The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-09-20
The Charleston Riot.
From tho philadclphia Timcs

o1' SopIcluDcf f.--InS
colored riots in South Carolina have
created grave alarm among the Re.
Pub: leaders here to-day, and
to night there have beon yarious
consultations and general discus,
SION OF the unexpected phase the
color Issue has taken under reckless
leaders i'll Charleston. Various
dispatches have gone to tho leaders
IN South Carolina, md especially to
Governor Chamberlain, earnestly
insisting that the negroes must be-
bettor controlled, or the North will
revolt at tho Grant-Camoron policy
adopted to carry tho election, and
they have also been been implorod
by telegraph to get out prompt
statement from somebody denying
That the negroes wantonly attacked
peaccable body of their own race,
Tor no other reason than that thoy
chose to be for the Conservative
ticket The gravity of tho case is
heightened by the general disorder
~ spirit that is steadily cropping
out and growing among tho more
ignorant and idle negroes, since the
publication of Secretary Cameron s
military order relative to tic South,
The political leaders of tho negroes
have all given the same intorpreta~
ton to Camcron's order, Just us was
intended by Grant and Cameron
themselves, and that is, that tho
army is intended to protect tho
negroes in anything they shall see
lit to do in the name of the party.
Senator Patterson publicly declared
IN this city before tho Cameron
order was issued: "Wcvc got to
raise h--ll somehow with the Mig
gers and get the troops down there,
or the Id rebels will carry tho
election in spite of U.s." and it was
III obedience to this spirit, moro
honestly than elegantly expressed
by Patterson, that the Cameron
order WAS issued. The negroes,
especially in such sections as
Charleston, where they mc in M
overwhelming majority, now be-
licvc that t.c army is behind them
and that they can do anything
necessary to carry the election, and
they are only too ready TO indulge
IN the largest license. The danger
now is that they will not stop with
political violence. The rico field
negroes, the most ignorant and
hrntalizcl OF the race III the South,
have again become turbulent on the
Combahcc, nonr Charleston, and
there is danger Of general disorder
under the immunity that they
assume they possess by tho pro,
the mmy. Governor Chamberlain is
greatly alarmed for the safety of his
State, and the Republican leaders
here to night would be glad had
Cameron order never been issued.
All rcEablc reports from Charleston
go to prove that the Republican
negroes attacked the Conservative
negroes without provocation Of any
kind. and the result is wild mob of
ignorant and lawlcsR blacks, who
.,clicve themselves above all restraint
gal or otherwise. Some of tho
orc discreet Republican leaders
here insist that while the admins
tintion cannot reccdc from it's posi-
ton by the revocation of the Gamer
on order, there must be nn official
construction put upon it publicly
that will make the negroes and
their reckless leaders in the South
understand that they must pay
some respect to law and order.
Many declare that if it is not done
the North cannot be relied upon to
sustain Hayes under the lond of
dc@potic and violent policy that
sacrifices the peace and safety of
hall the country in an effort for n
fow electoral votes, which will likely
be lost under any circumstances.
GEHMINATIoN FROM SEEDS Two
THOUSAND YEARS OLD.-A most inter
csting observation, referring to tho
power of termination in seed which
is hundreds and even thousands of
years old, is said to have
been made by Prof. Hcndrcich. in
Grcorc In the silver mines OF Lau.
rum, only the slags left by tho
anciont Greeks are at present work.
ed off, III order to gain, after IN i'm
proved modern method, silver still
left III the dross. This refuse ore is
probably about two thousand years
old. Among it, the seed Of u spc-
rics of glndcium or poppy was found,
which had slept in tho darkness of
tho earth duing nil that time.
After II little while, when the slags
were brou.yht.up and worked off at
the melting ovens, there su ldcnly
arose n crop of glaucium plants,
with II beautiful yellow flower, of
kind unknown in modern botany,
but which is described by Pliny and
others as frequent flower in ancient
Greece.
The Poor on THE Brink OF STAnvA
TIoN.--A prominent merchant in
Savannah writes as follows to q
Charleston firm
The fever increases daily, and wo
feel now it's course must DO worse
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