Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-03-09
RAY CORRESPONDENCE.
SAN FRANcIsco, March /

Owing to the recent heavy storm
!, III, mountains, Fryer, who was to
he here On the 7th will not make his
on,sarance before the 10Th, orsr' day
sortwo later, possibly ! make this
correction of date in my former let
fer as know that parties in Nevada
are eager to visit him when he ar
riyes. 1t is astonishing what a num-
Der of miners are on the qui vive for
the "new process" l know quite
number of mine owners who have
stopped working until Fryer has
demonstrated what can be dome.
Those who could not manipulate
their refractory ores without loss had
to stop, and those who had paying
ores preferred 70 wait for 20 or 20
per cent. rather than content them
selves with so per cent, as at the
present time. Fryer publishes card
in the mining Press" this week in
reply to the structures of the "Engi-
neering and Mining Journal" of New
York. He is one of those exceed
ingly quiet fellows who are danger
Gus to wake up roughly. His card
is worth reading by those interested
in the subject of the new process.
The POST has correspondent IN
Washington who announces recent
invention of a "lightning amalgama-
tor" that is going to do asst onishingly
cheap work. He had not himself
seen "the machine" and was evident
" informed by two notorieties of this
city, who claim to have secured the
right to use the invention on the
Pacific coast. The "Post's" corre-
spondent is the private secretary of
Senator Jones, which probably may
account for some things that appear
in the "Post" from the seat of gov
ernment.
THE CoURT-MARTIAL.
The trial of Spalding, the late
Navy Pay Inspector, in this city,
goes on bravely at Mare Island, and
the exposure Of Pinuey's wholesale
frauds and Spalding's completely in
good many jobs promises to be thor
Ough and unreserved. After the wit
nesses connected with the Navy Yard
have been examined, the Court will
adjourn to this city for the conven-
ience of the merchants and bankers
who were victimized giving their evil
dence. Had Pinney confined his
thieving to the style he adopted in
Government purchases, there would
probably never have heena Court of
Inquiry and court-martial, for it
would not be difficult to prove that
Pinpey.s stealing was we'll known
in Washington all the time
he was doing it, and not word
of remonstrapce was ever heard.
This court-martial and exposure have
been forced from the navy duthori-
ties by the merchants and bankers
here, who accepted navy certificates
of indebtedness TO the amount of
nearly million and a quarter, bear
ing the official signature Of the office
here and other assurances that the
business done by Pinney was per-
fectly so, X" The victims claim
that the Government is bound by
the acts Of its agents, and when it is
clearly demonstrated during the trial
that Spaldiug and Pinney did act in
the name of the navy department,
with which they stood connected at
the time, the victimized will in time
seek redress through Congress by
ordering special appropriation to
cover these deficiencies. While it is
legal truth in individual business
that a principal is bound by the acts
Of his representative, the Govern
ment will not admit that application
IN any case where its agent has
transcribed his letters of instruc-
uon. The Government counsel now
mere watching the Spalding trial in
formed a friend of your correspond
eht aday or two ago, that the vie
umiled here will "never get cent
VI their million and quarter" 1t
exceedingly hard for those banks
'ila' uiscounted the Pay Inspectors |
paper TO lose their money when the
transaction was on their part clearly
IN good faith, but it seems impossi-
oie TO hold the Government respon-
'loie Tor the illegal acts of any per-
son III lis service. No government
tn he world could endure under re-
sponsibility for the acts of II. iot,;on |