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VOLUME 2.
SPIRIT
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s. SWANI & CO.
TO THE PUBLIO.
The press of this State, where the legality of
• our laws are better understood than in New York,
have spoken out so boldly and manfully against
he prosecutions gotten up to annoy us, that it re
quires of us to say but little. %, Hy the confedera
tion of rival lotteries and political schemers, pre
sentments were found against us by the Grand
. Jury of this county. We were ready and desirous
to test the question, and (having employed coun
sel,) one of our firm came on from New York to
Georgia for that purpose. The adjournment of the
• Court, without our act, laid over the cases to the
next term, when wc feel satisfied we will be ena
bled to maintain the rights which we have bought
. and paid for. The Sparta Academy Lottery is
legal, and all the powers of the law our enemies
may try to use for selfish purposes, cannot take
away these rights.
Our business goes on uninterrupted, and we are
Informed by counsel that there is not a line in the
Statute Book of Georgia authorising any interrup
tion with our drawings. The lease has years to
. un, and we assure the public that we have the
best counsel, who advise us that we can maintain
our rights against every rivalry in our business.
Samuel Swan & Co.,
Managers of the Sparta Academy Lottery,
Augusta, Ga.
Xetter from the Hon. Alcxanmlcr 11.
Stephens and O. A. Lochrane, in rela
tion to Swan Sc Co’s. Lotteries.
Messrs. Swan & Co., Augusta, Ga.
Our attention being called to the opinion ex
pressed, published, and by the press commented
on, “ that the charter of the Sparta Academy Lot
tery” under which you draw, “ has expired by its
own limitation,” deem it but justice to you to state,
that while we defer the adjudicature of the ques
tion to the proper tribunal, in our opinion it has
not.
The act of 1826 granted to the Trustees of the
Sparta Academy, and to their successors in ojjice , the
- right and privilege of raising by Lottery a sum of
1 money without regard to time.
•i This right has not been taken from them by any
act, legislative or judicial, and the question of its
• expiration is one not determined , but to be deter
mined. Alexander If. Stephens,
Counsellor at Law, Crawford Ga.
Osborn A. Lochrane,
Counsellor at Law, Macon, Ga.
Washington, D. C., June Sth, 1858.
From the Griffin (Ga.) Empire State.
Lotteries.
The papers in Georgia, New York, and else
where, of late, have teemed with publications con
cerning a wonderful discovery made by the Mayor
of the city of New York, that the lottery business
carried on so extensively by Samuel Swan k Co.
Is illegal. Swan A Co., it seems, have become
the proprietors of what is called the Sparta Acade
my Lottery, and have established agencies in
several States, (among the rest New York), for
the sale of tickets. Benjamin Wood, brother of
Fernando Wood, it appears, is the New York
partner of Samuel Swan & Co., and Mayor Tic
rnaun is said to be a political enemy of the* Woods.
Under pretence of suppressing an unlawful busi
ness, he dispatches a Minister Plenipotentiary all
the way to Georgia, to enlighten the Governor of
the State upon its criminal jurisprudence, and to
instruct him in his duty in reference to seeing the
laws of the State duly executed. The Governor,
suspecting nothing wrong, enters into negotia
tions with Tiemann’s minister, confesses that
Swan’s business is unlawful, and promises his aid
and co-operation to Tiemann to put it down. Now,
we look upon this act of the Mayor of New York
as the height of arrogant presumption—an insult
to the honor and dignity or o«r State, and ought
to have been met with scorn and indignation by
the Executive of Georgia, lias it come to this, that
our public functionaries are so ignorant or negli
■ gent of their duties, that a missionary has to be sent
from New York to instruct them therein ? God for
bid. Weregret that our worthy Governor has suffer
ed himself to be made, unsuspectingly, the instru
. ment of carrying out the base designs and revenge
ful purposes of the Mayor of New York. We care
nothing for S. Swan & Co., or their business. If he
is acting in violation of the laws of Georgia his
business ought to be suppressed, but it is humilia
ting to the people of Georgia to know that this can
only be done through the promptings of such a
man as Tiemann. It. occurs to us that he has
enough to do to attend to his own business. Pre
siding over that type of ancient Sodom and Gomor
rha, where every hour of the day winessess the vi
olation of some law, we think it would be more
becoming in him to occupy his time in the sup
pression of crime, and the improvement of public
morals, in his own jurisdiction. When he exter
minates the assignation houses, free-love societies,
the dens of prostitution, the mock auctions, and
thousands of other secret institutions of iniquity,
with which the city of New York abounds, then
lie might turn his attention to other States. We
arc no apologist for Swan or his lotteries; we have
received no favors from either, and expect none,
but we venture that his business is at least as
harmless as many kinds that are legalised in the
city of New York. We have felt it due to the dig
nity of our State to say thus much in reference to
the officious intermeddling of a corrupt public
functionary of another State with our own a flairs.
It is to be hoped that the act will not soon be re
peated.
From the Philadelphia Argus.
Mayor Tiemann’s Reform Antics—A
Very Savage Y r iew of Mayor Tiemann’s
Actions.
Who says the Connecticut Blue Laws are obso
lete? If thev are not on the statute books, that
their spirits liv * in hearts of certain would-be-re
formers, thtre can be no doubt; and every now
and then it breaks out in some .'extraordinary eb
ulition of fanaticism. Mayor Tiemann, of New
York, who was elected by one of those political
■ combinations of the “odds and ends” of faction,
aided by treachery on the part of certain pretend
ed Democrats, and who belongs to that impracti
cable, stiff-necked, Blue-Law school, who are only
harmless when power is kept away from them, but
who are the most useless and dangerous reposito
ries of authority, has been distinguishing his ad
ministration by some strange antics in what he
terms the cause of reform. "Totally incapable of
performing the ordinary and necessary duties of
his office, unable to bring himself down to the
commonplace wants of the community over which
he presides, he gets the Councils to give him a
deputy in the shape of a shrewd, active, Police
Magistrate, to whom he tarns overall such vulgar
business as dealing with rogues, murderers, house
breakers, «sec., while his Mayorship, no doubt with
the most pious political view's, undertakes himself
a crusade against all those vices which are the pe
culiar hobbies of the “ Aminudab Sleeks,” of this
age.
First he assailed the Gift Book enterprises ; but
the proprietors of these met him boldly, appealed
to the law, and he was foiled. Then he attempted
to chase that Proteus fraud, through the myths
and mysteries of medical quackery, and invaded
the sanctity of the post office, which may lead him
yet into serious trouble, for, however our laws
mav favor the exposition and punishment of act iul
fraud, there are certain safeguards to personal l.b
erty, certain immunities in regard to private rights
that may not be invaded without such a violation
of the spirit and genius of our institutions as will
never be tolerated. Apropos to this part of his
Honor’s labors, we suggest that political qimekerv
OF THE
the nostrum-venders in creation. Had not his
Mayorship better turn his attention that way, and
intercept and expose the correspondence of all the
tricksters and scamps who plot and intrigue to
deceive the public ? The work would be as legiti.
, mate as that in which he has recently engaged,
and the public benefit incalculably greater.
The last grand move of Mayor Tiemann, how
ever, caps the climax; and if, unfortunately for
him, the cloven foot of jealousy, hatred and
F selfish partisan motives had not been so plainly
, disclosed in the matter, the palm for Quixotism in
L reform might have been awarded him. This washis
. diplomatic mission to the State of Georgia, to
. awaken the good, easy, quietly governed people of
. that great and prosperous State to the fact that they
| were suffering unendurable evils from the diabolt
> cal practices of certain lottery contractors, who
. were openly, and, as it was supposed by evory
> body, legally drawing lotteries, and paying the
. .State a bonus for the privilege. This noble and j
. philanthropic act might have given Mayor Tie
. mann claim to equal glory with those humane mdi
: viduals who preach freedom to the southern
i negroes, established underground railroads, and
\ consider slave stealing holy pastime, while they
• turn up their noses at the free black man, and
spurn his presence even from their public con
. veyances; but, unfortunately for him, as we have
. said, the cloven foot stuck out. There were two
. gentlemen in New York, brothers, one of whom
, was Mr. Tiemann’s opponent for the office of
> Mayor, who had administered the City Govern
i ment with great success and efficiency,, and left
behind hitn an honorable official reputation, which
Mayor Teimann mav vainly aspire to attain ; the
other was a successful capitalist, who was not so
puritanical as to despise a good investment for his
money, oven though iu a lottery scheme.
Now,there are several States in the Union where ;
• the people are as honest, moral and highly respect
» able as even New York or New England pietists,
which grant lottery franchises; and Mr. Ben. Wood
thought proper to invest . few spare thousands in
one of these enterprises. The sale of lottery tick
ets is forbidden bv law in New York as well as in
• our State ; yet, though this fact lias nothing to do
- with Ben. Wood’s Georgia speculation, and though
s the attempt to stop the illegal sale of tickets ouy
have been perfectly proper, the sagacious May or,
’ thinking he c-uild strike a fatal blow at Fernando
• Wood, who stands ’twixi him and the coveted i on
s' tinuance of his power, through his brother, and
jby working upon the supposed prejudice of New
Yorkers against lotteries, has taken the very • x
traordinary course alluded to of sending an em j
issary to Georgia to inform the people that then
f laws were violated, and aid the .>tate authorities in
carrying out moral reform.
The curt- and manly card of Mr. Ben. Wood, the
frank acknowledgement of his interest in the Spar
4 ta Academy Lottery, and the defiauce he throws
- back, the appeal he makes to the law, and in
which, from our telegraphic news, he will proba
bly be sustained, dashes to the ground this line
device of Mayor Tiemann, who, bullied in this im
pertinent, extra-official interference, may probably
turn his attention to something a little* more use
ful and practical in the suppression of vice and
crime at home, which crowds the very threshbold
of his office.
One word more : had Mayor Tiemann been sin
cere in his attempts to suppress lotteries, why did
■ he not also include the Maryland and Dela
■ ware lotteries in his plan ? We know that the
' tickets of ttiese have been sold to a large extent
1 for many years in New Y'ork, and are sold, we are
■ informed, now. Would it not, have been more
J honest to have included all, instead of singling
• out one? Or rather, does not, his course prove
i exactly what we have enlarged, that he is actuated
‘ by political jealousy, and not by the honest spirit
of reform ? We think it does.
We have alluded to these matters, not from any
■ sympathy with the practices opposed, but as a
■ warning against combination candidates, and im- '
practicable blue-law reformers. May we have no
I nearer acquaintance of them than New York.
From the New York Pay Rook.
Mayor Tiemann and the Georgia Lot
teries.
The recent onslaught of Mayor Tiemann upon
the lotteries of Swan k Co., of Augusta, Ga., does
not seem, thus far, to have been productive of any
great result. At first sight it would seem strange
that Mayor Tiemann should take the trouble to go
dowu to Georgia to inquire whether the laws ot
■ that State were enforced or not. Why, it may be
asked, did Mayor Tiemann feel such a remarkable
• interest in the affairs of our southern friends? The
explanation we have heard for this remarkable
- stretch of authority on the part of the Mayor, is
the fact that one of the members of the firm of
■ Swan & Co. is Mr. Benjamin Wood, of this city, a
brother of ex-Mayor Wood, his political antago
■ nist. All sorts of rumors are rife that this on
; slaught upon Swan k Co. is only a concealed in
■ tention to influence the election for Congressmen
> which comes off this fall. And at this very mo
■ ment Mayor Tiemann is passing over abuses in
i our own city to the affairs of the State of Georgia,
t There are within sight of the City Hall at least
i half a dozen mock auction shops, known well
■ enough to be open and undisguised swindling
■ holes, where innocent and unsuspecting people ■
• coming to the city are fleeced of their money.
• There are also bogus offices for selling tickets to
■ California, where strangers are every week in the
5 year literally robbed ; and yet these, and many
■ other disgraces to our city, are left untouched and
. the tax payers put to expense to find out whether
I the citizens of Georgia enforce their own laws!
. Now, we have nothing to say in favor of lot
i teries. Some States have authorised them and some
! have not. The legislature of Louisiana, we be
: lieve, at its last session, came very near repealing
the prohibition there against lotteries. The ques
-1 tion now raised, and the one upon which Swan k
Co. have been indicted, is whether they have the
legal right to carry on a lottery in Georgia. It is
not denied that they had a franchise to that effect, 1
but whether it is good now, is the question, and 1
one which will soon be decided by a Georgia jury. 1
In the meantime, we understand there is no inter- 1
ruption to the business; indeed, it is verv generally 1
conceded that Mayor Tiemann has advertised these I
lotteries to an extent they never could have had if 1
he had not disturbed them. There is also another j
fact which th<* present investigation has brought 1
forth, and that is, that these lotteries have been 1
fairly and honestly managed. The public gener
ally have little confidence in the fairness of ihese 1
institutions, but Mayor Tiemann has not only 1
brought no charges against the integrity of Swan 1
& Co., but in fact he has thus directly established 1
their business character. In this view of the case, 1
His Honor has fairly overshot his mark, for we I
take it that all who buy lottery tickets only wish ‘
to be assured that perfect fairness in the drawing 1
and distribution will be observed. Swan k Co. 1
may thank Mayor Tiemann for demonstrating this,
as the only charge, it seems, he could make against 1
them was that they are not entitled, according to
the laws of Geos )ia, to draw a lottery in that State.
If, therefore, Mayor Tiemann has instituted these
proceedings in a spirit of revenge against Mr. Ben
jamin Wood, who is well known in this city to be
in all his business relations a man of into i itv, he
will have made a very poor speculation. He* will
probably find, in the end, that he had better attend
to the mock auction shops, the ticket swindlers,
the burglars, and the cut-throats who infest our :
city, and who, with the nuisance of our present
lazy, inefficient Black Republican police, are ren- .
dering New Y'ork a bye-word and a reproach.
There is nothing like every bird attending to its
own nest.
From the Danville (fa.) Neus.
Refused.
We have received a communication from our
New York correspondent, in which the company
of 8. Svruti k Co., Augusta, Ga., is violently attack
ed as a “ swindling concern,” and all persons who
buy lottery tickets pronounced as “ fools.” We
decline publishing the article for two reasons:
First, we consider it an unjust and unreasonable
attack upon men whom a southern Slate places
the most implicit confidence in—the State of Geor
gia does not sanction “swindling concerns,” as the
laws of New York are known to do. In the second
n!sm*\ wp havA ground* for belief that the writer
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE.IB 1858
PRESS |
We will not be understood as espousing the
cause of Swan k Co., or defending any species of
gambling. If a lottery concern is an evil, it is one
of those common sins of the land, which will be
practiced so long as men are made of flesh and
blood, unless the Christian religion puts a stop to
it—that divine power only can successfully put
down such principles and habits as curse the hu
man race; while the laws of the land, when exert
ed contrary to the passions of men, serve to engen
der the very thing which they are intended to
destroy.
Why are Swan k Co. pronounced as swindlers?
What proof is there against them? Who have
they defrauded ? These questions cannot be an
swered, for it is known throughout the Union that
their lottery concern is sanctioned by the laws of
the State in which it exists. Because each man
that buys a lottery ticket does not draw a prize,
shall he be considered a swindled man ? Such an
idea is too absurd to be entertained by the most
forlorn idiot. Any one who will examine the
scheme of Swan k Co.’s lottery, which is publish
ed in most of the newspapers m the country, will
at once see the perfect fairness of the whole con
cern. They have in their office about three hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars, the whole of
which is subject to be drawn every Saturday in the
year. The three hundred and twenty thousand
dollars is divided into five thousand four hundred
and eighty-five prizes ; there are forty-four thou
sand four hundred and fifteen blanks—being nine
to every prize, which composes the risk. In many
lottery establishments there are at least twenty
blanks to each prize, and then the drawer is often
refused payment. Such is the simple modus oper
mdi of Swan k Co.'s lottery, the most reliable
risk institution ever established in this country.
Men in all ages aud countries have sought for
tune. Some risk their health, their honor, and
their lives for it, by traversing land and sea. Oth
ers prefer to risk their money for it; and such are
the lottery dealers. Many have by the lattermeans
amassed large fortunes, settled* in life, and re
mained contented and happy.
YVe might go on and expose the political in
trigues of New Y'ork, which has given rise to the
abuse and opposition that have been used against
Messrs. Swan k Co.,—which induced the Mayor of
New York to criminate innocent men in Georgia,
while in his own city the most daring mock courts
and swindling establishments are tolerated, and
murder, burglary, theft and rapine are winked at.
But perhaps we have said enough at this time.
From the Macon (Ga.) Citizen.
Mayor Tiemann, the Tool ! vs. Swan
& Co.
It will be seen that Mayor Tiemann’s uudaioii>
intermeddling with the affairs ofS. Swan k Co., of
Augusta, Ims noteven the merit ascribed to it by
some of his admirers, to-wit, that of a desire to re
torm existing evils and abuses in his own jurisdic
tion, as well as in the country at large. He, it ap
pears, from reliable authority, has been instigated to
this foray upon Georgia soil, by the two-fola reason
of political hatred to B. Wood, brother to his late
rival, Fernando Wood, and a friendship fora north
ern rival lottery concern, which furnishes the sin
ews of war to break down the enterprise of Swan
A Co. To get at the latter, a huge stride was
made by this New York official, over divers other
lottery concerns in Maryland, Delaware, Ac., which
st.fcws that it is not so much the ml* of the lottery
business that have excited the pious wrath of the
little King of Gotham, us a desire to topple down
certain parties in order that certain other parties
may rise upon their ruins.
Be this as it may, Mayor Tiemann had no more
ngh to send his police to look after the alleged
offenders against Georgia laws, than the British
war steamer Styx had the right to board and
search American vessels in the Gulf, or the Empe
ror of Russia has to regulate the slave trade iu
the waters of the Chesapeake. Had Tiemann
been the Governor of the great State of New
York, or even the President of the United States
of America, he would not have been justified in
iu.ordering, as he has, with the municipal and
police regulations of a sovereign State.
Kut the worst feature of the affair is the en
tanglement of our own Executive in the schemes
of Bus New Y'ork dignitary. One would have
thought that a moment’s reflection would have
convinced his Excellency that lie was only stulti
fying himself by admiting, for a moment, that
Swan k Co. were pursuing an illegal business.
These gentlemen have, for years, been engaged in
lotteries, openly and above board, atMantgomery,
Ala., Atlanta and Augusta, Ga. They have adver
tised extensively in nearly all the newspapers of i
the State. They have had agencies for the sale of <
tickets in every town and village, and at every 1
cross-road store in the commonwealth. Y'et we 1
have never, before Mayor Tiemann’s sudden de I
scent upon our heard of any imputation
upon the legality of their business of the honora- ’
ble and gentlemanly character of all their trans- ’
actions. They have been distinguished for their
promptness in paying the prizes drawn in then
lotteries—have been assisted by upright and
honest commissioners, and have faithfully met all
their engagements to the original proprietors of
lottery charters which they have operated.
Under these circumstances, every feeling of
justice and every emotion of State pride should
have restrained Governor Brown from sanctioning «
any interference with the laws ul business of any |
of the citizens of Georgia. We say lawful business, 1
because the Charter of the Sparta Academy Lot
tery was granted as far back as 1826, and of course, I
no subsequent enactments could render its pro
visions null and void or impair the vested rights 1
conveyed by said charter. But we say further, that i
were all this lottery business illegal, our State
authorities, from the Governor’s predecessor down '
to the Solicitors of the Circuits, have been \
culpably remiss iu not ferreting out and bringing
to punishment these offenders against the State I
laws. They have proven themselves either <
ignorant of their duties or indisposed to perform ’
them, until instructed by a municipal policeman i
of a remote city. To this complexion it must <
come at last, and it is tantamount to a confession
of the utter unfitness on the part of the authorities
of Georgia for the high stations which they occu
py. How degrading is the position thus self
impesed and unwittingly acknowledged ! ‘‘Tell it
not iu Gath, publish it not in the streets of Asko <
lon, lest the Philistines rejoice and the daughters 1
of the uncircumcised triumph.” I
But we have no fear of the result. YYe perceive i
that Mr. Wood has arrived, voluntarily, in Augus- i
ta, and announced his readiness to give any bond <
required for his appearance at court, to answer the ’
indictment against him. Os him we know noth- i
iug, but from a business acquaintance of several t
years with Mr. Swan, we are satisfied that he is an 1
honorable man, who would scorn to conduct an it- 1
legal business of any sort. He is as much enti- \
tied to the protection of the laws, in the pursuit 1
which engages his attention, as the vender of ar- £
dent spirits, who has a license in his pocket, nor do 1
we believe that the public sense is more adverse /
to lotteries than to liquor selling and manufactur- I
ing. So long as the legislature sanctions such t
things, so long will the business be legitimate, I
whatever may be our views respecting the moral t
tendency of these occupations. The General As- r
setnblv, two years ago, we believe, despite the op- t
position of the learned Judge from Green, char- 1
tered a new lottery, aud the license to sell liquor f
also continues unabridged. So we must not take t
the strictures of certain newspapers, on this sub- t
ject, as gospel, for, perhaps, it may be.discovered t
that their opposition to lotteries arises more from t
a failure to drive profitable bargains with Swan k i
Co., (in the way of business) than from any high
conscientious sense of the evils of the system.
Very sudden conversions from the one side to the
other, are, at least, suspicious circnmstan res af
fecting the sincerity ot these swift witnesses against I
those engaged in this calling, which, after all that t
has been said, has very little more of the elements t
of a game of chance in it than prevails in every cot- 1
ton mart of the South, m thegurchase and sale of (
the staple. Those who venture in either, do so l
with their eyes open, and should be willing to 1
take all the responsibility and risk appertaining to '
the traffic. ’ i
\
From the Williamsburg ( fa.) Gazette t
Mr. Tiemann of New York and the i
IN REGARD
professes, or not, we leave to ethers to decide. It
is evident that he has abandoned one plank of the
Democratic platform—* non-intervention. This
principle he utterly ignores. Has he not gonei be
yond his duty in his crusade against Lotteries?
The public sentiment of the whole country an
swers “ aye!” The public sentiment of the South
gives an indignant response. If Mayor Tiemann’s
moral sense induces him to interfere in southern
affairs for the suppression of Lotteries, who can
say that that same moral conviction may not in
duce him to interfere for the suppression of slave
ry? Who can tell what connection the Hon.
Mayor has with the underground railroad ? He may
be its superintendent of transportation. If he
should be, he can scarcely employ more infamous
agents to act tor him in the one'case than he has
in the other. And he has just as much to do with
southern slavery as he has with southern lotteries.
It’s all very well for the Mayor to undertake to
teach us morality and business ethics, but we sub
mit that he should exercise himself in the capaeitv
of teacher in his own bailiwick.
It strikes us that he may find subjects enough
whereon to expend his pious sympathy in ihe great
city over which he presides. *ln the' purlieus of
“ the Points” there still is to be found the habita
tion of vice, misery and wretchedness. There and
elsewhere in Gotham, naked knavery stalks abroad
unrebuked. Let him go into Wall street, and cap
size the unholy tables of the money changers.
Let him pour out his holy wrath and pious indig
nation upon the stock board—a set of more ras
cally and unscrupulous gamblers than any that
ever infested a Mississippi packet. We might
then believe him influenced by honest motives.
As it is, we can only ascribe his action to petty
political pique—the meanest sort of envv.
The secret of it all is, that Benjamin Wood, the
brother of his late opponent for the Mayoralty, is
concerned in these lotteries. This is not the only
attempt he has made to injure the Woods.
Due thing is certain, Mayor Tiemanu is not ad
ding anything to his popularity in the South or
elsewhere by his course in this regard. We do
not suppose he will succeed in making much po
litical capital in New Fork thereby. The press of
almost the entire country condemn his high-handed
interference in this matter. Even the New York
city press denounce it. Let the Mayor abandon
this field and turn his attention to Wall Street, the
Newsboys and Sunday papers, and his corps of “ef
ficient ” police. Where’s Stanley ?
Correct the morals of your own household, Mr.
Mayor, before you attempt to coerce your neigh
bors into your views.
These remarks have been suggested by the arti
cle on our first page from the New York Atla*,
where the reader will see the whole matter ex
plained. For ourselves, we hate hypocritical cant
and aumbug, under whatever garb it appears, nor
will we, nor the people of Georgia, submit tamely
to the officious interference of a New York paint
mixer, be he Mayor or boot-black—the representa
tive of the people, or the tool and mouth-piece of
a miserable faction made up of the odds and ends
of New York place-mongers.
From the Ringgold ( Oa .) Express.
Out ol Employment.
Mayor Tiemann, of New York, appears to be en
tirely out of business, or was a short time ago.
Having put everything to rights in the great city
over which he exercises his legitimate authority,
he looked complacently around him, and saw that
all was “ very good.” He saw that in all that vast
metropolis there were none who were disposed to
violate the laws of their country, or to stand in de
fiance of the municipal authorises of the city of
their residence —none to question the omnipotence
of his power—none to attempt to evade his dili
gence. There were in all his domains, no sinks of
sin, no swindling shops, no unlawful institutions,
that had not felt the might of his power, and melt
ed at his touch “ like wax before the flame.” All
was peace, all was quiet, all was contentment. All
men were honest, prosperous, happy.
No wonder, then, that with all these good re
sults hanging like laurels upon his brow, his ben
evolent spirit should bum with a desire that these
“glad tidings of great joy should be unto all peo
ple.” So he, in emulation of the Savior of the
world, sent his missionaries forth upon the face of
the earth, to free the world of iniquity. Away out
in the wilderness of Georgia one of his ministers
discovered that there existed a lottery, which was
fraught with iniquitous tendencies. Whereupon
all the powers that be were brought to bear upon
it to break it up.
To speak more seriously: We are not much of
an advocate of lotteries. More particularly are we
opposed to them, or any other institution, when
carried on in defiance of law. We think that the
laws of our State are wise and good, and ought to
be respected. We are in favor of striDgent laws,
well enforced. We] believe that the violators of
law ought to be ferretted out and uncompromising
ly punished. But we do think this interference
with our concerns by an officer of a foreign State
in an official capacity, an unprecedented outrage.
What right had the Mayor of New York to con
cern himself about our concerns? What is it to
him whether our laws are executed or violated; or
mdeednvhether we have laws a? all? Is Mayor
Tiemann General Superintendent, cf the morals of
the whole country ? Have we not our own officials
capable and willing to see that due obedience is
paid to our statutes? Surely we have, and we
think when the application was made to Governor
Brown for aid, he ought to have repelled, instant
ly, the insult offered to our State.
Give a man gold, and he becomes avaricious.
Give him honor, and he becomes egotistic. Give
him power, and he becomes despotic. Give him
what you will, and he thirsts for more. Give him
the world, and still his cry is like tho horse leech,
continually “give, give!”’ Thus we see it is with
Mayor Tiemann ; he has been placed in power in
his native State and city, and intoxicated with the
draught, he seeks to drain the goblet of power to
the dregs—seeks to extend his jurisdiction even
to Georgia. Well, he’s not our guardian, and we
object to being looked after by him or any other
Abolitionist.
i rom the Montgomery {Ala.) Advertiser.
Swan Ar Co.’s Lotteries.
In our issue of to-day will be found the letter of
0. A. Lochrane, Esq., one of the Attorneys of S.
Swan & Co., employed to defend the suit lately
brought against that highly respectable firm for
an alleged illegal carrying on of the lottery busi
ness. The letter is of itself a complete vindication
of the charge brought against Swan & Co., and
when that charge comes before the Court of Rich- 1
mond county, Ga., for trial, we predict a triumph
ant vindication of those gentlemen at the hands of 1
the law. It should be recollected that this matter
has been set on foot against Swan & Co., bv outside '
parties, at the head of whom is Daniel F. Tiemann, ’
the present Mayor of New York city. Mr. T., we ]
are simple enough to suppose, can, if he wishes to
be known as Reformer General of all the vices (sap- ■
posed and real) of the age, find enough to satisfy >
his pious desires in the city of Gotham, without ]
extending his vision so far South as Georgia, the i
people ol which State were perfectly satisfied as to 1
the legality of Swan A Co.’s proceedings until this
redoubtable Mayor found it necessary to enlighten 1
them as to their illegality, and what he so religious- :
ly supposes to be the vicious effects flowing there
from. As Swan & Co. are bound to triumph in
this matter, Mayor Tiemann will probably be
taught to attend to the combined duties of bis of- 1
tice (and paint-shop) and not meddle himself in
future with the business of honest and respectable
men outside of his bailiwick.
From the Savannah Georgian.
The Effect.
Since all the fuss raised by the New York '
Mayor, against the Georgia Lotteries, we learn I
from the agents that on account of the attention t
thus given to Swan & Co’s celebrated lotteries, the <
business exceeds any thing previously heard of {
during a similar lapse of time. Doubtless every- <
body wishes to secure a prize byway of souvenir /
from Swan & Co! Great is Mahomet, and Mayor t
Tiemann is his prophet! When Mahomet could f
not get the mountain to come to Ipm, Mahomet
went to the mountain, but he got tired of an effort ’
to clime over it. So it is with Mavor Tiemann, i
not seeing how to draw Sw r an & Co.’s lotteries to s
V.r» -t* ‘ !o*+o-*r«q ( f»o** <4nro'--“irit Rinu*V T
TO
tain, he will find it hard to climb over the Geor- |
gia Lottery.
From the Vicksburg Southern Sun.
Harking up the Wrong Tree. |
Mayor Tiemann, of New York, seems to enter- i
tain a great antipathy to the progress of S. Swan j |
k Co.’s lottery. We presume if Swan k Co. were i ]
located iu New \ r ork it would be all right, but as !,
it is doing a thriving business in a southern State, !
it is all wrong. We see that the Governor of
Georgia advises Mayor Tiemann to employ good
counsel if he intends to stop the lotterv, and in
sinuated very clearly that the New Y'ork “official” j
is barking up the wrong tree.
From the New York Courier.
The Mayor’s Raid Among the Lottery
Men.
Mayor Tiemann’s theory of municipal reform is
peculiar to himself; it is at once very comprehen- !
sive and very narrow; it grasps at a good deal
and takes hold of next to nothing. llis efforts -
thus far to confer benefits upon the city are a very |
happy illustration of the old proverb of wasting
at the bung and saving at the spiggot. If the
depredators ou the public purse and the disturbers i
»f the peace could have their way, we have no t
doubt they would be very glad to keep Mayor ]
Tiemann in office, and if he should ever be a can
didate for re-election, we have no doubt he would
monopolise the votes of all the rogues in the city.
We would not, for any consideration, insinuate
that the Mayor is a rogue himself, for we be
lieve him to be a strictly honest and honorable
man in private life and in business transac
tions. He is, in short, an excellent paint manu
facturer, and a reliable judge—of putty. But, be
tween the duty of governing a vast city like New
Y’ork, the largest municipal government in
the whole world, and administering the affairs of
a paint manufactory, there is a vast difference. Mr.
Tiemann has an eye for small affairs, and would ■
extinguish a conflagration by using a tea cup full '
of water. He would be afraid to use a hose pipe
for fear of drowning somebody, or wetting his
hands. When he came into power he was expect- :
ed to reform certain city abuses, to stop leaks in 1
the city treasury, to see that the heads of depart- '
ments did their duty, that rogues were arrested,
the streets kept clean, and the markets put in order.
Aud he had the privilege, too, of being able to
exercise power which denied to his predeces
sor. Mayor Wood had no authority over the de
partments, all their officers were independent of
him; yet he had to bear the blameof all their mis
deeds. Mayor Tiemann, on the contrary, is em
powered by the new charter to remove anv citv
officer, from the highest to the lowest,' who
does not behave himself properly. He does, !
in fact, possess double the power which Mayor {
Wood did, and he ought to do twice the ’
good. Bin, he no sooner got into power than he <
commences a series of the most remarkable and 1
stupid movements. There had never been any 1
complaints made by our citizens against gift en- !
terprises, book lotteries, or any other lotteries.
Whatever harm they did, if'they did anv, was 1
very small and confined to a very sraali class of ■
persons. But these enterprises were just the kind
of abuses against which Mayor Tiemann has felt
it his duty to employ the whole police force of the
city, and while doing so all sorts of rascality have
been rite and rogues generally have been enjoy
ing a holiday. One of the notable instances of
the Mayor’s care of the city may be seen in thene
glect ot the West Washington Market property,
by which that valuable piece of land has been
taken possession of by the officers of the State.
The Mayor’s raid among the lottery dealers has !
been the most remarkable of his movements, and
even in this small business he is not free from a 1
suspicion of being influenced by feelings of politi
cal hostility to Mayor Wood. Mayor Wood’s
brother, against whose correctness of deportment
we have never heard a word breathed, was sus
pected of having an interest iu a lottery authorised <
by the State of Georgia, and it was against this l
particular lottery that Mayor Tiemann has directed «
the battering rams and all the force of his office. 1
Whv did he not also include in the objects of his 1
attack the lotteries of Delaware and Maryland ? I
There was but one reaaon, aud that was that May- I
or Wood’s brother was not suspected of having
any special interest in them.
The Mayor had no right to take the members
of the police force from their proper duties to send
them to Georgia to instruct the Governor of that i
State in his duty. He might, with just as much i
propietv, have sent a force out to Wisconsin to re- I
rnonstrate against the villanies perpetrated bv the t
legislature in taking bribes irom the president of J
the Lacrosse and Milwaukee railroad. It is none of <
our Mayor’s business what may be done in another t
State, and we wonder that Governor Brown did v
not tell him so. But, after all, the Mayor’s efforts £
will not harm the persons against whom he has 1
been operating any, and if Mr. Tiemann wishes to
gain the confidence of the citizens of New Y'ork,
he must attend to the legitimate business of his
office, and not allow himself to be made the
tool ot a small clique of family politicians, (
who imagine that the city of New Y'ork and ,
all its offices belong to them by divine right, ,
and that it is the sole duty of the Mayor to ostra- J
cise or crush out every member of the Wood fam- |
ily. The Woods have always shown themselves ,
abundantly able to take care of themselves, aud }
they will probably do so now. We shall not vol- \
unteer to defend* them, at least. But the public [
will not tolerate any public officer in using the t
power confided to him for the common good in ;
avenging private injuries, or forwarding the \
schemes of dliques and mercenaries. ,
And after all his exertions and the expense he <
has put the city to, he has not accomplished any ]
good. lie has, m tact, only been the means of ad- s
vertisiug the Georgia lotteries, and enabling their j
proprietors and managers to make their legality ,
and soundness known to the public. Mayor Tie- ,
mann is not the first Human who has been twisted (
by his own gallows.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist. \
Mayor Tiemann, of New York.
This gentleman, known as the Mayor of New ,
Y ork, and the particular pet of several of the lot- |
tery establishments, found opportunity some time
since to give legal information to Gov. Brown, of v,
Georgia, and to Attorney General McLaws. The J
people of Georgia estimated at its full value the |-
able, disinterested, virtuous advice of Mayor Tie- \
mann.
In a letter of the Mayor to the Common Council (
of New Y'ork, on the 31st May, mention is made of t
the necessity for a publication of all existing or- v
dinances of that city. It appears that no publica
tion has been made since 1845. The Mavor says, ,
“in consequence of this, it is frequently' difficult,
without considerable research, to ascertain what j
particular ordinances are in force.”
In view of the legal difficulties which environ
Mayor in the construction of the ordi
nances of New York, it might be clever on the
part of Governor Brown and our Attorney Gene
ral, to make an examination of those New York
ordinances, and see if they authorise a southern
man to claim his fugitive slave, who may have
escaped to that city or State. In case any such
authority is round, it is probable Sergeant Birney
might intervene as one of the officers «f the Black
Republican metropolitan police organization of
that city, and insist that such a law shall not be
enforced there; and then the Sergeant might not
be regarded as such an “ honorable man,” and
worthy of the courtesies of our Executive and At
torney General.
But our object in this article is merely to call
attention to the state of the laws or ordinances in
New York, as proclaimed by Mayor Tietnaun.
This man, who was elevated to the Mayoralty by
the Black Republicans, by the co-operation of ail
the tug-rag-and-bob-tail of parties in that city,
could find time to meddle with legal matters of
purely Georgia cognizance, while the ordinances
of his own city were in such confusion that “ it is
frequently difficult, without considerable research,
to ascertain what particular are in
force.”
Now, if a fugitive from Georgia should reach
New York, we think Mayor Tiemann would tina it
very “ difficult,” even “with “considerable re
search,” to suggest and enforce any means for the
restoration of the fugitive. Has he ever been
u- in a w rk -has his Ta-’.c 7>wb-
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licim metropolitan police ever evinced am- iuck
proclivities? We presume not. It is so'" diffi
cult" in many cases in New York to “determine'
what laws are in force,” particularly in reirard to
fugitive slaves, that we have But heard ofany of
Mayor Tiemann’s favorable efforts in that wav
I nor do we expect to hear anything of the sort from
him, so long as he has “ a friend to reward or an
J enemy to panish.”
From the South Sid* Democrat, Petersburg, Pa.
The Georgia Lotteries.
When the announcement came by telegraph that
Swan A Co. had been arrested, Ac., we foot occa
i ?. lon ; without further information, to warn the pub
,hc '“ at "tile or no credit was due to the news. The '
i standing of the concern in Georgia, and their long
and undisturbed career of prosperity, justified the
coiihdeut assertion that the authorities of Georgia
I "'mild not have tolerated their operations if there
were any ground for the grave charges made in
the dispatch. Nor was it the tirst time that im
proper efforts had been directed agaiust their busi
ness by vindictive rivals.
We copy the subjoined article from the August.
Constitutionalist, one of the most respectable jour
mils in the country, for the double purpose of jus
tification to ourselves aud justice to the firm which
has been thus outraged :
‘‘Great Excitmext ix Georuu.—We are in
debted to the New fork Euninj Post tor the
knowledge of ‘ u great excitement iu Georgia ’ in
relation to the Sparta Academa lotterv. In this
city, where it is presumed theexcitemerit occurred
we understood the presentments ot the grand ju
ry were for the purpose of testing the validity of
the charter ot the Sparta Academy lotterv and
that the bonds required from Swan A Co. were the
initiatory proceedings usually obserred npon en
tering a trial of the question inyolred. The affair
created no ’great excitement’ here, nor excitement
ot auv kind, that we heard anything about- nor
lias a single paper in this city, or this Slate made
any reference to it. so far as we have noticed.
We publish below the article to which we refer
aud merely add that the Sparta Academy Lottery’
under the management of S. Swan A Co., continue*
its drawings as usual, nor hare we noticed any in
terruption in the regular business operations of
their house.
The remarks in the Post , that it was supposed
by the officers of Georgia that their lotteries were
legal; but that Mayor Tiemann, upon examining
the subject, discovered that they were not will
doubtless excite a smile.
The New York Commercial Advertiser, in its re
ference to this “great excitement in Georgia ” says
that Sergeant liirney was sent by Mayor Tiemutin
as a special messenger to the Attorney General of
Georgia, to inform him that Swan A 'Co.’s lottery
was a fraudulent concern. 3
Such sneering allusions to the law officers of our
Mate were altogether uncalled for, and will not
materially aid the parties engaged in this person
al, political and financiering war on Fernando
Woed, although it is adroitly cloaked under the
plausible and praiseworthy pretence of promoting
good morals and suppressing lotteries.
From the New York Herald.
New System ol Advertising.
The great coup of Mayor Tiemann upon the
Georgia lotteries—the accounts of which were
published m all the papers vesterday—is one of
the most splendid pieces of advertising for Swan
&Co. and Ben. Wood, the owners of the lottery
that was ever contrived bv mortal brain. The loL
terv is now known from one end of the country to
the other We have no doubt that after this flurrr
has subsided the profits of its owners will be neat
er than ever before.
F r om the Danville ( fa.) Reporter .
. 11l Used.
In another column we publish an article relative
to the manner in which Messrs. Swan k Co have
been used by New York officials. It is the gen
eral public opinion that these men have been bad
ly persecuted, for the sake of political gain. As
lottery dealers, none can sav that they are not
punctual, honest and fair. As citizens, they are
perlect gentlemen.
From the Columbus (Oa.) Times & Sentinel
a, , S> Swa “ CO.
We publish to-day a card from the above firm,
and a letter from Col, 0. A. Lochrane, of Macon in
reference to the legality of the Sparta Academy
lottery. We have not examined the law under
which an indictment has been brought against
Messrs, bivan A Co., but if the facts contained in
Col. Lochrane s letter be true, (aud we presume
they are, ) his conclusions are correct, and the road
which Mayor Tiemanu has been traveling with
alacrity will presently become very uneven, and
lead ultimately to a quagmire.
From Porter's Spirit of the Times.
A Y ery Small Piece of Business.
It seems to us, to be a very small piece of business
on the part of the Mayor, *to discharge the thun
ders of his office, which he has awoke for the de
struction of the lottery business, solely upon the
Georgia lottery of Mr. Benjamin Wood. If it be
his object to break up the pernicious policy busi
ness, why uoes he not direct his operations
against the lottery policies of Delaware and Mary
land, in the drawing of which the entire policy
business of the city is sustained? They have
their agencies iu this city, and their headquarter*
are in neighboring States, the Governors and At
torney Generals ot which are geographically easier
ot approach than the Governor and Attorney
General of Georgia. The singling out of Mr.
Benjamin Wood, while all the other lottery mana
gers are quietly permitted to enjoy their business,
is beginning to attract attention; and the com
munity, unless they speedily have some good rea
son given for such invidious selection, will begin
to regard the matter as a personal persecution.
We do not believe that the Mayor is actuated
with any but direct and worthy motives in the
premises, but he is evidently deceived by hig
counsellor and agent, Birney, and is lending his
power daily to practices, if he understood them
he would utterly disdain. We believe the lottery
business to be a very injurious business, but the
States which warrant it should take care of it and
its excesses, and we should not be called upon to
bother ourselves about it until it introduces itself
here. Then, it will become a proper object of sur
veillance and suppression, and should be promptly
dealt with, by whomsoever practised. We have
no interest in this matter; we do not advertise for
Swan & Co., as most of the dailies do i and will
not), but we like to see fair play ; and if it is right
to pursue and prosecute Mr. B. Wood, as the main
proprietor of Swan k Co., it is incumbent on the
acting authority to deal with other resident lottery
managers in the same way.
From, the Ba inbridge Georgian.
Imp deuce.
Mayor Tiemann, of New York, not content with
endeavoring to abolish lotteries in Gotham, has re
cently made a “ terrific 11 descent upon Messrs
Jwan & Co., ot Augusta. We are inclined to the
opinion that if this great would-be “moralist”
would endeavor to take care of the moral tenden
cy ot his own premises, he would be actin<r in ac
cordance with his duty. If he would give his in
fluence to the suppression of his own swindling
gilt enterprises, “ mock auctions,” and lotteries,
ne would be serving his country as one becoming
his station.
We are opposed to lotteries—believe them to be
a source trom which proceed immorality; but, at
the same time, the great “law makers” of our
Mate have sanctioned them, and it is none of May
?* * le ° liUin ’ 3 business to interfere in this particu
lar. From our dealings with the Messrs. Swan &,
Co., we believe them to be honest and fair dealing
men. We have no sympathies for the cause in
winch they are engaged, and a great deal less for
the administrators of “ law,” in abohtiondom.
Bostov, June 10.— Advices from St. Domingo to
May 22d, say that Santana had captured Samana
with considerable slaughter. He destroyed the
defences. President Baer sent a fleet of twenty
vessels under an American officer, and blockaded
the port of Au Platte. The last advices say the
sown was captured and fortifications destroyed,