Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1853-1853, 1853-04-28

telegfapOeu llom Dprlngnelu tnat IL WOulq
undoubtedly be chartered by the legislature
then in session. lie declined at once to
take the bonds Of the road to Quincy.
Mr.. Bushnell, after, we had made these
statements, "felt called upon" to deny them
ALL He attempted in his card to make
people believe that Hannibal interests did
not conflict with ours, and that the Hanni-
bal charter had not been in our way, nor in
his way in New York. If his card didn't
mean this, il didn' mean anything--it was
pointless and senseless. This was precise
y what il meant. And in order to prove
that Mr.. Bushnell was not right--that the
Hannibal charter had stood in the way of
our road, we published Mr. Bushnell's dis.
patch-"ihe Naples and Hannibal bill, it,
passed, defeats our contract and kills our
roadp That was enough TO prove our
point. 1t didn't matter who that "con-
tract" had been made with. We have
never charged that "contract" was made
with Mr.. Schuyler, as Mr.. Bushnell falsely
pretends in his communications Of yester-
terday. We stated this distinctly five days
ago in reply to his letter which we pub.
shed. But Mr.. Bushnell has shown in
this matter from beginning TO end--in fact
from the day that he returned home from
New York, that he has no overscrupulous
regard Tor truth. His visit TO eastern CAPT.
Lists did not improve his veracity any
more than il built the railroad. In his
communication in the Wing he has altered
the phraseology Of his dispatch from New
York.
We accept his amendment and now proceed 10
show that il is false in its statement that he had
"coatrdcted for iron to MI. Sterling" This por-
ton Of his dispatch, he says did not refer to any
thing in which Mr.. Schuyler was concerned,
but "reluted solely" TO his "contrdct with Mes
Srs. P. Cheuteau, Sanford s. Co." Mr.. Bush
nell says he referred TO these gentlemen, when
he telegraphed that he had "Con racted for iron
10 Mt. Sterling" Suppose we admit il. Is IL
hueP Had he "contracted" FOR the "iron" or
for anything else? IL so, he deceived the
people Of this city when he returned, for he
told them plainly in his speech at the court
house that he had not contracted" but that he
had obtained a written proposition from these
gentlemen to take the bonds of Quincy and go
into market and dispose of them, on condition
that they should receive thirty thousand dollarSI
for their services !-Thdt was BushnelIs icon.
hartg What do you think Of it9 He had
fugled around for two or three weeks in New
York-he had strulted the whole length and
breadth Of Wall street with the bonds Of our
people in his pocket-he had begged this oapi-
taist, logged the footsteps of that one, and hung
to the 5uttOn-hole Of the other, but all TO no
purpose. .NeD York capitalists ,ranted The Han
nibaL and NOT the Quincy road! and they believ-
ed they could get it. Mr.. Bushnell could make
no contract, no sort Of permanent arrangement
with them. What was 10 be done? He
couldn't think OF coming home, without at least
a profession upon his lips that he had Gone
something, or got the promise Of something, or
the pledge of somebody 10 do something on con-
dilion they should be paid for doing it. He OPP
preached Messrs. Chouleau, Sanford g. Co., |
and got them to agree in writing to stand in his
Mr.. BushnelPs shoes-not 10 stand in the shoes
OF capitalists and furnish the iron themselves
with their own eans-.but to take Mr.. Bush.
nelPs Quincy bonds and hawk them about the
streets Of New York till they could find some-
body disposed TO invest. They agreed in writ
ing to do just what Mr.. Bushnell had been vain.
ly attempting TO do---to sell the bonds Of Quincy,
II the railroad company here would paw them
some thirty thousand dollars for performing that
service---a service which Mr.. Bushnell himself
is being paid $4,000 year to perform, and
service which he has, as yet, from negligence
or lncapacity, failed TO render to the COMPANY
and the people. This was the sort of "con-
tract Mr.. Bushnell telegraphed to Springfield
he had obtained. He had failed to induce Mr..
Schuyler TO take the bonds---and he received
and brought home with him a written PROPOSE.
ton Of firm in New York TO take these bonds
and 60 to Mr.. Schuyler or some other man Of
means and make n sale nf than H. ,,,o.,- 4