Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-05-13

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Small Chanse-Mfs. Albettsoonu..s ou.s' "a. .:,.s' 10
Abou: the first of April last the State %essaal
edited by Mr.. Albertson asaid that since the new
Treasurer came into Office it was Impossible to pro-
cure change; thatit could be procured under the
former administration; that the same facilities for
obtaining it were 10 reach Of the present one, and
that, owing to this alleged neglect on the part
the present Treasurer the business men Of the Sate
were forced to send to other States for small change
Now, let US what the facts are and in what Po-
sition Mr.. Albertson has placed himself =
After the present Treasurer was elected, but some
weeks before he entered on his duties, he laused
of the former Treasurer, Mr.. Courts, whethaf he
-had issued all the change authorised by lswSe He
sHered that there reansiitsd to BE- issued pba
ne smodnt Of more than $3.50, coo under hats
passed prior to the last session. Mr.. Worth inqur-
ed if fhe necessary orders had been issued for sup
plying the blank bills for this change. Mr.. Courts
said no paper was provided that the lithopraphing
was done in Columbia by j. 7. Patterson & Go.
that he had been in the habit of buying the paper
in Richmond Mr.. Worth requested him to order
the paper. He did so, and it arrived here about
the 10th Of January. Mr Worth sent it immediate
ly to the lithographers stating to them, from the
books of the Treasurer, how many bills Of each de-
nomination lacking under the laws referred to,
and requesting that they print and forward the
blanks without delay. The lithographers replied
that they had been informed by his predecessor that
they had supplied all the blanks for change which
he YVES authorized to issue; that they had conse-
quently rubbed out their transfer plates and had en-
tered upon similar job for the State Of Alabama
and that some time must elspse before they could
get ready to resume the job for this State. Mr.
Courts was duly informed of this reply. Mr.. Al
bertson, now of the Journal was employed by Mr..
Courts to supervise the printing and issuing Of these
notes. After the attack by him on Mr.. Worth in
the State Journal already referred to in relation to
small change that officer wrote the lithographers
the subject, and j. T. Patterson, Esq, one of the
frm replied as fellows:
II am surprised that Mr.. Albertson should have
been the one that raised the point for when visited
Raleigh one week before your election, seeing the
demand while in the Treasurers Office for the change
bills, suggested to Mr.. Courts, and likewise to Mr..
| Albertson, that inasmuch as my men would be al.
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on, and that the demand great for change,
L had better go and PRINT more of them but
Ir. Albertson and Mr. Courts both informed me
that they could not print any more, as the quantity
then authorized by law was printed, and that they
could not tell the date the new issue would bear.
So it seems that Mr.. Courts told MI. Worth that
more than $3.50, 600 of these small bills remained to
be issued, and that both he and Mr.. Albertsoa told
Mr. Patterson that no more sc .hs.s b;l3s odd -
printed, as the quantity authorized by law had IL
ready been printed. 1t is PLAIN that Mr. Courts
was not himself informed on the subject when he
gave this answer to Mr.. Worth; or, in other words
that the large amount of $780, 900 Of State Treasury
notes had been printed and issued without his
knowledge. But Mr.. Albertson knew all about it
for it was his particular business to know, as be su
pervised the printing and issuing and he must have
informed Mr.. Courts subsequently,, as is shown by
the conversation with Mr.. Patterson. And yet Mr.
Albertson complains that small change was no
issued by Mr.. Worth, which he told Mr.. Patterson
could not be issued! He must have known
when writing the article complaining Of the want o
small change that he was suppressing the facts ant
doing Mr.. Worth injustice. This is one of tn
many specimens Of the dsingenuous manner in which
that excellent officer is assa,ied.
As to the assertion in the article referred to tina
email change could not be obtained in Raleigh, /
was at the time untrue Each of the Banks her
had been for some tmc, and were then issuing it,
They had then issued many thousands, and tn
Banks generally over ths State were doing the same
1t is true, it might have not been so abundant ii
Raleigh as formerly, as the present incumbent ha
regard to other parts of the State wanting chang
as we'll as this locality.
Mr.. Albsrtson cannot explain away his conduct il
this matter. His only course as an honest perso'
is to come forward and admit fairly and sqnarely
that he has done the present Treasurer injustice
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Vice President Stephens.
Welearn from correspondent Of the Proqres
that Vice President Ste Aens passed through Colds
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