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two dollars peu annum. J GOD O OTTTt COUNTRY .-&;A?it*Af t IH ['./ ') taut f if.toh ;4i^Ap;ia always "iSi AWXtt'di"1 . Km;. > i f?M? ?^f* ,,t^> 1 VOLUME 8. SATURDAY MORNI?, AUGUST 16, 1874. NUMBERS^ [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. - - ??W ?? ? ^M?B? i - 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 ^ ^ ^ , } - !??? .?TkuH Ia 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.' * i f.. . f I i?_t 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 -i<nn???. . 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.