted for this to the State government or its tools, but to the firmness, caution, nerve and forbearance of the tfhite t'zens, and the decency, good sense a id propriety of our colored citizens. As Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Reform party for Kershaw county, and as a citizen, I deem it my duty to put on record the Salient points in the histo-y of this election in Kershaw county. I deem it important to do so now, for I ato suro that the time will come when these things could not if there be any mistake, let it be corrected. The election law provided by our rulers is a part of their system of fraud and corruption and faithfully has its work been done.

Governor Scott appointed as Commissioners of- election for Kershaw county, three of his own partizans? James F. Sutherland, Judge of Probate, County Commissioner, Trial Justice, one'of the County Assessors, and also connected with'the County School Board, and a candidate for two offices at the very ulectioh which he was to appoint managers for, and to Shiver, Clerk cf the Court, and Mr. Amnion Reynolds, colored. This did not look much as If a fair election were contemplated, and I approached the chairman first on the subject of an election precinct at "Cureton's Mill," an important point, tvhere elections have been held for a period "to the contrary of which the memory of man runneth not." Mr. Sutherland promised that a poll should be opened "unless he were overruled." I then told him that to close that precinct and shut off from convenient exercise of suffrage one third of tho people of the county, would be mo6t iniquitous and unjust, and if it were dono I should denounce it in the newspapers.

I think any one who will read an article over the signature of Reformer" in the Journal of'tho 13th instant, will elude that I redeemed that pledge. The polls, at length, were announced, and the managers published in the newspaper of the Colitfty, but printed and distributed, so far as I know or havo been able to learn, among themselves. Such a list of managers i never before were seen, heard of or ccived. First, they appointed C. Slrivcr for lied Hill, 18 miles from his residence, and Ammon Reynolds for Camden.

Mr. Sutherland beTng'not only possessed of four or five offices, but a candidate for two at this election, was Dot appointed, whether because ho didn't have time, 1 1 "because ne was reserved ior general management, or that he suppose his duties as Trial Justice might be cailed into requisition, or whether his nativo modesty overcame him, I know not. At Buffalo, there were appointed C-. M. Thompson and Jasper Davis, Reformers, and tVilkea Sftfeto, Radical, resident within the bounds of another precinct) and 20 miles off.

At Lyzenby's and Schrock's Mill, both members of the same name and family, all radicals wero appointed. At Plat Rock, J. T. Truesdell, Geo. Dureo, colored radical, aud Mr.

John A. Boswell, resident in CauideS, 18 miles off. At-Jted Hill, two colored Radicals and Mr. C. Shiver, from Camden.

At Camden, the appointments were made entirely in the interest of the Ring, being of its most zealous parti, zans with a single ezccptiotMind he an employee of the officials. The commissioners of election, after this arrangement was publicly denounced in the newspapers and ou the streets agreed to the appointment of committees at all the precincts to guard the boxes, keep lists, The boxes were all sealed up by a committee of Reformers and committees attended the polls. I had sent letters, circulars, to all the committees except Buffalo? for this committee I had anxiously looked and on Tuesday preceding the election, I was just about to send a messenger out with instructions, letters, when Col. Burrell Jones, Mr. William Cato and Minor Clybilrn came in from that precinct.

Having learned, the day betore, from when I deemed good authority, that there would be no box opened at Buffalo, I thought it better that our friends should take the box out to the polls, and sent down to Mr. Sutherland for it, and his answer was "it had been sent out." I was then satisfied that it was intended to miscarry, as it was well known there was not a single radical vote at Buffalo, I instructed Col. Jones aud Mr. Clyburn to be at Buffalo preciuct at O'clock the day of election, and if the managers were not there to hunt them up, as I doubted that they had been I assured ticra that the box was no part of the law of the that they must get the managers together, let them make a box and conduct the election according to law. As was anticipated the next morning the box was' not people gathered and found no preparation for ah eloction, many of them at once went down to Lyzinby's and cast their votes there, but some of them learning that Mr.

Wilks Stecn, an imported radical manager, living twenty miles off, had tho box all to himself, at Railey's 'Mill, six miles from the voting place, and no notice having been given either to the public or other the'box was there, sent down there and brought up th'e'hfdtlen box and manager and the election was'thence 'forward regularly conducted. Tho result being 39 Reform Radical, Mr. 'Wilks Steen vdtirtg'thdt 'he said, if thet-c tfrere no radical vote'ih the box the'commissioners woufd say tliat'there had been fraud. The conduct of the election generally was worthy of the polls where the ma'jorty and controlling influence, intimidation was freely were freely voted and beardless boys were allowed to vote even when the attention of the managers was called to the patent fact. The commissioners, managers, candidates of the Radical party and a few of the eleit had a littlo family meeting on Friday, in the office of Mr.

Sutherland, -T. C. J. S. E.

and G. A. S. upon which I intruded. 1 was treated with a courtesy and politeness, and a patronizing condescension duly appreciated, foUnd them counting the ballots, preparatory to declaring the election, but upon my suggestion that Friday scarcely, according to law "the Tuesday next thereafter," they, after a very considerable flutter and' flurry, which I enjoyed, but did nothing to extricate them from, put the ballots back in the box and scaled it'up again to await the Tuesday fixed by law.

It is wonderful that the commissioners "learned in the law" of the party "who have all the the candidates, the next friends, who certainly understand the law, wherein it gave the power necessary to arrange the whole proceedings just as the law intended, i. c. fraud in the interest of "the party," had never read their own election law, or if they did read it, could'nt tell the diffcreoco between "Friday and Tucs day-" As to the counting, at least thus wcretlhcy "knocked into the die of next week." M. Shannon', Chairman. AFFAIRS IN LAURENS.

Freaks of Joe stirs up Strife and Beats a and Men Killed. Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. Columbia, October 22,1870. Two companies of United States Troops went up to Laurens and New berry to-day. The lust intelligence from the action is that seven men were killed.

Two of the consiab alary and four negroes were killed in the streets of Laurens. The difficulty, has been brewing for some time, fannaA tlrh fanatfAal breath of Joe Crews. It came very near bursting' forth on the day of election. Crews called on his militia to get their arras, they got but by the time they had done so, there. were as many Winchesters in the hands of the At this juncture, when collision seemed inevitable, Col Smith, alone, came into the Public ordeied the negroes to put away their arms, to voto and go homo.

They obeyed him, when the Whites did likewise at the request of tho Sheri-ff. Col. Smith's command left next day, when the constabulary started to arrest a mun named Johnson, a Tennesseean, cursed and abused him, and thus the smoldering embers were fanned into a blaze. Ttie gallant Crews, after bringing on the difficulty on tho day of election, cowardly sought the protection of the United States troops. Having set the miselnef afloat, he intended to take precious care of his cowardly carca33.

lie started the row to make innocent and ignorant men suffer. They went for him, however, scoured tho whole country; so far he is scill There arc various reports coneerniog him; some say he and and his son were lad in the woods, anotner mat ne was pursued to the Saluda upou and wounded whilst swimming the river. We don't believe that either of the reports is true. "A man boru to bo hung need nut fear bullet or water." There has been immense excitement in the Ring here. Rumors of assassinations were rife.

Guards were placed out, the colored militia sentineled their armory. Apropos, two White men ran off the sentinels and captured the militia armory oi 50 rifles at Clinton. Yesterday, and the day before, the telegraphic wires have been kept in incessant vibration to carry the news to Washington and to General Terry, in so as to get more troops. The big rob. ain't dead yet; he is kicking again, and there must be more to finish him.

If Governor Scott will arm the negroes and will not arm the whites; if he will uphold such Bcoundrels as Crews in their incendiary and inflaming speeches to the negroes; if he will appoint such men to position and place, he will hear of lynch law so far as those men are concerned, for the law of the land won't reach them, and they will be reuched; and the sooner Governor Scott learns this, and learns, too, that South Carolinians are not to bo treated as barbarians and tyranizedovcr by such outlaws as Joe Crews and his bunds of ruffiians, the better -it will be for the prosperity and adva'nfcetneHit of the State. The house of Mr. Edmund Dsfvis was entirely consumed Just' night by fire, at about two o'clock. The fire was first seen issuing from the back piazza, and was, undoubtedly, the work of incendiaries. Nothing was saved.

He was insured $4,000. The militia are still guarding their 'armory here. It is ireediess to say that our citizens have no design up them. We understand there "will be Over two hundred cases of illegal voting sent up from this county. 'Persons from Newberry, 'Kershaw and North Carolina, voted in our county.

There are five hundred cases from Edgefield, and any quantity occurred at Laurens Eugene. Vater. 1 The 'heVs received here. Friday evening (says 'the'Coluttibia of 'it Laurens Court 'Hohse, procTtfctfd deep feeling'in'tht community. The report 'that Gov.

Scott designed sending up the two negro companies have produced much excitement which was increased by the unusual display of colored uniforms and guns on i the streets. About 9 o'clock P. M.f a gentleman from Governor Scott's office brought the assurance that no colore'! companies would be seDt from Columbia. This led to public We-learn that Messrs. Hoge and Hub bard went up to Newberry Friday night and remained an hour or We have heard of several inflauimato ry remarks which should be brought to One cage we intend to bring forward.

A gentleman informed us that he heard Mr. J. B. Dennis, otherwise known as "Jencral," say to a crowd of colored men, in reference to the affair at Laurens, that they ought to take their Winchester rifles, and go and kill these people off, Mr. Dennis, vre believe, has some official conocction with the Adjutant General's office here.

As he is so belligerent, wc hope General Scott will send him, at least, lo the front. The We learn that the excitement has subsided at Lauren's, -and that all is quret. it is ported that five white and three colore! wefe killed io the difficulty that occurred and that the firing, 'Which resulted in the death of those mon, commenced between a citi zen and a member of the State constat)-' ulary. "Our iuformant statos fhat-the' Uniced States troopfc 'sent to Laurens will be received with satisfaction, as the community desire law aid order The whole difficulty, it is claimed, resulted from the arming of colored This led the whites, in self-defdnce, to artn themselves. Hence, the firing and the result.

Present and Future of Provisions. The circular of a St. Louis packing house, beariugdatc October loth, gives considerable valuable information re-, specting the provision trade, from which we extract us follows We are about entering upon the plane of lower hog meats, and the certainty of this result cannot be much longer delayed. All comrftoelfties and all of the country are tending to lower val ucs. The great wheat cfroip of the last year leveled that product to the lowest prices.

The large cotton cr of the last year, and the much larger one of tho present season, is reducing the rates on that great commodity prodigiously. The imtfteOKe crop of Ooru now to be harvested will cheupen that groin to a lower point than has been reached years past. The largo increase of bogs the present year, whteh is nolr generally uuiiiiiku, win luemablj lead to cheap hog meats the coming seasoD, and must have a powerful influence upon the price of live hogs this fall and winter for The iofluorrce of the failing price of 'the gold premium will also enter into the scale. As prices were inflated by the rise of the premium of gold, they will bo reduced, as the premium recedes. For this we must prepare, and be prepared fur the event.

We 1 all the foregoing propositions to bo selfevident facts. Now, as to the increase of hogs, let us examine the proofs. The official returns by the auditors of the States of Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, give the increase of pigs, six months old on the first of April, May and June of thiryear, over last year at the same date in those States, at 700,000 The States of Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Kansas, Colorado and Tennessee with a like per ccntagc of gain, we Way reasonably conclude, will wake an increase of another 700,000, and probably tlie number will far exceed This Would give an increase of head of hogs over last year when the packing of the West was, say 2,000,550 The addition would give a crop this season of 4,500,000 hogs for packing in the West. We submit that this is no random calculation, and that it is in perfect consonance with the law of cause and effect. The high prices of hogs the past two years have naturally led to ft very largely increased production.

This wo have been expecting to see, and arc prepared for such a result. Hut even all this docs not Complete the history. We have already (iu our last cireulaf) alluded to the accredited fact, that a good deal of attention is being paid through the whole South to the raising of hogs for family use. All these should be taken into the account of our packing, and the future of tlie business, as every hog so raised will displace the product of another in the West, cured for Southern consumption; and they, in the aggregate, will considerably enlarge the amount of the pro- duct the coming year. We must not either forget the great States of New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, which will also have vastly increased the growing of hogs; and they will ap- i pear in the markets of New York city, Philadelphia, Fittsburgand and add to the number to compete with Western hogs.

Another fact of much significance is, that in Great Brita in there is a large gain in hogs and catt le over last gear's production. In our ircular of December 4th, last season, published the fact that returns in Ireland showed o'u increase of pigs over the season 1863 of 25 per and now the efficial returns of the Registrar General of Ireland for this season sbo further increase over the gain of 1 ast jear of nearly 4O0X)60 hogs in Ireland alone. From this It is vividly apparent that any exportation of msats this year will necessarily be at very low prices, for 'we must not ignore iTie fact that the ejtportaijiops cue New York the present year hayo meen about 20,000,000 pouadajess thanTaif jear, for the same time from January 1st to thepre'8'ttrt date. The export! to day 'presents tfo. very encouraging hie.

fonmk iftid-France is theooiy iiiditfagelement now, abd the continuance dp'that? is of course cobsidefatious de have the. probable'fact also to entertain that, as the pigs have increased "so Tor the Till and winter packing, a 'fflc'e gain been continued all the way May up; and if so, wo mSy expect at equally increased per ccntage ifc'JfHt supply of. summer hogs for the "ic'o curcra" ftjr tho Jjjp-vieW of alTthese facts arid vast aceuixulntiob of evidence, we huhl the proucsitioii whioh we started but viz. that We- a pdribd of hog nieatrf, and we submit that animal for the present slaughter niust be boaght at very low prices to 'meet the coming results, otherwise another year of beavjr losses Will inevitably ensue, JosErn Emerson Vicksburg papers announce tbc death of this gentleman on tlie-LSth September, in the eighty-seventh year of hfe age He was the older, brother of Jefferson Davis, on whom ho, indeed, lavished all the care of a fathor. Born in South Carolina he early moved to Mississippi and settled iu now Warren County.

Here he-cultivated the magnificent Hurricane plantation, on which he amassed a large the greater part of whioh the Wir. In 1817 he was.elected! a delega'e from Jefferson County to tbb convention authorised to fraoua for tho then This was the onlyoaffiee he ever held Like a givat many other Southern he preferred to toicld'h'is influence with, the was theedvabtage of others rather than fbr his persotril Mr. Davis wafs a Dehindrat'tif the Jefferson school, "firm -belieVet In'State rights, and an advocatee and 'defender of secession. A man of vigorois frame and strong intellect, he bore his years bravely, retaiuing strength and -all his -faculties to the last. Personally, he was much esteemed and respected.

Very lust radical Congress appropriated to the differefift Pacific Ilailroads alone over 124,000,000 of acres of the pnblic domain; a territory about four times as large as tho entire State of North Camera. A great portion of this consists of hrttds valuable for their mineral, timber, hnd products, and might be hftde uriddr raaoagemeo't, a SdOrce Of nO little revenue to the GoVernafent. Irk uh tttr fnP theSO donations Nothing. Rings composed of Senators, membero of and spccelfctofs have by the in be jo ud com potation, wfiile the people, the tax pajerh, the "reai ohrucrs of these broad atfreS tJerivfl 'hit one cent of benefit tfceVefrora. And yet these are the feHbws that talk of reSuhlican econotny and Dcmocratio proigali'ty; fi.

few years more such rule would deprive the people of every inch of territory tbey now call their own and see it swallowed up by gormandizing whose money and influence find willing tools in the law makers wo now have at Washintun. Radical reduced to fg ires, is a beautiful things. The Boston Traveller, welcoming a little rain which fell there the other day, remarks: It is hard to make a citizen of Boston appreciate the terrible dryness which has been experienced for many weeks by large sections of New England. It requires sight to realize fully that the pastures, and even the fields to a great extent, have been as brown as in December; and that cattle, for weeks, havo been fed at barns, as iu mid winter; that brooks, and streams, and ponds, and springs have beeu lorn; exhausted, except iu rare eases; and that it has been as uecessary for our farmers to ecouomize iu this use of water as for a shin's oomnany when on allowance. And yet this has actually been the condition of large sections of New England for Weeks past.

The state of the country was not only distressing, but really alarming; for in case of fire the inhabitants were utterly defenceless. Radical State debt has been increased eighteen millions in the last five years, I hardly a dollar of which has 'inured to I the benefit of her poople; all gone to satisfy the greed of rapacious adventurers. A State, whose credit before the wai was unimpcached in the markets of world, is at so low an ebb, that the: most lavish manufacture of bouds-barely suffices to meet the necessities oft the reckless spendthrifts who have control of her finances. And ycL wc read: a few days ago, what wonders these Radical Governors were doing in reducing State debts. What is true of; Louisiana is true of North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Florida and other States.

Many of these Radical! Governors arc increasing the public debt without regard to the present or future capacities of the States to meet their WiL Star..