The Nevada journal., 1857-05-15
Dulluess.

able size in the State. Wednesday
was, if possible, the dullest day within
the memory of the oldest inhabitant.-
Wednesdays are always dull. Local
causes contribute TO this effect. The
Democrat is given to an indulgent public
on Wednesdays. The responsible )"
article in the last number did the work
for us-killed business as dead as her.
ring. The Democrat is good at figures.
Ciphering out stolen sums from Treas
ury made plethoric by loco foco rule,
by thieving know nothings is just its
hand. We took occasion last week to
pay the Shasta Courier in its own coin,
by fastening portion of the mal-ad-
ministration of the government where
it properly belongs, at the same time
saying nothing in e2tenuation of the
errors of any administration of the gov
ernment. The Democrat takes up the
cudgel for the man in a higher northern
latitude. 1t wasn't our neighbor's fight,
and he had better staid out. We intend
now, to show up the utter falsity of the
Irresponsible" article in the Democrat.
In the first place, the Know Nothing
Legislature of 1856 saved, by an accu-
rate estimate of Controller Whitman
published last fall, over the preceding
Legislature, the sum of S2SS,0OO. The
doctrine of the loco focos has been "to
the victors belong the spoils." II by
any acts of self denial the know moth
ings succeeded in saving that sum, gain
ing victory over temptation, it belong
ed to them by virtue of Democratic
principles, and if dollar less than the
sum they saved was left to the State, it
should stand TO their credit-no previ-
Gus administration having left farthing
unflched.
That Outrageous State Prison Con
tract" " comes up again. Strange that
the dear school of experience has not
taught even the Democrat to let that
subject alone. Who passed that "out-
rageous act? The immortal sew
enteen" who defeated the election Of
L. S. Senator could have strangled the
monster as easily as they did the hopes
of Foote. Did they do so? No. OF
the nineteen in the Senate who voted
for that act, thirteen are Democrats and
one Flint Republican, though an ac
knowledged Democrat at the time the
great iniquity was practised. Burton
| (Whig) voted against the bill, leaving
but four Simon pure Americans to be en-
gagged in the outrageous measure.
That John Bigler awarded a contract
to Vassault for over million dollars is
patent and no one but the Democrat
man has the hardihood to deny it.
Again the statement that the warrants
drawn by Controller Bell have never
been paid, is not true to the extent in
tended by our neighbor. Sixty thou
sand dollars of those warrants acre paid
in cash, before Know Nothing Legis-
lature could assemble to cancel the re-
mainder, about S125,OOO, which was
saved to State, and not included in the
S2SS, 900 before mentioned.
The Democrat says, even if these
cancelled warrants should be paid, the
expense of the State Prison under Big
ler's control was less than the Know
Nothing Legislature contracted to pay
Estell the winter following. Oh double
extract of ashes The enormous sum
of one hundred eighty-fve thousand sew.
en- hundred and seventy-one dollars and
ninety-seven cents, will be foun1 in the
Registry book in the office of the State
Treasury, to have been drawn in war
rants on account of the State Prison,
between the 9th day of July and the 5th
day of December, 1855, and all the
claims were not then presented. Now
we will indulge the figuring propensi-
ties of the Democrat to its bent to dis
cover how much this amounts to per
month. We stated it at guess, in our
last to be $4,000, Another thousand
and trihe more should be added to our
estimate. Deducting the amount said
to have been expended in State Prison
walls, and without taking into conside-
ration claims unaudited at the time, and
the monthly sum paid by the State for
the support of the Prison while under
the control of John Bigler, exceeds by
far $4,000 per month, the sum allowed
. Estell.
But if that contract was an outrage
ous one, why did not the "immortal