The Nevada journal., 1852-11-26
The State Journal BEFORE and AFTER
Election.
Before the Election. J

OFFICIAL RETURNS OF THE SAN FRAN
3CIsCo Custom HoUsE.-ln the 5. +. Wing
aof the 18th inst, VIC see publication of the
Naval Officer and Surveyor of the Port in
regard to the Collectors return. The GER
|tifcatc proves nothing. These officers may
have counted Mr.. Kings money and made
returns, but did he make returns of the
amounts collected by him, and subject to the
draft Of the Treasurer of the U. s., and were
these returns thus made published MONTHLY
as required by law, in some paper in the Dis
trict of Columbia Will the Naval Officer
and Surveyor say in their official capacity
that the regular monthly and quarterly re-
turns of the Collector have been made and
that these returns have been published as
above stated We undertake to say that
they have not, that while all the public mo.
. ni,s subject to the draft of the U. 5. Treas
{ urer at other repositories besides San Fran
! 4cisco have been published regularly every
month in the National Intelligencer, il was
! not until late last year that the amount sub
5 5iect to draft in San Francisco was thus pub
lished. . Why was not Mr.. King appointed
+ Sub Treasurer until October 1851? Was
4 mot Collier sub-treasurer Did not King
succeed him as Collector, and also as sub
treasurer! If not, why the omission? Was
!t to enable the collector to retain, not sub
Iieet to the trcasurer's drafts, the amounts re
3ceiyed for customs? The certificate ofthese
lofficers us we have said, proves nothing, for
! their counting the money and making re-
Turns is no guarantee that Mr. King made his
returns. We want the official evidence for
T. the monthly returns published at Washing
+ ton CITY of the amounts returned by the col
Hector as subject to the drafts of the treasur-
5 er. We will guarantee such returns cannot
Z be produced, for we recollect distinctly that
+ Col. Weller one of our Senators made call
I on the secretary of the treasury for the rea-
sons WHY their returns had not been publish
ed. and n most lame and unsatisfactory an
,wer was returned to the Senate. Will these
5convcnient certlfiers for Mr.. King inform us
! of tho amount of Mr.. Kings's suspended ac-
count a. Washington during the last quarter
( of the last fiscal year? How much short OF
Z million OF dollars had he charged in his re-
turns which the accounting officers OF the
treasury refused TO allow We believe the
custom house at San Francisco Is rotten TO
the core, that il has been turned into a polit-
heal club room since Mr. King made bis ad-
vent into it, and although certihers may gloss
over its misdoings, after the 4th OF March
#neNL tue utiuOCThS viii CIV t"S NH'A",''
house thorough overhauling.
State Journal, Oct. 18Th.
/ have resigned the robcs-or the rags, II
you choose--of oficc.-T, B. hing.
But according to the United States official
Register, it seems you have not resigned the
3"slugs" Was it a desire to settle with
!whig Galphin Treasurer, l. stead OF demo
6cratlc one, that induced you to give up the
"rags a"-.State Journal Oct. l6.
(Afte, ihc Eieetion.)
4 Mr. King, we believe to be man of the
strictest integrity. Whatever has been said
against his honesty Of purpose IN the Perfor'
nance of official duties, will find no response
in the columns of the Times and Transcript
4 Times and Transcript.
i The above manly and honorable avowal
from an opponent, tends to show the feeling
&of this community towards Collector King
Irrespective of faction or party. We believe
that the late Collectors course, as whole
!. will be found to commend itself to the unbi-
Eassed Of all parties. 1t is certainly matter
of surprise that he leaves an office of so
much responsibility and trust, attended by
7 the best wishes of so large portion of the
scitizens of San Francisco.-S f. Wing.
So far as our knowledge or information
goes, the above is but fair and just tribute
ITO the retiring Collector. State Jour Nor. %