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''-. I I t u i- 4 ,1 ?l r i. I i V THE ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, OCTOIJEK 3. 1S72. TIIK RBASOX AVIIY. Sfmo three weeks since wo gave notice to the friends of Lett and ene- i mies of Furnas, that if their offensive ....... sNr. Unrnoc oliri.il. 1 Ua i i ., .1 rwl ! Official Paper ofCity.Coniity, and the we Would take the mask from oil" of United States. Lett and expose his naked deformity - , i0 tie people of tlie State. We knew ELECTioSEETms. then, as we know now, that truthful Our friends in the several precincts , exposuros cou!1 ,)e mai,0t ll3cko., by of this county are urgently requested .certificates and affidavits of the best LETT vs. FURNAS. to send us their election returns as soon after they are made known as possible. We require them not only for our own use, but fchnfrof the peo ple of the State, having been appoint ed by the Associated Press to make up the telegraphic report from this county. This hint therefore applies to Democrats and Liberals as well as Republicans. OUIt TICKE3 This being th? brat issue of the Ad vkiitipkr before our State election it becomes us-to speak a last word in re lation to ous candidates and their claims upon the people for support. Heading our ticket is Col. Robert "V. Furnas, whose name is familiar in every portion of the State, and through wliose energy and influence Nebraska owes much of its proud rep utation abroad. Jealous parties are btis-y in firing poisoned javelins-at his head, but their arrows fall harmless nt his feet, valufc the would be assas sins of his character will live to rue the day they engaged in their present dirty work. R. W. Furnas-will be elect ed Governor so sure as the sun ri?es and sets on the 8th day of the pres ent month. The names of Lake and Crounse are towers of strength to our ticket. Both have long been known as dis tinguished jurists and incorruptible gentlemen. As Chief Justice, Geo. J$. Lake will.honor the position, and in the councils of tho nation Judge Crounse will reflect hono? 03 Nebras ka. To mention each and every name on our State ticket would be a. work of superoragation. Suffice it to say they are Individually able and high toned- gentlemen, singularly well adapted to the positions to which they will be elected. Our local ticket demands special at tention at our hands. Oeo. Ii. Shook is our candidate lor State Senator. In times gone by he has commanded general respect from his attitude toward every question which had tho smell of corruption men in this and other counties, which would make the "Reform" candidate winee and call on the very mountains to cover his shame. But about this time, H. M. Atkinson, Eq., wrote Mr. Lett, remonstrating against the malignant warfare being made on Col. Furnas, and suggesting that if it were continued, the war would be "carried into Africa." This letter from Mr. A. .was promptly replied to, and hi let ter shown us, which read a follows : Furnas Oath vs. the Statement of the Omaha Herald, HE INTO COURT!! From the Omaha Tribune and Jepubllcan of October 1st. H. 0. LETT, COMEIND COURT IS If. C LETT GUILTY OFPEIUURY "Where is Geo. L. Miller's Strict, Un bending Integrity lvikh he Prates About in Iii.s'Jcm ocratic Candidate PHOTOGRAPH OF H. 0. LETT, REFORM CANDIDATE" FOR GOVERNOR. U. S. Land Okfici;, LowrxTi, Ni;n., Sept, 2J, '72. j DnARSiit: I was well pleased with your letter, and it met my approba tion, ami so far as the Colonel and I are concerned, we do not propose to fall out, for anything that may be -aid. I wrote to all mjT friend5 and told them I would meter a difl'etent SLANDERS EXPOSED REA3! READ! READ! THE LIBELEE.. DR. GEORGE L. MILLER. course: and I bliouldwhether pleased or not, for I would not 1 the friend-hip of a tried friend, for the best office in this nation. So I feel, and o L shall conduct myself, you may depend, aiid trust 1 will not be misunderstood at home, among my friends. We have had the honor of holding the m or t respectable meetings ever In the DMrirt Court for Bongla-. comity, Mat.- of XHirsiska: Robert V. I unias, Plaintiff, vs. G-o'-uo L. MHItT nnd Lvmnn RichiiruXo!, dulni; business under the tlrm name of Mil- in the Western States. We held make it interesting to all as well as amusing. We shall so conduct our selves to the end, that we shall come home friend's as we started ; and whlvhever is elected, we will be able to look back over this canvass with a great deal of pleasure, feeling that we have donesomething towards a great, moral, political reform, in our State. We shall be at home on tho night of the 7th inst., reach home on eve of fitli. I hope all are well and our It. R. is all right. This is hard as well as disagreeable work. Yours, Signed, H. C. Li:tt. Upon perusing the above letter, we felt that the sins of Lett's friends should not be visited upon him, and respectfully but positively declined the tender of documents, the publica tion of which would have rendered the charges laid at the door of Col. Furnas, seem as trival in comparison. Judge then of our surprise, when informed last week that Lett, when at (Jrand Inland, violated his plighted word, and after reading the base per jury of T. H. Kobertsou.jo his hear ers, sailotl out in a war of crimina- ' ltiVGi. Hi 2h.rn.lbon o.er puriTiox. The plain ml, Robert v. i urnae, alleges that the defendant's George L. Miller and Lyman Richardson, doing I business under the liim name of "Miller & Ixiehanlson," on and be foie the loth day ot September, A. D. lhl'2, were and still are proprietois and publishers of a cei tain daily pa per known as the "Omaha Daily Her- i f mnc ntitl ittnniiitnr1 in rtmurlif "LTiif- upon it, and his enemies have utterlv ! ', . ., , ... - ... ,. , , nas of briberv on the iiflinant afore said. failed to place a finger upon a vote of his which has not received universal approval. His election is conceded by all. For Representative we have our fel low citizen Dr. H. L. Mathews. It has been our fortune to be thrown much in the society of Dr. M"., dur ing ourresidence here, through which we have learned to esteem him as a gentleman of culture, and a man of,' 1 Sl 11 1 . jjigu, nouie ano generous impulses. He has been a Republican since the organization of the party, and ha never bolted the ticket of his fellow partizans. There are few men better posted in political literature and his tory, and none more deservingof pop ular confidence. He is a native o? Ohio, has resided" here some seven or eight years, and in this section of the county, where best known, will dis tance both of his competitors. Chas. Blodgett will be the colleague of Dr. Mathews in the Legislature. Mr. B. is a citizen of Lafayette pre cinct, and comes to U3 with the en thusiastic and unanimous endorse ment of his neighbors as a gentleman every way qualified for the position -which he has been singled nut to fill. Aside from the man, the western por tion of rhe county, from which Mr. Blodgett hails, is by right, and the simple rule of common fairness, en titled to the Representative, and we hope and believe that the eastern sec tion of Nemaha will demonstrate that "no pent up Utica contracts their powers," but will cla-p hands with Lafayette on election day and give to Mr. li. a hearty vote. For County Commissioner we pre sent the outgoing member of the Hoard, Conrad Harms. Mr. Harms has served a term and is now fully conversant with the duties of the of fice. We have never heard his honor questioned. He Is a German by birth mid education, and a Republican from conviction and principle. PALS1J WITNESS. Notwithstanding our invitation to all doubters to call at our office and examine for themselves tho "Journ al" of the Territorial Council of '57, we regret to notice that the Democrat came out last week and reiterated the falsehoods enunciated by the Omaha Herald, though five minutes of in spection of the record would have convinced the most incredulous or prejudiced that there was not a syla hle of truth in the allegations. It is but justice to Col Whitehead to acquit him of complicity in this nefarious work. Arriving here, as he did, in the midst of the campaign, without acquaintance either with the candidates or of facts touching eith er of them, that gentleman gladly avail ed himself of the proffered services of assistant aid, and it is to such as sistants that the charge of "bearing false witness against their neighbors" attaches, and to Jarvis S. Church we say, "Thou art the man." And we hereby challenge Mr. C. or anyother man to examine the record, and then say that the affidavit of 'T."H.R6b ortson and the charges of the Herald are not false. It will not do to say "we have not examined the record." The charge preferred against the Col. is too serious, too henious, to make without first fully investigating the facts. The record gives the lie there to, and Col. Furnas has sworn that they are false, and the man who reit erates them is a willful defamer who should be held answerable at the bar of public opinion. We might now come out with the disclosures above indicated, but it is contrary to our style of warfare to prefer charges at so late an hour in a campaign as to render the party aim ed at unable to make a defence. But II. C. Lett knows, as do many of his personal friends hereabouts, that we have the ammunition at hand, which would riddle hi? pretensions to "Re form," and stamp him as a man- un worthy of the high trust to which he aspires. But "let the galled jade wince." His "ambition has n'erleaped itself," and in his greed for office he has cut the silver cord attaching him to friends hereabouts, and in violating his plighted troth, has lost votes while failing to secure any to compensate. Kind reader, peruse Lett's letter again, then consider his action at Grand Island, and conclude for your self "what manner of man he is." We thus leave him to the tender mer cies of the public. "I demand that there shall be open, free discussion before the Southern people. If, after an honest, unlet ri fied, micon.st rained vote, they proic that the people of the south say tliey want disunion, I WILL CONSENT TO IT." Horace Greeley, at Pitiblurcj, September 1!), 1S72. Where now are the Liberal Ilepub.- I licans who declared at the opening of this campaign that Horace Gieeley never entertained principles akin to those ennuneiated at Pittsburg, and quoted above? Can any man who ever held to a single tenent of the Re publican creed vote for a mar. hold ing such principles and shamelessly ennunciating them? Does Horace not out-Jefl' Jell" Davis himself? A friend, resident of Lincoln, thus writes us: Dr. Miller can injure Furnas but little in this section, for the Doctor's word is not considered "A No. 1" with us, and besides the laiger por tion of our party would support the Colonel if they knew the bribery story to be true preferring a corrupt Republican to a rebel Democrat. Laura Fair, the California murder ess, was on Monday last, acquitted on her second t.rial, of the charge of murder. A Liberal, on hearing of Lett's treachery to Furnas, in deserting the discussion of general and State ques tions of import, and dealing in crim inating personalities, said : "I knew it. A man who would prove false to pledges made to his associate delegates to the State C nvention, would not hesitate to prove treacherous to his nolitical opponent " J. A. Dillon, of Tccumseh, has been nominated for State Senator in the District composed of Otoe John son and Pawnee counties. V. D. Met calf, of Johnson. D. J. McCann, of Otoe, and W. H. Curtis, of Pawnee, were rival candidates for the nomina tion, but on the 17th ballot, Mr. Dil lon was nominated. aid," in the city of Omaha, county and State aforesaid. PlaintifF further alleges that during the years ISoG" and lS57he was a mem ber of the legislative assembh of the territory of Nebraska ; and plaintiff iurther alleges that the said defend ants, wickedly and maliciously in tending to injure the said plaintiff in his good name, fame and credit, and wickedl' and maliciously intending to cause it to be believed, that said plaintiff was guilty of the crime of bribery, heretofore, to wit, on tha loth day of September, A. D 1ST2, at the city of Omaha, county and State aforesaid, lalselv. wickedly and mali ciously did pul lis-h, and cause, and procure to be published in the said paper, of the date last aforesaid, of anil concerning uie sain planum, a certain f:i-e, scandalous, malicious and defamatory libel, charging the said plaintiff to be guilty of Uie crime of bribery, while a m-mhrr of the as sembly :ifoi's:u, containing among other things the fal-e, .scandalous, ma licious, defamatory and libelous, mat ter, following, of and concerning the aid plaintiff, and of and coiict ing his itots as a member of the .r-emblv aiorc-aid. mat i- to say: o man knows better than Colonel Furnas (moaning s;ibl plaiptiif) knows, our perfect familiarity wish the fai t that m the sp..,jo?! of il:- tri itrri:il legisla ture for 1.9i0-'7 i meaning while said plaintiff was a member ot said legis lature) he st puluted to receive and did receive a a consideration for his vote (meaning plaintiff's vote as such member) against measures for the re moval of the capital from Omaha, for the division of Douglas county, or for the removal of the county seat from Omaha- city, the sum of $5,G00 in gold." And plaintiff further alleges that the said defendants, furtlver contri ving and intending wickedly and ma liciously a -ifon's-aid afterwards, to wit : on the 2'lth day of September, A. Tt. 1S72, at the p'.p-e aforesaid, and in the p:tpr nfor.r-s;iM, fnl-ety, wick edly and n.:tlir-:ou-iy. did re-pt.Mish and cause to h re-p:Iii--iu'd I bo said malicious. faKeati;' dcf.im.Uoiy 111 el of and concerning tho r-nul plaintiff, and of and concerning his .jets as such member of said assembly, m the fa he, malicious, defamatory and libelous matter following, that is to say: "George L. Miherwill go into George B. Lake's court, on thiee mir. site's notice, and prove l3' Samuel R. Brown, to the perfect satisfaction of Judge Lake, or any jury of a dozen men, that Col. itoueit . curnas stipulated to receive and did receive $r.,000 in gold for his vote, in tho ler litorial council in the session of 18-jl and 1S37, against the capitol bill and other measures." All of which said false, seamlulous, malicious, defama tory and libelous matter the . sid de fendants well knew to bs la'se. scan dalous, malicious-, defamato y and li belous. Plaintiff allege i fhit all of the foregoing rbaiges a:e a! snlutely false, and he i:t-t;i-s and says it is un title, that in the esiou oi the tctri- i: "ii legislature 01 js ,(, :)nn isr7, on at any other time, he simulated to re cpjve directly or indiieotiy, or did re ceive, directly or indirectly, as a con sideration for his vote the sum of three tbcusand dollar-, or anv amount whatever, upon tho question of the removal of the capital, or upon any question, matter or thing arising in. or being before, aid legislative as sembly dining the session above re ferred to. or any other session thereof; and denies that he ever stipulated with ain- person or persons, associa tion or corporation, to receive the sum of three thousand dollars, or any other amount in consideration for his vote as a member of said assembly, or Iegislature, and denies that he ever received the sum of thiee thousand dollars, or any other amount as a con sideration for his vote upon any mat ter as such member. And plaintiff further alleges that the foregoing as sertions and charges, made by the said defendants, to-wit : that the plaintiff did receive money for his vote, are wholly untrue in every par ticular, ami afe absolutely and un qualifiedly false to the damage of said plaintiff ten thousand dollars, for which amount he uray- judgment. J. C. Cowix, Attv. for Pl'f. GEO. L. 3IILLEK,C0MEI3,0 COURT Tt may be well to state'ight here, that the affidavits herewith inserted, were not gotten up by Republicans, but by gentlemen connectd with Mr. Lett's own party. Of tlis fact we are cognizant, havingdeclned to pub-J lisb the documents- whei presented us in MS. Ed. Advijutih:!!.' The contrast between tjese men is as broad as day is from nijht. IS'ot a blot rists upon the unulltd name of Henry C. Lett. A chlnh of fifteen years standing, a worthy ml devoted member of the Presbyterjin church, and at the head of great -ail road en tei prises, wherever he is mind, he is the same true, honest, courageous, and capable man. We d-fy any man ot any party, and challenge the entire record of his life, tt) !mv the least .suspicion of blmish upoi the name of Henry C. Lett. Can lonest men hesitate for v. bom theyiall vote?" II raid, S'j-tt ml,cr 'lth. We publish below somi astounding levelatioi.s. The people -.uill see that on that oath the company got 20,000 acres of land worth ?ln,(iflM. It was tho people's land, and Lett swore to what he knew to be a lie to get this land into his possession. Six good men, and true, swear to this foul charge against a man wiio George L. Miller says has strict, mbending integrity. Will George L. Millertell who stole the people's land which he charged on the Republican party Let him tell that it is the nnniaaclnte eiyidi- date for Reform Governor, whose es pecial duty it will be to- guard the public lands of the State. We call upon O. B. Hewett, district attorney of the first judicial district of Nebraska, to investigate this mat ter forthwith, and if the said Lett is guilty of perjury, to have him forth with arrestod and held to answer for the crime. This is not an old afgiir of lo years standingand referring to a small hamlet, but; it concerns the whole State. II. C. Lett has defrauxl ed the State out of $100,000, as proved by the sworn affidavits of six good men. He had no riglit to the land. U is bold, positive stealing of the people's money. H. C. Lett, come into court. Geo. L. Miller, come into ,ourt and defend this perj.ured cor-uptionist. itow;vn.r.r, Foir Kn mrr nv ") i) Pvcific lt,vuj:o.i. v .V.WH.LK, Ti:r.. Dec. 1), 1S7I. J Oi fick nuow;vii.r.r, AX Baow Ufa Excellency !. JJ. James, Acliny Governor of Nebraska : Sik: The Brownville, Fort Kear- ev anu raeihc railroad comnanv ave constructed ten consecutive miles of their road, commencing on the Missouri river, at tho city of Brownville, in the county of Nema ha, and State of Nebraska, and ex tending westerly five hundred and seventy-eight stations, tl;e sime has been constructed as a first-clss rail road, with all necessary gr.ulings, drains, culverts, viaducts, erosshrS?. sidings, bridges, turnouts and rails completed in every lesncet, and ready for the rolling stock, as provided in the act appioved February loth, ISi9, to di-pose of the public lands granted to the State of Nebraska tor works of public improvement. You will please appoint, commissioners to examine and report upon the said road, as pro vided for in said act. Very i espectfully , H. C. Li:tt, President. GOWAEDS SHOWN UP. Lett's Defenders Proven to lie Un scrupulous Defainers. One of the volnnteer witnesses against Col. Furnas is J..W. Bliss, of Peru, and another Capt. D. Laboo. The former is-well knowjvhereabouts,. and it is more than probable that spe cial notice needs not be taken of Ills, drivelings; but abroad his testimo ny might be taken as that emenating from one who held some one beside himself as sacred or worthy of rever ence. But we herewith present a witness whose word is as good as a secured- bond, and who, under oath, punctures the evidence of both assist ants to the malignant and malicious Miller, Bead-it:- State of Nebraska, l A.J ss. ss, STATE OF XF.I'.UAHICA, Nuiaha (.'oi'.Nn. PersonaUv appeared Iefor ice. .1. II. Bro.wly, u notary public in ami for s:u J coun ty, 11. C. Lett, Known by mo to be pre-tuhMit oi flic Brownville, Fort Kearney ami Pw-illc l.-nliond, who says umk-r oatli, that the foie Kolnjjls. substantially correrl as h'j verily oe2iees. J. H. H'lO HY. VOTAItl.VT. SKAi. lOyt.lZJ l'llbllc. r.nvuN'UE 5TAia State of Neimse t ECLTIE Dejartmevt. I, "William II. James, Acting Governor .Nebraska, do hereby certify Hut ;'to forego ing is u ti ue and pci feet copy ot the original, now on rilcat this otlU'e. In win. ess wbereoi I have hereunto s,-t my hand and caused to be af'.t.-d the SUAijKre.it seid ot the State, tht-.-.H'th d.n oi September. A. I") 172. WILLI A.M II. J MKS, Acting Cio crnor. STATE OF XEHU SKA.) Qc XK3IAHA Count. J",V3- State of Nkbhaska, 1 douolascouxty. p- Itobert YV. Furnas being first duly sworn, depnseth and uith that be is the above named plaint", that he has read the "-- ging petition, and that nil the Tacts an-l allegations ftf the said plaintiff therein contained, sta ted and set forth, are inm as he per sonally Knows. x Pvobprt V. Furnas Sinned by the aid Robert YV. Fur nas in my pres-nco. and byhimsworn to, befote me thi- 2Sth dav of Septem ber, A. I). 1S72. Gi:o::an Aiuistroxg, Clerk. Seveniy-pight thousoud three hun dred and seventy-aeven dollars and twelve cento ($7877 12) was paid into the State Treasury last month, 5 per cent on sale of pubho lands due the State from the General Government. So we learn by private advices from the Capital. Answer to a letter of inquiry from Mr. William Catlrey, Brownville, Neb.; B. Gratz Brown supported and voted for Buchanan in 1S56. Mo. Democrat, Sept. 20. Let every voter in Nemaha county be sure and register. Ve, the undersigned business men of the city of Brownville, cheerfully testify that we have done business with R. YV. Furnas for years, and have alwaj-s found him prompt and honorable in his dealings with us : Geo. P. Eaton .Cashier State Bank of Neb. Stevenson &, Cross. Geo. S. Dunn. McOjreory & Nickel 1. J. V. VaiiJver. Theodote Hill &, Co, A. H. Gillmore. s William H. Hoover. Jno. L. Carson. " " A. R. Davison. William T. Den. Tisdel & Richards. H. M. Atkinson. J. Marohn. yiV-,,,sUni Rea Estate Agent. J. S. Hetzel. A. Bordeno. Ve, Ir.ac Black, V.'m. Cmnpton, X. Con rad, John V. Storm, . I. M. Uom-iroc, ami Ii. C. Demaree, residents ot Neir.an.v count v." Nebraska, being duly sworn, sa we live within three miles of the Urn of me Hiown vill". Fort Keainev and IVicilii; railroad m said county, and resided within tl ice miles of the line of the snid r.ulro-idon the'it'i ilav t December. A. D. lbVl ; that at tli.it date. December Dtb. 1S7I, the Brow.uille, Fort Kearney mid Pacific railroad eompnnv had not constructed ten cons,.,.ti;tvt milfS of ineir roan, running wevterK from Krown- Miie ,..'orasi;a; that the .same w-js not, ut that date, constructed as a Iir.st-eLi.ss iall road l ith all necesnrv -rinliiii;s.draiiis. n.- vorts. viaducts, ciossings. budges, and r.. Is completed tn every respect perlect and reidy ior the rolling stock; that on the said iHh day ot December, A. D. Ih71. there was not ovn seven miles ot said track of paid rail road ironed; that more than one-!mif ,t the bridges of the said road were tpmwrarv. made of weak timber or brush, only sutti clent to bear the iron; that on the portion of the said road ironed thsre :is orJ' about one-hall of the ties required for a railroad, and that at this date the said railnftd is not completed as a first-elnss road, mi) that an engine has never run over ten irJles of tho truck ot .said road, nor cannot puss in safety over ten miles of said road to-da". Is c Jlaci:, Wm. Oo.mptoS, revenue stamp. n". o nrad, JohIi D. Stokv, J. M. Demaiee, K- C. Demaree. Subscribed in my pe-oxee and sworn to before mo this Suih day of .September, A. D. 1S72. ' VILLIAV II HOOVER, seal. Notary Public. .-. The sudden dteapnearance from town of W. B. W ight. who had been in the grocery budness hero for some months, was a subject of general comment on our streets last week, but we refrained from mentioning the circumstance, thinking that per haps the abscinding man would re turn. He sold out his grocery about two weeks a?o, and a few das after wards took ills horse and wagon and left telling his family he was going tp Brownvlle, his former home He was seen going in the direction of Kansas, however, and there is now but littlo doubt that he has taken un ceremonious leave of both bis family and creditors. The latter are some what numerous, their aggregate Cluinis 'lniniinf irirr tn nprlinru -ii OOO County of Nemah T, Lewis-Hill, late Captain.ofCbm pany "E,"'Seaond Nebraska Cavalry, haying read' the letter ofapt. D. taboo, miblished in the Omaha Daily Herald of September 25th, 1S72, to the several statements therein made, make oath and say, as follows: Nkbhaska City, Sept. 23, 1S72: To the Editor of the Herald : I see the Omaha l'ribune and Re publican, publishes a brief sketoh of the battue of White Stone Hill, fotlgut September 3d, -1th and oth. 1863, and the heroic services rendered by Col. R. W. Furnas:, of the Second Nebras ka Cavalry. Now, I am of the opin ion that the editors of that paper were not present when this Indian fight took place, and in order to get at the facts, as they supposed, Mr. Fro3t must have certainly got the Colonel's history from the Colonel himself. And believing such is the case, I wish to- tell "what I know about YVhiie Stone Hill," and just what Co!. Furnas did, for proof of which I refer to Major Taffe, Major Pear man, Capt. Patrick, of Omaha, and all the soldiers of the Second Ne braska Cavalry, except Col. Furnas, who uas not exactly present at the lime the fight was going on. Dick McCormick, quartermaster, and J. Q. Goss, commissary, were present, and well remember where the Colonel was, and the part lie-took on that, me morable day. To the above charge, I make oath and say, that Col. Furnas was-present at the head of bis regiment all" through the fight. The Second Bat tallion received' their orders through Major Taffe, and not through Capt. Laboo or Major Pearman ;- they never had command of the Second, rat tall ion,. TIIE-FrOTfTi I then ordered Companies E", F", G and M to fire, and' they did so, and for i short time it was a pretty lively light ; ns hot as we wish to seev We routed the Indians from their strong hold about dark, a-nd camped on the ground that night, with about two hundred and fifty dead Indians lyintz around u. During this hot engage ment, Col. Furnas was not to be seen anywhere. Ami how he can have the cheek to inform an editor that he (Furnas) "participated in one of the bloodiest Indian battles on record," is more than I can see. To the above statement, I make oath and say, that Capt. Laboo did not or der Companies E, F, Gand M to fire, but Miij. Taffe made the order through Adjt. Atkinson to fire, upon the or der of Col. Furnas. Col. Furnas was present during the whole fight, at the head of his regiment. We did not camp on the battlefield during the night, but retreated. abou,t one mile and. eam-peii. FURNAS IX THH REAR. N'ow, the Colonel knows, and so doeseverv one of his regiment know. that he was not in gun shot of the In dians during the three days' fight, but was some distance in the rear, shiv ering like a man with the ague, and did threaten to put me and my com mand under arrest if I opened the fire, and that, too, right in direct vio lation of General Suly's orders di recting the fire to be opened at once. The fact is. Col. Funas was so badly frightened he didn'tkuow what to do except keep a safe distance in the rear. To. the above charge, I make oath and say, that the same is a base lie. A TIIKILLI.YG XARUATIVE. Next morning, when we found Col. wasoiarratmg tno tornnie !e ni-rlit before, and the narrow escap he made. Says the Colonel, "Setf howmv horse is woun- 01 1 ded bv n bullet from the enemv's guns." Several of us examined the bund it to be a slight flesh lick part of the thigh. been done bv a bavo- net or nlstol shot bv some one who did it for effect, or to make believe, &c. To tic above-statement, I make oath and sry, that Col. Furnas' horse did receie a flesh wound from the ene my'iguns; and I further sta,te that Capt. Laboo's company was the first ouaipany to retreat from the battle field, and retreated in bad order and without orders. I was at the head of my company during the whole of the fight. Lr.wis Hill. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of September, A. D. 1872 Wjllia.m H. Hoover, Rotary Public. ... . . 1 i- -v. and say, that winie stations ut Ne maha City, the company was furn ished with abundance of hay and corn, and with more than could be used, and that said statement is false. Again, the Captain (Col.) being in command at Omaha City, had sup plies to purchase, and, to my knowi-. edge, paid $1.75 per cord- more fof wood, knowingly, than it could' have been obtained for, but this, too, was nil right. To this statement I- say that Col. Furnas bought no wood, at Omaha. The wood was purchased by the Reg imental Quartermaster. I further state 'that on the march from Fort Piere to White Stone Hills, this J. W. Bliss wore nothing but cotton flannel drawers and when lie scented the Indians the smell made him sick, and he had to be sent back to Fort-Piere, where he remained un til our return, when we found him in the enjoyment of good health, and with his pants en. Ekwjs Hill. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th,dfiy of September, A. D. 3372. William H. Hoover, Notary Public. Having read, the above statement and affidavit of, Capt. Hill. I do state in regard to points 1st and 3rd I am not sufficiently posted to affirm, farth er than that I believe Capt. Hill's statement to be correct. In regard to the 2nd point, I. know of my own knowledge that we had plenty of hay and corn while stationed at Nemaha City, that I know of no one who had to buy any for his horse, and, furth er, it was. said that several of the men bfd- enough and some to. trade for oorn in a liquid state. J. L. Colitapp. ANOTHER LIE NAILED. JSO. S. MINICK HURLS BCIC TI1K FOUL slander! SLAXDEREUS OP COL. FURNAS. Gi;anti. Assistant Post Master at Pern- Editor Nebraska Advertiser; I notice in the Omaha Herald of the 27th the following: If Col. Ijfuroas! constituents believe that he took a bribe to "betray them," why did they, being; good Democrats, send him back for another session of the legislature. Republican. Because Furnas bought up the doc mnentary evidence sent to Minick and suppressed it. ' In reply to the above I state posit ively that the statement of the Her ald Is a wilfull and malicious lie; and in reference to this matter of bribery charged against Col. Furnas, I never had any conversation with him in re gard. to it at all ; nor did any commu nications pass between us, either di rectl' or indirectly, in reference to the matter; and liad, I believed that he had received the $3,000 referred to, or had it been substantiated by good and sufficient proof; ft mast certainly would have used stich documents as have been referred to, when I was ex tremely anxious to defeat Col. Furnas and secure the election of my. friend Col. C. E L. Holmes. I merely make this statement as a matter of justice and right, and- to, place myself cor rect upon the record. Jno. S; Minick. iiaaEss3EMw-- rsiwtsajg. JALADVERTlSHjjj.s Etravnii.. .ICC, TAS.- kn, on itrnunvillf ro 5"P' r- IlL'p Editor Nebraska Advertiser:, The Omaha Herald' of September 30th, contains a letter from J. W. Bliss, assistant post master at Peru, .so full of foul slander on Col. Furnas, the Republican cnndiimte for Governor, that I ask the favor of youx columns to say what I may in defense of an old friend and neighbor, and one '.vho has done more than ony other to develope the rich resources of our yoimg state. In the course of the psst fifteen years Ihave had money transactions w.ith Col. Furnas to thf amount of many thousands of dollars. He has universally been prompt in the pay ment of his obligations; and has never, directly or ind'rectly, offered to settle bis paper vith me at less than one hundred cetts on the dollar. Now, I hold a notes'gned by this "all riglit" Bliss, made o long ago that it would surprise me f he would pa- it at one cent on tie dollar, at which price it is now foj sale to him or any of the "all right' slanderers of Col. Furnas. The charge If.'' boon made- by "nil right" Bliss ard his sore-head confed erates, that C'd. Frrms has with held premiums aVarded by the StateBoard of Agriculture, for lus own personal benefit. Iuelievethis to be another vile slander on one of our most enter prising citzens : and wish tostate that Col. Furras and F. A. Tisdel did bor row money of me, on their own per sonal credit, to pay premiums awarded at the State Fair, aftcr-t-he society's money was wholly exhausted. Respectfully, Jno. L. Carson. COMPROMISING AVITI1 CREDIT ORS. Slimy enemies of Col. Furnas are reporting that he is dishonest. His friends can challenge proof that he ever paid his creditors less than one hundred cents on the dollar. Can Hesyy C. Lets say. as much ? Let Theodore Hill, one of our oldest mer chants and most reliable citi:eiis, an swer: STATE OF NEBRASKA, ,-. County of Nemaha. J I, Theodore Hill, being sworn, say, that within ten years Henry C. Lett, to my knowledge, compromised with hiji creditors, and paid his debts at twenty-five cents on the dollar. Theodore Hill. Subscribed in my presence and aworn to before me this 30th day of September, A. D. 1S72. William H. Hoover, Notary Public. t j iext morn in Furnas, he was w fight we had VJ j;iiii). k3uvei;ii horse, and bund wound in the thi and mijihhave ANOTHER, CAJaUMNY.. Nosooner is ono lie leveled at Col. Furnas, exposed, than another is coined and sent afloat. For days past it has been rumored that Col. Furnas v.is dishonest, as evidenced by the fact (?) that ho swindled ono Riley Kelley out of $700. On last Saturday we interviewed Mr. Kelley, and ob tained from him the follo.wing cetlfi cate : CONCEALING PROPEUTY. Some of Col. Furnas' enemies are ch-culaji.ng a repsrt that an evidence of the Colonel's dishonesty is reveal ed in the fact, that though the owner of a considerable amount of property, none of it is in his own name in oth er words, that to avoid judgments, he has all of hi property recorded in the name of his wife. The following cer tificate puncturea andje-s. tlie wind out of that lie: State or Nerrasica, 1 L County or Nemaha. J We, William II. Hoover, Clerk of the District Court, and James M Hacker, County Clerk of said county, certify that Robert W. Furnas has, for several years, owned real estate in his name, and now owns real estate in bis uamo. freo from jniltrmiMitit or other liens, and from which claims against him, if any, could be collect .i ....-.,... . i... i. ...1. s en, us ujijjems. uy niv recuiua i saiu county. Witness our hands and ofii l. s.J end s,cals, this 1st day of L. S. October, A- I. 1ST. William H. Hoover, Ct'k. District Court. James M. Hacker, County Clerk. years old. h.vi, birth LSt - in eaoli, white In 7h,.J 1 f l'r r ' spot of ,W.ueL o nim-n':,0' l " the same by gr Charges and dauiairc. rtJ ' " ' o0t5 b " -. Administrator-, Sal In thft mf D to mecrantc,! bv th7f ' and for the countv c.t n. ... !' - - Nebraska. I W1ll sn as ,"V-,: v viIIetintlco.,;uy., nvS1" at oneoVl.M-fc ... ,....:.:' f'1 - ,iPsf.r,i.i ,.:.. :;v." '' ty.ot winch ihPN..,:i'r", ' to-wit: Soi,tl, ea,t ,& the balance In two eam T secured by mortifw-e ,m 2?" ' interest at 10 per cent " J. oepi. ll, IbT-J. rj Kal Aotl A. C!- . Thomas. L. Wtswti T!I r i Bank of Nebraska 2 ' Disti let Court oVJ a I where.,, thotat-n' W"! ' ' ii ii. ami they are defemKr.', . prayer of which Jm ' hundred and twe,.ty-thnr.i"" ents::s:50L ,,,. ,. '2!??.,, Mechanic'., lien on orth'eL-, tion tuenty-three i J,. ' terest at ten ,.r cvt. ' Notice is fc-'KrgU, th ,. , issttwi in sa . ,.j, "j ' " there 1ms t,WJ, att.,,.r ;t -"O of the north west ,,nrL" 4 nnrnber-ct-,). in ton,, hV Ml), and north east Q.tartrr,i ive05. toun flveS. oiithwestnt,Sr:,.r,rf ' townfle-. rans: fonrV... eonn-y: a,Sl! .--.K ,...lrn. V. V ' debts In th.-ha.idsot.sheiUV property is So.,.,t , he " , tionofjwdKnnmtnn;,,,' Defendants are rv ,.,ri,. i , " erwlsc Mead s d U -, Z " Alt 19-it Estx-ayTfC!n.. Precinct, one a,! nhi? , follows, to-wit : ' One red stevr. oc -ir o4d n .pilt In left rH- and w.toJ! " One two yexi .?d nuer x ' ear, bell on split in le:t fir ' One whti cow Mrifh rpti e.,r swallow fork in rfeht mt ;n ', 7orSyersu'iI. " "' One runn steer, two yenrs m ear. One mu ley cow, reil ami wh - brands or marks-. One black h-Jfer.one yvr oi . ear, half crop olfrhtlifc Onereil heifer, wliilcUr in f -years old. One two year old steer, mar neck, swallow fork I.i Ten far in rijthJ. hurnied w!t ifctlet: nip. 0'iered and hltespoltcd u, old. One black cow with white r .. , about thrr vr rs old. with I . . One red-cow with I.i e i k seven years uH. w; ,t under I call m ith soint w u.'.k ia fi-e.. One roan st-er. one yenrn I u rlht ear. branded with s.tra L' ttl.-.w t i iA. IXrtu Stfeof . JL... Has LGWMAi; i rwn"w m jnm Removed His nimons y OP? i OLOTHIS -n .in Ji STATE OF NEBRASKA,! ccs County of Nkmaha. "" I. Lewis Hill, late Captain of Com pany 'E," Second Nebraska Cavalry, having read the letter of J. W. Bliss, published in the Qmaha daily Her ald of Sept 29th, 1&72, to the several statements therein made, make oath and sii3', as follows: Again, while stationed at Omaha, our rations were commuted. McCor mick & Co. gave to the company, for suuu uuiuiijuinuou, a uue uiu ior six ty-seven dollars, which was placed in the hands of Captain (acting Colonel) Furnas, to be collected when pay day come round, for the use of the "com pany, but the unfortunate due bill in the hands of the Colonel was, like our rations, "all right," I suppose. It has neer been accounted for bv him to this day. To the above statement I make oath and say, Col. Furnas did not receive the sixty seven dollars named above, but the same was received by me and paid to James Berry & Co., for blank ets for Nemaha City Hospital. Dr. C. F. Stewart yvas Surgepn of the company, and made order for the blankets. While srnMnnprl nf "Nmofio Ctv He leltuu ramiiy totally unprovided . ;ln unscrupulous fellow was ordered for and MPs. right has been com- l " the work of my position, who pencil IU ECU UU Utac tnriilfnra tn ft. t. ' "iw" llliUL. anl tha nnncontii.nA means enough to take Uer and her 1 was tnat more than three-fourths of luurcuuurem to ttpriugtield, liliQnia, Whereas, certain parties are circu lating reports for political effect and party purposes, against Col. Robert W. Furnas, I make this statement relative to my huinicss matters with him : Col. Furnas was owing me seven hundred dollars, which he paid when due, thereupon I immediately loaned him five hundred dollars of the same money, which lias all been paid except about thirty dollars and the interest thereon. When I want ed the last loan, he was unable to pay me same, and caused me inconven ience and loss, butfinall3" paid me the whole amount of said sum loaned, ex cept the thirty dollars and interest aforesaid. his J. R. V, KelIjEY. mark. Witness:- W. H. noovEit, Wm. Caffrey. Brownville, Neb., Sept. 2S. 1S72. Mr. Kellej' also informed us that at the time of this transaction Mr. Fur nas was notoriously poor, and almost wholly destitute of credit that he never said and never thought that Col. Furnas attempte 1 to swindle him out of a single dollar of the money caned him. And right here we might add that Col. Furnas is not yet wholly relieved from his impecunious condition, though his untiring perseverence and industry has placed him above want and secured to him a Nursery, stock, etc., from which he will be enabled to realize a pretty handsome income in tho future. -A.VOTHER COUXTERPE1T. Slanderers and defamers of Col. Furnas have been busy the past two weeks in circulating the report that the Colonel was in the habit of filling orders for grafted fruit trees with seedlings and giving. T. N. Sanders, one of the Colonel'a employee's, as tbeir authorit'. Mr. Sanders thus disposes, under oath, of that lie: STATE OF NEBRASKA, 1GQ Hearing charges against Col. Furn as' honestj- in selling trees, etc., us ing my name as authority, I affirm that I have worked for and had horti cultural dealings with him for several years, ami have found him honorable in his dealings. Do not know of hi selling seedlings for grafted fruit. Ho authorised me, last spring, to burn everal hundred seedling trees, many of them nice looking trees. I heard him repeatedly tell his hands last spring, when cultivating root grafts, to pull up every seedling, as he was determined not to have a seedling in the nursery. T. N. Sanders. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of October, A. D. 1S72. William H. Hoover, Notary Public. Genls' Furnishing Gc &c, tC EOBC DEUSER'S OLD &? io r-jtcrarj- IVXsilsi tz-fi't JACOB MAROHN msrgs:aht taiic: P3 n $ M 5 s z - r 3 o 3 P X P S . S O- a a - S z - . 5 o ? O w o o w h I V BBOWNVil Where shti has n motlie!nl annt. lie j ing. Beatrice Express. our company bought th9 hay used by To the above statement I make oath e, the undersigned, having read the charges preferred by the Omaha Herald and sworn to by one T. H. Robertson, alleging that Robert W. rurnas "Voted to sustain the veto of the Governor" on the question of the removal of the capital, in the Terri torial Council in '57, and having ex amined the "Journal of Proceedings" oi sam session, certify that such alle gations and affidavit are not ratified by the facts and record as set forth in the "Journal," and, further, that the veto Message was never considered in said Council. Theo. mil, H. Li. Matthews, Wm. Catfrev. John L. Co'lhapp, Jno. L. Carson. REPUBLICAN MEETINGS . Some of the following named gen tlemen will be present and address meetings at the following times and places : Maj. Caffrey, . L. Mathews, J. L. Carson, Qeo. R. Shook, T. D. Schick, Geo. P. Eaton, J. S. Stull, K. E. i!.lright, m. H. Hoover, James M. Hacker, Chap. Blodgett, F. A. Tisdel, L. Walters, G113. Bergman, A. J. Hit ter, J. S. Minick, S. W. Kennedy, m a si a cr - e-9 mm&. ttuul .i 3 WtSi-ilsyB ' Wm. H. Hoover, J. Stevenson, Geo. P. Eaton, A. W. Nickell, A. R. Davidson, R. V. Hughes, Need we repeat it' register. Do not fail to A. . 2SickelI, Dr. Wm. Arnold and others. Glen. Rock Thursday, October 3rd, I 7:30 p. m. Afjiinwall Precinct Thna TTJJntt' School Hju&e, Friday, October 4th, 7:30 i m. Nemaha CifySatu rday, October 5th, 7:30 p. m. London Saturday, October oth, 7:30 P. M. Peru Monday, October 7th, 2 p. M. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.. IweeTTheoTJiut treesT -- --: ? V mm TfAVIX'; a first c'a-s " . - i control, turoutfb ; :r : - parpd i r".5t-r "tir- "..u nalu a of irtiiriil at l i as n. . .irarch ah. -STTarlllf FerrjMTri raa s se s b m: n-- URNAS NUR5 Broxvnvinc, 3Tebra&r THE largest stock in tttc Tforltl, at greatlv reducel rates. Circular, frf-e. Aisi. a full line of superior Nursery Stock. .Nine teenth year; 200 acres; 11 green houses. Ad dress STORRS. HARRISON &. CO.. Palucsvillc, Lake Co., O. 49-50-51-i-S-13-19-:M-2S SUBSCP.IBE for tha "WeeklyAdveraser.' tst paper in the State. OJd" AOO.OOO Apple Tree. IOO OOO Z'ear Trees. IO,00 CIiori'3 Tree oO.OOO PeaclJ Trees. in ai V.-(vxr Wit, CW r ir v m - -" 500.000 liuncy Locut . fJantj. . , 500,000 Osage 52cdJre J . k tnn finale eJ,,:' All of our ov.-n trade of TST2. 40- tf rRisiS To - ! FUKXA51 sP TL.NKR f .U!!n.ls. Pus''1' it F 81 "al ti UU 61 I i ,'t 1 j .f. v.Jax&- K.