The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1894-07-13
EX-GOV. AMES
And the Horde of Carpetbag Ru
lers that Infested Mississippi.
Most of Them Fell Into Fat Chi
ces After the Enforced Exc
dus of 1875.

The Aberdeen Examiner says
that General Adelbert Ames, Ben
Buffers son.in-law, remembered
as Mississlppi's carpetbag govern
or and United States senator, has
been heard from at last.
He is living" says the Exam
liner, sat Lowell, Mass, and has
Just been awarded a medal for gal
lantry at the first battle of Man.
assas. where he remained on the
field in command of a section of
Griffin's battery after being severe
ly wounded. He doubtlessly de-
serves the medal, and we are sure
of his title to a leather one from
the people of Mississippi, who re-
greet that his name attaches to her
official records"
The mention of Ames calls to
mind his fellow.carpetbaggers who
reveled at the expense of the tax
payers in the long-drawn out sat-
urnalia through which the people
of Mississippi passed until they
rose in 1875 as one man, as it
were, and choked off the vampires
which had we'll nigh sucked the
hearts life blood of this common
wealth. Where have they gone?
What has become of them? They
have dispersed and wandered. If
they came with carpetbags, they
left with Saratoga trunks. There
was Lake, who at one time was
sheriff Of Kinds county, afterwards
United States marshal and editor
of the Jackson Evening Times.
He went to Washington and is
still there in the war department.
There was Slaughnessey, who was
also marshal of the southern dis
trict of Missi sippi. He went to
Utah and was marshal of that ter
ritory. He haa a high time with
the Mormons, dabbled in mines,
succeeded in a controversy over d
mine, driving out his opponents
with Winchester rifles, and realiz-
ed hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars. 1t is stated that he lost a
great deal of his money betting or
Blaine in 1884, but he still has
magnificent residence on the Hud
son. and his wife owns valuable
property in Chicago.
Where is Musgrove. the ex-aud
: itor of public accounts, who, be
fore he got acquainted with thu
habits Of his friend and brother IL
; black, bought turkeygobblers
,, between suns, at % cents apiece
Where is Warner? Perhaps he il
dead. Cochran, who used to be il
the legislature from Bolivar or Co
ahoma counties, went west ant
] was postmaster in Denver unde
!. Harrison's Administration. Wher
: is Fred Barrett, who divided hi
:. time between being private secre
! tary to a carpetoag governor, pre-
8 siding over the convention a
I. Brookhaven which nominate
|. Lynch for congress, and edith
I. the Jackson Republican. He wa
!. a bright, slick fellow. And Rhode
!. and Fisher, who beat the TELEGRAPH
/. to Jackson at the time of the Cir
( ton riot. and ]. Monroe Wells
/. Are these people still alive, and
(. they are dead what is their pos
:. office address?
( John B. Raymond, formerly col
{ nected with the Pilot, went to D.
8 kota, was made receiver of publ
: moneys, and was afterwards dele
gate from that territory in congress
! He is dead. And then there WI
I Jonathan Tarbell. Tarbell was
one time supreme judge Of Mis-
$. issippi, but after the carpetbagge
Ar enforced evacuation of Mississip
,e he. HE'D himself to Washingto
id and was made assistant register
st of the treasury. Under Clev
in lands former administration la
+. bell was the first Of this stock
l.. loose their snug federal place
Yes, he was the first of the carp
D. bag regime of Mississippi who " "
forced to step down and out, att
having been gathered under t
wings of the Republican admin
tration at Washington as r.
cathereth her brood, after havl
rs been overtaken by the storms
TT fate and the great uprising OF Is.
v. This was commented upon as 81
be gular at the time, because 1T W