New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-26

| cluf. ttst 90 much more thus disposed u
! We Rave carefully eXsmsed TIE apparently com
,lete inventories of stock on band toe be gnninc
Of the pre,ent year, but tarre does not appear to
have ieep ore crop Of liquor l-tt-not even alco-
! enough to Light lamp.
The whole amcunt paid for ma'erial' to Is: and
drink. the liquor ,ud refreshnent items eNceo'ef'
vas Sli245l 81 for an Aversse NUMBER OF ISIS
| persons. which is but little over SIS = year Tor
each mouth. The jInL -iings Of the Ten therefore,
cos, ore-,snt Is mncb by their own showing, So
the support Of all the p,uyers. luna;ics sud crn-
! male ia their chargr. or, Ia other word one Gov
efuor eats and drinks as much ss 80 other people
supported q. tie e1 ptDse of the taxpayers How
much more than this they waste in goreing and
suzzlibg tie eitteriug generatles in their report
lravr TIE public to guess.
H. March. les. the liberal flow Of free liquor
for the Governor. and their friends at the expense
Of the City was forced upon the attention OF the
Board. and. after much squrming. they voted
eight 70 one-tha, thrnceforwa liquor should be
used only when prescribed by the physicians.
Thes had bill before them at tine time for Liquors
aud cigars CONSUMED during the preceding SIX
months the items Of which were: Brandy, S-USi
VINES. S55e: whisky Sl0l; cigars, $3.50; tot'L
S2.I57. One Of the new members bad just been
attacked by On almost obsolete disease called
ECONOMY" and BE- was cutting down here and
there with ~il We heard soon aiter"ard thit
be was convsescent, and within three months De
WAS as sound on expenses as any OF the hVe'yeH
old members How long the retrenchment 10 rum
lasted msy be inferred from the SIZE OF the bill
Sl4.Ct0 for liquors and acknowledgements
within the very year Of reform. The entire Board
became suddenly i'll, and more liquor required
for medicine than hsd previously been used as
luxury Ii was only two months after the passage
of the resolution TO take the stuff only on doc.
tors prescription that the Bosrd became travel
ing corporation, and have since held their meetings.
al all the Institutions. seratm, except perhaps the
Nsd House the Tombs and the SMALLPOX Hosp
tai One week they are at their office 10 the Park,
the next at Bellevue HOsplts then At the Penlten-
tiary, Work House, and so on through the list
At every meeting they have superb dinner,
selected from the choicest dainties Of the season,
and moi.tened aud fdmgated with the finest WINE
brandy, whisky and cigars to be found IN The city
How much these symfosia cost no outsider Is per-
United to know: but epe occasion an oyer-in-
dul. ing member admitted that the cost OF the
champagne alone for the dinner then being enjoyed
WIS SOB.
While the expenses of these feeds have rapidly
increased, it is worthy of remark that the number
of invited guests has been greatly reduced. The
standing candidates for free drinks, who hang
around the public offices or ssng on the chains ia
the Park. have been cruelty cold -shoudered; I'd
porters only upon ordinary occasions, are asked to
the table, and as these seldom number more than
four or fiye-often but one or twO-we can only
account for the increased expense by concluding
that the Tastes of the Ten Sy bafites becoming
delicate from long psuperng' and crave the curious
and rare, products Of the French CUISINE, with
Johannesburg and Imperial Tokey to wash them
down But although the cruel Ten have SUMMARY
cut , # the oflicsl and political deadbeads around
heir own doors they have grown liberal toward
The stranger and the wayfsrer The other day
they feted the National Sanitary Convention, spoil
log their appetites for the extraysgart Corporation
Dinner TO " hich they had been invited. Doctors
are proyerbally good livers, aud net one of them
cOniVldlLtu Vi rIItdu a. ASA'HN' AM"
came militia company from the West who were
also taken in and stuffed by the Governors, though
what military science had to do with the treatment
of unatics, paupers and smsll-pox patients did not
clearly appear The Governor OF another State
soon after happened IN town, and probably from
\ supposed equality in rank Inferred By
| similarity of title. the whole Ten Governors laid
| held of this wandering one Governor, aud hale1
| bin 10 the Penitebtinry. where party OF about
| eenty five got glorious over pitt he toie gras,
early straw berries, aud the inevitable champagne
and cigars TO gorge the doctors and the soldiers,
| the Governors went through the raIspare ut sham
| OF sppropriatipg $50 for each entertalnment-a
sum Lot much more than the cigsr bill. II should
b. stated. moreover, thar al the vegetables used
at the Governor, dinners are raised on the island,
AID DO not figure in the cost of the table.
Ii is no, to be taken for granted, on tue above
facts th.t there is auy real design the part of
! TIE Governors 10 waste the peoples money; they
Gre probably az economical as any other ten men
would be who are accountable 10 nobody n par
,icuar. who ART locked after by no who has
authority oser them, and who have plenary power
| 10 spend three quarters al nllAoh year Ju's
as they see fl. If there be shy woLter about the
matter at all i. is that the Governors have Incurred
50 htie Suspicion aud almost altogether escaped
censure The gorsing business, however, is getting
! 10 BE- 4 serious evil. They have no right T.
| refresh visitors" 81 the rate of so 900 year;
nc more so than they have a right 70 keep those
/ private bottles and cigars at tn ROIuDda aud the
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