The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-17

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lication Autographed blrds-eye view Of the
city, has just completed similar picture Of
Columbia, which is extremely accurate and
artistic, and as it includes all the new build.
ings above mentioned as they will appear
when completed, represents Columbia as
handsome and flourishing city.
The political aspect of affairs here lie not en-.
couraglng or promising. Candidates for the
governorship, and indeed for every Office to
be filed next fall, are as thick as blackberries;
but the internal dissenslons which their rival
claims produce in Republican ranks hardly
seem to promise much In the way of reform.
For the Governors chair Speaker Moses is said
| to have the best chance for the regular nomi-
nation, and his friends say that II elected he
will realize and embrace the opportunity
afforded him as young man to cleanse the
Augean stables of Radical politics in South
Carolina, and thereby immortalize himself.
The present incumbent Is also positively as
serted to be a candidate for renomination not
withstanding his repeated protestations to the
contrary, which are said to be no stronger or
more trustworthy than his declarations to the
same effect before his last election. The move
ment in favor of Judge Willard seems to be
gathering weight, and although the friends of
the opposition candidates affect to sneer at the
nomination as wholly beneath consideration, 1
have found no one of them who can urge a
single objection against Judge Willard which
should have The slightest weight with honest
Republican voters. They cannot claim that he
is not Republican, but they appear to think
that, not having taken an active part In poll
tics of late years, and not being one of the
ring who have been in the habit of parcelling
out the offices of the Slate among themselves,
his name is not popularly known among the
cosDred masses, and he se~rds no show nf snc-
cess either in the convention or the canvass.
Judge Willard himself says that If the Demo.
Gratis abstain from active participation In the
canvass, there will be such political con-
vulson this fall as will gratify every
honest voter, and scatter the Office
holding ring. He does not hesitate to say that
South Carolina to-day is paralyzed by blacklegs,
whose assumption Of the name OF ReDubE cans
Is foul disgrace upon the party, and whose
villanies more cruelty affect the colored peo-
pie than any other class of the Inhabitants.
He says that for the last few years he has been
quietly watching events and studying the pros
poets of the future, while the ofice-holders
have been dividing the spolls, and that now
he does not propose to fly to the Democrats
for a restoration Of honesty to the State
administration, but he believes that there are
enough honest and capable men in the Repub.
lican ranks for leaders, aud that the great
mass of colored men are inclined to honesty
and peace, but have been cruelty deceived by
their leaders, who have thought to keep their
ewes and ears closed to all reports of their
misdeeds by their persistence In shouting
Republlcanism.
There appears to be nothing particularly
new to record In regard TO State finances.
The Siege of hungry patriots at the treasury
office has somewhat sbated, aud most of them
have disposed of their pay certificates, and
such other evidences of Indebtedness for their
iarduous labors of last winter, to the brokers
in Columbia or to the treasurers OF the various
counlies. The brokers keep them to look at,
and they really furnish remarkable collec-
tlon of autographed curiosities, but for any
other purpose they do not seem to amount to
much The new Blue Ridge bond scrip Is out,
and is very handsomely gotten up In bills OF
81, 50, SIS and $40, very closely resembling
the old United States greenbacks that were Is.
sued before the treasury notes and the Ma
| tional bank currency. The bills were en-
grayed by the American Bank Note Company,
and artistcally they are success, but as q
circulating medium they are somewhat OF
failure on account OF the late Injunction grant
ed by Judge Willard, ,on application of State Au-
ditor Gary. They are, however, being quietly
bought up by various parties who are general
ly supposed to know on which side their bread
Is buttered, and the suspicion is shrewdly ex-
| pressed that the injunction is simply q bear
movement, which will be followed by an equal
ly ingenious bull device on The 1lth OF July,
the day ou which the Injunction Is made re.
turnable. Governor Scott, however, is said
to be opposing the raising Of the Injunction,
because he has not yet been paid the full
amount Of his consideration" for passing the
Blue Ridge bill. 1t Is reported that he has
already received $4,000, aud 1t is positively
asserted that he has just declared as his ulti.
matum that he will not consent to the dissolv.
ingtof the Injunction until he Is paid s50,0OC
| more. PICKET.
| A TOUCHING FAREwELL.-The Detroit Free
Press has the following: Yesterday morning
the chambermaid of hotel on Jefferson ave.
nue. found the following note pinned on The
door of room which had been occupied foI