The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1874, Page 3

XK THE STATE CAPITAL. City Railroad Schemes on the. Increase. The EPyrcoklyn Charter Amendments. NEW CITY PRISON JOB. Genet’s Successor — The Abbott-Madden Case—The Children’s Aid Society. ‘ ALBANY, Jan. 29, 1874, ‘The announcement of the canal appointments to- @ay created a great Nutter of excitement among all the politicians in town, and even some of the ‘most sedate of the grave Senators—who are not expected to act as wild in debate or aught else ‘that may at tumes concern the fate of their politi- eal backers, small fry as well as the big bugs, mong the Assemblymen—were as excited over ‘he result as the wire-pullers from the Backwoods themselves. The democrats, naving the control, with Raines, the Treasurer, as the edd vote that. lead to the final victory, are of course jubilant, at least those of them who have @ucceeded, after the general pull and haul that has yasted for so many days, in securing their seiends the snuggeries they have been hankering fer ever since the day after election. MORE CHARTER TINKBRING. ‘The amendments proposed by the Committee of Fifty to the present charter of Brooklyn, and ‘which are embodied in a bill which Senator Coe is to introduce to-morrow im the Senate, are that, while the wards shail remain as at present, the Aldermen to be elected at the fall election ‘of 1874, shall be each for two years, except ‘Whose whose terms expire next January, in place @f whom shall be elected Aldermen for one year. Additional powers are given to the Common Coun- il; for instance, when charges are made against ‘any department or officer, they are to investigate them to examine their books and papers and to compe) witnesses to testify under oath. One of The four papers in the county having the largest €ircolation consenting to do the advertising at the lowest price is to be given the “jobs.” There a provision in the present charter which pro- Bibite the amount to be raised by tax yearly from exceeding two and three tenths percent. This is @tricken out by one of the new amendments. All ‘the officers’ salaries, except that of the Mayor, are te be axed by the Common Council, The Mayor’s ts to be $5,000. It is provided by one section of the amendments that ‘ CONTRACTS FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS, saciuding sewers, sball be entered into only when ‘an estimate has been prepared by the Board of City “Works for the Common Covnch, At the first Meeting of the Common Council held after the Pastage of the amendments they are to appoint ‘the City Treasurer. lector of Taxes and Assessments is to be ap- ‘Thope sections of the present charter are whico provide that the Collector shall of arrears of taxes and furnish the same of Arreais; also those which pro- for the office of Register and defined: his which latter will hereaiter devolve upon the appointment of the Corporation, office May 1, 1873, and a President who is tone inted by the waren ‘and Common Council! nr twenty days from the passage of the att, salaries are to be xed by the Commun Council, There 1s to be but one Y is also to be Excise Commissioner. a ‘the Mayor and Common in twe' of mn 5 irtment ie placed the charge aud control of rein . licensing the opening ot street . The de ment 18 $e Bave > ners, a nee veqaired shalt physician and ones er, ‘who are aiso to be appointed within twenty days after the of smendment«. The Board of City Works is made to consist of one commis- sioner, and is given no power to make contracts of the Common Council. The except ey latter, wi &@ petition of a maloney of property owners owning property along the line of any con- Qztend, widen, regulate, grade, paver rexrade and wi repair reeds,” soeet, lanes and enues, and cause PUBLIC AND PARKES d, regulated, ornamented and per- Sected. The expense of such improvement and oi the A [hae | and paving, in the first instance, #2 to bea lien on the property fited. In case of repay when cobble stone is used, the cost 4s to be a charge on the city; but when any otner | pavement is used the excess over the amount ‘Which the cobble stone would have cost is to Le upon the perty benefited. All tne beads of departments must give a detailed report ry month of the doings o! their respective de- THAT “NEW CITY PRISON’ ONCE MORE. ‘The Committee on Cities held a meeting this be o i Prison bill—rather, the bill intro- u ago to repeal the law of last year to the erection of the proposed building. those wno contended last winter, and jt this year, that there was a og All but two of the New Yor! Tunderstand, are in favor of the re- Of the law in its entirety. One of these two Mr. Spencer, who was visited here yesterday by Mr. Vance, the President of the Board of Aldermen | of your city, who desires the law not repealed, but amended. ‘It will be remembered that right in the ‘this position of Mr. Vauce on the question voted in the Board of Aldermen a short since for the repeul of the law. | COLONEL SPENCER'S ARGUMENT. | Mr. argued beiore the committee to-day stro! in favor of a new City Prison, and sub- Mitted the following points to sustain his views :— 4. The Tombe Prison was built in a mad hvle calied $me Collect Pond. Piles Atty teet in length had to be driven into the mud to form a support for the ‘walls, yet notwithstanding this tne prison has set- — three feet, cracking the walls and throwing floors out of level. 2 An _ inevitable Feault of building in such a spot is Dad dampness and unhealthi- mess. ‘These “defects iuhere’ in the locality and cannot be cured, 4. This prison is too small; some- Simes 500 buman beings are crowded into it, ‘making four in some ceils, when two should be a mMaximom. This crowding ana eo up old and , fresh culprits and old and hardened crim- | injures the moral as well as the physical health of the prisoners. 4. It is at a distance frem the Court of the Recorder and of the City Judge and the Court of Oyer and Terminer, thus Becessitating the daily transport back and forth ‘through the public streets of large numbers of criminals. 5. It cannot judiciously be en- | saMciently to meet either the pres- ent or the iuture wants of the city. ‘The prison small to admit of the construction of an additional building; the bottom—fity feet of mud—is bad for a ioundation, ‘and could only be made safe by filling it with piles, and the opening of this ancient mud-nole would, | mee year or two.at least. threaten the 600 inmates wit such a8 typhoid and inter- mitcent teger. 6. ‘The present buildings could not be en! by addi several stories to them, ior the foundations of mud and piles are not suficiently farm to support the additional weight; nor are the walls, already cracked, strong and thick enough to be carried up several stories higher; nor aie the interior plan and arrangements right for such change. To enlarge the Tombs, either by anotner Santa in the or by additional stories, would amply be ‘@ waste of money. THE NECESSITIES OF THE CITY G@emand s jarger prison and a healthier location, And one that should have attached to it within tue #ame inclesing walls offices for the District at- Sorney and his asaistants, @ court room and ac- @ommodations for the Court of Oyer and Terminer, S@ court room and accommodations for the Ke- corder’s Court, a court room and accommoda- ‘tons for the City Judge's Court, and court rooms and accommodations for one or two of the police gourts now waiting to have court houses built. offices now occupied by the District Attorney ste.small, inconvement and unfit for the purpose; nd, besides, these as well as the rooms now occu: vy the courts of the Recorder, of the City judge and the Oyer and ‘lerminer are required vy Tm the month of May the Cob | ‘snd quite a lively discussion ensued on | j, | ture was putan end to. But the people of N NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1874.—TRIPL without pay. at care, deliberation and Tnvemigation ve selected @ site that mects are intere i eal entaty fo tts only e ynich by the change. By great earnest they have tried to raise a hue and cry against this necessary public work. But iy the interests of 1,000,000 people cannot be sacrificed 19 the views of @ sew lot owners. ‘The ti commissioners are having LANS DRAWN BY AR@HITECTS who have made this subject a special study, and im atew weeks the plans will be completed and calculations of the cost made that will show ua what the structure 18 to be and what toa dollar it wili cost. ‘When that is done and the plans are before the committee, and not betore, we 1 be im @ position to form an intelligent opinion, As these gentlemen were selected especially tor capacity and trustworthiness, and as they work for pothing, common courtesy aud premanee require that we should wait till they show us the plans and estimates, and not, with the fickleness of the wina, ‘a law one session and repeal it the next, before we can know how it will work. It may be necessary to amend the act so as to limit ‘the expenaiture, but that cannot be wisely done tll we see the plans and estimates, It may aiso be Regemery 80 amend the act that a turn o1 the politieal el m New Y May not next year ut the construction of the new prison into the d6 Of the party that squandered $14,000,000, pretending to build @ new Court House, and leit it unfinished at last. The satety of the public money may peepee: that the present commissioners shoul by the act itself be by a office till the building is com- plete, and that two such men as ex-Mayor Opdyke and the President of the Prison ARORA ‘Sin- clair Tousey, or men of like character, be added to the commission. Jv is well known that the zeal of certain parties in opposing this matter arises from the fact that the Communists nor the frienas of the late Court House swindlers will be likely to get vontrol of this job, but that i bids fair to be carried through wholly in the interest of the general pub- ic the es. Task to have the whole subject le over for one month, to enable vhe comunssioners to ,come be- tore this committee with their plans, specifications and estimates; then we can act tangent, Alderman McCafferty and Assemblyman Wachner strenuously advocated full repeal of the law. Mr. Mcvafierty the general opposition manitested toward the law by the press and the taxpayers was the most solid reason that could be given against its being allowed to remain a law any longer, and that Judge Fancher, in postponing the appointment of commussioners to condemn property fora site tor the proposed reason, had done go to give the Legislature an opportunity to repeal te law. THE LABORERS’ THANKS, The members from New York city to-day each Tecelved a copy of @ series of resolutions passed by the Laporers’ Union Benevolent Association of New York, im which, while attention is called to the sad condition of affairs among the working- men generally, the Association heartily thanks, in the most especial manner, Assemblymen Coughlin, Spencer, Alvord, Daly and Woods for their efforts on behalf of the working classes thus iar in the Legislature. The resolutions also THANK THE HERALD for the interest it has always taken in the welfare 1 the poorer classes 80d for its strong appeals in their behalf since the financial panic has thrown 80 avy deserving Men out of employment, THE LIBEL BILL tntroduced in the lower House to-day by Mr. Wight 18 an old friend, and will probably meet the fate a bill of the same character aid last win- ter. fore is always some secret opposition to this kind of a bill from @ certain class of members which most people are at & loss to fathom. ‘Ine bill provides that no person in any one civil action to recover damages for slander or livel shall be held to bail im any ter sum than $2,000, or imprisoned or restraiued of his liberty by reason of any ordet of arrest requiring him to give bail im any ater sum than $2,000. [t further pro- vides that if more than one action to recover dam- ages for slander or libel.be pending atthe same ume on behall of the same plaintiff against the same defendant, the latter shall not be held to bail or imprisoned by reason of any orders requiring | him to give bail im the aggregate in any greater sum than $5,000. ‘ihe act 1s made to apply to ail orders of arrest in civil actions to recover damages Jor slander or libel now pending, in which any per- sons are now itmprigoued or restrained in any Way of their liberty. every action in which any per- son is now held to bail or imprisoned upon orders requiring him to give bail in r sums than are specified in the present act it is provided tuat it shall be tne duty of the courts in which any such action is pending to 80 reduce the bail that it shail not exceed $2,000 In any One Case, or $5,000 in the aggregate, If there be more than one uction pend- mg 1n which the defendant is required to give bail. CITY RAILRO. ‘The cry ts ‘still they come” ii 5s anu, judging from the number already imtroduced, the lobbyists will have a high old umie of it in ear- and probably in Gilling the minds and pockets of the unfiedged as well as the full- edged members with arguments that have availed 80 Often heretoiore im making an honest Legisla- ‘ture swear by its vote that white can be made to look black in the eyes of whomsvever they please. In the Senate to-day Mr. Fox introduced one bill which gives several parties the right to run a DOUBLE TRAOK THROUGH FORTY-SECOND STREET to Madison Lah a> oe Mr. Kirk im the House shother, which «;the Dry Dock people the Biizuons of extending their track entirely from judson street to Varick, remove their present tracks, now jaid in Sullivan street, on Canal street and Vesey street, and to lay doubie tracks, now laid. in sbrosses street, and along Desbrosses street, when so extended and opened, and through and across Varick street, aud through Grana street, so as to connect with its present double tracks at = intersection of Sullivan and Grand ity railroad bills, streets to extend its present track io Corlears, Monroe and Cherry streets, with @ double track to Broome street and 8 single track to Lewis street; also from Broome street, through East street, by Columbia. The bill of Senator Fox goes partly over the road provided by Mr. Blessing’s bill The only difference ts that while the latter is to run through Forty-second street from Norta River to Lexington avenue and thence down to Thirty- fourtn street ferry, the former goes simply iv Madison avenue. It requires no very keen per- ception to show that Mr. Fox's bili is nothing more nor less than a scheme on the part of Van- derbilt to get the other vill knocked in the ead for own benefit. The people in rty-second street who will be accom- dated by a road through that street doubtless care very little who builds itso long as it is built, but they certainly wiil keep their eyes open to find out which bill is offered in good faith. If the one is only to secure the rigut of way to be bought out by the other or to prevent any road being built at all, it is high time, one would think, that tnis city ratiroad tom-ioolery in the Legislu- w York city, in the opinion of railroad corporations generally, have ne schemes, no matter w! it they may be; and city session of the Legislature, will meet with just as much success as ever. HENRY GENET’S SUCCESSOR, There is a fine prospect tor a brisk fight in As- sembly to. morrow, judging from the talk being in- duiged in this afternoon concerning the case of Mr. Sullivan, the member elect trom Harry Genet’s district, who has just arrived. It is said that : MR. SPENCER WILL OBY) vo his being sworn in. If he does. of course there will ve @ lively time all round. The objection to allowing Mr. Sullivan to take his seat will be that the special election ordered by the Governor was illegal in view of the alleged fact that Genet, never having been sentenced, was never disqualified from taking bis seat; that, in fact, he is not @ convicted felon as yet in the eyes of the law. The point is looked upon by the geuerality of the leading members as rather a ridiculous one; buat as those who imvend to oppose Mr. Sullivan's | claims to the seat retuse to reveal all their points of attack it is surmised that they have something in the background that may raise a very nice legal question in regard to elections held under circum- stances stmilar to those which surrounded that of 8 Jew days ago in the Twenty-first district, The Abbott-Madden Case. ALBANY, Jan. 29, 1874. The following is the substance of the argument to be presented by Mr. Abbott in defence of his claim to retain bis seat as Senator for the Tenth district, as iv will appear in the 47gus to-morrow morning :— The facts in relation to the above case are that, admitting tnat the returns frum the Second dis- trict of Fallsburg should have been canvassed by the Board of County Canvassers, yet, when taken in connection with the evidence in relation to the retarns from the Second district of Forrest- burg, said returns would not have changed the result nor depnved Mr. Abbott of his seat, It is mot denied but that one of the inspectors of the Seconda Election district of Forrestburg took from the hands ot the Supervisor of that town the returns for dis- trict and reduced the number of votes first re- parted as having been“cast for Mr. Abvott from serenty eae to twenty-eight, in order that the Votes cast for Senator suouid tally with the entire number of votes cast, and that a statement of that lact Was made by said Supervisor before the Board of County Canvassers and was the principal rea- son why said revurns were not canvassed and dis- allowed as being fraudulent and void. Mr. Abbott offered before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections the sworn affidavits of the aforesaid Supervisor as to the manner in whicn she olty lor other official uses. The Register’s ofice, containing the titles to more shan $1,000, Of real estate, is not, as it amhould be, a building, and room for those records Of incalculable value tu the property owners should be made in the fire proof New House, This couid ily be done if the Oyer and Terminer and the Sherift’s offices were 1a they would be it the mew city prisom law last year for a new eity prison by rp ome Unanimous vot asked for it; the newspapers all call 5 the Puiancaropiats demanded i she oars, ie potion, re thought it would be adloious. i ture, after much deliberation, re- Al elated tne bile axigency and passed the spend, ‘The Children’s Aid Society. last week passing the Dill authorizing the eity of phere iain E ria bed Poarin ‘iceeee: spovere v oa ca 1} neat ALBANY, Jan, 20, 1874, New York to issue bonds to take up other bonds. | wiriam, Dore, caust a bn f full; 4 Seowhone capacity, inbegricy and Roneie Wace | Tne Committees on Manufactures, both of the | Carried. ered by insurance in tue Fuengs Sit tippe weary erty nee. conagence, are to enurely k House and the Senate, met to-day to hear argu- J | Mr, C. 8. SPRNOBR moved to non-concur with the | nies " returns Were altered; also tuesworn affidavits ot forty-lour voters in said district, that they had cast their votes for him tor Senator, and which, if allowed, entities bim to his seat as Senator for the Tenth district. Mr. Abbett algo offered to prove that he was en- titled to more votes than were allowed nim by the returns from other districts; that fraud and titegal voting had in many instances been resorted to ior the election of Mr. Madden and to deiea¢ him in the election, yet the committee retuses to receive ail evidence except that offered by the contestant. The question now 18, asks Mr. Abbott, will the be sacrifice 168 fee bag pa § refusing te hear Amony which, if heard, w ondoubtedig re- ia bim in bis seas? single track to Deiancey, through tuis street tu | ht to interiere with their | railroad schemes, I dare say, during the present | ment on the bill drawn up by the Children’s Aid t Society and presented in the House by Mr. Wag staff and in the Senate by Senator Wood, tor the Protection.of factory children. Mr. C. L. Brace, Bec- retary of the Children’s Ald Society, addressed the committees on the pressing needs for such legisla. tion in the city of New York, where the investiga- tion of their agents showed that nearly 100.000 children were employed in factories and shops in New York and its suburbs, the majority of whom were grow! im ignorance, dwaried in body | and ramped mind. Mr. Urace claimed that this great multitude ot UNPROTECTED POOR CHILDREN needed the assistance of State in securing their just rights to educatidu and to the means of health and relaxation. He reviewed at length the history of a tl lation in Great Britain, France, Prossia, varia, Baden and Switzerland during the past thirty years, showing that usually all children under eleven years of age were forbidden to work in facvortes; tthe work of those between eleven and sixteen ears of was limited to eight or ten jours per day, and that a portion of each year’s time was required to be spent in school by every factory child, in some cases the period being three Months and in others six months. In many of these countries time was required to be given these children for relaxation, and in some they were for- bidden to take their meals in the factory rooms. Many acts were quoted securing the sanitary con- dition of these children and guarding them against ex) re to machinery. Mr. Brace also fare ® brief account of the legislation in New Eng- id, and appealed earnestly to the committee not to let New York, with her vast multitude of factory children, be behindhand in this humane and enlightened legislation. Mr. C. E. Whitehead, counsel for the society, woo had drawn ry the bill, represented to the committee that this act included three important points—First, the entire exclusion of children under ten years of age from factories; second, the a o of the hours of labor to sixty in the week; and, third, the requiring from each child either a three months’ day schooling or six monthe’ night Schooling in the year. In case of the support of a famtly depending on minors, on permission of the Ovei seers of the r an exception may be made with such children, Other minor provisions were included designed to support these, a8 well as some relating to the sanitary condition of factories and the protection of chfidren from machinery. Mr. Whitehead urged these humane provisions in an impressive address. The chairman of each committee is a manu- facturer, and many objections were offered; these were all but careinily met by the delegation irom New York, as well as by Mr. Wagstaff, of the House, who warmly sapports the bill. Mr. West, of the House Committee, announced that he should lavor the Jaw with certain modifivations; but Senator Low- Tie, of the Senate Committee, expressed consid er able opposition to it. The House Committee will act Upon it on Wednesday next. Canal Board Appointments. ‘ALBANY, Jan. 29, 1874, The Canal Board this afternoon made the follow- ing appointments :— Division Engineers—David M. Greene, Charles A. Sweet and Ortin D. Fay, Resident Engineers—Charies Bilton, Albert Hill and Charies A. Omsted. Superintendents Erie Canal—Section 1, M. McDonough, West Troy: section 2, B. Van Vran- ken, Schenectady; section 3, U. H. Quackenbush, Fultonville; section 4, 3, Section 5, Henry Ehle, Oneida; section 6, A. Scouten, Manlius; sec- tion 8. B. Rowe, Camilus; section 8, S. D. Streter, Clyde ; section 9, James A. Warren, Brock- tion 10, William McRae, Lockport; section Champlain Canal—Section 1, Daniel F. Wetsel, breeste Falls; section 2, George Connory, Van juren. Patiala La 1, Jobn S. Kenyon, Van en. Cayuga and Seneca Canal—Section 1, James Flanagan, Seneca Falls. Chemung and Crooked Lake Canai—D. P. Dey, Watkins. Chenango Canal—Herman Bennett, Norwich, Genesee Valley Canal—Dennis H. Scanlon, Wheatiana. J Black River Canal—Samuel F. Gorman, Watson, Collectors—Albany, Joun McKenna: West Troy. James Hamerill; Schenectady, John G. Green} Fultonvitle, H. Stewart; Little Falls, A. H. Roof; Utica, H. Ney; Rome, J. B. Bradt; Syracuse, Kzra, Downer; Montezuma, B. Ross; Palmyra, W. W. | Myrick; Rochester, N. Thompson: Brockport, ;_Albion, H. Abel; Medina, L. Hamlin; Lock- rt, W. E. Jenner; Tonawanda, V. J. Aikin; juffalo, blank; Waterford, Isaac Schouten; Fort Edward, W. Kane; hitehall, W. A. Wilkins; Salina, W. McCann: Geneva, Cuarles Fakey; Wat- kins, John Shave; Horseheads, Jonn Butcher; Corning, C.J. Dennison; Penn Yap, 8. C. Cleve- a lamilton, E. D. Mott; Oxford, H.S. Read; ton, J, O'Brien; Mount Morris, F. EK. —Albuny, Jonn McGinnis; Syra- cuse, R. Wright; West ‘troy, P. W. Smith; Rochester, V. ¥. Whitmore: Utica, Jacob Seignat, Assistant Weighmaster's—Albany, Peter Lyon and M. A. Champion; West Troy, M. Bowies and Jono | Flanigan; Utica, James Hayes and bese Snyder; Z. 2 ery and: Thomas Whitbeck ; Utica, M. O’Brien; Sy- racuse, J. Campbell; Rochester, W. H. Tracy; Whitehall, A. D. Gibbs. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE, sah LE at SENATE, . ALBANY, Jan. 29, 1874. Mr. WoopIn offered a resolution appointing Mr. Wilham H. Robertson President pro tem. of the Senate, which was adopted unanimously. Mr. WaGNER presented petitions. signed by 600 persons, ‘or the repeal of chapter 25 of the Laws of 1878, relative to national banks and taxation on stockholders. Mr. Boorse presented the Mfty-sixth annual report of the New York State Library. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. WaGNER—To repeal the act passea May | 16, 1873, relative to illegal taxation. By Mr. Ray—To facilitate the construction of a railroad trom Greenport, Columbia county, to the Hudson River. * By Mr. PARMENTER—To amend the Excise law. | By Mr. WELLMAN—To designate holidays in the | acceptance of bank checks and promissory notes. By Mr. Lowery—To provide for the creation of an extra insurance fund by fire insurance com- panies. Fin New York city. Mr. Fox—for @ street railway from the foot rty-second street, North River, to Madison avenue. Lewis May, Jay 5. Treat. James 0. Ste- | on and many others are named as first corpora- ors. BILLS PASSED. | To incorporate the New York Club. To confirm the oMcial acts of John Meredith Reed, Jr., as Commissioner of Deeds in France. Authorizing County Courts and Courts of Ses- sions to summon additional petit jurors, the same a8 Circuit Courts aud Courts of Uyer and Terminer. Mr. WELLMAaN’S bil! proposes to designate AS PUBLIC HOLIDAYS New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Decora- tion Day a! gu), Joly 4, Christmas’ Day aod Thanksgiving ay. Mr. PARMENTER’S Dill provides for amending sec- tion 7 of the act of April 11, 1870, as follows :— In no town or village shall the Commissioners of Excise appoint a clerk of that Board. The pay ot the Commis ners shali be three dollars per diem. “Moneys collected | trom excise shall be paid within thirty daysto the County ‘Treasurer for the support of the poor. A lengthy debate was had on Senator Lowery’s | Motion to give { A REPORTER'S SEAT | to the Utica Observer, several Senaturs wishing to | add the names o1 papers from thetr several dis- ticts. Te question was finally settled by Sena- tor Woodin offering a resolution directing the Cierk to assign seats to any reporters applying Jor the same without expense to the State. Mr. Gxoss’ bill provides for the repeal of chapter 628 of the Laws of 1871, altering the map of the city of New York. Comptrotier HOPKINS, in response to a resolu- tion, sent a communication to the Senate, giving a copy of the contract made with Weed, Parsons & Co., legislative printers. Mr. Woop's resolutions relative to the bill now before Congress, providing ior ARMING THE MILITIA OF THE STATES, were taken from the table. Mr. Woopin fancied it would not be proper for this body to request ita representatives in Congress to vote jor the bill now before that body, as it was their duty to voce for the measure, and there was no question but that they would do so. Mr. Woop explained the provisions of the bill be- fore Congress, showing it would be a great saving to the State. Mr. LoRD opposed the adoption of the resolu- tlona, saying he feared there was some big job in the scheme which was sought to be passed in Con- If the Governor of this State recommended the passage of the resolutions to the Senate he would vote for them. Mr. Woop reptied that the Governor favored the sage of the reasvlutio The resolutions were laid over. Mr. CoLw called up the majority report. of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, recom- mending the awarding of the seat of the Tenth Senatorial district.to kdward M. Madden. The Clerk read the report as printed in the Sen- ate journal After which the Senate adjourned. ASSEMBLY. ALBANY, Jan. 29, 1874. Mr. ALVORD moved to reconsider the vote had | Syracuse, John da and John Gebhardt, Jr.; wer, Valentine Schwartz, F. Ward and Joseph Fee. ] Boat I ‘West Troy, Lawrence Shaugh- ; to extend its tracks to points near Broadw: | Grand Central depot and Central Park, and for the Senate’s amendment requiring the assent of all tie members of Lhe Board of Estimates, abd that & committee of conierence be appointed. He sakt the bill origimated in the Senate, and provided bonds. On his motion the bill was amended #0 a8 to require three members of the Board to assent, and the Sevate bas since amended it #0 as to re- quire the assent of a) four. Any one, he said, could see what would be the effect of this require- ment. His motion prevailed, and a@ committee of conference wae appointed, DISPOSITION OF BILLS. The House in Committee of the Whole disposed Of the following entitled bills, as noted :— Amending the act regulating the fees of Cor- oners. Ordered to a third reading. To provide for the construction and mainten- wsnce of four additional PUBLIC BATHS im the city of New York. Ordered to @ third read- ing. For the better preservation of horse records. Alter considerable discussion the first section of the bill was stricken out, which destroyed it. On motion of Mr. ALyorD, the Committee on Local aud Special Laws was instructed to report a bill repealing the act for the PRESERVATION OF HORSE RECORDS. Fenn) Vighd ous of opposition ae ae wa an just disposed of by the Committee of the Whole. 4 ‘! Authorizing the appointment of clerks in the Marine Court and court of General Sessions in New York. y the Court of General Sessions D- stead of $6,000, % Mr. C. 5. SPENCER opposed the motion saying it was well known in that city that the services of this officer were well worth $6,000. He spoke in high terms of the abilities o1 the officer. Mr. BLUM&NTHAL insisted that $5,000 was enough to pay for the services of this clerk, He admitted that Mr. Sparks wasa good clerk, but $6,000 was too much to for the services. Mr. BLUM AL’S motion was carried, and he moved to make the salaries of the deputy clerk $3,000 and the assistant deputy $2,500, ir. C. 8. SPENCER sald he would not detain the House with any argument, bus would say he did not believe the taxpayers of New York were in favor of reducing salaries below living rates. He moved to make the salaries $3,500 and $3.000 re- spectively. Carried. ‘The bill was then ordered to @ third reading. . Amending the act for preventing cruelty to ani- mals. It makes a violation of the act @ misde- meanor, aud iurther defines the provisions of the act. Orderea to a third reading. Contirming assessments for improving a portion ee avenue, Brooklyn, Ordered toa third read Mr. Benet presented a petition from Clara E. be fe and 1,200 citizens of Monroe county, asking ry WOMEN BE EXEMPTED FROM TAXATION yas they have extended to them the right to vote. Mr. Wicur presented a memorial of Charles Conor and 6,300 others, asking Jegisiation in favor of the New York Elevated Railway. BILLS REPORTED. By Mr. PRINCE—In favor of naming the new sta- tion in Quarantine Swinburne Island Hospital. By Mr. ALBERGRER—For the consideration of the bill transierring the appointment of canal officers to the Canal Commissioners. Mr. BEEBE dissented from the report. RESOLUTIONS, By Mr. F. G. Porps—Calling on the Comptroller for a statement as to whether any salt lanas are not now In use for the manufacture of sall, and if any, to wh: use they are put, and whether any rental is received Jor them. Adopted. By Mr, Oakizy—That the Commissioners of Emi- gration report to the House the number of persons now under their charge on Ward’s Island and eise- where, when pdhey arrived, on what vessels and how they are now employed. Adopted. By Mr. ALBERGER--That four Commissioners be Pritt ‘by the Governor to represent the State at the CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, at no expense to the State. Laid over. Mr. BRECHER called up his resolution proposing @ joint commission to inquire whether the plans of public . buildings now constructing caupot be changed so as to reduce their cost. Mr. ALVORD moved to amend so as to have the Ways and Means Committee make the investigu- tion, wich was done and the resolution adopted. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. ALBERGER—Amending the act to prevent the aduiteration of milk, By Mr. Gross—Defining the powers and duties of the Monroe county Board of Supervisors; also proven jor the payment of the expenses of rial By Mr, Barrirt—Amending the charter of the Western House of Kemge. By Mr. Kir&—Authorizing she Dry Dock Rall- Toad Com) to change its UFacks. By Mr. ENTHAL—TO close the courts In New York on holidays, By Mr. ©. S. SpenceR—To authorize the Forty- second and Grand Street Railroad Company to | changy its tracks. By Mr, CARPENTER—Amending the medical laws of the State, By Mr. WicuT—To authorize the New York RLEVATED, RAILROAD COMPANY ay, the Governor to designate suitable routes east of A hag avenue from the Kast River to Harlem iver. By Mr. LINCOLN—To provide for retunding moneys advauced for substitutes. The Assembly then adjourned. THE STRANDED FRENOH STEAMER, An ussuccessful attempt was made yesterday to Noat of the stranded French steamer Alexanaer Lavalley, now stranded at the beach at Southamp- ton, on Long Island. A telegram notifying Captain John Young, of the Coast Wrecking Company, in . this city, Was received yesterday afternoon, stat- ing tbat the vessel had been hauled off the beach, | where she first stranded, to a distance of about 800 feet seaward to @ sandbar, but had not been hauled across on account of tne tide. The | vessel had been subsequently floated back from this | By Mr. Gross—To provide for a parade ground | p to prevent any Gauger of “hogging” her or reaking ber back. Captain Young states that she wiil draw about thirteen leet when she crosses the bar. Me says | that the wrecking steamer Relief has taken out @ great deal of her cargo, and the vessel is still tight and in good order. ‘1he cargo taken from her | is on the Relief, which is of about 400 tons burden, | and remains alongside. The pilot who was on the | French steamer and Is alleged to have been below when she struck has joined the vessel again, | HELPING ANOTHER WRECK. | The wrecking steamer Lackawanna, with thirty- | five men on board, inciudinug divers, engineers and | wreckers, has leit this city to try and save the $80,000 cotton cargo of the schooner Queen of the South, ashore at Watch Prague Inlet, ninety miles | below the capes of Delaware. TRIOCHINA SPIRALIS. What the Pork Dealers of Brooklyn Say About It. The reported appearance of the dreaded trichina spiralis among the Western hogs created quite a sensation among the pork dealers of Brooklyn. Messrs. Lock itt & Co., who sell 150,000 hogs per _ year, state that they have not come across asingle diseased hog for years. They buy from the West- ern dealers, principally from Illinois and lowa. Mr. W. E. Smith, another extensive dealer in Western port handles 20,000 hogs every year, and has never | ir d occasion to return more than two hogs in a of and those were diseased by reason ol having ad the measies, “Pork,” said Mr, Smith, “is just now higher than | it has been for three years, One year ago we paid 64c. for it, now we are giving 8c. 1 paid $c, for what f got in this morning. I remember the last excitement about trichina. It was, 1 am informed, got up by dealers who thereby suc- ceeded im bringing the price of alderabiy. 1 wouldn’t mind myself if it did come The Board of Health has instructed the in- spectors to pay particular attention to the subject | of trichina spiralis, and the meat inspectors will examine all iresh arrivals of pork from the West. THE STARKWEATHER LETTER, NoRwiog, Conn,, Jan. 29, 1874. The Norwich Dudetin of to-morrow will contain substantially the following in explanation of the Starkweather lewer to Mr. Huntington:—Mr, Huntington was ‘Treasurer of the Republican Con- gressional Committee, and had previously offered to send funds into the State to be used in electng Governor Jewell, and also to elect Mr. Stark- Weather, This had been done several times before. The money Was raised among republicans in Wash- ington. Mr. Starkweather himself had given money on several occasions to be used in the elec- | tion of others. He and Mr, Huntington were old acquaintances. When Mr. Starkweather reached home he wrote the letter for the ald promised. At that time the District government was not organ- ized, nor was it until June, 1871. Mr. Starkweather had never been interested in the affairs of the Dis- trict til he was made chairman of the District of Columbia Committee in December, 1871. Until then he never knew a member of the Board of Public Works, and never since has he recom- mended any! to any office under the govern- ment, or for any contract, nor bas he in any way done anything outside of ins duties as chairman of the committee. FIRE IN A LIQUOR STORE. Abcut balf-past three o’ciock yesterday morning ork down con- | | Worst had yet to come, | finished the work of stown E SHEET. THB STRAUSUIP ANERIQUE, that one man should have the power totasuethe} The Latest Addition to the French Line. Her Dimensions, Accommodations, Machinery | and Officers—A Lucky First Voyage—Res- cuing the Crew of a Water-Logged Vessel—Story of Trials and Sufferings. | The steamship Amériqne, the latest addition to the General Transatlantic Company, arrive at her pier, No, 60 North River, early yesterday morn- | ing after a boisterous and eventful passage of eleven days and four hours, mean time, from Brest. She left the latter port at six o'clock P. M. on the 17th inst., having favorable weather the first and second days out, with turbulent seas, and from this time encountered heavy bead winds and tremendous cross seas, reaching the var at Sandy Hook at ten o’clock on Wednesday evening, after @ detention of four hours in rescuing a water-logged crew, of which mention will be fally made below. ‘This vessel, though not as farge ae one or two of the line, has beea furnished with all the improve- ments which an extended experience and @ pro- fuse outlay of money can secure. She is one of the first steamships of the line rebuilt—the Atlantique, of the South American trade—with new frames, new decks, new engines and boilers, new upper works, and internal appointments new in every Tespect. She was reconstructed and lengthened in hull by Messrs. Lesue & Oo., of Hebburn. Newcastle-ou-Tyne, and her improved machinery is irom the extensive works of Messrs. Mandsleys, Sons & Field, of London. Her dimen- sions are as lollows:—Length on deck, 410 feet; breadth of beam, 43 feet 6 inches; depth of hold, 39 feet 3 inches; ee of water at load line, 24 feet; has four decks, is bark rigged and 1s of 4,560 tons burden, builders’ measurement, while het registered tonnage 1s 2,800 tons. ihe bottom plat- ing of the Amérique is seven-eighths of an inch, which, at her sides, 1s reduced to three-quurters of an inch, and on every deck there are beam ties, or stringers, in such nomber and character us to give the vessel great strength and durability, MACHINERY. The Amérrque’s motive power ts of a novel char- acter and consists of four engines, which are termed “compound direct-acting,” the two high pressure cylinders being of 41 incnes each in diam- eter and the two low pressure cylinders of 75 inches each in diameter, with # untiorm stroke of piston of 4 feet 3inches. Steam is provided by six boilers, placed length wise ol the vessel, each having four furnaces. Tne departments of [reight and of the anchors and of the precautions against fire and the security to prevent it are operated by independent engines and pumps. There are Six water-tight bulkueads im the vessel, and the arrangements for proper ventilation are of the most perfect and improved nature. ACCOMMODATIONS. The accommodations for passengers are of the luxuriant character that this line has long been noted for. The entrance to the saloon 18 grand and elegant, being surrounded with tropical plants, and, a8 you descend, the eye rests Upon appointments of the firat order and which are hardly second to the magnificence Of those vessels which have preceded them on the route hence to Havre. The saloon is wide and high, the panels being of solid marble, orna- mented with figures wrought in gold, while the ceiling 18 exquisitely finished in white, with gold beads, which give it an attractive appearance. Mirrors are on every hand, and to further adorn the apartment are a grand piano anda library con- taining the popular works of the day, which are open to the passengers. On the same deck, and opposite the grand entrance, ia a smoking room, whose coseyness and appointments will commend themselves to the old ocean traveller, Ait and forward of the saloon are THE STATBROOMS for the frst class passengers, and there is not @ vessel in the port o: New York the apart- ments of which are so roomy and present so much comiort. The fixtures are of the most comfortable nature and the fittings ample in every respect. In these rooms of retirement there can be accommodated 112 passengers called ‘first class,” and on the deck below, but jooking quite as pleasant and agreeable, there ean be vertned in roomy rooms 114 second class passengers, Ventilation in these quarters 18 perfect, and these lounging piaces are just as sumptuous as those on the deck above. On the saloon deck are the ladies’ retiring cavin, furnished in blue, the bathrooms and lavatory jor the same sex, while those for the gentlemen are just as pleasant, but removed a considerable dis- tance from the first named. Among the many improvements, or rather sug- gested different arrangements on board, are the Ife preserversin the ‘staterooms and other por- tons Of the vessel, all easily reached, and the tea oh lifeboats are so arranged as to be lowered at will, LIST OF OFFICERS. ‘The oMcers of the Amerique, fourteen in num- ber, and with a crew of 132, make up a ship’s com- plement of 152 persons, Many of these have passed through great peril on the ocean highway, but are atill devoted to their profession as followers of Neptune. The officers are as annexed :— Captain—Roussan, Second Lieutenant—Gaillard. Third Liewenant—Camoreit. Purser—Vié. Assistant Purser —Durbec, Surgeon—Fallé. ol —Keesen. Assistant Engincers—Movillé, Wallet, Pinon, Lassere, Meillour. RESCUING AN ENGLISH CREW. | Not only did the Amerique make a deciaediy ex- | cellent first trip across the ocean, but she was in- strumental tm rescuing {rom ‘a horrible death | eleven Engiish sailors, who momentartly expected | to be swallowed up by the giant waves o! the Atlantic. ‘This occurred on the 2ist inst., at | 10 A. M., in latitude 47 deg. 23 min. and ta longitude { 29 deg. 30 min., (meridan Of Paris) and was 60 suc- cessiul in the ace of great peril and even death | that it must be hailed as a harbinger of nope to the new crait. ‘The story of the deliverance from the pains of death of the crew of .he bark | Zaran is better told in the language of Cuptain | David Crowther, who was interviewed late yester- | duy aiternoon by & HERALD reporter. He said | that the bark Zarah, trom Pensacola, fla., to Swansea, Wales, leit the former port at eight | o'clock A. M., December 13, laden with logwova | and iumber. We made sail after crossing the bar | with a iresh breeze from the northwest, and pro- | ceeded on our voyage, feeling that EVERYTHING WaS ALL RIGHT. | Pleasantly and snugly we went along until | Christmas, und no crew ever felt more satisticd | than ours ag they expressed again and again that It seemed as if the voyage ‘would be “lucky.” | On this day, when the world felt at peace, and just alter the Christmas dinner had been served, it commenved to blow from the east-southeast, and a heavy cross sea Knocked our vessel about so | fearfully that the joy of the few hours betore turned into terrible forebodings for the future. We | hove the bark to under close reefed maintopsail, | but ali the ume she Was laboring very heavily, and | to our great consternation It was discovered that | she haa sprung aleak and was fast making water. During the night the gale moderated and then we | put the snip before the wind, hoping for better | times; but im the early morning of the | 26th the wind veered to the Wwest-north- | west, and, “biowing great guns,” the sea was tremendous and full or peril. 'e were now in latitude 31 deg. 4 min. north and longitude 71 deg. 28 min. west. That night closed in full of loom, und every one on board expressed the tear | lat there would “be great trouble betore port was | reached.” From this date until the 18th of Jan- uary there was @ succession of strong and va- | Tiable winds, accompanied with heavy cross | Seas, and there became a settled convic- tion in the minds of that great ex- awaiting them. But tne | Posure, if not death, wer | CREW AS BRAVE | as ever stepped on board a crait, and worked with a will during the days and nights of tatigue that followed. 7 noon of the date last given (18th | jest) latitude 47 deg. 45 mim. north, longitude 28 deg. 41 min. west, the ba- rometer, though very low, was falling fast, and, despite the waves, which ran mountains high, we commenced taking in sail, tearful that the | At four o’clock P. M. it | oderate, with light winds, and then was the foresail and fore- topsail, when we hove the bark to om the star- | board tack under the lower maintopsail. The | wind now piped viciously from the southeast, and, at ten o’clock P. M., there was a thunder squall, accompanied with terrific lightning, and the sea became more angry than ev it was ‘nasty and | dangerous.” The ship bored very heavily, and was making water so fast tl all hands went to the pamps ana did what was in their power to relieve her, but in vain. At mid- nigot a hurricane came upon them, with the sea making a complete breach over the vessel, washing ulwarks and stanchions and making 4 | wreck o1 the long boat, Tne leak was increasing | all the while, and the crew striving by almost | superhuman exertions to relieve the 1 ited craft of water; but it had now settied to # confirmed fact that began to ALL EFFORTS WERE HOPELESS. About noon, 19th inst., the wind came ont from the north-northwest, and at four o’ciock P. M. we squared away, thinking we might ease the snip, but soon had to oring her about on the port tack. ‘The water was gaining headway, and at midnight, with heavy cross seas, the bark was settling fast, with no hopes of saving her. On the 20th, at six A. M., she was filled with water; we got some provisions, and, with water, took them into the main ‘where, eight o’clock P. M., all hands went, after cutting away the main’ lantmast, miz- zentopmast and foretopmast with all attached, Wednesday, Zist inst., ib was more moderate, yet ‘8 dirty cross sea was running. All hopes o/ saving | io 3 Amérique bove in sight, and, signais of distress, lowered a ltieboat, an charge of one of its lieutenants, who at the peril of the Jives of himself and crew Tescued At this time ali the bulwarks and stanchions were gone and the deck breaking up, HUNGRY, C0) AND WET, ‘They took us oa board, and, as humane sailors observing ont only Know how, treated ns with ail possible Kind. ness, They jurnished us clothing, and, when in condition to partake of it, yave us all that heart could wish ‘or to revive and strengthen us. Captain Crowth ther said that the heartielt thanks of the crew were due the oMcers and men of the Amer. ique, and whenever they again “go down to the sea” they shall remember the treatment they re- ceived, The British Consul, upon application, furnished these ill-fated mariners WIth the neccessary means roceed to England, he Zarah was of 365 tons register, owned by -Messrs, E. 0. Broad & Co., of Padstow, Bogland, aud was eigh HUNTING FOR HAMILTON. patria Pn Further Defalcations—The Police Baf- fled—The Bondsmen of the Fugitive Trying to Evade ‘heir Responsibility— No Runaways Yesterday. In regard to the defaication of the runaway Hamilton the peopie of Jersey Gity have heard only bali the troth. The amount of the delaica- tion is traced by the ascending scale—to use & musical term, for there is music in the air—as the investigation progresses. The members of the Board of Finance are ominously reticent, and soma. appear ubusually thoughtful. ‘The only satisfac- tory answer given to every inquiry is that the scrutiny of the Treasurer's accounts is pot yes completed. But in spite of all reserve and caution it has leaked out that so far as balances in’ the ac~ counts have been tested—bank accounts andi bonded accounts compined—tire defaication will not settle down short of $75,000. Mayor O'Neill waa asked at nine o’clock last nigot if he had anything, new toreport and he answered in the negative, The following despatch was received from Boston at the HERALD office :— Two detectives (Clos and Bowe) from Jersey City have been perambulating Boston and vicinity during the past two days in search of Hamilton, the defaulting and absconding city oMcial. Ihey have learned nothing whatever of his whereabouts: and are satistied that his Might was not in this direction, The actress whom he was supposed to have accompanied here has not been in Boston tor several weeks. The pursuing detectives were summoned home this afternoon by the Chief of Police of Jersey City. A HERALD reporter met Chief of Police Champney shortly before nine o’ciock in the evening, but he had nothing to communicate. The truth is that the police are completely battled and can do nothing effectively in the case. Whatever little they accomplish in any case is withheld srom the reporters by an order from the Chief—an order which would never be tolerated if the people haa Not been robbed of self-government and, as is now seen, of their money. If the Finance Department has proved a blunder, the Police Department hag proved a tyranny without precedent in Jersey City. The newest feature in this defalcation is that the bondsmen of the Treagurer are all endeavor- ing to shirk their responsibilty. Each one, except Hamilton’s father, denies that he signed the bond,. If they should evade their obligations through any legal technicalities the position of the secretary of the Board of Finance will become a serious one, According to the statements of some of the bonds- men the whole affair was a traud—nothing more than straw bail. [i this be true the members of the Board of Finance will have to answer before. the courts, Mr. Lockwood, of the Board of Finance, an® Mr. Neilson called on Wednesday evening at the Coleman Huuse, in which Miss Montague, the ac~ tress, is in the habit of staying, and learned that she had left there last Friday evening. She nadj received @ telegram from some quarter and lefe hastily in response thereto. It is believed by mang hat Hamilton has goue South. The wildest rumors were afoat yesterday in re~ ard to further disappearances. It was stated thag Wo of the Treasurer’s account books were miss- ing, but the statement was ubiounded. Neither te it true that any defaication was discovered in other departinents under control of the Board of Finance. The public seems to have lost all confidence in integrity of the ofMicials, A meeting of the members of the Legislature from Hudson county will be held to- morrow, When @ discussion will take place on the propriety of having the Jersey City charter re- pealea and the right of seli-government restored to the people. Only @ measure like this can allay the present excitement and restore public con- fidence. Any member in the Legislature who would defend or sustain the present administra- tion must be dead to every sense of merality, PACIFIC MAIL. poet ee mt of the Company—Its Gains and Losses. New York, Jan. 28, 1874 The Board of Directors bave authorized the pub» ication of @ report and statement to the stock- holders Gf the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, of which the principal facta and figures are sub- joined :— fur- an'a the Stat THE REPORT. Owing to the manner in which the accounts of the company have heretofore been kept, and the oficial reports yearly certified to and pubiished ac- cording to law, they have found themselves em- barrassed in the discharge of so important # duty, and have been compelled to enter upon explana- tuons that they would have preferred to have omitted. ‘rhe accounts of the company show no charge ta depreciation account lor @ long period of years, walle the fact i8 well known tuat steamship prop- erty deteriorates by at least ten to fliteen per cent per annum. In the various official yearly statementa fur~ nished wo the Legislature and circulated in the public har aed ‘the actual cost of all the steam- ers ownea by the company, without reference to their depreciation, has been persistently adhered to, by which means the capital stock has becm made to appear in an unimpaired con- dition, or as representing an actual value of $20,000,000, wherras the true value of the steamships, varying in iy twenty-two years to six, seven and eight years, and representing on the books of the company over $11,500,000. are iound, by a careful examina- tion and by a reference of the subject to well qualt- fied experts, to have depreciated to less than one- quarter that sum. + It is also distinctly apparent that the old side- wheel wooden steamers have not been used with any profit to the company, and that the substitu- tion of the iron propellers has become an absolate prerequisite to future success. With this conviction the company 1s aevoting ail its efforts to the introduction of tnis class of ves- sel. Large economies are certain to be effected bv this change, and a confident reliance is place@ upon greater productiveness than has been en-. joyed for a long pone as soon as the fleet, con- sisting of eight first class iron screws, are fairly. afloat aud in the position fesuired for the proper: discharge of the duties of its extended ana ima portant service, It is proper to state that while the wooden side-. wheel steamers belonging to the company no longer constitute an availabie asset for @ sum,. perhaps, beyond that aifxed upon it oy the Board) Mf offered for sale, many of the ships, however, for the present are availabie for the work of the com- pany, and may have a greater value in their hands than can be found anywhere else. It will be the effort of the Board to make them subdserve the company’s objects until the new steamers are all in place. th the matter of insurance the Company has; been its own underwriters; but no credit appears: in the insurance account, while since Angust, 1872, five steamers have been lost, property oharged in the old account as costing $1,763,4 ‘The present board have devoced themseives to a. heavy reduction of expense in all and every de- partment of the Comvany’s service, and while tho Present statement of its assets shows a consider- ble reduction im the value Of the capital stock, ther jacts and figures have long existed and havei been at all times under the control of the stock- holders. if they have failed to require irom they mal rs correct and reliable data as to thei actual condition of affairs they have only them- selves to blame. ‘The policy of the present Board will continue tay be exercised on the side of economy and Metescy and they allow themselves to believe that by these! processes the company will yet play an ienonteel ‘+ in the history of the steam marine of 1} Pnitea States. RUSSELL SAGE, President. STATISTICS. Statement of receipts and expenses for the quare ter ending October 31, 1873:— Gross recei Expenses, i PaciFIC MAIL Dts. «.-eressree including repair: NOVEMBER 1, Anseta, Cash oe is ie . h with agents and porsers. California dry dock stock, 2,085 shares. Sundry accounts : ‘ Total : Coal, Outfits and supplies. Payments on new iron steamers— Acapuico, Granada, Colon, Colima, Jeddo, iy of Pekin building. Steamers and lighters. ms 331,400 91,710,508 the craft had fled, and when despair had almost ttled upon opr hearts the Franch ateamahio Grand tatal