Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1859 — Official Scoundrelism in Dubuque. [ARTICLE]

Official Scoundrelism in Dubuque.

The people of Dubuque nre at last beginning to believe that they have “sharpers” among their Democratic office-holders' and place-men. It appears that O'Biien, the Democratic County Treasurer, is a defaulter to the amount of $108,694,13! Whether they will turn b in out of office alter this exposure, or keep him in as they did Ssnizer at St. Louis, is what we cannot judge of, as they have a way of their own to do things in that intensely Democratic city. Theyreceißly sent a Mr. Hull to New York to negotiate some Dubuque bonds, giving him to start with ssoo' to pay expenses. He sold the bonds at some 7o or 80 cents on the dollar, reported that he hid sold them at 52, and very composedly pocketed the difference himself, some SB,OO0 —a trifle that is worth looking after these times, we are told, even in Dubuque.