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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-13
HOW POOR PEOPLE ARE DUpED BY SAVINGS
BANKS

BANKS.
New YORK, March 3, 1877
TO THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-
Some eight years ago | commenced to money at
my trade, and put 1t in the Third Avenue Savings
Bank and had the bank S512 when it closed. have
been unable 10 got any since was told by the officers
OF the bank that they put out money first mort
cages and other good securities. am glad TO tue
exposures your paper OF frauds practsed the nno
cent by the banks and other institutions aud rea! estate
brokers, swindlc The widows and orphans by selling
second mortgages Tor first mortgages and showing
false searches from the County Clerks Office
pecially out in New Jersey aud other States. BY in
sorting this IN your valuable paper you may
innocent people from getting robbed by these swndlcrs
who walk streets, secure IRON the law. hope
some Will be shown up G. H.. |.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-13
WINES. LIQUORS. n,

fJilE MOREAU LEFEyRE CnAMPAGNEs ARR FOR
L invalids convenient und health giving VICTOR H.
MAUGLk. New York.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-13
BRANCH IN KEY WEST.

and Is using there the class of Vueto Abeo
In the Havana factory the pure quality and aromatic
flavor Of which haze given this urand It's present h credit
among consumes The prices are materially than Tor
those from Havana. aud comparison will show that they
every respect iny equal. they are offered in cot
pection with usual list Of Havana cigars.
ACkER. MERkALL CONDIr.
100 and 1872 Chambers ST. New York.
PARK q TILFOkD,
OF and OIO Rrnadwnv. Nav Ynrk
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CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
L,sPANoLA CIGARS.

The Subscribers have made TO, tho xcuye
sale of the cigars OF this well known and brand
manufactured IN Key West invite tue attention of lie
public to the full usun ,hev
now prepared to offer. N' "
Influenced by the high duties Cigars the pro
pretor OF the Espanola factory At Havana has es,ab
lishcd - 49,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13
A STRANGE STORY.

The New York San, of Saturday, prints
a mournlul account of the last days of Hor-
ace Greeley, and states that it Is true in
every respect. The story is as follows: On
accepting the Democratic and Liberal nomi-
nation for the Presidency. Mr.. Greeley re-
signed his position AS editor of the Tribune.
After the disastrous campaign (which re-
suited in his defeat, the great editor turned
again to the duties of his profession and
published card announcing his resumption
of the editorship of his paper. In the same
number of the Tribune that contained his
card there was published, without his knowl-
edge or consent, an article entitled Crumbs
of Comfort" which was written in bad
vein Of insult to his political friends, and
which called forth much bitter comment.
Mr.. Greeley was justly indignant and wrote
brief statement denying his authorship of
the article in question This statement, of
which the Sun prints a Fac-Simile was n ot
printed as Mr.. Greeley directed nor was it
ever allowed to see the light, until Saturday
last. 1t then became apparent to Mr.. Gree
ley that he had been deposed and the great
est of American. editors retired, heart Z,
to an insane asylum and died shortly af-
ter.
With his withdrawal began the downfall
of the Tribune and to-day the value of that
journal is not one-half what it was A debt
of half or three quarters of million hangs
over the establishment and it looks much as
if the time was close at hand when the Trib-
une will be added to the long list of news
paper failures, Jay Gould and his stock
jobbing operations have proved too much
for the prosperity of what was once the
greatest journal in the United States. 1t has
been truly said of the Tribune that it was
founded by Horace Greeley and fouudered
by Jay Could" There will be few to drop
a tear over the grave.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13

The searching inquiry now being made
by Morton's Senate committee into the al
legged corrupt influences employed in the
election of Senator Grover of Oregon, will
give general satisfaction to the country, and
if the far-off Senator shall be convicted of
bribery or fraud, it will be most fortunate
day for the Senate when chairman Morton
shall rise and move Growers expulsion from
that honorable body. 1t wouldn't amount
to much politically in Growers case, though
a Republican might be elected to succeed
him, but it would amount to great deal
when Morton comes to foot up the aggregate
profit and loss of the operation. Grover
wouldn't be lonely in his departure from
the Senate, for Morton would next have to
move the expulsion of his pet Spencer, OF
Alabama of his friend Dorsey, of Arkan-
sas of his bloody-shirt coadutor Sargent,
of California; of his faithful follower Chat
fee, of Colorado of his devoted admrer
Conover, of Florida; of his nest-egg carpet
bagger Kellogg, of louisiana of his sable
man and brother Bruce, of Mississippi Of
his lovely and sympathetic twins Jones and
Sharon, Of Nevada; of Growers colleague
Mitchell, of Oregon of his model of Re-
publican virtue Patterson of South Carolina
and it's even possible that he would have tc
end the grand campaign of regeneration by
moving his own expulsion. Let the ba nC
| play !-Phila. Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13
MORE RASCALS IN TROUBLE.

]. Madison Wells, Thos. Q. Anderson, and
their two darkey associates on the Louisiana
Returning Board, have been indicted and
arrested, and held to bail in the sum of
$1,000, charged with forgery, The indict-
ment reads that on the 4th of December,
1876, they falsely and feloniously altered,
and published as true the altered, forged
and counterfeited election returns from the
parish of Vernon at the election of Novem-
Der last, by adding l5S votes to each of
Hayes Electors, and deducting 395 from
each of Tilden's Electors" This will prob
ably open the whole scoundrelly business of
the Returning Board and let in the light on all
their DARK transactions. Wells, of course,
sent letter to Hayes, informing him of the
trouble and asking for assistance. At a
Cabinet meeting the matter was discussed,
but it was agreed that there was no way by
which the General Government could inter-
fere in the. administration of State justice.
Mr.. Key was of the opinion that the public
sentiment of the South will disapprove of
the step, but Mr.. Key has long since ceased
to be mouth piece for Southern sentiment
if indeed he ever was. The importance Of
the trial of Wells and his fellows can hardly
be overestimated. If after the most search
ing investigation in open Court it is proved
beyond doubt that fraud, wiful and delib-
crate, was perpetrated and that, therefore,
Tilden was entitled to the Electors from
about it? There will not be an intelligent
man or woman in the United States who
will not be convinced that Hayes is in no
manner entitled to sit in the chair of the
President VIII such truly good, pious,
reform advocating Christian statesman con-
sent to hold an Office when not only he but
every body else in the country knows that
he retains it by fraud? The future may tell
us how much of hypocrite he is.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13

Ever since Mr.. Blaine quilted the Speakers
chair of the House of Representatives he
seems to have been deserted by the sagacity,
the self.command, the level judgment, that
distinguished him in that position. Imme-
diately after he assumed the aggressive lead
Of one wing Of his party on the floor he pro-
voked counter attack which proved to be
"the direful spring of woes unnumbered" to
himself. Before the session was half over the
audacious and defiant assailant was thrown
upon the defensve-and into most humlia-
ting attitude. The foremost, strongest, most
brilliant, most promising candidate for his
party nomination for the Presidency his
course and the developments that it provoked
forced the friends of the other candidates to
combine against him, to preserve the party
rom the defeat they feared if he should be
made the candidate. The most dam aging op-
ponent James G. Blaine had for the Cincin,
natl nomination was James G. Blaine him
self. He seems now to be bent on fighting
it out on that line" if it continues the re-
mainder Of his natural life. He has the rep.
utation Of striking hard blows in contest
and he certainly did at one time posses,
that power-but whatever of the gift is lefl
| to him now he is using upon himself, for no
dozen Of his personal opponents could do {
1.-THE Of the damage that James G. Blaine i.
now doing to James G.. Blaine.-Phiiadei-
phia Ledger.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13

The Republican states that the utmost
quiet in political circles" now existing is
entirely the work of the Republican party !;
that complete confidence is restored through
Republican administration and winds up
thus: "If the Republican party can fight its
country's battles in war and win its victories
and then grandly conduct its affairs in peace,
the honest sentiment of nation will accord
it higher trust than ever" 1t cannot be
possible that the Republican believes any
such stuff Chamberlain and Blaine do not
think so, for in their recent Woodstock
speeches they did all in their power to create
political excitem ent; they arraigned the
President in the seyerest terms, strongly in
timating that he is a traitor to his party, in
all of which they are backed up by the lead
ing Republican politicians and journals, and
the editors of the Republican are in full
sympathy with them, if they had the cour-
age to say so. Does the Republican believe
that the present administration is conduct
ing public affairs grandly? Then why does
it not endorse the Presidents Southern pol
icy and why do leading Republican papers
that are not hampered by post offices assert
that Hayes has gone over to the enemy, and
that by his civil service order he has struck
deadly blow at the party that counted him
in? Which is right; our cotemporary or the
leading organs of its party?
The Republican has repeated so often the
story that no one fought to save the nation
but its own partisans that it seems to believe
it, and the next assertion will probably be
that the senior editor was a Major Genera
in the army instead of home patriot call
ing for rope. But we have lost all hop
of that journal ever dealing with facts, an
statements as absurd as the ones alluded t
above, in this period Of our country's history
are hardly worth contradicting, as they ar
false on their very face.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13
JUDGE BLACKS REVIEW.

On the first and fourth pages of this paper
will be found the brilliant article of Judge
]. S. Black on the Electoral Commission,
We commend it to the attention of all our
readers and beg them not to be deferred
from reading it by its length, 1t is the
most able aad exhaustive review ever given
OF the carpet-baggers, the Returning Boards
and the Commission. In scathiug language
he depicts the robber of the South, present
ing him in clear light and showing how
lie managed not only to steal in the present
but to mortgage the future. Step by step
the whole rotten scheme of carpet-bag gov.
ernment is traced from the earliest advent
of the plunderers to the crowning of their
work at Washington. No where else can
our readers get so complete and thorough a
description of the troubles of the Southern
States, and from no other writer can they
obtain so jast a conception of what were the
neglected duties of the Electoral Commits.
sion. With the accuracy of a trained law
yer and with the ease and polished style of
ready writer, Judge Black points out all
the contradictory decisions, all the refusals
TO listen to reason, all the bald and inexcus.
able neglects of duty. ... ....
After reading this review it is possible to
understand how lost to all sense of justice,
of right aud of truth were the eight men,
bers of that infamous Commission. 1t is
not probable that there will ever be pub
lished any other account of the "Great
Fraud of lS76' which will be at once so vi
vid and 80 truthful. No one should fail to
peruse the Judges words and lay up the
truths thereof in the memory for future
mao
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13
MR.. BowEy AND HIS FRIENDS

Mr.. Bowen, of the Independent, had lit.
tie picnic at Woodstock, Conn, on the
Fourth of July. Mr.. Bowen, it may be re-
membered, is the gentleman who came very
near earning the gratitude of the community
in the famous Beecher trial--tha is to say
if he had only told what he was supposed to
know about Beecher he would have relieved
the mind of an anxious and expectant pub
lie.
The great guns at Mr.. Bowen's picnic
were Chamberlain, formerly of South Caro-
lima, and Blaine of Maine. The little affair
was probably gotten up for their joint bene-
fit and both came prepared with speeches.
Chamberlain's address was an eloquent but
bitter denuuciation of the policy of Mr..
Hayes. This was, of course, to have been
of possibility that he could have looked
with even liberation on policy which prac-
tically banished from the South himself and
men of his kind. lie told many truths and
said many things in which veracity was not
so apparent. His remarks, which were ex-
tended, are hardly worth the printing. 1t
is easy to imagine what were the expressions
made use of by a deposed carpet Dagger.
Mr.. Baine's speech was mainly prophetic.
He drew fearful picture Of the evils which
must ensue if Mr.. Hayes persists in his de-
termination to put a stop to Mexican cattle
stealing on the Rio Grande. The Mexican
question was, however, only device for an
arraignment of the administration. He
never loses an opportunity to declare himself
still waver of the bloody shirt and opposed
to all reconciliation and good feeling, As a
blatant demagogue he sinks the present and
future prosperity of the country in order to
further his designs upon the Presidency.
Mr.. Blaine will not succeed in his aspira-
tons, not even with the valuable aid and
assistance of such patriots as Cha mberlain,
Robson and Joe Bradley. His fantic ut
terances will only result in his own over
throw, and the sooner this INSCRIPTIONS and
dishonest partisan and intriguer is slenced
the better for the country.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13

That peculiar gerius, George Alfred
Townsend, who writes for various papers
over the signature of Cath" thus sketches
Mulligan's man from Maine: Blaine is a
rougher kind of Schuyler Coltax, a bottle of
the same ginger pop, better bottled and bet
ter husbanded. Most of what Blaine knows
was eaves-dropped and picked up on the fly.
He is powerful man to save cheese par
ings. Nature bore him in Pennsylvania,
but fitted him out with a Yankee mind and
a peddler's pack. He could eat apple-sass
as if he loved it, smack his lips over wagon
grease butter, and sit in straight pew as ii
he loved the very knob under his under-pi
ming He is voluptuous rascal, like the
sons of Eli, who made a lodging house Of
the yestbule Of the temple. Yet he was
ever temperate, and eschewed tobacco the
devil was inside and not superficial there
When l think how Blaine played that un'
suspecting Yankee race, and is hardly found
out yet, | smile as if | saw Falstaf himself
winking at young Harry. He played th'
State of Maine, the church, the Southerners
and the carpet-baggers. He played Con
gress, and he nearly played the Cincinnati
convention. But there is one old fellow h'
will never play-the same who skipped, &C
cidently, as it were, down the back stair
| of heaven.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13
THE COLUMBIAN
TIE WAR.

The Russians have met with serious re-
verses in Asia Minor, having been defeated
in numerous engagements and compelled to
raise the siege of Kars 1t is reported that
the Turks have driven their foes beyond the
Russian frontier. Although no details OF
these battles are giveu it would seem to be
true, beyond doubt that the Russians have
been badly demoralized. In Montenegro
the Turkish campaign was a failure and their
forces have been forced to withdraw, after
terrible loss. The hardy mountaineers kept
up incessant attacks from their almost inn
pregnable rocky Businesses, in comparative
safety to themselves. A repert from Con
stantinople states that 1900 persons fleeing
from Adler to the Turkish lines for fear OF
the Russians, perished from hunger. The
correspondent of the Manchester England
Guardian says that he understands that the
Government have information that the Rus.
ians intend to occupy Constantinople at all
risks unless the Turks anticipate that event
by making peace on the Cars terms. This
it is thought will change the feelings, TO q
great extent, of the anti-war party in Eng.
land, and may lead to the active participa
ton of that country in the war.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13

a Washington correspondent says that
General Sherman is reported to have made
an interesting political prediction before
starting on his Western trip. He is said to
the Rebellion that the greatest soldier of the
war should become President; it was in ac-
cordance with the philosophy of history that
a person chiefly known as civilian, who,
however, had an honorable position in the
Union army, should be the next President
and the President who takes his seat in 1881
will be man who fought upon the Confed.
crate side, who was young enough to see tina,
he was in error and acknowledged it, Car
| the General mean Wade Hampton?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13
THE INDIAN TROIlBLES.

The latest advices from Idaho are far
from favorable. The troops have had two
fights with the Indians, resulting in the loss
of thirteen soldiers and officers in each.
This Indian outbreak bids fair to be far
more serious than either the Modoc or the
Sioux rebellions The Indians, it is said
number 5000 to 10000 warriors the coun-
try is well adapted to their style of warfare
and they are perfectly familiar with every
foot of the ground. The arms WHICH they
carry are breech-load and repeaters of APP
proved make, and the savages are experts in
the use of them. The plans of Gen. How
ard have thus far been unsuccessful, owing
to the vigilance and desperation of the red
skins, and now there is loud cry for "more
troops The recent successes achieved by
the Indians have not only emboldened those
who took part in the fights, but have given
courage to other bands of the disafiected and
non.treaty savages who are reported as join
ing the forces OF Joseph, the Chief in COM
mand. Evidently there must be something
decisive done and done at once, or there will
be serious loss of life ON the part of the
whites.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13

Mr.. George Washington Childs, A. NJ,
says in his paper, the Philadelphia Ledger,
abiding to Grant in England, "rhe man
who worked at the tanners trade in Galena
is the best embodiment to the English arti-
san of what America means" We trust
not, and what is more we don't believe it.
Grant is fair sample of a Republican but
not of the better kind of American citizen.
We should be sorry indeed to know that he
was accepted az a representative American.
The average citizen of this country is law
respecting, honest, reputable mau-reputa-
BILE in himself and in his surroundings. The
remembrance of Grants whisky-ring friends
at the White House and elsewhere is too
fresh in the minds of the people to be dis
PEELED by Mr.. Childs' assertion. America
means" to do away with the evil effects o
Grants administration as soon as may be
and all the toadying of Childs, A. NJ, ant
his clique will not long retard the coming o
better day for this nation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13

No professional or official men in the
world have 50 easy time of it as the Irish
Judges. The Lord Chancellor gets SAC, 900
a year, and retiring pension, no matter
how brief time he serves, of 100000. The
Chief Justice of Ireland has $25 900 salary,
and Sl7 800 retiring pension, after fifteen
years service. The Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas has 1923 900 year, and Chief
Baron the same. Their retiring pensions are
Sl2,500. The five puisne judges have over
$l7, 500 year, and retiring pensions on the
like liberal scale. All the other judges of
inferior courts are liberally,paid, and though
the salaries are some thirty per cent. lower
than similar functionaries receive in Eng
land, this is amply compensated by the diff
ference in the cost of living. A house which
would cost 50, 900 year in London can be
had for 81 900 in Dublin, and wages and ex-
penses are more than thirty per cent less in
most respects The Irish judges have, too,
at least one third less to do than their British
brethren, who are very heavily tssked, ow-
ing to the immense pressure of business in
the London courts. An Irish judge gets at
least four months leisure in tho year. The
Irish bench is invariably filled by men OF
first-rate ability, and it is rare to see its
judgments reversed in the House of Lords.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-13
Evasion of the Revenue Laws.

In spite of the supposed vigilance of the
Custom authorities, smuggling still appears
to flourish, one of the latest phases of the
business being the introduction of fashiona-
BILE and expensive wearing apparel, through
the cOnnivance of the subordinates connect
ed with some of the foreign steam lines at
this port. Smuggling on Il larger scale is
also said to be successfully carried on at
points in the South. Not only do the snug
gers realize large profits under the well-or-
ganized system which is believed to exist at
various points along our coast line, but the
elevation of this species of fraud to the
standing Of Il regular occupation is serious
injury to legitimate trade in certain articles
of high cost When an annual business of
millions can be carried on illegally period
of years. without detection, under the eyes of
an army of officials, it is safe to conclude
that something is wrong with the system
rather than with its administration, however
faulty that may be. The error is not far to
seek. With a tariff that assures fortune to
the smuggler who can successfully evade its
impositions, the temptation is constant and
great and when to this is added code of
customs laws which none but specialist
can master, whose provisions and interpre-
tations are constantly changing, and whose
requirements are so exactng and confusing,
it becomes only question of individual
morality whether one honestly attempts to
observe the law at the constant risk of trip
ping on some technical point, or boldly dis
regards all regulations of the Governm mt
and takes his chance OF detection N.
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