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DOVOTN TO POLITst10RALITY BDUOATIOX ASD W0 THE GRNERAL ANTER111WT OF T HOUNTh. VOLe VIo PICKENS, S. C0., THURSDAY AUGUST 30 1877. ' EM the Now Yotk Sun. I the Aefrm Crucible. OAR.sON, 8. 0., Aug. 12.-The Invstipting committee has resumed its secret labors-even the witnesses ar sWrn to secrecy. Moses was the first real informer, and he made a clean breast of it. He was asked to aoount for the various sums which he had received as Speak er and Gov. ernor. Moses modestly estimated these at $500,000, while the higher valuation is $900,000-though figur. es were no question between Moses and the committee. After. cahing over the larger sums which bore heavy upor, his memory, he acknowl edged that he "had spent it all " There was $25,000 in one pile which be, as Speaker, received from United States Senator, John J. Patterson. "What was that forl" It appears that in 1871 Moses bcgan to tir6 of the retail perquisites ef his position through the committees which he appointed. Besides, being a candi date for Governor, h1 e was frequently cheated by his subordinates in mak ing fair returns of the bribery money their committees made. Patterion, too, thought the machinery was loose and could be made to pay a hand some advance, as well as aid him in his candidacy for the sonatorship. He, therefore, proposed to purchase the whole privilege from Moses at one single dash, get control of the com, mittees as a systematic scheme, and turn mil:er himself fur his own grist and that of any Democrat or Repub lican who had any noal to grind, throngh the Legislature. Another large amount which Moo. as roceerod etuck in Lie memory, be cause be had been cheated out of a portion of it.. The Republican Printing Oompany drew two checks of $10,000 each in Isis favor, and left thom with Hardy Solomon's bank. Solomon paid Moses $15,000 of the proceeds, and kept $5,000. Moses has been threatening to sue Solomon for the latter ever since he found it out, but the question, "What court would entertain jusisdictioul" has de layed the complaint. During his Speakership Moses . flooded the market with "pay certifi% cates," purporting to be for services -rendered by attachees of the House. flundreds of thousands of dollars of these were afloat. Any influential Republican could get one whether b~e bad ever. been in Columbia or not. To do Moses justice, some of these he 6 alleged to be forgeries, Jones, the clerk's signature, is genuine, but his * not. From these certificates he derived a large amount of money. The snocess of the committee withs Moses induced thorn to follow up the "pay certificate" business, by calling A Moses's successor as Speaker, t. J. Lee, as the next Witness, Lee Is a light colored mulatto. He was formnerly a slave- My first re membrance qi him was in 1807, as a * witness in the case of the United States against Crump, Davis &a Ar. nim, for running an illicit distillery. SHe struck me as a man of great self }possession and shrewdness for his op. portunities. After reconstruction he was made a member of the Legisla ture from Aiken County, and evinced such tact as a par'lamentarlan that he was generally called to preide in the *Speaker's absence. This made him Speaker when Moses was elected Governor. He Soon began to drive the most spanking team throu gh Aiken and Augusta, Ga. This made Gen. Elliott, who prided himsei on his equipage, jealous. Elliott Was * only a member of Congress at the time. At the next election Elliott made Lee take a back seat, and wasS himself made a member of the Legis lature, and then Speaker I '- Is.e's place. Lee contentented hims~elf with a county office until last election, when he ran for solicitor of th c:.. abit and was elected. He has been several times complimented in the Democratic newspapers for his dig, nity, ability and fairness as solicitor. The committee keep Governor Moses well in hand since their success in confronting him and his papers with the distinguished judge. They have him and his faithful body ser.. vant, Robert, installed in rooms at the Greenfield building, and provid ed with meals from Pollack's, not far from the State House, so that he can be within calling distance, should any of the witnesses swerve from the Pentateuch or five books of Moses. Lee was in jail, with no hope of giving bail. He saw the fate of the "dist inguished judge," and he knew he mnst swear like an Israelite ac cordinag tothe Pen tateuch. According. ly, when he was brought forward, ho, too, made a clean breast of it. His testimony wae mainly as to the pay certificates issued by hitself ab Speaker, and those issued in connec tion with Lientenant-Governor Gleav es, who presided over the Senate. Ile was not as lavish with theee papers ae Moses, but told enough to keep Governor Gleaves, who is hiding out from ever returning to ctand his trial. The committee were so well satisfied with the completenee of Lee's story that they lot him out of jail upon his individual recognizance, upon condi, tion that he*would resign his solicitor ship. Leo i6 now reported to ba one of the leaders in the Liberian exodus. Tho next, witness belforo the com inittee was Gen. J. B. Donnis, ex. keoper of the Poniten)tiary, sergeant at arms of the 1ackoy Houso, the funituro man and a member of the high joint Committee to investigate the bonds in 1870. The principal por tion of his testimony related to the action of the bond committee in 1870, and the connection of Hardy Solo,% mon's Bank with the State govern.. mont. His ovidence was only a pre lude to that of Sheriff Bowen, of Charleston, on the samo subject. Bowen has never concealed his knowledge of those matters from those who askod him for it in good f aith, and It was given before the commit, tee in such a way as to draw forth the commendation of the Domocrats who wore present. In 1870, while Bowen was playing Congressman from Charleston, ho found himself unseated, and witho4 the means of support. The High Joint Investigating Committee from the Legislature of South Carolina, composed of Whittemoro, Swails, Den nis, and Tim ilurloy, were thon in session in New York, overhaubing Kim pton's books, and enjoying 0ood time at the expense of the Stat. Bowon saw his opportunity. HEe bad never studied law, but he had been admitted to the South Carolina bar. Accordingly he applied to the come. mittoo to provide for his 'immediate necessities. They gave hime an ap pointment as legal advisor to the com, mitteo, with a fee of one thousand dollars, to be paid down by Kimnpton, who was providing bountifully the ready cash for everything tho comn mittoe required. From day to day the invoatigation was deferred, the books were not ready, Kimpton was "out of town," andl the committee grow tired of waiting-there was nto mnoney in it adequate to the cecas'on. Biowen had brought with him fromt Washington a young man who had aoted as his privat.o secretary whilo Congressman. lie was a abr'owd foi~ low, and, as luck would have it, had a father in the employ of the American Bank Noto Company of Now York. Throughi this agency Bowoen discov, ered that the South Carolina bon)ds were printed by that company. After considerable trouble, he obtained fromx the Company the amount of the bonde they had printed and turned over to be signed by the State authorities. They had printed $20,040,000, and turned them~ over, wihilo they had on hand subjet to order' $2,500,000 moro. O these 86 n0O n ,mm wore " _eln fnd. debt" bonds, which were never issue by the authorities, The balanoe o $14,040,000 was what- the authoritie issued, and what the High Joint Com mitteo endeavored to investigate. Six million dollars of these, the con version bonds, were afterwards repu diated by the Legislature, and the re mainder, with some small deduction funded at 50 cents on the dollar ir the consolidation bonds. Bowen revealed this omission at th( time in the Charleston Courior, anc roturning to Charleston, became a candidate for the Legislature, was elected, and at the next session prefer. red charges for the impeachment of Governor Scott touching the bonds. The impeachment was defeated by money taken from the State by TreasN uror Parker. All of these details wero given in his testimony. Hardy Solomon's $125,000 bill was ordored paid at that session, and Bow on told how this was done thrico over. It was composed of pay certificatcs. The members of the Logislaturo had roccived them and receipted the treasurer for them; they had boon sold to Solomon, who rocipted for thorn also, and,thon ho aggregated them in hI& bill, out of which ho paid 08:,000 to have it passed, and it was paich This haul of Parker, tho treasurer, was equivalent to that which gave him another voucher for $90,000 in his official accounts, as appears from the testimoney before the comwittco. The Republican Printing Company's bill for that amount was ordered paid by tbe Logi,3laturo. They sold the bill to Comptroller General Neaglo for 2,0O0 cash. Neaglo took it, rec ed by the company for 9,00 , to i.1:o tre.urer, who gavo Lim. 20,000 o Vlu3 Ridge Railroad scrip, rataining '40,000 for himself. Upon tho trea. srer's bboks the receipt of the com pany represents $80,000 cash. The Blue Ridge scrip is worthless. The committee have a sure thing against Scott, Parker, Cardozo, and Chamberlain. The latter has an in dividual account to answer; and tho list of charges against tho firm of Kimpton & Chamberlain is the larg est of the whole array. There will be reg uiisitions for these gentry upon the (Governors of Ohio and New York before very long, and it will go bard with them. Senator Lamar's Speech. What the Memphis A&ppeal says of the Mississippi Convention: Calls were then made for Senator L. Q. Lamar, who in response ad dressed the Convention. As he as cended the clerk's desk he was greet. ed with the most dleafening and long continued applause. Hie congratu lated thiem, as Mississippians and as A merican citizens, upon the fact that the South was again free. [Applause] For the first time in twelve years they bad met together in their capi tal to look upon a country rescued in all its parts from the shackles ol tyranny and ready for a new career of freedom, progress and prosperity, After dwelling upon this point with great force, he said: "I congratulatt you that this grand deliverance is iii a large measure the work of the De mocratic party. It is a stango re sult that one party, in the very flusl~ of victory, should soo its policy per' ish; and that the other, in the very moment of defeat, should bedold itt princi ples enthroned in triu~mph.. Recent events had domnonstrated tt the North tbat the South was nt element of disturbance to the tran. quility of the American ~Ropublic nor of subtract ion from its security of sti engthi; that thousands upot thousands of boncat and p)atrioti< Republicanis were no0w conivinced o. this, and were ready to make bei people full sharers in the benefits ani blessings and the greatness anid glory of that republic. A t tihe head of these to his everlasting honor be it spoken stands the presencit President of the United States, who, in the dlischargt of his higb duty as the President ci "Newton, said my companion, so riously, "I wish I could pursuade you to never drink another glass of liquor. Do not regard my retusal to drink with you as an unfriendly aa4 tion. You know little of my former life and habits; if you did you would not tempt ie." "We have all been b-ys in our time, I said with an exhibition of considerable levity. The indiscre tions of youth are many, and it is but natural to suppose that you have been one of us." My laughter seemed to pain him. ie turned partly about in his chair, fixed his dark, piercing eyes upon me and said: "Newton, I am a reformed drunk ard." It was now my turn to look aeton ished. "Yee, he continued, I ran through ft brief and brilliant carer of pleasure and profligacy, and but for one night of terror, that changed the whole current of my life, I might, like many of my formor companions, be lying in a drunkard's grave to day." I looked again at his prematurely white hair. "I understand your thoughts, he 2ontinued, I dislike to talk of the past, but for your own good let me give you a little of my experience." Resting his elbows upon the table between us and supporting his head upon the open palms of his hands, lie told me the following story: "4 hA tu misfortune to lose my parentS at an early age. Upon leave, ing college I found myvelf the undia.. puted master of a largo fortune, and like most college graduates I fancied myself only about second to the pope in infalilibility. My parents while living had I een indulgunt and liberal with me. I had never learned the value of a dollar. I had acquired no practical ideas f business. My on ly thought was of ease and pleasure. My fortune seemed ample, and I saw no necessity for exertion, and I enter ed at once upon a reckless and ex travagant career. My liberality made me hosts of apparent friends. I bad no lack of boon companions WLLIo mly muoy lasted. I kept fast horses, and like 'Jehu' I drove furiously. I gambled extensively, I drank deeply and my inheritance,rapidly melted away. Wheni one gets fairly started in a downward career, every earthly cir cumstance seems to help him along, even his professed friends regard him as their lawful prey and justify themselves while they plunder him, upon the ground that they might ai wvell have what he squanders as any body else. The road to ruin for a time is very p)leasant and easy to fol low, but it ever leads us to a frightful end, where we may pause in grief and horror to contemplate the insta bility of human friendship, the fleot inig character of riches, the follies of extravagance and the selfishness of our fellowmoni. We often learn when it is too late what glorious opportu nities we have wasted for accomplish ing good to others and of acquiring profit to ourselves. At the early age of twenty five yearns I was pronounced a moral and physical wrck. I was poor in purse feeble in minimd and weak in body. I had neunited tastos and habits that I had no strength to overcome. My property was sold to pay the debts incurred by my various dissipations. I was sick anmd weary of life, and I endeavored to drown my cares and the memory of my misfortunes by constant scenes of. drunkenness and debanchery.' A muong my college classmates there was one very dear friend whom I bad dragged with mo thr'ugh my downward career. The only son of a wido wed mother who had at hrst dlied of a broken heart, occasioned by the pirofligaevy of her son. 1Uc ha I the whole people has struck a blow ' for the restoration of the South to her position of equality which bad vi. brated to the extremities of the Union and had carried consternation in the ranks of his party. This act of pa.. triotism, justice and political intre pidity on his part merits the appro bation and support of Southern men, and this may be bestowed by Dem ocrats of the South standing solidly upon a platform of Democratic prini ciples and without breaking our al liance with that great national party which has so long stood, with un shaken constancy and fidelity, by the rights of the South." He did not believe the American people are prepared to accept the disbandment of the Democratic party. Ho here spoke of the principles of that party, which, be said, were imperishable and were the essential elements of overy free government; of the nun ber of its voters constituting a ma jority of the people of the nation, and the extent of its organization in every section of the country. Nor did he believe th"& tho political events of the day would justify the South in breaking up her unity. Questions of conGtitutional law; the relations of the States to the Aederal Govern ment, and of the relations of the peo pie to their State government, would soon cease play any very conspicu ons part in the issues of American politics. Questions of tariff, trade, comIMIrcO, currency and transportaL, tion would soon take their p1acs; were beginning to engross the atten tion ct the people and will tax the intkelect of Amprican statewmen. To the discussion and settlement of these question8 the Southern statesman murt contribute their due share of study and thought, or the South will never regain her intellectual and moral prestage in political affairs. She has. already demonstrated her cap%city to raise above the passions and prejudices of party whn its commanda conflict with the safety of theiiation or the safety and peace of the country. If the time should over como-"may God forbid," he said, "tha4it OVer shall"-when she shall be eilled upon to choose between her own local interests and the welfare of the nation at large, he believed that, she would sustain her public men in subordinating the former to the latter. This is a fair outline of his remarks, which were greeted with applause_throughont. A Leap in The Dark. Thongh George Maxwell was corn par atively a young man, his hair was white as snow. T often wondered at his strange appearance, and one daj, in a playful humor, 1 said to him: "George, why is it that you look so prematurely old?" IIis fate became suddenly clouded, and for thme moment he lost his ac custom3ed cheerfulness. ?bThere is one episode in my life," he said gravely, "that I never' like to talk about." "Pardon me, I exclaimed, if I have ictroduced a subject that is displeass ing to yd6, anid let us proceed to talk about something else." A few-days later, while we were passing a pleasant hour together, I ordered a bottle of wino, and poured out a couple of glasses. I carelessly pusheod one of them toward him and called out: "Your health." To my 4Tstonishmment ho firrmly de clined to driink with me. " t,said 1, it is only a little light wine. It.won't affet your head in the leat.~" "iNevertheloes, ho responded, the slightest indulgence in thme cup that intoxicates is contrary to my settled principles." "Vrmy well thun, I rejoinecd gruffly, here's luck to mnyself," and swallowed the contets of both _ ases. boon a youth of bright promise, I made him a worthiess anI reckless vagabond, but I never paused to re fleet upon my responsibility. No man eRn follow this road to ruin without becoming a false guide to dthers. One black November nigLt I was returning with four dissolute compaw. ione, my classmate among them, froM the county seat wherm we had been holding a wild caronsal, to the town where I lived. We had taken the midnight train, and were all in vs State of partial intoxication. Just before arriving at our station, the train crossed a high bridge that apat ned a dark rushing river. Owing to a slight accident to- the engine, the car in which we were eated stopped in the center of the bridge. 9uppo.. ing that we had arrived at our desti-W nation, and being too 'much under the influence of liquor to thoroughly understand our situation, we stopped from the train to the parapet of tli bridge mistaking it for the plattorril of the station; then after a moment of confusion and wildly clitching at each other, we stepped off ibto- the darknoss and plunged downward iuto, tho abyss beneath. We struck the water almost simu-.. taneously. "The sudden shock almost instantly sobered mne. By a violent effort I succeeded in disengaging myself from my companions. The icy water gur. I1-e caisa smgua? nout me. I heard their drowning criee. At last I clutched the jutting point of an over hanging rock that projected a few feet above the water, and formed a miniature island in the eentre of the river. I managed to draw mysell out of the water, and seating myself' astride of the cold, slippery stone, I shouted loudly for assistance. Nobody seemed to hear me. The whistle of the locomotive shrieked wildly, and after a few moments of delay the train rolled on and passed out of hearing. I ezerted myself to the utmost to keep from freezing, but my feet and hands soon become numb and helpless, and I began to kElw time T wn ang I can not ezpress to you the honrro of death that I fel% at that moment. They who talk lightly of death when out of danger, find life inexpressibly dear when presented faice to face with 'the grim monster.' I felt how little prepared I was to die. Every mean action I had ever committed was pro. sented to me. Not only the excesses I had committed upon myself but the evils I had done tg others. The terrible experience of that night completely changed my whole character. My hair, that had been as dark as the plumage of a raven, sooa became as white as snow. I reoo ced my former dissolute habits and companions, and from that night I havo tried to be~ a respootable* and, useful man." 'lBut how did you escape frona your frightful situation?" "I was discovered by the station master at an early hour on the fol-.. lowing morning, anid though my feet and hands wore badly frozen, I soon was about again. My comnpanions were all lost and their bodies were niot recover'ed notil tsoveral moutba afterward. Now do you wonder that I refused to drink with you? Do you wonder t hat 1 a mn grieved to see you slowly drifting into the same channel that carried me so nearly to destruos tion? I implore you to put away from you the cup that intoxicates.---. Come now, givo me your haud, and promise mea to drink from that no I gave him my hand and my word, and from t hat moment I have been a temperate man. Summner hotels are open, and fly a fishing has co-unenced--in the but ter dishes and milk jugs.