The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-10

began 10 be known for extensive opera
tions in banks, railways and lands lie
stepped into the Treasury, without formal
inquiry, to take the place of BREsLTS, and
altered and falsifed his accounts, public
statements under oath, and testimony be-
fore committees of investigation, to suit
the circumstances. How much or how
little of the missing aggregate he stole
with his own hand, is of little conse-
quence.
OF the three defaulters and their pro-
ceedings, the committee remarks: $50
guarded at every point of observation and
public scrutiny were this triumvirate of
Treasury dopredators, that, as yet, the
substantive proof of the details of the
transactions involving the use of moneys
from the Treasury, in BREsL1N's term,
have not been entirely obtained But
there are sufficient to show, notwithstand-
ing all their denials and averments to
the contrary, the existence of q combina-
ton for illegal operations conceived at a
very early period of Mr. BREsLIN' S admin
istration. That each, for himself, was
engaged in speculations unknown to the
other, is more than probable; and that
the Treasury of the State was the foun-
tain from which flowed the means, how
ever secret and circuitous the channels,
is also unquestionable. " ...
So far assi3FEsLIN is concerned, the out
side parties are mostly in the dark. Such
may be the case, to some extent, with the
others; but of them more is known. The
sureties of Mr. BLISS, at his second term,
were WILLIAM S. SULLivANT, MICHAEL L..
SULLIvANT, THOMAS Noodle, DEsrAs AD-
ANS, .Jr., JOEL BUTTLEs, A. Fl. PINNEY,
WILLIAM MINER and JACoB J. ATwooD.
In this connection, the committee re-
marks "The Treasury of the State of
Ohio had, for long period, been a source
of profit to various banks and bankers
and, upon the election of new ,Trea-
surer, they at once adopted the most ef-
fectual method of perpetuating their in
terests, by placing him under personal
obligations to do so and, as a more GER
tain and .effectual inducement, they, with
out doubt intimated to him that he could,
at the same time, without risk or viola
ton of his official integrity, become par.
taker with them in the profits resulting
from the proposed uses of the public
money" The connection of Mr.. Bliss
with one JOHN P. REzNoR, "a man false in
all his pretenses and fraudulent in all his
dealings, and to whose intrigues and
treachery large portion of the loss to the
State can be traced, - is also made promi
nent ~
How much Mr. Bliss divided with his
sureties does not appear, but his taste ap
pears to have led him mostly toward in.
vestments in real estate. On the con.
trary, Mr. BREsLIN's weakness was in
the direction of banks. His connection
with large number of moneyed institu-
tions Of more than doubtful solveney, has
already been made public 1t is thought,
however, that he may have gone into wild
lands, through the agency of his brother
in-law. Mr.. GIBSON appears to have been
an universal genius, and ready to operate
in almost any direction. We find him
making private loan of the funds of the
State to that not very wholesome indi
vidual, E. S. HAMLIN-not yet paid; and
charitably turning his hand to help q
needy journalist into business. The his
tory of his shifts and lodges, expedients
and falsehoods, as detection and disgrace
were settling down upon him, constitutes
a most instructive picture of the pains and
penalties of wrong-doing. .o.
| In u party point of view, the honors o.
this series of transactions appear to be
about equally divided. BLISS was elected
and reelected by the Wings; BREsLIN
enjoyed two terms of Office under the
patronage of the Democrats, and GTBsoN
a Know Nothing, was nominated at a Con
vention called Republican, and elected by
a fusion of American and Republican
forces The foundation of the mischie
was of no party it was in the avarice o
money-changers of all parties, acting gupor
the weakness of men selected for ofIic,
without reference to their honesty o.
| their capacity, under the peculiarly favor
able circumstances of the unwholesom,
atmosphere Of q. capital town: and it i
difficult, after all their misdemeanors
lalsehoods and tergiversations, to decid
whether they are most to be blamed o
pitied. How very few of that class o
politicians would havewithstood the sam
amount ofpressure and temptation?
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