Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-02-06

King of the blackguards. As necessary
preface to the subject in point, the speaker
gave brief history Of the Vigilance Com
mittee and its progenitor, as he terms him
James King Of VIM, setting that martyr to
the cause of publication and vllifcation, in
n most unenyiable light, and thea "more in
sorrow than in anger" (the quotation is the
Generals) launches out into the grand
"question of privilege" itself-the expose
Of the history and character of St. Thomas
The statement goes to show that Thomas
was born in Washington City, of "poor tho
honest parents"--his father being an un
dertaker, and that after having grown to
manhood Cor as near to il as he could as
similate) Tom courted and married n beau
tIful young woman, with whom he lived long
enough TO infest with loathsome disease,
when she separated from him, he going to
the west, and she--to n brothel.
After the Mexican war broke out, Saint
Thomas went to Mexico as an attachc to the
Quartermaster's Department, and unfortu-
nately was permitted to return, after which
he acted or assayed to do so, rs agent for
the house in which his degraded wife had
with other frail creatures engaged in bust
ness, and upon being denied a share of the
profits of his wife's shame, attempted to
seize upon her goods and chattels by process
Of law, and by this was successful enough to
gain sufficient money to buy ticket to Cal
ifornia, and came with wool on his teeth,
and suspicion barking Mt his heels" But
his brother didn't like his goings on and he
was denied admission to the palace of st.
James, and shortly turned his face home
ward again, and on the steamer became ac-
quainted with some gentlemen who had II
large amount of gold dust in charge, and
when going ashore at Acapulco left the
brother and confidential clerk of the great
California banker" in charge of their treas
ure ,wh in an unguarded moment gave some
body an opportunity of breaking open the
trnnk in which it was contained, at which
the depositors became highly in censed and
blamed the innocent Saint. who thereupon
promised full payment when they reached
New York, but unfortunately forgot it when
they arrived there but went straightway
to Philadelphia to see his fallen wife, who
spiritedly scorned him and his overtures.
Then with misrepresentation and lies he
induced the wife of James to come with him
to California. and growing tired of her COM
paDy, made an alliance with a " fancy wo-
man." whereupon Col. Doane of Vigilance
notoriety took Mrs. King in charge and
gallanted her to San Francisco.
| In the course of human events Saint
Thomas was made Custom House officer,
and er.OGci0, broke into brothel in the
neighborhood and cut up several other rus
ties in keeping with his notions of purity.
for one of which, Mr.. Boutwell,, n Custom
House officer gave him drubbing. About
this time Jim Casey stated through his organ
that Saint Thomas had tried to get the APP
pOintment of u. s. Marshal, and slipped
up" whereupon the Bulletin came out with
an abusive article against Casey which
caused row, which caused shooting
match. which caused Vigilance Committee
and thereby as everybody knows-hangs n
tale.
In this is contained the principal portion
of the expose that relates directly to Tom,
but he puts in lick or two for other par
ties, among whom is Gerberding the part
ner of Saint Thomas in the Bulletin, whom
he shows as forger and fugitive from JUS
tice, aud another one OF the concern, "a for
eign editor" whom he says is Sidney
duck.
The "expose" contains great deal more
than we have alluded to here but we have
gathered the principal points that relate to
the generation Of Kings"
To morrow, We take pleasure in stating,
we shall publish certain facts relative to
the above fully corroboratng some of Gen
eral Estell's statements in relation to Tom
King and his friend, Vigilance Committee
Judge Marrow.