New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-14

Of the Conqueror OF A'ieN-s" ~
false receipt TO cheat thu treasury out o
the sum of hf'y dollars /!
We did not see the chargs in Tic Demo
craft but friend saw it copied thence
into the Brandon Post, bitter Free ooil
naper in Vermont, where it Is introduced
as follows:
ave find the following extraordinary ststemen,
in The Whitehall Democrat. There IS raSeausy
some trkere.' wv.
A self. evident proposition that last. This
story not merely implies that much but
prores it, Now let us try to nix the locally
Of somewhere" Having made applica-
ton to the proper quarter, we have re-
ceiyed the following official certificate
from the Treasury Department
Treasury DEPARTMENT, Third Auditors , once
Ibsrshv csYi;f, that from an examination oil
Nsior. General Win6eld SCOTS personal accounts
and the accounts Of officers Of the suarterhas
ter's DEPARTMENT. L. ). Army, in this ONCE, Vne
vouchers of whom for Transportation or Mueas1
are fled therein) il appears thar MAJOR
Winfield Scott did not perform any Journey ny ~
Whitehall. \. Y, to Plattsburg, n. J., IN the
year 1888. g.. o,.,tay
of iSlo ihetgeen Fen. TO- 1889, and teo: -,
1891 Gen. Scott travelled from Wnite hai 70
Plattshurg and for that journey the only one
performed by him in the winter OF 1872 'Ioln
Whitehall TO Plattsbugl was paid mileage az .no
rare If IS cents per mile for the transp ortat'on
o. himself aud sevsnt, by Capt. &. .. C2lhns'
Assistsnt Quartermaster L. ;. Army, at Pistts-
hurg n. Y. Feb. -, 1889, and that no ofaer
youcht T for this journey IS on hle IN TINS ONCE
neither il there any voucher on account OF Gen.
scots Transportation or Mileage from Wh'1e-
hall to Plattsburg, slgued by Lucius "hAiis""
or INV other individual VIA soever.
JONI :. GALLAGHER Third Auditor
So, YOU see. if Gen. Scott paid Lucius
Wilkinson, Esq" 500 for any journey
he made from Whitehall to Plattsburg in
1888. he simply swindled himself out Of the
SIOO, for he never charged it to nor re-
ceved The amount, nor any part OF it, from
the Treasurr. Ii ne paid 500 for his
transportation on the Journey he did make
in 1889, he cheated himself most outrage
ously, slnce he only received and the
Treasury only paid eighteen cents per m'te
for that journey, or some $50 in ALA
dead loss of $50, with his receipt for $3.50
In his pocket Lucius Wilkinson, " ESQ.,
may have got his SlOe, as he says; but Gen.
Scott never got the $50, nor any other sum
from the Treasury, but only his regular
IA cents per mile, for the conveyance of
himself and servant in mid winter, which
was allowed and paid him by the U. ).
Qusrtermaster at Plattsburg on his arrival
at that post. If be paid Wilkinson SlOO for
a horse and sleigh from Whitehallto Platts-
burg Qoss than a hundred miles) over the
smooth surface of frozen Lake Cham
plain in February, he certainly paid him
a most exorbitant price we believe fifty
men might have been found In an hour at
Whitehall who would have gladly taken
the job at $50. But if he had paid Will
kinson 500 for two days use of two
horse sleigh and returning, and had taken
a receipt for $50 with an intent to de-
fraud the Treasury, he must have known,
by thirty years experience, that the ac-
counting officers could only pay him his
regular mileage, fixed long ago by law, and
not to be exceeded. A Member Of Con-
gress might as well have paid $1,000 for
the use of steamboat to take him hun
dred miles on his way to Washington, and
then have tried to make the Sergeant-at
Arms allow him that sum for the hundred
miles travel as could Gen. Scott have
thought of getting money out of the Treas
ury by such paltry swindle as is intimated
above. And then no Wilkinson receipt
ever went to the Treasury-no claim was
ever made there by anybody for this trip,
except Gen. SCOTS legal and innexible
charge Of eighteen cents per mile, allowed
and paid by Quartermaster Collins at
Plattsburg on Gen. SCOTS arrival.
We have been thus patient in our ex-
plosion of this miserable SANDER because
it originated in our own State, and because
there are human beings sufficiently de-
graded to give such trash some sort of Gre
dence. They wouldn't exactly say that
Gen. Scott picked the public pocket of $50,
but they will shake their heads, shrug their
shoulders, and significantly observe that
the case looks ugly" or needs expla
nation" or that there is "rascality some
uhere." OF course there is, or such sto-
ries could not get aaoat any where.
The Election is now but seven weeks
off, and it is quite probable that such cal
umnies as the above will Increase in num-