The New York herald., 1865-01-07

contracts with the government. than any any 'sharp
dealers with the government In the city Of New York
This the whole import OF the term and phrase Of the
word as here used But you will hnd Mat the primary
and inst meaning Of the word the dictionary 10 exactly
applicable 70 the question Of sharp contracts yelding
IN making contracts had given greater profits
than any fifty others IN the city Of New
charge Of over reaching, corropns swindns and no
such question s made here The whole question as pre-
Of money BY charter Of the Caalne 70 Which
charge no rctored by alleging that this the plaintiff
had made more money By secret partnerships hip with the
will Judge Of this by the context and lie connection
with the accusation against him Il is merely
and beyond that there Is the least imputaton Of
corruption Of getting contracts Of fraud In falnl
70 state the narrative OF Opdykes connection with
the claim before the city claim prosecuted In the
claimant and Of hIs acting on the Committee q Super
v'sos on tho passage Of the cam and then out Of his
own month ncgtiving and refating the idea that Was
not Farloe contract but showing on his own oatb TO
HIS answer la the McEel su that he was the real party
and the just claimant Of s the money This 70 his attitude
from his own statement First his attitude before the
Supery isors Committee in his position Of Hayor-the
absence OF his name in connection with the claim before
that committee, but Afterwards when partner turns
round and claims his share he avows that he owned the
whole interest in the concern and that the partner had
no pecpnary interest that he should account for
Then Mr. Weed goee into the Naxposa state
mcnt-allcged TO be ibellous. Let us sec what
that is, and soc the anfoonded and vehement
the libel More than year ago Mr. Opdyke and others
reminded Genera Fremont that when candidate for
President In 1885, nc weakened by pecuniary embar
rassments and that his friends intended TO run him
again, but that they first wished 70 put his Affairs in
would any man dream that there libel Certainly
there was nothing in that to bring Cen Fremont Nj.
or public scorn into the disrepute contempt,
derison Of the public On the contrary the statement Of
what was proper to do Nothing could be more sen
sibie, more sound or wise than that, II Cen
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put him in nomination, desired that he should again
Ss presented e the community for sAeir suaisse,
which had embsnassed hi him % 50 much IN Sis pre-
yous ,so &c, caT,psign, and through @ which is made
70 evidence concerning IL s claimed :: tho bass Of
aSn.sss from yoS e an admitted y libel on our part
not judge not lawyer in the land on the
whole OF the statemens aud proved would dream
q %n an ssssop being sssainaos upon such proof
nom what should be sound adicIous condae i these
real inquiry s Is TO what followed General Fremont
scquiescing In the soundness Of this counsel gives .
and Mr. hoy schedule Of his debts These friends
named themselves the Mariposa Mining Company, and
then went into recapitulation Of the history Of the
Mariposa Mining Company frequently detailed during
Now we come 70 that stage when GeneraiFremont had
conceded thirtytwo thousand out Of sixty two thou
snd shares.ore than half Of this property Then they
say 70 him, General Fremont you have thirty thousand
nve hundred shares left Now, twenty five thousand Of
these you must put in our hands % secure US the con-
left fftyve hundred shares for him. Looking at that
on Its face one would suppose that the General had to 90
he reached that point But he finally determined that he
had better resume his property. Why did not he get
back his thousand shares except that new
sh 70 ~sS ss Is Ss
to pof6a had itonlf
they paid the market price; but when the stock was
selling for fifty and fty i've cents share they say "You
sell il at twenty cents on the dollar That makes
twenty five hundred shares that they got out Of
Of hsS rseS ave
sa :ss,ss Now We DO no. obsct.o NJ Fields
had any such fees and expect to get them And
superior good fortune which has carried 80 large fee TO
our brother OF the bar, have also got TO submit
a. Where ,ss dsuss
; .ss .e9s ss9ssS s ss e., s .sy
that not anything III together they Are not any.
ter Although Fremont went in with sixty two thou
sand 1--WE hundred shares and came out with seven
and he Is lucky that he got 20 much. QAughter) He
has got their money 10 his pocket Poor Fremont 10
:sss: ss sas s
him and .h, r e plain they ought % have bad And
% 1 believe aS h@ sSsy ses
from him than they asked for; do not think they
took anything less Is sheep any the less Heeced BY
hs. Is The whole Of that story " 'i IS neither broader
NOR longer nor Deeper IN the newspaper paragraph than
or Ss M.po y
charitable and . friendly act, and Gen Fremont may
Now VIC come TO the contracts We not talking about
Mr. Stewarts contracs He pursuing the plain simple
81 a. he s does not ssm % No., 1s
here we have an eminent public man, who has left pr
vate pursuitsa patriot and statesman He finds fault
with MT Weed for having something do with charter
ing the Caalne Now the question Is not whether Mr.
Opdykes contracts with the government beneficial
contracts for his own private gain Every contract
should have been In his own name, recorded and
dyke pstered here between public and private interests
He could not repudiae the gain Of the contracts the
reputation as public man OF not having such contracts
When men determine that they will both God and
thank God that they like those other republicans
and sinner and the cheat exposed they must expect
rebuke We have shown numerous profitable contracts,
from September 1881 70 May 1883 long list Of them
ss, 600 600 Then they say that nothing He did not
make anything Is sl72oOo, In twenty months, no
iravssan offensive disregard Of ali our Common place
notions old estimates OF moderate In trade
as IN the case OF the Mariposa estate With him was
nothing more nor less than dscounting government
securities and he had been exposed 70 any
risk, except the maintenance Of the government
and besides his interest Of seven per cent he
gets Sl72,oo0 The capitalist Is very well satisfied
TO discount government securities At seven per
cent; but Mayor Opdyke gets besides that, e172 600
I, may be said am in with regard 10 the Marposa
and that the money did not come much from General
Fremont as from some where else say either they got
II from him. or else by conspiracy creating bubble In
the market they got from the public and the charge
greater In saying that II obtained from him AZ
10 the Surveyorshp, Is short horse and is
ried But four people know anything about it-0pdyke
Andrews Mcneil and Williamson. There was a rumor
that Opdyke sold had his influence for Andrews thus
got his $4,000 that year Everybody knew he got the
$40 000 and that II had been got from the Custom
House before; and everybody wondered why when
he smoe the rock the waters gushed out We brought
the witnesses and the accusers and did they fall SHORTY
When the culprts came the stand do you suppose
they had come to confess' They had come TO put diff