The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-05

we nave received tne folowing communication
from " one who knows" and hasten to lay it be-
fore the public in order to correct false idea
which some of them may have received from an
article which recently appeared in the Republi-
can:
The national organ of the Happy Family, aud
the congressional reconstuctors OF the Mechsn-
jcs' Institute, and also of their own pockets, has
finally awakened from its Rip Van Winkle
leiharey, ard in bray loud and long, informs its
readers that once more p0cuaton is rife in the
land and forgetful of its little drafts upon the
various funds of which il has had the handling,
but also upon the Custom House employees, rushes
forward into print with long and elaborate ar
tcle in support Of said employees, complaining
bitterly OF The famine, the deprivation and the
tual starvation forced upon them by the guilty
clique in Echsrge of said Office, compelling them
against their hes, beyond their MEANS 10 con-
tribute their In e for farce of presentation.
We doubt not that the immaculate writer of the
above would scprn to receive even a toothpick at
the hands OF bis many friends, his ardent admir-
ers, especially so il the contribution was forced
one. peDufy resulting therefrom; and that con-
scioDs Of his own merits he would only present
his official acts to the gaze OF the world, saying,
not silver plate not gold-hesded canes. not chr0-
nometer watches, testify to the deeds have done,
TO the friends have won, TO the ability which
have displayed in my various official relations.
No acquisitions for brandy were found upon the
streets. requesting demijohn for the jolifcation
OF my friends. The government was never robbed
OF It's revenue, despOileo OF its property, forced
into deepest debt and utter bankruptcy through
the loss Of demIohn Of brandy. My skirts are
clear OF all peculalions, my reputation spotless
as the snow. I'd scorn to reduce to destitu,ion
those poor God-forsaken Gust )m House employees
even for silver plate or gold headed canes, and, if
possible, III rescue them from the hands of the
spoier.
Our only reply is. the Lord preserve us We
know lot what we have done that we deserve such
fate. We had taste once of the Phiis ines, and
We came out in the spring like lean kline. Double
work ard half pay, together with the society of
our distinguished fellow. citizens, members of the
assembly, whose ambition to serve their country
for their couniTy's greenbacks is unlimited, was a
little too much Tor rs not that We object TO their
being borne upon our pay rolls. provided they do
our work, but we do most srenuously object TO
their carrying of all the pay and leaving us all the
work, together with the add i0nal assessments
forced upon Us for the benefit of our friend, the
Hshn'd orgen proprietor, and for all the other
beneficial objects which his imaginative brain may
originate. be has also, with his vast perceptive
powers, found out that Collector Fuller has ap
pointed some one laborer at five dollars per
dsy, also another wonderful discovery, that
several members of the Hancock club are borne
upon the same roll, and that the services which
they render our great and glorious Yankee nation
are not as onerous as they might be. Most re-
ma1ksble discoveries. Let no more the shades of
Christopher Columbus be cited on the same role
Has he forgotten, in the vastness OF these late dis
coveres, that the above monstrous iniquities have
had almost q parallel? Has he forgotten that the
wise men OF the East, principally OF Ethiopia
who sat in the legislative halls of our ancestors,
not longer ago than last summer drawing their
eight dollars per diem, together with other little
peiquisites, were not so deeply immersed 10 legis-
lative business as to forget their pockets and
in spite OF their many laurels they too even con.
DESCRIBED 10 starve as Custom House officials at
from $500 to $500 per annum! Has he forgot.
ten, too, that their labors consisted principally,
solely and wholly in masking out their pay rolls
sDd drawing their pay Has he forgotten all
these things Must we tell him that such was the
case Must we te him also that brandy was i'm.
ported at that time that Custom House officials
were also fond of il? were also in the habit of
drinking it especially our legislative friends of
The Assembly But how they got il is the prob.
lem TO be solved and he, himself has volunteer
ed an explanation. They probably bought il
OF some importer of Cognac and Burgundy or
The stoTehouse keeper had better facilities for
selling il than any one else or perhaps thew took
brandy out and put water in. QUEEN Sab We
con only say, Twas funny how they did it, but |
they did," But, passing by all these discover.
les and suTmses, we will say in behalf of the |
ustom House employ es, that we ourselves got |
up the list subscribed our money, gave our |
presents, which were wholly unexpected, and |
which were only received when we insisted uDon |
It, that Collector Fuller having been informed in |
regard to H. refused TO accept, and only when |
Dur committee waited upon him and express d |
lheiI desire TO present him with a token of the |
appre citation he is held ia and insisted UPON his
accepting did he consent.
We have also to state that Deputy COllecto, |
Gray, one of our most Obligng and most popular |
officers, did manage to secure for US the money |
Tor said presentation, and that, too, without steal |
ng it, without producing defalcston, without |
even stretching the rules of the office aud that
we are very much obliged TO him for j.; and that |
We hope TO prove, ere cur official relations cease,
batwe also appreciate his kindness aud gentle |
manly qualities; and if the Republican does not |
lerve Us with q mandamus we mag also be guilty |
Of another starving extravagsnce. We have in |
to state that we still live. Famine has
not yet foreclosed on US, and only when it does |
hall we be under the necessity of requesting the |
nd of the cutting wit, the fertile brain of the |
imaginative being who SO eloquently sings the
luill in our behalf. DHrA