Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1859-11-24

For The Democrat.

value Of Improvements on Lots in Ply
mouth. were only increased . pr CT over
last year. when the improvements on farms
were increased more than 20 Or CT. Mr..
Phillips like Al honest man, hacks dorm.
lie says. When we found the article re-
ferred to in the above communication (our
former article We took all Of the figures
therein used, from former numbers Of this
paper (RepubIican) and re published them
a, true. because they hal been TAXED
about hy every body, ami had been receiv-
e,l rs correct" We think the last sen
tence would bea, slight notification
lie saws further 1T Mr.. Nc will furnish
the the amount, or wait ill wc fiut it oar
selves. we shall most cheerluily publish it, ="
Az any and ut all times, We are ready
an Wiling to make any necessary eSpa-
ration o. correction in our power We
m,:st cheeriuily comply with his request,
IL furnish The true amount. on which he
should have b,sel his calculation. The
value Of the Lots All Improvements in
Plymouth last year. WAS placed In one
column and amounted 10 $40. so. Value
Of improvements this year S5iO4J. Val,
If LIS 5I17II). Total Sl7l,150.--
These ara N il .ases IL which IL, cal
-, -, s..
her s,ys, Way III va no; deny these
chsrs-s. or any part Of them when Nr.
hs-tinsy mslo them at tmo sayeral times
lon, before we re published them? We
nave been ked the same question. prob
ably twenty times BY our friends, and our
answer uniformly has been that we had re-
tired to private life and dill not wish to
spier into Newspaper controversy until
the poii,ic',l excitement had subsidized and
The people lad become rational again
then We proposed to refer - some of those
charges. that nobody denied ana as We
retain none but the kindest feelings to-
w-ids NJ. Phillips and believe hin To be
. man, II whom We could inyes,is gate these
charges. without, resor,iag To tie usual
quantity of Bilingsgate. that generally en-
tets into controversy III the pubic News
papers, W. have made choice Of him. ~ IN
ves,i5ate these charges with. as he made
them in his own column. Mr.. Phillips says
further. Aud ihe only time we thought
OF you in connection with those desperate
figures WAS when We published the Coun
TVS indebtedness for 1858. at s. G3J,93,
according to your (our) Representations.
while In fact the true amount was nearer
5000 As We were informed by our pres
ent Al iiior.' the c, :riy's indebted
ness, in co1nsc.i1u with our llst report rs
Elliior. was pretty we'll discussed by the
papers Of Ills place, last summer, when
the Il .publictls charged that. We knowing
y AMI Intentionally reported the couqty's
Iliebjelness u b. some three or f1xr
thousand dol.ars less. than it really was.
We viii. however. state the f,cts in the
ease again, in order. TO enli5hten, those
SID are not pos:e1. in reference. to this
m!iier, CIR have fJr5otten villa! has been
Al in defence Of our report. In the first
reppri that oui predecessor NJ Durham
in. ie. he stated that the books had been
krpt il such 4 manner th,t it Was impo,-
slbla for bin. 10 ascertain the true condi-
ion. -fnancisily--of the couny. but as
nearly As he could ascertain. it was As h..
reported. H. based his next repor; on
his first. aud 50 on. aad a. dou5;. but he
kept the accounts Of the county Correctly
after his first report. unless some error
was acci lentslly male which escaped de
tectiDn. When we made ar irst report,
we carefully booked over Mr. Dunhum's,
and come 10 the conclusion thar We could
do no better than 10 lake his last report as
correct not knowing whether i WAS really
So. bat presumiu, i. Vas. ii Dunha,n's
last report ecas Correct. We undertake. 10
say. that with the excep in Of the Ril
road siock--ours was correct also. unless
there mi sht have bl,rn some treni.' error,
IL Footing. or trlnscfibins At the time
the r. r. stock was received by the Cum
to We conversed with the Board and with
various individuals in reference To the prop
way To report stock--ihey all were Of the
opinion. that 1t should be reported az that
muh receipts. AMI we 50 reported it AMI
had The exhibit published. we made up all
the reports after that time the same aS if
the r r. stock hal baen money. The
thngs vas not done cland:siineIy, but
openly and published. that all could see ut
a sisoce. how The reports were made. =
That there were or lsrs outstanding the
tune Of 80, D, and S235.27 Of interest on
the same. more than WAS stated IN our
port ef ! 900. Is true, from the fact tina.
the stock gas reported as cash. and our