Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-04-11

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an excuse for desertion. The exult-
ant fudge and nonsense vented by
Democratic organs in view of these
insignificant and isolated victories
illustrates how easy it is to stimulate
to hope:ulness the desperate victim
of al incurable malady.
| THE CHAEGEs wk=reon Bosart WAS re-
Gently arrested i'll San Francisco have
been transmitted thither by the Seer Ia
~ ri the Navy and are as follows:
Charges and Specifications Charges
preferred by the Secretary Of the Navy
;5,inst Il. ID Bogart, paymasters clerk
Iii tn. navy.
/ Caa-se -Enbezzelment- Specitic,-
tion-In this, that on o. about the t
! day of December. III the year 1868, Rob
ert D. Bosar;, while serving as paynins-
! tvr's clerk on b3a.i the United Stat, -
-ivins ship Vermont at New Yar!. did
take from the pavmaster's safe $4,000
! or ;hereaoouts belonging to tbs Uaited
States. furnished 70: the use OF tin naval
service thereof, and did knowingly and
| wiliuily embeZzie t. his own use sal I
:aon+y in violation OF the act Of Con-
gress approved Itrch :. 1868, entitled
An Act to preve,.. ana punish fr.!lS
! against the United Stntcs.''
| Charge 2-Desertion-S Specification l
In this, that on or about the 3rd day Of
| December, in the year 1868. said pay
+! masters clerk, Robert D. Bogart, deser-
( ted from the receiving ship Vermont, At
New York. and from the naval service.
[Signed) GEO. NJ. RoBEsoN.
Secretary OF Navy
Navy department, March %, 1873.
A letter from Robson accompanies
the above, addressed to Bogirt, inform
ing him that tine charges will be tried by
a naval court-lnartial, to be convened at
Mare Island on April 10.
A SAN Francisco correspondent of the
Ne,o Eado,rment treats this case as it de-
serves in commenting upon it as follows.
Alter reciting the reason for Bogart's
original arrest he says:
He was then arrested tried and con-
victed, but the decision WIS disapproVed
by the Secretary of the Navy, as the
charge was not considered commensurate
with the otfense. Subsequently Bogart
became an editor or reporter or the n.
Y. San, AMI there made charges against
the Navy Department that caused an
investigation by Congress. Dana, the
chief editor and proprietor of the Sun,
also sorehead. i'll his malice fraternized
with Bogart and attacked the Admins
tration with q yindictiveness that out
ragged all decency, and would at any
time have Justified criminal action
against them for libel of either Grant or
Robeson. Ike Congressional invesliga-
ton proved the charges without founda-
ton. and the editors of the Sun SANDER
ers and liars. Bo5art audaciously con-
tinued his attacks upon the N,vy
Department, rather to vent his malice
than for any public good. Under these
circumstances his arrest could be ex-
peeted. if there were any grounds for it;
and as it is shown there were ample
grounds, the result would have been eX-
pected, The manner of the arrest,
and has raised an unwonted hue and
cry. particularly with auti-adninistra-
ton and sensational journals. Two
marines and Seargent quietly at mid
night nabbed their man, and, without
letting the matter be known, carried him
off to the Navy Yard. To have the
military arrest a civilian is very repug
nant to free Americans, but done SO
stealthily and for causes unknown to the |
public. the person, too, having been for
years unmolested. gives the opportunity |
for severe comment.
There is but little doubt of Bogart s |
but had he lived under any |
of the Governments of Europe and writ |
ten of those in power as he has of the
with or without cause, |
he would have been snatched without
and raised his complaints in
the darkness of dungeon.
CONGRESSMAN ELLIOTT of South |
Carolina displays a deal more of
frankness and sturdy manhood than
the ginger fingered colleagues of his
who attempt to make capital for
by declining their extra
pay. Says he:
Had my election to a seat been then
should have voted as did |