The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1864-09-17
The Great Smugglers, Beaver and Rosen-
baum, on the Union State Central Com.
mittee, along with the Collector of
the Port


, the Port!
A writer in the S. +. Bulletin. a member
Of the Administration party, ventilates the
antecedens Of Rosenbaum and Beaver, two
Of the members selected at large on the
Union State Central Committee" Their
record is very bad. He says:
Public morals, public decency, the good
name Of the Union party in this State de-
mand that the Beaver Rosenbaum business
. should be fully ventilated"
A friend Of mine has examined the re-
cords of the United States District Court
and furnished me with the following record
! ed facts.
Page Sc, Admiralty Register, United
States cases.
United States VS.. % cases containing 100 600
cigars, marked p in diamond January 26,
1864, libel filed; 2Sth claim and stipulation of
James Patrick Co; 29th, appraisers appointed
by Court; February 3D., appraisers report the val
ue to be $40, 500; 4th, bond for assessed value
filed and cigars discharged by order Of Court;
9th, decree of forieiture; March 10th, James
Patrick Co., paid appraised value Of cigars in
full.
Also, page 63 Of the Book Of Records:
United States VS.. 53 cases containing $50, 90
cigars, marked H. S. Il. X Co. January 26, 1868
libel filed; 2Sth, claim and stipulation Of A. S.
Rosenbaum Go. filed; 29h, appraisers appoint
ed by Court; February Sd, appraisers report value
S3O,G3l; 4th, bond for appraised value filed and
discharged by order of Court; 27th decree Of
forfeiture; March 9th, received of claimants
S30,63l in full OF bond.
On the l4th day of July last the United
States Government brought suit against the
members of the firm of A. S. Rosenbaum q
Co., to recover the sum of 1924 600 81
say fve hundred and twenty-t four thousand
dollars and thirty seven cents-the value of
merchandise passed through the Custom
House under false invoices between June | 6. j..
1861, and December 80 1862; and on the
same day commenced a suit against the firm
OF Patrick " Co., to recover the sum of
S23O,6O9 67-say, taOo Aundred and Mirty
thousand sir hundred and nine dollars and
SIXTY seuen cents-passed through the Custom
House during the same time in the same
manner. Mr.. Rosenbaum is a member of
the house of A. S. Rosenbaum e. Co., and
q. w. Beaver is the resident member of the
house of James Patrick e. Co. Col Charles
James, Collector Of the Port Of San Fran
cisco, is the man who furnished the u. s.
District Attorney with the information upon
which the suits against Rosenbaum and
Beaver are founded.
The following is a record of the proceed
ings of the Union State Central Committee,
as published in all of our leading journals
the first of the month:
PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNION STATE CENTRAL COM
| MITTEE.
| The State Central Committee met at the Office
| nJ M,(NI
X G. Gaskill in the chair pro TEN, and A. A. Sar
gent, Secretary.
The following named gentlemen were added to
the State Central Committee as members at large;
A. J. Bryant, G. W. Beaver, NJ. Roscnbaum aud
Col. Charles James.
at San Francisco, Friday, September I'd, at 10
o'clock.
Pursuant to adjournment the Committee met in
the rooms Of the Union Central Club. Mr.. Sar-
gent called the meeting TO order, and in the alb
sence Of the temporary Chairman, J. W. Wilcox
presided. The following members answered to
| the roll call j. W. Wilcox, G. james, G. W. Sea
ton, NJ Boulware, j. J. Warner, r. G. Gaskll, (by
Sargent, proxy A. B. Rawley (Wilcox, proxyD
John Mason, 7. R. Anthony. Sargent, proxy) j.
Il. McNabb. S. Cooper, Sargent proxy ii. |
Howe, Joseph Ancs, A. A. Sargent, Mark Shep
pard A. j. Bryant. NJ. Rosenbaum and G.. W.
Beaver.
The first business in order was the election ofa
Chairman OF the State Central Committee. On
motion of Colonel James, A. J. Bryant WAS unan
imOuSly elected
| NJ. Rosenbaum was unanimously elected Secrc-
tary.
| G. w. Beaver was unanimously elected Treas
urer.
An Executive Committee, consisting Of seven
members was then selected rs follows: A. j. Bry-
ant, g. w. Beaver, NJ. Rosenbaum, A. A. Sargent
Mark Sheppard Joseph Ames and John Mason
The Executive Committee, three constituting Il
quorum was authorized to transact all general
business of the Committee.
Adjourned subject to the call of the Chairman
of the Committed perfect harmony prevailing.
A. j. BRYANT, Chairman.
NJ. RosENBAuM, Secretary.
Two men who have paid to the Govern.
ment over $4,000 for merchandise forfeited
for being entered at the Custom House un
der sworn false invoices, and who have suits
hanging over them for the recovery of $754,
GAO Oh for like offenses, elected members of
the Union State Central Committee along
with the Collector of the Port, one Of whom
is unanimously elected Treasurer-the Col
lector voting in the ailrmative-and the
other is unanimously y made Secretary! On
shame. where is thy blushn'
If the suits against Rosenbaum and Bea-
YER are well founded they have been defraud
ing the Government by swearing through
false invoices for years-a fact well known
to Collector James, or he would not have
furnished the Information upon which the
suits rest. Now it is barely possible the
Collector may think it is in keeping with
good morals and the dictates of honest
hearts to put such men on the Union State
Central Committee, but there are very many
persons in this Stale who do not so believe.
In all we'll regulated communities men OF
integrity and respectability are put on State
Central Committees, for the reason that they
have to collect and disburse large sums for
printing and other necessary election ex-
penses, and are considered proper men to
i ox,d 10 The Droc iIont fit q