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I y* ‘'.if.* vtJLtH / r- ^ ,j. i* i rmsrs* BY DRAYTON & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, S. TUESDAY, SEl^. 23, 1SS4. VOLUME 3.—NUMBER 47. Miscellaneous Advertisements. Bailroad Schedules. Why Suffer With CHILLS AND imn MALARIAL FEVER I ONE BOTTLE OF Dr. BARRY’S ^SOUTHERN ^LflRIfiLi) ANTIDOTE! WILL CURE YOU! IT NEVER FAILS. C^?"Ask your Druggist for it, or for further information address E. BARRY, M.D. AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA. Wright’s Hotel! S. L. WEIGHT & SON, Prop’rs., COLUMBIA, S. C. T ABLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. tS"Hates reasonable. SUMMERVILLE HOUSE. U. A. Smyscr, South Carolina Railway. Commencing Sunday, May 11. trains will run as follows by Eastern time, which is about 28 minutes faster than Central time: MAIN* LINE—WESTWARD DAILY. Leave Charleston— 8.18 a. m., 4.30 p. m., 11.00 p. m. Arrive Aiken— 12.31 p. m., 9.03 p. m. f 6.17 a. m. Arrive Augusta— 1.20 p. m., 9.50 p. m., 8.10 a. m MAIN LINE—EASTWARD DAILY. Leave Augusta— 7.15 a. m., 5.00 p. m., 9.30 p. m. Arrive Aiken— 8.05 a. m., 5.48 p. m., 10.53 p. m. Arrive Charleston— 12.20p. m., 9.55 p. m., 5.15 a. m. TO AND FROM COLUMBIA—Daily. Leave Augusta 7.15 a. m. Leave Aiken 8.04 a. m. Due Columbia 12.38 p. m. west—Daily. Leave Columbia .7.50 a. m., 5.25 p. m. Due Aiken 12.31 a. m., 7.00 a. m. Due Augusta 1.20 p. m., 8.10 a. in. TO AND FROM CAMnEN. (East—Daily, except Sundays.) Leave Augusta 7.15 a. m. Leave Aiken 8.04 a. m. Due Camden 2.25 p. m. (West—Dally, except Sundays.) Leave Camden 4.00 p. m. Due Aiken 7.00 a. in. Due Augusta 8.10 a.m. Connections.—Connections made at Augusta with Georgia Railroad to and from all points West and South; with through sleepers between At lanta and Charleston on train leaving Augusta at 9.30 p. m. and arriving at 7.10 a. m. Pnllman sleepers are run between Aiken and New York via Charleston and Atlantic Coast Line on trains leaving Augusta at 5.00 p. m. and arriving at 12.0.5 p. m. Connections also made with Cen tral Railroad to and from points south and southwest. Connections made at Blaekville with Barnwell Railroad to and from Barnwell. On Saturdays connection is made at Charleston with steamers for New York. Through tickets can be purchased and baggage checked to all points North, South and west by applying to agent at depot. D. C. ALLEN, Gen. Pas. and Ticket Agent. John B. Peck, General Manager. C.,) d cottai (Fongerly of Aiken, S. “AS^fluo large house In tile boautiluT Wlage or Ku niui Augusta, Ga., finely ated, with splendiddrivesand pfeasLni; walks. Churches very convenient' tx the house. The house is neatly a.uc comfortably furnished with everything necessary 1 . Rooms and halls well ven tilated and heated. Mails deliverer daily. Terms moderate. Apply to H A. SMYSER, Sand Hills, Augusta Georgia. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston, 8. c PAB8JEN GER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. Pavilion Transfer Coaches and Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates reduced. Beware of giving your Check to any one on Train. Rates $2 00 @ $2 50. Augusta Hotel, LEWIS & DOOLITTLE, Proprietors. Large and well vcntillated rooms Rates $2 per day; centrally located near railroad crossing; telegraph ollice and barbershop in the building. Augusta Hotel restaurant and lunch room; choice wines, liquors and cigars. fcgTMeals to order at all hours. Granitevillc Hotel. MRS. N. E. SENN, Proprietress. Table furnished with the best, and driving parties from Aiken furnished with lunch at short notice. Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Kail road. Time, 8 minutes faster than Wash ington time. GOING NORTH. Leave Augusta 8 50 A. M. Grauiteville ... Trenton Batesburg Leesvilie . Columbia Arrive Charlotte 6 15 GOING SOUTH. Leave Charlotte 1 00 p. m. SStoHM?;::::;;::* .. 850 ..9 32 ..10 05 .11 07 .11 13 .. 12 52 Professional Advertisements. D. 8. Henderson. E. P- Henderson Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro liua. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Croft. J. Zed Dcnlav. Croft & Dnnlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C James Aldrich, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practices in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the State and United States Courts. Special atten tion paid to collections and invest ments of money. W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Specia attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, James E. Davis, Attorney at Law, Barnwell Court House, S. C. J. W. DEVORE. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. Aiken, S. C. DeVore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Aiken, 8. C. James E. Davis,) JArtiicr B. Sawyer Barnwell, S. C. f '(Columbia, S. C. THE PLUMED KNAVE. JAMES G. BLAINE WRITES HIM SELF DOWN' A ROGUE. A Fresli Bareli of the Damning Mul ligan Letters. To the People of the United States: Believing that it is our duty to lay beforo our fellow-countrymen the fol lowing documents which have been in our possession, we have placed the originals for safe keeping in the hands of Messrs. Sohier & Welch, counsel lors, of Boston, and herewith submit their contents without comment. The letters from Mr. Fisher are letter-press copies of the originals: My I. Augusta, Me., Oct. 4, 1869. Dear Mr. Fisher: Find in- Sawycr, Davis & Sawyer, Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice in all the Courts. Prompt attention will be given to bu siness entrusted to our hands. Special attention given to collections. Batesburg 7 01 Trenton 8 10 Graniteville 8 57 Arrive Augusta 9 35 going north. Leave Augusta 6 00 p. m. Graniteville G 58 Trenton 7 32 Batesburg 8 35 Leesvilie 8 41 Arrive Columbia 10 25 going south. Leave Columbia 6 15 A. M. Leesvilie 8 07 Batesburg 8 13 Trenton 9 15 Graniteville 9 50 Arrive Augusta 10 30 G. R. TALCOTT, Supt. T. M. R. Talcott, Gen. Manager. Edwin R. Cunningham, 541 Broad St., - - Augusta, Ga. Commissioner of Deeds for South Carolina, New York, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, District of QT..1 WSToUirv D'lhli*—liuuth seal.” Drawing or and xrooatiiTg Papers “a specialty.’^ Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. closed $10,000 check in pay’t of A. & P. Coburn’s subscription. I presume you will receive by the same mail 20 p’r ct. due on all the sub scriptions already forwarded to you, and also on the following: Philo Horsey, Belfast $5,000 A. W. Johnson, Belfast 5,000 R..C. Johnson, Belfast 5,000 Nahum P. Munroe, Belfast 5,000 C. B. Hazeltine, Belfast 5,000 This makes $125,000 in all that I have disposed of. It is doubtful if I dispose of any more—but I shall know by to-morrow. So there will be no delay to embarrass you in any way. No one will ever know from me that I have disposed of a single dollar in Maine. So there need be no embar rassment in talking with Mr. Cald well. I don’t wish you to settle that matter with Mr. Caldwell till you hear from me again. Please send re ceipt to A. <fc P. Coburn, Skowhegan, Me. Yours truly, J. G. Blaine. W. Fisher, Jr., Esq. After I rec’tl the letter in regard to Mr. Adams’ case I telegraphed again. Delano had ret’d, and I think the sus pension was at once ordered by him. J. G. E. P. S.—I send only $8,000 this morn ing. Will send $2,000 remaining to morrow morning. $5,000. Augusta, Me., 5th Oct. ]S69. My Dear Mr. Fisher: I inclose you two-thousand-dollar check, bal ance of A. & P. Coburn’s installment ; two thousand dollars in pay’t of An son P. Morrill’s installment; one thousand dollars in pay Morrill’s instalment. -office on- Kichland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. -OFFICE Al Graniteville, Aiken County, S. 0. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. -OFFICE AT- Augusta and Knoxville Railroad Time 32 minutes slower than Au gusta time, conforming to the Central or 90th Meridian standard. MAIL and express—Daily. Leave Augusta 3.00 p m Leave Parksville 5.31 p m Leave Plum Branch 5.48 p m Leave McCormick’s 6.0G p m Leave Troy 6.30 p m Leave Bradley’s G.49 p m Leave Verdcry 7.05 p m Arrive Greenwood 7.30 p m Leave Greenwood 6.00 a m Leave Verdery 6.25 am Leave Bradley's 6.40 a m Leave Troy 6.57 a m Leave McCormick’s 7.20 a m Leave Plum Branch 7.37 a m Leave Parksville 7.53 a m Yrrive Augusta 10.15 a m Williston, Barnwell County, S. 0. SaST Will attend calls to the country. THE Georgia Chemical Works. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fertili zers. M. C. STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga. Russ & Stotliart, GRANITEVILLE, - - S.C -DEALERS IN ACCOMMODATION—Daily, Sundays. Leave Augusta Leave Parksville .leave Plum Branch Leave McCormick’s ^ Leave Troy jeave Bradley’s Leave Verdery Arrive Greenwood except jeave Greenwood.. Leave Verdery Leave Bradley’s.... jeave Troy Leave McCormick.. Leave Plum Branch. jeave Parksville Yrrive Augusta 8.00 a m 10.47 a in 11.07 a m 11.28 a m 11.57 a m 12.17 p m 12.35 p m 1.00 p m 1.55 p m 2.25 p m 2.43 p m 8.01 p m 3.33 p m 3.54 p m 4.14 p m DRUGS. MEDICINES, . CHEMICALS, VARNISHES, PAINTS, Oils, Glass, Putty, Fine Soaps, Per fumery, Dye Woods and Dye StufFs generally, Spunges, Brushes, and all articles kept by druggists generally. ESP Physicians’ Prescriptions care fully compounded. A LOT in the Town, with Dwelling of three rooms Apply to CLAUDE , on easy terms. E. SAWYER. -OF- Pu^t^ODruVERXOLl 7.00 p m The accommodation trains receive and deliver passengers at the Union hissenger Depot, Augusta, Ga. Connection made by aceommoda-j tion trains to and from all points on the Columbia and Greenville Railroad. W. F. SHELLMAN, T. M. J. X. Bass, Superintendan. THORITE -WITH- IRISH MOSS -AND- Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda. — The Most Ejficacious Remedy foe— COUGHS, COLDS, CONSUMPTION AND GENERAL DEBILITY. This preparation is retained by the most delicate stomach, the taste of the Cod Liver Oil being so thorougly disguised as to render it pleasant and palatable. Each fluid ouuce contains fifty per cent, of pure Cod Liver Oil, with eight grains of Hypophospbite of Lime and fourgrainsof Hypophospbite of Soda. Price, $1.00; Small Size, 50 Cts. Prepared by— ANDREW A. KROEG, Pharmacist, Charleston, 8. C. GT'i'or sale by all Druggists. blit HARDWARE, TINWARE, Wcodenware, Crockery, Glassware | Housc-fuenish i ny Goods, Carriayt and Wagon Material, Mill Sup plies, Agricultural Implements. 1032 Broad, corner 11th Street, Augusta, - - Georgia. Royce’s Barber Shop. I WILL be happy to receive my old customers at my new stand, on Park Avenue, next door to Warneke’s | Bakery. Shaving, Hair Cutting and Shampooing executed iu first-class] style. JOHN R. BOYCE, AYER’S Sarsaparilla Is a highly concentrated extract of Samaparilla and othW blood-purifying roots, combined with Iodide of Potas sium and Iron, and is the safest, most reli able, and most economical blood-purifier that can bo used. It invariably expels all blood poisons from tbo system, enriches and renews the blood, and restores its vitalizing power. It is the best known remedy for Scrofula and all Scrofulous Complaints, Erysip elas, Eczema, Ringworm, Blotches, Sores, Boils, Tumors, and Eruptions of the Skin, as also for all disorders caused by a thin and impoverished, or corrupted, conditiou of tbo blood, such as Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Rheumatic Gout, General Debility, and Scrofulous Catarrh. Iiiflammatcnf Rheumatism Cured. “Ayek’s Saksapabilla has cured me of tbo Inllammatory Rheumatism, with which I have suifered for many years. W. H. Moobe.” Durham, la., March 2,1S82. PREPARED BY Dp. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists; 51, six bottles for 55. ’t of Lot M. Lot M. Mor rill’s subscription .of $5,000 is addi tional to those already advised, ma king in all $130,000. There may pos sibly be $20,000 more, but $150,000 will be my limit. I received yours inclosing P. R. Ha- zeltir.o’s letter from Belfast. By mail succeeding this you will receive cash ier check for $1,000, and hereafter you will have no trouble with any of the Maine subscriptions. All will come to you in cash’r checks or money di rect by express. I note what you say about the im- f ortance of my keeping all quiet here. fully appreciate y’r wisdom and y’r kindness, and shall endeavor to do -^iy*v««i_Nmu--desj_rc hi the premises. The letter inclosing tne -L > ......to mail with this can bo read by you to Mr. Coldwell if you think it ex]>edi- ent. I have endeavored in writing not to be indelicate. I shall see you in Boston Thursday noon. Don’t send any receipts to Maine folks till I come. Yours, J. G. Blaine YV. F., Jr., Esq. These two letters of October 4 and 5, 1869, are in continuation of the two letters of October 4, 1869, which have been already published. III. Augusta, Me., 18th Nov., 1869. My Dear Mr. Fisher: It is quite evident to my mind that at the ap proaching session of Congress there will be an expansion of the currency to the amount of fifty to seventy-five millions of dollars. The form it will take, I think, will be an addition to the National Bank circulation YVest ■ and .South. My object in writing is to ask in season if your friends would desire to establish a Bank at Little Rock? It will be to some extent a matter of fa voritism as to who gets the Banks in the several localities, and it will he in my power to “cast an Anchor to the Yvindward” in y’.r behalf it you de sire it. Please think over the matter, and confer with Mr. Caldwell; and let mo know y’r desire as soon as you reach any conclusion. There is, of course, no special hurry; bul I thought I would suggest the matter in order that you might mature your thoughts in good time. It would be well to determine the amount to which you might wish to go. I suppose it might be practical to secure a$500,000 bank; but in that lo cality you would hardly wish to go so deep. But they are profitable insti tutions—say $250,000. Y r ours very truly, J. G. Blaine. YVarren Fisher, Jr., Esq. IY\ Forty-first Congress, U. S.,) House of Representatives, [• YVashington, D. C., Dec. 7,1870.) My Dear Mr. Fisher: You have rec’d Mr. Boutwell’s answer. I will presume you will deem it nec essary to come on here; if so let me know of it a day or two in advance. I have written to Mr. Caldwell about the bank; no trouble in secur ing a b’k of $500,000. Sec’ry ol YVar will not allow the use of the Arsenal at Little Rock—says it is impossible. Y ery hastily & truly, J. G. B. eial operation. It might be well to! with j’ou that it was to be repaid, j ottbrts to relieve me. Pray let me and that I was also to receive a cer- ! knoic what I am to expect. Yours, very tain proportion of the bonds. I have 1 sincerely, J. Q. Blaine. * have your formal application Tor y'r increase of capital, ami then take such time as you may wish forgetting your stock subscribed. If you desire I will confer with Senator Rice in re gard to forms, &e. It might bej>ettter now to let him take the lead. Yours veiy truly, J. G. Blaine. YV. Fisher, Jr., Esq. VL Augusta, Me., 29 Dec., 1870. My Dear Mr. Fisher: I am in hopes now that I shall secure $25,(X)0, or nearly that. I find money very tight and rates well up to 9 per cent. —stifT at that. The most of it will bo for 5 and 0 months. If I had had more time and earlier notice could have raised more, & af easier rates. I have seen most of the parties to whom bonds are due. I do not;have much trouble about the January coupon of the first mortgage bonds—but tiiey of course growl some—on six of the bonds, promised them individnalhj to make it right in the future. I did notin any way use the name of the company nor commit you -anything—only myself. On the land bonds I cannot make them see thjaequity of removing the April Coupon, «I promised to try and adjust that matter with you after my return to Boston. They all agree with one voice that no bond shall be ex posed for sale. I wish you could give me the benefit of that fraction making 32 of the Is! mortgage bonds for the $31^500 due. I u.se the extra $500 in ad justing the interest matter, and it fits in completely- I will makd it all right with y«u. What I want then, is •too nnn I$3ifefi00 first mortgage bonds, $h-,ouu ^ooo land bonds, and also f’i collateral to the notes for $2-5,000 an additional $50,000 of land bonds. Please mset me at Mr. Caldwell’s private office on Saturday at 12.15 sharp. I shfill try to be there precisely at noon, butaOowlS minutes for grace. It is very iA5>ortant that I have every thing completed that day, as a man will come to Poston with me to take charge of thej bonds. Yours, in g’t haste, • - y J. G. Blaine. VII. Forty-kust Congress, U.S. 1 House of Rkpbesentatiees, }■ YVasiiingto.n, D. C., Jan. 20, 1871.) My Dea • I£r. Fisher: I have this moment written to Mr. Caldwell sug gesting that, in case I can arrange a meeting intliscity next week with Col. Thomaa^Y. Scott to come on here. I have some jeason for believing that a very advai , Igeous arrangement may taking say $300,000. I Mr. Caldwell by Tucs- I can arrange the meet- _h him to hold himself for the journey. Your moment received; you e. Let me have an ac curate and rdiable statement of your financial cmdition and I can do something, |feel very sanguine, with Thomas A. i&ott. I think yro will not deem me un reasonable vben I again and persist ently urge tl at I ought to have good notes for tfi<4j>25,000, and that I ought also to ha ’e the $82,000 bonds, which were mad% W yourself and Mr. Cald well the basis of the $25,000 ■ Company bo made fo, will telegraj day evening iiug, and I„v in readin letter is tl" ask my adv; lega? sonaT ft. burning, Vnl degree. mifie—while its por- to me are bitter, and humiliating to the last Slicorely your friend, J. G. Blaine. rec’d only a part of the bonds—the larger part—and not a dollar of the money. And now, in addition to all other troubles, I have $10,000 of cou pons, a little over that amount, which 1 am held to take care of partly through verbal understanding and partly through written agreement— coupons due in April on land bonds and to fall due in July on 1st mort gage bonds. Now, I have a proposi tion to mako to you, which I think is most liberal and fair, going as far as I possibly can go without ruining my self past all recovery. If you will look at copy of our agreement in your hands, you will find there is still due to me $70,000 of land bonds and $32,- 000 of 1st mortgage. In order to square myself with my friends, I need and must have $36,000 land bonds, and $9,000 1st mortgage— $45,000 in all—still leaving $.57,000 of mine in your hands. Now, if you will take up these $10,- 000 of coupons, paying me the cash therefor, and give me the $45,000 of bonds I will let all the remainder of our matters stand until you are per fectly at ease and ready to open cor respondence on the subject yourself. In other worths, I will leave the mat ter in you hands until the Fort Smith enterprise is out of the woods and its tangled affair well smoothed out. I trust in consideration of our many years of friendship, as well as in view of the peculiar relations I have hold iu this matter, you will make an ef fort to do tiiis. Pray let me hoar from you at your earliest leisure, and greatly oblige yours, truly, J. G. Blaine. YWFisher, Jr., Esq. XL Boston, Sept. 30, 1871. My Dear Rlainjs: It is the great est importance that the parties own ing the interest in the $25,000, and in vested by them iu the Northern Pa cific Railroad, should receive what is due them, and unless some thing is done about it I shall i>e forced to turn the document over to them, and let you settle directly with them. I am constantly reminded about it, and they all say, YVhy don’t Blaine de liver to you our interest ? Mr. Cald well tells me he has paid you his last note due you, and gave you the $50,- 000 Just bonds in addition. I should judge it was for your interest to set tle the matter at once and have no father delay. You must be your own judge in the matter, but my advice is to settle it at once. I remain, YVarren Fisher, J’’. Mr. Blaine’s letter of October 1, 1871, already published, is: the answer to this letter. XII » Boston, Oct, 24. 1871. My Dear Blaine: Yesterday I received your favor of the :21st inst. to which I replied by telegraj u: “Mr. C. las not been in this city for four weeks. He is now in St. Louis.” I can get no information \rhen Mr. Caldwell is to return; when he does, I will lay your letters before him. In the mean time I can say nothing in regard to the matter further than what I have heretofore told you—that Vfr. Caldwell represented-to me that * YVarren Fisher, Jr., Esq. XY r I. Boston, November 10, 1871. My Dear Blaine: I am in receipt of your favor of the 8th instant, from which I am led to infer that the con tracts I made through you to your Eastern friends have not been fulfil let on my part; but such is not the fact as I have delivered each and every one of them all the securities in ac cordance with the contracts, and they have surrendered to mo my obliga tions. You are well aware of the con dition’of the road, and that you have received your full proportion of the bonds to which you were entitled un der the Eastern contracts, when you consider the length of the road only completed. I think you can readily see that I canjinake no proposition further than as the road progresses to deliver you bonds in accordance, know but little of your obligations to deliver bonds to others; but taking into account the $100,000 bonds you sold to Tom Sqott and the amount of money you received on the Eastern contracts, our relative positions finan cially in the Little Rock and Fo Smith Railroad bear a wide contrast. Mr. Caldwell is here, but I have not seen him; still, I presume he has pan proper attention to your letter ad dressed to him. I remain, with kind regards, YVarren Fisher, Jr. The following was in ,/^ VIII. ForTy-sjcond Congress, U. S. \ House o t Represent YV ashing? if, D. C., April gress, jJ. S.) ntatives, V pril 21,1871.) My Dk^ 29th inst. I negotial due. The due March: to meet at venience to Fisher for tl to notice l) falls due o’’ 35. It see, just that I' tiiis mone. than the Queen Vici that you ther, ini me. rc If you Lr. Caldwedl: On the second note of the loan in December last falls st for $2,032.50, which fell jt—4th I was compelled gravest possible incon- xyself. I drew on Mr. i amount, but he declined drafe. The note which the 29th inst. is for $2,568.- extrcmely hard and un- mld be compelled to pay It is no more my debt of President Grant or i ia, and I cannot believe j Mr. Fisher, both or el ite leave this burden on -LD r] tfl fs\ v r» w'lich he has your receipts, au du„ $2,000 of the $25,000 which you loaned, and for which you received as collat eral $50,000 of the Little Rock and Fort Smith land grant bonds, which you since sold at 60 cents on the dollar, realizing therefor $30,000, leaving you now in advance of funds, even, if Mr. Caldwell had paid you nothing. I have heretofore advised you that I had been frequently importuned for the securities of the Northern Pa cific Railroad, and as a last resort I had to surrender your obligation for the benefit ot the parties iu interest, who now say that after so long delay they will not take the securities, but require you to refund the money. I remain, YVarren Fisher, Jr. ft will crush me. I have cans wherewiih to meet dnd I beg of you and Mr. f or both, to come to my a fetter to Mr. Fisher under i.V ^th, ho writes me as fol- Cormick’s Barber Shop. I HAVE opened my *hop on south side of Curve Street, first door from the corner of Main and Curve streets. Shaving, Hair Cutting and Shampooing executed by good work men. YV. F. CORMICK. House of Representatives. ) YVashington, D. C., Dec. 9, 1870.f My Dear Mr. Fisher: I wrote very hastily, both to yourself and Mr. Caldwell, in regard to the bank. A further conference with the Controller of the Currency gives some additional facts which are of interest, and this letter is intended alike for yourself and Mr. Caldwell. Please show it to him. There are now allowing 90 per cent, circulation on 10-40 bonds, instead of 80, and then 85 at ditterent periods in the past. They give me the assurance that you shall have full $450,000 circu lation on a bank of half a million capital. You can, of course, deposit 5-20s if you please, but you will get no more than 90 per cent, circulation. They will cost you more, of course, and, though you get more interest, you will very likely be disturbed in the quiet possession of them very soon by tlxe operation of the funding scheme. The opinion gains ground here quite rapidly, as you might infer from Sec retary Boutwell’s report, that the debt cannot be funded at less than 5 per cent. By taking 10-40 bonds, therefore, you would be undisturbed as long as the banking system lasts, or at least for thirty years and more. None of the 10-40s mature before A. D. 1904, and that is quite long enough to em brace within the scope of any Unan- no possible these notes, Fisher, eithe relief. In date of Jau lows: “In reganVto the $25,000 which you borrowed'and loaned to Mr. Caldwell, or rather Mr. Pratt, as it was assumed by Mr. Pratt, because you received from him $5),000 land bonds for the amount. Upon my visiting the ollice for the first time after you left the city, Mr. Pra;t said he and Mr. Far rington gave to you their individual bonds, and they kept the money; and in order to obtain the money and get it out of Mr. Pratt’s hands, I obtained $50,000 land bonds, and took what I supposed to be money, but it was not there. PavLof it had been misapplied to other matters; $15,000o/ it I loaned to Mr. Caldwell; the balance went into a house at Little Rock without my knowledge or cousent, and Pullman cars, &c., Ac.” Now, my dear sir, if tiiis be a cor rect statement, may I not hope that you will relieve me to the extent of the $15,000, and Mr. Fisher will surely pay the ocher $10,000. As a wholly innocent third party doing my best to act as a sincere and steadfast friend to both of you, 1 ought not to be left exposed to financial ruin and personal humiliation. Please read this to Mr. Fisher. I have advised of my writing you. Sin cerely yoprs, . J. G. Blaine. JoslAll Caldwell, Esq. IX. f Boston, April 25th 1871. Josiah Caldwell, No. 1 Pemberton square: _ Dear Fisher: I inclose letter from Blaine. I forgot to speak to you about them when I saw you this P. M. I hope you can help him. I would if it were in my’ power. Blaine is an important man for us to have feel all right toward us, and I only wish that 1 was so situated that I could help him. Yours very truly, J. Caldwell. This letter inclosed Mr. Blaine’s letter to Caldwell of April 21, 1871. Augusta, Me., 14th Juno, 1871. My Dear^Mu. Fisher: I tried very lUKvCyesterday and day before (Monday and Tuesday to see you, but was not fortunate enough to run across y r ou. I am in a very painful and em barrassed situation, growing out of my connection with the Fort Smith enterprise. I have paid and caused to be paid into y’r treasury’ about $250,000, and Hie only result to me is the most painful perplexity’. The most painfull of all and the most op pressive is th^t $250,000 which I paid to Mr. Pratt ft»r y*ou Jau’y 2nd, which I borrowed hdre on my own faitli apd credit on the distinct understanding XIII. Augusta, Me., Nov. 3d, 3871. My Dear Mr. Fisher: I wrote Mr. Caldwell tiiis day, earnestly ask ing him to relieve me from tike very pressing aud painful emUnrraesmont entailed upon me by raising the money I loaned to you aud him lost winter. Mr. Caldwell has paid me $6,000; there remains $19,000 due, with con siderable interest. There is due also to me, under contract with you, $70,- 000 land bonds and $32,000 Ist mort gage. Retaining iu my’ possession the $50,000 land bonds as coll uteral to the note, there is still due to me $20,- 000 land bonds and the 1st mortgage bonds $32,000. I have alre:uly made oue proposition for settlement, to which I call Mr. Caldwell’s attention. I must have the matter settled in some way, and at once. Pray commu nicate with me on the matter. Sincerely yours, J. G. Blaine, YV. Fisher, Jr., Esq. P. S.—it is very important to me that I have some bonds next week. If you don’t accept the proposition I have made suppose you consider tiiis: Let me retain the land boivls now in possession as satisfaction for loaned •money, and you pay me the $70,000 land bonds and $32,000 1st mortgage due me under the contract. I do not make this proposition to bo bound by it; I merely suggest it. But I must have the matter settled iu some way quickly. XVII reply to Mr Blaine’s letter of April 13, 1872, al ready published: Boston, April 15,1872. My Dear Blaine: Your favor of the 13th instant reached me this morning. I am surprised at its con tents. 1 have loaned you at various times, when y r ou were comparatively {>oor, very large sums of money, and never have you paid me one dollar from your own pocket, either princi pal or interest. I have paid sundry amounts to others to whom you were indebted, and tiiese debts you have allowed to staled unpaid like the notes which I hold. I have placed you in positions whereby you have received very large sums of money without one dollar of expense to you, and you ought not to forget the act oa my part. Of all the parties connected with the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad no one has been so fortunate as your self in obtaining money out of it. You obtained subscriptions from your friends in Maine for the building of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail road. Out of their subscriptions 3’ou obtained a large amount botli of bonds and money free of cost to you. I have your own figures, and know the amount. Owing to your political po sition you were able to work olf all your bonds at a very high price, and the fact is well known to others as well as myself. YVould your friends in Maine be satisfied if they knew the facts? Are my associates satisfied to havejou obtain $25,000 for Northern Pacific Railroad and you not n.»ke the investments as per agreement? The course you have thought proper to take in regard to my request is rather a poor one, taking your rela tions with me, and I again ask you to reconsider aud grant it. You will find I Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was 1 undertaken in 1869 by a company of Boston gentlemen, of whom I was myself oue. The bonds of the road were put upon the market in this city on what was deemed very advanta geous terms to the purchaser. You became the purchaser of about $30,000 of the bonds on precisely the same tonus that overy oilier buyer receiev- ed, paying for them in installments, running over a considerable period, just as others did. The transaction was perfectly open, and there was no more secrecy in regard to it than if had been buying flour or sugar. I am sure you never owned a bond of the road that you did not pay for at the market rate. Indeed, I am sure that no one received bonds on any other terms. YVJien the road got into financial difficulties and loss fell upon you you still retained your bonus, and you held them clear through to the reor ganization of the company in 1874, exchanging them for stocks aud bonds of the new company. You acquired also some demands against the new company by reason of your having joined with others la. raising some money when the compa ny was in pressing need. For the re covery of that money proceedings are now pending in the* U. S. Circuit Court in Arkansas, to which you are openly a party of record. Conceal ment of the investment and every thing connected with it would have been very easy had concealment been desirable; but your action in tho whole matter was as open and as frir as the day. YVhen tlie original enter prise failed, I knew with what sever ity the pecuniary loss fell upon j’ou,. and with what integrity and nerve j’ou met it. Years having sinco elapsed, it seems rather hard at this late day to be compelled to meet a slander in a matter where your con duct was in the highest degree honora ble and straightforward. . You may use this letter in any way that will be of service to you. Y r ery sincerely yours, YV. F., Jr. The words “Indeed, I am sure that no one received Ixnuls on any other terms,” were interlined in foregoing letter in Mr. Blaine’s own handwrit- iug. Wo hereby certify tho foregoing to he true and correct copies of tho originals. •YVarren Fisher, James Mulligan. Boston, .September 12,1884. -gflsier to nav by obtaining the credit, aud jTacicoted CS£t ^ui .e the credit, .a*--———,--. thinking it to be the best. If you agaia decline I shall be obliged to use the notes or sell them to outside pur chasers. Necessity knows no law. Whatever bonds still due to j’ou will be delivered as the road progresses. The other portions of j’our letter I make no reply. You k:iow the facts: it is sufficient that I know them, and it is useless to mention them at this time. Please answer at once. I re main, respectfully yours, YVarren Fisher, Jr. The reply to this letter is Mr. Blaine’s letter of April 18, 1872, al ready published. The expression “obtaining the cred it” in the above letter refers to a re quest by Mr. Fisher that Blaine would give him a letter of credit, to bo drawn against by Mr. Fisher during a pro- posed European trip, Mr. Blaiue being at the time indebted to Mr. Fisher for borrowed money, for which Mr. XIV. Boston, Nov. 4, 1871, My Dear Blaine: Your letter of the 3d inst. received. I Iwipe Mr. (laidwell will respond to j-our request promptly and satisfactorily. I cannot saj’ anything until 1 see Ylr. Caldwell, who keeps out of the way of credit ors, but probably he will call upon me soon. Xou have had more bonds than j’ou state in j’our letter. If j’ou have given anj’ to parties at Washington or disposed of them to others it is no concern of mine, and, of course, must be accounted for in anj r settlement hereafter. I remain yours, &c., YV. Fisher, Jr. X\' Augusta, Me., 8th Nov. 1871. My Dear Yin. Fisher: I am press ed daily for tiie bonds, which up to this time I have never been able to deliver. Let me assure you that if I were suflering in this matter alone I would not bother you, but wait in si lence the issue of events. But how can I do tiiis with parties who have paid their money earnestly demand ing of me the consideration promised by me, but which I am not able to give because I do not receive the bonds to which I jam entitled by contract? I am readj’ to receive any kind of rea sonable proposition j’ou may make. It is not a question of money making with me. It is simply a question of saving my word with others. I will sacrifice a great deal io get a settle- mvnt. I feel assured of j’our friendly disposition toward me, and therefore I do not wish to seem importunate and troublesome; but if j*ou knew the agonies I have suffered in this matter during the past six months j’ou would pity me, I am sure, aud make great money, Fisher held Mr. promissory notes. Blaine’s demand XVIII. [Confidential.] YVarh’tn, D. C\, 16th April, 1S76. My Dear Mr. Fisher: Y'ou can do me a verj’ great favor, and I know it will give you pleasure to do so—just as I would do you under similar cir cumstances. Certain persons and papers arc trying to throw mud at me to injure nij’ candidacy before the Cincinnati Convention, and you may observe thej’ are trj’ing it in connec tion with the Little Rock and Fort Smith matter. I want j’ou to send me a letter such as the inclosed draft. You will re ceive this to-morrow (Monday) even ing, and it will beafavor I shall never forget if you will at once write me the letter and mail the same evening. The letter is strictly true, is honora ble to you and to me, and will stop the mouth of slanderers at once. Regard this letter as strictly confi dential. Do not show it to anj’ one. The draft is in the hands of my clerk, who is as trustworthj' as any man can bo. If j’ou can’t get the letter written in season for the 9 o’clock mail to New York, please be sure to mail during the night so that it will start first mail Tuesday morning; but if possible, I pray you to gel it in the 9 a'chkeh mail Monday evening. Kind regards to Mrs. Fisher. Sincerelj*, J. G. B. [Burn tiiis letter.] XIX. [Indorsed on tho hack.} Not knowing j’our exact adil^css I send this to the Barker House in order that it may [not] bo sujected to anj - danger in the hands of a carrier. The YVestern Union Telegraph Com pan j’. Datesi Washington, I*. C., 1870. Received at 9:44, April 10. To YVaurex Fisher, Common wealth Hotel: Please go Parker House to-morrow, Mondaj’ evening, on arrival morning mail from New York, find letter. Answer by return mail. 19 D. II. J. G. Blaine. XX. The following is the inclosure re ferred to in the proceeding letter: Boston, April—, 1S76. The Hon. James G. Blaine, Washing ton, I). C.: Dear Sir: I observe* that certain newspapers are making, or. rather, in sinuating the absurd charge (hat you own or had owned $150,000 of Little Rook and Fort fSinith Railroad bonds, and that you hod in some wuj’obtain ed fhem as a gratuity. Hie enterprise of building the Little Production and Consumption of Cotton. Savannah Morning News. In reviewing the cotton movement and crop of 1883-84 the Commercial and Financial Chronicle gives some verj interesting statistics on quite a number of points. The statistics re lating to the consumption and pro duction of cotton, for instance, con tain very valuable information. The annual increase in the consump tion of cotton is very steady. Ex pressed in 400-lb. bales the average amount consumed each j'oar, through out the world, during the six years •V’nft.ig hi i.d". i»7~, -w.ng a.«wr..<y>3 b-K .-. The average amount consumed each year during the sik years ending in 1877-78 was 6,868,000 bales, and the amount consumed each year during the six years ending in 1883-84 was 8,708,000 bales. It is interesting to note the relative increase of consumption in the locali ties where cotton is consumed. From 1866-67 to 1871-72 the annual consump tion in Great Britain was 2,646,000 bales; on the Continent 1,703,000 bales, and in the United Btates 822,000 bales. From 1872-73 to 1877-78 tho annual consumption in Great Britain was 3,116,000 bales; on the Continent2,271,• 000 hales, and in the United States 1,481,000 bales. From 1878-79 to 1883- 84 the annual consumption in Great Britain was 3,496,000 bales; on the Continent 3,064,000 bales, and in tho United States 2,138,000 bales. From these figures it appears that the In crease iu consumption has been much greater in this country than anywhere else. It is noticeable that our manu facturing capacity increases as our cotton crop i ncrcases. Tiie world’s supply of cotton for the past 18 j’ears is shown by the follow ing figures. The bales are rated at TOO pounds. The average crop in the United States from 1866 to 1872 was 3,167,000 bales, ami in all other places 2,337,000 bales. The average crop in the United States from 1872 to 1878 was 4,771,000 bales, and in all other localities 2,022,000 bales. From 1878 to 188-1 tho average cron In the United States was 6,721,000 bale's and in all other localities 2,015,000. Tiie increase in tiie world’s supply of cotton, there fore, was furnished by this country. It is highly probable that tho contri butions to the world’s supply of cot ton by other countries will remain, stationary in the future. The demand for cotton is all tho. time increasing. The increase must, be supplied by this country. It is. reasonable to suppose that within tho next six j’ears our cotton crop will reach 8,000,000 bales. Trichinae In Human Uodinn. Dr. Horatio C. YVood, Jr., the emi nent raicroscopist and lecturer at tho Pennsylvania University hospi tal, says that bodies for dissection aro constantly turning up which are filled with the hog parasites. “The stu dents iu cutting tho other day,” Dr» Wood remarked, “found tiie flesh of a man knottj’, and upon examination, tiie muscles were found full of triclii- ure. The symptoms are like scarlet fever, and are often mistaken for it. The attending physicians fail to diag nose the disease, about which little is known, and death is attributed to oth er causes. It almost invariably occurs among tiie lowest and most ig norant class ol people, who eat Urn worst kind of meat ami often fail to cook it prop rly. Tiie boiling jioiiifc of two hundred will probably’ kill tho parasites, and no meat ought to bo eaten by any one which has not been subjected to that temperature. In some parts of Kansas the farm ers fence off a patch of sorghum and turn the cattle or hogs on it. YVhen it is eaten* down another piece is fenced ofi’ and the stock turned In, In like manner. Tho first piece starts at once to grow again and is soon In con dition •> be eaten off again. In this way a small field will he furnish a large amount of valuable feed. The first turning in is done when the cano is about shooting out heads. YVhen allowed to ripen, the seed makes excellent chicken feed and is good for horses and hogs. a