The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-02-27

country. He found Carney and all the set
poking his checks at him. And, in the
hurry -burly, despite the earnest in;ercessions
of "paP' Harlan, the great forerunner and
progenitor of Caldwell, Mr.. Pomeroy, was
oetracised BY the Legislature on the paltry
showing of s., 900, cash in hand. For this
small and perfectly innocent consideration.
Mr.. POmeroy was deserted even in kansas.
Thus w,s the ~;rter of the discomfort
Made rei-hoi summer by this cum Of York
(shil,ings understoodJ. Mr.. Harlan and
myself do not believe this story. We quote
the hymn to ourselves, beginning:
Brides. idle brides, We know not what they mean !;
Bri Des from the depth Of some divine despair
kise in the heart and gather I, the eyes,
In looking on the happy Kansas fields,
Aud thinking OF the teaas that are NJ more.
Harlan saws thus, in the Duly Benedict
Arnold, which he publishes:
sit is about time for the opposition press
to discover that the people are heartily sick
of this corruption OF those members ~ho
we're inveigled into the purchase of little
Credit Mobilier stock. The amount they re-
ceived was too ridicuiously small for such
noise"
This is the first time We ever heard the
young lady's apology for her ioundiing APP
Piled in State questions:
Please, sir, it's such little one!'
PARTICLE, OF DUST.
The Boston Journal has abandoned Dawes,
and wheeled over to Boutwell, Tor the Senate.
This Accession of small particles would be OF
no consequence in itself, did it not show how
the Credit Mobilier works.
There is something sfoat about the coun-
terfeiting of Sioux City railroad bonds;
about their imposition upon the Treasury
through the corruption Of officials; about
tracing them as articles OF bribery into dis
tinguisLed hands; and about pending dis.
closures which shall make William Tweed
slIege with confidence that he is the mos.
honest public man in America.
The North Pacific R,il~ay people deny
that they had auy intention OF asking for
bonded aid to help their road; hut there il
reason to believe that the Credit Mo5iliel
panic led to this sober second thought. Ii
the people do not stamp out this system
Of railway corruption nov, it will stamp
them out.
| Had We sw;ndied he Government. of the
United States, peijured ourselves. and
proved the uneasy-rraven which james
Brooks has done, We would have avoided
the confession OF imbecility a. we'll. Last
Thursday, Brooks called up Dan voorhees,,
Gus Scheil, and Beck, Of Kentucky, Il
prove that he had "aever influenced them
to vote for the Pacific Railway. Probably
not. He could influence nobody who knew
him, but thousand negatives could moi
prove even this What did he get the l5I
shares for? VIVA: did he take an interest in
the road for, though Government Director,
contrary to lac? What did he SANDER
Hugh Hastings for, and persscute him te
the edge of the Capiioline dungeon? Whal
did he Islander M'Comb for? Whist did he
appeal to Almighty Gcd for, with con-cion:
guilt In his bosom al the time?
Caldwell, OF Kansas, when asked ii hs
would swear to hi. defence and confe.-
sion made last Monday, replied that he
J preferred ii 10 go upon his Senatorial
| honor
these Representatives who committed more
actionabie perjury!
General Grant refused to sign the bill .'to
quiet land titles" in Iowa, which Was faith.
cred by Frank Palmer, OF Des Moines, VINO
has been voted out OF the next Congress by
his ie!lOw-citizeIs, partly in disgust at his
inhUman persecution of John A. kassoD.
| kas-on made jaur pas many years ago,
which was attended with domestic and poli,.
| cal Consequences which might well have
| ouched the heart of any chivairous compet-
tor. Not 80 in Iowa, however, where the
politicians can quiet land.titlss with more
alacri:y than permit bruised spirit 10 forget
| itself Mr. Palmer elected ard Reelected
himself upon that one gu LITIGATION OF Kas-
sons sin,-a sin, be it said, which wrought
no injury hcycnd The doer's own Threshold
The campaign made against kasson failed
last summer of its own coniemp,ibleness.
To revel in a fellow mans pain; TO hold out
his heart upon knife, and show the one old
spot in it forever; TO keep malice upon ven-
ON, and swear, when once down, an crring
countryman shall not get upon his feet, but
be- stamped there-and all 10 elect Frank w.
Palmsrs three times, this was very like the
performance of coward; and it not only
beat Palmer, but it beat him so badly that he
is abolt to move to Chicago, ex,inguished.
Between times, the bill passes TO quiet other
mems ;itles,-a bill passed in the face of the
protests of forty thousand petitioners.
The President refused TO give the bill hi.
signature, but did only half his duty. An
investigation is necessary upon this subject,
and il is to be hoped that Easson will come
here in the month Of March and begin it.
There are two titles qnieted in Iowa, TO
seats in Congress- at any rate. GATH.