Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-18
SHERMAN'S RETIREMENT.
THE GENERAL TO GO OUT IN A
BLAZE OF GLORY

anu the COtOred Race In Particular
WASHINGTON, May 17.-General Sber-
man Will formally retire from the army
next fall. The blunt General of our
skeleton OF an army always liked to have
a good time. No talk of official iunketing
IN IauIt-hnding phrase ever had any effect
upon him. He has always had as good a
time as he could manage at government
expense As this will be his last season
at the head of the army he will take every
advantage that the general term of sin
spectng" things affords. He will actual
ly go out in blaze of glory. He is lust
back from Fortress Monroe, Norfolk
and the vicinity from a tour of
inspection. He went on a government
vessel, OF course. He took the British
Minister, Mr.. West, along. He also had
number of pleasant ladies with him.
General sherman is very smart man.
lie never goes without the ladies. This
party had very nice time down around
Fortress Monroe. There were salutes.
dinners, lunches, dances, and. of course.
inspecting" General Sherman has
commenced the season well. The next
thing will be West Point. Gen. Sherman
ana party of ladies and others will go to
west Point to witness the graduating
exercises of the Military Academy
there. They will inspect" After
West Point comes the grand
engagement of the season. General Sher-
man, with ladies and others, will 90 upOn
western tour. They will 90 over the
new Northern Pacific Railroad and saun-
ter In the Northwest and on the Pacific
slope. They will be inspecting" of
course. These tours will about consume
The time of the General of the army before
he goes upon the retired list. | hear, bv
the way, that when any one saws within
his hearing that General Sherman would
be very good candidate for the Repu bli-
can party IN 1884 be never gets mad at all.
The lines seem to be drawing around
certain gentleman of this city.
who has long been candidate for
legal restraint. | refer to Gen, Geo, w .
BallOch. He was one of the MANY fungi
which attached to the Union army during
the late war. He has been since engaged
here in all sorts of little schemes. One of
them was to insure the lives of cOlOred
Intants-he engaging for a certain month
ly consideration to give various sums and
pay the funeral expenses in case the child
OF one of his clients died. 1t is said that
he never was known to refuse payment
rendered him for this unique insurance:
nor was he ever known to pay out any
thing when the infant died. But this is
not for what our friend BallOch is now
called to account. He has not got anv
money that anybody knows of. Years
ago he organized what he called the
Washington Real Estate and Trust Com
pany. The basis for the operation of that
company was a tract of worthless land
situated somewhere. Nobody ever knew
exactly where that land was on the man.
But BallOch issued thereon notes; 1t would
be more proper perhaps to say bonds.
They were regularly and handsomely en-
graved, and tinted like government
bonds. They were for amounts ranging
from $50 upwards. The notes said that
upon presentation at the Second National
Bank in this city they would be paid
Five years ago had cause to investigate
and write up this swindle. The officers
of the Second National Bank said at that
time and reiterate it to-day, that BallOch
has not penny in that bank, and
that no note of his or
his company would be paid by
them. They pronounce the thing a
swindle throughout. The airing that Bal
lOch and his company got five years ago
caused them to haul off. Their little
racket was apparently abandoned. 1t has
just cropped out again by the arrest of
two men up in Name for passing some of
the notes or bonds of BaliOch's company.
They got them Of course from BallOch. In
fact letters from BallOch were found upon
one of them, in which was offered the
notes at the rate of 215 cents on the dollar.
Balloch could certainly afford to sell them
at that price and clear 215 cents on the
dollar, as they are valueless. 1t is now
proposed to proceed against BallOch. En-
actly what form the prosecution will take
is not known, but it should certainly take
a most tangible shape. The game that he
l1,cr V,1a
schemes Is very sharp one. And all the
while he has maintained a good front So
cially. He is great patron of the col
Ored race. He is a boomer of Howard
College, the cOlOred institution of learn
ing in this city. He is also the Superin-
tendent, and has been for years, of the Sun
day school of the Congregational Church
in this city. He passes the plate when
the contribution is taken up at the morn
ing service of that church. Often when
| have put my modest nickel in the plate
have l wondered how much, if any of
that glorious sum, would get into the
church fund.
A good deal Of fun has been made of
United States Marshal McMichael, of this
district, for unifOrming the bailiffs and
minor attaches of the United States
Courts, and for fitting up the rooms of his
office in excellent style. But what Me-
Michael has done is entirely salutary and
improving. The MarshaPs office is now
place which can be visited without an
accompanying visitation of the creeps.
The rooms are clean and pretty: you
know an attache by his neat uniform of
blue, and have not to stumble around
among a lot of dirty linened bailitfs,
whom you could not otherwise separate
from the riff-raff that always hangs around
courts of Justice. There is a room, too, for
ladies who are compelled to attend the
courts. They are not now herded in
dirty place, with rough and uncOuth men.
Another thing; the rooms are all clean,
and you agreeably notice the absence of
an old smell that was formerly so famil-
lar. When Fred Douglass was Marshal
most of his subOrdinates were cOlOred
men. These gem lemen had many visi-
tors. The number of visitors that a col
Ored man in Office can develop is really
astonishing. These visitors were all col
Ored. There grew up an OdOr around the
Marshal's office that was at least stall
wart. When Marshal Henry succeeded
Douglass he let things go right along as
they were. The accumulated OdOr gath
cred strength from age, as does wine.
Now it is all different. Everything about
the MarshaI's office is sweet and
wholesale. The President could go there,
fastidious as he is, and not have tenable
grounds for complaint. If Marshal Nc
Miahael-I do not know him personally
had more imitators, life would be less of
a burden.
There is bit of gossip which reaches
here from New York about the recent
purchase of the New York World by
Pulitzer, of Missouri. Pulitzer owns
the st. Louis POSt-Dispdtch. 1t is SAID
that he represents a syndicate, another
member of which is Major Burke, of the
New Orleans Times Democrat. 4 new
Democratic paper is to be started by the
syndicate at Dallas, Texas. The
New York Morning Journal is TO
be absorbed by the World.
This will make the Times Democrat,
the World, the Post Dispatch and the new
Dallas paper in the reputed symmetrical
syndicate. The programme is said to be
the announcement of a sensational politi-
cal system for the Democracy, to mould
Democratic sentiment, gain money for
the syndicate and also political power.
The World, in pursuance of this outline,
will, it is said, abandon its free trade
policy. Here be big schemes, if all that
is said is true.
weather Indications.
OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER,
WASHINGTON, d. c., May y11.-IndicatiOns