The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-21
The Utah Silver Mines.
Singular Suicide in Lancaster
Another KensingtOn Bank Affair.
SOUTHERN OUTRAGES.

Terrible Condition of Affairs in South Caro-
Iina-The Governor and Other State Officers
Ordered to Leave the state-One County Left
without Omcers-United States Troops Called
for to Re store Order.
Washington despatch to the N. Y. Tribune
says:-PromiIent Republicans who have arrived
here within day or two from South Carolina,
and letters received here from the capital of that
State to-day, report that Gov. Scott, at the adj
vice of many leading men of both parties, held
6 conference last Tuesday with representative
Democrats from about twenty-five counties of
the State, for the purpose of consulting
as to the best means of restoring order. The
only Republicans present were the Governor,
Attorney General Chamberlain and Mr.. l.. G.
Carpenter, editor Of the Columbia Daily Union.
Many very fair speeches were made by Demo-
Gratis present, and the only complaint which
they made was of the insolence of the colored
militia. This was admitted to some extent, and
means will be taken to remedy the evil. General
Kershaw, however, made very bitter speech, in
which he announced that, in his opinion, and that
of many of his friends, the only way to restore
peace, and prevent what the Governor termed
"outrages," but which he (Kershaw) regarded
as but the just indignation of plundered
people, was for the scoundrelly "carpet-baggers'
from the North and the rascally ''scalaWags'
of the South, to resign the offices they had
usurped, and leave those States in the hands of
Southern gentlemen" He added that he heard
that General Butler had bill before Congress,
in which it was proposed to send Ku-klux COM
missioner into every Southern county. He did
not know that there was single Ku-klux in
Kershaw county, but, if such a commissioner
should be sent there, Ku-kluX would be pro-
vided for his especial benefit, and that only one
such commissioner would ever go there. The
day after this conference, the following notice
was posted on the bulletin board of the court
house in Union county. The original is eX-
hibited in this city this evening"
HEADQUARTERS NINTH DIVISION, S. c., SPECIAL
ORDERS, No. 3, X. K. K.-'Ignorance is the curse Of
God"
For this reason we are determined that members
Of the Legislature, the School Commissioners, and
the County Commissioners of Union shall no longer
Fifteen 1b) days notice from this date is given,
and If they one and all do not at once and forever
rageous rule, then retributive injustice will as
surely be used as night follows days.
AlsO.-An honest man is the nObest work OF God.
For this reason, If the clerk OF the said Board OF
County Commissioners and School Commissioners
does not Immediately renounce and relinquish his
present position, then harsher measures than this
will most assuredly and certainly be used For con-
frmation, reference to the orders heretofore pub
lished in the Union Weekly Times and Yorkve
Enquirer will more fully and completely show our
BY order Grand Chief, A. O., Grand Secretary
March Q, A. ID. 1871.
In obedience to this order, the Sheriff. County
Commissioners, and School Commissioners have
resigned, and the county is without officers
The Democrats have asked Governor Scott to
order special election, but as that would only
insure the choice of Democrats, he refuses 10
do it. The following telegram was received
here to-day
OFFICE OF "THE UNION" COLUMBIA, S. c., March
10, lS71-9'30 p. MI Cass Carpenter, Bigger, and
A. Parker, of Clarendon, were taken to the swamp
on Wednesday night, by disguised men, tied tc
trees, and were about to be shot, when they saved
themselves, as did at Laurens, by Masonic signs
The leader told Bigger and A. Parker that he could
insure their lives but fourteen hours in the State
Tney have laid out nights and finally reached here
L. w. EvERsoN.
Bigger's property, consisting of store, house
stock, etc., was burned by the Ku-klux las
December, simply because he bought ant
traded in the produce of the negroes, while h'
was tied to tree and made to witness 1t. He
had been to Columbia to obtain relief from the
Legislature and had Just returned home wheI
the circumstances related above occurred.
The latest news from the capital of Soutl
Carolina is that Governor Scott, State Treasure
Parker, and Controller General Neagle received
notices from the Ku-kluX, on Friday, to qui
The state. Attorney-General Cham berlain, O
South Carolina, will meet the President to
morrow, and ask that troops be sent 10 tn
State,