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lewis m. grist, Proprietor, j %n $nkpcnbent .familj fUfospaptr: Jfor % promotion of fjje political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of % Sontj). jTERMS?$3.00 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 24. YORKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 14. 1878. NO. 11. JU Original Jdorg. |] Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. 1 , MARIPOSA; !j E OR, , THE HEART OF A BALLET GIRL. * CHAPTER XVIII. 11 Posy sat in a deep chair by the window of \ her little chamber, looking dreamily out into the busy street. Margaret Fanning was | 1 near her, busying herself about some domes- i tic work. Some months had passed since !1 the receipt of that cruel letter which had 1 broken Posy's fondest hopes in lite, ana, alas! very nearly broken her heart as well, j ' Poor child ! She bad never betrayed any I violent grief ; but had kept her pain locked 1 up in her gentle breast, suffering all the more ^ deeply because there was no one in whom ' she felt that she could confide. Margaret was 1 good and kind, but she shrank from reveal- ( ing to her a wound which she had no skill to 1 cure. "If my mother was here I could tell ' her," Posy would sometimes think ; meaning, ' not the unknowu, real mother, who was/like ^ a dream to her, but the adopted mother to ' whom her memory still fondly clung. But there was no mother or sister upon whose ( sympathising breast she could have leaned | 1 and poured out her sorrow in wholesomej 1 tears. All alone she must bear it, aud silent-; 1 ly she brooded it over day by day, aud night | 1 after nitrht. until the inward fever that was ;( "*0 9 consuming her heart began to make its mark 1 upon her face and form, sharpeuiug the Boft outline of her cheek and dimming the lustre of her eye, and robbing her limbs of their elasticity and her footstep of its lightness and grace. She struggled long against the ' encroaching weakness, resolutely exerting herself to go through her usual duties, until her attendant, seeing how the effort told upon her, became alarmed and insisted upon her allowing herself some rest. Posy would not see a physician. She said she was "only tired," and would soon be quite strong again. She got leave of absence from the theatre for a fortnight, but when the fortnight was up she was still "tired" and unable to return. The manager was indulgent, and being unwilling to lose her, offered to extend her leave. But as time went on and she did not improve, she was forced, though very reluctantly, to give up her place, with the understanding that if, in the future, she should feel well enough to resume it, it would be open to her. That time did not come. She could not tell what it was that ailed her. But she drooped more and more, like a tender flower that a ruthless tread ha3 crushed. Margaret prevailed on her at last to consult a doctor, who gave her a tonic and some other simple remedies, which seemed to benefit her a little at first, but soon lost their effect. Change of -air -um? prescribed, and she went to Santa Barbara, but after a short visit, finding that she did not improve, she begged to be taken back home. "The truth is, Margaret," she said, "I don't think it is any use to be trying any more remedies. Nothing makes me better, aud I am much more comfortable in my own room j than in a strange place. Please dou't let ] them send me away again." ( It was not long after their return from this ! trip; and she was sitting by her window as I y have described, when there came a knock at i ( her door. Margaret opeued it, and found ( their landlady standing in the passage. j t "Mrs. Fanning, there's a gentleman down J stairs," said the latter, "who wauts to see you ( particular. He asked for Miss Mariposa," { she added, lowering her tone, "but I told him \ x she was sick, and he wanted to know if there t was anybody with her he could speak to, so j I told him I'd call you." t Margaret went down stairs, only looking in i ( Posy's room first, to tell her that she would ^ soon he back. The gentleman proved to be , Mr. Dashwood, who, finding, after some pre-, i liminary questions, that she was Posy's par- 't ticular attendaut, and appeared to be a wo- | man of sense and understanding, entered into \ conversation with her iu regard to the object f with which he had sought them out. He did t not, of course, give her all the particulars of 1 , the matter, but told her enough to convince | her of the importance of it, and of the neces- j * sity of his obtaiuing an interview with the E young girl. ? "She's very weak," Margaret said, warn- j t ingly. "You'll have to be careful, sir, and not take her too much by surprise." i "Then, my good woman, do you go first, j and prepare her as you may think best," said i the old gentleman. "I will wait down here, t and you can call me whenever she is ready to see me." s Margaret went, and returned in about a f quarter of an hour, to say that Posy would * be glad if he would walk up. She had re- j r-oitro/l \T m rirn rct.'s information, that a pen tie- i man, claiming to be one of her relations, had t come to pay her a visit, very calmly, and when Mr. Dashwood entered she looked up at him enquiringly, but without any signs of excitement or trepidation. Mr. Dashwood had, two or three times, visited his sister-in-law, Mrs. Forester, during her last illness. As he approached the invalid girl now, he was so forcibly struck by her resemblance to the beautiful, fragile being he remembered, that an involuntary exclamation r escaped his lips. Recalling, however, the warning he had received, he checked all appearance of surprise or agitation, and taking her hand, he calmly and kindly accosted her, asking her if she kuew who he was. "Margaret says you are ray relation, sir," ! she simply replied. "I have never met auy of my relations before." 1 "I am your uncle, my dear child?your half-uncle, at least. Your father's step-brother ; only bearing a different name. Do you know your father's name, Ada?" She looked startled at the unfamiliar appellation, and gave him a wondering glance. "I forgot?you don't even know who you are ; poor dear child!" muttered the old gen-1 tleman, who was fast losing his self-control. "Your real name, my love, is Ada Forester. Your father, who was my brother Richard j_?/i .?,1 : .F OTPSier, IS (lean, (lull j vim uvai ujviliici aisn, But you have a sister living, two years older t ? * than yourself, who is eager to be re-united to t you, after your separation of nearly sixteen t years," t Ada leaned back in her chair, and with f folded hands listened iutently to the tale t which he proceeded to tell her. Her heart i t Deat fast, and the color came into her pale i jheeks as he went on, especially when he ipoke of HeleD, and of her anxiety to come < with him, describing her beauty and attract-' i ve qualities, and the happiness which he was i lure they would mutually derive from each I other's companionship. i A happy smile parted the sick girl's lips. < 'So I have a sister ; a real, true, darling sis- I ier!" she exclaimed, as joyfully as a child ! discovering a new treasure. "Oh ! how glad 1 [ am. I am sure it is she whom I have so of- i ? 1 len seen in ray dreams." She confirmed such points of his narrative, < relating to her adopted mother and to the i man Stratton, as she was already farailar . 1 svith. But of all the other circumstances she j * knew nothing. Mr. Charles Seymour, a ( gentleman who had been hunted up by Strat- : j ;on as having been intimate with the Forester : | Tatnily during there stay in Sau Francisco, i f iad supplied some dates and minor occur- ' < rences which helped form the chain of evi- ] lence, which might now be considered com- j jlete, since, if a link had before been want- j i ng, Mr. Dashwood found it presented to j litn in the unmistakable likeness which Posy bore to her mother, and also, though | ess strikingly, to her elder sister. ( "When can I see Helen, sir?" she asked, j jagerly. Mr. Dashwood, thinking she had indergone sufficient excitement for one day, < imposed bringing Helen on the day follow- < ng; but she looked so disappointed at the i dea of the meetiug beiug postponed, that he j :ame to the conclusion that to gratify her i vould do her less harm than good. j "I'll bring her at once, since you wish it, < ny dear," he said, kindly. "I left her at a \ lotel quite near by." ] He went off at once for Helen, who could 1 icarcely control her agitation when she found j ihe was to see her newly-found sister directly. But her uncle told her of tho importance of i ceeping herself calm, as Posy was not well I mough to bear much exciteraeot. I "Is she very weak, Uncle ? Has she been 1 ongill? What is the matter with her?" isked Helen, who with trembling fingers, was ,ying on her hat. ] "Yfv rlpRr T Roarcelv know." said Mr. Dash- ! * vood. "She has been sick a good while, it ^ leeras?and?and she looks quite delicate. Eier servant gave me some queer hints about i disappointment in love; but I thought it ) night just be a romantic fancy. I hope it f eally isn't so, poor little thing." t "She will get better now. I'll cheer her ( ip and make her well," said Helen, confident- \ y. Her uncle made no reply. He did not , ike to throw cold water on her hopes; but in ^ lis heart he did not believe that anything [ sould restore Posy to health now. The J nelancholy inheritance of consumption had ? lescended to her, accelerated, doubtless, in its j >rogress by trouble and distress of mind, fa- t ally working on the nervous system, while a t ong course of undue physical exertion had , ilso told disastrously on her strength. j They reached the quiet house where Posy } ived, and Mr. Dashwood once more summon- , id Margaret, to prepare for the coming meet- s . i "Let the young lady come up right away, { >lease,"said the attendant; "that's Posy's or- j lers, and she won't be gainsayed." "Posy?what a sweet, pretty name," thought rlelen. "I dou't mean to call her by any >ther." 1 She ascended the narrow stairs, Margaret isheriug her to the room door; then, in ibedience to a sign from Mr. Dashwood, qui:tly drawing back and leaving her to enter ilone. Posy sat upright in her chair. She had | 1 .ried to rise, but she was quivering all over md her limbs refused her their support. A j jright spot burned in each of her cheeks, md her large dark eyes glittered with starike brilliaucy, as they fixed themselves in- ; . ently upou Helen's face. Softly the latter Irew near. She had schooled herself into out-1 vard composure of manner, but her einotiou j vas none the less intense for being suppressed, j 1 Without a word she kneeled by Posy's chair; 1 hey clasped each other by a simultaneous im- j ' >ulse, and their lips met in a loug tremulous ! \ ciss. No word was spoken, until Helen, J Tightened at her sister's silent agitation, j nade a desperate effort to give an air of com- j ^ non place reality to the scene. "Only thiuk of our having been strangers ' ;o each other all this long time, Posy," she 1 laid, speaking as naturally as she could, 1 'when we used to be play-fellows together, you ' ind I!" "I remember you now," said Posy, in a 1 iv his per, looking steadfastly at her, with her jreat dark eyes. "I have seen you before? ' lot then ; but often since, in my dreams. I ,ook you for an angel!" Helen laughed merrily, struggling with a 1 10b, as she brushed away a rebellious tear | Vom her cheek. "I will be your guardian j( mgel henceforth, you dear little sister," she ' said, kissing her agaiu. "I mean to do noth- j ( ng but take care of you now, for the rest of I ny life." I * Posy got over her first emotion after a little ,' while, and was able to look and speak more 1 ike her usual self, and to listen with interest I ' ,o the plans for their future, which Helen 5 :agerly poured forth. She meant to take her i ( ibroad, she said, to her own old home in . 1 Prance, where she would get quite well aud . J itrong. The climate there was just what she ; 1 leeded. She had already spoken to uucle ' Edmund about it, and he quite agreed in 1 .(linking it right. She described the quaint ' >1(1 chateau, with its background of dark voods and picturesque hills, and the blue i ' jhironne winding in the distance. She spoke sloquently of Madame Preville, and all her ' last kindness, and predicted for Posy the 1 lame watchful and motherly care that had 5 icen lavished on herself. Posy smiled and 1 istened contentedly, with her hand clasped n >.he elder girl's. But she was not thinking 1 io much of the scenes she pictured as of the 11 oy and wonder of this re union, so unexpect- 1 :d and so hard to realize. < It was a pretty picture that met their un-, de's eye, when at length, thinking it time to i nterrupt them, he opened Posy's door and ooked in. Posy in her soft, loose wrapper of, ] :ashmere, that gave her such a childish look, 1 ying back in her chair, her cheeks still wear-; 1 ng the flush which excitement had brought i ,c them, and her eyes fixed with rapt, wistful t .enderness on Helen's face ; Helen, her hat I brown off, bending forward with eager looks, i ind caressing the fragile little hand in hers, i ts she discoursed in low, yet joyous, tones of ! he pleasures they would share together, and I he happiness of seeing Posy restored, as she i surely would be soon, to health and strengt The two faces so near to each other were wo derfully similar in outline; but the one wi rounded and blooming with perfect healt ind bore the impress of a serene and u troubled mind. The other, although young in years, wore the pathetic, indehuable sha aw of an approaching doom, visible amid a the brightness of her newly-acquired joy. Mr. Dash wood put an arm around each them, and kissed first one and then the otlv girlish brow. "Well, children, have you had your tai 9 U/vlnn T linnA f 1 ,\r] if in mtT AU JUbJ IICICU, JL nave OObllVU IV IU IUJ WU naind that we won't move your sister to tl hotel, as I thought at first of doing. SI jeenis comfortable here, and is accustomed jverything about her, and while we contini in San Francisco I think it will be bett ihat you should stay with her, and I can I it hand and see you both every day. W won't fatigue her by moving her uunecessai ly about. You can drive back with me no md get your things. The landlady here hi igreed to let you have a room adjoining thi io I have already engaged it for you." "Yes, Uucle, thank you. That is just tl ;hing. But need I go back to the hotel now Dan't you send my trunk and other thin] iround ?" "No, my dear, I think you had bett jome." He touched her arm expressivel giving her to understand that be particular wished her to accede to the proposition ; ar inferring that he had something to tell h which no one else was to hear, she made i farther demur, but kissed Posy and left h with a promise to return soon. Mr. Das wood only waited until they were in the ca riage, to turn to her with the most indignan iy stern expression she had ever seen on h 'ace, aud say in low, concentrated tones? "Helen, I've learned something from thi woman Margaret that has made my blot joil. You recollect my mentioning to yc ihat she had hinted to me before of son lOve-aflfair ?" "Yes, I remember." "Well, she has beeu telliug me all about i [t was a regular, definite engagement, ente :d into when she was in New Orleans, over fear ago." "In New Orleans! Was she ever there?' "Yes, so it seems. 1 wish to God I ha cnown of it, and had found out all this b ore. She made the acquaiutance of a gentl nan, or rather a scoundrel, as he ought to I sailed, who won her poor little innocent hea >y his flattery and attention, and finally ii reigled her into a promise to marry hie ;ave her a ring and eveything else, and mac ier believe him to be her devoted slave. Si eft for other places, traveled around, an it last returned home, all the time correspom ug with him and putting implicit faith in h ruth. After a time his letters grew rarer, I tally ceased, and then, just as she was begii ling to mope and worry herself to death ov< lis neglect* comes a long rigmarole telliu ler that he can never marry her, for reasoi which he ought to have given her before, an 10 on, aud all but breaks her heart. Margi et says she firmly believes that her whole il less is the result of that. Now, who do yo raagine this false hearted villain to be?" "Is it any one I know?" asked Helei ,vhose indignation was fully roused as hi lucle's. "Yes, some one you know, and I knoi well." Helen could never account for the swil ludden suspicion, almost like a revelatioi ;hat flashed into her mind?but she woul not give it utterance. "Who is it, Uncle ?" "Allan Lambert." Helen's hands clenched themselves togetln md her breath came quick and short. "It is what I guessed," she said, present! in a low tone. "It is ! How carae you to think of him f "Because I remember how he behaved, ju ibout that time. Don't you remember ho A imiiufn moo nuiiutuntlu wnrrioH Konan; .4 11 11 L iiuguotu "UO VWIIOI/WII VIJ Mv/tlivu WVVMU. be was so much away from home? She ne' 2r spoke to me about it, but it was very plaii [ ai cideutally overheard her, one day, tellic puu she thought he had got mixed up in son love affair. I rememher several little ci 2U instances that struck me at the time. H jsed to be odd and absent in his manner; an :he strangest part of it was, he left off wea lug that seal ring he used to wear, always o bis little finger, and I asked him in jest, one what had become of it, and he said somethin ibout having the stone re-set." "The villain! the cruel, cold-blooded, da lardly villain !" ejaculated the old geutlemai Unworthily as Helen knew Allan had bi saved, her instinct of justice prompted her I >ay what she could in his defence. "I don't think he is cold-blooded, or delil irately bad, Uncle," she rejoined. "He hi ^een cruel to Posy, in treating her as he hi ione ; but I have seen enough of him to fe< pretty sure that he was guided by impulse i ;he matter, and did not intend, at first, to d jeive. Posy is just lovely enough to ha\ won his fancy,and, I dare say, he really meai :o marry her. But afterward, growiu ishamed of her occupation?the poor litt jarling?he could not bring himself to do it. "I have no use for such people," sa d M Dashwood. "I dou't believe in glossiDg ove rascality like that. I hope I shall never ee bim again. But if I do?as I suppose unfoi ;unately I must?I'll take pretty good cai :o give him my mind." "Need I go back to New Orleans, Unci aefore we go abroad ?" asked Helen. "Not unless you wish to, my dear. Poc little Ada will not want to come in contac with that scamp, III be bound. Though, she only had the strength and spirit to do i t would do me good to see her humiliate hin Tou can as well make this your starting-poir is not. I wish to goodness I could go wit you. I've a great mind to cut. loose from bu ine6s anyhow, regardless of consequences, an loit!" "Aunt wouldn't like it, I am afraid,"' sai Helen. "Well, my dear, your aunt must learn t put up occasionally with what she does n< like," said Mr. Dashwood, rather testily. H was quite in the mood to follow his own wi n the matter, and Heleu, of course, was moi :han anxious, on her own account and Posy' 10 have him do so, though she was a littl ifraid that the consequences of so bold move might prove unpleasant to him. M Dashwood finally compromised by sayin that if he could find some nice, reliable fair ly going abroad, to whose care he could et h. j trust them and their attendants, he would not n-; go ; but that failing in this, he himself would as! act as their escort. He wrote a letter to this h,1 effect to his wife, whose indignation, on ren ceiving it, can be better imagined than^deer scribed. d- j [conclusion next week.] ofj j^tatr Jtffairs. er ! trrtt^t 171c3 a t th gt>tp a tttsjfl vv hvju?jqxujjj uxxjajjajl^vi. Ik ; * ?n ! Another Report from the Committee on FrAnds. 18 I ,e I PAY CERTIFICATES. to , je i The Committee on Frauds, submitted aner other instalment of their report last week, as follows: 'e The legislative pay certificate was the foun"i j tain head and nursery of many of the frauds, w ; forgeries and perjuries exposed in this report, as Through this source the most grave and fiag grant violations of law were committed, where' by the State was annually robbed of amounts ranging from two hundred thousand to one ie million of dollars, including fraudulent printr * ing certificates, which were collected and digs vided between the officials?senators, members of the house and political hangers-on of er the Administration. To perpetuate the power and influence of the Republican party it was necessary to have a ready and unfailing reser^ voir of funds. No simpler or easier way sugl(* gested itself than the issuing of pay certificates er by the Speaker of the House and the Presi io dent of the Senate. Thus it oecame not oniy er possible but praticable to perpetrate the nuu merous frauds in the public printing aud supplies to which we have already referred. Indeed, this, like the famous hydra, threw out its hundred heads, encircling and poisoning every 18 department of the government, and giving comfort and support to local leaders. In its at trail followed the low, despicable forgeries and perjuries necessary to effect the end proposed. )U It is not surprising that the poor and ignorant members of the General Assembly fell 16 into these practices when they were conceived and brought forth by such adroit swindlers as those who led. This immense fund produced [t. and maintained a Bond Ring, a Printing Ring r. and this Legislative Ring, the most popular a aud at the same time most unscrupulous. It is evident, from the testimony, that such a source of revenue as thin was iudispeusable to silence any complaint and to pacify the d fears of the timid and the greed of the avarie cious, whilst the other great rings were in suce. cessful progress. )e MOSES AND PATTERSON. rt Among the many remarkable and famous a- leaders in this enterprise, without at all inQ tending to disparage the claims of others, le your committee must mention the name of F. J. Moses, who issued and sold, and John 1 J. Patterson, who became the purchaser. ,(* These two stand out in bold relief as twin J- stars shedding a baleful "light" upon all who is approach them. The evidence which we ap 5- pend will fully justify the conclusion which Q. your committee has reached. The table submitted with this reDort shows, amone other *r 1? ~ ~l ? * u things, that in one session there was issued ^-*61,168,255 ?? pay certifwoifla, av?ry dollar of 18 which was a robbery, except about two hund i dred thousand dollars, due the members of the a- Senate and House and reglarly elected and j. appointed attaches of the Geueral Asseiuhly. The evidence of more than one witness shows that it was a race between the Bond Ring, composed of a limited number, and the Genrc, eral Assembly, as to who should receive the jr most of the money raised by taxation and the sale of bonds. It was decided that the greatv est good could be accomplished by distribu' ting the money to the greatest number, and the members of the General Assembly, therefore, became the beneficiaries. An unlimited "? ; number of certificates were issued on the writd I ten or verbal orders of the presiding officers l and of chairmen of standing or special comJ mittees. Clerk Woodruff says that "nearly | every one who told a tale of distress from Ku! Kluxism or of suffering on accouyt of their 'r | politics, was given a pay certificate." In adI dition to this, y> THE CONTINGENT FUND swelled to an enormous amount through the system of furnishing liquors, wines, cigars, st groceries, jewelry, and almost every conceivw able article under the head of "Sundries," 3e and large numbers of certificates were issued, | ranging in amounts from ?500 to 85,000 each. These were gratification certificates; Q* i this method was resorted to as the best manIs ner of harmonizing the "friends," as the leadie i ers were then called. At one sessiou, at least r- two hundred aad fifty thousand dollars were e j issued in this way for Senate purposes, and ^ ! when objections were made, they were met by the reply that these are small matters r' | and the State does not suffer from them ; that n j it was only a fight between the representatives e, of the people and the vultures of the Bond g RingTHE INITIALS. It appears from the evidence., and a large n. number of certificates in the treasurer's office, e. that the clerk often transposed the initials of ,Q the names of the party receiving these fraudulent certificates. Woodruff continues: "The certificate drawn to the order of'L. F. Christopher' for $2,500 18 is one of this class, and was drawn for the is purpose of paying the expenses of a commitel tee to Washington, in opposition to one sent n i by the taxpayers' Convention." The taxpayers not only paid their own committee's expenses, but were made to pay that of the re thieves who plead before the National Administration for more time and the protection g of the bayonets to enable them to keep up the le role of robbery of the people. Senator B. F. Whittemore was the spokesman and leading r member of the committee. This information t' is comment enough. Woodruff adds that this certificate was drawD on the order of !e Lieutenant-Governor Cleaves, who said Carr j dozo would take care of it. The initials "L. e F. C." represent F. L. Cardozo. This certificate was collected by ex-Governor R. K. Scott, and bears the following endorsement in ' his handwriting: "Mr. Cardozo promises to pay this, January 1st, 1875." ,r RAPACIOUS COMMITTEEMEN. Woodruff also says the certificate for $2,500, payable to A. B. Jordan, was for James A. Bowley, chairman of the committee on >. j ways and means in the House ; another payit I able to J. M. Foreman, amounting to 82,500, h i was for Governor F. J. Moses, the initials in f each being merely transposed. Such certifi- j \ cates were usually ordered after a meeting j ' and consultation of the presiding officers with | the State treasurer and chairmen of the com- | " mittees of ways and means in the House and ! fiuance in the Senate. Thus it will be seen j ~ that the chairmen of the most important com- j )t i mittees joined in a conspiracy with others to | I defraud the State. . I He further says that certificates payable to "I T. 0. Andlon represented T. ('. Andrews; e one to D. C. Higby represented Senator C. I D. Hayne. When the witness (WoodrufT) le | was shown the following list, he stated that a the paper is in the handwriting of Lieuten-j atit-Governor Gleaves, and represents au order given to draw certificates for the senators. & The first column indicates the amount de'* manded by each senator ; the second column , i- the amounts allowed by the Lleutenaut-Gov- ' emor. Certificates were drawn in accordance with these instructions. SUNDRY 8TEALING8. Amount Demanded, j Amount Allowed. C. T. Andlon, $600 Sen'r T. C. Andrews,...$300 L. Crosby, 500 Sen'r L. Cain, 300 A. F. Counts, 500 Sen'r F.A.Clinton, 300 C. H. Chissom,... 500 Sen'r H. C. Corwin, 300 Ed. Dillon, 500 Sen'r E. E. Dickson, 300 D. C. Higby, 500 Sen'r C. D. Hayno, 300 C. J. Hurnn, 500 Sen'r J. C. Hope, 200 R. W.Jenkins,... 500 Sen'r W. R. Jervey, 200 E. W. Johns, 500 Sen'r W. E. Johnston,.. 300 John Leary 500 Sen'r John Lee, 200 M. Maston, 500 Sen'r Moses Martin,.... 200 Charles Simeon,. 500 Sen'r C. Smith 300 M. J. Sundeny,.. 500 Sen'r J. M. Smith, .'500 H. J. Whitecoinb, 500 Sen'r J. H. White, 200 B. Wharton 500;Sen'rB. F. Whittemore, 300 Fraudulent certificates were thus issued for fifteen senators, mere fictitious names, in which, however, their initials are preserved, and though transposed or reversed, are clearly identified. Mr. Woodruff, continuing, says that "he is satisfied that J. C. Hope did not receive the oue made out to order of C. J. Hurrin." The treasurer's books show that Senator W. R. Jervey collected his, and that Governor Scott collected those drawn in the name of D. C. Higby, C. T. Andlon, and a few others of this lot. Seuator John Lee sold his to Wm. Fine, (See his evidence.) The evidence of Messrs. Woodruff and Lee proves that a legislative pay certificate, drawn payable to the order of C. L. Frankfort for $4,000, (the initials of which are those of F. L. Cardozo) was issued at the suggestion of Treasurer F. L. Cardozo, and was divided equally between Cardozo, Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves, Speaker S. J. Lee, Josephus Woodruff, clerk of the Senate, and A. 0. Jones, clerk of the House." Lee testifies that "he and Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves received $800 each in certificates of indebtedness of Republican Printing Company, from F. L. Cardozo at his (Cardozo's) house, and he told tbem that he had his own share." Woodruff testifies that "he receipted to Cardozo for $2,400 in certificates of indebtedness, and took the legislative pay certificates, leaving a balance of $800 each for Clerk Jones and himself." The books of the treasurer show that the certificate was paid February 3,1874. The books of the Republican Printing Cora \n m n nlt/tin * V\ ?-? f An T?aIm>iia ntf 1 ft 7 A tU A A A paujr ouuvr mat, uu rcuiuaij ut jl\j i ~xy iuo ai>couut of Woodruff was credited with 8800, and that of Jones for a like amount. Opposite the entries is written "one certificate for 84,000." The credits also appear on the daybook and ledger in the handwriting of the book-keeper, Mr. Jackson. Mr. Cardozo has been tried in this case and was convicted by an impartial jury, a majority of whom were of his own race and party. When the witness (Woodruff) was shown a certificate purporting to be for a claim passed by the Legislature for 81,000, payable to the Republican Printing Company, he said, "it was one of many issued in a batch amounting to 818,741.94, which were divided and shared between the Company, State officials and Senators." Among this number we find one paid to Senator W. B. Nash. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS A DAY. It also appears from the evidence that each member of the committee appointed to annually examine the books of the treasurer and comptroller-general, almost invariably received a 8600 certificate for work performed in six days, or one hundred dollars per day. The evidence and certificates in the treasur er's office prove that many thousands of dollars in certificates were issued to defray the imaginary expenses of the "HIGH OLD JOINT COMMITTEE," for clerks, experts, room rent, Ac., not a dol lar of which was an hone9t claim. We refer to the evidence of Gen. Dennis, wherein be says : "This committee were for a while paid out of the 'armed' force fund. They departed for New York on the 9th of June, 1871. They called on the financial agent, Kimpton, and there met Attorney-General Chamberlain. After consultation with them both, it was agreed that Kimpton should pay all expenses of the committee; that, in order to give Kimpton a little recreation, they took a recess for one month. Hurley went to Boston ; Whittemore to Ea9t Woburn, Mass.; Swails to Elmira, N. Y., and he thinks Gardner went to Saratoga with Kimpton." Thus our representatives whiled away their hours at fashionable resorts, planning and scheming to rob the people who were compelled to pay their bills. The published reports show that Kimpton paid the committee more than 817,000. Gen. Dennis testified that only 812. 501.32 of this amount was actually paid the committee, including incidental expenses, room rent and clerk hire; that the highest amount paid any member by Kirapton was 33,108 and the smallest $1,284. Iu addition to amounts paid from the Armed Force Fund and from Kimpton, your committee find that other large suras were paid to the several members of the committee, by legislative pay certificates. Dennis, Jones and Woodruff testify that large accounts were made out and rendered against the State for alleged services on this committee, some of which are in the handwriting of Senator B. F. Whitteraore. By adding the amounts paid out of THE ARMED FORCE FUND, and by Kimpton, to that paid in legislative pay certificates, we find that the members of this committee were paid for the time actually employed from $20 to $60 each per day. Although there was no authority of law to justify these payments by the financial agent, they were evidently inspired and advised by Attorney-General Chamberlain, himself a member of the financial board. A margin of time was necessary to "cook" the books of the agency, and to make them ready for the inspection of this virtuous committee, all the more important, not to avoid exposure, but to deprive the members of the opportunity and pretext for blackmail. That the books of the financial agent were remodeled to suit the emergency, will appear in another portion of the report. It would have been the very height and depth of villainy on the part of these creatures to have paid for this acquittance out of their own unrighteous gains and commissions, but goes beyond expression when we know that every dollar of this expenditure was included in Kimpton's account against the State, and balanced iu the settlement made with him by Scott, Parker and Chamberlain, as they left their offices in 1872. FRAUDULENT CERTIFICATES. Wo now nroaonf- for vonr rnnnidprntinn t.bo ,, - J ? ? -- ? evidence of General Dennis and ex-Governor Moses, in which it is shown that fraudulent pay certificates, amounting to 85,000, were issued in the name of J. G. Gershon, and were divided between Speaker Moses and Lieutenant-Governor Ransier. Dennis says: "The Speaker thought he ought to have something, and made out a bill of $2,500, which, as chairman, I approved. When the certificate was i presented to Lieutenant-Governor Ransier, President of the Senate, for his signature, he refused to sign it unless he (Ransier) could be paid an equal amount. I was sent for, and went down to the State House, and found Ransier and Moses in the Speaker's room. Moses said: 'Governor Ransier refuses to sign < this certificate unless he can have one for a similar amount.' So it was agreed that he should have it. The first bill was destroyed, and the following (also entirely fictitious) was made out to cover the two amounts for Speaker Moses and Lieutenant-Governor Ransier State ok South Carolina, To Jamea Gersliou, Dr. For room rent, fees, Ac., for the Joint Special Investigating Committee in New York, $5,000 Dennis further says: "That the certificates were issued and divided between Moses and Ransier, that an additional compensation of 81,500 being allowed him as chairman, bills were made out conferring the amouDt and certificates issued and signed by Ransier and Moses." This evidence is corroborated by exGovernor Moses, Woodruff and Jones, who testify that the certificates issued in the name of J. C. Gershon were claims of the "Old High Joint." The Gershon certificates are in the vaults of the treasurer's office, cancelled and paid. It also appears that a $5,000 certificate was issued to Senator B. F. Whit: temore for the purpose of purchasing the portraits of Lincoln and Sumner for the Senate. Most of this amount has been paid him, but the portraits are not to be found, and it is presumed that Senator Whittemorepoc&eted them when he was preparing his flight from the MtabCi In reference to a passed claim certificate, No. 14, for 82,300, payable to the Columbia Union Herald, Mr. Woodruff says : "It was one of the 'mistakes/ and that he believes J. G. Thompson knew he had no right to the money when he collected it." Woodruff, continuing, says: "Certificates were issued to J. N. Dobgon for 8642 and C. N. Smith for $642, as committee clerks, that no such persons served ; if they had he would have known it." These certificates were collected by Associate Justice Wright, and bear the following endorsements ; "Per C. N. Smith, for J. J. ! Wright," and "Per J. N. Dobson, for J. J. Wright." JUDGE WRIGHT, when summoned before the committee, testified as follows: "I know that at one time, several years ago, I let two young men, who as well as I remember, represented themselves as attaches of the General Assembly, have some money ; about twenty-five dollars to one and fifty to the other, and took as collateral security pay certificates from each. I think this was during Parker's term of office. I do not know the names of the parties, nor have I ever seen them since. I made inquiry for them, but could not find them. I am not positive about the handwriting of the endorsement upon these certificates. My impression is that it is my signature on the back of the Dobson certificate, and perhaps on the other, but I do not speak positively. I now ask leave to retract what I said in reference to the endorsement, since upon a more careful inspection I could not have written the endorsement, for the English is too bad, the language is not mine." Your committee leave the matter with you to judge where this man obtained these certificates, and whether it is a probable story that young meu who were strangers to him would give him $1,264 worth of State paper for $75, without his ever hearing of them again. His testimony that he did not know them, and in the next moment saying he made inquiry for them, and his confused statement in reference to the endorsement, together with the fact that he only objected to the "English," and could see nothing wrong in law or morals in the act of signing another man's name, place him in no enviable light before the public. GRATIFICATION CERTIFICATES. Of the certificates presented, Mr. Woodruff designated more than $60,000 as "gratification certificates," issued for the State officials and senators, and named Senators Owens, Whittemore, Nash, Gaillard and others as recipients of portions of them. By reference to Woodruff's evidence, it will be seen that a fraudulent certificate was issued to Senator Robert Smalls for a large amount Woodruff testifies that certificates were issued to various Senators out of the Senate contingent fund and divided between them. Senaator Cain corroborates this statement in his evidence, and implicates Senators B. F. Whittemore, Nash, Jerrey, Gaillard, J. M. Smith, Dublin I. Walker, J. H. White and himself. Woodruff says: "Certificates were issued for 'supplies,' not only for necessary articles, but frequently as a bonus or gratification to senators." In examination of the vouchers, we find that this was true, and that immense sums were thus annually expended. A. 0. Joues, clerk of the House, from 1868 to 1876, says: "It was made his duty to attest the signature of the Speaker; that he never questioned the right of the Speaker to order his warrant on the State treasurer; that the issue of certificates was enormous in number and amounts, and the pressure upon the presiding officers, by members of the Senate and House, to have certificates issued to their friends, political and otherwise, for sinecures and gratuities, increased at every session. The issue ran to the highest point at the session of 1871-2, when the orders on the State treasurer, drawn by the Speaker of the House, amounted to over a half million of dollars; two-thirds of which were for sinecures and gratuities. Among the papers of the committee, of which they desire an explanation, I recognize the following"?and here he named five certificates, purporting to have been given to clerks aud messengers, for $405 each, collected by Dr. J. L. Neagle, then comptroller-general. He says: "He knows no such parties, and believes them to be gratuities." Jones makes the same statement in regard to eleven others of a similar nature, calling for $486.70 each, collected by J. L. Watson, treasurer of York county. Sixty odd other certificates issued by the Speaker of the House, ranging in amounts from $321 to $642 each, aud aggregating $26,000, were presented to him for inspection, and he pronounced them all gratuities; knew of no such persons as those named in the certificates, and that no service was rendered for them. Your committee only presented to Jones a very few of the large number of these certificates in their possession. By reference to his evidence hundreds of names of fictitious persons will be found in the body of certificates (and described by him as gratuities.) Sixty of the certificates referred to were collected by F. S. Jacobs, T. J. Coghlan, treasurer of Sumter county, J. B. Lowry and G. W. Waterman ; the two last being brothers-in-law of Governor R. K. Scott. The certificates collected by Waterman and J. B. Lowry, according to the evidence of F. J. Moses, were given to Governor Scott in cancellation of a debt due him by Moses, and that he (Scott) consenting to this arrangement allowed Crews to turn over a sum of 810,000 due Moses on a bribe promised him by Patterson on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Consolidation bill. THE WAY IT WAS DONE. Your committee cannot refrain from presenting you a literal copy of some of the orders given by Speaker Moses, showing as they do, the reckless and dishonest manner of conducting the affairs of State : Mu Dear Jone-i?Please make out for me and send by bearer the following certificates. I want them by ten o'clock. I will not ask for any more: Clerk?Wm. Nettles, Charles Jones, Waring Mikell, Stephen Wilcox. Messengers?Eph**" ?? QJmmu UTooltinrwf An (d J 1 Kf? ? f Ta?1 Q Q dt 1 _ lillili aiiiiiun, fTaoiiUi^bvu vuuviu " *'?uw v*?*more, Sam'l Knox. Pages?Eddie Simms, Tom Burton. Please make them all out from November Ml), 1871. Sincerely, F. J. M., Speaker. Again he writes: My Dear Oceola?Please send me by bearer a certificate for $4,300 in favor of J. H. and M. L. Kinard for "sundries furnished," and one for $1,500 in favor of Hardy Solomon for "sundries furnished," and oblige, F. J. Moses, Jr. February 23, 1872. Speaker, <ftc. Again he writes: Dear Jones?Please tix the within for our friend Hurley. Sincerely, Moses. Hurley writes: Frank?These are the cusses. Make an order to A. O. Jones. T. H. Charles Reade, Messenger. John B. Turner, Clerk. Amos Barns, Clerk. David D. Cooper, Messenger, Andrew Smith, Messenger. Elias Woodrow, Clerk. Jones says the handwriting on the above seems to he that of Mr. Hurley. Dear Oceola?Please make me out a certificate for my pet, Sincerely yours, F. J. M. We also find an order, which, Mr. Jones says, appears to be in the handwriting of Mr. Briggs, a member fror York county, for the following: Wm. Riley,clerk of committee; : R. Finnegan, clerk ; Giles Foxworth, messenger ; Jonas Wilson, messenger, j We especially refer you to the testimony of : Mr. R. Finnegan, a resident of Columbia, where he says that B. F. Briggs, whilst a member of the House, endeavored to induce him to endorse certificates, which he refused to do. Afterwards he insisted on the certificates being destroyed in his presence, and Briggs informed him that he had already destroyed them. After this he saw them published in a list of claims brought before the Senate, whereupon he wrote Clerk Woodruff a I-ii ?1 1 _ -ii- l _ J a. - t?_ ! J T ? leiier, wmca is attacneu to ma eviutuuu. iu said letter he stated that he denounced the certificates as a fraud, as he had not rendered the State any service ; again demanding that they be destroyed in his presence, and that his name should not be used for the benefit of those who desired to steal. We also refer you to the letter ofB. F. Briggs, annexed to the evidence, addressed to Senator White, in which he says, "the certificates were for lieubeu Finnegan and not Robt. Finnegan ; forbade White delivering the certificates, claiming that he had paid a valuable consideration for them." We only cite this as one of many hundreds of a like nature. We call attention to others of a similar kind, referred to in evidence of A. O. Jones, especially that payable to W. H. Gardner, member from Sumter county ; also to a certificate collected by T. Hurley, made payable to T. Harlingford, a fictitious name, the initials of which represent T. Hurley. Jones, continuing, says: "The joint certificates exhibited, amounting to $20,425.56, and the House certificates amounting to 8131,094.30,1 have examined, and in ray opinion not one of the joint certificates would stand good upon close scrutiny. Of the House certificates, I do not regard as valid any that were not issued to some known person. This would throw out about thirty thousand dollars as invalid. Of those issued in the names of known persons, fifty thousand dollars at least would not bear too much light." Sergeant Williams, of the House, in his evidence, says, "out of one hundred and fifty certificates issued to persons styled as clerks of the House, not one such person served, and every dollar paid on their certificates was a direct fraud upon the State." They called for amounts ranging from 8300 to $642 each, aggregating $76,200. Williams says that "there were only eight porters employed," yet we find that in one session alone certificates were issued to TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE PORTERS. We gave this witness over seventy certificates for inspection, made out in the name of persons styled porters, in reference to which he testifies that "not one of them served," adding that "the House only employed about ten messengers." Notwithstanding this, we find that, during one session, certificates were issued to one hundred and forty, and at another for two hundred and twelve messengers. Williams testifies that "the House actually employed eight laborers and from five to ten pages," yet we have certificates from the treasurer's office showing that as many as 159 laborers and 124 pages were paid during one session. For several sessions certificates were issued for pjmt fK) ppgfffl, many of whnrn were children of the members. We submitted to the inspection of the same witness twenty-five certificates, drawn for the payment of supplies made under the head of "Sundries," aggregating about $68,000. On a ntnoo nYuminafinn ho aai A thnf. "thp received no consideration for thera, no such persons ever performed any service or furnished any supplies to the State?I have examined a large number of certificates drawn in my name, and pronounce nine out of ten fraudulent." PATTER80N AND MOSES. From the testimony before us, we find that the largest transaction of this kind at any one time was between John J. Patterson, who never made two bites at a cherry, and Speaker F. J. Moses. The latter testifies as fol lows: "Some time during the session of 1871-72, John J. Patterson came to me and proposed that if I would turn over to him blank pay certificates, he would have them filled up with fictitious names to the amount of$30,000, and if I would sign them as Speaker and have Jones attest them as clerk, he would pay me 810,000, he to keep the certificates. I accepted the proposition, delivered to him a batch of blank pay certificates, and he returned them to me filled out, I think, in the handwriting of F. S. Jacobs, cashier of the South Carolina Bank and Trust Company, to the amount above stated." The evidence further shows that they were duly signed, and that Patterson paid Moses, in cash, $7,000 at one time and $3,000 at another. Moses was recalled and says: "Certificates shown me I recognize as some of those to which I have just alluded. The names are all fictitious, and I do not know that such persons ever existed." The number, date, amount, &c, are as follows : No. Date. Amount. To whom Payable. R. Dec. 16, 1871 $1,537 47 Joseph Meyer. C. Dec. 20, 1871 843 19 Peter Emminger. S. Dec. 18, 1871 973 23 John Shuze. D. Dec. 10, 1871 1,494 31 Joseph Richards. G. Dec. 21, 1871 1,962 50 Robt. Mathews. H. Dec. 21, 1871 1,726 50 P. Haggerty. G. Deo. 23,1871 2,234 76 Robert Kepple. Q. Dec. 23,1871 1,462 78 Samuel Barnes. J. Dec. 15, 1871 784 72 J. A. Hoffman, A. Dec. 15,1871 893 26 George Howell. N. May 7, 1871 1,440 00 W. Tippet. B. Jan. 15, 1871 1,440 33 George Single. IS EVERY THING LOVELY ? From the entries made in the books of the treasury, and on the backs of these certificates, we find that they were paid to F. S. Jacobs. On examination of the individual ledger of the South Carolina Bank and Trust Company, it will appear that on or about the day the collection was made the amounts were placed to the credit of John J. Patterson. The following letter is in the possession of the committee : Dear Jones?I received enclosed orders from Gen. Moses last evening. Please make out certificates immediately so I can forward them to him for his signature, as he is in a hurry to get them. Is everything lovely this morning? Truly yours, F. S. Jacobs. The orders referred to were for the appointment of thirty clerks and messengers, and accompanying them were thirty fictitious names. In the evidence of Jones, under the head of legislative pay certificates, these orders appear verbatim. Moses testifies as follows concerning these orders: "Certain orders are now shown to me, all in Jacob's handwriting, which I identify as signed by me as Speaker. I distinctly recognize them as having been given by me in carrying out the contract referred to as between Patterson and myself." Jones corroborates Moses as to the handwriting of Ja cobs, the issuiDg of the certificates and their delivery to Jacobs. We refer in this connection to the evidence of John Williams. _ Mr. Tappan, a clerk in the office of Treasurer Parker, examined the certificates paid to F. S. Jacobs and gave bis opinion as follows: "The handwriting in the body of the certificates, as well as the endorsement on the backs, is that of Mr. Jacobs; although the writing is disguised, some of the endorsements are unquestionably made by Jacobs." The evidence shows that strangers often came to Columbia, some times from other States, who would remain a day or two with their officeholding friends, receive a legislative pay certificate and leave. [continued on fourth page.]