Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-12-19
~ Rpll,e Colony.

THAT contqlneul HI THESE AtStstS' 4AtssuS
conversation with Mr.. J. W. RoDDoN. Ole BULBS
assistant, he furnished us the following from
the great violinisps attorney, and originally pub
lslled in the New York Herald:
JAMES GoRDos, BENNErT, Esa.-
| Dear Sir: Having observed in. Your paper oil the
/ 18th inst, a letter headed cole Bulls Colony IN
Pennsylvania, ~ deem it my duty. as the counsel
of Mr. Bull, Che being absent from the city 70 cor
rect the impression which the public would re-
ceive from that letter, almost every paragraph OF
which is without foundations.
/ IL seems the ostensible author OF this production
| Il one YoIg, medical man, who emigrated iLom
some Mace at the west of this colony, ana mas peGu
since his urnyai, living rent iree IN q mouse Oh m
Buips and otherwise most plentifully paTtaking OF
| his bounty.
While pretending 10 be a warm friend Of Ole
Bull and the Norwegians, he has secretly ayowe9
that he would have all the Norweglans routeu ana
settle the colony with Germans, TO which race ne
| belongs He endeavoTed to obtain the situation o
oyerseer, in which he failed. His whole career,
since his arrival at the colony, has been Character
lied with duplIcity and imbecilty, never having
accomplish anything except to bring man Win
him to the colony who has turned OUT 70 DC OF tue
same stamp with himself 75,s
Il is so evident that this letter emanated from,
and was written to curry favor with certain parties
who were connected with the late association thal
Justice demands that should give full history oil
| MI Bulls unfortunate connection with 1t.
In the su inner of 1852, John r. Cowan, ottWlls
Transport, Joseph T. Builey5 oil Philadelphia anu
Others, procured for themselves an Introduction 10
ole Bull, and through the agency of person VINO
was then his attorney, persuaded him 10 abandon
project which he had nearly completed, oil pur-
chasing lands in Virginia, and 10 enter into an as
ISOLATION with them to found colony on lands IN
4 Potter county, of which they were the owners
Fifteen hundred dollars were e1acted from MrBull
to pay The eXpensesof trip Tor the whole party 10
| view the lends. farmer, who lived the vicinity,
was solicited by person connected with the al
fair but whose name for the PRESENT. withhold, 10
represent to Mr.. Bull as he passed through there,
that the lands were worth per acre, ana increas-
| ing III value. -.
Mr. Cowan, who headed the party, falsely repre-
scented 10 MIR. Bull, and also 10 MI dudley. well
known merchant of this city, who has escaped OH
ly with loss of $4,000, thai certain lands, and al
most the only level or cleared spot IN the whole
tract of 10000 acres, belonged to him and his as
sociaes, and thus induced Mr.. Bull to consent TO
| found the colony there. large sumot money
was Immediately expended by MI Bull i'll procur-
ing aud forwarding emigran,s; and, finally meet
ing was held in Philadelphia, Mr. Bull not being
lpreSent,l at which Cowan was appointed sole Su-
perintendant and manager. Bailey&the treasurer
and Mr.. Bull, president.
Bull by Cowan, without giving him any equIva-
| lent, not so much as receipt. Bailey, through
Cowan and another, got from himtwenty I'VE thou
sand dollars more for whlchlt Is now nlleuged they
Were to give Mt. Bull deeds to certain portions Of
4
| Mr. Bull to show it.
Cowan some ten months afler he had received
| the money, was reluctantly induced TO give deed
for about ten thous md acres, out of which he
ertly excepted all tie tract that had induced MI.
Ball to make the purchase. This deception was
| not discovered until after was retained Us his
counsel, and went personally to the lands 10 e&-
anime the validity Of the titles, Co. whenl ascer-
! tanned TINT BaiIy and Cowan did moi, and never
had, owned a foot of this tract-all of which bs E
longed 10 Mr. Geo. StewardSon, OF Philadelphia,
of WHOM they had made several Intellectual attempts
| to purchase It. Under this deception, Mr.. Bull
hhad expended, fromhis own private purse, 10000
in putting up buildings and satisfying the demands
| Of settlers, who compla nel to hun that Cowan did
not pay them for their work. ..e
Bailey held on to the SOS, 600, and still Mr.. Bull
had never been able TO get deed, or the slightest
equivalent; and when he wrote 10 have the money
returned, or else deed, received his only salts
faction the answer, ''fhat he was foreigner, and
could not hold lands.' Mr.. Barley, know, has
| the reputation OF Shrewd artlhcer III gold and
the base metals; but the fact that he did not dis
cover that Ole Bull, the Norwegian, was not ma
tive born Yankee, till he had got his money, does
not speak much Tor his historical learning,
In July last was employed as Mr.. Bulls coun-
sci, and, finding matters in this curious state,
advised him to abandon the whole concern, and
demand return of his money.
| After nearly three months time spent in collect
ing evidence in Potter county ard elsewhere, and
in frequent meetings of the counsellor the respec
1 tive naIIleS, q compromise was euSCIeu, ny WHICH
Mr.. Bull returned the deed 10 Cowan, and received
back his $4,000 in the shape of bond, payable
| in six, twelve, eighteen and twenty-four months;
and he retired from the association with loss,
he asserts he can show, OF nearly S4O,OOU.
BY that settlement, Ole Bull was 10 paya GER
tain schedule of the debts of The associations every
dollar of which has been paid as fast as the parties
Coul1l e communicated with; Bailey, GoWan, DC,
assumed to pay the balance of the debts, and have
| not done so; and it is the non payment OF thtSe
IL oil lhaa
the colony, and subjected Nh Bull to the abuse Of
some OF his coloniSs. ~ ttf
The base attempt to throw the blame of The mis-
management of the colony upon oIe Bull ism
keeping with the rest of the scheme. Cowan was
the superintendent, and Bailey, at his own urgent
solicitation, was treasurer OF the association that
founded the colony; aud on their heads alohe.will
fall the oduu, aud to them alone can be justly ut
tributed any bad repute or mismanagement OF the
colony. lg
Mr., Bull being wholly unacquainted with the
value of the land, was induced by those parties 10
take IT, at 81 and 81 so per acre, when it was well
known in Philadelphia that for years the owners
of betteIlandsin the immediate vicinity have only
valued them at from twenty-five to seventy five
cents.
This knight of the pull box asserts IN his letter
that he knows that Mr.. Bull lost no money in his
connection with the coIonyi that he resold the
land for double the amount he paid for IL and that
nothing but friendly tranractoli took place be-
tween Mr.. Bull and the land owners 4
Now, every word of this he knew to be false, or
else he pledged his word to what he knew nothing
about.
As to the 800 received by his counsel, it seems
Mr.. Bull considered the amount well earned, and
Others agree with him in so thinking, who are b. IL
ter capable Of judging Than those who by their
base treachery caused him not only this expense,
but nearly $4,000 besides, expended in an enter
prise in which none but knaye fool would
have advised linn 10 engage. t5fg A
THAT Mr. RuIl 10 n
BILE; but n assertion that he is not philanthopic
and benevolent, requires refutation but his acts,
and comes with an i'll grace from fawning SycJ
plant, who sells himself TO the enemies of his for
land.
AS L. E. BURKELEY,
.s..e. Counsel of Ole Bull, 4s Wall street.
Nov. is, 1858.