The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1873, Page 5

gelof the city to go make a statement in reference to it, not to be con- wiccred as under oath or forming part of the pro- o! e vi of ‘Oftce located there, ré, ‘asthe agent and coun- n for that pur- pose. This was some two years ago. He went and called on the Kansas Congrersional delegation in Washington to obtain their support, but found that they conld do nothing. He then ealled on Secre- ‘ary Delano in reference to the matter, and was by Dim told that POMEROY WAS ABOUT THE ONLY MAN who could help him, Mr. Pomeroy was acoording!y visited, and, after some consultation, he also in- formed York, in effect, that the thing could not be worked just at-that time. Mr. York expostulated and argued the matter, and _ said that the people of Independence were very anxious it should done, and, in fact, felt like pushing the thing very vigorously. York, in fact, tatimated that it mubt be done, anc when Pomeroy again ex- essed the opinion that it could not, York said iat he thought he hadsome documents which t strengthen the case on behalf of the people ef Independence and enable the Senator to see the rina different light. York then dived into that feariul breast pocket of his and produced some afiidavits, which he submitted to Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Pomeyoy, it seems, did sce the thing in a difer- ent light, for the Land OMice was removed, as re- quested, TRE POTENT PAPERS were amMdavits rogarding what is known as the latest, Pomeroy scandal. ‘The lady in the case was @ clerk in one of the government depart- ments at Washington, where she is said to have Jormed an acquaintance with Mr. Fomeroy, There are—and have been—rumors concerning this ac- tance whicn would not, if true, qualify either r, Pomeroy or the lady as Sunday school teacher of the first order, and the American Hotel at Baltimore figures in the case—at least it is the scene of one of the alleged acts in THIS LITTLE LIFE DRAMA, At the close of his statement and during its de- livery York evidently did net seem to appreciate his action as very disreputable, and very closely— if not quite—constituting a form of blackmail. He rather relished the idea of dragging suc- cess from the precipice of failure, and stated that if the committee desired it he would procaine the afidavits and papers in his wssession—that is, if ed wanted to go into the bject—and would testify to his action in the Matter. He said, laughingly, ‘1 was sent to Wash- ington to fet the Land Oflice located at Independ- gotit.’ He evidently thinks success ia a big thing. It was now past midnight and the committee de- cided to go into the whole Land Office question to- morrow, when York will testify and produce his documents. This means nothing more nor less than another heavy blow to Mr, Pomeroy, by put- ting the scandal on official record, and probably the pricking of Senator York’s hastily blown bubble of pure virtue. CUBA LIBRE. The Republic ef Honduras and the United States of Colombia Yuited on the Question of Free Cuba—Discussion of the Question of Intervention. The following oficial communication from tho Republic of Honduras has just reached us:— Reropiic or Hoxpuras, Ministry oF FOREIGN RELATIONS, Comayagua, Nov. The proposition late}. atrous of having the 2a appeinted him Le, made by the United States of Co- lombia, that the respective goyernments of South America should ‘interiere in the oat f insurrection in Cuba ainst the Spanish movarchy, has excited the liveliest terest in the mind of the government of Honduras, who feel thatthe only possible solution of the matter ls the emancipation of Cuba, and that Spain should be indem- ified for her war expenses incurred during the long and sanguinar; ruggle. History as taught us from time primeval, that if a na- tion aspires to be great and respected she'must be tree and education must be generally disseminated. The Ca- ns been & down-trodden and tyrannized race since Spain conquered the island, and all iriends of hu- manity ought now tocome to their assistance, and help in the formation of a Ouban republic. Should, however, the Spanish government refuse to Teave the island it wil then be the duty of the South American Republics to throw aside their neutrality and come to the rescue of the Cuban patriots, and help to bring about the liberty of Cuba and the abolition of slavery. Should a step like this be taken it would doubt- Jess gain the approbation of the civilized workl, for the se Wo! tour Minister at Washington has been instructed to ‘@ Part with other diplomatic representatives in the plomatic negotiations which have been proposed by, four government. I may add that, the sympathies of is government, according to democratic basis on which itis founded, isin favor of a republican form of govern- ment for Cuba, have torequest that you will cause the contents of this official despatch fo be made known to the govern- ment ofthe United States of Colombia, and at the same time I have the honor to remain, with sentiments of the eration, JUAN N. VENERO, To His Excellency the Munister oF FousiGn RELATIONS or tax Unitep States oF CoLousis. LIBERATING EXPEDITIONS FOR CUBA. erate A Patriotic Appeal to the Cuban Resi- dents of the United States—The Equip- ment of Further Liberating Expcditions to Proceed to Cuba—Victory Leading the Way. On the 26th of last month a number of Cubans met at No, 187 Pearl street, im reply to a call signed by Messrs. Leandro Rodriguez, Cayetano Mila, Cayetano Leira and T. R, Betancourt, to consider the best manner in which a large Cuban subscrip- tlon could be opened, for the purpose of sending out further liberating expeditions to fight for free Cuba and the abolition of slavery in that unhappy isle, It was agreed that a committee, consisting of Messrs. Benjamin Perez, Cayetano Mila and Frederick de Armas, should ascertain the number of Cuban exiles resident in the United States, and Make an approximate calculation as to what amount of money could be safely calculated on, and in this task the said gentlemen are still en- gaged, THE ADDRESS, Yesterday the following address was promulga- ted among the Cubans in this city:— Fettow Cinizens—We invoke your aid once more in be- half of “free Cuba.” Our brethren are still fighting in the holy cause of the abolition of slavery ana of the Re- ublic of Cuba, and we are now desirous of sending out ther expeditions to them, with men, arms and ammnu nition, to continue the struggle for independence. We would suggest that the minimum sum subscribed by our Cuban brethren be $10 each, which shall be paid within three months from the date of this address. ‘The money collected shall be deposited in a leading New York bank, under the supervision of the acknowledged representa- tives of the Republic of Cuba, ‘The agents appointed for the collection of these patriotic gifts are Messrs. Fede- rico de Armas, Benjamin L. Perez and Cayetano Mila, Whose address is care of Mr. Edward H. Gato, 187 Pearl ree THR: DRADLY CONTEST AGAINET THY SPANTANDS, For over four long years the patriots have tought the deadiy strife against the Spanish forces in Cuba, and the noble manner in which they continued their guerilla war- fare hi gained them the admiration of the civilized world. » amount ef heroism and devotion on their part has been considered too great to help to drive the cruel and rapacious Spaniards out of their fair isle. Thousands of their numbers have fallen in the just cause. All honor to their manes! By the wise dispensations of an All-sgeing Providence, our prospects are brichtening day by day, and the hour’ of our deliverance, we believe, is fast approaching. The South American publics are now stretching out their hands towards fra- in ternal recognition of our down-trodden and slave ridden Cuba, and contemplate Byin us material aid Powerful and philanthropic England has used its utmost efforts in our behalf by solemnly appealing to the Cabinet of Madrid to enact the laws which it has already passed for the abolition of slavery in Cuba and Porto Rico, AN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT GRANT. In epite of, the profound indifference shown by the Washington Cabinet we live in hopes that our struggle for liberty will met longer remain unheeded by the gov- ernment which holds in its hands the destiny of this grand and ty Republic of the New World. VICTORY NOT PAR DISTANT. Victory beckons us on, and we may hope that ere long the gates of our country will be thrown wide open to re- ceive us back, and then we shall be able to give effect to Q2F principles, which we now profess, on the fore! ospitable shores of this great Ainerican Republic. It would be criminal negligence on our part to refrain from straining every nerve to bring about the devoutly hoped for consummation of our wishes, and the termination of ‘the terrible strife in our which is now deluged with lakes of bigod. Think of the broken hearted mothers, think of the unhappy widows, who mourn those they have lostin the irightful struggle, and, there- pS sory nce bt gs against this solemn and supreme 0 er patriot “PEDERICO DE ARMAS, BENJAMIN L. PEREZ. CAYETANO MILA. e Naw Yorn, Feb, 12, 1878, THE STEAMER FLORIDA, Se The Spaniards Unable to Purchase Her= She is to Go to Bermuda to Apply for the Mail Contract Between that Place nd New York. The HERALD contained the report a few days back that the steamer Florida (formerly the United States gunboat Penguin) would in all probability be purchased by the Spanish government and fitted up as @ gunboat for Cuban service, in the same manner as the ex-Confederate privateer Chicka- mauga, which is now lying at the Delamater yard, The Spaniards, however, appear to have hesitated in the matter, and in the meantime the present Owners came to the conclusion yesterday to send her out to Bermuda to apply for the British postal con- tract subsidy of £240 for the round trip, and further decided that she should leave this port on Wednes- day Week, the 19th instant. In the meantime re- ae of @ very exten: character are being made, clading hull, cabi machinery. The engines have aiready been taken ptt, and their power is being largely increased, and, \*¢h the application 5 a new styie of propelior, it ts thought she will tiuin a degree of speed equal tf Zot sniterior to any merchant steamer afloat. It te believed {bat she will Make two tripsa month, it being possible t@ go_out and return in nine days, The alo fl oversment of Bermuda has tnnounced maine eRaLD {Le termination of the W. H. Webb con- tract, by the Steamer San Present underges%g repairs Fi ranciaco, which is at | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. | BOSWORTH'S BOARD, Disgraceful Failure of the Police Cleaning Commission. BEHOLD -OUR STREETS! $984,000 a Year Literally Squandered. The Results of the “Manure Season” for $650! eemeomeed Thousands of Dollars Kindly Given Away. THE BELL-RINGING SWINDLE. Cartmen Turning an ‘ Monest Penny” During a Snow Sterm—Working for the City and Themselves. THE DUMPING SCANDAL. Pyramids of Putrescent Filth Filed Up in the Streets. Ignorance and Fraud Instead of Efficiency and Honesty. WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT IT? To THe EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— The people haye an interest in clean streets, you willadmit. That being granted, it must also be admitted that the people have an interest in seeing that those charged with the duty of strect cleaning perform it faithfully, I propese to show you, in this communication, if you will allow me, that this duty is now shamefully neglected, al- though hundreds of thousands of dollars are paid to our “reform” Street Cleaning Commissioners, Some time ago the street cleaning business was Placed under the complete control of the Board of Police Commissioners. That Board was, by the act committing to its care the cleanliness of the city, clothed with plenary power in the discharge of its new and important duties. It was authorized to call for all the money it needed, and was allowed to employ the necessary number of men, machines and other appliances. In fact, in this city at least, no branch of work was ever undertaken by any public body under more favorable auspices, The press und people had long cried out against the inefiicient system of cleaning streets by con- tract; and, while rejoicing over its death, they were, by specious promises, induced to believe that the Police Commissioners would accomplish all it had so disgracefully failed to do. Brown’s working force consisted of the lame, the halt, the rheumatic and the partially blind, and sogently did they move their implements over the surface of the streets that they presented the appearance of hospital pa- tients enjoying 4 little mild exercise, This decrepit brigade was to be disbanded and its place sup- plied by strong, active, able-bodied men. Brown’s venerable, ring-boned, spavined, broken-winded and heavy horses were to be mustered out of ser- vice; his patched-up old harness and rickety carts, odorous with the filth adhesions of a quarter of @ century, were to disappear, and the street- cleaning business was to be under the immediate supervision Of honest and otherwise competent officers. In fact, the millennium of street-cleaning had come and the age of dirt had gone, With the tile of pnblic opinion thus full in its favor the Board of Police Commissioners estimated the cost of thoroughly cleaning the streets for thé first year at $934,000. The magnitude of this amount at first startled the Board of Apportion- ment and the public; but when informed that it was to pay for cleaning the entire paved area of the city daily they were satisfied, and one-half of it ($467,000) was allowed for the six months ending December 10, 1872. The report of the Police Com- missioners’ Superintendent of the Sircet Clean- ing Bureau, dated December 16, 1872, states that this amount ($467,000) was expended in cleaning the streets during the six months referred to. Now, if it was it will be shown that less work was accomplished than was performed during any of the corresponding periods of the years of the con- tract system, and which really cost only $233,500 per six months, for it must be rememberea that the additional appropriation of $300,000 was not de- voted to street cleaning. It will also appear that what, comparatively speaking, little dirt has been removed from the streets under the direction of the Police Commissioners, has been disposed of in such amanner as to create not only a iocal but a national calamity, for whatever injures the harbor of New York disastrously affects the entire coun- try. The report above referred to embraces the six months between June 10 and December 10, 1872, and contains, among other things, the follow- ing exceedingly noteworthy statements:—First, 445,272 loads of dirt were removed; second, 9,885 miles of pid streets were swept; third, $467,000 | was paid for the performance of this work. In considering these statements it must be constantly borne in mind that the amount mentioned therein ($467,000) was allowed upon the express condition that the Police Commissioners would canse the daily cleaning of the entire paved area ol the — city. This they agreed to do, In fact, it was their own offer. Now, then, as there are 156 working days in the six months specified in the report and as there are 300 miles of paved streets in the city, in order to have daily cleaned its entire paved ‘area during that time 46,800 miles of paved streets shouid have been swept. But, says the report of the Police Commissioners’ Superintendent of the Street Cleaning Bureau, only 9,885 miles of paved streets, or less than one quarter of the number of miles d to be swept, were swept. In other words, Commissioners failed te do the work they had centracted te do—t. ¢., cause the entire paved arca of the city to be cleaned daily for six menths for $467,000, and spent that amount in sweeping only 9,85 miles of paved streets during that time. ‘This being the case, they also caused te be done less thgn three-quarters of the work for which they drew the money. Another interesting feature of this report is:— It says that of the whole amount spent $135,000 was for swee) ng lone. Now, a8 there were only 9,885 miles of streets swept, the sweeping cost, as @ little calculation will show, the extraordinary amount of $14 per mile. Under the contract sys- tem of cleaning streets, when the wages of carts and men were as high as they are now, neither Whiting nor Brown ever paid more than $6 per miile for sweeping, and, according to their sworn reports, they collected more dirt during any of the six months of the existence of the contract sys- tem than was coliected under the Police Commis- sioners at the rate of $14 per mile during the six months specified in the report. se the Com- missioners were allowed 700 men to do this daily (? sweeping with, and they were furnished wit money fo pay them at the rate of $1 75 per day. The reasonable inference, then, is that they should have employed that number of sweepers, but they did not, and for the following reason :— They asked for and were allowed only one foreman, With Do assistant foreman, to each ward, and yet they had in each ward one, and generally two as- Bistant foremen. As there was, in their estimate, no appropriation asked for them, their salaries h to be provided ior in some way. This was done b. decreasing the number of Sotn cartmen an Sweepers, and using the money thus gained to pay the assistant foremen, who were mere sinecurists and who obtained their position through political influence after the Street Cleaning Bureau became, which it did soon after its organization, a m olitical machine, The salaries of these assistant remen during the six months, amounted tn the aggregate, to at least ten thousand dollars, and had the money been burned it could not have been more completely lost to the city, because, had the foremen Sites tne exerted themselves, there would have been ndthing left for these assistants to do; and, in fact, they did nothing except draw their money and pull politicat wires. It is the det; of the feremen to be with their men during worklt hours; but the foremen employed by tne Polic “ommiasioners, and who were, asa general thing, fend only war’ politicians, Were accustomed to at roll call, and then to clear out after giving a few instructions to their assistants, who also vanished as soon as their superiors were out of sight. The sweepers were therefore leit without oficers, and the work they did was, of course, proportionate to the supervision exercised over them. What is known as “the manure season” begins on June 1 and ends with November. This is about the period covered by the report, and it makes the extraordinary announcement that the manure col- lected during that time sold for $560, This may, at first sight, strike the reader as a joke inserted in the report for some facetious purpose; bat the Police Commissioners and their Street Cleaning Superintendent intendeu it for nothing of the kind, as they really wanted to make the mnocent a ie believe that the manure accumulated in this city between June 1 and December 1 was worth only $560. Brown, however, had taught them better by willingly pay! $20,000- a year lor the manure de- pha in the streets, and then readily selling it for $35,000, making @ profit of $15,000. In view of two con- of these then, one clusions unavoidable:—Either the Com- missioners and their Superintendent allowed that amount of manure toremain in the streets, tn which case the city was needlessly befouled; or else they collected and sold it for $24,340 less than it was really worth, in which case the city suffered consideravie pecuniary loss. While allowing the Commissioners to hang upon whichever horn of this dilemma they please, it is, perhaps, but just to remark that, according to the silent yet odorous testimony of the strects during the six months re- ferred to, the city was both befouied and defrauded, on account of the gross negligence of those to whom its cleanliness had been committed. An ac- count Oj the organization and operation of a force about on a par with Loole’s useless, expensive and much-ridiculed “bell-ringing brigade,” will further ilustrate the manner in which the Police Commis- sioners, with their mode! reform Supcrintendent of the Street Cleaning Bureau, Thomas W. Thorn, fulfilled the Bpgcions promises made, when, with a kindof a Jericho blowing of horns, they ostentatiously announced to a de- lighted city that its streets were, at last, to be thoroughly and economically cleaned, That ser- vant girls should be obliged to lug large and heavy vessels of ashes from the houses to the sidewalks has veen considered # spas hardship; and, to do away With it, these philanthropic Commissioners asked for and obtained $10 per week each for 250 men to bring ash vessels from houses and place them on the sidewalks in advance of the ash carts, and they were to return these vessels, when emptied, while the carts were going to the “dump. Having obtained ths appropriation the Commissioners cmpieyed 176 men; but, for the following reasons, not one of them ever entered a house to bring out an ash vessel:—First, none of them had strength enough to do it (and they were a part, be it remembered, of the able-bodied men who were to succeed Brown’s cripples). Second, they were not hired to bring out ash vessels; but toring bells and announce to the occupants of houses that the ash- carts were coming, and that the ash vessels must be ready for emptying, Thus, the extreme philan- thropy of these Commissioners left the servant girls to bring out the ash vessels; and their economy in this instance cost the city $1,750 per week for bell pel a These bell ringers were a Jot of bicar-eyed, whiskey-soaked old “bummers,” appointed at the solicitations of ward politicians, and the outrageous iraua was so apparent that the Commissioners must really be credited with con- tinning it but three months, at an expense to the city of $21,000. The fact that the Commissioners kindly sonnepted to 80 s00n sto| oe leak in the treasury, is, however, not a very valld @xcuse for their violation of the law in using money for pur- PazeH pot specified in the appropriation and not ed for in the estimate, The number of carts employed by this reform Street Cleaning Bureau in removing the ashes is greatly in excess of the number required to thoroughly perform that work every day, Take, for example, the Nineteenth ward, bounded by Fortieth street, Kighty-sixth street, Sixth avenue and East River. Rov no matter pow indiferent Brown was to the diré in the street, he always Qaity removed the ashes from the houses; and make such Femovals in the Nineteenth ward he worked, even in Winter, when the ash accumuia- tion is the greatest, but twenty carts, Superin- tendent Thorn, however, requires thirty-flve carts, or Hfteen more than are necessary to accomplish this work; and then he does not much more than half do it, ‘These carts are paid at the rate of $4 per day each; our citizens, therefore, have the satisfaction of Knowing, that in this ward alone, $c0 per day, or $38¢0 per Week, is squandered on ash carts. It inay, for the edification of taxpayers, be truthfaily stated that a proportionate waste of moncy on ash carts exists im _ the remaining twenty-one wards, because there are atleast one hundred more of these carts in daily use than there is realiy any necessity tor. These exponents of the Poltce Commissioners’ economy in street cleaning cost the people $400 per day. Here, then, 1s an absolute loss of $2,400 per week. The political economy of these Commissioners is more commendable than their street cleaning econ- omy, for by keeping these useless carts they pro- vide for 80 many more of their political adherents, It may well be doubted, however, that they would#! remove much more ashes if they had twice the number of carts, and for this reasonethere is not a person connected with the work who can lay out into ash routes a single ward tn the city (much less the entire island, iiom the Battery to Harlem River) so a8 to give each ashman a epecified terri- tory which wiil keep him reasonably busy every day, and so as to enable the carimun to regularly call at certain houses, and by so doing accustom the occupants to have their ashes ready when he does come. There is, therefore, a compicte lock of system in conducting tuis very important branch oi the business. In fact, the most disorganized mob imaginable would do it about as well. But the waste of money occasioned by this modus ope-, randi is by no means its worst feature. If any ono thinks that it is, let him go through the tenement house districts in the west and the east side of the city, and in the Fourth, Sixth, Eighth and Four- teen.h wards, and he will discover that, on account of this no-system of removing ashes, the denizens, of these localities have been obliged to throw them into the streets, which, of course, now contain at Teast 60,000 loads of ashes mixed up with refuse of every kind and description. Who can calculate the terrible eflect upon the heath of the hundreds: of thousands of our citizens who are compelled to breathe the poisonous efluvia arising trom this enormous quantity of putrid filth ? And what pun- ishment is adequate to the crime of those officiais who allow it to remain where it is, and at the same time squander the money appropriated for its re- moval? If farther evidence is necessary to establish the: atter and disgraceful incompetency and total worthlessness, not only of the head of the Street Cleaning Bureau, but of the whole concern, its ePe ‘ations during and after the severe snow storm of December 26 will furnish it. Neither while the | snow was falling, nor for eight days after it haa fallen, did this emasculated institution make the slightest effort to remove it froin the street cross- ings and the culverts, and thereby give the snow- water @ chance to run off into the sewers instead of remaining on the streets and sidewalks and making it necessary for pedestrians to wade, at least ankle deep in slash, when going to and returning from their business. ‘Then, again, scarcely a load of ashes was removed dur- ing those eight days; and the excuse given by tlds prompt, active and efficient Superinten- dent of tne Street Cleaning Bureau was that couldn’t get his ash carts throughthe streets, Now, contrast this style of doing things with that of the coniessedly ineiictent contract system which this retorm bureau superseded. Under that sys- tem, bad as it was, the snow was never allowed to remain on the crossings or to choke up tne culverta for more than twelve tours after it had fallen. It never rained too much, blew too strong or snowed too fast to prevent the several contractors from sending out their carts to remove the ashes. The Winter of 1567 is remembered as one in which great diMculties were met and conquered. In that Winter the city was afflicted with four severe snow storms in quick succession, and the snow was, on an average, four feet deep; but Whiting, who then heid the street cleaning contract, never failed to send out his ash carts at the regular hours, and for | several days each cartman was furnisied with an assistant to help him lift the ash vessels over the snow banks when they were too large along the curb stones to admit of the carts being brought up to them. Whiting and Brown were grossly inefficier™ ; but the Police Commissioners, with their reform Superintendent of the Street Cleaning Bureau, are 80 hear utter worthlessness that the difference between them is scarcely distinguishable, 08e who transact business on Broadway and Fifth avenue are sorely puzzled to knew why the snow which fell on December 26 was not sooner removed from these great thoroughfares, espectaily when they saw, Upon numerous occasions, @ sufficient | ones, The intendent cond, at an expense of about $15,000, and in forty-eight hours, have made Broadway and Filth avenue as tree from now as they are on & July evening, Well, atter kindly furnishing double that amount for the purpose of getting rid of the effects of the storm of December 26, the pecple splashed about in slush, and the “busses,” and other heavy vehicles, with, irom dire necessity, doubled teams, foundered’ throug!. it for twenty days, when it was, not by the Street Cleanin; Bureau, but by repeated thaws, removed so tha eared could done with comparative com- So many evidences of the utter incompetency of the Street-Cleaning Bureau under the manage- ment, or rather mismanazement, of the Police Commissioners, come crowding in from every side, that it is im bie, without writing a volume, to expose all of its inexcusable delinquencies, if Rot, in some instances, ita downright criminal acts, ‘the following transaction, however, must not be overlooked, inasmuch as it brings out in bold relief the ingenious scoundrelism of this street cleaning concern, not only in swindling the beople, but in breaking the law designed to protect the harbor, Accordipg to the report of the Street Cleaning Bureau’s Superintendent, it cost the city, during the six months embraced in that report, twenty- five cents per cart load to unload dirt from the scows, Now this iseighteen cents per cart load in excess of what that work should have cost. But the logs of money in this unloading business 1s, a8 will be conciusively demonstrated, the most un- important rascality connected with it, It is, by legisiative enactment, made an offence, punisha- bie both by fine and imprisonment, to throw any obstructions into the harbor of New York, Now, as Pollce Commissioners control the Street Cleanin, Bureau, they are responsible for its acts. Bu what have they allowed it to do? ‘This question Will be Depp answered by telling what it has done, Instead of it, according to police regulations, tak- ing beyond the city’s limits the dirt collected from the streets, this bareau, incredible as it may seem, actually threw at least 30,000 cubic yards of it into the East Kiver between Filth street and Forticth street, and deposited at leayt 10,000 cubic yards more of it in the North River between Filtieth street and Sixty-fifth street. What a spectacle of malevolent official turpitude is here presented! Police Commissioners permitting their subordi- nates to Violate not only police regulations, but a law of the State, Neither the Commissioners nor their Saperintendent of the Street Cleaning Bureau can plead ignorance of these facts, and, if they could, it would not justify them im the eye of the law, because tt requires them to know what their agents are doing. ‘The magnitude of this high-handed outrage upon the great commercial interests of the city, and the penalties attending its detection, were 80 well un- derstood by the Police Commissioners and their Superintendent of the Street Cleaning Bureau, that it was never attempted cxcept in the most secret manner, and under the cever of darkness, The usual way of dealing this deadly blow at our harbor facilities Was as tollows :—After the scows had been loaded, from fifteen to twenty men were, under the pretext that they were Reins to the dumping grounds beyond the city limits, put aboard each one of them; then, at a convenient hour of the night, they were towed by the bureau's tug-boats to the points in the harbor above indicated, and unloaded. So then, the city, after laboring long and incessantly, and spending millions of dollars te put the harbor in a barely passable condition for our shipping, has paid at the rate of twenty-five cents per cubic yard for having 40,000 cubic yards of street dirt thrown into it; and the city will now be forced to pay at the rate of $1 60 per cubic yard to have it dredged out again. However disagreeable the task of dissecting such a rotten carcass as this Street Cleaning Bu- Teau now is, the knife must be sent to the very cores of the most putrid cancers which render it so disgustingly obnoxious; and some of these are the huge heaps of ashes, intermixed with the foulest filth, that lie at the foot of East Forty-sixth street, Stanton street and East Thirty-third street. Now, it is in direet violation of the most important ordi- nance of the Board of Heals, f which Police-Com- missionér-and-Street-Cleaning-Purequ Bosworth ig President, to aspoait ashes, garbage or sireet dir: of any kind within the city limits; and yet the foremen employed by the strect Cleaning Bureau pave ge ved pnd faithiully obeyed drdets to un- oad thelr dire carts at the foot of these streets, The result is the accumulation there of steadily-in- creasing mountains of ashes, garbage and decay- ing animal mattcr, Which will soon infect the most densely populated portions of the city with poison- ous exhalations. ‘The most prominent and artistically constructed mountain Oo! putrescent filth is at the foot of Kast ‘Thirty-third street, It is conico-pyramidal in form, and its curvilinear and rectilinear lines are beautiiully blended, It is about fiity feet high, and its base is proportionate toits apex, It contains in the neighborhood of five thousand cubic yards of the quintessence of putrefaction, and appears to have been reared with great skill and care by Superintendent ‘thorne for the purpose of impress- ing the public with the solemn truth of Commis- sioner Bosworth’s well-known motto, “Dirt is death.” Around it winds a gradually ascending cart road, corrugated with very gentile undula- tons, ‘which invites the explorer to venture to its summit, where he can enjoy the glorious prospect presented by Long Island and the river, and have at the same time his olfactories regaled by the four hundred and sixteen separate and distinct stinks said to have been discovered by Commissioner Bosworth when on & smelling expedition, promi- nent among which is the stink arising from the putrid fish entrails and pecomposed cabbage. The operations of this Street Cleaning Bureau in. repairing its scows furnish another example of its very peculiar ideas of economy. It has tnirty- five scows, and the Board of Apportionment al- lowed $10,000 for keeping them in working order for one year. If judiciousiy expended that amount would have been suilicient sor all really necessary repairs during that time. as $250 Is, a8 @ general thing, quite enough to spend on one scow in a year. To illustrate, scow No. 13, which cost $1,600 when new, which is the smallest in the service of the Bureau and about ten ycars old, was patched upatan expense of $2,400, and when it left the Ways it could not have been sold for $1,000. Now $600 more would have purchased a new scow of double the tonnage and capable of running several years without any repairs worth mentioning, ‘wo thousand two hundred dollars was in like manner squandered on the old scow No. 10, In fact, the entire $10,000 was thus alinost thrown away on the few scows alluded to. Does the Bureau intend to let the rest ol the thirty-five scows go to the bottom of the river? or will it obtain an allowance of $10,000 pare: to repair them, and then squander it as be- fore The Bureau’s tughoat General Grant needed painting, and ite small pilot house required raising some few feet. Before Brown sold this boat to the Bureau he received four proposals from responsible firms for doing such work apen her, and the largest amount asked was $450. Now, instead of adver- tising for proposals to paint this boat and raise her Pilot house, Superintendent Thorne gave, without even @ contract, the job of doing it to John Duke, one of the Police Commissioners’ political bar- nacies from the Eleventh ward; and he, who had never before done any ship carpentering, painted the General Grant and raised her pilot house in such & manner that it looked more iike some ola woman’s dilapidated apple shanty than like what tt was supposed to be. For thus rendering the Pilot house much worse than it was Duke de- manded and readily obtaincd $1,150, or $700 more than competent and resyonsible ship carpenters would have asked for-perjorming the work ina proper manner. hue on the subject of the practical economy of this Street Cleaning Bureau, its “corner” in carts dd horses must by no means be overlooked. Superintendent Thorne’s report for the six montns ending December 10, 1872, says that $8,800 was spent in purchasing horses. Now the Bureau bought of Brown. ninety-five horses at $166 each (and the price shows that they must have been better than average working horses), but it has now on hand only ninety-four herses, or one less than the mamber received from Brown. ‘The Bureau started, then, with ninety-five horses. The report says that $8,800 has been spent for new imum price per horse allowed by he Board of Apportionment for new horses was 260. Now, granting that that price was paid in every instance (which is very improbable), thirty- five new horses should have been purchased with the $8,800, id to that number the ninety-five horses bonght of Brown, and the Bureau should have 180 horses; but its stables contain only ninety-four aa be one horse ere sot sr con- rh comme usiness With, alt has, i bolore stated, peut $4 400 ate Rofses. The Buregu bought 108 old carts of Brown, of which number fliteex were worth nothing ate 1 what the iren on them would bring. This leaves has been spent in building new and in number of carts on the ground to, if properly man- aged, accomplish the work in two days, The fol- lowing explanation of the mismanagement of this huge cart force will, it iy hoped, solve the very serlous conandrum Which 80 many of our citizens have proposed to themselves :— In the case of @ heavy snow storm like the one under constderation the Superintendent should promptly decide upon how many loads of snow each cart could remove in @ day (ten or twelve loads have always been considered a falr day's work) ; he should then order every foreman to see | that his men performed the required labor. This Superintendent Thorne did not do, on account of his ignorance or other incapacitation. ‘The fore- | Inen, when thus instructed, sould take the names of their men employed for the da; ; Should be with them during working hours, and give each one @ ticket for or keep a tally of every load he takes away. These tic ete, or tallies, would, of course, when taken up at night be evidence of the number of loads each one had removed; and if any one had failed to periorm the required work his pay could, without any difficulty, be propor jonately reduced. Under such’ a thorough system of detecting and punisking laziness or dishonesty, each cartman would do his duty. | But Superintendent Thorn’s foremen, not bein thus instructed, and neglecting to keep a tally 0 their men and to furnish them with tickets ac- cording to the foregoing plan, no means of knowing what work, if any, they had done during the day, The consequence was that the cartmen, | who are bade quick to see, and not slow to take advantage of any lack of system, speedily dis- covered that they could do just about as they pleased; therefore the greater portion of them employed on Broadway and Fifth avenue, subse- quent to the storm of December 26, after carting away one or two loads of snow in the morning, cleared out and made nearly fall pages ‘work- ing for private parties, while the Police 18+ ae serviceable carts. The report says that a iring old carts. ihe Bureau furnished the mate- rial for thirteen new carts, which were made at its own workshops. They were, therefore, obtained at first cost, which, at @ fair valuation, was $60 per cart. The thirteen new carts cost, then, $780. Deduct that amount from the $6,400 expended in urchasing new and in repairing old carts and Boe is panei ee, Rg 9 LB used in re] ig the ninety old carts. Such being the case, it cost $61 30 per cart to repair them. ‘This.1s bi 61 leas per cart than new ones could have been built for. If the Police Commissioners aud their Street Cleaning li specie conduct their private affairs upon the principle established by their horse and cart transactions, even what they are making ont of the street cleaning business will not keep them out of the poor house unless guardians are inted for them, ‘he following table will show the amount squan- dered in six months by the operations of the Street Cleaning Bureau as supervised by tne Police Com- missione!6:— S jered in sweeping 9,88 miles of streets (or Sqpeeecrearters Tews than should have been set) at the rate of $14 per mile, when the work could have been better done for $6 per mile...» Squandered on salaries of the useless assist foremen, when such salaries were not provided for in the appropriation, but were paid by re- ducing the force of sweepers and cartmen.... Squandered by selling the manure tor $960 when twas worth $35,(0) : ant Squandered on the bleai ad old ‘pummers” of the bell-ringing brigade4s......... 21,000 Squandered on unloading scows at. twenty-five cents per cuble yard when the work could have been done tor eighteen cents per cubic yard.... Squandered on the ash carts employed in exces of the ber required to remove the ashes Total amount equandered Now, add to this $240,620 squandered through ¢ norance or fraudulentiy misappli e $60,000 it ap) 0,000 240,62) sioners paid them with the rage money $4 per jay for services which they had not typed 6 the people. It is safe to pay that at least $90,000 was thrown away in this manne: and it ie 2180 gale $9 SAY that any energetic super: | ed, th will cost to dredge ont of the harbor the ‘40,000 cubic ine of dirt deliberately dumped into it the Btreet Cleaning Bureau, and the loss to the city (@ 81x Months, on sccount of Benver in which it has fulfilled its (alas!) trasted promises, Rane Qe a Fraps eed ie ae pocketing A iy of the $360,000 appropria' Tweed's Legislature for “extra or adaitional stree| cleaning” was regarded as an outrageous swindle, what shall be said of the concern that has cheated the people out of more than that and at the same time obstructed their harbor and kept their streets in afar filthier condition than Brown dared to allow them to be in,even when Tammany, tn the zenith of its power, was accustomed to ask the contumacious grumblers at its high- handed and ruinous rule, “What in hell are you going to do about it?” Are the Police Commissioners with their inefficient Street Geelng Bureau more impregnable than Tweed was with the power of the islature, the Judi. ciary and the Treasury at his back? ‘The latter went by the board, but the former stick in their mud and dirt, and there they will atick and rear to themselves monuments of it from river to river and from the Battery to the confines of Harlem, unless the taxpayers’ extra Job-like patience, with their muitifarious and manifest delinquencies and ‘unpardonable offences, gives way ‘to an honest in- dignation, strong enough to force them to relin- quish the trusts they have so wilfully betrayed. Now, how much longer will this patience last ? ‘Will it continue until the harbor is rendered impas- sable even for light drait merchant ships—until the city’s commerce is seriously impaired, not only by harbor obstructions, but by the disease-breathing filth of its streets, and until they are so deeply covered with a compost of ashes, garbage, manure and other decaying animal matter that the ques- ton will not be, can we pursue our ordinary voca- tions ? but, can we live ? Js it ‘not about time for the people to look after their interests in this matter? They have their ser- vants, the bh a and the charter makers at Albany; and-has not the hour come for saying to them, in @ voice that will secure obedience, Take the Street Cleaning Bureau away from these utterly incompetent Police Commissioners, place an houest and otherwise well qualified man at its head, and then put it under the supervision of a department distinguished tor integrity and eMciency (if such a department does not exist create one), rather than for shittiessness and fraud? Mayor Jacobs, of Louisville, has applied to these Police Commissioners for the plan adopted by them in clear ias, New York's streets, Now, it ts to be hoped that Mayor Jacobs’ desire to benefit Louis- ville 18 a8 great as his ignorance of the results at- tending the adoption of the plan requested, for it must be assumed that he 1s entirely unacquainted with them, Acting upon this assumption, then, it becomes @ Christian duty to tell him what he can do for Louisville by cleaning streets as New York's Street Cleaning Bureau cleans its streets under the supervision of the Police Commissioners. #ir'st—He can make the people pay at the rate of $14 per mile for street cleaning which should cost but $6 per mile, Second—He can draw the entire amount appro- priated for strect cleaning and do less than tlree- quarters of the work required. Third—He can sell the manure depostted in the streets for several thousand dollars less than it is really worth, Fourth—He can obtain an amount greatly in ex- cess of what it should cost to carry street dirt be- yond the city limits and then injure the city’s com- merce by dumping it into its harbor, from which it will have to be removed at an enormous expense, Fifih—He can provide places for political hangers- on, and pay them with the people’s money for doing nothing. Sicth—He can adorn Louisville with artistically constructed mountains o! filth, and proudly say to Commissioner Bosworth, “I, too, have a perfumery eontairing ‘four hundred and sixteen separate and distinct stinks.’ ”? But it would take too long to tell Mayor Jacobs of all he can accomplish tor his etty by putting into Operation in it New York’s Police Commissioners’ plan of cleaning streets, If he would anderstand hat plan in all its various bearings he must come and see for himself, VETERAN STREET CLEANER, EMBURY MEMORIAL MEETING. In 1766 Phitp Embury, an Irish Wesleyan me- chanic and local preacher then living in this city, began to preach here the doctrines of Methodism and laid the foundation for the Methodist Episco- pal Church of the United States. Two years later he heiped to build the first Methodist church in America, on the site of the present charch in John street, near Nassau. Soon after he removed to Ash Grove, in Washington county, and for five years lived and preached in the regions beyond and around, even to Vermont. In 1773 he diea suddenly near the village of Salem, N. Y., and was buricd there, but his remaing were subsequently removed to Ash Grove, whero they lay until 1834, when they were again removed to the cemetery of the village of Cambridge, in the same county. It was here that the second Metho- dist society in America was organizea under Em- bury’s ministry, and the citizeus donated a lot to the Methodist Episcopal Church large enough to contain 100 graves, Here Embury’s remains have lain unmarked by any appropriate memorial. A year ago the Troy Conference, in whose jurisdict'on the village is, took action on the matter and ap- pointed Rey. Arthur Mooney, @ local preacher, to raise funds for @ suitable monument to be erected over his grave, THE NATIONAL LOCAL PREACHERS’ ASSOCIATION took up the matter at their last session and it was referred to @ committee, of Whom D. T. Macfarlan, of the New York Conlerence, ts chairman. This cominittee are haying @ suitable monuinent pre- pared, and last night a public meeting was held in St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church in this he- half. The Rev, Bishop Janes presided and made a brief address, directed toward the thought that “the righteous shall be held in everlasting remem- brance.” While Embury's monuments are all over the world, and while the origin of Methodism here will no more be forgotten than will be the Deluge, the name of Embury will live here as long a8 the world lasts and run along in perpetu- ation through the endless cycles of eternity, asso- ciated with Peter and Paul and Luther and Wesley, we cannot benefit him by any monument that we May erect to his memory, but we need it, the Bishop said, to educate the generations of the fu- ture just as much as the Israelites did the stones which the priests took out of the Red Sea and with which they commemorate and perpetuate their assage through it dry shod, He was, therefore, in Juil sympathy with the movement, DR, EDDY'S REMARKS, Rey. Dr. T. M. Eppx spoke of the obligations of the Church to the lo ministry, whom he eulo- gized as needful for the evangelization of the cities and for the nations, Tuere are some twelve thousand of them now in the Methodist Episcopal Church in this country. There are few men, he said, who are remembered beyond the generation tn which they have lived and died, and fewer stiil who are remembered for a century, and very many are forgotten ere their remains have been placeil in the ground. The Doctor gave some illustrations of this idea and then pointed out how the world honors heroism and erects its monuments to t brave and the daring. If the patriot deserves a Monument he thought the Christian soldier did, too, There are too many living dead men among ‘us and the memory of an earnest man like Embury should be cherished forever, EMBURY’S CHURCH AS If 18, Rev. L, 8. WkED, D. D., pastor of Jonn street Methodist Episcopal church, gave some interesting incidents connected with the old church. The book board of the pulpit on which the Bible rests and the altar rails are the same that Philip Em- bury, carpenter and [apy made with his own hands, About one hundred souls had been con- verted at this altar pcsptes@ the three years of Dr. Weed’s pastorate, An endowment fund of $60,000 is sought to keep the ministry in perpetuation there, Twenty thousand dollars of this amount bave been subscribed, Rey. Dr. STARKS, Of Troy Conference, gave some interesting reminiscences of early Methodism in the western part of this State. A letter was read beh eral Clinton B, Fisk, of &t, Louis, regret- ting inability to be present to address the meet- ing. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the their hearty support, Jt them adjourned with the Doxology and Predlodled. MEXICO, Lectare by Thomas Herbert Worrall. Mr. Thomas Herbert Worrall, @ well-known citizen of New York, delivered a lecture in Association Hall last evening on Mexico, where he resided for twenty-five years. The lecture may be said to haye been a condensed history, natural, social and political, of the country from its con- quest by Hernando Cortez to the ill-fated destinies of Maximilian and his beloved Carlota, Mr. Wor- rall in his treatment of the subject dwelt at len, on the nature of the climate, its effect on peculiar constitutions, then on its agricultural prospects, its unrivalled silver mines, giving an annual prod- uct of over one thousand million dollars; the con- dition of its art and navy before and after the establishment of the Republic; the characteristics of its and women, praising the beauty and genuine affection of the latter. He concluded his discourse ie illustrating the different political changes of the country, giving brief biographical sketches of Santa Anna, Maximilian and Juarez, and finally stating humerous reasons why Mexico should be annexed to the United States, YOUNG GENTLEMEN OF THE MERCANTILE LIBBARY. BEWARE! New York, Feb. 12, 1873. To THE EpIToR OF THE HERALD:— If it would not take too much space in your valu. able paper weuld you insert this and oblige a num. ber of ladies? It is to publicly demand the atten- tion of the directors of the Mercantile Library to the insolence and inattention of their employs in the library department, It has become @ dis- agreeable task for ladies to draw books, many leav- ing before they get what they desire, asthe young gentiemen (%) are either too cold or too indolent to leave the stove which they surround to attend to the members’ wants. One or two of the youn men are exonerated from blame, but it ls impose bie to write their names here. The directors had better look to their laurels for if this state of affairs continues the Mercantil Library, a# far as the ladies are concerned, will be | a thing of the past, Reapectiully, LEGION, movement, and pledging the meeting to sive it | THE LOUISIANA MUDDLE. Statement of Governor Warmoth Before the Senate Investigating Committee, Why and How Bovee, Herron and Wharton Were Removed—The Judicial Difficul- ties—More About the Returns— Close of the Investigation. WASHINGTON, Feb, 13, 1873, The last open session of the Commitiee on Privi- leges and Elections for the investigation of Louisi- ana affairs was held this morning. Governor Warmoth made a statement. in'the na- ture of sworn testimony, concerning the appoint- ‘ment and removal of the various gentlemen who have figured as Secretaries of State in Lonisiana during the past year :— GOVERNOR WARMOTH’S STATEMENT. Mr. Bovee’s removal was on account of the illegal pro- mulgation by him %S yw in relation to the Crescent City Water Works. 18 law was pags Just before the SORE Rien OC tee Legislature, The Governor kept the bill In his sate, and notified Mr. Bovee tm writing that he would not approve It. Mr. Bovee procured a copy of the Dill as engrossed by the House, dissimilar in many re- epects from that officially sent to the Governor, and PROMULGATED IT IN DEFIANCE OF GOVERNOR WARMOTH’S PROMIBITION, These facts were certified to the Legislature when It next assembled, and the Legislature postponed action upon it until the nextsesston. Mr. Bovee then brought suit for his oMice, and the Court, without touching the uestion of the Governor's power of removal, deciled at Mr. Bovee was entitled to the office on the ground that the suspension could be made only until the Legis. lature had an oppo! ry to act, which oppor deen neglected. papa Mr. Ray clatmed that the decision Warmoth’s claim to the power of removal Governor Warmoth then went over TILE REMOVAL OF HERRON on the ground of defalcation, as heretofore shown, and ¢lted consticutional and statute law to establish the lezal- ity of his removal, and the fact that his term of off ended at the expiration of the sesston of the Legistat ending November }, , and he was out of office as soon. As his successor was appoint His name does not the Lynch Hoard, but appear on any returns of. that of Bovee does, Mr. Bovee Was not in ‘office of December, i took States apa overruled until the 6th Ww Possession under the protection of United roops and not by virtue of the deciston of the Courts. Besides the returns of the Lynch Board, signed by him: self, show that he was a candidate for election to office ut that election and that, therofore, he acted on the Board in deflanee of the law’ disqualifying him from so acting under such circumstances. When Mr. Bovee was finally inducted into office by the action of the Court, it. was bo- cause of the expiration of Mr. Herron’s term, Jack Whar- fon Was appointed Secretary of State \ November 13, and qualified as such, and as a member of the Returning Hoard on the lth. He was recognized by the Assistant Secretary of State, Wood- ward, The books, &c., of the office Were turned over to him at once, and ho continued from that time to exer- cive the functions of office without force or violence until he was excluded there‘rom and Mr, Bovee inducted by troops on the 6th of January. Tn response to a question by Mr. Trumball Governor gave a detailed account of Warmo' THK ORGANIZATION OF THE RETURNING BOARD up to the time when Herron and Lynch took their depar- ture, His recital coincided In every respect with the statements of Messrs. Wharton, Sherifan and Bragdon. No motion for the appointment of Longstreet and [aw- kins was put and no vote thereon taken, as stated by neh, overnor Warmot ut in evidence six or eight aMda- vite substantiating these facta taken from the records of the Supreme Court, and which appear in the President's message on Louisiana affairs. After the organization of the Board the returns were opened, and the Assistant Secretary directed to employ clerks and complete the tabulation as soon as possible. The returns for members of the Legislature were promulgated by the ‘erret Board, and upon those returns the Governor issued his Proclamation dechring result. The Board was then ENJOINED BY DIBBLE AND BY DURILL and made no further returns, The Governor ¢ited laws sustaining these acts, He then turned his attention to the Kighth District Court. That Court was established by act of Legislature in 1870, which provides that the Governor shail, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a judge and clerk (o serve until the vacancy could be filled by a general election. Mr. Dibble was appointed Judge and his term expired when his suc- cessor Was elected on November 4 and Durell’s election being conceded, even by Dibble, he (Warmoth) issued his commission, and he took an UELD POSSESSION OF THE BENCH YNTIy THE RBLLOGG LEGIS- Larone MED THe COURT, and during which time he was recognized as Judge by the Supreme Court in its punishing him for contempt in Jot Japuting the order Jn the Hovee case, by reversing his ‘cision Ia sult under the Election law, and in other instances he was recognized as Judge by the Kellogg Legislature, as by the act abolishing his court as the only us of getting rid of him, moth again cited a law to sustain his acts, and said that the Kelioga Logislature abolished the Seventh. and Efghth District Courts 70 GET RID OF JUDGES WHO HAD JUST BEEN RLECTED by 12.000 majority, and leMillan remarked Rounced unconstitutional by Warmoth cited a clause of the Louisiana constitution, Which provides that no person holding office under thé United States shall be eligible to the of Lieutenant Governor, States Senator, Antoite Lieutenant Governor and Collec- tor of Customs, Clinton Auditor and Sub-Treasurer of the United States, and that nine members of the Kellogg Legislature held various federal offices. In anewer to a question by Mr. MeMichael he testifted that the returns produced by Southmayd and Mitchell were the official returns opened by him before the De Ferret Board. The Governor was then cross-examined by Mr. Ray -— ir. Boveo laid @ talse statement of facts relating to the Crescent City Waterworks bill before the Attorney Gen- eral, and pon them procared an_ opinion sustaining the promulgavon. "Upon presentation of a true statement by Jovernor Warmoth ihe Attoruey General delivered opinion declaring Bovee's act illegal. This act was d livered to him at the same time with what was known the Bartholomew bill, which “he allowed Bovee to pi mulgate without his sliznature. Mr. Ray What authority had you to deliver it without Your signature after the adjournment of the Legislature? Governor Warmoth answered that the promulgation was an act of the Secretary; he had told him that he should neither sign nor veto it. Under the constitution if an act was illegally promulgated it was void, Herron was United States Collector when Appointed Secretary of State, and he resigned the former ollice, Here arose a question as to THE LEGALITY OF HERRON’S REMOVAL for defaleation before the judgment of x court, and law was put in evidence to decide the point; the ‘Supreme Court had decided that Herron had no right. to appoint iward had acted an Assistant Secretary of State, bat Wor continually under Herron, and was continued in office by Wharton. Witness knew Herron was a defaulter betore he removed him, and loaned him $1,400 with which to settle his accounts, which he never did, Mr, Ray—If you had not ascertained that Herron would not act with you on the returning Board, would you have removed hini on the ground that he was'a defaultert Mr. Warmoth bad no objection to giving a full explana- tion of the matter, but a similar question put to Mr. Pack- ard yesterday had been ruled ow Mr. Morton remarked that Warmoth had already said he removed Herron because of a conspiracy into which he had entered, Mr. MeMillan said he had examined THE LYNCH DOARD RETURNS and found that they were signed by only one United States Supervisor for the entire list of polls in the parish; that the returns of the United States Supervisors are in | | | | | MANY cases mere statements of votes cast for republican idates only, and that altidavits from parishes where were alicged did not state that parties were pre- vented from voting on account of race, color, &c. Mr. Morton—Oh, that is admitted. Witness had been informed cai ch that in many Instances the affidavits were not before his Board, but they were counted ona certifeate of the Clerk of the United Statea Court thata certain number were on file in his office. Afidavits trom Caddo were, asa rule, in triplicate, and in many instances there were four copies Mr. McMillan placed the returns in evidence to substan- tiate his statements. At the request of Representative Boreman he stated thatseveral of the affidavits from Caddo purported to have been signed by parties whom Boreman knew had voted. Mr. Ray submitted certain of the returns of the De Fer ret Board, wherein it was evident that the signatures of the Commissioners of Election were forgeries. Mr. Morton thet: announced that the examination of Witnesses was closed, MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. Mr. Byron has arranged to supply Mrs. John Wood and Mr. J. K. Emmett with a comedy and @ character play respectively. Mr. J. M. Bellew makes his first appearance in Philadelphia in the Academy of Music on Monday next and in the Boston Music Hall on the Friday following. Miss Emma Web) lectures to-night at the Medl- cal Library, taking “Patchwork” as her subject, The lecturer seeks to strike out in a new path and to embody something of a sensational story ina medley of anecdote, gossip and humor. The effort will have at least the recommendation ob Novelty. ‘The interdict which prevented the production of Sardou’s “L’Oncle Sam” in Paris, because it ts an outrageous travesty on American manners and society, does not prevent the play from being brought out here. Frenchmen in America are generally as ridiculous as the most tudicrous | American in France, and, like “Our American Cousin,” the satire of the piece may revert upon those who tried to satirize others, A French Lord Dundreary would be very funny. The play at the Germanta Theatre for the present 1s “Fernande,” with Misa Schroder in the title part. She does not exhibit the intensity of emo tion which Miss Ethel brought to the part, but plays it with @ fidelity that is praiseworthy. Madame Witt, as Clotilde, exhibits many strong Points, showing herself an actress of very superior merit, Mr. Scherenberg, as Pomerol, and Mr. Sinike, as Andre, play the parts exceedingly well, but with a little too much exuberance. “Fernande” is, perhaps, too light a ptece for the German tongue, but it ts thoroughly enjoyed, and the gracefu and sprightly Georgette of Miss Schasfer is espe ctally pleasing. The plece ends differently from the English version, poor Fernande being required t¢ commit suicide to satisfy the German sense of pro priety. As a whole, it ts so well done that theatre goers who have seen it in English should not bo | this opportunity of secing what Mr. Neuandord ca} do with it