The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-15

suggested the extension of the road
from Tallahassee westward to the Chat
tahoochie River, distance of some
, twenty miles. The commercial advan
tage Of this junction was urged AS a
reason why the State should issue bonds
to nay the expense, aud with Reads
; assistance bill was pushed Through
the Legislature giving the road IS, W0,'
900 of State bonds fog such purpose.
'lThiesum was hypothecsted PRECISELY q
4 tl9 North Carolinas haabeen, for about
v lO4Ber cent, or even less on the dollar.
The bulk OF it fell into the hands OF a
New- York firm, whom the schemers
charge with cheating them. A scalawag
haned Snh(tN who had been working
Y in the sRepiblican interest also, made
advances On some of the bonds, aud
when his loan matured threatened TO
throw them on the market and rum
the value of some that were at the time
undepoSed, at and in course Of nego,
tiation. He was pacified on being paid
$l26, 900 for four old boats he hac been
running on the Ohattahochiei River, and
which were purchased 10 make connec-
tons with the road when completed
from points on the river Experts est !.
| mate the total value of the boats at
$4,000. Work on the extension was
commenced, but only ten miles had
been completed and the other ten
graded when the money they had raised
gave out. The value of the roadway
finished and incomplete is about $40.
600. So, for the 5000, 900 bonds issued,
the State is shown a return of about
100000. Competent engineers say that
the rails that have been laid are unfit
TO run train over. ..f
1t is by this righteous ring that the
attempt is to be made to procure Sena.
torial honors for the disabled Yulee.
In return for their services Yulee is to
give them the privilege Of using road
of which he is President, which will
connect them with Fernandina, on the
Atlantic Ocean, and Cedar Keys, on the
Gulf of Mexico, and from both of which
points lines of steamers leave for vari.
Gus places. Some factsrelated of several
members Of this ring Will illustrate more
fully their character and rapacity. Gov.
Horizon Reea VA formerly Postmaster
at Jacksonville, Fla. Since he became
Governor he has been detected in pScu.
lations for which he was threatened
with impeachment by the Legislature,
but the chargesf we're withdrawn upon
his disgorging good share of his spols.
Mr. Milton S. Liule6eld is - fugitive
nom the laws Of North Carolina, and IL
protected by Gov. Read. An attempt
was once made to return him to justice
in North Carolina en- requisitioh from.
the authorities Of that State. Gov. |
Read refused to allow his removal from |
Florida, however, on the ground that he
had been guilty Of crimes within the |
linitsof the hitter state, which heshould |
be held to answer for there. This is
the. man, 1t. must be Remembered to
whom u was reported Swetson had sold
the Tallahassee and Jacksonville road
who was made President Of it, and who
asked for the S5,O00,OOO loan. His first
appearance in the South was in South
Carolina, where he purchased immense
tracts Of land with saw mills and other
industrial appurtenances.' He lwindled
every one who trusted him, and finally
fled to North Carolina, wfeDc he turned
up as lobbyist, and assisted Swetson and
and Holden in procuring their grant
from the Legislature. In connection
with the Louisianaloan It was necessary
to call-s special session Of the Legisla.
ture, which alone cost the Governor
$1,000. Gov. Reads son, another of
the ring, succeeded him a. Postmaster
at Jacksonville, and was detected in a
defalcation Of some eight thousand dol.
larD, for which he would have been i'm.
prisoned had not Littlefeld, under q
threat from the Governor that he would
send him back to North Carolina, pro-
cured the money to secure the release
The cplprit, Just as he holds Littlefeld
m his'powef, 10 others have the Gov
ernor in their grip, who, notwithstand.
ng All his pickingA has been Kept poor
BY blackmaiies, and to-day Judgments
'est against everything he has got, of
sums in,w which he. has been indicted by
hem.
In their last act Of villainy the conf| I
oination placed themselves so palpably
n antagonism to the law as to feel its
influence. Desperate at the
expenditure ef,all their money, fandl {
without a hope of raising more, they at J
empted to complete Ifkeit Extension 9
rom Quincy to the Chattahoochie by re.
moving the rails; from asbrahch road Q
rom Tallahassee to st. Marks that they {
lad purchased, but an injunction was '
btained compelling them to desist. SO,
practically, the. State Of Flolid ida has. ip
hisond ten alohe, been RIBBED Sf 81 9
Oo,U00 by these Radical and s6alawag
lnndes; for the purpose for which n
pc money was granted is not only pm. q
but now never can be, 7
nd the money spent on useless grading | I
brown away. These two instances, in
hich single ring has robbed two 1