New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-10-31
rr,erts,n Illustrated.

During the late animated canvass for Melloe'
&c ro,o7ess IN the Erie District, Pa. the Hii'
Observer INDUCED in gross personal al'avA. n
,ho character and conduct of Gen. CHARhh' ~.
Rem. the Wing candidate, and corresPo',u'n'
stvng himself Allegheny, .Jr.' stated 'ha' oe,''
Reed sold steamboat for $4,000 to oap'' =
n. Gotten, received half his pay, took mortgage
for the balance. foreclosed it at the eii' u wv
re,rs sold the boat and bought her IN hiInsel l'
The amount of his debt, thus stripping VI. ~
Canta;n of the earnings of lie OF eHef'loh
Con Reeds personal friends, who were as
founded by this charge, took instant measures To
rof,,tc il. One of them, Mr. Andrew Scott, TN
pos,,,aster at Erie. who took the first boat down
- R,ffao saw Capt. Gotten there, and ascer-
tanned that the story was an entire tabrcaton.-
Can't. Gotten had nerer owaed the boat in CUES
ton. nor any part Of her, but another man had,
and he promptly demolished the last refuge OF
the calumny He had indeed bought the boat
as stated, had cleared some Sl2,0OO out OF hef
in two years, and she was at last resold to Ten
Reed on his mortgage with his entire approval
his affairs having been embarrassed Inc mo-
nent this was done, Gen. K. turned roma ana
made him present Of one-third Of tie boat, from
which he has since reaped rich harvest ouch
were the facts in the case, as developed by hr'
Scott in Buffalo
Now an honest man could hardly fail to rejoice
that so gross calumny against one OF their neigh
bors had been scattered to the winds, and would
have felt obliged to any one who had been lhslfu-
mental in dissipating the falsehood but there Is
a little knot of Renegades from the wing ranks
al Buffalo who call themselves 'Tyler Demo
Gratis divide the Government offices at that
place, and edit and publish a paper by the help
of good deal of plumber from the Federal Treas
ury, coaked by the publication of Advertisements
in said paper, when they might just about as use
fully be published in the Owhyhee Journal or Ben
gal HuIkoou. This little Junto came promptly
down on Mr. Scott in the following Editorial:
Our or HIS BEATAn oice-holLer under the Genera
Government Erie, Pa recently paid our city VISIT OIL
eectoneeug business in favor OF Gen REED, The W hg
candidate FOX Congress in that district During his stay
here, he either procured the writing and insertion
of long editorial in the columns OF the CommcrciGt ad'o'
eating the claims of Gen REED, and denouncng the Demo
candidate and party in Erie and elsewhere We wer
aware that this gentleman Wing and using all his III
uence 20 promote the of Mr. Clay and OF his pa
So long staid homo business to notice
the matter. Bu, when he ground, as the
open and a,oweI enemy Of Democracy and OF thu Admins
traon and the firm supporter Of Wing candidates and Wing
principles take the liberty OF limiting that his services
could be dispensed with in the important office which h
now s and that another cond be selected who he
interfere elections would his exertlons 10 hwart
the saluay of the appointing power and render
the obnoxious the charge Of keeping active
Wing partisans Office, while protesting to act with the
Democracy of the country. Nous UerTonS,
That's the sort Kick him out What right
has any man who holds office under John Tyler
to aid in refuting calumnies upon his friend and
neighbor who happens to be a Wing This is
all Mr. Scott has done-the rest is the coinage OF
malacc and hatred. But that is enough, and OF
Post Office.