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1410 NAMIL
d Thursday Aug. 30.-On
g of th court at 10 o'clook
th graWd jury being
Kersha* asked the
eo bad any further husit
4 th Court.
bueyreplied that other in
ok~ensf now ready, and that
es Would read them to the
eslaifd: We hove endeavored
buts tLa cams as to give
hemme tIe all amch indl:t
i{o the same nature, or
rlte to the same subject.
now to submit live which
on transaction, and all are
-04f t-ust with fraudulent
i t 11 follows:
t.a~pinst R. H. Gleaves, as
rt1adent"of the Senate, for issuing a
pay certiacate, which was without
4msideration and was illogal and
vold.
4 Aginst C. W. Montgomery,
Presidentpro temu. of the benate, for
Sing a frandulent warrant or pay
certIet.
.d. Against A. 0. Jones, as Clerk
of tfil 11ous, for the same offense.
4th. Against F. J. Moses, as Speak
or, for using a' warrant fraud ulon tly.
. t. Against F. J. Moses, for hir
ig.sid counselling breach of trust.
statutes, continued Mr. Ples,
makeWthis the Eaui offense as breach
of truat, and the alliegation ia that
apses so "hired and councelled"
Jones. There are, besidel tho indict
otents already mentioned, one or two
other which require fuller explana
ftlon. These are on two papers which
have a historic character, and are
coinmonly known as the "Mooney
& Legett warrants, drawn on the
ormed force fund by Go.vernor Scott
In favor of Mooney & Leggett (fleti..
tions persons), and are alleged by
Governor Scott to have been stolen
froni hiagtflee. The names of Moon-,
ey & Leggett are endorsed on the
back. On this we have drawn an
i ndiecsent against Niles G. Par'ker
Sfor paying money on that warrant.
We have also indicted F. S. Ja cobs
for forging the name of Mooney &
Leggett on the back of that war
tant.
Xlie indictments having been read
Xabra. Qochrane, Tappan, Wells and
bath were called as witnesses, and
the three first named were sworn.
oath is absent.
5dge Kershaw then charged the
tybrIefly.
. pe1 pers were then handed to
thg ~ry, who retired, and after ab
Mena c4 an hour or two, came in and
annoonced that they had found true
Mifls in all those cases. The Attorney
Gpn9tal thou stated that as one of the
witnesses (J. II. Muller) desired to
leaye for Charleston to night, the
would submit one in4iptment out of
its otder. This bill we~ then read,
ad Is against Joseph us Woodruff for
trgery in raising a bill of J. IL.
Muller, of Charleston, from $820 to
*#j8S0. The jury was ont but a
hort time, and on its appearance re
'jtted a true bill against Woodruft
~1~> r forgery.
~~ . folloifiig is 'an exact copy of
thb o4@3al order in this case:
Iia TrJO SENATE,
Oozamnma, January 18, 1872,f
Thie2tate Treasurer will pay to or
derf#rH.Muller $4,320 for amount
4fuO60abNatsandries andited and
pwstedy tht fenste.
~ 4 6 RaNsiBS,1'rshdent,
- IYISUtS necessary to be
,,~.~~Ument are that
~W~ISeved any such
6 neve rendered aniy
4- ~eEnaAe, Dever had any
t~peotinewith Woodruff.
dorsement "J. H. Muller" ipon the
back of.the order. Mr. Mdller did
hav certain transactions with Ranbier
who always paid up in full except on
one occasion when be settled by note
for $400, with W. J. McKinlay as
endorser. This case disposed of, the
jury adjourned until 4 o'clook.
At 4 o'clock, the jury having re
assembled, the following new bills
was submitted by the Attorney Gen.
eral.
EXUInT "A
State against John J. Patterson,
N. G. Parker and Hiram H. Kimp
ton, for conspiracy to bribo members
of the Legislature to pass a certain
act, charging as overt acts of the con
spiracy that Patterson, President of
the Blue Ridge Railroad delivered
to Kimpton an order on Parker, as
Treasurer, for Blue Ridge Railroad
script, to be used for the expenses of
passing cortain bills through the Lo
gislatuire, and that Kimpton presen
ted the order to Parker. This is tho
order or letter wich was photograph
ed. Tho next is tne State against
John J. Patterson, for bribory of
members of the Legislature to pass
certain acts. The next is againstR.
K. Scoot, John J Patterson, N. G.
Parker and F. S. Jacobs, for conspi
racy to cheat the State (by the means
of the money warrant). The next i6
against the same parties, for conspi,
racy to cheat the State (by means of
the Loggett varrant.) Tho next is
against J. J Patterson, for hiring and
counseling N. G. Parker to commit
a breach of trust and larceny in pay
ing -11on1ey on the money warrant,
for which a true bill has already been
fbnrid against Pauker.
Tio grand jury, having received
the Andictients, retirud, and after a
brief abscence returned with true
bills in all of the above cases. The
witnesse in the Pattorson bribery
ciis are S. J. Lee, Princo tivers, J.
B. Donnis and R. ]Beldb )t, and their
testimony is to the effect that on the
ath of February, 1872, Patterson paid
out a largo suma to certain members
of both ioues of the Genecral Ass
sembly to induce them to vote for
certain bills, to wit: "A bill to rea
lieve the State of South Carolina of
all liability for its guat'antee of the
bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad
Company by providiving for the se,
curing arid destruction of the same;"
"a bill relating to the finarooial agen
cy os the State of Sc,uth Carolina in
New York," and "a bill relpting to
the bonds of South Carolina." Of the
bribery fund so disbursed by .Patter
son to secure the passage of the billa
three Thousand dollars w as paid to
Speaker S. J. Lee, two thousand dolN
lars to Representative J. B. Dennis,
five,.hundred to Prince R~ivers, Rep
resentative, and five thousand dlollars
each to the then Sonators-Leslie,
Owens, Whittemnoro, Swaile, HI. E.
Hlayne and W. B. Nash. Besides
these amounts other unspecified sums
were paid to many other members of
both Houses, whose names are not
given and who are declared to be ae
yet unknown.
Another batch of iidictmnents will
be submitted to thge grand jury to
morrow, and these will close the list
for the presut, as Judge Kershaw
leaves on Saturday to hold court cle
In view of the insinuations~ of the
Washington Republican,,New~ York
Times~ and other such papers, too
much prominence cannot begiven to
the facts: That this grarr'diary was
organized in January 1877, by Re
publican 6fflihds, and Wliile Mr.
Chamberlain was seated in the State
Honse as Governror; that under our
Stage laws~ the grand jury eer ves for
a.year; thait the resolution undog
which the investigating committee
was appointed was Introduced by a
Republican Senator, and' that aBRc'
publican is chairman of thje Commit
too; that the attempt made at the
North to discredit the action of the
committee and th* grand jury as po..
litical persecution Ignores the fact
that the offenses for which the par
ties are indicted are stealing and
cheating, the evidence of which com.
es entirely from Republican witnes
es, and is submitted to the decision
of a Republican grand jury, eight of
whom are colored. It might with as
much propriety be said that Belknap
was politically persecuted.
The witnesses in the caso against
Gleaves are S. J. Leo and Cochran.
It is also duo to a right uderstanding
of of Lee's poeition to state that he is
the only witness,against Cardozo,
Q!eaves, Lee, Woodruff and Jones
for conspiracy to cheat and defraud
the State by means of the fraudulent
pay certificate for $4,000 (not $5,000
as I was erroneously informed yes.
terday.)
McDevitt has not yet been before
tho Investigating Committec. Lo is
itn town, h owover, and wiil probably
go before them this week.
[From the New3 anl Courior.]
In tho Pillory of Justice.
JUDOE KER9HAW MssUEM BINOH WAR
RANTS FOR THE THIEVER.
COLMBIA, August 31.-The exam
ination of an important witness by
the inveztigation committee delayed
proceedings somewhat to day, and
no bills were given out until about
12 o'clock, at which time the Attor
ney Genoral submitted three indit.
inonts against L. Cass Carpenter tor
forgery, and one against Woodruff'
and Jones for conspiracy. .
TILE OASLS AGAINST CAU"PENTER
aro based upon duplicate bills, which
the evidence 8how were also paid in
duplicate. The first reads as fols
lowi:
COLUL'11A, S. C., Dce. 13, 1871.
Meesrs. Woodruff and Jones, Clerks
General Assembly, to the
Daily Union, Dr.
To publishing law regula
ting Licenses Insurance
Companies $1,720 00
(Endorsed.] We certify the within
bill to be true and correct, and re
mains unpaid. $1,720.
J. WooRiUFF, Cler'k Senate.
A. 0. JoNEs, Clerk II. B.
The same account was presented
again with date ohanged to January
2, 1872, was likewise endorsed, and
was paid again on that date. The
secoQnd bill gelId8:
CQLUMBZA, 8.0C., Oct. 20, 18%.
Messes. Woodtuff and Jones, to the
QNtfy'Union. Dr.
T1o phablishing laws as -per
contract, -$1,7#'67
[Endors~ed.] We certify thast the
within bill is correct, and remains
WOoDldUFF,Clerk of Senate.
A. 0. Jo:ns, Clerk LU. R.
A duplicato of this biil,. with date
cIiange~d to 9th of December, 1871,
was end1orsee same as above anid
likewiso paid. The. third bill bears
date May 13, 1871, was for "p)ub
lishing law regulating insuran~ce
ligenses in damily and weokly," for
which the charge was $878 33. This
atu~omit was fraudulently raised to
$1,878 33, and was also endorsed by
Woodruff and Jones and paid in its
altered form.
The caso against Woodruff and
Jones3 for conspiracy is based on a
bill of the Republican 'Printing Com
paniy "for .pr'inting 3,500 copies of
the Ku'.Klux tral, for which the
chirge was $22,894. To this bill a
fraudularit item is appended for
"discount on revenue bond scrip,"
also charged at $22,894. As no such
discount was made, and as the bill
was paid in cash, as appears from
the evidence. Woodruff arnd Jones
rceiv'ed $45,788, just double the
amquut ofbbhebilI. Th is makeor was
aired in the~ News and Courier a few
weeks ago, when it will be remom.
er oodruff claimed that he was
not peId in casb, but in paper wr"i
only fifty cents on the dollar; which
reduced the amount of $45,788 to
$22,894, the amount of his bill.
The grand jury were out for some
tim, and returned true bills in these
fon indictments.
The following order was then pro
pared by the Attorney GenernI and
handed to the Court, who, in behalf
of the Solicitorpgeneral, requested
that it be granted:
IN CoU1T og GENERAL SussIoNs,
Richland County, I
At a special -session held oa the
28th of August, 1877, on motion of
John R. Abney, solicitor, ordered:
That all recognizances which have
not bon specially discharged be
continued over to the next term.
That bench warrants issue against
all persons whom bills of indictment
have been found at this or any for..
mer term, and who have not yet
boon bound over to answer the
Gane.
That the Clork issue process to
bind over all witnesses who have not
boon bound over, not only in prose
cutions already returned- to this
Court and not finally disposed of,
but also in all prosecutions which
may be returned in his office by
competent authority before the next
term. J. B. KERsUAW,
August .1, 1877. Judge.
The order was granted, the grand
jury was disnissed, and the Court
adjourned.
The only Democratic witness be
fore the grand jury was a clerk in
the Treasurer's office, called as an
export to verify vouchers.
The investiga'ing committee have
yet in their possession a very large
amou nt of coupons, several hundr-ed
thousand dollars' worth, similar to
those on which. sone of the present
indictments are based. The indict
mens submitted to the grand jury
are but a few out of itany, and are
intended merely as tet cases. In
the matter of funding coupons it is
declared that Y. J. P. Owens alone,
as agent, funded as much as thre
hundred thousand dollars' worth at
(1ne time.
Besides the three bills against
Carpenter to day, there are 20 other
vouchers which have not boon used
in the proceedings against him, in
each of which he raised the amount
one thousand dollars by prefixing
the figure 1 In each instance.
[vrom the Journal of Commiereo.]
Pulling Patterson-.
ONE OF THE RIGHUT MEN.
CoLumnA, Sept. 1.-The following
letter, whbich has jnst now been made
public, afforded one of the grounds
of the indictment of Senator Patter'.
son by the grand jury of this county
on Thursday last. The document
speaks for itsolf:
VwE1-PEI DE~NT's OIFoE,
Green ville & Columbia R. R. (0o.
Columbia, S. C., March 2, 1872.
Hon. Niles G. Parker', Stato Treas
urer, Sonth Carolina:
Please deliver to UI. II. Kimupton
"~Revenue Bond Scrip" due the Ule
Ridge Rail road Company, according
to act passed March 2, 1872, amount.
ing to one hundred and fourteen
thousand two hundred and fif ty dol-.
lars, at par, upon01 the following con
ditions:
That $42,857 of satid Per ip, at par
value, is to bo nteed for payiung the
expenses of passing through the
House of Representatives bills styled:
"A bill relating to the bonds of the
State of South (Carolina," and "Bill
to authorize the Financial Board to
settle the accounts of the Financial
Agent,."
Now, if' thos~e aboved named bills
are passed and becomo laws, this
order for $42,857 in scrip at par is
to b6 paid said Kimpton. and if -
passed, then this order for tbA
amount to be void, and the ser%p is
not to be delIvered.
Also, that .11,414 of serip at per,
you shall deliver to said Kimpton,
if said bills shall become laws, and
provided that he shall pY Bth sum
of fifty thousand dolare, (the pro-.
ceeds of said scrip at seventy eentA
on the dollar,) in paying the expen-&
ses incurred in passing tbr6ugh the
Senate the bill known as a bill to
relieve the State of all liability on
account of. guaranty of Blue Ridge
Railroad Bonds, etc., passed March
2d, 1872, which said expenses said
Kimpton has contracted to pay, and
if said Kimpton fails or refuses to
pay said amount in defraying said
expenses when required by me,then
this order to be void. If said oon
ditione are complied with, *fd (he
amount of scrip delivered to sad
Kimpton, he is not to be held lible
for, or to account for its value. The
above two sums of $42,857 and
$71,414, in scrip, at par, make up
the amount of scrip first mentioned
in this order.
Jor J. PAaBzoN,
President Blue Ridge Railroad.
Wit nesu: R. B. Euo-rr.
This letter, or a copy of it rather,
is believed to have been obtained
from a photographed copy of the
original at present in the posession
of Judge T. J. Mackey. As will be
seen, the revelations are damaging
in the extreme to "Honest John,"
and he can, if proper steps are taken,
be convicted out of his own mouth,
and by his own hand, of bribery,
breach of trust and God only knowe
of what else, not only before a jury
which he affects to despise, but be
fore the bar of that bigh and mighty
body of the Senate of these United
States of American, of which by
the grace of his "Peers," he is a
member.
The genuineness of. the copy can
be established by Judge Mackey,
who probably saw the original, and
it would be an easy matter to extend
to the Honorable Senator, who re'.
sides in Pennsylvania, an invitation
to step down and out, of such a na
ture that he could not possibly find
it in his heart to refuse.
The majority of the members of
the Ring were fearful of these very
exposures, although~ Patterson is ig-.
nor ant that he has been so cleverly
caught, and since' the session of the
court commenced here, it is known
that some of the member's of the
Cabal, who secreted themselves
where they could conveniently ob.
serve in which direction the "cat
wvould jump," have suddenly arrived
at the better' part of valor," and in.
continenltly fied.
The work which has already been
accomnplished by the investigating
committee has nlow assnmed that
shape wvhore it could be loft in the
bands of the law officers of the State
to be concluded and the thieves
brought to justice. The committee
wvill, however, continue the prosecu
tionf of their labors as much yet re
mainis to be done in1 unearthing vil
lainy and appeasing outraged law.
There is abundance of material
yet in store, and by the time court
convenos again in October, other
bills of' indictment will be ready,
and( whenH the General Assembly
mneetsi, that body cannot fail to take
cognizance of the gross violations ol
lawv of many of the present members
who may eape the' olutches of jus
tiee in the courts of the State.
W. fi. MoK.
A Miss Buchanan, once rallying a
brave soldier on bis courage, said:
"Now, captain, do you really wear
to tell me that you camn walk u'p2
the cannon's month witbont featt
"'Yes," was thieprornpi reply, sog
BJuchanan's oither." A nd be mW
As early a Ust Ard '
fadt ihiak Wodj*" ,.f
ate, And ex-tuk$4ns en14 -
bad enpressed a
restitution to thel'stpio.iu
in their power, by retprnIAg%
state the acumulations of WO
they became poosessed during
cal rule. One high in authority asst
us word, however, that it was hi, 'eo
sire, for prudential reasouq, that thb#
expose be not made. With deference
to him, not only as a man but to his
official position, The Rogistel said
nothing about the matt6r. tIhe hh
of sedr4cy was removed Sunda
night, and we now give, the pairfku
lars of the Woodrulb and Jones cN 'i
tulation. They turn over to t
State property,, real And Peion!,
the cash value of whichi a-nonts to
$100,000, although Woodruff & Co.
claim that its real value is $3,000,
000.
Woodruff, who is a stenographe:
has for years been Clerk of the Sen.
ate, and has kept a diary of the most
minute transactions in which he has
been engaged durin' that time, and
is at present engaged in translatin~
his short hand notes into long hand,
for the benefit of the committee.
When once converted hito teadable
manuscript, they will tell the com
mittee of all the thefts which have
been perpetrated under his eyese
from the beginning of the Radical
reign down to the time that the real
people of the State got possession of
the governnent. Among these theft&
everl little petty stealing, includiDg.
coffins tor'desesd members of their
friends, or cradles furnished f>r the
illegitiwate of-epring of the ,mam
bere' concubines,. are included, as aror
also the wine, cIg%X,,booI and furni
ture bills of Ahe worthies, as well as
the sums paid varlous members for
their votes they so patriotleally case
for measures wheb did, even if they
were rnot intended to, 6ring rarin top
on the State. At least 150 ceceks
given to these statesmiei as bribo
money were also turned over by
Woodruff, with the signatures or the
'marks" of these worthy and enfght
sned men, witnessed by edueated mnea
of their pwa party1 which will stand
against them when they are brought
into court to show "omuse why" they
have thus prpveu recreantl to every
principle of honor and the :publio
trust delegated to them,~
Woodruff and Jones left for' thetv
respective homes immeditely aftet
making this surrender-the former
declaring that he wa's a ruined mny
and that he at least, in the future, was
going to seek a living outside of poi
ite.
There has been) fo agreement oif
promise of any kind upon the part of
the committee that a no). pros. wvould
be entered in the caso.of those men,
as hase been stated. .Their act of:rew
stitution was of their OW) VOlIthin,
prompJted, no doubt, by the reflection
that the "game was up," and that
poesibly a feelin'g of niercy might
spring up in the hearts of the con.'
muittee if they shioni<I set an exam1plo
to the balance of the pluniderers by
making this surrendor. No vjidie.
live spirit actuates the men w7ht gart
managing this investigation and ige
barely possible that there is soid
"balm in Gilead," if othere will do
as Woodruff and' Jones have dono
i. e., do the best they can to right
their numbet-less wrongs done to the
State.--Oolumbia Register.
"I think, my dear," said the res
ident, as he took his night shirt from
under the pillow, "that we will. it
a dinner by and by ,and have 8Sher%
ry.-" "RUtherford," said Mr's. Uaiye
"have Bheridan and some of the a'y
people," concluded the corn IL
m ohief, as hehfpdroithy elippedS%
Sbed, and left Mrs. II. to uu,c "P .b#
.baby and turu,down the ga$s