Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-21
From Our Memphis Correspondent.


ture. about which there has been go much fever
ish anxiety, so many hopes and so many fears,
has Mt length como off; and our worst fears have
beSn realized in the election Of Browalow md the
entire Radical ticket. So far rs heard FROM: the
Radical party have elected their candidates by
oyerwh helming msjoritiea. Brownlow claims
majority Of 10000 in the .ertiro State; but half
that number is probably fair estimate Of this
triumph of the advocates of corruption, meanness
and proairscy, over the standard-bearers of lib
crty and Justice alike to all. For the first time
in the history of Memphis, an election has been
carried by men unable to fead even tho names of
tboir candidates The entire white Radical vo o
in Memphis and its suburbs docs not exceed 700 i;
vet Brownlow received 1900 votes, $500 bcing
cast by the newly cnfranohiscd citizens Of African
descent The entiro white vote, if cast against
Brownlow, could not havo materially changed the
result. All told it did not exceed 200; while to
the $500 negro votes cast for Brownlow and his
party, 1900 moro blacks would have beon added,
had the polls remained open one hour alter the
time prescribed by law. At least that number
with tickets in their haads were swarming about
h, polls like the locusts of Egypt when The fatal
hour Of four o'clock arrived. The Radicals over.
shot tho mark. They feared to trust the country
negroe. 70 their employers and ordered them into
the city to vote. Half the polling places we're
allotted to them but, thefe proving insufficient,
they crowded into the white precincts and nonopo-
lized them to the exclusion ef the whites, hun
dreds of whom were clbowed from the polls, and
after waiting hours for the black inuudution to
sub,ide, finally loft in disgust without casting
their ballots. The Registration Commissioner,
with tho most unblushing impudcnce, issued cer-
tifcates of citizenship at the Ballot Boz to ne
groes who had just loft their employers in Mssis-
,ippi and Arkansas to vote for Mr.. .Drownlow in
Memphis. This, together with their lying threats
and specious promises to the native blacks, has
elected the Radical ticket by an overwhelming
majority; and Tennessee for two years more is
doomed to an existence to which the vilest aervi-
tudc i. preferable. Aud the greater and better
part of the population, the bone and 'inom Of the
State, will still have to support government in
which they have no voice.
The election came. off ON Thursday, Aug. LIST,
and by Saturday night, 3rd, inst, 500 blacks, who
on the 1st wero struck with excessive admi-
ration for Brownlou, were cast alrift by their
employers, who tell them they must look to their
friends C?) for employment now. On this account
the Freedmcn's Bureau, an article Of furniture
heretofore almost totally discarded by the blacks,
has since been in great dennrd; and Uncle Sans
agents are continually beset BY these unfortunate
followers of Radicalism to procure them situa-
tions. It would he well for people of all tho
Southern States to consider we'll the condition of
Tennessee, with her reconstructio before deciding
how to cast their r3tes in the coming elections
throughout tho South; and to choose between a
Sickles, Sheridan or Pope on the one hand,
with military rule, md BrO"nlon, Tor his like,)
on the other hand, with tho blessings of peace ~
which Tennessee now enjoys.
In this connection, would state that the speech
| of Hon. D. II. Hill, of Georgia i, highly COM
mended by the leading men of this City and
| State, who heartily endorse his views on recon-
struction, and who would advise their brethren
of tho South to give their votes for ono conven-
ton :" and to rest satisfied for time with militia
~ rule in preference to civil government pre-
sided over by mon who would roo them in pocket
and deprive thcn of all their rights of citizenship.
In tho midst of our own overthrow and degra-
dation, however, am glad to say that not all OF
our friends arc involved. The election in Ken
tucky has resulted in Democratic triumph, by q
majority of 10000, showing o clear gain of SO
pcr cent oyor the last Democratic majority. Tho
Kentucky papers say that our Tennessee farce was
porth 10000 rote, to the Democratic party ~ that
State We Gran the thing in the ground" so COM
pletcly here, as to open the eyes Of all tho blind
there; except tho few who will not sec And if
| the hands. of Tennessee are but untisd, and all
honest men allowed to vote, she will rival her sis
tor, even with the weight of'the black vote to
carry. But enough of Politics.
The crops in Tennessee and adjoining States,
are better than for many years paSti Ind If the
seasons but continue proptious, one of the largest
crops will be harvested this fall ever made in this
section. The merchants of this City are very
jubilant over the prospects, az, many of them
have been obliged to suspend business on account
of the inability of the planters to meet their lia-
bilities Of last seaSon.
The City, since my last, has made some COM
mendable moves in tho way of public improve
ment The Nicholson pavement has been laid on
some of the principal streets, and by the begin
ming Of the winter season tho bottoinless mud
holes, so dangerous to life ard limb last winter,
will be replaced by smooth, beautiful and noise
less pavement, which will fully repay the cost Of
construction. Preliminary surveys nre also being
made for the. construction of system Of Water
works and Sewerage, which, if carried through,
will tend greatly to promote the general health
of tho City. And, if the e1,rome measures Of
tho powers that be" do not scare away cmigrants,
Momphi, will soon DO the Queen City Of the Mis-
sis,ippi valley. I foar however that, under tho
management of the Radical crew, with BroHnlow
ut the helm, the Ship of State will sink, and with
her will be wrecked tho material prosperity of
thousands of tbs citizens of the commonwealth.
Tho Cholera, which has prevailed to some e1-
tent for tho past month, has somewhat nbated,
and We indulge hope that our experience so far
will bo all thut wo have to fear from tho dreadful
scourge for his sea,":.. As it is, it has been con-
fined mostl: 20 the lower classes, and the now
comers; and the majority of these have been at
tackled through some imprpdcnce of diet.
South Carolina has many representatives, in
Memphis, both in mercantile life and in the rari-
ou, professions and trades; and some of them
fully sustain the nnciont prestige Of her name.
In the learned professions har representatives,
though young, promise to attain station far
above modiocrity. In the future the prospects
here in all pursuits will bo dependent upon the
course pursued by the party now in powcr,-o1-