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The New York herald., 1871-11-27
BREAKING TaE FErTERS.
A Bold and Successful Dash Of Burglars from .
Jersey Jail-A VERY Wigilant' Deputy.

Three notorious Yunnans VINO were prisoners in
the Hudson County JaN at Jersey City made their
escape Saturday morning. One is Morey Harris,
alias Henry Adams, New YORK expert, who has
hardly rival IN the art Of breaking, entering and
carrying on. He was arrested about three months
ago on suspicion OF being member OF the gang
that broke into the residence OF John Anness, In
varck street. Jersey City. The charge could NOS
be well sustained, however before jury, and in
order to prevent
THE DISTINGUISHED ARTIST Nt
from wandering or 10 pastures new he was sent
to the County Pentcntiary at Snake hin for three
months. He mad Just competed his term ami was
awaiting sentence for assautlng oniccr lie
will hardly trouble the Jersey courts, however, this
year.
The second was George Boyd.
NOTORIOUS PHILADELPHIA PICKP0cKEr,
who was arrested on the 23d Of last month on the
charge OF stealing blank book from James Rtach,
OF 90 YORK street, Jersey City. When arrested
CAN OF POWDER
and Q sh cath knife were found In his possession.
He stated That he was an engineer, and In this ne
unwittingly approached truth but his sudden arrest
" The third was Thomas Murphy. a resident Or TO.
box en-, who was iDcaTceratcd on U charge Of bur-
sccnded as low IN the scalc Of crime as the other
two, out he obtained their confidence, and uarris
TIPPED uIM WINK
at every opportunity.
1t was known to Mr. Jones, the jailer. several
days ago That conspiracy was ON foot for the libc
ration OF some or bis prisoners. AMI he warned
Newark, his deputy, to De unusually vgIant Tho
latter is a new appointcc unfortunately for tho
county, and proved his unitness Tor such posi-
tion IN this instance The prisoners watched their
opportunity, and when darkness set In on Saturday
tncy, by
CONCERTED MOVEMENT
gave the verdant deputy the slip, and passed
quietly out through The main door into the hall,
laughing In their sleeves they 'ooted ~ at tho
vigilance OF their keepers. Wnen Ncwkirk was
asked about ;hc AFFAIR yesterday by HERALD re-
porter he squared himself, thrust his hands into his
pockets, and. pceping with an air oil assumed
shrewdness under a Seventh avenue cap, replied
curtly, "Oh, pll tell you fellers nOthin'; don't
want you to know nothn' about II; come tomorrow
and I'll tell YOU" ana he chucKlcd At his lanccd
success In
sUPPREssIN0 THE MATTER,
os he finished the last word. The Board OF Chosen
Freeholders should take this case into consideration
Immediately. The timc Is past for the election Of =
new Jailer, yet nothing has been donc TO that end.
The election was postponed for three months, and
that term ex pred many days ago.
Detective Connolly visited some well known
haunts In New York yesterday In quest O the fugl-
tves, and from Information he received Two 0f Tie
gang Will be probably returned 10 their late quar-
ters.
The New York herald., 1871-11-27
N p. =. ana visit the Opera IN the evening.
connection with ~'~'~Ss

u :; - and visit the Opera IN the evening n
rHE NAVY YARD BALI
tne ioow1nR are the regulations for the arrival Of
guests
Invited guests the Naval On Tuesday evening IA
vcmbcr & expected to enter the by Yor sreet
entrance, ~hcre an admission ticket VIII be required be
shown Tor each occupant OF carriage where
expressed the ticket that 'iadyor "iadiss' are
included "a the invitation.
These tickets win be given up At the ns ball
room In the Equipment Building, where carriage check
with coupons will be given, and the carriages
through the rear Of the bndins and take positions assigned
These requirements will be strictly enforced
By order OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE ON INVITATIONS
Pay Director J. Z. Eldredge, Chairman Executive
Committee :
Com. d. L. Rraine, Pnymr ]. II. Stevenson,
Conn., ID. II. Harmony Lieut. Col. ]. L. Br0Ome.
CON. ii. A. Adams, u. = M o.
Chief Eng. y. S. lie Luce
une following letter from Rev. Mr.. Bjerring In re-
1uoh 10 tue article which appea ed In yesterdays
HERALD, will explain ttscll -
TO THE EDITOR TuE tIrrALp:--
an uss Nv oef you 70 allow me make lo expanas
uon "a 10 your article Russian Church. You
.hat no Ep cdicc placed
my oisposa 80 lhnt s Imperial Hghness tho Grand Duke
anu ste conid nave Attended divine therein
swei 70 tha must state that had any edcc
from ST. ictesburs You also state that professor
IN AJesu college IN BALTIMORE. which statement us am
n BJERRIN0.
The New York herald., 1871-11-27
PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE INDIANA KU
KLUX.
Governor Conrad Baker, OF Indiana, has issued
the following proclamation Ia reference to the or.
ganized band tnai recently hung the three negro

Governor Conrad Baker, OF Indiana, has issued
the following proclamation In reference To the or.
ganzed band mat recently hung the three negro
murderers In that Stale:-
whereas organized of armed and masked have
recently usurped powers OF tho jadcint
in the counues Of Franklin and GlarkA and have assumed
the rg to oIsSy ,sss Rrson: ron Ss s M 9, sa,s y
this State charged have been commisd By such prison
ers, and 10 the latter county three negro mes were
iswIsss organizations, and Il has been made knowa
10 me that procamaiious have been pubnssed u
sss. ;ss eooea Ser.oss ~ sho have sd 3
said county of the Ate war, 10 eny9 eaa
county pain of DEATH and being asc Informed ss there
may be Ia danger OF mot violence;
Now therefore, Conrad Baker. Governor Of the STATE of
% 1 so y. oses
organizations may exist, TO use all the lawful neans
and for The speedy arrest and trial of Ihoss
who have been engaged tn The recent terrible
tragedy before ed livery cssn ana every G ca. *
mob violence be suppressed and awaiting trial
Their lawful custodns must be protected ~ all hAsa
the local authorities aid the performances OF their
duties whenever regaest 10 that cnect u
Sy oyyasnasa s.osnce an isrrcrn 10 SsnsS portion q
the people Of this state from their noes that they cannot
and shall not succeed even should be necessary 70
mainly upon The local authorities efforts 10 guarantee
these authorities presence ii
zed viocnce the la.e legislation OF ConGress HAkeA ample
provision for the Intervention Of the 1e:ionsl :u!hortss
the country that this legislation
everywhere TO the extent OF the vested
county In tho state be faithful N their and
execution o. hs nws that isdsns may forever avoid ne
o. nccs M I q me
or the impotence OF her legal authoriNee
The New York herald., 1871-11-27

= sNow think for q moment"I said. aYou intend
70 keep mat bullet lof next l2th Of July Have you
less and fatherlses another family whose support
usis and stay may oe - innocent Of crime ss your
Il observed him closely ana saw that the applica
tion went home although for moment he showed
some DrSyad pro e Fns IN he so arose presented ns
that ne had changed nus mind very much In conse-
"And," added she Governor, turning TO me, "that
gentlemen will not use that ballet next July.h
Then arose, and thanking the Governor was on
IL am sorry you nave not obtained more informa
ton from me: ~. really, nave not had tune TO
y 0r 1s inc S1ss
responsibility that rests upon the people. and the
necessity FOR al opposed to corrupt government,
crusade against u even If for the time some may
be compelled TO forego CONVICTIONS little. Good.
bye, Sir am glad You have called"
WHAT CHIEF JUSTICE CHURCH SAYS.
Leaving the Executive once, where had passed
Into Congress Hall, and, presenting my card 10 .
colorsd water requested 4 to be conveyed 70 room
his finest judicial decisions. "'''''
A lew minutes later the waiter returned with the
.s%aTS ns "TiI;sS Sys & sl x:ssnaas one night
nat in nond, before CHIEF Justice Churca. who sak
at table engaged In writing ana consulting opir-
carpet. wheeling about ne arose, welcomed med me me
most cordially and pointed to seat.
the capital TO inform myself as to the sentiments Of
politicians and statesmen over our recent deiest
inquired OF the Governor, who would ne best able 10
yOu might be very Interesting to the readers or The
HERALD And am certain our editor VIII take
umns.r 'F $50
"Well, really, fear con be Of but lin.e service
10 you, as nave not conversed much with poll;t.
Claus since the election; and, indeed IL was SO re.
cent that We have scarcely nad time TO carefully
consider the causes or our defeat Aud conceive y
plan for future action. One thing We do feel Is,
tnas
NEW YORK DEFEATED OUR STATE TICKETS,
that had the reiorlners, both democrats and re.
publcans, carried out the understan andng faithfully
The state ticket would have triumphed. We have
heard that In some cases the reformers failed TO
run our State ticket, and hence New York defeated
us, we think Passed elections clearly snow that
the democracy are IN the majority In the State and
have lndlcated.v
Il have heard such statements, Judge, bu. can.
The New York herald., 1871-11-27
TIE BOSTON rOReERIEs.

Arrest OF Hanson-F0rgerIes @ the Amonnt
Of $4,000 Charged Against Him.
e0H BOSTON, Nov. 20, 1871.
IA. Hanson, who Is implicated In the recently
discovered forgeries was arrested last evening on
the complaint Of the Third National Bank, and In
default OF $500 bail was committed for cxamina-
tion. Ten notes, OF $1,000 each, are said TO have
been discounted at various banks on which he had
forged the endorsement OF John j. Clark his father
in.law. The accused Is member OF the nrm OF
Hanson 4 Bonner, Insurance brokers' OF state
Patrick Costello was killed hast evening while
crossing railroad track IN Dorchester
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
@R The Charlotte On. C.

H& The Charlotte IN. c.
Democrat, in IA recent issue denoun.
ces Geo. p. Rowell & Co., of New
York city, as miserable swind-
lers and scoundrels, ''humbugs, "
etc. We think that the Democrat
will hear Of precious few "brother
editors who are" willing to en-
dorse it in its denunciatory course;
but whether few or many, the
OBSERVER is not one of them. We
have had continuous business re-
lations with Geo. p. Rowell & Co.
for between three and four years,
and have found them honest and
prompt tn erery instance. Unlike
some agencies, they have never
asked days grace, but honored orr
drafts at once. Persons contem-
plating a widespread venture in
advertising would do well TO COM
municate with G. P. r. & Go, Al
Park Row. They have unusual
facilities for the transaction OF
such business.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
A SWindle.

The manner in which the tax
payers Of the District of Column
bia are swindled by the Radi-
calls, who control the majority
of the voters there, is thus ex-
planned by the Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer;
"The looseness with which the
recent election in this district
was conducted is painfully ex-
hibitedin the fact that over a half
million of dollars were voted TO
a corporation called the Poto-
mac and Piedmont railway,
which, it turns out, barely has
a corporation existence under
al old act of the Virginia Leg
islature, and has never sold a
dollars worth of stock or bonds
or purchased the right Of way
or owned rail. The road has
no corporate existence whatev-
er in the District OF Columbia.
This subsidy was obtained by
imposing on intelligent white
voters the impression that the
| Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company intended to build the
road, while colored voters who
could not read the ticket they
voted, were used by hundreds
in its favor. The representa-
tives OF the Pennsylvania road
deny all knowledge of the
Piedmont and Potomac Rail-
road, and look upon it as my
thical. Steps have already
been taken in the Legislature
to see if a gigantic fraud has
not been perpetrated upon the
people"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
Cost Of Publishing News
papers.

Under the above heading the
Christian Standard, Cincinnati,
Ohio, presents some interesting H.
telligence, starting with the con-
fession that the Standard itself,
with the utmost economy, had cost
IoVer $4,000 more than its in
come, though having 10000 sub
iscribers. 1t gives the facts in the
experience of three of its contem-
poraries, rs follows:
"The Adrdncc, of Chicago, with
a larger list than ours, at $3.50 o
year: sunk about $4,000. in four
years, and had not become sell-sus.
tanning when the late fire occurred.
Its subscription price is raised to
$500 year.
1.-THE Interior, in less than two
years, has used up capital of
nearly $4,000
THE Standard (Baptist) with a
list of $4,000, was not yet self:
sustaining. Its publishers had to
draw on the profits of other branch
es of business to make I'D def.
,iencies in the income of their pa
per"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
Rail Road Meeting at Pc
tersburg. s
P,r the Fsvettevill. lObseryer.

For the Fayetteville Observer.
PETERSBURG, TENN. Dec. 2, II.
The Railroad committee here
t,lore appointed, met at this
place today, and adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions, to wit:
Rcsolred, lsf, That the citizens
Of Petersburg and vicinity earnest
ly desire tie construction of a
narrow-g gauge Railroad from Co.
lumbia to Fayetteville, via Lew
isburg and Petersburg.
Rcsolred, 2nd, That we are will
ing and ready to cooperate with
the citizens along the line of said
contemplated road, to proceed at
once. to take the necessary steps
to procure a charter for the same,
and we request a conference for
the purpose of agreeing upon the
measures to be taken in order to
secure charter as early as practi-
cable.
Resolred, 3,el, That in order to
act in harmony, the citizens of
Fayetteville, Lewisburg and Co
lumbia, are requested to send del
egases TO Lewisburg, Marshall Co
day Of to perfect the nee
essary arrangements for said OBJ
ject. All of which are respectful
ly submitted.
These resolutions are unani-
mously adopted, with the request
that papers at Fayetteville, Lew
isburg, and Columbia publish.
I On motion, it is requested that
the citizens Of Fay etteville and
Columbia designate such day and
date az will best suit their con-
venience, for the meeting at Lew
isburg, and notify this committee.
On motion, five more names
were added to the committee here
toGore appointed at this place, for
the purpose of devising measures
in the interest of the contempla-
ted narrow gauge Railroad, TO, wit:
James NJ. Thornton, ?. b. Marsh,
B. f. Terry, W. R. Hannaway and
Rufus Harris, Esq.
/ On motion, L. J. Rives is unan-
imously chosen Secretary of said
committee.
JACOB GILLESPIE, Chm.
I T. J. RIvEs, See.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
In the Legislature.

In the Senate, House bill
making rape q capital offense
passed third reading. A bill
to apportion the Senatorial and
Representative Districts of the
State was introduced in both
Houses. The Senate bill TO re-
peal the conventional interest
law was rejected. a similar
bill was defeated in the House
after long discussion. The
Governor scntin special mes
sage vetoing the bill for commits.
sioning turnpike directors,upon
the ground that iteontained no
clause requiring a bond from the
commissioners.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

, * AT The Police Conven'
ton, recently held at st. Louis,
Col. Thomas Williams, the City
Marshal Of Selma, Alabama, Of
fered the following capital resolu'
tion:
Resolred, That the Chiefs Of
Police in the Northern and West.
ern States, be respectfully re-
ouested to furnish the Chiefs OF
Police in the Southern States &C.
curate photographs and descrip-
lions of all thieves, scoundrels,
and Penitentiary convicts, who
have escaped from the Northern
and Western States, as it is be-
lieved they will be found either
holding or seeking the different Fed
erul, State, or county offices ia The
South, as leaders sn The Radical
party. -.
The photographs and descrip-
tions should be furnished by all
means. There is no reason why
the South should be made the
Botany Bay of the North, much
less their officials and pIunderers.
They should be "huuted down."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

G9 The Williamson Journal Of
last Thursday contains the follow
ing mysterious paragraph. We
did not know that the profession
had any 'dead beats" in Middle
Tennessee, and think it very
probable that the Journal is the
victim of confidence man, u
who never was an ink.slinger.-
Some oily fellow, thinking, pos.
sibly, that the Journal was a good
subject, stole the editorial livery
TO serve his pocket in-and our
our contemporary footed the bill,
Here is the item:
SwINDLIEG.-A certain geod.
looking and intelligent gentle.
man(?) formerly connected with
the Press i'll Middle Tennessee,
and who claimed on Nov. 18th tc
be an editor, has recently been
playing the confidence game al
this place and elsewhere. If this
shall meet his eyes he will under
stand our meaning. We warn
him now that he is watched, and
unless speedy restitution is made
TO the sufferers in this quarter, he
will be put to more trouble thar
he is prepared for, and will be
furnished his board and lodgings
free of charge to himself, but al
the expense of certain gentlemen
who have recently made an impor
tant contract with the State.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

A young man, named Rumpit,
from an Iowa village, some time
ago stole a Bible from a Meth
dist altar and sold it for whis-
key. Since then, while suffer-
ing from delirium tremens,
he committed suicide by jump
ing into a well, and his funeral
sermon was preached in the
same church where he commit
ted the theft, the minister using
a Bible borrowed from his IA
theirs house.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

a Radical paper in California
declares that shell is about the
only place where u Democratic
majority is now to be found. -
To which the Louisville Courier
Journal responds: eff this be
true, it simply goes to show that
the ruler of that country is too
honest either to vote the Radi-
cal ticket himself or to encour-
age anybody else to do it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
Ok The Cincinnati CONNIE

cal, OF q late date, says:
"The Democratic party has the
tenacity of life popularity attribu-
ted to the cat. No other polIti,
cal organization has existed in
this country that could have sur
vived the universities through
which it has passed during the
last twelve years, and retained the
'semblance of conference"
just SO. There is no ether
party that is actuated and held to-
gether by honest motives. One
general defeat would disband and
annihilate the Radical party. 1t
is held together by the cohesive
power of plumber that motive for
the preservation of its organiEa-
tion gone, aud it will scatter like
rats from q house on fire. The
Democracy a-e contending for
principle, and whether defeated
or victorious, its followers go right
along, always battling for the
right and good government, and
its numbers are to day greater
than ever. Kept out of power by
fraud ard violence, their day of.
final victory will come, as sure as
the light of day follows the dark
ness of night.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
R& Within the past tw

BE- Within the past two
weeks the weather up North has
been colder than for many years.
Many people there have frozen to
death, rivers closed by ice, snow
from two to ten feet deep, with
drifts eighty to an hundred feet
high. In Utah dwelling houses
were completely buried, and In
mates had to dig their way out.
The falling show hid the sun from
view for eight consecutive days.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

This year for the first time
since Massachusetts, has been a
State, was a German elected 10
the Legislature. They don't go
much upon foreigners in that cor.
ner of the Radical kingdom.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

The New York Tribune has a
correspondent who in his own
language is going Through the
Prominent Radicals
have been "going through the
South for several years.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
The Usury Question.


The Savannah (Ga.) Republi.
can his the subjoined remarks up
on the Usury question which we
would recommend to general pc.
rpsal. The Republican was no.
ticing the argument OF q Mr.. Hin
ton, in the Georgia Senate, that
the usury laws were scriptural,
and sought to correct an evil con-
demned by Holy Writ, and the
Republican says:
eli Mr.. Hinton will look into
the matter he will find, first, that
the Bible is q rule of moral con-
duct, and7not code of political
economy ;:secondly that in ancient
lime all interest was considered
rusury, however little, it being
deemed wrong among the Jews of
that day to make profit of money
loaned. Two per cent. was usury
rs we'll as twenty per cent, and
Condemned under the moral law
of that remote period. 1t was the
custom of the country, and does
not obtain in the moral law OF
these modern times.
'-One of the most serious evils
of the usury laws is their effect
wpon the morality OF the commu-
nifty. They tempt men into in-
Factions of the law, and always
have done so. Nothing can be
more demoralizing. The law
should be held sacred, and when
you pass one that is sure to be
evaded or defed, you cultivate a
spirit of disobedience to law among
the people, and contempt OF law
usually begets an Indifference TO
all. We have usury laws on our
statute books, but how many re
spect them today? Millions OF
money is borrowed throughout the
country, but how much of it at
seven per cent, the lawful inter
est? 1t is a notorious fact that the
bank interest throughout the
South, since the close of the war,
has ranged from twelve and half
to nineteen per cent, and yet
there stand the usury laws.
The practical evil of these en-
actments is to keep out all money
in the hands of men who, from
conscientious scruples, do not wish
to violate the law, or prefer not to
risk their money in contracts
which the law will not sustain
In this respect we have suffered
seriously in Georgia for several
years past. We have seen and
talked with Northern capitalists
who desired to bring millions tc
the State, but they were unwill.
ing to do a business that was con
trary to its laws. They preferred
perfectly safe investments at
lower rate of interest in the North
ern States, where the law gave
them a perfect remedy against
debtors. In this way the usury
laws have kept out capital and
clogged the wheels of every de
partInent of industry. Let a mer
chant be ever 50 solvent, when he
goes to bank nowadays for an
accommodation, the reply half the
time is, "We have no money
Introduce free trade in this as in
every other commodity, and we
shall have an opening and over
flow OF the money bags OF the
North that have been kept tied up
and tight under the influence of
our restrictive legislation. We dc
hope the House of Representatives
will take a sensible view of the
case and promptly pass bill that
Is demanded by every interest of
society. 1t is neither a rich mans
nor poor mans bill, but one that
will ministerto the wants of every
class Of the community, and i'm
part new impulse to industry
throuchout fhe State"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

~ Judge T. A. R. Nelson
has resigned his seat on the Su.
preme Bench. and Gov. Brown ap.
pointed James T. Shields to- fill
the vacancy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

De- President Grant sent his
annual message to Congress last
Monday. It is so very common
place, as to furnish no ground for
comment, except that its want
of merit very plainly indicates the
mental caliber of its author.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07

In the last libel suit against a
newspaper in Texas damages we're
laid at $4,000, and the jury
awarded 60 cts.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-12-07
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