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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