The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-07-18

Attorney General, Judge Melton, Chamberlain
and Whipper. For Superintendent OF Educa-
tion, Jilfson and Henry Sparnick, of Aiken.
There are q host more of them, but these are
the most prominent ones can think of.
Correspondent Is there anything new IN
State finances?
Judge Orr. Nothing that have heard. At
fairs appear to be at their worst, but that OF
course, all the readers of the News are familiar
with. I only wish that the great mass of our
colored people who cannot read could have 1t
impressed upon them as well. The institution
for the deaf and dumb and the blind at Spar
tanburg has just been closed, and the inmates
sent home because they can get no money from
the treasury. The penitentiary and lunatic
asylum have to resort to all sorts OF shifts to
feed their inmates. The public schools are
shut up and the teachers discharged unpaid
It is threatened that the quarantine along our
coast will have to be abandoned for want OF
funds. have not received cent of pay for
nine months, and most of the State officers
whose pay is due quarterly are in the same
condition. Meanwhile the State debt has been
increased at least twelve million dollars, and
between four and five million dollars have been
collected in taxes during the past four years.
That is to say, the Columbia thieves have had
an income during four years of at least sixteen
million dollars, and now they say they haven't
got dollar in the treasury. And what have
they to show for it? Not single public i'm
provement. Not one mile of railroad or canal,
ture on the State House-nothing at all except
few acres of swamp lands and sand hills
bought by the land commissioner at from two
to ten times its value, and which are now going
begging for purchase at eight years time and
six ner cent interest Bah! 1t makes me sick
to think of IL.
So it did me, and | left.
Matters are very quiet in Anderson. There
is but little political excitement, and more
conspicuous absence of irritation or bad feel
ing between the two races than, perhaps, IN
any other district of the State. Frank Moses
made speech here last Monday night under
the auspices of what Tom Mackey calls his
abortion-the United Order of Independent
Brethren, otherwise known as Scotts Ku Klux
Moses had but small audience, hardly any
colored men from the country and good many
white gentlemen attracted by curiosity. lie was
evidently disappointed and made very mild
speech. The only enthusiasm manifested at
the meeting was when one of the audience
called for three cheers for Judge Orr. The
cheers were given with will and the speaker
was sadly disconnected, for it is understood that
the same degree of affection exists between
Moses and Orr that his Satanic majesty IS pop
ularly supposed to entertain for holy water
The crops in this neighborhood are reported
as in excellent condition and as being more
promising than at any former season. There
has been an abundance of rain here lately.
Last night there was brisk shower, which
lasted an hour or moro and was accompanied
by heavy wind-almost a tornado-which In
hicted some damage to the crops and blew down
a colored church at Bolton.
In Abbeville County political affairs appear
to be more lively. There the United Brethren
flourish largely, and excited political meetings
are held in different parts of the county almost
nightly Every effort is made to array the
black men in hostility against the whites. A
few nights ago one office-holder, whose most
prominent exploit since he deserted from the
Confederate army was robbing the county
treasurer's safe, made rabid Radical speech
about rebels, slavery and Ku Klux, which
Frank Moses, who listened to it, declared made
his blood curdle in his veins, and which may,
therefore, be assumed to have been pretty
ugly speech. The speakers are mostly con-
temptible hounds who impose almost lncredi-
bly, upon the ignorance of their colored audi
tors. One sample lie will very apty illustrate
the absurd notions with which they fill the
heads of the negroes. One of the speakers,
member of the late Legislature, gravey in
formed his audience that at the last session he
offered bill in the Legislature to establish the
price of bacon at ten cents instead of fifteen
cents per pound, and that this bill would have
become law, and the negroes would have got
their bacon for ten cents pound, if it had not
been for the opposition of the rival candidate
for reelection, who had voted against it be-
cause he thought ten cents was too low. de
promised, however if he were sent back to the
House that he would next winter fix the law
80 as to bring bacon down to ten cents, and his
audience promised to send him there.
PICKET.