The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-06

look after their own interests in future
interests that the ''thieving cnrpet-bag-
gers" have concluded aro only proper
subjects Of plumber.
AFFAIRS IN NoRTH CAROLINA. "A cor.
respondent of the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel, writing from Ruthorfordton, NJ
O., says:
Mon OF eminsns worth and high stand
ing have been hunted, seized aud inoar-
cerated in an old Jail without any legal
process, without warming, or AN open
acopsation, by the Radicals and United
States troops stationed there. Sixty
men are at this moment in Jail, impri.
despotism Of the Kn Klux bill. Yet this
is the land of libertyl Young men who
try to cultivate a moustaohe In embryo.
middle.aged men, and even those Whose
heads are white with age, are incarce-
rated, because it is alleged that they are
the fearful, the ubiquitous Ku KIux.
a young man of brilliant promise,
Possessed of rare intellectual endow.
ments. gentleman OF refinement and
good family, Mr.. Randolph S-h, has
been immured for the last two weeks in
an iron cage, in company with seven
black negroes, (of- African scent.) in
Rutherfordton Jail, because the RAIDS say
he is Ku Klux chief. (mira6ile .diciu
"a. 900 bail was offered by his father
and friends. yet the United States Mar
shal, Sooggins, an ignorant man, with m
eighth Of. m idea in his hetd, refuses to
release him.
They are not satisfied In their diaboli-
cal, cowardly work. and are every day
making arrests. although tho Jail ia
crowded. The Radical leaders III this
"reign OF terror" are as poor and despi-
cable in character as in purse, and wish
to I'LL the latter regardless of the con-
tempt of oil honest men. The United
States Marshal. Sooggins, more fit as u
convict in penitentiary than as n mar
shai, was negro driver or overseer for
my father. The Radical Judge, Logan,
who resides in Rutherfordton, is the
motive power. The Radicals say that
they have sufficient proof to CON- vict
these sixty men of belonging to the Ku
Klux, and that four OF the men in that
clan have divulged the secrets and given
them the names. They intend to curry
them to Raleigh, O distance Of 240 miles.
1t is trne that two men have been
abused and whipped by some unknown
parties. One of them, Justice, went to
washington, gave an exaggerated ao-
count OF it and swore lie before the
Congressional Committee. The true sa-
cret of the arrest is this: There will.
next week, be an election throughout this
State, and the Radicals wish to oarry tho
election by Intimidation and the bayonet.
-N'inporte, they will al last reap the Bit
ter fruit of their own despotism in North
Carolina, as their prototype, Gov. Hol-
den, has.
Thirty.nine highly respectable white
men were carried under guard TO Raleigh
three weeks ago, from Rutherford Coun-
ty, imprisoned there ten days and then
released on $4,000 bail, because one
black negro, sweet-scented villain, was
whipped one night for his rasoality by
unknown parties. Almost every man
can prove his innocence, yet these men
were carried to Raleigh. 24O miles, mere
~ upon suspicion. "Even virtue itself
escapes not calumnious strokes
lt is q trite old aphorism, "whom the
gods wish to destroy they first make
mad" Perhaps this is appropriate to
the Radical leaders.
MAIL AnnANaEaEKTs. The Northern
mail opens at 400 P. NJ; closes 7.l5
q. NJ. Charleston day mail opens 400
2. H.; closes 600 A. NJ. Charleston
night mail opens $50 A. NJ; closes 6. 90
T. Al. Greenville mail opens 6.46 P.
~; closes 800 A. III. Western mail
opens 800 A. H.; closes 1.80P.M On
Sunday Office open from 8 Dap. M.
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