New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-03
Murder and Mileage.


paironi-iug me muTdcr Of oGeers' To this charge
VIE promptly gave the most cmphanc contradiction
and demanded the proof Instead OF offering
any, The Express preferred Two entirely lew
accusatlOns-namely. that
The Tribune began on Monday. with holding The
Express, as Il rers, responsible for me Lynch'Iaw
Save affair IN Virginia,
and that we had been charged with ialsehood in
the Mileage Exposel
hy such men as Ex.Gov. Gayle Of Alabama Mr
Toupkius of Alabama. Thomas Butler King CT
Georgia, Nh SchencA Of Ohio, and others
We denied these charges also and called airesh
or proof. both OF the new culumnleS and the ola
one Whereupon The Erpr>ss, maintaining per
feet silence with regard to the Lynch-lw affair,
aad getting of with regard to It's original charge
with the following
The proof Of the first ayerment IN The E1press we
nov stand ready proer, # desired with prelmi-
nary agreement rs 10 the definition or meaning OF
the words pettlng and patronl-mg
tiumphantly proclaims that Mr. Saicyer (Sau-
sage) and Mr. Twnr charged Us with ialSehood
ana various other mlsdemeansrs IN making the
Mileage Expose What has I1e Express TO do
with SAWYER and Turner, How does ther
abuse prove any thing not personal to them
:.
Ter King and Schenck have charged us with
fasehood
The Erpr,ss does not pretend to prove It's
charge with regard to either of these gentlemen
SAWYER opened the ball in Congress by COM
plant that he was made TO appear to diSad-
vantage in the original Mileage Expose, not by
any statement respecting his OWE, but by ma'Hg
ScheneRs Extra Mileage too hrir Schenck's
name follows Savers in the list of Members Of
the XXXth Congress- and the clerk who com
pieithe table for us made an error IN stating
the Ici4aldlstance from Dayton, Ohio, (Schenck'S
residence) to Washington City, whereby
Schenck's Extra was reduced almost to nothing,
which caused Sawyer's to loom up tormidaby,
especially as the Member (St. John OF \. y
whose name stood next before his had also re-
ceived but tri1e of Extra. This was the begin
min. of the uproar Sawyer was usually greet
stlckler for Economy, and was naturally mortl-
fed at the figure he cut IN the Mileage Table,
but we could not help that. Our statement re-
speeding him was true
So with regard to Gov. GAYLE vain, weak
pompous man from Alabama, who has Just
gone over to the Loco.Focos, j who had rather
respectable grab at the Extra Mileage, and who
made some fuss about the Expose, but who
we are confident did not charge us with false
hood in preparing it, and The Express does no
no,y saw he did Butler King urged that he did
not charge his Mileage, but SOCK whatever the
Committee saw fit to give him, 50 that the head,
mo Of the column Mileage Chargsd,' was ero.
neous THE reader has alres dy given this cavll
whatever weight 1t deserves We cannot recol-
lect and The Express does 10: pretend 10 show
tina, Ire ever minated that We had been gull
ty OF ialsehood.
Gov Brown of Miss" sd indeed say some
harsh things, and The Erpysss quotes us as un-
derstanding HIM at the time making virtual
charge OF falsehood, but quotes nothing from HIM
to that effect Now hear the facts He had re-
cei,sd and Of course someb ,dy had charged, Sl,S6i
as for 1880 miles travel 20 and the same mum
Der from Washington to his residence at Gala
tin. Miss. while the on oral Pos:-oiice Book OF
~ 2 showed that by the shortest and mos, direct
Mail the distance between the two points
was only ,0i7 miles, m king his gouge : ,026 10
Hereupon he obtained another YostOfiice Book,
uhch d,d not pretsnd . g,ue re distances By the
MOST DIRECT Mai. Ro,ae af all, but gave the dis
lance by the usual NAL Route, through the cities
trayersed by the great Southern hall, rom Wash
ingtOn to Jackson, to which he added the miles
thence to GallatlR. making the whole distance
by that route only ABOUT 900 miles less than he
had taken Mileage for instead Of ,2s3, as we
correctly made il, And, on the strength OF this
gross Misrepresentation Of his own, he did con
tive to make himself pretty abusive.
A. to Turner, he was, Il possible. in still
worse category He had taken pay FOX travelling
2OoO miles to and the same distance from Wash
lngton at the previous Session his residence be-
ing. Of We rightly remsmbeT) FreepOr, Illinois.
But the Post Office Book made his residence but
$50 miles FROM Washington scandalous dis
parity Whereupon he asserted that the distance
rom Freeport 10 W shlngion as the crow lies
was orer Oas thousand Miles,, and assallea the
author Of the Expose with all manner Of foul.
mouthed abuse We did not handy hard words
with him, but We procured fromtns T0pogfapheE
If the General Post.Oilce fresh statement thar
the actual distance by the nearest post-route
from his home 10 Washington was then out r. shi
Htaqrsa and Thirty Miles, or two mile. less than
II was N 1912. as stated in the official book from
which ~ copied. There We let the creature
drop, and if he has not yet touched bottom he has
doubtless been falling ever since And now The
E1press, which knows perfectly well that the
Mileage Expose was substantially true in every
respect, uses the ravings OF detected peculators
to prop Is original injustice. and would gladly
attribute those rawlings to gentlemen of dlstInc-
tion and character who never uttered them -
Ou2ht il lot TO be ashamed Of itself
As 10 courtesy We say again, that 20 charge
person wantonly with Pe,ting aud paironiz'
Ing the murder OF officers. Is TAR more dlscOurte
Gus than any terms in which tha, charge may be
repealed. We hold far more ungentlemany TO