The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1858, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 18)8—TRIPLE SHERT. to the 10th inst. Sugar and molasses were firm, while freights rema‘ned unchanged. We have important news from St. Domingo dated at Port au Platte on the 3d inst. Seven ver sels blockaded Port au Platt, by order of President SUTLOS ¥. W. COBMES OF FULTON AND MABSAU OTS. Baez, on the 234 of April, restricting the inter- a 'ERALD, every Wednesday, of four ome per aro Tol ¢ cal stttoe ans Par- Pe pers AND Pscussms HOTIOR taken of anonymous corverpondoncs, ‘We do net Peer aes Te tare canted with neainens, cheapness and dee f seeneeeee saeseeceseecccssess@e IBS ADEMT OF MUSIO, Fourteenth st —Geanp Sacnep ee or Eii-an—Fonmes, D’Aneni, 40. BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosfway—Tes Dav Arron vas Waepoure—Lavatan—Sowoot ron Part's Musvenmus— WIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Poxco—Ticat ors Expeoums—Kinka. P P+ +8 SURATS, Bowery Bases app Prraus— ALLAGK’S THEA’ Broedway—Tus Frocen Laze BR nmr um Panu Masse, LAURA KEEWH’S THEATRE, Broadway—Hue at Law —Mopst or a Wirx. WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 583 Broadway—Ersiorian et Savcetoven ‘ — HALL, 673 Broadway—Buvasy’s Mrnvresty Heoae bones amD Boucasans fawpust Acnosats. BEOADWAY—Marr. Pust's Caursect Mrwsi sentortas Mutootas an Eccusasctrine—-Danaat's Dasax. TRIPLE SHEET. Mew Work, Friday, May 14, 1856. ‘ ‘The News. The steamship Star of the West arrivedat this port ‘The advices from San Francisco are to the 20th alt, and the news is interesting though not impor- tant. The markets were inactive, while money was abandaat in trade at 2 to 2} per cent upon merchan- dise, with little or no demand for speculative pur- lent in the mines. The winter had been favor- able in all respects, and farmers and miners were busy availing themselves of its benefits. The lately tween five and six hundred were to leave San Fran- cisco on the 20th April on board the steamer Com- modore. New discoveries have also been made on Walker river,in Carson Valley. A bill had been introduced in the Legislature to issue five hundred San Francisco and New York; but as it would be in direct violation of the constitution to loan the credit course of foreign vessels with the place completely. pray Fagen ge mets The war decree of the President is partioalarly mom oe Fi @ te Brin both blockading harassing to American commerce. The fieet opened fire on the city on the lat of May, but it was returned with good effect from the batteries. The authorities in Port au Platte being favorable to Santana, had arrested several of Baez's sympa- thizers. The American schooner Wing of the Wind ran the blockade on going into port; and Captain Accounts from St. Lucia state that on the 6th ult. seven Africans arrived at Castries from Martinique in a small canoe. They state that they wore under indentare in Martinique, and that being dissatisfied with their treatment there, they made their escape, and after a hard struggle succeeded in crossing the channel in safety. They are Kroomen. A Jamaica paper remarks:—The planters at Martinique will not be well pleased to see their African immigrants slipping out of their hands in this fashion; but there is no help for it. Since they choose to go volantarily to St. Lucia, there is no law to prevent them, and the authorities have no power to give them up. At Demerara anumber of emigrants from Tortola went to Georgetown, sometime ago, to complain to the Lieutenant Governor that they had been deceived into engagement by exaggerated statements of the rates of wages in Demerara. They wore arrest- ed and sent back to the estate, in charge of the police, as deserters. Antigua papers of April 10 report the quantity of sugars shipped from the inland to date as 1,010 hogsheads, 61 tierces and 561 barrels. The weather was dry and the public health good. In Trinidad on the 7th of April it was thought the sugar crop would be short. A local paper says: —The opinion seems to be general that the sugar made is of an unusually fine quality, but the yield from the juice somewhat deficient in quantity. The Council of Government met on April 1. Severe guste of wind were felt at Granada on the 2d and 3d of April, which injured the standing sugar canes and growing crops considerably. Our Bermuda correspondent, writing on the 34 inst., reports the British ships-of-war Indus and De- vastation, with the floating battery Terror, two gun boats and « small war steamer in port. Admiral Stewart was still on shore. . Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, under date of April 26, writes as follows:—“Since I wrote you last there have been several arrivals from the States, bringing 5,166 barrels flour, 3,866 barrels meal, 1,168 bags corn meal, besides large quantities of various other articles, all of which have been bought by first hands, who sell in lots as follows:— Flour, #7 50; meal, $4 50 a $4 75; corn, $2 25. White East India rice continues in excessive supply. But- ter and codfish are wanted, notwithstanding the barks Aaron J. Harvey and A. A. Drebert, both from Philadelphia, have brought some of each. The weather continues dry and most favorable for sugar making. Sugar is getting in better demand. The interior is suffering from drought. The country is quiet and very healthy.” ° In Congrees yesterday the Senate passed the bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judiciary expenses of the government, but the vote was immediately afterwards reconsidered, and a debate ensued on a variety of topics, which was continued till the adjournment. credentials of Messrs. Cavanaugh and Phelps, the new members from Minnesota, were presented, but In the Honse the of the State for any such object it was doubtful | objections were made to their being qualified, on the whether a favorable report could be got on the bill, ‘The fugitive slave case had been decided in San Francisco, and the United States Commusmoner de- cared that Archy was not a fugitive, but had been Drought into the State by bis master--Archy was therefore free. The British steam corvette Satellite hed arrived at Sen Francisco and was to have sailed on the 20th April on cruise. She was visited by Governor Weller, who was received with marked honors. Three Chinamen were executed at Jackson for marder, on the 16th April, and one of them de- brought $1,615,351 in specie, which is about $90,000 lees than the shipment at this time last year. The intelligence from Utah, by way of California, is up to the Idthof March. At that date eM was quiet, and scarcely an allusion is made to the mili- tary expedition. By the way of news there is abso- nothing beyond the bare mentton of the arri- val of Col. Thomas L. Kane at Great Salt Lake City om the the 25th of February. The discourme of Pratt, the apostle, from which we extract the at the mass meetings and the poetry, , show that the war spirit is still alive. Our Aspinwall correspondent, writing on the 4th inst., furnishes some interesting news from New @ranada. Jt was said that the alterations made In the Gass-Herran treaty by the new Granadian Con- (grees would render its ratification by that body use- leas. In fact the treaty is already virtually rejected. The railroad company had ordered a reduction in wages of its employée, and also in the value to be placed on the coins of several foreign States. A New Granadian revolution was considered probable at Bogota. Large shipments of specie, collected in | Mexico and the South Pacific porta, were being made | to Lingland from Aspinwall. | Our advices from the South Pacific are dated at Valparaiso, March 31, and Callao, April 14. Chile was intensely agitated in conkequence of the pro- grees of the election for deputies to the National The opposition to the government was , and it was thought that President would soon resign. Congress was to meet lst of June, but a civil war was looked for that time. Already rioting had taken place | in Santiago. From Pera we have details of the losses in the late battle at Arequipa. As many as three thousand three hundred and eighty-seven per- { sons lost their lives, either in the conflict or in con- sequence of wounds and disease. President Castilla was at Lima on the 10th of April, but his tenure of office was precarious. The American ships seized by the Peruvian goverument were still detained, but | the Chilean vessels then taken were sold. Two attempts at revolution had been made in Bolivia, but they were suppressed, and many persons of note banished for participating in the plots. } We have news from the Sandwich Islands dated | at Honolala on 27th of March. A treaty bad been signed with France by virtue of which the import duties on French brandies and wines are materially reduced—a fact which will tend to the injury of the cultivators of the grape in California. The public mind was filled with the idea of a French protecto- rate over the islands. The missionary ship Moruing Star had sailed for the Marquesas. A large fleet of whalers had left the different ports for the Kodiec and Ochotsk seas and the Arctie ocean. Our correspondent in Honduras, writing from | Belive on the 27th of April, states that the | weath: © ble for the trucking of | i i fl favoiad! tmahogany, and 4 large crop was expected. The | market wae overstocked with flour, and pork was very cheap. Smailpox had almost disappeared ‘The writer confirms the report of tho late mardere by the Yeoutan Indians at Bacais. The Indians | were in full possession of all the southeast part of | Yucatan. Dreading an attack from them on the nértwern line of Hondaras, British troops were on he frontier. The British steamship Leopard, which emminted in the attempt to lay the Atlantic telegraph | cable, wae removed from Belize to English Kay, ground of irregularity with respect to the docu- ments, which bear the signature of the Governor of the ‘kermwry Ul Bice, Mr, Medary, and the subject was referred to the Committes on Elections. The Committee on Accounts presented a report containing charges of improper conduct against Mr. Hickney, the doorkeeper of the House, and recommending his immediate dismissal from office. The matter was postponed till Monday. An adverse report was made upon the application of the people of Utah for the admission of that Territory into the Union. ‘The sentence of the court martial in the case of Gen. Twiggs, that he be reprimanded by the Presi- dent, was approved by the President, but in con- sideration of the distinguished services of the ac- | cused, and the upanimous recommendation of the Court, the punishment has been remitted, and Gen. Twiggs ordered to resume the command of the De- partment of Texas. Gen. T. arrived in Washington | yesterday. Mr. Henry Dwight, late banker and broker in Wall street, was brought up for examination before Judge Russell, in chambers, yesterday, on six crimi- nal charges of perjury, embezzlement and fraud io connection with the management of the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad, the history of which cace we published at great length in Tuesday's Heraip. Mr. Dwight was accompanied by Rev. Dr. Adams and his two counsel, Mess. Harrington and Stoughton. Oakey Hall appeared for the pro- secution. There was but one witness examined, Mr. Baker, Dwight's counsel, in the suit in which he is charged with perjury in swearing to a falseheod in his answer. This case will be finished before the other charges are taken up. Mr. Dwight seemed quite cool and almost indifferent, remarkably so, considering the gravity of the offences laid to his charge and the probable consequences should they be brought home to him. The case was adjourned to Wednesday next. We give a full report of the examination in another column. ‘The trial of Thos. N. Carr for an alleged libel on the Corporation Counsel was continued in the Court of General Sessions yesterday. We refer our read- ers to a full report of the evidence given in another part of this morning's Hema.p,as a perusal of it will show how the business of the Corporation Coun- sel's office is managed. In the Saperior Court yesterday an action at the enit of Edward L. Vanderoff against A. Woodraff, was brought to recover damages for injuries sus- tained by plaintiff falling through an open area in front of defendant's premises in Barclay street, by which he waa seriously injured. The jury rendered fn verdict of $1,200 damages. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. A report in favor of taxing each railroad passenger car run- ning below 125th street $50 per annum was adopted. A communication from the Comptroller, published elsewhere, making some corrections in the report of the Joint Committee on Accounts was received. A report on the Battery enlargement was presented. The committee recommend that a new contract for completing the work be made, and that the city proceed against the present contractor to recover damages for the non-fulfilment of his agreement. The report from the Board of Councilmen in favor of building the Ninth avenue railroad, as authorized | some years ago, was concurred in by a vote of nine to seven. TLe Beard meet again on Monday neat. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, and transacted considerable routine business. The Com- mittee on the West Washington Market Difficulty were reqnested to report to the Beard at its next meeting. A remonstrance was preseated against the contemplated removal of the Seventh Judicial District Court. Tesolations were adopted to procure fire alee bells for the Marion street and Post Office towers, and to pave Conrtlandt street and Maiden lane with iron pavement. The Board adjourned to Monday. The Councilmen’s Committee on Streets met yes terday in relation to the petition of certain parties who desire to have Beekman street extended across ‘The cotton market yesterday was irregular, with more doing. The sales embraced about 3,000 bales, on the basis of 12540. for middling uplands. Flour was rather more active, with sales for export. Fresh ground State and good brands of Ohio were firmer, while prices were unchanged. Southern brands were firm and in good de- mard, Canadian exhibited rather more buoyancy. Wheat ‘was active, with sales of about 60,000 bushels at prices givea im another column. orn sold at 700. a 72c. for white, 76c. a 7630. for yellow, and 67 3¢c. for unsound New Orleans mixed. Pork was dull and lower, with sales of meas at $17 75.8 $17 87 in the regular way, and 1,000 bbls. were sold, check on the day, at $17 60. Prime was at $14 50 and clear mess $19. Sugars were steady, with sales of 760 a 600 bhds., at rates given in another column. Coffee was firm but quiet. Freights were again firmer, and higher for grain to Liverpool, which was freely taken as Od. 0 034d. in bulk, and at 93¢d. tm ship’s bags. Rates wore also firm for Glasgow and for London. The public ten sale held yesterday drew a good and spirited com- pany. The catalogue comprised desirable lots, which weat off with spirit and at an advance of about 1}¢0. per Tb., and some prime lots realized a still greater advance. The sale proved a very good one, and only a few chests of low grades blacks and Oongo’s were withdrawn. The Northern Abolition Fanatics and the Southern Secession Fire-EHaters itn Full Blast. During the present week the abolition fana- tics of the North, of all genders and colors, and representing all the abominations of revo- lutionary abolitionism, infidelity, socialism, ne- gro equality and women’s rights, have been holding their anniversary meetings in this city; and they have been tearing all to pieces the Bible, our Christian churches, the federal gov- ernment, the Union, and all the restraints of law and society which have robbed the human family here, especially the niggers, of that blessed freedom and equality which they would possess under the simple institutions of savage life. But while all this has been going on in New York, we must not forget that simulta- neously, far to the southward, in a village called Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, the ultra pro-slavery men, the fire-eaters, the filibusters of the sunny and swampy South have also been holding their grand annual pow-wow; and that these abolition fanatics in New York have been guilty of not much greats <tunndj- vo thee those nlira pro-slavery propogand- ists Away down in Alabama. Barring astraggling filibuster and desperate adventurer, here and there, this ultra Southern gathering at Montgomery has been formed of respectable and intelligent white men, re- spected each in his community, and generally regarded by the politicians of their peculiar | school as shining lights of wisdom and patriot- ism. On the other hand, our New York assem- blages, representing the other side of the pic- | ture, have been composed of the most remark- | able admixture of infidels, fanatics. philosophers, ragamuffin sand lunatics—white, black and yel- low—beardless men in petticoats, and bearded women in breeches, old sinners and old gran- nies, that could be collected “ from the oankers of a calm world and a long peace.” But with all this, the general programme of political and social regeneration of these New York abolition anniversaries, though more repulsive, is hardly more preposterous than some of the schemes and delusions of the Southern Commercial Con- vention. Let us see. Our abolition and: infidel reformers propose to abolish the Bible, the churches organized under its teachings, the constitution and the Union of the United States, and the existing laws and usages of society; and upon the ruins thas made they purpose the erection of a new political, religious and social system, the Goddew of Reason, the abolition of all political and social distinctions between men and women, the equality of colors, free amalgamation, free love, free property, plenty to eat, drink and wear for all, and nothing todo. This, we be- Heve, embraces all that is wanted to secure the abolition-infidel-woman’s rights millenium; bat it is hardly possible that the reforms thus con- templated can be accomplished this side the day of judgment. We, therefore, look upon the fools, fanatics and ragamaffins engaged in this work with something of disgust and some- thing of commisseration. They are fit only for the sheltering walls of « lunatic asylam. The programme of the reformers of the Southern Commercial Convention comprehends, as far as ascertained|:— 1, A filibustering extension of the Southern States, beginning with the conquest of the | Central American States and the establish. ment of African slavery therein, according to the plan of General William Walker, and in view of his “great Southern confederacy, based upon military principles.” 2. The revival of the African slave trade. 3. A new system of direct trade between the ports of the Southern States and the ports of | Korope, including the largeet sized ooean teamors and plenty of them. and dinbolisms of our fanatical abolition and women’s rights sooleties; and we apprehend that in simply enumerating the leading sohemes of both sete of these seotional agitators, we have afforded the senalble reader the means for ‘air decision between them. We think that Wendell Phillipa and Fred. Douglass, of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and Mr. Spratt, of the Southern Commerolal Convention, and Walker, “the little gray-eyed man,” should all be yoked together. ‘Tue Religtous Anatvervartes and Anniverve- aftans. In the early ages of the Romish charch we read of convocations and councils of the fathers for the discussion of controverted points of faith and discipline, Through the streets of blessings of the churoh, and giedl~ contributed to its coffers, in the hopes ef indulgence for their little peccadilloes. The carefully kept records of these convocations are now of no value, ex- cept to the eye of the bookworm or the speca- lations of the bibliopole. At a later period we find the disciples of Luther and Calvin holding their grand conventions in the German cities, sending forth denunciations against the Pope, the Anti-Christ, the Scarlet Woman of Baby- lon. Stern puritan simplicity, and, we believe, entire sincerity, marked the proceedings of these enthusiasts, whose mark upon their age was of the deepest and most enduring cha- racter. The religious anniversaries which have been held during this week in this ungodly city par- take in some degree of the characteristics of the old Romish councils and the German con- vocations. True, the Roman Catholics do not join in the anniversary movement. It is con- fined to the Protestant secta, and chiefly to those in the Nerthern and Western States. Their square cut puritanical attire, well ecraped faces, lank countenances, stiff white cravats and gene- ral “get thee behind me, for I am holier than thou,” appearance, adds a new fea- ture to the ever changing panorama of our streets, and gives a picturesque appearance to our own principal thoroughfares, where is represented almost every nation and phase of character on the face of the earth. Our ultra-pious visiters attract, of course, uni- versal attention, and provoke much speculation. They likewise are not a little shocked by what they see, and the freedom of metropolitan man- ners quite satisfies them that we are all on the broad road which leads downwards to the gates of hell; while they only walk in the strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life: ao most cheering and comforting conclusion. They have all the cupidity of the old Romish priests, with all the fanaticism of the Germaa reformers. Under all these circumstances it is natural that people should inquire why do these spring lambs trust their tender carcases within the den of the wolves? Why do the doves approach the nests of the serpents? It is chiefly to obtain supplies with which to carry on the Lord’s work. The Lord’s treasury is always empty. His almoners are ever at work, and it costs money to send his word into all the lands of theearth. In the old times the fathers met to Alonman mnthann af halla: naw thaw came to; ther to talk about money. That is the i- pal thing. They come to us who live in the depths of sin and wickedoess—us, who are sunk lower in iniquity, sin, degradation, corruption, and all manner of unrighteousness, than were the men and women of Sodom and Gomorrah, and aek us for the money wherewith to convert the poor heathen beyond the seas. Here we have Wall street, with all ites sharpers and cheats, given up to the worship of Mammon, gtinding the poor, robbing the widow and the orphan, hopelessly damned to all eternity ; here we have a dozen theatres, ruining the souls of the young, poisoning the morals of the commu- nity, doing the work of Satan—who never reats—while the preachers in our three hun- dred churches often slumber at their posts; yet to this scone of wickedness come up the almo- ners of the Lord for the funds wherewith to carry on his work. They cannot get the money anywhere else, and must raise their cool hulf million or so from Wall street, or go without it. They take Satan’s money, wherewith to re- pleaish the Lord's treasury. Very likely the original proprietor gets some of it back, with interest added. But the anniversaries, like the politicians, have their little troubles. Lately they have been seriously exercised on the slavery ques- tion. The Tract Socicty—a very respectable body, which has been going on in a very re- spectable way for thirty years or more—is sad- denly disturbed by some scurvy fellows with little niggers under their arms, These malcon- tents insist that the Southern brethren shall have some good sound abolition doc- trine in the tracts; and a grand row is the consequence. The negro party is beaten for this year; but they will be more rampant at next anniversary, and in the end all the societies and churches will be divided on the slavery question. But we need not be afraid. As long as New York is rich, so long we shall have the anniversaries with us. The great revulsion of last year may diminish their receipts at present, but they will only redouble their exertions for a grand levy during the next expansion. Let Wall street be prepared for the worst. Tux Mormox Wan—Tur Sauets Witt. Front, —The latest news from Colonel Johnston's camp, via the Plains, was to the 10th of March. Everything then seemed to indicate a determi- nation on the part of the Mormons to resist the United States troops in case they should at- tempt to enter the City of Salt Lake. By the California steamer of the 20th April we have four days later news from Utah. This arrival confirms the previous accounts of the warlike disposition of the Mormons. Our own corres- pondent writes that preparations were going on 4, Southern discriminating taxes aad licenses sgainel the produce and manufactures of the Northern States, ° 5. A parely Southern «ystem of literature, tchools and colleges; and, should all these expe- dients fail to secure Southern rights and Southern equality, 6. Disanion and a Southern confederacy. Among many of theee conventiouiste this last Propositien is the first which they would adopt; and we must admit that most of the other pro- jects indicated could hardly be attempted to resist the troops, and that arms and imple- ments of war were in great demand. A Jesuit mis- ‘sionary among the Fiat Head Indians tells some strange storice as to the desperate efforts of Brigham Young. A correspondent in the Mor- mon interest writes ina belligerent strain, de- claring that the saints are well armed and well provisioned; that the war will be tedious and expensive. Other aocounts say that provisions are not plenty at Utah. The greatest activity prevails in the army of the Northwest, and troops arerapidly concentrating at Fort Bridger. A (etter from Kingston, Jamaica, published in| the Park, bat as none of the petitioners appeared, erother columm, contains some interesting partica- the chairman adjourned the committee sine die. tars relative to the yellow fever patients landed | The Aldermanic Comu ittee on Lands and Places lately from the United States frigate Ansqnehanna | met yesterday afternoon to consider the propriety By way of Chagleston we have wows from Havana | of porchssing the remainder of Ward's Island, fog within the Union without some danger of re- | Colonel Kane had arrived at Salt Lake City, sistance from the general government. But | where he had been well received, and had left our object is to show that the follies and tom- | ander ercort for the camp of the United States fooleries of these Southern eommercial conven- | troops. It ts probable that by the next overland tlons are only anrpassod by the crazy crotchets | arrival we shall hear something of the result of Colonel Kane's voluntary mission, if any result came from it. Althougha great favorite among the leaders of the Mormons, it does not appear that he was permitted to remain but a day or two in their capital, and that in epite of his visit thetr warlike preparations were continued. Colonel Kane was to leave for Oamp Scott on February 22; bat our last news from Colonel Johnston, sixteen days after, gives no account of his arrival. Altogether this news is not favorable. It emelis of gunpowder. The Mormons evidently rely too mach on the factious spirit evinced in Congress, and believe that the execative arm will be paralysed by the want of troops and eupplies. It will be necessary for the govern- ment to eend forward men, munitions of war and supplies with all despatch. If the Mormons want war it must be made as brief as posible. They must be overawed at once, and we can bring force enough in the field to do it, if the authorities are prompt in their part of the work. Tue Macamery sy Wace rae Crry 13 Piow- peREp.—It is needless to reiterate the fact that the unhappy taxpayers of this city are plun- dered at the rate of about three millions per annum, and have been for the last ten years, through the medium of the Street Department, the Finance Department, and all their attendant bureaus, The fact itself is now too well established to need any further proof; but it may be interesting to know the exact mode by which this peculation is effected, and an ex- planation of this mode will we think solve the myptery of how eo many officers of the Corpora- tion, with moderate salaries, rotire after a few years masters of a splendid fortune, and possess handsome country seats, yechts, fast horses, and the other fast et ceteras essential to the life of a fine gentleman. It will be found that in every case of fraud some of the subjoined methods have been adopted. When a street is to be graded or regulated specifications are first made out by one of the city surveyors of the kind and quantity of work required to be done, previous to the advertise- ment for bids. And here, in the infant stage of the transaction, the machinery begins to move. Alarger amount of work—say in excavating rock, filling and eo forth—is often specified than is required, and in addition, small quanti- ties of the very expensive kind of work are returned and large quantities of the cheap kind, so that the contract will appear small. But when the job is measured after its completion, the quantities, by some singular coincidence, are to be vice-versa, and the contractor is paid accordingly. This is method number one of cheating the property owners. Now comes the taking of bids for the work; and here it may be pecessary to state that these frauds are all committed by collusion of surveyors, assessors, col- lectors of asseasment, inspectors, clerks tn the bureaus, and often the heads of departments themselves, or some of these, with the contrac- tors. In no other way could they be success- fully carried on; and the recent investigations have ehown such combinations to exist. All the astounding frauds have been undoubtedly perpetrated by a few persons—about twenty, probebly—e regularly organized band, acting in concert, and helping each other to plunder the treasury. When bids are invited. three contractors conspire and carry out their plans, ne follows Deews wids $5,000—probably a fair price—Jones $7,000, and Robinson $12,000. The contract is awarded, of course, to the low- est bidder; but Brown suddenly discovers that he has made a wrong calculation and declines to accept it; it is then offered, as the law di- rects, to Jones, who finds that his hands are so full that he cannot do the work, and he declines it aleo. It ts then offered to Robinson, who ac- cepts it at $12,000. He then assigns it over to Brown, who does the work, which most likely would leave him a fair profit at his own bid of $5,000, and the extra $7,000 is divided between the three. Method of cheating the property owners number two. When the job is finished a surveyor measures it, for the alleged purpose of ascertaining that it ia done according to the plans and specifica. tions. In this etage of the business the follow- ing mode is adopted:—False returns of the quantity of work done are made; prices are changed to a higher figure; work not contract- ed for at all, but always of a profitable charac- ter to the contractor, though often worthless to the property, is returned, eo that the amount is swelled to some fifteen or sixteen thousand dol- lars, instead of twelve. Method of cheating number three. ‘The returns then go to the assessors, who pro- ceed to assess the property owners. And here very often, though the assessment amounts to a certain sum, and #0 appears on the roll, five or six thousand dollars more are collected off the unfortunate property owners, who are assessed mostly in small sums, and the spoils are di- vided. Method of cheating number four. The papers then go to the Comptroller's De- partment to have warrants isued for the amount, and there they form part of the loose rubbieh which comprises the books and papers of Mr. Fingg’s office, which he calls his ao- counts. Another mode now comes into play by altering the figures im the surveyor’s re- turns, as was done in the Third avenue case, so properly exposed by the City Surveyor, Ed- ward Boyle, by abstracting papers which might prove damning evidence against some one, by forging receipts, erasing endorsements and making additions to contracts. But, the reader may ask, how can all these things be done ?—have we not @ faithful watch dog in the treasury—a sentinel on the wall to keop vigilant guard over the citadel? But Mr. Flagg’s chief bookkeeper swore the other day that any one who pleased could carry off whole bundles of important papers from the Comp- troller’s office. We see, then, what facilities are offered to the rogue to sit down in his own room, at his leisure, and erase, fill up and alter figures to sulthis purposes—what opportanity to thrust into the fire any document which may happen to furnish testimony against himself or his confederates. Is it not plain that frauds to any amount may be perpetrated by such au infamous aysiem as this? And this makes method of cheating number five. In the cases of street opening, collusions oc- cur between the commissioners and those par- ties whose property is to be appropriated. It is not uncommon for a party who does not ex- pect to be awarded more than, say $5,000, for his property, to approach one of the commission- ers, whose conscience {s of the Indian rubber qua- lity, and tay, now if you award me $6,000 Iwill remunerate you for your trouble. In the bureaus of Lands and Places and Re- pairs and Supplies there is no check to false returns of the amount of gravel or other stuff corted, or the anmber of men employed. Palee amounts. It is not of sostupendous » charade ter as that of the Of strecta, These make methods of cheating the taxpayers bers six, seven and eight. — ‘The reader can observe by these statements through how many veins and arteries the olty: treasury and the property owners oan be bled to depletion, and how easily Corporation off. olals oan get rich, keep yachts, country houses and fast horses. Tas Naw Tesasuray Loax.—Mr. Cobb, it soems, has done better with his second than he did with his first loan. He will get the five millions he wants new at something like en average of four per cent. This time, it may be taken for granted, the capitalists througheat the country were not #0 blind as to leave the we see that many of the parties who bid for the first loan at extravagantly high ates, now condescended to take a very mode- rate rate of interest. Something is due, likewise, to the increasing accumulation of money in thebanks. Onur city banks now hold thirty-five and a half millions, and will hold thirty-seven millions next Monday, after they have received the arrival now due from California, At the current rates of inte- rest in England specie could not be shipped, even if exchange rose here to the usual spesie point, 109§ a 1093 ; and there is no doubt what- ever but that our banks will very shortly hold forty millions, and may rise very considerably above that unprecedented figure. In the ab- sence of employment for this immense accume- lation ef money, the rates of interest must fall below anything we have heretofore witnessed. Three per cent is commonly mentioned asa likely figure for thé month of July. We notice that nearly one-half the bids for the new loan under 5 per cent came from New York. Half the remainder were from two bank- ing houses in the city of Washington, who are understood to be acting for paties here. The balance was distributed among the small country towns, euch as Lancaster, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia. But for the fear that ontaide influences might be brought te bear, it is possible that New York would have obtained four-fifths of the loan; though per- haps, under the circumstances, it was well enough to let the rest of the country have the appearance of sharing in the operation. It is very well known where the money comes from in reality. All loans, whether to governments, States, or private corporations must either be made in New York or not at all; there ls ne other financial centre to this country than this. Tur Cextrat Rarnoap Disaster—Ralcwar MisMANAGEMENT.—From the evidence taken be- fore the Coroner’s Jury empannelled to investl- gate the origin of the disaster by which ss many persons have lost their lives or have been seriously injured on this road, it seems to be placed beyond doubt that it was to the rotten- ness of the timbers of the bridge over the Saa- quolt Uree tat the woccident wasdue. The breaking of the axle on one of the cars of the freight train, to which it suits the purpose of the railway authorities to ascribe it, was simply one of the results, and not the origin of the catastrophe. From the examination made of the bridge immediately after the accident, it appears that the main or centre stringer was thoroughly decayed; and this is the point where, according to the evidence, the break originated. This fact, if it be confirmed by the verdict of the jury, will refleota terrible condemnation on the management of the road. It is not merely neglect of supervision, bat recklessness of construction, that will be laid to its charge. The breaking down from sheer rottenness of a bridge only three years old, shows conclusively the amount of care which the company has exercised over the creo- tion of its works. Had the bridge been one of half » century old some allowance might be made for atmospheric or other natural infla- ences. In that space of time, in a climate like ours, woodwork may possibly give way, although there are wocd constructions of that age all over the country which have stood the tost of years, and which are nearly as strong at the present moment as when they were first built, Wood properly seasoned and prepared will not yield in the manner in which the materials of which this bridge was composed are stated to have done. ‘What is then the conclusion at which we are compelled to arrive’ Either that the company employed persons to superintend these works who were incompetent for their duties, or that they knowingly used materiale which were unsuitable and unsafe for the pur- poses to which they were applied. Their con- duct in cither case was criminal in the extreme; for when we take into account the risk of human life involved in their operations, no extent of care or of precaution could have been too great for the responsibility imposed upon them. The occurrence of sach an accident from such causes is one of the heaviest reflections which can be cast upon railroad management in this country. It betrays an indifference to human life which is perfectly shocking, and inspires with a well founded fear every one who uses this mode of conveyance. Whilst other nations are employing all the means that human inge- nuity and foresight can adopt to prevent casu- alties of this sort, our own railways seem to be managed on a system which places the lives of the passengers on the same level with those of the cattle conveyed by them. Whether one or five hundred lives are risked, or even lost, by their negligence seems to be matter of the most supreme indifference to them. There is but one explanation to give of such moral apathy. Controlled by «system which secured responsibility to public opinion, our railway directors would probably not be worse than the same class of officials abroad. Ua- checked, however, 98 they are by a sense of shame, or even conventional decency, they are utterly reckless of what the public may think of their proceedings. Where corruption and fraud eo thoroughly permeate all our governing bodies, municipal as well as legislative, they conclude that they are entitled to make their own harvest whenever the opportanity t afforded them. Instead, fan 6 ee to the management and discipline roads, they spend their time in ooncooting schemes by which they can defraud their share- holders of their money, and the pablic of the accommodation and protection to which they are entitled. In such a state of things there is bat ono gourse to partuc by thae who sastatn tr fury Of