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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-24
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
FALL RIVER DEFALCATIONS.
HATHAWAY IN JAIL.

THE BORDER CITY AND SYCAMORE MILLS CLOSED
AND THE DIRECTORS RUISED-A DEFALCATloN
OF $G50000 ALREADY DIsCoYERED-THE CA
REER OF THE DEFAULTER.
George T. Hathaway the defaulting treasurer Of
the Border City and the Sycamore Mills was arrested
yesterday and sent TO Jail. He refused 10 make
any statement to the directors IN regard TO his
transactions. Both mills are closed and all
the directors, except Mr.. Stickney, are said
to be ruined financially The books are UNDERGOING
examination, and the defalcation is already found
10 amount to $685. Chace, the Union Mills
defaultcr denies that he in any way responsible
for Hathaway's irregularities. Implicit confidence
had been felt in Hathaway by the directors and by
the public generally.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-24
DIPLOMACY STILL AT FAULT.
A LACK OF HARMONY APPARENT IL TIE AUsTIo-
RUSSIAN PARLEYGNG.

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plains this irritation. He says: Russia Is ardent IN
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-24
FAUJRE AT BOgTON,

BosToN, April 23.-J. b. Kimball d Co.,
of No. Is High-st one of the Oldest boot and shoe
houses In this city, failed to-day. Liabilities $4,000,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
OURBANKING SYSTEM.

The present system OF banking in this
country may be q safe one, but 1t Is eX-
pensive. The legitimate Office Of bank
er is to do discount and deposit business
but TO this is added, in modern banking
TIE right to issue paper money. In other
words the banks are banks OF issue as
well rs banks Of discount and of deposit.
The objections to the old United States
bank were that it was bank OF issue,
and being so it could initiate or contract
the amount OF its circulation, and thus
create good times or q panic st its pleas
ure. We contend that the banks should
not have it in their power to rule or
ruin the business men of the country at
their will and pleasure. There are at the
present time three hundred and fifty mil
lions Of greeutacks III circulation, upon
which the Government pays no interest.
Besides this green back circulation there
are three hundred and fifty millions Of
national bank notes in circulation, max.
ing in sll seven hundred millions of paper
money outstanding. The greenback cir
culation costs the Government nothing
and the people nothing TO keep in circu-
lstion, while the Government pays to the
banks eighteen millions of dollars in in
terest money to make good the
Government endorsement Of the
currency circulation. Why cannot
banks transact their banking business
on greenbscks as well as upon
their own notes or upon their promises TO
pay2 VIII not greenbacks be paid when
payment is called for? Why cannot
the banks surrender their circulation
To the government and take the same
amount IN GreenbsCks or in Govern
ment notes? Should this be done banks
could not fail, for they have no notes of
their own outstanding. They would be
required TO keep no specie IN their
vaults, and consequently there would be
no boarding of gold or silver by the
banks, Then there would be no con-
traction nor expansion. The volume of
paper money in circulation would be the
same at all times, and We submit to
bankers themselves if this system would
not be better for the banks than is the
present system of issuing their own notes.
Why should not Congress adopt this
plan before it adjourns2
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
Go On WITH YOUR INVESTIGA-
TON.

The Democrats show great anxiety to
recount the Florida vote, but not the
votes of such States as Indiana New
Jersey asd Connecticut, in cart OF which
the rrossest frauds in the interest of Til
den are charged. They will do wisely to
drop the entire question, -PHtS5urgh
Commercial.
The above paragraph is fair sample
Of the way the Radical organs howl over
the rcceut disclosures oftrsud in Florida.
7 hey do not attempt to deny the truth Of
the charges brought against those who
made receiver of stolen goods of
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, but they cry
with great vehemence, you're another,
and try to have the msLter dropped No
one has brought forward the slightes.
evidence OF fraud having been practiced
in the TILDEN States spoken of by the
Commercial, and we do not believe that
anybody can. On the other hand, dis
tinct and amply supported charges have
been sworn to by men who know where
of they speak, to the effect that
Floridas electoral vote was stolen by the
Republicans.
That Is the way the case stands at pres
ent. The Democrats have said that there
was corruption IN certain States as to the
manner in which they were gwen TO
HAYES and they have shown themselves
capable Of proving their allegations. The
Republicans say that corruption existed
in certain States as to the manner in
which they were given to TILDEN,
sad they have thus far shown themselves
TO be unparalleled liars, without a single
plea of justification. We do not believe
in stopping the Investigations now. but
ssy-go ahead II it can be proven that
fraud was used in other States than
Florida by the Republicans, the country
desires to know 1t, and If the Democrats
used the same means in New JERSEY.
Indiana, or in any State, the country
should know that also. This Is no time
for temporizng or for backing down,
and therefore we repeat our advice; Go
ahead aid investigated
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

no more fortunate in the long run, and
no more moral at any time, than their
cousins of the green.topped table.
The Gum of the worlds experience
proves that the forlornest of all tororn
hopes is for man to try to live by his
wits. Gamblers, speculative stock jobbers,
confidence men, check-rsisers, burg ars,
train robbers and professional politicians
ali try il and all fail. If men possessing
so great abilities as John MOrrIssey, Ben
iamia Wood, Daniel Drew, jim
Fisk. Boss Tweed, are beaten at their
own game, what hope is there for the
ordinary mortal who would ind l. hard
enough to make an honest living? Each
of these men lowered above his fellows,
and all might have made the world bet
ter by their lives and examples and left
honorable records. They were all amb!-
tious for fame, power and wealth. Which
one of them possesses any Of these pro-
perties now2 Gambling broke every one
OF them. II doesn't pay.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
THE END OFTHEGAMBLER.

The st. Louis Globe Democrat reads an
instructive lesson in the career OF JOHN
MoRRlssEY, the deceased gambler. After
giving an account of his life, it says:
After all his winnings he died poor. The
life he led involved vast expenees; his
money came and went easy; he played
for high stakes, and he lost quite rs often
as he won. Notwithstanding his splendid
physique, dissipation and the diseases in
cident to it undermined his constitution,
and death took him twenty years before
his time, though, it would seem, not much
too soon to save him from the old
gam ler's inevitable doom of perjury snd
neglect 1t is queer coincidence that,
on the day of Mr.. Morrissey's death,
Benjamin Wood, another New York
gambler and politician of national noto-
riety, filed a petition in bankruptcy,
showing vast array of liabilities and n
beggarly account OF assets. Of the two
Mr.. Morrissey was questionably the
luckier, for he QUIT little ahead of the
game, which is more than can be said Of
on e gambler in ten thousand.
But was the game worth the Candle2
If John Morrissey or Ben. Wood had
devoted one-hslf the energy and porse
versnce to honest and decent business
that they did to gambling, they might
be respected and wealthy men to-day.
We have no desire to prose over the im-
morality Of gsmisg; the pulpit has done
that for ages without materially dimir-
ishing the number OF men who are esgar
to stake their money on the hazard OF
die or the turn Of card. Gambling is
chiefly bad because 1t doesn't pay; if no
body lost it would be as moral ard harm
less as preaching. 1t is wickeder to lose
than to win. But men who plsy will
lose. All experience proves that in the
end the game beats the man, no matter
whether he deals or plays against the
bank. The professional Is IS certain to
quit loser in the end as the amateur
who just plays q little for pssume.
The "rske down" gets all the money, and
the man who gets the "rske" loses it in
fast living or in another game.
1t makes no difference whether the
game be faro, keno, draw poker or stock
jobbing; not one player in million quits
ahead. In this country poker is more
generally INDUCED in than any OF the
Others. In all our large cities there are
countless little club rooms in which its
devotees assemble nightly to win each
others money. If the honest
evidence OF all the poker players
OF he country could be taken
to-day, it would be found that no: one in
ten thousand has made anything by his
playing. Every one Of them could show
losses in the shape Of money, time, tenn
per, and fitness for their ordinary svocs-
tions. The professional poker Rsyers
are, as rule, next to trsmps, the poorest
and most useless members OF a commu-
nifty. The stock and grain gamblers are
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
LIMITING PRODUCTION.

The question which the Wheeling nail
mill owners are trying to solve is the
question which the employers and en-
ployes in the cotton mills of England
separated upon, and which resulted in
pressntSdisastrous strike in that country.
In that csse, the mill owners had, for
long time back, carried on their business
at loss. But they hoped for revival
trade, until hope died and was buried.
Thus they kept their mills run
ming on regular time, and faced
both dwindling capital and In
creasing stock of goods. AT last, ind
ing further persistence in the road to
ruin impossible, they insisted on reduc-
ton of ten per cent. in the wages paid to
their operatives. The men admitted the
terrible badness of the business.
and were quite willing to accept
less money from the masters. But they
desired to keep wages at the old rate, and
to diminish production by working
shorter time. The mill.owners pointed
out tia. this would only increase the cost
of their goods and shut them out efectu-
ally from competition with foreign man
utacturers. The issue, it will be seem
was upon single point in political econ
omy; and affords another warning of the
vital Importance CT correct cOmprehen-
sion of that most serious science.
The restitution among the idle opera
tives amounts to absolute pauperism.
The misery runs upon scale so sppsll-
ing that it rises to the level of a national
calamity. The families of honest, indus
trious work-people, that have been
brought to the door. Of the poor-house, or
within fingers length of starvation,
are to be numbered not by hundreds, nor
even by thousands, but by myriads. Such
figures involve .immeasurable woe. The
stroke would be sore burden upon hu-
man patience if it had fallen from the
hand of COP; but sorrow is doubled by
the reflection that the suffering may be
traced to the obstinacy and ignorance of
men.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
TWEED AND HAYES.
Twins in Iniquiiy-The Thieves OF
The Age.

INC Sbt'
Harper's organ of civilization dep!ores
an attempt to excite sympathy for MI.
Tweed because he died broken man in
Jail, and says there was nothing unkind,
unjust, or unreasonable in Tweed's pun
ishment; while 10 the same number it
publishes leader clarifying Rutherford
B. Hayes
To which the New York Sun replies ::
We have not word to say in excul-
patton of Mr.. Tweed. He erred greatly
and he suffered severely. He robbed the
CITY of its money, and his liberty and his
life were the penalties he paid for his
oftense. He is now dead, and there is
nothing more TO be done to him.
But great as Tweed's crime was Ruth
erford b. Hayes crime is much greater.
Tweed robbed US of money; Hayes is the
| first successful conspirstOr against the
most essential and most distinctive Tea
ture in the government founded by our
revolutionary fathers.
If Tweed took money that did not be-
! long 10 him, so Hayes is taking money
that does not belong to him. His whole
family are living on means to which he
has no right. Besides an enormous
amount OF Incidental perquisites, spa
clous house to live in, and other things,
Mr.. Hayes is putting into his pocket fifty
thousand dollars year to which he has
no right. He takes this in clean cash
for the discharge Of duties which he has
no right to perform.
The money he unjustly receives will
amount to two hundred thousand dollars
| if he holds on for four years. But taking
this money is the smallest part Of his OF
Tense. He has deprived the nation OF the
priceless privilege OF electing It's own
Chief Magistrate. No mere pecuniary
robbery can compare in Nervousness with
that.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
sunreme ConrtofAppeaIs.

Greenbricr Independent.
The Wheeling Standard Of Saturday
evening last SAYS that this court met n!
the capital building on that day at ten
o'clock. Judge Raymond being absent,
on account of sickness, no decisions IN
cases submitted were rendered. Court
adjourned until Saturday next at III
O'clock.
We are free 90 acknoW ledge that we
cannot understand why opinions, IN
cases that have been decided in confer
ence, cannot be read when there IS a
quorum Of the Court on the Bench, even
in the absence, on account OF sickness or
for any other reason, of one Of the Judges.
Our mind may be obtuse and dull to
comprehend the true inWardDees OF the
workings of this tribunal, but we will
venture to give expression 10 the opinion,
which we share with many others, that
the Court owes it TO Itself and to suitoTs
to correct very apparent evlI-sn evil,
in many respects, which hiss become al
most intolerable. These weekly meet
ings of the Court, and adjournments,
without practical results, have become
very monotOnous and great bores
The Court Of Appeals of Virgins,
which is almost continuously in session,
and has a greatly larger docket, renders
quite batch of decisions every few
days, and decides more cases in two
weeks than our court can dispose of as
many months. Perhaps, however, the
sympathy between the members OF the
Court in Virginia is not so strong that
the indisposition Of one parslyzes the
others. We don't know how this is.
THE public might feel disposed 10 put
up with the quantity of work done by
the Court of Appeals, if the quality
could somehow be improved J
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
GOV. LErCHER TURNS UP AGAIN.

We notice in the Richmond State an
account of q rumpus between Major
JOHN w. DANIEL and ex-Gov. JOHN
LETCHER. A correspondent of the n. Y.
Sun sent to that paper history Of the fe-
male mob which broke out in Richmond in
1868, the information being obtained from
Mr.. DANIEL who gave President DAVIS
the credit Tor suppressing it. When the
article appeared Gov. LETCHER thought
it did injustice to him, and, under his
authority, Col. S. BAssETT FRENCH
wrote letter saying that JEFFERSON
DAVIS had nothing to DO with suppress
ing the mob, and there. the matter
rests for the present. 1t will
BE- remembered that this is
not the first time that Cow
LETCHER hss claimed the credit for
things which took place during the war.
Neither is it the first time that Colonel
FRENCH has been cslled ia rs hacker up
and corroborator. Not long since dis
cussion arose between Capt. GEORGE Ii.
MorFETT and these gentlemen, and their
line of battle was very similar to that
which they now have arranged.
As long as the old fogies are content to
squsbble about mobs or other things that
have not existed for fifteen or twenty
years it does not matter much. It's only
when they desire to take q hand in the
events Of the day that they are danger
Gus, or even obnoxious.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

The bloody shirt is to be waved with
yigor in tie Southern States, or, at least,
in several Congressional Districts in the
Southern States, this Summer. Promi-
nent Northern men are to be sent into
these Districts, money is to be used to
organize the negro voters, and all the
machinery brought INTO requisition to
carry them for the Republican party.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

MAJ. n. H. HoTCHKIss informs the
editor of the Huntington Advertiser that
catfish was caught at Pt. Pleasant on
Monday Of last week which weighed one
hundred and two pounds. Now, Msior,
on your honor2-Lynchburg Ne,Os.
1t must be from Point Pleasant the
large catfish caught in the Mississippi
opposite New Orleans come, some of
them weighing two or three hundred
pounds. They cut them up in the mar
ket and sell them to the catfish hotels on
the levee for tenderloin trout and cat
s(o)up. "Fact, l assure you" -RichmOnd
State
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

g IT Is believed that our Republican
friends across the river have been a little
hasty in fixing the time and place for
holding their Congressional Convention.
By the time the Legislature gets its re-
drstrictlng work in, the place the Repub.
licsns agreed to hold their Convention
may be in some other district.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

NJ. w. LAMBERT, manager of the
Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, will have
charge Of the Oakland Hotel this sum-
mer; and Il. l.. SYKES, of the Grafton
House, will run the Deer Park Hotel.
Each of these gentlemen will continue to
manage the hotels they are now connect
ed with. The summer hotels will be
opened by the first of June; snd reduc-
ton IN the rates of board will be among
the "modern improvements" introduced.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

THE Baltimore Sun says that the Balti-
more and Ohio express has made arrange
menJs for the extension of its lines east
ward to Philadelphia, New York and
Boston, ana intermediate points. The
line will be in competition with the
Adams express, and will be granted the
same privilege in use of cars, etc, as the
latter. The Baltimore and Ohio express
has now 900 offices and 5000 lines of
route.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

WITH the bankrupt act extended until
the first of next year, it looks as if every
business man would have ample time to
suspend before the Government resumes.
-PhiLa. North Amsrican.
A NoRRIsTowN fisherman on last
Friday caught twenty-seven trout, some
them, he says, weighing over two pounds
apiece. He would have caught more,
but he is not very good liar NORRIS
tolOn Herald.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

Hon J. RANDOLPH fuckers efcrt,
yesterday, to secure reduction in the
tax on tobacco, failed in the House. His
motion was to suspend the rules for the
consideration of the question, and, a.
though majority voted for it, the re-
quisite two-thirds was lacking.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

THE New York papers say the police
of that city are not afraid of Commun.
lists. They have the names and dis
cription of the habits of all the leading
ones and think they are no more harm
full than the saloon keepers who sell them
their beer"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

Col. FLOYD NEELEY, Uncle DAyY
MCGREGoK, and Mr.. WITHERs, Of Gil
mer, are all talked of as prospective can
didates for Judge CAMDEN's seat In the
State Senate.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

SENATOR GORDON has got sn idea into
his head that it is better to save the
country by common sense than ruin it by
science, and he is engaged IN trying to
induce his brother Senators to look at it
in the same way. This startling PROPOSE
ton came out in discussion on finance.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
GozD closed yesterday at 1901.

1T is said that KENNA will have clear
field for denomination to Congress in the
Third District.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

GEORGE WASHINGTON ATKINSON Is
still shy upon the Congressional ques-
ton, but the public regard him as BAR
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

1T does not offend Hon. JONATHAN NJ.
BENNETT in the least TO tell HIM he
ought to be in Congress. He sometimes
thinks so himself
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

Hon. w. L. BURDETT will come back
to the Senate for another four years,
from the Ksnawhs District.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

LIGHT, airy, and cheerful, centrally
located, and carefully managed, the Col
onnade Hotel offers unequaLled induce
ments to Philadelphia visitors.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
a Lady Who Prides Herself

On her Biscuit, RUsk ard Batter Cakes,
say. she alway- wants Logan, List & COS
Excelsior Baking Powder.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
Most Careful HOusekeepers

Fay they find Logan, List & Cos Excelsior
Baking Powder the most reliable aud
tl-lactOry, and the most economical.