Show OAKES AMES AND THE CREDIT tho tarco ions acnes the originator or at least chief manipulator of the notorious scheme credit Mo bilier havo published ft chrey article sn the boston herald wherein they attempt to vindicate abo memory father it is nothing but natural that the sons should he anxious to clear their fathers ichord of the black stains with which it but whether they havo bacun to provo their claim of hit public benefactor is another bues lion As most of our readers ore frequently perplexed when coaklin coi klin acroca this bugbear of credit MT bilier which is haunting the aws columns liko banquot hoat and will not down it may be appropriate prop to trace the origin and history of hat gigantic scheme it must a first be understood that the credit mobility tr was a enterprise organized for the purpose of aiding the construction of the union pacific railroad many of our readers remember that a score of years ago tho idea of building a anil road across the continent over the uninhibited and rainless plains which etched for a thousand miles west of the missouri river and through the passes of the blocky mountains and sierra nevada ran aca to the pacific ocean was generally regarded as a chimera yet the breaking guiot the civil war in suddenly made such a road a national necessity A considerable population had been attracted to california by the discovery of gold and seemed likely to declare itself independent of the federal authority to build this road through the wilderness occupied only by roving buffaloes and hostile indiana government aid was considered indispensable to induce capitalists to undertake this work of titans congress in july 1802 passed an act to incorporate a company with a liberal grant a loan of government bonds payable in currency which were to be a first lien on the road when completed but when after two years no one aad ventured to engage tn the business congress in july 1861 doubled the land grant and authorized tho in corp orators to issue an equal amount of first having precedence over the others thus making tho bonds of the government a second mortgage upon the road and its franchises the amount of stock was fixed in the charter at A company of gereral stock bolders was formed and they having aid up a capital of nought a charter already created by the pennsylvania legislature fora different purpose and changed its name from the pennsylvania fisca aagon cy to the credit Mo bilier of amers ica in imitation of a grand linin cial institution established in paris by the pere ire bros after miles of the U it IS had been built by tho credit mo cl 1110 nufa W ii ary A gulf seemed to open and hero hakea ames according to the statement of his sons plunged in the chasm to save the country in august be signed a contract to build miles of road for a specified sun per mile payable ostensibly in cash but actually in bonds and in later he assigned this contract ol 01 for which he was personally responsible to seven trustees representing all the stockholders the credit Mo bilier construction company who would consent to share the responsibility with him now came the tug of war with the incorruptible members of who were to be interested in alie welfare of the enterprise to assist in bulling abo stock as well aa in obtaining additional land grants and eab sides rom the government oakes angim who had been returned to congress son gress in 1803 was one of the most experienced and successful hobbyists lobbyists and by putting his money or stock where it would do alio llio most good as in schuyler coitus and james A garfielda Garfiel on the market in may 1869 tho road was completed the proceeds were supposed to bo equitably allotted by tho trus toes ai the work progressed to all the parties in interest according to agreement some time before this col me comb a delaware ghar sholder had ameller amel led a rat and raised a general suspicion against the fairness of the transaction of the C M to eat afy him oakes ames informed him nd liow all the stock lad been disposed of when of course it came to light that many leaders of both aties in congress had received stock gentlemen to whom mr oakes amis felt under obliga Un to assign shared upon supposed under standings previously made as the bons eons put it with col mccomb mado somewhat indis creel use of alio knowledge thus ob un a fire of jebian to which broke out 11 a llizo or public indignation in the fall of 1872 when iho fever of government expenditures began to abate and a healthy cal reaction bet in against alio extravagance trava gance which had grown up during the war the erss of the country began a most uelus and necessary crullo against abuses and abo foreia oat target of stricture ture was the credit Mo bilier whose records hud been were dicov eral to have washed their handa in alio gabis of alio corporation and more than ono political reputation win d and blighted in march 1873 atio bouso passed i vole of con dein nation on ackt for necking lo 10 iro uro antton tion to the afler of a in ivsich ho hii and directly the of coo greM by chic aig uig ni embers ot TOn grehS to f k uk A aal avoalt in the stocks of said corporation it was then also field was found out with a tarnished abeld which no palaver and quill driving of his adherents havo been able to burnish bright agan this is the skeleton matter ef the facts and it appears ably that if oakus ames did not realize his own guilt p su borning legislation lor the subsidizing ever useful a private institution he hardly the man of whom we might say he was an man except wo say tho accent of sarcasm of mark anthony concerning brutus da TANKERS forty days fast recalls to a correspondent of the san francisco chronicle a fast of equal endured by a prisoner in australia the facts arc as follows A notorious criminal named meginnis was convicted of alie crime of murder in the city of brisbane col ony of queensland in the latter part of 1865 or the beginning of 1866 lie had murdered a german at the seaport town of Rock bampton to obtain a sum equal to 25 after his conviction and sentence he refused all cooj taking nothing but pure water alt manner of measures wag resorted to induce him to eat he was set at ban and exhausting labor with a chain gang placa in solitary confinement exhorted by the cfaith olio bishop but he persisted in hi resolve to take nothing but water until after the expiration of fitly days and forty nights at the did of thi period be was reduced to a hk eleton at his own request to the hospital where ho received every attention biero wag visit cd by numbers of peopled peo he spon recovered sufficiently to undergo the death sentence his motive for the fast as given by him to the catholic bishop quinn was as follone fol lowe ile realized abat bo had been a wretch from bis boyhood and resolve talat before he was hanged bo would mortify his flesh with no less trial than that of cur saviours Savi ours fast of forty days hoping thereby to atone in some measure for bis evil past pe mounted the scaffold boldly all assistance willing to dio and confident that his terrible penance had secured for him the forgiveness of a justly god the details of the fast are among the records of the brisbane goal nd are well known to persons rt siding there at that time the newspapers of the period contained extended accounts of the affair dr tanner bad all tho advantages of modern scientific knowledge every possible attention and comfort and had not before him the certainty of an ignominious death on the scaffold if ho lived through the fast mcginnis was a condemned murderer the mental horrors of liis position about him placed at exhausting labor during a portion of the time and for the remainder having only the ordinary accommodations of a prisoner tanners feat was mere play compared to this can tako con side rabe encouragement from the success of the movement in england there are in england forty six active organizations many 01 the best men in the kingdom A meeting of the association which bloaja allta rt ovy A alia reform wi held not long ago in london and all the schemes for new spelling having been duly tabulated and classified were presented for consideration by tho members there appeared to be an almost unanimous agreement agree nent among the of the schemes as to the sounds o be represented and many schemes were so nearly like in principle as to admit of being grouped and dealt with together thoi association began tho publication a journal in july and will present ho various systems one after another for approval or disapprove one of the speakers at tho meeting of the association ventured to say that there was not n single philologist of the present generation in england bi america who was tho spelling reformers either nominally or in sympathy so arc we but until c uniform consistent system is adopted it is the lest o MUCH fadle is unjustly found with oko margarino and it may not be to set tho matter right oleomargarine is an artificial ermade from the fat of animals usually bae cattle the oleomargarine having been extracted from tho suet i poured into a churn with an equal quantity of fresh milk and as much water A little coloring matter is then added and a water in which pieces of a cows udder and milk glands have been soaked and tho whole churned tho mixture yields a sweet palatable butter which is salted as usual As nothing unwholesome is usel in the manu facture of the butter ta an fn place of real butter Is mere matter of uste it can bo made at from one fifth to one third abo coat of real butter and does not ruddily become raccia it is being largely manufactured if tho law compelled the manufacturers to label and sell it 09 oleomargarine it would be all right but many attempt to pass it off upon customers as real butter and this is what is raising the trouble as it iii a much cheaper arll iIo and should bo sold as such J II 11 trunk maker in salt kakoi city recently perjurer in san francisco and always an unmitigated fraud has leair sentenced by jubie francieco to 11 yearn for perjury in atio case of clifta po youngs by tho junior kalloch after eluding for several time ho niu at last reached by the arm of and thoro aro none to pity him was ilono in ahe american ansu cinq match at abc in the of the after the contest we tee th a the in amit Fen tonn carloo form a chaprock eha prock that ia dr scotts exhibit le atar aind viewed vertically jete jw te s |