DeTreville & He. ward IATTORNEYS ASD COUNSELLORS AT LAW OraugebDrg C II., S. C. B?T" Will practice in the various Courts of the State TV. J. DoTroville, James S- Heyward juno 23 tf. AI3IAL. LATHROP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Orangebui^g, .S- O. Office injrcar of: Masonic Hall, ^arch 3 lv, Kaowlton & Wfemnamaker, * ATTORlfEYS ? AJO*' COUNSELLOR^ AT LAW, Orangcburgb. II., S. C Aog. 11. Knowlton, jP. M. Wannainnkur, Orangehurg C. II. ' St. Matthews, may 5 B77 tf Dr. L. S. Wolfe etui [be found at hin office over Kzckiel'? Store wlere lie is prepared 4o execute work on jic most iinprbvul ?style?, at short notice''nud at reusoiiab ?prices* AM work gut>?.ntecd. June 30 tf. ?" ? -ij NO MISTAKE"! TABLE KEJATINE The Great Remedy for ? Discuses of the Liver. TAKE The Great Cure for Dys 1 isia and Liver Disease. TAKE KERATINE The Great Cure for Indifcstion and Liver Disease. TAKE HE7ATINE The Great Cure for ConstWaliun and Liver Disease. TAKE KERATINE The Great Cure for Sick Ieadachc & Liver Disease. TAKE KERATINE ' TAKE I^FS2OT\B The Great Cure! HIilious Attacks and Liver DiscjM. | TAKE JlEPATINE For Sour Stom'ji, *f"k:>dache and Liver Disease. TAKE EPATINE 1 For Female Wc^ocss^ General Debility and Liver Irl DYSPEPSIA? 1 A state of the Stomach in which its functions are disturbed, often without the presence of other diseases, attended with loss of appetite, nause/heartburn, sour stomach, rising of flood after eating sense of fullness or weight in the stomach, acrid or fetid eructation*), a fluttering or sinking at thepfof the stomach, palpitations, illusion. Of the senses, norbid feelings and uneasiness of vari ous kinds, and wich U permanently cured if you tako jE3I Ep^LTHsTE KConstipation or Costiveness ? A state of the bowels in which the evacuations do not take place os designed hf nature and arc inordinately hard and expelled with difficulty, caused by a low state of the system, which diminishes the action of the muscular coat of the stomach* This disease is easily cured if yoa will tak| ^ Iffi lE^^1-N"-Ell m f fl INDIGESTION I \ A condition of the Stoiiach pro chills, fevei 1m duced by inactivity of tie Liver, ? mW when the food is not properly digested, and in wh.ch condi tion the sufferer is liable to become the victim of nearly evert disease that human flesh is heir to? and general prostration. It ispositively JORK Cured if yoil take IK jfej PATI ILTIS Sick & Nervous HEADACHE? ' It was at one time stppoxed that the seat of the bran was in the stomach. Certain tt is a wonderful sympathy exists between the two, nnd what effects one hps an imme diate effect on the other. So it is lhatn disordered stomach invariably is followed by a synpathetic ac tion of the brain, and headaches all a use from this cause. Headaches are easily cured if jou will tako IE3IIE IFA.TI ?TIE3 Sour Stomach? Heartburn? 1 The former in theprimary cause of the latter. 1 sour stomach Creates the hest and burning sensaton. The con tents of the stomach ferment and tirn sour. Sick Stomach, followed by griping, colic and diarrhoea, often occur. When the akin is yellow, TAKE HEPATXNE When the tongue is coaled, DEATH TO DISEASE! For bitter, bad taste in the moith, TAKE 49* A teaspoonfut in a wincghss full of water, as directed on bottle, and you never wilt be sick. This is saying a great deal, but we MAKE NO MISTAKE! TAKE FIFTY SOSES IN EACH BOTTLE. FOR SALE tit A. C. DUK KS, Druggist, may 19 1H77 ]y f o r s v rJiST A house ami lot at Jamison's Turn Out lion tided on (lie Hast by the 8. C. Rail Road- Will be nohi cheap. Appl v to MRS. II. M. ANEREYVS. ang U j tf, I CHAMBERLAIN UNMASKED, Nilcs Ci. Parker's Story of the South Carolina Ring. Tea Years of Rascality?An Expose of the Crimes of tho Carpet-bag Governmsnt iromthu Reconstruction Convention to its Final Overthrow?D. II. Chaiulier ' lain and 11. II. Khnpton, tho 'Arch Conspirators?Parker Didn't Intend to Steulat First, but Chamberlain Tempted him with dulden Fruit?Ho Rcpeids and Relieves in Hampton, [From the New York World."] The World reporter called upon Sir. Niles G. Parker, at his house in Jersey City, aud obtained from him a very full statement, which was taken down phonogruphically. The state ment was made without previous preparation, and this may account iu great measure for some looscuess noticeable iu> tho arrangement, and also for auy slight inaccuracies of dates or figures. Yesterday afternoou Mr. Parker was engaged in conduct ing a large temperance meeting in dersey City, and on returning home made the following statement: parker's record and election. I settled in Charleston in February, 1SG0, engaging in planting and the I mercantile supply business In 1867 Gen. Gun by appointed me au alder man in the City of Charleston. Gail lard was Mayor at the time aud there was a plfice in the Council made va cant by death. A few months later I was appointed chairman of the com mittee of legislation uuder the Re construction nets. After tho dis charge of that duty, I devoted myself again to private business. I was soon, however, elecied a member of the Constitutional Convention from r>*?t n? vr^. ^i^1!.'^:'.-" > ?.-??-^^vr effort to secure my nomination or election. In that convention I was chairman of the committee on finance, and succeeded in raising the amount necessary for the expenses of tho con vention. In the discharge of my duties 1 had the co operation aud good will of Governor Orr. As a member of the convention 1 opposed the passage of the law authorizing the Stale to I issue bonds. I took the grouud that the Stale indebtedness and the cur rent expenses could be provided for by taxation, and that any further issue of bonds was unnecessary. A s in previous years the State expenses had not exceeded ?400,000. I did not believe that more than .$600,000 would be needed to cover them. The surplus amount paid into the treasury as collected taxes would be enough to meet the payment of interest on the State debts, consolidated aud floating, and settle in tiic course of a few years all outstanding claims not represented already by State bonds. The act vrs incorporated in the Con slilutiou, however, in spite of my opposition. At the first election undei? the new Constitution I was put in nomination for State. treasurer and was elected. This nomination grew wholly out of the success which I had achieved iu raising the expenses of the conven tion. I went into office in July, 1868. Scott was Governor, Chamberlain was attorney-general, Cardozo, as secre tary of State, Frank Moses was adju tant-geueral and Neaglo was comp troller-general. The constitution of the Legislature was entirely Republi can, I think without an exception. Tljc Democrats refused to take part in the election. Naturally both Sou ate and House were composed very largely of colored members. Frank Moses was .the speaker of tho House, and undoubtedly tho most influential member of it during his four years' term of office, only forty two dollars in the static 1eeasury. When I took* charge of the State treasury there was only forty two dol lars in it. By the comptroller general's report for 1867 the bonded aud stock debt was nearly ?6,000,000, and there uaa considerable iu lei eat pulstandiug as well as other unadjusted debts amounting approximately to $3,000, 000. The tax of tho fiist year wns 8-i mills upon the assessed valuation of the property iu the State. This tnx wns expected to yield $1,200,000 or $1,300,000. The fiscal year of the State closed on October 31st, 1868. We went into oflice in July, and a special session of tho Legislature was called immediately. Instead _of im posing a tax to cover the expenses of tho current year as well as the year enden October 31,1869, we only im posed one tax, as we had then nu honest intention to relieve the people of the State of all but necessary bur- . dens. So we made a tax for one year only, iutending to provido for out stauding claims by tho issue of bouds. Of this tax imposed wo collected about three-fourths, aud the balauco was left outstanding. No extraordi nai\ measures were resorted to en force its collection, and I think that judgment was never obtained against the delinquents in the courts. '; chamberlain's peculiar bills. ? Under the Provisional Govommen t a law had been passed authorizing the funding of all outstanding debts, interest and principal, up to July 1, 1867 The Legislature, iu July, 1868, passed a bill to pay all interest due from July 1, 1*67, in gold. This bill was engineered by the State financial agent, H. H. Ki nip ton, He was a friend aud classmate of Chamber lain's, aud was introduced by him to me as the proper man to be the finan cial agent of the State, Ho was ap pointed by the financial board ? Scott, Chamberlain and myself. The bill was regarded by us as Kimpton's measure, and he represented that it would rise the value of the bonds ma terially, and enhance the credit of the pass the Legislature which was not proposed as a bill by Kimpton aud sanctioned by Chamberlain. His bills were always passed as presented. In regard to this particular bill, it should be added that the interest demand cd was paid in gold until the winter of 1869-70, when tho law was changed, so that thereafter tho interest was payable in currency. Kimpton was himself obliged to obtain tho change of the act, as it was seen to be impos sible to meet the demands upon tho treasury for gold. In the course of 1868 and 1869 tho Legislature passed acts to provide for the redemption, at par, of all floating debts outstanding. All those financial measures authorizing the issue of bonds were susceptible of two inter pretations. Tho wording of one act will sufficiently illustrate this point: "The Governor is hereby authorized aud directed to borrow $1,000,000 upon bonds of the State of South Carolina, said bonds to bo signed by the Governor and treasurer, and seal ed by the secretary of State, to be payable in South Carolina and at the New York financial agency." The debatable point is whether bonds re presenting $1,000,000 were to bo put on the market, or whether $1,000,000 was to be obtained by the sale of bonds at any price. This point I will take up presently. In round numbers the financial board was au thorized to raise $3,200,000 in the year 1868-69 by the issue of bouds of the State of South Carolina; $1,000, 000 for the payment of interest on tho public debt at 6 per cent., $1,000,000 for the relief of the troasury at 7 per cent., $500,000 for the redemption of Governor Orr's currency, and $700, 000 for the purchase of lands under the land commission. One million two hundred thousand dollars was called for in addition to provide for the rcdemplion of tbo bills of the State bank. These bills have not yet been redeemed, but are floating about in considerable quantities, though I do not believe any one knows how many are in existence In this session also tho famous Con version act was passed. This act au thorized the issue of bonds to take up all outstanding bonded and slock in dcbtcdncssof every kinp, and author ized, furthermore, alliheldera of stock or any kind of goverr nicht securities to convert them inlatbcae bonds. The object of this act;, be to give uniformity tiou to all classes of was declared to and conaolida-i securities. All these acts, I repeat, wc re presented by the financial agent, Kimpton, and urged upon tho financial board by him as a necessity, "^Uey were never prepared by Scott oi^myself, but al ways by Chamberhx\? arid Kimpton. Chamberlain used toi say to me ihat,| Kimpton declared fliese measur?sto bo nccessaiy, audjfio.supposod^thdt they were so. Under,the act'autkor izing the Governor to .borrow $1,000;- | 000 to pay the intere^Tupon the pub lic debts, $2,000,000 of bonds wore issued. Five bundled thousand dol lars of these bonds were returned and bouded in presence_of the, finanoial board aud others,$.250,000 were ex changed by tho financial agent ./or couversion bonds, and $1,250,000 re mained out. The $".00,000 bonds that were returned had paSseo. through the*' hands of the financial agent. While in his possession coupons might have been taken ofi)" Ojv;'they might have been applied for ih.4 payment of the interest, and so ^otinfo the hands of tho public. In :,000; but this, you will bear in ^pndj was the* judgment on a teaebnical* wrong in*'a civil suit. As soon^ia;the conversion act was passed,fWy;ery large number of these bonds weyeiprihtqd. Of these bouds $l,200,000j wJ>ro issued strictly: in accoidauc'e. J?4Jv^i^i)r,Qvisioti.of ? put on the market in an arbitrary manner. For all that, the mouey ob tained by die State on these bonds by Frank Moses was issued by me, as. treasurer, iu accordance with law. ENORMOUS ISSUES OF BONDS. Now the $3,200,000 which the Legislature authorized the Govornor Lo raise by the sale of bonds had to be obtained at a sacrifice. The bouds of tho State would not sell at anything like par. In fact, when first issued, wc were obliged to dispose of thom for twenty cents on a dollar. When the acts passed the Legislature, I under stood, aud I think it was generally understood by all members of the Legislature except those let into the secret, that $3,200,000 in bonds at par was the total sum authorized by the acta. When the acts were passed, however, Chamberlain and Kimpton pointed out what vas tho literal in terpretation of the acts. They con tended that bonds could be sold at auy sacrifice to obtain the sum in cash of $3,200,000. Relying on Chamberlain as the legal advisor of the board, Scott and I consented to the issue of the amount of bonds ne cessary to raise tho authorized sum. 110 found, however,that the ordinary I onds of the State wero not taken readily when put on tho market. Bankers require tho best security pos sible, before they will invest their money iu tho purchase of bonds, that the bonds are legally issued. This point was involved insoine doubt, and when they discovered that there wore more than a million of bonds issued under the act to provido for the pay ment of the public debt, they refused to deal these bonds, or rather to tako them iu any way. In this exigency recourso was had to the aot authoriz ing tho issue of conversion bonds. The act provides that these bonds shall be issued for tho redemption of other State securities, but it was contended by Chamberlain and Kimpton, that these bonds could also bo issued di rectly, that is they could bo put on the market and sold liko ordinary bonds, and tho proceeds devoted to tho redemption of outstanding claims and to meet other Slate expense?, Scott nnd I wero prevailed upon by Chamberlain and Kimpton to coun tenance this issue of bouds, When, therefore, these conversion bonds woro put directly on the market thoy wore sold quite readily^ for brokers had no means of knowing -how many were issued, ctf could bo issued, in on3 year. So they^secured these bonds as col lateral security, and purchased them in preference to the others. Perhaps this was notqxnctly-fair, but\ve ^yont.| on the priciple that outsiders'were' boundjtp'-lpok out for themselves.. The obijectof; the .fiimncinl board iu this was to secure money at. tho" least cost to the S?iteVnnd there was no^ inten tion, to.defraud the State thereby. DEBT INCREASED $10,000,000 IN FOUR ' YEARS* Duringtho four years.jfl ;which we. were in office the bonded ,'d.e^t was in- ! creased about $10$00,000.v; AU out standing claims were providcd.for and; "w-ip.ed out, so that"atv the imid ol' the four years tlio only put?tahujng' debt was for the current expenses of the State (Turing 1872. This l)pard hlvs been censured for causing these aqts pto bo phsscd. \ Who "drew up and j presented the "acts ?-? j .Ohamberlafn I drew -up: every one of them, and Kirapton presented them.. Tho pro - position for the issue of couveraio(i bonds directly was made by Chamber lain. I looked upon this issue as a necessity. I look upon it now as I did theu. My first opposition to the", issue of bonds in the Constitutional 'Convention was duo to tho belief that the State expenses could be provided for without, this issue, by taxation1^ | When I found, however, that H;he \ State espouses wore extravagant, and j demands were made ttpoi.v the treas-ii nry by la?v for money, I acquiesced in j I the measures proposed by- Chamber- ] lain and Kimpton. ' l'HANKS OP EX-?OVERNOR MOSES. ^pliore' w.?s a terrible iinqro^q.'o f 14' the Legislature. Frank Mosas was in tho chair, a?d I am told by trust worthy persons that he has acknow ledged to having signed away ?000, 000 dishonestly, though I am sure that it was n much larger sum. I believe that three or four millions of dollars were spent in excess of the necessary expenses for the meetings of the Legislatures during these four years. ] Both Senate and House were respon- I sible for this. The first president of the Senate was a pretty good man, Boozer. The)' soon got him out, how ever. Ho was elected a ju Igo and went out during the first session. Ransicr, a colored man, took his place. He was equal to the occasion . Corbin was president pro teni. of the Senate when Boozer, tho Lieutenant Governor, was absent. lie paid Corbin a good deal of money. Still he held ti large number of offices and received large salaries and regular perquisites therefrom. I know noth ing, therefore, to inculpate him. I bad no doubt that a number of charges brought against tho treasury were inipr perly passed by tho L'gis luturo. In particular thore wero ti number of live thousand dollar claims prcs* ntod which I thought were out rageous, certilicates issued by those who purchased senators and repre sentatives. The certificates were pro perly authorized, however, and I had to pay them. Suppose I had refused to honor them, what would have boon the result? Why I should have boon kicked out* for not doing my duty as treasurer. Thero was too much influ ence brought to bear against me. If I had stood out alone it would not have made any difference. Why, I have been to Frank Moses, WITH TEARS JN MY EYES, and said to him : "You will have no money at all in the treasury if you go on in this way." Frank Moses would only look up and laugh. "Talk about these Republican Reformers," ho would snv. "you never heard mo say anything about reform.1* No, said 1, I never did. I wont out of offico on October 31, 1872. Scott wont out at thesatno time, and Moses camo in ns Governor. Samuel Molton succeed Chamberlain as attorney general, but whon Cham berlain went uut of office he became Melton's Jrtw.piirtnerV'dnd 'so got right behind tho throne again. One of th? first ftc'fe^|.;: the Legislature after 3$5> Frank- Moses became Governor "was - ^ an,aot directing the attorney general of the State to prosecute) tho latesink j-ing. fund commisii???r? of th e State for corruption. These commissioners l^wore Scott,Neaglc, Chamberlain, the %hairmau of the finance committee of the Senat*' ami. the chairman of the . ways and m6ans committee of the- :v?; House. Hid ilritond? itin?w ?. What did he do? jTO^eduntitApriLT^: ni?d then , commenced i ? prosecution against me. The complaint, was'made by Daniel H. Chamberlain, then Governor and oxofficio; president of the sinking fumV commission, . The attorney general brought a siut for the recovery of'$25,000,.alleged to bavo been fraudulently misapplied;,k I was arrested and ' held to bail. ,A. night or two before my arrest Chamborlain bad been talking to mo as pleasantly;":\* as ever in the theatre, where Anna .Dickinson was leccurjug. Wo bad a. loving parting, but bo aueJiked off and. caused mo to beiarrested .on the next ?? ? v'- *'if' > ' 1 '? day. or vjdthin alew days a^any rate; Whon I succeeded, however, in press ingtho thing to a suit it was. noljprost* . cd by the attorney general. On, whoso Bhouhlors does the blame for the bor- , rowing of the j$25,000 lie? The sink ing fund commissioners ought to have been prosecuted for the^y part in tho matter "as well as for other.crimes which they committed.. The treasury needed the money,' aud it was none of my business wlm lent the amount. It .was not my funeral atiall. Iconsuitsd - Sfifith Chamberlain, asking him if it' ^was any crime on my part to borrow f|iis niouoy.;g"No," lie saiilj Vit is no>.?'; |fjf|imo of yours." Cbamberlam;wiir y now that ho was in a minority'cn.. :f|v6that V treasury without his consent. At any rnte the sinking fund commissioners are responsible iu this matter aud not myself, the treasurer. II1B Tin: blue ridge railroad swindle. In regard to the Blue Ridge Rail road swiudle, by which the State was said to have been defrauded out of 81,800,000, I can say at least that I had nothing to do with the road, ex cept when called upon, in my capacity as State treasurer, to pay over to the officers of the toad.tho scrip voted by the Legislature. When Harrison was President of tho road, $4,000,000 was voted by tho Legislature, in State scrip, to defray the expenses of its con struction. Harrison applied to Scott, ? who was then Governor, for money, and Scott requested Kimptou furnish $200,000 to Harrison for the road in return for $600,000 of .the bonded stock of the road owned by the State. Kimpton, I believe, still has that $600,000 of stock. Cameron succeed ed Harrison as president of the road, and Patterson succeeded Cameron. So Patterson came to have control of the four millions of stock, less the S600,000 which Kimpton had gobbled? It is this S3.600.000 that ho has got now to account for. I know that ho borro-ved $325,000 from a gentleman in this city, Mr. E; B. Wesley, giviug $700,000 of tho Blue Ridge Road stock as security. I caunot' tell what disposition iio mado of any portion except of this amount. I never owned a dollar's worth of stock iu tho' road myself. Scott owned stock in it and holds it to-day. As to the letter of Patterson to me as State treasurer, published a few days ago, authorizing mo to deliver to II. H. Kimpton re venue land scrip amounting to $114, 250, I am ready to admit that it is genuine. If you ask mo whether I paid this order, I answer that I paid every order for this scrip made upon tho treasury by Senator Patterson as president of tho road. I did not see that I had any authority to withhold the scrip, so long as it was drawn in accordance with legal provisions. If Uic scrip was afterwards mioapplied, I had nothing to do with this subse quent handling of it. . As financial agent of the State, ? Kimpton bad in his possession all [continued on seconed x'age.]