Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1883 — Page 2

rOB INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. .WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1883.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER Among the booms that were killed by the Ohio Democratic rylone was that of our old friend Hayes for the Senate. Poor Hayes! His opportunity to immortalize himself was lost when he accepted the Presidency swindled from another man. Poor Hayes! Hello! A Washington clerk was yesterday arrested for collecting $3 from a fellow clert for political' purposes. Poor devil! Can't they find some bigger game. Dorsey might get away with the entire Treasury and go "scott free," but a 5 violator must suffer punishment. Hon. Joseph E. McDosalp returned from "Washington yesterday. There is no truth in the telegrams sent out from Washington that the ex-Senator proposes to make that city his home for the winter. He jroes there from time to time only on lcjal business, aud an j- intimation that he has established a ort of political bureau there for the purpose of Retting up a Presidential boom are false in every particular. C.ovebxor Hitler, of Massachusetts says: 'It is harder for a citizen to approarh the ballotbos in Matfachiuetts than in nny ether Mate in the Union." The reasons for this are found in Kenablican legislation. Those Massachusetts Radicals are own political blood cousin3 of the gang that corrupted the ballot-boxes of Indiana for many years. If there are any premiums being offered anywhere for any such cattle, our fellows will take the first every time. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, agrees with his colleague, Senator Hamilton, in regard to the very best treatment of the colored race, and the proper course for them to pursue to secure the fullest enjoyment of all their rights, suggesting that had thi3 whole matter been left to the regulation of the several States after emancipation the C0UD. try would have been spared all the troubles resulting from the revolutionary force bills of the reconstruction period, and that the Southern whites, understanding the character and necessities of the negroes, were better able to deal with them in a liberal pirit than outside fanatics. Senator Wade, of South Carolina, in speakiugofthe recent decision of the Suprem? Court upon the civil rights bill, says: "The colored people have been put on th9sauie footing, politically and legally, as the whites. All their rights us citizens have been secured aud guaranteed. No law can or should fix or deal -wit n social distinctions which Have been and always will be regulated by society and public opinion. In a Republic, where all are equal before the Jaw, the position that every citizen occupies depends on education, ability, and above all uii personal character. Iii us the 'decision of tiie Court, while it will not, I trust, dispose the .Southcm whites to be overbearing toward the biacki, will tend to spur the latter to greater efforts to make themselves good citizens." In regard to the policy the States should pursue toward the negroes, Senator Hampton tays: "Accord to the colored people cheerfully all the rights bestowed on them bylaw: place before tuein all the means by which they can be educated up to their responsibility as citizens; let them feet that the protect; u arm of the law is over them: aid them in their efforts to Improve themselves, and show them that we are their truest irieada." The colored people should know by this time that the Democratic party is their best friend. One thing is sure, Democrats will not lie to them or deceive them. This is the way that Een Butler talks to the Republican gang that make intimations that he shall not take his seat even if elected f Governor of Massachusetts: They have nothing to do whatever at the poll except to go up quietiy and reverently and Vast their ballot, and then go home. What are luey to ban; about the polls for and get in honest voter' 'way. v that they can not easily get to the ballotbox? Think of it! They then went further, a id Mr. Cod wan said that they did not think it would be necessary, because Mr. Robinson was Koi'ij: down to Koston with such a majority, but. if it was necessary, then they would p.o to the Legislature, tnis same Violence Committee, and insist upon throwing ut the vote of Boston whenever they chose, although the votes mUht be duly cast and counted and returned by the sworn onU'erg of the law; yet this Vigilance Committee, as the Spaniards call it, was going to the Legislature and put iu its ay-so and have votes thrown out, and Governor Cutler should not take bis seat. Well, perhaps not lUreat laugbtcrand applause.) luey have made a mistake increased applause; my name is not Tilden storms of applause and cheers!, and if I am elected by the votes of the people as Governor of the Commonwealth, I shall take the chair and exercise that power, although all the devils in hell stand in the way of it. Uproar of applause.) Threaten me with rebellion: 1 did what they did not; I belied pull down a rebellioa tremendous applausel. and it will not te exactly tie for lit. Coo man or any one else to attempt to annoy io use the constitutional word -this Coramouelih. or to interfere with the people thereof tir tue Government thereof. Applause. litdeed, I may say that if he takes that job on hiniflf he bad belter take a ticket to Europe verv son I tremendous -applause I, and there the United states proceM oi extradition may be able to reach him. Cheers. THANKSGIVING DAY. To write a Thanksgiving Day article three or four weeks in advance may seem a little previous, but as the proclamation of the President has appeared in the public prints a few remarks will not be out of place just now. Thursday, the 29th hist., has been designated by Mr. Arthur as Thanksgiving Day. It is to be day of "National thanksgiving." The reasons set forth by the President why a National thanksgiving should be had are as follows: The year which is drawing to an end has been replete with evidences of divine goodness. The prevalence of health, the fullness of the harvests, the stability of peace and order, the growth of fraternal feeling, the spread of Intelligence and learning, the continued enjoyment of civil and religions liberty-all these and countless other blessings are cause for reverent rejoicing. I do therefore recommend that on the day above annotated the people rest from their accustomed labors, and meeting la their several places of worship, express their devout gratitude to God that II hath dealt so bountifully with this Kation and pray that Ilia grace and favor abide with it forever. Manifestly, the President would have the people to believe him to be a very devout man. President "by the act of Cod," and therefore possessed of a "divine right" to rule nltt Saltan, Czar, King and Kaiser. Bat it so liappena that the President it not devout, lie is not religious even in a semi-orthodox tense. He is not a holy man. He is not notorious for saintlike Ileavenly-tuindedness. lie is known to be a glutton and a winebibber. He plays draw-poker and soaps elections. lie is given to neither prayer nor fasting. He does not confess his sins. He is the bosom-friend of Mabone, and has been known to eulogize such a mass of abominations, such a human ulcer as S. W. Dorsey, and atill this man has the astounding brass to call upon the people- of the United States to meat in the houses of worship for the purpos of expressing their "devout gratitude t

(Jod." He talks of health and of harvests, peace, order, fraternal feeling, intelligence and learning and of civil and religious liberty, etc. This he docs, as if God had selected the people of the United States as his special favorites upon whom to lavish Ilia boundless benedictionsy such are not the facts The law s which the Infinite Lawgiver made and set in operation are the same in all zones and lands and climes. God is no respecter of persons. His rain falls alike upon the just and the unjust. The promise of seed time and harvest is to all and the covenant bow upon the cloud, spcakes the same language to all. The spotted adder in the grass, the tiger in the jungle, the eagle in its aerie and the sparrow on the house top, the robed priest at the altar, the wild Apache in his mountain cave, the crushed slave in his hut, the crowned monarch on his throne, live and move and ierish under the same immutable laws. There are no miracles wrought nowadays. It does no good lor persons, dressed in a little brief authority, to weave pretty words into chaplets with which to compliment Jehovah. He gives neither more nor less because of toploftical panegyric. If people are healthy it is because they obey sanitary laws. If there are abundant harvests, it is because the people plowed and sowed. If there is peace and order, it is because good laws have been enacted aud the people are oledint. If there is intelligence and education, it is because of schools and books and newspapers. If there is civil and religious liberty, it is because the pen and the sword have removed the obstacles which despotism, ignorance and superstition have set up to euthrone error and beat back the advancing columns of truth tellers. God helps those who help themselves. A being of infinite love sends forth no scourge, neither sickness nor famine as an evidence of li s displeasure. Cyclones and earthquakes are expression of His anger or vengeance. God creates neither monarchs nor slaves. He neither leads up nor leads down. There is no c lass legislation in Heaven. He does not create standing armies or hurl them against each other on fields of carnage to support dynasty or acquire territory. -tile takes no part in the Councils of Nations. It is well worth while to say that the moral laws areas irrevocable as those which guide the planets in their shining orbits. Why, then, National Thanksgiving Days' Certainly not for rain and sunshine, the emerald grass or gorgeously-robed forests: not for the seasons in their regular order; such thnijrs neither come nor remain away by anything men can or ma do. God build- neither school houses nor Churches God made laws, and God be thanked that mar can not revoke them. Wc do not suppose that UckI it to be thanked for railroads, tana's, telegraphs and telephones, nor for the ten thousand inventions which help the various enterprises of civilized men. But, if in the wide world humanity is gaining triumphs over inhumanity thanksgiving is in order. If despots are anywhere getting weak in the knees, if their thrones are totterinsr, let shouts of triumph go heavenward until the disenthralled inhabitants of celestial lands join in the acclaim. If anywhere on Cod's round earth slaves are rising from their prostrate condition and are asserting their birthright, let every day in the year be a thanksgiving day. If the eternal principle of right embodied in the declaration, "as ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so unto them," is gaining victories, then it is in order for humanity to robe itself in holiday attire, and for every heart throb to be a drum beat of thanksgiving

THE LAND QUESTION. A recent article in the Nation contains some remarkable statements respecting our land grant system and the land question generally. This journal, though somewhat oracular in its tone, has generally been regarded as well informed, trustworthy and independent; but we fear its character is likely to suffer by the editorial services of Carl Schurz. In the article referred to the statement is made that our land grant system was inaugurated in 1850, under the Administration of President Pierce; but Mr. Filmore was the President, and Pierce was not inaugurated till March. 1853. The Nation says our land grants began with the passage of the bill introduced by Mr. Douglass, and that the Democrats are therefore responsible for whatever evils to the country have resulted; but the truth is that the bill of Mr. Douglass was passed under a Whig Administration, and was voted' for by Whigs. Democrats aud Freesoilers. The Nation says there is now no question before the eople respecting land-grants, and no land question. This is a very surprising statement, aud we think could only have found its way into the columns of that paper through the brain of its new editor, whose administration of the Interior Department his provoked so much criticism, Let ua refer to a few significant facts. The grant made to the Texas Pacific IUilroad covered an area of more than 11,000,000 acres; but not an acre has been earned by the road, and the whole of it has been forfeited. Nothing is wanting to restore it to settlement but an act of Cor g ess declaring the forfeiture. But Congress has thus far failed iu its duty, while the Southern Pacific llailroad Company is seeking to gobble up and appropriate to its own use the whole of the grant, under a contract made with the defaulting and defunct Company to which the- grant was originally made. This scheme of wholesale and barefaced robbery of the Government seems likely to 1 successful, and can only be defeated 1 Congress; and yet the Nation says there is no question before the people resecting land grants. Kindred observations apply to the grant made to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, co?erihg more that 40,000,000 acres, only 125 miles of the line of which were built within the time required by the granting act; leaving 2,101 miles to be built. Of course about 40,000,000 acres of the grant have been forfeited, by failure to comply with its conditions, and the duty of Congress to declare this forfeiture and restore the lands to actual settlement, is now a question before the people. The grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company covered an area of over 4 VW.0UO acres. The length of the main line of the road is 2,'J7!) miles, of which . only 5'51 wert? built within the time required by the grant, leaving 1,7."J miles uncompleted, and nearly 4,0(k),0(J of the grant legaly forfeited and rightly belonging to fettlers under the preemption and homestead laws. And yet

we are told there is no question before the people respecting land grants. . : We hear mentioned these great transcontinental lines because they best illustrate the folly and audacity of the statement made by the Kation ; but there are numerous other faults which have been forfeited and are, only awaiting a declaration 'of forfeiture by Congress, so that settlers may assert their just rights on the public domain. A 100,000,000 acres of the peoples patrimony are to-day tied up from settlement under grants that have been forfeited, while nearly as much more is practically withdrawn along the unsurveyed portion of the lines of the various roads byjthe operation of the grants upon the even sections contiguous to the odd ones, which can only be made available after their identification by the survey. No longer any land que Ion before the people! And yet the monopc Jzation of the public domain has never been making such headway as today. All the great forces at work in the concentration of capital are playing their part in the multiplication of great landed estates, including the purchase of vast tracts by foreign owners. The public lands fit for tillage which yet remain are rapidly melting away, but the Nation says they will suffice for homes for all people who will want them for fifty years to come, and that the land question is withdrawn from American politics! It sees men as trees walking. It needs one more editor, or one less.

PERSONALS. Hr.NKY Irvings real name is John Henry Kroadribb. Gknfkai. Jons M. Corse has returned from t a rope. Ji r-Aii P. Benjamin expects to return to America to reside. Qcef.s Victoria weighs 200 pounds and is a good woman. Ex-Cadet Whitakkr has started a military school for colored youths in Charlesion, S. C. A Ml Kt'ERER in a Kansas Jail charges five cents for a look, and is thus doing a thriving business. A Keadin:, Ia., man attempted to learn the entile Uiole by heart He has recently died in an Asylum. N ATlf ANiFi. Gkeene, the only living grndoit of General Nathaniel Greene, is a practirius physician in Middletown, R. I. Major Arth I' k. Paymaster I'nited States Army, and brother of President Arthur, Is at Tort Keosh, a wituess on the Hargrove Court Martial. Gf.ort.e Ai.freo Townsend has a novel in press. He has long been engaged iu writing fiction, but chiefly in the form of newspaper correspondence. Mr. 8r. NTI.EY, the English baritone, I. as been betrothed to a beautiful South American heiress." Tbe marriage will tako place in London shortly. Pu:in; a wedding ceremony in Philadelphia the bride wpt. When a bride weeps it may be sot down that the trousseau has not come up to her expectations. Miss GK.rvii:vr. VYakd sails lor ludia on Pecember l?, then Koing to Australia, New Zetland, Sandwich Islands Japan, the I'nited States, and Canada, returning to England in May. 1S. Mmf Jenny Lisi still suffers much from a neu ralgic a flection of her throat and chest the same which years ago used to cause her an agonizing headache after every appearance on the sia;e. The pretty story of the dove that flew through a Western Church window and perched on the head of the bride at the time of the ceremony loses something now that it leaks out that she had had it In training for six months Cardinal Mansino. assisted by bis Secretary, assists a Juvenile Immigration from Ireland scheme, lie hss already found homes in Canada for 400 Irish children. He expects soon an allowance of 12 from the British Government for each one sent out hereafter. Miss Bertha Crowley, of Deposit. X. Y., dreamed three nizhts in succession of her uncle's death in Texas. Impressed with her dreams, she addressed a letter to him. The letter fell into the hands of bis lawyers, who notified her last week that she had fallen heir to $60,000 by her uncle's death. The remains of lr. William Harvey, who is credited with having discovered tbe circulation of the blood, have just been removed from the vault In which they have repose for 200 years, in the Church at Hempstead, Essex. They have been placed in a marble sarcophagus in an adjoining Chapel built by the Harvey family. The sarcophagus was provided by the College of Physicians. Ibish- Americ ans who have visited the Old Country during the summer report that the farming class has not been for years in so prosperous a condition. The report of Sir Rivers Wilson. Controller General of Savings Banks, just issued, confirms this. Last year the average of deposits in Ireland was larger than in England or Scotland, reaching 6 Is Id, while in England and Wales it was it 8s, and in Scotland 3 4s 10d. Lawyer Fowler, arguing the Culver case in New Haven, said, snapping his lingers contemptuously. "I wouldn't give that for the testimony of all tbe Culvers that ever lived." Catching Judge Culver's eye, he added, "I mean, your Honor, all the Culvers that ever lived in North Haven." Afterward the lawyer was told that Judge Culver once dwelt in North Haren. Pkince Edward, the son of the Prince of Wales, has been entered as a student of Trinity College, Cambridge. It Is stated that he is not to attend the ordinary lectures, and special tuition will be provided for him: but he is to keep chapels and halls. In the chapel the master's pew, on the rljht of the Raster stall, has been given up for the use of the Prince and his suite. Iu hall he will dine at the high table, sitting on the right of the President; and be it to wear a silk gown iiweid of the ordinary blue stuff one of a Trinity undergraduate. "I wfm into a cigar shop one dv." says Viclorhn Sardou. telling how he prepared his f lay, "LesPatteade Mouche." "and took up a piece of paper to light my cigar. It was a sc rip torn from an old letter, with an ambiguous sentence, signed 'Alice Durand.' Immediately! thought. What if this letter feü into the band of the husband of Alice lurarid?and 1 fell to thinking of tbe complications which in iu'h t thus be brought about. This wa tbe principle I aoplied to "Let Pattesde Mouche.' ibe ingenius Idea of the dangerons letter being bidden in tbe least secret spot of the whole room I took from foe." Lorn CniEK JtvricE Cot eriikk, who is expected to be in England ou the 10th of November, will take ud his abode for some time in Buckland Court, uear Ashburton, where several distinguished ladies and gentlemen have promised to meet him. The mansion is surrounded by beautiful scenes, tod was sometimes visited by the famous poet Coleridge, when Buckland Court belonged to the old &r John Duke Coleridge, who so long represented tbe city of Exeter lu Parliament. Tbe family has recently lost one et its oldest members in the person of Prebendary Coleridge, a clergyman of High Church views, though not much of a ritualist. Accokmm; to the National, of Home. Pope l io Nono had at heart tnncli liking for Victor K naiueL During the war of 18.VJ he privately expressed strong sympathy with tbe Italian arms against tbe Austrlans. Just alter the victory of Palestro. Antnnelll was reading him newspaper accounts of the battle, and when the narrative came to where Victor made a furious cavalry charge, leading his men iu person, the Pontiff, wliU tetrs of joy In his eyes, exclaimed: "Bravo, Victor, my yon'." A Spanish Cardinal who was lot nt appeared to Im much shoe le i, tint knovi:i of (he IVuiiJ i;a.iau yinpall les, whereupxi

Pio Nono turned to blm with: "Why, my friend, I am an Italian!" The Baroness Burdett-Coults plays a very different part from Mr. Irvinz's upon the world's wide stage, but even she baa come ont in a new way. She has lust presided at the opening: of the educational session at the Birkbeck Instiiire. tbe headquarters of scientific instruction for young men and women in London. The Baroness has always taken a keen interest in education. That she maintains elementary schools in some of the poorest quarters of tbe vast city is known to many people, but it is not so generally knowu that the Baroness entirely supports an art school for girls in a part of London where the refinement of art is sorely needed. She and her nice looking young husband often visit this school and give prizes to the poor girls who are trying to get some kill iu depicting tbe beautiful. A gentleman who penetrated into the unsettled regions of Florida recently met there Spotted Tail, the chief of tbe remnant of Seminoles who still inhabit that region, and Leaping Panther, the old chief's son. The royal pair were dressed in all the pomp of the traditional Indian, with levins aud moccfjiinsof buckskin adorned with a great profusion of glass beads and strings of wampnn. They wore coronets of feathers and had mantles of dressed deer's hide thrown over their shoulders. Spotted Tail wanted to sell some slaves to a visitor. When told that slavery had ceased to exist, and that he had no right to keep any human being in bondage. Spotted Tail replied that he did not know anything about that. He bad slaves, aud he intended to keep them unless he could get a good price for them. Lorp Coi ERirrf.E, like most Judges, delivers his opinions ex cathedra as judgments. In his Yale address he calls John Bright "our greatest orator." There are two opinions about this. Bright himself says: I have delivered but one what is termed great speeches to fifty of Mr. Gladstone's, besides the innumerable lesser ones." In the last session Mr. Bright delivered two great speeches, Mr. Gladstone twenty-seven. Of these, the two on the affirm a ti on bill, which are both published in pamphlet form, may challenge comparison, although on a subject on which Bright would be at his best There is probably not a student of Yale who would not give the palm to Gladstone. Then Bright says himself: "I have usually prepared for a long time." It is known to be his habit to go to the count y and recite repeatedly in a large barn attached to his place his great speeches before venturing on delivery. Gladstone must of necessity speak cx tempore or with very light preparation.

WKSTERX ITEMS. (irk thieves continue tu prosper in the vicinity oi Breckenridse. Chink Jrsmox. Col,, has burned no less than J.IICO.COO brick this season. Ti K tew iniuinä strikes ucarS.&tuche, Col., are creating considerable interest. A kai:mkr ii: Mississippi County. Missouri, dug nearly sixteen pounds oi sweet potatoes out of one hii:. As editor in Frcdericktowi , Mo., haa a solid brass shovel and tongs which have been in the family for the last seventy years. Very ziowiu reports continue to be reoeiveil fioin the mines iu IV.erty Gulch and other camps in the vicinity of the Elk raue iu Colorado. Mr. A;nei: I.ooMi l-eiieres that human bones recently fouud near Livermore wer those of a man named Furkler. who disappeared in lSö'J. A Ccii.or.AiH) coal and iron company has ottered to doua'.e ten acre of laud to the Jesuit fathers if they will htate thir L uiversity iu l'ueb'.o, Co!. 1 he returns in the otlice of tlio Adjutant Genend of Kansas show tiiat there are about !W,000 old M.ldier in the state, jo.OOO widows, and 000 soldieiV orphans. Mr. Jons Stonek, of Manning, Iowa, who lost his entire crop in ti e btrange hailstorm of hut August, has discovered a 1 30,000 coal vein running tinder bis farm, and he counts that hailstorm a great biesin. Sti'MKLIM. Bear aud Big Tree, two prominent Indian Chiefs, have been t amped at Geuda Springs, Kan., for some time, fo tbe benefit of their health. They have erected regular Indian wigwams, which attract considerable notice. The approach of Thanksgiving naturally brings turkeys into unusual prominence and stories concerning them in great demand. George Cornell, of Parsballville, Livingston County, Michigan, rises to relate that he owns a ben turkey which has laid 155 eggs in the t summer and is still at it. A team belonging at Everest, Kan., disappeared from Hiawatha oue night during the Fair. Seven teen days after the hoises were found in the woods. in which they were entangled, on a bank: of the creek over which the team could not pass, on ac count of the bridge being gone. One of the horses was dead and the other in an emaciated condition. Squirrels had built their nest iu the buggy. At Cedar Rapids, last week, some boys built a bonfire on Second avenue and were enjoying them selves hugely, when a farmer with a load of hay came along. He was requested by the boys to drive to one side and not Interfere with their pyrotech nics, but be thought he would be a little funny and put their fire out by driving over it Pursuing that line of thought be drove directly over the ilames, which communicated to the hay coaaum ing the entire load. A case of remarkable malformation iu an infant is reported from Ottawa. 111., which is worthy of record. The psrents are of a respectable circle-the father is a well-known mechaiiio but for obvious reasons their names are not given. A few days since tbe mother gave birth to a child which was a veritable monstrosity. The up'cr part of the body and the bead were those of a fine-formed and handfome child, while the lei! were hideotuly misshapen. Tiie legs nd feet resembled those of a frog, and the sex could not be determined. The lufant was born alive but died in tbe course of a few day. I'kobabi.y one of the most remarkable shots on record was that fired by Hiram Heath, of I!orei, '!.. recently, while out huntiue iu tlm vicinity of Snyder's ranch. He discovered three bHcU-tsüs Mand n; doe together, and, taking aim. scuta 11 thrensh the bodies of the three, killing and securing them. The ball plowed ln'o the sound on the other side of the game. The hunt wai con tinued in company with J. M. Ohlhauseu. aad. up lo last evening, they bad aucceedxd In hangiug up seventeen deer. Ji st before noon, recently, a small boy who was standing on theedreof the sidewalk in frottof the l uited States Kxpress office, at Council BlaSTy was accidentally crowded off the sidewalk into the mud-puddle located in the treet at that point. He fell flaton his buck, and jnst as he was sinking In tbe muddy compound, f u all probability to rise uo more, he was grabbed by a bystaoder, who with difficulty pulled him out. This should be a warnlug to all strangers who do not know the dangers that beset their feet in that city. IK. K. P. Ratts Is a local physician lu Broad lands, in the southeast part of Champaign County, 111. The Doctor, who prides himself on his sucCf !l as a "masher," boasted the other day of his influence over the wife of J. tl. Thompson, the dls trict fcbool teacher, and added to this a direct in sult to the lady herself, ending with the threat that if she told her busband It would be the last thing she would ever tell anybody. Immediately ou Thompson's return borne bis wife reported the fact, toon after Ratts appeared at Thompson's house, carrying under hia coata steel chisel fourteen inches long. Thompson set upon him at once and knocked him down nine times In suocev moii, and finally choked him nutil he gave uo the chiscL He then made him kneel noon ti e floor slid ask his wife's and Mi own forgivenew, Ktt was everely ml about tbe bead. The Grind Jurv mndeafull Investigation of the case, but r?fm-d to find a bill against 7 horapson. A Helena (M T.) itiini-ter recently t tfRthul n k noon entitled, "A Look. I i t IImIcs " It mi entirely devoted to lu.itttrs of local Ui'.c ie; t.

THE TREASURY. ,

How It Has Been Ilobbed Under Republican Rule. Ex-Treasurer (ilfllLin Relate Some Interpsting Facts Abont Loose Ways of Doing Uusiness. Peculation by Government Clerks, Their Detection, and the Inadequate , Punishment Awarded. Giltillan Glad to Oait the Office Ileoaiist of Had Subordinate Forced Upon Him by .loliu Sherman Spinner Character. Washington Special to the Chicago Daily News. Gilfillan, the ex Treasurer of the United States, one of the best ofiicers who ever held the position, is now encaged in the marble business in New England. 1 saw him yesterday. He is making a short visit here. In the course of a conversation upon Treasury matters he made a startling tatemeut, to the effect that of all the men who had stolen money directly from the Treasury the only tuan.who had been punished was'Winslow, who gave up the money stolen. The thieves who kept the money were the ones who escaped. The heaviest robberies occurred under Spinner, when he was Treasurer. lie was an easy-going old gentleman, who is resposible for the introduction of female clerks into the Government. He used to spend a good deal of his time visiting with his female clerks, telling them stories of a doubtful color, and . laughing uproariously if they blushed or showed any confusion. tarly in his time Seth Johnson was the interest clerk and Fred A. M adder n was one of the disbursing; clerks. Jointly they were able to steal money for a long time. Johnson was very impudent and reckless in spending what he stole. One summer he went to Saratoga and epent'money so freely as tojeven create a sensation there. Gilfillan, who was then a confidential clerk in the office, heard of the affair and went to Father Spinner. Said Gilfillan: -'Look out for Seth Johnson." "Why?" said Spinner, gazing rapturously on a lady caller. '"Oh! he is spending too much money. He is throwing away every moiith more than his year's salary." Spinner shook his head impatiently as he said: "Oh, there can be nothing wrong. I hate a suspicions man." (iilrillan muttered, "And I hate a fool," and parsed out i The next day Gilfillan met Spinner. Said the latter: 'Tiion second thought I looked into Johnson's case, lie is all right. You were utterly in error about him." 'ilow did you lind out all this?" "Whv, Tuttle examined his c ase." Gilfillan said nothing. Tuttle was the simple minded and most inefficient clerk in the office. Hut he thought he would go to the bottom of the matter while fie was about it. So he went to Tuttle and said: "1 understand you b:ive been investigating Seth Johnson, and have found him all right?' "Yes." said Tuttle. "he U all right." "How did von find out?" "(Hi. 1 asked Seth." Gilfillan siid nothing more. Two or three days after he came into the Treasurer's ollice and found the ea!s on the safes, and soon learned of Johnson's arrest. Hut how had he been discovered? Through no keenness in the Treasurer's office. A broker's firm had conducted speculation for Johnson until they hatf gotten away from him nearly all the - money stolen, and then had reported him to General Spinner. The defalcation of Johnson was found to amount to $-30.000. That of Maddern, discovered at the same timev was found to be $12,000. The brokers surrendered $10,000 for Johnsjn, but the bulk of the $62,000 was a dead loss to the Government. Both were sentenced to the Penitentiary for a year only, and to pay the amount of their stealings. In a very short time the two thieves were pardoned, and released from all obligation. Then Congress indemnified Spinner, and the books balanced. Another bold thief was discovered during Spinner's time, the amount of whose thefts ean never be known. Very little has ever been said about him, as the amount or nature of his crime has always been suppressed by the Treasury people, with the natural tendency of all officials to smother information of interest to the public. Mr. Gilfillan, who is now outside the circle of official restraint, gives a very interesting sketch of this robbery, which may, for all one knows, have reached into the millions without leaving any tell-tale tricks upon tbe record. The thief in this case was G. II. Cornwall, the Chief of the Redemption Division. He was a very ingenius man, particularly skillful in ralnung and sleight-of-hand tricks. He was on tb Committee charged with the destruction of money -redeemed or ordered tobe canceled. The method employed was to first cut the bills in two lengthwise. The packages of half notes was thrown into a furnace by the Committee. Cornwall had attracted some notice by tbe fact that he was living in a house the mere rent of which, $l,SJO. was equal to his salary for the year, but there was no evidence that he was stealing. He waa. finally discovered through the sharp eyes of a small boy. Pratt, a Treasury Bureau man, yet in the" employment of the Government, was a member of the Committee charged with the destruction of the redeemed currency. He had a little boy who went with his father one day to watch the Committee burn the money. The little fellow was very much interested When be came out and was going home he said: "Why did oue of the men put the money in his pocket instead of the fire?" The father was absent-minded, and lie said. "Don't, talk nonsense," and stopped the bov'a talk. . , - liut the child was persitent, aud was not to be put down The next time money was to be. burned he again accompanied Iiis father, and Ihi time lie was so vehement in his assertions that the man did put the money in his pocket that l'ratt rejiorte 1 the matter to the Treasurer. When Cornwall's a irest was made a very serious condition of tilings was revealed much more serious than the authorities cared to acknowledge It appeared that Cornwall, by his dexterity in the art of palming, was able to pocket a number of the divided packas. These he afterward substituted for uncut packages redeemed. In this way he was able to with draw whole v.oiti from the redeemed packages and substitute in their place the cut packages lie had stolen from the mouth of the furnace. Iu this way the records were made good, and there was no trace of the theft. Cornwall's house was searched, and a large trunk was fouud even full of cut packages of stolen notes to be used in future substitutions. No whole notes were to be found. Cornwall was too adroit for that He pretended that he had only been able to get out a few packages. But the Treasury had no evidence on this subject except Cornwall's word. He was prosecuted for the theft of one package of fiw note;. He was convicted and sentenced to a short term in the Penitentiary. Very little was said about the case. Cornwall was almost immediately pardoned through TKwerfu1 political influence. The proof of Iiis having obtained a large sum was the fact that lie went back to his home in the in terior of Ohio, where he purchased a hotel, and when last heard from was prospering in Iiis new business. The next prominent thief was C. C Edwins. He had charge of makinu up the money packages to be remitted to the bank. He stole mo'iey from variou jackage, inakii.tr the Molen amounts uy front money on band until he became hopelessly involved, lie stole j'JvVjO and made ready tor Might to l."isr'j He went so far an to engage his pavave. 1 ! became' conscious-stricken at lit -t .'im' werf to tbp Treasurer anil rnnfewd. 1 i' was convicted of theft and 5e:itdnc-M,

and almost immediately pardoned because of his bad health. He died a few years after of consumption. Two professional thieves walked in upon the heels of a party of tourists being shown the cash room, and stole packages amounting to f 20,000. The thieves were never discovered. The last great robberv under Spinner was the theft of a package öf. 45jOOO bv a clerk of the name of Halleck. He Lad outside accomplices, the principal one of which was Ottmau, a Pennsylvania saloon keeper. Only $111,000 of this money was ever recovered. This was only recovered by attacking this amount of money deposited by Ottmcn in an Alexandria bank. Halleck was convicted and then promised a pardon for his evidence against Ottman. The case ran on in a muddled form for several years. Finally, upon a written opinion given by Special Attorney George Bliss, the Government settled the case for SlJOO. retaining that amount, and turning over the balance of the money to Ottman, the faccomplice of the thief, and his lawyer?, upon the ground that the deposit could not le identified as the money f-toleu, and that there was no evidence against Ottman. Mr. Gilfillan says this was one of the most flagrant travesties of justice ever known here. He says further that the criminal case against Ottman was nolle prossed before the civil case was compromised. The settlement of this case will be investigated by the next House. Not loDg after this a clerk in the Redemption Division, by the name of Grant, stole $1,000. He was convicted and immediately pardoned. He was soon after given another Government place, and is now in the Government Trinting Office. Wyman succeeded Spinner. Under him "Winslow, a Swede, stole a package containing $12,000. He gave up the money, all but $ö00, and was railroaded to the Penitentiary, where he served, as a matter of course, his full term of years, not having any money of his own to employ lawyers. New followed. A nephew of his under him took a package of Government raonev. How much was never known, as New made up the amount and suppressed the scandal. Gilfillan succeeded New. A clerK by the name of Wilson he discharged upon suspicion of his unworthiness. The clerk stole $1,000 the day he went out. Gilfillan had him arrested, and pushed matters so promptly that he recovered the money. When he had done this he let the man go, saying to the Secretary of the Treasury that it was not worth while to try to convict the man in the District Courts, as he was protected by powerful political influences. Gilfillan says he was glad to leave the office when he did, on account of the grade of men forced upon him by Sherman when he was Secretary, to ploase the politicians. He could not select the men around him, and went out at last rather than carry so much responsibility with his hands tied. As Congress always makes up tlie-e defalcations, and the district courts and politicians insure immunity to the thieves, the post ot Treasurer, fettered as he is in making his appointments, is one of great embarrassment. A long time has elasped without a roblery. Much longer time can hardly elapse without further loss under the existing system. T. C. Crawiori.. Tili: UEXEYOLENT INSTITUTIONS

Allow and Expend but One-Twelfth of the Appropriation Monthly. November I, Is'., lir. Thomas II. Harrison, 1'i-esidtnt of the Ueuevolent Institutions : Sik You submit to me the following facts and inquiry: "To make the appropriation for the benevolent institutions cover the expenses of the year, it is iiecessary that a contract be made out of season for articles required by the institutions by tbe quantity, as they can be purchased much cheaper by the bulk than in smaller quantities, and the Board will necessarily incur more expenses during some months than others. Can the Board, under Sec ö,761. It. St. 1S8I. allow in any one month more than one-twelfth of the amount so appropriated?" The statute provides that whenever there shall be a failure at any regular biennial session of the General Assembly to pass an appropriation bill or bills for the necessary current expenses of the Hospital for the Insane, the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, the Institution for the Blind, the Soldiers' Home and the House of Refuge, it shall be lawful for the Governor, Secretary and Treasurer of State until appropriations shall be made by the Legislature to direct the Auditor of of State to draw his warrants on the State Treasury for such ums as they may from time to time decide to be necessary for such purposes, not, however, exceeding the amount appropriated for the same objects respectively by the last preceding appropriations, which shall have been mtde by the General Assembly, and to pay such warrants as may from time to time be drawn and presented, for which a sufficient sum of money is appropriated. (11. S. lSsl, Sections 2,75i 2,75!.) Tbe section to which you refer isas follows: "In making said monthly allowance, it shall be the duty of the officers, as aforesaid authorized to make the same, not to exceed, in any one month, one-twelfth of the amount appropriated for the current expenses of the same Institution for the last preceding year, for which an appropriation shall have leen made by the General Assembly." (It. S. Sec. 2,761.) It is my opinion that the said statute is not directory, but is imperative and mandatory. The language used is conclusive ot a legislative intent to restrict the authority of the Hoard and to impose a limitation upon the appropriation, and the Board can not lawfully allow and expend in any one month, under said statute, to exceed one twelfth of the amount appropriated for the current expenses of tbe Fame institution for the last preceding fiscal year. Respectfully, FfiAxcia T. Hord, Attorney General. Catarrh. The remarkable results in a disease so universal and with such a variety of characteristics as Catarrh, prove how effectually Hood's isarsaparilla acting through the blood reaches every part of the human system. A imdicine. like anything else, can be fairly judged only by its'results. We point with pride to the glorious record Hood's Sarsaparilia has entered upon the hearts ot thousands of people it has cured of catarrh An Old Soldier's 'expedience. C dvert, Texas, May .1, ivsc. " I wish to ejjr?s my appreciation of the valuable quaUtiua ,." . . Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as a eonjh reaiedr. "While with tuiirchst's army, Jost before the buttle of Yii k'iti g, 1 iKutractcd a fever r-o;ri. w 'l'cli i rin;.. iiel in a dangerous rough. 1 found no relief till ou oar nunh we came to a country st jr. whera, on asking for some rruie.ly, I vras urej to try Aylk (.:i::i:ky Tki tokal. I aid , aad was rapiii'y eared. Since lUeti I Uve k''t th- I'r.t iouai. constautly by Ml, f'r faintly it-e, r.mt I have found it to be an invaluable remedy for throat and lung dUeatcs. J. W. NVuiTLEY." Thousands of titimonials certify to the prompt cure of all bronchial and lung , afiVct ions, by the hss of Aveb's Chebrv Pr.c Tou a l. Itciii,; ve ry p:t!aUble, the yours est chiltlrt-u take t: read.Iy. ritriWSED ET Dr.J.C.Ayer&Co.,LoweHf Mass,

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