The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-12-22

Since the arrival from the Capital Of reliable
intelligence touching the sayings aad doings in
that direction we have been informed of some
matters which so far concern nurself that we
cannot permit them to pass unnotced.
We have been told that Judge King reported
at the City that he "wrung from us the author
of Veritss under the intimidation of threat
How far the Judges statement is to be credited,
may be learned by him them, who will take
the trouble to read plain unvarnished account
of the interview between US.
Some of our readers aware, and those
who are not are informed that, We have
been acting in the cspaeity of Attorney and
Agent for Mr. James Tanning for the last egh-
teen months, in the renting and collection ofrhe
rents of his houses opposite the City Hotel, in
this place. The rent of these houses we COLI
lect monthly and on the first day ofeach month.
As usual we went into the office of Messrs. Da
Wis and Waiworth-which is in the Tanning
buldngs-on the first day of December inst !,
to collect their proportion of the rents, and upon
entering we found Messrs. d. & w. in, ard
Judge King along with them all apparently en-
gagged in conversation until interrupted by our
entrance. My first observation was good morn
ing gentlemen, this is rent day we believe The
Judge spoke to me, and the proper recognition
from me, was extended to his salutaton Mr.
Wsiwor,h drew his chair up to his table and
signed check fot the rent and rising gave us
his chair until we wrote a receipt. Having fin
ished the receipt, we turned round and was in the
ac; Of leaving when the Judge interrupted us as
follows viz: 'Mr. Jennings, who is Veritas of
the Express ~ We hesitated a moment and
uhen answered "well Judge, we don't know that
it is particularly important that we should say
ado you know Mr.. Jennings-resumed the
Judge-that an editor is responsible for all COM
munications which appear in his paper:' awe
do sir" was our reply "Are you the Editor of
the Express at this time ?" was the next inter
rogation. awe are sir," was the response
ADO you hold yourself responsible for the COM
munication of Veritas - continued inqus
itor. awe hold ourself responsible for the ap-
pearGRee. of that communication in the Express,
was our answer. s'Don't you feel at liberty TO
give The author OF Ver,as ?" was the next en-
quiry,'' in reply to which, we said, ''at perfect
liberty Sir ssWell-sald the Judge in conclu-
sion-I have always treated you MIR. Jennings
as gentleman, and would like to know from |
you who Veritas is?" To this we replied with
out hesitation, "Wm. A. Jones is the author of
that communication, whereupon we turned
about to leave the office, but before doing so
turned to the Jud re again and said, Mr.. Jones
told me Judge, when he handed the communi-
cation in, 10 say to any one anxious 20 know,
that he was its author. ltell you this hat you |
may know
Such is our recollection Of the interview be-
tween us and the Judge, and if we have erred
in any material particular, it is without any in
tention to do so, and we take this occasion to
specially request of Messrs. Davis and Wall
worth, if We have done the Judge any injusace |
in the foregoing TO set us right before the pub
tic.
IT in the foregoing there is anything going to
establish the charge of Judge King that "he
wrung from us under threat the author of Yer
itas,'' plead guilty.