Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-12-01


virtue, and with the most pressir.
wants-they needed attorneys, not &C
much for their legal knowledge as fel
their supposed influence at tbs proper
department, and were able TO pay for
their services, and pay well too. :. These
Influential gentlemen, it was known,
had been staying around Washington
without any positive success in the real
object of their missi-n until they had
/ become lean and weak and were in poor
condition % resist a temptation that
Promised large pay and good living;
they consented, it may be reluctantly
TO bargain and sell the only valuable
commodity they had left, but the very
article wanted by the McGarrahan,
New Idria California land spectators.
The investment, it appears was made,
but the particulars have not yet fully
traIspired. j. may well lie supposed
that the his st bidder would be the
buyer, and conditions of purchase
ana actual -ment. in full would de-
pend on the f:nal success of the pur-
chasing part, If the result may yet
be bad to the y, P's. and the H. V. B's.,
and the O.. f. Us's., and other poor DIS
generally whoha invested
Governor Cox ha g pretty well demon
s.rated in his letter to the President on
this compllcai ed ..ani delicate subject,
that he is not TO blame for the uncerta' n
turn which things have taken; for he
certainly abused McGarrahan with
q eat ability and zeal, and exhibited q
peri ct Willingness to take the question
out OF the hands of Congress, and have
it speedily decided by his own depart
ment TO the satisfaction of the. New
Idria company, and that of his hungry
and over anxious friends. 1t was de-
cided by the Secretary W thOut hesita-
tion that the promise he had made in
writing to Mr.. Bingham, chairman Of
the Judiciary committee. that Ibis de-
partment would not take up and pass
upon the McGarrahnn. New Idria
claim, until Congress before whom The
subject was then pending, had fully in
vestigated the claim,n was all wrong,
that Mr.. Bingham had no right to make
such a request, aud that the Secretary
had no right to make such promise,
and consequently was bound to disre
gard it. Things at that stage o. the
case looked we'll for the New Idria cor
poration, and the d. P's., and p DIS
were jubilant.
gsAt this critical period in the case the
President interfered, and suggested that
possibly the United States might have
some claim to these lands, that the whole
subject was'before Congress where the
rights of these claimants were being in
estisated-that he was unwilling to
have his name go to patent to either of
the claimants until Congress had decided
fraud had been charged and believed to
exist with both claimants. Thiswas the
offending OF ths President, and the
cause ofSecretary Cox's retirement from
the Cabinet, so far as appears from the
the record The public will have no
difficulty in rendering just verdict be-
tween the President and his Secretary
in this case, whatever may be the diff
cullies to reconciliation between oppos-
ing counsel whose fees depended pom
tire result OF the case. That the latter
have, from the turn which things have
taken, lost iai sc amount of money
that they never had. or rather had their
expectations largely curtailed is highly
probable; and although they may feel
disposed to keep up war on the Presi-
dsnt and say bitter and spitefuI things
the public can hardly fail to be the gain
er from the course adopted by the Presi-
dent. The whole question is yet in the
hands of Congress, by tn, act of the
President where it will be Investigated,
and the right of the United States to
this vast interest probably secured.
Gen. Cox is not gaining reputation by
permitting himself to be treated as a
martyr and. hawked round by set of
disappointed advocates of the New Idria
land CLAN, and who have not the man-
illness to asSail the President openly, bat
content themselves in connection with
their most lulsome eulogies of the late
-SecTetary, with abusing Gen. Grants
wife's relatives.
Some people think this rather small
business TO be Endorsed by some of the
digniiied Cincinnati papers. But with
them it seems TO be the day of small
things, and they too may be seeking to
lie avenged for real or imaginary wrongs
REPUBLICAN.