Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
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In last Tuesdays Lancaster Intelligencer
that journal Of blessed mcmory-at the
top Of one Of the principal advertising col
umns, appears the following notice:
L,IFTY DOLLARS REwARD.-ws.., stolen
from The rarragc-house Of the subscriber, at Wheat
XIX 81 Is 9 +, sSigIna AanSE IA sfs 9
good with the letter marked upon several
Of the pieces s25 reward will be paid for the return Of
thief on conviction. JAMES BUCHANAN.
If be any comfort to our ,ohilom friend,
the retired Sage of Wheatland, we offer him
our hearty coincidence over his misfortune,
and trust that his silver-plated double car
rage harness, as good as new, with the let
ter B marked upon several of the pieces, !"
may be speedily restored to him, and the
impudent depredator safely lodged in the
Lancaster prison. Both are consummations
"dhvoutly to. be wished, |" and all lovers Of
law and order will take notice Of the strong
incentive held out TO effect them. For the
accomplishment of either Of these desirable
results, twenty-five dollars is the reward, and
for both the munifcent sum of yffty dollars.
With no desire to add to the distress Of
the 20. p. f." now that his harness is
missing, We yet cannot repress the regret
that he did not exhibit similar vigilance, or
at least something that approximated to it,
when in discharge of the responsible trust
of the Presidency of the United States. =
The harness, it seems, was stolen on ,Sat.
urdoy night. On Sunday it is already miss.
ed. On Monday there is an advertisement
in the Intelligencer Office, gazetting the los.
to the world, and offering the money afore
same has been heraded far and near. The
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advertisement and crculation-occupied but
vigilance not often exhibited by much youn
ger people. What misfortune it is that &
proximate vigilance was not exhibited wher
John B. Floyd was stealing the funds Of the
National Treasury by millions, and misap
plying the nations entire military resources
in order to inaugurate bloody civil war
few weeks before the expiration Of the fou
years term, this same J. B., in published
letter, complimented him on the satisfactor,
manner in which he discharged his publi
duties; SO that, it would seem, he had no
even then discovered the terrible stealing
propensities of this arch thief and traitor
Cobb and Thompson were in the same cate
CORY, and yet the head Of the Government
did not discover their rascality until the
had left, it he has even made the discover
now.
Oh the difference between the me,tm
tuum-the mine and thine-and how utterl
oblivious some are of the one, whilst the
are intensely solicitous about the other !
Here is the latest instance 1t took the Sag
of Wheatland four long and wearisome yeaI
to discover that the traitor Floyd was pluI
dering the nation; but when some petit
thief, under cover Of the night, breaks int
his own private carriage house and purloir
his "silver plated double carriage harness,
he knows all about it next morning, (Sur
day though it is, and, by the next day, ha
the rest of mankind" to assist in the reco,
cry of the harness and the punishment (
the thief! Are we not warranted, therefore
in characterizing this latter as an exhibitlo
| of yipilance-in every Way extraordinary