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TELE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 21, 1872.
THE DAILY SUN.'
Tuesday^?efcr«*ry^2lBt, 1872.
Tkc Dictionary Controversy.
I Wc publish this mo ruing an article
from the Cincinnati Enquirer, which
very singularly blunders and makes the
identical charges against Worcester’s
Dictionary Which we and others have
shown to be true against Webster’s (so-
called.) It is very strange that a paper
oi the reputation of the Enquirer should
have exhibited so much ignorance upon
a matter so easy to be informed about.
We also publish the very modest and
truthful reply of the publishers, Messrs,
Brewer & Tileston, to the charge of the
Enquirer. The absurdity and utter un-
tenableness of the statements by the En
quirer, require only to be set forth to be
condemned without investigation, by all
who are intelligent.
The statement that the Dictionary of
Dr. Worcester has been adopted by a set
of carpet-baggers, for the Public Schools
of this city is a very astonishing one to
us, who know the facts. The Board of
Education in this city is not a set of
politicians. Though they are nearly all
Democrats,’ and all, withodt exception,
we believe, either natives of the South,
or men who have lived among us for
many years, yet the question of party
politics has never entered into their de-.
liberations as a Board of Education, and
we trust never will. They adopted Wor
cester’s Dictionary because in the very
important matters of orthography, pro
nunciation and definition, it is purely
English,—not perverted one way or the
other—and in many respects superior to
Webster as a Dictionary—especially tlis
later editions of that once highly popu
lar work.
From the Griffin, Ga., Daily News, Feb. 8th.
Corrupt Dlafeonest Cliques and
Dishonest Kings vs. the Peo
ple.
The maxim tha t “to the victors belong
the spoils of office,” has wrought innu
merable woes to the people of the United
States. Its adoption in the tactics of
parties dates the beginning of an epi
demic of peculation and fraud. In our
times it has inflicted innumerable ills
upon the body politic. As a moral
canker, it has done much to destroy the
moral tone of individual members of
society. •. ,v» i
Whether, in our day, under theexciting
influence of four years of civil war,
with all its demoralizing concomitants
and sequences, it has reached its acme of
_ virulence and loathsome destructibility,
it remains to be seen. t , .
This poisonous maxim, like the visible
malaria that contaminates the physical
organization of the inhabitants of the
swamps, has insidiously supped the mor
als of publio men, who now opeDly avow
* practices, the ve?y suspicion of which,
forty years ago, would have politically
damned them. ! '
A greed for office for the sake alone of
salary and emoluments, (among which
may be reckoned the opportunity to
cheat, swindle and extort from the un
wary,) are among the symptoms of the
moral epidemic, so frightfully prevalent
since the war. Cupidity aud selfishness
instead of public spirit and patriotism,
are appealed to as motives to sustain par-
* ty organizations.
In the private consultations of politi
cal wire-pullers, success, it matters not by
what disreputable means it may have
been secured, is the acknowledged test
of influence and the main element of en
thusiasm in the choice of men. In form
er times good men in the primary assem-
sembhes of the people, at the hustings,
in the Legislative hall, in secret party-
caucuses and public 'conventions, strove
to out wit and circumvent tricksters and
corruptions iu their wild hunt after offioe
and public plunder. But since the war
they have retired too modestly from the
* contest. The bayonet was corruptly used
by a faction of the victors to repress the
utterance of. houest sentiment, and si
lent opposition. While their opponents
were deprived pf practical freedom of
speech, many ambitious men not origi
nally identified with them, yielded to
temptation, and fell into the line with
corruptionists and plunderers.
The extent of. the demoralization now
prevalent UPW£ public men, it is impos
sible to estimate or measure. The peo
ple, saddened and dismayed by damning
developments, and the suspicions
aroused by them, have quietly withdrawn
their attention from public affairs. The
country is too much governed by cliques
and rings, bent upon self-aggrandize
ment and plunder.
It is needless to particularize the man
ner in which party conventions are man
ipulated, or how the press has been sub
sidized. True or false, the short-com
ings and peculations of public men and
their secret-aiders- and abettors, are the
every day topic of conversation amoDg
those who take the l'east interest in pub
lic affairs.-
The epidemic of demoralization is still
raging, and honest men stand appalled
at the thought of its further spread, and
the dire consequences this moral pesti
lence threatens.
The time has arrived when independ
ence of speech should be asserted, and
men of all parties and every name, should
he held to a strict accountability to the
sovereign people. The usurpation of
their sole prerogative to judge of the
merits or demerits of meu and measures,
by conventions, cliques, aud caucuses,
cannot longer be submitted to, without
danger to the public weal. The people’s
servants should no longer be permitted
to assume the place of their masters.—
To the people, as the appellate court, all
should be forced to oome for a verdict of
approval. Every public man, every clique
seeking franchises and privileges, should
be scrutinized and canvassed before them
For la }wty, none should be
screen*?- 15 De name of a party no
charity e-iv-ili be claimed or granted.
Thtfc ix has arrived when the people’s
rights, the restoration of liberty and its
perpetu Uion, demand that none bnt bon
est men shall be put in office.
w DEGRADATION OF SCHOOL
BOOKS.”
A Ridiculous Charge lrom an Unexpect
ed Source.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Janua-y 11,1872.]
A Board of Education, iu the interest
of New England carpet-baggers, recently
adopted, in Atlanta, Georgia, an edition
of Worcester’s Dictionary for the use of
the public schools m that State. It is a
new and exclusively revised edition, de
signed to be very instructive in teaching
the “young idea how to shoot.” For in
stance, the word “locofoco,” a slang
phrase of the Whi^s about; thirty years
ago, is mentioned in this beautiful work
as “distinguishing a member of the Dem
ocratic party.” The word “copperhead,”
a dirty cognomen invented by some filthy
partisans during the war, and applied to
those who differed from them in political
sentiment, is gravely mentioned as “char
acterizing a Northern sympathizer with
the Southern rebellion.” An entirely
original definition of the woid “Con
gress” is also put in this work. It is
thus stated: “The assembly of Senators
and Representatives of the people of a
nation, especially of a republic, for the
purpose of enacting laws and consider
ing matters of national interest, and con
stituting the chief legislative body of the
nation.” This reads somewhat different
from the idea of Congress as given by
Webster in his edition of 1847: “The as
sembly of Senators and Representatives
of the United States, according to the
present Constitution or political com
pact, by which they are united in a Fed
eral Republic.” It is hardly necessary
to say that the authors of the revised
Worcester never heard—or, if they did,
carefully avoided giving the political
signification—of the word “carpet-bag
ger” or “scalawag,” as they are under
stood in the South, or of “Black Repub
lican" or “Radical,” as they are used in
the North. The youth were only to
learn the vulgar epithets bestowed upon
one political organization in the interests
of another, and obtain a strictly partizan
interpretation of the powers of the Gen
eral Government.
We mention this edition of Worces
ter’s Dictionary only to state that there
are many other school and educational
books issued within the last few years
that are almost equally objectionable on
account of their degrading political char
acter. Those who have anything to do
with our educational text-books owe it to
themselves and to the public to carefully
scan new ones that may be offered, and
see if they are exceptionable on the
score of low party teachings and the in
culcation of vile party slang. If so, they
should be indignantly rejected. The
pillory or chain-gang is too good for the
perverter of such books.
WORCESTER’S DICTIONARIES
NOT PARTISAN.
A Card from the Publishers.
According to the census report of Mr.
Richard Edwards, of Chicago, there are
28,839 American, and 28,738 German
families in that city—therefore, beyond
a doubt, more Germans than Americans,
because the Germans, on an average, have
more children than the Americans.
Statements have been made in the Cin
cinnati Enquire)’ and since copied into
other journals and widely circulated, of a
nature, if allowed to go uncontradicted,
to affect injuriously the reputation of
Worcester’s Dictionaries, published by
our house, and calculated, if believed to
be true, to injure our standing as honor
able publishers. We deem it due, both
to the reputation of the honored dead
and to the interests of his family, not less
than to our own vindication, to state that
these accusations are without even the
smallest foundation in truth.
These charges, so far as they have been
brought to our attention, are that certain
of Worcester’s Dictionaries contain defi
nitions of an offensively partisan charac
ter, and that the publishers of these Die
tionaries issue different editions with op
posite partisan characteristics, varying in
their definitions, with the design of cater
ing to political prejudices, North or
South.
It has been charged that in Worcester’s
Dictionary “Loco-Foco” is defined as
“distinguishing a member of the Demo
cratic party;” that “Copperhead” is de
fined as “a Northern sympathizer with
the Southern rebellion;” and that the
definition of Congress has been altered
by substituting the word “Nation” for
‘Republic,” &c. It has also been charged
that “the publishers of Worcester’s Dic-
tionaries have special editions for al
most all the Southern States,” and that
the edition adopted by the school-board
of Atlanta, Georgia, contain the above
and other political definitions equally ob
jectionable. It is also charged that the
school-board of Atlanta is “a Board of
Education in the interest of New Eng
land carpet-baggers,” &e., &c.
The plain truth is simply this: the
word Copperhead does not occur and
never has existed in any of Worcester’s
Dictionaries. The word Loco-Foco can
not be found in any bf Worcester’s
school dictionaries. The Quarto Dic
tionary, published in 1859 # the only one
in which it has ever existed, defines it
thus: 1. “Alucifer match, Brande; 2.
cant term applied to a member of the
Democratic party in the United States.
It originated from an incident which
took tplace iu Tammany Hall, in the
city of New York, in 1835. HammondL”
The statement- that Worcester’s Dic
tionary defines Congress as “The assem
bly of Senators and Representatives of
the people of a nation, especially of a
republic, for the purpose of enacting
laws and considering matters of national
interest, and constituting the chief legis
lative body of the nation,” is wholly in
correct. Snch a definition may be found
in Webster’s Quarto Dictionary, issued
in 1864, bnt has never had an existence
in any of Dr. Worcester’s.
The averment that the school board of
Atlanta is made up of New England
carpet-baggers, and that it adopted Wor
cester’s Dictionaries on account of these
imaginary political definitions, is quite a
mistake. That Board is composed of
Southern gentlemen, all bnt one of whom
are Democrats in politics. Worcester’s
Dictionaries were adopted by a unani
mous vote, and on the recommendation
of Mr. Mallon, the accomplished and
scholarly Superintendent of the Publio
Schools of that city, on the gronnd of
their literary excellence only.
We publish bui one edition of any of our
school books. Worcester’s Dictionaries,
issued by our house, are exactly the same,
whether used in Savannah, in Atlanta, in
Virginia, or in Boston. Whatever other
publishers may have done, we have never
modified any, definitions in any dictionary
to adapt them to partisan prejudices, and
we challenge any one to point to a defi
nition in any of Worcester’s Dictionaries
that is justly amenable to this charge.
Bee web & Ttlestox.
January 30,1872.
Seven Gentlemen from Georgia.
Harper's Weekly, unquestioned Radi
cal authority, has the following to say,
which isof interest to Georgia Radicals.
If it does nothing else, it shows that the
“Journal of Civilization.” is posted in re
gard to Radical civilization in this State:
Almost before the call of the National
Republican Convention was issued, the
Republican State Committee of Georgia
appointed delegates, and among them
several of its own members. We cannot
learn that there is anything in the cus
toms or traditions of political manage
ment in Georgia which makes a prece
dent for this extraordinary action. It is
as if the State committees of New York
and Ohio should quietly disregard the
party, and send such delegates os they
might prefer. Of course the Georgia
committee cannot suppose that its action
will be undisputed, or that its delegates
will be accepted by the convention with
out a very vigorous exposition of all the
circumstances. A convention of dele
gates appointed by State committees
elected in the preceding year, and with
out authority for the action, would not
be of great moral weight with' any party.
Especially in a Presidential convention
nothing would be more impatiently re
jected than a claim of regularity involv
ing a disregard of the ordinary methods
of ascertaining the preferences of the
party.
Regularity, however, would probably
be the claim of the delegates of the
Georgia committee. They would insist
that a regular committee represented the
regular organization, and that a conven
tion called without their authority could
not be recognized by the National Con
vention. But this argument is swiftly
disposed of. For it is really the asser
tion that the committee is the party, and
that whatever it does, authorized or un
authorized, must be regarded as the reg
ular party action. But if the committee
should appoint the delegates to the State
Convention to nominate a Governor,
would it expect its action to be ratified ?
The committee is the agent of the party
to arrange convenient times and means
for the action of the party. It is not the
attorney of the party for any purpose
whatever. The action of the Georgia
committee, therefore, in appointing dele
gates to Philadelphia, is as void as if it
liad nominated a Governor. Indeed, the
proceeding becomes more extraordinary
as the facts appear. For it is now stated
that at the meeting of the committee
nine members were present in person
and fourteen by proxy, and that the nine
personally present appointed seven of
themselves as delegates! The alternative
for the party is to yield all its rights to
this committee, or to reclaim them by
original action, and it is not surprising
that a convention of Republicans has
been called for the 22d of May, which
will undoubtedly reorganize the party.
The managers of this performance of
the Georgia committee profess to be fa
vorable to the renomination of the Pres
ident, and the seven gentlemen, having
elected themselves delegates, proceeded
to instruct themselves to use all honora
ble means to secure the renomination,
But if anything cau defeat that result, it
will be conduct like this. It is a trick
which we trust that the convention will
expose. When the self-appointed seven
present themselves, the convention will
ask for their credentials from the Repub
licans of Georgia. Bnt if hey cpn show
only the authority of the committee, the
convention will ask when that authority
was conferred, and from whom it was
derived. The gentlemen from Georgia
should be prepared to answer those ques
tions satisfactorily.
SUN-STROKES.
— The Jumel will is in a jumbled way.
— Mary Clemmer Ames to write a
biography of the Cary sisters.
— Time makes ages: but it is not al
ways that time makes sages.
— More arrests yesterday. Hoyt-
atoity.
— "The Tom Scott Presidential Club”
is pecnliaifto Memphis.
— The question with Grant is, “how
many votes will my English policy make
me?”
— The soup question is eliciting more
than soup-erficial attention at the hands
of the Chicago press,
Shad Conley publishes a card in the
Era of yesterday morning—though he is
not one of “the seven gentlemen from
Georgia.”
— The Memphis Avalanche's partyism
has simmered down to “Anybodytobeat-
grantism.” That is its nearest approach
to Democracy.
How the McClure contest will turn
out in Pennsylvania is hot apparent; but,
since Gettysburg, Pennsylvania has not
been partial to the “Gray.”
The London Times insists that Eng
land will stand by the Treaty, but the
Treaty must be construed to England’s
notions, or she will back clear out of it.
— The Japanese Embassy, now snow
bound at Salt Lake, visited Brigham
Young in prison. This offended the
Gentiles, who claim that it was a breach
of etiquette, and that Minister De Long
ought to he ashamed of himself, • •
That Protocol must be a compliment
to both English and American business
capacity; since it is loose enough to per
mit the United States to bring in a bill
of about $4,000,000,000, when England
expected to get off with $20,000,000, at
the ontside.
— “ Ono more unfortunate”—Gover
nor Reed, of Florida, has been im
peached. Holden impeached and a fugi
tive from justice, Bullock a fugitive from
justice, Scott proven to be a thief to the
amount of many millions—verily, the
Radical record in the South is very bril
liant.
— The determined and warlike tone
of the American press having been tele
graphed to England, the English press,
with but few exceptions, grows remark
ably quiet. Even the Thunderer molli
fies its wrath.—Cincinnati Hines and
Chronicle.
There is no-doubt that, if a few copies
of the Times and Chronicle could be judi
ciously circulated in England, that Gov
ernment would come down with a celerity
that would fairly put Oapt. Scott’s coon
to the blush. Grant’s Government ought
to buy half a dozen copies aridsend over.
— The Memphis Avalanche, in one bf
its tirades against the Political Editor of
The Sun, says:
* ‘Viewing the question from a purely sel
fish standpoint,it would have been the part
of politicll wisdom for the Northern Ul
tras to have removed all restrictions years
ago. What a God-send for Morton & Co.
would have been the presence of a dozen
Southern Congressmen, holding and daily
uttering the extreme views of A. H. Ste
phens and Toombs ! Whew ! Our teeth
chatter when we think of it.”'
It might be a profitable exercise for the
man of the Avalanche to consider wheth
er Morton & Co. don’t understand, as well
as he does, what most benefits their cause.
LOCAL NOTES.
Forney’s Resignaton.
Below will be found Forney’s letter to
Grant, in which he resigns the office of
Collector of the port of Philadelphia.
The letter, undeniably, gives Forney a Whatever may be said , of their political
position along side of Senators Nye and ■ w i a ^ orQj they certainly have shown, on
all questions, very, rare instincts'as to the
character and class of men who they think
would hurt them most in Congress. The
leaders of the Radical Party are not
quite so green as the Avalanche man sup
poses them to be; they know much bet
ter what would be the effect of the utter
ances of Stephens and Toombs in the
Public Councils than he does; and hence,
their continued exclusion. The Ava
lanche had better think more, and chatter
less.
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Tlie Girl who Wins.
The time has passed away when wo
men must be pale and delicate to be call
ed interesting—when she must be totally
ignorant of all practical knowledge to be
called refined and high-bred—when she
must know nothing of the current polit
ical news of the day, or be called mascu
line and strong minded.
It is not a sign of high birth or refine
ment to be sickly and ignorant. Those
who affect anything of the kind are be
hind the times, and must shake up and
air themselves, mentally and physically,
or drop under the firm strides of common
sense ideas, and be crushed into utter in
significance.
In these days an active, rosy-facedgirl,
with brain quick and clear, warm, light
heart, a temper quickly heated ac intend-
The bill to abolish the Bureau of Ref- ed insult or injury, and just as quick to
ugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lances, forgive; whose feet can run as fast as her
introduced by Mr. Cobb, of North Car- tongue and not put her out of breath; who
olina, in the House of Representatives, is not afraid of freckles, or to breathe the
Hamilton as a great joker. That idea of
interference with his independence as a
journalist, is too good to be omitted,
from the next comic almanac. Hereaf
ter let him be “the great and good For
ney.” Here is his letter in full:
Washington, Feb. 10, 1872.
Dear Sib—When you did me the hon
or to tender me the appointment of Col
lector for the port of Philadelphia, I ac
cepted it most reluctantly, because I ap
prehended it would seriously interfere
with my business, and especially with
my independence as a journalist. Ten
months experience have so entirely con
firmed this impression, that I find myself
constrained to send you this my resigna
tion of office, to take effect on the first
of March next. I shall then return to
my profession as a farmer, for congenial
field use, and devote all my efferts to my
newspaper, aud to energetically support
the principles of the great Republican
party. Most earnestly thanking you for
your kindness and consideration, I re
main, Dear General, very truly yours,
J. W. Fobney.
To His Excellency President Grant.
Abolishing the Freedmen’s Bu-
proposes that the Bureau shall be discon
tinued after June 30th, 1872, and that all
agents, clerks and other employes then
on duty shall be discharged, except such
pure air of heaven, unrestrained by the
drawn curtains of a close carriage; and,
above all, who can speak her mind and
give her opinion on important topics
as ahafi be retained by the Secretary of which interest intelligent people, is the
War for the purposes of this act.
Section 2 provides that the laws per
taining to the collection and payment of
bounties to the colored soldiers shall be
carried into effect by the Secretary of
War, who may employ such clerical force
as may be necessary for the purpose.
Section 3 grants the present Commis
sioner, under the direction of the Secre
tary of War, such time as may be neces
sary to settle the legal claims against the
bureau, and to perfect the records of the
same.
Section 4 appropriates $100,000 to
cany into effect the provisions of the
preceding section.
Section 5 continues the Freedmen’s
Hospital in the District, under the con
tract and supervision of a Board of three
persons, to consist of the Surgeon Gene
ral, the Governor of the District and the
Surgeon in charge of the hospital.
Section 6 appropriates $70,000 for the
support of the hospital for the fiscal year
ending June 30th, 1873.
The bill was referred to the Committee
on Freedmen’s Affairs.
true girl who will make a good woman.
This is the gill who wins in these days.
Even fops and dandies, who strongly op
pose woman’s rights, like a woman who
can talk well, even if the is not hand
some. They weary of the most beautiful
creature if she is not smart. They say,
“Aw, years, she is a beauty, and no mis
take, but she won’t do for me—lack of
brains”—of which commodity, it would
seem, she could have little use in her as
sociation with him; however, to please
an empty-headed fop, awoman must know
something.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
(Radical) stated a few days ago that the
New York Tribune lost heavily in the way
of subscribers because of its opposition
to Grant. The Tribune of the 5th insk
publishes a statement of the subscribers
received by mail from the several States
and Territories and foreign points during
the month of January, 1871 and 1872,
which shcfws an increase this year of 15,-
206. Its opposition to Grant most be
popular.
Minks, Muskrats, &c.—Let all who
have, or can procure, the skins of coons,
foxes, otters, minks, &c., read the adver
tisement of Bertrand Zachry, of Opelika.
He will pay the highest prices for all kinds
of furs.
Armstrong, Cator & Co.—We invite
attention to the card of this very reliable
and popular house in Baltimore. They
do a most extensive jobbing trade, and
give satisfaction to their customers.
We commend them to all merchants
who wish to purchase largely in their
line.
Arrest of H. O. Hoyt.—Yesterday,
at the instance of Col. John C. Nichols,
Henry O. Hoyt was arrested upon two
warrants—one charging him with felony
and the other with perjury.
The first alleges that being in the pub
lic employ of the State, viz: under the
Superintendent of the Western and At
lantic Railroad, he did embezzle, steal,
take, and fraudulently carry away the
sum of $184,699 91, the same being the
property of the State, which has been
demanded of him, and which he has re
fused to refand.
The second warrant charges him with
the offense of false swearing in that, on
the 12th February, 1872, he did, wilful
ly, knowingly and falsely swear that he
never stated to the Attorney-General of
the State that it would be worth $20,000
to him, the said Attorney-General if
Col. E. Hulbert should be turned out of
the Superintendency of the State Road
and Foster Blodgett put in.
Mr. Hoyt was taken before Judge
Cowart. He waived examination. Judge
Judge C. required a bond of $10,000 in
one case, and $15,000 in the other. At
last accounts this bond had not been
given. Several gentlemen offered to go
on his bond, but on investigation it was
found that none of these gentlemen were
worth anything pecuniarily, in their
own right.
Judge Cowart said the object of a bond
was to hold and produce at Court the vio
lator of law, and he desired it distinctly
understood that he would not take straw
bail; that he would not accept a man as
bondsman who had his thousands, or his
hundreds of thousands in his pocket,
where it was intangible, or who had
it in ,his wife’s name, and
that , he would . not take any
security whose property was not immove
able. He further stated that be would
hold the proper officers strictly respon
sible for the bond they might take.
It is believed that Mr. Hoyt has been
seeking to leave the city and the country
.for several days; that his trunks were
packed, and that but for the vigilance of
the officers on Monday night, who watch
ed him at his house, he would have been
gone.
The arrest of Siler for carrying that
key to Fry has caused terrible shaking
among dry bones; and we shall not be
surprised if several parties do not sud
denly disappear. We learn that some
are already where they cannot be found—
have been taken with a sudden leaving.
One by one they fall 1 The plunderers
will be totally uprooted, and their occu
pation henceforth will be to peck rocks,
or swing picks and shovels, with fetters
on them, or they will escape only in
flight and effectual concealment.
Henry Clews’ Tactics.—We have
private information from New York
which is reliable, that Henry Clews has
been paying the interest on the bonds on
which payment of interest has been sus
pended by the Legislature till they can
be properly examined and their legality
verified.
Can any one tell why he is doing this ?
We have heretofore stated that he had
been paying the interest on a few of
these bonds, and expressed the belief
that it was because he had caught a few
gudgeons with those bonds, by personal
ly guarantying the "interest. Our in
formation still further confirms this be
lief. He has, no doubt, sold a few bonds
by giving this personal guaranty, and is
paying the interest because of this same
guaranty, and for the still further pur
pose of putting it in as a plea to further
strengthen his wicked claims against the
State.
And a very curious but suggestive fact
has come to our knowledge quite recently.
The first State bonds issued by Bullock,
after he became Governor, he employed
Mr. John Rice, then President of the
Georgia National Bank of this city, to
negotiate and try to sell. For this ser
vice a very large compensation was paid
to Mr. Bice—nearly $16,000, we are in
formed—but he did not sell a single bond
He negotiated a loan of $200,000, by
depositing $400,000 of State bonds as col
lateral security! and was able to do this
by personally guarantying Hie payment of
the interest on these bonds.
It seems that he oonld do no better
with the very first bonds issued by Bul
lock than to borrow money on them at
the rate of fifty cents in the dollar—by
adding his own personal indorsement!
This still further confirms what
have heretofore intimated, that honest
men, who did not desire to ■ cheat the
people of Georgia, and who were unwill
ing to do a hazardous business, bave
st'jod aloof from the carpet-bag scalawag
Governments of the Southern States;
that very few of the bonds of the State,
since Bullock’s inauguration, have ever
actually been sold; that Clews’ pretended
sales are shams—for the purpose of hav
ing something on which to base his outra
geous charges for commissions, advertis
mg, usury, and such like; and that if
was not till a Ring Avas {orm “
ed, with a speculative, gambling
swindling object in view—haring 8U S
men as Kimball and Clews at its head
who took the hazard, who played a heavv
hand for a high stake—that of swindling
the people of Georgia out of millions of
dollars—that any considerable‘am vnntcf
bonds were claimed to have been sold
It required this gambling combination to
move this huge gambling scheme. If jj.
had been successful, they would have
made their pile. It has failed, and will
fail, no doubt; and with it, away g 0eg
the bright visions ofjtbeirungodly gains-
and those of the Ring who are not fugi
tives from justice, are loud in uttering
curses upon an honest people who repu-
diate their swindling claims and Bullock’s
unlawful acts.
"Vie learn that Mr. Rice received $15.
700 for his services in borrowing $200*.
000 for the State upon terms so compli
mentary (?) to the credit of Georgia!
apd that a large share of this extraordi
nary compensation was for guarantying
the interest on the State bonds ho
pawned, realizing fifty cents on the dol
lar.
W. P. Siler.—"We ask pardon of Mr.
Siler and of our readers, for expressing
the opinion that he was victimized and
was not guilty of furnishing Joe Fry
with that key. We have not seen him,,
but learn that he confesses himself guilty.
Mr. Siler has borne a good reputation,
in this community. He was once em
ployed in The Son office, which he retir
ed from in June last. He has been in-
several enterprises, and in various ways,
employed by others, and we never heard
a word uttered or hinted against him..
We would have employed him in our of
fice again, about three weeks ago, bufcfor
a previous engagement with a gentleman,
who is now with us.
We have known his family relatives
many years. We never knew any fami
ly of people who were more highly re
spected, or farther from reproach or sus
picion than his kindred. Immediately
after his arrest, we had his most solemn,
assurance that he was innocent, and that
a more false and unfounded charge was-
never raised against any one..
We heard not less than a dozen respeo*
table men of this city express the same-
opinion which we did. Under these
circumstances we expressed the opinion,
we did.
But he confesses to having per
formed tne deed. We learn that he be
wails his unpleasant condition, say
ing his greatest grief is that
his mother will hear it, and that will
mortify and distress her. He says he
could bear the punishment of his crime-
without complaint, if she could never
know it.
We learn that Fry was associated with
him in the business of those hand-carts,
which are so very convenient to our peo
ple, and that he had, in several instances,
furnished Mr. Siler with money.
Worse and Worse.
The hunt for Ku-Klux in South Caro
lina has opened with renewed vigor, and
is prosecuted with more persecution than
ever. The Charleston Courier of Mon
day, has the following item:
The Laurensville Herald gives an ac
count of a search made in that town, dur
ing the night, by a United States Mar
shal and a squad of soldiers, at the
house of B. S. Garliugton, which for in
decency and brutality, it is worse, if pos
sible, than anything we have heard of
since the war of persecution first opened.
They not only ransacked the house from
cellar to roof to find Mr. G. but they
actually searched the bed in which Mrs.
G., was lying very sick, with an infant
only a few days old, by her side. Mrs.
G. and the widowed mother of Mr. G.
were the only persons in the house at the
time. The biid had flown.
How they Manage It.
The Philadelphia Age of the 10 th, has-
the following:
Among the persons examined before
the Senate Investigating Committee in
New York, was A., C. Beatty, late a Uni
ted States Detective. His disclosures in
relation to the acts of the Grant office
holders are decidedly refreshing. Among
his disclosures may be mentioned that
Colonel "Whiteley, who is Inspector of
Customs, with duties as head of the
Secret Service, after seizing $10,006
worth of diamonds smuggled, paid the
duties on them and sold them to his men;
Beatty himself purchasing eight small
ones for thirty-five dollars, and has them
now. The case came before United
States Commissioner Osborne, but was
hushed up. He also charged that the
cigars which are seized for violation of
the revenue, are divided among the of
ficers and their friends, and that settle
ments are made without authority or
form by the officers. Two casks of
Scotch whisky smuggled by the purser
of an Inman steamer, seized and carried
to Whiteley’s office, also suddenly dis
appeared, and the smuggler was never
prosecuted. Of course, Colonel White-
ley denies the charges against him, but
does not show why his department should
not be abolished altogether. There is s
strong impression in this community that
the detective service is used to some
extent for the purpose of “detecting”
opportunities for “strikes” rather than
punishing criminals. And that impres
sion has been strengthened by the testi
mony of Mr. Beatty and others.
The “Colonel Whiteley” mentioned
above, is the same H. C. Whiteley who
figured in this State a little in 1868. B
was through him that the “Columbus
prisoners” were arrested and confined io
cells in McPherson Barracks, on the
charge of having killed the notorious
Ashbuin. His success in the Ashburn
matter does not reflect very creditabl}
upon his skill as a detective, but his
practices in office, as detailed in the
above, mark him as a very hopeful mem
berof the Radical gang of plunderers,
who are alike defrauding the Goyemmeu
and the people.