New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-12


Apof,er bas been added to the tales OF mystery
and crcumlocution which form the traditions OF the
Treasury Department. II seems that ex-Gov. Swami
of MARYLAND was called from the room OF the Con-
mittee on Appropriations, some time ago. by tnloe
men, one of whom, old Baltimore detective IN
formed him that "he had obtained clue to pro-
posed burglary in which a Government safe was
to be broken into and certain papers abstracted
of great Importance to committee III
investigation" Mr.. Swami held councli
with Messrs. Garfield and Starkweather,
and it was unanimously agreed that this must ro-
late to the Sanborn business-it looked roguiSh
enough, probably. to pertain to that. The three
mysterious men tbereupon referred to Messrs'
Dawes and Foster, and Mr. Dawes, without losing
his presence of mind sent them at to the Pres-
dent "The President in turn gave the inquiry TO
the Treasury Department" and it is significantly
remarked " the matter dropped" Or course IL
was This was by no means the first mysterious
disappearance that has been made into the
dark corridors aud alcOves Of the Treas
ury. There is no other place lhto
which anything, animate or iDanimate, can go with
so little prospect of getting OUT Judge Pendery
handed contract to somebody there one day. ana
it was a good many months before he could lay nls
eyes or his hand it again. Gen. Butler IS In there
somewhere, but the Committee could never capture
him. Somebody made the Sanborn contracts, but
human in cenuity has thus far failed to discover the
clerk or d60rkeeper who set the thing going, while
the acquisitions that Congress sends to the Secretary
for documents and information disappear a.
swiftly and mysteriously if they had been
swallowed up in the bottomless pit. SO
there is every reason to believe that
these three mysterious men are either pigeon-hoed
a., &c hand or
been going ever since through a course of refer
ence" whizzing from bureau to bureau, and getting
indorsed all over from head to toe. They VIII
never in all probability, como to light under the
present management and it Is easy to see, there-
FORE that this refuge is Of the safest places IN
the world for people who have had the misfortune
to commit penal offense Those who are yet at
LARGE had better fly thither and those who are not
had better break out of jail and into the Treasury
az soon as possible.
The Women's Whisky WARM Manchester, England,
of which the telegraph brought us news some days
ago seems to have been marked by great victories
so far, and indeed to be but weak and frivolous
sort of campaign. 1t has not been lacking however,
in interesting incidents. A party of women, most
of them described as elderly, respectable, and
quiet looking opened a meeting the other day
at tho big lamp in Chester Road" praying and ex-
horting from the comfortable elevation Of a wagon.
Nearly all the addresses seem to have consisted Of
domestic revelations of n startling and unpleasant
character Most Of the speakers had been for years
the victims Of drunken and abusive husbands who
had finally taken the pledge and reformed The
brutalites of the male creatures, who had beaten
their helpmeets and neglected 20 buy them proper
dresses" while they spent their earnings for dunk,
were described in the most moving and impas-
oi,p md lad " unfortunately
was badly overdressed." gave highly personal
and offensive sketch of drunken NAVY to whom
fate had united her. These narratives of expe-
rience resulted in two or three conversions but We
are not informed how they were relIshed by the
miserable husbands.
We hear of the great Roebuck, NJ p, again, and it
appears that he loves better than he did during
the Rebellion This time find him, with fiery
ferocity, dcnouncing emigration, and declaring
every Englishman to be bastard " who incites
Englands children to seek new home across the
sea-" Patriotism unquestionably one of the love-
lest of the virtues. Lives there man with soul so
dead, &c, &c. At the same time We do not think
that patriotism requires to starve to suffer
his children TO saryc, except indeed, upon extraor
binary occasions. The love OF country is old pas
sion, but self preservation is instinct, and older
still. Why man without house to cover him,
with no work, or work only lnadequately feInuner-
ated, should stay in England simply to sing God
save the Queen or to whistle Rule Britannia" is
more than we can understand. We as patriotic
as Mr. Roebuck, but advice to every Yankee
Doodle who cannot obtain livelihood in one place,
is to go straightway to another and more promising
one. even though he may be forced to leave this glo
rious republic and to become one of Mr.. Roebucks
fellow-subjects.
All honor TO the Pomfret, VT, Changers. While
the arboricdes of Boston hacking and telling the
WILL the Pomfret Changers recently gave up a whole
day to the planting of forest trees mot less than
nine feet high" and three premiums bestowed |
upon the three persons who planted the greatest |
number of trees. OF course, future generations of
Pomfret people will rise up and call these Changers
blessed. although some innOyatlng genius may make
a motion in Town Meeting to cut the great plants |
down. The prejudice which some men have against
ornamental trees is truly remarkable. Trees are
thought to hide the white and green glores of the
dwellinghouse, and to contribute to its decay, and
they have been charged with noxious effect upon
the health of the population. For one, if we were
country householder would take our chance, all
theories about gloom and gas to the contrary not
outstanding.
The Swing case IN Chicago gives rise to all sorts
Of rreverent protests the part of the enthusiastic
champions of the arragned clergyman. The fair
young heretics declare Prof. Patton odious, news
papers make game of the Presbytery and finally
Clergyman, the Rev. Robert Ingersoll, has this to