The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-07-04

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: the first vessel that leaves for the States, the
regular mail does not leave until LIST June.
Write me at San Francisco often. | viii
write you from there, and give full particulars
Yours truly, ,-.
S. NJ. ALVERSON.
For the Express.
THE STRAYBUNE'S BUDGET.
Docr. HoLr:-In last weeks Straybune, the
Old Gobbler opens his lying budget again; no,
presenting single issue for discussion, he de-
votes two columns Of his ,ueakly to my especiaI
benefit. l am glad he has doLe so, for the
Wings Of this county will now come to the
conclusion that there must be something more
than mere talk in the charges | have made a.
gainst the Fog les; the moro so, since it exhaust
ed the whole of the Coolers editorial in la
bored effort last week. to disptove them. The
whole article is a mass of wilful, lying misrep-
resentation, from A pha to Omega, and altho'
in reruling them, do not aim to benefit hin.
J exclusively. still, in the end, feel confident.
it will have that effect, because he will, (ifsuf-
fercd to go on in this wayO soon believe he is
telling the truth-as is common with those who
r become addicted to the practice of shooting
with long bow. 1t becomes part of their
nature, and they aoiU deal out lie, when the
truth would answer the same purpose A good
many years since. while visit to Liverpool,
with an old sea Captain, who, by. the.b was
first .rate, jovial old salt; but he was subject
to the same misfortune as the Stray bune MIN
compoop, nsomuch that it became quite un-
bearablc. One favorite yarn, in particular,
| heard HIM tell some score of times or so, in
, Silence, wncu was in substance as folows;-
! lie wore a massive gold ring which might have
been mistaken for one Of the links of a chain
cable; it was set with what he called "a bril-.
liant of the purest water" U afterwards dis.
covered it to be bogus.) which he represented
he had stolen out Of Catholic Church in the
City of Mexico. He was not much of chris
! tlan as may readily be imagined; and he used
to cbucke considerably when explaining his
modus operant The story was, that on Sun
day. while attending High Mass, he discovered
ON the altar golden statue Of the Virgin Ma.
ry, with two brilliant sets to represent her
eyes He determined to have one; so he step.
ped II, unseen. and hooked one out aoith his cane!
Tie brought it to Eng land, and wore it as sort
of trophy Of his extraordinary powers. l con.
cluded he had told the story often enough; So
| respectfully enquired what the congregation,
| the officiating Priest. and attendants were
bout white he was hooking out the Virgin Ma
rvs eye7 'D--n my eyes," says he, "if
know;-that was none of my business" He
never attempted that yarn again, and | have
every reason to believe that was instrumental
in bringing him to sense of his ridiculous con-
duct. Belt mine. also, to admonish the Stray
bune man of his vile, sneaking, lying conduct,
and if am not as successful with him as was
with the old sea captain, | shall at least have
the proud consciousness of having made tn at
tempt. feel the moro disposed to do this, on
account of there being u species Of malignty
a bout this old Gobbler's lying, and also from
the fact that his disease has assumed the form
of u mania, which might do me much harm, if
not arrested at the outset. In the first place,
it is false that | have ever called upon any
mcnbers Of the Wing party to take sides for
or against me in my denuncation of the Fo-
| gies, is stated by the GobbIer in his last. 1t
is equally false that have made an appeal to
the party. From whose decisions would l ap-
peal7 have stated over again and again, not
from that of the Administration, because that
would be sheer fooery, even if | felt disposed
so to do; and certainly not from the decision of
the Stray bune, for that is void on the ground of
interest, Partially ,rottenncss and black heart
ed corruption. Neither is it an appeal from
the party in this county, for have shown con.
clusively already, that the masses were with
me, not only for the Office of Register, but for
any other 1ohich is located here This have the
means of knowing, from expressions of the peo-
pie to that effect before and since the ele ction.
But this can never be appreciated by u Fogie.
particularly such an one as the Strayb une man,
his cold, selfish heart entirely engrosscd with
his own importance, and dead to every gener-
Gus impulse, cares not for the popular voice;
added TO which, his conduct is the more obnox.
ious, from the fact that he and his abettors
make loud professions to the ontrary. The
signcrs to my petition q repeat it) numbered
$50 out Of 6OO in the county. Hear this, We
Fogies, and grin like so many Cheshire cats
they were denominatcd by this Socrates, "men
of straw" This was not the first time these
signers were sneered at; was tainted several
times during last winter by some Forgies, who
told me they did not value petitions fig, and
though the Straybune N an may try to wriggle
out of this charge. by saying that l admitted
to him that he meant no such thing; the ''damn-
ed spot is there, and will remain lasting
monument of Fogie vliany. I assert that
never admitted any such thing, nor any thing
like it.; but what will not this fellow say next,
to screen himself from being nailed to the
counter? Perhaps he goes upon the principle,
that lie we'll stuck to, is good as the truth.
Not the least amusing of his unblushing asscr-
tions is, that when he says he will ''attempt
to place true light upon the facts. If ever he
throws any light upon any fact, it will be the
| light that gleams around and about every thing
in the lower regions-pale, sickly, and pesti-
lential-a real Foge light; not such an one as
is reflected by the 'glorit US lamp of day. but
about equal to that which is reflected by broth
er Benzwnger's cheapest tallow candles.-
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for the Surveyor Gencralship, and the CONVEX.
alton had with Gen. Wilson in July, 1S48,
it was never made secret of by me. The of
! fer made by him unsolicited and unexpect-
ed; and the confidential conversation, common.
GEO bout others. turned upon that; and sup
pose Uniformed as many as q hundred persons
of it before the election. Does this look like
plotting in secret. l openly proclaimed tho
assistance l expected at Washington, and
was openly and powerfully sustained by the
masses at home. Every Fogie knows this. My
letter was written to the General. with view
to sac if his intentions remained unchanged,
for must confess l feared somewhat the in
Auence the Fogies might have in averting them.
The support at home was sure Of; had ex.
prcssons Of it from all quarters. The Fogies
knew this and feared il; and then it was they
resorted to tho scheme, which succeeded, and
to which will allude hereafter. As to the
Stray bune 8 miserable, low Lived, conte p,ibIc
| remark in connexion with this subject, they