Lynchburg Virginian

Samuel L. Gouverneur, Esq. late Postmaster of New York, it is understood, has determined not to appeal from the recent decision of the Jury in his case, but, in order to get rid of the vexatious harassments to which he has been so long subjected, to pay the government the sum of $36,000, though still affirming, that, upon an equitable adjustment of his accounts, the government is in his debt.
We are informed by the New York Herald that among the letters read as evidence on the part of the government, in its late suit against S. L. Gouverneur, was one written in 1834, by Col. Reeside, one of the favorite contractors of the Post Office Department, and celebrated for the number and magnitude of his extra allowances. The Colonel, who was then under examination before the Congressional committee of investigation, said, "I hope to get out of the hands of this d—d inquisition in a few days." How readily do the subalterns catch the tone of their masters! Gen. Jackson was in the habit of applying this epithet to Congressional committees of enquiry, and through all the ranks of the party we find it a familiar term of reproach! We do not wonder at it, however, since we doubt not that many of these official delinquents were literally tortured.
Mr. Gouverneur, on the trial of the Government suit against him, cited several witnesses to prove that he ought to be allowed a commission of 5 per cent. on all the extra-official business he did for the Department. And it appeared, from the statement of one of them, that Wm. M. Price, the runaway District Attorney, made similar charges, and that on one occasion he had actually made the Government pay him $74 98 cents as his commission for the purchase of a sword & looking glass presents for the sirocco-hued King of Siam! We marvel, that, with such facilities of making money, Price should have ever become a defaulter; as, allowing and paying such claims, we cease to wonder that the expenditures of the Government have run up from 13 to 39 millions of dollars per annum!