The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1864, Page 9

SUPPLEMENT TO THE HERALD. tisements or in some other mod@,and brought up the discussion upon the manper of ieposing of the work. June 4, 1860, Chief Engineer McAlpine reported tho ames of the persons and firma to whom these proporais, specifications and invitations should be sent, ‘Whom the name of John Roack, the principal contractor, & }, Contractors, are not ‘vo be found. Ou the 16th of June the claimed commission directed the secretary to request the engineer to furmish each Commissioner with a copy of the specifications for tho rk. On the 26th of June the engineer aubmitted the speci- ‘fications which be bad prepared. They then adjourned 40 the 24 of July, 1860. At this meeting the claimed commission received @ communication, dated June 21, 1860, from Greene Bronson, Counsel to the Corporation, in which he says:— “The autnority to raise a pec sum for the bridge carries with it a strong implication against the right to jevy ap additional amount for the present year, And be- sides, without the authority ja the annual tax law, I do not think it safe for the Board to levy taxes for any pur- pose.” He concludes:—'I am of opinion that no more ‘than the sum of $26,000 should be included in the tax levy of the present year” the Dext inceting was on the 16th of July, 1860, when ‘Btreet Commissioner Smith moved the adoption of a pre- ampble and resolutions, the consideration of which was laid over until the following meeting, providing for the suspension of work on ihe bridge for the want of funds. A. H. Lockwood then moved, and it was adopted, that tbe proposals received remain in the bands of the clerk, #euled and unopened, &c. The next meeting was on the 23d of July, 1860, when Street Commissioner Smith cafled up his resolutions for action, and they were defeated: he alone voting for their adoption; Mayor Wood not voting. At this meeting Mayor Wood overed the following reso- lation, which was adopted by a unanimous yote:— Reeolved, That the building of Harlem bridge shall be done by contract, made under sealed bids, after public advertisement atter ten days, and that all previous pro- ceedings of this Board to make contracts without public advertisement are hereby repealed. Alsop H. Lockwood moved that the proposals that were received be opened on the 6th of August following, ‘and that the pile driving be dove by contract. ‘Which was adopted. The next meeting—the 6th of August—no proposals were opened, and nothing was done. This meeting was adjourned to the i6th of August, 1860, when the following preamble and resolution were oflered by the President:— _ Whereas, the appropriation provided for the construc- tion of the Harlem bridge is insufficieut to complete the same, and whereas, there is a doubs as to the legal rights of one of the acting Commissioners to serve as a member of this Board at this time; and whereas, it is pow too late jm the season for the bridge to be comStructed this year; therefore Resolved, That all further proceedings for the construc. tion of the Harlem bridge be mdefinitely postponed The preambie was rejected; the resolution adopted, Commissioner Robertson asked the consent of the Board to be allowed to vote on the resolution. Consent was re‘used. Commissioner Lockwood moved the adoption of the foliowing:— & Resolved, That the annual galaries of the several per- eons heretofore appointed by the Board sh»)! be as fol lows, commencing from the date of their respective ap- pointments:—The Chief Engioeer, the sasistant Engineer, three tho - Perintendents, two thousand dollars; the Assistant Super- intendents, fifteen hundred dollars; the Secretary, fifteen = dollars. i % iy " nanimeusly adopted; algo the payment of employes to date and ther ‘iiecharge: ae ape eine Prresident moved the adoption of the fo!lowing re jution:-— 4 Wherea, the incidental and preliminary expenses of the a of Harlem bridge are ype a properly v after any fall on Westchest bag ced therefore ved, That the President be authorized to draw a Fequisition on the Comptroller of the city and county of New York for such a sum as shall be sufficient to pay the salaries of the various officers and employes of the Board, ‘and also the bills incurred for necessary expenses on ac- count of the Commissiovers for labor, printing, stationery ond Franck needful expenditures, ‘Adopted. Commissioner Smith offered the following resolation:— Resolved, That the pay of the Assistant eae sball commence on the 28th day of April, this "being the date when he commenced service. Also that Mr. Heory M. 8 8) il last, a ra cay per month, 4 3 i The President offered the following:— Resolved, That the Chie Engineer be directed to retain plans and other property issioners until the fur. ther direction of the Board; and that the Secretary be Girected to take charge of the minutes and papers be- ‘ing to the Commissioners until further directed. committee recapitulate these proceedings to show that the work on the bridge was indefinitely suspended, ‘The Commission then closed, or evidently intended to close their labors for that year, the Mayor having said in his preamble that it was too late in the season to proceed ‘that year with the work. The next meeting of the alleged commission took place on the Oth of October, 1860, at the Mayor's office, “for ‘the pu of examining and auditing the bills incurred vy the Commisa ore of Harlem Brit in the course of At{this meeting Lockwood andjthe Mayor alone were pre- sent. They adjourned to mect with the other Commis- sioners on the next day—the 10th of October, 1860. Ou this day they met and audited various bills for adver ising for proposals to do the work amounting to $220. They audited the bills of the Engineers McAlpine, Hubbard and Dakin, amounting to $3,514, ond other bills of Super- imtendents and for stationery, rioting &c., amounting to the ee to $705, and after they bad audited these bills—they had met for nootber purpose than to examine and audit them—Alsop H. Lockwood stated that offers had been placed in his hands, by responsible and competent persons, at lower rates than those contained in ‘the proposals presented to the Poard, which pe bad seen. He asked the leave of he Board to present them. ‘The Presideut asked whether Mr. Commissioner Lock- ‘wood desired to present a motion on the subject of these offers. Thereupon Mr. Lockwood moved the adoption of ‘the following resolution: Resvlved, That the Commissioners of the Harlem Bridge do now proceed to the reconstruction of Harlem Bridge and resume the work connected therewith, Commissioner Robertson seconded the motion. Affirmative—Commissioners Robertson and I ockwood. Negative—Commissiover Smith. Commissioner Lockwocd having obtained the consent of the Board, then presented three offers, 1. A. H. Van Cleeve and T. M. Niven, to construct the faperstructure, with the exception of the ballustrade an cornice. 2. Thornton M. Niven, for masonry and foundation. 8. Jobn Roach and James Edwards, for cast iron cylin- dors, turntable, balustrade and cornice. * The Chief Engineer, McAlpine, stated that, “according 0 the price contained in the offers, it would bring the entire cost of the bridge up to about $200,000 or $2i0,- 009. n. Todt rood then moyed the adoption of the ing resolu * hisoy Resolved, That the a proposals cont eT Van once & Niven for the . Niven joundation, masonry Roach & Edwards for cast iron cylinders, railing, balue- trade and cornice be accepted by the Commissioners, and ‘that contracts be entered into with these parties respec. ae ein Seven with the terms and conditions of It was seconded by Commissioner Robertson, and after tome Temarke from i Mayor, a » a the Tesponsibility upon ineer, McAlpine, the last reso- ation omecen, by Tsk wook was declared to be adopted— Lockwood and Robertson voting in favor of it. Commis. sioner Smith voting honestly io the negative, and Mayor ‘Wood not voting for nor againet it. ‘Then it that the three contracts, under which 4 to fasten upon the counties of jw York taxation to the amount of nearly a million of doliars, it is claimed, were ordered to entered into, and they were subsequently signed by ree of the parties who claimed the rigbt to act as the ‘lem Bridge Commission. It will be remembered that the Mayor, by his resolu- is after advertisem 0 reviously taken a8 to the mode of disposing of the work y his resolution, adopted on the 16th day of July, 1860, vered that the Mayor, in his pream- le offered on tho 16th of August, 1860 (which, bowever, ‘voted against solely by A. H. Lockwood), proclaimed bat it was then too late to proceed with the work. But this meeting, on the 10th of October, 1860, Lockwood himself naving met on tho previous day, the Mayor rel; \ the fa or forgot that it nen t00 late in the ponson to pro- , or that there was any necessity r the fulfilment of his own resolution, the advertising and giving out of these contracts jonestly under sealed proposals, They did not at this eoting in any way reconsider the resolution of the contract and under advertisements, yor Wo give out opted on the 16th of Jaly; they did not at = C eoting reconsider, or attempt to reconsider, Irtion whieh had adopted at the m on the 16th of August previous, indofoitely ning the whole ei bat they dia hy janded in by Alsop H. Lockwood, assume to act, and dia lot, ne (ar as they legally could, a giving out three con- is, providing rates to be allowed the pound for tand- wrought iron, which were, at least in the judg- of your committee, double the amount for whic! iron’ might have been obtained had an ad- © to the advertisements, and the sealed preamb! eipocetment ot the whole subject beyond Lhe laten whole eyond the lateness the season, he expressed a oubt ‘as to the legal right ‘one of the ‘Seana tina A, H. Lockwood, Board of Me Wearchester county) to act as one of the a of mmmissioners. The records of the Commission do not ighleved2y any opinion’ on ibn actject Tron the or. Ll nt ym the Gor. ion Coungel, Treone C. ) and the doubt which then expt |, this committee, from the examinations sitk they have given to the subject, repeat and hore re. t, and expressly allege with a unanimous conclusion judginent in favor Of ite legal soun: acts were, then, on the 16th of October, 1860, ve given out. The Engineer, McAipine, was ing of the Board to offers contained In the pro- a8 it ac xioue 10 ‘he prieinal eet) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1864. - —_— 9 ae mate of Chief Engineer McAlpine, imaquired of bim wheth- er, under the offers that had been in by Lock- wood, the offer of T. M. Niven, and of A. H. Van Cleve, of the Trenton locomotive works, and T. M. Nivep and tho offer of Koach & Edwards, the work would cost to exceed the amount of his (McAlpine’s) origival estimate. To this he replied as follow! tbe thought the cost would not exceed bis original estimate of $225,000.” And it will therefore be seen that afier ap examioation offers, containing the rates—six cents per pound to Roach & Edwards for cast iron,and nice and three- quarter cents per pound for wrought iron, and }welve cents for wrought iron under Niven’s contract—after calculations made and @ consideration of the entire pro- posais and contracts which were entered into by the direction of McAlpine, which, together with the specifica- tions, had been drawn by McAipine—that tho whole cost regs work was not to, aud would not exceed the eum of 000. ‘The next meeting of the Gommissionors was held on ‘the 20th of October, 1860, for the purpose of executing the contracts which wore ordered at the previous mect- ing. At this meeting, when the contracts were presented for the signature of the difleront persons claiming to be Commissioners, Street Smith = was not present, ‘The Mayor despatched a meseen- ger tof the Street Commissioner's office, and he was absept And at the meeting immediately subsequent thereto, held on the 1st November, 1860. put upon the records of the Commission the important statement that by direction of the President of the com- yor, he (Smith) had always been in- vited to meet with them one-half hour after the other commissioners were called to meet. At the meeting of the 20th of October, 1860, Alsop H. Lockwood secured the appointment of Charles V. Hough,as receiver and Proper- ty Clerk, at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, bis appointment to take effect from the lst of ‘October, 1860, twenty days before the contracts were sign- ed and berore he bad any duty to perform. The last meeting which your committee deem it importaut in their report to your honorable body now to refer was heid at the Mayor's oifice on the Ist day of November, 1860, and at this meeting an earnest and manly protest was put upon the records of this alleged commission by Street Com- mifsioner Smith, ‘This was the last meeting of the Commission, during the year 1860, at which Alsop H. Lockwood was present. ‘The testimony of Alderman Hatfeld shows that Mro Lockwood, before thie time, applied to him (Hatfield) t° have him not run for Chairman of the Board of Super visors of the bras of Westchester, the annual meeting < which was to take place op the 11th day of November, 860. The testimony ef this gentleman, who was unapimouely elected Chairman of the Board of Fupervisors in Novem- ber, 1860, gives the clue to the subsequent action of Alsop H. Lockwood in the preparing and passing of the act of the Legielature of this State, of April 17, 1861, creating a new Commission, Alderman Hatticld, in’ this respect, is cor- roborated by the testimony of Judge Robertson, whostated that the nop-election of wood as Chuirtnan of the Board in 1860 was the probable cause of the origination of the new Commi-sion. The committee claim that Lockwood had no legal claim of right, without an election by the Board of Supervisors of the whole county, to act or assume to act as the Chair. ‘man of the Board of County Supervisors. On and at any time after Wednesday following the last Tuesday of March , 1860, aspecial meeting of the Board of supervisors of Westchester might have beencalled, at which achair- man for that Board micht and should have been elected, it any action by @ chairman was necessary either on the part of the Harlem Bridge Commission or for any other sta- tutory purpose. And here, for the purpose of settling this question the committee refer to Revised Statutes vol. 1, 4th edition, sec. 8. The alleged Harlem Bridge Commision having thus Ageeed to give out contracts for the construction of the new bridge, your committee deem it proper briefiy to describe them. The frst contract is known as the contract for founda- tions, masonry, &c., and that was given to Thoroton M. Niven alove. The Preseribed im that to be paid to him are therein fixed:—For dredging and excava- tiong, thirty cents per cubic yard; for stone excavation, seventy-five cents per cubic yard; for piles driven per lineal foot, twenty five cents; for masonry, seventeen dol- Jars per cubic yard; for timber and plank, fifty-five dol- Jara per thousand feet, board measure: for iron work, twelve cents per pound. No total or aggregate amount beyond which payments could not be made by the Com- missioners was fixed jn this contract. The other contract was signed by A. H. Van Cleve, President of the Trenton Tocomotive Ma- chine’ Manufacturing Company, and Thornton M. Niven, parties of the first part, and is koown as the con- tract for the superstructure. The prices provided to be paid in this contract are as follows:—For al) the cast iron ‘work, complete, fitted up, put in the work ready for ure, at the rate of six and one balf cents per pound. For ali the wrought iron work, complete, fitted up and putin the work ready for use, at the rate of nine and threo quarter couts per pound. For all the timber and plank in the floor at the rate of fifty dollars per thousand feet, board measure. For the labor of erecting the cast iron archings of fixed 8, the seg- ments and their connecting bolts, all fitted, being del!ver- ed near the site of the bridge, at the rate of $1,000 tor each arch. No total or aggregate amount beyond which the enginecrs and commissioners could not go in the pay- ments for materials to be furnished or work to be done under this contract, is named or fixed thereby. ‘The third and last contract is known as the contract for the cylinders, air lock, &c., and is signed by John Roach acd James Edwards, parties of the @rst part. The rates at which they were to be paid are described at length. No total or sepregate amount beyond which the Com- missioners could not goin payment of this coutract is fixed therein or thereby. In cach of the said contracts aro certain provisions. Among them the following:-— The party of the second part hereby covenants and ‘Agrees that whenever the proper officers of the respective counties shall place at the disposal of the said Board of Commissioners the necessary funds to rebuild and recon- struct the said bridge, they wil! pay therefrom for all the work embraced in this contract at the rates herein- before provided. It is, however, hereby agreed to, on the part of the said parties of the first part, that they will aud do hereby release the said Board and each member of the same from all personal liability for payment for any work which may bave been done, or alleged to bave been dove under this contract, or in con nection therewith, and further covenant aod ‘agreo that they will look only to the funds which may be provided for the work by the proper authorities for payment for materiais and labor furnished under this contract, and to their legal recourse against the said counties, as pro- ‘vided for in the said act. ‘The party of the second part, however, agrees to use all proper means within tbe line of their duty to preeure the appropriations for, and theo btaining of, the necessary funds to enable them to make the payments which may become di And the; under thie contract. further agree that whenever any payment Decomes due to the partica of the first part under this contract, at times when they are fot in possession of funds to Bey, the same, that then they will give certificates stating the amount of such payments due, and a deciara- tion to the effect that such certificates are and shail be a firet hen upon any funds that may hereafter come into their bands applicable w the reconstruction of the said se. ‘The said party of the cecond part further agrees that it will advance to the partice of the first part monthly eighty (80) per ceotum of such sum as the said engineer all certy to be due under tbis contract, which estimates of money due are only required to be made fg lerhog HE but it ie express\y understood between parties hereto that such piymenis are only to be made after the proper authorities have placed the funds to the possession of the d necessary to make such payments, and if no funds are provided, then such cer- tidicates as are before provided shall be given. By the terms of the said contracts the Commiseion- ers of the engineers reserved to themselves the right to at any time change the plan for the covstruction of the ‘work, and such chavge was not to diminieh or increase ‘the cost of the iron per pound, used under the contracts. The time fixed by the contracts within which all the materials were to be furnished and the work was to be done and the bridge to be completed was the 1st pay of October, 1861. These contracts severally are Lo by , and by Fernando Wood as ow York, William H. ‘estchester County Judge, and to be the Chairman of the of Westchester county, as parties of eet Commissioner Augustus W. itber of them. mes Edwards to the Roach & Kd. james Fuwards, by his attorney, Charles V. Le Bonds of David L. Pettee, Charies G. bos adr fobp Roach, from New York, and James Edwards, of Brookiyn, in she penalty of $25,000, accom- the ee eh gaia & Ldwards for the faithful performance thereof. lar bonds of Joreph C. Potte, of Trenton, New Jer. wey @ Clark, of the city of New York and the Tren. ton Locomotive ‘Manufacturing Company, avd Thornton iu the penaity ,000, are annexed for the faithful performance of the Van Cie Niven contract. Bonds of James McDonald, James M Mattey and Thoro- ton M. Niven, in the penalty of $25,000 for ‘the faithful performance of the Niven contract. ‘Your committee deem it proper here to remark that there contracts seem to have boe tten up ‘to order,’ with the Purpose of making the ‘“atopendous job’? of the building of the Harlem bridge as costly as possible—of avoiding oF C.rcumveoting any legisiative prohibition of the bridge Bot costing more than $260,000, provided the opinion of Edgar Ketcham, Feq.—of the legal effect and operation of the coptracte, should be sustained by the courte, According to the opinion of Commissioner, Supervisor, Ageistant Collector of United States Revenue aod Secre- tary of tho Harlem bridge Comroiseioo, Mr. James Davie, thoso ‘india rubber contracts’ are to be con. strued as capable of illimitabie expansion, though not uch contraction, aa bas beeu showy by the large sums of mouey already expended thereon. timony is fur- hished to substantiate this poriti f the committee, The proof before your coramittes shows that the work Upon the bridge was commenced in about the month of Novomber, 1860, by Roach & Edwards under their con- tract, and they were paid for the work as fuet as it was performed is ! them; but the evidenco of Judge Robert. son, Jordao L, Mott, Jr., Chartos N. Hough and others, who were examined before the committee, proves that down to the 1st of October, 1861, when tho contract wag to have been somploted, not much more thaw ove quarter of tho work required to be done was performed by them, wing that by the Ist teon as Rol A. BH. Lockwood, claim inj Board of Supervisor: second part. The sigoature of wards contract Further teetimony is adédcced of Ovtober, 1841, @ portion of the contract of Niven bad ed to bo pertpemed io Serene ot two How , is shown 10 have been Sertect failure With this exception no work was performed under his ‘Under the Van Cleve and Niven con ; slrustate. sonerdion 1a tho tmlimeny, we work actor was performed on the bridge by the lst day of October, 1861, A difficuity arose about work which Niven bad dope ‘and/or which he claimed payment, and a difficulty having ariaen in the Van Cleve and Niven contract for the super- structure—they pot being paid in advance—Mr. Roach, after the Ist of September, 1861, obtained from Niven an assigoment of hig contract, which was consented to by the Commissioners in November following, aud although Niven was upabie to get what he claimed (some $26,500) from or through the Commissioners, yet it is a remarkable fact that Mr. Roach paid Mr, Niven the twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars as the consid- eration for his assigument, and he shortigthereafter ob- tained a yepesinene of the same from thofCommissioners out of the County Treasury of New York ‘rhe assignment of the Van Cleve avd Niven contract was not made until January, 1862, The evidence does not show how much Mr. Roach paid for the assignment of ‘the contract. Having thus stated the terme of these contracts the committee refer to the passage of the act of April 17, 1861, creating @ new commission, aud give the test! mony of Alderman Hatfield to show the cause of the charge, and at the same time exposing the rottenness of the old commission. They got up two bills in the Legislature for altering the commission. The first two ‘billg, the Alderman says, bo was able to defeat; the third one they formed a combina. tion with other parties to put me out, That was in April, 1861. she passage of the act was against my remou- etrance. George Y. Varian w: ember from New York, and worked hard apd killed the first two bills, Q. t© Alderman Hatfield—Was there a proposition ever made to you of baving an interest in this job? A. Yes, sir. James Hough said to me once, *Alder- man, I suppose you will do as Jockwood and Judge Robertson aro doing?’ ‘What is thaty’? says I. It occurred at the corner of Ann street and Broadway. ‘‘ Well,” said he, ‘‘you know, don’t yout ‘Will you do it”? No,’ jd I, #1 don't know what it ig.’? Weil, we had @ considerable conversation. Fipally an other lobbying man came up—Churles McNeil, the meaning I drew from him was, that if] would go in and divide, the same as others had done, I could be kept in ‘the commission ; I tried to get him to tell me all about it; he wanted me to sign some article of writing, to carry it ont, Mr. MoNeil said, ‘*You will do what I say in the matter, wont yeu, Alderman?” “No,” said I ‘harles, 1 wont do anything until you tell me what itis.” “Oh,” said he, “you know what it is.” Afterwards Hough went to work to getme removed. Inever found out whut they wanted me to do; they would not tell me unless I would agree to perjure myself. This was goon after the ad- journment of the Roard of Supervisors, aud when the ‘Legislature was about meeting. I went to sce Mr. Robertson: he was determined to have me remoyed from the start; I acted with the Commission from the time I was elected chairman of the Board until about the 23d or 24th of April, 1861.” By an examination of this act it will be seen that in place of the fourth section of the act of 1857 a new sec- tion was to take its place, The new act appointed five 10+ dividuals—William = Mivor, James Tavis and Joseph Southworth, of the city of New York, and Will'sm H. Robertson and Alsop H. Lockwood. of the county of West- chester, as Commissioners of the Harlem Briige, Your committee have not been able to discover any evidence of the peculiar fitness or capacity which these gentlemen had cunerior to that which the Mayor, the Street Commissioner of New York, and the County Judge and chairman of the Poard of Supervisors of Westchester county possessed. It is an indis- putable fact, however, that of this new com mission James Davis ‘was conveniently a Super- visor of the city of New York, and Alsop H. Lock- wook Supervisor of the town of Poundridge in the county of Westchester. The claims of the Board of Commissioners and their contractors when audited before their payment had to pase the ordeal of #n examination by the Supervisors of New York and Westchester. It will be seen by the phraseology of the first section of this act that ‘was contemplated these who framed it in the construction of for provides - that new Commissioners shall inspect gand certify as to the necessity for the rebuilding of the new bridge. It tur- ther provided that, in building it no obstruction should be had to the navigation of the Harlem river. This was superfluous. It further provided that the bridge should ‘be a low bridce and not a bigh bridge, and tbat the said Commissioners ‘‘shall have no power to make any con- tract or contracts for the execution of the whole or any part of the work of the rebuilding and of the construction of the said bridge for apy sum exceed- ing the sum of $250,000. It further provided that the compensation of; the Commissioners should not exceed three dollars per day ‘for cach day's services’’—euch charges for services, as well as for the building of the bridge, to be borne a: d paid by the counties of New York aud Westchester in proportion to their jurisdiction over the Harlem river, as defincd and fixed by the boundary lines of said two counties respectively. ‘The new Commissioners organized and commenced ope- rations in the month of April, 1661. Preliminary to their doing 80 Mr. Davis, one of the Commissioners, obtained the legal opinion of Fdgar Ketcham, Faq., one of the col- Jectors the United States revenue in the county of New York, under whom Mr. Davis was employ. ed a8 an assistant collector, to the eflect that th contracts which had been entered into by Commission were however, that Mr. Ketcham, in bi presely eays that be simply passes on these con- “on their face’—assuming that all the legal parties thereto have joined in the making of the contracts, and also assuming that they were fairly given out, and that there was nv corruption or fraud in the making of them. Jo addition to this, no etatement or evidence was afforded him as to the total failure on the part of the contractors to have performed the material parts and conditions of their contracts down to the period within which they should have been all performed aud completed. The committee here enter into a jengthy examination of the contracts and laws of 1857. Clearly by the terms of the act of April, 1861, there was a probibition of any contracts beyond the sum of 000. The contractore took the contracts with their eyes open as to receiving payment through legislative action, both on the part of the Board of Supervisors of Westchester and New York, and of the State. The contracts expressly exempted the Commissioners of the Harlem Bridge from personal liability, And the Harlem Bridge Commission. ers, considering that the very highest estimate of Mr. McAlpine for the construction of the bridge did not exceed $225,000, should not now throw in as colorable authority in fayor of their doings an opinion of @ legal gentleman—not the Corporation Counsel, or the legal adviser of the Board, who has not receive! that mformation upon the subject of these contrats that the committee have. Your commitsee do not hesitate to sey that the giving out of these contracts without advertisement, without the opening of sealed proposals, without an, Mm petition in the market, upon the fixed and arranged plon in Felation to the parties who were to receive them, and for amounts allowed therein per pound for iron (which far exceeded the sum for which the iron might have been ob. tained from others in the market), bad their inception and coprummation in a scheme which has resulted already in depleting the treasury of the city of New York of the gum of $404,181 15, aud more, paid, and to be paid to John Roach, the engineers, superintendents, commission- bt ore others. evidence adduced before the committee shows that James Edwards, who was the joint contracter named jn the contract of Jobn Roach, was a “dummy,” tin the contract by name, but really representing his riend, the friend of Mr. Lockwood, the friend of Mr. Mc- Alpine and the friend of Mr. Roach—James Hough—the convenient Superiutendent appointed, on the motion of Mr. Lockwood, upon this work. The committee have not, although they have made Giligent search for and efforts to obtain the presence of Mr. Edwards before them, been successful. Both James Hough ‘snd Charles V. Hough, his son, and the receiving aud Property clerk of the commission, testified that they did jot know where he lived or where he could be found, al- hough one had acted as his attorney in signing the con tract, and the cther bad acted as principal for him; but they both stated that he bad bad a farm and bad beeu living on Long Island. Mr. James Hough end Mr. John Rosch, according to the committee, showed complicity in their testimony upon the cub ject of Mr. Fdwards’ interest in the contract. Mr, Roach said that be had put Mr. Edwards in as part. ner to secure to Mr. James Hough the sum of $1,000 which he was to pay him in the event of his disposing of certain |ren cylinders which he then had on band, Mr, Roach testified that beyond this interest of Hough io the thousand dollars, that Mr. Edwards bad not 4 worth of interest ‘in the contract, And he also xl that Mr. Edwards had assigned to him all of his ipterest in the contract, A copy of the paper, which Mr, Roach alleged was an assignment of Edwards’ interest, the committee present, dated September 2, 1861, with the power or attorney. It will be perceived that it is a power of attorney from Edwards © Roach, witnessed by James Hough, leaving Edwards’ interest as a copartner in the contract, ag far as the work and profits are concerned, intact. Mr. James Hough testified that upon the ob- ort, and giving of this Le od Mr. Roach = his thousand dollars. Mr. Roach testi- to the same thing, and they both testified to t impor tant fact that npon the use of the cylinders in the Harlem bridge the consideration of $1,000 was to be paid to Hough, and that they pever wore used, the flanges not answering the purposes of the new bridge. So the con- sideration for which this $1,000 is alleged to have been paid, according to the testimony of both of these persone, entirely failed. And what are the facts and circumetances in transactions of this kiod, detailed by documentary evidence bere, which are to be relied upon og proving the troth, the intent and purpores of the partics, when their contrary statements are much less rejiaiie, and ord hog are given from ignorance and promj.ed by interest. ¢ AD Len Ae ae made out of the City roasury, under ch & Edwards’ contract, wi!! chow that Roach & a aesignment of Pdwal fre made out » sock month thereafter agai of York by Roach, in the firm nate of Roach Edwards, an paid down to month of ge 1862, “Mr, Roach also testified iwt be bad made no assignments of interess in (his contract, and that he alone was iwterescd in the receipts of the payments and profits therec’, But a Made oy the committee Ciscloses the fact that vers! e Were assign of the city of New York, ee ee The statements of the amounts thos far paid on this bridge, taken from Lom ptroller's oflice of the city of New York, and which aro hereto annexed, show that up the Sth of January last the sum of 201 16 had mp bo account Of this work. Outot ibis amount $301,306 83 have been paid to John Roach and hia as- fina, Inclusive Of $82,364 46 to Roanh & howarde wafer eo large *| the count! She cylinder and air lock contract; and the balance, mak- ing up the $301,366 33, under the masonry aud super- Structure cobiracts, assigned to him, Bearivg in mind that twenty per cent of the amount to be paid under this contract was io be reserved Ul the work was fin ished, $60,000 (ay) in addition is due to Roach under the three coutra aking up to January § last the total amount of $361,566 33 paid and to be paid bim ‘op account of the work thus far done by bim. From these sta‘emen it Will also be seen that the total amount paid (or salaries of engineers, superin- tendents and property clerks, down to December last, amounts to $47.640 19, Front these statements it will also be observed that the amounts paid by the very }iveral Comin ssiouers, who assumed to act prior to the act of 1861, to the engineors ard the two superintendents, from ghe 25th of May dows to the 17th of August, 1560—iong before any contracts were given out, and when, with the exception of the preparation of the )Jan by the Ubief Eugiveer, Mr. Alpine, pothing was done or could have been done—reaches the sum of 5,660 28 It wilh also be seen by these statements that these Commissioners have thus far paid for what is charged as ‘ofliceg rent”? the sum of $3,372 33. ibis rent is charged at the rate of $400 a year for small offices in Hariem, and is paid to A. H. Lockwood and F, W. Lockwood, accord- ing to the Comptroller's books. These offices, in the ju it of your committee, bever were required for the use of the engineers, and are, as they are informed, sel- dom occupied Another charge of $500 per annum for office rent is made payable to George H. Purser, of tho city of New Yok, for a part of a small office at No. 2 New Chambers street, which the testimony shows is only occupied for a few hours once in each week on Fridays. Your committee, in referring to the act of 1861, which ‘was superinduced to be passed by Alsop H. Lockwood apd James Hough, deom it proper to state that no desire was ever expressed for a change of the commission made by the act of 1457, either on the part of the constituted authorities of the city of New York or of tho county of Westchester, or of any of the pert thereof. The move- ment for the change originated solely in the scheming of those who bad originated the extravagant contracte of the 10th of October, 1860; and the object which they had io view of obtaining the chavge may be judged of by this Board and the commanity from the enormous amounts which have already been paid out of tho ‘Treasury of the county of New York for the salaries of unnecessary oilicers’ conuected with the Commis sion, and to Mr, Join Roach and those interested with bim under the contracts for the furnishing of iron. The jirst commission gave to Westchester county two commissioners and to New York two Commissiouers, The two counties were thus oyially re- presented in the commission. By the act of 1861 three commissioners weie given to New York and two were ester County, Thus it will be perceived Tposes of protecting the rights of Westclies- ter in the new commission, the people of Westchester county are at the mercy of the majority of the cominis- sioners, who ure from New York, Abd althongh Judge Roberton and Alsop H. Lockwood have reported to this Board that it is thor understanding that Westchester county 1s only to for the copstruction of such parts of the Harlem bride as are within its boundaries, yet 5 the testimony of Davis, one of The Commissioners: from New York. previously quoted, radically differs from their understanding, ‘Ybe commitiee pri ceed to show the alleged injustice of this, and assert that, in the judgment of a majority of them, the act of April 17, 1861, is unconstitutional, pro: ducing section one of article ten of the constitution of 1846 in support of their position. The committee sa ‘No Hariem bridge district having been created by the Legislature, to bring the conduct and duties of the officers who were appointed to build the bridge under the deci ion in the Metro}. litem Police case, your committee suggest that the Legislature had no con- atitutional right to appoint the five individuals named in the act of April 17, 1861, a8 the Harlem Bridge Commis- sioners, In the act of four officials, all of whom had been elected by the people, were constituted, ez offic’o, the Bowrd of Commissioners. But assnming,’for she sake of argumént, that these comm{ssiouers, a»point- ed by the acto: April 17,1861, were legally appointed, your committee insist that their duty was to have disre- garded the contracts of October 10, 1860. It was the duty of the Commissioners to have pro- secuted for the penalty of the bonds of the contractors fr the von-fulfiiment of the contracts; to have advertised anew avd given out new aud honest contracts, and to have bad the work long since completed. Your comunittee are of the unanimous opinion that all of the engineers who were employed, and paid salaries at excessive rates, with tbe exception of one engineer, should never bave bees employed or paid. The employ: ment of a chief engineer auc two or thrce assistents, on & work which.was to be done by contract, under a plan which bad n adopted and the specifications of which had been agreed upon, was ui necessacy, certain'y to the extent of the two or three aasi-tanis, who were paid origipally at the rate of $3 000 per annum. The aproint- ment of superintendevts upon this work was evidently made to secure riaecure piaces—one for James Hough, & friend of Alsop H. Icckwo.d, and the other for Win, H. Michaels, the appointee of Mayor Wood—and was wholly upnecersary. And especially was the ap- pointment as such @ superintendent of so Important a work Cg of James Hough uroalied for und out of had had no perience in butld- of bridges; he was butcher by trade, ond was an illiterate, ignorant and incompetent person, even if & superintendent hed been necessary. This fodividual who, with Mr. Lockwood, has already fustered upon the people of the county of New York taxation to the extent of over $404,000 In convection with thia bridge, which ig little more than half finished, bus spent nearly ail bis time during the sessions of the State Legislature, since January 1, 1860, at Albany, sometimes jo company with L ckwood and others, as members of the ‘third house,” engaged in the reprehen- sible operations of “lobby inj ‘The total sum paid for ongiveers on this bridge down to the 31st of lecember iast amounts to $35.362. The total suin paid to tbe superintendents and the property clerk, Charles V. Hough, whose services were equally unnecessary, down to 31st December last, has been $12,- 284 08. The county of New York, which is always boun- tiful in its payment of salaries, bas exhibiwd a vory marked and striking liberality in the payments to the five Commissioners bow claiming to be the Commissioners: of the Harlem Bridge. It will be seen by the statement of the payments made to them hereto annexed that each one of the five bas received at the rate of three dollars per day for his service: every day, excepting Sundays, in each year, his appointment, but mot even exceptidg or excludin, holidays. The act provides that they shall be allowe three dollars for each day’s uctual service The total paid to these’Commissioners, and for revt of off stationery, &¢., to November 1, 1863, out of the Trea: of New York, is $15,092 33, and ag follows for each C.m missioner:— William Miner. James Davis.. Joseph Southworth A. H. Lockwood, jam H. Robertson. —This is to the lst of No ber last. The bills of each of them for the quarter ending February 1, last, far’ $237 each, being still pending in the New York Poard of Supervisors, upon the veto thereof by Mayor Gunther. Your committee call the attention of the Board to the loose and careless manner in which large paymonts havo been made out of the Treasury of the County of New York, under the action of the present Commissioners, aud es. pecially refer toa bill of Roach & Edwards, upon wh Roach received over $20,000 upon no other vouch- ers than bis own affidavit of the correctness of the items of the bill. Tt is pot to be wondered at that, although Wm. J, Mce Alpine, before the contract ¢ gived out, certified that the entire quantity of tron which would be used at the rates per pound charged m the contract w ould not exceed $110,000, yet, consideringfthat the only check upon the weighing and the only certificate under the pian which the Commissioners thus adopted for ascertaining the weight emanates from Charles V. Hough, the son of the Soperintendent, James Hough, that iron has beea paid for as if used (but really mot used) upon this work to the amount of about $300,000. fhe amount yet re- quired, according to the certificate of the present chief engineer, E. W. ith, and to be paia for at the rates prescribed in the contracts amounts to over 1.250,000 yynds, and will cost the sum of over $100,000; and joo0—the twenty per cent reserved under the con- tracts—ie yet to be paid for iron work now alleged to be furnished by Jobn Roach. Thus a total of Over $460,000 has been and will be required according to the statements of Mr. Roach, acoording to the payments which bay been made to bim, and a rang to the cortificnte of t existing chief engineer as to the iron which is yet re- quired for that which the first engineer (Mr. McAlpine), certified would not cost over $110,000 or $130,000. If the diverence between what Bad been furnished and what had been ostimated for was @ few thousand dollars, or a few thousand pounds of fron, the discrepancy might be assumed to be fair avd honest, But with an accurate timate made by sO skilfuland able au engineer as Mr, McAlpine, to conclude that iron has been properly paid for, and that correct weigbts have been certified to, if, to say the Jeast, to convict Mr. McAlpine of gross ignorance jo his profession, and to endorse the extreme credulity of ‘out people. The new Commissioners, it is true, altered the plan of here stone piers bad Mr. McAlpine in using iron piers w! ‘been contemplated by the original, The committee congratulate this Board upon the vest- ing of the title in this county of that portion of the land of Jordan L. Mott required for the construction of the Harlem bridge. Your committee bellove that the new bridge could be easily finished within one year from this time if the con tractor and the Commissioners would half do their duty in the promises. The chief engioeer, Mr. Smith, corrobo- rates this opinion, ‘This alteration, according to the statement of Mr. Smith, diminished the Of the construction of the bridge $13,500 from the or! cost, and Mr, Lockwood ind Judge Roberteon ri to this Board im 1661 that arty Lange would sa¥@ $18,000, > CONCLUSIONS, Your committee, npon & review of the whole evidence juced before them and an ¢xamination of the records of the Harlem Bridge Commissioners and of the reports of the Comptrotier of the county of New York, have, io the matter referred (0 them, come to the following con- lv cat Firvt—That Alsop 11. Lockwood, from the last Tuesday jn) orch, 1860, thence hitherto, was not and has not been th nairman of the Coard Of Supervisors of the county of ® s.chester; that from the said last in March, lov0, down to the 17th of April, 1861, he was not Com- mies onor of the Harlem bridge, or a member of the of © omisaion Greated b; act of April, 1887, and that i all of his acts between Jest pamed }) aseum. iy tim the capacity of # Comm: Harlem pations, without color of ‘authori- bsolute'y void; that the a) jument of SE fat Fp y Hi wy uperia! on’ bis motion, of Charles V ab ae receiving’ and vrovarty cer, Low bie ‘Naw Kors Commissioner, Gustavus W. Smith, voting against each of the propositions, and no majority of the wbvie Commis gion being notiiled to be present or voting—were illegal and void appointments; that he had no right to move the giving of contracts, or to execute the contracts datot Cooder 10, 1860,’ executed on the 20th of that Month, and under which over $404,000 have been paft out of the treasury of the county of New York; that theso contracts, having been nearly wholly untiniahed on the lat of October, 1861, which wae after the passage of the act of April, 1861, wherein and whereby $250,000 was the limit fixed, beyond which the Commissioners could not go in making contracts for the building of the Harlem Bridge; therefore all payments made beyond that amount were unjust and illegal payments. Second—That the contracts mide aud entered into with A, W, Van Cleye & Thornton M. Niven and with Thornton Mf. Niven and with John Roacke and James Edwards, by Fernando Word, Mayor of New York: Robertson, county Judge of Westchester, and . Lockwood, claiming to be Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Westchester county, were ab initio void, and Westchester county js not lisble for and should not'be compelied to pay one dollar for work us- sumed to be done or service rendered under any of the acts of the so-called Harlem Bridge Commission. Phird—That the boundary line on the Harlem river between the counties of Westchester and New York, which is the line of low water mark on the Westchester side Oo! tho Harlem river, is four hundred and eighty six feet from the present existing southern abutment at the terminus of the Third avenue Four‘h—"hat in the opinion of this committee the northern abutment of the Harlem bridge now in course of erection, should be placed southerly of the low water line on the Westchester side, southerly of the boundary line between Westchester and the city of New York Hifth—That in the opinion of this committee a massive and unwieldy iron bridge of the character of that which is now in progress of erection, ou. ht not to have been adop- ted by any officials having the true Interests of either the countios of New York or Westchester in view. ‘That in their judgmont a bridge costing not over $50,000, similar in most respects to that known as the Contral bridge, formerly MeUomb'’s Dam, near the Seventh avenue of New York, wag all that was required or neces-ary, and would have been much better for the convenience of the inhabitants of the two counties. Such a bridge might have been constructed in about a year, and would not have cost over $50,000, Sicth—That thore was no necessity for the employment of more than one engineer on the new Harlem bridge, aud that all payments for engineering services, saving and except those to ono engineer, were unnecessary, and the payments were improperly made. Seventh—-That the work on the bridge having to be done by c ract under the personal superintesd the Commissioners, tho employment of si on the work Was unecessary, and all payments 1 them were improperly mado. ‘that the charge of the five Commissionert for their ser vices for every do except Sundays, of three dollors per da uw sees should they have claimed or been paid more than for the one day’s service per week, when they were in actual atteudaico in the performace of their duty. Eigh’h—Tbat the payments made to Roach and to Rosch and Edwards,amounting to over $301,000, were improperly and illegally paid, under the directions of the alleged Harlem ridge Cominission, by the direc tion of the Supervisors of the county of New York Ninth—Voat the commissioners, for their neglect of duty in not having the bridge more rapidly built and finished, for their employment and payinent of unneces gary officials connected with this work, for their allowing uncertified bills of Roach & Edwards, for their exacting payments for their own alleged services far beyond what was warranted by law, and generally for their non- feasance, if not malfeasance in office, deserve to be «nd should bs forthwith removed by the Governor or by the Lezislature; and if they should not act, or have proper anthority 10 act in the premises, then that the action of the Gran ries of the counties of Westchester and New York should be invoked in relation to the doings of this Harlem Bridge Commission AMOUNI8 PAID IN PART. John Roach, paid for iron oe to Jan. 8, 1964..$219,011 87 Roach & Edwards, paid for Iron up to Dec. 31, 1862 ..... deeceesecccees 82,354 46 T. M. Fiven, paid under contract.. ++ 2,815 46 TOtA 405256400 + $304,181 79 Total amount paid to a COMMIBSIONETS ... 2. os ceeeeeeeeesseece 1D 15 Amount paid Wm. H. Michaels, Superintendent 2,077 82 Amount paid James Hough , Superintendent, to Ah 2808 + preeniy ciene, O47 mount pat jough, Property Cle ‘to Dec. 1863. 4,100 00 Amount paid Jai gh, Jr, mi : 378 84 ‘Amount paid James T. Hough, messenger. 254 07 Total amount paid Hough family. Amount paid engineers under presen! Bioue! sees Amount paid present Commission office rent up to Oct. 81, 1863 SALES OF REAL ESTATE. ‘SPLENDID FARM FOR SALE—LOCATED ONE fe from the beautiful village of Canandaigua, and Commandiag a view of the Iake and sur Tt contains one hundred and fifty-three acres of the choice land, we'l watered and highly cultivated. ‘the dwelling is large brick mansion. finished in superior style, having» f piazza, hich ceilings, cellar, cistern, &c. The outbulldin, are nuinerous and Jn good repair; the grounds and shade trees are unsurpassed. Those who desire beauty and utility combined will flud this. rare chance. Tt will be soll cheap. Apply on the premises, or at No. 128 Weat Twenty-fifth street, New Yor! NCE FOR COUNTRY RESIDE SALE—AT SOUTH Yonkers, Westchester county, N. ¥. house, barn and othe: 18 Lots of Grou outin garden, &c , all in good order. For fully apply to BES: SON & DAWES, 148 Champers street, AT NO. 39 FooRTH A 7B, REAL ESTATE FOR SALE, BY DAY & COBB, to loan on bond and mortg: STORIA.—Si XT! sale. Tnqui or CHARLES F DESIRABLE COTTAGE AT MOUNT VERNON, With carriage house and stable; grou Our; within, five minutes’ wa'k of depot CANNON, 27 Nassuu sireet, will give further particulars BEAUTIFUL BUILDING SITE FOR SALE, Acres on the south side of Staten Island, ° wards the sea, with beautiful view of the sea, and sea bath ing; one hour from Wail street; site open aud} proach by a foreat avenne: Appiy to IOURNEAY, No. 8 line ®N FINE BUILDING LOTS FOR J. W. CORREY, No. 18 Spruce sireet, ER, Astoria. FOUR STORY BROWN STONS HOUSE ‘Twenty-first street, for sale; also a brown sti 4 West Tweuty-third street, ories hi; $14,000. with all modern improvements & WELLS, 167 Ninth avenue, or to WM West Twenty-firat stre each ‘Apply to ROMER i. SMITH, 226 ¥ PROFITAD laree facilities to m SOUTHW dal in goo ‘OOD, 18 Pine sivect. HOUSE, 38 FEET SQUARE, TWO STORY AND Basement, and 244 acres of Lani for aale or ¢ PS Jamaica, L. 1; beautifully sbaded lawns, © é n, plenty of fruit, aud s three minutes ts depot; tnble; 01 10 to 1. GEO. SKIDMORE, 16 Nassau street. N KLEGANT COUNTRY SEAT FOR SA esiches! ‘ated in West Farms, Wesichesier county, o from Harlem bridge, consisting of twenty acres 2 Land, in a high state of cultivation. The dwelling louse i two story, atic and basement. 46x) feet, and contains a!l the tnode’n Improvements. Thegsiable, barn and ovier out houses ai sive and commedious. ' An opportunity like lelight/ul country home, wit!.in « short and leasant drive of the city, is seldom oifered. For particu jars apply to JOSEPH MCGUIRE, 125 Third avenue near Fourteenth street, RK SALE.—A NEW DESIRA Piindeiphia beick front e eriton and Wilough by, replete with ail rn tmprovements, bath room, ‘mot speaking tubes, narrow floon t, collar concrete, marble vestibule, neighborhood con’ jent to the care. Wili be sold on reason. scession immediately Ap- joutague street, near Court, two water closets e price only By, to WYCKOFF A Litice, rooklyn. ¥ AUCTION@AT ORANGE, N, J.—TO BE SOLD WITH. ont reserve, on the premises, on Wednesday, March 23, P. M., the late Homestead of Wm. Patterson, deerased; ry Dw: House and usual outbuildings; @ One view, inotudt he Ora oun jultable for oraamen- rehard, and a brook e ‘9 bb * D. TOMPKINS, Auctioneer. tain; an apple tal purposes. JOUNTRY BEAT FOR SALB—TWO MILES NORTH from Baltimore, out Charles street avenue, between 10 SALES OF REAL ESTATE, ARM FOR SALE—ON LOM DEPOT, IN rson, NJ, cont t clase butid new and in ‘pr er. Prive W0. For por Midrese Joho 8. Weatiotura, bux 10 I'ost osice Pat ARM FOR SALEB.—A SMALL FARM IN A MiG state of cnitivation, well adapted f mile from the depot at'Elizabeth, N. horse, cow’, heifer, poultry, an.l 2 $8.50, Also the best Butldii partion ara inqui zabetb, N. J a (OR SALE—A DWELLING HOUSE, IN NEW street, Lower Raliway. The honse contains #1x roows, with good cellar, cletern, small yard and gardea: price $1,400. Apply atthe Savings Bank, orto WB. MIDDLis- TON, 234 Washington street, between 12 and 2 0 clock OR SALE—174 ELDRIDGE STRE LOT 2X33, House large, well bullt and im good order; terms casy. Apply MEYERS, 4 (OR SALE—A SMALL PLACE OF NINE ACR r nd, having @ south Well adapted for market ga ng. Ww! minutes? walk of the New Jersey Railroad matton at Rahway. The plice has on ita house, containing ten rooms, a bara and other outhuildings, @ large garden and a variety of frait Price $4.500' of while) ») can remain on the pry avon itwill be let. Inquire at the , oF to W. B. MIDDLETON, 234 Was Zand 2 P.M, PLOT OF LAND. avenue, fof a mile Also two Lots. each north side, between Fourth ¥. Apply to JAMES LIrro ABOUT T » inches, on. 104th and Fifth avenues, N. avenue, six meres plenty of pure water, an observatory, and’ t provements generally. The carriage | n house, dwelling, founlan, grap hennes i es are in exceilent co substantial and in sty f mountain and water views Is Te was the home of the to make ft @ complete and 4.4 most elegant country seat will Will be sotd for much leas than cost and on Apply io or addres TIMOTHY CKONIN, &o,, 16] Broadway, EB R THREE STORY on ile corner of Tanson_ p! tyn, Has all the modern) Apply to CHARLES L, PRICK Portiand fr i » ori Burilng slip, ON B JOR SALE I ii 12 E. . ONE MILE PROM Ci \fnl Dwetiing Louse, forty f with Thy ere it trees: two m her ‘ooks New York, i Jersey City, Newark and New Yorkgpay as far ont ay the Highlands.’ Terms easy. Apply to 3OHN BRINKERHOFE, at 21 Montgomery street, Jersey City, r from the care: POR SALESNOS 307 AND 382 SEVENTH AVE front, et. Apply to G. W. COLLES, } Wall street. OR SALE. D ACR skill, with barn ry rat ah tree $8000) Apply PY S & KNEVAL, 3tWWail street, or GALVIN FROST, Peokskill, i OR SALE=VERY CHEAP? FOR CASH, CARRTAS near New ruculars at Factory, Storehouse and Sninmer Residen, York: healthy location, aud pleasant, b |OUPHWICK & WOOD'S, 18 Pin’ LE—AT NORTH HOBOKEN, ONE BLOCK nion Hill Horse Raliroad, ‘next to “Grove chureb,” a new two story House, with addition, bailt by day's work, and two Lots of Land. Price $2,0%). Apply to GEORGE ©. DOREMUS, opposite, FFE, SAREGA FOUR sTonE | BRICK BUILDING and Lot, with high basement and subcellar; house 2t 95 feet deep; price $3,5X Inquire on t Full p et. and 12 acres of Land, improved by spacious Dwelling sad Out-houses, select grapery, fruit trees and best of water; a oar, ‘be sold ata bargain, Address box 249 Baltimore office. a TRAL PARK PROPERTY —FOR BALE, A THRER OP nce id Lot, 225 fe fouse aD oot east of Fifth avenue porgh i aiy-Afth street: price 600. Inquire of Dr." }, 445 Grand street, YY T FOR SALE.~THE PLACE RNOWN a Morton, on the Passaic river, within reach y by the Brie Railroad ofa 1 connistio (ht qov YOR SALE AT P state of cultivation; fr gmail fruii in greav abundance; plenty of shad , view of the Hudson at the open jouse, 7! Qosaret, st, funds ia ni Forfuriher paricatarelaquirs {or adirees box 8) Spingler “House, Union 6 New fork, OTTAGE HOUSE FOR SALR AT A BARGAIWIP di aa aye oe neaunan well ar. ranged two story and basement t jouse 320 Twenty-fourth street, between. nitty remain eieeoeh Taek ‘will be. to TL Broadway. room FOR SALE. —THE LARGE AND it; 28 feet wix inches frout ad rear apt Ut feet Noe Fifth atreet. OR BSALE—THE FIRST OLASS MOUSE AND Grounds, 68 by 80 feet, on the northwest corner of Phirty-seventh street and Park avenue, the crown of Mur- ray Hill. Tn perfect order, with all the modern improve- ments, Can be seen by vermit from W. H. WOOD, 65 ‘Wall street. OR SALE—A SMALL FARM, acres of fine land, in the town of Westfield, New Je: aeys can, oe winutes’ walk from the station, an bounded by the New Jersey Central Railroad. A handsome piace for & person doiny business in New York, Apply to NTATNING }OLIN BO’ ‘the premises. R SALE—THE COUNTRY PLACE OF THE LATE J. 8, Petrie, on the North Shrewsbury river. N.J., 25 miles from the city and near the village of Red Bank; high- ly cultivated and complete in all its arranger ston of all fruits, an os. d on the shore, Y boating, fishing and bathing: f ind healthy be: any, question. Further and full rticulars will, be by GEO. H. PETRIE. 44 Ff place, and WM. SLOANE, 0¢1 Broadway. POR, SALE Tus FULL, Lor, WITH ONE STORY Brick Factory, 374x832 foct.’onm the rear: also larce Shade, with Croton Apply to T. MARTINE, 3 West Twenty-eight! rs, SMITH, 208 West Forty- ifth street. OR SALE—O: 25TH STREET, BETWEEN FIFTH AND Sixth aveny A trame Cottage, with as, bath, range, Ac.. and two and a half lots of ground, 6254.00 feet 10 inches; price $3.000. Apply to owner, E, H. BROWN, 124 Nassau street from 1 to3 P. M OR SALE—A COTTAGE, FURNISHED OR UNFUR. ulshed, with three a n on the Shore road b Fort Hamilton, renning t ing a splendid view of fortifications of the harb houee and fee house fil garden, with frnit tree cars every fifteen mi summer, ” Apply on the p em T.T £0, W, CHUROL, at Fort Hamliton . Lower Bay and the * honse, barn, poultry 1 and ail in perfect order: cood -IN HARLEM, ON 125TH ST ant of Seventh avennc, & gulst Nh modera Improte:r seand four lot re, Prica $1 21 Nassau street y. owner, B H from 1 to 3 wrt Y apply Buildings, Montague street, & mond ¥. Prier $4,000. Also brick and Lot, 231 Washington street, Hoboken, N, J. $5,00). Apply to 3. M. BOGERT, 88 Dey street. OR SALE=A VALUABLE PARM. CONTAINING f id ation fully atl is well stocked wits fruit trees of ev iption. or further partie rs apply at 240 Washington street, or to 8, 8. ROAK, neas pre 4 joss. ORE aS OR SALE—THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY — i 1 Lot 20 Lexineton avenie, 197 Kast Thirty ret nee 1S Groenwich street, eof reet, from 12 to So'elock. F°%, SALE—THE FAR situated in Wes: Corners ood bu premises; or (0 or at 177 West Tweifth «' c, ON THE KEW four aeres of goot om plete; pl Haven Railroad, a neat Cotta nd, with barn and necessary bi Fo SALE-NFAR MAMORONEC y to of fruit and pure waver; location demrable, Appl GEORGE WATTS, on the premises, or to TAYLOR BROTHERS, 133 Nassan street, New York. OR SALE—A FARM OF 20 ACRES, BEAUTIFULLY situated on the east bank of the Pasanic river, oppose the village of Belleville, with good hou barn and other outbuildings. a varlety of frait tee grapery, dc. A dest Table situation. fe try residence. Avoly to J.D. nue, N. ¥,,orof W M. ACKER ‘or ACKERMAN, 19 Eighth a MA ih mi THREE Ree STORY BRICK 1, 573 and 675 Thira avenve. Apply enue, Fo SALE—THE build o8. to WM. SPA ‘575 F°s, SALE—A_ FARM, OF 60 ACRES, AUREBABLY situated, on Long Island, 35 miles from New York) a hew and neatly finished cottage house. with javn aud shade trees and farm paildiness apple orchard, peach orchard and an abundance of other fruits. Land first class, in good A fenced, Price $5.00. Terms easy order well Hi. ©. Gray, Commack, Long island,” % ~A i FOUR STORY BROWN et, between Fifth aad aise seid with or without desirable | jone in the city. Will be sold with _ hors the furniture. sold, will be rented, f “5 bet odat it’ ritten application cap be made BOusPOCK, 194 Greenwich street. Fs SALE—NO. 49 m FOURTH STREET, BETWEEN Drigk, House and Lot; D, a three stor avenues C and Price 86, wothirds may re+ ‘K HOUSE 2? odern improve ( eniture, all made te orf mn Long ad a ga Moh vonditoee Will be soldeat ence; price & jamt from thi terms more than fifteen minus to 8. MILLS, 53 ange piace. OR SALB=A FINE COUNTRY RESIDES &. WITH AUTIFUL GOTHIC HO AMS Fuente to order; mm inone Wye st hag three minutes’ walk from depot, btn from 10 acres ak - 4 ty ‘of other Joeation. to A. CHIRNBY, % rine “ONE PUD 8148 Seat east, of Sev- LE—CHEAP FOR CASH, eat north side of Bhs atree! ; With weual modera Iinprove i 4 bene low, mie. For particulars manite at TAYLOR Mi Soap MBSR LDH alo heey par or JPARM FOR BALE-IN PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, RALE—ON THE NORTH Dee i Ls ia te dwelling and outhouses; ‘Sixta avenue and (25th etreet i prime pig Oy i ani werything In | embracing elght full loti Pee rtsedag Moke A. eecouten’ hos HA Vouk | geal gond onder ant incl, witate fois Hew Semaes SSL Sera SER Wet Hur ek