New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-11
How Scandals arc Manufactured.

Here is the interesting career Of a Joint
SANDER, invented by the Liberal organs.
The wanton and malignant character OF the
calumny Is at last nwittinGly confessed in
the columns of one of its fathers. . D..
THE REMOVAL OF COLLECTOR PALFREY.
-, JFrom the Springfield Republican. Juns I2l -.
The AK has come down. Mr.. Charles w.
Palfrey is no longer Collector of the Port of
Salem. His only Ohense was, that, being the
editor of a Republican paper in General But
ler's district, he did not support that ambi-
tious gentleman last fallin his raid upon the
-Governorship. To be sure, he was a faith
fld and capable officer, and had u record rs a
Republican running back beyond the time
when General Butler incurred hoarseness
by shouting for JEFF. Davis in the Charleston
Convention. But all this went for nothing.
General Butler demanded his head, and it
was promptly forthcoming upon 4 Treasury
Department charger. We ask Mr.. George
$. Boutwell,, In all Kindness, whether he can
afford this sort of thing much longer? ''..-..9
THE Tribune ADDS A nLUNDsR TO THE
: - y ''' IT'D. sIANDER...' IN 30 lGaG.
'.''''. Prom the New York rtbaac JdueIsT i.;2iI
The renominators, with the great renoni-
mated at their head, have begun to put on
the screws after fashion which it did not
require any great preseichce to anticipate.
Mr.. Charles w. Palfrey is good enough
Grant man, and as editors of the, Salem Rsg-
istefi he has given the, Administrations a fair
support Butif is necessary in atlrat district
not only to support Grant, but Gen. Butler;
and as Mr.. Palfrey. couldn't do that with
much evcnAOf simulated enthusiasm, he has
been turned out Of his office of postmaster.
So the Administration thinks Gen. Butler
worth propitiating, and when he orders a
decapitation' the Federal guillotine Is at once
put in motion. We don't condole with Mr..
Palfrey, for, under the circumstances, he is
better out OF the office than in. - ...s.i ....
-'1"" -''" ONCE MORE. : ---f"
~, .(From the New York Tribune. June I'll
Mr.. Palfrey, Collector of the Port at. Sa-
lem, was suddenly turned out of the office he
had filled with perfect aceeptability, because
General Butler desired it.
TIE SANDER oyERHArLEnfATL LAST.
From the New York Tribune. July 5
An investigation of the charges against
Mr.. Palfrey, Collector of Customs at Salem,
Mass, developes the fact that the Treasury
Department has been for many months in
possession of evidence impeachins; his in
tegrity and official capacity. 1t appears that
this officer has been in the habit OF so manip-
uiatinS seizures made Withln his district, as
to defraud the Government and benefit him
self, and the only excuses offered by him.
have been that he could not unders tand the
revenue laws, and that he had been advised
by a Boston eustom-house officer to pursue
the course, he did. The records, however,
show, that although this Boston officer was
at once removed, Mr.. Palfrey has only re-.
Gently been requested to resign. The re-
cess of Congress, and consequent impossi-
bility of getting whitewashlng committee
to report upon this case, will doubtless COM
pei Mr.. Palfrey's removal, though for some
reason Mr.. Boutwell, seems very unwilling to
take this course. Various theories are adj
vanced here regarding the retention of Mr..
Palfrey after the establishment of his guilt,
among others, that Mr.. Palfrey's connection
with a semi-weekly paper in Massachusetts
is not without its influence upon Mr.. Bout
well, just at this time. '0 ''''"