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-- e . at 4 - P t att *U - * .- D..i.~ EVOTRDrTO POLITICS, MORALITY, 1DUCATION AND ?0 THE GENERAL INiTIERST OIB TH&ECOUNTRY. VOL. i.. M **PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAKY, APRIL 4, 1818. .3 '~1IE SENTINEL o. PunLINSHICD Wat ItTMANAt. BY D. P. 39RABEEI& qO. Tei-ftas of ftibsOrItid. One Ye'af .. . . Sik Menthe . . Adlertising Rates. Advertisements inserted at thQ rqte of $1 00 per dquare, of (9) ninL6 linej oR LEss, for the Arst inset-tion, and-50 cents for each tibse quent insert ion. Contraots made for TIAEH, six or TWELVE montho, on favorable terms. Advertisements not-having the. pumber rf InstIons n trrked on them, will. publih0d i4titil forbid and charged accordfgly. These tervis are so simple iy 6hild ny uiifderstand them. Vine lines is a square one Inih, In 'every instance *i blate' >y Lh space occupied, ap eight or ten' lines cas ke inade to occupy four or five squares, as the adVrtiet may wish, and is 6haged by the space .. Advertisers will please state .he,mn ber o squares they wis'h,their advertiscients Le make. i Business men who advertise to be benefittod, will bear in m,ind Cbat the SENTINEL has a large and increasing esii olation, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. PUWING F12Abk THE ENOMOUS S1WINDL4S '-F THE PRINTiNG RING. Jones says that in addition to these checks, about the saipe ampunt wa paid to moubors- and State .officCrT in currency, (f* %%hbich there is a tile inorat-dufin. To sum up: Checks isFued by Clerk Jones, citdorsed, $10>,195 Checks payable to bea er, m16 t 61. do ISed, 3,000 Estiiated anmolint p1id iut i -er i cy%, 18, 191 Afaking a total of $3, 0 to 11nss an appropriation of *250,0o thrlolugh the ouse of Reprtbeenta lives. The above teotiiony of Clerk Joney in Fustaiied by . A Si .pkiis, R. 8. Tarletol, P. R. R'vers, Abram Diw& nerly, C.- F. North, Lvi Lhe S. J. Keith, David raham aind: 00b0.s, .chaeek. for their votes and support tof -the printing bill; also, by Represen tafive Spears and ot:hiers, if~ refererice to cash piaythieats mde - Sjears say8; " voted for th ,priitingm of the Republican Print.ingC9om >a ny, ahd in conaderationif ' y 4bt9 A. 0. JoneyClerk of theJouse an a member ot the said-coIipany, paid * me a certain sum ot' mongy,.,tte pi mount of whieb I have forgeten." Also in regard to paytrents to:Statc officials, Gov. F. J. Moses, in huis. test imony, says he was paid $15,000 for signing the bill appropriating $250,000 (or. public printing, From. the extract of the testimony-of Jones, the. humiliating and disgusting fact. Repreeentativea Of the people ofd South Carolina, contisthig of 124 members, of the sossion of 1872-7'3, forty nine mnehikbfs -have beeu conk clusively poven to bgvg ),eeni brihed by tireir own endor'sensa 4' eheeks *.receive~d; that. i all1 according to accou t kiept by Olea'k Jones, there weref fty-three-fif ty.-wo being Ro publkdans and-one solitarf,Democr at. * Othern members~ wWru paid in t'cash, Vof which no n.emQdraridm was kept. A t the 5ssionl of '187 3-74, Jones testified that the following ord *ere giyon to the partieS pmui 'tbo books of Col. Be3nedict basiness manager of the BepublicanPrinting - C~o My,' arid- p)aid byfEl iQz, titicates of indebtedness, andy were givu subsequent to the paesa e ot the act authorizing their. issueo, alathec dame Bssion of 1878-74.' The"a propriation was $3,0faygd est.Nons gvesor ders for :paynen: tforty-one-membersa of ths 19e whohe banes are- annexed to his tee timony, and .the order8 are Also, ap~ pen,dedig ~arked) " hibit 14)7* amoupts,.anid muh mnore, na shown * &y the books of said compan, ivme * paid. 'On pagee 4, 5 and 24 of the 6oipa0y Ibe following entries' are found', the initials only lbeing used in most cases;and in. -tbo expents account the letters "S. S. F." indi.. gte 6Secret Service Fund," and is tbe ainiount paid State officcrs: T 11urley, $5,000; T Hurley, 1,300; .Mi4ort,2,000, 8 J Leo, 5,000; Thos flarniltion, 800; K 11 Gourdin, 100; 54;, Groonwood,.50; G A Reed, 25; D.P McLaurin, 50; P Presslqy, 50; N B Myors, 950; N B Myors, 300; J 0 11obinson, .500; IT 11 Marun, 50; 11 M illison, 75; N T sponcor, 80; J Pho lean, 50; J C Wilson, 50; W A Grant, 209; M L Owo?ns, 100; A H Ford. 75; A W Hougb, 40; H1 Grant, 175; J C .pngman, 75; Princo Young, 25; IL Riley, 50; E$ori Hayes, 50; J Felder Miyers, 800; J Warley, 100; Lowis SimnsA, 26; John A Barker, 950; i 11 Humbert, 100; S Grecn, 200; S roen, 950; E Cain, 100; Jas A Bow, Iey; 2,000; J A Bowloy, 8,000; J A BOWIoY, 1,500; A Collins, 25; J Wal lace, 25; 3 T Gilrore, 25; W M Thom ,is, 1,000;For4uno Gilos, 50; Jas Mills, 25; P $impkins, 258; S J Keith, 1.175; S Swails, 200; S Swails, 50; GiuaLer Holland, 300; do., 175; J F Pcterson, 50RV Tu'rner, 200; R D Gaithers, 75; jB Spears, 450; Charles Sims, 50; B 'Tarlcton, 100; W W Ra msay, 5u0; C C Puffer, 1,000; J F'Grcen,*500; M DA. vil, 75; J Qrews, 2,000; 3 Crews, 200; 11 A Williams, 50; J Young, 50; C Suli van, 50; 1R M Smith, 1i,000; nos A Tato, 100; C1 Sperr, 1i,0;l A 1P Hohne4, 200; Rk Artson, 5150; Black. 75; W Black, 75; S B Thomp, onl, 100; P R Rivers. "f. Levi Lee. IJones*~ and WVoudiFnffa shown by' t14 "evidenice, which includes a ~m<mOnts1 m)lid StaLte (fileers and Seni. {atprs Svisl sveina e1rsres, -)n thlu leilgYt! of Illu j)rinit '.J' comt iiv wvo find erasurea of the following 3ntries: T. 0. Dunn, $1,000; J. Hol, ingshead, $1,000; C. D. Iayne, $1,000; W. .Holcombe, $1,000; -. 1l. Joues, $1,000; G. F. McIntyre, $2,000. Thoee erasures wete made before 'lie "little book",,eame into the pos iession of the committee. Mr. Max-, well, who previously had charge of tie 'little book," testifies aS follows: U60OMS JO1NT INVESTIGATINO COM Nr1rrEE, AT THE' STATE1m CAPrIAL, Dec. 18, 1877. Edward J Maxwell, being duly sworn1, testifies as follows: 1 am a residont of the city of Columbia, in this State, and am attorney arid couil elor at law. I am familiar with the book iarkcd "L," and c.--mmonly know as the "little book." It came 11to my possesioi Foinetimo in Fe bruaiy, in the year 1876, while 1 v;as stopping at the W beeler House n thiis city. *It was handed to ine )y Dr. W. 11. Jack3olir formerly con iceted with the R1publican Printing Joi lany of this City. lie stated to ne that it was a trauscript of the books of that company; while he was in the employ of the company. r'he b-)Uk remained in my possession0 intil sometiue in the following wIU er, vhen I dolivered it to Mr. Masi k IV ith diiectiuls to retain it, sB~ C. L Iu Ia i; rd(1- . tw demanded(16 1,mir 111L. da sny. and I dcelined L> give it il. I was inlf-riimd ti1t te uantd to have it StjpprtsCd for vaious cideralins. I tod MI'; 1acka'. Lt I gaIe the book, into his bie <tftit hant I lad myvself maode au 1proper ntC of the b0ok. The book was balidei back to 1Ie f or the plr Wbe of podmlneilg the iame bkdorC a "nniii1itteo othe ! enate. I an fa niliar w6ih 1 the 1 haldwriting of W. [I. J.ekson, and blieve the entries na41de in lj; book are written by i1m, of whicb 1e following is a xipy. . ED. J. MAXWELL. T1he Testimnony of Mr. Max well da comparison of theo "little book" vith die ledger' of the p)rintin*g comn >any sho~w that the "little book," nade a year before f.he appointmens >f the committee, was a faithful ranscripIt of the ledger, and it still s so, (eet in maters of the era Your' conniuittee find thlat hn::go raud:3 wer' commi71itted iuder thei icad of newspaper advertising, and :at thei peo0ple were lo'aded withI an >pp)ressive tax to subsidize a venlal 'iress in frauds einal in propor'tiou .o thos~e of the Carolina or Republi lan I*r intinrg Compa&ig. PRINT1ING TIHE LAWs. Not satisfied with the large sums ptaidI them as leading SenatLIors anhd R~eprceenta ti v e, uny of the samie p aities f1iched considlerable~ somirs fr'om the tr'esury for printing the laws in the doinnty niewspalpers es. talinhed for that purpose. Se veral instanicea are on record wh'Iere a Sen.. stor received 85,000 for' publ ishinga con1trolled by a Senaittor wonh1l have eeved for thIo samo wvork ahont 85i -. It is a mnatter of pr'of liat daily newspapersi were est ablish~ed in Ch arleston and (Co!nibia, and were ini the personmal int.ere,t of the milIeber of lhe ring,v and IranJs~ were perpe1trated in the making up anid collectijon of snehl nee9onnite scarely ((p iailled by anTy other. WVitJi a v iewv of saLtisfy'inig Ite (General Ass;emibly ofi the truLthI of th is charge, we will b riefly recite some11 i ntan (cs.Jae !i. DJisekeri. Edin il Forde andl Ed(win A. Nelson,..all1 exper iceod and prac ical pr'inIter's, hiave carefully and m!inutely mteasiirod all the offliia aid ve1'tioements of every description, contained in files of the Ciharlestoni Republican, (harge amoun ts of which were made out and collected ini the namo thy. Carollna Pr intii-~ Cut.s lany.) They find, and so state, that according to the contract made with the two clerks for publishiing 'ihe laws, and the rates charged by, such paper would be 824,538.20,but on ex arination of the vouchers paid and in the State Treasurer's (ffice, they find and report that there was paid said paper the extraordinary suim of $60-982.14 during its existence, and at times there was paid the monstrous Surk of twenty-five cents a line each for-both daily and w e'ily Republi can for pubtlishing tho acts. This contract is altached to the evidenco marked exh'ibet "E. D." as a i enark able curiosity in businese matters. Thus it is seen that the State paid $31,3906.94 over and above the le gitima4e sum due, in order that "the organ" of the party in po\ver might subsist. In deed and in truth, the Charleston Republican was a lively bonanza that n6'ver hailed to prove a grald source f.4 revenue to 8oin1 of the moLdrIn b1atesIen. ThiG is es tablishe:d by the largeo amounts paid as claims to "We friends, of the Republicanl, pasLed from time to time reaching several thousand dollars, when at tLh tilne of the paage of the claim tho company drawn largely inl eXcess Uf any amount properly due it. We refer to paper marked ex hil)it "A," as a specimen chm1 of Lhis Ubaracter, being -Unly 0110 (if tay in the Treasurer's olice. eV also refer to tihe evidence of the printers above imned, who say they have examined the files of tlhe (. o lumli D,ily Union and find there 'va1 due Li. C4s Car penter, editor tuidi pro; r istoir,.thea s um of $ 17 174.05 IromI November, 1870, to May, 1873, mider c--ntract to puiblisii the laws -t L\\ Cnt) Cet6 pe0. ri lne, an 1d the Ldvertised rate6 for other oflieial ad Vertisenlents. Nevertheless the vouebherj in the Treasurer's ofliee 1oW tlhat JMir. CarpenIter was paid 59,987.64 for ad vrtising in his pa pcr, inclhdirg SG,2S6 claimed to have b)en due for publications made in theo weekly issue, thus defrauding the State out ofi $33,526.59 ini less thlan chree yeLars. hi additioni to this Mr. Uarpecnter was p)aid a claim ot $2,500 lor publibhing acts in 1874. Ie was alsoI paid muore than $5,000 for fur iishing papere to State oilicials, memcibers of the General A seem lbly andI other lesser lights of the party. The voucbers showv that lie received vover $10,000 for publiThing two acts known as "1NsU'RANOIE LAws.' The ev idece of D)r. iNcagie, then Comiiptroller General, and hiis hlter to Mr. Carpeniter, herew ith subm it ted as exhibit "J. L." shows that the amount thus collected were with out any authority of lawv. Ini this let ter of Decemnltor 2, 1870,1)Dr. Nea g~le refers to haLvingY ordered Carpmen ter to stop all such publicatione. theu it wasR, accordiq~g to the test i m1131ny( Xf Woodlruff and Jones, that they were infourmeid that it was their duty to certify to the correctness of th~ se accounmts (by Attorney General Chamberlain.) These accounts so certilied we're raised by inser'tin~g the figure one0 to mnany of themn, all of whielh was imade (out in fiues,1 thus indienting al fixedJ designm to ralise each by add ig one0 thouisand (lollairs. In furvther i llustrat ion of these l'AL.PABrLN FRAUDs1), the vonebers show t hat Ol 8,159 was paid' for the pub1llication of 11he t wo aCts referroed to above, ini less than~ three ye ars, both of which contaiuned only 289l ines equal to about ('1e ando a half coluns. In) theC imonth of De comber, 1871, these~ acts were insert. ed in thle Daily Uion 4 timesc, Silh, 9th, 20th, and 25th, while thme vouch ers show that t be Statepaidl $1 720 bor suach, puiblicationi. WVe have no bet ter miethiod of shoin the mannilre by which the printing\ claims were r aised t han by sulbmDi' ting t he follbows ing" iden(.ce. RAISINO THE BILLO, ROOMS JOINT IN VIWTIGATING 00M1MITTEE, Columbia, February 7, 1878. Jasper C. Roath, Esq., being re called, tys: TLat he resides in Co lumbia, by occupation attorney at law. That ho was cashier of the South CIarolina Bank and Trust Con. pany, and familiar with the accounts and orders against the State having examined a large number of such during his connection with the bank and belioves himself to be competent to judge of the signatures and gencr% al writing of the various officers of the State government, and also that of L. C.ass Carpenter, so as to be able to express a decided opinion as to whetlier any account made out by either of the )arties named has bec9, altered or raised from the original. On examination of the vouclerq sub moitted to him L>y the committo; he has no hcsization in stating that the account of Daily Union, dated Sep teniber 17, 1871, has been altered from the original amount of $181.28, to $1,181.28, by the izisertion of the figure one (1) inl front of the bun dredths unit. Account of same pas per, March 4, 1872, was originally made out for F4S6.40, and raised to $1,486.40 in saie way. Account of same paper, dated December 13, 1371, has be,en altered and r'aised from thin original amount of $720 to 1 ,720 in same way. Account of same paper, of December 13, 1871, w41 originally madioutJfor $878.33, and raised in same manner to $1, ST8.33. Account of October 20, 1871, was origirtally $784.67,,altered in same mailnr to 1,784.67. Account of Daily Union, of January, 1872, wus raised in same manner from $540 to J*,5l4(). Account of same paper, Janury 4, 1872, was raised from $195 to tG95, by altering the figure 1 to 6. Account of Januiry 20, 1872, was raised and altered from 8155 to $655, by changingLhe figure 1 into a 6. Account of same paper, dated February 27, 1873., appears to have been raised fromi original amount of $j676 to $1,676. I have also exam ined the accounts submitted by the conunittee of tihe Carolina P?rinting Company, and find that an account of' $1,500 has been raised to $2,500 by changing the figure 1 to 2. Have also examined fiv<Aothec- acc.>unts of sameo company, all ot which have the appearance of being raised one thbonsand dollars'each, by t he inser tion of the figure 1 in front of the figuires representing the h undrede; in most caises the 1 was of a dlifferent coloredl ink, and( in some instances the other figures have been traced after the insertion of thme figure 1, so as to canse t hem to have a uniform color anid appea; r'ance. I also find that in some instances the lIotter was applied to the figure 1 when in sorted, anid niot upon01 the other figures These accounts wer,e for p)ublishking acts of the Geineral Assemnbly and insuran4ce laws. I think the ac countds made out fur the Carolina P'rin tinig Company represent amountsi due the Charleston RepIubifca. I was a m10od;or of t he Carol in a Print ing Company, ahd know nothing of these alccolunts beinrg raised. Thlle accunts2 all have the appearance of bing11 paUid to L. Cabs Carpenter, as shown by the~ State Treasu rer's en. durlenmenIt on the back of them uind Tmceisurer'di numbers. . J. C Rouru -I Recing called anid sworn: We have examniied the accounts referred to ini the foregoing evidence s)t J. (5. R~oath, and we hiavo no hos,~ itationm in corroborating so miuch of said evidenIce as5 relates to the chani ginug and r'aisinlg of tile acequuts. J. IL. SAwnm, -Cashier Central National Bank. C. J. IiREDE,, Cashier Carolina National Ban k. D. GxAanaJI,, A OoNTRAST-THIC OUARLETON NAW01 Contrasted with the accounts of the dai ly papers, hereinbefore ref(r red to, we submit the evidence taiot relative to the accounts of the dal News of Charleston. The contract iade with the proprietors of this pa per was twenty five cents per I1go for publishing the acts in three pa.06 pers, the Daily, Tri-weekly and Weekly j News, which was twenty Rve conts per fine less .than was paid to the Charleston Republican for publielling the same acts in the daily aud weekly. All accoutatA of the News were iteni7ed, giving itbe-106 Af thle act and date tf publication lft the three papers owned by them, and the nuiber of lines contained in each act. Cummont is unnecessary,' fb* the evidenco is ii, itself a sufflolent tributo to the integrity of the pro prictors of the Newel, and the correct. lneis of their accounts: JoINT INVEsrTGATING Comrrr", Charlesl6n, S. 0. Feb. 18, 1878. J. fler--uan Schulto, ' being duly SWOrn, deposos on oath j%s follows:i My name is S. -Ierman Schulte. I reside at 12Rbtledge treet, in the city of Charleston, and I am by occu pation the manager (f the Journal of Commerce. I was in the office of the Cbarleston news from November 185, nntil it was mergod into the News and Courier up to Mar6h, 1877. I was first collector, and af terwards book keeper. I think I be. came book keeper about the middle of January, 1871. (Witness referred to the ledger of the News and Cou rier and recognized entries in Jan ary eighteen hundred and seventy one, as in his handwrjting.) - The measurement of the News and of the Noews and courier, adopted as to all their nvertising custom was nonpareil woauremnent, excepting business notice4, whieh wore inserted 4t fifteen cents per line, by count of the lines, in eighteen hundred and soventy rne. At that time the rates which the News was charging the State woro ten cent.s a line by nlon-* pareil measurement for the daily, and five cents pei- line, of similar measurement, for the tri%weekly and weekly. The cred it- rates of the News at this time for- ordinary cue tomners were in the Daily News, fits teen ccnts a lino nonpareil for first in Bertion and 10o a -line non pareil,each subsequent insertion, with a diseount of 20 per" cent. off for monthly pay ments to regular advertisers. Rates of tri.-weekly and weekly were about the same as the daily to ordinory cnstomers. I was accustomed to make the measarements, and 'etite~ theO charges for advertising In the ofA fice of the News in eighteen hundred and seventy one, and I made 'out all thme bis against the State for adveaw tiding,'and I am satisfied that thbe mneasuremnts are correct.- (Aftes' measu ring advertisements at random, in company wit h Mr. A. F. Melchers, from the tiles of' the News for the years eighteen hundred.and toeventy one, eighteen hundred and seventy two and eighteen hundred and sev en ty th ree, witness con tinued.) I am still satisfied that the measuremente aire correct. 'There is one advertLises mui(ut charged as 3,413 lines, March t wenty lift bi, eighteen hundred and seventy one, w hich, n measuf-ement, is only three thousand three hundred and fitteen lines, and which,- -I am satisfied is a mistako In counting th6 hundreds. The generality of the ad% vertisomonts aro charged one or twd lines less thman the mneastirement. The measuriiotmiont is thme saniti'standard ai that of thme Journal of Uomnmerce, and used to h) oe mode of the Charies ton Courier also. It is thme Qustorg of Neweimpers to charge for' the spaice taken np, including ents and all kinds of fat matter. 'The advery tisemnents of acts of thils Legi.latmre in :he Ne~ws had no cute, and r