New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-22
Extraditl0n.

WASHINGTON.
Extraditlon.
WASHINGTON, June 2l.-The National Re-
publican, discussing extraditiOn matters
and the release of WirslOw and others,
save: "This conduct should be met with
an indignant refusal to continue diplomatic
relations with Great Britain until an ample
apology for this insult is made and re-
ceived."
War Appropriations.
The indications from last nights debate
are that after striking out the clause OF the
Indian appropriations bill transferring the
Indian bureau to the War Department, the
Senate will pass the House bill.
CommissIoner Pratt has not Resigned.
The report of the resignation of Commis
missioner Pratt is untrue.
Blaine TO be Senator.
1t is supposed the Governor of Maine will
appoint Mr. Blaine for the balance of Sena-
tor Morril's term, which expires on the
fourth OF March.
The Appropriation Bills.
No progress has been made on legis lative
appropriation bills. Several meetings have
been held.
The Freedman's Bank.
In committee to-day Mr.. Steuger, of
Pennsylvania, spoke in bitter denupciation
of the IN anagers Of the Freedmau's Savings
Bank. He showed that negro depOsitOrs
will lose 81 100000.
He gave q history of the rise, decline aRd
fall Of that institution, rejecting severely
on it's various officers and on the finance
committee. He charged that Henry D.
Cook, William S. Huntington, and the
other three members of the finance COM
mlttee, and the two actuaries, Eaton and
Stickney, inside of the bank, and Alexander
r. Shepherd, Hallet KilbOurne, j. V. w.
Vandenbu and others, outside OF it,
had formed a ring by which, at various
times and in various ways money was pro-
cured from the bank on worthless
or insufficient security, or on no
security at all, to be used in divers enter
prises and speculatiOns by members OF the
ring. He described the class OF persons
whose victims the freedmen had been as a
class governed by mock philanthropy,
and whose conduct had been marked by
the yilest hypocrisy. They had made
broad their phylacteries, prayed at the
street corners, and thanked God they were
not as other men. They had stolen the
| liyery of heaven to serve the devil in.
They had gone to the freedmen with
words of promise and hope and en-
couragemeht upon their lips, but with
consuming greed and avarice in their
hearts. They had borne to these helpless
and ignorant people proffers OF help, while
| their minds were busily engaged in schemes
| to rob them. They had solicited their coz
tidence as friends. while they had been
divising ways and means to plunder them
of their hard earnings. They had assumed
the gArb OF teachers, while their only mis-
sion had been to learn how to steal from
them. They had gone with the teachings
| of Christ in their mouths. while their chief
| ambition had been to be of the class OF
| political carpet-baggers abhorred by all
decent men, or Of the class Of money
changers whom Christ drove mercilessly
| from the Temple. Toward them the good
| people of the South and of the North as
| we'll, entertained an uncOmpromising and
| undyipg hatred, and could extend no
| charity towards such human vultures. 1t
was into the clutches OF such people that
| the uneducated, helpless, but confding
freedmen fell. Their confidence had been
| secured to such an extent that in nine years
of the banks existence, it's deposits amount
| ed to S56 .OOO, 900, the vast bulk of which
money had been sent to the principal office
at Washington. The whole Soutn had been
drained of its money and it had gone into
the custody of the men who had charge OF
the Washington office. The total liabilities
of the bank on the thirty.tirst CT Decem-
ber, 1875, we're $3OOi,S75 OF which the
amount due to cOlOred depOsitOrs was ~,
992, ,O33 On this dividend Of twenty per
cent had been declared, and when it was
paid there would still remain q, ,365, 1855 to
be paid out OF the remaining assets.
He did not see how the final losses OF the
freedmen could fall below 81 500 600, and
he thought it likely that they would suffer
to the extent of g., ,OOO, 900.
longer regard the Washington ring as q
myth; to him its existence is stern
| aolemn, sad fact 1t has cast q
sg Sreat shadow over over his home and life
It has dissipated the earnings and
} savings of weArisome days; 1t has given
him over to many nights of unrest; 1t
has doomed him to years Of harder
toll; it has brought penury,. want
suffering and deep distress to his loved
ones; it has driven hope from his heart,
undermined his confidence in maD, and
3 | shaken his faith in God. Some there are
| who fattened upon tho freedmen's savings
for q time, and are now, from the shrinkage
| of their Investments, total bankrupts II
!, fortune. But these are exception al cases
1 Most of them have large possessions. AS
= see them reveling in the lap of luxury; N
f l witness the investment of their ill-gOtter
|. gains in magnificent business houses
and palatial residences along thes'
beautiful streets; as l hear of then
by the power of their wealth and social in
q fiuence, packing and debauching juriee
COntrOlllng COurCo 0uu cuOeioAAinS now
papers; as l listen to the story OF thel
70 nearness to him who executes the laws 70
J, this great free people, and then turn m
eyes upon the poor freedmen, ragged, hui
y gry, suffering, wretched and robbed, who's
n money has been flched from him by thei
% very people, l wonder whether all thes
10 things will not one day shrink away fro
ss them also.
ID That Crooked Cable.
!. Heber Robinson, manager of the Westei
70 Union Telegraph Office, after the usual pr
- test, delivered the originals of three di
A. patches already testified to; the one signe
~ "Scott" came to the office by Colonel Scot
~ ~ messenger. The dispatch telling "FAv0"
NJ ~ telegraph the Judiciary Committee "
~ ~ brought by q gentleman who replied. VIII
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