The Greensboro patriot [September 20, 1876]

              THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. 0.,
BY DUFFY fc ALBRIGHT,
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BPECIAL NOTICE.
COUNTY CONVENTION.
The delegate! to the Conserve-live
Convention will re assemble at
the Court Mouse, on
Saturday, 23rd, 8ept.,
in nominate a candidate for the
House "I Representatives, iu place
of Herons Mendeohau, declined.
By order <>t Ex. Committee.
.1. T. MOBXHBAD, Ckm'n.
w. rj. BTETDBB, Sec
Appointments of Scales and
Boyd.
Messrs A. M. Scales and J. E.
Boyd, candidates for Congress will
address the people at the following
times and places:
Snow Camp, Monday, Sepl I8tb.
Franklinsville, Tuesday, Sept. 10th.
New Mai kit. Wednesday, Sept. 20.
Friendship, Thursday, Sept.21st.
Lenox Castle, Saturday Sept. 23rd.
Emory's Store, Monday, Sept. 25th.
Audei sun's Store, Tuesday, Sept26.
Leasburg, Wednesday, Sept. 27th.
Roxboro, Thursday, Sept. 28th.
Bushy Fork, Friday, Sept. 2Mb.
ML Tirzan, Saturday, .Sept. 30th.
Hollowayaville, Monday, Oct. 2nd.
Papers iu the district please copy
The Greensboro Patriot. This is bat an imperfect count in
the long and terrible indictment
against the Republican Party. Can
honest Republicans swallow the
Cincinnati Platform !—Landmark.
Was
Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876.
THE A
HON EST §
TAX
PAYERS
l^./lfWl^- easeutise-t
THE BATTLE OF THE CENTENNIAL, YEAR-UNDER ONE STANDARD OR THE
OTHER, EVERY AMERICAN MUST RALLY.
TlLDE-JC-I've smash-d the ring*, every one of tbem. Here comes General Hays at the head of the carpet-bag and negro brigade
from the Soul b. Grant's 102,000 olhce-holders aud his pardoned whiskey ring*. Grant is pushing Hayes along, and their
nag is the " bloody-shirt." Follow me, honest tai-payers, and I'll dispose ot this riotous, prodigal, drunken crew, and
lead on to victory and give the country peace and prosperity.
T»x-P»YMS—We're coining. Uncle Sammy, many millions strong.
1lAYW-Gene.al, we can't go any farther this way. Yonder'. Tilden with one of hi. clubs, aud they call themselves honest tax-paver*.
Yon know we can't do anything with that crowd. a—to.
OMANT-vThat'sTildri. doing t Are them our laforite rings he'» bursted t Where is Captain Settle f Why don't Bill Smith
blow his horn for them bull dogs of mine 1 We must fight it out on this line.
SAMBO-GO on hose, go on. \Ve'.e wid ye, we celored folks is, aud h jre's de oarpet-bags an' office-holder, a marchin right long
to wictnry under dat glorious banner o'Marso Morion's ... , „ .. . „ .
SOLDIIRS—Here's another "ou to Richmond" and beyoud. Bullets and bayonets are the things to make Southern ballots.
Democratic Campaign Song.
Air—" Red, White aud Blue."
Reform 'a the c y of the oai'on.
The iheives are looking q.ute blue,
Surprised at ,'oe gri»nd nomination
Of Tilden nod Heidncksso Uiie.
Of T'lden Run Hendiicks BO true,
Of Tilden and He.idricks so lru,>,
Sorp'isedat .he g and nomination
Of Tihleu and Hend.icks so tiao.
Arouse, ye oppressed with taxation,
Deceived by the men you thought true.
Vote at ihe November election
For Tilden ;.ml Heudricks ihe tfue.
For Tilden, etc.
Tilden's the ma.i for ihe station.
So fearless and bold we all knew;
This hero wi'l shout reformation,
Witii Meuili Icks to stand by him true.
With He idiicks, elc.
Our pilot* are both ou ihe deck,
The old shin of slate heaves iu view;
A warning to grubbers— a check—
Reform 's on the old tlag. so true,
Reform 's on,elc.
Sectional strife and division,
Engendered by partisan crew,
Must go to the shades of oblivion,
While the Union advances auew.
While the Union, etc.
The cast and the west never faltered,
The north and the south ever true,
Uuited—thoRads. will be slaughtered
By Tilden and Hendricks the true.
By Tilden, elo.
The Confederate Congress.
The "Uonlederate Congress" is the
name applied to the Congress re-1 cerniug a certain captaiu IU rue re-cently
adjourned, by the Radical • ?y, tried by court-martial and very
press of the country. Call it what. jostly suspended from duty for al-
* . ... Inniiin iH.,i..il >>,< Itlell, ,!.>», To r,n lift'.)!',! you please, it has reduced the ap-propriations
$30,000,000, in the face
of the fierce opposition of the Re-publican
Senate aud the Republi-can
press. It has forced retrench-ment
and economy in spite ot the
I determination ol Republicans to in-crease
them over former years. It
has exposed the corruption and rot-
I tenness ol the Republican Admin-istration
aud broken up some of the
S, 11lr Abroad.
Addressing a re union of Federal
soldiers at Dayton, Ohio, last fall,
.Indue Bettle said :
••1 appear before you a thorongh-bipped
and iconstructed rebel,
thai has some to Dayton to take off
bis bat lo the brave defenders of
the I nil''.]."
Judge .stile at Home.
Addressing the crowd assembled
.: Jonesboro, last week, Jndge Set-mi
:
• \ on KM Klux SCOUNDRELS.
iOU INFERNAL FIENDS OF
HELL."
ORGANIZE A
TILDES ,v VAN(TO CLUB
IN EVERY TOWNSHIP
IN THE STATE
From ihe Randolph Regulator.
Something for Vance.
Below we publish a letter from
uiie of Randolph's best citizens,
whose integrity and standing in
Randolph ranks with that of her
besl men. A man who is not will-ing
thai Gov. Nance's name shall
stigmatized with the lalse re-ports'now
being circulated against
him by socfa men as W. W. Iloldeu,
i nl the ' '(institution, and the
editor of the New North State and
others;
MR. EDITOH :- i take this method
of informing my friends of Ran-dolph
nnd the public generally, of a
circumstance in regard to myself
which took place during the late
rebellion, I was a Militia officer
g in Montg cry county, and
"Ms engaged in threshing wheat
through that section of country,
and frequently threshed wheat for
ili sei tei >' families. 1 was, however,
ii n -led and carried before a
court-martial which sat at Beman-ton,
Montgomery county, near Troy,
mill tried, charged with " threshing
wbeal for deserters' families,*' was
found guilt} ami sentenced—the
sentence being : "to be cashiered
and sent to the tanks ot the Con- |
iimy." Governor Vance
Ol Ins at once revoked the
d had me set at liberty.—
Many other acts of Gov. Vance, of
milar kind could be mentioned.
■ hi se facts to show that
war record la not look-ed
down upon in m.v country, but
thai he is held
Those Tax Books.
The Republican s|ieakers are re-joiced
over the charge that Gov.
Tilden is guilty of perjury, in the
matter of making a return of his
income for the year 1SG2. It mat-ters
not that the charge is utterly
untrue; it matters not that the ap
parent discrepancy has long since
been explained to the satisfaction
of every honest, unprejudiced man
in the United States. But the
charge is reported from every stump
for campaigu purposes, in the vain
hope ot injuring the people's candi-date
for reform and good govern
ment.
But it now tnrns out that they
can find some campaign ammu-nition
nearer home, where too they
can meditate over that great prob-! ing schemes, as has been
lem of " reform within the party." with several of the recent
The Northern (Ohio) Democrat, can Houses. There have been uo
published at Sandusky. Ohio, has Credit Mobilier swindles nor rail-been
overhauling the tax book and road subsidy jobs put through. It
has fouud " irregularities" iu the j has stood between the public plun-tax
returns ot one Rutherford B. derers and the people and protect -
1 lave.-, the Republican candidate «-d the interests of the latter,
i for the Presidency, which makes __
i the charges agaiust Gov. Tilden
| blush lor insignificance. It is
: charged now, not with that vague
ness which the New York Times at
: tacked Gov. Tilden's report, but
with a posiliveness that always
characterizes truth, that Gov.IInycs
has made false and fraudulent tax
returus of personal property for the
three years to the tax assessors of
the First Ward of the town ol Fre-mont.
The (lersonal properly other than
noutaxable. valued uuder the will
ot Saidis Burchard at 932,000, ol
which R. B. Hayes was devisee, is
returned lor taxation, under ihe
oath of R. B. Hayes, at #3,500.—
Three watches, the aggregate value
of which is (800, are sworn to be
worth #150 iu 1875, while iu 1*71
one of the watches is sworn to lie I
worth #300. Four carriages are ic-turncd
as being worth $"50 iu 1671:
yet the maker of one of the car-riages
says that Mr. Hayes paid
him in that year #500 for a single
carriage. One horse, valued at
$500, is returned as woith but #100.
Though in possession ot a piano,
be has tailed to make a return
thereof, as the law of Ohio requires.
With over $100,000 worth of per- |
sonal property, Gov. Hayes has re-1
turned uuder oath for the past
three years less than #0,000 worth
for taxatiou.
Secor Robeson's Coachman.
In a recent general order con-cerning
a certain captain in the na-lowing
illegal punishments on board
of his ship, that straitlaced moral-ist,
Secor Robeson, uses these words
"In reprimanding Capt. Gherardi, tho
Secretary of the Navy reminds him aud
the service at largo that uo officer shou'd
abuse his lawful authority; far less should
any officer sei the example of a wilful
anil deliberate violation of law."
This reads well, but as comiug
from Secor Robeson it is simply cool
impudence. His career ss Seereta-floic
Judge Settle Enjoyed Ten
Thousand Dollars of the hard Earn-ings
of the People.—Iu February,
1871, Judge Settle resigned his
positiou ou the Supreme Court
bench to accept the positiou of
Minister to Fern. He was com-missioned
Feb'y 18th, 1S71. Some-time
iu the following July he ar-lived
at his post and was formally
installed Minister. On the 20th
el November he obtained trom the
Government leave to return home.
He remained at home until Feb-ruary,
1872, when he resigned.
He was in the actual service of the
Government four months, for
which he received ten thousand dol-lars
from the hard earnings of a
bankrupt and ruined people. Is
it any wonder that Judge Settle is
dumb Alien asked if he endorses
the magnificent extravagance of
Republican rule I Make a note of
this, ye horn-handed sons of toil,
for ii is by the honest sweat of
your brow- Settle's bill has to bo
paid.—Statescille Latulmark.
From the Raleigh News.
ALL ABOUT IT.
An address to the Voters
of North Carolina by-
John T. Deweese.
HOW THE STATE WAS ROB-BED
IN 1868 '69.
REVELATIONS OF REPUBLICAN
RASCALITIES.
The Political Villainies of Gov. Hoi-den,
Bill Sioan, Windy Billy Hen-derson,
Sam Watts, Jim Harris.
Tim Lee, and other leaders of the
Republican Party of North Caro-lina.
rascally schemes for plundering tho ! ry of the Navy has been full of in-people.
Whatever may be said of stances of wilful and deliberate vio-
1 it, none charge the House of Repre- j lations of law on his part, aud his
sentatives with jobbery or plunder-i subordinates know it. Take one
the case instauce not yet brought out by
Repnbli- Congressional investigation.
There was nominally employed in
the construction department of the
Norfolk Navy Yard a man named
Brown. His salary was three dol-lars
and a quarter a day. Isaiah
Hansom, Robeson's tool, detailed
this man for duty at Washington,
where he served the Goveinment
by acting as coachman for the vir-tuous
Secor Robeson, though all
the time on the pay roll at the Nor-folk
Navy Yard.
The same article, VII., in the
laws for the goveinment of the na-vy,
tinder which ihis captaiu was
punished for maltreatment of those
uuder his command, contains a
clause which prescribes severe pen-ult
ies lor such as "shall knowingly
make or sign, or shall aid, abet,
direct, or procure the making or
signing of any false muster, or
shall execute, or attempt, or counte-nance
any fraud against the United
States." Yet Secor Robeson made
his officers at Norfolk sign a false
muster iu the case of this man
Brown, in order to get his carriage
driven at the expense of the Gov-ernment.—
N. Y. Sun.
In the common parlauce of the
day, this " looks like business: "
The Louisville Courier-Journal
gives the following list of "copper-heads"
and "secessionist"—as the
Radicals call everybody who sup-ports
Tilden and Hendricks—who
are engaged to speak in Indiana on
the Conservative side this week.
Here they are, ex Republicans nil,
vis: ex-Senator Doolittle, ol Wis-consin
; ex- Senator Tipton, of Ne
brask a; Governor and ex-Senator
I James Shields, now ol Missoni i ;
ex- Representative John F. Farns-worth,
of Illinois ; ex Governor
Blair, of Michigan; ex-Governor
Cnrtin, of Pennsylvania; General
Franz Sigel, of New York; Charles
Fiancis Adams, of Maaaachoaetta ;
Judge flooding, formerly a Lin-coln
elector in Illinois, aud ex rep-resentative
Julian, who was the
andidate of the Free Soil party
A New England newspaper show-its
appreciation of the trials of the
woman who "does her own house
work" in the following paragraph:
''•The long suffering house-wile
„ , ' _ | hears the door-bell ring, washes
Comln? the dough from her hands, pulls
down her sleeves, removes an old
look
goes out in tne hall
to find a patent medicine bill on
the floor. A woman who cau go
through this experience, aud
resume her work without making
a few casual remarks concerning
Job and patience, deserves a niche
-. i an in the temple of Fame."
Tho New York World publishes
a carefully prepared tabular state-ment,
from which it appears that
from the foundation of the govern-ment
to 1SC0, a period of seventy-oue
years, only #18,010,170.30 was
expended for public buildings.
Siuce 1SC0 to the present time,
however, embracing a period of
fifteen years, the sum of $11,-09,-
746.08 have been expended for pub-lic
buildings.
German
across the Channel the other night,'
said a traveler, •• I got chatting with I JJJJ^ »r^n?anrwitha'hae^ to
a German asked him what he was , [n tQe mjrror out in the ),
doing."
" Veil," he replied, " shoost now
I am doing noding, but I have made
arrangements to go into pizness."'
" What are you going into?"
" Veil, I goes into partnership
midt a man."
" Do you put in much
"No; 1 doesn't put in no gabi-tal."
" Don't want to risk it, eh!"
" No; but I puts iu de experi-ence."'
•• And he puts in the capital V
" Yes, dat is it. We goes into
pizness for dree year; he puts in
de gabital, I puts in de experience.
At de end of de dree year 1 will
have de gabital, aud he will have
de experience."
Lient. Cameron, the African ex-plorer,
was entertained at lunch by
the Mayor of Liverpool tho other
When Mr. Wheeler made his
partisan campaigu speech in St. Al-bans,
Vermont, he said :
"Go to Washington, and see ntty
in high esteem, as ! for i»re8ident j„ is.-.j." iV",s'such Africa a system of water communi-an
honorable, mere In! and upright pleads" aud "secessionists" cation which, by the addition of a
ian. lie, nnishr-d only those who a8 ,^-the great men of the Re- canal thirty miles long, would be
home to rob and uiprder their ! b|ican ■ ^ „ bccam|. , complete trom the Congo to Zanzi-lnpr
« .nn'u ~rf»_-l.n n™ „nw bar. He believed that boundless
stores of wealth—agricultural and
day. In reply to the toast of his j 80ld"iers crippled in the service of
health, he staled that his discover-1 tije uniou turned out to make room
ies had led him to the conclusion I jor as roany rebel soldiers. This is
that there exists in the centre of [ lne evidence of the spirit of the
"Darare," .-aid a sable orator,
" two roads through this world: de
uiie am a broad and narrow road
il.it lends to perdition: and de od-
>iu a narrow and broad road
dot leads to sure destruction." "If
dal am decace," (aid a aable hearer,
mere spoils party—who are now
speaking for Tilden aud Reform.
Jack's Bet.—A Georgia negro
was ridfng a mule along, aud came
to a bridge when the mule stopped.
"I'll bet you a quarter," said Jack,
"I'll make you go ober dis," and
■ ; with that struck the mule over the
discnllnrd individual takes to de | uea()i wllicb mailolliul nod .slukle„.
__ ' ly. "You take de bet, den," said
the negro, aud contrived to get
over the bridge. "1 won dat qnai-
| ter anyhow," said Jack.
"But how will you get tho mon-ey
Tasked a mau who had been
close by unperceived.
mineral—could be thns developed,
aud when other parts of the world
Northern Democracy.
Some one has examined the pay-rolls
in Washington and convicted
Mr. Wheeler of deliberate false-hood.
.
In the Forty third (Republican)
Congress there were upon
the Door keepers roll 153
were worked out, that we might i of these there were Union
look to Africa for new granaries,
new- coal mines, and new materials
lor manufactures.
18
If Governor Hayes be a truthful
- it thai prior to his last
election for Governor, he positively
stated that he would not beacandr
'■ hen he had actually already
written a letter acceptiug the nomi-ii.
u ion, which he was informed
would be teudered him t
"To-morrow," said Jack, "massa
gib me a dollar to get corn for the
mule and 1 take a qnarter out."
" Have you children V demanded
a house renter. "Yes," replied the
other, solemnly, "six—all in the
cemetery." "Better there than
here," said the landlord, cousol-iiigly.
and proceeded to execute the
desired lease. Iu due time the
children returned from the ceme-tery,
whither they had been sent to
have a nice play, but it was too
late to annul the contract.
soldiers "•
In the Forty-fourth (Demo-cratic)
Congress there are up-on
the Door keeer's roll i->
Of these there are Union sol-diers
•••• ""•"■*
The Democracy actually lacked
only one of doubling the number of
Union soldiers!
Wm. A. Wheeler, Republican
candidate for Vice-Fresident, voted
for the Civil Rights Bill, with its
church and cemetery features and
all.
To the Voters of North Carolina :
When I left your State, six years
ago, it was with a determination to
never again mingle in politics; but,
iu a quiet way, vote for and support
the men aud party 1 thought was
best for my country's welfare. I had
also ileieimmeil that so far as any
of the matters connected with poli-tics
in your State was to be of a
sealed nature, so far as 1 was cou-cerced,
to let the dead past b >ry
its dead—shed no tear over its
grave ; but unfortunately, perhaps,
lor some of the parties coucerned,
they concluded they would shift
their sins on to my shoulders. Now,
I have enough of my own lo bear,
and propose, in a few statements,
to put the sin where it properly be-longs.
In the first place, I was, as you
all know, an officer in the regular
army of the United States, stationed
amongst you from the close of the
war until I resigned to take the ap-pointment
ot Register in Bankrupt-cy,
which 1 held until 1868. When I
was elected toCougress. When the
Constitutional Couveution of 1S0S
was in session, Messrs. Soutter fc
Co., Bankers of New Xork City,
were desirous of getting that as-semblage
of corrupt and doubtful
representation to endorse one mil-lion
dollars of old State Bonds or
replcdge the laith of the State to
their payment. I was then inex-perienced
in all kinds of legislation,
but had quite an extensive acquaint-ance
with the members of that
body. One of them, Gen. Jos. C.
Abbott, late a Senator in Congress,
on learning of what Messrs. Sout-ter
& Co. wanted, told me that they
would pay some considerable money
to get the Convention to pass a law-re-
indorsing the bonds; that if 1
would see a Mr. Porter, then iu
Raleigh, and make a bargain with
him for some definite sum, he, Ab-bott,
would put the bill through the
Convention, and that we would di-vide
the money received from Sout-ter
& Co. I did as he suggested —
Mr. Porter agreed to give $5,000.
Gen. Estes, then a partner, or in
some way connected with Abbott,
represented Abbott; the bill was
passed and the money paid by draft
on New York and cashed at the
Raleigh National Bauk. The money
was divided in Abbott's room, he
and Estes taking #2,o00 and 1 get-ting
the other #2.500. Of this sum,
I gave $590 to a Major Rich, from
Pitt county; #250 to Jas. H. Hams,
and kept the remainder.
This was the commencement of
the swindles that were perpetrated
by the Convention and Legislature
w'hich lead the. financial mm of
vour State. Before the close ot the
Convention, the bill was passed,
giving State aid to the Chatham
Road, aud $00,000 of bonds were
given to Gen. Littlefield to pay the
members for their votes.
The Legislature met, and the
members ever clamorous lor all
kinds of swindles and steals, their
influence and their votes were up
for sale to the highest bidder. At
that time the ring was formed by
Swepsau. Abbott aud Littlefield by
which all of these stealing laws
were passed. They had up to that
time been friendly with me. I was
throughltheir influence aud a liberal
use ol money nominated to Con-grss.
Mr. James H. nan is was the
only opponent I had in the Conven-tion,
and he was paid by me #1000,
to get out of the way aud support
me. I paid him by a check on the
Raleigh National Bank, dated Feb-ruary
28th, 1S6.S. About this time,
the ring concluded they would
make a close corporation and shake
me, but I demurred, and Mr. Swep-son
paid me #15,000, and I released
any claim I had on them, or the
spoils of the ring.
I was again nominated, when
Harris again wanted to leech me ;
and this time the colored patriot
would take no less than #2,000, thus
making me bleed #3,000, to repre-sent
as mean and worthless a con-stituency
of whites and blacks as
ever called themselves Republi-cans.
They should have been call-ed
by their proper names of thieves
and leeches. I bad, by this time,
come to the conclusion that Swep-son,
Abbott, Littlefield and Co.,
would be tired of their shaking me
iu the way they had. So I saw
Judge Sammy Watts; made an ar-rangement
with Judge Watts to en-join
tho issne of bonus to the Rail-road
Company, and he was to have
#5000 of State bonds for issuing
and sustaining injunction in the
Atlantic aud Tennessee Railroad
case. The suit was in the name of
one Keboe of Newborn; the case
was fixed np, and Sammy got his
#5,000. There was but one Rail-road
I uow remember of, that did
not pay tribute to this ring, and
that was the Salem Road. They
declined to " bleed!"
• It was well understood that Mr.
Swepson was to and did take care
of Gov. Holden, and that he was
paid for his influence. Andy Jones
aud Swepson have often told me
that Swepson paid Gov. Holden
some #25,000, besides his stock in
the Raleigh National Bank. I know
that Littlefield gave Gov. Holden
#15,000 for the Standard. The price
was high, but the Governor gave
his couutenance and eucouragement
to steal his State. So it was about
even.
Gov. Holden, Bill Sloan, Andy
Jackson Jones, Windy Billy Hen-derson,
Joe Abbott, Gen. Estes,
Sam Watts, Jim Harris, M. S Lit-tlefield,
G. W. Swepson and Tim
Lee, all had a share in these steals.
The penitentiary matter was oue
of the swindles in which I had no
share; and only know that John
A. Hymau, C. L. Harris and the
member from Weldon had their
hands all crossed by Prnyn's with
his money, just for luck, he used
to say. Harris told me he had #1000
from Pruyu who also showed me a
note of receipt for the sum, I do
not know which, as I paid very lit-tle
attention to it, well knowing it
was one of those schemes which
would bring trouble, and so kept
my hand out of it.
Tim Lee, another one ol the loyal
Saints, was dismissed from the
Union Army in a Massachusetts
regiment for conduct uubecoming
an olficer and a gentleman. I pro-cured
a copy of the order of dis-missal
for Col. I. J. Young, when
Harris was trying to onst Young
from the Collector's office. Tim too
had his little share ot the bonds iu
the ring: beat all who had anything
to do with him, aud then beat him-self.
J. C. L. Harris wanted to be Post
Master; his daddy, C. L. Harris,
offered me #1000 to sign his recom-mendation.
I declined. Harris then
had Shaffer, tho Carpet-Bag Reg-ister,
who has about as much brain
as a bull call, to write me a letter,
offering me #1000 to sign it. I de-clined.
Logau then wanted to fight
me iu Mahler's jewelry store, for
not giving him a recommendation
Littlefield, Swepson, aud Abbott,
each, are to blame, oue as much as
the other, for the condition of af-fairs
iu your State.
They corrupted the Legislature,
using "such willing tools as J. H.
Harris to get the negro members to
vote for all of their Railroad
schemes. Uairis was by them paid
the money with which he purchased
his inm. Iu fact he would do
nothing unless he was paid for it.—
Be must have received not less
than #15,000 for his influence and
his von-. Abbott got at least 100,-
000 for his share. You all know
bow iniicn your Stale was swiudled
out of; the members themselves re-ceived
but little. Sam Cirrow was
paid #3,500 for trying to influence
Rodman's opinion ou the legality of
Ihe bonds issued the Railroad com-pany.
Colenian, who was tho first At-torney
General uuder Holden, was
paid #5(10 aud a consulate to resigu,
so that Mr. Oulds, the Governor's
son-in-law, could be appointed in
his place, to be of use to the ring,
as Coleman was always drunk.
Dick Badger and Tim Lee each
got their #S,000 of Slate bouds out
of the Atlantic & Ohio Railroad
Company appropriation. In fact,
not one of these Radical chaps that
are now hounding me, did a lick of
work ; but they got their pay, and
your State had to pay them. The
stealing extended from one end of
the State to the other, and was con-rined
entirely to the Republican
party. More than ouo mau now in
ease'and plenty in your State stole
what be is daily eating, aud if the
Republican party is to be continued
in power, you will get just four
yean more of it.
These men may howl at me as
much as they want. In supporting
Tilden and Hendiicks 1 know I am
assisting to get you iid of a lot of
leeches and thieves. I am some to
blame for having put them on you.
The uegroes, if let alone by these
leeches, would soon make good and
inoffensive citizens, bnt they, by
their fears being constantly worked
on, are kept in dread of the Demo-cracy.
Be kind and patient with
them, and they will see who are
their friends, and come to their old
maaterafor advice instead of Tim
Lee aud Cebe.
Let me say in conclusion, that
the above is only a sample of the
men who now want to coutrol the
destiny of a State.
They are fit followers of such a
thieving government as Grant has
given us lor the past four years, and
which, if the Republican party is
successful, we will have for the
next four years. Then it is for the
freemen of your State to rally
around the polls at the November
election, and by yonr votes get rid
Made to Treat for His
Deception.
On Tuesday, shortly after the ex
cursion train on the Carolina Cen-tral
had passed Lincolnton, the
^—^——^»^—^——— I whole party began to discuss the
oafret;heasned tgheietvehso,nefsotr mtheineves they ^li,i^of tb? i8V-i^w« in thei
J
r ; noon the majority by which \ance
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places. They are a disgrace to the I »ould carry the different congress-
people of you*r -State, and I am glad- ' tonal districts in the western por-
I parted company with them, and
got once more in honest company.
Then, as freemen, rally and defeat
them at the November electiou.—
Give one day's work for God and
your country.
JOHN T. DEWEESE.
What the Seventeenth Sec-tion
of the Cincinnati
Platform Means.
Serenteeth.—The national admin-istration
merits commendation for
its honorable work in the manage-ment
of domestic and foreign at
fails, and President Grant deserves
the continued and hearty gratitude
of the American people for his pa-tion
of the State. They were con-siderably
surprised, however, when
a thick, chubby built young man
stepped np and informed them that
he was from Scales' district, and
knew that Settle would make
heavy gains in t,hat section. On
being questioned as to his politics,
he declared that he was a Repub-lican,
but vowed that he did not
hold any office under the Federal
Government. The crowd were con-siderably
taken back at this an-nouncement,
and pnzzled to know
' why he took such an interest in
the election of Judge Settle, but he
protested that he was only a Re-publican
from principle and not
from pay. It soon became noised
around, however, that he had mis-
iEni«wa"rnanda1"p1ea"Jc.1e8 .-%CmSc.aLna?f,iF£la?t JreJpJresented affairs, and that he was mar8Ual uader ,he Fed.
form.
Thns the Republican party and
the Republican press endorse Grant
throughout his presidential career QreJnstar^j^d touted
d ■•t£r-2SL!£LtttS »«!. "?- nave lied to. chief. They must therefore be held
responsible in common with tirant
for the sins ot omission and com-mission
that have disgraced the
coantry during the Grant period.
It is now in order to proceed with
the indictment of Grant, and as
one of the counts we submit the
following exhibit of official dishon-esty
and fraud under his adminis-tration
; the administration which
in the language ot the Cincinnati
Platform, "merits commendation
for its honorable work in the man-agement
of our domestic and for-eign
affairs and entitles Grant to
the hearty gratitude of the Ameri-can
people":
Joshua F. Bailey, Internal Rev-enue
Collector in New York ;
amount of defalcation #132,000.—
Escaped.
Barton Abel, Internal Revenue
Collector in Missouri, #250,000.—
Unpunished.
John Spencer, Internal Revenue
Collector in Kansas, and deputies,
#150,000.—Unpunished.
John A. Phillips, Deputy Inter-nal
Revenue Collector in New York,
#30,000.—Escaped.
Morgan L. Harriss, Collector in
New York, #240,000.—Unpunished.
O. S. Stanton, Collector in Mary
laud, #19,500—Unpunished.,
J. 11 Orner, Collector iu Missouri,
#58,000.—Escaped.
W. C. V. Hicks, Collector in Mis
sissippi, #6,500—Unpunished.
B. B. Emery, Collector in Missis-sippi,
#5,000.—Unpunished.
W. B. Stokes, Supervisor in Ten-nessee,
#68,000.—Unpunished.
Horatio Jenkins, Collector iu
Florida, #15,000.—Unpunished.
John A. Harper, Collector in Illi-nois,
#15,000.—No arrest.
Win. A. Lawrence, Pension
Agent at New York, #17,000.—Ab-sconded.
W. F. Forbes, Agent at Philadel-phia,
#35,000.—Unpunished.
S. W. Weight, Agent for Indian
soldiers, 8500,000.—Unpunished.
W. T. Collins, Agent at Washing
ton, $60,000.—Unpunished.
Maj. Dodge, a Pension Agent,
pardoned out of the Albany peni-tentiary
for grabbing #300,000.
R. W. Fiancis, P. M. in Louisi
ana, robbing money order office of
$3,000.—Unpuuished.
era) Court.
The crowd then surrounded him,
(it was Jessee F. Hoskins, of
as one
us, for
you're a United States Marshal,
and you've got to treat for your de-ception!"
The depty marshal de-clared
that he had nothing to treat
them with or that he would do so.
willingly, when a large, round
shaped, healthy looking jug was
espied uuder the seat of the Fed-eral
official and taken out, to hia
utter dismay amid the cheers and
laughter of all the spectators, ne
declared that it was some four year
old brandy that he was carrying
home with him, and begged pite-ously
and hard to save it from the
throats that were already fearfully
dry with laughter and dust. It
was no nse; he had to treat, and
our informant added, iu conclusion:
" It was tne jollicst, merriest and
best natured crowd you ever saw,
aud probably no 'little brown jug,'
since the days of Noab, ever afford-ed
so much mirth and fun to so
large a number of people." The
jug was soon drained. —Charlotte
Obserrer. ^^^^^^^^^
How They Make Pins
A snappish, voracious little
dwarf of a machine polls in the
wire, bites it off by inches inces
sautly, 140 bites a minute, and
just as it seizes each bite a saucy
little hammer with a coucave face
bits the end of the wire three taps
and "upset*" it a head while he
grips it a countersunk hole be-tween
his teeth and lays it side-ways
iu a groove, where levers and
springs, playing like lightning,
paint the pins, and whence they are
dropped into a box. The pins are
then polished, and two very intelli-gent
machines reject every crook-ed
pin. Another automaton as-sorts
half a dozen lengths, and a
perfect genius of a machine bangs
the pius by the heads and trans-fers
them to slips of paper, when
the work is finished. The pan ma-chine
is one of the nearest ap-proaches
to the dexterity of the hu-man
hand that has beeu invented.
It is about the size of a sewing ma-chine,
which it closely resembles.
J. W. McLean, P. M. at Atlanta, „
Ga., $5,000.—Unpunished.
F. A. McCartney, Disbursing
Officer of P. O. Department, $30,-
000.—Unpunished.
—. Reed, P. M. at Jacksonville,
Florida, #17,000.—Unpunished.
J. W. Norton, money order clerk
of New York Post Office, #115,-
000.—Unpunished.
W. T. Clark, P. M. at Galveston,
#10,000.— Unpunished.
M. S. P. Lowe, clerk Boston Post
Office #30,000,—Unpunished.
J. W. Wood, P. M. at Indianapo
lis, #4,000.—Unpunished.
N. G Hayes, New Haven Post
Office, #2,000.—Unpunished.
Charles D. Edwins, U. S. Treas
nrer; convicted of embezzlemeut,
#8,500.—Pardoned.
Seth Johnson, Clerk of the Treas
ury, #50,000.—Unpunished. #
F. A. Mardeu, clerk in Treasury,
#12,000.—Unpunished.
J. J. Johnson, clerk in Stamp
Department of New York Sub
Treasury, #180,000.—Absconded.
G H. Dunning. Superintendent
of U. S. Assay Office, $20,000.-
Unpnnisbed.
B. P. Bnnkle, in charge of Freed-men's
Bureau in Kentucky, sen-tenced
for fraud and embezzlement.
—Pardoned.
In November, 1874, #4,000 were
stolen trom the Redemptiou Bureau
of the Treasury Department, and
last year 847,000 were stolen.—No
(irrcsts
Gen. Stannard, Collector at Bur
lington, Vt., pocketed #35,000—
Unpuuished.
One Robb, Collector at Savan
nah, Georgia, took #14,000.—Un
punished.
R. N. Bowerman, Deputy Collec-tor
of Baltimore, took #12,000.—
Unpunished.
Nathaniel Gale, Boston
Office, #5,000.—Unpunished.
Brine for Bathing the Feet of
Horses.
A correspondent writing to the
Practical Farmer, in relation to the
if -alt and lime for bathing the
fe.-I of horses, says : I have tried
strong brine on foundered or hoof-bound
horses, and with good re-sults.
I made a solution of salt
and applied it three times a day
by washiug the legs aud pouring
upon the bottom of the feet, and
holding them up a few minutes to
let it strike in. I saw the eflects in
a few days. I account for it in this
way. Salt will extract moisture
from the atmosphere, which keeps
the feet moist. Salt operates near-ly
like grease upon the foot. The
hoof becomes soft, yet pliable.
Like a chunk of wood saturated
with salt or brine, it is tough yet
moist. Thus it is with a horse's
(bet Here let me add that the
practice ot rasping a cracked hoof
to toughen it is all folly. Apply
brine, and you will effect a cure.
A horse'that is driven upon a
hard road is liable to get stiffened.
I have seen valuable horses driv-en
upon our own plank roads a few
days get quite lame. I reasoned to
myself as to cause, and adopted the
use of brine as a remedy, which
proved effectual.
infamous Cau-by
constitution T Tom Settle.
What Has He Done
Who was one of the leaders ii
puting upon us this
bv ! Toi
Who sustained Holden in his
devilish Kirk War? Tom Settle.
Who agreed with Pearson, when
he said the judiciary was exhaust-ed,
powerless to take poor men,
who had committed no crime out
of prison t Tom Settle.
Who supports Grantism, and all
of its stealing? Tom Settle.
Who went in the army as Cap-tain,
aud resigned to come home to
prosecute poor men for not going f
Naval ' Tom Settle.
What white man has refused to
Miller, Collector of Mobile, deuounce the infamous civil rights
#27,000.—Unpunished. bill f Tom Settle.
Colonel Robert Des Agnes, Dep Who is to day trying to stir up
uty Collector of the port of New all the old dead issues of the late
York, swindled the Government to war ! Tom Settle.
the amount of #200,000 before his Who are the plunderers and
"irregularities" were interfered ! thieves at Washington C.ity sup
with. He was arrested, convicted porting for Governor of North Car-and
sent to the Albany penitontia- olina t Tom Settle.
ry.-Pardoned. Who is a leading man in the rad-
W J Healy, Paymaster in the ical party that has brought so
Navy $38,000.—Unpunished. much distress upon the land 1 Tom
Paymaster Hodge, of the War Settle. .,.,.„„,
Department, convicted of embez Who favors the party that has put
zline .«445,000, was sent to the Al- upon us the revenue crew, worse
banv penitentiary for ten years.- than ever were the lice of ancient
Pardoned by Grant. Egypt t Tom Seti.e.-AI&marb
W. A. Britton. U. S. Marshal for , Times.
fflSlSSSw Bavonets to*™. !
KTproLuted/and was after- Ballots ■*»£*•„^
wards restored. t