The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1872, Page 8

No Change in the Situation Yesterday— All Quiet Along the Line, PRESIDENT GRANT AND THE STRIKERS, The Furriers Gain an Increase of Wages. Meetings of the Iron Moulders, Tin Workers, Cabinet Makers, Barbers, Brass Finishers, Marble Cutters and Painters, ‘The first day’s work of the ninth week ofthe strikes leaves the position of affairs in a great mea- sure unchanged, so far as the attainment of any Practical or decisive result is concerned. At the @pening of every week the men seem to attain a fresh amount of confidence and hope, which is Somewhat lessened at its close, and yesterday was mo exception, renewed courage and determination having replaced the weakness and depression which were plainly evident in trade circies on Satur- day. The employers have given no indications of eaiing the leek, and continue to assert that they will fight the battle to the bitter end, maintaining that it 4s better to let their shops remain closed and their contracts unfulfilled than to proceed with business upon principles which would be ruinous to their interests. Meantime the losses caused to the city and the actors in the unfortunate complications cannot be suficiently concelved. It is only necessary to stroll through our manufacturing districts and perceive the truth of this assertion, Scores and hundreds Of factories closed, and the men formerly employed in them congregated in some saloon, which serves a8 a place of meeting; buildings in the course of erection remaining unfinished for want of men to work upon them, and an increase in the price of Provisions, all indicate that a speedy settle- ment of the vexed question is absolutely essential to the welfare of the entire community. The demands of the barbers and bakers are evi- dently just, and it is difficult to understand tnat they are for a moment withstood. They work on an average sixteen hours a day, and that without an hour’s relaxation. The bakers are compelled to work the entire night in close, hot basements, ill- ventilated, beside a huge fire, and that ata season of the year when the heat is insupportable in the most airy habitations. It is only necessary to look at their prematurely old appearance and the pallid look on their cheeks to see how ruinous is their present condition to health and life, In England the long hours and the night work have tm a great degree been abolished, and it is to be hoped that in this country as well the demands of humanity will prevail over those of avarice and selfishness. The barbers ask for twelve hours a day, which will convey an idea of the time they labor now, and, judging from appearances, ba are unely to succeed. The members of the trade in the city number some thousands, princi- pally Germans, French and Italians, The bakers are holding a series of stirring mectings, and by the lowering of the initiation fee and several other judicious measures are inducing large numbers of nou-society men to join the organization. If the bakers will wisely keep away from such demagogues as the Internationalist, whom they allowed on Sun- day to harangue their meeting in a speech en- couraging rapine and spoliation, then success is certain and inevitable, ‘The wary: yesterday rf be summed up as fol- tows :—Thé men, anxious and determined, $2 eet and persistent in adhering to the resolutioh ‘in ht the battle out, if it requires all the summer, and the ee ually determined to maintain what y call their rights. The workmen have ceased to send deputations to wait upon bosses, asin the first days of the strike, and the struggle is now a pogeene Father than a positive one, each party trying to starve or weary the other out. But the final result cannot be long delayed. No sh trades are striking and no fresh bi is being fused into the strikers, The Nel gp de are Foo cat PN Y ane oe see “oer tee ty evident (} r for thelr inter- cata 6 ah PB thy ob at atl The plan recommended {n thé Wenaes aS time ago of leaving the settlement of the affair to arbi- tration could now be judiciously introduced, with every prospect of success. Below will be found re- ports of the various mectings held yesterday. The Painters’ Union. Lodge No, 5 of the Painters’ Union met yesterday on the first floor of Military Hall, which it has occu- pied for some time and will still continue to occupy (n the interests of the entire trade. The painters by their action display a wisdom’ which might be very conveniently copied by the other trades to their profit and advani Though they have gained their point long since, the first of any of the trades in the city, they consider It necessary to keep their organization a8 perfect as possible, in order to be prepared for all contingencies that may arise. The consequence of this action is that the Painters’ Union is the best organized and conducted of any trade union in the city. The sessions held in Military Hall have for their object the securing of positions for unem- Ployed men, and in this they have been very suc- cessiul. They also look out for all non-society men, and watch them close! until they become enrolled in the society. ie system of day meetings works well, numbers Inge attracted to attend who could not be induced to be present at the night meetings. The chairman isa quiet, sensible man, quite a different individual from the fanatic Banks, who, by his insane utterances, has done all in his power to retard the movement for eight hours. Fortunately for the trades, his influ- ence docs not go for much, or it might be bad for ‘the ultimate success of the movement. The Iron and Metal Workers. The iron and metal workers met yesterday morn- ing at the Germania Assembly Rooms, and con- tinued in session the entire day hearing reports and appropriating money. This organization, in conjunction with the lron Moulders’ Union and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, number more than ten thousand, about two-thirds of whom are on strike, and the remaining one-third working, one half at eight hours and the other at ten hours, A gteat amount of interest has centred on the movement in the iron trade, both on account of the numerical strength of the association and the idea that their success was essential to that of other societies. Inthe first two weeks of their strike forty-five shops commenced working on the eight- hour basis and some were on the point of conced- ing, bot the third week brought no accessions to this number, and last evening it was an- nounced that several of the forty-five shops who had yielded had, after giving the eight-hour basis a fair trial, come to the conclusion it was impracticable; that they could not bacpem tf work with the lessened hours, and that they will return to time, This morning @ number of hands employed in these shops were informed that ten hours would in future be ex- ected of them. This has thrown a damper upop je strikers, and has produced considerable depres- gion. The defection of the employés of the Morgan Iron Works, who returned to work upon the em- ployers’ terms last week, has also tended to de- Moralize the men, aud, on the whole, the aspect of affairs is not encouraging, thongh determination still revails, In conversation the secretary of the meet- declared that the men would fight the battle out if it took all the summer; that they had plenty of funds and were sure in the long run to defeat the Dosses, They do not blame the latter for resisting their demands, All they wish is a fair field and no favor, aud if no mean and underhand advantage is taken of them they feel confident of the final result. Another meeting was held in Military Hall in the afternoon to receive Rene from delegates, but no facta of interest were elicited. Both meetings were but slimly attended. The Bight-Hour League. The Eight-Hour League, representing about twenty thousand men, engaged in the cabinet Making, furniture and carving trades, continues to hold daily sessions at Teutonia Hall on, Third ave- nue, The condition of the eight-hour movement among these trades has not been of @ very en- couraging nature, but those engaged in it are still determined to accept no compromise from their employers, and they state they will be satisied With noting less than the ful measure of their de- mands. During the first few weeks of the strike the @uccess of the cabinet makers was very great, more than one hundsed shops, representing about half the workmen in the having seceded to the maximum of eight hours as a fair day's work. For the two weeks, however, no pr 3 has been , None of the firms whose men still remain on strike manifest the slightest inclination to gE aie: re who eight-hour m have announced their @eterminavion return to ten hours, alleging as their rea- gon the losses they have sustained in business since ‘they changed established mode of buriness. Some of the manu- ! and it is not at all likely that they will | | | both empk and men. The Fight- Hour League has still considerable funds at its dis- posal for the relief of the men on strike, but the constant demands upon the treasury which have been generously responded to, have sensibly diminished the amount, and it will soon have to ive out if more is not raised. The organization is, owever, 80 powerful that it is not likely to suffer from want of funds. The attendance at the meet- ings of the cabinetmakers are now but thinly at- tended, the men preferring to spend their time else- Instead of the enthusiasm and hope that were prevalent in the early days of the strike there is now apparent @ dogged stubborness which may, in the end, be as effective as the more exuberan! aleplays hitherto indulged in. On Saturday Jast Mr. Kane, the President, and E. F. McDonald, the Vice President, of the Metal Workers’ Union, and John Graham, the Grand Master of the United Order of American Bricklayers, visited President ‘Grant at Long Branch. At the meeting of the ‘metal workers yesterday Mr. Mc- Donald gave :@ report of interview. He said that the President ived the committee courteously, and Mstened to thelr representations that many contractors who were building iron vessels and machinery for the United States Navy were working their men ten hours, in defiance, as the committee believed, of the national Eight-hour law. In reply the Presi- dent said that the law was considered by govern- ment oi.cers to apply oy, to those workmen who joyed by were directly emp! the government, and had no reference to those in the employ of con- tractors, He promised, however, to consuit vecre- tary Robeson in regard to the matter and to aid the workmen tf he could possibly do so. ‘The 'Longshoremen. The ‘longshoremen made a demand yesterday morning for elghty cents an hour, if they are re- quired to work after eight P. M., threatening to leave their work if their demand was not acceded to. The matter is expected to terminate amicably. The Box Makers. The strike of the box makers is substantially at an end, the men in this city being generally suc- cessful and those in Greenpoint having failed. The Granite Cutters. The granite cutters held # meeting last evening for the double purpose of electing new men into the oftices of their organization and for the purpose of taking further measures to support the men on strike in Westerly. Mr. Gihlin was chairman of the meeting, Mr. Clancy acting as secretary, Some of the members expressed their dissatisfaction at the silent manner in which Mr, Batterson is treating the Westerly men. Propositions have been already made to hin requesting a fair compromise; but he seems altogether deaf to their appeals. The organisa den appointed a committee to wait on the Building Committee of the Masonic Hall now in process of construction. Should this measure fail to bring Mr. Batterson to &@ settlement with the granite cutters of Westerly the members of the different associations will treat him in a far different manner than they have hitherto done. The granite cutters of this city are steadily employed in their different places of occu- ation, but are bound by the laws of their society .O support the other members throughout the country. preensce from Westerly and other parts are expected in a few days, when new measures will be immediately taken. The marble cutters are still on strike, but no new features seem to be attached to the course of pro- ceedings they are adopting. They held a strict! eayiee meeting last evening in Academy Hal ‘he old news of their determination to continue on strike was about all that could be gleaned from them. Unlike other societies, and for some special reason, they declare their reluctance to give an; further items to the presa. Mr. Meighan is presi- dent of the association. Their meetings are regu- larly attended, and for the most pari by.a large and very respectable looking class of nen, The Furriers. The furriers met yesterday morning at 274 Grand street, and agreed to submit a price list to their employers, déiaahding al increase of tweniy five per cent over their present rate of wages, This was done,” and the result was that the furriers formally acceded to the increase of wages, thus saving the men any necessity of having recourse t a strike. The employés number seven hundred men, and business is so good that the employers cannot afford to lose their men. The furriers held alarge meeting in the afternoon, at 274 Grand Rained to express satisfaction at the victory at- ed. The Br: Finishers. ‘The Brass Finishers and Gas-Fixture Makers’ Pro- tective Association held a meeting at Turners’ Hall, in Fourth street, near Second avenue. The Presi- dent, Mr. Robinson, called the meeting to order at. about eight o’clock, and after the transaction of minor business ordered the new by-laws of the society to be read by the secretary. They were unan/mously adopted, and at half-past nine the meeting adjourned, having nothing further before it for consideration, ‘The Iron Moulders. Iroq Moulders’ Union, No. 25, held a secret meet- ing at the New York Assembly Rooms, corner of First street and Second avenue, for the purpose of considering means for the support of the members now out on the strike, As the inembers of the press were refused admission nothing can be stated of the action the Union took. The Paterson Strike. There ts a probability, judging from the latest aspect of affairs, that the employés of the Paterson locomotive shops out of work by the closing of the establishments (3,000 in number), will join in with the boiler makers in the strike for twenty per cent advance. They were not in the original strike, but were turned out of work unexpectedly by the clos- ing of the shops. It is not possible to predict how long the trouble will continue, At present the breach seems wider than ever. A large number of mechanics are leaving town in search of employ- ment elsewhere. The Barbers’ Strike. The journeymen barbers, whose offer of a com- promise to the employers last Sunday in reference to the reduction of the hours of work was rejected by the employers ina manner which the journeymen characterize as brutal and insulting, proposed to ho'd an indignation meeting on the subject this evening ; but owing to some blunder cominitted by some- body the meeting had been advertised in the German papers for last night, and the place of meeting—the wrong place, the Germania Assembly Rooms—had been designated, instead of the Teutonia Assembly Rooms, the regular head- quarters of the journeymen Barbers’ Union, In consequence of these blunders in calling the meet- ing the intended demonstration was post- poned. A meeting was held, however, which was principal! confined to the transac- tion of routine business, and several new members Were admitted. It was announced that most of the first and second class shops have adopted the rules of the journeymens’ union, not- withstanding the refusal of the employers’ union on Sanday to agree to the one-hour compromise. A committee was appointed to prepare a draft of a constitution and bylaws, composed of M ra, Kaemmerer, Herbst, Stief, Aug. Heupel, Gustav Fleck, Emil Stein and Ad. Fuerst. A resojution was passed that the intended demonstration shail come off at the Teutonia Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening. THE STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA, WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., July 1, 1872. The mill and boom men, who struck for ten hours, met in Market square this morning and were ad- dressed by several speakers. There was great enthusiasm, At eleven o'clock some two thonsand strikers formed in procession, marched down town to the few mills that were in operation and per- suaded the men to join therm. This afternoon they will march to the mills up town. There has been no disturbance so far. ‘The Mayor issued @ proclamation this morning ordering all places where liquor is sold to be closed unui after the Fourth of July. METING OUT JERSEY JUSTICE. What Judge Randolph ys About Trades Unions. In the Court of Quarter Sessions at Jersey City yesterday the following sentences were pronounced by Judge Randolph :—Ignatius Flynn, larceny, two months; John Drake, stealing a watch, six months; William Dogherty, assault, twelve months; George Burke, a conductor, who fired at and wounded a man while attempting to robacar, three years; Jobn Becker, larceny, three months; Thomas Grace, attempting to pick a pocket, four months; Michael McCaffrey, resisting an ofiicer, nine months; Philip Brockway, burglary, two years; Witiam Murray, atten) ted urgiary, twelve months; albert @ thief, in search of something to steal, six months; Edward H. Gorman and Asher Smith, breaking and entering, one year each; Join Thou assault with a knife on his wife, three years; Herman Kick, arson, three years; John Car. Troll, a railroad thief, four montus; George T. Per- king, larceny, two years, In passing sentence on Murray, who is a mere boy, the Judge called on tne lad for some explana- tion of the crime charged against him, The boy re- plied that he tried to get some trade, byt he was ) some’ them by law. The Co smart and intelligent a tute his talents. In the Bi Bishop Bayley Opposed to the Eight- Hour Movement. The corner stone of a new and handsome church edifice to be erected by the Catholics of Morristown ‘was laid with appropriate services on Sun- day in presence of a large gathering of clergy and laity. All the faculty and semi- narians of Seton Hall College were there, besides Bishop Bayley, Rey. Father Aloysius, of Hoboken; Father McCarty, of Dover; Dr. Wivger and Monsignor Seton, of ison, and the pastor, Rev. Father Sheerin, Im the course of his sermon the Bishop took occasion to recur to the eight-hour labor movement. In his opin- jon the movement has a disastrous effect on both the workingmen and their employers. He said that if the workingmen had the eight-hour law In effect to-day, and employed the extra time thus de- rived in mental improvement, the result will be beneficial to them, but he feared that the surplus hours would be idled ear i grogshops, and per- haps in worse places. Subsequently the entire con- Tenet partook of an excellent dinner in Father heerin’s residence. Monsignor Seton and several prominent citizens of Morristown made speeches, THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE. . wastes Meeting of the Board of Directors and Reports from the Engineer. ‘The directors of the New York and East River Bridge Company met at their rooms, corner of Front and Fulton streets, yesterday. The object of the meeting was to hear reports from the Chief En- gineer in reference to requests made by the Execn- tive Committee that he make return of the esti- mated cost of the structure as a whole, and the cost of the materials used. The report shows that the original estimate of Mr. John A. Roebling, made in 1867, was as follows :— Suspended superstructure, including all Anchorage, including ex, plates and chaina......, 79424 Two tower foundations (Brooklyn, $305,400; New York, 8899,087)....se00cre00e8 154.487 Two tower: 409,820 Approaches... 742,516 Engines and machinery. 40,000 ‘Tolihouses and gateway: 20;000 Engineering. 150,000, Contingencic: 781 Total..... at 00,000 The cost of the bridge, as far as built, comprises the following portions of the above estimate :— Two tower foundations... : $754,487 Twenty feet of tower mason: Ne $ from timber to high wate: +» 68,980 Do. on Brooklyn side. ...... ‘ Th 68,930 The Brooklyn tower for 100 feet high, comprising 16,066 yards, at $21. ie 19,9896 Engines and machinery, one: 20,000 Engineering, one-third ot $120,000. 150,000 Contingencies, one-third of $299,781 99,927 $1,412,260 Total... In the report of the Executive Committee, pub- lished May, 1872, we find the total expenditures to date to be. Deduct bonds of Ne Deduct cash on hand. Actual expenditure. $2,759,104 It would therefore appear that the cost of the structure, thus far, has exceeded the original es- timate by the sum of $1,336,894 72, The cause of the excess is attributed to the fact that many large items were omitted from the original estimate, ie revised estimate of the Chief Engineer, made last May, is as follows:— Amount expended to May 1, 1872, less cash and material on hand. $2,508,217 Amount tion 70,000 Comp RIED 408,350 New York tower, 32,000 yards, at $22. 704,900 Saddles and sudiie plates on tower.- <2 25,000 New ‘York and Brookiyn anchorages, 06,i0) 170,000 A } chain: Suspended superstraciur Add 8 per cent for increase in ‘Add 10 per cent tor Increase fron... Pe Land for anchorages Approaches. 5 Tolhonses ai Engineerin: Contingen PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN SAILORS, Sie aR Nisa By the new law passed by Congress, and which takes effect on the 6th of August, Captain Charles C. Duncan has been appointed United States Ship- ping Commissioner for the port of New York. The law creates a provision whereby all sailors here- after must be paid and shipped before a United States Commissioner, the object being that sailors shall be fairly engaged, fairly treated at sea, fairly paid off and themselves in their own hands receive tneir hard-earned money. A building has been constructed under the direction of Captain Dun- can, which contains a seamen’s savings pank, a bowling alley and other rooms for reading and in- struction, in which sailors may have an opportunity to be instructed and amused. This will be a death- blow to the sailors’ landlords, who have hitherto robbed and ill-treated the sailors as they pleased, in open defiance of the law. Captain Duncan is a rominent member of Plymouth church, and is ‘nown as having commanded the steamer Quaker City on its excursion in Europe and the East some years ago. Under the present system shipowners pay from two to five doilars each for shipping seamen, in ad- dition to which, if ships are few, sailors, to secure a voyage, have to pay from five to fifteen dol- lars each, and if sallors are few, then ship- owners have to pay from five to thirty dollars bonus per man, the money In both cases generally going to the landlords and shipping masters, Ships’ crews are now generally made up by landlords and shipping masters, who put on board such men as they may choose, leaving shipmasters, owners and sailors but little or no voice in the matter. Hundreds of men, not only sailors, but of other classes, are kidnapped (shang- hated) every year and sent off to sea, helpless, yn- fit and unprovided, the advance wages paid for them going into the pocks ta Of aadloes and crimps, Under the present system landlords and runners appropriate to themseives the seamen’s advanced Wages (sometimes accounted for and sometimes not), and not unfrequently steal from ships the very men for whom an advance has been paid to them, The paying off of seamen is so managed that the money due them generally falls into the hands of the landlord, for, once in the boarding house, the sailor is easily persuaded to sign whatever ig put before him, It not unfrequently happens that seamen are driven on shore by harsh treatment, before their time of service has expired, only because their places can be supplied at lower rates; thus, ifa crew of men is engaged from New York to Liverpool and back at $30 each per month, and it is found that men in Liverpool can be obtained for the return voyage for $12 per month, the bn a are that the New York crew will be got rid of. About 300,000 seamen are employed in the Ameri- can merchant servic NEW YORK CITY. ‘The Mercantile Library of this city will be closed on Thursday, July 4. Two hundred new patients were treated at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, 233 East Thirty- fourth street, during the month of June. The Department of Public Parks announce that if the weather be fine there will be music by the Cen- tral Park Band at the Battery to-day. Commissioner Van Nort states that the labor cost of repairing the Fifth avenue pavement, from Wash- ington square, at Waverley place, to the Central Park, at Filty-ninth street, @ distance of over three miles, is $7,469. John Reilly, James ‘Spencer and Michael Gaffney were arrested Friday morning last in Twenty-third street, having in their possession a navy revolver, air of nippers and agimict. As they were acting hh @ suspicious manner Justice Cox yesterday morn- ing locked them up for trial. Last evening a Grant Democratic Campaign Club was organized in the Twenty-second ward at No, $15 West Forty-third street, with a hundred and fifty democratic members who have pledged them- selves to support President Grant in preference to any other candidate. The following gentlemen were elected officers:—H. C. Wice, President; D, Kempner and 8B. Levy, Vice Presidents; P. Lydecker, Treasurer; J. H. Jones, Correspondii Secretary; W. Mullen, Recording Secretary, and W, Lydecker, Sergeant-at-Arms. GUNPOWDER AOOIDENT. Joseph Altabayer, dealer in fireworks, doing bust- ness at the corner of Eighteenth street and Third avenue, Brooklyn, directed William Feitner, in his employ, to dry a quantity of damp powder in the yard of his premises yesterday afternoon. The powder, owing to some unaccountable cause, ig- nited and exploded, burning him severely about the head and face, ey — THE BROADWAY BURGLARY. The Mysterious Coupe Orivers Again at Jefferson Market—One of Them Dir- charged—Who Mrs. James Is. Captain Byrnes and Detective Henderson, of the Fifteenth precinct, yesterday morning again ap- peared at the Jefferson Market Police Court, having in custody James Carroll and George Crawford, the two mysterious coupe drivers arrested by them in in Wooster street at alate hour Saturday night. The prisoners, at the time of their arrest, had in their possession over four thousand dollars’ worth of goods, the proceeds of a burglary in the store of A. A. Van Tine & Co., 914 Broadway, on the 2th . ng! and anny fp ee gab dollars’ worth of silk dresses ani 8’ wearing apparel, supposed to have been the proceeds of some sneak ratbery. The night clerk of the Coleman house appeared as @ witness In behalf of Carroll, and stated that about half-past nine or ten o'clock, Saturday night, a wo- man of medium height, dressed in black, drove uj to the hotel in a carriage and was shown to the ait ting room on the second floor. Shortly after her two trunks had been placed in the hotel corridor by the porters he was sent for by the female, who desired aroom, As she was modestly attired and presented a lady-like appearance he informed her she could be accommodated. As he was about leav- ing the parlor she called him back and asked if she was in the Southern Hotel, and receiving a negative reply stated she had ordered the driver who brought her there to take her to that hotel and she was de- sirous of being taken there. . The night clerk despatched one of the porters for @ coupé and the mysterious lady and the baggage h the night started for the Southern Hotel. Bot! clerk and porter fully identified Carroll, who is in the employ of Briggs Bros., as the party they had called to the hotel to remove the woman and bag-« gage. The female made & mistake in ordering Jarroll to drive to Mrs. James’, at 158 Wooster street, ax that individual, once propritress of a “femaie boarding house” in the Faghth ward, lives at No, 140 Wooster street, where the of a number of females is paid by their ‘friends.” ‘There being no proof to show that Carroll had knowledge as to the character of the goods + iy {oon in his coupé, he was discharged by Justice Cox upon his promising to aid the police in finding the mysterious womau and appear to give his evi- dence against her should she be arrested. George Crawiord, driver of the second coupe, in whose possession was found the silk dresses and ladies’ wearing apparel, was remanded to the sta- tion house. The evidence against him is of a sus- picious character. The property found in his pos- session is at present detained in the Mercer street Police station, waiting a claimant. James Laurimer, owner of the coupe found in Crawford's possession, was also arraigned and remanded to the station house to wait further developments. He states that while in a lager beer saloon, Saturday night, Crawford stole his coupe, and he knew nothing of its whereabouts until arrested by the officer. ARNORIES AND DRILL ROOMS. rotate A Sal Tammany Hall Offers to Cancel the Lease of the Armory in the Hall—Let- ter from Augustus Schell to Comptrol- ler Green and the Doard of Supervisors. One of the richest placers of the old Ring plunder- ers Was the armories and drill rooms. Under the pretence of providing ample accommodations for our citizen soldiers many old lofts and rookeries were rented at extravagant rates, and the Garvey and Ingersoll agents drew fabulous sums from the treasury for repairs and luxurious furniture, Comptroller Green directed his attention to these enormous swindles soon after he came into ofiice, and has constantly endeavored to expose and de- feat them. 1t is well known now that many of the Places hired at extravagant rents, and on which it was pretended large expenditures were made, were in so dilapidated a condition as to be unfit for use, while others were simply extravagant and not adapted to the purpose of an armory or drill room. Among the latter may be reckoned rooms in Tam- many Hall, in East Fourteenth street, at the annual rent of $36,000, The Tammany Society have libe- rally proffered the surrender and cancellation of the lease of said premises with the Board of Super- visors, and the Comptroller has been authorized by sald Board to carry such offer into effect, The following correspondence in relation to this subject has been received, viz. :— ‘Tammany Haut, New Yorx, June 28, 1872. pRew H, Green, Comptroller of the city of New Af $in—T have the honor to send to you herewith a communication from the Society ot Tammany, or Colum- bian Order, tendering, on the terms therein mentioned, che cancellation of the lease of its building tor the use of the county. L respectfully request that you will lay this comrhunica- tion before the Board of Supervisors and ask their early action upon the matter. 1am sure thet they and you will appreciate the honorable and clevated considerations which actuate the rociety in this proposition. ‘ery re- spectfully, AUGUSTUS SCHELL, Grand Sac 5 0 THe HoNORABLE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE Orry oF New York :— GentLemex;-The Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order, make the following representation’ to your honor- able body:—The building of this society, except two Tooms on the east side, which were subsequently, for the convenience of the occupants, exchanged for two rooms on the west side, was leased to the county by an instru- ment, Sucre is hereto annexed. The term of the lease is ten years, eight of which were on the first day of the present month unexpired. ‘The rent is $36,000 per annum. The building is a very large edifice, situate on Bi Fourteenth — street, near Fourth avenue, known as = 1dl, 43, a 7 East Four- teenth street. cost of the ground and bulldi in 1868 was nearly half a million dollars. The rental d not pay the usual Interest upon the investment, alter Important Proposals as to the Location of City Oficers—More Employes Re- quired for the Court House. The Board of Supervisors assembled at noon yesterday to receive the tax books from the Com- missioners of Taxes and Assessments. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read the Mayor announced that the Commis" sioners of Taxes and Assessments had forwarded to the Clerk of the Board the rolis of assessments for the present vear, and that he had directed the Clerk of the Board to deposit them in the safe. Several communications from the Comptroller were then announced as having been received, and were properly referred. The report of the Committee on Court Offices, recommending that Richard Flannigan be paid for the term he served ag janitor, with a resolution directing the Comptroller to make the payment, ‘was received and adopted, Before putting the question the Mayor (chair- man) suggested to the committee and to all com- mittees of the Board that as respects the recom- mendation to and allowed” shoud be used bes saake, ithe action legal. The suggestion was immediately acted be by we Committee on County Offices. mmittee on County Ofices further reported recommending the adoption of Tesolutions to the following effec! First—That the janitor of the new Court House building be authorized to enupiey. eighteen men at a compensation of $75 per month each, and twelve wasn shen Lge Fes each, Fit! clean all the ler char; an ie directed to pay the samen” nkaanid Secona— the compensation to the watch- men to be ay ted in pursuance of a resolution of the Board at $100 per month in lieu of $75, pear La 3 Patrick Keane, Charles Dougherty, John Jackson, James Lloyd, Thomas ngs ppointing William J. Hamilton Assist- ant Engineer of Boilers of New Court House at a salary of $1,500 per annum, and three additional meen at a salary of $1,000 each for the new Court The report was recelved and the resolution adopted, The Committee on County OMices further reported, recommending the adoption of resolutions to the following etfect :— First—Removing the Receiver of Taxes from the rooms now occupied by him to the rooms on the east side of the hall in the basement of the brown stone building, Second—Removing the Tax Commissioners from the rooms occupied by them to the rooms on the northeast corner of the first floor of said brown stone building, now used as a waiting room for wit- nesses atten on the Grand Jury. Third—Removing the Court of Sessions to the rooms vacated by the Tax Commissioners and Re- ceiver of Taxes, Fourth—Transferring the Register to the rooms now occupied by the Sheriff. Fisth—Kemoving the Sheriff to the present is- ter's office, . i rat Sixth—Removing the Corporation Counsel, Cor- Poration Attorney and Public Administration to the Hall of Recot The committee state that a saving of $30,000 per annum will be effected by these changes, The report, with resolutions was ordered to be printed, placed on the minutes, and taken up at the next meeting of the Board on the 11th instant, to which date the Board adjourned after the transac- tion of some further business of aroutine character. BOARD OF ALDERMEN, A meeting of the above Board was held yesterday at which a large amount of routine business was transacted. It was resolved to obtain a list of all court officers employed, with their residences, oc- cupation and amonnt of salary now to be given. The following general order was adopted, on the motion of Alderman Vance :—‘‘ That h Avenue, from Thirty-eighth to Thirty-ninth street, be paved with Egan's improved Macadam pavement, at a cost not to exceed five dollars per square yard, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works.” The Board adjourned, to meet on Thursday next, at one o'clock. BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN, The regular weekly meeting of this Board was held this afternoon. NEW HOSPITALS, Assistant Alderman GEIs moved 4 resolution sug, gesting to the Commissioners of Charities and Cor- rections that they should build in the lower part of the city hospitals on a similar plan to that of the Centre Street Hospital. The resolution was adopted. ALDERMANIC PATRONAGE. Assistant Alderman GEIS moved a resolution di- recting the Commissioner of Public Works to place the appointment of Inspectors of Streets in the hands of the Common Council. Assistant Alderman PINCKNEY said that one of the great merits of the city charter was the separation of the executive and legislative duties. The appointment of employés on the public works, was > properly handed over to the ixe- cntive of the Department. The members of the Common Council were only desirous of getting Gefraving the cost of repairs, replacement, assessments and taxes, Nor is any doubt entertained that with pru- dent and careful management, a better rental could have been obtained from private parties. Whatever improvi- dence there may have been on behalf of the public con- pists, not in agreeing to pay an excessive rent, but in us. ing so valuable a property for unnecessary or inadequate purposes. At any rate, this society is of opinion that the relation created by this lease between the public authori- ties and @ society which may bg to some extent con- sidered political is not expedient of fit It leads to. criti- cism, and is calculated to subject this society imputations of deriving pecuniary advantage from pollil- cal intluence which, if true, would be wrong, and if un- true would be unjust to the society. Under these cireum- stances, this society prefers to deal only with private parties, and to accept such leases as can be obtained from hein oh the open market. Tt therefore proposes to your honorable body to give its consent to the cancellation of the lease on the surrender of the possession of the premises and the payment of the rent up to the time of such surrender. It will also give its consent to the removal of all fixtures and other property belonging to the public on the repair of damages done by such removal. By order of the Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order. i ? AUGUSTUS SCHELL, Grand Sachem, Joxt 0, SrevExs, Secreta: THE NEW CALVARY, For the past twenty or thirty years Calvary Com- etery has been the burial ground for the Roman Catholics of the diocese of New York, and, as its area is limited, there is but little space unoccupied. Archbishop McCloskey and the Board of Trustees have purchased some additional ground, amounting in all to seventy-five acres, and divided by the Flushing turnpike into two lots of forty-four and thirty-one acres. The forty-fottr acre lot is bounded on the southeast by the Williamsburg and Newtown road and the thirty-one acre lot is fanked by dt kins avenue in the rear, This new purchase is about six hundred yards distant from the present cemetery, or about three or four minutes’ drive. The forty-four acre lot is already partially laid out, and it will be ready for use some time during the month of December. The plots, divisions and gene- ral laying out of the grounds will be something similar to sections 7 and & in the present ceme- tery. This new burial ground will be reached by funerals by passing through the present cemetery, and the services will be read at the little mortuary chapel until such time as an appropriate building has been erected on the new grounds. The trustees intend building @ large receiving vault in the new cemetery, and are also contem- plating a handsome entrance from the Flushing turnpike. asa ay THE METHODIST PREACHERS, Ministerial Experiences — Adjournment Until September. The Methodist preachers yesterday adjourned for their summer vacation. When they return in Sep- tember their first session is to be spent in the nar- ration of their vacation experiences. They will then be able to tell whether such vacations are profitable to themselves and their charges or other- “wise. A difference of opinion exists at present among ministers on this point. The exercises yes- terday were devotional in character, and a few re- \igious experiences were related. Mr. French, hav- ing returned to the pastorate after twenty-two years’ absence, found some difficulty in beef the new tools or the old ones that have lain idle for him during those years. He finds himself sorely beset wit temptations to cater to the tastes and opinions of the people and to Jace himself in their power. But he hts against them and kee himself free in Christ. Mr. Thomas has found the last year and a quarter of his ministry the happiest and the most successful of the twenty-one, Mr. McAlister real- ized that he had not done and was not doing as much ashe ought for the extension of Christ's kingdom and the building up in the faith of his poor, The Protestant churches in New York are at failures in this respect. A prominent minister Stanother ‘denomination remarked to him a few days ago that there were but three churches of his de- nomination in the city that met their current ‘cuniary expenses Yi; The resthad to and lelve for it, and Mr. McAlister feared that too many of the churches were run on a material basis and this accounted for their lack of success in iritual things. He might go into one-half of our rotestant churches on Sunday and find them not more than half filled, There isa fault somewhere and he felt greatly grieved in his own heart at his shortcomings. Others felt the same and spoke as if during the fall and winter they would labor more , diligently and earnestly than they had ever done, these appointments to fill them witn men who are useful to those who had been serviceable at primary elections. That system had led to untold corrup- tion, and it was a matter of congratulation that the appointment of these men was now in the hands ot an Executive in which the city had confidence. Assistant Alderman Connors said that he would sox to the resolution only. He was quite certain that men were imported into this city from Dutchess county, and even from Kings county, to do public work in the city. The most important place in the public works was filled by a gentleman from Onon- daga; all this was done to gratify the Senators representing the different counties named. Now this was a departure from a spirit of honesty, for the gentlemen around this Board had a right to this patronage, which these Senators had not. This was due to the Board, for the As- sistant Aldermen had done as much as any body of men to obtain the repeal of the charter in the last Legislature. ‘he resolution was adopted. THE VACANT ALDERMANSHIP, Assistant Alderman ConNER moved a resolution asking that a special election be held to filithe va- cancy caused by the death of Alderman Hartt, and that the Police Commissioners take the necessary | steps for this purpose. Assistant Akerman GEIs opposed this resolution, onthe ground that the thirty days of mourning had not yet expired, Assistant Alderman Connor said that he was glad to find that the question of decency in introducing this resolution had been alluded to by Assistant Alderman Geis, because he wished to state that a delegation from the Sheriff's office and a delegation also from the dejeated party of this city waited upon the Mayor before the grave had closed over the remains of the deceased. That party was de- sirons of appointing a gentleman who was defeated at the last election and had been counteu inat the previous election. Assistant Alderman HEaLsy moved that the reso- lution be referred to the Committee on Law. This was lost. On a vote for the original resolution it was carried. APPOINTMENT BY COMMISSIONER VAN NORT, Commissioner Van Nort has appointed Mr. BE. P. Barker Deputy Commissioner of Public Works, Commissioner Van Nort says that Mr. Barker was associated with him in the Park administration for fourteen years, and that his long experience in the management of | ak works and his superior in- telligence and integrity of character especially quality him to acceptably discharge the duties of his new position. THE POLIOE AND THE STREETS. No More Garbage to be Thrown In the Streets. ‘The following general order was issued to the po lice yesterday by the Superintendent of Police, un- der instructions from the Board:— GENERAL ORDERS No. 90. Orrick SUPERINTENDENT OF Po.ice or THE City or New Yonx, New Yi 1,1 Captain Precinct a— im one, Tany 2, 187% ction 82 of the "Sanitary Cod any person by all y, ng o1 arbage or dirt to remain in abhi 7 wayon will notily every. person in can rete whose business produccs ashes, garbage, rubbish or dirt, that all such violations of such ordinance will be followed by the prompt arrest of offending parties, You will also report to this oftlee in writing, as soon as practicable, the name of every owner, tenant, lessee, or occupant of every building or part ‘thereof, within precinct, who fails to comply with ‘Section 90 of the ‘Sanitary Code,” by not Beep ng within such building or lace of business “suitable and sufficient boxes, arrels or tubs for receiving and holding, withou leakave, all the ashes, rubbish and garbage that. may accumulate for thirty-six houra from build. ing oF place of business, or the part thereof of which such person may be the owner, tenant, lessee or occupant, or wh Is to keep separate vessels, one for ashes and Fab. bigh and the other for liquid substances,” You will notity such persons within: precinct that this ordinance must be observed, and that @ separate ves- fel must be kept for garbage, and that no ashes or rubbish rein. taing will be held responsible observance in theif precincts of section 82 of the aa to You will read this general order to platoons, and ‘so instruct the officers and men of your command, that its Fer nay oe TTT ED JT ELBO, Superintendent. G. W. Drixs, Inspector. ** i? Thomas Colling, who on Sunday morning stabbea John Casey, @ Watchman on pier 40 North River, was taken to the Tomba Police Court yesterday Morning and committed by Judge Hogan to await the result of his victim's injuriets AND CASUAL, The Doings of One Day in thd Metropolis. . Stabbing Affrays—A Boy Accidentally Kills Brother—Shooting st Boys for Fonda Cherries—Two Innocent Men Shot— Kerosene Explosion, Drowned While Bathing. At one o'clock yesterday afternoon Thomas Sulll+ van, aged thirteen years, residing at 127th near Tenth avenue, while in bathing at the foot 127th street, North River, was drowned. His has not been recovered. A Railroad Smash Up. Yesterday afternoon a collision occurred at Mane hattanville, between an engine and a freight car of the Hudson River Railroad. The car and furniture’ ples fire and were completely destroyed. The was badly damaged, A Fatal Fall. Henry Brand, thirty-six years of age, of 336 Eas¥ Forty-ninth street, was severely injured last even- ing by falling off his wagon on the corner of fe second street and Second avenne, He wae Bey tended to by Dr. Purdy and sent home, . Struck on the Hert. Some unknown person yesterday afternoon struck: John A. Couny, aged 34, of 400 West Forty-eighth street, on the head, at the corner of Houston and Attorney streets with a blunt instrument, inju ring him severely. He was attended by Dr. Watermam and taken home, Stabbed with a Carving Fork. Mary Ann Hayes and Catharine Courgan, both re. siding at 18 Eldridge street, yesterday afternoon’ quarrelled, during whicn the former stabbed the latter in the arm and neck with a ca: fork,, inflicting slight injuries, Mrs. Hayes was arreste: and locked up inthe Tenth precingt station howe” Stabbed in the Face. Yesterday afternoon, during a fight at 37 Bow. ery, John Watson, of 23 Bayard street, cut Bridget Kenny, of 37 Bowery, under the eye with a knife, inflicting a severe wound. She was attended by Dr. Saville and sent home. Watson was arres' by an officer of the Tenth precinct, and will be ar-, raigned at the Tombs this morning. 3 Injured by an Explosion. At half-past ten o’clock yesterday morning kere osene lamp exploded in the hair store of Charles Pigas, on the second floor of 482 Broome street, causing a loss to stock of $150, fully insured in the International. The proprietor of the place and one of the employés, named Emma Davidson, were se- verely burned on the arms in endeavoring to put out the fire, Accidentally Killed His Brother. Yesterday afternoon, as James Neary, aged thiré teen years of age, of 545 Hast Sixteenth street, was playing with a pistol, it was accidentally dis- charged, the ball passing through his left hand. The ball, after passing through ns hand, struck his brother Joseph, five years of age, on the top of the head, going inward, The attending physician probed for the ball, but was unable to find it, and pro- nounces the wound of a fatal nature. Joseph was sent to Bellevue Hospital in an ambulance and James attended by Dr. Maclay; after which he was sent home, A Would-Be Murderer. At two o'clock yesterday afternoon, as ‘Henry Halloef, aged nineteen years, of No, 222 East Sev- enty-fifth street, and Oscar Weston, aged seventeen: years, of No, 210 East Seventy-fourth street, were passing the Park, foot of Sixty-sixth street, they were shot and severely injured by Thomas Stun- age, a clerk in the es The latter was arrested by an officer of the Nineteenth precinct, and stated the shooting of the two men was accidental, as he was amusing himself firing at a party of oa who were stealing cherries from a tree in the Park. Hal- loef received two shots and Weston three, in their backs. Their wounds were dressed by a police sur- geon, after which they left for home. Stunage will be arraigned at the Yorkville Police Court this morning. i A DROWNED BOY IN A FERRY. SLIP. The Body Run Down and Dashed from: Under the Paddle Wheels of the ‘Winona—Lost Among the Piles. On Sunday afternoon, about three o’clock, 8.the ferryboat Winona, crowded with pleasure-seckers, was nearing her slip at the foot of Fulton street, Brooklyn, a strange-looking bundle was discovered floating in the water within the dock. A momen- tary surge of the waves making it more visible, A THRILL OF HORROR passed through the throng of passengers, and the cry was immediately raised of “A boy overboard!’? Floating with face downwards in the turbid tide was the body of a young lad, not more than eight years of age, who had apparently been dead for some time. DESCRIPTION OF THE BODY. The back of the head, the hands and the legs. were by turns exposed as it bobbed up and down with the Wd Its costume consisted of a striped shirt and dark pants. The hair or the poor unfor- tunate was dark. The ferryboat did not pause, but made fast to the wharf, and the whole crowd of pean rushed aft to see the body floating out. m under the still revolving wheels toward the next pier. No effort was made to save it from being lost, and it was supposed to have lodged among the piles, out of sight. Late in the after- noon a father and mother were at the ferry house looking wildly, making FRANTIC INQUIRIES FOR A LOST coe, . the description of whom was similar to that of the body in the river. They were consoled bya by-- stander with the above information, and more and more wild with their grief until assured by the policemen that the ferry authorities would nd to the securing of the body. Whether it has yet been found is not known. A search commenced, and since Sunday night men in row boats were busily grappling in the river. The narrative of the first discovery of the body was given to the be by an eye-witness, no report seeming to have been. made by the poiice. BROOKLYN BOURBON EXPLODES, Last evening shortly before eight o'clock the neighborhood of Court street and Hamilton avenue~ was greatly alarmed by a loud report, proceeding from the explosion of a barrel of Bourbon whis- key (?) inthe store of John Daly, proprietor of a liquor shop at the intersection of the streets named. A large crowd of persons assembled upon the scene of the explosion, and the flames which the flery liquid engendered enveloped the counter and the premises and drove them back as they pressed for- ward. The fire department responded to the call to duty and extinguished the flames after a loss of about $400 had been occassioned, The Bourbon, which exploded with such force that the windows were driven out into the street, and the barrel which contained it was shattered into fragments, ‘was purchased from John Flynn, of Myrtle avenue, about five months S50. One halfof the contents has been sold. ly cannot account for the strange occurrence, never having experienced anything of the kind before in the course of his ex- perience as a liquor dealer. He had encountered many customers “on a bust,” bat had never seen any of his hardware burst before. There was no light about the store at the time, so that there wag nothing to ignite any escaping vapors that might. be emitted by the bar FIRES IN BROOKLYE, Yesterday, the Brooklyn Fire Marshal submitted ths monthly report to the Police Commissioners. It showed that there were twenty-two fires in June, and the estimated loss on property 1s $32,850,. This was covered by insurances amounting to d $171,300, On June 13, John O'Connor, aged three. years, was burned to death at 77 Rapelyea street, and Margaret Richardson was burned to death, by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, at 62 Fulton street. THE HACK DRIVERS, ‘The hack drivers’ of Brooklyn, who struck a week since for an increase of $2 per week in their pay, have nearly all returned to their work, their de- mands having been acceeded to, NEW JERSEY GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIO, In Newark yesterday the semi-annual meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic, New Jersey En- campment, was held, The officers’ reports indi- cate @ prosperous condition of the department. A letter was received from Governor Parker, thank- ing the department for some complimentary resolu- tion passed at a previous meeting with reference to him. In his letter he bel he has done and will do all in his power for soldiers and their widows and orphans. The Se behind also ordered engr & handsome as C resolutions passed in recogni of Colonel jam Ward's. service! com- mander of the denartinent. met: