The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-15

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PBspaE OF soufa CxkoliS9 CITIZENS
JUICE CARpKNTERss Prospectus DEcI-
sIoN--As ONEISlDED SENATE INVESTIGATION,
&c. Colombia, y. 8C., January 12.-G Gov
ernor Hampton quietly but positively repels
the ipnputations cast upon his fealty to the
cause OF Tilden. He says he had strongly
opposed the withdrawal OF the Tilden cleo
toral ticket in South Carolina, which was at
one time mooted, and that he supported
Tilden heartily and thoroughly throughout
the canvass.
The solid men OF Charleston are evidently
desperately In earnest In the work OF re-
deemjng the State. Not content with the
prompt payment Of the Hampton, tax the
leading merchants and property-holders to
the number Of one thousand have united in
signing the following pledge: "We, the
undersigned, law-abidins citizens OF South
Carolina, recognizing the government OF
which General Hampton Is ut the head as
the only constitutional and legal govern
ment Of this State, hereby pledge ourselves
to General Hampton and to each other to
pay the amount OF taxes called for in his
address to the people OF South Carolina,
dated January /, 1877. We further pledge
ourselves to pay no taxes whatsoever inn
posed upon US by the pretended govern
ment of which Mr.. Chamberlain is the head,
and to support each other in all lawful re-
sistance to their collection"
The signatures to this pledge include
every prominent Charlcstonian, and repre-.
sent five siyths 6f the taxable property OF
the city. - =,
Rumors are current in circles usually
we'll informed that Judge Carpenters de-
cision in the penitentiary ha6eaS-corpus
case will be that the election OF Chamber
lain was not lawfully declared, and that ne
was not installed according to law, but tnat
he vacated his Office when he accepted the
declaration of his election and consented TO
be installed; and, having thus put Elmsen
out of Office, cannot put himself IN again,
and that the office Of Governor is therefore
vacant, and Gleaves, the mulatto Lleuten-
ant Governor, becomes acting Governor.
This decision would not touch Hampton
directly, but it is pretty certain that his IN
stallation will be held to be invalid.
A quorum Of the Senate not being present.,
such decision as foresbadowed above VIII
nullify all the legislation OF the Chamber
lain LEGISLATURE and leave the Chamberlain
party wholly without supplies. No election
Of Governor can be declared until Hamp-
ton or Chamberlain shall receive both law
full Senate and lawful House, which neither
now has. And it is easy to see that II the
waiting game is to be played the Hampton,
side, which holds the purse-strings, must
win,
The Senate committee finally adjourned
to-day, and have started for Washington.
To the last they refused to admit the rebuff
ting testimony of the Democrats, and were
only willing to give one day for taking EVIL
dence az to negro riots in Charleston, which
proposition Senator Merrimon rejected.
The sergcant-at-Arms remarked to-day
that the committee had spent $40, 900 In this
State. Chamberlain testified before the COM
mittee. Upon the cross-eXamlnatlon ne ao-
mitted that he had consulted last summer
with Secretary Cameron and others as to
bringing troops into the State; that ne mad
never called on the whites to assist in pre-
serving the peace; and that he had made no
effort to arrest any persons concerned IN the
Hamburg and Ellenton riots. Senator Mer-
rimon seems much elated at the result
Special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.