The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, May 04, 1876, Image 2
JAS. A. HOYT,
E. B. MURRAY,
Editors.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 4th, 1876.
THE BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD.
Col. J, W. "Gaut, President of the
Knoxville Board of Trade, who presided
over the recent Railroad Convention at
this place, made a verbal report to the
Board of Trade at its meeting on the 27th
ult. He was quite earnest in advising
that the measures inaugurated at Ander?
son be pushed forward with vigor and
energy, and his report has created more
interest in the revival of the Blue Ridge
Railroad than was ever before manifested
in Knoxville. His statement to the
Board of Trade was entirely satisfactory,
and is condensed as follows: In com?
pany with two other delegates from East
Tennessee, he had attended the railroad
convention recently held at Anderson,
S. C, which he denominated an assem?
blage of earnest men, working for the
accomplishment of a great end. He
spoke of the cordial reception and kind
treatment by the citizens of Anderson.
The number of delegates in attendance
was large, and steadfast co-operation was
promised by the business men of Charles?
ton and towns along the proposed route.
The proposition*of Dr. Morrow, Presi?
dent of the Knoxville and Charleston
Railroad, was something tangible, and
the delegates realized the fact that, in
order to secure this long-desired connec?
tion, the chief hope of its success rested
with the people of the Carolinas, espe?
cially of Charleston. He referred to the
published proceedings of the convention,
which demonstrated the large amount of |
work already done, and the immense sum
of money expended by the State of South
Carolina in work upon a portion of the
line, which, together with" its road-bed
and franchises, could now be purchased
for $300,000. If this purchase was made
it would be an opening wedge of pretty
good size, and would inspire confidence
among the people along the line of road.
He called attention to the approaching
convention which meets in Charleston
on the 25th of May, and thought it was
highly important that Knoxville send a
strong delegation of those who have the
interests of the town and community at
heart, and who would make faithful rep?
resentatives. In conclusion, he remarked
that the more he sees, hears and reads of j
the proposed Blue Ridge Railroad enter?
prise, the more interest he feels in it. If |
the road is built, it will give Knoxville
the exclusive control of the trade for one
hundred and fifty to two hundred miles
across in the North Carolina direction,
and the benefits to be derived were in?
calculable.
The thanks of the Board of Trade were
returned to Col. Gaut for his untiring
energy and zealous efforts in behalf of j
the great enterprise, and a motion was
adopted to authorize the appointment of J
a full delegation to the Charleston Con?
vention. Col. Gaut and Mayor Carpenter
were designated by resolution as a part of
the delegation.
East Tennessee evidently means busi?
ness in advocating the project to revive
the Blue Ridge Railroad. The towns
and counties in upper South Carolina
ought to arrange at once for strong dele?
gations to meet with the large and influ?
ential' representation from Knoxville,
and we have no doubt that Georgia and
North Carolina will be present in ade?
quate force. Walhalla, Anderson, Abbe?
ville and Newberry should unite their j
strength in this movement, and lend
encouragement to whatever schemes may
be devised to secure an early resumption
of the work. All are interested in re?
moving difficulties and overcoming ob?
stacles in the path of its progress, and an
earnest, zealous and faithful effort in this j
direction cannot fail to produce an im?
mediate impression, so that tangible
evidence may be presented to the world
that the Blue Ridge Railroad is once
more an active, vigorous enterprise,
worthy of the confidence and support
of the people for whose benefit it is to
be constructed, and enlisting the sympa?
thies and assistance of capitalists from
abroad, who can be made to understand ?
its prospective advantages as a profitable |
investment of labor and capital.
THAT CONDITIONAL PARDON.
Although some of the papers of the
State have discovered that Governor
Chamberlain acted wisely and properly
in granting a conditional pardon to John
Lilley, we fail to perceive anything "in
the published papers, which we reprint
this week, that will justify this extraordU
nary step upon the part of the Governor.
There are two points of view which ren?
der the action of the Governor improper,
according to our view of this question.
The first is that, if the facts contained in
the petition were true, Lilley is as great
a criminal as Yocum, and as he was
already convicted of grand larceny, in
breaking a store in Chester, he was a
greater criminal and deserved more pun?
ishment than Yocum. Release would,
therefore, have been the liberation of
the greater to secure the punishment of
the lesser criminal, ff the Governor
believed these charges, it was his duty to
have removed Yocum from the position
?f County Treasurer, and left Lilley to
suffer the imprisonment he so richly de?
serves. The second point is, that if the
facts presented warranted the pardon of
Lilley, the Governor should have granted
it without any condition, for it was a
great outrage upon the rights and liberty
of Yocum, who is a citizen of South
Carolina, to offer to grant a pardon to a
thief in the penitentiary for nine years,
on condition that he should testify "fully
and in good faith" for the State against
the defendant. This inducement to a
witness was very improper, and a man
with the Governor's legal experience
could not fail to perceive its probable
influence upon such a criminal as Lilley.
Such action is not to be countenanced
for an instant iu a land of law and order,
for it is hostile to the very liberties of
the citizen. If such machinery should
be allowed to enter into our court trials,
the conviction of any man who is obnox?
ious to a Governor could be secured, for
if allowable at all the chief magistrate
?f the State must be the judge of the
person and circumstances justifying such
action.
There is another singular thing about
[ this attempted pardon. It is that the
presiding Judge is required to certify
j that Lilley had testified "fully and in
I good faith?" How could any Judge dc
this unless he knew all the facts of the
case himself? He could not certify that
the witness had not told the truth or a'
falsehood; that he had not told more or
less than he knew; or, in other words,
the condition was impossible, unless
tbe Judge knew all that the witness
did, or was omniscient We do not mean
to say that the Governor has done this
wroqg intentionally, but we do mean to
say that his conduct was very much to
be deprecated, and that Judge Northrop
acted wisely and commendably in refus?
ing to sanction so dangerous a precedent.
THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Gov. Chamberlain has conferred the
appointment of Attorney General, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
the Hon. S. W. Melton, upon Maj. Wil?
liam Stone, of Charleston, who is well
known to many of the citizens of Ander?
son, as he was stationed in our town for
some time in charge of the Freedman's
Bureau. Maj. Stone is a native of Maine,
and passed his .early life in Massachu;
setts. He is comparatively a youug man,
and has seen a great deal of hard service.
In 1861 he entered the Federal army as
a private in the 19th Massachusetts Vol?
unteers, and in that capacity served in
the Army of the Potomac, being engaged
in tbe most desperate and important bat?
tles of the war. He was severely wound?
ed at Sharpsburg, and at Gettysburg he
was equally unfortunate. He was sub?
sequently transferred to the Veteran Re?
serve Corps, and was promoted to the
rank of captain and brevet major. In
1866 he received the appointment of first
lieutenant in the regular army, which
position he held until 1870, when be re?
signed to enter upon the pursuits of civil
life.' For some time after the war closed
he was on duty in the Freedman's Bu?
reau, and was stationed at Anderson,
Aiken and Columbia, in this State, and
at Louisville, Ivy. Although filling an
unpopular position, rendered so by the
unmanly and partisan conduct of many
officers, Maj. Stone was always regarded
as a just and honorable, officer, who was
intent upon the discharge of his duties,
and not disposed to foster ill feeling and
distrust between the races. His manage?
ment of the difficult questions so often
arising between planters and laborers, so
far as we are informed, always gave satis?
faction to the community while he was
stationed here. After leaving the army
he began tbe study of law, and entered
upon its practice as the partner of Maj.
D. T. Corbin. In 1871 he was appointed
Assistant United States District Attorney
for South Carolina, which position be has
since held, and discharged its duties with
vigor and energy. Maj. Stone is about
34 years of age, small in stature, with
pleasant, affable manners. He has de?
voted himself assiduously to a knowl?
edge of his profession, and is considered
entirely competent for the important du?
ties of Attorney General. He has never
mixed in politics, although a Republican
of the most pronounced type in senti?
ment, yet he does not mingle 'politics
with business. There is grave and seri?
ous work before him, and we hope that
he will be found equal to the emergency.
In all things pertaining to the welfare
of tbe State and the inauguration of
genuine reform of past abuses, we expect
to give him whatever sympathy and as?
sistance we may be able.
MORE OF MACKEY.
After the failure of the State to con?
vict B. G. Yocum at Chester, Judge
Mackey obtained tbe bench and sen?
tenced Ben Mikell, a notorious criminal
of Chester, who the Judge termed a
short time since, "the most desperate
criminal in the up-country." He told
Ben that he bad rendered great service
to the people by testifying against Yo?
cum, and paid this desperate criminal
other compliments, after which he sen?
tenced him to twenty-four hours in the
County jail, and afterwards ordered his
release before his sentence had half ex?
pired. Many persons believe this was
done by the Judge because Yocum was
not convicted, and it is regarded by many
citizens of Chester as an outrage upon
justice and law. If Judge Mackey per?
sists in thus ignoring the law in his con?
duct as a Judge, it may result in many
evils to the people of his Circuit, for a
Judge cannot expect a law-abiding peo?
ple unless he himself upholds- and de?
fends its majesty by upright and impar?
tial action. Even if his original sentence
of Mikell was a proper one, the Judge
must know that after it had been passed
be could not alter or ameliorate it.?
When he released Mikell before the ex?
piration of his sentence, be usurped the
pardoning power of the Governor, and
grossly abused his position as Circuit
Judge. We are still of the opinion that
the Legislature ought to have taken
charge of this "erratic and impulsive"
Judge and removed him from the office
for which his temper seems to unsuit
him. Those Conservatives who voted
against investigating his official conduct
at the last session of the Legislature
made a sad mistake.
GRAND DIVISION.
The quarterly meeting of the Grand
Division of the Sons of Temperance of
South Carolina convened in Orangeburg
on last Thursday, Grand Worthy Patri?
arch A. B. Towers presiding. As is
usual with the quarterly sessions, the
attendance, though good, was not equal
to that generally had at the annual meet?
ings. The reports of officers were re?
ceived, and the order encouraged by the
statistics, showing the number and zeal
of the temperance workers in the State.
Routine business was taken up and dis?
patched, and. it was decided to leave the
question of holding the summer session
of the Grand Division with the G. W. P.
and G. S., aud in the event they decided
to call the meeting, it was also referred
to them to fix the place for its session.
There was a large and influential mass
meeting which was addressed upon the
subject of temperance in stirring speech?
es on Friday night. The entire gather?
ing was pleasant and harmonious.
? How many of these stupendous
frauds which twenty-five Congressional
committees are unearthing would the
county have ever beard of if a Democratic
House had not been chosen?
THE CHARLESTON JUD?ESHIP.
Eighty-one members of the Charleston
Bar have addressed the following letter
to Hon. J. P. Reed, asking him to main?
tain his rights to the whole term of four
years from the day of bis election, and
affirming their determination not to
recognize Whipper, pledging themselves
to resist the seating of such an infamous
character upon the judicial bench of
South Carolina. These gentlemen repre?
sent the entire legal fraternity, with two
-or three exceptions, and their united
purpose will doubtless have an important
bearing upon the vexed question which
has arisen in regard to the tenure of
office. The response of Judge Reed to
this communicatiou has not been re?
ceived, but we may safely assume that
he will resist any attempt to deprive him
of the position, regarding as he does the
law clear arid unmistakable that he was
elected for four years from the date of
his election. We may expect lively
times in the First Circuit, which is to
test the whole question in regard to the
legality of the judicial elections last win?
ter. Whipper is to make the fight, while
Moses will await the issue there before
attempting to exercise judicial authority
in the Sumter Circuit. We regret that
our space will not allow the publication
of the names appended to this letter,
which embraces many honored and up?
right lawyers of recognized ability and
purity of character, whose protest in any
other community would deter even a
villain like Whipper from essaying the
exercise of judicial functions against
their wishes. The venerable Edward
McCrady, Sr., heads the list of names to
this letter, while Chancellor Lesesne, C.
G. Memminger, Gen. W. G. DeSaussure,
James B. Campbell, W. D. Porter, Gen.
James Conner, Henry Buist, Jas. Simons
and M. P. O'Connor are among the
signers?in fact, all the respectable law?
yers in Charleston. There is not much
doubt, either, if the worst is to come,
that the people of Charleston will place
this question ultimately upon stronger
grounds than a mere legal protest, and
by every means in their power resist the
seating of Whipper upon the bench :
Charleston, April 25,1876.
Hon. J. P. Reed, Judge of the First Cir?
cuit :
Dear Sir?We, the undersigned,
members of the Charleston Bar, believe
it to be our professional duty to say to
you, that we regard the decision of Gov?
ernor Chamberlain, that your term of
office had not expired when W. J. Whip?
per was elected, and would not expire
until four years from the date of your
election, and that there was therefore no
vacancy to be filled by the Legislature,
as the decision of a co-ordinate branch
of the government, which we intend to
uphold. "?
We therefore earnestly request you to
bold on to your office, aud maintain your
right to the whole term of four years
from the day of your election, and pledge
ourselves to sustain your claim in every
way we can devise and you may require
of us. '
We further take occasion to say that
we are fully determined not to recognize
W. J. Whipper as Circuit Judge in this
County, and will resist any attempt on
his part to enforce his right to the office.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
From our Special Correspondent.
Washington, April 24,1876.
The events of the past two months are
fraught with interest. Frauds, high?
handed and in high places, have been
unearthed; and, as our Sunday Capital
says, when a public man puts on his coat
in the morning he is not certain but that
he will take it off in jail' at night. His?
tory reproduces itself; and our country
is rapidly tending to the condition of
ancient Rome in its latter days, when,
after the subjugation of Carthage, Sena?
tors and people in all conditions aban?
doned themselves to luxury and vice.
The first Scipio laid the foundation for
the future grandeur of Rome; the last,
by his conquests, opened the door to all
manner of luxury and dissoluteness.
Washington laid the foundation for a
great and glorious republic; Grant,
(called the second Washington,) by his
corrupt administration and expensive
style of living, has had an influence
upon officials and their families most
pernicious. "The morals of the palace
are the morals of the people."
The humane are interested in the in?
vestigation (which has awakened so
much sympathy) of the United States
Asylum, located here, for which vast
sums have been appropriated by Con?
gress to make it one of the finest in the
country. It is handsome to look upon.
The buildings are large and solid, and
the grounds beautifully laid out and
greatly admired; but there the beauty
ends, for the soul sickens to read the
testimony where patients have been
kicked to death, stripped and placed in
cold rooms during winter, knocked down
by attendants, the food scant and un?
wholesome, and convalescent soldiers
made to work ten hours a day for the
Superintendent, sometimes in water
nearly up to their knees. All of these
abuses have been brought to light, and it
is to be hoped punishment will fall where
it is due. It is most unaccountable that
the treatment of the insane whenever j
investigated is found to be brutal. I
heard a person say, "Take a humane
man and place him in such a position,
and he would become so inured to woe
and misery as to become callous and
hard-hearted." Such being the case, it
would benefit humanity to know the
length of time necessary for the transi?
tion, so as to have them removed before
culmination. Too long tenure of office
is conducive to tyrany and all of the
evils in its train. Third terms even are
objectionable.
Friday, April 14th, the colored people
of this city celebrated the anniversary of
their freedom by raising a statue to Lin?
coln. Only eleven years have passed
since his death, and the colored people
have raised a monument to him. The
day after his death a colored washer?
woman out West sent five dollars towards
the statue, which sum has swelled to an
amount sufficient to cover the expense.
What have the American people done
for Washington, who did so much to
make us a free people ? The Continental
Congress on the 7th of August, 1783,
unanimously resolved to erect an eques?
trian statue of General Washington at
fhe place where the seat of Government
should be established; on the 24th of
December, 1799, the National Congress
passed a resolution that a marble monu- J
mcnt be erected in the city Washington j
to the "Father of his Country," which
resolution remains unexecuted to this
day; on the 8th of May, 1800, the House
of Represntatimes resolved that a mauso?
leum be erected to Washington in this
city; on January 1, 1801, the House
passed a bill appropriating $200,000 for
the erection of such mausoleum; on
July 4, 1848, the corner-stone of the pres?
ent monument was laid in the presence
of the President of the United States
and of the chief officers of all the three
departments. It has reached a height of
less than two hundred feet, is unfinished
and now stands a monumental proof
that appreciation is more a sentiment
than a fact. It may now be said that
Washington was first in war, first in
peace and last in the hearts of his coun?
trymen.
HAMILTON.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, April 29, 1876.
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC CON?
VENTION.
More interest has been manifested here,
in political circles of both parties, in the
proceedings of the New York State Dem?
ocratic Convention than in that of any
other State. It being admitted that the
Democratic party cannot elect a Presi?
dent without the vote of New York, the
harmonious action of the party in that
State became of the utmost importance.
For some time past, it had been myste?
riously whispered about that an irrecon?
cilable difference existed in the party
there, and it was therefore a surprise to
many when the report came that the
convention had been absolutely unanimous
in its action. The speech of Horatio
Seymour before the convention is pro?
nounced by leading Democrats here to be
the grandest statement of the position
and duty of the Democratic party iu this
campaign that has yet been made. The
noble sentiments uttered by Gov. Sey?
mour should be learned by heart by
every Democrat in the land. Such a
declaration of principles has not been
heard at a political convention for many
years; and the Democratic party may
well look forward to a glorious future
when its most honored leaders are ani?
mated by such lofty aspirations. Such
utterances have a double significance,
coming, as they do, from the lips of the
man whom the Democratic party last
honored as its candidate for the Presi?
dency. What follower or supporter of
Grant's Administration has ever spoken
words like these: *
I say once more to the Democratic party
and to our Republican friends, we propose
to enter into this contest, not for the pur?
pose of showing which party is tbe most
ignoble, not merely for the purpose of bring?
ing discredit upon them, not with the view
of gaining a victory because they have gone
wrong?I scorn such a victory on the part of
the Democratic party?but we intend to win
this ?victory because we mean to show that
we are more fit to hold power. We have the
better claims, not because they are so bad,
but because we have the positive virtues to
enable us to carry on this Government; and
until we do show that, I, for one, pray to
I God that we may never come into power.
[ It is because I bereve that now we have this
revival of public morality, and this refresh?
ing of the purer sentiments of the people,
and an enlarged intelligence with regard to
the evils of bad government, that I stand
before you, at this moment, buoyed up with
the conviction that, for many years to come,
we are to have a better government, a better
people, a better condition of things, and a
more active and earnest patriotism; and
that is to be brought about because we have
returned to the principles and to the wisdom
of our fathers, and to the great principles
which the Democratic party has ever upheld.
It is in this view I do congratulate you most
earnestly upon the success which I believe
will attend our efforts.
The unanimous declaration of the con?
vention in favor of Tilden for President
is considered here as certain to have a
decisive effect in his favor in several
States hitherto unpledged. It is certain?
ly an indication of the spirit which ani?
mates'the Democratic party, that not one
ungenerous word has been spoken in this
connection by the friends of any other
Democratic candidate. This is in glaring
contrast with the conduct of the Repub?
licans, who are to be heard, on every
side, reviling the best men in their owij
party, in the interest of rivals.
ANOTHER PROSPECTIVE CASE OF OON
TUMACY.
Congressional Printer Clapp has ad?
dressed an impertinent letter to the
House Committee on Printing, which has
recently been engaged iu investigating
him, intimating that, hereafter, he may
deem it proper to decline to recognize
their authority. He thus attempts to
escape investigation, because he claims
to be not an officer of Congress, but of
the Senate only. Nominally, he un?
doubtedly is an officer of that body, but
virtually he is an employee of Congress,
as he prints all documents ordered by
either House, and as his concern is sup?
ported by appropriations made by both
Houses. The trouble wit.. Jlapp is that
the House Committee has discovered
irregularities in his accounts involving
several thousand dollars, and nnturally
insists that he be brought to hook as a
derelict public officer, and be made to
give an account of his stewardship. In
seeking to shield himself from further
investigation, the Congressional Printer
virtually says: "You have no jurisdic?
tion in ray case. If I have misappro?
priated public funds, and a Republican
Senate does not see fit to investigate me,
you have no right to do it." This will
raise a nice point between the two
Houses; and it will be determined
whether a creature of Congress is amen?
able only to one branch of that body.
Clapp's main backer is the Republican
Presidential aspirant, the grandiloquent
Senator Conkling, of New York; but
whether he will suppert his protege in his
ridiculous assumption remains to be seen.
THE CASE OF THE PEOPLE VERSUS W. W.
BELKNAP.
It looks now as if, notwithstanding the
dilatory motions of Belknap's counsel,
the trial of the "respondent" will pro?
ceed. The Senate has no time to lose.
The appropriation bills are all behind
hand, as well as much important business
of a legislative character, and it is essen?
tial that the Belknap matter shall be dis?
posed of as soon as possible, if Congress
would adjourn before August. A wide
latitude is allowed the counsel for Bel?
knap, and at least one of them, Matt.
Carpenter, is inclined to make the most
of his opportunity of again addressing
the Senate. Said he, when pleading for
delay on the 28th instant, "We must all
use certain agencies in accomplishing
certain things. God Almighty, Himself,
uses certain instrumentalities to accom- j
plish his work, and you can hardly
expect Belknap to do more." This little j
bit of sacrilege not only passed unre
bukcd; but, judging from the titter
which ran through the galleries, was re?
garded as something akin to a joke.
"odd fish" in washington.
A Congressional session is always sure
to attract to Washington a small army
of green people from almost every State
and Territory. Most of these people are
here to prosecute claims before Congress.
Many of these claims are founded in
equity; but a very large proportion of
them are of such a character' as not to
deserve a moment's serious consideration.
The claimants come here, in every in?
stance, with high hopes; but, after a few
months' experience, they despair of
favorable action, and either beg or borrow
the money to return home, or remain
here to gravitate, daily, nearer and
nearer the workhouse. I was reminded
of this to-day, by seeing an excessively
seedy North Carolinian who came here
on foot, soon after Congress assembled,
to urge that body to1 pay him the insig?
nificant sum of $25 for jury duty per?
formed about a year ago. He is a comi?
cal looking genius, and, although quite
dignified in mien, wears a battered
"stove-pipe" hat innocent of a particle of
nap, and dresses in the shabbiest manner.
He is accompanied by his son, a boy of
twelve or thirteen, and both may be
seen, any day, on Pennsylvania avenue
or in the Capitol Park, lunching on a
loaf of bread which "the claimant" car?
ries under his arm. He speaks confi?
dently of tUe passage of a bill for his re?
lief, and says that when he gets the $25
due him from Uncle Sam, he intends to
publish a volume of poems, the fruitage
of his leisure hours in Washington.
A. F. B.
A REMARKABLE PARDON.
The following is the application for
the pardon of John Lilley, and the con?
dition upon which it was granted, togeth?
er with Gov. Chamberlain's letter to
Judge Northrop in relation thereto:
Chester, S. GL, April 17,1876.
To His Excellency D. H. Chamberlain,
Governor of South Carolina:
Sir?We, the undersigned, acting
herein in behalf of what we conceive
to be the due administration of the law
and in furtherance of the ends of public
justice, beg leave respectfully to apply to
your Excellency for the pardon of Johu
Lilley, who was convicted of grand lar?
ceny at the January term, 1876, of the
Court of Sessions for the County of Ches?
ter, and sentenced for the term of nine
years to the State Penitentiary, and we
solicit the pardon in this instance solely
upon the following grounds, to wit:
1st. Benjamin G. Yocum, Treasurer of
the County of Chester, is now under
indictment in the Court of Sessions for
said county on the charge (among others)
of breach of trust and larceny for having
fraudulently, as county treasurer, appro?
priated to his own use a large sum of the
moneys ef said county which had come
into his hands as treasurer to be applied
and paid out by him, as provided by law,
for the payment of all school claims due
prior to November 1, 1873, and that the
said John Lilley is a very material wit?
ness for the State to prove the facts as
alleged.
2di the State expects to prove by said
John Lilley?
(a) That on about the 16th day of
May, 1875, the said B. G. Yocum fraudu?
lently abstracted from the office of the
county treasurer of said county one or
more packages of what is known as
teachers' pay certificates, for the years
1871,1872 and 1873, which said certifi?
cates had already been paid, as he well
knew, by his predecessor in office, a large
portion of which had not been cancelled ;
that be, the said B. G. Yocum, delivered
the said package or packages to said
John Lilley, with instructions to select
therefrom all certificates which were un
cancelled ; that said Lilley did, in fact,
make such selection and informed said
Yocum of the result, delivering back to
Yocum said certificates as were cancelled,
and at the request of Yocum retaining
such as were uncancelled.
(b) That the arrangement between the
said Lilley and Yocum was, that Yocum,
as treasurer as aforesaid, was to pay said
uncancelled certificates out of the school
fund of said county when the same should
thereafter be received by him; and the
amount paid on said uncancelled certifi?
cates to be divided between said Yocum
and said Lilley.
(c) That on Monday, the 17th of May,
1875, said B. G. Yocum went to Colum?
bia and received from the treasurer of
said State $2,813 70, which, with the
sum of $1,887 poll tax collected by him
in said county, making in all $4,700 70,
to be applied by him as treasurer to the
payment of school claims due as afore?
said ; that on Friday night, the 21st of
May, 1875, said Yocum returned from
Columbia, and on Sunday, the 23d of
May, of the same year, had an interview
with said Lilley at his (Yocum's) resi?
dence, in Chester, and he (Yocum)
cashed and paid in full to himself and
said Lilley about $700 of the certificates
so fraudulently abstracted from his own
office by the said Yocum, he (Yocum)
receiving one-half thereof; and, further,
that said Yocum, at the same time, also
paid to said Lilleysoine $600 or $700 for
valid certificates which said Lilley had
purchased for said Yocum, county treasu?
rer aforesaid, at the instance and request
of said Yocum.
3d. That said Lilley will be corrobo?
rated in the following manner, in several
material points, to wit:
(a) By James J. Kinard, who assorted
at least one of the packages of certificates
given by Yocum to Lilley, and wrote
pretended assignments across several of
them to said John Lilley.
(b) By David Hcmphill, Yocum's pre?
decessor in office as county treasurer, who
will prove that he turned over said cer?
tificates, so abstracted, to said Yocum,
and that said certificates had already
been paid by him, the said David Hemp
hill.
(c) By several of the teachers of the
public schools of said county, that cer?
tificates paid by Yocum out of the fund
so received by him had been previously
paid by said David HemphilL
(d) By Yocum's account with the Na?
tional Bank of Chester, which will show
that on May 24tb, 1875, before Yocum
had paid certificates to any other person
than said Lilley, he, the said Yocum,
had overdrawn his account with said
bank, at least $1,300; that on May 24th,
that he (Yocum) deposited $2,000 in said
bank, and on May 24th and 25th paid
out on account of pay certificates, by
checks on said bank, $1,799 70, which is
the entire amount shown by bank
account to have been paid out by him?
including a check to the said John Lilley
for $159 50, his (Yocum's) books as
treasurer at the same time showing that
on the 24th and 25th of May, 1875, he
claims credit for about $4,200 paid out
for pay certificates.
In addition, we would state that there
arc several other minor facts and circum?
stances, unimportant in themselves, but
which taken in connection with the fore?
going facts tend to corroborate Lillcy's
testimony.
We would also suggest that the pardon
herein asked for, if granted, be forwarded
to us to be delivered to said John Lilley
upon the express condition that he testify
in this case in good faith. Very respect?
fully, your obedient servants,
A. M. Mackey,
Solicitor Sixth Circuit.
Charles S. Brice,
Of Counsel for the State.
The condition of the pardon was as
follows: "This pardon to have and take
effect only upon the condition that the
judge presiding in the case of the State
vs. Benjamin G. Yocum, at Chester
Court House, shall certify to the Gov?
ernor of the State, over his official hand
and seal, that the said John Lilley has
testified in said case, in the judgment of
said presiding judge, freely and in good
faith touching all matters as to which he
may be lawfully inquired of in said case."
governor chamberlain to judge
northrop.
State of South Carolina, )
Executive Chamber, \
Columbia, April 19,1876. )
Hon. L. C. Northrop, Judge Circuit Court :
Bear Sir?An application has been
made to me by the solicitor of the sixth cir?
cuit for the pardon of John Lilley, now
confined in the State Penitentiary under
sentence for grand larceny, in order to
make available his testimony in the case
of the State vs. B. G. Yocum, which you
are about to proceed to Chester to try
upon the order of the chief justice. This
application is also made by Charles S.
Bnce, Esq., .who is associated with the
solicitor in the prosecution of said cose.
The question thus presented to me has
occasioned me much embarrassment.?
The parties to the controversy, out of
which the present case has grown, are
liable to bias and prejudice. And I am
above all things anxious to do everything
for justice, nothing for revenge. If Lil
ley's testimony is essential for the ends
of justice in a case of great public impor?
tance, I must not prevent it from coming
forth. On the other hand I must not
aid in any effect to purchase or manufac?
ture evidence against any one.
The official statement made to me by
the solicitor and Mr. Brice is entitled to
great weight, and after mature considera?
tion and consultation I conclude that it
is my duty to grant the pardon on certain
conditions, namely: First. I shall insert
in the pardon the condition that Lilley
shall submit himself to full examination
before the court on the trial, and that the
pardon shall take effect only on your cer?
tificate that he has given evidence, in
your judgment, fully and in good faith.
Second. I shall place the pardon in your
hands, to be offered or not to Lilley, as
you in your judgment shall deem most
conducive to the ends of justice.
I know that you will appreciate this
responsibility and will act discreetly.
You have power to use or withhold the
pardon, as your judgment and official
duty shall dictate.
Very respectfully, your obedient ser?
vant,
D. H. Chamberlain,
Governor of South Carolina.
TELEGRAMS FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, April 25.
Ex-Attorney-General Akerman to-day
asked the Committee on Expenditures in
the Department of Justice to consider
whether they would demand of him an
j answer to the question propounded yes?
terday, whether he conferred with the
President before paying certain mon?
eys to John I. Davenport. The full
committee not being present, recess was
taken until two o'clock.
On reassembling the committee decided
to require an answer. Mr. Akerman put
in a protest on the ground that it was
both illegal aud prohibited by the stat?
utes that such communications with the
Executive should be made public. He
then testified to conversations similar to
those narrated by ex-Attorney-General
Williams with the President.
Mr. Akerman stated that some time in
1871, while the President was at Long
Branch, and he (Akerman) was in Wash?
ington, he received a letter written by
General Porter, in accordance with the
direction of the President, stating that a
Mr. Davenport was engaged in searching
out frauds against naturalization and reg?
istration in New York, and suggesting to
him (Akerman) that he could use a por?
tion of the money given to him by Con?
gress to suppress election frauds in this
New York case. The witness was at that
time engaged in the investigation of Ku
Klux affairs in the South and he replied
to the President's suggestion that he had
already appropriated his money in that
direction. He was told in a subsequent
communication from the President that
the funds could be used with as great
advantage in New York City as in the
South. After a full explanation, he
authorized the payment to Davenport.
These conversations with the President
extended through the fall of 1870 and the
spring of 1871. The frauds in the elec?
tion were matters of frequent consulta?
tion, and the witness recommended the
employment of special counsel, and
among others who were employed iu the
New York cases was Caleb Cushing. He
could not state any specific case iu which
frauds were committed, but he knew they
were general. Mr. Cushing was paid for
his services out of what was called thejudi
ciary fund. The witness never thought
the President was influenced in his action
by any partisan motive. He wanted to
prevent frauds and he did not care what
party they affected. He could not recollect
that any portion of the money was used
to detect frauds in Philadelphia. The
latter was a Republican city, and New
York was Democratic, but that did not
influence the President in his action.
The frauds in New York seemed to be
systematic, that was the field of Daven?
port's operations, and the President was
of opinion that if his system could be of
advantage there, it would be elsewhere.
The President never for a moment
thought he was acting in a partisan man?
ner.
Washington, April 26.
All the committees on expenditures in
the various departments of the Govern?
ment are practically at a stand still now,
because the President has issued a
peremptory order that no original papers
shall be suffereb?b go outside the various
departments to which they belong. The
rules of the House of Representatives re?
quire these committees to examine into
the state of the accounts and expendi?
tures submitted to them, and to inquire
and report particularly whether the
claims from time to time satisfied and
discharged by the respective departments
are supported by sufficient vouchers es?
tablishing their justness both as to their
character and amount; whether such
claims have been discharged out of funds
appropriated therefor, and whether all
moneys have been disbursed in conformi?
ty with appropriation laws. Of course it
is utterly impossible for the various
committees on expenditures to do any or
all of these things, which tbe rules of the
House require them to do if the vouchers
are withheld from them. In some in?
stances copies of the vouchers might suf?
fice, but in originals to be inspected and
examined carefully to see whether any
changes or alterations in them have been
made.
The President evidently means to
throw every obstacle in the way of the
investigations ordered by the House, and
this order in regard to original papers is
only a part of the general policy which
the leaders of the Republican party have
determined on. They see plainly that
unless something is done to put a stop to
the exposures which come thick and fast
under the probing process of the Demo?
cratic House there will be nothing left of
of their party. Hence a united and de?
termined effort is to be made to so ob?
struct the investigations as to confine
them to as small a sphere as possible.
Washington, April 27.
After all the flourish of trumpets which
little Johnny Davenport and his friends
have made over his rcadincs and ability
to account for every cent of money given
him by order of the President, and to
produce vouchers therefor, he utterly
failed to-dav to account for more than
$3,399.82, leaving a balance of $1,600 of
the first $5,000 received in 1871 to be ac?
counted for. He claimed that he had at
one time the vouchers for this balance,
but they had been lost or mislaid. He
admitted that as the money was turned
over to him by Col. Whitley he deposited
it in bank to his own credit, along with
his own private account, and he kept no
separate account of its disbursement.
He next attempted to account for the
expenditure of the first $15,000 received
prior to Sept. 27, 1872, but the utmost he
could do was to show that he paid out
$4,273.45. There was nothing to show
that the same things for which this
money was paid were not also charged
for in his regular accounts rendered to
the Treasury Department, but^his simple
statement that they were not. He had to
admit also that all of these expenditures
were unauthorized by any law, and that
he had without any warrant of law con?
tracted debts which he afterward per?
suaded the President to order public
money to be given him in order that he
might liquidate them.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
? Ro9coe Conkling and Horatio Sey?
mour are brothers-in-law.
? The Democratic majority in Texas
was something over 102,000. .
? St. Augustine, Florida, claims to
have had 1,500 more visitors this year
than last.
? The Centennial Exhibition will be
formally opened on next Wednesday,
10th inst.
? An effort is to be made to establish
an Associate. Reformed Presbyterian
church near Walhalla.
? The first locomotive in China has
made a trial trip of one mile on the
tramway near Shanghai.
? Po3tmaster-General Jewell will fig?
ure as Connecticut's "favorite son" in
the Cincinnati Convention.
? Nearly all the delegates from Louis?
iana to the Democratic Convention at
St. Louis are said to be for Hancock.
? Over 20,000 quarts of strawberries
were shipped from Charleston on Satur?
day last for New York and Philadelnhia.
? The business men of Toledo, Ohio,
are considering the feasibility of aban?
doning the credit system and doing all
business upon a strictly cash basis.
? The health of Representative La
mar was not benefitted so much by his
trip to Mississippi as was supposed.?
He is still constantly threatened with
paralysis.
? The Georgia Delegates to the Dem?
ocratic National Convention are reported
as more favorable to Tilden than to any
of the candidates named for the St. Louis
nomination.
? Speaker Kerr has obtained leave
of absence from his duties for ten days,
on account of personal illness. Sunset
Cox was designated by him to preside as
Speaker pro km. during his absence.
? The delinquent tax-list iu New Or?
leans fills sixty columns in the Republi?
can, each column averaging over two
hundred and fifty names. And yet men
speak of the best government the world
ever saw.
? Secretary Taft is said to be cutting
down the estimates for the War Depart?
ment some $5,000,000 below Belknap's
figures. For this reduction the country
may thank the Democratic House of
Representatives.
?Hon. A. M. Waddell, a Democratic
member of Congress, who has been se?
verely attacked in the columns of the
Wilmington (N. C.) Post, a Republican
newspaper, caned the editor of that pa?
per on Monday last.
? A distinguished politician of Ohio,
who has been for some time in Washing?
ton, writes that his impression now is that
the Republicans will be forced to nomi?
nate Bristow, and the Democrats be pre?
vailed upon to nominate Judge Davis.
? The Richland Cottage, one of the
finest residences in Aiken, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday night. The building
was occupied as a private boarding house,
and the loss is estimated at ten thousand
dollars, besides the loss sustained by the
boarders in jewelry and other effects.
? Richard H. Dana, Jr.. will be a
delegate from Massachusetts to the Cin?
cinnati Convention. Senators Morton
and Conkling refused to confirm him as
minister to Lng.'and. He will get even
by refusing to confirm their claims to a
nomination to the White House.
? A discharged policeman undertook
to kill the chief of police, Capt. H. W.
Hendricks, in Charleston on Saturday
afternoon. He made a raid upon Hen?
dricks at his house, and a lively fusilade
was kept up for some time. He was
finally captured, after a large number of
shots were fired, and committed to jail.
? The Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad Company are filling
up all the small trestles on their road.?
They are also replacing the rails,
which are at present fastened down on
the ties with spikes, by others that are
riveted together by a new process, which
prevents the jumping and jarring of the
cars.
? It is said there is a decrepaucy of
several millions between the accounts of
sales of property captured and abandoned
in the South, and returns of money from
such sources to the Treasury. The fact
is the whole Radical machine is rotten,
and you have only to touch any point of
the body to puncture an ulcer.
? The only change of importance
made in the postal law is that which
takes transient newspapers and maga?
zines out of the third-class, and permits
them to be sent any distance at the rate
of one cent for every three ounces or
fractional part thereof, and one per cent,
for each additional two ounces, or frac?
tional part thereof.
? The emigration of negroes from
Middle Tennessee is beginning to attract
attention. An emigration board; appoin?
ted by the colored men's convention, held
in Nashville last year, is actively at work
organizing. Three hundred left Nash?
ville last week for western Arkansas, and
two thousand are expected to depart du?
ring the next thirty days.
? Mrs. David Dudley Field died on
the 19th inst. at Baltimore. She was a
Miss Polk, of Maryland, and at the age
of fourteen married Dr. Samuel J. Carr,
of Sonth Carolina, a blood relation of
Andrew Jackson. In early life she was
a great beauty and a reigning star iu
Washington. After becoming a widow,
she married David Dudley Field, the
great lawyer of New York, where she has
since resided.
? The Wilmington, Columbia auc(
Augusta Railroad shops are to be removed
from Wilmington N. C, to Florence. S.
C, The work commenced on Monday
This enterprise will add two or three
hundred inhabitants to this growing
town, and will otherwise greatly assist in
the material development and prosperity
of that imporatnt railroad centre.
? A correspondent of the Beaufort
Tribune has interviewed General Robert
Smalls, M. C, and finds that he regards
Whipper as decidedly the ablest man in
the State, and believes that Elliott's op?
position to the forthcoming judge is at;
tributable to envy and the fear of so for?
midable a rival as Whipper must inevi
tably be. His admiration for and confi?
dence in Ex-Governor Moses is unabated,
and he regards him as nearer and dearer
to the republican heart to-day than any
man in tiie party, and would give him
his unreserved support for election. He
is opposed to the re-nomination of Gov?
ernor Chamberlain.
? The Supreme Council of the An?
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free?
masonry for the Southern jurisdiction of
the United States will hold its regular
biennial session at the city of Washing?
ton on the 29th of May, and at the same
time it will celebrate the 75th anniversa?
ry of its formation. This is the highest
organization in Masonry, and is composed
exclusively of those on whom the thirty
third degree has been conferred. The
delegates from South Carolina are Gen.
W. G. DeSaussure and Hon. Henry
Bnist. The deliberations will bo presi?
ded over by Gen. Albert Pike.
A Strange Mixture of Babies.?
Yesterday morning two women in tbe
west part of the town gave birth to chil?
dren in the same room and at the same
time. The woman who cared for the
little strangers, bathed and clothed them
and started to present them to their wait?
ing mammas. Then she made the start?
ling discovery that she had inextricably
mixed the infants so that she was unable
to decide which was the mother of either.
The two mothers cast lots for choice,
agreeing that if the children should when
grown, develop family traits sufficiently
to identify them, tbey should be ex?
changed if the selection should prove to
be incorrect.?Des Maines (loioa) Regis'
ter.
MARKETS.
Anderson, May 3,1876.
Cotton market dull, and unchanged. Mid?
dlings, 11 to Hi cents.
Charleston, May 1,1876.
Cotton dull and nominal. Middling 12J.
New York, May L
Cotton dull and nominal. Middling up?
lands 128.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ANDERSON.
IN SESSIONS AND COMMON PLEAS.
BY order of t?e Hon. T. H. Cooke, Judge
of the 8th Judicial Circuit, there will
be no Court held for this County at May
Term, 1876. Jurors, Witnesses and parties
to suits pending, need not' attend until Oc?
tober Term, unless notified.
By order.
JOHN W. DANIELS,
C. C. P. & G. &.
Clerk's Office, )
May 2,1876.} 42?1
SHERIFF'S SALE.
BY JAS. H. McCONNELL, Auctioneer.
BY virtue of an Execution to me directed,
I will expose to sale on the First
Monday in June next, at Anderson C. H.,
ONE HOUSE and LOT, near Earle's Bridge,
containing one acre1, bounded by lands of
Henry White and land of the Defendant,
levied on as the property of Jasper Brown
at tie suit of M. F. Fowler vs. Jasper
Brown. Terms cash?purchaser to pay ex?
tra for all necessary papers.
WM. McGUKIN, Sheriff.
May 4,1876_45_5
SHERIFF'S SALES.
BY J. H. McCONNELL, Auctioneer.
BY virtue of Executions to me direc?
ted, I will expose to sale on the First
Monday in June next, at Anderson Court
House,
One Tract of Land, situate in Anderson
County, near Craytonville, containing 96
acres, more or less, bounding lands of Geo.
W. McDavid, Geo. W. Wilson and others.
Levied on as the property of Stephen Fields
at the suit R. N. Wright vs. Stephen Fields.
Terms Cash?purchaser to pay extra for
all necessary papers.
WM. McG?KLN, Sheriff.
May 6. 1876_42 4
NEW GOODS!
CHEAP GOODS I
The Public Generally and the La?
dies Especially are requested
ted to call and examine the
New Goods now arri?
ving at the
Mil OF FASHION.
THESE Goods will be sold very Cheap
for Cash. Though I am not doing a
general credit business this year, I will sell
on time to prorppt paying customers, who
do not think a merchant unreasonable be?
cause he wishes bis money when due in<the
fall. Having secured the services of
MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS,
Who is so well and favorably known for her
polite attention to all customers, I can as?
sure the Ladies'that they will be most cour?
teously ' waited on, if they will give me a
call.
C. A. REED.
Anderson, S. C, May 4, 1876._
1776. 1876.
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CENTENNIAL
TraispiiMi Arawit
OF THE GREAT
ATLANTIC COAST LINE,
FOR THE
Accommodation of Visitors
To all Points South.
?0
THE Railways and Steamship Companies
between Augusta, Ga., and Philadel?
phia, comprising the Atlantic Coast Line,
will during the progress of the
Centennial Ezhibition of the United
States,
Present for the patronage of the citizens of
the South, routes of transportation and
forms of tickets upon which to reach Phila?
delphia, that will immeasurably excel all
other lines in point of
Direct Daily Movement,
Comfortable Accommodation,
Yariabllity of Transit,
Economy of Expenditure.
To enable this to be done, the combined
resources of the Railway Lines South of
Norfolk, together with those of the Balti?
more Steam Packet Company and the Old
Dominion Steamship Company will be em?
ployed; and the individual tourist, the social
party of ten, twenty or more, or the civic
or military organization of one hundred to
three hundred, can each be cared for in a
manner that will satisfy their desires.
Price Lists, Time Cards and all needful
information will be in hands of our Agents
by April 15th.
It will be to the interest of every indi?
vidual and eacli organization proposing to
make this trip to communicate with the
undersigned.
A Centonnial Exhibition Guide Book as
authorized by the Commission will be given
to the purchaser of each Centennial Ticket.
A. POPE,
General Passenger Agent,
Wilmington, BT. C.
May 4, 1870 42 4m