The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-19
Aitl(mond 0ispatrh.
WEDNESDAY............JULY 10, 1874.
THE CIRCULATION OF THE DISPATCH
rs LARGER THAN THE COMBINED CIR
CULATION OF ALL THE OTHER DAILY
NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY.
FROM WASHINGTON.
pEFALCATIONs.

In order to give the pubisc an exact idea
Of the extent OF dctalcations which have
occurred III the collection of the internal
revenue up to the 30th Of June, 1870, a
statement is publ shed In another column
Of the aggregate balance against each col
lector, with his name and district, rs re-
ported by the Secretary Of the Treasury to
the House of Representatives on the 18th
OF February, ISL Washington Patriot.
The following IS the list for Virginia but
we suppose it is not list Of defalcations,
but of sums charged to the collectors by
the assessors, which the former have not
collected, or something of that kind. We
can't believe that the Government would
allow any collector to dcfraud it out of hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars and none
could do it without the connfvance of the
Washing ION officials:
First DiStrict-W m. James. s51 ,236.79 +;
George G. Tyler, S5,419.62. Second Dis.
trict-Samuel r. Sterling, $76. .96S.93; Simon
Stone. $274,S4S.S7; VIM. Seiden, S702 81 ;
James Is. Prince, "a, 4,S99.62. Third Dis.
trict-N. ID. Keneaster, SIG 6,S13.S5 John E,
milford, $13,56l.37; William James, 81 ,.
1880. Fourth DiStrict-John II. Ander.
son, s4o,515.09; William E. Wells, SOL,
1O699; Otis H. Russell, $11 1,264.29. Fifth
| District-E. Boyd Pendleton, S232, TO. .06
sixth District--Samuel r. Sterling. S12S,.
77416. Seventh DiStrict-Thomas l.. San.
born. S21, ,497.0l. Eighth District-George
w. jackson, 81, ,2SS.6S.
NO PENSIONS FOR SOUTHERN VETERANS.
The Washington Patriot says: 1t is semi
officially announced by the Commissioner
OF Pensions that in administering the act of
February IA, 1871, granting pensions to the
survivors of the war of 1872, when wit
ncsses testify to the loyalty OF claimant
their own loyalty must be shown by the
certificate of an officer of the United States
an officer of the Internal Revenue Bureau.
The rule applies only to the South, and no
question is raised at the North.
BY this bigoted regulation there Is to be
one law for the northern people and an
other for the southern. According to the
usual form heretofore in similar eases a
claimant was required to make oath that he
had at no time rendered "aid and COM
fort" to the rebellion, and to prove the
| same by the aflidavits Of two disnterested
| witnesses, whose crcdibility had to be GER
| titled by the clerk of Il court Of record.
But now the southern soldier is obliged
| to prove the loyalty of his aritnseSSeS by a
certificate which it may be impracticabc to
obtain. A claimant may be able to estab-
liSh his rights 10y twenty witnesses, and if
! they happen voluntarily or compulsorily to
have aided the rebellion, then the veteran
who fought for his country is excluded
from Il pension. Human ingenuity could
hardly devise Il more wicked cOntrtvancc to
deprive old southern soldiers Of their just
rights. 1t is not only mean, but malignant,
and draws discrimination between the
veterans of the North and South which
every candid mind will denounce as out
rageouS. These men were engaged in war
| against foreign foe nearly half q century
before the rebellion commenced, and yet
| they are pursued with all the yindictive
malice of recent enemies. This is sure
way of Keeping the wounds OF strife open,
and it could only have been contrivcd for
some such unworthy purpose.