The New York herald., 1862-04-29

fraud, il is very certain that hundreds Of others
in the same predicament ss he, are indubitably
guilty. 1t may be well that the people do not
yet fully appreciate the whole truth OF this
matter, and that our honest and sagacious Pre-
sident deems it best to remove the official
criminals, Is far as is in his power, in such
manner as not to expose the official criminali-
ties. If to-day the American people could sud
denly realize the real state of affairs in Congress
and in the departments, official rogues would
be scourged out of the capital with lash as
keen as that with which Christ purged the tenn
pie of the ancient public thieves, and the very
government itself would shake like a reed before
the blasting storm of popular indignation.
No words, however strong, can bring this
popular realization, and we can but educate the
popular mind, by continual iteration of facts, to
endure the truth more calmly when the tax
collector. like powerful magician, opens the
eyes and clears the understandings of the peO-
pie. When we have to pay hard cash out OF
our pockets into the purses of public robbers,
we shall see jobbery in different aspect from
the present. Tales of Dick Turpin and Claude
Duval are most interesting and amusing read
ng; but when the highwayman claps
his pistol to your head, and de-
mands your money, the sensations
are by no means 80 agreeable. In Europe,
where heavy taxes hang like dead weights upon
all classes of the people, our condition is much
better understood than by ourselves. Basing
their articles upon the reports of our inyesti-
eating committees, the European newspapers,
magazines and reviews TEEN with terrible pic
lures of our corruption, as if a contemplation
Of our misfortunes would console Europeans
for their own. Though often and purpOsely
exaggerated, there is much more truth in these
European screeds than most of us are at present
willing to admit. In good time, however. we
shall be forced to see ourselves if not as others
see us, at least in light sufficiently gloomy
and repulsive. Then these official reports Of
investigations, conducted not by the opponents,
but by the partisans of the administration, and
designed for no party object will be most use
full, and the people will owe debt of gratitude
to Mr.. Dawes and his colaborers for the prepa-
ration of these directories of corruption. When
that time comes the people, guided by these
official reports, will mete out to public swim
dlers, thieving politicians and jobbing journals
a retribution as unexampled in its severity as
is the present corruption in its criminality.
Poor GREELEY AND Hrs WAY TO MAKE
MoNEY.--Poor Greeley, fairly cornered by our
exposition of his gun mandatory, declares
that he will not "allude again to this matter"
of guns. We might believe him were it not
for the fact that in his Just Once" (" confession
he promised never again to allude to war
criticisms, and did not keep his promise, In
his allusion to the gun matter yesterday poor
Greeley omits all reference to Stanton's official
report of the connection, of Mr. Snow, money
editor Of the Tribune; Mr.. Wilkinson, Washing
ton correspondent Of the Tribune, and Mr.. Almy,
dry goods reporter of the Tribune, with the
Eagle Manufacturing Company and its gun con-
tract, but contents himself with stating that
Mr. Almy is not shareholder in the Tribune.
That is fine reply to Stantons official docu-
ments, is it not? We dare poor Greeley to
republish the official papers in reference to
this matter, and let his readers see whether or
uOt uO SuuIcHOAOCt III tuC lFtUtSWc - VI ever
was interested in Mr.. Almys gun making com.
pany or contract in any manner whatever
We know that, in poor Greeley's opinion, tells
ing the truth is not, to use his favorite express
sion, I" the way to make money! but we should
Judge from his present poverty that he has not
found lying :" the way to make money" either,
and so we desire him to try truth for while.
We are by no means done with the share
holders of the Tribune, and shall certainly
.sallude to this matter again" whether Greeley
does or not This gun contract is not the
only job in which Tribune shareholders have
been engaged since the outbreak of this war
We have proofs enough Of artesian wells sunk
into the public treasury by Greeley & Compa-
ny, of DrummOnd lights making the darkness
of corruption visible, of speculations in land
at Perth Amboy, and of other as palpable jobs,
organized and executed by Tribune sharehold-
ers, to make poor Greeley sick of jobbery and
then we shall administer dose of the Cherry
to force into our soldiers, to add to his nausea
Let poor Greeley be patient, and he shall have
his fill of evidence against him. Meanwhile,
let him reflect a little before he again prates
about his virtue and remember, not only the
gun business, but also his hypocritical agency
in Dana's discharge, his recent slanderous Sc
cret circular sent to our patrons, and the
promptitude with which he at first denied the
genuinencss of Beauregards cypher despatch,
published by the HERALD exclusively. If he
has any shame left we imagine that review of
these few out of a thousand similarly disgrace
ful acts will suggest to poor Greeley either re-
pentance or suicide
JOHN BULLS AMERICAN FLUNKEY AGAN.-The
Times of yesterday is silly enough to charge
that the HERALD, Express and Journal Of Com
n,erce are guilty of 'latent treason;' the HE-
RAID because it warned the War Department