The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1874, Page 4

Mass Meeting of Merchants at Cooper Institute. —-——— CONTRACTION VS. INFLATION. A Strong Protest Against the Action of the House To Be Presented to the Senate. Speeches by the Chairman, Mr. Bryant ; | Elliott C. Cowdin, A. A. Low, Mr. Atkinson, of Mass., and Others, The universal pocket and the aniversal heart are closely allied. Touch the one and you send a pulsating thrill through the other. A call fora mass meeting last evening in the large hall of the Cooper Institute to aiscuss the question of our | national finances could hardly fail, therefore, to draw together a large assemblage. The hall, in fact, was crowded to its utmost capacity, by an as- semblage not of that mixed character, however, one is accustomed to see at our great political gatherings or on special exciting occasions, in- Viting discussions of questions involving matters of mere local interest, but a gathering made up ofour }solid business men. /t was, in short, a representa- jtive meeting of our bankers and merchants—a representation of our commercial greatness and \prosperity, and, through its exponents, a firm and \dignified protest against any Congressional legis- lation tending to swell our national currency and thereby impair the deep and broad and solid foundauon giving to the government \its present invulnerable strength at home and its /high character abroad. While everywhere through. | out this vast assemblage were to be seen men whose names are a power on ’Change, the assem- Dlage on the platform in its number of our great financial magnates was one such as has never before been seen at any meeting in this city. It is un- necessary to give theit names, the most comprising the list of well known signers to the call for the meeting and the officers, Such unity of sentiment rarely pervades a public gathering. To the resolu- tions or speecties there was not a dissenting voice, vut the former were most heartily indorged, and snixed with the close and earnest attention given tothe latter were frequent expressions of most hearty approval. Altogether the meeting was a {reat success, exceeding in every regard, in fact, the expectations of the most sanguine. Mr. GEORGE UPDYKE, in a few appropriate words, nominated Mr, William Cullen Bryant for President of the meeting, (Cher SPEECH OF MR, BRYANT. Mr. WrittsM ©. BRYANT, on coming forward to ldress the meeting, was loudly cheered. He Aid:—“I am glad to see in this concourse proof of the interest with which tae public of New York regard the object of the meeting. For it is a auost important guestion that we are to consider— the question whether our government is to go any deeper into the ignominy of a false financial pol- icy—the policy of palming upon the country a cur- ncy of dishonored notes as a measure of value. You remember the circumstances under which this policy Was resolved upon. It was excused only as a ‘war measure. The irredeemable paver was tssued, | the era of mad speculation came and passed; the era of panic arrived, and now we hear the pre- dicted clamor“for more issues of lying promises from the government presses. I they are sanc- toned by Congress, and have the effect which they are intended to bave, they will revive speculation, they will lead to another collapse of credit, an- otuer era of commercial ruin and utter stagnation of trade. history. If this be not so the anuals of the world are a fable and experience @ cheat. Measure fraught with euch consequences we are ‘esembied to protest. If Congress should be moved by clamor to more notes, the condition oi Whose exis- tence is to be dishonored, what business will the king of birds—the eagie, whose fight is above that of all the other fowls of the air— | have on an escutcheon which this policy wili dis- grace in the eyes of the worla? Let his image | then, be biotted out; obliterate, also, the stars of heaven; efface the stripes of morning light which should be the promise of a day of giory and honor, and, instead of those emblems, let the limner draw on the broad sheet the image of a razor huge enough to be wielded by the giant Despair— @ gentieman with whgm, if this deitand for more Paper money be fanted, We are destined to Scrape a closer acquaintance than/we lave en- joyed yet—and on the enormous /biade let the ‘words be inscribed in staring letters, “Warranted to shave ;” and jet the two supporters of this ma- jestic umplement—the two razor bearers—be Morton, of inviana, and Kelley, of Pennsylvania, or, perhaps, Butler, of Massachusetts, may sustain the charge alone. (Cheers.) | VICE PRESIDENTS, Colonel ETHAN ALLEN read a list of Vice Presidents | ofthe meeting. Among these were the names of Alexander 7. svewart, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Peter Cooper, Moses Taylor, William H. Aspinwall, William B. Astor, Whitelaw Reid, Wiiliam F, Have- meyer, John Jacob Astor, and several other gentle- Med Oi local influence. “Ihe list was upanimousiy adopted, a8 was “iso a list of Secretaries, which included the names of odore F, Alien, Henry E. Davies, Jr., Bernard Casseriee, Sigismund Kauff- man, Uyrus Butler, Joseph Larocque, Henry A. Oakley, &c. Mr Cowdin said SPEECH OF MR. ELLIOT C. COWDIN. MR. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW CITIZENS:—Before submitting to the meeting the resolutions of we committee, I beg leave to make a few observations, which wil necessarily be very general im their character. The present occasion affords me no op- portunity to reier to the causes of the present dis- uess among the working classes, except in the most summecy manner. They spring mainly from reckless sp overtrading, high prices, lavish expenditures, a redundancy of irredeemable paper money and mortgaging to an unparaileied extent the doubtful earnings of the future to meet the extravagant outlays oi the present. From what quarter and in what form can re- er be obtained? The teachings oi the last thirteen years make it quite natural that people should turn to the federal government for aii, What the country now asks oi the govern- ment 1s, to immediately prociaim that it does not intend to do one thing, aud that it does intend to do another thing. We ask Congress to declare that ii will not still jurtner aggravate the foancial embarrassments of the nation by swelling to any | extent and in any mode, and under any pretext, the existing volume of irredeemabie paper cur- rency. We also ask Congress to take prompt steps Jor sulfilling the promise it gave to the country in the law oi March 18, 1869, wherein it Was enacted in express words that the United States solemnly Pledges its taith to make provision at the earliest | ear tog period for the redemption of the nited States notes in coin, Tne fallacy which confoonds ali sound distinctions on the subject, 18, that @ paper promise to pay money when made by @ government is itself money. Nobody ever dreamed that such a promise, when made by an individual, Was money. Pray, by what process is such & promise by a government, especially if the promise is broken every day in tue year, con- verted into money? ask, shall such a measure, resorted to amid the extremest perils of war to save the Union, be engraited upon the permanent policy of the nation in a season of profound peace? AgTeat nation that relies on irredeem- able paper currency is at the mercy of every other great nation whose circulating medium is convert- ible into gold and silver, which civilized nations throngh all time nave regarded as money. Irre- deemavile paper invariably gravitates towards de- preciation, and then produces ruinous fluctuations in business circles. 1t renders a fixed standard ot values an imposstbility, and hence tuose engage: in legitimate business must either stand still and rust or go forward at the risk of being ruined. Se eminent an authority a8 Daniel Webster has said of an irredeemable fluctuating currency, that is One Of the greatest practical evils,” that “it wars against industry, frugality and economy, and fosters ile evil spirits of extravagance ald Spectilation, and that of all the contrivances jor cheating tue laboring classes of munkind none has been more effectual.” We need only to cail to mind the Continental money which became dust in the hands of the heroes who achieved our inde- pendence, and the greenbacks of to-day are of juctuating value because the ‘Treasury does not pay them in coin according to the terms of the promise, in my jadg- meut the sentiment of the sound. oust ness mau of the country 1s opposed to the indefinite continuance Of this state of the finances ; opposed, utterly opposed, to the issue of any more legal tenders Or other paper currency by the federai government. Jt is an act of banking, and banking 14 not one of the legitimate functions of that gov- | ernment. To go to the root ol the matter, why should there be any more delicacy about request- ing the government or @ bank to pay their notes in something better than in another of their promises than there is in callmgon an individual to pay bis notes? For Congress to delay another day without Po gen | the way jor ment by and by is to th ast degree reprenensible, Kesumption would not Interfere with loans Jor legitimate business. ‘Tne volume of currency is now sufficient to enable any- body who can give ample security for joans io borrow all they heed tor genuine business pur- poses, But 1 will occuvy no more of your time. | and Germany, who have sense eaough to KNOW | Aut and said, “Michael wm view of the punishincat This is smpiy repeating the lessons of | Against a | disgrace the country by issuing | . ‘ ; , I NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. / except im presenting for your consideration the following preambie fuld resolutions ;— Whereas a promise to pry money, whether emanat- separabie, a8 with Auséria, and France, | tions now struggling to throw the burden of a false standard of value—while our most potent, ing trom an thdividual of ® governwent, ls not oi grave and revere a — ors are elther ¥ “ge Whereas an increase of so called ermoney by norant or so utterly voi Pan to re-enact and increase the et i Ye. | our government at this time, with the understanding | that itis not t be redeemed with coin when duly de- manded, Would produce alarm and consternation, im, peril the entire credit system throughout the land,’and | use all prudent men to make future contracts only in wolt at the present standard of weight and flneness; | would be injurious a power of They may have made the right and honest course more diMcult by condoning an act for which the Secretary of tne Treasury should have been im- peached snd not justified. In the name of common Sell-nterest, let us keep up our courage. and here it would lower | ana mow begin ? ceeanise that pe perry pumps re “ , and soon will, iuclude eve! jonest man ne and demoralizing | to everybody who, DA case | HUMOR, aud suite, Nip aud ch one, high or | tt fluctuations | low, who dares continue to entorce @ lie as the rd only standard of value in this great nation. (Ap- plause). Mr. OpDYKE addressed the meeting. He had a few words to say in defence of the despised and much abused greenbacks. According to his best judgment these greenbacks, though not without Jal had proved the best currency we ever had, considering the circumstances which had calied them into being. One grave mistake in connec- tion with their issue was that they had ever been sa lurious to Incousiderate men. | embark im hazardous scheme: jurious, Stable business men, because these fluctuatlons and | Speculations would tend to deter thein from engaging in | the legitiuayg branches of trate, commerce and -manu- tactures, and, moreover, would deprive them in a meas ure of the use of their fair share of the money and capi- talof the country; and, finally, would be injurious to the agricultural, Judustrial and laboring classes; b i. history and our recent experience | wade legal tenders, He had op| it, He has ‘taught’ then, It) would ‘e the price of | thought it wrong, however, to denounce the those commodities which they need for daily | system of currency which had proved such a safe hout. conierriug upon ‘them compensating | andreliable staif for the support of the govern- ment and the Union during the war. With regard to the currency question as before Congress, he said itwas obvious that there ig but one way to avoid the evils incident to both expansion and use, Ww benefits; and whereas, in the judgment of this meeting, the exis!ing Volume of tho currency is sufficiently large | for carrying on the legitunate business of the country, and thit a return to specie payments. at the eariicst practicable day is alike the dictate of good faith aud soul oliey ; therefore, coptraction—namely, tu steadfastly maintain the | ““Kesolyed, That, in the opinion of the business men of . | the city’ of New York here assanbled, it would be unjust, | VOUMe of the paper currency at the lmit now established by law, and to permit our rapidly ise and highly prejudicial to the interests of the whoi af people t | increasing internal commerce to grow up to tt. whole American people tor Congress, in this era of pro found peace, to swell the present volume of currency by | ‘This would require but very few years, and then | providing tor an additional issue of United States lexal | the resumption of specie payment would come | fender notes or any other kind of irredvemable paver | naturally and without financial disasters, He was | Resolved, That if tt be deemed expedient by Congress | Satisfled that Congress would not adopt the policy toestablish a system of free bunking or to uuthorice a | Of Contraction, The popular excitement was so } further issue of uational bank notes we insist that the | strong agamst it that very few members honor and credit of the government a3 well as the safety | would have the temerit; to vote for b ed ae eawenad wei cenicd kon ten te | it. Nor need we fear that Congress will on so 0 = stringent restrictions; that the existing provision of law | Suthorize | the issue of greenbacks beyond requiring @ reserve of twenty-five per cent be main- | What it seems to regard the present authorized tained, and thatone of {ts tundamental and irrevocable | Volume of $400,000,000. But there seems to be & provisions shall be au etlicient mode ot redemption tn | one Probability that it will in some form = coin. thori otes, ‘Hesolved, That the prompt action of Congress in avow- | isis expansion Wateds: the aoe, Dank note ing as the settled policy of the government that no more | g, t ‘ currency of apy kind ‘not redeemable in coin shall be |-Geemable in gold, as our resolutions propose. ued, Will tend to allay present anxiety, restore con. | With some modifications he was in favor of the issued, Ly I ty | dence, and give new lite and prospertiy to commerce | resolutions and would heartily endorse them. and the gener: business of the country. Mr. Simeon D. Chittenden and Mr, William Wood SPESCH OF A. A. Low. also addressed the meeting in support of the reso- FELLOW CiTizeNs—The object of this meeting | lutions, after whion the meeting adjourned. and of the resolutions that have been read, as I | LETTER FROM CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. | understand, 1s by our presence and by our words | _ During the progress of the meeting the following to ew and eplorce the sentiments which | letter was read by the Secretary :— } have already been urged by memorial and petition Boston, March 19, 1874. | to Congress; to deciare our hostility to the exer- | Messrs. Erwan Aucex, Craus W, Fusip, B. B. Sikuman, cise of douotiul powers, tending to the derange- | Ca 1 af he eS i | ment of business throughout the country, and to | ihoerh seein ai fe stare bonoren your invitation, | the demorauzation of the public mind; to resist | “Phe subject proposed to me for discussion at your meet: | the re-enactment of “war measures” in @ time Of | ing was a tavorite suidy of mine more than thirty years | Profound peace, and the continued issue of irre- | ago. Neither bas it lost its interest yet, But un effort to | deemabie paper mong | which bears the character saan ae would call tor space far beyoud the of a “torced loan.” Alter reterring at consider- | Mmits of w letter. | able length, to tue opinions o1 Mr. E.G. Spaulding, | ,,(7u°,01, the cluel wants of the present day seems to me | oi New York; Mr, Morrill, of Vermont; Mr. Bing- | jation. In no departwent of knowledge is there so muc | ham, Mr. Horton, of Onio; Mr. Kellogg, of lnois; | uncertainty. Hence it comes that in our practice wi | Mr. Stevens, Mr. Lovejoy, of Lilinots; Mr. George | commit soinany mistakes. opposed to the eXpansion of paper money, he | 4 wegen arb ol ha while recognizing the existence Of the discretion, | jection of the revenue necessary to meet the wants of in the last resort, under the law of necessity, the | the government, as provided by Congress, and the pre- uestlon still remains if this necessity NOW eXists ¥ | cise disbursement of the funds thus received, according q d 1 Lsbail not cease to be irank. | to law, being me legitimate dues of the Treasury, they {eisHROOMMALY tO InGar all-tae dunquestiountie oviie | Should never Lave heen associated with any atveitiot to act of Congress; to suffer the stain npon our Da- | and silver coin. The power of Congress to deal with tivnal faith; to bear the stigma of @ seeming re- | that subject is umited to the establishment of a form of pudiation; to lose, tor the“ pres nt, that credit | coinage ana “regulating the value thercot.” This last cl : ent, mi r r 7 : ol | phrase can only mean a power to impress upon th . ue C sac S w Will 0: the stronger ? Surely tuere is much in these | tie treasury itself is bound: to. Fecognize, “To assure inquiries which May make us pause, * * | that its power goes beyond this limit would lead ouly to | Aud we must ail set our iaces against any proposi- | contusion. For it is obvious that the value of such uon like the present except as acemperaty ex: Pings Ss the Bea eee pedient, rendered imperative by the Sa itis de? y b ere of operations of single governments. ‘The at igency ‘of the hour.” Mr, Low argued that the | {npr has often been made todo more aun it has always Dill pending for a paper curreucy was a War | fated. measure resulting [rom necessity, He said:—The | Moreover, while it is clear thatitis no part of the le- su than any within th © resoiution now before the meeting, to which i have | gitimate business of the fnanctal department to pass out- | | side of the prescribed line of its duty, it is, nevertheless, incumbent upon it, so tur as it can be done within thai line, to fix its administration upon a basis clearly under- been asked to speak, however limited in its scope, has been pre; by the committee with the view | of keeping the discussion this evening wituin a | stood by the commumity not to be subject to trequent or harrow compass. Were it not so the tncon- | hasty changes. What tae industrious and commercial | veniences, losses, perpiexities and evils resulting classes want, above all things, is steadiness In as many of | from the use of an irredeemable paper currency, | the elements'on which trade and labor depend as possi- ble. | There is quite enough of uncertainty in those be- to which it would otherwise be natural to reler, A ne Be pat 2 be t forth, and yond human control to render it unadvisable neediessly have so olten and go ably been set Jorth, and are | to mulupiy them. For any government 1o weaken con- | So familiar to the merchants of this city. that they | fidence inthe permanence of a policy by irequent re- | do not need to be repeated by me. They are nO | course toexceptional movements is an unpardonable greater now than they have been during the last mistake. | ten years. The danger is that they will be magui- | | fied” rather than diminisued, and not @ ilit- | Thave never entertained a doubt that Congress trans- cended its authority when it assumed the rigii ii promises to pay toney which it did not at the <ame tur tle of the danger grows out of an impa- provide any means to pay, and then undertook to to { uept cry for early action on the part of | the people to take them ata rate higher than they we | Congress in apparent disregard oi the character of | reaily'woru). “Credit. In. trade depends upob tlie stric and “punctual that action—whether it be to fix the limit of legai € | tender issues at $556,000,000, $00,000,000, or some other sum. I have no sympathy with this outcry. | Unless We can have the right Kind of action it is periormance of agreements general is the offspring of integrity. Nobody itatpleasure. To expect, then, th note known to carry a lie on ‘its face, i as on an equal Value with coin 14 simply folly. Not all | better not to have any action at all, We have had | the laws that ever were made by the most absolute of enough of limitations, of promises and pledges; | military chiettains, nor all the force which could be ap und 1! those hituerto given are to be disregarded | plied to their execution could ever make any sane nun by Congress, and aby issue oi greenbacks what- eVer beyond the $350,000,000 already existing is to | | be autuorized, all sense Of security will vanisn, | and there will lie before us Only oue Vast wilder- | more than a rank absurdity. Everybody knows that | Wess of uncertainty, whieh iatth and hope, oe Boer ys oa renee eegh on oles orb | auke lost. if tue merchants of New York, | ses “ . 2 1005 standing by the gates of entrance through whica | sO lurgé 4 part of the foreigu commerce of the country flows, are nowalive to the vast importance of a sound currency, redeemabie in goid or siiver, | where can just views be expected to prevail ¥ Ido not believe ubat the duiness of trade which rf . mainly due to the inaction of Congress, however | Many people, doubtiess, suppose that men are specu desirable early action may be, il 1c 1s im tae right lating on the jue ot gold, because it is so designated direction. I have 20 sympathy Whatever with tuat | in the newspapers; whereas, the fact is undeniable ty make | re Without performance of the promise is of as much yulue as the gold itelf. It tollows, then, that the Congressional tulmination of legal tenders was no shitting accidents of trade. worth exactly the same sum for any two days together. And what has been the co2sequence? Do we not see it in the developmeut of the passion tor gambling, which has been nowhere carried to a greater extent than in your great city. The appreciation of tais truth has been, act rho 4 - | that of all the precious” metals, gold is. that | part of ine resolution wivch demands an immed | Ut oF, tie Precious meat, ead tua | that wich occupies the attention of both houses | £0be., The rambling with us springs trom the frequent changes in the value of the paper promises with which | of Congress at the present time. It is a question | gold is paid for. Sometimes it approaches ninety cents that coucerns us not @ littie as merchants, butiar | on the dollar, at others it falls to eahty-iour. Hence the more as men, ag American citizens assembied | fone a! wo take frie Se ore rise oe age ren orely % - | €t noir is not more seductive. This may a play to here, not merely to urge UPOD CONSTESS the enact. | Eee nett eet ately it is death to ai ow meut of just and reasonable laws, but such as Will | estdealers in trade. be conducive to the Lonor of our country and the Yet multitudes of the best people are really afraid that preservation of ivs high renown. What we should | they would loose a great deal it any attempt wei ask, and all that we should ask, 1s such action on | rage een pr bree rgd pars currenar me so y i - | back to the only foundations pro 01 C1 the part of Congress as will tend to exalt the char. te beatlidqa basigorseine fi or A eascare acter and promote the highest good of | Mh Beg Our people; to advance the -best interests of the | Maan that the lowes experienced irom year to year, | Cominumity and at the same time improve and | cessity of guarding against the recurring flu | Strengthen its moral tone, And ior such action we Can afford to wait till the people at large under- stand better than how what concerns their truest Welfare. Truth and the rignt will finally prevail. | It is to the truth and the right, as we have lately seeu, that ail classes of our citizens yield sincerest | homage—whetuer 1t be paid to the good wien | living or to their memory when dead. For this lec | Us contend now and always; for this let us wait, | however We may sutier and at whatever cost. | Tine is constantly Werking in favor of the right, let us watt—contending tor the patiently, consistently and per- sistently” to the very end. tuations in the estimate of irredeemable paper prow ises to pay, which nobody can be sure will ever be paid, tar éxceed in their gross amount those which would for « limited tme follow the adoption of a tiru but judicious policy of return to payment in coin, or in paper at ouce redeemable in cov. If it could be dis- inetly understood that a system of n to this effect would be swadily carried out by any permanent measures, however cautious, and, iny word for it, bu: ness would soon begin to assume & steadiness of support which it has uot known for years, and which equivocat- ing or false promises never can supply. Timizht go on to illustrate these propositions py appeals to the experience of nearly all civinzed nations who have tried the sume experiments and have suffered so much as always to come back to the only solid ground; but Lam checked by the sense that you did not expect SPEECH OF EDWARD ATKINSON, | me to write a book. T can iully comprehend the | The word i bring trom Massachusetts is this:— | nature of the tears of numbers of honest and We ure rejoiced to see that the time has come | Ven, of some able men, at the idea of attempt When the discussion of the great fiscal questions, | Ie to resigre | coin. 1 would not myself urie on Wluch the wellare of the people 80 much de- | $XtFeme or hasty steps pends, can call together such an assemblage as the | to bring about that result. hat I make is that 4 wire and effective n by Mr. MeCuiloch, when Sec ‘The objection policy was on oue belore me. Tue government itself 18 to-day | retary of the but it has been utterly aban- te great example of dishonesty and of useless and | e has been put in its | hence it is no wonder that its ce eadily maintained we | vicious insolvency agents, its spies, its mformers, attempt to cast | Upon 'a solid base for obloguy upon those except for whom the urter | SiL0ur coutrants. As it is, we mt oti’ cue peek aunty anarchy o1 mutual distrust would prevail, Were | tons which any project o1 further expanding paper will not tue merchants, the traders, the people, far be very far from improving. There is nothing new to be better and more honest than the laws their rulers | taughtin all these sche They have been tried over have made Jor them, the nation itself would cease | #24 over again and all have caually tailed, and fo faile @ | {ng have o¢casloned severe suflering which ‘might hav been saved. Let us try to make our suffering short rather than keep It long. Above all, let us have as little | legislation as possible, and let that little be firm and clear, Tam, gentlemen, with the utmost respect, your obedient servant, CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. to exist, Atthe door of those misguided or de- praved legisiators wlio have enacted base statutes, lies the responsibility of most of the real frauas that exist, as wel! as of the disgrace of jaise | Charges made against honest men. The employ- | ment by government “of spies in Ee administer SPL EERE | tiou of its’ affairs, 1s always an evidence of weak- hess and tue degtee of ther employment always | ANOTHER POLICE OUTRAGE. Measures that on tee imbectiity and Fottencss, —__+—_—__ he ignorant, the depraved and the incompetent 5 men who have failed in these past years to dedi- | TW Of the Broadway Squad Club a Poor cate the abundant revenues that the people have | German Truck Driver. About one o'clock yesterday, when the throng of poured so lavishisbly into their hands to the hon- pedestrians Was atits greatest density, there oc- | est, prompt, and true payment of the demand | debt represented by the greenbacks, have dis- graced and disnonored the great men by whose | acts the nation was saved and have converted | ave recently startied the community. Michael this legal tender promise intoa lle anaa cheat. By its continued and enforced ase they pick tue | Fisher, an innocent German, was this time the | pockets of the people aud steal from the laborer a victim. He was driving a truck and was turning Portion of the iruit of his Jabor, inaking him no | yom Broadway into Fulten street at the time, | return. These men who have put back the green- Crochet eis te | backs into use toat had been paid and withdrawn | Whea le was accosted by Oicer Lindsey, of the have converted the righteous weapons of the war Broadway squad. (Officer Lindsey ordered the into the implements of robbery and oppression. river of the tra to get on the other side of the street. The driver When even an honest but hopelessly incapabie Secretary of the Treasury seems to be only the | dice box with which your Butlers, Sanborus and = that it was impossible \d that there were tes 4 en eect aero Scnrrenst end | too many stages in the way, The officer insisted 0 Which @ faise aud dishonored currency and ‘ a bad revenue system have brought ail | @Md took hold of the horses by the bridle reins. our commerce it is tume, indecd, to hold | Michael remonstrated and asked the officer to “let mectings of the people to tell Congress, Take NO | yo of the rei Some words ensued between y of condone | ho Wraud. tolerate he tammering with the cur, | both parties, and, suddenly, without any warning, rency. ‘Yell Congress at jeast to re-enact the OfMfcer Lindsey jumped upon the truck, took limit of the currency, tu take from the Secretary of fisher by the collar and clubbed him four | the Treasury the power to play fast and loose with | Michael Fisher b sa baad ae canis heverdl the great exchanges of the country, measured as | OF five times over the head and forehead, he | they ure in thousands of millions.’ As the people | citizens who Witnessed the proceeding protested, | slowly but surely learned that “freedom was na- | vas) of Sho va vioient | tional and slavery sectional,” so will tueyas surely | PUb TW Y Se a the | find out that a dishonored promise is bad money, Officer went on with his ciubbing till truckman, Michael Fisver, became perlectly weak and they wiil hold those legisiators to a stern ac- ‘He count Who have tailed in their duty in this emer- gency because they dared not trast and wait, firm im the conviction that truth is mightier than lalse- | hood, Make the greenback of to-day only the | same as the one first issued—not even quite as good, because our credit is better; make 1t truly the same implement of war that first saved the nation, uf any legal tender note did that; make it conver- | tible as the greenbacks when first issued were—at | the will of the hoider—not into a six, put only into a five per cent bond, and then fix the date in the hot distant future when it shall cease to be a legal tender, then you will have kept the promised pledge. The whole secret of finance, the simple mystery is tnis:—Let the nation keep its promise as It has the abuity, and be true to toe dead and the living. ‘This, and this alone, will make the country Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free, ‘This is alone—life, joy, empire and vietory. The vote of the House of Representatives has | and shoulders. passed, by which we shall become a laughing stock, | ‘The Judge did not need any further testimon, or worse, among natious—equally with England | He jooked upon the prisoner and on the compla from pure exhaustion. through the stre Tombs Police Court.’ Waen Fisher was brought before Judge bixby his tace was covered with blood, It streamed copiously from three aitferent wounds in his joréveaa, and lus mouth also was was then dragged sary clubbing. effrontery, placed himseit before His Honor, Judge duct against the truck driver, Michael Fisher, Judye Bixby looked at the defendant for some time and asked the particuiars of the disorderly conduct and also o! the consequent clubbing and | arrest, Several ciizens came forward and testt- fled as to the clubbing of the defendant. They cor- roborated each other showed that while policems 405, who was called squad, clnoved him unmerciuily over the head that public Integrity and public interest are = precious metals is actually regulated by a | believe that a picce ot paper promising to pay gold | ery that its actual value in the market depénds upon the | In point of fact, itis seldom | to nd “oO - ets, cnt and bleeding, to the | swollen and bleeding, the resuit of this unneces- | Onicer Lindsey, wiih the utmost | Bixby, and preferred a charge of disorderly con- | in every partienlar, and | upon to assist im the arrest, held the prisoner | around the body Officer Lindvéy, of the Broanway 4 considering the trivial 1 ou.?? nae have received, offence, at this decision. victim to the island for two or three months: and, as he was out, he remarked, “Well, it TY {with yourself, Judge, whether we guardians of peace are to be protected in our duties or not.” OMcer Lindsey has been on the force some time, nd not even to the oldest police court clerk has it been kaown that he ever brought forward a prisoner who had not suffered more or less by his pugnacious propensities and {ree use of the club. OUR DEMORALIZED POLICE. An Old Policeman’s Views—Necessity of Entire Reorganization. New Yorg, March 23, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The brutality of my associates, members of the Police force, impels me to offer you a few remarks. ‘Thetr conduct should call forth all the attention of the people, or many more murders may yet be committed by them. Now is the time to act. The Legislature is in session, and through the voice of the people will be enabled to make laws reorganiz- ing the police force of this great city. I, a8 one of the citizens of this commu- nity, feel deeply interested in its welfare; and although I hold a position in the department I am willing, for the sake of the general good, to risk my chance for @ reappointment if a reorganiza- tion takes place. I will give you a few points why a reorganization is necessary. As a@ rule, police- men should hold omce during good behavior, but in this present demoralization of the force all should be legislated out. The causes of the recent police outrages have their origin in appointing commissioners who have nota proper knowledge of police duty and who have not a true knowledge of human nature, and in the character of the applicants for a posi- | tion on the force being not sufficiently looked into. They pretend todo so, but I know it isa mere matter of form. A candidate generally succeeds in obtaining nis position through political in- | fluences; the character of the man, his knowledge ofhuman nature or his ideas of justice, as well as the general knowledge of his responsibilities, are scarcely ever examined or inquired into. The mode of promotton is*demoralizing tn its practice. The oMicer who makes the most com- plaints against patrolmen for alleged violation of the rules generally stands highest for pro- motion; consequently, each officer aims to | outdo the other. Many of their reports are made without regard to justice or necessity. Of course this mode of procedure demoralizes both the officers and the men under their control. In like manner sergeants are made captatus, which produces like results. I have known roundsmen and sergeants, when their asso- ctates have outnumbered them im making com- plaints against patrolmen, to leave the station house to patrol the precinct, not with asense of public | duty, but for “blood,” which was their own ex- | Pression for seeking a complaint against # patrol- man. How can such men, with sucn ideas, per- form their duty in any other way than by “blood,” which they so much cultivate? The Commissioners, not having a knowledge of the hardships-o! patrol duty, seldom deeide with | justness in a case of an officer against a patrol- man, ali of which assists in the general demoral- zation, The whole machine should be reorgan- ized—new commissioners, new captains, sergeants, | roundsmen and patroijmen; All worthy oiticers | couid be reappointed. I tell youtt never will be | any better until this is done. itis rotten to the | core, and it must have new material to build it up. Spasmodic efforts will be of no avail. | _ Policemen should be chosen trom among the | soberest and most enlightened class of our tellow | citizens, and the commanding officers should be men who wouid perform their duty with a sense of justice rather than for @ mercenary motive. | They should be men who have a knowledge of | human nature. They will then know how to govern | the men under their command, and their actions | Will have a tendency to create an elevated tone in the minds of those under their control. Their ' conduct should be an example to evildoers as well A | as to law abiding citizens. I have had many years’ experience as a patrol- | man and many years’ experience as a commanding | officer, and i know the importance and power of character when performing the respcnsible duties | of policeman. I know of many instances when a | tumultuous crowd has been quieted, when they | Were merging into a riot, by the firm and calm de- | jeanor of two or three experienced and compe- tent officers, and this without the use of their | clubs, I was surprised to see by your articie of Sanday that Mr. Commissioner Gardner says he wants “brutes’? on the force; that a policeman | Who stands quietly by under provocation he does not want. This ruling of Commissioner Gardner is an | | insuit to common sense, and is ia entire confi.ct | | with the views of a 1ew officers yet leit on the force | whose experience entities them to credit for their | Knowiedge. Mr. Gardner has been my superior | officially nearly one year, What can he Know com- | pared with the practical experience of those who have periormed police duty for the past eiguteen | | years’ Ihave never yet found it necessary to use | the club except in a case of riot. I have always | instructed policemen under my command to keep | perfectly cool under provocation. Their duty is to | Keep the peace, not to break it. In so doing they | need not be less firm m the performance of their duties when listening to such provocation. Mr. Gardner don’t want such men; but such men I | Would prefer to be under my command while [am | connected with the department. Mr. Gard- | ner forgets that the laws show in what | manner @ prisoner or @ citizen Compncy he Neuen: for any oifence he may commit. |. law says that no persons shall take the law in their | own hands, except in case of sel-dcfence. | the law. Although Mr. Gardner is officially my superior | I shall continue to act according to the knowledge | obtained by my long experience and sense of jus- uce and love of the jaw, as well as of humanity, to bear with some provocations from my erring | fellow citizens rather than to unnecessarily club | them and thus imperil their lives. I have re- | ceived testimonials from the government of the | United States for distinguished services while on | the flela of battle; this was many years ago, and | have yet to learn that brutality is noble or brave. | Now to the remarks of General Duryee, who says drilling is all that is required to make the force what it should be. What wonderful wisdom! As if | “right face” or “right about” or ‘Sump Jim Crow” | was going to instil @ moral principle into a man’s mind! Does ne reflect that the police force was created for the purpose of arresting criminais and | to prevent breaches of the peace and to detect crime, and that they are peace officers, and not military me! Their time should not be taken up in drilling. The force has duty enough to attend to | withour attending drills. The men should have | time tor recreation as well as for work; and if all | the spare time of the force is taken up in drills it | will tend to demoralization as Weil as otlier causes | I have beiore mentioned, Ihave been a soidier, and I know some of their duties. Drilling ts zeod for soldiers in the field, as | they operate in large bodies, It is not so neces- | sary for policemen, for their duties are most | | generally periormed when alone. At any rate, | too much attention to drills will destroy the eficiency of the force in the performan | of their legitimate duties. As 1 can not approach those in power over me and let them know my views, I therefore present them to you, to give my aid to enlighten the public in matters copnected with the police department. Respectiully, CHARLES CATCHEM, Suca is ‘he Fountain of Police Filth. Sunpay, March 22, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: Your editorial this morning on “The Police and | the Citizens,” together with the report of an inter- | view with the President of the Police Board, Mr. curred another of those police outrages which | Gardner, is well timed and should ve sufficient | | proof, if more is needed (there is no necessity of further evidence to those who are unfortunate to | have business with Mr. Gardner and have been | subjected to his “brusqeness” or discourteous un- gentlemanly treatment), as to where Captain Will- | ams and the force get their “cue,” “Can the | stream be more pure than the fountain?” There is answered | not a question of the truth of the charges recently | made against @ captain who was “whitewashed” | over. There will, no doubt, be a “country seat’? | added to the $40,000 house soon. It 18 gratifying to | see a journal so outspoken as the HERALD. | Should such things be’ It is high time there should be a change, I hope you will continue to | Ventilate this police machine. MERCHANT. Official Protection of Disrep ble Dens, | New Yorx«, March 23, 1874, | To THe Eprvor oF THE HERALD:— Is it true that Commissioner Gardner accom- | panies the imperious Captain Williams through the Eighth ward making raids on a poor lot of ne- | groes playing “penny ante” on a Saturday night? If the above is answered in the amrmative, will | thd Commissioner iniorm us whether the Captain calied his attention to a notorious panel house in | full blast, situated within this haughty Captain's domain, between Spring and Broome streets, where, it is said, that a certain octal receives a large percentage of the money stolen, amounting sometimes to $1,500 per week ? | Another question:—Does it pay better to close | Small keno games (that cannot pay large percent- | ages) and let panel houses open Assuming that | it does pay better, 18 it not also safer, because the victims of this panel den dare nut prosecute for } fear of exposure ¢ What has the | tlons japtain to say to the above ques- INQUISITOR. POLICE MATTERS, | At the regular meeting of the Board of Police held yesterday afternoon rules were adopted in Telexence to regulation of court souads, GOOD WILL. Soup and Bread for the Fam- ishing and Desolate. THE JUVENILE GUARDIAN SOCIETY Subscriptions from the City and County Officials. The Soup Kitchens. Large crowds were present yesterday at the different soup kitchens under the management of Mr. Ranhoter, the chief cook of Delmonico. About 2,800 gallons of soup, of an excellent quality, were furnished to the applicants, and those who were very hungry were allowed to drink as much as they could.” Over 3,200 pounds of meat are now used each day, and in all the precincts, excepting those of core ins Williains, Clinchy and Gunner, as much bread as can be used by the poor is furmshed daily. In the three precincts mentioned, owing to the indifference of the captains who are specified, no bread has been furnished. Brooklyn Benevolence. The plercing cold March winas of the past few days has lent a Keen relish to the appetites of the impoverished hadttués of the soup kitchens, Cap- tain Craft, of the Tenth Precinct Temporary Relief Association, reports having fed yesterday 3,752 | people at the Vanderbilt avenue kitchen. At the Tenth precinct station “e house Cap- tain Campbell supplied with soup 1,207 people. Tickets are now being sold tor the grand vocal and instrumental concert, which is to be given at St. Mary’s Hall, Court street, near Luqueer, on Easter Monday, in aid of the poor of the “Star of the Sea” = The receipts will be distributed by the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The poor are very numerous in that district, hence the object is a laudable one. The Relief Fund. Donations for the poor received by the HERALD, and not previously acknowledged :— Charity, for Mrs. Dawson, No. 221 Mott street.... sees see 2 00 J.8. C., weekly donation for St. John’s Guild ee » 200 Human r the poor, 100 00 St. John’s Guild and the Downtown Poor. The following additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Alvah Wiswall for the poor of the Fifth and Eighth wards, and handed to the Almoner of the Guild, Mr. Henry C. De Witt:— {Those desiring to visit the oflice of the Guild will remember that it is in the school buildings at- tacheu to St. John’s chapel, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets.1 THROUGH J. VAN SCHAICK, Collection from city and county officials... THROUGH MRS. ILAYES. $200 00 10 00 3 00 5 00 5 00 isincher. 50 00 North Atlantic Express Company. 5 00 George H. Sharp. o 500 CABN....00eeeee . 10 SENT. TO GUILD OFFICE. New Rochelle, for Mr. and Mrs. — 5 00 E. Ayres, Frankfort, Ky. 10 00 HL H. Stone.. 200 D. H. Bidwell... 200 Mrs, William H. @ 6 00 Mrs, F. C. Golden. seeeeeees 5 00 J.D. ee 5 00 Enclosed with picture of Poverty. 500 Total $323 00 Previously acknowledged. 18,370 60 Grand total............4+ seeeeseesee$ 13,693 60 Contributions to this 1und may be seat to the HERALD otfice; Mayor Havemeyer. City Hall; OG. V. B. Ostrander, President of the Mercuants’ Fire In- surance Company, No, 149 Broadway; Andrew W. Leggat, Collector of Assessments, New Court House; George Wilkes, M, D., No. 16 North Wash- ington square ; G. K. Lansing, Earle’s Hotel; G. J. N. Zabriskie, Cashier of People’s Bank, corner of Canal and Thompson streets; J. L. Davis, Sheldon & Co., No. 677 Broadway, und Rev. 8. H. Weston, D. D., No. 3 East Forty-flith street, or to the Rev. Alvah Wiswall, Master of St. Joun’s Guild, St. John’s chapel, Varick street. Packages of ciothing, groceries, &c., should be sent to St. John’schapel, Varick street, between | Laight and Beach streets, or i ap order be sent a Messenger will call for any packages, Mrs, Judge Brady, No. 19 West Thirty-third | Street, and Mrs. F. P. Earle, No. 34 West Futy-sec- ond street, have kindly consented to receive sub- | scriptions, The City Cficials’ Gift. Boarp or Surenvisors, New Yor« County Courr Houser, New York, March 24, 1874. '§ Rev. Atvan Wiswatt, Master of St. John’s Guild :— Deak Sin—The Committee on County Officers of the Board of Sapervisors has received subscriptions from city and county oificiais in aid of the poor of this city, and It affords me much gratification in being the medium for transmitting to you a check for the portion allotied to the charitable iuistitution over which you preside, for distribution among its beneficiaries. The amount of $200 has been apportioned to you by the committee, tor which you will finda check accompanying this note, Very re- Spectfully, ‘J. VAN SCHAICK, Chairman of the Commiitee. The Seventh Ward. To THE Epiror OF THE AHERAL! The tollowing liberal contribution of bread and e since last report tor the use of the soup kitchen:. M. V: aves of bread 4. Briggs, C00; r, No. 64 Rutger street, 2.0 loaves of Michael McCarthy, liquor store, No. 304 Front street, 100 loaves of bread, James Appleby, butcher, Mark et, 150 pounds ot beet. A. & &. Wolf, butchers, stalls 37 to 45 Catharine Market, 5) pounds ot beef und ands of mutton. K. Fuarken, dining saicoa, No. 227 South street, 10) loaves of br ‘Timothy Murphy, liquor store, No. 122 Cherry street, 100 loay bread: , P. F. Murrey, liquor store, Market and Water streets, 50 loaves of bread F, kot, baker, Montgomery and Cherry streets, 50 loaves ol bread. John Weillbrock, grocer, No. 874 Cherry street, 50 loaves of bread. William Schroder, grocer, No. 79 Montgomery street, 25 loaves of bread. JOHN J. MOUNT, Captain Seventh Precinct Police. the Strictures of the Bureau of Charity. OfFICE OF NEWYORK JUVENILE GUARDIAN SOCIETY, No. 229 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, March 19, 1874, At a meeting of the Board of Directors held this day the reportof the Secretary, Mr. D. F. Robert- son, @ copy of which 1s hereto annexed, was adopted and placed on file, and the following reso- | lution was pasasec | to certain attacks against this society, published in sev- | eral of the city journals in their notices of the proceed- | ings of the Bureau of Charity; and that the editors of | said journals be respectiuliy requested, as a matter of pimple Justice, to publi. the aame witout abridgment. - J, E, CARY, President. WILLIAM H. GLOVER, Recording Secretary. | New York, March 19, 1874. | To THE DikEcTORS OF THE NEW YORK JUVENILE GUAKDIAN SOCIETY :— Lherewith submit the following statement :— ling themselves the e city hay | to cast some reflections—rather by implication, ho | than directly—uvon this society. No specific charges are made against it, its working ‘officials or directors, but the bureau seeuis to have been content to adopt the | report of its committee, made without any investiga- tion, that the Society is not entitled to public support, | and, therefore, tie bureau does not recom its stress is laid upon the tact that though repe cations have been made by the —burea | society tor information it has been al | tain “none. It seems, therefore, highly psop that, the ‘Board of Directors should” uike public action in the premises. The object ot these at tacks and the prime mover of them are well understood. | Tknow, and so charge, that they are the work of per | gona enemies, who, sitice 1868. prompted by. personal ill-teeting towards certain ofiicials of this society aud a spirit ot rivalry, have exerted ail their eneruics to ae this society.’ For the information of the public, it 1s 1h proposed to state briefly what their efforts have AU | of Charit, appli to the ie to ob- been. it is well known to our charitable citizens that this ¢o- n Dyke, hotel, Nos. 17 to 25 Catherine street, | stalls 23 to 23 Catharine | Juvenile Guardian Society—A Reply to Resolved, That the above report be considered a reply | dam: | es aie i ae eeu “Stars or Nuw Yous, Sp ee ay OL Association, New ork ity sa 0 “sin—I am in receipt ‘ou, and through you ve Comunittee, for iention to this inatter, ib-committee £0 caretul inv caeee oe Riad to le and is worthy of the support propriation made by the last wi be no longer wi elf Propecia ‘ours, A new marshalling of posite ve of ou two of the members of the Sats Chane No ing a ma, jority of the inv my one of whom had acted as how assuined the position of Judge nation in which no new el evidence followed) produced @ report witak ea es oe Was intended to stob the payment by the Comptroller of 4 Been appropriated by another another $10,)00 which hai lapaanire $o shis sone jou in reviewing report Ju Noah Di eu the District Attorney of the Untied Balen ates nd one of the directors of this society, and who haa sited sciiools of the society and Investigaied the charges made in said report, became satisted of the ine justice of the report, and said of it in # letter to the State vomptrotier, “Its (ihe report's) animus is certainly bad it perverts’ the language of the (soclety’s) ganua Report, tor the Purpose of insinuat ‘a cl his feport was adjudicated and passed upon’ by the proper authority in the State Comptroliér’s office, nd soon thereaiter the $10,000 was paid (0 the ‘society: ‘Thus was the society twice tried on the same accusa- tions and twice vindicated; and now the Bureau of Charity takes up the same old charges for the third time. “fhe public will readily see the motive in all this. ‘rhe petition to the Legislature in 1373, for sn appro- riation Whicb our enemies thus opposed, was signe he following gentlemen, Directors of the society :—J. Jary, Lawyer, No. lL Wall street; Wil M. Vermiiye, banker, No. 46 Nagsan street; William H. Scott, Hreai- nt, No. ir an exaini- dent Hanover Bank; William H.Glover, metchan Church street; Jonas M. Bundy, editor, No. 84 Park row; Ambrose Wood, nnporier, No. $0 Chambers street; John Conacher, merchant, ribbons and laces, house No. suz West Twenty-second street. It has beeit charged that the names of the directors of the society hereau named were unknown and not in the City Directory, whereas every one ot thei was In the ese Sabeptad and were business men, wel ‘nown in e city. ‘The action of the Committee of the Bureau of Charity 4n raking up old charges which had been twic nounced unjust by the civil authority and had failed en- tirely In their intended object, and cndeavoring to create the impression that these charges were of recent origin. Will ve appreciated by the pubule when it is understood that it is the result of the machinations of our enemies ‘And not at all in the public interest. It will be seen that the opposition to this society ts in no sense from the pub- chari- table institutions reside ia the Supreme Court, and, in the opinion of the directorship of this society, there is the proper place for them, and they have no ‘sympathy witb the action of the respectable gentlemen who com- pote this bureau in their efforts to arrogate these powers to themselves. The annual reports required by law are regitlarly made by this society, and are open to the in- spection ot these genticinen as to others; and the society has not seen fit, 10 Lhe exercise of its judgment, to make any special report to them, ax they are certainly without authority or responsibility in the premises, und expect. uily tn view of the hasty publication by the bureau im the newspapers of insinuations and allegations injurious to this society without examination or opportunity of de- fence. ‘This society in the course of its long career has ac- quired important interests in tho city, and is one of its organized institutions, It has a large number of children under its care, itemploys an efficient corps of teachers and visitors, and duriag every winter has been im tue habit of feeding large numbers of the deserving poor, as down to the present time at its “Relief,” No. lt street, and at its Orphan Lome and schools. We have during the past year, ending March 15, 1874, given direct relief to 5,107 persons, iu addition to that allorded to the children in our schools. ‘The whole number of children attendant on qur Industrial Day School during the year ending December 31, 1873, was L194, ‘The average daily attendance in the game period was 866, ‘The whole num- ber attending the Sanday Mission schools during the year Was 574, about one-faurth ot whieh were scholars in ac- wal attendance on the industrial Day schools. There has been an average of twelve children only in the Orphan Home Nursery, connected with this institution, a num- ber limited by’ want of means, The aid atiorded, as ve mentioned, reached aud afforded relief to 23) tumilies, besides aid to other individuals, equal to 1,966 tamilies, of five persons each. ‘The following is the soct- ety’s report, as published in the Hewaup, by the request of its editor, of expenditures for relief, &¢,, for 1873 ‘For Support’ For Generat or Relteh New York Juvenile Guardi peste ew York Juvenile Guardian Society. ee $i274 65 $4.681 67 ‘The books oi tie sceisty are always open to the public ar proper times, and it fears no properly and. fairly cone ducted Investigation into its urs. it will appear irom the forecoing that the State Charity. Board asa whole know little or nothing of this society- . F, ROBERTSON, Secretary and Superintendent. BOARD OF EDUCATIO —_—+—___ Removing the School from the Old First Street Church—A Committee to Appear Yo-Day Before the Committce on Edu- cation at Albany. A special meeting of the Board of Education was held yesterday afternoon at the Board rooms, Etm and Grand streets, President Nefison in the chair. The City Superintendent having reported to the | President that in consequence of the exhumation of the bodies in the old First street graveyard there was danger to the health of the children in Primary School No.9, the President ordered the School Trustees of the Seventeenth ward to closa the school. In response to a communication from the trustees of the Seventeenth ward on the sub- ject the Committee on Buildings reported tu favor of hiring for the purposes of a school the base- ment of the chnrch on the south side of East Houston street, between Eldridge and Forsyth streets, at a rent for one year of $3,000. Tne recommendation of tne committee was adopted. The premises No. 93 Attorney street were reported as being suitable for a schoolhouse, and the re- port was adopted, A telegram from the Speaker of the Assembly Was read announcing that to-day (Wednesday) the Board would be heara before the Committee on Education, which has in charge the bill for the election o1 members of the Board of Education and of the ward trustees. The premises occupied for the Primary Depart- ment of Grammar School No. 62 in the Twenty- third ward and for tve Primary School No. 39 in Seventh street were ordered to be rehired. The report in favor oi occupying the premises No. 17 St. Mark’s place (now in use a8 @ model school) a3 a primary ward school, was referred to the Finance Committee. ‘The report recommending the rehir- ing of Colored School No. 6, No. 95 Allen street, jor the ensuing year, was adopted, nt stated that Miss Catherine Mu The Presi hy | had served the Board with writ of certiorari. 3 | Murpay haa been removed as a teacher in the Fourteenth ward by the trustees of that ward and | she then appeaied to the Board. A committee of | toe Board sustained the action of the trustees. | Hence the writ. The President further stated that , the Corporation Counsel had been instructed ta | attend to tne case, The President appointed Messrs. Jenkins, Mathewson and Farr as a committee to appear to- day belore the Commuitive on fducation, at Al anny. ue Board adjourned, to meet on Wednesday | next. The Wallabout Lands—Inspection by Pilot Commissioner Blunt. Yesterday Pilot Commissioner George W. Blunt | visited Brooklyn and called upon Mayor Hunter | with a view to ascertaining the effect of the filling | In of the marsh on the southerly side of the piera | of Wallabout Basin. He conversed with the | Mayor, President Bergen, of the Board of Alder- men, and Mr. Antuony Campbell, of tne , Wailabout Improvement Commission, upon the | subject. His interest in the work was solely to | provide for the interests of the harbor of New York and to Suord-agaings all encroachments, such as the process of filling in were making. He | thought that the government should build a@ crit | dock on a line paraliel with Washington avenue, irom Flushing avenue to theend of the piers | owned by the ctty, inorder to protect the slips | from filling up as'Weilas to preserve the channel | Of the river irom obstruction. Mr. Blunt, accom. | panied by Measrs. Bergen dnd Campbell, proceeded to the locality and inspected the piers and the ad- | joiuing swamp lands which are under process of | reclamation. The Navy Yard was aiso visited and @ consultation was had with the engincer upon the subject. The government will be recommended to build a pier on the border of the government marsh lands, Which will prevent the gradual fliling up of the channel. | “ BEAL ESTATE. The market is somewhat agitated because or the truthful analysis of existing conditions which appeared here, but is otherwise without features, ‘The following is a recora of yesterday’s public bus iness : A. H. Muller & Son sold, by o1 | the late William 8. Koss, tue thre use and jot, 29.11s100,5, 2 ‘ fides 120.1t feet norti of Carmine street, to W. &. Foster, tor sldthe two story and attic brick house and lot, of the executors or @x77.5, No. 12 West Houston strect, souch side, 22 feet ciety, was organized more than a quarter of a century | east of Congress sireet, to D. J. Koss, for $10,7: ago, its p Lobject being rescue from the streets, ‘Also. the following property, ated in city of | care tor ruct those neglected children, who, tor | Brooklyn belonging to the sam ate, viz. :-—The three | want ol proper clothing or other reasons, do not and can- | story brick se and lot, ZUx1Uy No. jouth Fourt not attend our public schools, Its original Board of Dis | street, north side, 300 ieet west of Second street, to DF rectors, in 145, was composed of the following persons, for, $49) three story frame house and lot viz:—Key. fnoch Van Aken, Sewell Waterhouse, George, | 23.5x78, No. 186 Powers street, south side, 75 feet west ol | Williams, Jame: earie and D. F. Robertson, all of | Graham avenue, to D. J. Ross tor $400; the two twa | whom still survive ana ew mursued | Slory frame houses and lois, each 13.9x75, adjoining, to 5. | its work in the spirit of “< hatred | M. 950 each ; the two two story Irame houses | towards none.” In January, 1869, it was unfortunate | and lots, 18.9x75 cach, adjoining, to &. riiela for | enough to incur the eumuty of certain gentlemen in this | $400 each; the two story trame house at gh Fath ity, Whose names are weil known Fe accessible at | adjoining. to D, J. Koss for $4.000;, the lot ol Land. 25x12, ot this society, Under their inspiration the | on the north side of Grand street, 15) fect west of Grahant Secretary of the State Charity Board, in December, 1569, | avenue, to A. J. Galer for 0; the three stor: ai e made acomplaint against this society. And the'state | house and lot, 20x100, No. 56 ‘Hope street, south, side oa Comptroller, according to special act, ordered an inves- | feet east of Seventh avenue, to D. J. ‘@ benevolent in- sociation, I. Keyser, Sin: Dwight, investizated Dommittee of Charity e tigauion betore the Prison Association, stitution of Uhigclty. A, committee of that | composed of Cephas Brainerd, John | ciair Tousey and Hon, Theodore the eharges made by the State went into an extended examination of t and oeiety and its management. | This | investiga' was very | thorough... The committee not only examined the tru. | twes and ihe books of the society, but th ora and toa iors in its employ Were prodcesvefore the commit. ‘aud everything connected with the society was sub initied to the fullest and most seratinizing examination, occupying three Weeks and with a result enurely ta: vorabi¢ to us, ‘The oblect of the agcusation at that time | the three | adjoin Ross for fan ory houve and fof, 30380, No. 68 Hope street, Ing, tor |. Galer, for A'J. Biveeker, son a White sold, by order, of the Suc preme Court, ih foreclosure, the ‘two two-story brick ront and the two ‘two-story frame houses o Fear, and the Diot of land, S6x91.7x414x80.4. Nos. 747 ani 710 Washing‘on street, eat aide, 48.3 tout soutl of Bank mech Ye ceronpone J, sold ‘by. privaie contract, the fou story brown stone howse and Tot, 25x80xi00, No. 27 Wea Forty-second. street, north side, with lot and two story brick stable adjoining on rear’ and fronting on Foriy third street, leasehold ten veers to rau. with covenatd \ tor renewal, tor | houses on