The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-06
STATE TAXES.


How they arc lncreascd-An Alleged Mon-
strous Bounty Swindle.
[From the Steuoen Farmers, Advocate (Baih, N. Y.
Ocl. 2S.l
We have noticed for several weeks past that there
great Tutoring among those men who have been
connected with bounty brokerage icw days ago n
,elcgraphed from Washington 10 ali tho daily papers
OF the government is about proceed to South
ouI sas ef@ o Yof ~ s osa s ca
slant Cook and man named Sherwood q sen9sn county,
TO recrt negroes 70 nil up the qota OF that county They
about a5ncS II spp.l ih.s in iss When President Lin
coin made cal fos ih.se thousand men, these Two
Board o. OF stes9sn count @ asehs q ne
Ike Governor co ms.ioscd them and they vent
who were duly mustered into The service Of :as
State bounty aud $40 ooany sapty il Is charged tSSt
6a ne s.
ana tse M 91sssu spe wsoe amount from
swnded have made eain 70. TIER money aud she gov
been institute ed against the accused a albany for obtaining
issued against them BY Attorney It Ca.rics,o
70 oeS o. TIE nssco Se Is, % % w s
Ie oa.cers q The government have been working up ths
vita the cases.
These persons accused citizens OF our county and
tbs. good understanding may be had OF the facts
o. the case. so Tar as this county ~ conceraed We pre-
sent the followng:-
In lbe first place. tho State borrowed thirty millions Of
dollars oscnsby TO pay borntes 10 soldiers. Second,
Cook 4 Sherwood Obtained over oaeguarter Of million
Of tat money We never doublsd that when the history
Of disposition OF thirty millions borrowed
exposed TO the public gaze, mae OF corruption would DO
opened which woald astonsn the people, aud have not
therefore, been surprised a, tho strenuous Efforts which
have been made, and which thus Far have eilecsnaily
sticd all inquiry into the matter. We have waited pa
tIently the development o. courts, anxious 10 sec
whether great wealth ana political power wold succeed
in covering up these transactions ani c3nce.ing from
tae world the true history Of the Whole affair re-
carrence 10 a few OF the admitted facts O! the will
st0w the suspicious which cluster around 1t, and why
tue people demand a understanding as to what was
Cook & Sherwood went South with letters from Gov.
fenton, TO act a. ageuts ana Tecru. for tho
quota Of SteuDan county. They retained somewhere
the las, Of Apr. 1860, aud ~ meeting of The
Board Of Supervisors OF this county held the l0tn
day o. May then following, MI Cook went before tie
Board stated xprssiy that they had ENLISTED 2s5
men, which had been credited to the quota or steuben
county. he canned that they had also enlisted thirty
than tho 2Ss, but tina they had Teen pre-
veGtod by orders OF tie War Department, mister
ing tAeso into the lie Claimed The county
should pay them for all these S6so each, bounty and
hand money. There was then other Clain Tor aGy
olner men made by Cook K sherwood. Lee lad sur.
rendered, tho practically end, and there
need OF moro men 1he Supervisors o.
strained by Injunction issued in behalf OF the people
from paying the cain OF CoJs x Sherwood Tor the 2S8
moo, and an undlsputed fact that the county OF
sleGben never did, TO this day, pay one dollar
OF tho 500 each for bounty 10 these men.
motion made IN behalf or Cook Il Sherwood to dis.
solve the injunction. which was argued at Havana be-
fore Judge Balloon, and the court refused 10 dissolve the
unction. And here comes III of tho strange fea-
lures Of tho transaction General William Irvine,
then Governor lenton ADJ General, appeared
coanse Tor Cook Co. on the argument OF that mo-
t0a; tho peopos AdJntant 1ehcra appearing rs coun-
SCI against tho reops and 10 I,yor Of fastening on no
very democratic Governor would have per.
mlted member OF his military fauaiy 60 appear as
counsel against the people such IL looks bad,
Failing to obtain The money from tho Supervisors Of
seuben, and unwilling 10 take the chance OF fair jadi
cal discrimination or their rights, Cook Co. sought
other means OF reaching the public purse. They went
TO Albany, taking with the chairman OF the Board
county Of ~teuben by tho books or Cook Sherwood,
had paid to each OF the hundred and eighty eight
obtained VIC are MT advised, but t news 10 the
saon account We know that The county was restrained
By injunction from pay ing II, and We know the county
has not TO THIS day paid one dollar OF that money II
tanned the money. II Is generally understood that
General Irvine managed tho vnolo Cook Il
vsors says that the Paymastor General or tue State
Genera 4 Il. Marvin, now Adjuiant Gcnera who paid
Junction and that the county had not paid a dollar Of tho
amount. The money was paid by the Paymastes Gen.
money il had paid in bountlos those two hundred
aud eighty eight men. The county had not paid t. In
paid IL II pertinent. inquiry why with this knowl-
edge, they paid Tie money over 70 any one. No
one NED ss hs@ 10 wait q. nags
tho acton brought by the people to test the quss-
ton whether they were 10 any way liable to pay the
for money which u was alleged bad been paid for
bounty 10 negroes aud besides this tho county paid
them $40 for each man for hand money, making II pro-
fabo for them end tho people had the right expect
no further Claims would be made upon the public purse
FOR tho benefit OF these men. Tue war was ended.
cook had stated publicly to the Supervisors that he had
bit the two hundred and eighty -eight men mustered
INTO the service and claimed that no had enlisted only
thirty one other who were not mustered into tho
service making three hundred and nineteen In all
enough in all eonfccncc for the people to be taxed for
nut Il Il familiar maxim that tho greed for gain grows
by what Il feeds on. cook q Co. had tasted the rich
fruits OF bounty brokering and were not satisfied.
Their subsequent donas are enveloped In more Of
uystery aud all we OF them s by the results and
fcee results tell heavily the pockets OF the pocpIe
Cook h Sherwood did not surely 80 South buS once;
they ala not rern thore after Lee had surrendered yet
lacnrda Of thu Qlca Of tha PnxuaGlcr