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LAGRANGE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1868.
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OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
Thanksgiving Day Nortlt—SumptuouB Dinner* given at
till the Benevolent Institution*—A Review of Five Poiuta
— bloody Murder—Prise Fighting the imllroct Cause.
NewYobk, Nov. 28, 1808.
Thanksgiving day at tho North aud in tho
South, aro entirely two distinct and different
things. Hero it in tho grand gala-day of the
wholo year, universally observod, and hailed with
dolight by tho old and young, tho rich and iho
poor. It is, to tho Northerner, what Christmas
is to tho Southerner, and, on that day, aro wont
to gathor tho far uoparatod members of the family
irclo onoo again, to reassemble around tho
henrthstono of tho old homestead, to cheerily
while aw ay the hours in feasting and morry-mak-
ing, inutcad of tho lang syne stylo of fasting and
prayer.
It is cany to imagino what a gay and festivo
occasion it is to the opulont and wealthy, but
thoso poor, friendless lioira of flclclo fortune,
tlioao who have not whorcon to lay their heads,
it in imposaiblo to describe with what unuttorablo
delight tlioy welcome in tho day, and with what
gusto they dovour tho dainty viands on which
this day, alono of all tho year, they aro regalod
by tho charity of fortune's more favored children.
At nil of tho bonovolont and charitable insti
tutions, and New York stands pre-eminent for
its many institutions for tho alleviation of tho
miseries and sufferings of those poor outcasts,
sumptuous tables wero spread, groaning beneath
tho weight of dolicacies.
I had tho pleasure of witnessing tho oxorcises
at tho Fivo Points’ House of Industry, Fivo
Points’ Mission and House of tho Littlo Wander
ers, but the exorcises boing very similar in all, it
is needless to givo you more than a brief account
of one of them. But ilrst, lot mo introduce you
to tho locality those principal institutions are in.
Fivo Points 1 Who, that has heard of Now
York, has not also heard of this, her peculiar in
stitution? Ton or fifteon years since it was a
leprous plague-spot to the city; a howling earth
ly hell of infamy and degradation—indiscrimi
nately peoplod by demon Jews, negroes and
Irish-—abounding in hot beds of prostitution—the
den of thieves and black legs, and a harbor of
refuge to all criminals and skulkers of law and
justice. It was a reckless jeopardizing one’s life
peacably traversing it after night-full or even in
the sunlight, unaccompanied by the police; and
a belated wanderer, if ho was dressed docontly,
was relieved of his clothes us well as money; if
resistance was offered, ho would soon be knock
ed senseless by a merciless blow or two on the
head. So powerful had they become, that it is
only after years of the harshest legislation that
tho city authorities have been able to hold them
in check, but, at length, it is gradually becom
ing purified and reclaimed, and now it can be
explored in comparative safety. This glorious
result is, in a great measure, due to the health
ful influence exerted by tho benevolent build
ings, erected right on the site of the former (lens
of vice and pollution. Upon the site of tho “Old
Brewery” now stands the Mission House, and is
the original institution from which the Howard
Mission and House of Industry are branches.—
Thoy nil aro seeking to porform their part in tho
bonofleent work of relieving the sufferings, edu
cating, elevating and saving tho thousands of
orphaned street children, who, if left to tho bale
ful influences which surround them, would bo
irretrievably lost, without the aid of such insti
tutions.
• Thankflgi ving day k&Iways a wishtKl-for period
with these stray lambs, for, on it and chistmus,
they are treated to a splendid dinner of turkeys,
chickens, roast beef and pork, apples, oranges,
pics, puddings, cakes, etc., in great abundanco
and endless variety.
The exercises, besides the banquet, consisted
of speeches from various friends of tho institu
tion, and singing and calisthenics by the little
wanderers. It was a touchingly beautiful sight
to see four or five hundred of them, from tho
little toddler of four summers to twelvo and four
teen years of ago, march to the dining table to
tho tap of the drum, and at a given signal they
all clasped their little hands, closed reverently
their eyes and, in sweetly modulated tones, in
voked their Father’s blessings on his children* —
After they had feasted they devoutly returned
thanks, and in tho samo orderly manner filed out
of tho room to the sound of the drum, into the
largo chapel, where they all took seats in rows
ranged one above tho other, so as all to be in
full view of tho spectators. Hero they were
catechised and declaimed pieces, while from
time to time, their tiny voicos ruised aloft in
warbling aud lisping hymns of praiso and grati
tude, made most sweet and plea&ing melody.—
They were all neatly dressed, persons cleanly
washed, with eyes sparkling and flashing with
pleasure and happiness.
In singular contrast to these quiet, well-behav
ed children, were the street children, who, crowd-
g by hundreds around tho doors, were brought
and gladdened by a hearty square meal By
their rude, boisterous^mauner they exemplified,
in a painful degree, the vast difference between
tho boorish, uneducated man, and the refined,
polished gentleman. After theso tho destitute
old men and women had their lean, lank stom
achs astonished by what was to them a royal
banquet.
Bosides the Institutions I have named, there
are very many other similar ones—all engaged
in tho grand, praise-worthy undertaking of caring
for theso poor, destitute children.
From some cause or othor the newsboys wero
neglected, and dropping in their lodging house
about noon, I saw some half score of the littlo
fellows lounging about, looking perfectly miser
able—for they had counted so high on having a
good time, and were so cruelly disappointed.—
On to-day, however, thoy had ample amends
raado them, by an elegant dinner, which they
did their utmost to punish for its not coming
soonor!
On Tuesday, of the present week, a terribly
bloody tragedy was enacted on Canal Street
Tho unfortunate victim was a noted sport by tho
name of Felix Larkin, a keeper of a drinking
saloon, a dear lover of prize fights, and a great
backer of prizo fighters. He was “over three
shoote in the wind;” when, with two other sports
and his pet prizo fighter, O’Baldwin, the Irish
giant, ho, by his foul-mouthed, filthy tongue,
brought on his own rash end. Tho particulars
are, that ho, with his threo pals, wont into an
oyster saloon, and ordered oysters, when ho,
with foul words, mingled with cursing, ordered
the proprietor to hurry up the oysters. The
man, taking umbrage at his unbearable conduct,
a hand to hand conflict ensued, and, after a des
perate strugglo, resulted in the death of Larkin.
Whore will this beastly prize-fighting mania
coaso ? and why are there not laws enacted so
stringent and aevoro as to quell -forever theee
fiendish displays of brutality ?
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Among the gifts to a newly married pair in
New Jersey tho ‘other evening, was a broom sent
to the lady, accompanied with the following sen
timent:
••This trifling gift aocept from me,
Ita use I would commend;
Iu sunshine u*c the brushy part,
Iu storms, tho other end.* 1
Swearing on the bible wa i first introduced in
to judicial proceedings by the Saxons A. D. 600.
It was called a corporeal oath, because the wit-
neas touched some part of the holy scriptures.
Georgia New* from our Exchanges.
Bishop Boekwith officiated at tho churohos in
Augusta on Hunday lout.
It is thought that Mr. Frierson, of Athens,
shot by Knox lately will lose his log.
Maj. J. P. Cowardin is lecturing in Augusta
on the “ Horrors of Reconstruction.”
Gen. Joe Johnson has been in Romo, tho
guest of lion. Charles If, Smith (Bill Arp.)
Lands In Southwestern Georgia havo recently
sold at from ten to twenty-two dollars an aoro.
Tho cotton receipts in Romo, since September
8tli, are 2,642 bales, of which 2,423 have been
shipped.
Tho gin liouso of Gen. Wm. M. Browne, near
Athens, was robbed of a quantity of sood ootton
a few nights ago.
Tho largest cargo of cotton ever sent to Liver
pool from .Savannah—4,899 halos—sailed on the
28th of Novomber.
Foster Blodgett loft Augusta for Washington
City, on tho afternoon of the recont charter
election of that city.
Tho Albany and Thomaaville railroad has
been put under contract aud will bo finished by
November next year.
A Radical membor of the Legislature from
Lowndes was urrosted, “drunk aud disorderly,”
in Atlanta u few days ago.
Mr. David E. Cumming, on old residont of
Washington county, and a prominent Mason,
died a few days since.
A white woman was brutally beaten by a
negress at Westovor, about four milos from
Augusta, the other day.
Mr. B. A Wise, of Macon, is inaugurating a
hoavy diroct trado with England, in all the lines
of Crockery aud Chiuaware.
At a sale of city lots for taxes, in Columbus,
on Tuesday, 1st inst., nobody would bid, and
the proporty had to bo withdrawn.
A nogro paper in this State says that John A.
Wimpy has received a certificate of election as
representative from tho Cth District
Mr. E. T. Powers, of Columbus, Ga, w as mor
tally wounded a few days sinco by tho acciden
tal disohurgo of a gun whilst out hunting.
The residence of John F. Morton, Chattooga
county was, with all its fumituro, destroyed by
fire on the. night of the 30th ult Loss $8,000.
Tho Talbotton Gazette says that nine out of ten
farmers of that county, have made more than
enough corn and meat to do them the coming
year.
D. W. D. Boully, the founder of tho Hawkins-
ville Dispatch, (a paper which has been tuspend-
cd for some time), iB about to resume its publi
cation.
Mr. Mathews, employed on tbo Muscogee
road, while attempting to couple two trains on
Thursday, was so badly hurt that he died in a
few hours.
A negro killed another negro at Taylor’s Mill
in Forsyth county, a few days since, in a quarrel
about ten cents, which the murdered owed the
murderer.
A committee of dissatisfied Rudicals called on
Gou. Meade a few days since to got his aid iu
defeating the Atlanta election. The Gonoral
couldn't see it.
Capt. Barney being now sick in New York tho
Festival in Rome, that tfasappeinted for tho 9tli
inst., aud tho jubilee in Selma on tlie 10th have
both been postponed.
LFivo men escaped from tho Columbus jail on
Sunday the 29th tilt. They broke the lock from
the main door, and are at largo. All were con
fined for minor offences.
A negro woman, living near thu Augusta Arse
nal, shot another, with whom she was quarreling,
on Monday, but only succeeded in killing a
child of the latter about six years old.
The physicians of Rome, Ga. aro out in a pub
lished curd appealing to their patrons to pay for
services. It is rather hard to work for money and
then beg tho beneficiary of your labor to pay you.
One hundred and tbirty-nino marriage licen
ces were issued from the ordinary’s office iu
Chatham county for tho throe months ending
November 30th—of which fifty-eight wero for
white parties and eighty-one for colored.
6revet Capt. Charles F. Rockwell, First Lieut.
Ordnance Department, U. S. A., and late military
Treasurer of Georgia, died after a short illness,
at the residence of his mother-in-law, Mrs. S.. R.
Hobbie, near Washington City, on the night of
14th ult.
De la Mesa, Bureau agent at Rome, has
been arrested on a bench warrant, signed by
Judge Parrott, based on a true bill, for seizing a
plantation in Whitfield county, as abandoned
land, and, by threats of the military deterring
the agent of the owner from acquiring posses
sion.
The Columbus Sun says that, just after Court
adjourned in the afternoon, a few days ago, An
drew Howard, a tolerably old negro, who had
beon found guilty by a jury of keeping a disor
derly houge, approached Judge Worrill, and begg
ed that ne would order him given thirty-nine
lashes and lot him off. The old fellow was in
eameBt Of course his feeling appeal for tho
drubbing was disregarded.
The West End suburb of Atlanta is fast grow
ing into importance. It is now incorporated as
a separate town from Atlanta, and is to have a
city govormnont of its own, independent of At
lanta, thus making taxes much lighter, while
protection to tho citizens ia much greater. A
street railroad is about to be started, connecting
the West Endians with the main town town, and
we expect to receive a copy of tho West End Ga
zette. “Go in West Endians and Win.” So
says tho Griffin Star.
Eight or ton miles below Macon, the Telegraph
says there is a historical spot known as Brown’s
Mound. It is surrounded by a low, level ooun”
try, and is the most elevated point for many
miles. There are traces of a fortification upon
it to this day. The lino of breastworks can be
distinctly traced out. Barious relics, such as
crosses, bavo beon picked up upon the mount,
and as no other army except that of Hernando
De Soto ever passed through Goorgia, whose re
ligious faith was that of the Catholic Church, it
is certain that tho works were thrown up by the
troops of that Spaniard. Ho fought many bat
tles with tho Indians upon his march from Florida
to the Mississippi river, and perhaps ono at this
point.
Judge Parrott, during tho week, in Dade Su
perior Court, dooided that the “Homestead”
provision of the now Constitution,, so far oe it
attempts to oxempt laud which by the laws of
forco at the date of tho rendition of a judgment,
prior to tho adoption of the Constitution, was
subject to levy and sale, as in conflict with the
Constitution of the United State*, and to that
extent void. He also decided that sections two
and seven of the “Relief Law," which authori
zes a defendant, by affidavit and motion, to
open a judgment, and again submit this case to
to a jury, under that law, for tho purpose of re
ducing tho amount acoording to the equity of the
case, arc in conflict with scotion six, article U
of the new State Constitution, and therefore
void-
Mummarx of Kcw« from out-Excbaugo*.
The inaurreotion in Cubu appears to bo dying
out.
Thanksgiving day was observed by tho Amer
ican residents in Berlin.
Bayard Taylor is now iu Romo writing letters
to tho New York THbune.
Jofferson Davis has delivered a locturo in
England, on tho Holy Land.
Sovon hundred trains pass oaeh othor daily at
tho Clapham, London, Junction.
Gypsies have mado their appearance about
Pensacola. Bo says tho Observer.
J. M. Lyon, oditor of the Milwaukee News,
died suddenly in that city rocently
Ten thousand dollars is the cost of a trossoau
that was rocently married in Now York.
Several public speakers have been arrested in
Paris for an expression of their opinions.
Tho celebrated Atlantic Garden Theatre, iu
Philadelphia, was burnod on tho 25tli ult.
W. W. J. Kelley, late Democratic Lieutenant
Govomor of Florida, has gone over to the Radi
cals.
James Grant, charged with killing of H. Itivos
Pollard, has been admitted to bail in tho sum of
$10,000.
By tho latest votums the Liberal piajority in
tho recent elections in England is one hundred
ond seventeen members.
A stove pipe hat, sixty-five years old, has been
discovered in Essex, Musb., and is said to be ex
actly in the present fashion.
Many mombers of tho Forty-first Cougress aro
said to favor a meeting in March to elect a Speak
er, and then immediately adjourn.
Tho suit for libol, based on a parliamentary
debate, which was brought against the London
Times, has been decided in its favor.
Republicanism is on the increase in Spain. —
A public demonstration woe made in Saragossa
in favor of a republic on the 25th ult.
The Russian government has sent to this coun
try two civil engineers for the purpose of exam -
ination of our gTcat system of railway.
British claims tor indemnity on cases adjudi
cated in tho American Courts of Admiralty will
not bo hoard by tho Alabama commission.
Li Washington, on Thanksgiving day, tho ne
groes turned out in force, and tho streots were
crowded with admiring colorod spectators.
Tho tugboat O. L. Swift sunk in Lake Erie
recently, and tho officers, taking refuge on her
cabin, were floated into the Niagara river, where
they wero rescued.
/.Jr. Sumner declares himself in favor of a
spoody return to specie payments, to relieve the
country from the disgrace aud embarrassmout
of continued national bankruptcy.
Ex-Presidont Davis delivered a discourse at
Leavington, England, on tho importance of ex
ploring Jerusalem, and tho peculiar fitness of
Englishmen for the honorablo task.
Hunnicutt, tho Virginia Radical, culls the
Frecdmeu’6 Bureau “a politicalcurso—the most
powerful engine of political trickery that has
boon known to the world since God made Adam."
The Alexandria (La.) Democrat learns that the
sugar planters expross themselves more than sat
isfied with their prospects this season. The cane
is yielding bountifully and has never done bet-
VltwM of Senator Morion.
From a letter in tho Nov/ York Herald, giving THE
an account by ono of ita correspondents of a
conversation with Senator Morton, wo extract
tho leading portion, as follows:
“The rooonstruction laws propor, of course,
will not be iutorierred with, but the establish
ment of governments in these Bouthorn StateB
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It should bu noil-reliant, no doubt, while 1 fu "? comprehend one of tho most extensive aud
it i.i.. a- ’... 1 mucinous BWindloa over Doruetrutod UDOU anV
From the NmIivUIc Rttuuer 1st.)
Mysterious hints as to the solvency of the
“ Southern Firo Insurance Company,’ of this
city, and even of gigantic frauds on the part of
those immediately concerned in its management,
jn our streets for several
uing a flood of light wak poured
Iho subject, which enabled the public to
ent.
suit or Injury. The governments in tho Boutli-
orn States have failed in this respect, not from
uny inherent defects in the constitutions of these
governments, but from the spirit of riotous and
community
The following synopsis of an application filed
with Judge Cary by some of the chief sufferers,
will give a clear idoa of the developments that
luctious disregard of law and order exhibited by 1 have been made.
one portion of tho people, and the inability of! , ^ bill chargee that in l8Gl> the Legislature
the other portion—to whom by legal process 0 f I ebarterod the Firo Insurance company, aud
Tho Bible Society Record says, that in more
than two hundred different languages the people
of tho earth arc permitted to read tho word of
God in their own tongue, in which they were
born.
Tho death is announced of ono of tho last of
tho Waterloo officers, General Alexander C. Mer
cer, Colonel commandant of the Royal Artillery,
which occurred on the 9th ult, ut the age of
eighty-five years.
Tho fruit and vegetable canning business is
said to rank third in point of importance in the
business of Baltimore. We have hoard it said
that the peach canning establishment in Atlan
ta, last summer, made forty thousand dollars.
A “ girl of the period” comments thus on Mor-
monism: “How absurd—four or fivo wives for
ono man, when the fact is, each woman in these
times ought to have four or five husbands,
would take about that number to support her
decently.”
Secretary Seward, recently sent a note to
Secrotary Wells requesting him to instruct Roar
Admiral Davis to proceed at once to Paraguay
and tako measures there to prevent violence to
American oitizens and redress any extreme in
sult to our flag.
A negro riot occured in Washington on the
27th ult, and in quelling it two officers were in
jured and one negro killed. The fight was ex
clusively among negroes and originated by some
trouble in a procession on the way to lay the
corner stone of a church.
A number of Charlesionians are making pre
parations to build a large and magnificent hotel
at Aiken, South Carolina, as a summer resort for
Southerners from the low country, and winter
refuge for Northern invalids, to whom the cli
mate of Aiken has long proved salutary.
A young man was shot and killed at Colling-
wood, Canada, recently, while ho was attempt
ing, with a party of others, all of whom were dis
guised, to rescue a girl from a house iu which
she was said to be detained against hor will.—
Tho proprietor of tho houso fired the shot
Louisville lately enjoyed a first class sensation
—a Judge Leslie with throe hundred thousand
dollars, in search of an alleged heiress, supposed
to be a shining light in the demi-monde. Just as
the excitement was at its highest pitch, the
Judge departed suddenly and mysteriously.
Papers are telling their readers that the air
pump (or, in other words, dry cupping,) is a
cure for paralysis. Why do editors publish such
stuff? It is the cause of much distress and dis
appointment among tho afflicted ond cannot by
any possibility benefit any body but adventur
ers and swindlers.
One of thoso floating paragraphs which get
into tho newspapers without examination, is go
ing the rounds now, stating that the first Presi
dential olection in this country took place in 1783.
Tho Constitution was not adopted until 1788,
and the first Presidential election took place in
that year. Tho Government was not organized
until 1789.
The discovery of coal on the line of tho Facifio
railroad, oast of tho Sierra, is an event of impor
tance in connootion with that work, and the min
eral deposits of the regions through which it is
built. A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin says tho locality of the discovery is not
far from the dividing line of Humboldt and Lan
der counties.
The Government has had revenue cutters cruis
ing around tho coast of Alaska ever since it was
purchased, for the purpose of getfcong up evi-
- ■ They have so
election the management of affair* was entrust
ed—to enforco the law and command obedience.
Until these governments aro bo established that
their official uctH and representatives can oper
ate without obstruction or intimidation, Con
gress in bound to make such provisions as will
get rid of the difficulty, and make theSlato gov
ernment of Louisiana oh stable and respected an
organization as the government of Pennsylva
nia. Troops may bo required for this purpose,
aud if so, there should be no maudlin sentiment
of opposition expressed to their employment;
for a spirit once exhibited of weak dallying and
dilatory temporizing will but encourage the ele
ments of discontent and lawlessness, and thus
indefinitely postpone, tho secure outubliskment
of what tho Boutn bo much needs--effective gov
ernment. ”
Do you intend, Senator, to bring in any bill
having reference to this subject ?”
“No; but 1 shall give my wupport to any com
prehensive measure looking towards the object I
have indicated. Tho financial question occupies
more of 1ny attention than any othor. ”
“ It is understood you are preparing a bill to
introduce on the assembling of Congress.”
" Yes; I have been misrepresented as to my
exact views, but I shall be happy to give you a
correct understanding of what 1 propose.”
“Well, Senator, what is it you propose?"
“ I propose to return to specie payments, and
contemplate fixing a lime by law, say the 1st of
January or July, 1871, for beginning tho redemp
tion of t)io greenback currency. Tliis, for sov-
oral reasons: First, to give notice to tho country,
that everybody may prepare for it, make their
contracts and adjust their business accordingly;
socond, to give time for the payment of tlie
great body of tbo existing debt among the peo-
plo before it arrives; third, to give time to col
lect the amount of gold necessary to begin re
demption, by reserving the surplus gold in the
Treasury, and that which is to accrue. By fix
ing the time for redemption a fixed value, 1 con
sider, w ill bo given to the greenback note, which
will gradually appreciate as the time approaches
for redemption, when it will be at par, and but
little gold will be required, as tho greenbacks,
then being of equal value, will be lar more con
venient in business than gold. I am opposed to
further contraction until redemption begins.—
Then contraction will take place by the act of
redemption, the bills redeemed being cancelled,
but their plane will bo filled by gold and silver,
which will then be poured into tho volume of
currency. The process will be so gradual as to
cease to excite the attention of the people; will
carry with it public confidence, and take place
without crash or convulsion. The return to spe
cie payment will settle all questions about the
mode of paying the bonds, restore confidence in
business, aud revive trade. Tho flow of gold
from this country to Europe can only bo check
ed by creating a demand for it at homo fora cur
rency. In every country whoro a logal-tendor
paper currency has been established it has driv
en gold Rnd eilver from circulation, and in great
E art out of tho country. Tho only way to call
ome our gold and keep the product of our mines
is by reintroducing it as a part of the currency."
“ What do you think of tho plan for tho set
tlement of the Alabama claims ?"
“Well, it seems plausible enough, but I can
not take a correct measure of its nature till it
comes up boforo us for consideration. Then it
will receive such a rifting as cannot fail to show
what it means. Should it result in a successful
settlement of the Alabama difficulty it will bo a
grand triumph for Reverdy Johnson, and will
give a different complexion than wliat it now
wears to his peculiar career since he went to
England; but n* it fails, it will cover Mr. Rever
dy Johnson with a good deal of ridiculous ob
loquy."
“Who do j’oii expect General Grant will send
to fill liis place ?”
‘ ‘ Impossible to 6ay. General Grant will be
careful in his appointments, and nobody will
learn much that it true about them for some time
to come. His Cabinet advisers will very likely
be settled upon ft week or so before inauguration po u C y holders in Rutherford; Franklin
day, and then each one will be privately notified : Be aforf “ Muiry, and other counUeo. The gen-
of his selection, and afterwards consulted as to v™..,. nit-* W.Satnrrinv.
his disposition to act."
iaed that tlie persons named in tho char
ter, to-wit .1 R. Berry, Robert Thompson,
Wright and Tyros, should become a body cor
porate ami politic, who, with others thereafter to
lu become stockholder* and policy holders,
might organize uud becotn* Directors <>f Kaid
company. That they should have power to elect
Directors of said company. That thoy met, and,
without consultation with the stock-holders, Te-
elocted themselves; and without giving bond,
proceeded to tho appointment of irresponsible
agents; that those agents proceeded to travel
through the States ofTonnosHce, Georgia, North
Carolina and Alabama, received notea and is
sued policies of insurance to tho amount of $400-
000, recoiving of cash premiums at least $100,-
000; that the charter provided that the directors
might invest tlie assets of the company in any
property or thing, which thoy, in their discre
tion, might regard as most advantageous to tho
policy holders; that the charter further provided,
that the directors might issue guarantee notes
to the amount of $500,000, which were not to bo
used unless tho assets of tho company were de
ficient.
Tho bill charges that J. R. Berry was the
principal manager of the concern; that ho was
the acting Secretary, Treasurer, Prerident, and
Executive Committee; was not worth ono dol
lar, had failed in othor establishments ol a simi
lar character in Indiana, aud had inaugurated
this policy here for the purpose of fraud and
speculation; that auidBern*drew tho chart* aud
engineered it through tho legislature fraudulent
ly; that he practiced a fraud in the election of
the Director*; that he practiced a fraud by exe
cuting his guarantee notes to $140,000, when he
was not worth 140 cents, that on said note
thus executed to the company as a guarantee
note lie has received six per cent, interest and
his only object iu executing this note was to iu
crouse his rialar3'; that the whole amount of caah
premiums paid in by tho stock holders, at leant
$1.3,000 per annum as his salary; the wlioh-
amount of cash premiums paid into the office
by the policy holders has been absorbed in the
payment of the salaries of officeers, and that
greater part hud boon received by Borr}*, who
was or discharged the duties of Prerident and of
Secretary and Treasurer and Executive Commit
tee, and all, and received the salaries of each
amounting to a fabulous sum, and that in this
wav cash premiums paid in by the policy holders
had been absorbed.
The bill further charges that the term South
ern hud been adopted as a prefix to encourago
Southern people to take policies, when, in truth
it was a Northern caipct-bag concern, composed
of bankrupts—Northern bankrupts—there neing
no Southern man the company. That frauds
had been practiced in the entries on the books,
and especially in ante-dating an entry as of 3rd
September, purporting to withdraw as of that
date the guarantee notes oxecuted by Berry and
Thompson and others, when in truth and in
fact, the same was not signed t>y the President
until since his return from New York, a few days
ago.
The bill charges that the whole thing is bogus,
capital, assets, men, charter, and all, and is a
most ridiculous and shallow swindle, and that
every man concerned in practicing such a fraud
upon a gallant, confiding, and unsuspecting peo
ple ought not only to bo held liable for his fraud*
but ought to receive tho penalties of the North
Carolina whipping post for the sin and folly of
his frauds. The bill seeks to attach all tlio as
sets iu the keeping of the company—tho books
and notes and carii on deposit and tho private
property of Berry and asks for tho appoitment
ol a receiver and an injunction as to all the suits
wherever instituted, against the policy holder*,
and that whatever private property the Defend
ant, Berry, may have may be attached, and espe
cially “ his black horse and buggy," bought with
tho proceeds of the premium cash paid by tho
policy-holders.
Tho bill was filed by Judge Riley, and Hon.
Charles Read}*, of Murfreesboro, CoL T. H. Pee
bles, of Spring Hill, and Judge Baxter, of this
county, who acted as a committee by appoint-
These are a few of the Senator’s views on pub
lic matters.
Washington, D. C., November 30, 1808.
To the Editor of the World:
Deaii Sib: In the New York World of the28th
instant, I find an articlo from which I quote the
following:
“A telegram to an evening paper states that
Senator Morton, soon after the opening of the
session, will introduce a bill, directing tho im
mediate payment in greenbacks of that portion
of the five twenty bonds which has been issued
for five years. If this report be correct, the
course of that Senator upon that subject is con
spicuous for vascillation. Eight months ago he
was an open advocate of the so-called greenback
theory. During the Presidential canvass he
publicly recanted. If he is now about to pro
pose and advocate such a measure as that des
cribed in the Washington telegram, his renun
ciation must have boon a mere political “dodge,”
a feigned surrender of his principles to promote
the interests of his party.”
In the first place, I do not intend “to intro
duce a bill directing tho payment in Jgrecnbacks
of that portion of the five twenty bonds w’hich
have been issued for five years," and have never
said I did to Secretary McCulloch, or anybody
else.
In the next placo, I did not, during tho can
vass, recant what I said in tho Senate in regard
to the payment of the five twenties in green
backs. No speech by by me to that effect has
been made. What I ur"od during tho canvass
was that tho first duty ol the Government was to
return to specie payments which, when accom
plished, would settle all questions as to the
mode of paying tho bonds. I further urged that
the Government had no right to issue new legal-
tender notes, and make them applicable to the
payment of the bonds, arguing that such notes
could not be made to sustain same relation to
tho bonds, in law and equity, that was sustained
by the existing notes, and that the further issue
of such notes would indefinitely postpone the
roturn to specie paymouts.
Theso propositions were fully stated in my
speech in tho Senate last summer, in which I t ar-
gued the legal right of the government to use
the existimj legal-tender notes in the payment of
the bonds. I oiso argued at various times dur
ing the canvass, that whatever might be tho law
on tho subject, the government could not pay
the bonds, or any considerable portion of them,
in coin, while tho currency remained depreciat
ed, and that the improvement of the currenc)*,
by bringing it up to par, was a necessary con
dition precedent to tho payment of the bonds in
gold; that, if the Government could not procure
gold enough to redeem three hundred and sixty-
five millions of legal tendor notes, it was folly to
talk about paying tho bonds in gold; that tho
question of the mode of paying the bonds will
become important only by tho continuance of a
depraved currency, without taking steps to im
prove it; that to take the surplus gold in the
Treasury and apply it to the purchase of bonds
in the market, which will not fall due for four
teen years, “would not be paying tho bonds,”
but “shaving” them, and would be an improper
use of the means by which the paper of the Gov
ernment, overdue and dishonored, should be re
deemed.
Those positions are not inconsistent with any
thing I said in the Senate.
. ^ I am, very respectfully, yourr,
,-Q. V. MORION.
Baptist Brother.—“I don't like your Church
Government It is not simple enough. There
is too much machinery about it’’
Episcopal Brother—."It is true, we have more
aence that it was a good trade. * — - —
far failed to do eo. The last steamer report®' , , . ■ ■ .. ,
, . .. , . , , machinery than you; but then, you Bee, it don t
having “ discovered several new and excellent taJfe m mucll Mle[ to run it
harbors,” but what is an harbor worth in a worth-1
less country? Wo aro afraid the coarse old Rust A UtUtngirl wa» lately -rertrorottar pitying out
Sian Bear swindled the young and uneophietieat-1 ! ho >y"' formed that,
ed American Goddess rtf Liberty in thiB Alaska
business,
tlemen have been in the city since lost Saturday,
engaged in making a rigid examination into the
affairs of the ‘ 4 company. ’’ Their application to ~
Judge Cary was at once granted, and attach
ments were gotten out, and the office with its as
sets, books, notes, etc., are now in the hands of
CoL Peebles as receiver.
Our information extends to the fact that w’liile
the policy-holders will all get back their pre
mium notes, they will lose thi cash premiums
already paid in.
Suspicion was first excited about two weeks
ago, when a demand was made for fifty por cent,
of the premium notes, or about $100,000. Col.
Peobles came up from Spring Hill, saw how the
thing was working (as charged in the bill) and
immediately communicated with policy-holders
in all tho surrounding counties. The Commit
tee of investigation wnich lias so successfully un
earthed the swindle was the result
It is now impossible to ascertain the total loss
that will be sustained by tho victimized. The
“ compan3*’8" operations extended to every coun
ty in the State, aud throughout the Btates south
of us. Until quite recently, a pretense of prompt
ly adjusting all losses has been succesfully main
tained. By employing young men who had
served in tho Confederate army, and who were
popular in tho neighborhoods where they resid
ed, tho public was easily induced to believe that
the institution was a thoroughly homo affair. It
is now thorouglil)’ demonstrated that the agents
thus employed were also tho dupes of tho swin
dlers who employed them; that they bad no sus
picion whatever that the “ company" for whioh
they* wore canvassing was not sound and relia
ble in every sense of the word.
Jno. R. Berry, who is charged in the bill with
being the originator of the swindle, was arrested
yesterday evening, and will bo brought before
Judgo Cassety for examination this morning.—
His property* was attachcc , i even to his trunk.
We learn that tho Committee, in the bill, filed
by them, compliment in high terms of commen
dation the conduct of Robert Thompson, Esq.,
the first President, who withdrew from the con
cern after he found how it was operated. They
likewise completely exonorated Mr. Rich. H.
Thompson, the present President, from even a
suspicion of complicity on his part. The facts
clearly show that he was acting in good faith to
ward tho insured, and that no one hoe been
more completely taken in than himself. No
further vindication of these two gentlemen on
our part is neccossary. Their reputations are
above reproach, and they* have tho confidence
and respect of this entire community.
The following are, or wero the officers of tlie
company: R. H. Thompson, President: John
R. Berry, Secretary;Robert J. Thompson, Treas
urer. Directors—Thompson, Berry; B. J.
Thompson, 0. P. Wiggins, R. B. Winslow.
Tho Washington correspondent of the Press
writes under date of the 26th ult;
Now that the injunction of secresy lias been
removed from the negotiations of Minister John
son for the settlement of our difficulties with
Great Britain, it is proper to announce that the
prootocol agreed upon contains three ariiolcs,
whioh are virtually as follows:
Article first provides for tho general settle
ment of all claims betwoen tho two government*
which have arisen since the oonvenuon of 1859.
Article second provide* especially fbr the set
tlement of the oliuins against Great Britain by
this Government known in the diplomatic' cor
respondence of tho last three years as the Ala
bama claims.
Article third frovidcctogJhjB appolntpest ttf
a joint commission of
selected by each govc: _ ,
Washington to decide uffvflP^hyidii&r of d
claims, and alsr* prow
brission does not unanimously
the questions committed W vVl .,
shall be referred to the arbitration of some ;
tentato not specifically to be named, < ~
he shall be friendly, or, in other 1 1
with Loth England and,the Y
Whv is a con who objects 1
“Why, craudma, the bigger we grow, tjra bet- riago like an e«hau6ted p* (1«
ter ire like ’em." | can *t go r. gtepfather.