Phenix Gazette

Pay	82,400 00
Subsistence	1,095 00
Extra rations	1,095 00
Forage	672 00

From the Cincinnatti Gazette, April 10.

PUBLIC MONEY.

Since the gentlemen of the opposition have applied themselves to investigating the accounts of Mr Adams, Mr. Clay, Mr. King and Mr. Rochester, they surely cannot take it amiss that I should investigate the accounts of their immaculate idol. Gen. Jackson is held forth to the American people as a man well qualified to correct all abuses, especially in public expenditure. He is to cleanse the Augean stable at Washington, being as upright as Aristides, and as indifferent to money as Diogenes himself. If we may believe them, he has never touched a farthing of public money, under any circumstance that might be questioned; but rather has sacrificed himself and his fortune for the public good

Not long since, I suggested that he, too, had lived at home, and made some extraordinary charges against the Government This was at first questioned, then justified. I have since obtained correct copies of the General's accounts, and I here publish those for the years 1819 and 1820, as they stand in the offices of the second and third Auditors of the Treasury

From Jan. 1, 1819, to Dec. 31, 1819.

Pay, 240 00
Subsistence 292 00
Clothing, 148 80
Rent of Quarters 400 00
Fuel 162 00
Transportation of baggage 531 20
Services as Commissioner for treating with Chickasaw Indians, 41 days, at 8 dollars per day 328 00
$7,364 00

From January 1, 1820, to December 31, 1820.

Pay $2,400 00
Subsistence 1,098 00
Extra rations 1,098 00
Forage 672 00
Servants.
Pay 240 00
Subsistence 292 80
Clothing 148 16
Rent of Quarters 400 00
Fuel 224 00
Transportation of baggage 166 40
Holding treaty with Choctaw Indians, traveling expenses for self and suite to Dokes's stand 425 03
Bill at Dokes' 155 78
Pay as Commissioner, from 14th Sept, to 21st October, 37 days, at 8 dollars per day 296 00
Expenses for Gen. Jackson & suite on their return $51 50
Pay as Commissioner On Return 21st Oct to 10th Nov. 20 days, at 8 dollars per day 160 00
$8,109 67

From these accounts, it will be seen that Gen. Jackson charged and received his full pay, subsistence, extra rations, and forage, as though he were in actual service; that he charged for the hire of servants, and feeding and clothing them, as if in service; that he charged for the rent of his own house 400 dollars per annum, and for burning his own fuel, one year 162 dollars, and another year 224 dollars.

In the years 1819 and 1820, Gen. Jackson was in no public service that called him from his own residence, except holding Indian treaties; and, although receiving full pay, and every perquisite of a Major General in the field, he charged and received from the Treasury the same sums, for holding treaties, that would have been paid to an individual who held no public station. He takes full pay, full provision, as Major General, and, at the same time, full pay and full provision for holding Indian Treaties.

In 1819, Gen. Jackson travelled no where upon military service He visited Washington, Philadelphia, New-York, and Baltimore, to counteract the consequences of his conduct in the Seminole war; and the government pay 531 20, for transporting his baggage, whilst his whole charge for transportation of baggage in the years 1814 and 1815, is but 262 50.— And of this, 187 50 is for transportation of baggage from Nashville to the seat of Government, in Nov. 1815!!

It thus appears that Gen. Jackson has made no scruple to tax the treasury whenever he had an opportunity. He has received full pay, and every description of extra charge, for performing two services at the same time. He has filched the Government with as little conscience as any leech that has been fastened upon it. For military services, and holding Indian Treaties, he received from the Treasury from the 8th of June, 1814, to the time he was disbanded: 31st May, 1821, a sum exceeding forty nine thousand dollars!!

I do not say that this money has not been received according to law. But I do say that many of the charges are unconscionable. To live at home, and charge extra rations, forage, pay for servants, rent of quarters, and fuel, to the utmost extent allowed by law for a General in the field, is making a job of public service. The law intended only to pay where service was performed, or money expended It never could have contemplated giving perquisites where there was no equivalent.

I put it to the candour of every considerate man—Is there any thing, in all the charges made by the opposition, against any public man, of extravagant accounts exhibited and allowed, that exceeds this? Can there be any reasonable hope that he who has thus lapped up Treasury pap, will be disposed to stint his followers? or that he will attempt any reform, at Washington, other than to introduce a new set of hungry vultures to prey upon the public purse?