The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-12-23

since he was last in Charleston, he may
be expected to sever his connection with
the company in very:short time.
We turn now to the part played by
Governor Scott in the matter of the con-
tract. The lutelligencer says that "lf
Governor Scott made arrangements to
obtain nice little job with these con-
tractors, it is somewhat singular that ne
should be among the first to relfnqulsf'
and advise discontinuance OF tho con-
tract" This is vory poor preaching
EGovernor Scott became % partner In the
Blue Ridge Railroad Company in order
to make money. The NelcS succeeded in
keeping down the price of State bonds,
and in making it doubtful whether the
Legislature would cancel the S4,OOO,OOO
euarartee and give q guarantee for So
600 600 in its.stead. This and the tardi-
ness of the contractors made Scott be-
Iieve thai more money could be made by
ballooping State securities than by fight
ing the battles of Crissvell & Co. Out
of the Senate resolutions not to grant
State aid to railroads, the gold interest
bill, the bill to fund the new bills of the
Bank of the State, and tho bill requiring
certain companies to deposit State bonds
with the Comptroller Governor
Scott hopes to make moro than ne expect
ed to realize out of the Blue Ridge Ring.
And this brings us to the assertion made
by the InteAigencer that cit may be true
that the State officials Uere interested with
the contractors, but we respectfully SUBJ
NIT that the sequence to this contract does
not furnish evidence to that effect" We
saw that it does furnish ample evidence,
and that if the beginning of the contract
was only as bad as it's end is, tho Necs
was fully justified in treating the whole
transaction as swindle and cheat.
The. last meeting of the Blue Ridge
Railroad Company, held in Charleston,
was not open to the public-scott and
Pillsbury, by proxy, represented the pco-
ple and the So 1000. 900 spent upon the
road. The first news of the result of the
meeting came from Columbia. Two OF
the Charleston directors had resigned,
and one had been dropped, and the Criss-
veil & Co. contract had been carefully
discussed. subsequently a meeting of
the directors was held in Columbia. They
sat with closed doors, and every member
was pledged to secrecy. The Intelligencer,
however, admits that "thcy agreed to
nav seventy-fve thousand dollars to
Crissvell L. Co., who bad done "about IF:
teen or twenty thousand dollars worth of
work on the road" This is part of the
truth. but not the whole truth. Is the
Mtelliqencer aware that the value of all
the work done by Crissvell & Go. on the
Blue Ridge Railroad is set down in the
pubic prints at fifteen hundred dollars !?
Has the Intelliqencer heard that the At
torney-General, consulted by the Board,
gave his opinion that Crissveil & Go. le.
gally forfeited their contract and could
Claim no damages? Does the Intelligen-
ieer know that besides paying $4,000 for
work which cost only $500, the Board
agreed to settle with the sub-contractors!
The truth of this statements IS not denied,
and we say that this last job, this settle.
,ment with the contractors, is to the full
as bad as the first. This paying $4,000
where not a cert was legally due, is the
natural sequence" of the Crissvel & Co.
contract. and does, if there is anything
lin the reasoning of our contemporary,
."farnish evidence" that the original con-
tract was corruptly and improperly made
And we desire the Mtelligencer to un-
dcrstand that there arc other "nice little
Jobs" connected with the Blue Ridge
Railroad besides those which this paper
has already published. Does our con-
temporary know how many OF the ST.
100000 bonds authorized to be guaran-
teed have been delivered to the Blue
Ridge Railroad Company, and how much
it cost to get thcm2 Ugly rumors upon
this subject are flying thick and fast.
And, perhaps, the htelligencer can inform
us aulhoritatively whether one of the
signatures necessary to make the bonds
negotiable was very hard to obtain, and
what was the amount thousands or tens
of thousands y of the official fee? We
know enough already of these schemes OF
plumber, but tho Intelliqencer is not easily
convinced. 1t says that it will "heartly
Join the Neus in exposing rascality OF
every Sort" and that it can "never allow
it's preiudiees to outweigh Judgment for
the purpose of creating q sensation
We now ask the Mtelhgencer to join the
News in uncarthing the jobberies Of the
Blue Ridge Ring, and beg that it will not
allow its prejudiccs in ia eor of a great
public work to outweigh what is due to
itself and to tho State. Charleston Ne1cS.
LARGE PAY AND LITTLE WoRK.-At
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