Meigs County Telegraph

Locofoco Stealings.—Exasperated at the unfairness and meanness of the Slave Democracy press; in attempting to throw the responsibility of the enormous defalcation in the State Treasury, from the shoulders of their own party, where it has been unmistakably fixed, and charge it upon the Republicans, the Ohio State Journal indulges in the following truthful train of reflections on the subject:

"We can show where Governor Medill has paid men for personal services to himself and party out of the State Treasury. We can show where locofoco papers in this city have been printed on State paper; while the military arms of the State have been sold by locofoco officials, in one instance, to the amount of sixteen hundred dollars, and the money never paid into the treasury. We can show how the people's money was taken by the handful to enrich corrupt contractors of the State House and Lunatic Asylums, and how men who had charge of the Ohio Penitentiary abstracted the public moneys in a manner that would have disgraced some of the convicts over whom they had charge. Many of these acts stand recorded on the imperishable records of the General Assembly, and the others, we believe, are susceptible of being proved by indisputable testimony before any court of justice."

We commend the gentry who are now trying to blacken the fair name of one of the noblest men that the people of Ohio ever honored with their confidence, to husband their resources, and not to presume any further upon the forbearance of their opponents. The men who are now endeavoring to turn the current of public indignation from its proper channels into directions devious and winding, that they may escape from the consequences of their own acts, and thus screen the guilty and wrong the innocent, know full well the hue of the catalogue which is written against them, and it is only the common trick of the detected criminal, who hopes to escape by joining the hue and cry of stop thief, which they are attempting to palm off upon the public.