Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-03

he put them off, and there the affair rests
yet. Write to B. f. Martin, Esq, Colum-
bus, Ohio, and you can get the full facts.
Stone has always been one Of Chase's chief
Presidential fuglers in Ohio, and If the
proof fastens guilt upon him Old Abe
should be posted, n removal made, and then
our friends will have some inducement to
work in Ohio. tell you we will go under
unless the President backs up his friends,
and then the people and the Army will
whip out all the Washington politicians.
"Hon. +. 7. BLAIR, Jr."
"BEAUFoRT, SOUTH CAROLINA, Feb, %.
'SR: / congratulate you upon having
the courage to speak out against Secretary
Chase and his army of taX-gatherers, that
are now sucking the blood from our peo-
pie.
''The merchants doing business upon this
island and the other islands Hilton Head
eXcepted) have to pay five per cent upon all
goods that come here from the North, not
withstanding there is not a single white
resident of South Carolina upon these is
lands. This tax is put OH to the account Of
the goods, and in this way the Union sol
diers and the contrabands have to pay the
tax for the support of Chase's friends.
"Goods are only allowed to come into Port
Royal free of tax where they are landed on
one side of the harbor; on the other side they
have to pay the five per cent. tax. Secre-
tary Chase arbitrarily decides that the port
of Port Royal includes only the territory
within the Notifications 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 Notifications to protect
the harbor, he makes 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 wharves
in this port, at 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 0, 1864.
'DEAR GENERAL: have just been put in
possession of some very important in
formation concerning the Treasury Depart
ment:
Il. That Col. Z. III. Z. Jameson, who is o
member of the Missouri Legislature, got
$4,000 for procuring a cotton permit from the
Treasury Department at Cincinnati. | do
not know who the purchaser of the permit
was, but Mr.. will probably give you
Ills lldlllc Wlltn llG WIlItS W yOu.
This letter is from gentleman of New
| York who is at the head of one of the larg-
est moneyed institutions in that city:
"NEw YORK, March 2, 1864.
"DEAR SIR: Are you aware of the rumors
that are afloat here regarding our Secretary
of the Treasury?
''First, have you heard that he gave young
Graham (son of John l.. Graham, of this
city,, now cashier of the National Bank,
New Orleans, a permit to take to New Or
leans cargo of whisky, by which he eX-
poets to make clear profit of from sixty
to eighty thousand dollars?' This for Mr..
Graham's services in getting up national
bank in New Orleans.
"Have you heard that he has given to his
| son-in-law, Gov. Sprague, permit to buy
cotton at the South, by which he will prob
ably make the snug little sum OF $4,000, 600!
Ask VIM. H. Aspinwall of this city, but
without naming me.
"Have you heard, what is the fact that
this $11,0OO,000 of tive-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 $11,000,O00 al
par to make good the excessive subscription
was told that was an impossibility, for the
| simple fact of his buying at all would put
them up in the market. The Secretary was
also informed that there was no need OF
taking any notice of the advised subscrip-
tion, as no money had been paid.
THE way it was managed by Jay Cooke
& Co., understand to be this: Jay Cooke
& Co. telegraphed to their agents to tele-
graph back to them (Jay Cooke & CO.. to
subscribe for so much of the five-twenty
loan. That being done, as soon rs the loan
was all taken it appeared in their Office that
so much more had been actually, bona fde.
applied for by outside parties, when, in fact.
it was q contrivance to secure to themselves
this excess of $ll,000,000. Ask Mr.. j. j.
Cisco, Assistant Treasurer, in this city, if
this is not so. But again L must ask you
not to name me in this inquiry. The Sec
retary was told that he was under no obli-
cation to furnish the bonds, as no money
had been paid, and this, too, from the As
sistant Treasurer in this city. But still the
ring had power enough to get the stock out
of Mr.. Chase, and he out of Congress- l pre-
sumo.
"Hon. FRANK BLAIR" -
Mr.. BLAIR here read several letters of
similar import as the foregoing, and added !:
know nearly all of these parties whose
letters have read. / do not feel at liberty
to give their names, because they would be
subjected to the prosecutions from Chase's
blood-hounds that have suffered, but they
and great many others are at the service
of the committee on the conduct of the
war" which has had this subject before
them for now nearly two months without
making movement to investigate the
charges against the Secretary of the Treas
ury. .# ......
Mr.. BLAIR then produced documents to
show the partial and injurious manner
CHAsE's "Trade Regulations" were made
to operate against his (BLA1R's) constituents,
ard summed up as follows: s.rt I.
Thus it seems that the official instructions
dated the 18th January, 1864 and enforced
in st. Louis Immediately, were only re-
ceived and enforced in Cincinnati on the
26th of February, and that for the interven-
ing period, about six weeks, Cincinnati had
enjoyed monopoly Of the drug market of
the South, and in fact still has and enjoys
this monopoly, unless the instructions have
been modified, not only Of drugs and medi-
cines but of all tile prohibited articles emu
merated in section SO of the Regulations,
because such articles can only be permitted
by the especial directioh'' of the Supervising
special agent who resides at Cincinnati and
his deputy also. For this reason the whole
trade in the list of prohibited articles Is di-
verted from the other western cities and
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