The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1850, Page 6

ef the Special Committee of the out hi: to a system, or aa to general | promptnees are so necessury—than many whose | the Grand ee Saal Aldermen, | fps Rated prep Af ope 2 the character | whole lives have been speat ine city, end have | evidence mn, Jt may be that the alder- | pat on them. 7S, hae or official conduct of officers occupying conspicu- | thus become femiiiar with all its ways. So are the | men sometmes disc! immediately; but these | Reforms of old ineasures, ag well ae the passage = while the cholera bas recurred and raged ous stations in the city government, and in the le- | facts relative to Alderman Haws misconstrued by | ureextreme cases, und only when the circumstances | of new ones, in relation to this Department, have considerable violence in diff parts gal tribunela ofthe city, or in any vublie body. he | the Chief Engineer, as will be seen on reading his | Justy it, ag in the instance of the discharge by | been brought before this time by former chisf, to seamed . a yas » the cause has been "the want of | calumnies thatthe present Chief has attempted to Medieal Intelligones. ON THE CHARGES IN THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. fig ag sure! liberty, and even urged, to statement. From this statement it appears that on | rman Morgans, and the» only upon securit; the atten of the Common Couneil—by sach United States during the past summer, the north On the seventh ef September last, Alderman | y root of his sweeping aad serious charges In casually meeting the Chief Engiaecr, he statedto | ora promise to appear the next pb sot Taey men as Franklin and Cox, Gulick aud Anderson— and eastern States have been fortunately exe Franklin presented a preamble and resolutions on — ruling out this evidence, they only seught to aecer- | him thatthe term of a policeman, who was thea bell- | have ‘ared, aud the reason of their hnal dis- | but the language in which their estions were i i i Tr from it ; and although it has beea brought 1 nes hada Mr. f; , in his | tain whether he was, or those charged, were the | ringer on E: ket tower, would sooa expire, | charge bas been either from the want of evidence, | conveyed gained for them ay wellthe respect of the from it; ught to he ashe yey - it — bee io = most “unjust and ihiberat™-cwhetler they had pis. Def ties policetnes, wanted another man put in or the failure or unwillingness of those whose evie members ofthe body which they addressed, asthe very doors—there having been many cases of anpual sort to the Common Council agains! 16 | been guilty of the alleged official improprieties and | hia place, he, Alderman Haws, reqiested the Chief | deuce would detaia theut to eppeat and testify in | confidence of the Deparimenter the head of whiol. yeat severe form of the disease at tas >a courts, the judges, grand jury, Mayor, heads of | misconduct, or he, without truth, attempted to de- | to let the matter rest until the policeman’s term | the matter. they reepecttally stood. departments, and the members of the council, the | fame their standing, not only as public officers, but | expired, as several firemen in his ward desired him ‘With respect to the various clubs and banditti, All of rebich Ye respectfully submitted. , Hospitals—it has prep dae: oe the city, inlities of which comp!sints have been given in | 88 @00@ citizens. He having declined, however, | to appoint a certain fireman on the police, and that | and of their tearful and horrible acts, and other James E. Woop, | extended beyond that locality; and, as the c: specialities of which complaints ha’ | after being again invited, and even urged, to prove | they would see him, the Chief, to get the fireman | * murderous butcheries,” the Chief's imagination James M. Barn, Special Committee. season approaches, there is every reason to hi the Herald. Accordingly, the resolutions em- | his charges egeinst these public officers, courts | detailed asa bell-ringer; that to this the Chief | has led him far away fiom the real truth, Warren Cuarman, | that we may escape altogether. Still, we must 1 powered Aldermen Wood, Bard and Chapman, in | and other bodies, it is to be taken, according to all Engineer egreed ; ant further, that he, Alderman Theee clubs are compozed, in most instances, of Commen Counesi. | feel entirel re; nor can our city authoriti Conjunction with a similar committee from the | rules of law, as well as of justice, that he is inca- | Haws, never spoke to the Mayor oa the subject, emall beye, from the ages of ten to fourteen years; noanntae anaeon | CHIDENY PERG 5 HOS Can hae, | — gah menu te the matter | Pable ef co doing, and that they are entirely with- | and when asked, uniformly refused so to do. and although they at ove time, during the latter jp Sl i ote a | with safety, relax their vigilance, for experier firemen of the city, to investiga rs out truth. ‘a * ‘ Alderman Haws also explains his vote, which, | part of the previous and the first part of the present Oct 15.—Morgan Morgans, Esq., President im the has shown everywhere, that weather and sea: Zophar Mills, 'T. Hope, and John P. La- Your committee, on an ordinary occasion,would | it is charged by the Chief, defeated the cueae of | year, seriously annoyed the firemen, and created | chair. exercise but slight control over this scourge cour were he Fire Department. have rested on thos rule, and submitted their re- | the ordinance relative to bell-ringers, in the ils and fights among several companies of the PETITIONS REFERRED. | “ 4 — apg sh » made their report. The | port without further exemination of the subject; | of Aldermen. department, yet they never committed the mur- | Of Wilson Tillou, for wharf at foot of Grosvenor | In Europe, and Africa, the disease still preva The AX nate EM pees. ut ag the report has been published, and as all of | His reasons are those which should govern | ders, nor were guilty of the ** horrible” outrages | street. Of Hose Company No. 8, fora mew house. Of in some places, to an alarming extent. It appe history of the sation and meetings of the | the charges cun be explained away, orshown to be every honest legislator in the discharge of his im- | charged on them by the Chief. several persons ion aiae pipes Wry og leper thd to have become epidemic in certain localities, » joint cor is given, substantially as has | sutnely untrue, it is but just to the parties concern- portant trusts. Being prompted by no personal | Your committee do not desire, in any way, to ex- Sohne ee - sohat@elin, tole celiovee: | has frequent: cod tik eed: ‘At Vien# Sonal bee shed in these columns, up to the | €¢, a8 well as to the public, whose servants they | feeling or desire, (as may be inferred from the | cuse those who have bee guilty of wrong, nor to page homily gy sting ‘Thirty-nicth otrest | nt? Sequently recan in others. ten * y = hd “f are, and by whom they were entrusted with the | lan e of the Chief,) to defeat the measure, but, | palliate the * outrages” of the various clubs men- upon his lots, which fro Fortieth street. there are still many cases of it; the whole nu period when Mr. Carson withdrew from the com: | administration of certain of their aflaire, that the | on the contrary, with a dispositioa to grant to him | tioned by him; nor do they think that our city, ‘RESOLU Avorren. ber, thus far, attacked by it in that capital dur: mittee, in spany with Messrs. Mills, Hope, and | same should be done. . all he claimed, without imposing additional burdens | whose name for peace and: good order has been Apociating Wa. Lewes and Jobn op | Inspectors | 44... present season, has been 1,019, of whom .” Lacour. report then proceeds, in effect, as | There are two matters embraced in the Chief's | on the tax-payers of the city. justly praised, should be given a character for | of Election in Seventh ward. That polis of the Becond: | died” ' follows--for it 20. disgracefull itte: d | Teport, on pages 2 and 3, from which it is difficult ‘The next subject in order in the report, is in re- | clubs and banditti, “ butcheries and other horrible | Election distriet of the Fourth ward be nae oe eee Tthas been more severe at Lubeck during 4 . 21 ‘el t on the }o e houses 61 e Fire J “ ‘ 3 follows--for it is wsgracelully written and to ascertain whether he intended to reflect on the | lation to the repairs to the hi the Fire De- | outreges,” which it does not deserve, and which, | Fen'# Hall, on the corner of Oliver and Henry strosts past summer, than in the great epidemics of 1 printed thet we cannot transfer it, verbatim, into | action of the Common Council or on any of its | partment. Previous to the adoption of the new | in the lan of the Chief, threaten to‘ rock” it | » See folowing resclation was oflesed’ by Alderman.) Bee ee ae aaa near oi aened tae tt there! our columns :— | membere, or on any other parties connected with | charter, and of the ordinances under it, the Chief | “and per ips this country, to its deep founda- | “Resolved, That the Comptroller be, and he ts hereby | 1832, was 800; in 1848, from September to Nov: And, tierefore, the committee on the part of the | the city government. Oue is in relation to the extra~ | Engineer was authorized to nake repairs of these | tions!” directed to purchase from Theodore Martine, E4q.,® | ber, there were 675 cases, and S01 deaths, Dircantn odie Use? Banieow need a dto | Ordinary delay of the contractor for building cer- | houses, provided the amount in any one instance | Your committee learn that at the time the | far 252100, on Thirty third street, between | from the 17th of July, to the 2dth of At of proceed in the matter, and havin foe Aa with- | tainengines. ‘The other ia in relation to connect- | did not exceed fifty dollars. q difficulties with these bo g epired at its heighth, w 8, and the of $1,000 is | present year, there were 918 cases, and I deat fon from the ‘investigation tae enoaton atase, | ing the several bell stations, by means of the elec- On the passage of the ordinance organizing the | the Chief Lngineer and the Committee on the peas ty ted the sam d the Vom- Ww: 2 stigation, o Paget eel + Bn z At Malmoe, in Sweden, there have been t ini “ 5 | trie telegraph. On this point, it must be borne in | municipal departments of the city government, un- | Fire Department, of both Boards, consulted fre- pairs and Supplies are by directed - La Toten att ihe \puaontions of Mis boty eer | mind that the duties ef the Commou Council and | der the new charter, passed May 30, 1349, this de- | quently together in relation to the means necessary | to cause to be erected upon said lot an iron tower, for irae: i kas teed contention 1 i islati i i i io a dered to be ey racel ‘i " a its members, are entirely legislative, except that | scription of repairs was taken from him, and all! to prevent and quell their disturbances. The | ®2 #larm bell, upon the plan heretotore or y win thie rerpect they do uot see how any doubt | {he-Aldermen possess magisterial fowers,- This | reyaireto the puble buildings ofthe Cofporatioa | Chief ‘of Police" waa ‘alo. consuted, and. by se aptelre Te pained | Socadecatsn tor Means oe ny sig ine oka the shicot of the investiga, | i# evident from the ninth section of the new char- | were placed in the charge of the * Superintendent | the vigilance of himself, as well as of the mem- the tower in Thirty: eas: yong + oan tba el pS 5 eiteode The ofl ter, as follows:— j of Public Buildings,” under the direction of the | bers of the police generally, they have been in a KEPORTS ADOPTED. on ravages have been great in the French p: on “* igh by Ub ar daar cele YK if |, ‘* The executive power of the Corporation shall | « Commissioner of Repairs and Suppli i one degree checked, and now little, if any-| Of Committee on Streets, in Sreent ating ations sessions in Algeria, where it haa red| amp! A = be a Tanatee of Ge reample, ‘the be vested in the Mayor, the heads of departments, During the course of this year, # petition signed | thing, is heard of them. The charges of the | gutter stones in Forty-first street, ftom Kighth to most of the towns and settlements, ‘oa Bol Pro tee chatced deseree the consute bf ther fallew, | and such other executive officers, as shall be, from bya number of firemen, was presented to the Board | Chiet in relation to the Committee of the | Ninth avenues, Of same committee, in favor of pay- ie, Sétif, Zab-Dhari, Sidi-Okba, Bramis, sed gig pay fact, it is due to | time to time, ereated by law, and neither the Com- | of Aldermen, asking that the right to make sligh: | ire Department, are also grossly falsified, as | ing Tenth avenue, trom Thirty-second to Thirty Boug Set, Ganda, ov; tect AcCiuemaat eed | fl yblic s De » | mon Council, nor any committee or member there- | repairs to these buildings, might be restored to the | will be seem by reference to the statement | *t¥eet; and flagging sidewalk in Tenth avenue, be- po pip den dlsceng Fee eg hn oe of, shall perforin any executive business whatever, Chief hog, eyo The petition was immediately re- | of Alderman Franklin, its chairman. Your | tWee® Thirty-second and seety. slats streets, Of same sere in ot ital, and carried off thirty ow . . Z > i “ ‘ committee, in favor of cl the grade of Forty- | thirty-six. At Biskara, all kinds of animal — Sscea yt eee | except such as or shall be, especially imposed | ferred to the Commiitee onthe Fire De; rtment, Who | committee have learned from him, that in the — r Fy rtali 1 beg. rg pe bg dS the ck ise pl dorabad one— | 00 them by the laws of the State, and except that | soon after reported in favor thereof, limiting the | first instance, after the reception of the pp Aad Lane Al porn ren. +: year none ib it, ad the mortality among them wf . i per | ani 13 very great; dogs, horses, cows, and try, Wo) | 7 4 z 4 i | the Board of Aldermen may approve or reject the | amount of such repairs, in any one case, to fiftydol- | referred by the respective boards to this com: ittee, | of ring with tne Board of Assistants, iu # reso- 4 i short time, i waster i see er te dernliniest me nominations made to theme an hereinafter provi- | Jurs. On the report being considered in the Board, | relative 10 complaints against any of the com- Tution to rev! grad-eot streets aad avenues in the ig Ry Poneman the ote a a \ armen, 66 taliduaees, be eaoges an akties (ate objections were made toit by several members—not | panies or members, they have been, in each | upper and ly improved part of the ci:y—Laid | FY TA eoacies, including ‘cramps, and a spasmo Toes wills scandens the eek aan ordinary legisla. | , The Common Council having performed their | because they were unwilling to grant every facility | case, handed to the chief, for the purpose | on t! im, and ordered to be printed. Of same | so ite of the muscles. } dea bf tbe Common Council. “But i Uke | changes | duty—that is, heving directed the consiruction of | to the firemen for the repair of their buildings, or | of notifying the witnesses of the Department. Rae ee eee Coen ey inion of medica) men abroad, is now g were proved tue, ugainst any or either of themem- | DEW engines, end made provision for the connec- | that they entertained any wilful desire to injure | That in nearly every instance where he has is between Thit. | rally in favor of the cholera being contagioas, @ 4 Sol agy 4 7 »p | tionof the several bell stations by electric tele- | the Department, or t> destroy its efficiency, but | done so, the committee have investigated the Led Bhan ee he J t ded that we must expect i! Paleaee s wibepen a pe a: oe Pore grark—the duty then devolved on the executive | because they considered the spirit, if no: the lan- charges, often continuing in session for hours to- ond ph ra Qar 5M hig ¢ i Sonat me omnes Pron nag, such le d t rould be ‘red: Ision, | Cflivers ef the Corporation to carry the same into | guage, of the charter, intended to place all the re- | gether, and examining a nuniber of witnesses, | tee on Finance, on the repert olutions referred | have been visited by it in its epidemic form. T pa cag fe pon sete ‘impeachment ‘agains: | execution pairs of the public buildings in the particular charge | without, in many cases, being able to de- | back in relation to previding accommodations for the | opinion seems to be corroborated by the follow The ordinances organizing the departments of the | of one general officer or bureau, alone to be re- | termine, from the evidence adduced, suffi- | New York State militia Of eame committee, in favor ati ‘i, o “Fisy the Chieti report vouched, Will the para- | municipal overnmentof the city of New York, and | sponsible for them. Other members differed, and | cient “vo either disband: expel, or suspend. | of paying Arthur Ryder, for services as bell ringer. Of | Statistics, which show on a a a) raph 11 Which he refers to the system in relation | Prescribing their powers and duties, chapter IV, en- | on the question being taken, the report was lost by | That whenever the evidence has, in any in- | Committee on Strosts, In favor of setting ourb end | Tae tensity 3 Senay the fire wlarm bells, or had it been | titled The Bureau ob Sarees the Fire Depart | a close vote. stance, susteined the charge, either made by the | gutter stones im Ninth avenue, frem Forty -seeon an ordinary report, an iavestigation by a special | Bent”? sections 279 and ), will show that the | That the charter cloatty intended to divide the | Chief, or by aay company, or has proved that | Filty-frst stroots. Of committee. in favor of re- | Mori aLiTy ream, erate tn Lonpoy, Fr ry n rn A “ . ' 7 A 5 Twenty-first between Fourth aad Lex- f | Chief Eogineer, especially in regard to the engines, | executive duties of the Corporation into depart- | punishment in some way within the power of the ating Twenty-first street. “aaa om! © puld have b asary. a . J : n rs pen 'y in power ues seam ittee, recom: ai 846. poe a pErsestad! ia it would have takes ae | is ove cf these executive officers :— _. | ments and bureaux, each having its stack coe Common Council, should be infheted, they have * centaciover with the Board of Assistants iu the s isi. usual couree, and been acted on in the usual legis- | |,“ See: 279. This Bureau, of which the Chief En- | duties, is evident from its reading. The 13th sec- | reportea the same, with their reasons therefor, to | adoption of the resoluticn to regulate peresent, set patnoa Couneil, or other legis- | Sineer of the Fe Department shall be the chief | tion, in relation to one of these departments and | the Board from which the paper was referred. | curb and gutter stones, and ileg sidewalk, in, Bast 126 1848.. lative way of th cedars A officer, is charged with the duty of constructing | several o) these bureaux, reads thus:— That up to the time of his report, there were but | street, from Grand to Rivington street. Of Committee 88 1849 (epidemic,) 14, | ee etiae ate at aystem Ha tela ty ihe | and. repairing fire engines, hose carte, hooks anf | ““s""There shall be an Iraecutive Department, tobe | a few charges unacted upon, and’ these in cases | 0m Markets, in favor of repairing the roof of Iissex G7 1850 (00 Lat July,).." | bell ringers, he selects on the official conduct of | ders, hose, und other machines and apparatus | denominated the Depar'ment of ‘ Repairs and Sup- | where either from his neglect to notify witaeases, | MACE ehdnbambieateabOerdeck. certain ofiicers of the city government, conveys | for the use of the Fire Department. . Plies,’ which shall heve cognizance of all repairs | or to follow up the matter, they were allowed to The session of Fret Board ot Aldermen. for the pre. the impression that the Cotamon Council have | 9 5¢C, 240 The Chief Engineer of the Fire De- |-end supplies of, and for roads and avenues, public | remain, not in “eternal repose,” but to euch time | , ihe, session of the Rotrd of Aldermen, for the Pre; | Annugi Xxcursion of the Citizen Soldic Ifall ligent i idii . partment shall take charge of, oversee and super- |‘pavements, repairs to public buildings, to fire en- | as he should be disposed to have action taken on . but owing to the delay of the committee ii z ‘The Liberty Guard, ot Newark N.J , attachec dieesiort eed is Seen arts pian Ma fae intend the constructing and ‘repairing of fire ea- | pines and upparatus of the Fire Department, and | them. That in the actions and decisions, also, of pre Tg whoes of te Ines Sen eclilive tothe Engine ( ompany No HM secompanied By the Ux charges ogainst members of | £iP€*> hose certs, hooks and ladders, hose, and | the chief oflicer thereof shail be called the ‘Com. | the Committee of the Fire Department, the Chief, | charges made against them by Mr Cateon, Uhiet Ene | Brass Ban t Morris Hotel, Harlem, Ghey memte ‘other ollicial persons, it | 0!b¢r Muchines and apparatus for the use of the | missioner of Repairs and Supplies.’ There shall | when present, has been invariably consulted, and | giveer of the Fire Department, they were compelled 2 Ba ges J ds those charged, than’ to | ! ie Department.” be four bureaux or branches in this departmeat, | in most, if net every case, his opinion, his wish, | to hold over another day. We ate informed, from a in Wilitamm ‘Kelley, cane st was no less just tows ( : And, although neither the ordinances of the | end the chief officers shall r ively be denomi- | and hia judgment, have been adopted by thei reliable source, that the sald report was completed oe ter Dodd: Ord } hI eir fello “ 5 h i pt m. nd do, Alexander ri tion’ shosld be had, to ecerlain wheth-r tne | Cétmmen Coureil, nor the. resolution in relation to | pated the «Sureritendent of Toaday” «Superia: | ‘ive Mecdnae a ie Proceedings of either Board | 2e#terday ee eee ie Mit ohaitenwn of | Sergeant, John Glenning; Second do, James Hl. Tht! charg ‘ ue or not—if true, that | the telegraph communication, express under whose | cendent of Repairs to Pablic Buildings,’ * Superin- | is ample proof that the Commitice on the Fire | B0t Jet remains an uncertainty: ag upfrom nigh: to | Third do., Willlam Gomer; Fourth 4o., Thos. Ritte! they might e censure and punishment | difection this work is to be done, yet it is a matter | tendent of Pavements,’ and ‘Chiet Engineer of | Department has not been inactive, or negligent of night during the ecsion. However, we may look out | | The Coneklin Guarde, ‘Capt. John Heaks, 49 m they ¢ ey might be relieved | imtimately conuected with the Fire Department; | the Fire Depertment.’ its duties. Ichas been always, heretofore, as it is | for it to-nigut. t poaldeh to denn Lnghenyeeeked odie vo sist from the them by him. | and as the former able Chief, Mr. Anderson, nego- | ‘There jg, nlso, a patticular account of the Cor- | now, considered by members of the Common | ‘The Fineace Committee submitted a secsnd report, | ® Norpro Md aertl So fur, then f’s reply to the three | ated with Messrs. Downing & House, the pro- peration to which the money for thes repairs are | Council as the least desirable committee of any on | with revolutions, last evening, respecting the accom: ‘ 5 exist + syst | prietors of the telegraph line with whom the agree- the Fire Department. its list. On it have always been placed those who | modations for the Firet division of the New York estomaly wens tee Gb he | ment was mede, it would eppeer that the Chief OF cigar rp nt of the Corporation, | were, or have been, fircinen, and it is not to be | militia, ‘They state that the Commissioner of firemen “ exele, Sua, oF oa | Engineer had the conte and direction thereof. (and it would seem, also, the charter of the city,) | supposed that where there is so great an interest | &P¢ Supplies has furnished them with an estimate of , : * Brass Band at Jereey City.and in company went oMnittee were willing, | 2CUF committee do not intend or mean, in any | Confine the repaire to the pudlic buildiags of the | and feeling for the department, anong those who | te cost to erect a suitable two story building. target excursion to Mount Mocris, Harlem. The pr at testimony, a8 coming | ™#nner, to throw the re ngewe, Ord xD delays | city to a particular bureau, they give to anether— | are honored by being members thereof, or who BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN. were a splendid rifle, and @ gold poncil. T appointment, and 8o-ex. | % him, for, so fares they have been able to as- | thet of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department | have performed their respective terms in its ser- | | 0c eat bo na ee 6 o'el vm t, | The J. B. Trylor Guards, Capt. P. Coyle, Lie to the Chief and to the aoe Teather enon ve mein —all repairs to the apparatus of the said depart- | vice, they meuldbe to negligent of is wants, and Bike see Pas aeates ab Goutine amine Joke Shes, 3.0 Ridden, somes Masterson, J. Rafts vert of the firemen, as well as in | ; i, bee Rega ~ | ment. fo recteant to its best interests, as charged by the | were road and approved. Aeut. Joh: ety; secon sicus, a8 Will be seem by relerence | ftined the necessary legislation in ‘the matter, | "If therefore, members of the Common Council, | Chief Engizeer. es Whines tie, Go, one Sener eieeea to them cepnot justly be charged with, nor made respoa- | in their honest discharge of duty, desire to preserve | Your committee have also learned that in the | Petitionef John Philips ions of the Chief, ia rela- | sible for, the non-fulfillment of these contracts or | ihe division of duties of its executive officers, end | one case which he alludes seoauen of Mr. | lends, Reterred, ‘8, removals, protracted | *zecments. te confine the ordinances to the svitit if not the | ‘Tweed—the committee difiered from him—difiered |. Petition of Jebm Petti«r~, for interest om contract t. We - lense of lot 58 of pudlic 3 3 i The vext subject alluded to—that in relation to i ! Talrty- vacancies detail cf ineapable and inexpe- § intent of the charter, they cannot be jiable to the | honestly—and not from uny “ is | for reg sulrty-ninth street from Second to tence oo noemen € i-riogets,”” embraced nay the system of bell Fe neg Serco Rapes 2 iO | censure of their fellow-citizeas, or of any particu- | other then their Own 97,5. A Phy plane iy ” | Thirdavenue. Referred. genera) cr specific eh catast any public officer | =— F-aletecae ealigumead to-sanlailk oe Tigi, | lar class or body thereof. The Superintendent of | ‘That on "%e first examination’of the fern ON Dane ney Euaces and rate Bighis eighth nest, or body of men, th itiee were also willing | ING the necessary or ps -. i u mf 7 ho | Bulldings has, co far gs your commitice have been | goncluded, not unanimously, to expel him, and to | Petition to tave Henry Ita; ated acom- | which conaste cf @ blur ehirt black pants nd desirous to heat. testimony thereupon. But | Sites ok ihe syalem, and al d Hawes with | tle toasceriain, endeavored te digch zge the du- | suspend iis company for thtee montis; but at a | misioner. to take ackienleve such as apply | and glazed caps. The prizes wore won by Mosers. they were unwil d, however, tohear | Pista: oa ermen, Morgane awe, with | ties conferred upon-him by the ordia78ées of the | future mecting, not celled expressly in reference | for bounty land warrants Duseabury, and Dorson, Their drilling was very ning et mo paruenlar | eeree Mead Ralelahat oh teene bel eaeest city, with @ proper regard to the interests of ie | to hie cace, the subject was reconsidered, and, in Pipe oy CE The Tompkins’ Light Iniantry passed oar om ae Hp opont Fie to the Osment Gounciocia tee saath Fae Department, s. Mell ap to other matters con- | censideration of his long end active service (over |. Repert of the Finance Committee, in favor of con- oe da their retura trom Flushiog, where HJ. . eleven years) in the department, of the good cha- | $PriR6 te correct erroneous tax, oa petition of Engineer, or of the parties | ?.* 7 Tn his cilusion to the “rowdyism of certain | sxeter which he ataine i ig | MSEsty.>Cencurred im. Same committer, om concur. prove that A was | mitted in Baurd of Assistant Aldermen, bat not | charges opainst the authorities, which are 60 they changed their previous decision, and agreed | to May 16th 1819. ‘Comeurred in he had been de> | orice he bell ieee from the Chief, in | wholesale and sweeping, that uny ont possessiag | to rake his punishment the same as the members | Repert of the Committee on Arts and Sciences. i ence or recommen. | Télation to the bell ringers. ordivary intelligence of the aflairs of oar city, f j—' oat ment by the May must kiow them to be exclusively the creations of diparment three mouths suspension from the he sgt yy - judice, believe them !—believe in the ‘ mur- he Fire Depart js and resolution sdopted dollar apd seventy-five ¢ ferous butcheries of these clubs” and that they | Hea nt ale eat, all notified at | “Report of Finance Committee, in favor of concur- r ~ this last meeting per nance mittee, adopted by thst Board, an gent to the Board are “encouraged. and emboldened by the author? wun warden 3 Ages egg pu grouly ring to rell bulkhead, &e.,a8 the joot of Stanton stroet, | a eae ai bpm wie sandler oem t es, | tes. themselves,” lo “mangle and murder the | On the infermation of one of the members that he “Fouts mittee on Roada, in favor of op | Who eubcequently reported # oubstine: eauiteess | peaceful citizent” His charges in this respect are | had not received his netics. Thieme be; and | Seventy cighth etreet, from Third to the Fitth ay. Who subsequently reported « substitute ordinance, | (5 false that your committee do not deem it worth 3 y be; an eventy eighth street, from e ber Inst, previous to this preseat Common lowing Warren, 24 I watohstand, won by Private ritt; 8d/ecap, won by Mr. Mason. They were wu: the com: of Capt. Charies Ballwiakle, aud well drilie: target was well riddled. Bhelt Brass Band accompanied them on the occasion. ‘The Stryker Guards, pany, unver the com: pelos trom’ good ehecting,” They] by le rom ‘ Mayor Stryker, wy ed "s insinuation, too, that the Committee 4 in the Vorpor named The Jackson Guards, of Brooklyn. Capt. Stepher * —_ to Astoria on ~y- fp target fh t ey were socompan! rangers 1 They bered a2 in unite which was adopted. On the retuca of the papers | *°' / ‘ yet the notices have been made out and served at | Adopt 8 y rm, aud are, sour esumibel a | ferred to the Committee on the Fite Departnent; tis coh oon whigh felingt Ga the edhetal ecadees | served for every meeting, ualess through the Excursion of the ette.—This be but, by reason of that committee not being able to | Uris subject, which relle Fudges, as well as on the | veT*ight of the mesenger who usually performs | VOM to, fing side walks and re-s0t curb Batter } i Fs | stones. in front of Nos. 11 and 13 Iubert street. Adopt- 1 | agree in relation to the ditlerent ordinances, aad | Police, and the Committee of the Fire D=part- po my 8 Absence from home, place of busi- | 04" “Aico, for some repairs in Vestry street, from No. . f oflice of the members soon expiring, houl m the cityy may frequently be causes | Sp to the verper treet. Adopte ken place, as charged in | (te term @ r ment, which they deem proper should be explain- | why’ notices are not received. . . the — i? yy the final action ge ed. 5 : Of that committee, five out of six sustained the vitae scnaanomione for tbe Mew Tork State in part of the Fire De- ps never tg hoacetty ae een ¥ ae Mealy og in eo - at Cn | Report of the Common Conncil—the Board of Al- | live. "Laid on the table. r withdrawing, rye ~— e 1 ore . 13, yow ree 4 n "1 truth ofall ths | the tWo Boards, in relation to the subject, causing | ihe 2h of August last: “ One of the vile ruffians p scons aay er ne Resolution to appropriate $800 for enlarging hose ces contained in the report of | te fuilure of the passage of any ordinance in rela- | was arrested and conveyed to the Seventh Ward pose, for one moment, that in n mater of thes | Rouse No. 6. in Wooster street. Referred ad that it was understood by | tion to the subject the fast year. fi station house, when Alderman Morgans, of the | Kind’ unfair or corrupt means were in any wa Kerolution to repair Hester street, between Norfolk finitely Mr, Carson | A new Common Council came into office on the | Seventh ward, hearing of his arrest, went down used to control the action of either of the Boeri, | 824 Seifolk streets, Adopted. t liberty to’ 7 he might | 7th of Janvury, this year; and siace then, until the immediately to the station house, and set the bru | Cf ihe Common Council, or of a eee hed 3 | Rerolution eb: poll of Fifth eleotio - mations | TeCent report of the Chief Engiaeer, no communi- tal wreteh @ ° proved ot the paper! : oe : a oft Re th district, to th of ‘ tion must cer- | Cetion in relation to the subject > made to | Now, what are cts of this case, and who | Pye Teittion to other matters in his report, which fond Ehira avons,” iss. seselonion ve been made tothe | ‘hem, by either himself, or any official or other was the * yi ‘and “ brutal wretch 1” infer pegiect on the part of eliher the Onravdties metus 0, Gsay on a for your committee | PON ine Chief Engiacer called the attention of arta ihe, Metement of Alderased Morgans, aed on the Fire Department, or of the Common t of Beventer s theme romans any | the Common Counc to the defects of the system the affidavits annexed, it wi seen thet this Council, your committee will state, that in respect | J0hm Rath, removed from the ward. The pt puch as were re- | at on earlier duy, there is no doubt that its legisla- to . opted. ; Tunning the apparatus on the side-walk,” | *%e adopted. - Clinten ste esolutions under | tion would have provided aa ordinanee which Sopp eptnt har pet bon ange | for e long period, a Py prion iy Mey toy bm gy Feo agg wet, bee: ee oy je Vommon Coundi ioh to repair Columbia street, from Grand to ted that he had been and | “ In‘ relation to the * report of the Board of Engi. | ynerolution to Touptea ig — ful French company o! are going, to-morrow, to they intend to celebrate ry of tl renéer of the Britich army at Yorktown. They received by a newly formed company at that pi and will partake of # dinner served at Coliett's Numerous persons have received invitations for | festival. aud among the principal gucsts, we un — mp ys Lei | atayette, co. of. ‘nd of the immortal Washingtoa, w: presen + this cecasion, the system, vial imiseoa Board of Education. 6B. 0, Benedict, sq, President, in utes of the last proceedings were read st t ferred + which t “* brutal wretch” was a boy fourteen years of age ; his mother, in company would have secured not only his segrevel, but also Senn hen ona y. 4 | that of the Fire Department general wes sick at the time of the occurrence; that he ipprepriations— Reeoived, That the Com; le . 4 Second—in relation to the charges, by implica- the habit of . neers of the Fire Department, on rioging the beils Kesolution that $200 be, and ls hereby appropriated, | ¢n4 eiry of New York be requested to ‘with . to it we habit of ranniag to fires, he being sta,” the CI Ragioe ° Bi y. curd yf be 4-4 tion, against the Mayor, Aldermen Haws and Mor- and well behaved” boy ; that was away pieninpa yl ee ey ne | i WOT MOS the eae 4 4 se F under investigation, gry yep on 2 em a Cad Moroney, un {he dysentery, and that he | of the Fire Depurtment, hus aever urged, or even | , Rerolution. that the poll af the Roman aniten Ge, idled to partieipete in the © long as the Chief or ei # to the Mayor:-—Your committe - |. Morgans), on these representations, an now, ji i trict of the Thirteenth ward, be removed to ure pertionm: ‘mone: 1 " cet dressed « communication to the Mayor, requesting | upon the promise thathe should Speeer inthe mora- | "ought it to their notice. treet ‘Adopted. Also, that the poll of the Second ar haber tT Of the importance of policemen arresting those election district of the Fourth ward, be held at Warren amounting to the sum ot $68,047 + isin that report, him to fermesh them with a statemeat relative to iog, discharged bim. On account of his sickness ‘ * esolved. That the Vow ptroller onit tothe or he Fire Depart. | the report of the Chief Engineer, co far as it re- | that night, bis mother was unable to reach the pe nen f hy ceeiten dene ieee Hall, corner of Oliver and Henry streets. On coneur- | ofthe Board of Hduestic ete oat ht Sheets et investigate lated to him. By his answer it is seen that, so far | police cilice with him, at the time appointed in the | Council has nothing to do with me eubject. Be- a a Slbetten anpetation Was. ii us Inepector of Bive- | Pet ded for the eupport of the Pres Acadamy. ced by, and only | from being entirely responsible for the detailment | morning; and he was subsequently arrested, and cides, to your committee have obteined in. | tone tor Fi op) eeiet at Be werd’, and appeist- A resolution appropriating $800 to pay billainca n of the Of incompetent policemen es bell ringers, Mr. Car- | gave bail to keep the pence. formation in relation thereto, the police have per. | ing _Jehn J. Levy for the ie of the same | {2 wekieg & irs to ward nebool Y ” son has, in every instance, except one, during the Under theee circumstences, is there a man, hav- formed their duty, and have frequenth ped 9 ward. On concurrence, concurred in. term of the Mayor, nominated them to him as | ing the least feeling of humanity, who would not, | nirties for rioting & fires, sited Resolution iu favor buildiog an iron tower for a fire competent, ing been firemen; that he | had he the power, have acted as Alderman Mor- ‘With respect to the «“] iry into the of | Slerm beil in Thirty-third street, between the Ninth . left it with the Chief Engineer (o select such police- | gans did t all fires,” the eubject has been acted on tong before | $4 Tenth avenues, and appropriating $1,000 there- y of Philadelphia, | men.as be preferred for that puryose; that he has | || The Chief contiaues the paragraph as followe:— | this; tat nothing eecieas hee nny feo the | te, 08 concurrence, concurred in. dsand teas of detailed only these chosen by the Chief, and has | “Two more of these precious club cut throats, J ioe pitialue a Adjcarsed till Thursday evening. A investigation. fe and tran- if no cage rejected any one whom he recommend- | named Johneon and Berry, were arrested the Re . ‘ Oct. 17.—This Board met at half pact five o'clock ; t protracted | €4; that he hes mede no changes except in three | Assistant Captain of the Thirteenth ward police, caie Rt phe | Fete Lae ae sin Getnt tk ste © Sate te w { law yto iitances, two of which the Chief, having been | and detained ell night at the station house, throug» of the Chief En “yr 7 ted <i members in their places. re read we Jing of members f€2sonably notified of the intended change, assent- | the firmncss of Alderman Cook and the Captain of | TePort igincer was presented —im- | approved. eutatives in ¢ * ‘ dintely after the decease of the lamented Guire, REPORTS OF COMMITT FR: the various €d fo, and appointed their sucees+ors; that he has | the Thirteenth ward police, both of whom peremp- be " 4 De Sroten: t reported sc noe oe generally permitt prenen be oe te aay refused toeurrender them against the threats pig) ae Se Carelessncss or omission in PR nh am me Jatatn in soabaine poco, an t th rom the towers; that the rogers have | end strongest importunities of their associates in " ense of ). Adopted. hs 4 always been subject to the Chief Engineer's orders | crime. 4 the morning, however, Ju Mount- joer committee bi reviewed the extra. | °XP bins" at rarers FRom THE > OF ALDOFRMEN, maining. The object of t ‘ 4 the “deeds o and directions in the performance of their daties, | fort, of the Essex market court, held them to bail oe partons A of the Committse om Floanca, ia favor of ap- | the eid-of the Bosra ju filling there vacancies, #> by these “hood. @nd thet neither himself, nor any officer of the | in the enormous sum of two hundred dollars to | COMtins Charges, both specitic, direct ish @ botiding fer New York may enjoy ita fall share of the benefits « ‘ n ae. » the peace, When the scoundrels went forth | °F implied, against the Mayor, the Common Coun- ry ef the city, at the old | institution for which it 's equally taxed with the « Se ee ak: | eee f No ont the tweets cheer adie ename cil; ita memberr, oF againet other official persons. | areenal grounds echwest corner of White | parts of the State. Relerred. r varratives of blood” So far, therefore, as the statements in the Chief's ile | was awaiting the examination of Joha- t bony a eye vce an!» ag — ? my te ey — Albe a nmheet ont Witten tt austenite oso be Lamb ory Re 5 nen “often Feport censure the Mayor, either directly ot im- | son and Barry, and only a tew minutes prior to | 0 fect® that consequently they are entirely Sppol be ; jeoting, journed Mareball if eeotion for, the First district of from these phedly, for hie official action in relation to the | their exemination end liberation, incomes Alder. | UBtre- aah ward, Coneunvea te. ©. S. District Court. 3 issued any order to them touching such | ke acd aud Ivberated by | police, 4 , Admit, however, that there was trath in the | the Bight f vend. bell ringers, your committee are of the opinion that | men Geo. Il, ranklin, of the Seventeenth ward, athe: 2 of Resolution to ‘nt George W MRogers inapector of Before the Hon. Judge A. T. Judson. oe Chonan: | bis explanation clentty shows them to be entirely | the chahanan of the Coommes on the Fire De- | Guarecer ther he had just cause to make them | cicetions ta the Virst dietrict of the Beventh ward. | Ocr. 17 -Dscimontc Melee tones eee ep ‘row! partment, who walks hurriedly in behind tho bat, | Oricudes and ofhelal mi aevthat the Comma | Comeurredjn. He Grinnell. Hwy Orinnel, Retert B. Bercham rowls San te Abdou Ben P . P 4 4 iq ties and official misconduct—that the Common Rerclution. that the cross walk opposite 900 Water | Fyonklin H.-Delane — is Ocoart e, Con. rma reyes Something | tnd scat huneelf behind the judge, with whom he | Coureil were negligent of their duties, and the | onecse soning, neste cai that the libellants recover i ~*) ifhe With this subject, the report says: “Sometime | engages in extremely anxivus conversation, in criminal courts w 7 " ce Coment . — tmen sinee, the Alderman of the Seventh ward, Mr. | whispering tones, and wholly carried on in each | Gor should ‘he wot Rive. conthos ‘hem ‘in lan: tour hyer for servioce as bell Hager at tue Cty Hall fonable detention of the ship M y responsi = Morgans, recommended a sailor policeman for the | other's ears! A few migutes after this i tant | cuage whieh, while it may have been either home- | Coneurred in ef tem days: and on motion of the rumes | Essex market tower, ia the Tenth ward, and the | interview, 1 saw one of the prisoners set at liberty, . oF polished, ‘would have been, at the same time, The eeme committee reported in favor of relling @ | bellanta tt is further, ordered ghtly cut, eg oo yond. J pty aa end prepared for another fresh a tack on the fire- respectful. . : sure of ed on os 2a Sixth ave- | Commissioner of thie - 5 i ena, Violate the per- r request, 4 e | men.” Bue, to ‘a! cred ranch detention females, and fire lor had recently returned from a long voya The inference here clearly is, that Judge Mount- ‘an ene rer Peeve fyb eee, Re bet of the Committee on Ordtunness, bt pe | 4 thereon to this Court with ell conver - ? had eyo nin Brey ey ee his | {ot discharged these men when they should have which not ony they, but as they believe and know, | the First district to be held at the house of John Par. | Edward Cochard et, al.—1 shatgns the lodronte tn tent thadeoe n this | been detained, and without suificient batl, and that | the Common Council individuslly and collectively Tingtom, corner of Third avenue and 125th street, ond | tm tor ; ustained ml to te id just re | their discharge Was procured through the tatlaence | entertuin for the Fire Department of this city, | forthe distelot the Ringgold Hotel. a the ante turned or landed from a sea voyage a number | of Alderman Franklin. . That oven is the ‘case—that’ they have ever eA ‘village of eabettenvilie, Also a resolution, t horrible doings, | Of months or years; that he was unaccustomed to | ” ‘The statement of Alderman Franklia will ex- | their requests, and listened to their complaints with, | ire Marcellus Bells. William It all, ax wm ar® pat an ead <9 the ways of the city, and perfectly ignorant Of | sain this proceeding, #0 far as it conceras hirnself. | if not haste, at. least reepect-is evident from the de yh ae Ty ‘The World's Fair 0 thie aaseriion, wages pcet tha: Alderman Mor-| Aiderman Franklin’ had business. with Judge | records of their present and past fags . London. 195 ken Sat eeomnee he o> | ae in no Way connected with the matter, | Search them, end you will find that no one interest eas tomianae nd charges set forth ta his re the Chief claims that the Co TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Were to be pr Ih ringer. and he en waiting some time for him; while | of the city has received that attention at their Si captai tieren! mittee cal et vrr nave had ** an eq What are the facts of the case? On refereace | waiting, he learned from the Chiet the difficulty of hands, which this department has, Yearly, here wit uke ptt cane voice in the decision of alt q ' . ber! a eT ant | to. the statement of Alderman Morgans, and the | the preceding night; that he told the Chief he was | jong feried, it has appropriated the sum of he ittee oo Fire Department. arise in the course of the investigation.” This, aa | affidavit of Hudson, the sailor referre to, it willbe | glad he was <= to ¢ the testimony, for he eeeesed ‘Mars to its charitable fand, and wien ‘The business ct the Deara being completed. the the committee on the port of the Fire Department eived that Alder, Motgens neither re- | could net expect the judge to commit without evi- | ever instances have oecurred where the fireman | Board adjourned till the first Monday in November. knew, end were so informed, could not be granted 4 ted nor urged Mayor to detail Hudson, nor | denee; that he went to the judge, and after some | in the performance of his volunmiary and arduous Your ccmmittee never sanctioned any such eug- | did he ever see k to him ia relation thereto. | conversation with him, not relating to the disturd- | duties bas follen a sacrifice to his exertions, or be- gestion, aod at the preliminary meeting expressly | From Hudson lavit, it appears that he only | ence at the fire, but to other and dilierent matters, | come injured or maimed im the same canee, his reserved that right, on the ground that the charter | Occasionally went to sea, whee be could not pro- | eaid to him if the men were guilty, he he | fomily or himself, as it may have been, have in of she city woul! net permit it, and that what | core work inthe city; that he has resided here | would not show them any meiey; that he was de- | many instances been a special appropriations authority your committee had wader it, the laws of | thirty years; that he was a policeman over cight | sirous of seeing the disturbances at fires stopped, | trem the city’s funds. the State, and the ordinances of the city, could | months before he was detai had not been | and he was afraid they would not be until exam- in what city do the firemen receive that not be conferred upon them. If the committee om | to sea for a year previous, an ver ona voyage | ples were made of some of the guilty ones; that he | attention the municipal authorities that they the pa the Fire Department had such right | farther then to New Orleans Tr that he had re- | then left, and did not know what wee done with | do here 1 and even from recent Common incils, hem, they would, of course, have eaesizs anterior to his detailment, been in several | these men until he read the result in the Chief's in comparison with those some years since. Com- " They did not, and therefore the IL towers in this ae. report. pore their houses, their apparatis, and the annual the Chief, in his reasons for with- Thus does the Chief Engineer distort the cir- dn reference to the sffidavit of Jastice Mount | expenses of the then. True, arge of any pack. or intended to be sent forwar: for exhil Industrial Exhibition of the products of i to be held next year in Loudon, free of any chy for freight, provided the New York ine be patriotic enovgh to take the same to on captains, me know the result of their deliberatiors doultlees a matier of great importance--Mr. ton, Mr. Case, Mr. l'iilmore, and other patrio’ give efficient support to it, department, now with > Yours, very respectfally, cumetances atte: this case, end the ocenpati 1 but full, hist if these other band ‘ Cniet alco says,'and so do the committee | sf the party detailed, Im order to eu wher ine | corte ewer, om, Chit wilt be fad lt | srread ke boundonerbayerd het were thee on the part of the firemen, that your committee | imagination . will there be seen that theee persone were die but theee expenditures have more than kept pace were un; see ag heir course c=. bonever, De loey Zz ola *celier, charged on bail to keep the fae because hh increase. How, or in wi way, tl ve uaable render him incompetent there was evidence to detain Common Council, previous ones, percelv tod are Saye tnconacioug ey alow” strict dieerpline and prompt compliance to ordera, on any other charge; aed that the bail was ne doubt have erred-—in’ some ie have ne- ed by counsel, and learned hy the sailor, in many cases wonld make | they being ia cane frecholders. lected matters that should on— "W fy feet the charges & | him more competent to disch ' I cases, where'the Chief complains of uolee 7 aol Thao Sellow-ctiocnn Unset Watfrerredin | dence a cell Tagec Mere Wunthiees mat the dlechurge of partice by the police justices, and | Iyr they donot dee ee eee aly and know