New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-15

Congress- at its last session. in of those fits Of
spigOt economy which are excited by public com
ment the open bung, passed law abolishing
mileage to officers travelling on duty and substituted
transportation, confined to actual travelling
penses." OF course this compels the War Depart
ment to declare what actual expenses are and the
result of the struggle with this problem is seen in
melancholy General Order recently issued from the
Adiutant- Generals Office. The officer can only
travel by usual modes. He can only have special
transportation when there no regular means of
conveyance when they cannot be obtained from
the Quartermasters Department" An Infinite vista
of cayiling is thus opened up as the regularity"
and possibility of these means of conveyance The
officer is not allowed to charge for than seven
DAYS hotel expenses at any higher rate than four
dollars per day. He must not charge for extra meals
where the board is included in the fare. If he is
made to pay fare on Immigrant roads, which ought
to carry him free he cannot be reimbursed. lie
must make affidavit to all expenses and be prepared
70 prove them from his memorandum book. The
General Order goes off into bewildering disscrta
ton on the differences between citizens and
poyes. and closes with Supplying announcement
that all former regulations on the subject of cOmmu
tation which do not conflict with the present
tanned. 1t would take the intellect of an Evarts to
decide which of them do or do not conflict When
most scrupulously honest and honorable men in the
public service it is not pleasant to see the Wan De-
partment driven, by slap-dash legislation, into issu-
ing an order which must make an officer feel. in
starting on journey of duty, if there were de-
tectives on his track, and which will require new
clerk in the Department for every hundred dollars
disbursed.
Mr.. Lamadrd in Louisville Ky, was initiated
into the mysteries Of " the Knights of Pythias' He
never got over it, but soon after died and now the
Widow Lamadrid brings an action against the
Knights seeking to recover $4,000, and setting
forth in her declaration that, during the aforesaid
initiation, her poor husband was beaten, bruised
dragged" and subjected to unlawful, cruel. ard
wicked treatment" 1t will be interesting trial,
but the onus probaadi being upon the plaintiff, we
fancy the Knights will be able TO maintain their
little secrets. We have never before heard of any
body killed by the processes to which the Pythian
neophytes are subjected and we suspect that Mr..
Lamadrid could MT have been in very robust health
when he was put through" Perhaps, but for
reasonable pride, the widow would set forth that
her poor man was scared to death y but it makes
much better and more dgnfed case to declare
that he was put to inexpressibe tortures and sue
cumbed to the dreadful inventions of endsh malig-
nifty.
The noble rooster! His paternai instincts have
been peculiarly utilized, it said, at Cape May,
where one Of the Shanghai sort has submitted to
harness and to act the steed of baby's wagon.
1t is presumed that he also refrans from sounding
his trumpet that he may not disturb the slumbers
of his tender charge but nature should prove too
far him and ha ahould an m in dual tn