The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-02
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
All Quiet Along the Radical Lines
Morphine Vnnted-The Negro Awake
Tho air-Thc Tourneys-Blue
Ridge RaiIroad-The CanaI-Vhose
Fault.
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
NOTrrlfpTA NOvpmhnr

NOLUhDlA, NOfeIRucI
Our Ethopico-carpet-bagge war languishes.
Elliott-thc DesdemOnaess Otheo Of the domes-
tic tragedy-is absent on business. Kavanagh--
Irishman though he be, and an officer high in the
Grand Army Of the Republic rs he claims to be-
swallows his potion, bitter as 1t is, and keeps
quiet. he nee,ls mOrphiae. Wimbush, having
failed to get Leslies land-organ to play the tune
he thought he had paid for has retired in disgust
and is sat home" in Chester. Leslie alonc-Les-
lie, the irrepressible, the great daddylst OF the
mongrel adventurers-Leslie alone holds his
ground.
Upon this wimbush-Leslie squabble, an intelli-
gent negro volunteered to me an explanation of
how it arose. He called no names and named
no parties, but his language shows that the me-
groes arc beginnng-only just beginning, how
ever-to see how things are going for their race.
My coored friend-one whom have known Tor
fifteen years to be honest and truthful-who iG
now Radical, says that the land quarrel arose
from one partys trying to get little bit ofwhat is
going and the others trying to take alias they
have been doing up to this time. The zone party"
is the negro, and the "other party" is the carpet
bagger. My friend expressed himself as in favor
of the one party fighting it out on that line If 1t
takes all summer. He seems to have improved
his opportunities Of education little too cleveriy
for the comfort Of the carpet-baggcry, foT which
he has heretofore obedicntly voted. lie knows
Wmbush personally, and believes that if he had
been white man and q Radical, instead OF q
man and brother, he would have got the favor
that he asked from Leslie. Wimbush goes hcnc
to prepare the minds OF his constituency for this
new feature in Radicasm.
THE FAIR.
The indications from all parts Of the State are
that the crowd at the Fair next week will be un-
precedentedly large. Especially from the up
country comes in the information that everybody
with his wife and family is making ready to
spend three or at least two days here during the
Fair. So well established in the public mind is
this fact that party Of gentlemen from ST. Mat
thew's are coming prepared with tents and camp
outfit to eAtertain themselves during their So
Journ at the Fair.
The tournament idea seems TO have taken with
the young men, and knights from several parts
of the State, especially Columbia, Wnnsboro',
Union and Abbevile, are known to be grding
themselves for the trial Of skill. The fear Of too
large crowd Of knights seems to have deter
the idea by saying the jureEilior folk-to get up
more youthful tourney, where the lance instead
Of the broadsword shall he the implement used.
THE BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD.
The resident presence Of Messrs. Patterson and
Creswell, two OF the contractors for the finishing
OF this road, in Columbia, end their foundry
operations in getting out iron works here, con-
Quoted by Mr.. Steers, a sub-contractor, confirm
the rather dubious public mind upon the ques-
ton Of the bona Jfde character Of that contract
We are now fully assured tha there is none Of the
Plerson Columbia canal dodge In 1t.
THE CANAL.
It is now one month since the first Of October,
when Is became manifest that either Sprague had |
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master Wilder and the late Mr. Lewis-by impos- |
np upon them contract that has resulted in |
loing nothing with the canal for more than O
year; or else the commission-Scott, Wilder and |
Lewis-have dealt treacherously with South Caro-
liza, by giving the contract to sprague when they
knew lie was contracting in bad faith Which
Is it'
A month has passed and no meeting has been |
held by the surviving commlssion-Scott and
Wilder. The Governor is chairman OF that corn-
mission and yet he has not even called meet
ting, although Wilders Office Is not distant more
than two squares from his own. Accordingly we
can see that the fault Of this delay is
to Wilder, who-colored man though he be
seems disposed to serve his native State as well
as he can.
Does anybody imagine that it is to tile interest
of Governor Scott to thus play into the hands OF
Spraguc, the New England manufacturer OF cot
ton stuGs without some consideration In what
does that consideration consist? Virtuous rulers
never prostitute their power for money; and our
Governor is q vlrtuous man. Honorable men
never wink at public wrongs for private gain;
and Scott is an honorable man.
$50 are they all, all honorable men.n
CORSAIR.