The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-11

Scott.
The shrew6 and raustic correspondent Of the
New York Sun, writing from Columbia under
date oil. March 26th, after giving a brief state
ment of the outrageous manner in which the
people OF South Carolina are plndered uRder
the forms Of law, says.
These are the. terrible burdens under which
the people are staggering, and 1t IS 10 Tree
themselves from them that the taxpayers nave
risen like one man to demand q change IN tne
administration. The people of Charleston have
taken the right course, and have set an exam,
pie which itwould be well II the whole State
were to adopt. They had reason to know that
their board OF county commissioners SET Oh
worthless, ignorant scamps, who had been
foisted upon them ~ negro Votes-werer rob-
bling them. Instead Of sending forth a
SKULL AND CROSS BONES
pronuncfarnento, as in Union, they quietly col
iected.their evidence. went with it before the
grand jury, and on Friday true bills OF iHdiet-
gross malieasance in office. This IN the way
to get rid OF these -seamps. Already DO we
hear OF Efforts being made among citizens to
collect evidence against Niles G. Parker, the
State treasurer, and hiHoness john Neagle,
the comptroller. The action of the Charleston
people has stirred up q feeling here that may
result in both those WORTHLESS appearing before
the grand inquest of an outraged people. BY
the way, the committees appointed by the last
Legislature to go through the regular annual
examination of the State finances will meet
this week, and beth the treasurer and comp
troier are getting ready for the ordeal. 1t Will
not amount 10 much. The composition OF the
committee Ie4cites laughter wherever their
names are mentioned. - ..S {,
cADETsHIP, .WH1rTEMoRE.
Is chairman. General J. B.. Dennis, who lifted
up the State. House, and wanted to sWindle
the people out of 500, 900 by the job, ID q
membar. So is the Hon. Tim Hurley, the
founder Of Hurleyvfile near here, and one Of
the ~jolliestf, most rollickiBg Of 1rlshmen. Tim
represents Chariestoni but lives here, as he
says, $50 the other thieves won't beat him
out Of anything" Tim has the utmost con-
tempt for South Carolina, and boasts that he
''Only cam here to make money, and by e.
he's made it, Some two or three Ignorant
negroes are On the committee II these
worthless, but of course they won't amount to
anything. Whittemore, Tim Hurley and Den
mis- win make up the report, sndef course 10
will be a white washer. Parker and Neagle
will come out Immediately white, and a re-
port, with the vfrluous names OF Whittemore.
DENIM, and Hurley attached, will be published
next day In the DG,ly F&ieves' Ot1n, and all
good citizens will be expected to disregard
maligners and calumniators In future. just
so. And speaking Of the Daily ThieveS' On1
reminds me that 1t is 10 the blonde haired
youth who does the editorial" scribbllns for
ihar deiectabte sheet that the Tribune was IN
debted tor the,
FALSE REPORT
of the attorney-genersl's visit to Washington.
Carpenter. that's his nane:L. O. Carpenter.
He went to Washington with Chamberlain.
although for what purpose or BY whose all
thority the latter did not know. Chamber.
lain went to Washington, as a bearer OF dis
matches for Governor scott, and Carpenterwent
alongtO get his Il oar in. The attorney
general went to the Arlington Ikea gentle
man, but the editor 1.-THE Daily Thieves Oeon
never stopped until he reached Newspaper
Row" where he SAT down, and taking up a
sheet Of headed paper telegraphed a lot stuff
to the Tribune about affairs In South Carolina,
al of which Chamberlain says was false from
beginning to end.
i called on Governor Scott this morning, but
found his Excellency in a bad humor. He said
II haven't had anything 10 veX me 80 much
something did this morning. Last winter the
Legislature passed an ubiquitous little bill to
change the lime of holding municipal cleo
tions IN Charleston. The elections always
took place in November, but in order to keep
In power q certain setof Il ! l. ~
~scouNDRELs WHO ARE IN OFFICE,
they wanted to change the time of election
from November te;Auguss a month when half
the respectable people are Out OF the city. SO
they put the bin Through here, and "a l meant
TO do all in my power TO prevent the re-elec-
ton Of that Charleston City Council, made up
my mind that ! would veto 1t when it came
before me-. The night before the adjourn
lnent I was here signing bills and other things,
and l remember I was very tired aud sleepy.
Nj. Esgue, my secretary, was here arranging
the papers for signature, and while engaged In
thattwo or three +hangers-on came In and
made themselves a. home, Ihad divided the
bills TO be signed from those to be vetoed, and
arranged them in a pile BY. themselves, and
finally went to work attaching my signature
without looking at them further. One OF those
/ angers-on must have slipped that Charles
ton election bill il.. the. pile to be signed,
for Two weeks atterwaTd Carpenter, the editor
Of ths Union here, called my attention to the
met that that bill had been approved, and said
that the Charleston people were very angry
about 1t. There Is no way to undo the Work.
and so the election will take place in August
Ttell you, sir, q man must have his wits about
him If he's going to do. what's right In South
Carolina. Now, these seoundrels knew / would
veto that bill, sothey put up the Job to get my
name to. 1t in some way, and 1t makes me
almost Wild to think that for once they have