The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-22
7 H E. R E P u B Lie.
WASHIN GTON:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. %, ls4s.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
DENNY CASE.


The ex-oficial organ has at last spoken
in the DENNY case. Ii gives us column
of incoherent twattle, Introductory to an
article from the Pennsylvanian, which we
have already published, about the accounts
of FITCH & Co., formerly navy agents at
Marseilles. What preceding administra-
tons have done with FITCH & Co. we nei-
ther know nor care. They were appoint
ed agents during the administration of
General JACKSON, and if they enjoyed i'm
proper favors from Locofoco Secretaries
Of the Navy, that is none Of our business.
If the Union can prove that they had large
balances in their hands, and under circum-
stances which show that they ought not to
have had them, il will only aid in proving
what we have so often alleged, that the
Locofocos have abused their power in all
4 branches of the public service.
The Union intimates that the facts of
this case have been furnished US by the
/ Cabinet. II gives us pleasure TO be able
/ to say that we have never exchanged a
word on the subject of Mr.. DENBY'S de-
falcation, with either the Secretary of the
Navy or the Secretary of the Treasury.
We have had no occasion TO trouble any
member of the Cabinet for information on
the subject. We, in the first instance,
stated the simple fact, that N. DENBY was
defaulter to the amount of Sl55, sos 4S,
and that suit had been commenced against
was obtained at our request from the Soil
citor of the Treasury. II was all the in
formation we had, and on that we rested.
The merits of the case have come out
on the cross-eXamlnation. ID was not
necessary for Us to go TO Mr.. MEREDITH,
or Mr. PREsToN, when we had such wit
nesses as Mr.. OSBORNE himself, the senior
editor Of the Union, and the Pennsylua-
MAN, TO furnish US with the facts. We
have appealed to them as witnesses whom
the Opposition cannot discredit, for they
are their own witnesses. From the facts
I furnished by them we have reached some
incontestable conclusions.
First of all, and most important Of all,
is the admission that sum Of money in
the neighborhood of Sl55,50S as has
been lost to the Government. The senior
editor Of the ex-official organ does not UNI
dertake to argue the money back into the
treasury. Defalcation, OF no defalcation,
the moneys gone.
The next important admission Is, that
the money has been lost in commercial
speculation. At FIRST il was alleged that
IT was lost by the failures Of certain French
houses, ruined by the revolution. Then
the allegation was made a little BROADER,
/ 10 cover several American and European
houses. But whether by French or Amer.
lean houses, one or both, il is conceded
that the money has been lost in CONNER.
cial speculations.
Then il appears that this was no lew
thing-that the loss Of the money was
currently known and talked about IN Rich
mond as long ago az last August.
These important admissions all come
from the other side Of the house-from
Mr. OSBORNE, from the Union, and from
the PennsyiUanian. On these admitted
facts We PROFOUND certain inquiries.
First Of all, we ask, how could these de-
falcations have taken place at all under
the Sub-treasury act, under which Mr..
WALKER assured US there we're TO be emo
more deiaultsp' Then we ask, how these
funds could have been legally employed in
commercial speculations, when the whole
intent Of the Sub-treasury act was TO with
draw public funds from private uses-and
when il annexed the heaviest penalties to
any such transportation Of the public
fundsl Then we state that we have