Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-27
CONE INTO COURT.



Radical RRseaIfty In BrIef-A FOrmid
able Indictment.
The New York Guardian condenses tht
following for digestion: ~
| ''My business in this State
Made me a loOker-On here IN Vienna,
| Mnere have seen corruption boil and bubble
| TIL 1t o'errun the stew; latcs for al fauIts.
6utJaatts so co1ntenGReed, 1at TIE strong statute;
| Stand IKE the torteits in barber's shop,
As much IN mock as mark"
Government officials selling Government
arms and ammunition on their own hook, mil
Lions made and high parties connected with
the President implicated.
Gigantic frauds in the n. Y. Custom
House, aud that Washington ring princi-
pal.
a specific deficit in the stamp account OF
the Revenue Department, $6,000,000.
The Seneca Sandstone COMPANY Jobs 30
squander SIS, ,0O0, 900, and the President in
terested. ~ -9l4
Secretary OF the Navy Rob-eson makes
with one Brown, a $500,000 contract To fur
nish Government olive oak and other tim
ber," said timber to be cnt on Government
reserves; 100000 alleged to have been
made on this job, and shared between
OAOWh eAAA aAAu AONlCbdIyH
Secretary Ro6-eson in conspiracy with
one E. G. CatteI, of Phila., whereby said
Catteil, without competition, contrary to
law, and at his own prices, supplies the Ma
vy-yards freely. The arrangement, how
ever protiigate, must be profitable, if the
following specimens are correct: 1000 tons
iron, worth, per ton, $3.50; charged at, per
ton, S224. Made on one nice little coal
bill, 81, 100000.
Jan. !, 1872, Secretary ROb-eson helps
himself, out of the Treasury, TO a New
Years present for somebody, amounting to
5000, and is called successful robber''
for his pains.
The Postmaster General -Chorpenning-
Cresswell swindle, which only took from
the Treasury S444,000.
Bogus mail contracts, for one year in
Texas, 100000.
The Washington ring buy, in Chicago, for
government buildings, the BgeloW property.
The price agreed on exceeds the value a
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
magnificent robberies" going on near the
White House.
Davis, of Texas, for false and fraudulent
election, continues Administration Govern
or Ofthat State. Clayton, of Arkansas, for
the same thing, has a seat in the U. S. Sen
ate.
Next, we have FOrney's two-term ar
with Grant, to make the thing
pay, and Grants reelection arrangement
with FOrney, to make the thing sure.
Then, the Washington-Alaska Monopoly
Swindle, for protecting, i. e., exterminatine
seal, with, in close preparation, a like mo-
nopOly of walrus, the next best thing that
costly purchase is fit for. Finally, to top
off with, snug $25, ,OO0,OOO steamboat SUBJ
sidy job, with Creswell s. Co, to spend the
money.
Civil Service Committee Report on Inter-
nal Revenue; stealings by Collectors an
nually S9O,OOO,OOO.
Southern States and railroad bond rob-
berries by Littlefield, Reed, Holden, Scott |
and the rest, amounting, at least, SSOO,OOO,- |
BOO.
Public land robberies, footing up, easily, |
81 900, 100000.
Since the war, sum total of steaIings,
loyal, patriotic" and protected, exceeding |
ar S2,O0O,OOO,O0O.