The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-11-11 00:00:00

POLITICS IN '.AMERICA ,

The Correspondent of The Times, in noticing the
contest for the Presidential Election, writes In
South Carolina the political division is almost one of
race. The negroes are nearly all Republicans, and the
white are nearly all Democrats. . . . There is an un-
doubted feeling on the part of the whites in South
Carolina against the negroes, on account of their
politics. The whites will not employ Republican
negroes when they can get other labour. In a recent
issue of the leading South Carolina newspaper, the
Charleston News and Courier, I find these advertise-
ments :

To onr Merelianta, Wharfowners, and Tradesmen gene-
rally —The Working Men's Democratic Association are now
prepared to furnish from 100 to 200 able-bodled men for any
kind of work. Apply at their hall, Queen-street, near Meet-
Lug, 1.4 V lit V V., A.. IL, .1111 C• 11 4./ fo- AA,"

'A Card,—Until farther notice I will receive applications
from those seeking employment on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays, and orders from employers for stralght•out
Democratic working men on Tuesdays, Thursdays, anti Satur-
days. lam prepared to furnish Demccrats with Democratic
labour, at reasonable wages, to any extent at a moment's
notice. To employ Republicans and starve Democrats no
longer pays. It is a crime, and will be held to strict ac-
countability.—R, S THAIRN, 75, Broad-street,'
"The advantage there is in proclaiming one's Demo-
cratic politics in connexion with one's business is shown
in various other advertisements, of which L quote three,
continues the correspondent :
' Butchers to Buy From—Where do you buy -your meat ?
To the Democratic public :—The undersigned butchers in the
Charleston markets, who are earnest supporters of the cause
of Hampton and good government, respectfully solicit the
custom of their Democratic fellow-citizens,'

"The names of a number of butchers are appended.
The Democratic candidate for Governor is General
Wade Hampton.

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'Housekeepers can get their 'Meats from 'Democratic
Head-quarters', stalls Nas 49, 50, 67, and 68, Lower Market.
Also Nos. 9 and 10, Upper Market, from 4c. to 124 c. per
pound. It is not Democratic money alone we want, but
Wade Hampton and Reform'

T. It. Tully, Caterer, of King•street and the Lower Market,
desires to remind the general public of what his old customers
all know, that he has been for years a stanch Democrat, and
is now a supporter of Hampton and good government.'"

THE QUEEN AND THE ARCTIC
EXPEDITION. • '
Her Majesty the Queen has commanded the First
Lord of the Admiralty to express to Captain Nares
and to the officers and men under his command her
Majeety's hearty congratulations on their safe return.
The. Queen highly appreciates the valuable services
rendered by them in the late Arctic Expedition, and
her Majesty fully sympathises in the hardships and
sufferings they have endured, and laments the loss of
life which has occurred.
The Queen further directs that her thanks should be
coirveyed to the gallant men for what they have acsom-
pliehed.

The following promotions for services rendered in
connection with the recent Arctic Expedition have
been made :—Commarder A. H. Markham to be
Captain; Lieutenants Pelham Aldrich, L. A. Beau-
mont, and A. A. C. Parr to be Commanders; Sub.
Lieutenant C. J. M. Conybeare to be Lieutenant;
Staff- Surgeon B. Ninni ,s M.D., to be Fleet-Surgeon;
Surgeons E. L. Moss, M.D., and R. W. Coppinger,
M.D., to be Staff Surgeons • Engineers D. Cartmei
and James Wootton, to be Chief Engineers; Assistant.
Paymaster Thomas Mitchell to be Paymaster.

The Army and Navy Gazette remarks :—" The
thoughtful consideration which has prompted the
Admiralty to grant immediate leave of absence to
the crews of the Alert and Discovery must commend
itself to all. Their Lordships have been pleased
to set aside the general routine of the service on
this occasion, and the dismantling and paying
off of the Arctic ships will be postponed until the
officers and men who brought them safely home
may themselves visit their friends. It may not be
widely known, perhaps, that Captain Nares had with
him in his Arctic cruise one officer to represent the
sister service, the Army, in Captain H. W. Feilden,
Paymaster of the 2nd battalion of 4th Regiment. When
the Admiralty was fitting out the Arctic Expedition
Captain Fielden then doing duty with the Royal Artil-
lery at Gibraltar, volunteered to sclompany it in the
capacity of naturalist, and his services were accepted,
he being ordered by the War Office to be returned
during his absence as holding special employment."