The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-25

erp0r until yesterday nufuiu6, aisei ouuou neu
returned to Charleston.
The following letters came on the same train
with him:
| COLUMBIA, SKprHMBER, %, 1869.
r. S. Thdrin, Esq, Attorney-dt Lao, Charles
sR-i am directed by his Excellency Gov
ernor Scott to acknowledge the receipt OF q
brief containing :. report Of the proceedings
before Magistrates Kanapaux and DeLarge, in
examination of charges against Magistrate
Bunch, and to inform you that he has com.
municated with these gentlemen by letter, o!
which enclose copg. q
| Very respectfully,
JOHN HEART, Private Secretary.
COLUMBIA, September 23, 1869.
Aessrs. Kanapaur ard DeLarqe, Magistrates,
Charleston, s, c.:
| GENrLEMEN-I am directed BY his Exceency
| Governor Scott to inform you that, In referring
| to you certain charges against Magistrate
Bunch, he dId not intend or desire Judicial
investigation of such charges; but, conhdlng
in your integrity and impartiality, he wished
you to ascertain whether there was such found
alton for these charges as would call for his
| removal from Office, leaving to the aggreved
parties their remedies in the courts.
Very respectfully,
JOHN HEART, Private Secretary.
From the above it will be seen that Bunch,
| by his quick movement, succeeded in getting
the Governor to decide in his favor without
hearing but one side Of the case, and that
given by the accused. That was quite cool on
the part of the Governor; but the following
communication which Mr.. r. 8. Tharin saw
fit to address to Magistrates Kanapaux and
DeLarge, after receiving the letters, is re-
freshingly cool, not only in instructing the
magistrates, but in passing judgment upon
man who has not yet been tried. 1t would be
well to remark here that both the letters and
the communication we're voluntarily furnished
TO Us by Mr. Thsriu:
CHARLESTON, September "a, 1869.
Aessrs. Kanapauz and DeLaTge, Magistrates,
DC:
GENrLEMFN-By this time you are doubtless
10 receipt of the original letter Of the 23d in
stant, copy Of which the Governor has in
closed to me, as counsel for L. Bunch, Esq,
Magistrate, &c.
Permit me to respectfully call your attention
to the following extract from the same:
"But, confiding in your integrity and impair
tiality, he wished you to ascertain whether
there was any such foundation for these
charges az would call TOR his removal from
ofics. leaving to the aegrieyed parties tnsr
remedies in the courts"
It remains, therefore, for counsel to present
his views on the subject-matter thus submit
ted to him by the "Chief Magistrate" in this
case.
respectfully lay it down that the Governor.
not wishing to wound the feelings OF the COM
mission by any unnecessary abruptness, has,
m delicate and truly eentlemahly way, lntI-
mated his desire that you dismiss the proceed
- o..l ~, - oaf IN Gnlnnohio
The Governor, know to be FULLY apprized OF
the Foundation" upon which ''these charges"
rest. He is aware that the foundation" ID not
solid enough to warrant report damaging 10
my client. The Foundation" Of sand. into
which alone you are, by this letter tt me 2S1
instant, authorized to look, consists Of q single
accuser, whose word, upon oath, all p!epar-
ed to impeach. ard whose entire conduct,
as citizen, is such as to remove all
Foundation" from his bitter and overdrawn
denunciations OF the man whose name he
forged for o grocery-biL, and whom he now
spitefully arraigns tor catalogue or crimes,
almost as long as the list he forged OF I'M
aginary subscribers to q religious oD]ect, or
the procession OF witnesses who are prepared,
on oath, to substantilte thi5 fact. At the
head OF that long list stands his outraged
pastor Rev. W. 81. Brown, who he's already
testified before two magistrates, that Bunch's
accuser is forger, and that he has defrauded
he was duly committed to prison, to which
melancholy bourne he will return upon sir-
render by his accommodating bail. when
Magistrate Bunch shall have passed through
this singular ordeall
Clearly, then, the Governor has, IN delicate
and considerate manner, instructed You 10
dismiss the accused, since no Foundation" can
soldly exist with such an aecuser Tor lt5 SUBJ
straction.
The Governor once wished you to ascertain
whether there was such foundation for these
charges as would call for his (Bunch's) reno
val from ofice;" but it ls evident that he does
not now wish you TO continue to annoy my
client after the insuf6ciency Of the '.founda-
ton has been ascertained. It would, theIe-
fore, be indecorous (pardon the e1pression)
for you to continue what has come TO its pro-
per conclusion, and to seem to ASCERTAIN"
what is alre 'dy ascertiined; and you will (par-
don me again) lay yourselves liable 10 an &C
ton at law if you advance single step further
in the examination of Llewellyn 6unob, on the
accusations of George W. Hooker.
Very respectfully, h. 5. THARIN.
About FIVE o'clock, after receiving these let
ters, we met Magistrate Kanapaux and asked
him if he had received any communication
from the Governor In reference to the case.
He replied that he had not. We then told
him what information we had. About nine
O'Clock, Magistrate Kanapaux called upon US
at our Office, and stated that Aeight o'clock
he had received an official copy of the Cover
nor's letter, which he stated would be obeyed,
in case the Governor did not send other in
structions. But inssmuch as the papers per-
tanning to the case of Bunch, did not leave
the city until the evening OF the 23l, and con-
sequently we're not received in Columbia until
yesterday morning, he is satisfied that he
will get other and more definite instructions
from the Governor. In the absence Of his
associate, Magistrate R. G. DeLarge, colored,
Magistrate Kanapaux made the above state
ment, in justification Of the commission order
ed by the Governor.
We are confident that the magistrates had
no intention whatever to adjudicate the case,
but only to Investigate" it as ordered by the
Governors letter, written to them on the 25th
of August, reading as follows: "By direction
Of his ExceHency, Governor Scott, certain
charges against L. Bunch are herewith trans
nitted for your investigation" Signed, John
Heart, private secretary.