The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-10-21
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Retarns ere swsmiag " iaalosT'y ,aad the
general Sesult d to Haybrnor AID Lieu
tenant 4overnds is sliltuhoertain. There
will esftainly be Conservatives gain in
the Legislature.I We egiye the following,
in addition to yesterdays report:
Barnwell is about equally divided, as
TO members OF the Legislature half
Reform, half Radical. "No-nosed
Hayne" has been left at home. SCOTS
majority will, however, be several hun
dred.
Newberry gives 800 Radical majority,
but the election has been contested, on
the ground of illegal voting under
age" and repeating" Laurens is in
doubt, but the Republicans claim the
County. Abbeville has been carried by
the Republicans.
Chesterfield and Marlboro will go
Conservative by large majorities. Ma
rion goes Conservative by 600; Union
800; Spartanburg 1000; Anderson 500
(the County ticket elected by 5000 Lex
ington $50; Edgefeld several hundred;
in Norris township the Reformers re-
ceived the entire vote-134; Granite
vile gave the Reformers 237 majority;
Hamburg and Mount Willing are Con-
servative Oconee, Pickens and Green
vile go Reform by large majorities.
Speaking OF the election in Charleston,
the Courier says:
The election passed off very quietly
yesterday, and had it not been for two
instances of outrage and minor miscon-
duct the ancient reputation of our good
old city would have been sustained for
peace and order. The system OF ballot
ing was perfect, and every voter was
afforded an opportunity to exercise his
suffrage without let or hindrance, save
where some ofioiops radical would en-
deavor to poison his ears against the Re-
formers, whenever colored man would
indicate his intention of voting for their
party.
The vulgar intrusion on the Hon. r.
3. Carpenter, the Reform candidate for
the Gubernatorial Chair, by crowd OF
vagabond black boys and men, while on
his way home through Meeting street,
was disgraceful in the extreme. It show
ed the character of his opponents to al
low such dastardly conduct on the part
of their satellites.
The brutal treatment of a member of
the editorial staff of the Courier, (Mr.
W. L. Daggett,) by the police force. who
dubbed him over the head like parcel
of savages, while doing no more than ex-
ercising the right of free speech and To-
comotion, has stained the escutcheon of
the party in power and one of its hire
lings, which will ever be remembered in
the future as an incident of the time
when corruption and coarse character
ruled the roost in our community.
Business was generally suspended, and
the entire day was given up to O vigor-
GUS effort to redeem the State from the
thraldom Of those who now present her
as O Disgrace to the civilization of the
age. Whether that effort will be crown
ed with success, when the announce.
ment of the result is made, is ardently
hoped and prayed for on the highway
and around the hearthstone.
Last evening Mr.. John Deighen ar
rived in the city from Enterprise Land
ing with the following account of the
most outrageous proceedings that have
ever disgraced our State: He reached
the Landing yesterday morning, having
in his possession a number of the Re-
form tickets. Upon reaching the place,
he was surrounded by some five or six
hundred negroes, who asked him if he
had tickets. Upon replying in the af-
firmative, they asked to see them. and
their request was complied with. They
then crowded him, under the leadership
of several Of the negroes, and to ,k the
tickets away from him, maltreating him
and threatening his life. AS soon as he
could escape, Mr.. Deighen took refuge
in on adjoining house, where he was
forced to remain for several hours. At
the expiration of that time party of his
friends arrived and took him out. The
crowd of lawless negroes Immediately
made an attack on them and beat the
entire party badly. Mr.. D. took refuge
in the house second time, and remained
there in momentary dread of losing his
life. until the departure of the boat.
Our informant tells us that number of
the moro intelligent of the colored men
voted the Reform ticket, upon the find
ing out of which these outlaws pursued
them across the fields with arms and in