New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-25

and implements for road-makins, beside sin ss.s,
provisions for the party. The whole out6twu.s
cost some SIS, 900, and Secretary who ko.-
How TO Do 1t, would at once have put Mr.. EsN,
in possession Of the necessary sum, taking proo..
bonds TO insure its correct expenditure.
Not 80 the Honorable Jacob. His bus;nss. o..
not to Do 1t but to prevent its being done. Son.
il.natured persons may say that he did not wi,h 4.
help forward Republican State such as Minns.os.
il about TO become; but we prefer to believe that
wa, simply the force Of bis own genius which o,s,
mastered him. However this may be, Nj. Nohl.
arrived at st. Paul with claim against the DeO.r
ment of the Interior for bis travelling expenses, and
not dime in bis pocket to fit out his party. Ma.
body would trust the Government; Mr.. Noble N.
naturally unwilling to become personally respooi
bile: and the best that could be done was 10 maks
contracts for the needed articles to be delivered n
case the Government should pay for them. Among
the provisions Mr.. Noble saw ft to lay in, wsre
$40 worth of salt Goldfish, and $50 worth Of raisas
by way of varying the diet of his men; and thu, It
a.t everything was prepared, the men engaged and
under pay, and there was nothing more to wait for
except the return of the vouchers from Washington
with the money to pay the bills. But here the
genius Of the Secretary again interviewed. lie sent
back the vouchers, rejecting the whole of them BE-
cause the salt Goldfish and the rasins were uxuries
Their cost was only hundred dollars; and any man
not endowed by nature with enormous power in
our great administrative Art, would have sent the
money minus that hundred dollars Then Mr.. NosIe
could have left the Goldfish and rasins behind or the
men could have paid for them, and the party could
have moved on. Or as the wages, forage aud other
expenses were already $500 day. the Secretary
might have seen an advantage in even paving this
hundred dollars and getting the party at work.
BY this time the reader is no doubt filled with ad-
miration for the faculties of this Incompatible Sec.
Rotary. But this is not all. Great men ore fertile
in resources and when one device fails are not at
loss for another. A common being would have
supposed that there was no means of hindering the
expedition any longer. But genius is original
novel, inventive. Instead If sending the money TO
Mr. Noble to pay these bills, after the Goldfish and
raisins were taken of, the Honorable Secretary sp.
points, as disbursing agent, Mr.. j. X Germ of IL
noia and directs him to proceed to ST. Paul to exc
anime and settle the bills, informing him that
$4,000 would be placed to his credit in New.York
for the purpose. Accordingly CORN goes to st.
Paul, and begins his duties by making draft for
the $4,000. Everybody now fancied that tho
expedition would at last proceed, but once again
they did injustice to the Secretary. The draft
came back dishonOred, with q new letter from
Washington to let Mr.. CORN know that $l2, 900
had been sent to New-YOrk for him, and not $4,000
as at first promised. Another draft must be made.
but CORN could not wait to hear from it, and went
home about his own business Here was splendid
triumph for the Secretary. His prodigious skill in
impeding the expedition had kept it wait
ing from the lst of May to the mid
die of June, at total expense b
the Treasury of some s., 900 or $4,000, more or
less. Besides, he had everything now arranged TO
keep it yet longer but we are sorry to say he wa
at last defeated by a recreant member Of his OWE
party. The Hon. II. N. Rice, alarmed By the
effect which this conduct of the Administration ws
producing upon the people Of Minnesota finally
came forward and personally assumed the respon.
sibiIty Of the outfit, and by this means the party
was enabled to set out. But for Mr.. Rices unau.
thorized interference, We dare say Mr.. Thompson
would still have had them waiting at st. Paul.
We trust Mr.. Rice may be made to feel the dis.
pleasure of the Administration for bis impertinent
meddling with what did not concern him.