Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-02-07

manu st the mtlltery companies for tneeo
arms. ], was then that he "demsnded
of tie Governor that whatever might pc the
merits of the question, no arms be sent un-
ii! after the election" 1t was then that
"Governor Mediil concur-ed in that visw
and left the whols matter in the hands Of
Gen. rugh, Mr.. Grossbeck and Mayor
Fardn.' II was then that Gov. Medill held
in hi, hands my note written the day before,
soliciting personal interview with him on
the subject Of his order To me.
1t was on Moncsy, Oct. LIST, the next
day after the Mayors "frse cow erss,on
with the Governor" and one week before
the election, but two days after had re-
ceved the Governors order to ship the
guns.
Nos, why did not the Governor, or Gen.
Pugh or Mayor Foran, telegraph so me, or
write to me, NO. to. send the arms! They
knew that the Governors had been sent TO
the two days before. Why ,ods il mol cOus-
termdndedi
They permitted mo to remain with the
order in my hands, and without any notice
of this arrangement. Governor Medill had
gone from Cincinnati, and left the whole
matter in the hands of these gentlemen,
Pugh, Taran and Groesbeck, and if they
made this arrangement with the companies
they should have given me notice; bnt they
did not do so, and there is phers the blame
lies These gentlemen were politicians,
controlling this matter for political advan-
tage, and acting as the friends of the Gov
ernor ~, but they omitted an important
part--they made the arrangement with the
companies. bat they failsd to give me no.
tee o. it. Politicians of less pretsnsion
might have managed better than that.
1t may be that the Governor Sthought that
these gentlemen managed this matter with
view to the result which followed. Such
pn inference is at least as fair against the
Mayor as those which he aids the Enquirer
to make against the Quarter Master.
The arrival of these arms in Cincinnati,
and the fact that General Sargent has pos
session of them, was announced with start
ling capitals in several newspapers.
To counteract the influence which this
might have upon the election, Mayor Faran
published his card, and the Cincinnati En-.
quirer, not to be outdone in startling an
nouncement, spoke as follows.
INFAMOUS KKow-NoTHIsG TRIcK-THE ARMS
BELONGING TO THE IRISH MILITARY eoMPA-
NIs-QuARTERkAsTER GENERAL ANDREWS
IN COLLISION wITR GENERAL SARGENT
DISPATCH FROM GOVERNOR MEDIkL.
It will be recollected by our readers
that, on account Of the military companies
in this city composed o! adopted citizens re-
lusng to join in a Know-Nothing celebra-
tion on the Fourth OF July, Gen'l Sargent
q rampant Know Nothing. had the hardhood
to dsarm them by going and seizing their
muskots, and in an illegal manner convey
ing them away. We say illegal. becase, in
the first place, Sc rgant had no authority to
order out the Fourth of July, and secondly
because if he had, this policy was to court
martial the officers who disobeyed' him, and
not to disarm the priyates, who had no al
ternative but to obey their local company
ard brigade officers.
The diScrming OF the companies was an
outrage which we deemed at the time per-
fectly inderensibe, and which the General,
it he had had he least sense Of discretion,
would not have been guilty of. In order to
right matters, and to have an, officer at the
head of the military who was not constant
ly getting into trouble, Governor Medi!l ap-
pointed George e. Pugh a Major General
over Sargent's head. The Major General
made demand upon tho Quarter Master
Generals for new arms to supply the places
of those which were illegally withheld from
some companies in the First Division under
his command. The Quartermaster General.
Andrews, friend and supporter OF Chase,
and violent enemy Of the Democratic
party refused, however, to comply with
Major General Pugh's order, which was
made upon him several weeks since.
Things were in this state until this morn
ing, it was herElded in the Columbian, with
alarming capitals that four hundred stand
of arms had been discovered ut the express
office, marked &C. P,' and that they were
intended for the disb0nded Irish military
companies in this city, and that they had
been seized by General Sargent, who sup
posed the initials &c. p" to mean "Gov-
crnment properly" The facts are, us we
have been able to learn them, that the
whole thing is Know-Nothing plot and
conspiracy to make political capital.
The Quartermaster General, who is .
Know Nothing, after refusing to send down
the arms several weeks ago, and, holding Oft
until the day before the election, finally
complied, when he knew that fugh would
not be here to receive them, he being alb
sent for political discussion at Tiiiin.-
Such an ambiguous direction was put upon
the arms ("G. P.D as to enable Sargent to
seize them as Government property, and
thereby get up Know Nothing clamor that
they were sent down here secretly aud sur
reptitiously. The Times last night-out of
this outrage snd sbominable fraud Psrpetra'
ted by its own friends has most inflam
matory article with this heading: "The Irish
Supplies with State Arms---the Democratic
Leaders Encouraging Bloodshec--Foul Plot
Discovered" 1t is a "toul plot" but its
getters up are Know Nothings-ths two in-
dividuals being Quartermaster General An
drews and Rrigadier General Sargent, both
nembers of the secret conspiracy.
We cannot too strongly rsprobate the .S-
thsrs Of this dsstardly Know-Nothiag plot
to injure the prospect of the Democratic
party at this election, and, perhaps, give up
ths city to bloodshed and violence. The
fact that Andt swe, refusing to forward the