The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-31
A Columbia correspondent of the


A Columbia correspondent Of the
Beaufort Republican writes:
The mutterings Of political revolu.
ton have been heard at last in the State
House, says my informant, and the fear
OF defeat has forced combination upon
.dlscordant elements. Therefore, Gov,
Scott, Treasurer Parker and Comptroller
Neagle have agreed to sacrifice Moses.
parker and Neagle agree also to sacrifice
enemselves: ALI will then unite to force
Chamberiain upon the Convention, and
secure behind him ticket composed of
men the most unexceptionable possible.
In tne meantime, to reimburse themselves
ior snIs sacrifice, syndicate has been
formed to purchase $5,000,0 900 OF South
Carolina bonds on q margin. at the nre.
sent price of thirty cents. They arone
that the reputation OF the present State
officers and tho nomination of a good
ticket would Immediately result in the
appreciation Of State bonds to at least
sixty cents. Should this be 80. the yir.
tuous syndicate would clear 81, 500. 600
by the operation. To this mode of bet
terlng their broken fortunes the people
OF this State will enter no objections. In
the details no compensation to Frank
Moses seems to be contemplated. I give
this story as the latest topic of the State
House corridors, of course not youchino
for its truth.
Henry Hayne and DR.. Bosemon are
named for Secretary of State. There
are probably fifty other candidates, but
l have heard no other names.
Secretary Cardozo refuses to seal any
more bonds for any purpose. There are
now applications to the Treasury for the
conversion of 1882. 1000. This is said to
be bona tide business transaction, and
suits have been commenced to compel
Mr.. Cardozo to seal them. It is a great
pity that he did not exhibit somewhat of
the same caution lest year, when he
sealed bonds in such immense numbers
as ought to have excited the alarm of
even greater tyro in finance. So will
ing was he to act then, that he carried
his seal to New York. to facilitate mat.
ters. He even went 30 far as to af1x his
seal to bonds destitute of the signatures.
1t Is said there are now half q million of
sealed bonds in New York upon which
the Governor has never put his name.
SO loosely was all this business done.
that no record was kept OF the number
sealed, and Mr.. Cardozo has no idea to.
day how many passed through his hands.
A prominent State official has just re-
ceived letter from Ohio, which has
produced quite a futter among the
Grant men here. Our South Carolina
Grant man had written to his Ohio re-
lative, ridiculing the nomination of
Greeley at Baltimore, closing with the
assertion that there was but one Liberal
Republican in this State. and that rooms
in the Lunatio Asylum were being pre-
pared for him. The answer to this let
ter informed him that if he should be
called upon to furnish rooms for all the
Greeley Republicans in Ohio, he would
have to build an asylum as big as the
State of South Carolina; that about all
of his Ohio relatives were for Greeley;
the names OF forty prominent working
Republicans in Henry County were
given who were all for Greeley, and the
letter closed with the assertion that
Greeley would get one.third of the Re-
publican vote Of that and other Counties
in the Northwestern part of the State.
Our Grant man looked as if he had col.
lapsed fue. "By 3d." said he,
Greeley will have $4,000 majority in
Ohio" "Who snid hollered?"
Atlantic City, N. j., must be dry
place. They haven't had any rain there