The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-12

sLsINE's PRESIDENTIAL pE0sPEc rs.
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way into the hands OF some persons who
had no right to it. At meeting of the
Board OF Directors in September. 1872
Mr. Harrison, who has been q mem.
Der Of the Board for number
| of years, through the influence of
Senator Morton, introduced resolution
calling for committee to investigate the
matter and report who received this large
sam Of money, and all the circumstances
attending its disbursement. No sooner had
this been done than Mr.. Rollins, secretary
of e,Board; quietly went to MI. Harrison
and said: sYou must withdraw that resolu.
ton. An investigation will involve Mr..
Blaine and defeat his reelection. He got the
money The resolution Yves withdrawn.
These facts are known to Mr.. Wilson, of
Iowa, who was present at the time the
resolution was introduced and withdrawn, as
a member of the Board of Directors. It is
proper to say lot of worthless railroad
bonds were deposited as collateral security
for this money. Nobody will be more sur
prised at the appearance Of this article than
Mr.. Harrison.
"Mr. Harrison has been asked for state
ment of the facts, but declines to say more
than that, II brought before congressional
committee, he will tell all he knows about it
without concealment."
SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN, CeAvEN-
TON.
COLUMBIA, S. c., April 1.-THE morning
session Of the State Republican Convention
was turbulent and exciting. There are two
distinct parties in the body-one of them
led by Governor Chamberlain, and con.
sists Of those who sincerely support the res
forp, Y,nliaH ond ipQInnQ nf hi1
strength and popularity. The other party
is led by United States Senator Patterson,
who has at his back Collector Worthlngton,
of Charleston /; Congressman Smalls, eI-Con-
gresham Elliott, and most Of the Republi.
licans who were conspicuous as rulers Of the
party before Governor Chamberlain cleo
| ton.
Each OF the two parties desired to control
the Convention, as that would carry with 1t
not only the delegates to the National Con-
| yention, but also probably the control of the
State Nominating Convention to be held
hereafter. A trial of strength took place
upon the question whether delegates whose
seats were contested by other delegates
should be allowed to take part in organizing
the Convention. Governor Chamberlain In.
| sisted that where any county sent two sets
of delegates al should be temporarily ad~
mitted or all excluded.
The debate grew very hot. Judge Mackey,
one OF the delegates, denounced the anti.
Chamberlain party as band of robbers, and
told ex.Congressman Elliott-who asked
whom he meant-that he (Elliott) was head
and front of those robbers. Elliott drew o
pistol and sought to get at Haekey, who
awaited him. Desks and chairs were over.
turned, and the excited delegates gathered
around Mackey and Elliott and dragged
them apart.
A chair was brandished over Governor
Chamberlain's head by an opposition dele.
gate. No blows passed, and when the Con.
Yention had calmed down little the chair
man, ex>Congressman Whittemore, ruled
out the contesting delegates, all Of whom
were supporters Of Chamberlain.
Swails, a colored State senator, and Gov.
erner Chamberlain were nominated for pres
ident pro tenn, and the vote was eighty for
Swails and forty for Chamberlain.
A Committee on Credentials, mainly made
up OF the snti.C Chamberlain party, was then
appointed, and the Convention adjourned at
7o'clock P. N.
FURrHER DEVELOPMENTS OF FRAUD ON
THE GOVERNMENT.
SAX FRANCISCO, April 11.-Colonel A. C.
Dawes had an interview with Charles B.
Wilkinson, excollector of internal revenue
of the Western District of Missouri, arrested
for embezzlement of stamps and conspiracy
to defraud the Government. Since Bettenger
has pleaded guilty Wilkinson is convinced
that the conspiracy to defraud the Govern.
| ment extended through Northern and West.
ern Missouri. he learned from the fugitive
distllers in Melbourne that Joyce levied the
money for party purposes, and RENTED 1t
to Babcock at Washington. He says he has
information that eleven United States sen.
ators signed q petition for Bettenger's par
don, including Messrs, Harvey and ingalls,
Of Kansas, Cockerell of Missouri, Merton of
Indiana, Spencer OF Alabama, and Hitchcock
and Paddock of Nebraska. Wilkinson goes
West Thursday in custody.
BANK EMBEZZLEMENT DISCOVERED-THE
FUNERAL OF THE LATE A. T. STEWART.
NEW YORK, April 11.-While the receiver
Of the Security Savings Bank was engaged
last week in paying the first dividend to de-
positors he discovered that the book.keeper
j and teller, John Seal, who has been In the
employ of the bank since 1872, had embez-
| zled funds to the extent Of $4,000, and fed
to escape arrest. This will result in fur
| Their loss to depositors Of fifteen per cent.
The funeral Of the late A. T. Stewart will
take place Thursday morning next at II
O'Clock from st. Marks Episcopal church.
Bishop Potter will oficiate.
Both of Stewards stores will remain closed
until Saturday, except for banking and other
necessary purposes. Business will be re.
sumed Saturday as usual, under the diree-
ton Of Judge Hilton and Ar. Libby. Judge
Hilton remarked that there were seven thou
sands persons on the psy-rolls OF the tlrm,
and that sudden stoppage Of such q busi'
ness would be a great calamity.
a. Y. Stout, Of the Shoe and Leather
Bank, gave $4,000 to the Wesleyan Uni.
yersity, Of Georgetown, and 1000 to the
Drew Seminary; each to erdow professor.
The Court OF Appeals has affirmed the de-
cision of the Supreme Court taxing the Pa
siic Mail Steamship Company on the basis
] OF $5,500,000 The case goes to- the su.
prsme Court Of the United States.
A UNITED STATES MARSHAL ARRESTED
FOR THEFT.
S7. LOUIS, April 11.-Marshal Blunep-
thai, formerly deputy collector Of internal
revenue at st. Marks, Fla, has been arrested
here, charged with stealing money belonging
| to the United States Collectors Office at that
point. He left for Florida last night.
FIRE.
PHILADELPHIA, April III. a. Real &
Co.'s warehouse, on Water street above
Chestnut, Was burned last night. Loss,
$4,000.
BRIEFS.
BosfoN, April 11.-Harvard College will
send representative crew to contend with
the oarsmen of Cam bridge and Oxford, Kng.
land, at the eight.osred Centennial race.