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Show t DON PIATT INDICTED. l The most amusing acene iu the solemn farce- now being enacted at ' Washington is tho indictment by a grand jury of Editor Don Piatt of the tl. Capitol newspaper under eomoobao-lete eomoobao-lete statute for publishing some ;r laoguago in reforeuco to the preai-,cl preai-,cl dential count which the president and tho cabinet regard as illegal and incendiary. As tho articles com-plained com-plained of are of a general character, jf addressed to the general public, which cannot bo viewed aa treasonable, and as tho editor has publicly disavowed q tho idea of counselling assassination, it is not likely that tho indictment will evor be tried, or have any other fleet than to render ita instigators , ridiculous and largely increase tho 1 . persecuted editor's subscription list. , It would cost the Don a good many x thousand dollars for the gratuitous i . advertising which hit Capitol will re- 1 3 oieve. Any attempt by government 1 i to interfere with the freedom of the i press to discus3 public measures, oven intemperately, will receive little t favor from tho public. |