Northern Civilisation
We take the following choice specimens from the Boston Traveller:‘ "$5,000 reward for the Head of Jeff. Davis.
"$3,000 for the Head of Gen Beauregard.
"$3,000 for the Head of the traitor, Lieut. Maury.
‘"Lieut. Maury's Treachery.--A Washington letter says evidences of Lieut. Maury's treachery are daily apparent. The meanest of them yet discovered is, that he removed buoys from Kettle Bottom Shoals, leaving the Administration to find it out as best they could. The same writer says Maury will not be allowed to resign but that his leaving as he did will be considered an actual desertion of a post of duty. On the day of his desertion he was with the Secretary of the Navy up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and said nothing of his intentions. He went home, packed up his furniture, and vamoosed. The Observatory is now under the charge of Lieut. Gillis, an excellent officer, than whom a more loyal, efficient, and worthy servant of the Government does not exist. The mass of unfinished work left by Lieut. Maury at the Observatory is enormous, but under the capable management and untiring energy of Lieut. Gillis, it is fast being chased away."’
‘"The meanest traitor yet is Lieut. Maury, who played the hypocrite to within an hour of his leaving, when he stole away like a thief."’
Here are only eleven thousand dollars offered for three heads, that it would be an excellent bargain for the Yankees to get at eleven millions. We hope there will be no retaliation. We hope that no one will offer a reward for the head of Abe Lincoln or GenScott, or Com. Pendergrast. Indeed, a friend suggests that a large reward should be offered to any one who will guarantee that the heads of Lincoln, Scott, Pendergrast & Co. shall be kept on their shoulders. We can wish cur vindictive enemy no worse luck than to have those incompetent skulls just where they are. It would be shameful extravagance and inhuman contempt of the brute creation to offer the reward of a calf's head for the whole lot.
One word in regard to the infamous assault upon Lieut. Maury. It is simply false that he left a mass of unfinished work at the Observatory. Every duty connected with his department was fulfilled up to the last moment, and if be said nothing to the Secretary of the Navy of his intention of resigning. it was a proof that he understood the character of the persons he had to deal with, who would instantly have put him under arrest. The whole of this malicious paragraph is probably the suggestion of that ‘"capable manager,"’ the ‘"untiring"’ and ‘"energetic"’ aspirant, Lieut. Gillis But neither he nor the Lincoln Administration can impair the fame of Lieut. Maury any more than they can extinguish the stars where he has written his name, or chain the tides of the ocean which his genius has illumined.
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