Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-04-14
Public Thieves.

fuDllc thieves
We had intended 10 publish for the benefit
Of our Radical readers "A catalogue Of official
thieves which have been apprehended TO the
date Of our issue, but finding it would consume
toe, much space we have concluded only to
mention the more prominent and notorious.
The Congressional drag-nets seem to have
surrounded a mons;rous school Of public plum
derers, and one by one the larger sharks are
being lifted from their pool of corruption and
exhibited to public contempt, while the small
er ones are spluttering in every objection al
most unnoliced.
First Shepherd is lifted to view and presents
that corpulent appearance which we expected
to find in the old sucker, who has foated
around Washington upon the fins of the
Board of Public Works, gorging himself TO
repleton with wealth and robbing the honest
and industrious of the fruits of their toll
lie has been caught in the net, the bells for
his funeral have io'led and he has been gath
ersd TO The bosom Of his Radical fathers.
Next comes Belknap, the child of the wes
tern wilds War plumed bin for seat in the
cabinet lie had been the general of armies,
and from distant eminences, where the music
Of The whis,ling bullet had never greeted his
ear he had viewed the conflict Of war eager
II awaiting The defeat aud ihe hour OF plum
der The eye Of Grant saw he was a man
after his own heart aud be marked him for
his own, and when the storms of war subsidized
iradcrships became the medium Of his THEY
ing operations and success perched npon his
dishonest practices. But tie thief WAS al last
caught in the &c, and still true to the coward
ice of bis war record he hid himself behind
The ample petieoats Of bis fashionable wife
Next comes Schcnck "the heather Chinee,
who finding the profession Of thieves well
crowded in his native country sought the con-
cealng fogs of London to ply his trade
Women become the victims Of his little game
of Draw Poker, while men walked uncon-
sciously into his emma Mine" TO realize
again tho truth of the old proverb, that call
that glittcrs is not gold" Friendly breezes
have waited him back to his native shores to
grace the line Of Radical contc lets.
Babcock, the man that rested nearest to the
heart Of Grant, was picked up in the den of
thieves stealing the whiskey revenues, placed
on trial and rescued from conviction only by
the potency of IIammond's prayers. He will
soon appear again TO adurn the criminal dock
in connection with the 'Safe Burglary Con-
spiracy." Pray on Hammond.
Next comes Clapp, The public printer, who
has picked up fortune from two little Offices.
He was not good bookkeeper, and he says
figures lie about him. The Congressional Com
mittee thinks Clapp lies about figures, and in
short while he will revel in the renown of an
impeachment trial.
Delano, whose heart wept over the sad un-
civilized condition Of the sons of the forest,
was enticed BY the bait Of an Indian contract
and his dishonest practices exposed.
"And long shall the Indian warrior sing
The frauds Of Deano, tue scoundrel.
These are merely some the more prominent
of the apprehended thieves, but those of lesser
notoriety are like the sands upon the seashore,
inuumerabe There are Custom House, War,
Treasury, Interior and Patent Office clerks
and Post Masters futtering in the net.
TIE chief of them all-Grant--sieals so
fast we have not been able 10 count him yet,
but il only needs a few more prayers from Bros
Newman and Haven and he 100 will stand be-
fore the impeachment tribunal.
We had hoped that the above-named would
close the list, but now Blaine, the prominent
radical candidate for the presidency, is accused
OF having surreptitiously received S64 900 oil
the Union Pacific railroad funds. Gone to
meet Colfax.