The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-11-09
Summary Of the Natural Cussed-
ness of q Former Governor
Of South Carolina.
Sparkling Attachments Only Eclipsed by
Evil PrOClivities His Stolen Mil
lions and How He Got Them.
A Political Aladin's Lamp Which Was
Spoiled by Too Much Rubbing
A Felon's Cell.

WASHINGTON, d, c., November S.-Thc
recent arrest of Ex-Governor Moses OF
South Carolina brings TO the surface, in.
cidentally fact not generally known,
that his first wife, the daughter of a
prominent and once wealthy family OF
that proud State, who graccd the Guber-
material mansion in Charleston while her
husband disgraccd the executive Office, is
now an employe in one of the depart
mcnts here, struggling with Govern
ment salary for her support and that of
her children.
"a worthy and accomplished lady,
said a prominent South Carolnian, talk
Ing of her TO your correspondent. "She
was beautiful woman, the daughter OF u
prominent and wealthy citizen there, and
one whose influence might have saved
Moses had he not been, naturally and all
the instincts of his nature, bad She OBJ
tanned a divorce from him years ago, and
he has now another wife living, ! think,
in Chicago 1t was, by the way,
on his wedding tour, when
he married this first wife, that
he developed one Of his first evidences Of
rasCallty. On the trip after their we'd
ding one OF their trunks was lost. A care
tul search was made by the railroad COM
panys officials, but without success, and
Moses demanded payment lie claimed
damages in the sum of $4,000, saying that
the trunk contained rare laces, jewelry,
costly dresses, etc, which could not be
10 IL tbpt la
company, Of course, protested, but it was
no use He furnished schedule of arti-
| Giles which he averred the trunk contained,
with values, footing up the sum named,
and as the trunk could not be found the
company had to pay, and did SO. Some
months after the old trunk turned up
| away down South somewhere. The com
| pany Immediately notified Moses, sug-
| costing that he could have the valuablcs
in it and return their money He did not
! seem anxious to do this, however, and
when pressed to do so absolutely refused,
saying that the same fashions had chang
able now. SO the company's officers
finally opened the trunk and to their
establishment found that the contents were
not worth more than ten per cent, OF the
| sum Moses had demanded and they had
| paid"
"Was Moses native of South Caro-
lina?"
eyes; the son of a prominent and hon
ored citizen. He was private secretary
to Governor Pickens, and claimed the
honor OF having planted the tiag Of Soutl
| Carolina over Fort Sumter when Ander
son surrendered. There was no Con
| federate flag yet, at that time, and the
| State flag Of South Carolina was impro-
! viSed in its stead Moses was a brilliant
fellow. 1t was generally recognized
fact that he wrote all of Governor Pick
ems best State papers, the Cover
nor simply giving him the points
| that he wanted to cover in them.
He was the best Parliamentarau
that | have ever seen, not excepting Mr..
Blaine or Randall. He was Speaker of
the South Carolina Legislature, and his
ability in that position us parliamenta-
rian was only equalcd by his success as q
thief. 1t was his duty, when in that po-
| sition, to issue warrants for the pay of
| employees and officers OF the Legislature.
| He issued false vouchers to the extent of
| hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in
this way secured the election as Govern
or. During his term as Governor his
| course was one of the most shameless
corruption that ever was known. He es-
tablished prices for his official sigma
| ture, demanding and receiving sums
running as high as $4,000 for signing
Il single bill, the act Of the Legislature. He
| pardoned many notorious criminals for
pay, and the last oftlcalact of his career
as Governor was to pardon for money a
most notorious murderer whose sentence
of death he had committed some time
| previous TO Imprisonment for life. This
| pardon he signed while his successor was
about being inaugurated. The money he
fraudulently obtained during his official
career amounted to millions, and yet he
Is going about the country now depend
ent upon his success as a petty thief and
swindler for livelihood
"What did he do with all his money!"
"Spent it in extravagant living. He
occupied the finest mansion in Charlie s.
ton, fitted it up in Snheard of elegance.
As an instance, remember that one
washstand cost 5000. Then he would
hire band at 500 an evening to play in
his grounds, which were very large and
elegantly kept There was no end to his
extravaganza until the end of his money
came, and that ended his official career"