The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-31
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Pebble Speaking.
Judge Niblack and Judge. Hovey.r the or
posing candidates for Congress, will address
their fellow-citszens ~ the following times
aid places, to-wit: I'VE
= satfiek fC9'naet eSewburgh, Monday,
august 30tb. a. 4f.rB .AAIESS
Vsndsr6tTgh Couny-Evansrille, Tues
day, August 3lst;E = 1ugles' Station 'wedfes-
day, September lst ! at- Longs, in the Bayor,
Friday, October Sth; Germantown, Satur-
day, sOStober 9th. zrir--a 49, ssig .zsfia-ra
!, Gibson Countyt--Prineeton,, Thursday,
, Septcmber 3D., Francisco, = Friday 3D.;
Owensyiie, Saturday, 4th; Patoka,1 Mon
day, i6ths sH'vH F1n .7'if - H'''''''' ''--f - -
!, Knor county Dickensbury, Tuesday, Sep,
tember, 7th; Vibcennes Wednesday, stb
. Edwards iOrts Saturday, 25; Bruceville,
Monday, 27.. tIfZ ,
I (. ifke couhty-IIotnbrooks Tuesday, Sep
-tember. "A; Petershurgh, Wednesday, Is;
2 Crossroads, Thursday, To-. sci a,is..' o.,
Dariess Washington, Friday,
September IL; Alfordsville, SATURDAY. Is;
Raglesviiie, Thursday, %; Owl Prairie,
Friday, -. .>E'> q AtH'i Z
Martin eomty--Loogootce, Monday, Sep
tembcr 20; Halberts Bluff, Tuesday 81 I;
lIarrisonville, Thursday, 23. "a
Posey county, Mount Vernon, Monday,
October 4th; New Harmony, Tuesday, 5tll;
Wadesville, Wednesday, 6; Union church,
Thursday, eth.
Speaking TO commence at o'clock, p. VI.
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The Iniauities OF the War Depart
..t.st..-s l.rt,E ir. memt. ~ -t-srl a-t.
4 The st. Louis Democrat makes the fol-
lowing expose of the frauds that have been
successfully paracticed upon the govern
inent, by connivance or collusion of Secre-
tary Floyd: - .r.,.-1.,.-. d. -,
We remember that, during the Admins
tration of, Fillmore. the opposition press
rung with the Galphin and Gardner frauds,
as they were called, and the country was
adjured to eject the Wing party from power
because of the alleged completely of some
of its leaders with these two plumber
schemes. 1t is undoubtedly true that the
parts which was pecuniarily dishonest is
Unworthy of any confidence nor, is it less
true that p+rties should be held responsible
forth corrupt practices of their leaders,
Rogtics are not trustworthy under any cir
eumstances. The itching palm and the up
right purpose cannot co-eHist in the same
Individual. We are not CITING to enter on
the question whether any member of either
of the Whig Administrations which infer
Neael between Polk and Pierce was impl;-
Gated in the Galphin and Gardner frauds,
butswe know that the present AdDinstra-
tion-the firm of Foyd Il CO.-haye done
the Heaviest strokes in the plumber business,
which the secret archives of federal cor
Tup.ion will have recorded. In the first
place. the clandestine sale of Fort Smelling
stands revealed to the country rs q mon,
strous plunder job.
The records of Congress exhibit il in that
hgh,. In body, majority of which
were National Democrats, no resolution
vindicating the Secretary of War could be
got through, and the majority report of the
committee appointed to investigate the sub
ject condemned him explicitly. Without
advertisement or notice of any kind, $780,
O0o worth of property was alienated from
the government, and the equivalent exacted
for il was 100000! The sale was not only
clandestinc, but the prize was nominal
The parties TO the contract were National
Democrats exclusively, and after the reSer-
vatiUn including the Fort was sold, some
troops were detained there, and $4,000 n
month, barrack rent, was charged to the
government 'y tienew prOprietorS. The
$50 900 purchase money, or the greater part
of il, has thus been discharged. This Fort
Smelling sale we submit has been Il unique
one, and worthy of the highest financiering
genius. Wall street brokers and abscond-
ing iank presidents must regard it as the
nsost renowned achievement of their occult
art, and unanimously vote the parties to il
high priests in the temple of the money
changers. Next in order comes the Willett
point transaction, in New York. A site for
fort was selected where no fort should be,
and the ground was purchased by the gov
crnmcnt for 100000. The singularity OF
tie proceeding awakened local inquiry, and
il was discovered that few days before the
government purchase was made, two or
three prominent Democrats, from the city OF
New York, known to be in the confidence
of the President, had purchased tle samc
tract of the owners for 100000.
Thus was nj other heavy stroke (valu,
p lVb,bbOl Ol DuSlliCSS tOilSulllliltttu Dt-
tween the Secretary and his friends. Thii
was also a subject for investigation by Con
greSs, and some of the most respectable mer
i'm New York swore that the tract9)ens no
worth 100000, and that they could have
bought il for less if they had chosen TO d,
So Congress, it is true, did not openly pro
nounce Secretary Floyd a rogue, but the,
passed an act forbidding him TO make an,
( more private sales This was indicativ,
enough of the nature of the opinion whicl
they formed regarding him. The third anc
greatest job is involved in the contracts 70
the Utah army, and we venture to say tha
if the facts connected with these contract
ever see the light, a mass of frauds will b.
laid bare stratum OH stratum, which will I'll
the public mind with diSmay and astouisn
ment. But nothing but committee of tn
House of Representatives can sink a shat
through all the layers of that alluvial form
alton, of the flood Of corruption which thi
administration has brought on the country
We showed, a few days ago, low the mul
contracts-if contracts they can be called
were disposed of how they were distribute
to retainers of leading Democrats in Con
greSs; how the contractors were left I
! their own discretion i'm fiyino priceS. hoy