The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-16
HUBBUB IN COLUMBIA.
THE UNDER CURRENT OF. THINGS
POLITICAL.
A New sIate-The Crop OF Candidates
One Way to Fix Observation-Disclosures n
the Crops-The Ku-Klux Arrests.
GFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

fFRoA OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
COLUMBIA, April Is.
The events of the past week have disclosed
nothing that would make any very startling
announcement to the world, yet there have
%transpired. beneath the surface, many things
that, as time rolls on, will have much to dc
with the destinies of this State; and though
transactions are now but little known of, out
side the circles in which the manipulation is
performed, some day the people of all classes
and colors, when they shall know more OF
them, will demand of those persons who now
affect to be or are the selfconstltuted stewards
an explanation of all these things. The swell
done, good and faithful servant" will, as 1t
always has since Its Divine conception, sound
agreeably to the eara, and rest easily with the
consclences of those who may worthily claim
is utterauce. but the principle that "thou
hast been faithful over q few things, I will
now make thee master over many"w will work
only in exceptional cases when applied, as
appearances might indicate 1t should be, to
those who pretend at the present time to hold
the future OF the government within their
grasp.
Indeed. If this maxim were applied by inver-
sion, In the hinted-at new order Of things for
the future, it might be said in this wise:
THOU hast proven false to the trusts imposed
in thee In the past, l will now give thee ep-
portunity to prove more co." 'Thou hast In
a small way been rascally, thou shalt be given
q chance to be q bigger rascal, for unto him
that hath shall be given" &c.
The projectors for new plans find NJ easy
task In making selections for their slate; they
are constantly running against that fact which
continually stares them In the. face, !. e.: 'Our
colored friends demand this, and they are our
strengthn-and the colored friends knowi 1t.
The big thieves, bloated with their ill-gotten
gains, and o~ver-confldent In their ability to
make a iudicious distribution Of q small por-
ton of them as a kind OF toll-silence or hush
money, may not shake In their boots quite so
ardently as the little fellows who have but got
q single grab In the general rush for the spells,
and whose only hopes are In the future; yet q
settled look Of despair as to final results Is
~dIecOverable even with this class. Something
has to be done, and little and big w~ire-pullers
alike are puzzling their brains how to accom-
by the majority, the white leaders find they
have SACRIFICES to make, more s%tupendous than
they had calculated upon.
There have been many rumors aloat as to
how they contemplate extrlcating themselves
from this dilemma, and In the desperate fix 1t
is not at all improbable that several of the
most heretofore prominent white scalawaga
and carpet-baggers will go by the board.
One Of these rumors fixes q ticket almost
entirely colored.. This is done for appearance
sake; 1t Ia tipped at both ends, like q crochet
needle. with white, but 1t means nothing, and
gives the following colored candidates for OF
Gee: Lieutenant Governor, Ransier, or Charles
ton; for attorney general, Elliott, OF this city;
| secretary of State, W. b. Jones, Of George
town: and adjutant and Inspector general,
| Robert Smalls, of Beaufort. The wing tips
| are F. ]. Moses, Jr., at one end for Governor,
/ and B. z. Scott at the other end for United
| States senator.
The beauty of this little game would be ap
| parent If 1t was only reversed In the pro
gramme; but at this time and In this manner
It is a very funny arrangement. or course
| there are the Congressional Districts to bs
| looked after. "Honest John" Patterson fol
| The fourth; but he's white ~. EA-Mayor
| PIllsbury tor the second; but he's white ~.
| Yocum for the fifth; but he's white a.. And
| then there are the first and the third districts
Ia which a wrangle will very likely develop
The senatorships are not uncoveted by similar
| aspirants, but the anxiety, aud l might say,
| obstacle Ia that direction is to effectually dis
| pose of the present incumbelts; to do his the
efficacy of resolutions, enough Of them to
knit q stocking were they counted into
| stitches, have failed; the out and cutters de.
| mand removals from Office as the next best
means; and then the quarrel, and after thai
the contest.
The spirit which rules In these matters, re.
fsrred to as the present under-current, ls car.
ried into all the minor office selections, and
| the speculative prospect for radical lin every
| r~espect) changes Is almost laughable to con
| template. One man who has helped forward
somebody, for judge perhaps, or some other
important office, claims, for instance, that the
| county having a colored majority should have
8 colored county treasurer; another, for the
| same reason, claims the right to be school
commissioner, &c. Where there are counties
| minus the colored majority, the best way to
get out Of 1t Is to have the present INCUMBENT
| of the Office arrested for a Ku Klux. Tha,
| will fix that point, and 1t need make no differ
| ence whether the arrested party be q white
| Republican or a black Democrat, so long az
This mode, Of course, is not just what was
| promised the Taxpayers Convention, but
| what of that? If any differences Of opinion
| arise relative to those promises they can be
explained, (?) you know; certainly 80 salts
factorily to one party.
| Now, my dear News. this is q rather foggy
description of how matters are, and OF low
| they may be. They make themselves seer
| only in outline like the sides and peaks o.
| hills hidden by a dense mist. Yet as one ap
proaches them he finds substance, and makes
up his mind that, after all, they are bills,
which, fine does not stop to take a reckoning
| will impede his progress. But enough Of II
just at this time; more of 1t by and by, as the
necessities OF the case shall require.
In business matters during the week Colum.
bla has no reason to complain, especially when
the disturbed condition of the country above
Is taken into consideration, and the fact that
| the State Ia unable to meet many demands
against the treasury for which the merchants
| and other business men have made advances.
| The stores are well filled with excellent spring
and summer stocks. an Inspection OF which iH
| sufficient to convince any one that there are
merchants of enterprise In this city.
Farming operations have taken a lively
start wherever they have not been interfered
| with by United States authority, and the plant
| ers are putting forth all their energies to re.
| cuperate. Fertilizers have been dealt In
largely, Charleston carrying of beyond com.
parison the palm, so far as sales, quantity and
quality are concerned.
The misunderstanding between the work.
men and the superintendent employed In the
| construction of the new United States build
Ino, haro hoo joutod mnch 10nnpr than II WAS