Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-01-04

control of the Southern system, and the
enjoyment of the emo nous land grants
bestowed IN the respective charters. The
reading of the pithy Correspondence will
be amusing as well as instructive:
THE PRICE OF A CONGR EssMAN.
NEW YORK. May 8. 1858 Friend Col.
ton: rhe T. aud z. folks ara work
ing hard 90 their bill. anl thev say they
are sure tn pass it. but do not
believe it. They offered one m mber of
Congress 81 600 cash dawn S. 600 when
the bill passed and s1O GOO OF the bonds
when they got them if hr would vote for
the bill. | have no doubt this fer was
made. and I have no doubt they would
make this rff-r To enough To carry their
hill il they could get parties to vote. but
no one believes they would get any more
than the first sum if The bill SHOULD pass.
Yours truly.
e. P. HUNTINGTON.
FOR HE IS-A SENATOR
NEW YORK. Nov "a, 1877 Friend
Cotton: Whe Won write. pay Jones no
part of ths S25 900. b4.4nse There Is an I'M
$. tiled acc ,unt Of say So 900. think YOU
forgot his position. iiave pad him $685.
600, AS he told me- he needed it very mu h.
| hold the $40 600 5 2 that he was to
have in the trade that is, he is to have
Jones can d. US much good, and says he
will. y \. Your truly.
c. HUNTINGroN.
THE NEW YORK AND VIRGINIA LEGIS
LATURES.
NEW YORK Feb IA 1876
FRIEND COTTON: : Scott Is deva-
lopiug IRE 81 rength for his Texas aud T.
than thought it possible rnr him To do.
He has men all over the country to bring
Influence tn h.ar on their M. e. They
have considerable money, as they have
c ,nvInced several parties that thou sht
we had sure. [ am doing all can, but it.
il the !l.eliast Fl khJ | was ever in. sent
a man To Richm md. W., Saturday. and
one to ALBANY TO-DAY, to get resolutions
passed nv the l. g,sttures against sabii-
dies. Ii can get them it will control two
members of tte Rtlirn4i q IN 5t-e. an
Want them very much. OF cuui So you will
Sc the necess'tv OF keeping such matters
to ourselves. have rot time to write
more, az it is night, and go to Washing.
ton at 8 p. M. Yours truly.
q. P. HUNTINGTON.
SLIPPERY WALKER.
NEW DIRK, Oct. ~. 1879.
FRIEND COTTON: | have
given Gilbert g. Walker letter to you.
He is member of the Fortv-fourth Cnn
gress. Ex-Governor OF virginia, and Il slip
perry fellow. aud l rather think in Scott IS
interest. but not sure. [ gave him a pass
overC. P. and got one for hIm over U F.;
81 do the best you Car with him. bat don t
trust him much. Y urs truly,
G. P. HUNTIN GTON.
DANGERS OF INTERVIEWING.
OC.. % 1875.
FRIEND Cotton: : not4cs by
the a lta %, the Is n that some corresp,n-
dent OF the Sai, Diego paper has been in
ervit wing Mr.. Crocker. 1t is very diff
cult for any one to be- interviewed hy All
Internal p-wsp per without getting hurt !;
and Mr. Crocker IS not the most unlikely
to get hurt of all the men know. uotice
what you write of the d til .uIries of get
ting railroad franchis in Aroma. wish
it was otherwise. Yours rnlv.
c. L. HUNTINGTON.
CONTROLLING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
NEW York. May 2, 1876.
FRIEND COTTON: Herewith send a
cory of lelepraphrc despatch that Came
over vest erdsy. Who is this Webster 7 Is
it not possible to crntlul TIE agent of the
Associated Press in San Francisco ? The
matter that hut the c. p. and s. T. NEST
here are he despai ches that come from
San Francisco. Scult has a wonderful
power over the press. which [ suppose he
has got by giving them free passes for
many years ever his roads.
Yours truly,
G. z. HUNTINGDON.
BAIT FOR DEMAGOGs TO NIBBLE.
NEW YORK, Dec. %. 1876,
FRIEND COTTON: am do
ing All | can To have the Government take
900 900 acres of land and give the rail-
road COMPANY credit for SIS 900 COO, but
the prospect of their doing iG IS not as
bright as wish it was. [ wish u would
have the newspapers take the ground that
this lard ought t., be- taken by the Gov
eminent and held for the people, so that
when they wanted it they could have IT,,
81 Something that the demag"gs can
vote and work for. Letting he Govern
ment take the lands now at So so IN acre
to pay debt dua them, saw III twenty
years. is not more than say 81 would be.
put in snkii g fund at 5 per cent inter
est compounded each SIX months.
Yours truly. G. p. HUNTINGTON.
WHERE THE SHOE PtNCHED.
INV YORK March A. 1877.
FRIEND COTTON: After the
Senate Railroad Committee was made up
Scott vent to Washington in special train
aud GIT one f our men put off and his
put on. but that did not give h III the com
mlttee. Gordon of Georgia WAS taken off
and Bogy IF Missouri put on. Sca't could
not have troubled us with thaS z. if the
y. L. had been lef by itself as We had it;
hu: pu, ting it with the q. P. as it has
beaIf done, makes it an ugly fight, and it
will nfinue tn grow more 81 until The
s. P. is built long way east of here it
is now. Yours truly,
q. P. HUNTINGTON.
AFRIENDLY SECRETARY OF THE
INTERIOR
NEW YORK. Jan. %. 1877.
FRIEND Cotton: Thsre has
been several hi tc,es in tie Interior De
part ,nei.t IN relation to the last section
completed west of Goshen. The Sol citor
of the u p4rtment of Interior came to
the conclusion that while twenty miles
was all the act required US to build each
wear on tie main Inc. we could not draw
lands on a Sc elton of less than twenty five
miles, and u will notice the law is liza
BILE TO that constructor; but | went to the
Secretary and he put the thing n shape
so think we will not have any further
trouble. all hough Doyle has a party by
the name of Johnson mousing about the
d. pa timer IS all the time
If the Texas and Pacific bill does not
pass, think we should lay At least H. 600
tons fif'y-pound steel rails east the Col