Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-23
Southern News.
From Charlie .ston.

NEW YORK, October 22.--The Herald ha:
| Charleston dates to the 18th.
The day of the election in South Carolina
! for Governor and members of the Legisla.
| ture General Bennett issu ed an order pr,9hib-
| iting any officer from interfering with 1t in
any manner, and prohih iting the presence
of soldiers at any Of the polling places.
The working men of Charleston held a
meeting on the 10Th inst, at which they
adopted an address to their fellow citizens,
and nominated Wade Hampton for Cover
nor. In their address they express their be-
liefthat the destruction Of slavery will prove
great benefit 70 all the people of the State
especially to the working men, as it will
free him from the monopolisatiOn of capi-
talists and dignity labor.
The hostile attitude towards each other,
in some parts of South Carolina, of the
whites and blacks, is represented as assum-
ing phase threatening serious results, un-
less the difficulties are speedily adjusted
Especially is this the case along the coast,
upon the sea islands, where the negroes have
been established on abandoned plantations,
subject TO the control of the officers of the
Freedmen's Bureau. The planters, now that
the rebellion has been crushed, are anxious
TO regain possession of these lands and allege
that the freedmen are allowing them go to
ruin, do not raise enough for their own main
tenance, are totally negleeting preparations
for the next years crop and refnse to give
up possession to the whites.
South CarOlinians are considerably in
censed against the Freedmen's Bureau Off
cials, whom they charge with encouraging ne
groes in assuID pti0ns. 1t is principally with
the object of endeavorlng to adjust these
difficulties, as we have heretofore announc-
ed that General Howard, Commissioner of
the Freedmen's Bureau, is now on a visit to
South Carolina. The General arrived in
Charleston on Tuesday last, by the overland
route from Raleigh. North Carolina, and left
the next day for Columbia to have an in
terview with Governor Perry. 1t is expected
that on his return to Charleston he will de-
liver an address to the citizens.
A disastrous fire attended with the loss of
life occurred in Charleston on last Wednes-
day. 1t was in the business portion of the
city, and destroyed several mercantile and
manufacturing establishments, and the
Courier newspaper office. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000. Thirty or forty persons
were buried in the ruins; fifteen or
twenty of whom it is thought were instant
ly killed, and the remainder were extracted
in fearfully injured and suffering condi-
tiOn.
From Raleigh.
The Herald's Raleigh correspondent says
that the ordinance repudiating the rebel
debt passed the North Carolina State Con-
vention by vote of eighty -four to twelve.
An ordinance for the purpose of raising
State militia force to suppress outlaws was
alse passed.
The Convention adjourned on Thursday
last 10 meet on the 18th of next May.
Election matters are beginning to be agi-
tsted.
Governor Holden and Jonathan Worth,
4 he not hayh -
day as candidates for Governor. Worth will
be supported by all the secession element,
but he is a strong Union man and in the
Legislature in 1860 voted against calling the
convention to take the State out of the
Union.
Lewis Haynes. the private Secretary of
Governor Holden, has resigned and runs for
Congress in the Randolph District on the
Worth ticket.
The fact that all secessiOnists oppose Hol-
den will probably unite the true Union vote
on him and elect him.
From New Orleans.
New Orleans dates of the 18th say that
circular from the Freedmen's Bureau states
that the abandoned plantations which have
received implements and animals, will not
be given to the freedmen by the Govern
ment as they have expected, and that lands
will be leased only to those who can show
that they have capital necessary to buy
such tools and animals to carry on the farms
in a proper manner, and advises all who
cannot do so to make contracts for labor
with planters and others needing their ser
vices.
The New Orleans Times, Union, strongly
urges the abolishment of all Freedmen's
BureauX.
Democratic Meeting.
A Democratic meeting in New Orleans
passed resolutions asking the same clemency
to be shown JEFF. Davis as other leaders of
the late rebellion, and denouncing Thad-
deus Stephens and Charles Sumner as hav-
ing raised a vindictive, unGhristian, and
unamerican elamor for Davis blood.
Transferred.
FoRTREss MONROE, October 2I.-Messrs.
Clay and Mitchell, at sundown yesterday,
were transferred to their quarters in Carroll
Hall.