, 1870-04-24

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"aYsuE "Pa,,,:s;aq Aneq E4ee8enry: On ur .boot-~
nesndi.sy beet cond.et 1t Isst7 W. hsvs
nothln8 To- do With beef oontrsets Tor the
army, my dear d." ~ -s4 >~S
oh, that y III yer. wen-bpt somebody
n~id ~ I ~ t9 shat beef. Il has got 10 be
ia ..ae ao[ c, now, to, or III confscats this old
fatens NJ. othce mi everything IN II"
1 nuet my deI air"
.,. naia ~ mak' any difference, hir. The Pat
ELY, EuS unsee = AAha for that beef, reckon and
,sp ~ ~ I. nos hahe, the Patent Oec has got to
hc5er mind tte detAils. It ended in a fight.
1He latent ofnca won. But found out sou1e-
1Hne 70 ~ Advantage Was told that the
-" aae@satJ ~ uepsfment was the proper place for
Snn,s n ~ sp r.. 10; 1 vent there 1waited two
The Fl'Bt Lord Of the Treasury, 1 aid:
Most Iob1e, grave, and reyere-.:: S;pnor.
W Or apont the 10Th de- Of October, 1851,
John Wilson A&ckec-~ A' &'S''
11st u sltticieut, sir. l have hoard Of
| ag." " '1s
olu 20. He sent nc to the Second Au-
] 9tor; The Second Auditor sent me to The
!nHd, apQ the Third sent me to tbe First
LonpI1o4er o. ths Corn Beef Division. This
| pe6.a 10 ioo9 Hke buslnese. He examined his
minute Of the b+ef CONTRACT. I vent to the
second Comptroller Of the Corn Beef Divisie,l
| Ae examined his bookA and .ooae papess. bit
VAIN no success. was encouraged. During
taat week got a fas Is the Sixth Comptroller
n that division tue next week I rot through
tie ClAims Department; The third Weef s.
| gan and completed tho Mi.l.id Contxacta Dc
Faft. and got foosh0d in the Dead Reckon
ing department. I taaished that in three daya
ihefe was only one pAce left for It now. I
Mla Eiese 70 The Commissioner Of Odds and
Enda- 10 his clerk, sa.het-he was not there
himself. There we're sixtcen besutiful young
ladies' N the room, writing in books, and there
were seven wen-taEosed yonng clerks
rhowang .tn,wang .,ai3s9 them how. Tho soung
Sana Tomen NJ ,aa smued l9 up oser their ahoHl;
ali went @ MY vi Is s Sf msf7!sSs asfs be1 Two or
three -setks that wete reading the newspapers
Looked ut mo rather hard, 5ut went on read
ing. and nobody raid anything. However,
Fourth -Aseistant~Junios Clerks all through mg
eventfnl career, from the very lsr entered
the htet Office Of the Corn-Beef Bureau cIeaf
till paesed out of the Last one in the Dead
Eeekoning Division. had got so acconp-
tished BY this time that I could stand on one
clerk spoke TO me, without changing more
than TWO, or maybe THREE times
So stood there till had changed four dif-
fercnt times, Then raid to one or tho clerks
who Was reading:
Trrk 7"
"What do you mean, air whom do you
mean + you mean the Chief Of the bureau,
lie is out"
Viii he visit the hs1em to-day s'
!. lle young tuan glared upon me while, mud
then went On reading his paper But know
the ways Of those clerks L knew was sste II
he got through before another New York mail
arrived He only had two more papers left.
After i while La finished them, and then he
yawned, md asked nc what wanted.
" Renowned aud houored Imbecile: On or
about"
you are the beef contract MAI Give mo
your pApets-"
He took them. and for long time be raa-
sacked lis odds and ends. Finally ho found
the Northwest Passage, as 1 regarded it-hc
tract-he found tho rock upon which 90 many
OF my ancestors had split before they ever got
to it. Has deeply moved. And ret 1 tc-,
1olced.for had survived / said, with emo
tion !: !" Give it me; the government will settle
now. He waved me lack. and said there was
something yet to be done itat.''
"Nhere is this John Wilson Mackenzie ?"
said be.
dead"
"When did he die 7"
He didn't dio At all-he was killed"
"How ~
'TomAhawked"
"Who tonuahawked him ~
"Hhy, An Indisn, Of course. You tlida't
suppose j: was Superintendent Of a Sunday
school, did you 7"
"+No. An Indian, was :"
"The saue."
'tEame OF the Indian:r
- His nsmc. I don't k,ow his name"
Must have his name. Who aAw the touaA-
hawking doneF"
~ / don't know
"fou were not present yourself thens"
Which you can SEQ By my lAir. l was ab- !
sent" |
Then how do you know ,tha. Mackenzie is
.'Eecsuse he certainty died 1t that time, and
haro every reason to believe that he has been |
We must have proofs. Hare you got The !
Iudian:"
t'Of course not"
We'll, you nust get lin. Have you got
the tom1hawk:1
II never thought Of such . thing"
You must get thu toLnzhaxk. You must I
produce tho lndian and tho tonlahawk- Il !
death can ha proyan by these. you !
can then 60 before the Commission appointed |
to audit claims, with eoma show Of getting
your bill under such haadway ti.at your chill
tlrcn may possibly live to rccciye the money
md etioy i. But that na,l's death mus, be !
prpEeu. However. may % well tell you tF-t |
the government will never ray thAt tr--sPor-
tntion md those travelling expen-:;s OF tho
,tra ~ Sssf a., my soers
tures, II yon cst, ret = ra,::f bill through Con-
6ress InaStns an A1v. opEl1tion for That pur-
pose hut i viz rst p.E for tho twenty-nine
''Tben thcre is only hundred dollars due
me, and that isn't certain! tAtttr all Mackcn-
zicfs travels in Europe, Asis, and America with
taas beef after ali his trials and trbulatioas
and trsnsportations after the slaughter OF al |
those innocents That tined to collect the bit!
Young man. Why didn't tho First Comp t1oler
Ut the Corn Beef Division tell me this {"
81 lie didn't know ansthing about the genu-
incpess Of your claim
IL Nlly didn't the Second tell mo? Why
didn't the Thirl5 Why didn't Ill those diyia-
ions and departments tell me p
.tNone Of them knew. We do things by |
routine here. You have followed the routine
and found out what you wanted to know. 1t
il tho best way. II is the only WAY. It IL
very regular, and very slow, but it il very car
most Of our tribe. begir to feel that J, too,
an called. Young man, you love tbs bright
creature youder with the Gtutle blue eyes and
tue steel pens behind her ea1s-l see it in your
toft ElAuces; you wish to natry her-but you
oof Her. hoa ts ept {oq1 IN nahsre ID nnI
Heaven bless you, my clildront"
This is all that know about the g1eat beof
contract, that hAH created 20 much talk in the
community. The clerk to uhon be4neathed
II died know nothing lurt1eT about tie con-
t11ct or any one connected with it, only |
know that il m1n lives long enough he can |
trace thing through the circumlocusion Office |
Of Washington, aud find out, after muca labor |
and trouble and delay. that which he could |
have found ont on the d.st day II the business !
Of tho Circunlocutiou Office we're ingoniously |
<ystematized as it wouH be il il were great
private mercantile institution.
An Ode to Hoz.
From FMnth.
Some CaHard-hatc her. reckoning on hls chickens,
Has laid an rET,-
a paragraph IN short
Ol SUCH aBIt
That i-altheuxh without ypus leAye-fousa