Grant's Custom-house Beef-eaters

iVoia the Nerr York World. Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, is 11 port of ontrv, with a oustom-í house which is not very handy for ninrine ciiuiiueres os tid -waito s on ship-boftrd, but is Tory handy for th.i loss reputable oommeroe t' politica! iLlu-waitors, u we proceed to show. The ooinmerce of tliis port for tho yufir onding Muroh ol, 172, was as i'ollow.s : [mpórti - 11,988 Exports - - - - - Ü.41Ü Total foreign trade, - - $4,401 But the politiosl tra-.le was quite lively. In tho Ouatum-house of Georgetown ostensibly to do this business of $-1.404 were rtquired : Salary, 1871. Onecollcctor - $1,307,61 Two dep. eoUcet's and inspeot's 2,400.00 One inspector ... 1,200.(10 Ono deputy inspector - - 200.00 Ono - 600 00 Total - $5,707 01 Mr. John herman awhile azo oonfessod thut Lo did oot kiiow the ditförence !■- tween ft t;ifl' fur revoune a:ii a ti iíV for Protection. Porhaps Mr. Sherman wül obüpe us with his vinws it' u reven us (vhiolrpays #5,707.61 to:pMS Í1.9S8 ,worth ot' iiupoi'ts md to colloet a ruaximulii ■ : illara in duties. And Will Mr. George William Ourtia, Mr. Giv.nt's otHcient coadjutor in reforming the civil service, teil u whether hu cousiders tho Georgetown Cuatom-houso an instAboe of reform a tion 'i And tho truthfol nnd politö Thnen also. JJoes it think this ii very lustrous exainple of tho economy and honesty of the Adniinistration whoso civuse it is espousing 't AKOTHKR riiOFITADLE CU3TO5I-JIOUSE. England had hor rotten boroughs. Wo have uur rotten eiistom-housrs. But thore is this differenco between Englund and ourselves, thut when the rotton-borouirh sygtem dil prevail thoro was no Tory in the land so brnzen as to maintain thatthe party upholding it were económica! or gieat roioriuers, while with us the very upholdere of tho rotten eustotn-housts are traveling ui! over the United States, spouting on every stunip, vauntiug in avory iL-wspaper of their party, thegreat relonus tliey haro inaugurated and the economy they practico. lloro is un examplo of their reform. Albemnrle, in North-Caroliaa, is a port of entry - n very modest poit. The totul foreign commereo of Albemarie dnring tlio calendar year onding December ül, 1871, was : Imports ----- .$;-'ü Exporta - ... jsi. To suporintend this foreign trado of Albcmarfe, araouhting in the ugj;regaio to $3.'3ü, itreouirod the following officials: SüUiry, actual '''ixih. cvütjur 1871. 1 collector - $1.391.63 1 deputy collector and clerk - 1,000.00 1 deputy collector - - 1,46(1.00 1 deputy collector - - 1,1)9,5.00 ■2 boat hands - - - 480.00 1 coast inspector - o'ö'j 00 Total - ... $5,791.53 The figuros aio oflinial, nnd tho above oxptnditure was actually incurrcddiiring 1871 to take care of a total comnierce iimouiiting to $336. Now, wo simply agk who should bc inoro, ishained - a "whole people for boing subjected to such a rotten swindle, or an Administratiou that linnsts of reform and economy allowing it to L0 on for tho throo years that thoy are in power 'i