The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1873, Page 5

THE COURTS. THE TROUBLES OF THE COMPTROLLER. A Workingman’s Claim—Judge Fan- cher to the Rescue—Reading the Comptroller a Judicial Lesson. COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. His Claims Against the City---The Comptroller Recaleitrant— Opinion Reserved. THE OCTOEER TERM OF THE COURTS, Saturday last Commissioner Shields rendered his @ecision in the case of M. T. Bailey, of Clinton, 8. C., who had been charged with having attempted to pass a counterfeit $100 bill on a clothier in this city. Several New York merchants and some from Clinton—the place where the defendant resides nd does an extensive business—testified as to his excellent character, The Commissioner discharged Mr. Bailey, holding that he had no guilty knowl- edge whatever of the character of the bill. Radford, English and Davis, who had been eharged with having had in their possession a quantity of fve-cent counterfeit nickel pieces and moulds for the manufacture of the same, on board @ canal boat at pier 44 North River, were beld by Commissioner Osborn to await the action ofthe Grand Jury. Their counsel made an argu- ment that the counterfeiting of nickel five-cent pieces was not an offence against the law; but an act, passed in 1872, was produced to show that it ‘was, The claim of Douglas A. Taylor to be paid the game salary as the City Judge will have to be left to the arbitration of a jury. a One of the severest judicial raps given the Comp- troller, though mingled with faint praise, was given Saturday by Judge Fancher. in his decision regarding the claim of an attendant upon the fires and furnaces in the Register’s office, which the Comptroller had refused to pay. He says virtually that it is time this sort of nonsense was ended, and orders the claim to be paid. ‘The children of Anthony Muller, who died in February last, leaving an estate ot some $200,000, recently instituted proceedings in the Supreme Court to deprive their mother of her share of his property and send her to an inebriate asylum, Judge Davis ordered the case to be tried before a Sheriff's jury, and, after an examination lasting three weeks, a verdict was rendered in her favor, THE TROUBLES OF THE COMP- TROLLER, Judicial Rap at Mr. Green—Ignoring a Workingman’s Claim—Judge Fancher Comes to the Rescue and Reads the Comptrolicr a Lesson. John S. DuMin is a colored man, though he is not the despondent man he was. He did four and a half month’s work in the Register’s office, looking after the furnaces and fires, This was over two years ago. His pill, as submitted to the Board of Super- visors for approval, amounted to $291, which the Board, however, thought a little too steep, and ac- cordingly cut it down to $180. This was a little rough on Duffin, but the roughest part was when the Comptroller reiused to pay him anything. He did not despair; but, through Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence, Cpe in Supreme Court Chambers to Judge Fancher for @ mandamus, directing the County Auditor to audit the bill and the Comptrolier to pay it. The points of tho arguments on both sides were publisued at the time in the HERALD. Judge Fancher yester- @ay gave his decision in the case, enlarging the game in quite a lengthy opinion. Having recited the facts and the statutes applicabie to the case, he concludes as follows, and, a8 wili be seen, grants the mandamus, and with it reads a pretty sharp lecture to the Comptroller :— READING THE COMPTROLLER A LESSON. When, as in this case, it is suown that the labor for which the claim is made has actually been per- formed, the audit and approval oi the bill by the Supervisors is sufficient to create a county lia- Dility. While the vigilance and scrutiny of the Comptroller's office are to be commended in resist- humerous improper demands on the city treasury, still when a working man has performed four and a half months’ of approved labor for the county and has gone the.rounds of circumlocution to have his labor certified to by the Register aud his bill scrutinized by a committee and vig seb ge audited and ordered to be paid by the Board of Supervisors, further technical impediment to its payment should not prevail. The motion for a Mandamus to the Auditor and Comptrolier is granted. COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. He Claims the Same Pay as the City Jadge—Different Opinion ot the Comp- troller and How Judge Fancher Thinks the Matter Should Be Adjusted. Mr. Douglas Taylor, the Commissioner of Jurors, claims $15,000 salary. He bases the claim on a statute fixing the salary the same as that of the City Judge. When the pay of the latter oilicial was raised from $10,000 to $15,000 per annum, Mr. Taylor thought himself entitled to the same rise, but though he did get one quarter at this increased rate, he has not since been so fortunate, owing to the Comptroller holding different views in the atter, The result has been that he has since been drawing pay at the rate of $10,000 per year and now claims that $12,500 was due him beside, Re- sorting to the usual mandamus procedure, appli- cation was some time since made before Judge Fancher, in Supreme Court Chambers, for a per- emptory writ against the Comptroller, directing him to pay the sum claimed in arrearages of salary, Judge Faucher gave yesterday his decision in the case in the following opinion :— OPINION OF JUDGE FANCHER. The relator applies for a peremptory mani against the Comptroller to compel the payinent of $12 claimed by the relator to be due him for balance of his salary as Commissioner of Jurors of the county of New York: By section 17 of chapter 539, Laws of 1370, page 1,297, it is provided that the salary of the Commissioner of Jurors shull be at the same rate as the salary paid to the City Judge of the said city, and the same shall be paid quarterly, by the Comptrolier of the elty: | Two im- portant questions arise upon the statute. First, 1s tne ry of the Commissioner of Jurors. which is thus de- e to be | payal “by the Comptroller of the id city,” payable by the city of Ne York, or is it to be paid trom ‘county funds ? Second, when the salary of the City Judge at of the passing of the statute was $10,W0 per annum, and has since been increased to $15,000 per annum, d0es it follow that the relator’s salary is correspondingly in- ereased? These questions important to el mined summarily on @ question tor a poremptory mandamus, and should be more deliberately discussed and decided. For that purpose the relator may have an alternative mandamus, on the return to which and the ‘averse thereto, the questions above mentioned can be raised and deliberately determined. I do not think itis @ case for a peremptory writ. Ordered that an alterna- tive mandamus issue, to which the respondent may make returns in the usual time and the relator traverse the return in the nsual time. THE COURTS FOR OCTOBER. To-day commences the Uctober Term in all the courts. The judges, after their prolongea vaca- tion, will enter with renewed vigor and zest upon their arduous judicial labors. Lawyers, after their summer's rest, will also resume their duties with renewed freshness, Business will be brisk and the courts again present their scenes of wonted activity. At no term has there been so many cases on the calendar, and the coming fall and winter promise to be the most active and stirring legal campaign ever witnessed in our courts. SUPREME COURT, In the General Term Judges Ingraham and Brady will preside. The calendar is a very heavy one and embraces the usual varicty of cases requiring the adjuication of this Court. Among the im- portant motions to be heard is one for a new trial of Sharkey. It will be remembered that after his conviction and sentence to be executed a stay of proceedings was granted. His counsel are quite sanguine of success, but, should they fail here, will carry the case to the Court of Appeals, Sharkey has, therefore, let the worst come, several months’ lease of Ufe yet before him. The Special will be held by Judge Fancher; Part 1, Trial Term, by Judge Barrett, and Part 2, Trial Term, hy Judge Van Brunt. In all these branches of the Court many important triais are pending. + ‘COUNT OF OVER AND TERMINER, This criminal branch of the Supreme Court will be prestied over by Yudge Davis. The Nret case on the calendar is that of Stokes, It 1s the genera) impression that the parties will not be ready to proceed to trial at once, but that a definite day will be set down for the trial. It is the intention of the District Attorney, however, to have the case tried at the earliest possible day, and he will do his utmost to have it tried immediately. Stokes’ lawyers, it is said, talk confidently of their abiilty to secure an acquittal for their client. On the other hand, it is alleged that the resuit sought to be achieved will be @ disagreement of the jury, apd what, upon this event being accomplished 4 motion will be made to admit bim to bail, and then let the case gradu- ally drop out of the public memory, Mr. Wiillam M. Tweed ts also set down fo¥ thid term, but whether it will reacn a trial or notis one of those matters which, in these times of the “law's delays,” Teqnines extraordinary gifts of ropnecy to foretell. The cases of Simmons and ing are also on tuis month’s calendar, as well as the jater homicide cases of McDermott and Broderick, These cases and that of Stokes are the only homicide cases now awaiting trial, It is prob- able, however, that the Grand Jury, which goes in session on Monday, will at once bring in an indict- Ment against Ette, the perpetrator of the late Bowery murder. It will then be seen that this Court has its hands full of business, SUPERIOR COURT. A, large multiplicity of cases burden the calen- dars of this Court. Judges ‘Monell, Curtis and Sedgwick will hold the General Term, Judge Van Vorst the Special Term, Jud Barbour Part 1, ae Term, and Judge Freedman Part U., Trial erm. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, There will be no lack of business in this Court, as the calendars of cases awaiting trial are large in each brench, There will be no General Term until next month. Judge Joseph F. Daly will hold the Pees Term, Judge Kobinson Special Term, sage fee reins Part I., Circuit, and Judge Loew Part L., ‘cul COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Supreme CourT—Uircuit—Part 2—Held by Judge Van Brunt.—Nos. 772, 271234, 980, 1086, 84435, 109, 1164, 712, 2652, 998, 2334, 2498, 2400, 428, 2510, 376, 1220, 2254, 2686, 2140, BROOKLYN COURTS. COURT OF SESSIONS. The City Treasury Frauds—Indictment of Ex-Treasurer Sprague and Deputy Rodman—The Deputy Not the Chief Culprit—He Acts as Informer and Aids the District Attorncy—Released on Bail—_The Amount of the Robberies $500,000. Before Judge Moore, The Grand Jury on Saturday morning presented indictments against ex-City Treasurer Sprague and his deputy, Marvin T. Rodman, for malfeasance in office and conspiracy. The Grand Jury had been considering the cases for two weeks, and the in- dictments are very voluminous, that against Sprague containing no less than ninety-cight counts, which, however, were mostly a repetition of each other, The foreman of the Grand Inquest, Mr. F, A. Biggs, also presented to the Court the following communication :— THE GRAND JURY AND NEWSPAPER CHARGES. Graxp Jury Room, BRooKiyN, Oct. 4, 1873, To Tax Court or Sksstons, KinGs County, 'N. Y.:— Before disbanding, we, the members of the Grand Jury, desire to submit to the Court in this public manner @iew statements concerning our efforts in the discharge of our duties and the results. When we commenced our \sbors tour weeks ago, the public mind was agitated b. the fact that prominent. officials were charged with heavy defalcations; and, in addition to reports coneern- ing Certain parties, whose cases we have carelully ex- amined, and whom we have promptly indicted for em- bezzlement, conspiracy and malieasance in office, the air was thick with rumors affecting the reputation of many other prominent citizens, charging tuem wita unwarrantable use of public and trust tuuds, The state ot affairs was promptly alluded to by the presi- ding Judge in his impressive charge to this body, and we have taken such pains to ascertain the truth or falsity. of such rumors that on the 25th of September ultimo we caused to be published in one of our evenin Rewspapers the following card. [Then followed calling on all who might be in possession of tacts r to municipal robberies to appear before the Grand Jury and testity,) Although many days have elapsed since its appearance, no evidence has been submitted to us meul- pating any other parties, Our attention has been called to sundry articles which have appeared, trom tme to time, in “both Brooklyn and New York newspapers, cal- culated to alarm the community, and to produce af ing of distrust toward many oi ‘our most prominent and iniluential citizens, We have summoned before us the responsible edizors, proprietors and other persons connected with ‘the papers — atoresaid, — subject- ing them to a rigid” examination under oath, and have failed to find any criminality on the part ol any individuals other than the two persons whom. we had already indicted. Whether there has or has not been any illegal use or abstraction of public or trust 1unds on the part of any other parties, we would not, ot course, presume to express an opinion, as we are only called upon to act upon evidence; but we are compelled to the belief that the conductors of the newspapers atore- said have based their articles upon Insufficient iniorma- tion. At any rate, no testimony has been elicited from them by us sustaining their allegations or innuendoes, We submit these statements with the conviction that something ought to be done to restore confidence, and we are not yet prepared to believe that public virtue has entirely departed from this community. In behalf of the Grand Jury. FRANCIS A. BiGGS, Foreman. Judge Moore ordered that the presentment be placed on file, and after thanking the Grand Jury jor tneir arduous services, discharged them, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SPEAKS. District Attorney Britton then arose and said: — If the Court please, I desire to make an application for bail to be fixed in the case of Mr. Rodman, against whom an indictment has been found. On uae return to the city at the close of my summer vacation 1 tound the public much excited because of alieged frauds in the city, credited, chiefly because of SPAPERS that many of the prominent citizens in Brooklyn, of pre- vious high reputation and character, were implicated in thes? frauds in some way. It was supposed that the ramifications of these frauds were extensive. im- mediately set myself to. ascertain the tacts, for the effect was ‘very damaging to Brooklyn, 43a whole. Imade such exammation as then satisied me that Mr, Rodman, who was then in confinement, was not alone it he wasthe principal. In accordance with the suggestion of one or two, or rather three or four, prominent citizens who had a right to be heard, 1 CALLED UPON MR. RODMAN, and in tne presence and with the consent of his counsel, for the purpose ot ascertaining the tacts trom him, so that I might determine to what extent these frauds had been conducted. Of course Thad no knowledge at that time that it might not implicate many persons, trom the alle- gations made to me and from the statements in the press, and I believed that there were mpli: caied, With the view of doing my duty and punishing all who were implicated in these frauds and treeing from suspicion those that were innocent, I called upon Mr. Rodman; and, as the only honorable course I could pursue, | assured him that he might give me his statement in the presence ot his counsel, and if it d with the facts and was substantiated in that he ay was NOT THE PRINCIPAL CULPRIT, that I would accept him as a witness with the usual dis- charge ot himself. I at the same time assured him that it it turned out that he was the chief culprit in this matter he migny undersiand that I made him no promise, and he might not make any statement. If, however, itresulted in developing the tacts that I had'already discovered, that he was not the chief culprit, but implicated others, then he might undersapd that I should fulti:my promise, With that understanding MR. RODMAN HAS MADE STATEMENTS to me that have materially aided me in tne finding of these indictments which een impracticable and impossible in this short time, at least without his assistance. have become entirel, satisfied that Mr. Rodman was notthe chet culprit, al- though it is a taet that he connected with it, but in such & way that he was the least guilty. On these facts Imake the application that he be admitted to bail in i . The statements he has made to me and the facts e has given ot this trand have not, so far, indicated that any one but those against, whom lidictments have been found are implicated, and all fears and suspicions in my mind, and {hope in the mind of the public, are allayed that there are any other persens living except these per” sons mentioned that have anything to do with it. 1, BAIL FOR RODMAN. Mr. Wood, counsel for Mr. Rodman, then addressed the Court tor a further reduction of bail, and said:—[ have not had an opportanity to speak. with the District Attorney about the amount of bail. I ask the Court to consider the statement that has been made; and | ask the Court to fix the bail at a sufficient amount to secure the person of Mr. Iman as a witness. Mr. Rodman has had an experience of POUR WEEKS ALREADY IN THE JAIL. He has been unable to secure bail. He is a poor mat and I don’t even think he can give the lai amount ol tome to be an exorbit: amount, im of $2,500 would be s accept the sum of willing eve! 000, the District ‘Attorney that ‘the bail aay be nd 1 appe: fixed at $5,100. ‘the community is indebted to Mr. Kodman for this statement So far as my examination has gone in this case, and it has been very tull, I agree with the District Attorney in the statement of facts, and I appeal to the Court that (he amount of this bail may be fixed within reasonable bounds and within the reach of a person in this situation. RODMAN CAN RASIET FIND nATt. Mr. Britton—I can only say that! anticipate no serious difficulty of Mr. Rodman teste bail inthe amount asked. [ask it because it an amount fixed that Will sccure him when wanted. If Mr. Rodman is really ppears, itcan be unable to get that amount, and adjusted on a future application, THE ADVISOR OF THE COURT. Judge Moore then said :— ‘The District Attorney isin agreat measure the advisor of the Court in the niatter of fixing bail. He is a pub- hie officer, and acting under the same official oath, as the Court, and he may be considered almost a part of the Court itself, And when he comes in here and asks for & certian amount to be fixed ag bail, we must be gev- erned by his word, This will, of course, not prevent you making @ further application. THE BONDSMEN, Messrs, Oscar Hodgkins and W, P., Beals subse- quently appeared as bondsmen for Rodman and justified in $10,000 each, Rodman was then re- leased. The bond of Mr. Sprague, amounting to $00,000, was also renewed during the day, The Grand Jury charge that. the robberies amounted im the aggregate to $500,000, Other Indictments, The Grand Jury also presented indictments againss Kate Stoddard for the murder of Charies W. Goodrich, and against Oscar Helrander for kill- ing Gustave Olsen, a sailor, at the Atlantic dock, Next week all the accused will be arraigued im tue Oyer and Terminer to piead, The retrial of E THE NEWARK TWEEDITES, | presest More Astounding Ring Rev- elations. What the Records fhow—A Sharp Letter on Bond “Discrepancies’—Bumstedian Real Estate Speculations—A Lucky “Young” Lawyer—He Picks Up Over $22,000 in Two Years . for Odd Jobs, When, at the Citizens’ Committee meeting last Monday night, the Sub-Committee on Auditor's Ac- counts made their report, Colonel Dillon, who read the report and explained the facts and figures in it, stated positively that jor nine weeks he had been trying in vain to obtain certain information about the bonds in the sinking fund of the city of Newark; that promises had been made by the city oMcials to furnish the desired knowledge, which promises were flagrantly broken; that, finally, @ positive refusal to give the information was made, the com- mittee as a whole were astounded and amazed. They and the people very naturally construed this oMcial action to be a desire to suppress the trath, A list of bonds was furnished the committee, but it was not the list asked for. According to the report of the committee the bonds had been manipulated, and there was no telling what had become of $45,000, But the very day the report was published to the worldin the HERALD and the loca} prints the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund held a meeting and, after counting the bonds on hand and hearing the officials’ purely disinterested state- ment, agreed that everything was as square asa die; that while the bonds had been “manipulated’’ such manipulation, they agreed, was in accordance with law. They made a report to this effect to the Common Council, but there seems to be some reason to fear that these excel- lent gentlemen, Messrs. Beach Vanderpool, 8, H. Condict, Daniel Dodd and Comptroller Baker, are in @ fair way to meet a fate similar to that met by those highly respectable venerables who signed a report some years ago to the effect that “Bossa” Tweed’s ring accounts were all right, as witness the following sharp letter which was presented to ake Ricord on Friday, and which tuliy explains sell :— A LETTER FULL OF HARD NUTS FOR CITY OFFICIALS TO nee N. J, Oot 8, EWARK, N. J,, Oct. 8, 1873, F,_W. Ricorn, Mayor of Newar! ‘Sin—We addressed you September 27, urging the neces- sity of being immediately furnished with the list of bonds Issued by the city ot Newark. Your reply, enclosing the list furnisked by Mr. Comptroller Baker, Is before us. The Comptroller's list we are called upon to accept as correct. To this we demur. It is not in accordance with the published statements of the City Hall officials, For instance, we take up series D of the permanent debt bonds. ‘The Comptroller’s list shows that $150,000 were issued. The Auditor's statement shows only $137,000. In series E the Comptroller's list shows to have been issued ‘The Auditor's statement exhibits only ‘These discrepancies may be susceptible of explanation, but, sir, in our position as the representatives of the pitizens’ Committee of One Hundred, we must insist upon being furnished with the specific information we ave asked for. Torepeat, We want @ list of the bonds issued by the city of Newark, in detail, giving the number. amount, &c., in accordance with the form alre: ay, handed to you. Tf everything oe right at the City Hall the information asked for should not be suppressed. ‘We are, sir, your very obedient servants, JOHN SCHNELLBACHER, WILLIAM DILLON, Sub-Committee on Auditors’ Accounts. Here, taking the city officials’ own reports, isa clear discrepancy, in two single instances aione, of $20,000. The HERALD’s Investigating Committee of One has ferreted out information in the Newark financial situation which may not now be pnb- lished, but whicn fully warrants him in predicting that betore long some stariling developments will be made. It may be stated here that AN UNFORTUNATE BREEZE has sprung up between Mr. Nathan Hedges and his colicagues of the citizens’ committees, It appears he openly belittled the report of the Auditor’s Committee. They sharply retorted that they made their report after a thorough investigation ef the records, whereas his necessarily verbal report was made, as he admitted himseli, on the authority of what the officials stated to nim and the Mayor’s published report. No one ques- tions the thorougn honesty of the old gentleman; bat everybody except the ring and its whitewash- ing organs unite in the belief that the sweet tougues of te ring officials and the fear that tne resent dominant party wouid be destroyed nave een tov much for him. BUMSTED’S ALLEGED NEWARK IMITATORS, There has already been gathered stacks of the clearest proof going to show that among ihe ring’s nest feathering none is more profitable or more susceptible of sworn | evidence than its real estate transactions, ‘The plan is to map out a certain street and rash through Council an ordinance authorizing its being opened, Then a set of Commissioners are appointed by the Street Committee, of which Mr. Wiliam Stainsby 18 chairman, to assess benefits and award damrges. There are two sets of these Commissioners. Each has a chairman who really is charged with the principal work. Of course, as the intelligent reader will readily perceive, these chairmen have extraordinary factlities zor finding out wnat'property can be made valuable and what not, They are sworn by A MOST SOLEMN OATH to make fair and impartial judgments between the city and citizens in the matter of awards and as- sessments. One of these commissions has jor years had as its chairman one Joseph ©, Young. He has sailed along politically under the garb of a demo- erat, but the manner in which the two-third re- publican council of Newark even now stand by him in the face of the most damaging testimony against him proves that they, at least, care not a fig for the man’s politics so long as he does his particular work up to the handle. The following cases, briefly stated, came before the notice of the citizen’s com- mittee within a few days, and are merely printed here as samples of how the real estate thing is worked by the ring in Newark, THE CASE OF ALVAH VAN NESS, Mr. Van Ness stated to the Committee on ©. Young’s Transactions that he was ready at any time to make oath to the following facts:—He owned property on the iine of Seventh avenue. Joseph ©. ‘oung, the chairman of the commission to open up the avenue, bargained with him directiy jor the sale of his property, not for the city, but tor himself (Young), The price agreed upon was $1,800. He was paid, cash down, $500. hen the deed came to be made out, Van ‘Ness was asked, as a favor, to allow Spencer Scott’s name to be used, instead of Young’s. The balance of the purchase money was paid by City Treasurer Stout, with a check drawn as City ‘Treasurer. Spencer Scott, it should be well understood, is an ex-Alderman. Until within a couple o! years he was Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Common Council. He is a tailor by trade, but the county register’s books shows that he has been doing @ much heavier business through the guid- ing grace of Young in the real estate business. The astounding part of this Van Ness statement is to come. Shortly aiter the property was deeded over to Spencer Scott, whom Van Ness had never seen even, ‘Joe’ Young’s commission awarded Scott $1,800 for damages done the property—-the taking of a few feet. As by the opening of Seventh ave- nue, Hercules street was closed up and the land ven to lot-owners, Scott's (?) preperty lost nothing. jut his pocket, or the pocket of somebody ‘was swelled with $1,800, the full price “Joe”? Young agreed with Van Ness to pay lor it, but which Chairman-Commissioner Young, who had taken a solemn oath to deal fairly by the city and citi- zens, considered a fair sum only for the damage (?) done the property. The case ofa Mr. John Regan, a property owner Of the same section. and similar in all respects to Van Ness’s, was also investi- [en by the committee, Mr, Regan will swear, é says, that Stout, the City Treasurer, paid him the balance of his money, $1, with a city Treasury check. Of course, cases like these and others can be written up by the dozen, and place Stout in as tight a place nearly as Young. And of course the question is very pertinent, WHAT RIGHT HAD CITY TREASURER STOUT to use the funds of the city in paying the bills of private citizens, as it alleged he has done re- peatedly? The question also surges forward here, to wit:—Have these transactions anything to do with the “discrepancies” alluded to in the Audit- or’s Committee letter to the Mayor given above’ INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES. It was stated some weeks ago in the HERALD that Mr. Charles-‘Merchant, chairman of the other commissions, had turned into the city about $60,000, money realized by him in the sale of con- demned’ property, such as old houses, trees, &c., while Chairman Young, though having done an immensely greater share of work, had turned in next to nothing, if, indeed, anytiing. Subse- quently Alderman Stainsby tackled the HERALD representative on the matter, kindly said he knew the HERALD wanted to get the facts and print the truth, but the $60,000 matter he laughed at as a huge joke. He scoffed at the idea of $60,000 being turned in by any one from such a source. The HERALD man assured the Alderman he would look further into the matter. So he has, and finds himself compelled to teach the Alderman a lesson in figures. The records of Mr. Merchant show that during the;past seven years he has turned in, in cash, realized from old buildings &c., $58,350, The largest ivem was $12,446 81, re- alized from Thirteenth avenue opening, The “om- nibus” opening ran next, $12,004 26, The two lowest amounts are $885 for Bruce street and $10 50 for Second avenue. For several days efforts have been made to obtain @ similar list from Mr. Young, bat, while showing an eager surface and willingness to comply with reportorial desire, it is quite clear that there is no sincerity in the mat- ter. At all events, no such list has been produced, so far, it may be stated here as a significant fact that Mr. Merchant and Mr. Parkhurst, a fellow commissioner. haye signified their unwilling: The Alderman NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. serve on any more commisstons until the cloud is cleared away. CITY COUNSEL FRANCIS Wo comperstivels Jeune lawyer. He cherishes a Fog) regard for Mr. Young, and well he maj he records will show”—to borrow @ now, well known phrase of Mr. Young, Francis gets $5 for every contract that is entered into, The records ow that during the past two years this young ‘lawyer has picked up in the way of fees alone, through Mr. Merchant’s commisaions, the neat little sum of $7.745. Now, Young’s work has been at Jeast more than double that of Merchant's, so that it is Keeping safely within bounds to say that Francis realized twice as much through Young’s commissioners as he uid through Mer- chant’s, At thia ratio he would net in the past two yeara the very handsome sum of about $23,235 for these little jobs alone, But of course Mr. Francis 4s not in the ring—of course not—‘‘as the records will show.’” CITY FINANCES. The Monthly Statement ef the Comp troller, ‘The following is the UVomptroller’s monthly re- port of his financial management of the city gov- ernment :— Durarrwent oF Finance, Oct 1, 1878. Monthly statementof amount of warrants drawn and for what purposes against the city and county treasurics, January 1 to September 30, 1873, inclusive ; also ® compar- ‘ative statement ot the city and county debt as of Decem- ber 81, 1872, and September 30, 1873, with a statement of and for what purposes stocks have been issued :—° STATEMENT OF WARRANTS DRAWN IN On city account—General expenses, payable trom taxation— To Aug. 30, In Sept. ative Department—Salaries, ‘contingencies and advertising... $1,961,184 15,007 The Mayoralty~Salanies, coutin- gencies and Bureau of Permits.. 18,802 3427 Decaroneny ce Tina nee Snares conungencies, including Hamberiain's office. 077s 8.220 Department ot Public Works—Sal Aries, contingencies and expen- ditures under direction of. 1,187,871 978,405 ti 968,76 110,998, Department of Departnent of Build ae “Ao epartment of Buildings. ¥ Departinent of Police... 1 2098538 280,844 Cleaning streets, undcr Police De- Poa eee ; 7000 85,000 w Department, salaries an contingencies. 71,238 7.513 Health Department 90 18,486 Department of 1 ments... : 10,100 Fire Depart : CES Sl6Taa 91,198 Deparunent of Public Instruction, including College of the clty of New Yor 1,808,748 266,413. City Courts and Gourt e: 324,030 4 Interest on city debt... 3,001,472 - Reduction of city debt—Revenue bonds of 1374 paid.. 112,000 = Fourth avenue improvement. 441,995 — Judgments . . 166,026 — City Record—Publication, salaries, poontingencies and advertising. 2,014 9m rinting, tationery ani a books. . 460 9,931 209 500 68,253 1441 Amount warrants drawn for gen- eral expenses........- $12,950,856 $1,275,707 Consiruction—New works and im- provements and old claims, pay- able trom proceeds of issue of bends— Arrearages of 1971 and add adver- ‘ac. tlsing prior to 1872, &c.. $310,206 © $12,585 Assessment Fuand—Cost ‘ayenue and park openings. 10,087,101 114,587 Departinent of Public Parks: struction account 55,047 Department of Docks. 299,205 56,208 Department of Public Works...) 3,870,400 $80,285 Department of Public Instruction— Kre@tion and repairs of school Duildings .. Ae vs. 29,899 22,908 Fire Telegraph, Fund—Completing. re telegraph, an arrearage o! ‘5 197,536 fs 56,005 12,652 9,951 4,732 150,00 = Amount paid trom issue of bonds. .$15,393.792 $659,965 Special and Trust Accounts— ‘Duplieate assessments pald and re- turned... os 426 - Department of Buildings, lien tund (hap. 625, sec, 38. Laws 18/1)... 2,034 - license fund (prior to 5 4,818 - 10,019 A376 472 - Donations trom der special laws) - ,000 Amount warrants drawn on Spe- cialand Trust account............. $17,471 $63,376 Total amount warrants drawn on city ‘ac- count in september... $1,999,050 Aad amount previously drawn. i B3)361,619 Total amount warrants drawn on city ac- COUNL UP LO MALE ee eeeeeeee ++ $30,350,670 County account, payable irom ta: ion— For State purposes—State Taxes and common schools... $2,200,005 — 50,35 49,867 2,999 10,47 Amount warrants drawn payable from taxation.............. +. $4,780,806 $210,678 Special and ‘trust Accounts payable from proceeds of issue of bonds— Arrearages of 1871 and advertising prior to 1872.. a s. — 80,081 355 Asseasment Fund—cost of opening Boulevard, West 155th street.. 90,929 343,819 County ,claims and judgments (chap. 758, Laws 1573)... a3 = 16,885 New County Court House 38 Amount of warrants drawn on special and trust account $121,043 $361,291 Amount warrants county account in September........... — $571,970 Add amount previously drawn... = agorsse Total amount warrants drawn ‘on county account....... 5 — $5,473,823 Add amount drawn on ‘city ac- ieosteeoye — 90,360,670 Total amount warrants drawn on city and county account to date $35,834,493, etry AND coUNTy pret. M ug. SD, Ht. City account— a oe ad ‘unded debt, $63,735,255 68,424,054 63,514,054 Temporary debt, payable from assessmen 16,927,372 29,961,372 20,961,372 Revenue bonds, ¢! 1,9 and 29, Laws of 1372, iss'd to pay old claims. 6,446, 41 599,697 Revenue bond (special), eas ail hapter 625, section Pg rene - 2,094 2,084 Revenue bonds, antici: pating taxes, 1873....... — 7,863,300 7,851,330 County account— Payabie trom taxation. Revenue bonds, chapters 9 and 29 Laws of 187: 29,987,404 30,138,965 30,283,065 1,667,700 1,694,700 1,694,700 — 3,082,100 8,063,100 15,229 183,407,224 139,255, 3as074 2,858,188 20,907. 237.390 rs pating taxes, 1873... Totals Less am't in sinking fund Total $95,467.154 114,559,087 115,; Cash in OK County Treasury... . 87 Cash in sinking funds......... Restaeorns stocks and bonds have been issued during the year for the following purposes, viz. :— For Croton Water purposes, Department Public Works i For Riv 4 way ening, Madison avenue exiension, &c., for land, payable from taxation. $3,791,400 Payable from assessment. + (4,952, 100— 5,743,500 For boulevard north ot 156th street, for land, $1,215,000 payable trom taxation —..., 235,000 For fire telegraph (completion of), arrearage of He, fh id Brookiyn bridge. “$00,000 . 600,000 For or N 17,000 jatural a itory * For Department of Public Wor! sewer repairs, payable trom taxa. tio . ¢ $46,500 i ‘ublic W improvements, payabie eet essments. .. Judgments and old claim: ass egpeses For revenue bonds (chaps. 9 and 29, Laws, 1872), from seeees 2,081,900— 2,128,400 82,500 for old debts... exes ix : $08,200 For Public School buildings, construction and repair: seeceveecevers ots ar 85,000 fl ent Mess Rat i i ae 3,160 ‘or Departmen ulidings (special), payable from DUIGING Hefhessssee meses ees, 2084 For current expenses—revenue bonds, payable from taxation, on or before Dec. 31, ish . 10,914,496 Total teee $21,831,818 ‘The above stocks and bonds were issued under special Jaws tor Works in progress; assessment bonds on account of improvements in progress, and tobe repaid from assess- ments to be collected; revenue bonds in anticipation of the taxes of 1873; bonds on account of arrearages of 1871 and of advertising prior to 1872, authorized by chap- ters 9, 29 and 375, Laws of 1872; and special bonds tor Department of Buildings, as provided by chapter 625, sec- tion 38, Laws of 1871; and bonds for liquidating claims and judgments, chapter 796, Laws 1873 ‘The following stocks and bonds have been paid of Water stock of 1870, by sinking fund.............. $ Real estate bonds 1873, by sinking tund.. + 138.457 Public education stock, by sinking fund. 164,000 Revenue bonds of 1574, chapter 1, Laws ot from taxation. sevenaeeeneeseees 112,000 Total. ‘$1,411,687 ATTEMPTED ROBBERY. About three o’clock yesterday morning, Mr. Thomas J. Birmingham, of No. 365 West Fifteenth street, while seated on the stoop of his residence, was attacked by two men, one of whom seized bis hat, while the other attempted to take his watch from his vert pocket. He made an outcry and the would-be robbers, becoming alarmed, left him and started up the street. He followed them, and meetin ofticer Murphy, of the Sixteenth precinct, procur: their arrest. They were arraigned betore Justice Kane at the Jefferson Market Police Court, yester- day, and conunitted in default of bail to answer the charge Ol an attempt at highway robbery. A OHILD’S FATAL FREAK, George Glass, aged six, of No, 531 East Twelfth street, Was trying to climb on the mantelpiece, last Thursday, when he fell backwards iato a boller of hot water which was standing on the floor, He was scalded all over the lower parts of his body i died aiter twenty-lour hours o1 terrible sufer- KNOW-NOTHINGISM. Revival of the Native American Party in This City and State. A HERALD PROPHECY FULFILLED, The Offices and the Entire Political Machinery in the Hands of Bigots. LEITER FROM. MR. JOHN M’KEON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The object of the wrtter of the present communt- cation 1s to submit to the calm consideration of the people of this city and State some facts which must satisfy every unprejudiced mind that a crusade has been regularly planned and organized against Irish adopted citizensfand their descendants and against those professing the Roman Catholic religion. That crusade is now in successful movement, and, unless checked, must result ia the humiliation and tram- pling under foot of some of our best citizens. ‘This spirit of bigotry 1s not of modern growth, From the earliest history of our country a preju- dice has existed against foreigners. Men have been so blind;te our true interests that they de- sired to throw obstacles in the way of the immigra- tion and naturalization of those who had aban- doned the despotisms of the Old World, who be- came exiles from the land of their nativity, and who brought to this land the industry, the stalwart arms and the money which has converted the dense forests and iilimitavle prairies of the West into flelds overflowing with agricultural wealth and towns teeming with a popu- lation engaged in every department of human in- genuity. During the administration of the federal party under the elder Adams this anti-foreign feeling took shape and vitality in the Alien and Se- dition laws, which were repealed by the demo- cratic party under the lead of Thomas Jefferson. Again, with the object of undermining the demo- cratic administration of Madison, while the coun- try, as yet in its infancy, was engaged in a war for national existence against the colossal power of Great Britain, a convention was held in Hartford, Conn, This eonvention was suspected of treason- able purposes against the United States. One of its resolves was OPPOSITION TO THE NATURALIZATION OF FOR- BIGNERS, The originators of these schemes were all from the New England States and they and their de- scendants have steadily and unceastngly assailed the public mind with appeals to the ignorance and baser passions of our nature, till the storm of fa- naticism broke forth at last in setting fire to a con- vent near Boston, and driving at night tne inno- cent and helpless women and children, who were its inmates, into the street amid the glaring flames of the burning ruins, Massachusetts bigotry claims the triumph of this act of vandalism, which stands to-day unatoned and remains a lasting disgrace on the escutcheon of that Commonwealth. The Mas- sachusetts Senator, Sumner, truly reflecting the baser nature of his constituents, has fulminated in the Senate of the United States disgraceful diatribes against the Catholics, with no other pur- pose intended than to misrepresent and degrade them in the estimation of their fellow citizens. But Massachusetts was not destined to stand alone in her infamy. Years after the per- secution began in New England, Pennsylvania be- came seized with the madness, That State was also disgraced by the murder of Catholics and the burning of Catholic churches in Poiladelphia, in this city, about forty years ago, an opposition to foreigners and Catholics was organized, under Uhe title of “THE NATIVE AMERICAN PARTY,’? who presented as their candidate for Mayor Mr. Morse, who afterwards became distinguisted as the inventor of the electric telegraph, and whose statue now stands in Central Park, elected as Mayors of this city Aaron Clark and James Harper (at one time in his life one of the firm of the ‘Journal of Civilization”). It is due to the truth of political history to state that these anti-American organizations were formed out ) of the great mass of the old whig party (de- scendants of the federal party) and a portion of the democratic party. About twenty years ago these bigoted, iiliberal ideas were given force to by the creation of a cabal known as the Know Nothing party. This organization Was secret and oath-bound. It had its oaths, its signs and grips and its formula in tmi- tation of the Masonic Order, The members were only known to each other. It was the incarnation of hypocrisy, cowardice and bigotry. Its members hated foreigners and Catholics, put had not the courage to avow their antipathy. They were hypo- crites inasmuch as they shook the hands of those | Whom they sought to stab in the dark. They pre- tended to be iriends with those whom they had sworn to degrade. Their bigotry can only be known by the following oatk wich the members took on going into the Order :— THE KNOW NOTHING OATH. In the presence ot the true and ever-living God, and on these sacred Scriptures, His Holy Word, 1 do declare that T will truly tulfil all my obligations toward my brethren of the Order ot Ki Nothings, and that I will keep sacred all the signs, tokens, pags’ and degree words, em- blems and proceedings of ‘said Order, * * * And I further declare and solemnly swear that I will not know- ingly vote for, appoimt or elect any person of foreign birth, or a Roman Catholic, to any office in the local or general administration of the American government; 5 and I further declare and swear that I will use ail the | in my power means y to counteract and destroy influence’ ot the foreigners ard Roman Catholics in the administration of the —_governinent of the United Siates, and in any and ali parts thereot, both local and general. To all this, a free and voluntary obligation on my part, without reservation, I pray that I pony aeee be able to remain true and steadfast, so help me God. Though this oath seems comprehensive enough, it was explicitly understood to comprise more; becaus? on the occasion of taking it the formula Was that “the President (of the Lodge) will aa- dress the brethren as follows’ :— As a member of thi: Theor lodge, it will become sAlies duty to disregard all personal interests and prede- ctions ii the service of your country, in order that the corrupt and eval influence of foreignérs may be effec ally combated and destroyed, and here, it will be un stood, soms of foreigners and of Roman Catholics are included, This declaration under oath, 80 profane in its appeal to the Deity and se revolting to every nianly or Christian heart, was taken by hundreds of thousands in this country. The success of the movement showed bow many were ready to pro- scribe men for their birth or their faith, Public men of the country were found who bent them- selves to the low level of their piatform, Fillmore, ¢x-President of the United States; Henry Wiison, now Vice President of the United States, are living examples on the one side, and Tammany Hall, with Fernando Wood and bundreds of the democratic party, and they ofice-holders, on the other. All these took this revolting oath while pretending to be the friends of foreigners and Catholics. By downright falsehood and denial of their Me | taken the oath, they have (by the assistance Of a set of politicians whoare ever ready to sacrifice creed or country to obtain an office) been enabled to secure the support of the very dupes whom they have endeavored to degrade and whom in their hearts they despised. This spirit of persecution and hostility to forelgn- ers and Catholics is never at rest. [ts motto 1s “Nulla vestigia ml” It takes no backward step. “On! on!’ ig its unceasing command to its followers, Within the past few years this feel- ing is again forming its battalions. The pulpits of this city and its environs have of late been resonant with sermons, inculcating the idea that the Catho- lic Church is hostile to ireedom, to the education of the people and to the very existence of @ repub- lican jorm of government. The charge ia openly made that the Church seeks to overturn the founda- tions of the Republic. The shrill pipe of Puritan- ism in the New World is in accora witn the deep, low growl of infldelity and communism of the Oid. ‘The daily and weekly presses pour forth their ap- peals to their readers to resist the insidious move- ments of the Catholic clergy and laity against the best interests of the country. THE PENCIL OF THE CARICATURIST 1s called into service, and depicts in the most Tevolting aspects the Catholic clergy, and particu- Jarly the Catholic Irishman. How oiten have we seen the shillelab and the whiskey bottle and the stump of a dudeen as the oniy illustration of the Irish Cathoiics in the cartoons of a “Journal of Civilization” in this city, It is deemed patriotic (and from its Valigrabndih following up we may Judge it islucrative) to stir up strife, to degrade and insult a portion of our fellow citizens, and to kindie the fires of religious and national hate in a community where the constitution and laws guar- antee to ail persons freedom of conscience and the equal rights of citizenship, Vhiie the pulpit and the press have been ac- tively at work the politicians have not been idle. Their mission has been to give eficiency to the feeling which has been created, and to produce results which would drive from office all who were suspected of being guilty of the crime of foreign birth or Catholic belief. THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION in which the politicians appeared was in January, 1871, When & meeting w: eld at the Aeademy of Music to congratulate the King of Italy for having invaded the States of the Church and robbed the Sovereign Ponti? of his little territory. ‘The meeting Was described in some of our leading papers as @ brilliant assemblage of the beauty, talent and fashion of the city, and enthusiastic in This same party | President | ‘The cause Of Meaty. 3% was addressed by revi learned clergymen, by journalists, b; judges, waspresided fear. by Major General John A, ase were received Letters endorsing the proceedi trom the Secretary of te (Fish) and from that ristian statesman, Scbuyier Colfax. Neither of these high officials seems to have been inspired with asense of the impropriety (considering their high oMicial positions), not to say palpable indelicacy of their interference with the affairs of foreign na- tions. We must suppose that their desire to propi- tiate the support of the anti-Catholic bigots smothered all sense of delicacy. The meeting was intended to be an attack on the Papal authority in Rome. It adopted resolutions favoring the unity of Italy, another phrase for the abolition of the sover- eignty of the States of the Church. They endorsed an address, which was sent to King Victor Emman- uel, but which the authors of the document dared not announce to Americans as a congratulatory address to the King of a foreign nation, but enti- tied it in their nepceetiia as an address to the “government and people o! Italy.” General Dix sent & personal tele; King Victor Emmanuel, at Florence, informing him that some 10,000 American: citizens were celebrating the triumph of the King, and sent their congratulations, We, as Americal may wellask, For what were these congratulations’ Over what great fact Scooeemiiated 7 the King Were Americans rejoicing? Was it that geen 3 to King Victor Emmanuel’s own showing, he wen' to Rome to preserve it, to save 1t from the horrors or a republican form of government? Was tl cause for Americans to send forth their joy? We address ourselves not to the be! rent lajor General whose military career is bloodiess, and whose campaigning was confined chiety to riding every Sng afternoon to Central Park, in this city, and to issuing lettres de cachet for the arrest of editors and citizens who were desirous of sus- taining the constitutional rights of Americans at home—lettres de cachet which some of his victims have hung up in pride in gorgeous frames ag mementos of the times when despotism found its willing tools in such instruments as Dix. We address John A. Dix, now Governor of the great and patriotic State of New York, which contains hundreds and thousands of Catholics. We put the question to that officer, who oughtto know the laws of nations. We put this question to the late Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris—Did he ever read in any work on international law an authority one invasion of a territory by a foreign Power without some cause of war against such invaded land and without any declaration of war against the country upen which the troeps of an invader have been hurled; and yet was not this the act of Victor Emmanuei in nis conduct towards the States of the Church? And for this General Dix congratulated him! Was not the congrat- ulation a full endorsément of the act of & public robber? Would Gengral Dix have had the effrontery to stand up in any pri- vate gathering of diplomats and defend this out- Tage on modern civilization? The secret of his pre- siding was that General Dix knew that the /anati- cal bigots who detested Catholics wanted a figure- head for their meeting; and he readily responded to their call, even at the sacrifice of his own sense of justice and of owe appreciation of the relative rights of nations. He felt his reward wag at hand, and he found 1t in his election as Governor. He was ready to take advantage of the anti-Catholic organizations of the State, which were then in process of formation. How faithful he has been to the requirements of the fanatics may be ascer- tained by his conduct as Governor. His obedience to their behests may be found in his expulsion from office of every man having any Irish blood or Catholic tendencies, A KNOW-NOTHING COUNCIL. The meeting to which I have referred, while pretending to be one in relation to Hse was in Teality but a pretext for speeches in relation to the political schemes of Catholics in this country, It was, in fact, a Know Nothing council. Tne old Persecuting spirit of Puritanism was clearly de- Yeloped in the remarks of the prominent speakers. Among the Vice Presidents and orators of the meeting we find the following names:—James M, Brown, Henry G. Stebbins, Willard Parker, Jack- son 8. Schultz, William R. Vermilyea and James Emott, All these names appeared afterwards in the famous Reform Committee of Seventy. The oreaaleesen which has been most,effective im creating public prejudice against Catholics, and at the same time proved remunerative to its mem- bers, is the Council of Political Reform. It is interesting to follow the movements of this con- spiracy from its inception to its present status. One of its earliest manifestoes was a circular issued by the Council, dated ‘No. 9 Plimpton Build- ing, July, 1871," signed by H. N. Beers, who is to- day a power in the State. This circular professed to desire the enrolment of members under a plat- form which had been prepared by the Counoil, Their purpose was, as they avowed, to carry out the objects of # meeting which “was held at the instapce of the Council, and was presided over by ex-Mayor Havemeyer.”’ Mere we see the scene opening with the same man who now fills the office ol Mayor of this Boe ‘This circular, which was un- doubtedly intended to be kept secret, was secured by the industry of the HERALD, and was introduced to the world under the following heading by the HERALD:—“A New Political Device—Organization of a Religious Reform Party—All the Clergymen to Co-operate in the Movement—The Protestant Churches Possess All the Moral and Political Forces. of the State.” Events have proved that THR SAGACITY OF THE HERALD ‘was perfect in discovering the existence of @ po- liico-religious movement. The circular was an elaborate statement of the motives which con- trolied the members of the Council “in ory ing patriotic citizens into a permanent guardianship | over civil interests—to keep watch and ward over the workings of our political system.’’ The policy of the Council was to enrol members in this city and in every school district in the State. Its object | Was to obtain sufficient members of the Legislature to control legislation. “Separate agencies in all the judicial districts were to be appointed to organize uxtliary councils under Gengral Patrick, the State Secretary, favorably Known’ as the Provost Mar- shal of the Potomac.”’ In stating the means whereby they hoped to succeed, the circular states :— ‘The State Council is extensively circulating a number of carefully prepared documents of facts, and appeal to all parts of the State. ‘The New York City Council is publishing a series of Dopular essays, by the most distinguished writers of this: city, on subjects fundamental to this work, which are to have the largest distributien throughont the city and State—some of them in the German language. Forcible writers have been secured in all parts of the State to press continually upon the public attention the claims of this movement, particularly through the relizyious and literary press, Measures are in progress to secure the official co-opera~ ton of all the clergymen of the State tn this branch oy our work, The moral and religious claves are the objects upon which the Council proposes to expend its special eiforts,. and on which it coumts most confidently for its ultimate success. It is tound that 500,00—jire-ninthe of all the | voters in the State, are in the Protestant Churches Those | possess all the elements and the determining measure of the moral and political forces of the State, They are encies that are in d methods of the ry It is the conildent expectation that trom this mass of God- fearing and philanthropic men enough can be detached from all other relations and obligations unfriendly to this movement and constrained to join itor at least hold the balancing power between the rival political parties, ‘This will be the chief aim of our efforts and the ground of our expectation of success. The issues involved in this attempt to reform the polit- ical condition of this city are the prevention of the fraud- ulent perversion of at least $30,000,000 annually of Its pub- lic funds, with all the legion of evil consequences it in- volves; the beneficent working, and, Indeed, the fate of our republican institutions, out syslem of public educa, tion, our cwil liverties, our religious rights, the peace, If not’ the existence of our homes; public morals, the national contagion of these devices and achieve- ments of political corruption, and the honor of this city betore the world. The circular then appeals to the moneyed men | and institutions to sustain the Council with the necessary fuads. The men who haye been appointed to arrange the measures and expénd the funds of the Counell are tamil. jar fo this community as tred and trasted managers of its large religions and moneyed tustilutions, The pers sonal character of this Council and the constitutional limitations under which it must act, as will be seen from the accompanying constitution, should furnish a sum. cient gaarantee of the wise aud faith(ul administration of its trust. The circular concludes as follows:— The co-operation of every patriotic citizen, therefore, in this attempt at political reform, is expected’ rather a3 a ‘ontrol of influences ani Tecogniuon of the brotherhood of the relation and of community ot the obhation and danger, than asked as @ favor. Every good citizen of this. metropolis who cannot contribute his _ per- sonal services to this work iscalica upon to sustain and encourage those who do consent to work. Noone can do less than first give hisname to the membership of his ward council (such councils are in the process of formation in the several wards of the city) and then con. tribate as is requisite to the common treasury. Contributions to be sent to the Treasurer, Henry Clews, . 32 Wall street. ¢ Secretary, H. N. Beers, is authorized to collect Sen or to authorize collections under his an EXECUTIVE COMMITTER OF THE NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL OF POLITICAL REFORM. GEO, BARRETT. JOHN WHEELER, D, WILLIS JAMES, JOUN P. CROSBY, W. F. HAVEMBYER, A. C. POST, M.D.) ROBERT HOEK, HOOPER G, VAN VORST, JAMES M. NALSTED. JOHN STEPHENSON, GEORGE P, PUTNAM. E. B. WESTLEY. DEXTER A. HAWKINS, HENRY NICOLL, A. Re LORE, 8, 8, CONSTANT. . WETMO 8. D, MOULTON, Having thus called your attention to the mem- bers o! this Committee of Political Reform, thess representatives of ine moral and religious ideas of the city, I propose to exhibit in another letter the results of the labors of these good and pious men. and to show that the prophecy of the HERALD has been julfilled. JOHN McKEON, FUNERAL OF ALDERMAN MILLER, The funeral of Alderman Charles Miller, of the First ward, Brooklyn, took place yesterday aiter- noon from his residence, in Willlam street. The attendance was very numerous, Owing to the pop- ularity of deceased. Among those present were the members of the Common Council, Mayor Powell and the heads of departments, ere Wag a larve representation of the members of the Ful- ton Fish Market Association, of which Mr. Miller Was president, also in attendance at the obsequles, The remains were interred in Greenwood Ceme- tery, The late Alderman, Who was a democrat, jas served four years in the Board, was about filty-fonr years of age, and leaves a widow, but no children, He was possessed of considerable wealth, He was the last Alderman of the old First ward, which is now, under the new charter, divided up between the Second and Third wards, the bounda- ries of the First Ward being entirely changed, THE LICENSE BUREAU, Marshal Hart on Saturday granted 864 licenses and Teceived $820 75 at the Maydr’s office last week,