The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-21

earliest traiu, and though advertisements were
inserted In newspapers all over the world, splen-
did rewards offered. and the police everywhere
apprised OF the loss, no clew could be obtained.
At length these treasures turned no In most
unlikely quarter, being discovered among
quantity of papers which we're being removed
from one Of the garrets In the War Once; and
the thief proved to he an old servant OF Lord
ST FOLKS father, who had procured for him
place as messenger In that Office, and the crate
full fellow had thus requiied his beneiactor. He
was convicted and severely punished.
Senator CoNKIING made an excellent
suggestion the other day in the debate on the
appropriation for harbor and river improve
mcnts, when he said there should be acme
CHI nge In the management OF this part OF the
public business, by which 1t might be conducted
upon regulated system, ana by which n spe-
ciHc budget FOE II might he submitted each year
by sworn officers selected for the work. lie
showed how the appropriations for so called Inn
provements had been on the increase, and de
scrined the struggle between members from DIFF
ferent districts to secure money to be expended
In their own districts. He spoke OF the incon-
Fruous schemes that were got up under the
present way OF doing thines, and of the waste
fulness that resulted from II. His remarks on
tho subject were sensible, and his proposition
was good one. II he himself would devise and
secure the passage Of measure for securing the
reform which he suggested, he would render
a valuable service TO the country.
EMORY A. SToRRs, tho Chicago lawyer
who defended BABcocK, Is just now eneae d in
two great enterprises. lie Is trying to secure
from GRANT a full pardon for the whskey
thieves who are spending this hot summer In
his eloquence on the stump to persuade the
voters Of Illinois to give their SURFACES TO
HAYES and WHEELER. Thus ia two ways Is
sroRRs W rklne hard to win again Boss snEP-
HERDS thanks and blessing.
One evil result that will follow the cruel
massacre Of several Of the negro rioters who had
surrendered to the south Carolina regulators II
Hamburg. is that the public will thereby be led
to place credence in accounts Of fabricated out
RACES, which will doubtless De made use Of ex-
tensiyely " the HAYES organs IN the campaign
Everybody remembers the horrible stories Of
ANAN1As HAYS Ia relation to outragos upon
unohcnding neeroes IN Alabama, and how COM
pletely they we're refutcd. A very large proper
ton Of the reported cases Of negro persecution
In the South are based upon the testimony Of
ignorant and degraded wretches who have no
not care FOR 1t II II were otherwise. In a report
relative to riot which occurred in Mem pitts ia
1893. a Congressional committee, OF which K. d.
WAsnBUENE was Chairman, made its most
elective point In commenting upon the testi
mony OF a wines described as FRANCES
THOMPSON, who had been slave and was
cripple. having a cancer on her foot" THIS
witness was negro man, who appeared before
the committee dressed in woman's clothes and
swOre to Ou.rag OF the most disgusting char
rcter. The vie fellow is nov doing service In
The chain gang in Memphis for crimes Of which
he had been convicted. In Louisiana during the
last political campaign the Republican party
was split uD into factions, between whom the
most Intense hostility existed, resulting In fire.
quent collisions and loss Of life. In ri auemines
parish alone more than twenty-five men were
KILLED and wounded IA these faction aghts OF
the Republicans. and all these murders were re-
ported AS the acts OF Conservative whites en-
caged In iutimidating the blacks. Some ( them
we're quoted by SHERIDAN ~ his efforts to show
that tue whites Of Louisiana were brigands
aud that the worst class OF disorderly
rlacks were inoifensive creatures, who were
per secuted for their political ouiuions. SIM
liar collisions of armed moDs, in which l,e-
arms were freely used, have occurred IN South
Carolina In the imme date vicinity Of Hamburg
the rioters on both sides being negroes and the
followers of rival negro polIticiAns. The deplor-
able event at Hamburg might have occurred
under similar circumstance In Vermont, where
less than year ago II was with the utmost dim
Guilty that rural com nuuity were restrained
from hanging an innocent man, who had surreu-
dcred himself u Prisoner, for murder 81
witch another person was subsequently con
vcted. 1t Is the height Of folly. az II as Of
dish pnesty, to attempt to hold the whites Of the
South generally responsible for the acts OF few
infuriated and irresponsible men in district
where anarchy has long prevailed in conse-
quence OF the wickedness and ineficiency Of
Republican officials.