Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-09
REFORM LIGHTNING !

with the Hight and capture, on fnllauelpnla,
of Josephus Woodruff, who ignominiously
sailed from Charleston few days before his
arrest, to avoid, as be claims, having to give
excessive bail, which he says he had been in
formed would be in the sum of 100000. This
amounting to virtual imprisonment, he intend
ed keeping out of the way until he could com
municate with the committee relative to Sc
curing reasonable bail, and failing in this, he
says, he would have returned in time for the
October term of the Court of Sessions.
The charges upon which the warrant was
issued for his arrest we're for sundry printing
bills raised to double the original amount on
account of discount on Blue Ridge scrip re.
ceived in payment. Concerning this, Wood
ruff makes the following statement: Parker
(ex-state treasurer) told me (Woodruff) that
there was no money in the treasury, but that
be was paying, or would pay, all such claims
in Blue Ridge scrip. In reply, I stated that
the scrip was worth only fifty cents on the
dollar and I would, therefore, raise my bills
accordingly. The bills thus raised amounted
to $4,000. They we're sold to Comptroller
Neagle for $4,000 in greenbacks. (Neagle
will testify that he presented the bills to Park
er, who paid him $4,000 in Blue Ridge scrip
for them, keeping $4,000 for himself) A
few days afterward Parker asked me Wood
ruff to sign the receipts, which I did, sup.
posing payment had been made in scrip. 1t
now appears on the treasurer's books that the
bills were paid in greenbacks. 1 deny ever
having received dollar of it, and believe that
the checks, which I am told were drawn to D..
Woodruff or bearer, will be found credited to
Parker's bank account"
Woodruff's case was heard before Trial
Justice Marshall on Tuesday of last week,
and be was held to bail in the sum of $4,000,
giving Mrs. Josephus Woodruff as surety.
1t appears that the budget of papers which
was recovered through the agency of ex-Gov-
ernor Moses, are even more valuable than was
at frstsupposed. They concern certain chiefs
who have hitherto escaped the hands Of the
law, but whose footprints, hitherto supposed
to have been deftly concealed, are here given
as plainly as that which Robinson Crusoe saw
in the sand. Names may not yet be given to
the public, but the committee are elated over
the acquisition of the treasure which has thus
been washed to their feet, and they will GER
tainly give good account of its use. On
Wednesday of last week, Moses was released
on ten thousand dollars bail. The names of
his bondsmen are withheld from the public.
Lieut.. Chapman, who proceeded to Phila'
delphia for the purpose Of returning Wood
ruff to South Carolina, reports having met
Cardozo on the street in that city, where he
had some conversation with him. Cardozo
Indignantly denied the statement that he had
fled the State, and placidly remarked that he
was only "traveling for his health" He is
under heavy bond, he says, and his family ere
still in Columbia. He says he will return in
October, or sooner, if necessary.
1t is currently reported in Columbia that
Chamberlain is seriously involved in certain
transactions covered by the records which
Moses delivered to the committee but as no
one has had access to this fund of information
besides the committee, and as all the witnesses
are sworn to secresy, the story cannot be ac'
cepted as altogether trustworthy in its present
shape. 1t is claimed, too, that Honest John
Patterson's interest in the same budget is i'm
portant.
Worthington and Jones, and Randall, Of
Aiken, were before the committee on the 31st
ultimo. Ex-Governor Moses also concluded
his evidence on the same day. On the fol,
lowing day S. j. Lee was examined. The
evidence given by Lee is said to have been
very full, very satisfactory, and in large
measure confrmatory of that Of MI 8. One
item of Lees testimony was that the slight
plank partitions in the cloak and committee
rooms of the State-House were erected at a
cost of twenty-five or thirty dollars each.
Fifty dollars was charged, however, and this
amount was subsequently and fraudulently
increased to six hundred and fifty dollars in
each instance In this altered form the war.
rants were passed upon and approved by a
committee, of which Nash was chairman.
The committee express themselves as deep
ly impressed with the completeness and i'm
portance of the evidence so far in their pos
session. Moses is willing for his statement to
be published, but the committee will not con-
sent to this at present. 1t doubtless will be
published in due time.
On the 1st instant, the investigating com
mittee examined Judge T. j. Mackey, and
then adjourned on account of the sickness Of
one of the members. The points on which
Judge Mackey was examined have not been
developed The reporter of the Columbia
Register interviewed the Judge after he left
the committee room, but could only gather
from him that the committee begun by re-
questing that he give what information he
might possess as to "the cause which prompt
ed the barons of England to combine and
rebel against King John and overthrow the
government existing under that monarch u
The Judge also gave the reporter much infor.
nation of similar character, which he said
he also gave to the committee; but it was
impossible to obtain from him the slightest
clue as to what he had really said to the
| committee.