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New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
DefaIcn.ion of the Loco-Feco Health
Commissioner, DIR. Smith Cutter,
G3O GNN IL

While Alderman Benson a Wing Alderman Of
the City of New. ork, was in the discharge OF bis
duty as Member of the Board Of Health ne dis
covered that the Health Commissioner, Dr. Smith
Cutter, was large defaulter and had been so lor
wears. We extract from the Report of the Stale
Comptroller for the year l94l the following;
"The surplus moneys which were by law Paya,
BILE to the Comptroller annually we're rnisapph1 d
by Smith Gutter late Health Commissioner, and
consequently instead of any money being received
to the credit Of this Fund Passenger FUND.- tie
Treasury was called upon and advanced SlO,ooo.
In the Last Annual Report, pages 81 and 50 it
was stated that decree had been made in tsvor
of the State against SMITH CUTTER for
s39, 500 II, on which Execution had been J..
sued On that Execution nothing was realized.
.eSince the close of the fiscal year, the Attorney
General has paid into the Treasury S5,o39 80
collected of the securities on one of DR.. Cutter
Official bonds"
"The Defaulter still continues without the State,
and whether the balance due can be collected or
not is problematical. !"
The Difference.
Since the Wings have been in power in the STATE
of New-York, DocroK Turner, the Wing Health
Commissioner, has paid into the State Treasury
u,wards of S25, 200 per year.
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
was to have been, under the cry Of perse

was to have been, under the cry OF perse-
cution, the candidate of the Loco-foco
party, at the coming election, for the re-
sponsible office of Register of this City
but 10 and behold scarcely had the COM
petent and upright officer appointed by the
Wings been in his place three weeks when
there is discovered series of robberles
of untold thousands of the peoples money,
extending through SO many years, and in
such variety of forms, that the untlrlng
industry of the examiners has not yet been
able to ascertain the amount.
So far, the defalcations of Ahern have
amounted to about $4,000 week, making
in FIVE weeks about $4,000. 1t will PROB
ably amount to so or $4,000.
This closes the exhibition for the pres
ent. How many more robberles of like
kind, and to what extent, by those who, in
an evil hour. have received your political
support. time and the searching process
now going on can alone discover. That
there 1riu be more, and a to large amount,
there is too much reason to fear. No won
der. when there was so much of rotten,
ness in Denmark, that there was such 3
desperate struggle to maintain power.
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE Cry

sworn faithfully 10 erecute the Lars
who, under the plea of the pressing ne
cessities of the City-necessities which,
il they existed at all, arose solely
out of his own glarlng attempts, back
ed by his partizans, to defeat the
clearly expressed will Of the people IN
the Election of last Spring, caused sub
ordinate officer, whose duty it was by law
and his solemn oath, to pay over to the
Treasurer the monies Of the City once Ill
two weeks, to keep back $4,000 which he,
the Mayor, without the authority and in
direct violation of Law, appropriated and
expended as he thought advisable.
Are men such as these, who thus tram
pie upon the laws which they are sworn to
support and faithfully to execute, and the
partisans who encouraged such outrages,
worthy of your political support
The next figure in the group is the late
pet officer Of the party,
JOHN AHERN,
late Mayors Clerk This man, who was
recently removed from Office by the Wings,
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

property of citizens who had paid their
dues promptly, and many OF whose pay
ments were credited in Lloyd's books, and
all OF whom held receipts for the same,
was actually about being advertised for
sale for arrears of rent, &C., a book hav
ing been prepared for that purpose.
That you may see how easy it was for
Lloyd's superior officers to have prevented
such wholesale robbery if your public
business had been entrusted to competent
and faithful men, the exact specimen Of
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

the manner in which his accounts were
arranged and entries made, is given be-
low, together with the amounts and names
of few of those who paid their dues
to him, but which he never paid to the
Comptroller We would like TO exhibit
all, but it is impossible in single sheet
to give you the immense number which
the books contain.
1t will be noticed by an examination OF
the Table that Lloyd always made the
proper entry in his Book when any one
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
Fellow.Citizens of all professions and

L
occupations, look at and seriously consider,
we beseech you, these alarming exhibitions
of the Faithlessness, Frauds and 1ncompe-
tency of the men and partisans who have
been entrusted with your public money
and the execution of the laws; remember
the like, only still greater, Frauds in the
late Loco-Foco Administrations OF the
General and several State Governments
ponder well the leveling, agrarian doctrines
and policy of the radicals who rule in
Tammany Hall: their recent efforts 70
break down the barriers OF constitutional!
law and order by aiding and abetting open
treason and rebellion in sister State, led
on and backed by the Mike Washes, the
Slamms, the Mings. the Swackhamers,
the Ely Moores, the Vanderpoels, and
hordes of such like, who ask you 10 sus-
tain as leaders and vote for them as legis-
lators. And now that another important
State Election is at hand, involving IN its
results interests of the highest moment 10
US all, and destined to affect, for veal or
wo,' your business, your property, your
enterprise, and, what is of far greater
importance, all that is valuable in your po-
litical and social relations, let us ask you,
as wise men, as prudent men, as men who
have deep interest in maintaining good
government, who desire the prevalence Of
law and order, as men who hold in trust
the well being Of those who are to come
after you, are you willing again, by your
votes, to bestow places Of high public
trust on the men or the partisans OF the
men who, in the sad experience of the
last twelve years down to the present mo-
ment, in all the departments we have re-
ferred you to, have abused their trusts,
robbed the people, demorallzed the COM
munity, and whose doctrines and policy,
if allowed by you to prevail, is destinedto
level with the dust all that is valuable in
our Free Institutions.
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
Another Loco.Foco Defalcation--Oniy
forney for the Southern District OF New

Extract from the Minutes of the Court
The United States VS.. William NJ. Pr1ce:
Present, Judges Thompson and Belts.
The Court meets pursuant to adjournment, ard
is opened by proclamation.
This cause being still on trial, the Jurors are
called and severally answer to their names.
Charge is thereupon given by the Court to the
jury who retire, under charge of an officer duly
qualified to attend ,hem, and, upon their return
they say that they find for the United States, and
assess their damages at % EIGHrr-THEEE thou
sand taco hundred and seventeen dollars and
eighty cents, with six cents costs
Ordered judgement.
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
The next case presented is that of The
celebrated
]. d. STEVENSON, alias Jarvis,

]. D. STEVENSON, alias Jarvis,
who was one of the most proml-
nent candidates of the Loco-Foco party,
last winter at Albany, for the important
office of Commissary General, and who
fell short only very few votes of re-
ceiving the appointment. A short time
previous to this the party in this City be-
slowed on him the Collectorship of Ar
rears of Taxes; and, SO over-anxious was
he to secure the spoils. he had been in
Office only few months before he was a
defaulter to the large amount of $4,000 or
s6,ooo-betraying himself in fact by his
impatience and eagerness to pocket the
public money. And, strange as It may
seem, this same man was one Of the lam
many candidates this fall for the Assembly,
and received large vote in the Noml-
mating Committee. Is this the Slnd OF
men to put in places of public trust! Ana
is the party which puts forward such men
the one you wish to place againin power
Next comes the open, direct, fragrant
violation of Law on the part OF the
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S55,S28 70
am still under the impression that the amount
will reach $4,000
Since my last Report, receipts amounting to
1881 70, for interest on bond and mortgages
from the estates of Jacob Lorillard Henry Pray
and others, have come in, which by our books
Were back from one to three years. Also, from
John J. Astor, Stephen B, Mum, Peter A. Jay,
and others, for wheat quit rent, which had been
due for three years by our books. BY this it will
also be seen, either that the books in this office
were not properly written up, and the returns OF
: Lloyd compared with them, or there was negli-
gence on the part of the Comptroller or the De-
putty, in allowing Lloyd to retain so large sum
Of money in his hands FOR such length of time
Again.
CONTROLLERS OFFICE,
NcwYork, October "a, 1912.
Iohe Hon. the Board Of Assist. Aldermen:
The amount of the ascertained defalca-
hon of Thomas LLOYD, late Collector Of
the City Revenue, having increased near
$4,000 since my report to you on the 5th
ah., | herewith submit 4 statement OF the
same iii continuation making
sne defalcatlon, as far as ascertalned,
s63, ,7o8 Sc.
The time of the Collector of the City
Revenue has been for the last six weeks
almost entirely devoted to the settlement
OF Water Lot Rents, and much remains to
be ascertained on this account; when
these are disposed of, his attention will
De given to the Butchers Stand Rent. on
which it is feared mach larger defalcation
erists than ,cas at first Supposed.
(Signed) D. D. WILLIAMSON, Comp,.
NorlcE--That here were large sums of
money stolen monthly through the long
series of three years. All this time the
books of Lloyd, with the accounts of d
large portion, if not all, Of the money re-
ce'yed from, the citizens for rents, &c.
regularly entered therein, were open fol
examination. And yet the officers whose
euly 1t was carefully 10 supervise these
accounts at short periods, not only by ythei
negligence suffered the people to be rob
oed' but without due investigation, the
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

~ LLOYD, when his delalcations could be no
longer concealed, fled in vessel of which he was
owner and supercargo, to the coast of Africa, a"d
died on the return passage. On the return of his
shin to this country, a Mr.. ROGERS claimed a
property in her as the surviving partner of Lloyd
The Surrogate, after hearing arguments on the
case, decided against his claim, as Rogers con-
fessed he knew all the while of LLoYD's embez-
Elements, and as no legal partnership was proved.
1t also came out in evidence that the New Era. the
Loco-Foco organ, had received $4,000 OF
LLoYp's stolen funds
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

paid him, and If this Book, which belonged
to the Comptroller's Office, had ever been
examined or looked Into, it would at once
have shown that Lloyd, according to his
own entries, had received these large
amounts without paying them over to the
Comptroller.
Every days investigation gives new evi-
dence of increased and increasing deialca-
ton in all the different departments of the
City Revenue
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
.1FRoM# OFFICIAL DOcUMENTS.)
ENORMOUS DEFALCATIONS
OF THE LATE
L0CO.FeCO OFPICE.HOLDERS !!

The open violation Of the Laacs By the Chief
Magistrate Of the City, IN taking and ap-
propriating the Public Money!! Plain
Reasons aoty there acas such an intense
desire and desperate effort to retain po'oer
by means Of Fraud, Usurpation and Vio-
lence!! .StiH palmer Reasons achy Tao
Payers and Yoters should not again con-
fer ON the partizans Of these men Political
Poacer, either IN the State or City Gorcrn-
ment.
MECHANICS, LABoRERs, TAXPAYERS, Vo-
rERs of the City and State of New-York
Another Of our great State Elections is
rapidly approaching Before you dis
charge one of the highest duties of Fre-
men-that Of selecting from among your
Fellow Citizens men to leglslate for you
and to execute the Laws-we ask you to
look at the following picture, drawn from
official records, of the Defalcations and
Frauds, the violations of Law, and incom-
potency of the Public Agents appointed
and sustained in office by the Leaders and
partizans of Loco-Focoism, who are now
again calling on you for political support
The first case presented for your con-
slderation is that Of the celebrated
THOMAS LLOYD.
And in order that you may see it in its
true light, the following abstract from a
Report of the Comptroller is given:
CoNpTRoLLEh's OFFICE,
Nc,u. York, 5th September 1912. )
To The Honorable the Board Of Assistant Aldermen
8 GENTLEMEN In farther answer to your resolu-
on of inquiry, relative the defalcation of Tho
mas Lloyd, late Collector Of City Revenue, here
with submit statements of the various rents re-
ssssa by him, and not returned to the City Treas
y,nall cases where his receipts have been seen,
amino doubt exists of their being unreturned.
The various months in which money has been
received and not returned, appear as follows:
y II H. ,,.,.1. acE,h SlC6 90
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31


George Crutcheon. Choctaw 6,06l so
Samuel W. Dick.on.-.-. 2.606 90
Wiley L, Harris, Columbus. l09, us 0S
John Brahan, Huntsville. .... 38.7i2 49
l. Pope. ----. 2s,7l2 AZ
Jonn Taylor, Cahaea- ea-..------... ILLS 30
W m. Taylor, -----.----.-.. 23.l6S Is
{, {, u. Ferry, -.---.----.... 6,074 81
y. u. Mitchell, . ..---........ 54,6e6 55
Jotin Eeroer Spsrta. 2,444 "a
a. Perry Z" .-----.-..-.. 2s.I55 81
Richard h Call, Tallahassee. ......- 43,4SS sd
A Jones, Missouri ..--.. 4,745 "a
J. W Stephenson, Galena. ......-- 74,S5S 70
l.. hawkins, Helena, Ark ....... lis, ,462 81
S. w. Beall, Green Bay........ s6,097 SO
Joseph Friend, Wsshita, La...... 1857 81
w. II. Allen. ST. Augustine 1897 80
Gordon D. Boyd, Columbus, Miss. 60,I9S -
R. H. Stirling, Chocchuma. ll,76o So
Of these Defaulters William L. D. Esc-
ing has since his defalcation been a Loco
Foco U. s. Senator from Illinois: J. ".
Stephenson has been 4 State Senator of The
same party. and Gordon d. Boyd is now
Loco-Foco Member Of the Mississippi Le-
gislaiure, elected last November by fall
party vote. Several others are among the
most prominent and jealous politicians OF
the party. e The immense defalcatlon
of Samuel S,cart.eoat, though it took place
long before this, and must have been
known by this time, was kept dark by the
managers at Washington until after the
New Vt ork State Election in November,
lS3S
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

The next item examined by the Committee is
the Florida War, which, they say, has furnished an
ample occasion for draining the Treasury. II:
every department of it, extravagance of the most
unprecedented character has been INDUCED. In
the purchase OF supplies, the transportation of sol
diers or stores the public money has been wilfully
wasted by those charged with its disbursement
Within FIVE years from the outbreak of hestilties,
there have been employed in the transportation
service 737 steamboats,, brigs and schooners. Many
of them were employed at a per diem pay un'1
the price of their hire quaarupled tie sum for
rhich they could originally haze been purchased.
Gen. Jesup says, in reply to the Committee, that
the steamboat John Crowell was hired for $500
per day and her expenses She was not worth
$4,000, and fer the period she was in service sho
was paid by Government ss2555. There was
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
Loco-Foco Exsraynsnnce.

The Annual Expenditures of the Government
during the administration of MARTIN Van BuREN,
exceeded by many mlon, the highest amount
reached at any previous year. Already, although
the Wings have been deprived of the power of
fully carrying out their purposes in tkis respect,
reduction of more than SJ,OOO,OOO per
year has been effected How $2S.O0O,OOO
were spent by MIR. VAN BURES is no wonder when
we look at the startling disclosures Of Committees
in Congress with regard TO the manner Of throw
ing away the PEopLE's MONEY. No ronder he
Treasury is Bankrupt when for t,eelre long
gears a system of Public Pro1igacy, utterly un-
heard Of before, had been practised by the Loco.
Focos in power. We have room only for the re-
suit of the inquiry Of single Committee-of
which Mr.. MERRIwErHER Of Ga, was Chair
man the Report made on the 2lst of April,
l842.
The Commute cite among the first items the
expense of removing distractions at the mouth OF
the Mississippi iiver-for which, in 1887, Congress
appropriated $4,000. The progress of this work
is traced from its commencement, through the
years 1887, '3S and 39-ai the end of which time
after expending 2a8,23l, the work was aban-
doned The following are cited as among the ne
ccssary expenses for digging cut The channel Of
the Mississippi
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31
sub-Treas,,ry Defaulsers.

On the 18th of January, 1893, Hon. Lea
Woodbury., then Secretary ofthe Treasury,
transmitted to Congress, in answer to an
official call, a list of over sixty Recelrers q
Public Moneys arising from the sales Of
Public Lands only, who had resigned or
been superseded up to that date. That
list, leaving out those whose defalcatlons
amounted to less than $1,000 each, IS as
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

ooang gurae Transcript Lyd Books Foing his
and paid the Treasurer oe
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

wHrcH pprr MOST rslaspt1 10 ,ba RaYsaao
sc estimated @ lnas the sSsase aa.s
Ra q,1s Bfssisp5 and AM ssffp FIERY THOUSAND
iHo r. I'D the means Of comfortable livelihood
peisony, p sa", ONE MILLION. And yet Loco-foco- :
10 sos.s s,;ss our g RErEAL! REPEAL! J"
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

How this carriage was TO be employed in the
sands and swamps of Florida does not clearly APP
pear and the Committee are inclined to doubt
whether it should properly be charged TO the fuad
for snppressiug Indian hostilities.' These are
snscinens OF the lavishness with which the funds
OF the Government have been wasted in only n
single branch ofa single department. The same 1s
extravaganza was found .s-pervade them all, unin.
as the Report says, 1T seems TO hare oseoge
part Of tie TACTICS Of the Army Of me .@'tfa s s
states, to squaader tie public treasure Jor @s as
20 ps1S seoro,siss the erpenditures ne good Ms
,err;cs and he interests Of the peopse 3@0 arc
tnyea 10 sustain them
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1 SEE NEXT PAGE.
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c. Earn.-
+.
T. -
J. byJ
Beune
S. Boyd by the Manhattan Gas Company
Dry Dock Company different
E Ketletas and John Gadners
William NJ Titus, do.
Masteron s. Smith, on j. Paons
Clement q Moore.
New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

late Mayors Clerk This man, who was
recently removed from Office by the Wings,