Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03
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CARSON CITY:

We find the foregoing among the PA.
cifc Coast Brevities' in yesterdays En-
tsrpriss. OF course that paper is not
responsible for the impression which
has been spread abroad that Mr.. Carr il
an acconplics of and a sharer of i'll
gotten gains with the levanting Pinney,
and therefore an unwilling witness be-
fore this Court Of Inquiry but that
impression, cruelty unjust, has been put
upon the community and is not soun-
teracted by such paragraphs as We have
quoted. Mr.. Carr is as reputable cit
lzen as dwells within the limits of San
Francisco. His home is one of the hap
piest and pleasantest we know Of and
In the very highest business circles he
Is not only recognized as a man of very
superior business talents, but his asso-
ciates in business interests are among
the very foremost men in that city. We
doubt if the credit of any man on the
Pacific Coast stands higher than his.
From some int1plicable cause the .4lta,
the proprietor of which paper is under
pscuniary obligations to Mr.. Carr. We,
willing, during the absence of the latter
from the city and State, to allow the
columns Of his paper TO teen with inu-
endoes against him and to foster this
false impression that Carr had run away
from an investigation. The fact Of the
matter is, Rs We know from personal
knowledge, that Carr left San Francisco
for Oregon before Pinney absconded.
The latter was openly in the city after
Carr had sailed for Coos Bay to look
after his coal interests there. A, to
Pinney and his ToSueries, it is only too
easy, now that the cat is out Of the bag,
to exhibit world OF sagacity regarding
the bad side of his character. The fact
Is, he was man of splendid address, a
very captivating man, indeed and he
had more "speed - and energy and
pluck than ons commonly finds even on
California street, where his most sue
csssful operations were prosecuted.
Certain slander-mongsrs mixed up his
name with General La Grange of the
San Francisco Mint, insinuating that |
they were in sympathy and CO. operation |
IL swindling performances. The impress
sirn thus conveyed was strengthened !
when La Grange offered his resignation. |
But what of La Grange? How does he |
stand where they know him best ? He |
has been at the head of the Mint in San
Francisco for SIX or eight years. He
has handled, in that time, hundreds Of |
millions OF dollars. Never 0 word |
against his integrity, never a whisper to |
tarnish his honor. When the Bank Of |
California was getting into deep water
and tho money market began to look
black, La Grange, instead of waiting for
orders from the Treasury Department,
As q colder blooded man would have
done, took upon himself the response
bility of buying some hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of bullion. Lin
1erman went down from here, and, as
Director of the Mint, he took occasion
10 administer a mild reprimand to La
Grange for what he did. Thereupon La
Grange sent his resignation to Washing
ON. Then the business men Of San
unwilling that timely and
courageous act done in their behalf
should work injury upon their friend in
need, sent to Senator Sargent very ear
hest remonstrance against the accept
snce of the Generals resignation by the
of the Treasury. What is the
'esult Sargent took this remonstrancs
o Bristow and told him what it meant; 4
md only last Wednesday We had the
pleasure of seeing letter from the SEN I
tor to the General in which he informed I
Tim that the Secretary not only declined 4
o accept his resignation but that he /
'armly approved his course in the bull .
ion purchase. In other words, the Sec I
stary of the Treasury, in deciding be- n
wesn the Director and the Superintend-
ut. stands by the latter. And yet there n
70 not wanting liars and slanderers who 4
fish the mixing up of this mans name .
it'll Pinney's rascalities, simply because I
le two were once associated together. g