The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-07
Local Items.

we nave Deen requested TO state
that the Right Reverend DR.. Persico
will give confirmation in the Catholic
Church, this morning, att A. NJ, and
at 10 o'clock will deliver sermon on
the "Infallibility Of the Church.
The public nre invited to attend.
NEGRO DEMONSTRATION R1oToUs
AND NOISY CoNDUcr-THE CROWD
SCATTERED by THE UNITED STATES
POLICE GUARD.-After the Democra-
tic meeting at Gregg's Hall had con-
cluded their quiet and orderly pro-
ceedings, and the citizens had retired
to their homes, an unusual noise and
confusion announced a radical (negro)
turnout ut II o'clock Friday night.
The crowd, we are told, was under
the control Of Manager Jim Davis, u
full-blooded negro man, who, rs Nash
thinks, has thus in his veins blood
that is better than the blood of 'all
the Percys or all the Howards." This
rampant crowd proceeded first to Sc
, renade the Sheriff -Phineas
Frazce-who appeared and addressed
his friends.
He stated that he was glad to see
them there; that they would always
be welcome to his domicil, whether
friend or foe; that his lntchet was al
ways loose, and the string hanging
outside. He expressed himself as
being proud OF the position he occu-
pied, having been elected by the
largest majority any one had ever re-
F.oeived for any office. The Democra-
tic party he contended, had used
bribery, corruption and chicanery,
but with all that, they had been de-
feated. At Gadsden, "the Gibraltar
of our hopes" 235 votes had been
tampered with, but still the Demo-
Gratis were defeated. There, the ne
grocs had been deluded, because they
were ignorant, but here, we are more
intelligent, and could see through
their chicanery, although aided by q
s'subtle press, and its talented edi-
tor"
After haranguing the crowd with
such nonsense for about fifteen or
twenty minutes, he told them he had
something substantial for the "inner
man." Thereupon, he treated gene
ronsly to bad whiskey, and "high
old time" did they have in the She
riffs 'domicil."
He was not allowed to get off SO
easily, however. The United States
soldiers in the barracks near by do
not admire this New Jersey contribu-
ton to South Carolina, and behaved
very badly to the Sheriff. They
hooted and hissed him, and stoned
his "domicil," and alluded to his
morals in no agreeable style.
The serenaders next visited Minor
Miller's residence. Major NJ, III his
remarks, made no allusion to poll
tics, but thanked them for their sup
port.
They next visited Mr.. Wigg, another
candidate elect. This ex-Confederate
quartermaster made a spirited speech,
and received unbounded applause.
He said, as reported to us, that after
the election, no Democrat could look
q Republican in the face-so ashamed
were the former; that the radical
majority in the Presidential canvass
would swell to 10000; and that his
party would rule, and have things
their own way. In general, he Will
fed and abused the Democrats in
every way, and charged upon them
fraud and corruption in the recent
canvass. But added, that in spite Of
oil this, they (the radicals) had won
''n glorious victory" Here, too,
whiskey, good or bad, was dispensed,
and the assemblage of frantic sere-
naders went to the residence of the
Rev. Mr.. Brown. preacher of color.
| What he said, we have not been told.