The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-02-28
A Hight. ned Pusitive.


baggers of the South, we are glad to
say, is still preserved. The numoer of
high-toned Southern gentlemen, born
to the soil and in favor of home-rule.
who have ''lit out be ween two days.
as the saying goes. carrying public
FUNDS with them. is by no means small.
The h gh-toned Southern gentleman who
was degraded by being ruled bv carpet
baggers from the North who were only
six or eight years in the country, has
ma e the best Of his opportunities One
o. the latest of these chiva ric patriots
who left for parts unknown with q con-
siderable deicit charged against him
was the Treasurer of Tennessee. This
cost o its creditors, the State Treas
urer decided to follow the States ex-
ample. He ran AWAY with . carpet-bag'
filled with money, tut was b. ought
back with what he had left after iber-
ally subs d.zing the brigands who were
to run him over the Mexican border.
Mr.. Vincent, Treasurer of the State of
Alabama. Is q more recent example of
| the virtuousness of those who have
overturned the wicked carpet ag gov
ernments, and have made arrangements
for permanent occupat on. Treasurer
Vincent has run away, leaving q deficit
OF $3.50. QUO or $500. 600 in the State
Treasury.
This elegant gentleman, for such he
is declared by friends to be. has
been speculating in cotton futures, ;"
! and has not speculated wisely. The
odds of the market have been cruelty
against him. an he has lost over $780,
00O through one house alone OF
course, Mr.. Vincent is high-toned
| and honorable gentleman, and he has
not taken the money of the State in
any slow down" and vulgar manner.
He has Ii, ed handsomely ON an annual
salary of SZ. 0u. en- oy.ng costly
horses, equipage, house, furn ture. an |
other appurtenances of good living and
elegant gentlemanliness. To support
this elegance it was necessary to secure
other income than that which came
from his official salary. This was easy,
since the State supplied him with
money, and he had managed to avoid
the troublesom matter OF bonds. But
ther5 must come a day OF settlement,
as even the mos elegant end "mae-
netic'' of Southe. n Treasurers a e
obliged to show troublesome Iegisia.
tive committees their books, accounts,
and cash. When Mr.. Vincents turn
came. he airily said that he was going
to new York. The Legislative Com
mittee went on with its examination. and
soon discovered that the absent State
Treasurer had muddled away several
hundred thousand dollars. and tina the
bonds which he had filed, or should have
filed, were miss ng. One account sa, s
that the liza ilities of the Treasurer are
"amply secured but another and more
cumstant al report declares that hav-
ing served th ee consecutive terms. the
missing Treasurer had contrived to
avoid renewing his bonds: and that it is
a grave question whether he bonismen
tor prev Gus term can be held liable
for the defalcat:on which appears in this
tenn. Moreover. as before intimated
the bonds of the Treasurer are nowhere
to be found. As s customary when q
high-toned gentleman runs away with
money that IS not his own, or with an
other mans wife, or shoots down an
other high-toned yent.eman with whom
he has had q little disp.,te, the com
munity is plunged in gloom. By q
series of un or;unate accidents it hap
pens that there is almost no time when
some high toned Southern community is
not plunged in gloom.
The lamentable feature of this latest
evasion of tduciary obligat' 'ons is the
une pected detection of the political
morals the high-toned gentleman
who was to have shown to the world
that the re-gn of the "scalawag'' and
the "carpet-bagger' was over, and that
the virtue an incorruptib'lity of the ell
egant Southern gentleman had forever
supplanted the vicious and vulgar dis
honesty of the white invader and the
local desperado- 1t was not to be sup
pose1 that q son of the soil, one who
hal;auoH ho rss af ooooSSiru
and who bore upon his body honorable
.. scars won IN the fight for Southern
rights, could run away with q h and
cry of "Stop thiefr' after him. Un-
happily, this elegant Southern gentle
man has not only stolen the State s
money, but he has run away, and his
too partial friends say boastingly of him
that he is not ke Polk, the fugacious
Treasurer of Tennessee, to be brought
back alive. He will die in his tracks
first, like higu-toned Southern gentle
man. refusing to be led home in tri-
umph by vulgar constable and thief
taker.
The State of Alabama has conde-
scended before now to compromise with
its ed tors and adjust its debt. As
! the State Treasurer. having lived be.
} yond his means and having put the
States money on the wrong side of the
market in cotton futures. is q defaulteI
and an unwilling fugitive. why should
the State be hard on himf The Janu.
ary interest is all paid, and there is vel
money in the Treasury. There IS nc
good reason why the abscond ng Treas
urer should be advertised or st; gmat zed
as thief or a swindler. He IS an ele-
giant gentleman who has been un fortu
nate and who has been found out. Let
} labama, II possible, avoid further pub
lie candal. The State should remem
ber that he is favorite son, and should
end ter the erring one the tender
message: Come back. Vincent, and
all sha be forgiven. "-M Y Times.
An American traveller, writing from
Arabia sa, that the .all, iso ated e.
die standing Un the side o. one OF the
mountains ordering the Dead Sea il
said by the native to be the pillar into
which Lots wife was turned when she
d;sobeyed her b stands in un tion rot
TO look back as they ned from the val
ley At q distance tie pillar bears 9
striking resemblace to an rabian WON
an. with q chill on her shoulders, but
when exam ned close V t loses this feat
ure and has nothing about it 10 distin.
guish it from the other peculiar rock
rmstions in the vicinity. -
What is called zone of the mosi
; giganti swindles ever perpe,rated in
this ountrs" is said to have been un-
earthed recently in New York The
story goes that q diamond broker has
been in the habit of selling. in lots to
the value of twenty-five tn usand dol
lars, diamonds WHICH looked like gems
of Q tirst water, but which. after 9
little wear. proved to be cheap yellow
stones that had been painted with so
lut on that gave to them the appearance
OF purest briliiants.
] "A R.lt;nora oentle,psn writes tba,