The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-11-11
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COLOMBIA Wednesday, November 9.
It's well known that Mr.. Bowen will contest
the election OF Mr.. DeLarge. Worthington Is De:
LarGe,s attorney, In tho. defence. Ex-General
Hoee dtscreetly holds himsef aloof Bets here
among the initiated run high in favor Of Bowen.
These bets:are at least significant straws,
A letter from citizen OF Barnwell County Is
before nae, which says: ,.rtf ..i..:.. -. ~
/. On Tuesday, at ! O'Clock the board org anized
and refused to allow any one to be present except
Themselves. sil candidates, and two secretaries,
B. a. Nerland and lanes Just They SAT VIII
closed doors until dark, when they opened tne
doors and admitted all who chose 20 enter:
when we went 10 at dark they were counting TWO
boxes-Alken and -Allandale-an the seals OF one
or more Of the other bexs were broken. AT hail-
past O'Clock they adjourned without havlng
finished these boxes, and slept In the room wnere
the boxes were kept, as did also Blk or elght COL
ored men from Aiken.
2. ON Wednesday they finished counting the
boxes, and commenced on blackVllle, BaIhWei
and Graham's, and did not finish these. but KEPT
one or more Of them open and hall counted our, ooI.
Ing the night and by the ten O'Clock train from
Aiken fresh supply Of colored men arrived and
slept in the room where the boxes were: ~
8. A great many tickets written z. q. Boicen
were thrown out and not counted because they
were not attached to the regular ticket. A great
many similar ones written r. C. DeLarqe were
counted. The Reform party generaily a!a no.
vote for Congress, yet the name OF Il. y; OeLsl8e
was tcrttten on hundreds OF Reform tickets.
a. On Thursday morning when the boxes were
opened to commence counting, the tickets were
found to be all opened and smoothed out. ano tne
commissioners said they had done this .Jor cor,
venience." The name or Julius Mayer was erased
from hundreds OF Reform tickets and also from
the Bowen Republican ticket.
g. Bets OF two to one, three to one, hye 70 one,
and ten to one were offered freely all over tne
county on Judge 1e8gue, and all were reluseo;
vet he is counted beaten by 80 large majority as
945 votes. During the counting ol"tne Votes on
this day. G. D. Hayne was clearly dete cteo ~
having put down to himself one nunoIeo ,,o. sn.e'
mere Than any other ON the Republican ticker,
tScot, lncludedI and when charged by Mr.. Aidilcn
with the facp, acknowledged l., and made IL risht
by acknowledging 1t. l3 ~. ,x.,
g. On NO day did they count more sau tr, evsv
box about twelve O'Clock, when tney Knew lney
w ould not be able to count them: Az nlglI !uage
league was thirty votes ahead Oh nr. MiAso. ~
ami Mr. Aidrch begged me sno HIsns "
and they positively refused to allow It. Az SIX oi
the precincts none OF the managers were sworn,
and at none OF them. but Aiken dlu tne mamassrs an
make their certificates OF The electlon. lne on'
yerton box remained In the hands OF the mana,
gers until Wednes lay morning, the secona aay oi
the count and when 1t did come IN, It was orou9nI
bv citizen, not manager, ana at east oaelan .na,
OF the tickets were 1umoled tngsIher in M, Su
mon pine soap box WIN 10 iock ou Il. Ahio VOC
the last box counted. .
The above facts together with hundreds Of IKE
kind, are being put into regular and Legal form
for legal use.
Joe Crews publicly announces his intention to
stump the North as q lecturer upon Ku-Riuxlsm
in South Carolina, and he announced yesterday
morning as the time for his departure from Co
lumbIa, but he is here today. BE proposes 10
take one Anderson, twhlte,) OF the up-countrJ;
around with him in the North as an illustration
or living specimen Of how the Ku-Kluxes do whip
inoGensive free men in the Palmetto State. This
Anderson was whipped some time agoby parties:
i(called KaEKluxT some of whom, my informans
says, had lost hogs la!ey. Joe is to lecture and
exhibit Andersons scars. I suppose Joe will ad.
yertise his lectures to be 'll1strased with cuts"
delegation Of citizens from .Laurens waited On
Governor Scott day or two ago, upon the mat
ter OF stopping the disturbing element In that
part OF the State. They informed the Governor,
among many other things, that In their opinion,
Joe Crews could not live In Laureus any more.
ON credibly informed to-day that the Govern or
promised these citizens to withdraw bis con-
atabulary from Laurens. CoRSA1R.