The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-15
Republican Rascalities I'm Brief.
The New York Guardian condenses

The New 0rk GHdrd,dn conuenees
the following for digestion .-
any business in this State
Made me looker.on here In Vienna,
| Where / have seen corruption Doll ana
bubble
Till it o'errun the stew lq,cs for al fanhs ;
| But faults so cotnatendnced thai me aro"9
,Snad ike the JorJsits IN barber's shop,
| As much in mock as mark
Government officials selling govern
ment arms aud ammunition on their
own hook, millions made and high
parties connected, with the President
implicated. :,
Gigantic frauds in the New York
Custom House and the Washington
ring a principal.
A specific deficit in the stamp account
of the Internal Revenue Department
100000.
The Seneca Sandstone Company jobs
to squander 100000, and the Presi
dent interested.
Secretary of the Navy Rob eson makes
with one Brown a 100000 contract to
furnish Government live oak and
other timber" said timber to be cnt on
Government reserves; 100000 alleged
TO have been made on this job, and
shared between Brown and said Secre-
rotary.
Secretary Rob-eson, in conspiracy
with one L. G. Cattell, Of Philadelphia,
whereby said Cattell, without compet''
ton, contrary to law, and at his own
prices, supplies the7Navy Yards freely
The arrangements, however proflgate,
must be profitable, if the following
specimens are correct: 1000 tons iron,
worth per ton $50, charged at per ton on
1924. Made on one nice little coal bill
81, 100000.
January |, 1872, Secretary ROb-eson
helps himself out Of the Treasury, to a
New. Years present for somebody,
amounting to S92, 000 and is called a
successful robber" for his pains.
The Postmaster G eneral-Chorpennlng-
Cresswell swindle, which only took
from the Treasury Sl4i,00O.
The Washington Ring buy, In CHI
cago, for government buildings, the
Bigelow property. The price agreed on
exceeds the value Of sum more than
sufficient TO pay for block previously
rejected because it would cost too much
The mint robberies in Philadelphia,
STYLED petty and contemplate compared
with the "maynlfcent robberes' going
on near the White House.
Davis, Of Texas, for false and fraudu-
lent election, continues Administration
Governor of that State. Clayton, of
Arkansas, for the same thing, has a
seat in the United States Senate.
Next, we have Forneys two term ar
rangemeut with Grant, to make the
thing pay, and Grants reelection ar
rangement with Forney, to make the
thing sure.
Then, the Undergraduates Mon
opoly Swindle, for protection, 1. e., ex-
terminating seal, with, in close prepar-
alton, like monopoly Of walrus, the
next best thing that costly purchase Is
fit for. Finally, to top off with, a snug
s25,000,0O0 steamboat subsidy JOB with
Cresswell and Company to spend the
money.
Civil Service Committee report on In
ternal Revenue; stealings by Collectors
annually $90,0O0,00O. ,
Southern State and railroad bond
robberes by Littlefeld, Reed, Hopkins,
Holden, Scott and the rest, amounting
at least to $500, 100000.
Public land robberies, footing up,
easily 100000.
Since the war, sum total stealings,
"loval, patriotic" and unprotected, ex-
ceeding far S2,O00,000,00O.