The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-08-30

$1,000 IL the sale would be stopped and
The plaintiff wait for the balance until
January. This is the answer: What
shau | do with the $1,000? To Secre-
tary Sherman, o,..,,.,.n NJ
II delivered this to Mr.. Sherman ut
the cabinet meeting, through mGssen-
Ger. He returned it to Mr.. Shellabar-
Ger. written upon rs follows;
lyon NAV offer the twelve hundred
and fifty dollars, g., ,sno1
Cullom MS follows: (Mr. Shellabarger
wrote the telegram .u
"If stop sale aud wait for balance tiii
January will send twelve hundred ana
Grtv to.morrow and arrange the securi-
.GGTo wich received the following re-
nlv. which | handed to MIR. Shellabar-
ger late Friday evening; :, ,-o n
NEW ORLEANS, August 10, '79'-d
Casanave, Washington. ID. O.: See my
telegram to Shellabarger and wilson l.
must have in hand vi, 100 by III a: IN
tomorrow. If not sale shall go on. Inc
security you offer satisfactory.
T.. NORTH CULLoM.
"On Saturday morning Mr.. Shella-
barger telegrrphed Collector Badger TO
tnrn over the $500 for Cullom, ana de-
nosited 81, $50 to Cullom,s credit IN
Rimos' bank, and he said Mr.. Riggs
Ind telegraphed Cullom TO draw Tor
t%ot omonnt. About two o'clock l re-
ceiyed this telegram from my brother;
New ORLEANS, L., Aug. 16, '73-G.
Cnsanaye, Washington, ID. o.: All pro
ceedings stopped until january l.
p. CAsANAyE.
"dere ends the first chapter"
sThen, if understand you correct
" the administration has paid on this
judgement against the returning board
for the payment of which your proper
~ was seized by the Sheriff, 81, 1902"
eyes, sir After pleading and beg,
ING for seventy-fve days, l wormed Out
of the administration this amount.
GLOW much will remain unpaid =
,GThe balance'of the Judgment un,
paid will be 1892 besides the costs OF o.
court and the Sheriff's cost, which VIII
amount to perhaps $1,000 more. -,
"Who do you expect will pay all thisT
Il can't: tell; but according to the
arrangement made with Mr.. Cullom VINO
received the 81, $50, lam expected tc
give security for its payment when gel
home" , hall,
treated"
Eyes sir; have been. 1 have suffer
ed both socially and materially. Foi
nv services in 1872, received State
warrants. which 1 negotiated ct a heavy
discount In 1876, l received no com
nensation whatever, but was dragged
from nv home and business to Wash
inpton, and confined thirty three days
in the capital, and afterward lncarce
rated in the parish prison, IN new
Orleans, and when l was discharged
here, in company with others OF The
board. I went to the sergeant alarms
John G.. Thompson, to inquire what pro
vision had been made for defraylng oul
expenses, and to ascertain how we were
TO get home, and we We're politely in
formed by that dignitary that we Nigh
walk home. My present visit here Il
m additional expense. I have already
been here over three weeks. Ii par
of the Judgment falls upon me, which
is now probable, 1 do not know Wha'
the whole of my outlay, will be. Here
tofore my standing and credit have
been good, as any honorable man IL
New Orleans who knows me will Ger
tainly testify. My business was pros
perous and profitable, but since my con
nection with Wells and Anderson anc
returning board matters, L have beer
prescribed in various ways. -.
"Have you never received anything
in the way of compensation for you
services or expenses from the admins
tration?"
ssNo nothing whatever. Yes-l mis-
take. I did receive something. vi
the Sd of March, 1876, when the re
turning board members We're set at llb
ertv from their imprisonment IN tn
capital we called on Mr.. Hayes, Wit
was stopping at Mr.. Sherman's on i
street. He received MS with gush an,
invited us to take petite sandwich
and a cup of coffee. This is the exten
Of his favors to me. My relations t'
this administration have been like thu
tailor of CampelIo, who worked 10
nothing and found thread. y
''Mr. Casanave, when do you expec
to return to your home in Louisiana?
81 hope to Shake the dust of Wash
ington from my feet within the mex
twenty -four hours and not return unit
lhis administration, which betrayed tin
Republican party of my State, shal
have terminated it's Infamous ex
istance.