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

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eyes. Very respectfully, -,
THE DHsTRUcTIoN OF THE BALIoTs.-A
correspshaHt Of ths Aqgush qt,on;ess
and Sentinel writes as follows, under date
of BaRwell May 16; ,,..s .GssI,,UE
At an early hour, before day this NORM
ing, some party or parties entered our
Clerk of the Court, where the boxes CON
tanning the ballots were deposited for
!by the Commissioners 6f
Election, and took them out to q pine
grovssintkp edge of the town and de-.
2roS Sdssbsm by AreT Not 1 shred Vas
left, as 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 condolences. had Thought up
every prominent and influential colored
man in MeS County with very few ex-
ceptions, md Mdce the = election they, I
Bslpve, FsgSt their hstibns lid the mat
trJl Of 2ohfs4 tho citHanhso Bsrnwell
fllagS Mll Ibc saddled With this ont
rageods proceeding, while they to h man
sSnasa sSnasT9 all lsyabiaipg sh citizens
unaer ss hssesss ihsm sss
dA. ths szdbrk for effect Oh the voter4 ! It
vas rSpotted that BlaSkSille hah kdh tho
Sle{tiSnftT o. large minority tfthis was
SO It %as unfairly done, ns money was
freely used blythe advocates of Black
vills, and thevsrJ men who II vited Les
lie. back to the County, and I do solemnly
bSafeve that It ID the only spot in Carplina
whore he would have been taken by the
hand knd almost lifted intb' power. I do
not include the entire town of Blackville
~ esuonsHtutiug. the: ISeslie ring, but the
men who invited him back, and 10 those
the entire State of South Carolina are
fhdeRt9d 1ot the bOpanza 'bill, the court
h8gsbsbiIl and other schemes az vile rs
potion 4 Should 'it have been shown
ahHI declared by the COMMISSIONERS of
El6ea6h that Blackvi1lef; had won the
court house; We had avery 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 smeeting ofthe citizens of
colorSd great Indignation Was oppressed
at thS HnSee3pgs of the unknown par
ties khbidld tHg destructive work, and
ann happy to state some precautionary
measures have been taken to prevent fur
ther outrages which may occur against
private property, .,- ~, s.~..-,.,.
The EFFORTS TO RE-UNrTE THE NORTH
KRN AND SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN GENE
~. &a181ftIte ATNe'NSWs YorII 1siJisne
BaSs \ ktoas 1fthe Rehabilitation of the
3g6ftkAfh Sand ESousher erAr Presbyterian
Churches have not been relinquished,
despite the failure Of the Baltimore Con-
ference. This Conferenceswas held last
January aqd it ended with the refusal
of the SSnihern; ComShtteess to iagree to
any nlaK offratstn stnitynntil the Northern
Assembly supplemented its action, ex-
pressing confidence in the doctrinal
soundness and Christian character of the
members of the Southern Church by re-
A3 3utiot disapproving TIE "inputations'
u heresy cast upon the 'Southern Church
during and after the war, by the Old and
the Northern Committee to this demand
WAS that it exgaedi11aa their power and in
structions, ana they fe0ntended, more
over, that th6. .Unitsd 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
warmth, each chnfch iappro wing and de-
Tending the course Of its committee.
The question will come before. the two
ASa6mblie6 thfs month, and will doubt
Jess be warmly discussed.
= The Pfe1bytAfy of New Castle, Dela-
yare, has unanimously adopted an over
tufe to the Cleveland Assembly, approx
ing Che course Of tho Northern Commit
tee ut Baltimore. and asking, in view of
the feeling Of Southern Presbyterians,
that the charges Of schisnl, heresy and
bIaspherhy still bear injuriously against
them, that the Assembly take such action
as may be within its powers, .nnd by
which it mPy be declared in the most
solemn and sunequivocal words that all
charges complained Of az injurious impu-
tations against the ministers and men,
bersof the Southern Presbyterian Church
have been, and in order to prevent all
possible misapprehension 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 AN3sTHETIc.-Dr. Otto Lei
breich, the famous German physician,
has lately disoevsrad. RYs now anssthetic
agents, one OF which, entitled sDono-
mine, possesses the wonderful power of
putting the patient into q deep but
healthy sleep. One hour Of sleep in