The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1866, Page 5

What it Costs the City for Print- ing, Stationery and Coaches. &c. &ec. - &c. ‘The Citizens’ Association has rendered large vervice Yethe public in ventilating many of the jobs by which the of this city are swindled and by which their Naxes increased’ to an almost fabulous extent. Al- ‘theugh legislative interference has been strongly con- it i generally conceded that it hasbeen the ‘means of saving vest amounts of money from being orstolen. There are many evils still exist- the Citizens’ Association and the Legislature Gnongnito they will learn more in & tew days than the ‘mest patient and searching examination of witnesses would afford in a month’s inquiry. @mancial ruin. Figures are potent and true, and it is to ‘We hoped that those which are given below will bo Powerful enough to stay the fearfa! tide of corruption whieh flows with such direfal effects to our treasury. YEE STREFT COMMIBSIONERS? CONTINGENT RXTRNERE AND coach HIRE, Up to the time that Mr. Charles G. Cornell resigned his position as the head of the Street Department he received he'snug Mttle salary of $7,500 per annum. Hie carringe Bre for’ one year amounted to }326, and his contingent erpeaees $2, Hs corey. “Bill” Tweed, who also the oct el bis opts ra ry larce gn ee tached. recelvs such depu: rear, @ heavier ‘mates Mr, Cornell and ils locas otion con. eequently more dificult. His coach hire, therefore, cost ‘the city more in one year (according to th reports), $988. A grea’ 5 must be done in Street Department, as $72 26 were weoently paid for towels and soap. AND STATIONERY FOR THE CITT AND COUNTY, ‘The large amount actually paid within a year for print- ‘tag and stationery can bardly be ren'ized. ' The expenses fmourred under these heads are scattered here and there oe the official reports, sometimes under Common il, sometimes departments. sometimer election ex- penses, street pronings, &c, When they are colierted Together, it will be found that E. Jones & Co, were paid a@ on® year $268,700; the County Printing “om bY $33,335, and distributed among a Rane. The aggregate shown here is ‘ does pot by any moans include the whole as the last quarter's report, for the county is not ineladed, it not Being printed yet, Bosidos there fs a great dea! covered ‘Up in “contingent expe ” &e, Furthermore the iting and stationery of the Boards of Police. Health, Commissioners of Charity, &c., are pot included. It i4 perfectly xafe to assert that the printing and sta- Wonery for all the city offices exceed half dollars. ‘The word stationery has significance in the City Hall vocabulary not dreamed of by Webster, Worceater ov Walker. It there means # fishing pole, a box of sons clock, a meerschaum pips, or avy other articie a present fency, may reize vpon fora meaning, and wonderful to believe, the stationers, some of them ‘wt least, agres that the definition is correct, and furnish ‘the stationery m whatever shape, quality or form it may be desired. BUILDING CASTLYR IN THE JR. Peopto who often have occasion to cross Broadway in te part of the day, know, ae pone others do, the were of the passage. They have heard of the Common Counci! Committee receiving plans.for an ele- bridge over the street, but wait and live on hope end the pratection of Providence till the good time may walk mafely over the threat. wad uncertain tide there is an officer i i sf of cones a casties tn the nu) rir com ion beauty of the imaginary stim a But this officer (whose name is not given in the pion Salm Feport) receives hard cash, % {orke) for. the Jamyction ef what? As fotke) for the ction of wi 2 aerial ige, existing only n bie imagination. How En make the transit a day, according to his view? Does he witness any collision Detween these ghostly parsers who go before hie “mind's ay in the broad giare of daylight? Do many pause on ‘way to look into the depths below, where the grating of the omnibus wheels ts ax music compared ‘with the cursing of the drivers’ What is the height, ‘Breadth and material of this bridge’ In it enfficientiy to bear the tremendous crowds that he sces on it? Does the flerce pelting of the siorm on his upturned face ebscure va view of this anrial wondor, or does he hide ais head while the shadowy daughter of fashion runs the gauntiet—pursned by the relentless storm bis caro—' the inspector's, who has the sole charge and control of the strnoture, and the of those who over jt? vurely such arduoue fortwo months in the service of such a mighty Nis as this is worth more than the contemptible umber of stampa included in $8750! The next batch of salaries to be raised shonid include that of the “Aerial Bridge Inzpector!"”” COACH MINK AND NORSR® AND WAGON* FOR CITY OFFICERS, Several years ago a date the riding of city officers a f at the city’s expense, and prbiic opinion was 0 strong that it was left ont of the regular approprin to earry on the machinery of governent. But the ingenuity of Common Coanciimen is seidom baffled. ‘They hire the coaches and make the appropriations or pay the bills afterwards How much did it coat last ? Let ussee. Hore are the figures:—Geore W. $5,149; F. Van Ranst, $2,766; half a doven other livery men and Cornell aud Tweeds’, $3,500, Total, $11,405. | The cost of niring horses and wagons for de Perimenta, Kooning and shoeing horses, &c., was $6,819. course the Fire Department, I'olice, &c., are not in- eluded in these items, CABS OF CONSCIRNOR MONEY KETUT ED. Among the curions things found in the Comptrotier's weport the following ie worth copying: — ‘The welosed taxes should have becn paid last but wore wronefully kept buck. Signed X, From a person who does not think he woul: a good citizen if he did not return it......... seeee 40 4 year ee Pe Omeeey | What a blessing it would be if this class of “good ettizens”’ were more namerod®, SP THR WAR OVER S—EXVENSES OF THR COUNTY VoLUNTrAR- ISG) OOMMICTRR, Bome people believe the war ended a year and a half ago, and they suppose that the expenditure attendant on procuring volunteers ended st the same time or shortly afer, “uch is not the case. The County Voltmreering C mrmittee was a “larger thing than the Court House. Bevoral million dollars were spent by them in a few maths; cos:ly presonts of $50,000 and stiver plate wore meio to'the wire pullers; an advertising job, amounting & $125,000 was given to an obscure paper, end clerks aod managers were as thick as flies around a molasves It is a principle around the City Hall that when you Rave got Ay ig thing you ntust get as munch out of it and meke it last as long as you can, It i, therefore, motbing to wonder at when wo read that the pay-roll of elorks of County Volunteering Commutteo, for Jone last, footed up $1,200, and the salaries of clerks on ‘bounty matters,” stationery, &c., doving the some month, amounted to $1,310 59, next report of the Comp- trolier, now iu the printer's hands, wiil probaiy show hat the volunteering and bounty business ix still going on. Does not “0. Biant,” in wh@e name these war- vents are drawn, pry dae Apt bdo l ceased and that the volunteering and bounty basiness ought to be closed ‘Wp a s00n as poxsible ? : * OPENINGS WHAT THEY Cos. a elarce namber of —_ were Jaw—thas is, on process is passed by he Common Council the Counsel to the Corporation to take the avenue to — avenne, according to law. He begins by advertising that application will be made to the Supreme Court on certain day for the appointment of coutnis- stoners of estimate and ansrerment in the maiier, The Court appoints two commicatonors, who straightway summon the Property ow pers Interested and hear their views, After a whilethey make @ report, which firmed, and their duties cease. ° clowed ax ever, but it is ordered to be opened, liste are made up yy upon and aw: orty owners, Here ix what jt cont for ‘i Eran Rath ancl eae oe To two dlocks and a half:— Bimvel Jones, comnplexioner. E. A Woodward, commission Teo. Timpyon, commi Eiward Boyle, sarvevor. B Jones & 0o., printing Geo, H. Purser, clerk eesevsebe ’ Geo. H. Purser, drafting opying report. . tho, li, Purver, room rent, feel, #C....... ‘" ie. Qo. Tl. Purser, diebnrsemenws, rev. stampa, bw x Sinclair, gierical services. . Purdy, ap) deseo John Wm. Avatin, apy wo 4. G. Sinclair, post! oO a5 Gases examin 300 . W. Butt, carriage hire... ~ Wo Randolph Renck, javitor..... 60 Total sSeetbeee been cons SID OTS The expenses of opaping the follow ng named streets cues from the above, per George HH. head rafting and copying the reports, Porser ees Py ed fuel, disbursements, &e., mn all or ay rent, bird etreet, from Fifth avenue to Past river. venth street, from Taird wvenis to hast river and Bigbth aveone to Hudeon river * ty-pinth street, from Fifth avenne to Bort river. oat first street, from Fourth ayepue 10 Eat river, ently seventh etreet, from Highth avenue w Hudson ‘Minetioth street, from Third avenue to Rariew river NEW YORK | Iuvestignutions ef the Congressional Com- mittee. ‘The Congressional Committee, of which Mr. Darling in chairman, now im seasion.st the Astor House, for the Purpose of investigating fraods on the revenue, yeater- day examined several witnesses, and will resume their labors this morning. If their duties extend to revenne frauds in general, it is believed by some of the members that several weeks may elapse before the investigation will be concluded, though it is whiskey distillery frauds will be the their examinations, in which cast their labors may éxtend beyond the onrrent week. Their sessions a: wecret, and no facte whatever are allowed to be made pobie in connection with their investigations. United States Comminatoner’s Court. Before Commissioner Osborn. CBARGH OF ILLICIT DISTILLATION. The further hearing of the charge against Meesre, Waleh & Mitchell, of having illegally carried on the distillation of rum at 161 West Twenty-veventh street, was resumed yesterday. Mr. Charles Donahoe appeared as counse) for the de- fendante. ‘Mr. Crawford, the owner of the premises above men- tioned, was examined. He said he knew the defendany Ho knew J. Frank Stewart, otherwise Goodwin; Mr. Mitchel! lived in Yorkville; the other defendant lived in Thirtieth «treet; Mr. Mitebell, corries on the xash and blind business, and Mr, Walsh has a turning shop; 161 West Twenty-ceventh street bet longs to witness; the place was used as shops and fac- tories; he had some eight or ten tenants there; 161 West Twenty-verenth street runs right through to Twenty-cighth street: there had beon a distillery there in the month of October and November; it was owned by a man who represented his name ae Jobn Williams; he hired the premises from me by the month; saw men pamed Edgar and Stewart xo in there to work: they maid they wrre distilling rum: witness was to be paid in advance, but he never got bis‘ rent; the agreement was verbal; Williams said he was from New Jersey, but he witness) did not know where he was now; if he could hunt him up he would look for hie rent; witness bever seen Mr. Walsh or Mr Mitchell around the distillery: he bad never seen them i be ald not know Bex, nor had he (witness) any interest in it whatever; ‘Witness keeps @ stable there; had seen barrels rolled out there in the day time, but none in the evening. This wasthe case for the prosecution. The Coljector of lifternal Revenue seid there was an- other witness, one Lascher, but he was not in attend- auce. Mr, Donohoe obrerved that Lascher had informed him that he knew nothing avainst the defendants, but he hed refused to answer certain which led bim to jor tare ale to do with the matter The Commissioner said the case rested wholly upon the evidence of Stewart, whore evidence would not be believed by an: pe. Ho therefore ordered the de- fendants to be discharged. THR MANTPACTURE OF BURNING . ‘The further bearing of the charge avainst Marx H. Beringer.of having carried on the distillation of spirits at the corner of Tenth avenue and Thirty-ninth street, without having paid the special tax required by Jaw, was recumed. The defence war that the defendant was ae distiller of spirits, but a manofacturer of burning uid. Mr. Joveph Bell appeared for the government, and Mr. A. J. Dittenhoeffer for the defendant. Tobn Siebert sworn-—I am an inspector of distillerier, and have beon so since the 10th of October, 1866; i know defendant for five or six months; he was superin- tendent of a distillery from the 28th of October until the ‘Lith or 16th of November; it was at 'hevorner of Thirty- ninth street and Tenth avenue; he had no license: Mr. F. Sn jad a license as a distiller of burning finid; the atill there was of the capacity of twelve or fourteen hundred gallons a dav; the sti! ran, with the exception of Sundaye, durins the period in question. The defendant admitted that the liquid distilled at that piace had been seized by the Collector, and that no part a8 been disposed of, and no part converted hy the de fendaut tanto any other article; that the selzare Is on the — ground that the material iv distilled spirits under the law. Tho witness was cross-exammed—I have seen (he said) the stuff manufactored there; it tastes like turpen- tine, and cannot be drank; it came out of the worm in that way; tarpentine was put in the mash; I eaw it put in; defendants called it burning fluid; Beringer was superintendent; he was there and paid the workmen; they did not recognize mo as an inspector, and did not comply with the law se distillers of whiskey; I was placed there by the Collector and ordered to remain there; 1 sa grain and turpentine brought there; I saw turpentine pot into the tubs with the mash. Some of the thud was here produced, The witness vad it was the san that manufactured by fendants, A portion » fluid, for the eake of experi- ment, was burned at the stave of the court room. The crose-examination of the witness was continued. of raking this Is the same exactly as 3 ‘The xubjotned let comprises the names of the mann. focturers who, it is alleged, sold whiskey to Devlin and Levan, together with- the number of barrels that were seized by, Deputy Collector Daily on the 4th and Sth of December. The list will prove of value to euch ae are interested in the exeminations whieh have recently daken place before the United States Commissioner in Brookiva:— Spirits manufactured by Michasl Baxter and James Melan it 202 Gold street, 33 barrels HM. Varrel's, Corl!’ street, near Tillary, 12 barrels, Spirita manufactured by Charles H. Myers, 131 York street, 108 barrels. mannfactured by William Murray, Franklin avenue, noar Flusbine, 11 barrels, Spirtis made by John Madden, &® Navy street, 112 Spirite distitied by Jobn H. Smith, Comberiand street, near Park avenue, 4! barrels. Spirits made by James Lyneb, corner of Bridge and ee barrels. Spirite by John Finley, in name of Charles Phil- line, Hudson avenue, near Concord street, 181 barrels, made by Neil Dougherty, corner of Water and Ki ‘tvenae, inspected by Tilton for Levan, 110 Spirita made by Michael Clancy, Bridge, near Water street, inspected by Tilton for Levan, 187 barrie, mapected Spirits made by Doberty, by Tilton for Le 12 barrels. Lg made by Jar Farrell, Greenland street, near York, inspected by Tilton for evan, 167 barreis, Spirits made by Patrick inapeote: by Tilton for 14" Spirite made by Wilt street, near Radeon avenri Tilton for Levan, #2 barrels. Tande by Wm. Doctor, (tures *9 Hudson avenne, 1D rerrel Spirite made by Patrick Brennan, corner Navy and Nansau streets, inspected ny Tilton for Levan, #9 barrels, Spirite made by Jopn Hoyit, corner Jobwenn and Navy streets, inspected by Tilton tor Levan, 10 barrels. Spirite made by Hal: « Binckwood, inspected by ‘Miton for Levan, 2 bn Spirite made by Matrick Rogers, inepected by Tilton for Levan, 28 berreis. Spirits toade by Jolin Never, No. 18 Little street, in- eperted by Tilton for Leven. 08 barrels Sptrite ‘made by Patrick Wale, corner Tillary and Hedson avenue, inepecied by Tivon res. Spirite made by Michael! Nuy, (uepected by Tilton for Lavan, § barrete. Spirite made by Thomas Raker, No near Hudson avenve, inepe ted by TY barrels, Spirite made by Lawronce Marwell, No. 18 Plymouth BtMet, inapected by Tiiten for Loran, ST barrels Spine made by Alfred Caron, Hi idfom avenar, near pe #trest, ineperted by Ti\ion for Levan, 115 bar. rel Spirite made by J. A. Brannigan & Oo,, Gold, near Til- lary wrreet, i nted by Tilton for Devlin, 4 barrela pire ov Branpieen, rear of No. 226 Gold street, igapected by Titon for Levan, 26 barreia. Spirite made by Thomas Kerri 0. 184 Concord wreet, rear. Winopestod by Tiitom for Levan, > barreia, Epirite made by Thoman Cramming. No. 184 Concord tireet. neected for Lar 00 barreia, Upirite made by pean Semen, rireet, Inspected by 8 for Levan, 47 barrele. Mpinite made ‘Dena Viapuery, avenue. 3) on Levan, 18 bar 184 Concord street on for Levan, 41 = THE LATE ELECTION FOR COMPTROLLER. 20 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. It te due to that portion gf the electors of this city who desired the election of Judge Michael Connolly as Comptroller, that a statement should be made of the facts relative to the refusal by the inspectors of the late election, in about half the election districts, to receive his tickets from voters tendering them at the ballot box. At least ten days before the election Judge Connolly showed me a written form of # ballot for Comptroller, ‘which had been furnished to him by Richard O'Gorman, ‘the Corporation Counsel, as the ptoper one to be ‘aged at the recent election, I examined the statutes Dearing upon the point, found that the proposed ballot was in the form prescribed by law, and returned it to Judge Connolly, expressing to him my opinion to that effect. This wasall I Bad to do with theticketz, He i no blame contd have attached Connolly, even if the law bad required that the ballot should have a different ( 513), which was, by its title, the number of ballots and ballot npon face mation of the office aud the persons to be voted for, or such any voter may desire to vote tor, when folded, shall be endorsed or outside thereof, the words “ity and number six,’ aud be deposited in bor six.’” The names of persons to be voted for as Comp- troller were not included amang the excepted canes of that statute. The only other provision of law affecting the matter is a clause in the amended charter of 1957, ler aball be voted for upon a r, therefore, that when the Comptrol is the only city or connty officer to@be voted for at the election, the ballot upon which he ts voted for—which would necessarily be a sepurate ballot—should be en- dorsed “City and Cownty, number six.’’ When there are pr more other officers to be voted for upon the ballot endorsed “ity and County, number six,’ the Comp- trolier should “be voted for upon.a separate ballot’ from them; but the law makes no provision in respect to the endorsement of that ‘separate ballot,’’ leaving to every voter the right to make hit own endorsement, It fol- Jows that, at the Inte election, as the Comptroller was the only city or county officer te be voted for, whether the statute of 1865, or the charter of 1857. or both, in har- many, were to vovern. the inspectors should have re- ceived Judge Connolly's tickets wad putthem in any box they had fora elty or county officer, however it might have been labeiled. A. OAKIY MALL'S OPINION, / This ix not all Refore Jndge Connolly printed bis tickets he went to the Burena of Elections, in the Police Department, and was there shown an opinion by Mesera, Rrown, Hall and Vanderpoel, counsel two the Poltee Roard. furnished to that body twelve days before the election. The following i an extract from that opinion, ‘and it should be borne in mind that A. 0, Hall, Kaq . by whom the opinion is understood to have been written, was a leading supporter of Richard B. Connolly for Comptroller: — ‘To 1% Boann of Porter, &o,:— Our opinion ty requested whether five or aiz h Senatorial district 4 name or names of We are also of opinion. charter (law of 1867, ehapt ld he New and . * ‘ . BROWN, HALL & VANDERPORL, New Yorn, Nov, 2, 1986, ‘Not only was that opinion shown to-Jadge Connolly for his guidance, bat he was aseured by the head of ‘he Bureau of Elections that the tickets endowed as stated m that opinion were the ones that woutd be rece! ved, and that the Inspectors of Election would be so in- structed. RR, CONNOLLY OF THE WATCH, It was well known, for several dayn prior to the elee- tion, that Judge Connolly's tickets were printed with the endorsement ae County, pimber six,” for he had distributed them iy. Om the Friday next pre- vious to the election I mat the ‘tleman who printed Richard B, Connolly's tickets. spoke of the differ. ence in the endorsement, and ssked me not to make a diMeulty about the matter, ashe would not print thelr tickets over again, told him that we did not seek to hare any person's vote excluded because bis ballot was not endorsed in a particular way, but that the conrse would be for the inspectors to receive all the bal- Jote, however endoreed. He assented to that, and, I be- lieve, miggested that the Police Commissioners should be seen and instructions given to that effect, ms abasnece ig pons. j@ spoke to me on the subject, as 1 supposed, because at the November election, also, the “City and County” tickets printed and distributed the organization different frem both the republican ticket, On our tickets the cai Coroner was voted for fora full term, and on the other tickete for avacanoy. I refused to have our tickets et otherwise, and the result was the election of Dr, ‘hirmer upon our tickets fora fall term, as the comstitu- tion provides. The tickets printed for only blank votes for Coroner, because t was for a full term. and not for @ vacancy. - If J bad had charge of the printing of Judge Connolly's tickets Twonld have refused to print them otherwise than with the endorsement they did have, Wo have trooble now about the matter; but we have the law on our side. If our Uckets had been changed and inoor rectly endorsed, and the tickets for Richard B. Connolly and Richard Kbllv bad been changed to the right en- dorsewent, and in conseq our tickets had been selected, we would not have the strong case tbat we now ve. INDO KELLY AN Neans became aneio day before the election, about the endorsement of Judge Kelly's tekets, and T am informed that the Chairman of their Execut Committee, after examining the law upon the subiect, went on Monday afternoon to the police headquarters and requested the President of the Police Board to take such precautions a would prevent the rejection of their tickets by the inspectors because they were endorsed “Comptroller” and not “city and county, number six. APHURANCRS AT POLICR MRADQUARTERA, As the opposing ticket were endorsed “Comptroller of the city of New York,” I went, a « precaution, to the police headquarters, the evening noxt betere the ele tion—the enrilest opportunity I bad—for the pur pose of inquiring what instroctions, if any, bal been given in respect to the endorsement of tickets Superintendent Kennedy war not there, and I made my Inquiries of Mr Dilks, the Inspector in charge I told him that Jodee Connolly's tckete webs en- dorsed “city and county, number ix,” and that I wanted to be certain of their reveption by the in- spectors, adding that I bad no desire for the rejection of any tickets otherwine endorsed. He informed me that Mr. Oakey Hall, the counsel of the Bourd, bad given an opinion that “Oity and County, number rix,”’ waa the correct endorsement for the ballots; that instroctions had already been given for the reception of auch ballots by the inspectors, and that! need have no vipon that point, His assurances were so complete that not a doubt was left upos my mind. IT have vince been informed by Saperintendent Kepnedy that no instruc- tions were given opon the rabjeect anti! the morning of. the election, end not until inquirier were made im eon- wequence of the rejection of the tickets by the imapectors. AN EXTRAORDINARY KEXCLT, From this statement it will be seen that J) Con- nolly's tickets—the only ones ted at polls inted in the manner provided by law—were refused alt of the polling places im thé city, potwithstanding the fart that leading supporters of the rival tickets knew that these were it and thei ‘wrong; notwith- 5 4 Es i that the representatives of that board had given ve prurances’ that the tickets 60 refused “wou de re ceived. A-PTATIONREY CLERK CFOS LAW, ‘Thi great wrong to Jodge | on to bis friends and to the elective rystem, war accom) « combina- tion of cireamaances. The pamphlet of it etions fur. nished to political printers and to inspectors and canvass. ere’ was prepared by a clerk in the «tore of the by whem the pamphiet war printed. However it the clerk may be in bis business, the fact be forme for the city and county tieaets were both the November ami the December elections, shows that he ie noteompetent to paw upon the legal pointe iy involved In‘the preparation of euch a pamphlet, He gave in that panyphiet the form of the ballot as printed by the friends of Richard B Connolly and Richard Kelly, and thereby furnished to inspectors @ pretext for C7 receive ballots ip the legal form. THIMRELE RIGGING IN oy HORRLE OF EL PChOrE Although the Pohos Covomimioners had been alviend by their counsel thet ‘ity and Coapty, number sa’ wae the lege! endorsement for the Comptrotier’® ballot, yet the Burean of Elections, {natead of tend ing Ont Indole ‘for the boxes in that form, gent out tabele wdieh real, ‘“Comptroiier of the Ohy of New Vort.” 1 do not know that either of the Com missioners had any direct participation in thi error, tut the head of that burean, who had Mr, Hall's opinion In hit own poaneawion, and who had told Judge Connolly that the ticket# were to be endorsed an atetad in \hat opimon, DY Whom the wrong lavete were rent probeply acted from nome sinister motive, I aay tin, bec auer thie Oret telegram sent to the police head. quarters on the morging of the election, inquiring whe ther ballots endorsed “City and Crunty, namber etx,’ should be received, wee sent to the head of that burean. Tnetead of answering “Yer,” be sent beck to inquire abowt the \wside of the ballet He koew very well the couns) of the beard bad given an epimion th endorsement inquired about was the legal of @ ballot at that slection. He aleo knew i tore of election had nothing to do with the pa and be also knew delay wan fatal when & ° of voten were being polled every minute, toproiteg tee period during to pro! ticket rhoold be aod {here could be of the colpabiiny Me RCOMDUCT OF és sft i i JEMBER i z, i 3 e 3 = 3 3 F; H A i : i S| : | i i | ; i i H é i g iil ; i La ‘Eb fl HH i oy i He 2 E 5 i Fy & 2 BS i i : b z= 5 : 5 3 i H < et sas 5 ® re nds around for a like. put ‘Tho falso and } ous story that Judge had sold out to Connolly, erideatiy, marted, ithe more uifust, it is have received e large sum of money retired from tho canvass, and bie never for a some Crag me proporal that surrender accepted ratic Union candiine. oil it RYPECTA OF THE FRAUD. impossible to couvey to persons not juainted ‘with t 6 practical working of the election machinery a full sdea of the fatal influence upon the success of a can- didate prodnced by the rejection of his tickets at half of the palling places in the city. It is much the same as though of an army should Sind, on facis enemy that thei munition was nsclesa, The result in this case Was 6 universal impreasion that Judge Connolly had no chance—an im jon not even confined to the dis- tricts in which the tickets woro refused. In conse- quence, thousands who went to the polls to vote for Jndge Connolly voted for Richard B. Connolly; thon- of others went away without voting for Com; troller, and some, who were di ly wo all that they could to defeat the special “ring” candi- date, voted tor Richard Kelly, [ will cite the vote in two wards to give, by contrasting them, some idea of the injurious effect of the rejection of the ticketa:—In the ward in which I reeide, the T Heth, the tie! refused tn only two diatnicta of the twant) Jadge Connolly received 2,602 votes, Richard ly 1,923, and Richard Kelly 1,899, In the Thirteenth ward (which in No majority for the demo- om ticket over the Tammany and also over the ) the tickets were at fret refused in all the dis ut two they were refused al e Judge Connolly curried those two districts, but in the whole ward he only received 400 votes, while Richard B, Con- polly roveived 873 and Richard Kelly 684. It cannot be doubted that if Judge Connolly's tickets had been re. ceived from the start m every district he would have heen elected, and Richard ht Connolly would have been the lowest oc the three candidates, That Judge Connol- ly, under such advorse circumstances, received nearly 20 900 votes to some 27,008 for Richard B. Connolly and 25,000 for Richard Kolly, gratifving evidence ef the Great strength of the independent democracy, JUDGR CONNOLLY WILL ConTEST. ‘The vreat fraud perpetrated upon Judge Connolly and his supporters compels him to contest the election. His own honor, the interests of hi friends, the purity of the elective franchise—every consideration, public, political and private that may properly infinencs him— demand that he shall take soch action. He has assured his Criends that be will take ft, ORJECTION® TO A CONTHRT. sald to be Mr. A. Okey Hall, takes two objections to a contest by Ju Coonolly. First, he save, that the provisions of law in endorsement lots 4 Sie i, Pl ag the baltste. for not man , wn ‘ore, that ¢ iota for B. Connolly, even if wrong); |, cannot be thrown out, Exactly-ao; and for thesamereaon the for Ji ly, oven if it had not been legally not have been re- jected. The protest of Judge nally to the Board of only point they could Waa Ot intended ag a statement of tho which a contest would be made in the the effect thet the law will not upon thove excluded ent to say, without din. bis popeien, sae Mt does not affect the contest wi . In certain election districts has, in the aggrevate, a majorit In certain other districts the 3 < i # A 3 over elec. would be a prover punishment to Rich- B. Counolly, whore friends are guilty of thin great pe Ph wrong by which only he procures a certificate of election, VLAN FOR 4 COMPROMIBR, T perceive that there ix a danger attending the pro- posed contest, which I will state, because I always desire to look a danger squarely in the face. Although we throw oat eno: districta to place Judge Connolly ahead of Richard B. Con: bi head of Ji Cs germ wr geod ly, we may not be able to jelly. The fraud of whieh chiefly accomplished many of which * has been great, such districts that notorious cabal made special to prevent votes for Judge Connolly, because they winded to conceal, as long as possible, the fact of their loss of power. Such districts should of course be thrown out; bat their exclusion would not moch affect Judge Kelly's vote; and we are not yet advised to what extont the fraud was perpetrated in the districts which gave him majority. If the contest should eventnate in the sucoess of Judge Kelly, the friends of Richard B. Con- olly, who planned aod accomplished the fraud at the id be responsible for the result, and not ly, Who was the victim of the frand. oily, however, can avoid this danger resigning the office on the first of January. There would then be a new e! and, probably, him to the oitice until the vacancy was filled by popniar election. If he pervists in retaining ¢ secures only by 4 gigantic fraud, J compelind to show the falsity of th derour report cireulated arainet him by Richard B. Connolly’ by making the contes!, whatever may be the re NELSON J. WATERBURY, Chairman Democratic Union Executive Committee, Kew Youn, Deo. 15, 1866, com: THE NEW DEMOCRACY. Tammany Thrown Overboard. The nerillan Dee, 15) leaders of the Tammany party profes » pro- re lo heal the wounds of the distracted democ- reay by “mosteria ail guoritian giving their officnrs #uch ran! Indeed, thie is extremely kind, and illustrases that th! green football door yet voritably move. But “rank | (bat our guerilla oMcers “may deverve Months ago it was hanging on the first poll Tammany grape and canister, pretty much as our pious and philanch Engtinh frienda wrved the Sepoy Febeia who en bait late India war, “Will you walk into my parlor, said the spider to the fy,” ot the same time assaring the latter insect that it wes “ihe tiest litte that over he did apy.’ Well, ad ag went in, | bat dide't tate y @ Bow dominated, we have hal some exciting ex- = On that occasion we escaped out of it with our lives, t! heavily blooded and with from ita enstaving mexhea, Before that can have the pleasure of usfy must obtain marital security (a anxious ‘wooers come to court vo beard the Tammany yen, abel ab hie matter ¥ ; eee tot 8 vietory's happy . te the gioom ul der Fowt. We warn on O'Reilly bahot bow thie quarrel ont Serounly syeaking, geatlemen of Tammany Hell, no barga'n our power to offer can be etenpied on this aide of (he Louse. Last fail the tate Convention of our party decided that there really was go “outwde [e- mocrnoy ' in the city of New ¥. Tere Diy be # fow mb Je moreheads; but they ainvunted to pothing. Well, under this faith, the Stata Convention Kieked us cat of dots sa though we hed been veggare Abowing wirerated legs for alma, but whether Uey will try that cums again or not the foture ment decide The, howerer, we can assure the Hiate anthoritine lam No vember ¥¢ eupported bearliiy aad with splendid real the tieket hich they in the held without con. Folting Our Winher—partiy teeaune there was ihe excuse for them that we bad pot then shown our rtreneth, and ty erase we had « ly ar@ed the nomination of John T. Hoffman for Governor. Bat, the Hute, while guiede may he am agreed e thing, just once 1a 6 while, ik )* not healthy fore permanent cocape- tien, and, © help of Heaven the Btare toket of inet November, which was mate irrenper’ Ube last Ptate Urket from pow horn, that wo #hall ever support ander similar creer. ‘Oar quarrel, in a word, most be carried up Wo the Mate authorities, and mast be’ by them decited met olered here by the penane Sate ona te te ceived as an errangemen! iB good faith + Mbely te covet commiting politcal ywell | mivht pews. | } tae not! wages LE SHEET. matter how epectons thelr often te ease ve geerilla chaps mrovd ‘bs some’ Hie rot be sball have been our lives would want? Isn't the an any regular Hoffman «in. core in bis wish AmB ia bese, pes Seve cay contro! aaly hms ravesed : ei for bis follow-sinners Bat us their power? y. oh Spiders of the Wigwam! we thank you for yet ple invitation, but we ‘ice most, moet Pal the South recently, and ance of the Freedmen's nem noes -_ 8 © 6 by ‘most important part of what the inspectors have to say—the summing up of their copelusions after four months’ Inspection of the bureau in which they assert that ‘there in an eatire absence of They have rence to records, reporta and They have made no examination of mv office, and asked no reason for any action taken, records or information they desired that could not be found in the offices of the South may be here, What result if they should make a genera! inspection of the quartermaster, commissary or other departments in the same way? Those officers who had been relieved. or wore beyond their reach, are tupposed to have made !m- Pp r dispositions of all records or papers connected with their offices, ‘There is not a bureau in Washington with a more com plete set of reports, books an #, &e., than can be produced at this office for inspection at any time, Thoy attempt to prove their assertion by the statement that in one State its officers exercised judicial powers; in one adjoM'ng all cases are referred to civ!! authorities, while in a third State bareau officers collect the cases and turn them over to military courts. Thetr own inspection re. porta will rofnte this, In the States of Kentucky, Ten. nessee, Missisxippt, Louisiana, poereey AL oral Flor. ita and North Carolina, barean ageate Rot exercive Jndieial powers of any kind, and in the other States the powers exercised by the officers of the bureau are mod! fied by the feelings and conduct of the people towarls the freedmen. They admit there is great differance in this feoling of whites towards the blacks, What other prineiple more uniform 4 It possible to adopt than to, regulate the power of agents of the burean by the 4i« position and conduct of the people, favoring them ax they approtimate equal justice? Tt will be seen by referring to the regulations from this bureau, Circnlar 5 series 65, approved by youreel!, that a grwvloal transfer of jurisdiction was implied, and just as noon as practicable we have mado trial of the civil courts in every State, Thave sought the provort courts ax well as the civil, to relieve me of the exercive of judicial powers, Buran officers have never attempted to regulate wages, end no ordor ever existed making any reculations on the sabject. Demand and supply this matter. Of conrse wager, manner of payment, and ali the qoestions entering into tbe labor subject differed widely throughout the South, aod, from the matare of things, could wot be apiform, Althoagh importuned from all parte of the Bouth to take sone action about wages, J steadily refused. The following haa been the standing order for all tha States. — “No fixed rates of wages witl be for a div thet; dnt, in order to reguinte fair wages ig individual enson, agents should have iv mind minimum rates for their own guidance." Asistant commissioners are required to farnich me of all orders and circulars be reg them, xaminition of all they bave =e 00 the subject to produce any attempt, npon thelr part, to regulate wages or contracte, The freedmen and om plover have been left to manage the matter for thom- selves. They say that schools In Louisiana’ have bee ported by the governni ‘Their rep how ever, that they were supported by a military tex, and, perhaps, to some nt, from the inoome from aban doned property. They way that agents interfere in on arbitrary manner in favor of freedmnen sometimes, and at others in favor of the planters, Thir is simply a crime secording to bo- raan regulations, and the inspectors should have pre- ferred charges avainet these officers, that they might might have been tried and panish ad, Tt is treo that the expenses of the bareau fame in all the States, vaavity for bureau agencies differs por of the people, it isnot mingular tha! expenses should be apportioned ee: inely. T an not aware that the borean in any State was sapported by f from the United States T printion. In feet no directly fort faation 1 x tere, o# they tatements, ke of Genera plete. Of course his predecessor wo retained papers, and one complete sot t* office, They can find out how much lected from every legitimate and pro sietppi by ealling on me and asking for ton, They say this system of receivmg and disbarwing money |p loowe, The vame blinks forme, reports and regntation# av need in the Quartermaver's Department bave been adopted by this Buren ax far aa possible, and are at coniplete @ cheek pon bureau + iu the discharve of their daties od upon officers of the Quartermastor’# Departinent who oriyinate and dit burae Fane. ‘They next refer to the exse of Colon of the defeit of $7,000 in Lootetlana, Foster, who ie raid to be a defaniter. It cannot be pow. dible that General Fullerton, who, a8 one of the ourenn athens, assisted in bringing this matter to tigh!, can fa! to remember that this mbject has been undersoing ow invertigntion for the last eit munthe The whol* mat. ter originated before (ue burean was to exletonee, and hae been broaght to light and prowecnted by the Sedatent Commissioner, in order to fix the guilt apun the proper perenne and esonge their funtehmen! It tn not justice to the officers of the burew them with crimes that were comuiited eainet Uy men in time prior to ite orgamraton, and to eappret dates and the location of grave charges so ae to eluift (he ponaibility upon those not guilty. he inwpectors next adinit the veooeity of the Rarean last year and acknowledge that it did muck good for ail Clansen, If this be trae it ix bad bogie to von the workings of the Hurean for mistakes aod errors thet wore committed last year, and tore particolarly (or the year before its organization. Nearly avery charge tas Ageinat officers in this Ona! report is for acts of leat year, and npon winch thew offic rs have already Venn called to necount by the Bareau or the War Department, Tcannot agree with the loepectors alrngetter tes complete revolution in the sentiment of the Sowlhern people, which insurre protection «iffevemt for the (reed. United States officers and free tmen are taur- 206 Informa ent to charge Lorest in recuring ‘This 1 regard an inenifirient secarity when uveter! to alow lately wi heat some other principle—+ g. the grarenio@ of equal laws For years siaveboiders have deemed Ml@OTY measures the beat wearily of lalere “the inmpertors deckure that “the borcan bas heen, in the ageragate, protuctive of more harm than god and Give as their feasons, substantially, (he telance upon it Of the negroes, ani their consequent distrust of the iy holders, and the provoestion of exploonge (realing motaal wipicion and bitte’ name IT deny the whole statement, It ie net founded apow fact, bat opon theories comstantiy put forth vy the eneinien of good order A few tat agente have been pent, and have doubtless doue murh harm, yet this boreas has been mediatorial and wacific ay & t has relieved thie very saspicion and Witter. ew that exited when it wer Oret organeed. Ihew, marders and wicked Gordes have reeptiy sprang ep bet theme are im be way initiated of recegnuned by Une ulioors of the government The fompercore charges the Perea: with bemy rere bie for the low wages paid frendmen woder oom nations | shall peter to comwacts seain yp wages fret Thix baptad mrver rex lated wages, Wat (it orge atl Freedman to beber on pion lations and elsewhere, in order to relieve the gurern ment of their sapport, and to demonstrate to the try (tint they wore not to become m whiftiens depen rane. The paopie, North and Roath, ae well a o0 dept proemity, demanded that the fre@tnen ot ® work at the beginoing of the year My tered the field and urged the frentmen Wo iake the comares ing for thewesives § You ore fully owere in tne Piawtere in difieront paris of ‘he Mowtl formed combinations again high wages, -27n6 Saunton Biting « lows rato 00 £8 per month for ablebetied, The Lareas Mcore urged that the standard be planed eh ab cand en compel & bacher rete of compeusation. What were the freeimen to dor If taey fated to contencs they incurred the otitin of being & “Maay, le end worthion race” hewlder running (he Vek of sarving, They went to work om plemtavons at the highest waees they court get At hoon a planters Wo find that labor would be mmree, (hat the freed going to work, they cxw that thelr interet ternre istewers lot their cottem felde belure a late, and overed higher raler Nothing eoatd be Yet H te pet Gittewlt Wo see thet the eptenemind the capil, were shot, and competiod bow wages Boreas Ge * pore? to grt ihe Bighes porntin tor the frente: bet ae the Getta Telrees 064 ibe woud Oh ag Heno'e report | ! EEE D, TUESDAY, J ~~ and rs, not the officers of the Bureau, are compelling the laborers to accept fe $) January or starve, Now that the panter® ting labor no deus tha ‘are willl or the plant wore yot prepared wd thie, froodmen, under a free sys Work il tha crop war saved, lained mousy to keep then desert the crops abe every Pouthern State has the freedmen are to be con- Tefured to employ woold agree to remain ope wore Into thove oti them to work ‘Any one who will She corrant as reported di is of ant the power was upon the Kouth to make them that the brrean equal laws properly executed. From the course pursued by the inspectors, 1 ruspect the object of the tnapection, as they understood it, wae to bring the Froedmon's Bureau into contenpt before the country, and to do this they have endeavored to prove mal-adiniuistration, On the contrary, | am prepared to prove to yourself or any other candid mind that I have folfilied the trast you committed to me with care, conscientiousnem and faithfulness; I have obeyed your orders and instru tions, making no other objections than those T have made to yourself and the Secretary of War; that my arstem has been @ thorough one, and a4 complete and valform as was poamble in an institution intended to be tempo rary and to meet a trandent necessity Could the Freedmen’s Bureau be gow administered with your full and = hearty = mnetion, and with “the co-oporation —of_~—s the ather branches of the government, it would fulfl the objects of 1t# erent n & short time, and,be made, while it exited, to conduce to industry, enlightenment and Justice for all classes of the people. The work com- mitted to {tinay doubtless be done by the army, without aburean, but not with much lew expenws, Yet if the government would keep gond faith with its now made citizens, rome sorta a United States agency must be maintained in the Se a Statew, until society shall itnow is, Very reenect sorvant, 'ARD, iajor Ganaral, Commieronor Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the 1 Staten, Wan Deranrmenyr, Borman Faxon’ ano Amaxposey Laxty Wanursaros, Kept. 24, 1566. § Sin-—-Having received a copy of Governor Patton's letter to Preailout, dated September 13, 1840, #0 Hiciting @ suspension’ of circular No. 10 from thin bore and representing that the actual sufferers in Alabama, from tho want of food, are from “seventy to eighty thousand, the larger portion of whom are widows and orphans,’ and that ‘three. foorths of this number are absolutely dependent npon government or charitable contributions for ab aittence,”’ and representing, further, a depleted Bite treasury and an embarrassed credit, and having tu add) tion to these representations received several earnest recommendations from Major General Swayne, Astetant roteioner, to the same effet, 1 recommend that “peclal relief be fornished trom the appropriation for iat parpos, not to exced $40,000 per month, for the period of three months It i proper to notice that in A! According to the lug report, there were mare than two Whites aided with rations to one colored person. Very respectfully, ©. 0. HOWARD, Major Geaoral, Commissioner. Hon. F. M. #rawrox, Beoretary of War, Wan Darauruest, Sept 28, 1606 In view of the foregoiy statements the order of 294 Angast, topping the iue of ranplies, is modified «0 as to allow the Lane of corm and bacon, as requested by Gov ernor Patton, for the period and quantities above men- tiowed, to the State Bf Alabama EDWIN M, SLANTON, Seerstary of War NEW JERSEY INTELLIGENCE. derary Olty. Tox New Pre avo ree Mower Carat Cowresy The conrtruction of the new plor in Communipaw Core, whieh rodited to the Morris Canal Company, i# in reality the work of the Central Hallroad Company, hore couslons wetivity in the construction of piers, * in the night of on the Sabbath, throws into the ade the noctornal operations jattery end Dey Dork Railway months the Cen tral Railrond dy bh Commenipaw by several ranges of pie Cuanoen wor Honea me Exrvoven.—For several weeks past Michael Gardner was easpected of abwtranting y in aina)l eume from the dewk of hin employer, aniel Hertivan, and the matter having been left to officer MeDonongh, @ wateh wae ma ntsined over Gard ner's acts, On cunday be was caveht in the net and was promptly taken into castedy. The proceeds of his nm continuous pilfermng rea hes about $300. Ave ‘ oren—On Saturday night a return dier named John Porter, formerly « tnomber of the Hixty.ninth regiment of Penneytvanie aloe im the sore art at the corn: Volunteers, = He waa faken the roper medica! eare Howe Mrat Detective Rartew Dowvern ny cansed the arrest of « Jew pained Casper Var. sicher at No. 218 Court street, for salting dim wih. The rarcam of the animal wee fotnd mien He wan discharget on the payment of There being egainet line hore flew, a Jew wax only punishable for dispowipe of eased meat 4 re Creme Jackson ant Jotie Wilwn, two having \nen detected in stenting - he Matinee and DD New streets, the Grmnd Jury. at about #260 Orange. Lenerees.—On Honday night the Rew be First Preebyterian ¢hareh at fects of a parsiytic stroke with wh on Saturday evening Mr, Hoyt | wee a areduste of Union Cotlege, and was installed pas tow Fort charct om Pebraary 14, 18i6, He wae yonioe years of age Trewtow, nor Rom Charles Reh, who waa conv) ted at the lant term of the Merver County Court for bribery, wer yoetor@ey morning denied a wew trial by the Mo- te Court, In the afternoon he was nentenced in the Mercer County Court, holding « apecial cension, to ene J Par © Consmement im the State Prism at bard lehor amd fovever Aieqaal.ied from holding office under Une Plate The comin of the Chiet Justice upon the erime of bribery were very severe, yt, pastor died from the Orange, bh he way attack ‘news Tene Mtr. Valrorother, tandiont of t recently mariered, ander « stances :—He met bis morderees io the bh door of the dining renn, ont asked wanted, Hive weed hie waniet her tre werd We bore Wend beet Gimet rye Aecharged ber re Mate, Teena, folhywieg chrome 1, a6 the worth rornner said We lad wot come from the perven Fhe retorted that be hed te Charge of the | ning romenn disthere:d her fren the Marnam Hotel, ie ™, Lowe, Fomme thine winme, lly Viale t ne wae alt ioe iO every Halon Mr Wt ¢ thet she mow Mare Hie tured ee for win from ee tomtt pineet the ® air ageitet bin tomy Ae ohe brew the } stiemped to greep her, Wel 1 Oe ts Tou Hoa email one eoured the shinnem an invihe the mapper pertol the hp Mis reenwey te | dowtafe Mark Twain, the California bemoriet, har heen mate | the viet «og & Wotan | war iw Ne ole Coty # lied (howe emptor aes Bim the f huwired Aotiare He thought nie the pr ofa fwilod to ste the potas Othe pie ( New Ovieane ere velaable pros The anneal lasing receatly inl wy of tohdenoe amen 4 wae. oleh cmt the ent wer een ‘han 90,000, moot a thirteen of Of theme the old French ew he the mat Aeieteraied abt frequent he Peyeten marae bes come wr rived 40 sted favew legen free owns 400, river, whiet te equal to fow it 258 OD fren of loge thie winter, 162 Derees ead 64) een cee tmagnieer han bon teetnd men con cerry on bie te & Bh once Aemrey es Lem A stated (netury to Verment has mate wae of 2,08 tabele ol Aan 0 tg Wee iste for he ony ont ertied | Diryaies Me