Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-08-28
Infamous;

DurlnS the nclSnt O1 inc war, McSSts'
Nlicajah Y. johnson and David Sheen
were suddenly arrested at Galcna, at the
instance Of Messrs +. b. Washburne aud
j. Russell Jones, and hurried off to Fort
lafayette, They remained in the latter
fort for some months, Mr.. johnson, leav
ing his companion behind-bcing finally
transferred to Fort Lafayette at the tine
when Judge Carmichael was incarcerated
there. Both of these victims Of Radica!
tyranny were Democrats; both occupied a
prominent position at the Galena bar, and
no accusation was preferred against either,
except the vague but convenient charge Of
disloyalty." To aid the infamy Of the
transaction, Mr.. johnson was arrested in
the midst of murder case, and, with Mr..
Sheen, was sent rapidly under guard to the
East, and lodged so secretly in Fort La
fayette that, for time, their friends did
not know to what place they had been spir-
tied away. The manly protests made to
the State Department by Mr.. johnson dur
ing his imprisonment were wholly unheel-
ed, AMI so they both fingered on until
ultimately, after being arrested without
cause, they wee released without explain
alton.
At the termination of the war, Mr.. John
son brought suit against f.. B. Washburnc
and j. Russell Jones for false imprson-
mcnt. In their answer to the suit, pleaded,
in the first instance, justification. Find
ing they had no ground to stand upon,
and that they were liable to be mulctcl in
heavy damages, they subsequently with
drew the pleas they first put in, and to
conciiatc the man whom they had SO
gricvously wrongcd, they signed their
names to the following most degraded con-
fcssion. They acknowledge:
THAT the said pleas, heretofore signed
by them in said case, aud the matters and
things therein set forth against the said
plaintiff, are untrue in substance and fact.
And the said defendants further confess
the wrongful trcspass and Imprisonment
| set forth in said declaration, and that the
said defendants are guilty in manner and
form MS therein stated and and set forth,
and said plaintiff has sustained great dam
! age thereby, as is alleged in said declara-
ton and said defendants further confess
that the Seteurc and imprisonment was
~2o"g)M. unjuStifaMe and mith0nt cause.
and that said plaintiff was innocent of the
violation OF any law, or of doing any act IN
imical to the Government Of the United
States, its constitution, and its laws
1t will thus be seen that Mr.. Elihu b.
Washhurne, the prime mover in this
shameful transaction, now cOntcsses that
he had no u,t grounds for acting as he
did, and also that the pleas heretofore filed
by him in defence Of his conduct were
untrue in substance and in fact" In
short, he first pcrpctratcs fragrant outrage
and next cndcavor to evadc the consequent
ces by downright lying. Finding this Of
no avail, he throws himself upon the mcr-
cy Of MIR. johnson, and consents to - eat
dirt"
And this man is now United States Min
lister to France; and j. Russell Jones, at
ter having served eight years as U. $.
Marshal for the northern district of Hi
nols, was Grants gift enterprise nominee
for Minister to Begium.-Bah Gazette.
Grows ON THE Corn QUEsTIoN.-A
hired man on u farm in Delaware county
was detailed to keep watch on the corn
field and not let the black marauders in
wade the premises, but like many other
men in similar situation, tried to plan
method whereby so much labor would not
have to be pcEformed SO he hit upon tho
plan of soaking some corn in whisky and
placing it in the field so that the crows
would surely eat it and get drunk, and
then he thought he would have a sure
thing on them, and could kill them easily.
He had tried to shoot them with a shot
gun, but crows can smell powder long
way. After soaking some corn over night
he put bountitul supply in the field car
ly next morning, and in about two or three
hours he went to see how things were pro.
crossing, and mark you what follows.
One of the crows, little larger than the
rest, had gathered up and taken possession
Of all the corn and had built himself bar
out of clods of earth, and was retailing the
whiskey-soaked corn to the other crows,
charging them three gains of sproutcd
corn for one soaked grain. Our hired man
had not the heart to kill any of the crca-
lures that seemed so much in their actions
like mankind.
4 CHEAP BARoMETER.-A western pa
per is responsible for the following: Iti
said that u cup of coffee is sure barome-
ter, if you allow the sugar to drop to the
hntfot of n cup md w,toh tho b,,llIo,