The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-19

BY The way, the child has gray, not blue
'' GREEN WAsH1NGroN.
The DEsTnuCT1oN OF THE BALLors.-A
correspondent Of the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel writes as follows, under date
LOT BaEnwell May 16: ~ .g.lln
At an early hour. before day this morn
ing. some party or parties entered our
town and proceeded to the Office of the
tanning the ballots were deposited for
safe-keSping by the. Commissioners of
Election, and took them out to q pine
grove in the edge. of the town and de-
stroySd them by hre.F Not shred was
left, as 1 was informed. You remember
that the bill providing for the election
was introduced by the infamous Leslie
and two weeks before the day arrived he
ana his confederates' hads bought up
every prominent and influential colored
man in the County, with very few cx-
ceptions, and Since the election they, I
Believe, regfet their actions in the mat
tSr., OF course tho citixens!of Barnwell
village will be sadd1ed with this out
rageous proceeding, while they to q man
condemn it. as oil laY-abiding citizens
under the eimpression that the Loslieites
did the work for effect on the voters. 1t
vas reported that Blackville had won the
Sledtion by q large minority. Ifthis was
so it was unfairly done, ms money was
freely used by the advocates of Black
vile, and the very men who flvited Les
lie back to the County, and do solemnly
believe that It is the only spot in Carolina
whore he would have been taken by the
hand and almost lifted into power. do
not include the entire town of Blackville
! - constituting the, Leslie ring. but the
men who invited him back, and 10 those
the entire State of South Carolina are
lhdebt1d for the bonanza bill, the court
h6uSesbill and other schemes as vile MS
poison. Should it have been shown
Election that Blackville had won the
court house, we had a very nice case for
the higher tribunals of the State, and to
those we would have resorted, and not
to robbing the guard of Blackville's high
treasure. At meeting of tho citizens of
our town, this evening, both white and
colorsd great indignation WAS expressed
at the pYaeeedings of the unknown par
ties who! did the destructive work, and /
am happy to state some precautionary
measures have been taken to prevent fur
ther outrages which may occur against
private property. ...
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The EFFORTS TO RE-UNITE THE NORTH
RRN AND SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN GENE
|akE Aab9NfpL1Es. The New York Tribune
|YsSs EHoits for the feconciliation of the
|N6rthern and Southern Presbyterian
Churches have not been relinquished,
despite the failure of the Baltimore Con-
II Co. y
January, and it ended with the refusal
of the Southern, Com1nitteo to agree to
any plan Of fraternity until the Northern
Assembly supplemented its action, e1-
pressing confidence in the doctrinal
soundness and Christian character of the
members of the Southern Church by re-
sQlution disappearing the "imputations"
Of heresy cast upon the Southern Church
during and after the war, by the Old and
New School Assemblies. The answer of
the Northern Committee to this demand
was that it exceeded their power and in
structions. and they contended, more
over, that the United Assembly had no
authority to review or repeal the deli
verances Of the Old and New School
Assemblies. The discussion was carried
into the denominational press, and has
been, conducted with considerable
"eIMHl, tAcn chuFcn approving ana de-
Tending the course of its committee.
The question will come before the two
Assemblies this month, and will doubt
Less be warmly discussed.
/. The Presbytery of New Castle, Della
ware, has unanimously adopted an over
ture to the Cleveland Assembly, approx
ing the course Of the Northern Commit
tee ut Baltimore. and asking, in view of
the feeling of Southern Presbyterians,
that the charges of schism, heresy and
blaspherny still bear injuriously against
them, that the Assembly take such action
as may be within its powers, '.nnd by
which it may be declared in the most
solemn and unequivocal words that all
charges complained of rs injurious i'm pu-
tations against the ministers and mem-
bers Of the Southern Presbyterian Church
have been, and in order to prevent all
possible Misrepresentation on this point,
are now again, by the full authority Of
the Assembly, withdrawn and disa-
vowed" The Assembly is also asked to
appoint another committee of conference,
and to commission delegates to the
Southern Assembly.
a New ANEsrHErIc.- Otto Lei
breich. the famous German physician,
has lately discovered Ave new ansesth etic
agents, one OF which. entitled sDono.