I,...otMt . illoinAtett. CARLISLE, PA. .'liklii'rMay, April 11,1878. THENEWB IH BEIEP. : The small pox isonthe increase in New York. Wild dudes in abundance are re ported on the Susquehanna. A breach of promise—The breach in the Radical party. An Allentown -paper says there is more sickness in that place and vicini ty, juat'now, than there has been known for many years. It is estimated that more than a mil lion of cattle have perished in Texas during the last winter. The horse disease is making great havoc among the car-horses of New. York. Miss Nellie Grant has gone to Eu rope to join Prince Fred. Old Lys stays at home to receive the presents. Notwithstanding that Juarez is victorious in Mexico, there is no pros pect of peace to that distracted coun try. An exchange duns delinquent sub scribers thus: “ Printers want but little here below, and want that little note,’* California has been shaken by an> other. earthquake. Some of these days the bottom may fall out of that country. The Harrisburg telegraph says, we understand the attorneys of Emanuel ShUffner have partially agreed to carry his case to the Supreme Opart.. _i_ 05 p. Mj, Btopaiiur _ e-Vhfganis about ssioner of the ■ • murse he is a •' ■ guilty. . ,-Ko i have been or tort, Kentucky, m, Colorado, to ouin Infantry. The Pennsylvania oil region contains 2,000 square miles. Of this space only ten square miles are actually, worked.— Last year's yield was about 5,800,000 barrels of forty-three gallons each. Thb Harrisburg Patriot says Bigler <ii Son have contracted for over a hun dred rafts—over 5,000,000 feet board measure. Last year they received 9i rafts; Somebody interviewed Ben Wade the other day on the political situation. He answered briefly, beautifully, per tinently and conclusively: “ H—ll Is to pay all ’round 1” Forney is crying for “Reform with in the Republican party." This is as Impossible as to expect the devil to re pent of his sins and Join an orthodox church. . A year ago at this time Lake Erie was open for navigation os far down as below, the port of Erie. The vessel men do not expect it to open this spring for three weeks yet. Senator Wilson recently wrote to Horace Greeley inquiring the moat approved method of cultivating beets. The philosopher’s answer was short, but to the point': “ Persist in your ef forts to havq Grant renominated.” ■ Wm. P. Weaver, the ticket agent of the Pennsylvania railroad at West Philadelphia, who pretended to have been knocked senseless add robbed about a month since, has confessed the sham and restored the plunder. He attempted suicide on finding himself suspected. The Administration intend to send enough Grant men to the Cincinnati Convention, to capture it, if possible, but Greeley tells them that it is not their funeral, and they had bettor mind their own business. A society has been organized at Boston, entitled the. “Mission for An Imali,” the object of which is the im provement of the' modes of treating live stock destined fur food, clothing and.other uses. The office of the Lycoming Fire In surance Company, at Muncy, Pa., was robbed bn Tuesday night of over $30,- 000 ,in registered bonds and railroad stocks, $20,000 of which belonged to private parties. Two men have been arrested on suspicion, At a recent Chester county wedding, the bashful bridegroom had reached the age of eighty years, while the blushing bride had worried through only sixty-five summers. Their parents were willing, but say they don’t expect to; live long enough to witness their children’s golden wedding. The Boston Past says: After a Southern State has been cheated, robb ed and oppressed until the carpet-bag scoundrels are obliged to run away, then,their victims are called ku-klux, and placed under martial law. Truth. Wit. B. Strunk, Mifflin county, has a remarkable ewe. About two years ago it bad three a birth. Last year nothing peculiar occurred; but this year, on the sth of March it gave birth to one fine, healthy lamb, and on the 20th of the same month to two more, making three during one month. The Secretary of War warns all officers of the army visiting Washing ton, who fail to observe the regulations requiring them to record at the office of the Adjutant General their names, reel dhnees in the city, and the orders un der which they are absent from their stations,' and cannot satisfactorily ex plain such omissions, that they will forthwith be ordered to return to their post. Thx Colored Convention of South, Carolina met last Friday and selected delegates to the New Orleans Conven tion. One of the delegates said that the latter Convention must demand a place in the Cabinet for acoloren man. Why not at once nominate some color ed statesman for President ? Or have ,Grant colored, that would do Just as Well, for he has scarce as much honor or decency as a nigger. THE PLUHDEEED SOUTH Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, in his recent speech in the House of Repre sentatives, set forth in eloquent - and burning words the system of rapine and robbery by which the Radical par ty have left-the Southern States with, hatdly a green thing behind. He passed in review one State after another, and showed in graphic and glo wing terms the footprints of desolation of the Radi cal pariy, and from State to State, like a band of; thieves, they took their way to plunder and prey upon the people.— He shows how, from the very begin ning, after the fearful strife of arils was over, they took possession of these eleven States by force and fraud, and how, by every possible device which cupidity and a versatile capability for wrong could suggest, they spoiled those fertile fields of everything that war had spared. The picture which he draws is dark, forbidding, fearful, unexampled, but just. Never before were such a people bound hand and foot, and before their very eyes, and in the face of the whole country and the civilized world, and against the protests, remonstrances, and appeals, preyed upon at will. All the channels of public justice were poison ed, and all the sources of consolation, under their mighty and manifold ap plications, were taken away. There was one policy pursued, and that was a policy of oppression, of hatred, of humiliation, of robbery. It therefore, was a comprehensive policy, v; nose purpose was the perpetuation in power of the party originating and pursuing U. A more cold-blooded and'ignoble motive for cruelty, and . for crushing a proud and stricken people to the earth, could not well be devised. They were deprived of that participation In man aging their own affairs, which would bayo secured them against depredation, and for the very reason that by such a course alone would such depredation be possible. Had they been allowed to elect their own public officials and con- a man with a ort of ciirios nany fellows duct-their own State governments, and, generally, to do what citizens of all the other States, of the Union do, look after their own interests, there would have been no room for, and hence no influx of, the thieves. But this was not the scheme. Room must be made, and room wot made. Under the loud cry of “ loyalty” for themselves and “dis loyalty” towards those whose posses sions were to be stolen away, the mean minions of Radicalism, with a blushless disregard of every consideration of hon esty or honor, began their systematic .brigandage, which they have continued until these eleven States are in the de plorable condition so vividly portrayed by Mr. Voorhees. Our space will not permit us to pre sent to any extent thestatements of Mr. Voorhees. Of Georgia, however, we will say a word. The debt of that State, at the close of the war, amounted to nothing. The debt of the State in June, 1871, according to Mr. Angier, State Treasurer, was $50,137,500. bo much for the State debt. Now a word as to the expenses of the Legislature elected in 1868. At the same Bullock was elected Governor, but before ids time was out he absconded from the State, and his present whereabouts nobody knows. He is a fugitive from Justice. How this rascally Governor, with his corrupt Legislature, squandered the people’s money for their own benefit, we quote briefly from Mr. Voorhees: irolina have [Convention <e put in the ■ill soon be a clergyman .plied that he th his own, other men’s "Sir, I hold in my hand the official statistic* on which I make this charge. The reports of the comptroller general of Georgia show that for eight years, commencing with 1H55 and ending with 1862, there was expended for the pay of members and officers of all her Legislatures daring that entire period the sum of 9800,313 63, This is the record of her administration under the management of her own citizens. During the two years' existence of the Republican Leg* Islature elect ed In 1303, the report of the comp • .troller general shows that there was expended-, for the pay ot its members and officers the start* ling sum of 9970,055, only a fraction less than 91.000.000. One Legislature la thus discovered to have coat 9112,669 47 more than the Legislatures of eight previous years in the single matter of Its own expenses. There has been no Inoease In the number of members. On the contrary, there are fewer now than under the former ap portionment. In earlier times the clerk hire of the Legisla tures of. that State did not average over 910,000 per annum. That Item alone recoded the sum of 8125,000 for the one Legislature whose .con duct lam discussing; more than equal to the expenditures on that account of any ten years of the prevlont history of Georgia. Her Gene ral Assembly consists of one hundred and sev enty-five representatives and fourty-four Sena tors making two hundred and nineteen, tak ing both branches together. The record disclo ses one hundred and four clerks in the esiploy of this body while the Republican party bad the ascendency there. One clerk for every two legislators Is a spectacle which 1 command to the consideration of the American taxpayer and voter everywhere." Georgia has a railroad running from Atlanta to Chattanooga, about 137 miles long, and built by the State, which is known as the State road. This has for years been a profitable road, yielding large profits to the State. When Bullock and his confederates in villainy came into power they naturally enough turned an avaricious eye upon the large revenues of this road, and at once proceeded to turn the stream of profits flowing from it from the State Treasury into their own pockets. As with Georgia, so with the rest of the Southern States that have fallen in to the bands of Badlcal plunderers.— There may be variety in the means, but the end is the same in ail eases— devastation and min. In South Carol lina, as another example of the cost of Legislatures under the supremacy of carpet-bag thieves: “ South Carolina drew from the treasury the enormous sum of $683,651 44 to defray Its own expenses for one session,” besides in curring “ a debt of $91,600 for furniture for the State House,” while “ a session of the Legislature of Ohio at the same time c05t.590,000.” Here it will be seen that the robbers of the South Carolina Legislature spent'more money for fur niture for the State House than did the Legislature of a great and prosperous State 1 like Ohio to cover all its expen ses. Go on through the list of these pil laged Southern States and we find the same general results. Nothing but a sickening succession of robbery from beginning to end. Well might all pa triotic and honest men throughout the length and breadth of this land, in one common chorus, exclaim, as did Mr, Voorhoes: "Hlr, I challenge the darkest annals of the hu man race for a parallel to tbe robberies which have been perpetrated on eleven American States.” And yet, In the face of the rain they hove wrought, the dtssentions they have caused, the seeds of discord they have sown far and wide, the Radical party—they who are tho signalized “ henchmen" of tho Administration, and they who are in anywise “cling ing to the skirts of power”—affect as tonishment, and cry aloud for instant ■vengeance for disloyalty dr disturbance when any breach of good government occurs in the Southern States,'; which would pass unnoticed in thd other States of the Union. Under the cir cumstances, the wonder is not h a t so little but that so much good border exists in the South, so long subject to the uncontrolled lawlessness of greedy, grasping, and dishonest men. Let New. York, or Pennsylvania, or Ohio, be called upon to change places with Geor gia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or any of these pillaged Southern States, and see how quickly either one of them would , rise up in insurrection against such unspeakable abuses as on all hands are con ceded to exist under carpet-bag dominion In the States of the South. Peace and good order are the fruits of good government, not of bad government; and although noth ing but bad government exists in the South' wherever the Radical party hive sway, there is, to the great credit of the Southern people, be it said, a reasonable degree of good order. It is good order under most trying condi tions. It is good order when, to a hungry people, bread is asked and a stone is given. It is good order when, to a helpless and prostrate people, the General Government, under which they live, or rather they who administer it, come to them, not with peace, but a sword. It is good order under a mon strous system of spoliation and wrong, whose every influence Is calculated to make it otherwise. That any good or der at ail should exist under such adverse and trying circumstances does honor to the peaceful and law-abiding: disposition of the Southern people, while it should put to shame the Radi cal party, who have left no device un employed whose purpose was, for party„ reasons, t > make such good order im possible. &EEELEY VS, GRANT, The following letter which appears in the'New York 'Jribune, puts Greeley and other prominent Republicans squarely In'antagonism to Grant. A' short time since everything looked lovely for the President, and his nomi nation seemed to be a foregone conclu sion, but the indications now are that he will meet with very serious opposi tion to his nomination, and if nomina ted, will be defeated beyond all ques tion, if the Democracy are only prudent. Read the letter: 2o Col. Wm. St. Ornsvenor, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Liberal Republican Convention of Missouri : , Washington, March 29,-1872. Sib:—We, Republicans of New York, wish to express our concurrence in the principles lately set forth by the Liberal Republicans of Missouri. .We make this departure from the old methods of party action from the deep conviction that the organization' to which we belong is under the control of those who will use it chiefly for PER SONAL PURPOSES and obstruct free expression of opinion on the important matters which the gentlemen whom you represent have laid before the peo ple of the United States. We believe that the time has come when the poli tical offences of the past should be pardoned, that all citizens should be protected in the enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitu tion ; that Federal taxation' should be impo.-ed for revenue, and so adjusted as to make the. but den on the industry of ihe country as light os possible; that a reform iff the civil service should be made, which will relieve political ac tion from the influence of official pat ronage; that the right of local self government, the foundation of Ameri cun freedom, should, be reasserted, and the encroachments of the Federal power checked. • And, we also believe that; at this time, a special duty rests on the people to do away with CORRUPTION IN OFt ICE. The exposures recently made m this State have-brought to light, evils and disclosures more dangerous, and formidable than any which the Re public has yet encountered! With the hope that the movement, began in Missouri, may spread through all the States an t influence every poli tical party, we accept the invitation to meet in National Mass Convention at the city of Cincinnati, on the first Wed nesday in May next, and we invite all Republicans of Now York, who agtee with us, to co-operate' in our action. [Slimedl HENRY R, BELDBN. • HORACEGRBELEV, HENRY A. CONKLINS, WILLIAM DORSHEIMBR, SINCLAIR TOUOEY, aiQiailCND MAUFMAN, IRA O. MILLER, EDWIN R. REYNOLDS, WILLIAM H, BRIGGS, CHARLES W. GODAHO, HENRY I), LLOVD, , WILLIAM W. Q (ODRIjH, WALDO HUTCHINGS, HIRAM BARNEY, W. FREEMAN, J, FITHIAN. GEORGE P. BRADFORD, BENJAMIN A. WILLIS, HORACE UE.MIS, LEWIS IOEWBNTHAL. The Apportionment Bill.—Tho day before the final adjournment of the Legislature, the Congressional Appor tionment bill passed in the following shape ; yeas 18; nays 13. It has been signed by the Governor and is therefore a law. It is an infamous bill—a ger rymander without a parallel. Under this bill the Badicais will elect sixteen and perhaps seventeen Congressmen, the Democrats nine or at most ten; thus the Republicans shall have 61.53 per cent, of the representation and the Democrats 38.46 per cent. This means that while 17,748 Republicans shall elect a Representative, it shall take 26,- 950 Demacrats to do the same thing. We bad hoped for more fairness than this—hoped that this kind of villainy would not again be resorted-to. But -Radical politicians are strangers to de cency and fairness, and they have again saddled upon tho people an Apportion ment which -is an outrage upon the State. Here is the monster: Fifth District.—Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Sixteenth wards of Philadelphia. Second District—First,Second, Seventh and twenty sixth wards, Philadelphia. Third District.—Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Twentieth wards, and all that portion of the Sev enteenth ward west of Second street. Fourth District.—Fifteenth, Twenty first, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth wards, Philadelphia. Fifth District.—Eighteenth, Nineteen th, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and .Twenty-fifth wards, and tbe Seven teenth ward east of second street, Phila delphia, Sixth District.—Chester and Delaware counties. Seventh District—Lancaster county. Eighth District.—Hoiks and that por tion of Montgomery northwest of Nor ristown, Whltpain, Gwynedd and Mont gomery townships. Ninth District.—Bucks and North ampton, and balance of Montgomery. Tenth District.—Lehigh, Carbon, Mon roe, Pike and VVayna. Eleventh District.- Schuylkill, Co lumbia and Montour. Twelfth District.—Dauphin, Lebanon and Northumberland. . Thirteenth District.—Luzerne, , Fourteenth District.-Bradford. Bus qaCbahlta, Sullivan and VVyoin I tig. ; FlftSjs’ntli District.—Tioga, Potter, Mo- Kran and Lycoming. j ' . 1 V ': Sixteenth District.—Union, -SyndSf, Mifflin, Centre, Clearfield and Elk, ■ Seventeenth District.—Hubtlugdou, Blair; Cameron and Somerset. ' Eighteenth district.'—Bedford,' Franlt llni Fulton, Juniata and Adams;! Nineteenth District.—Westmorelami ayette and Greene. Twentieth District. Vork and Perry. Twenty-flrst District.—lndiana, Arm strong, Joflerson and Clarion. , , Twenty-second DlstrUt.—Pittsburgh, Birmingham, East Birmingham, Orms by, ’South '"Pittsburg, Monongahela; Mount Washington, Temperancevttle, West Pittsburg, Union, Allentown, St Clair, Veronl, Braddook, and the town ships of Plum, Wilkins, Penn and Pot ter, Twonty-thlrii District.—All. Allegha ny county not included in the above. Twenty-fourth District.—Washington, Beaver and Butler. . Twenty-fifth District. Mercer and Crawford. Twenty.sixth District.—Erie, Venan go, Warren and Forest.. STATE WAR CLAIMS The Investigating Committee's Report. How (he Collections were Hade. AID HOW MOREYS Will IIIIOALIY RETAIUD. THE MEN THAT HELPED EVANS. Startling Revelations AID PERFORMED THE IDRDEIS OF COUECTIIO. The Parties Who. Eeoeived- Contributions. Statements of Evans not Credited, Committee's Sepommendationa and Oonoln- sums, . The Joint Commltteeof the Pennsyl vania .Legislature, appointed to inquire into the collection and settlement of the war claims by the State Agent, George O; Evans, rep ,rt os follows: They commented their sittings at Harrisburg on the 23d day of January, 1872, and have since held a number of sessions there. They have also held two sessions in the city of Philadelphia, one in the city of Washington, and one in the city of New York. That at these sessions' they-have called before them and examined under oath a large num ber of witnesses, including all those from whom it seemed probable any iacta tending to throw light upon the subject could be obtained. The principal witness, George. O. Evans, for a long time did not obey the •übpoena of the committee nr the re peated requests of "its chairman to appear and testify or assent to his ex pressed wish to visit his residence to take his testimony, and our labors were thereby greatly increased and rendered more difficult of performance, and it was not until the willful neglect or refusal of a witness to appear and testify before a legislative committee was made a criminal offense and a requisition upon the,Governor of New York was about to bo made for his rendition, that he consented to testify. These facts, taken in connection with the testimony finally given by him, aud the direct contradiction thereof by 8. P. Brown, cause us to have gi ave doubts us to ttie truth of his assertions in regard to the disposal of the money reiained by him out ot the collections, and we - cannot resist the conclusion that if his statement be true, he has, without cause or necessity, refused 10 give to the State, whose agent he was, until about to be compelled to do so, that information was demanded by the people and he alone was competent to give. The facts elicited from the mass of testimony taken by yout committee, ami which are herewith reported, are substantially as follows: In 1865 the officials in the Treasury: Department attempted to state the accounts between the State and the United Stales for war claims, and ap parently in ignorance of the settlement made iu 1862 “disallowed and suspend ed,” for purely formal and technical reasons, all of the claims of the State, etept *112.50 which were credited as correct. IV 0. Forney, editor of the Chronitle, Washington, D. 0., and 9. P, Brown, a nSember of the Board of Public Works in the same city, discov ered this “suspension and disallow ance,” and originated the idea of the appointment of a special agent to col lect the claims. They prepared the joint resolution of March 22, 1867, and selected George O. Evans, of Philadel phia, as the agenh After, reciting at some length the manner of Evans’ appointment and his Immediate manner of action, alt of which have been fully set forth in the coiumsofthe Inquirer,, the .report con tinues. THB LABORS OF EVANS, The labors of Evuna covered the time between Mar. 23, 1867, aud October 28, 1808, within the first sixty days of which the accounting officers made the necessary entries to adjust' the accounts already settled. He collected $134,168.- 34 and retains the whole. State officials Knew this fact for three years before it became public, and the. neglect to re port the transaction to the Legislature, is regarded by us as a gross dereliction of official duty. There yet remained in the Auditor- General’s Office 'at Harrisburg a large number of vouchers and accounts lor equipments and subsistence of troops justly payable by the United States.— None of them have been filed at Wash inglon prior to May 4, 1870, and none of them were covered by the terms of the resolution of 1867, by the commis sion of Evans us special agent or by his bond or agreement of 1867. In March, 1870, Evans presented to the Auditor-General a -letter from the Governor requesting him to place these vouchers under' his (Evans’) charge for collection Irom the United States. Auditor-General Hartranft re fused to do so for h time, but in view of the necessity for prompt action under the act of Congress, be finally .consent ed. He declined to give them to him at a commission of ten per cent., but made a special agreement for an equi table compensation to be fixed by Har tranft. , The claims wore then taken in charge by! Evans and his clerk, Dr. Trimble, and prepared for filing and settlement. May'4, 1870, vouchers amounting to $259,1)38.10, June SO, 1870, amounting to about $762,127.91 and May 25, 1871, amounting to $33,. 737.77, were filed by them in the ofllco of the Third Auditor ,of the Treasury, at Washington, for adjudication and payment by the United States. On the 13th day of April, 1870, Governor Gea ry gave to Evans a new appointment as agent to present these claims for settlement and collect these moneys.— In this appointment no reference Is made to the resolution of 1867, and it seems to have been’ recognized that these vouchers were not covered by its terms. On August 26,1870, Evans procured a settlement by which (he sum of $136,- 846,09 was allowed to the State, upon these claims, and ou the fobbing day warrant Eo. 274# was drawn for this amount to the order, of the Governor.— This draft wra Indorsed by "George O; Evans, attoruey in fact,” and was paid to him. The only portion of this mon ey that reached the Treasury was $29,. 867.43, which was paid by Governor Geary, July 24,1871, he haying receiv ed it from Evans the day previous thereto, by draft on New York. This date is one week subsequent to articles in the newspapers on this sub ject, and it Is a remarkable coincidence that the only official report made by Evans in reference to these collections boars date four days after the public press had sounded the alarm. Your committee cannot understand ; why Evqns lulled to make bis reports if the transaction was lair and bis cummin sians honestly earned. Nor can thee perceive the necessity for such übsolqty silence .In regard., to the whole subject .as seethe, tonavejirevailedln thopffl .felal circles ;at Harrisburg until ;the 'scrutiny I 'of ah intelligent subordinate •dragged the whole thing Into;the Joiib-i Ho gaze. -,Vr' " astounding pacts and figures. •: There was no shadow of right to re tain any of the proceeds of the draft of August 27, 1870 it was no part of tho “suspended and disallowed claims,” and by the very terms of the resolution of 1867 the commissions were to be paid out'ofjthe moneys collected therefrom. Under the agreement with Hartranft this money should have gone' Into the treasury and an equitable compensation been fixed by him and paid by the State Treasurer. Tho Governor seems to have been cognizant of the retention of this, draft by Evans—for ho says in his communication to this committee, “the first of. these sums, amounting to $186,816 09, collected by the agent Au gust 26,1870. was retained and credited by him; on Nts commissions.” This sum made a total of $321,014 44 collected by the agent, all of which he kept until July 24, 1871, when $29,067- 43 thereof was paid to the treasury.— No one attempts to defend the retention of the latter sum. for eleven months, nor can we see the justification for re taining on August 26, 1870, $87,874.32 os ten per cent, commissions' on moneys not collected until April 11, May 15 and June 23,1871, respectively, for it will be remembered that up to August 26, 1870, the whole amount received in cash was and the' whole sum adjusted and credited to the State was $1,910,598.93,: making a total of $2,231,613.28. Upon bis own showing and in accor dance with his own claim, ■ therefore, tne agent, Evans, with the knowledge of theQovornor, bod in his hands when the Legislature met in January, 1871, the large siim of '597,858.12 J 'more than he was entitled to under his own un founded claim. Your committee can not understand why the attention of the Legislature of 1871 was not called to this astounding state of facts. On April 11,1871, another settlement was obtained by Evans, at Washing ton, resulting in ; a balance upon tbe last claims filed, in favor of the State, of $137,822.59. Warrants in favor of John W. Geary, Governor, or order, were drawn on that day for the amount, which were paid to Evan-, April IS, 1871, without the indorsement of the Governor, and this money reach ed tbe State Treasury April 25, 1871, through the hands of Governor Geary. ..May 16, 1871, another balance was struck in favor of the Stats for $242,167- 57, for which a draft was.drawn to the order of the Governor, was indorsed by Evans, attorney in fact, deposited by' him in the Partners’ and Mechanics’ National Bunk of .Philadelphia, the evidence thereof sent to Governor Gea ry, and it reached the Treasury May 19,1871, through him. June 23,.1871, a balance of $298,753.01 was found ill lavor of the State; and a draft of that date for that amount was drawn to the order of, the Governor and remitted directly to him. This money was paid into the State Treasu ■ y by tbe Governor, June 28, 1871. This draft was indorsed “to be remit ted direct to Governor Geary,” and. this seems to have been the result of interference at tbe United States Treasury by 'Mr. 8. P. Brown, who there asserted that Evans Nvas not pay ing into the State Treasury, the moneys paid to him. Mr. Brown testified that the reason for,his interference was that Evans had not carried out his agree ment with him, and was not paying his collections into the State Treasury. The resolution of March 22, 1867, pro vides for the appointment of “a special agent to collect the disallowed and. suspended claims against the United States, whose compensotion. for that purpose shall not exceed ten per centum of the amounts tnus collected, and shall he paid out of said collections.’’ Of these claims Evans collected $184,168.35, and bos kept the whole. The maxi mum of his compensation for this work Would be $18,416.83, and it appears that the principal part of his labors were performed within thirty days. BIG PAY POE LITTLE LABOR. Cumberland .Lawrence, The claims filed on and after May 4, 1870, amounting to $1,058,798.86, re quired clerical labor and care in their preparation for presentation and filing, Dr. John Trimble, a former employee of the Third Auditor’s Department at Washington, seems to have been the principal assistant of Evans In doing this work. From his testimony ft appears that an office was opened in Washington in 1870, and clerks em ployed and engaged in the preparation of vouchers; that lour clerks, includ ing himself, were employed from Apri 6to July 14, 1870; that $2500 would cover alltheexpeno of this manual la bor. Evans obtained control of these claim March 80,1870, and toe last money was received June 23,1871—a period of fifteen months covers the whole of the time occupied. For this he claims to retain $81,558.93, or ten per cent, upon the sums collected from the last batch of claims, and withholds the further sum of $25,819 to complete, his ten per cent, for collecting $184,168.35 of the first batch; The testimony of Dr. Trimble corroborates the statement and agreement of the Auditor-General as to the compensation to be allowed for collection of the claims ot 1870, and your coipraittee are clear in their opinion that this claim for ten per cent is utterly unfounded. They cannot but express their disapprobation of the looseness of official routine that placed in the hands of Evans over a million of dollars of valuable assets without re quirlng from him any security what ever. We are unable to arrive at any relia ble data ns to the disposition of the whole of the commissions withheld by Evans. He testifies that he is without property of any kind, and that he paid his debts and expenses with thesemon eys. MONEY PAID FOR NECESSARY LKOIS- The testimony of Evans is .contradic ted iu its material points by S. P. Brown, who swears that “he (Evans)- also stated to me that he had tp pay a large amount of money to Pennsylva nia officials for the purpose of obtain ing the necessary legislation. He gave me a memorandum of amounts he had promised to pay to these parties. On this memorandum appeared the name of Governor Geary and frlefad for thir ty thousand (80,000) dollars ; .!). O. Forney, six thousand (6,000)-dollars ; J. Bobley Dunglison, five thousand (5,- 009) dollars, and other parties, eight thousand (8,000) dollars. He subse quently stated to me that he was to procure the publication of the life of Governor Geary, anj that a large por tion of the thirty thousand (30,000) dol lars was to be appropriated to that pur pose. In a'subsequent conversation, Mr.. Geo. O. Evanfl told mo that he had ,an Interview .with a publishing house, the nance. of which, he mentioned—l think it was Appleton A Co., but am not certain—and that it would cost for ty thousand (40,000) Dollars to publish the life of Governor Geary, being about •ten thousand (10,000) dollars more than .he had anticipated.' Another coosiderr alien he was to give to Governor Geary was that he (Evans) was either to purr, chase the controlling interest in a paper’ In Harrisburg, qr to start a new one to brim; Governor Geary’s name promi nently before the people as a candidate for the Presidency. This proposed pa per was to run woolly in the interest of Governor Geary, and to\be under his i the Governor’s) control, t Ho told me ho bad parties Interested I with him, to whom he had paid and was to pay largo fees. I asked him their names; but he declined to give them.” CONCLUSION OF TUE . COMMITTEE'S We cannot give credence to the state ments of Mr. Evans in view of this testimony and of all the facts and cir cumstances surrounding the transac tion, and wo ate impressed with the LATION. LABOBB. belief that the whole truth upon thi subject has nfit’been reached by our in quiry ; but we have exhausted all praoti cable means for reaching it, and repor he Tacts,/,so far as wo could ascertaltu them, for your further action thereop.— We earnestly recommend that the now ers given by the resolution of 1807 ami tfie appointment of Mr. Evans be at-enoy rescinded by the repeal of the - resolution ami the revocation of the powers given, and that' tbe Auditor General and Slate Treasurer be vested with foil power to employ counsel or agents in their discre tion to collect the moneys Improperly withheld by Evans, and to secure fur the State all moneys remaining unpaid' or heretofore improperly.pabl by the Unit 1 ed States upon the war claims of this State. „To accomplish these objects we report for adoption a Joint resolution, tbe imme diate passage of which wo respectfully recommend. Regarding a certain communication that appeared in several New York pa pers reflecting upon John F. Hartranft, Auditor General, and B. W. Mackey, State Treasurer,'wherein specific charges were made against (hem in their official capacity, and stigma was cast upon cer tain private persons, tbe committee find tbat these have been baaed upon data etcher furnished by Dr. William Payne or some other Irlend of George O. Evans, and that upon careful inquiry of wit nesses under oath we Add that tbe spe cific charges madeiq said communication are not Crus. / All of which Is respectfully 'submitted. James L. Graham, William A. Wallace, Harry White, Committee on the part of the Senate. D. N. White, A- C. Noyes, B. L. Hewit, J. D. Hancock, . B. A. MoConnel, Commit! ee on tbe part of tbe House. A Call to Elect Delegates.— The following call appeared in the Re publican papers of Philadelphia last week: ' -Anti-Grant Republicans At tention. —The 'Republicans of Penn sylvania opposed to the re-election of U. 8. Grant, and in favor of general re form, are requested to meet in their respective Congressional districts on Saturday, April 20, at 8 P; M., and elect delegates to the Cincinnati Con vention. By order of the State Central Committee. ' Papers favorable please notice. . The Radical State Convention met in Harrisburg yesterday. At the time of going to press we had no informa tion from the delectable body, but as Hartranft is the Cameron-Ring candi date for Governor, who understands “addition, division and silence,” he will, we feel satisfied, receive the nom (nation. The Convention is composed largely of officeholders, roughs and thieves. aaucttteemcnts. rt ALE OF UNSEATED LANDS.—By O virtue of ft warrant from under the hand and seal of the Comralsalnuera of Cumberland county, and to ra© directed, tho following tracts or lots of tmseabed lauds, situated'in Cumber land couuty, Pa . will be sold at public salOi at 111 o'clock, on MONDAY, the 10<A day of JUNE, A, D.lbTi, at tho Court (louse, lu Carlisle, coun ty aforesaid, or as much of each tract as will de fray the unpaid taxes and costs thereon. CEOttUB 8088, Cbunfi/ treasurer. Carlisle West Ward. No. Acres. Owners. Tax due. Lot Natcher. Margaret, I W Dickinson township. 81 Ahl, D. V. * 0, W. 10 77 6 Albert, widow, 1 <7 U Beecher, Jacob * 18 100 Beam, John 1 18 34 Buahey.J. Y. 15 74 Boner, Joseph ■ 10 Brough, Jacob 4 65 6 Brown & Criswell, 163 7 Blteman, Daniel _ I*> 8 Blteman, Wesley . 3 82 6 Brough. John I 28 9 Bolen, John 1 40 84 Biddle. IS. M. 180 21 Craighead. Wm» - 1 06 10 Coulston, F 35 6 Criswell A Brown, 159 fi Co6n, Joseph 3 68 N£Wj BEAUTIFUL AND UNSURPASSED DISPLAY OF „ Shawls and. Scarfs, A 1 1. T. GREENFIELD'S NEW STORE 3XTOa X 8 Ejm The great speciality, Blaok Silks, tor weight, beauty of finish and prices, my slock of Blaow. Bllk, annual be excelled by uoy la the country. lam prepared to guarantee every yard we eel . Full asaurlmeot of Japanese mike very cheap, Japeuese Popliue. Jupeueao Kobe*, choice Mohairs, Princes Cloths, diripe Purlsieone, Black Iron fierce, AlexU Poplins, Philadelphia Poplins; wool Debalns, Alpaca*, Ac. in a word, everything In Dress Goods, new, cheap and desirable. The most eomp.ete stock of TVT<viiMnin<r pAAitc ever offered in this market. AJI-wool DeLalns, Uashinerea, Bomba IXiOUmillg UOOQS Z lne Cloths. Bombuzlues, Bilk aud Wool Henri etta Cloth. Taml?e. Belgian Cord, bttHlUe. Australian Crape, Black Merge, Crape Velis.do. Partic ular attention paid to Funeral orders. WHirfcl GOODS.—An immense slock of the above In all tue latent novelties of the season, now ready for Inspection. Blacks of DOMESTIC GOODS and Table Linens, at low prices. MEN’S WEAR.—Having increased my stock and facilities In this branch, I now prepared to offer an assortment second to none in our town. Black Cloths and D'-esklns. French Cass)more* and Saltings, English and Rcoteh Chariot’s Casslmeres, do. HUITR made to cr*. de* at short notice. The following Artists have been secured to make up our. work this season Samctki, Swartz, T. 8. Reiqhtkr, John Garcthem. 1 would cordially invite everybody in want of Goods to give mo a call, as we cannot fall to pleaso. Ij. T. ta-reenfielcl, , No. . 18 Fast Main Street, 18 T 2. 11872. Grand Opening BY THE NEW FIRM! AT THE OLD CENTRAL CORNER ! For great bargains In Black Silks, Call at Miller d BattorfTs. For Japanese BUb% in handsome styles, Call at tbe Central Corner.* For ati handsome Dress Goods, call at Miller d Buttorff a. For. Dolly Varden Dress Goods, call at the Central Ceraer. For all kinds of Mourning Goods, Cali at Miller d ButtortTs. For beauUfal Spring BhawU, * Call at,tbe Central Corner, For all iha New Goods of the Season, Call at Ullter d BattorfTs. For bargains In Table Linens and Towlings, call at the Central Corner For cheap Houselurnisblng Goods. Call at- Miller d BattorfTs. For o large assortment of Cloths and Cassimorea, Cali at the Central Corner. • For all kinds of Notions, Call at Miller d BattorfTs. For bargains in Sheetings, Muslins, Tickings, Linens, Calicoes, Ginghams, Cottonades, do., : Call at the OLD CENTRAL CORNER. For Counterpane., QnllU.Cov.rletq, Blanket., do., cell at MILLER k IiTTORFFS. MS* We are the sole agents In Carlisle for the celebrated Josephine Seamless Kid Gloves. These are the finest Gloves Imported. Call and see them. . We will always try to make the Central Corner the most attractive for Dry Goods in Carlisle. , .pH! n, 1872. Miller & Buttorff. 10 Glapsaddlo, David, 0 ' Guilds, Jacob IS Coolcley, Noah 970 Dlveo.H. N. 0 Dlxon.Jolm 0 Dali J. W. 8 Davis; Rebecca 7 Flhliburu, Jdlm 10 Oruliam, John (heirs) 41 , Uarduer. Jotm 8 Ulolm, Hamuol 0 UreUt, Jacob 10 Uarduer, Win. 0 Qarduoi, Kilos Uarduer, Rebecca, 0 tieimnluger John 20 Hopburu, Sam’i. ar., 5 Huinmclbuugh, H. A. 10 Harris, Samuel, 4 King, Jacob 30 Kuril, Noah 250 ' Keller, John (1 Koffler, Henry 7 Lorow, Adam 3 Lerew David P 4 Dauob, John 9 Myers, Charles 3 Myers, Cornelius, 9 Myers. Cyrus 3 Minton, Nicholas 4 Mantden, Dr. D. 30 Myers, HOury O' • Myers, John H. 4 - Myers. Kzra 12 Mlntbrl Isaac 5 Myers, Amos C. 4 McCreary, William 10 ■ Myers, Folly ■ 6 Noffalngor, Jerrle 15 Newcomer, John . 4 Ross, Uibson 13 Robert, Jacob 3 Btalsmlth, Peter 5 Bcoboy, David 15 Sterner, John 18 * Sterner, Jos. L. 10 - Hmyser, Pbllfp '6 Stuait, Hugh Ksq.. S 3 Stuart. John 0 Tro&tle. Adam 15 Trine, John 9 Trustlo, J.B. 20 Woods, N. W. 8 Wlremun, Isaac 6 Wolf, Jacob 4 Yetis, Simon 17 Zeigler, Hannah Frankford Township. 24 Ahl, P. A. *5 Bowman, Samuel Dunbar, John Darr, Joseph 3 Curt* & Grove 7 Forbes, A. (heirs) 6 Flnlcenbynder, A. 5 Grluer, Johu 72 Grisslnger, Samuel 8 Kiser, Ueorgo . 6 Krinor, Joho 4T• - - iCrindr, John LecUey & Boslor 0 Longneoker, Benjamin 225 Nallor, Barnett 5 Pioyer, Jacob 59 Snyder, Henry 10 Washmood, George 815 Woudbrorn. J. M. Hoptwell Township, 65 Sharpe, J. MoD. - ‘ C' , MyffUn Township, 5 ’ Arnold, Samuel (heirs) IS Fulton. James 43 McUune, W. 0. 20 - - Rico, Peter Middlesex JbtciuWp. 10 Cratne, Dr. Jos. 160 ii&oif. John New Chmbsrtaml., Lot May, Joseph Ptnn Township, 25 Allen, William Burns, Eliza S 3 Duncan David , 10 Engle, Jesse - 05 . Grove, MlchM. & Bro. 100 Galbraith. Thomas (heirs) Grove, Jacob 50 Kyle, John 14 • Line, David 20 Miller, A. G. 25 ‘ McKinney,'Thomas SO Miller, Joseph 8 McGlaUghlin, Wm.. 70 Pelfer, Keller Beoj. 680 Shock <6 Bro., 30 Thrush, B. 99 Weaver. Charles . ISO Woods, Capt. (heirs) South Middleton Township. 15 Albright, Jacob 86 Deardorr, George W. 15 • Earnest, Edward 14 Gardner, Barney 18 Grolat, Joel 20 Lerew, B, (heirs) 20 Louck. J. A P. 6 Lerew, D. F, 112 * Sheafer, Jacob 18 . Wonderly, D. (heirs) 13 „ Wolford. John 7 West, Mary, Tfest Pennsborough township. 15 Hlckernell, Henry April, 11,1872—9 t. A SBIGNEE’S NOTFCB. - Wb ereae f\. Horace U. Gibb, of South Middleton town* snip, Cumberland county, by a voluntary deed of assignment, bearing date April i, 1873, con veyed to the undersigned all his property, real Sersoual and mixed, for the b oneflt of creditors. Totlce U hereby given to all persons indebted to said party to settle tbe eame with the sub scribe* Immediately, and those having claims wlll alao present the same without delay, to _ JACOB HEMMINOEK, April 11, Auignee, FOR RENT.' Several rooms In the VoUTOTsan Building. ifoto, &ab r eft{acmentg 40 12 2 58 gALE OF tH K MOUNT FLORENCE ESTAT 1 12 1 84 22 60 129 8 70 WITH 'A - 1 BO 612 1 23 1 77 4 71 2 21 2 02 8 25 CASH FUNd TOTAL VALUATION, $350,0000 IN SHARES OP One Dollar Each A magnificent property on the HUDSON RlVffi near New York City, overlooking “ b Esx „ the celebrated country seat of the R«» n Ward Beecher. Large and Elegaui MANSION, .IM 21 i;w « v 75 Fully andßichly Furnished, and containing all modern Improvement! Eighty Acres of Superior Land highly Improved and ornamented with Shade Trees, Fountains,. - Statuary, Hedges, . Lawns, Avenues, Twenty Buildings, Fifty Building Lots. 1 25 2 00 I*o 1 85 1 95 Bowling Alley, Billiard Boon supplied with water, heated by steam, light with gas. BLOODED HORSES, ALDERNEY CATTLE, CARRIAGES, SLEIGHS, and , . HARNESSES CARTS, WAGONS; FARMING to GARDENING IMPLEMENTS, 0 and, everything desirable either for'a«ni> man's first-class residence, or modern farm. all to jbs Lmnißvn . -/ AMONG SHAREHOLDER' AS A MAJORITY MA' DETERMINE, at a meeting to be held In the city of New Ywl On the , lUh Day of May, mi The hoar end place ofmeetlng will be « through the Publlo Prest, ai least TEN BAYBb advance. Thns affording ample time lor all 1- be present In person or by proxy. The "Real and Personal Property," with to Cosh Fund, is divided, Into .530,000 SHARE which are elaborately embellished, sold at OKI DOLLAR EACH, and ace. numbered and R«£ tered from 1 to inclusive, in the stybol United States Bondi, to, guard against left# fraud. Special Attention Is called to the faot that, this is not a "Old terprlse, "Charity Concert, 0 , nor any oh* scheme for disposing of tickets, but an abd 111 bonajtdeaa Peremptory sake of valca BLE PROPERTY, full description of which Is given in ChenM and the exact truth of which every SabicrW Is earnestly requested to verlfyfor hlmscll, I* which end the undersigned will aflbrd all i* spnable facilities. It has been proposed that the Properly Cash Fund should be divided Into 2,457 Prizes ! But this matter must bo decided by the BW* 1 holders themselves. We are, by special permission, allpwed to l * fer to the following gentlemen, whole d*®** are in themselves a Sufficient guarantee the most scruputons care : will be c *J* o£ffl hl »( Bondacting the affairs of the Sale. They also consented t-o aot as an ADVISORY BOAHD. H. CUY PRESTON, NewYorttcßy. ZBNAB O,'PMKST, Utica, N. Y. • GEO, FRANK GOULET; Bt Lottl*. Mo. ORBIN WELOH, ay I aoaso; N. Y. THOMAS J. CORSON, TMCtfin. N,.L P. L. BTOWELL, Clean, N. Y. GEN. M. N. WISE WELL, “N. Y. City. F.H.PALMEB.N. Yi Clty. DANIEL,SICKLES; N. Y. Clly. ROBT. 8, DRUNO, ObarlMton, 8. C. m v -- LIBERAL INDUCEMENTS ED TO AGENTS AND CANVASSED Bp«ei»l Term, m»d« »ltj p» For foil pi rtloolm, Bdarc«, M'rtw* scrlptivtt Circular*, mtUnlnatad Via • Addreaa 1 JOHN A. LBFFBa™ General Manager, 635 Broadway• SIMONS - yi^i^ Ap4*6t. * ‘ 1 I 1 1 Graveled Walks, i Hot House, Cold Gh{
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