The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1867, Page 5

ql ] | J ‘York begs leave to call your attention to the fol- NEW SYORK “HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1867—TRIPLE SHEET. THE CORPORATION COUNSEL, — Letter from tWe Citizens’ Association. te Richard 0’Gorman—The Judgments Against the City-How They Were Obtained tn De- Sance of Law. Grrizexs’ Association or New Yor, 813 Broapwar, Nov. 12, 1867, Bromanp O’Goruan, Esq., Counsel to the Cor- ‘poration of the city of New York :— Bra—The Citizens’ Association of the city of New lowing letter, addressed by you to its Committee on Nominations, and also to certain matters connected ‘with your department and the administration of ‘Your office :— New Yorx, Nov. 6, 1865. Gunriewex—I have received your letter inform- ‘ng me that the Citizens’ Assoc! have nominated me as their candidate for the office of Corporation Counsel at the coming char- ter election. sensible of honor thns conferre: Upon me; I ‘am well ot that your ee ‘would not have fallen me mo if you were not satisfied aleots 5 responsible office ‘would ey the best pte of cur noble Sinan eng Toner tae eet , #8 ko Mite @uances te adverse influe fon ciate ever quarter or in whatever shape "y may be @asailed, ‘The office of Corporation Counsel is a parel eivic office having no necessary concera with Zatitinsl parties or with the great political issues hich agitate society. It is an. office of heuor, indeed, but at the same timo of labor, care and The lawyer who has the city of esponsibility. New York for his. client and. endeavors honestly and efficiently to discharge his duties to that client ‘will have bis hands fall and no easy task. With these views of the importance of the ‘ffice before you you have tendered me your nom- imation and pledged me your cordial H with, there views before me aterally’ and faily and proudly accept your nomination pe ae setba and inretarn I pledge myself to you, if elected to this office, to devote allthestrength and energies I Possess and to use all the powers the office may ote to aid you in your desire to ensure for the bo anh lines of . 38 and improvement. am v twuly, and respectfully yours, je RICHARD O’GORMAN, You entered,on the duties of your office on Jan- ‘mary 1, 1866, about one year and tea months ago. You are the legal adviser, the “lawyer,” of the Worporation of New York and the Beard of Super- practi? and your duties may be simply summed up First.—To defend the corporation and the county ‘against illegal claims, Second.—To commence suits on behalf of the ‘@ity when directed by the Common Council. fe Third.-To give opinion on the law when di- wected by the Common Council and the Board of As above stated, you haye been in office for s@bout twenty-two months, and in that timo the eity and county have been compelled to pay for the legal services above described the sum of $152,974. In order that you may understand why your attention is called to the amount which the sity has paid you, we simply state that in looking for the results of such a vast outlay for lawyers fees we find that during the twenty-two months you have been in office ta have been re- overed against the city to the amount of $474,589. he Citizens’ famntictee desires to A Bes age following facts. to. you im relation to these judg- ments. fa order that you may explain Sheen ir It appears from the records of the several @ourts that the sum of $194,004 was recovered uring your term of office by judgment against the city for advertising the proceedings and notices ef the Common Council certain local papers. aS sum was recovered in open defiance of wr, By tho act of May 4, 1866, the sam of $30,000 appropriated for sich advertising in 1966, and was expressly enacted that no greater sum @bould be for that purpose, and that the eity should not be liable on any contract fur any greater sum, and that no judgment should be ‘entered against the city of New York for any sun for such purpose after said $30,000 had beem ex- the sot 23, 1967, the's k we app eeitad ian peak caveeticagy aus 8 ar saty dhould not be amount, $194,000, recovered by judgment as above etated was in excess of such sppropriations, and, F e some of such illegal Tou; ia hore yews and summer of 1866, feni ity successfully against them. ‘The claimanis appealed to the general fterin, and the general term penctacatan BD er ali such claims, declared the acts above ned @onstitutional and saved the city from attempted der. out from Supreme » brought illegal claims in the Superior Court and ‘the Court po em gree tle gee ar @hat you agai penny city, but on lo ao wih ‘be inquire’ into further on court we judgments agai city an allowed choos claims in the face of the acta of 1866 and 1867 psssed for the protection of the ‘a tion; but took no appeal from these judg- fire ii which yon, Selended, ome illegal claims in the name jourts. pears ‘that the claiiiaats in ay (where an mach 50.804) was invel' were igmad] Srrvaates of the work for which they demanded Tt also that, of such cece sens reeesseeedeeneeeges see S108 008 ‘And this amonat of judgments ts obtained im de- of the laws of ‘hee aad 1867. * There are also judgments obtained fet alleged te ‘ee tion which are je a a corporatio ually entered for any claim riation was expended. yy months the following judg- Of whatever party, a future the records | “4 in the same manner as those Jotrnens te, Jones of December 17, 1866, fudgment Jones Judgment of K Zonen of April 10, 1867, Total. The Association also asks your attention to the ut even if the laws of 1866 and 1867 were by the Superior Court and Court. is another law, with ordigances “printing” only is excepted t disrega: Common, Pleas, there was und which you are bound to be familiar, that consti- tutes a barto these claims. The charter.of the city gequires all work done for or supplies fur- nished to the city amounting to more than $250 to be done by contract, by the Ci stationery, &0., appropriations made by la. of March 14, 1858. over and above the were obtained \vertising, via.:— om the onpentl :of the provision. There were no con- trae! ade for this $194,004 worth of advertising, for the stationery. © parties comm: ment, Phile you failed to lay enced suit*and obtained judg- before the court as @ defence, the fact that the enarter of the city barred ‘the recovery of all such claims, ‘The Association also desires an explanation of the Tn the spi ment of the Legislature, cation to the Comptrol! follo e g of this ir, just after adfonrn- you (2 a a Poni) ad ler, in which you recom- mended him to pny all those judyments, You argued at length that, notwithstunding the Legis- lature expressly enacted, in the act of Apes 1867, that no-such judgments should be pafd, yet, nevertheless, the Comptroller ought to disregard the law and pay out the city money to satisfy the claimants, * Althouw you had defended the city against those cluims, on the ground that they were unlaw- ful; although the Supreme Court of the State had. decided in accordance with that view, yet you ur Pho Associati d the Comptroller to pay them. ion is unable to reconcile our @ar- nest endeavor to have those claims paid, when they had aright;to ex t that you would have taken an appeal fram the judgments entered im stead of T! two x their payment by the city. ‘he Association finds that during these twe' months you have drawn from the city for expenses of your department the sum of $152,974, The items which make up this eum ere briefly as follows: — TNO Sy a Gotieal to the Corporation..... $18,333 Your salary as legal, adviser to tho Board of Supervisors... . 3,086 Your salary as. mem! 1,833 Your allowance for-cierk Dire. fo 6 000 ‘Yorrioxtra counsel fee in the suit to eniorce taxation of bank stockholders. -. 10,000 Your bills for stationery blank books, | coal ‘hg wax, ink, pen®, paper, envelopes, scissors, Bpon cen, cups, diaries, files, mkstands, pen- ODA BOO dre adncccsenctane~+ scr +<nnstaneen ghee Gare bis for coal, dase. clock, a king ses, screens, erage, shades, mats, on id wd ‘matting, ciclo book: vcases, deska, si apittoons, drawn on the nprrtpeiatiog tor cleaning and supplies... 1,504 Your bills for alterations and repmira to the oflice _ ‘on occupy, lumber, plastering, painting, por Bag and for wood, coal, labor, gas 0 xtures,. igeas pipes, tables, desks, chairs, bookcases, racks, wardrebes, screang and carpeting, “drawn from appropriation for construc:ion of | ; .. 2a 85. ‘Your tills for the pes by you to defend the city. “4611 Your bills for *contigent éxpenses of offic: i which you give no items . ‘Your biit3 for costs paid, referees’ ices. copies, . Legislative bills, searchea, printing points, taw ‘Dooks, reporting surveys, serving subpanas, witness toes, Bheriff’s fees, clerks’ fevs, ter’s fees, blanks and subscription to the Al- ((Watty Argus.........eeee- eee 138% Your bills (or reatof your offices . 6,131 Amount certified by you, as counsel tra lawyersin the of taxation of ban! BLOOKDOMGOES woes ceesns eaeesiceverssecrseeeee “20,000 ‘the “<contigentexpenses of pad yet injoventrane montbs thousand three expenses withont a name. 4 & ~ He ge duly particularize: clusive of the $8,230, every imaginable “ contingent expense ay item in’ the -nbove account of $8,330, furnish no items w: re. 100 desires to call your attention to for ur office,’ for which Tt appears f-om ‘ou ite other charges made by you that every, neces expense would be met by the other sums, uodred. and thirty dollars d and charged by you i oRESSS ODOR AMATHO SRSER SHSSasersesssssasssaassssasssssSSsssesss|essssssssss ron spend elit for The following items ex- and seem to cover Pears lew boating Taktag dow: ‘Taking down a ons o a aaee al espe 94 matting. ‘work in 66 Bo 19 Do a8 Do, Soap a! theeame..,......... +. oe 47 50 Sereen, coaihod, fre set and cartago 15 75 It is supposed that it would be diflicult to name an of for the use of your office which i $3; ie HY 2 Hd i 4 Ht should be absor' of:office.”” # 5 HY ty ap} ia the Ne list above, and it i 80 by you for other “‘ con- ae by ey Wileh had nothing wo, do" with "ot the Sued em Gre aan ec counre! Cornell, and ‘snch Pie TT pad lh ally for ing to examination of the peoein te your IS Ee eenale aint O'beien, whe wan tate r. OF Mlected to the office of Conncilinan, Wan tetueed & og in the @ ay & beyed this order, and the court fined them the other iN 4 rate a ope, Cc aoe ali Mr. " Common Council, in the laudable endeavor to save the city the of @ contract for lighting this city expense of is g@8, Which the Common Council were about for twenty years at a vast outlay, bronght an‘action to restrain the consummation of ‘the wrong, Instead of assisting him in his honest effort aS engaged two special counsel, at extrav- agant fees, and paid them out of the z treasury, to try and dissolve the injunction allow the contract to be made. , In_1866 a suit was commenced by a member of the Common Council to ent the execution by the Comptroller of a certain lease of premises at 115 and 117 Nassan street, from Fernando Wood for ten years, at an annual rent of $18,000, the same premises being worth only $6,000 per year, as certified to by prominent real estate agents in this city. Inst of assisting in this suit, which would have saved the city a vast expense, you interposed & demurrer to the complaint and retained eminent oouneel to press it, with the design of checking sis action at the outset and preventing, if ‘possible, any similar suit by any honest member of theCom- mon Council who d to stop the schemesof his colleagues, :: In March, 1866, an application was made by & citizen of this county to the Board of Svpervisors to allow him to inspect the pepers, records and Accounts pertaining to the construction of the new Court House. He could not see them, how- ever, because they were not deposited in the office of the clerk of the Board, as they aro required to be by the statutes of this State, but were kept in the private possession of the Court House Com- mittee; he therefore applied to the Supreme Conrt for a mandamus to compel the Supervisors to place snch books, papers and accounts in their clerk’s office, to be there open to public inspection, as the law of the State directs, Although this was a just and legal request, you retained eminent, cow sel, at an expense of $250 (which was paid ont of the City Treusury), to appear in the Court on be- half of the Supervisors in answer to this manda- mus. Ag, however, all that the eminent counsel did for his $250 was to tell the Court that the Su- pervisors would obey the mandamus and put pepers in their clerk's office, it is supposed that in this case there was no intention to oppose the ex- ecntion of the law, but that your cnstom required you beg and pay an extra lawyer om every prete: The Association also directs your attention tothe following remerkable fact—That in the last twenty months Co employed William C. Trull (a partner in the law firm of Develin, Miller and Trail) as counsel on behalf of the city in various suits, and paid him the sum of $9,775 a3 fees out of the city treasury. Also that at the some time you em- ployed Mr. Miller (another partuer in the Jaw firm of Develin, Miller and Trat!) as counsel on behalf of the city, and paid him $1,000 fees out of the city treasury. It appears by examination of the court records that at this very time Mr. Trall and Mr. Miller ‘nnd their firm of Develin, Miller and Trull were busily engaged in sueing the city and recovering ‘judgments against it for advertising claims of the New York Zrenscript and other claims of other persoys, avd that they did thas record judgments against the city to the amount of $102,484. The question arises whether the facility with which Messrs, Develin, Miller and Trull recovered judgments for $192,484 against the city impressed you with such high sense of their ability that-you employed two of the firm to defend the city against other claims drought by persons who did not happen to be their clivnts? It happens that Mr. Develin, of this same firm, Mead ad immediate predecessor in office and Mr, Truif was assistant, and that when he was Corporation Counsel the New York Trai obtained enormous judgments against the city; also that immediately after their retirement from the post you now hold they took offices/in the same building with your ofticial rooms, and on the same floor,.and commenced to sue the city on the claims of the same persors whom they should hare defended it against when they were in power; and it fs the judgments which they ob- tained against the city that you urged the Comp- troller to pay. The following is a statement of such judgments against the city: Judgment ot the Ni York Transcript (ob- & Trott), June 12, 1866, $82,508 (obta:ned by Devetin, Miller & Trull), October 27, 1860... Judgment of the New York Transcript (obtained —* Develin, er & Trulli), January 3, 1867... 34,710 Judgraent of E. Iinmons (obta:ned by Develin, Milter & Truil), January 11, 1667...... 1,552 of the New York Transcrip’, obtained by C. E. Miller, April 19, 1867..........s00004 21,749 6 following isthe statement of the fees paid Poi peed law: in suite wherein you employed them on be! of tho city:— Witham C, Tratl, counsel fees io twonty-eight puits. devi ee ee. ++ $9,775 G E, Miller, ia one satt. seeeee 1,000 But it appears that not content with employing extra counsel on s0 many occasions, and paying them from the city treasury, you finally employ: yourself as your own extra assistaut, and drew the sum of $10,000 in that capacity. It appears in the county records that in tne present year the case of the taxation of stockholders of city banks was determined in the Supreme Court at Washing- ton, and that you certified toa bill of $30,000 for counse! fees, $10,000 of which you certified to as cy own individual fee in the case. And this 10,000 was paid to you. sociation presents to you the following facts :—By the charter of the city of New York and the sub- sequent acts of the Legislature your compensation is provided for as follows Salary as Counsel to Corporation. Salary in lieu of tees in street opening . 6,500 Alowance for clerks and assistants. 12,000 Salary as member of Board of Rev: Salary as legal adviser of the Board of 2.000 Total . $25,000 Of this eum goes into your own purse every year, and as much more as you can save in clerk hire. The duties which you are required to perform for this pay are as follows; — “To have charge of and conduct all the law bu- siness of the corporation, aud of the departments thereof, and all other law business in which the city shall be interested when so ordered by tle corporation, and have charge of and conduct the legal proceedings necessary in opening, widen- ing or altering streets, and draw the leases, deeds aud other papers conuected with the Finance De- partment." (Charter of 1857, section 16.) “The counsel to the corporation of the city of New York shail be the Jeyal adviser of the Board of Supervisors, and shall receive such compeusa- tion for his services as shall be fixed by said Board, not exceeding the sum of $2,000 per an- nom.”—(Laws of 1857, chapter 9.). It would seem thet the foregoing enumeration of duties which are paid for so well embraced ail possible legal services you it be called on to render. You, however, thought differcatly. In the litigation aa to the right to tax the siares of* stockholders of the banks by the county, which was finally decided in favor.of the latter by the Supreme Court at Wi » You aAesisted in con- ducting the proceedings on behalf of the county, ‘as it was your duty to do, and in addition to certie ving to @ bill of $20,000 of two able counsel, to the astonishment of the es you certified to a bill made out by yourself, for yourseif, for $10,000 for services in this litigation. The Association submits that this was a wrong per- rated upon the community. The city and county give you $13,000 a year for yourself, $12,000 a year for your clerks, 35,000 a for your rent, and $30,000 a to $i every conceivable e: for a matter which tom: or sia 974 Yas gave to youto car E ‘on the law business of the 4 and county of New Tork foe twenty See. yet you demand and ie extra charge. t part of your excuse that one of 23 te the redecessors in office made @ similat charze Imilar case, the Association begs to, remind ou that'you were nominated for the offic now hold by this Association with the solemn a rance on your part that you would administer its L- > Now, the Citizens’ As- " | chouse delegates to attend a national Convention, fanctions in a manner totally unlike that of your —— and that you would iu this marked by economy of ture. But the Association sees, with pain, that you have closely imitated even that one of your predecessors whom it was forced to impeach berore the Governor of the State of New York in the month of Septem- ber, 1865. ‘The following are the chief points of that imita- tion which require explanation;— Neglect in refraining trom taking appeals to higher courts from doubtial judgments rendered against the city. ‘Second—Permitting a vast number of judgments to be recorded. Peper extravagance in rent and office appoint- ment Fourth—Patronage of friends by retaining them as counsel on behalt of the vivy on every possible occasion and paying them enormous fees. ao tance to proceedings taken to bring I officials to a proper sense of their duty, Furthering sehemes of the local govern- ment which were calculated to damage the cit, and citizens and enrich only the projectors an their friends. Seventh—Overcharging for the services you performed in violation of the law. Bighth—Advising against vbedience to law a pobiie official of the corporation, ‘inth—Attending upon the Legislature at Al- bany to enlarge the appropriations for your office and yourself and thus increase the taxes. The Association now desires to instance the sixth of the imitations enumerated above. To do this it is only necessary to mention those two vast schemes, still fresh in the recollection of an indig- nant community, called “the widening of Ann sireet”’ and ‘tle Church street extension;” both of these measures, which awakened the most intense excitement ever known in our municipal history, and which the Common Council hastened to revoke of its owa motion after the unqnalited public condemnation they elicited, you endeavored all in your power to carry on and consummate, regardless of the protests of the press and the ublic. While your fellow citizens were holding indigna‘ion meviings to concert measures for checking these schemes fraught with so much disaster, you steadily and ingeuuously labored to consummate them by every art and power your official position aiforded you. Yon boldly avowed your determination to push the tirst of them on, and when the Common Coun- cil, alarmed by the public ontcry, contemplated its repeal, you went to Albany and sought, by introducing a special law into the statute book, to. make the consummation of the scheme more cer- tain. Ail this requires explanation. In the matter of the “extension of Church street” you fought step by step with voluntary zeal the ‘citizen’s who labored to break up that unjust measure which imposed $3,000,000 of as- sessments upon six squeee miles of property, and which was unequalled in audacity aud hardship by any scheme from which the people of the city New York have suffered; and your last act in relation to it wae to propose and defend a bill for the enormons sum of $80,000 for a clerical labor of making the report and surveys of the Commis- sioners of Estimate. Of this Dill the Association speaks last. In it appears a charge of $23,000 for writing out and copying the said report. That report consisted of several thousand duplicate printed forms, in which one or two lines of writing were filled in. ‘The whole of the printing of these lanks could be done for igss than $1,000, and the written filling would be amply paid for by another thousand dollars. ‘or this, however, over $28,000 wae charged. Yon defended and supported and pressed this exorbitaut charge which the taxpayers were to bear. Your predecessors in office attempted no such wrongs. You have imitated them only to sur them, and your record to-day shows that in the twenty montis you have been in office you hay teadily increased the burden of the tax- of the city, and have proportionately cost t ever held your paye: them more than any official office, It is with more than ordinary pain and regret that the Citizens’ Association has been compelled in the strict performance of its duties and pledges to this heavily taxed community to present the avove summary of your official acts, and asks for such explanation as you are uble to offer. Yours respectiully, PETER COOPER, Chairman Citizens’ Association of New York. ERicuarp M. Henay, Secretary. INTERNAL REVENUE MATTERS. Thoré was no meeting of the Metropolitan Revenue Board yesterday. Deputy Commissioner Parnell, having been catlod to Washington on business connected with Only one seizure the department, has not yet returned, was reported—that of ten barrels of whiskey found on Pier No, 7 Nortn river, branded “H. P, Morris, Bourbon. whiskey. Eli & Prime, general inspector, Third dis- trict, Md. Nov. 14, 1867." The whiskey was placed in Onited States bonded warehouse, No, 56 Broadway, to await an Investigation as to the payment of tax. with Collector Bailey's Office, yesterday niade seizure of twenty three hopsheads of tobacco at the establishment of H. Messenger & Co., Maiden lane, on the ground that it was boned rim anf of ‘W.8. Kimbail, of Rochester (purcbased from ger & Cot), Whose property is being searched for by government officers, It is alieged that Mr, Kimball was arrested not long ego in Rochoster on charges of attempting to bribe a rev official and of mak fraudulent returns to the Department, and thi an examination of the case before » United es Commissioner, he was held to await the action of the Grand Jury. His piace of poor Pang Fac tenpicey teen ans tu! yap for prosecur be jad at Messe: r & ‘0.’ waid to be bin, will also be saraed over for jegal proosea: ings. it was rumored ‘on the street” yesterday that the Department has decided to abolish the tan Revenue Board and to revert to the old system of col- | lecting tax. Tuere is no verification of this rumor as you Yhe parties interested in the tax and regulation | governing alco! and Gistilied spirits propose holding a | Meeting embracing the general trade, via:— Distillers, freetitiera, alcohol masufacturers, wholesale draggists, manufacturers and dealers, at the Astor He 0 con- sider the evils of the present system of taxation and A to heid in Wasbincton, D. C., on the second December, at which Convention it is expected a large and imflaeatial represeniation of the trade throughout the United states wil bo present, to determine and unite upon some definite avstem of law satisfactory buth te Congress aud chomselves touching the taxation of spirits sod ite reguiatiwns , GENERAL NEWS, dent of Girard Colloge, Philadelphia, Joseph Carnbraro, a Sicilian has been arrcsted in New Orleans for the murder of an Italian, ‘The Germans of St. Louts have succeeded in obtaining the repeai of the suaday liquor law in that city. ‘Tho Tennessee Stato militia costs the State to date $182,605 49. . There is enough iron in the blood of forty-two men to make a ploughsnare weighing twenty-(our pounds. The taxable pro} of Memphis is $35,600,000. The two now Gare win sake it Sab bao ok was Fourteen men have been arrested in St. ye caaee ta, ter killiag « man named Jona ‘The repabtican Senate jnst elected in Wisconsin holds over till the session of 1863-9, when @ successor to Sena- tor Dootittle is to be chosen. About Se hondrod ae rte me through Augusta, . en rowe to Charles passage the ship Gotconda for Liberia, 7 to Several stadonts of Washington College, bi Va, from Texas and Louisiana, Bhan BR ren by the sad intelligence of the death of relatives or guardians by the yellow fover, dead body of Eil who whncsstert =a. Pog Fy yy ~~ legs emer Awoitt made a descent upon a fooa “ tee ad sows, Who attacked and 200n fo Killed the suvaser, Runaing horse cars on Sanday has been decided to bo & work of necessity io Penesyivan'a Court of that State, Two of the jadges dissented (rom the decision. A West Point cadet has {1 for the guns in the turret of @ monitor, which will any place where there is littie room Yn the ole that's got the ho's,”” According to the Rov. Jobn Lye Hopkins, Jr., son Sih. of Vermont, alt brwathew of the Provestantiom, aod this t) the moaning of the Pan. Anglican Synod, A few of the members of his eburch i ‘Will BOt Quite sgree with him. Professor Wm, EH. Allen bas inaugurated Pres i- | Depreciation of the Clty Currency=Meeting of Citizens to Devixe a RemedyAppeat to Couple of Weets, About four NEW ORLEANS FINaNcEs. | gracing and scandaileing the Counctl, A t(hivdes), bas Day Obbg: jeneral Hancock=Ben Butier Wanted for a w Orleans Creseent, Nov, 14.) (From th Ave buodied citieens assemiied Inst frout @reul evening in Coiliseain Hall, on Mienviie streot, to com- sider what steps w to be te to relieve tle com- Am to Tounity from the embarrassments Joseea poopie are | Tes orb suftering ia equeucs of tha depreciotion of ety | yotre square, a $ money and its fluctuations In valie, Phe call for the | and insiracting tho comm) meeting originated with cluzens of Gert birth, and | meeting. the great majority of those vr» There was, however, a sp: an all well ag its intelligence. The asxombiage was called to order ata few minotes mm whore motion hair, after seven by Mr, Robert Moget, Mr. Philip Kramer was called to t. tary was choson, Mr. Kramer, on taking the chair, the object for wh’ch the meoting fast face value, for the erty was soivent and had su discoart as was ruinous to people who rece He would not ray who had caused this de this was the way wo wore to be were to be reconstructed by being $5 dollars and a hal (Cries of “no, ‘The assemblage then a’ our: were of that race, 5 of other European le present were n the oxtent of y of persons en. who represeeted in go erprise of the city, ag iopalities and Americ of the The Evidence op the Part o An Alibi Proved=An Inmpor the Aspect of the Case. Tho examination of the crse of Peter for alloged abandoument, adjourned iro was resumed yesterday afternoon belive Ju field in the presence of a large number of friends of complainant and defends t— No secre- ued by the city, he observod, was rea’ ns in the courss Of time. were four miilions a: 7th inst., when tho case was up fora hearing, xamined Rev, Mr, Jumes Daly, who, whether tt was merchants, brokera, or the cou i sar Oa igy the mecting had to deat with wus the fact that the notes | ‘ Christopher Pe wee re depreciated, no matter what the cause was, Ho had | Man whom, on tho Ist of November, 1957, be bad always been a Union man and was @ republican, bub if | joined ta mar o Catharine Maher; bit whieh ustracted;” if wo pelled to take for ® dill that would pass for no more than four he wanted no such reconstruction, no.) When Mayor Heath, im 10 Ol Council, said a million ssaed without aotbor- declaration bo follows :— Q Is there anytht fondant bere by which him as the pereoa whom y bsequently materially quatified es , those notes could be exol: ed for graepbackBat@ | apt? A, No; 1 ' ail discoant of two or three percent. His letter Cre | eae positively, ated an tmpression that tho movey was worthless, Down Rey aubiibe it went, aud it has been going down ever , although | not think or believe thatho hat an the reason given by Genoral Sheridan the old Council and appointing the preseat one Was that the old council had proved themselves incapahle or disinclined to remedy the financial troubles of the city, ‘Th and suffisient could be sold to redeem ihe money, or 1b could be bonded, couk! bo expected with gucit a stato of affairs as we have now? Did peop'e behove wo could get good schooi teuchers for fifty or e'xty dollars a month, when thoy are paid in twenties they bave to sell for sixteen or rev- faithful and honest policerren at eighty doilars amonth, paid in such depreciated moncy that they did not re- ceive seventy dollars in greenbucks? servanis are given a twenty dollar vote and told they can sell it to idea was that when General Hancock arrived a commit- tee of criizens should cali upon him and tell bir frankly that when Genera! Sheridan removed tho old Council aud put in the present one he did not improve the value of city money; that the five dollar note now worth only four and a half was then more valuable. to. much the more reasonabie and so much stronger. are told we have a republican government. We bave no such thing, in the South at deast. For my part I’d ratber have an absolute despotism than the sort of govera- ment we are living under. Jet us go and hand them to him. my belp it, ‘want to seo a government of cone! whole of this summer, he observed, while tho epidemic was raging, while business was prostrated, people bad to 0 Say food or medicine had to go to a broker's shop and suomitto a shave of twelve or fifteen per cent in ex- changing the twenty-dollar city notes they had laid by; and while they were thus suffering, members of city Gnancea had their heels cocked up and were removing face at tho time I marcied bin; 1 kno nj T thought if my moans 0 city owned fourteen milJions and a halt of real estate, Whatsort of municipal government 5 be seme ether man and not man } married, at the tim or French: T cannot say whether decep IT married or not, The witnesses examined yesterds John Erickson, of Chicago, and Anaa Wolsersoth, of Brooklyn, When the evideuce of these bad been taken (a8 below) the case was further adjvurned until one o’oloc next Friduy afternoon, when it is the purpose of defendant's cou side of this very John Enekson depose lived there these las: fourteon yea: from Chicago since last "Tharetay Christopher Fetersen, the defo nize im here present; I have 1854; ho was in Frankfort steeot tuilor by trade; I was born in Norw sen {3 a Norwegian; Tbave many t him in Norwegian; I knew hin teen dollars? Did people believe they could have afternoon were Are these public compensated for their laoor, whea they sixtoon or seventeen doliars? His some ‘or f A Vorce—1t’s worse than that, Fives are discounting -day at fiteon or sixteon per cent, Mr. Kramer—Woll, that makes our complaint ° Sever Vorors—No politics, Mr. Kramen—Well, then, let’s have no politics. Let get up our resolutions, and whon the General arrives lama repubiican ia witness produces a current acc: nif we can 858, to Juno 27, 1858, cavering ni Jou give the dates covered in such a ci tir, (Onjected to admission of paper bee not prosent,) Q. Can y possession, give the book of transactions and I don’t want to seo despot! We in the South are conquered, ‘Mr. Moczn next addressed tno meeting, During the you had with hin perronally, at Chicago, betwoen ths 21st of Augush, 1856, and 27th of June, 185%, tnetus ? A, Yes. Q@ What ia that document in your possession? A. Copy from tl entries in my book. Q, Did yoa make these entries in the book yourseif? A. Sometimes 1 did; sometimes my partner did. Q Wero thoso entrica which your partner made made in your presence and wo their little piles of money, and betore they could the Council that were to do so much for smoking their fine cigars, This matter should bo | wy, ‘our knowledge? A. They w Who made Tal before General Hanosck tbe mnetbeat he arrived: | sun our Knowledge? 2. they wre “ig and It was usoless to IGok to any other quarter for relief. | compare ft with the book bp ore lett, @. He who bad proved himself so ‘Iiustrious on the baitie | Tg jg or is it not a true and correct copy field would heed tho just complaints of our people. It | from your beoks? A. it ig, @ Where are your was not the military eho wero to blame; it wasthe | hooks? A. At Chicago, Q. When was this copy Council, Me, Mogel wished to Gud General Butler wus | mado? A. Last Tharsday; that ts the copy I am 4 here now tor two weeks. It was astonishing to Mr. M. | testifying to, (Complaicant’s counsel objected to counsel how s0 intelligent a people as the people of New Orleans bore patiently what tuey were suffering from misgovern- ment, In Germany, in his country, Bavaria, the rise of a cent in tho price of a glass of beer would bring on a revolution, and even in France, des} governed, ita Emperor bad to see ‘bread was kept so that all ciass:s could buy it, or his throne would totter under him. He would not dare to Mogel mitteo of five to draft resolut iene memory from copy.) Se ‘State the date covered by those transactiona A. ring the year 1856, first entry, August 21 and 25, September 1 and 29, November 1, 16, 23 and 80; December 3, 4 and 7; during year 1857, January 9, 16 and 23; March 2, 4, 6 and 1; May 13, 15 and 24; June Land 13, July 11 and 16, Auguat 3, 4 aud 13; September 14, October § and 17, November 12 and 21, Decomber 25 an: ;.1858, Jan- wary 20, March 27, May $1, June 1, 3, 17 and 27. @ Did you see him on each of these daccs named ? A. Yes, sir; in my store in Chicago; my store is 125 South Clarke street; my besivess is boot and shoo maker; the trancactions referred to on the dates were ail in the ordinary course of =. businose; I saw Peter- ically ag it was it the price of Fmit such @ condition of currency us tne people here been eubmitting to without public complaink Mr. by moving the appointment of a com- ons and submit them to Barxaxp Mansaay, who must be fully of age, spoke after iM, eighty Mr. addressing | sen very often In Chicazo the aboves date: (in bis ia French for nearly half an bour, discar- | ¢he interim) 4. What is tbe longest icterval of time ively, t 1s coon ta with such pertiaence | belween that you did not eco Potersen? and as to challenge the warm applause of théso of | 4. From two to three days; Petersen lived in Fourth Dis hearers who ubdersiood the language in which he a family, wife and spoke, Teeolu- tions was being put, whea Mr. Davis, of the clothing firm of Davia & Jackson, proposed an amendment that the committee be instructed to communicate with the Finance Committee of the Common Council w sec if they would not do something to im) sition end it was evident bad few supporters, Cries came from all qi the Coaueil;” “Damo the Council,” &c., &¢. ‘de here before the 30th of the month, and no barm ‘would be done in trying the Council. The suge “We'll walt for bim.’” nbiished. Members ot the Council wil see them, and Aldermen of the lato Council next spoke, tained that the city mon ample security for the redemption of whereas i Korth. Mismanagement and trickery had street, pen he had children, while he lived in Fourth strest; he afterwards moved to and lived n State strect tn the fall of 1856; he had one child bora in State street; he lived in State street till the spring of 1857; he then moved to Kinzie sireot and there resided to sprigz of 1858; no more children; ¢e then snoved to rout! Wills strect and lived thero till after the 27th June, 1858; he then bought I marked for 3 jt Yor‘ last she 16th iast.; Petersen and wifo lived to~ man and wife in Chicago while ho was there, Cross-examined—I was doing business at the timed spoken of io partnership with anotoer man. Q Were You present at all transactions between Letween Poter- sen and your partner? A. I cannot answer, Were not a number of the transactions with Peterron made by your partner rar te of you? A, No, sir, Were OU present at all the transactions reverred to Qs Tiat wero had between Peterson and your firm ? 1 Mr. Mogel’s motion for & committee to draft tho value of ‘ty notes before appeating to General Hancock. the ameudment was received with dolsterous oppo- “We want nothing todo with Mr. Davis su; that General Hancock would not hisses and shouts of meeting will be Mr, Mocu—The resolations of t! they want ux they can find us, (Cheers.) was The first day entered our store was Mr, Mogel’s maion was the 19th of August, 1856; I know it trom an account Mr. Stcrcxex, a member of the Board of Assistant | I had with him two days after; I was present some He main- ‘was more valuable in re- © property of the city was Ls) ita, issues, by Thaddeus times, and sometimes not, when my partner Made the entries roferred to im our books; 1 Yaw bim for the first time «im Frankfort street, New York, in 1854; 1 saw him many times in this clty afterward; I was‘ resident for two months in this city; I never saw Lim previous to meeting tim in New York; after I lott Now York 1 next caw him im ity than greenbacks, for the leiter lately written showed that brought city | 135 Clarke street, Chicago; I was engaged money vest aig ned condition, This was the work of | in the boot and shos business; that was my brokers and the finance committes. It was useless to | business alone; Peteson was engaged in tailoring go to that committce tor relief, They were not dis- could get ali they wanted Sir. 8. said he saw some brokers at the meeting. heard in their pipes and amoke it. The iate Council had en Ordinance providing for the hon eter Bs passed destraction of a milllt ordinance bad been pal would now bave been .t Br “m0."") was forcing that ordinaneo. Dusinoss then; 'we mace boots for Petorsen and family, and we took clothing from bim for sane; Peterson was working then as a journeyman; Iwas never absent from Obicago city {rom 2lst Ausust, 1555, to 27.b Jane, 1857; not for a period of two hours at a time, Anna Woh!gemuth, eworn:—I live in Brooklyn, 53 Front strect; by occupation a midwife: 1 know Chris topher Petersen (pots him out); | Orat became no- quainted with Petersen in G: . New York, in 1858, when I attended om bis wife durieg her coniine- ment; I mado a micate of tho case at the mo I was called in as midwife when the child bora, [Minate here otfered in evidence. Objecied to ground of en- to give it, No man could get large notes changed the City Hail aniess he was @ favorite there. A few y could put what they Of doliars of city notes. ad sent Council done anything ? (Cries of **No,’? FO specalation to be made in not en- Tho fitst man to prt down city notes was Mayor Heath, with his proclamation (« ¢, | try not having been made by herself.) The cary was his to the Councii), by ois declaration that the | made by Mary Myers, and at my request end 1 my tens and twenties issued were not & statement | presence, on the 12th June, 185%; the beby was a little that was proved to bo ontrue. Ni was to blawe born 42th June, 1858, im 202 Gran’ street; L raw for these trouble but¢tbhe Mayor and his council, Robert ert, B, T. Stureken, — Davis (of Davis & Jackson) fa; Resolutions. ‘The namo of Bernard Marigny was, on motion, added as chairman of the committee, but ag be had left the room his name wae drop sen about three months before child was born; I him every week darimg thove tures mon'hs; 1 saw him every time at bis oy house ju Grand street, New Ye yea three 8 at his Louse; I saw him jee times @ week during that period; I attended bia wife at childbirth in 1860; she bad a girl onthe 10th April, 1860; the entry was marked in my inced Mesers. Conrad Sirveder, The Cram aon so Lehmann as the Cominittes on : afterwards, om motion, oe a 6 a Tt ‘Coliens and George | book oy poe Bagg also in my presence and at my re- jungoiser were a 4 quest; I saw him every week from 12chJ 1858, “Mr. Davis insisting that the sense of the mooting | ttre 10th April, 1800, brig own house pty and ia should bo taken on he ent, instracting the | Pear! street; he moved from Grand to Pearl street in eommittec to to the council first, « a0tey dis- | 1850; the street this side Of Mott street; I went to the attention, recat a] grading tb ane Soen toe, city to pay all ite debts, and hovso in Pearl street of Peterson and saw him and bis Petersen and family then moved lyn; game house with bis brother; scoond child was born in Pearl street, Now Yo UUsird chiid (a female) was born on bth M: jon Dormer made a opeect, which was Beard with 1 to the Council as de. intaining the abiltty of the yd that in the : notes "the people this marter of munici were preyed | 1862, in Eim at York, (eny mate upon by a sot of iticians, speculators and scoun- 4 as aforesaid); I aa Petersei the of drels, n and out of the City Hall,” in which, he pecond and third ‘child ovens thom three to four times every week; they only had three children; the further ‘bizgest brokers’ office in the city.’ to | firat child lived three weeks, the secoud lived nearly Mr. STORCKEN was Again addressing the woala show how vain it be to sock relief e m= | three years and the third ehiid lived aboot seven mouths ; oi while he was speaking, and for some time before, | Mra. Teen afterwards died of consumption, in the Alderman Stay had been standing on a chair so that | year 1862, in the Bowery. [ was not prevent whon sbe he over! the crowd, and was directly before tho | died; 1 was informed by Petersen that tis wite died; I Ppreriding officer making efforts to geta tearing, In | have seon Petersen few times uince in this cty; I these he interrupted Mr. Sturcken sovoral times, | never raw complainant. Catharine, before today, 1 who did not heed him. At Inst some one said to Mr, | never saw those two cuildren belore to-day; Lam Starcken, ‘That's an Stapleton," tive that this man, Petersen, isthe man whom I Mr, Sromcxas— 1 don’t care who be is. “I’ve got the | always kaown. A Vorcr—We want no such bere. WK SWINDLER IN CONNECTICUT. D elatenaprapaline hoon ee oT h Upon the city and the Council, [From the New Haven a 18.) I That was a conqummate ewindler Who passed the bs 4 the Second ieee Baok, 8 pronom it best wos pus. tore by wal ezeange be ‘an | Tuo forgery ts pr vy oul mmOst Oxperie Iderman SrarLerow then commenced been listenit pete eat has phe’ ‘sent (ROE a A TE Al EO SEA ET Ron nc SE hE tees alderman, enced bankers a complete counterfeit. Moxsra Dunvell CHAtaLAN (pointedly) mate your mane, & Goodyear, brokers, opon whom the check was drawn, Al in Srarietoy—sy game is Edward Jaton, | can detect but the shightst differomces between the sir. I was appointed by General sheridan—by neral | handwriting upon the forgery and their own, The piri | sir—by General Sheridan, do you lear’ If | forgor hed an excellent adirens, and transacted the on- om Want more of my pedigree—I’m an Irishman by | tire swindle with an ad Bonchalance and ability hp ow a Vi nia, | which, @xeroleed logiimately, would procare bim # A Vorce—Who tho divil cares where you wero boro. good livelihood, to say the least, His —— were AxoTurR—No bolitics here, Mr, Stabeldung. deliberately planned. A gumbér of days since he lsten to eine eee ns $220, "tn ‘exchanzo for, $00 In got. Then te er OTAER—= Whats the price of hate? an accompiics cbtained a blank check book at Much exertion the Chairman again succeeded in | the Second National Bank, seiecting one with Mr, Stapleton continued:—"I'w | lines of the same color of ' tint as those In the ia 6 salnority, 1m the, Counail.. We live in a coaltry 0¢\| Sivek Babi of Mpepre Bunnell & Goodyear” The unl Uatversal guffering. (A voico— pe y Rory had obtained a couple of days, Bully for 1), For doing an act of kindness I | copied it unril be had executed a counterfolt whic was brought Recorder's Court. (Voicer— | Re thought would ‘expertonced eves. Upon the You're out of order; we don’t want to hear that.) Well, | check for $220 be all jetters and figures wecessary fellow citizens, Lam an but 1'i1 tell you what | to copy his bogus check, The $220 cheek was numbered Ceara mney tyr cee careas| ee eters te wth seer fase eo and we hate fi jone ore ie tw tany things we should have dove. | think it too somes wed bis, ne goo within four of the right number, Vhing was done; bat pal Church have entirely renounced | discount, now it fa fifteen or sixteen." ty fan promise nothing. Land my | At the bank ho requested, with the utmost coolers, frends in the Stand but four aeainet twelve, | payment tn } tile, the bank not happemmg te , My friende meet me on the street and tell me “you've oh wen, tie ceranied to take font packnges of §500 done a dama Oe money, WHEN yOU went | encn and $200 In fore bills, Having received the {nto the City Hail, was at three or four per cent | money, he waiked out withovt any apparent harry, Jie L suppose | is now wanted, aud it ls hoped he may yet receive ou al think We've lined oor pockets with money, I anishment hederertes, He is abcut five fert six inc! Ve none, ALany rate, Gentlemen; I only got up Horo | figs, thick set, 1th full, clean-shaveo face, dark hav Iwas ing for a good while to remarks dis- | and eyes, acd wore a dark overcoat and a black silk bat, ——————— OO