New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-17

Among the townships in OraDgeburg County as
signed to the Ist District is that Of Orange when
contains III white and S57 colored voters. I'M,
would have been had it ndt been the home Of sam
uel Dibbe, author of the Dibble plan," who has
Congressional aspirations but has not the audaelty 10
attempt to crafty them by becoming candidate
in district which has 25, 600 Republican MAJORITY
Therefore Orange was placed in the lst Dlstrict,
where there Is n colOred majority OF only l,4oo.
This division OF counties has already led 10 serious
complications even among the Democrat 3.
The Charleston Aeics and Courier OF the loth INST.
contains reports OF two county conventions, WHICH
show that great difficulty was found IN ailottlng
delegates from the counties to the varlons Con
grcssOnal districts among which they had Deeh
divided. careful examination Of an accurate
map of South Carolina as redIstrcted renders IL
doubtful whether the RedlstIlctlng act Is III
accordance with the act OF Congress. That act re-
quires that the districts shall be, as nearly as pos
sibe equal in respect to population, and shall Oe
composed of contiguous territory, nc average
population Of the seven Congressional dlstricts Oh
SOnth Carolina is 142225 the population OF 'he
several districts fixed up by the Leg3lature - I rs
follows: Ist 1IS.s03; Id, 1876. 14S; lilaa'
13l 500; IVth, l67.23O; Yth, 12l,3oo; Nlth'
1855; With, 1886. ,..-:... ,o,,o
much less than the average population, Que
of them - 600 less and one OF them 2l,OOO less
while ono of them has 2JOOo more ana
another $4,000 moro than the average. he siignt,
est inspection of the map Will SHOW tlat thero was
DO necessity for this-nay, that 1t was not accom-
plished without geographical eont0rtohhs r,c o.
ter. The Hid District is composed
of five counties, iour OF when
are in n compact body, but the fifth is virtually de-
tached fro n the others only touching one OF them
at a geomctrical point The Ist District e. Dibbl@s
own y is about tuTee miles WIDE at lls eastern end
three m les westward Ii suddenly narrows TO ihie
in width and Il few miles further west
ward it is not more than forty yards VIDE.
Twelve miles west Of Charleston Vts
eastern end it is less than two miles wlde. All
this squeezing aud twisting was necessary IN oluet
To include the city of Charleston. Throughout us
entire length the district Is narrow one averaging
about 20 miles i'll with; but what IL lacks III
breadth it makes up III its lcnguh, "hiCm
Is about $50 miles. But it was IN
talns about one-fiith of the enure population Ok
the State, that Dbbc's genius mace It's highest
and uost daring fights. THIS district stretches
along the sea-cOast 25U miles. Its width
wares from 100 miles to 100 feet lat
low tide, except for about three miles
where the contiguous territory" requirement. ls
fulfilled only by the Atlantic Ocean ana the ground
this part OF the district IN the follow
ing words: James Island Folly Island, Nor
ris Island and the islands lying between
them and the lower portion OF Charleston
Harbor and the ocean cOaSt-iIne from ana below
hIgh water-markD At high tide this narrow IlD-
bon of sand beach ls OF course covered ny INC
waters of the Atlantic. This hgament joins Wnat
are, geographically speak sing, two separate ana ais
tnct districts each containing about The same NUM-
ber of peonlc. The district thus senderly
united may, therefore, be styled not Waptiy me
" Siamcse WINS District" Ot south Carolina. III 10
certainly as startling anomaly III It's way as the
Siamese twins were theirs and as gross a Nlol-
ton the laws OF right elections Us their union
was Of the laws OF nature