Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-12-22

from The New YO0 Wo91d.
Deportneat 10 good hing, - n nod
echoolboys know, sud N vey droe has Ais
mission a. veil asNho posple. Hut Ter
teydrod in the Department Of State, pulling
ont his ruilled shirt fropt and adjusting nis
wrist>bandS Attic expense Of the Treasury,
Is n spectacle more sumptuous than satis-
factory. We have little doubt that the sta
tonsry sccuuaf q tue 0cvsrnrnent would
prove that the expenses Of the civil war
were considerably increased BY Secretary
feward's passien lex PLYING urvsydrePin.
bic dispatches; and il n csetain that the
country has been mode TO pay good dea'
more moacy lhsn it will cost to keep John
u yass - Nst a., E0Is =
AM(fica, fot yhe sclS pusposs Of sne6iiny
secretary Seward to strike IN imposing at>
litude in his corp1eopdlaee With 2us Coo;
bull General st.y X FlRoD 0eoD1
Il that individual. DIseaie6ss s. ths AZ
Aqtic cable are psid i9r q the rate of half
6slkrauodo js&&4 - any puslic ct.
tsnt, Therefore, who has such dispatches %
(end. will take ct least - moeh ,peiae. II II
be- aoy proper ssuss Of his 3top0aol oll1tie
p - The teWsst possible words = - weala
\. 81 ~ 1o6(np1lhg 4lpab hosp1)vs1(
>6airs. Consul General Hale, Who arrested
purrstt 1t Alexandra. did precisely III
hing. HE Dispatch BY tie daNls W.
eouched il thsee terms;
sNlok1AD, Npb1iI1Stop s,sy .snss
"llave arrested John II. Sussstt, ons
President Lipcq)n's sesaasias.
mo douba 81 aden1;tya "A HAAA. -
"Alexandris."
h. II ~ la A. ~ ~ln~,
y md htieiy said, and At che least possible
cost. Now mark Secretary Stewards reply,
dispatched BY cable the Ame dey:
''SiR: - The Secretary Of the Navy has
instspctcd Adwirpl GoadsborDpgh 70 send q
proper national armed vessel to Alexandria
10 receive from you John II. Surratt, a citi
zen Of the United States, who 10 IN your
custody as On arrested fugitive, and charged
WIN ~ uSaDe II osssssinatien Of the lAts
Abraham Lincoln, President Of the United
States, and Of an attempt to assass,nate
WIN. II. Seward, Secretary of State Of the
United States, VI tiDe ,uoaih Of April, 1896.
You will deliver the before -uamcd to the
commander Of the vessel upon his report
Ing 10 you his arrival ct Alexandsia.
| am, sir, your obsdieot servant,
WV. II. SEWARD.
To NJ. Charles Hale, Of Alexandra,
.aes h 1 psah'ostk q words to the pur,
pose, dssnchsd with an intolsrabls deal e'
waahy verbiage, 70 the t.-. - more than
| 3 co l.. evsa s5r its transmission from Amer
ica TO England sloae, A bin Of items might
DO probably made out upon this dispatch, q
ris fsepl. sf Ii. United States,
To Turveydrop, DR..
To calling Mr.. Hale Sir. .......e 90
To describing ship a. ''natiosal
| -arInsd yssser' 10 OC
70 reeisine the birth, general beha-
vior, and alleged crime Of Surrstt,
and informing Mr.. Hide that Mr.
Lincoln vas Prssidsot Of the
United States. ............... 1877 OF
To protesting that Mr.. Seward is
Nj. llales ..ehsdisat servant"
which NC do not believe he is. 12 81
Total for department. .....$l6l on
"A couple Of hundred dollars In gold, q
will be said, 10 small matter to natior
which has built up bigger debt in fiv,
years than any other people ever did In I
century Precisely %. But somebody ha,
10 ray shsss twU hundred dollars In GOLD
and that somebody, or those somebodics, i
tho liberty of choice were allowed them
might possibly find more remunerativ,
employment for their dollsrs--more resnua
erative to themselves and to their country
And the vital point of the matter is this
that An official Who was CONSIDERABLY hon
Cd. aud, b mn clTicial, want Of consideration
i want Of hoHsety, Wpuld have seme IN bered
that these two hundred dollors in gold
which he was spending on his shirt ruilles
were not his to spend. OF course, how'
ever. i is bclittlng and worthy only Of Cop
pcrheals and ordinary Christians to expect
that q man or. . party Of great mora
IDEAS should have any time o. thought Il
waste on a mere matter Of common honesty
and simple ofIicisl duty.