Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-01

uer 10 prevent alLeTaLlOnS anu cOuILeTlelIs
In conclusion, they state that the execution o
the new law will require postmasters at pub
lication offices, or portion of them at least, tt
be supplied with platform scales for weighing
large quantities of matter The Postmaster
General will doubtless adopt the recommenda
tions of the report.
The Troubles in Edgeficld.
- For several days past riotous demon
strations on the part of portion Of the col
ored population of Edgefeld county have
been manifest and at the instigation, as is
alleged, of one Ned Tenant, captain of 8
negro militia company, about four hundred
negro militia men, armed and equipped, con
gregated in the vicinity of Republican church
fourteen miles below the town of Edgefcld
Tenant alleged that he had been fired at in
his own house, by white man, and hence, foI
his own protection, as it seems, called out his
militia company, which, as the rumor flew
was augmented by other companies to the
number given above. When the news reached
Edge6eld much excitement ensued in the
town-the current report being that in the
absence of the men, the women and children
would be massacred and the houses burnt.
The various accounts that we have read
represent that from three to four hundred
white men were soon under arms, and under
command of General Butler, held themselves
ready to meet any attack from the negroes
The condition of affairs being reported to the
Governor, that official at once issued proc
lamation commanding the belligerents to dis
perse, and at latest accounts quiet had been
restored in the locality which at one time was
threatened with aserous collision Of the races
Subsequent to the proclamation of Governor
Moses, q committee of conference from both
the white and colored people was held in
Edgefeld, when it was agreed and assented to
by Lawrence Cain, Colonel Of the 9th regi'
ment of militia, that he should Immediately
promulgate an order for the militia compa.
nies of his regiment to have their company
drills on the third Saturday in each month,
and at no other time, and that the captains
require their men to keep their arms at home,
and use them for no other purposes, except
for the company drills, unless by future order
of the Colonel commanding.
The latest intelligence from the locality Of
the disturbance in Edge6eld represents that
the troubles are ended. The negro Captain
has delivered the arms of his colored company
to Lieutenant Leahy, commanding the de,
tachment of United States troops, and the
negroes have returned to their homes.
Louisiana Affairs.
- The political situation in Louisiana,
since the restoration Of the Kellogg govern
ment, has been without excitement. Meme
rvs counsels of moderation seem to have been
regarded by his adherents, who quietly sub,
mitted to the order from Washington, reinsta'
ting Kellogg. The coalition or McEnery
party have issued an address, setting forth a
long series of wrongs from which the State
has suffered, and claims the McEnery gov
ernment was legally and fairly elected 1t
says the people North were generally led into
an error in believing the colored voters Of
Louisiana were in excess of the white voters,
or that the colored voters and white Republi-
cans en- masse voted the kellogg ticket, and
by compilation of figures shows the white
males to be in excess of the colored, and claims
that many Republicans, white anu colored,
voted the McEnery ticket. 1t describes the
means by which the citizens were deprived Of
their political rights, and gives an explanation
of the formation and design Of the White
League organization, whose character it claims
has been grossly misrepresented, and gives a
description of the insurrection. and says that
the fight was forced upon the citizens, and
that they did not begin it, 1t details the sto'
~ of the surrender, and the fruitless negotia-
tions Of the compromise committee. 1t also
contains in full the appeal from the Commit,
tee of Seventy to President Grant, dated New
Orleans, September 8, protesting against the
placing of troops in Louisiana upon the eve of
such an election as is now approaching, under
the control of civil officers identified with
usurpation, and requesting that if such be
done, the present marshal be removed, and
one appointed who is not the active supporter
and leader in the Kellogg government. In
conclusion, the address says: "Our tale Of
misery is complete. Nothing remains but
relieved only by tie dim distant
hope that the sober second thought of this
great people will reconsider calmly our con-
duct, and devise, in their wisdom, some meth
cd of relief for their unhappy countrymen."
Judge John 7. Green.
The Charleston Ne,cs and Courier fur
nishes the following sketch of Judge John T.
Green, of Sumter, who will probably be NOM
mated by the Independent Republicans as a
candidate for Governor in opposition to D..
H. Chamberlain:
Judge John T. Green, of Sumter, whom
the Independent Republican party propose
to nominate as their candidate for Governor
of South Carolina, is the son of the Rev.
Henry D. Green, of Mechanicsville, South
Carolina. Judge Green was born at Mechan-
icsville on October Is, 1927. At an early
age he entered the South Carolina College,
where he remained for three years. He sub
sequently entered the law office of Mr. F. j..
Moses, Sr., the present Chief Justice Of the
State, and, after thorough course of study,
was admitted to the bar in 1849, when he had
Just passed his twenty-6rst year.
In 1852 Judge Green was elected to the
State Legislature on the Cooperation ticket,
and, being reelected, served for six successive
years. Being again put forward in 1858, he
declined to be candidate, and continued to
practice his profession in Sumter until 1864,
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