The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-07-13

RAausA. July 12.--6clavonis advices
announce that 5000 Turks attacked the
villages Of Kergueze and Teohza on
Monday. The Turks were defeated and
driven to Muritj, whore they embarked
on steamers In the Lake OF Scutari. Inc
Turks. lost 400 and the Montenegrins
100. The latter captured convoy OF
pi''on' sERvIA.
Very Nearly whippea-Probable Demand
for an Armistice.
IoNDoN. July 12.-Lord Derby con-
sents to receive o deputation, including
many members Of Parliament, who will
present q memorial urging complete
neutrality In the Eastern question.
The Ielegrdph's Vienna special says :
Servia, in nine days fighting, has lost
51k per cent Of her forces. We may
any day hear Of proposals for an armls-
tice.
The Telegrnph's Paris says: hear on
very Trustworthy authority the Servians
are about to crave amnesty through the
intervention OF Russia.
THE HAMBURG RIOT.
The Responsibility Rests with the RE-
publican Party.
tCharleston Journal of Commerce.l
The riot at Hamburg on Friday last is
only another addition to the long list OF
crimes against peace and the welfare OF
both races at the South for which the
Republican party is responsible. One
need only read the full accounts OF the
origin and progress Of the affray which
is given in our news columns, to see
plainly what a disgraceful burlesque
Radical misrule has made OF govern
ment by law in South Carolina. There
is to-day not O community In the United
States outside OF South Carolina where
militia swashbuckler, white or
black, would dare respond to the
summons Of the law by calling his
militiamen together. and insolently
defying regular legal process. That
negro militia Captain Doc Adams had
the hardihood to offer this bold defiance
to the lawful majesty Of the law, as
Governor Chamberlain puts 1t, is simply
due to the fact that the law In Edgefield,
as in other parts Of South Carolina, has
not been administered with dignity and
firm impartiality, which are necessary
to make the administration OF law re-
spectacle and respected. These same
negro miltiamen In Edgefeld have in
the past engaged in high handed riot,
and having escaped unpunished, 1t was
but natural that they should expect to
repeat their defiance OF law with impu-
nifty. And SO they would have done. If
the citizens, determined to submit no
longer to the insolence Of these swash-
bucklers, had not come to the rescue of
the outraged majesty of the law. And II,
in doing this, excesses were committed
which would not have been committed
by the commissioned agents OF the law,
the circumstance Is only another count
In the terrible indictment which the
logic of events is daily perfecting against
the dominant party in this State. Such
excesses are unhappily almost insepa
rable from all administration Of law by
improvised and undisciplined posses.
They are discountenanced and deplored
by good citizens who are called to aid in
performing a necessary duty. But they
cannot always be prevented; and the
necessity which undoubtedly did exist
for the service OF one of these undiscip-
lined posses at Hamburg the other day
Is more damaging to the Republican
government OF this State than the
strongest arraignment OF Its short COM
ings that could be made in words.