Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-05-07
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- te r1a---r among themselves the TaD-
z77z -7 nacr- vg.'an= in exposing each
others r~asca'ty. Hero is a specimen of the
numerous venllA#ous being made, which VIC
tax from the New York Heraid;
ON r-adnrs viii remember that Fltz Henrv
Warren Che Washington correspondent Of the
Iri59Er, F-a= -.jdaulv dismissed about The close
% .r.E y.H-- nI account ut his attacks upon
Secretary Cameron. In his place Samuel VIII
&Hsrn. arcncsa f' TTp'io of Ghurlow Weed, was
immediate appointed, and from tha5 time The
IrJ-8c2 atGteUs upou Cameron ceased. Afull
| explanation of tHts change of policy may be
iau.j lu tae reply o. tho Secretary of War 70
tHe Ieso.r-Iuu o.. Congress wquiTiug in regard
&. Cameron contracts From this document IL
apFsaa ..s. f Dt~sIa1,r lest, soon after VII
4ll1a- Hal agpr.H.r. the ITtbBncs Washington
core pendent. .he uemlcu OF the Tribune asso-
o.-,.. dug zap ar oil charter for a concern called
sos laSLs 1t-uuitciuTuiE company, located at
EagiesylsIe, Mansfield, Connecticut, and applied
10 Cameron Cor q contract a1 manufacture arms.
OF Ibis company, Ar. Almy. the commercial
editor OF rHa I.assC, was treasurer blr. Snow.
lle money rcP5I1ero the TGjUHc, was business
manager. and MIR. Wilkinson, tine Washington
coucsD0ldala OF .la Tribune, was the agent to
procure couts4c-s- Through Wilkinson, and as
TIC pIco OF the ITsjEHss silence, Cameron cen
euJgd 20 give tu-5 Tribune company a contract
for twenty-five thousand muskets, at twenty
dollars each, the first lot @. the muskets 10 b.,
delivered Il Asy proximo-hOugh all our ayHv
IS G.TCadg supytiCf u1lA GTmS-aud tho last IA
1893. when tho war VIII DO over the profits
upon LLl5 I'VE hundred thousand dollars worth
OF useless and Unnecessary muskeIs viii BE-
abou. rWQ hundred thousand dollars. With
these iI-g9aou gains Greeley proposes to re-
establish the Tribune. a more palpable job
does not disgrace the history OF this war.
As il TO entirely identity the Tribune with this
contract, Secretary Cameron iudOlsed upon the
back of the document the name of the paper;
and a telegram irom Snow TO Wilkinson, eI.
planning that Jlo Tribune Eagle company was
not identical with one IL Rhode Island Ito which
the contract was first given, by mistake is ap-
pended to the original paper, and explains the
agency which influenced Secretary Cameron.
Thus, by the revival Of an Old concern. and an
adrUit manipulation of q Secretary of War,
Greeley has secured a contract paying him more
than Morgan two and a half per cent. broker
age; more even than our old friend, the Cheva-
lier Webb's sale of himself to the United States
Bank. Dana, who Is something of a journalist.
ami not much Of a jobber, refused to consent to
this transformation Of the Tribune establishment
into q musket mandatory, and was therefore
iucOntiuently kicked out, and his shares bought
up byauack doctors and members of abolition
societies. Bya singular chance he has since
been appointed q commissioner to examine, at
Cairo, the accounts of the purchase of part of
the two million muskets, costing forty-six mil
lions of dollars, IN which Cameron indulged. 1t
wOuld be a prOvidential retributiOn if, at the close
of his labors at Cairo, Greeley's old partner
should be sent here to investigate the TTjBuHs's
musket job, the first fruits of which are to be
reaped by Bassa Greeley during the sessions of
the anti-slavery societies in May.