New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-17

could Law hold Of Its tentacles have drOppeu Oh
everything that had dollar or a chance lor
! a dollar i'm il. You could MT strike suddenly
with n club the keyhole of treasury safc
anywhere in the State, without breaking two OF
tbroe fingers of some member of the Moses
family. Along at the first Of the South Caro-
lima business. when they had one OF the Moses
family for Governor, we mstOok him for the
lot. 1t is not unlikely that under tnis
mIsapprchensiOn we credited or deDlteu MN
with righteousness and wickedness that Shouid
have been divided up and apportioned among
the rest of the family. 1t did seem queer, 100,
that one man should exhibit so much versa
tility in stupidities and deylltrcs, but we
thought he might be n skipiack sort OF crea-
ture, who, being just IA fit for one office rs
another was holding pretty much all OF them,
and improying the time. We have since learned
that there are several MoScses; how many we
do not know, but enough, enough. And the
whole family, so far as we can judge from
their several political careers, are ct the direct
line. Direct. if not from the Moses OF the
Dcliycrance at least from the Moses OF Sinai,
who broke The tables of the law These fel'
lows have broken pretty much all the com
mandmcnts What they haven't broken they
have treated az the fellow did the grass he
WAS hired to NOV. "Well," said he, when
asked if he had finished moving, " Eve cnt
down the most ont, and the rest I've beat
" and banged so't won't live
The South Carolina IionSc Of Representatives
inpeached one of these Moseses on Tucsd~y.
This one is Judge of the Circuit Court, and
is described as the brother of Chief-Jusiice
- l.. nnl
We now. respectable connections are uncom
monty handy things 10 have in the house. See
this now: they impcach the Circuit Judge for
"applyiug trust funds Ia his own USE or
some such thing-that, we believe u the way
IT is defined in the DISPATCH convey the
wise il call and the Circuit Judge says
"Why. I'm the brother of the Chief Justice
"and The uncle Of the Ex-Governor when
they catch the cX-ioycrnOr in q conveyance
he SAYS, "Why, I'm the son of the Chief
Justice and the nephew of the Circuit
"Jrdgc." And 50 it goes. Well, they
are a nice lot, these M0aelcs They are
rcscuing race down there, we presume
They seem 10 he leaders. lawgiyers and de
hvcrers- stand -and-d,iytr-"rs. They may
make some mistake in the matter oil leading
and hwgiving. but in The bushes oi dc>poil-
ing the Egyptians they have more than filled
ia. BILL We do not know that the existence
of tc Moses family concerns anybody outside
the State OF south Carolina. We have been
interested somewhat in observing it, ramiic;I-
liaLs, rs successive exposures of politica! and
personal ra>cality developed thea. We are
not quite sure We have Goi thc family to-
.,cthcr vet Bat there seems 70 he enough OF
them on hand and classified 10 make q pro-
cc.sion. and 20 we offer the gratu'touS sug-
.,,tiou that the Mo>cscs. 20 fay ~ heard from,
be- nai>hnlcd. coralcI and cHayancd. and
lei up INTO some convenient li>Gah to stay.
The 10 cnrd race ought to hc able to make
the Ic.i of the journey alone.