The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1870. Agitation on the Subject in Westchester County. How the People Feel—How the Leaders Talk—What the Towns Need and May Gain by Joining the Metropolis— Report Against the Project— Scneme for a New City. In order to ascertain the populat teeling throngh- out the southern portion of Westchester county on the at present ail absorbing subject of annexation to New York, @ HERALD representative has within the past few days made a tour of the several towns which it has been proposed to anuex, and during interviews with some of the leading property owners in those latter obtained the following in- formation, from which may be gathered a tolerably accurate reflex of the desires, hopes and fears now commencing to animate the taxpaying population in the section named:. Commencing with Yenkers, which ranks drst in wealth, population and progressiveness, the writer called upon Ethan Flagg, a gentleman largely Klentified with the interests of that town, aod who from an extended oMcial connection with county affairs, is regarded as one of the chief representa- tive men in his victnity, Om veing asked what was thought of the annexation project Mr. Flagg re. pled, “It is a new subject, sir, and the people hardly know how vo regard it unui! they learn what advantages the government of New York intends to give them. WHAT YONKERS WANTS. The citizens of Yonkers want public water werka, We have an abundance of water, bat it ts not available for either domestic or public use, Jt we bad a proper system of water works, such as supply New York, it would not only administer to & want now almost universally felt in our domes- ec life, but also, by furnishing steam power and water for manufacturing purposes, would contribute | materially to the prosperity of this rapidly growing village. An adequate supply of water 1s our chief want, and it proves a serious obstacle to our pro- gress. The sewers now being built in some of our streets olien prove quite offensive, owing te the absence of this unportant element. Again, the peo- ple desire an effictent police force, similar to that im the city. Ibetieve if we could have as reliable a body of men as those now doing duty here, under a competent and comprehensive head, the citizens would be perfectly satisfied. The people also waut @ compendious and uniform method of laying out, epening and working streets in the town; they are eager to see inaugurated w united and comprehensive system, managed and di rected by a competent head. At present’ we have no system, the matter of streets and highways being under tue divided control of village authorities, trustees, commissioners of highways and special commissioners appointed by the Legisiature, and, a# @ consequence, the people look iu vain for agreewent of action or uniformity of design. i be- lieve | have now stated the three principal wants of our people. Last year there was a bill Introduced in the Legislature to incorporate the whole town of | Yonkers into 4 city, but on account of objections raised by parties living outside of the village tt was ot pressed.”” TIE FEELING IN YONKERS. REPORTER—As far as you have been avle to asver- tain, what ts (he general feeling of the people of Yonkers on tie subject of annexation to New York? Mr. FL.aGG—They do not know what to think of It, not knowing the nature or designs of the propoed sebeme. All the information they possess in regard to the matter is that a bill bas been drawn up for | Presentation to the Legislature looking to the con: | sammation of the project indicated. Many of them | are opposed to the idea of allowing the control over their local affairs to pass into the hands of the New | York city government, haviag but uttle faith in the integrity of those who compos Several of the | “property holders south of the village avd lirprosiin- ity to New York, on the contrary, say that if they are to be brought into a city all they would pro ; Jer entrusting their interests to the city of New York rather than to the “City of Yonkers,” but t | although J } frame building: annexed to New York, Mr. Morris aaid, “There is a diversity of opinior strong ‘are im favor or tt Pi the pre- 2008 CRSA cana Oud ie Re. 08 table ink the time has arrived when our section of the county will nave to beembraced within the limits of New Yerk; therefore, as that result appears to be ipevitable, the lands had better be taken ion of at once by the city authorities and laid out topographically to receive the metropelis when it extends to tis place. WOULD INTERESTS SUFFER? As’ @ taxpayer in the city and also here in West Farms, I do not think my toterests in the former place would suffer by New York taking 1p a portion of this county, while at the same ume f peheve that my concerns here would be ma- terially benefited thereby. There is @ large section of the lower portion of this county nearer to the City Hail than is the upper part of Manhattan Island, and that is one of the reasons why this terri- tory should be constituted a part of the city. The Harlem river, now forming the bound: tine be- tween the upper end of the island and the county of Westenester, should be, I think, subject te the control of oue government, RerorrER—W hat 1s your opinion of the scheme to Seorreree the three lower towns Into a distinct city Mr. Morris—I am not in favor of any new city being incorporated in this county, but would rather prefer that uilof the seven towns originally men- Uoned should go in for unnexation to New York; for, although I may perhaps consider that the towus of Morrisania, West Farms and Westchester would be sufticient wo attach Lo the city at present, yet, if the inhabitants of the mere northerly towns Want to be annexed we have no right to exclude them, Foerort the prin I peleedrantenes we should gain by becoming a part of the city are Croton water, munt- cipal police, an effective fire organization and a more generitl public school system. Suppese we organized tuto a new city the reverse of those would be (in the matier of water alone) the requirement of @ series of years and an enormous amount of money Lo construct suitable water works, and even then they could not be as perfect as those now supplying the city, We can obtain Water infinitely sooner wnd at less expense by annexing ourselves to New York than we could ever hope for in a new etty. If we were living ina section remote from New York I should favor the project of incorperating a new city, for the purpose of obtaining a good supply of water, an eificient fire organization aud other requirements necessitated by our extent aod properity; but as we are in im- mediate proximity to New York, where all these wants are already at hand, | do notsee why— if the people of New York want us—this territory should not be a portion of the city. There ww hue and cry made about “¥RAUD AND CORRUPTION” in connection with the administration of the city government; but { believe that the city of New York has now got ae good @ government as any city tn the worid ever had, It 1s composed of able men, who leave the of stamp master minds on all they perform. ReroxteR—ln what light is the annexation pro- Ject regarded by the mass of taxpayers in your town? Mr. Moraris—I believe two io one of them are In favor of it, especially on this (west) side of the Har- lein Railroad. Since I learn, however, that a num- ber of taxpayers on the opposite side of the raiiroad do not want to be annexed, I think, to make au cast- ern boundary of the present line of the Harlem Railroad to the Yonkers Jine, this portion, including about alf of the town of West Farms, together with the stuall section of Morrisania lying south of ua, would tn themselves form 4 vatuable adaitien to the city. iu the ter:ttory alluded to lerge expenditures have already been made for preliminary surveys aud other improvements directed by the Central Park Commissioners, and the greund has been laid out conformably with the foregone conclusion that the city must ubsorb this section at no distant day. Looking to ie better protection of lite and property Tthink it vastly tnportant that we should become a part of New York, that we might be enabled to have a suiticient force of police. liere we are subjected to the constant incursions Of criminals from New York, wie eiten escape the couscquences of their crimes committed in our midst owing to the numerically weak cond | ton of our preseat police force. Our neighbors ia Hast Chester or in Morrisapia may exercise their cretion in deciding whetuer or ne they favor an- tion, but we de uot wish them to play the part e “dog in the manger,” or seek to throw $ in the way of our interests beiug identified with New York, ‘ WHAT I8 SAID IN MORRIS ANIA. James L. Parshall, a prominent citizen of Morrisa- Dla, was wext interviewed and having been Interro- gated On the subject of annexation, responded as m about the matter, but a rovided jJollows:—*4 Ullak the matier altogether premature, h. ave nob seen the bill reported to be drawn lor sentation to the Legislature. My pe- liei, however, is, That the question of annexation to New York 18 only one of win We are travelling too Jast in this town. One which are at present 'Y Should be, are becoming more y year. For my part [ do novsee own water at present, and the who are disposed fo have # fuil supply of a an ODLaIn It by building cisterns suiiciently large instead of depending upon wells, as many of them do now. Some of tie people contend that we shouid have Croton water here 10 case of fire, from the fact that most of our village 1s composed of andif fire should odcur it might prove disasirous in some jocatities; but I think tat hy kuliding a few more good, central pubile és tera, ieee in case of Ure, the exisuing diMculty mi LEMOZEG 2 se cwwenn ne + Hargurat=be NOT think the present system of olice 18 tats P fon proves Satisfactory to the pro- erty oynera E Mr. PARSHALL—AS regards the police organiza- think at present their desire is to be lett as they are. The citizens of Yen are a progressive and | enterprising people; they cannot—nor do they wish | to—close thelr gates against the overcrowded in- | ants of New York; — | THEY ARE JN PAYOR OF IMPROVEMENTS and will cleerfuly pay for them; but they want the worth of their money, and this esidera- tum can only be aitained through a mont | cipal goverumeni, energetigally, be y | economically adminisieved. Those 0 oppose annexation dread the thought of as it were, completely wiiowed—n influence, identity avd ali—by the city of New Yor ‘They also seem to think that their tax creased enormously. Perhaps the de part of many to remain as they ave me: for by the circumstance that a larg wealthy business men bave setiled suburban homes, and while conscious of haviag al { | be accou nu wa | the domestic comforts that iste may sw ana | affiuence provide, do not iike the thought of being in | 4 any way disturbed, | RerorveKR—Do you not think that annexation to New York would supply t t have already stated are chiefly munity? Mr. FLaGG—For my cwn part I believe it would: but I think a majority of the people would prefer to have them independent of New York if they could obtain them. Indeed, I do sot believe that there is any considerable number of our people who would favor annexation per se. which you fel town by the metropolis regarded by ma property owners as inevitable? ULTIMATE ANNEXATION INEVITABLE. y of the Mr. FracG—Such is my belief. We cau no more prevent the absorption of this territory by New York than we could arrest the current of the Magara. In fact, tt might be said that the process ‘of absorption has already commenced, as the popu- lation in the lower part of our town has, within the ast few years, increased toa greater extent than in any otier portion of the metropolitan suburbs excepting Brooklyn and Jersey City. Since it 1s evident that the principal avenues in New York will be continued across the Hariem river and Spuy- ten Duyvil creek it is highly essential that the jay- ing out of streets in te lower portion of the town should he effected in conformiiy therewith, and if there is not some comprehensive system adopted now the result must entail a vast amount of expense in the fuiure. Already that gection of our town comprising Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil and Moshola, is controled by the Central Park Commissioners, under whose direc tion streets are being laid out mente effected and a lopegraphi the district. in order to mect the provements the last Legislature authorized raising of a tax of $50,000 on preperty in controlled by the Commissioners. $10,000 ¢ m was raised during the last year, and 4 [ax of $20,000 is Jevied for the present year, leaving $20,000 yet uBeailed for. REPORTER—How do you. individually, Question of annexation Mr. FLAGG—Although not committed against the theasure, if I was cai upon to vere on ine ques tion this morning J would probably vote agatast i bnt Lcannet say how I would act if the project was mitelligently and iairly brought before me. Ivahouid here be stated that subsequent to the above interview the wiier, during a conversation with @ gentleman residing in the vicinity of Kings- bridge, Was assured by kim that, with scarcely an exception, the property owners In lis section Were heartily in favor of annexation to New York. One of the principal reasons he assigned for the desirsd regard the change was that the value of real estate on the norfa side of the Harlem river, and contiguous to New York, would at once be doubled by theact of annexation. ntoplan project of incorporating the townof Yon kers into a separate city, In order to esvape.the ra cious designs of the “Tammany leaders,” does not meet With mnch encotragement, especiaily among the infuential class of ¢ 1 How some of these javier regard the measure may be inferred trom a remark lately nade by a wealthy resident of River- dale, who, in deuonneing the scheme, stated among other objections that shouid Yonkers be imcorp rated into a city he would, in all probability, “awal some Morning to find himself represented in the Boare of Aldermen by his ooachman.” ANOTHER VIEW OF THE SUBJECT. ‘The views of Lewis @. Merris, an influential citi- gen of the teyr ef West Farms, were next songht for by the rier, who, on making Known the of bis visit, elicited the following information: the aucstuop a6 to What Bis townepeopie Wouxds uf lucompetent } ave in {avy | taki ‘The somewhat | tion, it secins to Te that the force, numerically con- sidere abundant, provided 4 coald be organized with ‘a view ‘to efMfciency; the great trouble appears to be that men — are appointed to the force who are whoily and unfit for the postion, 1 do not at present in need of municipal police ; but perhaps we may be um the course of years, if hot soones, ROUND KALLROAD CONNECTION. —J.9y are suid to be opposed to the an- alt FLAT r of r ‘The enly torm of annexatien I | to he Jomed to New York oy means aun ‘oud railread or some other mode of ton (aat would furnish rapid transit. When- i ? iv prosperity may be jairly said to MM Pa uh your kaowled infer me wi deeded P uy eit by io auion to vould b ation now i eeffect aua prevail- whout | have con- t appear to be avout equaliy altogether on where and how . For instance, people owning fast river froui—say at Yort Mor- e 4 what they would be benefited by Parties owning property ironting ou 0 be r | | annexatt | the Harlem river would enetiied by the | ; but some of these latter say they are in- to whether they are annexed or not, vii) neith cate NOT Oppose Por the most part, are now only awaking to a consciousness of | what is proposed, and are Bot sufficiently famillar | with the nature of the project to arrive at any definite concinsicn i regard to it. That, also, may | be stated to be my position to a certain extent. ruere are some of our property owners Who assert that we could not be inuch worse eff ifwe sold out to William M. fweed & Co,; but for my part 1 cao- not take such & deplorabie view of our situation, REASONS POR IMMEDIATE ANNEXATION. ¥ the reasons given by some of our taxpay- ers In Morrisania who favor lninediate aanexauon to New York are the following:—The heavy taxes, amounting v eight percent on the assessed vaiua- tion of the tewn, with @ material mcrease on the xt of January, and also ihe onerous assessme: that the area of assexsuient is not large enough to pay the expenses neceasury in carrying out the boulevards and other giganuc schemes; that no more than four per cent can be realized at the present time on ai- | most any kind of improved property in the town; that there has been ittte or no demand for property in the town nearly two years that if ane | nexed there will be an immediate reaction in reat esiate troughout the county; tat it Wili give the leu stronger aud more eMetent governmenr; it will afford necessary and permanent street mprove: Sub ajower rae of assessment: tiat Croton water will be introduced for domestic and | pubite n required; tia they can | obtain a thoroughly disciplined police ioree under a uipetent bourd af commissiout iat it wal give tiem a metropolitan fire department, with iuore protection from fire, and consequently a re- duction in the rates ef insurance, and that it will encomrage ca) sis tO invest in property north vf Harlem bridge and construct a qutck line of travel to the lower part of the city. In addition to the foregoing advantages it 1s also predicted by the ad- vocutes of annexation that manutactories will spring up in their nudst, and a large portion of the resi- dent working classes Will tnd employment at home without losing time and money, a& now, i gor daily to and trom New York. YHE PROJKCT DORS NOT MEVT Wirn FAVOR. it cannot be sald tha’ te proposition to consoil: | date the towns of Morrisauia, West Farms and Westchester into a separate city meer= with much support in the former town, where muby of the tax- payers have a wholesome dread of escaplig “frou ine frying pan into the Ore.” in tas counection | they allude to the circumstance that during the last er, the peo- Amo! | session of the isiature bills were tutroduced te estaviish a civil and police court in Morrisamit and other towns, at a probable expense of $30,000 per annum for each town. These bills having been co’ | uemed by we people, and the orginaiors of the same repudiated, t 18 asserted that tue taxpayers | tus’ oid Rochelle, the feeling at present existing among & majority of the property owners appears to be deci- deadly averse to the project of annexation, owing to the extreme sparseness of population, heavy taxa- tion and other causes. Among the taxpayers in fis Chester opinions on the subject are about equaliy PROPOSED SCBEM:: FOR A XEW CITY, At @ meeting of property owners, held in Ford- ham, Westchester county, on the 15th Inst., @ com- mittee of five was appointed to consider the pre- posed annexation of seven of the lower towns of that county to New York, and prepare another bill for legislative action at the approaching session having in view the organization of a new form of government for three of the lower towns of the county, The committee accordingly prepared te following report, which was presented at an ad- | jouraed meeting, held in the above named village | last Saturday. THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE is as follows:— ‘That the committee have had under consideration the subject referred to them and have given it that atvention which its pubsic importance demanded, In considering the subject embraced within the resolution your committee have necessarily had also to consider the to the city of New York of the greater part of the county of Westchester-—nearly two-thirds of it in population and wealth is propese { Lo be annexed, | ‘Tie bill on this subject, Which has been prepared | and = pristed, 1% widerstood to have ema- nated from Mr. Corneiuis Oorson, President ef the New York Printing Association, she bill te which he has given paternity includes for annexation seven of the most populous and wealthy tewns of the county ‘of Westchester, cen- taining a population of about 75,000 people out of 142,200, Whicu is about the population of the whole county. The tewns which he proposes to anuex compose the heart and the MOST WEALTHY PART OF THIS COUNTY. A very Datural inquiry suggested by so radical a measure of ehange as is proposed by this bill is, whether the people to be affected by its provisions have asked for er desire tta passage; and, tt they do, whether the ters and provisions of the pro) act are such as will mete out equal asd exact justice to all of its citizens in the way of representa.ion, as- sessment and taxation, and in cennecil with precerire: benefits which are claimed to flow from the adeption of this measure. Certainly no democratic Legisiature should be guilty annexing to the imperial city of New York so a territory, with a population of 75,000 people, agaiust their will. Its a cardinal principle of the democratic party chat ne people shoud be governed wituout their consent, constituttenally expressed and obtained, which suggests that this bill, if it should be considered at all by the Legislature, should first be submitted to the peopie who are to pe atfected by the radical changes proposed; and, if a majority of them should desire its passage, then, if there be nO constitutional obstacles in the way, it might be passed with propriety. r Your commnatcee unanimously report AGAINST THE PASSAGE OF THIS BILL by the Legislature, because the area of territory proposed to be annexed is treble in extent that of the present territory of the county of Naw Yor! A difusion, therefore, of municipal regula! and government over so large a territery would result probably in expensive and inade- quate improvement, while, if annexation 18 to be desired at all, a concentration of improvement produced by additional pelitical power con erred by a municipal government might with propriety be considered mm reference to that portion of West- chesier couaty which lies Immediately easterly and soutierly of the northern point of the present county of New York—namely, a line drawn in an easterly direction from Spuyten Duyvil creek at Kingsbridge to the sound, just above Fort Schuyler, An ant won of this territory, containing now a population of nearly 40,000 people, provided it were made upel fair and just terms, would be one tuat the people of this section, if it were submitted to them for their vote, might approve. But THE RADICAL CHANGES PROPOSED by Mr. Corson’s bul in the creation of tour wards out of the seven towns of Westchester county, and having these four wards represented in the Board of Aldermen of the city of New York by two additional Aldermen, making seventeen in all (why not the old Hasserach and All Baba nuinber’;, to be elected by @ general Lickel, and haviug these four wards cach with representatives In the Board of Assistant Aldermen, with the most unequal population in each ward, 20,0001n the Twenty-third ward, 30,000 in the Twentieth ward, 10,500 in the Twenty-tfth ward and 11,000 in the Twenty-sixth ward, is so radically unjust and anti-democratic thac no fair- minded citizen could support it. ‘She change of the entire school and of the judicial systems now existing in this portion of Westchester county to that of the present Police Justice and Dastrict Justice and Court of Sessions jurisdiction of the city of New York, all of which is to occur im i872 Uf Chis bill becomes @ law, and the additional change proposed of making this portion of West- chesier after the next census in 1475 part of a New York city Senatorial and Congressional district, and ot a New York city Supreme Court, Judicial distr and the over ad auge of removing by great big . - of jarge RECORD COMMISSION 0B," proposed by the biil, all the county records of titles and judgments from the county seat at Wite Plans tothe city of New York, thus uprooting and over. turning the existing ties of more than one half of the citizens of the county to their real and persoual property, would result in creating chaos where order, system and good.government now exist. It 13 for this and other reasons, which would occu. py too much ste to be odes cob em — iat your mit hav uganimously reported against Mr. ‘eG ae i bs iinworthy of serivas consideration by any intelligent Legisiature, © —~ fie resolution, under which your committee act, provides for the prepara:ion by ‘hem o/ a new ior of government for the lower towns of Westchester county, and in pursuance of this portion of the resolation they have the honor to subinit for your consideration their unanimous views In favor of the incorporation ef the ol4 township | of Westchester, aow constituting the towns of Mer- risania, West Farms and Westchester, under one form of municipal government, similar to that | which was given to the city of Brooklyn in the year ue tune has arrived when the population of | township of Weatc to; about 40,000—nearly 20,000 m h Brooklyn had when she received the beneilte clty charter—should receive {he NEAGES AND POWER OF A GOOD CITY GOVERN- ADY MENT. The growth of Brooklyn, marvellous in ent ter, perhaps, than that of amy other city im * Uniled States, @ not m the world, may have 2 mainly auiributable to the fact that her own | ye people Ti from the Legislature a qharter which conierred upon them the power of internal improvements which ary for her development and progress, which lave siuce she became a city made her within te last ten years the third city in the Union aud in her improvements one of the mest beautiful, The benefits of a city government are exemplifiea not only in ihe growLt and prosperity of Brooklyn. but algo im the growth and prosperity of Jersey City, ?hich bas more than quadrupled in population wiliuu the last ten years. No good reason can be assigned why the lower part ef Westchester county, with its mataral facii- Ues for great development and improvement, should not grow as rapidly withia the next twenty ‘8 as Brooklyn and Jersey City have grown within the past. She ts bounded on the jsoutn by the Harlem river, with a proposed canal counecuing it with the North rv d which will probably be speedily constracied, the two farming A NATURAL CANAI BASIN lor the Jaying up of vessels in winter superior to thal of the Atlautic Dock at Sor a tenia and the bank of the river affording greater facilites for commodious stores and warehouses, On the east it is bounded by the Basi river and by | Long Isiand Sound, | On the Hast river, just north of Harlem, we have Port Morris, wisurpassed tor the auchorage of lurge vessels by uny port in the world. The Great Bastcrn, with her immense size and capacity, formerly idid safely at one of her docks, And jusi above Port Morrls and oppoatie Riker’s island, frouting the property of the late B, M. Wiutiuck, is a Day affording the best place jor @ navy yard in any of the States, itasmuch as here, alongside of the Kast river salt water frontage, might be constructed a large fresh water bastn, to be suppl yy water about a mile distant from the Broux river, in the Village of West Parnis, large enough to float all the irou-clads of the world, and the corroding of the iron of these vessels when not in actual service, | lying in salt Water, requives Uaeir anchorage in sucht afresh Water busil, TRATION OF THE HUDSON RIVER, iaveu THE CONCED the Haricin aad New freighting and passen, new graud depol, nm wndicate thac their trae from the Pavilic coast, an the Bast, all wast, Within at few the Harlem river, wituin the p visania. ‘The land contained within tus oid town. ship of West Chester, topograpaically considered, is mo piece of tetriiory of Uke ex s at their proposed from the West aud pars, centre near fent im the state of New In the centre of these towns we have a valley Which Is indicated by Milibrook, chronga which @ grand sewer (jike the old Canal street iu New York) might be constructed irom the Lortl boundary line of West, Farms to southerly boundary hue of Morr ja on the Harlem river. The mage of land west of tus Mbibrook, and bounded on the west by Hace river and the large eustecly plateau extending toward te Bast river aud the Sound, ts uasurpassed for natiral beauty of scenery, forelibiliity of buiiding sites aud lor ele- g jouses, by any oiler ia the State ; while the Harlem river, the Broux river aid the Bast river, lying In the centre of ewst and West aad on the sides of (is territory, form ue NAVUKAL AND COMPLETE OUTLETS will nok nuw listen to | ine three towns tnto proposition en pr, GOD trofier, regisivar, clerk, sireet commissioner, dis- trict attorney, corpo oumsel and = all the other oMelals necessary, at an annuel cyst Of, Say, $1,000,000, when, by being annexed to New York, all these officials are already patd from venues Of that city, and censequently when upon for their proportion Of the expense it M1 be comparatively light. the tuwos OF Wesivhester, Poham pad Now for thorowgii draimage aud sewerage. To Hlustrate ‘owt the ame bas come when every cluzen will admit that the government now existing in West Chester, West Farms and Morrisania should be abolished—that this portion of Westchester county Is in a transi- tuon state, and is in many of its features @ semi. city. That a government Jacking proper checks and valances und power and responsibility €f officers, which isthe fact as to these raral town geveru- ments, 18 now totally Inadequate for the mareb of Improvements, Which Gan duly be legitimately pxo- uestion @f the proposed annexation | and amoug capitalists, and a saving of at least thir Ratlroads in their | M and at Mot) Haven, | mense freight aud passenger | eusuy auc belter adapted to drainage than any | York. Sewer and avenues may be thereon consiracted, so for healt and coutort no | city cuuld, in thls respect, be bever improved. duced by a city government having proper power to make NECESSARY PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS, new 80 greatly desired by those who now are and who are te become citizens of the lower part of the county. The wonderful increase of population tn Broo! and in New Jersey, contiguous to t!4 great city of New York, prove that the time has artiven when @ city government should be conferred upon thus portion of Weatchester county. The following enumeration of populatien demonstrates vhia: IN NEW YORK STATE. Counties, 187 New York. Richmond | O1 | 838,063 809,786 | IN NEW JERSEY, Counties, 1870, 1850, Increase. | 30,124 14,735 165,399 2 105,458 73,950 ),900 22,509 23,864 133,006 214, 606 PLAN FOR THE CITY GOVERNMENT. The plan for a new city government which the committee have reported is nearly identical with that of the City of Brooklyn, difering only in its having a voard of Assistant Aldermen im addition to the Board of Aldermen, This was deemed pro- per because of 1.8 being more in accordance With the upper and lower Honse of the Senate and As- sembly of the State and of the two le Drunches ol the New York city government. A brief synopsis of this plan shows that the pro- pored new city goverament would be composed of a Mayor and Common Council, with nine wards, tour ol Which are now the existing wards of the town of Morrisania, three of which are created in the town of West Farms and two of which in the town of Westchester, These wards will each have an alder- man, constituting the Board of Aldermen of nine members, and (rom each of these wards tWo agsixt- ant aldermen are to be elected, making eighteen, constiuitiag the Board of Assistant Aldermen. Tue Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen are to serve, as was formerly the case tn the better days of | New York city government with the Alderiaen and | Assistant Aldermen, without pay. A SMALL SALARY for the first few years of the existence of the new city government wonld be paid to the Mayor and a fair salary to the different heads of tue departments Frere eo this vill—the diferent departments con- templat by the change, consisting of the Finance Department, with its head, the Comptroller, and the Departmen’ of Public Works, included witnin witich , Would be jurisdiction over the streets, the water, gas and other iocal improvements, as now conferred upon the Commissioner of Public Works, in the city of New. York, The Law Department would consist of a Cor- poration Counsel and Corporation Attoruey, to whom during the earlier existence of this government sinall salaries would be paid. ‘There will be a grand Tax Department, containing two bureaus—one to look after the assessments of property upon fair and equal terms and to be known as the Board of As- sessors, and the other bureau to consist of a tax receiver and necessary deputies, THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM would consist of a city judge, to be elected, and who should have, for the territory embraced within the new city timits, the same jarisdictien in civil and | criminal cases that the county jadge now has, In | elected, for each of the wards within the pro- | posed city, whose jurisdiction ia civil and criminal cases shoulé be the same as is | now conferred upon the justices of the peace ia the towns comprising the prepoxed new city. In otner respects the County Court and the Boprene Court and their jurisdiction are to re- main the same as at present. ‘The police, with a koard of Police Commissioners and a Supern tendent, would be in such numbers and in compen- sution as the Common Council in thelr wisdom Would see Ot wo aesignate and appoint, TUE SCHOOL SYSTEM, | with the different Boards of Education, school houses, apparatus aud property, would remain and continue as now existing and constituted, subject | only to such changes for increase of +¢1olars and better accommodauons as might be provided by the | new government. The existing debts of each town are to be assumed and paw by the preperty and the taxation thereon in the new city; but each of the towns of that city is to be assessed and to pay therefor in taxation in proportion to the indebtedness of each town at the time of the charter taking effect. In connection with the indebtedness 11 would be well to state that the present debt of the town of Morrisania amounts to over $400,000, West Farms to over $700,000, of | Westchester over $400,000, making a total, say, of about $1,500,000, Your committee believe that the work which has been done in the way of public improvement, and for which thta indebtedness was created, dia pot ex- ceed sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of is actuat value, This was caused by the INCONGRUOUS SYSTEM of a number of special commissions appointed by | different. acts of the Legislature and known as boulevard commissions, who have power con- ferred upon them of issuing bonds, and which bonds, owing to the lack of confidence of capitalists and banking institutions, have been negotiated and sold ut sums Varying from seventy-five per cent up fo, in # few cases, of their par ¢alue, The contractors doing the work and receiving addition, one justice of the peace 1s provided, to be | in there, a8 in the case of marriage, which ts a civil i SNE SLD 00.58 SO0SRA OE the bride, aa msummate 1 If ‘New York politicians who are looking with rapacious eyes upon the lower part of Westchester county have tne true welfare of the city of New York, a8 well as of the people of the lower part of Westchester county, in view, they will never attempt to make their conquest by legislative enactment without first submitting the question to the people to be affected by it for thelr approval or rejection. The true mode of increasing the growth, wealth and prosperity of the lower part of Westchester county, beside poring a better lova! government of their own, 1s to afford to it GREATER PACILITIRS OF TRAVEL; tu have the various railroads ranning through it tm- Atating the example set by the railroads of New Jer- sey, Which have been the means of increasing the pee of Hudson and other counties in that te at a greater ratio within the last twenty years than any of the suburban parts of the city of New York, ¢ frequent trains, fifty-four per day, with the cheap cost of commutation te Elizabeth (four- teen miles from the city of New York), have quadru- pled that place in Popalasion within the last ten ears. ‘The want of hourly and half-honny trains tween Willamabridge, intermediate stations and New York, with rates of commutation largely ex- ceeding those of New Jersey, has kept ail the lower part of Westchester county from RECEIVING AN ACCESSION TO. ITS POPULATION even greater than Eiizabeth and growing places in { New Jersey have received during tuat time. With | three trunk lines of railroad, the most extenstve in their operations inthe country, the Hudson River, the Harlem and the New Haven running through Westchester railing to give to it that accommodae tion whieh naturally it should have received, in- duces your committee to urge upon the representa. | tives in the Senate and Assembly from this county | the necessity of compelling these railreads, by suita- ble legislation at the next session, to afford to the | residents 0! Westchester equal facilities of quick and cheap transit now given by the New Jersey raiiroads: to those doing business In New York cliy and who are now living in that State. In conclusion your committee suggests the ap- pointment, by the meeting of a committee of three, One from each of the towns of Morrisania, West | Farms and Westchester, to watch the proceedings of the next Legislature in relation to any and ali pro- posed bills for the annexation or spoliation affecting the lewer part ol this county, and to adopt and take all necessary measures for the growth and prosperity of the eld township of Westchester. Respectfully submitted, JOWN B. HASKIN. SAMUEL M. PURDY. JOUN HUNTER, JOHN FLANIGAN. Forpeam, Dec. 24, 1870. The unavoidable absence of G. Hilton Scribner, member of Assembly elect, prevented that gentie- a= frem signing the report as one of the com- ee. / THE WARDS OF THR NEW CITY and their respective boundaries are as follows:—The first four wards shail consist as at present the four wards m the town of Morrisania exist and are bounded and described therein. The three wards in: the town of West Farms shall consist of the land and territory and be bounded and described as foilows, aud be known as the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh wards:— ‘The Fifth ward to consist of al! the land and terri- tory lying between the northerly boundary line of the town of Morrisania and the centre line ef Locust avenue and Merris street, in the town of West Farms, running from the easterly boundary line of the Harlem Railroad to tie end of Locust avenue, in the village ef West Farms, and a@ straight line from the end of the terminns ef said avenne, in the said village, to the Bronx river (tne boundary line between West Farms and Westchester), said ward to contain all the land and territory south and southeast of sald last meu- uoned line and the bonndary line between the | towns of Morrisania and West Faris, and also cast- erly of the easterly boundary line of said Harlem Railroad and the extreme easterly boundary line of sald town of West Farms. ‘The Sixth ward to contain all the territory of the town of West Farms, northerly of the northeriy | bonndary line of Ward Five aforesaid, and ali the | land easterly from the easteriy boundary line of the Harlem Railroad up to Williamsbridge, and from thence to the easterly boundary line between the towis of West Farms and Westchester, The Seventh ward to contain ail the land and terri. tory of the present town of West Farms west of the eastern boundary line of the Hariem Railroad, from the southerly line betweea West Farms and Mor- risania and the boundary line between West Farms and Yonkers, ‘The Eighth ward to contain all the land and terri- tory in the present town of West Chester lying easterly and southerly of the highway leading from the iron bridge on the Bronx river, and running thence along saa highway, passing the Methouist church in West Chester, and thence until it.comes | to the highway leading from West Chester to East Chester, thence along the East Chester road until it comes to Pelham avenue. thence running easterly along Pelham avenue to the old road lead- ing to Pelham bridge, and thence along said old road to East Chester creek or bay. The Ninth ward to contain all the land and terri- tory in the present town of West Chester lying west- erly and northerly of the Eighth ward and the boundary line between West Farms, Yonkers and East Chester, THE HERALD WAR MAPS, {From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Dec. 23.) these bouds in peg for the work instead of money, always in thelr esumates discounted the | bonds at enormous rytes. | Under the proposed new system one of the main benefits which the community aifected oy it would receive would be in tne credit of the bonds of the | new government, being asin the case of Brooklyo | jersey City bonds, put at par iu the market three and one-third per cent would be effected in the | value of the work which Would actually be there. | alter done In thé way of public improvements with- | in the proposed new city territory. The rights of property owners by the proposed | vbange of government will be protected from special State legislation, from SCHEMING AND SPECULATIVE BOULEVARDS made at general expense, aud where (hese imime- © diately benefited should bear their just proportion ofthe expense of construction, and shout pay for the ,1mprovement Where they are largely benefited | thereby. In no case would any improvenent of a street or avenue be made unless two-tlirds of the property owners fronting upon such street or ave- | nue petitioned ans d 1 the same, ’ A general system of drainage and lamp districts and of sidewalks and other legitimate improvements | would be made upon similar requisiltiens of | the property owners. By this plan would also ve preserved intact the present boundaries of the county, the Senatorial, Cougressional and Judicial districts andithe existing system of recording tt and judgments will be recognized, The only | STRONG RECOMMENDATION OF THE PLAN | proposed for annexation to ile ciiy of New York is | that by it privileges o: the Croton water would be | derived by the peovle living im the lower part of | Westchester count | Considering that the city of New .ork now has no | more reservoirs than are necessary for the suiticient | supply of that city with water, under the plan of an- | nexaiion new reservoirs Would have to be con- | structed in the lower part of Westchester county, the | cost of which would have to be borne by its people. Your cominittee can see no good reason why they may not, through thelr representatives and agents m the proposed uew city governments, construct works for the use of the waters of the Brenx river and other fresh water streams flowtng into the | lower part of Westchester county, for the erection | Of necessary reservoirs and works, and to give the | citizens the same facilities and comforis of water which are now had in the city trom the Croton De- | partment, and this done, too, under the tmimediate supervision and direction of our people's represen- tatives, and at a much less cost tban would result } from annexation, it i ‘THE ARBA OF LAND | contained in the seven towns proposed to be an- nexei by tne Corson bill 1s 46,417 acres, more than treble she area of land contained in the county of | New York. One of the objections which have been | inade to the plan of @ new city government is that the expenses will be large and burdensoine, ‘This 18 erroneous. The present Town Halls and other pub- | lic buildings would answer the purpose for years to | come of transacting the executive, legislative and | judicial business therein, and no new public butld- | Ings would be built until the increased population | and wealth ef the new city warranted and demanded | their erection, Your committee, taking mito con- | sideration the EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT of the present towns of Morrisauia, West Farms and | Westchester for the past three years and for the present owe, do noi hesitate to say that the enure expenses of @ new city government under the plan roposed would be much Jess ‘than 18 now paid in by these incongruous governments, where proper responsilility and checks and balanced do not exist, but which would be insured by the adeption of the new plan. ‘she well recognized fact that the city of New York 1a now gol “bya “Tammany ring,’ ,consisung of not inore than five prominent members, should induce the people of Westchester, from motives of personal respect, from their intelligence and integ- rity and im protection ef their Interests, to long hesitate vefere consentimg to confer additional power ef asseasmentyand taxation, already too much concentrated 1y and upon this “ring.” THE RIGAT OF JLOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT ig one which under our system has hitherie com- manded the respect of alt communities, an@ they | bave been especially jealous of having this right destroyed, clther by the centralization of the gov- } erument iv the Legisiature at Albany, or in the ) lemimiation of the federal government at Washing- | lon. An appeal to the intelligence and sense of right of the people of the lower part of Westchester county, whose history has hitherto been patriotic anu hon- orable, should induce them te unanimously oppose the Corson scheme of annexation, When Wililau | the Conqueror invaded and cenquere@ Brita the Normans called it couquest; the Britams robbery, Whea King Wiliam of Prussia obtatus, if he does, | Alsace and Lorraine, 11 will also be claimed mnder the Tight of conquest. Gut this i$ in a cage where a war was unmecessarily commenced and waged against him and his people, and witere lie may be justified by way of “indemnity for the past and se- | lature was elected wuile in jail, awa.ting wal tor | the Armory for repal | murder gof David Lapine, his wife and child, his | brother, and goln Armstreng, his cousin, have | The map of Paris and vicinity, which we publish this morning, is the most intelligible that we have seen, and will be found of great valine by the read- ers of the history of the wonderful siege of the great city, This map was prepared originally for the New YoRK HERALD, and we reproduce it because it is much the best that we have seen. GENERAL NEWS FE ‘The City Surveyor of Montreal has issued a notice im accordance with the bylaws that all wheeled vehicles are prohibited within the city limits, ‘The Nevada City Lottery that was to have been drawn on the 220 of February has given up the ghost. There are only four distilleries in operation in Covington (Ky.) district. ‘This time last year there were forty. One of the radical members of the Florida Legis- murder. Asaie of ready made coffins place at Lincoln, Neb., recent, arucle, with silver trimmings, | dollars; the purchaser being a man whose wife was | very sick. | It is claimed by friends of the old management of the Indianapolla and Cincinnati Ky pad, that the road will be back im the hands of the Oblo capitalists | within two months. i It is said that Mr. Jefferson Davis has accepted an invitation vo deliver a tecture im Cipeingati this wintey A divorce suit in Trumbull county, Obto, elicits as the origin of the domestic diMiculty, a difference of opinion on the subject of baptism—one inaintaiming ihe necessity of immersion to salvation, the othe tue sufficiency of sprinkling. ‘The Springflela Republican says that 30,000 breech- leaders of the model of 1806 have been brought 10 ‘3, a job that will keep the present force of workmen busy for three months or over. ‘A Peekskill (N. Y.) paper speaks of a recent corpse “who was struck down by the hand of Providence, and not permitted to finish the Freach roof he had begun on his house.” at anction took | A bi THE LAPINE FAMILY MURDER. [From the St. Louis Democrat, December 25.) Our readers will doubtless remember the horr pie | sister-tu-law and her child, near the town of Potost, ‘on the night of Saturday, November 19, Fall particulars of the shocking a@air, together with the arrest of the boy Leon Jolly, who turned State's evidence and informed the officers that the murder was commitied by Charles Jolly, his | already been published. ‘The enraged citi after the arrest of the mur- derers, attacked the jail, and with an armed mob endeavored to capture and jynch them. In te assault one ian was Killed and three wounded. ‘The mob was, for the time, driven away; but as It appeared certain that the atrack would be renewed, the prisoners were smuggled oul of wwa aud brought to this city for safe keeping, Last week they were taken back to Potosi under the escort of a sirong guard of militia for trial. Yes- terday afternoon te trial closed, and the jury, after an absence of three minutes, returaed with a ver- dict of guilty in the firat degree, and the murderers | Were sentenced to be hung on the 27th of January next, Asit was deemed unsafe to leave them at Potost until the day of execution they were again brought | here for safe keeping wy Captain Leliman and his men. The party arrived here at one o'clock tus morning, and the jail being closed the murderers were placed in the calaboose. Both are heavily ironed, When sentenced they showed no emotion, | thelr faces wearing the same expression of stolid indifference habitual with them. Great dificulty was found in empanelling a jury, as nearly one Dandred men declared themselves prejudiced against the prisoners aud refused Ww verve. The condemmed are boin young men, and oue of them, Armstrong, 18 married and has one child, They are miners by occupation, and of a very low v. der of Lateiligeuce. How a CIRCUS BEAT A TELEGRAPHIC DRSPATCER.— Some five weeks since A message was sept by Joseph H. Cone, of tus city, to some attorneys in Meridian, Miss., via the Western Union wues. The message directed, or at least would have directed, If ithad reachect its proper address, ile lawyers to Bold on to De Haven’s circus, which was at the time in Meridian, anu on which Mr. Cone jad a mortgage. ‘The electric dots and dashes couveytd the telegraur wo the “knight of the key’? who presides at the Meri- dian office just as Mr. de Maven stepped in, and, With that curiosity natural to circus men, that gen- curity fort pure’ tn takipg apd exercising gov- ernweutal control over those territones. Wien WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, of New York city, und his friends seek to take the lower of Westchester county for an extension of their domain of spoliation aud taxation without the consent of the people of Westchesier county they may think, as the ancient Britons, that this too is robbery. A territery may be annexed by treaty, us was the case in tne annexation of Texas; put tleman asked if the message was in regard te circus matters, Being answered in the alirmative by the uasuspecting lightning slinger the showinan very kindly agreed to deliver it, and favilled bis proms four days afterwards, having in the meantime s arranged his aifairs that his circus Was not hoidable. | tality. | education will be util.zed, VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. To Tne Epitor OF THE HEKALD:— My letters hitherto have treated of educational reform, Allow me to-day to show in how far It wij | compass social reform, 4" Soclety is diseased to the core, The plague sp are seen in all grades, The problem of reform long awaited solution, The pulpit has tried it; political economy has ventured upon it; educatior has grappled with the diniculties. The result failure, ‘The evil stills exist; they increase; the; spread contagion wider and wider. Self-preserva. tion demands that the remedy be apphed, where and how? I trust that my answer will proval satisfactory. ¥ ‘The child 1a the vehicle of demoralization. ‘The tenement house is the nursery of crime. The infand eye opens upon misery; blasphemy first strikes uy the ear; the early associates are squalor and bra Penury presses upon the parent; the chil iaust supply his own necessit, The street becom his refuge, the matured in crime his companions.| Society shuns him, He retallates, He steals, core rupts, becomes in time a flagrant violator of th jaw. Society is shocked, appalled, The law must be vindicated. The penitentiary Opens its doors: they close upon the culprit. Tne majesty of the la is satisied; the dignity of society is restored, Wha of reform? Has it been uot? Experience points ta! existing facts. We deal with the matured fruit; we ignore th germ. We punish the man; we neglect the clnld. Jake from the infectious neighborbood tiis candt date for the penitentiary, anticipate his wan! clothe him, feed im, sy/upathize with vim, tak | from him the brand of caste, educate hun, mak him @ peer among peers, ‘The deadly atuospher breathed by is pareuts will be oppressive to himg_ he wiil seek the pure air of the school. A mother’ love will follow him there; tt will expand; it will re ceive new Life; it wil be purided. Keform will hav commenced. There ls a mawkish sentimentalit; abroad—a condolence with musery, but a shrinking! from contact with squalor. We would relieve, but; delicacy forbids that we touch; we minister 10 th evil when we would apply the mesieng h Some years ago [ purchased the Rutger Mansion and tweity lots, intending to set the whole apart ad a free school, in wich the children were te be edu, cated in accordance with the scheme bere proposed,» General prosiration of business rendered the under taking impracticable, | have, however, decided to carry out the idea on a mere limited scale at ft Rutgers street. Here a sehool ot 260 children wil be cared for a8 above stated. My vicws o: my theory of re. form = tested. Chief amoug the mstrumentalities will be provision for the moral and reiigious de: Velopment, simultanousiy with the piysical and Ind teliectual training, A cliapel 18 how 1 preparation,! ana will be ready for divine service on Wednesday, zsth inst.—Holy Innocents’ Day—at hali-past tep,/! morning. Appropriate dedicatory services wit be performed. ‘The inauguration of our endeavor will be sanctified by invoking the biessing of Omniscien upon our efforts, Here children of all creeds ang nationalities are united. Here will be found tra catholicity. fi Should’ the Board of Commissioners wish ta strengthen my hands by their co-operation, the, Rutgers property is at their disposal. Let theng put the grounds in order and appoint teachers: vyhose training for the peculiar work shal! be under my direction, logeiner with a supervisionar power over the estabilsnment. Reform, social, polis tical and educational, will soon give evidence that my ost sanguine anticipations are based upon realitye ‘The poor, the deseried, the unwashed, tue unedu- cated, those children of penuty for some inscrata- ble purpose of Providence, those victims of crime by | the austerittes of society and the weakness of their! ‘ own fallen nature, as us bread and we give theny a stone; they ask Our sympathy aud we mete out ta them the severities of ihe law, Their necessities pressing upon them and society holdiog them under a ban, "hey array themsel against their oppressor in a war of opposition. Made to feel that there are ties in common between them and the favored! sons of wealth, they question the sincerity of alk direct efforts at reconciliauion, By mdtrect means we mast reach them. Love for their children ts ad strong as that which sways the heart of the nobles Gain the love of the child, and every throb in tha parent's bosom will be a plea for the sympathizers ‘That plea will draw together the conflicting ele. meuts in the harmony of reorm, Were my views on education favorably enter+ tained, and my scheme for Its aufusion taken up im its entlrety, not many vears would elapse before tag Schools would be removed from the unheaithy alt of our city and cluster around the Park. Datty, un+ der a city ordinance, would the street cars take the cluldren of our poor to tae pleasant scenery and) pure air of our recreative centre. Health, bappt ness, Moral deportment and respectful de veanot would thas be prought daily into the abodes of Un unfortunate. Morning and evening would the rent's gratified heart beat ra unison with the aspl nd tion ef the child. Visions of honor, of ease ant respectability Would cluster around the head of the mother’s joved ene, and no effort on her part yet remain unemplored for (he aivancement of @ cans so auspiciously inaugurated by the State. Refori would commence, ‘Tiis is the where and the how. It can be compassed by no other means. SOBN HECKER. The Recent Arresis at Macy's. To TRE Eptrork OF THR HERALD: My attention has been called to varions articieat in the daily pavers in relation to the recen™ arrest made at my store corner of Sixth avenue and Four- teenth street, Some of rticies are calculated, 1 doubt not unintention to do me yreat wrong and mjustice. T regret as much as any one can thatt any innocent person should be wrongly chargedl directly or indires by me, My business within ay few years has extended until my store now occupies the space of about seven cily lots, and so 2 been the throng of visitors and cus there, especially berore und during the hu idays,, that 1 mpeied several years si: fox the protection of my customers no less than myseil, to secure ‘the’ services of a skiled police detective at my store, During some days of the jasi week there ‘eat times nay tham | 6,000 people in the stor Mhieves and picxpockers: are always drawn by suteh crowds, {wish only for the arrest and punishment af those common ene~ mies of our kind. Of over 100 who have beem arrested at my store for stealing the ¢ of M Phelps 18 the frst to which any exception nas been taken, I trv to keop oniy honest, truthiul, capable and civil clerks, and in ail ngs have tried a shail continue to try to do everythiag In ray pow not only for the convenience ad com! of my’ castomers, but for their protection both from msnit and rudeness en the pari of my employés, and from the designs of evil-visposei persons net bi my e ploy. Shoulda mistake occur at auy thu son can regret it more than myself, Respe R. He M PERILS OF THE SEA, Foundering of the Schooner Georgin Todd— The Captain’s Wife and Three Seamcm Drowned=Terrible suiivrings of the Surs vivors. ‘From the Boston Journal, Dec. 26.) ¥ ‘The British ship Euxine, Captatn Owe from Liverpool, reached this port on Suuday, having on board @ portion of the crew of schooner Georgia vdd, of Calais, Me. We learn the following parti- culars from the captatu of unfortunate vessel: ‘The schooner Georgia Todd, of Caiais, Captain W. ‘r, HIM, sailed from St. Siep B., Decemner itha cargo of white pine boards; bound tw ia, and at five P. mm that day she Was pearly up with Machtas, lands bearing abous. south The wind was northwest and increasing, with a very heavy head sea, At six P, M., the vessel pitching heavily, it was found necessary to take im more sail, Which was done, ana the vessel was kept of south-southwest. 1t was noticed that the schooner acted strangely aud would not steer well even under all head sail, but as she was @ litte out of trim it was attributed to that canse. At haif-past eight P. M., Seal Islands bearing north-northeast Hiieen miles, tt was suddenly found that the vessel was nearly full of water and filing so quickly that captain had barely time to get Ms wife out of te cabin in her aight clothes, aut being able to save @ single article of wearing apparel. The wint at this time had changed te north-northwest, viowing & The vessel's course was turned to the seutt~ She went on very well for three jours, or until about midnight, when she proached to, amd turning over on her side, tare w all hands into the sea. The frst and second mates, the steward and the cap- vain’s wife were all drowned. The remainde: gained the wreck, and, after much trouble, sue ceeded I cutting the weather main rigging. when the vessel righted ani th ge on. e, suffering terribly the quarter, and remained the from the cold until Sunda, ti Vie fternoon, the Lei! day the British schooner ‘ort 1 ui once made au ¢ perishing men, « Hsabled aud in @ very teak, eaed, however, i gett Jess, which accident prevented their return for the other two men still remaining on the wreck, Bese determined to save them i posstble they Iny by ait nigh, hoping to get ihe seamen safely off tn the mnorning. But at daylight on the 19th, a ship was | discovered to leeward, whitciproved to be the Bux- ) Ine, from Liverpool for Boston, and as the victoria Was in such @ poor condition a8 to be comsid- ed hardly seawerthy, the two rescued a en were transferred to hor, Captain Ow- eos, of the £ ne, after hearing the story of the shipwreck, immediaicly \aade sail and stood fer the Georgia Todd, trusting to be ia time to save the rest of the crew, ‘On comming up witi the Wreck the new were found to be still ative. ‘They were prompity removed to the ship, wheve their wants were kindly attended to, and with their other companions were bronght te this port. Tuey express the warmest gratitude to the efMci usine for the kind treatment received af Waeir hands, On learning this, Mr. Cone, through lis attorneys, brought suit against the telegraph company a few days since for $6,000 damages, and the trial will take viave Bext Week, —-Cinolnnats Lhqulrer, DCG, te The fellowmg are the nutes of the lost:.—Mrs. Fill, captain's wife; Alfred Price, of Si, Stepne mate; John Knight, of Catala, second wate. aod ' James Kemnedy, of St. Stephens, steward = | | .