Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-05-17

ed, has been copied into the Journal of Com
merce and continued in the Evening Express
siuce its first appearance on the oath Of April
[By Magnetic Telegraph
To the Public.
Ey The undersigned representing the
owners of three -fourths the taxable property
of fifteen townships of Htsron and Sandusky
Counties, hereby notify the public that the
Bonds of said townships. for stock in The To-
iedo, Norwalk and CiEereland Railroad, are
illegal and void, and that payment Of Tares
viii be resisted TO the last; that an injunction
bill is filed in the Supreme Court against the
issue and process served. Duty to buyers
therefore requires this notice. If offered in
Wall street BeWGre. Full particulars will be
forwarded soon. JOHN FISH,
JAMES WILLIAMS.
Sandusky, April 81. a24 M&E
1t will be seen that the above dispatch
bears date at Sandusky, and was forwarded
to New York and published in the Express
just about the time that Mr.. Boalt, the Pres-
dent of the Toledo, Norwalk ard Cleveland
Railroad Company, and Judge Lane, the Pres
ident of the Junction Railroad Company, we're
about starting for that City.-the former for
the purpose of negotiating the Bonds of the
several Townships in Huron and Sandusky
Counties, issued in aid Of the former company,
and the latter TO offer for sale the bonds of
of Sandusky City, &c, issued in behalf of the
junction Railroad company. Upon being ap-
prised of the publication Of the above dispatch,
which we have quoted verbatim from the Ex-
press, the Directors of the Toledo, Norwalk
and Cleveland Railroad company promptly
instant, and appointed a committee to wait up
on Messrs. Williams and Fish, and to learn
from them whether they authorized its pub
lication. They both, at once unequiyocally
denied authorizing it. or knowing anything in
regard to it till after its appearance in the Ex-
press, and both of them signed written dis
claimer, which is before us, in which they say
that they ''did not authorize it, either directly
or indirectly" that 'they were not in any sense
or way responsible for it, and that they knew
nothing in regard to it, till after it was publish
ed" the Secretary of the company after
wards visited the Telegraph offices at Sandus-
ky City, to ascertain there by whom twas
forwarded to New York He was told by the
operator at the Office of Speeds line, that it
had not been sent through that channel. He
then went to the Office connected with 0'Rei-
ley's line, and upon enquiry was at FIRST told
by the operator in that Office that no such des-
patch had been forwarded BY him. But up
on being further interrogated. he admitted
that it, or a similar communication, had been
sent from that Office, but refused to disclose
the names ofthe persons BY whom it was fur
nished, or to GLOW the original to be seen, al
though he admitted that it was the practice
to keep files of the original manuscripts of
dispatches.
Enquiry has also been made of the publish
ers of the N. Y Express, and of the operator
at the Telegraph Office in New York City and
they also refuse 10 disclose the agency and the
names of the agents in this transaction.
Thus this matter stands at present The
authors of this bold ann nefarious yilliany, on
all sides, now attempt to skulk responsibility.
But let them rest assured that the time for
reckoning will come--that neither prevarica-
ton. nor their equally contemplate shifts to
sIiflle or conceal the truth, will be of ony avail
Both public justice, and the interest of the
public, as well as the interest of the company
thus assailed and cIlumniated, demand thor
ough and speedy investigation The Directors
of the company owe it as a duty to the Stock
holders, and to the whole community interest
ed in their enterprise. not TO let this matter
rest, till this base conspiracy is uncovered. all
its authors exposed, and its aiders and abes-
tors, even to the meanest and vilest. is made
to feel the penalties of the law in its utmost
rigor; and if the directors are made OF the
stuff we think them, all this will be rightfully
and seasonably attended to-
4 And now one word to our neighbors Of the
Sanduskian. They have heretofore made stat
ments in that paper touching the interest Of
the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad
company, that we have very good grounds for
thinking they had no reason TO believe were
true. We have more than once. and without
intending to give offence either in matter Oh
manner, put them in possession of the means
of correcting their mstatements. Instead o
doing so, they have persisted in repeating
them. If they will look into their editorial it
the Sanduskian of the 9Th instant. they viii
find tha. they have endorsed and again given
currency to the forged despatch to the N. Y
Express. purportiug to be signed BY Messrs
Williams and fish, of which these gentlemen
under their hands, have denied all knowledge
and agency. If the editors of the Sanduski'
an are not in moral condition such as to en-
able them to take counsel of their sense oi
honor and Justice, sufficiently to correct theiI
false witness against their neighbOrs, we would
for once recommend to consult their love o.
!. money, and the legal responsibilities of fwillfu
and malicious lbelers We think this,at least
. is motive that they can appreciate.
We have long known that many of oui
;.l;o>-s OF San,lt,Skv City had persuaded