Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1858 — Easy With Defaulters. [ARTICLE]

Easy With Defaulters.

I received information.to-day that a disbursing officer in the Quartormaster’s, De-i partment, in California, has proved to be al defaulter to the Government, to the amount' of over twenty-three thousand dollars! This fact, is kown to the Presidant and Secretary of War,, and yet the defaulting officer has never been arraigned for the defense nor discharged from the,service! It is true that the Secretary of War ordered him called to Washington, but there it was discovered that the blood of the “first families” flowed through his gallant veins, and without subjecting him to the just punishment which await all Northern delinquents, he was permitted to return to California, under the promise that he would sell certain property in his possession (purchased with the money of the Government, my informant says,) which would enable him to pay back to the Government the money he had stolen. Singular to say, upon his arrival in California, the Department received a request, backed, undoubtedly, by a long list of the F. F. V.’s, that he be reinstated as an agent to disburse the money of the Government!— Cor. of Evening Post.