The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-01

WASHINGTON, June 2l.-You may recollects
some time since, Mr.. Strohm, of the Committee OF
Public Expenditures, (the cypherlng committee,)
printed report attacking the financial statements Of
the Secretary of the Treasury, which was not order
ed to be printed by the House; but which, neverthe~
less, was printed the same day the National Intel
igencer To-day the minority report was presented
by MIR. Bednger, making about 100 pages of manu-
script, and being, altogether, the richest document
that has ever emanaed from minority TO prove the
majority to have been either constitutonaIly or
WIllully ignorant. Not only does Mr.. Bedingers
report Vndlcate the Secretary OF the Treasury fr IN
all errors, but demonstrates that Mr. StrohT MS re-
port contains about sixty -four errors amour ting in
the aggregate TO more than S33 600 O00 Thu use are
the errors that Mr. Rockwell, of Connectic ut, the
imaginary rival, in financial requirements, Geo,
Evans of Maine, and his competitor for tn e Sec
retaryship of the Treasury under Gen. Taylor has
endorsed, and made the basis of his grand speech
intended TO demolish Mr.. Walker, but now having
the effect of making the redoubtabe cyphe.rer ap-
pear as a tel0 de Sc
Allow me, for the benefit of your readers, to dish
up a few of the scattered sweets-they are TOO rsh
not to be duly cherished:
Admitting mere arhmetca error saysthe mino ity report,
Of the COMMITTEES as follows:
Errors in body OF the report So f7307S 90
Errors IN tabular view &@0,6l0 W
Errors statement ..........l.... ,26S, $50 90
Errors IN statement statement oeo az az az
Errors in statement Observation-Disclosures. L,22,0l5 81
Errors IN statement 4556,OOb OJ
Aggregate errors of Committee. ... s23, 152,z63 81
Or if the arithmecal be included (Which amount
to the trife of $4,000 C01 more) to $33152,3 BIB 81
From this aggregate the error relation 70 amount Of stock,
issued for dollar borrowed, TO Dec ], 1871 under
of Jan g 1871 be deducted together with all the
spngng from it, and amounting to 1886 Making
this deduction the errors remaining amount to $ Isl 81 81,
and may be classified as follows
l.. Errors from regarding Treasury Notes when
funded, not reimbursed -............ So 1855 723 90
2. Errors from taking Treasury Notes landed
from stock book instead OF books of receipts
and expenditures 10 l55700 90
Notes reimbursed in October and NoVemDer 22aoO 90
T.. Errors from wrong statements of expenditures
for the last thTee-q quarters of the fiscal year,
ending June 10, lS48, and from combinations
OF this error with those embraced in the ID
3 Eo o IN addition 10000 %
statement of stock issued under act of Jauu-
arylo4I, up to Oct. 10, lSH 4525O0 90
Aggregate of O. distinct errors $33 Isl 81 81
None of these errors are simply arithmstical ex-
Cept the 9TH. They refer to matters of fact, and
might have all been avoided if the Committee had
prOperly used the data before them, or had under
stood how to use them properly.
When Cemte, one of the tutors of the Poyfech-
meal Institute of France, published his great treat
ise on all human knowledge, he Complained that
Mr.. Arago, the perpetual Secretary Of the French
Academy, now at the head of the French RepubIic
was not a very great mathematician afte all. To
which Aragd1eplied, in published lett er, added
TO the preface of Comics work as a con diion in
sisted upon by the publisher, that Comte was neither
great nor small mathematician, but no nlathe-
matlclan at all. | am afraid this will appIy with
equal force to MIR. Rockwell, who must be content
to remain cjDter, and not a very reliable one in
the bargain. As to Strohm-
Dart lot at folly an indignant eve,
Whoe er discharged artillery at hFF y