Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-09
OUTRAGEs IN ORANGEBURG.

On Saturday night last after the down Columbia
Exrress train OIL the South Carolina Railroad had
passed about quarter of mile beyond Lewisvine
i in Orangeburg district two shots were fired into
the passenger car, at the rear end of the train.
Upon examination it was seen that the window!
in the rear of the car were shattered and that the
door was peppered with shot. There we're two
bullet holes in the ceiling, and number of sho
were picked up that had fallen on the floor. L
was evident that the persons who fired had run ou
on the track as the train passed and had delivered
their fire while close to it. To this fact was due
the safety of the passengers as the shot all ranged
upwards and passed towards the roof The weap
on used is supposed to have been an ordinary
smoothbore musket, and the charge buckshot anc
ball.
The men who did the deed are not known, anc
is difficult to assign anv satisfactory cause tor st
unprovoked an attempt at murder. Major w. H.
H. Holton, agent of the Freedmen's Bureau al
Orangeburg, got the train at Lewisville, and one
suppostion is that the shots were fired at HIM
Whether this be so or not, Major Holton had &
narrow escape as one of the balls passed within
an inch or two Of his ear Another suppositior
was that conductor Evans was the person attacked
as he had, on the previous trip, put off at Lewis
vile, some negroes who had refused to pay theil
fare.
On Thursday last, Mr.. Diedrick Hane, who
plants near Fort Motto, in Orangeburg, was accost
ed by Jeff. Davis, one of his former slaves, who
wished to purchase pair Of shoes MIR. Hant
had a small store in which he kept plantation sup
| men many articles. He told jeff. Davis that ht
was already in his debt and that he could not have
the shoes Davis became very indignant at the
refusal, and commenced threatening Mr. Hane
saying that he would shoot him, &C. MIR. Han'
is quite an old man, and, fearing the negro NIGH
do him some injury, he got his gun, and the
threats being continued, he fired, wounding tht
Inegro,. but Dot seriously. The shooting was M
sooner known to the negroes on the neighborinl
plantatioas;#ho belonged to the League, than the!
commenced assembling, and in short time near
| ly three hundred were at the spot, most o
them being armed. They surrounded the house
posting pickets and preventing all ingress or e
gress, and said that they would take the case il
their own hands and would allow no lnterferene'
from either the civil or military authorities M
one was allowed to enter the house except the doc
tor who was attending the boy, and Mr.. Hans
was made a close prisoner, though no violence
was offered to his person. His friends seeing tn,
position of affairs, dispatched message to Colum
bia for the assistance of the military. One com
pany of the garrison were Immediately sent to th'
fort, but their arrival had been barely announced
when the forces of the League disappeared. Th
valiant host, who respected neither the sword o
the gown, had vanished, and the soldiers had th
battlefield to themselves. MIR. Hane was placeC
under arrest to answer any charges that may b.
made against him. At last accounts the negro wa
recovering, and there were no apprehensons OF an.
further disturbances.
We find the above in the Charleston Necs. Th
last issue of the Orangeburg Necs has the follow
ing paragraph:
At Lewisvile, on New Years day, several armet
bands of negroes under command Of Captains ant
Lieutenants, assembled and repaired to the churcl
where, as Union League, they were harangueet
by some Radical orators with inAammatory speech
es. These produced immediate fruit; for after tn
meeting was dismissed and they began their return
march through the village, they INDUCED them
selves in an indiscrminate cursing Of the whites
and general discharging of their: firearms, Y
front Of one of the stores three volleys were fired
So disorderly were the negroes that Federal Off
Ger on a passing train, had it stopped, and step
ping out expostulatcd with them and advised then
to disband quietly. His words were UNDECIDED, ane
Il the tioting continued several hours. o..