The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-26

Nevada, November ..
New Jersey, November b.
New York, November 5.
Tennessee, November 5.
Virginia, November 5.
Wisconsin, November 5.
Arizona Territory, November 8.
District of Columbia, November 27
The Presidential election will oc-
cur in all the States on the 5th day
of November.
THE DESPERATION of the Liberals
is manifest in the many monstrous
and absurd stories which they put
afoat. One of these, in which it was
charged that $223,OOO had been sent
to Marshal Carrow, of Raleigh, N.
c., for campaign purposes. was fully
disproved by despatch from Mar
shal Csrrow himself. The lie orig
mated with a Mr.. Beck, member of
Congress, who knew better, but who
sought to take advantage of the peo-
pie by spreading lie about mat
ter the details of which the people
were not supposed to know. It is
one of those lies, however, which
the truth will overtake. We give
below the comments of the Wash
ington correspondent of the New
York Times, which gives the details
of the matter so plainly that any
other stories set afoat by the Gree
leyites, will be regarded of a like
character with the one so fully ex-
ploded:
The Greeleyites are still hard at
work manufacturing lies about the
alleged expenditures 'of 100000
from the public funds to affect the
election in North Carolina. They
are simply preparing the way to ex-
plain their forthcoming defeat.
Your correspondent has investigated
this matter thoroughly, and no one,
not even the malignant Mr.. Beck,
can do the same and tell the whole
truth afterward, without revealing
the fact that the SANDER is without
foundation. 1t is a notorious fact,
and not better known to any one
than to Mr.. Beck, for he is a mem
Der Of Congress and was partly re-
sponsible for it, that owing to the
failure of Congress to pass the de-
ficiency bill until late in the session,
tie month of May, 1 believe, the op-
erations of the courts in every sec
ton of the country were greatly en-
barrassed, and in some cases entire
ly suspended. Many Of the Mar
shals hired money at liberal rates of
interest, in order not to impede the
course of justice, and reimbursed
themselves when the Deficiency bill
had passed. This accounts for the
fact that the acquisitions of the
Marshals, both for the last half of
the last fiscal year as well as for the
current quarter, are so close togeth-
er. They are all thrown into the
last sixty days, instead of being dis
tributed according to the terms OF
the courts as usual, and this is not
alone in regard to North Carolina,
but in regard to the Marshals of all
the districts. The expenditures of
the courts for North and South Car
olina, as everybody knows, for the
past year were about double their
usual amount in consequence of the
Ku-Klux trials, and who will say
that the suppression Of these infa-
nous outrages by the strong arm of
the civil authority has not been
cheaply as well as thoroughly |
Now, at no time within |
the past year has the Marshal of |
North Carolina drawn more than
$4,000 on any one requisition. Be
fore he can get that money his re-
QUESTION must be approved by the
Attorney General. Then it must
pass the Secretary Of the Treasury,
which 1t only can do after an inves-
tigation of the state of his account.
After he gets it he is required by
law to deposit it in a designated
national depository, which reports
every two weeks the state of his bal
ance to the United States Treasurer.
When he checks it out, he must
state in his check the precise pur-
pose to which the money is applied.
He is required to present regular
vouchers for every expenditure, and
these vouchers must have the ap-
proval of the Judge of the Court.
They then pass the Auditor and
Comptroller, so that it is impossible
that any money should be improp-
erly applied in the first instance,
the direct collusion of the
General and Secretary of
the Treasury. or improperly expend-
ed in the second instance, without
collusion between the Marshal.
Bank, the Judge, the Auditor and
the Comptroller. A Marshal may
draw money and fail to render his
accounts and thus become a de-
faulter, but this is not yet charged,
even in North Carolina. though it is
rue Of one or more ex-M -Marshals who
are now loud-mouthed for Greeley.
The statement that heretofore not
more than $1,000 has been checked
rom the Treasury at one time for
he purpose for which Marshals draw
S transparent falsehood, for which
here is not even Mr.. Beck's warrant. {
dr. Beck put it, "untl within few
ears" and an examination shows
hat for many years past the requi-
itions of Marshals have reached
$4,000 to $4,000, according to the s
ecessities of the Courts, t