The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-08

OF the parties RC Cnn EraQClBCO TO whom
it was consigned, or to destroy its con-
tents in case the steamer should be ut.
tackled by pirates. To the very last he
was faithful to his charge. We regret
to say. that ho soon after lost his life by
tho wreck Of steamer on Tho Pacific
oonst.
It is not believed that the Administers
tion is in any way responsible for this
for tho fact TINT tho guilty parties have
but have boun carefully shielded from
deserve. vo.--L0MispiNs Courier. Journal.
Tho Now York World adds:
Losr.-ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS We
hear good denl now and then in the
papers Of what is called conscience
money. This name is given to the sums,
for tho most part, rather inoonsidernble,
which are from time to time sent anony.
mously to the Federal Treasury, will,
letters setting forth thnt they are paid in
acquittal Of duea to the Government
which had been feloniously withheld
until the conscience Of the debtor ro-
fused any longer to grant him reposo.
Ii there be anything approaching to Il
revival OF honesty throughout the conn.
try, &c we are sometimes asked to believe
there really is, we ought very shortly to
rend OF quite the largest sum OF ':con
science money" ever paid into the strong
box OF the State. For it hns become
plain, from the statements Of Mr.. Geo
s. Boutwell,, Secretary Of tho Treasury
and of General Spinner, Treasurer, thut
the trife of more than one hundred mil
lions dollars is missing from tho Trensur,
of the United States. Here are the
statements referred to:
nEroRTEp ny SECRETARY BOUTWELL,.
U. 8. dobt July 1, 1871. ...... 81 353 2i1 ,33l 2:
REPORTED ny TREASURER SPINNER.
U. 8. debt July 1. 1871. 81, ,243 $50 82l 0s
Excess Boutwell, over Spinner. s1Oo, ,63o, ,511. 1.
This is pretty serious discrepancy, j,
it not? That there is not now, and fn1
long time past has not been, anything
in the administrative system of tie
Treasury ut Washington to make it ever
seriously difficult for such deficit to ht
created sufficiently appears. as VIC sub
nit, from the statement made only tie
other dny by Comptroller II. W. Taylor
as to the million of dollars reported los
on board of the Golden Rule steamship
IN May, 1855. Comptroller Taylor qni
etly announces that this great sum o
money was sent forward from the Urea
sury for shipment as "a package of large
TREASURY notes, Sl,OO0.OOO," with ne
statement either ''of the denomination.
or the numbers" and he adds, that "nc
record OF the denominations or the mum
bers was kept. That it should be posi-
ble to foist even hundred and ten mil
lions of unlawfully issued bonds upon
treasury which disdains to keep til.
slightest record of millions sent out from
it, need surprise no one. And as there il
no reason to expect thabthe Radical ma
jority in Congress will This year permi
that thorough overhauling of the Tres
sury accounts which they hnve hereto
fore steadily resisted and defeated, Wa
are remitted to the operations OF ths
conscience for our only chance of eve
again seeing these hundred and ton mil
lions of dollars, upon which the labor .
the country is paying between six ant
seven millions of dollars of annual inte
rest in tnxes.
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