Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1858-06-08
From the New York Bay Book.
Mayor Titliann and the Georgia Lotteries.

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Mayor Tieaann and the Georgia Lotteries.
j The recent onslaught Of Mavor Pie
mann upbh the lotteries of Swan t. 90
| of Augasta. Geo. does not seem. inns
far, to have been productive of any great
result. All frst SIGHT 1t would Seem
STRANGE fbat EMavor T';ema mn sho,,ld take
the trouble 10 ID down d Georpia to n !.
quire whether tfh l laws If that STATE were
enforced I'll not. Why. Ii NAV BE- asked.
did mayor Tiemann feel such = remark 4.
Bile interest|in the affairs Of our Southern
friends /? The explanation we have
heard for this remarkable stretch of An
tboritv onIthe Yart of liz M,ayor. i III
fact that one Of I'M members Of ttbe. f;rn,
Of swan Ill a. lis Mr. BENJAMIN wood
ofthis cityI 4 brother ofIex -Mayor Wood
his political antaronisf. An sorts q Of "a.
mors are rife tliat1 this Eonslauvbt mon
Swan 4. ca. 81 ot11y 4 concealed intention
to influence the election for Coneressmesnr
which comesoff this fall. Ofthis we know
nothing. bnt We do knowttbat these Georg.
Ia lotteries have been used ii this CITY
for the purpose of political persecution.
The former proprietor of this papar was
arrested ont 1ef pure malace for publish
ing the advertisement Of these lotteries,
and harrassed and ANNOYED At the yery
time that ether newspapers In the city
were publishing the same advertisement
without being nolested. And at this
veryi moment Mayor TiemanI, il passing
over abuses IN our own city to attend to
the affairs of the State OF Georgia There
are within sight Of the City Hall al least
half dozen mock auction shops, known
well enough to be opened and undis-
guised swindhng holes. where innocent
and unsusTected people coming to the
Etcity are fiesced Of their money, There
also bogus offices for selling tickets to
California, where strangers are every
week in the year literally robbed, and yet
these, and many other disgraces to our
city, are left untouched and the tax pay
ers put To expense to find out whether
the citizens pf Georgia enforce their own
laws
Now, we have nothing to say in favor
| of lotteries. Some States have author
lied them and some have not. The Leg
islature Of louisiana, we believe, at its
last session, lcanie very near repeating the
prohibition there against lotteries. The
question now raised, and the one upon
which Swan. Il Co., have been indicted,
is whether they have the legal right to
carry on a lottery in Georgia. Ii Is moi
denied that they had franchise to that
effect, but whether II is good now is the
question, and one which will soon be de-
Gided by Georgia Jury. Id the mean
time, We understand there is no interup-
ton to the business ;lindeed, il iseyery
4 generally conceded that Mayor Tiemann
has advertised these lotteries to an extent
they never could have had il he had not
disturbed them. There is also another
fact which the present investigation has
brought forth, and that is, that these lot
tories have been fairly and honest " man
aged. The public generally have little
confidence in the fairness of these insti-
tutions, but Mayor Tiemanu has not only
brought no charges against the integ-
1fity of Swan "a Co., but in fact he has
thus directly established their business
character. In this view Of the case, His
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