The New York Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1872, Page 4

: (Ss hid ally ME J “THE CONNECTICUT SENATORSHIP, PREPARING FOR FERRY’S SUCCESSOR. The Contest Likely To Be Between Orris 8, Ferry and Ex-Governor Hawley. Hawley Declared Certain of Election. The Objections to Ferry—It is Charged That He | is Secretly a Cincinnati Convert and Incapacitated for the Po- sition by Illncas. New HAVEN, May 6, 1872. Looming up in the political horizon just now, on the eve of the re-assembling of the Legislature for the active and important duties of the session, are @ baker’s half dozen or more of disinterested, but aspiring statesmen, who are generally inclined to submit to the inconveniences of banishment to Washington for six years, if they can thereby suc- eced Senator Ferry, whose term expires with the present Congress. Already the politicians are training for the contest that is to be decided, in all probability, this week, and each one seems to be calculating how he can be on the winning side, and thus secure a fair share of the offices of the federal government that a Senator is supposed to always carry in his pockets, While many, including a number who have been stereotype candidates almost ever since they made their first specches at town meetings, in the hal- eyon days of youth, are HUNGERING AND THIRSTING AFTER THE POSITION, unfortunately for their aspirations only one can Teach the coveted goal, and each one is living on hopes long deferred and sighing for some sudden change in the political Kaleidoscope that will throw his brilliant corners to the light and exhibit to the admiration of his fellow poiiticians the pris- matic beauties of his character as a statesman and aman, In every turn, however, of the kaletdoscope the political fortunes of ex-Governor Hawley or Senator Orris S. Ferry come to the surface, and lesser lights fall away to the bottom and rear, to await amore fitting season for the recognition of their merits and their claims upon the party, which in this State means simply the administration re- Publicans; for, as far as I can ascertain, JABERAL REPUBLICANISM HAS NOT YET TAKEN ROOT inthe “land of steady habits.” Indeed, I have made diligent inquiry whether any portion of the old republican party is in favor of the Cincinnati oblique movement, and fail to learn that a dozen Tepnblicans who in the past had taken any promi- nent part in the State politics have declared for it. The Assembly, as you are aware, stands 150 re- publicans to 111 democrats, or nineteen republican majority; the Senate stands fifteen republicans to six democrats, or nine majority, so that the repub- licans on joint ballot have the splendid majority of twenty-eight. I am assured by a gentleman well posted in the sentiments of the newly-elected mem- | bers that every one of the 146 republicans whose Yote must be cast to elect a Senator in place of Ferry is a proclaimed administration man; so that | it is quite certain the next Senator, whoever he | may be, will be an out-and-out adherent of Grant | and his administration. Itis safe to say that, as the Senatorial canvass | now stands, the great and opening contest will be | between Hawley and Ferry. ‘The foriner, if one See SLA RALE MA eM CRE, SR ee ON MEER ety Ne Aye Tee v ‘eo NEW YURK HERALD, TUKSDAY, MAY T, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. terms to the who will best woo thom in the event of san in the republican vote, It is a well {that Ferry's devoted allegiance in the past to the measures of the administration has made him unpopular with the democracy of the State, and it is very like they will support a new man, in the hope that he may be less enthusiastic in such support. There are many here who believe that Hawley has taken this into consideration, and by encouw Bowles and other anti-Grant politicians in putting him forward is shrewdly trimming his sails TO CATOH THR DEMOORATIO WIND that may prevail this week. What are the prefer- ences of the administration as between Ferry and Hawley can only be surmised; but as the majority of the federal oficers in the State seem to be work- ing for Ferry it is probable that he ts the most ac- ceptable to the powers at the national capital. is afternoon I conversed with a federal oMice- holder and two other gentlemen who are warm supporters of Hawley, and they assure me that “the Governor” has a much larger support in the republican party than the above figures indicate. While admitting that both Ferry and Hawley are able and honest men, they report that Hawiey is the favorita, for the reasons :. First—That Senator Ferry is in a critical stato of beats that may result in his death at any time, an THE POSSIBLE RLECTION OF A DEMOCRAT be ae aimed a3 the State is 80 closely politically vided. Second—That he has not satifactoriy represented the State, and to quote the words of one:— “If you take the Congressional Globe files and analyze the votes during Ferry’s term, I venture to say you will find him ABSENT FROM HIS SEAT two-thirds of the time. This is owing to his ail- ment, and not, perhaps, @ fault; but the people here want a man who is in such a condition of health that he can be always at his post in the Senate.” Third—Because it is generally believed that Mr. FERRY 18 SECRETLY IN FAVOR OF THE CINCINNATI NOMINEES, and ony hesitates to so proclaim himself lest he may be defeated in the ballot for Senator. One of these gentlemen referred to the advocacy of Ferry’s claims by Postmaster prea late Secre- tary of State, and declared that Mr. Sperry’s sup- ort was cles? much to damage the chances of ferry. All of them express the opinion that Haw- ley will secure the nomination in caucus, and that a sufficient number will not bolt to prevent Haw- ley’s election. Great etforts are now being made, they report, to carry the New Haven delegation for Ferry, but they predict that it will be a failure. The Legislature does not meet until ten A. M. to- morrow. The best iniormation I can get is that the republicans will likely caucus to-morrow even- ing, and if they unite the Senator will likely be bal- loted for on Wednesday. As far as my investiga- tions have been pushed it seems very certain that before the close of the week Hawley will have been chosen Senator. SENATOR FERRY’S ANTECEDENTS. Orris S, Ferry first appeared in political life in 1855 as State Senator in the Know Nothing interest. He was re-elected the following year, bolted the caucus of his party in nominating a United States Senator and opposed his __ elec- tion, Three years later he was elected to Congress, but was defeated when he presented himself for re-election. When the war broke out he entered the service as Colonel of the Fifth in- fantry, where he rose to brigadier general. He re- turnéd to Norwalk at the close of the war, and in the contest for Senator in 1866 between Bucking- ham and L, 3, Foster, when the fight between these two leaders waxed bitter, Ferry was chosen as a compromise candidate. His career in the Senate is so well Known that I need not here | recount it. He fell into disrepute at Washington for opposing the St. Domingo scheme; but his subsequent fidelity to his party en- abled him to recover. his popularity with the ministration party, which he still holds, judging from the support given him here by federal omicers, HAWLEY'S RECORD is a brilliant one, both asa soldier and a citizen, He was born in this State in 1826; graduated at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., in 1847; studied Jaw, and practised in Hartford subsequently. He took part in politics a8 an anti-slavery agitator, and was active in forming the repub- lican organization in the State. In. 1856 he stumped the State inthe Fremout campaign, | and the following year became the editor of the Hartford Press. The day that President Lincoln called for volunteers he enrolled and entered the three months’ service as @ captain, where he dis- tinguished himself for bravery and’soldierly quali- ties. He participated with General Terry in the Port Royal! expedition as lieutenant colonel of the Seventh Connecticut regiment, and took a distin- guished part in the siege at Fort Pulaski, and the batties of James’ Island and Pocataligo. In the were to judge from the tone of the State pre: half a stretch ahead in the race, but I fear the pr in this case may be a DECEPTIVE BAROMETER OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT. Governor Hawley, being a journalist of great and an able politician withai, natural! him the gentlemen of his own profession, who @ pride at all times in seeing their merits and power acknowledged, and consequently it is not certata | that the press beats in unison with the public pulse. It has been a custom ju this State rarely deviated from to re-elect a Senator who has proved deser Ty br) the trust reposed in him time and again ant {* has grown into a popular idea that it is wrong to | change an oid and tried servant for anew and ined perienced one. This feeling has become a seated | conviction with many who admire both Hawley and | Ferry, and hence they are working upon the minds | of their representatives in favor of the latter. ‘The representatives are, no doubt, about equally divided | for these gentiemen at the present time for the first choice, and it is diMcylt at this time (o state positively any one who is likely to win. Before the | party go into joint caucus, however, evehts } May transpire to send one up and the other down. | An old and well-known republican said to me yes- terday, “I have been identified with the politics of the State for nearly twenty years, and think I know | pretty well the drift of thé popular current, but for the life of me I could not venture to predict whether | Hawley or Ferry stand the b My per- sonal preferences are for Hawley; but, in common with many others, I fear he is inclined to give the administration but a quasi support. It {s a suspicious circumstance that Sam Bowles, of Springfield, who | 1s anti-Grant has assumed to champion his cause and force him upon the State; but still in his paper Hawley stands by tne administration and | pledges himself to its policy and principles. I fear | Sam Bowles is damaging him greatly. I tell you, | sir, in this State there are no republican soreheads. | The people—the merchants, manufacturers, bank- | ers, all—declare that the present government is ac- | complishing great results for the prosperity of the one and they want nochange. No man canbe | elected Senator unless he is unequivocally | PLEDGED TO SUSTAIN GRANT'S POLICY. | Hawley 1s not sufficiently explicit in his avowals on | @ational matters to please the party.” “Ig Ferry ?”’ Laeked, | “I fear not. Many of us think he is wavering. | Some time he made a speech in the es lt and, while he ably extolled the economy of the na- tional administration and the wisdom of the meas- | sures passed, he had NOT A WORD IN PRAISE OF GRANT. We all felt disappointed. It may have been an over- Bight on his part, but it has excited much comment upon Ferry. Indeed, I suspect that neither of them are earnest supporters of Grant. Bromley, of the Hartford Post, who is a Cincinnati convert, declared in his paper recently that Grant | was not the first, secon or third | chotce for President of either Buckingham, Hawley | or Ferry. He is a pretty shrewd fellow, and I know not what authority he has forthe statement; but it looks very suspicious, to say the least. I tell you, sir, no man can be elected Senator unless he i8 for | Grant as Well as his policy. The people in this State | don't care anything about Schurz; bat, as to Trum- ‘bull, they are surprised. He from this State, | supported the reconstruction measures all through, | and 4 man we have always stood by, Hence we re- ret to see him NTING OFF THE MAIN LINE OF DUTY ck that will lead him to the camp of the | is | 88 | enemy. | Shese I ventured the inquiry whether it was not probable, in the event of the failure of the republican | Majority to agree upon one or the other of these | candidates, that one of the faction might form a combination with the 117 democrats to vlect some | other republican more popular with the democrac: ‘The gentleman said that such an eventuality was | not at all unlikely, and that if such a combination | be formed either Lafayette F pry B Harri gon, E. K. Foster, State Attorney; General Alfred | Terry or Stephen W. Kellogg would, in all proba. | bility be selected to Mill Ferry’s seat in the Senate. Thad a long interview also with «nother infuen- | tial politician and wire-puller, wlio, wiile hostile to Hawiey and working for Ferry, admits that their | chances are very evenly matched. He e ; that in New Haven and Fairfield county the 2 delegation will be for Ferry, who wii! have a slight | jority in Litchfield; that Hawley will get Hart ford county, nearly all of ‘Tolland, a good majority | in New London, aJthough Ferry wi 3 i and part of Middlesex, with the chances slightly in favor of Ferry. He isa gentleman perhaps as well | posted upon the preferences of tle newly elected | members as any man in the State, and from his in- | formation, apparently candidly given, I think you may safely place THE STRENGTH OF THE NINE CANDIDATES for Senatorial honors as follows, on a joint ballot :— | Chief of Staff to General Terry. | cans and the democrats. | Teached before next week, | tends over the United 81 | yesterday. spring of 1863 he was assigned to executive duty in Florida, but at his own request was relieved and sent to the front in the movement against Charles- ton under Gilmore. In the battle of Olustee, Fla., encountered Finegan’s veterans and y-eight per cent of the force engaged. In | the spring of 1864 he was transferred to the Army of the James, in command of a brigade of the Tenth corps, and participated in the movements around Petersbury and ichmond. In October of that yea he was commissioned _ brigadier. After serving under Butler in New York he again returned to the Army of the James, commanded a division and went out to Wilmington, N.C, as In 1866 he was mustered out as brevet major general, having made a most brilliant war record. On returning to Hartford he re-entered the editorial harness, and { was elected Governor in 1866. He is a gentleman of tine executive ability and spotiess political repu- tation. Efforts to Unite the Ferry Republicans and Democraits—The Liberal Movement Taking Shape. ~ New Haven, May 6—Evening. Since despatching my letter to-day indicating the election of Hawley for Senator information has reached me of an effort to unite the Ferry republi- An effort, lam assured, is being made by parties to effect a coalition in Ferry’s interest. The belief that Ferry is yeady to join the liberals gains strength, democrats say if Ferry, and rominent who is hh Washington and reported to be in favor of Greeley, will pledge himself to the Cincinnati ticket, enough democrats are ready to join his republican supporters to elect him, The wire- pullers are certainly at work to this end, but whether it will be successful is doubtful. The liberal movement at last is taking form, and I understand an organization is to be attempted this week to set the ballin motion. It is probable that the republicans will go into caucus to-morrow ov next day, but the first ballot will hardly be STRIKE OF THE PAINTERS, The Union Demands Eight Hours Work and Present Rates of Pay—The Strike Successfal and Expected to Terminate To-Day. On Saturday evening last a strike was ordered in all the lodges of the Painters’ Union in the district of Manhattan Island. The object of the movement was to force employers to pay the same rate of | wages now paid ($3 50 per day), but to limit the day’s | work to eight hours. The Grand Lodge of the In- ternational Painters’ Union (the organization ex- tes and Canadas) orders each man engaged in strike to be paid full wages from its treasury while the movement is in progress. The Painters’ Unions of this city have had a membership of about fifteen hundred, which they claim was considerably augmented by the action of The strike began yesterday morning, \d committees from Demiit Hail, where the organi- zations met in regular session at an early hour, were busy during the day {n visiting the painters at work in all parts of the city. These committees re- turned to the hall at intervals during the day, bringing with them crowds of workmen, whose ues Were speedily added to the lists of member- », and also bringing with them reports of the of the movement on the bosses. Out of sh suce | some sixty persons or firms in this city by Whom these men are employed, about thirty are reported to have acceded to theirdemands. Those about the | hall at the corner of Twenty-second street and Sec- ond avenue were qnite jubliant yesterday afternoon over their success, and stated that the strike would be fully carried through and their objects attained by this evening. About five hundred new members of whom the president d came voluntarily. HIGHWAY ROBBERY, WwW stated about two hund The Tenth Ward Swarming with Garroters. Abont eleven o'clock on Sunday night, while Frederick Trapp, a middie aged German of No. 8 Van- a er strect, was quictly wending his way | through Attornay street, near Stanton, he was sud- dent, tueked by four men, one of whom seized him by throat and threw him down,while the others, 8 kneeling, rifled his pockets, Trapp resisted as well No. op Rep. For HOY | usable, and endeavored to hold 4 “ry, | #8 able, and endeavore: id one of his assail- county. votes, — Hayley. Ferrv. | ynis, named Michael Mogan. ‘He pursued. him ol on sat i | through Clinton and Houston streets, and nally in | Folland... 4 = 21 | the middle of the block, between Stanton and Fath <i 17 way 37 | Houston streets, Mogan was stopped by Officer pase ol ‘tg ° jo | Martin, of the Tenth pr The other three Litchfield. oe 8 6 caped. Mogan Was arraigned before Justice Cox, Sew Ton , 0 i g | yesterday morning, at Essex Market, and held to Miduiesng 4 7 7 | answer fn default of $2,000 bail. Detectives are on OSX... Be __ | the track of his confederates, and feei confident of Totals f 4 72 | securing them. OPP sie Hawiey's majority on joint ballot PROBABLE MURDER IN JERSEY CITY, From this estimate you will observe that but \ittle engineering is required to change the figures and give Ferry a majority, and. of course, the result tiust remain in doubt at least untilafter a caucus hasbeen held. It has always been the practice to agree upon a Candidate in joint caucus, when each branch of the Legislature ballots separately, If the two houses do not agree a joint ballot is had to determine the choice. In the contest the votes of the 117 demo- crats must be looked after, and it is certain THRY HOLD THE BALANCE OF POWER between Hawley and Ferry if the republicans do not agree in caucus upon their man and go for hin as a solid phalanx. Personally Hawley appears more acceptable to the democrats than Ferry, and Uf they hold out as @ united body they can dictate Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock, an affray occurred in Morgan street, Jersey City, which will result very seriously. James Cooney called at the house of Robert Gallagher, an old friend, in that city on alg and they spent their time in drinking for several hours. Gallagher told Cooney to go home and the latter refused. An altercation ensued, Cooney using a knife, with which he attacked Gallagher. Oficer Quinlan was called in and he followed Vooney into an alley way and arrested him, the knife being still in his pos- session, He waa locked up to await the result of the injuries on Gallagher, who, it is believed, cannot recover, The usual weekly meeting of this Board was held yesterday, President Cochrane in the chair. The following business was transacted :— STREET CLEANING CONTRACT. Alderman Wi.bER moved the following resolu- tion, which was adopted unanimously, with the ex- ception of Alderman Coman, who voted in the negative, ‘‘That the Legislature is hereby respect- fully requested to grant the billof the Hon. Mr. Laughran (No. 902) in relation to the cleaning of the streets, &c., and the cancellation of the existing contracts in relation thereto.” ‘The report of the Committee on Streets was read, which, alter stating the irisvaricg, and detailing the terms of the contract, submitted the following reso- lution, which was adopted :—“That the street clean- ing commission be carnestly requested to take tm- mediate steps for the termination of the so-called ‘street cleaning contract’ and restore the contract over the matter to where the matter properly be- longs, So that our citizens may enjoy the great blessing of clean streets at a limited expenditure of money, After the transaction of routine business the Board adjourned till Monday next, at three o'clock, Board of Assistant Aldermen. The Board of Assistant Aldermen met at two o'clock to day, Otis T. Hall, President, in the chair, and the following members present at the roll- call:—Messrs, Foley, Stacom, Galvin, Robinson, Kraus, Coddington, Strack, Pinckney, Costello, Wade, Littlefield, Geis, Simonson, Cumisky, McDon- ald and Schwarta, 18 THIS A SINECURE? During the reading of the minutes by the Deputy Clerk Assistant Alderman PINCKNRY rose to a ques- tion of privilege. He said there was a person re- celving @ salary as reader to the Board, and he wished to know why he did not make his appear- ance and do his duty. He is praelng § salary. The PRESIDENT replied that the Clerk informed him that the reader was still sick and unable to be present, Mr. PINCKNEY—It is doubtful whether he can read; he has never done anything to entitle him to compensation, PREVENT AN EPIDRMIO. Assistant Alderman STRacK presented from the Taxpayers’ Association of the Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth wards, a petition calling attention to the filthy condition of the streets in the very densely populated district comprising these wards, and praying that the Board take docisive action looking to the immediate cleaning of the streets. The petition was referred to the Committee on Public Health, RAILWAY COMPANIES NOT LICENSE FEES. Assiatant Alderman Geis presented a resolution calling upon the Bureau of Permits far an account of the amount of money paid for license fees by the several city railroads since their organization, as also all amounts of moneys paid by the several city stage and accommodation coaches and the names ofall defaulting railway and stage companies, if ny. the resolution was adopted. Mr. Geis. also offered a resolution directing the Corporation Counsel to report if there are any actions pending by the city against street railway companies, and if so, in what condition such actions are; also if any compromise has been offered as to the arrears of license fees by any railway company. Mr, Geis said that by an agreement. entered into by | the Third Avenue Railroad in 1853 it was agreed that they pay an annual license fee for each car. ‘This agreement has not been complied with, Assistant Alderman Connor said that the Rall- road Committee has had the matter of license fees under consideration. ‘The, » found tiat other companies are defaulters as well as the Third Avenue. The resolution was, however, laid on the table. THE STREETS AGAL Assistant Alderman Srra 3 a supple- ment to the petition piesonten, by him at an earlier stage of the proceedings, a resolution requestin, the Street Cleaning Commission to direct the street cleaning contractor to sprinkle the streets while they are being swept and to have the gutters of all the streets washed when necessary. Assistant Alderman PINCKNEY said, in speaking to the resolution, that one man named Brown is allowed the money of the city through the Street Cleaning Commission. Ifhe had his deserts he would be in Sing Sing now. Through his neglect more sickness has been created and greater fear than by the smallpox. Why not indict the Street Cleaning Commission ?—for eae are parties to Brown's stealing. I don’t believe in this child’s talk; the Commission have been wasting time while the city is sudering. This Brown is dividing the money with thieves, and you know it. I think shooting is the only remedy we have for the abolishment of this useless Commission. Several other members followed, condemning the tardy action of the Commission, but in more mode- rate language than Mr, Pinckney used. The Board adjourned to Thursday, Green Again on “Excise Money.” Comptroller Green has forwarded the following additional communication to the Commissioners of Excise :— yO Ma To THe Commisstoxens oF THe Boanp oF Excis Gextixwex—Your communication of the with the ¢ amberlain’s receipt for posited, rece owing a balance of $11,804'39, in bank,” which should, by the express terms of ‘section 45, chapter 383, Laws of 1870, be deposited with the Cham- berlain of the cit; The amount of Comptrolier 6 74 is charged on disbursements from September 1, 1871, to April 30, sive, unaccor 1872, ine and'being about ten per year. XS your year clored with the date of your letter (April 30) you will see the propriety of furnishing vouch- vouchers for the same, tof the gross receipta Yor the ers for tle above disbursen verification, and of comp] tion of the Law above re Chamberlain this balan fully, ‘AND! ents, for examination and with the terms of the see- to. by depositing with th 189, path hte An Important Session of the Street Clean= ing Commission—The Corporation Coun- sel’s Opinion Asked as to the Contract= The Police Recommended as Street Cleaners by Judge Bosworth. The Street Cleaning Commission met yester- day in the Comptroller’s oMlce at ten o'clock, the Mayor in the chair. The following members were present:—Recorder Hackett, Comptroller Green, Judge Bosworth, City Inspector, and Richard O'Gorman, Corporation Counsel. The meeting was called to consider a subject broached by the Recorder at the last meeting of the Commission on Friday last—namely, the right of the Board to rescind the street cleaning contract, at present held by John L. Brown, if it should ap- pear to the members of the Street Cleaning Com- mission that he had substantially violated the terms of the contract. The Mayor, at the last meeting, said that he was in favor of rescinding the contract, but as the right of the Commission was doubtful the meeting was adjourned until yesterday. To set all doubts at rest the Comptroller offered the following resolution :— Resolved, That the Comptrat r be and is hereby anthor- ized to submit to counsel the street cieanin relative documents as to the cleaning of ¢ such facts relating to the performa work under the same as the Street ¢ is possessed of, and to obtain and lay sion at the next meeting, at three o'clock on Thursday next, an opinion as to the rights and liability of the eity under and in reference to the said contract and the formance of the said work, and that Messrs. Sirahan and Porter be selected to make such a report. This resolution was put and carried unanimonsly, A long discussion ensued as to the right of the Commission to enter into a new contract should Messrs. Porter and Strahan report that it was within the power of the Commissioners to rescind the contr The RecorpeER was inclined to think that the Commissioners had such power, and had power to rescind the contract as long as it was proved to their satisfaction that there was a substantial vio- lation of it. Mr. O'GORMAN here called fora Kale of the con- tract, and, having read it over carefully, delivered the following opinion:—“I have never seen a con- tract so hampered with provisions. I believe that the contract was drawn up entirely in yhe interest of the contracting parties, AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE CITY.’” He then pointed ont section 9 of the contract, which provides that the contractor be notified of his violation of the contract ten days before any action could be taken by the Commission. If THIS VIOLATION was not made good within twenty-four hours the evs had it only in their power to put rontract in the hands of the sureties of the ctor and hold their bonds as a guarantee for the proper performance of it. He said, in conclu- sion, that he believed that if the contract was car- ried out to the letter that the city of New York would not be half cleaned, The contract provided that the streets only be cleaned once a week. Judge RosworrH called the attention of the rd to the fact that there was now a bill before Legislature which would put the street cleaning into THE HANDS OF THE POLICE artment, He said that if this bill were passed, any street was ancleaned it could at once be tel- eyraphed to police headquarters and the abuse would be immediately corrected. He added that if the police had the contract the Board of Health Would be spared expense and could work in with them. He said that neither Brown nor any other man could clean the streets as long as LE PAVEMENS allowed to remain in its present oney which should be expended vement had been squandered or ap- De condition, The on a uniform pa propriated to other obje The Comptroller, the M: Counsel vehement} tract to the police, the province of the serve the abuse, and or and the Corporation opposed the giving of the con- r. O'Gorman saying that it was liceman to detect and ob- @ volicoman with a cub in one hand and a broom ta the other would v0 rather ridiculous object. Judge Boswortn then offered the following gen- eral resolution, leaving out the police :— Resolved, That the Street Cleaning Commission respect, fully memorialize the Legislature at once to consider and immediately act upon the various subjects comprised in Assembly bill No. iip'and So proviie. in such form of law aa may, soem best to the Legislature, the main object sought for by such bill, the present street cleaning con- tract and the details of street cleaning for New York in the future. ‘This resolution was carried unanimeusly, Mayor HALL then submitted the following resolu- tion, which was tabled ;— Resolved, That pending the settlement of oubarrassing tegal questions now before the Board for discussion an determination, involving largo monetary interests to the city, that this Board request the Board of Health to im- mediately clean the strects of the city, temporary act of necessary sanitary power, and that the Board oi Ap- portionment and the Comptroller do immediately appro- priate over to the Board ‘of Health the sums necessary to -y out such work. ‘The Mayor remarked that though the contract with Mr. Brown still existed, he was of opinion that the Commission could and ought to take the above step a8 @ necessary sanitary measure. Contractor Brown asked that the bills which he had submitted to the Comptroller be paid, as he had no money to pay his men. Further considera- tion was postponed until the next meeting. OUR OITY RAILROADS. Comm! mer Van Nort After the Ralil- road Companies With a Sharp Stick. Commissioner Van Nort has addressed the fol- lowing communication to the railroad companies Derartusnt or Pustic Works, { Commissto! Orrick, 237 Buodoway, 7 Youk, May @, 1872. Geytixmen—This Department, is now'making extensive ropairs to the paving in the streets and avenuos of the city, and in many instances the railroad tracks are found much below the’ grade and the paving in and about the tracks needing sale In carrying out this much-needed improvement your co-operation is desired. The conditions undor which your railroad company holds its graut or charter rights call for keeping in order the paving in and about the tracks, and the privileges en- joyed by the companies from the city entitle it to expect nreturn a full compliance on the part of the companies with the termns under which such valuable franchises are i held, I therefore respectfully request and urge that your workmen proceed immediately to place your track’ on grade and repair the paving about the tracks, that this Department may not be del layed in accomplishing the work it has on hand. Respectfull: J. M. VAN NORT, Commissioner of Pubtte Works. REDUOING THE EXPENSES. Commissioner Van Nort has addressed the follow- ing communication to Comptroller Green :— Commisstonen’s Orvice, 237 Broadway. To tHe Derartmxnt ov Finance or Tux City or New ‘ORK — This Department, in acknowledging the receipt of the circular of the 13th ult. requesting a revision of the osti- mate made in response to that of the 6th of December, 171, and showing such reductions as can bo made in thé expenditure of this Department for the remainder of the year 1872, trom May tw December Sf of the current Trespectlully transmit the enclosed estimate. Such re: ductions as economy and safety to the interests of the city Would permit, in the Judgment of the Department, have been made. ‘The amount of reduction over the estimate for the en- tire year, a in accordance with the previous estimate, is $230°578 8 This isin Consequence of w more thorough and complete examination of the full workings of the De- partment, the reduction of ft foree and the omy of its workings. Respecttully, GEORGE M, VAN NORT, ‘Commissioner of Public Works. EATIMAT Aqueduct, repairs and mainteni Aqueduet, new work Free floating baths Lamps and yas ....: Printing for Department, Publie buildings, construct Pubue drinking ‘hydrants. and po! Hon and repairs: Removing obstructions in streets and avenues .. Repairing and keeping in order wooden pavements Repairing and removal of pipes, stop-cocks, & ... Roads and avonues .......00....++ ee Roads and avenues, sprinkling 0. Salaries, Department of Public Works. Se we! . 45,000 42,000 «; 40,000 nd = 175,000 Street improvements, for street signs and numbers and resetting Broadway monuments. ti Supplies for and cleaning public offices........... Wells and pumps, repairing and cleaning... Contingencie: ate Sei "8, Cleaning .. Stationery and blank "and police courts KINGS COUNTY MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, Meeting of the Board of Aldermen. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, Alderman Bergen presiding. A petition to have an ordinance passed providing for the closing of the Hamilton avenue bridge for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, at which time the crossing is most fre- quent, was referred to a special committee. ‘The trustees of the Union Cemetery submitted a protest against the removal of remains from that portion of the Cemetery where Palmetto street is to be cut through. The protest was referred to the Corporation Counsel. A communication was received from the Comp- troller flying a statement of the condition of the general fund accounts. The expenditure of the city government up to May 1 was $1,747,378 08, The balance on hand was $1,909,469 22, The Board then adjourned, THE JERSEY OLIGARCHY. Opening of the Hudson County Coarts= The Ring Operators To Be Piaced on Trial To-Day. The Hudson county Courts will be opened to-day at Jersey City. The following gentlemen compose the Grand Jury:—John E. McWhorter, foreman; Noah D, Taylor, Isaac I. Vanderbeek, Tunis T. On- derdonk, James Harper, neas Fitzpatrick, Isaac N. Quimby, James Dowd, John M. Wilson, John Brinkerhoff, John Sanders, Richard J, Baile, Daniel McLeod, Frederick L. Schmersahl, James Kilduff, James Livesy, William Cox, John Combs, Richard Heells, Danicl Delaney, Frederick H. Schwartz, Frederick W. Hermann, William H. Danielson, Joseph E. Taylor. This is the best Grand Jury, as a body, that has been selected in Hudson county within the past twelve years. Sheritf Reinhardt has been particu- larly careful to select men whose reputation is above reproach, in view of the probability of a re- view of the proceeding of the courts by the Court of Appeals. A “struck jury’ has been empanelled for to-day to try one of the cases against the com- missions. The ensuing week will be occupied by the Grand Jury in the hearing of assault and bat- tery cases, larceny cases and others of like char- acter sent up by the county justices. Next Monday the Grand Jury will commence the investigation of cases against the several Boards of the Jersey City government. HOBOKEN’S NEW GOVERNMENT. The newly elected members of the Common Coun- cil organized last evening by unanimously clecting Mr. 8. Bogart chairman. The reading of Mayor Schmersal’s message fol- lowed next in order. He congratulated the Coun- cilonthe triumph of the people over one of the rings that has crushed Hoboken for years, in their endeavor to open their streets to the river. In spite of the fact that the Hoboken scheols have so far failed to approximate the high standard of edu- cation existing in the New York schools, His Honor complimented the Hoboken school oficials for having made some improvement. He reminded the Council that an act had recently passed authorizing the im- provement of the public squares, This act was passed at the last session, and is considered by the people one of the most unfair that Hoboken has had yet to deal with. It provides for the improvement. of the squares at the expense only of those living around them. The scheme, of course, will never be effected, inasmuch as it violates the first principles of justice. The public squares are public property, and the public will ultimately bear the expense of their improvement. He dealt a deadly blow against the former workings of the Ring against some of the contractors. These latter individuals were paid for their labors, with “improvement certificates," many of which were bought from the needy contractors at an extortionate disconut by ring agents. It was the interest of the buyers of this serip to delay as far as possible the redemption of them, The Mayor suggests the immediate issuance of bonds to pay the city’s indebtedness, ‘The enormous sum of $18,000 has been paid within the past year for city printing, and His Honor sug- gested a reform in this matter. No such reform sage does not contain a single item of news for the people. The men known in Hoboken as ‘City Surveyors,” who have made such large amounts of money out of the treasury within the past few years, were alluded to. His Honor yequested that a standard of rates should be fixed, by which they might be guided in making such pay- ments. Past experience showed the necessity of overhauling each official’s accounts, and this should be done every three months, ‘The standing committees were then announced, when much conste! jon was manifested at the manner in which Councilmen Lee and Mansell, and one or two others, were shamefully ignored. On the whole, the present Council does not promise to be a whit better than the past. A ring Is already formed. The fate of the Jersey City oligarchy seems to have no terrors for the self-sacrificiag men of the new government. , WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Yesterday afternoon Justice Coulter, this week the presiding Magistrate on the bench of the Yorkville Police Court, received a curious letter, by post. The contents were that Carl Reinhardt, of 421 Pine street, and residing at 108 East Fifty-sixth street, wished His Honor to take notice that he had been robbed on Sunday evening of a gold watch and chain and $50 in cash, while passing ig Fifty-seventh street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, and that he wished His Honor to take immedtate action in the matter with the view of the for o a pba The Court looked a i it might, but, with eaaiee, ‘to the writer of that note. will or can take place, for the very ae itself | ‘was ordered to be printed in all the oficial papers, and that by a unanimous vote, although the mes: METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE. os as Report of the Book Committee—Kilbreth’s Inves- tigations and Its Results—William M. Tweed's Library Furnished from the Book Concern. Conference met yesterday, Bishop Ames presid- ing. After the devotional and preliminary exer- cises the reception of fraternal delegates was made the order of the day for Wednesday at ten A. M. The Book Committee's quadrennial report was then presented and read by the secretary. It sets out with @ statement that notwithstanding re- verses the Concern has made substantial progress, It bears witness to the efficiency of the editors and agents, and declares that the changes made by them are all improvements needed to keep up with the progress of the age. New wants are, how- ever, coming up, which the General Conference are called upon to supply. The fire in Chicage caused a loss to the publishing interests of $90,000, but no serious interruption to business resulted there- from. But agreater calamity befell the Concern in New York, but the losses in this case cannot be es- timated in dollars and cents. Reference is then made to the first publication of fraud and corrup- tion in the daily press, which allegations were in- vestigated by a sub-committee of the Book Com- mittee, called together by Dr. Lanahan without the knowledge of Dr. Carlton. The report of the com- mittee after this investigation has been generally oondemned. The seriousness of these charges will be evident when it is considered that the New York Concern is the LARGEST PUBLISHING HOUSE IN THE WORLD of its kind. With its fall, therefore, all other in- terests of the Church must suffer also. Dr. Cariton’s endeavor to make a public denial of those allega- tions and Dr. Lanahan’s refusal are next noticed. ‘The action of the committee was construed by Dr. Lanahan a3 a conspiracy against himself, and the committee for asking for specific charges were ac- cused of being engaged in this conspiracy. To doubt his conclusions he considered was to doubt his veracity, and this feature of the case greatly embarrassed the committee in its investigation, which had been intended to have been as thor- ough and impartial as could be made. These in- vestigations have not changed the judgment of the committee in any material particular. The several measures of compromise, investiga- tions, reports, renewed charges, &c., are next re- cited, and the futile efforts to quiet them are pain- fully apparent. At the investigation in January, 1870, fifty witnesses were examined. The attend- ance of witnesses and their testimony were volun- tary, and yet only one refused to answer. Ef forts had been made by the committee to procure evidence from the editor of the Methodist and the editor of the New York Times, which from their editorials and reports it was poadh es they were possessed of, but they failed. Three questions were raised in the several investigations, around which all the testimony might be grouped, namely :—Have there been fraud and corruption in the ‘manage- ment of the Book Concern? Has there been any such fraud and corruption as charged in the man- agement of the printing department? Anda similar question in regard to the bindery department. The committee were compelled, after their investiga- tions, to answer those questions in the negative. When they came to consider : THE QUESTION OF LOSSES they found that such losses as charged could not have existed without fraud and collusion being proved also, Hence a negative answer was given to this charge also. Nevertheless, the needless and wicked agitation of this matter has been kept be- fore the Church. An inquiry into the personal relations of the agents was dropped, and it was hoped that quiet would prevail until the meeting of the General Conference. But an inflammatory fly-sheet was sent out broadcast, and the secular and religious papers of Baltimore were most flerce, hostile and bid po ee in their demonstrations in regard to it, 80 that fears were entertained for the safety ofthe Concern, Hence originated the trial of Dr. Lana- han, with which the public are familiar. Referring to the late investigation by Mr. J. P. Kilbreth, of Cincinnati, whose report Was called for and read in connection with the Book Committee's report, the committee say that the Church owes Mr. Kil- breth a debt of gratitude, since now, after his thorough and careful investigation, he absolutely refuses compensation. The Conference Ls rahe ap- piauded this generous act. Mr. Kilbreth sets forth the mode of making himself familiar with the busi- ness and routine of the Concern. He sat beside agents, cashier and bookkeeper, saw the letters opened, read them, saw them filed by the different departments and followed them to their final and legitimate conclusion. When he had thus made himself familiar with the workings of the Concern he called upon Dr, Lanahan for specific charges of mismanagement and fraud, which he would specially investigate. This Dr. Lanahan refused to do unless he was allowed to appoint an assistant. Mr. Kil- breth could not consent to have any one’s favorite appointed assistant as a condition precedent, but he agreed to do this as a courtesy whenever he should need an assistant. His report and the documents examined, Mr. Kilbreth declares, would make a book as large as the Holy Bible. He denied that the business of the Concern is in a contused state, as alleged, but is in an understandable shape, and it is easy to ascertuin the business of the house from the books. From ten to thirty years back THERE ARE INACCURACIES AND CONFUSION in the keeping of books, but no frauds can be found. But within the last five years there occur no more errors than can be found in any extensive business house. The financial management of the Concern he considered above reproach. Prima Jacie evidence of irregularity appears in the books and reports of 1867, Ww! upon investigation proved not to be errors at all, and might have been explained in a few minutes by the bookkeeper. Every serious specification goes back from five to ten years. The reports of Mr. Gongé and Mr. Appel, Dr. Lanahan’s special accountants, are analyzed by Mr. Kilbreth and shown to be erroneous, For instance, they state that, according to the exhibit to the An- nual Conferences for the year ending November 30, 1868, the profits of the Concern were $56,244 74, whereas the ledger shows them to be but $53,446 46, They, therefore, claim a fraud discoy- ered, but Mr. Kilbreth shows that this apparent dis- crepancy is accounted for in the discounts, The difference between $82,279 82 discounted from the debts due the Concern in the exhibit of 1867, and $79,481 54 in 1868, accounts exactly for the ditference between $56,244 74 and $53,446 48. HOW EXPERTS DISAGREE. Again, those experts say that the inventory of merchandise on hand for 1868 on the inventory book is $161,403 99, and by a deduction of fifteen per cent it is reduced to $130,788 04, and on the ledger it is en- tered $140,895 52, and hence another fraudulent en- try is made out, Mr. Kilbreth, however, thinks this the most unaccountable blunder into which Mr. | Gongé could fall, since the merchandise inventory of 1868 contains six items which foot up $140,895 52, and this footing is plainly made on the inventory and in the ledger. Other and similar absurdities of Gongé and Appel are presented so clearly by Mr. Kilbreth that they can have no force whatever as against his findings and conclusions. ‘An analysis of the balancing entries from Decem- ver 31, 1860, to November 30, 1866, shows an aggre- gate loss for the six years of .$27,609 68, leaving out of view the sum of $116,841 paid out during that riod by order of the General Conference for Bisnops’ Salaries and other disbursements. Count- ing these, the aggregate profit in said six years would appear to have been $89,202 22. This small show of profits results from over reduction of values, During the above interval there was taken off the valuation of real estate $38,903 53, and off the valu- ation of stock the sum of $123,756 34. Mr. Kilbreth, in discussing the question of pur- chases of paper, shows conclusively that Campbell, Hall & Co. were the first to seek the services of J. F. Porter to sell their paper to the Concern, and that they, and not the Book Concern, paid Porter's commissions, and this accounts for their subsequent anxiety to have him displaced when bis commis- sions ‘became too large. It, nevertheless, ap- ears from their own testimony before the commit- fee that while they were selling the same kind of paper in like quantities to Harpers for 16 4-5 cents a pound they were charging the Methodist Book Con- cern, through its agent, Dr. Lanahan, 1734 cents. Mr. Kilbreth very pertinently remarks upon this that if he were agent of the Book Concern, and had to pay more for paper than the Harpers, he cer- tainly should not pay it to the same manufacturers. The ‘Sonoern bonght its paper exclusively from this firm and from that of 8. D. Warren & Co., of Boston, and from the latter company Mr. Kilbreth ascer- tained that while that firm, dealing threugn J. F. Porter, charged the Concern an average of 17.11 cents per pound for book paper and 15.68 cents a pound for newspaper, it charged other purchasers for the same goods lg and 15.71 cents @ pound re- spectively, In regai 0 peer CHaKons OF FRAUD IN THE BINDERY — department against H. R. Hoffman, which by rouped in the form of thirteen Sooo sheep Kiivretn finds No. 2, relating to 1: ee aier. skins alleged to have been paid for in ard foven. wards sent away Without being used, not proven The testimony is contradictory and oxetanged Hoffman's explanation, that they w: for lig a oe ne oe oes Aeteny if gine bon yu 3 thows that Mr. Andrus, he pa ie dent, uses just as much giao as) cont Maire H ands and ay pivoes of muslin, and Mr. a yard, an 8 Adds th texttmony in sromman’s favor. No.0 relates to the gold awee! en wen however, ta Pgh. isher, No. 12 reare to a lot of alleged the stamper and to have been cern, Hf ee, F street ae “Chiot Switneas: aagainsi in tus gase 8 Mr. Lutkin& wha months, from 1868, to April 1, 1869, te $448 45, Mr. Kilbreth thinks looks suspinous’ but the porary a Maps pay’ that he wi say was’ ‘accom. plished in this particular. No. 1, which i the moat serious charge it Hoffman, relates to am alleged deficit of 1,400 dozen skins between Decem- ber, 1867, and September, 1869, Mr. Kilbreth, after are examination, declares that there is shown either GREAT WASTE OR DISHONESTY IN THE BINDER’ or Brobably both, during Mr. Hoffman's superia. tendency. But the loss of the Concern falls very far short of what has been Las gape alleged, and the losses do not much exceed the expenses already im- curred in investigating them; nor do they justify the extravagant statements of a large part of the press. At the conclusion of the report 8 motion was romptly made to adjourn and was carried, where- y the minority of the committee were cut off from Presenting their report. This, however, contains nothing new beside the allegations of fraud already so abundantly made and disproved, save a state- ment that Hoffman was allowed and justified by his superior in office (Dr. Carlton) in making pyre of costly and elegant books belonging to the Con- cern to William reed and other personal friends. A free fight is expected over this matter to-day. AMERICAN SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY, Posed at a a t Forty-fourth Anniversary Meeting—Ab= stract of the Last Annual Report—Ad- dresses, dc. The forty-fourth anniversary of the American Seamen’s Friend Society was held last evening tn the Dutch Reformed church, Twenty-ninth street and Fifth avenue. The chair was taken by W. A. Booth, President of the society. The proceedings were opened with the reading of the Scriptares, singing and prayer, after which the annual report was read by the Secretary. The following is an abstract ‘ rhe ear 1871 has been one of the most successful that the society has yet experienced, notwithstand- ing the heavy drain upon the resources of the chereOy disposed community, occasioned by the Cnicago, re, and other kindred calamities, the sub- scriptions to the Seaman’s fund here being in ox- cess of any previous year. The building of the Sea- men's Exchange, at a cost of $100,000 has been a heavy drain upon the society's resources, but the Ate ve been happily and successfully accom- plished. It has also supported (wholly or in part) from ita treasury over forty chaplains and missionaries, laboring in the chief meaports of this and fot countries. These devoted men have been great blessed in their manifold labors, preaching the Gos- pel in bethels and on shipboard, visiting seamen im the forecastie and in hospitals, circulating the Scriptures, &c. An unusually large number of hopeful conversions is given—more than two hundred—in the reports which have been furnished us. Upon advice given us, after a tour of inspection by one of our chaplains commissioned for the pur- pose, our missionsin Northern Europe have beem readjusted so as to promise greater efficiency. A new interest has also been created by the earnest- ness and success of the recently appointed chaplain in Genoa, a station of growing importance. The chaplains and missionaries of the woclesy: on the home fleld have been laboring in Portiand, Boston, New York and Brooklyn, Norfolk, Wilming- ton, N. ©.; Charleston, Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, San Francisco, Buffalo, Re- chester, Syracuse and along the inland waters of the State of New York. Much good has been done at all these stations, and encouragement is felt im regard to many persons who had gone out from them religiously impressed. The Sallors’Home, 190 Cherry street, continues to. be appreciated by seafaring men, who publish its excellence everywhere they fo. The past year has been the most prosperous in its history, The number of boarders has been 2,200, an increase of 238 over the “previous year, and of 1,237 over the year before. These deposited with the Superintemd- ent for safe keeping $32,741, of which sum $16,144 were sent to relatives, and $3,843 were placed in savings banks, LIBRARY WORK. The number of libraries sent to sea during the year ending May 1, 1872, is 736 (312 new and 424 re- fitted), on vessels carrying 10,883 men, making the total number sent out since the work was in- augurated, fourteen years ago, 4,025, containil at least 185,000 volumes, and accessible in thel frequent reshipments to '177,819 men. The number 01 libraries shipped in the navy is 799, ac- cessible at different times to 90,380 men. The total expenditures for the year ending May 1, 1872 (with balance from previous account), were $63,017 10. The receipts from all sources were $60,126 35, COLORED SATLORS’ HOME. At this institution, in whose aid the society has made, as heretofore, a liberal appropriation, there nave been 610 boarders, among them several ship- wrecked and destitute, who have been relieved at an expense to our treasury of $318. The whole number of boarders since this Home was opened in 1869 18 17,486, It isan interesting fact, that will bear to be fre- quently stated, that the Home, during the thirty years ofits existence, has saved to seamen and tholr Tamilies over a million and a half of dollars—nearly double the amount received into the society's trea- sury for the support of all its operations. Not the least of its many excellent features is the Saturday evehing prayer meeting at the Home, This meeting is sometimes crowded and full of spirit and very profitable. Besides the Superin- tendent one of the society’s missionaries is alw: in attendance, as he is always accessible to tl boarders, and here, in their spiritual Lidl sp prayer has been answered in the conversion many souls, The opening of the Seamen’s Exchange, with ita savings bank and shipping offices and attractive public hall for Irctures, addresses, c., immediate! opposite the Home, willgive it additional proj nence, and doubtless do much also to extend its benefits, At the conclusion of the reading of the report Judge Benedict addressed the audience in an elo- uenht speech, and was followed by Rey. H. M. Scud- der, of brooklyn, and Rev. Williatn M. Taylor, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle. The proceedings were terminated by the singing of the following hymn :— ‘sles of the deep! your rederaption is nearing; snitch the waves! phe giad song. of ioe sree ¢ that was promised in tri 9 Now wields his sway o’er the Hand ai \d the sea. ud from the top of the mountains sing praises; Telifleye shall ting with the echolng strains; Mighty in war, ke the standard upraises, Glorious in peace, he advances to reign. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The Report of the Committee in Relation to the Coinage of the United States. Aspecial meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday afternoon to receive the report from Committee No. 3 on the bill pending in Con- gress relative to the Mint, assay offices and coinage of the United States. Mr. William E, Dodge presided and called the at- tention of the Chamber to the object of the meeting. Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles, Chairman of the Commit- tee on Coinage, &c., oifered the following resolu- tions Resolyed, That, in view of the bill now pending inCongress far rovainie tue laws relative to the colnage of the United States, the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York respecttully requests the Senators and Representa. tives from said State to urge npon Congress the propre and importance of exempting the coinage of gold a silver from all charges beyond the actual cost of refit and coining and a small percentage sufficient to provi aaa end ey eka the United Staten were he Ol silver, colns o worn by use below the standard and limit of toleram res or to be prese: yy har Pitesolved. That the ‘Charmer percelves, with eit etion, that the pendin; $ iar ‘hall be “the walt of val the silver I herearter be a legal execeding $5, thereby putting States to the absurdity of a “d nd establishing gold as, the aid. The bil arene ee ernine, at which it has vir- Tver dollar (How 412% grains, at which it has vir- Ceased to cirenlate) to $84 grains, being double the ihe hairdollar and other, subdivisions Drthe dollar, _ In view, however, of the important (ac ad weight of 3 grains that, by an addition to 106 Pertna of a grain (belag in En ag, halt, a cent), the weight oC tke ‘n ilar may be estapiished at 386 8.100 grains practically, u exact equiponderant 3 tive even metric gr mmes, that increase of twenty-Ave ‘cmmended.. This is. the actual legat is strongly iver, mne-tonths fine, of the five franc bit Younee Belyium and’ Switzerland, of the Iver coin of Y f Italy, of the five drachma silver coim five tire silver fe five pescta silver coin of Spaity and pre- ely equivalent to two florins of the new colhage pro- posed tor Austria bint about to be established. The 0 the United’ States, having ® popul new dottyo0,00, with this metrie weight, would lf tomte sido by side with the silver coiiages, of atic oveding 125,000,000, at iu of silver thus ‘obtained ‘with- ited States, and With triding from the existin Sivercoin, would in its turn inevitably lead important unification of the present varying gold coin- ‘ages of the world. It is in view of these facts that the ‘amber ventures to express the hope by the present resolution that the Congress and the execative authorities Of the United States Will not hesitate to adopt this weight of twenty-flve me’ ‘ammes, oF 386 80-100 grains, for few diver dollar, leading to results so important to the civiligntion ot the age. 4 ‘ ‘The foregoing resolutions were unanimously adopted by the Rereg8 and ordered to be tran® itted to both houses of Congress. nm Chamber then adjourned, Edward Hart, abutcher boy fourteen years of age, was locked up by Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, afternoon, upon complaint of Andrew ce of BOT farand street, wud charges he his pocket of @ small sum of mon at the corne! ‘of Broadway and the charge, LA street i day. He