Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-09-02
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2e, 1852.

C7-The Pennsylvania, edited by fellow that acted
as PtP Tor Forrest to procure testimony against his
wife, thus speaks Of Gov Corwin:
$50 with the Gardiner elam-in this transaction,
Corwn was alone concerned, and the money which he
hehed from the government in the shape Of fee he
is using to muzzle and silence those presses in
OhloJ which have manifested disposition to oppose
Gen. Scott
This scoundrel knows that Mr.. Corwin did not re-
ceive single cent from the Government fee in the
Gardner BY the terms OF treaty with Mex
leo bound ourselves TO pay claims against the Mexi-
Government to the amount OF a certain specified
The Gardiner claim against the Mexican
Government, not against ours. The claim allowed
by the Commissioners appointed for the purpose OF ex
aminng claims upon what they deemed sufficient testi-
mony. 1t charged that the testimony false.
That charge has yet been udieially established
Our Government did lose a single cent because Of
the allowance Of the Gardiner claim. No honest man
will deny this and yet have such the pilap Of
the and the State Sentinel" that copied
from the pimp charging Mr.. Corwin with hching from
the GOvernment.-IndiGRG Journal,
The Journal, the canvass advances, becomes more
and more reckless every day. Col Hope, the editor
and proprietor Of the Pennsylvania, never had any
connection whatever with Mr. Forrest This the editor
of the Journal knew when he penned the article
As to COrwin, volume of newspaper deienses can
clear his skirts of the Gardiner fraud Corwin in
his capacity Senator in Congress- exercised his in.
fuenee procure the appointment of certain indl.
vduas, of them known be his personal and poll
tica friends commissioners to settle the claims of
citizens against the Mexican Government. Then
whilst acting Senator in Congress, Mr. Corwin
takes contingent fee Of hundred thousand dol.
lars prosecute the false and fraudulent claim of DR.
Gardiner before the commissioners that he had contrbu
ed to create, his fee depending the allowance of
the claim. The whole Of the evidence presented by
Gov Corwin, on which this claim was allowed was
false and forged Gardiner although allowed four hun
dred thousand dollars, had just claim against the
Mexican Government for cent But through the
influence Of Corwin he obtained it. The money was
paid to him, and Corwn pOcketed his ee and
the Government then proceeds Gardiner
forgery. Although in the first instance this was a
claim against the Mexican Government in the end the
loss fell on Government. BY the treaty of Guada-
loupe Hidago, the United States agreed to pay to our
citizens not exceeding three Millions indem-
nifty for Mexican spolations. Ii the whole amount fell
below three millions, then that much saved to our
quence Of the allowance Of false and forged claims
they would have Just demand against Government
for that amount, and Congress would hesitate
they ought not, make the appropriation If the Gard
claim had been rejected, ought have been
the Government would have saved four hundred thou
sand dollars, and Gov. Corwin would have lost his fee
The loss fell Government, and not on the Mexi-
Government. 1t is plain case.