Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-02-17
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.


CetVMBus, Feb, 8. 1857.
The Ohio Statesman, in It's anxiety to
aid Mr.. Slough, has seen fitting to make
a bitter attack upon ourself, for writing the
letter which appeared in the Telegraph Of
week before last Medary is absent from
his post. Inwhose hands the editorial de-
partment Of that paper is left, we are una
bic to say We have been informed that
it is in the hands of Mr.. Smith, "a mem
ber Of the House, and son-in-law Of Ne
daryl and q Mr.. Doren, reporter of the
proceedings Of the House. Whether this
is the fact ornot, is sunimportant. The pa
per has little or no influence III this COM
munity. and any reply to attacks from that
quarter is justly considered an evidence of
weakness. That sheet is SO miserably
"down at the heel'' that we have heard
more than one intelligent Democrat say
they would not permit "the thing" to be
left at their houses. We mention these
facts as an explanation Of the reason why
we have taken no notice of the attack
We understand that on last Saturday, Mr.
Slough was exceedingly angry, and threat
ened us with personal violence but al
though he had many excellent opportuni-
ties to make an attack, he did not molest
us. Several copies Of the Telegraph are
received here, and, as we expected, Mr..
Slough was in possession of copy in
twenty-four hours after we received copy.
While we never did desire any personal
difficulty with any one, we have never
failed to denounce wrong-doers in such
language as to us seems fitting, regardless
of cosequences; and we shall continue to
endeavor to defend ourself in such manner
as we may deem expedieut. A dozen cas-
legations from Mr.. Slough, however, could
not change the facts in his case, or our
opinion. On the contrary, any attempt of
his to visitupon our personal injury would
tend to convince the public Of the correct
ness of our opinion. Had we denounced
Senator Sumner as an ignoramus and ruff
fan, or Daniel Webster as a fool, or Ma
poleon Bonaparte as coward, we fancy
the reputation of those gentlemen would
not have greatly suffered thereby, but we
should have merited the appellation OF
numbskull. But if we say that John
Smith or Peter Jones is ruffian, and we
should be knocked down and beaten by
one of these individuals for saying so,
would not the public say at once that oul
opinion was entitled to credit? And would
it not exhibit a lack of brains in John
Smith or Peter Jones to place the public il
possession Of such convincing evidence
Of the truth of our charge? But enough
Of this for the present.
The Legislature has been transacting
great deal ofimportant business this week
Mr.. Monroe has presented his new schoo
law; but as-it has not been printed yet, W,
cannot give an abstract Of the contempla
ted changes. The Committee on Peniten
tiary have been investigating an alledgeC
outrage committed by Dr.. Dawson
upon one of the prisoners. They re
; port that young man who was sentenced
for one year for manslaughter, complained
of weak eyes, but could see sufficient,
well to attend to his work. DR.. Dawson
told him he thought he could cure him,
! allowed to operate upon them. The youn:
man consented TO allow him to operate up
on one eye. He did so, and the conse
quence was that he became totally blinC
of that eye. The Doctor, few weeks af
terward desired to operate upon the othe
eye. To this the prisoner objected, whel
he was, by direction of the physician com
PEELED to submit to the operation, whicl
J resulted in total loss of sight. The com
: mittee report these facts and evidence, ant
recommend that the prisoner be placed il
\ the Blind Asylum, and educated at the ex
pense of the State, and that the Attorne,
General be instructed to commence pros
: ecution against Dr. Dawson, and thos
who assisted him, to recover damages
The DR.. sustains very high reputation a
u aphysician, and is professor in the Star
=" ling Medical College. The evidence j
b very voluminous. Such an outrage shoul
u not go unpunished, and if the evidenc
: sustains the deductions of the committee
j we shall favor their recommendations.
n Mr.. Jewett has just introduced bil
d providing for a Geological Survey.
r large number of extra copies of the B1
: and Report will be printed, and we sha1
y endeavor to send few copies to those mos
b interested in Meigs county.
" A Bill has been introduced to set asid
l. or epudiate the contracts fraudulently en-