The New York herald., 1870-03-22


OF stock. They founo II cheaper anu more
expedient TO pay thousand dollars IN cases where
than to have their establishments taken possession
or, ana suffer financial disaster While awaiting the
SLOW process OF examination and ylndlca!ion oy tne
courts. These Outrages were pracliscd upon all
classes OF tobacco dealers, and were 50 Gun.
ningly managed tsat An IN ..r,n majority najrg,zed q
and pay almost anything TO anybody 70 be let alone:
Some firms were too well posted toNe caught ana
after good deal OF fnss and threatening by the man
denounced rs "worse than tre,n received from
him the most considerate attention, he evidently
discovering it to be unsafe for HIN TO ince them TO
expected by the tobacco dealers to give place to an
honest man under the new regime,
BAILEY AMONG THE LIQUOR MERCHANTS.
No man was ever more cordially hated than Mr.
Bailey is by the liquor merchants He placed nim-
iecto or the Fourth district In hostility to them aud
kept IT up with unreIenting vigor to the last mo-
ment o. MS little brief authority n ro%gn G|scom sme
lector Of the Thirty district win view II
their printed pamphlet entitled .Ieasons Against
the Confirmation q MT; Bailey n;str,ctS az eo soG
from which coplous extracts have been made
by some Of the papers and the same put forward
before the public as fresh matter among G w.
Ing receipt. which long slnce Clotneuun .ne pamo-
piled dignity q tyne came under me eyes Q, our
fui:e m accomplishing the result sought for by
those taking the trouble to print them Here Is the
Dt.
ana unness Tor the office better than IL could pos
sioy be told any other way
No. 81 cuAarrns STREET. J
OFrfcF OF COLLECTOR OF ISTEENAL KEyEHUE,
FOURTH DIsTaioT, STATE OF NEw York
Received from Thomas c. the Of sso,0oo In set
Of charles with e he ss1s q Pr s hon IN
0fAO's COMMISSIONS o in'e JosHux s%lLEY Collector
Iu this case it is only fair to state however, that
Mr.. Bailey withheld this money from the govern.
ment for i've months without making any deposit Of
itself an alleged felony under the law, ana then re-
funded 1t only when q suit was threatened agansl
him for its recovery ana matters were assuming
a too heated climax for him 70 hold on 10 IL any
longer
MORE ACTS OF MALFEAsANCE
The above is but the beginning OF the beginning OF
his alleged malieasance. On the 31st day OF Octo-
Der, 1861, he seized the establishment OF Joseph
Jones Co.. and not by the way s1 n adn his district Y,
feet his consent to release the place but
for this money giving W. rese,pa ena, on only y r dor
the latter 81 500 10 effect settlement and or winch
only H. 600 was deposited 10 the government account
the checks for The remainder being endorsed by MI
Barley in his private capacity Ia reference 70 thls
very case prominent liquor merchant says that
COMMISSIONER DELAN0 REFUSED ANY EXPLANATION
when applied to for information as to the dSposi-
ton OF the money. The original checks, were now.
ever, hunted up and their precise disposition
Mr. Delano IS alleged not only to have been siaunch
friend OF Mr. Bailey. but TO have had an understand
emOuments OF his Office. In this connection u IL
How He SEIZED AND HELD PROPERTY.
Tho allegation Ii that IL was hls mode Of business
TO seHc and hold property and accept large SUMS or
money in settlement subject TO the decision OF the
honorable Commissioner OF Internal Revenue"
This leaving matters to the decision Of his superior
and chief OF the Internal Revenue Department ~
claimed to have been apparently dodge to pull
the wool over the eyes Of his unSuspecting VIC
Tins and nothing real In it, He decided, according
to the universal testimony now against hlm, these
matters himself. II the matter was not stirred up
was the last heard or it; and II the parties having
had their eyes opened To his peculiar niolus Ope-
rama or doing business, endcavored to recover
their money anu made fuss about 1t in no case was il
recovered unless Mr.. Bailey became severely fright
ened and feared dismissal nom his fat place rs the
result OF exposure In fact, 1t Is claimed that IN all
these cases he committed exactly tho offences or
which. at his instance Judge Fullerton was accused
Ills entire business, IN fact, is said to have been
oENEaAL SYSTEM or BLAcKMAu,
both In a large and small way, but altogether
apgrcgating an immense sam. Il certain German,
VINO was one OF his confidential deputies IN the
Fourth district is SAID to have been his prlacpai
Instrument IN the MINOR blackmailing cases. His
nei or operations Is said 10 have been the Germans,
who through ignorance OF our language ana the
Internal Revenue law, were very easily imposed
sums OF money through mcTest techncal irreguar-
ties on their part ana which, OF course were divided
FUGITIVE DEPUTY.
Another deputy under Dir. Bailey whe IN the
Fourth district as Is we'll known, got his accounts
In mudde and fed TO Europe, where for several
months he breatned the more refined atmosphere OF
inc CDItInent recently, Wueu uo TetuTnSu anu
is now said TO be living in retirement up the Hudson
river, ana proceedings yet instituted against him
TO stra,ghten out his alleged defaicatons. Aud
this brings up the subject OF
A UNITED STATES DETECTIVE,
who comes in for good share OF popular comment
In connection with tue disappearance OF Mr.. Bailey.
1nis Deputy, though giving his valuable services
TO the government for the trifiing compcnsatiOn OF
50, 600 year, SAID to have been hand and glove
with Mr.. Bailey ana to live in style approxiRating
oriental splendor He Is mentioned as o principal
man on Bsey's side IN the Fullerton case, as hav-
ing been manly instrumental IN sending Dawes re-
Gently to sing Sing and as being the author OF
the pamphleG entitled Collector Bailey ana the
Wniskey Ring" and in which as will be remembered,
was set forth In pungently pithy paragraphs the
gioriously successful achievements OF the redOubt-
able ex Collector OF the Tnlrty.second district
AGAINST that mysterious and undeHned but all
powerful combination, yclept
THE WHISKEY RING.
And this was not all. II s said that whenever Mr.
Bailey was accused at Washington OF specific
offences, his nvarlable reply was that his accuser
was q memDeriof the whlskey ring. This argument
was powerful, ana as his official course shows was
air convincing and unanswerabie to the powers that
be at the national capital. But we might so on
unendinsly with this sort OF random, but not
altogether unlnteresting details. Passing over
many minor matters we will show
WHAT MIR. BAILEY EXPECTED FROM HIS LATE RAID.
There IS manuscript, as alleged, IN Mr.. Bailey's
own handwriting, setting forth wnat he expected to
realize from his .ate great raid. His plan OF opera
tions the preliminary part Of which he carried our,
was to seize large amounts of property, get the
owners indicted for alleged frauds against The gov
ernment ana compel settlements. lie expected in
indct not only dealers IN whlskey. but al the ex-
officials Of the Thlrty-second district, ex-united
States Marshal Murray and various other prOnll-
nent persons HIS plan OF operations was
simple. He reported 70 Commissioner De-
lano that in the withdrawal Of wniskey
from bond IN 1865 the leakages, as. shown
by the quantity Withdrawn, was immensely large,
but did not it is asserted represent 10 him the fact
that owing to tho state OF the market and other
causes these goods had remained in bond rom two
to three years, entirely abandoned by their owners
as worthless property, aud under condition OF neg
lect ana OvercrOwdlng OF warehouses caused large
deficiencies IN quantity and that the amounts ae-
fccnt In the Tnrty-second district We're less, pro-
portionately than OF the class OF goods in oher
portions Of fhe country BY this means, IL Is said,
Mr.. Bailey secured from Commissioner De-
lano authority TO investigate these back
matters, but did not provide for its being done III u
legal manner, as was the case with Assessor Web
ster IN his campaign against bankers ana brokers.
Had Mr.. Webster se.zed the securities, stocks,
bonds ana bank accounts OF the bankers and
brokers as grst step, his course 1t is claimed,
would have been precisely similar to tnat Mr. Bailey
TOOK ia his late whiskey raid And THIS brings US 10
the
RESULT or THE LATE wHlsKEY RAID.
OF which enough has been heretofore published in