The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-11-06
Arrival Of the German.Silver
Man.-What'S Half.a-DOllar
Amongst One
The Bank is but the GuineaS
Stamp, Richardson's the
Man for q That.
Nitrate Of Silver Currency.

Nitrate Of Silver Currency.
Correspondents Of Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1873.
'Now, don't you done gone hoard it,
tell you, John Henry! Nov, don't you done
gone hoard dat silver! JUS you take II
home an show il to your fadef, an den lay
it out in persimmons; TO the Secrumtery
says 20 must put 'em in suckumlationv'
80 quoth the great boss watchman ~ be
gave silver quarter to his boy this fore.
noon, on the steps of the Treasury.
"Hoard it ?" says the boy, "What do you
meao!"
'Don't you done gone hide it. LIS give
20 boy-a to resto' confidence"
"How kin I?'
"Why," .ays old Cuffy, scratching his
spectacles with his thumb. "why-ah, give
il swayH
The old man went back to his seat in the
big Treasury pile, blowing very hard, as il
his full duty had been discharged. Follow.
ing him in, We behold q ecene novel and
and somewhat peculiar. A sign was stuck
up to the effect that the clerks would be paid
s. odd in hundred, and we're expected To
keep it moving. 1t was especially given, az
the placard explained, to add to the feeling
of confidence, and familiarize the public
with the novelty of itself, if may 20 express
il.
1.-Two small sacks, about of the size Of salt
bagr, such n used to sell for 25 cents when
was in the grocery business and the tariff was
down, stood on the marble counter of the
Treasury. Guarding these little sacks were
several stalwart policemen looking Cog and
Magog at you, as If they we're Yeomen-
Warden of the British regalia. There was
q kind of foolish look about the clerks inside
of the long glass bar. and they were recipro-
Gated BY The crowd Of idlers in front. The
very recipients Of the money looked ridicu-
lous receiving it, and the paying teller was
6ustered. This wac the resumption Of specie
payments which Richardson, the Secretary,
had entered upon Immediately on being inn
pressed by Pis.ident Grents views. The
Secretary had announced it in an official cir
cular, and there had been n much stir there
about a. the poet made in announcing his
buccanser character in "Rokeby:"
Columbia heard it throsgh her States,
And opened vide her silver gat&;
Rich Mexico IL bad passed through,
And sacked the spendors Of Peru.
The room in which this performance was
going on is the great showroom Of the Treas
my building. lined with polished marbles in
variegated colors, and adorned with screens
and furniture of rosewood. Since VIM. E
Chandler had his name cut in the marble
walls under Hugh McCullOch's, there has
been no such contemplate burleaque on the
Public Treasury Of . great country. Rich
ardsOn himself felt the farce upon him, and
slipped away to his inner ssnctum.
Last night the bar-rooms hsd signs stuck
up to this effect: Confidence Restorer. Try
4 Handygaf. Five cents in specie given to
every caller at the bar, on the condition that
he keeps it moving"
Ii appeares by the evening report that
fifty persons in the United States had re-
ceivsd s. apiece. This is just 1910, OOO, 900
or 1900. 600 Of the population. As Gen.
Grant expects . generous party to elect him
long enough to vindicate his policy, he will
require just 20, 600 terms of four years each
to resume ii. Probably BY the end of that
period, If he begins now and is good stu
dent, he will have some ideas on finances.
But the public opinion Of his most obtuse
supporters were expressed in q newspaper
Office yesterday. when an old fellow Who has
three sons in ofice said:
81 never expected to own up to II, but
there's some darned fools around the head Of
our Government"
RIcHARDsON AND BOUTWELL,.
The present Secretary of the Treasury ia BY
no means the smallest potato in the Cabi-
net, although he would Be the smallest Bank
President you ever saw; but the mighty re-
probabilities of his Office dwarf him lower
than . retired peanut merchant beside the
Bank of England. A little Probate Judge,
and not good at that, particularly, in the
Village Of Cambridge, Mass, he had but one
connection in this world with Federal busi-
nes. He gave q bed and . breakfast,
when he came up that way, TO George
8. Boutwell,, who rewarded him with
. place in the Treasury. When
Boutwell,, at his trade Of
politician, passed up to that Senate where he
had delivered his Hols-ln-the-Sky Grafton,
be had the respect for bis late Office to pres
that Richardson be put in it. The Probate
Judge Of small village. BY the mere chance
of association with . popular politician, is
thus the First Lord OF the Treasury Of Q na-
ton with nearly $500, 600. 600 of currency,
and which enjoys the confidence of Europe
to the extent of 81, 500, OOO, 900 of gold in
ten . chapter on Finance, or been quoted
among the solid men Of Boston - great
private authority on bullion, coinage, or po-
iitical economy Yet there he sits. embody-
ing High Life Below Stairs and the only
piece Of dignifed work he has done is to sua-
gsss for one Of his official organs that his
teuerity for this step grew out of too for
ward belief in President Grants positions
recently enunciated.
This is apparent by the story Of the m,n' q
humble life, and BY the clerical dociIity with
which he leaps to carry out the Presidents
tumble Of ideas.
To LOOK UPON,
be h an old clerk of court, or more respect
able usher to banking house, such a Abra-
ham Nsvland. NeWland was made clerk
in the Bank of England in l748, and it took
him thirty -foar yean to become cashier,
which Office he filled thirty five yean, and
acquired . fortune of $3.50, 900 in the course
Of sixty years faithful service. It ia related
that, for twenty FIVE years. he never
sieus outside Of the bank. Twenty Eve
years Of sleep in the Treasury might do
something for the present Secretary n the
matter stands, it would be cheaper to pay
him the 1854, 900 in advance, all in coin,
and discharge him-with Instructions not to
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