The New York herald., 1872-09-20
The sub-Treasury Defalca ton.


Another stupendous robbery by govern
ment official has come to light, which, in the
simplicity of its accomplishment, challenges
wonder. clerk in the Sub-Treasury
in this city constituted department
in himself-the Revenue Stamp Department.
He received stamps from Washington, which
it was his duty to enter on the books, SO as to
make the tally of sales and receipts. One fine
morning in August he is alleged to have re-
ceived SITS, 1000 worth of them, and four days
after $4,000 worth. He did not enter these.
He went on fortnight's vacation, and has not
since returned. They are now looking for
him and the stamps. This is all. He was
jovial man, years in the Department,
trusted, relied on and promoted. It is
simply q tale of misplaced confidence.
The wonder is, it would appear, why a
man on a salary of eighteen hundred dollars
year is left to quiet communion for years
with hundreds Of thousands of dollars worth
of convertible stuff in his hands, and the
thought before him that he had only to
omit an entry and walk off with as much as
he pleased. Should the government lay
such inducements in mans way and escape
condemnation with him in his crime? He
has had long start of the knowing detectives,
and it is not probable, as some wiseacres
believe, that the man who took such o
step, knowing that it, must be discovered
in time, waited around for the Sclaircisseme,a.
He would not be likely to misplace his con-
fdence in such way Another curious
feature connected with this curious affair is
that the authorities of the Sub Treasury took
so long to ascertain whether there had been a
fraud committed or not. Any well-regulated
business concern will have its accounts and
cash made up to the latest hour, SO that it can
tell Immediately if there be anything wrong
The magnitude Of any business makes no
difference. The Sub-Treasury here ought to be
managed as we'll as any small bank would be-
The Partisan Ball OF scurrility stiIl
Rolling On.
The Evening Nail administers o weli-merited
reproof to the partisan organs that go out Of
their path to fling offensive expletives upon
their opponents 1t calls for weeks truce
$50 that hot blood can cool and muddled
brains get clear and animosities subside o
little" Another evening contemporary also
reprehends the prevailing grossness Of parti-
san invective, but being partisan print
itself it sees only one side Of the question
and would take the mote out of it's brother
eye before taking heed Of the beam in its
own Again, in one short paragraph in the
columns of a morning partisan contemporary
we find such ungentlemanly and unjournal-
istic expressions as 'untruth," 'slanderers," ("
'calumny," ''sneak;" in another, ''boss thief
'fhief," "scalawags;" in another, "wanton
libeller;" in another, and apparently the
leading editorial, a neighboring journalist
is characterized as having "grown old and
vicious" in the art of hbelling and of 'forg-
ing charges against political opponents
Another prominent journalist is classified
among ''unscrupulous men, This whole
constellation Of elegant English is subl-
mated under the modest heading of ISLANDER
as q Trade" In the words of Newark con-
temporary, this is truly the Campaign of
scandal" and, it might have added, of sour
yilty and ywgarity and needless personality.