The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1870, Page 10

The New Departments and Ap- pointments. FPORSONAL SEDTCHES. MAYOR HALL’S PROCLAMATION The Moyor, in announcing to his constituents this yesult’or bis discharge of the high trust so unant- mougly reposed in him by the Legislature of appoint- mg beads of aepartments for the city government, embraces the opportunity to accompany the an- moancement with a few observations. He wenld be politically justified by the numerical record of votes ‘wpon the legislation which bestowed this responal- wility should he confer every one of the thirty-two appointments upon democrats; but the extraord!- nery unanimity by which the power was agreea upon appears to create an nonorable obligation to respect ‘the political minority of his constituents, so far at Jeast as to reappoint a few of his political opponents whose past services to the public additionally de- nerve whe recognition. The Mayor bas been entrust- ed with some appointments for which a fuli exer- cise of bis partisan power might well tmperil interesta that in fairness ought to be entirely sepa- rated from partisan considerations. For instance, it Vas Jong been agreed (and arguments to some ex- tent may be found in nearly every public journal ‘of the city of New York in the past) that the exceu- on Of police, fre and health duty, or of adminis- tration of charities, ought not to be at ali controled by partisan influences, Every citizen ought to feel that the policeman, or the freman, or health physician who provects his Mfe or his property, should be freed from party bias aad have no political duty to discharge. Indeed, ‘that he should be controlled by no other considera- tions than those of fiaclity. Governor Seymour's Initiation, in 1863, of the idea of dividing the police equally between the two great parties produced ap excellent effect upon the city. But there are some dcpartments, such as whe De- partment of Public Works and of Excise, which re- quire at the Mayor's hands entire respect to party considerations, inasmuch as the one involves iarge patronage and the othcr represents a eystem @lmont entirely advocated by one political party. Im accordance with the preceding views there are four democrats and one republican in the Depart- mentof Docks, The Department of Charities and Correction, a8 weil as the Fire Department, wil stand three democrats to two republicans, The Health Department will he composed of five demo- crate and three republicans. The police is equally @ivided in politics, but with the understanding that tere is to be a uew democratic executive head as superintendent. ‘The other turee departments are eatirely democratic. The new appointments tothe Board of Health Daye beep made with the intonation of equitably re- presenting the adopted citizens, wio have been toa great extent jealous of the operation of the Healtn Department. It will, undoubtedly, tend to allay that feeling when they are to beso widely and in- teiligently represented tn the new Board. The iresh appointments as Fire Commissioners are of three gentlemen who, daring a series of years, were identified witn the old volunteer tire depart. ment, in which they beld oficia! travis. All the genrlemen apon ihe Commission of Dock# have acquired some especial knowledge or expe- _ wlepce upon a eubject so vital to our commercial aterests. The Mayor farthermore congratulates his consti tuents upon the restoration of mupicipal rights to the elty of New Yors. Every oMcer now doing city or eonnty daty within the metropolis is, in strict con- formity with the lctter of the State constitution, elected or appointed by some local authority. Con- formably with the trae philosophy of municipa! gov- ermment every exercise of our manicipal power proceeds from one central executive head—the Mayor. me The Mayor aleo practically possesses the power to remove an incompetent or erring bead of deyart- ment, which head in turn may remove every subor- dinate, The Mayor must proceed by charges. whe head of a department acte ot pleasure. The citizens may communicate ciarges through the Mayor and compel him to at least investigate them. Although the elective and appointive heads of de- partments possess different terms of office it may be well argued that to ceriain peculiarly consututed ofices jonger security of terms brings emulation and relieves an incumbent irom any neces- muy of catering to superior power o7 from ever feeling that uncertainty in con- mecting present effort with fature results which alwaye is felt whenever one in olfice holds it at the caprice of another, Yet, whatever may be tue let- ter of the law tat dietributes terms Gf ofMce, those werme practically end to each officer (even the Mayor) should be become incompetent or criminal. Indeed, there have been many in ail parties who have argued that only the contingencies above ex- pressed whovld end the terms of appointed officers or of persons hoiding public positions which require peculiar skill and experience to fill, APRIL 9, 1870. A. OAKEY TA TEE NEW DEPARTMENTS. The Charter provides for the following depart monts:— There shall be the following departments In said clty:—Vinance Department, Law Department, Police Department, Department of Pubile Works, Depart ment of Public Charitics and Correction, Tire De- artment, Health Deparinient, Department of Public ‘arks, Department of Buildings, Department of Docks. The said departments shall, at such umes as the Mayor may direct, make to lum, in such form and under such rules as he may presciibe, reports of the Operations and action of the same and each of them, and shall always, when required by Lim furnish to bim such information as he may demand within such time as he may direct. The heads of all departmenta, except as otherwise specifically di- rected herein, slail have power to appoint and remove ail viicis of bureaus (except the chamber Jain), @8 also all clerks, officers, employés and sub- ordinates in their respecuve departments, ‘he mumber of all officers, cierks, employés and subor- dmates in every department, except the Police and fire Departments, with their reepective ies or compensation, shail be such as ihe head of cach department suall designate and approve, except that the aggregaie expense thereof sual! not exceed the total amount duly appropriatea by Jaw to each departuent for suck purpose. City CHAMBERLAIN. Tol Bradley. ‘The office of City Chamberiain forms oue of the oureaus in the Finance Department, which the pew charter declares is tor the reception of all moneys paid into the treasury of the city, ans tor the pay- ment of money on warrants drawn by the Conip- troller and counterstgned by the Mayor. The Chamberiain shail Keep books ‘showing the smounts paid on account of the several appropria- tons, and No Warrants Buali be paid on accouut of apy appropriation after the amount authorized 1 be raised by tax for that specific pu shali pave been expended. Any vacnucy in the office of cham. beriain shall be filed by t the term now ated hy law. All moness drawn from the city treasury shall be upon vouchers for the expenaijire toc reol, exam. Med and ai.owed by the Auditor, and approved py the Compwoller and fied in bis oflice. r DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. Tne new Charter deciares that where shal) be a de- partment of public works, the head or chief oficer > of which shail be called “Commissioner ot Public Works,” who shall be appointed by the Mayor and hold office for four years, and who snali roseive a ealary equal to that now or lately dosigne etatnte or ordinance to the Street Commis: Whenever the words chic! engineer of Aqueduct Board, or president of the Croton duct Board, or street commissioner shail any existing law, ordinance, resolution, comp ch ost document it shal! be deemed to mean the aloresaid | eee ist of bite * works, and wherover any jaw or in any orainauce or obligation af the Corporation the words swwect depart- meow or Croton Aguednct Board shall occur shail be deomed and coustrued here do mean the “Deportinent of Public Works” We compmingioner (hevcos, Within Bye oye York sbail juck Department of the city of New Yor of auh and the bad of Ms den ander eee the Street rement oF C1 Jaen ee the nereyy togesner with. ail t ther ments, property and public eftecth, and % hata ihe like @uthority and compensa- tion, and the terms of oftce of the several persons now holding office or position or employment mae aid Street and Croton Aqueduct Departments 6) me be terminated within five days trom the passage nyhe sata department shall have eogulzanca {na control:— 1. Of all structures aud property connecte?, with mh pp and distribution of Croton water, 2 Of the collection of the revenues ariy'ing from the sale or uae of the Crovon water, 8. Of opening, aliering, regulating, grading, flag- ging, curbing, guttering and hghtthg /weets, roads, laces and avennes. ae Ot the repairing and constrviction of public ds, roa 5, Of the care of public buildings. 6. uf the filing up of sunken lots, 7. Of public sewers and drainage. 8. Of stroct vauita, 9. Of paving, repaving aud repairing strests and keeping the same clean, 40, Of digging and constracting weil BUREAUS OF THK DEPARTMENT. “There shall be the following bureaus in the Depart- Ment of Public Works:— 1, A bureau for laying water pl} and the con- aurnadion and repalr of sewers, well ls and, bydrants, Paving Tepaving and repairing pets; chief omicer of which shail be called ‘Water Pur- veyor. 2. A bureau for the collection of revenue derived from te gale and nse of water; the chief officer of Whuch shalt be cailed ‘Water jr. 3, A bureau ha) care of all stractures and pro- perty connected with the supply and distribution of Croton water; the chief officer of wich shal: be called “Chief Engineer of the Groton Aqueduct,’’ with power to appoint and remove at pleasure and detail a statf of assistant engineers. He und they must be civil engineers of at least ten years’ experience. The commissioner may delegate to thia bureau any power and duty now conferred by law or ordinance on the chief engineer of the Croton Aque- duct Board, 4 A bureau for grading, flagging, curbing and guttering streets; the chief officer of witich shall be called “Superintendent of Street Improvements."’ 5. A bureau of lamps and gas; the chief oMver of which abail be called Superintendent of Lamps and Gas, 6. A bureau of streets and roads; the chlef oMcer of whioh shail be calied “Superintendent of Stroeta.”” 7. A bureau of repairs and supplies, which shall have cognizance of all supplies and repairs to public buildings, works, lands and places, and all other. necessary repairs and supplies not provided for in other departments; the chief officer or which shall be catied “Superintendent of Repairs and Supplies,” and sha}i be @ practical pullder, 8. A bureau for the collection of assessments; the chief officer of which shall be called “G Assesumenia” aud bis assistants “deputy col DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. Peter B. Sweeny, Robvert J. Dillon, Meury Thy Andrew AH. Green, ‘Thomas C. Fields. The Deparoment of Public Parks, says the new Charter, shall control ana manage all publte parks and public places above Canal street which are of the reality of the city of New York. ‘This department shall be under the cbarge of a beard, fo consist of fve members, who shall be ap- pointed by the Mayor, and shail respectively hold ofiice for terms of five years. All provisions of law which provide for the main- tenance and government of the Central Park, or grant powers and devolve duties upon, or award allowance for carriage hire lo, the Commissioners of the Cen- tal Park, or proviae salary to the Comptroller of hereby established and to the Commissioners and Comptroller tuereo! respectively, POLICE DEPARTMENT. Joseph S. Bosworth, Henry Suwnith, Matthew T. Brennan, Bonjamin F. Mauierre. The new charter provides that the department of Police shail constat of a board of police composed of four commissioners, and said board shail be the head of sotd department. Toe commissioners shall be first appointed for respective terms of eight, seven, six apd five yeara. For vacancies eccurring or for terms succeeding expiration of office the term of oMfice to each commiestoner shail be elght years, Each member of the board of police sha'l receive an annual salary equal tothe salary designated to the Recorder of the city of New York, Tne old Police Board is thus disposed of by the Charter. The City of New York is hereby excepted from the provisions of a act entitied ‘An act to establish @ Metropolitan Police District and to pro- vide for the government thereof,” paseed April J5, 1857, and of tne acts amendatory thereof, and any sections of sraqutge ang provisions of law which created satd district are hereby repealed, Section seventy-six furthermore saya that upon notice to the Board of Metropolitan Police by the commissioners first appointed under this act of their appoimtment and qualification the powers and duties of the said Board of Metropolitan Poltce and of the officers of the said Board (except as herein brovided) Shall cease aud be no longer operative within the city and county of New York. All wers and duties of the Board of Metropolitan olice and of the members of the Metropolitan Police force heretofore exercised according to law, and all the SS eae of law which related to tho police of the Metropolitan Police district, so far as they are not respectively in confict or inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby devolved upon the Police Department herein created, and upon tue police force hereby estab ished, and shali be extended and applied to the Police Department created by this act, FIRE DSPARTMENT. William Hitchman, Ajexander Shaler, Janee Galway, Jnmes 8. Hennessy; John J. Blair. ‘The Onarter says the Fire Department shall have for ite head a board, to consist of five persons, to be known as “Fire Commissioners of the city of New York,” who shall be appointed by the Mayor for the terms of five years respectively, aud each of said a shali receive an arnual salary of There shall be tn this department two bureaus. The chiet officer of the frst buyean shall be called the Chief Engineer. The { officer of the other bureau shall be cailea inspector of Fire Apparatus, ‘the bureau at the head of which shall be the Ln- spector of Fire Apparatus 1s charged with the duty of julfiling all other duties connected with the Fire Department except such as are performed by the Chief Engineer and the aselstant engiteers, ‘The old fire compussioners are disposed of ag tol- lows:—The city of New York Js also hereby excepted from the provisions of an act entitied an act to cre- ate a Metropolitan Fire district and establish a Fire Department therein, passed Marci 30, 1865, and the acts amendatory thereof, and anv gections of stat- ules and provisions 0: trict are ticreby repeaic aw whieh created said dis- EXCISE DEPARTMENT. [Subject to confirmation by Board of Alderiten.) Walter W. Price, Jobn FE. Williams, Mar : HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Stephen Smith, M. Dey Giovanni Cecearini, M. D., Magaus Gross John Muttaty. The provisions of the new Charter are that the Health Department shall coneist of the Police Com- missionera of the city of New York, the Heaith Officer of the port and also four ofilcers, to be called “Commissioners of Health of the city of New York,” who shall be appointed by the Mayor for a term of five years, two of whom must have been practising physicians in sald cliy for a period of five yoars preceding thely appointment, Said four com- missioners of health shall receive au annual salary of $5,000 each. These several oficers shall together constitute & board, which shall be the head of the Health Department. ‘There shati be four bureaus in this department. The chief officer af one bureau shail be called the on uitary Inspector, and he shail be a practising phystcian of at iexst ten years in the city of New York, There shail ve another bureau to be called the i itary Permit Burean.’’ There shall be another barean to be called the “Bureau of Street Cleaning.” The chief onic ¢ bureau shall be called ” And in said bureau shall 1, without fees, every birth, marriage and death, and ail inquisinons of coroners (excepting 2 me whereby & jury find @ death caused by nogii- revee Or Maltciods iujury) which shall ove m taken within the ity Of New Yorks n oour OF be The old Neaith Board goes oat under the followin, provision:-—‘'ue city of New York is algo hereby ox eopted Trom the provisions of the act entitied “An Neb to create a iéetropolitan Sanitary District and ard of Health therein for the preservation of ie and healt and to prevent spread of aisease,?? passed Pebruary 26, i866, and of the acs amenda- tory bSereg!, ald any nections of giatutoe and Pre- NEW. YOKK HERALD, aaah AoA nents 5-H the Fasbade of tais act the terms Of omce of Sie ceteeectmar cacti said Park, shall apply to the Depariment of Parks 4 gistcne of iat WRIOR created tals istrict are hereny DEPARIMENT OF DOCKS, Wilson Gi; ant, ' William Wood, John T. Agnew, Hugh Smith, Richard M, Henrys . ‘Phe uinety-ninth section of th% new Oharter #ay® Anat there shail bo a Departyrentgor Docks, the bead, of which shall be a board Consisting of five piisons ' residing in the city ef Mew York, to be apppointed by the Mayor, who shall hola office for the term of five years, and shall such powers and pers form such dutfes and receive such compensation as shall be establiahed and defined by the Commis. sioners of the Sinking Fund of the city of New York, and who may, in the performance of such duties, expend annually for the repair or reconstruction of the wharves, piers and slips of sald city, nol more ‘Man $360,000, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. James B. Nicholson, James Bowen, Innac Bell, Owen W. Brennan; Alexander Frear. ‘The now Charter says:—The Department of Public Charities and Correction shall hereaiter be composed ofand have for its head # board of five persons, which board ehall possess all the powers and dis- ebarge allthe duties now conferred upon such de- partment by special laws and by provisions of chap- ter 510 of the laws of 1860, and acts and parts of acts amendatory thereto, except as the same are modi- fled or repealed by the provisions of this act. The said Commissioners herein provided for shall be ap- pointed by the Mayor for the terms of five years re- spectively, and each of said Commissioners shai) re- ceive the salary now designated to such office. DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS, , James M. Maogregor. Taere shall be a department, says section ninety- seven of the new Charter, called the “Department of Buildings,” the ohief oMvcer of which shall be called the “Superintendent of Buildings,’ who shail be ap- pointed by the Mayor for a term of four years. Any vacancy shail be filled by a similiar appointment for a like term. The powers and duties of said depart- ment, ite officers and employ¢s and snbordinates aball continue as now authorized by special laws (ever es modified or repealed py'this act), in rela lon to the Superintendent of Bulldings, SKETCHES OF THE APPOINTEES, City Chamberiata. JOUN J. BRADLEY, Mr. Bradley was the only Senator in the State Legislature who supported Mr. Tweed through thick and thin during the recent quarrel between the metropolitan democratic factions, He has been ap- pointea to fil the office of City Chamberlain, vacated by Mr. Swecny. Mr. Bradley was born in this city in March, 1831, and was educated at the Grammar School of Columbia College. He entered into business as clerk in an Importing house, and subsequently opened a livery stab'e, in the business of which he ts still engaged. In 1855 he was elected a Coun- ¢liman, in 1857 an Alderman, and in 1862 and 1363 served his first term in the State Senate. During 1866 Goveroor Hoffman, then Mayor, appointed him President of the Croton Aqueduct Department, but the incumbent claiming to hold over under legisia- tive eaactment Mr. Bradicy declined to contest for the position. In 1867 he was sent to the State Sen- ate tor the second time, and last year was chosen for a third term, beating Rafus F. Andrews (republi- can) end Richard O’Brien (democratic Union), He ts regarded by leaders of the democratic party ia this city 85 one of the ablest of the younger members, abd posecsses Nuch Influence with them. Department of Publlo Works. WILLIAM M. TWEED, ‘Mr. ‘Tweed ie 60 well known to our readera ay the commander-in-chief of the Tammany democracy that any further reference to him than the mere announcement of nis appointment to the respon- sible office of Commissioner of Public Works seems almost unnecessary. He was born in this city on the oth day of April, 1823; wae egacated at the University of New York, from Whence he was graduated, and after studying law was admitted to the bar. He at once entered upon a auc- ceastul professional career, and engaging in politics soon became prominent, As @ member of the famous Ainericau Engine Company he was also con- spicnous. His first office was that of Alderman of the Seventy ward, to which he was elected in 1551. Ia November of the year following he was elected a Representative of the thirty-third Congress, benting Joo Hoxie, Winle in the House he supported the Nebraska bill, Mr. Tweed sansequentiy served as School Commissioner of the Seventh ward (1856-57). In 1859 le was elected a Supervisor of New York county—a position he bas held ever ince, In 1862 he became Deputy Street ommniasioner, From which office he Was remove few days ago by Mr. Mecoan. At the he became chairman of the tammany eit Cone mittee, and on the resignation of Governor Hoffman. was chosen Grand Sachem 01 Tammany, Jn 1867 be was clected a member of the State Senate, and in 1869 was re-elected, receiving on both occasions an overwhelming majority of the votes polled. As a Senator Mr. ‘Tweed hus wielded and sti!) wields con- siderable influence, and in this city possesses, pro- bably, more political power than any other man, ex- cepting Mr. Sweeny. The desperate effort to overthrow him made by the Morrissey-O’Brien fac- tion and his sigual victory over lis enemies are eae of too recent occurrence to reymre reference 0. Department of Parks. PETER B, SWERNY. Peter B. Sweeny, late City Chamberiain, from which office he voluntarily retired, Is the President of ine new Board. Mr. Sweeny’s political life and antecedents are too well known te need any lengthy comment in theso brief notives, Ags City Chamberlain he saved to the taxpayers nearly a half million dollars in declining to accept the interest on the city funds lodged by him in the bank of deposit. He 18 better known perhaps as she great Tammany chieftain aud slate maker—the Warwick of official place, whose word made and unmale men. Inthe great charter fight Mr. Seewney was so disgusted with the oppo- sit}0n Of BOMO OF those whom he had created and clothed with the power to annoy that he at once re- solved to retire from poluca! hie, He was a neces. sity, however, to the continuance of democratic sn- premacy in city and State, and on the defeat of the young democracy he was earnestiy cntreated to re- Buwe the sceptreof rule, Like another Cvesac ou the Lupercal be then refused to resume tue away of the party, but ultimately yielded, taking an ofiice, ‘vhich removed liim from thesprominent position he hela as City Chamberiaia aud ostensibly trom the leadership of the party, and accepting that of presi- dent of iho Central Park Contmission. Mr. Swee- ny’s influence has been too long felt, however, to permit his avdication of the role of office maker, and in whatever position he occuptes he wil still continue to hold the reins of power. His education, reading and tastes, apart trom his political aninte ties, especially Mt him for vie new vifice to whlch he hag been appointed. ROBERE J. DILLON, another new member of the Park Commission, 16 one of the most prominent and best known of our citizens, He was some years ago Counsei to the Corporation, and took a most active part in the Movement first originated for acquiring the land now enclosed and known as the Park. No bet- ter selection could possibly be made, and the ap- pointment of Mr. Dilion to @ Board which exercises 80 great au influence im providing the means of re- creation and health for our citizens refiects great credit foy the discrimination of oar cnet Juagia- trate, BN-JUDGE HILTON is also a newly appointed member of the Board. He served a judiciai term on the bench of the Common Pleas, and subsequently hecame professional Jaw adviser and partnerin the great dry goods frm of A. I. Stewart & Co. Mr. Hilton, asa inan of taste and refinement, will not be behind Ins fellows in the embellishment of the great Park and what- ever other grouuds ay be acquired for the public enjoymeut, ANDREW H. GREEN, This gentleman, who 13 now appoiuted to the po- sition of member of the Department of Parka, is well known as the Comptrolier, and ao far as prac- fical work 18 concerned, the active mind of the old Central Park Commission. Mr, Green ts a republi- can in politics and a jawyer by profession, having been for some years & pariuer of Samuel J. Tilden, and bis administration of affairs in the Park and ins itmprovement tas been marked by the most signal approval, botn of pubitc oficials ana tie people. r, Green Was some years since a School Trustes and subsequently an Alderman from the Fourteenth ward ang a member of the Board of Buueauoi THOMAS C, FIELDS, appointed by the Mayor one of the Park Commis sioners, Was bora in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., to 1825, Was educate! at Delaware Academy, in Dela- ware county, and is a lawyer by profession. He re- moved to this city many years ago and entered nto pottticg ag an active democrat, From 1957 to 1960 fe served as Public Administrator of the metropolis; Was subsequontiy appointed one of the Ceutral Park Corommissioners aad Corporation Atioruey, botit is { Whjch poriuons ME pil) holds, Jp Igo9 My. Vieids of and in 1666 Mite Sennton Th ‘The followin year ie was defeated Miucmver of tho -Asenely and waa feocted Inst year. During the pelt Mr. Fields waa & ™ 44 ie ls vers of the Tammany considerable Influence. - 5 ee ‘The Pelle’ pepartment. as 4. 8. BOSWORTH Ms (00 “ert known as a democratic politician to re- ware an extended notice. He was appointed by the Jaw of 1864, was previously a judge of the Supreme Court and stands high in the confidence of the |. He was reap) ted op the Board during the present session of the Legislature, He is now filing his second term as pecans of that Board, As a legal authority in the Boaras of Police, Excise and Healti: he ts Jooked up to, and fills whe office wah peas credit to himself and satisfaction to the public. : BENRY BMITH. The second on the tist of the appointees to the new Police Department is Henry Smith, a prominent Tepublican of the First ward. Mr. Smith is one of the niost active business and oficial men in the city, and bas for many years been prominently gonnected with the shipping 1nterests of the port, He is prea- ident of the Bowling Green Savings Bank, one of the directors of the People’s Line of Steamboats on the Hudson, a director of the New Haven Railroad Com- pany, @ president of one of the tugboat associations and the owner individually several private te collector of assessments, a member for two terms of the Board of Supervisors, his right to hold office for the second time being now in litigauion, however, by reason of the fact that he was atthe time of his election a police commis sioner, and he was also ex oficio, a8 a member of the old police commission, a member of the Boards of Health and Excise, Not the least interesting feature of Mr. Smith’s history 1s the fact that he manages to find time to attend punctually to all these manifold duties, besides numerous others “we Wot not of," and is one of the most genial and hos- pitable members of the Americus Clab, which body made him the recipient of an elegant service of Sliver, Valued at $2,500, as a mark of appreciation or nus many admiraple qualities, MATTBEW T. BRENNAN Tetaing his position on the Polioe Board, He was born in this city im 1822, and received a fair educa- tion, Asa@young man he served through several Years as an active member of the Fire Department. He subsequently became, a captain of police under the old department, wuich position he held until elected to the bench, judge rormed his official duties to the satisfaction of all parties. In 1862 he was nominated by Tammany aud Mozart tor Lhe office of Comptroller of the city, and was elected, serving out the term, In 1868 the democratic major- ity fa the Legislature elected tim a Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, a position he still holds, BENJAMIN F. MANIBRRE. Benjamin F, Mamerre was for many years a pro- Mminent politician of the Eighteenth ward, and dur- ing the early part of the war held a seat as State Senator and Assemblyman for several terms from this city. During the draft riots of 1863 Mr. Manterre ‘was one of the special objects of the turbulent spiriis tbat made the metropoiis @ pandemonium, and his roperty Was vengefully threatened with the inoen- Haty torch, On February 16, 1863, he was appointed ®@ member of the Board of Police Commissioners under the old charter, and now, upon the superse- dure of that body by the new charter creating the Police Department, he i# appomted by Mayor Hall @ member of the new Board. He was ex opicio as Police Commisyioner a member of the now defunct Board of Excise. The Fire Depariment. WILLIAM HITCHMAN, at present Speaker of the State Assembiy and ap- poimted a commisstoner of the Fire Department, is a native of this city, and was born Novemb2r 18, 18.30, He receivea a good education, and entered into business as aclerk. In 1859 he was elected School ‘Trustee of tue Nineteenth Ward, and in 1862 Com- miasioner of the same ward. Two years later he waa chosen Commissiouer for the Seventh District, and in 1867 was elected a delegate to the State Cou- stitational Convention for the Eighth Senatorial Dis- trict. In 1868 he served as a member of the Assembly, of which he was clected Speaker. He was re-elected and served lust year, and 18 at present serving his third term as Assemblyman and second as Speaker. JOHN J.-BLAIR. Mr. Blair ts one of the members of the present Legialature, and is now one of the Commissioners of the Fire Department. He was born in this city, re- celved @ common school edueation, studied law and was admitted to the var. In 1856 he was appointed Henyenan of police, & position he filed with snarky. uring the war he served as an énelneer in the Marine corpa. 1n 1868 he was elected a member of the Assembly, and was re-elected last year by a greatly increased majority. ALEXANDER SHALER, President of the late Board of Fire Commissioners and & Commissioner of the new Board, is wellknown to the citizens of Naw York. He is a republican, and has been for aome years prominent in politics. During the rebellion he served with distinction, ob- taining the rank of brigadier general for skill and gailantry. General Shaler was appointed a Fire Commissioner by Governor Fentou and was elected President of the Board by his associates, JAMES T, HENNESSY, &@ member of the new Board of Fire Commission- ers, is President of the Emigrant Savings Bank, in Chambers street, and was at one time prominently connected with the old Volunteer Fire Department, to the eMciency of which he materially contributed. Mr, Hennessy bas been identified with every move- ment for years past tencing to the preservation of the city from fires, and his experience in the old de- partment wil) make Lis services in the new of great value, JAMES GALWAY. Mr. Galway, the fifth member of the new Fire De. parlient, 18 &@ gentieman well known as an ener- getic accession to the fleld of local politics, and suo- ceoded the late Joshua G, Abbe as a member of the old Board of Fire Commisstoncrs, ‘The Excise Department. WALTER W. PRICE. ‘this member of the Excise Board is a promment citizen of the Ninth ward, and a couple of years ago was a candidate for Member of Congress from hus district. He was one of the most extensive and suo- ceastul brewers in the city, and 18 consequently closely Identified with the liquor interest. This lat- ter fact alone proves how strong the desire is on the part of the municipol leaders to subserve the in- terests of that large class of our citizens who deal in liquor, and to give them a chance of being fairly represented and protectea in their rights. Mr. Price, we betieve, baa retired from active business, but de- votes time and attention to the itcresta ot that large class of our citizeas through Whom le has ac. quired the independence he now enjoys, JOUN B. WILLIAMS, anotuer moniber of the Nxcise Department, was an earnest advocate of We liquor interest in the Assem bly, of which body he was a member, He, like Mr, Price, was rormeriy engaged the brewery busi ness, and, like hita, i possessed of independent meuns, and of a desire to ata his former pavious, MARTIN NACHTWAN, one of the new Commissioners of the Board of Ex- cise, is @ member of the present Legislature. He fs @ native or Roitenvack, Bavaria, where he was born in 1836, When fifteen years of age be came to this country and entefed the estaolishment of Harper & Brothers, where he is stili employed as an Adams press prinver. In i863 he was elected @ meniber of the State Assembly, and was reieiected Jast year. The Health Department, STEPHEN SMITH, M. D. Dr. Stephen Smith is one of the present republican commissioners. Iie is a physician of standing, a tnorough scholar and an abie sonitarion. Some of {ie most able papers that emanated from the Sani- tary Committee, of which he ts chairman, are the products of bis brain and pen. indeed he is con- sidered the ablest sanitarian in tbe retiring board, GIOVANNE CRCCARINI, M. D. Dr, Ceccariul, aiso appoinied to the Heaith Depart- Toent, Js & Dative of Italy and ranks among the lead- ing men of the medical profession. He bas been for napy years @ resident of this city, and 1s distin- guished as a gentleman of rare culture gud taste, @nd as a medical and surgicai autitority stands very high in mearcal iteravare, MAGNUS GROSS. Magnus Gross, third on the soll of the new Health Department, 18 & German by birth and education, and has for some yeara been a prominent member ofthe Tammany demucracy. for upward of a year he has represented his ward in the Tammany Gen- cral Committee. He was also recently appointed to the Board of Education, and in that body, as also jo his private capacity a3 editor of the New Yo 7 Staats Zeitung, he has been prominent for his eare- hest but unsecessful advocacy of the introduction of the German ixnguage a& & vranch of instraction in the public schools, JOHN MULDALY. The fourth and last member of the newly eon. stituted Health Department, John Mullaly, ia an Irishiuan by birth, aud was for some yeais an atiaché of to WanaLD. In tds capacity te report ed the progress of the laying of the original Atiantic cable in 1868, aud his book, sabsequently published, ou the subject of submarine Cables, Was accepted a8 a standard autiorty. le was afterwards ideniliied with the srecman's Journaé, tae organ ot Arch. bishop Hughes, which position the paper anbse- quentiy loss. Later still Auilaly became the pad lisher of the Aigércpoitan Record, which pepica- fion ne “en ur. i” continues. On sue eth of Ancost, 1086, attted coort, the pubiica- thon of and articles, but after ap exammation Of several Gays the complaint was dismissed by Untied States Commissioner Belts. Department ef Docks. WILSON G. HUNT, This gentieman, who has been placed at the head of the Department of Docks, is one of the bear known citizens of New York. He was born at Hightatown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, im 1805, bis father being @ small farmer at that place. Mr. Hunt re- ceived as good aneiucation asthe means of his parents would admit, He remained on the farm of his father vntil eighteen years of age, woen he moved to this city @nd entered into business as clerk in a dry goods house. At the end of three years he opened a* store on Canal strect on bis own account, but, after Struggling for some years, failed, and was compelled to compromise wili bis creditors. He then went to Baltimore, where he was successful. Returniug to New York in 1834, Mr. Hunt entered into the cloth basiness in the store at the corner of Pearl and Qhatham sireets, He prospered exceedingly, and after be had been firmly established he sent for his old creditors and paid them every sei NaS" faa Mea oa oi ee m all ol tothem. “As's testimonial of this Fare act of wonest they gave bim a dioner, at which he was presented, in their names, with a splendid service of silver. Mr. Hunt remained tn the cloth business for twenty years, when he retired, having amassed a handsome Tortane. Several years he was appointed one of the Commissioners of Emigration a, position he held with unswerving integrity aud marked success. few months ago he was mepointed by Governor Hoff- man one of the Commissioners of Quarantiae and was unanimously confirmed by the State Senate. ‘This office Mr. Hunt now holds, we need lardiy aay, to the general satisfaction of the public, JOUN T. AGNEW, ® member of the new Board of Docks, 18 one of the Oldest and most successfal merchants of ths city. No man 1s better known in the Chamber of Com- merce and wherever merchants most do congregate. His spectaity and the business in which he acquired his present ampie fortune was the tobacco trade, from hich, however, has been reured for some years. Perhaps no mau commands 4 larger share of the public confidence, nobly and wortuily ac- quired, than Mr. Agnew. His lenlification ey the best interests of the city and the commerce of the port admirably fits him for the position of trust to which he has been appointed, HUGH SMITH, another member of the Board of Docks, ts ex-Deputy Chamberlain. Mr. Smith, like his chtef, Mr. Sweeny, voluntarily retired, but Mayor Hall, recognizing his special fitness as a successor in the post of City Chamberlain, offered im the place, which he, how- ever, declined. afr. Smith is perhaps one of the most popular yet unobtrusive men who has for some time past been wielding political ower. Jt could not be said of him, as a relation to is Chief, Mr. Sweeney, that he was ‘the power be- hind the throne.” But he was a power tn counctl, whose sagacity and judgment in making the political siate, and selecting the rghtemen for the right place, Was always accepted with deference and con- fidence. Mr. Smrth’s tuterest in and his just appre- ciation of the necessities of the city and port par- ticularly fit him for we office to which our discrimi nating Chief Magistrate has appointed him. WILLIAM WOOD, lately of the frm of Dennistoun & Wood, bas large business experience, is conversant with the wants of the city in the way of dock accommoda- tions and improvements, 1s @ well-kaown business man, possessing great capacity for the understand- ing and wansaction of public affairs, and pecullariy fitted for the disctarge of the important trust com- mitted to him. He will prove a. mop Gealraple acquisition to the Board of which he he is to forin A member, oe RICHARD M. HENRY, another member of the Board isa lawyer of most respectable standing in his profeasion and a mem- ber of the Citizens’ Association, who has so long sedulously labored to inaugurate a reform in our city government, and to reauce the expenses press. ing so heavily on the taxpayers. Mr. Henry is the author of most of the reports presented to the Leg- isiature by the Citizens’ Association in relation to proposed reforme In the city government, No better selection could have been made in this department of municipal supervision, as Mr. Henry may be con- sidered an expert on ali questions relating to docks and wharves, Department of Public Charities and Cor. rection, JAMES B, NICHOLSON. First on the list of appointments, or rather reap- potutments, of this Board is James B. Nicholzon, who was for many yeara prominent in mercantile circles in this city, His rst appearance in any important public office was about ten years since as a member of the Board of Governors of the Almstouse, after which he became a meinber of the Board of Public Charities and Correction, and has n en reap. pointed under the new organization. Hts record as. @ public man has been unostentatious, faithial and without biem!sh, JAMES BOWEN, al80 a mewber of the old Board as well as an ap- pointce to the new, 8 a retired merchant, and was once & prominent whig, on which ticket he held a seat 1D Congress for one term. T6440 BELL, third on the list of reappointments to this Board, was for many years largely engaged in commercial pursuits, ana is wellknown to the large body of our citizens as an honorable and upright gentleman, of good business capacity and steriing integrity, OWEN W. BRENNAN, brother of Police Commissioner M. T. Brennan, is one of the ‘solid’? men of the community and of large capacity. He 1s @ republican im political pro- fession and has served several terms as Alderman and in other local oficial postions, He has been identified with the oid Board of Charities and Cor- rection for some seven years, and 1s one of the leading oracles of the Americus Clab during the ruralizing season at Indian Harbor. ALEXANDER FREAR. ‘This genticraan 18 the only new appointee of the new Commissioners of Public Charities and Correc- tion, Hs 1s a native of Poughkeepsic, where he was born in 1820. While @ young man he came to this city and entered into business, his present occupa- tion being that of a broker. In 1858 he was elected Councilman for the Seventh district and Alderman for the Eleventh district in 1860-1, My. Frear en- tered the State Assembly in 1366, aid has been elected every successive year. It will be rene bered that he introduced the new Charter which passed and witich is how known a8 the ‘'¥rear Cuarte} Vepartmont of Buildings. TASTES MM Ot. Mr. MeCregor, the presiding genius of this newly created department, will be readily recognized a3 the former head of the Bureau for the Survey and Jn- Spection of butldings. His previous experience in this capacity wonld scem to be a fitting reason for bis appoimtment to his present posiiton, and tt needs no argument to convince any one of the im- portance of the oflce, involving as it does respon- sibility for the security and proper construction of millions of dollars worth of property and the con- sequent safety of many lives, Mr. McGregor is himself @ practical builder, and his most prominent public record was a8 a coloncl of a volunteer reg!- ment of cavalry (one of the Scott Life Guard re- cruits), and his subsequent rank as a brigadier general commanding & brigade under General ae mm the Second army corps, during the late rebellion. THE HILDISE BUND. Final Organization of the Soviety—The Charter=Heavy Debates. The delegates of the Hildiso Bund had a meet ing yesterday afternoon, which was pro wwactead until Jate in the evening. The object was the fina! organization of the society. Unfortunately, however, this was but partially accomplished, there being such a diversity of opinion and such firm determimation to resist that it was thought expedient to adjourn. Among the oificers elected were Mr. John H. Biehling, presi- dent; Mr. William Holdtmann, first vice president; Mr, Duersenied:, second vice president,’ ana Mr. Despié, third vice president. 1. Amuel was re- elected recording Aecretary; Mr. B. Zebden, cor- responding secreiary, aud Mr Rudolph Kiesou, financial secretary. Quite a debate sprang up on the election of a treasurer, it being intimated that the man who ts to be chosen was bound to give security to the extent of $5,000, The choice fell upon Mr. Tueobaid Frohwein, President of the New Amsterdam Savings Bank, During the vote tere was a great hubbub, The opponent of the successiti candidate had but eieven votes, and wile his name was called by the tillers, the meetiag began to count “tive,? “six,’? “seven,”? and the chairman ham- mered and cried, “We are not boys’? One mem- ber moved to have a police committee appointed, but this did not pass. When the vote for treasurer was finaliy announced, and Mr. Frohwein was de- clared clected, there was general rejoicing and all med to be satisied, | reat debate was onthe proposition to go into the clection for the board of trustees. It was in- sisted by some that the charter, In which the cor- poration are named as trustees, bad precluded the soclety from elecung tof other persons in the place of those so named. Messrs, Buchaweiler, Petersen, Jluebner, Schmidt, Zetnter, Schoen, Loldkuayn end other took an achye part Im thig DI rani , Delaware an@. NEW YORK CITY NEWS. Local and Polfce Paragraphs and Itema of Metropolitan News. ‘The following record will show the changes 1 the temperature of the weather for the past twenty-four. hours in comparison with the corresponding day of - last year, as indicatea by the thermometer at Hud. nut’s pharmacy, HBRALD Bullding, Broadway, corq ner of Aun street:— 1869, 1870, 40 63 ‘The body of a drowned man, about forty years old, black hatr and whiskers, dressed in black coat and pants, was found yesterday in the sewer foot oF Desbrosses street, Ata meeting of whieh Mr. William L. Wiley wat chairman, held at the Bloomingdale Exchange, 205th treet and Ninth avenue, on Saturday might, resolud tions in praise of the charter and in word-worshis of ‘the Taming son of the democracy, Mr. Williang M, Tweed, were passed amid the usual enthusiasine Yesterday officer Irving, of the Twenty-first pred cinct, arrested Louts Appell, keeper of a lager beer saloon, No. 074 Third avenue, for thro’ ous ‘Thomas Slevin, of No. 668 Third avenue, who ree coven a severe scalp wound in falling to the eldey wi It seems to be settled that on the reorganization ef the Police Board to-day Superintendent Kennedy will tender bis resignation and Captain John Joure dan be appointed to the vacated oMice. It is ramored hye Mr, iBoswrottt eit accept the ponnanan fom, the Court of Common Pleas spring ant for s democratic Commissioner in the Pollce Boardg James Hennessy and John Alexander were yesters day brougnt pefore Justice Ledwith, cnargea by John Miller, of No, 360 East Sixteenth street, wit robbery and assauit, At tree o'clock on 81 morning Miller was passing the éOraei <f Hightee! street and Third avenue, when, he says, dérendan' seized him by the throat from behind, garrossiny and beating him severely. The robvers only fot three doliars upon his person. Upon examinatio! they were held to bail to answer at the Court 9} Spectal Sessions. The report of the Central Park Metcorologica) partment for the week enaing April-9, 1670, sho’ the following conditions of the weather during tha period:—Barometer—Mean, 29,852 inches; maxie Toum, at nine A. M. April 9, 30.128; mininum, at fous A. M. Apru 5, 440; range, 648. Thermonieter- Mean, 44.1 degrees; maximum, at four P. M. April 66.5; minimum. at six P.M, April 4, 32.0; range, 33. Rain fell April 3, 4, 5 and 6, baving @ wital durati of 45 hours and 20 minutes. Total depth of wate for the week, 1.69 inches. Distance travelled by ti Wind during the week, 1,613 milics, An inquest was held yesterday at the German a pital, Seventy-sevenuh street and Fourth avenue, | fone Flyan on the body Caristian Faebel, a pi tient who committed suicide by hanging himselt the supply Ee of the yater tank in the outh by means Of @ cord, Bove had been but tw days in the hospital, and was suffering from kidns disease. According to the testimony of Dr. Ried house physician of the hospital, deceased exhibit no symptoms of insamity. Deceased was thuty-fy Years of age and 3 native of Germany, AN STABBED WN FORTY-SEVENTH STREET. f Yesterday George Eilinger and George nd tripe butchers, had an altercation in theix shop, Nt 609 West forty-seventh street. Eilinger drew a butcher's knife and buried tt three inches in the i back ofGager. The knife struck the back or @ murder would have undoubtedly committed. The wounded man, who, it ia belie will recover, was sent to Bellevue’ Hospital, an@ Ellinger was locked up at the Weat Forty seventip street station house. MAILS FOR EUROPE. Tbe Hamburg mall steamship Aliemannia wilt Agave this port on Tuesday for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg. The mails for Europe will close at the Post OMc@ at twelve o’clock noon. Tur New York HERALD—Edition for Europe—wiP be ready at ten o’clock in the morning. ’ Sinple copies, in wrappers for mailing, ex centay LLCOCK POROUS PLASTER. Patronized by the Medical Men of ai! seliovis, Dr. Velentine Mott, Dr. Jobanon, of Hartford, and Dag ayers, of Savannah, have dpoken of them in the highes® terms, Tho great Mott snid:—°They were all thatcould b@ hoped for in @ plaster—simple, cleanly and adhesive; pong fect as arii‘clal enpporters of the muscles, and for painng because of their mild counterritant qualities, usually a@ once giving eae"? Local weakness of the back, breast ang alde always benefitted, thus curing lumbago in a few hourmy sometimes in a few minutes, Ask the Fon, Shepher® Knapp; be will tell you what they ean do. Iv serious heart and chest affections thvir use eacses a absorption or evaporation of water, by which dropsy of the heart and bvdro thorax have, undoubtedly, been cured, i EIEN A EERE ESA ALAS Sait SS EE MEDICAL WONDER, HYATIS LIFE BALSAM. algla and Gout in. their worst | Evil, Tervaipelas, old Ulcers and the wo ° Hood, great Debiiity, Liver Co: plait, Kidneys, Salt Rhenm, €e,, &e., are inost oertal cured’ by this sovereign purifier, Tt has been tested by th public twenty-two years, Ithas cnred a hundyed thousam cases, and never {ails when taken as directed. It Is a cer curative for Fistula in all curable cases. It cures the fowls old ulcers, even where the bone has become catles, ‘ RONIC RHEUMATISM. HYATT’S LIFE BALSAM cured F. B. Conway, Eaq., trad ge catre, Brooklyn, N. Y,, of Chronic» Rhein ti after failing of care in id Americn from ty most eminent mecieal practitioners. rn y CROFULOUS ULCER, HYATTS LIFE BALSAM cured Mr. Jacob Roth, office 14 Greenwich strect, of a Scrofulous Uleer, which had eatum the flesh to the hone. Mr. R. has been cuted 15 years, wie out any return of the dinease, Principal depot £46 Grand stroet. Sold by druggists, BR. per bottle, six for Sent everywhere by express, “ALL GOODS M ARK A a “YE, D, BASSFORD’s, Cooper Institu » WORD—BUY AT £. D. BASSFORD'S, Cooper Inetiiate, SILVER-PLATLD WARE AN) E. D. BASSFORD'S, Cooper Institute. we -) AS COs?—CHINA AND GLASS WARE. ~~ B. D, BASSFORD'3, ‘Cooper Institute. T GOLD PRI fh Table Cuttery. NOTARY PUBLIC, ALWAYS 1N; ALSO COMMI! sioner of Deeds for every State, and l’assport Agent Law document ered {0 English of Spanish. FREDERICK I. KING, Counselor at Law, 463 Broadway. YARGAINS, BA ROAINS— WATCHES, JEWELRY AND BILVER WARF, £0. ‘The subscriber will remove to " NO, 513, BROADWAY, UNDER THE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, ABOUT MAY 1, and Is now settin, FINE GOLD WATCUS, FINE GOLD WATCH CHAIN! EARRINGS ond RACELETS, LOCKETS, N#CK LACES, SEAL RINGS, SLEEVE BUITONS, STUDS, &C, R REDUCED PRIORB. HALF SHOWCASES and BAFE FOR SALE LOW. ‘GEO, 0. ALLEN, 415 Broadway, one door Liclow Canal atreet, N ‘STORED 70 THE enfeebled by DU BARRY'S DEe us "A FOOD, which has eifected 70,000, cures of dyspepsia, constipation, diarrhoea, pisbisis, coughs, colds, fevers, ant ‘all nervous,” biliot , and stomael ia to Cs I ibe diorders, Copies of cures sent grat 1 26, 12 Ya. 810, etc. Alwo the REVELLNTA CHOCOs ATE, $1 50 per to. H. DU BARRY & CV., 168 Wiillar pete New York, aud at all druggists and grocera everye where, PABICAL CURE, WITHOUT KNIFE, CAUSTIC, OF detention from busiuess, for Stricture, Pistula, Pite Diseases of tho P iseera, Diseases an! Defarmities o the Eye, Nose, Face and Porson, HENRY A, DANIELS, M. Diy M4 Lexiazton avenue, oiaee & CO., 557 BROADWAY, HAVE NOW ON hand a large valloty of earved apligne Furniture, Chinas &c.; also a large and exten: ond hand Par ve assortment of first class sede + Dining and Bedroom Svite, all made 4 best city makern;’25 large Mantel and Pier Mirrors, Pian Clocks, Bronzos, Satea, Silver and Plated Ware nnd Wi of Art for aale cheap, ‘Al! goods guaranteod a ToHeEteda