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VOL. IX.?NEW SERIES! UNION C. II., SOUTH CARQMNA, MARCH 8, 1S7R THE THIRVP.'fi rlnvivii 1 ? 1 KEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FRAUD. We now proceed to show the cuoruious expenditures for other purposes. The first we shall consider is that of FURNITURE. Wo fiud that there has been paid out withiu four years for furuituro alone over two hundred thousand dollars, and of this amount Mr. Berry aud Mr. Pagan, furuituro dealers, testify that nt the present time there is at tho State HOuso only seventeen thousand seven hundred and fiftcou dollars' ' "' tthreo hundred and twenty-five dollars' worth of Airniture purchased by Attorney-General Melton, and paid fuj^by him out of his contingent fuud, and nt this time is in the attorney-general's of&co. Mr. Berry saysAo furnished a large uumbor of Committee rooms" outside of the State House, as well as bed-rooms, lie remember* furnishing the rooms occupied by W.J. Whjpper, T. Hurley, T. B Johnston, J. E. Green nud others, and some of the rooms he furnished as often as three times ! lie also furnished rooms at Mrs. BauduM's, for Speaker Moses, traded furniture to members for pay certificates, and furnished almost all the offices in the State House, every session ! In continuation, ho states that die. ?ur^< nished at least forty bed-rooms, but docs uot We" r.?k reference to the evidence of Sgrgcant-at-arms Williams, on tho sdbjecl of ' furniture. Hje .says he purchased a lot ot furniture from Mr. Berry", tonsistiug of chairs, tables, washstojids nd bed room sets. Somo of tho *roomt?. thus furnished wtirc occupied1 |>y Geq. ,W. J. Whippcr, W. II. Jones and(Jamcs A. Bowlcy. He does not know what became of the furniture, hut endeavored to collect it, ^nd was told by J. B. Dennis, James A. Bowlcy, Benjamin Byae and Chatles Mtnort that he had nothing to do with it; consequently lie troubled ll i man) P nn * IT^ ? 1' - ttwfvwat* uv uiviu tlUUUl ih. ^ 11U BUJ8 IDC rooms over the South Carolina Bauk and Trust Company were furnished also, aud were occupied by Senator J- !* Owens, T. Hurley and W. H. Gardiner, and that he also fu/nished Spoaker Lee's rooms and 1 OTHER PRIVATE ROOM8, nt the boarding houses of members, with fine carpets, stoves aud other furniture, aud that they were claimed us committee rooms. 1 He says : "I cannot undertake to explain ' the accounts of Mr. Berry. I know that large quantities of furniture were furnished by hiui every session, and that as soon as < the General Assembly adjourned it disappeared, and I was compelled, under the 1 order of tho Speaker or souie committco I chairman, to refurnish all tho rooms as soou 1 as the Legislature met." These rooms, he 1 adds, "wero OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITOL building, and he believes the furniture was stolen by those who had charge of it." 1 W. K. Greenfield testified that the rooms ' he rented wero uewly, thoroughly nud, in some instances, most extravagantly furnished every full, about the time the General Assembly convened, and that the furniture 1 was reuioyed by diffcreut persons, and uot 1 by regular dealers, and looked as if it was 1 being divided up among them ; that lie rented the rooms with the understanding that they wero for public business, but they may 1 have been used otherwise, and that he was i generally paid for them with legislative pay certificates. JOHN n. DENNIS testifies that ho purchased furuituro for forty rooms, iucludiug the offices of the governor, atiornoy-gcncrai, comptroller-general, and the hall of the House of licpre- ( entatives. Ilis evidence proves most conclusively that a majority of the members of tho House combiucd against the persons { who furnished these gooods and demanded t) bo paid for voting for tho claim. The bills were more than doubled and certificates j issued for them. The New York firms and Mr. Berry received only the nmouuts quo on their accounts. Beuj. Byas, chairman of tho committee, who reported favorably (on the raised claim, received a pay ccrtifi ,caLe ts the amount of 912,319 50?the re- j ..mninder man divided between. pierr other members, as follows: W. 11. Jervcy had $2,100, which ho was to divide botwccu himself, T. A. Davis, W. C. Glover, J. J. Hardy, P. P. Hedges, Abram Smith, J. W. Lloyd, J. A. Bowley uud Orlaudo Lovy, all members from Charleston County, exoopt Bowley, who represented Georgetown County. f Humbert, of Darlington, received a certificate of an oven ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, which he was to divide betwoen himself, Alfred Hart, S. J. Keith, S. Sanders, J. Tjinir Vrnntr Aflnmasin -TrvV> n P llnndAuni. w VMM * VUUUIOUUj Hastings Oantt, H. Tarloton and Fortune Giles. Asbury L. Singleton, of Sumter, received a certificate for $1,150, to divido botween himself, E. Cain, H. 0. Corwin, E. Ferguson, R. Gaither, 8. Gnroy, A. 8. Holmes, Barney Humphries, 8. Melton, VVm. Littlefield, J. P. Siogleton, Alfrod Mere, F?. M. Sumpter Wjd Jrtred Wsrley. L. II. II. HUNTER, FROM CHARLESTON, demanded and roccived for hiuisclf a certificate for $750 ; J. II. White received a certificate for $260 for himself; W. F. C. Gardner, one for $1,500 for himself; 11. G. Yocum, ono for $1,500 ; W.J. Whipper, one for 3,000 ; A. O. Jones, one for 1,000; W. II. Jones, one for $1,600 ; Joe Crows, one for $3,000 ; Lawrence Cain, ouo for $500, which witness says he bought from Ciin afterwards, and Cniu, in his evidence, admits receiving a small consideration on account of this matter ; P. J. O'Counell received one for $1,000; 13. A. Ncrltlid, one Mitchell Goggins, one for $100; S. J.,Keith, one for $100 ; Wm. Keunedy, one for $100. F. J. MOSES had one certificate for $5,000, and does not know how many more or exactly the amounts. Wo have not (owing to the want of time) ascertained who collected all the certificates referred to above, but find that 13. It via II n. V 1 m .r t -'j? wuui aiiu x. nuriey collected theirs, and chat the live thousand dollar certificate given to Moses was exchanged for a State treasurer's due bill for that amount. Accounts Nos. 33, 34, 35 and 30 refer to this claim, and aro referred to in A. O. Joucs's evidence, when the vouchors p^ve.that mere than 817,000 was allowed as interest on 845,000 for seventeen months. Most of the certificates thus issued are in ftifttafquIfifiP pjfree, becu paid; out? ihjy'ao no4 bcitr the endorsement of either of the firms named in them, to-wit: Nicol, Davidson & Co., or Stewart, Sutphcu & Co. Gen. Dennis says that more than 812,000 of these certificates were divided between Speaker Moses, Clerk A. O. Joucs, Nilcs G. Parker, Tiui Hurley and himself. Your committee find that a large portion of the fraudulent certificates issued to pay the difference between the legitimate amount due for furniture and the amount for which it was raised have been paid. After a careful examination of the furniture in the State House by Gen. Dennis, ho affirms that there is not left there more than ouc haif of what was purchased, and very few of tho cloeks, which were of the i finest quality, costing from 8150 to 8G00 each, and that out of sovcral mirrors which ffost 8600 each, only one rcmnins. From tho report marked No. 73. "Exhi-1: bit A," to which wo referred in the evidence of A. 0. Jncs, it appears that Bcuj. Dyas, chairman of the committee, reported in favor of the raised claim which defrauded the State of at least 815,000; but uvfavor- 1 riWy ou so much of it as referred to paying ' W. E. ltose a small amount due him for boarding the upholsterers, who were sent from New York to place aud arrange the carpctings, furniture, &c. Gen. Dennis 1 testifies that ''in the spring or summer of 1 18G9 \ c. P. LESLIE, ! land commissioner, purchased a lot of furniture from Mr. Berry, ostensibly for his office, but iti reality for his resideucc. Says he wu3 in Governor Scott's office afterwards, and heard an altercation between him and Leslie, which was caused by the bills being sent to Scott for payment. Scott swore that lie would not pay them, but did eventually do so from some fund or other." The bills of Mr. Silcox, made out in Mr. Leslie's name, piovcd that furnituro was supplied by tho State to some of her distinguished "statesmen" as far back as I860. 1 Making iiaste to grow rich. It is no longor a matter of surprise to j your committee that members who ouly re- ] ceivcd six dollars per diem could, iu a few weeks after their ariival iu Columbia, obtain 1 ulegaut furniture for their rooms, aud Brussels carpets for their floors, and rccliue on j Oriental spring and sponge mattresses, while their constituents wore being hounded 1 down by tho inexorable tax-gatherer to pay the price of these luxuries. ( As a further illustration of the inordinate J ?L!- 1 1 - > ? urccu wi in is uurue 01 roDoers, we present the following, for nothing, however small, the Argus-eyed committeemen who so dexterously played tho game of "addition, division and silence: State or South Carolina Senate. 1871. To James M. Allen, Dr. i Sept. 21. Bookcase $ 200 Sept. 21. Fitting closets..,....*. 340 Nov. 21. Fitting up door frnmos 100 Dec. 8. Partitions in cloak room, 050 Dec. 8. Partitions in cloak room..,,,.,,.., 650 $2~000 By refercnoo to the cvidenoo of Mr. Wing, a master mechanic, it will be socn that the partitions oharged for at $U50 each would be worth now about $25 each, but at the time tho aooount was rendered it was worth about one-third more. We also call attention to the evidence of several witnesses who testify that the account was raised by inserting the figure <43" in the item, "Fitting up closets," and tho figure "G" in front of tho two last amounts, thus making a gain of $1,500. Wo find that under the head of "Furniture" accounts were presonted for mules, horses, BUOQIES, CARRIAGE I1IRK AND IIORME EKED. These accounts were passed upon and certificates issued accordingly, . ? * i .. Iii this connection vnrrefcr to tho evjj deuce of Mr. Pcttingill,# (under tho head of "pay certificates,"^ who was a dealer jk horses and uiulcs, aud who says he sold th^y to diffcreut members, and was paid in islative pay certificates, uaming Spealcf?5. J. Lee and W. II. Jones, gf Georgeykwu, as two of such purchasers, tyihAat hi also received pay certificates for Pnorsiy food, buggy hire," &c. J Mr. Greenfield says he did uot all - any buggies or carriages directly 'to tlJ State, but sold to the members and wag /paid for them with pay certificates. He remembers receiving a certificate, which prdvgd to be sell a largo portion of his &toch of carriages and buggies if he would make out his account against the State and receive pay cor.T - - ? iincarcs in paymont thereof, which lie declined. We also refer to the evidence given by Sallus Randall, a committee clerk, who testified that a house of ill-f^mc in the City of Columbia .vas supplied v?th furniture at the cxpenso of the State* We also refer to tho account of Mr. LyBrand, a dealer in MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, designated as No. 37 by A.'O. Jones, as an evidence that, whilst reveling in their Bacchanalian sports, tho Muses were uot neglected. The soft melody of the mclodeoti was invoked to inspire what spirits woul4 not. CARPETING. i We could not asccrtaiu the actual amount of cacnatjng purchased or used, but the blTfsrCTWeroiT amounted to se^vraPtfeotmNMU dollars per annum. That some conception may be formed of this cuoruious expenditure, wo refer to the evidence of Mr. l'urse, who measured all the committee rooms, and offices iu the State House and cqjnuiittec rooms outside, and testifies that it.jvQuld require only 1,300 yards to carpet all of them. !?.. ?ft ?- *i- ? * iij ivicivuvu iu iiic account 01 etcwari, Sutphcu & Co., designated as No. 73 by A. O. Jones, and reported from committee on contingent account, it will be fouud that during one session alone they sold to the State 4,G58 YARDS OK CARPETING, more than one thousand yards being finest Drusscls. Gen. Dennis and Scrgcant-atarms Williams both testify/that the committee rooms were furnished with now carpets every session, which were carried away in the spring of the year. Gen. Denuis says he knows that some of it was shipped to Massachusetts. Women and Wink.?Of the worst foes that wouiau has ever had to cueountcr, wine stands at the head. The appetite for strong drink iu man has spoiled the lives of more women, ruined more hopes for them, scattered more fortunes for them, brought them more sorrow, shame and hardship, than all other evils that live. The country numbers teus of thousands?nay, hundreds of thousands ot women who are widows to-day and sit in hopeless weeds because their husbands have been slain by strong drink. There arc hundreds of thousauds of homes, scattered all over the band, in which women live lives of torture, laboring through all the changes of suffering that lie between the extrcmo of fear and despair, becauso those whom they love like wine better than they do the women they have sworu to love. There arc women by thousands who dread to hear at the door the step that once thrilled thcui with pleasure, for that step has learned to reel under tho influence of seductive poison. Thcro are women groaning with pain, while wo write these words, from bruises and brutalities inflicted by husbands made mad by drink. There can bo no exaggeration in the statement uiadc in regard to this matter, because no humac luiti^iiiuuviuii i/iiu vrcuvuanyuiiug worse man the truth, and no pen can portray the truth. Tho sorrows and tho horrors of a wife with a drunken husband, or a mother with a drunken son, arc as near tho realization of hell as cm be reached in this world at least. Tho shame, the indignation, the sorrow, the sense of disgrace for herself and her children, the poverty (and not unfrequcntly the beggary,) the fear and the fact of violence, the lingering life long struggle and despair, of countless women with drunken husbands, arc enough to make all women curse, and engage unitedly to oppose it everywhere, as the worst onomy of jhoirsox. CIIA Hon A KOIl ANI.MALR.-~It is difficult todootor brute animals, because they cannot tell what is tho matter with them; aud probably threo-quarters of tho attempts made to relieve them only make matters worse. Generally they are sick from over eating. It is not unoommon for a horse or oow in . I 1 1 A 1- -? iiiu puatuiu iu uut iw uiuuii green eiuver or apple* ; or something olso disarranges their stotnaohs; or in tho barn they will got into tho meal barrel, and suffer from tho effects. In nil suoh cases tho remedy is pulverized charcoal. Take it new from the wood fire, grind it, and pour it down thoir throats.? H nevor can do any injury, and in hundreds of oases it has afforded speedy relief. There is no animal that ovor-eets so often as a pig; and, as a rogulativo of his djgeslivo powers, thero is nothing so good as charcoal. It should always be kept in the pig-stye, and in small quantities fed every few days, and it is worth mo}* than the same bulk in oorn,?JRc. LAMAR'S TRIBUTE 10 TUli SOUTH The following is the eloquent conclusion of Senator Lauiar's recent speech. Althqfhgh wij cannot endorse his views as to silver, we qball not quurrcl with hiui. lie is uu luuor to the Scualc, to Mississippi and the South : Sir, go ail t0fc way back in this country and where have you found the steidy advocates of free trade, the opponeuts of extravagant taxation, the opponents of moneyed monopolies, the opponents of those who arc not capitalists, but who by Congressional plunder seek to make themselves capaitlists in the passage of acts for the curichmcut of great monopolies ; who but tho Democratic , -" ST1"1*"' Uliwau of ai'iary ?l??n in iRIn nutn. 1 iry, tho farmer of the West, the merchants of the North and the planters of the South? Why, sir, were not the planters of the South at the time they were denounced as bloated ] slaveholders, as an effete aristocracy, always considered as the eye of the Dv;Uiocracy of the North ? They stood by them, and with Jefferson and Madison and Jackson and Polk. They always kept in tho interests of labor the power of capital from in- | terlaciug itself with the power of govern- ( im-ui, anu mcy uiu uraw tuc very ilistiuc- | tion iu their influence and their power iu | this government. ( I can never forget the closing hours of . that power, for 1 was hero and saw it pass from the hands of Southern Democratic | statesmen iuto those who now wield the des- ( titiies of this country. I remember here ( on this floor the then distinguished Senator .from N<UL J?ork (Mr. Seward,) who has | since become more conspicuous in the c-?cnt , ful times that have occurred, declare that j power had departed from the South ; that ( the sceptre was now taken from her hand, | aud that thenceforth the great North, by . reason of its superiority iu numerical power t aud roll of sovereign States, would grasp | this power as her own prerogative aud be- j come responsible for the administration of the whole government. I am aware that I listeucd to hiui with impatience and perhaps i with prejudice, and thought his spirit was < too much that of exultation, not realizing ? the magnitude of the great uudertakiug t which was auout to devolve upon linn und 1 his associates. It. struck ino that lie did not have the sadness and solemnity which touch the heart of every gicat man when coufrontcd with the great events and great responsibilities involving the iutcrcsts of untold millions. I shall never forget the answer that was made to hiui by a Southern Senator who sat near where my friend from Indiana (Mr. McDonald) now sits. lie was surrounded by a circle of Southern Democratic statesmen, which, inability aid purity, will uevcr be surpassed in the history of this couutry, whatever may be its glory?which glory, I trust, will be always great among the nations of the earth. There was .Jauies M. Mason, whoso square aud massive simplicity of character and purity, stand monumental in our annals. There was his accomplished colleague, Robert M. T. Hunter, whose clear and broad statesmanship found fit expression in a scholarly eloquence that drew iuto the same admiring circlo his fricuds and opponents in the same admiring friendship. And then there was Mr. Slidell. shrewd sud wise and prudent, aud by his side sat j. P. Rcniatnin. whoso astuteness . and skill, eloquence and learning, have since i won him fame and fortune upon that high l Olympic field of mental conflict, the great j courts of Westminster. There was Robert | Toombs, who never spoke without striking \ at tho heart of a big thought and kindling j the ideas of all who listened to him. There | was Albert G. Brown, from my own Stato, < who never had a sympathy outside of the i wants and feelings of his own people ; who t yet was never overawed by their prejudices j or swerved from his course by their pas- ( sious. t There was another, Mr. President?shall . I not be permitted to mention his name in this free American Senate, which has been so free to discuss and condemn his errors '( \ ?one who has been the vicarious sufferer J for his people; who has been in prison coll, ' the solitude ot whose punishment should ' lift him abovo tho jibe and jeer of popular 1 passion, whoso words will ever remain as J tho sad and the grand momoranda, not of 1 triumph, not of defiance, but of earnest ' purpose, the siucore motive of tho gr^at struggle for representative liberty aud con- ' stitutional government. Among these and ' surrounded by them this Senator spoke to his 1 associates in terms which I have never read 1 from that day to this, but which arc stereo- 1 typed upon uiy memory, and which, if the Senate will permit me, 1 will repeat : i,Sirs,"> said he, addressing his Northern associates, 'wlint tho Senator says is true. The powir has passed from our hands iuto your hands, but do not forget?it oannot bo forgotten ; ( it is written upon the brightest page of history? that we, tho slaveholders of the South, took your country in her infancy, 1 and after ruling her for sixty of the seventy ' years of her existence, wo returned her to you without a spot upon her honor, match !_ 1 1 . 1 ? f t 1 it-ss iu ner spieuuor, incomparable in ncr power, tho pride* nod admiration of tho world. Time will allow what you will do with her; but no time can dim our glory or diminish your responsibility." Sir, it is not my purposo to say what has been done with it; the arraignment of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Vodrhccs) is still before the country. There is testimony, however, by a witness who uiay be regarded as more impartial than he ; a judge sterner than he. 1 will read what he says. [Mr. Lamar here quoted from the reuiaks of Mr. Hoar, one of the managers on the part of the Ilou3cof llcprescn'.ativc-8 in the Belknap impeachment trial, in regard to official corruption in the Federal government, Now York city and various States ; the cxpulsiou of members of the House of Representatives for selling cadets-hips, etc , and resuming his argument, said Mr. President, we, the successors of these men, are here today. By ft policy which is a noteworthy to mingle wUli * t li c^repr&KtotativeaTrom tho States of,this Union in a common oouncil for the good of this country. We conic no longer ns representatives of the capital interests of the South. Wo come, not as lilies of the laboring men of the North, but is laborers ourselves?every oue of U3 and ill our constituents taught the stern lesson if the necessity of earning our subsistenco by the sweat of our face. But, Sir, wo jouic with our convictions unchanged as to tlio nA^AC?ltv Ap fV*?. 1'^ ? 1 1 --~j v/? ?...? muuiiug ciass ocing prelected in all their rights aud all their interests, lor when they siuk the social iabric of society must sink and crumble with them. But we come believing that they arc honest, that they are self-reliant and true to their obligations, and that what is their duty to Jo they will feel it to their interest to do. We have differed upou this great question, but of one thing the world may be assured, lll'4l no SoUlllCI U Ocualur, npiiocnling ilt* Southern people, will give a vote upon the one side or the other which is not designed .o protect the laboring classes of this country dike with its capital, or, on the othcrhand, .hat will uot preserve untarnished the sacred lonor of America. (Applause in the galerics.) ? Smalt. Things.?In order to make faming a decided success in the South we must iducatc ourselves ia the way of giving more ittention to the small thiugs connected with he business. In other words, we must iriug ourselves iuto the habit of "making svery edge cut," and saving every thing, ? uiuvki huh lusigiuucaiic, Uiai comes WJthn our reach. A strict adherence to this ulc is what makes it pay at the North? he main profit coming to the Northern farmer grows out of his savings of small things?a cent here and a cent there. Ouo hundred of these ccuts make a dollar, you ice, and very oftcu we might save a hunIrcd, and not uufrcqucutly several hundred jf them in a single day. where we now pcrnit them to go to loss. One hundred <x day vould be 3305 added to your year by profits, ft hich would be no iusiguiticunt atfair, especially to the person running his business >n a somewhat small scale. In times past, when everything was flush, vo were able to get along reasonably well vithout concerning ourselves about small hings, so we allowed them to go by the ooard, as beneath our uoticc. Finally this became a habit with us, and we took upon ourselves a kind of false dignity relative to small things?thought it undignified to givo them the least attention. Hut those flush times arc not hovering, over this section of jountry now, and hence a change must bo aiadc, and the sooner made tho better for is and for the South in general. To make t mill I... .... ?~~l- I ~ V n.it vw uu t?Dy 1U9&, IIUWL'VIT. it cannot 30 inaugurated by one fell swoop, as it were?the individuals making up our Turning population must briug it on gradually, jy comuiencing to practice it thcmsolvcs, ;ach throwiug ofl his false dignity without egnrd to what shall be said by this "digniary" or that. Each for himself alone most idapt and live up to that adage which teach-. ;s us that if we "take care of the dimes ,he dollars will take care of themselves."? Mobile Tribune. Hints for the Orchard.?Pruning before Planting is of great importance.? Mo matter how carelully a tree may be taken ip. a large share of its fibrous roots arc lost, ind the top should be cut back in proportion. Tho tree as reccivca from the nursery will probably have four or five branches, ind if pluuted as it is, only a few of tho uppermost buds on oaoh brauch will start. It should be out back to leave but three or P 1 * * ivui uuus un uncn urancn. INovices liesitatc to do this, but it is all important to tho future welfare of tho treo. At the same tiu.c all bruisod roots should be cut back to, souud wood. Mulching newly planted trees is often highly important, whatever will prevent evaporation from the soil will -answer. In some localities stones arc the most availablo mulch. Uso bog-hay, pine needles, straw, or whatover will covor tho surfaoe. Oil Trees may be renovatod by cutting, out the orowded branches, manuring, and giving tho trunk and larger branches a wash of ley or soft soap, and scraping. Crop* in (he Orchard.?A young orchard may bo cultivated with manured crops, such [is potatoes and root crops, but when the trees conic into bonring, they need all tho soil to themselves.?American Agriculturist. It's tho cooper who does n staving business.