PRESIDENT GRANT'S RELATIONS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 15, 6 May 1871, Page 4

PRESIDENT GRANT'S RELATIONS.

"Nepotism," says the " Australasian," " is generally supposed to be peculiar to the Papal Government and incidental to monarchies and aristocracies. But it seems to flourish just as rankly in democracies. President Grant, for instance, has been particularly careful to quarter the members of his family upon the public purse in the United States. He has appointed, his father postmaster at Covington, Kentucky; his son, a cadet at West Point; bis brother, collector at the port at Chicago; his sister's husband Minister to Denmark ; one of his cousins Minister to Guatemala; a second, clerk in the Third Auditor's office, Washington; a third, second lieutenant Fourth Artiltillery ; and his cousin's husband postmaster of Newport, Kentucky. Six of Mrs Grant's brothers-in-law have been similarly provided - for. No. 1 is Chief Usher at the Executive Mansion ; No. 2 is Counsel for Claimants before the President, fees £BOOO per annum ; No, 3is Appraiser of Customs at San Francisco; No. 4is the only authorised India trader for New Mexico, under the Indian Bureau, a place worth £20,000 a year; No. 5 is Marshal of the district of Columbia; and No. 6is Collector of the pert of New Orleans, a place worth £6,000 per annum. There is yet another brother-in-law, A. R. Corben, who has been proved to have made use of information he obtained at the White House to realise large sums of money in gold speculations. The President's brother-in-law's cousin is surveyor of the port of New Orleans; another person standing in the same relation to him has the control of the Public Stores in New York, a place worth £20,000 a year; his brother-in-law's third cousin is clerk in the. Registrar's office, Treasury Department, Washington; and his mother's second cousin is Assessor of Internal Revenue, Third district, Ohio.