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srocx.BROKERs. &c.

ID j. WRIGHT, -
STOGh-BROkEP AND AIt1iOAfkk,
L.t. ,etiased 90 Sioc k-kNch nge room,
No. IFS MAIN STREET
ORDERS 10 8UY AND SILL SOLICITED.
non SAIF. VIRGINIA. STATE INSURANCE
cow NSY ~TOCh. ap 2j-eOd3m
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BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE. April 26.-yirginia g.. console
dated IS second series. 80; past-due coupons
66 ucw IO-fO's. 43. Bld to-day.
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FINANCIAL.
RICHMOND STOCK EXCHANGE.

"WEDNESDAY, Apri1 70, 1857.
SALEs-FfRsr BoARD.-iOO shares Petersburg
Railroad Cd. c. az COZ; 80 shares Petersburg
Railroad at 20'.. 10 do. at 29s; 500 Richmond
CITY IS at 1909; loo shares Norfolk and West
crn Railroad preferrc,i at 81.
SECOND BoARD.-10 shares Petersburg Railroad
at 20. 10 do. Mt 29l. 80 do. at 29, 10 do, at 80
1000 Columbia aud GreenyIlIe I'd So 1t ST.; 20
shares Virginia Home Insurance Company at 22X.
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SAVE MONEY by having YOUR printing done a.
the DISPATCH PRINTINC-HoUsE. Good work
low prices. and satisfaction guaranteed.
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MARINE EsTELLEGENCE.
PORT OF RICHMOND, APRIL 20. 1852.

AUEINF I'D
Schooner south shore. WhitmOrc. Weymouth,
Mass, guano, Allison s. Addison.
Schooner Charles r.. Gibson. Fmorv. Norfolk,
Hight. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.
Schooner Anuie l.. Lockwood, -. John. Nor
folk, light, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany
SAILED.
steamer City Of Richmond, clifford, Norfolk,
United states mail. merchandise e, and passengers,
!. h. Tatum. superintendent
Schooner oliver Ames. Rabbit, Boston, coal,
Chesapeake and Ohio EnllwIy Company.
Schooner :. r. kirwIn. Tai. Norfolk. coal. fhcs-
aueake and Ohio Railway Company; vessel Cur
iis q Parker
Schooner ELLA II. B1rne-. Rose, Sew 1ofk'
slaves. Curtis PafkCr.
schooner Carrie Holmes. Iioimc-. New York,
coal, Che,apcakc ana OHIO Railway Company
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Dr.. JosRPn ROBERTS, president Baltimore
Pharmaceutical College. says:
Il indorse it rs fine medicine, reliable as
strengthening tonic free from alcoholic polsons."
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A DRUGGIST CURED.

A DRUGGIST CURED.
EOONsBoRO', Nd, october Il. lss0.
observation-disclosures IRON BlTrERs cured me
Of bad attack Of indigestion and fulines' in the
stomach Having tested It, take pleasure I'm re-
It to my customers. and am glad 10
say u gives entire satisfaction 70 al.
GEOEGE ". fiOFFsfAN, Druggist.
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Use IIoP BITTERs once and you will ne 10
other medicine. Test 10.
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NOR SALE, \ CHICkEN-HATCHER,
l. In perfect g0od-w0.lu order. VIZ batch
BOO Eggs ~ one setting. Apply az sol INeaiy-
Gfth Street. Richmond. 81. ap 27-3tF
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TAX on MERCHANTS.

~. Vn every license 10 a merchant or
DciChlile iirm the tax 20 be- paid shall be
s..tu'ted a- follows: II the amount OF
purchases shall not exceed one thousand
uo.lai- lnc FAX shall be five dollars; where
purchases do u1t exceed two thousand do
hh' inr iaN shall De ten dollars; and Tor oil
lAFe bases over two thousand dollars and
,.s, llln ui.y thousand dollars there shall
,e lld tax oi forty cents on the one hun
ci,d dollars; and upon all purchases over
Lii! thousand dollars there shall be paid 4
tN OF Ten cents on every one hundred
dollars ia excess OF fifty thousand dol
bi, The tax Imposed under and by Writ 8
% ih, section shall be IN lieu OF all tax for
',ie purpose, on the capital actually en-
N'yed Day said merchant or mercantile ilfln
III sud business. The tax in excess OF
twenty dollar, imposed by this section
,iiah De paid ina equal instruments on the
.'th Oh January, 10th OF April. ION OF
. ny ana lpih Of October in each year, ana
,lAH oe collected in the same manner the
,,.''hse-laXe. are collected: provided that
'Attr shall Dee no abatement in The TAX
should The p-rtv licensed under this and
tle preceding sections discontinue business
duu1etheyelr: and provided, further, that
p 20 Tue close OF the wear for which MS
license Issued. the merchant should eiee'
hoi % renew Il, bat desires the pliVileSe
70 sell whatever remnant Of purchases nc
may have on hand az the time, II may D,
lawful Cor him 20 60 so upon the payment
81 licensc-tax upon said remnant Of ineI'
cnndi>e, go be regarded for taxable puf
poses as purchascs; the amount OF saiu taN
O. De- propoltioned according 10 the ienstl
o. time ihe license hos 10 run. Merchant
i1il0rs, lumber-merchants, furnituIe-hler
cl1n;s, butchers, green-groccrs, hucNs'eiS
deslcrs in coal, ice, on wood, shall te en-
hraced in this section. But nothing u
ibis section shall be so construed rs 10 re-
qulre a license Of any person who may can
tass any county or corporation TO buy mn
tiers Of subsistence designed rs food 10
nan or beast.
This section rs il passed the House wa
an exact copy CT the old law--Niz., for q
purchases over q, 900 and less than SdO,OC
the tax was forty cents on the one hundre
dollars; upon all purchases over 5000
and less than $4,000 the tax was tiiif'
cents on the one hundred dollars; an
upon all purchases over $4,000 aud le
than 800, 900 the tax was twenty cents G
the one hundred dollars and for all pm
ehases over $4,000 the tax was ten cen
on the one hundred dollars.
I3y the amendment offered In the sena
by Sir. Loyenstein, and which was agre
10 by both bo,lses, the tax OF forty cents
the one hundred dollars l. applied TO pt
ehases 81 e5e,ooc and less, and above ~
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MANCHESTER AND VICINITY.

froa OTHER LOCAL SEE FIRST rAGE.l
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A YOUNG MAN TWENTY-FIVE
n WARS o. AGE, who has had three years
experience in The retail grocery and nqner ha,i-
ness desires a SITUATION In S.tnet ho5ineSs "a
ms city, Tile b..t references given. AIdft-o :.
T.. HOLLAND. IN care of Christian Nemcr, =. ~
Christian & Whites Main street. city. ap zO-<l-
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WANTED. FIFTY BOYS, WOMEN,
w and GIRLS 10 pick iruit, Ntge1 INC, anu
&c, near Norfolk. Va. o. T. dtrAiS'
fan 27-ltF
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ASK your druggist for
BROWNS IRON BTTTER>,
aud ,,,e no other. one trial will coaylnce YOU
that /, Is Just what you need.
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BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

Sixteen bills donating from four 10 fifty
condemned cannon 10 different Posts Of
the Grand Army Of the Republic. &C.,
went to the Senate Military Committee to-
day, having passed the House. Ii will
soon become necessary TO establish ioun-
dry for making condemned cannon.
1.-THE Virginia appointments are about
al made,'' said a Repubican-Readiuster
to-day, when asked him the news.
The examination OF Mr.. Blaine by the
Foreign Affairs Committee was resumed
to-day. and there was a continued contest
of repartee and rctort between him and
Mr.. Belmont.
Mrs. Scoyllle LEFT for New York to-day
and will return next week. Gulteul re
fused to see her.
1t Is reported that Paymaster Stevenson
is TO be nominated Paymaster-General o
the Navy.
Government receipts to-day: Interns
revenue, s3ss,5oa; Customs, S6eS, 100
bank notes for redemption, S3I7,o0O.
The Alarm LEFT to-day !or Old Point, an
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WANTED, TEN WOMEN-one
w FIRST-CI As WAITRESS and Others -
COOKS. WASHERS. and lEONLhS-ioT lr't ate
c,inilic, North. j. 7. JUSTlS, Labor Agent
,t,,.o.',,h trpaf. ap27-ltf
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WANTED. \ RELIABLE NURSE
w lor young child. Apply at 5l4 north
Ninth street. al -f--t~
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WANTED, SALESMAN 10 take charge
w Of the Coffee department in brokers Of
Zee in This city. To one fully competent, Hneigl
hcp BOX 81. ~ = go
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M FRIENDs AND am

w pIrnTgC cencrallv 10 know that am Tie
owner for this -fatc OF the BUFFALO bhltN
RFEtWER for the renovation and restoration ol
defaccl Brick Walls which MAKES thtin ii,0l ~
uniform and heauiifui ihan when new. ana ~
moderate cost. Nothing has yet been inftuitu
more durable or 90 initiate more eH:ctiS Nic n'e'
ores. bricks. Painting, Graining. halsomluink'
and C6,oring done az The shortest noilce. =. ~.
IiARGROVE. $40 east Franklin street. AZ 23-Zw
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WANTED, TWENTY MEN TO
w WORK At SAW-MlLL. Pay, SD per
month ana board. Al colored. }. 7. JISIlo'
labor Agent . Fifteenth street. ap 2f-ltT
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wv ANTED.-A YOUNG GERMAN
w MAN. unmarried. wants SITUATION or
rt.ucc I'm The business. Best reference can be
given. Addrcss c.. No. 10 Governor street. citf
ap47-lt7
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WANTED. 4 FIRST ! \ : :
~ WAITRESS. Apply at 4l2 east Grace
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WANTED, A FlRST-CLASS IRA
w WILLING SALESMAN TO represents we'll
l.,,o,rn aud pOpuiar boot and shoe manulac
~ New England 10 the retail trade 81 NlfslhlA
and the District Of Columbia direct TO t"ihler-
60. nan a liberal proposition win De made, WIZ
control Of territory. Address. with reference, r
ia MONTE - south sharp street, Baltimore
y; - 49, ap Costs
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WANTED, AN ACTIVE, ENER-
w GETIC YOUNG MAN sixteen or elshieen
Gemr,s and has some knowledge Of accounts. Ad-
Dr. In own handwriting, and with reicrenecs'
~ v - care I.etter-C arricr No. /. aD 21-3t
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1ITANTEp. 4 POSITION As CLERk

WANIED, \ FOcITIUN " DLLuN
w IN IN Office by young LADY. W r,ies , d
,',itl, ha,d and f. a ready accountant Ncu!d
WORT for very moderate salary. Best reiei ence'
given, Adde'S. stating real name ana tcline'
Miss NJ, care Leticr-Cariier NO D. up So-O'-
WANTED, \ YOUNG MAN OF SOAlE
w FXpFEIENCI IN THE fURNlI III
r,rsfN55SS "a "a. MORGER'S fURNlIIlt-
iIoUSE, No. 4 west Broad street. ap 2o-2t-
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NEW YORK. April 26.-CoifOn-Se, receipts,
so iraleS: gross 1899 bales tutures closed quiet
and nrm: sales. $500 bales april, sl2.2JD
S12.26: May, Fl2.25@Sl2.26: June, sl2.300
SI2.40: July. :I2.53@fI2.5i August. fI2.67
mti2.GS; september. Sl2.27elsl2.2S: October.
SlI.G66rll.67: November, sll46asll.i7;
December, SlI.67Gsll.Gs; January, sll.5s@
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WashfuCtou.

HE SENATE DISCUSSES TIE BILL FOR The RE-
NOvAL or THE DISABILITIES OF A VIRGIN
IN--A WRIT OF ERROR TO ISSUE IN THE WEST
VIRGINIA CAsE-TIiE CASE or TIE VIRGINIA
JUDGEs--yIRGINIA MATTERS At THE CAPT.
TOL--THE CHINESE QUESTION FURTHER DIS
CUsSED-TiIE DEMOCRATS SOLID AGAINST
CHINESE MECHANICS AND LABORERS-TnE
CIiALMERs-LYNCU CAsE-CONDENNED CAN
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WANTS.

WANTED. BOARDERS FOR DESI-
W RABLE ROOMS. az summer rates; also
ROOMS FOR RENT. Apply IL
MRS. ROBERT c. WHITES,
sd 27.cod2ws No. 100 east Broad -trCei.
WANTED. SOME ONE TO PCR-
W CHASE 4 GOOD. STRONG. COVERED
GEOCERY-WAGON. VII he .old cheap Apply
10 II. STROUD,
Hull street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth,
a. > --off Manchester.
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poARDING.
WANTED. BOARDEr.s 70 occupy several plea
SAINT, furnished rooms. Apply 70 ,.<,,~.,
Mrs. D. d. tost Ihs
ep ls-eo12ws lfl3 cast Broad street.
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YOUTH THIRTEEN YEARS OLD
n DESIRES EMPLOYMENT rs Office boy,
crrsnd boy. or anything he may be able 20 do.
c.r siVe the best Of recommendations. Writes "A
good and rapid hand. Address :. is:' NO Zsl2
Nelson street city. ap io-oooot-
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ARAB HUBBELL,
The Bedouin who ROams Through the
Departments at VIII and RObs
the Widow and
The Orphan Of Their Earnings-1he Re
publican RObber whose Victims r
the Weak and Dependent.

WASHINGTON, September 5.-Oae of the
best authorities in the country, talking to
the correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cidL, said to-day hat be did not think the
Republican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee would collect more money in the
shape OF voluntary contributions this year
than IN $780, -"And that he went on 10
say, despite the ridiculous newspaper
guesses, was only about $780, 00. People
gave that year to the National and to the
Congressional Committee who never gave
before or since. People gave then VINO
would not give now. Clerks in the depart
ments don't care to give unless they have 3
personal interest in the campaign. They
feel the deepest interest in the qu%adrennial
election OF the head of the civil service. But
they do not feel the same interest in the
election OF congressman. They have, Of
course, some interest in the election in
their own districts. But they prefer
TO help their congressman through the
local committees They don't care 10
help elect at the same time ChaL
mers in Mississippi, a Greenbacker in
Missouri, a Readjusler in Virginia and =
S~traight-out Republican somewhere else.
They feel no interest in these contests, which
affect them but remotely. Some of the
clerks, TOO, have been expressly instructed
by their State and County Committees, 70
pay their contributions to them and not to
the Central Congressional Committee. Other
clerks set the Congressional Committee al
defiance, under the protection of the as.
surance of their chief that they can give or
withhold as they please. All these causes
decrease the volume of the stream of gold
which is supposed to be flowing like n Eve
hundred-barrel a day oil jet into the laps OF
the Congressional Committee. 1 doubt very
much whether they get over $780, 200 this
year. Thew will need twice as much as they
Will get. The demand this yesr for money
and for documents, with the accompanying
postage, is perhaps unprecedented. There
are doubtful districts, seemingly, in every
State in the Union.n
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HIGH cray.

The imprisonment of Sheriff Gray, OF
Dublin, for printing a statement since proven
to be true that the jury which found one
Hynes gully OF murder was drunk, riotously
drunk, one night at the Imperial Hotel, and
the proloE ged difficulties with the constabu-
larry and the metropolitan police, are addi-
tional proofs of the inability of the English
to govern Ireland. Judge Lawton's malig-
nifty in the case of Gray expresses exactly
the hate of the English for the Irish. They
would deliberately abrogate all rights, hui
man and divine, TO punish an Irishman fo1
telling an nnwholesome truth, just as even
the great minister, Gladstone, has imperiled
freedom Of speech in the House Of Commons
in order TO prevent the Irish members from
exercising their privileges. Gray's impris-
onment is a blunder as the cloture is a blum
der in au assembly to which men are sent to
speak with the freedom OF the popular mind
on oil subieofa
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"STATE"
FOR DENYING RAB -PAsHA BBE THE
SUMS WHICH HE RAPACIoUsLY DEMANDS.

FOR DENYING -PAsHA HUBBELL THE
SUMS WHICH HE RAPACIoUsLY DEMANDS.
One of HubbelPs collectors said tonight
that he had AIKEN in only 500 from those
clerks out OF whose pockets be got 5000 in
tine campaign of 1850. As far rs possible
each OF these collectors see the same set of
men this year as two years ago, 30 that this
statement may De taken as a very good indi.
cation OF the difference in the rate of paw
ment. This collector went on to say that
they got such a small sum o u of the state
and navy departments in 1880, and with it so
much cool indifference, not to say insult,
that this year they they did not think il
worth while to go through those departments.
Something like life tenure obtains among
the handful of clerks in each OF these de-
partments. An official who has been in the
state department since 1855, said the other
day that he had never known of q dismissal
from the department for political reasons.
Since he came to the department q few men
have died, many more have been promoted in
TO the consular service, and half q dozen have
been dismissed for drunkenness. The rest
are still there. He added that the clerks in
his department were opposed on principle to
political assessments, and did not propose to
pay them. Nor had they the slightest ex-
pectation that their failure to do so would
result in their dismissal. These state depart
ment clerks get more money and do less work
than any other class of men in the civil SER
vice. They are better able to pay their "vol-
untary contributions" than those who are not
so situated that they can refuse TO pay. 1t 10
a noticeable fact that the assessments of the
State committees are responded to with more
alacrity than those of tine Congressional Conn.,
mittee, sometimes out of a genuine desire to
help the Republican party at the clerks
home, and sometimes out of a profound con-
sClOusuesa of The uearnela nf tho Stafa haao
Hubbeli, of Michigan, seems a long way of
TO a Louisiana clerk, but Kellogg is near at
hand. So the five per cent. is preferred to
the two per cent
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power in Europe can be maintained only by
a prolific people, still the actual increase
outstrips even the eIigenci.s OF the war de-
partment, aud promises 10 impose at no die
tant date, if the pressure remains unrelieved,
an alarming strsin upon The foundations Of
tue empire. Where nearly half 4 million
young men, the bone and sinew of the ma
ton, have TO be drawn away continually
from works of productive industry TO
learn the trade of war, they become a heavy
burden on the producers, and the situation
is necessarily aggravated when legions Of
children come TO swell he ranks of The con-
sumers, while the resources of the country
are already cultivated almost to their full
capacity. The problem comprised in these
circumstances is now engaging the most
thoughtful minds in Germany, which real
lie that the natural increase of population,
even at the present moment severely tsxes,
if it does not actually surpass, the natural
means of its subsistence. How shall relief
be obtained? Emigration at once SUCCESS
itself az an obvious remedy; but German
economists and statesmen know that the
continuous alienation of their people en-
tails a vast pecuniary loss on Germany.
They have made close calculations on the
subject, and they compute that the average
value of an ~emigrant (based on the cost OF
maintaining a boy or girl to the fifteenth
year, is not less than 20O0m, or $476. Add
to this the average capital in money and
vaIuables taken away by the ezpatriated
host-which DR.. Friedrich Kappe estimates
at S108. During the year 1881 the ports Of
the United States registered the arrival Of
24s,323 Germans, whose departure, accord
ing to the figures we have quoted, meant a
loss of SI35, 2 1852 to Germany. 1t is esli-
mated that the drain through this channel
during the past sixty years would not be
monetarily compensated by twice the amount
of the French war indemnify.
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BOSS KELLY AT BAY.
The Defeat of Cornell by the Arthur.
COnkllng Republicans RObs Him
of = Market.

CHICAGO, September 5.-The IInaes's New
York correspondent telegraphs that the
family jars" among The Democracy are com.
ing into the foreground, and before the State
Convention is over it is probable they will be
qnite as much of a worry to the leaders oil
that party as the Conkling-Cornell trouble
has been TO the Republicans. The most i'm
portant question for the moment has refer
ence 10 the designs of Boss" Kelly. AS long
as there was any possibility of Cornell b.ing
the Republican nominee for governor, this
person had an excellent opportunity TO pose
as q "balance of power" and TO make his
own terms. But now that that possibility
has faded way, the Tammany chieftain has
discovered that he has no visible market.
That he Will be excluded from the
Democratic State Convention there is
scarcely a doubt. If his boast were
well founded that he can command
10000 votes, he could easily defeat what
ever nominations that body may put in the
field. The Irving Hall and County Democ-
racy, however, do not admit that he has any
such following, They concede 10 him 25,-
GOO at the utmost, and they admit that with
that as his capital stock he can do a good
deal of mischief. How to prevent his with
out making any humiliating concessions TO
Kelly is what perple1es them. The "boss"
meanwhile is az busy as a bee. He is trying
10 persuade the anti-monopoly people to
place certain men on the State ticket, which
he shall name, in which case he promises
they will be triumphantly elected in spite of
the other two parties. If the anti monopo-
lists were only sure that Kelly could deliver
his 10000 votes 10 their order on the day of
election they might close a bargain with
him. As it is, they are a little dubious and
want to feel their way without committing
themselves. This is an outline of the situa-
ton to-day.
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TIE RoNDHOLnERs REsPONsIRLI

81 BONDHOLOERS RESPONSIBLE.
Thousands OF the best men in Tennessee
honestly believe that the State does not
owe the railroad debt, and the bondholders
are responsible fer this delusion. The bond
holders have instituted suit against the rail-
roads. They have published TO the world
Charles OiConnor's legal opinion showing
that the railroads are liable for the railroad
debt. Whenever a compromise is proposed
the bondholders sueer at it, upon the ground
that they have the railroads between them
and the people, and they intend to exhaust
this resource for getting their money before
entertaining a proposition 10 compromise.
The railroads owe neither the bondholders
nor the State a dollar. But he creditors
nave induced the people TO believe to the
contrary, and they are responsible for the
feeling OF reputation which they SO indig.
nantly reprobate. But for the persistent
efforts OF the bondholders to convince the
people that the railroads were liable; that
they have derived the benefit of the money
loaned on the bonds, without ever returning
a dollar TO the State, the State debt would
long since have been settled to the salts
faction of the debtor and the creditor.
The bondholders have got more than they
~bargained for. They brought suit against the
railroads fer the purpose of frightening
them into the use of money to control legis-
~lation, conventions and the support of every
settlement in their interest. This strategic
movement succeeded. 1t has alarmed the
railroads and forced them into the political
arena. But it is a two-edged sword, for
while it has arrayed the railroads against
the people, the people are moi disposed to
pay a debt which the bondholders have con-
WINGED them is owed by the railroads.