The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1872, Page 3

. TH STATE CAPITAL Senatorial Flings = ‘the Sev- enty Solons. The Two Boards,of Aldermen To Be Retained. / Van Nort’s Scalp. The “Cumulative System Clause To Be Debated To-Day. City Railroad Bills Passed in the Senate, THE PRO RATA FREIGHT BILL. Rapid Transit Schemes To Be Considered in the Assembly Tc-Morrow, udd’e Quarantine Removal Bill Reported—The Dark Divine at It Again—Assomblymen in Contempt and Out in the Cold— Friends of the Old Guard Before the Military Committee. ALBANY, March 26, 1872, ‘The Vommittes of Seventy’s charter was made ‘she special order to-day in the Senate at noon. The lobbies were crowded with the frionds and op- ponents of the measure, Dut no outsider, interested 4m the matter one way or the other, was allowed by the President to remain on the floor of the Sen- ate itself, The result of this was that Salomon ana Stern had to take @ back seat in one of the rooms im the rear of che Senate, wnere they were busily engaged making a copy of the bill, with amend- ments which they wanted inserted and underscor- ing amendments put in by the Senate Committee which they do not desire should remain, This copy was intended for the especial beneflt and use of Mr. Benedict when the fight gets. warm in gene- ralamendments, Tne latter every once in a while Guring the reading of the bill by the Clerk in the Senate quietly slid into the ante-room and con- sulted with the two markers, and as quietly slid mto the Senate after he had got “stocked” with points. stern appeared to be extremely nervous uring the work, and Salomon looked not wise, but terribly out of sorts. Once the hour fixed for the consideration of the bill had arrived President Beach calied Mr. D. P. Woou to the chair, The latter, it 1s well known, is A FEARFULLY LONG TALKER on subjects great and small, and haa set his heart on making ‘some very long and some very heavy speeches on-at least seventy-five out of the one hundred and five sections of whicn it is composed, and by being put in the chair he loses ali oppor- Gumity of getting off his pent-up eloquence, As he left his seat to take tne chair he was greeted GG all sides by his fellow Senators with Good- by\” “Farewell.” The poor man, disappointed in his hopes, tried to smile and look pleasant, but the at- tempt was a sickly One and his face soon assumed a iook of forced resignation that was painful to look upon. When the title of the bill was read Mr. Winslow opened the ball by offering an amendment to the second section, so that it should read precisely as It gead when it came from the lower hcuse—that 1s, providing for only one Board of Aldermen, com. sposed of forty-five members, instead of a Board of Aldermen ana Assistant Aldermen, It should be borne in mind that this last feature of the section ‘was put in by the Senate Committee, much against the wishes of the framers of the charter, Mr, Benedict, on benalf of the committee, con- ‘sended that it had done its work faithfully in dealing ‘with the charter. It had heard everybody that ‘Waited to be heard for or against it, and had Jabored night and day to perfect it, It had only looked 10 the public good in amending 1t as it bad, He argued strenuously to show that it was the part of wisdom to have + TWO BOARDS OF ALDERMEN, Indeed, he thought 1t was an ‘American instince”’ that dictated the placing of cittes and States under the jurisdiction of two bodies, Under one Board of Aldermen the city, he believed, would run the risk of getting into bad hands. Once they passed an ordi- Rance there would be no remedy for the people to have it amended. If there were two Boards, what one refused to do the other might du, and thus one ‘would act ag a check upon the other. What might look goud to one set of eyes might look bad to an- other set of eyes. Although the charter had been amended cousiderably in phraseology, the actuai amendments made were few and tar between, He then went om at great length to explain the amend- ments that had been made. The Senate was evi- dently not in humor to hear any general talk about the charter, and Mr. Benedict was constantly subjected to annoying interruptions at first made purposely to induce him to desist and allow a motion to be made that the bill should be read through in its entirety before any amendments should be offered, ‘the Senator paid no attention to these interruptions jor some time; but when he ‘was asked to give way, and the motion was delib- erately made by Mr, Woodin, ho resumed his sea’ apparently much against nis will, In making th motiva Mr. Woodin remarked that the Senators ‘would be able to understand the charter better, and what amendments were necessary to perfect 1t as a whole, if it were read through instead of consider. ing it sectfon by section. Tiemann roge—out of order of course—and asked if each section could nut be amended after the bill should be read through, ‘This raised A LAUGH ALL ROUND \ at the expense of the Committee of Seventy; when Woodin replied, “You folks from New ¥. who don’t seem to know much about this charter, <Wgu’t pow where you are when we got through with it,” the representatives of tae committee in the lobby looked at oue another in evident disinay. Even John Wheeler changed color, Woodin uncon- pciously had, in the opinion PL ergrboay present, let the cat out of the bag—had, Id fact, Fevealed what Ue majority intend to do with the charter—so amend it as to make it an almost entirely new bili or kiliit Outright in the longrun. After the bill had been read through Mr. Tiemann got up, and ‘Qs @ preliminary step towards assuring limseif that he was not out of order, he very graciously in- formed the Chairman that if he Was in order he Would like to nave the fact announced. This side hit at himself brought down the house, and tne hall-suppressed laughter it gave rise to broke into REECT ROAR when the Chairm: juietly replied, “This time you are in order.” ‘Ine Senator thus having made cer- tain that ne was all right, declared that be was very Anxious to have the thirty lipat section @meaded so that somé of the ¢ ‘ork accomplished by the relorm movement of last November should yemay intact. He then sent up io the Clerk's des! whe amendment, — whic! rovides that the present Commissioner of Public Works shajl re- sai In power wntii the 15th of May, 1874, and that = = a then shall tho department be placed {t Se ei Of the five comuissioners provided for Gommn Ie aU, Tiemann when went on to praise the the prope owe vent, and alluded to the fact that jast eleseon, Owners, by turuing out en masse at ne Won the victory for tho people. He, however, nad no idea strong ae tho, Hest tt ticy Would ten out as ten years to Sethe, ae ovat any election for and ‘ork, D There were wen By the Committee — of Beveuty even ult. “the font nig Was all their own men by . " CNY Woe rencucrt from Fuld a fey emaceAty the been ail along Tesponsivie f for | fopberies eget the people's Tights and for the Pegs ad been perpetrated by the mon bP ak a Men of the same class as the power topuran even, ee always had.itin weir iow te on aye nore! misrule, but they few months ago liad the crimes that were oe Bit pee who had been lifted into place, Girecuy or judirectty, by ‘THE REFORM VIOTORY OF NOVEMBER, and he considered Whe he ae Geing Ris cute to the oe to state that an amend- was one of the oxuepenous ot very few persons were aw: mone of the reform demo- surprise of the Senators who are friendly missioner 3 and as i comer toa oS npn wo knew no bounds; very ior- tunately for themsel u sion to i HReowed bis seat remand vw cy ‘iad ‘a < ete nee dtd not give expres- as soon as Mr.” ‘Dditter to ai to be, else he would not have given way 80 readily. Tee reOOD WORD POR VAN, roan mee @ 7 began by saving that Viigo "on Ciues of which he 1s cuait- However—and here's tle cil eM epee commsianes. with enlnis in other words, Camcus), not to.aimend the charter at all 1a simply decided to report it other amendments, and let ciding the fate of the officials, the good word for Van Nort withstanding what the offered 18 offered by who Was sent here by & reform that I shalt be compelled to vote then sat down. ‘Tiemann with @ good-natured smile on and apparently totally oblivious to the fact that had not only de- lightea the hearts of the Van Nort mea and thrown his enemies. into dismay and ‘but that had offered an ameodment which will be the great bone of contention in the charter, and over which good and faithiul republicans will Sight and span and gnash thelr teeth til the weaker give way to the stronger faction—and all.because of the in- hg of thelr burning love for the dear people, you ‘now. ‘ When the senate reconvened, in the evening» Senator Benedict determined that the bil should be Tead by sections, for it” Palmer around ee A LIVELY FIGHT took place over the motion. Mr, Tiemann wanted to speak further on his amendment to the thirwy-fret section, and consequently op! the motion. Mr, O'Brien advocated it on the oan that he had not understood at the time the Senate waived the read- ing by sections that the motion could not be re- newed, vote was finally taken up the motion and decided in the affirmative by @ vole of 11 to 6 senator ‘Memann then got- tho floor and contiuued his remarks about New York aud the Committee of Seventy. The Senator was allowed a great deal of treedom, and his re- marks Were regardiess of what “points of order’? might have been taken by the more capttous of the Senators. He consequently had full swing and he made a very amusing speech, take it allin all, Ho went back to his boyhood days, when he played with other youngsters around the rising walls of the City Hall, and, tracing up his lifetime In New York to the day when he was sent to the Senate, much against Uis will, he took hold of the Comittee of Seventy and shook them and their notions about being the representatives of the people of New York as a terrier would shake @ live: it, He denied that the COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY were ever appointed by the people of New York to Trame a charter for them. As for the charter they had framed, and which they had under considera. tion, he considered it & “most ap EAReICADIS one,’? “a conglomerated mass of everything.” ‘At this point Mr. Tiemann called for a glass of water, and Mr. O’Brien, interrupiing him, re- marked, “The Senator seems to know very much about New York city. I would like him to tell the Senate, while he is waiting for his water, If he knows the boundary of his own district,’ Tiemann quickly replied that he could give the reyuired information, and di 80, and then graciously offered td describe the ' boundaries of mr. O’Brien’s district, if he did not know them himself. The glass of water hove 1n sight at this moment, and Tiemann continued what called his little story, The water seemed to give him new energy, and he went on gure eloquently, though tn his usual offhand manner, to argue that the question of a good or bad charter was not the one which had given the people of New York so much trouble. Bad men could so administer @ good charter as to make the result bad Jor the people. In his opinion the clause in the charter under con- sideration which took away from the Governor THE POWER OF REMOVING CERTAIN OFFICIALS ‘Was enough to damn any charter, Mr. Lewis then rose and deciared that he did not believe that men sent to the Legislature to make laws for the people should be dictated to by any Committee of Seventy or any other committee. If the charter under consideration was to be advocated solely on the ground that the Committee of Seyenty wanted it passed he would not vote for it. If legisiators were to be dictated to tygvas high time that tney resigned and allowed boys to be sent in their places whose time was notas vatuable a8 that of the present legislators. He was opposea to the Board of Aldermen in @ great city like New Yorg. Mr, Maden considered THE CHARTER OF 1870 @ better one than the one under consideration. The press, the people and the Committee of Seventy were divided upon this charter. He did not believe it was right to give a number of the appointments of officials to the Board of Aldermen, and thus dl- vide the responsibility with the Mayor, Mr. Palmer said he would no longer listen to the dictates of any set of men who were unwilling to have an i dotted or a tcrossed in the charter in any other way than the way they wanted it. Mr. Murpny denied that the Committee, though honorable-and honest men, ‘were representatives of the people. Mr. Winslow's motion to make the second section read 60 that there would be only one Board of Al- dermen was lost without a division. It becoming at this point apparent that no progress could be made with the other sections of the charter unless that relating to the cumulative voting was decided upon, & motion was made and was carried that tho votes sections should be takenup. The debate that followed was naturally enough exceedingly ex- Citing, and although a vote was not reached upon a motion made by Mr. Tremain to strike it out en- turely, 1t became evident before adjournment that THE CUMULATIVE RYSTEM has a very frail hold upon the majority. Mr. Madden candidly admitted that he believed it was unconsti- tutional, yet he declared his willingness to have it tried in New York--a rather strange declaration un- der the circumstances. Mr. Murphy agreed to show that the minority would not only be represented under this section, but could actually get a majority control over the minority, and he sdpmitted figures to sustain his view of the case, Messrs. Benedict, Cuatl Madden ana Johnson also participated in the jeba‘e. To-morrow morning the discussion of the merits of this section wili be resumed, and once it 1s dis- posed of the sailing will be easier. It is now con- ceded that the charter will be very severely amended before it gets out of the hanas of the Sen- ate, and what looks like A BIG FIGHT ABBAD 1s that the Custom House people are coming up in force in a day or two to fight agatust retaining Van Nort, contending that if he is retained the Greeley republicans Will get all the patronage of the Depart- ment of Public Works, An amendment 13 to be offered, when the section relating to the Finance Department is reached, to retain Comptroller Green for the same period as Van Nort, the five Commis- sioners of Le to be appointed at the expiration of his extended teria. THE DARK DIVINE IN THE ASSEMBLY, If the members of the lower house were really pleased, as they CAT ae) With the prayer of the Rev. Mr. Rnodes, the dark divine who officiated at the opening of last evening’s ses- sion, they had @ renewal of that happiness this moruing. Some of the members who are fond of short prayers and colored men are, it is said, con- sidering the sug estion that thé Rev. Mr. Rhodes be invited to oMciate oy each occasion during the remainder of the session. THE RESIDENCE OF THE HRAUTH OFFICER. The Committee on Commerce and Navigation re- Pg eg {A layor of repealing that portion of the act OF 187 ch provides for renting and muting up a Tesidence on Staten Island for the use of the Healtn OMicer und exempting the same from taxation, The clause In fl fey provides for defraying the ex- 5 v1 aon nnd Poucws ya ey wee sUmSnIng & residence th = UMicer, with A necessary appurtenances, as convenient to the boarding station as practicable, notil a perman resitence shail be chosen, provided the site so lected can be leased at an annual rental not exceed- Ing the annual Jaterest upon the value of the prem. ises; aud also that the premises shall be exempt from taxation. ‘The site 18 ‘9 be selected by the Health Officer, the work to be done under his airec- ton and the bilis vo be audited by him. The place al cue. occupied for the purpose indicated costs $10,500 a year, and may be leased for two year” more atter tne flret of May upon thirty days’pr ks being given by the Quarantine Commissioner ”. i bill above mentioned, Which was introduce. 3. “the Judd, proposes to do away with thepr Led by Mr. sive estabitshment, which 1s surre acres of ground whici are Top are oad ite taxation sted parties, If the bi pet fet ot May if Wai preven: ry the premises, aud Dr, ¥p Ayme orher résidende. ¥ Ray When the Beach , into the Assembiy moved that it be 7 and made ihe ar connection wit? Which had bee er for thar -egent expon- vanded by many «¥ hot needed, and wt the benetlt of {nter- scomes law before the a renewal of the lease of -aderpoel will have to find ‘1D TRANSIT. Pneumatic Tunnel bil came from the Senate Mr. Moseley vtinted as amended by the Senate vecial order for Thursday next, in athe Central Underground scheme, BD previousiy set down as the special Senate pasr -day. lt willbe remembered that the mitiee on F -€d both bilis, but the Assembly Com- principle —_-4allroads reported against the pneumatic round, and in favor only of the Central Under ib was? Alter some conversation amoug members House .ccided that both bilis be coneidered by the on Thursday. TP PASSAGE OF BILLS, dey .omorning session of the Assembly was mainly bi’ * oved vo the third reading and finai passage of by dering of the public Yanda wae Romy Ces the, with meited away vefore tneik ike atlats‘petore the rising sun. it required a great occasion + i ie Wiis class Of men, and ne did not, therefor expect to Ree them Come out in ‘thelr TUll noe Vthe next election. Impressed with this ider wad devermiued to Uo we best he could to o <Q, ain ay he wave 9 si, ond a goodly number OF local acts were passed * ad sent to the Senate for concurrence. The flouse also concurred tn some slight amendments which the Senate had made in other acts, The bill to au- thorize an extension of time for the collection of taxes in the several towns and gities of the Stato, amended by the Senate 80 a8 to substitute the 15th o! April for the 86th of March was Passed, So also was the bill authorizing the Brooklyn Railroad Company to extend their road along Putnam and « \ostiaud avenues apd Halsey street to Broaiway, ‘The other bilis were more especially of local rather ‘than general interest. ‘The resolution which Mr, Prince tutenaed to introduce last Saturday, erccelng for the printing m New York of the mony taken by the committee en; in investiga’ ng. the affairs of the judiciary, there was preseuted this afternoon by Mr. Alvord and adopi An effort was made to establish other hours of me: for the House, 80 a8 to facilitate the transaction uf business, but Mr, 1, D, Brown objcoted to tts introduction, ASSEMBLYMEN IN THE SENATE. After twelve o'clock the Assembly Ouamber began to thin out, All the lovbyists and many of the mem- bers went up to the Senate to listen to the debate upon the charter. The absence of so many mem- bers so conspicnous, and there being nardly @ safficient number remaining to make the constl- tutional majority necessary for the passage of bills, the Sergeant-at-arms was at last directed to pro- ceed to the Senate and bring the members back to thelr own chamber, THE OLD GUARD. 8 Aelegation from the Ola Guard of New York SUUtary adairs, aud through Covonel Fellows argued tary ol jolonel Fellows to snow that the bill to rigs ‘ate the Old Guard aga militar; organ jon should be re- Ported pene e Dill, they contend, 13 to allow the Guard to organize asa veteran associa- tion, every member of any regiment in the National Guard wno has served or will have served out his verm, and beea Atporabiy discharged, being eligible a8 & member, e delegation was composed of Captain L. D. Bulkley, Lieutenant Henjamin Gur n George H, Chatterton, Jeremiah Aitkin, Col- onal J, Martine, General Funk and Joseph Sadig, The bili desire passed 18 not likely to meet with any opposition in either house, THE PRO RATA FREIGHT BILL, ‘The Hoase Raliroad Commitiee bad another hear- on the pro rata question. George A. Jones addreased tne committee at Jength im favor of the bill, He referred to the peti- tous sent in by the people last year, but said there amen then occupyti at in the Sene ate, Who was the legislative lob! 4 almost the whose volce was law. asked, “Where 1 Where the powers which stood at nis yee fallen, and fallen simply because sentiment. He ‘therelore the and this islature to take of the 8 of the times, ue people were always patient until patience ceases to be a virtue.” Mr. Jones proceeded in a practical way to show ike workings of THE PRESENT RAILROAD SYSTEM, which, he declared, were severely onerous and un- Tine ‘to the fact that the Ventral Hudson ver fond, Coat $35,000,000, and .yet 16 had made dividends to the amount of $78,000,000, This fact , Ought to be sufticient to induce alone, he this. Lagialacure to matituve a reform, The people know of these things; they have pondered on them. T fee these corporatiuns growing up in their in wealth and power, and they know that this weaith and power are the fruits of the unjust taxation laid on them. He called atten- tion to the fact that here in this clty merchants are delaying their spring purchases for the simple rea- son that they cannot pay the enormous railroad freight charges. They are obliged to wait until ube river is opened, when they can avail themselves of the lower prices charged by the boats or the lower prices on the r 8 produced by steamboat com- petition. He also cited the LOWER CHARGES ON THE BOSTON ROAD to show that these railroads were able to transact their business at cheaper rates. Hoe then referred to the fact that a farmer or merchant in the interior of this State had to pay as much to send his produce to or get his goods from New York as the farmer or merchant of Illinois do. Mr. Jones einai this line of argument at considerable lengt! Mr, Parker, of the Erie road, made a statement to the effect that that road charged higher than the pro rata rates; and Managers connected with we river freights trausportation business also stated that boats charged more in proportion for short dis- tance transportation. PASSAGE OF THE CITY RAILROAD BILLS. The Senate got into a very strong raliroad mood to-day previous to the consideration of the charter, and passed the BleeckerfStreet Extension, the Second venue and Cary’s Crosstown Railroad bills, ‘ne Second Avenue bill allows the company to puta double track in First avenue, where they now have only a single track, and the Cary bil) Quthorizes the construction of a road from the North River pier foot of Twenty-third street, to Eighth avenue, to Twenty-sixth strect, or in Twenty-seventh street, aad to the Thuty-fourth street (East River) ferry. A BIG SCARE IN THE ASSEMBLY, ‘The sensation in the Assembly this morning was the proceedings attending what 1s known as a call of the House. So many members have been absent lately that some of the old stagers, who are bent on business, had arranged to demand a cali this evening a8 soon as the Assembly met. Accordingly, after Mr. Judd had intro- duced @ bill in relation to harbor masters in New York Mr. Moseley asked for a cali of the roll, and immediately afterwards Mr. Alvord demanded a call of the House, The galleries were cleared, the pages sent outside, the doors closed and no person person permitted to pass in or out, Forty-six meu bers were found to be absent, and the Sergeant-at- Arins was directed to seek the mussing members, take them into custody and bring them GEYOKE THE RAR OF THK HOUSE to answer for contempt, When the doors were closed many members who were coming in were shut out, and lively scenes were witnessed in tue anterooms and corridors outside the Chamber. The penalty for absence withut sufficient reason when a Call is.ordered 18 a fine not exceediug one hundred doliars or imprisonment in the county jai fora period not longer than the remainder of tne session. Some of the new members, who had never Witnessed such a scene as this, were pretty badly scared, while the older members enjoyed im- measely seeing the delinquents brought up to give heir excuses in order to purge themselves of the contempt, ‘he Speaker on several occasions had to stop the laugiier which the replies of tne ab- sentees provoked, and at the same time ne called attenuon to THE SOLEMNITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE BUSINESS the Assembly was nuw avout, The missing mem- bers were brought in one after another and arraigned by the Speaker, who asked them what excuse they had to make for being absent, tue House having adjudged them guilty of contempt. Mr, A. Hill's watch was five minues slower than the Assembly Chamber clock; Mr. Wyman had gone into the library to 100K at some laws; Mr, fort, Chairman of the Canal Committee, had been de- tained by a meeting of his committee until late; Mr. Hyatt, who was not feeling very well, nad ar rivea a few moments alter the doors were closed; Mr. Berri had no excuse to make, al- though he had been detained at a meeting of the Committee on Cities unul se seven o’clock; Mr, Lipplit had no excuse, as te had sup- osed he was 1n time, but found that he was not; iT. Haight bad been at the meeting of tue Commi- tee on Cines, and Mr, Rice at meeting of the Canal Committee, and neither knew it was go late, and all these were severally purged of tueir contempt, Mr. Eastman had no very valid excuse to ofier, He had taken only # short time for dinner, having been detained ata committee meeting until after seven o'clock, and he thought that excusé would be sufficient, and so also did tue House. Mr. Goss had no excuse, and Mr. Alvord inoved to fine him one day's pay, bur ne was finally let off free. Mr. Hollister was at the meeting of the Canal Committee; Mr. Morton had no excuse to make, and neither had Mr. Oakley; both of them | had come as quickly as they could and both were excused. mr, Healy could not have been more than @ few minutes late, ant thought there must be some difference in the time of tho hotel and chamber clocks. Mr. Wiley had been devained by some people from his county and was only about five minutes late, Mr. Cham- beriain had been detained by a delegation of his constituents frum Utica, and had left them when tho ume was up and ost his supper. A motion to fine him $10 was lost, and he like all others was purged of nis contempt. Mr. Twombly had been kept by tnreo delegations {rom New York; he had flaally to shake them off, aud even then was ten minutes late, Mr. Campbell had official business in the Guvernar’s oflice, and supposed he would have time enough to attend to il. “As Mt gempelt had been fiye years jn the House Mt. Alvérd proposed to FINE WiM FIFY DOLLARS, but Mr. Hugted called attention to the fact that Mr. | Dampbell had always been an attentive member, Cy gO he was let olf, Mr. Lack was w'th a irlen Mr. Knettles was ougaged with the Qanal Coimmittee nd both were excused. A dead set was made for r Niles, Wied he was brought to the var, essayed tO make a speech was proceeding to say he He in his defence, and had been placed a bf no Ph adal a) but c; how hé ity-seven bills comm yy ‘posices having five luvesttes he Was called to order #” eons, &%, when ig still siren” oe on ensued, order by t.,.- 41.49 Speak, aud Was again called to Sarees seh Speaker. Finally he said he had no Tisoneg wake. Mr. Alvord moved that he be im- augat for tén days, which provoked a burst of ef. Niles was very much annoyed, butaster a LONG AND LAUGUABLE ARRAIGNMENT 4@ Was allowed to take nis seat. Mr. Whitbeck had been at a meeting of the Railroad Comimitiee, and afterward was devained by a gentleman on oilicial vusiness until after nine o'clock, Mr, Smith had been with Mr. Whutbeck op the committee. Dr. Loring haa been present at the roil call, but had one outside on business, and on returning found the door was shut, and he considered that in his case it was the House, ana not he, that Was in contempt, The prospect of imprison- ment stared him tn the face tor some time, but he was nally excused. Mr, Buckley had been ale. tained by some friends. Mr. Carrol, was taking off his coat when the dour Was shut, 4Mr, Goring was not weil, had GONE TO SLEEP IN THE AFTERNOON, and did not awake uuul eight o’ciock, Mr. J. H. Babcock had been engaged on business conuccted with the insurance investigation Shepardson with the Comiitteo on and so all those who had on coun auuch acted 10 his 7 Canals, @ motion to suspend the further proceedings and tempt unul they purged themseives, urned. Tue doors were opened and the House ad, SWINDLING, Bernard Kochler was arrested yesterday after- noon by Detective McGowan, charged by Mrs, Lam- brecht, mother of the late detective, with obtain- He told the lady that ing $14 96 by false pretences, the police of Boston had subscribed $1,000 for her, an that the above was due on tho express Package ai id containing the check for hat amount, Mrs, Utada supposing that this was a true story, p: an ling, at U Tombs Police Vout, this morning. been brought to the bar were purged of contempt. At this point the members suili absent to be considered in con- revalleds d afterwards found the check le will be sent hefore Judge Dow- PIGEON SHOOTING. The Return Paine-Woods $500 Mateh Decided at Suffwlk Park. A Drenching Rain Storm and Six Inches of Mud the Accompaniments— Paine the Winner, ‘The return pigeon match between Ira A. Paine, of New York, and Richard Woods, of Chester, Pa., came off yesterday afternoon at Suffolk Park, six Iniles velow Philadelphia, A more unpropitious @ay for the: jon of thia contest of skill between the two proféssional marksmen could not poasiply occur but once in tweive months. All the livelong twelve hours it rained unceasingly, and, the wind blowing a gale, the bieak surroundings of the Park, with six inches of soft yellow mua over the entire field, Were Of the most disagreeable character, Or the three or four hundred spectators It 1s safe to as- sert not one but was soaked to the skin and buried in mud to his knees, It will be remembered that the Grst of these Matehes was shot in the early part of last week On the grounds of the Long Island Shooting Qlub, when Paine proved the victor, He was like fortu- nate yesterday, making a better score than before, considering the circumstances, a8 Woods acknowl. edged defeat at his forty-fifth bird and ingloriousiy retired, He had misgea fourteen in this number, while Paipe’s biangs were then but seven, As much money was sald to depend on the number Paine would kill out of the fifty birds eaca were to shoot at he desired to settle the matter, but so little interest seemed to be taken in hus efforts to please in this respect that he abandoned the attempt at the forty-sixih pigeon, scoring in this number thirty-nine, to Wood's thirty-one out of forty-five. The match was for $250 a side, to be shot under the Rhode Island rules:—21 rds rise, 80 yaras boundary, using 14. ounce of shot, and to find, trap Gnd nandie lor each other. Both men showed some birds, but those presented by Paine were jedly the strongest and quickest to leave the trap. Among the betting fraternity—and there were many sach present—Patne was the fayurite before the shooting at 20 to 16, yet at other times, When his score did not look more favorable than did that of his antagonist, the latter had the call. Mr. Samuel Platt, of Philadelphia, was agreed upon as Teferee, whule Mr. Earnest Staples, of New York, acted as judge for Paine, and Mr, Valentine Denile: ton, of C! r, for Woods. Bota men used muzzie- loaders, The fullowing 1s the resuit of each shot:— LA slow. quartering ~ 1.—A quarter 1. jow quartering —A quartering bird bird to the rights uneasy t9 the right; well “killed, shot, missed, 2—A slow quartering 2—A quartering bird bird tothe right; killed, to the left; well kilied, 3.—A quartering bird to 3.—A quartering bird to ‘the left; finely killed, 4.—A strong quartering bird to the right; hit nard, but escaped, 5.—A twisting and in- coming bird; killed. 6—A quartering bird to tne leit; very strong; killed, %—A quartering bird to the rignt; very strong; killed. : 8&—A slow incoming bird; easy shot. %—A strong quarter. ing bird to the rghit; well kuled, 10—A driving bird; well killed, 11,—A short towering bird; killed, 12.—A guartering bird to the rigut; hit hard, but dropped dead out of bounds, 18.—An incoming bird; easy suot, 14,—A short towering bird; killed within a foot of the trap. ° the right; missed, 4.—A quartering bird to the right; well killed, 6&.—A quartering bird to the night; well killed. 6,—A twisting and driv- ing bird; good shot, 7.—A quartering bird to the right; hit hara; gathered within bounds. 8—A coarse bud to the rignt; well killed. %—A siow quartering bird to the leit; killed, 10.—A quartering bird to the right; bit hard and gather: 1L—A driving bird; hit but fell dead out ot bounds, 12.—A quartering bird to the right; dropped dead just inside of bounds, , 13.--A towering bird; very slow, and easily killed. 14.—An incoming bird; Winged and gathered, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1872.--TRIPLE SHEET. BROOKLYN'S RAPID TRANSIT SCHEME The Feasibility of the Proposed Line Discussed. Great Things To Be Ac- complished. ‘Phe question of rapid transit in Brooklyn, for the purpose of facilitating communication between the South ferry and the suburbs, has excited consider- able interest ip that city of late, and a bill has been introduced in the Assembly for the incorporation of am‘Underground Rapid Transit Company” to construct. such a route, ‘The line is to extend through Atlantic street from tne South ferry 10 ast New Yorks, a distance of five miles, The Mayor Presided at @ meeting upon the subject, wmch Was held ten days ago, and spoke in advocacy of the Measure a3 Mighly advantageous to the tuvure welfare and prosperity of the city, as also did several) other wealthy citizens. A com+ mittee was appointed to consiaer the subject and eport the resalt of their maquiries atthe ensuing Meeting, Which was held at the Polytechnic Insti tute last night pursuant to a call signed by Mayor Powell, Join Truslow, M. Chauncey, Jonn R, Ken- naday, Demas Barnes, R. Turner, Morris Reynolds and: W. Hs Taylor. Mr. Barnes was called to the chatr, and’ Charles Jones officiated as Secretary, and there were present about filty persons, Mr. Moxris KeyNoups reat a lengthy report highty favoring the enterprise as being one mat no other improvement for the accommodation of the public at large is of equal value, Withoat the factiivics Of rapid transit the constantly outpouring Population of New York city in search of economl- cal living in the suburbs will not tend to Brookivn and Kings county as in former years, but will, together with very many who now are residents of Long Island, be directed to New Jersey to settle and become taxpayers there, where the steam railways in every direction within the radias of thirty miles from the ferries on the Jersey side offer.every inducement of rapid conveyance.” It 1s estimated that at least 200,000 more would be added to the popiiation of Brooklyn within the ensuing ten years through the pertection of this measure, and it 13 regretted that the City of Churches shouid have allowed New Jersey tg so far outstrip her in offering imducements for the over- now of the popalenon of New York. Any post- ponement of this proposition, even until the next year, May encounter an averse change in the money market and entail a delay for many years to come, The act provides that the work shall be come Menced within nine months; that all within the city Timits shall be completed In two years, wud the en- Lire road in three years. That portion oi the road Wivluin the city limits and the Park suail be wholly under ground, on the line of two of the widest ave- nues, and thus out of sight from the surface, and that beyond those limits the roadway shall be at least seventy-live feet trom any estub- lisned avenue, street, ward or highway. The changes of sewers and water pipes snall be made at the cost of the company, Nos more than two blocks in length of the roadway shall be broken up at any oue time. The pavement torn up 1s to be replaced at the expense of this corporation, At- lanuic avenue, through wach itis to run, is from 100 to 200 feet in width, and Fiatbush avenue is 120 feet wide. No route in any city can present greater facilities and fewer obstacles for underground work- Fine report of tre committee was adopted. Re- marks were made by Messrs, Litchfield, Barnes, Jones und others, An Interesting paper approximating the cost of the construction Ol the rapid transit line was read by Congressman Barnes, He estimates that the | cost of the construction of the road (six miles in length) wiil be trom $800,000 to $500,000 per smile, or the entire cost $3,000,000, Tne travel will be 7,600,000 passengers per year, Tue building of te road 1s no longer an experiment, The only ques- tion 1s as to the best means io accomplish this end With ag littie interference with private property as possivie. There cau be no substantial damage to property by the passage Of an underground ratiway, 16.—An incoming bird; easy shot, but missed, 16,—A ‘short towering bird; hit hard and gatu- ered, 17.—An incoming bird; 15.—A ree, bird to the right; well hilied, 16.—A strong ground Oyer; didicult to kul, 7—A quartering vird toMy richt; gathered just within bounds, 1s.—A driving bird; hit, but escaped, 19.—A quartering bird to the right; ht, but dropped dead out of Cagy snot, 18.—A quartering bird to the left; well killed, 1%—A strong quarters ing bira to the right; well ped. bounda, 20,.—A_ quick incoming 20.—A strong quarter- bird; killea, ing bira to the right; good shot. 21,—An meoming bird; — 21.—A driving bird; mt killed. hard, falling dead out of ounds. ne Roataucomieial cerry partic Ht killed, to the right; well stopped, 23,.—A short towering bird; hit hard, vut eke caped, 24.—An mcoming bird; killed within a footof the 23.—A short towerin; bird; killed, : 24.—A right quartering bird; hit hard, but fell aud all objections, the speaker considered, must fall through on that score, Mr, Barnes concluded his remarks as follows: Shall 400,000 people be compelled to sit stil; to be. hola their property increas@? less rapidly than the assessments against it; to have thelr euterprise and foresight turned to ridicule and failure because a Jew aozen selfisn men, Who, in turn, Opposed the introduction of water, sewerage, the Park, the bridge and all of Brooklyn’s improvements, ka that their private interests are itertered with. Whea the steam engine took up lodgiigs in the hold of vessel the Sail craft protested; when the cut- ton gin reduced cloth flity per ceat in cost the handloom protested; when the neediestitch stepped to the iront # convention from Tooley street pro- tested; when rail cars traversed the country stage coaches protested; and wien we undertake to carry 600 passengers tw ten minutes, where existing methods can only convey thirty passengérs m sixty minutes, we expect the horse car iuterest Lo protest, but we do not expect citizens will seriously listen to or Jegislators heed such protests. The tacts here presented are too weighty and too pregnant of beneficial results—our people are too intelligent, to submit to further delay in this matter, ‘The pubs lic interests of @& great cily, destined to be the largest on the suriace of the giobe, demand tnat every possible facility snall ve aforaed for rapid trap. out of bounds, 25.—A right quarter- 25,—A left quartering ing bird; well Kili bird; easy shot, « 26,—A right qaartering bird; killed. 27.—A strong towerlng bird; killed, 28,—A quartering bird to the right; missed. 29.—A right quartering bird; well stopped, B30.—A bat quartering bird; killed, 31,—A strong, left quar- tering bird; good shot. 32.—A right quartering bird; well killed, 33.—An Incoming bird; easily killed. 34.—A quick lett quar: tering bird; killed. 35.—A strong towering bird; killed within five feet of the wap. 36.—A leit quartering bird; ‘diMicuit to kth. 37.—A short towering bird; hit bard and gath- ered. —A short towering | bird; killed withia two A right quarter! bird gootshot. in 2 -A left quartering bird; killed, 28,.~—A quartering bird to the rignt; missed. 29.—A right quartering bird; hit hard; died just out of bounds, 30.—An incomlug bird; easy shot. A siow left quar- g bird; killed. 32.--A strong, twisting and driving bird; not hit. 33,—A slow incoming bird; easily Killed. 34.—A quick might quar- tering bird; well Killed, 35,—A towering bird; nit hard, ana flying all about tne fleld; escaped, 86.—A slow incoming bird; easy shot, 37,—A strong left quar- tering bird; weil killed, 38,—A strong ground. flyer to tne right; fine bird; nit Hard and gath- quartering bird; hit, and ered, feet of trap. slot, t | 30.—A left quartering 30—A driving bird; ! bird; killed. Dot hilt. | 40.—A right quartering 40.—A_ strong = right | ik Just eee bounds, LA right quarteriy bird; not iif, Wer 42.—A right quartering rd; Killed. 42.—A right quartering bird; well killed, bird; hit hard, and fying about the field witnin bounds dropped dead ari ra witrong ight 43, | Bem ri .—A right quarterin | pate 2 bird; bit, but bird; well Kulick 4 died poy aerate ‘ 44.—A ri uartering § = 44. An jucoming bird: bird; well illeds easy shot, § im , 45.—A lelt quartering = 45.— rad bird; killed, right « 40,~A right quar” bird; well Kile". ering Here vs Prd — woods lett the fled, and with one mote ws, a8 EXplained, Paine followed his example, Paine—0, 1,1, 0, 3, 1. 1, Jy dy ty 1, 0, iO Ty 11,1, % 8°O 7 a as A fe op PULE ELOY Bude bey ab; ‘kihed, 4 weling and juartering bird; hit wud died out of bounds, [a kay Be ts "oe Missec le Woods—1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1,9, 1,1, 11,1, 1, 0, 0 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0,3) 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, » 1, % Shot at, 45; killed, 31; missed, 14, Time, shooting, 2 hor, OHIO REPUBLIGAN STATE CONVENTION. CoLumBus, March 26, 1872. A very larga number of delegates are here to at. tend the Republican State Convention, which is to be held tomorrow, ‘The hotels are overfowing, and a number of the delegates are at private houses. ‘An unusually large Convention is assured. . The following 18 what the ticket will be from present earances:— a ecretary of State—A. T. Wikoff, of Adams county. Supreme Judge—John Welch, of Athens county. mene 0! the Board of Pulsic Works--R. R. Por- ter, of Starke county. Resolutions will be adopted pledging support to the nominees of the Pniladeiphia Convention, THE §vIT AGAINST THE ONONDAGA SALT COMPANY, SYRACUSE, N, Y., March 26, 1872, In 4 sult brought in benalf of the stockholders fgainst the Salt Company of Onondaga Mr. George ¥. Comstock Has been, by consent of all parties, wppouee receiver of the property and the assets of the company, With direction to pay the debis and divide the capital among the stockholders. ‘The assots are understood to be over two millions of dollars, and the ilabilities are large, The stock 1s thought to be depreciated to the extent of twenty-Ave to thirty per cent, The ground of this , | proceeding is that the board of directors some time go, On @ {ull Consideration, determined that the company could not coutinue the businesy by reason of its mability to pay the future rents reserved upon the salt manufacturing property leased to the com- pany, and, fore, (hat the leases should be sur- repdered to the lagsary communication; that steam roads shall be built Wherever required, and in such manneras will make them least expensive. The les9 they cost the cheaper they cancarry passengers. NeW popula- tion will settle along the-lines of rapid transit, When Brooklyn contains 1,000,000 people the carrying. trailic of these roads will be 80,000,000 per annum, At eight. cents the revenue will be $2,400,000. A reduction to half the above rates will then reward the capitalist and redouna to the city’s interest, I recommend the building of underground railroads from Atlantic aud Fulton ferries, through the most convenient streets, to East New York and Flatbush, connecting with other railroaus where the same may intersect, and that that portion of the same beginning at Atlantic ferry be commenced a3 soon as the requisite legislation therefor can be obtained, Kesolutions expressive of the sense of the meet- ing and endorsing the bill Sefore the Legislature were unanimously adopted. Opposition to the Road. A meeting of citizens opposed to the bill before the Assemoly called the “Rapid Transit” bill, which proposes to open the tnnnel and replace steam on Allantic avenue, which cost the residents of that thoroughfare $130,000 to remove, and ‘give this and Flatbush avenue to a@ring of Queens county railroad and land speculators, and to grant them forever @ franchise worth two millions of dollars for nothing,” was held in the basement of the Presby. terlan church, corner Atlanuig ayenye aud Bona street, last evenin, ? « a ra About fifty neraons Wetd Hresent, spocches We made by John D. Vox, Edwin Baker, Charles she herd and overs, he scheme was Unqualifiedly noanced as @f Ouirageous jov gotten up “in the Interest of said farmers on fong Island, who Waiited t6 be shot though (thes vane throiigh (thes Irdm one eo. of ee Island tg ee other ‘at the expense of their neigh- ors In Broxivn.? ‘The design was too flimsy by far >” 4 @ committee of three was appointed to Visit aivany to-morrow and ‘tooth and nal” oppose tne act in question, BROOKLYN'S OONTESTED ELECTION CASE. The contested election case of Join P. Douglass against Andrew J. Foster, on tial in the Kings County Supreme Court, Circuit (before Judge Gu. bert), since Monday, was given to the jury last even- ing. This was an action to determine who was elected Alderman of the Eleventh ward TH JUMP IN ERIE. Fortunes Gained and Lost in One Day. The Stock in Wall Street Runs: Up to 68, One Hundred Thousand Shares’ Transferred. London and Frankfort Controlling the Market of the Metropolis. The Fight Between Two Rival Houses. and Their Prospects for the Rich Prize of Erie, Has Jay Gould Made a Colose sal Fortune? Excitement in Wall Street During the Day and at the Hotels by Night. Will the Struggle for Erie Between Two | Foreign Cliques Cause a Slaughter Among the Domestic Innocents % Aby person standing yesterday lu-the misty rain At the confluence of the two streets, Broad and Wall, at about ten o’clock of the morning, could not fall to have noticed the pale and excitéd counienances of at least two or three hundred men, who were congregated in and around the large pile of marbie building Known as the New York Stock Exchange, These men seemed to be more greauy excited than a group of actors ina Bowery melodrama, It 1s true that they did not froth at the mouth, as they are not in the habit of using the requisite soap for that purpose, but in every other circumstance of detail they were acting like unchained iunatics, “Erle” was i every man’s mouth and on every man’s tongue, “Erie” rang the everlasting changes of chance and wild speculation. ‘o be a broker in good standing it seems necessary to have the iungs of cast iron, the cheek of Satan himself, and the mind of @ Cagilosiro. “Erie? has played the wan- ton with thousands of them; has ruined and beg- gared hundreds of homes and families, and they Will still pay court to this fickle courtesan who only smiles for a moment, then to languish Into indiffer- ence and finally destroy them. In the stock board itself Bediam reigned supreme, It was @ pleture that only Dové could fadchfully draw in its intensity—theso haggard taces, these bloodshot eyes and the rushing, pushing, crushing and turmoil of the great bull ring, Every one was yelling ‘“E-e-r-y’ at the top of his voice, buying it or selling it, this world- renowned stock, Lombard street vibrated like an earthquake, and Wall street, across a track- less sea of three thousand miles, answered back electric-like, It 18 probable that the joose money in Lombard street is a hundred times greater tuan the floating capital of Wall street, and it is an old say- ing that any man with any scheme, however viston- ary, Will find money to logu in London, providing that he can show a moderately safe security for his pet project, And so the facts proven in the evidences of the last two days in Wall street. Orders for Erie stock have poured in like the sands of the sea from under the ocean, and never has the Atlante cable been worked as it has been for the fast turee days in the Interest of Erie, not even during the great war be- tween France and Germany, Since the opening of the Erie transfer books under the new manage. menr, Mr. Rolston, the President of the Farmers’ Loau and Trust Company, assured @ HERALD writer that he has been kept busy up toa late nour every night registering the stock certificates which have. been transferred at the Erle buildimg, in Eighth avenue, to the number of over one hundred thoue sand shares, ‘The maduess in the Erie market, which is fomented in London by foreign puyers, and at Frankfort, has reached @ stage corresponding to the ninth day iu typhus fever, when, delirium haviug passed, the crisis arrives, and the jever having broker the patient stands quivering on the portal of two worlds, Wall street yesterday and on Monday was filled With the ghosts of the ill-omened Black Friday and the resuscitated corpses of the slaugnver of 1857. Men whom it was deemed had vaifished forever from this feyerish and troubled arena arose: aga at this last trumpet of wild gpecu- lation, Smal buyers and sellers, and sellers they were, a ~ little sharpened and heated in the furnace of past defeat, with an ill-restrained impatience of desire to plunge madly into the maelstrom, moved with w vague caution to begin with, and as the news waned durtug tne day their hands itcned and their lips trembled with the madness that came upon them. The Erie stock, which closed at 60 in the board on Monday night, mounted to 67, and fluctuated and feit and rose again, until all seemed chaos returned again for these tormented souls, One man, it was rumored, had made three millions by @ sharp trick; another had lost haif a million, a’pootbiack had made $5,000, ana’ a bartender about to purchase ee geet such stories G3 tesé, alid even wilder Oa68, floated abou in the heated atmosphere of Wali street. ah Yhe influx of country buyers was wonderfal, These geutiemen, who Nailed from Skaneateles, Scoharie and Chi el ae flashed Ri eps 1 aR ere, jth fow exception’ ferlevers Wi aad followers of As ENrated Daniel , They bought wildly, and ran aoout In thetr fuguen ike enraged Gallowgiasses on the festival of St. Patrick. The older and imore shrewd pur- chasers held aloof in many tustances at the lead-off, only to bécome as afatuated iu the end as the new- d greenest speculator. bas gt pandemonium of gesticulation and & mediey of jabbering idiocy to the spectator to look down into the hurly burly of the Stock Ex- change. Huadreds of hands were raised aud reds of voices screamed out. “Bric? heeasoutiy, and the scene called forcibly to mind thé scenes of 160 years ago, when » Karl of Oxford’s scheme for redeeming public thee eaused the formation of the famous South Sea at the election held in November last, Mr. Foster, tne democratic candidate, received the certificate of. election, and still holds his seat from his cppo- nent, who 1s endeavoring to oust pim, Mr, Foster alms to have heen elected by a majority of one ite only. var Dodgiass alleged that there were K iort frauds and irregularities at the election, and that votes which had been cast for him had been credited to his opponent. One of his witnesses tostifled yester- day that he had canvassed a aistrict since te elec- uon and found that what had been given as resi. deages opposite voters’ names were vacant lots, &c, Comparatively little interest has been mani. fested in the case outside of the parties most di- rectly interested, THE COMPTROLLER'S PAYMENTS. Comptroller Green will pay to-aay:— borers on big pipes—wages to March 15, 187: page pureas bf Water Register—pay fo $14,123 50 ruary, 1872. +6 962 00 Cher! pers and cartruen in the various m: kotspay for January and February, 187; 4,000 00 ‘Alvo cial which bave been exantined and audiied of arrearages ol of iment of ‘ablic, Gharities aad Gorrection...cre +++ +100,000 00 THE BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. Chy Parks Stock. The Board of Apportionment, cousisting of the Mayor, the Comptroller, Commissioners of Public Works and the President of the Department of Public Parks, met in the Comptroiler’s Ofliee yester- day, all the members being present. A resolution x) authorizing (ne Comptroiler to issue, Th pureuanoe of Maw. from ume to time, as may be req tes of interest as le may a jolred end foxceed 1g seven, per cent per anoum, $200,000 In * improvement Fund Stock,” ee ritnorized by chapter 200, Laws of 1871, to mect the requirements of the Department of Publi¢ Parks. The Board then adjourned, pble, Which spread ruin and desolation broadcast aoe eagland. "Phe petty poets of that day sang in their dogwerel verses of the riotous assempiages which were an ¢yery-day occurreace in ‘Change Cae er a gulf wnere thousands fe! all the bold adventurers ca ‘There is ‘th e A narrow sound, though deen as lie 4 Channg Alley ra the dpendfol ng tars and garters did appear Taga alta a To buy and sell, to see and hear ‘The Jews and Gentiles squavvie, St ladies thither came, Tae eT pited in chariots dal ed thelr jewels fol OF Oenuure fa the AS ila tt 5 was destroyed by this !nfamons Fecuauan, ae’ proudest ladies and gentlemen fethe land did not hesitate to mingle among the meaner herd and squabble and vuy and sell tie mod. Parhament became Infected and did not hesitute (0 pass special acts of legisiation to graufy the prevalent mani in this case did the Alvany Legislature and its class! fication muddled, South Sea stock rose from 130 to 300, rose to 400, settled at 330; 1t was then quoted at 550’ and 890; then came o fall to 640, and by a schemy of the directors it rose to 1,000, The Prince of Wal did wot hesitate to clear £40,000 by the traMc, and dukes and ea Tincesses, Marchion- esses and countesses pandered two thelt own profit until England became consequently rotten tw the core by the mfamy, ‘Tne stock alt mately fell to 160, aad public meetings were held tn every town, and the ory of vengeance went A aay the turoaté oi the losers witil the very samo Parla ment which had encouraged the scheme was forced to enact crimima: punishment agaist the leading schemers, and coufiscahions to the amonut of $20,000,000 in properiy Were the result. } And’ how is it with Uns Erie madness? Ifa reyul- sion comes 1¢ Will bea terrible one, such as has not been known perhaps jo this country before in the annals of speculation. Londoa ant Lombard street are investing leavily, and out of all tig clamor of Raphael and Heath, Bischofsiemm aud Golischmidt, McHenry aud the Atlantic apa Great ten