Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-10-09

o. badge of yellow ribbon. These gentle
men were varlously armed with bludgeons.
clubs and "persuaders," andamused them
selves by voting the Cunningham ticket
and persuading others to do the same.
They outnumbered the police at most Of
the precincts. In almost every instance,
the adopted white citizens were compelled
to produce their naturalization papers,
and men who had voted for twenty years
in Charleston were sent back home for
their papers. Of the average colored vo-
ter, no Questions were asked. He was
simply requested to hold duphis right hand
and swear. i. ,5fs3Y.
at about half past t o'clock, Yesterday
morning, the steamer NJ. S. Allison arriv-
cd in the city from Edisto, having on board
about 200 negroes from the island. They
were landed on the wharf and taken in
charge by some Of the deputies or rallycls.
and at once set about the business for
which they were imported. They voted
early and often. Captain Toglio, the com
nlander of the vessel, in reply 10 questions
asked by our reporter, stated that his
steamer had arrived before daylight in the
morning from Edisto and way landings
that she had brought about 200, negroes,
who came from Edisto and various points
along the route; that they had not paid
their r passage, but that c. G. Bowen, the
Sheriff of This County and a candidate
for Alderman, had made arrangements 10
pay the same, the price being seventy-fvc
cents per head for each voter who came
from Edisto, and fifty cents per head for
those coming from the intermediate land
inps Arrived in the city, the excursion
lists left the wharf and proceeded, with
cheering andboisterous revelry, in the di
rection Of East Bay street. Their part in
the citv election is well known. Bowen
ordered / 600 loaves Of bread from prom
inent German baker, with which, it is
snnnosed they were fed, and the blacks
then the went to work at the polls The
steamer which made the specicl trip to ac-
commodate Mr.. Bowens srepeaters, is own
ed bv Capt. Toglio and others, and is sup
norted entirely by the merchants and 9TH
er business men. against whose nearest IN
teresfs the Edistonianss came to vote. 1t
will be we'll for her, in future, to seek her
business exclusively among the Radicals,
whom her owners have helped to elect.
On Tuesday, the streets swarmed with
colored men from the neighboring islands,
who had been brought to the city, in
small boats and otherwise, to participate
in nth the election. These immigrants walked
the public ways, with the .rations of bread
and. and bacon, = which had been issued to
them in their hands, some. Of them COM
menting on the shortness Of the supply.
Er.Sheriff Mackey's house, in King street,
mar ru BROAD was great hostelry, and was
crowded r1,, ali day with those who had been
imnorted m for the work. There were other
nIacss ,, besides Mr.. Mackey's, which shell
| tered M illegal voters, who had been inspired
with with the , idea that they, in doing what
thew aid, were discharging sacred obliga-
Ut Toe @ arrests made during the day num-
bered about thirty, and were principally
sor violations Of the election law. There
were M some arrests for breaches, of the
- neace and in one or two cases, for draw
,na n;stols.. Most offs the arrests were
made ma ,by the deputy sheriffs, the majority
Of Of whom had never before been invested
with h authority such as they exercised yes
terday Had they been experienced Off
GERS, the majority Of the arrests woulc
NOT have been made. 49,
Lieut.. Heidi was assaulted, very early
in then the morning near the race course, by
,narty ~ sS Of colored Radicals, who pulled him
/ tfroS HqaS his is horse and, beat him in the mos
upmerciful nm manner.s They pushed hi.
Seud into the dirt, Fand kicked him ,ane
ss. strnck him over the back until , he wa.
badly bruised. The, cause Of the assault
was was doubtless, his vigilance in ascertaininl
where one Of the secret precincts had beef
sfesfsbIshed at midnight on Tuesday 10y
j 1artv who slipped out. Of the city in {
carriage, in which they had the ballot
0o1j 4s returns rsa 4sea al .As precincts shoF Ii