Daily American telegraph., 1852-07-12

had been in a course of training since they last
touched my head.
My visit was q delightful one-and every
visit that | ever make to Martha's home will
be delightful, if all her brothers and sisters
grow up as good and thoughtful as she has
learned to be- She is sometimes little awk-
ward still but she is improving every year;
and, before many have passed., think she will
deserve, instead Of the name Of Awkward
Cir" that Of the graceful girl
Government Expenses and Frauds on the
Government!
From the New York Tribune.
The Evening Post magnifes the expenditures
under the Whg administration to fifty FIVE mil
lions per annum-apparenty ignorant that much
Of this aggregate has been required to pay debts
contracted by " Democratic" administrations and
fulfil treaty stipulations contracted by them IT
says:
Where this money has gone, no one can tell
or, rather, no one will tell that can. Mr.. Secre-
tary Crawford ran away with good big slice of
it allowed him for his Galphin claim Messrs
Corwin, and Gardiner and Waddy Thompson,
and their cronies, have another large slice OBJ
tained from the treasury under false pretences,
with forged documents. Gardiner has been un-
der arrest more than year for his crime, was
admitted to bail, and is now taking his ease in
England, and biting his thumb at the 0lminis
tration, knowing full well that they dare not
pursue him with rigor."
Whether it is well to assume that Gardiner is
q swindler and forger before he is brought to
trial, and while he is waiting for the government
TO hunt up proof of the crimes charged against
him, each will judge for himself; but that Mr.
Corwin has ever received one dollar on claim
which he knew or believed to be fraudulent the
Post is not weak enough to believe, though it is
kuaylsh enough to assert it. And if ever an
administration made extraordinary efforts to pro-
cure proof of suspected crime, Mr.. Fillmores
has done SO in the case Of Gardiner.
We hope this man, if guilty, viii be convicted
and punished but there IL not one dollar less in
the treasury than if he had never received cent
Cur government coyenanted with Mexico to pay
a specified sum to our spoliated citizens in full
! satisfaction Of their claims on Mexico, and has
done it-no more, no less. If the Gardiner claim
is fraudulent, other claimants have received less
than they otherwise would but no more has
been taken from the treasury.
Since the administration became Wbip both
houses of Congress have been predominantly op-
position. They could have controlled and limit
ed the expenditures, and ought to have done it,
But with California, New Mexico, the Rio Grande
and the Filibusters to look after il was not pos
sbe to keep down the expenditures to the stand.
ard Of former years, Our military expenditures
in the territory wrestcd from Mexico are far
.
to have been prior to 1916; and our Indian SER
vice, naval, revenue, and other expenditures
have been increased i'll proportion. Conquests
are costly, not merely in the getting, but in the
keeping also; and gold mines do not tend TO re-
duce outlays. II we ere to 60 on acquiring we
shall 90 on increasing our expenditures there
is no help for it, Can we stop coyeting what is
cur ghbor 5, and better husband our own?
npr of 1al
are threatened with visitation whose conse-
quences, though vaguely defined already shake
their steadicst nerves. Their central organ, the
Federal Cniou, thus deprecates the impending
catastrophe:
TERRIBLE II TRUE We have heard it as.
serted by some, who think they know, that both
Mr. Toombs and Mr. Stephens threaten to be-
come Demccruts-ycs verify, out -and-out leaders.
We have never been badly frightened for tho De
mocracy until now. We acknowledge that, If
this news should prove true the Democratic party
is III dagger. The good old Democratic party has
stood many severe shocks, but we fear such a
double dose of Whiggery at one tine would
prove too much for il TO bear; its constitution
would sink under it. We cannot, we will not be-
evc the report. Undoubtedly Nessrs Toombs
and Stephens bear great hatred 10 the Democracy
Of Georgia, and would do almost anything to in
iurc them: but we cannot yet believe they are 50
malicious rs to join the party. 1t would be like
men having the leprosy thrustiug themselves into
an assembly of healthy persons, and spreading
the contaglon by force We beg of them not 70
do it, Do anything else you please take any
other shape but that and we win bear it as
we'll as we can but, gentlemen, ior mercy sake,
please do not JOIN the Democratic party
SERIOUS ARRAY. - ring an exchange ot
words between Alexander Adamson and Washing
ton Butt, on Saturday night, near the steamboat
wharf, Adamson inflicted severe stab upon the
person Of Butt with "A large knife the blade en-
tcrjpr the left side Just above tie heart from
which it l. fcorod serious consequences may re-
suit Dr. Morgan attended the wounded man
4,lsmson was arrested aud committed to Jail by
Cortan Goddard for further examination.
[RPUb'c,
FotB1u o. JurY TOAST OF G. J 1xeERsoE1,
rso Hon Chos' ]. lngersoll sent the following
toast to the Iammany (New York; celebration oD
the 4th
The Rmal Party Conventions: Competing I"
rmd,ooe sIdUery. as part Of hat american hbery
which the treaty Of independence recognises and
no foreign nation must meddle with w.
A fellow down in Massachusetts, who prooably
drinks nothing but common rum, wants 10
know what's the use oftbrco cents no" inc N'in'
liquor law hss been passed
Mrs Mowatt is playing, with great success
at Louisville kv showing that she Is entrely
recovered from her late injuries.
/ One apd balr per cent is all the interest
which the great London bankers now allow on de-
posites.