Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-09-08
Corruption at WASHINGTON City.

Corruption at Washington City.
The wretched pluuderers at Washington
City, are resorting to all kinds of expedients
to cover up and hide from public view, the
monstrous corruption which prevails at that
place. The special committee of Congress
appointed to investigate the affairs Of the
Treasury Note Printing Department, made
a report showing 1t to be a nest of iniquitY'
and making the most startling developments
in regard thereto. The report when printed
in full makes four hundred and eighteen pages;
but age number Of copies have been put
in circulation from the Office of the public
printer containing only three hundred and
seventy -four pages. The part omitted from
this public document, was the principal
evidence showing the total unftness OF
CLARK, the man entrusted with the printing
of the Treasury Notes, for the responsible
position he occupies, and the documentary
testimony bearing with crushing weight
upon his morality and integrity. 1t will be
remembered that CLARK is the man who
turned his bureau into a seraglio, and kept
a harem of pretty girls around him, one Of
whom died from the effects of an attempt
to produce an abortion. To screen this
hoarg headed sinner, an expurgated, false
and spurious public document has been
published at the Governme nt Printing Office
and put in circulation as the genuine report.
The Nea0 York Express referring to this
disgTaceful affair, says:
The printing department of the Federal
Treasury Is a nest of all sorts of iniquity;
and by this time Mr.. Fessenden must know,
what Mr.. Chase well knew, and because of
which Mr.. Chase lost his place, in good
degree. The Mr.. Clark at the head Of that
Printing has been mutilating and classifying
official documents, we are now told, respec-
ting his case. and placing these mutilated
documents before the country as the real re-
ports. Mr.. Fessenden has now this addi-
ton to other Developments in the Clark
case; and it is quite tim Clark was removed.
"There are upwards of forty millions of
fractional currency ahoat in this country
up,0ards, we say, because all the laws of cir
cuiation demonstrate the necessity of their
being upwards of that sum. Over forty mil
lions of small specie were in circulation
when specie pawn ents were suspendsd.-
The Clark Department recognized but
Twenty millions when the Treasury invesh
CATION began. OF this surplus, ten millions,
it is estimated, are counterfeits, and nearly
ten millions spurious. Il is shocking that
this iniquity is permitted by indifference or
by connivance.
."The Public Printer in Washington, will,
doubtless, be held to account, for furnishing
Clark with copies of a Document that did
not belong to him co., and that no Mem
Der of Congress yet has. There were doubts
expressed in Congress, when this Docu-
ment was handed to the Clerk of the House,
and to the Public Printer, whether it would
ever be permitted fairly, to see the light in
full"
1t Is some consolation thatfoT only few
months longer, will the country be burden
&c with the vile crew who infest the De-
partments at Washington, expressing the
people by their corruptiops, and disgraciDg
the nation by their destitution of all honesty
and morality. General MCCLELLAN will
scatter this corrupt phalanx of plunderers
with as much alacrity, as he has often
other foes of his country.