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I are oxoavated by the several chartered comprimas, and to certify and to collect the royalty duo upon the earne. tt'WOi) UlX\ MaBNSES. . :)t dd/ - A I recommend that all .persons engaged in the sale of liquors, and all merchants, factors, lawyers and physicians, be re? quired to take out a State li ce use. A tax should be levied on all premiums re? ceived by iusqrauco companies. All the m?st important railroad com? panies in this State pay no taxes upon their property. I earneetly recommend that a tax ber levied on every railroad company in tho State, for every passen? ger and every ton of freight transported* DELINQUENT TAX SALES. To'enforce the more prompt'payment of the tax?e, and to ohe^k ?be growth of the present en?rrhoua .ar??ar'l?st. I rc-i commend that the. law be so amended that real and personal property, snbjedt to taxation, shall be sold at public sale, by the County Treasurers, within thirty day ? after tho samo shall have become delinquent under the tax levy-the per? sonal property to bo first exhausted, if necessary, to satisfy the tax, before sale, is'made of tho realty-and that bonds' of the State be taken in payment at par for .all. real estate purchased'at delin? quent land sales. I further recommend that the'several County Treasurers shaii be authorized and required to give aba o: lnt? titles, to all real estate and personal property so sold, within sixty daya after the date of auch sale; that the State Bhall warrant and defend such titles, and they I shall be held and taken by all courte in the State as .titles in fee ei m plo; and that, in.ali.legal proceedings, tho said courts shall be concluded by said titles aa to all matters touching any irregularity that may have been had in connection with snob- eales, and whioh may bo alleged against the validity ' of the said titles. Tuf?'provision, as to time of sale and re? demption, not to apply to the property of minors and persons who are non com*1 vos mentis, or confined in public prisons: I would also urge that the provision of law requiring County Auditors to pur? chase lands for the State, at delinquent' land sales, be repealed, and that all au?h lands, heretofore purchased by the State, bo sold without delay, subject' to the Ol&lrns of those who may hold Ar# of snob, lands under the State loase, aa pro? vided by law, should there bo'ahy Buch unexpired leases at the time'of sale.1 ' As an evidence of the heed of addi? tional legislation to enable the State to realize the delinquent taxes, I mention tho fact that tho amounts'U?? on the arrear lists, for the years 1868, 1869 and 1870, aggregate 61,187,483. SALE OF STATE LANDS. . I fnrther recommend that the lands purchased by the Land Commission, and all other lauds owned by tho State, .be sub-divided into suitable areas, and sold " at an early period, at a rate, per acre to be fixed by law, according to classifica? tion, and that bonds of tho State be taken in payment, at par, for all fluch lands. Tho State lands are now estim?t' ed to be worth $1,000,000, a minimum valuation. THE KU KLUX. The existing intervention of the mili? tary power of the Uuited States, for thc suppression of "du tn os tie violence", in the State, demands that I should review the canses that have made the interven? tion neoessary. I perform this duty with a doep sense of humiliation, as ac American citizen, and with profound re gVet as tho Chief Magistrate of Sontl ar ol ina. It had long been the boast o' our political system, founded, os it is, upon the expressed will of the people, that .the peaceful agencies of the lav were alone sufficient for the proteotioi of life and property. When, therefore, it becomes necessary for the civil un thorities to invoke the aid of the mili tary, for the protection of the citizen ii the exercise of lils vestod rights, it is't declaration to tho world that within th? limits of the State crime triumphs ove: law. That snoh is the foot, is justly du? to no act of the present State Govern ment. I lt has assailed no private right and committed no public wrong, and al ways remembering that it was establish ed to advance tho interests of the wholi people, it cannot, with justice, bi charged with ever having wantonly in jured a citizen, either in his person o: estate. The members of tho Constitutions Convention of 16G3, with remarkabli unanimity, exoluded from the new con stitution every proscriptive feature, and by its provisions, no citizen was dis franabised, und every olass of personi and property wti* guaranteed the ca un protection of tho laws. The administra tion eleoted undor that constitution en deavored faithfully to roflect the gone rous spirit of its framers. Impelled lr my own personal sentiments, no leas thai by What I deem a wise, publio policy, saw in the men who had reboiled n gui ns the National Government, only tho oiti zens of my oountry, who, if they bat done much wrong, bod also, as a oonse quenoe, endured muck suffering, and '. sought to. win them back to a bette feeling, that all classes of onr citizen might dwell together as brethren, unde the shelter of a common mansion, am that the united efforts of tho wliol might be directed to lifting the State oj from the universal prostration caused b; the wanton aots of a part. Actuated by tbeso motives, and as testimony that the new administratioi was neither partisan nor vindictive, ii my first mpssago to the General Assom bly, I used the following language on tb subject of political disabilities: "I would earnestly recommend tba your honorable body will, at an earl; period, memorialize Congress to reliev every citizen of South Carolina from al political disabilities. I make this re commendation the moro readily, fran the faot that tbero are believed to b none of that class in this State who hav committed infamous offences against th lows of war. "The Statute of disfranchisement wa doubtless wiso and proper at the earlie stage of rooonstruotion, and jnsti marked tho nation's abhorrence of tbos who, having been the trusted leaders o the people, had led them into rebellioi against the benign government of thei country. Yet the continuance of sue! disfranchisement would be un anomal; underj our llepublican system, baso! upon the doctrino of universal suffrage Lot us hope that suoh an act of magna nimity will not be mistakon by the olas disfranchised, while to deny it will ton to make them objeots of sympathy, an will be, as it were, to keep a knife stioh ing in an open wound." I would add, that I have neitbe abandoned tho hope or tba sentimen that impelled that recommendation, s far as tho industrial olass of tho white ure concerned) Although they contri ?juted largely to tho wealth and strengt of tho State, yet, in former timos, tho ? . .??ai-ai- i were not permitted to tuke any ir ?rt in the administration of its affair*. Tbgre id no natural antagonism beaven thjm abd oar present Bysiem of ?fco govern ment, whioh, io its puternot?uro for ie welfare of its citizens, bas t/oV the Ut Ht time in the history oft Quoth .Carolin enacted a homestead law, whioh guards the threshold of the poor man's dwell? ing, so that remorseless creditors may not enter and sell the roof that shelters his wife and children, or seize the pro? ducts of i the.law aeres that supply his tabla with food. Whatever feeling of hostility -roy -.ofr.tuestr-nrajruntortsin-j against the government of their country, is thp result, in ft groat measuro, of the wilful misrepresentations of their former privileged rolers, to - advance their oWn political ends. . J 7 The General Assembly .promptly se? conded thia effort io. restore universal good will among oar people, by devising aa equitablo system of taxation, and by the enactmente! rlamtfra the develop? ment of all the industrial interests of the I 'State. .. [fl -- . ' &-<3 '? -'..? AS au evidence of the bonefioent policy <| of tho new 8 tato Go vorn m ont, I cito tile'j faota that most of. Ihq Circuit Judges oleoted by the General Assembly were known not to be in political accord with the mhjbrity bf its members, and none ai thom were political partisans... More1 than bali of all the officers appointed by tho Executive, were of the opposition, and tho old Magistrates, who had held their pl?o?s for years, Were generally re? appointed. That this liberal oourse on tho part of the new administration was dot due to, a paucity pf material in its 1 9wa party, l? ?h?wn hy tho fabt that this j policy was pursued even in Oh arl eaton, where there weremutnerooa Republicans capable and willing td fi Hall '? tho offices in that vioiptty. AU tho old Magistrates in that oity were re-appointed, and the pest, position in the County of Charles? ton, the County 'Treasurership^was be? stowed by mo upon a citizen known to be. po?itieaUy boatile to. the S tuto admi? nistration. ... .. ? /. ' - I recur to those foots to show that the armed violence which hus prevailed in tho t? tate, aud has auecoasfully bid de? fiance to tho oivil authoritiea, oanuotfiod a vindication in the plod, which' so justly O?mmends itself to tho American mind, that it waa ino r??u?t o? s reaction against oppression-an appeal to foroo to remedy wrongs .for which thora was po other remedj*,"' IndoBd1l'th?B Bystom nf organized murder began in 1305, im? mediately after the cessation of hostili? ties in -, the open field, .inaugurating a condition of affairs that has continued with varying intensity^np to the period bf its recent culmination, and whioh dif? fered iu its destructiveness from. actual war, only" in, .this.'thai;'rA'? Trilled' and t?d?rfdeti mere all o? one kljie. In eyidenc^ of this, I refer to tho well-known; faot, that my immediate predecessor, one of the most worthy und1 eminent oitizeus of the State, Gov. James .Jj. Orr, was both pnblioly and privately maligned for bis efforts to suppress it and enforce the laws against the criminals. The class of men who assailed him for the faithful and fearless discharge of his duty, are tho same who openly defend the Ku Klux and secretly moved tho springs that put and kept them, in motion. A better, tem? per scorned tb prevail among this class ic the. early part of 18(58. Thia, however, waa rapidly changed under the -written teachings and publie speeches of the opposition j>ress and leaders. By the notorious liroudhend letter of Genera] Frank P. Blair, and kindred utterances, announcing the speedy advent of n Na tiona! Administration that would ''tram plo under r> foot" : the whole system ol reconstruction, the dormant disloyalty ni the opposition leaders in this State was galvanized into aotion, ns is a palsied limb of the haman body by the thrill ol the electric spark. These leaders at once evinced a recalcitrant spirit. They os sumed the air and speech of a defiuni conqueror, and where they did not vin diotively assail the prinoiplas of the National- Government, of whose rar< magnanimity they were living proofs, ihey would deolare, as the farthest limi of their loyalty, that they "accept tb? situation"-an expression whioh has nov become stereotyped, and which, on th? lips of such mon, conveys both a false hood sud au insult, in tho sense in whici they use it, os it implies a reserved righi to refuse obedienoe to the laws of theil ' j country, whoso authority they ceased t( assail only when they wore deprived o the power to resist it. They mistook th? magnanimity of the Government foi weakness, and presuming upon its for . bearanoe, boro themselves as if they hat ? j been tho victors in the late struggle These old party leaders soon fanned int< flames the expiring passions of their fol lowers iu the rebellion, donbtless fearing that tho new political system might, i unchecked, induce the white masses t( break the thraldom that ' bad so looj bound thom under the anoient miers o: the State. They denounce J tho Stab Government, elected by a majority o 43,000 of the voters of tho people, as "1 tyrannical usurpation," and "a negri oligarchy," designed to or nab out whit? men; and they stigmatized its loyal sup porters as "thieves and robbers," ant passed a general sentence of outlawry upon every Republican, without regare to character. The seed thus scatterer! broadcast from the rostrum, the pulpit and the press, soun produced a terribli harvest. That Republicans were tlx victims of frequent mn rd ora, bjth opoz and secret, could not be accounted foi on any known theory of more coinci (lencos. It soon became ovidont thal there was "method" in this "madness,* and that a large mass of the whites obeying tho "bloody instructions" o their political leaders, were engaged in 1 concerted effort to suppress Republican ism in the State, by murdering liepubli cans, white and colored, solely bc canst of their political opinions. I endeavorer to check this system of violence aud ter rorism by an euergetio use of the Stat? Constabulary aud other oivil agencies a my disposal. In this, I measurably sue ceeded for a time, although the allogec criminals wore invariably bailed, or es caped punishment through jurors it accord with them in political sentiment Just previous to the general Stat? eleotion of October last, thero was 1 comparativo lull in these outrages. Thi opposition party, in that eleotion, wa again defeated by an immense majority That defeat aroused tho fiercest hate ii the breasts of their loading mon agains every loyal man in tho State, aud through their efforts, tho most perice oohesion was given to tho disloyal ole mentn in tho nppcr Counties, whor thero was au approach to a num?rica equality between the two parties. Ii November following the eleotion, a pro minent citizen of the State, au nctivi and recognized leader of the opposilioi perl/, used tho following language, ii an address delivered in this oity to th? I Confederate Survivors' Association: "Do ft tittil on tho battle-field, de? frauded nj, tho ballot-box, wo havo but. 000 jjwoedf I {theidaggar, tl$U wa4 matfe illusion 3riil tflo hinda Of Bjmtut?moJfct, in ' tho, daylight/ an? in tfi? dark, ont-'its 1 w$y to tho Ifeaf ts of the mit?reunts who ' now uaisriijo. oqr nativo ?tateA | That this language waa used on 'that occasion by the person referred to, I have the testimony of gentlemen of tho high? est respectability, Who board it. - Scarce? ly less incendiary was the tone of the opposition newspapers throughout-the State, as the following extracts from' ?their- editorials of that period clearly demonstrate. ? and- fasten-, upon thoo* much of th? responsibility for tho bale ; ful consequences that endued : "Remember that wo are the white people, and. that they are the negro; that they have chosen their ground, and arrayed themselves against nc with a determination and hate which are un? mistakable, and that our polioy is to let them alone and take caro of ourselves. But we' must have organization, not politically, be it remembered, and the 'views below are worth " consideration. Let as have a thorough understanding and a union of tho whole white people of this State, not forgetting, eithor, the worthy exceptions among ' the negroes who have iden ti lied themselves with us, or any others who may see fit to cast i.their linea in with UB." [Newberry Herald, Nov. 3, 1870. "The time for temporizing, argument and conciliation, is passed; we shall have no more' of it. A straight and severe Uno must bo drawn between the races. The colored people have chosen their ground with the advice of tho ringlead? ers, and they must follow it out, without aid or sympathy from their former white friends. Tho white peoplo have th? power and the brains and the determin? ation to hold their own and proteol themselves, nod they will do so. Th< negroes huvo followed their devices ont time too many, and now lot them lool to others for help, assistance and sym pathy." [Darlington Democrat, Nov. 3, 1870. ,"Wo understand, therefore, and ao oept the solid black voto cast against tin nominees of the Reform party, as a de duration of wnr by the negro rac against tho white race, by ignoranc against intelligence, by poverty agaius aotnal or potential wealth. This issu< ve have striven to avoid, but the negros will have nothing else. They will no allow us to work with thom; we must, i necessary, work against them. Gonai! ialion, argument, persuasion-all has been worse than useless. The whit people stand alone. And they muc organizo themselves aud arm fch?ulselvei not as 'a white man's party,' but bcoaus the past ano) present prove that deoenoj purity and political freedom, as we! as tho preservation of society, arc idee ti cal with: tho interests of the whito poe ple-of. tho State." Charleston Daily News, Nov. 7, 1870. I shall not multiply these evideuci from the opposition press, but cann? refrain from uttering a reli?e ti on thi their candid admission forcibly suggest The two parties iu the State durit tho campaign to whioh these extrao i relato, ran their respective candidat apon platforms that wore almost iden! i cal ia terms, and wore alleged by tl I opposition to bo idoutical in prinoipl ; The fact, therefore, that those who olai; to possess all the intelligence, and wi i do possess much of the potential weal i of the Stato, wero so utterly doieate , cannot bo referred to mere party di flo ii onces. Nor eau it bo explained I ? charging such defeat to those who a f offensively termed "carpet-baggers" ai [ "scallawags," for the number of whit i who are active Republicans in this Ste i may almost be counted on the fingers < f a man's hands. The cause Hos deep s than this. It is, doubtless, due to t - "negro's" just perception of ch arno ti t either irituitive or derived from long e - porience and close observation, whi ) enables him to look beneath the me 3 planks of a platform, a*id discrimine , between those who are loyal and thc t who are disloyal to the Government i his country. Hene?, he would unqui 7 tionably vote as he does, oven thou, 3 every white mun in the Republican pai - in this State should go over to the o i position. Ile, doubtless, also peroen b that theso men bear thu samo relation r the National Democratic party, ul whi ) they olaim to bo members, thut the mc f guerrilla or bush-whuoker, plunderi 3 and murdering on the outskirts of r great army, dues to the regular soldi . iu its ranks. 1 These appeals were quiokly respond . to. In ni-ul y Counties of the np-counl ) bands of armed horseuieu, tborcugl - masked, rode at mid-night to the hom I of peaceable RopublioauB and shot tin f dow? in cold blood. Colored men, I ) publicans, charged with offences, ai i imprisoned on probable causo, vu f taken from tho jail aud inhumai i butchered, to evade the effect of a w f of habcus corpus which bad 1'eon isa? \ in their behalf. Hundreds of Reput ) oans, white os well as odored, luw-abi 3 ing citizens, were tied to trees RI . whipped, and their bodies lacerated wi 1 cowhides, On the day succeeding t ? last general election, (October 20, 187* 1 an atnok was made by these men ou 1 member of tho State Constabulary, b Laurens Court House, while tho Cot 3 was in session, which attack was tho ai > nal, evidently, foi tho execution o i preconcerted pinn to murder Kepal; r cans; for tho iuutuutit was ma b), alur . number of the citizens of thu .own, t of them of the opposition, formed li ' of battle and begun tiring, killing sevoi . Republicans upon the spot, withe f provocation, aud hunting down tilt i that lied, aud placing them in positif . and then duliberatoly shouting them - death. They theti wont to tho p< 3 oilico and demanded tho ballot-Inn 1 from tho postmaster, in whose custo - they supposed thom to bo deposited-t 3 Republican tiokot, ns they corree t thought, having been elected. ID tl . affair, thirteen Republicans wero kill 1 and many wounded. Not a mau of t . opposition was injured. lu this a 1 other Counties many wero compelled . abandon their families and giowi 3 orops, and fly for their lives, und otb i were required and forced to indee a pt 3 lio recantation of their Republican pr s ci?les from tho stops of the Com . Court Houses, and in open duylig i In obedience to thu mandates of th t masked murderer?, many of tho lo , officials resigned, although they w t chargeable with no malfeasance iuoQi - In proof that theso deeds of violei [3 sprang from no local grievuuoo, bul w 1 a part of a general politioal plan, I re i to tho fact that they were committed . several Counties-Union, Spartaobu 0 York, Chester, Chesterfield, Laure 1 Fairfield and Newberry-where all 3 judioial and other appointees of tho n ministration were ol' tho opposition. [(tONCLUDRI) IN OUJ1 NKXT..J COLUMBIA, S. C. Thun lay Horning, November 80,1871. Tfcmt HHM|?, Wu continue, to-day, tho publication of thia notorious State paper. When it was rumored that Mr. Thomas Jefferson Mackey was engaged on Governor Scott's message, we remarked that Mr. Maokey's grim humor would lead bim tb write the Governor down'in his true dolors. This has benn done,'and we can picture to our mind the sardonio laugh whioh will, break over Mr.' Maokey's features ns he reads the langnage be has putin Governor Soott's message. It is, indeed, a remarkable piece of composi tioD. We shall not dignify it with an analysis or a formal review. It is its own best refutation. Whatever is good in its recommendations, let it be accept? ed. Whatever.is bed, let it be reject? ed. . Whatever is designed for insult, let it be treated with the ooo tempt, it so richly merits. One thing wo observe: It places the whole responsibility for thc very corrupt and desperate cuuditiou of things upon the State Legislature, the political opponents of his administration and the State press. Especially hard is ho apon the two last elements. They KuKluxed tho Republican for his po? litical opiuionsl They Ku Kluxed the State credit with malice aforethought! One thing is certain: Thanks to Mackey -his "candid friend"-Governor Scott stands self-Ku. Kluxad before the poblic Another point wo notice: Treasure* Parker's statement of the bonded debi ie accepted. "I know, from severe per? sonal scrutiny, that this (Parker's) ex bibit is full and correct. It shows thc present debt of tho State in its entirety, suppressing nothing." Suoh, in effeot tins man said, when he made a fur dif forent showing at the meeting of thc Taxpayers' Couventiou. Such, ii effeot, he also said, when to the Ki Klux Congressional Committee he mad> afar different statement. Wu care no to express tho withering contempt wit! which honest mon, of all parties, wil recall his broken promises, his violate? word, and bis brazen audacity. And h the ruler of the State 1 When Swii drew upon his ?ue imagination, an Bonght to piuco upon reoord a movin s?tiro upon the follies and extravagance of governmental practices and the poi sibilities of human debasement, he cot oeived of a country where fuir wome and high-minded men were tho aubjec and horses held the reins of governmen Ia it possible that Swift was both se? and satirist, and that he had in h mind's eye the present model commoi wealth or commou ruin of South Cur? lina? It would snrely seem so. But will also be admitted that it has bee reserved for these times to present speotaole that exceeds even what ?mag nation conceived and fancy puintei For here in South Curoliua we have Scott-who has no parallel except himself-in power, whilst publio robbe and swindlers hang about his oonrt, at exact tribute money fromnn impoveris ed and plundered community of humi beings. Has the General Assembly go< men enough of both races and bo parties to say to these guilty ones: "( hence; the State luis no further need you?" TUe Colored l'ojiulutiun of South Cai lina. One of our exchanges in the Std suggests that the PHONIX will, it t Heves, faithfully represent tho white pe pie of South Carolina. We hope to i this, but to do moro. We think it vc likely that our views and attitude, as i spects the negro population of this Stn aro very little understood nod lens opp: ciated. Whilst wo do hold, and sh over maintain, tho prerogatives of t white raoa to control the Govern mr and direct the civilization of this coi try and this State, we do not ignoro t negro man, and wo freely say that wo t fully bonnd to acknowledge his rigl and to give him a fuir showing. As c viows are developed on this subject, will, perhaps, be seen that oar pub labors do not exolude tho colored inha lanU of the State from common advt tages, and that this journal is really t advocate of the real interests of classes of the people who seek hon ends by honest methods. Whilst ! stand up squarely and strongly-in s sou and oat of season-for tho outrng white pooplo of South Carolina, and f the fonl wrongs done them siuco tho v ?in every fibre of oar being, yet wo v not upon tho colored people of the Sta Conscious of thu inherent strength the white element, and of its early sup macy, wo shall, in victory nud defe and under all circumstancce, ndvoc for the colored race, placed here by P videnco, just such a policy as Hem I would sanction and good men, tho wo ! over, would approve. When tho hon j whito mon and tho honest black n look enoh other squarely in tim faoo, tl will sepurato, ouch satisfied to work < his own destiny and to leave thu rou to God. -<-??-. Gen. Hampton, in his eulogy ou L , well says that "duty was with him ! sublimest word in our language." It i I Lee's guiding star. This quality-de i tion to duty uod its behests - this it i j that made the Confederate chief j "groatly grout." - It will bo seen that the work of refc in New York is going bravely on. 1 O'Conor and other good men and t aro nt work. We want the samo sor ' work and f hn same kind of mon dc hero. ?.No; tbs Trouble ls Here." These were the words* used by Lee as he put his hands upon bia heart, wheo a friend called to congratulate him on his convalescence, and to express the hope that his health would soon be perfectly restored; upon which General Hampton commenta thus as he brings Lee sud his eulogy to a harmonious ending: "The trouble was indeed there, for the ?or rowe, the afflictions and the wrongs of the people whom" he loved so well, wore snapping one by one bis heart-strings, and he fell at lost, dying aa truly for tba South as if ho had fallen in her cause on the bloodiest field he ever won ip her defence. And thus he passed away from the scene of his labors and his glory, to appear at the bar ol that Great Judge, who alone oan and will decide whether the cause in which be died was right or wrong. But ?bough he is no longer with us, bis example, his fame and bis virtues are still left to us, and be thua is not dead." ?.Ttl? Cmt In the Merni/* We stated some time ago that since the meeting of the last Legislature, $22H,000 had been paid ont of the State Treasury on account of public printing. To a gentleman, Scott admitted that $195,000 had been BO poid out. The larger sum we believe correct. We learn, further, that olaimB ou tho same acoount to the amount of $50,000 are still pend? ing. Think of it-$278,000 expended or incurred for printing alone. Of this sum, tho Democratic pupers received for printing the Aots, Acc., say, about $40, 000. The balance went to the Badioal press, and the thieves who, after paying the Radical press their oharges for work done, divided tho spoils. It is claimed that tho "Republican Printing Com? pany" got the contraot to do the public priuting, but that the aotual printing was dono by the "Carolina Printing Com? pany," of which tho Union editor was Treasurer. Tho Union says that it re? ceived only a fair compensation for Us public printing. The Union, however, must certainly bo posted on the subject. Will it tell na all about this greedy cat in tho State meal? It has been telegraphed North that "a committee of tax payers" had verified Parker's statement, and that the Slate debt was $11,994,908.98. Such is not the case. Both Parker's and the cum mittee'ti statement really shows a State debt of nearly $10,000,000, admitted and confessed. How much moro it may be who cou tell? Why print $22.540,000 of bonds aud stocks if they were not tc be utilized? We tell onr readers that the amount ia simply thia: the finances of the State may bo likened to a oorrnpt mass, from which noxious gas is daily rising, und the sooner this fact is recog? nized tho better. Better, fur better, to utterly kill the public credit than to lol it live for the benefit of a swindling ring. It scorns that Gov. Scott provides libe? rally for the State prosecution of the al? leged Ku Klux cases. Tho State Attorney-General entered tho Federal field yesterday. Would he spare time tn proceed against the oifiuials charged with the great bond Bwindlo and ether corrupt work? Docs tho Attorney-General of the State profer Federal to State bonds? Whilst following op alleged Ku Klux ism, does Gov. Soott propose to ignore the State robbers? Is it that both bc and the Attornoy-Goneral aro reticent and apathetic for very good reasons? Gov. Scott, in his measago, throwi himself into the arms of the coloree man-discarding both white R?publicain and white Democrats. If tho negro re jeots him-as wo anticipate-whore will he go? Let him return to Ohio, and carry with him tho court journal and itf oditor. If he remains, it may be as t guest of Mr. Stoibrand. Is he between the upper and nether mill-stone? Wo are informed in the Union thal Attorney General Chamberlain gets hit credentials in the United States Courl from the Washington Department ol Justice, and in this way has beoome associated with United States Distriol Attorney D. T. Corbin. As investiga tion is the order of the day, we would urge thu same Department of Justice tc help ns in the financial troubles of thc State. The shoe pinches badly here. Kiniptou retired from the field, or yesterday, on his wuy to Now York, Where is his report? Let ne heat about the bond and money acoount. Il is reported that Scott and he quarreled oro he went. But "tell that to the ma? rinus." Have Soott, Parker and Kimp ton combined for mutual HQ fe ty ? Who Are thc Gullly Partiell Up to this time the colored element ia tho Legislature has had to hear tho odium of fraud aud treachery 'rom which Scott and his ring havo become riob. They literally fit ou the shoulders of the colored puoplo and fatten on the apple? they are thus enabled to reaoh* while they take good caro not to hand down to the patient drudges who sustain their weights Yet the colored members have to bear tho sin of robbery, and are fast sinking down in tho estimation of good i people, because of their alleged partici? pation in the frauds that have boen per ; potrated at Columbia by their white i "masters" of the ring. Let tho line bo ' drawn nod let the guilty parties be knowu, aud monopolize the infamy that will inevitably attach to the public officer : who can perjuro himself without ablush. ! LINCOLN. There wore 25 deaths in Charleston ! for the week ending tho 25th-whites 3; ! colored 22. ' Mr. John R. Bogdou, a prominent citizen of Hu m ter, ?lied lust a eek. E,ooal Items. - PHCENIXIANA.-Tbe price of ningle copies of the PHON?X is Qve cents. The executive oounniAJco of Tax pay? ers' Convention mst last evening, and will meet again to-d?y, in the hall above Agnews', at 7 o'olook P. M. air. B. B. Hempbill, of the Abbeville Medium, and Mr. B. K. Charles, of tbe Darlington Index, paid us a visit lust evening. James G. Marktand bas been appoint? ed? Commissioner of Deeds for Booth Carolina, residing in Providence, Bbode Island. The PHCBNIX office is supplied with all necessary material for as handsome cards, bill heads, posters, pamphlets, baud-bill?, circulars, and other printing that maybe desired, as any office in the South. Give us a call and teat our work. It is said that a green tarleton dren contains araenio enoogh to kill a mau and yet men do hot seem to be afraid ol going near green tarleton dresses. About this time plant buckwheat cukei plentifully, says Josh Billings. Nature, says some one, very benevo lently guards a rose with thorns and i woman with pius. The latest styles of wedding carda am envelopes can be seen ut tho PHOENIX of floe. They will be printed in thu bes styles of the art-successful imitation o engraving. Alderman Minort had a difficulty wit! another colored man, named Thou yesterday; and the Aldermau couside') ing himself particularly aggrieved, gav Thorn a severe beating. He was carrie before Trial Jnstice Coleman, and force to give bail. Rejected suitors are inclined to bi lieve that "the mitten" is made of aaol cloth. Unalean spirits-Cheap whiskey. Pressed for time-mummies. The subscription prices of the PHOK publications are: Daily-$8 per annui $4 six months; $2 three months; 75 cen Bingle month. Tri-weekly-85 per a num; $2,50 six .months; $1.25 thr months. WEEKLY CLEAN ER-$2.75 p annum; $1.50 six months. No subsori tion for a less time than three mont received. Vegetable philosophy-sago advice "Specify your funeral promoter" Chicago bar-room etiquette. ; A spirited horse-the night-mare. The worst of men can make hoi happy-by keeping away from it. | The latest from Union County is the effect that there have been no ad tional arrests by the Kn Klux hunt. ( except some colored men. ; THANK soi vi NO SERVICES.-Bethel At ' can Methodist Episcopal Church, cori ' Taylor and Sumter streets. Sabbi ? School, at Q}A A. M., will be addresi : by Hon. J. J. Wright. At ll o'clock M., sermon by the Pastor. At 3 P. J oleases will meet. At 7 P. M., gent expression of thanks Irom the congre tion. All Christians and friends are I vitcd. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The North : mail opens at 3.00 P. M.; doses *i , A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Charles i night mail opens 6.80 A. M.; closes< P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 M. ; doses 6.00 A. M. Western i i opens9.00A. M.; closes 1.30 P. M. i Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M ^ REAL ESTATE IN COLUMBIA.-We pleased to learn that several satiefaol i transactions in thia line have recei I been consummated under thu nuep i of Mosers. Seibels Sc Ezell. In spit . the disadvantages of our present bi I tion, and the heavy blows received 1 this State from Grant's military proc i inga-the Ku Klux net and the spoi i arts-so strong is the faith in Columl i and the State's future, that reu.1 cs even now sells well. Had we mono invest, we would invest it right here ' we hold that we shall yet come ' "right side np." Long live Colnm ' and long live the State I , Twenty-three of tho so-called Ku ] . prisoners were brought down from Y . ville, day before yesterday, and lot I in jail here, Betweon forty and , others were left in the jail in York\ , Yesterday, on application in the Ut States Court, tho following wore rele on bail: Dr. E. T. Avery, W. S. Mu; ' P. Gogo, R. T. May, J. P. Wilson . Henry Toole, (colored.) Messrs. F Mc Maa ter and W. B. Wilson represe ' the prisoners and District Atto ' Corbin tho Government. The am ' of bail was fixed at $3,000 for each ' Boner. Tho sureties are A. F. Fe John T. Lowry and E. T. Averj York, and Col. L. D. Childs and ( W. B. Stanley, of Columbia. Tb ! maining eighteen prisoners from . aro arrested under a charge of mu . atad will not be admitted to bail. 1 DBATU OE AN EDITOB.-Tho Sn 1 Netcs comos to ns in mourning oi 1 ot, ITV. of the death of its late edita B. Gay, EstJ- Mr. Gay was a tea , and discharged the duties of this pr ; sion in oonneotion with his edit tabors. A Massachusetts man by t Mr. Gay was an ardent and a pstl ! Southerner by adoption and iu his i patines. The News pays a high tr i to its late editor. Mr. Gay we hat I the pleasure of knowing, but wo i the faot that he waa au indepen outspoken man, who stood persist by his principles. When snob a dies the State, especially at this 1 loset, a valuable eitiaeu; and we with the News in regretting tho eve ; his sudden and untimely death. Miss & A. Orchard, tho aooo?ap?iahed daughter of pur,townsnjan, Mr. Orchard, has r o turo od 1 rona a pro?wsiu?al ?ojoum in North Carolina, where ehe haa ac? quired no little reputation as a portrait painter in tho family ot Mr. William. Johnston. All who may wish to live on oanvas, or to see their families thus pre? sented, *j*y ???ni Uieaiedlvaaof tu? ak Ul and gen jo* ofj tola yohbg daughter of Columbia, whose talent deserves liberal recognition. NOTICE TO COBBEBPONDHBTB.- We 'in? vite contributions from correfapondeutn in all parta of the f?late. Short, sharp and pointed articles are the kind we in I vite. Truthful exposDroo of public j frauds, municipal, County 'and Stale, are demanded by the exigencies of our condition. Wg invite, also,'the sid of local pens, ,in brief contributions. , We are contending almost single-handed against a large and strong oombiuation, backed by the "almighty dollar." Sus? tained^ by the elements of tm th and a public purpose, we expect to effect a great deal, but the public interests de? mand that our friends and the friends of the State thal! 'promptlyback ns with their penB, SH well as with their approval. Items of news, HU well as expressions of opinion?, ure iuvited from every County in the H tate. We aha'l seek to make this journal not only the oentre of relia? ble intelligence, but the exponent, also, of well-matured, prudent and sagacious views. SurREMu Coe m, WEDNESDAY, Novem? ber 20.- The court met at 10 o'clock; present, Chief Justice Moses and Asso? ciate Justices Willard and Wright. B. B. Gordon, el al, vs. Sultan Gold Mining Company. H. C. Harris, adrar., v?. Alfred Stillwell. Continued by con? sent. Silas Johnston, Commissioner, plaintiff in error, vs. F. H. Crooks, el al., defend? ant in error. Mr. Jones for plaintiff in error. Mr. Fair on same side. Mr. Melton submitted argument for Mr. Car? roll, for defendant in error. 13lease Sc Baxter for unothor, vs. Simeon Pratt. To bc submitted on printed ar? gument, ti v- ? Emiline J3radley. appellant, vsi Peter Redelsperger. respondent. Mr. Fair for appellant. Mr. Baxter for respondent. Record to be completed. ?'' Ex parte Joel W. Anderson, el al. Mr. Fair was*heard for appellant. Mr. Jones for respondent. Mr. Fair in reply. Ex par/e John J. Ward. Petition to be admitted to practice. Mr. John Mc? iver for petitioner. Necessary papera being shown, bo was sworn and admitted, and his name enrolled. The court, on account of thanksgiv? ing, adjourned until Friday, December 1. HOTEL, ARRIVALS. November 29. Columbia Hotel-W. H. Winebraner, J. E. Hetikeoher, F. R. Turner, Winne boro; J. W. Saul, C. F. Mason, Balti? more; C. G. Wynn, W. B. Wynn, J. H. Johnson, H. M. Ii rumley, C. S. Parn us, C. E. Richards, N. Y. ; J. W. Wilber? force, B. Cunningham, W. A. Bradley, Augusta; M. E. Bonham, Edgefield; B. Selcg. Philadelphia; P. Duffie, Charles? ton; R. R Hem ph ill. Abbeville; Mrs. Porteaos, Beaufort; J; Cookfleld, Wil? liamsburg; F. J. Robinson, D.M. Sulu tury, Providence, R. I.; J. E. Dusen berry, Bnckt ville; G. J. Goodwin, Fort Motte; H. Winder, Wilmington; H. W. High, W. and A. R. R. ; J. F. Myers, Orangeburg; J. P. Lloyd, N. J. Nickerson House-J. M. Arnold, New Orleans; J. V. Wright, Edgefield; W. S. May, R. T. May, John T. Gage, J. Parks Wilson, Rook Hill; J. B. McCant*. Wi unshorn; Wm. A. Moore, Lau (?aster; Rev. Wm. Daniels, 8. C. Conference; E. L. Avery, York; C. W. Dudley, Beu nettsville; A. P. Aldrich, Barnwell;Thoa. Thomson, F. A. Connor, Abbeville; John H. Kihsler, Richland: J. M. Seigler, Newberry. Central Hotel-John J, Jewctt, H. Horace, Charleston; A. Jackson and wife, Yorkville; J. Steam, oily; A. Jos? selyn, Daootuk 'Territory; Wi C. Mere? dith, Greenville; D. R. Duuoan, Spar? tan b ti rg; J. L. Wofford. Cherokee Springs, J. F. Cly m ph, Newberry; O. M. Doyle, Ooouee; F. A. Mile?, Dr. Hobbs, Marion; George T. Reid, G. & C. R R. LIST OK NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. N. Robson-Pacific Guano. R. C. Shiver k Co.-Dry Gooda. Boarding-Apply at this office. J. Fisher-Wanted $0,000. Jacob Leviu-Auction Sales. Jacob Leviu-Stockholders' Meetiug. J. O. Mathewson-Black Seed oats. OFFICIAL BAFFLK NUMBERS Charleston Ohm i - table Association, for benefit Pre* School fund: RAt- KI.K Ci.ASS No.220 - Morning, Norn niber 1\) 26-70-21-56-1-S-1-53 9-54-71-77-78 Witness my hand at Charlcbton, thia 2iUh day of November, 1871. FENN PECK. Nov 30 Swum Couitniasionnr. M ANUFACI UUINO EMI:IU'KISK IN CUAULES TON -Charleston U fast becoming a manu fayturing^a well aa a commercial city. Tito largest manufactory of doors mullen, blinds. Aa., in the Hunt beru staten id that of Mr. ?'. I*. To.vr.K, on Horlbeck's Wharf, in that oily, sales rooms at No. 20 iiaync street. Mr. TOA i.K'S advertisement, appcarn in auother column. Nov 2J Boarding. AFEW bingle gentlemen can bo accommo? dated with UOABD in a private family. Apply at tbia office. _Nov 30 gTOCKHOL.DKHS* MKKTINO Columbia Qas-Light Company. r?lHE Stockholders in thu Colombia Oa*. X Light Company aro requested to attend a mooting, on bitointsa of importance, aladul o'clock, on Kill DAY MOHN INO. Docembl^P at the ellice, in rear of C. H. Mint's Drng Storo. JACOB LEVIN, Secretary Columbia Oas Light Company. Nov 30 _2 Wanted, on Loan for Two Years, .o.ooo. FOB tho purpose of impioving the Colum? bia Oas Works, {0,000 is desired on loan. Interest will he paid semi-annna?iy, and a ra .M tgAgo of $50.000 unencumbered estate bf? feroti as security. J. FI8HEB, J. W. PAltKEM, ANDREW CBAWFOH?, . Committee. CoLUMiiiA, 8. C., November 2'J, 1871. Nov 30_1_ Mountain Butter. 1 pr KITS MOUNTAIN BUTTER, Tor sale IO low. g. HOPE. Pipes! Pipes!! Ui\/\r\ INDIAN CLAY PIPES, for ?\_/\ / \ / ?ale low to dealers. Nov 2:i JOflN C. BBRGEB8.