Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-08


1861 49,. $231 ASS, ,5466I 1867 So $50, ,467, ,9i1 90
1862 1894 GA, ,642 09 1868. 5522, ,a61 LOS
1863. 1915, ,434 $50 56 1869. 1904, Oh 15
1864 ,ss2 3s5, ,0a4, ,16l1s1o 4ln Sd G9l @ % t
1865. 9,111S55 012. SO 1871 4343.636,S09S2
1861. i03, ,eO3 $50 ~ 1872 1,74s, $685. ,SsOH
Total loss by defalcation -. S55,o37.45
The three clerks who embczZied TINS
amount, Edwins, Marden and Johnson, were
appointed under Mr.. Lincoln. Here are
transactions involving an amount OF money
almost beyond human comprehension
fifty-five thousand millions-covcring over
eleven wears of time, and passing through the
hands of three or four thousand different
people during that period, with losses sus-
tanned through lack of official integrity on
the part of the Treasurer's appointees of less
than one dollar on a million-a per centage
so small as to almost defy calculation, and
infinitely less than the loss from the abrasion
of the gold coin paid into and out of the
Treasury during the same time. 1t is firmly
believed that no parallel for such success can
be found in history.
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Let us take up the Interior Department
In the Patent Office, Indian Office, CensuA
Office and Educational Bureau, there have
been no dcfalcations of any kind during the
period named. In the other offices there
have been discovered, since the 4th of March,
1869, thirteen defalcations, involving a total
of S216, .95, of which there has been re
covered $107 900, leaving a balance of S109,.
O97. .95, which is fully covered by responsible
bonds.
Appointed by Johnson ........9 S1O9, 597.3
Appointed by Grant. t...............4 10T, 90
Out of nine pension agents who have default
ed, five were appointed by johnson, four by
Grant. The three land officers who default
ed were all appointed by Johnson, as was
also the disbursing clerk. In every case it
fell to the lot of the new administration of
the Department to expose the crime of the
offender, and to recover the embeZZled
money, where it could, and it is exceedingly
probable that the Government viii not lose
q cent in any of these eases, SO careful has
been their management 1t should be added,
that in these cases, as well as Others, the
greater number of these defalcatiops Otine
out of the thfrteen) accrued Under the last
Administration wholly, and that this Admin
istration had no part or responsibility in
them, save to expose them.
PosT-oFFIcE DEPARTMENT
Since March 4, 1863, suits have been en-
tered against 105 postmasters, who have
failed to adjust their accounts to the salts
faction of the Department. These cases in
volve q total of S91 1885, or an average of
lesss than 81 600 each.
Appointed by johnson SO ST7,Oi4 Ii
Appointed by Grant .......eO H,724 44
Since the 4th of March, 1869, the Depart
ment, upon Investigation, has discovered
sixteen defalcations in the money order ac-
count, varying in amount from S26.96 to
S115, 600, and covering, all told: the sum of
those of J. w. Norton, Superintendent
Money Order Account, New York City (s115,-
0O0), andT G. Simms, Postmaster at Atlanta,
Ga, 81, ,696.3T These defaulters were ap-
pointed as follows:
By Lincoln*... Amount. $115,OoG 90
By Johnson ...ls amount. 5i,ias os
Norton was originally appointed clerk
in the New York Post Office during Mr.. Lin
coins first term, and was promoted from
| time to time.
Simms was appointed by johnson, and was
Immediately removed by Grant when tho
defalcation was discovered. Norton was
originally appointed under Lincoln, and was
made Money-Order Superintendent uhdtl
Johnson, and the exposure of his fraud was
| the result of the Department. own efforts in
| investigation. His bondsmen, among whom
| is the Hon, Horace Greeley, have pledged
the whole amount, and it will be recovered
! Norton has been arrested and held for trial
| The only other defalcation in this Depart
ment since March 4, 1860, is that of F. A,
| Mccartney, late disbursing clerk of the De
partment, for S36, 600. He was arrested held
| for trial. and died in the insane asylum last
summer, from the shock of a broken heart
upon a broken constitution. The man whJ
seduced him into putting the Government
money into marble quarry speculation
| Bohemian adventurcr without character
survives him to invent and scatter ISLANDERS
against the President and his Administra
| tion about " sandstone rings utterly re
| gardless of the truth and of his own respon
sibility for Macartney's defalcation an(
| death.
PUNISHMENT OF DEFAULTERs.
March. Naval Paymastcr, defaulter at Mare Island
California: cashfefeu
Lockwood, Giraud and Parker, Naval Paymasters
| defrauded on distant stations cashiered.
| j. Ledyard Hodge, defaulter in Paymaster-Gen
erals office; in Albany Penitentiary for ten years.
j. F. Bailey, defaulting Internal Revenue ColleC
tor, New York; fed the country to avoid arrest
BOwerman and Wilson, defaulting Deputy ColleC
tors of Customs at Baltimore; convicted and i
prison.
J. w. Norton, defaulting Money Order Superir
tendent New York; under arrest for trial.
Geo. B. Wellman, defaulting Deputy Collector G
Customs at Savannah; under Indictment
Internal Revenue Collector Gould, and Supervise
Kizyzanousk, conspiracy to embezzle, Georgia
indicted; former fled the country; latter held fo
trial.
VIM. wiggin, defaultng Freedmen's Burea
agent; convicted and sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment.
F. A. Mccartney, defaulting Post Office disbursin
clerk; died in insane asylum before he could b
tried.
C. F. Edwins, embezzling Treasury clerk; cor
F. A. Madden, embezzling Treasury clerk; cor
victed and in prison.
Seth johnson, embezzling Treasury clerk; unde
Indictment and will certainly be convicted.
S. B. kendig defaulting disburslng clerk, Intero
Department.; convicted and in prison.
The responsibility of the appointment of only fou
of the above seventeen cases rests upon this At
ministration.
Grants Administration is charged with az
pointing more incompetent and corrupt me
to office than any that have preceded it. LIE
us take the total number of cases of recOrde
misconduct which have been disclosed sine
it came into Office, or of funds in controvel
sy, with the aggregate amount of money il
volved, and the result is thus
Appointed under Buchanan l. amount S.
1851; appointed under Lincoln Is, S251
S26.S2; appointed under johnson 1871, amour
81, ,056, ,319.S0; appointed under Grant 3e
amount $500, 10S.41 unascertained appoint
ments (War and Navy 6, s633, ,200.4S.