The Sun (New York) Newspaper, March 15, 1872, Page 2

wr ewe SS Pee ast aS ote Amusements To-day, Rendemy of Maste lore iw Roeth's Theatre dito Rowery Theatre FMM Bt. Samee Thenire ie a Tony Pastor's Opera Mouse | here We rrme Mellons ‘Theatre Com'que lon th Mtrect Theatre Siar Conhiontis, Marloes Theatre Coan Cran Split Peas Wallock The Vetere Wood's login of New Vert, ular winent oficem Bt West Thirty-sccond tireet, junction ot Hroudway and Six. at the uptown advert Byenue, and BOS Wert Twenty-third etr Grand Opera House, from M A.M. to SP. M. ——— The Great Pennsylvania Praud Among the many ex + Opposite uves of corrup- tion, fraud, aud public robbery which it has been our duty to lay before the people, none has been more thovking or more alarming as evidence of profound and wide-spread depravity than that of the conspiracy organized in Pennsylvania in connection with the war chilis aguinst the National Government. We commend to the attention of all patriotic aud conscientious men the simple history of this conspiracy, which will be found part of this paper. Every Allegatic forth is based upon UNquestionallo evidence and corroborated by facts already known anid adinilted, How great is the necd of a form in our p 1 anothe there set radical ve lities when #ueh things as ese are developed on every band, and whe ked- mese are found rampant in every depart- ment of public Will the sense of the nation awake and act before It fe foo late? upti noand pecuniary W affine! moral — - Reconstracting the City Democracy. An eff, is being made to reorganize the Democratic party in this city. Ut certainly Needs reconstrnetion from the base up- ward, after the terrible tormado which scattered it in pivees last November, But in the work there should be due regard paid to all the el the mi) ats which make up pposition tothe Republican party as Now controlled at the White Hous We note that names here and there crop out in these attempts at recon tion which had better be kept ont of Some of them, though hiy belong to the old red sand and State politics. ly respectable ne ern of city fossils have had thelr day, and are of no use in the new epoch ou which we have entered. Other Dames ave the ey nonyines of fraud and co: ruption, aud ure quite unsavory to the masses of the people in these reformatory times. Having helped to lead the party to ruin, they should now be standard pliced in clean bh keep etep at the We this ti those who are engaged in the city Demor omitent to eits Is, while they ar of the colhuon, ely and assure work of re ey that if give advice, constructing the it is not well done the political uprising which is to elect the next President will Foon sweep it away and build anew. By the way, cannot political ingenuity fevise some other name for the party than ‘Tamoiuny—a name which the wooden In- dian over the Tal blushes to owns Sickles and Stokes—A Coincidence. The change in the Erie Railway. brings very ¢ jeucudy before the world two homicides who are its real authors: Dan. En EB. Sick Les and Epwannp 8, STOKES, But for the killing of Fisk by Stoxrs the agents of the foreig stockholders vould never have got into the Prie building —the Grand Opera H —for it turns out how, und is proved by recent events, that Wisk v Ye real vital power of Erie, It will eoeveryhody on reflection as A moat 4 Aary coincidence that the oiler 4 tos STORES, saleon homie nd is yet to be 1 Puiu Baw v iL and acquit tof insanity! Another is that both Fisk 1 Kry 1 by he shot with Derringer id st ier, that Srowms t mi i cis elope § \ \ rm i 1 , i D \ ' 1 ure day, 9 \ try, her ' Svea v An Bsn { Reconstiuctioa, Gus Ad tration whon thy Presi deini red upon the @ nis oft wars (nit yupleting Qhe reconstruction of the lately seceding States and t heir, ito havmonious relation 1 the | Govern . It was highly dyeirvble that the aniimosities engendeved by the ci r should removed, and th , f patriotic sentiments encour. Agel; while it was of the utmost impor tanoe that the material intercits of the various States, the most of which had been {impoverished by the war, should: be care. fully promoted, [tis obvious that aj y which beuellied tie mnitecial interests of any community woull be the one most likely to render its people contented with the government under which they lived end prospered, Iu ne State of Texas will be found a fair example of the work of reconstruction ae carried out under the present Adminiatra- tion, Its Governor, Eomunn J. Davis, was elected in 1869 by fraud, and be is now un- der indictment for malfeasance In office. At the time of his pretended election the State was under military rule; and al- though his competitor, HAMILTON, also @ Republican, received a majority of vot Including those of the Democrats as well fs the beat class of Republicans, Davis was counted in, A subservient Legislature passed laws giving him all the power be aaked, nycirdiess of constitutional restrio- tions; and from the beginning he has used this power in the most despotic manner, One of his first acta was to arm and equip twenty-six hundred poliecmen, nearty all negroes, at ATL aNnual expense of €390,000, white he had the command of all the Sta troops, aul every officer in the State le directly “<t to his orders, -olul police took charge of the polis, and in many cases an offer to deposit a bale lot against the Davis faetion was deemed Asuttident reason for subjecting the off dor to violence and imprisonment ‘The rest rietions on voting v " or a free election impo: " Init with this the unserupulous tyrant who has ruled for the last thr not content, Te had the selection of registrars, who In each county com- posed a board to revise and correct: the votes, Of 60 these revisions and cor- rections were made to suit the wishes of uh) was mi yours ree the man who gave the registrars their office, Bat even this was not enough to BIVE Gov, DAVIS fall aceurance of the ac complishment of Lis designs, as come of the cistrary might fail in their duty to their patron, So a Board of Canvassers, con- sisting of the Governor and two persons appointed by himself, was constituted for the flual revision of the entire vote of the State, with power to throw out any votes they pleased on the pretence of irregy larity. This power has been freely exer- clsed, In October last in each of the four Con- gressional districts of Texas the Demo- cratic candidates » elected by large majorities, but Davis threw out enough votes to give an apparent majority in the Third District to W. T. Crank, who now occupies a seat In Congress, to which we his opponent, Mr. Gippixes, was fairly ted. It has been publicly and repeat- edly asserted that the Governor also en- avored to persuade ex-member Dra- ENER to take a cortificate of election to the seat belonging to Mr. Hancock; but Mr. honest to listen to the INO, wat poremptorily refused to be an accomplice in the pro- Jected erime, For his action in giving the fraudulent certificate of election to CLank Goy. Davis has been indicted by a Grand Jury of the United States Court. He re- fused to be arrested, however, but declared that the authorities at Washington would protect him, He doubtless had good rea- sons for that belief. During the civil war Texas, owing to its remote situation, enjoyed comparative in munity from violence; and at the close of the conflict its people were pecuniarily in a better condition than those of any other Southern State. Before the carpet-baggers acquired control the entire State expend tures were annually less than half a mil- At present the State taxes exc six millions of dollars a y » When Davis lected there was no State debt; there is one amounting (o nerrly nineteen inous proy lien, now millions of dollars, the result of three yeu of « ule, And this is the sort of reconstruction which bas been guing on throughout the South ever since the pres- ent National Administration has been in Ithas been the boast of Davis and h friends that in regard to their measures they have received advice and the as- surance of support from Washington, It is superfluous to suy that Davis is in favor of the retlection of Guan’, for it is among precisely such fellows as he that the great Gift-Taker finds his most ardent supporters, <silnsio A parailel, on a stall seale, io our New Court House frauds ls now atuacting public at- tention in France. M . r JANVindt DB LA Morte, formerly Profect of the Department of the Eure under NAPoLron ILL, t# on trial before ritalnal court for practices identical tu princt- ple with those by which Wittiam M. Twenp and his accomplices obtained their fa $4.08 from the city treasury. His Prefect lasted from 1896 (9 1388, During this poriod tt was observed that he lived expensively, indulged freely ta vice and dissipation, and was always honrily indebt. Suspicion having beon aroused, he was at Jength suspended from duty and his accounts placed undor {nvestigation. Among other things it was found that on the occasion of agrana banquet given by the departinent, he baa oblained from a Parisian florist towers for the decoration of the hall to the amount of 2.490 francs, but took a vecelpted bill for them as haying cost 9,500 france, He also included in the exponses of banquet the cost of another given three months afterward, on which he pocketed 3,700 francs, At another tle, when huying towers for a departmental falr, he made » plants | ous re the seller add to the bill the price of sox which he » ed to his mistress, Having wion to pay a creditor 15,000 francs, he did $0 by wiving Lim a drast for the amount on the department treeaury, based on w false bill for bollding expen ifled tot hy an architect Who was his accor An Inaang aayhim was projec for the department, to st 1,000,000 francs, but he managed to make It cost 9,500,000 franca, a large part of the excess going Into bis pocket, Two bills of fy 10 were augmented hy (he sum of D francs for his benefit, and 10,010 ¢ worth of bedroom sid for by tho ¢ mont. Worse than he 1 Lowith 2 fated ; atone : ‘ 1 \ ! ! 1 tor 11 hang 1 f boon a 1 that the exroes Who suifered at the hands of th » rtala whit 1 Why took part in thet h murderer first Instance: 1, have mad ary # dlsvovertes fin b the afair a nuiber of persons in nty > have been regarded as rel glous men and good citizens, Tho Loulsville Leger says that one of the eons of Tay Lou ts about to bring suit agalast the Sheriff of Clark county for damages in the of $25,000, elalin= ing that bia father came to hi» death In conse a of the Sheriff haying failed to use prover diligence for his protection, and that this neg- ect was Intentional, Inasmuch a4 the Sherif had been notified that there was great danger that the Jail would be attacked, but refused to pro> vith how vide @nultable guard. It i probable that this sult Will load to positive @'actosurce respecting one of the most shocking orlmes that have ever disgraced a conimunity aseumtng to be ctetlized. ROBBERS RUNNING A STATE, —_—— STARTLING PRAUDS UNBARTHED IN —— PENNSYLVANIA, The Ion, Jost Quincy, who hae tong | ke en Ow! «i 6 for 0 bd ry of the War jaime Form on Saturday last to take Into consideration the expediency of requiring the rallways centring in Boston to attach daily second-class cars, at one-third of the usual rates, to at least two potering the city inthe morning and two ving at night, He stated that railways ter- minating in London were required to run trains morning and evening ten mi for a fare nw excveding one penny (or about two conta) a telp ; and this was done because the working class are being fast driven away by the rage for rall- way enterprise and public improvement to crowd wt more distant disteicte already densely popu- lated. Mr. Quincy contended that the san necessity exlsted In Boston, and referred to the act of 199. authoritiog the Loston and Lowell Ratiroad to take for adepot two hundred lote, in thee of Boston, thus turning t two thousand tenants without com- pensation to aeok poorer, more expensive, and more Inconvenient lodgings. ‘The question of choap fares and rapid transit le one whieh I forests the people of thie metropolis more than Out of the Window Hartrantt, Macke: J. M. McClure, Kammy Moon, Kemble, Johu W. Forney, and Others of Grant’. Friends Pocketing the People's Mor An Augean Stable of Corraptio Corroepondence of The Fin. Hannisncro, March 11.—The State secrets 40 long hidden tn the shadow of the Geo, 0. Evans prosecution cannot remain concealed any longer. Ainoe those concerned In the war claim frauds will not or cannot come forward and tell the whole truth In regard to them, Tire Sux, which shines for all, must, But In order that the half million rewlers of that great vehlele of Information my understand these State secrets It will bo necessary to beqin at the beginning. About the close of the war, when under the act of Congress the different Atatos were pro- sonting thelr claims to the General Government those of Pennsytvania were takon in charge by Gov. Curtin and prepared for presentation, They amounted to £2,000. Major Morton Me- Michaol, Jr, of Philadelphia, was employed out aby those of Boston, and publie opinion musteoon | by the then State Treasurer to arrange force our Logislature to give to the subject he | tho vouchers and got them in proper attention It desore shapo to put before the War Department. ye - This cocupted at least «ix months, at the ex- piration of which the clains with their vouchers were sentto Washington. Out of the $420,000 thuo demanded Government promptly patd £112.50 (one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty ta), rejecting the rest for want of proper A singular acknowledgment of the ase fulness of telegraphic weather reports haw been niadetn Kngland, ‘There the telegraph oficer are closed on Sundays, and it #0 happened that in consequence of this two of the most serious | ce storms of last year were not signalled to the | vouchers. Willlay H. Kemble was then State const at all, As many wrecks wero caused by | Treasurer, He at once went to Washington and these atorma, and it ix thought they might have | learned that althe bh the State had not sent been prevented If the customary weather pre- | Proper vouchers, yet her claims were not neces- dictions had been sent, the disasters have led to | #artly rendered vold by the omission, particular & strong opposition to the strict Babbatarian | ly a# owing to the exigencies of the war and the feeling which prevents the use of the telegraph | Peculiar ebaracter of soiny of the ef dine 1 wae on Sundays, ‘The authorities aro now consider- | Impossible to furnish more eomplote vouchers Ing the merits of a compromise suggested by | than had already been fled, About a year after one of the London papers, which Is the employ- | this Kemble got the Goveruinent w atvan ent of Jows to attend t the telegraph service | $070,000 on the clulins, and then brotwudht th nny, «back to Harrighbarawhe given in charge to Becrvtary of Sate J vonohe on Sundays. mu, “ —_ A reporter of the Chicago Times has ine terviewed ¥. Bivows Ln relation Wwe PREY, boxes of Here the mat tfor nearly two years. Chicago supplies lost in the New York Custom wrwhile a et takon place in the State House. ‘The Governor said that out of alot of | Goyornnont. ¢ . do hy Gov packages shipped from England, three came | Gecry J. #. ft no Auditor-deaeral rough ail right, two he managed to get after a | and JOM. Moc \ vat Attorney-General great deal of correapondence with the Custom | Khortly afer ¢ n fete oftios, Harte | House officials, while three or five boxes aro | panit and Mociers ens ied out the warelstms, | missing, and at the time of the Interview had | rhoir mas w ' nb thot appetit hot been traced; so that only three ontuf ten | eaten ey se © way pood pleking on | boxes went through to Chicago as they ought to | (nye teeted amd straightway | have done. Collector Aniutn wrote Inet Doe | went for it, fot a could not | conber that he had turned the remaining boxes | even mato a tec heat help After a (the number not stated) over to Col Fr WY envet ‘ tt sto the coveted Howe, and that was the last that was known of | prio, ttwoa na dved ve wold together a ein them, Gov, BROS# says that when he was in| could t hout Kenihte's hetf this elty he showed Collector ANTHOR the le& | co Wy {to partake of the ters acknowledying the receipt of the goods, | prog t. Goary they thought could and told bim that Hf they were not hunted ap | bo ia ‘ So the Governor there would be trouble, giving him until t ing to w taplich the work, Whethe Int ful ig eof what bie adjutants were have yet been found Is unknowa, doing. By the laws of Peunsylvanis, the Goy- —- ornor, State Tecasurer, and Auditor ‘al The people of Richmond are very much | constitute a Ploanee Boord whieh has entir nvenienced on ac tof trouble beww the Postinistress, Miss VaN Lew, and he ordinates, control of the faa wub- | so worded that Mins VAN Lew appears to be a | thingto say inth sof the State. This law is the Governor really haa no- Board untoes the Auditor and tharp-tempergd speckinen of the better portion | Treasurer disagree. He then has a volve, and of humanity, dud is sald to treat her clerks with | of course his vote forma a majority elther way. extreme harshness. On Monday Just the clerk | But so long as the Auditor and Treasurer agree, in charge of the city distribution refused to | the Governor has no yolce even to. protest perform some extra labor imposed on him, and | agatnat their action. Hence it will be seen that disebarged him, The | in forming this War Claim Ring there was no her clerks and carriers then struck ina body, aud the Richmond peuple have beea going without their newapapers and letters ever since, Miss VAN Liew fuds herself unable to manage manner of need that the Governor should even know about It. RAMMY M amount DN. f hel was tot But the create x er help, and were she a tittle more womanly | Pected from the notorious Kammy Moon of ar Glatresa would denetve avnipalby, Philadelphia, Sanuny is a charac He ts, — nestte ALD. Bacher. the best third house leader The wet to modify the provisions of the | fa the cou He stops at nothing; he Homestead law, which the House Committee on | NM® @ consclenee like Indta-rubber, and @ Military A@airs har agreed to report. scems more | Mental grasp Lhe Pian: He: le tue Likely to benedt ole wnte aud speculators and faithful to bis own Boot) be than the decerving veterans for whore sake the | #lches when called upon for heavy) wo ta nod ¢ Ver even sneezes except ernils Dill Is «ald te have been tntr p teed. It proe Vides that ever, soldier, suitor, and officer, who from the railway mags tt feeds and erved in the army, navy, or marine corps for a | Houses him wellaud therefore looks for the period of niucty days during the rebellion, and | Brempt obedicnee which plwaye was discharged honorably, shall be entitled | Fvery Winter Tom Beat sedds Sammy to recetve and enter a cestifleate of 100 acres of | {2 took after | Asie: Sin ovees) th public land, and shall be entitled toa patent for | Harrisburi, | and was while engaged Pera Nana Utley tealileeed abun titer cre vance | Ah Mole. Work, WHA hes Was .tADDEa LOR) he Instead of flvevas required by the Homestead | *houlder by the War Claim Ring. Nothing but « Ina The take Inutvcn te the hehder af «ces. | significant look was given by yhe King, but Sam- Fula cities tina "neo thee mavignag | my Knew that business was ment, aud, i icouads tothe privileges uf the seldicr. The | NoahClaypole, he intended to drive wlittte bar- Hill also allows pansionece to emplos agents to | a unknown to hls own employer, And eo make the settlement required In their beh Raminy wae ended to te dine, It ta not likely that the soldicrs will be recom- THR WING COMPLPIE pensed hy the sale of thelr certitleates forthe | And now everything was in favorable work the Ring delpiita order, with the exveption of one thing had no newspaper. To 1 Pl expense they will be put to intl tablish thelr elalms. ymont of The bill will at one agents to ¢ also seriously Interfere with the homestead «ys | Was Of course w very easy matter, hut what one tem. What the majority of the soldlers want, | tv ky for way the question, Which one would and ought to ha a specific sum of money, | Femaln the truest? Which had the most ex- inst \lond certifleate of fluctuating value, | Perlence in bolstering up schemes of this ebar- Then if as ldier wants to eettle he can obtain | eter, h on Id be relied up t Ns lond In the usual way. to sque rhe Ring thought long over this sub- — Ject, yaplace at the table was given The offer by the State of New York of | to the Hon, Joho F. Graft of the Philadelphia one hundred thousand dollars reward for the ine | Pres. It was a most excellent appointment, for venion ofa form for the application of motive | It secured the whole Forney lnfluence, both in Washington and Philudeljlila, and it was mainly to this influence that debted for thelr suc actual membership of the Ring. power to canal boats by which they may be pro- pelled without Injury to the canals as cheaply as by horses, has brought the Canal Commisston- he conspirators were in- This completed the Of course there ers over seven hundred communications from all parts of the world, The Commissioners have | Were sub-agents uppoiuted to do the work, but also received many models of inventions de- | these were the people who conspired together to rob the State of at least $300,000, and ax much more as they vould get their hands on. Here Is the original King complete: John F. Hartranf, Auditor-General; Wm, H. Ke tate Troas- signed tosupply the requirements of the offer, some of which ave valuable, but 1aany more the results of vistonary ideas, A muaber of women have been among the applicants for the prize, which fa stil open to competition, Itdges not) urer; J. M. McClure, Asolstant Attorney-Gen- tppear to be generally understood that neither a} ¢ral; Sammy Moon, Superintendent of Tor model nor a drawing will be sufficient to gain the | Scott's Pennsylvanta Legislature ; the Hon. J. F. Graff of the Philadelphla Prees, propiiet reward, which, by the terms of the offer, ean only all opposed to the appotntment of Evans, but for some reason tho matter held fire for several daya, and it wae thought advisable for Graff to put In an oar. So Graff pulled one of the taila of the ney Influence, and immediately there came ascroam from the Press demanding Fvane appointment and the prompt collection of the clalme which had to long been permitted to slum ber, And so Bvans was appointed. At this time lid not know that bis appointment was all the work of a ting, and the awarding of a one- tenth commission the act of a gang of plunder ors who intended to allow him but the tnfluites- Imal fraction of the whole amount. Hut he soon found It out. Armed with his credentials from Gov. Geary, Evans wilted upon Hartrantt for an order on the Secretary of the Common- wealth for the long-slumbering vouchers. "Not much,” sald that worthy. “Sign thie fleet, please," and the Hon. J. P. Martrantt presented this little document for the Hon, Geo, O. Evans Undersiened, Goorre 0, Evans, herwby agree F. Vartouitt, Aw neral or theists, OF ania, for iis aid and infiuenoe th collecting tive erate out oC ths ten per Gene fald Evan aw Spoctal Agont, Tho irr “aged npon Rubs than one pereont. te tran tt the pute Of #760) A commision, SCENE THRER-DRAGGED INTO A CONSPIRACY. Byans looked at Hartranft and then at the doe ument, particularly its last clause, Ho bad scarcely a dollarin the world, and #o he sald. Hartranft said he must raise it, for he could not have the war claim vouchers until he was patd omething down, ‘This acene It is belleved final- ly resulted in Byane being dragged neok and eare into the conspiracy. Of the doubts and fears and speculations which must have filled the man's brain we of course know nothing, but we do know that he finally signed the document presented by Hartranft, and before he could get possession of the vouchers went to Philadelphia, mortgaged his wife's house for $12,000, and came back to Harrisburg. He paid Hartranft $7,500, took his note for it to oa that note George 0, Byar ACT TWO-OFF holds to-day. FOR WASHINGTON, ‘Then he got a part of his vouchers and went to Washington, But he didn't get away without Hearing of Hartranft’s good luck, Jim- my McClure went for astake, He gotit by the timplost pr of blackmail—threatening to expoes Evans to the Governor unless he oame down, ‘The other conspirators wore lens greedy. Thoy resolved to wait uatil returns cane in be- foro going to Evans for their divvtes, In fact, reveral of them helped Evans toa certain extent. surer Kemble gave him the following naive letter of Introduction to "a respectable In Washington Taxasvay Dav ante trouble. lawyer Tor Peewayrvanta Hawarsucna, Macc a, Me Neon Terpan: Allow. ie to jutred ice to pa my. pe rfriend, Mr. Geo. 0. Evans, He hae a elalin of Wo asattude that he wishes you to help hin in. Pat throogh aa you wonkd ine, Me divivion, and silence, Yours, understands addi Wee Hh Keanie, Pretax J. Corey, Kag., Washington, D.C. SCAN TWO-SWOOPING UPON THE GAME. Acriving in Washington Evans went vigorously to work. He re-arranged the vouchers (an en- tirely unnecessary proceeding, as the clatms Were already virtually passed by the Govern- ment), made a show of colle nw evidence, and then made a demand for the payment of the first Installment. It ts Impossible to follow him in all his transactions at this period. [tis only known that for many months the claims hung re before the first dollar was paid. Finally the une of $90,000 was collected, Not one dollar of this went {nto the Treasury, but all was used to pay divvles to the conspirators in advance, They had been kept out of them so long that to eave himself from further clamor Evans sald that divided the whole collection and then didn't have encuch to around. Jimmy McClure took $10,000, Kemble, it ts 1 got as much, Hartranft, having got his strictly In advance, had to be content with leas. Sammy Moon swooped down on poor Evans ike a vulture, and swore that unless he was seen” the Special Agent's commission s 1 be revoked in the Tom Scott legislature, Sam- my absorbed $10,000 on this hint, Besides thes cormorants, the “expense account” had to be supplied in Philadelphia, This was kept ex- clusively by Graff, the proprietor of the Forney {ntluence, and Included all expenses, both to Wa mand Philadelphia. These we mieaun small, Just what they y hnown to Graff. Even Evans doe know, All he can tell fe that he patd Graff whieh th In ht gating Committee, D, C.F n acknowledges that he hn W. Forney of the Prose sw got $2,000 at on didn’t say gotit from, Evans says himself that he kn hat the Forneys got throe wr be paid Graf for securing 1 $25,000, besides other lar up the tufluence of others: ting rom latter Adavit before time to tine says Went for “expen the Inv enormous sun rhey of kot £5,000 re that he he ws mes that amount, their tnflue me for buytig time, but wh 1 vit went on Evans making collections from time to tii | paying them into the treasury, keeping back of course ton per ¢ to dis mong the | Hing. Just here it may bo well to mike an exe | planation, SCENE THRER- EATING BACH OTHER Pennsylvania's entire claim was $3,200,000. Against this were two drawhacks one of 81K Gta lain of the United States against Penn- sylvania, on account of the direct war tax, and the other t Kemble several 00 really not coll according to the 70,00 advanced to. ‘Treasu ire. This made $1.4% in money, but on which, (hy Sammy Moon, & commisston of ten per cont. must be pald his commilssion, of course, had to come out of the bala of nearly a millon ¢ ctable tn aetualewh., At this rate the comuiiesion ran up faster than th al colle mand when Evans presented b ettloment of the §1.070.000 Ne had'no funds to show for it yet had §19;,000 vide up among the ¢ of seem to haye acted with the MeChure had maw of any of then H Vans, threatened him, and drove bin arly crazy with lis importunate demands afin Philadelphia, was but little better. He sald that the Forney lofluence must be retained at all hazards, and poor Evans | ally woine times to borrow money to satisfy these cor morauts DRHIND TIER SCENES. But we will leave Kvans for a while to the col lection of bis clans and payment of the divyie low fora fow mnonients the course of the fier it oame into the State ‘Treasury First let ft be stated that Komble had boon su coded In the Treasury in deus by Robert W Mackey, Who was promptiy inoluded in the War Chime Ring. The various chooks issued by tl United States Treasury Dupartment in payment tclainis Were made payable to the order of n'W. Geary, Governor, and by bint endorsed he ordorof Robert W, Mackey, State Treasure or. Bo fur it Was perfectly Teal But, unt ye we find ine the chooks to Cha he senior member of tern Per ry ford F. Maseor, City ‘Tre be given after a full trial of # boat in actual sere | the * Forney Induenre.” vie, THE CANT a The following w the cast of character An influential gentleman of Tadiana who shea dernklactiwa wale Ruthiney ay Ul voted for Grant, and has al Acted with i} iN of the Finance Board, were to deliver Republican party, writes to THE SUN that Fihe vouchers to the Ring's agent, MeChure Mved apod the recent State Com Was to see to It that the Governor appointed an ton ther controlled it; but that they cane | agent “econgeniat" to the Rlog. miumy not control tho ol 1, a4 that Stato Will not gO | Moon was intrusted the more important duty for GRANT If the Reformers put up any good | of getting a bill through the Legislature author Hoket ayolnet h Thy tor nen In The | tuing the Governor to nt an agent to cols Lana tronl ea to the noml- | fect the war clali ising hi eneation nation of President Gikanr, as they consider | at 10 per cent, of tt re cl not the entire to wll fihet Tot It rail w the } oe butah « tyw rT dt lw mbidas Ld, Marat ug : bah tea | hefore | tthe 4omode | v oof the Lahde « uy i Hh OUD n hoof t will for } wis f ti I, the ail ' | 1 Tt ‘ ia have re tt ay i] iin fa f tet for whol ¥ ’ slp i fre nd caring f at ‘ all ‘ rat 1 ut Washington, with | oP 4 cia i uborttnuten In rt, ‘the Hate of | | aa {alert : . : fe J a a , 1 pv hiaks t ' 1 peintio er | executed, ‘We don't think that the Kn: ui Ura Mae ak oe torent the haven word to say against | oH sa Li 4 Me ty ae 1 the Dil without a division, ‘PT strer nthe Administration rake fon trenton aver ar Mare Hora eR f a ’ red the «¢ S Hthe a rer Hlenedt In M Mawes every voit Vy ) Tartrantt and Mackey told} it was a eth f time ba ¢ | d by Le, ‘ fhuneial measure w hey ae jority of ind 4 amendinents to the prohibitory { the Finanee Board bad agreed up The act Hquorlaws, Anaiiompt had lately been made | authorized the Governor to appoint a special torepent the law allowlig towns and cities to | agent for the collection of tho war elalns, and yote upon the question of pormiting the sale of | allowed the agent to retain & commission of i ale, laver be and the like; but the mea per eent, upon the whole ame of the chain was defeated, so that the Buste will #till have its | from ¢ ms vollected beer electl us, aa they are called, as one of Ita KULNE TWO 6 GEAKY HOODWINKED, regular Institutions, An attempt, also unsuce And now come ditmamy McClure’s turn, When seful, has bean made to prohibit the sale of | the question areso about whem to appetnt, cider, [tis belleved by many advocates of pro- | Jimmy, acting of course under Instruction, trotted out George O, Evans of Philadelphia, He was represented as aman of the most ster- Hing Jntegrity and eminent business qualifica- thong, Tr dovsn't eppear hat Gov. Geary waa at hibition that if the principle should be so appli as to prevent the sale of beer and cider, the ro- sult would be that the ealeting lawe would be repealed altogether, It 1 pal ri thet N in York witht nal end Bae, eS Fray & i Mt Phe t t 1 hat ‘ 1 \ ' i MoI W. Pid June 1..To 5M Pennest ity 1 r i yy ad ver a itl ie By Haig wt SU oo ys ein Balance. ...s.cses danse tsi 0 “Journal entries, Ang. 5 1871, follo S47, cash Ar, to billy recenvable receivell fryu MA. We for Bie mote, BRIAN Y —_—s+ Sit Saint erate? (OTL, PIPES TO WASHINGTON PILL BEHIND THR CONTAIN. is ea ” aX plate rig sey teen Rg Bd dnd arek sree | prawmna THe Woor orr n TrR TREARURY DEPARTMENT OF PEXNAYLV ANIA) EYES OF THE PETROLEUM MEN, HARRieHoRG, Aug, 4, Isl. "5 — i. OT. Yerkes, Int 0, " Gestiewen: Eneloeod find check on your hone for ‘The Bhrewd Trick of a Pennaytyanin Mmalte hich pious a ud ame my Rute for ear Beer Politicinn- ‘The Grand League of OW pist duc, Sours tra ACKPY le Politic Ne SE Men @ Political Fraud Raising « Gor ruption Fund to Carry « District, 0 Correspondence of The Sun Ort Crty, March The Intense exeite. ment which has convutsed the oil regions forthe last three weeks has not only resulted In the off Producers devising means to cope with and break up the Southern Tnprovement Cx TREAeVRY DEPARTMENT OF Presey Ly Anta No. 97 Harelabure, Xug. 4, sit Messra. O.T. Yerkes, dp. @ tu, Plitiadelphta Pay to Meeseg. ©. Te Yorker, Ir, @ Coy OF order, Twenty Thousand Dollars Z owe. RW. Markey, Ktate Treasurer, any, but has engendered the Joalousy of a reife There seems to be some hitch In thie Thte | MPbeinted political leader who resides Iv tho twenty thousand dottarsag will bowen by Mack. | city of Pranklin, ey's letter, war to pay a private note then over 8 the Republicans of this distrlet tthe dhe, “This note wos for money. ad BY | Whaee heen eataatatear tele roe ’ Day Mackeye aleeiney omacanced by | Twentieth Congressional District of Pennnyl- by thedraft that, Yerkes, was to | vanta) elected it of the Commonwealth's a aN one to represent them in Congress “UNE POLITICIAN ia was actually done by te proper v appear on the books, Here then ls a The first thing clear sten! of $2) (40, and ithe, frat Is plain this Congresaman did waa to lop off the heade of hat he who runs may read, But this ts not all. | all Fedoral officeholders who did rot awoar ty When Y & Co, were caught in their ilae o boka bled aabadsctcl Dyas A delphia awindie they owed Mackey, on his state | Mim, and to MM thefr places with men after his own he He employed his time during bts account, as Will be seen from tie transcript term In laying pipe for bis renomination, whieh Printed Above, $1) M08, Which they could net and did not pay. How waa this large sui made | he snes ted on the "i Hp Ri whence the money £0 pay back Of the district dla was de ‘ “ty nto the Treasury, a py ave Mackey from | Mr, Gritty. in 1870, by 180) riajority. tn 8 listrte detection ana defauiter?. Tut two persona can | whieh ie Neputiiay Heat ioe nity blican, by whieh ie Rep fuewer thee: t least LOO me jority ndruim. One of them ie Kobe: W. Mackey, and the other ix Thomas A. § DORE OFF UG Fatired lise; 8 StI! Sepiros) ata te To follow this up now tn all tts ram{eatt ins LAYING PLUPE AGAIN would take up a page of Tim SUN, and It must | forthe nomfnation at ths ensuing Conven jon therefore be deferred. ha When the Southern Un " will gi them to you at a Preqent we must leave Mr. Mi hie fellow conspirators in thy | excitement broke out, this took to make a hy toga, and ran wn exchis The OssiniA H Kren mae ‘ deal tv neflt. He ix not an wishing to run thelr ROUUILON A STOCK ACTON. The Hon. J. F. Hartranft, the active supporter he interest of their business dd of Grant, and the latter's candied p rtiove bim inte their counsels, yot te deliv nor of Pennsylvania, also had de with the | ered more than half of all the speachos tawde at firin of Yerkes, dr.& Go, From a copy. of his | the great mass meetings, He often gave the account with Chat firm whieh [have before me, | President Instructions on pariamentary rule« ap but which is too long to print, E find that his | adop! dealings with the defaulting broker amounted ing din the House of Meproweuuatives, Palle janipulate the movungs CO bis own lik to €651,800.47 In the short apace of dye months. | Ing, he is now throwing particular, « transaction tn Ol Creek and Allo | orale tt Mol he Beak Urge nr ie ehany Valley Railroad stock, which resulted tu | thelr committees, have thet they wl! pr pecially iuwravel tte Jed himeelf well up with t Auditor-General, rendere which was inten favorable to the fart, | abortive, and be ridiculous, in an unde f wi tock, | the plan’ adopted by the producers tod tactue sdocie. | Southern Improvement Company. A few days ago this ex-Congressman called ft had lo: d then, Ente Of reall r sone pin around him, at the oflve of the Collector of in Foad, In the hope of realizing an enormous Prooe | ternal Revenue of tuis district, halt © dozen fortunately the At General knocked | Ward UF q ae? Preaiiea thei “tit the Auditor-General’s decision stiff by declaring | Hur fie od @ ritual War St Pokauyivantarne it illegal, and Instead of ing up, the O. C. and | Grand League of Oil Men of BP asy ly weatiia to th branch full power to A. V. atock went down, and left ». Hartranft flopping in the mire, Here is what th al | lenge membership vid about tt to his bosom friend, tie defaulting | Perens at & Tals toitiation roher wodeotly wei A CORRUPTION FUND OF $125,060 | to be used by the Grand Leaguer in curry any Valley éloction an aliet He ex cover of the © e the ex prevailis lons to induce nike have this Congressional district t . and thereby fasten themsolves under hi lently e1 again, . Reet Ont een nee what eh takes (88 | thumb politically, Republicans as well ax Demo The On Creek us wfatureinvestment, fgea think we | Crate. ‘The Grand League of Oil Men of Ponnsyk of ityonmay (dak that the ehane that it wilyo | vania tea rporation, that is, Meesra, exe tp. Mit ase ritning else ds drogping, but tthe can te | Cony an & Co. intend to run the machine, edpected frome Creeks, Whit da york think of gol d through the league ride into place Youre, &¢ Jou ¥. HART BANPT. and through the league ride iato pl and bower~ the onterprising politician into Congress, and « former law partnor of his into the Legisiae ture of Penusylyanta. ROUGM AGAIN, The following letter can en. Hartranft himself, — refers is THE GREAT BATTLE-PIELD. H ed State: poclent = who has sin red out to be a defaulter. ‘The en ae ae only probat planation ia, that to bridge him badol Ltt Ha Af ey ee Loa ree rt abs over in some stock transaction, Hartrantt lad sorlation State Appropriations still Um to borrow @8,700 from Calhoun (Govern! nt touched) The Secretary's Letter, LT hag ere ikely), anid whe Seeamacic’ mand To or of the dun » Mackey not being present to pay it out of | sie: 7 foutin he the State 'T sHartrantt was compeled to | ort? The sLrbidscbsep gate om as N ot eal upon wo help him, out, promising | March 2 signed “ Ariny of the Potomac,” what. that key should make ft all right on his ros | ever be the motive of the writer, is calculated w urn, APRONS OiniN:) ke false impressions upon the publiv mind, Dean Yennes: Cancdamenncna, ee 2h ise.''f | and todo Injustice, while Lt profosses to he ja ; Had togivea check Lit BNO which he wit) | the intercat of an organized effort for an it tommorrow «2id) 1| torte ono. In order to preve erie (ipa tant historical purpose, In order to prev d will resulta allow a brief reply The Gettysburg Battle-Nold Memorial Assoctm ver yc a ton was organized iminediately after Whe battle, Mngkey ere Og Mapday, and wh And subsequently Incorporated, for two pure Ha wrn envy. poses: First, the preservation of the battled P. 8. WII I¥t Catho heck on Kaiurday, and give ie CeTlAiatan ol coon te tone aie h sndition tn whieh tt was att a snag Reenay ere This object the aesu TNE CUNTALN KISES ON TIL Last ACT, Ito a lance extent. Secor fon of the felt with endurin ich a manner as to be it. own | and a perpetual memorial of the tr And now let us return to By ans, of his collections in actual of June, I8il, the date The amor woh Was, on t lnat payment, ly one million of dol Out of this Halevents of which It was the arena 9 av. divided among the re $201,080.91, {ect the onteers of tive assnalation have ty ph pereent oo the w mount of yocing te aecomplish, and it be te feowed Moat allowed by the L their efforts will not greatly aided fy gat elt) we cow inications as that ret dito. of the Phthat hment ne ontively Athely r War Depart ery 1 OF present prewar nate beige yi asneiant du tes (pet hor the ‘ " nof the of the # Jin all, wlth zh he 4 M figure, while dimrny Met 3h r at @. f me wet and there they ure likely to re Ainong them Ha aa al i arien Mabry oe is @ private | in whieh every dollar pall out Bn op ua at: a and to whom paid is entered M MO Har HOUR abe pane We can paas over the history of abeer | Peery ean taatetts fo bthers whine him to destruciton, but his turn t rk eeoms | f nian eommeMorane A to have come, Evans has been biamed for not | fy Ain grey Sa yoo : coming forward and tel the whole truth c initiated sean afte t worve, ‘Tame and azain has h yeaa an) poe A} to do so if Hartrantt and Mackoy ¥ oo a6y 8 Dents bY AE ae Hie orks, OF Hf ait Win progress, Acommitten of hs tee would Lo 1 Tot the stile of New Vor. was OND Tents . ‘ wHr tuod invited to oert Sopouns fs i he aM Hon the pre eh of the Matte Geld Meta i" Hye roprinted hy the state that over os 0 be found in W pasts Ot) rant ouarice ter, and the Hon, 7 A Morse Drawing the Nations Upward, 5 1 Uthedeld, Prom Mr. B. Noe York Let ee maT One of our religic ter poruvies 1+ tthe ‘ ¢ ly thauired Whether any man had ever been on th Well of ba nt V0 entared sip drawn upward by a horse meanin. W ne nesociation rycund toindimate that the Almighty sg roc elated as a trust furl tate Wir horse and making the race ) wd | piled te the cue prarpone of indtew only created sn many agents of she hw One, to | Catt the plana wor fully 1 daw mon ste downward | hw vallowed tot nwitat . 1, | for said purpose, and nota dolar of y through summers lis ' tone that t , eae thors ty not exce sively slipper hone | Bo inueh for the @ Ws and ut , ever the owner i in it takes | sertion of t r . y The rider bs wn old wan. if w t i iy ame Nod f | . ' { ! 1 i 0 rs \ i f 1 ' 1 2 : ' ‘ ' ts distin | ; \ tied f \ “ | The | of thts d | Ga Code wall pr 1 . wutat 1 Prosid Hood a fel yon vot Ht is \ " Tived it 1 i y \ t \ t \ t Sv. Louis, March He 1 mintites appulut. | at an 1 : 2 ed by thet ) ' The n kno t : hath, May Ihave reported a list of delegates, Among | ‘he Not 1 cil, Charlee V'donuiony Haus Clarke (all st. 1 BOWL ae LANE H eased), Hesiry (2. HLiaretick, GeargeW, Anger: | u Hite w Hunber of the members of the Legisia. | Chambers iret oy (urs. Atnong the alternutee are Lieut. Gravely, becretary | Pavonin & venue ‘ of Piste Weigel, ex Copgtessman Jogh K. Asper, aud | Hud-ou County Ha poveral wembere of ie eglelature, J neck thet tachi wi Y