The Daily Phoenix

Our "Protectors."—There has been nothing heard in town from the camp of our King's Mountain home guard since our last issue, from which fact we infer that the usual good order of our County has been unbroken, even by the organization of a military company. The State constables have gone back to Columbia, leaving the task of protecting the border against Ku-Klux raids in the hands of the new-made warriors. As there is nothing for these to do but to draw pay, we feel assured that their duties will be nobly done.

The Charleston Republican published the following despatch from Columbia, which we re-produce as news for our readers:

"Disturbances in York County are reported. The constabulary force have just returned, having organized loyal citizens and furnished them arms enough for protection. K. K. K.'s, from North Carolina, have been whipping and outraging innocent persons for some time. It is rumored that an engagement has taken place, in which eight men were killed."

The Ku-Klux referred to are supposed to be bona fide ghosts, the spirits of Ferguson and his Britishers, who left their graves on King's Mountain, in the expectation of having a jolly old time; but, hearing of the approach of Littlefield, vanished into thin air, at the very idea of being reconstructed. The eight men killed, vanished with them, and their bodies have not yet been found. The military are prepared to fight these Ku-Klux to the last ditch, on their re-appearance, and fly to arms at every breeze which rustles over the mountain battle-ground. Should they fall, in the unequal combat with ethereal foes, they will have the consolation that it is sweet to die for their country.

[Yorkville Enquirer.]