New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-06
SOUTH CAROLINA REDISTRICIED.
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icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
w.suNcroS. July 5-The South Carolina Legis-
Iature has adopted the "Dbble plan" OF redstIlct-
ing the state for Congressman. Inc piah Is 10
upioue as the argument made by DlDOIe III 'no
uose of REPRESENTATIVES to establish his right to
the seat that belonged to Colohel MacAeS' NJ
scheme of redistncting adopted puts part OF
ChorIeston Comfy INFO the lst District and part
into the With ten townships or election districts
g. Cono+on Countv are assigned to the
Ist District. six to the With district ana
two TO the Id District; Orangeburg
Countv Is split into three fragments, which are as
signed 10 the Is IVth and With Districts, respec-
lively. Spartanburg County is divided INTO TWO
narts one of which goes to the WITH and the other
TO the With District. like fate belaiIs Union
Comfy. Richland County goes to the lNth anu
With Districts. and Williamsburg County TO the
With and With.
II will be observed that the With District gets
4he lions share in the division OF couhtles'
There are three whole counties ana parts oil hve
o,ber COMMITTEES in this district the shape of which
strongly resembles one of Mark Twain's war maps.
The notorious 4" Shoestring district IN Mississippi
Is n marvel of symmetry compared WIN
fins "tape-worm district Of South Carolina.
Words failin any attempt te describe the geosIaPh-
ic,I form of this unique evolution of Samuel DID
heart of the eastern division of the State the dis
trict rms southwesteTly through Richland County,
from which it takes a single township; thence
soutberly il cuts of seven townships from orange
burg County, thence due SOUTH taking all OF
Charleston County except the City OF Charleston
and n small outlying territory. West and south
of Charleston il includes part of Colleton and all
of Beaufort North and east from Charleston IL
takes in all of Georgetown and part OF Williams
burc running northeast again within half a
dozen miles of the point OF beginning and having
its two legs separated by Clarendon County shaped
like wedge, with the sharp edge between lbc Ieel,
Tins district contains about 3lOOO wnlte; ana
155 600 cOlOred population, ana Inc charleston
Ne9rs and Courier es lmates the number OF white
voters at 900 and the number o. cOlOred voters al
"a 600 The COurtT cOmpacently comedies this dis
trict TO the Republicans, but thinks the democrats
are SIRE of ali the Others although the LIST District
contains "a colOred majority ESTIMATED OF l,2OO
the lid cOlOTed majority OF nearly O,OOO the IN
a coored majority OF 400, and the vim cOlored
majority OF 500. The population OF the districts
~ as follows: Ist, 1l99O9: lid, 136I4S liza,
13l 500 WITH 167 go, With, 1Zl,3Oo; Win,
322s3 With, 1o6,13O.
Ihe Aeirs and COurt(r remarks mat there is con,
siderable difference the population OF the several
districts but says II is no greater than In RepuDll-
can STATES ia the North. For instance, take the
STATE OF New-l DIRK which is blessed with Repub-
lican Legislature and it will DC found that the
nonulation IN the Congressional districts varies
from .O35 in the AXNllth District to 1,2O6,31|
in the New York Guy District lhls sentence cons
falns two items of new and valuable iuIOrInalou u
the citizens Oi New-1Ork.