New-York tribune., 1874-09-18
obstacle has been removed, and with ordinary
prudence and vigilance we hope to see 1t re-
moved everywhere else. 1..as.
THIS rs TO CERTIFY.

Miss MalOney. i'm her able and exhaustive
discussion of The Chinese Question, states that
she had "five good characters from respecta-
"ble places" in her pocket at the very time
when she gave warning to her mistress. and
she a-pOintn' to the doore" Unfortunately
the Ltera scripta has ceased to vouch for the
virtues of the bearer to any degree Of salts
faction. The foreigner in the velveteen coat.
who has printed statement of the fact, never
makes you believe that all his family perished
with his property at sea, he alone escaping
These vulgar little expedients are worn thread
bare and as the document comes out we steel
our hearts, button our pockets, and throw our
heads into perfect commissions of negative
shakes. We are ashamed to say that the most
importunate swindler of the present gay
doesn't wear velveteen jacket, isn't an
Italian, and makes no pretense OF having been
shipwrecked Usually he is Young Mems
Christian Associate. Generally he Is doing
something for widows or orphans, for red
men or for black men. This was the style OF
Mr.. George u. Hampton, Agent of the Terre-
bonne (La.) Commission, who has been opera
ting in OHIO in behalf of widows and Or
phans suffering by the late Southern floods"
Mr.. Hampton did so big business that be
was obliged to employ agents, who were
armed with certificates, and were to receive
| handsome commission upon their collectlons.
AS for documents establishing his own
authority, there was no end of them. LOUIS
| Steinway set forth that he was President OF
the Louisiana Christian Commission, and that
ne had duly authorized Hampton to solicit
funds. However, he warned all contributors
nv no means to give Hampton "mOre than
L" "twenty-fiye centsn No matter how much
distressed the widows might be, nor how
fatherless and motherless the orphans; no
matter how warm and numerous might be the
emotions distending the bosom of the benevo-
lent, Mr.. Steinway must beg the charitable 10
limit themselves to a quarter each. Hampton
was also furnished with a certificate from the
officers of the Dayton (Ohio) Young Mems
| Christian Association, and he carried "refer-
" encesn TO the officers of great many other AS
sociations in Ohio. The names OF these dignlta-
ries were all very good names, only it has been
found that they did MT represent anybody in
particular. Having received all these evil
| dences of authority, the innocent agent OF
Hampton, a respectable young man named
lanes Ferguson, started out upon bis benevo-
lent mission. He began with Columbus. In
two weeks the twenty-five cent contributions
had amounted to $l45 rs, which sum, less
travelling expenses, was handed over to Hamp-
ton, who felt more truly good than ever on
receiving it.
But the little game was too delicious to go
on forever. The agent next struck Newark,
Ohio. and here he came to grief and disaster
Matters. it is true, opened beautifully. One
philanthropist gave ten cents, and another
twenty. But the very next man who was called
| upon had too great q reverence Tor his dimes
to throw them about prOmiscuously. lie scru-
tinized Cincinnati Y. NJ. e. A. certificate
| and did MT find the name on 1T OF Mr. Miller,
the President The faint perfume of rat at
once became perceptble to his nostrils, which
began to curl up contemptuousy. Further
examination fully revealed the bogus nature
of tho certiiers. Some of them were dead
| long ago; some of them did MT live in the
places appended to their names, and some OF
them never lived at all in this world or any
other. Poor Ferguson, the agent OF Mr.
George U. Hampton, returned with tears IN
| his eyes the thirty cents which he had already
collected, and mournfully went home, con-
| siderably out of pocket by his little specula-
| ton. PerDapS Dlr. OeO. u. uaHlptOH HAS HoHo
back to look after his widows and orphans in
| Terrebonne Parish, La, and perhaps he has Mt;
| but when last heard from he was extracting
quarters from the pockets of ChilcOthe.
| The twenty-five cent dodge is in itself
beautiful stroke of genius. 1t is an ineon-
testible fact that four quarters make one
dollar, while four men in this prudent
world will be more willing to give a quarter
each than one man will be to give one dollar.
When q wretch is asked by the Presidents,
Secretaries and Treasurers of twelve or fif-
teen Christian Associations in body (on
paper) to bestow the Insignificant sum of two
shillings to help lot of Louisiana orphans
and widows, what can he do but run for luck
and lay up his small investment on high
without o murmurf There was one weak
place we admit in George HamptOn's plan.
| He said that he wanted this money that he
might transport the orphans ct al. from
Louisiana to Xenia, o. This was being alto
gether too particular, especially in Ohio, where
everybody knows there is no asylum for
black orphans and widows in Xenia. He
should have selected Skowhegan in Maine, or
| Dead Mans Gulch in California.
| Henry Yore of Portsmouth, Va, though he was
blessed with kind father, absurdly fell in love