the bombardment of Castle
Jones, on the memorable night of the 13th of August was too vivid
upon his memory. But about the meeting.

It was a Babel of confusion from beginning to ending. This arose
principally from an evident disposition on the part of the most
prominent Greenites, to thrust the notorious Bowley upon the
people as a Delegate, against their will and wishes. The meeting
was really a Pow Wow. A motion of any description could not be
heard and the meeting adjourned without coming to any effectual
conclusion.

The majority of the people are under such a feeling having been
foiled, deceived, and deserted by the men whom they have elevated
for honor, that they now have inscribed upon their banners:

"Judge Green may try with might and main, But he'll never beat
Daniel H. Chamberlain."

REPUBLICAN.

MATTERS IN MARION

FREAKS OF A JACK-IN-OFFICE--THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DISTRICT
CONFERENCE

_Correspondence of the News and Courier_

Marion, S. C., July 20, 1874.

One W. A. Hayne, of nondescript complexion and Radical
persuasion, whose frantic speeches and other wild performances
during a political canvass several years ago procured him the
sobriquet of "Notoriety," is just now lording over our unhappy
people in the guise of a United States commissioner. In this
potential capacity he has commenced active operations against
those who he or his ebon emissaries choose to suspect of
transgressing the internal revenue law. Farmers who may have been
in the habit of purchasing small quantities of tobacco just as
they purchase other supplies for the use of the laborers on their
plantations, have all at once become victims of vindictive
prosecutions--the officers who make the arrests, and the
over-zealous witnesses for the government, all being negroes. It
is said that a farmer must not buy tobacco for his hands without
having obtained a regular license therefor. While this may or may
not be true, it seems to be certain that the warlike commissioner
is enforcing the decision not so much in the spirit of the law,
which he pretends to vindicate, as with a malicious propensity to
annoy his political opponents. He was not gracious enough to
consider that