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PHILADELPHIA CRIME. 2TE jLD VER TISEMKKTS. THE GREAT CONFLICT VM Sail!) On Friday night Morton sent Stokes the Secretary, to Swain, with the confession that there bail been an over-issne, and hen the exposure. that particular one were also depreciated in value. The truth is, and it is rather lata than early for the public to understand it, that I mes, ami oojects intimately connected with the history of the founders of the He-public.

The same remarks will apply to the records of other offices in the tame building, which are not only numerous Jos. Home 77 and 79 market Street, Importers and Jobbers of Fancy, Staple and Domestic Dry Notions and Millinery Goods. New Goods Arriring Daily. Special Inducements to Close Cash Buyers. WHOLESALE EXCLUSIVELY- IBDHENSE REDUCTIONS OPERA CLOTHIWG HOUSE, We offer for your inspection the Finest Stock of Goods ever exhibited in this city.

We call special attention to our Spring and Slimmer Stock of SUITINGS, which we will make to order at $20, $25, $27.50 and $30' SUITS TO ORDER $22, $25 TO $30. Our Suits are cut in the Latest Style. 1 One visit to our establishment will (X)nvince you that we' are in earnest We defy competition, either as rescards quality, variety, style or price. PAUTS TO ORDER allow no bad fitting garment to leave our Store. 8 8 Fifth.

Ave. WROUGHT IRON RAILINGS i FENCES For Qardens, Offices, Cemeteries. 4c, Wrought lrou Stairs, Skylights, Iron Doors and Orat- -ings. Iron Roofs, Prison and Stable Work, Cellar Doors. Forpgs Builders' Iron Work Made to order at shortest notice and lowest prices.

Orders by mail promptly and carefully attended to. I70R TO 4,0 OF tXAL. AND TIMBER 000 ACRES LAND, situ ated in Jeflersoo county, on the L-ow Urade Road. For particulars, ic, call on HAMILTON MOODY. At American House, from 13 to 2 o'clock.

for.v). 0LM ESTRAY. CAME TO THE premises of the fOltxtf-ihor Aiimmt 2T "77, a black horse with two white hind ft seven years old, and fourteen hands high. The owner will come forward, prove property and pay charges or it will be sold according to law. AISUKEW MiVUNTOCK.

Fine township, Allethenvco. Pa. POLONAISE POLONAISE OVERSK1KTS OVEBSKIBTS OVERS KIRTS OVERSKIRTS iOVELTIES X0TELTIES POLONAISE POLONAISE New and orig leal designs: the POLONAISE! choicest goods OVERSKIRTS OVERSKIRTS tne market at POLONAIS iordt. polonaise X0YELTI ES OVERSKIRTS OVERSKIRTS POLONAISE A0YELTIES TAPISSIER TAPISS1EK TAPISSIER TAP1SS1EH SILKS SILKS SILKS SILKS SILKS SILKS SILKS SILKS SILKS" SILKS ISILKS SILKS SILKS SILKS Of our own importation, and TAPISSIER TAPISSIER made to our or der from choice pure material. (fnaraoteed to give perfect sat- TAPISSIER isi action in every case, and at lower prices than TAPISSIER TAPISSIER ever known.

TAPISSIER SILKS SILKS TAPISSIER TAPISSIER BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK CASHMERES CASH MERES CASHMERES cashmeres Of our own lm-: JASH MERES porta tion. made from select wool, CASH MERES -n oesc and cheapest that CASH MERES can oe touna. No make equal CASHMERES to tneir-s ior weight, evenness CASHMERES CASHMERES CASHMERES of weave, color and excellence. CASHMEEES CASHMERES CASHMERES CASH MERES CASHMERES CASH MERES CASHMERES CASHMERES CASHMERES JOHN MOORHOUSE, Fourth arenue and Market it- THE Turning Tide! 2fe lowest point in prices of Dry Goods having been reached, we may confidently look forward to an increattetl and enlarged demand. With, this view we have laid in a toe Ac of goods such as will be sure to command the at tention of the mv st discriminating buyers.

We Would Specify Oar Lines of Cloaks AND Shawls AMEEICAK AND FOREIGN DRESS GOODS AND SILKS! OF OUR FLANNELS AND MATERIALS FOR Men and Boys' Wear aKD OUE COM FLETE AS30BTMEBT OP BLANKETS! From $1.00 a Pair Upward. G.SCHLEITER Market Street. sen.eodu Corner Pens Avenue and Sixth Street. EYEMJitt SESSION. For inatruction in Bookkeeping, Penmanship, and Arithmetic, commence Monday, October 1st, For term 8 call at the college, or address 89 The Rottenness of the Saintly City Comin to Li-ht.

Tells Story of His Eascalily an Indicates Ois of Bis Co-Partners. The Victim of a Conscienceless Broker, Who rattened on His Eufn. Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. Philadelphia, September 23. Devel opments to-day in the great, Morton overissue of more than a million dollars' worth of stock have brought to the surface the fact that stock speculations in the first in stance was the cause of the over-issue of the Market street railroad stock by President Morton.

A decline of ten dollar a share on fifteen thousand shares of Eead- ng was more than the gentleman could meet, and the fraudulent stock was issued in order to negotiate a loan to meet te- eiencies. Ym. T. Elbert of this city, was Morton's broker. Elbert's nephew, Nicholas, about four years ago, was mixed np in the noto rious Central Insurance Company foreerv of bonds for the purpose of convincing the btate Insurance Commissioner that th company was in a sound condition.

Nicb olas, by the advico of his uncle, turned State's evidence, and was put nnder bail, Mr. Morton signing tbe bond. Through Elbert's testimony, the President of the company was sentenced to seven nd one-half years imprisonment, while the actual forger got ten years, and both are now in prison, the informer getting off scott-tree. The uncle claims that he was wofnlly de ceived in Morton, who brought bim to ruin by his fraudulent ovet-issui; of stock, and that he was totally Ignorant of the bogus character of the stock. Mr.

Morton meets in at cnarge squarely, and lor the first tittle) gives an idea who his associates in this fraud are. He says: "I aru not a whit surprised that Mr. Kibe rt should make such a statement to von for publication, but he is the last man who snoul-l have -lone so. I will tell you frank ly that of all the gentlemen that have re inrouanjui ms over-issue oi stock he is the only one that, from circumstances wnicn an? not necessary to repeat, could have the slightest idea of there being auy fraud or wrong in the matter. I don say that I ever told him that there was an over issue of stock in so many words, but he mnst have known it.

He could not have helped It. Asa business man he mast have mane inquiries found out a.1 about It "My first transaction in stocks was witli linn in 1N.0. He held for rnn 11,000 shares ot Ken-ling, which I had purchased at somewhere between $32 and S54 a I was at Cape May at the time when the war broke out betweero France and Prussia, and Heading tumbled aloutSlOou a share. The loss was greater than 1 could meet and Mr. Elbert was too weak lr rarry it for me, so my stock was forced on the market and sold.

The securities I bad placed in Mr. Elbert's hands were not all my own, or 1 a hould have been perfectly willing to have iett them gone and stood it; but a part of them had been loaned to me bv a friend ami hoping that I would soon be able to pay ori' all my indebted uess, I did that which I shonld not have done -1 made the overissue of stock and negotiated a loan. And from that day to this the same thing has been going on. 1 have issued about ten thousand fraudulent shares, and Mr. El-fcwrt holds three thousand of them now, at this moment, together with a number of bonds.

"I have never been able to get any statement from Mr. filbert as to how we stood. He would aiwavs promise to prepare one. but would never have it ready. I was cautioned by friends to have nothing to do with him, aud get my securitis out of his possession.

I had yielded to all his demands on me for money. It was always a cry for money I must raise him money. At one time it would be for commissions; another time to meet interest; but at all times it was money, money. I am satisfied now that since 1870 he has lived solely off me in fact, I know it. He did no other business but for me.

When ho asked me go bail for his nephew Nick, I did it. airnongo knew at the time was hnrtiug myself in the eyes of the people and my friends. Why, Mr. Elbert was sued several years ago, and judgment for obtained against him. He came to use aud asked.

me to become his surety. I did so, and in consequence I had it to pay out of mylown pocket. While the constable bad possession of his household furniture, and even when his daughter was married, the Sheriff was in the house. Three years ago, after getting tired of waiting for bim to give me a statement, I questioned him so closely that I cornered him, and he confessed to me that he had raised for bis own personal use upon my securities. To prove to you whether he was anxious to retire from business or not, and to show you how he has bounded and bled me listen to these notes, which he sent only yesterday morning: 'Dear Mokton: I want to see you at once, it possible.

Several loans have been called to-day, amounting to can off with 12,000 to-day. If you bave titty shares of stock bring it with you. I only knew of it a half hour since. Yours, 'September ai, 18i7. r-I.

BK8T. "A second note came in a short time, as follows: '1 want to see you at once. If you have fifty shares of stock bring it with yen to airange call loans. Yours, September il, is. x.lisert.

"He did not want me to get my securi out of his hands. He was making his living oil" of me, and had no other way of making money, louwui please sav lor that I should never have opened my about this if Mr. Elbert had not spoken first." Anil here, raising his arm high in air, and with his hand clenched, Mr. Morton, in the most bitter tone of voice, tinged with resentment, exclaimed: "When was trying to pull to shore and get out of this trouble honorably, that man held the rndder and steered me into the stream, where he kept me. No one was in my confidence not even my wife and I had with my terrible secret; in my own bosom face the world and carry on my extensive ventures.

Many times persons have wondered at my energy, and asked me how I could attend to the smaller details. used to smile to think to myself, 'Oh, if only knew what I know, and the cauker that is preying upon my heart, you would see that, 1 have more to think et than 1 went through with that Union Line and Chestnut street bridge fight with all this on ray mind. I have learned to conceal mv feelings. I would do like Halston, of California commit suicide. I have determined to stand it all and accept the consequences, whatever they may lie.

I know tbe ordeal I have to through with, and, with my sensitive nature, it is a trial, but 1 will try to meet like a man." William N. Swain, late proprietor of the Public Itecorrt and the third heaviest stockholder to the extent of 150 shares, was the direct cause of the exposure. The first intimation of trouble in his company reached him through Christian flrass, who is a director in the Corn Exchange Bank, as well as in Mr. Morton's railway company. Grass told him a week ago, in a casual chat in a street car, that there was a note of company's amounting to in the baak.

Swain expressed surprise, and noon looking into the matter, without consulting Morion, found that the latter had in the same bank two individual notes one for and the other 312,000, with i.VA shares of the Union Pacific stock as collateral. Samuel Baogh, the heaviest stockholder in the road, was informed of this. had been led to suspect that something wrong. An inquiry about the stock made by Anthony Drexel, the Third street broker, and great friend and silent partner of the obituary poet, G. Washington Chiids, A.

who said that he held shares on a recent loan of 330,000. Swain and Baugh then set about their investigation. On Thurslay last they demanded the books of the company at. the office, but were refused by the Secretary. Morton was visited and bluntly asked whether there had not been an over-issue stock.

He denied that such was the case, and requested that an examination of books be deferred until Saturday, when the Treasurer, Huhn, would returu from a Boston trip. On Friday morning Swain and Baugh again attempted to g-t a at. the books, but were unsuccessful. of is for the To so in all of ing one the fit is the but of Reported Turkish Victories Turn to Have Been lefeats Out i The I.ate .1. Thiers' Manifesto Pnb- United.

THK WAR IN BULGARIA. rLEV.VA BEPROVISIOSF.D. Constantinoplk, September 24. Hifsi Pasha's divisions of twenty battalions of infantry, two batteries and a regiment of cavalry entered Plevna with fresh supplies of provisions and ammunition. The work of restoring telegraphic communication is progressing rapidly.

Bon-rr, September 24. A Russian official dispatch, dated Corny Studen, yes terday, says: The Turkish attack on T.ecerkvo on the 21st was decisively re pulsed, ami was not renewed. On the 22d the Turks retreated. Our loss was twenty officers and four hundred men; that of the enemy was at least one thousaud. MEHEMET ALl'S MOVKME.VI8.

Lojt noN, September 24. Mehemet Ali reported victory turns out to have been a defeat. A Russian official bulletin an nounees: At the close of the engagement we heid all our positions. A renewal of the attack is expected. There is no esti mate of the losses." A correspondent ca'ls the affair an offensive reconnoisance by ten battalions.

The two armies occupy the opposite bank of the lianiea Bom. A steam ferry between Pirgos and Para- pan indicates the Russians are recovering lost ground. FRANCE. M. THIERS MANIFESTO PREPARED BE- FOKE HIS HEATH.

Paris, September 24. M. Thiers' mani festo addressed to the Electors of the Ninth Arrondissement is published. It justifies the proceedings of the late Chamber of Deputies, ami praises its moderation and wisdom; explains his preference for Republican government founded on the conviction that a monarchy is impossible; de scribes the existing situation as intolerable, there being a Republican constitution, and anti-iiepublican ail ministration. It strong ly protests against the crisis of the 16th of May, and proclaims the sovereignty of the nation, and its power rebuke the recent dissolution.

To resist its power will be usurpation. It demands freedom of elec tions, and freedom of the press. M. Thiers' principles are thus summarized: tbe sovereignity of the National Repubbc; law, liberty, and peace. BREVITIES.

There was a monster demonstration workingmen in Sunderland in honor General Grant. Plenteous rain has fallen in manv of the worst famine districts of India and the out look is more encouraging. triadstone formally denies the assertion or a Constantinople correspondent that be hail written to a Greek resident of Constanti nople, advising Greeks to join in the war against Turkey. Mr. Gladstone publishes the letter on which the accusation was founded.

The letter was written long be fore the outbreak of the war, and advises the Greeks and Slavs to give moral support to tbe other. This affair has been causing considerable cf a sensation. mifAUO BANKS OI. Tbe Fidelity Nay toga Rank Succumbs, Chicago, September 24. Karly callers at the Fidelity Savings Bank this morn ing, found its doors closed and a hastily penned card thereon, informing depositors that as notice had been served that a petition f--r a receiver would be filed in the Superior Court to-day.

the bank would remain cloned, pending the decision of that question in the courts. Owing to some opposition to the appointment of a receiver developed this afternoon Judge Moore delayed action on the motion before him until to-morrow. The bank book value of assets of the Fidelity aggregate estimated valne as made out by bank officers is considerably less, namely, Of the latter sum, the principal amounts are, cash, collateral loans, bonds and mortgages, real estate, demand collateral loans, bills of exchange, bills of discount, $25,000. A BIU KOBBE.RT. Iluadrrd lion sand Dollars Irons a eunlr; Baak Tas Cokixand, N.

September 24. A iuckajre coulaiuiug Government and railroad bonds, certificates of stock, mortgages aud promissory notes, estimated waa s'olen from the J-irst Na tional Bank of Courtlaud, Saturday. The loss was not discovered until this morning The securities were in a large pocketbook, which was kept in the safe. Ihe bank sutlers no loss, sm the securities belonged private individual. I) I CO.

Bl'OHKK (in Monday morning. September 4, SH77, al o'clock. Mrs. mother the late Mrs. S.

A. Wullerf, in the hlty eighth year of her age. The friends ol the family are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral from her late residenc. No. TO-I Pcnn avenue, on Wednesday morning, September at half-past o'clock.

VAN (HL.PKK On Snndav, September 2, 177. at V. Hlli. daughter 01 J. t.

and I.ii-Ele Van Odder, aged eight years. The triends ot th family are respectlully tnvitod attend the funeral from the family residence, S3 erry street, Tuesday, September S3, at lo o'clock A. M. WIKIlMIn Monday morning. September 2d, at 43 o'cI-K-k, Uknkiktta Woon.

The triends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the residence of her nutter. No. 43 Western avenue, Allegheny, Wednesday, September 2, at a o'clock P. M. RUPTURE! PILES! Witn a practical experience acquired in the mechanical treatment of over 6.OO0 cases ot Ifupture, Piles and Abdominal Weaknesses.wlth appliances eadorsed by all leading surgeons, J.

Mctll'IKE otters unusual advantages to those afflicted. Private offices, Joseph Flemlng'sDrug Store. f4 Market Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. Send lor Pamphlet. eels ROD SI AN WISTER, Florist, 133 8M1THF1LJ PI rrSHPKUH, PA (Successor to Bochmann a Funeral Hestgns, Out Flowers, Fancy Baskets, Plants, Bouquets, Harden and ordinary Flower Seeds all at low prices.

feaddyr AVc Study lo Tlcasc THE SPORTING GENTLEMEN "When we can furnish them BOGARDES GLASS BALLS SO CHEAP In barrels containing SOO balls By the single IOO without packinn 2 By the single hundred, packed in 2 5o Wecan lnrnish the BOUAKDE8 6PR1SU THAI' att6 OO. No Excuse for Not Hayim Clieap Sport At the above prices. We can also furnish a nice Twlat Barrel, ihot Una, fstde Lever Stwap Anion, for the Low Price of i33; with PISTOL UdUP STOCK, MO: and the CELEBRATED PARKER fcl'JiS FKOIH 50 TO 30O. AUSO, Of th follow! ng kinds: Cartts a Harvev's English Qun Powder, 7 and gTain. Orange L.ightninr tuq Fow.

der. and 7 irrain. Hazard's Electric Uun Powder, 4, 5 and grain. Hazard's Bucking, In 6'i ueirs and 1 ft cannisters. Orange Buck-lne.

in keirs and 1 ft cannisters: and the UIlEAPFK tlKADES OF POWDER from ISO cents to $1 OO per pound. Cartridge Oases, JO. ia, 14 and 16 gauge, either Oreen, Blue or Brown. Also, Brass Shell of the same gauge. Caps Wads, Primers, Metalic Cartridge of all sizes, and numbers TATHAH ClfcLE-BRAIED STAMJAKll SHOT, In ft and 2S ft bags the Standard Shot ef America.

All of the above Ooods fur sale by JAMES BOWN SON, 136 and 13S Wood Street. Pittsburgh, Tmsilaj, Sejtt. 25, 1877. Thk lire in the Patent Ortioo yester lay is one of tbe most alarming that has occurred in Washington since the epidemic of fires rommenced there, when the iilca got well impressed the people were determined to see the books. First tere was a fire in the War Department; then came one in the Xavy and now we have one in the Interior Department.

ae "1'atent Othce" building be it nnderstood is the Interior Department, and thus includes the Tublic Lands, the Indian, and the Pension Offices. It is the most important department of the government. The Treasury in some respects pales into insignificance compared with it. Millions and hundreds of millions and wo might say thousands of millions ara involved in its records. There may be nothing wrong but these Successive fires among the public records are alarming everybody.

The nooner Congress comes together the better. The "Ecatiinj Telegraph is not a member of the Associated Press, but would like to be, although all the members of the Association state distinctly they do not desire its company. If there is any court Christendom that can force a tu rn to take a stranger as a partner, con trary to its articles of agreement and unanimous protest, we have got to bear ol it. This is the present case boiled down. TILKOHIJIS in BRIEF.

Gen. McClellan has accepted the aom- natlon lor Governor of New Jersey. The Inter-SiAte Fair, representing the states of Uh.io, Michigan and Indiana, opened at Toledo, ijhlo, yesterday. A. Kentucky man poisoned severa w'vermelon for thieve, and then Iy mistake e.ild them to customer.

Lacking Die neive of a dru(f gist, he has fled. Five aces were developed in a game ft jwkerat Waco, Texas, between Jack Smith and One-eyed Jim. Th Coroner i proceeding Ith his duties as referee. The New York World considers it foolish to talk about Tllden inlso, on the ground that New York -has bad as many Presidential candidate! as she Is entitled to. The voluntary subscription in Mexico, towards the payment of the American deft, proved a failure, only ten thousand dollars hav-lug been raised throughout the Republic.

"What do you call a largo amount, Mr. Tweed-" asked one or th Aldermen. "At the time." replied Tweed, "I would fall a Im-ife amount; now I call anything Jlroin five dollars up a large Ten companies of the Third Infantry rriveiat iiinana yesterday, by a special train over Use Kock Island road, and leit lor Montana. They are en rmtr from the scene of the late riots In Pennsylvania to the seat of war In the lodi.iu country. Chaplain Collins, of the United States Army, who has just arrived at Portland.

Oregon Iroin Sitka, Alaska, reports a state of lawlessness In that town on the part or the Indians, and un-les speedy protection Is aflorded settler Sitka will f.e totally abandoned. Jlrs. James tt. Clair and her two hildren, (soa aud daughter), residing at -fj) Lake street, Cleveland, were poisoned eating stools, in mistake lor mushrooms. Sunday.

i ne two cniidren died the same evening. The mother is not expected to recover. the lork Hera id deolares there can be no doubt of General McClellan's election as Governor of New Jersey. It says: "Th Democrats could have carried New Jersey with any candidate on whom the party could have united: but they will now carry the State with brilliant enthusiasm." THE UUI0 AHPAIGS. Ollevtlle DolDt Iter Duty, Special to the Pittsburgh Post WKLLSvrLLE, September 24.

A rousing Democratic meeting was held here to-night which was addressed by Hon. L. I Thoman, of Youngstown, anil Hen. M. A.

Foran, of Cleveland. The bondbolding and National bank robbery through Ite-r-ublicaa legislation was ably exposed, and the eyes of many misled Republicans opened. jj UEXEKAI. TOM EVillu. Ills S)peech (Saturday at Carroll-ton, Ohio.

ISpecial UorTe.Tndence Pittsburgh Post. Carkollton, Ohio, September 24, 1877. Saturday last the voters of Little Carroll turned out in great numbers to hear Geu-eral Tom EwiDg, the jKJople's favorite, fresh from his joint discussions. This student of finance and master of oratory Kpoke for two hours with telling eflect. Hia logic is as nnannwerable as the truth of history.

He made many converts, bo-cause nil are not so blind they will not $ee, and so bigoted they will not reason. Hon. Johnson Sherrick, candidate for the Senate, aluo delivered a short address, wbich was well received. Mr. S.

left a good impression. His Senatorial district is closely liepubliean, but has been Democratic for four years. His election was in doubt two weeks ago, but is now assured beyond all doubt. Hon. E.

B. Eshelman spoke in the evening to the largest crowd that ever assembled in the Court House. "Old Fig-gers" gave the workingmen something to think about, and was eijual to the unexpected emergency of the very large crowd. Hon. George L.

Converse will have a very large meeticg at Morges, this county, next Friday afternoon. Much Interest is lieing manifested in political circles In regard to this Senatorial district. "We iDvite the I republicans to come on with their and be he who cries that Sherrick will not be elected. D. V.

L. THE PATEST PROCESS. A nerlMon or Inter rut to St. Lot-is, September 24. Justice Miller delivered a decision in the I'nited States Circuit Court this morning, in the case of the American Middlings Puriiier Company vs.

various millers in this city. It refuses thi injunction applied for, but requires millers using the tiour making nmr. in dispnt to make monthly reports to the 0Ue amountof Hour made by them, 1 to allow the plaintifla to examine their 1 if 'hey desire to do so. The case will an mi come up on its merits at the u-xt spring session of the court, if the plaintiff so elect! me neicuuama are ready for trial at time. any The Fen la of Too outlet nierp.

A Barnesville (W. Va) signer of the Murphy pledge went to Wheeling a few days, and after transacting his business, acd while waiting for the train to take him home, was induced to forgot his pledge to such an extent as to get urunk. He fell asleep as soon as the cars started, and the conductor had no easy task to awaken him. Attr he was aroused, instead presenting his ticket he handed the conductor his Murphy pledge. The conductor punched the piedge and wrote on it, "one drunk." I he Karuesvilln gentleioau's dismay may lx- iu.a:i;ed when the next day he exiiiliit-il I.

if pledge to prove he a Murphy to get ties me lips the I to you not go it the He was was 400 of the In the stock market yesterday one of the leading brokers, who now holds some of the over-issued stock as collateral for loans, made a thorough examination of the amount of over-issue. He fays that it is about 11,000 shares. All of this stock was hypothecated as collateral for inontv bor rowed. Not a share of it was sold out and out, so that dividends would have to be paid on it and thus precipitate theexposure of the fraud. It was for this reason that was able to go on for so many years without being discovered.

If, in addition to the interest on bis loans, he had to nav me heavy dividends on the stock which gave that road such high value iu the market, he would soon have been swain pea. ring nogus stun was never placed in large blocks. The largest (that with Mr. Isaac Jeans amount at anv one place did not exceed $100,000, and the rest was put around in various blocks of from lo.OOO to S30.000, beginning with the Corn Exchange Bank who held from 330,000 to 5100,000 worth, and are running through the various creditor establishments around Third and Chestnut streets, including Mr. Drexel, the Savings Banks, and several country banks who also loaned him money.

The over-issue is perfoetly good, or rather it will be made good to the extent of the loans made on it. PRESS COMMENTS. THE FALL OF JOHN S. MOKTOX. Philadelphia The sensitive trust of business circles received a terrible shock on Saturday, by the astounding fall of Mr.

John S. Morton, President of the leading city Passenger llailway Company. He has long been es teemed one of the safest men in Philadelphia's thoroughly familiar with bis duties as chief manager of one of our most valuable corpoiation proporties, and as scrupulously faithful in all his public and private transactions. The story that sueu a mau had put upon the market, or hypothecated in our financial horses, a fraudulent over issue of the stock of the West Philadelphia llailway Company to the amount of over a million and a half of dollars, esti mating it at the current market value of the shares, appalled the community and sent fresh distrust shivering into every branch of business. Mr.

Morton had position, business success, ample revenues, public respect, ami was the trusted custodian of the fortunes ot hia kinsmen and friends. He bad no sudden sweep of adversity to tempt him to the madness of crime. He was ambitions was weak, as are many men, in chasing the empty baubles of fame, and he paid the price of such folly by wasting means for tbe valueles favor of dependent newspapers and by sharing the exactions of modern politic, but ail such luxuries he could afford and wrong no one. His de parture from the path ot honor was the deliberate grasp for nnneeded wealth. He must have weighed bis integrity coolly in the ba'ance against the expected gain for whirh his honesty was bartered, for there was bo sfrn necessity to sammon him to stake honor, fortune and the large wealth devoted friends in a desperate throw to save himself from failure and shame.

Of all the many startling violations of sacred public trust which bave poured their desolation upon our prostrate and struggling iieople, that of Mr. Morton has the least to plead in its extenuation. Mr. Morton as sadly mistakes the con siderate judgment of mankind in r'rd to hi offense as he mistook his duty in first turning from the plain path of r--ti-tude, when he proclaims to the world that he intended no abuse of his trust and was conscious of having done do deliberate wrong in his issue of fraudulent shares. An 1 equally indelensible is his assumption that he aimed to serve and save others whom he would now shield from public ex posure.

His own wrong is without excuse and has scarcely the semblance of mitigation and the only atonement he can now make to tbe many who have been so wan tonly injured by his acts, is to shield none from their full share of responsibility for he crime. If others have tempted him nto the slonsh of perfidy and made him betray his responsible charge, they should be known to the community with their masks torn from their faces, that there may be safety from tbein He has made a manly struggle to meet the terrible issue he has created to confront him self, and he should offer to tbe countless throng that must staprger under the results madness the names and acts of all his oufe-lerate-s, without, fear of favor. stand as finger-boards to warn the on- against future faith aud betrayal. Profuundly as will this community grieve hat one so honored as John S. Morton bas fallen in its midst, aud warmly as syn pathy mnst well up for his irretrievable misfortune, the inexorable judgment of public sentiment will bold tbe cales of justice over his head to teach to all that position -and power can claim no exemption from the laws wbich make the way of the transgressor hard.

JOHN S. 110KT05. Philadelphia Press. When Nicholas Biddle fell from his high estate, forty years ago, bis worst foes were the parasites who had fed upon his bounty; and when Jay Cooke came to grief, five years ago, he had no bitterer enemies than some of his eleventh-hour flatterers he had made rich. The misfortune of John S.

Morton adds another to ibis category. He bas offended lerribly; and as we write today it looks as if he had offended deliberately. But we desire to place to bis credit the fact that he has long and laboriously worked for the j-ublie good, doubtless not wisely, but too well. Like Italston. of California, who after a life of wonderful and dazzling success, giving on all sides with a free and open hand, helping every: body, and, foratime.huntingnobody, Morton boldly banked upon the future, in the hope that each recurring venture might reimburse himself and save his principals.

L'ntil it is proved that he did wrong deliberately, and that hi did not, with honest purpose, try to save the victims of his own blunders, we demand for him forbearance. THE MAHKF.T STREET RAILWAY ASK. Philadelphia North American. We do not like kicking a man when be down, but the case of Mr. John S.

Morton certainly does not afford excuse caresses. Instead every additional development iu the matter seems to add to deliberate character of the fraud jier-petrated by himself aud the two men Samuel P. Huhn and B. F. Stokes whose connivance was necessary to the success of the nefarious swindle in which they were engaged.

the stockholders by whom he has len implicitly trusted and to the community which he has had his full share of honor, John 8. Morton has been a living lie; nor does it appear even from his own statement, much less Xroni the manner of his daily life, to have been any of the penitence of repentant sin until he was found out. it is the moral of such a life that demands a more severe punishment than ordinary. For, if society is to be maintained upon an honorable level; if tbe ambitions of the young are to be led to abhor means of advancement except those which are pure, then it is an absolute necessity that the lesson should be taught that the most severe retribution mnst follow where the greatest confidence has been wronged. THK MORTON KRKACH OF TRUST.

Philadelphia Inquirer A great shock of surprise, sorrow and indignation fell upon this community on Saturday when it became known that certain officers of the West Philadelphia Kail-way Company had made fraudulent issues the stock of that corporation, represent an amount variously estimated at from to three tmlllou dollars. Among those who took part in the fraudulentissue and by bis own confession, the principal culprit was John S. Morton, President of railway company, and also of the Permanent Exposition Company. Mr. Morton enjoyed, in an eminent degree, the resject aud confidence of his fellow-citizens, and it was universally felt that when a man, trusted as he was, betrayed the confidence imposed in him, and became a common swindler, there was no longer a safe foundation in any reputation to build public trust upon.

Hi crime cannot be palliated, and it is all the greater because of the enviable position he held; it not only that he has ruined or impaired the fortunes of the stockholders of company of which he wts President, that he has, by his gigantic frauds, ruined or impaired the confidence of the tniblie in all persons now holding positions great, trust. It was not only the stock of ie West TennsylvaEia Kail way Company which fell when the announcement was made of his crime, bnt the stocks of other corpora' ions in no manner connected with in It to of the the the the if the all of fire at is the of of be the the facilities lor such crimes as Mr. Moi-ton's are altogether too great, aud it is equally true that the community should not be compelled lo rely UHn any man's or men's reputation for security against the fraudulent loss of their properly. Now, after immense loss to innocent holders of the West Philadelphia railway and other stocks, through this third breach of trust, it should be the imperative duty of holders or dealers in similar securities to see that some ons of our ban its or trust companies be selected by the of Bans Brest dents as an agency for the registration of all stock certificates, and that the Board of Bank Presidents should, as so-m as the arrangement can be made, absolutely refuse to loan monev on any securities not sa reg istered. The Farmers and Mechanics' Bank is the registration agent of tbe city and State, and, because of the security which this agency gives, ourcity and State loans se.l at least two iter ceut.

higher than if there were no such protection to holders ami dealers. BURNING THEM UP. The Patent, Indian and Public Land Oflices on Fire. Destroying the Records with a Rush. Loss ou Hie Ituildiiiz flstiuiatrtl at $500,000.

The Loss ou Models and Other Valua bles Almost Incalculable. WASHryOTOK, September 21. A fire broke out at half-past eleven this morning in the model room of the T. mte-i states Patent Office. A general alarm was immediately given, and the entire force of the tire department was promptly ou the ground.

The tire broke out in a short time with uncoutrolable force, and the firemen were powerless to stav its progress. It traveled the length of the inth street wing, pro ceeded on its course throughout street to Seventh, down Seventh to making the entire round of tbe third storv and destroy ing nearly all tbe vast collection of models, and the interior of the building. Secretary Schurz and his assistants superintended the removal of files, models aud records. The clerks removed books and papers, and were oreanized as guards. A guard ot the I'istrict militia was stationed at the main stairway of the model room In the center building, whore an Immense number of models were stored.

In consequence of the inability of the firemen to arrest the Haines, dispatches were sent to Baltimore and Philadelphia for aid. Kngines from Baltimore were promptly sent, making the distance from Baltimore in thirty minutes. ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. The fire originated in the attic, it seems, just under the roof of the Ninth street front, which were deposited rejected models and over twenty tons of drawings. is believed spontaneous combustion caused the conflagration.

The Band Otlice records are stored in the rooms two stories beneath. THE DAMAGE SO FAB COXrl.VEl- T- THE ri'VKR STORIKS. 1:30 At this writing the rlre is under control. Moat of the damage has been coutine-i the upper stories. Several fire companies from Baltimore arrived about 12:30.

The time from making application for Hera until their arrival in the city was less than an hour. The government engine from the Navy Yard aud another from the Arsenal are at work with those belonging to the city, Baltimore and Alexandria, making a total of ten engines. Strong hopes are entertained that the fire will not extend below tbe floor the model room. The most valuable records of the 1'atent, Jaud. Indian and Pension Offices, as well as those of the Interior rvepftitment proper, are stored on the" first two floors of the buiHing beneath the model room, and none of them have yet been reached by the flames.

The heat was so intense at oue time that window frames and awnings on tistreet were ignited, but the fire was extinguished before making much progress. Ihe number of models is variously esti mated at from tiffv to seventy-live thon- and. A number of the more important were on exhibition and storage in the west hall, which, with the north hall, is completely wrecked and the roofs burned. P. M.

The tire at this time is Con fined to the attic of the east hall, which nearly all the models have been re: moved to the lower rloors. TBE 1.0S.S IN HHDEtS ESl-KMOl'S. The loss in rejected models will be very great to the (iovernment. In the 1'atent Ofilce building are all tbe offices subordi nate to the Interior repartment, except Pension Office, Land Office and Patent Office. The Indian offices snfl'er bv the mixing of doenments in the effort lo save them.

Manv rooms on tbe lower rleors are covered with water. The fire originated from spontaneous combustion among a lot of non-patented chemical stored in the attic, on the Ninth street front. No fire was made in the conservatory to day, nor bad any been made in building. THSI'KISIIPAL LOSS FALLS 11'liN THK PATENT OFFICE. The original copy of the Declaration of Independence and relics of General Washington were saved, as was also Franklin's printing press.

Nearly all of the specifications and origitial drawings of Patent Office are safe, and from these the models can be reproduced, necessary. Many clerks of the Interior Department, Band, Patent, Indian and Pension offices bave been ordered ou duty to-night, assorting papers and books, and drying all which bave Is -en damaged by water. The military are on guard duty at. building, where tbey will remain until records and public property shall lie secured. EXTKNT OF THE JlAMAOE.

None of the I Office records has been destroyed by the fire, but many were seriously damaged by water. Kecords of tbe application division, the office wbich first receives applications from patentees, and which paiwrs no copies were made, were saved. The most valuable models saved were those relating to sewing machines, arms, printing presses, locks, etc. All models of reaer, mowers and various agricultural implement were destroyed. A temporary room is to be erectjed once.

The damage to the building variously estimal at to while that growing out of the destruction of models and other valuables belonging to the Patent tUBce is almost incalculable. Arches which formed the ceiling of second story and upon which the floor the third story rested are so badly damaged by heat and water that many them must be torn down. The marble 'of outer walls is considerably discolored by flames and cracked in many places. It is supposed the fire has been smouldering beueath tbe roof which is not fire proof for some hours before it was discovered. Two or three fires occurred in the neighborhood of the Patent Oflii, caused by sparks from that building.

Ixiss small, i 60,000 MODELS DESTKOVED. The number of models destroyed will mot exceed 60,000. The Department of the Interior is a large edifice constructed ot marble, freestone and granite, in the Doric style of architecture. The building occupies two blocks between Seventh and Ninth and and streets, in the central portion of the city. The structure is 453 feet long, 331 feet wide and 75 feet high.

To get an idea the value of the building it most remembered that it does not contain only the Patent offices, but also Pension Office and offices of Public Lands and Indian Afiairs. In the Patent Office were thousands of models, most of which cannot be Teplac-ed, and when we learn from reports of the lire that 60,000 models were destroyed, some idea of the immense loss iu thus respect may be obtained. This office contain! many curious and rare things, relics of the colonial 1 1 i. to Pi go me At a a of he at is is but very valuable, as many of them can not be replaced. Eo.J HAYES IN VIRGINIA.

Lynchburg (iirestHioi a Heart eiitiou. Re- (Speeches of Mr. Have and Seere. tarle Evatta and Key. Lv.voHnrmi, September 14.

The Presidential party were met at Lowey's depot, seventeen miles from Lynchburg, by a committee of prominent citizens, headed by Hon. Thomas 8. Bocock. t'pon their arrival here the special train bearing the part of distinguished visitors was greeted with tremendous cheering from an immense concourse of people, music, etc. After the party alighted the President was presented to the Mayor of Lynchburg, who briefly extended the hospitality of tbe ciiy, to which the President replied: "lam very grateful, indeed, sir, to you for your kind words of welcome." The party, in charge of members of the Beceptkm Committee, were then seated in carriages and a line of march taken up with the Home Guard of Lynchburg and Lynchburg Light Artillery as an escort.

All along tbe line of the streets from the depot the Norvell House, there was constant ovation of people who filled every available place from which a sight of the partv could lw had. t'pon arriving at the Norvell House, the President and suite were conducted the front por tico, when Sir. Bootck, chairman of the lecention Com mitt', addressed bis Ex cellency, tendering. behalf of Lynchburg, a sincere welopme to the City of the Hilis. the first lrzima ct'v si tea ny mm After commendine the President's course towards the South, and his efforts to reform Civil Service, he said: "If yonr efforts are to continue as they have begun, 1 can foresee crreat results ahead.

Cnder the inspira tion of thought, a vision of the future comes before me. The chasm that once yawned so wide nd so bloody between Southern and Northern States is tilled and obliter ated; bright flowers of charity and concord lift their pure heads in the sunlight of favoring heaven, and overhangs in all its gorgeous colors the bow of promise and hope." The President said: SPEKI'H Or MR. HAYKS. Mt Fwksos It Is very gratifying ti have tile oiiportonity to rnke th ac-iusintanee of lanre number -it la.i'e?, seollmen nd of I.vneklmra:, and of this enion of the or trK-ma. A r-t au, entered wht jpealo-lM who then welcomed mem; to ff-rm '-The tMtavtu the Soutii and S--nthwet'' Since tl-en I have met the people of three treat termer flavehoiaios? States Kenmeky.

ennessoe am! (Jeorgis. 1 have the happloeas to vou that I iDt'asnihlre loelinjr ami thinking tou do TIu-m udlBM, like UiH one. couil-osd ol representative ot all olltlcal port ei so-l In an inerewu respect-le fprlnkllcir of veterans of Itofi arml-. 1 felt bv their wflc-me pulettly at home. IBs (ten -tleman who just no welcomed me to yonr city tla-l to note.

to tn early history in own State, a territory lormeriy wioi-urinir lo own Vl-Binta I lunrat bow nttx-fr ia- ehted tn -irlnl are our trrnst rlatcn. an-t reuiemDerWHrt nn-jr ana witn pownre loeir origin. Mr. Jefferson to that which has proved he comer tone of our rnoraittv, educa tion and equality of nebts herore toe law. we liavegmwo op and ttourtpne-i In pn's-uine, the 'nn'titution and laws, the pathway Jeffe-son market out.

In time, daughters and mothers arne to diller tor cause lor which we are not re- sponsible. But we will have no discussion now, It 1 enougn to now bow uill er.r. lor lioetltitv, i alienation has been removed forever. He who does nat ee th hand oi Providenoe in this not 11 evr notice any Pron-ientlal Interference. The restoration to nolent is tbe reealt.

whaeoouie a result that every good man has prayed tor. The day Is here. There (pointing to tbe mill tarv i s-tand men who were against as from isqI 15. To-day there is bo shadow between ns. Vim rinsed vour lives tor your rocvietlons.

(Applause.) Oood men and good women re poet those who rl-k their all in a cause which they l-elieve to te riant. (Cheers.) There may be some among us. there Ray be some in the South, there may be mat In both sections net recon ciled, but we all know that in the march ot progress there are always seme stragglers. (Ap- -lause There is a front rang an-i a rear rank ill armies. The great body of the people now ra-rc lorsart snrtfr iniiwiRiiiuiiflDuai nton.

nd all the reot will soon be glad to be with us. HotHKly else vields any ot their oonlotion. We 1 mMiere that one nation is ieiter man two. that one eonstit-ition is better than two. that one tlagis hetterthan two.

Th qneerion has been hich was the right one. Applause,) and that Is settled. (Imgster.) That borse esrries two men (j-olnticg to ao animal on wrme back werw tw- persons) when one would oe nettr. (ircai laughter and applause! Your honorable speaker said that all sections, all States, and all rltln-ns, should have equal and exact iustlce. Theov ernment now regards all as equal eltuens.

Ire- Ice that Mriflnla onderstanis me Hn- mlmtlon as we do. I have talked ng enough. (fries oi no my nt.w-pn.-r friends, no cloum. inina so. (un.

on, Mr President.) I eonld talk a great dual more where 1 hav agreeable audi- uces. f-r how could I stop when they greet me too d-v I de-ore to Introduce b-oa "some friends who are associated with -n the govemnem oi me country. The President introduced Secretaries Kvarts and Kev, who made brief addresses. the conclusion of the speaking. Mrs.

Hayes was introduced, and greeted with most hearrv applause. The President held reception in the parlors of the hotel this afternoon, ami was called on by vast rowds. To night the visitors were bau- rpietted at tbe Norvell House, after which je mi an was given in honor of the ladies the party. The visitors leave to-morrow morning for Charlottesville, where they will visit Monticello, the borne aud burial place of Jefferson. A DEAD IIIOT.

Oregon Bill's Mark maash Ip-sbMt. lag PI pe rrnni nan From the Icnver Tribune. William Sjience, alias Oregon Bill, is in many respects a remarkable man. His birthplace is Port Natal, Sonth Africa, and has hardly yet reached forty. He was sea for years, and during the time distinguished himself for his bravery in two engagements with pirates on the coast of Africa.

He participated with credit to himself in the last war with Russia, and was present at the fall of Balaklava. From 1SO0 to 1W5 he was an Indian fighter ou the frontiers of Kansas ami Texas, and in ao engagement with tbe red men on an occasion in which the whites were victorious, after a bloody hand to hand fie lit, he is said to have killed seven warriors with his pistol and bowie knife. In Portland, Oregon, be had a friend, John O'Madigan, now of this city. While O'Madigan was walking along the street smoking his pipe, and at a distance of ten feet, and at about a right angle.Bill suddenly drew his pistol and fired, the ball taking the pipe from the mouth of his friend, hut doing him no harm. Again, last fall, Bill was in Bake City with deer for sale, and seeing bis old frieud, O'Iadigan, passing up the same street on the opposite side, he called to him to stop.

When he had drawn his revolver, John did so, facing him at the time. Bill fired, and the ball passed through the top of the hat of his friend. O'Madigan, in the best of humor, called out, "Bill, don't shoot any more; it too close." A COLU-BLOODEI) MI KDI H. How O'Mallcy srdrrsil nirtaae-1 Walsli IB l.nifrae (ennly. SCKAlfTOK, September 24.

Shortly after twelve o'clock last night a man named Michael Walsh was murdered at a saloon kept by a noted character known as Bed Biddy, in Bttort Hill, on the outskirts of this city. The horrible crime was committed by J. J. O'Malley, a young man twenty-one years of age, the son of the saloon keeper, who took aim from tbe second story window of the building with a shot-gun and succeeded in lodging a full charge of buckshot in the head of the unfortunate Walsh. The murdered man had been ejected from the place, and was loudly endeavoring to enter again, when O'Malley went up stairs and taking aim at him inflicted the fearful wound which resulted in bis death at noon to-day.

O'Malley has been arrested and placed in the city prison. He says he did not intend to take Walsh's life, and that the other was riddling the windows with stones before the shot was fired. Sport Hill, the scene of the tragedy, one of' the roughest corners in tbe region, and was terribly ercitd to-day. The residents are unanimous in denouncing the crime as a cold-biooded murder. at to $6, $7, $8 TO $9.

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