Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-17

ana deaths OF Well hnOWH peopiCi
weather events and general happen
ings out Of the ordinary. In the mean
time persons who may desire further
information about matters that may
have been only briefly mentioned are
invited to call at the Office Of the edi-
tor and examine the original records.
FORTIETH INSTALLMEMT
Thursday, September 13, 1S60..-Mar-
ried-On Wednesday the 18th instant,
by Joseph McCosh, ESQ.,, Mr.. Henry
Green and Miss Sarah C. Hill.
On Wednesday evening the 18th in
slant by Rev. w. w. Carothers, Mr.. R.
w. Christian of the Rock Hill Chroni-
Gle and Miss Eliza A., daughter Of Mr..
John c. Wilson, all of this district.
Pursuant to the call Of Beat COM
pany No. 2, meeting Of citizens was
held at Bethel church on Wednesday of
this week for the purpose of taking
prudential steps to secure the peace
and quiet Of that section Of country.
Mai. A. A. Mckenzie was called to the
chair, and DR.. J. e. Hunter requested
to act as secretary.
The following persons were appoint
ed as a central committee: A. A. Nc
Kenzie, Capt. II. M. Jackson, James
McElwee, James Wallace and M. H.
Currence.
The central committee appointed the
following persons to act as sub COM
mittee in the seven patrol beats:
Beat No. 1-B. f. Miller, Peter Nc
Callum, ]. L. Barron. Beat No. 2-G.
w. Mason, M. A. Bigger, ]. H. Glenn.
Beat No. &c. L. Riddle, N. B. Craig,
w. A. Barnett. Beat No. Al. c. Pat
rick, L. P. Brandon, Leander Adams.
Beat No. Sd. A. Adams, S. L. Adams,
James Jackson. Beat No. 6-J. c. Nc
Carter, s. D. Stowe, w. A. Currence.
SO
A man named VIM. S. McCleave,
hailing from the state Of Maine, was
on Saturday last by order of the Vigi-
lance committee, whipped by negro
at Grahamville for tampering with
slaves in that vicinity. McCleave was
then placed on the cars Of the Charles
ton and Savannah railroad and arrived
in the city yesterday and given in
charge of the mayor, who will ship
him by the first convenience to the
north-Charleston Mercury.
The citizens Of this district seem to
be on the alert. Within the last week
we have heard of two Vigilance COM
mittees being organized in different
parts Of the district. This is very
well.-Newberry Conservatist.
Conditions in Texas.
Rusk, Cherokee county, Texas, Aug.
81, 1S60.--Dear Enquirer: Supposing
that you and your numerous readers
would like to hear what is going on in
Texas from one who is in the state,
have thought it not amiss, while engag-
ed in giving the same information to
others in different parts Of the county
events in the Lone Star" state. We
are in the midst Of serville war, in
stigated by the devil, planned by hell
ish fiends, and waged by fanaticism
has been chosen as the field for Oper-
ations during the presidential canvass;
and that the Kansas war is to be re-
enacted on a grander scale, but for the
same general political purposes, that a
howl may be gotten up in the Repub-
lican camp to advance Lincoln's elec-
tiCn. These are the conclusions forced
upon our mind, and proven almost be-
yond a doubt by recent developments.
On the 8th of July the town of Dali
las was fired and entirely consumed;
and on the same day, about the same
hour, several houses and stores were
burned in the country. Several suspi-
cious persons were arrested; and here
was an entering wedge that laid bare
one of the deepest and most effective
and hellish plots ever concocted by
fends incarnate. We have not yet got
hold of any Of the principal leaders;
but the confessions Of negroes strik-
ingly corroborate each other all over
the state-revealing a plot too horrible
to contemplate, especially when we
think how near, while we slept secure
ly, the time of universal murder and
rapine was upon us.
The emissaries are in shape of itin-
Grant Methodist and Baptist preachers,
carpenters, book agents, peddlers, pat
ent-rights vendors and hum -buggers
generally. These chaps have canvass
ed the whole state and enlisted in their
cause a number of northern mechanics,
some OF whom have been here for
years. In this way they have gained
access to many Of the most intelligent
negroes whom they have decoyed into
their plot, and to whom they gave the
plan Of operation; but the mass Of the
negroes were to be kept in the dark
until the fatal day.
Strychnine was distributed largely
among the negroes, with instructions
to poison the wells and springs on Sun
day, 9Th of Augustine day before the
election-and on Monday morning to
put it in the coffee; then while the
men were gone 20 the election, to burn
the houses and kill the women and
Misunderstanding the daughters for
wives finally to meet the men on their
return from the election and dispatch
all who had not fallen victims to the
strychnine, Meanwhile they were
promised arms and ammunition, and
aid by the white men and free negroes