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[[seven column page - columns transcribed Left to Right]] [[Column 1]] The late negro riot at Camilla, Ga., has been the fruitful theme of more than the usual Radical misrepresentation, and the columns of the Tribune have teemed with the most distorted perversions of the real facts of the case. To correct these falsehoods, the Hon. B. H. Hill, who is now in New York, has addressed an able and interesting letter to that paper, in which he fully and clearly sets forth the truth of the matter, and which must carry conviction to every unprejudiced mind. We will briefly indicate the points made in the letter. He shows that Radical agitators, under the pretext that the Democratic party intended to re-enslave the negroes, had been encouraging them to arm themselves and to hold nightly drills in military style. This had been done with a two-fold object: first, to place them the more fully under Radical control; and second, to provoke collisions which might influence the Northern people, by the story of "rebel outrages." The policy of the Southern whites was precisely the reverse, since in the first place, their lives and property would be endangered by any outbreak; second, it would lead to the ruin of the crops; third, by exciting the passions of the Northern people, it would prejudice the interests of the Democratic party in the coming election. Hence, they resolved first, to bear tamely every insult, and second, to invoke the aid of the civil authorities in repressing these armed meetings. They persisted, and the Camilla riot was the result. Camilla is a small village, of not more than three hundred inhabitants, and with a large assemblage of negroes, all armed, and excited by inflammatory speeches from their leaders, Pierce and Murphy, would have been subjected to all the dangers of pillage and arson. Mr. Hill, in the concluding paragraphs of his letter, presses upon the attention of Mr. Greely certain considerations which to the Southern people are all-controlling, but which the advocate of equal rights and universal philanthrophy studiously ignores. Says he: "The Camilla riot, properly understood, will exhibit to the Northern people more clearly than a thousand speeches could, the exact reason why the Southern whites are, at present, unwilling to extend universal, indiscriminate suffrage to the negroes. It is because they can be taken possession of by a very few bad white men [[/Column 1]] [[Column 2]] [[Line cut off, unreadable]] We publish in another column a communication which originally appeared in the Banner, from Col. D W. Aiken, and a card of Capt. W.F. DeKnight, the agent of the Bureau at this place. The publication of Col. Aiken's communication we think ill advised, unless it had been accompanied by a refutation of the charges of the report, which, upon investigation, we feel assured could have been very easily made; and if even [[so?]] accompanied, it might be used by our enemies to our prejudice, The whole purpose of a partisan press now is to villify and misrepresent us. This is now the political capital upon which they are trading - the means by which they appeal to the prejudices and passions of the hour. But as the publication has been made, and the communication is in the hands of a portion of our citizens, we do not feel at liberty to withhold it from the rest. Let them all read, and ask themselves whether justice has been done to the fair fame of our District by those secret reports and ex parte investigations. With regard to the report of Capt. DeKnight, we will only say, that if in the discharge of his own proper duties, he had reported merely undoubted facts for the information of his snperior, our citizens would have no just cause for complaint; but when, instead of this, he makes sweeping charges and wholesale denunciations against a whole people, to wit: that "the life and property of no one is secure," and that "the white man seems privileged to inflict whatever injury he may choose, with perfect impunity" - he asserts that which he has had no means of verifying, and which our people know not to be so. Our District we believe to be as quiet and orderly as any in the State; and in so far as it is otherwise, that it is in a great measure owing to the existence of a Bureau, where partial statements and frivolous complaints find too ready an ear, and thus are made to produce their natural fruits of bitterness, alienation and strife. With regard to the letter of the Rev. Edwards, we hear that he disowns the authorship, and we commend his taste and good sense in so doing; since, if genuine, it would prove rather his competency to command a company of dragoons, than to lead "the sacramental host of God's elect." [[printed separation line]] (pointing finger) The grand mass meeting at Washington, Ga., came off on yesterday. Messrs. Burt and McGowan, of our village, were among the distinguished speakers present. [[printed separation line]] (pointing finger) The negroes Whipper, Elliott and Wright have been admitted to the Bar of this State. [[/Column 2]] [[Column 3]] (top of page missing) fatal lethargy; arouse them not by words of denunciation; not by appeals of their prejudices and passions but to their reason and patriotism. The stake is valuable above all earthly price; it is Good Government for ourselves and our posterity. [[printed separation line]] Campaign in Ohio [[small printed separation line]] The campaign in the Northwest is being carried on by the Democracy with great enthusiasm, and with the most cheering prospects of success. Pendleton has been making some great speeches to large crowds in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, whilst he has been nobly seconded by Doolittle, Vallandigham, and others in Ohio and elsewhere. An admirable address to the people of Ohio, by the Hon. Thos. Eving, who represents the fifty thousand Conservative Republicans who voted against negro suffrage at the last election, is being used as a campaign document, and must have a telling effect upon the intelligent voters of that young giant of the West. The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel thus sums up the probable results in that State: Our news from this State is of the most cheering character. The Democracy expect to carry sixteen out of the nineteen Congressional Districts. In the Third Vallandigham is certain to defeat braggart Bob Scenck, hero of Vienna; in the Tenth Judge Hoag is making a gallant canvass against the notorious Ashley, and will be sure to beat him; while in the Sixteenth woman murderer Bingham will be elected to stay at home by a handsome majority. The Democracy of the Buckeye State are thoroughly aroused. Such enthusiasm and vigor was never known in the canvass there before. A few days since at a meeting in Newark in that State, Senator Doolittle spoke for two hours to a vast throng, who stood during the whole time in a drenching rain, and even then closed his address admidst repeated calls to "go on." The Vermont and Main fizzles don't seem to have dampened the ardor of the Buckeye boys half so much as they did the weak-kneed Democracy of this city. [[printed separation line]] (pointing finger) We regret to learn that Mr. Boazman, while engaged at his saw mill at Ninety-Six, on Monday last, was caught under a heavy log, crushed, and instantly killed. He leaves a young wife and three children to mourn his untimely loss. [[printed separation line]] (pointing finger) We return our best thanks to Mr. J.W. Fowler for very complete files of the late New York and Baltimore papers. [[/Column 3]] [[Column 4]] (top of page missing) keep it up! The police of the State and the maintainance of a negro force in each County, provided for by law, will require over a million of dollars! The pay of jurors, the support of [[paupers?]], and other incidental appropriations, will probably cost the State five or six hundred thousand more - making an aggregate of four millions of dollars! This enormous sum cannot be paid, and should not be paid by the impoverished people of South Carolina. It is ten times the taxation which we were required to pay, in our days of prosperity! [[printed separation line]] GOVERNOR WARMOUTH'S VETO.- Governor Warmouth of Louisiana by his veto of the civil rights bill, has raised a storm of negro Radical indignation. The white members are confident of sustaining the veto. In his message he says: I return to the House of Representatives viz: an act to protect all persons in their public and civil rights without my signature, for the following reasons, to wit: The rights and privileges enumerated in the first section of this bill and sought to be enforced thereby are fully and explicitly recognized in the Constitution of the State. Even a foreigner not a citizen, has the same right to travel and be entertained as a citizen and there is nothing in our jurisprudence which makes distinction on account of race or color, except n so far as relates to slavery. The organic law of the land gives to all persons perfect equality of civil rights, including the privilege of enforcing those rights in the courts and employing all the legal remedies which have theretofore been found requisite to secure their rights to all persons; the means, however, proposed in the 4th section of the bill for enforcing those rights are, in my judgment, not only novel and unprecedented, but impracticable and pernicious. It seeks to make that a crime which has never, to my knowledge, been so considered in those communities where the highest regard is paid to the personal rights of men. There is and ought always to be a broad line of demarcation fixed between a crime and the breach of obligations growing out of civil contracts and we demoralize the public conscience and confuse its conceptions of right and wrong when we seek to obliterate so evident a distinction. [[printed separation line]] (pointing finger) D.T. Corbin has resigned the post of Judge of the First Circuit. No explanation has been given of the reason for this step. [[printed separation line]] (pointing finger) Messrs. H.W. Lawson & Co. will pay the highest price for Rags, Copper, Brass, Pewter, &c. See notice. [[/Column 4]] [[Column 5]] (line cut off) furnishing goods, gent's furnishing goods, fancy articles, cloaks, shawls, boots and shoes, furs, clothing, &c. - The stock has been purchased by Mr. J. W. Fowler, with his well known skill in the New York market, and we are sure that in quality, style and prices, it will give satisfaction. Call and examine for yourselves. [[printed separation line]] GROCERIES,PROVISIONS AND HARDWARE. - Mr. Thos. Eakin is now receiving his Fall supply of groceries, provisions and hardware, which have been purchased by an experienced and skillful buyer in the New York, Baltimore and Charleston markets. The stock embraces the very best qualities of goods, and will be sold low. He engages to sell as cheap as any merchant this side of Charleston, and is sure that he can give satisfaction both in price and quality. All then who wich chice groceries, the best of wines and liquors, superior table and pocket cutlery, &c., &c., will give him a call. [[printed separation line]] FALL AND WINTER FASHIONS. - Ms. Schwarz has just received a full supply of the latest and best styles of millinrey goods, which she is offering at very moderate prices. Her stock consists of hats, bonnets, plumes, flowers, ribbons, laces, and everything in her line. Bridal bonnets made to order. Her skill and experience will enable her to give general satisfaction, She has also just received candies, raisins, almonds, nuts of various kinds, oysters, cheese, crackers, cakes of all kinds. [[printed separation line]] DISSOLUTION - NEW FIRM. - By refernece to the cards that appear in another column, it will be seen that the old firm of Messrs. Quarles & Thomson has been dissolved by mutual consent, and the business will be continued at the same location by the new firm of Messrs. Quarles, Perrin & Co. To these gentlemen all, we extend our best wishes. Mr. Lewis Perrin, of the new firm, is well known to our citizens, and needs no word of commendation from us. We invoke the best patronage of our friends in their behalf. [[printed separation line]] WHITE, SMITH & CO. - This well known firm are now receiving large additions to their Fall and Winter stock. Mr. Leonard White, of the firm, is now in New York, laying in a large and select stock, and soon they will be enabled to offer to their friends and customers the best that the market affords. They have on hand bagging, rope, twine, and cotton ties. Give them a call. [[printed separation line]] (pointing finger) Messrs. Cowan & Lyon offer [[for?]] sale some excellent Seed Wheat. [[/Column 5]] [[Column 6]] (advertisement box 1) Just Received A LOT OF THE WELL-KNOWN "Arrow Tie." White, Smith, & Co. October 2, 1868. 23, tf (advertisement box 2) DISSOLUTION. We, the undersigned, have this day, by mutual consent, dissolved the partnership heretofore existing under the name of Quarles & Thomson. All accounts will be found in the hands of Messrs. Quarles, Perrin & Co., At the old stand. Please call and settle. T.P. QUARLES. J A. THOMSON Abbeville C. h., Sept. 29th, 1868. (advertisement box 3) PARTNERSHIP. The undersigned have this day termed a partnership for the purpose of conducting a general Dry Goods business, at the old stand of Quarles & Thomson. QUARLES, PERRIN & Co. Abbeville C.H, Oct. 2, 1868, 23, tf (advertisement box 4) TO THE LADIES! We shall be able, in a few days, to show the Ladies a beautiful assortment of Hats and Bonnets and Dress patterns, and Fashion plates from M'dme Demorest. Respectfully, FOWLER & M'DONALD (advertisement box 5) Lecture on Monday Night. The subscriber will deliver a LECTURE ON HISTORY, in the Court House, on Monday evening next. Doors open at 7 1/2 o'clock. Tickets, 50 cents. E.R. MILES. Oct 2, 1868, 23 - lt (advertisement box 6) ONE THOUSAND BUSHELS Fine Alabama Seed Wheat for sale at the Smith Farm, by COWAN & LYON. Oct 2, 1868, 23, lt (advertisement box 7) The highest price paid in cash for the following Dried peaches and apples, old cotton and linen rags, old pewter, copper, lead, brass and Beeswax. H.W. LAWSON & CO. Oct. 2, 1868m 3 t, (advertisement box 8) IN THE MATTER OF EDWIN PARKER IN BANKRUPTCY. The undersigned has been duly appointed Assignee of EDWIN PARKER. All persons indebted to him at the date of the application are hereby notified to make payment to me at an early date. WM. H. PARKER, Assignee. Sept. 10, 1868, 20, tf [[/column 6]] [[column 7]] (advertisement box 1) THOS. EAKIN Would respectfully announce that he is now receiving his FALL SUPPLIES of GROCERIES and PROVISIONS, HARDWARE and CUTLERY, SHOES, HATS, &c., which have been purchased for cash by an experienced buyer. He hazards nothing in saying that he can sell as cheap as any Merchant this side of Charleston. His motto is, in fact, "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS." The Stock was purchased in Charleston, New York and Baltimore, and embraces everything usually kept in a FIRST CLASS GROCERY STORE. The attention of the trading public is respectfully invited to the following, viz: BAGGING, ROPE AND TWINE, SUGAR, COFFEE, MOLASSES, CONFECTIONERIES, all kinds, WINES AND LIQUORS, ALL KINDS, tobacco and Segars, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, SAWS, FILES, BRACES AND BITTS, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, WITH MANY OTHER ARTICLES USELESS TO MENTION. This Stock will be kept supplied with the best Goods, and purchasers may rely upon it, that it is the design to keep nothing but the best, at small profits, which must be paid for when sold, or a strict compliance with the contract if short time is allowed. It must be apparent to every man of sense, who intends to deal fairly, that a Merchant cannot keep up his supplies without prompt payment. And to this end, all are exhorted, without respect to persons, to come up and pay for what they have consumed during the past nine months and previous. Respectfully, THOS. EAKIN. Sept 30 40 tf (advertisement box 2) FALL AND WINTER FASHION! MRS. SCHWARZ ANNOUNCES to her friends and customers, that she has received a full suPply of the LATEST STYLE of Millinery Goods which she offers at very moderate prices to suit the times. The goods consist of HATS, BONNETS, PLUMES, FLOWERS, RIBBONS, LACES, And everything appertaining the business. Thankful for past favors, she solicits the further patronage of her customers. Bridal Bonnets of the most fashionable style made to order. Parties interested will please give me an early call. Also received this day at my CONFECTIONARY STORE a fresh supply of Candies, Raisins, Almonds, English Walnuts, Filberts, Pecans, Brazil Nuts, Fresh Cove Oysters, Sardines, Cheese and Crackers, Sugar and Fancy Cakes. For sale cheap for Cash at MRS. SCHWARZ'S Oct. 2, 1868, 23 tf [[/column 7]]
