The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-05-18
MORE SALES or OFFICE.

impartiality have received meritej
econiums.
MORE SALES or OFFICE,
Babcock's family and connections ara
now being shown up before Congress
and the Grand Jury of the U. s.
Court at Chicago, owe his father.in.
law, Campbell, U. S. Marshal there,
n similar compliment to that which
the Grand Jury of the District Of
/ Columbia have paid the son-in-law
/ Miss Ada c. Sweet is the pension
agent at Chicago, and she tcstifcs
| before Il Congressional Committee
that, in consideration of receiving
that appointment, she agreed to pay
her predecessor, David Blakely, 81.
| 100, and was directed by him to pay
lii over to U. S, Marshal Campbell,
which she did. Campbell came at
her however, for $4,000 more, saying
The held Blakely's note S5,WO-thc
whole of which she was to pay,
Blakely was also a dcfaulter in his
office to the amount of $4,000, and
when Miss Sweet took possession, he
induced her to give him receipt to
cover up his deficit, and afterwards
brought Commissioner Baker there,
and compelled the poor girl to pay
THE money, charging the deficit to her
account. She has had so much topaz
out, that she has not only had no
benefit from her Office but is worse
IoT by $1,000 and her time lost than
when she accepted it, This is a
! pretty steep figure to pay for fat
place. These fellows have not CON
science enough to cover u flea. And
this is the way the party of moral
ideas and womcn's rights treat ladies
when it distinguishes them by an
official appointment.
TIE DEPUTY KING-MAEER.
Stoinbergcr, Grants Deputy King.
maker, has escaped from Samoa, after
having, by his vile practices disgra,
ced the American name, and involv-
ed the British and Samoans in war,
which resulted in the death Of four
British marines and three natives,
and the mortally wounding of eight
marines and five natives; that is, if
the story related by Steinbergcr's
brother, who has just arrived in San
Francisco from the seat of war, be
true, Of course, Steinbergcr, innitr.
ting the nepotiSm Of his chief, had
to provide Cor his brother by taking
| him out to Samoa, to help carry out
the infamous contracts by which, be-
fore sailing, Steinbcrgcr bartcrcd
away trade-monopolies, to foreigners
He has doubtless found out, by this
time, that you must "first catch your
hare" before you can cook him.
Steinberger, his brother, and one Coc,
formerly American commercialagent
at Samoa, left there on the Bdnaconta
for the Fiji Islands, whence the ship
was ordered to Auckland, for investi-
CATION, whittier the King-makcr, also
went, as his brother says "to demand
satisfaction" We hope hc may got
it. This fellow, Stcinbcrger, was an
agent through whom the immense
sale Of arms was made to the French
government during the war with
Germany, 50 caustically assailed by
Carl Schurz and Mr.. Sumner, in the
Senate, as 4 corrupt transaction and
unwarrantedly low, IS well as an net
of bad faith toward Germany. Stein
berger was witness before the in
yestigating committee, and made his
account at the White House by "pro.
tecting' the War Department Ring.
After this, his reward was sure, be-
sides which he held an old note of
Grants for $500, which he used to
show about the city here to friends,
boasting that he would have to be ts-
ken care of--that they dare not re-
fuse him, &c, There seems to have
been some foundation for his boast
tulncss; for he was at last accredited
with plenary powers in an autograph
from the President to the Samoans,
and was sent out to the islands with
presents on board a United States
steamer. Upon his arrival there he
set up a monarchy, with himself as
absolute ruler. 1t is only through
the good sense of Foster, the U. S.
Consul that we have escaped quar-.
rel with Great Britain, in cQnsc-
quence of this mans actions. B,
Blainc's explanations about his
money making is rather thin. How
IL is that a man, on small salary,
can become a millionaire in few
years is a mystery to honest men,
His explanation, that he was passing
through Pennsylvania and Glanced
to fall upon a tract of land at cost
of S2l 900, paid in borrowed money,
which afterward yielded him millions
is too thin. Try again Blaine. Your
"bloody shirt and accidental wealth
can't save you from the just censuro
of an honest and much wronged con.
stitutency." The way of the trans
grcsscr is hard. Poor devil he has fol-
lowed the instincts Of a corrupt nat
urc until he has driitCd into that pO-