The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-30

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We kavs heazd & sts.Sf stone, the
age Of brass and to - of gold We
have now the age Of stealing.
Like fail women, the Republican lead
ers in their quarrels about the spcils, some
tines 90 far lose their tempers a. to expose
to the public gaze the populations and
stealings, which seem to be almost uniyer-
sally carried on within the official circles
Of tho Republican party. Mr.. ANDREWS
was removed from the Office of Naval Sur
veyor of New York, through the influence
Of THuRIou WEED. Mr.. ANDREWS there.
upon exposes the rascality of THuRLow
WRzD. Mayor OpD1xs, of New York,
crosses the track Of THURLow WEED, where
upon THuRIow exposes OPDYKE, charging
him with variety of stealing from the
government. The Republican leaders per-
cieve that such scandals will injure their
party, and therefore resolve to frown down
all like revelations of official crime, and to
punish the guilty betrsyers Of their secret
stealings. To do this work effectually
they have selected q prominent victim,
whose punishment will be terrible exam
pie to all who may be tempted to offend
in q like regard. JOHN p. HALE, United
States Senator from New Hampshire, is
the distinguished culprit. He was chair
man of the United States Senate Commit
tee on Naval Affairs, and during the last
session exposed the stealing of some Of
the friends and relatives Of the Secretary
Of the Navy. For this offence the Repub-
lican majority of the Senate, . few days
ago, removed him from the chairmanship,
and from the committee also. It is thus
that the Republican leaders vindicate their
patriotism They win satisfy their con-
sciences by exposing and Furnishing the
petty pilferers mentioned in the following
article, which We clip from the Milwaukee
Sentinel Republican journal. ~ @~
THE PASSION FOR srRAIlKa.
The passion for stealing under the ad-
ministrati0n Of Lincoln has become per-
feet mania. The Washington correspond
emit of the st. Louis Republican thus al
ludes to it: .9;'t ~ Tr' -.
Anything belonging to Uncle Sam that can
be concealed In travelling trunk or squeezed
into o black carpet sack must be watched BY
bull dog or policeman, or otherwise it is
spirited away by the memento seekers.
Of IN Mt Iofr 1nI,S inc.
the "stones lying around loose" They get
their knives to work on the statuary around
and in the capitol, and chip off small pieces of
marble. They attack the ornamented and fluted
columns; they carve into the cornices
and sills. and scrape bronzed filings
confine themselves to the capitol. They
ransack the departments; but here find
ing themselves fanked by the vigilance of
watchmen and messengers, they bear down
upon the White House, which until recently,
was entirely unprotected against their theiving
raids. They take everything they can lay their
hands on and put it in their pockets. If things
with knives and scissors until they make them
handy to steal. The rich lace and damask cur |
tains of the government room are SO curtailed
by repeated cuttings and tearings that me-
mentO seekers will now have to bring step-lad- |
ders with them, in order to get at them The |
unravelled in others; chairs, sofas, and divans
are Invested of part of their coverings and
ripped open; the paper skinned off the walls
by the square yard and out of twenty-four
brass brackets that once supported the cur
tains, only one remains.
The destructive thievery became so aggrava-
ting that Old Abe took alarm, and ordered
Marshal Lamon to take measures to prevent
the cutting of his private apartments. AccoE.
dinghy the marshal had four police put on duty
ct the White House, who make arrests every
day of persons caught IN the act of cutting or
tearing curtains, &c. The other day they ar
rested female for scissoring piece out of
datnask curtain, when she tainted right on their
hands. 1t was genuine faint superinduced
by the fear of exposure and disgrace, so they
kindly let her go with reprimand. The next
day soldier struggled in and tried to struggle
out with q pretty foOt-rug under his over
coat he was turned over to the military,
and no doubt gotta good dowsing of cold
water. Yesterday gay clerk in one of
department galanted two pretty ladies into
the courtroom, and seated them in chairs I'm
mediately in front of lace curtain. Shielded,
as he thought, from observation by their am
pie crinOline, he cut wrought flower from the
curtain and gave it to one of his companions.
who quickly slowed it away in capacious
pocket. Their next neighbor was policeman,
without uniform, who Immediately slipped up
to the lady and asked for the fragment, at the
same time arresting Mr.. Clerk. The lady sur
rendered the article, and the clerk was then
marched off to Marshal Lamon, who provided
for his hearing before magistrate this morn.
ing. The marshal vows to make an example
of him. One is certainly needed.
q Singular History.
The New York Herald gives the follow