The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-05-17


ulators in 1872, and seems to have
acted as u sort of Pnymastqr Genera
for the conscript army of "Icsigna
ted assessors. His evidence, to
gcthcr with documents in his, office
and ut Washington, will disclose the
. whole "conspiracy," as District
Attorney Badger characterized il
when, some time ago, he proposed tc
investigate the matter in the United
Stntcs Circuit Court, but was cs
toppol. ~;
FUNDS USED IN 1872. ''i
! At tho close of the session of Con-
gress i'll 1872, Scuator John Pool
and ex Senator j. q. Abbott appeared
in Raleigh with II sum Of money
val iously estimated ut froM $4,000
! to $4,000. This money, ~they si.i,l,
had been apportioned to North
Carolina by the National Executive
Committee of the Republican ,,mrty,
anl themselves designated, to expenI
. it in to management Of the cam-
! paign. Samuel i. Phillips, now
Solicitor-General nf the Department
. Of Justic :, was then chairman of tho
State Executive Committee, and it
WAS rem .rko | at tho tim,, by all til 0
Leading Republicans here, rs a very
singular circumstance that the
National Committee should have thus
ignored the State Committee in the
distribution of funds, practically
taking the infringement of the Stats
campaign out of the hands of the
State Committee and leaving it with
out money s,.vc local contril buttons
Precisely how much money Pool and
Abbott had has never been known to
anybody but themselves. What
they did with it all has been a mat
tor of speculation. They are not
known to have kept any account of
their expenditures or to havo ac-
counted to anybody for the money
they received. This matter has MI
the time been =.
oNEsF TIE PROFOUND MYSTERIES
OF the great camplign Of 1872, t,
which we perhaps have ut last IL
key through the Davenport tmnsac-
tion i'll New York Senator Pool
hail. like Davenport, systom of po-
litical bookkeeping and registration,
and he ought to be allowed to tell
if the whc,cwith he had to expena
came out of the Secret Service fund,
which all the circumstances Of tho
case would seem to indicate. lex
Senator Abbott is now Collector of
the port at Wilmington, n. G. Per,
haps he too would like TO tell what
he knows about campai sniny in this
Stitc
His y AIARK.--The mark which
persons who arc mablo to wIitc
are required to make, instead of
their signature, is in the form of IL
; cross; but this signature is not
invariably Il proof Of such isno,
rance. Anciently, the use of the
mark WAS not confined to illiteratc
persons. Among the Saxons, the
mark Of the cross, rs IN attcstatiou,
Of the-good faith Of the polson
signing, WAS required to be
I attached to the signature of those
who could write, ~ well as to stand
N the place Of tho signature of those
who could not write. 1t was, i'll
deed, the symbol Of an oath, from
its sacred associations, ns'" well rs
The mark generally adopted
! Hence the origin of the expression,
God save the mark" as IL form of
ejncnlatioh approaching the charac-
ter of an oath-indecd, it hi,l the
same significance.
! ---sss--+r:---
The Geolgin Delegates to the
Democratic National Convention
are reported as more favorable to
Tilden than to any of tho Gan Iidatcs
name.l for the st. Louis nomina-
ton. .'.' ''.".. ....i '.3
- Hon. a. NJ. Waddoll, a Demo-
cratic member Of Congress, who
has been severely attacked in the
columns Of the Wilmington On. c.
Post, Republican newspaper,
e2ned the editor Of, that paper on
Monday last. I e '''
7 Brattlcboro, VT, has n nj athe,nati.
cal prodigy who eau solve the mist
= complicated problems instantly By
no known rule. He is thirty years
old and can barely read and write.
~
! There are couple Of women
revivalists tr,veiing,i in Texas. One
! breaches and the other 'exhibita Il
magic, lontcln. s,,,
~ Nearly all thc@ de'dyStcs ftom
Louisiana to the Democratic don.
vcntion at st. Louis are said to! be
for Hancock. =;
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