The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-02

other American question, but grow entirely
out Of the existing difficulties between Aus
tria and France.
Extra session OF the senate.
The President has called an extra session
of the Senate, to convene Immediately after
adjournment on the 4th inst.
Death oil T. A. Hannegan.
Hon. E. A. Hannegan died at st. Louis on
Friday last. A man Of brilliant qualities
and qualified to adorn any station. Unfor-
tunate habits clouded his life aud closed it
in gloom.
For the Gate City.
Reply OF J. q. Hughes,
MEssRs. EDIToRs In your paper of the
o2d appeared the cards of Cady, Jones 4
Peck, and others, in answer to my card pub
hshed in the journal Of the 18th. had not
intended noticing this matter farther, but
twice their cards having appeared in your
columns, deem it due your readers, as well
as my own reputation, to make reply.
Cady, Jones Peck say CDR. Hughes
agreed to pay US cash upon the completion of
the work, if We would furnish gas-pipe for
the Medical College, which We did, and on
which he has only paid US $25." They admit
that the agreement to pay was upon the COM
pletion Of the work. stated in my former
card that the work was in an unfinished con-
dition, our foreman never having received it,
and the Gas Go. refusing to do so. | still
assert it, and am prepared to prove it-sev-
eral hundred feet Of the pipe never having
been used or tested, and they know it.
also stated that $40 or $75 had been paid
upon the gas contract, which am prepared
to prove. Why have not these men honesty
enough to come out and admit the facts, when
they know that in addition to what they re-
ceived, Bennett, with whom the contract was
made, has been paid $50, or more, making
the Indebtedness due them from the College
less than the amount stated in the report p
Again they say: Snow as to our being paid
every dollar for the other goods we sold him,
Consisting principally Of nails at our lowest
cash prices,) it is so decidedly rich that we
cannot help informing the public how we are
paid. Why, finding no other resource, we
were compelled to take the Dr.'s individual
note (without the Dean attached) at six
months for goods we had sold for CASH.
Cady, Jones & Peck have stated that which
they know to be false, when they say that
paid them College indebtedness with my pa
per, with or without the Dean attached.
brand them as liars, and am prepared to prove
them such. ! wish this firm to understand
that what state here mean, and am pre-.
pared to prove it. wish no loop-hol
through which to creep out, as they charge
nor do intend to give them one. They hay,
opened the fight and must take the conse
quenees.
As to Plummer 4 Co.'s card, have only
to say, that any notice Of it would not likely
reach the & Co. partner, BILLY Patterson.
who, presume, is out of the city ere this
az he 10 kn0Un to run as soon az he strikes Q
blop. This can also prove.
A word for Cox h Shelley and have done
They say: "Dr. Hughes, with much ingenu
ity, relates, in his card, some facts relativ,
to the transaction by which he and Others
were benefited and we made losers; but b,
also omits other important facts that bring
him in connection with the affair, which, BY
his statement, was confined to Ward Il Co.
aud ourselves. He fails to state that Ware
l. Co. got possession Of the goods by an or
der from DR.. Hughee; that we had the order
from fifty to sixty days and could not get on,
cent thereon; that We then returned the or
der to Ward as worthless, &C., &C." Tn,
goods were obtained upon my order as Dean
to be paid for when Ward & Co. complete
with their contract. Mr.. Cox was absent, a,
| understand, ut the time, and on his return
. without having asked me for the money, pro
nounced the order valueless, (but perhap
worth as much as the paper OF Cox Il Shelle,
a few years since before compromising witt
their creditors,) and returned it, thereby re
leasing the College and taking Ward & 90
| for the debt. As the claim has never beeI
! paid, --and IL not likely to be,--James beliou
loudly with charges OF falsehood and frau,
upon me.
propose to prove that the College 10 no
9 indebted to Cox 4 Shelley dollar; and will
also prove that there 10 not one dollar du
Ward b Go. on contract.
II substantiate these facts, this communi
b ~ must be satisfied that Cox & Shelley mad
. not only false statements, but resorted to
! low and cowardly attack upon me, unbecom
ing business men or gentlemen. In this 70
= ply / have stated facts. now challen9
!. these parties TO select one man, will selec
q another, and they TO shall select the third
!, these statements shall be brought befor
I them; IL prove what hare here stated
can prove, they shall acknowledge, publicly
: that they have made false and libelous char
:, ges agains me; and it ! fail to prove thes