The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-07-15

lain had been one Of the party to this
fraud, and he, therefore, qualified it by
| snying that he did not know that he had
received any Of them. Gov Scott had
| come upon the stand md denied this
part of what Parker had told Lndd;
counsel WAS sorry that Dr. Ncagle had
| not done likewise. Now, after Kimpton
had taken receipt in full for MI moneys
and bonds handled by him, and required
of the Stnte certificate that the State
was indebted to him for q large sum, it
| occurred to him that he ought not hive
returned certain coupons, and he, there
fore said to Mr.. Car,lnzo that two certain
boxes OF coupons were his, and asked
TINT they bc retained. Now, these very
coupons Parker had already taken from
the office. If kimpton had been in Par
ker's secrcct, lie would not have asked
for the same coupons Parker had already
taken out; therefore lie WAS not in this
division. If these gentlemen lad been
in this fraud, do you suppose they
would have allowed Parker to lie in mil,
wien they might continue OH his bond
and set him free? Having. then, found
that ncithcrScott Chamberlain or Kimp-
ton were in this division, YOU must con
cludc that Neaglc was not either, and
that Parker got the whole S45O,000 of
the interest on the State debt was, on Oc-
tober 81, 1871, 5000 anl odd dollars,
while Pnrkcr'S account, taken from his
report, mndc it several thousand dollars;
counsel showed that Parker made this
exhibit OF interest by charging the State
with interest on many bonds long before
they left the treasury; these coupons had
innturcd before they were sold or hy-
pothecatcd. When kinlpton sent the
dead coupons to Parker, why did he ti-
rect his clerk not to cancel them: and
why did he place them in his own pri-
vate safe? Oh, he intended to take them
from the treasury; not these dead ones
exactly, but to take some valid uncnn-
ccled coupons and to replace them with
these dead ones; and ii was these valid
coupons i'll two boxes that Parker actually
took, that kimpton afterwards tried to
get from CnrdoZo. How could these cou-
pOns hive got ont of Tie treasury if Par
ker had not taken them out? How came
them III the possession of Parker
individually instead Of in the pos
session of Parker, the financial king
Of South Carolina? Some coupons were
out in hands of other parties; these were
paid in gold in New York and sent to
Parker, and Parker took them ont with
out cancelinS them and put dead ones in
their place. He then explained why
Parker had made the interest on Octo-
Der 81, 1871, 5000, ,0OU, instead of S456,-
0O0, which he took from the Treasury,
on the ground that lie had to make
allowance for outstanding stocks, fire
loan bonds, Nc. deduct these, and YOU
have about Si5G, 600 left, with margin
OF Sc, $50 for stocks, and the balance for
the fire loan bonds; but by Parker's own
report he could not charge interest on
the fire loan bonds, and ~. he charged
interest on bonds before they left the
State, you see that the difference between
SS, 600 and $500 900 is explained. Col
Rion then related an anccdote about IL
traveller nnd All ancient Arab, his guide,
who fell asleep in an oasis. The tra-
vcler awoke and saw II camel pass thcuI
while the Arab slept. When the Arab
awol,c, he said to the traveller that "a
| camel, blind i'll the left eye and lame in
the right hind foot, had passed them.
The traveller asked in SURPRISE, how the
Arab knew what hal passed while he
WAS asleep; he then explained by the
hcrbiSc having been eaten ON the right
side of the tracks, accounting for Tie
mindless. and Tie tender way the right
iinde"nost track was made. This con
WINGED the Traveller t:lat the Arab knew
Just Whit had passed Ivy the tracks
alone. although asleep when they were
mndc. Throughout the rest of his argu-
mrnt tl:e testimony connecting Parker
with this fraud he called tracks. and
Parker the camel. although, lie said, he
did not do it in I'll offensive sense lie
then showed how these coupons which
Pnrker ubstractcd were manipulated,
and explained why some stray coupons
were i'll kilnptons box. He said this
was mistake, an oversight Of Parker's.
lie then traced out individual coupons,
naming them, and showing how they
were manipulated, and then connected
them with Il clnss ST coupons, and then
connected Parker with them nll. He
then proved that Parker had rccciptcd
for certain boxes Of coupons with their
numbers marked Oh the outside; when
he took valid coupons out. he must
make the number compare with what
the outside of the boxes called for; this
he could not do; MIR. Cnrdozo had sworn
that the coupons which were in the
boxes when he came into Office were the