The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-05-16

NEW YORK, May l5.-Whe Postmaster
Holt reached here two weeks ago, he had
his attention directed To the conduct oi
Postmaster Fowler and ordered an inyesti-
cation. Owing TO Mr.. FOwler's absence at
/ Charleston, it was found impossible to Oh
tain the necessary statements, and it was
/ only by the most pcremptory acquisitions
that they were procured after his return
! and then but partially and Mt intervals.
For some reason or other, yet to be eXplain-
ed, no satisfactory statement of these aC-
counts could be procured from the Office of
DR.. Tate, sixth Auditor of the Treasury,
where they were adjusted until Friday last,
and only upon the personal and absolute
demand of the Postmaster General. 1t was
/ found that Mr. Fowler was in arrears over
$3.50, ,000. How far this deialcation may
be traced back is not yet known positively,
because the information is still imperfect,
and the department Is disinclined to commu-
nicate what it knows.
The law emphatically requires the Sixth
Auditor to report to the Postmaster Gener-
al whenever a Postmaster defaults in pay
ment of his balance No report of any kind
was made in this case, and Mr.. Fowler has
been allowed to 60 along many months as if
his office was correctly conducted. This ex-
traOrdinary development will cause an i'm
mediate inquiry in Congress.
When Nr. Holt detected this defaIcation
to his own satisfaction, on Friday. he sub
mitted it to the President and required Mr..
Fowler's immediate removal.
LATER.
Further nvestigationSlto-night show Mr.
Fowler's defalcation to be $l75,600. The
fact of a serious arrangement in his ac-
counts must have been known to some re-
sponsibe person in the Auditors office long
ago, and the enquiry will now be directed
there. Some of Mr.. Fower's friends ten
dered the deficit ascertained up to Satur-
day, but Mr. Holt said it was too late, and
would be compromising the felony. 1t is
confidently stated that Il fund was being
raised to get him out of the country, and
he has gone. He admitted having used part
of the money, but charged the subtreasury
with the main loss, while conceding his
own responsibility for the whole
NEW York, May ;. Nudge Hillyer,
Secretary to the Treasury Department, is in
town with the u. S. District Attorney Noos,
preparing the necessary papers to recover
the deficiency from the bondsmen and the
estate of Mr.. Fowler. How much the latter
will yield is not known. 1t is said, how
ever, and generally believed, that a great
portion of it was spent in 1856 to carry the
State Of Pennsylvania for Buchanan. lie
then, and has been since, liberal TO
fault in his political contributions. 1t Was
under MS patronage and in bus rooms, that
the celebrated \. Y. Hotel meeting vas
held, at which an immense iund was raised
just previous TO the Presidential election, and
Mr.. Fowler was among the most liberal
He WAS, but few years ago, reported to be
worth $4,000.
1t is stated that if Mr.. Fowler had made
the matter known to his personal friends
they would lave raised the amount for him
in few days. One man would have giyer,
90 600 dollars. Various rumors were ahoat
last night that Mr.. Fowler had committed
suicide, but as far as we are able TO learn,
they were without foundation. His personal
friends think it is about as well that he es-
capped arrest, as had Ire been taken into Gus
dy he would beyond doubt, have committed
suicide.