The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-27

Who Received the Proceeds OF the
Confscated Confederate Cotton =
Tweed's Popular Demonstration-
Preparing for the Russian Cub.
TrRoM OUR owS CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, September 2S.
Moro n, nsic The Tribune has suddenly dis
covered that there are public thieves III iIs
own party. The thief the Tribune Is "solns
for Is Mr.. Thomas Murphy. the leader OF tne
anti.Greeley faction in the City of New York.
Perhaps he record Of this persons crimes
would not have been raked up If he had been
a worker In the Greeley ranks; but as he ID
Grants fugleman in the metropolis, no mercy
ia TO be shown to him. The Tribune publishes
afldayits to prove that Collector Murphy
during the war obtained a large contract 10
farnish hats and caps to the United States
arnfr; that by means OF COLLISION win the
inspectors he passed of upon the government
hats made from ground telt and gum, ana
other poor material" "hats ana caps OF tne
meanest quality;n ''hats and caps which nap
ned over the faces of the soldiers 10 filthy
tatters as soon as shower had melted the
sheac with which they were stlfened sno
held together,"-or, to make long story
short. that he swindled The government out Oh
$ll2, 900 In this contract alone.
The Tribune further saith of Mr.. Grants
boon companion and metropolitan repre-
sentative, that being tried for swindling before
q commission appointed 5y the government
- the purpose, he obtained his acqutta! oy
bribing witnesses to perjlre themselves or
keen out of the way, and that the Hon. 3. D.
Webster declared that the hardest work OF MS
legal career was his effort to keep Mr.. Murphy
out of Fort Lafayette.
The collector flies to the defence oil his sui
,,tth o61 RI m III
cans OF the State OF New York, and letter to
his chief assailant, In which he asserts that
the attempt Is being made to destroy him TO
crafty the malice of "vtndictive editor
7meaning Greeley,) who likewise hopes, by
the same crusade, to "lDlure General Grants
enemy" The Tribune rejoins with another
torrent of bilingsgate, and promises more
damaging revelations.
If this sort of thing Is kept up, the country
will soon be made TO understand that there
has been Just as stupendous robbery OF the
PEOPLES money in the Radical Customhouse In
Wall street as there has been In the Tammany
CITY Hall and. Courthouse, and that 1t Is use
less as well as unfair to fix the blame on politt-
cal parties. The politicians Of the present
day CT ybe service of he
United States and Of the individual States and
municipalities is rotten to the core. We are
passing through just such an era OF ot1cial
Corruption as England experienced during the
premiership of Sir Robert Walpole. 1t Is best
that all the deialcations and peculations Of the
past ten years should come to light now. Let
the people know the worst. hear that reve-
latons of the most astounding character are
forthcoming from q Democratic source In
Washington.
Facts are going to be given showing that
amy auartermasters and Radical government
officials at the close of the war between the
States took possession OF cotton and war ma
terial belonging to the Confederate Govern
ment worth q thousand millions OF dollars,
than $50, ,000, 900 were turned into the United
States Treasury. All the remainder was
stolen. Also that Iacts. figures and names
are to be given, showing that IN the years
nks67 and 1868, by collusion between govern
ment officials and distillers, one thousand mil,
States were misappropriated, some OF the
highest digni;aries In Washington being con-
cerned in the transaction. Here from two
sources alone the Radical politicians have
made away with $1,000, Ooo, goo OF the peoples
national debt.
when we get to the bottom of these expo;
suree, and the worst Is known, there Will
probably be a change for the better. The
people, at least, will be sufficiently aroused
which they have not been doing. The exam
pie set BY The outraged taxpayers ofSouth Caro-
lima will be followed all over the country. But,
after all, sometimes feeling OF despair taxes
possession of the observer when he sees around
him the miserable consequences OF the deoase'
ment of the suffrage In America. In South
Carolina swarms oflgnorant voters worship at
the shrine OF Bowen, q convicted felon: and
here, notwithstanding the revelations OF the
last month, William N. Tweed is able to evoke
from every quarter OF New York an outburst
OF enthusiastic admiration almost unparalleled
ilss1o AtofA
The metropolis last night resoundet with
martial music. Out of every ward into the
streets leading to the Bowery and Broadway
marched bands of men bearing lighted torches
and transparencies. They poured into that
open piece Of ground at the corner n Of asd Eass
Plaza, and filed Il up from curb to curb. The
square was one brilliant blaze Of light. On
platform 10 the centre sat William 3. Roberts,
member OF Congress, as presiding omcer, ana
BY his side was the Boss, In coat buttoned 10
the chin so as to conceal his tremendous dla- |
mond, locking little pale, but as self.possess-
ed as usual. Among the speakers was city
Judge, q State senator, an assistant district al
torney, and the Congressman before named. |
ALI of these spoke In terms OF the hlSnest eu- |
logy of the man who Is charged BY the courts |
as we'll as the citizens with having secured the |
larger part OF the plunder derived from the |
new courthouse Job. When Tweed stepped to |
the front and taking off his cap laid 1t on the |
Copgressman's table and bowed, from thou |
sands OF throats went up yell which might |
have been heard at the Battery If the night
had been still. The Boss spoke but short
piece. He said ne was ready to face his accus- |
ers in the courts, and that he should never be
discouraged when such evidences of the peo.
Lple's confidence as he saw there presented
themselves
The Tweed demonstration last night was In |
tended as a menace or warning to the infiu- |
ential Democratic leaders In the State who |
are attempting to combine the anti-Tammany !
Democratic factions in the city with cohesive |
party. Mr.. Tilden, the chairman OF the Demo- |
cratic State central committee, declares that tif |
these elements form and elect delegates to the |
Rochester Convention they will be admitted to |
the exclusion Of those sent by Tammany Hall. |
The German Democratic committee held a |
meeting last night and made overtures to the |
Young Democracy, the Mozarters and the |
Democratic Union, and appointed a committee |
Of conference. 1t looks now as if there would |
be four sets of tickets run tor local and lesisla-
tive officers In this city in November, to wit /:
Regular Democratic, Tammany Democratic,
Greeley Radical, and Grant Radical.
The Greeley local senatorial conventions |
have ali been neld. The four candidates nomi- |