Arizona citizen., 1872-12-28
THE CITIZEN.
Dec. 9S. 1872.
INJURED INNOCENCE sc.

l. resented as uaVluS oo OaoAly Oupeu r bamboozled and swindled the astut
 and shrewd capitalists of San Fran
 cisco, and also had some great New r Workers within his grasp, is on tht legal war-path, as witness this dis
 patch clipped from that live and newsy paper, the San Diego Daily
 Union:
 1 LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. Is. - Arnold
 tached at the suit of William M. Lent
 enc of the prominent victims of the re-
 gently exposed California diamond swin.
 dle, publishes long defence in yester
 days Courier-Journal. He denies the
 charges of his "salting" the so-called
 diamond fields. Arnold announces that
 he has already engaged lawyers, who are
 now on their way to California, to pros
 ecute all parties connected with the
 charges of swindling made against him.
 Then in addition, we find this para
 graph in The Alta:
 Arnold, the diamond sharp, writes to
 the Diamond Company that he has "em- ployed counsel-a good Henry rif1e-and
 l am likely to open my case any day on California street. There are several scalps l would like to string on pole." Now we stand in with Arnold-in
 all his efforts to set himself right be-
 fore the public, for we know of no
 one in much more need of something
 like purgation. In this good work,
 we think the common public will cheer him on; but how those pure
 but deluded San Francisco operators will look upon such steps by Arnold, Is quite another matter. If any of them were in with Arnold from the start, Arnold may be so indiscreet as to make some such revelations. Janin was heavy on prophecy, and it will be quite apt for Arnold to be as "ex- pert" in revelation.
 But really, we anticipate a danger ous amount of irresistible laughter, as the remaining scenes in the last act of the grand diamond farce is be- ing played for the benefit of the whole public, as we'll as, we trust, to the moral benefit of those who put 1t on the California Street boards regardless of expense in coin and character. Arnold only expresses a liking for " several scalps." This is quite mod est, and should he get them, prob ably would have none too many; but we are comforted to know that the " scalping" business is a game not always played by one party. Now, what calamity to the world to lose 3 man who can so easily control, and dupe, too, the great money kings of California Why, The Sacramento Union should employ him, before the ruthless hand of time or some other hand sends him to the happy hunt ng grounds in the scalping bout he soreshadows, to mislead the great and Stanford, Huntington, Hop zins & Co. to spend their coin in the purchase of diamond field of him, or he doubtless has some choice ones eft, instead of running the State by railways, steamboats, work hops, wharves, cars and locomotives. 1t the rate Arnold has diddled Roberts, Harpending, Lent, Janin and ther great, shrewd, scientific and { men, it wouldn't take him yer couple of years to get all the ailway mems coin and other goods nd chattels, place them in Kentucky, nd thus relieve the virtuous State of California from the power of those ter ible oppressors and their oppressive ! works. This is @ mere hint offered y humble member of the "inde- 'endent press" for the sole interest f ye simple and innocent public.
 THE ALTA of December 10 says he Pacific Foundry, of that city, is ngaged in casting machinery for a