The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-25
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THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
Miserable Failure of the Columbia
Mass MeetinG-A Loyal League Fias-
co-The Pardon Business.
rrRox ouR OWN CORRESPONDENT

co-The Pardon Business.
rPRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
COLUMBIA, June 90.
The grand rally of the corruptionists last
night was tame affair." The big gun OF the
occasion was Hoge, and the name OF Hoge has
ceased to be ralying cry 2f the Republican
party. He is without poweisto lead any party
now, and have heard influential Republicans
earnestly hope that he may soon reach
whittemore's goal. After Hoge, came Dun
bar, and Tomlinson, and Worthington.
Dunbar and Worthington are comparatively
new names to this auditory, and our negroes
are beginning to get tired Of new names.
They have helped to~gorge about enough OF
these adventurers. They begin to ask where
it Is 10 end. They begin to demand these lat
offices for themselves. The State auditor,
however, is an old standby, and he Is fond OF
presenting his rotund person before all man
ner of gatherings, but the huzzas that he
evokes are not so hearty as were those of
year or two ago. Upon the whole, this rally
was not large success. Neither in numbers
present, nor in spirit, was 1t up to what
grand rally might have been. 1t was tame.
1t was wanting in a certain unity OF interests
and feelings which once existed between the
negro and the carpet-bagger.
LEAGUE FIAsCo.
A short time ago meeting was held at
Ridgeway, in Fairfield County, for the avowed
purpose of recognizing the leaguists. Run :
ners had been rallying the former members for
ten days or more, observed and noted by
the citizens; and when the day Of meeting
came, one ofthe citizens who was present at
Ridgeway thinks hardly dozen negroes met
They are sick of that kind of thing.
COURTS.
Judge Green is holding an extra session of
the Court OF Common Pleas In Columbia, be-
ginning last Monday. He takes the place OF
Judge Melton in this extra session, as per-
sonal favor to the latter; and Is said to dis
patch business in style peculiar 10 himself
rapid, accurate, and shorn, as far as In him
lies. of all the tedium OF the laws delays. The
bar speak in high terms Of his singular faculty
of expediting business, with no sacrifice Of ac-
curacy or thoroughness. The session may hold
q week or ten days longer, rs the civil docket
is heavy with accumulated cases.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The board of trustees of the Columbia Fe-
male College have concluded to extended the
lease of their building-the Nlckerson House,
kept by Mr. Wright-beyond the term of the
present arrangement. There is, therefore,
little if any prospect ofthe exercises Of the COL
lege being resumed in several years, and the
building Is to be continued as hotel under
Mr.. Wright
It is understood that the Southern College,
now located at Newberry, is to be removed to
Columbia, and the exercises continued by the
faculty in temporary quarters, until provision
be made for erecting suitable buildings.
The number of deaths of colored persons
In Columbia averages about thirty month
one month 1t was thirty-fve- the mort
uary exhibit OF the whites would, my inform
ant estimates, hardly reach six month. There
are no regular official returns in Columbia;
and hence these conclusions may be at fault,
but Judge them to be very near the truth.
One of our up-country weeklies recently
stated, on the authority Of John Mills, (who
had himself been pardoned three years. sem
tence passed on him last cogt,) "that Cover
nor Scott had pardoned him and about forty
other prisoners, and intended TO pardon about
one hundred and twenty more in few days."
Now, within the last few days there Is rumor
about Columbia to the effect that the Governor
has pardoned twenty-five more conTictsNow,
these rumors, q true, contain matters that
our people are entitled to be informed of; and
if they are not true, they do injustice to the
Governor. If his Excellency would allow The
exact facts to traspire regularly, there would
be no chance for such rllmors to arise; and If
his Excellency has no reason TO conceal his
pardons, the community sees no reasd9Why 1t
should not at least be warned of the danger,
whenever his EXcellency. has turned loose
upon it new batch of felons to prey upon 1t.
His last official report showed an average Of
over thirteen and half pardons month for
the ten months preceding the report.
The opinion of Judge Melton in the Blne
Ridge injunction case has not been filed, but
is daily expected. CoRsAIR.