New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-05
GRANT ELECTION TRICKERY.
A SPECIMEN NORTH CAROLINA MARSHAL.

PORTS NEGRO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DIS
CLOSING EXTENSIVE FRAUDS.
lFRoM TnB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or TIE TRIBUNRl
WASHINGTON, Beaufort Co., N. c., Sept. L.
"Don fail to visit Beaufort County during your eastern
tour and to ascertain If possible the Of defeat
there" the injunction received Raleigh was
about leaving that city week ago. "Of course II was
sam. Carrow's money" my friend continued, "but we
would like TO know how he able TO use IL with so
much effect We always supposed the people down there
70 be tolerably honest, and not in the market to he
bought by such fellow Carrow." find that the re
mt Of the election here much surprise TO the
people Of Beaufort County II was to the people OF
Raleigh aud II is only within the past few days that tho
investigation now making has furnished partial expla
uation Of the mystery.
A RUINED TOWN.
Ihave visited 10 part North Carolina that suffered
40 severely during the Beaufort County, and no
town which has so slowly recovered Us Washington
Early in the struggle the Federal troops captured this
place erected Notifications in its midst bockaded It's
river and impoverished its people But they were not
allowed TO bold II unmoested time and again The Con-
feeraes made their attacks upon IT, ana several times
oane into town Itself and engaged the Union forces
in it's very streets Many Of its fire residences were
torn 80 pieces 10y shot ana she'll from Union gunboat
in the river or from Confederate batteries the oppo
site bank; its warehouses converted into forts
aud their sides pierced with loopOos for kotry; the
beautiful trees that lined its streets were cut down and
finally. when tie Federal troops evacuated the town.
they set fire Il and than Lalf Of IL wasdestroyed
Then the Conf army took possession not only OF
the town bat Of everything in it that the Federals had
left and at last 10 all accidental fire occurred
in that part Of place that had been saved and laid
the greater portion OF 1t in ashes The close OF the war;
eyen brought little relief. Opposite TO the town. an i'm
mense cypress swamp from which the wood had
never boon cut since the settlement OF the State
Tho Federal commander, fearing that 1t might
a for the enemy had set the freedmen TO
work 10 clear large strip of It OF every tree and BUSH
and the deadly malaria which HAD before been held by
the forest spread over the town until its feversToken
people looked like a regiment marching TO the grave
Impoverished Gsheartened with only the desolae look
ing ohmuey 20 mark the sites Of their late homes
their business destroyed the lucrative cOastWSe aue
which had brought them wealth before the turned
into other channels with no railroad within 90 miles,
and the means Of communication with that closed for
nearly half the year, and with the demon Of disease
turned loose upon Them it is not strange that the town
has never been but partially rebuilt and that chimney
stacks and crumbng foundations half hidden by rank
growth OF weeds should still be the only monuments to
show where Washington was. Many Of the people, at
the close Of the struggle returned TO ter cotton panta
tons their cypress swamps their turpentine or
chards bnt fortune did favor them Unaccus
toned 20 free labor and without capital, they were
unable to conduct their business with success and sue
cesson Of short crops brought many Of them to that
point that small loans became OF the utmost impor-
lance 10 them.
Samuel T. CarrOw the United States Marshal for this
state is native Of Beaufort County and still resident
of Washington. Born aud raised" farmers and a
millers boy II he ever had opportunity to obtain
education he improved 1t, for it is fact well
known hundreds Of people in this place that bis second
wife, now dead, taught him to read and write; and
mighty bad write it u.s. you see" remarked gen.
tleman, yesterday, as he exhibited to me Of the
NJ is vi
IDENTIFY man OF great independence OF character, for,
ike the majority Gen. Grants appOintees IN this part
of the country he shows lofty dsdain for all rules and
usagcs, photographed or grammatical His war record.
which forms an interesting chapter i'll his biography,
may as well be passed over-these times when the
part men took in the Rebellion is wisely forgotten. The
Arst important public office that have heard Of CaE
rows holding was that Of Sheriff. In this capacity he
failed o make returns to Raleigh OF taxes col
iected. hs required by law, and an execution
against entire property sent here and placed In
the hands OF the Coroner. All Of his possessions were
levied upon and only with great difficulty and by
the aid OF friends that he able 70 make satisac
tory settlement. HIS as Sheriff of Beaufort
County made him an eminently fit candidate for promo
tion and nobody here very much surprised when,
soon after Gen. Grant appointed him to be United
States Marshal. To be sure, prominent Republican
Judge living here, who had always known Carr0w, re-
fused 10 believe the report that he aspiring to the
pententary his Honor probably laboring under
the deiusion that intelligence and responsibility were
required by the Administration Of it's officers on as
suming Federal Office Carrow, like many other people In
this county, pecunarily greatly embarrassed and
his credit bad that merchants in town here abso
uely refused t. trust him for dollars worth Of goods
cARRow's WHOLESALE BIRDING.
The Office Of United States Marshal under the present
Administration, has become one of great Importance
How many deputies Carrow has in North Carolina
body can tell have since the middle Of July visited
more than half the counties of the State, and have
never yet found place that not the Of opera
lions for one or deputy marshas Formerly these
officers unknown except as canvassers to take the
census now with powers far greater than those Of the
sheris they TO perform most Of the duties Of
those officers There Is hardly any crime known TO the
law from murder TO petit larceny, which they do not
bring within the purview either Of the KuKux law
of the Enforcement act Since Carlow has been in Office
he has suddenly become rich, at least has obtained
control Of large Of money. Some of this he has
saed down" in the shape Of real estate, having pur
chased three valuable swamp farms In this county one
at Durhams Creek in the South Creek Precinct
besides bank building and other valuable property
In this town. / have not been able TO learn
tho value Of this property, but am assured
that each piece is not worth less than from 5000 to
$4,000 But Carrow is generous man wthal. and does
not kill the goose that lays the golden egg If he hears
that, anywhere IN county III
ties there is who, for reasons have already men
toned ia sadly IN need OF little money, he is ready 10
lend il 10 him. or give 1t to him with without
rity respectable gentleman whom he took to Raleigh
as Juror several months before the election, and who
spent much time in Carrows Office is authority for the
assertion that even then he was sending money almost
daily into the county in small sums don't know that
vote for Caldwell always the consideration given
for the money but 1t beyond dispute that men who
ware TINS accommodated almost Invariably voted the
Administration ticket though they had been Conserva-
tives before.
Az election day drew near. Carlow came into the
county himself in order that he might operate the more