The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-28
Status of the Southern Cotton Claims.

SMFuS OF the southern Cotton Claims.
AWasnington special to the New York Pos
SAYS
Tuesday was the last day for taking appeal
from the Court of Claims to the Suprem
Court, and the clerk Of the former has com
\ enced his annual report to Congress, upo1
which the appropriate ms for the pay
ment of judgments are based The number
OF appeals this year is less than usual, because
most of the points growing out of the war
and arising under the captured and abandoned
acts, have been decided at former terms. The
most important case appealed is that of Alex.
auder Collie, an English subject, whose claim
for cotton purchased from the Confeder te
Government, which was stored at Savannah,
presents points never before decided His
Judgment for over $3.50, 600 is the largest ever
awarded bv the Court Of Claims.
Judge Mott who dlssented from the opin-
ion of the Court, held that the claimant WAS
barred ind r that section of the amended
Court of Claims act, which requires that the
| claimant, whether tiZen or not, shall not
have voluntarily aided, abetted or given en-
couragementt TO the rebellion against the Gov
eminent; and that, as it was admitted that
Collie was engaged in bio ,kade running, and
that his business was conducted surreputlously
and contrary to the public pelicy of this
country, he was in realltya smuggler and not
| having gained 20 session of the goods i'll ques-
! ton, of which his claim to ownership was OBJ
tanned by this illicit traffic, he was not en-
| titled to redress except under article II of the
! Treaty OF Washington The Attorney Gen
eral is confident OF reversing the decision in
! this case.
| 1t is a matter of history, says the New York
! San, that while Bullock was Governor of
! Georgia, fl )m which State he absconded in
- -, j,
a large amount were issued illegally After
the Bullock ring had been deposed from
power the Legislature OF Georgia appointed
committee to investigate the circumstances
under which various descriptions of bonds
were issued, and decide upon the question of
their validity, it being understo ID that the
State would repudiate all liability for the pay
ment Of fraudulent issues While the pro-
ceedings growing out of this measure were
in progress the holders of some of the con-
tested bonds sent retainer of $4,000 to Gen
Bob Toombs, with request that he should ap-
pear before the Legislative committee and al
vocate the payment OF the bonds; but the
Il lrepentant old rebel, according to the Atlanta
Ne,rs, refused to receive the retainer, saving in
effect # don't want your money. propose
to appear before the Legislative committee in
the interest of Georgia, and without charge to
her, and will spend $4,000 of my own money
to prevent the payment of your rascally bonds.
Leaving out of view all question of the Justice or
expedlency of the action OF Georgia in refusing
acknowledge the validity of the disputed
bonds, it is evident that Gen. Toombs consid-
cred that it would be dishonorable in promi-
nent citizen If that Sta Q, although he held no
office, to advocate what he thought was an at
tempt to plunder the treasury. When Chicago
firm OF wood pavement jobbers were engaged in
an attemp to get a contract from Boss Shop
herds Board ofPublie Works to put down their
pavement in Washington, paying nearly
100000 to secure, the job, it became
Of the utmost importance to secure the in
huenre OF the man who SHIELD the strings of
the nation, to use the words of one OF their
agents Accordingly, that eminent patriot
md Christian sta esman. the Rev James A.
reid, was approached with fee OF $1,000.
which he quietly pocketed, after which he not
only made an argument in favor Of the cor
rupt paving job, but also became one of the
most subservient tools of the District ring,
using his position as Chairman of the Appro-
priatlon Committee to get money from the
National Treasury for the payment of fraudu-
lent bills made up by Babcock and presented
by the ring An that shows the difference
between Bob Toombs, the rebel, and Garfield,
the hypocrite.
LIE NEGRO TROUBLES IN SOUTH CARO-
LINA.-The Augusta Chronicle publishes let
ters from Ridge Spring S. c., which, while
they report the restoration of quiet at that
place by the submission of the negroes, show
state of feeling there and elswhere in South
Carolina thar may at any time lead to bloody
conflicts. The trouble arose, as usual in
such cases. from infammatory appeals to the
negroes by low white men VINO want Office at
their hands. One of these white men, Nc
Dewitt by name, is said to have told the ne
groes at Ridge Spring, in atspeech, that thew
could and ought to, whip the whites and that
they ought to divide into par ties one to fight
the men and the other to kill the women and
children That fellpw was missing, as usual
with this class, when the whites begsn to
gather to meet the deluded negroes. Theme
groes were t, rrifed by the arrival of "a small
party of Georgians from Augusta, and prom
ised to bring in and surrender their arms.
But it was said that McDevitt had gone to 4
Columbia to get help for the negroes, and
there was much excitement and gathering OF
men at other places. l his state of things is
not promising for peace. One or two of the
ringleaders at Ridge Spring were arrested and
committed to Jail.
The death of the wife of ex-Judge George
G. Barnard, Of New York, is announced, Mrs.
Barnard in the trial which resulted in her