The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-04
A Tale from the Treasury Depart
ment-Hnw Straight.Outs are At
tend ed To.

LOUISVILLE, KY, August 81.
General FAverte Hewitt, QIartermas-
master General of Kentucky, who has
Just returned home from Washington,
where he has been for several months
looking after the Kentucky war claim,
tells an interesting story OF an actual
piece of electioneering which took place
in the Treasury Department under his
own personal observation. For several
years Virginia gentleman, who re-
signed a government office and went
South at the breaking out OF the war,
has been acting az agent prosecuting
claim against the government amount
ing to something over one hundred thou
sand dollars. Heretofore he has beeh
subject to the grossest attront, aud
sometimes ed with absolute impu-
drnce bv the officials in whose office The
claim res ed, and who is considered by
claimants to BE- one OF Boutwell's s right
hand men. Hell the same per-onsge
TO whose influence with Boutwell, at
trituted the non payment OF the k'n-
rucky cam. General Hewitt and the
Virginia Claimant were in the Office o
this official on the morning the news
came contrad citing the report that the
Democrats had carried North Carolina
When il was announced the Virginia
claimant remarked that he twas G ai
TO hear it.
"Who, vou ?" interposed the official.
"Why so2'
"Well." said the claimant, because
it kills Greeley"
"AIN T YOU FOR GREELEYY
"No, Lam opposed 70 Greeley, but not
in favor OF Grant | am for straight
out Democratic nomination"
From that moment the official COM
menced to unbend and his claim com
menced to move. From dealing with
sour set of evasiv. officials the claimant
found himself treated like a prince, and
the claim which he had given up all
hopes OF ever getting was pushed
through in less than week; and wnen
it came to the check, which usual Y has
to 90 through the hands OF twenty.twO
different clerks, and which requires ten
days time at the best, the matter was
so facilitated that
THE CHECK WAS MADE OUT
and delivered one ternoon, in less than
tour hours. This clever treatment cnuln
not be attributed to anything els than
the happy expression OF opinion on the
part of the claimant when he heard the
news from Carolina. This whole trans
action passed under the personal ohssr-
yation OF General Hewitt, and he is
ready to vouch tor +. at any time,
though the above statement was not
made on his own motion. but at the
solicitation Of the HeraH correspondent
H. stys 'urther that he has heard o.
numerous such cases IN the Treasury
D .par,mrnt, where the importance o
getting UCunor on the track 's fully
appre ,iaIed. The General in the prose-
cuIron of the Kentucky claim has had
amp'e opportunity 10 watch the political
wire workin in the de partment He say
that before the name OF OConor was
mentioned in connection with the
straight out movement there was gen.
er.l despondency among the ofticral-
and all hope OF the re election Of Gen
eral Grant had been abandoned. News
OF OConor's probable cand .dtcy re-
yved matters wonderfully, and changed
the manners OF the department officials
toward Democratic claimants to such
an extent as to completely dumfouni
them. Now, anybody avowiog that ne
is a Bourbon can get his claims
throush at his own pleasure; and to
such an extent is this hatrery o. the
straigl t-ou,s carried that the supporters
OF the administration have already com
menced to complain OF neglect aud
iuattenton.