The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-12
PEACEFUL DEMOCRATS.

Repetition Of the Hamburg Massacre.
New York, Dec. 1.-THE Times
says: Another Hamburg massacre
comes to endorse the peace protestations
of Wade Hampton's Democrats, SO
much be-praised in northern journals.
For several days past rumors have
reached here through Democratic
sources of a negro conspiracy to kill all
the white people in the vicinity of
Loundesville, on the Georgia side of Alb
beville county, in South Carolina. This
is q violent section, where the shotgun
policy was ruthlessly enforced in the
late ava A gentleman just in
from that section gives the following
facts:
On Monday night, the 4th instant,
two white men are said to have been
fired upon from an ambush, while going
home from Abbeyville Courthouse to
Loundesville. One was killed and the
other wounded. The latter asserted
that negroes fired the shots. The alarm
| was at once given to the rifle clubs, and
mounted men by hundreds began scour-
ing the country. One batch of ten col
ored men were arrested and sent in
charge of a constable to Abbeyville
Courthouse. While on their way they
were taken from the officer and shot to
death by the roadside. Another lot of
thirteen were taken to Anderson Court
house. These were taken violently i'll
| after they arrived, dying almost imme-
diately, and three others are not ex-
pected to live from the effects of poison.
Upipto Friday last thirty-six colored
men had been arrested, and the work
was still going on. Rumors of the
shooting of many more colored men are
circulating. Many have fled, and the
greatest terror prevails.
We have no doubt but that the am
bush and conspiracy are as thin pre-
lenses for this massacre as was the pa
rade of a negro militia company on the
Fourth of July for that of Hamburg.
1t is a part of the champion and
peace'' programme there, which is a
counterpart Of the "Tilden and reform
\ with us.
The details of the attempt to buy an
electoral vote for Tilden in South Caro-
lima will be given to the public o
1t will implicate the New York agent
who was there under a assumed name,
also the president of a railroad there,
and may yet pick up a clew to some of
the queer proceedings in Moses court.
Columbia, Dec. 11.-Positive infor-
nation has been received here that the
Loundesville murderers were not
lynched, as reported. The prisoners
were taken from Loundesville to Ander-
son Friday night, and removed thence
to Wallhalla, Oconee county, as a pre-
caution against violence, owing to
threats made by the people. An inves-
tigation discloses that the plot to muir
der the whites Unfortunately was
horrible, which aroused the excitement
among the whites to the extent Of
threatening summary punishment.
Precautions were taken which averted
this, and everything is now quiet. One
of the captured murderers took lauda
mum and died from the effect. The
jury IN his case returned a verdict &C
icordingly. The prisoners are now saf'
in Wallhalla Jail.
No Jurisdiction.
Judge Bond delivered a decision dis
charging the board Of state cahvasser
from custody, on the ground that TIN
= Supreme court of that state had no ju
risdiction.
=Brevet Col. Thos. B. Weir, of the I'll
o. 5. cavalry, better known as "Gen
Clusters regiment, !" died suddenly Sun