St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-03-05


just 50. s4s4.al VS.. JOSEPH W. GRAY.
Summons in an Action for the Recovery of Money
Only Damages Claimed, 10000!
+. Such were the startling captions
and daggerly paragraphs upon an Of
fetal piece of paper served upon US
yesterday morning by the sheriff of
CqHahoga county. We looked full in
the face of the official dignitary to see
If he was in earnest, and his grave
yard physiognomy assured us that it
was no joke, that he was indeed dis
charging painful duty, painful to us
at least and that we had nothing to
hope of clemency from him. An
her look at the villainous paper
ktisfed us that libel suit brought
by one Horace Greeley "versus" j.
. W. Gray was actually about to be
docketed, and what surprised us more,
it was for money only, as much as to say
II am done taking Mariposa stock OF
shares in the Moonshine Railroad
Our first impulse was to give a check
for the amount, but recovering from
IIcpludtlOI IL lCLlC, VIC loSouCCtCu
that we, like most poor Democratic
printers, had not single dollar in
bank. Here was dilemma indeed,
Zone horned dilemma" How Horace
supposed that he could ever get so
Amuch money as that out of any Demo-
acratic editor, especially one.publishing
a National Democratic paper on this
Connecticut Western Reserve, is as
much mystery to us as the Rochester
knockings. In our tremor we asked
the sheriff many foolish questions,
and among them eff he knew achicA
Greeley had brought the suit 2" We
had a faint recollection, that during
the late campaign, not only two FIRE.
: monts had been discovered, but also
two Grcclcy's, and were anxious to
know which of the latter had sued us.
He answered Old Drab." We knew
by that remark it was the editor oi
the N. Y. Tribune, formerly Fourier
lite, and the founder of Community
in Pennsylvania, where the people
A-li~rd-ssp common, had baby faetor5
attached to their establishment, where
it was said Horace himself, in pai
of feathered brooches, used to hatcl
out the chickens, while the other ole
hens did the laying and scratching.
To ascertain the foundation Of this
strange procedure, we went to the
Clerks Office, and there found on file
the following ostensible cause Tor SiI
Horaca's complaint
PETITION,
HOMAGE GREELEY, Ptff., Court Of Com. Pleas
JOSEPH W. GRAY, Dcft. Ohio.
First cause of action:
The plaintiff, Horace Greeley, editor of 1
newspaper printed in the city of New York
called the New York Tribune, says that thu
defendant being the proprietor and publisher
of newspaper published in Cleveland, il
Cuyahogs County, Ohio, called the Daily
PlaindeaIcr, the following on the 18th day Of
DECEMBER, 1856, was published therein con
berning the plaintiff, that is to say:
TOLD DRAB IN LIMBO"
Horace Greeley is getting to be about as wei
4 Known by his friends as by his enemies. Ben
1 ket used to be charged with receiving all tn
/ Alack mail of the New York press but latel.
ii has been ascertained that Sir Horace is a
1 bond of hush money as the "Old Satanic. ;
He owned up last fall to receiving four thous
]aad dollars from the Liquor dealers in New
xAYork city for the use of two columns of his pa
Z lper to advocate the the claims of that nefarou
\ jtrafic He was no doubt bought at higf
high figure to 60 for Fremont Apd now q
. -----zszz=---ent of the Chicago Press, a free
- - A writing from Iowa City, where the
n Ass that State is in session, boldly
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