The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-29
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NEW YORK, January "a.
The belligerent Mr.. Greeley has severa
fresh fights on his hands, the quarrel will
Grant and Murphy not being enough to con
tent his martial soul. Let The Times, or an!
other organ of the President cast brick a
any Fenton Republican In the State, ant
straightway Horace leaps into the arena ir
the attitude of defence. Mr.. Alvord, of the
Legislature, commonly known as the s'Onon
daga Giant" was accused by the Presldent'G
organ of being concerned In Job to rob The
city BY selling gravel to the Central Park com.
missioners As .Alvori is the leader Of the
Fenton party In the Assembly, the aDimus Of
| the charge is understood, and the entire anti
administration faction Is In battle array. On
the other hand, Mr.. Greeley has accused two
Conkling State senators and the Conklingite
clerk of the senate with jobbery and rascaty.
One of the senators has called for ON invesll-
cation committee.
| OF course these charges and counter charges
against prominent men on either side do not
tend 10 narrow the breach 10 the Republican
party in The State. The bitterness is so strong
that 1t seems entirely impossible that any con-
Fanlon and Mr.. Greeley can support Grant tor
President after he Is nominated. The fire Of
the Tribune Is almost wholly directed against
Murphy and the customhouse thieves, and
Conkling and his allies In the State. A pre-
tence is made OF abstaining from personal at
tacks on the President, but he is constantly
hit by Insinuation and very transparent satire.
The sing-song about protection has almost
ceased. The Democrats are treated with more
pollteness than they have ever bef0red recelV-
ed from The Tribune. 1t Is evident Mr.. Greeley
regards cnstomhOuse Republican as much
more corrupt and dangerous being than
Democrat.
The investigation by the senatorial commit
tee into the frauds of Grants customhonse
officials loses none of It's interest, and contin-
ues to fill the admlnistrationlsts with dlsmay.
Colonel Leet. the staff officer to whom the
President required Collector Grinnell to give
the general Orser plunder, and with whom, 1t
is suspected, he has divided, has been on the
stand, and suffered cruclfxion at the hands of
Bayard and Casserly. Though ne came prop
erly primed to conceal some things, deny
he was 80 thoroughly sifted by the minerIy Of
the inqiisition that the whole truth came ont.
A more audacious conspiracy to rob and black.
mail the merchants Of any city by means OIL
government terrorism was never conceived.
There are o large number OF witnesses yet
to be examined, and the committee mey have
to slt O month longer. The administration
senators would adjourn at once, but they are
afraid of public opinion. The venerable chair.
man. Mr. Buckingham, Fits out the sesstonSd
with commendable patience, and asks but few
questions. Senator Howe, OF Wisconsin, IS Inc
counsel for the defence, but the long continu-
auce oil this Investigation and Its unpleasant
DEVELOPMENTS have soured his temper, and ne
Ia frequently cross and obstinate. Stewart,
from the Pacific coast, alternates between the
hotel bar aud his easy chair IN the committee
room, and stretched out In the latter, sroKlng
his long whlskera, he looks the picture of
man bored Almost to death. Big Pratt, OF In.
diana, likewise resembles one OF Fox's mar
tyrs. Bayard and Casserly st at the table like
men thoroughly in earnest. .They watch every
shade of the game, take notes industrlously,
cross. examine closely, and score points every
lime. Behind Senator Howe sit most of the
Time Surveyor Wakeman and several custom
house officials. and lawyer dubbed by the
Tribune "Decoy' Bliss, who ply him with
the room can see that the administration Is on
trial, and that the Republican senators and
their hangers on 80 regard if.
Rev, Mr.. HepwUrth has succeeded IN found
ing his new sect, which Is to overcome secta-
rianism. At his business nesting, the other
night, he received the adhesion OF one hum
dred and fifty families. He announces the new
relipien as The "Church of the Disciples"
Hepworth may be all right, but he is getting
the reputation here ami In Boston, where he
came from, of being sensatlonatst. AS he
is eloquent and energetic doubtless his new
church will become one OF the features OF the
metropolis. and In time he may divide honors
with Mr.. Beecher.
Though NAV Heaven forbid that 1t lasts as
ioue.5 George Washington Bowen, q Rhode
Island gentleman of wealth, aged seventy
seven wears. has begun suit In the United
States Circuit Court In this city, to get posses
sion OF The enormous property OF the late
Mudame Jumel. The madame, 1t will be re-
inembered, was woman o1 oaa character,
who, by means of her beauty and wit, became
the wife of II. Jumel, q wealthy Frenchman OF
this city, and belle ct the courts OF The Pres
i,1ents ui The United States and the contem.
porary monarch OF France. She married
Aaron Burr iu after life, and dieu seven years
ago in palace at Washington Heights, rich,
feeble, solitary and miserable. Bowen claims
10 he her illeSilmate son, by a revolutionary
of1cer. Major Ballou. he brings the snit on
the sir.ngLi of q late New York statute, allow
inr illegiIimate children to Inherit from their
mothers both real and pers0nal property.
The Jumel estate is worth probably i've mil
lions of dollars, and the case, Whlch was open
ed by Chauncey Smaller Ior lne plaihlln yes
lerday, promises to be rich with scandal. Mr.
Buwen is present, and bears striking resem-
bIance to 70 the portraits of General Washington,
with whom the vain, lying old woman use TO
boast of great intimacy.
the Intelligence Of the affair in Columbia,
in which Mr.. TomlInson OF The NEWS sh9t u
member OF the Legislature who attempted 10
cowhide him, was received with regret here,
OF course on Mr.. Tomlinson's account. The
World aliuips editorially to 1t 10 day, and fully
expresses M e lhe feelings of Mr. Tominson's
hosts of friends 10 New York. 1t says:
THE facts OF hand are not full enough 10
enable us TO form an accurate Judgment upon
the tragedy in Columbia Yesterday But It is IS
known in the office OF this journal. as well as
in other newspaper offices in tins city as ,nd re-
also s, as as a perfectly peaceful and civil gentle,
mau, whom nobody who knows .I. hsn would ID
SUSPECT either OF making misstatements or OF
seeking ouarres. The strong presumption
from his character Is that whatever stale
ments mem he may have made In the line of his
duty as o newspaper correspondent regarding
the the procedures OF Byas were well founded,
and thai The shooting of Byas was strictly an
- The he Brooklyn Eagle. the leading journal of