Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-09-04
oFFICiAL sa oRrAG
some Curious Facts and rigures from Nation
Account Books


According to statement mado up by the
treasury officials at Washington In response
to Il resolution of Congress, President John
Adams owes sl2 SaS on account OF household
expenses Major General Lafayette owes ST.
Sg&Oa, on account OF overpayment made TO
him; Edmund Randolph, secretary OF state,
owes S6l,SS&Q,, on account of various oxpon.
ditureS made before lSjL Tho diplomats,
and particularly the literary men who haye
been sent abroad as ministers and consuls,
seem to be moro generally indebted to the
government than any other class OF public
servants James Russell Lowell owes sSi,6S
In his account rs minister to Great Rritain In
lS>,L John LSthrop MOttov owes &, iaS ii
In his account as minister tn Crest Britain In
ISL; Revordy johnson, S,SSS SO in his sc-
count ~ minister 10 Great Britain In lSii@
Bayard Taylor owes slu2 10 Us minister TO
Germany in 1874 Washington Irving owes
= cents as minister to Spain in lsI7. AleNsn-
der Everett owes S1SS o. rs minister 10 Spain
in 1881. Ninian Edwards, minister to Mexico
in lS-!, owes se4 IS James Gsdsden, minis
ter To Mexico in lS3I, owes SIiH Andrew y,
Curtin, minister tn Russia ~ iN12 owes
SNiLH& T.. W. StOughtuu, uttt,.tI t, kassiA
In iS1n, owes Sl2, ltO 30 john Russol Young,
minister To CHINA IN lNs,, is deblted with g.
lll2 u and Is credited with 5OT.uS. Stephen
A. Hurlbut, minister to tho United STATES of
Columbia Is dehited with SlS,22~ = in ISL
and 500 In lNl2. James RlyaId, envoy tO
| Ghent, Is debted with 500.
Adam Badeau is doblted with SlN552 % ss
consul general 10 London in lNS2, and with
| 81 Sgi Us rs consul general To Havana of lSSi
W, n, howells Is debted with S2iIl a. Con-
| sui to Venice in lStSi, and credited with L..
| IS on his account for lNGi John :. Mosby IL
| debted with 3, 1855 as consul to Hong X ong
| i'll lSS5. Thomas J. Brady owes the govern
| ment S&I5 aS consul to 81 Thomas in lS7i.
| Emory L. Beauchamp who loved, IL will be
| remembered, with his whole heart owes the
government SjNi 80 as consul to ST. Gale In
| lSs5. Titan J. Coiley is debted with Sl,0oO 53
as secretary OF legation at 81 Petersburg in
| $50 and 1871. Beverly Tucker is debted
with 81, Dot G5 rs consul At Liverpool in lS,i2,
| aud Simon Wolfe with S2pi u as consul .gen.
| eral at Cairo in lS>2
On the other hand the government owes
| John Quincy Adams s., 800, as minister &c
| Russia in ISIS; Alphousn TAFT, SloI02i, rs
| minister TO Russia in 1855 John NJ. Francis
| as minister tn Austria ia lS.5 s. 600 ; Edward
| I. Beale, as minister t. Austria in ISL, 81. II
| John 4. bingham, ss minister to japan In
| l>SJ, g, 95O John Howard Payne, rs cousu
| to TuuIS in lSI3, SiAa " RET uarte, rs con
sui 10 Glasgow IA l>>,. slS5 IL, and Henry
Bergh, as secretary Il legation at ST. Peters
burg in lSt-l Sl3liL
| IL appears that the British governmen
| owes rs 81 ECO, which liability was incurred
| prior to Isl, on account oi certain prisoner
| OF war, and that the republic ot France owe
| Us Sl1,ON, which was advanced by th
| United States in iTGS. ono Of the larges
debts in the list i that Of Francis T.. spin
| ner, treasurer OF the Cnited States, SjSg,
aGI.iG, on account of bullion deposited Will
| A. J. QuirOt, treasurer OF the mint In New
| Orleans, In l~6E. pr. George h. Loring'
disputed account for s2oso, ~ az commis
| sioner OF agriculture, i, oI course. charge,
| against him.