Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-04-25

fifty dollars per month. His receipts mus
have been bel wcen twelve and fourteen hun
dred thousand dollars, and the labor ior th'
ensuing SIX months will be arduous IN inc OK
IRENE. | know that the receiver suffered uh
der great Inconvenience for two or three
months, being without abstracts, which were
not obtained from Washington until he hat
written three or four times (tnd even then were
much delayed by the extraordinary failure o.
the mail, From my knowledge Of :hc business
OF the office, do not think It possible lhat Inc
receiver can accomplish his returns by inc
first Of October, though every cXertion wlll DC
made and has been made, TO keep up with inc
business. have known the receiver and his
clerks to be at work, time until one o'clock al
nlght;a the strongest testimonials from me
best and most influential friends OF your excel
Iency, can be had as to his integrity and indus
try. Gen' Harris has never engaged IN spec
uloton, either directly or indir&tIy.
Poindexter employed a vile, unprIncipIed
agent (Gibson Wooldrldgol to take testimony
at this Office, under resol lion OF the Senate
and he endeavored to implicate General Harris
and George W. Martin in some transactions oil
very minor Importance If | had been examl.
ned, could have explained the whole matter
to the entire cxoneration of General Harris; and
| could have explained the whole transaction
as it regards Colonel Martin, to the satislac.
ton of the world The fact is, it was miser,
able attempt, on the part of PoindeXter, to
strengthen his party here lie hates Colonel
Martin with the malignity of demon, and
nothing would rejoice him more than the ex-
pulson of General Harris, whom he knows to
be one oil the main pillars Of the democratic
cause and one Of the earliest and most distn,
gushed friends Of the administration in Mssis.
sippi. His family and connexions are ex-
tremely influential, and all Of them are coop.
Grating with us in the arduous struggle which
we are now making. They are true demo,
Gratis, and the bank, multiplying, and White par
ties would shout "yictory" at any blow aimed
At them.
We are now in the midst of an aloctioncering
campaign. Governor Runnels, X. Walker,
MAJOR u. W Edwards, and myself, constitute
he democratic Van Buren, ticket 1t will be a
lose contest. The Nashville papers circulate
extensively through our State. Much of our
population is from Tennessee; nine tenths of
ur newspapers are for White; and every
ank in the State, including the United States
ranch, has taken commission in his SERVICE
'ome three or four thousand ofour voters are re-
cnt cmigrants from other States, and reside in
he new counties, knowing nothing Of our poIit-
al arrangements; and, as we have no mails
REGULATING among them, the result as TO them,
doubtful.
With high respect, remain your excellen-
US most obedient servant,
JOHN +. H. CLAIBORNE.
20 His EXccllcncy the President of the U. S.
This and other letters led to the following:
Treasury Department, Oct I2, 1885.
SlE:--Trusng to the assurances given in
'our letter OF the l4th ultmo, and to those Of
Iour friends, made in your behalf the Prcs-
lent has consented, upon the facts now before
nm, to continue you in Office until the 18th o!
November proXimo; then unless your monthly
cturns are all rendered, and satisfactory evil
Ience that the whole olthc public moneys with
which you are chargeabIe arc deposited, you
must be removed from office, however painful
o both him and this Department.
! am, &c.
LEVI WOODBURY..
Secretary Of the Treasury
w. p. HARRIS, Esq.
Receiver of Public Money, Columbus, Miss.
Mr.. Harris was continued in office until tho
eth of August, 1886, when he rendered hi,
which was accepted. The balance
low owing by Mr., Harris is SlO9,l78 %.
A remarkable circumstance connected will
his is the fact, that Mr.. Harris recommended
Mr.. c.. d. Boyd as his successor, who was an
pointed by the Government, and who as i.
shown by the correspondence and complaints,
was quite as negligent as his predecessor, mr.
IIarris,) and who in September, 1887, resign
ed, and is now indebted to the Government
S5O,937 90.
We ask the particular attention Of the Ame-
rlcan people to the letter of Mr.. Claiborne to
Gen. Jackson Will they not be amazed at the
arguments used, and which no doubt operated
to the continuing Mr.. Harris in office after
all his misconduct! Mr.. Pondexter knows Mr..
Harris TO be ''one OF the main pillars of the de.
mocratIc cause, and one ofthe earliest and most
distinguished irends of the administration in
Mississippi" awe are now in the midst of an
eIechoncerlng campagn?" "Nine-tenths of
our newspapers arc for WHITE, and every bank
n the State, including the United States Branch
mas taken commission in the scrvice?n poin.
leXtcr, White, the Banks, and the "Housier. -
we're the bagboars held up to General Jackson
o operate on his projudices and incline him TO
Iesst from removing from office some of the
nam pillars Of the democratic cause" no,with.
standing his numerous manifestations prcyi.
'usly complained Of
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