The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-05-21
The Sulfrring Patriots OF Ohio.

! No Distracted ,fnpmcrS says Tie
Cincinnati Ccmtncrci;,, louf about the
! Capitol building, pouring sad tale
of iuiLed honest cads, devasted:fcld:
and lost cattle into 10 o-;islativo cars
but still proposition to pay the
"Morgan raid claims' will constantly
present it"sF in somc shape ar.othor
to the Onio ;Ef,!ons. Like B,nonu's
| ghost, it will net down. Certain
sauve and gentIeman!y agents of the
of the new legislative regime are en-
gagged in casually urging. between
drinks and cigars, the Justice of those
| claims when Tho subssct happons to
come up. as it sometime will.
| The Ohio Legislature has lattcrly
become ono Of the most corrupt in tho
country aud its mombers do not
know or care to know any thing about
the natulo Of the claims. They wcro
carefully investigated, :.howcvcr, by
an able committee who followed the
entire course taken by Genera! Nor.
gan while in Ohio, until thcy got
down to the prose Of the whole busi.
ness. Tho Commercials correspon.
dent has cxhumed this wcll.nigh for.
gotten report.
Tho total amount claimed by the
citizens was SG78,0l5 O3. 1t is ne.
cessary to be exact. The Commission
"nllowed" $780, ,225, of which $lll,-
S55 is put down under the head of
damages by Union forces under com.
mand Of United States officers" The
Legislature only proposes to pay tire
latter. Zone of tho items of the bill
arc triflo peculiar. The mortality
among 'haltcrs" was fearful. Ono
poor patriot suffered to tbs extent of
one dollar in the loss Of his "carpct
|'bag," and he expects, q ;patcrnal gov1
ernmcnt to make The loss good. :, -
Isaac Clark lost "parts of harness"
to the value Of three dollars and twcn.
ty"livo cents. Ike has never recoecr-
cd from that blow. One man lost
five dollar hat, and another ten DOL
lars cash, all in silver. "Cash from
person" is n frequent item. One poor
wretch lost three dollars, worth Of
"jewolry," comprising, doubtless;
massive rings, chains and brooches.
n business man itemiscs his account,
and adds boldly nt the foot, "Twcnty
five per cent. added" A man should
have 1nterosU on his money. Ralph
L. Morrison snffcre tho loss Of conc
breatt-pin," which he and his friends,
Stephen Reynolds and II. W. E.kins,
solcmnly swore was worth one dollar
Poor Thongs Robins lost ono dol
lars worth of "prcsorves." Wm.
Hope wants twelve dollars to pay for
forty.cight cantecns of whiskey as
we'll as five cents to pay for cigars.
Samuel Woodward would like to bo
reimbursed for the loss of osilv6r
spoon" that was North to him ono
dollar. We mourn with George
J Ayres who has not received two do!
lars for "damage to door," Items
of "Jew,l Try" lost Accumulate with
hideous iapility and give one
an idea of tho horrors of OWL war.
Poor Oscar Dunn lie lost two shirts, a
razor and fifty cents that he was com
pclled by heartless monster to "pay
to release fiddle" Martin Wilson
wants two dollars and twenty five
cents for "jeweIry"-the family
jewels, probably. "Damago TO horse
rcgained" is frcquentitcm. Berry
man Hancock wants six dollars for
rn. "e;Nb, oided night Dress" This
article is rot sufficiently described
by the unfortunate claimant. The
estate of John jackson claims pay
for cone feather pillow. Pay is de.
mNndcd for six loaves Of bread at
twenty cents q loaf. This bill should
be settled in kind. Thomas Hyde
holds The State in contempt for it's
smallness in not paying him fifty
cents for powder horn" David
Logan lost a s'comb and brush, u
worth one dollar. Riding skirt of
claimants wife," two dollars aad a
quarter 8 "twcnty- shocks OF
wheat," fifteen dollars md eizty.two
cents "damage to fence by hitchine
horscs,' ten dollars "shcep.skin,''
ono dollar; "fcedipg an inde6nite
number of horses," ten dollarf, %lYiol
is dirt cheap; "thren barrels
seventy y.Gve cents, arc samples of the
Items that 60 te,Weke up the Morgan
raid claims, tasat as'fahtom from !Ae
foar hundred anu cdd pages Of tlt
Commissions report. "
'rSpccutators havo purchased thes.
I.lijtlous claims'for about ten cents
on the dollar ; and tho Commcroia
thinks that tho lobby in their inter
est is too strong to be beat.
There Ia curious legal custom !,
England called "The Maiden Assize.
It happens whenever, at the sittinI
ofthc Assizo Court iR,nny city, tn
criminal docket1happensto bo entire
ly clear of cases. When this occurs
tho sheriff, with great formality, pre-
eonie n pair nf white kid plovos IN III