The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-08-24
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA:
Light Breaking In upon Them.


The Indianapolis correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, few days ago, writing
to that paper, furnished some very curious
official statistics on the subject of the sold
iers relief law of this State 1t appears
that this C, unity Eas more beneficiaries I'M
der the law. has more wives and children of
soldiers than LaPorte, St Joseph, Kos
c:usko or Elkhart counties, ard will hence
receive greater amount of the fund raised
families than either Of these excessively
loyal and patriotic counties. We append
the Tribune correspondents statement:
'.Thc figures made by the Auditor in aPporticn
iUg the amount due each county are, OF course,
based upon the returns of the Auditor and the As
SCISSORS of the several counties, and it is plain
that it would be quite an easy mater for such
county authorities TO make such return of The
number of benefilries IN their county would Sc
cure TO them larger proportion OF the relief
fund than the county is fairly entitled to receive.
thus feeding their poor at the expense of other
counties. | do not say this has been Gone in any
case. but some of the figures look little queer.
or instance take Marshall coHEtv,.as compared
with LaFOrte county, the one living contiguous to
the other. Marshlll returi.> 2,9lS beneficial
ries, and receives SOB 81 fl of tho fund, while
LaPor:e returns but 2.IGS bcneficarcS, and only
receives 81 ,5l7 n of the relief money And
this, too, while the relative population of the tv
counties, determined by the cenSds of 1850,
stood as follows: Marshall county. l2,I22; La
Porte county, - ,9l9-nearv double that Of Mar
sha !. Now, no. is this to be explained Two
things are certainly tue; lst IaPOrte county has
sod 1T rt-ff
Marshall and %, IaPorte has sent more soldiers
to the field than Marshall. | wouldn't be afraid
TO guarantee that aPorte has sent three soldiers
TO MarShalls one, for the latter is one of tie
meanest, dirtest IIutternut counties in the whole
State, and only furni- he'd men for the war upon
the compulsion of various and sundry drafts. 1t
IL tie county in VIII cb Marcus Aureiius CreSteS
Packard, jim Th1mrso John G.. Osborne aid
Charles VI. Reeve reign supreme where mon were
armed and drilled to resist the CONSUMPTION and
10 Oyerawe Union men at the VOl 8, and where the
New \ ork Nercs Day Book and the Chicago Times
are both law and gospel. | only mention these
things incidentally, by the way of illustrating
what conceive 10 be the unequal workings of
our rcliei law, The STAY at home non fighting
sections the State should not be clothed and ted
at the expense of the loyal ones 1t may bc all
fair and square, but frankly confess | don'f see
it, What does LaPOrte county think about 1t =
These facts seem to trouble cur India
narolis friend, and we'll they may. He
undertakes to gloss over the matter by
charging indirectly, unfarHess on the part
OF the township assessors, and states two
or three plump falsehoods. 1t is not true
that 'LaPorte has increased in population,
as much, relatively as Marshall, > nor has
'-LaPorte seat more soldiers to the field
than Marshall notwithstanding the guar
antce Of this veraeious correspondent that
Lai'Orte has sent three soldiers to Mar
shall's one" The truth is we have been
abused and cheated, and defral,ded, and
required to furnish a large unmbcr Of
soldiers more than our just quota, while
these intensely republican counties have
through the manipulations of her Loyal
League managers been credited with hun
dreds of soldiers never sent by them at ALL
Marshall had her sons Of flesh and blood
in the field, while they had straw men
and forged credits, hence the larger nuns
Der Of soldiers families actually resident in
Marshall than in the other counties named.
This correspondent of the Tribune is said
to be one c. =. Jacobs, formerly Common
Pleas Prosecutor for this District, and
known here rs a young man Of SMALL in
tellectual calibre. with capacious recep-
tacle for whisky and Lager beer, given
to smutty jokes ana bawdy songs more
than to the study of his profession. We
congratulate him on having found his
proper level and hope he will hereafter
keep out of profession more honored by
his withdrawal from it, than by his weak
attempts to master It's intricaeies.