The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-10-26
From the Burl,ngton Gazette.
MORE JONES. OpHORIA

Yesterday . Telegraph contains a bitter attack
on Gen Jones, in conse auence of some moneys
having been sent from the Depository at Du-
buque to that at st. Louis Our vrtuous and
patriotic neghbor cries out in perfect horror that
Gen. Jones, I" for the sake of little home po-
pularity, and TO make Dubuque land office
sort of one horse sup-treasury, does not scruple
to have the public funds sent hundreds of miles
out of the way" Upon the subject Of the es-
adjustment Of the Depository at Dubuque, we
have not at present great deal to say, and from
the very intimate association of our neighbor
with Frink d Co., perhaps the less he has to
say on that head the bet err. The Receiver at
Dubuque was made a depository of the +
| public funds for the neighborne land otf- I
| ces during the winter of IS5I-52. 1t was
| done 10 check-mate an order which Frink 81
Co succeeded in getting Mr.. Corwin to make, /
| requiring all the public moneys of Iowa, Wis !
| consin and Minnesota to be deposited with the
| Receiver at Chicago, and y consequence, to
give those stage monopolis,s the tal job OF haul /
| ing those moneys TO that city.
We are really not at enmity with our neigh !
| Dor, and are now, and always have been, averse
| to coming into conflict with him; We shall there
fore, at the present time, refrain from recrm-
nation, and merely ask him in the kindest
manner whether he himself did not favor the
order obtained from Mr.. Corwin the winter be-
fore last, making Chicago the place of deposit
consin, and Northern illinois? and whether he
in company with his friend, Mr.. John Frink.
| did not visit and use his influence with his then
very dear friend, Gen. Jones, in behalf Of the
| retention of this depository at Chicago, and fur
Their, to obtain for Messrs Frink & Co., an
order TO transport the funds from The distant land
offices to that point by their stage lines? we
ask our neighbor if he had no hand in any of
these matters, and whether Gen. Jones did not
decline acquiescing in these demands, remark
ing that if the place of deposit for the land
offices in Iowa and the country above were to
be removed from St Louis, he would prefer
some point in his state being selected, to
Chicago ?-These are questions for our neigh
Dor himself to answered. course he can do so
better than we can. We will remark, howev-
err that Dubuque was selected as the place of
deposit with the advice and consent Of tho
whole Iowa delegation, and that the Hon. Lin
coin Clark, favored the projec as much any
Of them.-ln acting as they did in this matter,
it can't be very easily shown that our delega-
ton did perfectly right, and that nothing but
the most blind and Incorporate malignity could
suggest the thought of making it an instrument
of assault on Gen. Jones alone. We affirm that
Dubuque is highly convenient, central, and ne
cessary point for the establishment Of SUBJ
treasury; and that the demand for governmental
funds around there clearly indicates the propriety
of the selection. In the first place, the location
ofthe Surveyor Generals office there, occasions
a demand for at least 100000 year, for the
payment of his deputies and other employees;
and the military stations at Fort Smelling, Fort
Ripley, and on the upper Minnesota, executive
, legislative, and judicial, all call for large annu
al disbursements in the country above Dubuque,
and plainly demand the establishment of sub
treasury at least as high up the river as that
point. These and other incidental demands re-
:, quire much larger amount of funds than that
!, ordinarily received there; and it is probably
solely owing to the late unprecedented receipts
: at the land Offices in Iowa, Minnesota and Wis
!, consin, that there remains q surplus for trans.
!, hipment. If our neighbor had the smallest par
ticle of candor where Gen. Jones is concerned,
d we would willingly leave it TO him to say whe-
Their it would be right 10 convey all the funds
from the land Offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa, and Northern Illinois, down TO St. Louis,
: and then have the same, or even alarger amount
carried back again high up into Minnesota, and
d TO Dubuque, to meet the demands there due
), Any person less blinded by jealousy than he is
e can see at once the absurdity of the proposition
n and yet this is the very thing he proposes to
s have done in his foolish eagerness to heap cen.
: sure and disapprobation Gen. Jones' To
n apply his own language to his JoneS-ophObia
; The farce has already been KEEP. up as long al
y the public risblities require; the joke now be
gins to grow stale, and if he has the least regart
e to the small remains of his own reputation, and
y that of his +" neutral journal, he will let Gen
d Jones and the balance Of the democracy, alone
r conne himself TO his proper sphere and cease tc
it outrage decency By giving way to the dictates o.
o his insane an.Wosity.
!. THE KlSSANE TRIAL AT LEBANON
ONO
The Cincinnati Columbian calls this trial
"the mystery of iniquify developed" Its ar
!. ticle on the subject is a remarkable one. Il
d says:
e "We doubt if the annals of criminal juris-
e prudence ever on the whole, developed pore OF
is the interior scenery of vice and deprssi'y than
n has been exhibited al the Lebanon trial Dark
1t and cruel tragedies, such 6Hed the vision OF
/. Monk Lewis, we have enaagh OF. But the var
Y ious details of minor c.sfne-of profligacy with
= | out shame and viz made business of--have
never been NOR graphically delineated than in
what is cal,-d the testimony C) ut Lebanon
Forgeryralpably committed at wholesale-per-
Jury p-dde Misunderstanding revealed as a daily
: psness--prostituiion without blush-polce
ID agents composed OF thieves and vagabonds-
e lawyers endeavor ng 10 prove the good character
r of clients SO as~ociated-certainly constitutes a
d tableau familiar perhaps to Fouche) very re-
1narkahle in this country
: One of the witness t.stifies TO having been
$ several times in prson---in fact, a notorious
: convict, now the Acknowledge, d utterer of for
geres; second proves that he was present at
e the f"rgeries, and took part in the general con
e spiraces; third she lived wi h this and that
n man pretty much at random; a fourth that hr
0 lived by stealing, when that was most convent
Y ent; fifth, that he is one of secret police;
h and sixth that he is vagrant, living with IA
: concubine; finally seventh, that he pays the
e expenses OF witness to be absent, just by way
a of well timed charity This. is truly a re-
: cherche picture something that a connoisseur
e IN morals and mysteries would pay hiuh for
, But wha: is the sup shot of the matter What
has this respectable confederacy proved. They
q have proved much--whch, in the midst of their
peJurles, stands out in striking and startling
r relief, and to this we call the attention of our
: readers.
Firsty-They have proved that there was
conspiracy, composed of large numbar of per-
sons-some passing in respectable society, some
t outlaws OF the most desperate description, some
T thieves and vagabonds, and others OF a nondes-
\ cript character-of which conspiracy the object
! was to raise an Immense sum Of money, by
adrolt forgeries, purporting to be the checks OF
, large mercantile houses.
, Secondly-They have proved that one of the
ring LEADERS in this business was the clerk of
the Martha Washington, and thus proved the
f strong probability that forgeries were connected
with the burning of that unfortunate vessel, and
The crimes committed by that act.
ThirdIy-They have proved that several of
the principal parties are at large, and that the
whole truth in regard TO these mysterious trans
actions has not yet been revealed.
Four'hly-They have proved enough to Gre
ate an Indefinite suspicion that other persons in
respectable circles may possibly be involved
Fifthly-They have proved that in Cincin-
natl there are numbers of the most abandoned
characters, who can be used for any purpose at
any time
AN AcCIDENT.--Some little excitement was
created upon the Levee yesterday in front Of
the steamer Brunette, short time before she
left the landing for the upper Mississippi The
mate and number of deck hands were engap-
ed in getting mill stone aboard, and when
placed upon its edge near the top of the Levee,