The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-02-18

The editor Of the Plymouth Banner, Mr..
Patrick, has urged the charge against Prof.
Larrabee, that while he was Superintendent
Of Public Instruction he specialized off the
school funds for his own profit to the amount
Iof $4,000 Prof LarFabee, who is now can
didate for the same Office again, after being
badly beaten last election, denies this charge
Patrick replies, and still insists upon It's truth
His reasoning on the subject is of practical
character, and seems to prove pretty conclu-
raise" some how while in offics The Pro-
lessor and his accuser were both residents Of
of GreencastIe, Ind The latter states that
when Prof. ?. located at that place, the trus-
tees of the college advance him money to buy
house and lot-that just before he was elect
ed to the Office of Superintendent of Public
Instruction, what little property he had was
mortgaged, and This credit SO poor he could
not run his face for five pounds ofcoffee in any
store in town" Such was his pecuniary con-
dtion when elected to office. We now per-
NIT Mr.. Patrick to continue the subject. He
says:
The salary of Superintendent Of Public
instruction is 81, 300 per year-this Office
he held two years, making s., GOO, just about
enough to keep his family in meat and cloth
ing, still he is worth this day, over and above
what he was when accepting of the Office,
over $4,000! There may be nothing wrong
yet it looks little so. If any relative has
laff pay, la,.yo -,,r,.
be very much gratifed to know it. In the
first place, Pap now owns about four thousand
acres of land in jasper and adjoining counties
in this State. The same he is now Improving
having number Of hands hired. He sent up
from this place last summer ten or twelve yoke
of oxen for the purpose of breaking up prairie,
&c. He has also, we understand thousand
acres of land in Iowa. Besides the above, he
contracted for splendid farm in this county,
but whether he has taken it or not we are not
prepared to say. Upon his premises in town
he has had hired for the last year number
of Irishmen working in and improving his
nursery. Upon the same lot he put up last
summer fine brick house, costing at least FIVE
thousand dollarsl With all the above OUTLAWS
yet he has enough left to buy one-Irtlf Of the
State Sentinel establishment If the charge
is not true, where in the word did he get
finances to buy so much property and expend
in improvements what he hase The cost of
his house alone is almost double that of his
two years salary! Again, we say, where did
the money come from? In short. out of s.,
GOO he has kept his family two years, made
several trips ''down east' to see his Yankee
friends, bought 5000 acres of land, spent at
least two thousand dollars for hired help built
q five thousand dollar house, yet has enough
left TO buy one-balf Of thcaState Sentinel es-
Enlistment If the charge is not true, we
again repeat, where did he get his money?
People may lie, but figures never.
Mr. Patrick had also made the following
charge against the Professor, which was de-
MED:
CIV. G. Larabee is an abolitionist at heart
having cast one of the three votes polled for
Birney at this place in 1848."
Mr.. P. thus replies to thus denial:
s'That he was an abolitionist when he c; M
here, and that his personal friends and those