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Show NOT AX Y OK THAT IX Ut'RS. The various expedients resorted to to give the widest possible circulation to coined libel upon superintendent Sickles, his assistants, and the manage- i meut of tho Union l'aeitie. received additional and malignant illustration yesterday through a telegram from Salt hake, which came to m with an awful j-tory of how Mr. Sickles and Mr. Clark have Won derelict ia the discharge of their taxing, oppressive and responsible duties in connection with the snow blockade. The author of the dispatch tells lies enough iu live lines to sunup the whole thing with the spirit of malice and falsehood, by which it wa.-: inspia-d. Not any of that in ours. Mr. Munchausen. Mun-chausen. We happen to know all about this biiMSiss. The man who says that not ui ore than two hundred men have boon employed to open the blockade is a i;ar. and a luau capah'e of such a ta:ement under these trying circtnu-j-urces would not be believed under oath in an ordinary court of justice. For this rea.-on we refu-e- to print this Joulsianaer. O'tuiht iknU-K tb.). We believe the sender of the dispatch dis-patch iu question was the "ring"agcnt of tho Assx'iated press, who has sent '. more of the same k'nd over the wires in three muuhs than a decent man would care to read -if he knew their cl'C character in thirty years. Our Omaha namesake, and the press every- j when.'1, can safely place this construe- I lion on all dispatches coming from the I same souav. |
