Year: 1873




The story specially telegaphed to us from
Montreal and published in the HERALD to-
day discloses state of rottenness in the New
Dominion which may well excite our republi
can lobbyists to greater efforts than they have
hitherto made in the line of bribery md cor
ruption. Indeed, our pet statesmen of the
Forty-second Congress have reason to re-
proach themselves for sins of omission in late
and early hours of Legislative grab in view of
what the simple provincial men of high estate
have accomplished And doubtless hundreds
of men Of mark in our political ranks will,
as they read, mourn the want of nerve
in past administrations by which man.
ifest destiny was not made mora manifest
in the annexation of the Canadas. To
them it will appear shame that such goodly
loot should fall to the lot of men and brethren
who never let off Fourth Of July Grafton.
Our Credit Mobilier operations were conducted
with pusillanimous caution tracks were care
fully covered, and it was well arranged that
no statesman of standing should ever show
the cards he held. Few of our Christian
statesmen and exemplars of virtue put their
views concerning their expectations in the
way of shares and stock to paper, and GER
tainly no Cabinet officer, as far as we know,
sent an ultimatum to the distinguished
deceased who had the putting of stock "where
it would do the most good" demanding for
himself pocket full of plunder. They do
these things better in Canada. Assuming, as
We have q right to assume, that the letters,
receipts, &C., which we copy from Canadian
paper really passed between the Hoax Ames of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad and the parties
to whom they were addressed, there is no
room left for doubling the superior abilities Of
the "God-made' persons on the other side Of
the border.


1t seems that Mr.. McMullen, who was
taught in the school of Chicago, endeavored
to make a favorable arrangement with certain
Canadian officials by which his ''friends"
would have big finger in the railroad pie to
tickle the palate of the faithful of the Do
minion. He did make an arrangement, and
the making of it seems to have cost his
friends sum of money in bribes and
presents fairly staggering in its total. When
made, however, the arrangement was repudi-
ated the '.right honorables'' pocketed the
money and gave Mr.. McMullen to under
stand that the thing was mistake-the Cana
dian Pacific Company was Canadian railroad
company, and no Americans need apply. The
upshot of the affair was that the ''parties of
the first part have now the British -paid-for
railroad from Anywhere to Nowhere in their
own hands, and the parties of the second part,
McMullen & Co., are left severely out in the
cold.


Emulous of the fame of the late Mr..
Ames, Mr.. McMullen has exposed the
faithlessness of his confederates, and
indoing 80 has managed to set the Do
minion in rage. The existence Of the
present government is imperilled, and there
is no way of escape for the thrifty statesmen
of that region other than by first class white
washing committee of the American patent.
We have run to earth our Credit Mobiliel
foxes and hope to see them, one and all YET
living, eventually trapped, and we have
nothing but sympathy for the good people oi
Canada, who are loud in their anger against
the corrupt half royal government updel
which they live. -