Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-12-15

deposit tax monies in banks in Charleston
and Columbia, subject to order of the Lepis.
lature; Bill to abolish the Financial Aeencv
OF the State Bill removing State Bonds
from Treasurer to Secretary Of States Office.
a bill was introduced in the House. extern
ding the jurisdiction of the City Court of
Charleston, giving it concurreut Jurisdiction
with the Court of Common Pleas, in sums
not exceeding two thousand dollars.
Rapid Increase I'm the State Deht
at last, the attention Of the country is di.
rected to the shameful method by which so.
called Republican officials in the South have
manipulated the finances of the respective
States under their dominion. The tax.payers
OF the South-those upon whom the barden
tails heaviest-long ago cried out against
these miserable caricatures upon free gov.
ernment, foresceing that their substance was
destined to be wasted in the hands of such
kepuolicans-under which convenient name
the Verlest scum of creation toisted them
eelves into position. The wall of the oppress.
ed Southerner was not heard by the North
ern people. His cause was drowned in the
tumult against his loyalty, which these per.
hdlous wretches have kept up from the be.
ginning OF reconstruction until the present
time Yet the truth cannot longer be con.
ccaled Denials are of paltry moment when
tacts and figures produce conviction. And
now, since the recent revelations in regard to
the fraudulent conduct of the Republican
olhclals IN South Carolina, the people of the
North are becoming enlightened as to the
true character of the men engaged in these
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of the carpet haggors in South Carolina, and
its correspondent has sent to that paper q
curious exhibit of our financial condition. It
is simply series of tables, prepared by the
State authorities, and showiag from time to
the statement of these reliable officials. Our
readers will be interested in a reproduction Of
the results stated at different periods during
the past thirteen months.
L. October 81 1870, the State Treasurer
put down the liabilities of the State at ST.
665, ,908.98. On the 18th of December, 1870,
the Comptroller General reports the debt the
same figures above given, although stated in
a different manner from that of the State
Treasurer.
g. The debt at the time these reports were
made greatly exceeded the figures reported.
"As no authority had been given for inoreas-
ing the debt, it was necessary that the lies
told in the fall of 1870 should be we'll stuck
to in May, 1871, when the Tax. Payers Con-
vention met; SO new statement was made,
by which it appeared that the debt was not
a dollar greater than in tho previous fall."-
The correspondent then gives tho Comptrol.
Ter Generals statement, as furnished to the
said Convention.
D. GAS no increase is mentioned since Nov.
l, 1870, the Inference intended to be drawn
was that there had been no addition to the
debt" Yet, on the Goth of September last,
in answer to enquiries from the Joint select
committee to inquire into the condition of
the latc insurrectionary States, Gov. r. X.
Scott, over his own proper signature, made
an exposition of the financial status of this
"dearly beloved" State, wherein the entire
bonded debt is placed at Sc, $685. 10. Hero
is an increase of nearly two million of dollars,
without any apparent trouble on the part Of
his Excellency in rsgasd to which the cor
respondent says: "This statement was moro
untruthful, if possible, than any that had
preceded it. The Governor, as member of
the Financial Board, which has entire charge
of the issue Of bonds, must have known that
over S5,OO0,0O0 of new Conversion Bonds
had been sold or hypothecated in New York
by the Financial Agent-of which no men.
tion is made in tho above statements. He
know that when he stated that the total issue
of bonds and stock, by his administration was
less than $4,500,000, he was making a
gross and inexcusable misrepresentation for
a dishonorable purposo--namely, to deceive
the New York Stock Board and the public
at large"
4. The joint labors of the Attorney Gen.
eral, the State Treasurer and the Financial
Agent are invoked, and after thorough sift.
ing OF the freasurers books for on entire
day, the incubation of this trio furnished the
l1tbanes correspondent with u statement Of
the public debt, which has now reached the
respectable figures Of SIS, ,806, ,9O8 .98. This
was on the goth day Of November, 1871, less
than thirteen months since it was FIRST re-.
ported that the public debt was about seven
and half millions! Aye, scarcely six
months since the lie, SO we'll told in the be.
ginning, had been reiterated for the benefit
OF the anxious taxpayers in convention as. !.
sembled. More than doubled ia six rlonthsl