State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-05-17
From The Wnshington IeLegraph.

From the Washington Telegraph.
Fine times! Glorious times That Millen-
NAL perfection OF the human character, Gel
ebrated by Horace, nil ddmirdri, has become
altogether an every day affair. Robbery,
larceny, burglary, chicanery, malversation,
regeneration, rape, incest, political, ale
gorical, metaphysical, 1.-The whole encyclo-
pedia OF the devils virtues, may take place
in the Government, and when it is told,
every body turns up his nose at it. IT'S an
old story, developed proved, demonstrated
through some thousands of editions, stale,
flat, unpantable,-a monstrous bore. Grimes
and manifestations in the government! IT'S
no more than picking pockets in Bride
well.
The following is authentic; and though
it has been some days i'll the wind, it APP
pears TO have escaped all attention. 1t would
have been something worth noticing in the
dull days of either Adams, when the alien
and sedition law Of the former, and the
prodigal extravaganza of the after, made
such tremendous uproar But in these
halcyon days, when the gold of crime and
misdemeanor has become more plenty than
stones, it will likely enough drop dead born
from the press. Notwithstanding it must
run its chance.
The Developments were made by the
Wing Chairman of the Committee of the
House, on the contingent expenses of the
State Department, by Mr. A. II. Shepperd
of n. G. Il was well that he was Wing,
or the secret would have remained in the
Department, never to meet the dull and
glutted apathy of an outraged public. The
department had made call on Congress
for 100000, for the contingencies of foreign
intercourse for 1886. Mr. S. discovered that
there were 900 on hand for this object;
making the whole amount asked and on
hand $50, 000or40000 above the ordinary ex-
pensewhich Is $4,000 Again, for the coniin.
gencies of foreign missions $4,000 were
asked, $4,000 on hand, making in all $40,
600, or $4,000 above the ordinary expens,
which is less than $4,000. Total excess
asked for and on hand above what is wan
ted, 100000! An apology was offered that
the estimate was made on the first OF Octo-
Der last, but this only made the matter worse
as it was well ascertsned that the eXpen-
ditures since that time have been consider
ably above the avcrage.-Ilere was there
fore, the snug little sum Of S90,000to pock-
ct for the Tarty purposes.
The premonitory symptom, Mr.. Cam
breleng, very adroitly devised to get the
credit Of this development to himself, by
moving TO strike out the redundant appro-
priaiions. How will Wing laurels sit on
the brows Of such man? They would Of
course wither, as he would have them.
Again i'll the course of the last year, in
GLIDING the last quarter of 1884, $lS,459,
was laid ont in presents for the Emperor,
and Sl9,5S0 for the other barbarous powers.
These gifts were to be dispensed by James
X. Leib, consul at Tangier, and by MIR Rob-
erts (another Ruben Whitney, who has
been for u long lime an unofficial missionary
unappointed and unconfrmcd, among for
eign barbarous nations. Among the pre-
sents so procured, sent out, and dispensed,
upwards of $4,000 III Forsyth nankins were
found as an item, the purchaser of the
whole receiving five per cent. profit for his
trouble, that is $4,000 on the whole, and
$3.50 on the Secretary's Nankin, moety
of which profit might well be claimed by
the Secretary for the whole trouble to him
self or agents for finding and procuring it,
Thus the great affairs of the nation are to
be administered by private aud irresponsible
persons, and the State Department itself is
TO he made a private concern the store
-iitouse of a wholesale merchant and manu-
facturer.
Nor is this all. BY law of 1910 an annual
account of these expenditures is required to
he given by the Secretary, within the two
first months of every session of Congress.
Nothing OF this kind has been done aud the
Secretary appeared to be ignorant that such
law existed. And furthermore, accounts
OF late have not been sent to the Depart
ment by the Foreign Consus of these bar
barous powers, though most of them are in
arrears. Mr. Lieb at Tangier is in arrear
$4,000, aud has never settled an account
since the commencement of his consulship
in 1899.
And now what will be the effect of this
authentic case, and thousands of others like
it, sent forth and demonstrated to the people
of the United States! The Wings because
they are literally bored with such enormi-
ties, will turn up their eyes, stick out their
lips, and some of them possibly run out their
tongues and there is an end. The poor
Tory democratic gulls, the "American pco-
pie" who are themselves now thus undergo
ing the process of being devoured, will
throw up their hats, and cry, hurrah for
Jackson hurrah for Jackson and Van
Bnren Jackson and Van Bnren, now and
forever! So we go. rs
John Greenleaf Whittier has assumed
che obi 90, C--I