The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-23
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New YORK, Oct. %.
The Herald has Charleston dates to the
18th.
The day Of the election in South Carolina,
for governor and members of the legislature,
Gen. Bennett issued an order prohibiting any
military officers in any manner interfering
with it, and forbidding the presence of SOL
diers in the vicinity Of the polling places.
The working men of Charleston held
meeting on the 18th inst, at which they
adopted an address, to their fellow citizens and
nominated Wade Hampton for governor. In
ths dssfas6oz s3 sls7e1, VIII VIII u uK.s..Iy. y.
prove q great benefit to the people of the
State, and especially to the working men, as
| it will tend to free him from the monopiloza-
ton of capital and dignity labor. 4t
The hostile attitude toward each other, Id
some parts of South Carolina, of the whites
and blacks, is represented assuming . phase,
| Threatening serious results, unless the diff
culties be speedily adjusted. Especially
along. portions of the coast upon the sea
islands where the negroes have been estah-
lished on the abandoned plantations, subject
10 the control of the officers of the Fredmen's s
Bureau. The planters, who now that the re-
bellion has been crushed, are anxious TO re-
gain possession of these lands, allege that the
freedmen are allowing them TO go to ruin, do
not raise enough for their own maintenance,
are totally neglecfing preparations for the
next year crop, and refuse to give up pos
session.
The white South Carolinians are considera-
bly, incensed against the freedmens' bureau
officials, whom they charge with encouraging
the negroes in their assumption. II s prn-s
cipally with the object of endeavoring to ad
just these difficulties, as We have heretofore
announced, that Gen. Howard, Commissioner
of the Freedmens' Bureau, is now on a visit
to South Carolina. The General arrived in
Charleston on Tuesday last by the overland
route from Raleigh. y. c.. and left the next
day for Columbia, to have an interview with
Gov Perry. II is expected on his return to
Charleston he will deliver an address to the
citizens.
disastrous fire, attended with loss Of life,
occurred in Charleston last Wednesday. II
was in the business part Of the city, and de.
stroyed several mercantile and manufacturing
establishments and the Courier newspaper
Office. Loss estimated at 500 900. Thirty
or forty persons we're busted in he ruins. from
fifteen to twenty of whom, it is thought. were
instantly killed. The others were extricated
in dreadfnlly injured and suffering condi-
ton. '.s4
The Herdds Raleigh correspondent says
the ordinance repudiating the rebel debt
passed the North Carolina State Convantion
by votes of 81 10 IL. An ordil ance for the
purpose of raising a militia force TO suppress
outlawing was also passed
The Convention adjourned on Thurdsday
last to meet again Of the 18TH
The election begins TO be agitated. Gov.
Holden, and Jonathan Worth. present State
Treasurer, are both out to day as candidates
for Governor. Worth win be supported by
all the secession element. He is strong
Union man, and in the Legislature of 1860,
| voted against calling the Convention to take
the State out of the Union.
Lewis Hayne, private Secretary of Cover
nor Holden, has resigned and runs for Goa
gress in the Randolph pistr.ct, an the Worth
| ticket The fact that all secessionists oppose
Holden will probably unite the true Union
vote on him and elect him,