The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-02-09
CRY REcoRpERs OrrIcE. J
Dubuque Feb. 4th 1853. !
A. ID. ANDERSON ESQ.

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A. ID. ANDERSON Esq.
DEAR SIR: You wish me to state the condi.
ton in which find the books ana papers of this
office to have been kept during your incum-
bency etc, and particularly with regard to the
evidences on file tor the issue of the city scrip
! have made no very critical examinations
into the business Of my predecessors, but am en-
tirely satisfied from such as | have made, that
no one has fulfilled the duties of this office bet
ter than you have.
The margins of scrip issued by you are on file
showing the No. and date of each piece, to
whom issued and for what purpose. There is no
eridenee here that you have done any wrong nor
have l ever heard it limited until it was done by
Mr.. Hewitt whose insinuations arc all based
upon surmisc This is manifestly so, because
if he had any evidence or even "strong suspi
cions" he was bound by his oath to arrest and
bring you to trial. Indeed as l understand it,
he virtually admits that the seal covering his
vial of wrath would not now have been broken
had you given him share of the imaginary
spoils.
was the first clerk to the Board of Trustees
after Dubuque was incorporated and am satisfied
that the financial Encouragement" alluded to by
Mr.. Hewitt became manifest as early as 1889 or
1910, from which time no Board or Recorder
appears to have been able to arrive at the exact
amount of scrip in circuiation-each annual
Report having been based upon the official Re-
ports of the preceding years. AT all events
this Encouragement" as all our old citizens will
recollect, existed number Of years before you
were Recorder, and exhibits in strong colors the
utter absurdity and injustice OF the effort now
being made to saddle this responsibility upon
you.
Very Respectfully,
CHAS. CORKERY.
This shows that MY BOOKS ,cere keptin an in
tclhgibte and satisfactory manner and that the
"derangement' referred to eristed years before
had anything to do ,oiM the Recorders office
Another most insidious, dark and malicious
falsehood is therefore nailed to Mr. Hewitts
back. Mark it No. 7. have been kindly ten.
dered the testimony of many of our most res.
pectable citizens showing that SO far from the
city being Indebted to his remarkably quick per-
ceptve faculties for his pretended discovery of
lS49 the said enlargement was matter of
public netoriety many years ago, and conse-
quently that in his efforts to steal the credit due
to that discovery he has signally failed
In confirmation Of my representation as to
the point of time in which suspicious arose in
the public mind concerning supposed "unac.
counted for" issue of scrip, invite the readers
especial attention to that part of Judge Corke-
rvs note referring to the data upon the Reports
of the several Recorders, Treasurers, & Boards
OF Aldermen for number of years past, have
been based 1t may be, that in these several
Reports, the amount of scrip supposed to lie, or
perhaps actually in circulation, has not been
rectly set forth. But as MIR. Hewitt declares
that ii was impossible" to ascertain the amount
of scrip in circulation, except by actually nqui.
ring among the scrip holders, and which he
found TO be impracticable, -he at least could not
have expected us to ascertain or, consequently,
TO go behind the reports of our predecessors.
ed, could not agree TO base our reports upon
mere surmise, rather than upon the official re-.
ports of our predecessors. But pass to notice
his several other fabrications
How is it, now, concerning my "haring paid
Mr.. Robbins seucraL hundred dollars in scrip,
for the purchase ofje,cetrys" Hear Mr. Robbins:
MIR. A. d. ANDERsoK-Sir: All the jewelry
you purchased of me, believe, was Pin; the
remainder was for a watch, castor, lamps, &c,
amounting in all to about $500 in scrip.
w. II. ROBBINS.
Ill the jewelry, then, was "Pin!'
Mr.. Hewitt! Mark it No. 3.
Inasmuch as the Messrs Smith have remov.
ed from the City, cannot proue the falsiy OF
MIR. Hcwtt's insinuation in this case, but I will
state what am confident of, that my dealings
with them during the whole time that they did
business here, did not, in all, amount to over
$75-at least one-half of which was, think,
paid in cash. That statement therefore put
though | shall not number 1t.
But, did pay ia large amount to DR.. Mason
for the purchase of drugs'" Hear what DR..
Mason says:
SIR:-I received from you, in City Scrip,
twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, at so cents
on The dollar; you also paid my license to the
City, amounting to ten dollars, at rs cents on
the dollar. These are all the transactions have
had with you in city scrip L. MASON
MIR ID ANDFRsoS
Was ever any despicabe slanderer more clear
ly convicted of falsehooG' This is No. 9.
But, did Ipay ga two or three years meat
bill, at George Strausser's, in City Scrip:
Hear Mr.. Strausser.
A. D.ANDERsoS Esq'-Mr Strausser has told u.
to-day that he never purchased, at most, exceed
ing forty dollars of scrip from you-ior which
he paid the market price.
VIM. A. JONES.
II. S. HETHERlNGTON.
| Feb 9Th.
Hold up your head, sir-Tm not yet through
with mailing the lies TO your back. No. 10.
| But, did furnish "Schaffner, Keine, Rein
fred, Zu senbuler, Luck, Duff, Mangold, Yeag
er, and others, with the amount of scrip neces
saAy w pay thch SioSeiy HCeHses anu tax To-
two years." l have not been able to see o.
hear from all these gentemen-some of then
being dead, or out of town-but have all tn.
proof necessary. Read the following:
Mr. A. D. ANDERsoN-In answer to your in
quiries have to say that never bought AM
city scrip ofyou
F. MANGOLD.
Feb. 9TH So
DEAR SIR:-At your request we have Gale,
upon Mr.. Duff who says that he never bough
any scrip of you.
VIM. A. JONES.
II. S. HETHERlNGTON
Feb. 9Th.
Mr.. A. ID ASDERsoN-All the scrip eve
bought of you was for two years license TO
Farmers Home for which paid you the marke
price.
T. KIENE.
Feb SO.
A. d. ANDERSON ESQ., am authorized b,
MIR. Zugenbuller to say that all the scrip he eve
bought of you was $l25 at SO or So cts, on tn
Ill n 4 7, 4 ~ IT,