and Courier fails to report it, and the Sun
does not shine upon it.

The Hon. A. J. Ransier then took the platform, but his address
was interrupted by an unlooked for incident.

A number of policemen having in charge some of the men who were
wounded in the fracas with the strikers, of which an account is
given elsewhere in this issue, were seen marching down Meeting
street followed by a considerable crowd. The bigger crowd seeing
the others, and not knowing what was up, became demoralized, and
a panic ensued followed by a general stampede.

SPEECH OF W. A. HAYNE, OF MARION,

_On Outrages In Edgefield County S. C._

The House, in Committee of the Whole, having under consideration
the following message from His Excellency:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Executive Chamber,
Columbia, March 1, 1876.

HON. ROBERT B. ELLIOTT, Speaker House of Representatives:

_Sir:_--I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of
a resolution adopted by the House of Representatives and
concurred in by the Senate, by which I am requested to report to
this General Assembly at the earliest practicable moment all the
facts and information in my possession in relation to outrages
alleged to have been committed recently in Edgefield County.

I have the honor, in reply, to say that the information received
by me respecting the matter referred to is, in substance, that,
on the night of the 11th of February, some twenty-five or thirty
mounted men, in disguise, went to the house of James Perry,
living near Ridge Spring, in the County of Edgefield; that they
found in the house Freeman Gardner, his wife, Julia Brooks, a
woman between seventy and eighty years of age, and Zilpha Hill, a
young woman--all colored; that this disguised band took all four
of the immates of the house to a point of about a mile and a
quarter distant and then stripped and whipped them all; that
after the whipping was over, the woman, Patsey Gardner, was
severely and systematically burned by the application of liquid
sealing wax or burning pitch to her back and limbs; that the
young woman, Zilpha Hill, who was pregnant was also beaten and
severely abused, to such an extent as to enda