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In an Embarrassed Position.

In an Embarrassed Position.
AUGUSTA, ME-, Gath June, 1871.
Ny DEAR Mr. FISHER: tried very
hard yesterday and Day before { Monday
and Tuesday, to see you, but was not
fortunate enough to run across you. !
am 10 very painful and embarrassed
situation growing out OF my connection
with the Fort Smith enterprise. l have
pail and caused to be paid into y'r trea-
sury about $3.50, 900, and the only result
to me is the most painful perplexitv.
The most painful Of oil the oppressive is
the e25. 600 I paid to Mr.. Pratt for you
Jsn'y II, which l borrowed here on my
own faith and credit on the distinct un-
|derstanding With you that il was to be
re.paii and that was also to receive .
certain proportion OF bonds. / Save
reed only part OF the bonds-the larger
part-and not a dollar OF the money.
Aud now in addition to all other troubles,
I have $4,000 OF coupons, little over
the amount which l am held to take care
OF partly through verbal understanding
and partly through written agreement
coupons due In July on fret mortgage
bonds. Now, I have . proposition to
make to you, which l think is most lib
eral and fair, going as far as possibly
can without running past all recovery.
II you will look at copy Of our agree
ment in your hands you will flud that
there is still due to me $780, 900 Of land
bonds and S32. 900 of first mortgage.
To order to square myself With my
friends, / need and must have S36 600
land bonds, and $4,000 first mortgage
Sl5, 900 in all-s,il leaving 857 900 of
mine ia yoar hands.
Now, il you will take up these &c.,
600 Of coupons, paying me the cash
therefore, and give me that S45 900 of
bonds, will let all the remainder of our
matters stand until you are perfectly at
esse and ready to open correspondence
on the subject yourself. In other words,
Twill leave the matter in your hands
until the Fort Smith enterprise is oat of
the woods and it's tangled affairs we'll
smoothed out.
trust in consideration OF our many
years Of friendship, as we'll as an view
Of the peculiar relations / have held in
this matter, you will make an effort to
do this.
P'av let me hear from you at your
earliest leisure and greatly obIiee,
Yours truly, j. g. BLAINE.
W, FISHER, Jr., E.u.
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The Whitewashing Eptstle.
BosToN, April -, 1876


HoN. JAMES G.. BLAINE,
Washington. D. c.:
DEAR StR: I observe that certain
newspapers are making or rather insinu
ating the absurd charge that you own oI
had owned $4,000 of Little Rock 4
Fort Smith railroad bonds, and that yos
had in some way obtained them as I
gratuity.
The enterprise Of building the Little
Rock and Fort Smith railroad was un
dertaken in 1869 by q company OF Bos
ton gentlemen, of whom l was myself
one. The bonds Of the road we're put
upon the market in this city on whal
was deemed very advantageous terms
to the purchaser Thev we're sold large
ly through myself. You became the
purchaser of about $50, 900 OF the bonds
on precisely the same terms that every
other buyer received, paying for them in
installments, running over a considers
BILE period, just as others did. The trans.
action was perfectly open, and there was
no more secrecy in regard to 1t than il
you bad beer buying -four or sugar.
am sure you never owned bond OF the
road that you did not pay for at the
market rate. Indeed, ! am sure that NO
one received bonds on any other terms,
When the road got into financial din.
culties and loss fell upon you, you still
retained your bonds and you held them
clear through the reorganization OF the
company in 1874. exchanging them for
stock and bonds OF the new company.
You acquired also some demands
against the new company by reason oI
your having Joined with Others in rails
ing some money when the company was
in pressing need. For the recovery o:
that money proceedings are now pend
ing 10 the u. S: Circuit Court ia Arksn.
sas, to which you are openly . party OF
record. Concealment Of the investment
and everything connected with It would
have been very easy had conceslment
been desirable; but your action In the
whole matter was as open and rs fair as
the day. When the original enterprise
failed, I know with Vhat severity the Pc
cuniary loss fell upon you, and with
what integrity and nerve you met it,
Years have since elapsed. 1t seems
rather hard ct this late day to be COM
PEELED to meet q slander In . matter
where your conduct Was in the highest
degree honorable and straightforward.
You may use this letter In any way
that will be Of service to you Very
yours. W. f. JR.
The words, Indeed, I am sure that
no one received bonds on any other
TERMS were interlined 10 foregoing let
ter in Mr.. Blaine's own handwriting.
We hereby certify the foregoing to be
true and correct copies OF the originals.
WARREN FISHER,
JAMES MULLraAN.
BosroN. September IL, 1884.
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AUGUSTA, Me-, Oct. 4, 1859.
MY DEAR Mr. FISHER: Find enclosed
$4,000 check 10 psy't Of A. & P. Co.
burns subscription.
presume you will receive by same
mail the 20 pr cent due on all the sub
scriptions already forwarded to you, and
also on the following:
Philo Hersey, Belfast, $4,000
A. W. johnson. =" 1000
r C. Johnson. 5000
Nahum P. Muuroe, 5000
IC B Hszeltipe. &c" 5000
This makes S125, 900 in all I have dis
posed of. 1t is doubtful If ! dispose of
any more, but / shall know by to-mor.
row. So there will be no delay to EN-.
barrsss you in any way. No one will
ever know from me that l have disposed
of a single dollar in Maine. So there
need be DO embarrassment in talking
with Mr.. Caldwell. / don't wish you to
settle that mstter with Mr.. Caldwell till
you hear from me again. Please send
recent TO A &P Coburn, Skowhegan.
Yours truly, j. G. BLAINE.
W. Fisher, Jr., Esq.
After reed the letter in regard to
Mr.. Adams csse I telegraphed again
Delano bad ret'd and think the suspen.
sion was at once ordered by him.
PSI send onlv $4,000 this morn
ing. Will send $4,000 remaining to-
morrow morning.
AUGUSTA, Me, Oct. 5, 1869.
$4,000.
MY DEAR Mr.. FISHER: l enclose You
1000 check, balance Of A. d P. Co
burns instalment; $4,000 in payment Of
Anson P. Morrill's instalment; 81, 600
in payment OF Lot NJ, Morrill's metal
ment. Lot NJ. Morrill's subscription OF
S5 600 is additional to those already ad-
vised, making in all $4,000. There
may possibly be 100000 more, but
Sl50,000 will be nv limit.
received yours inclosing P. r. Ha.
zeltine's letter from Belfast. BY mail
succeeding this you will receive cashier
check for $1,000 and hereafter you will
have no trouble with any Of the Maine
subscriptions. All will come to you in
cashier checks or money direct by ex-
press
l note what you say about the import
ance Of keeping oil quiet here. fully
appreciate y'r wisdom and y'r kindness.
and shall endeavor to do just as you de-
sire in the premises. The letter inclcs'ng
the Globe by same mail with this can be
read bv you to Mr.. Caldwell II you think
It expedient. l have endeavored in wri.
ting it not to be indelicate.
I shall see you in Boston Thursday
nosn. Don's send any receipts TO Maine
folks till come. Yours,
J. G BLAINE,
W. F. j., E.q.
These two letters of October and 5.
1869, are in continuation of the Two let
ters OF Oct. 4, 1869, which have been al
ready published.
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A. G.. w. POTTS,
General Insurance Agent,
hannibal, Ohio,
Ag't for the following Companies:
Also for Tornadoes, Cyclones, Hurricanes
and Wind Storms.
AMAZON. Cincinnati.
ROYAL OF Liverpool, England.
LONDON and LANCASHlRE,
England.
QUEEN Of Liverpool, England.
OHIO, OF Dayton. Dayton.
Applications also taken for various other
Companies, all Of which are the most relia.
BILE Companies in the United States. All
classes Of
Town and Country Buildings.
Merchandise, Lumber, Stock. 4
Grain and Farm Implements.
insured at low rates in good Companies. Ap.
plications either BY mail or In person
promptly attended to. ma27, ,'S4r.
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JOSIAH Caldwell,

No. Pemberton Squsre.f
BosToN, April 25. 1871.
DEAR FISHER: enclose letter from
Blaine, forgot to speak to you about
them when saw you this p. m, I hope
you can help him. ! would II it were
10 my power. Blaine is an important
man for - to have feel oil right towards
Us, and I only wish that / was 30 stu
ated that could help him.
Yours very truly,
j. CALDWELL.
This letter enclosed Mr. Blaine's let
ter to Caldwell Of April 81, 1871.
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the time indebted to Mr.. Fisher for Dor.
rowed money for which Mr.. Fisher held
Mr.. Blaine's demand promissory notes.
Blaine Wants vindication.

lConhdential.
WAsHINarsN, d. c.. 18th April, 1875.
MY DEAR Mn FISHER. You can do
me Q very great favor, and ] know IL
will give you pleasure to do so-just as
I would do for you under similar cir.
cumstances. Certain persons and pa.
pers are trying 10 throw mud st me 10
ipjure my candidacy before the Cincin-
natl Convention. and you may observe
they ere trying it In connection with the
Little Rock and Fort Smith matter.
/ want you to send me letter such
as the enclosed draft. You will receive
this 20 morrow Mondsy) evening. and
1t win be . favor shall never forget II
you win at once write me the letter and
mail the same evening. ,t
The letter is strictly true, Is honora.
BILE to you and to me, and will stop the
mouths OF ISLANDERS at once.
Regard this letter as strictly confden-
tial. Do not show It to any one. The
draft is in the hands OF my clerk, who
is as trustworthy ss any man can be. II
you can't get the letter writteA 10 season
for the 9 o'clock mail to New York,
please be sure to mail It during the nigh,
80 that it will start first mail Tuesday
morning; but IL possible, pray you to
get 1t on the 9 o'clock mail Monday
evening. Kind regards to Mrs. Fisher
Sincerely, j. G. B.
Burn this letter.
Indorsed on the back.
Not knowing your exact address,
send this to the Parker House in order
that it may not be subjected to any
danger in the hands of carrier.
j G. B.
The WESTERN UNIoN TELEaRAPH Co.
Dated WASHINGTON, D. c.. 1876.
Received at 9.44, April 18th.
To Warren Fisher, Commonwealth
Hotel:
Please 90 Parker House tomorrow.
Monday evening; on arrival morning
mail from New York, find letter. An.
swer BY return mail. j. G. BLAINE.
10DH m ar
KEN
The following is the iuclosure refer
red to in the preceding letter:
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Remember the election on
Tuesday, October 14th.
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ATTORNEYS.

oslhfAN eKlY.. WILLIAM ?. oKEr
Notary Public.
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W. f. J.. E.u.

These two letters of October and 5.
1869, are iu continuation of the Two let
ters OF Oct. 4, 1869, which have been al
ready published.
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FORTY FIRST CoNGREss U. S
Hnr1sr or REpRRsENrArIYEs.

Warren Fisher, Jr,. Esq.
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ADVERTISING

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THE MDRNTvE NEWS is served In the city BY
newsdealers at Is cents per week. Single
trnuins 8 cents
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How Beecher Kept a Cow.

81 can remember" said Henry Ward
Beecher, "when l received an old COW In
payment of bad debt. 1t was very
bad debt and came to consider 1t bad
payment, She was a thin COW, but the
former owner said she was better than she
looked, being a cross between Jersey
and the Durham. She looked as if she
might have been a cross between an old
hair trunk and an abandoned hoop skirt.
l kept the brute three days, and no one,
except perhaps Lieut.. Atwell, could ever
appreciate the suffering l endured in that
time. The first night she broke through
the fence and reduced to pulp all the
underclOthing belonging to my neXt-door
neighbor. She put her horns through my
bath-tub, and ate up all my ger aniums.
She was to give three gallons OF milk a
day, but she seemed short just then, and
never had that to spare while we kept
her, The second day she walked into the
kitchen upset pan of butter and tub of
lard. Then she fell down well, and
when l got her out, at a cost Of 80, she
took the collie, whooping cough, or some
thing, and kept us awake all nlgnt. MOI
a green thing was left in my garden; my
neighbours peach trees and the rope on
which his underwear grew We're as bare
of fruit as a singletree, and he did not
have twig or shrubbery left. My neigh
Dor came over to see me, and said:
'TNow, don't desire any quarrel, but L
want you to keep your COW out OF my
shrubbery.'
'ssAnd l want you, my FRIEND said |,
to keep your shrubbery out OF my cow
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That eminent and elegant dude, William
Walter Phelps, is losing ground. II he
is not careful he will soon be classed with
Gen. Hawley as n. G. campaign orator.
He made speech at MorristOwn, n. j.,
Friday, in which he stated that "the policy
of late administrations has been too much
Influenced by the cOwardice which pre-
walls in Wall street and by the chains
which Democratic House or Senate was
ready to put upon any proposition which
looked TO the assertion of proper national
pride" What will the worshiper of
Grant, the dauntlessWan street iuancier,
think OF such an assertion as thatl Even
the bold Blaine himself, the most influen-
tial member Of the Garfield Cabinet, may
perchance consider himself accused OF
being Influenced by the cOwardice of Wall
street. W. W. p. further said: ''Nor
shall the Irish citizen, unless he has dyna-
mite in his hand and sedition on his
tongue, linger UnnOticed in a British
Jail" 1t has been charged that Mr..
Blaine when Secretary OF State did allow
innocent Irish-AmeTlcan citizens to lin
ger unnOtieed in British jails, but the
most enthusiastic Democrat hardly ex-
peeted Mr.. Phelps to incidentally admit
as much.
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Arrangement for the National Conven-
tion in October.


The Executive Committee to make ar
rangements for the reception and enter
tainment Of the national convention Oh
Mexican veterans, of which Milton ID.
Wash is Chairman, says the st. LOUIS
Republican of Sept. 6, met last night IN
Secretary Spore' Office. Partial verbal
reports were made by sub committees
and considered. The band of the Chris
tian Brothers has been secured to furnish
the veterans with music at the public ex-
ercises. One of the theatres will probably
be obtained for holding the grand opening
proceedings on Oct. :. at Whlch
the veterans of the Mexican war,
both of Mexico and the United States,
will be welcomed to the city IN
a becoming manner, and the reunion De
such as will make the hearts of old sol
diers leap with joy. 1t is given out that
Gen. Sherman and Mayor Ewing Will
make welcoming addresses on the part OF
the United States, which will be respond
ed to by President Diaz, or whatever DIS
tinguished official representing the Re
public of Mexico shall happen 10 be pres
ent. Other orators for the occasion are
still to be selected. Following the well
coming exercises during the DAY, anu
after a recess, the convention Will meet
in the evening for business in the assem-
bly, chamber of the city hall, which has
been kindly rendered for the purpose, and
the remaining sessions will be held from
day to dav until the business is con-
cluded. Newspaper accounts and
other reports are being received
from all over the Union, giving
accounts of meetings held, and
delegates selected. to attend the cOnven-
ton. The Peoria, ILL.,, papers contain a
column report of the proceedings OF the
veterans of that locality, and the meas
ures adopted to secure reduced railroad
transportation to st. Louis. The opinion
of the committee is adverse to holding
banquet The editor of the Vidette at
Washington also suggests that banquet
will be dispensed with. The programme
will probably consist Of a harbOr eXcur-
sion and a carriage ride to Shaw's garden
and the parks. The exposition and the
fair, which will be in full blast at that
time, will afford amusement and lnstruc-
ton to the veterans, and there Will, be
other entertainments and Inequalities
extended to the distinguished guests.
AS the hotels will be filled during the
fair, the question comes up as TO what
preparations will be necessary TO lodge
the visitors. Capt. Parsons plan OF Sc
curing the old post office building and
filling 1t with cots for sleeping purposes
has been abandoned, as Capt. SpOre says
it takes too much red tape business to
make it work. 1t is proposed to procure
a large new building just erected on
| Fourth street, below the Southern Hotel,
and not yet occupied, which can, it is
thought, be temporarily fitted up with
beds, and afford cOmmOdiOus lodgings. 1t
was determined to call meeting of vete-
rams and citizens at the court house next
week, to boom the matter and fill out all
needed arrangements.
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Georpia,s Debt coming Due.

The sensational old news has recently
been telegraphed from Atlanta to several
leading Northern papers giving a rough
statement Of the amount of the State debt
which falls due in 1856 and 1889. The
telegram insinuates that this debt falling
due will put the State in an extremely
embarrassing position, and necessitste a
heavy increase in taxation or the sale of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
The amount Of the funded debt which
falls due in 1885 and 1889 has been known
to the people of the State for long time,
and the probable manner of meeting the
obligations has been so often discussed
that few who know anything at all about
our State finances are not familiar with
the question.
On the next Legislature will deyOlve the
duty of providing for the payment Of the
bonds which will fall due IN 1886. The
State has been paying of its bonded in
debtedness as it fell due from funds raised
BY taxation. AS to the bonds which be-
come due in 1856, however, the idea OF
paying the whole amount by taxing the
people has never been entertained by the
most heroic. fnancier in the State
Neither has there been any decided move
ment to sell the Western and Atlantic
Railroad for this purpose. The lease o.
the railroad will not expire until 1892
and even if it were desirable to sell it, il
might be difficult to find bidder whC
would buy and pay for it three or foul
years before the property could be de
| liyered.
1t has been well understood that tbs
bulk of the debt payable in 1856 and 1SS'
would be refunded or paid off out o
funds raised by the sale Of new bonds is
sued for that purpose. Nearly all thii
| debt is now bearing interest at 6 and
per cent. 1t is pretty certain, barring
any unusual and looked for stringencl
\ in the money market, that the new bOnd
can be easily disposed Of at par, and tina
| they will not bear over per cent. interest
There is not the shadow of cause fO
alarm about the State debt, even if thu
/ bulk Of it does fall due in the two year.
| 1856 and 1889. There is no chance for tn,
moneyed syndicates to combine and force
| the State into an unpleasant position
Our own people will gladly take the new
bonds, as they have the smaller loans tina
have been placed within the past few
years. But Georgia is solvent, prosper
Gus, pays its interest promptly, and has
credit not surpassed by any State of tn
| Union. The persistent and systematic
/ efforts of the holders of the ''bOgus rail
road bOnds' to impair our State credit
have come to naught.
There being no doubt that these bond
can be replaced by others at lower rat
of interest, it will be at once seen tina
the people will most probably have thei
burdens lightened instead of being EN-
barrassed by the settlement OF this par
/ Of the public debt.
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After ell that has been said by the high
est authorities in favor of cotton manu-
featuring in the South, a witness has been
found on the other side of the question.
A Lowell man who has for the last two
years been connected with mill in Nash
vile has returned to New England, and
reported unfavorably on Southern factO-
ries. He says wages are lower in the
South than in Lowell, and that labor in
the mills is less efficient. He reports
poor accommodations and high living in
Nashville.
Whatever may be true in regard to
the condition, qualifications and wages
of the Iaborers in the Nashville mill al
Iuded to, there is no shadow of doubt that
it has paid very handsome dividends
about IA per cent. So far as wages are
concerned no doubt they will be advanced
as the labor becomes more efficient. The
Nashville mill may be unfavOrably situ-
ated just now as to housing and caring
for the operatives, but such a condition of
affairs is very unusual in the South.
The Lowell Times appears to gloat
somewhat over the testimony of this wit
ness, but as ''one swallow does not make
a spring. one adverse witness can hardly
set the tide of opinion against the idea
that the South has advantages for cotton
manufacturing far in advance of what
| New England can offer.
| The same class of labor will command
/ just as good wages in the South as in the
/ North, and at most Southern mills the
cost of living is as low as in any part of
the country, except, perhaps, the grain
/ and pork producing regions of the West.
| 1t is certain that fuel and clothing cost
much less in the South than in New Eng
land, because little fuel and heavy cloth
ing are required in this section.
| Owing to the remarkable increase In
the number of mills put in operation in
the South, it has been difficult to procure
skilled labor, but the operatives are being
trained under experienced Overseers, who
are acknowledged to be better paid than
at the North, and every day they are be-
coming more efficient and reliable.
The reports of the operations of South
| ern mills, the investigations of Northern
manufacturers and experts into their con-
dition, and the rapid increase in cotton
manufacturing in the South, all corrobo-
rate the statement that the South is the
cotton manufacturing section of the
future.
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