Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-10-26

. I. b. Bethea, pardored, was an extrem
secessionist, (Yancey school) member {
the Montgomery Confederate League, &c.
W. H. Fowler, pardoncd, was Secretary {
the Alabama Secession Convention and aftel
E ward assumed command of company calle
"Warrior Guards" with which to take posses
sion of Fort Morgan before the State had 81
ceded He is now in Washington acting a
Pardon Agent. On the 4th of this month h
teegraphed from there to certain gentle
man in this city: II paid nothing" He ara
made special agent by Cov a Parsons to ad
minister the amnesty oath.
Washington NJ. Smith, pardoned, was Pres
ident of the Selma Bank At a time when i
was thought guns would be scarce in the Con
federacy this gentleman distinguished him
self by saying, IF we cannot get guns, We
will take pixies; and if VIC cannot get pixies
we will take shovels and hoes; and if we can
NOT get them, we will use brickbats; and if We
cannot get if'icsS5ats. we will scratch the Yam
KEGS eyes out with our :ssngcr nails.
Col. N. H. R. Dawson par,.oned, was the
first man who wore the South Carolina cock.
ade in this State; raised !. company of minute
llCIl, DcCdHlC OuCcI III tuC ECuCi Uu-
rcau; said the rich men would procure the
means, and the poor men would do the fight
ing; was in favor of raising the black flag, &c.
Lehman & Bros, rich Jews, and merchants
in this city, we're pardoned. They were block
adc runners, and were spoken Of by Governor
Waits, in his message, as "having furnished,
5,,;,,. t'n,,a entire war, valuable material for
the army u -,
others comprising the srm of Barnett, Micon
& Co., Montgomery, are now, aid were before
the war, the owners and proprietcrs Oh the
Talasa Cotton Factory, located in Taisf"G!sa
county, this state This Company made H.
immense fortune during the war; having been
favored contractors of the so called Confcd-
crate Government The Company was, and
is now, composed of persons most hostile to
the Uuited States They were noted during
the war for their vigilance in furnishing and
prosecuting Union citizens '' 81
They even refused to furnish poor women
and children Of the State with u yard of cloth
for any price, giving as reason that they
"aloue manufactured cloth for the soldiers of
the Confederate army At the close of the
rebellion they we're in possession of a large
amount of cotton, not less than $500 bales,
with other property. Much of this cotton be-
longed to the Confederate Government, it hav-
ing heen sent to this factory to be manufac-
tured into clothing for the army.
This company coming within several sec
tons of the Presidents amnesty proclamation,
and their factory being liable to conliscatlon
under the acts of Congress, they engaged the
services Of a prominent lawyer, named Sci
blcs (now dead and contracted with him to
obtain pardon for the various members, he
(Seiblcs) to receive forlsis services onc-thrd
of the cotton. The petitions were prepared,
recommended and forwarded to Washington,
and in due time the pardons were granted
The company finding themselves pardoned,
compromised with their attorney by paying
him $60,OO0
This affair being concluded, the next step
was to present to the Secretary of the Treas
ury large clam for compensation, which is
at this time under consideration at Washing
ton
The company above spoken of is the one
which proposed TO send jeff Davis one hun
drcd and fifty negroes after the Confederate
Congress had passed an act to use slaves for
military purposes; and when Davis had to flee
from Richmond, this company offered and
used their factory and buildings as a deposit
ory for the property Of the Richmond Govern
mcnt
All recommended for pardon by Gov Par
suns And might extend the list to hundreds
but it is needless to do so. The most violent
scccssionists, the most incorrigble rebels, the
most relentless prosecutors of Union men of
this State ere already pardoned, and there is
no reason to doubt that the cart load of peti-
tions gone up from this State, and yet to be
considered by the President will be granted.
About the middle of the last month it be-
car,c generally known in this city that pard-
ons were being bought, or rather that recon-
mcndations were being secured by payment
of certain sums to Mr.. Garret, Gov. Parson' $
Secretary of State. James Q. Smith, U. 5.
District Attorney, having become assured that
this was the fact, went to the Governor and
showed him the evidence of it, and informed
him that steps had better be taken to check
such abuse The Governor was astounded,
and the result was the resignation of Secreta-
ry Gar ctt A committee was appointed who
investigated the NATTER and reported that the
Secretary only took pay for extra labor, which
he had to perform in examining so many ap'
plications, the Governor having given it into
his hands to make out brief of each case
and statement of the merits, in order to
save time. Governor Parsons Immediately
telegraphed the President to grant no pardons
for this State until further orders, and you
know what tluttcr Was produced by it. But
shower of dispatches came down from Wash
;noton and noolod the Goyoruor's riuhtcOus
indignation to such an extent that the rcstrlc
ton was soon removed, and the pardon whce
is again running, though, perhaps not as wei
CREASED as it was some months ago
The National Financcs-POlicy OF
| Secretary McCuIlOch. H.,