The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-23
A Paragon s'~southcrD Loynlist"-
Win L. Hop

A Paragon s'SouthcrD Loynlist"-
Who Is He9
There Is now anoat-not among the
oloyal' Journals, 'besure Ian article So
yerely damaging 10 the lony characters OF
two 6aming Radical patriots, who delight
fully call themselves southern Loyalists'
They arc Of the Parson BEowNLow and
JACK HAMILTON spawn, and are now bound
TO te equally rcnowned-Tgdgo YARMOUTH,
Of Louisiana, and U. s. Treasury Agent
q. S. BENNIsoN, Of Texas; and a gaily
plumaged pair Of P~enltentiary birds they
are, I'm mithl
YARMOUTH was IN Missouri, when the
war began. Joined the Federal army, aud
served during the Vicksburg campaign on
the staff of General M-cCLERNANp. After
the close Of that campaign he was dis
honorably Dismissed from the army, BY the
order of General GRANT, and was suisse
quently restored by the War Department.
At the close of the war he settled In New
p Orleans, aud soon after became dubbed
JUDGE tLl.|a Ai.
What he has been doing Of late may be
inferred from the published fact That the
United states Grand Jury, at Galveston
Texas, has found bills of Indictment against
II. c. wARNOUTH and q. $. DENNIsoN' late
United States Treasury Agents, for en-
bezzlement. Mr.. YARMOUTH is charged
with embezzling S2S,0O0, in connection
with JAMES MoRRIs, u deputy. DENNIsoN's
charge is $4,000, in connection with MUM
SON, a deputy. A capids has been issued for
w~ARMoUTH's arrest in New Orleans.
Who this DENNIsoN is and what he is and
also what are some of his more distinguish
ing antecedents, may readily be gathered
from what n correspondent of the Chicago
Times sets forth respecting him.
In the first place, he is a relative of Chief
Justice CHASE. That alone is enough TO
settle his loyalty"
Mr.. DENNIsoN has enjoyed at the hands Of
the government, since 1868, a series of luc-
ratlve and important positions. In 1868 he
was appointed deputy collector of Internal
revenue, and shortly afterwards collector
of that department, in the district then
comprising the entire State of Louisiana.
The next position held by him was that of
collector of the port of New Orleans.
We quote from the Times;
Personally regarded. he is a remarkably
fine looking man, Of medium height, and
inmanners highly polished. A few of the
episodes of his life while In Texas, which
State lac had made his home before the war,
are not embarrassing.
Whether he went to Texas with the in
tention of marrying n rich widow, | am un-
able to say, but, on a certain Friday, he
met such a one, and so strongly eNerted his
powers of fascination that, upon the ensu-
ing Sunday, the widow was a bride, and G..
d, owner ola fine plantation, n number OF
negroes, and comfortably settled for life.
Here the romance ends and the tragedy be-
gins u few. weeks after the marriage, the
newly-made bride died very suddenly. Sus-
picion was excited that there had been
foul play, and investigation was loud
ly advocated; bat the proof not be-
Ing sufficient TO justify it, no Judi
cial inquiry was ever made. Even If un-
founded, the opinion was universally EN-
tertained in the nelghborhood that she had
been p~oisoned,-so universally, indeed,
that, at the breaking out of the war, when
a select company of contederates was form
ed in the town of which he was a resident,
the members of which were elected by bal
lot, George 5. Dennlson, upon making APP
plicatiun tor admission, was unanimously
rejected. His pride Injured by this re-
pulse, he became, as soon AS polite, a
'southerie loyalist; :" and the reward he
now receives for this devotion Is an indict-
ment for embeZzlement. Such Is the graf
itude of republics, such the probably de-
served fate of most of these southern loy-
alists' or embezzlers.