The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-17

year, ending October 81, 1871, were as
follows: For the support OF the Univer-
city. SOB 600: for repairs on the Univer-
sity buildings, 1000; total, s31, 900.
The Treasurer Of the University reports
that he has collected fees amounting. in
the aggregate, to 81, $780,"
The Adventurer from Brooklyn-Brazen
AudacIty.
Leslie, so-called Senator from Barn
we'll in the Legislature, is trying very
hard to prove that he acted just like the
honest man that he is in the Land Com
mission business. The amount of the
matter is, that he thinks he has covered
up hia tracks so we'll that they cannot be
discovered in the mud of FRAUD. That
remains to be seen, for We have pro-
found conviction that the misdeeds of
the rascals. big as we'll as little, who
have been plundering our people, will
yet be unveiled. The veil that oonoeaIs
the hideous features OF these people will
be torn aside. and many Mokanna will
there be to startle men and women with
their corrupt deformity. Chief among
the unblushing and audacious "band of
thieves s'-more than forty in number
is the brazen adventurer from Brooklyn.
We have read the account given in the
Ne'Os of the debate between Whittemore
and himself. We notice this especially: !:
Upon MIR. Whittemore's asking the ex-
Land Commissioner if he had not re-
ceiyed sum Of money as the price of
his resignation of the Office of Land
Commissioner, he did not deny IL. The
reason why, we know. It is because the
evidence exists, and may be produced,
that he did receive money as the price
OF his resignation. And his petty con
ceptions of honesty and honor and off,
cial decency do not allow him to admit
that it was shameful transaction. Les
lie says that it is nobody's business how
he had resigned, or why he had resigned.
Shameless adventurer, it is the business
of somebody. It is the business of the
people of this State, whose servant you
were and are. It is the white mans bu-
siness. It is the black mans business.
And particularly is it the business of the
public, if the money wherewith you
were bribed to resign was State money
which it was. Whose money was it?
We have letter from New York, from
which we make the following extract, in
which the Attorney General and the ex-
Land Commissioner may both find food
for reflection:
II notice the Attorney Generals card
in the PHdsNIx, also your comments
thereon. Please ask that amiable gen.
tleman whether or not, since last Febru-
ary, he made his draft or the Financial
| Agent of South Carolina in New York
for S25. 900, in favor of one G. p. or P.
@. Leslie. member OF the Senate in
your State, and if suoh draft was paid to
Leslie by tho Financial Agent; and how
Mr.. Leslie became indebted to tho At
torney General; and to what account it
was charged on the books of H. 81.
kimpton."
He adds-the man who knows whereof
he writes:
"Get some friend of yours to ask him
"a SbohloO'iulh oiu uOU RltO utu Lu6
draft, aud if Kimpton did not pay it,
before you publicly ask Chamberlain.
See what he says. II he says no. he
lies"
And this is the man who has the euda-
city to get up in the Senate. and defy
his Radical associates to proceed against
him, with the threat, that if they do
send him to the penitentiary. he has tho
evidence which will enable him to carry
along with him goodly number of the
present magnates of the Statei
Can The man, Leslie, blush? We doubt
it. His corrupt blood refuses to leave
his heart, but prefers to court the dark
ness of his internal organs. 1t is high
time to put him in the pilIory also. if he
has not been long self f-piloried.
| The Christian soldier, Gen. Howard,
has accumulated a pleasing sum of
money by depositing Government funds
in private banks and pocketing the in-