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IS M1L.USDGEVIL.LE. GA.,
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t ..J tin*- '* ..„ - n . f.iiitinued accordiiv to these,
-ul-otl.crw.se orii nni
Kook and Job Work, ol «ll kinds,
PUOIIPTEY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
at tubs office.
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Church directory.
BAPTIST CHURCH-
Sti-vices 1st unit 3tl Sundays in each month, at 11
n'nia'k, a m ami 7 ]> in.
Sabbath School at 3 I--’ o’clonk, a in. O. M. Cone,
g D p t Kev I) E BUTLER, l’astor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Hour? of service on Sunday : 11 o’clock, a m, and
1 ii m. .
Suutlav School I o’clock p. in. Teachers meeting 3
... in—\V. E Fraukland, Superintendent.
pram meeting every Wednesday at 7 o’clock, p in.
Rev. A J JARRELL, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services every Sabbath at 11 o’clock, a in and .
p m.
Sabbath School at 3 p m. T. T. Windsor, Se.pt.
Prayer meeting every Friday at I o’clock, p ni.
Kev. G. T. GOETCHIUS, Pastor.
TRINITY (COLORED) METHODIST CHURCH.
Hours of service on Sunday 1! o'clock, a. in., 3 p.
m. ami 7 p. in.
Sumiav Sciiooi ut !* o'clock, ft. in. I each era meet-
Hi;, very Friday night.—Washington Pliillips, Supt.
Prayer meeting every Ti.uisday night.
Kev. E. IS. OLIVER, Pastor.
Lodges.
TEMPERANCE.
tlille.lgevillc 4'oimcil No I, meets in the Sen-
>tr (Tiuinbrr at the State Il.iuse on every Friday
evening at 7 ..Me. k J W. 11KKTY . W P.
P. (j. Uiuevk, Sec’y.
MASONIC.
K. aevnirnt l odge No 3 F A M . meets 1st and
lid Saturday nights ol each month at Masonic Hall.
(1 I) Cask, Secy. IRBY II HOWARD, W JI
Temple Chapter meeds the second and fourth
Saturday nights in each month.
(IDCask, Stc’y. S G WHITE, II P
'lille.lgevilb I.o.lgo of Perfection A.*, &
A ■ S. . H.-. meets every Monday nigiit..
SAAi’L G WHITE. T P G M
(1 D Cask. Exe Grand Sei ’y.
COOKING STOVES!
JOSEPH STALEY has on hami and to arrive a
v large li»t of Conking Stoves of tlio best mauufac-
tarw. which lie will Hell
Very Low Tor Cash,
br«D time till first of November for notea and pood
Security, or iu monthly installmeuta.
<;i\S ! GINS !!
Also a ten tine ENGLISH GUNS . u the same
ru )s offered for the Stoves.
Milledgcville, Ga., March 25Lli, 1873. 35 tf.
J Ti. HUMPHREY,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALERR IN
SADDLES, HARNESS,
Collars, Bridles, Whips,
LEATHER, OIL CLOTHS, &c., &c.,
At the old stand of the Federal Union Office,]
Hancock Street, IVXilledgcvillc, Cra.
E2TRACTS 7 20 M
PREMIUM LIST
—FOR—
GEORGIA
STATE FAIR!
COMMENCING
OCTOBER 27th, 1873!
—AT— •
CENTRAL CITY PARK,
MAC OH, GiY.
ING purchased a good stock of Saddles, Har-
;ss, Collars &c, &e-, and employed Mr. E. J.
who ia known to the people of this cominuni-
u excellent workman, l.e is prepared to offer
•oople of Baldwin, and adjoining counties, great
meuts to make their purchases in this liuc from
will manufacture to order and Urpnir in
pnlMt and mo.l substiasilinl i-a-ner^
best efforts will he, used to give ENIIRE
FACTION in material and workmanship, and
[tactfully solicits a share of tlie public patron:
dgeville, Ga.. Aug. 19,1873.
For bust acre of clover bay $ 50
For best acre lucerne hay 50
For best ncieof native grass 50
For best acre pea-vine hay - 50
For best acre of corn forage 50
For largest yield of Southern cane, on acre 50
For beet and largest display garden vegetables.. 25
For largest yield upland, one acre 200
For best crop lot upland short stHple cotton, not
less than live hales 50U
For best one bale upland short staple cotton.... 100
(and 25 cents per pound for tile bate)
For best bale upland long staple cotlou 100
(an.l 25 cents per pound paid for the bale)
Fertile best oil painting, by a Georgia lady—... 100
For the best display of paintings, drawings, etc.,
by the pupils of one school or college 100
For tne beat made silk dress, done by a lady of
Georgia not a dress-maker 50
For best made home spun dress, done by a lady
ot Georgia not a dress-maker 50
For best piece of tapestry in worsted and fioss, by
a lady of Georgia 50
For best furnished buby basket and complete set
of infant clothes, by a lady of Georgia 50
For handsomest set of Mouchoir-ca«e, glove box
and pin cushion, made bye lady of Georgia, 50
For best half dozen pairs of cotton socks, knit by
a lady over fifty years of age, (in gold) 25
For best half dozen paiis of cotton socks, knit by
a girl under ten years of age (in gold) 25
For the finest and largest display of female hand
icraft, embracing needlework, embroidery,
kuittiug, crocheting, raised work, etc., by one
lady..? 100
For the best combination horse. 100
For the beet saddle horse - . 100
For the best style harness horse 10(1
For the finest and best matched double team 100
For the best stallion, with ten of his colts by his
side 250
For the best gelding 250
For the best six-mule team— 250
For the best single mule 100
Fortlie best milch cow 100
For the best bu 1 — 100
For the best ox tenin 100
For the best sow with pigs 50
For the largest and finest collection of domeetic
fowls... 100
For the best bushel of corn........ 25
For the best bushel of peas........ 25
For the best bushel of wheat 25
For the best bushel ot sweet potatoes 25
For the best bushel ol Irish potables 25
For the best fifty stalks of sugar cane 50
For the best result on one acre iu any forage crop. 150
For the largest yield of corn on one acre 100
For the largest yield of wheat on one acre 50
For the largest yield oi oats on ODe acre.. 50
For the largest yield of rye on one acre 50
For the best result on one acre, in any cereal crop 200
Fop the best display made on the grounds, by any
dry goods merchant — 100
For the best display made by any grocery mer
chant I®®
For the largest and best display ’of greenhouse
plants, by one person or brin 100
For tiie best brass band, not less than ten per
formers ~o0
(and $50 extra per day for their music.)
For the best Ceorgia plow stock 25
For the best Geoigia made wagon (two horse)— 50
For the best Georgia made cart 25
For the best stallion four years old or more 40
For the best preserved lioiso over 20 years old 25
For best Alderney bull ^0
For best Devon bull --
For best collection of table apples grown in North
Georgia
For best collection of table apples grown in Mid
dle Georgia 5®
REGATTA.
Race one mile down stream on Ocmulgce River, un
der the rules ot the Regatta Association of AI neon.
For the fastest fuur-oared shell boat, race open to _
the world —- —$lofi
For the fastest double-scull shell boat, race open
to the world *>®
For the fastest single-scull shell boat, race open
to the world — •'*®
For the fastest four-oared eanoe boat, race open
to the world ®®
(By canoe is meant a boat hewn from a log,
without wash boards or other additions.)
The usual entry tee of ten per cent, will be charg
ed for the Regatta premiums.
MILITARY COMPANY.
For the best drilled volunteer military company
of not less than forty membets, rank and tile, _
open to the world--. $.50
At least five entries required.
RACES.
4 3:n
WATCHES, J E W E L K Y ,
M diamonds, silver
"are, clocks, flower
vases, cutlery, guns, pistols, &c., &o.
—ALSO—
PIANOS,
'all >'• li.cl.--sl 1-akI-. siy’.’, finish
nF-s- IS. fi Wand tune, whicli I obtain di
? 1 rect from the celebrated Muu-
ufactory of ‘Krnest Gabler,
Yoik, for which I am sole agent.
ttacles
Eye-Glasses, which are highly recommended
eir Strengthening' and Preserving qual-
See printed bills amt posteis. Allot the above
e sold cheap for cash at
G. T. WIEDENMAN’S.
8.—Watches and Jewelry repaired neatly as
hut particular attention will be given to all fine
: Tu’ult W
PURSE ONE—$300.
For Trotting Horses—Georgia raised; mile heats,
two iu three.
l3t horse to receive
2d horse to receive...
3d horse to receive
PURSE TWO-$450,
For Trotting Horses that have never beaten
mile heats, best two in three.
1st horse to receive
2nd horse to receive
3rd horse to receive
best
$200
2:40,
$300
, 100
. 50
“*eu.i Watches,
^dgeville, June 2d, 1873
45 tf
Look,! Look!
W. J. gray ,
ringr, House, Sign and Ornamental
PAINTER*
Wing, Frosting, Graining, A c. Paper Hanging,
ilushing, Furniture. Also, Carriage T rinuning.
1 orders promptly executed and satisfaction given.
?“Call at Gardner's Old Stand.
illedgeville, Ga., Feb 13, 1873. 30 ly
Coal Creek Coal!
^8T COAL at .reduced rates enn be delivered
iu Milledgeviile by the ear load by the Diamond
s Company. Price of Car-Load, nine tons, at the
*. only $20 25. Address Mr. E. F WILEY, Coal
’k, Tennessee.
“g. 6, 1873. 4 1m
PURSE THREE—$050.
For Trotting Horses—open to the woild; mile heat,
best three in five.
1st horse to receive f .O^ 1
2nd horse to receive 1®®
3d horse to leceive *>0
PURSE FOUR—$350.
For Running Horses—open to the world; two-mile
beats best two in three.
1st horse to receive $250
2d horse to receive 100
PURSE FIVE—$300.
For Running llorses-open to the world; two mile heats,
best two iu three.
1st horse to receive $30®
PURSE SIX—$500.
For Running Horses—open to the world; three mile
heats, best two in three.
1st horse to receive *'j 00
The above Premiums will bo contested tor under
the rules of the Turf. The usual entry lee of 10 per
cent oii the amuuutof the purse will be charged.
COUNTY EXHIBITIONS.
1. To the county which (through its Society or
Clubs) shall furnish the largest and finest dis
play, in merit and variety, of stock, products
and results of home industries, all raised, pro
duced or manufactured in the county $1000
2. Second best do j>®0
3. Third best do 300
4. Fourth best do 200
Eutries to be made, at the August Convention in
Atiiei.s-
Aiticles contributed to the County Exhibitions can
also compete for specific premiums iu the Premium
List; for instauce a farmer may contribute to the Ex
hibition of his county a bushel of Bread Corn, he cao
then enter it, individually, for premium 144.
August 27th, 1873. 52m.
The Southern Historical Society,
Which was organized in New Or
leans in ISO!) has been removed re
cently to Richmond Virginia. The
gallant Jttlxil A. Early is President, and
Col. George W. MunforU, is Secretary
and Treasurer. Gen. A. H. Colquitt
is the Vice President for the State of
Georgia—one Vice President being
appointed for each of the Southern
States. Affiliated societies are, (it is
expected) to be- formed soon in the
other Southern States. The main ob
ject of the association is to collect and
preserve all possible materials for a
complete history of the Southern
States, particularly that relatiouing to
the late great and disastrous conflict
with the North. Our official records
in this conflict are either lost, or in the
hands of the U. S. Government—save
such fragmentary records as may re
main in the hands of .private individ
uals. We know one gentleman here
who has in his hands a large mass of
papers which pertained to one of the
Quartermasters in the Confederate ser
vice. Doubtless he will contribute
these if properly applied to. The
character of contributions solicited is
set forth as follows :
1. The histories and historical col
lections of the individual States from
the earliest periods to the present time,
including travels, journals aud maps.
2. Complete files of the newspapers,
periodicals, literary, scientific and med-
cai journals of the Southern States, from
the earliest times to the present day,
including especially the period of the
recent American civil war.
3. Geological, topographical, agri
cultural, manufacturing and commer
cial reports, illustrating tl e statistics,
climate, soil, resources, products and
commerce of the Southern States.
4. Works, speeches, sermons and
discourses relating to the recent con
flict aud political changes. Congres
sional and State reports, during the
recent war.
5. Official reports aud descriptions,
by officers and private newspaper cor
respondents and eyewitnesses of cam
paigns, military operations, battles
and sieges.
6. Military maps.
7. Reports up<*a the munitions, arms
and equipment, organization, numbers
and losses of the various branches of
the Southern armies—infantry, artile-
ry, cavalry, ordnance and commissary
and quartermaster departments.
8. Reports of the Adjutant General
of the late C. S. A., and of the Adju
tant Generals of the armies, depart
ments, districts and States, showing
the resources of the individual States,
the available fighting population, the
number, organization and losses of the
forces called into actual service.
9. Naval operations of the Confed
erate States.
10. Operations of the Nitre and
Mining Bureau. j
11. Commercial operations. ]
12. Foreign relations, diplomatic
correspondence, etc.
13. Currency.
14. Medical statistics and medical
reports.
15. Names of all officers, soldiers in
the military and naval service of the
Confederate States who were killed in
battle or died of disease or wounds.
16. Names of all wounded officers,
soldiers and sailors. The nature of the
wounds should be attached to each
name, also the loss of one or more
limbs should be carefully noted.
17. Published reports and manu
scripts relating to civil prisoners held
daring the war.
18. All matters, published or un
published, relating to the treatment,
diseases, mortality, and exchange ol
prisoners of war.
19. The conduct of the hostile arm
ies in the Southern States. Private
and public losses during the war.
Treatment of citizens by hostile forces.
20. Southern poetry, ballads, songs,
&c.
We observe iu the Society’s publi- j
cation before us, a just and pleasing
tribute in the following language :
As a valuable coadjutor of the South
ern Historical Society, in its efforts to
preserve and place before the public
the materials for an authentic history
ol our cause, as well as a most able
and deserving journal, which, if pro
perly sustained, is calculated to do a
good work in developing the literary
independence ot the South, “ The
Southern Magazineedited by Wm.
Hand Browne, and published by Turn-
bull Brothers, Baltimore, is commend
ed to the support of the Southern peo
ple.
The next regular meeting of the
Southern Historical Society will be
held in Richmond, Va., on the 20th of
the present month, October. Vice-
President Colquitt is requested to ap-
appoint Delegates from Georgia.
Singular Death Incident.—Rev.
Samuel H. Merrill, of Portland, Me.,
arose in his pulpit in a church in Scar-
boro, Me., where he has recently been
preaching, on Sunday, 9th instant, and
announced his text, “There is but a step
between me and death.” Then he
stopped, suddenly sank back upon the
sofa, and being unable to rise, was car
ried to his home where, on Thursday
last, he died. He was chaplain of the
First Maine Cavalry during the war.
A Banquet Pot Off.—The ban
quet to ex-Gov. Cooke, which was to
take place at Willard’s Hotel Satur
day evening, has been deferred for the
present at his suggestion.—N. Y.
World.
Correupoudeuce to the New York Sun.
MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.
Ex-Governor Cooke’s Bank and the
Administration-
Inuoeeut Victims nnJ Government lVts Swallowed in
the Same Maelstrom—Tin- President's Special De
posit— Tiie effects of Riotons Living and Ruinous in
vestments.
Washington, Sept. 20.—Now that
the first excitement has passed, 'and
the event whicli created so profound a
sensation two days ago may be con
sidered calmly, it cannot be properly
said that the failure of Jay Cooke &
Co., and the branches of that concern,
with their vast ramifications, was a
surprise. The explosions may not
have been expected at the moment it
happened, but that it lies long been
anticipated by careful and competent
observers is well known.
All the discreditable arts employed
to lloat the bubble of the Northern
Pacific did not make it less a bub
ble, or relieve those behind that wild
speculation from the responsibility of
carrying a load that no well regula
ted banking house would* assume to
bear. It was a huge job from the
start, and nothing else, propped up by
corruption in and out ol Congress.
The very last advertisement of the
“investment bonds,” as they are call
ed, was a fraud upon its face, and to
practical eyes demonstrated the con
dition of those who would thus bare
facedly attempt to swindle the public
by wilful lying. While no prudent
capitalist ever touched the rotton con
cern, there are tens of thousands of in
nocent victims scattered over the coun
try who we e duped by these misrep
resentations.
In this city numb *rs of poor women
in the departments, officials and others
of limited means, were induced to in
vest their savings in this way; tempt
ed by the promise of exceptional in
terest, which of itself impaired the
confidence of the business community
and of prudent capitalists. The inex
perienced were cheated infamously, for
superadded to the false statements
published at enormous cost as a means
of deception, were the personal assur
ances of the parties who uttered these
worthless bonds.
The simultaneous burst of the First
National Bank, with that of Jay Cooke
& Co., shows their intimate relation
and dependence. When investiga
tion comes to be applied to the con
cerns of the former, it will be found
that the terms of the banking act were
shamefully relaxed in its favor, and
that this must have been done with the
privity of the Treasury Department.
The two concerns occupied the same
building here, and were .run independ
ently in name, the better to accom
plish the objects of the common own
ers of both.
* It is notorious that the President
and his Administration lent the weight
of their official and personal influence
to Cooke affd his associates to the ex
clusion of others better entitled to
confidence. They bad this favoritism
in the great syndicate operations, with
outrageous comraissiqns and allow
ances. To give them standing abroad
the aid and honored firm of Baring,
Brothers & Co., which for two genera
tions had represented the Gov
ernment as its financial agents
at London, were rudely removed by
Secor Robeson. He placed in the
hands of Cooke & Co., the mil
lions needed for supporting the
various squadrons in Europe, Asia and
South America, and received in return
considerations and loans to an impos
ing amount.
Under this protection and pressure
Government deposits were made here
on a large scale, paymasters of the ar
my and navy opened accounts, and
nearly the whole official tribe who
were at all able to keep money in
bank flocked to the First National as
the peculiar pet of the Administra
tion. So did the Ring thieves, con
tractors, and jobbers. And in the crash
which lias come there is not much sym
pathy with the rogues, who are swin
dled by some of their own confeder
ates. It seems like a just retribu
tion.
The substantial people engaged in
trade and the permanent citizens of
Washington kept away from the con
cern, never had the least faith in it,
and have thus been saved from loss by
their repugnance. On tiie other hand,
those who stole of their substance by
extortion and fraud have come to grief
in the very house of their own friends.
Gov, Cooke gave costly dinners and
flash entertainments as traps to the
unwary. His guests thought it
good to deposit in turn and to get big
interest on their unemployed capital.
They now find this hospitality to have
been rather costly, and are likely to
dine on ( plain fare for some time to
come.
The President was on such close
terms and had such unbounded confi
dence in the Cookes that he authoriz
ed the ex-Governor to draw his salary
and to employ it for his advantage.
They allowed him an exorbitant inter-
terest, and by that means conciliated
his personal favor in such a way that
the Ring had complete control at the
White House. Among Gen. Grant’s
peculiarities be has great admira
tion for the golden calf. He loved it
in the person of his ex-Governor and
the ex-Governor’s older brother, Vho
is credited with the more shrewdness
of the two.
On Thursday the President’s private
secretary was very active in seeking
admission to the broken bank. The
young man was in a nervous frame of
mind and bore a telegram in his hand,
which seemed to stimulate bis zeal
for information. But the dumb walls
looked down significantly, and the
huge doors did not swing back at his
open sesame. Now, it is pretended,
that the President’s deposit was of a
special character, and will thus be
I saved from the wreck. But the pluti-
! dered creditors may have something to
1 say on that score. Gen. Grant surely
ought not to desert his intimates in
this their extremity, after having re
commended, approved, and endorsed
them in every possible way. He is
greatly responsible for the position
which they have occupied here, and
for the ruin in which thousands are
now involved.
The effort to create the impression
that this break down is only tempora
ry, and will be followed by a quick
redemption of business, finds no be
lievers outside of a limited circle, who
have a direct interest in circulating
such an opinion. All the Ring organs
tell that story like parrots. They
are owned and controlled by princi
pals or confederates in it, and conse
quently have no liberty to say any
thing else. But it is really believed
that the affairs are far worse than now
appears, and that the Brooklyn Trust !
Company will be repeated on a grand- .
pretended to authorize, as well as
some other forms of indebtedness.
Tiie Governor bad these in charge,
and from the manner iu which he
treated others before this explosion,
there is great tear of discovery like
that in the Brooklyn Trust Company.
In fact the alarm is intense and gener
al of a fearful explosion when the
truth comes to be known.
There was no law for placing the
District deposits in the First National
Batik. They were grabbed by the
Governor in collusion with the subor
dinates, who doubtless received pay
for their part of the business. The
taxes for the current year have been
collected to the extent of nearly half a
| million and were deposited there. It is
claimed that they were largely check
ed out to meet urgent demands, but no
proof of the fact has been furnished.
A Ring official’s word does not go far
TH2 WASHINGTON TWEED.
er scale.
If there was a reasonable basis upon
which to expect resumption there
would have been no suspension, be
cause the banks would in self-defence
have made common cause at this pinch
to prevent a catastrophe, even at a
great sacrifice, which must be attend
ed with the gravest consequences.
Speculation has swamped them hope
lessly, and that fact must be confront
ed sternly to avoid other evils that
may prove even more disastrous than
this.
At this’ time it is not possible, with
the limited information which has been
vouchsafed, to say what is the extent
of losses suffered by the national aud
District Governments. They are both
very great. So much is known in
spite of the concealments and lies.
And although Henry D. Cooke here
assures his victimized depositors that
all will be made good, and others that
the accounts of the Treasury and the
District are comparatively small, no
credit is given to these rose-colored
statements. They are utterly false,
and coined for the occasion.
Cooke retained his place as Gov
ernor to the last hour. When he saw
the inevitable staring him in the face,
then and then only did he retire. He
was powerful enough in those last
days to name his chief confederate fbr
his successor, and to obtain from the
President an endorsement not only of
himself but of Shepherd, which reads
strangely by the light of these devel
opments, only six days after the effu
sive letter was written. And he con
trived ^ilso to have a banquet gotten
up for him, which was gazetted to
take place to-night.
Some of the signers weakly yielded
to this solicitation, partly from beiug
bankers themselves and partly from
mistaken generosity to a man out of
office. Mr. George W. Riggs, one of
the most responsible, knew well that
Cooke deserved no such recognition,
but on the contrary reprobation, and
therefore is not much pitied for
having compromised the truth and
being paraded in such a relation.
For a year past and more Cooke has
spent far more time in the Ring Club
House, on New York avenue, than in
the Governor’s office. He there re
ceived the flattering incense of the
menials who adore power and money,
played the role of chief, and ate and
drank of the best that could.be procur
ed in these parts. This free living and
especially the [free drinking, has told
upon his presence and conduct. He is
bloated like an iron-clad toper, and
has lost all character for truthfulness
among honorable men. Hundreds of
the most responsible people are ready
to prove his habitual falsifications in
the most serious as well as frivolous
matters. Nothing but supposed wealth
and the protection of the President
have prevented ruinous exposures.
This financial crash knocked the
Ring in the head. Speculation has
suddenly stopped just as if it had been
chloroformed. Kilbourn & Latta who
operated as Cooke’s private agents
ami as the brokers of the Ring, do not
rush about as they did a few days ago,
with plats of speculative property and
plans of new schemes for Congress to
patronize. They are greatly subdued,
like crowds of other jobbers who have
been feathering their nests at the pub
lic expense.
The feeliugs of those Senators and
Representatives who dealt with Jay
Cooke & Co. or the First National;
who sold their votes iu the bauk par
lors; swore they were the greatest of
financiers; who applauded the North
ern Pacific and the Washington Ring
as persecuted saints and who stood
ready to appropriate more millions,
can be better imagined than described.
They will find the familiar halls de
serted and must seek green fields and
pastures new.
One of them was here a few weeksago,
looking vigorously after his share of
the spoils. It was the very Honora-
ble'C. A. Eldredge of Wisconsin, who
served substantially as Ring counsel
while acting as member of the Com
mittee of Investigation. It appears
that Cooke failed as usual to keep his
contract. So Eldredge incontinently
denounced him in hearing of many as
the very worst of liars, which was say
ing much considering the associates of
the member from Wisconsin.
There is strong distrust about the
management of the Freedman’s Bank,
the condition of which was shown to
be bad by the recent examination of
the Treasury officers. Cooke was one
of the trustees, aud influential in its
councils. He shouldered upon it some
of the burdens which his own banks
thought it better not to carry. Be
sides this fact, it is well koown that
the Ring obtained large discounts upon
collateral that would not pass muster
out of doors.
Much anxiety is felt for the District
bonds, which the last^Ring Legislature
Why Shepherd was Appointed Gov
ernor.
From tlio Eastern Argus.
It was very natural that the Presi
dent should .appoint Boss Shepherd
Governor o. the District of Columbia.
He is not only chief of the worse than
Tammany Ring which now rules and
is ruining the city of Washington, but
he is the man who attempted to get
Mr. Dana, editor of the New Y ork Sun,
abducted to Washington for convic
tion on an alleged libel. He failed,
and now Grant makes him Govern
or.
Fnun the 1‘rovideuce Freda.
If a man has been guilty of rascali
ties so great that the offence “smells to
heaven,” and the pressure of the situ
ation causes him to vacate, so soon as
his resignation is received the Presi
dent endorses him by letter. The last
endorsement is that of Gov. Cooke,
who resigned the Governorship of the
District of Columbia. The President
sent him a tearful letter, and from its
tenor one would suppose that the Pres
idential heartstrings were breaking.
This letter of the President was remark
able in view of the peculiar appoint
ment of a successor of Gov. Cooke.
The person appointed has been notori
ous as the head of the Ring, the lead
ing spirit in consummating that stu
pendous system of jobbery a«d fraud
by which a debt of nearly twenty mil
lions has been rolled up, ostensibly for
public works, when there is nothing to
show for the money spent.
From t!>e Cincinnati Gazette.
Alexander R. Shepherd, who has
been appointed by the President to the
office of Governor of the District of
Columbia, is President of the District
Board of Public Works, and actual
head of the Administration in carry
ing forward the very extensive system
of the city construction which has ex
hausted two liberal appropriations by
Congress, has incurred liabilities great
ly exceeding the large maximum limi
tation of debt, and has thrown upon
Congress the alternative of assuming
this debt or leaving the property of
the city subject to a tax which will be
virtual confiscation. This has brought
the board of Mr. Shepherd into bad re
pute. Inasmuch as the administra
tion of the District is to come direct
ly before Congress in the requirement
to assume its debt, and inasmuch as
the Senate’s confirmation of Mr. Shep
herd would endorse that administra
tion, and commit the Senate to
the payment of the debt and the
continuance of .this scale of expen
diture, a thorough investigation of
it should precede the confirmation.
From the Boston Post.
At a convenient time before the
meeting of Congress Gov. Cooke re
turns to Washington from Long
Branch, with the President’s letter in
his pocket endorsing his official action
as Governor, and appointing Vice-
President Shepherd to his place. It
is an open proclamation for the perpet
uation of Ring rule in the District.
The better to comprehend the real spir
it of the f resident’s action, it is to be
noted that after all this popular clamor
against the abuses under Gov. Cooke
and Vice-President Shepherd, and in
the face of the bankruptcy of the Dis
trict under their management, he nev
ertheless lias the assurance to say that
“if your (his) successors itt the office
gives the satisfaction that you (he)
have, property owners iu the District
of Columbia, the people at large, and
all who have an interest in the nation
al capital, will have reason to congrat
ulate themselves on the new form of
government given them.
From the Imlianapolia Sentinel.
Gen. Grant has vindicated his repu
tation for pugnacious obstinacy in the
appointment of Alexander Ii. Shep
herd, or as lie is commonly known,
“Boss Shepherd,” to the office of Gov
ernor of the District of Columbia.
Shepherd has been Vice-President of
the Board of Public Works of tiie Dis
trict, and has displayed an utter disre
gard of all the laws trammelling the
place. He has given his active aid to
all of the startling expenditures in the
erection of public works. It was_be
who recently attempted the abduction
of a New York editor for exposing the
extent o r bis misdoing. His office has
been a standing scandal and his char
acter a reproach to his party. He has
been in short guilty of the same profli
gacy, though perhaps not to the ex
tent as the thief Tweed, and at the
first opportunity the President obsti
nately thrusts public opinion aside,
and gives him a high and honorable
office* Public office should be filled
only by the best men available, not by
the refuse. It is in the power of the
President to elevate the standard of
the civil service by wise appointments,
but it certainly does not look as though
he were bent upon doing it when lie
selects such men as Bingham, a Cred
it Mobiler member and salary grabber,
for tbe post of Ministry at Japan,’Ja
son Brown for Secretary ol Wyoiningt
and Shepherd for Governor of the na
tional territory at the capital?
Governor Smith Kemovos Drosanre.
We publish the following from the
Constitution :
“Governor Smith, with characteris
tic readiness to lighten the popular
burdens, has suspended the wliolsale
liquor tax that has been found to work
injuriously. He did this in response
to a general request.
The Governor has expressed great
sympathy with the people in the pres
ent stress of money matters, and will
do all that he can to relieve the situa
tion.
This is a choice bit of financial in
telligence to be sent out to the world.
We would like t> know who gets a
benefit from the suspension of the li
quor tux. Is whisky to be any cheap
er? Bro. Avery will please consider
himself iu the witness box, and answer
the above query. We have always un
derstood that tbe more taxes were
forced from the dealers, the more they
watered and poisoned their liquors. If
we are correct Gev. Smith is certainly
wrong. For if a man has concluded
to kill himself drinking alcohol, the
sooner he does so the better.
This is a matter which Bro. Searcy
better look alter.— Grijfin Star.
The Bubble Burst.—Jay Cooke &
Co. have failed, carrying with them a
number of smaller firms. The histo
ry of a great land speculation is the
history in the great majority of cases
of gas-bag fortunes and disastrous
collapses. The sad part of the story
in reference to the failure of the head
and front of the North Pacific Rail
road enterprise is, that aided by tbe
influence of preachers, Christian states
men, and similar sharks, who win the
confidence of trusting people only to
betray and ruin, Jay Cooke & Co.,
have induced thousands of families
to entrust about all their worldly
wealth to their keeping, who will now
find themselves penniless. Many thou
sands have also listened to the plausi
ble lies told by tbe hireling decoys,
who sported “Rev.” before their
names, and expended their all in mov
ing their families into a northern wil
derness only to find themselves tbe
helpless victims of a needy corporation.
The millions upon millions of hard-
earned dollars that this firm has gath
ered and squandered represent but the
blasted hopes of a multitude.— Ohio
Statesman.
—
The Government Bankers.—It is
reported that the suspension of Henry
Clews & Co., regretted by all classes
of the community, was a special and
most poignant aiiliction to the Presi
dent. “Poor Henry,” said Senator
Morton, “his failure will hit General
Grant the hardest of anything*” We
are curious to know how the Presi
dent felt yesterday when he learned
that the gallant stand make, by Clews
& Co., in New York during the early
days of the panic was at the expense
of the firm of Clews, Habicht & Co.,
in London, and that the foreign house
bad consequently been compelled to
close its doors. Clews, Habicht & Co.
are the financial agents of the State
Department in Europe; Jay Cooke,
McCulloch & Co., are the financial
agents of the Navy. The suspension of
either bouse involves the Government
in serious euibarassment, and even
casts upon it a certain degree of dis
credit.—N. Y. Tribune.
Anothfr Admonition.—When all
things else fail, nature is permitted to
become man’s teacher. Her lessons
this year have been very impressive if
not satisfactory to the husbandman.
From seed time to harvest she has
admonished him to put not his trust in
king cotton—that man cannot live by
cotton alone but must subsist py the
varied products oi mother earth. And
now comes the rust and the caterpil-
!er and the storm, and last though not
least, the blue jay (Cooke) to devour
and gobble up the half crop at half
price. Is it not a glorious thing to
make cheap cotton and buy dear meat
and bread ? Will our farmers try it
another year, or wffll they commence
forthwith to prepare nice wheat and
oat fields, and barley and rye, and
clover aud grass patches, that they and
their little ones, and tbeir flocks and
herds may live and not die ? Who
will strike for premium wheat and
oats! What say the patrons of Hus
bandry? Brothers all, let us show
our faith by our works.
Was Captain Hall Poisoned?—The
Mistery of Has Death Not Yet Unravel
ed.—The New York Herald special,
dated London, September 23, says
Morton, who personally attended Capt.
Hall to the moment of his death, makes
the statement that Hall returned ia
perfect health from the journey which
preceded his final illness. lie was a
short time iu his cabin when he took
some coffee, and immediately after
wards became sick and vomited. Hall
said they were poisoning him. Morton
evidently believes the same thing. He
also suspects the subsequent medical
treatment. He has, however, a vio
lent feeling against the doctor, which
may color hisjudgment.
Georgia Girls.—The N**w York
Express, commenting upon those dear
Rome girls who got prizes at tbe Fair
as the best cooks, rapturously ex
claims: “Blessed be the day when wife
or daughter, can cook for husband or
father a good dinner* and neitherget
sick nor feel degradation^’
Ay, blessed be the daj the girl!
What a wife to have at this particu
lar juncture!