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Show SO! TH CAKOLIXA. A War ofltacos Imminent A Temporary Truce Arrangeel., Chicago, 27. The Louisville Courier Journal's Augusta, Georgin, correspondent, writing under date ot the -3rd instant, of troubles between the whites and blacks in Kigefield county, South Carolina, says: "The whole State is a vast military camp and it requires the discretion of an old, cool-heacfed veteran like General M. C. Butler, the advisory commander com-mander of the white forces, to 'quiet such a ,-torm as has just been threatened. threat-ened. Had the negroes and whites in any other portion of the United States been o arrayed, there would have been a bloody buttle. I presume no one who understands the attitudo of the two races will for a moment doubt this." After detailing the circumstances of the truce which was finally arranged between the parties by terms'" on which the blacks retired to their homes, hut taking their arms with them, the writer says: But this is a truce, not peace. There is no : denying the fact that the hatred of the two races is now so intense that a ; sinele spark may at any moment kintUc a conflagration. Whilst the sympathies of the United States troops are all with the white- people, the negroes believe they will light on1 their side, and that tho whole army would be sent to their assistance, and the grand result be the extermination of the whole white population, and the handing of their bouses and lantln oyer to the negroes. Hence their leaders are anxious to precipitate the conflict. |