The New York herald., 1872-10-08
THE BOURBON FOLLY OF WISE
Payments Under the Eight
Hour Law.
Smuggling on the Rio Grande and
Gulf Coast.


tile community could rely upon assistance whom
ever there is an attempt to produce stringency In
the money market. The Secretary had no fear Of
being trapped 80 long as the coin sold returned
to the Treasury for customs dutles
Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, ON Hia
Detcstation OF All Political Parties.
In conversation to-day, Ex-Governor Henry A.
Wise expressed himself substantially aA follows -
He represented the Bourbon democracy, which
Grant thinks Is strong In Virginia. and was thor
0ughy dlsgusted with the politics. ,'of the present
day. He preferred Grant to Greeley, but would
support neither and he coup .selled the people to
stay away from the polls and vote for neither. The
people had sold out for Q, mess OF pottage, which
they would never get, eA Greeley Wes certain to DO
ee'eate9. Ihe youp 4 men Of the state had gone
wnu anu knew .ore thsn he did, who had grown
oa 70 poitcs I'D had been their Governor His
were also oi me same kind ana Ills nephew whom
he loved o. dearly as any of his sons, was candi
: date for Congress- but he could never support any
Wise On the ureeley t,ckcsT
The conservatlys party had done more to radical M
lie Virginia than tiie rau.v.., WV wy -A'!
nad stlgmatized Virginia as a renudator ano
were On ' me road to ruin. He never woud forgive
them for having consenged TO his Acknowledgement
by passing the amendments to the constitution. He
| would raise up new party which would over.
| throw them, and he would thus have his revenge.
He said had he been in the court room when
Greeley signed JEFF Davis ball bond there would
nave been scene which would probably have sent
him to prison; but he would not sign the paper IL
Greeley's name was on 1t, and he did not.
He complained OF General Jubal Early with whom.
he said he had crow to pick. Two months ago
Early wrote him begging him to keep aloof and de-
clare for neither party, and he had agreed. Now,
i'm EoV
had tempted him to take the opposite side; but
no, he was not willing to go with Mosby whom he
considered injudicIous In the extreme But Mosby
was not more to blame for going for Grant than
the rest were for supporting Greeley He
complained that his comrades In arms had de-
serted him and Joined Greeley, who was the prime
cause OF the war by sending John Brown down to
Virginia to commence 1t. II he could have gotten
hold OF Greeley, Phillips and Garrison about the
time ne had Brown he would have hanged them all
as high as Haman. When Greeley signed the bail
bond and thus lost the United States Senatorship
and subscribers to the Tribune, he was calculating
on gulling the Southern people into this very
movement He did not believe in the repentance
OF woman who had lost her virtue; he would be
afraid to trust her again. So 1t was with Greeley
he was afraid to trust him. It was all talk to
secure the Southern vote. The colored people had
acted nObly and he hOnOred them and, as their
friend, advised them all to vote for Grant.
Conflict OF Jurisdiction Over Southern
Claims.
Comptroller Brodhead, of the Treasury Depart
ment, has decided that since the passage OF the
act OF March 8, 1871, establishing the Southern
Claims Commission, the Quartermaster General and
Commissary General have had no lawful jurisdic-
ton over claims for property used by the Union
army in Tennessee, except such claims were already
on file when the Claims Commission was estab-
lished in which event the jurisdiction of those
officers over such claims on file, and none others,
is continued by section Of an act approved April
20, 1871.
The Commssary General since the establish
ment of the Southern Claims Commission, has re-
fused to receive any new claims for subsistence
stores from Tennessee; but the practice has been
otherwise In the Quartermaster's Department with
respect to claims for quartermasters' supplies
taken or furnished In that State, and some of the
claims filed with the Quartermaster General since
March 8, 1871, having now come before the Treas.
ury officers for concurrence In awards made by
the Quartermaster General, have been disaowed
at the Treasury for want OF jurisdiction.
AS considerable expense has been incurred In
preparing and verifying these claims. according to
the rules of the Quartermaster's Department which
are essentially different from those of the Claims
Commission, application is to be made at the next
session of Congress for legislative relief from the
necessity Of presenting and proving the claims
anew before Commissioners. The justice OF provid.
ing a general means OF payment for such claims as
those OF DR.. Best, OF Kentucky, whose house was
destroyed by Union commander as q military
necessity and whose claim was vetoed mainly be.
cause 1t was especial legislation" and or allowing
rent or compensation for the use and occupancy OF
buildings now excluded by the close construction
OF the term 'stores or supplies will also be urged
upon the attention OF Congress By those interested
at the coming session.
The present term OF office Of the Commissioners
OF Claims also expires during the coming session,
that Congress, being compelled to legslate
further upon tie subject OF war claims in the
South, will prob.I Iy cole t the scattered jurisdic-
tion now existing and confer it upon some one
special tribunal to be governed by uniform rules Of
procedure.
OMce-foIders Flying TO keep ON Their |
Heads.
number or chiefs OF bureaux and heads OF
divisions and nearly all the clerks in the Depart
mcnts who still hold their residences In States in
which elections occur tomorrow have left here for
the purpose Of voting. The election excitement Is
on the increase, and considerable money has been
staked on the results.
Payments under the Eight.Hour Law.
Employees at Navy Yards entitled to the twenty
per cent additions. pay deducted from their
wages on account OF the passage of the
eight-hour law will be paid without delay
Clerks from the Fourth Auditors once
and the Second Comptroller's once are now at
Philadelphia, and after finishing the accounts at
this yard will proceed to New York, Boston and
Portsmouth in the order named Clerks have also
been sent to Mare Island Navy Yard, Norfolk and
Pensacola yards and New Orleans. All entitled to
this extra nav will receive IL before the second
Tuesday In November.
Smuggling Along the Rio Grande and
ON the Gulf Coast.
The Treasury Department has recognized the
iact that Customs revenue Is annually defrauded to
larna annnnts oanaciallu alonn the Rio Grande and