Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-05

couldn't think of coming home, without at least
a profession upon his lips that he had Gone
something, OF got the promise Of something, or
the pledge Of somebody to do something on con-
dition they should be paid for doing It. He APP
preached Messrs. Chouteau, Sandford & Co.,
and got them TO agree in writing to stand in his,
Mr.. Bushnel's shoes-not 10 stand in the shoes
of capitalists and furnish the iron themselves
with their own means--but to take Mr.. Bush
nelIs 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
y attempting 10 do-.-iO sell the bonds Of Quincy,
If the railroad company here would pay them
some thirty thousand dollars for performing that
service--.a service which Mr.. Bushnell himself
is being paid $4,000 year to perform, and a
service which he has, as yet, from negligence
or ncapacity, failed to render TO the company
and the people. This was the sort Of soon
tract" Mr.. Bushnell telegraphed to Springfield
he had obtained. He had failed to induce Mr..
Schuyler 10 take the bonds---and he received
and brought home with him 4 written PROPOSE
tion of firm in New York TO take these bonds
and 90 10 Mr.. Schuyler or some other man OF
means and make sale of them. He wanted
the people interested in the road to agree to psy
thirty thousond dollars for q service which he
had himself agreed 10 perform---at $4,000 a
year. The people and the company looked in
10 the proposition, NOT "contract," brought home
by Mr.. Bushnell, and they very properly re-
Ijected it. II was no contract" at all---it was
no contract" in the Legitimate and reasonable
sense Of that word. Consequently, Mr.. Bush
nell did not tell the truth, when he telegraphed
to Springfield that he had CONTRACTED for the
iron to Mt. Sterling" or he does not now tell
the truth when he states that in that dispatch he
referred "solely ard exclusively" to his "trans-
actions" with Chouteau, Sandford & Co.
We have shown, according to Mr.. Bushnelrs
own statements 10 public meeting held in this
Icity on his return from New Y ork in July last,
that he had made no "contract" with these gen.
ltlemen--Choteau, Sanford & Co., as he noD pre-
tends he had. Another reading of the dispatch
will satisfy our readers conclusively upon this
point. Mr.. Bushnell says in that dispatch that
Ihe "succseded tcih bonds by representing our
road as the only railroad route 10 ST. Joseph.
He SAYS he succeeded Diih bondSF' Now, is
there a word of that trueP According to his
own showing, did he Succeed with bonds, OF
did he only succeed in getting somebody 10 Sgr
He telsgraphed back that he had succeeded! .
Who believes it? Where is the evidence tina,
he succeeded with bondsP" Did he succeed ir
lulspOSllR OF lnc OOnOS ana tne company AFTER
wards agree to take them backp If so, why has
not this fact been communicated 10 the people
before this? The fact is he did not succeed
with bonds"-he did nothing whatever with the
bonds of our people, but brought them home il
his pocket. If motif he really succeeded
with bonds" where is the evidence?-where il
"the irOn' for which he tells us he "conIract
. ed?" Where is it, Mr.. Bushnellt Where ar,
, the "bOndE" with which you 'succeeded?" o.
if you have no knowledge of them, where is thu
"irOn" which you pledged them for? The peo
pie want 10 know, Mr.. Bushnell! You have
neglected to explain this matter to them in YOU
communication ir he Wing of yesterday. Die
you really Succeed with the bonds" and arr
: We 10 get no iron, no road, no-nothing? How
J is this, Mr.. Bushnell? You have attempted 4
explain all this matter, and you have left il NOR
, foggy than ever before.
Anothe' thing MIR. Bushnell states in his dispatch
which the people will be inclined to believe as false 4
Oiher stat, mems made by him. He says "the con
necon Of road with the Hannibal aud ST. Jose p
road at Palmyra nearly GTranged!' Who "auanged'
itY How was il "auanged?" You say you con
rsCted for iron" when turns out that you did suc
thingi You say you 'succeeded with bonds" when
is noorou' you d ID moi ''sueeeedr' And are nov
TO understand that yon arranged" our "Pslmyra con
neetion" precisely as you "contracted for iron" an
"sucee eesdcd wuh bondsp" II so, Mr.. Bushnell, Co
forbid that you should ever uudertake 10 "6rrange
anyth ng more for The people Of Quincy BY YOU
} THKEE YE'Fs' LxERrIOSs we have got NO con
v ITR CT. we have got NO MONEY, we have got NJ
IRON, and We suppose you have "ananged" it so thS
Sscan get no "conuection al Palmyrs!"