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BY JAMES GARDNER.
SPIRIT
A OA HI)
FROM
1. SWAN & CO,
TO THE PUBLIC.
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
the prosecutions gotton up to annoy us, that it re
quires of us to say but little. By "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 we 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 taw our enemies
may try to use for selfish purpose*, 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
run, 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.
v Samubl Swan k Co.,
Managers of the Sparta Academy Lottery,
Augusta,Ga.
Letter from the Hod. Alexannder H.
Stephens and O. A. Lochrune, in rela
tion to Swan & Co’s. Lotteries.
Messrs. Swan k 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, u 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 office, the
right and privilege of raising by Lottery a sum of
money without regard to time.
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. AIBXANDBE 11. STBPHEN3,
Counsellor at Law, Crawfordville, Ga.
Osbobm A. Lochraxe,
Counsellor at Law, Macon, Ga.
D. C., June Bth, 1858. •
Frbm the Griffin {Ga.) Empire State.
Lotteries.
The papers in Georgia, New York, and else
where, of rate, have teemed with publications con
cerning a wonderful discovery made by the Mayor
of the city of New York, that the lottery business
earned on so extensively by Samuel Swan k Co.
is illegal. Swan k Go., it seems, have become
tbe proprietors of what is called the Soarta Acade
my Lottery, and bavo established agencies in
several Stales, (among the rest New York), tor
■ -iho Mdfi of c-4* «:*1 1 Wopd bioiinw •-
partner of Samuel Swan k Co., and Mayor Tie
mann is said to be apolitical enemy of the Woods.
Under pretence of suppressing an unlawful busi
ress. he disnatches 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 busings 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 Newr York
a3 the height of arrogant presumption—an insult
to tbe honor and dignity or onr State, and ought
to have been met with scorn and indignation by
the Executive of Georgia. Has 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. We regret 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 k 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 usaiguatiou houses, free-love societies,
the dens of prostitution, the mock auctions, and
thousands of other secret institutions of iniquity,
with which the city ot New York abounds, then
he might turn his attention to other States. We
are 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 affairs.
It is to be hoped that the act will not soon be re
peated.
From the Philadelphia Argus.
Mayor Tiemanu’s Reform * Antics- A
Very Savage View of Mayor Tiemann’s
Actions.
Who says the Connecticut Blue Law’s are obso
lete? If they are not on tbe statute books, that
their spirits live in hearts of certain would-be-re
formers,! here can be no doubt; and every now
and then it breaks out m someJextraord in ary eb
uhtion of fanaticism. Mayor Tiemann, of New
York, who was elected by one of those political
combinations <»f 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, toit
who are the most useless and dangerous repos™-
rie* 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
wants of the community over which
he presides, he gets the Councils to give him a
deputy iu the shape of a shrewd, active, Police
Magistrate, to whom he turns over all such vulgar
business as dealing with rogues, murderers, house
breakers, Ac., while his Mayorship, no doubt with
the most pious political views, undertakes himself
a crusade against all those vices which are the pe
culiar hobbies of the “ Aminadab Sleeks,” of this
age.
First he assailed the Gift Book enterprises; but
the proprietors of these met him boldly, appealed
to tha 1 iW, and he was foiled. Then he attempted
to chase that Proteus fraud, through the myths
and mysienea of medical quackery, and invaded
• the sanciiiy of the post office, which may lead him
yet into sert«»us trouble, for, however our laws
may favor the exposition aud punishment of actual
frau , there are certain safeguards to personal lib
erty, certain immunities in regard to private rights
that may not be mvuded 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 quackery
has cost our people more money, and has done
more harm to tbe community in general, than alj
OF THE
the nostrum-venders in creation. Had not his
Xlayorship 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 aslegiti.
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
selfish partisan motives had not been so plainly
disclosed in the matter, the palm for Quixotism in
reform might have been awarded him. This was his
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 diaboli
cal practices of certain lottery contractors, who
were openly, and, as it was supposed by every
body, legally drawing lotteries, and paying tlie
State a bonus for the privilege. This noble and
philanthropic act might have given Mayor Tie
mann claim to equal glory with those humane indi
viduals who preach freedom to the southern
negroes, established underground railroads, and
consider slave stealing holy pastime, while they
turn up their noses at the free black man, ana
?>purn bis 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
ment with great success and efficiency,J and left
behind him an honorable official reputation, which
Mayor Teimann may vainly aspire to attain; the
other was a successful capitalist, who was not so
puritanical as to despise a good investment for his
money, even though in a lottery scheme.
Now,there are several States in tbe 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 a few spare thousands in
one of these enterprises. The sale of lottery tick
ets is forbidden by law in New Y’ork as well as in
our State ; yet, though this fact has nothing to do
with Ben. Wood’s Georgia speculation, and though
the attempt to stop the illegal sale of tickets may
have been perfectly proper, the sagacious Mayor,
thinking he could strike a fatal blow at Fernando
Wood, who stands ’twixt him and the coveted con
tinuance of his power, through hi§ brother, and
working upon the supposed prejudice of New
Yorkers against lotteries, has taken the very ex
traordinary course alluded to, of sending an em
issary to Georgia to inform the people that their
laws were violated, and aid the State authorities in
carrying out moral reform.
The curt and manly card of Mr. Ben. Wood, the
frank acknowledgement of his interest in the Spar
ta 'Academy Lottery, and the defiance he throws
back, the appeal he makes to. the law, and in
which, from our telegraphic new 9, he will proba
bly be sustained, dashes to the ground this fine
device of Mayor Tiemann, who, baffled 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 tbreshbold
of hia office.
Otie word more: had Mayor Tiemann been sin
cere in his attempts to suppress lotteries, whv did
he not also include the Maryland and Bela
ware lotteries in his plan? We know that the
tickets of these have been sold to a large extent
tor many years in New Y’ork, and are sold, we are
informed, now. Would it not, have been more
honest to hare included all, instead of singling
out one ? Or rather, does not, his course prove
wtont we have cnt«rg«d, that he is actuated
by political jealousy, and not by the honey spirit
.ot reform ? We think it does."
We have alluded to these matters, not from any
sympathy with the practices opposed, but as a
warning aguinst combination candidates, and im
practicable blue-law reformers. May we have no
nearer acquaintance of them than New York.
From the New York Day Hook.
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
ihut Mayor Tiemaun should take the trouble to go
down toUeorgia to inquire whether the law 9 of
that State were enforced or not. Why, it may be
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 k 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 oft* this fall. And at this very mo
ment Mayor Tiemann is passing over abuses in
our own city to the affairs of the State of Georgia.
There are within sight of the City Hall at least
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
year literally robbed ; and yet these, and many
other disgraces to our city, are left untouched and
me tax payers put to expense to find out whether
the citizens of Georgia enforce their own laws!
Now, we have nothing to say in favor of lot
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
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,
but whether it is good now, is the question, and
one which will soon be decided by a Georgia jury.
In the meantime, we understand there is no inter
ruption to the business; indeed, it is verv generally
conceded that Mayor Tiemann has advertised these
lotteries to an extent they never could have had if
he had not disturbed them. There is also another
fact which the present investigation has brought
forth, and that is, that these lotteries have beeu
fairly aud honestly managed. The public gener
ally have little confidence in the fairness of these
institutions, but Mayor Tiemann has not only
brougut no charges against the integrity of Swan
k Co., but in fact be has thus directly established
their business character. In this view of the case,
His Honor has fairly overshot his mark, for we
take it that all who buy lottery tickets only wish
to be assured that perfect fairness in the drawing
and distribution will be observed. Swan k Co.
may thank Mayor Tiemann for demonstrating this,
us the only charge, it seems, he could make against
tnem was that they are not entitled, according to
the laws of Georgia, 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 integrity, 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 York a bye-word and a reproach.
There is nothing like every bird attending to its
own nest.
From the Danville ( Va.) News.
Refused.
We have received a com muni cation from our
New York correspondent, in which the company
of S. bwan <k Co., Augusta, Ga., is violently attack
ed as a “ swindling concern,” and all persons who
bay lottery tickets pronounced us * fools.” We
decline publishing the article for two reasons:
First, we consider it an unjust and unreasonable
attack upon men whom a southern S.ate places
the most implicit confidence in—the State of Geor
gia does not sanction “swindling concerns,” as the
laws of New York are kuown to do. In the second
place, we have grounds for belief that tbe writer
was influenced by sinister motives in concocting
the article.
atjghjsta, ga., Wednesday, julnte ig, ibss.
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 sids of the land, which will be
>racticed so long as men are made of flesh and
jlood, 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 law 9 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 law 9 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 id ot. Any one who will examine the’
scheme of Swan k Co.’s lottery, which is publish
ed in most of the newspapers in the country, will
at once see the perfect fairness of the whole con
cern. They have m 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
und 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 io each prize, and then the drawer is often
refused payment. Such is the simple modus oper
andi of Swan k Co.’s lottery, the most reliable
risk institution ever established in this country.
Men in all ages and 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 latter means
amassed large fortunes, settled in life, and re
mained contented and happy.
We might go on and expose the political in
trigues of New York, 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. j
.Mayor Tiemann. the Tool ? vs. Swan
«& Co.
It will be seen that Mayor Tfemann’s audaious
intermeddling with the affairs of S. Sw an k Co., of
Augusta, has not even the merit ascribed toitby
some <5! his admirers, to-wit, that of a desire to re-,
form existing evils and abuses in his own jurisdic
tion, as well as in the country at large, lie, it ap
pears, from reliable authority, has been instigated tdj
this foray upon Georgia soil, by the two-fold reasofl
of political hatred to B. Wood, brother to his late
rival, Fernando Wood, and a friendship fora nordO
ern rival lottery concern, which furnishes the sia*
ews of war to break down the enterprise of Swan
& Co. To get at tbe latter, a huge stride whs
made by this New York official, over divers other
lottery eoncerns iu Maryland, Delaware, kc., which
shows that it is not so much the evils of the
business that have excited the pious wrath of tbwi
little King of Gotham, as 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 muJCfP
right to send his police to look after the aitegwfr
o lie n d e
search American w -■ */’
ror of Russia has to regulate the
the waters of the Chesapeake. Had TUmarni
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
interfering, as he has, with the municipal and
police regulations of a sovereign State.
But the worst feature of the affair is the en
tanglement of our own Executive in the schemes
of this New Y’ork dignitary. One would have
thought that a moment’s reflection would have
convinced his Excellency that he 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, at Montgomery,
Ala., Atlanta and Augusta, Ga. They have adver
tised extensively in nearly all the newspapers of
the State. They have had agencies for the sale of
tickets in every town and village, and at every
crossroad store in the commonwealth. Yet we
have never, before Mayor Tiemann’s sudden de
scent upon our borders, heard of any imputation
upon the legality of their business or the honora
ble and gentlemanly character of all their trans
actions. They have"been distinguished for their
promptness in paying the prizes drawn in their
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 re.-trained Governor Brown from sanctioning
any interference with the lawful business of any
of the citizens of Georgia. We say lawful business,
because the Charter of the Sparta Academy Lot
tery was granted as far back as !S2fl, and of course,
no subsequent enacimeuts could render its pro
visions null aud void or impair the vested rights
conveyed by said charter. But we say further, that
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 in not ferreting out and bringing
to punishment these offenders against the Slate
laws. They have proven themselves either
ign/jrant of their duties or indisposed to perform
them , until instructed by a municipal policeman
of a remote city. To this complexion it musi
come at last, und it is tantamount to a confession
of the utter unfitness on the part of the authorities
of Georgia for the high stations which ihey occu
py. How degrading is the position thus self
imposed and unwittingly acknowledged ! “Tell it
not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Aske
lon, lest the Philistines rejoice and the daughters
of the uncircumcised triumph.”
But we have no l'ear of the result. We perceive
that Mr. Wood has arrived, voluntarily, in Augus
ta, and announced his readiness to gi ve‘any bond
required for his appearance at court, to answer tbe
indictment against him. Os him we know noth
ing, but from a business acquaintance of several
years with Mr. Swan, we are satisfied that he is an
honorable man, who would scorn to conduct an il
legal business of any sort. He is as much enti
tled to the protection of the laws, in the pursuit
which engages his attention, as the vender of ar
dent spirits, who has a license in his pocket, nor do
we believe that the public sense is more adverse
to lotteries than to liquor selling and manufactur
ing. So long as the legislature sanctions such
thiDgs, so long will the business be legitimate,
whatever may be our views respecting the moral
tendency of these occupations. The General As
sembly, two years ago, we believe, despite the op
position of the learned Judge from Green, char
tered a new lottery, and'the license to sell liquor
also continues unabridged. So we must not take
the strictures of certain newspapers, on this sub
ject, as gospel, for, perhaps, it may be.discovered
that their opposition to lotteries arises more from
a failure to drive profitable bargains with Swan k
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 circumstan es af
fecting the sincerity ol these swift witnesses against
those engaged in tbis calling, which, after alltbat
has been said, bas very little more of she elements
of a game of chance in it than prevails in every cot
ton mart ol the South, in the gurchase and sale of
tbe staple. Those who venture in either, do so
with their eyes open, and should be willing to
take all the responsibility and risk appertaining to
the traffic.
From the Williamsburg ( Va.) Gazette
Mr. Tiemaun of New Y’ork aud the
Georgia Lotteries.
Whether Mayor Tiemann be a Democrat, as he
IN REGARD
professes, or not, we leave to others to decide, it j
is evident that be has abandoned one plank of the <
Democratic platform— non-intervention. This
principle he utterly ignores. Has he not gone be
yond his duty in his crusade against Lotteries?
public sentiment of the whole country an
swers “ aye!” The public sentiment of the South \
£ve§ an indignant response. If Mayor Tiemann’s <
sense induces him to interfere in southern 1
r t^e su PP r ession of Lotteries, who can j
‘ aa Yr that same moral conviction may not in- i
interfere for the suppression of slave- <
S7 ho can tell what Connection the Hon. <
*k e underground railroad ?* He may «
b 6 gts superintendent of transportation. If he j
be, he can scarcely employ more infamous
?g#<« - to act for him in the one case than he has
‘°lNr ier ’ And 1183 i UBt as muc b to do with 1
slavery as he has with southern lotteries.
H very well for the Mayor to undertake to
and business ethics, but we sub
should exercise himself in the capacity
of tf&cf&r in his own bailiwick.
'fjgpkes ns that he may find subjects enough
l*frg end ‘ ils pious sympathy in ihe great
Which he presides. In* the’ purlieus of
atS ” . there Bti *i is t 0 be found the habita
misery and wretchedness. There and
Gotham, naked knavery stalks abroad
Let him go into Wall street, and cap
gjpoly tables of the money changers,
out his holy wrath and pious indig
ap< a the stock board—a set of more ras-
Wv upforopulous gamblers than any that
. ft Mississippi packet. We migtit
MHBjpHißvei him influenced by honest motives.
;W€jcan only ascribe his action to petty
tts—-the meanest sort of envy.
it all is, that Benjamin Wood, the
WK ' his laU opponent for the Mayoralty , is
IjBlP m these lotteries. This is not the only
h has made to injure the Woods.
is certain, Mayor Tiemann is not ad
to his popularity in the South or
J? his course in this regard. We do
will succeed in making much po
*d €l ° York thereby. The press of
■ptire country condemn his high-handed
» in this matter. Even the New York
it. Let the Mayor abandon
«attention to Wall Street, the
Ad*Sunday papers, and his corps of “ef
■i at ohce. Where s Stanley ?
of your own household, Mr.
r 6 attempt t 0 coerce your neigh
views.
have been suggested by he arti
fayhH* from the New York Atlas,
will see the whole matter ex-
we hate hypocritical cant
under whatever garb it appears, nor
people of Georgia, submit tamely
oil rilfrii. interference of a New Y’ork paint
or k° ot *bl ac k— l h e representa
w’ or to °* and mouth-piece of
r up of the odds and ends
r: m u%nggold ‘ Ga.} E-if > - .
e f Employment.
r < of appears to b>- n
•f , *: w v.ue ago.
S to rigtffa in the great city
j Ui#.legitimate authority,
V &u<l
* k Ht f&w that it» all t;
fCJlrt?.!!-, >
V or to s u: !
QtfWß ' j ■ afeg* of the CMV
I h(j Wt felt the might of histWKh andmelt
tli at fas ifuch “like wax before tne flame.” Ail
peace, all was quiet, all was contentment. All
men were honest, prosperous, happy.
No wonder, then, that with ail these good re
sults banging like laurels upon bis brow, his ben
evolent spirit should burn 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
wofid, sent his missionaries forth upon the face of
the earth, to free the world of iniquity. Away out
m the wilderness of Georgia one of bis 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 stringent 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
indeed whether we have laws a' all? Is Mayor
Tiemann General Superintendent of the morals of
the whole coumry ? 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
Drown for aid, he ought to have repelled, instant
ly, the insult offered to onr State.
Give a man gold, und he becomes avaricious.
Give him honor, and he becomes egotistic. Give
him power, and he becomes despotic. Give him
what you will, aud he thirsts for more. Give him
the world, and still his cry is like the horse leech,
continually “give, give !” Thus we see it is with
Mayor Tiemann ; he has been placed in power in
bis"native Slate 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.
1 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 k 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 ot itself a complete vindication
of the charge brought against Swan k Co., and
when that charge comes before the Court of Rich
mond, county, Ga., for trial, we predict a triumph
ant vindication of those gentlemen at the hands of
the law. It should be recollected that this matter
ha 9 been set on foot against Swan k Co., by 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 (sup
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
people ol which State were perfectly satisfied as to
the legality of Swan k Co. s proceedings until this
redoubtable Mayor found it necessary to enlighten
them as to their illegality, and what he so religious
ly supposes to be the vicious effects flowing there
from. As Swan k Co. are bound to triumph in
this matter, Mayor Tiemann will probably be
taught to attend to tbe combined duties of bis of
fice (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 Y’ork
Mayor, against the Georgia Lotteries, we learn
from the agents that on account of the attention
thus given to Swan k 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 by Way of souvenir
from Swan & Co! Great is Mahomet, and Mayor
Tiemann is his prophet! When Mahomet could
not get the mountain to come to him, Mahomet
went to the mountain, but he got tired of an effort
to clime over it. So it is with Mayor Tiemann,
not seeing how’ to draw Swan k Co. s lotteries to
him he went to the lotteries (per Sergeant Birney
the immaculate) but like Mahomet at the moun-
TO
tain, he will find it hard to climb over the Geor- i
gia Lottery.
From the Vicksburg Southern Sun. I
Barking up tire Wrong Tree.
Mayor Tiemann, of New York, seems to enter- j
tain a great antipathy to the progress of S. Swan r
k Co.’s lottery. We presume if Swan k Co. were u
located in New York it would be all right, but as e
it is doing a thriving business in a southern State,
it is all wrong. We see that the Governor of i
Georgia advises Mayor Tiemann to employ good
counsel if he intend# to stop the lottery, and in
sinuated very clearly that the New Y’ork “official” w
is barking up the wrong tree.
From ihe New York Courier. J
The Mayor’s Raid Among the Lottery J
Men.
Mayor Tiemann’s theory of municipal reform is ,
peculiar to himself; it is at once very coraprehen- ,
sive and very narrow; it grasps at a good deal ,
and takes hold of next to nothing. His efforts .
thus far to confer beuefits upon the city are a very !
happy illustration of the old proverb of
at the bung and saving at the spiggot. If the
depredators on the public purse ana tne disturbers
of the peace could have their way, we have no
doubt they ‘Would be very glad to keep Mayor
Tiemann in office; and if he shpuld ever be a can
didate for re-election, we bare no doubt he would
monopolise the votes of all tbe 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
lacturer, and a reliable judge—of putty. But, be
tween the duty of governing a vast city like New
York, 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 and would !
extinguish a conflagration by using a tea "Cup full
of water. He would be afraid to use a hose pipe 1
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 m
the city treasury, to see that the heads of depart
ments "did their duty, that rogues were arrested,
tbe streets kept clean, and the markets put in order.
And he bad the privilege, too, of being able to
exercise power which was 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 tbe blame of all their mis
deeds. Mayor Tiemann, on the pontrary, is em
powered by the new charter to remove any city
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. But, be no sooner got into power than he
commences a series of the most remarkable and
stnpid movements. There had never been any
complaints made by onr citizens against gift en
terprises, book lotteries, or any other lotteries.
Whatever harm they did, if they did any, was
very small and confined to a very smali class of
persons. But these enterprises were just the kind
of abuses against which Mayor Tiemann has felt
it his dutyjp employ the whole police force of the
city, and while aoing so all sorts of rascality have
. been rife and rogues generally have been enjoy
t ing a holiday. One of the notable instances of
t the Mayor’s care of the city may be seen in the ne
> gleet ot the West Washington Market property,
-by which that valuable piece of land bas b.een
t taken possession of by the officers of the State.
raid among 'he loit
suspicion of
- cal hostility to Mayor Wood. Mayor wood’s
1 brother, against whose correctness of deportment
1 we have never heard a word breathed, was sus
pected of having an interest in a lottery authorised
-by the State of Georgia, and it was against this
■ particular lottery that Mayor Tiemann has directed
- the battering rams and -all the force of his office.
Why did he not also include in the objects of bis
attack the lotteries of Delaware and Maryland ?
There was but one reaaon, and that was that May
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
State in his duty. He might, with just as much
propiety, have>sent a force out to Wisconsin to re
monstrate against the villanies perpetrated by the
legislature iu tukiug bribes irom the president of
the Lacrosse and Milwaukie. rail road. It is none of
our Mayor’s business what may be done in another
State, and we wonder that Governor Brown did
not tell him so. But, after all, the Mayor’s efforts
will not harm the persons against whom he has
been operating any, and if Mr. Tiemann wishes to
gain the confidence of the citizens of New York,
he must attend to the legitimate business of his
office, and not allow himself to be made the
tool of 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
cise or crush out every member of the Wood fam
ily. The Woods have always shown themselves
abundantly able to take care of themselves, and
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
power confided to him for tbe common good in
avenging private injuries, or forwarding the
schemes of cliques and mercenaries.
And after all his exertions and the expense he
has put the city to, ha has not accomplished any
good. He has, m tact, only been the means of ad
i vertising the Georgia lotteries, and enabling their
5 proprietors and managers to make their legality
> and soundness known to the public. Mayor Tie
i niunn is not the first Han.an who has been twisted
J by his own gallow’s.
From the Augusta Oonttitutiomliai.
Mayor Tiemann, of New York.
This gentleman, known as the Mayor of Sew
York, and the particular pet of several of the lot
tery establishments, found opportunity some time
since to give legal information to Gov. Brown, of
• Georgia, and to Attorney General Mchaws. The
people of Georgia estimated at its full value the
able, disinterested, virtuous advice of Mayor Tie
man n.
In a letter of the Mayor to the Common Council
of Sew York, on the 31st May, mention is made of
the necessity for a publication of all enisling or
dinances of that city. It appears that no publica
tion has been made since 1845. The Mayor says,
** in consequence of this, it is frequently difficult,
without considerable research, to ascertain what
particular ordinances are in force.”
In view of the legal difficulties which environ
Mayor Tiemann 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 tound, it is probable Sergeant Birney
might intervene as one of the officers of the Black
Republican metropolitan police organisation 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 Tiemann
This man, who was elevated to the Mayoralty by
the Black Republicans, by the co-operation of all
the tag-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 ordinances are in
force.”
Now, if a fugitive from Georgia should reach
New York, we think Mayor Tiemann would lino it
vety “difficult,” even with “considerable re
search,” to suggest and enforce any means for the
restoration of the fugitive. Has he ever been
prominent in such a work—has his Black Repub
VOL. 37—JNO. 25.
SWAN & CO.
lican metropolitan police ever evinced any such
proclivities* We presume not It is so “ diffi
cult” in many cases in JJew York to ‘‘determine
what laws are in force,” particularly in regard to
fugitive slaves, that we have not heard of any of
Mayor Tiemann’s favorable efforts in that way,
nor do we expect to hear anything of the sort from
him, so long as he has “ a friend to reward or an
enemy to punish.”
From the South Side Democrat, Petereburg, Fa.
The Georgia Lotteries.
When the announcement came by telegraph that
Swan A Co. had been arrested, Ac., we took occa
sion, without further information, to warn the pub
lic that little or no credit was due to the news. The
standing of the concern in Georgia, and their long
and undisturbed career of prosperity, justified the
confident assertion that the authoring of Georgia
would not have tolerated their operations if there
were any ground for the grave charges made in
the dispatch. sor was it the first time that im
proper efforts had been directed against their busi
ness by vindictive rivals.
We copy the subjoined articfe from the Augusta
oonstUutionaUst, one of the most respectable jour
nals In the country, for the double purpose of jns
, tification to ourselves and justice to the firm which
ha 3 been thus outraged: ' *
“Great Excitement in Georgia.— We are in
debted to the New York Evening Poet tor the
knowledge of ‘ a great excitement in Georgia,’ in
relation to the Sparta Acaderaa lottery. In this
city, where it is presumed the excitement occurred,
we understood the presentments of the grand ju
ly were for the purpose of testing the validity of
the charter of the Sparta Academy lottery, and
that the bonds required from Swan A Co. were the
initiatory proceedings usually observed upon en
tering a trial of the question involved. The affair
created no ‘great excitement’ here, nor excitement
of any ktnd, that we heard anything about; nor
has asingle paper in this city, or this State, made
any reference to it, so far as "we have noticed.
We publish below the article to which we refer,
and merely add that the Sparta Academy Lottery,
under the management of S. Swan A Co., centmues
its drawings as usual, nor have we noticed any in
terruption in the regular business operations Os
their bouse.
The remarks in the Pott, that it was
by the officers of Georgia that their lotteries were
legal; but that Mayor Tiemann, upon examining
the subject, discoveied that they were not, will
doubtless excite a smile.
The New York Commercial Adoertieer, in its re
ference to this “great excitement m Georgia,” says
that Sergeant Birney was sent by Mayor Tiemann
i as a special messenger to the Attorney General of
| Georgia, to inform Dim that Swan A Co.’s lottery
, was a fraudulent concern.
Such sneering allusions to the law officers of our
State were altogether uncalled for, and will not
materially aid the parties engaged in this person
al, political and financiering war on Fernando
. Wood, although it is adroitly cloaked under the
, plausible and praiseworthy pretence of promoting
f good morals and suppressing lotteries.
1
t I ram the Eew York Herald.
New System ol Advertising.
» The great ogup of Mayor Tiemann upon the"
. Georgia lotteries—the accounts of which were
f published in all the papers yesterday—is one’of
- the moat splendidpieces of advertising for Swan
A Co. and Ben. Wood, the owners of the lottery,
l that was ever contrived by mortal brain. The lot
tery is now known from one end of the country to
s the other. We have no doubt ibat after this Hurry
u I ~•. r*-" ■■-" m • V
t 111 Used.
In another column we publish an article relative
I to the manner in which Messrs. Swan A Co. have
'> been used by New York officials. It is the gen-
I eral public opinion that these men have been bad
ly persecuted, for the sake of political g%io. As
i lottery dealers, none can say that they are not
punctual, honest and fair. As citizens, they are
perfect gentlemen.
From the Columbus ( Ga .) Times dk Sentinel.
S f Swan & Co.
We publish to-day a card from the above firm,
and a letter from Col. O. A. Lochrane, of Macon, in
reference to the legality of the Sparta Academy
lottery. We have not examined the law under
which an indictment hus been brought against
Messrs. Swan A Co., but if the facts contained in
Col. Lochrane’s letter be true, (and we presume
they are,) his conclusions are correct, and the road
which Mayor Tiemann has been traveling with
alacrity will presently become very uneven, and
lead ultimately to a quagmire.
From Porter's Spirit of ths Timet.
A Very 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 bis office, which he has awoke for the de
struction of the lottery business, solely upon the
Georgia lottery of Mr. Befijamin Wood. If it be
his object to break up the pernicious policy busi
ness, why does 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 in this city, and their headquarters
are in neighboring States, the Governors and At
torney Generals ot which are geographically easier
of 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
i 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 his
r counsellor and agent, Birney, and is lending his
power daily to practices, if he understood them,
g he would utterly disdain. We believe the lottery
business to be a very injurious busiuess, but the
e 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-
I veil lance and suppression, and should be promptly
f dealt with, by whomsoever practised. We have
no interest in this matter; we do not advertise for
* Swan A Co., as most of the dailies do (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
J proprietor of Swan A Co., it is incumbent on the
acting authority to deal with other resident lottery
, managers in the same way.
» From the Bairibridge Georgian .
Impudence.
: UMayor Tiemann, of New York, not content with
, endeavoring to abolish lotteries in Gotham, has re
» cently made a " terrific” descent upon Messrs.
, Swan A Co., of Augusta. We are inclined to the
- opinion that if this great would-be “moralist”
; would endeavor to take care of the moral tenden
f cy of his own premises, he would be acting in ac
. cordance with his duty. If he would give his in
t fluence to the suppression of his own swindling
gift enterprises, “ mock auctions,” and lotteries,
he would be serving his country as one becoming
his station.
I We are opposed to lotteries—believe them to be
i a source from which proceed immorality: but, at
the same time, the great “law makers’" of our
State have sanctioned them, and it is none of May
or Tiemann’s business to interfere in this particu
lar. From our dealings with the Messrs. Swa* A
■ Co., we believe them to be honest and fair dealing
men. We have no sympathies for the cause ra
which they are engaged, and a great deal less for
the administrators 01“ law,” in abolitiondom.
Boston, June 10.— Advices from St. Domingo to *
May 22d, say that Saotana had captured Humana
with considerable slaughter. He destroj-ed the
defences. President Baer sent a fleet of twenty
vessels under an American officer, and blockaded
the port of Ati Platte. The last advices say the
town was captured and fortifications destroyed.