Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. BENSSELAER,' IND. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1858.

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slave State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State; ergo, one Pro-slavery man is as good as tiro FreeState men a ul one-third! - . .... long as God allows''.the vital current to flow through my veins, I will never, NEVERj, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory to the everlasting curse of human bondage.— Henry .Clay.

Republican Ticket. STATE TICKET. Attorney General, WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd. Treasurer of State, JOHN H. HARPER., of St, Joseph. Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. ' Secretary of State, WILLIAM PEELLE, of Randolph. Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOIIN YOUNG, of Marion. Supreme Judges. FIRST DISTRICT, HORACE P. BIDDLE, dfi.Cuss. SECOND DISTRICT, ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson. THTHtr'DI STRICT, • ’ SIMON YANDES:' of Marion. > roriiTH DISTRICT, WILLIAM D. GRISWOLD, of Vigo. For Congress, SCHUYLERCOLFAX, of St.,Joseph. - '. State Senator, DAVID TURNER, of Lake. Representative, ROBERT PARKER, of Jasper. Prosecuting Attorney, JOHN L. MILLER, of Tippecanoe. id strict Attorney, <<M >TV TICKET. Treasurer, EZRA WRIGHT. .Sheriff, W. .T. WRIGHT. Commissioner, JOHN LYONS. Surveyor, J. D. HOPKINS. Coroner. THOMAS S. PEACOCK. Township Assessor,

Grand Mass Meeting OF THE 8TH AND 9TH DISTRICTS.

A Grand Mass Meeting of the,Eighth and Ninth Congressional Districts will he held at Brookston, on the New Albany and Salem Railroad, seven miles above Tippecanoe Battle Ground, • ' On the Stli nnrt <)tli of October. LYMAN TRUMBULL, j Of Illinois, will be there. lIENRY S. LANE, The greatest living Stump Speaker, will be there., JAMES WILSON, The gallant Representative in Congress of the Eighth District, will be there. SCHUYLER COLFAX, The Peo]>le[x C/ioce in the Ninth District, will be there. i CU/”And mapy other prominent Republican speakers are expected to he present. of lying affidavits that will not be sworn to! o^7“Judge Turner, Republican candidate for Senator, and Alex. McDonald, I ndependent, in town Wo will issue the next number of the Gazette next Monday noon. Our friends in distant parts of the bounty will please send for it by any one coming here on that,'day. (C7"Mr. Snyder yesterday called the editor of this paper a Know-Nothing. He kne!w . this to be false. The editor of this<paper is a foreigner by birth, and Mr. Snyder has frequently spoken of us on the street as the “d —d little Weilshtmin.j”

AN EXPLANATION.

We last week made a mistake in a single word_ in part of our edition.. We commenced striking off our papier with Medaryville instead of San Pierre ns the place where the installment dffswamp-land ditchers got off. When the paper had been distributed about town, the friend who informed us of the fact came and told us of our error, which we immediately (corrected for the balance of the editionr This explanation we made to Mr. Snyder yesterday morning, and he, in the face of that, undertook to make capital of it. Is this honest?

THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

The long article in the Expositor of last week, concerning cdunty expenses, is a tissue of of misstatements and misrepresentations all the way through. We will not stoop from the true dignity of editor and call them lic-s —such uncouth and ill-mannered terms we leave for the Expositor. Who penned the article in question we know not, neither do we care, it being of no importance to us; but Mr. Snyder has been reading a similar paper from the stump, saying that it was prepared by Mr. E. P. Hammond. | We hope, for the credit of this young man, I that this ig not true,-for it is no honor to anv lone to have that article imputed to him. The article commences by asserting that, four days after the contract was mane with Mr. ! Henkle for building the Court House, the Commissioners, Lyons and Sparling, issued j orders to “pay the contractor a bonus on his I contract,” in the shape of interest. This is not true. The interest was granted in the order accepting the bond of Henkle, and was part of the contract. The contract could not he effected without it. The order was granted on the 6th of May, 1854, and the contract was concluded on the same day and in the same order granting the -interest. Tt then goes on to say that there were to he placed two fire-proof safes in the Court House, which would have added $1,500 to the value of the building:, and that the house was accepted unfinished by the Commissioners. Pairt of this is true, and part of it untrue. The safes were to be of stone, which would have cost hut a few dollars each, instead of $1,500. Iron safes would not. cost | the half of that. But to explain why the I Court House was accepted unfinished.' On page 373 of Order Book we find recorded the following: “The contractor represents that he has, at a great sacrifice out of his own funds, placed the house in a condition that it can he occupied, and, in view of the fact that there is no money in the treasury, and no assurance that there will he any 'shortly, and that lie has been.subjected to great loss and inconvenience, on account of the failure of the county to make payment according to contract; he respectfully asks the Board, if the work is found acceptable to the Board, to re- j lease him from his contract, on such terms as the Board may think just and reasonable. Whereupon,, on examination, this Board, accept and approve of the work on said house, as far as completed, and order tha-t the Auditor deliver to,said contractor Iris bond,upon liis executing the proper release to the county, of two hundred, and sixteen dollars, of the amount heretofore ordered to he paid to him, and performing certain Work as per schedule on file marked A, to the satisfaction of the Auditor.” The schedule A referred to isms follows: “I will prune the seats.and bar, Judge’s seat, &.c., in the Court-room, finish what lacks in the lower rooms of painting the whole of lower story; two coat work; paint the tower blind, two coats, the last' green; put up four more jury scats, according to specifications, fill up the corner rooms with earth, covered with lime core, all as soon as possible to get the work done. “Sept. 2, 1856. B. Henkle,” So it will be seen that the county was do. ing great injustice to a private -citizen by not paying according to agreement, and the Commissioners released Henkle, on payment to the county of $216. The amount due the contractor at the time of accepting the Court House was $6,100, with interest. Does any one suppose that it would have hx-en justice to the contractor to compel him to finish the building, when lie could.not the money according to* agreement? Tne orders had to be shaved at twenty-five cents discount. As it was, it broke the contractor up, and he was compelled to make an assignment. This would not have been the case had the county paid up. Another part of the article says that j there were issued $13,507.36 on the ■ Court House. There is not one-word of truth in this. The whole amount of orders issued to Henkle were $9,100. lie received at the time the contract was entered into, SSC|O, cash in hand, and 200,000 bricks at s9ooj—making in all $10,500, $216 of which fie released to the county on one of the eiit- ! standing bonds. We pronounce, after a j careful examination of the hooks, any stafe- | ment going to show that Henkle or his asI signs ever received orders, cash, bricks and j bonds to an amount exceeding $'10,500 altogether, and $2 16 of that refunded, to he false in every particular. No such figures can he made out of the hooks, and “figures won’t lie”— if honestly handled. Again we find in the same article the |ollow ing : “We find an orderda*t<sd January 12, jsbs, Vl U J" r $ 2 >' 77 4-95 issued in blank to W. J. Laßue. \\ init docs this mean]” It means thpt. the individual who penned it is either a knave or a fool. The bond given to Henkle for-$3,100 was cancelled and two bonds issued for that amount instead of one and the $2,77 4.9-5 was assigned to |W. J. Laßue. Had the compiler of “figures that won’t lie”—if honestly handled seutinized, and not very closely either, the order to Laßue, No. 7731, he would have seen that it said on the face of it that it was part of order No. 6408, issued to Henkle for $3,100, which was cancelled. This one statement of the. Exjioditoc proves thati the compiler of “figures that won’t lie” is either too sharp or too dull. In either event; he missed bis ainv. Again, we find in the same article the following: ‘ some ten suits have been commenced against the. former Treasurer, (Markle) in

all of which they (the Commissioners) have suffered non-suit or dismissal rather than go to trial, and this at a cost to your county of not less than SI,OOO attorney fees, &,c., to support the Republican clique of Rensselaer]” Not one word of truth in the above. One trial was brought by the county against Markle,and in consequence of informality in the papers, it was dismissed and another was Commenced for the same, offence. The one dismissed, and the one now pending were the only ones brought by. the county. Eight falsehoods here—-two suits instead of ten. Governor Wright commenced two suits against Marble, and Governor Willard, he came into office, dismissed both of them at the expense of the State. What the expense was we know not; hut add the sums sued for, ($33,000,) and the expense incurred, and it will amount to something jrp.Xojir 83.>,000UC11 Ezra Wright commenced one suit against Markle, and lias another now pending, which will be at the expense alone of the parties interested. The State also has one now pending against Markle, he having made no settlement with the State for a year previous to his going out of office. How much expense'and loss to the State this will be no one can tell; hut if it is of a piece wit’ll the lormer ones, it will be immense. Again the writer undertakes tu make a body of the delinquent list, and says the county was to pay it, when eyery school-hoy knows that this is untrue. The person who allows his land to become delinquent has to i pay the expense—the county has nothing to do with it. Here the writer exhibits either gross ignorance, or a dishonorable intention to deceive. But granting, for Ahe sake of ! argument, that the county did pay the cost , of publishing the delinquent list, and what then? In the fall of 1854, Mr. McCarthy charged and received fifty cents per description, the whole amounting to $427; and he received the money two months before the work was done. In the fall of 1855, Mr. McCarthy was offered thirty cents per description, but this he refused, say inf lie could not live at such prices. It was printed at. twenty-five cents in Lafayette, including all expenses. In- the- fall- of ISSB, Mr. McCarthy printed the lis.t at forty cents, amounting altogether to $532. It the fall of 1857, the list' was printed in the Gazette at forty cents, amounting in al! to $337 20. So it will he | seen that the the. too sharp or 100 dull compiler of these figures “that won’t lie”—if honestly handled—censures the Auditor for allowing the Gazette the same that he had allowed the Banner the previous year, when the job was much larger, and could he doneJ for less in proportion, and ticenly-Jlve per ! cent, less than the Auditor . had paid theBanner in 1854. It would also he well to.! state that McCarthy advised the Auditor, if he gave the list to the Gazette, to allow it a living price. This was manly in Mr. McCarthy, hut his subsequent course was entirely the reverse, and we don’t know howto account for it unless lie was urged to it by outside pressure. We dislike to bring! up by-gones, but Mr. McCarthy must thank his own friends for opening this subject. When, he found out that, the printing es the list had been awarded to the Gazette, he proposed to print it for ten cents. This was done for buncomb and nothing else, and we were surprised and astonished at the time, that a brother editor should undertake to beat down prices, according to his own statement to the Auditor, to two hundred per cent, less than a living price. We have not the space to follow the writer further in his ■ labyrinth of falsehoods; hut we have noticed enough to throw discredit on everything that may emanate from the same quarter. As we expected, our opponents" have commenced the old game of misrepresentation on the eve of election, find we warn every one to consider well the source of any that may he made hereafter. We will stake our reputation on the correctness of our figures, and we value our reputation too highly to lightly venture it. Our “figures won’t lie.”

FRAUDS ON THE TREASURY.

Bhe Expositor has been flourishing, for a couple of weeks, a great number of figures exclamations anil display type, in order to gel up a feeling againstUhe Republican officers, when it knows —if it knows any thine—that, although it says “figures won’t lie,” yet it handled like it handles them, “figures will lie.” As vve are now on the eve of an important election, we shall not get up a new article on the losses to the treasury through the agency of Old-Line officers, lest we might be thought to he talking for buncomb, like our neghbor; but shall content ourself with republishing an article published in this paper on the 21st day of October lust, after the election, which, of course, could not have been intended to have had any effect on the election, but was published as our deliberate conviction of duty. If the facts published were not true, docs not every one know that they would not remiiin uncontradicted for almost twelve months! Why, had there been ope word of untruth in the statement, a suit for libel would have been brought against the Gazette, long ago. The clique, which urged the postmaster, when this paper was started, to cripple its circulation, would certainly, if they couid see the least prospect, of success, embrace this opportunity to “crush out” the

establishment, by imposing on it heavy fines foridamages; but thef knew that the task was hopeless, and w isely refrained. The following is the article alluded to, word for word, figure for figure. Read it, tax-payers, and then record your votes for those whom ymi believe to be honest men: In regard to the Markle affair, as all the facts of the case have' never been published, perhaps we might as well go into a review of it. During the administration of Governor Wright, it was discovered that Mr. Markle was in arrears to the State in a very large amount—how much the public will perhaps never know. The Auditor of State came up and made a hasty examination of the hooks of the Treasurer, but found them in such a state of utter confusion that it was impossible to arrive at the exact amount of Markle’s indebtedness. However, enough was then brought to light to prove the fact that Markle was then behind in the snug little sum of 10= '823,400 30! cOI Consequently, he was required to gives his notes for that amount, with security, and also a bond to give his note for any further amount that' might he f6und to be due upon a thorough examination of the books. This was on the 27th of July, 1855. Subsequently, when such ex- I animation was made, it was discovered that Mr. : . Markle was still indebted to the State in the sum I of about ICF 85 4,000 More! .-Tg Exclusive of the $'23,000 for which he gave his notes in July of 1855 ! His note was demanded for $14,000, which .Markle refused to give, when suit was brought against him on behalf of tin, I State, the object of which was to reform tin- j bond, [in which the obligation to give security on such additional note had been omitted either ! through fraud or mistake,] and to compel tlii exciltion of the note. * j After this case had been pending about a year, Willard and bis suite came out here latst spring, [1857,] and were closeted together during the greater portion of ;r Sunday in.tile Treasurer's office, 'file-next morning after the Sabbath-day caucus, it was proclaimed that a compromise hail been effected between the Stale and .Sir. Markle', and the‘Governor applied to the attorneys' for the State for the notes and bond in the seas-, which they declined delivering until their f.-es were paid. The,Governor refused to pay the fees, saying that lie was to have these d—<l Black Republican lawyers fattening at the. expense of tile .State!” Asa matter of course, the documents are still in the posscfcsioir of the attorneys, and can be inspected by all who have a desire to see the proof ot this swindle. At tin- last term o! tic- Circuit Court, this case was dismissed at the expense of the dilate, by order ol tlie Governor. It should also lie borne in mind, in connection with this fact, that, on the Saturday night before this rumj.roniise was effected, Mr. Pal pier, Deputy Auditor of State, called upo'n tin- attorneys employed bv the- State, ami asked, “\\ hat can be gained by continuing tile sift against Mark If?" and was assured by them that. K7= s!+,(tO<) ! C QI Could he collected for die S late; that there w.:k no doubt of the recovery, X-c. In the face-of this. - , Willard dismissed tin- suit. Now, let us see how much tin- State lias lost by lids operation: The notes given by Markle on tile 2 1 til of July, 18.),), fur $23,-I (> t .3*o, proved to lie worthless, on Recount of tin- insolvency of Markle and his security—John I’. Dunn and’Allen May—except one note of about $4,000, secured by Will. Sheet/, who lias lifted it. This leaves mp 819,000 : TOX In round numbers, unsettled, and probably never never will be; to winch add the KIT II 1,000 ! fm Of which Willard released Markle, without an v shadow of justice or right, and we have the snug little sum of DTP 833,000! ! =ol2^ Of which the S late has been defrauded.'. In this connection we copy the following from the- Expositor ol last week: “It has been-urged .upon the County Board, time and again, to make a statement of the county indebtedness. This., for reasons best known to themselves and the clique of Republican tricksters of this place, they have refused to do. Those,“however, not within the magic Court House circle, who are best infonne’d on'* this matter, say that the present / indebtedness will not fall short es ten thousand dollars.” Had the Expositor man been well posted, he would have known that it was impossible to make a true statement of the county indebtedness before having a settlement with Mr. Markle, the Old-Line Treasurer for four years and three months, (three fnonths more than the Constitution allows.) Let him now learn, if he knew it not before,that Markle has not yet settled with the Commissioners, nor with the State officers neither, and it is believed by some that he never will. However, the Commissioners, from the best data they could get at the last June settlement, (they getting no satisfaction from Markle.) estimated the county indebtness at about $7,000. Air. Markle can thank his own friends for being the cause of thus refreshing the memory of the people of his shortcomings. It has been an unpleasant task to us.

PLEASE DON'T.

The editor of the Expositor last week culled the editor of the Gazette a LIAR. This was very unpretty and unbecoming, especially as he could not know whether our statement was true ur false, unless he knows; all things and is omnipresent. We guess he did not care whether our statement was true or not; if true, it should never have leaked out, and he would call it a “Zie” anyhow;, if false,-he wouldn’t miss it in calling it a “Zie.” But the language is very unbecoming an editor, and we hope, for the credit, of the profession, that he will never stoop to such blackgardism again. Do, Air. Expositor, please refrain from calling us ugly names hereafter—now do, please; it hurts our feelings, indeed it does. - Pray, stop, or we shall go crazy. Do, Mr. Expositor — please, do. We are very sensitive, and it causes us to shed oceans of tears to be called u ‘‘liar"’ by such ns you. Please stop, do. You have been in the State but five or six weeks, and you came from noble Ohio-, and it causes us to shed oceans of tears again when we think of it—indeed it does—so please stop, do. You came here to enlighten the people, and to teach good manners and morals, and when we think of you calling ns a “Zirth,” we shed oceans of tears—indeed we do: so please do stop, do. When an editor like you uses

such terms as a “ZZ«r,” and that, too, in the public prints, the little hoys in the street, thinking that it is manly, will follow your example; and that would make us shed more odeans of tears—indeed it would: so please stop, do. please. •

Frauds Intended!

GUARD THE BALLOT-BOX! We last week said that frauds were intended to”be resorted to in ill's district to : defeat Colfax, it possible, and at the gam. time urged the people, it these frauds were attempted, to “protect the ballot-box at all hazards,’ and “use the same argument used at Bunker Hill, if necessary. ” Some of bur Old-Line neighbors have howled at a tremendous rate at this. They raved and | cursed—cursed and raved, and called the j editor of this paper a “liar,” whenever two j of them met on the street. Tire shoe I ! pitched awful tight, or they would not have | carried on so. It there were no intended! frauds, there was to be no “Bunker Hill ur- ! | gument” used; if the Old-Liners were inno- ! | cent, why.go about the street trying to inanj Utfacture public opinion! j The letter we Spoke of last Week also ! I gave them great-uneasiness, especially thQ . ■ an tiler of it, who has been busying himsel! entirely too. much with public affairs, when tie out to have hid his head with shame The letter is now in the hands of a Republican, but as he is in the power, pecuniarily, ol the swamp-land sharks of this county, lie will not give it up unless frauds are committed: in that case, he will give it up. That such letter exists, there can be no doubt. A citizen ol this place conversed with the possessor ol it. We have two letters in our possession- on the subject, from a gentleman who saw the letter, which can be seen l>v any one calling at tiiis office. We here warn the author of the letter, if l-e undertakes to carry out his plan, that he will lie held 'personally responsible by, an outraged community. W e make two extracts from the two letters in our possession, (ruin a gentleman of high -standing in Indianapolis. Oneisdated October 1, 1858. addressed to a citizen of Bits place, and not intended (or publication: It says: “Von must not say anything about that letter. from the Old Bine ifficiul in your place to a citizen of.our city, as it would perhaps damage him pecuniarily, and to a 1 nge amount. * * * * Don't (litter yoursell that the Old- Louts will nlit impel t into your comity, tor they certainly w'ill. Watch them close.” The other letter reads as follows, and is : addressed to us by the same gentlemenj dated October 1: • “It is possible, it might he got if these frauds are carried on extensively to contest election with; or, perhaps, if a strong body of Colfax's friends, hacked up bv Colfax : liinisc.lt, were here, it might he procured. jThe'man who received it is a warm friend of Colfax, and I have no doubt, really is; i-but he says it would damage him, p'cuniaridy„ at least one thousand dollars, and that iiie cannot a fiord to lose.” Come and see the letters. David Snyder and Jacob Markle have issued a handbill offering SIOO reward for the letter. We dare them to place the money in the hands of jHONEST MEN ! Democrats and Republicans! we call on \ou,- in tire name of our common country-, and (or the sake of all you hold dear, to unite with one another and guard the polls ! from pollution, let it come Irom whatever quarter it will. Every lover of his countrv, whatever party lie belongs to, is interested in maintaining the purity of the. ballot-box. Let every one vote who has a right, and none other. Let individuals howl as they will, and cry “liar,” hut we conjure all honest mem, of all parties, to unite in defending the \ ballot-box . Perhaps our fears exaggerate i the ejanger, hut it behooves all to he watchful. It any complains of this advice, mark him! lie means no good. \\ e ask von to do nothing, except to guard your own rights. We repeat, Democrats and Re-publicans, unite and defend, the ballot-box at all hazards! Citizens! stand guard at the [lolls from the time they open until they close. It is your duty, and if you do it not, you deserve not ! your liberties.

DAVID SNYDER, ESQ.

This gentleman made a speech at the Court House yesterday afternoon. The house was about half full, and a large proportion of them Republicans. We shall treat him with more courteousness and decency than he deserves, and show him more respect than he did for himself yesterday; | fur of all speeches we have ever heard, Air. Snyder’s outstripped them in low slang and indecent personal abuse. He commenced by alluding to us as tbe “lying cur of the Gazette ,” and then went, on to speak of the ‘‘lying curs about the Court House.” lie exhibited the manners and language of the pot-house politician, instead of the high and ennobling sentiments that should always flow from the lips of men aspiring to the high position he does. But it was gratifying to setthat his hearers did not approve of his lowflung abuse, but universally treated him with silent contempt whenever he resorted to it. Several Honest Democrats went away disgusted, and we are confident that lie wilLbe defeated by a greater majority than if that speech had not been made. The speech was principally made up of abuse of us, and his hearers went nwnv without being edified

with one ennobling sentiment. Indeedjone would think that the editor of this paper was a candidate for office, and that he feared no one else.

SUICIDAL.

The Expositor of last week rends John Darroch, Esq., of Morocco, out of the partv, says he is “bent on mischief,” and that—“He denounces the Administration denounces the leaders of the party, and opposes your- nominees. He is a Republican, without the manliness to own it—a renegade who knows his power for mischief is lost when he avows his true sentiments—who hopes to cover himself with the mantle ol Democracy while he inflicts a fatal stab.” Pretty strange language, that, to he used of a gentleman who is not a candidate for office, and is not before the public in any manner whatever. We were under the impression that Darroch would vote the entire Democratic ticket, except Air. Snyder, hut we are glad to learn Irom the Expositor that this is not the case, and that he is going to “vote the whole Republican ticket.” Still we do not put much faith in the statement of the Expositor. If true, however, we shall welcome Air. Darroch to our ranks with unfeigned pleasure, for he is a man every inch of Inm. It seems strange and unaccountable to us that the Democracy should tu n out Air’ Darroch, tor the sole and only purpose of bent fitting Air. Snyder, who is not a man calculated to relied credit on any party as a politician. This is the worst move the Democracy have made this campaigh—in fact, it is suicidal.

FALSEHOODS REFUTED.

Editor Gazette: I see in the last week’s Expositor, in an article headed .“Public Ex- ~* pendit Ures —Figures won't lie,” the following statement. “In addition to all this the Board have refunded of taxes to R. 11. Alilfoy. an especial pet, near,-SIOOO, on taxes commonly assessed against non-residents, and then re I used to refund to citizens of the county.” It is true thai “figures” theuu. selves, in the hands'of tfuth-teiiing persons, on t lie, hut in the hands ol liars,’futures can he. made to lie as readily as who use them. The whole article from which the tt hove extract is taken, is a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to 'end, and I - shouhhnot have noticed it had not mv nam • I been mentioned in the above extract’, which contain- two ties. Ihe word “commonly,” in the above extract is doubtless a mistake in the printing, ami should have been erroneously. The fir t, lie in this extract is about me receiving “near SIOOO, on taxes erroneously.assessed,. upon hinds entitled to lice years exemption from taxition. 1 have received upon such orders just $7.8.75. At the December term of 1856, I brought the lirstca.se (d this kind before the Board of ('ommissmners, of Jasper county, and then showed the Board, that according to a decision of the Hinted States Circuit Court, for j!:e district of fil'di ann, all lands in this State, bought of the United States, prior to the taking effort of our present R.-vised Statutes. (Aliy 6. 187)3) were entitled to an exemption tor tlie term of five years from the date of entry, and that all taxes assessed on such lands belore the expiration of five years from the time off entry, were erroneous, and got the Board to make an order (see Order Book, page 383) in-fav,ir of J unes Francis, . ot Tippecanoe county, for the sum of $30.1 7 lor taxes that In? had (according to said decison) been erroneously assessed against 1 him on land-in Jasper county. The 7u>rtn|f ot Commissioners, afterward finding that they were, and won d he frequently troubled by applications for special orders in favor of persons who had so erroneously paid taxes at the September term, 1857, (see Order Book, pages 127-8,) made a general order that all persons who had so erroneously paid taxes, should be entitled to orders refunding ; ll,e same. Under this general order, I made application last winter for Wm. A. Hotter, j ot La layette, and procured county orders in his lavor, to tire amount of $48.58. The ! second lie in the aforesaid extract, is that usI u ' r refunding to me near SIOOO, fornon-res-iuents, the Board “then refused to refund to | citizens of the county.” Th- truth is that [ every person who made application to the Board or Auditor, after I procured the firs* order, as before stated, and showed that th.-y liad paid taxes, so erroneously assessed against them, obtained orders at once for the refunding of such taxes. Hundreds of citizens ot this county obtained such orders, as j will be seen by reference to the reo-frter of | or L tier - s «n the Auditors office, and no person | who made application, fand«,the necessdrv | proof, was refused suet/orders, until about the Ist ot Apiil, 1858, when the-Board, having learned the fact that an appeal had been taken from the aforesaid decision of the United States Circuit Court to the Supreme Court of the United States, and might there be reversed; made nn order that no more such taxes should be refunded till the case upon said appeal was decided. There is one other item in this collection ot falsehoods, so grossly false, that being personally conversant with the matters alluded to, I must notice. It is ns follows; “Some ten suits 'have been commenced against the former Treasurer, (Markle) in «// ol which they (the Commissioners) have suffered non-suitor dismissal, rather than go to trial, and this at a cost of not less than SIOOO Attorney’s fees, &e„ to support the Itebublican clique of Rensselaer.” There has been but one suit commenced by order • . M° m^ ,i T! oners of Jas P° r county, against Mr. Merkle, for county revenue In U.»t Mr. Merkle .„„k o\V lute county. It was there discovered - that sever .1 items of Indebtedness, some of w-hich had occurred after the commencement ot that suit were not embraced in it, and that it would be best to discontinue them, amend and begin the suit he e again, which was done, and that suit is still pending j n our Circuit Court, and will he tried next month, it not again taken away on a change of venue; and to iny certain knowledge, neither the county of Jasper, nor the Commissioners, have yet paid one cent of “Attorneys tees” in this case. ; Commeiut upon such glaring misrepresentations is unnecessary. R. ||. Milsot.

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