Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-03

lars. Whereupon, Mr.. Trumbull pro-
cecdcd to jumpa claim owned by the Town
Company of Bellevue, aud within the cor
porate limits Of said city. Said claim had
a good house upon it, and abou, 20 acres
Of breaking done, at the time Trun
bull jumped the same. Judge Ferguson
was one who acted as a mediator between
the Town Company and Trumbull, and
Mr.. Trumbull was paid two city lots, and
5000 in money, thereby selling again his
right to pre.empt. Tread lightly, Mr..
Trumbull, we have but just commenced.
You agreed to settle honorably, and have
peace with the company; and in good faith
for the purchase money you got, and the
money you had been paid, by said compa-
nv, for labor done, when money was
scarce. You were now ready for your
regular business, and proceeded 10 jump
l60 acres, that belonged to a young man
of this place, by the name of Page, who
had taken n trip to Iowa City, for a young
wife. Page hearing that his claim had
been jumped, wrote to the writer of this
article, that he would not come back 10
Nebraska, unless he could get his claim.
His venerable father came on, and plead
with you, for Justice and his sons right
Did you pay that old man u single cent?
4" Nigh, makes right" again. Did you stop
here, conteuted with 100 acres? No, SIR;
you reached out, breaking faith with the
Bellevue Company, and took more land
that they claimed. You did not stop at
this. You asked for 320broad acres, and
You made up the balance, by taking the
land and improvements Of an old veteran
Government Officer, who had spent his
hard earnt gold, to improve it, as a future
residence for his family. The noble, Dig
nifed, princely, courteous, and gentleman
ly conduct, Of this gentleman towards you,
ever after you had done wrong to him,
should have been a whitening rebuke to
your act of injustice. Were you not, Mr..
Trumbull, a witness less than ten days
ago, for one Charles Fish, to pre-empt
one half Of the 800 acres? and how much,
if any thing did you pay for such proving
up Did Fish cultivate, improve,
and occupy said land, more than five
days3 Did he not ca, his meals a, an
other house, during the time? Who fur
nished Fish with lumber, to build hi:
shan,y1 Again, have you not filed
your intention to prove up on the balance
and that, too, after You had sold YOU
right to pre-empt, twice, and for a mon
eyed consideration, all Paid you? You
sir, live in u glass house. Your w per
sonal safety, requires that you throw q
few stones as possible, at your ~neighbor'
house. From what we know Of you, w
are free to say, hat we believe that haO
YOU been in the streets, where Chris
stood, on one occasion, addressing
crowd, concerning the faults of n certain
woman, whom the people were about I
stone, there certainly would have been
stone thrown in the direction Of that IN
fortunate woman, and the history Of thu
transaction changed.
We now come to speak lastly of the nea
liule great man, in this most remarkabl
play, for Justice, Chapman, God and Lii
erty. VIM. r. Watson is q brother
Eli p. Waison--is the very grave advise
, of his brolher's best remedy, TO fore
Judge Ferguson TO pay his brothers III
. Just and unlawful demand. He is ii
organ grinder-set to tune by B. Is. Cha
a man. He pinches the tails of sundI
small animals, and Immediately thereaft'
they sQueal,-to the satisfaction Of t!
" grinder" and his presenting master.
Last spring, he ran for the office
Recorder Of Sarpy County, receivir
the vote of Eli p. Watson, his broth
Charles Els vote, is voted for by Trur
bull-thinks no got the vote of his hire
man--is modest and votes for himself
all, six votes. Sarpy County has five hu
dred voters. Chapnan's paper says,
! give credit to TrunbulI, that he W
elected, last fall, county sup't of comm,
g schools, of Sarpy County. The Ncbru
khan LIES under a mistake. Thumbs
was elected two years ago, sup't of Dou
: las County. For the same office, for Il