, 1874-12-29
4 CARpET-DAGGER COME TO GRIEF,


out Of South Cnrolina, tho Nazareth Of Amer
lean politics, but TINT region las at last sent
some glad tidings. There is q person by tho
name Of NEAo1E, who was Comptrollcr-Gen-
eral Of tho State il tho days when every in
truder filed his carpet-bag with bonds, and
stocks, and bribcs, mud things. This especial
intruder, unless he Inns been most sadly
bcied, improved all his opportunities with
such zcal that it became grave matter Of
doubt whether his pockct-book or his con-
science WAS most leavily burdcned. Whilo
b1osEs was Governor, NEAo1E, who waa just
thon taking care Of the Richlnnd County
Trcasury, got a great many faVors
from tho State Administration. This
excited good deal of wonder,
for tho Governor and tile cx-Comptrollcr
General were scarcely on speaking terms. It
turned out, however, TINT NEAa1E was in tho
habit Of exhibiting knifo to 31osEs and ex-
pressing an ardent desire to carve cortnin
designated organs, us tho heart, the lungs, or
the liver, out Of tho Gubernntorial body.
| Noses, unlike lis great namcsako il this aa
| in all other points, wns coward. So when
NEAoLE said: "H you refuse me this, you'd
better write m order for a first-class coffin to
your undcrtaker," MOSES would reply: "A1y
dear NEAo1E, nothing is further from my
thoughts than refusal take anything you
want" This foib1e Of tho Governor, became
known, and other mon plnyed upon his pitt
| able fears in tho snmo way. There is
story current in South Caroiinn Of
creditor who chased A1osEs from Charleston
| ln Tot. Iii mt {hoF
tiro Mansion, and got q note for $4,000 paid
by simply laying his pistol on tho table boz
foro the quiyoring Gubernatorial nose md say.
ing: "Do youseo that? Well -" Thef1ght1
ful el1ipsis after ss We'll produced the cash III
once. When CHAMBERLAIN became Cover.
nor, ho found NEAa1H still Treasurer Of Rich.
1nnd County. Theroupon, without muchadot
ho removed him, giving thereby gratifying
proof Of the sincerity Of lis promise to atond
for the faults of llia past career. NEAo1r
transformed himself into walking arsenal,
panopled with reyolvers and begid
with knives, and called upon CHAMBERLAIN.
Before he had had timo to haf get through
the stock Of thrcats before which the craven
Moses had beon wont to wilt, tho Governor
put him, not into tho of1ico from which ho
had ousted him, but into jail. 1t was sorno
time before ho could got tile $4,000 bond to
keep the pence which the law exactcd from
him. NEAG1E is forlorn now. His hopes OF
future peoulation arc gone. Ho las come to
grief. There is delightful chance of his en-"
igrating to one Of the Southern Republics. II
is understood that man with his
wits about him can steal comfortable
living there, but then the residents have IN
ugly habit Of occasionally dropping their
rulers from churoh-towers or boiling them in
oil. Neither Of theso methods Of becoming
an angel appeals strongly to NEAonE's tastos.
Ho ought not, however, to be too fastidious.
II Frenohman has mado himself King OF
Patagonia and sold q lot Of Patagonian bonds
on the Paris Bourse, an American, and es'
pecially NEAo1r, ought to be ablo to absorb
all South America and construct second
range Of tho Andes with tho unpaid coupons
of the Government bonds ho sells to his
dupes. Lot NEAa1E loave his country for hia
couutrys good.