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THE GLEANER. K », PABKIiH, Xditor. i I, GRAHAM, X.X\, AUGUST 10,1875. .... * ' IT fir.ie cc?umn3 ere open to the free 'tixcustiidn of affairs. The GLEANER i* 'not 7 - >'e.y>omi/j(e for the opinion* jpreawdbu correiiponilents.') - THE KRBVI.T, •At this time it is impossible to give h'o'cjlf election. This • ' witi a*contest for white supremacy— whether our people so considered it o 1 not; and if the Democratic party is de" featcd, as in all probability it is, a eon ccssiofc to negro supremacy .has been made. The negroes are a unit, unpolled not by at ' who' wish to make uic«if them for party V .purposes; while tli-3 white men stand idly by and fee theiu march up in sol lid phalanx and deposit tlio strip of pa per, put in their bund by their political masters, and.not even vote, much lend l«hid'iJ«Kteiiuation ol a j cause they pretendedly adhere to. "White men! democrats! you were told the consequences of defeat. We told you that the radicals were making a death struggle for 187(L You did not believe it. If you did your actions did not support that belief. Ymt who staid * SuUiT or went ■ to the polls-fltfd iffused to vote, hear j what the L'ontiitulion n campaign pa per issued at Raleigh in the-interest of l-epublicaiis^ys^, )Vij/l#avc met the enemy amfthey are ours. "The oldXortJi State ready for 1876." Apathy on the* I>art of white men throughout the State and diligence and hard work oil the part of negroes and radicals has defeated us,-j if we are will not there * l>c"WahV a bitter visitor to the memory that might wish tp have no reminder and j will not many a "pang of conscience wring lihn who did not do what lie might have done, after he finds the hated enemy has the coutrol of our destinies? The Democratic party is not dead There is too much of the element of vi! talityin it to be destroyed, whether by the opposition of the open enemy or the insidious instrumpufiil.ity 9/ half way 'friends' 6110 thing wc will say, and those may mark it to whom it ap plies, that nothing but the most un swerving alliance to party, nothing but j (he most perfect abuegution of self, 1 i*;Uriip£ but. opoit self-sacrificing excr- i tion to the cause of the Democratic par ty can entitle any man to its confidence It wauls no half way men, it will ac. 1 ccpt no halt Bci'Vitie, looking back to the past with regret and to the future with suspicion. The Democratic par ty, if possibly defeated in this present clcctuHi, is not destroyed, and when it conies forward again, it must have a pure, uusclfish and distinguished loader* r: - ■ " ylat ■ ■ 1 M- It 4» thought in that the Govefnoi! ,'wW appoint Gen. William B. Bate to the seat of the late Andrew Johnson in the Senate Gen. Bate was a close competitor of Mr. Johnson, the latter winning only by « vecy small vote* Confederate officer* but tjihf fttUytccMciled to the situation is evkieiflt from' the letter which he wrote to a recent meeting of Southern soldiers: *• Wc have not at any time lost sight of the fact that this is our country, and the only one in which we have a special interest; that itwgloj ry is Our glory fits bhamVour shaine and that it is frtit patriotic Wd manly for us to vie with our Into adversaries, iu a generous way, in elevating, strengthening and onnobliug it.'* Among others mentioned for the vacant sent iii.ifca Jsknm. G. llaVrt? IticfVjonn U. said that Gov. Portor has strongly inti mated that tho claims of those who souglji the appointment while the late Senator's body remained unburied wil] be entirely iguored by him.—News We heartily endorse the following ar ticle trom tlto Uuleigh JVetM.* For this class of gentry, wo have not a particle of patience. Whole-souled men throw themselves into the fate ol their parly lor weal or for*roe. The pitiable reservation, founded upon more tcuder conscience or superior si> gacitv, weighs nothing with those who sacrilflco everything, and who plunge enthusiastically into a contest lor the suiireinauy of race, regardless of the re suit. Men look lcct,audfor PonwJlttnglikl conscience, in those who stay the progress of a great political revolution. They will attach very little value to theopiuion of those who strung iu laggardly, and who now claim the merit ol being the proplietsot evil. To such men will not ' - ' THB PROBABLE "RESULT— The latest advices from the different portious of the state, leave it very doubtful as to the re sult. The ltadicala confidently claim victorj'. From reports. received, the Democrats hamfM Jgi lOK tßtalf J'IH! ltadicals &*, wTtn 10 doubtfbl. The doubtful pounties are Ashe, Cherokee, Dare, Haywood, Madison, Montgomery Randolph, Surry, Wilkes, aJid Yancey. The chances ate iuJavgr ma : iority. pliua will yet bq.Jjiflefcjned, - * '•v-.' : w, ■? mttv. II It 14- IITE \ I i\» NOl TfIEHN I'BOS PKCl'tt* It lias boon already mentioned that in reply to inquiries whether his office contains any evidence ol Ku-Klux dis turbances, Attorney General Pierrepont replied ; '-There arc 110 evidences in this office ot' such- disturbances, nor have auy such been received since I Assumed this place." Tuo Lynchburg Nmts declares that Mr. Pierrcpont's ut terance as to the existence of Southern outrages constitutes a reflection upon ilr. Williams, who preceded him in of fice, which the country will well appre ciate. This time, a year ago, the tele graphs wires, says the Xeiox, were loaded with fabrications ofdisturbances here, massacres there, outbreaks in the other place; all intended for political effect upon North Carolina, Ohio, the Keystone State, Maine and Kentucky, where elections were impending.. The independent Press sent correspondent, the South, men of training, 'integrity and / diligence, and they thoroughly reported upon the situation there. They holt conversations with all classes. Tlio testimony was concur rent to'tfce that all that the South I needed was to be let alone; her people were abje to take care of themselves. racefc were only antagonistic to one another when JVbrthcrn adventures and native '"loyalists" were concerned in creating disturbances, and even tbey could not create them, but were fertile in i.ivcjr.tiug them. The press testi mony cfl'ectuaily spoiled the game of the "Department ot Justice." A pre text for controlling elections by force could not be formed. Hie first pretense of unv fair election since the War was held. Every Southern State, except Mississippi and South Carolina, went Conservative. The result in evrv State going Conservatives was secured, ex cept in Louisiana, and with the violence and the oppression and the final com promise in that State, the country is familiar. - Since that time, every one ot the accusations of Ku-Klux disturbances has fallen through. Every accuser, beginning with Williams, has been re tired in disgrace. The Supreme Court has decided tho Force bill unconstitu tional. Quietly but significantly the person convicted under that law, whose ternm-willexteiid beyond next October, have beeu pardoned. When the Su peme Court meets in October, a decis ion nullifying the TTorce bill will be handed down by the Judges. Meantime, the dispatch of Mr. l'ier reponf, from which the above reply is taken, is construed as intended to pro pare the country for the final collapse of the arbitrary policy of the "Depart ment of Justice." There are $;>,000, OCKHn the Treasury sot aside for the uses of that Department. The terms of this provision are the "It shall be used for the purpose ot promoting jus tice." No larger or smaller detail is mentioned. It was intended for politi cal expenditure. Mr. Pierrepont lets it be known he will use none of it. On tbo contrary ho is calling the mar shals to account who have been the custodians of this corruption fund. The Arkansas Marshal, the Louisiana Marshal, thoNorfch Carolina Marshal, and others of like kidney, find them selves impoverished and held to strict account. Tho South is prospering. •Unprecedented crops have been raised. Southern securities are strengthening and the scars made by the war ami in juries inflicted fcy reconstruction arc healing. L'afrpct baggers and scalawags, "de part iu pence!"— Journal. • • - A TBADITIO.I OP Tlllf (IVjH. When during ttc uess,",tho rebels raided iu Southern Pennsylvania, fhey visited Uie ancient and tow n of Chambcrsburg. On iU outsorts Ifrasn ma fisiou, palatial for Unit moderate region, xvilh grounds decorated and cellars well slocked. The owuor, as usual when the enemy was about, W»s I abeent—pos4bly at Harrisburg,»witl>an intervening river; more probably at Philadelphia, with two, and iutreuchmcMs bristling in ilia. htnuh** of told it was of civilized war to destroy pirate property, lie griVnlv admitted tfte rule, but denied the application to colonel Alexander whose house it was. Every 'oralclilft! joist in that luxurious man sion was paid for out of public mouey. or tne fruit of legislative lobbying, and ho, this well4ftfbrtned rebel raider, fblt it his dutyt6 treat it as property of the $tM&, and burtiod ft accordingly. It was a crudl Slow, 6ut not hall so cruet a? the reason given, w.hich every ..loyal" citizen of Frau(lhi and Dauphin coun .lies*kuew to be a good one. Every spark that whirled up fo heaven told of some legislative job well paid i>r. (.'OVIiIOOK 11.1.1,\ IViKKVIEW. -V RU ' • A. C. Buell, pi' the St. Louis Jle pifblican, interviewed («uv. Allen, of Ohio, a few days since, :it Cinciimatti. The Governor stated that lie was born ;n the little village of Edenton, N. 0., on the olh day of January, 180(5, and is consequenlly now sixty-nine years old. After considerable skirmishing on the subject of linancc the correspondent at last put the question to him point blank in these words: I "There is a square issue before the country as to whether specie payments shall be resumed or paper money made absolute. The people are dividing on the question as to whet her coin? Ed metal or stamped paper shall be the standard of value in this country for all time to cc me. Have you any hesi tancy in stating your exact attitude with respect to this important ques tion?" At this presentation Jjot the question Governor Allen hesitated a moment, and theft said: "I regard spe cie payments, in the sense in which that term might have been employed twenty years ago, as a physical impos sibility now and for all time to come. In my judgment the business of the world and (he financial needs of man kind have outgrown the capacity ot tho mines tp produce precious metals enough to serve as a basis of currency . The business of the world to-day is transacted, not by the transfer of coin as in the days ot Venetian and Spanish commercial supremacy, but by the in" terchange of paper bills representihj the confidence ol men in one another ; a confidence which, is the outgrowth ot the intimate acquaintance between communities and nations rendered pos sible by modern methods of locomo tion In some countries there is still coin in circulation, and paper money is exchangeable at par for it. But no where do specie paymenls exist except by sufferance. Nowhere could the shadow of specie payments which does exist be mantained for a moment if the people who hold the paper moucy were to withdraw their confidence from the banks which hold what there is of gold. In a word, the pretense of specie pay ments which exists iu England, the strongest coin country in tho world, would fall to-morrow but for the credit of the banks, based upon the confidence of the bill-holders. Therefor©, you see, the basis qf business in specie-paying as well as non-specie-paying countries is credit, and nothing but credit, after all. I cannot now go over the whole subject. I can give you my view of the matter in a few words. I regard the accomplish' inentot resumption iu this country as a physical impossibility. And I regard the whole doctrine of specie payments as an ideality, without practical foun dation to rest on. I regard it as « —- barren ideality, sir." SHE KICKED HIM. Dear Dispatch: It has Jong been a wonder to us how the above quoted abomiuation ever crept into current r.se in Virginia among her polite and pure minded ladies. Of course if they knew the base and impure origin of this way of speaking (if we are right iu our sur mise on that point) they would never more let it pass their lips. But even if we are mistaken as to its supposed gen" esis, still the expression is vulgar. Rhet oricians tell us to test our figures of speech by picturing them to the mind's eye. Let us try this one. l.et us im_ aginc tho elegant and beautiful Miss A. (who, they say, has " kicked 7 ' Mr. B.) dismissing her unfortunate suitor by an energetic extension and forcible appli cation to his person of one of pedal ex. t rem i tics. picture is certainly not strikingly beautiful or becoming I Le£ the ladies refuse, reject, discard, dis miss their siiitbrs to their hearts' con tent, bit prey let us have 110 more "kick ing. " We would, however, connive at or even applaud one more kicking ex ercise. Let this vulgar abomiuation be at once and torevcr kicked out of the domain of polite conversation. CENSOR. Mar. - ■ ■ - ■■■ ■ ■ '' '» ■■ ■— DOUfcMTK MOTORS, W A writer ill the Egineer, an English' journal, discussing the forces available for "domestic motors"—engines to drive family sewing,washing machines, etc.— concludes that hot air or gas engines oould be built, which woald. do the | work effectively. Small turbine wheels | have Veen used lor this purpose, which I profess to tarnish two-man power from | the pressure of water under head of' twenty to thirty ftet. None of these ! devices however, have worked their way iuto general use. Small steam eu gines are troublesoino to manage, are more or less dangerous, and are never free from disagreeable smells and heat. Electrical engines .too uncertain and delicate for uso by house-wives, and tho writer in the Engineer, therefore, concludes that a hot air or gas engine is tho only resource. He thinks that such engines are perfectly safe ami manage able, and that they should not cost more than s2o each. Tho heat uecessary for the hot air engine be supplied by gas jet. As to the price, that could soon be re duced if the engines became as popular as sewing machiucs. Jl t£.\ll,E UKPBAVII'f. v ____ 4 . . The Attention of those Avho attend j our criminal courts, or read iegularly,j in the papers the reports of the proceed- j ings therein, cannot fail to have been | attracted by the vast and apparently j increasing number of -cases of larceny by the clerks in mercantile establish- ■ ments. At times a sensational case like j that which was recently repprted in [ Brooklyn will occur, and, from the so- j rial position of the offender or the mag- ' nitude of his operations, compel a mo-j ineutary discussion and expression of astonishment. But a very little reflec tion will show that the really surprising features of the subject arc not those ttiat we see. A trusted servant may prove | a thief and by many years of dishonesty j rob his employer of thousands of dol lars, still his is but one case of many and of very many. Probably for one culprit who is arrested and punished live go free through the clemency of their employers or the influence of their friends, and fifteen others are never j discovered at all. This would indicate an immense amount of dishonesty and a proportionally heavy loss; but the es. i timato does not, we think, exceed the truth. Opportunity for pilfering is j abundant, the goods are generally easi. ly concealed and carried away and dis- ( posed of, and rhost difficult to trace aftd : recover. The merchant who, knows that with the business lie is doing his profits should be larger than they are, j knows that he is robbed, but does not know to what extent. He knows, how- j ever, that it is of record that a very con- i sidgrable firm has been sent into iusol- ' vency by the dishonesty of its clerks,; ! he knows, too, that lor every dollar [ that his servant needs he loses five or ' ten. Pawnbrokers, dealers who will ] buy anything aud ask no questions, and other "fences" of a like disreputable sort, pay their customers a very small percentage of the value of their booty, so that when the thief has got SIOO the | probabilities are. that his employer has lost SI,OOO. These dealers are largely responsible for the extent of juvenile dishonesty, especially as in many in. stances they go so far to stimulate and encourage theft, showing what sort of goods it pays best to steal. Iu fact it may be said that all ot the money that thus comes over the back of the devil's horse goes under his belly. The "lence'"gets theliou'sshare of the booty; the rest goes to the rum-seller, gambler or prostitute. There are, of course cases where the crime is not wholly an act of depravity. A man tvith an ex pensive, or who has become entangled by a reckless or designing woman, or a weak boy, who lirs a fancy for ma king costly presents to girls as foolish — for the crimes of all these some excuse may be offered. In many instances, too, the employer puts a premium on robbery by payiug his servaut a wage literally inadequate for his support. The merchant who pays a clerk from $5 to $8 a week aud expects him to board aud respectably clothe himself out ot it, deserve to be robbed. But beyond al l such exceptional cases is tho undoubted fact that in the vast majority of instan" ccs the thefts are wanton and deliber ate, perpetrated to satisfy low tastes. Indeed if any one will but take the •trouble to run oyer the list of his young male acquaintauccs and compare men. tally the receipts and expenditures of such of their number as have salaries ranging from S6OO to $1,200, he will be l apt to be surprised rather than edified. What with board, clothing, car-tare, lunches, jewelry, theatre tickets, enter taining, hack-driving, liquors and ci. gars, to exclude worse and costlier dis sipations, it will be found that more than one of these represents! ivo young men spend at least $2,000 a year each. As the young spendthrift cannot run iu to debt, he must acquire the amount iu eXee ss to his home by dishonesty «->- World. THE CHI4GBB OF A CENTGKV. In 1803 Fulton took out the first pat ent for the invention of the steamboat. The first practical application of the use of gas for illumination, was in 1802. In 1812 the streets of .London were for the first time lighted with gas. In 1810 there was built at Waltham, Massachusetts, a mill, believed to have' been the first in the World, which com bined all the requirements for making cloth out of the raw cottou. In 1690 there were only twenty-five I post-offices in thewhole country, and ! up to 1887 the rate of postage was twen i ty-live ccuts for a letter sent over 400 I miles. In 1807 wooden clocks were made by : machinery. This ushered in the area o'f cheap clocks. About the year 1833 the first railroad of any cmisiderable length iu the United States was constructed. In 1840 the first experiment in pho ! tograry was made in Paris by Dagnerre. About 1840 the first express business was established by Harnden. The anthracite coal business may be said to have begun in 1720. Iu 1836 the first patent for tho inven tion of watches was granted. ; In 1845 the first temcgram was seut, In 1803 steel peus were introduced for, use. • ' . • jt~ The first successful reaper was con structed in 1838. In 1840 Glias Howe obtained a patent for his first sewing machine. Tho first succe&at'nl method of vnlcair zing India rubhrf patented iu 1847. ~rrrrr' 1 BTei»BEKVEK ROSE MOKE. It is likely that Steinberger will be cooked, Iu Turkey they bowstring Prime Ministers; in Japan they compel them to disembowel themselves; in Sa moa they roast them. So prepared, ir respective of their length or brevity, they are generkslly as •' long pork,'> and along with missionaries are highly relished by the epicurean islanders. It is, indeed, too probable that the ambi tious Colonel has been lured thither for express and- premeditated purpose of prog—to furnish forth some solema is" land least, rel|gious or commemorative to which merfj" broiled Polynesians, how juicy and pinguid soever, were lacking indelicacy and rarity, The Colcnel neatly potted in the monarch's pie, spi cing the fair tropic Banquet with a.pun gent northlaud would confer on that royal Amphitryoftas eminent pran dial distinction as the pastry of nightin gales' tounges did upoU Lucullus,or the ham boiled witn a wisp of hay upon the vivacious and versatile Sam Ward. The Samoans might have got a fitter. Their newly-caught states is lean with vigil and meditation. He is worn with pro found ponderings on law, government and administration. If wo may employ a familiar figure of exiguity, he is a lath. Falslafi would have called him, like Prince Hal, " a starveling, an eelskin." He will nor will lie : pari out satisfactory returns of gravy. We know not the resources of the Samoa,n cuisine. Columbia having sent the diiV ner. it would be ill were the devil to. send the cooks, especially as the highest skill would be necessary to make any thing even passable out of the Colonel. However they may cook hiih, he will turn out tough as a ragout of wild-cats or a salmi of owl?. The Colonel is a Pennsylvania Dutchman by origin, deeply penetrated with theological principles aud tho various brands ot to baaco common to his tribe. His nation ality and his habits will each introduce positive, if questionable, flavors iutohi9 pie. The Samoans may like them as a novelty, pleasantly varying the insipid ity of roasted native, but it cannot have been worth their while to have gone through so much to get so little. Any ordinary missionary or mere colonial bishop would have served their turn better. We must not be charged with speaking lightly of tho colonel's tragical prospects. We regret them veiry much, and shall be thoroughly so ivy to find our prophecies realized. But they are exceedingly pol-bellied people down there, although some of them have been converted by the in strumentality of tracts and moral pocket-handkerchiefs. They do not) know in a case of long pork what the restraints of religion are, and would eat their grandmothers without even a momentary filial qualm. There is a melancholy satisfaction in the convic tion, amounting to certainty, that the Colonel will disagree with whosoever eats him. Posthumouly he will take fearful enteric vengeance on his con sumer, whose howls will be heard all over the Antarctic seas. He will thus vindicate his administration. The Samoans may think as Jay Gould thinks about his editor, that they have got a "soft thing'' in getting the Colonel with his constitution and his culverin, but they will find their mistake. A Pennsylvania Dutchman, nnder any mode of preparation, is no light mess, even for the copper-fastened digestive appratus of a South-Sea Islander. And the Colonel is one of the toughest of He is tied together, in fact, with whip-cord and catgut, and will cut up stringy as a panther and insol uble as a crow. We wish him well out of his enterprise and his Ministry, but we have no very sanguine hope of such a result. His fate henceforward seems indissolublv bound with that of the Navigator's Isles and their smoky, swag-bellied population. -'lnto the bowels of the land" he will find lus Way, albeit not without impediment, and we have little doubt that the Ulys ses future ages will find on some prom inent headland of the principal isle his commemorative fobelisk, tattooed all over with Samtfan lasciptions setting forth how horribly tough be was, and lof how little account ho was as a I minister. It is 6aid that the Ulysses of this age sent the hapless Colonel thither by way of compromising a poker debt of old times which, with accrued inter est, now about eqaals the national debt of Great Britain. This is an impossi ble sum even for tho wealthiest Executive to pay, and it is perhaps not altogether surprising that the debtor should desire to put as wide a space as possible be tween his creditor and himself. But if he had known the hahits of the islanders he would have paused before subjecting -his creditor to such alarming culinary risks, even to accomplish such an ar. dently desired result as the getting finally rid of him. Better have amica bly played-oft the debt and called it even.' A creditor in the shape of a pic lying heavy on one's conscience, filling the waking aud the sleeping hours with remorse, is worse than any amplitude of poker or other indebtedness which can be conceived or dreamed of. THE NATHAN MURDER. A Police Officer who Furnishes a , ble Cine. Before the legislative committee who are investigating the management of the police department of New York, Sidney 11. Conkliu told the following story Friday: ( In 1870 I was an officer of the Car mansville police, uuder Capt. Davis On the 26th of August, 1870, I learned from the officer whom I relieved, that Mr Lord's house had been lobbed. On my way to the station to report the rob bery met Capt. Davis. lie told me to mind my own business when I reported the case to him. On my arrival at the statiou the sergeant ordered me to Mr. Lord's house #ud work up the case. . I went back and found the foot-prints of a man. Having obtained from the sergeant a description of a man who called at the house on the prtcDding day, I started to find the burglar. I fol lowed his tra|l to Eighth avenue and One-huudred-a ndj twenty-fifth street, where I arrested him. He was tall, and carried a valise, lie was Identified by the servant. In his valise was a linen duster, on the shoulder and back of which were the * imprint in blood of a man's hand with the middle linger mist ing. On the way to the Ilarlem Police Court..prisoner said/ That duster will hang me." Justice McQuade re. manded him to the station. In the station I threw on the table a paper in which there was a picture of Washington Nathan calling for heJp at the front door of his house on the morn ing after his father was murdered. The prisoner looked at it, threw it under the table, aud said it was a ffhame a poor man should sutler for a rich man's crime. By Capt. Dayis, order I took the prisoner to the Central Office. He gave his name as Michael Ryan. I told Capt. Kelso not to show him tho duster, as it might furnish a clue to additional evidence. Kelso replied that lie was captain of that office. He show" ed the duster to Ryan and he said ho never saw it before. Ryan's picture was then taken, and he was sent back to the statiou. On the advice of Justice McQuaile, I called on Washington Na than. lie said he kuew nothing about the duster, and. didn't Want to know anything about it; that nobody on tho police force was smart enough to dis" cover his father's murderer. I told him that Ryan had a loose tongue and might say too much if he began to tall#; He told me to keep the case from the public, and to see him again. I then calkrt on Frederick Nathan, in Morris to\Vn. He said that he was glad to find onepoliceman Avho tried to do his duty. He surprised to hear what his brother had said to me. He asked mo whether Washington said anything to me about a John Ryan, who worked tor a Mr. Chapman, in Pennsylvania. after this, Superintendent Joui dan told me to drop the case, and threat ened to break me if I did not. I drop ped the case aud went back on post. A WIFE ■ TRICK. [Cincinnati 'limes] A lady oscupping a high position at Washington, whose husband was of the Government, made-a trip to Europe with him. She "dotes" on lace, and here was her opportunity. Talking of the acquisitions she would make in this line, he told her sho should purchase any reasonable quantity, provided she would not smuggle any. To this sho acceded. The gentleman took as pait of his wardrobe a dressing-gown, for, like most Americans, in the privacy of his room he liked to pnll off his coat. Several times on the trip he observed the care hi 9 wife took of this garment aud gratified for her anxiety lor his comfort. Once, when smoking, while lighting his cigar, he tethis gown on fire aud quite a hole was burned in the skirt. His wife was considerably agi tated, and he was flattered that so tri fling a danger to him bad so moved her. One morniug immediately after their return to this cohntry he found before he reached bis office that keys he need ed he had left at home aud retraced his stops to set them. Letting himself in with his latch-key, he proceeded to bis chamber and on opening the door found his wife on her kuees on the floor, his dressing-gown divested of its lining and spread before her, and she, scissors iu haud, disengaging from it a white, flim sy fabrid with which it was covered. She sprang up on seeing him, langhed, and exclaimed, "Yon are the smuggler. You wore that lace all over Europe and bronght it home. AW BX-STATB TBBASTBIB BBBABMJAIL AUD BSCAPBH. We learn that ex-Treasurer Nilcs G. Parker, of 8. 0.. against whom judg ment bad been obtained in a civil suit for $76,000, and against whom a crimi nal indictment was pending for em bezzlement, Ac., broke jad at Colombia on Wednesday It was ex pected that he would come in this di rection, and a dispatch was sent to Mar shal Robiunon to that effect, warning him to keep a lookout for the individu al. in accordance with this Request an officer was sent to Union Depot yester day morning to watch for Parker, but he did not make his appearance. It is said that Parker has defrauded ihc State to an immense amount, but we have not been able to obtain the ex- # i act figures.— Wil Star.
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