The New York herald., 1869-06-02

bracina about 500 900 acres TO take place ct Den
| yer city, Colorado; commencing on the 18th OF Sep
| tember next.
| Illegal Drain on the Treasury.
| 1t Is well known that Secretary Boutwell, has
divided the territory Of the United States into four
| teen districts, and appointed o special Treasury
agent 70 each, with numerous assistants The sala-
res OF the agents are $4,000 per annum each, while
assistants receive $6 per day and ten cents per
mile for travelling expenses. The agent at New
York is said to have engaged an ofnce at yearly
rental Of $4,000. The total yearly expense OF this
branch OF the service may be fairly estimated at
$3s1, 900. Unfortunately, there is regal warrant
for this expenditure. There is no such officer a
special Treasury agent recognized by the revenue
laws The only authority relied upon to justify these
appointments contained in section nine OF the act
| Of July 81, 1859, which reads as folows:-
And be it further enacted, That the collectors,
naval officers and surveyors TO be appointed by vir
Of ali theirs aeep %
| duty as officers Of the customs in such man.
apd om ay Or oeer s Ss
States, aad sSaa a al hines saypN Nshf soQEs,
Collectors q different ports @ shall Spif At ali %es mes pay
direct the same, the whole of the moneys which they
may respectively receive by virtue OF this act such
to pay only excepted and that also once in every
three months or oftener If they shall be required,
transmit their accounts for settlement to the depart
Nlent or officer before mentioned.
| 1t will be seen that the above section provides
only for the appointment Of persons to examine the
| books and papers OF collectors naval officers and
surveyors not to detect frauds the revenue, make
| seizures Of goods and investigate revenue cases,
duties usurped by the special agents, but confined
| by law 10 other officers Of the customs
| exclusively. These are nard facts, but il must
be interesting to the many genial and clever fellows
who have been congratulated on their good fortune
| in receiving appointments to these agencies to be
informed that the Secretary has power to create
their ofllces, and that they cannot legally draw
dollar out OF the Treasury for their valuable SER
| vices. a."
| Good Story SpOiled-yhe D'sinterested
English Capitalist.
The ''wealthy Englishman whose generosity
shows itself in q refusal TO accept the legal rate Of
| interest on the United States bonds and who has
returned several nve-tweDties to the Treasury De-
partment as conscience money" is said TO be
| lunatic. In England he was famous for the same
| thing. His mania Ia o low rate OF interest for
money, which ne insists ought to be enforced all
over the world. He is not partial to United States
| bonds any more than he is to British consos. The
story that Secretary Boutwell, had written him ana
| invited him to visit Washington is incorrect. Mr..
Boutwell, has sent no communication to him.
An Incorporate and Inccinpctent OmciaI Re.
| instated by the President.
An appointment was made in the Patent ONCE to-
day that calls for some ventilation. Commissioners
Fooe. during his administration OF the Office, dis.
| missed an assistant examiner for intemper-
ance and incompeency. The dismissed party,
It seems, was q personal friend Of Presi.
dent Grant ana a classmate of his at
West Point Relying upon his intimacy with the
President this individual has repeatedly boasted
| that he wonld get back TO his old position in the
Patent once in spite Of Commissioner Foote or Com
| missioner Fisher either. To-day he made good his
boast Armed with letter fromthe President he pre-
| sentedhimseh to Commissioner Fisher who opened
the paper and found 1t to contain request Tor the
reinstatement Of the dismissed individual. The Com.
1missoner is said to be highly just Official and Of
t,ourse received the request with considerable sur
prize but nevertheless found himself constrained to
y make the appointment, as the President made the
request. The appointment gives dissatisfaction to
other examiners ana asssistan examiners and
clerks over some Of whom this friend Of President
Grant Is elevated.
Woman Suffrage Denied In the District-A
Modern Knight Of La Mnncha.
The Board OF Registration OF this city have gwen
fnai reply TO the twenty.eght ladies who applied
TO be registered voters. The reply was given TO-
day to Professor j. II. X. wilcox, and was TO the
erect that the application Of the ladies would have to
be Denied because the law only permitted ''males'
to be registered. At the same time the Board as q
body refrained from expressing themselves unfavor-
I able to the female application on principle while
| one OF them, Mr.. J. H. Crossman, declared he be-
lieyed women should be registered and that his SYM
pathies were with them. Professor WILCOX, who
has championed the ladies here In their pilgrmages
to the voting Offices filed with Indignation at the
result OF all his abors, has addressed the following
| letter TO the Board OF Regstrauon:-
WASHINGTON, June /, 1862
TO THE JUDGES OF ELEcTION:-
from The list Of voters which youkave prepared il tt
Second ward. I fnd that twenty eight ladies have
See been on legal grounds denied Ny own on the othe
hand has been at once acceded 10. Sons OF these
OF the law have lived here much longer than myself
understand the AFFAIRS OF the city better and are
gently IL the coming election than am Il they ar
deemed by the law unfit to exercise the franchise
iuS Unwilling take an Unfair advantage ' Of then
by availing myself of condition OF the law which
spectfuily ]. II. K. WILCOX.
Reputation In Florida.
The radical factions in Florida, after O sanginar
contest among themselves, have come TO the con
cuson to repudate the debt Of the state. II appear
that under the Gleason Osborn dynasty bonds wer
issued to the extent Of 900 TO the State gov
ernment. The money was raised and covered int
the state treasury. Inc last Legislature authorlze
the issue OF bonds at six per cent, running thir
years. to the amount Of 100000. They were to b
negotiated through the State Comptroller at not les
than seventy five cents on the dollar The presen
Governor, Reid, who seems to be at log
gerheads with the Legislature. learning Q
their action, set about to manipulate tn
comptroller as to prevent the negotiation Of tn
bonds He not only succeeded In this, but got tn
State Treasurer to refuse to pay the interest tn
$50 600 issued by the Gleason Osborn faction. Tn
result is that the State Treasury is bankrupt, an
the parties who bought the first bonds are likely b
lose both principal and interest,"
Appointments by the President.
The President has made the following appoint