The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-19

yer in this city was employed IN neaI1S a..
the cases of prosecution for violation OF the
revenue laws, and hardly case was In pl"'
time brought to final trial. Every one, ior
many months, we believe, was lost by the
way. The accused left the court, pue no,
, "a be came. He left behind all that cou'u
| he squeezed out of him. Will the Govern
| meut ever look into these things! WIN
ever make sincere and decided ef1or. W
find what has become Of the fines anu 'oi
feitures. which run up to millions, that nave
| never been reported and never reaciieo tno
Treasury Will Congress give TO POTTER
| resolution about these matters any honest
| force and effect?
The bankrupt proceedings In this State is
another mountain of corruption and plum
der.
OF the hundreds of thousands that have
been thrown into that court for settlement
and distribution, who outside Of the court
can tell anything about them9 We have
yet to hear Of creditor who has received
anything from the distributive funds in the
hands of the court. Az has gone down the
"lost river"
A prominent northern gentleman, once a
thorough Republican, and still resident
Of the great metropolis, has just returned
from a tour of investigation into southern
finances, and he boldly declares that the
| rogues set upon the Southern States under
| the name Of officers are worse than war
Of blood upon the people. The drain they
| cause upon the means Of the people is
breaking down their spirit and paralyzing
| view. What sort of Government is it that
maintains corps Of officers, with few ex-
ceptlons, so devoid Of every requisite for
| positions of trust and honor? A wise
statesman must look with horror upon this
sort of administration, which must surely
engender in the public mind discomfort
deep and resentful.
To see an old journalist-detective-
whose selt-complacent virtue is ever lead
ing him to make a noise about somebody's
want of honesty-hunting up men who
abuse the Thanking privilege, when there
are such Government rogues, such rob-
berries as we have here in the South to be
lferrctted out and exposed-is ridiculous
enoush. This kind of hunting is like that
of q demoralized old hound, who, being
lput upon the trail of wolf, turns of to
follow the track Of pole-cat
No! The wrongs of the South are not for
the columns of Northern journals, save q
VERY few. But the libels of the blackguard
Villains who seek to keep themselves in
office by intlamng the public mind Of the
North against the South, find much more
ready publication and currency with those
Journals, and are even dignifed by trans
mission to Congress by the President! We
must do them all the justice, however, to
say that there is less disposition now than
formerly for these falsehoods, yet they stand
better chance Of hearing there now than
the truth with reference to the deeds of the
Government thieves-as Governor WALKER
Justly called them-who are plundering
and impoverishDg the States as they have
done for near six years. It is in some
sense worse than war. The Government
itself has gotten some thirteen millions of
dollars out of our people in twenty-five
months. Add to that the plumber Of the
thieves, and you may see how we are op-
pressed by the best Government in the
world. Franking privilege, indeed