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bo @ steamer had been wrecked on the coast and WHOL CALAMITY. Wreck of the ‘White Star Steamship Atlantic. SEVEN HUNDRED LIVES LOST, All the Women and Children Drowned in Their Berths, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN SAVED. a The Ship Strikes and Goes Down at Meagher’s Head. WITHIN TWENTY-TWO MILES OF HALIFAX. Fifty Cabin and Nine Hundred Steerage Passengers on Board. (SOR aa Se Bae a | A DARK NIGHT AND AN ANGRY SEA. The Captain and a Few of the Officers Saved. CAUSE OF THE DISASTER. Prospect Head Light Mistaken for That on Cape Sambro. THE STORY OF A RESOUED OFFIOER. Short of Coal When Eleven Days Out from Liverpool. RUNN NG INTO HALIFAX. The Terrible Scene When the Steamer Struck and Went Down. LAUNCHING THE LIFEBOATS. The Atlantic Completely Submerged and Left a Wreck. STEAMERS TO THE RESCUE. Haurrax, April 1, 1873. ‘The steamer Atlantic, of the White Star line, while endeavoring to make Halifax Har- bor on Monday night, in thick weather, for more coal, mistook Prospect Head Light for that on Cape Sambro, the former being several amiles distant. The result was terrible. The steamer, instead of running into the capacious harbor of Halifax, struck npon the rocks, and ‘became a total wreck. There were over one thousand people on board, and it is believed that at least SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERISHED. The passengers were nearly all emigrants. A steamer with three schooners in tow is to proceed to the scene to-night to bring the sur- vivors and render what assistance may be in their power. PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER. pce eS Hatrax, N. S., April 1, 1873. ‘This afternoon a report being current that several lives lost was first regarded as a cruel | April-fool hoax, but this evening the Cunard sgents here received news that it was all true, | and that only a little of the truth had been | told, the fact being that the White Star steamer Atlantic, Captain Williams, from Liverpool for New York, while coming into this port for coal, struck on Meagher’s Rock, near Cape Prospect, twenty-two miles west of Halifax, and became a total wreck. SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE DROWNED. Of about one thousand souls on board up- wards of seven hundred were drowned. The third officer, Brady, arrived in this city this evening. He says that the Atlantic left Liver- pool on the 20th of March, with upwards of nine hundred steerage passengers and about fifty cabin passengers. The steamer experi- enced BOISTEROUS WEATHER DURING THE PASSAGE, put all went well until noon on the 3lst of March, when the supply of coal became neary -exhausted. The captain determined to put into Halifax. The captain and third officer were on deck until midnight. THE POSITION OF THE SHIP. The position of the ship was then judged to be Lambro Light, bearing north-northwest thirty-nine miles, ‘The Captain then went into his chart-room, leaving orders tobe called if there was any change of the vessel’s posi- tion, Brady went to bed about the same time as the Captain. THE SHIP STRIKES. The next thing that he remembers is, that be was thrown out of his bunk, and he felt the ship strike several times. He then rushed on the deck and found the Captain aud officers there, and the deck full NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1873—TRIPY. of passengers. He got an axe and | wasawakened and thrown out of his bunk by commenced to clear away a boat. The cap- tain and the other officers were busy doing the same thing. Brady got his boat out and put two women in it. A number of men at- tempted to get into it, and about a dozen succeeded. Just at that moment the steamer fell OVSB ON HER BRAM ENDS and sunk. Only one boat had been got out, and that was carried down by the steamer, and all-in it were lost. Brady scrambled into the mizzen rigging, which was above tho water, and seeing that he could do nothing there he then went forward and unwove the halyards, being assisted by Quartermasters Speakman and Owen. SWINGING ASHORE. Brady then took the halyards, and all three swum to the rocks, and then a line was hauled ashore and a number of the passengers landed by it. A number had got on the rock, but, as the tide was rising, their position was no bet- ter than on the vessel. Just then the fisher- men on the shore came oute in boats and res- cued those on the rock and a large number from the rigging. Brady remained at the scene until noon to- day, when all who were alive on board had been saved except the chief officer, Mr. Frith, who was in tho rigging shouting for help. Brady says he tried to get a crew to go to the rescue of Frith, but the sea was so heavy that no body would volunteer. Altogether about TWO HUNDRED AND FIPTY PERSONS WERE SAVED, including Captain Williams ; also the fourth officer, Mr. Brown ; the doctor, and several of the engineers and sailors. Not one woman or child was saved. Most of them, as well as hundreds of the men, were drowned in their berths. The steamer struck about two o'clock this morning. Tho weather all the time was dark, but not thick, and the sea rough, ASSISTANCE SENT TO THE SOENE. Steamers are going down to-night to render what assistance they possibly can. All the people saved from the wreck, with the excep- tion of Brady, are still at Prospect, where the fishermen are giving them all the attention they possibly can. ANOTHER ACCOUN' Sa Ee The following is the Chronicle's report of the disaster: — It is our painful duty this morning to record the most terrible marine disaster that has ever occurred on our coast, the loss of a great ocean steamship, with about seven hundred and fifty lives. Yes- terday atternoon a report Ibecame cur- rent that a steamer had been wrecked some- where onthe coast and one or two lives lost. The report was regarded as one of the canards put afloat on All Fool's Day, and little regard was paid to it. Soon the report became more definite, and we knew that the steamer Atlan- tic, of the White Star line, was ASHORE NEAR PROSPECT and that several lives had been lost. Even yet the public were inclined to regard the story as a malicious hoax. A little later, how- ever, it became known that the report was well founded, and that but a small part of the truth had been told, the fact being that the Atlantic had been WRECKED ON MEAGHER’S ROCK, near Prospect, twenty-two miles west of Hali- fax, and out of about one thousand souls on board 750 were lost. Need we say that the terrible announcement created a profound feeling of horror throughout the community! THE THIRD OFFICER'S STORY. + Having ascertained that one man from the wrecked ship had arrived in town a reporter went in search of him, and found him in an eating house in Upper Water street. He proved to be Mr. Brady, third officer of the Atlantic. Bruised, worn out and almost speechless after the terrible events of the morning, he was, as might be expetted, in no condition to talk; nevertheless he cheerfully consented to snswer the reporter's questions and gave such information as he could. The Atlantic, Mr. Brady said, left Liverpool on Thursday, March 20, for New York, | touched at Queenstown the next day. to receive the mails and passengers, after which she started on her voyage across the ocean. Shehad a full cargo of general mer- chandise an¢ a very large number of passen- gers. Mr. Brady could not give the precise number, bu: thought there were MORE THAN EIGHT HUNDRED IN THE STEERAGE and about fifty in the cabin. These, with her crew, would probably make the total number né less than one thousand souls. She was commanded by Captain James Agnew Williams. Rough weather was experienced, but nothiag worthy of note occurred until noon on Monday, the 3ist, when, the coal being shot, Captain Williams resolved to put into Halitx fora supply. The Captain and Mr. Brady had THE NIGHT WATCH up to midnight, when they were relieved by the chief and fourth officers, At that time they judged that Sambro Light then bore north-nethwest thirty-nine miles. The sea was rowh and the night dark. The chief and fourth ¢ficers having taken charge, Mr. Brady went bilow and turned into his berth, The Captais at the same time went to his room to liedowi. ‘What occurred between midnight and tvo o'clock, the time of the disaster, Mr. Bradycannot tell, as he was sleeping. He,’ the ehock when the steamer struck. SHE STRUOK HEAVILY three or four times. Mr. Brady ran up to the deck and found it full of passengers. Ho found an aro, and with it commenced to clear away the starboard lifeboat. He observed that the Captain and the other officers were engaged in CLEARING THE OTHER BOATS. Mr. Brady succeeded in getting his lifeboat out. This was the only boat launched, and it had no sooner touched the water than a crowd made a rush to get intoit. Mr. Brady had to use force to prevent thom crowding in. Ho put two women and abouta dozen men into it, and also got in himself. Just then the steamer fell over and sunk. Tho boat, with its living freight, was carried down with the steamer, and all in it wero drowned except Brady. . THR STEAMER SUBMERGED. The hull of the steamer became almost totally submerged and only the bow and the masts remained above water. The greater part of the passengers were in their rooms below at the time and were immediately drowned. Indeed, so soon after striking did the steamer sink that many of tho passengers wero no doubt sleeping peacefully, in bliss- ful ignorance of all that was going on around them, and passed into eternity without a struggle. Of those on deck, num- bering several hundreds, many were washed overboard when the ship fell over, and their cries for help, as they struggled in vain for life, were most heartrending. Many, how- ever, had taken REPUGE IN THE RIGGING. and on the bow and were still living, but with the prospect of almost certain death before them, for they knew not where they were, and were in momentary expectation of the ship sinking further and engulphing them all. Even as they were clinging in des- peration to the rigging, with the sea washing them continually, their situation was most trying, and every few minutes some of thom, benumbed by the cold and exhausted from their struggles, loosed their hold and vanished. STEAMERS TO THE RESCUE. Two steamars left here at one P, M. to-day for the scene. There will be nothing furth until they return. , NAMES OF PASSENGERS ON BOARD, —————_+—__—_——_—. Among the cabin passengers per the lost steamer Atlantic are William H. Merritt and wife, of New York; Miss Mary Merritt and Miss Annie Scrymser. MEAGHER’S ROCK, OR CAPE PROSPECT, Is a rugged, peninsular cape, rising seventy feet above the level of the sea, and forms the western limit of Pennant Bay, the entrance to which is three miles wide in an cast, south-east and west- northwest direction, and about two miles deep, The bay is exceedingly dangerous, being encumbered with very rocky shoal and small islands; but it af- fords shelter to navigators acquainted with the channel passages between the obstructions. The land at the head of the bay is precipitous. Hos- pital Hill, the highest point, rises two hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea. DESCRIPTION OF THE ATLANTIC. Pena biome AO In the HERALD of June 26, 1871, appears the fol- lowing description of the, Atlantic, which arrived at this port on the 22d of that month on her first trip across the Atlantic, having accomplished the distance in ten days and a few hours :— In giving a description of this splendid vesse! it may be mentioned at the outset that everything written of the construction and adornment of the Oceanic applies equally to the Atlantic. THE DIMENSIONS are:—Length, 420 feet; beam, 40 feet; depth of hold, 33 feet; draught of water, 23 feet; tonnage, 3,723. There are four masts and six water-tight bulk- heads, with every facility for extinguishing fire, let it break out in whatever quarter. ONE GREAT IMPROVEMENT in this vessel is the steam steering gear. We no longer see two and sometimes four men tugging at the wheels—a labor in stormy weather fully as severe as that on the old treadmill, reserved for the jangerous class of society. One man standing on the bridge moves a lever which a child could control,and by re; ting the movement according to the points on the dial over which it passes this IMMENSE WEIGHT glides to the right or the left or maintains a steady course. An index moves across the dial, and, like the little telltale at school, gives information to the master how his pupil is acting. If the heim does not follow the direction pointed out the index Will not follow the direction of the lever, and it is perceived at once that the gear is out of order, THE STEAM POWER calls for especial notice. There are eleven boilers and four cylinders on the compound principle. It is not yet two years since the compound principle was applied to our transatlantic steam vessels, and here we have a further advance in that direction. The ordinary com- pound engine consists of two cylinders—one high pressure, the other low pressure. The steam em- loyed in the former, instead of being lost by con- jensation, passes away to the latter and does good service. In this way there isa GREAT ECONOMY IN FUEL. But in the present instance there are four cylin- ders—two placed in the Shea | position, seventy- eight inches in diameter each, and two others, forty one inches each in diameter, standing over the larger ones, much in the same position as the smaller 1 of @ telescope over the larger, but separated. The two pistons Gre attached to the same rod and move up and down with a stroke of five feet. The great advan- tage claimed is not simply the increased power of steam operating upon & larger surface, but a greater uniformity in the action of tne piston, or, be Fd Chief Engineer, Mr. Watson, expresses it, “There is @ nearer approach to ‘equality’ in the working.”’ The es are registered at 3,000 horse power, and are warranted to sustain a pressure of seventy pounds to the square inch. The maximum bya pe on the trip out was sixty pounds. When it is stated that ouly FIFTY-FIVE TONS OF COAL PER DAY were consumed, no further remark is necessary as to the new principle applied to navigation. ie in this department are George Watson, Ineer; 1s Coutts, First Assistant; sbridge, Third Assistant; John Garvie, Fourth Assistant; Robert Mad Fifth Assistant, and James Kerr, Sixth Assistant. ‘THE MAIN SALOON, with its gilded cernices, brilliant mountings, bronze statues, marble chimney pieces, carved furniture and ‘dark-red cushions, surpasses in grandeur anything to be seen tn the transatlantic service. The saloon extends the whole width of the vessel, and whatever the eye faliq upon is handsome. THR ELECTRIC BELLS running through the saloon and in all the berths of saloon passengers, form not only @ novel, but a most desirable innovation. THR OFFICERS are as follows :—Captain Dighy Murray, late of the Oceanic, has the chief command. (Captain Wil- llams was in command when the vessel was lost.) pia First Min 18 ae Lagi * cre of long ana varied experience as a or, par- tloulariy on our Boston lines. The third and fourth officers are Frederick West and David Wiiliams, respectively. The Purser ts Mr. Whitby, and the Chief Steward, John Large. The vessel was con- structed by Harland & Wolf, at Belfast, and re- flects credit upon the Emerald Isle, which shows Eine Kal rising prosperity in their revival of ship- ra Ann Ramacy, fifty years, of No. 21 Crosby @treet, was struck on the head and slightly injured last evening by some unknewn person. She was attended by @ police surgeon and gent home. SPAIN. Popular Retaliation Against Carlists and Cleri- cals—Bourbonists Defeated in Action—An Of- ficial Financial Defealter in France— Army Beinforcements for Cuba. French Reports of the Carlist Campaign. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW VORK HERALS. MApRID, April 1, 1873, Notwithstanding the efforts of the authorities at Barcelona to preserve the peace in that city dis- order has agaia ocourred. The populace, enraged at the burning of Berga and other outrageous acts oi the Cartista, attacked several Catholic churches and seriousiy damaged the sacred edifices. CARLISTS DEFRATED IN ACTION. A force of Cartists under command of the Onicf- tain Oucula made an attack on Venaroz, province of Castellon de la Plana, yesterday. After a short contest the insurgents were defeated by the repub- lican troops and fled in disorder from before the town, BAROBLONA MORE PRAORFUL. Tne agitation in Barcelona is subsiding. No further outrages have been perpetrated by the populace, A CLERIC SURPRISED AND INSURGENTS CAPTURED, The curé of Santa Orus was surprised yesterday and narrowly escaped capture. Several of his men were taken prisoners, French .Reports of the Progress of the Carlist Campaign. BAYONNE, April 1, 1873. The Carlista tn Spain ate receiving supplies of arms, amunition and provisions in various ways, but mostly by sea, A body of 406 Carlists, recruited in Navarre last week, were equipped aimost as s00n as their organization was effected. Sefior Elio, who was the director of the Carlist committee hero, eluded the local authorities, who had orders for his arrest, and crosacd into Spain on Saturday iaat. A battalion of French troops leaves thia city to- morrow for the frontier. It ts reported that alt the Custom Houses on the Spanish frontier, except that at Irun, have been occupied by the Carists, who are fortifying them, An Official Defaulter tn France. Parts, April 1, 1873, The Spanish Vice Consul in this city haa ab- sconded, leaving a deficit in his accounts to the amount of $70,000 franca. Under a warrant charg- ing him with embezziement of public funda he has been arrested and sent in custody to Spain. Army Reinforcements Embarked for Cuba. Mapai, April 1, 1873. Additional reinforcements for the Spanish troops in Cuba were sent to that island by the steamer which sailed from Cadiz for Havana yesterday, ~ PRANCE, ——--« Legislative Debate, with Exciting and Extraor- dinary Incidente—Probable Resignation of the President of the Assembly. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, April 1, 1873. The National Assembly at Versailles has been debating for two days the Lyons Municipality bill. The discussion to-day closed with a remarkable scene. M. Le Royer, @ radical, described the committee's report, which accompanted the bill, as trumpery. The Marquis de Grammont bitterly retorted and accused the deputy of impertinence. President Grévy called the Marquis to order, but the latter refused to retract his language. The members of the Right, exasperated at the call to order, threatened to quit the Chamber. President Grévy made a dignified speech, in which he intimated that he should resign, and de- clared the sitting ended. The House broke up amid the intensest exeite- ment. Deputies of all shades of political opinions waited on M. Grévy to-night, ana begged him to overlook the incident; but it is expected that his resignation wiil be offered to-morrow. Parliamentary Censure of the Cabinet. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. COPENHAGEN, April 1, 1873. The Folkething, the Lower House of the Rigsdag, has passed a vote declaring a want of confidence in the Danish Ministry. Cause of the Collision Between the Legis- lative Body and the Cabinet. The Danish Felkething has been engaged since the middle of February in discussing a propesition of the Left, the object of which ts to introduce uni- versal suffrage into communal elections, The mo- tion was opposed by the Minister of the Interior, who said the Ministry “considered that great peril would be incurred by the introduction of sucha basis for local administration at a time when the right of ownership is contested, and the socialist movement, although subsiding, still main- tains a real agitation.” Denmark, however, is under the régime of universal suffrage for political elections, But the argument deduced trom that is, that in communal administrations betes of money have more especially to be decided, and the idea prevails that a danger would be incurred by giving fall authority in such matters to the masses “who possess nothing, and would not be disposed to spare the purses of the taxpayers.” Strange to say, Many Deputies belonging to the party of the peasants expressed apprehensions similar in all pointe to those of the Minister, but the party of progress has gained a point notwithstanding. CHINA. Russian Royalty Sojourning in Shanghai. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, April 1, 1873. A dispatch from Shanghae announces the arrival im that city of the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. THE HERALD AND ITS ADVERTISERS, (From the Troy Daily Whig, March 31.) The New York HERALD printed yesterday a quad- ruple sheet and supplement, making eighteen pages, or one hundred and eight columns, Of these, sixty-seven columns, or over eleven pages, were filled with advertisements. This is probably the largest newspaper ever issued, {From the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette, March 31.) Wonders of journalism! The Sunday HERALD consisted of a quadruple sheet with supplement— altogetner eighteen pages of compactly printed news and advertisements. {From the Philadelphia Star, March 31.] A WONDERFUL PAPER. The New York Heratp yesterday contained eighteen pages, and was the largest daily journal ever issued in America. This was a neces- sity, not only because it was necessary to make room for sixty-seven columns of advertisements, but because the enterprise of Mr. Bennett is so widespread that it takes alarge sheet to print all the news his thausands of employés collect, The HERALD Was never so prosperous as itis now. The genius of the father has been even surpassed by that of the son. (From the Atlanta (Ga.) San, March 28.) The New York HERALD of the 23d contained ninety-six columns of matter—sixty-seven of which were devotéd to advertisers and twenty-nine to news and general intelligence, (From the Selma (Ala.) Times, March 29.) As an evidence of the enormous volume of busi- ness done by the NEw York HERALD, we cite the fact that the issue of Sunday, 23d inst., contained ten and @ half.pages of advertisements, and by \ actual Count there were 2,629 new advertisements in the Henan of that day, WEATHER REPORT. OPPICE OF van Seow Oprigen op sun, Guia Boma Serious, | Probabtitttes, The atorm centre moves down the St. Lawrence Vailey, and s disturbance of teaser importance moves northeastward towards Nove Scotia; for the Southern States on Wednesday generally weat- erly winds and clear or clearing weather; for the Ohio Valley and Lake Erie fresh to brisk merthwest winds and clearing weather, extending, possibly, over Lake Michigan; for the Middle Atlantic coast brisk westerly winds, cloudy and clearimg weather; jor New England increasing westerly winds, with clouds and rain. Cautionary signals continue at Norfolk, Capo May, Baltimore, New York, New Haven, New Lon~ don, Wood's Hole, Oswego, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Grand Haven, Chicago and Milwaukee, and are ordered for Boston, Port- land, Me., and Eastport. ‘eh STORM ORNTRE DEVELOPING," This expression, or “a storm centro will develop itself on the Middle Atlantic coast," occasionally occurring in the wedther probabilities, has led to, quite a difference of opinion among some of our readers. Aa it will probably be used repeatedly, t¢ may be well to expiain that it imports, we un- derstand, the formation of a low barometer over the given region in which there isa marked dimt- nution of atmospheric pressure, and hence, appa rently, a vortex into and around which the storm winds biow in the direction opposed to that of the hands of a clock. The torming of one of these atorm centres or vortexea, around which the rial whirl takes place, ia attended and, as some meteor- ologists think redeeasly OP pedeiley by heavy such marked falling off of the pressure as i dicated by the mercury in the barometer und ordinary circumstances, is said to be the most ce! tain warning of au approaching gaie. The Weather in This City Yosterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's harmacy, Lge ee 872, 1873. 3A. M sy 88S PL 6A. M ava oP. 9A, M. 8T 42 OP. 12M. 38 48 12P. M Average temperature yeaterda: Bee R ence Average temperature tor corresponding date last year. eeceon THE CANADIAN FISHERIES. PLES Sik SOE Tho Position of the United States in Regard to the Fishery Clauses of the Washington Treaty. . ‘The following circular relative to the fisheries on the coast of the Dominion of Canada was tasued from the Treasury Department to-day :-— TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS AND OTHERS :— By circular, under date of March 6, 1872, this Dee partment notified collectors of customs and the public in regard to the restrictions to which Amert- can vessels would be subject when employed in fishing on the coasts of the British North American colonies, and that the provisions between the United States and Great Britain, prociaimed July 4, 1871, 80 far as they relate to the fisheries, would not 0 into effect until laws required to carry theminto operation have been passed by the Imperial Par- liament of Great Britain, by the Pari Canada and by the Legislature of Prince E Island on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the other. The Secrotary of State recently he has been oficially informed by Her Britannic Majesty’s Minisier at Washington that the execu- tive governn:ent of the Dominion of Canada, regard- ing the act of Congress giving effect jo the Treaty of Washington as not going into operation till July 1, 1873, has decided that fill that time American fishermen have no legal right to dsh in Canada waters and their vessels are liable to seizure for doing 80; that the Dominion government will, however, take no steps to prevent vessels from Oishing within the three mile limit; that such ves- sels will have permisston to fish so far as that government can grant it, and that it Is not able that any seizure will be made at the in: ce of private parties; but that, should such a case occur, the good offices ef the government will be used in advising the release of the vessel and the remission of any penalties incurred, In view of this courteous and liberal aet of the government of the Dominion, you are hereby en-,| Joined to make known to the public interested in ‘the subject, as far as possible, that until the pro- visions of the Treaty of Washington relating to the fisheries shall go into effect, the liberty of fishing in the waters hereaiter to be thrown open to the fishermen of the United States, is permiasory only and subject to attempts by private les to en- force the still existing legal restrictions which are set forth in the circular of this Department, already referred to; and that if American fishermen, en- ed in fishing within the three mile limit herein- fore mentioned before July 1, 1873, they may still be subjected to serious difiiculty by private parties under the provisions of the statutesof the Domin- ion of Canada, WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, Secretary of the Treasury. assured me that THE MAYOR AND THE CHARTER. Mayor Havemeyer on the Seventh Section. Mayor Havemeyer was in his office yesterday very busy at his desk signing warrants when a re- porter of the HERALD entered to inform His Honor that the twenty-seventh section of the charter had passed, giving the appointing power to the Mayor and retaining the incumbents of four important city oMces. The reporter inquired of the Mayor what he thought about it and whether he was dis- posed to give his opinions. “Don’t you think we had better wait,” answered the Mayor,” until the charter is nearer law before we begin to talk very decisively about it. It is not much more than gossip at present. The Senate have not got through with it yet. When they get through it has to go to the House. Before it gets there public opinion will have to speak, and, after all, it has to go to the Governor,”” “So you don’t regard the passing of this section in the present shape, Mr. Mayor, as conciusive of the fate of the charter?” “No, certainly not. There is yet much to be done and said before the charter becomes law.” “You are perhaps aware that the section retains Soar of Yhe presen incumbents of important of- ces ? The Mayor smiled a knowing smile and said :— “So I have heard.” “It rejects Comptroller. Green, too, Mr. Mayor."’ “Well, that was to be expected. There are a good many politicians who don’t want a man like that over the Department ef Finance. If they knew what the Mayor has to do, and wished to have some one there whom they could trust, they would be glad to know an _ honest man signed these Warrants. Look at this array of documents. it is impossible for me to go through them with any idea of thor- oughly examining them. Allow me to direct your attention to the items in these vouchers, Each one of these 18 countersigned; has the initials aMxed ‘Twenty- | of the Comptroller in each line, and the Comp- troller personally sees first and last. Look at this one, which prevents the city paying over four hun- dred dollars a month to @ man who has rendered no personal service. Here ts another, with papers axed, showing a long and arduous examination, that sayes the city $3,000. Now I shouid like to know hew. the Mayor of this.city is going to be responsible for the economical government of the city with a slippery man in charge of the Depart- ment of Finance. I know I am not goipg te try it while ’'m here. What the city wants is a careful, honest Comptrolier, and he can't be too honest | and too careful. | “Then you think the politiclans didn’t want Mr. | Green?’ “Well, [don’t know what they want; that re- mains to be seen. If there is anybody who wants to steal he would rather not have a man who does not want to steal around. Don’t you think so?” “That is so, Mr. Mayor. Then you don’t mean to trouble yourself at present about the charter?” “No, sir; Lshall let them do as they please. Somebouy else will have something to say about it besides the Senate." As the Mayor said he had almost seven hundred Warrants to sign that alternoon the reporter thanked him for his courtesy and withdrew. THE SCOTT-GARRETT WAR. PrrrspurG, Pa., April 2, 1873. There are no fresh developments concerning the aificulty between the Pennsylvania Rajlroad and the Baltimore and,Ohio. The force of men in the employ of the former company still remain at Broagiford, but their services will not be required to resist by physical force the relaying of the switen by the Pittsburg, Washington and Baiti- more men. The latter company have covciuded to use no volence, but lay the enture matter be- fore the Courts, with the assuranee that each law- ful measures will be beneficial to their cause and secure them their just rights, E. K. Hyndman, General Superintendent of the road, went up this morning te Mount Pleasant for the purpose of gathering testimony in relation to the seizure, and other preparations are being made to bring the issue squarely before the Courts for decision and setttement. In the meantime the Pennsyivania Rai Com| continue to hav possession of the Hetiny Peasant branch, and we presets ‘tae valley, ull a few fre] ORO. ed perDape tae Weavlest’ DUMIROGA of two Con: rm a) ne . ( pollaviue Railroad. ery 7 THE BULL'S HEAD BANK. pee CE ornare ‘i Imporfant end Decisive Meeting of Stockholders end Dirvetors Vestorday— The Old Stocks Relinqutshed—Curchase of New Shares im Order to Recapital- izo—Only $150,000 Meeded—< $40,000 Paid In—Resolutions and Contracta—Keor- ganization at Gand. The stockholdets, depositors and ditector# of che Bull's Head Bank held a meeting of interest ana importance to the ¢fmotuntty at large in the par- for of the Ashland House, Twenty-fourth street ana Fourth avenue, yesterday #@iternoow. Mt. John K., Williams, Presiaent of the Metropolitan’ Nations Bank, waa requested to take the chair: Upew doing 80 he referred brie_y to the otjert of the meeting and stated the progremm of the plan adopted at the test meeting for recapitalizing the Bull's Head Bank under the direction of the committee of five then appotnted to carry out its designs. After the reading of the minutes by the Secretary, Mr. J, M. Muller, Mrv F. E. Mather waa called upon py the President te Fepresent the committed of five, of which he wha chairman, and to report to the house the progress of ita work in resolutions and otherwise, Mr. Marana said:—Vhe firat thing tor your com-: Mittee to ascertain was the position of the bank financialiy and legally, for it was to he considered to the hands of the United States and State Courts, Everything was uot ready (o give 4 satiaiactory re- port.at the last mecsing. Saturday was appointed, and the severtiy of the weather tnterfesed, Slips were then sent to, al the stockholders and notices published to have thew attend thw oeeting, He waa in hopes the President of the Bull's Head Bank woud de in atiendauce to make # personal statement, but he ioumd tc impracticable. ‘The object was to reorganiwe and recapitalize the benk, and he called on stockhoiders to relinquiar old shares unst! such ftme as, the bank would be im & position to recognize them and to buy new shares for it#re-establisiinont: They had trivmyaed over & crisis last Saturday in reference to «| action ot the United States Court. He feared first the Court would declare the bankruptcy ef the bank, but the Judge postponed his decision for aweek. Hence the necessity of immediate action. $160,000 were to be raised tn the purchase of new shares. Already shares to the amount of $60,000 were purchased, and le woutd call on the depoal- tors and stockholders to sum up the rest, MR. CAMBRON, The Present then called on Mr. Cameron, Ph els oi the Committee, to give us views, He sak 1 will speak very briefly, bat to the point. You submitted a plan of reorganization, asking the depositors to come forward. You offered to raine half the amount of necessary shares, and L am pre- pared to offer over the other bali on bhe part of the depositors, (Applause.) Alter the PResrpenr commented on Mr. Came- ron’s pointed and agreeable assertion he showed the shareholders that they were withoat a penny of interest “to-day” ‘in the stocks, but that they had full opportunity of making 100 pennies to the dollar, The asseta were not going to be wasted through various suits. It was better to take the bank out of the hands of the Courts and replace i¢ ‘ain in the hands of honest men. he following resolutions were then sabmitted LM the chairman vi the committee of five, Mr. ‘ather :— Resolved, That we here reiterate our acceptance and adoption of the plan and propositions approved at our meeting held here, March 26, 1873, tor the creation and issuing of new shares of stock, aad that it be pretorred, Unanimously adopted. Resolved, Thatall payments by the stockholders for uew stock be made to John K. Williams, Esq, the saung to be deposited in the Metropolitan, National ‘Bank, m to be paid by him to the Bull's Head Bank ouly when he and our existing committee shall be convinced thi ‘so doing the bank will be enabied to resume its bu ‘ily pay its creditors without (urther default and have & working capital reserved. Adopted unanimously. Whereas at our meeting, hold March 26, 1873, tho direc- Bull's Head Bank declared thelr roadiness either to continue in office or to resign individually of collectively should it be deomed by us tn the interost of the bank for them to do so; therefore Resolved, That said directors be and hereby are spe- cially requested to so reorganize their board from ume te time as shall be recommended by our existing commitice and John E. Willlaing Ea. our chairman, such actom by the directors being deemed by ua tor the in terest fe bank ; and be it Resolved, That the Board ot Directors of the Bull's Head Bank, collectively and indiscriminately, be an@ hereby are requested to in concert with our com: bo ag and not otherwise in all matters pertaining to the Unanimeusly adepted. Alter the reading of the above resolutions by the Secretary and their unanimous adoption by the Board the names of those subscribers who had not yet come forward to take new shares or renounce their old stocks were cailed out. The following preamble and series of agreements prepared by the committee of five was then submitted for aud re- ceived a respestable number of signatures :— Whereas at a meeting of the stockholders of the Bull's Head Bank, held at the Ashland House, in this city of New York, March 1873, certain resolutions were adopted ; and whereas we, the subscribers, severally an@ Fespectively approve of thie propositions and plans men- tioned in ‘said resolutions, and desire to co-operate the "same, now, therefore, that we, several and o- tively, for and in consideration oi and of $1 to each of us in hand paid have by these presents do grant, aasign, transfer and set over to 0, James M. Fuller, Frederick C, Mather, 'S. Cameror Pierson 8. Hatstead and Robert Mook—the committee tee appointed at said meeting—all our shares of capital stock in said bank, being number written in - nection with our tames respectively, to have te hold the same unto them, the suid committee and to their survivors, in cave any or either of them shall Te fuse to act in trust and confidence for the intent ai . poses, and to be returned to us, and as in sald resolution mentioned. (Here followed the contract which prom! to pay on ail new stocks ten per cent, and to ackmow- ledge the claims of relinquished shares on or after the; 1st day ot April—two years hence.) The above contract received. signatures of st ck- holders and shareholders relinquishing the:r old shares to the amount of over one handred thow sand dollars, and signatures for the purchase of new shares for the reorganization of the bank > the ameunt of $80,000 and above. The greatest | satia- factien appeared to prevail, and every one sj ken to expressed their hepe that the recapitalizin g an@ reorganizing of the Bull’s Head Bank on a nm :ilable. basis was certain. ) The meeting adjourned about ie it five. o'clock P. M., to meet again on the call of t¥ e com. mittee of five, of which notice will be given in the public press, THE INDIAN MASSACRES, Names of the Surveyors Killed by” Whirin. wind’s Band of Cheyennes, LEAVENWORTH, Kansas, April; 1, 1873. The surveyors murdered en Cinnamon Riven om the 19th of March, by Indians, were Danf el Short, E. M. Deming, of Arkansas City; J. H. Davis, of poe aaa Mo., and ap Ehglishman nan ed Rovere 00) The Indians were Whirlwind’s marauéling ban@ ofCheyenges. An expedition has been organized at Arkansas City to go to the relief of surveying parties on the Cinnamon, Much excitexmensé pre Vails on the frontier. THE MODOCS SURROUNDED. SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, 1873. 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