The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-12-14
Our Thrifty Governor.

Our Thrifty Governor.
The Toledo (Ohio) Times gives the following
information about the investments of our thrift
ty Governor, recently effected in that State:
In view of the attention which is being d.
rected to the finances of the State OF South
Carolina, it may not be amiss for lis of the
State of Ohio, the home Of r. K. Scott, to say
word. That veracious statesman has had q
great deal to say on Wall street, for some days
past; and his sayings there have been very
we'll advertised-better, probably, than he ex-
pected He has also had a word or two to say
in Ohio, without the benefit of so great pub
fishing, and without any desire for it. We dis
like, however, to see his modesty ruin him;
and will do him the favor of advertising an
item or two that can do no harm to anybody
else, and may be of great advantage to him.
1t is generally understood in this region,
that Mr.. Scott, of Napoleon, Ohio, was not an
overly wealthy man when he espoussed the
cause of the United States against all foes,
foreign or domestic" A careful cyphering, ac-
cording to the most approved rules OF arltn-
metic show the reward of that enthusiastic
espousal to be about as follows Two years
service rs Brigadier General United States vol
unteers and Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau
for South Carolina, at about $500 per year,
$1,000; three years loyal and most valuable
service as Governor of the State of South Car
olina, at $4,000 per year, $4,000; making
grand total of the reward of loyalty to the ex-
tent of $4,000. which is'not too much for the
extraordinary loyal services which have been
rendered to the Government by this soldier and
statesman And to show that this distinguished
son of Ohio is a fnancier rs we'll as a states
man, we venture upon the ventilation of a few
figures, Just to show what prudent use he has
made of the twenty-five thousand above men
toned
Of course, We will pay no attention to the
ordinary expenses of himself and family during
this long period, for they are domestic affairs,
and are none of our business, except as govern
ment money pays for them and we may rest
assured that government money, after 1T came
into SCOTS hands, never paid for anything that
he could avoid. So We can take it for granted
that our worthy South Carolina Governor, start
ing out in our great civil war without penny,
die not expend penny during that war, or the
revulsions that have followed it, even for the
maintenance of his family. So we give him
the advantage of S22, 1000, the whole of his pay
dier general, including all the time that he has
furnished discipline for the State of South
Carolina.
What has he done with that $4,000? He
has been in the State of Ohio, since the expo
sition in the public press of the South Carolina
bond Frauds and has invested his S22 1000 as
follows: He is building in Napoleon, Ohio,
where he expects to live after his South Caro-
lima contract has expired, a $4,000 house for
his sister. He has taken stock in new ma
tional bank, in the city of Toledo, to the
amount of nearly fifty per cent. more than his
whole pay as an officer of the army and Gov
ernor of South Carolina during the whole time
that he has occupied those positions. prom
inent business man and capitalist from Cana
da, well-known to capitalists in this vicinity,
visited Williams County, and other adjoining
Counties, since Gov. Scott was here, for the
purpose of purchasing timber land, with view
of getting out large quantities of ship timber.
He found that all the available timber land of
the country round about had been purchased
only few days previous by Gov Scott.
It has also transpired that during his visit
here he left in the hands of some of his friends,
fully 5000, to be invested in safe real estate.
That money is, to-day, in the hands of busi-
ness men in this vicinity awaiting investment.
And this makes about 100000 which Mr..
Scott of Napoleon, Ohio, now acting as Gov
ernor of South Carolina, has invested, within
the last two months, in this immediate vicinity,
out OF the S22,OUO which has comprlseu the
whole of his pay and emolumcnts since he be-
gan to be government officer.
The paltry sum of 100000 Is but bnga.
tele, in comparison with the S9.OO0,O 900 extra
fraud on the South Carolina bonds, if it is true.
But Governor Scott denies having made any
thing out of the bonds; and, as far as his Ohio
speculations are concerned, we give him the
benefit of the doubt We will charge him only
tbo 800 non which has como to him in the
shape of pay and moumcnts-which is all he
claims to have received-and credit him with
the 100000 he has saved out of it to invest i'll
Ohio at one pop, within the last month.
We would merely suggest, that it isn't fair
for one man to have all the money; and that
the Governor having fcathcrcd his nest, ought
to stand aside, and give some other loyal man
chance.