The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-02
FROM THE STATE cAP1rAL.
All Quiet Along tho Radical Lines
Morphine Wantcd-Thc Negro Awnke
-Thc Fn ir-Thn Tourncys-Bluc
Ridge RniIroad-Thc CnnaI-yyhose
Faults
TrRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE

COLUMBIA, November I.
Our Ethlopico-carpct-bagger war langushcs
Eliiott-thc DcslemOnaicss Othello OF the ,omcs.
tic tragcdy-is absent OH business. kNyanagh-
lrlsltnnn though he be, and an officer high In the
Grand Army OF the Republic, as he claims to be
swallows his potion, bitter as 1t Is, ana keeps
quiet. He needs morphine. wImhush, having
failed to get Lcslic's land.organ to ray the tune
lie thought he had paid for has retired in disgust
and Ia Eat homc" In Chester Leslie alonc-Lcs
ltc the irrepressible, the great duddyst OF the
mongrcl advcnturcrs-Lcsc alone holds his
ground.
Upon this Wlmbush-LcslIe squabble an intei-
gent negro volunteered to me an explanation Of
how 1t arose. lie called names und named
no parties, but hts language shows TINT the me-
groes are beginnlng-only just beginning, how
cvcr-to see how things are going for their race.
My colored fricnd-onc whom have known for
fifteen years to be honest and truthrul-who Is
now Radical, says that the land quarrel arose
from one parys trying toget little bit OF what is
going and the others trying 10 take alias they
have been doing up to this time. The ''One partyi
Is the negro, and the other party" Is the carpet
Dagger. My friend expressed himself as in favor
OF the one party nghtlng 1t out on that line ir II
takes all summer. He seems to have improved
his opportunities OF education little too clcvcry
for the comfort OF the carpet-baggcrJ, for'whlch
KNOWS
wimbush personally, and believes that II lie had
been n white man ana q Radical, instead OF
man and brother, lie would have got the favor
that lie asked from Leslie. wimbush goes home
to prepare the minds OF his constituency for this
new feature in Raticasm.
TIE FAIR.
The indications from oil parts OF the State are
that the crowd at the Fair next week will he I'M
prcce'lentedly large Especially from the up
country comes In the Information that everybody
with his wife and family is making ready to
spend three or ut least two days here during the
Fair. So we'll established In the public mind Is
this fact that party Of gentlemen from st. Mat
thcw's arc coming prepared with tents and camp
outfit TO entertain themselves during their So
Journ Mt the Fair.
The tournament Idea seems to have taken with
the young men, and knights from several PARTS
Of the State, especially Columbia, Winnsboro,
Union ana Abbcylilc, arc known TO be girdng
themselves for the trial Of skill. The fear OF too
large crowd OF knights seems to have deter
mined the neutrality-suspicious. would be nearer
the idea by saying the J'tre,hior folk-to get un a
moro youthful tourney, where the lance Instead
OF the broadsword shall be the implement used
TIE BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD
The resident presence OF Mcssrs. Patterson and
Crcswcll, two OF the contractors for the finishing
operations in getting out iron works here. con.
Quoted by Mr.. Steers, sub-contractor, CONFIRM
the rather dubious public mind upon the qucs
tion OF the bona .fdc character OF TINT contract
We are now fully assured that there Is mono OF the
sprague-Pierson Columbia canal dodge in 1t.
THE CANAL.
1t Hpow ono nenth sinJestne>Iirsf or October
when 1t became manifest that either Sprague had
fooled the comnsson-Governor Scott, Post
master Wilder and the late Mr.. Lewis-by impos.
doing nothing with the canal for more than a
year; or else the commlssion-Scott, Wilder and
Lewis-have dealt treacherously with South Caro-
lima, by giving the contract to Sprague when they
knew he was contracting in bad faith. Which
is itf
month hos passed and no meeting Inns been
held by the surviving comnission-Scott and
Wilder. The Governor Is chairman OF that COM
mission, and yet he has not even called meet
ting, although Wlldcr's office Is not distant more
than two squares from his own. Accordingly we
can see that the fault OF this deny Is not referable
to Wilder, who-colorcd man though lie be
seems disposed to serve his nntiyc Stntc as well
as lie can.
Does anybody Imagine that il is to the interest
Of Governor Scott TO TINS play into the hands OF
Spragnc, the New Engand manufacturer of cot
ton sturs without some consideration ? In what
does that consideration consst2 Virtuous rulers
never prostitute their power for money; and our
Governor is o vlrtuOus man. Honorable men
never wink at public wrongs for private gain;
and Scott is an honorable man.
"Soare they all, all honorable men,"
CoRsAIR.