The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-07-03
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ding in our columns to the man whose cogno-
men heads this article, knowing that to them
tie subject is as disgusting as it is to ourselves,
but circumstances make it imperatively neces.
sary.
In our issue Of Saturday morning, we cop
led some extracts from one of our exchanges, the
Des Moines Valley Wing, a paper of the high
est responsibility, and edited by Mr.. HOWELL,
a man of unimpeachable veracity and at the
time we believed, and still do, tina the charges
were true. AS to his declaration that We are no
better than the editor of that paper, we have
no objections, as we happen to know that Mr..
HOWELL is gentleman in every sense of the
word and more than that, he declines making
his paper medium to screen mountebank Jug
glers, contrary to the course pursued by some
other papers that we know Of
These extracts he pronounces false. It is
an easy matter to make assertions, but it is
another matter to bring forward the proof
The public has nothing from which to doubt
the truth Of them, except the testimony of a
man whose evidence we hazard nothing in
saying, even under oath, would not go very far
in this community. Why did he not publish
the commendatory notices that he claims the
papers Of Davenport, Rock Island and Keo-
kuk, gave him and his Juggling schemes. The
our bill he says:
"Let the community of ST. Paul know the
truth about this. | sent my Agent On Thurs.
day for my bill at the Pioneer office; it was
made out at $1,000. | politely informed Mr.
Goodrich that $3.50 was all it should Justly
be, and he deducted Thirteen Dollars and Fiji
ty Cents, without any ceremony. There's
where the shoe pinches.'"
Now mark how plain tale will put him
down" We directed our bill to be made out
on Thursday, under an apprehension that if we
delayed attending to it until the end of the
week, we would come out minus. Our bill was
in exact accordance with our published terms
but owing to a mistake, which was afterwards
corrected, it amounted to $1,000. The mis-
take being found out, and struck off, it amount
ed to twenty-six dollars and some cents.
This amount was justly due us. Unknown
to us, he had left at our Office some seven or
eight tickets, among the hands employed in
our office. We supposed, Of course, that these
tickets were gratuitous but when we came
to settle with him, he demanded the full price
for tickets, which we never ordered, and which
were left at our office without our knowledge.
10 avoid any difficulty with an irresponsible
concern, we allowed him dollar for each
ticket SO left, and he paid the balance, amount
lug to $3.50. This is u true statement of the
case.
We had often heard Of the "devil quoting
scripture,' but never saw it verified, until we
perused his communication on Saturday last.
There is another passage of Scripture, some
where, which we think very applicable in the
present case. beware of men who 90 about
in sleeps clothing, for inwar(ly they are ray
enous wolves.'
In regard to the substantiation of the ex-
tracts any one who will take the trouble to
read the Chicago, Keokuk, Rock Island and
Davenport papers, will find, if we are not mis-
taken, confirmatory evidence
In regard to his offer of giving 800 to the
Charity Hospital, if he will place the money in
the hands Of a responsible committee, we thinl,
there will be no trouble in finding witnesses to
prove every charge that has been brought
against him.
This much in vind:caticn of our COURSE
W hen he first came here, we had reason to be-
lieve that he was an honest man. We pub
llshed these extracts, not because we were ma
liciousy inclined towards him, but we felt it
to be our duty as public journalist to let our
readers know what was said of him, where he
had been, and then they were at liberty to use
their own judgment in regard to investing their
money in his scheme.