The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-28
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OFFICIAL Charlottesville Detroit Tfib
me SAYS:
The arrival of the special Government
agent il this city, to investigate the conduct OF
he Collector at this portland. as we learn,
10 take notes Of the management OF Gov
eminent officials generally-has created quite
q commOtion and futtering among Govern
msnt officials The Collector can't imagine
what on airth they want to interfere with him
i0r, as though be wasn't capable of taking care
n hiGISelf in the management of the business
u the custom house, without the surveillance,
and expense to Government, of q special in
qaisitor into his private arrangements. The
charges filed against him in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, are numerous, and
embrace even more gross violations OF law and
ahcial duty than we have heretofore alluded to,
IA are, as we hear them reported, as follows
l. That he received and pocketed bonus
ui some $1,000 or 81 500 from parties in De
uoit, in consideration of allowing large in
,oice of railroad iron to pass the custom house
Without the payment of duty, as required by
.av; or, in other words, giving a credit of
-r,eral months for the duties upOn it. contrary
20 law, while he reported the same iron TO
GshingtoR as remaining lD bond.
,. That he has obtained receipts and for
aarded vouchers to Washington for more
money than he has paid the parties who signed
aeGa.
3. That vouchers have been forwarded to
"ashington, signed by parties Eho did not
bold any position In the custom house, and had
lot rendered any service to the Government.
1. TI,..t no hoo repeatedly v;olated the sub
tleasury law, la paying ont Western and other
tank notes for services and supplies to Goyern-
Gent
>. That he has not rendered full account
u money received by him, as Collector, re-
4Glred by law.
" These are grave charges" says the Trib-
"a'. and what makes the subject of them still
more grave, is the information we have, that
there is abundant voluntary evidence, eye and
-ar witnesses, to prove them all.
WHAT ARE They FoR ?-The New York
Times Of Tuesday, in its money article, says:
3" We have seen on the street to day parcel
d iour-mcnihs' bills drawn in june by the firm
oi tavorite Utah contractors of the Government
Upon the War Department, and accepted, I'M
eondltlonally, by Secretary J. B. Floyd. These
oils are made for round sums of f25, 900 each,
SN'ahslbly Tor consideration already rendered.
bnt upon What authority, or after what prece-
3ent they are accepted, payable fur months
hfaoe, does not appear"
II IL well known that the money nv which the
i-ecomPton act was forced through Congress
vas raised By the Administration qp just such
oiLl' az these, with the exception III yshey were
Tor smaller amoants. Are these bills intended
as the means of raising an electioneering fund,
% he spent by the Administration in influencing
the fail elections? The elections of this fall
are OF vast importance, as indicating the drift
u me tide In 1860; and we may be sure that
me administration, which spent money last
;;eaT by tens of thousands in every Northern
STATE, will not suffer the elections Of this year
- 60 by default. Nay We not therefore look
PIh the documents noticed by the Times as
c me hrsf notes oftbe campaign? "- Pittsburgh