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VOL. VII.
Campaign Texts.
Ylill TltlTII A BOUT Till:
RIIPI BIaICAA PARTY.
1 1 Ibtj a Vote fur Hayes is a
T ate for Grant.
The Single liiaie.
It very Republican Convention,
State and National, held since Gen.
Grant became President, has
dorsed his Administration, tvith all
its Crimes and Corruptions, in the
fullest terms. The Ohio Conven
tion, which presented Gov. Hayes
as a Candidate, endorsed the Ad
ministration ; the National Con
vention which adopted Gov. Ilayes
as a candidate, endorsed the Ad
ministration ; Gov. Hayes, in his
Letter of Acceptance, re-endorsed
these endorsements. What that
Administration was, these records
show.
VEUY LITTLE lIECORD, ANI) NONE OF IT
GOOD.
R. 15. Ilayes was a member of the 39th
and 40th Congresses. During that time
lie distinguished himself only by his votes
for suosides and jobs. March 2, 1867, lie
voted for a bill making extra allowance to
contractors for iron clads, which the Sec
retary ot the Navy testified was backed
by one of the strongest lobbies lie had
ever seen. The allowances were in addi
tion to others already made by a Govern
ment Board, Mr. Hayes voted against
tlie motion to postpone the consideration
ot the bill ; against the motion to lay on
the table; and in favor of the bill. An al
lowance was made under this bill a
mounting t 05250,000, half of which went,
to Robeson’s friend Secor. Logan and-
Schencks put through the House a bill
restoring the iron clad Comanche to its
builders, by which $179, 000 was taken
from the Treasury. The bill was denoun
ced on the floor by Mr. Spaulding, but
Mr. Ilayes voted for it. Seventeen acts,
making grants of pblic lulls to corpora
tions passed tlie House during Hayes’
membership but on only seven were the
Democratic minority able to force a yea
and nay vote On all seven Mr, llaj r cs is
recorded in favor of these bills, and never
by speech or vote against them. The
amount of land accruing to the Central,
Union, and Kansas Pacific road under
these grants, was 35,000,000 acres, an ar
ca almost equal to the whole of New Eng
land and the amount ot Government
bonds issued to them wass $64,000,000. —
All of these hills were opposed, and most
of them openly denounced, without efleet
on Mr. Hayes, Mr ILiycs’ only speech
was made in explanatory of his favorable
action on the Bouligny claim which had
been adjudged null and void by the U. S.
Supreme Court twenty-four years before
Mr, Yv'ashlmrre (Rep ) of Wisconsin,offer
ed a bill directing a suspension of tlie law
and said that a more fraudulent claim was
never presented to Congress.
WM, A. WHEELER'S JOBS.
When the honest Republican of the
House presented resolutions in 1801 ex**
tending tlie investigations of the corrup
tions of Simon Cameron as Secretary of
War, Win. A. Wheeler voted to lay the
resolutions on the table, raised a technical
point of order to defeat the resolutions,
and voted against their final passage. The
investigation showed fraud everywhere in
the War Department, in which the firm
of E. D. Morgan, now Republican candi
diclate for Governor of New York, was
largely involved. The frauds were com- ;
milted in the purchase of army supplies, j
cattle, horses, mules, blankets, Ac- Simon
Cameron is now Chairman of the Republi-
Congressional Executive Committee, and
his son, now Secretary of War, headed
the Pennsylvania delegation to Cincinnatli
and decided the nomination of Gov. Hayes.
In the 41st and 42d Congresses, Mr.
Wheeler was Chairman of the Committee
on Pacific Railroads. Mr. Wheeler favor
ed every job Of the Pacific Railroad cor
ruptionists during that time, and opposed
every effort to hold them to proper ae
countability. In the second session ot the
41st Congress, Mr. Wheeler carried
through ten lulls in the interest ot the
Pacific railroads. ..In the same session lie
advocated a resolution largely increasing
the Northern Pacific Railroad land grants,
but claimed that lie did not know how
man v acres of land were granted. It was
strenuously opposed but was lorced through
by Mr, Wneelei, Speaker Blaine aiding
him by his rulings. Mr, Wheeler also re
ported a bill granting Goat Island to the
Western Pacific Railroad for its terminus.
The Island was to be given outright, al
though it was considered worth $2,000,000
in cash. 31 r. Knott moved an amendment
requiring the company to yay $2,000,000
tor it, and one member stated his willing
ness to offer the Government $3,500,000.
It was denounced on all sides as a shame
less job. The bill was rejected, but was
revived again in 1572 by Mr. Wheeler,and
was passed in the House, but beaten in the
Senate l>y the adoption of a resolution by
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, recalling
the Mil. The Credit Mobilier was then
fresh, and Mr. Wheeler didn’t dare resist.
Mr. Wheeler fostered Tom Scott’s Texas
Pacific Railroad and passed the bill In
the 42d Congress, he opposed the piopo
sition to compel the Pacific Railroad Com
panies to pay the Government such sums,
as were due from them, amounting to'
many million dollars. In the 43d Cons
gress 31 r. Wheeler was made Chairman ot
the Committee on Commerce, and defeat
ed the proposition to make the Louisville
A Portland Canal free of all tolls and
charges,except those necessary to pay cur
rent expenses. In this, however, he
was overuled bv the Senate.
the republican credit mobilier.
By means of the Credit Mobilier, sso,>
000.000 were stolen in the construction ot
the Pacific Railroad. Under the Acts ot
1802 and 1864, the Union and Pacific
Road obtained 12,000,000 acres of land,
and guaranteed bonds amounting to $2,, -
000,000. Its assets, independent ot the
lands amounted to $111,000,000, Ihe to
tal cost to the railway company of the
three qoustructioa contracts —iloxie s,
Ames’ and Davis’—was $93,546,287 ;the
total e<>sl to the contractors was 850, <‘,o,
958 ; making total profit to contractors
$42,825,328. Shares of this enormously
profitable stock were distributed among
prominent members of tiie House and Sen
ate to aid legislation. Among tnosc. who
had transactions in it were Dawes, Wilson,
Scofield. Garfield, Logan, Harlan, Patter
son, Colfax, all Republicans. The Re
publican House whitewashed them all,
making scapegoats ot Oakes Ames (Re
publican) and James Brooks the only
Democrat involved.
WHAT THE CARPETBAGGERS HAVE STOLEN.
In 1873 the actual and uiljusted debt of
Alabama was $6,221,186. In 1872 its to
ld de >i and contingent liabilities amount
ed to $32,926,967 j total increase, $26,703,-
THOMASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1876
781. The actual debt of Arkansas in 1865
was $4,527,879 ; its total debt and contin
gent liabilities in 1871 amounted to $lB,-
751,265 ; total increase, $15,223,386. In
1865 the actual and adjusted debt of Flor
ida was $1,307 ;in 1872 the total debt,
actual A contingent, was $15,553,072 ; in
crease, $15,185,455. In 1865 the actual
and adjusted debt of Georgia was $5,706,-
•>OO ; in 1872 the total debt, actual and con
tingent, was $38,618,750 : increase, $32,-
912,250. The Democratic administration
has since reduced its actual liabilities to
$8,000,000 and bought its bonds, which at
one time could be sold at any price, above
par. In Louisiana the actual and adjusted
debt was $13,357,999 ; the total debt and
contingent liabilities in 1972 amounted to
$41,254,473 ; increase, $28,506,474. Ir.
Mississippi the actual and adjusted debt in
1864 amouutei to $919,767 ; in 1871 it'was
$2,284,216 ; increase $1,367,449. In North
Carolina, the debt and liabilities amounted
in 1868 to $16,779,945 ;in 1872 to $34,
887,467; increase m four years, $19,107,
522. In South Carolina, the actual and
adjusted debt in 1765 was $13,038,964 ;
the total, and adjusted debt, in 1871, was
$22,480,914; increase, $9,441,950. The
actual and contingent debt of Tennessee,
in 1866, was $20,777,807, and in 1872,
$32,054,476 ; increase, $5,277,129, Iu
Texas, the actual and adjusted debt, in
1855, was $328,866 ; the total contingent
and prospective debt, in 1872, was sl2,
954,887, being an increase of $12,629,621.
The debt of Virginia increased from s4l,
000,000 in 1865, to $47,000,000 in 1871,the
small increase being due to tire short-lived
paper of tlie carpet-bagger. The total in
crease in the debt of the eleven Southern
States, since the war, is $172,085,940
LAND STOLEN FROM SETTLERS
The total number of acres of land be
stowed m land grants by the Republican
Congresses is 296,000,000 ; the total area
given away is 294,758 square miles, a lar
ger area than that of Maine, New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Massachussetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jer
sey, Pounsylvauia, Dulewarc, Maiyland,
Ohio and Indiana combined. The total
area-v of all these States- is only 256,200
square miles,
WIIAT MR. WHEELER’S HAVE
OOT
The bonds issued to Pacific railroads by
Republican Congresses winch are now
outstanding amount to $4,623,512 ; and tlie
amount of interest paid by the United
States, allowing for repayment bv trans
portation of mails, Ac., amounts to $25 -
171,013.
FOUR THOUSAND MILLIONS SPENT BY
GRANT
From March 4, 1789, to Juno 39, 1801,
or 72 years, the entire net ordinary expen
ses of the Government were $1,582,700,
197 ; from June 30 1861, to Juno 30,1875,
or tourteen years, they amounted, exclu
sive of public debt, to $5,220,250,759. —
The net ordinary expenses in the ten
years of peace since 1865, are $2,034,233,-
412. The total expenditures of the six
years of President Grant's administration,
ending with June 30, 1875, are $4,008, •
438,461.
gtant’s army of employes.
The number of civil employes under
President Buchannan was 44,527; under
Lincoln in 1863, when the war was at Us
height, 47,375; under Grant in 1869, 54,
207; under Grunt in 1873, 86,660; under
Grant in 1876, 102,250.
FIVE MILLIONS OF DEFALCATIONS.
The amount ot defalcations under Presi
dent Grant’s Administraiton has been, by
postmasters, $373,371; by marshals, $249 ;
260; by sundry public officers, $265,713,
by collectors of internal revenue, $5,312,-
511; by navy officers, $023,208; by army
officers, $784,553, &c;, Ac,,; total number
ot defaulters, 549; total numberof defalca
tions, $5,500,595.
A COSTLY INDIAN POLICY.
The total expenditure for the support of
flic Indians during the six years preceding
the war was $21,379,298, The total ex
penditures for the first six years of the
present administration, during which the
Indians were fewer in number, was $40,-
926,488. The annual average before the
war $3,563,210 ; the annual average under
Grant is $6,829,914. The annual excess
under Grant is $3,257,697 ; the total ex
cess for the six years under Grant is sl9,
546,189,0 r nearly the whole sum expended
in the support ot the Indians in the six
years before the war. In the first year ot
Grant’s administration, the expenses were
only $3,400,538, but a little less than the
average ot the six years before the war;
but in the following year the expenses
leaped ud to 7,426,997, and have since
held substantially that figure. The expen
ses of last year were the greatest ot all, be
ing $8,384,636, more than the entire State
taxes of New York
WHAT THE DISTRICT RING ACCOMPLISHED.
The municipal expenses of the District
of Columbia from July the Ist, 1871 to Ju
ly Ist 1870, were $342,687,097. The
amount expended in improving less than
one.lialf the streets of Washington in the
past five years was $29,972,012. SIO,OOO,
000 worth of this work has already gone
to ruin and must be replaced, "The pres
cut debt ot the District is $24,121,852, the
value ot the real estate in the District only
$99,462,684. The population is 130,000,
and the debt averages $166 to every man,
woman and child. It amounts to 27 per
cent of the entire taxable real estate. In
January, 1875, property to the amount of
$13,213,011 had been sold for taxes.
FIFTY MILLIONS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Tho cost ot all public buildings, includ
ing custom houses, court houses, post offi
ces, Ac., purchased and built by the L. S.,
between 1789 J-1860, or 71 years, was S2B,
640,170. The cos; between 1860 and 1876
or 15 years, was $51,174,078 The super
vising- architect, Mr. Mullett, was an mti
mate friend ot President Giant and Boss
Shepherd. Shepherd was given the con
tract for all the roofing, plumbing and gas
fitting, in all the public buildings, both
new and old, and lus workmen were sent
a-om Washington to all parts ot the coun
try. Their pay began at the time they left
Washington and continued until their re
turn ; their traveling expenses were paid
by the government, and all material pur
poted to be shipped from Washington was
charged to the government at socalled
wholesale prices. Shepherd was paid 15
per cent, on the total otall these expenses,
and 10 per cent besides h r the use of his
patents. The roofing, plumbing and gas
fitting ot the Portland (Oregon) Custom
House was done in this way by Shepherd,
and the wages of the workmen for their
whole absence was paid in the way just
stated
ROBESON S INCOME AND HOW IT GREW.
Mr. Robeson became Secretary of the
Navy in 1869, and was then very poor.—
The income which tic testified to under
oath in ’63 was $492 ; in ’64 $533 ; in '69,
the year of his appointment, $1,909 In a
few months he had accounts in five differ
ent banks, aggregating $167,546. The
books of Messrs. A. G. Cattell A Cos. show
that a close business intimacy began with
Mr Robeson when he was appointed. E.
G. Cattell sold his influence with Mr, Rob
eson to many contractors, demanding as
his price 5 per cent, on the total amount ot
tlie contract. Tho investigating commit
tee could not discover all such cases, but
they diil discover 18-c.tscs in which the
contracts amounted to $7,211,029 ; from
7ot these contractors, Cattelll received
$-48,501) ; from one of these dealers many
private purchases were made by tlie Secre
tary and his wife, the bill being settled by
Cattell. One contractor testified that he
paid Cattell $37,09% Various witnesses
testified that Robeson was well informed
of tlie payments to the Cattells, and many
telegrams and letters placed in evidence
showed that the most cordial intimacy ex
isted between them. Secretary Robeson
ordered paid claims, which had been re
jected by Secretary Welles, one ot the
most upright Secretaries, amounting to
$789,590. Among these was the famous
Secor claim, which was paid, although the
the Seoors had formerly accepted $115,000
in full discharge of the claim. These
claims were put through by attorneys,
the most of them intimate with Robeson.
The failure ot the house ot Jay Cooke A
Cos in 1873 threatened the safety of the
branch house iu London. Secretary Rob
eson, in order to help the Cookes and Cat
tells, advanced $1,110,000 to the London
house four days after the failure ot the
house in New York. Tlie entire amount
went to the firm, and not to pay drafts of
paymasters in foreign ports, as was claim
ed. $700,000 of tins amount has never
been rccoveied. The naval investigation
showed that Mr. Robeson expended tally
$1,090,000 a year tor political purposes in
navy yards, keeping sometimes as many
as twelve thousand men on hand. The
expenditures of the Navy Department
since Robeson’s appointment have been
$210,037,481. The result of all this ex-‘
penditure is that in the words of Admiral
Porter : “Our navy taken in the whole, is
worth nothing ;” and in this view the tes
timony ot every prominent naval officer
agrees. Tlie House has directed the Judi
ciary Committee to report whether Robe
son should not be impeached, but he is
still retained in the Cabinet.
HiYEs’ MAKERS ON CIVIL SERVICE RE
FORM,
Governor Ilayes was nominated at Cin
cinnati chiefly by the supporters of Mor
ton and Cameron f aided by. the influence
of President Grunt. Governor Hayes’
j chief point in his letter of acceptance was
i his promise ot a civil service reform.—
Whether lie will attempt to fulfil his prom
| ise depends upon. the men to whom he
owes his nomination. All of them ’are
distingushed civil service re
form. Morton pronounces us ‘‘the best
civil service on the planet,” and has de
clared that the life tenure of office, now
proposed by Governor Ilayes, “would
form a privileged class that would revolu
tionize the fundamental principles of this
Government,” Senator Cameron •whose
son, the present Secretary of War, decid
ed Hayes’ nomination at Cincinnati, said
in the Senate, that “this government of
ours is as well conducted notv as it ever
was since its beginning, and better tnan
any other Government in the world*” 11c
says : “This cry ot reform comes from
the party in the minority. It is ridicu
lous to suppose that Senators can be pre
vented from acting as citizens. I am tor
leaving this thing as it has been.” Every
message and every inaugural speech of
President Grant, and every National Re
publican platform since IS6B, has promis
ed civil service reform, but no step
has ever been taken but that of the ap
pointment of tlie Board of Civil Service
Examiners, which was speedily abandon
ed, and lho only three Secretaries who
have distinguished themselves as reform
ers—Cox, Bristow and Jowcii—were ig
nominiously discharged from the Cabinet.
BELKNAP
In 1872 a New York, paper published
the evidence of Gen Hazeh, showing that
post traders were compelled to pay large
sums for their appointments, tlie paper
inferring openly that the money went to
Belknap. The testimony was brought to
President Giant’s attention, but iie de
dined to take any action on it. In March
1870, tlie Democratic House obtained
proof of Belknap's guilt, and he was im
peached, the President accepting bis re
signation “wftli gmat rcsriet.” and thereby
enabling him escape conviction.
Twenty five Republican Senators and
one Democratic *lsted tor iiis acquittal.
11 is counsel took the ground that Gen.
Belknap had accepted presents just as
Gen. Grant had done, and argued that he
had not acted any more criminally than
the rest of them. The testimony showed
that two of Belknaps office-brokers made
at least, $20,000 each, for securing a' halt
dozen appointments, in one case charging
SI,OOO for an introduction to him. From
Marsh, Belknap received fully $20,000 as
his half of the black mail levied upon
Evans. Within fortnight after this
disclosure, the Ohio, State Convention,
which presented Governor Hayes for the
Presidency, eulogized the Administration
in the higest terms, and tlie same action
lias been taken by, every Republican State
aud-national Convention before and since.
Eleven of tliS post traders who testified
paid $10,090 in 1862 to help re-elect Grant
and one of them admitted having paid as
sessments within the present year.
ORVIL AND ULYSSES GRANT.
This organized business in post trader
ships was carried on by others than Bel
knap. Orvil Grant the President’s Broth
er, received iniormation from the Presi
dent ot imminent changes in post-trader
ships and Indian agencies, and was able to
sell liis influence to applicants, and in this
way obtained large interests in a dozen or
| so posts into which lie put no capital, _ but
| from which lie derived usually one-third
of the profits, These facts were admitted
Iby Orvil Grant in his testimony. That
the President probably understood the
use whicn liis brother made of liis infor.
ma.tion may la: inferred from his own no
tion in i Similar case. In 1867, when lie
was General of tlie array, and had the ap
pointment ot post-traders, a relative W.
D. W. Bernard asked au appointment for
one Barrow, stating in writing to Gen:
Grant, that Barrow was to give him one
third ef the annual profits for liis influ
ence. Barrow was appointed. This is
shown by testimony before the House com
mittee on War Department Expenditures.
BOARDING BABCOCK S DOG.
Ampler Gen. Babcock’s bills as commis
sioner of Public Buildings and Grounds
paid out of the U. S. Treasury, was one
of S3O for the board of his dog, and four
bills of $i73.5U, $169.15, $356, andjs2ls
respectively, all for repairing and paints
ing his carriage. The total cost to the
United States of boarding Gen. Babcock’s
dog up to date has been SSOO. He also
rented handsome rooms, built stables, and
maintained horses and carriages. The
contingent expenses of his predecessors
were limited to $259 per annum. He also
furnishes bouqets, Ac., to the Ring, with
larger decorations for parties. His books
show charges for skeletons of 1,228 flower
baskets, 224 wreaths, 172 crosses, 72 vases,
anchors, Ac., ad libitum.
A CRISTIAN STATESMAN.
Gen. O. O. Howard, u Republican still
in good standing, was proved by investi
gation to have abstiacted from the appro
priations for the Freedman's Bureau, of
which h > was the head, $500,000’ for
Howard University, of which he was also
the head; to have sold university
land improperly, and taken church bonds
in payment; to have compelled the use
of brick in the University buildings, man
ufactured by a company in which he was
a stockholder: to have paid out of Bn„
rean funds over $40,000 lo aid in bniklttig I
bis Washington church, takiug church j
Ikmkls in payment, which were returned
in his accounts as cash, and to i
have ma-le similar advances on dike secui- i
ity to the Y. M. C. A. of Washington.
oßjn'a vENEzrEi. v claims.
The awards of the Venezuela claims com
mission amounted u $1,25*,40u0, of
which $794,090 was awarded by the um
pire, a young “man who had been in
the employment of Talnaac , the Aineri
( can commissioner. The lhtuse Commit
tee which investigated the subject, de
j clared that not a single one of the awards
was justified by law or evidence, aiul that
the Government could not consequently
, with national honor insist nporf their pay
ment. W. P. Murray, Secretary of L*e- I
| gatiou and brothel-in lawful Stihvell the
American Minister, obtained" an attorney 1
award amounting torsßoH,O4O, and ail*
the claims not ropreseutea by laimage,
the American Commissioner himself.
black Friday.
Seccrtary Boutwell reversed the policy
of his predecessors, of keeping liis inten
teution to seli gold secretly, and advertised
his sales, thus forewarning speculators.
This inspired prominent speculators w iih
the idea that if he could be prevented for
a time they could force the price up. Jay
Gould effected a combination wfth A. IL
Corbin, the" Presidents brotlur-in-law.aud
with Gen Porter, Gen. Babcock and Gen.
Butterfield, first securing the appointment
of Butterfield as Assistant Trensufcrtu
New York. The President was necessary
to the scheme, audju; was soon the truest
of Fisk and Goulil on* a** FaTTTviwt*fatat.
Other interviews followed. Corbin was
given, in duly, 1861. $2-50,009 iu U. JS.
bonds, aud in September Gould bought for
him $1,590,000 in gold. 5 Th" 1 President,
durifig this month; wrote a letter to • the
Secretary, giving his views of a sal 0 f of gold,
aud then went to visit relatives in*‘ Wash
ington, Pa., a village accessible by rail
only from Wheeling, VV. Ya. Tpis made
all access to him ditlicult, auj Fisk aud
Gould .at puce* began to buy gold. By
Sept. they Controlled fifty to i sixty
millions and had forced the price up to
1404. $1,500,000 ‘of this was held
for Butterfield, to whom Gould had nho
loaned SIO,OOO without security, risk
testified that Gouhl told Inm about S pi.
18 or 20, when they were getting a little
uneasy, “This matter Is all fixed: Corbin
has got Butterfield all right, and Corbin
has Grant fixed all right*”. . He also testi
fied that Corbin told lum that “Mrs.
‘Grant had an interest; that. Gcuui had
sold SSUO,oGO of gold, belonging to Mrs.
Grant” (held by Corbin, who held an
equal amount for Porter) “leaving a bal
ance in lier" favor of about $27,000 and
that a check for $25,000 had been smt. ”
The whole country was ;l >w excited over
the advance of gold. Fisk got C.orbiu to
write the President by a special messengi r
to prevent any Governmental interference, j
The President reached Wa-biugton City, j
Sept. 22, and was beseiged by the New
York merchants,who implored him to Bell I
gold.'The order was not given until noon
Sept. 24, but Gould knew it hours before
aud sold all the morning. The money
delivery book of Adams' Express Compa
ny showed the delivery of a $2,1,0f*0 pack
age to Mrs. Grant at the White 1 louse.
THE FACTS ABOUT SOUTH CAROLINA.
The property valuation in South Carolina
amounted in 1800 to $490,000,000 : in
1870, it was $170,000,009, a deedne <4 07
per cent. The tax levy amounted in
1860 to $.500,000 ; in 1873, to $2,700,000,
an increase of nearly 500 per cent The
legislative expenses amounted iu 1860 to j
$40,000 ; in 1873, to $291,000, an increase I
of nearly 700 per cent.
WM. A. WHEELER ON BRIBERY.
The Republican House preceding the j
present one, discovered that a portion of
the Pacific Mail million expended in bri
berv, went into the hands of the assistant
doorkeeper and another employe. The
Investigating Committee staled that, they
would “recommend no action iu their ca
ses as both had resigned. The assistant
doorkeeper was, however, kept on tlie pay
roll during the recess of nine moutlts, and
at the opening of tlie next Congress he
was nominated for doorkebper bv William
A. Wheeler, the Republican candidate lor
Vice-President, who voted for him in
common with his Republican colleagues.
Wn.\T THE WHITE HOUSE COSTS.
The total expenditures of tlie White
House from 1858 to 1861, were $213,028
the total expenditures for seven years tin
dei* President Grant, were $84*4992*; an
nual Republican average, $121,284 ; an
nual Democratic average, $53,257 ; lie
publican excess, $G8,026.
HOW. BABCOCK WAS ACQUITTED.
The tesfTiuony in Blit ford Wilson, before
the House Committee, shows that the ac
quittal of Genl. Babcock, the Presidents
private secretary at St. Louis, was tine
almost entirely to the Presidents
interference. The President on one oc
cusion inquired wliat a certain witness
would testify, aud was told that lie would
swear to having seen money mailed by
Joyce to Babcock. Shortly after, on the
same day, Babcock called upon Wilson
and asked what this same witness would
testify," “'showing,” says Mr. Wilson ia a
letter to Bristow, “that liis excellency had
conveyed at once to Babcock every * item
of possible evidence*,” “The point of all
this .is,”, he adds,, “that the President
questions hie in Babcock’s intereSt.” Two
days after Att'yGen. PierrepNrit called on
Wilson and asked at once \vhat fc Tln.-T "same
witness would testify to. lie said hf had
been greatly troubled by lie President's
request that a, ciscular letter should be
written to District Attorneys, cautioning
them against taking the testimony ot ac
complices. He objected to writing the
lettter, but the President insisted, and the
letter \ffcs wntten. PierreponU sa: 1 the
letter was not to be made public, but it
was made public immediately by Babcocks
counsel, who could onlV have obtained it
from the President, The letter alarmed
witnesses everywhere who hud proposed
to give State’s evidence, inasmuch as it
left them a hope of immunity. Iu other
ways the President interfered in the prose
cution. He hired C. S. Bell, a detective
to ascertain evidence'against Babcock, and
at the vital point in the prosecution, dis
missed Henderson, the leading Govern
meht counsel. Under these repeated blows
the case broke down, _and Babcock was
acquitted.
THE FREEDMAN'S SAYINGS.
The total liabilities of the Freedman’s
Savings Bank, December 31, 1875, were
$4,000,875, of which $2,999,033 is due to
the 70,000 colored depositors. One ot the
causes ot the failure of the ,bank was the
extent of defalcations. Ten of these were
found in branch banks, and amounted to
at least $40,000. The principal irregu
larities and frauds, were practiced, how
ever, at Washington. Here, the money
was not stolen directly, bat, by means of
loans are on depreciated securities. Five
officers sf the Frcedtnen’s Bank were con
nected with the King District Govern
ment, and loans were made on district
securities which could not be sold for any
thing near their face value. The Bank
was founded by a JtepnbKcui Congers*,
administered by Republican officials, ami
stolen Bankrupt .by Repullicau Uiitves
Ami yet the Republican party claims to
Im* the especial trieml of the ncgr.
SAN DOMINGO.
The scheme tor the annexation of San
DomUijfo was originatetT by O’enY Installs.
Babcock am. Porter, with Fataus ami
.Ca/.ueau, two adventurers who had sccur
ed valuable grants anil confessions it, San
Domingo from President Bai/. which an
nexation t , the United States would make
very valuable. The Senate refused, main**
ly through the influence of Sumner to
sanction this scheme. Raymond 11. Perry
was the principal witness against Babcock
and his anncxation’schemc, and his testN
many as so much feared, that \Y. B.
moo re, a detective friend of Babcock's,
then an assessor in Texas, volunteered to
trump up a charge of murder against Per
rv, on \v Inch he could be taken to Texas,
tried bclore a carpet bag court, and sent to
the penitentiary. The plot grew too dan
gerous and was abandoned, but the letters
ot Babcock, Col. Wliit'.ev aim Moore prove
its existence.
Kidney Complaint.
Probably there Is no compliant that taunts the
human system which Is so Utile understood at
-the present time, ns some ot the varied forms of
kidney Complaint.
1 here Is uo tUsease which causes such ueute
pain or more alarming in its results than*whe*i
UT kmpeys faJl to secrete from the blood the
urie acta and other poisonous substances, which
the blood accumulates In its circulation through
the system.
t.R iU** 1 * u uy cause the kidneys fall to perform
the fifrn tlotis devolving upon them, '.the commu
meu ions taken up by the absorbents and Uie
whole system thrown into a state of disease,
causing great pain and stifferlug, and very often
immediate ■ death. lienee the importance or
k y ni ’^ s blooil id a haul thy con
dition, through which all the impurities of tlie
body must puss, .
FIIX IX XIIK BACK.
There is no remedy known to medical science
w hich has proved ltshlfniore valuable In cases ot
hldney Uii>,yi|[;h.iaNK., li acts
direct\ upon the socretioits, ptirlfr?
uie biood, ami restores the Yt lithe .Lem U)
healthy action.
The following extraordinary cure or gtvatsiu
ferers, wlip had been given up by The best phy
sicians as hopeless teases,*.will s;>euk tor ,1 Uem
es, and should challenge the most profound
attention of the medical faculty, as well as of
tliose tvho are suffering rrom Kidney Complaint.
Till: KENT MEDICINE.
East Jlaksufikld, aug. K lsip.
Mt;. Btei*hkns: Dear sir-l am sevenc,-one
yeas of age; have suffered many ye&rswltli Kid
ney Complaint, weakness In my Kick and stom
m-h. 1 was induced by friends to try jour teg
rTfMß, and I think It the best medktne for Yveak
ness of the kidneys I ever used. I have tried
many remedies for. this complaint, and never
toundso much relief as from the .Vegetlne.t. It
strengthens and Im-igorntos the whhie system*
■Ylaiij of my acquaintances have taken it.* and I
believe it, to hi* good for all the complaints, for
winch it is recommended. Ypqrstrulj’,
.Tosiatt H. Sherman.
l’KO.\OlX'i: IXCI'KA
BCE.
Boston, Maf3s, tsTL
, ft* K-j'rKt’HENS, Ksq. : Dear sir—l have been
badly afflicted with Kidney Complalut. for ten.
years; have suffered great pain in my back,. iilp
and sides, witli great difficulty in passing urine,
which wax otten, and in veay small (piuntiiies,
frequently accompanied with blood and excru
tiating pain. _ ,'
I have faithfully tried most of the popular
remedies recommended formv complaint; 1
have been under the treatment of some of the
most skillful physicians in Host on. all of whom
pronounced my case incurable. This was mv
condition when f was advised by a friend to try
\ euktine, and i could see Uie good effects from
tar* first-dose f took, and from that moment I
kept on improving uutil 1 was entirely cured,
taking In all. 1 should think, about six bottles.
It is indeed a valuable mediciueand If I should
bo afflicted again In the same way, 1 would give
a dollar a dose if I could not get it without.
Respectfully. J.M.<ftf.K.
aai Third Street, South boston,
AE.iHLY KUYK.
11. 11. Stevens ; Dear Sir—ln expressing my
thanss to you for benefits derived from the use
of \ Koi.TiNE, and to benefit others, I w ill state
years old i was afflicted
\.iiu v rofula, which made its appearance in mv
I J eilt,> an,! 1 " as near blind for tw o
juris. All kinds of operations were perfufined
on my eyes, and all to no good result. Finally the
.disease principally settled in my body, limbs
and feet, and at times in an aggravated way. •
Last Summer I was from some cause, weak In
my snine.and kidneys, and it was at times very
kardjto retain the urine, seeing your advartlse-
Commercial, I bought a bottle of
\ Kbit, lIN*., and commenced using according to
St :i S# In ifV VO ° r , ,hI T " A ‘ s T opined
grt at jxlh.f. After using four or tlvebotUesi
noticed it had a wonderful effect on the rough
scaly blothea on my body and legs. I still used
'EkicriNK, and the humorous sores one after an
other disappeared and were all gone, and I at
tnbute the cure of the diseases to Veuktixf and
nothing else, ’ u
D 1 am ever affected with anything of the kind
again I shall try vegetlne aa the. only reijuble
remedy. Once more Accept my thonks and be
ieve me to be, Very respectfully.
Dee. 1, IS7-2. _ AUSTIN PARROTT.
No. 3->. Oano St., Cincinnati, o.
Diseases of the Kidnej's, Bladder, ete. are un.
a !i d J at tilll|,s become the most dis
tressing and dangerous diseases that then affect
the human system. Most diseases of the Kid
neys arise from impurities in the blood,
humors which settle on these, parts Y’eoetinf
exee sany known, whole Md
for cleansing anil purifying the blood thereby
boiH atU al,diy aotlon all the organs of the
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fiOO " RKS LAND ll miles from Barnesvllle,
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1-1 ANl> LoT * on (<Kt‘nwed liArnes
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