The New York herald., 1845-09-30

But the day of all these heroes-gospe or no gosl el
of Van Burensm-has passed away tor ever
They have crossed the river Jordan, and hereafter
must be content to make the best of the eets that
private life can afford.
We shall now go on and give our views of the
correspondence of Mr.. Van Brrrr, tx President OF
the United States; also of John Van Buren,, and OF
the other leaders and master spirits of the demo-
cracy, including oursef In giving their correspon-
dence along with our own, think we will be able
to make some defence of the character of the au-
thors tor we think that we were not wholly wrong
in those days. although we properly repented of be-
ing in such company. So look out.
The AUTHORS OF THE MCKENZIE DISCLOSURES
This subject is stin undergoing investigation by
the Police, with what success we have not been
able 10 ascertain. In lh- meantime, We find in
morning paper of yesterday, The following state
nen', embraced ina long anicle from William l..
VI ,ckrnze-,he ost-n,ble author of the brochure =
The Record, ofce consists of four very large apart.
sd with The Invoices, entries, bonds msnifests,
&c OF the shippers aud merchants. found there papers
embracing ira .ssctohs OF over thousand millions OF
DOL IN mount in charge of r. Weber, of No 467
BioadWay and j. Everett ! was the Junior clerk,
with salary 1870 less than Weber Three weeks af.
ter IN, sp ointment, Weber, who whig in poll.
from Collector Van Ness dsnisssg him iii few days,
aud tart was TO be put his head, that his
pnslne., IN oadway he has shoe storel then
~ unof atle and tnat his dismissal thus unexpected.
IL, would seriously ipjure him and family dependent
on him replied at the instant-"l will never take the
lie ksnip from which an American born citizen, with
euenGent family, removed, otherw se than for crmsn
Here is Written statement to that effect it. Go to
y unr I, ends the Collector and ] will write him
that am thousand times better pleased where am
Ehau would be with higher salary obtained byuning
YOU on, INSTANTLY did So Mr. WIS friends spoke to
l,tv SASs xThn ig hiuh rltA1k ind han nrtaI
gene GUS man had been promised immediate promo
uon-but MIR Webber was thus continued other six
eight months when the wofsh howl of Tammany
hangeISon for place and plunder, through the Law
90 'dington and Purdy organ, O'Suvan's News,
eet al Is minutes notice Other tive gentlemen, ,stran
gers ana to the business of the Custom House. ap
peared next morning as their successors and was
dersd to instruct them in their duties which did, to
their entire satisfaction II is not true that had pri
my self. asked to be placed
exclusive posse of any apartment in the Custom
House The statement that MIR hoyt had private trunk
there is also unit ue-and 1t is untrue that there any
box ma ked IN any way private or private papers,"
either VI Mr Hos or any other person.
The facts about opening the box to which the Editor
ofths Courier, sr Webb, correctly alluded last Tues
On Thursday May Is, last, Mr. Goldson told me he
had orders from MIR Bogardus, Assistant Collector to
break open any and all of the cusomhouse boxes that
were locked without keys and their contents unknown
10 sort their contents into three thousand new pigeon
noies then nearly finished if of use and not send
boxes and attic where there are perhaps
two hundred tons of miscellaneous records He
then To oce open one OF the custom house pine
boxes, marked J * l. Hoyt's Law Papers-caled Ed
gar Stanshuty tine Carpenter (who with his brother
John s,ansbnry aud James Armstrong, then york.
ing i'll the apa,mentl To cid him, and Stansbury broke
large screw.drver twice while opening it. The con-
tents Ike the of nearly two hundred or three
hundred pine boxes q mixture of eyery thing
law psper custom house papers, newspapers, circu.
lars piivse papers, love letters, letters from
Virginia about AIRS Andrew Jackson letters about law
affairs, petitions tor Offices and papers about the gold
mines oi Potosi MIR corve the other clerk came in
just As Nr stanshury had i.hed opening it, The con-
tents were turned ont on tue aoor-and the first things
letters about his gambling. stock jobbing, sc. They
were read by all with surprise.
If Mr. Hoyt told Mr. Webb that all the letters coped
into my book one.tetL of them were in that box
ne was mistaken ana will find We carried its con-
tents to the gnrret in basketscarried up the trunk
empty-tumbled the miscellaneous papers back-and on
the Saturday or the Monday after the carpenter
dered by Mr. Goldson to put on new lock, and did
How many persons turned the contents of that
other boxes do not know Many persons had access at
times TO the Office sweepers, carpenters clerks porer
&c but what puzzles me is why did Mr. Hoyt bring to
the Custom House. and scatter parcels this and
old boxes belonging to the Government, among other
things love letters business letters Ben Buffers cssay
faith and finance your petite sketches of private l
Bennetts petitions Stephen Aliens Tammany Hall eti
mates and Thad. Phelps Free-Bahk report. wast had
the papers of his private law office and suits ntx
or thirty years old 10 do In ls45 in ioverDmen
HAD Had ne not law Office Of mis- own H.d no net -
there, if it not his wish keep them whe,e they
were, in order to threaten his corrupt friends with
1919 to 1867 by Butler and the Van Eurens
even where he was entreated to destroy them AID il
Kept, and In place where he had plunderea people
Of seven tons of solid silver dollars why did he leave
there the evidence of the corrupt services which
secured his selection Collector without collecting
these curious relics into box trunk ohis mark
ing private on IT, and placing it in charge of ocerl
The clerks had been tod and all OF believed the
box in question contained the law papers his
lawsuits with the merchants while in office. But it
seems he niNed public money with private public pa
pers private papers law papers, Custom House papers,
NJ m cn tnsl.ll
Yonrs ohedirnsly. ". l. MACKENZIE.
Ntp York, SAT S-pt ~, lsi5
BY this ii would appear that number of letters,
not published, are in existence. II wosld seem, al
So, thar the Collector and all those in office with
him, Mr. Bogardus and others, who have endeavor-
ed TO excupate themselves, were more or less ac-
quanted with the discovery Of those letters and the
character OF their contents.
Another singular thing has been stated in card
of Robert Tyler, published in Philadelphia
No. 10 SourH SEVENTH STREET,
PHILAD'A Sept goth, l645. !
To the Editor Of the Sentinel
Sir u has ocoasioned me some surprise to read an
lence to the "Hoyt and Butler Correspondence. in
which my name Is made to figure quite conspicuousy.
OF Mr. Mackenzie ! knew Mr. Mackenzie to be poor,
and to have been unfortunate; and he appeared to be
man o' ohiebts Oh modest oeportment ana believed
him 10 be man OF intsrity. have never seen him
than three four times in my life and was told
BY HI. many friends that he literally starving and
harasssd with the cares Of large family. Moved by
the commonest considerations of humanity did not
heitss 70 ask the favor Of his appointment from Mr..
Curtis This iavor, however was refused me. Gov.
Van Ness subsequently, appointed him to insignf.
cant place IN the customs Since then | have never
seen Mr. Mackenzie, and have had no commune atisn
with INN shall he slow, however. to believe that he
has been guilty OF the offences imputed to him.
The ioes that my father knew Of the existence Of this
correspondence, Is absolutely absurd.
Your obedient servant
ROBT. TYLER
Robert Tyler here states that neither he nor his
father knew anything OF the publication before il
appeared. This denial will go for what it is worth
Tyler acknowledges that he was the means of plac-
lng Mackenzie in the Custom House, and no one
vii believe bnt tha, cid Tyler and young Tyler, and
Ill Iheir cuuC had IL: