Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-03
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

- 1t is definitely settled that General Butter
will run for Congress in the 9th district of
Massachusetts,.
Ex-Governor G. G. Walker has been
nominated by the Conservatives to represent
the Richmond district in Congress.
- Returns from Democratic county conven-
tions, from nearly half of the counties in the
State of Arkansas, show selection of dele
gates instructed to vote for Baxter, at the ap-
preaching election.
- The Republican State Convention Of
Michigan, after eulogizing the Republican
party's attending to finances, and while recog-
nizing greenbacks and national bank notes as
superior to any other paper currency that ever
existed in the United States, yet demand the
earliest practicable resumption of specie pay
ment.
They tell of negro preacher in the South
Carolina Legislature who would never take
more than $40 for his vote. 1t was perfectly
right. he thought. tn .sell his vote, but it was
all wrong to ask too high price for it. The
morality of his procedure he summed up by
saying: "Dis ting of gettin' 500 for vote
is all wrong; $40 is as much as it is WORT"
ID don't know anything about this ERE
Governor business, but kin raise corn," is
what they say Mr.. Cusey said when he
was nominated for Governor of Kansas by
the "Reform party" Hon. John Hallartin,
of Topeka, who served in the Legislature with
Cusey, says "Of the 10000 voters of Kan
sas, at least 100000 of them are superior to
Cusey in every respect, and better fitted for
the Office of Governor"
Senator Clayton, chairman of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee of Arkansas,
in view of the fact that the new consti-
tuition may be submitted to the people at an
early day, has issued call for convention
of the Republican party on the 18th Of Sep
tember, in the city of Little Rock, for the
purpose of taking into consideration what
line of policy it will pursue in the matter Of
rejecting or adopting the constitution.
- The Louisiana Democratic State Conven-
tion, in one resolution of their platform, say
emphatically: "The white people of Louisi.
ana have no desire to deprive the colored
people of any right to which they are entitled,
but they deny that Congress can constitution
ally enact laws to force the two races into
social union or equality. The platform an.
nounces distinctly the determination of the
people to have fair election, and to see that
the result is not changed by fraud or violence.
A BIG SCARE.
The convenient ghost of the departed ku-
klux, ever ready to perform service at the
bidding of the Columbia politicians and of.
6ce.holders, was brought out in that city on
Thursday night last in manner so ridiculous
and diverting that the story, as furnished by
the correspondent of the Neaos and Courier,
will we'll bear repeating, which we copy in the
correspondents words:
"One of the grandest and healthiest scares
ever heard of in these parts took place last
Thursday night, under the full blaze of beau
tiful moon, which smiled serenely on the trou-
bled scene. Mr.. Long, one of our livery sta
ble.keepers, went out with half dozen friends
across the river to engage in the manly sport
ofa fox chase. They soon got Reynard up,
and the tramp of horses, the cry Of hounds,
the blare of horns, and the shouts Of happy
hunters, made pretty music on the midnight
air. Delightful as it was to the lovers of the
sport, it came laden with horror upon the ex-
cited senses of our men of moral ideas. Soon
report spread that FIVE hundred ku-klux from
Augusta, Ca, were at the bridge, riding with
mi ght and main for Columbia, full tilt after
Moses, Patterson and the Ring generally. The
news took effect first upon ex-Comptroller-
General Neagle. He sent his carriage post
haste for Capt. Ogden, United States Army,
of whom he asked guard. He complied so
far as to send an orderly, who sat mounted
all night before Neagles gate. Next the
scare reached Gov. Moses and Senator Pat
terson, who, strange to say, were sleeping to-
gether at Moses's house. They scampered up
in hurry, and made bee-ile for the quar-
ters of the military. Patterson was, of course,
as he advised the Beaufort negroes to be,
"ready." Leaving Collector Worthington in
charge of the baggage and women, and, ac-
ompanied by Moses, he rushed in hot haste
to the garrison, where they found Capt. Og-
den, who is acting as commandant of the post
in the absence of Col. Black. They breath
lessly asked for protection against the bloody
Georgians, who, they were told, were coming
with blackened and masked faces to lynch
them to death. They besought him to order
out his regiment for their protection. The
polite and smiling Ogden told them that he
had no authority to do so. He could only
furnish men for such duty on orders from his