The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-01

otate are now In the hands of private
parties, and also to inquire what is
the number of acres on which the
taxes have not been paid, since 1861,
and the amount of the taxes due by
virtue OF the non-payment OF such by
the owners.
A Brnce Of Cnrpct-Baggers--Th Men
Who Would Rule South Carolina.
The Charleston correspondent of
the New York World sketches white
man Lewis and black man Randolph
with telling raciness:
Rev. L. w. Lewis is white man.
Rev. B. f. Randolph is q thick
Tipped, lustful mulatto. Both are
preachers; both are professors in the
Baker Theological Institute, COLOR
ed, established here since the war:
both are editors Of an obscure, dirty,
blasphemous, semi-Methodist, semi
political, all radical, little weekly,
published i'll this city, and called the
Charleston Adcocate;; both are from
States considerably North of this;
Lewis hailing from Massachusetts,
and Randolph from Ohio; both are
preachers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, aud leading men in what
that church recognizes and supports
as.the South Carolina Mission Con-
ference. OF course the membership
IS confined to the blacks, who have
been allnred by these Evolves in
Sleeps clothing" from the folds in
which they were formerly nurtured.
Neither of these men could stand
successful examination in Webster's
spelling-book. or write what I would
consider n creditable note; and yet
both are duly registered as 'sprofes-
sors" in high-sounding departments
of n Theological institution, whose
catalogue is circulated in New Eng
land, and embraces q course of study
before which even the students of
Princeton and Andover might well
tremble.
The Adr0cate has but handful of
subscribers in this section, for the
negroes are unable to read it, and
very few Of the white people even
know OF its existence. But with or
without circulation, and however
contemptibly diminutivc and badly
printed, it receives Mcpherson
douceur of the public printing to tho
tune of $4,000 per annnm, as per-
haps the only "trooly loil'' paper in
the State. With this, and such sub
scribers rs the editors pick up in
their summer visits and peregrina-
tions among the New England saints,
the radical organ in reconstructed
Soutb Caroline 20 ,,,o;,,t,;-ol ni .
entire working force, when the Office
was visited not long since, consisted
of one dirty white man and one
black "devil," Il. e. negro appren.
tice.) The dirty white man has since
been appointed by Gen. Candy an
alderman of this city, with number
of negro cont'eres assigned to similar
prominence and power, by the me-
morable coup de grace of the great
satrap who now lords it over the two
Carolinas. What has become of the
black devil" deponent knoweth not,
nor need your readers care.
The mulatto Randolph is the con-
genial associate of Lewis in the edi-
torial sanctum and chair professional.
When the Radical Negro League
Junta was arranging its machinery
for the control of the State, it was
ascertained that this city was over
stocked with candidates, aud that
a distribution would be necessary.
Accordingly, numerous carg3-bag-
gers hero were uncceremoniously
assigned to counties in the interior;
and thus Randolph, professor in the
Baker Theological Institute, and
editor of the Charleston Adcocate,
and living in this city, was duly
returned, and officially recognized
by General Candy as delegate to
the Convention from Orangeburg,
eighty miles distant in the interior
And, in like manner, the whole nest
of adventures, harbored here under
the shadow of the citadel, were pro-
vided for in Convention audacions-
ly termed constitutional" BY this
mannuvre, Randolph added to his
other income the eleven dollars per
diem and mileage, as a member of