The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-06

some time, that most of the gentlemen
who reach that age, are apt to be re-
garded as of that school. And it is
not a bad school to be in either. The
Admiral was q good specimen of an
old salt, hale courageous, punctilious,
with Q good hare of roughness and
politeness intermixed. He was many
years at the head of the Light House
Board, having succeeded Admiral
Davis, who was not quite so much of
a salt.
There was messenger in the office
named Brown, a brother of John
Brown. of Ossawottamie, of the new
school perhaps, and he and Shubrick
didn't hitch very well together, both
being independent in their natures.
Shubrick called Brown one day, and
asked him question about some small
matter, and the latter replied, /" don't
know" Then he asked him another,
relating to the same matter, and
Browns reply again was ~ don't
know" Well" said the old sea dog,
"What in the HI do you know z"
"Why," said Brown, 81 know Ad-
miral Davis is gentleman"
An Irishman right from Cork, could
not have met the emergency in better
style; but Shubrick was not inter
ested in the personal accomplishments
of his brother officer, and reported
Brown to Mr.. Chase, as having IN
suited him. Mr. Chase was not face
tious man by any means, but he APP
preciated the ready wit of the mes
senger, and instead of removing him
for disrespect to his superior, trans
ferred him to another Bureau.
Shnbrick was gallant trusty officer,
and one who served we'll his country,
and added to the reputation of the
Navy.
The resolutions of censure aimed at
Mr. Richardson, were not reported on
Monday, as it became known that
they would cause rupture, as it was
given out that the Secretary would
resign if they were not pushed. But
the Committee perpetrated gross
blunder when they decided to censure
the Treasury officials, after they had
exonerated them from corrupt mo-
tives. They set out with the assump
ton that extra facilities had been
given Sanborn with a view to enable
him to make money improperly, and
that he got the money solely by those
extra facilities. Now if they had no
corrupt motive, their only other mo-
tive must have been to make the law
effective, and this they did, because
Sanborn was the only man out of
many in many years who ever made
a contract work. But now the Com
mittee turn round and say that Saw
yer and Richardson were negligent,
and all the trouble comes in that way.
When they were deemed corrupt,
they accounted for their energy on
the score of their interest, and when
they find them not corrupt, they pro-
pose to apply the bastinado for lack
of interest, aud negligence. Surely
committee couldn't get into a more
illogical and ridiculous position than
this. When they found them innocent
in motive, and Mr.. Beck affirmed this,
the grava-men of the charge fell, and
even a ways and means that are dark
can not change the activity that was
great enough to excite suspicion of
guilt, into negligenes that is almost
as damnable as corruption itself.
That wont do. But the committee
must find something. They were
under compulsion as much as the boy
who was out for wood-chuck ON
and met the minister, who
told him he couldn't find one on
Sunday Sind one! thunderation
and Moses l must find one, for the
Parson is coming to dinner, and we
hav'pt got no meat.
MIRACLE WORKING.
This is an age of wonders-of great
discoveries. The scientific world is
Dverlowing with them. But greater
than them all are the constant devel-
opments Of so-called spiritual pheno-
nena. Scientists have, from the first,
ignored investigation into this philos-
ophy, until it has come to be consid-