The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-01-24
correspondence of the Louisville Courier.I
LOCOFOCO DEFAULTERS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1850.
w. N. HALDEMAN

IN.
In nv letter of the 4th inst, disclosed to
YOU a system of fraud that had been practis-
ed upon the Government by certain age is
who have been collecting Captains accounts
that participated in the late Mexican war
In naming Maggie as the frs one from whom
the mask had been stripped, told you there
were others i no were as deep in the mud as |
Naole was in the mire. The developments
that have ensued since that date has classed
MIR. BENJAMIN f. Brown Of Ohio, in the same
category with Nagle, and on Saturday night |
last he was taken with a sudden leaving, hav-
inc, as his friends say, an OUeTlCeeRlng ana
iety to ascertain the whereabouts OF Maggie. |
Brown. like his lllusTlOus ndme-sake OF lndl- |
ana. was the chosen standard-beai er OF the
Locofoco party in the contest that was to en-
sue tor Door-keeper Of the House of Repre-
sentadves. He had been as fortunate in Sc
cur1no the Free Soil vote as was " Billy
Brown" the would-be-Speaker. and was
about as near an election. Like him, too, b.
f. Brown was a martyr" having beeL re-
moved when his illustrlous chief and political
tutor. McCalla. was invited TO vacate the sec
oud Authorship the source where all these
frauds have been dscoV erred. In addition to
all these political imnortalities the second
Brown wa, the great biographer of Gen.
two different lives for the two extremes Of the
Union. and by virtue of which they hoped to
smugGle HIM over the heads Of the people in
to the Presidential chair. He was the beau
ideal of Locofoco trckery and perfection, and
looked forward TO a seat In the Cabinet or a
Foreign Mission. when Gen. Cass should
hereafter be selected as the Chief Executive
of the nation As a fnancier he has shown
himself to be as expert as he proved success
full as Locoloco biographer; and the facility
with which he could fraRSmogTiphy hundreds
into thousands in getting claims through the
different Offices certainly justified his boxing
forward to becoming Secretary OF the Treas
ury under a LOcOoco administration With
his skill of realizing thousands were but hun
dreds were due. who can question that the
Treasury would ever be in want while he
was its chief? But to the facts.
Capt John Heron, of Pittsburgh having
been written to by the Second Auditor at
the suggestion of Capt. Naylor, was request
ed to inform the Department of the amount
of the claim he had placed in Benjamin f.
Browns hands for coecuona -ainst the gov
ernmcnt with an abstract Of the vouchers
furnished him to support such claim, and the
amount that had been paid to him. Capt.
Heron. by due course of mail, furnished the
information to Mr.. Clayton, the Second Audi
tor from which it appeared that the account
he sent to Brown was less than two hundred
dollars. Upon examining the claim OF Capt
Herron's as settled and paid to Brown, II APP
pears he had realised eight hundred dollars
and upon IL set of vouchers entirely different
from those which had been furnished by Her
ron. Heron, like Capt. Naylor, pronounced
any vouchers different from those he had sent
an abstract Of the Department. torgeries. and
~ Al u. ii
the examination of other officers accounts set
tied by Brown, and three Others were dis
covered at a single search where the same
species of fraud, and to the same extent. had
: been practised by Brown upci the Second
) Aud tor. Although the suspected from the
, hour Capt. Naylor looked at Herrons &C
count nothing was definitely proven unit
Saturday last when Capt, HeTon's letter to
: the Auditor came to hand. LII the near
time, it had been bruted about that Brown
NO. g. was Il better Locoloco than had been
supposed. owing TO his superior financial skill
, and tactics. The democracy took it in high
: dudgeon. and Gen. Shields. of the Senate
: and Mr.. McClane. Of the House Of Reresen
tatives, were depuied to proceed to the Sec
ond Auditors office, make the examination
blow the Wig lies'' sky high and proclaim
Brown deeply injured and persecuttd man
e All this sounded very fine at the Capitol anC
e on Pennsylvania Avenue, and Brown No. 2
2 expected to be ionized the remainder OF the
session as victim of Wing persecution
The gentlemen who had been designated t
make this exposure of Wing scandal, reach
: the Auditors office swelling with Senatorial
1f and Congressional dignity. If they did 10
j lspeak, they looked unutterable things at tn
v Auditor. who had been so presumptuous as t
:. admonish one of the Locoloco representative
I" that they had better pause before electin!
Re Brown their Door-keeper. Mr. Clayton un
II awed by the dignity that appeared in hi
ar presence with the utmost Composure land be
), fore them mountain high, the damnn
proof of the frauds that had been practise
BY Brown. A wonderful change rapid
overcame the spirit of these gentlemen
In dreams; and before reading half through tn
IS documents, exclaimed with heightened an
20 bewlldered countenances hold enough j.!
- What report they made to their party friends
&c l will net tax the patience of your reader
n by relating suffice it to say, that Brown M
2, was dropped about as speedily as Brow
No and that night, the would be-Door
10 keeper was vending his way to parts III
known " Oh luhdt q fall, 1oas there, M
VI countryneR." Who will wonder why til
r. Washington Union struggled so hard to pre-
vent removals in the accounting, as well d
other departments, in this city Let no on
m suppose however, that the sore Of corrupto
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