New-York tribune., 1872-07-15
CARPET-BAG RUIN.
SOUTH CAROLNNs FATE.
THE FINANCES OF THE sTATB-SoTHING LBF
10 SIEAI-UTTER DEsTITUTION.

TO sTEAL-UTTER DEsrITUTIos.
TO the Editor or The Tribune.
SIR: The condition of affairs in South Caro-
lima has long been deporabe. The abandoned villains
who have held undsputed sway for four years have
brought the State to the brink Of financial and political
ruin. Their audacity had limit for they were
tenanced. If aided and sbetted by Grant, who has
never hestated TO sacrifice the liberty ami welfare OF
people to crafty bis Unsuitable thirst for power The
Government is apparently approaching disso-
luton. The state and county treasures are empty
Warrants and certificates are selngfor from twenty
to fifty cents on the dollar OF the State officials
and employees who IN the Ring" have received
cent OF money for month"; and ex'Gov. Orr recently
declared that he had not been able to procure dollar OF
his salary Judge for nine months All public iDstitu
tiOns closed closing. The schools guar
nteed to the colOred people at the last election have
been suspended two months, and large are still
due teachers. The inmates OF the asylum for the
deaf dumb and blind have been sent 20 their respective
| homes, although ample provision was made Tor
them by the Legislature. The sum OF $1,000 apprO-
prated for the Lunatc Asylum has not been paid and
that Institution is supported by private loans.
Gen. stalbrand the Superintendent Of the Peniten-
tiary has petitioned for writ OF mandamus to compei
Treasurer Parker show why he has not paid the money
due that institution, and TO compel him to pay IT, stat
brand alleges there IS due the OF $4,000 while
Parker lairms that he IS indebted in the amount OF
50 cents The argument has been made before the su'
preme Court j. ID. Tradewe esq, City Attorney OF Co
lumba appearing for the reator and AttorneyGenera
Chamberlain for the respondent The denuncauons OF
| the Ring made by Mr. Tradewe are entitled to great
weight, he Is a thorough Grant Republican quote
| from his argument:
Bv the admission OF his Porter's) return. than
100000 received by him under the revenue reso
ont OF that sum amounts 70 something than OO,
OO What has the Treasurer done with IT TIE ednca-
tax. Not one dollar Of that has he paid. Tie asylum
appropriation Of 5000 remains unpaid Your orphan
Asylum your Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the poor EN-,
pOyes of the state OF every grade your Juhcdry anu
last the catalogue but first IN importance your Pen
entiary, entitled TO $4,000 all starving ana claOr
| ing for sustenance.
The University the only relic OF old south Carolina is
totering Not only has money been withheld, but
fresh blow has been struck at IT, scott and the Ring
are making desperate efforts to obtain lease OF
power aud bestOwng proessorshps as politi'
cal bribes The trustees a their last meeting turned
out the professors both OF high moral worth
great intellectual attainments without giving them
word OF notice. and Dr. Roberts was elected Proie
sor Of Chemistry, while the chair Of Mathematics was
| given TO en- ex-Rev. Cummings. Roberts is young
man rather rickety in appearance, and TO fortune
and to fame unknown" until recently, when he be-
came Secretary Of "The Independent Order Of United
| Brothers," political organization in the interest
OF the Ring. Cummings is even moro Objectionable
He is accused OF entertaining entirely too little rev.
erence for the sixth commandment He has already
been professor female colleges and was compelled
to leave both OF his inability to make his ac-
counts balance also degraded from the ministry
OF the kidney threeourths or the teachers ap
pointed by Radical officials to instruct the youth oi tho
state But perhaps of all the evils the most serious re-
suits from the cessation Of the Quarantine. The different
crews employed in this service have received no COM
pensation and rapidly deserng and in few weeks
the entire Will be left unprotected from disease
In this emergency the citizens Of Charleston contem-
plate taking the matter their hands These are
only few instances of the condition in which South
Carolina has been placed through the demorahzing IN
| luences Of her carpet-baggers.
The question is often asked What is the OF this
want of money! The Columbia Union the corrupt
organ of the Ring seeks convey the impression that
the taxes have been paid. This is false There are
no tax-payers in the United States prompt than
the impoverished whites OF South Carolina. Although
the exorbtant, the number OF defaulters Is
very SMALL chiefly confined to the negroes who bought
lands since the At the recent tax sales almost
every negro lost his home. This boomerang, coming
back into their midst is already teaching them whole
some essOn that instead OF singing John Brown and
hurrahing aud emancipation they had better
secure honesty in the Government. OF all the lands
given freedmen in Beaufort after the war; scarcely
an acre remains in their possession
Ry these axes enormous sums have been raised only
TO be appropriated by few individuals. Last year
about S3OOOOOO collected. This year s3500oO0 VIII
20 TO swell the Golfers OF the Ring, II the already ex
hausted taxpayers be still further bed The whole
property the state is valued at Sis3Oooo or this by
far the greater part in lands These assessed at
much above their market value. Thousands OF acres
nominally worth S. will not bring 80 cents Thus the
actual property of the State cannot possibly be more
than slOOOOOOO0 On this amount 81 per cent Is to DO
wrung from the people, and the State will only receive
lands in lieu OF when they fail 10 bring onoourth
their assessed value Beside the sums OF money thus
raised s 100000 have been issued in bonds Yet all OK
this has been inadequate the support OF the State Gov
ernment. The exact way in which all this money has
been squandered is not yet known for the Ring have
not yet fully abandoned the principle OF honor
beginning slowly to dsntegrate, and one by One wnen
it too late, the public is learning OF the many swndes
fraudulent bond swinde by which millions OF bonds
were so surreptiousy thrown in the market by Scott
Bill swnde making good all the fraudulent issues, and
causing draft on the treasury TO buy up the Legsia-
ITS passage Then the impeachment swh-
die, which Scott and Parker again stole from the
treasury to buy up the reealcltIant members. Inc
corruption and venality OF the Legislature Is
shown by the fact that one day two-thirds OF the
members voted for impeachmens ana on me DAY aier
threefourhs voted against IT, Next in order comes tue
paycertihcate swnde, IN which warrants Tor s2OOVo
were drawn for the legislators and their attaches.
COrbin the great ku-kux prosecutor, declared In a
speech the th that Noses Speaker OF the House.
and Reform -GrantRadical" candidate for Governor
issued 100000 TO persons all over the sat-to many as
clerks who could neither read write. But the
Blue Ridge and the Greenvile Railroad swndles Just
former road was Commenced before the Passing
through the northwest portion OF the state 1t Is de
signed connect Charleston with Knoxville, Ienn;
Traversng mountainous region, has already enaled
heavy expense the state, although only nfy miles
completed. In 1858 the Legislature lndorsed bonds
for this road amount OF s000OO At the last
sion there new complication, A bill entitled an
relieve the State OF liability for the Blue Ridge
bonds lObbed through both Houses By the udcous
expenditure OF s175OOo This provided for cancellation
OF the guaranteed bonds and issue tO the road IN leu
thereof Of 81 in revenue bond scrip receivable Tor
taxes in November next In pursuance OF ts act inc
Ridge Ring, OF which Honest John" Patterson is the
head This neat little job, however was not suffered TO
pass unnotced. Almost simultaneously two temporary
njuuctons have been granted against the rOau one IA