The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-27
The P6lltienl Campaign---Radic
Prospects North and South. p

The P6litical csmpaign--Radioai
lstS Prospects North and South. 4
All the adYices received, here re-
Gently from the South, represent
carpet -bagism as on it's deathsbed.
With the exception of Florida and
South Carolina, all the Southern
fates nre conceded as certain Ito go
for Seymour and Blair. The radical
organizations in the reconstructed
regions are dwindling away rapidly,
and detection has reached their very
stronghold with such alarming re-
suits, that the oarpet-bag heroes see
nothing but ruin ahead. They have
discovered their great weakness in
the very spot where they looked for
an impregnable tower of strength.
The negroes, hom they relied upon
as their right arm of power, have be-
come disgusted, and proclaim that
the white radical is greater enemy
to them than the white rebels who
were lately their masters. The most
intelligent blacks, therefore, have de-
termined to join hands with their old
masters, and thus drive away the
carpet-beg adventurers from the
South to their native element This
reputation of radicalism by the CO.
lored citizens is overwhelming the
Republican leaders of the South, and
consequently they are beginning to
realize that they have been caught in
their own trap. Several shrewd Re
publicans who have just returned
from different parts of the South
admit that Sambo has turned the
tables upon them completely, and
that now their only hope of success
is in the North. This last hope
seems not to have very firm hold of
them either, judging by the manner
in which they write to their friends
in this city. The correspondence
sent here from different States in the
East and West, by radical stumpers
and managers, is OF the most de-
spending character They admit
that Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Ohio are lost to Grant and Colfax
beyond redemption, and one of them
declares that Illinois will go the same
way, unless the strongest efforts are
made to save it. Logan's defeat as
Congressman Mt large from the State
is spoken of as certain, but the cleo
toral ticket, it is urged, may be car
ricd by clever engineering. The
most sanguine Republican I have
seen here from Colfax's State, only
figures up a Republican majority of
5000 in Indiana. This Republican
is one Of the most shrewd and inhu-
ential politicians in the State of In
diana. In fact, the impression is
very general here now that Seymour
and Blair will be elected by very
decisive majority, not on account Of
any great popularity of their own,
but because the people of the coun-
try are determined to have q change
anyhow. Wash. Cor. n. Y Herald.
MURDER IN PATRICK CoUNTY-Two
LADIES THRoATs CUT AND THREE
NEGROES SHOT. "A friend informs us
that, last week, in Patrick County,
traveller, who was stopping over
night at q house where no one was at
home but two ladies, heard noise
down stairs and started to see what
was the matter. On getting to the
head of the steps, he saw below n ne
gro man starting up, when he fired
upon and killed him. Immediately
another negro made his appearance,
who was likewise shot and killed.
The traveller then went below, and
came upon another negro in the room
occupied by the ladies', and killed
him. On going to the bed, he found
the girls lying with their throats cut
and dead. The names of the parties
he did not learn.
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