The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-09-05

! The Douglas city organ, the Douglas Buchan.
an city postmaster and the Douglas government
officers generally, as well as the Douglas party
and press in gross, have labored industriously to
make the people of Michigan believe that the
$50, 900 wrongfuly placed in the hands of Hale
ton & Co., by the State Treasurer, would prove
total loss to the State.
| We gave our readers the assurance OF Gov
Wisner, that the security taken was ample to
secure the State against loss" and We are most
happy now 70 know that that assurance is fully
verified by a careful and rigid record search OF
title to the lands mortgaged.
| A full report has been received, from com.
petent person employed to make an abstract OF
the title to the lands included in the mortgage
executed by Geo. NJ. Dewey and E. II. Hazleton
to the State of Michigan, for the collateral secu.
rity Of the $50, 900 of the Saul Ste. Marie's Ca.
nal Loan, above mentioned.
The mortgage covers Is, 440 acres of land sit.
uated mainly in Genesee, Saginaw, Midland and
Tuscola counties.
Over 5000 acres of these lands were located
in ! SO, known as the "Brent" Lands, and are
among the most valuable timbered and improved
lands in the county of Genesee. These lands
alone are worth at cash valuation more than
the amount of the mortgage, as is well known to
the writer Of this, from personal knowledge for
many years of the lands in question. There can,
therefore, no longer remain a doubt as to the ul-
innate security of the $4,000 due the State
upon this loan.
1t gives us pleasure to make this announce
ment, the more, because We have been among
those who have heretofore placed very little con-
fdence in the value of the security in question.
And We have stubbornly refused to admit their
value until convinced by an authentic abstract of
b.. ,tlz =, &c
any person at all familiar with the quality and
value of the lands covered by the mortgage, is
convincing testimony that the security is ample.
While this in no way justities the act by which
the amount was putin jeopardy, the public an.
nOuncement of the danger by the Republican
party and press, and the prompt and efficient
measures taken by the Republican Administra-
ton to secure the State against ultimate loss, af
ford noteworthy contrast to the action of the
Democratic Administrations, both State and Ma
tional, and sure guarantee that in the hands of
the Republican party, the interest of the State
is certain 10 be protected against even accidental
error-DetrOh Tribune.
RATHER FRENCHY.-A policeman in Paris, 60.
ing his rounds, felt chilly, and whstling under
the window of his house his wife opened it. He
requested her to throw down his cloak, which
she did. He put it ON and went on his rounds,
after which he returned to the guard-house.
Here he was bantered by his comrades for wear
ing the cloak OF Police Inspector, and on look
ing at the arm OF his mantle he discovered the
distinctive badge. A suspicion of his misfortune
came over him: he rushed home-burst open
the door, and found his wife and the Inspector
together; he drew his sword, killed the guilty
pair, and instantly surrendered as prisoner,
telling the authorities what he had done. 1t is
exnectnd he will be hardened.