The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1875, Page 3

“TH CANAL TROUBLE Debate in the Assembly and Senate Yesterday. | | } | | | OF THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE. | CONSIDERATION Speaker McGuire Contends | for His Rights. | with documents and pampiulers “A UNITED AND HAPPY FAMILY.” Interviews with Cana! Contractors and Mem- bers of “The Bing.” THE INVESTIGATION IDB& VERY POPULAR. Advent of Attorney General Pratt at Albany. SEARS AND FOREBODINGS. | ALBANY, March 24, 1875. | ‘The arrival of Attorney General Pratt in Albany | tenight has given rise to considerable specula- | tion, The bombshell against the Canal Ring having exploded, and tts effects being apparéat Among a host of politicians and officials, people | gaturally inquire as to the next move on the chess board, Notuing 13 talked of in Albany but the | effect of Governor Tilden’s attack upon the Canal Ring. Discussion as to fraud and raids upon | ‘he Treasury ovcupy almost the entire time of our | legislators. To-night the hats of the Delavan House | and other hotels are filed with hosts of politiciaus | in earnest conversation on the situation. The | Capitol building to-day was entirely occupted in a | consideration of fraud and punishment of ofictals, The Executive Chamber was filled with irtends of the Governor, who talked on frand. To-morrow’s business must develop a similar train of interesting stady. Attorney Gen- eral Pratt having arrived suddenly, in- ferences are drawn that legal ste,s will | immediately be taken against members of | tne ring. Under the civil remedy bills | just passed through the Legislature wide lati, tude and powers are given jor the prosecution Of these suits, Where tne first blow wiil sali has no: yet been developed. Orders of arrest and attachments against property may be issued as | primary movemenss. Governor Tilden’s message | points to the concnrrence of State officials in these alleged robberies, Many hold places at pres- ent whose duties have brought them into close | connection with canal interests. Among them are tue State Engineer, the Canal Board, the Canal Commiss:oners, division engineers and superin- tendents on the lines of the canals, They belong to both the republican and demoeratic parties. A prominent member of the Canal Ring remarkea to-night, ‘There is one official, and if ne has peached on us we will go for nim.’? Those words indicate that fears are entértained as te the work- | ings of an informer. The tournament in the Senate ana Assembly on the Governor’s Message in rejation to the canal trauds commenced to-day, and the “Kilkenny cat’* Gignt predicted by some did not take place. Are- Markable uounimity of sentiment was expressed. Ail agreed on tne maternal point that if frauds bad Been committed a speedy investigationand conse- quent punishment muss de the resol, TONE OF THE DEBATE, Throughout the debate there was great respect exnibited toward the Governor and nis views. Novody, eitwer democrat or republican, seemed | to enter upon that dangérous experiment of im- pogning his motives. Distant hints on this poiot | Were thrown out in the able specch made by Bpeaker McGuire, but nothing of & directly definite character stated. OPENING THR BALL, At nalf-past eleven o'clock, after the transaction of some routine business, Mr. Faulkner, of Live ingetone, offered bis resolution for the appoint. ment of an investigating committee of five to Feport within thirty days, Then Mr. Davis handed up his substitute, naming the committee, and directing the Attorney General to commence pro. ceedings immediately against those who may de {mplicated in the frauds, THE PREROGATIVES OF SPRAKER M’GUIRE, ‘That part of the substitute offered by Mr. Davis 1n which he proposed that the House shoula name | the committee instead of Speaker McGuire, caused @n exhibition of considerable feeling. Mr, T. 0. Campbell, one of the gentiemen named to acton the investigation, energetically objected, and said tuat he had every confidence in the presiding Officer of the House, Mr. Alvord bere made a short speech in advo- cacy of Speedy action, Friend or foe, State ofl- cial or contractor, if guilty should meet with swift punishment. After some parliamentary wrangling the House then resolved itself into | Committee of the Whole tor consideration of the ; message and resolutions, with Mr. I. J. Campbell, | ef New York, in the chair. H SPEAKER M’GUIRE first toux the floor, His speech was full of exhor- tation as to the necessity of speedy examin: into the allegations made by Governor Against Canal Commissioners, the Casal Board and contractors, He laid particular stress upon the point that these parties had been charged | with gigantic robberies, year after year, by whicn they have controlied tné politics of the State. If | the trauds had been committed be wanted the offenders brongnt to speedy justice. If the | charges bad been brought Jor malicious | and personal purposes lec them find it out, Let them examine carctully into the evidence. He (the Speaker) wanted @ thorough investigation, Mot an investigation in the name or for the benetit of @ny clique or individual, 1t had been reported to him by soine riends of the Governor that the fag lod did not want an inquiry. He would lo Governor Tilden the justice to say that he d: credited this report. Mr. McGuire then called tention to a statement made by Nr. Davis that he (the speaker) did not wish to appoint the com- Muittee of investigation, That was true; but the conversation in which the subject came up oc curred m private, and ouzht not to lave been re- Pada on the Moor of tne Assembly, At the jovernor’s house & Caucus was probably held, when one or two gentlemen named this investigat- ing committee. He was not afraid to speak out the sentiments of his heart upon all questions. He could not be classed in the category oi a sneak. He thought he possessed honesty and courage enough to enter Nis protest against suy and every project which did not meet with Lis views of | Tiegt. The gentieman thea went into au expla. Ration Of his rulings on the day Governor Tilden’s Message was sent in a6 discussed in the New York Tribune, and stigmatized statemevts made tn that paper on those points a8 faise, From tne tone of Mr. McGuire's speech at this ume he evideutiy meant to convey the impression tnat the whole Qnimus of the attacks made upon him in thas journal had been dictated, if nos actually written, y Governor Tilden, The spenker also alluded to | reports in circulation as to is identification with the so-cailea “Canal Ring” and that he could not De intras! with the appointment of an tnvesti- | Gating committes, He aid pot aeek to designate | uch Culmmittee, but would not brook an ineuls of ®ucn a character, He called upon the Asscmpiy | DOL to ailow their Speaker to be insulted ip cou munner. 1 they had not suMoient confidence in Rim thea be could resign. MORE TALE. Mr. Daly and Mr, Lawrenco followed in sturdy Speeches in advocacy of the great question of nant Telorm ond punisnment of iraadulent of | DAVIS AND M'GUIRE—A PASSAGR+AT-ARMS, When Mr. Davis came to fire off kis specon— Which Lo 1s Uudersioud to have Deen prepariag for the last two months—Ue levelled some Ol his Temarks io respouse te Speaker Maguire, He thundered out exeiealy that Ly (uterested, uirecuy or indirectly, in Tracts, oud Would fot undertake to answe! “mean, 1OW insimQaiions” of Speaker Mcd This Gtterance brought Mr, Alvord to nie fe tore to & point of order on the etal ¢ i+ Hons used by Davis, ‘Tho Chairman reprimae Vib, and directed nit to keep within the Une of pa@rliamegtary courtes There was a lot OF nots ta in th ree crowd of @ tors in the Renate a8 weil as is the House, Roaster Oe. cavied the chair in Comontn consideriog the Message. senator Javods Was the only speaker to-day. He oocupted the attention mf fi rh and a Ol the ‘vnote tor | ana@iudisputable authority | of yeure. | tractor wil tind out by colin NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. Wf those charges were true, as he believed them to | be, not only were private gentlemen siorn Oo! what- | ever reputation lor honesty they may have hith- | erto enjoyed, Dnt persons, many, too many per- | gous, Og in OMiclal life, Would share a similar vate. He read several of the contracts mentioned in the Governor’s Message. From these be de- danced couclusions that the Division Engineer, the State Engineer and Canal Commissioners be adjudged guilty of the highest crimes. Mr. Jacobs was Weil fortified Wita dats, and seemed fully con | Versant with the subject under discussion. ‘At the conclusion Of his speech it was pri that some of the repwolican Senators we low, but furti until esumed | a i + and £ ywernors Measave. ex-Uanal Com- Dennison and are stopping 0 lables are covered in relation to Each man evidentiy m t nitter end and looks upor u Mr 0 u friends van House, their ri rhe canal mas right to th nor’s actae: movement should elicit, I wWaiked into one of | # This evening, and in the interest of | lair piay asked some of tnese gentlemen to give | Me an ovtline of their deience aud other matters | in connect DEVIN(TION OF A CANAL CONTRACT. A gentieman who has grown very wealthy in the business sat down courteonsly at a table and gave me his opinion in the matter ag {.llows:— The State 1*ts ail the work to be done upon a certain portion of the canal—tor instance, all be- | tween two specitied points, a distance of one, five or ten miles—at the prices bid tor a Kind of work and material. Tho contractor agrees to do | the work for the prices named. All of this work | may cost $500,000, but the Legislature at first ap- propriates only $75,000 or $100,000 to begin, ‘Tne Canal Commissioner designates what pats of the work shali first be done and which can ve accom | plished within the appropriation, directs the en- ipeer to make an estimate of he cost of cach | Eind of work and material required in tue tion thus designated, acdording to we } fixed im the contract, and sets tie contractor at bisbusiness, Tne work 18 done and paid lor under the contract, at its prices aud according to iss terms, Nextyear the Legislature maces au addivional appropriation for continmung the work, und as there 13 a Clause In the contract requiring the contractor “to do all the work snd jurgisn all the materia,” whieh may be necess: fimsh the Job as the Commissioner and en, lay 10 out, Une contr: rf g0e3 OR Under the olrec- tion of the authorities, and bis work 13 estymated | and paid for as beiore, under the contract and at Its prices, And according w the undisputed o1 the late Atturney | General Barlow, aS given in_ his official opinion on ope of these’ contracts, “the contiactor can- hot abandon tt work until it 1s finished,” without rendering hirmself liavl i heavy penatties, These contracts and the v doue under them difer in Do esse: | far as the questivn of iraud or integrity is con- | cerned, from otner contracts made by the State | for work which is to be continued during a term | The Legislature makes annuadi appro- priations for anual work, Nor do they ditter ia any essential featur@ from work done for the New | York Centrul Rauroad, ihe Croton Aqueanecs or | any other continuing corporate or municipal | work, A wrong impression 15 produced upou the mind of the puolic by the tnierence, created vy | the Message, tuat the sum total paid upon one of these contracts lor ali tue work dune unger it has | been paid simply for the work that was designated | to be done under the first appropriation, As weil | might it be required to complete the new Capitol ous of the first appropriation whicn the Legisla- | ture made for it. CANAL BING ICISM. 1 next questioned @ gentieman interested in the | canals, WhO Objects, Jor the present, to the use of | his name, for an expression of option as to the | Message, His retuarks were substantially as ioi- | lows:— Tne Governor says (reading Jrom the Mea- | & ork 80 sage) :—*'Tnese prices are jooted up, and the bid, which amounts to the smallest suu, 1s accepted. The sums tins agreed upon average but lietle more than one-nali the amounts esti engineer, and apparently ibe State makes advao- tayeous contracts, On examination it wiil be sound that the prices for the several iroma bear no Teiation to their real value.? ine Governor con- tinue) “itis clear apen toe face of such bropo- | Sals that some iraud is destynated, but tae Com- | missioners have been im the babit of ac- cepting them.” The trutn is the Commissioner has but one alsernative, either to accept tne lows | est bid and award the Contract, or to reject all the bids and readvertise ad injixitum, The constitu. tion and vue law are imperative. He renders nim | sell habie to impeachment il he does not Obey the | law. The Governor jurther says:—Wien wie Ene | gineer’s estimates oi quantities and Kinds of ma- | terial aro puoifsned by tue Com:nisvioners the cone on or in some other way what quantities of each kind Of wors or ma- terial will, in fuct, be required, or lie will see What | influence he can exert to Change tne coatract | alter itis made.” Toe truth is, uo collusion is re- | quired sor the purposes of tue contractor, nor ts ib | Becessary jor bim to seek or use any influence to | change th€ com™ec.. ‘The State clranges tte} engineers ani division engineers every two or three years, who estimate work of whic) they Know uotuing whatever. Tne contractors know | ail about the work and judge for themselves | whas kind and amount of work and material the officials will be obliged to have, and they bid ac- cordingly; and this is ali there is in the “some other way” that the Governor speaks of. The | Governor saya:—“¥or the parposes of showing actual Fesuits of thie system I state the following ten cases, which give the amount the State has Paid on certain contracts in comparison with the eum for whion the contractor ugreed to do the work at the ieitings mude by we Commissioners.” And he addss— “These show that the State has aireaay paid nearly four times the simount which was in- voived by tuo ter! of the contracts.” This | oleariy means that the contractor has secured | tour prices ior his work, and toat be has dene no i more worg jor the whole amount he nas received | than ne was to do for tne sum mentioned in the contract, ‘This 19 1alse and intended to deceive | ‘Yake the Urst case clied by the Govers | @mount of contract upon exbidised Guentities at contract prices” was $74,133 40. “The amount accuaily paid by the State up to Feb: | roary 1, 1875,’ 19 $455,11472, If this means anything | at all, if there is any wrong in {t whatever, it | ie that the sum of $468,114 was paid to the con- tractor for doing the work whion he had con- tracted to do for $74,163, Tnis is laise in toto, and | wae sald to mislead and deceive. Tako one item | alone. For the $74,183 the contractor was to cous | struct, among Other ivems, lor instance, 9,000 cuvic yards of vertical wall. He actually constructed | 45,070 cubic yards, Should he pot be paid tor it? | ‘The contractors also allege that no parto! the $458,114 Was patd to them, except jor work actu. done, uot only at contract, but fair prices. They assert that this case is @ fair saxapie of the ten, and illustrates them all. THE PROCEEDINGS. | SENATE. ALBANY, March 24, 1875, Mr, Woops, from the Committee on Cities, rev ported favorably a bill to extend Desvrosses Street, in New York city. | Also on @ bill for altering the plan of the map of | New York, by striking therefrom the proposed avenue between Sixty-seventa and Seventy-ninth streets, { Mr, ROBERTSON, from the Judiciary Committee, | reported back the bill to con/er the powers of | supervisors on the Board of Alacrmen of Brook~ lyp, and said bi was referred to the Commitee of | the Whole, On motion of Mr. Cop the bill was then ordered | and he proposed to ated by the | P aggregate $74,180, Already $458,000 nad been paid on the work. Mr. PARMBNTES asked the names of the Canal Commissioners who let the contract, of the con- tractors, 01 the state Engineer and Sarveyor, Mr. JACOBS ve the panes of O, Bascomo and Join Db. Y as commissioners, but woula not name the contractor.. He instanced another case where 4 young inali was Willing to take a contract at $800 less than one-hail the resi cost ol the work; but some one else bid $500 and got the work. The State has already paid $18,000 on that work. 1 te s showing how low tgures: y the work— y the Work ts paid st and sometimes ten times the ¢ es Nave been paid. ingiuneed anocher © @ contractor one cep ee t c Did was $115,000, Tn jeeling assured Le Would 1 Koout manner. Tne people of the Srate unde stand tata great public trust has been violated, in hands with men of vota e honor o1 the State, political parties to PROC On motion of Mr. RE D. Fox progress was reported, ana the Message was made ®& special order for | & Thursday morning. THE NBW YORK CHAMBERLAIN, The bul ri | of we New York Chamberlain was considered to | Commitiee of the Who | Mr. WOODIN inoved to add the Comptrolier to the | Chambe designate banks to receive city money Mr. GROss objected to the amendment, sayin; the Comptroller nad nothing to do with recetving scity moueys, Carried—yeas 14, nays ¥ Mr. WoopIN moved co further amend shat the vote shall be concurrent of the three persons Bamed. Adopted—yeas 14, nays 10. Mr. WoopIN moved to amend further that the rate sBali not be Jess than three percent. Car- Tied. ‘Yhe bill Was then progressed, and in the Senate Mr. Gross moved to order the bill to a third read- tug, which was adopted, aud tbe Senate ad- | journed, ASSEMBLY. ALBANY, March 24, 1875, BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. McoGowan—To umprove the Croton aque- duct, New York. also providing for the improvement of a part o! Tentu avenue, New York, ny Mr. DaLy—To provide for the creation of ths | office oi Inspector of Public Works, in accordance | ‘With tne Governor’s recommendatian, THE CANAL QUEBTION. The special order, being the consideration of the Governor's Message On canal sfairs, Was an- nounced, Mr. Fauw Resolved, the following resolution :— Botered Toumuitne or the Whole, to whom That u 2 3 0: ¢ of His bxcellency the ‘Governor is reierred the 3 in relauion to the canals, recommend the House to adops the fo A PE ROL BION fms by the -enate concur, thar there be ap. | point of tnree in the Senate and five nm the tee on the rt to Prt ti ypoU ayes the « ise: tO 1, or col ries into oth ne 10, hat said co: and a stenograoler, persons and papers, liberty to report parually mploy ty send tor aud 4 and t Comittee atany thine, but shail be requ uety days. Mr. Dayjs offered a suv: Y mm it ted to an ai Message of the ch commie persons and. papor mony and shall tak Feape facts commonce and appear that tho stoic has tractor or pablic oficer. Resolved, That tc Senate Commities be auth employ aclerk and stenovrapher and investigation during the recess ot Messrs. DaLy and T, U, CAMPHELL disclaimed any desire to be placed on the committee, Mr, Davis suld 1% was understood that the Speaker did not wish to make a selection of this committee. it was also understood shat the per- sons resting under charges wanted @ ruil god thorough investigation, 0 had no desigr of re- all On tsi defrauded by any e horized to to conduct suck ive to daily balances in the hands | was one in the right direction, riain and Mayor, who «re the Board to | \ red to reportan (ull withia | | siso, that both parties were in & | responsible for them. He noped the time had | arrived, bowever, for their stoppage, He had at an early day of this session proposed & Measure, an amendinent to the constitution, which would staud 4s 4 barrier against this ousiness. But that would take &@ year or more, Whatts Wanted, it Would appear, Was more proimpt action. He then proceeded to show what measures should be adopted Co Secure @ faitnfal and bonest adminis- tration of amar 4 UNITED, '¥ FAMILY. had not expected degree ors pr certain A, and re u migh . DUE IL did Nie: » aiseuss th: iy proceeded owed ¢t perpetrated, od at doub: is Were r actual worth, and in many So it was with tne vertic hat was worth $2 60 per yard, and yet th ctor got $41n one cousract. Con he Were olten changed and inc quan- but never the prices. He reviewed several }iracts tn the man nor's Messay ow tho frauds sury depleted. 4 great fraud measurement and Hence the recomme ng trea p the means of ton ol & public This oiticial and report upon He was eutistied this house be required to exainne every piece ol work. was ready (0 actin ac of the people. was In favor of a 1 | thas he had @ partner that was. same thing when tnat g | his lew add mean insiau SCAVTEBING PERSON ALITIRG, Mr. ALVORD—lI rise to a pofhe of order, The gen- tl af, has no right to use such language concern- | ing a reilow member. | = CHALB directed the gentieman to proceed in } order. | Speaker McGurme—Does the gentieman mean to | Bay that the coat | Was making fits bim? peaker of the House said be ost thorough tnvestigation and Was uever interested in a contract, nor He, too, could say the leman was induiging in Mr. DAViS—Not at all, Speaker MeGuine—ihen the gentleman has no Tight to say Wot he Ras, Mr. Davis—Ie is uot the first nor the third nor | | the fourth time the Speaker of this House has lett | the chair to come down upon the floor to insuly ; Members. | . Mr, ALVORD—I rise to a point of order and ash | that the gentieman’s words be taken down, so } that whea we come into the House we may see if | such language be used with impunity. ‘The CHAIK—The gentieman must proceed in | order ana not indnige in personal refecuons, | “Mx. Davis proc | and he was delermived to maimtam tuem, The {gentleman trom Onondaga bad not riven to a point ol order when toe Speaker was attacking | members here, and be shall not without reouke | trom me when Lam responding. Le then wenton | 1p review of the frauds | Stare, out of whose po yy, Were Standing Low ail over the Slate in | diveo! | preacni anxiety 439 lo What Will de the action of the Legtsiature here to-day, He then extolled | the Governor ior bis action, saying that Mu tere | had beep a Governor bold enough, if there bad been ieadera in either party Who control conven- | tions bold enough to take the stand ho fas, we Would long ago tave brought this fraud and cor- | Tuytion to a halts. Mi, DSSSAR'S SPEECH, Mr. Dessar followed in & somewhat lengthy | speech in adv of the sentiments and recom. | mendations of the Governor, and im denanciation of tae raud and cory’ ndie expos A NEW YORK & Mr. T. 0, CAMPEELL said, as & representative | trom New Yor edb that his constituents wero | | deeply ini ed in this question, and it was trom that he would speak. Me thea o he behe ved the source of all as oO ba lound im the fact of tho ich betonred cx- But that did not icion that evidently wus something roi- ate of Denmars, and tt should be ex- required, and 1 was our 4, Uleusures lor doing Lo. 3 yreat y in the matter, one official who Is to biame he sends us to an- over, aud so it goes all around the ring. He then took up the Message, passing its states } mentain review. He claimed the estimates If we ask | had been fraudulentiy ander estimated by the | engineers, wao were ciearty ta collusion with tho | con Getatied the history of a case | WhieA Gccurret several years since, when tho |, Canal contractors heia a mecting 1m this city, Knocked down at suction among themseives tie | contracts for taking charge oO! the canals, the highest pidaer veing allowed to take the work, they taking the proceeds of bs bia and dividing ng theroseives, and the Contracting boara it | of the State permitting the transacuon and even | adjourning 1ts meeting to open bids, in order that 7, | $08 auction could take place. Tho commitiee then rose and reported progresa, fecting upon the Speaker or treating him wita any digcourtesy. Mr. T. C. CAMPBEDL insisted that the Speake! sbould name the committee. Mr. ALVORD insisted that these resolutions should go to the Committee of the Whole, and | Mr. Davis said be had no objection to such @ | | to-morrow morning. Adjourned. | charges are tals | tieularly the people, demands 1 | charged, | tractor actaaiy periormed the work aod earned | his money, then course, . (Del eee of Mr, ALVORD they were thus re- erred, Tne House then went into Committeo ef the | hppa oa the Message, Mr. 1, J. Campbell in the | eau, } SPEAKER M'GUIBE’S SPEECH. | Speaker McGuinw culled attention to the im- | Upon distinguisned state oMiciais bign crimes and uisdemesnors; contractors also were arraigoed | in hke manner, These were grave charges | emanating irom the Executive Chamber. It will Not do for those who claim to be the spokesmen of the Governor to come in uere aud say they do not aek jor an investigation. 1t will mot do tor the Governor to say.be does not desire an in. Vestigation. The peuple of tue State will not agree | to this, Li there Gave Sen such frauds les Us, in a | summary manuer, bring thém to apeedy punish | mnent. il there ave deen no frunas, if these | je, let us ConvInce the people oi it, Let every mau, thorefore, in thia House demand | this lovestigation. Justice to e ede and par | , theretore, asic every member ere to dewand an immediate and thorough investigation, and not in the interest of any one man or oi any clique. but in tho interost of the people, I was surpriseu on comiug bere this morning, afer this system of abase has pre= vatied for many years, as charged, 1 was sur- prised, lsay, so bear gentiemen ray taoy aid not Want an investigation. I do not believe the Gov- eraor would make such charges and thea teli bis | iriends to come in_ bere and say he did not want an investigation, Now, as to the remedial por- thon Of this subject, if such a system prevails as 18 I will jpin with any man here in Tevising tho laws 80 as to remedy and | put a stop to such stem, [ will aiso go for @ fall and thorough investigation, Lotus learo whethera contract lew for $74,000 | secured $225,000. Let usdo What we can to got at the {act whether the contractor stole the du- ference aud whetuer this wholesale ropbery haa been perpetrated. But if it soould vura out tust | the Cunal Board altered the contract aud the con- let tue people know that tact. Ho then referred so the routcer of the appommtment Ol the committee, and denied taat he had in any | way sbirked bis to appoint éuch » commik | tee. De iad heard of ioboying bere, however, to parent the Speaker irom #ciecting the commit | e. He had been charged with being one of ibe | Canal King, aud declared (hat he bad never 10 ell | his lie received one dollar irom a cvnal contract. | He knew it would be difliculs to appoint a commit. tee Which would give luli satisaction. There would be those Who Would criticise it, aud No reierred to | the criticism already made by the puolic press on | bis action charging hun with rong in vehall of | the Ring. He instanced cases aid explained them | < to a third reading. TOR CANAL MxSB4GR. The Senate then weaot ‘ato Committee of the Whole on the Governor’s Canal Message, Mr. Ray in the chair, | The CHAIR said 1t was understood Senator Jacobs would address the Senate tis morning. Mr. Jacons replied that one of his brother Sena | to stow thal We had ruled in accordance wits tue | roles instead of in bebalt of the kung, The ques | tion was, then, for you to say Whether you will | | atiow your presiding officer to be thus insulted, | | You kiiow whether 1 Was raiog for tue Ring or to | | accordance with the roles, Aud this same idea | Was circulated about here yesterday, taat your | presiding oMicer was to be further insulted by | q@epriving him of toe prerogative of appuinting | this cominittee, Lnow say w youll you vave not | tore bad taken the liberty of announcing he (Mr. Jacobs) would speak to-day. He felt mortified to say that he waa not fully | prepared to discuss the important interests of the canals of tue State. He ieit shut but little could | be added to the Governor's excellent Message. , ‘The matter bad groin into a personal controversy | tkrough the newspapers. He read irom his opon- ing of the impeachment of Canal Commissioner Dorn, and said tliat question was one of great in+ terest 10 the people of the southern part of the | State, especially as the management of the canals | afected the commerce of the pation, The city of | New York coutrivuies $1,000,000 4 your to 5) pport | the canals and the couuty of Kings over $250,000 anoually. They do this of . Oue important fact im the Governor Message \s to the effect thot during he past five years $16,000,000 over and above tho receipe of tue canals, bave been raised to support shem. The Senator from the Tweoty-oignth (ur, Lord) fays thac low tolls cause tiva dodioit, out che Governor says More than Vuis eum ie stolen beniud these Canal mon, If she charges are true they Muss bE State oficiais. i4 1385 a canal commis | r ae but the High Courto: impeach. e@lared him nos gurity. In later years tue evar has continued giving canai oicers audition Wor, and he (Mr. Jucobs) voted tor the blils, He inatanced # case where three years QUO $6,000 Were avpropriated lor sume Work ou the oupal, The 5 YORE $100,000 Was Kuded lor the COn+ u je Work, And lass year $170,000 more et the work is not complete, as tio | 3,000,000, One million of dollars eur (or the repair of uasious | relieved the private mentienien | Mame, bUt Charwod thas all the Byon the Lugisiatare aud cae Mr. Jacovs con timuda, expialoing Mciais, the Manher :o Which the work le let on estimates | i st @ Senate fur about two ae ott DrULaasand tolmig spooubd, Hin art men eed Rag Was a faomtotiy etor. rv} eaued or a. Stace Bagineo? wad Surveyor, | Me road from A COAtrAC! Dade ON oMLimates WoIUA | agreed that the work should pot axoeud tn tae | | to the c conddence enough in him to give this appoint. ment to him then take the duty to yourscives. minittee Rawed, he asked 1 the House had selected it, or did one or two geutiemen get | toxetber and select it? But the main question | was, ball We Dave 4 bhorough investigation? and | he asked the House not to lend itself to the | furthersuce ol any particniar spits or | apleeo. if Guy oA Aas & grievance, or | a@ supposed grievance, do not let kim be led toto | any persobalieeiing in this master, 1y is alto. wether too important, too vital to the interests of | 6 people 10 be « We can | ke up this gues Hy Sued ieeling. | dhe Message is bata matter of information, Lt is | Only aM indictment and it ia our dasy to cavelully | examine aud weigh it ADDKMSS OF MR, DALY, sir, DaLy loliowed, showing the interest New York city badin this matter of tne canals, Ho said ue move he Fr ¢ Message 106 more Le | Was convinced (bere Was cause jor prompt | Temeuiai legsiation, Ji these cnarges, (his gtarte | ng array of facts and Ugures canuet be expiained away, whab ® puss Wa have como to! Fraud, | pecwiation and robvery irom Wasuington to hew | York, and trom New Yor’ 10 tha interio oxiaid everywhere aod tureateos (he down | tal of the | Republic, Dien grow richer | and rieter ‘through raids upon toe pablic treasury, aod that, tov, ao a time wh pie Are GrowBiwg wnver Wie load of taxation tuey | par, Tals condition of ailairs, it uppeuts, has | gode og or over (wonty years, GNt A democratic | Governor, MitBlul Co lis trumt, briugs it ty tie ligt of Gay, As jor New York, we Wist not ¢luem Our eyes tO the fact that thereis danger of ber, lowing (he proud postion OF her commercial ea. WOU fhe peo- periority, 1nbo bas and | devermaine +KO reuso! @ fod serious charges made againas prupioont men. Fair play, bows ever, requited (hat W@ sould suspend Judumens Upon them anil We are certain the coarges aro ust, “Let the investigetiog go on," ho said; “ves | justicd be done thouya toe heavens fal." MP. BRVAND #0id #WOR O Question a4 this shonid be takon Up WithOu: Parisen prejudice or reel He fad of doubt these iradas bad grown up Uscbgl a long deeds of fears, Me oad ao dour, | SINE COMpAMION, Will | OBITUARY. GENERAL HERMAN H. HEATH, This active and distinguished journalist and soldier of the West, whose recent death ot Lima, | Dortance of the Message, inasmuch as it charges | peru, has been mentioned in the public press, was | auative of Herkimer county, New York, and at his death was tn the fiitietn year of his age. At | the breaking out of our late Soutbern rebellion he was the editor and publisher of a democratic paper and the leader of the Breckinridge wing of the democracy of Iowa. With the sigoal irom Fort Sumter he enlisted a8 @ private in tue Cnion cause, ad was industriously engaged through 1861 in recruiting and organizing Union troops in Lowa. In 1862 (August), aifer some smaller engagements, he fought tne battle of Clear Creek Heigota, Missouri, against large Coniederate oads, and won it. He bad his right clbow shatiered and iis lel hip broken by a masket ball in tue fight. Ater lying three Monti.s disadled irom his Wounds ne | returned to active service, and Was made, by General Curtis, luspector and as ey marshal of the Deparcment of Missourh In 1863 January) nO Was Authorized to raise a regiment ior lowa, and in July he was ordered to report wita seven companies @& Omuba, Nob. Ia August he was ordered to the command at Vort Kearny, in Jaouary, 1804, ne Ww. lost on the Plains jaa snow storm add badly frozen, In February he was de- tailed a8 provost marshal on the siamo! Genoral Curtis, in Kansas, and in aay 1865, be was bre- velted a brigadier general for gallantry and Wounds received in batue, ‘The war of the rebellion was then ended; bus against the Indians Genera! Geatn continued in active service, In July, 1845, he became editor of the Omaha Republican, and in the same month be was assigned to the commana of @ district eim- bracing Nebraska and apart of Uolorado. In } | Yermber he Was eiected vy the repuvlicans of tre Kearny district to the Nebraska cegisiature, but was railed out on the gi thac ho was ineugibie in beiag to tne United States military service, in Octu- ber and Novemper ho foaght ine battles ot Rocky Point and Sinking Water with tue iu Gians, completely deieating and aispersing them. In 1866 he organized an expedition agaiust the Jndiaas and porsued and iougit tuem successfully uniil relieved by tue War Departmeat. In Maz, 1850, he was bréveited a major general upon tue recommendation of General Grant, aud in July, same year, he was Novorably mastered oat of the volunteer service, In January, 1807, General Heath waa appointed Secretary of New Mexico, and lor the next three years Was acting Governor of the Territory, and during thls tive, us the publisher of tue only repub- lican Journal io the Territory and as the active head’ of the party there, he Was Very sacceseiul In organs izing and :eading 3 tovictory. As acting Governor he led the way, by pruclamation, in the abolition of (he peonug stem of slavery in the Territory. In 1870 Be leit New Mexico, followed by the good Wishes and regrets o1 ite peopte, and next, under an invitation which he could mut resist, he went down and embarked in certaia promising Dusiness enterprises in Pera, in which, during the last iour yoars Ol bis lile, Le Was actively employed, incind- tog the puULlication of w newspaper. n lows, Nebraska, New exico, Washington, Peru, nu Wherever General Heath was known, he Was esteemed, and Wass popular iavorite trom tis amiable ebd generous disposition, bia pig quai ties O| head aad heart, is tiae soidierly presence, and his winning manners. Ho Was & brave and accompiisiied soldier, an abie and experienced writer, an pieanent sud popular speaker, and there are bosts Of iriends who will moura bis 98, [rom the headwaters of the Mississippi dowo fo the Sources of the Amazon. death, his jamily, excepting his young widow, 1a extipch Mrs, Heath was just returned irom Peru to Washington, en rowtée to lier irionda in Ualifor- hid, Where, iu too grasefui Welcome taal Awaits we truat that ber great sorrow aud the mom- Orien Of All the Vicissitudes OF her jie of Qnd $riais on tha tronuers, a8 her husband’ ve sotvened by the hand of timo into resignation, & peace or fen mony years Of buppy surtonndings, rest and eum BRUTALLY KIGKRD, William Gordo became engaged in an aitercas | tloa With an unknowa mon in the porter house No. 325 Water etyeet youterday afternoon, and wee kicked by his amtagonias so Visiently that hig injoites ave pronounced very serious. Toe man Who mady [he Aesiuls caoaped, Gordon Was Gon. Vexed to tne Park Moepita HATOHWAY ACCIDENTS. Wiliam Markey, aged fiteen years, rosiat Thitty-sixth street, noar Second avenue, aco Geotuily Jeil through the batch way from tn to the deve floor at No, 961 Paarl Siroet yeutgruay Gitetnogd, Sutahing Wjories Ol & sBTiONS CRADH var, Was PUNE bo lhe Park MoapiieL, n | ance Wiih the sentiment | ded, saying he had rights here | there was | et | @nd the Message Was made the special order ior | | | LANDIS’ REVENGE. |General Discussion of the Prisoner’s Statement. hted to see NETe tO | , ANOTHER VISIT TO HIS CELL. Aition | TheCon / VINELAND AND ITS HISTORY BRIDGETON, N, J., March 24, 1875. Carruth’s condition to-day, at nine o’clock A, M., Was us foliows:—His sleep is more broken and Testiess than last nigit; no pain except a little | throbbing im the wound; appetite good; skin soit, with a little perspiration at times. At 3:30 P. M.—Comfortable after motion from the bowels following an enema of warm water, His family pbysictans feel encouraged with the prog- | Teas the patient has made. Mr. Carruth has not been raised froma horizontal position, and ts yet | in @ very critical condition, notwithstanding all | favorable symptoms. RYFECT OF LANDIS’ STORY. | | | | | | | | | | | Morning had sacceeded in obtaining what no other journal had been favored with—namely, a detatied statement from Mr. Landis as to all that preceded and led to the shooting—caused great commotion in this peaceful place. Copies of the HERALD were gobbied up as soon as they arrived, and the newsmen could have disposed of hun- dreds more than they had to sell. In the after- noon the local paper printed an extra containing | the HERALD despatch in full, and struck of a mand, for Mr. Landis’ subject of discussion and everybody wished to read it, ‘The public life of the founder of | Vineland every one was familiar with, but no | | one knew the terrible story of his wife's condition and the circumstances which made the editor's | persecution so atrocious. The effect of this reve- | lation, especially of the attempted suicide, is re- markabl With nim, although no one forgets his crime, CABRUTH’S CONDITION WORSE. Spirit strong in death. to his head, ne said, “Looks bad to be shot in the back, don’t it?” and when a Mr. Paine came in said, “we don't want any more pain here."* ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH LANDIS. In @ long conversation with me to-day, Mr. Landis seemed greatly retteved to know that the | pabdlication of nis story had satisfied the commu- nity ‘that [am not so black as Lam paited,” as he phrased i, He seemed more anxious than ever that Carruth should recover. He was greatly surprised when | toia him bow shorts was the distance between them when he fired at-Carrath. He seemed to be a long way off,” he said, “and I | did not know I had bit him.’ deriul he had not been killed; but, as the wounded man bas lived 69 long, he evidently thinks he will recover. Whue in tais mood he was cheerful and | spoke of the good fare the Sherif | nim, saying bow different | Bis ideas of prison fare. He bad refused to order food from outside, because 1t might be misunder- | | ' | | BWod; but he could not prevent ais wifefrom | briuging him things. * MRS. LANDIS, Then he grew thoughtfulafter speaking of’her, and, When asked as to her condition of mind, | @aid:— The news that tne New York HERALD of this | | large edition, Even thisdid not satisfy the de- Darrative was the one | for, while yesterday public sentiment | | Was bitterly opposed to Mr. Landis, to-day the | general feeling is almost as strongly in sympatsy Carruth affords another illustration. of the raling Yesterday, porting feebly | he motioned for him to go away, “because, he! He thought it won- sent 18 owas from | passes, been” completed. The town liad broad avenues and 50 arte 150 feet bullaing lots, The suburbs be divided into villa | and homestead plots, and made farms of irom 1¢ | to 100 acres. He advertised far and wide lor set. | ters for the pew town of Vineland, and required | every purchaser to siga a paper binding nimsels | Bot to permis the sale of intoxicating drinks 1m | the town. Mr. Landis explains as follows hia | reasons for tounding the town on strictly total | abstinence principles and his manner of accom- | plisting What everybody at that time deemed # | visionary and impracticable scheme :— “1 was not a temperance man hor & teototallery my iriends were not temperance people, and had never mixed with that class atall: batt had noticed this, that those men Wito failed in bnsi« ness were atmost invariably drinking men, turther, that those men who were fhe mo: of Carruth Still | cessiui in business were always sober meu. | re- Qition Of VarrutnA oUlss | Cored ro mind that 1 ad never known @ sober Hopetu! mau im the city of PhUsdelphia to come and ask opstu. me lor money, and | had always noticed that when ‘I employed worsmen the igen who periormed their work most satis: factorily and most successiully Were the sober | men. Then, again, it was Very important that in my new colony families sbould be happy. if the | mother of tbe jamily Was discontented, wh | the uusband wonld not have the heart to goon. ; Well, 1 bad observed that tne happy families ty thie World were the sober families, and I had noticed that the discontented aud unbappy fam< | ilies were those into which liquor hac beon Intro- | duced, and where the husband was nota sober | man. Hence I saw that the great panacea would ve the exclusion of the sale of imtoxicating drinks. | Consequently I decided to allow no intoxicating | drinks to be sold im this place, and to tave Do | saloons. Ig the second place, I would only sels | lana to those people who Would agree to improve | it, sothat when a man improved his owa land his neighbor would be benefited, and when his neighbor did the same he would be benelited, | and they would soon have nawerous houses, | churches and stores ; and at the same time, instead) Of bis money going to the taverns, aod instead of mis rising im the morning with @ beadache, 1m bad spirits, and disheartened trom the reaction of; over-stimuius. hls resources would be applied to! the attainment of that mdependence at which ti was aiming. He would have the muscle and the uorve to clear his land and the spirit to keep, Marebing ov in his work, instead of jailing into | the byways of idleness and despair. 1 knew very! well, however, that il I talked abouts temperance! | principles as u general thing I suouid meet wicus no encouragemens, When | assumed the respon- sibility of purchasing 39,000 acres | knew that une Jesg the population increased beyond 3,000 the en. verprise would involve me in flosnctal ruin and joss of reputation and character. i fad to make 175 miles of road and incur other heavy expenses. It was absolutely necessary for me, in the first place, to continue to seil land, but if alter thé Mrat five years the settlers did not succeed my sales of lang would cease, aud probably wheo & had soid onty 10,000 aeres, and then | would have | 20,000 left on my hands." MAKING THE DESERT 10 BLOSSOM, Four families were bold enough to take up theiz, residence in this bleak wilderness fourteen years’ ago, and now the desers tas been made to: blossom, aud where was desolation and barr en~ ness is & thriving, tudustrion#, model town of about 12,000 inbabitants; and perhaps the pes comment on the success of the temperance prin- | ciple as appiled to towns and cities is the tact that; ; the police appropriations and expenses of thes@ people is about $100 per annum!—a state- soarceiy credible to New Yorkers. The recent shooting aftray, which baat brought this peaceful hamlet betore the world tn | a new aspect, is tho first and only affair of vioe | lence Koown tothe history of tne towa, and in is—by an untortanate bappeniug—the ‘iounder | of Vineland, the man to whom it certainty owes | its remarkable reputation lor law and order, it the first to darken this record. Heretolore the | most exciting events known im the Listory of thig } peaceful piace have been the quiet escorting td the depo: of a runiseller and the running over oi 2 man on the ruurcad about w year ago. The pubic and private circies of this piace, with those exceptions, have pever been disturbea by ang | question more momentous tuan tue ioaportant \ gna ex.iung problem as to whether there should | De @ hew lence around the graveyard. | KING ALCOHOL EXIDED. Mr. Landis, jrom the founding of Vineland to the | present time, das given bis personal attention i@ | all the detalis of the management and develope | ment of Vineland, and he well deserves the titie | of founder ot the town. The Legislature of New. | Jersey, by luis efforts, Was induced to pass an ace granting to tne Voters of Vineland the privilege of | special local option on the suoject of pronibiting she sale of liquor, all gemerai State laws to the contrary notwithstanding. At the annual elec- | tions for town officers this question is voted upoi. | For several years there was not a single yore recorded 1m favor of liquor iicenses. Last year, out Of abous 900 yotes Cast only 17 were tor liquor selling, and this 19 the largest number ever re« corded tn its favor. It 3s certain that im this | unique sown no liquor can be purchased anywhere, except irom the urug stores upoa a paysician’s prescripuon, and 80 greatia te feeling sgainsy | dealing in it tnat some of the druggista even re« | fuse to dispense it, Karly im the history pf Vine. | land @ liquor dealer avowed his intention to test tue local option scheme, and he set up @ town. A masy meetin | | Study law under Dim, a reported. public house m the was called, at which place took .» prominent part. Speeches were | nade, the whole assembly quietly marched to the | Bouse of the liquor dealer, he was requested te | feave town by the first train next moraing, and “She is su strangely calm; she does not seem to ; realize my danger. Ste is Mke a cuild, poor | thing, who thinks its father invulnerable.” He alludes to her with great affection, although, the ladies of t ted the value of bis holding was given back tu Bim, | a8 I know from othergsources, she BAS acted very Breryinttg was conducted ia the most order! | Strangely and has given bim mach trouble. | manner,and the liquor seller unobirasively ied Thinking of what would happen tf Carruth dies, | nextday. . i INSTITONONS OF THB VULLAGE. | Mamy other reforms in social and sanit: } science are carriea out in Vineland, relating | labor, education, sewage, the economizing | Manures, the abolition ol fences, the public adorm ment of the country, &c. The streets are very widi | the houses are obliged to be set pack twenty lee! in the town and seventy-five feet in the suburbs and eact housebolder must plant shade trees, The setuiement has about 178 mules of improved roads, twenty-one svnoolhouses, from the | primary to tue high school, which was dedicated | ay President Grant last summer; sixteen chapela aba churches, fiteen manufacturing estab! ments, @ bank, public hall: pers, &c. Tne soll is light and sandy, adapted ‘to the culture of | fruit, large quantities of which, especially apes | @ce raised every year, this being tae principal im ; dustry of the settlement. c } — In 1867 the jury of the Paris Exposition awardet | to Mr. Landia one of the five grand prizes of ths | United States, which carried wita it 2,500 francs in gold and the Cross of she Legion of Honor, for | having established an institution which, in the | Way Of social sciewce, was a unique example tc | the world. This award was afierward contested | by @ German mannfacturing company, who od palney ‘uedeivea the honorable menuim. | ME: odia received toe honorable on. 3 PHILADELPHLA, March 24, 1875. | Landis has offered several prizes to the Vine~ Benjamin H. Brewster says that Landis did not | landers for improvements in agriculture and Is was Mr. | horticulture, and he bas also done mach bw pro- Mote science, art and literature in tbe Village Brewster's father under whom he studied. B® | which ne hasestablisled. He isa fluent and in- will act as Landis’ senior counsel, because he is | eae puolic og Pateelf ees SU orton 0 last year le 3 . bis 1lejong frienaand is therougniy oumversans ianaapon ida iavoriie schemes of ‘colonization with the great troubie of Landis’ private lise. He | and prouibition. Nearly a the eae ake Ae believes that his stury, a3 told first in thts morn- | 30,000 acres of land has been settied apon, ng's HERALD, ts perfectly true. He cmlogizes Port ag paschased 23,500 acres move Landis’ character in every way, desribed him as the most peaceabie and unaggressive of mien, and ME, LANDIS AND HUS TROUBLES. Personally, Mr. Landis is tail and slender, wae says that he must have been goated to frengy to: beariven to such a crime. he said, quietly :— ‘Dying is not the worst thing that can hap. pen toaman, I bad rather die than live as Lhave lived.” THE OPINION OF VINELAND. He afterward spoke o! Vineland, and asked with | Soucitude what people said of him tnere. He | | alluded to his work there and said, witn a smite:— | “1 was gurprised not long ago by a check for | £8 trom Frazer's Magazine ior an article on Vine- | land, which I wrote in the January tember. I | | have been so long paying for the privilege of writing about Vineland instead of beang paid thas | 1t struck me as amusing.” When not thinking of the tragedy he was cheer- ) Tl showing me, with great interest, two curious | 0ld beoks he had brought back frem rt STATEMENT OF LANDIS) COUNSEL-~FEENZY PRODUCED BY DOMESTIO TROUIKLES THE CAUSB OF THE CRIME. | | | &@ quick, Dervous manner, bright black eyes, hi and whiske tinged witn gray, and 4 gentie- anner. He is an energetic, earnest mun | struction of railroads. He aiterward removed | } nl; | Father sensitive to ridicule, Aichough long re | ing uuder tae imputation of being an impractical | dreamer, be nas shown by the great Work he lias | accomplished that he is 4 man Of practical genius | amd remarkable perseverance und exegative | ability. He is greatly respected among tae | colonists; bat for five or ix years past there has | been a gradually increasiag party of malcontents | tm Vineland, calbea the independents, whose mem« | bers are jealous of the 1ofuence which Mr. Landis | mtu claims to exercise. ‘Their policy is that, | while they were periectiy willing to submit to bis lead when the culony was in ils infancy, they have now grown stroog enough jor seli-government. Some few of them accuse Mr. Landis of reserve VINELAND AND ITS FOUNDER. Charles K. Landis was bornin Philadeiphia,,en the l¢th of March, 1834, ana is therefore in nis forty-second year. Most of his early yearw were passea tn Georgia, where his father was engages) in fulfilling @ oumper of contracts jor the com: to Philadelphia, and young Landis, after complet- ing his education, entered the law office of Benjamin H. Brewster, the eminent lawyer, who will be Mr. Landis’ senior counsel apon is trial jor the crime which blemisues a noble record. , Landis graduated in law und was admitted to the Bar peiore he had reached his majority, but he only practised his profession jor twe years, He became jnterested in tne subject of colonisation, and baughtiness and are evidentiy lus bitter enemies, Among tls more violent class—which | \e also represemted on the Landis side where iS the greatest amtugonism, and peér- wonal abuse of the most violent character ia freely exchanged. it was this independent party (and ,vossibly the most Vindictive section Of it) that Mur. Carruth and his newspaper, the Ji Mind | actual settiors, Making tt @ strict condition of pur and he thought he saw a novel plan for beneft- | rypresented, hand Ly toree years pa gaiiot ing the commanity and himself by procuring set- | hi® made comstant ammoying aiiua Oo Mr. | tlers for the tracts of land whtcn, thougn in tne | S#sidiein the colnmns ©! bis journal. Few of neighborhood of the large Eastern oities, still re- | thuc of atonle and “chult.’” ts " mained uninhabited ana anprofitapie. Tne great ; often reierred to taeae artic! wl Aamo Was not Mentioned, aud this was espect: feature of tis theory was to induce | Zainng’ to hr. Landis, te, irequeatiy consulted total abstinence or “temperance” people to | jawyersasto suing Mr. Carruth for siander, bay | Sestle this country, to allow none ethers to buy { | | colonies on this principle of prohibition was dee We learn that, with wis | | try Bla experi none o/ the attacks came wittun the libel law o7 the State, which is very iax. Lt was this continued course on the part or Mr. Carruth, and not any one particular article, that precipitated the ter rible orime which kas jast ocourred. Without thit @xXpianation it Would not be understood bow tht Fidiculous @nd silly article which the J) and to absolately forbid the sale of intoxicating drinks among them. Mr. Landis was pronounced @ Visionary dreamer, and his theory of pallding up clared impracticavie, tne more especially as pioneer setters, the haray men who open up new countries, are tsually of a rougo class, possessing all the vices Of civiiization, who would supmis to no snch restraint, Landis, however, resolved te ent, purchased 3,000 acres of unin. vViting ground at whatis now Hammonton, N. J, OnG advertised it judiciously im small plots sor SKETCa OF MR. CARRUTH. ith was born in Pharealia, Madisot New York, in Alter bis gradua | thon at Hanmlton College, he ra | Was., where be studied law, He practised bis pra ) Jeaviom for some years, occasto writing for th | papers, vat ne making that & calling un ‘Wxshib recent years, About #ix years ago Mr. Ci | rma hana teen to nana ue oF Ave peer | chasing a ten-acre homesteud, | since he began writing for ‘he Independent, which was then owned by Wiliam Taylor, He became | idensiged witn the indepesdent party and a chase that no liquor should be sold. He very soon but up a colony which vecanze the little town of Bammonton, with 8,000 inbabvitants, and which Still Continues to increase in prosperity on the ader of this faction, aud turee years ago purchased thi newspaper to waich he had been coutripatings same principle of liquor probibition, altnongh tta | Ho mace it the organ of Lg Sea flied jounder bas long bad no direct interest in the | ace ay hams ab always iy. taatoatt pide, DAViNg giVeM UD on account of wome dim | meant vy « ickname. ‘ Landis an agreemont with @ bastness partner, it is seid. | thi Encouraged by the success of kis plan im this ex. | fanaie. Carrai th always declared rem permment Mr. Landia determined to anwe —1l-Wis to Landis, but merely desired Lo ince ue BNOWSF COONWAtION scleme ou G@ Maoh lakger paper sell. He ws erally Spoken of as « vel Boule, | genial, pi m He was a robust, | ORGANIZATION OP THH COMMUNITY. | man aud comes of a very Dardy stoos. |. AGcordingly, in isi, when he was q@aly | owing to this strength of constitution, ded! | twentyeight yeara old, he purchased she | that the wound not Killed nim befure this, | large tract Of abous Mity square miles | bas & wife and five shildreo, if Nr. Lana | of Bat, oninviting, sandy land, in Cacoveris | not im & Fat [i mania some | eounty, Now Jorsey, Sa9e bee o eh as Mi 4 | jonas to ao Tear Peete ee end, Ho planiéd out & torn 11@ Agua | to and w ny . | WoeGaiass Br ine aeacts sheouah Whieb tbe swuxona | Grageus Wea aves have tonen.sisos