, 1873-10-03
j. WASHINGTON.
Points on Finnnce..-How the
Pub. Funclzs Behave.
A Resume Of Banking up 10 81.

Tho PrcBl1ont Ia with I'LL nBaiu, mud thus iB O.
protaxt for aonio reflections:
ELI AID HIS EoHs.
Tho Methodist Dools-Couccrl, w1liCh Taa
acrconed by tho Bishops, and which tho lloy. DR..
Lannllan, OF Tie baltimore Conforonco, was IN
nlouHly porsocuted for Showing up, as bocamo
hiB duty, has indirectly lad its influence OH tl,o
prevailing pnnio. Young Porter, aon Of ono Of
its General Agents, was tlo purchasing or
paper-furnIslor. or something Of this Concern,
And now young Carlton, aon Of tho otl,or AEcnt,
makes way with 100000 of tho Union Trust
Company, and prccipitatos chaos. Illis ought
to suggost good cartoon to Haypcr's Weekly
which, I see, Inns undertaken to correct churoll-
abuses, but prolongs Bomowhat monotonousy
its reformation Of tho Catholic Church. Wo
H,lggost for n cartoon DR.. Curry editor OF tito
Christian Advocate, doctoril,g up sono Of Lis
old sermons for editorials, whslo Youths
Carlton mud portor aro making Off with tho
cllurcl.-circotB, which arolabolcd "Livo Topics
Will the Rev, McKoown, Of tho town Of Rockford,
ILL.,, poaso como to ti'no on Cnsarism and Moth
odism, md tell t,s what ho knows iho Lord knows
about It? rofer to tho ablc thoologiun mud
seor WHO onco corroctol mo OH tho caso Of Dr..
John r. Newton, oflico-broI;er.
THE Jun1LEE.rR1;ss.
The Church newspapers, led of by tho hide
rendeut Which is tho cameloopard of that kind
OF literature, nrc getting it nil around for the nd
vocacy Of such ontorprlscs as jay Cooke mud
others devaot for bond-ee]ng purposea. Tloso
newspapers haye for some years back got to put
ting money article In their issue, telling tho
cnss-loador how to 10y up Treasures IN Heaven
by exchanging his Governments for Bnchn'a
iirst.mortgagc bonds, and how to read Lis titlo
clear in the Banana Zone TO the north
Of US. Can any authority bo moro
questionable than an ecclesiastical
olitorB who ta1scs u prominent cornor Of hiH pa
por from God, mud deliberately heads it ttAIam-
mon7" Thou hypocrito first cast lilo railroad-
boum out Of thine oyo, and then cnnnt thou SEQ
Clearly to cnst tho mote out Of thy brothers. eyo
It ia tho religious, moral, aud clerical world
which hud been chiefly btton in North pacitics.
aro precious LOT Of clergylnen non-a.
| days soliciting na life insurance agents. /
know Of a brauch Methodist book-l,ouHo which
Mr. Mr. Jay Cooke mainly supported, probably for
good reasons. not unmixed with the main
| chanco Mr.. Jolln Dunyan, when llc wrote hia
| beautiful allcgory of the "pilgrin's progress,'
mado IN error Of fnct. He described Christian.
hiu hcro, going to sleep in au arbor, reading, il
remember, TINT soothing publication callod ''Iho
Moral Mcdloy" llo left lis roll in TINT
nrbor, md Ind to como long way buck to find
it, 10 Ills great delight it was still on the spot,
|
mortgage, golti-bcarins, Northern paclllo bond.
Aud lo went his way II visor pilgrim.
soatE POINTS ON THE SITUATION.
| Jan, 1,1S74,-only three months OF, N,-S2O, ,001, :,
600 Of our per cotH uro due, which will Gull FOR
| that amount OF coin from Secretary Richardson.
Somebody who posacsscs tho bonds will get tile
coin.
10 given TINT the ultimate buyer Of produce las
male Il special deposit Of gold in tho Dank Of
England. tho Secretary Of tho Treasury is to it,
sue like amount Of currency here to banks %
! ing commercial hills Of exchange for
tho American correspondents OF such dcpositora.
How easy would Cpaariam appear to lo when
everybody IL jumping o l,is n9es' lo the
| thing. "Forward Tho pork cries QUO. "For
1tcaSon's sakc, b1ldgo tho brcal.tMNs sayn oil
Other. "IIoiat your jibby-jlbi - says Il third,
"nnt throw oycrboarl your logal;,tender ro-
ind got currency for thcu, md nay interest tol
tic currency when tloy rccovor thu bonds from
Government !" says fourth.
Tho President hears all those things on tlit
roop-dccli, where l,o commands tho ship like at
hn.oricnn Indian just como aboard. lie tur1iE
to Dabcocts, tho First Mntot mud hands him lis
spoaking-trnmpot. and thon gonits over tue
gwaMo TO- gaSeoo ho aot Is hsss sF'ahs hav viesr HE
Proailont can't violate his constitutional y Then
Richardson, the Boasswafn, pipes: "lt's none
Of cur funorall" ....
Is TIE GOVERNMENT UP 10 THE noCn2
People hAvo hcon inluisitiyo to know how tue
great officers Of tho Government boslavo them.
selves ut this period. I have been Il good dea
nbout tho Treasury, and ashoa some questions
Tho trouble hero has been, that tho President i
always nbBont, talking ct Long Branch viii
Clcws or Murphy, or some Of thoso mentally
.ll morally ragged, il physically rich, people
who hold the person Of orr Cesar in dlntraint
lIo Gun bo reached by telegraph but that is no
vr hnur
Telegraph Z; but alo may llavo bcen hugsod b5
lilo other man, just aa sho 6ont or received yoll
message. Tho Office OF President il, In meas!
uro. vacant by ts possessor's absenco and no tel
| ography can substantinto it,. Particularly il THU
tic case with ono OF Grants temperament. wht
goyornB by feeling his way nlong as tho intluonc
Of tho tllno guides him. I saw sack-r0cc, till
summer hetwoon q lot Of ncgro-wnltors at
MH,1 tio poie, Ind % %yot az 10 was wholly oavcloped
looked queer TINT ho could guess it 70 we'll
, discovered, however, that another darby WI
running aliead Of hin, amongst tho crowd, say
Jiml Nov. Jump Like H. Jim, md do five dol
II flat is tue way tho President, elected BY aev
, crnl millions Of votes, Jumps in biin1toido
, Doric or anyboay who eau get his confidence
but who never got veto aud l'as no rospo1lhi1D
ity, says: Jump tho way toll you!
floreforo, when tue President y ny no, anon
WHO l& telling uH lluM W A.!bhNi
, WLon lo 10 Iomo, he m,lat be treated worry gin
gerly. Boill tho t5eoretary Of tho Treasiry an
. ttho tic Attornoy-ucneral efo tin!a mon in :, hi i
prosonco, acting iko Grand Vislors atfslu =
toir houtls, ,nlhor tlau lilso modern Secretaries
: Sly, consciously inferior, yet nonoltiyo IN !
being discovered to be 10, the President isten
/, md dooleh according to hid eonidonco III tn
: tukor Tho Attornny- -0onoral iA n m@n who l's
0 permitted Lon DulIer ta wriso lH opln!ona, an
: wllo has buidod hiluscf q now lsouse III Wesl
D nston. Theno two sim ngainat cosseionee '.,a
! nv 4 f;uancior, must call upon Williams to npp
= tlio law to any policy, ho may n
: upon. Williams mid ho ore no no
:. Ion,o, and 3 sweet picl;lo We aso In. "Wo We,
Confidence" e seys Richardson; bnt llat il jus
i wlat nobody las, except at ele;oti1n.t'mes.
o t4o hcad OF tho GoyornInent aul tt llas no co..
ltss Sion ahot.gna aro going OH tho houao-to
a AID probably itH imhccility il tho pro@orraiit
4 feai,,ro about it. It doop not know how to
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