Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-05-12

! IlcHry nlIlcT, Gh4., VI IOluHlDuS, DniO,
represented the matter to Chase and
them off and there the affair rests yet
| Write to b. i. Martin, ESD, Columbus,
Ohio, and you can get the full facts. Stone
! has always been one Of Chase chief Prcsi-
dental fuglers in Ohio, and if the proof
! fastens guilt upon him Old Abe should be
! posted, removal made, and then our
| friends will have some inducement 70 work
| in Ohio. | tell you we will 90 under unless
the President backs up his friends, and then
the people and the Army will whip out all
the Washington politicians.
| Hon. L. =. BLAIR, Jr."
"BEAUFoRT SOUTH CAROLINA, Feb. %.
"STR I congratulate you upon having
the courage to speak out against Secretary
Chase and his army of tax- gathers, that are
now sucking the blood from our people.
1.-THE merchants doing business upon this
island and the other islands (Hilton Head
excepted) have 10 pay five per cent. upon
all goods that come here from the North,
notwithstanding there is not single white
| resident Of South Carolina upon these is
lands. This tax is put on to the account Of
the goods, and in this way the Union sol
dlers and the contrabands have TO pay the
tax for the support Of Chase friends.
Goods are only allowed to come into
| Port Royal free Of tax where they arc Ian
dcd on one side Of the harbor; on the other
side they have to pay the five per cent. tax.
Secretary Chase arbitrarily decides that the
port Of Port Royal includes only the terrific
~ within the tortfcations on Hilton Head
Island, which are the army headquarters,
but Immediately opposite on the island
where the Navy have quarters, and where
there are similar fortiiications to protect the
harbor, he mades the merchant pay the five
per cent. tax, The soldiers get their goods
without the tax, while the sailors have to
pay it. There, are two docks and wharve in
this port, and one of which you can land
your goods free, while at the other the
special supervising agent of the Treasury
Department, makes you pay tax. Verify,
the commerce follows the flag" but not
until it has paid the taxes.
Your obedient servant"
"MEMpHIs, Tenn, March 9, 1864.
DEAR GENERAL: ! have just been put
In possession Of some very important intor-
nation concerning the Treasury Depart
mCnt:
81. That Col. J.. H. Z. jameson, who is
member of the Missouri Legislature, got
o,oO9 Tor procuring cotton permit from
the Treasury Department at Cincinnati. |
do not know who the purchaser of the per-
NIT was, but Mr.. -, will probably give
you his name when he writes to you.
1hls letter from gentleman of New
York who is at the head of one of the lar
gest moneyed institutions in that city.
"NEw YORK, March ., 1864.
deer SIR: Are you aware of the ru-
mors that are afoat here regarding our Sec
retary Of the Treasury?
First have you heard that he gave young
Graham [son of John L. Graham, of thi.
cityl, now cashier of .the Naionol Bank
New Orleans, Il permit to take TO New Or
leans cargo Of whisky. by which he ex
. eighty Thousand dollars? This for Mr.. Ora
), ham services is getting up national ban'
in New Orleans.
q Have you heard that he has given to hi
: son-in-aw, Gov, Sprague, permit to bu,
Gotten at the South, by which he will prob
! ably NAL kc the snug little sun of $4,000,
: 900? Ask VIM. II. Aspinwall of this city
= but without naming me.
Have you heard, what is the fact, tha
this 81 900, 600 of iiye-twenty bonds now
asked Of Congress TO make good the excess
OF sale over the amount authorized by law,
is just so much given to the ring" Jay
Cooke & Co.? That is to say, when Mr.,
Chase asked Mr.. Cisco to buy Sll 900, 900
at par to make good the excessive subscrip-
ton with the agents, Jay Cooke & Co, Mr.
4 Chase was told that was an impossibility,
for the simple fact Of his buying at all would
put them up in maket. The Secretary was
also informed that there was no need of ta-
king any notice of the advised subscription,
as no money had been paid
HI.N I
Cooke & Co., understand to be this: Jay
telegraph back to them (Jay Cooke & Co. !
to subscribe for so much Of the five-twenty
loan. That being done, as soon as the loan
was all taken it appeared in their Office that
so much more had been actually bona tide,
applied for by outside parties, when, in fact
1t was a contIiyance to secure to themselves
and their immediate friends the profits or
this excess Of ST., 900, 600. Ask Mr.. j. J.
Ciso, Assistant Treasurer in this city, if this
is not so. But ask you again not to name
me in this inquiry. The Secretary was told
that he was under no obligation to furnish
the bonds as no money had been paid, anC
this, too, from the Assistant Treasurer il
this city. But still ''the ring had power
enough to get the stock out OF Mr. Chase
and he out Of Congress, presume
} ''IIon. Frank Blair.
3 Mr.. BLAIR here read several letters of q
similar import as the foregoing, and added
, know nearly all Of these parties whose
| letters | have read. [ do not feel at liberty
f to give their names, because they would be
) subjected to the persecution from Chase,
5 blood honds that | have suffered, but they
6 and great many others are at the service
of the committee on the conduct Of tn,
c war;" which has had this subject befor
s them for now nearly two months withou
v making movement to investigate the char
ges against the Secretary Of the Treas
ury
Mr.. BLAIR then produced documents tt
show the partial and injurious mannne
S CHAsE's "Trade Regulations" were made
t to operate against his (BLAIR's) constitu
: ents, and summed up as follows:
- Thus it seems that the official instruction
q dated the 18th January, 1864, and enforced
= in St. Louis Immediately, were only receiv
cd and enforced in Cincinnati on the Goth o
- February, and that for the intervening peri
!, cd, about six weeks, Cincinnati had enjoyed
h a monopoly Of the drug market Of the Soutl
= and in fact still has and enjoys this mon
!, opoly, unless the instructions have beel
| modified, not only Of drugs and medicin
+ + but of all the prohibited articles enumerated