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COLUMBUS
ENQUIRER.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1874.
YOL. XVI.—NO. 139.
STOnY
OF THE
LT IRISH FAMINE.
AUTHOR OF DUNCAN MINTOBH,
OIH MAGO$,” “tuornton,” etc.
Itten for (Ho Enqnlrer-Sau.
[COPYRIGHT SECURED.]
CHAPTER XTI.
> I?; THE MOU MAIXS.
Ibe highest peak of tlio monu-
ftt luy between Louyhrea ami the
jbt a good view could be hud, on the
H, of the valleys, villages, ruins,
p, and, on the oilier, of the bold,
Jahvay coast, with its bare island
, on which, from the days df the
till the present, the w recks of
fcve ever been rotting—t-lrips that
the shore from some western
► find in the treacherous currents
jbipitouH islands tlio very ruin they
Scope.
bore aud these islands are inhab-
a population which, fortunately
» credit of mankind, may be classed
parse”—a sort of amphibious peo-
|ho live on fish, and who lose faith
evidence if one season passes wilh-
\ ship being driven on the rocks; a
who seem to bo older than the
0, for their language, the vocabulary
(rhich is most meagre, it would puzzle
iilologist to classify. Into the old pa-
fism that here alone ccems to have sor
ted the Round Towers with tbeir fire
iphip. a few glimmering rays of the
taif aith have strayed ; but so ignorant
) population that they cannot sepa-
Ntho creed of faith from the religion
faperstition, whose navago rites, it is
have demanded human victims
i the last twenty years. Never vis-
|0ut off from all communication with
prld, in a country so wretchedly im-
ehed that no landlord ever laid
|to it, or excisemen attempted the
lion of a tux or a tariff, these strange
i dwell, with the one belief that the
•ild is filled with ships whose
Ibl* dentiuy it is. in accordance with
fyidential decree, to be wrecked
r or later on that iron bound coast,
|us become the harvest of the fish-
England, with her missions, and
b, whose priests have seized on the
Ihotds of the benighted and led them
Ijghor fsitli, have heard of this re-
J through the vaguest rumors, and
gh within h twenty hours’ yacht sail
Vestmin>ter, it has been left alone.
But missionaries arc always
king afar off, ever yearning to do good
ho distance, and forgetting the heathen
i tho most favored lands are ever at
f riwn doors.
like Delaney was an outlaw of no or
ary type, for he looked on himself as
(avenger of his ruined sister, the pro-
or of the oppressed, and so a patriot,
Ihi.s fierce and hunted life was lived
ph in accord with his faith as the na-
of his surroundings would admit.
• old mountaineer, speaking to tho
jter of this narrative about Delaney,
he live years ago, said, as
(stronghold where once this “terror of
I hills” ruled
tile niver did a bad deed without re-
■tin’, and ho kep’ all the holy days;
> ho went to confession once a month,
fhe’dalwajs tell the priest his right
no nfter he had full absolution.”
lit will be Bo?n, therefore, that Mike
lelaney was willing to deceive the minis
ters of hi3 church in order to secure its
dvantage*, just as ho hated a red coat,
land was ever ready to shoot one down, or
F plunder a rich landlord, under tbo stimu
lus of his wild patriotism.
Tho poor loved and feared him, for
they knew it was worse to brave his wrath
than to break the law ; so where there
was a choice they did the latter. The
dread of this man was further increased
by the rumor that lie had entered into a
league, offensive and defensive, with the
wild fishers of the coaAt, and that at any
moment these desperate rapparees might
come down from the hills to ruin and de
stroy.
It was this man Del »noy who had as
sumed tho release and protection of Dan
, Gaspin, and this against the soldiery of
that country whose troops have shown
themselves invincible, and who since the
diys of Strougbow have ever held tho
Irish in subjection by arraying one sec
tion against tho other and fostering the
olden sectioual eumities, and keepiug
alive the intense flames of religious ln‘o.
Up the piecipitous mountains, dark
though it was, Delaney and his st d vart
followers clambered, and when the day
was breaking they stood in tho cave with-
iu the bell-shaped valley. There in the
potheen of their own making, they
drank to tho success of tbeir recent ex
ploit, and still another buarber “to Dau,
the man of all inert who was wanted.”
Dan tasted tho “mountain dew,” ex
pressed in his strong way his thauks to
remembered the prayerful pleadings of
Kathleen, and the more he dwelt ou her
words the more deeply their wisdom im
pressed him.
Breakfast,a better one than eould be had
in any valley cottage, was cooked and
eaten, and then Mike, who seemed never
to tire, rose and said as he armed himself
like a man who might have desperate
work before him, “I’m goin’ down to the
coast, byes, we may want men, or it may
be that we’ll have to lavo here and take to
the islands for awhile. Will ye go with
me Dau ?”
“I would, but last night I promised
Kathleen I would see her ; she said she
wants to spake to me,” said Dan.
“Whut, run into the arms of danger ?
Be me sowl, yer going to start hot, Dan.
Keep back, man, for before the sun sets
the red coats will be hiden in every glen,
and behiud every rock leadin’ up to the
mountains.”
“But I promised Kathleen.”
“A foolish promise is better broke than
kep. Don’t go, I tell you; stay here and
rest, and look about ye. I’ll lave ye iu
command, and thin ye can't go way."
Mike Delaney waited for no answer
or explanation, but throwing his musket
over his shoulder, he strode out of the
cave and was soon lost sight of in the
defiles leading down to the dreary coast.
CHAPTER XIII.
OVERTURES.
Tents were erected along the white
beach between the lake aud Larry Bre-
han’s cottage, and red-coated soldiers kept
guard before the little garden, as if they
had the whole family under arrest, and a
desperate attempt at escape might be
made. Captain Gore had command of
the troops, and all day couriers wore busy
coming and going ; conspicuous among
whom woro tho green, uninforme J con
stabulary of Ireland—men who strike ev
ery traveler by their splendid forms aud
the precision of their bearing, in which
they are said to be superior to even the
inngnificent household brigade of the
Queen.
It was near noon when two soldiers
came in, conducting between them a pri
soner, aud as they passed the cottage Kath-
leotf, who was standing in tho door, recog
nize! the faithful Deuoy Keely, who had
come the day previous to announce the
misfortune that had befallen Dau Gaspin.
It was more than curiosity tfiat led her
down to the gate, from whioh point she
could hear Captain Gore examining the
prisoner iu his tent.
“Where did you find this fellow?” asked
the Captain of the soldiers while he
glanced savagely at the lad.
“Iu the mountains, four mileB back,
sur,” said one of the men saluting.
“Why did you arrest him?”
“His conduct was most suspicious, sur,
han ee couldn’t ’count for hjfself,” replied
the soldier in tho unmistakable dialect of
Yorkshire.
“Did you search him ?"
“Yes Mir,” aud the guard atonco placed
ou tho table a grccu handkerchief with a
faded yellow burp iu the centre, a charm
or Agnes Dei which had been taken from
his neck, two pieces of oaten bead, a
knife that must have been a wonder of inge
nuity and utility before the blades, saws,
gimlets, hoof-cleaners, corkscrews and
toothpricks, that onco gave it value were
wrecked, leaving the corkscrew alone
sticking to the huge handle and therefore
its owner by right of possession. A pipe
voiy abort, very black and odoriferous, of
state mi o iue, and a roll of paper, con
sisting of tho rewards offered for tho ap
prehension of the outlaws were the only
incendiary documents found upon the per
son of the prisoner, who stood before the
officer with an expression of surprise and
an iujured innocence on a face that hud
suddenly bcoouio foolish.
“II d he any arms ?”
“No harms, sur,” answered the soldier,
who, to make sure that his report was
correct, again surveyed the prisoner from
tho soleh of his heavy shoos to tho top of
his towy head.
“Where do you live, sir?” asked the
captain looking at Denny with tho severe
exprosMon of a man who can’t be fooled
with, and whose peculiar gift it is to de
tect falsehood at a second aud punish it
iu a minute.
“Faith, i’s harde for a poor bye to say
where he live*, sur, whin he has no
home.”
“What do you do ?”
“I’m handy at anything, yer honor,
whin I can got it. I hould horses, carry
messages, take care of druoken men, an’
in turf time I work bo the hundred for
Lota Flunuagan, whose wife, more be
token, is my mother’s cousin twist re
moved bo marriage"—
Denny might have continued, and giv
en the Captain a very full—but by no
moans lucid—account of himself; but
that person stopped him with an oath,
assuriug him that he didn’t want to hear
anything about Tom Flanuogau or his
mother’s cousin.
At this jnuctnre Denny happened to
glance behind him, and be saw Kathleen's
earnest face peering in. Ho saw the ad
vantage presented, and availed himself of
it at once.
“I might Buy to yer honor that I helps
Miss Kitbleen a grato dale. I sells flow
ers and the ’broiJory work for her, an' ye
kin ax her yorsel’, for there she is stand-
in’ at tho gate, if I aint honest as the
sun, au’ if she ever heard me tell a lie or
do anything mane.”
Kathleen heard this, and walking in
pale-faocd and trembling she said :
“Would ye allow me to spake, Captain
Gore ?” « W
“Certainly, Miss Braban; certainly.
Here, Sullivan, you blockhead, a chair for
tho lady.”
“Thank yon, Captain ; but baviu’ only
his friends, and pledged himself to re- a few words to say I II say them standin’.
turn the favor if it ever lay in his power, I know Denny Keely, and what he says is
•down in his heart he felt he was not thrue. I believe him to be honest. He
or with the associates ho de- offen goes into the mountain an’ down to
himself to be influenced the shore, but I never knew any barm to
— - . ** wld not control, C a mo from the w^ndherin of the poor or-
,solved to astrltAte himself the phan.”
could do a j “That ia aatiafactory,” said the Captain,
nodding to Kathleen, then turning to
Denny fie said: “I will let yon off, sir,
this time ou acoount of this lady; but
you must keep out of the mountains till
these outlaws are captured.”
“Thank yer honor, I will, and its mesel
’ed be thaukful forever to your honor, if
ye could give me something to do that I
might earn a bit un' sup.”
“Go off now ; at some other time I will
see what can be done, if Miss Kathleen
recommends you.”
Kathleen withdrew, followed by Donny
carrying the plunder iu bis green hand
kerchief. How tho manner of the lad
changed the moment he entered the cot
tage, bis steel bine eyes flashed, his lips
grew too thin to hide bis white teeth, and
his nostrils dilated as if he had that mo
ment stopped’from a fierce race.
“I got thim the word!” he whispered.
“Hush; don’t spake to me; I don’t
want to hear what ye do, that thim that’s
wntohiu’ shouldn’t know. God grant the
trouble may soon be past.”
“Ahmin!” muttered Denny, making a
devout cross ou bis forehead. Ho was
about to walk out, but she stopped him
and with au effort asked :
“Did ye boo Dan ?’’
“I did.”
“Does he know the sogers are here ?’’
“Faith he doeB.’’
“Will he come to-night ?”
“I tonld him not to if ho was wise, but
its headstrong aud darin’ that same Dan
Gaspin is. Sure he’d go through fire, and
swim the says to sec ye, and he’d die hap
py if the last look of his two eyes was on
yer face, Acusbla."
She did not heed- bis words, but drop
ping into a chair, she sat for some time,
with olasped hands, looking into vaoaucy,
while Denny, like a tired greyhound,
threw himself on the floor beside her.
“Dinney, wero you ever in Galway?”
she asked, as she picked up a paper Doc
tor Grant had brought iu some time be
fore as the wrapper of a brandy bottle.
“Indeed I have.”
“Would ye be willin’ to go there agin ?”
“To the ind of the world, if yo ax me.”
• “There’s a ship to sail in tin days for
America.”
Here she glanced at the paper and told
him where to find the vesstl. “I want
ye to take a note from me to the Captain,
an’ dou’t for yer life give it to any one
else."
“No ; bat, sure, you’re s not goiu’ to
lave ?”
“Never mind ; go get something to ate,
an’ I’ll give yo money for to ride borne on
the Biauoana.”
Denny was happy, and Kathleen, while
he was eating, wrote a nolo to tbo Ameri
can Captain explaining Dau Gaspin’s situ
ation aud asking if he would pick him up
if bo met the ship off a ccrtaiu island iu
a boat, aud this was the message Denny
Keely bore to Galway that day.
CIIAP^R XIV.
DIFFICULTIES.
After Denny hud left Kathleen saw that
the difficulties in the way of her plans
were only beginning. The next thing was
to communicate with tho outlaws, and ap
prise Dan of her purpjse. To do ho
seemed at this time (-imply impossible,
and yet she felt that Dan must bo in
formed Unit night, and that, above oil
things, he must not cjme down to the
lake.
Again and ngaiu, during the day, her
nearly matured plans wore broken *up by
Captain. Gore, who s night every pretext
to be near her, and who never let the
shadow of a chance at flattery pass him.
He thought “it was a p J ty sui h a flower
as Kathleen should bloom uunoticed in a
cottage garden by a distant lake, when
her beauty and goodness would adorn a
palace.” He spoke in a sentimental way
yf the mistakes of his own life, and
wished he could live it over. He wished
her to believe tliut his desire for reforma
tion was attributable to tho pure influence
her face, which was ever before his mind,
exerted on him. Kathleen neither by
word nor manner seemo 1 to notice thi* ;
indeed the words fell dead ou her ears,
for all her thoughts were centered ou
saving the poor hunted mail iu the moun
tains.
The Captain was not fluttered by his
reception ; but after ouo of these inter
views Lieutenant Ralston assured him
that silence was tho best indication of
success, and that ho was confident from
Kathleen’s eyes, when near the Captain,
that her heart was touched; “the flame
of love is lit my boy. Now, by Jove, fan
it with care into u furnace heat; make
the girl iu somo way depeudetit on you,
without her feeling it, and when at last
she does feel it, why tho game is in your
own hands.”
“All very nice, but how is this to be
done ?”
“Let mo tell yo, Captain,” interposod
tho Scotch surgeon, who, being an older
man, was reasonably supposed to have
had more experience in affairs of tho
heart. “This girl does lino sowing and
sells flowers. I don’t think the market for
either is as good ns it micht be in this town,
jedgin’ from the number of flowers still
in the garden, and the fact that she hasn’t
sew’ed any since we’ve been here. Now,
patronize her, and get that boy to run be
tween, buy everything he has for sale,
and insist that he must not tell who does
it. Dou’t yo know ho will tell? Why,
mon, I d no want a better chance.
Aud so these advisers kept up the heat,
and after a drink of brandy and soda the
Captain felt his companions were right,
and that all bo needed was to bold bis
soul in patience.
Kathleen, as the day woro on, became
more and more nervous, and leu buttled
in her plan—indeoJ, sho was nearly des
perate—when she saw coming up the gar
den walk un old wornuu who moved with
great difficulty by the aid of a long,
crooked staff.
“Oh, Betty! I urn glad to see you,” ex
claimed Kathleen, as she bounded out to
help the old woman over the threshold.
“Deed, an’ deed, an’ double deed, Ala-
hnna, we might have met when our hearts
were lighter,” said the old woman, drop
ping into a chair with an air of great fa
tigue. Then, looking around lo make
sure she was not heard, she coutiuued:
“I met Dinoy and ho told mo all."
“He did 1”
“Yis; hush, fihuro thim min are all
ears. I know it all, aud perhaps yer
right. But tell me, do ye thiuk Dan
will come to-night ?”
“I’m afraid so, and if he does he’s
ruined. ’’
“It looks that way, nghra! but it’s hard
to make things worse. Sooner or luter
the blow will come to Mike Delaney an’
his men. Ii’a (he dark side of God’S fuce
that seems ever to be turnin' to us, an’ if
the crops is bad this fall Heaven help the
poor."
“Oh Betfy, if I could only get word to
him it would lift a heavy load from my
heart.”
“Keep quiet darlin’. It throuhles you
no more than me. Whin is he cumin’?”
“About au hour beforo day.”
“Niver miud I'll sthop him."
“You, Bctly?”
“Yis, me. Wait till tho dark comes,
an’ I’ll go up the mouutain mesel. Sure
I could thravL-1 it wid me eyes shut on
the darkest night, if there was sojers Bit-
tin ou every rock.”
“No, no, Betty, you are too old to take
risks for me."
“Yis, I’m ould, and I have no stringth
at all at all, but there’s times, Kathleen,
when I feel the stringth of a giant, and
this is ono of thim times. Get me a cup
of tay an’ I’ll rest.”
Kathtodn did us the old woman desired,
and then left her to rest.
Night came, and the guards along
the lake and iu the mouutain passes weao
doubled aud vigilant; but they failed to
discover the old woman who crawled
through their lines, and then faced the
mountain with all the strength aud confi
dence of Denny Keely when summoning
aid for the rcliof of Dan Gaspin.
[to be continued.]
SCIENTIFIC’ NOTES.
Thr Whims of Locomotives.—It is per
fectly well known to experienced engi
neers that if a dozen different locomotive
engines were in tile at the same time, of
the same power, for the same purpose, of
like materials, in the sumo factory, each
of these locomotive engines would come
out with its own peculiar whims and ways,
only ascertuinabio by experience. Ouo
eugine will take u great meal of coal aud
water at ouce ; another will not hear to
such a thing, but insists on being coaxed
by spadefuls and bucketfuls. One is dis
posed to start off when required ut tho
top ot his speed; another must have a
little time to warm at his work and to get
well into it. These peculiarities are so
accurately mastered by skillful drivers
that only particular men cau persuade en
gines to do their best. It would seem ns
if some of these “excellent monsters”
declared, on being brought from the sta
ble, “If it’s Smith who is to drive, I won’t
go. If it’s my friend Stokes, I am agree
able to anything.”
AU locomotive engines are low-spirited
in dump aud foggy weather. Tin y huv«
a great satisfaction iu their work when
tho uir is crisp and frosty. At such a
time they are very cheerful aud brisk,
but they strongly object to Lazo and mists.
These are points of character ou which
they are imbed. It is in their pecu iari-
ties and varieties of character that they
are the most remarkable.
The railway company who should con
sign ail their locomotives to ono uniform
standard of treatment, without any al
lowance for varying shades of character
and opinion, would soou full as much be
hindhand in the world as those greater
governments ure, and ever will bo, who
pursue the same course with the finer
piece of work called mun.
Effect of Compressed Air on the
Body.—Investigations into tho physiologi
cal effect, of compressed air upon the hu
man body have brought some interesting
fucts to notice. It appears that some
divers in Gorman mines noticed below
water a giddiness, and pains in eyes and
ears, at a depth of only 110 fe> j t, though
many have descended over 1110 feet. 1'rof.
Kotucuux, of Strasbourg, supposes that
the blood gases, carbonic acid, nitrogen,
and oxygen, are strongly compressed ny
tho pressure upon tho lungs and blood
vessels, and when this pressure suddenly
ceases they at once expand mid act juct
as air bubbles which are introduced iu the
air vessels—namely, they cause pains,
fits, or death. This view has been con
firmed by various experiments, and the
conclusion, is that a diver can bo exposed
without danger to a pressure of five at
mospheres—75 pounds per inch—or liM)
feet of W'utor, while at 2.’M) or 280 feet
danger is immiueut. Under all circum
stances, it is well established as a princi
ple that only perfectly healthy persons
should be admitted to woik iu highly com
pressed air.
Eggs Have a Sex.—Sconce and expo
rience have sufficiently demonstrated that
everything that bears must possess both
tho male aud female qualifications; but
perhaps it is not generally known that
such is the ease with eggs. I have found
by experience that it n, ant! by tho fol
lowing rules: I raise as many puilets
among my chicks as I wi.-h to, while some
of my neighbors complain that their
chicks are nearly all locators, and thoy
cannot sec why there should bo a differ
ence. I will tell hero what I have told
them, aud for tho benefit of those who do
not know', that tho small round eggs ure
femule eggs, and the long Gender ones
are nudes. This rule holds good among
ull kinds of birds. So if yon wish to
raise pullets, set tho Small, round eggs;
aud if you wish to raise roosters, sot the
long, slender ones. In this way you will
bo enabled to raise whichever sex you
wish to.
C’ouNlUernbly Condensed.
r--
Moonlight night—shady groves—two
lovers—eternal fidelity—young Judy rich—
young man proud—very handsome—very
smart—sure to make a fortune—young
lady’s father very angry—won’t consont—
| mother intercedes—No! no!—rich rival—
I vory ugly—very hard-hearted—lover in a
bad fix—won’t part—die first—moonlight
I again—garret window open—rope ladder
I —flight — pursuit—too late—marriage—
I old man in a ruge—won’t forgive them—
i disowns them—old man gets sick—sends
i for his daughter—all forgiven—all made
up—old man dies—young couple got all
' the money—live in the old mansion—
j quite comfortable—have litllo children—
much happiness—finis.
—A machine for “pumping" witnesses
l is among the hydraulics patented lost
week. The inventor is first, cousin to the
old man who mado leather spikes.
—Blue dress coats, w ith highly polished
brass buttons and silk velvet collars, with
holes in the elbows, are said to be much
worn.
KELLOCC’S FINANCIER.
Louisiana Can Boast Another WJckltflfo.
CLINTON'S MANAGEMENT OF LOU
ISIANA FINANCES.
HE ISSUES FRAUDULENT WARRANTS
Other Suspicious Transactions.
Tbe Charge of Clinton's Dishonesty
Substantiated by Incontesta
ble Facts and Figures.
NECESSITY OF THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.
[from our own correspondent.]
New Orleans, Juno G, 1874.
The picture drawn in tuy previous let
ter of Chas. Clinton, Kellogg’s Auditor of
Public Accounts, was by no means com
plimentary to that individual. Whoever
has had more than a casual acquaintance
with Kellogg’s chief financial officer will
admit that I have faithfully sketched.
Tho task now devolves upon me—as fore
shadowed in my last letter—to make good
my assertion: that Charles Clinton is as
dishonest as he is unscrupulous and bold.
I shall puss briefly over such facts and
suspicious circumstances in Clinton’s
management of the S’ate’s finances which
ure pretty well known here; for were I
to mention every detail bearing upon this
subject, this letter would occupy the space
of a good-sized pamphlet.
Clinton and Dubudet.
Article GO of the constitution of Louisi
ana provides : “There shall be a Treasurer
of tho Slate aud an Audiior of Public
Accounts, who shall hold their respective
offices during the term of four yens. A.
tbe first eleetion under this constitutiou
the Treasurer shall be elected for tw .
years. ”
This first election took plaoo on the
17th aud 18lhof April, 18G8, and from
that time, as will be observed from the
constitutional article quoted, dates the
precedent of the State Treasurer holding
over two years, ho being elected always
two years Inter than the general election
is held in November. This provision of
the constitution is in so far a wise one, as
precaution is thus taken that the State
Treasurer does not belong to tho sumo
party or clique whioh cunios tho day at a
general election for State officers. Tho
Treasurer and Auditor, wero they elected
by oueaud the same party, at one aud the
same election, might run things to suit
themselves and in their owu individual
interest, are supposed to be a check upon
each other.
When Clinton, with the aid of a squad
of Metropolitan police, usurped tho office
of State Auditor, Antoine Dubudet, a
wealthy and (said to be) well educated
colored man, held the office of State
Treasurer, with a tenure of office until
Novemb r, 1874. It soou became evidont
that Clinton, bold, overbearing, auto
cratic, and overriding tbe constitution
aud the laws whenever it suits his put-
poses, and Dubudet, holding to a si riot
observance of the law, wouldn’t hitch.
Dubude’, with his old-fashioned notions
of honesty aud obedience to law, was iu
Clinton’s way; and th» layer, in tho
summer of 1878, with nti unequaled au
dacity usurped the functions of the State
Treasurer. Dubudet, by Clinton'a bold
coup d'etat, bvcauie what is known iu
monarchical Europe as a minister nan*
portefeuille. The collections of Stute
taxes uml State licenses made in the city
and interior parish s by the various tax
c (Hectors wero received by Mr. Clinton
during ue irly all of tbe latter bulf of 1 st
year, in flugrant violation of tbe law,
which clearly provides that the collec
tions, nfter the accounts have been au
dited, are by the tax collectors to be
turned into the Stute treasury, and the
State Treasurer to give his receipts lo the
tax collectors for the auiounls paid in lo
the credit of the several funds specified
by law.
Clinton an Treasurer.
Tho money which should have gone
into tho treasury was captured—“cap
tured” is about the only correct term for
this illegal transaction—by Clinton, who
gave temporary receipts for the same, aud
deposited it in his own name in tho Lou
isiana National Bank, of which institu
tion Mr. Joseph II. Oglesby, a strong sup
porter of tho Kellogg administration, is
tho President. Some of the money Mr.
Clinton kept locked up iu tho vault of the
Auditor’s office, to deposit it whenever he
had a mind to, or to turn it, through one
of his clerks, into the t oasury whenever
such accounts as it pleased him to pay
were to be settled, always taking e.ie
that the respective amount paid into the
treasury did not exceed tho account ho
felt inclined to pay. Mr. Dubudet’s func
tions, during that time, were simply cleri
cal—tho real Treasurer of tho Stato was
Chns. Clinton. It may here be re enrkod
that tho Treasurer has to give bond in
the amount of fifty thousand dollars,
while tho Auditor’s bond is only ten thou
sand dollars ; and still the latter, at times,
handled as much as four and five hundred
thousand dollars of the Htute’s money-
money whioh to handle ho bud not the
shadow of legal right.
I pass over another unauthorized action
of Mr. Clinton’s, namely : bis selling the
collections in currency at public auction,
and receiving in payment State warrants
at a into established by himself,
i Clinton looks out for Number One.
Clinton's dabbling with tho Stute’s
j money resulted iu a discrepancy bo'ween
j the aocouuls of tho Treasurer and Au
ditor; or, t > i-so a milder term, tho oc-
! counts of these two officials wouldn’t
• tally. Clintou was thus placed iu a bad
; position, but fruitful as ho is in resources
j he got over it for the time being by
| “Fixing tU* Legislature,"
| as tbo phrase goes. The law defluing the
| duties and powers of the Auditor pro-1
videa: “It shall bo tho duty of the Au
ditor to submit all of his books, accounts,
vouchers, aud other official documents in
liis office, to a joint committee of the
General Assembly, to be appoinred imme
diately after the oommeneement of oach
regular session, for examination ami set
tlement.”
Tho joint committee, as herein pro
vided, appointed by the General Assem
bly of 1874, hud for chairmen A. B. Har
ris on tho part of tho Senate, and J. B.
Wands on the part of tho House. What
this committee did remains, however, a
secret. It failed iu its duty by not making
tho required report. The inducements
held out to that committee for suppress
ing so important a report remain for the
present mutters of conjecture. It looks
somewhat j suspicious, however, that Mr.
H. H. Harris, brother of Senator Harris
aud State tax collector for the 8econd
District of New Orleans, who was to bo
removed, ns tho report goes, to make
room for another of Kellogg’s favorites,
m1 ill remains in office; and that Mr.
Wands, shortly after tho adjournment of
the Legislature, was appointed tax col
lector for the parish of Tangipahoa.
The Amount MInning.
Notwithstanding the suppression of the
official report of this investigating com
mittee, enough has leaked out to give cur
rency to the report that Clinton has failed
to account for not less than $432,000.
There are some who put it lower. In a
speoch delivered in the House of Repre
sentatives, on tho lGtli of January last,
Win. Murrell, a colorod number from
Madison parish, sta'ed the discrcpuuoy at
$50,001 7G. The occasion of the delivery
of Mr. Murrell’s speech was the question
of advisability of placing an official of
Mr. Clinton’s doubtful honesty upou tbe
board which was to be charged with the
exchauge of bonds under tho funding
bill, by which measure the creditors of
tbe State of Louisiana are forced to have
their claims liquid ited at the rate of sixty
••outs ou the dollar. I quote from Mur
rell's 2-peech:
“Now, Mr Speaker, there is but one
uiore point I wish to oaII your attention
lo, aud I do not propose to expatiate upon
tho same, but put it out for what it is
worth, and hope it to be explaiued iu a
satisfactory manner to all, and that is,
that there is a discrepancy in the Auditor's
aud Treasuier’s accounts amounting to
^56,1)141 7G, and os they are on tho com
mittee that are to arrango for the ex
change of tho^e bouds, might they not
make as grout difference in tbeir reports
ihereof? And furthermore, 1 think this
matter of $56,1)1)1 7G should bo settled to
the satisfaction of this body before tho
Auditor is plaeed tipou that committee. I
would like tor some one of our more able
oratois to rise aud explaiu why is this
tbu.-ly.”
Tbo ftiippreNMcd Records.
There is reason to believe thut the re
cords pertainiug to tbo investigation of
the Auditor’s accounts ‘u- • in possession
of Stute Senator A. I), limis, who holds
them daugling as a Damocles’ sword over
■Clintons culpable bend.
A Sup position.
Thero is a street rumor—which I give
for what it is woith, not having any evi
dence to establish its truth,—thut Mr.
Morton, of Indiana, has boon paid fifty
thousand dollars for advocating the Kel
logg came in CongrosH, and that this
amount is part of the supposed def.Joa
tiou of Auditor Clinton.
Investigation Wanted.
Whether the supposed defalcation
amounts to $162,000 or $56,01)1, the mat
ter is of sufficient importance to every
honest cilizca and tax-payer to call for
immediate and thorough investigation.
The Grand Jury aud Attorney Geucral
Field, upou whom tho tusk will devolve,
ought not to shirk their duty in tho prem
ises, disagreeublo us it may lie.
The foregoing remarks involve no di
rect accusation against Auditor Clinton.
Iu order, however, to aid tho Grund Jury
and Col. Field in their lubors, I bore with
bring the following
Direct t'burise Against Clinton
I accuse Charles Clinton, iu his official
capacity as Auditor of Public Accounts,
of an nnumtukable act of dishonesty, as
I will presen)ly show. •
Cliuton'e Contingent Fund
Under former administrations, inclu
ding tho corrupt W.irmoth regime, tho
contingent fund of tho Auditor, was two
thousand or at the highest twenty-five
hundred dollars per annum, which was
c (D-idered amply sufficient to defray in
cident d expenses. The Legislature of
1875, however, appropriated six thousand
dollars for that purpooG, which, together
with au unexpended Lalauce of of $180-
.64 of the appropriation made by tho Leg
islature of 1872, should, indeed, have
been sufficient % pay for Mr. Clinton’s
iucidentuls. But Clintou rau thiugs at
high pressure and made heavy drafts on
his $6,000 contingent fund—so heavy, in
deed, that iu November ulrcudy ho had
overdrawn it by twenty-two hundred and
some odd dollars. This placed Clinton
iu a pretty tight fix, und in this di emma
ho addressed confidential letttrs to tho
Republican Stato Senators and members
of tho lower House asking them to pledge
themselves to him in writing to make an
extra appropriation of twouty-flvo hun
dred dollars so ns to cover the amount
overdrawn. But this game wouldn't
k, comparatively few ro.spouded to
Clinton’s model request.
Clinton Issue* Fraudulent Warrant*
What doos Clintou iu this dilemma ?
lie had cashed the warrants drawn on his
contingent fuud when ho kuew that fund
was exhausted; aud he deliberately goes
and destroys a number of these warrants,
and issues new warrants in their stead,
drawn on funds ou which he had not the
remotest legal right to draw for his con
tingent expenses. Soma of these war
rants woro for additional clerk hire not
provided for by law; otheis for miscella
neous advertisements in tho Picayune,
Tinua, German Gazette, Price Current,
and a little iusignifloant sheet called the
Crescent City, uml some for other purpo
ses. Clinton cashed these several war
rants for the4)artics in whoso favor they
were issued; and the respective warrants,
after having boon cashed, were iu domed
by tho respective parties who received
their fuoo value in currency from Clinton.
After tho original warranto, whioh—mark
well!— bore the infloraement of the par
ties in whose faro- they were drawn, had
been destroyed, Clinton issued other war
rants in their Btead, and charged the re
spective amounts of these several war
rants fraudulently issued to other funds.
Those for advertising in the papers men
tioned he drew on the special fund set
aside for the State Printer—New Orleans
Republican—whioh for 1878 was $150,
0fl$, and of which amount there remain,
ed toward the close ot the year an unex
pended balance of about $20,000. The
fraudulent warrants for additional elerk
hire he drew on the appropriation for the
Auditor's clerical foroe, whioh he thus
overdrew by $622.88; and other incidental
expenses were charged up to other con
venient speoisl funds whioh, as I said be
fore, he has not the remotest legal right
to tonoh.
Fraudulent Indorsements nn Fraud
ulent Warrants.
Destroying the original warrants and
issuing new ones in their stead was an
ea»y matter for an official with a stretchy
conscience; but the greatest difficulty was
how to obtain indorsements for those
fraudulently issued warranto. After poh
deriug over this matter Clinton quietly
sends for a prominent merchant and pre
vails upon him to indorse these fraudu
lent warrants.
TRe Result.
By these series of financial tricks, Clin
ton was enabled to report his contingent
fund overdrawn by only $280.68, while
ho had originally overdrawn it by twenty
two hundred and some odd dollars.
The Violated Lew.
In this transaction—aside from the
fraud committed—Auditor Clinton Iuh
clearly violated the following provisiou of
the law:
“No warrants shall be drawn by the
Auditor, nor paid bv the Treasurer, unless
the uiouey to pay tne seme has been pre
viously appropriated by law; nor shall the
whole amount drawn for or paid under
any one head ever exceed tbe amount ap
preprinted by law for that purpoae.”
Another section of the law depriving
the duties and powers of the Auditor
reads as follows:
“Should the Auditor knowingly issue
any warrant upon tbe Treasurer not au
thorized by law, or should he wilfully
neglect or refuse to perform any duty eu
joined by law, or be guilty of any oppres
sion or extortion, or reeeive any fee oi
reward for the performance of any duty
not allowed by Taw, or shall he by color
of hia office, knowingly do any act not
authorized, or in any other manner than
is required by law, or illegally use or mis
apply any money belonging to tho State,
lie shall bo deemed guilty of misdemean
or in office, and upon ’oonviotiou be fined
not more than one thousand dollars, and
imprisoned not more than five years, and
be dismissed from office."
There is no doubt that Mr. Clinton has
made himself liable to prosecution under
this section of the law. It is earnestly to
be hoped that the law will be allowed to
have its course. Mr. Clinton owes it to
himself to dotnand an investigation into
tbo uffaias of hia office. If he be inno
cent of the charge I have preferred, and
of others which, when the time arrives
will be brought against him, so much the
better for hiui; should he be found guilty,
lot tbe State be delivered out of tbe
lutches of a dishonest officer. Louisiana
has had enough with one Wiokliffe.
Vidkttk.
Prominent Incidents
IN THE
History of Columbus
From i(a Finl Ftillemenl in 1827, to the
Wilson Haiti, in 1805, compiled by John
II, Martin.
The undersigned proposes to publish, in
volume of 150 or more pages, a work under
the above title, covering the period from t/u
selection of the locality for a “ trading town,"
in 1827, to the Capture and partial destruction
of the city by the Wilson Hmd, in 1805.
The incidents will be derived mainly from its
newspapers, which will be gleaned for this
purpose with much care. It is believed thut
most of our citizens would like to have such
incidents in this compact and convenient form,
and will encourage the undertaking to the
extent of the email amount asked for the work
’Each chapter will contain short biographic
cal sketches or notices of the principal citizens
mentioned in it, who have since died. The
volume will also embrace full information
concerning the churches, factories, d-e., now
existing.
We do not propose to publish this eompila
tion with a view to making money, as the
small price asked for it will show. Hut
the same time we do not want to ln«e mom I.
by its publication, and therefore we wish
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Payable when the work is delivered, which
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TUOS. GILBERT.
May 12, 1874.
8TOVES AND TIN WARE
Stoves, Stoves
r NATHAN CROWN,
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W OULD rt-Hpt'ctfuIly invite the attention of hi*
fricade aud ciutomen to hie extena!v<
tftock of STOVES, HOLLOW AND fTAMFKI
vV ARK, IIOUSE-VURN18I11NO GOODS, Ao. Also
TIN WAKrJ, at wholesale and retail.
Roofing and Guttering
done promptly and in |he beet
H. solicit. . ell. tollM <Mri lk.t k. OU
live entire eatiafautiee. _
AW Price ae low M the * * ~
before job bnjr.
RAILROADS.
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Ovfic-i Moil LK St (liRAon Rail* AD >
Coluinitu-, lia., June| 1&74. ’l
A meeting ot the Stooiiholderg of the Mobile
and Olrard Kailro id Company will ho htlfafc
tho depot In Girard, Ala., on WodsMday, Ju
ly 1st, at a. u,, when an mention
for President and six Directors will take pUoe,
Stockholders with their families will he pan!
ed Iroo, coming within two days of meeting
and returning within live days niter.
Certificates ofSio k must he exhibited toths
conductor by a stockholder and cer Ifioateof
■tock and wnttoa proxy must be shown to en
title a proxy to pass Tree.
J- M FRAZEB. Sec'y.
NOTICE.
OFFICE Mon.IE X uisaud mu.no d, i
Comjubcs, Ua , Juno ii, U74. |
A FTER this duto tho following rates will be
churucd:
('oluttiim* to UnionteprlrfB—Ath .lass 37 cents.
6 li das-* side, 7«l» cl.oh -2.»«• $ ico lb ^
Coltunbtts 10 Non H and 10—5.h cl.U« 43c, «th
cIhsb 30c, 7»‘* "• •»“ *•>» '<«
Co utnui
7th class V 100 lb
J * J M Fit *7iER. Agsr-t.
23c \\ 100 tl
cuws 44c, Ctb class 32o»
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
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N AND AKl'Kit *U.\
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»d, its orum ho and UuuEOctMis. will run
going north and wist.
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Arrive in Augusta
Arrive in Milu-d;< villo
Arrive iu Katoutou...
Arrivo in Mucou
Leave Macon lor t oiumlius
Leave Macon for Kuaula...
Leave Macon for Atlanta...
Arrive at Columbus ,.12;4^ i
Arrivo at Kufaulit 10:20 x
Arrivo at Atlanta 1:40AH
COMING 80UTU AND KAfeT.
Lohvo Atlanta 1:00 am
Leave Co umhus 7 : io r v
Leave Kufaula 7:4>
Arrivo at Mucou from Atlanta...,
Arrive at Macou from > olu nbu
Arrive at Macon from htilaula
I nave Macon 'll VAN
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Arrive at Suvunuuh o: 6r m
TRAIN NO. 2, GOING NORTH AND WMeT.
Leavo Savannah 7:S0pm
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Arrive in Auguata 5;fifl*x
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Arrive In Columbus 8 3ofn
Arrive In Kuranlu ft:4U j» x
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COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
pave Atlanta 7:00 4 *
Leave Columbus :30 v x
Leave Auiauiu a x
Arrivo in Macon from Atlanta :t;40FM
Arrive in Macon from UolwU , '.-.i.tFM
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Arrivo iu Kaiontou
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Arrive iu Auguata ft ftft a N
At rive In Savannah T:i& k k
Train No. 2, being a tl.rough train SVn the Cen
tral Railroad, slop|iing only -* -*• * — “*
r put off.
i for Lu.f siutious caunoi bo taken u
IWongnrf for Milh-dgevil'e and Eatonton will
luku tram .No. I fr-ui Savannah aud AagU»t.i, and
ir-'in No. 2 from point* on tho Southw bt-ru Rail
road Atlanta aud Mac m The Mtlh.dgevi.lo aud
Rat -ntou train runs daily, Sund y except d.
vV i l,LI v M KimjKUS,
my2C tr General Sup ihuenJ. nt.
Western Railroad of
Alabama.
541 HOURS TO NiSW YORK
NINE HOURS FASTEST TIME 1 -
Choice of Two Boutes.
New York and Hew Orleans Mua Line.
WESTERN RAILROAD OF ALABAMA,
OOLUXIil'E, Ua„ AptII 241k, 1674.
TRAINS LEAVE COLUMBUS DAILY
For Montgomery and Solum, 1:00 a. X.
Arrive at Motitg’y, - - U:4> a m.
Arrive *t Selma, - 11.04 a. X*
FOR ATLANTA AND NEW YOUR
At 10:4b a. to. Arrive Op.lika ut 1-*;27 p. m. At
Atlanta 0:42 p. in.
8y Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line.
Leave Atlanta 0:i-up. m., < HARLOT IE 8:33 a.
, iJuuvillo 3:27 p. in., lticiiiiioud 11:0ft p. in. Ac
re ut Wuaiiiugiou 4:30 a. m., ut Bultimo:* 0 3O-i.
., at Philadelphia 1:30 p. iu. at Nls a \Or>iv 5:16
By Kenne*aw Route.
tlnutu 0:0 J p. m., ballon l< :28 p. m.,
Bristol lo 46 a. IU.. Lynchlui g 10 1ft p si. Arrive
at Washington 0:4ft a. in., ui Bulliun/o 9 16 a. in.,
t Fhiladulphia 1:30 p. in , ut N£w YoRR6:l5
Sloepiug cars run from Atliuts to LyncUbtirg.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS DAILY
From Atlanta and New York, • fc'-i a, m.
roin Montgomery uiul eelnia - 2:30 p. m.
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I.'jiivo Col,mil'll, 3:fr>»
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Leave Troy c:-6 A. X.
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