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Jlttpsta €imrip pipftp VOLUME 2. SPIRIT A CAUI) 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- NUMBER 448 SWAN I CO. ~ 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,