The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1853, Page 2

—_——_— SS sd ‘The Hew Steam Yacht North would net offer » man thirty theasaad dollars for ee te this affidavit thet none of tham wed Improper THE BROADWAY RAILROAD CASE een waing trite aa ee ee means to procure this grant. Mr. French read tie sand ond} Geeeine Gh nes Nama ies Piro Be affidavit, and then proceeded. I do not intend, gea- BEFORE THE ASSEWBLY COMMITTEE. ing the ferry lease at five thousand | tlemen, to insinuate that thao a any geatlenan = rnnennny = the Ccmsimom Neg gee | ay for it. who Lisi eg ee buss age am merely stating that was tirat time couscicntionsly, an e as sub- THE OPPOSITION SIDE. tie ‘rm i nei tncrmtuat ‘ain this scribed to ig fair in every , RS ot * ee as I sai fore, not partict say ere no evidence in {ficdis Wr. French’s Argument before the Comamittee | gance in which have pee. Mo to show that there has not been the grossest cor- ‘of the House, im Favor of the Proposed Bill. | itis, almost invariably the case. They even carry } And when these persons ride on this railroxd—at | ruption exercired in getting the grant fir magi the, ALbany, March 2—Eve \ing Sessien. After Mr. Field had concladed his address in oppo- sition to the proposed b'll, Mr. French was heard in advocacy of it. He said: in my statements be- fore you, gentlemen, I shall be as concise as p wsible- T shall not follow the gentleman over all the ground be has gone, because it is unnecessary that [ should do 9, 1 do not come here as an opponent of railroads im New York—I do not come here as an opponent of the Broadway railroad; and I venture to say that my name will not be found on any of the remonstrances. I read all the ar its for and against the Broad- way railroad. I have read pretty much every argu- ment made since the injunction was laid upou it. T do not come here to retard the progress of New York | city; but I come to retard the progress of corruption | Pf frand. And however the gentleman ce say | that everything appears to be fair on the face of this | ecntract, I think q can show by tle contract itself | that it is most foul. I venture to say that no busi- | meas man would have given that contract on the | ciple that the contract was given. They tell here that the aldermen were discriminating, and | mee that they gave this contract, as they were in | the habit of giving all these grants, to the lowest | bidder. Let them point out any one grant giveo in | the city of New York for the last year or two, which | has not been given to the lowest bidder. I will ven- ture to say that all had equally good reason for se lecting their own favorites as the recipients of grants, ae they bad in this case. Now, railroad is pro- for the accommodation of the public—to tl = that it is an accommodation. I have an interest in property in Broadway, but I would not give four cents whe I was called on to subscribe for the purpose of pay- ing the expenses of the lawsnits, I told the tie- man who applied to me, that I did not care whether the ieee would give .one hundred dollars towards the sto)- ping the progress of fraud and corruption in the ommon ferent principle than that the gentleman has taken. 1 did not come here to oppose the granting of rail- roads, but rather to oppose the mauner of granting | them. The gentleman says that the people of New York are able to take care of themselves. So they are, if the Legislature will give us an organic law under which we can act—if they will take these discriminating Aldermen off the bench, so that when the citizen goes to the polls te exercise the elective franchise, Le shall not be knocked down and tram- led in the gutter; and when the aggressors are ought before these Aldermen sitting on the beach, they shall not be discharged without giving satisfic- n. The a8 not been a political rioter within the city of New York who, within my recollection, h been punished for such offence more than by a sli nt fine. And then the gentleman say, why doa’t you g° to the p return proper men to tue office of Idermen. 1 wili tell you wily citizens do net go to the polls There are a great niany persous whu have elildren around them, and who have vulgar preja- dices about presenting to these childven the spec- tacle of ablack eye. They thiuk it is degrading to the feelings of a father to present a black eye to their children; and I venture to say that no man can go to the } ry elections, the purpose of taking care of himself and the interests of the city, without being knocked Gown by bullies, paid for the ing such persous going to alks of reform, and of ‘ What would be the result of any respectable citizen attempting sch a reform? The reorm party would arrange their boxes, and have respectable persons to give out their tickets; but early in the morning, up would come a party of these rowdies and hired bullies and upset Weir boxes into the gutter, and themselves after them; and that would be the last of the reform party for that election. These things are not new, gentle- men. These facts are well known, and the great dificulty in the way of remedying the evil is, that you can get no redress from the discriminating Aldermen on the beuch. There is ao posible mode fora citizen to get any redress, no matter how mach be may have been abused and how amuch disabled. He may be disabled for life ; aud even then, [ will venture to say, not a political rioter in New York would be sent to prison. And yet the genflemun says, that we are able to take care Of our- selves. Sow give us laws un- ger which we can protect ours i am as much in fuvor of municipal government as the is. i would be the last person to come to Albany to ask the Legislature to infringe on any right beloagir v 4 t in this case that it is nec which to go t law with ems it ne- t ave 4 constitution, aud tue city deems i y to huve a charter, and experienced citi e check agains: frand aud We hav: bad, accordiug to report of the Comptroller of the city, a variety and checks ; but the misfor- of tt to tak» tate bas been thi ave not been able Gare of ourselves after all, and have got men in office, who have disregarded that charter. But | will come to the poiut. The question here hip pens to Le misunderstood by the gentleman ou the Other side. | am assured that I bold in my baad a correct copy of the bill passed in the Senate of the State ; and, es I said when ame to the city of Albany, if there were anythiag in that bill waich ¥ -y of New York of its fra be among the opponents of the bill 6 been shown to me, and I have exami it od ican find nothing in it bat what is Y¥ veasonable—perfectly constitational—-and at the cit zens of New York may have como to k for without being charged with cowardice. This it first stops the progress of any railroad iu the city of New York, not in ration, until after the passage of the law. This general law applies to every city and town in the State. it is not exclusively for the city of New York, nor neither is it intended that the citi- gens of New York should travel to Albauy, as we have been compelied to travel for a few days past; Dut it ix intended to provide that the municipal government shall give out these grants for railroads on fair and honorable principles—which are, that thoee who will offer the largest conditions to the , and proffer to ran for she lowest fare, e privilege of laying down the track. The gentleman who opened for the Second avenue, expressed some considerable astonishment that citi- zens shonld have the preaumptiom of coming up here to Albany and appearing before a committee of the Legirlature without being represented by counsel, aud. as he said, particularly inasmuch as this was o Pugely legal question. Now, | do not know mush ‘a: the law, but [bold that every citizen who claims the privilege of governing bimself by cast- ing bis vote, shoud know something about the fuudumental law of the land, and about the general principles of law. And one of those geveral principles is, that all laws are subjec to tbree tertsa—the first is, whether it is expe dieut to pass it; the next, whether it is sound in w = ; amendment provides for a general law: bi principle ; and the next, whether it is constitutional. Avy furtber legal question before the Legislature I have not yet beurd, and of course you will make mo allowance for my ignorance on ‘the subject. But the culy apology we have to without counsel is, that we shouht that our cause was « very simple one, and we did nut think it ne: cevsary to have tree or four lawyers and one chief justice to make a plain statement of facta (laughter), and that we might therefore give our hunble opinion Bpon it, However necewary for the other side it was t present such an array of lawyers against u is for them to deteraine, not for us. The question er for coming bere | up. t r have not the slightest objection, if it can be shown | ther thatrailroad be made in it or not. When | was laid in Broadway or not; but I | Bouneil, I came here, gentlemen, on a dif. | arises now, why did tuis law orignate iu the Senate? | As I vaid the other eveniug, it was nt asked for. Now, why was it brought forward in the Senate? There wis some reason for it, certainly. It wos brought forward because the corruption of the Common Council of New York bad reached the capi tal of the Stale, And it way oot very astomlahinz that it should heve reached Albany, when it haa mented upou by the press of London. This n had reached Albany; it was known bythe gentleman wh» brougat the v juto the Senate that Tuilrvads were being asked for in the city of New York by all parties. It was well ken considerations were paid for those there wre persons on the other sige able to buy up the centlomem apposed to the r Gd, so far as their wealth is concerned. It may ve a merit, bot rather a disurace, that if t had got so mich money—and i hope they have —that tiey sould ta fais way 0! increasing their store. The Legislature, IT have io dount, were aware of the fact that one of the grantees in tris Browiw talroad and I lieve the gentleroan at of that associ » tion-—bas experienced the benefits of the d tion of the Common Council before tut gra am wrong ip thie, Jam willing to be corrected | the other «ide. [way | have been inforamed this i+ not the first time that the Comma Council have discriminated in favur othe gu Jewsa who heads that body grautees. I believe trey | a disoriminated at the rate of five th A year at least, in the matter of a ferry louse at Phe foot of Wall street, in ayer of the ger lesa al | tus wrooiwtes. if | am wrong in this I shail be happy Corrected. [ am goiag wo mike ny eharres, becuase I do not think wler the very @evere threat thrown out by the goutleman on the ower side, that, ifanybody dared to make a charge, he would give him an opporiunity to prove it, or him for it—that it wonld be safe or discruet me to dose. Now, thorefore. | do not charze Me. Sharp with any frand—i do not charg: Bea it" any wrong in taking a lense at five and dollars less than other citizens woald have givea | tifference between the for st. 1 would myself take a lease at the lowest Sgure which the grantors would give it w me fur. tI theirdiscriminatioa so far that they have stricken out the names of one noes pn and re} them by another. One grant passed in the Board. and when the parties thought they had the bird in the hand, presto, change—and out went the names of the origiaal grantees and in went new ones. I dou’t kuow what induced this discrimination; yet it was a discrimination consistent with all their acts. I agree with the gentleman on the other side that the Com- mon Council have displayed extraordinary discrimi. nation, a discrimination which I de not expect from this honorable committee, Now, the gentleman alluded to the Second avenue case, and’stated something about it which I believe to be strictly tree. He etated that the Second ave- nue was graded through @ swamp. So it was. It was graded some two or three years ago, and those who knew the — all knew it was being graded fora railroad. It is generally understood that the sections and plans were all ready, and those who eaw the work going on in the avenue said, “ there 008 B railroad,” ‘hat is the way they do business in ew York. They always prepare the road at the expense of the people, and then they give the grant and ley down a railroad. It was only the other day | they put up a safety wall to ges the stones and dirt from rolling on the track, for these railroad people; for, if it were not put up at the expense of the city, it would have to have been put up at the expense of the company who had the grant at the time it was put Now, the gentleman says that, inasmuch as these lots on Second avenue were comparatively worthless before the read was graded, it was necessary to do something for those gentlemen who owned these worthless lots. Now, in this matter you will also see how discriminating a body that Common Council is, They knew that a majority of pares having an interest in the lots could stop this road, and if they had graded that avense without putting in this provision, ‘that no lot om that line should be assessed to a greater amount than one half the value,” they never could have had the road prepared for that track. Now, what do they do in this case? First they apply for a law that the balance of the expense of grading | other man shail come out of th r otreets ne city at large. Ever, on oth ‘f who had paid to grade ihe street ia his lots, was called on to contribute to these ved thousand dollars which the geutleman of, to lay the grade, and prepare it to la; down the track of the Second Avenue Railroad. That is another instance of diserimina- | jon of the Common Council of the city -of | spe mone! Stewart, Haight, % Co.—they have to pay two vents fare each way more ey weuld have had to yy had the graut been given to those who off-red make the fare three sents. Well, this extra charge of two cents each way is not mush for persons in the country, who only ride oceasionally, nor is it much for aman in good circumstances, but it is a consideration to poor in the city. When a man has to pay two cents down and two cents up, it robs him of the four-fifths of a loaf of bread for his family. Thatis a tax paid to these versie toll gatherers of four-fifths of a loaf of bread daily, from every workin, residing up town. And if we id go furfher in our calculation, and that this | man had to continue bis riding all the year, what | would be the result? He have to pay during | the year to these very rich men $12 48 more than he should have paid. This tax would come off eve: man who comes down town, and works fora dol- | day at the most laborious work you can pat him to, frequently in the sewers, and digging in the cellars, and tearing down the ances of these veryrich men, and being often killed in the operation, and Shay £8 good wages when whey et a dollar a day. Well, gentlemen, th’s sum of $12 48, which this poor man pays in the year to the toll gatherers on Broadway, would just pay his quarter'srent. Now, every work- ingman who rides on this road, is compelled by this very discrimivating Common Council to pay to this railroad company @ quarter's rent, and forty-eight cents over; and if you carry the ealculation further, you find that these men hdve got to work in their sewers and cellars through all kinds of weather, twenty four minutes every day through the 312 days for thiscompauy, headed by this very rivh man; or, in other words, that he has got to pay about four times fs much tix as they generally have to pay in the city of New York. That is, four per cent of the entire earnings of a laboring man are required to support these Lpnere running that roud on Broad- way. Now, this grant may be valuable, or it may not be; butitis the general opinion in the city of New York that it is worth two milllons of dollars under the hammer. It inay be that it isnotso. I krow gentlemen who would give that sum for it; I would not; but still that is the prev: the city of New York. There it is OD 2 the most stupendous grant ever yet given in this country. No grant ever was given by the general govertinent which approaches the magnitude of the grant which has been made of the Broadway Railroad. At this stage of Mr. French's address, the com- tnittee adjourned till 10 0" xt morning. | Aud 1 shall endeavor to show you, re 1 get through, that probably this i Common Counsil ee about the Broadway Railr We will uotlere. Ladmitall that the genJeman bas pect w the Broadway Railroid. Ladunt, ment’s sake, that it is going to per- form all which he promises it wi Bat then, I am still opposed to the Broadway Railroad; not that | am personally opposed to the track going | down, ior I aasure you | have aot paid attention eaouga | to it to care anything about it. Aud howeyerstrange | that may appear to the gentleman, and however it | may excite a smile upon bis countenance, I can | account for it Ly the moral of the age; because, if you tell anybody in this age that you acted by any | ether motive thun that of the almighty dollar, he will smile at tke statement, I have mo interest | in the grant, though J have in property in Broadway. Now, mippose that this road is going to perform all | they claim for it, still lam opposedto it; aud why? | ‘The grantecs admit they have very rich men among them, men, indeed, who 1 should think, have mo- ney enough without having themselves appointed | toll-gatherers on Broadway. If I understand this | bill, avd the application of the gentlemen against the grant, correctly, that application was merely to strike out the names ef the grantces and ALB. » March 3, 1853. SSION OF THY COMMITTEE. MORNING SE Common Council. These gentlemen have uot sworn her or spp ae money to third parties to uso their influence as members of the Common Council. ‘This affidavit bears exclusively on the grantees them- sel not corruy ie Aldermen. But they have uot sworn here tha ey did not give any man ten thousand dollars to use his important uence om members one, two or three; but they tell you that to their knowledge there was uo corrup- tion used. I suppose that the historical fact re- lated by Dickens, of the election somewhere, will il- lustrate this matter pretty clearly. Mr. Samivel Weller’s father was paida sum of money by parties of the opposing candidate, not to “dump” some voters in a certain point, but, singular coincidence, it hap- pened that they were ‘‘dumped,” in the very point where it was said they were paid not to “dump” them. (Laugliter.) Now, we do not know whether in this case it was so or not; but would it not have been the easiest thing in the world to have put money in the hands of third parties, not to buy the.Common Council? (Laughter.) I do not way it was done; but how easy would it have been to have paid in this way ten thousand dol @ very small amount of money in the estimation of those parten=tro: of whom, alone, are able to buy up all the advocates of this bill in amount of wealth—-and, though ten thou- sand doltars is uf dene deal of money, yet it is a mere eypher compared with the value of grant. How ewy for any of these ies to say, “Mr. So and So, here are ten thoi dollars for you, if you get me the votes of Aldermen A. and B; but do not you offer them a bribe; we want to get this matter through on the honest principle; we do not desire this grant except we can get it on pure principles; and don't you say that you will give an Aldermaa half of the ten thousand doliars if Le vote for the Dill.” (Laughter) { merely throw out this sugres- tion to show that this affidavit does not mean what it carries on its face. I say the grossest cor- ruption could have been practised in getting this grant, and yet all these men could have honestly and conscienticusly made this affidavit. Now, gentlemen, does it not appear to be very astonishing that this is the most gigantic contract ever granted ia the United States to any parties, and yet it is the only one against which any one would try to establish the fact that there could be ne objection to iton the ground of corruption? The press, if it is to be be- lieved—and some of them have been very tardy in coming out to attack the Common Couscil—has said that the most necessary legislation could scarce- lybe got through the Common Council without a cousideration. And while I think of it, | will merel, lay before the committce anether historical fact. [t | isin a newspaper, and conseqnently may be doubted; but new I hand in the authorities. | 1 Mr. Fren ch resumed his argument. It may be as a le I recollect it, to state y ning in respect to the | Common Council, { did not inteud to be understood as charging every member of that body with mal- | practice. There'are men among them for whom I [Ne the highest regard, whore characters are not rest ] suppose I entertain about the same opinion as as to their general character than anythi I have no kind of interest whatever in this railroad. | 1am not one of those who have received this railroad | graut on the other side; neither am I associated with | those gentlemen who have applied for it. 1 do not | desire to get into the railroad business, for the sim- Je reason that I do not understand it. I am satis: Bea with the business in which I am now engaged; and if its for railroads should be given out on | fair and proper principles, persous would not be de- | | sixons of leaving those waiks of lie to which they | have been accustomed, to go into the business of | railroads. It is only such valuable monopolies as this which would induce persons to leave the pro- fessions in which they have made fortunes, for one | with which they are totally unacquainted. I have not come here to advocite the cause of the opposing | applicants for the crant, for lam as much oppowed insert their own; and the only other alteration which they required to be made, was to strike out the five cents as the fare for passengers, and insert im its | place three cents. Now, the geatleman oa the other | side very ingenuously says, *‘ what is the ditference Letween the tive cents fare and the three cents | fare’ The only difference is in favor of the men who make the money. The geatleman—rather dif- | ferent from lawyers in general—talks of an outside | understanding about transverse lines of omnibuses | as binding, instead of haying itin the written en- gagement or contract. Now, I say that that outside | i ding has nothing to do with the contract, | that he, a awyer, would hesitate to | wsert that ithad. There is no we who will come before tis you the outside arrangements | act. I yould discharge any or- a clerk who did not know more of business Ulam that. (Laughter) As faras that is con@ern- ed, we are not bound to look itut all. It is one of | thove piaasible assertions brought up often before le- | gislative bod/ea, and used for blinding the eyes or cio- the ears of their constituents. ‘They say theirs is li cheaper to the paseengers Lecau! have omail ps In connection with therailroa which | passengers be conveyed for tie same fare, jive cents. it de t at all follow from that. there were a map of the city of New York in the room, I could show you that from the railroads already estab- are binding in a con lished, or in ec grey toa) in the city, a passenger can ride within any block on the island, from Four- teenth str defy them, after a passcuger gets up above fourteenth street, to show me how he would require to ride more than a block to get to his , houre. Lut yet these grautees say, that they are going to have omnibus lines ransing seross the city. Ido not like to impngu the motives of any | parties—no, not even of the Common Council—but | ibe gentleman on the other side is not so charitable | to me on this side of the house. He stated that they uever intended torun this stage line, if they had got their names substituted in the grant. Now, f have heard it a thousand times said, that these gr: never intended to run theirs. Their only odject in | purchaging them was to buy off the opposition of the omnibus interest—and in that saad have succeeded to pei ion. There ia not one of these geutlemen | opposed to the grant, and desiriug the passage of ihe bill, who knows the first principles governing the Lird house, (aughter;) aud as | have told them, “if | you ever gain this canse, it will be by the merit of | it, and not by any action or judgment oa your part.” Now, as | have said before, these omnibus men have | avery Ueagbosa influencein New York, particularly about the time of primary elections. are mea who hold the reins and use the whip, and whose muscles and nerves are weil exercised; and when they come to the primary elections their power is stupendous. They have more influence im one of their shoulder hits than conld be exercised by the grentert statecman—than even Daniel Webeater, with al! his perce of eloquence could have used. (Laugh- | ter.) Many of these men are “‘shoulder-hitters, they are calied in New York, and thus they carry | the primary elections. If yom want to kaow how | primary elections are carried on, ali you have to do is | tw go Tamroany Hall or the Broadway House, and | there you will see the system in ita perfection. These railroad men kuow every move on the political board, and know that the omnibus men are great | at clections, and the result was that they saw | it was indispensably necessary to buy them off. | The Aldermen were afraid of them. They knew that | if ever they wanted to go to the Common Council ; again, it was necessary for them to have the idfluence | of ‘these men, and the resnlt was they snc- | ceeded, by buying them off, in neutralizing the | only opposition of any consequence they had against them. Now, what strikes me ag a vory extra- ordinery thing in this republican government and people is this—I have always understood, and the world has always understood, the ee of | republicanism here is that every man shall have a foimebance, and if there be anything in the picktuzs, | thu every man shall bave « lair leokont for thom | Now, we find that this road is contracted for by a certain ret of men, and much beter terms offered by | other sets of men refused. Now, here is Jacob Sharp, who is a gentleman, no doubt, and Mr. Freeman Campbell, whom I have known for years; but there singular thing about them, which shows that 'y are goo managers, and are particularly anxious es to their reputation. And when you come to their reputations, you see ihey have avery close alliance with the Aldermen, eitier by marnage, birth, or a+ ion. That statement is not indictable, I believe That I am told is a fa and whether that accounts for the very extraordigary discrimination of the Common Council, or not, it is not for me to say. Liot 1 will soon wet to that point ef gathering toll ou Broadway. Now, Tray that, as far as striking out the ea of the parties and substituting those of | 8, and striking owt the amount of instead of five cents, ¢ three cent was Do proper reason why it should not be done. y that the 6 two cents are taken frome the pocket weis on that road and given | to that talk about baying out i and ent hing them in connec: | tion with t nad, T venture t make the aaser- tion that such a thing will wever be done, aud that ail the boasting abovt it atnownteto nothing. In fact, Thave Leen told that some of the grantees rofased t3 sign the contract, and said they did not care what heceme of the old ¢ eed and horses, if th road succeeded; while the stave owners hel they sold their lines at a high fizore, all th ot for them, and if the railroad waa not built, their jiaes | were as good as before. So to them it was all the | same either wer Now, if this is true, that these men Lave merely bought these stage owners off, and | that \t was their fatention only to make a mere show of running acroas the eity, then, I say, there ix no ur of the “apes age who were willing to carry for three cents, and perform everything that they were bound to do, with the ex- [al | davite in this case than | men, a good deal has been said about the pr | pra to the idea of Mr. Stewart and Company having the | monopoly as I am to Mr. Sharp and Company having it. Ifa railroad is to be built in Broadway, let the grant be given to the company who will pay the most for it into the city treasury, and run the line at the lowest fare. There has been @ great deal said in re- vect te the want of faith in the offers made by jesrs. Stewart and others in their application for this railroad grant. Now, sir, it appears to me that the very value of this contract alone is sufficient to prove that their proposal was made in good faith. I stated last night that iis contract was worth two | mii‘lons of dollars under the hammer, and in-tead of verrating its value, | have since understood that 1 rrated it. 1 will ventur® to aay that I can bri here parties who wiil give two millions of dollars this contract the very moment it is granted, if tran ferred to the parties I may name. The value of that oad has been calculated, and i will read the results. It was found, on calculation, t: g the Sixth Ave- nue road, (on which they are allowed to charge tive cents fare, and which rons 12 or. 14 cars,) as the ) | basis, that the 120 cars whick these grantees of the rulroad say are required to convey the passencers in Broadway, would yield as follows: (the Sixth avenue cars exceeded th sty dollars per day at the time this caleulation was made—when they had just com- ced operations; it therefore may be consi safe for Broadway, which is far more populous.) Fare Gross Earnings per Fear. $202,000 a Teent Fs a 3 au Pia 1,642,000 G4 5, But the gentlemen on the other side have gone farther—they have got up affidavits to prove that these gentlemen did not make, their offers in fps faith. Now, I have no doubt it has struck the Com- mittee very forcibly that our community appears to be a swearing community, for there are more aflidi- suppese in any other ever brought before a committee of the Legislature. They haye read an affidavit here in order to prove that thoee gentlemen have acknowledged they did net intend to build this road, and that their only object | was to get the grant, and then for the other party to | lay an injunction, in order to stop laying the rails, which injunction they would not contest. One of | their witnesses swears that Mr. Davies told him so. Now, gentlemen, it must be remembered that those gentlemen who swear on the other side have balanced their oaths against Mr. Haight, Mr. Stew- art, and Mr. Davies. {t must be remombed, too, that they acted originally with these gentlemen, | whom they now swear against. Although they had no secrets, yet, when they acted with them, they were acting together, and that at least implied oon- | fidence among themselves. It waa never cel ec that when they met togethor om matters of business, that any of the party was to " ent, and—I | will not say sell themelvos, for that langnage might be too strung—IJ would not say they were bought by the other y, but our opponents themselves have | said that.they bonght their horses, stages and route, | and bought off their infinence. Now, these gontlo- | men go out of the committee, unite with their oppo- nents, and then get up affidavita of conversation they aay took place. As! said before, 1 do not know these parties who swear, but yet these gentlemen | who have putin their rebutting affidavits are woll known in the community of New York, if their repu- | tation bas not reached the city of Albany. Mr. French | then read the following coanter affidavit of Mr. Thos. | A. Davies: — City and County of New York, « omas A. Davies, of said city, boing duly sworn, anys That he has read an’ affidavit, purporting to be mate iu this action, by one Robert Rarkley, oa Jamuary 12, 1453, | and in which is the following statementa, viz | ‘That Mr. Davies stated to this deponent thatic was | the intenvion of the opponem(s to kill the project, by ona party getting an injunction againat the other, and thon letting the same lio. The said Davies offered to withdraw the appliestion then pending on the part of iimselr and others, aud let | this deponent and friends obtain the grant, and siated that then he, the said Da onre an injanction againet it The said Davies proposed that, if this deponent ani his | associates would pay hia counsel one thousand dolisrs | down, and a thousand dollars youriy as long a4 he might | keep the road off, until it amounted to a sum no! oxceed- | ing five thousand doliars, he woulé keep the road of a number of years, if he did not defeat it alingether | Deponent rays that in all the conversations with sald | Parkley, on the nubject of the Broadway Railroad grant deponent never intended to be understood as maliny auy statement or allegation of the kiad above th And further, this deponent confilontly asserts, his best recollection and bel such statements, AILT have to say is, that there is conflicting afida vite, which can only be decided by the credibility of the | witnesses; #0 I am willing to leave the matter in dis- | pate between them just as it stands. Now, gentle. ty ol the contract. Now, I have not attempted to charge | any member among these parties with corruption, | but it apryears to me that they have taken great pains to prove that there was none. They have attompted to show you that there was none on their part, and then they wa%t you to infer that this was one of the most pure tranwactions that ever originated in the Comnion Conneit or out of it. All the parties have sworn to the fact (at there was no improper means used on their part to influence the Common Coun- cil; but I contend that they have not done it suffi ciently; that they do nos touch the facts at all in their affidavit, although it waa drawn by a lawyer, and though it is apparently very strong. Now, these , cach and every of Suen, have subscribed | and nasociates, would pro | from ivf, he never did inake any | ouly above reproach, but above suspicion ; butof the | the other citizens of our city. Their acts speak inore | Lean say, | | the two last Common Councils who went in poor, | tees gid know them to be above it. | railroad contract, before the public ever knew it was | the | per, ‘and from the representations mude to me, I Bi | veut bas | the Corporation. Mr. French alluded to the recent indictment of | two aldernien Ly the Grand Jury, and handed in the | | official dccumenis, certified by the ofiicers of the | | court, stating, at the same time, that this would | show that there are some cases in which the integ- | rity of the Common Council has been questioned. Mr. | French also read this sentence in the presentment of the Grand Jury from the New Yorr Heratp:— It was clearly shown that enormous sums of money have eon expended for and towards the procurement of rail road grants in the city, und ihst towards the desision aud procurement of the Eighth Avenue Railroad grant, a sum ro large that it w startle the moat credulous, was expended; but in consequence of the voluntary absence of important witnesses, the Grand Jury was left without cirect testimony of the particular secipients of the differ- ent amounts. Now, it appears that these ordinary contracts for roads have been procured by the expenditure of mo- | ney; and the only question with the Grand Jury was, | who were the particular aldermen who were paid? ‘There was uo question at all as to their corruption; there was no question that money was sarew led to such an amount as would startle the people of New York, however much accustomed they might be to such things—and certainly they are pretty well used toitnow. As I was saying before, gentlemen, this railroad it was the most gigantic contract ever given ont in this country; and yet, wonderful to re- late, there has not been # dollar used to get it. (Laughter.) Why, sir, it is quite notorious to anybody who wants to get even a sewer in New | York, that he must influence the corporation; ani | when he goes toa member of the Common Council | and speaks to bim about it, what are the common | questions put? ‘How much is it worth to you?” | “How much do you want?” Why, they say some of | them have gone #0 far, aud got so bold, previous to these investigations, that if a person showed any de- | licacy in coming to the point, they would say to him, | “Come, now, you need not be delicate about speaking; | how much will you give?” Why, sir, they have sold ont the legielation of New York, as they would have sold out their wa: Iv’ is well known that members of | are very far from it now; and if they have made mo- by neglecting their business it is a new mode of | ig money in a merceatile community. Now, 'y that the whole mode of contract shows upon its face that it never conld have got through, ex- | cept a good deal of money had been expended in | some way. Remeniber, | want it to be distinctly un- derstood that I am not charging the grantees with any impropriety. [am acquainted with soinejof the gran- But, sir, they | first come out and address the public through the press ; they come out and say, we do not want this railroad, except we are able to show the necessity of | it on sound argument. Hut, sir, it is generally be- | lieved the votes were counted for and against on that | in contemplation. Every inember’s vote, it is said, was counted upon. Every member who had infla- ence with aldermen, brought it to bear. Each man had been committed, and all the arguments made before the committee of the Common Council were just so much breath thrown away, for the votes had | already been taken before the question was brought | before’ them. 1 asked last night who were the rantees in this case. On looking over Comptrol- ler Flagg’s report, I found out names there very , similar %0 one or two [ see here. Now, it may be interesting te know, in connection with this grant, who Mr. Martin is, (Mr. French | then proceeded to read extracts froma reprint of | articles from the Journal of Commerce, respecting | Mr. Martin) :— Happening to be at the City Hall on I'riday, we looked, for the fratime, into the@ames of tue grantoos of the | Proadway railroad, and we saw as one of them, the | name of D. RK. Martin D. R. Martin is one of the grantees in the Broadway | railroad, and is the gentleman to whom the Ganse- | voort property was to be sold—property which was estimated at three hundred thousand dollars, by the | oldest, and probably the most intelligent real estate | auctioneer in the city of New York. The sale of this | property was brought up in the Common Council, and it was to be sold to D. R. Martin and nobody | else ; though some of the honest men of that board tried to have it sold at public auction, but the motion was voted down as being behind the age, and an ob- wolete way of ea i Finally, however, the: succeeded in g inserted the names of J. Kt. Martin and others. Having heard, by chance, that | this property was to be disposed of, | went over to the Comptroller's office to inquire abont it. A gentle- man who bas taken a prominent part in oppostn, of this law, came to me and told me of reat sacrifice about being perpetrated in the matter of this property. Off 1 went, and looked at the property, made the ni inquiries, and satis- fied myveif that it waa a very valaable piece of pro- the new that it was gs to be given away. I wrote a note to Comptroller Taylor, asking for the terms and conditions of sale, and stating that I wished to be considered as an applicant for purchase. I also mentioned the matter to the agent of a wealthy citi- gen ot New York, who also called on the Comptroller, wanting to know the conditions of sale, and stating that he wished to be considered an applicant for the purchase ; but, like myself, he could get no satisfac- tion, Well, what was done’ The sale was made by the Common Council as firstagreed upon. This per- son whom | first alluded to, wrote outa remonstrance and put it in the hands of the Mayor, statiag what the property was worth, and cautioning him against ning the grant. But the Mayor goes to the Board Coramissioners, and yotes for the grant at a hundred and sixty thousand dollars, although the roperty was worth three hundred thousand dollars. ut this Mr. Martin, who was to buy it, who was he / ‘This Mr. Martin was the neighbor of Alderman Stur- tevant. I will read from the pamphlet, reprinted from the Journal of Commerce :— You were informed a few days age of the pertinacity | of the Cominon Coupeil in endeavoring to force the Coin issioners of the Sinking Fund to sell the Fort Ganse voort Leds ahd toone |). R. Martin. Alderman Sturte- his office in the building in which D. R, Martia is located, Mr. Martin ix aloo losseo of seven piers from We the most reliable information that a eingle pior let by the Corporation at 31,200 per anoum, is underlet, one-sixth of it, at $1,000 per annum. How fortunate Mr. Martin must be if he Is the real owner Gentlemen, | will not take up your time any fur- ther in these remarks. | think enough has beon hown to convince you of the pecwiar way there is of getting things through ot New York, notwithstanding how much in this matter they may swear, a4 to the apecial purity of ail concerned in this matter; and I do not want to question any affidavit made except these | rebutting affidavits, and in them, of course, f cannot | ide either way. J think, however, I have shown clearly that thare is no evidence that this grant was so very honest, begause. the gentlemen have sworn to that fact. I will now leave that part of the argument, and merely refer to the great stress laid on the snb- ject of the taxes of the city of New York. {had not time last night, and it Shows how necessary lawyers are at times to influence people, to reply to the statement made on the otner side as to the taxes, Indeed, { was myself so much influenced by the | that track-——who lave to go down to the shops to get But | say, if they are going to put toll gat Hon. Thomas J. Henly, formerly a member of Congres: | Broadway, I do not see any objection at from I whit on the electoral yote of California, | | they should reduce the toll to as low a consideration beg) x pik Deal «, Selatiea of Henatell 7 : ; nevly of Miss s as possible. All we ask is for the Legislature to Gwin and ‘orted by that gent'eman. } | They say our charter is old, and that you Hon. Geerge W. Wright, a member of Congress fron have no right to interfere with it. Why, California gia her pe es as & State, "focrner| o it is a common thing to ask you t in- Nantucket. Mr. Wright was nemioated for the po ‘ terfere with it every three or ‘our years, afew weeks since by President Filmore, upon the ground | Our charter is a mere creation of the Legislature, or that it vas imjoriont te have ths office immediately fll | in other words, it is the mere act of legislation, ¢@, nd that he could not get a whig to take it just at the | aside from its franchises in fee. | which the charter does not | York—if they had that I was to ‘think that the t citizens of ‘New York were unnecesxarily grum- ‘This beauty, which her owner, Commodore Vanderbi! bers, sae bea they bene earegwonaile in coming contemplates taking a trip to Europe, with » party a 7 re ee eye to frauds riends, she frem the Bick “tid not eit in wo clty New Kerk, wis | tives and f will be launc om the yard ™ Bs foot ef Nineteenth street, East rive: to show how much better New | Jeremiah Simonson, York wae than any other city in the pny a SS to-merrow morning. The North Star has been built unde ‘a | the immediate supervision of ber owner, Commodore Co: nelius Vanderbilt, whose principal objest has been to cou bine beauty of model with strength and durability; anc although eonvoirseurs in naval architecture. bespeak fc her a speed equal to any of our sea steamers, yet it he not been se much the design of her owner to produce tk endeavored to show you that they were taxed in smaller ratio than in boo Cag city; and had it not been for the disagrees! fact which came to my mind afterwards, I migh' ost have conceived that the citizens of New York were complaining without cause. And this is the simple fact, that within the last year the taxes have been raised fifty per cent. ‘That was a plain, home fact, which satisfied me that | fartect vessel afloat, ax a noble specimen of America all the menuema's cloquence did not amount to any- | mechanical skill. Her boilers, and the principal part « thing, He slmoet induced, me Saget ae herengines are on board, and she will, in a few weeks cil of the city of New York, for su; era oornge hire, bad expended ifteen thousand | ¥¢ Feady to sail for Southampton, on her intended expod Nellore last year; but yet we kuow that to be a reali- | tion to the different ports of Europe. % ty. But yet this is ay ‘one mode of taxation. They ‘To Ler builder, Mr. Simonson, too much praise cann tax us in every way——they tax us in the sale of our | be awarded for the care and skill he has displayed in th real estate—they taxed us ‘in selling the Gansevoort | eonstruction of this noble ship, whieh, apart from th property for a neoaed and sixty thousand Clad bewuty of her model, is probably the strengest fastenc ; | 970 feet om the spar deck, $8 feet breadth of beam, 1 feet from floor timber to lower deck beant® seven fa eight inches between decks, seven feet six inches b tween main and spar decks, making her whole depth $ feet 6 inches. Her keel, of white oak, is 16 inches side was so much ue d taken out of the City Treasury. Now, gentlemen, 1 come to what | conceive to be the most important part of the subject. That is the law itself. Mr. French here called for and read ee Sarna To ie a esa as ie said, I merely want to sa} at when I came here was not even posted main tha law. But if it had | by 14 inches wide, stem and eee . ape contained the provisions which I had been told by | waterial, with double aprons, an peste some of the delegation from New York it did, I | bolted through with te copper bolts, Seeaoots ‘ would have been just as ready to oppose the law as white oak, and 19 inches th otg psec pag. the other side would have been. Iam a New York- eopyer bolts, Se este and moudded 18. ihche er—1 have my prejudices and feelings all lying there. . timbers are, wiley ie eg potted through sidoway A million of dollars is a deal of money, but Lenin eee volts. The wsin kelsoms, of which the New York is used fof, and can stand & mulllon.00- | tre ave sons extending ihe enlire longih ob tho abiP, 84 Ppearpuacnt (way ara ey faes ob Pl is bil of white oak rided 16 inchos by 4 108 deep, the contemplated interfering with our chartered rights, tier being faviened with two eopper bolts 13 inclu 1 would not, even for the purpose of stopping that ciameter throvgh every for timber, the upper tiers # road, part with any of the rights which justly belong | cured to the lower one with large irom belts. The be to the city of New York. There has been “a grea: | upen which the engine rests ia composed of four rows « id | kelsoms, two fee! two inches by five feet deep, seoured k deal said about centering powerin Albany. I do uot | » dissent from from any one thing said on the othe | ion screw bolts, driven from the bottom i at af white ou, 3 wide, about the danger of centralization. But what | ptlvesplaaked. The outside planting of Rike O° ai is there in this act, which centralizes power in Al inches thick, inereasing to five icchos, is sesured wit v I | copper bolts aud locust trenails, {here Ueing 32,000 of tk bany? Reming: If they show me soyehing in this | latter driven through aud wedged upon beth sides. The: act to deprive the citizens of New ,York of any 0 their chartered rights, I will withdraw all my advo- are rix bilge streakeon the inside of the sbip, eoverir the floor heads and futtocks 12x14 inches, fastened to th cacy of the bill, and go as fur as they do to oppose ita assage. But Ido not see such a thing. We come timbers wiih iren bolts, and bolied edgeways betwee ere to week for that very protection which we re au every frume. a ceive in a constitution; and, as said last night, 1 God that we do not live in a purely democrat! tiy; I never want to live under the despotisin of the niujority. Ido not want to live under the despotisin of one despot, or of many. We want you to establish fundamental principles of right and equity. We lie oviling is of six inch yellow pine, and bolted in th dome manner as the bilge streaks, forming one substat tial mass of timber fourteen feet indepth, The low: deck clsmps. on which the beams rest, are seven inch: thick, hoseughly fasteued with iron bolts driven fro: the outside, and riveted on the inside. here aie forty tive deck beams in the lower deck, wit catlize: between, sided fitteen inches and moulded fou want the establishment of prineipies of which there aPeRre cat ipl pen yi Pn ite canbe no two understanding opinions, We want poche oy oO hvee deck are compoced of three piece you to give us guarautecs ayainst corruption. Caar- extending the whole length of the ship, theroughly bol ters and constitutions are made for this express pur- pose.» Unfortunately, history has given too mauy in- stances whi ¥ representatives have robbed as of our rights, de! ded us out of our money; and the very act we ask you to pass now, is an act guarding aginst fracd and corruption. We merely ask you ty pass a general act, not a special one. “We ask youto pass an act, for the whole State if you please, or di- rectly for the city of New York; but leave it exelu- sively with the people of New York to decide on the ie ticability of the road, and whether it is desira- le. I am willing to admit that we know better our own wants than you could do. But the bill applied for is, in itself’, an organic law; it sap- ples a deficiency in our charter, and will, therefore, ave the force and application of an organic law. We only ark you to say to these men, “you shall give | contracts when called for by the people, aud you shall give them on honest and fair principles.” We will net allow Messrs. Jacob Sharp and others to come in and take contracts, and exclude other c'tizens from bidding against them. We do not want you to give contracts.to any particular persons; but we tell you that every citizen has an equal right in the citi to receive public contracts. Every man of cape or every few men of associated capital, have an equal right to come into the market and ask for these | grants, upon precisely the same principle of those grantees who counted the protits of the undertaking, and then afterwards sounded the public men, and then go and count the votes for and against, and thea come out with the mock show of advocacy before the people. We only axk you to pass laws which will protect us from fraud. Say to the Common Council of New York, “you shall grant any railroad you please, but when you do so, you must put it fairly in | the market.” Let the Legislature say to the people “you can afford to ride through Broadway | for a cent,’ and what would be the result? ' oor girls who live up town, who have to work ‘or their living, and ride backwards and forwards on (ieiently strong to stand any re amps to support the main deck a) ‘hick and fourteen inches wid i is securely kneed ia the sam ‘The sianchions, which exter er deck beams, have aud are contin vd on | ing the deck with the bo the lower and. main deck plink are by five inches, the upper or spar dec extendirg length of the ship. Her machinery is {om the Allaire works, She will t ropelled by two lever beam engines; eylindera, 60inche jength of stroke, 10 feel: diameter of wheels, 34 fect. He boilers, of which she has four, are 24 feot long, 10 fe Gisaneter, 113; feet front, 11 feet nigh, with single retur flue. Her enbins snd interior arrangements are in a fair ata‘ of progress, avd wiil combine all that is required to ¢: sure comfort and elegance. 4 As we are rutisticd that a personal examination of th | nokle apecimen of American urt will amply repay tk’ time and labor required, we would advise those who fe? an interest in waval architecture to visit the North Sts Defore rhe leaves on her intended excursion, ed, making this deck nonoble strain, 1 of yellow pine, six of ino widibs manver az the love i the upper dee! tom of the shi white pine, th National Offices. NAMES OF THOSE SPOKEN OF FOR OFFIORS IN TH GIFT OF THE PRESIDENT. The following additional names of persons who ar eager to be caught in the shower of government patror | ge whieh is now about bursting the adiinistrativ | clouds at Washington, have ‘turned up” since the pul | lication of eur last list. We shall give each day th | names that come under our observation :— © OFFICES IN CALIFORNIA. For Collector of the Port—Salary, $10,000 @ year, an one-third of the proceeds of forfeitures, borides pergu * sites. ‘Hon. EF. C. Marshall, a member of the last Congress fron California. formerly of Kentucky, lawyer by profession , Understood te be warmly supported by Senator Waller. Veter A. Morse, formerly of Louisiana, lawyer, and re cently a Judge of the Supreme Court of California. i John Siddle'on, formerly of Pennsylvania, merchant. | G KR. Post, formerly of New York, merchant. H R. Hammond, formerly of the U.S. A. Understood supperted by Senator Gwin, jon. Redman 3 Trice, a member of the last Congres from New Jersey. Mr. [rice was formerly a purser in the Unlted States Navy, He tra for Congress tn Calffornia vhen it was fret forned intos State, and was defeated! Ho then returned to New Jersey, and was elected for work, and to ride back again to labor on it—how would they benefit by it: I want to know if two cents each way is no consideration to a girl receiving, at the highest amount of compensation, about tifty centsaday, cut of which she has got to pay her board. ‘Twocents cach way make four cents a day, or four fifths of a loaf of bread. Or, it it is a poor woman with a family of children, is a quarter's rent iu the year no consideration to her? Itis nothing E-gex district to there pentane who have their immense wealth— F Db. Kotler, formerly of New York. they could buy a railroad, and not feel it as much as For Naval (ifficer—Soiary, # (00, one third of the proceed | those people paying $i2 48 extra in the Of forfeitures, besides perquisites. i! «ive us protection—all we ask is for it to jay down the rules Ly which New York shall be governed, St¥-T/eeswrer—salary $4.500 Securtiy im Bond, abow | Holf a Million. close of the ndministration ‘The nomination, however, ‘was not acted upon by the Serate, Mr. Weller opposing it, and Mr. Guin supporting it. Jacob K, Snider. formerly of Pennsylvania, and recent- ly & Mate Senator in California. S. Brannan, formerly of New York. Mr. Brannan {a somewhat known as a former leader of the Mormons. Surveyor of the Por!—Salary $7,000 a Year. Major Thomas Fastland, formerly of Tennessee. \« Col. Hayden, formerly of Loulsiana—supported by Me. nator Gwin. W. Thompson, of Ohio, recently Marshal of Saa ’ cleo. J J. Bryant, of Mississippi. { Superintendent of the Mint. Dr Birdsell, formerly of the U.S. Army. Appratser:—Salary $6 000 a Year. i 0. F. Sation, merchant, F. C. Louder, and Captatee son. ‘Surveyor General of the Customt—Salary $10,000. J. F. Addison, formerly of the District ef Columbia, and recently County Clerk of fan Francisoo. It can made and unmade whenever the Legislature pleases; in fact, itis ourconstitution which we ask from you. All we ask now is—here is a new feature come up 1 provide for—here are valuable grauts given away without the city deriv- ing a proper remuneration for them ; grants sufli- cient have been iven away in the city of New | en given with discrimination— for the last two years, and will be given away in the Valance of the term of this Common Council, if not prohibited by the proposed bill, which would reduce | the enormous tax of the city to a mere song—all we | ask from you ia to say to these gentlemen, atop. | You have yet time to stop the Broadway Railroad, | atleast. ‘Two millions of dollars is a consideration, | and we ask you to save us two inillions of dollars on the Broadway Railroad. I ask the New York dele- ation to look to their constituency, and to save 08e ple who live up town from the imposition | of this two-fifths increase of toll. We waut you to S General of Lands, oa that extra toll of two cents. The fare ought to Col, Juck Haye “the canned Texan Ranger, now y rought down to three cents at least—a reduction ; Sheriff of tan Fraucisco. i Post. Office—Salary $4,500. i which is of great importance to the persons livin; a Majer A A. Selover, of Ohio, a gallant officer of the in the upper districts of the city. They wii tl as i | Mexican war, one of the first Aldermen of Saa Frauciseo, in ink dane sGantea ie ia Conta Ga an se eperine a ¥ ey. aad Council to favored individuals. ‘And I say it is Tid tires cauuas. 7 : F. Tilford, formerly of Kentucky, asking too much to compel those travelling on that TH Holt, & “ railroad to pay that enormous toll into the pockets of United Sta'es Marshal, , the Common Council. We ask you to stop it fora | Gener:] W. H. Richardson, formerly of Louisiana.i Genera! Richardgon was a delegate from California te | the Baltimore Convention, and has# high reputation ig | that ftate. G. P. Johnston, formerly a whig in Minsisridpl, am@ | for rome time past deputy to the present whig Marshall of Cabforvia. United States District Attorney. Judge H. Brown, formerly ef New York. —— Loek «coo. of Indiana. T B. Van Buren, of New York—a member of the Calf- fornia Senate. ——Crit enden, a membor : f the California Legialature,. MISCELLANEOUS OF VICES. Kestiionce Firginia, Minister to Spain. N. Hampshire Collector of Boston. New York. Marshal North. Distriet, si Post offioe, Rochester. | Collector of Rochester, |) Minister to Berlin. = { Minister to Peru. Minister to C. Amerion. Commiss’r of Patents. Commias’r Land OMod. ) Pont offies, Syracuse, time at least. Itis not indispensable that the rail- road be laid down in three or four days, or in three ears ; there is no imperative hurry about it. 1 said last night, that the railroads now in operation or contemplated within the city of New York will take ou within one block of any corner on the island shove ‘ourteenth street. If it will do that, where ia the indispensable necessity of laying down this road this winter? They ask when will you pass this coutem- plated general law? I answer, the Legislature never refused the city of New York anything if the citizens of New York have asked for it. if we ask the Le- gislature to pase a fair and just law,1 have ever confidence in it that it will grant our request. All we ask is to stop the laying dowa of the railroad for @ season, at most, if you please. The road cai commenced on fair and honorable principles, if you pass this bill in three months. I ask you if there is any great necossity to throw away a contract worth two millions of dollars, together with the immense toll collected from the er portions of our citi vens? We only ask you to stop the grant, and say to the Gommon Council,‘ hereafter you shall have the privilege of granting railroads, but you shall grant them on fair and honorable principles.” Nemes. RM T. Hunter Gen. Peaselee Simeon Jexett.. Yr. Nicholron. Mr. Bedinger | DK. Cartier, | Col. Gorman Late from New Mexico, &e. Advices from Santa Fé to the Ist ult., announce that a serious difficulty, arising out of some proceed: | ings in the Prefect’s Conrt, bad oveurred at Albu- | 5! sane querqne. Goy. Lane had dispatched the United | yih. wy Mir, Staton Marshal and District Attorney to the scene, | py jickford but at last accounts no vielence had been oifered. | John A Cluik. The Legislature of New Mexico adjourned wine die | J, bnson Hol on the 14th January. Alex. MeKinstry Bishop Larney was robbed of a considerable | Mr. Marling |... Temnessee Post office, Nashville, amount of money, on the Sth January. ¥.F. Cheatham, ‘ “ “ Fort Atkinson, in Arkansas, ix to be broken up, | Pree Chapman’... Indiana. Port fice, Indians polie: anda more eligible site for the fort selected, Jumes H. Beddell, New Jersey — P. office, Walnut Grove, t The gentlemen from whom the informa | ¥0- pipes gee Om fae tapatiog voreatlas tion was derived performed the journey from Santa | sp, pillage..... Now York, Charge to Naples. Fé without molestation from the indiaus, aud state A, G. bendy “ nisier to Spain. “Maseachus’ts. Naval Officer, Boston. Maine, Port office, Hallowell. | dK. Barret. | FJ Dey | Mr Newman... This is the farnons Chapman who did the crowing dur- ing the Barrison conpnign, in 1840. that they found bnt liftle snow on the plains, Naval Entelilger United States sloop of war Cyaue sailed from Pensacola tn the 22d ult. for San Juan, Vera Cras, and the Gulf. Subjoined fs @ list of her offieers Commander, dav ¥. Holling; Lieutenants, Theo, P Green Wm D iurst, J Dorsey Rend; Acting Master, Wm fl Parker; Purser, Chas. C. Upham; Surgeon. W. A. W. Sootawoode, Assivt ant Surgeon Geo. Peck; Vassed Midshipman, N. H Van- Midshipmen, ©, Carter, Wm. F. Fitzhugh; Uoat- PF. Hewlett; Gunner, Jan A. Lilliston; Sa:luvaker, rayton: Carpenter, it. Williams; Captain's Clerk, J. 8. Hollins; Purrer’s do., Chas. M. Gilberson, Fire axp posto Murper at Lawrence, | Masy.—A small stable was burned at Lawrence on the 4thinst. Among the rains was found the body of a young man named John Shay. No person | slept in the stable regularly, but occasionally in- | toxieated persons have been found sleeping in the - ' | loft. In this young man however, tho frontal bone The store of Messra. Davis & Cox, at ‘Pensacola, | was driven in, and a good deal of excitement exists, Fla., was robbed on the 17th ultimo, of $1,600. The | rince neither timbers nor bricks were found uj rogues @btained access to the money py blowing a | him, whieh could prodace snch an effect. the safe $a which it was deposited. “John Dixon, building was situated in a part of the town where | assertions of the gentlemwg on the other side B. Lewis, and G. C. Bnsline, were arrested. drunken Irish rows are of frequent oceusrenee. I |