The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-08-06

From the Keokuk Gate City.
L. w. Rabbit Headed OF.
Ills Falsehoo Nailed By Mason-The Defsul
ter squelched eat. I
just rs we predicted, Lysander W. Bah.
bitt, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, ani
admitted defaulter to the Governments to thu
amount Of nine thousand dollars, claims thai
the Government is in debt to him eevera
thousand dollars. DR.. Eads is known to b
defaulter to the State government to tn,
tune Of 10000, and claims that the State i.
really in debt to him So, 700. Babbitt, te
keep up a proper proportion, being charged
with defalcation of $4,000, claims thai
the Gov eminent owes him several thousand
We make IN extract from Babbitt's paper
the Council Bluffs Bugle, published July
Goth, before he had received our paper with
the particulars Of his default, or Judge Ma.
sons correction Of the mistakes thereof
Rabbit is replying to "a base insinuation'
of the Nonparsit, and says amongst othe,
things.
In conclusion We will say that BY recent decision OF
the u s. District Court it will not only appear that
are not o dcher from the United States Government
but that the Government Is several thousand dollars
our debt DO you mind that neighbour
There it is, in &c black and white" from
Rabbit himself. He did not flch from the
Government; he is not defaulter he does
not owe the Government q cent but, On the
contrary, he has, by recent decision of the
District Court, obtained O judgment agains,
the Government FOR several thousand dollars,
Such is the bold game Of a reckless defaul-
ter to cover his defalcaton and hunbug the
people. And he doubtless expected to bra
zen it out thus until after the election. lie
may, indeed, taking his own standard OF
basenes, as the criterion for others, have
hoped that the Judge of the District Court Of
the United States ,could enter up Just such
a judgment as he claims 6 by recent deeis-
ion." But while he was playing this bold
game on the western border of the State,
Judge Mason, all unconscious of evil, confes-
sed Rabbits delinquency, to the amount of
NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and thus gave the
lie direct to Rabbits defence, and proved n
perfect mo'plot of the rascally scheme of
fraud and humbuggery. There has been no
" recent decision" in the case as claimed by
Rabbit, and when the decision shall be
made, Mason is satisfied that it will be against
Babbitt.
Judge Mason sets forth with great par,c-
ularity in his communication, that Rabbit
and some other land officers claimed the
right-though none but Rabbit exercised it
to pocket fees over and above their salary
of $4,000 per annum. After dilating upon
this matter very largely, Judge Mason closes
his communication as follows:
Until within the last few weeks l was myself rather
Of the opinion their Che land ceers claim was valid
and would be sustained.
The Grst argued last October and the matter
held under adv!sement until tho next term AT that
term Judge Love desired further argument and
then that attention called to item in Of
the general appropriation bills, which I THINK WILL
SETTLE The QUESTION ADVERSELY TO THE LAND
OFFICERS.
As matter Of no great importance except the pur
pose OF correcting Of the Gate City will fur
Their state that the whole amornt claimed from Col. B.
by the Government is not far $9,00o-the exact
amount is rot remembered
Thus is this brazen fa!sehood in regard to
a recent decision of the court in Babbitts
favor met by Mason in the Keokuk Journal
of the cd July, only two days after it was
published in the Council Bluffs Bugls, and
before that paper containing it reached here.
And thus is this fraud of bold defaulter
upon the judiciary and the public " sqnelch-
ed out" by the political blunder of Judge
Mason. This blunder of the Judges will
bring down as many Locofoco curses on his
head, we doubt not, ms did the one in which
he " inadvertently handed the stolen poll
books to Dan. Miller, and thereby led to the
exposure of the poll book thieves and of the
infamous plot by which the leaders of the
Democracy swindled the people out Of their
sovereign decision at the ballot box.
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THE Sonpareil Lets Down"
Under the abcvc head the would be Lieut..
Governor, says that in replying to an article
Of ours respecting the spk ng Of Col. BAB-
BITS gun, he left the points urged against
him, and charged Hon. CALEB BALD
WIN with fraud in some legal transaction
respecting the issue of the County Bonds to
the NJ. & NJ. r. We were perfectly aware
of that fact. Of the transaction which he
speaks, we know nothing-and, as we never
said anything about them, what evidence is
there that We have let down? None. Next
he denies any knowledge of the fact, that
the County affairs have been conducted
otherwise than honestly since the invcstiga-
ton, and says that unless we give him spec
ifcatons Of Illegal conduct on the part of
the present County Judge, he shall believe
him guitless. Our neighbor was not wont
to be SO particular. Now, he will not make
an onslaught on the County Judge upon
mere "vague and uncertain charges" and
says that until we publish to the world the
acts of Illegally committed by the County
Judge, reflections on him for " inactivity"
will come with a very bad grace from the
Nonpdreil. He was not wont to act with
such generosity and forbearance towards
the County Judges of Pottawattamie. No,
not he. Things have changed, and no mis-
take. Another evidence Of the letting down
Of the Nonpareil, we presume. Col, you
shall have the specifications, when JOHN II.
SHERyAS gets the nomination for County
Judge, as be is almost certain to do, at the