The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-07-23
RUMORS.

We have had a7goodly number of rIl-
mOrs tioating about town during the
last few days. rhe Walker majority
being so large chat no whiting can
materially affect it, it is said Hank
movement is meditated against the
Legislature, The iron clad oath is to
be put III requsitiOn to eXpurgate rebel
elements, and one tale has it that any
candidate voted for who can take that
purifying oath will be admitted, SOFAS
to constitute Il quorum. The intense
labor which Judge Bond is said to be
devoting to this marvellous project,
will, we fear, very much Interfere with
his Female School. The rumor also
runs, that this eXpurgation and razee-
ing is intended to secure the election to
the Senate of said Judge Bond and the
wilted Wells.
Notwithstanding the "cireular," on
election day, by which some two or
three hundred periured negroes were
admitted to the ballot-boX, we have no
idea that General Candy has any part
or will give any countenance to this
disreputable and dishonest proceeding,
If he chooses to stand alone against his
own past course. against the instruc-
lions OF Gen. Geant to Gen. Meade, and
against the action of every other conf
mander, we are sure he will do it OPEN
ly and above board, and resort to no
underhand and dirty tricks to cheat the
people of Virginia of their rights. This
game is fit only for such characters as
Bond and Wells, and their like. "'
There are also rumors that the car
pet-baggefs propose, before leaving, to
give the old State a parting hug. -
Nothing but the firmnesS and integrity
of Gen. lSchoiield and Gen. Stonemttn,
prevented them long ago from getting
possession of the pnblic works and the
eredit'and revenues Of the State. Now
is tnelr last and only chan &c. 1t is
F, sac they have invested heavily in State
bonds at low figures, and now, by way
raising the price, that they may realize
| at a profit, propose to pay the State S
| interest in August. To effect this, they
| propose to borrow from some of Judge
Bonds Wall street friends, some $780,
| 600. And IN this connection very
subtle blow is to be dealt at the rail-
roads. Under the plausible preteXt OF
paying the interest on the State debt
and thereby improving the public cred
it, the railroad companies are to be
called en- to pay up forthwith all their
Indebtedness to the State under the
! penalty ofbeing summarily dealt with.
| What this summary proceeding will be
we are left to conjecture. But as their
object has been from the beginning to
| get possession of the railroads, we may
suppose that is still their object. AS
the Companies, we presume, are not
able, without making ruinous sacrifices,
to comply with the acquisitions, per-
haps' the first step will be to have them
put into the hands of Receivers, i. e.,
the carpet-bag gers themselves. This
accomplished, all the resources of the
Companies, present and prospective,
will be at their dispofal; and we need
not be at no loss to conjecture their
fate.
We are free to say that we believe
General Candy incapable of counten-
ancing or connivingsat this scheme of
| spoliation on the State contided to his
keeping. But he might possibly be i'm
posed on. Judge Bond Is reputed too
sharp for the sliarpest sharpers of Wall
Street, and an innoeent, unsuspecting
soldier might easily be entrapped hy
| him. --@
If these rumors shall prove to be
facts, we think it the duty of the OFF,
GERS to whom the welfare of the COM
panies is directly committed, at once
to go to General Sherman and Presi-
dent Grant and invoke their interposi-
ton to protect the public improvements
and the revenues of the State from
this foul and felonious prey Richmond
Why.