Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-10-29

An interesting case is now pending be.
fore the Secretary Of the Interior, iuvolv-
ing the right of Judge Ferguson, the del.
cgatc elect from Nebraska, to n pre-cmp-
ton for u quarter section Of land. 1t APP
pears that the Judge made the oath re.
quircd by law, and demanded a patent for
his land. Against the issuance of this
patent, a protest has been filed in the In.
terror department, signed by several Of his
neighhors, who make affidavit hat he has
never resided upon or cultivated the tract
of land claimed, but has always lived IN
town, where he now resides. One atliant
says he lives opposite TO the Judge, and
knows he has always resided in town, and
is n part owner of the same. Another
aiiianl says that his land adloins the tract
pre-empied by Judge Ferguson, and pass
es over it nearly every day, and hat he
knows the Judge has never resided upon
it or cultivated it. The prc.emptor being
n member elect TO Congress, adds an in
terest to the investigation which is now
going on-and as his seat is contested by
Bird ID. Chapman, the facts Of the case
may be made the subject of al exumina-
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is, due TO Judge Ferguson that the whole
matter should be thoroughly Investigated
by the Government, and the facts official
ly made known. He may be able to ex-
plain satisfactorily every circumstance go.
ing TO impeach his veracity and honor
Washington Correspondence Of 81. Louis
Republican.
1t was with no small degree Of SURPRISE
that we read the above, from the st. Lou.
is Republican. W. noticed, also, a par
ugroph about the same length, relating to
the same, both in the New York Herald,
and in the Richmond Enquirer, The
three purport TO have been written from
Washington, 10 the several papers,-ull a,
the same time. The articles are about
the same length, and some of the Ian
guuge in all, is the same,-and the sub
stance in all, the same. The ear marks
are too plain to be mistaken by any one,
acquainted with the c%hicanery and despli.
cable subterfuges, SO often r%esorted TO by
one B. b. Chapman, in furthering his vii
famous purposes, of traduclng and villify-
lug the reputation of honest men, which
has been the principle business of this ve-
nal Black Republican trickster, since he
left Oberlin. We charge this upon Chap
man, because. first, the letters show by
their dates, length, substance, and phrase.
ology, to have been written, or ins,igated
Ivy q single individual. Secondly, we
know that up TO the date of these letters
there was no such protest filed, with the
Secretary of the Interior, whatever NIGH
have been done since. Again, Chapman
boasted before he left the Territory, tina
he knew these p~enny-a-liners at Wash
ington, and he would communicate through
them, to the press of the country, HIS
views of Judge Ferguson. Finally, j
he is base enough to threaten the Chic
Justice of the Territory, That he woul
blow him in his penny newspaper, if h
dared to decide n certain case then i
court, against him if he would take, q
he has done, and can be proven by goo
and substantial men, n bride of lots, i
Nebraska City, kearney City,and Brown
vile, and shares in Dakota City, for rec
o,nmending the location of a Land Ohic
ut each of these places; if he would TAX
share of n quarter section of scho
land, from a poor settler, who had bee
unfortunate enough TO settle upon scho
lands, claiming the credit of having pas
cd the bill, for the relief Of settlers {
such lands, as his consideration paid
Chapman would, on the eve of an ele
ton, secretly pledge 30 men, in writin
at three different localities. 10 locate Il
same Land Office at the three places;
he would secretly pledge two men, as
did, his support, who were running f
The Legislature, in opposition to each OF
er. and then sell out his best friend, to S
cure the influence of the other; if
would cheat and defraud laborers who d
pend upon their daily labor, for their su
sistence, and steal the hard earnings
Two years of i~ncesent toll, from a pc
PRIMER, and refuse to pay female he
what he solemnly agreed to pay, becau
they were helpless then it is nj. longer
question what he will not do, that he m
satisfy his morbid propensity to paltry pc
The blush Of shame, would mantle
cheek ot the variest migrate on earth,
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