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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1877.
NO. 226
HAYES AND PARTY-
THEY ARE GLORIFIED IN KNOXVILLE.
Ltav* for Atlanta, Whloh Plaoa I* in
Ecttaiy.
OOVEBNnB HAMPTON BPOKB THBBB—AUOTBTA
WANTS TO EXBIBIT TO MB.
Washington, Sept. 21.—The Presiden
tial pert; is at Knoxville to-day. They
go tbeneo to Atlanta, Ga., Gov. Hampton
left the party for home last night.
BEOEPTION AT KNOXVILLE.
Knoxville, Sept. 21.—The President’s
party arrived at 11:30 a. m. The recep
tion was very fine. The streets were
densely jsmmed with people.
HE IS GOING TO AUGUSTA.
Augusta, Sept. 21.—The Mayor of Au
gusta has appointed a committee of fifteen
prominent oitizena to go to Atlanta and
invite the President to visit this oily. He
will leave for this city to-night.
OFF FOB ATLANTA.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Knoxville, Sept. 21.—The Presidential
party left on the 10 o’clock train for At
lanta, and .will return Saturday night to
Knoxville and pass the Sabbath.
GOV. HAMPTON IN ATLANTA.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.1
Atlanta, Sept. 21.—Gov. Hampton ar
rived in this oity this morning and made
a speeoh to a large and enthnaiastio orowd
to-night at the Capitol.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the reception of the President to
morrow.
SCOUNDRELISM.
ATLANTA.
HAYES AND PARTY TO VISIT THAT
PLACE TO-DAY.
HE ISTO BE BANQUETTED.
OITY BEING FLAGGED—GOV. HAMPTON SPOKE
LA8T NIGHT.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 21, 1877.
The President and party will reach
here to-morrow morning on a special
train.
The banquet will be given in the after
noon, and a reoeption at the Executive
Mansion after tea.
The city is being decorated with flags.
Wade Hampton arrived last night from
Chattanooga and was serenaded by the
citizens. He Bpoke to-night to an im
mense crowd at the Capitol, and will re.
main to see tho Presidential party.
Thera is considerable enthusiasm in the
oity. P. H. B.
WASHINGTON.
HURO HOWARD NOT OAPTVRRO.
CYCLONE CENTRE REMOVED TO THE NORTH
AND WB6T—8CHUBZ AND SIOUX CHIEFS—
MB. STANLEY MATTHEWS CHARGED WITH
GRATUITOUS WHOLESALE LYING, IN HIS
DEBATE WITH GEN. EWING IN OHIO,
REGARD TO SOUTHERN MEN—KEY OOINQ
RAGE—TRAVELERS IN BELGIUM.
THE OYLONE.
Washington, Sept. 21.—The Signal
Office reports the cyolone in the Sontb
Atlantia States nearly dissipated. An ex
tenBive area of low barometer.ia extend
ing over the Northwest.
OHURZ AND SIOUX.
Seoretary Schurz will have hia first in
terview with the Sioux chief on Monday.
They will be detained nntil Hayes re
turns.
The following speoial to Baltimore is
wonderfully truthful: "Mr. - Stanley
Matthews is evidently going a little too
far when he makes, as in bis discussion
with General Ewing, so plump and com
prehensive a denial of the fact of hia ne
gotiations last winter with prominent
Southern leaders. There are hundreds of
witnesses to the fact that Mr. Matthews
repeatedly sought out Southern Congress
men, and others at the oapital and at the
hotels, urgod them to allow the electoral
count to proceed, and assured them that
everything wonld be right for the 8outh
Washington, Sept. 20.—Key re
turns soon next week.
The United StateB Consol at Anthrop
suggests that letters for travellers in Bel
gium be endorsed Ponte Iteetante, other
wise letters will not be held till parties
arrive.
The War Department has no details of
Sturgis’ fight with Joseph.
MORE or TWEED'S EVIDENCE.
Special Enquirer-Sun.]
New Yore, September 21.— At the ex
amination of Wm. M. Tweed to-day, be
fore the Inveatigating Committee of
Aldermen, he stated in reply to Corpora
tion Counsel, Cole, that he was director
of the Erie llailroad in 18(19. Gould and
Fisk oalled on him. They warned him
against Vanderbilt. He called on Judge
Barrare who granted the injunotion as a
matter of friendship to him. For this
they made witness a stockholder in 18(19.
After this, he lobbied for bills for the
Erie Company at Albany, as their agent,
hut cannot reoolleot what bills. Witness
attended to the Senate, and Barbour the
Assembly. He received money from
Fisk and Gould to influenoe the Legisla
ture.
Some $100,000 were spent on tho Leg
islature to carry in 1870 the tax levy.
He paid the following members of the
Senate to vote for it: Wm. H. Graham,
Ilarplinging, Morris,Winslow, Wood and
Bowen.
Money was also paid for railroad hills
that year.
The Transoript Newspaper Association
was composed of Coneliua Carson, Peter
B. Sweeny and hituself. They were in
the New York Printing Co., and some 20
per aent. was added to the bills, the o&p-
ital was $10,000 and the dividends ranged
from $70,000 to $100,000 eaoh.
There was fraud oonneoted with the
leasing of moBt of the drill rooms. Wit
ness named some in particular. Too
mnoh rent was paid and money was paid
to members of the Board of Supervisors
to get the leases. Witness got hia abate
of any thing he knew going on.
His testimony before the Legislative
Committee was false. He refused to tes
tify before the Senate Committee laBt
Spring. He now testified beoause he
thought the Committee oould compel
him.
Adjourned to next Friday.
THE TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR.
MORRISSEY ON TWEED.
o««of a Steamer ofT New Found-
land.
Boston, September 21.—A speoial dis
patch from Montreal says‘intolligence has
been reoeivod there from Salemonioa,
New Foundland, that the British steam^
Bhip Howland, Captain Swaffan, which
sailed from Montreal on the 11th instant,
for Queenstown with a.valuable cargo of
grain, was stranded on Hallyerd beach.
The captain thinks the Teasel will be
total loss, bat part of her cargo may be
saved. She bad on board 000,000 bushels
of wheat, 20,000 which were in bags.
I'he vessel is insnred in England, the oar
go in American offices.
Catholic lluuevolcnt Association.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 20.—The Irish
Catholic Benevolent Union occupied yes
terday's session in the consideration of
constitutional amendments. At night the
delegates were royally oouquetted by the
Catholic Beneficial Sooiety of Richmond.
The following officers were elected:
President, A. M. Meily; Vice-Presidents,
Charles McHannan, of Ohio, Morris
Wicker, of Pennsylvania; Treasurer, Rev,
Jas. Henry, of Missouri; Secretary, Mar*
tin I. J. Griffin, of Pennsylvania; Execa-
tive Committee, T. J. Griffin, of Penn
sylvania, Pat K. Monagham, of Missouri
John L. Murphy, of Massachusetts, B. C.
Cook, of Wisconsin.
Worchester, Mass., was selected as the
next place of meeting.
Assignment In New York.
New Yoke, Sept. 21.—Ponvert & Co.,
No. 45 South street, one of the oldest and
largost sugar importing bouses in this
oity has made an assignment.
Alleged Conntcrfetters Arrested.
Baltimore, Sept. 21.—Wm. Burfort
and L. White, hailing from Camden
county, North Carolina, were arrested
with counterfeit money.
Lexington (Ky.) Knees.
Lexington, Sept. 21.—Two and one-
eighth miles—Ten Broeck won, Fair Play
2d, Time 3:5G.
HUtiNlANS LEARN NOME SENSE.
TBYINO TO OBEEP ON PLEVNA—THE TURKS
ARE BETTER SOLDIERS, AND HAVE BET
TER ARMS AND OFFICERS.
RUSSIAN POSITION BEFORE PLEVNA.
London, September 21.—The Times'
military correspondent at Goruy Studen
telegraphs he has personally inspected
the position before Plevna, which he de
scribes as follows : The Eusso-Ronma*
nian army occupies a line extending from
Gravitza to Taohinitza; at Gravitza. The
Roumanians have advanced by tho sap
to within two hundred and fifty yards of
the second redoubt, which will probably
fall in a few days. Further to tho left
from Gravitza stands Krudener’s corps,
which has been reinforced since the battle
by parts of the two divisions from Russia.
Next stands Seatiff's corps, fearfully re
duced in numbers, the battalions being
brought down to the hundred men. On
the extreme left, near Taohinitza, is Imre-
tinsky’s detachment, namely, the second
division of the fourth rifie brigade.
The latter wore diminished from
four to two weak battalions. Here
also, are the remains of Bkobeloff’s
detaohment. The spirit and temper of
the Russian soldiers are admirable. The
Russians have upwards of three hundred
and twenty guns, and are constantly firing
on the Turkish works; which scarcely
even reply. It is said the ammtmition of
the Turks iB failing, but there ^are no
means of veryfying this. They walk
about the redoubts most unconcernedly*
The Russians are strongly entrenched all
along their front with shelter trenohes,
rifle pits, and redoubts. Twelve to six*
teen regiments of Russian and Rouma
nian cavalry are hovering about the Sofia
road to impede, if they do not wholly stop
communication. The Turks refused Sea-
tiff leave to bury his dead, whioh lie with
in three hundred yards of Russian posi
tions, and must breed disease.
The Daily News' Bucharest correspond
dent, telegraphing Thursday, says it is
confessed that the Russian position in
Schipka pass is preoarious, both because
of the force threatening it and of the
impending trouble to communication.
The Times' correspondent at Gorney
Studen, says it is estimated at Russian
headqunrters that the Turks lost 2,000
men in the late attempt to oapture Fort
St. Nicholas.
RUSSIAN FORCE BEFORE PLEVNA 50,000
MEN—LOSS 60 PER GENT.
London, September 21.—The Times'
correspondent at Gorney Studen, after
inspecting the positions before Plevna,
intimates that the Russians, with the
reinforcements received since the battle,
must number nearly 50,000. The casu
alties on tho 11th and 12th iostant
amounted to over 60 per cen t.
RUSSIANS WITHDRAW FROM PLEVNA.
London, September 21.—The Daily
News' correspondent, who was at the bat
tle of Plevna, says: The Russo Rou
manian army has abandoned now even a
pretense of prosecuting the attompt
against Plevna, and have fallen back into
positions occupied before the commence
ment of the bombardment. The field ar
tillery remains still in some of the posi
tions of tho bombardment. It is an
nounced that a third renewal is intended
on the arrival of the Imperial Guard in a
fortnight. I have great doubt whether if
another attempt will bo made it can suc
ceed.
TURKS SUPERIOR TO RUSBIANB IN OFFICERS
AND MEN.
The Turks are better soldiors individ
ually than the Russians. Of that after
seeing, not a few battles, I stand assured.
Iu strategy, both major and minor, the
tactics of the Turks are simply inconceiv
ably superior. They are better armed
than the Russians, both in great and small
arms. They have engineers who can
design admirable, defensive positions..
The Russian engineers seem incapable
of repairing a hole in a bridge. The
Turks seem as well provisioned as the
Russians, and are flushed with success.
Oue VI«w|«b to tho Purpo of the Old
Nan'a New Revelations*
Nubw In New Hampshire.
Boston, September 21.—A dispatch
from Mount Washington reports a furious
snow storm prevailing there.
Negro flung In Delaware.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
New Castle, Del., September 21.—
John Rhodes, colored convict, was hanged
this morning.
Dope’s Appointment.
Rome, September 21.—At the consis
tory to-day the Pope appointed Cardinal
Joaohin Oecoi, Chamberlain of the Sacred
College.
ALABAMA.
30,000 BALE8 OF COTTON LOST IN WARRIOR
TALLEY—FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BEG
GARED.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sept. 21.—
The abundant crops of cotton, corn and
fodder,in the valley of the Blaok Warrior,
Alabama, have been entirely swept awsy.
The river suddenly rose sixty-three feet,
which is within two feet as high as it was
in the terrible freshet of June, 1872.
The planters had just commenced pick**
ing cotton, and had not hauled the oorn
mud foddor from the fields. It is estima
ted that 30,000 bales of cotton have been
destroyed. Most of the planters are
ruined, and it is doubtful if the aetual
necessaries of life can be secured now.
The town of Tuscaloosa is about at the
head of the dovasted section. Merchants
had advanoed heavily on the growing
props.
Went tier.
Washington, September 20.—Indica
tions for the South Atlantic and Gulf
States, stationary or higher pressure,
winds mostly from the northeast, warmer
partially cloudy and clearing weather.
TO CLOSE:
TOWELS at 10 cents;
TOWELS at 13 cents;
TOWELS at 22 cents;
TOWELS at 32 cents;
TOWELS at 40 conts;
TOWELS at 42 cents;
TOWELS at 55 oents;
TABLE LINEN at 34$ oents;
TABLE LINEN at 40 cents;
TABLE LINEN at 76 cents,
And Upwards.
J. S. JONES.
August 10, 1877. tf
republican reply to macmahon.
Paris, Sept. 21.—An address to the
nation, signed by a number of Parisian
and provincial candidates for the Chamber
of Deputies, representing all shades of
Republicanism is published. It replies
point by point to President MacMahon’s
manifesto.
The following is tho concluding pas**
sage :
Our duty will increase with the audacity
of those who prespmo to impose them
selves to Franoe. You cannot become
the instrument of clericalism. The Re
public must have Republican function
aries, and the country expects order,
peace and stability through the Republic.
A Raft to Do Over Niagara.
The following is from the Lookport
Times ; “Jamos Brown, Tonawanda, is
engaged in building a novel raft for a
novel purpose. It is of pine logs, and
measures oue hundred feet in length and
ten in width. The cribs are divided into
ten sections of ten feet each, and are
ooupled together with strong chains. On
the rear ond of the sooond raft a house,
occupying the full width of the timber,
is built, and in this it is intended to store
dogs and cats, and several other kinds of
animals. At the extreme end of the raft
ia a steering apparatus, and here a man
will be stationed to direct its course. The
above is a description of what iR to be
nsod for transportation over the Niagara
Falls, on the Canada sido, of animals in
a few days The animals are intended
for an experiment, and should the fall
have no fatal effect on them, it is said a
man has been found who will attempt the
i perilous voyage.'
THE INVESTIGATION OF THE RINO ROBBE-
RIIES SAID TO BE A POLITICAL MOVE BY
JOHN KELLY—EX SHERIFF O’BRIEN CALLED
A FOOL—MANY VERY INTEUE8TING THINGS
BOLDLY ASSERTED.
The Hon. John Morrissey was asked,
yestorday, whether he knew anything
about the sale of one-half of ex-8heriff
O'Brien’s claim agaiust the city to William
M. Tweed, and whether it was true, as
Mr. Tweed had assorted, that Mr. O’Brien
has used a part of tho money to pay his
indebtedness to him (Morrissey).
“In my judgment O’Brien is a fool,”
answered the Senator, “I have no doubt
in the world that he assigned a part of
his claim to Tweed and another part to
Connolly. I had $ 13,000 of the mortgages,
myself. O'Brien owed me some money—
I forget the amount—aud he gave me the
mortgages aud asked me to give him tho
balanoe due him. I afterward sold them to
Senator Bixhy. I understand that Bixby
bought nearly nil tho motgages that
O’Brien had. I did not know how O’Bri
en obtained the mortgages until some
time after they came into my possession.”
Observing that Mr. Morrissey was in a
talkativo mood, the reporter asked what
he thought of the investigation that the
Aldermen were making of the Ring
frauds.
“I did not intend to say anything about
it,” was tho reply; “but as my name has
been mentioned by Tweed and by the
Tammany General Committee’s organ,
I will auswer your question. I think that
such an exhibition aH has been made in
the Common Council’s chamber, in con
nection with this investigation, would not
bo tolerated for oue moment in any other
conntry in the world. Just look at it.
Here is this man Tweed, acknowledging
under oath that overy man who did legit
imate work for the city, from 1861 to
1860, was compelled to pay fifteen per
cent, of tho amout of his bills to have
them passed by the Board of Supervisors,
of which he was the head; that he made
seven-eighths of these men thieves by
making them raise their bills fifteen per
oent., so that they could pay him aud his
band the percentage whioh be
demanded. I notice that in his
testimony he uses the word Hrades-
men.’ I think that the public would rather
have their names. I kuow of one or two
of them who have plenty of money. I
now have in my mind one, who oame
from Albany, and was the clown for the
Ring for a number of years. Tweed also
acknowledges that he is the most noto
rious thief that the world has evor seen,
and that no man ever did more to make
public officers thieves. Why! the com
munity knows but little of this man's
transactions. For yoatR he had two mis
tresses, one of whom lived within a atone’s
throw of his house in Fifth avenue, and
in tho summer as near his residence in
Greenwioh. Rumor says that he gave
those two women $1,800,000 of the pub
lic money, which he stole from the city
treasury. I nuderHtnud that Wheeler H.
Peckhaiu bus traced to one of them
more than $1,100,000 of the pnblio
money. Tweed gallanted her from
Maine to California, aud through Fifth
avenue und other streets in this oity, in
deffanoe of public decenoy. I hope that
he will tell tho public through this com
mittee whether or not this h so.
“But this is not all that I havo to say
of Twood,” Mr. Morrissey continued.
“Whilo he and his band of robbers were
in authority he corrupted everybody and
everything, from the highest to the low
est. Ho oven controlled the courts. Why,
I knew a lawyer of eminence who on
goingunto court to try a case was asked
by his client whether he was on friendly
terms with Twood & Co. He felt that if
his counsel was not friendly with them
his case would bo decided against him. I
believe that this was then the feeling
among all the members of the bar except
those who were doing business for the
Ring. Tweed had corporations seized,
and his sou and tho relatives of other
inembors of the Ring appointed reoeivers.
They trumped up charges agaiust tho man
agement of tho Rock Island, the Lake
Shore, the Milwaukee and St. Paul, the
Erie, aud other railroads to give money to
their pets, whom they hnd appointed re
ceivers. This sort of work was done nntil
the Union Paoifio Railroad Company and
other corporations removed their offices
to other States. To sum up in a word,
they hold oue million people in this city
in bondage. There was no protection for
life and property under tho rule of thiH
band of robbers.”
“How long have you known Mr.
Tweed ?” inquired the reporter.
“I have known him tweuty-four years,
was Mr. Morrissey's answer.
“Are you now on friendly, terms with
him ?”
“I havo not spoken with him sinco 1868.
In that year I began to fight him and his
baud. I denounced them as thieves. I
told Mr. Tildeu, Mr. Marble of tho World,
Horace Greeley, aud Francis Kornan, now
a United States Senator, that they wore
plundering the city, and that no tnau's
life or liberty was safe who expressed a
political opinion that differed from their
own. I organized tho fight of what was
known as the Young Democracy, and
went to Albany in 1870 to carry on the
fight, remaining there nearly four months.
I persuaded Mr. Tildeu and Mr. Greeley
to go there and speak against tho Ring
charter. They appeared before the com
mittee and spoke against that charter.
Mr. Greeley was anxious to have an elec
tion law for tho protection of the voters,
and tho Ring agreeing to give him one,
ho withdrew his opposition to the charter.
It cost tho Ring $1,000,000 to carry that
charter through the Legislature. It
looked fair on its face. Ita bad features
were not in it when it passed. It was
taken to the Delavan House before it was
presented to the Governor, aud it was
then that the objeotionable sections were
inserted. Tweed was so enraged at mo
that ho offered a resolution from the seat
in the Senate that I now occupy to vacate
my seat in Congress, on tho ground that
I was noglecling my duty by being in
Albany. I think that tho resolution is on
the minutes of the Senate’s proceedings.
It should be there.
“When I talked in that way against
those robbers,” continued Mr. Morrissey,
“I was called a crazy man. The people
discovered in 1871 that I was right. Af
ter tho exposure of tho King in that year
I persuaded Mr. Tildeu to go to the
Rochester Convention aud attack them.
I asked Tildon whether ho had stolen any
thing, or had been in any way connected
with them. He wished to know what I
meant by such a question, and I told him
that it was tho duty of every honost man
in the State to unit** to destroy the Ring.
1 also said to him, ‘No man can steal aud
fight at the same time. If your bauds are
cloan, go iu aud fight them; but if you
have stolen anything, keep a«ay.’
*T have gone into all those details of the
transactions of the Ring,” Mr. Morrissey
added, “to show the pnblio through the
Sun what sort of man this ia who is now
brought forward to assail the reputations
of meu whose character is better than his
own. In my opinion this investigation is
one sided, and was not instituted for the
pnblio good.”
Having been asked to explain bis moan
ing, the Senator said : “Last winter sev
eral bills affecting this city woro intro
duced into tho State Senate. Senators
Woodin und Bixby took part iu advocat
ing them. While this was going on At
torney General Fairchild authorized Mr.
Townsend to get a confessiou from
Tweed. Having obtained it, Mr. Town
send took it to John Kelly instead of giv
ing it to Mr. Fairohild. Mr. Kolly had
those parts of it which churged certain
things against Senators Woodin and Bix
by published, to affect legislation iu Al
bany, and in my judgment for no other
purpose. Now, he has had this commit-
toe of aldermen appointed (all but ono of
the committeo are his adherents) to de
stroy all the people iu this city who are
opposed to him in politics, to prevont Mr.
Fairohild’s renominatiou for Attorney
General by trying to create an impression'
that there was enough in Tweed’s confes
sion to justify bis release from jail,and to
soonre Mr. Woodin’a defeat if ho runs for
tho Senate. The Senate investigated these
charges agaiust Mr. Woodin Inst spring.
On that committee were two Democrats,
Senators Bradley and Sohoonmaker. I
need not speak of their integrity. The
people of the State kuow both of (hem
well. The roport of that committee was
unanimously in favor of Mr. Woodin.
Senators Starbnok and Gerard made
speeches sustaining the report. Tho re
sult was a unanimous vote for Mr.
Woodin’s acquittal. Kelly says that all
who voted for Woodin whitewashed him.
Aocordiug to his theory of justice, I havo
no doubt that he thought ho was right,
because I don’t think be would stop at
anything—manufactured testimony 01
an) thing else—to destroy a political op
ponent. But there were fairer and more
honest men in that body thuu be is.
say this of Mr. Woodin only as an act of
justice. He belongs to one political
party and I to another, and if I had the
power to elect a Democrat in his place I
would do it. But my judgment is that
Kelly’s conduot will surely return him to
the Senate. Although there wa> a good
chance to beat him had he boen let alone,
Kelly’s hostility to the Attorney General
comes from testimony given by him be
fore* the Woodin Committee of Investiga
tion. Fairohild swore that he did not
have Tweed’s statement before the article
was published in tho World. This
brought the publication of it home to
Kelly.
“Now, I hoar that Tweed is going to
tell the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth,” Mr. Morrissey oontiuued. “I
hope that this is so. But it is singular
that the persons whoso names ho has men
tioned in the three examinations are oith-
er dead or enemies to Tammany Hall.
There are now in tho Tamuiauy General
Committee at least fifty men who servod
under the city government iu Tweed's
time in the Boards of Aldermen and Conn-
oilmen and elsewhere. Will Tweed tell
anything about tho appropriations for the
Brooklyn bridge which passed the com
mon Counoil ? Will ho tell bow much
money waa nsod to pass the first appro
priation of $1,500,000, whether ho was
tho stakeholder, and to whom ho gave tho
money ? Will he toll how much money
was paid for the Aldermen’s continuation
of the three gentlemen who at different
times tilled tho office of City Chamber-
lain, and of two who tilled the offioe of
Commissioner of Streets, and who got tho
money ? Will he tell how much it cost
for the passage by the Legisluture of tho
Erie Classification bill, the bill legalizing
Erie’s fraudulent stock, and the act legal
izing the Now York Central’s scrip,
aud how and to whom the money was
paid ? Will he say whether or not
a tnan who is now high up iu tho councils
of Tammany Hall did not negotiate
for the passage of the New York
Central’a bill ? Let bim givo us the whole
truth and not a part of it. Tho people
wiHh to hear it. All men who have stolen
tho pnblio money or betrayed tho people’s
trust should be exposed. Some of them
wear tho garb of gentlemen. But if they
nro thieves the public should know it.
Willlietell tho committee that Jamou Wat
son, who had much to do with the fraudu
lent bills, was a protege of John Kelly;
that ho was brought hero from California,
in irons, charged with forgery; that he
became Kelly’s collector whilo ho was
Sborifl‘, aud presented ull Kelly’s bills to
the Supervisors when they wore audited
by a committee of which Kelly’s friend,
John Fox, was chairman? Tweed says
that the Supervisors got no percentage for
passing Kelly's bills. I don’t say that
they did; but if I am informed corroctly,
Watson was recommended by Kelly to
Comptrollers Brennan and Connolly. But
they woro all honest and all willing to
servo tho pnblio. Now Kelly wants
make reforms. Ho wants to reform
everybody and everything. Ho would I
if I got as well paid for it as he has. Pol
itics has been his trade. All ho has got he
has much iu that way. Ho goes to a con
vention and says that if ho consulted his
own interests he wouldn't bo in politics,
and then he turns up a candidate for
Comptroller at a salary of $10,000 a year.
Tho city pay-roll amounts to more than
$10,500,000 a year, and he says it oan’t bo
reduced.”
Mr. Morrissey added here that he bad
boon told that Mr. Tweed was to bo ex
amined in relation to frauds that wero
committed on tho ballot box while he waH
In power. “This is to be done,” said ho,
“to give Mr. Kelly a cbnnoo to attack men
holding high judicial offices in this State.
I wonder whether Kelly’s committeo will
ask Tweed to explain how Kelly got that
majority which was given him in tho
Fourth, Sixth, Fourteenth, and Seventh
Wards when he was elected Sheriff over
tho late Police Justice Michael Connolly,
and to tell what instructions woro given
to the oanvassers iu those wards at that
eloctiou. I will not say that any thing
wrong was done. But I hope that Tweed
will get the figuros and explain them to
Kelly’s committee. He lived in that
neighborhood and ought to bo uhlo to ex
plain them.”
Io answer to tho reporter’s question
whether he expeotod tho committoo to
assail him, the Senator said : “I havo no
doubt that Kelly and Tweed would rather
implicate me than any man in this city.
I fought both of them. But I don’t know
what they can say of me. I uever hold
an offioe under tho city Government. I
never was interested in a contract with
the oity, directly or indirectly. I never
drew ono dollar from the city treasury,
oxcopt that I got the oash on two or three
warrants for tho pay of a month’s salary
to meu to whom I had advanced money.
Ouoe I had to lose the money that 1 bad
advanced, because tho clork who had
assigned bis pay to me got to the Comp
troller's office before I did, and drew his
money. I have heard that Kelly’s oom-
mittoe intend to examine Tweed in relu-
tion to tho Seventh avenue pavement
contract, to reach Senator Bixby, and
that they also intend to oonneot my name
with it. I say now that I never had any in
terest iu it directly or indirectly. When Mr.
Monheimer got that contract, ho borrowed
from me $3,700, I think. I am not pos
itive whether or not it was borrowed on
the stock of that company. After wait
ing throe yoarR, I got hack my own mon
ey and that only. Tho Tammany Uou-
eral Committee's organ ment inns my
name iu connection with $12,000 which
it says was given for tho confirmation of
Recorder Hnckett. I tell those gentle
men that they are now in deep water.
Kolly made this same charge against mo
in his speech in Tammany Hall after his
defeat in 1875. He had better get his
committee to suhpuma me and ask me
tho question, or any other questions in
relation to the King.”
Mr. Morrissey concluded the interview
by saying: “Mr. Kelly’s committeo can
not do what it was organized to accom
plish. Mr. Woodin will be elooted. His
attack on Fairchild will insure his rouotu-
inaticn; for the question before the con
vention will bo whether Fairchild is to bo
bentou because ho didn’t release Tweed
to please Kelly. Tammany Hall will bo
boateu in this county, and Kelly will hnve
a chance to say, as he said after his de
feat in 1875: ‘I gave the people a good
ticket; hut, to my astonishment, they
didn’t accept it.’”
REGISTERING DRINKS.
I# OIF THE IMHIRERS OF VIR
GINIA ARE PAYING THE
STATE DEBT.
OPERATIONS OF THE MOFFET REGISTER—
“slates” DEMOLISHED AND THE OASn
SYSTEM E8TAIILIHHED —- DISGUST OF THE
SOAKING ELEMENT—PUBLIC SENTIMENT
AND THE VIEWS OF THE LIQUOR SELLERS.
Richmond, Va., September 14.—The
Moffet register, or tho “Moffet bell
punch,” as the people still insist upon
calling it, has now boen in operation
three days, and as a most valuable and
extraordinary source of revenue it is re
garded as a decided succors. Tho aver
age Virginian is now engaged in tho pa*
triotio duty of liquidating the Stato debt
to the tiutinnabulnry music of tho little
gong iu tho rogistor. Tho usual saluta
tion to-day, instead of tho ordinary 4 ‘Lot’s
tuko a drink,” “Let’s contribute to the
payment of tho State dobt by registering.”
The repudiators or readjuHters, who are
opposed to the payment of the debt, car
ry their opositiou so far as to rofuse to
imbibe any beverage of a stimulating na
ture requiring tho paying of a tax, aud
they are necessarily obliged to have re
course to soda or cold water. This, how
ever, is only the oase in a few oxtreme
instances.
AN ADVANCE IN PRICES.
Ah predicted in tho Herald several days
ago by telegraph, an advance in tho
charges for malt and alooholio drinks
took place all along the entire lino of saw
loons. Heretofore tho charge for aloo
holio drinks was tou oents and five cents
for malt drinks. Tho Moffett register
law imposes a tax of two and a half cents
on alooholio and half a cent on each mult
drink. In order to meet thiH tax the sa-
loou keepers at once raised the price of
alcoholic beverages to fifteen conts, aud
they overcamo the difficulty in tho oiiho of
lager beer by substituting glasses holding
a tenth less than those used previous to
the introduction of tho register and leav
ing the price at five cents. Wheu tw<> or
more whiskies are called fora reduction
is allowed at tho rate of two drinkH for u
quartor, four for fifty cents, and so on;
but tho tippler who drinks by himself is
victimized to the extent of two and a
half oeutH, which iH a clear gain above
former profits for tho barkeeper.
EXCITEMENT AMONG THE DRINKERS.
On Tuesday, tho first day of tho rogis-
ters, there was quite an excitement among
the portion of the community that usually
patronizes the drinking saloons. Ah the
little black boxes wero placed in onch
bar, fastened by sorews to the counter,
crowds (locked iu and called for drinks
just for tho very novelty of listening to
the tinkling sound of the gong produced
by tho revolution of tho crank as tho bar
keeper registered each drink. It was cu
rious to notice how eagerly tho patron,
after swallowing his “straight,” “toddy”
beer or julep, would bend forward and in
tently watch tho operation of tho crank
and tako in tho “ting" that gavo notice
that tho tax was paid, and that ho had
performed his whole duty os a Virginian
and a patriot.
ABOLITION OF THE “SLATE."
One of tho immediate effects of tho
register was tho abolition of tho credit
system by tho barkeepers. However wil
ling they were to risk tho loss of thoir
liquors by “charging,” they woro decided
ly unwilling to pay the State a tax upon
drinks for which they might eventually
receive nothing. Hence tho traditional
“old score” aud the modern “alate” are
no longer institutions in the whiskey
shops of Richmond. Every man has to
pay as ho goos, and tho bartendor takeH
good care not to touch tho crank for tho
purpose of registering until he has re
ceived his pay iu the coin or currency of
tho country.
AN INCIDENT.
Thoro aro hundreds of amusing inci
dents consequent upon the advent of tho
now system of raising revenue. Ono is
worthy of meution here, and in this con
nection it must bo notioed that, singular
as it may nppear, the saloou keepers are
bitterly opposed to tho register. During
tho afternoon of the first day of tho
now system U. M. T. Hunter, State Treas
urer, dropped into a saloon and, planting
his elbows familiarly upon tho oounter,
asked for a glass of beer. A party seated
in the rear, discussing the merits or de
merits of the register, narrowly observed
tho distinguished old gontleman, and lis
tened attentively for any expression rela
tive to tho instrument that might escape
him. He sipped his beer And looked anx-
iously at the barkeeper; sipped it agaiu
and eyod tho barman still more iu
tently. Putting down his glass bo re
marked:
“You haven’t punched.”
“I know I havon’t, Mr. Hunter,"paid
tho smiling dispensor of liquids.
“Haven’t you got the Moffet register ?’’
inquirod tho statesman. M
“Oh, yes, sir,” with a touch of sar
casm.
“I thought I didn't hoar the bell,"
querulously remarked Virginia's Treasu
rer.
“Oh, no, Mr. Hunter, you did not,”
very emphatically.
“Why ?” hesitatingly.
“Because you haven’t paid me, Mr.
Hunter.”
This produood a laugh at the exponse
of the distinguished Treasurer and finan
cier, who, after fumbling in bis pocket,
prodnoed a douceur and planked it up.
Whereupon tho barkeeper, with a consid
erable flourish, turned his crank, sounded
tho gong and announced, “another half
cent toward paying tho debt of Virginia.”
Mr. Hunter beat a hasty retreat.
POPULAR SENTIMENT.
It is fair to say that public •entiment
to-day is largely in favor of the Moffet
liquor law. The custom of one or two
of tho saloonH has slightly decreased
withiu tho past day or two, but not to
such an extent as to warrant the idea that
the register is the cause. The small ad
vance in the prices does not interfere
with regular, or oven irregular drinkers.
It is only topers of the lowest type who
grumblo, and to these can be added the
class who do not always have the ready
ensh in their pockets and who have been
in the habit of having their drink charg
ed. For these the register is inconven
ient, and honco they condemn it; but the
groat mnjority of the patrons of saloons
arc heartily in favor of it. Everybody,
including ita opponents, concedes that, as
a source of revenue, it is one of tho best
ever devisod, and if the law is properly
enforced thoro is no doubt that it will
eventually ho oue of the most effective.
THE OPPOSITION.
The opposition to tho register comes
mainly from the saloon keepers, who fail
to conceal thoir bitter antagonism toward
it. Several of them protested against its
introduction into their saloous; others
saw it fastened to their counters without
n word, but with the most bitter feeling,
and still others smilingly and graoefully
yielded to the inevitable, aud reoeived
the little boxes with the tell-tale-dials
with tho reluctant expression:
“I’m satisfied if everybody else is.
The tax don’t oome out of my pooket.”
It is still the intention of liquor deal
ers to fight tho Moffet law in tho courts
on the ground that it is unconstitutional,
and, failing in this, to carry the war into
the next Legislature. Already thero are
a number of oaudidates for that body who
expect to be elected on the ground of
their opposition to the Moffet register.
WHAT THE DEALERS RAY.
When questioned as to their objections
tho liquor dealers fail to advauce any
reasouublo argument, excopt that they
have no right to he made tax oolleotors
for tho Stato of Virginia. So far the reg
ister has not interfered with their regular
receipts. It has rathor increased them in
some instances, and in only one or two
very obscure instances have I heard of
any doorcase.
“I hate to turn the damned orank,”
said ono barkeeper to me, “it looks as if
it was put there to keep you from stealing
your taxes.”
Said nnothor, “Everybody that comes
in has to look at that register, aud then
they begin to count bow many drinks
you havo sold and make calculations as
to how much business yon do and what
taxes you pay. Now that’s all very anH
noying to me. The State has no right to
make an exposure of my business.”
A third said : “It often interferes with
my buHiness. When I have a rush, as is
frequently the case, it is as much aH I can
do to collect mouey and make change,
and having to atop every moment to turn
that crank delays mo and looses me both
money aud custom. Why cau't the State
furnish an engineer to work it os well as
the machine ? I certainly havo neither
tho time nor inclination. I regard it as a
nuisanco and a groat impediment to my
business.”
TboHo comprise the main objections of
the saloon koopors, which with time will
soon wear away, though thero may be
something iu houio of them.
EVADING THE LAWS.
How to beat tho register is now the
problem that engages the attention of
iminyjsciontilio minds employed io the
bar-keeping business. Before tho regis
ter it was easy to “knock down" on the
boss, but now that can’t be done, ns the
little dials on the faco of the register tell
to a drink the amount of cash that has
boen taken iu. In this way tho little box
is a saving to tho saloon-keeper, as it
sorvos as u check upon his liar-tenders.
Whilo Richmond has loss dishonest bar
tenders than any other city in the Union,
nevertheless, ns I said before, tho prob
lem of the hour is how to beat the regis-
ter. Various devices have boen suggested,
but none have mot with success ho far, as
I am informed, excopt oue, and the genius
who inventod this is not a bartender. Ho
came into a saloon this morning, not far
from whore I write, aud after assuring the
proprietor that ho would pay half a cent
for every movement made upon the dial
of the register, he took the orauk in his
hand, and, by some extraordinary manipu
lation, and without at all tampering with
tho rogistor, made revolution after revo
lution, sounding tho gong iu tho inside
onch time, but without a single move
ment of tho hands upon the dials, where
tho drinks are registered by numbers.
This surprised everybody who witnessed
tho operation, but tho modus operandi
still remains a mystery.
NncceM.
It is tho duty of overy person who has
used Bohcuee’s German Syrup to lot its
wonderful qualities bo known to their
friends in curing Consumption, severe
Coughs, Croup, Asthma, Pneumonia, aud
in fact all throat and lung dis
eases. No person can use it
without immediate relief. Three
doses will relievo any case, and wo con
sider it tho duty of all Druggists to recom
mend it to tho poor dying consumptive,
ut least to try ono bottle, as 40,000 dozen
bottles were sold last year, and no one
case where it failed was reported. Such
a medicine as the German Syrup cannot
be too widely known. Ask your Drug
gist about it. Sample Bottles to try sold
at 10 cents. Regular size 75 ceuts. For
sale by Druggists. myS d&wly
Knocked lionn.
Yes, it was a fair ami square knook
down, and tho justice of tho act is not de
nied.
Tho female community are more par
ticularly interested, aud they give unmis-
takahlo evidences of their appreciation.
“When lovely woman lends her influ
ence, then it is the work moves bravely
on.”
NVo allude to tho fact that tho great fe
male medicine, known os English Female
Bitters, has been reduced to ono dollar
per bottlo or tbreo for $2.50. Oue bottle
will IttHt two weeks. Rep12 dttw2w
ALPACAS CHEAP!
You can buy a good Alpaca from
Bl auo hard Hill at 25 cents per yard.
TIa y are a bargain. tf