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VOLUME 8.
SATURDAY MORNI?, AUGUST 16, 1874.
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[For the Ornngcburg News.]
Orangeburg Bice niid Grist Mill.
Our onterprizing citizens Messrs.
Strauss & Street who have so success
fully carried on their business for the
just two years, have of late made great
improvements.
They have orrectcd an entirely new
and very much enlarged building.
They have just in a great deal of new
machinery, and enlarged the capacity
of the. mill. They will be able to
pound 30,000 bushels of Rough'Rice
per annum, and grind enough Grists
and :Meul to supply the town and
country iu any quantity, besides ship
' ping to other merchants, allthough,.
ihty labor under great disadvantages in
regard to the discrimination in freight
the S. C Kail Company makes against
Ornngeburg, notwithstanding that they
can compete successfully with other
points, and sell as low as can be pur
chased elsewhere. In the course of
time they will manufacture flour, when
tho people can be supplied with the best
grados of flour, and always have it fresh
ground.
Some objections having beon made
to the mill being dangerous as regard to
fire; on the contrary it will be an advan
tage in ease of lire They have a water
tank which will hold 3000 gallons of
?water, and also a donky Engine and
several hundred feet of hoes. In case
of fire they can even protect their
neighbors property. There is no danger
-of sparks escaping from the Smoke
Pipe, ?8 their is patent Spark Catcher
.attached, costing ?50. They have dune
every thing in their power to guard
agaiust fire, for it is to their interest tu
do so, hence their arrangement is n prj
lection instead of an injury to our
town.
They aro prepared to buy Rough
Rice und Corn, and givo tho highest
market price cash.
It will not be out of place to say a few
Minis in regard to the South Carolina
Kail Rrad Co, to show that the trade
ol Oraogcburg is not put on the same
looting ob ether points which makes
great harm to our town and country.
The writer has not enough data to give
all the points (this matter will be look
-cd after lit a future time) I will give a
few enser: Kicc is carried from Charles
Ion to I.ewisvill? (distance of 1ST
miles) for 55cts. per lOOlbs when the
Company charges 40 cts. per lOOlbs
from Orangeburg to Augusta (distance
94 miles) Corn from Lewisville to Char
leston 31 cts. per bushel to Orangcburg
40 cts. Thus it will been seen that there
is a great discrimination ngaiust Orange
burg.
OBSERVER.
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1 ho Sin King Fund Com mission
Tho Ke.tct and Courier devotes sever
al columns to a statement of its case
against Mr. Chamberlain, in connection
with the sinking fund commission.
We have waded through the shallow
stream of generalities in order to find
cne solid point on which a charge of
cither fraud or malfcacancc can be cs
tnblishcd against Mr. Chumbcrlain
Barring the simple fact that he was.
cx officio, a member of that-board, the
elaborate article of tho Unvs rind Co??'
ier fails to connect him with any action
of that board which hus proved
unfortunate for the interests of the
State.
The substance of the many columned
charge may be reduced to the transac
tions of the sale of the stock if the
Stafe'in tho Grecnvillo and Columbia
railroad, tbo Bluo Ridge railroad and
the Cheraw and Coalfields railroad.
The sale of tbo former stock was made
to a responsible purchaser, at a fair
price, ond the proceeds wero invested
in State bonds, accordidg to law. The
price at Which the stdok wus sold was
\in advance of tho prevailing price of
that stock iu the market, and in ad
vance of what it would have brought at
Nany time since. To say that any of the
commissioners wero parties to the pur
e-huso is to say what is not true, and
what is not shown by any evidence. If
they were purchasers, how has tho State
Buffered by a sale at more than the mar
ket price cf the stock ?
Tbo Bluo Ridge stock transaction
can bo disposed of even more summarily
The News and Courier even states that
Mr Chamberlain offered resolutions in
tho board fixing such conditions for the
sale of that stock as would bavo ade
quately protected the State nnd yet,
after making this admission, those ex
am pics of democratic iairncss seek to
make the impression?not having the
courage, of course, to make the state
ment?that Mr. Chamberlain, following
the example of Governor Moses in re
gard to the party platform of 1872,
deliberately violated the letter and spir
it of bis resolutions.
The fact is, and of this we have no
doubt the Aews and Courier has full
knowledge, as?it has examined the re
cords of the commission, that Mr. ('ham
berk in had nothing whatever to do with
the sale of the Bine Ridge stock as it teas
actually made. It occurred in his ab
senco, and as we are informed, entirely
without his knowledge. We do nut
say that there was anything wrong i 1
the transaction, but simply that Mr.
Chamberlain bad nothing to do with it
good or bad.
This is the sort of "evidence" on
which the News and Courier bases its
charges.
'1 he fact stated that Mr. Chamber
lain, as an attorney, presented an offer
to purchase the State in the Che raw
and Coalfields raitroids mods tu notic.i
lie had a right to do so, aud to receive
a fee for it.
The funds received by tho sinking
und commission, so long as Mr.
Chamberlain was a member of it,
were invested exactly in accordance
with the law. They were invested in
bonds, which were then a good and tip
proved security, in which the shrewdest
financiers of Columbia ami Charleston
were then investing. The loss that has
since occurred is no mote chargeable to
Mr. Chamberlain than to the editor of
the News and Couriei, and, in fact, not
j-o much.
Tbc Netra aud Courier concludes with
a significant remark Those tiling*, it
says, will causa him 'to stand lower
than Moses,' &0. Why lower than Mo
scs? Is there any reason "for attempt
ing to paint him a little blacker than
his chief opponent 1
It is not generally the policy of a
part}' organ to seek to persuade the op
positc party to abandon a bad man and
take up a better. Will people believe
that the Sews and Courier has ^?et a
new example of devotion to Mbe inter
est of the whole people V lias there
been any change of ownership in that
paper since 1S70, when the Itev. H.r
Hick* informed tho public of the main
object which that paper pursued: or
since 1S72, when Governor Moses was
n candidate, and, as tho whole cotlimu
nity believes, was aided and abetted by
the so called organ of the democracy,'
in every way which did twt "require the
courage of an open avowal of its sup
port'{
The Land Commission
Tbc News und Courier has already
fully confirmed our first impression as
to the nature of the grounds on which
it bases its wholesale charges against
Mr. Chamberlain. If we could get at
the real crime of this (to use its own
words) "man of* polished manners, ripe
ability, and eminence iu his profession,"
we would find that it consists in the
fact that (to quote again) '-he is regard
cd in Washington as well as in South
Carolina as a fit man to lead a reform
movement."
In a late issue it returns to the
charge that Mr. Chamberlain is re
spousible for the ''outrageous and
enormous swiudlc" of the land com
mission. Its "evidence," as in the
case of the agricultural land scrip
matter, which we think we have dis
posed of, consists of a loose tissue of
illogical inferences from unsupported
statements ; or, to characterize it more
justly, it is a string of empty and ridi
culous assertions, attempted to bo
palmed off for proof.
Sifting out, ns well ns we may, tho
few grains of substanco in this two
columns of chaff, we find that the main
charge rests upon tho alleged fact that
moro money was spent by tho advisory
board than the bonds wcro sold for.
"It was understood," says tho News and I
Courier, "that the advisory board had
authority to spend only so much money
as the bonds, when sold, should pro
ducc." Understood by whom? Cor
tainly by nebody who ever read the
law. The act creating the land com
mission expressly limits "the aggregate
amount lo be expended in any one fiscal
year" to "the par value of the public
stock of this State created by tho Gen
eral Assembly for this purpose." There
was, therefore, no room for any such
understanding as tbo News and Courier
speaks of.
* The commission bad express author!
ty to purchase lands to the extent of the
par value cf the bonds authorized If
they wont beyond that limit, they
exceeded their authority, but even that
does not show corruption, or lraud, or
malfeasance, on the part of the com
mission. It was made tho duty of the
land commissioner to purchase lands
not to exceed the limit above named.
It was plainly his duty to observe the
limit imposed by the net of tho legisla
t tiro.
The whole duly of the advisory board
in the matter of purchases was to the
price of. land purchased. The com mis
Muners made all purchases, kept all
books and records, and wore required to
report, m>t to the advisory board, but to
tl e General Assembly. If the
purchases exceeded the limit, fixed, it
was the fault of the commissioner alone,
unless it be shown that the advisory
board had knowledge of the oxecss.
Certainly there cm be no foundation
for a charge of fraud against the od vi
sory board, or any member of it, b ised
npotl the mere fact that tho limit of
purchases was esencded. It must, in
addition, be shown that such excess
arose from sonic in proper or fraudulent
design. The injustice ot charging fraud,
unless "there'motives are shown, becomes *
more apparent when it is applied to one
member of the board. Such ft charge,
resting upon such a basis, is loo m ini
fcstiy the result of personal or political
lancorto reijuiro further notice.
The NictcH and Courier, assuming
that great frauds were committed, pro
cceds without hesitation to denounce
Mr. Chamberlain as "the guiltiest (if
all." Now, look at this specimen of
democratic reasoning ! Frauds were
committed ; therefore, Mr. Chamberlain
is guilty of fraud 1 There is absolutely
not 'one particle of evidence adduced to
connect Mr. Chamberlain with any
wrong whatever in the laud commission.
Is any man to be condemned for fraud
until the fraud is brought home to
him ?
If Mr. Chamberlain know that any
lands wero bought at. tin excessive price;
if he had any part or lot in recommend
ing or instigating any muoIj purchase ;
if lie in any manner communicated with
those selling land ., or collude 1 ill or
connived at any actioti which he knew
to be fraudulent or improper, or which
ho had at the time any good reason to
believe or suspect, to be fraudulent or
improper, then the 1". u tidal ion of a
charge would be laid. Of all this liiere
is absolutely not a word in the long
arraignment of the News and Courier.
There is a superfluity of bold an 1 ubu
.-ive statements, with a most plentiful
lack of proof, or even argument. No
fair man would condemn a dog on s :ch
evidence.
The question is not whether Mr.
Chamberlain stole, or allowed others to
steal There is no alternative, for
there is nothing adduced to aupport
cither charge. Admitting all illcgali
ties and frauds which were ever charged
against the laud commission, we say
again, there i.s not within our know
ledge one fact or cii on instance which
has ever been adduced to show that .Mr.
Chamberlain was ever a party to any
fraud upon the State iu connection with
the land commission.
Such is the ease made by the News
find (Jourief{ and tho verdict of nil just
men w ill be, that, that paper is actuated
by blind paiti&ani malice, or is the mere
conduit for slander to subserve p ditical
purposes.
It has been suggests d that if Miss
Pharoah had suspected for a in itnenl
the trouble she was about to entail up
on South Carolina,hIic would have per
mitted a certain name to expire amid
the rustliug of the bull rushes.
The Boston Advertiser on the
Situation.
northern sentiment alarm bd am?
Angry.
Tho white people of Louisiana, beingi
it may bo acknowledged, under some
just provocation in view of tho way
things have been managed in their
State, have rushed madly into the worst
scheme, to remedy the difficulty. Some
thing they call the White Leagin has
suddenly become popular, and/chapters
or councils of it are being established
everywhere. Know Nothing lodges did
not multiply faster in tho time when
sensible people got wild about the perils
of trusting the ballot to men not born
in the country. The object of this
White/ League is, of course, to combine
and organize the white citizens iii an
effort to keep the citizens who are not
'jrhife out of office. They attribute all
their woes to the colored vote, and the
scheme is, so far as it is intelligible, to
diminish the strength of that vote. Fro
eisoly how this is to be legitimately
done docs not appear. The colored
men aro there, and tho right to vote is
so secured that it cannot safely bo dc
nied. The only way in which tin
colored vote can be palpably diminished
is by killing the voters or instituting
ing such a panic of fright that they will
"not dare exercise their right. Things
have occurred in Louisiana within the
past ten years that tend to discounge
any confidence that the worst outrages
would not. be resorted to if they were
thought to be expedient. But it would
seem ?di?t, the State had already had
sumejh^^ Jicrieiico of the policy of
-'tii'^Sr^P^V}.sympathy of people most,
competent to assist thorn in tue effort-to
establish justice.
Wo have made no secret of the opin
ion that Louisiana has been since 1S72
the victim of a violent and unjustifiable
t usurpation. It is a great misfortune
both as a fact and a precedent. Con
gress has been negligent ol its duty in
tr cat ill!; the subject with indifference.
There is throughout the Northern
States a strong feeling of sympathy
with the people subject to a government
not of their clinic. No person in any
degree responsible for the SUCC01S of the
coup d'etat has won additional honor on
account of it in the estimation of his
own party in this section. But it is
also true the Republicans of the N >rth
could have no great respect for a party
which for the chance of success made an
alliance with Warmoth and his sot.
For four years the white people of
Louisiana, or at least as many of them
as were Democrats, hid denounced
Warmoth as the incarnation of every
thing in politics which was dishonest,
fraudulent aud ignoble. When, there
fore, tiny consented to an alliance with
him for mutual advantage, he resigning
the Governorship to their nomination,
they to elevate him to the United
States Scuatc, the sincerity of their pro
fessions of repugnance to corruption
was clouded. It appeared that the cause
of their complaining was n<>! that corrupt
nien were in power, but that they did not
shore in the profits oj'corruption. Not
withstanding this exposure of gross
inconsistency, b}' which the Louis'anians
lost more respect than they can recover
in n long term of decency, there was
among the Republicans of the North no
disposition to connive in u scheme of
cheating them of their eh ii^e. (Jon
sidered solely as a question of* party
policy, there is no question in any
sagacious man's mind that the Republi
can party would stand stronger and
fairer before the nation to day with
Warmoth in the Senate by Democratic
votes, and a Democrat in the Governor's
seat at New Oi lcans, than it is with the
Louisiana load on its shoulders.
'.I he praecablo submission to the situa
Lion, after the firm but ineffectual pro
test, did something to restore a more
favorable opinion toward the Louisiana
people. Hut its force will be quickly
dissipated if they persist iu this folly of
a White League, the meaning of which
is a perpetuation of the antagonism of
races, out of which their r/oes have
sprung. Of course, it will be opposed
by a Black League, and the North may
prepare itself to hearif more horrible
affairs'like tlio^c of former year.s, where
upon sonic pretext or other the white?
have massacred the colored people with
out fairness or pity. The sequel of the
White League will inevitably be a
scries of Ku-Klux outrages. Does it
not yet appear that no good to the South
results from such exhibitions of bitter
ness '( Perhaps the South does not be
licve it, but it is nevertheless true, that
nothing will do more to destroy the
growing disposition to consider war
issues settled and reverse the tendency
of all parties to concentrate attention
and enctgy upon the work of redressing
abuses and instituting reforms, than a
revival in any part of the South of the
old ferocity of hatred of the freedmcn.
To this the White League of Louisiana
directly leads. Lit the fires of colored
people persecution be relighted and the
North will care precious little about the
means that arc used to keep those who
are responsible for it out of power. Per
haps the massacre of colored people is
com-iderrd in Louisiana a less fault than
squandering public money; but the
Northern mind will not agree to such a
discrimination.
There is another view of this subject.
While the Southern whites are constant
in their professions that they deprecate
a war of races and mean the freedmcn
no barm, their conduct is not such as
to disarm suspicion. Their cue, if
they want to return to power, is to con
vi nee the colored people that they in
tend justice, and so to win their con
fidencc end their votes. Put the colored
people will never be "won to support a
white league, or those who countenance
white leagues. And this is the trouble,
that the whites are so impatient to
obtain power that they are constantly
contriving plots which defeat their
aims. Confidence is of slow growth. It
is not unnatural that the few citizens
are jealous aiid suspicious/but tltere* is
only one wn}' in which that disposition
can be overcome. Time and lair con
duet will overthrow. White leagaes
will only intensify and prolong it. On
every r ecount this new scheine of the
Louisiana people is unfortunate. It
lends to strife instead of peace. It
alienates sympathy instead of fostering
it. Its success would mean no good to
the colored people. Tts failure would
leave tho.-c who participate in it in
wore plight than before.
Plain Words Fr>m Truthful
James
We declare l in the. outset that the
organization of the order of the White
League in Louisiana and other South
ern States was a step toward tin assassi
nation of negroes, that it was the revi
val of the KuKlux under another name
We predicted that bloodshed would
speedily follow the threats Of thoioaguo
itself and the more violent o ttburUs of
passion which found place in the edito
rial columns of the pro-slavery news
papers of t he South. We say pro-sla
very because wo mean it. We mean
it. We mean that the ox rebels are
again coming to the front; that they
are once more showing their teeth, and
that their hospitality is directed against
negro suffrage, with the ultimate pur
pose of reducing the colored people to a
state of virtual if not actual slavery.
This is a startling proposition; but it is
warranted by the notorious fact that
[ hundred of thousands of the Southern
people still mourn the collapse of the
Confederacy, and would spring to arms
to defend it were it rovived to day
Do any doubt that, with the indepen
dence of the South achieved, every ne
gro within its border would be reman
ded as a chattel to his late owner ?
The prediction made by the Inter
Ocean only a few weeks ago, that the
skirts of theWhito League, would be
stained with blood, has already found
its fulfilment in a brutal tragedy onac:
led near Shrcvcport, La. The White
Leagues of the South ore eowiug the
wind only to reap tho whirlwind. They
are planting horrors which must grow
to a harvest of retribution. If there
are any men at tho South possessing
sentiments of hum inity or ioitinjts of
patriotism; if there are any who have
(States to protect; if there are any who
would shudder at the renewal of scenes
of violence and crime, let such face the
storm that is now rising; for unless tho
progress ol the und crusade is stayed ,
mjiclstrorn of ungovernable-pawopi^rid
liatO-CJuCOffq Tnier.nrean ^ ^ ^ , }
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How lie 1?rojedv,
It is the custom in Mexico fotS
clcr.y to require a foreigner, wishing
to marry a native, to brings ^flpjC^bj^
'je is not already a.^arrie^rW*0
American, about to marry a sonoritaef
very f.ood family, was Required to fur
nish the proof of his being a bachelor.
Not Gnding any of his countrymsd who
knew him sufficiently well to testify to
this fact, he determined to supply tho
deficiency with the oath of a native.
Meeting a Mexican in . the. .rireft,
whom he bad never seen before, our
countryman proposed to him that' no
should swear to his being unmarried Tor
the consideration of five dollar j. Hhk
acuor, after a moment's study, said to
the Yankee. 1
'Get down on your hands and knees
and creep about.'
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Not exactly underpin Jing whit h)
was at our friend obeyed, much to the
detriment of bis unmentionables. The
other party then told him he wi) all
right; that he would swear that the
American had not been married siooe
he knew him, and that was since tf>o
time he crawled- * ' *?I
Chatter or Accidents.?Devaita
ting floods and inundations sooaj to be
the order of nature everywhere. Oae
recently at Pittsburg was most dms
trous. It is estimated that 200 lives, are
lost, and millions of property destroyed;
In California a terrific storm caused the
loss of many lives and mum property.
In Nevada, an immense waterspout
burst near Carson City, destroying an
immense amount of proporty and mtny
'rtvca yarxt AVfcsta storm- nearly ruined a
village, swept a train from the trick,
killing over 20 ; aud now we learn from
European papers that there too, storms
and floods are as frequent and deotruc
tivc. In Moravia a whole town of over
GO houses was nearly swept a Tay by a
torrent and hardly an inhabitant caved.
In the Province of Navarre, Spain, an
immense land slide occurred aunihitat
ing the village of Alara, over 200 of ita
residents. A Carlist magazine blew up
killing over 30 persons ; thousands are
dying in India from starvation. Verily
the destroying angel is abroad moit
pitilessly.
A Quiet Hint tor Husbands.?
Whenever you find a stout, heilthy
minister of the Gospel hanging around
your wife, with a "holy and since1"? ad
miration and affection," which senti
mcnt is reciprocated by your wife", har
ing a "lofty, spiritual, religious yearn
ing aud pure platonio love for that
priest," that attracts her frequently to
his side, do you, unsophisticated young
husband, just go right out to the near
est cobbler and buy a hoavy pair of
pegged stogy boot*;. Put "them stogy
boots right on, and the next time that
minister calls at your rcaidoilod to
peddle his "spiritual essence" take htm
gently by the coat collar; make a short
oration, whereof the peroration shall
be, "get out !" and then clinch the argu
ment a ptmteriori with them stogys. It's
the best way to get along with an inti
maey. innocent though it may bo, that
sometimes brings a "heap of trouble"
in its traini
Moses has pardoned during his term
of office, so far, 421 drimicals.
No less than twenty-one murderers
have been pardoned or reprieved!)*
twenty five persons convicted of man
slaughter go scot free; twenty-four p?r1
sous found guilty of the terrible crime
of houso-bnrning escape punishment;
ono hundred and ten thieves, big and
little, arc turned loose to proy upon tho
community.J
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papa?'And pray, sir, what do yen
intend to settle on my daughter 7 And
how do you moan to live V 'I intend
sir, to settle myself on your daughter
aud to live on you I
So many people arc out of employ
mcnt now that there is everywhere a
great rush for situations. Twolve poor,
devils have already signified their wilt
ingncss to become Qovernor of New
Jersey.