Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-31
THE ..CuRusrIAN SOLDIER"

THE ..CHRISr1AN SOLDIER"
The %scandaious case ofGen. Howard,
the ..Christian Soldier and Bureau
Commissioner. has finally been sent
BY Congress, after much c~irculnlocu-
ton, where it should have been sent
long ago., before "a military court of in
auiry. That it should have been sent
before such a court even so late i'll the
day is a concession undoubtedly t.
that awakening popular indignation at
the progress Of corruption i'll high
PAGES which sent Mr.. -A~ttorney-Gen-
cal Williams back from the Senate an
urconfirmed Chief Justice in his wife's
landaulet, and which has secured the
signature by President Grant of the
bill for repeating the "salary grab
afer extorsing from Congress the pas
~ re of that bill. But it must not be
fbryotten that a military court Of in
quiry sits in the shadow of the White
House, and that President Grant is
only now entering on the second year
Oh IlS SeCtIlu lc>lNitlltltl tciiH. IL
proceedings in the case of Howard
twill bear watching" The financial
morality of the nation has already
b,cn sufficiently debauchei by the es-
cape of notorious criminals from pun
ishment through party spirit and the
protection of powerful men in public
life. Let us have justice done a. least
in this instance, in which we find en-
bezzelment and misuse of the public
funds accompanied by the most dis
graceful neglect of the rights of an
unhappy class Of persons whom it has
long been the cant of Howard, and of
those who resemble Howard, to speak
Of as 1.-THE nations wards" The Of
Tense charged upon General Howard
Of misappropriating to his " pur-
poses funds granted for the benefit of
the negro freedmen. resembles the Of
fsnse of a trustee who should deliber-
a.elv expend on his own pleasures and
plans the property of a cripl led and
idiotic child. 1t is not unlike the Of
Tense for which, as the latest European
mails inform US, all eminent minister
of the Shah of Persia has suffered
death by the order of hat puissan;
sovereign since his return from his
famous Western tour. This Minister,
iusuf Khan, had been charged by the
Shah before his departure for Europe
with the duty of distributing a consid-
cradle sum of money for the relief of
the suffering caused by the terrible
Persian famine of last year. OF this
sum it appears that Yusuf Khan
thought proper to appropriate a large
rec,ly thereby the death of many poor
creatures whom it was his duty to have
rescued from starvation. The Shah,
on hearing these charges against Yusut
Khan, instantly ordered them to be
fully investigated. They were sub
stantiated by the inquest, and the Shah
thereupon instantly ordered Off the
head of iusuf Khan. This was a very
Persian and peremptory sort of pro-
ceeding. no doubt, but it was funda-
mentally just. The Shah of Persia.
who has been a good deal reviled since
he went home by his royal and inn
pcrial entertainers in Europe, seems to
be a person of some practical sense
after all He was thought very ill-bred
in (.Qrn1any- IVhap No p,1ln I ,l,o H..
press Augusta out of her opcra-bcN
because he couldn't understand the
music of the future, and he was voteG
a brute in England because he turneG
his back on Queen Victoria and tolG
her in French hat she bored him wher
she talked to him about the weather
In both of these cases no doub'
the Shah showed some want Of Gle.
giant courtesy; but v no can say that he
showed in either case any want Of
sound common sense? The Shah took
a rough and ready way of dealing
with a disgraceful defaulter. But was
not his conduct more worthy of a
prince and ruler of men than it would
have been had he appointed Yusui
Khan to a ''second-c elias; foreign mis-.
sion," or written him an autograph
note assuring him ofhis undininished
confidence and esteem? We com.
mend the example not to President
Grant, upon whom both precept and
example G to he quite thrown
away, but to the people, wiO must
now be beginning to become aware
At last that it is now on the whole
soIne concern Of theirs what Presi-
dent Grant does and how he COMFORTS
himself in his high otiic.
LOST HIS WArCH.-R. NJ. Dagcett,
who has been below lit is rumored
participating in the negotiations for a
change in the p~roprietcrship and edi-
tOrial management and political course
OF the Ente1pr1se), returned this morn